June 9, 2026 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Primaries across the Country
- The screwworm in Texas
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Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now pier's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome to our Tuesday show.
If we have four primaries going on today in the country,
I guess the one that everybody will be paying the
most attention to is the one in Maine because that
features the Democrat Senate candidate Graham Plattner. That everybody's been
talking about, this guy with the Nazi tattoo and mistreating
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women and all that good stuff, which you know, if
I if I have time, I'll play some comments from
Maine voters, because you find out that the main voters
are just like everywhere else. If you are the least
bit conservative or Republican leaning, you see all the character
flaws in this guy, and you see no reason to
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vote for him. If you are a Democrat or a
progressive who just wants to win and to kick Susan
Collins out of Maine, then you are willing to put
up with all the character flaws and you just think
he has okay, but that's his past. He's got great ideas,
so we're willing to vote for him. Character is very
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much only dependent upon whether or not you support somebody's
policies these days, character is a non issue if you
support what they politically stand for, and that seems to
be pretty universal. Honestly, that's probably true of both parties
these days. But we'll get into that. We'll start with
this though, because I'm trying to figure this one out.
We have two people in Virginia, probably Democrat operatives, who
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are suing because they say that you're not allowed to
do a sporting event on property of the belongings of
the United States National Parkland, and evidently the White House
technically he is on National parkland. Therefore they say they
can't have the freedom two fifty, the two hundred and
(02:21):
fiftieth celebration have a sporting event, which the primary event
now is just that UFC fight. I say just that
UFC fighters. If somehow that's not enough, I mean, after all,
the UFC is the biggest thing going and has been
for quite some time. Dana White is a big Trump supporter,
and they're going to be holding the UFC fight card
at the White House lawn where they've set up this
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ring outdoor ring. That's assuming, of course, that the lawsuit
doesn't win. I'm guessing that, you know, they may find
a sympathetic judge in Washington, d C. But I would
think the Peels process would go rather quickly, and I
would expect the event to happen. But just in case,
we'th talking about a little bit. So we tackle a
couple of things. Let's start with the lawsuit itself. They
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were talking about it on the Gutfield program last night.
Here's that conversation.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Trumpaiters sue over event.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Kat.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
This is a last minute federal lawsuit was filed by
two Virginia residents. They're trying to stop Trump's America to
fifty celebration on the White House lawn, claiming and violates
rules against sporting events on National Parkland. Legitimate.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What do you think? I don't know why they care.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't know why the two of these are just
two Virginia residents find something to do, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Imagine I'm jealous, Honestly, I'm jealous.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'm jealous that they have.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
So little going on their life, are so little to
worry about, that they have the.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Time and emotional space to get mad about a sporting
event that they actually don't have to go to or watch.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
They could stay home, right Andrew It says two residents.
I'm sure they're democratic operatives, but they you know, they're
trying to put a stop to this thing. This is
wrestling on the South Lawn. Everyone's very excited about it.
Are you excited?
Speaker 10 (04:11):
I'm incredibly excited about it, just because I think it's
about time we start to see some real fights. Like
I want to get Congress in there and have them
just start knocking each other's people, right, Like, we've got
to do this the right way running Man style, remember that,
remember that movie running Man? Like, let's really get wild here.
Scott Pelly could get involved. He could have a whole
gaggle of wives being murdered. I mean, this thing could go.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
They should put that in the lawsuit. If this happens,
it will be like my wife being murdered.
Speaker 10 (04:38):
Yeah, exactly exactly. But I think that obviously these are democrats.
We know that as a fact, because who sits around
and thinks.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You know, I'm wondering if it's possible, can you actually
out a sporting event on a national park land? Like
somebody told them this.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
They obviously are nothing more than the vehicle through which
they try and throw this thing upside down. But the
frivolous lawsuits in general need to stop.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, well they won't. They haven't, and why would they,
Why would they stop? They are Unfortunately, they have been effective,
you know, the very least they slowed down the Trump administration.
And that's always been the goal, just to survive the
Trump administration till the next election when you hopefully can
gain control back again. And we all know what will
happen if if Democrats take over the Senate or if
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Democrats take over the House, or if they take over both,
it's open season on impeachment. We know that's what's going
to be the case. But let's get through this freedom
to fifty first. You know, it's our two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. Is the country? I mean, wouldn't you like
to think that we could all celebrate a milestone like that,
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversity of the country, But
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clearly we can't because there are some people who are
just proud to be Americans and other people who are not.
And I think we know which side is which. You
know the frame two to fifty people are people who
are proud to be Americans. The people who are opposing
it are not. They think we're a horrible country. Why
they don't live somewhere else, I'm not sure, but they
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think we're a horrible country. But we were inspired by
this discussion about the free two fifty UFC match, and
so we put it up for our listeners. Who would
you like to say if you could have a cage match,
a UFC cage match featuring two politicians against each other
or members of the administration against politicians, what kind of
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matchup would you like to see?
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Hey, good morning, Rick.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
From the each side, I'd kind of like to see
AOC and maybe.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
Caroline Levitt and maybe fill the ring up with yellow.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That's my opinion.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Have a good day.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
This is generally from the spring.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
I would like to see AOC get her ass caounded
by John Spetterman.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Good I Scott in Northwest Houston.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I would love to see Dan Crenshaw versus Adam Schiff.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Porter with a Freedom
two fifty fight card. In the conservative corner, we've got
Robert Kennedy Jr. And Pete Haig Sith. And in the
crazy corner, we've got Hakeem Timu Obama, Jeffries and crying
Chuckie Schumer.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Moran gentlemen Chance from Spring Branch.
Speaker 12 (07:21):
Let's see if we can give Pete Hegg Sath versus
Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I think that'd be awesome to watch. Okay, a couple
of votes for there's a couple of votes there for AOC,
and a couple of votes there for Pete HeiG Sith.
In the case of AOC, I'm trying to decide which
you're more interested in seeing Herbie in some sort of
a catfight situation involving Jello or mud or somebody actually
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kicking her butt because of what she stands for. And
I thought it's interesting that one of our call is
actually matched up. The idea of two conservatives against each
other and two Progressives against each other any other ideas.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Skip from Webster, Illian Omar versus JD vans Man.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I would even m see that event.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Good morning, Jimmy James from a task Asita As for
the White House UFC fight, I would love to.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
See Anna Paulina Luna take on Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
This is Lynn and Magnolia. I know I'm a horrible person,
but I would like to see in a cage fight
the cars for Kids go against the Chicka's firearms commercial people.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Boom, Okay, that's going in a completely different direction. I
assume those are a couple of commercials would drive her crazy.
All right, quick little break back with more come moment,
Jimmy Baird show here a NAM nine fifty KPRC. All right,
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let's uh, let's talk a little bit about the screw worm.
I really didn't think I would spend much time talking
about the screw screw easy for me to say schoolworm,
no screw worm. But we certainly did this morning, for
a whole variety of different aspects. So let's get into
this a little bit here. Let's let's start with that
we picked up another case of a of a cattle,
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of a of a of a calf in this particular
case contracting the screw worm, and a Texas dog also
got the screw worm.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Now, the good news about the dog is that it
got the screw worm in Mexico. Evidently the one on
a family vacation and contracted it in Mexico didn't contract
it here. But from what we know of how the
screw worm gets spread, I'm kind of wondering, you know
what condition condition the dog was in that it contracted
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it to begin with. But let's talk first about, you know,
all all the politics behind it and trying to figure
out the best way to treat it. And there's a
whole variety of different things we can do on this one.
