Studies on Coffee

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Is coffee good for you?
• The shooting in Michigan

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
Uh, let's start today by celebrating National Coffee Day. Did
you know it's National Coffee Day today? It is? It's
National Coffee Day. I can't think of anything that has
been studied more than coffee. I mean, we have studied
coffee ten ways to Sunday. I don't know how else
to say it. Just about everybody has done a study

(00:53):
about coffee, why we like it, why we drink it,
whether it's good for you, whether it's bad for you,
whatever the case may be. Most of the time, the studies,
by the way, say that it is good for you
within certain limits. Certain amount of cups of coffee are
good for you, unless you are just you know, drinking
coffee all day. The rule seems to be stop drinking

(01:14):
coffee by twelve noon, So hopefully you're not drinking any
coffee this afternoon. I drink coffee in the morning. I
don't drink coffee for this show. I've stopped drinking coffee
as soon as the morning shows over with about eight
o'clock in the morning. So between the time I get
into work around three fifteen, three twenty somewhere in that

(01:36):
area until the time I leave until eight o'clock, and
not until the time I leave until eight o'clock, and
that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm done.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
That's only only thing I have for the day, and
it's and it's decaf anyway, so I'm not getting a
whole lot of caffeine from that. It's a habit. It's
a habit. I'm used to drinking it. It helps keep
my throat lubricated. It's it's like a crutch. I use
to drink it on the weekends. I used to drink
it whenever i'd go out to breakfast. I don'tnate more.

(02:05):
I've kind of switch up. I don't do the coffee anymore.
Do usweet iced tea is what I do instead of coffee.
So I don't drink coffee. I still drink coffee. I
just don't drink coffee the way I used to. But
as I said, it's national coffee day care to guess
where the coffee capital of the United States is. If
you had to take one hundred cities and figure out

(02:26):
who came in number one, where would you guess? You
would probably guess yes, Seattle, right. Nope, Seattle was not
number one this time. The number one coffee city in
America based on local coffee popularity, coffee roasters and shops,
coffee spinning, and prices in coffee culture is Portland, Oregon.

(02:48):
Must be all the protesting rights, must be all the
violent protesting really works up a thirst for a good
cup of coffee. Portland was followed by Orlando, Long Beach, California, Miami, Seattle, Tampa,
San Francisco, Austin, Texas, Oakland, California, and Pittsburgh. Most of
these cities, like Long Beach, in Austin, in San Francisco,

(03:13):
and Oakland, they're they're they're blue cities. Do you like
blue cities like coffee more than or is it just
the fact that all these cities are blue? Anyway, Laredo,
Texas came into number one hundred. They were dead last. Detroit.
This one surprise me. Detroit also at the other end
one of the worst coffee cities number ninety seven, Cleveland's

(03:33):
number eighty eight. I don't think in the rust Belt,
I don't think they like pretentious coffee. I think that's
the difference. I think these coffee cities they like pretentious coffee.
You know, the the specialty coffee is the ones that
are based on some sort of a sustainment and you know,

(03:54):
foo foo flavoring and lattes and capitos and all these
other things. I just like a good old American cup
of coffee. I don't need any of this specialty coffees.
Forty eight percent of adults say they're into specialty coffee.
This's up from thirty seven percent in twenty twenty one.
All this, by the way, despite the fact that the coffee

(04:15):
prices have been soaring. You know, the tariffs have had
an impact, at least right now on coffee. Average pound
of ground rose coffee is a forty percent from a
year ago, eight eighty seven a pound compared to six
thirty one pound. Of course, you know that's that's a
national average. Some places are more expensive, in some places
less expensive. But I asked the question on our morning

(04:38):
show today on KTRH, how you feel about coffee. Are
you a big coffee fan? What kind of coffee do
you like? People I know they have a definite habit
with coffee, very very distinct habit of how they drink it,
you know, whether they drink it black, or they drink
it with cream and sugar or something else in the

(05:00):
coffee creamber of some sort. See to me, I don't
think you really are a coffee lover if you're adding
that stuff to enhance the flavor. You know, if you're
true coffee lovers are people who like the coffee black.
That's how I drink mine. I drink my coffee black.
I actually like coffee. I like the taste of coffee
as long a it's not overly better. I like it

