September 25, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Good afternoon, Houston.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
How are my favorite people in one of the friendliest
cities in all of America? Did you see we made
that list. I'm not sure who put this list together.
I'm not quite sure what the criteria was, but I
do know this that people in cities all across the
country were asked to rate their city on friendliness. Now,
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these are people who already live here or live wherever,
and their raiding their own city. It's not visitors coming
to our city and raiding us, it's us rating ourselves.
So I would think that most people would at least
like to think that the city they live in is friendly.
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I mean, there are some cities that clearly did not
make the list. Even the people of Philadelphia don't think
they're friendly. I think they pride themselves on not being friendly,
so you could see why they wouldn't make a list
like this, But here's the top ten. Number one San Diego, California.
I've been to San Diego. It's fairly friendly. People are
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very laid back. They seem happy most of the time.
Then again, they have perfect weather most of the time,
so that may have something to do with it. I
don't know how they put up with California laws. I
don't know how they put up with California government. I
don't know how they put up with housing prices, but
that doesn't seem to impact their happiness. Raleigh, North Carolina,
came in number two. I've been to Raleigh, very nice place.
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It's a university town. I don't know if that's part
of what makes it friendly or not. Number three was Phoenix, Arizona.
I'm going to guess that maybe part of the reason
why Phoenix, Arizona considers itself friendly is that they're open
and welcoming to new people, because that's basically what they have.
Just about everybody who lives in Phoenix comes from somewhere else. Miami, Florida,
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came in number four. Number five. Houston. There we are.
We are the only Texas city that made the top
ten list. We definitely came out the friendliest of every
city in Houston. Nobody in Austin's very friendly. I'm pretty
sure at least they're not friendly towards people like you
and me. Honolulu, Hawaii, came in number six.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I guess they have tourists in there all the time,
and they're just grateful to have tourists because after all
that that's part of what their economy is built on.
This one was a surprising thing. Boston, Massachusetts. Now, when
I think of Boston, I think of the Northeast, and
I don't think of the Northeast as being a particularly
friendly place, So that one surprised me a little bit.
But then I remember back when when I went to
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I've been to Boston a couple of times. It's a
beautiful city. It's of the seafood is amazing, and the
people there are relatively friendly. I remember going to a
h This is when I used to live in Detroit
back in the day, and I remember going to a
Boston Red Sox Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park and
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then the fans there were really I'm wearing Tiger's gear
and the fans there were very friendly, very welcoming. You know,
of course that year, I don't think the Red Sox
were doing very well, so I don't think they really
cared that much that they're getting beat by the by
the Tigers. Number eight, San Jose, California. Oh, by the way,
speaking of the Tigers and the Astros, what the hell,
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what the hell. I'm an Astros fan now, not a
Tigers fan, so you know, watching the Tigers collapse is
no big deal. Although there their collapse is even worse
than ours. They they lost like they've lost, like I
don't know how games in a row. They had a
nine game lead against the Cleveland Guardians, Indians, whichever you prefer,
and they lost all that and now they're like a
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game or two behind Cleveland and in danger of not
even making the playoffs. And the Astros lost again last
night to the A's, of all people they can't beat.
They hadn't been able to beat the A's all year,
just silly, and now they are in danger of not
making the I think they would have to win the
rest of their games and hope for a miracle to
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make the playoffs at this point. Anyway, I digress back
to the list here. San Jose California came in number eight.
Minneapolis Saint Paul, Minnesota came in number nine. Yeah, they
may have a lot of Democrats up there, but they
are generally a friendly people. Then again, when you when
you live in the weather conditions that they do and
you still maintain being being happy, I guess you couldn't
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afford to be friendly. In number ten Denver, Colorado, Philadelphia, No,
they did not make the list. New York did know.
New York's not friendly. Nobody's going to try. They have
people from all over the world, but they're still not friendly.
But here's the thing. I asked the question this morning.
Didn't get a lot of responses to it. Got one
that was really funny, though you'll hear that in half
a second. But the thing that struck me was, you know,
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is you take a look at Houston, and if you
do believe we are friendly, what is it about Houston
that you think makes us friendly.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
I think that Houston is the friendliest city in America.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Every time I'm driving to work, people stick their fingers
up in the air, tell me I'm number one.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I love this place.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Hey, Jimmy, as somebody who lives in the Golden Triangle area.
I can attest that every time I visit Houston, everyone's
just been so inviting, welcoming and friendly. Now, granted, most
of the times I visit Houston is for the Astros games,
but I have seen Johnson Space Center. I've also visited
a few of the museums and quite a few other
bases as well. Everyone is just so inviting and welcoming,
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and they always tell me welcome to Htown.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
And I love it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I love visiting Houston, well, goud, we love having visited.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think again, it has a lot to do with
the fact that, you know, we live, we live in
a in a great part of the country.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Uh, we are.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
We have a very successful economy, we have we have
a very diverse population, we have people who have come
here from all over and I think all of that
adds to the fact that we are we are welcoming.
We are definitely welcoming when it when it comes to that. Now,
of all the places I've lived, uh, probably the least
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welcoming was the one I lived in right before I
came here, which was Richmond, Virginia. Now, don't get me wrong,
great people, wonderful people, but they definitely have a from here,
come here, chip on the shoulder. If you are from there,
then you're in a whole different class than that, if
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you're a come here. And the best thing you could do,
the thing I worked so hard to do when I
when I did work there, was to try to make
them forget as quickly as I could that I hadn't
always lived there, that I was from somewhere else, especially
from somewhere up north, because they had a natural inclination
not to trust people from up north then, and I
get that. I completely understand that. Once once it was
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established that I was no longer a come here, then
they were wonderful people. Fact, some of my best friends
today are in Richmond, Virginia. So but we don't have
that att to here't It's not so much where you're
from unless you're from California or New York. If you're
from those two places, then here in Houston, you're gonna
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be a little bit suspect. All right, quick a little
break back with both in a moment Jimmy Baird Show,
AM nine fifty KPRC. I think we are all very well,
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where are we not? Of what happened yesterday up in
Dallas with the Ice shooting. We taped the show yesterday,
so I didn't have an opportunity to comment on that yesterday.
I'll comment a little bit on that today, but I
think we should just start with this. Here we have
another another dranged individual, twenty nine year old who remain nameless.
