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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
We'll see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by viewind
dot Com.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome to our Monday show.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
We had a lot of fun this morning and this
is worth continuing the conversation this afternoon about accents, accents
which you know many of us are from because we are,
after all, we're in Houston, and uh we are very Cosmopolitans,
said Eve, when people from all over the country. What
got what got me started on this one today is
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this this study that seems to show that the Southern
act sense is in danger of disappearing. The traditional Southern.
Although there's many different Southern accents. Somebody from Texas doesn't
sound the same as somebody from Georgia, for example. They're
completely different. Accents Mississippi, Alabama, they're similar, but they all
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have their little nuances. But a lot of those accents
are disappearing. And the reason is because so many people
from other parts of the country have moved into the
South that you don't hear as many original accents, you know,
born and raised accents as you did before, which I
guess we could say is a shame. You know, I
hate to see accents disappear. We we've got some very
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interesting accents in this country where you know, the Northeast.
For example, Massachusetts sounds so much different than New York,
and New York sounds so much different than than Florida,
and Florida sounds so much different than Alabama, and Alabama
sounds so much different than Texas. And it goes from
place to place to place, and it's very different wherever
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you go. At least it used to be that way. Now.
There's a logical reason for why accents were so prevalent
way back in the day versus now, and that is
when you take somebody, for example, turn to the nineteenth
the eighteenth century, when we turned to nineteen hundred, take
this country in nineteen hundred. There weren't a lot of
ways to get around. The automobile was just getting invented.
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There wasn't a lot of roads. There were trains, but people,
you know, that's what rich people did, traveled on trains.
Most of us didn't. Most of us, we would travel
within fifteen twenty twenty five miles of where we were born.
Some people would never get further than twenty twenty five
miles away from the city they were born in their
entire lives, so they're surrounded with the same people in
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the same accents. And you know, it got handed down
from generation to generation. Now you might be somebody like
me born in Michigan, have moved to Virginia finally got
here to Texas. So that's three different states, three very
different accents.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
The one I was raised with is the Michigan accent,
which to me is no accent at all. Though I'm
guessing a lot of you say you got an accent.
It just I don't think of it as having an accent.
But I was asking all of all of our listeners
this morning to call in accent that you had, that
you lost, accent that you were born and raised with,
you still have even though you live here in Texas.
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And we got some interesting phone calls from people who
are from all over the country and have all sorts
of different kinds of accents.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Good morning, This is Pat from Walla. I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
Now I'm just everybody's saying.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
A car down here.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
It's not a car, it's can We will get you
a car and drive.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Hey, Jimmy, just a stree from Houston, south side of Houston.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I get told all the time that I have a
real bad accent.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I like to think that my Southern drawl has been
replaced with the Texas twang. But there are times when
I forget and say Mississippi as Mississippi.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Hey morning, Jimmy and sky Mike. My name is Dora.
I'm in South Texas. I do not have a Texas twang.
I think I just have an accent that's very much American.
But I live on the border, so I am I lingual.
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So I don't know what do I sound like. You
all tell me.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You sound like a Texican, doesn't she she sounds like
a Texican. I live on the border. You know you
could hear that. That's when the Mexican part of it
creeps in. In other words, it's it sounds like, you know,
regular normal. The way we all pronounce words, and then
you get certain words with the emptis. I live on
the border, so yeah, tech that would be Texican. First guy, though,
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from Walla. Yeah, Boston is h to me. It's a
fun accent, you know. Uh it's like uh, you know
Cliff from Cheers, like, uh, well yeah, uh, you know
pot the car.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Busting yard. You know that those long a's that they
do all right?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So where else do we get calls from from people
from somewhere other than Texas who brought their accent with them.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Good morning?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
This is Stacey from wall Or and I got a
Missouri accent and a lot of people still tell me.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You do got a heavy accent? Hey, what was up? Jimmy?
Speaker 9 (05:29):
I have no idea what I sound like. I've been
here since Oz came here from you know, up there,
and I'm really curious to what I sound like. I've
been told sound like from California, which is oh god,
I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But yeah, well here your thoughts, Mikey.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
You sound like you're from Michigan or Ohio or Illinois
or one of those other midwesterns where you don't really
have an accent per se. It's just kind of a
you know, from places like that. It's it's more about
the phrases the words you use than it is about
the accent itself. But hang on, we've got We've got
a really good accent coming.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
Jerry Sean.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I moved to Wisconsin, and I knew it was time
to leave when I started talking.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Like hey, like you know, hey, Riatta, you.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Know hey, you know I had to move out of
Wisconsin to be normal again.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
Most of my families from New Jersey. And then I
moved to southern California and lived there for like twenty years,
and then I moved to Texas. So now I actually
talk like this. My name is Catherine from West Columbia.
Speaker 12 (06:46):
Can Sean Purry?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Are you something from Louis down in Mississippi?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't know what my accent.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Sounds somewhere from soda.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
John, Yes, you know what?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
But I got to call on a clus on my
feet and that's hope.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Smoke, that's your mama. I said, how you're doing?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Catherine was awesome though, the Jersey girl accent, Oh my goodness.