I think we start with Sid Miller, our current Agriculture Commissioner.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Who.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Doesn't really see eyed eye with Governor Greg Abbott these days,
and evidently doesn't see eyed eye with Brooke Rowlins, who
is our national Agriculture Commissioner, about how best to treat
the screwworm. Here is Sid Miller talking about what we
know about the screwworm to begin with, and then to
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talk about what the USDA wants to do as forestry
and versus what he would like to see happen.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Well, it's looking like you're seeing a horror movie. It's
it's a fly in lazy's eggs and an open wound.
The eggsact child and the maggots and they eat living
flesh and they call them screwworm because they just keep
burring and burring deeper and deep deeper into the end
of the muscle, into the flesh. So it's it's uh,
it's it's really awful. It's it's very very pungent, very putrid. Uh,
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smells terrible and will lead to death.
Speaker 13 (11:14):
Yeah, I mean it sounds awful and the pictures are
just horrendous. How contagious is it once you find a
couple of cattle with it? I mean, how likely is
it to spread from there?
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Well, you know, once it's there, it's there.
Speaker 14 (11:27):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Flies are very prolific, you know.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
They they hatch in about every two weeks, three to weeks.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You've got a whole.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
New crop coming in. One fly will lay hundreds of eggs,
so it can spread rapidly.
Speaker 13 (11:41):
So you said the USDA missed an important component in
its fight against the New World screw worm. How exactly
do you think they missed the mark?
Speaker 12 (11:48):
Sir, Well, they're depending totally on one hundred year old technology,
which is a sterile fly technique, and the ideal is
you sterilize the male flies them loose and they mate
with female flies and they have no offspring. They only
mate one time. So the theory is good. But the
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problem is when they turned these sterol flys loose, they
turned both male and female. They can't separate them, so
the steril fly just mates with the other sterile females.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So it doesn't work.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
I mean, we've released over seven billion steril flies since
we started this program about eighteen months ago, and we
have more cases today than we had then. And it's
mart from southern Mexico eleven hundred miles all the way
into Texas. It's insanity doing the same thing over and
over and expecting different results. There is a way to
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eliminate it, and it's a USDA program they use. That's
how they eradicated in the seventies and eighties and it's
caused the SWASS program Screwworm Adults Suppression system and basically
its most simple form, it's just a flybait made for
screw worm flies. They put out the bait. They did
this six or eight times, was proven in the field.
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It's not a theory, it's not a pilot. Program killed
ninety five percent of screwworm flies and mop we wopped
it out with this flybait, and USBA refuses.
Speaker 15 (13:14):
To use the flybait.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Interesting, Okay, so Sid Miller thinks that the fly bait
would be a way to go. I would think at
this point maybe all the above. I mean, the more
you can throw at it, the better, I guess I
would think. The other thing that that kind of got
my attention again was that dog that ended up getting
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the screw worm, And of course that made me think
of my own dog and our own family pets, and
that you know, probably some folks are concerned about what
this means going forward for family pets. I found a
report from case E and TV where they talked to
a veterinarian about what you need to know about your
pets and the screwworm.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
The new World screwworm is not a normal fly.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
I was in Texas from sixty two to sixty eight,
and that was during the original screwworm epidemic that was
taking place in Texas.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Doctor Gary Gosnei with Temple Veterinary Hospital watched experts treat
it in the sixties and.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Eradicate it sterilizing male flies. Female flies would lay sterile
eggs and die, but now it's back the new world.
Screwworm attacks live flesh and each live flesh.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
There have been four confirmed cases in Texas.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
One was in a dog in Andrews County, including in
a pet if the dog had recently been on a
family trip to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
The fly can lay its flush eating larva in many
spots on warm blooded mammals.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
It usually attacks to an open wound or cut, but
it can also attack around the genitea, the rectum, even
around the eyes ears.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Veterinarians can treat it.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
They don't have to kill your dog. If it happens
to get it, it can be taken care of. But
you don't want to let it get beyond that.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So don't sweat yet.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
It shouldn't freak out. There's only one case, and there
are millions upon millions of dogs in.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Texas, but you can be precautious.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Keep the dogs inside, use past control on them such
as lee and ticksprey.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Like keeping pets indoors. Full time.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
People are patched their dogs and they notice the wound
sooner than going to cattle.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
It are out in the pasture, watch closely and take
to the vat when needed.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
If you see a sore with what appears to be
maggots in it, get that pisted right away.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
It is a real concern, but one he believes can
be addressed.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
This is not going to be the COVID of pets.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Well, that's good. The thing that sticks out to me
in that report, though, basically is I'm thinking unless you
have a pet that is kept outdoors, maybe chained up,
you know, we just don't wait to keep a pet
to begin with that could potentially injure themselves somehow, that
could create an open wound that that would strike me
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as being the most vulnerable. You know, indoor cats should
be fine. Dogs has primarily spend most of their time
indoors should be fine as well. But you know what
never hurts to get a third opinion. We had infection
disease specialist on our morning program today and katrh Her
name is Rain Guest. Here's my conversation with her with
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everything you need to know about the screw wars. Screw
worm problem is getting real here in Texas. Rain, is
this something we need to be worried about?
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Well, it's something that we definitely need to take a
look at. So let's talk about what screwworm is it's
actually not a worm at all. What it is is
it's a species of fly that's attracted to open wounds,
whether it's in cattle or like you mentioned, a dog.
In South America, since twenty twenty three, about two thousand
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humans have even been gotten it. So these flies are
attracted to open wounds because bacteria causes odor, and bacteria
and the open wounds attract them, and then they go
there and they lay their eggs and then the eggs
into larvae and then the larva screw into the live
tissue and feed off of live tissue for about a week.
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So that's what's going off going on. So in order
to prevent it, you know, what we need to do
is provide better you know, animal welfare and treat wounds
accordingly and make sure that we're using proper products to
address wounds in animals.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
And I was going to say, I guess the reason
why we care about it involving cattles because cattle are
generally out in the pasture and the more prone if
they nick in the barbed wire or something else that
causes an open wound that might not get discovered for
a while. Family pet is a different story. You're usually
keeping an eye on your family pet, so that would
strike me as being much more rare, just like it
would be much more rare for a human.
Speaker 15 (17:45):
To get that.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Oh, absolutely absolutely. But you know with cattle, cattles have
open wounds when they get branded, they have open wounds when.
Speaker 15 (17:53):
They give birth.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
You know, when they're in high population, high density farming environments.
You know, they get beat up quite a bit during
that process as well. So it's not just out in
the open fields.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Okay. I know that there's a variety of different ways
this can be dealt with the sterilized flies seems to
be very very popular method, although I did see our
egg Commissioner Sid Miller say there's another method using some
sort of bait trap that he thinks is also very
effective in that the USD has been responding very slowly
to the screw worm. Your thoughts on.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
That, well, I think that's you know, fight flies with flies, right.
I think the releasing the sterile mail flies out into
the population, it's, you know, a very effective way to go.
But I would like to see one of the reasons
I was meeting with Sid's team and Sid is you know,
to talk to them about actually, you know, treating wounds
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on animals more effectively, more quickly with something called hypochlorous acid,
which is what our white blood cells produce naturally to
fight germs. So there's wound care products that are hypochlorous.