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I mean, you may hear his name on the report here,
I'm not going to mention his name goes up on
a does this So flim here goes up on a
rooftop and from the rooftop he starts spraying the ICE
facility in Dallas with bullets. I mean just spraying the
building with bullets. He's just firing them off, and a
bit of irony. Well the bullets. They left some bullet
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casings that had anti Ice written on them. So the
assumption for now he is anyway, that this was his
way protesting Ice, because, after all, as the left has
been telling us, Ice is the Gestapo, right, That's what
the progressive left has been telling people, that Ice is
the Gestapo. And who doesn't want to get rid of
the Gestapo? They are They're not humans. These these these
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wackos are firing off at people they consider to be
sub human. They're the Gestapo. Why should I I'm doing
the world of favor by killing people, And that's that's
what's gone into many of the murders in assassinations on
the on the progressive far left, including that of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Of course, here's the report. Let's start with this.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Here's the report UH from yesterday on the shooting from
Fox four in Dallas.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Authority say a gunman opened fire from a nearby roof.
Three Ice detainees inside the van were hit. One died,
the other two were taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Authority say the gunman, identified as twenty nine year old
Joshua Yan, shot himself.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
The center was open early this.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Morning for appointments and people were in the waiting area
when the shots rang out. Edwin Cardona says he was
walking into the building with his wife and son at
the time of the shooting. He explained that once they
heard gunshots, the agents evacuated everyone from where they were
waiting to a more protected area.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
What we do know so far is that the shooter
was firing indiscriminately throughout the whole building, and so the
shooter was at a building nearby and shooting directly into
the building, going across the entire length of the building
and then including into the sally port.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Our news cameras captured bullet holes in the windows of
the back of the building near the sally port, the
area where detainees are transferred, and the Department of Homeland
Security shared this photo of bullet holes piercing the glass
of a framed American flag inside the facility. Morning rush
hour traffic along adjacent I thirty five was diverted as
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local and federal of the authorities swarmed the area.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
I can confirm at this time that the FBI is
investigating this incident as an act of targeted violence.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Part of the investigation focused on the roof of an
immigration law firm across from the back of the facility.
This is where they believe Yon positioned himself. Folks War
was there this afternoon when a car parked at the
building was searched by authorities. The full scope of the
motive behind the shooting is still unclear, but during a
press conference Wednesday morning, authorities says Showcasings that the scene
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gave some insight.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
What I can also share with you is that early
evidence that we've seen from rounds that were found near
the suspected shooter contained messages that are anti ICE in nature.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Okay, well again you know, no surprise there, right, so
you at least for now you can assume this is
a radicalized individual who believes that ICE is the Gestapo
and is perfectly fine with trying to pick off people
who work for ICE, because again it's the Gestapo and
there are a bunch of Nazis. Fifty seven percent of
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Democrats fifty seven percent believe that the violence is justified.
That's insane. That not only is that insane, but it
shows the lack of morality on the far left. It's
just amazing to me. And the rhetoric, of course, the
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rhetoric is a is a big part of the problem.
Here's a Senator Ted Cruz, he was on the scene
yesterday talking about the rhetoric issue. We could follow up
on the five as well with Dana Perino. This, yeah,
one moment, please touchy button once again, low me to reset,
And here is Ted Cruz. This states to stop violence
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is wrong. Politically motivated violence is wrong. This must stop.
To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing Ice and
demonizing CBB.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stop.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
But if your.
Speaker 11 (13:13):
Political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You can go straight to hell.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your
supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I think the rhetoric is obviously a problem, But I
also think that some of these politicians, for as reprehensible
as their rhetoric is, they are not the leaders that
these people who are doing the shooting are listening to.
Those people are listening amongst themselves. They're in a weird
bubble that I don't quite understand. I can't quite get there,
And I feel like one of the things democrats must
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consider is that rhetoric against Ice the policy. You want
to change it, fine, I'll listen. But rhetoric against the
pall of Ice is not just in danger now Ice agents,
but also the detainees.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
That's the ironic thing about it. Don't you think who
got killed? It wasn't an ICE agent, illegals detainees. That's
who got shot and killed. Talk about messing that up.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
If your message was anti Ice, why are you they're
shooting illegals. You can't just fire and hope that you're
hitting what your hope you're hitting. It's just again. I'm sorry.
I have a bad habit of trying to make sense
out of things that don't make any sense whatsoever. All right,
let's get another take out of it. Here is Jesse
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Waters from his program jaxon Ice are up over eight
hundred percent, and our politicians are egging it on.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Donald Trump's modern dagas. Escapo is scooping folks up off
the streets.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to
foreign torture dungeons.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
A secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who
are scaring people?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
These?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Oh where'd that go? It disappeared? Oh this thing is
really acting up. Do I dare try it again? N
I'll leave it. I'll leave it alone. You get the idea.
There is no end of the rhetoric. They will continue
to do the rhetoric because because this is what they
want to have happened. Clearly, this is what they want
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to have happened. This is this is this is a
bigger issue. This is about trying to put the country
into chaos, or at the very least, trying to put
people into a fraid of mind where they will accept
anything the progressive left wants to give them as far
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as gun control, to take weapons out of the hands
of people who would do this. Either way, the progressive
leftist is the winner in all this. And here's here's
maybe the big thing to keep in mind in all
this is it's being funded by somebody. There's somebody paying
for this. It's it's it's billionaires, and it's more than
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just George Soros. In fact, I heard a name that
really doesn't get that much publicity, but Pauline A. Luna,
the representative from Florida, was on foxiously talking about this guy.
He's an American who lives in Shanghai. His name is
Neville Roy Singham, and he is a billionaire who built
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his wealth by founding a software company, Thought Works. So
here's a representative Anna, Paulina Luna. Guess they giving us
more information about this guy and his funding of these
extremist groups.
Speaker 13 (16:51):
Yeah, so he actually has been the number one funder
of these violent riots. Not even just that, but a
lot of the political division and discord that you're in
this country goes back to Singham. He obviously is a
massive ally of the Communist Chinese Party and has actually
made his billions directly working with them, only to in
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turn funnel those efforts into organizations like the Party of
Socialism and Liberation Ria. Though this doesn't just go back
to those rights that we saw that were protesting ice
back in January of this year. This actually is a
lot more nefarious. He has over I believe it's twelve
different groups that he's funding, one of which actually has
ties to the Salt Lake City Queer group that was
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responsible being looked at for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
And so we're finding is these organizations specifically that are
focusing on issues that are dividing us, whether it's based
on race or class, don't necessarily even care about those
topics at hand. They're just using it in an effort
to sow discord. And as you're seeing with these violent riots,
the money is going back to China. He's not a
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registered foreign agent, and so he needs to be investigated
and I've also forwarded it to the Department of Justice
as well. It's not just to disrupt. In fact, Neville
Singham is an open self declared maoist. He absolutely does
not like what this country stands for, and so what
these groups are doing everything from funding the Democrat Socialists
of America going into funding counter Israel efforts, counter America efforts.