And then she just turned it off and switched it off.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is that funny? How you can do that?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You know, if you think about it, if you're from
somewhere else and you used to have an accent, you
can you can bring it back. Now that can you
bring it back, But if you go there, like on
vacation or to visit relatives, then just kind of automatically
creeps back, right. I found that that is that that
that's that way for me when I go back and
see friends in Virginia. Virginia has a very it's kind
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of like, well, at least the natives and the same
thing in Virginia. There's not a lot of Native accents left.
Most of them sound like everywhere else. But you run
into somebody who's who's lived there their entire lives and
they're they're older, you know, then you start getting they
have they have a combination of a Southern accent with
the long o's that you hear in Canada. So they
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don't live in a house, they live in a house. House. Yeah,
I'm going to the house, you know that that type
of thing where they could that's kind of what their
accent is, a real Native accent. And of course the
phrases they use, you know, uh, cut on the cut
on the light. You know, you don't turn on the light,
you cut on the light. Those types of things. Anyway,
fun stuff. I find accents fascinating. Quick little break back
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with bo in a moment, Jimmy Bird Show, here a
name in nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All right, what is the biggest.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Best, most unexpected give for no good reason that you
ever got? I think President Trump may have a new
all time biggest best president that he didn't ask for
at least I don't think he asked for it that
he got, and that is he's getting a Boeing seven
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forty seven to eight jumbo jet. Yes, from the Cutter
Royal family evidently is donating this jet. Now is it
a gift or is it like free rent? I'm not
sure how that's working. Do they expect to get the
jet back? The way I understood it was is that
they're giving it to President Trump so he can use
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it for air Force one, because the real Air Force
one goes back to the nineteen nineties, so it's not
exactly state of the art anymore. And this one's evidently
got all the bells and whistles as you would expect,
and loaded to the gills, very plush, and evidently they
are offering to give it to President Trump so he
can convert it into air Force one and then when
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he's done being president, it can become his I have
a jet. I'm not sure how that works, but something
along those lines. So I think it's a little bit
more involved than just getting the plane right. For one thing,
you know, when a when a plane is coming from
a foreign power, from a former former you know, a
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foreign entity, then I would think you're going to have
to do due diligence to make sure there's no spyware
or anything else like that that's on the board that
plane that could have some sort of an impact on
your ability to communicate. And there's a lot of things
on Air Force one that are just not standard most
any other plane. Anyway, they got a National security and
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analyst on his name is hal Kemfer hol Kemfer talking
about this plane from Cutter and the things that are
going to have to happen before you'd actually be able
to use it as Air Force one.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Taking one off the line and then turning that in
Air Force one is shoot and not. The least of
which is the security stuff. What you have to remember
is Air Force one has a lot of different things
in there, but it has to be a completely secure platform.
So there are things that are done to avoid anyone
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if they go if the aircraft was to say, go
dark if you will, so it doesn't it's not emitting,
which it may do for security reasons. It may not
emit so it's more difficult to be tracked. That's not uncommon.
Then they want to avoid make sure there's nothing on
the aircraft that would inadvertently emit, something that would give
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away that the location of the aircraft. Well, you know,
I don't think the Guitaris would do this intentionally, but
I would bet you that anybody look at this aircraft
would try to find ways to get on board and
see creek things could be listing devices, could be emitters,
could be all sorts of.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Technical collection things. If you want to look at the.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Far side of this, you look at when the Russians
off to help us build a new embassy in Moscow
back in the nineteen eighties. They used local Russian labor
and eventually they had to tear the whole thing down
because pretty much the entire building was permeated with listing
devices and technical surveillance things that the Russians have built in.
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You can bet that anyone is going to try and
get access to this aircraft so they can put stuff
in the aircraft. That will provide them some sort of advantage.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So from the.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Very beginning, just from a security standpoint, the technical surveillance
countermeasures folks have got to go through every part of
that aircraft, literally tearing it apart, looking into every crevice,
racked every part of that airframe to make sure there
isn't something in there that could compromise the mission of
air Force one or compromise what's going on in Air
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Force one in some way.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
So, even after you get a plane like that, I mean,
how many multi millions of dollars would you have to
invest just in the things that don't really go into
an air Force one quite quite a bit, right, So,
even even if the plane is free, we're still talking
about you know, multi multi multi million dollar price tag
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in order to be able to, you know, get the
thing the way you want it. And I'm guessing it
doesn't happen overnight either, So I'm not sure. I'm not
sure how that would work. I guess I guess we'll
wait and see what kind of details we get on that.
All right, speaking President Trump, a couple couple of things
he did, I know you're going to be interested in.