Speaker 15 (18:58):
Acid based that make wounds heal faster, they.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Kill the bacteria odor causing odor that actually attracts the worms.
So screwworm is a multi layered effect, right, You want
to treat the wounds effectively, you want to make them
heal faster, You want to release you know, the flies,
the sterial flies out in the population to control the
fly population, and then you know, you want to treat
the animals with ibermectin if they do get the screw
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screw worm, and if the screw worms are in the tissue,
then you need to mechanically remove them and then again
treat the wounds after you remove the worm.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
It sounds like from what you were saying, it sounds
like they only live on the host for about a
week or so. Why does this potentially become deadly if
they only have a life cycle that's that's short.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Well, because the fli's legs they lay hundreds of eggs.
So when you have hundreds of them feeding on the
tissue and they eat a lot of the tissue, then
you know it can be it can become problematic pretty quickly.
Speaker 15 (19:50):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
And also another reason is because livestocks, you know a
lot of times the animals don't have good health to
begin with. So it's like in humans, if our immune
system is compromised and we get infected with something or
we have something like you know, screwworm infestation in our body,
our body is.
Speaker 15 (20:07):
Not going to fight it.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
As well, I noted that it was I think it
was a calf, you know, maybe a month old calf
that got infected here in Texas. And I'm guessing that
maybe you know, that was a young animal that whose
immune system, as you said, had not fully enveloped yet.
Speaker 15 (20:20):
Yeah, just like babies, right for sure.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Okay, So just at this point, I say, keep an
eye on that kind of thing. Now that let's get
all panicked about what's going to happen to our Texas heard, Well.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
They keep an eye on it, but we need to
be again, you know, looking at a multi layered approach.
You know, the wounds are what attract the fly. So
if we can help reduce the bacteria cosy notor on
those wounds and provide better care for the animals while
we're harvesting them, then that's going to be a big
part of this.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But there you go. Everything you ever wanted to know,
never thought you would about the screw worm. Quick little
break back with boring in the moment Jimmy Bairrett Show
here on AM nine fifty KPRC. So let's start this
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segment here with Brooke Rawlins. Not about the screwworm. We're
done with the screwworm for today. No, this is about
fraud in the food stamp program and we really, we
really have to figure this one out because fraud is
so rampidt even in Red States, fraud is rampid. The
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good news about the Red States is the Red States
are cooperating. The bad news about the Blue States is
the fraud is no doubt worse and they are not
the least big cooperating. So here's Brooke Rallins press conference
yesterday talking about the fraud problem with the food stamp program.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
We sent a letter to every governor in America. No
one had ever held the states accountable. The federal government
funds of the food stat program. We send hundreds of
millions of dollars a day to the states, but there'd
never been a back end accountability on.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
How is that money getting spent.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
So we asked all the states to partner with us
as time to have accountability. The Red States of course did,
and with that Red state data, we found two hundred
thousand dead people getting food stamps. We found half a
million people that were getting more than one benefit. And y'all,
this was in the Red states. The Blue States wouldn't
give us the data. They're suing us. We're in massive
litigation right now looking to cut those funds off until
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they give us that data. But the fraud is so
rampant and so stunning that when the President, the Vice
President and our team talks about, you know, when we
can root all this fraud out, we're going to really
be able to cut the deficit, make sure we're protecting
the taxpayer, but aso make sure we're protecting the families
that rely on these programs at the same time, and
by getting the fraud out.
Speaker 16 (22:52):
Yeah, So the Secretary of Agriculture sounds like a Bruce
Willis movie. Now I see dead people and I can
tell you.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
That she is right.
Speaker 16 (23:00):
Let me speak for the city that I know in
the state that I know best, New York. One of
the stunning revelations of my early career, and I'm going
back well over thirty years more than I like to
imagine in New York was that when I came on
the police department, everybody I arrested that was kind of
a street person had multiple identity cards that were called
EBT Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
They're like credit cards.
Speaker 16 (23:25):
That's how New York State administers SNAP understand what it is.
The Feds provide the money, the state's duty administration. Each
state is a different sort of program to do that.
In New York EBT, they'd have ten to fifteen cards
in different names, and they would be getting benefits from.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Each of those names. You call the hotline that's on.
Speaker 16 (23:46):
The card to say, hey, I got a freud situation.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Leave a number and you'll never hear back. It's yeah,
now we get the decades.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
That's Paul Morrill, former New York City police officer. Yeah.
I think it's safe to say that this has been
a problem. That's been a problem for twenty thirty plus years.
I don't think Blue states are that worried yet because
they don't really think that the federal government has the
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you know what the gohon is to come after them,
and if they do come after them, they're they're I
think what the Blue states are counting on when you
get right down to it, is that they won't be
prosecuted or they won't be prevented from receiving more food
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stamps or any other federal programs, because the Republicans won't
be willing to put on the line that kind of
money and have the Democrats be able to say, Yep,
that's the Republicans are withholding your food stamps, that's the
Republicans have taken your benefits away, because you know that's
what the Democrats would do, and the people who are
receiving that stuff care more about getting the benefits than
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they do about rooting out fraud. I think it's pretty
safe to say say so. Anyway, let's talk about another
problem we have. We're solving problems here today on our show.
Where the next problem is the continued warnings from Exon
and other countries, Exon Mobile and other companies that we
are running into an oil shortage or soon we'll run
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into an oil shortage that's going to become critical. OPECK
announced for the fourth time that they are going to
increase production, but at the end of the day, does
it really make that much difference as far as the
oil shortage problem Number one and number two the price
which everybody, of course is complaining about. We had Todd
Staples on our program this morning. Todd as president of
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the Texas Oil and Gas Association. Here's my conversation with him.
Is there any way to up things enough, Todd to
get the price of gas lean down a little bit
at the pumping and stilled this whole straight of horror
moves thing gets settler. We stuck, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
We are in a little bit of a wait and
see situation still until the Strait of Horror moves opens up.
OPEC has indicated that they want to increase production about
one hundred and eighty eight thousand barrels per day for July,
but that's more symbolic than it is sustance at this point,
and the reason why is that there's really no place
to go with it as long as the strait is
bottlenecked up. Now, both Iran and Ua are talking about
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building additional pipeline capacity, and UAE is very seriously under
construction building an east West pipeline that will help alleviate
the real burden that the Straight of Hord moves has
caused on the world consumers today.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Once they open up a pipeline, though, how much realistically,
how much oil could they move in one day through
a pipeline like that.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, these are really big pipelines, and this really emphasizes
just how important infrastructure is, and that's one of the
reasons that Texas is such a main producer of what
it is today. They're talking about three to five million
barrels a day Saudi Arabia Jimmy for instance, started using
a pipeline more to to report that is not you know,
(27:02):
encumbered by what's going on in the Strait. And that's
about seven million barrels a day. So when you look
at originally you had about twenty million barrels a day
going through the Strait, really about fourteen to fifteen million
barrels a day is what's off the market because they
were able to reroute to existing pipelines to some degree.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Okay, we keep hearing these warnings. I think the lab's
one was exon Mobile warning about the oil supply getting
dangerously low. These legitimate concerns. How much longer can that
straight stay closed before we really are super concerned about
having enough oil to go around?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Well, I think supply levels are always a factor that
you need to watch. If you'll think back with me
for a moment, to the beginning of this year January
February of twenty twenty six, the world production was around
one hundred and six hundred and seven hundred and eight
million barrels a day. Well consumption was only one hundred
and two to one hundred and five. And so what
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was happening then is you we had production going into
storage and prices were a little bit lower than what
they realistically should be. And the reason was is because
the world inventory of oil was building up and the
surplus was going into storage. It's a balancing act and
that's the way markets are supposed to work. But since
(28:19):
the straight up our moves and the war that's occurring
with Iran, global oil supplies have been drawing down, and
they've been drawing down I want to say around eight
to nine million barrels a day, but that's about a
thirteen million barrel swing if you consider what was being
injected versus now what's been taking out, and so watching
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those inventories are important in Texas and in the US.
