October 15, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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our Wednesday show. Glad to have you on board here today.
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And he all headed to the airport. You know, I
tried this morning to get an answer on this. I didn't.
I didn't get a luck. I need somebody to report
back to me whether or not TSA at either Bush
or at Hobby are playing a Christy Nome video explaining
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why the lines might be long or you could possibly
be delayed in your travels because of the government shutdown.
Evidently she produced the video, and in the video she
was more than happy to explain to passengers exactly why
it was that there is a government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's the Democrats. And evidently the Democrats don't care about
whether or not your flight leaves on time or if
you have to wait in a long line at TSA.
And she produced the video and send it to all
the airports, you know, because the TSA is a federal agency.
So I'm guessing she probably thought, Okay, well, this won't
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be a problem, right because after all, we are the
federal government, we are in charge of TSA, and if
we want something shown at the TSA line, then we
can do that. Well, as it turns out, there are
plenty of airports that are refusing to play this video,
and I don't know what the status is here locally.
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I don't know if either Bush or Hobby are allowing
this video to be shown or if they're not showing it.
And the only way I can find out for sure
is to have somebody to go through a TSA line. Now,
on Friday, my wife, who's in Detroit right now visiting
her mother, will be coming back through Detroit Metropolitan Airport
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and she'll go through the TSA line there. So I'm
gonna ask her to look when she goes through that line,
and I'll find out about that city. But I'm kind
of curious of what is going on here locally. Anyway.
Let's start with this. I mean, I wouldn't expect, you know,
places in California, airports in California or Washington or Oregon State.
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I wouldn't expect them to be showing that video for sure. Texas, however,
might be a different story. But here's the report, by
the way of from k r o N TV in
San Francisco, reporting on the protest over this video and
why they will are refusing to show it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
This video is meant to be played at TSA checkpoints.
People we spoke with flying in and out of SFO
say they are glad to hear that it's not playing here,
saying politics simply don't belong at the airport.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government and
because of this, many of our operations are impacted.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Major airports across the US won't be playing this video
from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, including San Francisco,
Oakland and San Jose Internationals.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Definitely, some people should look into and think for themselves
and not just be forced upon my mess I think
they're making the right choice by not showing it. I'm
delighted they're not going to play that. It's outrageous that
they were asked to play it.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Flying out of SFO Tuesday night, Jesse Lerner says he's
never seen a political video at the airport issued by
the federal government.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The public domain should not be a political the ay,
and it never has been before. This is something new,
and it's really shocking and disserving. We're seeing all kinds
of things we've ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
The TSA has asked airports to play the video at
security checkpoints to explain the effects of the ongoing government
shut down.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
And our hope is that Democrats will soon recognize the
importance of opening the government.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
But some airport officials nationwide say the content may violate
the Hatch Act, which prohibits partisan messaging on public property.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
You can do a video saying we apologize for any
delay because of the current government shutdown, but to put
the blame on the Democratic Party arguably goes over the.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Line, does it really? There's a number of things about
that report. First of all, the idea that there are
no politics at the airport. Now, they did specifically say
the report no federal politics at the airport, but I
bet there's state politics in California that show up at
the airport all the time. I bet there are protest
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groups that are allowed to freely prot test at the
airport all the time. So I find it very hard
to believe that the airport is a politics free zone
in California or anywhere else. I mean, look at it
this way too. They're play things they show here here.
Here's one of my callers from this morning. He had
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a very good observation about, you know this, no politics
at the airport. Good morning.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
This is Henry from a spring about the TSA announcement
with Christy nome Go into any airport and CNN is
on all of their TVs. So don't tell me that
they don't want to post anything political, just food for thought.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, that's no, that's he's done right about that. They
have a contract. CNN has a contract with the airports
to carry a special channel. Now I don't normally watch CNN,
and I certainly don't watch at the airport, but I
don't know. I don't think it's their regular programming. Which
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is not to say necessarily that there's nothing political that's
on there. I'm sure there is. If they're reporting the news,
there's got to be politics on there, even if they're
taking a more straight approach than they do on the
actual cable network. If there's still politics involved. But again, well,
here's another way to look at it, to what level
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of local control do you have at any particular airport airport?
As I said, the TSA is a federal agency. So
is the TSA. Do they make up their own rules
for what they do at the airport At any given
airport they have an area they are responsible for security.
I don't know that there are any local airport rules
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that they have to follow. I would think that everything
TSA does is on a federal level. By the same token,
I don't know what audio visual equipment the TSA would
normally have at the airport and who is responsible for
running that equipment. I would assume that that equipment is
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probably being run locally, which is why they can say no,
we're not going to run this because TSA doesn't have
a way to play it themselves. By the way, this
was only supposed to be in the TSA area. This
is not something that was expected to air throughout the airport,
just at the TSA area. Again, I'll be kind of
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curious to see how this turns out, especially on a
local basis here, If it's the same thing in Texas,
If all the airports in Texas are also refusing to
run this. All right, quick little break back with more
in a moment, Jimmy Bairt show, You're an AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, let's try segment number two today
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with leading off with this one for you a little
follow up. I like to do follow ups, and sometimes
I get angry at myself for not following up on
a story the way i'd like to or the way
I should. You know, I think I'm as guilty as
everybody else is. Out of sight, out of mind, you know,
once a story happens, you cover the death out of it,
and then you move on to the next thing and
you kind of forget about it. But I don't want
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to do that with some stories. Some stories it's easy
to leave them behind. Other stories you need to do
follow up on. And the shooting at the ice facility
in Dallas I believe to be one of those stories
because as time goes on, as always, we learn more
about the people responsible for these types of shootings. In
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this case, you have a Hispanic male who opened fire
at the ice facility in Dallas. He killed what turned out,
he killed two illegal aliens. He didn't hit anybody from
ice although he was spraying the facility with bullets. It's
a miracle that more people didn't get hurt or die.
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So you have to say, Okay, this guy's trying to
hurt ice. This guy has been radicalized in some way,
shape or form, brainwashed in some way, shape or form.