(05:21):
just find. But let's see what our listeners on the
Morning show thought. Mister sensitive here, maybe because I had
too much coffee this morning, I haven't haven't quite been
able to hit the button right. Let's try this again.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Good morning, Jimmy, Cliff, Terry Sky, Mike. This is Edna
from summer Wood, and I only have one cup coffee
a day. I drink Death Wish coffee, best coffee ever.
I put a small teaspoon of sugar in the raw
and ready whip in it. And that's that's why way
I like it, and the cats like the ready whip too.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Y'all have a great day.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
This is Junior.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I drink coffee so that I can people.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
I drink. I drink coffee so I can people. In
other words, I can't face you unless I've had a
good cup of coffee.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Now it was it Eda? Was that her name?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
See? She kind of breaks the I love coffee roll.
First of all, she only has one cup. Who has
one cup of coffee? Just one cup? It's like I'm saying,
you have one potato chip? What do you mean one
cup of coffee? She only has one cup of coffee
and she puts ready wep in there. Yeah, I don't
think I don't think she's a legitimate coffee lover. Not

(06:33):
want you only drinking one cup?

Speaker 8 (06:34):
Hey, Jimmy, my wife is an added coffee drinker. She
got me on coffee so I could take care of
my morning commutes. So that's straight brew with sugar free
hans on that creamer. I'm having it right now on
the way to work.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
This is Bryce from Magnolia.

Speaker 9 (06:50):
My wife drinks coffee every day.

Speaker 10 (06:53):
Me.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
I'm not a big coffee fan.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
I have to put enough in it to make it
taste like this so I can get past the bitterness
and the actual taste of it.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
So no coffee from me.

Speaker 11 (07:08):
Hey, good morning, Jimmy. Yeah, I like my coffee like
I like my rifles. Black straight up. And the rest
of the day, I'm hopped up on mountain dew.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
After eight o'clock, you'll have.

Speaker 12 (07:19):
A great day.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Okay, there's a true caffeine addict, right because you're combining
coffee in the morning with mountain dew. Yeah, that is
somebody who is all about the caffeine.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Dagon Lake Conra. Yeah, I'll fix my wife a cup
of coffee every morning. She drinks wine cup. I can't
drink coffee. I've got a fie, you know, a heart condition.
But I'll drink it with cream and sugar every once
in a while for a restaurant. But then when I
run big construction crews and i'd have my crew in
there and giving them a step talk in the morning,
they would tell me, David, stay calm, don't get excited,

(07:54):
go down to the office, Ina and drink a cup
of coffee. How can you stay calm.

Speaker 13 (07:59):
Hey, Jimmy, Sammy Sacho from Spring. I usually had a
little bit of Hazian nut creaming my coffee, a little
bit of sugar. Did that in front of my dad
one day, and he got really upset and started questioning me,
asking me, how long have I been levero.

Speaker 14 (08:18):
I've been drinking it black ever since then. I love you, daddy.
Good morning, Jimmy. This is Keith from Richmond. I like
Independence Coffee from Britham, Texas. I prefer the whole beans
over the grounds because I like black coffee like it's
supposed to be fresh ground and hot in the mornings.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
That's I think what I like the most about coffee.
We have all that very specific taste when it comes
to coffee, right, we know exactly what we want. And
there may be some something to what that caller said
about the politics part. I think the more stuff you
put in your coffee, the more suspect you are politically
as far as being liberal versus conservative. He might there

(09:01):
might be his daddy might have been right. There might
be something to it all. Right back with ball in
a moment, Jimmy Barrett show here at AM nine fifty
KPRC there's a couple of things to cover and second

(09:26):
number two on our show today. One of them has
to do with the Writer Cup. Did you see the
Ryder Cup over the weekend. I have to admit I
didn't really see it. I heard about the results. We
were beaten by Europe. The Americans were beaten by the
European team fourteen to eleven. It was at black Page Beth,

(09:48):
whatever that golf course in New York is called. There
was a lot of New York golf fans there. I
understand that the partisanship got a little crazy. You know,
a lot of a lot of the New York fans
were little raucous for what you normally expected, especially at
a Ryder Cup event. And of course President Trump was

(10:08):
there along with his granddaughter Kai and uh, you know,
would you like to think that if you're the if
you're if you're a president, and you're into golf and
you like to watch golf, you like to play golf,
that when you're there, they just let you play some golf,
or at least let you watch the Ryder Cup without
disturbing you. New of course, not that the media realizes

(10:31):
that unlike Biden, they have almost twenty four to seven
access to this guy, So it doesn't matter where he is,
they're gonna be asking him questions. So they're asking about
the about the indictment of James coming and to a man,

(10:51):
the liberal mainstream news reporters, they're all going with the
revenge angled. This is payback, this is revenge. This is
not about justice. This is about reprobution. That's what they
all wanted to make this about. So that's what this
segment right here is about President Trump being asked those
questions in that sort of way, him answering those questions,

(11:12):
and then more reaction to what the President said.

