November 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- National nacho day
- Flights will be cut
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Speaker 5 (00:31):
Hey, welcome to our Thursday show. Did you know that
today's National Nacho Day? You know, I'm beginning to think
that maybe I should like have a show in the
Food Network or something, given my proclivity for talking about food.
I found out a few things about nachos on this
National Nacho's Day. First of all, how did they get
the name? Well, there's a chef. His first name Ignatio
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in Nacho is a nickname you you know for Ignascio
and h He's a Mexican chef at a restaurant who
invented the nachos. Now, he invented them in Mexico working
at a Mexican restaurant, but they're oftentimes thought of as
a tex Mes dish, and I have to think that
probably is because he invented them while trying to please
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a group of us servicemen's wives who had come down
on a day trip from Eagle Pass, and that's who
he evidently invented this. For now, I don't know, you
know how he came up with the idea. Nacho's always
kind of struck me as sort of a you know
everything plus the kitchen sink sort of a deal. I mean,
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you take a look at what are the ingredients that
you have, you know, a typical Mexican restaurant, and you
got the nacho chips that they usually come out as
an appetizer right in the salsa. And you've got tomatoes
and onions and avocados, and you've got ground beef, and
you've got you know, fa heat a steak meat, and
you've got beeated chicken. And you've got uh, maybe shred
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or some other sort of a seafood kind of thing.
And you've got cheese. You've got all those ingredients Mexican food.
To me, it's a lot like Italian food. It's all
pretty much the same, except you put them in different combinations.
I mean, think about that. I mean, spaghetti lasagna. You've
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got a form of pasta. The only difference between the
pasta is the shape of the pasta. A lasagna noodle
is different than a spaghetti noodle is, and a feed
of chini noodle is different than a spaghetti noodle is.
It's just a different shape, but it tastes the same.
And the tomato sauce, regardless of what dish you're making,
pretty much tastes the same. If that's true of Italian food.
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I love Italian food. I love Mexican food, but it's
also true of Mexican food. So when you're trying to
come up with something new, you're kind of working from
a limited amount of ingredients. I mean, it's pretty much
the same stuff going in every dish. And of course
everybody makes nachos different, like you may like reef fried beans,
or you don't like reefred beans, or you may like guacamole,
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or you don't like guacamole, or as it turns out,
sour cream. Sour cream turns out. This morning on our
morning show, I asked the question for National Nacho Day,
what is the one thing you don't want on your nachos?
And sour cream turned out to be a pretty popular choice.
Here's what some of our listeners had to say.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
No, sour cream on my nachos.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I realize I'm in the minority.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
No sour cream on anything for me, please, thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
This is Checking Connecticut.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
The one thing I would not want on my nachos
would be sour cream.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
I think nachos are just deconstructed taco salads.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
No cilantro, fvor tomatoes and onions on my nachos. Cheese, beans, meat,
and jalapenos.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
This is Amanda from Spring.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I love nachos, and I love just about anything on
nachos except soap.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
So no cilantro for me, please.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Ah, this is Jose.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I do not like sour cream or wacamole, and my nachos.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Really sour cream. I get to a certain extent, But
who doesn't like guacamole. Guacamulea just goes so good with
tortilla chips. Now, I'm I'm a bit of a purist
when it comes to the chips. There are some places,
you know, chips are all different, which is why you
coul buy so many different Nato chips at the store.
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You know, some some restaurants make them really really thin,
and some make them really really thick. I like the
really really thick ones. I like the tortilla chips that
I mean, they have some they have some girth to them.
They can they can hold up to dipping into the ingredients.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They could.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
They can. You could fit a lot of stuff on
top of them. But the most important thing is they
don't get soggy. That that's really important to me. I
don't like saggy tortilla chips. I want them to really
stand up. I want them to be nice and cro
but so far people are eating on that sour cream. Hey,
this is Jr.
Speaker 11 (05:04):
And what I don't like on nachos is peas, brussels sprouts, pineapple,
green beans, mushrooms, squash, zacchini, okra, well fried okre is
pretty good, but you get my dressed.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Don't like about nachos are places that put a big
pile of chips and then pour the cheese over it
and it doesn't get to the chips in the bottom.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I want my nachos individually made.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hey, Jimmy Mark from Cyprus.
Speaker 10 (05:38):
What I don't want on my nachos is a big
pile of chips with one thin layer of goodness on top.
Because once you get through that thin layer of goodness,
all you got less of big poly of chips.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
This is Tim Parlyn.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
The one thing I don't want on my nachos is
anybody else's fingers on my nacho.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is West. The true nacho only has cheese and halopanios.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Anything else, it just becomes a small costado that's boring.
Nothing but cheese and halopenios. I can do without the halapenos,
thank you very much. They add heat, but I don't
think they add much flavor at least. You know, I've
never been a big fan of halopenos. I mean, it's
not that I would never eat a halopeno or you know,
have it on nachos. I guess I have to be
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in the mood for a little bit spicy. But but
I understand what the one listener was saying there about
the places where you got all that good stuff right
on the top, and then once you get past the
top layer, you got nothing left but chips. You know,
the places that are really good are the places where
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they build it, they constructed. You know, you got a
layer chips, and then you got some toppings. You got
another layer chips, and then you got the toppings. You
got another layer chips, then you got the toppings, and
then you slowly. You slowly you put it in the oven,
and you slowly melt that stuff down so that you
end up with with be chips and melted cheese and
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all the other goodness on every layer. You know, when
I make them at home. And that's what I do
when I make them at home. All right, let's grab
a couple more.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, this is far from North Houston. I went on
vacation in Baltimore, and nachos in Baltimore. I don't have
to say no, prat crab does not belong on nachos.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Dave in Greenville, South Carolina. I'll think just about anything
on my nachos.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
But the meat has to be brisket.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
This is Marty in Fairfilled.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
I cannot stand sour cream on my nachos.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Another hater of sour cream. That's all right, I'll eat
your sour cream. I'll eat it, all right. That closes
the book on nachos. Happy National Nacho's Day. I'm guessing
a lot of you now are probably hungry and on
your way to go get some nachos. I don't blame
you back with Marta Mama, Jimmy Barrett show here at
AM nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All right, is the is the government still shut down?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It is okay, the government, I hate to tell you,
the government is shut down and now we're getting back
ups at the airports. We had the story this morning
on KTRH about actually broke yesterday afternoon from Sean Duffy,
the Transportation secretary, basically saying that I think there are
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forty different markets where they were going to have a
ten percent production is four percent today and then ten
percent tomorrow, ten percent reduction in flights because of the
air traffic control shortage and the issues that they're having
with staffing. So how is this going to work? There's
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a couple of things you probably need to know about it,
and I have to give credit to my beautiful wife,
Elizabeth for giving me the knowledge to know the answers
to this. She worked for Continental Airlines for wow over
twenty years, I want to say over twenty years before
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she retired. She retired right after the merger between Continental
and United because they were going first of all, they
were going to close down the station in Virginia where
we were at the time, and in order to stay
employed by them, she would have to commute back and
forth between Richmond and Virginia and Washington, DC. And she
didn't want to have to deal with that, and I
didn't want her to have to deal with that either.