Why did he do what he did? What was his motivation,
what was his background? What had he been doing with
his life? Was there a history of mental illness? Did
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he get the weapon he used legally or illegally? All
those kinds of questions. It takes a while for all
that to come out, and we are learning more now
about this guy, who he was, where he was living,
maybe getting inkling to some of the influences in his
life that may have led to all this. Here is
the latest report in all that from Fox four in Dallas.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
It's an interesting perspective, and as you mentioned, this new
information is coming directly from Joshua Yhon's own parents. They
say that they noticed his personality trains drastically after he
turned home to Texas after living in another state for
several years. Nearly three weeks after Joshua Yan opened fire
on the Ice Detention center in Dallas, New documents obtained
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by the Associated Press detailed the sniper's troubled past.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
On the day of the September.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Twenty fourth shooting, Yon's parents sold investigators their son was
completely normal until he moved to Washington State, returning home
to Texas a few years ago. Doctor Alex st'carman, a criminologist,
is skeptical of that account.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
I just don't buy the idea that this person was
quote unquote normal and then all of a sudden goes
through a transformation once they go to Washington State and
comes back.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
As a different person.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Jan's parents say their twenty nine year old son believed
he had radiation sickness and that he wore cotton gloves
to aid touching plastic. His parents also say about a
month prior to the deadly shooting, he did target practice
with a rifle he purchased in Oklahoma. Investigators say the
bolt action rifle was purchased legally. Jean's parents say he
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was not diagnosed with any mental health disorders.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
It tells you that you know the person probably was delusional,
that they exhibited some degree of paranoid schizophrenia, and that
this person likely was inhibiting signs that they had already
read things that may have prompted him, in this case
to essentially feel that he was affected by that right.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
The documents portray Jan as an unemployed loaner who spent
his time playing video games in a bedroom at his
parents' home. When he moved to Washington State, his parents
said he took a seasonal job harvesting marijuana. The farm
owner said Jan slept in his car for months. The
documents do not spell out a motive for the attack,
but federal agents say Jan left behind anti ICE messages
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on Bulley Casing's and and written notes indicating he wanted
to terrorize ICE. Investigators say Yon vent to target ICE agents,
but instead he killed two migrant detainees and injured another
before taking his own life.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
So in this case, what you see is you see
this person beginning the process of planning an event.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
He may not even be sure.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
What that event was at the time, but he was
planning something, and therefore he's beginning to acquire the tools
in which he's going to.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Exhibit that rebellion toward society.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
And Yhon's parents also told the FBI that they did
engage in conversations about current events with their son, but
added that they were not deep conversations up until this point,
and no one else has been implicated in this.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Attack, sir, being where do you even start with that?
That is a laundry list on how to I don't
even know where to start with this. Well, let's start
with this unemployed living in his parents basement playing video games?
I mean, is that like the most stereotypical description you
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could ever hear of of of one of these deranged gunmen.
Unemployed adult living in his parents' basement playing video games?
Why was he unemployed? Why? Why was he living in
his parents' basement? Why is he playing video games all day? Hey?
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Mom and dad, why let's start with that. What What
in the world were you doing raising your child? What?
What made what made you think it was perfectly okay
for your child to sit around on his ass playing
video games, being unemployed, living living off you as a
as a grown ass man. Then we find out he's
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a loner there, okay, that that never happens in the
world of deranged gun people. He's a loaner. And then
for some reason he he moves to Washington State, Oh,
the Land of fruit and Nuts, California, Oregon and Washington
State where he's picking marijuana. He's harvesting marijuana crops for
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a legal marijuana farm. Huh gee. I wonder who do
you think he might have been working with up there?
Who else might have been living in their cars and
picking marijuana plants? Probably illegal aliens. He may have been exposed.
He may have liked those illegal aliens very much, or
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they may have gone ahead. And you know, I told
them about their plight, and he's got nothing else going
on in his life, so why not take up their cause?
But I have to go back to the parents. No,
he's got no history of mental health problems. Really, do
you think that maybe, like a few other things that
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were going on in that son of your life, that
maybe you might have been a little bit of denial
over all? This stuff? Sure seems like it to me. Anyway,
There you go. The more you learn, the more. But
the problem is is the mainstream is not going to
report it. We're not going to go The word doesn't
get out unless you know, the rest of us talk
about exactly what happened here. Okay, we want to do
a little something on the economy here. We had a
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segment on our Morning show on ktr H with Richard Stern,
He's an economist at the Heritage Foundation, talking about you know,
we're seeing kind of a split economy right now, weaker hiring,
stronger growth. Those two are kind of pull their opposites
of each other. So I thought I would check in
with Richard. He's a very good economist and conservative and
get pick his brain on where he thinks the economy
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is going. Where do you think this economy is going?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Richard, Well, thanks for having me on the talk about it. So,
you know, I think what's going on here is we
have to remember the hiring is something that happens in
the moment because of long term business investment to give
us all of that productive capacity, all those job opportunity
these but growth is something that happens because of things
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like tax cuts, deregulation.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Things that Trump has been doing.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So the reason why hiring is slower is frankly headwinds
from four years of Joe Biden's presidency. But the reason
why you have investment growth is because of the last
nine months under Trump and the deregulation, the tax cuts,
and all of the other things that Trump is doing
to grow the economy, including unleashing energy resources. So my mind,
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that's why we've got the split screen economy.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So I don't see any warning.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
Signs at the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay, well that's good to hear, and I completely agree
with what you're saying. Here's what I'm wondering, because I
feel like we're having a post Biden administration inflation hangover.
We had all that runaway inflation during the Biden years.
Thankfully that has toned down and has slowed down to
something as much more normal here during the Trump administration.
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But like everything else, we don't go backwards. Prices never
retreat to where they were before the Biden demonstration. So
we're left with a hangover there and people there's an
affordability problem for a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Oh absolutely, So you know, we have to remember that
the way that our current FED works and the way
that the federal deficit works is that price has never
come back down again. Now, look, the entire nineteenth century,
prices were flat. They actually declined to times. But it
really just can't happen as long as you of the
federal government run the massive deficits that are runs. Because
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of that, there's always inflationary pressure. And yes, because of
the reckless COVID spending and all the spending that Biden
piled on for green energy subsidies and all the other
things the rest of the WOW agenda, we have a
twenty plus percent price flake of consumer prices. But again,
if we have deregulation at tax cuts, if we get
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more energy into the market, we have more economic growth.
We can grow our way past some of that in
and of course, as long as we don't have another
round of massive government spending, we won't get another price
bike the way we did during the four years of bike.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, let me ask you about the potential for massive
government cuts, especially if this shutdown continues. I think the
President has made it pretty clear that he's looking at
lopping heads and maybe departments and putting some people in
the unemployment line. I think the whole idea behind getting
smaller government, which I believe we would be best for
our country, is that these people would then go to
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the private sector. But are those jobs available now in
the private sector when we have basically a lot of companies,
most companies cutting back and hiring.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh? Absolutely. So you know what part of what's going
on again is that I think you've got these headwinds
going in from the Biden administration that have been sluggish. Frankly,
a lot of the labor that would have been available
to the private sector got waylaid by the federal government.
