July 8, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, welcome to the show, everybody.
This is my last show for the week. I've got
to go marry marry off my niece. Does that sound right?
My niece Jilly is getting married in San Diego, which
I'm a little concerned about. We're going to the wedding
that I'm officiating. It's not the first wedding I've officiated.
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I I actually have a I'm a card carrying mail
order clergy members, so I'm allowed to do this according
to California law, so it will be binding. It's only
the second winning I've ever done. The first couple I
did in Virginia. Actually they got married to North Carolina,
but they're from Virginia and they're still married. So that's
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been probably ten twelve years. So I'm one for one
so far on marriages. But we'll be on our way
to San Diego. Tomorrow and then we'll be back on Monday. Well,
a couple of best does for you, So we'll try
to make the most of today. A lot of things
to talk about in today's show. Some of it is
related to the Hill Country storm, some of it not
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so much. You know, I had Tom Ramsey on our
morning show today on kt RH, and here's the thing
that the million dollar question that everybody wants to ask.
A couple things always come up when it comes to
these types of storms, because whenever we have a mass
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flooding situation anywhere in Texas, it makes us think think
of Harvey. Of course, Hurricane Harvey, and what Harvey did
and all the flooding we had to deal with in
the city of Houston, and how at the time, I
think a lot of people thought, well, they'll never recover
from this. And if you were to drive around town,
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I think you'd be hard pressed to find any remnants
or any memories of of of Harvey. The damage has
been long since fixed, and you know, it's eight years later.
It's pretty much a distant memory and there's only so
much you can do. And that that was part of
the conversation that we had with Tom Ramsey, because everybody
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will say, well, what if we had another Harvey, what
would we do differently? Well, here's my question, what could
we do differently? You can't. You're not going to elevate
the buildings. You're not going to elevate the expressways anymore
than what they already are. You there are areas that
are designed to flood, they will flood, and we're always
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going to have flooding in Houston. It's part and parcel
of where we live. It's like saying, well, what would
we do differently as relates to the Hill Country flood? Now?
The one thing you could do and Tom Ramsey brought
this up and he was right to do so. The
one difference that probably would have helped not only in Harvey,
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the Harvey's situation, but also in the Hill Country is
getting the warning to the necessary people. It's not that
the warning wasn't issued. It was the National Weather Service
issued the warning. It's not that it wasn't early enough.
It was the warning went out at least three hours
before the flooding. The flood warning had gone out. The
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problem was a couple of things. Number One, it happened
in the middle of the night and you're talking about
an area where communication could be a little bit dicey.
You know, cell phone service doesn't always work real well there,
so you maybe need to look at another way of
warning people. Now, there's going to be a lot talked
about here. My guess is that the biggest change that
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likely will happen as a result of what happened in
the Hill Country is that we will end up with
some sort of an early warning sirens system, which evidently
they had. There been a request to do that for
the Guadeloupe River and the money, the money never materialized,
never got approved, and it never happened, which is so
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true of so many different projects. It's not that anybody
can't see the need for something like that. I think
they can. And this was a perfect example. If you
had had the ability to set off sirens up and
down the river, you know, several hours before the flooding,
so that people woke up, started paying attention, realized that,
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you know, it might be an evacuation situation if you're
anywhere close to the river, that would have been very helpful. Now,
a siren system I don't think would have made any
difference here in Houston. I mean, we know the areas
that they are going to flood. You know, nobody was
prepared for what happened. I mean, it was just a
day by day we can't believe the system hasn't moved.
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It's still raining. What in the world, you know, kind
of a deal. The biggest change that probably has occurred
as a result of Harvey is that we have I
think first responders have more more high water apparatus, things
that they can use to help rescue people if we
end up in a high water situation, and at some
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point we will. I think everybody probably realized that, you know,
getting boats for fire departments and that type of thing
was money well spent because you know we're going to
flood again. You know that's going to happen. It's just
a matter when it's going to happen, and who knows
how much warning will get. But like I said, we're
not going to move buildings. We're not going to raise
roads where there's very little that we can do with
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the infrastructure that's going to change how the flooding occurs
here in Houston. I mean, some of our freeways are
designed to be you know, we're in a floodplain. They're
designed to take water and to move the water. You know,
we're going to have roads that are going to be underwater.
There's only going to be so much that we can do, so,
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you know, lessons to be learned.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I think in the case of the hill co, every
thing an alert system that can work twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week, to make sure that
people who are maybe not tuned into what's going on
in the news, uh to what's going on with the weather,
are aware that there's an issue or there's a problem.