One of them involved executive orders. He's got an executive
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order supposedly he's signing today. This is something we we'll
be working on for tomorrow morning, not only on Houston's
Morning News over in KTRH between five and eight, but
also for our afternoon show here on AM nine to
fifty KPRC. And that is the Trump executive order he's
signing today regarding drug prices, where I'm not sure how
this works either, but suposedly he's going to lower drug
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prices by thirty to eighty percent and require the drug
companies do not charge us any more for prescription medications
here in the United States. They do overseas. We already
know that we pay more than anybody else when it
comes to prescription medication, presumably because of the need to
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raise money for research. At least that's the excuse that's
always been. But don't I think it's much more than that.
I think it's just a we can charge more in
the United States because we can, and that's how they
make lots of money. These pharmaceutical companies are doing just fine,
thank you very much. So I'm sure they could drop
drug prices thirty percent and still make a tiny little profit.
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But again, the devil's in the details. We'll see how
this whole thing works out, and that's something we're working
on for tomorrow. But here is a couple of bills
he signed on Friday, one of them both having to
do with last minute, like I think it was Christmas Eve,
last minute Biden administration. You know, let's let's write an
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executive order on this, and these pieces of legislation passed
in Congress would reverse the executive orders that Biden wrote
regarding first of all, water heaters gas water heaters. They
changed the regulation on gas water heaters to make them
well virtually impossible for future production. They want everybody to
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convert to electric. They want no more natural gas water heaters.
So their way around that was to change the regulation
so they became either too cost prohibitive or too difficult
to manufacture, so that American companies could no longer make
them well. President Trump signed a congressional measure that recent
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that and puts gas water heaters back in play.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Yes, mister President, as you said, we have four bills
for your attention today. These are bills that have been
passed by Congress in the closing days of the Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They pushed through.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
A large number of rules and regulations that really hurt
ordinary Americans, including in their own homes. So the first
of these is h JR.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Twenty.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
This is a bill that repeals Biden error regulations relating
to consumer water heaters, consumer gas fired water heaters.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Who is it, JOJ this one?
Speaker 13 (16:32):
This is Gary myself, Sir Gary Palmer sponsored. But this
bill specifically saves a factory in my district. Three hundred
Georgians will continue to have their jobs as soon as
you've sign that, mister.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
President rule was issued on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I'm thinking that we wouldn't be keeping up on what
the Bide administration's doing that we moved quickly to get
this those our gas heaters, who's prevanning natural gas there?
And how are you supposed to get your heat then?
Through Electric's? What I think again was that it basically
electric heat, which.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Isn't is good?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Crazy Sary, hold that on right, hold that out. You
guys were great. It's interest prison no sense, just no sense.
But in addition to that, you have a lot of
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workers that lose their.
Speaker 13 (17:32):
Job rights because of you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Good thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, three hundred workers jobs just yo saved by him.
Signing that executive order. All right, so so what else?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What else?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
What other crazy thing did the Biden administration tried to
pull off the last second? Oh, how about the walk
in freezers and coolers. Here's the president take in care
of that problem.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Next, mister President, we have House Joint Resolution twenty four.
This is the same basic idea, but this relates to
walk in coolers and freezers and other refrigeration devices. Again,
last minute, bidinary regulation that hits ordinary Americans HARDWAEDI.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They put in increasing there's.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
The efficiency requirements for walking schoolers and freezers and therefore
putting an undue burden on businesses across the country, everything
from restaurants to pharmacies, you know, hospitals.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We're all the point where it didn't work.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
In other words, that made the restriction so strong that
it didn't work, and it was going.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
To cost them so much money to actually meet the
energy efficiency standards, which didn't really save much money. So
this is going to actually help our small businesses across
the country instructure.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Many manufacturers would have had to close stoff lines, shut
down the entire lines of businesses. And I just want
to say, we're sending these this was done days before,
days before you took office. They pushed through these regulations.
They didn't think about the cost to businesses. They didn't
put American interest first. They didn't put American businesses first.
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I am so grateful we finally have a president who's
not only walking back these insane burdens, some regulations that
are ultimately going to cost US Americans and American businesses,
but that you are thinking about the next generation. And
as we're leading into Mother's Day, some of us are
trying to parent and serve this country at the same time.
Thank you for welcoming my son who was fifteen with
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his mother serving watching what we're doing for him and
the generations to come. You are making this country stronger
for them.
Speaker 13 (19:47):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Good us.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
Take care of your mom.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah, take care of your MoMA. So Trump like, all right, quick,
litte break. We were back with more, mom and they're
walking for thesuers are safe. Your gas powered propane, gas
powered water heater is safe. To back with more in
a moment, Jimmy Bairt show here on AM nine point
fifty KPRC. All Right, the city of Houston has started
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cracking down on something Finally, I don't know what to
make of the timing here. I don't know if it
has anything to do with the finally getting some police
officer raises and and the and the much better relationship
we have now between the Mayor's office and between the
Houston Police Department. Maybe that's got something to do with it.