You know, the federal government can do something that private
business can do, which is print money and say, hey,
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do you want to come waste your time? Do you
want to come regulate the rest of your countrymen? And
we'll pay you newly printed inflationary.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Dollars to do it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
So there's always a little bit of a transition period,
But the truth is getting more people out of the
federal bureaucracy is precisely the kind of thing that can
help open up investment in the private economy and getting
them out of.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
The government, out.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Of the regulatory industries. So we'll take a little bit
of time, but I think, yes, you're going to see
a lot more private investment, private hiring, and really good,
long term, sustainable jobs that come out.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And hopefully he use one hundred percent correct about that.
I think he is. We'll see, all right, quick little break,
we're back with more in a moment. Our guests coming
up will be Phil Kirpin. He is President of American comeitment.
How do you feel about the AARP. I hate them,
and I'll use that term lightly. I'll have more on
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his thoughts on the AAR coming up next here on
AM nine fifty KPRC in the Jimmy Barrett Show. All Right,
I'm not the only person, it turns out, that doesn't
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care for the AARP, and the fact I go further
than that. Of course, my reasons for not lacking the
AARP are probably a little bit different than our guest.
Our guest is Phil Kirpin. He's president of American Commitment.
I started hating Phil the AARP when I turned forty
years old, because that's when I started getting their propaganda
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and I couldn't believe. I couldn't believe I'm forty years old.
Why are you sending me this stuff? And they kept on,
they still send me stuff.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Well, they are. They're a machine. They are I They're
one of the most profitable enterpresident in this country. And
somehow they have a nonprofit type status, so it's uh,
you're worth a lot of money to them. That's why
they're sending you all those mails.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I must be because they you know, it's not cheap
to mail that stuff. Out even even I don't know
what kind of rate they're getting from the US Postal Service,
probably a better rate than the rest of us do.
But but it's amazing how they do, how they recruit. Now,
they pride themselves. They claim that they are standing up
for America's seniors and that's there. They're not interested in politics.
They're only interested in helping america seniors. Turns out that's
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not exactly the case, is it.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
No. I mean, we did an analysis a couple of
years ago around the debate around Biden Inflation Reduction Act,
one of the most wildly misnamed laws we've had in reason.
You know how many laws actually do the opposite of
what they're called.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's amazing.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
And around that law, when they wish they were heavily supporting,
they did events like supportive, this person is the hero.
We love them. They don't say vote for and against
because they're non profit status, but they make very clear
who they love and want you to vote for. They
did events for eighty nine members of Congress. Eighty eight
of them were Republicans, so I accuse the eighty eight
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of them were Democrats, and the one Republican was running unopposed.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, that's about as partisan as you can possibly get.
What are some of the what are some of the
political causes that the AARP supports that your average American
probably doesn't know or it might be surprised by.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Well, you know, they'll generally support they'll generally support what
the Democrats want, So they've got kind of left wing
ideology among their leadership. But what they really care about
the most is what helps the health insurance industry, because
they make an obscene amount of money from their exclusive
licensing deal with United Health, and in fact, last year
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they got nine billion dollars from United Health one time payment,
which is you know, I mean they act, you know,
that makes them like it's hard to even explain. That
makes them a thousand times bigger than my organization. I mean,
they're just they're massive. And they got thirty one times
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as much money from United Health than they got from
membership dues. So they basically carry water for the insurance industry.
And they supported Obamacare back in twenty ten. I think
they said they're you know, when they got investigated by Congress,
we found out the calls from their members were fourteen
to one against it, and they supported it because it
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was good for United Health and of course they've made
a lot of money with that. Similarly, they supported the
so called Inflation Reduction Act, and now they're supporting the
Democrats shutdowns and saying, you know, keep the government shutdown
unless supersized Obamacare subs these are extended. And by the way,
the number two recipient of supersized to Obamacare subsidies is
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you noted help Well, I think it's an extraordinarily corrupt situation.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So, you know, it's a prit quid pro for AARP.
They help United Healthcare make more money so they can
keep getting these big donations from United health Care.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Yeah, it's not exactly a donation. What it is is
they get five percent of all the premiums in all
of the ARP branded United Health products and so they
call it a royalty. And last year they got this
one time payment for nine billion dollars. So I don't
know if they're still getting the skim on the premium
or if that was instead of you know, they don't
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exactly disclose their deal terms, but the money amount, the
amount involved their staggering.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So what is the Democrats motivation here? Clearly they are
in bed as well with health insurance. How are the Democrats,
you know, making money from health insurance? Is it through
campaign donations? How's that working?
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Yeah, I mean I'm sure a lot of money comes
back to them in campaign donations. They also have sort
of an ideological alignment because you know, they like this
idea of huge government programs and actually, but you know,
I actually think the health insurance companies are playing a
pretty dangerous game because the Democrats will betray them at
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some point and replace it all with the government program.
As you know, they the insurance company bureaucracies are nice,
but they you know, they Democrats will always favor a
government bureaucracy over a private bureaucracy. So I think they're
playing a little bit of a dangerous game. But the Democrats,
I'm sure a lot of money has made it back
into their campaigns. As I said, you know, the ARP
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is a conduit for that because they run these events
and they praise them.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
The other thing is United Health can through ARP fund
sort of other sort of quasi political assets like this
Kaiser Family Foundation. Do you see pushing all these polls
supporting the Democratic positions or they're they're funded by the RP,
which means that you know, they're funded indirectly by United Health,
but they pretend they're not, and so, you know, I
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think it's sort of the Democrats made a deal essentially
with the sant industry. Back to our Victoria Obamacare, remember,
a lot of Democrats wanted to nationalize the healthcare system
and basically the health insurance guys. They played this double
game where they spend all this money under their own
brand saying we love Obamacare, Pass Obamacare, it's wonderful, and
all this money under the US Chamber of Commerce saying,
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don't set up a government's plan, you just mandate people
go into our private plan. And they got kind of
what they wanted. The problem for them is that it
it's been a disaster, and so you know, that's kind
of where we are. But the Democrats have had this
unholy alliance with the insurance companies going back at least
to Obamacare.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
At the end of the day, phil Kerpin, how how
do we fix this? You know, do we do?
