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August 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
  • The anniversery of hurricane Harvey
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right. Today we begin with the stolen cars, and
raise your hand if you've had your car stolen before.
I've I've never had that happen to me. I have
never once had a stolen car knock on something. I
do take extra precautions right now with my Chevy Silverado
pickup truck that I have because well two reasons. Number

(00:53):
one is parked outside like most pickup trucks are. It's
it's parked outside that sucker stue big For my garage, well,
I'm might be able if I didn't have so much
other crap in my garage, I could probably fit it
in my garage. The other thing I do with it,
I've told you this story before. I think that I
back it in and I park it as close to
the garage door as I can so that there's not

(01:15):
enough room for somebody who would want to steal the
h the tailgate to get in there, to steal the
tailgate is we started with reports on you know, a
lot of trucks, pickup trucks were having their tailgates stolen.
At least out where I lived. That was happening out
in Spring. I don't know if that's happened where you
are or not. Here in Houston, we just generally get

(01:36):
a lot of stolen vehicles, and they're getting pretty sophisticated
with the scams too. You know, they like to steal
them and then they do a little thing on the
vend number and they try to resell them to people.
And they, of course they sell it, you know, big
expensive truck for like twenty thirty thousand dollars. So you
think you're getting Wow, what a great deal I'm getting right,
so you don't don't even question. They'd give you some

(01:58):
sob story about why they have to sell cheap. They
sell it to you, and then it turns out it
was stolen and they had cloned a you know, a
ven number for it, and you know, you get you're
the one that get screwed because if you're if you
buy a stolen vehicle, guess who gets it back person
the person who who has the title, the person who

(02:19):
actually owns the vehicle. So anyway, here is a report
on all this from our television partner KPRC.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Two vehicles, trucks, SUV's, sedans. Houston has millions.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
Anywhere where there's a lot of cars, you know, that's
where they used. Are going to be crooks, are going
to steal what people want to buy. In Texas, it's
all about trucks.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Stealing someone's car is impactful and for some life altering.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
For the single mother you know who lives in an apartment.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
From car break insto stolen vehicles and cloned VIN numbers.

Speaker 6 (02:55):
Somebody has gotten your vein number off of your legitimate
vehicle and the vehicle matches yours. They either make a
copy of a van or a fake fan that actually
has that number and put it on their stolen car.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
For stolen gmc denalis from Houston turned up in Hayes County,
all with cloned vins.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
The reason crooks do this is because for a short
time that cars can get a license plate, it can
be registered.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Here's the scary par Most DMVs don't check for duplicate
VIN numbers. Thieves know this.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
They copy vins from legitimate cars, slap them on stolen ones,
and sell them across state lines. If you buy one
of these cloned cars, you're out of luck and money.
The car goes back to its rightful owner. Before you
buy a used car, remember if the deal is too
good to be true, it likely is. Should people be
treating their VIN numbers like social Security numbers in protecting them?

Speaker 6 (03:52):
Given your VEN number to a stranger on a phone, Yes,
that's something you shouldn't do.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
See been guarded.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
Check the vendoms to make sure they match, both on
the windshield and in the doorframe. Depending on the car,
you might have one under your rear tag. Check the
key inside your bomb for notches and make sure it
unlocks your doors and tailgate. And watch for red flags
and online sales.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
Why would you sell me a ninety thousand dollars truck
for thirty five, Well, I'm.

Speaker 8 (04:21):
Giving you a divorce.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
That's a classic, you know if they try to switch
the location at the last minute, huge red flag.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Protecting your car is simple. Start by using a steering
wheel lock, install an obed port lock, buy a GPS
tracker one that uses sell signal will work and remember
to hide it and add a car alarm that has
a kill switch or a pin. While Chevy trucks are
hot here in Texas, other brands most likely to be

(04:50):
stolen Hondai's, Hondas and Kias.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Interesting Chevy trucks number one. Number one is far getting
stolen here in the Greater Houston area. And guess what,
I have a Chevy truck. I've never been through that
experience though, of having a car stolen. I can't even
imagine what that's like. I'm sure you feel horribly violated
by it. I hope to never find out what that

(05:15):
feels like. So we talked about that this morning a
little bit. We also talked about car technology. You know
who JD Power is. JD Power does a survey of
car buyers. In particular, this is the survey of like
eighty thousand car buyers and talk to them about the
technology in their new cars and trucks and what it