Speaker 10 (11:16):
It's about justice, really, it's not revenge. It's about It's
also about the fact that you can't let this go on.
They are sick radical left people and they can't.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Get away with it and call me, call me. Was
one of the people. He wasn't the biggest, but he's
a dirty cop.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
He lied, He lied a lot.

Speaker 15 (11:37):
Now that Dave Tomy has been indictas, who is the
next person on your list in this treatribution?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's not a list, but I think there'll be others.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
I mean that corrupt.

Speaker 10 (11:45):
These were corrupt radical left Democrats.

Speaker 12 (11:49):
My family and I have known for years that there
are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. We will
not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either. My
heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I
have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I'm innocent.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
So let's have a trial and keep the faith so
much for no one is above the law.

Speaker 16 (12:14):
The same democrats and folks in the media who relished
in the Trump indictments, now all of a sudden are
rattled by Comy being charged.

Speaker 17 (12:22):
Not since Watergate have we had such an abuse of power.

Speaker 15 (12:27):
Abuse of law enforcement powers been in a republic or
what someone called weaponization.

Speaker 12 (12:33):
Is making good on his effort to turn the Department
of Justice into a department of vengeance. The country will
see very clearly that we have an authoritarian president.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's not normal for him.

Speaker 18 (12:47):
It's all about blood feuds and personal vengeance and vindictive actions.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Even more sadly is that many of his followers agree
with this.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Ie for an eye, right, This is the sort of
old Testament justice, and it.

Speaker 18 (13:01):
Comes around, goes around, and you know today it's the
opposing president, all right.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Rag we got a Watergate reference.

Speaker 18 (13:07):
I am so excited. He didn't say worse than Watergate.
He said not since Watergate, but I'll give it to
him anyway. Look, the same charge this guy created against
Michael Flynn basically destroyed him financially, went after his family,
and he bragged about it. So he took credit for
doing this. Now it's his turn. It's Komy's turn. And
remember you know the Dems love due process, so let's

(13:30):
due process the hell out of this guy.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
He may get away with it, but he's got to
go through the process.

Speaker 18 (13:36):
I love the media saying that you know, Trump has
set a president.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Have they forgotten Julia Honey, Bannon, Stone, Navarro, Papadopoulos, the Trump.

Speaker 18 (13:46):
Supporters, what a thousand of them. They invented law Fair
so they can call it revenge. It's not revenge if
you have it coming. And if it's justice. Here's the issue.
Here's the thing you got to remember about mutually assured destruct.
It doesn't work when you go first and we're still standing.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Ah yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
In other words, if you weren't able the first time
around to get rid of Trump through Lawfair, then Trump
gets into office, and now you guess what it's coming
back to haunt you because of the things you did,
not because not because the guy is trying to specifically
get you out of an act of revenge, but because

(14:28):
of what you did was so heinous that now that
there's somebody in power who's willing to who's willing to
stop it, who's willing to prosecute it, now you've got trouble.

Speaker 15 (14:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's just amazing to me that anyway on the left,
things they can get away with saying that this is
revenge and rest, you know, for what they did to
Trump when they do dog on well, exactly what they
did to Trump. It's the old argument I keep talking about.
I know you are, but what am I? No, we
didn't do anything wrong, but look at what you're doing.
Yes you did, Yes you did. And now the question becomes,

(15:05):
is this one and done? As far as indictments go,
Is this going to be it? James Comey anybody else?
I mean, after all, James Comey was doing the bidding
of Hillary Clinton, So you would think right that at
some point somebody's going to want to indict Hillary Clinton. Well,

(15:27):
maybe that will happen. They were talking about that yesterday
on Fox.

Speaker 9 (15:31):
There's certainly going to be more indictments coming over the
next three and a half years the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
If you look at the.