But the other things that you hear the left talk
about are rather ridiculous. You know, as of yesterday, they're
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still trying to blame Trump and in some sort of
a you know, a problem at the National Weather Service
that there was understaffing at the National Weather Service. There
was not understaffing. They were fully staffed. In fact, they
had a couple of extra people than what they would
normally have. They were full staffed. It's it's not a
matter of budget cuts either. No, no budget cuts have
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taken effect at the National Weather Service until October. And
those are things that have nothing to do with with
providing accurate and timely weather forecast. You know, it's it's
it's just ridiculous how this stuff continues to be passed
along by the progressive left, and they they've got you know,
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they've got their people eating out of their hands. No,
it's Trump's fault. It's got nothing to do with President Trump.
It's it's you know, you might as well blame you
might as well blame God. Well, they aren't gonna blame
God because they don't believe in God, many of them. Oh,
climate change, that's their God. Okay, they'll blame climate change,
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all right, Back with mortem on a Jimmy Partt show,
j'ren am nine fifty KPRC. I've tried really hard to
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be as informative as I can be about the flooding
in the Hill Country without being modeling about it, without
being depressed about it. I only allow myself to watch
coverage for so long before I just kind of I'm
becoming emostly spent. And I know the reason. It's not
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that people have died, Yes, people have died. Over one
hundred people have dined. It's that children have died in
massive amounts. Last number I heard was twenty eight. But
we still have kids that are missing out there. People
who are missing, so that number is likely to go up.
That's the part that's hard, And I think what has
to be particularly hard are for the people who are
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covering the story in are in Kerrville or Kerr County
and are covering the story is talking to family members.
And part of the job when you're a politician is
that you go to these places and you try to
reassure people that you will do everything you can do
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to help them find their loved ones, and you'll do
everything you can do to try to do whatever has
to be done help in the rebuilding process, whatever it
is they're asking of you. And if you are the governor,
or the lieutenant governor or United States senator, you're going
to get asked that by every family member. Lieutenant Governor
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Dan Patrick was on last night on Laura Ingram and.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I was trying to figure this out this morning. I
cry more. You soon, by crying, I don't mean sobbing
or that upset. I tear up more. It takes fewer
and fewer things to make me tear up. I don't
know if that's the process of the aging process. I
(10:13):
don't know if I've become more sensitive as I've gotten older.
I don't know if I've become a little bit more
emotional as I've gotten older. You know, certain things will
just automatically kind of set me off, and certainly children
dying is one of those things. And I can't even
imagine listening to family members talk about a loved one
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that you know is dead and you're just trying to
find the body at this point, or you're more than
likely that's what you're ultimately going to end up doing.
But Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was on Laura Ingram last
night talking to her and kind of bringing that audience
up to date on the search and rescue phase and
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what's been going on is the clean up process and
all that stuff. And at the very end, he starts
telling a story about, you know, a couple of families
have been devastated by what happened, and I started to
tear up. This will be the only thing I play
in the show today. I promised that we'll maybe make
you tear up too. Let's see what kind of reaction
you have to that. Here is Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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from a lower Ingram last night.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
When you do search, what you're doing is phase one
a quick search. They tried to find everyone alive that
they could find. And now we're in the second phase,
still searching for life.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But they're going back over the same.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Area as they already search, but with a new searcher,
so you have fresh eyes on it to go back
and look in detail. As the water has gone down
so far, you know, there's new trees, new bushes, new rocks.
You see and you can see or you couldn't see
under the water before. So we're I met with the
families today. There are about twenty families that I met with,
and I told them, I gave them my cell number.
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I said, you call me. I said, I'm not I'm
not going to leave you. I'm not going to abandon you.
I've got eight grand kids. I'm gonna look at your
kids like I look at my kids and Greg Abbott,
myself and the entire state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We're not going to leave until we find your child.
And I know you met with so many.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Family members and you had mentioned that one family lost
five members.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Is that right? Could you share some of what you
heard in the saw?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah? Yeah, so one family lost five members. They've recovered
two of the bodies their mother, their father, their sisters,
so and so they said, please find the other three
for me.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Please band find the other three, and I said, We're
going to do it.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
There are two other families far that I'm aware of,
the soccer coach at the high school, and that was
a family of four or five. And there was another
family that I'm aware of of five that have been lost.
This is entire families wiped out, and of course the
children and the adults that have been that had been lost.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
But we're still searching. We still believe in life.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I know the hours are getting longer each day, but
we're going to return all of these, all of their
loved ones to the families. Laura, I went out to
the Camp Maybury, not Camp Maybury Camp, Mystics.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Camp missed it.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Forgive Me Camp missed it today and it was it
was just heartbreaking, Laura and inspiring at the same time.