(09:41):
That didn't strike me as a good idea. The other
part of it was just that she kind of felt
that the culture shift from Continental to United was going
to be different, and it has been different. I think
Continental Airlines was a far superior airline to United Airlines,
And unfortunately, what happens is when you have a merger
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between companies and their culture, you usually end up with
the with the dominance of whichever the lesser company is.
And that's what I believe that's what happened here. I mean,
I mean nothing, United is any worse than any other
airline at this point in time, but certainly not as
well run as it was when it was Continental Airlines.
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So at least that's my opinion. So you've got tempercent reduction.
Houston is one of those markets where there's gonna be
a teen percent reduction, both the Bush and Hobby airports
ten percent. Now they've asked the airlines, which would be
appropriate thing to ask, because Sean Duffy is just saying, well,
you have to reduce by ten percent. All right, how
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do the airlines determine how they're going to reduce by
ten percent? And that's where things get interesting. Now. United
is the only one. I'll give them credit for this.
They're the only ones who have said anything about how
they plan to achieve the ten percent, the other airlines
being very very vague about this. But here's what United
is saying. United is saying there'll be no impact on
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international flights. So if you are flying United Airlines internationally,
that there will not be anything happening to that flight.
You're going to London, you're going to Frankfurt, Germany, you're
going to Athens, Greece, wherever it is you're going, you're
going to end up. First of all, you're going to
end up in one of their hub cities, and Houston
is a hub before you go to the next stop.
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When we went to Greece, we had to go through Newark,
which is another United hub. So there's not gonna be
any impact on any flight going from New York overseas,
for example, from Newark, where they seem to be concentrating
on where they're going to be trying to make reductions
is flights that involve not hub to hub. If you're
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going like Houston to Newark, that's two hubs, that's not
going to be impacted. But if you are going let's
say Houston Detroit or Houston Los Angeles, where you're flying
from a United hub city to a non hub city,
that's where the reductions are going to occur. So the
first thing you need to know if you have a
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flight booked on United, are you flying from a hub
to hub or are a hub city or are you
flying from a hub to a non hub or from
a non hub to a hub, because those of the
flights are going to be impacted. You just wanted to
fill you in on that. Now, as far as the
government shut down itself, I've heard, I've heard all everybody
and their brother has come up with a theory about
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why we're dealing with this. You know, why did the
Democrats shut things down? It's pretty clear that Republicans are
taking much more than their fair share of blame for
what's happened. And I think Democrats knew that would happen
because quite honestly, their voters have been indoctrinated. Number one
and number two, most people, a lot of people anyway,
are not politically involved enough to or savvy enough to
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ascertain why it is that the government's shut down. They
just know that they get food stamps, or they get welfare,
or they work for the government, and right now they're
not getting paid and they don't like it. So we're
going to take it out on whatever whoever they deem
to be in power, and they deemed the Republicans to
be in power. But as far as what the Democrat
motive is, we had a guest on this morning, Bokabala,
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who's a political science expert at Arlington State. Excellent guest.
We're gonna I'm gonna play that for you, but we'll
start with this and that is a little clip from
a podcast, Joe Rogan podcast. He had Elon Musk as
a guest, and Elon Musk, I think gave a very
good synopsis of why the Democrats are doing what they're
doing with this government shutdown.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
The reason you have the standoff is because if the
hundreds of billions of dollars to create a financial ins
setup to like to have this giant magnet to attract
legals from every part of earth to these states, if
that has turned off, the illegals will leave because they're
no longer being paid to come to the United States
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and stay here.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
And then then then they will lose a lot of voters.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The party will lose a lot of voters.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And they would have a very difficult job if this
is kicked out of reintroducing it into a new bill.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yes, especially once things start normalizing.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
So like in a nutshell, the Democrat critic Party wants
to destroy democracy by importing voters, and the you know,
the Republican Party disagrees with and the ruses that if
you don't accept what they're doing, then you're a threat
to democracy.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yes, as they.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Try to destroy democracy, Yes, by importing voters and people
to only vote for them and overwhelming the system.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
And by the way, the strategy that, if allowed to work,
would work and in fact has worked California a supermajority Democrat.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
And there's so much sherrymandering that that cause it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
So it's worked if allowed to work.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Doctor Bokaballa joints those political science expert Toalmington state, Is
that too far out there for you? Good morning? Is
that too far up there for you? Do you think
there's some legitimacy to that.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
You know, that was a great conversation and are there
real elements of truth to that?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I think there are.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
One of the things the big beautiful Bill Donald Trump,
Donald Trump's signature accomplishments not to accomplish was make it
much much harder for fraud to occur in medicaid, whereby
people here illegally would receive benefits. So how much overall
of fraud and abuse is there in government?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
We know it exists.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
And that magnet theory again, I think there's elements of
truth to that, and this is why the government shut
down this time around, the longest on record is getting
more interesting, if dangerous, by the minute.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Well, certainly is effective. I believe in the Virginia election,
don't you. Northern Virginia is comp comprised of you know,
when you take a look at all the people either
working for the federal government who live there which is
the big population center, or are receiving benefits from the
federal government. If you actually believe that, you know they're
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trying to Trump is potentially trying to take your job
away or some of your benefits away. Which way are
you going to vote?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Well, exactly so, unemployment or temporary unemployment in Virginia, huge
impact on the race there between Spanberger and Sears.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
This is, you know, and it's a separate question from
should the government be shut down on principle?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
It may be.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I think it is right for the president to stand
on principle, but then you have to be aware of
what the secondary impact is from all those unemployed folks.
And I think he's got a plan. He's calling now
to end the filibuster. And I think Donald Trump, the President,
understands what the risks are. Absolutely that contributed to the
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Virginia outcome. Well, if you were going to end the philibuster,
should that have happened before the election, Why wait until
after the election to do that? Well, And I don't
think it's even ending. To be clear, what President Trump
has called for is a sort of it's setting a precedent.
It's the nuclear option. It does not involve a rewrite
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of the Senate rules. Of course, the Senate philibuster currently
exists in Senate rules, so those rules have been rewritten before.
He's not asking for that. He's asking for a majority
of the Senate to disagree with the likely interpretation of
what the Senate parliamentarian would likely say, and so the
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rule would still remain in place. And even if we
were changing the Senate rule, you could change it back
with the Republican majority in the next Congress. But I
think the risk that the President sees has increasingly. I mean,
we saw the election result. Even Rasmussen has more Republicans
being blamed for the shutdown than Democrats. I think the
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President appreciates this is a danger zone for Republicans the
longer this shutdown goes on. And just imagine the pr
we ended the Filipbuster because we had to feed you,
because we had to take care of the American people.
That would be a powerful talking point.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yeah, it would. It certainly would interesting. Yeah, motivations always
in these things. Is always interesting. Now, the question is,
because nothing has changed, Let's assume, for the sake of argument,
that Elon Musk is right that they are the Democrats
are desperately trying to save health care for illegals and
other benefits for illegals because of what they want to
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make sure they stay. Nothing has changed as far as
that goes. So unless one, we guess, unless the Republicans
are willing to to change that embargain in that particular area.
Then are they going to continue to hold out for
the rest of November into December? What about the new year?