Speaker 9 (15:35):
Comey indictment, Martha, this was a grand jury indictment delivered
in Alexander and Virginia, not exactly a.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Hotbed of Donald Trump's political support.

Speaker 9 (15:44):
There were three were more questioned indictments. The grand jury
returned two of those three indictments, so I think they
showed they were judicious. I think that it showed clearly
that there were a couple of things that James Comy
did wrong.

Speaker 15 (15:57):
It will be lucky if there is not a grand
constips Inspirasey charge brought Comy and company and all of
them got involved in the so called Clinton plan, which,
if you remember, the Clinton plan was to do what
to say that the Trump campaign was cocluding with the Russians.
That's like the quintessential definition of conspiracy.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
This is the tip of the iceberg.

Speaker 19 (16:16):
He lead classified information to create a narrative politically, you know,
I think that's a strong case, but there's so much else.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Call me knew then what we all know now and
ignored it.

Speaker 19 (16:28):
I believe he withheld at sculpatory information from the court
because he wanted Trump to be found guilty.

Speaker 20 (16:35):
Could Hillary Clinton be the next person indicted? During a
twenty sixteen congressional hearing, I pressed Comy on Hillary and
he denied that she ever lied to him.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Did Hillary Clinton lie under oath?

Speaker 14 (16:51):
Not to the FBI?

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Not in case we're working.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
Did you review the documents where Congressman Jim Jordan asked
her specifically, and she said, quote, there was nothing marked
classified on my emails, either sent or received end quote.

Speaker 12 (17:07):
I don't remember reviewing that particular testimony.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm aware of that being said, though.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
Did the FBI investigate her statements under oath on this topic?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Not?

Speaker 12 (17:17):
To my knowledge, I don't think there's been a referral
from Congress.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
Do you need a referral from Congress to investigate her.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Statements under oath?

Speaker 7 (17:26):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Do you'll have one?

Speaker 7 (17:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (17:31):
That came a few hours later, Anita, Where do you
see this going?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Well?

Speaker 16 (17:36):
I think we all heard Devin Nunez talk about how
Hillary was involved in pushing this plan that Trump was
colluding with Russia.

Speaker 15 (17:47):
Right.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I happened to pull an article. This is an article.

Speaker 16 (17:50):
This is CNN article from twenty twenty two. Okay, it
says Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump Russia
allegation with the press. In twenty sixteen, campaign manager says, So,
this is not some right wing conspiracy, This is not
some Republican talking points. This is a CNN article from

(18:10):
three years ago. So I think I wouldn't be surprised
if she could be indicted and finally have to answer
some of these questions about this Russia collusion narrative and
this dossier.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, what why hasn't she been called so far? Would
be my question? You know, are the Clintons really that
hands off? They are they afraid of the Clintons? Are
they afraid of Hillary? Not that she's not scary, but
you know, why would it take that long? Maybe maybe

(18:47):
they're hoping that see, like a James call me will
fold on Hillary. Maybe it'll depend on what he says
in his trial or in his depositions or whatever it
is about Hillary. If he fesces up anything as to
whether or not they'll actually indict her next could get
very interesting. But then again, we know how slowly these

(19:10):
things work, right, These prosecutions could take years. All right,
quick Bill break, We're back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Bart Show here on AM nine fifty KTRC. All right,

(19:38):
let's do some economic stuff here. I'm not I haven't
addressed what happened in Michigan at that Mormon church, mainly
because I'm just really mystified. I'll say a little bit
more in our final segment today, but I'm a little
mystified as to where to go with that. I can't
quite figure out exactly what's going on. You know, it
was pretty easy to see with Charlie Kirk shooting you

(20:02):
know what that was all about. This one is a
little bit more difficult to figure out, you know, from
what we know the guy ex military. But anyway, I'll
get into that in the last segment here because that
one kind of mystifies me a little bit. Let's talk
about economic stuff. How do you feel things are going
with the Trump economy? Do you think things are going well?
I think things are going pretty well. I think that

(20:24):
things will get better, especially next year, especially if the
Fed continues to lower interest rates. I think that's the
only thing standing in the way right now. Things really
taking off. That and you know, the big beautiful Bill
Tenants kind of kicking in and getting things going. But
certainly everything I have seen, even though I hear mainstream

(20:46):
talk recession, there's nothing I'm seeing that indicates to me
that what we're really dealing with here is a recession.
Are soon going to have a recession? Now the government
shutdown that could have an impact on things that's supposed
to and Wednesday if it happens. But I saw a
quote from the Richmond federal government, Richmond, Virginia. There's a

(21:08):
there's a fed there. The governor is a guy by
the name of Tom Barkin. Tom Barkin thinks for a
long way from recession. In fact, he thinks things are
going pretty well. So let's hear what Tom Barkin has
to say about the economy, and also some additional response
from economist Steve Moore.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
After they hunkered down in the spring.