(05:38):
was that they liked about their technology, what features do
they really like, what features do they use, what other
features would they like to see? And of course, you
know cars have gotten very high tech, you know, just
think about it. I mean ten years ago. Well you
have to go back further than that. Fifteen years ago,
a lot of cars didn't have backup cameras. I mean,
where would we be without backup cameras about you? But

(06:00):
that's that's the one piece of technology. The two pieces
of technology I guess I use all the time or
the backup cameras. And on my vehicle, it's a twenty
twenty four. It has a backup from every angle. When
you put it in reverse, it will show you right
directly behind you, both sides of you, and in front

(06:20):
of you get basically a three hundred and sixty degree
view of what's going on around you. And it has
the little lines of course, which lets you know exactly
how close you're getting to vehicles that are next to you.
It's a godsend for parking because trucks and big SUVs
you set up so high it's hard to see the lines.
For a parking lot spot, it's really tough to see.

(06:40):
So it comes in really handy for that. The other
thing I appreciate is the side view mirrors. Mine aren't
quite as fancy some of the ones now, I guess.
Not only do they have like the yellow warning light
that pops on when somebody's in your blind spot, but
it has a camera that will pop on. It will
show you that left lane so that you can see
not only the one that's in your blind spot, but
what's behind that. So if you're thinking about making a

(07:03):
turn or in a hurry to make a turn, you
can know whether or not you can make the turn safely.
So we're asking the listeners this morning on ktr H,
you know, either what what feature does your vehicle have?
Technological feature does your vehicle have that you really like
or you really use all the time? And what would
you like to see as far as new technology? And

(07:25):
the answers were kind of interesting.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Morning guys.

Speaker 9 (07:27):
Uncle Jill from Crosby would like to see a gyroscopic
drink holder.

Speaker 10 (07:32):
I stopped stealing my cocktail and I'm taking him curved
too fast.

Speaker 9 (07:35):
Good morning, Jester from Willis. I'm with you, Jimmy. I
love the cameras on the new vehicles. Leafless way rivers
can see much more clearly than trying to do it
the old fashioned way.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Thanks, good morning, Jimmy. The technology I like the best
in my truck is Apple car plays so I can
listen to seven forty kt RH to you as sky
Mike in the morning's interpiece of technology. Apple car play
Ways app shows you where the police are at high tech.
They need to add something that shocks somebody that's driving

(08:10):
and texting with their car phone on the steering wheel,
looking down the whole time.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, I've always you know what I've always I've always
envisioned a battering ram. If I could have a battering
ram on the front of that truck. You know, when
you get somebody who's in the left hand lane, who's
going like at the speed limit or five miles below
the speed limit, you know, you could just give a
little love tap, just let them, hey, I'm here, move over.

(08:40):
I've always fantasized about that. Do we have any more?

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Good morning, Jimmy, James W.

Speaker 10 (08:43):
Taspasita.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
The tech I would like to see in our vehicles
is all these fancy new cameras. Next time we see
somebody on their phone while they're driving, cameras take a
picture of their license plate and then a picture of
them on their phone automatically send it to their auto
insurance company, so their reach triple.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Like it should have a good day.

Speaker 11 (09:01):
But Jimmy, I absolutely love backup camera. I'm a pickup truck,
so I know exactly how far I need to go.
But what I would like to see is more advanced
features for bluetoothes, particularly hooking at my phone to the radio.
And I would love to have a feature where I
where if I'm in a certain mood and I'm on
the highway, I would love to hear a specific song

(09:23):
at a specific time. If I'm going on freeway, I
love to hear Panama.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Okay, you know you could probably just get your own
little playlist and play it, you know, when you get
on three, we just hit the button for Panama. All right,
that's fun. Anyway, quick little break, We're back with warning
moment Jimmy Baird Show a nine KPRC. So have you

(10:08):
been following the Washington d C. Story about how much
crime is down in Washington, d C. With all those
National Guard troops and the FBI and the local police
out there just patrolling twenty four hours a day, seven
days a week. They have not had a murder in
twelve days. Now. You know what's said is is that

(10:28):
we're going, Wow, it's been twelve old days since somebody
got murdered in Washington, DC. It's sad to say that.
But on the other hand, barely a date normally goes
by in Washington, d C. Or any other major city
without somebody getting murdered. Certainly, you know, when you're talking
about the better part of two weeks, that's unusual. I mean,
I don't know if we even go two weeks at

(10:50):
a time here in Houston without somebody getting murdered. But
the media, which cannot find anything positive to say about
anything that Trump does, you know, would rather report that
Donald Trump is trying to make Washington, d C. Into
Epcot Center. You ever met Epcott? I used to go
to Disney World all the time when I was younger.