All right, well, we'll continue our conversation the moment to
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stick around, please, Jimmy Bairt show here on Am nine
fifty KPRC. All right, our third segment today is very
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police centric. Mentioned yesterday that there was a recruitment effort
done by the Houston Police Officers Union. This recruitment ad
appealing to New York City police officers who now that
they've elected a socialist lives communist as mayor who wants
to defund the police. He thinks that you're corrupt. He
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doesn't appreciate what you're doing. It's cold in New York,
especially this time of the year. It's expensive in New
York all year long. What do you think about, Maybe
you should come to Houston, where the people will respect you,
where the mayor will support you, where the citizens will
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love all over you for doing your job, and where
you can actually afford to buy a home, not a
one bedroom apartment or a studio apartment. Trying to live
in the city where everything is stupid expensive and evidently
it's having some very positive results. Evidently the recruiting effort
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is kind of working. I had Doug Griffith on the
show today, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, to
talk about the recruitment effort and how it's going. What
kind of response have you gotten to that ad so far?
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Oh? Well, I'll be honest with you, we've gotten quite
a few calls. I filled it probably keen yesterday and
some other people in all to fill with a bunch.
So we have some really good interests for those guys
in New York that are overworked and underappreciated.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
What kind of questions are they asking about Houston?
Speaker 10 (21:11):
A lot of the questions stem around, hey, how do
we get down there? How does the process work when
we have to go through the academy as are a
latter class. There's a whole lot of things that play
into it. You know, if you're in New York and
you're a sergeant, how would that equate down here? There's
just different areas and aspects that they want to know about.
Some of the bigger questions was like the cost of living.
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How is it down there versus how it is up north?
So it's a big difference. Did did you tell them
any words better than where you're living. Absolutely. Hey, at
the end of the day, you want to work for
somebody that appreciates your hard work and values you as
an employee. That is not going to happen there. It's
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not come on down here. The citizens love us, the mayor,
the city council, state legislature. Everything is moving in the
right direction here in Texas, and we invite anybody that
wants to come down and be a hard working police officer,
someone who has a passion for this job, gone down,
we're hiring.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
You know, Doug, New Yorkers are a little different breed
than your typical Houstonian. Is there any concern about bringing
people in from New York that may have a hard
time adjusting to being here in the South with us?
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Hey, we have several officers, there were several on my
border directors that are from New York and they've loved it.
They have thrived here. They went from having a one
bedroom apartment that you hit your door when you open
it or hit your bed when you open it to
come in here living in a very nice three bedroom home.
So they have just loved being here in Texas. If
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you can get past the heat. Hey, you're all right,
Will you get used to the heat?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I can tell you that they'll be okay, and then
they certainly be a lot better off in the wintertime,
won't they.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir. And again, do you really
want to work somebody that considers you a racist, considers
you anti queer, considers you to be corrupt? And we've
had some people call me and go, oh, he changed
his stans. Well, you can't really change your stance on
things where you call a whole group. If a major
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city chief made a sexist, racist, homophobic comment, he would
never be chief in this nation again. Ever, even if
he tried to walk it back and say, hey, guys,
I've changed my stands, No, it ain't gonna happen in
that sat matter. He hasn't changed. He knows he's got
to have one hundred and fifty of those guys on
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his side who are going to be his security detail.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Right, exactly right, you're absolutely right about that. So we
got quite a shortage of officers here. Are you getting
a feeling on how many officers we might be able
to hire from New York City and how that might
put a dent in the amount officers on duty here.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Well, like I said, we're twelve hundred down, so I
don't care if it's two or two hundred. We'll take
as many as we can get. We need twelve hundred
ulcers in this city. As soon as we can get
them here and we are ready to go, well, we'll
put them to an academy class. We pay for them
to go through the academy class. If we can get
a lateral class, goal, we'll move into a lateral class.
There's all kinds of things we can do to get
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our numbers boosted up, and we want that to happen
as soon as possible, right, Doug, Hey, the citizens of
this city deserve the protection and we want to get
them there.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Well, that's good. I hope they can recruit hundreds of
police officers.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I brought up the question of a culture shock of
going from New York to Houston, And the only reason
why I mentioned is because again I don't mean to
sound stereotypical or put people into a stereotype, but I've
oftentimes found that New Yorkers are a little different than
anybody else. Most of us we adapt a new surround.
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I was born in Michigan, and I moved to Virginia,
which was in the South, and I adapted when I
moved to Virginia. Then I moved even further south because
I love the South. Here to Texas. But I came
here with the idea of Okay, you're Houstonian. Now you're
a Texan. You moved to Texas. You adapt to the
way things are done in Texas, you become a Texan.
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New York is a little different. They kind of take
New York wherever they go. You can take them out
of New York, but you have a hard time taking
the New York out of them. But it sounds like
from what he's saying that it's going just fine. Not
to worry now. As long as we're talking about police,
here's a story that I found very very interesting from
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our television partner kp RC two Harris County doing a
sting on people who are ignoring the lights and the
stop signs on school buses. School bus pulls over to
either pick up kids or to let kids out. The
red stop sign arm has come out on the side
of the bus. The lights are flashing, and people are
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just blowing by like they either don't see the school bus,
or they don't understand the rule that you have to
stop for the school buses and maintain your distance until
the lights go off. So they did a little sting
in Harris County, pulled over fifty one people. I'm not
sure how long a period of time this was, but
didn't take them long to do it. So here's the
report from our television partner KPRC two.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Early in the morning before the sun rises, Harris County
preesting for constable deputies are gearing up for an undercover operation.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So I'm just going to call out the vehicle or the.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Mission keeping your kids safe.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
So we are doing a bus safety initiative.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
They're targeting drivers who aren't stopping for school buses over
what are road and climb?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
All right, there goes one vehicle challenger, next vehicle.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Those three vehicles right there, I'll.
Speaker 12 (26:56):
Get the third debutes pulling over three cars all the
same stop bus.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Hello, corporates of the console's office switch for a stop?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Is the disregarded the school bus?
Speaker 11 (27:10):
Back there when they're picking up children?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
The driver's excuse, did you see the bus? Or no,
I didn't didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I advised them it was pretty obviously though, with a
big yellow school bus and the flashing lights on the
red stop sign.
Speaker 12 (27:24):
His license suspended, registration expired. Our driver Alex getting a
citation for all three the second school bus for following
was well unibactful.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
All these vehicles have stopped. I guess that's what you
want to see them, right, yeah, ideally, but that didn't
last long seconds later in the get and we're sitting
right here, I know.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
That's what's crazy, this driver praying he wouldn't get caught
without a license.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You have a plaster pipe, your pastor do you have
a driver's license?
Speaker 12 (28:00):
Tickets zoo?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Stop signs out? Five cars all right there, one, two, three.
Speaker 12 (28:08):
Our last stop of the day is the biggest five
school bus runners. But this time it's not just tickets
fund to stop for a school.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Bus, sea ansars vehicles other in marijuana.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
So that's why he's detained. We found the marijuana.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
The defendants also in the position of the firearm.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You can see for yourself, I mean the guns obviously
the serial numbers scraped off the bottom.