Speaker 11 (26:42):
We?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I'm surprised that more hasn't been done to expose AARP
and this relationship they have with healthcare. After all, one
of the biggest issues we have in this country have
had and probably will have for the foreseeable future. Is
the high cost of healthcare. Everything you're talking about leads
to higher cost for healthcare we're all paying for when
we go to the doctor's office.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Correct. And you know, I think it's particularly outrageous that
AARP pretends to be a seniors group, but they're feathering
their own nest rather than using their bargaining power to
get lower costs for their members. And you know, their
biggest their biggest medicare products, which are very popular. They
have a twenty seven percent premium increase next year. So
they're taking nine billion dollars and packeting it and then
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there's a huge increase to their members. Why didn't instead
of asking United Health for a huge payment, why didn't
they say we want you to keep the premium down.
So they're not representing seniors. And you know, it's great
that you're having me off to talk about it. The
best thing we can do is just hind of spotlight
on it. I think that nine billion dollar number should
open a lot of eyes.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I hope so too, and we will keep shining it
along with you. Phil Kirpin, Thank you as always good
to talk to you. Sir, all right, Jimmy Ever, go
on you too, Phil Kirpen, He's President of American Commitment.
Back with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett show, You're
run am nine to fifty KPRC. All right, before we
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wrap up our program for today, a couple more things
I want to get to. First of all, Charlie Kirk.
Yesterday would have been Charlie Kirk's birthday. Erica Kirk, his widow,
was at the White House to accept the Distinguished Medal
of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor that the
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government can bestow upon you. It was presented by President
Trump to Erica Kirk. She had a few things to say,
so I thought I would share at least a few
of her thoughts on her husband receiving this award posthumously.
Here's Erica Kirk.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
His birthday, but to honor a truth that he gave
his entire life to defend, and that's freedom. The very
exist of the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that
the national interests of the United States has always been freedom.
Our founders etched it into the preamble of our Constitution,
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and those words are not relics on parchment. They are
a living covenant. The blessings of liberty are not man's invention,
they are God's endowment. Charlie lived for those blessings, not
as abstract words, but as sacred promises. He used to
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love to journal about this topic all the time, and
with such a heart postured of gratitude, and he believed
that liberty was both a right and a responsibility. And
he used to say, freedom is the ability to do
what is right without fear. And that's how he lived.
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He was free from fear, he was free from compromise,
free from anything that could enslave his soul. His name
Charles literally means freeman, and that's exactly who my husband was.
He was a free man. And from the time I
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met him, sitting across from him being interviewed on politics
and philosophy and theology, anything that Charlie loved, any topic
he loved, and I just saw the fire in his
soul and there.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Was this.
Speaker 12 (30:42):
Divine restlessness within him that came from knowing God placed
him on this earth to protect something very, very sacred.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
She's quite the speaker herself. I can see why they
put her in charge of replacing Charlie as far as
the made the head of turning point. Oh this just in,
by the way, good timing. Trump administration has revoked the
visas of six foreigners deemed by US officials who have
made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of
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Charlie Kirk last month, the State Department saying Tuesday it
had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their
online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was
killed while speaking at Utah College campus on September tenth. Okay, well, yeah,
we do have freeom of speech in this country. But
if you deem yourself as a foreign national who has
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not assistant in the United States, to be a potential danger,
like maybe you'd like to assassinate somebody like Charlie Kirk,
then yeah, I think we have the right to revoke
your visa absolutely. And what more for you, because I
always like to leave you with a bit of a smile.
I got to kick out of this little segment. Greg
Gutfeld in his panel evidently on board Air Force One.
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I don't know if this is coming back from the
police peace strip. Probably was. The President got asked about
the peace steel and whether or not he thought this
might be his ticket to heaven. So here's that exchange
and some follow up from Greg Guttfeld's panel.
Speaker 13 (32:15):
Donald dishes on pretty ladies and whether he'll go to
heaven or hades. The board Air Force one, the pres
was asked about his prospects of getting into heaven in
light of the Israel godz a peace steel.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
He brokeered, I wonder how does this help? Does this help?
How does this help?
Speaker 10 (32:31):
Does this help?
Speaker 11 (32:31):
I mean, you know, I mean I look cute. I
don't think there's anything gonna get me in heaven. Okay,
I really think I think I'm not maybe heaven bound.
I may be in heaven right now as we fly
an Air Force one, I'm not sure I'm gonna be
able to make heaven.
Speaker 13 (32:48):
Oh, if there's a god in heaven, you'll be there.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Mister p I know some people.
Speaker 13 (32:56):
Once on solid ground, he spoke about many of you.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
He's known for so long.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
I've known so many of you for so long, your
friends of mine.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You're great people.
Speaker 11 (33:04):
I have a couple I don't like in particular, but
I won't tell you who I have.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Actually a few of them.
Speaker 11 (33:09):
I don't like it at all, but you'll never find
out who they are, and maybe you will come to
the commit.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
He always keeps some guessing.
Speaker 13 (33:20):
But it's like those lady boys I put through barber College.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
And finally, do we have a woman, a young woman,
A beautiful young woman.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
We have a.
Speaker 11 (33:37):
Woman, a young woman who's uh. I'm not allowed to
say it because usually it's the end of your political
career if you say it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
She's a beautiful young woman.
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Now, if you use the word beautiful in the United
States about a woman, that's.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The end of your political career.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
But I'll take my chances. Lurish there she is.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You don't mind being called beautiful, right because.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
You are.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Joe.
Speaker 13 (34:04):
What Trump realizes is there's no h R Department in.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The White House. It's like he can say this, we can't,
but he can't.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
So he does he does, especially with Maloney I love.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And of course she's not going an Italian woman.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Is not going to get mad about calling her beautiful.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
No one loves beautiful women like Italians do.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
She she was just close to pinching her own ass when.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
You, oh, God, that's funny. You know it's funny because
didn't we all kind of start in the beginning, just
kind of looking cross eye when Donald Trump would say
those things. Now I just I look forward to it.
It just makes me laugh. And that's the difference, I guess,
between those of us who appreciate what he's able to
accomplish and get a kick out of some of the
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things he says, versus the people with Trump derangement syndrome. Listen, y'all,
have a great day. See you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
five am over our news radio seven KTRH. We are
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Speaker 5 (35:03):
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And he all headed to the airport. You know, I
tried this morning to get an answer on this. I didn't.