(11:11):
I used to work for a radio station that was
owned by the Disney Corporation. Not when I initially went
to work there, just one of those merger things that
went on and on and finally got to the point
where it was bought by the Disney Corporation. And of
course part of the deal when you work for the
Mouse is that this is back in the nineties, they

(11:31):
would anytime something new opened up, especially at Epcot Center,
they send us down there to do a remote broadcast,
which I have to admit it's kind of fun. Y'all
get to fly to Florida. At the time, I was
living in Michigan, you know, and they'd fly you down,
usually in a month where it's really cold, and we'd
fly down there. And we were down there for the

(11:52):
opening of the MGM Studios and that was crazy. I mean,
that's one of those events. I will never forget. This
dates me a little, of course, you could look it up.
How long you know, it's been since the MGM Studios
opened up at Disney World. But they had they had
the media all there, and they had this big party

(12:14):
before the opening to the public, and they had this
big black tie event where everybody's walking through the park
and everything is free, and they have all these buffet
tables set up with be Tenderloin and Prime Rib and
all this, you know, open bar, all this crazy stuff.
The companies used to do that They never do anymore.

(12:34):
They won't they won't spend the money on things like this.
And George Burns was still alive, he was there. Jimmy
Stewart was still alive. He was there. The Pointer sisters
were there, they were part of the entertainment. I can't
recall what year was off the top of my head,
but I just remember walking around seeing all these people
walking around the park. I'm going this, Jimmy Stewart. I

(12:54):
can't believe it.

Speaker 8 (12:55):
I could.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'm like right next to Jimmy Stewart. It was crazy
And that's how they used to do back in the day.
And the one thing you can say about Disney, you know,
politics aside. You know, the Disney Company is not the
same as when I worked for them. Obviously, they became
politically correct and dei and woke like everybody else did.

(13:19):
But the one thing you could always say about any
trip to Disney World is you will not find a
place more pristine. I mean there's no trash, no trash
at all. You don't even see them pick up the trash.
It's just clean. And the media thinks that they are
putting down President Trump for saying by saying that they

(13:40):
wanted to be he wants Washington, d C. To be
like Epcot Center. I think that's one heck of a compliment.
If you could make it look like Epcot Center. Everything
is green, the flowers are in bloom, everything is clean,
everything is safe. Hey, that's exactly That's exactly what we'd
like to see, you know, are because tourist attraction again

(14:01):
in our nation's capital. Jesse Waters was talking about it
on his show last night.

Speaker 12 (14:06):
Trump's turning d C into Disney World. That's not me
saying it. That's the media. Forty Seven's molding d C
into his own personal Epcot, a political theme park where
troops keep the peace and the White House glitters like
mar A Lago. I took my kids to Epcot. It
was clean, friendly and fun. Why would anyone be against that?

(14:26):
With a little imagination and some pixie dust, Trump turned
the capital into the most magical place on earth.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
We actually arrested a total of well over one thousand people.
We took hundreds of guns away from young kids who
were throwing them around like it was candy. As they said,
we've had zero murders in the last week. And some
of these people were from foreign countries. They said, that
doesn't sound so good, and I said, well, it doesn't
sound good, but Washington was the most dangerous place in

(14:58):
this country. And now you know what, probably the safest
placement on conjevery.

Speaker 12 (15:02):
The National Guards carrying nine millimeters and m fours And
we've gone twelve days without a murder in DC. It's
the longest streak since before the pandemic. Trump's done so much.
The US Marshals gave him a badge.

Speaker 13 (15:16):
We thought it was only appropriated to present you with
honorary the United States Marshall Service Badge. And this badge
comes with this little linum right here, the handcuff key,
Miss President, because you continue, through your policies and your
efforts with your staff to unhandcuffed law enforcement officers all

(15:41):
over this nation.

Speaker 12 (15:42):
America's heart throb, Stephen Miller says Trump's making America date again.
Last week was restaurant Week and Liberation Week.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
The first time of their lives.