Speaker 12 (28:28):
Across the three operations in the Client Spring area today,
they stopped fifty one cars each getting a ticket plus
one arrest.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Every time you go to pass a school bus that
stopped on the side of the road, it's a potential tragedy.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So take it from someone who learned the hard way,
follow rules, and make sure that you completely stop when
it comes.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
To a bus. Client spring, that's that's that's where if
I had kids in school, that's where they would go
to school. And we got we got a guy who's
got a weapon in the vehicle with a with a
serial number scratched off seat. He's got it, he's gotten
it illegally in his possession. And and we got another guy
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with a suspended license, expired registration. And by the way,
you couldn't tell beca he was on a video. You
couldn't see the video. He's holding a cell phone while
he's while he's talking to the police officer. He didn't
even have enough sense to put down the cell phone
because technically you're not supposed to be talking on your
cell phone or texting people while you're driving. So there's
(29:32):
three right there. How come that guy didn't get arrested.
How come he didn't get arrested. He's got no driver's license,
he's got an expired registration, and he and he ran
past the lights of a school bus, and he's engaged
with his cell phone while he's doing all this, and
(29:53):
you get a citation, what are the chances the guy
even shows up for the citation? Go to jail. We'll
go directly to jail, do not pass go. How about
the guy who's who claims he's a pastor. Well, God said,
I don't have to have a driver's license. No, sir,
you may pray to God, but prayed to God for
bail money. You have a suspended license or no license,
(30:18):
you're not allowed to drive. I realize that. You know,
in our current judicial system, we don't like taking up
jail space with people doing these things, and we just
let them loose again. But can we at least give
them the scare of going to jail? Although you know,
if you're willing to drive on a suspended license and
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you're carrying a weapon, all those other things, and can
we even scare you anymore? It's it's frustrating. All right, quick,
a little break back with more in a moment, Jimmy
Barrett Show here an AM nine fifty k PRC. All right,
(31:06):
President Trump, let's talk about President Trump and the FDA
and making big deals. I'm big pharma and big pharma items.
The President coming out yesterday and saying that he would
like medicaid to cover your weight loss drugs, and I
assume for the purpose of weight loss. In other words,
(31:28):
you've heard all about these glp ones, right, tryspetie comes
to mind. Uh, you've heard of what GOV you know, ethic,
These these drugs that were created as anti diabetic drugs.
But just like Viagra was invented for the purpose of
treating your heart, one of the side effects is is
(31:49):
it gives you a boner. So so guess what Viagora became, Yes,
the boner medicine, that's what that became. Same kind of
thing with GOV. You know z epic and in these
weight in these drugs for treating diabetes, it seems to
reduce appetite, it helps people lose weight. It's it's pretty
(32:09):
effective for doing that as long as you're on the drug.
So once they found out that, then they started offering
it up. Is a weight loss drug for people, but
it's not generally covered by your insurance, your your drug prescription,
and it's expensive stuff. If you want, if you want
to be on that drug, it's going to be somewhere
(32:30):
around two fifteen, maybe three hundred or more dollars per month.
Tri Zeppetite, the most expensive I think about this is
about three hundred bucks a month for that. I've seen
all these little come on ads too, where they give
you this rate of like it's one hundred and fifty
dollars for the first month. Yeah, but then it goes
to three hundred bucks and it stays there. So they
try to lure you in by doing that, knowing that
(32:50):
if you try it and you're successful at losing weight,
whether you're going to want to keep using it. And
that's a pretty expensive habit for most people. I guess
the question becomes is Medicaid responsible for helping you lose
weight the easy way? If you're morbidly obese? Generally speaking,
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there's a reason why you're morbidly abyese, and it usually
involves eating too much food or the wrong kinds of food.
Should we even be worried about making a deal with
Big Farmer to sell you these other drugs at a
this kind of price. I mean, if you are diabetic
and your insurance is not currently covering that, then yeah,
that makes sense. But if it's just doing for weight losses,
(33:34):
this something that the federal government should be funding. But
evidently there's been some progress on these and then return
by the way, for providing drugs at this kind of
prices for trump RX, there evidently is a plan to
fast track at least some of the drugs that big
farmers trying to get through the system. There's a lot
(33:55):
of red tape that goes along with putting a new
drug on the system. Here is Martin McKay. Martin McCarey
is with the FDA's the FDA Commissioner, talking about the
deal going on between the federal government and big farma
to try to fast track some of these drugs.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Well, look, what the president is doing is ending the
great American ripoff. We pay four hundred and twenty two
percent higher for the same drug as Europe and other
countries around the world that are wealthy. These are not
poor countries. These are comparable countries. And let's remember the
growth in drug spend in the United States is the
fastest area of growth of health care costs. So when
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the president is working with individual companies to cut the
price of drugs by forty fifty eighty five percent. That
has enormous implications for our healthcare system. And I've seen
it as a cancer surgeon, Maria, these poor families, as
if having cancers not hard enough, they have go fundme campaigns,
and the churches are passing around offering plates and for
(34:56):
what for the US to subsidize the R and D
of the world's drugs. So the President does not like
to see other wealthy countries not pay their fair share,
and now they will. We're going to get the best
price for drugs among comparable countries in the world. It's
called most Favored Nation status pricing. And we secured it
with one country, and we're going to sorry with one company.
(35:19):
And we're going to see more and more of these
announcements come out in the coming weeks.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (35:23):
This is not the administration selling drugs as some are alleging.
This is a simple place where we have curated the
where people can go to find the price of drugs
and it will connect them directly to the direct sale
sites bypassing the middleman of healthcare. Remember the middleman of healthcare,
the PBMs and all the other parties involved markup drugs significantly.
(35:49):
Now you're going to be able to go direct and
this is not just a theoretical We're talking about Medicaid
getting most Favored Nation status pricing for all prescription drugs.
That's going to have a significant impact in cutting the
waste in the Medicaid program, which has been a commitment
of this administration.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
And we're talking about real drugs here.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Of rheumatoid arthritis drug zel Jans is going to be
decreased by forty percent. There's an osteoporosis postmenopausal medication duave
made by Pfizer. The team at CMS and the administration
secured an eighty five percent discount. So we're talking about
real lower drug price, not one or two percent reductions.
(36:32):
We're not talking about the previous administration trying to negotiate
pennies on just a small subset of drugs. We're talking
about an eighty five percent reduction. I think the average
reduction is eighty to eighty five percent.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Wow, that is a big deal. And by the way,
the drugs that would be fast tractive return or what
we would commonly call generic drugs, although they're not exactly
generic drugs, they're made for the same compounds as drugs
that were already approved by the FDA, So you wouldn't
have to get FDA approval anymore on a drug that
is essentially the same as a drug that's already been
(37:08):
approved by the FDA. That saves red tape and time
and money, and and there's nothing to lose here for
Big Pharma. The middlemen are the one they're getting eliminated.
Big farmas still gets the same cut they got before.
It's the middlemen that's not going to get their cut anymore.
All right, quickly before we go here do we're only
reminding again we have our Alaska trip. It's next August.
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only nine months away, and it'll be next August before
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Juno and catch a can and also glaciers and all
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Speaker 5 (00:31):
Hey, welcome to our Thursday show. Did you know that
today's National Nacho Day? You know, I'm beginning to think
that maybe I should like have a show in the
Food Network or something, given my proclivity for talking about food.