We've tried to increase all that we can, but we
know that the strait needs to be resolved to get
the normal supply chain back into place and to get
buying and selling trading of this commodity on a normal basis.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Again, you know, I'm guessing too, Todd Staples, that this
is a balancing act for the government as well and
for oil companies that do use the straight up our moves.
And it's not just enough to have the street open.
They have to feel it's safe as well, or the
insurers are not going to ensure those ships. And if
they aren't ensuring the ships, those ships aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You nailed it right there. Certainty is so essential to
stable markets, and uncertainty is the enemy of growth. And
so what we have right now is that companies don't
really know what exact actions to take because of what's
going on in the straight up hour moves. Even here
in Texas, we're still struggling gas prices at the Waha
(29:44):
Hub and the Permian basin, one of the most prolific
basins in the world that we're blessed with. In West
Texas and eastern New Mexico, they're actually some companies are
reporting they're having to shut in wells because the gas
ratio is so high compared to the oil that's getting
out that it's it's just not costant. They're having to
pay to get rid of that gas, and so they're
(30:05):
having to limit that. So we need infrastructure here in
Texas more we need it in the Middle East because
that's what enables products to move to where consumers really
need it and move in an unin hindered fashion.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
There you are lay us on oil and everything you
need to know about Todd Staples. Todd is president of
the Texas Oil and Gas Association. We'll be right back,
Jimmy bairdschell, you're an M nine fifty KPRC. All right.
Speaker 14 (30:50):
I thought we would spend our final segment today talking
about something that I just I think we all know
somebody right who's on GLP ones, whether it's a triseeppetide
or one of those other drugs.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
We keep seeing stories about how good these drugs are
for you. I'm unaccustomed to seeing stories like this, because
most of the stories you see about drugs are about
unintended side effects. Not that there are any side effects
with glp ones. There are, but unintended side effects or
or later heart problems or something else from a drug.
(31:29):
Everything that's been coming out about these glp ones seems
to indicate that overall they're pretty dark on good for
your health. And now they're even saying that it could
be helpful as far as fighting cancer. Yet another benefit.
I had doctor Cliff Porter, from the healthcare policy director
of the Texas Public Policy Foundation on our program this morning.
(31:50):
Here we are talking about the health benefits of glp ones,
But it seems like the health benefits outweigh the symptoms
for the most part, don't they.
Speaker 15 (31:59):
Yes, indeed, good morning. It's turning into quite an extraordinary drug.
And a lot of it has to do primarily with
how it's just overall improving health. But yes, all drugs
fundamentally can have side effects as well, but I'm actually
quite encouraged by most of it. But watching my patients
to make certain they're doing okay.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Okay, Well, let's talk about some of the benefits we
can get to the cancer thing in a moment, because
there seems to be a potential link there. But we
do know in addition to significant weight loss, which generally
speaking is better for your health, provided of course you're overweight,
blood sugar control reduce food noise, which makes it easier
for people to lose weight. There's even cardiovascular implications that
(32:39):
seem to be pretty positive.
Speaker 15 (32:42):
Yes, the fundamental action of it is it's blocking what
we call gluco neogenesis, which is a generation of new sugar.
So a little Latin Latin for everyone this morning. And
by blocking that new glucose generation, and then the body
has to break down its own sources to make glucose
or brain needs glucose or protein. And so if people
(33:06):
are making certain they're working out regularly and exercising, the
body preserves muscle and breaks down fat for glucose, the
body will break down both. So it powerfully benefits those
people with diabetes and diabetes when the sugar's high, it
damages the blood vessels. So in many ways, diabetes is
a vascular illness. And then we see all the problems
(33:28):
with diabetes the blood vessels of the eyes, the kidneys,
the heart, and so forth. So that powerful effect on diabetes.
And because it does not dramatically lower glucose too much
like insulin does, it's safe for people who do not
have diabetes. Okay, so really a wonderful development, all right.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Liver and kidney help for people, for example, have a
mash disease or fatty liver. Evidently there's a link there
that may be good for that. Absolutely, and mash.
Speaker 15 (33:56):
The effect on the liver is basically a fatty liver
is the old term for it is just how that
body is being able to generate and reduce that glucose
and do that gets stored in the fat as well.
So all these positive effects moving down the road, and
as you said, the food noise. One of my patients
talked about how just did not have a psychological negative
(34:19):
feeling every time they walk by the refrigerator anymore, and
just the they just became a happier person. It was
actually quite positive for them. But of course, these are
all the positive stories that always always isn't true with any.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Medicine, of course, Well I guess too. The negative parts
I think are well known. They can cause diarrhea and
other types of things, stomach upset and some other types
of issues that the reaction seems to be different for
every individual, doesn't It's not everybody gets those symptoms, and
some people get severe symptoms.
Speaker 15 (34:49):
Correct. The most common ones I do see when people
first start as nausea because it slows down the stomach
and the term is gastroparesis or paralysis with and people
who take too high of a dose too quick. This
is why we started low dosa's too high too quick
and have terrible nausea and just can't tolerate it. And
(35:09):
that's true for a certain number of people. And I
had one patient who decided over to take a whole
lot in a hurry to lose weight really fast. But
it doesn't work that way. And I tell people, don't
mess with mother nature. She'll mess with you.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
It seems like the only negative thing about it is
the price. But hopefully, hopefully the price comes down. And
I did see where it looks like Medicaid or Medicare
anyway is going to pick up start picking up these
GLP one medications because they see the overall health benefits
and they're willing to pay for.
Speaker 15 (35:42):
To some degree. Yes, and because the price has come down.
It was initially the costs for around fourteen hundred dollars
and now through direct purchases of the brand names are
the initial ones are around two hundred and two hundred
and fifty, but regular dosa is four to fifteen to
five hundred dollars a month. So expensive, but if you're
looking at people who have severe complications of heart disease,
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you know hospitals say fifty to one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Yeah, a lot cheaper than that. Like I said, I
haven't been able to find any negative news about GLP
ones at this point in time, and that that's pretty
rare for any drug. You know, people I know have
been highly successful losing weight on it. You know, people
hadn't lost weight in a long long time. Just losing
weight in general when you are obese is a good
(36:28):
thing for your health. All right, I have to leave
it at that for today. Thanks for listening. See you
tomorrow morning, bright early five am over our news radio
seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four on
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Now pier's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome to our Tuesday show.