Maybe it's just the situation where that this has finally
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gotten to be enough of a problem where the citizens
are complaining, and I would think they would, And I'm
talking about these these pop up clubs or bars, whatever
it is you want to call them. They just show
up in empty buildings all around the city. And you
know what they do is basically, it's it's a bar.
It's it's you know, they're playing music. It's it's a club.
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It's a bar that's open starting at two o'clock in
the morning when the regular bars in nightclubs shut down.
Because evidently partying until two o'clock in the morning is
not enough for a lot of people. Uh now, we
need somewhere, We need somewhere else where we can go
and continue getting drunk, taking drugs and maybe hiring a
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prostitute or something like that. That's what's going on at
these at these at these clubs, these illegal clubs, after
hours clubs, and you know you've got crime connected with it.
Certainly prostitution is still considered a crime. You know, drugs
are considered a crime. You've got people who are probably
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have already had too much to drink or having even
that much more to drink and causing traffic accidents and
in other issues and problems. And I realize in the
city as big as Houston, it's hard sometimes to find
these people. Somehow they manage to get away with doing
this in many cases. And I don't know that it
was a top priority for the police department until now,
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and now it is Mayor Whitmyer, I think has made
it a top priority. So Mayor Whitmyer, to his credit,
I mean, the guy's older than I am. He's out
at three o'clock in the morning. I may wake up
at three o'clock in the morning, but that's because I
went to bed at seven o'clock last night. So I'm
not sure how he's doing it as far as his
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stamina goes, you know. But he was out there checking
out what they were doing this weekend with a couple
of raids that they were doing. Here's the report from
our television partner KPRC too well.
Speaker 15 (22:45):
Several law enforcement agencies were out here in this shopping
center parking lot for several hours doing those raids, and
Mayor John Whitmyer even came out to see the progress
of it.
Speaker 16 (22:55):
I wanted to do it his first hand for myself
the dangers to Houston. Certainly, I want to recognize our
first responders, Houston Police Department. You know, these officers have families,
but they're out here tonight protecting Houstonians.
Speaker 15 (23:14):
The raids were conducted at La Zona Bar and Lounge
also known as Zona forty five and Lows Corales South,
both at the same time. Multiple people were detained and
several guns and drugs were also found. Houston City Council
has been working to crack down on these type of
after hours bars, as they say they're becoming a growing concern,
including an incident when six people were shot at one recently.
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City leaders say fines aren't enough to stop them. Ther Whitmeyer,
who came out, commended law enforcement for their work in
shutting clubs like this down.
Speaker 16 (23:46):
I've never been more proud to recognize their hard work,
they put their laves on the line.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
They go in clubs like this.
Speaker 17 (23:55):
That are illegal drugs, all types of illegal activity, and
they're putting us stop to it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So we have the legitimate businesses that close at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
In the morning, and the young people making bad.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Decisions come here between two and four in the morning
continuing to drink where no one is regulating their consumption
of alcohol.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
Now, Chief no DS who just heard there, told us
at HPD in total made twenty arrests during these raids.
Houston married John Whitmyer says he's going to take what
he learned from over nine two city council to again.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Try to shut down these after hours clubs. All right,
young people making bad decisions? Is that what they said? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Can you think of a good decision that ever got
made between two and four in the morning, I mean
a good decision. I guess there's bound to be a few,
but not very many. What was it? My dad always
used to say, nothing good ever happens at two o'clock
in the morning. I think that's true. My alarm goes
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off at two fifteen in the morning. That's never good.
I drive to work between you know, two forty and
you know, three twenty in the morning. That's that usually
goes okay, But I'm awake by then. I've gotten up
and I've thrown some water on my face, and yeah,
I got dressed and I'm ready to roll. I'm awake
at that point. But there's a lot of people that
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are up at two o'clock in the morning. Or if
you're not I mean, if you're not like me getting
up to go pee or something, if you're if you're
out of the house, if you if you're not in
your home safely in bed by midnight, then the chance
of something really bad happening to you goes up exponentially.
Nothing good, ever, happens between two and four of the morning.
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And it would be interesting to me, you know, to
talk to some of these young people who are out
at three o'clock in the morning at an after hours club,
you know, where there is again prostitution going on, in
illegal drug use, and firearms. I assume they realize that
when they go to these places, right, what's the attraction?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
How many?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
How many levels of drunk do you need to be
when you think that going somewhere else at two o'clock
in the morning because the bar is closed, is a
good idea other than going home or going to somebody
else's house, if you know what I mean. Yeah, no
good decisions get made at that hour of the day.
All right, listen, y'all have a great day. Thank you
for listening. Happy Monday. I'll talk to you tomorrow morning,
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bright early, starting at five AM over our news radio
seven forty KTRH.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
We are back here at four on a nine fifty
KTRC
Speaker 4 (27:00):
AL
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
We'll see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome to our Monday show.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
We had a lot of fun this morning and this
is worth continuing the conversation this afternoon about accents, accents
which you know many of us are from because we are,
after all, we're in Houston, and uh we are very Cosmopolitans,
said Eve, when people from all over the country. What
got what got me started on this one today is
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this this study that seems to show that the Southern
act sense is in danger of disappearing. The traditional Southern.