I didn't get a luck. I need somebody to report
back to me whether or not TSA at either Bush
or at Hobby are playing a Christy Nome video explaining
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why the lines might be long or you could possibly
be delayed in your travels because of the government shutdown.
Evidently she produced the video, and in the video she
was more than happy to explain to passengers exactly why
it was that there is a government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's the Democrats. And evidently the Democrats don't care about
whether or not your flight leaves on time or if
you have to wait in a long line at TSA.
And she produced the video and send it to all
the airports, you know, because the TSA is a federal agency.
So I'm guessing she probably thought, Okay, well, this won't
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be a problem, right because after all, we are the
federal government, we are in charge of TSA, and if
we want something shown at the TSA line, then we
can do that. Well, as it turns out, there are
plenty of airports that are refusing to play this video,
and I don't know what the status is here locally.
(01:58):
I don't know if either Bush or Hobby are allowing
this video to be shown or if they're not showing it.
And the only way I can find out for sure
is to have somebody to go through a TSA line. Now,
on Friday, my wife, who's in Detroit right now visiting
her mother, will be coming back through Detroit Metropolitan Airport
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and she'll go through the TSA line there. So I'm
gonna ask her to look when she goes through that line,
and I'll find out about that city. But I'm kind
of curious of what is going on here locally. Anyway.
Let's start with this. I mean, I wouldn't expect, you know,
places in California, airports in California or Washington or Oregon State.
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I wouldn't expect them to be showing that video for sure. Texas, however,
might be a different story. But here's the report, by
the way of from k r o N TV in
San Francisco, reporting on the protest over this video and
why they will are refusing to show it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
This video is meant to be played at TSA checkpoints.
People we spoke with flying in and out of SFO
say they are glad to hear that it's not playing here,
saying politics simply don't belong at the airport.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government and
because of this, many of our operations are impacted.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Major airports across the US won't be playing this video
from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, including San Francisco,
Oakland and San Jose Internationals.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Definitely, some people should look into and think for themselves
and not just be forced upon my mess I think
they're making the right choice by not showing it. I'm
delighted they're not going to play that. It's outrageous that
they were asked to play it.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Flying out of SFO Tuesday night, Jesse Lerner says he's
never seen a political video at the airport issued by
the federal government.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The public domain should not be a political the ay,
and it never has been before. This is something new,
and it's really shocking and disserving. We're seeing all kinds
of things we've ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
The TSA has asked airports to play the video at
security checkpoints to explain the effects of the ongoing government
shut down.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
And our hope is that Democrats will soon recognize the
importance of opening the government.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
But some airport officials nationwide say the content may violate
the Hatch Act, which prohibits partisan messaging on public property.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
You can do a video saying we apologize for any
delay because of the current government shutdown, but to put
the blame on the Democratic Party arguably goes over the.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Line, does it really? There's a number of things about
that report. First of all, the idea that there are
no politics at the airport. Now, they did specifically say
the report no federal politics at the airport, but I
bet there's state politics in California that show up at
the airport all the time. I bet there are protest
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groups that are allowed to freely prot test at the
airport all the time. So I find it very hard
to believe that the airport is a politics free zone
in California or anywhere else. I mean, look at it
this way too. They're play things they show here here.
Here's one of my callers from this morning. He had
(05:19):
a very good observation about, you know this, no politics
at the airport. Good morning.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
This is Henry from a spring about the TSA announcement
with Christy nome Go into any airport and CNN is
on all of their TVs. So don't tell me that
they don't want to post anything political, just food for thought.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, that's no, that's he's done right about that. They
have a contract. CNN has a contract with the airports
to carry a special channel. Now I don't normally watch CNN,
and I certainly don't watch at the airport, but I
don't know. I don't think it's their regular programming. Which
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is not to say necessarily that there's nothing political that's
on there. I'm sure there is. If they're reporting the news,
there's got to be politics on there, even if they're
taking a more straight approach than they do on the
actual cable network. If there's still politics involved. But again, well,
here's another way to look at it, to what level
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of local control do you have at any particular airport airport?
As I said, the TSA is a federal agency. So
is the TSA. Do they make up their own rules
for what they do at the airport At any given
airport they have an area they are responsible for security.
I don't know that there are any local airport rules
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that they have to follow. I would think that everything
TSA does is on a federal level. By the same token,
I don't know what audio visual equipment the TSA would
normally have at the airport and who is responsible for
running that equipment. I would assume that that equipment is
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probably being run locally, which is why they can say no,
we're not going to run this because TSA doesn't have
a way to play it themselves. By the way, this
was only supposed to be in the TSA area. This
is not something that was expected to air throughout the airport,
just at the TSA area. Again, I'll be kind of
(07:36):
curious to see how this turns out, especially on a
local basis here, If it's the same thing in Texas,
If all the airports in Texas are also refusing to
run this. All right, quick little break back with more
in a moment, Jimmy Bairt show, You're an AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, let's try segment number two today
(08:14):
with leading off with this one for you a little
follow up. I like to do follow ups, and sometimes
I get angry at myself for not following up on
a story the way i'd like to or the way
I should. You know, I think I'm as guilty as
everybody else is. Out of sight, out of mind, you know,
once a story happens, you cover the death out of it,
and then you move on to the next thing and
you kind of forget about it. But I don't want
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to do that with some stories. Some stories it's easy
to leave them behind. Other stories you need to do
follow up on. And the shooting at the ice facility
in Dallas I believe to be one of those stories
because as time goes on, as always, we learn more
about the people responsible for these types of shootings. In
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this case, you have a Hispanic male who opened fire
at the ice facility in Dallas. He killed what turned out,
he killed two illegal aliens. He didn't hit anybody from
ice although he was spraying the facility with bullets. It's
a miracle that more people didn't get hurt or die.
(09:17):
So you have to say, Okay, this guy's trying to
hurt ice. This guy has been radicalized in some way,
shape or form, brainwashed in some way, shape or form.