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But what they're attempting to do is if they can
sow enough discord here and back elected officials, especially that
support these ideologies that would essentially put the United States
as number two in the global order. It is my
opinion and belief that he is working on behalf of
the Chinese government to essentially break America and that's what, unfortunately,
some of these groups are doing. You'll see that the
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left wing media has largely just been focusing on the
clickbait content but not actually looking at who's funding it
and seeing him is number one. I'd say that he's
probably number one big fish that we have in regards
to who's responsible for a lot of the divide in
this country. And it's going back all the way to
the CCP. Now what's interesting about Seeingham is he actually
lives in China majority of the year, did not respond
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to Congress's requests to have him to come in. So
we did ask Bessett to freeze assets. But also you're
seeing that far violation and what I will tell you
is the Department of Justice has a very easy lamp here,
they could actually bring charges against him. At the time,
Senator Rubio had actually written when he was ahead of
Senate Intelligence Committee, to Merrick Garland asking him to do this.
Merrik Garland never acted, But we have all the evidence
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and ability to do so. So I'm encouraging both the
Attorney General as well as our Treasury Secretary to act.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Okay, so they have the means to freeze, freeze his assets.
They continue to investigate all this. So why haven't we
It's a new administration. I know we're still relatively early
on in this new administration, but this is this is
not the Biden administration anymore. Why haven't we done that?
What are we waiting for? Here's here's a few other
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things you might want to know about this guy. He's
also pro Palestinian, so he's funded a lot of pro
Palestinian protest He joined a radical Marxist group the age
of seventeen. As she just said, he lives in Shanghai,
very close China. Tize praises China and Hugo Chavez. Gives
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you an idea who this guy really is, and of
course he wants to bring down capitalism in the United States.
All right, back with more in a moment. Jimmy Bartschow
a nine fifty KPRC. We talked a little bit yesterday
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about President Trump of the United Nations and the escalator
malfunction in the telepropter malfunction. Is there anybody raise your
hand if you think that was just the crazy coincidence,
because the UN thinks so, no, it's got nothing to
do with us. It was, uh, you know, the White
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House was running the teleprompter. Really they also said, well,
you know, so so did something to the ask anyway,
they're blaming blaming us for what went wrong with escalators.
Just just as President Trump's get ready to step on
the escalator, the thing stops. So is there was there
a conspiracy theory at the UN because you know, they
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don't like him, because he doesn't like them. They wouldn't
like him anyway, because he's he's pro capitalism, he's anti
climate change. He doesn't buy into the idea that the
United Nations should be telling anybody what to do, let
alone telling what the United States should do. So, yeah,
the President Trump is not supportive of the United Nations.
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He thinks it is a waste of money, of taxpayer dollars,
that they don't do what they were designed to do,
and all they are is a way to funnel money
to other entities, which is what so much of government
is about these days. But to get back to the
conspiracy theory again, they were talking about it on the five.
Here's Paul Morrow filling in on the five. He's from
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New York. He lives in New York City. He knows
quite a bit about the UN building. Here he is
talking about the possibility that you know, it was just
coincidence or or maybe not. Hang on a second, I
guess I don't have the touch here. We got this
new keyboard in here, and I just don't seem to
have the touch. Let's try again. Here's Paul Morrow.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Well, so I've been in that building. It's decrepit.
Speaker 14 (22:32):
The idea that the escalator is so sensitive that somebody
walking backwards somehow turns it off is ridiculous. But if
it does, do that talk about another waste of American money. Yeah,
I mean, let's they spent all money on. Because of course,
we found a quarter at a place. Look, I'm going
to quote I want to get her name here, Susan Krabtree,
who's on X. She follows us Secret Service stuff very closely.
She's won't book the story about service member who was
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very blithe about the Kirk assassination. She makes the point
that the Service didn't really react. One the thing froze,
he's standing there, makes some more of a chould have
wrestled the escalator to the ground.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
You got to come and, you know, cover around him.
And they didn't do that. You wouldn't understand, So they
didn't react. Maybe you'd like them too.
Speaker 14 (23:12):
I'm not sure the Service is still where we'd like
them to be, despite a couple of recent wins like
with Ryan Ruth.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
So, yeah, maybe it was on purpose, Maybe it wasn't.
I don't think he's really taking a guess at that.
I uh, I just find it too hard to believe
that it is a coincidence. The Secret Service is investigating, though,
is that interesting? I wonder what kind of a who's
who's the Secret Service going to go to. I guess
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they'll go talk to the Secretary General, right, maybe talk
to some of the maintenance people, see if they can
put a little pressure on them and report back on
whether or not they was actually a legitimate electronic failures
on the escalator and I'm the teleprompter, or if something
else might have been going on. All right, let's let's
talk a little bit about the economy. Where do you
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think we're at right now?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
How are you feeling about where we're at with the economy.
I can tell you kind of where I am. I'll
be honest, I really thought that we'd be getting, especially
food prices more under control by now. The biggest stressor
for most Americans right now, including this American, is to
go to the grocery store. It it is. I guess
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I've gotten used to the idea that I'm going to
have to spend a lot more money at the grocery store.
But I'm still just a little bit shocked every time
I walk out of there spending three or four hundred
dollars in wondering what did I hang on? What did
I just buy? They cost so much money? And I
think where it really really shows up, where I really
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notice it, where I've really made some changes because I
felt like I had to, was in the meat department.
Walking through the meat department is like walking through It's
like the difference between walking through Walmart or walking through Nordstroms.
It's the meat to the meat is so expensive, especially beef.
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You know, you pick up a steak and the steak
is almost twenty dollars for a steak. Now, now listen,
I know you go to a fine restaurant, you can
spend more than twenty dollars on a steak, A lot
more than twenty dollars on a steak. I'm not used
to that anymore either. When I go to a restaurant,
the steakhouse, and they want forty six dollars for a steak,
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I'm going to wait a minute. And I'm not talking
about a really fancy, high end steakhouse. I'm talking about
your normal, average, every day lone star Texas roadhouse kind
of steakhouse, you know. And I see a steak on
their many it's like thirty six dollars or forty dealers,
I go, what what happened? Well, we know part of
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what happened there, but I but again, toilet toilet paper,
paper products in general, I'm still shocked by that that
those prices haven't come down at all. We're still at
We're still at COVID nineteen levels. When you couldn't find
toilet paper to save your life. And it's still up
there and crazy. So I think I think it's that's
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the most shocking. Part of the things I pay for
are things that are food related. And again, one of
the things I haven't been able to figure out how
to do is how not to eat. I mean, I
just I basically I got to eat. So what else
am I going to do? Eat out less, buy more
at the grocery store. Well, the grocery store just as
expensive as eating out. Anyway, Things are going to get better, right,
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Things have got to get better. What we're waiting for
is we're waiting for some of these Trump policies to
kick in. I saw Victor Davis Hansen on Fox yesterday
and Fox Business in this case, and he was on
with Larry Kudlow, and he and Larry Cudlow were talking
about some of the things that Trump has been trying
to do and how the results are likely to kick
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in starting next year. Here's a little bit of that conversation.