Speaker 10 (15:52):
They can use the parks, they can walk on the streets.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
You have people who can walk freely at night with
having to worry about being robbed or they're wearing their
watches again. They're wearing jewelry again, they're carrying purses again.
It is a literal statement.

Speaker 12 (16:06):
The President Trump has free seven hundred thousand people in this.

Speaker 10 (16:12):
City who are living under the rule of criminals and trust.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Isn't it crazy that happened in just over a week.
He continues to prove that you can turn things around
on a dime. He did it with immigration, now he's
doing it with crime and public safety, turning it around
on a dime. So what's next. Well, Chicago thinks that

(16:40):
maybe they're next on the list. Baltimore does too, and
neither one of those places have Republican mayors or Republican governors.
So they completely opposed the idea of Trump coming in
with National Guard and helping get control of the city,
helped you get crime out of the way, and in fact,

(17:03):
they're going out of the way to do that. So yep,
not every Democrat agrees with all this. In fact, former
Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich and a South Side Chicago resident,
you would think the South Side would be completely blue,
right African American female. She is a Republican. They want

(17:25):
Trump to come in.

Speaker 14 (17:26):
I hope President Trump comes to Chicago and can do
in Chicago what he's done in Washington. No murders in
Washington in twelve days. In Chicago, two hundred and fifty
four people have been murdered in two hundred and thirty
three days. You can honestly wake up in the morning
and say somebody's going to get murdered today. And you
can also say eighty percent of that the people murdered
will be black, because eighty percent of the murder victims

(17:46):
in Chicago are black. And if this was happening in
the neighborhood Prisker and these white limousine rich liberals live,
and he would not only beg Trump to bring the
National Guard, he's screaming shot for the Army of the Navy,
the Marines, in the Air Force. This is hypocrisy with
a touch of racism. And it's proves that the Democratic
Party today black lives matter only for their votes now

(18:09):
when it comes to keeping them safe in their disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Speaker 15 (18:13):
We are not thinking about Prisker or Brandon Johnson. We
just had four mass shootings in the span of one month.
Fourteen people got shot and four did. We just had
senior citizens lane shot bleeding in the streets. And let's

(18:35):
not forget the gentleman who we saw who was on
Facebook live getting robbed and shot while he was sitting
in his car. So we don't care about anything these
people are saying. Tell Brandon Johnson and Prisker, if Chicago
is so safe with Brandon Johnson especially let's leave him

(19:00):
one hundred and fifty police detail, fire them, and walk
around with no police detail and brisker, no security. Come
in my community, the south side of Chicago. Come over
there and let's see you say how safe it is.
You can't either sit in your car Loan. If you
sit in your car, you know there it's a chance
you're gonna get carjacked, robbed.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
Or shot.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
But evidently not much of a chance. If everybody's on
alert and the National Guard is there and they're kicking butts,
taking names, arresting people, keeping them in jail. It's amazing
how things can turn around out a dime. There's no
doubt in my mind they could turn Chicago around in
a week, or Detroit or pick any other blue city.

(19:47):
I think it's hilarious too that the people who have
been criticizing this whole thing, who's a Gavin Newsom who decided, well,
I'll just point out all the red states that have
high crime problems. Guess what, all the red states that
have high crime problems. The high crime problems are all

(20:07):
in blue cities. They're all in blue cities. All right,
quick little break, We're back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Baird Show here an AM nine to fifty KPRC

(20:32):
all this week, is it an anniversary of Hurricane Harvey?
You know, I wonder how long how many years do
you do kind of an anniversary sort of thing or
remember something like that before you it just kind of
fades away. I mean, it's pretty much true of everything, right,
even things like Pearl Harbor. I mean, we still remember
Pearl Harbor that got us into World War Two, but

(20:56):
almost all the veterans of that eraror have have passed on.
So as that generation continues to to die, the younger
generations have a tendency not to remember as much. The
Baby Boomers will remember it a little bit because they're
the sons and daughters of the greatest generation that served
in World War Two. But every generation goes on, it

(21:19):
just becomes a more history. It just kind of becomes history.
You need to be the same thing with Harvey. You know,
this year is the eighth year since Hurricane Harvey. It's
easy for me to remember the date because I had
just accepted the job here in Houston on kt H
in the morning show, and I was supposed to come

(21:40):
in the weekend that Harvey hit to look at houses. Well,
as it turned out, I wasn't coming to Houston, that's
for sure, no way to get here. And once I
got gotten here, there's nowhere to go. I mean how much.
I think it's something like eighty percent of Harris County
had a foot or more of water in it, completely

(22:03):
flooded out. I mean, think about this storm. We think
of it as Hurricane Harvey. Wasn't the hurricane that did
us end. It wasn't even a hurricane by the time
we got to Houston. It was just a crapload of
tropical rain that disparked itself right over our area, just
stayed right there and just kept raining and raining and raining.