I talked with you know as a father and the
mother and their children run the camp.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And of course you know the father.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They lost him in the flood when he got into
his truck and tried to save a couple of kids
and it's the last time his family saw him. But
the one son was telling me as he walked me
through these stories. They went cabin to cabin, and they
left one cabin getting the girls out as the water
was rising. And he said, within three minutes we went
from ankle to deep, knee deep to neck deep, and
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the next thing, we were floating away, being driven down
by the river. All of these girls and myself probably
one hundred yards and we walked down there and they
all went into the trees and they were saved by
the trees. And when the water seated, they then walked
up with no shoes on in the cold. The mud
is cold, the water was cold, and they walked probably
the one hundred yards back to a building that's eighty
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six years old, looks a little decrepit.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's been there a long time.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And they were on the second floor and the water
rose to the second floor.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Laura the second floor.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
And a couple of hundred girls watched it, and they
sang Christian songs and that water stopped and those children
were saved.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Who so he's he's starting to cry, By the way,
I have no problem with a grown man crying, especially
over something like that. You know, if you can't shed
a tear for the loss of young life like that, then,
I don't know, you're tougher than I am. I guess
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if you want to consider yourself tough. I think that's
why I have such a hard time understanding some of
the people who have, you know, mainly on the progressive left,
who have been so insensitive, who want to talk about
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you know, what happened is if somehow these young white
girls deserved it. This Shade Perkins, who we played yesterday,
I'm not gonna play her again. I mean, how cold
and calculating and uncaring and narcissistic do you have to
be to try to make something like that about race?
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I mean, what's missing in your life? What's missing in
your emotional makeup? Oh? You know the funny thing about
her too, the shadd Perkins she's married to a white dude.
You know where Our co workers showed me a video
that the latest video that she posts, just the beginning
of I didn't want to see it. She's she's there
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with the whether with the white doers. So who's that
guy that's her husband? What is she's talking about white
people like that? What kind of a mess is that
all about? Just crazy? Just crazy? But here is oh,
Rosie o'donald. Yeah, let you I should play her, Rosie o'donald.
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Here's yesterday, Rosie O'Donnell, and some members of the media
on the left, of course, trying to blame Trump for
what happened here in Texas with the flood, and.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
The president cuts all of the early warning systems and
the weathering forecast abilities of the government. These are the
results that we're going to start to see on a
daily basis.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The incident comes as the Trump administration is making deep
cuts to weather forecasting services.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
We're also learning that there were significant staffing shortfalls of
the National Weather Services offices in the region. I don't
think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the
National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
At the White House, correcting the record.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
The National Weather Service provided early and consistent warnings. They
gave out timely flash flood alerts. There were record breaking
lead times and the lead up to this catastrophe, there
is ongoing flood monitoring, and these offices were well staffed.
In fact, one of the offices was actually overstaffed.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
There you go, that's but that's kind of lies that
they're telling people, and of course you know the people
who follow them, who lap it all up. You know,
they're more than happy to believe that that's the truth.
It's not the truth. It's one thing to try to
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politicize the deaths of innocent children of flood. It's another
thing to lie about all the details about how the
deaths happened and who's responsible for the deaths. Unreal Anyway, Okay,
quick little break, we are back with boring. I'm I'm
a Jimmy Bairt show here on AM nine fifty KPRC.
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All right, let's talk about car payments. Talk about depressing here.
Here's depressing here. This is the depressing topic here, car payments.
We got on this topic today. I'll tell you why
we got onto the topic. This morning. Car buyers nashally
set a record in the second quarter as more opted
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for woppingly Is that a word? Who wrote this? Well?
This comes from the Detroit Free Press by somebody by
the name of Jamie LaRue female whopping lee. Okay, actually
it works, Okay, woppingly long term loans and monthly car
payments that rival some monthly home mortgage bills. Here's the information,
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according to data crunch by Edmunds dot com. If you
are familiar with Detroit and cars and all that stuff,
you probably know that Edmunds is a pretty important publication.
Edmunds dot com reports the share of new vehicle buyers
committed to monthly payments of one thousand dollars a month
or more hid an all time high nineteen point three percent,
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So nearly one out of every five buying a car
have a car payment this more than one thousand dollars
a month. That's up from seventeen point eight percent a
year ago. In the same quarter, average monthly car payment
is now seven hundred and fifty six dollars. That's up
sixteen dollars from a year before. Edmunds also reporting that
car buyers are taking out longer term loans to achieve
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palatable payments. In the quarter, twenty two point four percent
of new vehicle financing loans of eighty four months or longer.