If we have four primaries going on today in the country,
I guess the one that everybody will be paying the
most attention to is the one in Maine because that
features the Democrat Senate candidate Graham Plattner. That everybody's been
talking about, this guy with the Nazi tattoo and mistreating
(00:49):
women and all that good stuff, which you know, if
I if I have time, I'll play some comments from
Maine voters, because you find out that the main voters
are just like everywhere else. If you are the least
bit conservative or Republican leaning, you see all the character
flaws in this guy, and you see no reason to
(01:13):
vote for him. If you are a Democrat or a
progressive who just wants to win and to kick Susan
Collins out of Maine, then you are willing to put
up with all the character flaws and you just think
he has okay, but that's his past. He's got great ideas,
so we're willing to vote for him. Character is very
(01:34):
much only dependent upon whether or not you support somebody's
policies these days, character is a non issue if you
support what they politically stand for, and that seems to
be pretty universal. Honestly, that's probably true of both parties
these days. But we'll get into that. We'll start with
this though, because I'm trying to figure this one out.
We have two people in Virginia, probably Democrat operatives, who
(02:00):
are suing because they say that you're not allowed to
do a sporting event on property of the belongings of
the United States National Parkland, and evidently the White House
technically he is on National parkland. Therefore they say they
can't have the freedom two fifty, the two hundred and
(02:21):
fiftieth celebration have a sporting event, which the primary event
now is just that UFC fight. I say just that
UFC fighters. If somehow that's not enough, I mean, after all,
the UFC is the biggest thing going and has been
for quite some time. Dana White is a big Trump supporter,
and they're going to be holding the UFC fight card
at the White House lawn where they've set up this
(02:44):
ring outdoor ring. That's assuming, of course, that the lawsuit
doesn't win. I'm guessing that, you know, they may find
a sympathetic judge in Washington, d C. But I would
think the Peels process would go rather quickly, and I
would expect the event to happen. But just in case,
we'th talking about a little bit. So we tackle a
couple of things. Let's start with the lawsuit itself. They
(03:05):
were talking about it on the Gutfield program last night.
Here's that conversation.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Trumpaiters sue over event.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Kat.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
This is a last minute federal lawsuit was filed by
two Virginia residents. They're trying to stop Trump's America to
fifty celebration on the White House lawn, claiming and violates
rules against sporting events on National Parkland. Legitimate.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What do you think? I don't know why they care.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't know why the two of these are just
two Virginia residents find something to do, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Imagine I'm jealous, Honestly, I'm jealous.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'm jealous that they have.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
So little going on their life, are so little to
worry about, that they have the.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Time and emotional space to get mad about a sporting
event that they actually don't have to go to or watch.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
They could stay home, right Andrew It says two residents.
I'm sure they're democratic operatives, but they you know, they're
trying to put a stop to this thing. This is
wrestling on the South Lawn. Everyone's very excited about it.
Are you excited?
Speaker 10 (04:11):
I'm incredibly excited about it, just because I think it's
about time we start to see some real fights. Like
I want to get Congress in there and have them
just start knocking each other's people, right, Like, we've got
to do this the right way running Man style, remember that,
remember that movie running Man? Like, let's really get wild here.
Scott Pelly could get involved. He could have a whole
gaggle of wives being murdered. I mean, this thing could go.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
They should put that in the lawsuit. If this happens,
it will be like my wife being murdered.
Speaker 10 (04:38):
Yeah, exactly exactly. But I think that obviously these are democrats.
We know that as a fact, because who sits around
and thinks.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You know, I'm wondering if it's possible, can you actually
out a sporting event on a national park land? Like
somebody told them this.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
They obviously are nothing more than the vehicle through which
they try and throw this thing upside down. But the
frivolous lawsuits in general need to stop.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, well they won't. They haven't, and why would they,
Why would they stop? They are Unfortunately, they have been effective,
you know, the very least they slowed down the Trump administration.
And that's always been the goal, just to survive the
Trump administration till the next election when you hopefully can
gain control back again. And we all know what will
happen if if Democrats take over the Senate or if
(05:24):
Democrats take over the House, or if they take over both,
it's open season on impeachment. We know that's what's going
to be the case. But let's get through this freedom
to fifty first. You know, it's our two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. Is the country? I mean, wouldn't you like
to think that we could all celebrate a milestone like that,
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversity of the country, But
(05:45):
clearly we can't because there are some people who are
just proud to be Americans and other people who are not.
And I think we know which side is which. You
know the frame two to fifty people are people who
are proud to be Americans. The people who are opposing
it are not. They think we're a horrible country. Why
they don't live somewhere else, I'm not sure, but they
(06:07):
think we're a horrible country. But we were inspired by
this discussion about the free two fifty UFC match, and
so we put it up for our listeners. Who would
you like to say if you could have a cage match,
a UFC cage match featuring two politicians against each other
or members of the administration against politicians, what kind of
(06:29):
matchup would you like to see?
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Hey, good morning, Rick.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
From the each side, I'd kind of like to see
AOC and maybe.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
Caroline Levitt and maybe fill the ring up with yellow.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That's my opinion.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Have a good day.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
This is generally from the spring.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
I would like to see AOC get her ass caounded
by John Spetterman.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Good I Scott in Northwest Houston.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I would love to see Dan Crenshaw versus Adam Schiff.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Porter with a Freedom
two fifty fight card. In the conservative corner, we've got
Robert Kennedy Jr. And Pete Haig Sith. And in the
crazy corner, we've got Hakeem Timu Obama, Jeffries and crying
Chuckie Schumer.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Moran gentlemen Chance from Spring Branch.
Speaker 12 (07:21):
Let's see if we can give Pete Hegg Sath versus
Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I think that'd be awesome to watch. Okay, a couple
of votes for there's a couple of votes there for AOC,
and a couple of votes there for Pete HeiG Sith.
In the case of AOC, I'm trying to decide which
you're more interested in seeing Herbie in some sort of
a catfight situation involving Jello or mud or somebody actually
(07:48):
kicking her butt because of what she stands for. And
I thought it's interesting that one of our call is
actually matched up. The idea of two conservatives against each
other and two Progressives against each other any other ideas.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Skip from Webster, Illian Omar versus JD vans Man.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I would even m see that event.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Good morning, Jimmy James from a task Asita As for
the White House UFC fight, I would love to.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
See Anna Paulina Luna take on Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
This is Lynn and Magnolia. I know I'm a horrible person,
but I would like to see in a cage fight
the cars for Kids go against the Chicka's firearms commercial people.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Boom, Okay, that's going in a completely different direction. I
assume those are a couple of commercials would drive her crazy.
All right, quick little break back with more come moment,
Jimmy Baird show here a NAM nine fifty KPRC. All right,
(09:05):
let's uh, let's talk a little bit about the screw worm.
I really didn't think I would spend much time talking
about the screw screw easy for me to say schoolworm,
no screw worm. But we certainly did this morning, for
a whole variety of different aspects. So let's get into
this a little bit here. Let's let's start with that
we picked up another case of a of a cattle,
(09:29):
of a of a of a calf in this particular
case contracting the screw worm, and a Texas dog also
got the screw worm.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Now, the good news about the dog is that it
got the screw worm in Mexico. Evidently the one on
a family vacation and contracted it in Mexico didn't contract
it here. But from what we know of how the
screw worm gets spread, I'm kind of wondering, you know
what condition condition the dog was in that it contracted
(09:59):
it to begin with. But let's talk first about, you know,
all all the politics behind it and trying to figure
out the best way to treat it. And there's a
whole variety of different things we can do on this one.