Speaker 21 (21:27):
Recent data shows, including some data we got this morning,
that consumers resume spending over the summer, especially those with
higher incomes.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
And why wouldn't they resume spending.

Speaker 21 (21:36):
Unemployment is still low, nominal wages are still increasing, Asse
evaluations are near all time has.

Speaker 17 (21:42):
It has defied all expectations. You probably remember that when
Trump was elected this time, just like when he was
elected in twenty seventeen, Remember the sky was going to fall.
We were going to go into a great depression. The
stock market was going to collapse. People like Paul Krugman
were saying it was going to be the worst economy ever.
And of course we've got an economy that's flying pretty

(22:03):
high right now. We've got very near four percent growth,
four percent, which is something we never came anywhere near
under Joe Biden's four years of the rain of what
I call the rain of error. Under Biden, inflation is
still a bit of a problem, Rachel. Was still a
little bit higher than we'd like to be. We're about
two and a half to three percent. We want to
get that down to two percent a little bit, you know,

(22:27):
terrace of raised prices a little bit. But remember we
had nine percent inflation a Biden. So there's a big
difference between nine and three percent. How about this, Rachel,
I mean, I'm.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just going to give it. I was just prepared to
talk to you.

Speaker 17 (22:38):
I went through some of these statistics.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
How about this.

Speaker 17 (22:40):
Gas prices are now lower than they've been in a
long long time. In most areas of the country. They're
three dollars or less. I was in Georgia a week
and a half ago, to eighty nine a gallon. When's
the last time we've seen that? If you look at
real incomes for American families so far in just nine months,
up eleven hundred dollars, some purchasing power. How about the

(23:02):
fact that, thanks to Donald Trump, we're producing more oil
and gas than ever before in American history. I mean,
you go on and on trillion dollars in savings from deregulation.
All of these things are super charging the economy. And
you mentioned the one thing that's held the economy back
a little bit has been terrasts.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
I know Donald Trump watched her your show.

Speaker 17 (23:24):
Mister president. Let's ease the terrace a little bit and
we'll see a real booming economy.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Yeah, well, don't hold your breath right now in the terrace.
But but energy prices, how much did you spend for
a gallon of guys? I filled up on Saturday? Yes, Sarah,
two forty nine a gallon? As would I pay two
forty nine a gallon? And I had somebody say to me,
this work, where'd you find it for two forty nine
a gallon? Spring in spring by the woodlands. Yeah, two

(23:50):
forty nine a gallon? Some places have for two fifty
six a gallon, but Walmart headed for two forty nine.
I think Kroker headed for two forty nine. Yeah, yeah,
that's I mean, very very stable. That's all. That's all
good stuff. I also had on our morning show today
and KATRJ to talk about speaking of energy prices, to

(24:12):
talk about energy prices, car Ingram, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.
Here's a little bit of that conversation.

Speaker 21 (24:19):
After they hunger down in the spring. Recent data shows,
including some data we got.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
That's not the one I wanted. Hang on a second,
hang on, let me grab the right one. I don't
know why they jumped on me, but here we go.
Car Ingram from this morning's morning show in KTRH. It
all gets down to supplying demand, right Car. It always does,
it always does.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
I'm actually pardon me, I'm actually economist by profession. But
you don't really even need to be one of those
those two things. Supplying demand and what they're doing relative
to one another always sets the price. Ultimately, there may
be a little short term noise, but it's supplying demand
that drives what's the price the crude oil is, and

(25:00):
therefore what the price of gasoline is all right.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
Well, the short term thing you were talking about was
right after the President announced that he was backing Ukraine.
I assume that the reaction on oil prices going up,
at least temporarily going up, was the idea that we
may somehow disrupt the oil supply coming out of that
part of the world.