I found out a few things about nachos on this
National Nacho's Day. First of all, how did they get
the name? Well, there's a chef. His first name Ignatio
(00:54):
in Nacho is a nickname you you know for Ignascio
and h He's a Mexican chef at a restaurant who
invented the nachos. Now, he invented them in Mexico working
at a Mexican restaurant, but they're oftentimes thought of as
a tex Mes dish, and I have to think that
probably is because he invented them while trying to please
(01:16):
a group of us servicemen's wives who had come down
on a day trip from Eagle Pass, and that's who
he evidently invented this. For now, I don't know, you
know how he came up with the idea. Nacho's always
kind of struck me as sort of a you know
everything plus the kitchen sink sort of a deal. I mean,
(01:38):
you take a look at what are the ingredients that
you have, you know, a typical Mexican restaurant, and you
got the nacho chips that they usually come out as
an appetizer right in the salsa. And you've got tomatoes
and onions and avocados, and you've got ground beef, and
you've got you know, fa heat a steak meat, and
you've got beeated chicken. And you've got uh, maybe shred
(02:00):
or some other sort of a seafood kind of thing.
And you've got cheese. You've got all those ingredients Mexican food.
To me, it's a lot like Italian food. It's all
pretty much the same, except you put them in different combinations.
I mean, think about that. I mean, spaghetti lasagna. You've
(02:22):
got a form of pasta. The only difference between the
pasta is the shape of the pasta. A lasagna noodle
is different than a spaghetti noodle is, and a feed
of chini noodle is different than a spaghetti noodle is.
It's just a different shape, but it tastes the same.
And the tomato sauce, regardless of what dish you're making,
pretty much tastes the same. If that's true of Italian food.
(02:43):
I love Italian food. I love Mexican food, but it's
also true of Mexican food. So when you're trying to
come up with something new, you're kind of working from
a limited amount of ingredients. I mean, it's pretty much
the same stuff going in every dish. And of course
everybody makes nachos different, like you may like reef fried beans,
or you don't like reefred beans, or you may like guacamole,
(03:05):
or you don't like guacamole, or as it turns out,
sour cream. Sour cream turns out. This morning on our
morning show, I asked the question for National Nacho Day,
what is the one thing you don't want on your nachos?
And sour cream turned out to be a pretty popular choice.
Here's what some of our listeners had to say.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
No, sour cream on my nachos.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I realize I'm in the minority.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
No sour cream on anything for me, please, thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
This is Checking Connecticut.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
The one thing I would not want on my nachos
would be sour cream.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
I think nachos are just deconstructed taco salads.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
No cilantro, fvor tomatoes and onions on my nachos. Cheese, beans, meat,
and jalapenos.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
This is Amanda from Spring.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I love nachos, and I love just about anything on
nachos except soap.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
So no cilantro for me, please.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Ah, this is Jose.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I do not like sour cream or wacamole, and my nachos.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Really sour cream. I get to a certain extent, But
who doesn't like guacamole. Guacamulea just goes so good with
tortilla chips. Now, I'm I'm a bit of a purist
when it comes to the chips. There are some places,
you know, chips are all different, which is why you
coul buy so many different Nato chips at the store.
(04:29):
You know, some some restaurants make them really really thin,
and some make them really really thick. I like the
really really thick ones. I like the tortilla chips that
I mean, they have some they have some girth to them.
They can they can hold up to dipping into the ingredients.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They could.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
They can. You could fit a lot of stuff on
top of them. But the most important thing is they
don't get soggy. That that's really important to me. I
don't like saggy tortilla chips. I want them to really
stand up. I want them to be nice and cro
but so far people are eating on that sour cream. Hey,
this is Jr.
Speaker 11 (05:04):
And what I don't like on nachos is peas, brussels sprouts, pineapple,
green beans, mushrooms, squash, zacchini, okra, well fried okre is
pretty good, but you get my dressed.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Don't like about nachos are places that put a big
pile of chips and then pour the cheese over it
and it doesn't get to the chips in the bottom.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I want my nachos individually made.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hey, Jimmy Mark from Cyprus.
Speaker 10 (05:38):
What I don't want on my nachos is a big
pile of chips with one thin layer of goodness on top.
Because once you get through that thin layer of goodness,
all you got less of big poly of chips.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
This is Tim Parlyn.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
The one thing I don't want on my nachos is
anybody else's fingers on my nacho.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is West. The true nacho only has cheese and halopanios.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Anything else, it just becomes a small costado that's boring.
Nothing but cheese and halopenios. I can do without the halapenos,
thank you very much. They add heat, but I don't
think they add much flavor at least. You know, I've
never been a big fan of halopenos. I mean, it's
not that I would never eat a halopeno or you know,
have it on nachos. I guess I have to be
(06:22):
in the mood for a little bit spicy. But but
I understand what the one listener was saying there about
the places where you got all that good stuff right
on the top, and then once you get past the
top layer, you got nothing left but chips. You know,
the places that are really good are the places where
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they build it, they constructed. You know, you got a
layer chips, and then you got some toppings. You got
another layer chips, and then you got the toppings. You
got another layer chips, then you got the toppings, and
then you slowly. You slowly you put it in the oven,
and you slowly melt that stuff down so that you
end up with with be chips and melted cheese and
(07:03):
all the other goodness on every layer. You know, when
I make them at home. And that's what I do
when I make them at home. All right, let's grab
a couple more.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, this is far from North Houston. I went on
vacation in Baltimore, and nachos in Baltimore. I don't have
to say no, prat crab does not belong on nachos.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Dave in Greenville, South Carolina. I'll think just about anything
on my nachos.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
But the meat has to be brisket.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
This is Marty in Fairfilled.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
I cannot stand sour cream on my nachos.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Another hater of sour cream. That's all right, I'll eat
your sour cream. I'll eat it, all right. That closes
the book on nachos. Happy National Nacho's Day. I'm guessing
a lot of you now are probably hungry and on
your way to go get some nachos. I don't blame
you back with Marta Mama, Jimmy Barrett show here at
AM nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All right, is the is the government still shut down?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It is okay, the government, I hate to tell you,
the government is shut down and now we're getting back
ups at the airports. We had the story this morning
on KTRH about actually broke yesterday afternoon from Sean Duffy,
the Transportation secretary, basically saying that I think there are
(08:39):
forty different markets where they were going to have a
ten percent production is four percent today and then ten
percent tomorrow, ten percent reduction in flights because of the
air traffic control shortage and the issues that they're having
with staffing. So how is this going to work? There's
(09:00):
a couple of things you probably need to know about it,
and I have to give credit to my beautiful wife,
Elizabeth for giving me the knowledge to know the answers
to this. She worked for Continental Airlines for wow over
twenty years, I want to say over twenty years before
(09:20):
she retired. She retired right after the merger between Continental
and United because they were going first of all, they
were going to close down the station in Virginia where
we were at the time, and in order to stay
employed by them, she would have to commute back and
forth between Richmond and Virginia and Washington, DC. And she
didn't want to have to deal with that, and I
didn't want her to have to deal with that either.
(09:41):
That didn't strike me as a good idea. The other
part of it was just that she kind of felt
that the culture shift from Continental to United was going
to be different, and it has been different. I think
Continental Airlines was a far superior airline to United Airlines,
And unfortunately, what happens is when you have a merger
(10:01):
between companies and their culture, you usually end up with
the with the dominance of whichever the lesser company is.