I think we start with Sid Miller, our current Agriculture Commissioner.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Who.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Doesn't really see eyed eye with Governor Greg Abbott these days,
and evidently doesn't see eyed eye with Brooke Rowlins, who
is our national Agriculture Commissioner, about how best to treat
the screwworm. Here is Sid Miller talking about what we
know about the screwworm to begin with, and then to
(10:41):
talk about what the USDA wants to do as forestry
and versus what he would like to see happen.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Well, it's looking like you're seeing a horror movie. It's
it's a fly in lazy's eggs and an open wound.
The eggsact child and the maggots and they eat living
flesh and they call them screwworm because they just keep
burring and burring deeper and deep deeper into the end
of the muscle, into the flesh. So it's it's uh,
it's it's really awful. It's it's very very pungent, very putrid. Uh,
(11:11):
smells terrible and will lead to death.
Speaker 13 (11:14):
Yeah, I mean it sounds awful and the pictures are
just horrendous. How contagious is it once you find a
couple of cattle with it? I mean, how likely is
it to spread from there?
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Well, you know, once it's there, it's there.
Speaker 14 (11:27):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Flies are very prolific, you know.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
They they hatch in about every two weeks, three to weeks.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You've got a whole.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
New crop coming in. One fly will lay hundreds of eggs,
so it can spread rapidly.
Speaker 13 (11:41):
So you said the USDA missed an important component in
its fight against the New World screw worm. How exactly
do you think they missed the mark?
Speaker 12 (11:48):
Sir, Well, they're depending totally on one hundred year old technology,
which is a sterile fly technique, and the ideal is
you sterilize the male flies them loose and they mate
with female flies and they have no offspring. They only
mate one time. So the theory is good. But the
(12:09):
problem is when they turned these sterol flys loose, they
turned both male and female. They can't separate them, so
the steril fly just mates with the other sterile females.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So it doesn't work.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
I mean, we've released over seven billion steril flies since
we started this program about eighteen months ago, and we
have more cases today than we had then. And it's
mart from southern Mexico eleven hundred miles all the way
into Texas. It's insanity doing the same thing over and
over and expecting different results. There is a way to
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eliminate it, and it's a USDA program they use. That's
how they eradicated in the seventies and eighties and it's
caused the SWASS program Screwworm Adults Suppression system and basically
its most simple form, it's just a flybait made for
screw worm flies. They put out the bait. They did
this six or eight times, was proven in the field.
(13:04):
It's not a theory, it's not a pilot. Program killed
ninety five percent of screwworm flies and mop we wopped
it out with this flybait, and USBA refuses.
Speaker 15 (13:14):
To use the flybait.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Interesting, Okay, so Sid Miller thinks that the fly bait
would be a way to go. I would think at
this point maybe all the above. I mean, the more
you can throw at it, the better, I guess I
would think. The other thing that that kind of got
my attention again was that dog that ended up getting
(13:38):
the screw worm, And of course that made me think
of my own dog and our own family pets, and
that you know, probably some folks are concerned about what
this means going forward for family pets. I found a
report from case E and TV where they talked to
a veterinarian about what you need to know about your
pets and the screwworm.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
The new World screwworm is not a normal fly.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
I was in Texas from sixty two to sixty eight,
and that was during the original screwworm epidemic that was
taking place in Texas.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Doctor Gary Gosnei with Temple Veterinary Hospital watched experts treat
it in the sixties and.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Eradicate it sterilizing male flies. Female flies would lay sterile
eggs and die, but now it's back the new world.
Screwworm attacks live flesh and each live flesh.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
There have been four confirmed cases in Texas.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
One was in a dog in Andrews County, including in
a pet if the dog had recently been on a
family trip to Mexico.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
The fly can lay its flush eating larva in many
spots on warm blooded mammals.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
It usually attacks to an open wound or cut, but
it can also attack around the genitea, the rectum, even
around the eyes ears.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Veterinarians can treat it.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
They don't have to kill your dog. If it happens
to get it, it can be taken care of. But
you don't want to let it get beyond that.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So don't sweat yet.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
It shouldn't freak out. There's only one case, and there
are millions upon millions of dogs in.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Texas, but you can be precautious.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Keep the dogs inside, use past control on them such
as lee and ticksprey.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Like keeping pets indoors. Full time.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
People are patched their dogs and they notice the wound
sooner than going to cattle.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
It are out in the pasture, watch closely and take
to the vat when needed.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
If you see a sore with what appears to be
maggots in it, get that pisted right away.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
It is a real concern, but one he believes can
be addressed.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
This is not going to be the COVID of pets.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Well, that's good. The thing that sticks out to me
in that report, though, basically is I'm thinking unless you
have a pet that is kept outdoors, maybe chained up,
you know, we just don't wait to keep a pet
to begin with that could potentially injure themselves somehow, that
could create an open wound that that would strike me
(15:56):
as being the most vulnerable. You know, indoor cats should
be fine. Dogs has primarily spend most of their time
indoors should be fine as well. But you know what
never hurts to get a third opinion. We had infection
disease specialist on our morning program today and katrh Her
name is Rain Guest. Here's my conversation with her with
(16:17):
everything you need to know about the screw wars. Screw
worm problem is getting real here in Texas. Rain, is
this something we need to be worried about?
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Well, it's something that we definitely need to take a
look at. So let's talk about what screwworm is it's
actually not a worm at all. What it is is
it's a species of fly that's attracted to open wounds,
whether it's in cattle or like you mentioned, a dog.
In South America, since twenty twenty three, about two thousand
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humans have even been gotten it. So these flies are
attracted to open wounds because bacteria causes odor, and bacteria
and the open wounds attract them, and then they go
there and they lay their eggs and then the eggs
into larvae and then the larva screw into the live
tissue and feed off of live tissue for about a week.
(17:08):
So that's what's going off going on. So in order
to prevent it, you know, what we need to do
is provide better you know, animal welfare and treat wounds
accordingly and make sure that we're using proper products to
address wounds in animals.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
And I was going to say, I guess the reason
why we care about it involving cattles because cattle are
generally out in the pasture and the more prone if
they nick in the barbed wire or something else that
causes an open wound that might not get discovered for
a while. Family pet is a different story. You're usually
keeping an eye on your family pet, so that would
strike me as being much more rare, just like it
would be much more rare for a human.
Speaker 15 (17:45):
To get that.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Oh, absolutely absolutely. But you know with cattle, cattles have
open wounds when they get branded, they have open wounds when.
Speaker 15 (17:53):
They give birth.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
You know, when they're in high population, high density farming environments.
You know, they get beat up quite a bit during
that process as well. So it's not just out in
the open fields.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Okay. I know that there's a variety of different ways
this can be dealt with the sterilized flies seems to
be very very popular method, although I did see our
egg Commissioner Sid Miller say there's another method using some
sort of bait trap that he thinks is also very
effective in that the USD has been responding very slowly
to the screw worm. Your thoughts on.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
That, well, I think that's you know, fight flies with flies, right.
I think the releasing the sterile mail flies out into
the population, it's, you know, a very effective way to go.
But I would like to see one of the reasons
I was meeting with Sid's team and Sid is you know,
to talk to them about actually, you know, treating wounds
(18:47):
on animals more effectively, more quickly with something called hypochlorous acid,
which is what our white blood cells produce naturally to
fight germs. So there's wound care products that are hypochlorous.