(22:25):
Two three feet of rain depending upon where you were.
Just amazing, just an amazing thing. So we had Brian
Murray on from the Harris County Office of Emergency Management
on our morning show today on ktr H to remember
the anniversary and to talk about some of the things
we may have learned, hopefully learned in the process. So
the mistakes we had that we don't make them again.

(22:47):
Here's my conversation with him. Eighth anniversary this week of
Hurricane Harvey. So, I guess the first question, Brian is
what do we learn from Harvey and what have we
fixed as a result of that.

Speaker 10 (23:00):
I think that one of the things that Harris County
residents do well as adapt and because we get hit
with so many different types of storms, whether they're tropical flooding,
we're always pulling lessons from them. I think from Harvey,
the biggest things that we learned is that there's not
a place in this area that can't flood. When you

(23:21):
look at the fact that almost eighty of the county
was under at least a foot and a half of water,
that's a pretty scary statistic. You know, trillion gallons gallons
of water on our you know, fell in four days.
That's some unthinkable amount of rain. But here's where I
think we've made some differences. I think we got very
realistic about some of the tools and training that we
needed to combat or at least to face something like that.

(23:44):
We've almost doubled the number of high water vehicles and boats,
you know, rescue boats since that time. I think that
our first response teams and the volunteer and city fire
departments around around the county have done more to train
for how to do rescue safer for how to handle,
you know, pulling people out of water, and we've gotten

(24:05):
a little bit better at messaging some of the things
to do. We never thought until Harvey that we would
have a situation we would have so many people stuck
on rooftops, and so there were some things that we
needed to learn to tell people, like don't go into
the attic. So there are things we've learned. But I think,
you know, again, Harris County residents are pretty darn resilient

(24:26):
to begin with, which is which is really a blessing
for us. But it's it's just I still get goosebumps
thinking about that week.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, I do too. Well, it may sound silly, but
here's one of the things I learned. I learned that
those big ass pickup trucks that are jacked way up
with the huge tires around them, that look so silly
most of the time coming real handy when you've got
floodwater's going on.

Speaker 10 (24:49):
And that's the truth. I can't deny that one. That's
a good lesson and I think.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
It probably a great point. I think one of the
lessons that was learned is to be prepared to have
boat even though we don't live. We don't live on
lakes most of us, we do live near tributaries that
can flood, and having something you can get into that
floats is a pretty handy thing to have, especially if
you are a first responder like blease and fire.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
As I said, you know, the first response agency is
a basically double the number of you know, vehicles they
have to do rescues, and that's a good thing. I
think the other thing that Harvey should have taught us
and should have reminded us, is that, you know, hurricanes
are not our biggest threat here. It really is flooding.
You know, by the time we got to Harvey in
twenty seventeen, we've seen success of many major floods in

(25:36):
fourteen and twenty fifteen. Harvey was just the the ultimate
and it's a very very unlikely we're going to see
something like that again. But it's only not impossible. But
it does speak to the fact that there is no
excuse for not being prepared. All the time we talk
about being prepared for hurricane season because it's kind of
like the Marquee event or the Marquee you know, the storm.

(25:58):
But really Harvey wasn't a hurt for us. It was
a funt event, it was a reign event. So the
idea of being prepared for hurricane season absolutely true. But
I need people to be prepared every day of the
year for whatever.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Comes amen to that. I think the other thing that
we all learned from this is that five hundred year
storms are not necessarily once every five hundred years. They
can they can happen, they can happen at any time.
We also found out we have some pretty good friends
in Louisiana with the Cajun Navy, and we've been good
friends to them as well. And I think we also

(26:30):
found out we can pretty much survive anything. Think about
you just said it. Eighty percent of Harris County was
under a foot of water and it looked like something
that nobody could ever recover from. But we did.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
You know, Jimmy, you you brought a really good point
with the Cajun Navy, and you know they had brought
over about two hundred boats to the area in the
space of you know, hours to help to help respond.
And I think what that does highlight and something that
people need to be aware of is how they roll
our nonprofit community and just all volunteers play and disaster
recovery and response. It's almost bigger than what the government does.