And that's what I believe that's what happened here. I mean,
I mean nothing, United is any worse than any other
airline at this point in time, but certainly not as
well run as it was when it was Continental Airlines.
(10:23):
So at least that's my opinion. So you've got tempercent reduction.
Houston is one of those markets where there's gonna be
a teen percent reduction, both the Bush and Hobby airports
ten percent. Now they've asked the airlines, which would be
appropriate thing to ask, because Sean Duffy is just saying, well,
you have to reduce by ten percent. All right, how
(10:44):
do the airlines determine how they're going to reduce by
ten percent? And that's where things get interesting. Now. United
is the only one. I'll give them credit for this.
They're the only ones who have said anything about how
they plan to achieve the ten percent, the other airlines
being very very vague about this. But here's what United
is saying. United is saying there'll be no impact on
(11:06):
international flights. So if you are flying United Airlines internationally,
that there will not be anything happening to that flight.
You're going to London, you're going to Frankfurt, Germany, you're
going to Athens, Greece, wherever it is you're going, you're
going to end up. First of all, you're going to
end up in one of their hub cities, and Houston
is a hub before you go to the next stop.
(11:27):
When we went to Greece, we had to go through Newark,
which is another United hub. So there's not gonna be
any impact on any flight going from New York overseas,
for example, from Newark, where they seem to be concentrating
on where they're going to be trying to make reductions
is flights that involve not hub to hub. If you're
(11:48):
going like Houston to Newark, that's two hubs, that's not
going to be impacted. But if you are going let's
say Houston Detroit or Houston Los Angeles, where you're flying
from a United hub city to a non hub city,
that's where the reductions are going to occur. So the
first thing you need to know if you have a
(12:08):
flight booked on United, are you flying from a hub
to hub or are a hub city or are you
flying from a hub to a non hub or from
a non hub to a hub, because those of the
flights are going to be impacted. You just wanted to
fill you in on that. Now, as far as the
government shut down itself, I've heard, I've heard all everybody
and their brother has come up with a theory about
(12:31):
why we're dealing with this. You know, why did the
Democrats shut things down? It's pretty clear that Republicans are
taking much more than their fair share of blame for
what's happened. And I think Democrats knew that would happen
because quite honestly, their voters have been indoctrinated. Number one
and number two, most people, a lot of people anyway,
are not politically involved enough to or savvy enough to
(12:54):
ascertain why it is that the government's shut down. They
just know that they get food stamps, or they get welfare,
or they work for the government, and right now they're
not getting paid and they don't like it. So we're
going to take it out on whatever whoever they deem
to be in power, and they deemed the Republicans to
be in power. But as far as what the Democrat
motive is, we had a guest on this morning, Bokabala,
(13:18):
who's a political science expert at Arlington State. Excellent guest.
We're gonna I'm gonna play that for you, but we'll
start with this and that is a little clip from
a podcast, Joe Rogan podcast. He had Elon Musk as
a guest, and Elon Musk, I think gave a very
good synopsis of why the Democrats are doing what they're
doing with this government shutdown.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
The reason you have the standoff is because if the
hundreds of billions of dollars to create a financial ins
setup to like to have this giant magnet to attract
legals from every part of earth to these states, if
that has turned off, the illegals will leave because they're
no longer being paid to come to the United States
(14:02):
and stay here.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
And then then then they will lose a lot of voters.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The party will lose a lot of voters.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And they would have a very difficult job if this
is kicked out of reintroducing it into a new bill.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yes, especially once things start normalizing.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
So like in a nutshell, the Democrat critic Party wants
to destroy democracy by importing voters, and the you know,
the Republican Party disagrees with and the ruses that if
you don't accept what they're doing, then you're a threat
to democracy.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yes, as they.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Try to destroy democracy, Yes, by importing voters and people
to only vote for them and overwhelming the system.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
And by the way, the strategy that, if allowed to work,
would work and in fact has worked California a supermajority Democrat.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
And there's so much sherrymandering that that cause it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
So it's worked if allowed to work.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Doctor Bokaballa joints those political science expert Toalmington state, Is
that too far out there for you? Good morning? Is
that too far up there for you? Do you think
there's some legitimacy to that.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
You know, that was a great conversation and are there
real elements of truth to that?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I think there are.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
One of the things the big beautiful Bill Donald Trump,
Donald Trump's signature accomplishments not to accomplish was make it
much much harder for fraud to occur in medicaid, whereby
people here illegally would receive benefits. So how much overall
of fraud and abuse is there in government?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
We know it exists.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
And that magnet theory again, I think there's elements of
truth to that, and this is why the government shut
down this time around, the longest on record is getting
more interesting, if dangerous, by the minute.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Well, certainly is effective. I believe in the Virginia election,
don't you. Northern Virginia is comp comprised of you know,
when you take a look at all the people either
working for the federal government who live there which is
the big population center, or are receiving benefits from the
federal government. If you actually believe that, you know they're
(16:19):
trying to Trump is potentially trying to take your job
away or some of your benefits away. Which way are
you going to vote?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Well, exactly so, unemployment or temporary unemployment in Virginia, huge
impact on the race there between Spanberger and Sears.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
This is, you know, and it's a separate question from
should the government be shut down on principle?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
It may be.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I think it is right for the president to stand
on principle, but then you have to be aware of
what the secondary impact is from all those unemployed folks.
And I think he's got a plan. He's calling now
to end the filibuster. And I think Donald Trump, the President,
understands what the risks are. Absolutely that contributed to the
(17:08):
Virginia outcome. Well, if you were going to end the philibuster,
should that have happened before the election, Why wait until
after the election to do that? Well, And I don't
think it's even ending. To be clear, what President Trump
has called for is a sort of it's setting a precedent.
It's the nuclear option. It does not involve a rewrite
(17:30):
of the Senate rules. Of course, the Senate philibuster currently
exists in Senate rules, so those rules have been rewritten before.
He's not asking for that. He's asking for a majority
of the Senate to disagree with the likely interpretation of
what the Senate parliamentarian would likely say, and so the
(17:51):
rule would still remain in place. And even if we
were changing the Senate rule, you could change it back
with the Republican majority in the next Congress. But I
think the risk that the President sees has increasingly. I mean,
we saw the election result. Even Rasmussen has more Republicans
being blamed for the shutdown than Democrats. I think the
(18:12):
President appreciates this is a danger zone for Republicans the
longer this shutdown goes on. And just imagine the pr
we ended the Filipbuster because we had to feed you,
because we had to take care of the American people.
That would be a powerful talking point.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yeah, it would. It certainly would interesting. Yeah, motivations always
in these things. Is always interesting. Now, the question is,
because nothing has changed, Let's assume, for the sake of argument,
that Elon Musk is right that they are the Democrats
are desperately trying to save health care for illegals and
other benefits for illegals because of what they want to
(18:50):
make sure they stay. Nothing has changed as far as
that goes. So unless one, we guess, unless the Republicans
are willing to to change that embargain in that particular area.
Then are they going to continue to hold out for
the rest of November into December? What about the new year?