Speaker 12 (27:04):
I think Trump's already put a number of initiatives that
are in progress, and he thinks that by the time
of the midterms are going to bear fruit for example,
dub Bergham is leasing oil and gas in a rate
we've never seen before. They haven't come into production yet,
but he's on track to make us not only the
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present largest gas and oil producer, but the greatest oil
producer by a large margin. And then when you look
at Trump has invited in supposedly ten trillion dollars in
foreign investment. Then he rounds up all of these guys
that used to not like him in Silicon Valley and
spent hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat him, and
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you look at what they have promised, you know, the
Ken and Dreesens, of Ben Horowitz's, the Mark Zuckerbergs and
Jeff they're all investing. And so he's kind of unleash
the floodgate. But we're not really seeing that yet because
he just started to do it. And I think it's
going to be something like World War two, where you know,
forty two forty three, we were really starting to gear up,
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but we weren't really out producing the axis yet. But
by nineteen forty five we had a larger GDP than Germany, Italy, Japan,
but also larger than our own allies, the British Empire
and the Russians all put together.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
He doesn't want a bunch of monetary bureaucrats to stand
in his way. He doesn't want any bureaucrats to stand
in his way, and he doesn't want any activist judges
to stand in his way.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
You've written about that, so by so boy, now you
know what I'm saying. Don't tell me.
Speaker 15 (28:39):
It's like you're saying, don't tell me you won't finance
all these new incentives that I've created that will open
up growth and provide opportunities for the whole country. You know,
doesn't matter what color, what religion, what age group, for
the entire country.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Don't stand in my way. The problem.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Part of the problem here, of course, goes back to
the FED as well. The FED wants growth at about
one point eight.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Percent a year.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Why so low? Why would you stifle growth? Why why
stifle growth? You know, get rid of the things that
do stifle growth. Let's let the economy grow, and the
more the economy grows, the better off. We're going to
be all right, quick little break back with more in
a moment. Jimmy vertchew hey budget in Harris County. We'll
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talk about that next here on a nine fifty KPRC
and the Jimmy Barrett Show. So, despite Leonardo Dago's best efforts,
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there's a budget, a bipartisan budget. Adrian Garcia, who else
wo was in favorite of Tom Ramsey voted in favor
of the budget and what's her name? I can't remember
her name off the top of my head. Anyway, you're
going to hear it in this report. Bipartisan, both Republican,
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the one Republican and do Democrats voting in favor of
this budget. That is balanced, and it's balanced without raising
property taxes, and it gives public safety officials, it gives
the Sheriff's department and the opportunity to give their people raises,
parody raises, so they don't lose a bunch of their
more seasoned veterans to other departments. Here is the report
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from Fox twenty six Houston.
Speaker 16 (30:38):
And that's where the rub comes. Harris County Judge Lena
Hidalgo waged a day long verbal campaign against her colleagues,
criticizing them for tightening the county's financial belt rather than
just asking taxpayers to pony up additional taxes to fund
pilot programs like early childhood education. The tacks were personal
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with the judge a Q and Commissioners Adrian Garcia, Leslie
Brionis and Tom Ramsay of ethical violations, end of taking
joy and trimming services for young people.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And that's why I pled with my colleagues please ask
the voters so we can have enough funding so we
don't have to cut these things. They just thought it'd
be fun to call the children's programs.
Speaker 16 (31:21):
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez appeared to confirm for the
public at large that approval of the one hundred million
dollar rais for deputies was absolutely necessary to avert a
public safety crisis.
Speaker 17 (31:35):
And I would argue when we talked to business owners
to committee members, they want strong public safety across the board.
The other things are nice, but it's time that we
make sure that there's pay parody because if there wasn't
and this didn't happen, we would see a mass exenus
and it would put a tremendous harm on public safety
here in Harrison County.
Speaker 18 (31:54):
I've proudly been championing this pay parody because it's the
right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do,
and it's the responsible thing to do to make sure
that unincorporated Harris County is as safe as it can
be and that we're not losing experienced officers and risking
a mass exodus.
Speaker 16 (32:09):
It's important to note dozens of deputies appeared today to
express sincere appreciation for the substantial race, telling commissioners the
extra money is life altering.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
You know, I'm not sure what the final budget figure
turned out to be. I'm guessing that we could all
go through that budget with the fine tune toothcomb and
find plenty of things that we think could easily be
cut without really having an impact on the quality of
life here in Harris County. But at the end of
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the day, you know, as long as you are not
asking for higher property taxes. And by the way, Lena
Hildago never ever backed off on that she was asking
for higher property taxes. Yesterday. She was chastising the commissioners
yesterday that you just don't like the children, You don't
want to do anything for the children. All of the
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things that she wanted, none of the things, I should say,
none of the things that she wanted had anything to
do where the core responsibility of what the Harris County
government is supposed to provided citizens through tax dollars. Daycare
is not part of that. You know, housing is not
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really that much of an issue, not for Commissioner's Court,
maybe for the mayor, because that's where the housing issues
are in Harris County, is in the city of Houston.
Maybe the mayor wants to tackle that. And not to
say that you can't ever involve yourself in a social
program if you're local government, but you do those things
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after you've taken care of everything else. You know, Harris
County has a public school system that should be top
of the public safety should be top of the list.
Infrastructure should be top of the list, and we have
continually pushed those things aside and they decided instead to
spend money on o art and on transportation. Now, maybe
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transportation is part of that, but how much how much
money does the metro bus system lose every year? How
much how much money are we going to pour into
things that either people don't use or are big money
wasters when we allow other things like the infrastructure of
the city to fall apart, that might be that might
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be as big an issue right now as public safety.
I mean, the guts of our city are hundreds of
years old. In some of that stuff we're still using.
We still have flood issues, flood control issues. Now that's
given the weather the begin and given given how you know,
how close the sea level we are in some parts
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of the city. That should be a much higher priority
than these children daycare programs. You know, parents have kids.
Kids are the parents' responsibility. If you want to provide
some sort of help to low income individuals, and maybe
that's an altruistic thing to do, but that's only after
you take care of the things that are done in
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order to provide for the safety and the welfare of
all of the citizens, not just a few, all of
the citizens. All right, listen, you all have a great day.
Thanks for listening. Appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning,
bright and early, starting at five am over on news
radio seven forty KRH.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
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Speaker 5 (00:32):
How are my favorite people in one of the friendliest
cities in all of America? Did you see we made
that list. I'm not sure who put this list together.