Why did he do what he did? What was his motivation,
what was his background? What had he been doing with
his life? Was there a history of mental illness? Did
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he get the weapon he used legally or illegally? All
those kinds of questions. It takes a while for all
that to come out, and we are learning more now
about this guy, who he was, where he was living,
maybe getting inkling to some of the influences in his
life that may have led to all this. Here is
the latest report in all that from Fox four in Dallas.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
It's an interesting perspective, and as you mentioned, this new
information is coming directly from Joshua Yhon's own parents. They
say that they noticed his personality trains drastically after he
turned home to Texas after living in another state for
several years. Nearly three weeks after Joshua Yan opened fire
on the Ice Detention center in Dallas, New documents obtained
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by the Associated Press detailed the sniper's troubled past.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
On the day of the September.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Twenty fourth shooting, Yon's parents sold investigators their son was
completely normal until he moved to Washington State, returning home
to Texas a few years ago. Doctor Alex st'carman, a criminologist,
is skeptical of that account.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
I just don't buy the idea that this person was
quote unquote normal and then all of a sudden goes
through a transformation once they go to Washington State and
comes back.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
As a different person.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Jan's parents say their twenty nine year old son believed
he had radiation sickness and that he wore cotton gloves
to aid touching plastic. His parents also say about a
month prior to the deadly shooting, he did target practice
with a rifle he purchased in Oklahoma. Investigators say the
bolt action rifle was purchased legally. Jean's parents say he
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was not diagnosed with any mental health disorders.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
It tells you that you know the person probably was delusional,
that they exhibited some degree of paranoid schizophrenia, and that
this person likely was inhibiting signs that they had already
read things that may have prompted him, in this case
to essentially feel that he was affected by that right.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
The documents portray Jan as an unemployed loaner who spent
his time playing video games in a bedroom at his
parents' home. When he moved to Washington State, his parents
said he took a seasonal job harvesting marijuana. The farm
owner said Jan slept in his car for months. The
documents do not spell out a motive for the attack,
but federal agents say Jan left behind anti ICE messages
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on Bulley Casing's and and written notes indicating he wanted
to terrorize ICE. Investigators say Yon vent to target ICE agents,
but instead he killed two migrant detainees and injured another
before taking his own life.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
So in this case, what you see is you see
this person beginning the process of planning an event.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
He may not even be sure.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
What that event was at the time, but he was
planning something, and therefore he's beginning to acquire the tools
in which he's going to.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Exhibit that rebellion toward society.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
And Yhon's parents also told the FBI that they did
engage in conversations about current events with their son, but
added that they were not deep conversations up until this point,
and no one else has been implicated in this.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Attack, sir, being where do you even start with that?
That is a laundry list on how to I don't
even know where to start with this. Well, let's start
with this unemployed living in his parents basement playing video games?
I mean, is that like the most stereotypical description you
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could ever hear of of of one of these deranged gunmen.
Unemployed adult living in his parents' basement playing video games?
Why was he unemployed? Why? Why was he living in
his parents' basement? Why is he playing video games all day? Hey?
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Mom and dad, why let's start with that. What What
in the world were you doing raising your child? What?
What made what made you think it was perfectly okay
for your child to sit around on his ass playing
video games, being unemployed, living living off you as a
as a grown ass man. Then we find out he's
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a loner there, okay, that that never happens in the
world of deranged gun people. He's a loaner. And then
for some reason he he moves to Washington State, Oh,
the Land of fruit and Nuts, California, Oregon and Washington
State where he's picking marijuana. He's harvesting marijuana crops for
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a legal marijuana farm. Huh gee. I wonder who do
you think he might have been working with up there?
Who else might have been living in their cars and
picking marijuana plants? Probably illegal aliens. He may have been exposed.
He may have liked those illegal aliens very much, or
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they may have gone ahead. And you know, I told
them about their plight, and he's got nothing else going
on in his life, so why not take up their cause?
But I have to go back to the parents. No,
he's got no history of mental health problems. Really, do
you think that maybe, like a few other things that
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were going on in that son of your life, that
maybe you might have been a little bit of denial
over all? This stuff? Sure seems like it to me. Anyway,
There you go. The more you learn, the more. But
the problem is is the mainstream is not going to
report it. We're not going to go The word doesn't
get out unless you know, the rest of us talk
about exactly what happened here. Okay, we want to do
a little something on the economy here. We had a
(15:19):
segment on our Morning show on ktr H with Richard Stern,
He's an economist at the Heritage Foundation, talking about you know,
we're seeing kind of a split economy right now, weaker hiring,
stronger growth. Those two are kind of pull their opposites
of each other. So I thought I would check in
with Richard. He's a very good economist and conservative and
get pick his brain on where he thinks the economy
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is going. Where do you think this economy is going?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Richard, Well, thanks for having me on the talk about it. So,
you know, I think what's going on here is we
have to remember the hiring is something that happens in
the moment because of long term business investment to give
us all of that productive capacity, all those job opportunity
these but growth is something that happens because of things
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like tax cuts, deregulation.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Things that Trump has been doing.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So the reason why hiring is slower is frankly headwinds
from four years of Joe Biden's presidency. But the reason
why you have investment growth is because of the last
nine months under Trump and the deregulation, the tax cuts,
and all of the other things that Trump is doing
to grow the economy, including unleashing energy resources. So my mind,
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that's why we've got the split screen economy.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So I don't see any warning.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
Signs at the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay, well that's good to hear, and I completely agree
with what you're saying. Here's what I'm wondering, because I
feel like we're having a post Biden administration inflation hangover.
We had all that runaway inflation during the Biden years.
Thankfully that has toned down and has slowed down to
something as much more normal here during the Trump administration.
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But like everything else, we don't go backwards. Prices never
retreat to where they were before the Biden demonstration. So
we're left with a hangover there and people there's an
affordability problem for a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Oh absolutely, So you know, we have to remember that
the way that our current FED works and the way
that the federal deficit works is that price has never
come back down again. Now, look, the entire nineteenth century,
prices were flat. They actually declined to times. But it
really just can't happen as long as you of the
federal government run the massive deficits that are runs. Because
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of that, there's always inflationary pressure. And yes, because of
the reckless COVID spending and all the spending that Biden
piled on for green energy subsidies and all the other
things the rest of the WOW agenda, we have a
twenty plus percent price flake of consumer prices. But again,
if we have deregulation at tax cuts, if we get
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more energy into the market, we have more economic growth.
We can grow our way past some of that in
and of course, as long as we don't have another
round of massive government spending, we won't get another price
bike the way we did during the four years of bike.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Well, let me ask you about the potential for massive
government cuts, especially if this shutdown continues. I think the
President has made it pretty clear that he's looking at
lopping heads and maybe departments and putting some people in
the unemployment line. I think the whole idea behind getting
smaller government, which I believe we would be best for
our country, is that these people would then go to
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the private sector. But are those jobs available now in
the private sector when we have basically a lot of companies,
most companies cutting back and hiring.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh? Absolutely. So you know what part of what's going
on again is that I think you've got these headwinds
going in from the Biden administration that have been sluggish. Frankly,
a lot of the labor that would have been available
to the private sector got waylaid by the federal government.