All right, well, we'll continue our conversation the moment to
(19:12):
stick around, please, Jimmy Bairt show here on Am nine
fifty KPRC. All right, our third segment today is very
(19:37):
police centric. Mentioned yesterday that there was a recruitment effort
done by the Houston Police Officers Union. This recruitment ad
appealing to New York City police officers who now that
they've elected a socialist lives communist as mayor who wants
to defund the police. He thinks that you're corrupt. He
(19:58):
doesn't appreciate what you're doing. It's cold in New York,
especially this time of the year. It's expensive in New
York all year long. What do you think about, Maybe
you should come to Houston, where the people will respect you,
where the mayor will support you, where the citizens will
(20:21):
love all over you for doing your job, and where
you can actually afford to buy a home, not a
one bedroom apartment or a studio apartment. Trying to live
in the city where everything is stupid expensive and evidently
it's having some very positive results. Evidently the recruiting effort
(20:42):
is kind of working. I had Doug Griffith on the
show today, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, to
talk about the recruitment effort and how it's going. What
kind of response have you gotten to that ad so far?
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Oh? Well, I'll be honest with you, we've gotten quite
a few calls. I filled it probably keen yesterday and
some other people in all to fill with a bunch.
So we have some really good interests for those guys
in New York that are overworked and underappreciated.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
What kind of questions are they asking about Houston?
Speaker 10 (21:11):
A lot of the questions stem around, hey, how do
we get down there? How does the process work when
we have to go through the academy as are a
latter class. There's a whole lot of things that play
into it. You know, if you're in New York and
you're a sergeant, how would that equate down here? There's
just different areas and aspects that they want to know about.
Some of the bigger questions was like the cost of living.
(21:33):
How is it down there versus how it is up north?
So it's a big difference. Did did you tell them
any words better than where you're living. Absolutely. Hey, at
the end of the day, you want to work for
somebody that appreciates your hard work and values you as
an employee. That is not going to happen there. It's
(21:54):
not come on down here. The citizens love us, the mayor,
the city council, state legislature. Everything is moving in the
right direction here in Texas, and we invite anybody that
wants to come down and be a hard working police officer,
someone who has a passion for this job, gone down,
we're hiring.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
You know, Doug, New Yorkers are a little different breed
than your typical Houstonian. Is there any concern about bringing
people in from New York that may have a hard
time adjusting to being here in the South with us?
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Hey, we have several officers, there were several on my
border directors that are from New York and they've loved it.
They have thrived here. They went from having a one
bedroom apartment that you hit your door when you open
it or hit your bed when you open it to
come in here living in a very nice three bedroom home.
So they have just loved being here in Texas. If
(22:50):
you can get past the heat. Hey, you're all right,
Will you get used to the heat?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I can tell you that they'll be okay, and then
they certainly be a lot better off in the wintertime,
won't they.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir. And again, do you really
want to work somebody that considers you a racist, considers
you anti queer, considers you to be corrupt? And we've
had some people call me and go, oh, he changed
his stans. Well, you can't really change your stance on
things where you call a whole group. If a major
(23:22):
city chief made a sexist, racist, homophobic comment, he would
never be chief in this nation again. Ever, even if
he tried to walk it back and say, hey, guys,
I've changed my stands, No, it ain't gonna happen in
that sat matter. He hasn't changed. He knows he's got
to have one hundred and fifty of those guys on
(23:43):
his side who are going to be his security detail.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Right, exactly right, you're absolutely right about that. So we
got quite a shortage of officers here. Are you getting
a feeling on how many officers we might be able
to hire from New York City and how that might
put a dent in the amount officers on duty here.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Well, like I said, we're twelve hundred down, so I
don't care if it's two or two hundred. We'll take
as many as we can get. We need twelve hundred
ulcers in this city. As soon as we can get
them here and we are ready to go, well, we'll
put them to an academy class. We pay for them
to go through the academy class. If we can get
a lateral class, goal, we'll move into a lateral class.
There's all kinds of things we can do to get
(24:24):
our numbers boosted up, and we want that to happen
as soon as possible, right, Doug, Hey, the citizens of
this city deserve the protection and we want to get
them there.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Well, that's good. I hope they can recruit hundreds of
police officers.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I brought up the question of a culture shock of
going from New York to Houston, And the only reason
why I mentioned is because again I don't mean to
sound stereotypical or put people into a stereotype, but I've
oftentimes found that New Yorkers are a little different than
anybody else. Most of us we adapt a new surround.
(25:00):
I was born in Michigan, and I moved to Virginia,
which was in the South, and I adapted when I
moved to Virginia. Then I moved even further south because
I love the South. Here to Texas. But I came
here with the idea of Okay, you're Houstonian. Now you're
a Texan. You moved to Texas. You adapt to the
way things are done in Texas, you become a Texan.
(25:21):
New York is a little different. They kind of take
New York wherever they go. You can take them out
of New York, but you have a hard time taking
the New York out of them. But it sounds like
from what he's saying that it's going just fine. Not
to worry now. As long as we're talking about police,
here's a story that I found very very interesting from
(25:42):
our television partner kp RC two Harris County doing a
sting on people who are ignoring the lights and the
stop signs on school buses. School bus pulls over to
either pick up kids or to let kids out. The
red stop sign arm has come out on the side
of the bus. The lights are flashing, and people are
(26:03):
just blowing by like they either don't see the school bus,
or they don't understand the rule that you have to
stop for the school buses and maintain your distance until
the lights go off. So they did a little sting
in Harris County, pulled over fifty one people. I'm not
sure how long a period of time this was, but
didn't take them long to do it. So here's the
report from our television partner KPRC two.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Early in the morning before the sun rises, Harris County
preesting for constable deputies are gearing up for an undercover operation.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So I'm just going to call out the vehicle or the.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Mission keeping your kids safe.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
So we are doing a bus safety initiative.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
They're targeting drivers who aren't stopping for school buses over
what are road and climb?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
All right, there goes one vehicle challenger, next vehicle.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Those three vehicles right there, I'll.
Speaker 12 (26:56):
Get the third debutes pulling over three cars all the
same stop bus.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Hello, corporates of the console's office switch for a stop?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Is the disregarded the school bus?
Speaker 11 (27:10):
Back there when they're picking up children?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
The driver's excuse, did you see the bus? Or no,
I didn't didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I advised them it was pretty obviously though, with a
big yellow school bus and the flashing lights on the
red stop sign.
Speaker 12 (27:24):
His license suspended, registration expired. Our driver Alex getting a
citation for all three the second school bus for following
was well unibactful.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
All these vehicles have stopped. I guess that's what you
want to see them, right, yeah, ideally, but that didn't
last long seconds later in the get and we're sitting
right here, I know.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
That's what's crazy, this driver praying he wouldn't get caught
without a license.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You have a plaster pipe, your pastor do you have
a driver's license?
Speaker 12 (28:00):
Tickets zoo?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Stop signs out? Five cars all right there, one, two, three.
Speaker 12 (28:08):
Our last stop of the day is the biggest five
school bus runners. But this time it's not just tickets
fund to stop for a school.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Bus, sea ansars vehicles other in marijuana.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
So that's why he's detained. We found the marijuana.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
The defendants also in the position of the firearm.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You can see for yourself, I mean the guns obviously
the serial numbers scraped off the bottom.