That's a new record, so not quite a quarter, but
almost one fourth of all car loans are taken out
for eighty four months or longer. In the second quarter
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last year, eighty four month loans accounted for seventeen point
six percent of new car financing, so that's a big
year to year uptick. So some places, interestingly enough, Detroit
being one of them, kind of bucked the trend on
this stuff. Their payments were lower, in some cases much
lower because of leasing, which is a lower payment. We've
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talked about that with the and emlyssing before and employee
discounts because a lot of people work for the car
companies in Detroit and Cleveland, so that's a little bit
different than it is in a lot of other parts
of the country. According to one of the Edmunds director
of insights, it's quote clear that buyers are pulling the
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few levers they can control to manage affordability, whether that's
by taking on a longer loan, financing more, putting less
money down, even if some of those decisions increased their
total cost. Edmonds State also showed the bigger loans are
becoming the new normal, with the average amount of finance
for a new vehicle climbing to forty two thousand, three
hundred and eighty eight dollars in the quarter. Again, that's
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an all time high, up from forty thousand and eight
to seventy three a year ago. In the quarter of
the average new car loan term was sixty nine point
eight months with a seven point two percent annual percentage rate. Wow,
when's the last time I paid an interest sate that
high in a car loan? I can't even remember. It
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was seven point three percent APR year ago. So it's
actually gone down a little bit. But we're financing it
for a longer period of time. So just when you
think that maybe we might beginning clue to a breaking point,
evidently not. I really thought when we got to the
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point where you're having to finance a car or truck
for seven or eight years and you have a car
payment that's seven or eight hundred dollars a month, that
that would make people pull back and say, whoa, whoa,
I can't do that. That doesn't make any financial sense
for me to do that. But people are doing it.
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People are spending the money. Where they're getting the money,
I'm not sure, but they're spending the money just like we.
You know, we went to this trip to Greece and
the airfare was like the average airfare on that flight
we took was like seven thousand dollars plus and the
plane is chock full, chock full of people. So we
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are willing to spend the money. And I don't know
if that's just because we have grown used to having
to spend more, or we're not going to let something
like that keep us from having a good time, or
what the reason is behind it, but we have clearly
decided that, regardless of what it costs, we are willing
to spend the money. So it got me thinking here,
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because you know, nossalgia is always fun, especially as it
relates to cars. You probably do you remember your first
car that you actually bought, you know, not the hoopdie
that your mom and dad got you, but the first
legitimate new car or not that old used car that
wasn't a you know, a hooptie that you got in
how much you paid per month for it. My first
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car was a seventy four Plymouth gold Dester I know,
I'm dating myself, and the car payment was like ninety
It's either eighty nine or ninety eight dollars a month.
They can't remember between those two. And I remember thinking
at the time that I'd never been responsible for that
much money on a monthly basis, so obviously I'd waited
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until I was working, you know, full time, in order
to be able to afford something like that. But but
that was for a brand new car, and obviously, you
know you can't get anything for one hundred bucks a
month anymore. So I was kind of asking the question
on the air, dude, do you all remember what your
first vehicle was and in how much the monthly payment was?
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See in spring, my first car payment was about one
a month.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Who I'd love to have that now, Yeah, one eighty
nine a month.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
That works for me. That does, so does two eighty nine,
three eighty nine, forty nine, five eighty nine. You know,
any of those payments worked just fine. It's the thousand
dollars a month. Although I will say this because this
is the way I'm trying to look at it, and
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I know everybody's circumstances are different, and I'm just lucky
I can afford to do something like this. But I
recently got a you know, a Chevy Silverado pickup truck,
and the idea was that I'm gonna go ahead and
finance it because they were offering super low interest rate.
Is like one point six percent interest rate. May it's
one point nine percent interest rate, and that's for like
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forty eight months. Now, the thing I don't want to
do is be paying forty eight months on the truck.
I want to get it over with sooner. So I
basically I'm doubling up the payments. So instead of paying
it off in four years, I'm gonna be paying it
off in two years. Now. It's painful to do that,
but in two years, I'll have two vehicles that are
in good shape, are relatively young, and I won't owe
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any money on them because at some point in time
I'm gonna have to think about whether or not I
want to retire someday, and I don't want to have
a car payment when I retire. So I mean, those
are the kinds of things you, I guess you can do.
You know, if you could afford to do it, that
make a lot of sense, you know, to pay off
the vehicles, to pay them off as quickly as you can.
Then all you have to worry about affording is to
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the insurance. The chance that gotten a cheaper either. All right, listen,
y'all have a great day. I'm off to San Diego.
Wish me luck. Is there like a California cooties pill
or something I can take so I don't get infected
while I'm there, I'm not there for long. I'm only
there for like less than forty eight hours and just
fly in, do the rehearsal, rehearsal, dinner, do the wedding,
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fly back basically, so I don't intend to be there
long enough to be you know, have to be take
a special you know shot. Is there like a California
COVID shot, you know, not to keep away COVID, but
to keep away the California Liberals off to see Anyway, y'all,
you'll behave yourself. We'll have a couple of best ups
coming up. I'll see you Monday afternoon at four Roday
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in nine to fifty KPRC
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, welcome to the show, everybody.
This is my last show for the week. I've got
to go marry marry off my niece. Does that sound right?
My niece Jilly is getting married in San Diego, which
I'm a little concerned about. We're going to the wedding
that I'm officiating. It's not the first wedding I've officiated.