Although there's many different Southern accents. Somebody from Texas doesn't
sound the same as somebody from Georgia, for example. They're
completely different. Accents Mississippi, Alabama, they're similar, but they all
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have their little nuances. But a lot of those accents
are disappearing. And the reason is because so many people
from other parts of the country have moved into the
South that you don't hear as many original accents, you know,
born and raised accents as you did before, which I
guess we could say is a shame. You know, I
hate to see accents disappear. We we've got some very
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interesting accents in this country where you know, the Northeast.
For example, Massachusetts sounds so much different than New York,
and New York sounds so much different than than Florida,
and Florida sounds so much different than Alabama, and Alabama
sounds so much different than Texas. And it goes from
place to place to place, and it's very different wherever
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you go. At least it used to be that way. Now.
There's a logical reason for why accents were so prevalent
way back in the day versus now, and that is
when you take somebody, for example, turn to the nineteenth
the eighteenth century, when we turned to nineteen hundred, take
this country in nineteen hundred. There weren't a lot of
ways to get around. The automobile was just getting invented.
(02:23):
There wasn't a lot of roads. There were trains, but people,
you know, that's what rich people did, traveled on trains.
Most of us didn't. Most of us, we would travel
within fifteen twenty twenty five miles of where we were born.
Some people would never get further than twenty twenty five
miles away from the city they were born in their
entire lives, so they're surrounded with the same people in
(02:47):
the same accents. And you know, it got handed down
from generation to generation. Now you might be somebody like
me born in Michigan, have moved to Virginia finally got
here to Texas. So that's three different states, three very
different accents.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
The one I was raised with is the Michigan accent,
which to me is no accent at all. Though I'm
guessing a lot of you say you got an accent.
It just I don't think of it as having an accent.
But I was asking all of all of our listeners
this morning to call in accent that you had, that
you lost, accent that you were born and raised with,
you still have even though you live here in Texas.
(03:26):
And we got some interesting phone calls from people who
are from all over the country and have all sorts
of different kinds of accents.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Good morning, This is Pat from Walla. I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
Now I'm just everybody's saying.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
A car down here.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
It's not a car, it's can We will get you
a car and drive.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Hey, Jimmy, just a stree from Houston, south side of Houston.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I get told all the time that I have a
real bad accent.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
I like to think that my Southern drawl has been
replaced with the Texas twang. But there are times when
I forget and say Mississippi as Mississippi.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Hey morning, Jimmy and sky Mike. My name is Dora.
I'm in South Texas. I do not have a Texas twang.
I think I just have an accent that's very much American.
But I live on the border, so I am I lingual.
(04:26):
So I don't know what do I sound like. You
all tell me.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You sound like a Texican, doesn't she she sounds like
a Texican. I live on the border. You know you
could hear that. That's when the Mexican part of it
creeps in. In other words, it's it sounds like, you know,
regular normal. The way we all pronounce words, and then
you get certain words with the emptis. I live on
the border, so yeah, tech that would be Texican. First guy, though,
(04:53):
from Walla. Yeah, Boston is h to me. It's a
fun accent, you know. Uh it's like uh, you know
Cliff from Cheers, like, uh, well yeah, uh, you know
pot the car.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Busting yard. You know that those long a's that they
do all right?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So where else do we get calls from from people
from somewhere other than Texas who brought their accent with them.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Good morning?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
This is Stacey from wall Or and I got a
Missouri accent and a lot of people still tell me.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You do got a heavy accent? Hey, what was up? Jimmy?
Speaker 9 (05:29):
I have no idea what I sound like. I've been
here since Oz came here from you know, up there,
and I'm really curious to what I sound like. I've
been told sound like from California, which is oh god,
I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But yeah, well here your thoughts, Mikey.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
You sound like you're from Michigan or Ohio or Illinois
or one of those other midwesterns where you don't really
have an accent per se. It's just kind of a
you know, from places like that. It's it's more about
the phrases the words you use than it is about
the accent itself. But hang on, we've got We've got
a really good accent coming.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
Jerry Sean.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I moved to Wisconsin, and I knew it was time
to leave when I started talking.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Like hey, like you know, hey, Riatta, you.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Know hey, you know I had to move out of
Wisconsin to be normal again.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
Most of my families from New Jersey. And then I
moved to southern California and lived there for like twenty years,
and then I moved to Texas. So now I actually
talk like this. My name is Catherine from West Columbia.
Speaker 12 (06:46):
Can Sean Purry?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Are you something from Louis down in Mississippi?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't know what my accent.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Sounds somewhere from soda.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
John, Yes, you know what?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
But I got to call on a clus on my
feet and that's hope.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Smoke, that's your mama. I said, how you're doing?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Catherine was awesome though, the Jersey girl accent, Oh my goodness.