You know, the federal government can do something that private
business can do, which is print money and say, hey,
(19:02):
do you want to come waste your time? Do you
want to come regulate the rest of your countrymen? And
we'll pay you newly printed inflationary.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Dollars to do it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
So there's always a little bit of a transition period,
But the truth is getting more people out of the
federal bureaucracy is precisely the kind of thing that can
help open up investment in the private economy and getting
them out of.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
The government, out.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Of the regulatory industries. So we'll take a little bit
of time, but I think, yes, you're going to see
a lot more private investment, private hiring, and really good,
long term, sustainable jobs that come out.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And hopefully he use one hundred percent correct about that.
I think he is. We'll see, all right, quick little break,
we're back with more in a moment. Our guests coming
up will be Phil Kirpin. He is President of American comeitment.
How do you feel about the AARP. I hate them,
and I'll use that term lightly. I'll have more on
(19:58):
his thoughts on the AAR coming up next here on
AM nine fifty KPRC in the Jimmy Barrett Show. All Right,
I'm not the only person, it turns out, that doesn't
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care for the AARP, and the fact I go further
than that. Of course, my reasons for not lacking the
AARP are probably a little bit different than our guest.
Our guest is Phil Kirpin. He's president of American Commitment.
I started hating Phil the AARP when I turned forty
years old, because that's when I started getting their propaganda
(20:40):
and I couldn't believe. I couldn't believe I'm forty years old.
Why are you sending me this stuff? And they kept on,
they still send me stuff.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Well, they are. They're a machine. They are I They're
one of the most profitable enterpresident in this country. And
somehow they have a nonprofit type status, so it's uh,
you're worth a lot of money to them. That's why
they're sending you all those mails.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I must be because they you know, it's not cheap
to mail that stuff. Out even even I don't know
what kind of rate they're getting from the US Postal Service,
probably a better rate than the rest of us do.
But but it's amazing how they do, how they recruit. Now,
they pride themselves. They claim that they are standing up
for America's seniors and that's there. They're not interested in politics.
They're only interested in helping america seniors. Turns out that's
(21:27):
not exactly the case, is it.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
No. I mean, we did an analysis a couple of
years ago around the debate around Biden Inflation Reduction Act,
one of the most wildly misnamed laws we've had in reason.
You know how many laws actually do the opposite of
what they're called.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's amazing.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
And around that law, when they wish they were heavily supporting,
they did events like supportive, this person is the hero.
We love them. They don't say vote for and against
because they're non profit status, but they make very clear
who they love and want you to vote for. They
did events for eighty nine members of Congress. Eighty eight
of them were Republicans, so I accuse the eighty eight
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of them were Democrats, and the one Republican was running unopposed.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, that's about as partisan as you can possibly get.
What are some of the what are some of the
political causes that the AARP supports that your average American
probably doesn't know or it might be surprised by.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Well, you know, they'll generally support they'll generally support what
the Democrats want, So they've got kind of left wing
ideology among their leadership. But what they really care about
the most is what helps the health insurance industry, because
they make an obscene amount of money from their exclusive
licensing deal with United Health, and in fact, last year
(22:49):
they got nine billion dollars from United Health one time payment,
which is you know, I mean they act, you know,
that makes them like it's hard to even explain. That
makes them a thousand times bigger than my organization. I mean,
they're just they're massive. And they got thirty one times
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as much money from United Health than they got from
membership dues. So they basically carry water for the insurance industry.
And they supported Obamacare back in twenty ten. I think
they said they're you know, when they got investigated by Congress,
we found out the calls from their members were fourteen
to one against it, and they supported it because it
(23:31):
was good for United Health and of course they've made
a lot of money with that. Similarly, they supported the
so called Inflation Reduction Act, and now they're supporting the
Democrats shutdowns and saying, you know, keep the government shutdown
unless supersized Obamacare subs these are extended. And by the way,
the number two recipient of supersized to Obamacare subsidies is
(23:52):
you noted help Well, I think it's an extraordinarily corrupt situation.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So, you know, it's a prit quid pro for AARP.
They help United Healthcare make more money so they can
keep getting these big donations from United health Care.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Yeah, it's not exactly a donation. What it is is
they get five percent of all the premiums in all
of the ARP branded United Health products and so they
call it a royalty. And last year they got this
one time payment for nine billion dollars. So I don't
know if they're still getting the skim on the premium
or if that was instead of you know, they don't
(24:29):
exactly disclose their deal terms, but the money amount, the
amount involved their staggering.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So what is the Democrats motivation here? Clearly they are
in bed as well with health insurance. How are the Democrats,
you know, making money from health insurance? Is it through
campaign donations? How's that working?
Speaker 10 (24:51):
Yeah, I mean I'm sure a lot of money comes
back to them in campaign donations. They also have sort
of an ideological alignment because you know, they like this
idea of huge government programs and actually, but you know,
I actually think the health insurance companies are playing a
pretty dangerous game because the Democrats will betray them at
(25:12):
some point and replace it all with the government program.
As you know, they the insurance company bureaucracies are nice,
but they you know, they Democrats will always favor a
government bureaucracy over a private bureaucracy. So I think they're
playing a little bit of a dangerous game. But the Democrats,
I'm sure a lot of money has made it back
into their campaigns. As I said, you know, the ARP
(25:32):
is a conduit for that because they run these events
and they praise them.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
The other thing is United Health can through ARP fund
sort of other sort of quasi political assets like this
Kaiser Family Foundation. Do you see pushing all these polls
supporting the Democratic positions or they're they're funded by the RP,
which means that you know, they're funded indirectly by United Health,
but they pretend they're not, and so, you know, I
(25:56):
think it's sort of the Democrats made a deal essentially
with the sant industry. Back to our Victoria Obamacare, remember,
a lot of Democrats wanted to nationalize the healthcare system
and basically the health insurance guys. They played this double
game where they spend all this money under their own
brand saying we love Obamacare, Pass Obamacare, it's wonderful, and
all this money under the US Chamber of Commerce saying,
(26:18):
don't set up a government's plan, you just mandate people
go into our private plan. And they got kind of
what they wanted. The problem for them is that it
it's been a disaster, and so you know, that's kind
of where we are. But the Democrats have had this
unholy alliance with the insurance companies going back at least
to Obamacare.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
At the end of the day, phil Kerpin, how how
do we fix this? You know, do we do?