Speaker 12 (28:28):
Across the three operations in the Client Spring area today,
they stopped fifty one cars each getting a ticket plus
one arrest.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Every time you go to pass a school bus that
stopped on the side of the road, it's a potential tragedy.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
So take it from someone who learned the hard way,
follow rules, and make sure that you completely stop when
it comes.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
To a bus. Client spring, that's that's that's where if
I had kids in school, that's where they would go
to school. And we got we got a guy who's
got a weapon in the vehicle with a with a
serial number scratched off seat. He's got it, he's gotten
it illegally in his possession. And and we got another guy
(29:10):
with a suspended license, expired registration. And by the way,
you couldn't tell beca he was on a video. You
couldn't see the video. He's holding a cell phone while
he's while he's talking to the police officer. He didn't
even have enough sense to put down the cell phone
because technically you're not supposed to be talking on your
cell phone or texting people while you're driving. So there's
(29:32):
three right there. How come that guy didn't get arrested.
How come he didn't get arrested. He's got no driver's license,
he's got an expired registration, and he and he ran
past the lights of a school bus, and he's engaged
with his cell phone while he's doing all this, and
(29:53):
you get a citation, what are the chances the guy
even shows up for the citation? Go to jail. We'll
go directly to jail, do not pass go. How about
the guy who's who claims he's a pastor. Well, God said,
I don't have to have a driver's license. No, sir,
you may pray to God, but prayed to God for
bail money. You have a suspended license or no license,
(30:18):
you're not allowed to drive. I realize that. You know,
in our current judicial system, we don't like taking up
jail space with people doing these things, and we just
let them loose again. But can we at least give
them the scare of going to jail? Although you know,
if you're willing to drive on a suspended license and
(30:39):
you're carrying a weapon, all those other things, and can
we even scare you anymore? It's it's frustrating. All right, quick,
a little break back with more in a moment, Jimmy
Barrett Show here an AM nine fifty k PRC. All right,
(31:06):
President Trump, let's talk about President Trump and the FDA
and making big deals. I'm big pharma and big pharma items.
The President coming out yesterday and saying that he would
like medicaid to cover your weight loss drugs, and I
assume for the purpose of weight loss. In other words,
(31:28):
you've heard all about these glp ones, right, tryspetie comes
to mind. Uh, you've heard of what GOV you know, ethic,
These these drugs that were created as anti diabetic drugs.
But just like Viagra was invented for the purpose of
treating your heart, one of the side effects is is
(31:49):
it gives you a boner. So so guess what Viagora became, Yes,
the boner medicine, that's what that became. Same kind of
thing with GOV. You know z epic and in these
weight in these drugs for treating diabetes, it seems to
reduce appetite, it helps people lose weight. It's it's pretty
(32:09):
effective for doing that as long as you're on the drug.
So once they found out that, then they started offering
it up. Is a weight loss drug for people, but
it's not generally covered by your insurance, your your drug prescription,
and it's expensive stuff. If you want, if you want
to be on that drug, it's going to be somewhere
(32:30):
around two fifteen, maybe three hundred or more dollars per month.
Tri Zeppetite, the most expensive I think about this is
about three hundred bucks a month for that. I've seen
all these little come on ads too, where they give
you this rate of like it's one hundred and fifty
dollars for the first month. Yeah, but then it goes
to three hundred bucks and it stays there. So they
try to lure you in by doing that, knowing that
(32:50):
if you try it and you're successful at losing weight,
whether you're going to want to keep using it. And
that's a pretty expensive habit for most people. I guess
the question becomes is Medicaid responsible for helping you lose
weight the easy way? If you're morbidly obese? Generally speaking,
(33:11):
there's a reason why you're morbidly abyese, and it usually
involves eating too much food or the wrong kinds of food.
Should we even be worried about making a deal with
Big Farmer to sell you these other drugs at a
this kind of price. I mean, if you are diabetic
and your insurance is not currently covering that, then yeah,
that makes sense. But if it's just doing for weight losses,
(33:34):
this something that the federal government should be funding. But
evidently there's been some progress on these and then return
by the way, for providing drugs at this kind of
prices for trump RX, there evidently is a plan to
fast track at least some of the drugs that big
farmers trying to get through the system. There's a lot
(33:55):
of red tape that goes along with putting a new
drug on the system. Here is Martin McKay. Martin McCarey
is with the FDA's the FDA Commissioner, talking about the
deal going on between the federal government and big farma
to try to fast track some of these drugs.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Well, look, what the president is doing is ending the
great American ripoff. We pay four hundred and twenty two
percent higher for the same drug as Europe and other
countries around the world that are wealthy. These are not
poor countries. These are comparable countries. And let's remember the
growth in drug spend in the United States is the
fastest area of growth of health care costs. So when
(34:33):
the president is working with individual companies to cut the
price of drugs by forty fifty eighty five percent. That
has enormous implications for our healthcare system. And I've seen
it as a cancer surgeon, Maria, these poor families, as
if having cancers not hard enough, they have go fundme campaigns,
and the churches are passing around offering plates and for
(34:56):
what for the US to subsidize the R and D
of the world's drugs. So the President does not like
to see other wealthy countries not pay their fair share,
and now they will. We're going to get the best
price for drugs among comparable countries in the world. It's
called most Favored Nation status pricing. And we secured it
with one country, and we're going to sorry with one company.
(35:19):
And we're going to see more and more of these
announcements come out in the coming weeks.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (35:23):
This is not the administration selling drugs as some are alleging.
This is a simple place where we have curated the
where people can go to find the price of drugs
and it will connect them directly to the direct sale
sites bypassing the middleman of healthcare. Remember the middleman of healthcare,
the PBMs and all the other parties involved markup drugs significantly.
(35:49):
Now you're going to be able to go direct and
this is not just a theoretical We're talking about Medicaid
getting most Favored Nation status pricing for all prescription drugs.
That's going to have a significant impact in cutting the
waste in the Medicaid program, which has been a commitment
of this administration.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
And we're talking about real drugs here.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Of rheumatoid arthritis drug zel Jans is going to be
decreased by forty percent. There's an osteoporosis postmenopausal medication duave
made by Pfizer. The team at CMS and the administration
secured an eighty five percent discount. So we're talking about
real lower drug price, not one or two percent reductions.
(36:32):
We're not talking about the previous administration trying to negotiate
pennies on just a small subset of drugs. We're talking
about an eighty five percent reduction. I think the average
reduction is eighty to eighty five percent.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Wow, that is a big deal. And by the way,
the drugs that would be fast tractive return or what
we would commonly call generic drugs, although they're not exactly
generic drugs, they're made for the same compounds as drugs
that were already approved by the FDA, So you wouldn't
have to get FDA approval anymore on a drug that
is essentially the same as a drug that's already been
(37:08):
approved by the FDA. That saves red tape and time
and money, and and there's nothing to lose here for
Big Pharma. The middlemen are the one they're getting eliminated.
Big farmas still gets the same cut they got before.
It's the middlemen that's not going to get their cut anymore.
All right, quickly before we go here do we're only
reminding again we have our Alaska trip. It's next August.
(37:29):
I know that seems a long ways away. It's really
only nine months away, and it'll be next August before
you know it. And we have a very limited amount
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going to be a great vacation. We're going to be
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(37:50):
So we're going to cruise through Alaska. We're gonna see
Juno and catch a can and also glaciers and all
you know, see eels and what may see a whaler two,
and eagles and all kinds of things, and it's gonna
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