And then she just turned it off and switched it off.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is that funny? How you can do that?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You know, if you think about it, if you're from
somewhere else and you used to have an accent, you
can you can bring it back. Now that can you
bring it back, But if you go there, like on
vacation or to visit relatives, then just kind of automatically
creeps back, right. I found that that is that that
that's that way for me when I go back and
see friends in Virginia. Virginia has a very it's kind
(07:45):
of like, well, at least the natives and the same
thing in Virginia. There's not a lot of Native accents left.
Most of them sound like everywhere else. But you run
into somebody who's who's lived there their entire lives and
they're they're older, you know, then you start getting they
have they have a combination of a Southern accent with
the long o's that you hear in Canada. So they
(08:06):
don't live in a house, they live in a house. House. Yeah,
I'm going to the house, you know that that type
of thing where they could that's kind of what their
accent is, a real Native accent. And of course the
phrases they use, you know, uh, cut on the cut
on the light. You know, you don't turn on the light,
you cut on the light. Those types of things. Anyway,
fun stuff. I find accents fascinating. Quick little break back
(08:28):
with bo in a moment, Jimmy Bird Show, here a
name in nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All right, what is the biggest.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Best, most unexpected give for no good reason that you
ever got? I think President Trump may have a new
all time biggest best president that he didn't ask for
at least I don't think he asked for it that
he got, and that is he's getting a Boeing seven
(09:15):
forty seven to eight jumbo jet. Yes, from the Cutter
Royal family evidently is donating this jet. Now is it
a gift or is it like free rent? I'm not
sure how that's working. Do they expect to get the
jet back? The way I understood it was is that
they're giving it to President Trump so he can use
(09:35):
it for air Force one, because the real Air Force
one goes back to the nineteen nineties, so it's not
exactly state of the art anymore. And this one's evidently
got all the bells and whistles as you would expect,
and loaded to the gills, very plush, and evidently they
are offering to give it to President Trump so he
can convert it into air Force one and then when
(09:58):
he's done being president, it can become his I have
a jet. I'm not sure how that works, but something
along those lines. So I think it's a little bit
more involved than just getting the plane right. For one thing,
you know, when a when a plane is coming from
a foreign power, from a former former you know, a
(10:19):
foreign entity, then I would think you're going to have
to do due diligence to make sure there's no spyware
or anything else like that that's on the board that
plane that could have some sort of an impact on
your ability to communicate. And there's a lot of things
on Air Force one that are just not standard most
any other plane. Anyway, they got a National security and
(10:43):
analyst on his name is hal Kemfer hol Kemfer talking
about this plane from Cutter and the things that are
going to have to happen before you'd actually be able
to use it as Air Force one.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Taking one off the line and then turning that in
Air Force one is shoot and not. The least of
which is the security stuff. What you have to remember
is Air Force one has a lot of different things
in there, but it has to be a completely secure platform.
So there are things that are done to avoid anyone
(11:15):
if they go if the aircraft was to say, go
dark if you will, so it doesn't it's not emitting,
which it may do for security reasons. It may not
emit so it's more difficult to be tracked. That's not uncommon.
Then they want to avoid make sure there's nothing on
the aircraft that would inadvertently emit, something that would give
(11:37):
away that the location of the aircraft. Well, you know,
I don't think the Guitaris would do this intentionally, but
I would bet you that anybody look at this aircraft
would try to find ways to get on board and
see creek things could be listing devices, could be emitters,
could be all sorts of.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Technical collection things. If you want to look at the.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Far side of this, you look at when the Russians
off to help us build a new embassy in Moscow
back in the nineteen eighties. They used local Russian labor
and eventually they had to tear the whole thing down
because pretty much the entire building was permeated with listing
devices and technical surveillance things that the Russians have built in.
(12:20):
You can bet that anyone is going to try and
get access to this aircraft so they can put stuff
in the aircraft. That will provide them some sort of advantage.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So from the.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Very beginning, just from a security standpoint, the technical surveillance
countermeasures folks have got to go through every part of
that aircraft, literally tearing it apart, looking into every crevice,
racked every part of that airframe to make sure there
isn't something in there that could compromise the mission of
air Force one or compromise what's going on in Air
(12:51):
Force one in some way.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
So, even after you get a plane like that, I mean,
how many multi millions of dollars would you have to
invest just in the things that don't really go into
an air Force one quite quite a bit, right, So,
even even if the plane is free, we're still talking
about you know, multi multi multi million dollar price tag
(13:18):
in order to be able to, you know, get the
thing the way you want it. And I'm guessing it
doesn't happen overnight either, So I'm not sure. I'm not
sure how that would work. I guess I guess we'll
wait and see what kind of details we get on that.
All right, speaking President Trump, a couple couple of things
he did, I know you're going to be interested in.