I'm not quite sure what the criteria was, but I
do know this that people in cities all across the
country were asked to rate their city on friendliness. Now,
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these are people who already live here or live wherever,
and their raiding their own city. It's not visitors coming
to our city and raiding us, it's us rating ourselves.
So I would think that most people would at least
like to think that the city they live in is friendly.
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I mean, there are some cities that clearly did not
make the list. Even the people of Philadelphia don't think
they're friendly. I think they pride themselves on not being friendly,
so you could see why they wouldn't make a list
like this, But here's the top ten. Number one San Diego, California.
I've been to San Diego. It's fairly friendly. People are
(01:38):
very laid back. They seem happy most of the time.
Then again, they have perfect weather most of the time,
so that may have something to do with it. I
don't know how they put up with California laws. I
don't know how they put up with California government. I
don't know how they put up with housing prices, but
that doesn't seem to impact their happiness. Raleigh, North Carolina,
came in number two. I've been to Raleigh, very nice place.
(02:00):
It's a university town. I don't know if that's part
of what makes it friendly or not. Number three was Phoenix, Arizona.
I'm going to guess that maybe part of the reason
why Phoenix, Arizona considers itself friendly is that they're open
and welcoming to new people, because that's basically what they have.
Just about everybody who lives in Phoenix comes from somewhere else. Miami, Florida,
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came in number four. Number five. Houston. There we are.
We are the only Texas city that made the top
ten list. We definitely came out the friendliest of every
city in Houston. Nobody in Austin's very friendly. I'm pretty
sure at least they're not friendly towards people like you
and me. Honolulu, Hawaii, came in number six.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I guess they have tourists in there all the time,
and they're just grateful to have tourists because after all
that that's part of what their economy is built on.
This one was a surprising thing. Boston, Massachusetts. Now, when
I think of Boston, I think of the Northeast, and
I don't think of the Northeast as being a particularly
friendly place, So that one surprised me a little bit.
But then I remember back when when I went to
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I've been to Boston a couple of times. It's a
beautiful city. It's of the seafood is amazing, and the
people there are relatively friendly. I remember going to a
h This is when I used to live in Detroit
back in the day, and I remember going to a
Boston Red Sox Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park and
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then the fans there were really I'm wearing Tiger's gear
and the fans there were very friendly, very welcoming. You know,
of course that year, I don't think the Red Sox
were doing very well, so I don't think they really
cared that much that they're getting beat by the by
the Tigers. Number eight, San Jose, California. Oh, by the way,
speaking of the Tigers and the Astros, what the hell,
(03:48):
what the hell. I'm an Astros fan now, not a
Tigers fan, so you know, watching the Tigers collapse is
no big deal. Although there their collapse is even worse
than ours. They they lost like they've lost, like I
don't know how games in a row. They had a
nine game lead against the Cleveland Guardians, Indians, whichever you prefer,
and they lost all that and now they're like a
(04:08):
game or two behind Cleveland and in danger of not
even making the playoffs. And the Astros lost again last
night to the A's, of all people they can't beat.
They hadn't been able to beat the A's all year,
just silly, and now they are in danger of not
making the I think they would have to win the
rest of their games and hope for a miracle to
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make the playoffs at this point. Anyway, I digress back
to the list here. San Jose California came in number eight.
Minneapolis Saint Paul, Minnesota came in number nine. Yeah, they
may have a lot of Democrats up there, but they
are generally a friendly people. Then again, when you when
you live in the weather conditions that they do and
you still maintain being being happy, I guess you couldn't
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afford to be friendly. In number ten Denver, Colorado, Philadelphia, No,
they did not make the list. New York did know.
New York's not friendly. Nobody's going to try. They have
people from all over the world, but they're still not friendly.
But here's the thing. I asked the question this morning.
Didn't get a lot of responses to it. Got one
that was really funny, though you'll hear that in half
a second. But the thing that struck me was, you know,
(05:15):
is you take a look at Houston, and if you
do believe we are friendly, what is it about Houston
that you think makes us friendly.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
I think that Houston is the friendliest city in America.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Every time I'm driving to work, people stick their fingers
up in the air, tell me I'm number one.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I love this place.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Hey, Jimmy, as somebody who lives in the Golden Triangle area.
I can attest that every time I visit Houston, everyone's
just been so inviting, welcoming and friendly. Now, granted, most
of the times I visit Houston is for the Astros games,
but I have seen Johnson Space Center. I've also visited
a few of the museums and quite a few other
bases as well. Everyone is just so inviting and welcoming,
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and they always tell me welcome to Htown.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
And I love it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I love visiting Houston, well, goud, we love having visited.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think again, it has a lot to do with
the fact that, you know, we live, we live in
a in a great part of the country.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Uh, we are.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
We have a very successful economy, we have we have
a very diverse population, we have people who have come
here from all over and I think all of that
adds to the fact that we are we are welcoming.
We are definitely welcoming when it when it comes to that. Now,
of all the places I've lived, uh, probably the least
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welcoming was the one I lived in right before I
came here, which was Richmond, Virginia. Now, don't get me wrong,
great people, wonderful people, but they definitely have a from here,
come here, chip on the shoulder. If you are from there,
then you're in a whole different class than that, if
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you're a come here. And the best thing you could do,
the thing I worked so hard to do when I
when I did work there, was to try to make
them forget as quickly as I could that I hadn't
always lived there, that I was from somewhere else, especially
from somewhere up north, because they had a natural inclination
not to trust people from up north then, and I
get that. I completely understand that. Once once it was
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established that I was no longer a come here, then
they were wonderful people. Fact, some of my best friends
today are in Richmond, Virginia. So but we don't have
that att to here't It's not so much where you're
from unless you're from California or New York. If you're
from those two places, then here in Houston, you're gonna
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be a little bit suspect. All right, quick a little
break back with both in a moment Jimmy Baird Show,
AM nine fifty KPRC. I think we are all very well,
(08:00):
where are we not? Of what happened yesterday up in
Dallas with the Ice shooting. We taped the show yesterday,
so I didn't have an opportunity to comment on that yesterday.
I'll comment a little bit on that today, but I
think we should just start with this. Here we have
another another dranged individual, twenty nine year old who remain nameless.
(08:21):
I mean, you may hear his name on the report here,
I'm not going to mention his name goes up on
a does this So flim here goes up on a
rooftop and from the rooftop he starts spraying the ICE
facility in Dallas with bullets. I mean just spraying the
building with bullets. He's just firing them off, and a
bit of irony. Well the bullets. They left some bullet
(08:44):
casings that had anti Ice written on them. So the
assumption for now he is anyway, that this was his
way protesting Ice, because, after all, as the left has
been telling us, Ice is the Gestapo, right, That's what
the progressive left has been telling people, that Ice is
the Gestapo. And who doesn't want to get rid of
the Gestapo? They are They're not humans. These these these
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wackos are firing off at people they consider to be
sub human. They're the Gestapo. Why should I I'm doing
the world of favor by killing people, And that's that's
what's gone into many of the murders in assassinations on
the on the progressive far left, including that of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Of course, here's the report. Let's start with this.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Here's the report UH from yesterday on the shooting from
Fox four in Dallas.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Authority say a gunman opened fire from a nearby roof.