(00:51):
I I actually have a I'm a card carrying mail
order clergy members, so I'm allowed to do this according
to California law, so it will be binding. It's only
the second winning I've ever done. The first couple I
did in Virginia. Actually they got married to North Carolina,
but they're from Virginia and they're still married. So that's
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been probably ten twelve years. So I'm one for one
so far on marriages. But we'll be on our way
to San Diego. Tomorrow and then we'll be back on Monday. Well,
a couple of best does for you, So we'll try
to make the most of today. A lot of things
to talk about in today's show. Some of it is
related to the Hill Country storm, some of it not
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so much. You know, I had Tom Ramsey on our
morning show today on kt RH, and here's the thing
that the million dollar question that everybody wants to ask.
A couple things always come up when it comes to
these types of storms, because whenever we have a mass
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flooding situation anywhere in Texas, it makes us think think
of Harvey. Of course, Hurricane Harvey, and what Harvey did
and all the flooding we had to deal with in
the city of Houston, and how at the time, I
think a lot of people thought, well, they'll never recover
from this. And if you were to drive around town,
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I think you'd be hard pressed to find any remnants
or any memories of of of Harvey. The damage has
been long since fixed, and you know, it's eight years later.
It's pretty much a distant memory and there's only so
much you can do. And that that was part of
the conversation that we had with Tom Ramsey, because everybody
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will say, well, what if we had another Harvey, what
would we do differently? Well, here's my question, what could
we do differently? You can't. You're not going to elevate
the buildings. You're not going to elevate the expressways anymore
than what they already are. You there are areas that
are designed to flood, they will flood, and we're always
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going to have flooding in Houston. It's part and parcel
of where we live. It's like saying, well, what would
we do differently as relates to the Hill Country flood? Now?
The one thing you could do and Tom Ramsey brought
this up and he was right to do so. The
one difference that probably would have helped not only in Harvey,
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the Harvey's situation, but also in the Hill Country is
getting the warning to the necessary people. It's not that
the warning wasn't issued. It was the National Weather Service
issued the warning. It's not that it wasn't early enough.
It was the warning went out at least three hours
before the flooding. The flood warning had gone out. The
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problem was a couple of things. Number One, it happened
in the middle of the night and you're talking about
an area where communication could be a little bit dicey.
You know, cell phone service doesn't always work real well there,
so you maybe need to look at another way of
warning people. Now, there's going to be a lot talked
about here. My guess is that the biggest change that
(04:11):
likely will happen as a result of what happened in
the Hill Country is that we will end up with
some sort of an early warning sirens system, which evidently
they had. There been a request to do that for
the Guadeloupe River and the money, the money never materialized,
never got approved, and it never happened, which is so
(04:33):
true of so many different projects. It's not that anybody
can't see the need for something like that. I think
they can. And this was a perfect example. If you
had had the ability to set off sirens up and
down the river, you know, several hours before the flooding,
so that people woke up, started paying attention, realized that,
(04:54):
you know, it might be an evacuation situation if you're
anywhere close to the river, that would have been very helpful. Now,
a siren system I don't think would have made any
difference here in Houston. I mean, we know the areas
that they are going to flood. You know, nobody was
prepared for what happened. I mean, it was just a
day by day we can't believe the system hasn't moved.
(05:14):
It's still raining. What in the world, you know, kind
of a deal. The biggest change that probably has occurred
as a result of Harvey is that we have I
think first responders have more more high water apparatus, things
that they can use to help rescue people if we
end up in a high water situation, and at some
(05:35):
point we will. I think everybody probably realized that, you know,
getting boats for fire departments and that type of thing
was money well spent because you know we're going to
flood again. You know that's going to happen. It's just
a matter when it's going to happen, and who knows
how much warning will get. But like I said, we're
not going to move buildings. We're not going to raise
roads where there's very little that we can do with
(05:57):
the infrastructure that's going to change how the flooding occurs
here in Houston. I mean, some of our freeways are
designed to be you know, we're in a floodplain. They're
designed to take water and to move the water. You know,
we're going to have roads that are going to be underwater.
There's only going to be so much that we can do, so,
(06:19):
you know, lessons to be learned.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I think in the case of the hill co, every
thing an alert system that can work twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week, to make sure that
people who are maybe not tuned into what's going on
in the news, uh to what's going on with the weather,
are aware that there's an issue or there's a problem.
But the other things that you hear the left talk
about are rather ridiculous. You know, as of yesterday, they're
(06:43):
still trying to blame Trump and in some sort of
a you know, a problem at the National Weather Service
that there was understaffing at the National Weather Service. There
was not understaffing. They were fully staffed. In fact, they
had a couple of extra people than what they would
normally have. They were full staffed. It's it's not a
matter of budget cuts either. No, no budget cuts have
(07:06):
taken effect at the National Weather Service until October. And
those are things that have nothing to do with with
providing accurate and timely weather forecast. You know, it's it's
it's just ridiculous how this stuff continues to be passed
along by the progressive left, and they they've got you know,
(07:26):
they've got their people eating out of their hands. No,
it's Trump's fault. It's got nothing to do with President Trump.