Speaker 7 (25:20):
Yeah, bingo. The Ukrainian military action and this whole thing
is cutting into Russia's continued ability to produce crude oil.
And they are, by the way, the third largest crude
oil producing country on the planet, behind the United States
and Saudi Arabia. So if oil production starts to fall
off in the third largest global producer, it matters to

(25:42):
the marketplace. And in addition to the war cutting into
to Russia's physical ability to continue to produce crude oil,
you have the United States and the President of the
United States pressuring countries that are buying crude oil from
Russia and knock that off too. And so all of
these things point to point to some decrease going forward

(26:06):
in Russian crude oil supplied to the global marketplace.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, I know. As far as producing more oil here
in the United States, a lot of it is politics.
Certainly during the past administration when things weren't very friendly
for the oil industry, you know, we didn't see quite
as much production. I think that's correct me if I'm wrong,
But I think that's wrapped up a little bit under
President Trump, because I think the oil industry knows that
they have a friend right now in the White House
and that there are not going to be any policies

(26:32):
coming out that are going to make investment in new
oil rigs risky.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
Yeah, it was a tough four years under the Biden administration,
for sure. It just seems like those folks got out
of bed every day and exhibited kind of a foundational
contempt for the US domestic oil and gas industry. Who's
done such fantastic You just mentioned it at the beginning
of the segment. The people that get up and do
this hard work every day, people that put gobs of

(27:01):
money at risk to provide us with what we have
really achieved the thing we said we always wanted long term, abundant,
affordable supply of US domestically produced energy. That has changed
under Trump, thank goodness. And as you mentioned, prices are

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lower for gasoline. That also means prices are lower for
crude oil. The rick count is nowhere near what it
was a couple of years ago. It's been steadily declining
over all that period of time. But even given that,
we're still producing more crude. As we sit here right
now today, in September of twenty twenty five, we are
producing more crude oil in the United States than we

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ever have before. That's going to fall off a little
bit because of lower prices in the ric count, but
it's not going to fall off very much. That's not
going to fall off very fast. So we continue to
be a major supplier of US energy, not only to
our own economy, but in increasingly around the world as
well well.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
The other thing that I've noticed, and I'm sure you
can speak to this far better than I can. The
other thing I've noticed now versus the past administration is
we don't seem to have the volatility and oil prices
that we had. We seem to be pretty steady on
the prices. Stability is a.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
Wonderful thing for consumers, and there's no doubt about that.
Crude oil prices have fallen fairly dramatically between twenty twenty
four and twenty twenty five. But again, this is the
consequence of stable US production and continued and by the way,
OPEK adding production back to the marketplace and OPEC plus

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and pretty significant numbers in twenty twenty five. So supply
has generally gone up in terms of global production in
twenty twenty five. And if you've got rising supply in
the face of generally flat demand, I mean we don't
have We don't have a recession or any such thing

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in the US and in most places around the world.
But we don't have growth going great guns either. So again,
rising supply relative to relatively flat demand. Prices have come down,
but as you mentioned, this is a good thing for consumers,
and gasoline prizes have fallen this year, and I think
consumers are appreciating this all right.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Last one for you, car, and that is the price
has been trying to encourage Europeans to get their energy
from US. Do you think he's been successful in getting
that message across.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
I think he's been somewhat successful and may be more
successful going forward. I certainly hope that's the case. We
still have a handful of small ish pardon me, NATO
countries that are buying Russian crude oil, mostly those offenders
are China and India, and we are continuing to export
greater volumes of crude oil out of the United States.

(29:54):
And I think the message ought to be both in
terms of crude oil and natural gas LNG liquefied natural gas,
the US can be a long term reliable supplier of
energy to you Russian crude oil. It may seem like
a deal now, but it's always going to be volatile,
and it's always going to be an unreliable supply going forward,

(30:18):
never mind the fact that your conscience may not permit it.
So yes, I hope we can be more successful than
going forward, and he has had success in that thus far.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
All right, sort of the state of the energy sector
with a guy by the name of car Ingram, Texas
the lines of energy producers quick a little break back
with Bore in the moment Jimmy Bird Show here in
the AM nine fifty KPRC. Allright, a couple of things

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to discuss here in our final segment of the show.
One might be kind of tied in with the other one.
I don't know what happened with the shooting in Michigan.
I'm mystified by this. I'll I'll just elaborate a little
bit further. We know it's a it's an army vendor
or a marine venteran I should say, we know he
did a tour of rocks, so I don't know if
there's a PTSD thing at work here or not. You know,

(31:24):
I know he's married, forty years old, a young child,
not seemingly not the kind of person who would go
off and do something like this. As far as any
information I've had so far, there's no relationship between him
and the Mormon Church, So I'm not sure why he
decided to attack this Mormon church. It's just it's it's weird.