Speaker 15 (18:58):
Acid based that make wounds heal faster, they.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Kill the bacteria odor causing odor that actually attracts the worms.
So screwworm is a multi layered effect, right, You want
to treat the wounds effectively, you want to make them
heal faster, You want to release you know, the flies,
the sterial flies out in the population to control the
fly population, and then you know, you want to treat
the animals with ibermectin if they do get the screw
(19:21):
screw worm, and if the screw worms are in the tissue,
then you need to mechanically remove them and then again
treat the wounds after you remove the worm.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
It sounds like from what you were saying, it sounds
like they only live on the host for about a
week or so. Why does this potentially become deadly if
they only have a life cycle that's that's short.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Well, because the fli's legs they lay hundreds of eggs.
So when you have hundreds of them feeding on the
tissue and they eat a lot of the tissue, then
you know it can be it can become problematic pretty quickly.
Speaker 15 (19:50):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
And also another reason is because livestocks, you know a
lot of times the animals don't have good health to
begin with. So it's like in humans, if our immune
system is compromised and we get infected with something or
we have something like you know, screwworm infestation in our body,
our body is.
Speaker 15 (20:07):
Not going to fight it.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
As well, I noted that it was I think it
was a calf, you know, maybe a month old calf
that got infected here in Texas. And I'm guessing that
maybe you know, that was a young animal that whose
immune system, as you said, had not fully enveloped yet.
Speaker 15 (20:20):
Yeah, just like babies, right for sure.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Okay, So just at this point, I say, keep an
eye on that kind of thing. Now that let's get
all panicked about what's going to happen to our Texas heard, Well.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
They keep an eye on it, but we need to
be again, you know, looking at a multi layered approach.
You know, the wounds are what attract the fly. So
if we can help reduce the bacteria cosy notor on
those wounds and provide better care for the animals while
we're harvesting them, then that's going to be a big
part of this.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But there you go. Everything you ever wanted to know,
never thought you would about the screw worm. Quick little
break back with boring in the moment Jimmy Bairrett Show
here on AM nine fifty KPRC. So let's start this
(21:14):
segment here with Brooke Rawlins. Not about the screwworm. We're
done with the screwworm for today. No, this is about
fraud in the food stamp program and we really, we
really have to figure this one out because fraud is
so rampidt even in Red States, fraud is rampid. The
(21:37):
good news about the Red States is the Red States
are cooperating. The bad news about the Blue States is
the fraud is no doubt worse and they are not
the least big cooperating. So here's Brooke Rallins press conference
yesterday talking about the fraud problem with the food stamp program.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
We sent a letter to every governor in America. No
one had ever held the states accountable. The federal government
funds of the food stat program. We send hundreds of
millions of dollars a day to the states, but there'd
never been a back end accountability on.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
How is that money getting spent.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
So we asked all the states to partner with us
as time to have accountability. The Red States of course did,
and with that Red state data, we found two hundred
thousand dead people getting food stamps. We found half a
million people that were getting more than one benefit. And y'all,
this was in the Red states. The Blue States wouldn't
give us the data. They're suing us. We're in massive
litigation right now looking to cut those funds off until
(22:32):
they give us that data. But the fraud is so
rampant and so stunning that when the President, the Vice
President and our team talks about, you know, when we
can root all this fraud out, we're going to really
be able to cut the deficit, make sure we're protecting
the taxpayer, but aso make sure we're protecting the families
that rely on these programs at the same time, and
by getting the fraud out.
Speaker 16 (22:52):
Yeah, So the Secretary of Agriculture sounds like a Bruce
Willis movie. Now I see dead people and I can
tell you.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
That she is right.
Speaker 16 (23:00):
Let me speak for the city that I know in
the state that I know best, New York. One of
the stunning revelations of my early career, and I'm going
back well over thirty years more than I like to
imagine in New York was that when I came on
the police department, everybody I arrested that was kind of
a street person had multiple identity cards that were called
EBT Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
They're like credit cards.
Speaker 16 (23:25):
That's how New York State administers SNAP understand what it is.
The Feds provide the money, the state's duty administration. Each
state is a different sort of program to do that.
In New York EBT, they'd have ten to fifteen cards
in different names, and they would be getting benefits from.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Each of those names. You call the hotline that's on.
Speaker 16 (23:46):
The card to say, hey, I got a freud situation.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Leave a number and you'll never hear back. It's yeah,
now we get the decades.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
That's Paul Morrill, former New York City police officer. Yeah.
I think it's safe to say that this has been
a problem. That's been a problem for twenty thirty plus years.
I don't think Blue states are that worried yet because
they don't really think that the federal government has the
(24:14):
you know what the gohon is to come after them,
and if they do come after them, they're they're I
think what the Blue states are counting on when you
get right down to it, is that they won't be
prosecuted or they won't be prevented from receiving more food
(24:35):
stamps or any other federal programs, because the Republicans won't
be willing to put on the line that kind of
money and have the Democrats be able to say, Yep,
that's the Republicans are withholding your food stamps, that's the
Republicans have taken your benefits away, because you know that's
what the Democrats would do, and the people who are
receiving that stuff care more about getting the benefits than
(24:57):
they do about rooting out fraud. I think it's pretty
safe to say say so. Anyway, let's talk about another
problem we have. We're solving problems here today on our show.
Where the next problem is the continued warnings from Exon
and other countries, Exon Mobile and other companies that we
are running into an oil shortage or soon we'll run
(25:18):
into an oil shortage that's going to become critical. OPECK
announced for the fourth time that they are going to
increase production, but at the end of the day, does
it really make that much difference as far as the
oil shortage problem Number one and number two the price
which everybody, of course is complaining about. We had Todd
Staples on our program this morning. Todd as president of
(25:40):
the Texas Oil and Gas Association. Here's my conversation with him.
Is there any way to up things enough, Todd to
get the price of gas lean down a little bit
at the pumping and stilled this whole straight of horror
moves thing gets settler. We stuck, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
We are in a little bit of a wait and
see situation still until the Strait of Horror moves opens up.
OPEC has indicated that they want to increase production about
one hundred and eighty eight thousand barrels per day for July,
but that's more symbolic than it is sustance at this point,
and the reason why is that there's really no place
to go with it as long as the strait is
bottlenecked up. Now, both Iran and Ua are talking about
(26:21):
building additional pipeline capacity, and UAE is very seriously under
construction building an east West pipeline that will help alleviate
the real burden that the Straight of Hord moves has
caused on the world consumers today.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Once they open up a pipeline, though, how much realistically,
how much oil could they move in one day through
a pipeline like that.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, these are really big pipelines, and this really emphasizes
just how important infrastructure is, and that's one of the
reasons that Texas is such a main producer of what
it is today. They're talking about three to five million
barrels a day Saudi Arabia Jimmy for instance, started using
a pipeline more to to report that is not you know,
(27:02):
encumbered by what's going on in the Strait. And that's
about seven million barrels a day. So when you look
at originally you had about twenty million barrels a day
going through the Strait, really about fourteen to fifteen million
barrels a day is what's off the market because they
were able to reroute to existing pipelines to some degree.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Okay, we keep hearing these warnings. I think the lab's
one was exon Mobile warning about the oil supply getting
dangerously low. These legitimate concerns. How much longer can that
straight stay closed before we really are super concerned about
having enough oil to go around?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Well, I think supply levels are always a factor that
you need to watch. If you'll think back with me
for a moment, to the beginning of this year January
February of twenty twenty six, the world production was around
one hundred and six hundred and seven hundred and eight
million barrels a day. Well consumption was only one hundred
and two to one hundred and five. And so what
(27:58):
was happening then is you we had production going into
storage and prices were a little bit lower than what
they realistically should be. And the reason was is because
the world inventory of oil was building up and the
surplus was going into storage. It's a balancing act and
that's the way markets are supposed to work. But since
(28:19):
the straight up our moves and the war that's occurring
with Iran, global oil supplies have been drawing down, and
they've been drawing down I want to say around eight
to nine million barrels a day, but that's about a
thirteen million barrel swing if you consider what was being
injected versus now what's been taking out, and so watching
(28:41):
those inventories are important in Texas and in the US.