It's it's you know, you might as well blame you
might as well blame God. Well, they aren't gonna blame
God because they don't believe in God, many of them. Oh,
climate change, that's their God. Okay, they'll blame climate change,
(07:46):
all right, Back with mortem on a Jimmy Partt show,
j'ren am nine fifty KPRC. I've tried really hard to
(08:15):
be as informative as I can be about the flooding
in the Hill Country without being modeling about it, without
being depressed about it. I only allow myself to watch
coverage for so long before I just kind of I'm
becoming emostly spent. And I know the reason. It's not
(08:38):
that people have died, Yes, people have died. Over one
hundred people have dined. It's that children have died in
massive amounts. Last number I heard was twenty eight. But
we still have kids that are missing out there. People
who are missing, so that number is likely to go up.
That's the part that's hard, And I think what has
to be particularly hard are for the people who are
(09:02):
covering the story in are in Kerrville or Kerr County
and are covering the story is talking to family members.
And part of the job when you're a politician is
that you go to these places and you try to
reassure people that you will do everything you can do
(09:25):
to help them find their loved ones, and you'll do
everything you can do to try to do whatever has
to be done help in the rebuilding process, whatever it
is they're asking of you. And if you are the governor,
or the lieutenant governor or United States senator, you're going
to get asked that by every family member. Lieutenant Governor
(09:47):
Dan Patrick was on last night on Laura Ingram and.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I was trying to figure this out this morning. I
cry more. You soon, by crying, I don't mean sobbing
or that upset. I tear up more. It takes fewer
and fewer things to make me tear up. I don't
know if that's the process of the aging process. I
(10:13):
don't know if I've become more sensitive as I've gotten older.
I don't know if I've become a little bit more
emotional as I've gotten older. You know, certain things will
just automatically kind of set me off, and certainly children
dying is one of those things. And I can't even
imagine listening to family members talk about a loved one
(10:34):
that you know is dead and you're just trying to
find the body at this point, or you're more than
likely that's what you're ultimately going to end up doing.
But Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was on Laura Ingram last
night talking to her and kind of bringing that audience
up to date on the search and rescue phase and
(10:55):
what's been going on is the clean up process and
all that stuff. And at the very end, he starts
telling a story about, you know, a couple of families
have been devastated by what happened, and I started to
tear up. This will be the only thing I play
in the show today. I promised that we'll maybe make
you tear up too. Let's see what kind of reaction
you have to that. Here is Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
(11:16):
from a lower Ingram last night.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
When you do search, what you're doing is phase one
a quick search. They tried to find everyone alive that
they could find. And now we're in the second phase,
still searching for life.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But they're going back over the same.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Area as they already search, but with a new searcher,
so you have fresh eyes on it to go back
and look in detail. As the water has gone down
so far, you know, there's new trees, new bushes, new rocks.
You see and you can see or you couldn't see
under the water before. So we're I met with the
families today. There are about twenty families that I met with,
and I told them, I gave them my cell number.
(11:50):
I said, you call me. I said, I'm not I'm
not going to leave you. I'm not going to abandon you.
I've got eight grand kids. I'm gonna look at your
kids like I look at my kids and Greg Abbott,
myself and the entire state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We're not going to leave until we find your child.
And I know you met with so many.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Family members and you had mentioned that one family lost
five members.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Is that right? Could you share some of what you
heard in the saw?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah? Yeah, so one family lost five members. They've recovered
two of the bodies their mother, their father, their sisters,
so and so they said, please find the other three
for me.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Please band find the other three, and I said, We're
going to do it.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
There are two other families far that I'm aware of,
the soccer coach at the high school, and that was
a family of four or five. And there was another
family that I'm aware of of five that have been lost.
This is entire families wiped out, and of course the
children and the adults that have been that had been lost.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
But we're still searching. We still believe in life.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I know the hours are getting longer each day, but
we're going to return all of these, all of their
loved ones to the families. Laura, I went out to
the Camp Maybury, not Camp Maybury Camp, Mystics.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Camp missed it.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Forgive Me Camp missed it today and it was it
was just heartbreaking, Laura and inspiring at the same time.