One of them involved executive orders. He's got an executive
(13:40):
order supposedly he's signing today. This is something we we'll
be working on for tomorrow morning, not only on Houston's
Morning News over in KTRH between five and eight, but
also for our afternoon show here on AM nine to
fifty KPRC. And that is the Trump executive order he's
signing today regarding drug prices, where I'm not sure how
this works either, but suposedly he's going to lower drug
(14:03):
prices by thirty to eighty percent and require the drug
companies do not charge us any more for prescription medications
here in the United States. They do overseas. We already
know that we pay more than anybody else when it
comes to prescription medication, presumably because of the need to
(14:25):
raise money for research. At least that's the excuse that's
always been. But don't I think it's much more than that.
I think it's just a we can charge more in
the United States because we can, and that's how they
make lots of money. These pharmaceutical companies are doing just fine,
thank you very much. So I'm sure they could drop
drug prices thirty percent and still make a tiny little profit.
(14:47):
But again, the devil's in the details. We'll see how
this whole thing works out, and that's something we're working
on for tomorrow. But here is a couple of bills
he signed on Friday, one of them both having to
do with last minute, like I think it was Christmas Eve,
last minute Biden administration. You know, let's let's write an
(15:12):
executive order on this, and these pieces of legislation passed
in Congress would reverse the executive orders that Biden wrote
regarding first of all, water heaters gas water heaters. They
changed the regulation on gas water heaters to make them
well virtually impossible for future production. They want everybody to
(15:37):
convert to electric. They want no more natural gas water heaters.
So their way around that was to change the regulation
so they became either too cost prohibitive or too difficult
to manufacture, so that American companies could no longer make
them well. President Trump signed a congressional measure that recent
(16:00):
that and puts gas water heaters back in play.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Yes, mister President, as you said, we have four bills
for your attention today. These are bills that have been
passed by Congress in the closing days of the Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They pushed through.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
A large number of rules and regulations that really hurt
ordinary Americans, including in their own homes. So the first
of these is h JR.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Twenty.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
This is a bill that repeals Biden error regulations relating
to consumer water heaters, consumer gas fired water heaters.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Who is it, JOJ this one?
Speaker 13 (16:32):
This is Gary myself, Sir Gary Palmer sponsored. But this
bill specifically saves a factory in my district. Three hundred
Georgians will continue to have their jobs as soon as
you've sign that, mister.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
President rule was issued on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I'm thinking that we wouldn't be keeping up on what
the Bide administration's doing that we moved quickly to get
this those our gas heaters, who's prevanning natural gas there?
And how are you supposed to get your heat then?
Through Electric's? What I think again was that it basically
electric heat, which.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Isn't is good?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Crazy Sary, hold that on right, hold that out. You
guys were great. It's interest prison no sense, just no sense.
But in addition to that, you have a lot of
(17:31):
workers that lose their.
Speaker 13 (17:32):
Job rights because of you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Good thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, three hundred workers jobs just yo saved by him.
Signing that executive order. All right, so so what else?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What else?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
What other crazy thing did the Biden administration tried to
pull off the last second? Oh, how about the walk
in freezers and coolers. Here's the president take in care
of that problem.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Next, mister President, we have House Joint Resolution twenty four.
This is the same basic idea, but this relates to
walk in coolers and freezers and other refrigeration devices. Again,
last minute, bidinary regulation that hits ordinary Americans HARDWAEDI.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They put in increasing there's.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
The efficiency requirements for walking schoolers and freezers and therefore
putting an undue burden on businesses across the country, everything
from restaurants to pharmacies, you know, hospitals.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We're all the point where it didn't work.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
In other words, that made the restriction so strong that
it didn't work, and it was going.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
To cost them so much money to actually meet the
energy efficiency standards, which didn't really save much money. So
this is going to actually help our small businesses across
the country instructure.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
Many manufacturers would have had to close stoff lines, shut
down the entire lines of businesses. And I just want
to say, we're sending these this was done days before,
days before you took office. They pushed through these regulations.
They didn't think about the cost to businesses. They didn't
put American interest first. They didn't put American businesses first.
(19:18):
I am so grateful we finally have a president who's
not only walking back these insane burdens, some regulations that
are ultimately going to cost US Americans and American businesses,
but that you are thinking about the next generation. And
as we're leading into Mother's Day, some of us are
trying to parent and serve this country at the same time.
Thank you for welcoming my son who was fifteen with
(19:41):
his mother serving watching what we're doing for him and
the generations to come. You are making this country stronger
for them.
Speaker 13 (19:47):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Good us.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
Take care of your mom.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah, take care of your MoMA. So Trump like, all right, quick,
litte break. We were back with more, mom and they're
walking for thesuers are safe. Your gas powered propane, gas
powered water heater is safe. To back with more in
a moment, Jimmy Bairt show here on AM nine point
fifty KPRC. All Right, the city of Houston has started
(20:24):
cracking down on something Finally, I don't know what to
make of the timing here. I don't know if it
has anything to do with the finally getting some police
officer raises and and the and the much better relationship
we have now between the Mayor's office and between the
Houston Police Department. Maybe that's got something to do with it.