Speaker 11 (26:42):
We?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I'm surprised that more hasn't been done to expose AARP
and this relationship they have with healthcare. After all, one
of the biggest issues we have in this country have
had and probably will have for the foreseeable future. Is
the high cost of healthcare. Everything you're talking about leads
to higher cost for healthcare we're all paying for when
we go to the doctor's office.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Correct. And you know, I think it's particularly outrageous that
AARP pretends to be a seniors group, but they're feathering
their own nest rather than using their bargaining power to
get lower costs for their members. And you know, their
biggest their biggest medicare products, which are very popular. They
have a twenty seven percent premium increase next year. So
they're taking nine billion dollars and packeting it and then
(27:26):
there's a huge increase to their members. Why didn't instead
of asking United Health for a huge payment, why didn't
they say we want you to keep the premium down.
So they're not representing seniors. And you know, it's great
that you're having me off to talk about it. The
best thing we can do is just hind of spotlight
on it. I think that nine billion dollar number should
open a lot of eyes.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I hope so too, and we will keep shining it
along with you. Phil Kirpin, Thank you as always good
to talk to you. Sir, all right, Jimmy Ever, go
on you too, Phil Kirpen, He's President of American Commitment.
Back with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett show, You're
run am nine to fifty KPRC. All right, before we
(28:16):
wrap up our program for today, a couple more things
I want to get to. First of all, Charlie Kirk.
Yesterday would have been Charlie Kirk's birthday. Erica Kirk, his widow,
was at the White House to accept the Distinguished Medal
of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor that the
(28:36):
government can bestow upon you. It was presented by President
Trump to Erica Kirk. She had a few things to say,
so I thought I would share at least a few
of her thoughts on her husband receiving this award posthumously.
Here's Erica Kirk.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
His birthday, but to honor a truth that he gave
his entire life to defend, and that's freedom. The very
exist of the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that
the national interests of the United States has always been freedom.
Our founders etched it into the preamble of our Constitution,
(29:12):
and those words are not relics on parchment. They are
a living covenant. The blessings of liberty are not man's invention,
they are God's endowment. Charlie lived for those blessings, not
as abstract words, but as sacred promises. He used to
(29:35):
love to journal about this topic all the time, and
with such a heart postured of gratitude, and he believed
that liberty was both a right and a responsibility. And
he used to say, freedom is the ability to do
what is right without fear. And that's how he lived.
(29:58):
He was free from fear, he was free from compromise,
free from anything that could enslave his soul. His name
Charles literally means freeman, and that's exactly who my husband was.
He was a free man. And from the time I
(30:20):
met him, sitting across from him being interviewed on politics
and philosophy and theology, anything that Charlie loved, any topic
he loved, and I just saw the fire in his
soul and there.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Was this.
Speaker 12 (30:42):
Divine restlessness within him that came from knowing God placed
him on this earth to protect something very, very sacred.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
She's quite the speaker herself. I can see why they
put her in charge of replacing Charlie as far as
the made the head of turning point. Oh this just in,
by the way, good timing. Trump administration has revoked the
visas of six foreigners deemed by US officials who have
made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of
(31:11):
Charlie Kirk last month, the State Department saying Tuesday it
had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their
online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was
killed while speaking at Utah College campus on September tenth. Okay, well, yeah,
we do have freeom of speech in this country. But
if you deem yourself as a foreign national who has
(31:34):
not assistant in the United States, to be a potential danger,
like maybe you'd like to assassinate somebody like Charlie Kirk,
then yeah, I think we have the right to revoke
your visa absolutely. And what more for you, because I
always like to leave you with a bit of a smile.
I got to kick out of this little segment. Greg
Gutfeld in his panel evidently on board Air Force One.
(31:58):
I don't know if this is coming back from the
police peace strip. Probably was. The President got asked about
the peace steel and whether or not he thought this
might be his ticket to heaven. So here's that exchange
and some follow up from Greg Guttfeld's panel.
Speaker 13 (32:15):
Donald dishes on pretty ladies and whether he'll go to
heaven or hades. The board Air Force one, the pres
was asked about his prospects of getting into heaven in
light of the Israel godz a peace steel.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
He brokeered, I wonder how does this help? Does this help?
How does this help?
Speaker 10 (32:31):
Does this help?
Speaker 11 (32:31):
I mean, you know, I mean I look cute. I
don't think there's anything gonna get me in heaven. Okay,
I really think I think I'm not maybe heaven bound.
I may be in heaven right now as we fly
an Air Force one, I'm not sure I'm gonna be
able to make heaven.
Speaker 13 (32:48):
Oh, if there's a god in heaven, you'll be there.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Mister p I know some people.
Speaker 13 (32:56):
Once on solid ground, he spoke about many of you.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
He's known for so long.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
I've known so many of you for so long, your
friends of mine.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You're great people.
Speaker 11 (33:04):
I have a couple I don't like in particular, but
I won't tell you who I have.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Actually a few of them.
Speaker 11 (33:09):
I don't like it at all, but you'll never find
out who they are, and maybe you will come to
the commit.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
He always keeps some guessing.
Speaker 13 (33:20):
But it's like those lady boys I put through barber College.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
And finally, do we have a woman, a young woman,
A beautiful young woman.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
We have a.
Speaker 11 (33:37):
Woman, a young woman who's uh. I'm not allowed to
say it because usually it's the end of your political
career if you say it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
She's a beautiful young woman.
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Now, if you use the word beautiful in the United
States about a woman, that's.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The end of your political career.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
But I'll take my chances. Lurish there she is.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
You don't mind being called beautiful, right because.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
You are.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Joe.
Speaker 13 (34:04):
What Trump realizes is there's no h R Department in.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The White House. It's like he can say this, we can't,
but he can't.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
So he does he does, especially with Maloney I love.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And of course she's not going an Italian woman.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Is not going to get mad about calling her beautiful.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
No one loves beautiful women like Italians do.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
She she was just close to pinching her own ass when.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
You, oh, God, that's funny. You know it's funny because
didn't we all kind of start in the beginning, just
kind of looking cross eye when Donald Trump would say
those things. Now I just I look forward to it.
It just makes me laugh. And that's the difference, I guess,
between those of us who appreciate what he's able to
accomplish and get a kick out of some of the
(34:49):
things he says, versus the people with Trump derangement syndrome. Listen, y'all,
have a great day. See you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
five am over our news radio seven KTRH. We are
back here at four a m. Nine fifty k p
r C.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
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