(27:06):
You know, people, you know, wait till after disaster, Oh
where schema. Well, most of the relief for our residents,
whether that comes from something is you know, basic as
distributing food and water to doing mucking, gutting and rebuilding.
A lot of that is managed by nonprofit communities. Some
of them are faith based, some of them are you know,
like the Red Cross, the United Way and the Salvation Army.

(27:28):
But those those agencies are really who drives our recovery
and between that and our residents, we just couldn't do
it without them.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Let's us learned from Hurricane Harvard. That's Brian Murray, Harris
County Office of Emergency Management. So far this summer, we
haven't seen much and I hope to god we don't.
What little action there's been has been primarily targeted towards
the Atlantic coast of the US, the East coast, and

(27:55):
none of that's hitland so far. And we are almost
to September, which can be a very busy month. September
can be, but so far, let's just hope that the
current patterns continue, because I think the entire country could
use a break from a hurricane. Wouldn't be great if
we got through the whole season without a hurricane hit
anywhere in the US. All right, quick little break. We

(28:16):
are back with burning moment. Please stay with us. Jimmy
Barrett show here an Am nine to fifty KPRC. You
might know this about me. I love history, all forms

(28:38):
of history, good history, bad history, warts and all. I
love it all. It is a soundtrack of where we've
been and where we are going. I especially love local history,
and you'll learn new things. For example, when they found
a piece of World War One artillery just west of Memorial,

(29:00):
I'm going, what what is a piece of World War
One artillery doing there? And the anstitute it is is
that there used to be a fort there. I think
it's a camp logan, right, camp logan, and it's an
ancient part of history. It was there from nineteen seventeen
to nineteen nineteen. That's it. There was a training ground

(29:23):
for US troops getting prepared to go to Europe to
fight in World War One. It was only open for
two years, nineteen seventeen to nineteen ninety nineteen nineteen. Let
me make sure i'd make that succinct and it was
rather a big camp. There are thousands of troops that
were there. We didn't have a Memorial Park back then.

(29:43):
That was way outside of the city back in nineteen seventeen,
you know, because Houston was a pretty little place comparatively
speaking in nineteen seventeen. And I don't know why they
would have left live ordinance there, you know, dropped it
or whatever. But it was active. There's a possibility could

(30:05):
have blown up. But let's go ahead and give you
the full report here and I'll comment further. Here's the
report from our television partner KPRC too.

Speaker 16 (30:11):
This unexpected discovery happened around noon today. That unexploded World
War One era artillery shell and a fenced off and
hard to access area here at Memorial Park, which is
the former site of Camp Logan.

Speaker 17 (30:24):
In a wooded area of Memorial Park Monday.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Well, we first saw just a bunch of lights and sirens.

Speaker 17 (30:29):
Brock and his wife heard the law enforcement response to
a work crew's unusual discovery.

Speaker 8 (30:34):
It looked like an old, rusty, small piece of the cylinder,
something sticking out of the bottom of it.

Speaker 17 (30:39):
HPD's bomb squad responded to a call from a crew
working to clear underbrush after they found an unexploded World
War One era artillery shell too old and too dangerous
to move.

Speaker 7 (30:49):
It appeared to have to be possibly a live piece
of ordinance.

Speaker 17 (30:52):
Police shut down part of the park and cleared the
area before successfully detonating the decades old ordnance, which moved
just a bit of dirt.

Speaker 8 (31:00):
There's no cradle or anything like that.

Speaker 12 (31:02):
It's kind of crazy, but not too surprising since this
used to be a Camp.

Speaker 17 (31:06):
Logan formerly known as Camp Logan. More than seventy thousand
soldiers trained here starting in nineteen seventeen. It's now the
country's only not fully developed ex World War One training camp.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
I wouldn't be expressed that find more. By the way,
other history by Camp Logan and some of us not
very very pretty. You know. The wolk crowd would have
a dated mension this in the report, But the Wolk
crowd would have a real issue with it because it
was named after a Confederate War general from Texas. That's
how Camp Logan got its name. And the other thing

(31:39):
is is evidently even though it was opened very briefly,
in addition to training white soldiers, they were also training
black soldiers who I believe they kept separate. That's back
during the day of segregation, especially here in the Deep South.
I'm pretty sure they were segregated everywhere that they were training,
but at any rate, here it was a bigger problem.