Three Ice detainees inside the van were hit. One died,
the other two were taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Authority say the gunman, identified as twenty nine year old
Joshua Yan, shot himself.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
The center was open early this.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Morning for appointments and people were in the waiting area
when the shots rang out. Edwin Cardona says he was
walking into the building with his wife and son at
the time of the shooting. He explained that once they
heard gunshots, the agents evacuated everyone from where they were
waiting to a more protected area.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
What we do know so far is that the shooter
was firing indiscriminately throughout the whole building, and so the
shooter was at a building nearby and shooting directly into
the building, going across the entire length of the building
and then including into the sally port.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Our news cameras captured bullet holes in the windows of
the back of the building near the sally port, the
area where detainees are transferred, and the Department of Homeland
Security shared this photo of bullet holes piercing the glass
of a framed American flag inside the facility. Morning rush
hour traffic along adjacent I thirty five was diverted as
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local and federal of the authorities swarmed the area.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
I can confirm at this time that the FBI is
investigating this incident as an act of targeted violence.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Part of the investigation focused on the roof of an
immigration law firm across from the back of the facility.
This is where they believe Yon positioned himself. Folks War
was there this afternoon when a car parked at the
building was searched by authorities. The full scope of the
motive behind the shooting is still unclear, but during a
press conference Wednesday morning, authorities says Showcasings that the scene
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gave some insight.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
What I can also share with you is that early
evidence that we've seen from rounds that were found near
the suspected shooter contained messages that are anti ICE in nature.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Okay, well again you know, no surprise there, right, so
you at least for now you can assume this is
a radicalized individual who believes that ICE is the Gestapo
and is perfectly fine with trying to pick off people
who work for ICE, because again it's the Gestapo and
there are a bunch of Nazis. Fifty seven percent of
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Democrats fifty seven percent believe that the violence is justified.
That's insane. That not only is that insane, but it
shows the lack of morality on the far left. It's
just amazing to me. And the rhetoric, of course, the
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rhetoric is a is a big part of the problem.
Here's a Senator Ted Cruz, he was on the scene
yesterday talking about the rhetoric issue. We could follow up
on the five as well with Dana Perino. This, yeah,
one moment, please touchy button once again, low me to reset,
And here is Ted Cruz. This states to stop violence
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is wrong. Politically motivated violence is wrong. This must stop.
To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing Ice and
demonizing CBB.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stop.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
But if your.
Speaker 11 (13:13):
Political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You can go straight to hell.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your
supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I think the rhetoric is obviously a problem, But I
also think that some of these politicians, for as reprehensible
as their rhetoric is, they are not the leaders that
these people who are doing the shooting are listening to.
Those people are listening amongst themselves. They're in a weird
bubble that I don't quite understand. I can't quite get there,
And I feel like one of the things democrats must
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consider is that rhetoric against Ice the policy. You want
to change it, fine, I'll listen. But rhetoric against the
pall of Ice is not just in danger now Ice agents,
but also the detainees.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
That's the ironic thing about it. Don't you think who
got killed? It wasn't an ICE agent, illegals detainees. That's
who got shot and killed. Talk about messing that up.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
If your message was anti Ice, why are you they're
shooting illegals. You can't just fire and hope that you're
hitting what your hope you're hitting. It's just again. I'm sorry.
I have a bad habit of trying to make sense
out of things that don't make any sense whatsoever. All right,
let's get another take out of it. Here is Jesse
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Waters from his program jaxon Ice are up over eight
hundred percent, and our politicians are egging it on.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Donald Trump's modern dagas. Escapo is scooping folks up off
the streets.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to
foreign torture dungeons.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
A secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who
are scaring people?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
These?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Oh where'd that go? It disappeared? Oh this thing is
really acting up. Do I dare try it again? N
I'll leave it. I'll leave it alone. You get the idea.
There is no end of the rhetoric. They will continue
to do the rhetoric because because this is what they
want to have happened. Clearly, this is what they want
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to have happened. This is this is this is a
bigger issue. This is about trying to put the country
into chaos, or at the very least, trying to put
people into a fraid of mind where they will accept
anything the progressive left wants to give them as far
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as gun control, to take weapons out of the hands
of people who would do this. Either way, the progressive
leftist is the winner in all this. And here's here's
maybe the big thing to keep in mind in all
this is it's being funded by somebody. There's somebody paying
for this. It's it's it's billionaires, and it's more than
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just George Soros. In fact, I heard a name that
really doesn't get that much publicity, but Pauline A. Luna,
the representative from Florida, was on foxiously talking about this guy.
He's an American who lives in Shanghai. His name is
Neville Roy Singham, and he is a billionaire who built
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his wealth by founding a software company, Thought Works. So
here's a representative Anna, Paulina Luna. Guess they giving us
more information about this guy and his funding of these
extremist groups.
Speaker 13 (16:51):
Yeah, so he actually has been the number one funder
of these violent riots. Not even just that, but a
lot of the political division and discord that you're in
this country goes back to Singham. He obviously is a
massive ally of the Communist Chinese Party and has actually
made his billions directly working with them, only to in
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turn funnel those efforts into organizations like the Party of
Socialism and Liberation Ria. Though this doesn't just go back
to those rights that we saw that were protesting ice
back in January of this year. This actually is a
lot more nefarious. He has over I believe it's twelve
different groups that he's funding, one of which actually has
ties to the Salt Lake City Queer group that was
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responsible being looked at for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
And so we're finding is these organizations specifically that are
focusing on issues that are dividing us, whether it's based
on race or class, don't necessarily even care about those
topics at hand. They're just using it in an effort
to sow discord. And as you're seeing with these violent riots,
the money is going back to China. He's not a
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registered foreign agent, and so he needs to be investigated
and I've also forwarded it to the Department of Justice
as well. It's not just to disrupt. In fact, Neville
Singham is an open self declared maoist. He absolutely does
not like what this country stands for, and so what
these groups are doing everything from funding the Democrat Socialists
of America going into funding counter Israel efforts, counter America efforts.