Maybe it's just the situation where that this has finally
(20:46):
gotten to be enough of a problem where the citizens
are complaining, and I would think they would, And I'm
talking about these these pop up clubs or bars, whatever
it is you want to call them. They just show
up in empty buildings all around the city. And you
know what they do is basically, it's it's a bar.
It's it's you know, they're playing music. It's it's a club.
(21:08):
It's a bar that's open starting at two o'clock in
the morning when the regular bars in nightclubs shut down.
Because evidently partying until two o'clock in the morning is
not enough for a lot of people. Uh now, we
need somewhere, We need somewhere else where we can go
and continue getting drunk, taking drugs and maybe hiring a
(21:30):
prostitute or something like that. That's what's going on at
these at these at these clubs, these illegal clubs, after
hours clubs, and you know you've got crime connected with it.
Certainly prostitution is still considered a crime. You know, drugs
are considered a crime. You've got people who are probably
(21:50):
have already had too much to drink or having even
that much more to drink and causing traffic accidents and
in other issues and problems. And I realize in the
city as big as Houston, it's hard sometimes to find
these people. Somehow they manage to get away with doing
this in many cases. And I don't know that it
was a top priority for the police department until now,
(22:13):
and now it is Mayor Whitmyer, I think has made
it a top priority. So Mayor Whitmyer, to his credit,
I mean, the guy's older than I am. He's out
at three o'clock in the morning. I may wake up
at three o'clock in the morning, but that's because I
went to bed at seven o'clock last night. So I'm
not sure how he's doing it as far as his
(22:34):
stamina goes, you know. But he was out there checking
out what they were doing this weekend with a couple
of raids that they were doing. Here's the report from
our television partner KPRC too well.
Speaker 15 (22:45):
Several law enforcement agencies were out here in this shopping
center parking lot for several hours doing those raids, and
Mayor John Whitmyer even came out to see the progress
of it.
Speaker 16 (22:55):
I wanted to do it his first hand for myself
the dangers to Houston. Certainly, I want to recognize our
first responders, Houston Police Department. You know, these officers have families,
but they're out here tonight protecting Houstonians.
Speaker 15 (23:14):
The raids were conducted at La Zona Bar and Lounge
also known as Zona forty five and Lows Corales South,
both at the same time. Multiple people were detained and
several guns and drugs were also found. Houston City Council
has been working to crack down on these type of
after hours bars, as they say they're becoming a growing concern,
including an incident when six people were shot at one recently.
(23:37):
City leaders say fines aren't enough to stop them. Ther Whitmeyer,
who came out, commended law enforcement for their work in
shutting clubs like this down.
Speaker 16 (23:46):
I've never been more proud to recognize their hard work,
they put their laves on the line.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
They go in clubs like this.
Speaker 17 (23:55):
That are illegal drugs, all types of illegal activity, and
they're putting us stop to it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So we have the legitimate businesses that close at two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
In the morning, and the young people making bad.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Decisions come here between two and four in the morning
continuing to drink where no one is regulating their consumption
of alcohol.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
Now, Chief no DS who just heard there, told us
at HPD in total made twenty arrests during these raids.
Houston married John Whitmyer says he's going to take what
he learned from over nine two city council to again.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Try to shut down these after hours clubs. All right,
young people making bad decisions? Is that what they said? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Can you think of a good decision that ever got
made between two and four in the morning, I mean
a good decision. I guess there's bound to be a few,
but not very many. What was it? My dad always
used to say, nothing good ever happens at two o'clock
in the morning. I think that's true. My alarm goes
(25:08):
off at two fifteen in the morning. That's never good.
I drive to work between you know, two forty and
you know, three twenty in the morning. That's that usually
goes okay, But I'm awake by then. I've gotten up
and I've thrown some water on my face, and yeah,
I got dressed and I'm ready to roll. I'm awake
at that point. But there's a lot of people that
(25:29):
are up at two o'clock in the morning. Or if
you're not I mean, if you're not like me getting
up to go pee or something, if you're if you're
out of the house, if you if you're not in
your home safely in bed by midnight, then the chance
of something really bad happening to you goes up exponentially.
Nothing good, ever, happens between two and four of the morning.
(25:53):
And it would be interesting to me, you know, to
talk to some of these young people who are out
at three o'clock in the morning at an after hours club,
you know, where there is again prostitution going on, in
illegal drug use, and firearms. I assume they realize that
when they go to these places, right, what's the attraction?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
How many?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
How many levels of drunk do you need to be
when you think that going somewhere else at two o'clock
in the morning because the bar is closed, is a
good idea other than going home or going to somebody
else's house, if you know what I mean. Yeah, no
good decisions get made at that hour of the day.
All right, listen, y'all have a great day. Thank you
for listening. Happy Monday. I'll talk to you tomorrow morning,
(26:39):
bright early, starting at five AM over our news radio
seven forty KTRH.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
We are back here at four on a nine fifty
KTRC
Speaker 4 (27:00):
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