(32:02):
And evidently the black soldiers got so upset at the
way they were being treated here that they almost had
a riot. There was almost a mutiny and a riot
that occurred that was shut down. I have no idea
how that thing completely ended up. I don't know the
complete history behind it, but again I'm more than happy

(32:22):
to report on that that's history warts at all. We
know the South was a different place in nineteen seventeen seventeen.
That's over one hundred years ago. For goodness thinks. That's
the other thing about it. Imagine something buried in the
ground for over one hundred years that could still potentially
blow up. I mean, there's a part of it and says,
you know, it's a shame they couldn't, you know, find

(32:43):
a way to disarm the thing and then just you
keep it as a souvenir or piece of history. And
it makes you wonder what else for the old camp
logan might be buried in or around Memorial Park. Is
there anything else they're going to find? I mean, there's
been a lot digging, sure that's occurred, and that's the
only way you're gonna find something, so be buried under
the ground. I'm sure there's a lot of other digginess

(33:05):
occurred that that they might, you know, potentially find something
else somehow, somewhere someday. But I don't know. Just interesting
to me. You know, this is something that's something about
Houston I hadn't had known and I had learned. That's
what I love about history. You learned something new, seemingly
every single day. Here's the other thing that I've learned

(33:26):
that it makes no sense what's going on right now
with all these protests and petition signers for Kilmar Abrego, Garcia,
the Maryland Dad, you know, the MS thirteen gang member,
slash white beater, slash human trafficker, that these Democrats seem
hell bent on trying to save somehow, that makes no

(33:48):
sense to me. Here is, by the way, some of
the some of the singing senior protesters, I'm sure they
got hired by that company that provides protesters. Here they
are singing, listened to this little ditty they sang about
Garcia and Trump, and then some reaction to it from
Harold Ford Jr. He's the only Democrat, at least yesterday

(34:10):
the only Democrat there was only have one on the five,
and he was even He's mystified by widely support Garcia.

Speaker 8 (34:22):
Gil.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
You Trump.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
They think he's going to be good for volks and
I think he's read man for foks.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
These people are deranged.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
He's not good for votes.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
He beat the hell out of his wife.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
His wife is afraid to even talk about him. She's
been mauled by this animal.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
The guy needs to be in prison.

Speaker 16 (34:45):
He doesn't need to be on the streets like all
these liberals want him to be.

Speaker 18 (34:49):
First of all, I don't know what we are protecting here.
If indeed the White House and the Justice Department has
information to show that this young man is an MS
thirteen gang member and as a threat to his community
in our country, they should come forward with it, and
we should convict this guy and get him out of
our country. But even if they're not doing that, this
should not be the sword that we fall on. We

(35:11):
swing Democrats at every pitch to president the road. They
are wildly outside of the strike Threa zone and we're swinging.
They're doing a good job of it, swinging at just everything.
This is not where and how we should be talking
about immigration policy. How we should be talking about allowing
the best and the smartest to come to our country.

(35:32):
This is not what we should fall on the sword.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
And can you.

Speaker 18 (35:34):
Imagine if we were asking instead of this, mister president,
we support your efforts to make our border more secure,
and we want to see all the violent's going and
we support your efforts on crime. We want you to
treat putin like the same way you treat criminals here,
because he is one. Can you imagine if we were
saying that President Trump, will we agree with him? And
then when we disagree with him and trying to craft a.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Message, they can't figure that out. Harold Ford Jr. You
might be to the few Democrats and still has their
sanity left. Your baseball analogy was perfect. They're swinging at everything.
Every pitch that Trump makes, they swing at it over
their head, in the dirt way outside. They swing at
all of them, and so far Trump hasn't thrown them

(36:19):
a strike that would be very easy for them to
hit out of the park and he's probably not going to.
They better come up with a different strategy. Listen, y'all
have a great day. Thanks for listening. I'll see you
tomorrow morning, bright and early, starting at five AM over
on News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're back here at
four on AM nine p fifty KPRC.
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