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But what they're attempting to do is if they can
sow enough discord here and back elected officials, especially that
support these ideologies that would essentially put the United States
as number two in the global order. It is my
opinion and belief that he is working on behalf of
the Chinese government to essentially break America and that's what, unfortunately,
some of these groups are doing. You'll see that the
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left wing media has largely just been focusing on the
clickbait content but not actually looking at who's funding it
and seeing him is number one. I'd say that he's
probably number one big fish that we have in regards
to who's responsible for a lot of the divide in
this country. And it's going back all the way to
the CCP. Now what's interesting about Seeingham is he actually
lives in China majority of the year, did not respond
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to Congress's requests to have him to come in. So
we did ask Bessett to freeze assets. But also you're
seeing that far violation and what I will tell you
is the Department of Justice has a very easy lamp here,
they could actually bring charges against him. At the time,
Senator Rubio had actually written when he was ahead of
Senate Intelligence Committee, to Merrick Garland asking him to do this.
Merrik Garland never acted, But we have all the evidence
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and ability to do so. So I'm encouraging both the
Attorney General as well as our Treasury Secretary to act.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Okay, so they have the means to freeze, freeze his assets.
They continue to investigate all this. So why haven't we
It's a new administration. I know we're still relatively early
on in this new administration, but this is this is
not the Biden administration anymore. Why haven't we done that?
What are we waiting for? Here's here's a few other
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things you might want to know about this guy. He's
also pro Palestinian, so he's funded a lot of pro
Palestinian protest He joined a radical Marxist group the age
of seventeen. As she just said, he lives in Shanghai,
very close China. Tize praises China and Hugo Chavez. Gives
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you an idea who this guy really is, and of
course he wants to bring down capitalism in the United States.
All right, back with more in a moment. Jimmy Bartschow
a nine fifty KPRC. We talked a little bit yesterday
(20:40):
about President Trump of the United Nations and the escalator
malfunction in the telepropter malfunction. Is there anybody raise your
hand if you think that was just the crazy coincidence,
because the UN thinks so, no, it's got nothing to
do with us. It was, uh, you know, the White
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House was running the teleprompter. Really they also said, well,
you know, so so did something to the ask anyway,
they're blaming blaming us for what went wrong with escalators.
Just just as President Trump's get ready to step on
the escalator, the thing stops. So is there was there
a conspiracy theory at the UN because you know, they
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don't like him, because he doesn't like them. They wouldn't
like him anyway, because he's he's pro capitalism, he's anti
climate change. He doesn't buy into the idea that the
United Nations should be telling anybody what to do, let
alone telling what the United States should do. So, yeah,
the President Trump is not supportive of the United Nations.
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He thinks it is a waste of money, of taxpayer dollars,
that they don't do what they were designed to do,
and all they are is a way to funnel money
to other entities, which is what so much of government
is about these days. But to get back to the
conspiracy theory again, they were talking about it on the five.
Here's Paul Morrow filling in on the five. He's from
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New York. He lives in New York City. He knows
quite a bit about the UN building. Here he is
talking about the possibility that you know, it was just
coincidence or or maybe not. Hang on a second, I
guess I don't have the touch here. We got this
new keyboard in here, and I just don't seem to
have the touch. Let's try again. Here's Paul Morrow.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Well, so I've been in that building. It's decrepit.
Speaker 14 (22:32):
The idea that the escalator is so sensitive that somebody
walking backwards somehow turns it off is ridiculous. But if
it does, do that talk about another waste of American money. Yeah,
I mean, let's they spent all money on. Because of course,
we found a quarter at a place. Look, I'm going
to quote I want to get her name here, Susan Krabtree,
who's on X. She follows us Secret Service stuff very closely.
She's won't book the story about service member who was
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very blithe about the Kirk assassination. She makes the point
that the Service didn't really react. One the thing froze,
he's standing there, makes some more of a chould have
wrestled the escalator to the ground.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
You got to come and, you know, cover around him.
And they didn't do that. You wouldn't understand, So they
didn't react. Maybe you'd like them too.
Speaker 14 (23:12):
I'm not sure the Service is still where we'd like
them to be, despite a couple of recent wins like
with Ryan Ruth.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
So, yeah, maybe it was on purpose, Maybe it wasn't.
I don't think he's really taking a guess at that.
I uh, I just find it too hard to believe
that it is a coincidence. The Secret Service is investigating, though,
is that interesting? I wonder what kind of a who's
who's the Secret Service going to go to. I guess
(23:40):
they'll go talk to the Secretary General, right, maybe talk
to some of the maintenance people, see if they can
put a little pressure on them and report back on
whether or not they was actually a legitimate electronic failures
on the escalator and I'm the teleprompter, or if something
else might have been going on. All right, let's let's
talk a little bit about the economy. Where do you
(24:02):
think we're at right now?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
How are you feeling about where we're at with the economy.
I can tell you kind of where I am. I'll
be honest, I really thought that we'd be getting, especially
food prices more under control by now. The biggest stressor
for most Americans right now, including this American, is to
go to the grocery store. It it is. I guess
(24:27):
I've gotten used to the idea that I'm going to
have to spend a lot more money at the grocery store.
But I'm still just a little bit shocked every time
I walk out of there spending three or four hundred
dollars in wondering what did I hang on? What did
I just buy? They cost so much money? And I
think where it really really shows up, where I really
(24:49):
notice it, where I've really made some changes because I
felt like I had to, was in the meat department.
Walking through the meat department is like walking through It's
like the difference between walking through Walmart or walking through Nordstroms.
It's the meat to the meat is so expensive, especially beef.
(25:10):
You know, you pick up a steak and the steak
is almost twenty dollars for a steak. Now, now listen,
I know you go to a fine restaurant, you can
spend more than twenty dollars on a steak, A lot
more than twenty dollars on a steak. I'm not used
to that anymore either. When I go to a restaurant,
the steakhouse, and they want forty six dollars for a steak,
(25:31):
I'm going to wait a minute. And I'm not talking
about a really fancy, high end steakhouse. I'm talking about
your normal, average, every day lone star Texas roadhouse kind
of steakhouse, you know. And I see a steak on
their many it's like thirty six dollars or forty dealers,
I go, what what happened? Well, we know part of
(25:54):
what happened there, but I but again, toilet toilet paper,
paper products in general, I'm still shocked by that that
those prices haven't come down at all. We're still at
We're still at COVID nineteen levels. When you couldn't find
toilet paper to save your life. And it's still up
there and crazy. So I think I think it's that's
(26:17):
the most shocking. Part of the things I pay for
are things that are food related. And again, one of
the things I haven't been able to figure out how
to do is how not to eat. I mean, I
just I basically I got to eat. So what else
am I going to do? Eat out less, buy more
at the grocery store. Well, the grocery store just as
expensive as eating out. Anyway, Things are going to get better, right,
(26:38):
Things have got to get better. What we're waiting for
is we're waiting for some of these Trump policies to
kick in. I saw Victor Davis Hansen on Fox yesterday
and Fox Business in this case, and he was on
with Larry Kudlow, and he and Larry Cudlow were talking
about some of the things that Trump has been trying
to do and how the results are likely to kick
(27:00):
in starting next year. Here's a little bit of that conversation.