(31:48):
It's very very strange, and this one may take a
while to figure out. The shooter is dead, so it's
not like you can ask him why did you do this?
Maybe there'll be some information from his wife. I don't know.
We'll have to wait and see more more information. Probably
more information has come out since I, you know, since
we started doing the show today, So we'll let time
take care of that. I'll save any further commentary on

(32:11):
this thing until we have a better idea of what
might have happened. But it does seem like, for whatever reason,
that Christians and Christian churches have become bigger targets. The
Christian faith has become a bigger target, and they did
something we're just going to really need to keep an
eye on. Also, I wanted to share this with you

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because I thought this was very interesting. And I don't
know if what happened with this form of brain is
any form of brainwashing or not, but I do know
the brainwashing continues at our nation's universities. I think it's
a very dangerous place to send your kids these days,
not unless you've really raised them to be a free thinker,
to think on their own, to not fall into the

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idea that just because they're being told by a professor
that they need to think a certain way and a
certain issue, that that's how they should think. If you've
raised them to think for themselves, thank God for that.
But colleges are kind of a dangerous place ideologically to
be these days. And we got another example of that
the vech Ramaswami, remember the Vek. He's running for governor

(33:15):
of Ohio and he was doing a town hall when
a college student came up to talk to him about
indoctrinating hurt. The attempt of her school, her college to
indoctrinate her. Here's a little bit of that.

Speaker 22 (33:31):
An example is I had to take a speech class
where this is a required class. I had to learn
about the proper pronoun usage for people who are non binary.
I'm going to read off a homework assignment that I
had to answer this question for a speech class. Karen
wants to ban books with nonsense gendered characters from her
local library. She gives a speech claiming that such books

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may cause her children to be groomed into choosing a
nonsense gender identity. Which of the following strategies did Karen
use to spread misinformation in this scenario? So we know
that this is there's violence being pushed because they're saying,
you know, the people who don't agree with this narrative
that's being pushed, they're not seize, they're fascists or this,

(34:15):
that and the other. And then they go and they
glorify because we saw with Charlie Kirk, all these teachers
came out and they supported it, they celebrated it. So
my question is, knowing that this isn't just an issue
at my school, what will you do to ensure that
the schools are complying with the state and federal laws
and not pushing ideologies onto students.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Thank you for sharing that question and the courage to
give the detail.

Speaker 23 (34:41):
I mean, when you read that out, it's more than
just you usually hear about it at a high level,
but when you hear that down to I mean, let's
just be honest. I don't think they chose Karen unintentionally, right,
I mean, what a loaded way to sort of ask
that question. After turning it into an epithet, then they
make a hypothetic, Oh, we just call it care and
after we actually completely stigmatized the use of that as

(35:03):
a name. It highlights this devious, twisted ideology that puts
us in a tough position. Here's a tough position we're in, right,
I'll give it an analogy.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
In the old War on Terror, the two post two
thousand and one era.

Speaker 23 (35:22):
The hard thing is the other side in that war
on terror, they're willing to do things that our side
isn't willing to do. They would kill women and children,
kill innocent civilians. We still have to ultimately achieve victory,
and yet we're constrained because we can't do the same
things the other side does and if we did adopt
their methods, then we wouldn't be who we are, we'd

(35:42):
lose what we're fighting for in the first place. Right,
And so that's the challenge we have ahead of us,
is that the intolerance of the other side for alternative
descent is still faced up against those of us who
have our strong speaking for myself and several of ourselves
on stage, your conservative belief still do it, must do
it in a way that respects the other ability, the

(36:04):
other size ability to speak, but without actually turning that
into its own indoctrinating weapon.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah, that's that's the rub, right, that's the rub. You
have to try to fight back against that stuff, but
not do it the same way that they're doing it,
because that's what you're fighting to begin with. That's quite
the conundrum. That's a tough one to figure out. Hey, listen,
thank you for listening, y'all. Have a great day, Have
happy National Coffee Day, what's left of it. We'll see

(36:32):
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