I talked with you know as a father and the
mother and their children run the camp.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And of course you know the father.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They lost him in the flood when he got into
his truck and tried to save a couple of kids
and it's the last time his family saw him. But
the one son was telling me as he walked me
through these stories. They went cabin to cabin, and they
left one cabin getting the girls out as the water
was rising. And he said, within three minutes we went
from ankle to deep, knee deep to neck deep, and
(13:48):
the next thing, we were floating away, being driven down
by the river. All of these girls and myself probably
one hundred yards and we walked down there and they
all went into the trees and they were saved by
the trees. And when the water seated, they then walked
up with no shoes on in the cold. The mud
is cold, the water was cold, and they walked probably
the one hundred yards back to a building that's eighty
(14:10):
six years old, looks a little decrepit.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It's been there a long time.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And they were on the second floor and the water
rose to the second floor.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Laura the second floor.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
And a couple of hundred girls watched it, and they
sang Christian songs and that water stopped and those children
were saved.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Who so he's he's starting to cry, By the way,
I have no problem with a grown man crying, especially
over something like that. You know, if you can't shed
a tear for the loss of young life like that, then,
I don't know, you're tougher than I am. I guess
(14:54):
if you want to consider yourself tough. I think that's
why I have such a hard time understanding some of
the people who have, you know, mainly on the progressive left,
who have been so insensitive, who want to talk about
(15:16):
you know, what happened is if somehow these young white
girls deserved it. This Shade Perkins, who we played yesterday,
I'm not gonna play her again. I mean, how cold
and calculating and uncaring and narcissistic do you have to
be to try to make something like that about race?
(15:40):
I mean, what's missing in your life? What's missing in
your emotional makeup? Oh? You know the funny thing about
her too, the shadd Perkins she's married to a white dude.
You know where Our co workers showed me a video
that the latest video that she posts, just the beginning
of I didn't want to see it. She's she's there
(16:02):
with the whether with the white doers. So who's that
guy that's her husband? What is she's talking about white
people like that? What kind of a mess is that
all about? Just crazy? Just crazy? But here is oh,
Rosie o'donald. Yeah, let you I should play her, Rosie o'donald.
(16:24):
Here's yesterday, Rosie O'Donnell, and some members of the media
on the left, of course, trying to blame Trump for
what happened here in Texas with the flood, and.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
The president cuts all of the early warning systems and
the weathering forecast abilities of the government. These are the
results that we're going to start to see on a
daily basis.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The incident comes as the Trump administration is making deep
cuts to weather forecasting services.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
We're also learning that there were significant staffing shortfalls of
the National Weather Services offices in the region. I don't
think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the
National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
At the White House, correcting the record.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
The National Weather Service provided early and consistent warnings. They
gave out timely flash flood alerts. There were record breaking
lead times and the lead up to this catastrophe, there
is ongoing flood monitoring, and these offices were well staffed.
In fact, one of the offices was actually overstaffed.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
There you go, that's but that's kind of lies that
they're telling people, and of course you know the people
who follow them, who lap it all up. You know,
they're more than happy to believe that that's the truth.
It's not the truth. It's one thing to try to
(17:52):
politicize the deaths of innocent children of flood. It's another
thing to lie about all the details about how the
deaths happened and who's responsible for the deaths. Unreal Anyway, Okay,
quick little break, we are back with boring. I'm I'm
a Jimmy Bairt show here on AM nine fifty KPRC.
(18:22):
All right, let's talk about car payments. Talk about depressing here.
Here's depressing here. This is the depressing topic here, car payments.
We got on this topic today. I'll tell you why
we got onto the topic. This morning. Car buyers nashally
set a record in the second quarter as more opted
(18:43):
for woppingly Is that a word? Who wrote this? Well?
This comes from the Detroit Free Press by somebody by
the name of Jamie LaRue female whopping lee. Okay, actually
it works, Okay, woppingly long term loans and monthly car
payments that rival some monthly home mortgage bills. Here's the information,
(19:06):
according to data crunch by Edmunds dot com. If you
are familiar with Detroit and cars and all that stuff,
you probably know that Edmunds is a pretty important publication.
Edmunds dot com reports the share of new vehicle buyers
committed to monthly payments of one thousand dollars a month
or more hid an all time high nineteen point three percent,
(19:30):
So nearly one out of every five buying a car
have a car payment this more than one thousand dollars
a month. That's up from seventeen point eight percent a
year ago. In the same quarter, average monthly car payment
is now seven hundred and fifty six dollars. That's up
sixteen dollars from a year before. Edmunds also reporting that
car buyers are taking out longer term loans to achieve
(19:53):
palatable payments. In the quarter, twenty two point four percent
of new vehicle financing loans of eighty four months or longer.