Speaker 12 (27:04):
I think Trump's already put a number of initiatives that
are in progress, and he thinks that by the time
of the midterms are going to bear fruit for example,
dub Bergham is leasing oil and gas in a rate
we've never seen before. They haven't come into production yet,
but he's on track to make us not only the
(27:26):
present largest gas and oil producer, but the greatest oil
producer by a large margin. And then when you look
at Trump has invited in supposedly ten trillion dollars in
foreign investment. Then he rounds up all of these guys
that used to not like him in Silicon Valley and
spent hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat him, and
(27:48):
you look at what they have promised, you know, the
Ken and Dreesens, of Ben Horowitz's, the Mark Zuckerbergs and
Jeff they're all investing. And so he's kind of unleash
the floodgate. But we're not really seeing that yet because
he just started to do it. And I think it's
going to be something like World War two, where you know,
forty two forty three, we were really starting to gear up,
(28:11):
but we weren't really out producing the axis yet. But
by nineteen forty five we had a larger GDP than Germany, Italy, Japan,
but also larger than our own allies, the British Empire
and the Russians all put together.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
He doesn't want a bunch of monetary bureaucrats to stand
in his way. He doesn't want any bureaucrats to stand
in his way, and he doesn't want any activist judges
to stand in his way.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
You've written about that, so by so boy, now you
know what I'm saying. Don't tell me.
Speaker 15 (28:39):
It's like you're saying, don't tell me you won't finance
all these new incentives that I've created that will open
up growth and provide opportunities for the whole country. You know,
doesn't matter what color, what religion, what age group, for
the entire country.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Don't stand in my way. The problem.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Part of the problem here, of course, goes back to
the FED as well. The FED wants growth at about
one point eight.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Percent a year.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Why so low? Why would you stifle growth? Why why
stifle growth? You know, get rid of the things that
do stifle growth. Let's let the economy grow, and the
more the economy grows, the better off. We're going to
be all right, quick little break back with more in
a moment. Jimmy vertchew hey budget in Harris County. We'll
(29:26):
talk about that next here on a nine fifty KPRC
and the Jimmy Barrett Show. So, despite Leonardo Dago's best efforts,
(29:48):
there's a budget, a bipartisan budget. Adrian Garcia, who else
wo was in favorite of Tom Ramsey voted in favor
of the budget and what's her name? I can't remember
her name off the top of my head. Anyway, you're
going to hear it in this report. Bipartisan, both Republican,
(30:11):
the one Republican and do Democrats voting in favor of
this budget. That is balanced, and it's balanced without raising
property taxes, and it gives public safety officials, it gives
the Sheriff's department and the opportunity to give their people raises,
parody raises, so they don't lose a bunch of their
more seasoned veterans to other departments. Here is the report
(30:36):
from Fox twenty six Houston.
Speaker 16 (30:38):
And that's where the rub comes. Harris County Judge Lena
Hidalgo waged a day long verbal campaign against her colleagues,
criticizing them for tightening the county's financial belt rather than
just asking taxpayers to pony up additional taxes to fund
pilot programs like early childhood education. The tacks were personal
(30:59):
with the judge a Q and Commissioners Adrian Garcia, Leslie
Brionis and Tom Ramsay of ethical violations, end of taking
joy and trimming services for young people.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And that's why I pled with my colleagues please ask
the voters so we can have enough funding so we
don't have to cut these things. They just thought it'd
be fun to call the children's programs.
Speaker 16 (31:21):
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez appeared to confirm for the
public at large that approval of the one hundred million
dollar rais for deputies was absolutely necessary to avert a
public safety crisis.
Speaker 17 (31:35):
And I would argue when we talked to business owners
to committee members, they want strong public safety across the board.
The other things are nice, but it's time that we
make sure that there's pay parody because if there wasn't
and this didn't happen, we would see a mass exenus
and it would put a tremendous harm on public safety
here in Harrison County.
Speaker 18 (31:54):
I've proudly been championing this pay parody because it's the
right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do,
and it's the responsible thing to do to make sure
that unincorporated Harris County is as safe as it can
be and that we're not losing experienced officers and risking
a mass exodus.
Speaker 16 (32:09):
It's important to note dozens of deputies appeared today to
express sincere appreciation for the substantial race, telling commissioners the
extra money is life altering.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
You know, I'm not sure what the final budget figure
turned out to be. I'm guessing that we could all
go through that budget with the fine tune toothcomb and
find plenty of things that we think could easily be
cut without really having an impact on the quality of
life here in Harris County. But at the end of
(32:43):
the day, you know, as long as you are not
asking for higher property taxes. And by the way, Lena
Hildago never ever backed off on that she was asking
for higher property taxes. Yesterday. She was chastising the commissioners
yesterday that you just don't like the children, You don't
want to do anything for the children. All of the
(33:04):
things that she wanted, none of the things, I should say,
none of the things that she wanted had anything to
do where the core responsibility of what the Harris County
government is supposed to provided citizens through tax dollars. Daycare
is not part of that. You know, housing is not
(33:26):
really that much of an issue, not for Commissioner's Court,
maybe for the mayor, because that's where the housing issues
are in Harris County, is in the city of Houston.
Maybe the mayor wants to tackle that. And not to
say that you can't ever involve yourself in a social
program if you're local government, but you do those things
(33:50):
after you've taken care of everything else. You know, Harris
County has a public school system that should be top
of the public safety should be top of the list.
Infrastructure should be top of the list, and we have
continually pushed those things aside and they decided instead to
spend money on o art and on transportation. Now, maybe
(34:14):
transportation is part of that, but how much how much
money does the metro bus system lose every year? How
much how much money are we going to pour into
things that either people don't use or are big money
wasters when we allow other things like the infrastructure of
the city to fall apart, that might be that might
(34:37):
be as big an issue right now as public safety.
I mean, the guts of our city are hundreds of
years old. In some of that stuff we're still using.
We still have flood issues, flood control issues. Now that's
given the weather the begin and given given how you know,
how close the sea level we are in some parts
(34:57):
of the city. That should be a much higher priority
than these children daycare programs. You know, parents have kids.
Kids are the parents' responsibility. If you want to provide
some sort of help to low income individuals, and maybe
that's an altruistic thing to do, but that's only after
you take care of the things that are done in
(35:19):
order to provide for the safety and the welfare of
all of the citizens, not just a few, all of
the citizens. All right, listen, you all have a great day.
Thanks for listening. Appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning,
bright and early, starting at five am over on news
radio seven forty KRH.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
We're back here at four
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