We've tried to increase all that we can, but we
know that the strait needs to be resolved to get
the normal supply chain back into place and to get
buying and selling trading of this commodity on a normal basis.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Again, you know, I'm guessing too, Todd Staples, that this
is a balancing act for the government as well and
for oil companies that do use the straight up our moves.
And it's not just enough to have the street open.
They have to feel it's safe as well, or the
insurers are not going to ensure those ships. And if
they aren't ensuring the ships, those ships aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You nailed it right there. Certainty is so essential to
stable markets, and uncertainty is the enemy of growth. And
so what we have right now is that companies don't
really know what exact actions to take because of what's
going on in the straight up hour moves. Even here
in Texas, we're still struggling gas prices at the Waha
(29:44):
Hub and the Permian basin, one of the most prolific
basins in the world that we're blessed with. In West
Texas and eastern New Mexico, they're actually some companies are
reporting they're having to shut in wells because the gas
ratio is so high compared to the oil that's getting
out that it's it's just not costant. They're having to
pay to get rid of that gas, and so they're
(30:05):
having to limit that. So we need infrastructure here in
Texas more we need it in the Middle East because
that's what enables products to move to where consumers really
need it and move in an unin hindered fashion.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
There you are lay us on oil and everything you
need to know about Todd Staples. Todd is president of
the Texas Oil and Gas Association. We'll be right back,
Jimmy bairdschell, you're an M nine fifty KPRC. All right.
Speaker 14 (30:50):
I thought we would spend our final segment today talking
about something that I just I think we all know
somebody right who's on GLP ones, whether it's a triseeppetide
or one of those other drugs.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
We keep seeing stories about how good these drugs are
for you. I'm unaccustomed to seeing stories like this, because
most of the stories you see about drugs are about
unintended side effects. Not that there are any side effects
with glp ones. There are, but unintended side effects or
or later heart problems or something else from a drug.
(31:29):
Everything that's been coming out about these glp ones seems
to indicate that overall they're pretty dark on good for
your health. And now they're even saying that it could
be helpful as far as fighting cancer. Yet another benefit.
I had doctor Cliff Porter, from the healthcare policy director
of the Texas Public Policy Foundation on our program this morning.
(31:50):
Here we are talking about the health benefits of glp ones,
But it seems like the health benefits outweigh the symptoms
for the most part, don't they.
Speaker 15 (31:59):
Yes, indeed, good morning. It's turning into quite an extraordinary drug.
And a lot of it has to do primarily with
how it's just overall improving health. But yes, all drugs
fundamentally can have side effects as well, but I'm actually
quite encouraged by most of it. But watching my patients
to make certain they're doing okay.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Okay, Well, let's talk about some of the benefits we
can get to the cancer thing in a moment, because
there seems to be a potential link there. But we
do know in addition to significant weight loss, which generally
speaking is better for your health, provided of course you're overweight,
blood sugar control reduce food noise, which makes it easier
for people to lose weight. There's even cardiovascular implications that
(32:39):
seem to be pretty positive.
Speaker 15 (32:42):
Yes, the fundamental action of it is it's blocking what
we call gluco neogenesis, which is a generation of new sugar.
So a little Latin Latin for everyone this morning. And
by blocking that new glucose generation, and then the body
has to break down its own sources to make glucose
or brain needs glucose or protein. And so if people
(33:06):
are making certain they're working out regularly and exercising, the
body preserves muscle and breaks down fat for glucose, the
body will break down both. So it powerfully benefits those
people with diabetes and diabetes when the sugar's high, it
damages the blood vessels. So in many ways, diabetes is
a vascular illness. And then we see all the problems
(33:28):
with diabetes the blood vessels of the eyes, the kidneys,
the heart, and so forth. So that powerful effect on diabetes.
And because it does not dramatically lower glucose too much
like insulin does, it's safe for people who do not
have diabetes. Okay, so really a wonderful development, all right.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Liver and kidney help for people, for example, have a
mash disease or fatty liver. Evidently there's a link there
that may be good for that. Absolutely, and mash.
Speaker 15 (33:56):
The effect on the liver is basically a fatty liver
is the old term for it is just how that
body is being able to generate and reduce that glucose
and do that gets stored in the fat as well.
So all these positive effects moving down the road, and
as you said, the food noise. One of my patients
talked about how just did not have a psychological negative
(34:19):
feeling every time they walk by the refrigerator anymore, and
just the they just became a happier person. It was
actually quite positive for them. But of course, these are
all the positive stories that always always isn't true with any.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Medicine, of course, Well I guess too. The negative parts
I think are well known. They can cause diarrhea and
other types of things, stomach upset and some other types
of issues that the reaction seems to be different for
every individual, doesn't It's not everybody gets those symptoms, and
some people get severe symptoms.
Speaker 15 (34:49):
Correct. The most common ones I do see when people
first start as nausea because it slows down the stomach
and the term is gastroparesis or paralysis with and people
who take too high of a dose too quick. This
is why we started low dosa's too high too quick
and have terrible nausea and just can't tolerate it. And
(35:09):
that's true for a certain number of people. And I
had one patient who decided over to take a whole
lot in a hurry to lose weight really fast. But
it doesn't work that way. And I tell people, don't
mess with mother nature. She'll mess with you.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
It seems like the only negative thing about it is
the price. But hopefully, hopefully the price comes down. And
I did see where it looks like Medicaid or Medicare
anyway is going to pick up start picking up these
GLP one medications because they see the overall health benefits
and they're willing to pay for.
Speaker 15 (35:42):
To some degree. Yes, and because the price has come down.
It was initially the costs for around fourteen hundred dollars
and now through direct purchases of the brand names are
the initial ones are around two hundred and two hundred
and fifty, but regular dosa is four to fifteen to
five hundred dollars a month. So expensive, but if you're
looking at people who have severe complications of heart disease,
(36:03):
you know hospitals say fifty to one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Yeah, a lot cheaper than that. Like I said, I
haven't been able to find any negative news about GLP
ones at this point in time, and that that's pretty
rare for any drug. You know, people I know have
been highly successful losing weight on it. You know, people
hadn't lost weight in a long long time. Just losing
weight in general when you are obese is a good
(36:28):
thing for your health. All right, I have to leave
it at that for today. Thanks for listening. See you
tomorrow morning, bright early five am over our news radio
seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four on
a nine fifty KPRC
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