That's a new record, so not quite a quarter, but
almost one fourth of all car loans are taken out
for eighty four months or longer. In the second quarter
(20:15):
last year, eighty four month loans accounted for seventeen point
six percent of new car financing, so that's a big
year to year uptick. So some places, interestingly enough, Detroit
being one of them, kind of bucked the trend on
this stuff. Their payments were lower, in some cases much
lower because of leasing, which is a lower payment. We've
(20:39):
talked about that with the and emlyssing before and employee
discounts because a lot of people work for the car
companies in Detroit and Cleveland, so that's a little bit
different than it is in a lot of other parts
of the country. According to one of the Edmunds director
of insights, it's quote clear that buyers are pulling the
(21:02):
few levers they can control to manage affordability, whether that's
by taking on a longer loan, financing more, putting less
money down, even if some of those decisions increased their
total cost. Edmonds State also showed the bigger loans are
becoming the new normal, with the average amount of finance
for a new vehicle climbing to forty two thousand, three
hundred and eighty eight dollars in the quarter. Again, that's
(21:23):
an all time high, up from forty thousand and eight
to seventy three a year ago. In the quarter of
the average new car loan term was sixty nine point
eight months with a seven point two percent annual percentage rate. Wow,
when's the last time I paid an interest sate that
high in a car loan? I can't even remember. It
(21:45):
was seven point three percent APR year ago. So it's
actually gone down a little bit. But we're financing it
for a longer period of time. So just when you
think that maybe we might beginning clue to a breaking point,
evidently not. I really thought when we got to the
(22:06):
point where you're having to finance a car or truck
for seven or eight years and you have a car
payment that's seven or eight hundred dollars a month, that
that would make people pull back and say, whoa, whoa,
I can't do that. That doesn't make any financial sense
for me to do that. But people are doing it.
(22:26):
People are spending the money. Where they're getting the money,
I'm not sure, but they're spending the money just like we.
You know, we went to this trip to Greece and
the airfare was like the average airfare on that flight
we took was like seven thousand dollars plus and the
plane is chock full, chock full of people. So we
(22:49):
are willing to spend the money. And I don't know
if that's just because we have grown used to having
to spend more, or we're not going to let something
like that keep us from having a good time, or
what the reason is behind it, but we have clearly
decided that, regardless of what it costs, we are willing
to spend the money. So it got me thinking here,
(23:10):
because you know, nossalgia is always fun, especially as it
relates to cars. You probably do you remember your first
car that you actually bought, you know, not the hoopdie
that your mom and dad got you, but the first
legitimate new car or not that old used car that
wasn't a you know, a hooptie that you got in
how much you paid per month for it. My first
(23:33):
car was a seventy four Plymouth gold Dester I know,
I'm dating myself, and the car payment was like ninety
It's either eighty nine or ninety eight dollars a month.
They can't remember between those two. And I remember thinking
at the time that I'd never been responsible for that
much money on a monthly basis, so obviously I'd waited
(23:54):
until I was working, you know, full time, in order
to be able to afford something like that. But but
that was for a brand new car, and obviously, you
know you can't get anything for one hundred bucks a
month anymore. So I was kind of asking the question
on the air, dude, do you all remember what your
first vehicle was and in how much the monthly payment was?
(24:16):
See in spring, my first car payment was about one
a month.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Who I'd love to have that now, Yeah, one eighty
nine a month.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
That works for me. That does, so does two eighty nine,
three eighty nine, forty nine, five eighty nine. You know,
any of those payments worked just fine. It's the thousand
dollars a month. Although I will say this because this
is the way I'm trying to look at it, and
(24:47):
I know everybody's circumstances are different, and I'm just lucky
I can afford to do something like this. But I
recently got a you know, a Chevy Silverado pickup truck,
and the idea was that I'm gonna go ahead and
finance it because they were offering super low interest rate.
Is like one point six percent interest rate. May it's
one point nine percent interest rate, and that's for like
(25:13):
forty eight months. Now, the thing I don't want to
do is be paying forty eight months on the truck.
I want to get it over with sooner. So I
basically I'm doubling up the payments. So instead of paying
it off in four years, I'm gonna be paying it
off in two years. Now. It's painful to do that,
but in two years, I'll have two vehicles that are
in good shape, are relatively young, and I won't owe
(25:37):
any money on them because at some point in time
I'm gonna have to think about whether or not I
want to retire someday, and I don't want to have
a car payment when I retire. So I mean, those
are the kinds of things you, I guess you can do.
You know, if you could afford to do it, that
make a lot of sense, you know, to pay off
the vehicles, to pay them off as quickly as you can.
Then all you have to worry about affording is to
(25:57):
the insurance. The chance that gotten a cheaper either. All right, listen,
y'all have a great day. I'm off to San Diego.
Wish me luck. Is there like a California cooties pill
or something I can take so I don't get infected
while I'm there, I'm not there for long. I'm only
there for like less than forty eight hours and just
fly in, do the rehearsal, rehearsal, dinner, do the wedding,
(26:21):
fly back basically, so I don't intend to be there
long enough to be you know, have to be take
a special you know shot. Is there like a California
COVID shot, you know, not to keep away COVID, but
to keep away the California Liberals off to see Anyway, y'all,
you'll behave yourself. We'll have a couple of best ups
coming up. I'll see you Monday afternoon at four Roday
(26:42):
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