November 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- The box office is hurting
- Trump goes on 60 Minutes
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right to start off on our show with the
movies today, because the October box office figure for twenty
twenty five. October twenty twenty five just came out and
it showed that we quote unquote had the worst October
since nineteen excluding COVID in twenty twenty the pandemic year
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since nineteen ninety seven. But that's not really true because
this October was a much worse than it was in
October of nineteen ninety seven. They had compared the dollars.
They only made like three hundred and fifteen million dollars
in October of nineteen ninety seven and the number of
something like four hundred and twelve maybe it might have
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been four hundred and fifty five million dollars this year.
I think it was four fifty five, But that's comparing
nineteen ninety seven dollars to twenty twenty five dollars, And
if you figure in inflation, that three hundred and fifteen
million is about twice as much as as the three
hundred and fifteen So you're talking about, you know, almost
seven hundred million dollars in box office when adjusted for inflation,
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compared to less than five hundred million dollars. So actually
October of twenty twenty five was much worse than October
of twenty twenty seven. But then again, you take a
look at the list of movies they came out number one.
Just about all of them had bombed or flops, including
the Springsteen biopic Is Is flopped. Nobody cares about going
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to see that. Nobody cares about any of the movies
that they are out. Most of the other movies I came,
you know, I saw the list, but none of them
even strike me as being familiar. So blockbuster movies are
pretty hard to come by. Movies that have got a buzz,
that have everybody talking, that are the things that we
all could go get interested in seeing because they're not
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preachy and they're not trying to run, you know, run
far left politics than our throat and they're not woke
and all the other things that we've learned to hate
about Hollywood. There's nothing out there. There's just nothing out there.
So my question of the day today on KTRH was
the last movie you went to see that you actually
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got out of your seat, went to a movie theater,
plopped down good money, bought the popcorn, did the whole thing,
and went to see. As it turns out, most of
us have not been to a movie in a long,
long time. Last movie I went to, and I think
it was just because we were bored that weekend and
we thought, okay, it's about Elton John, this might be
kind of interesting was Rocketman and the guy who played
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Elton John. The movie is very very good. The content
of the movie, as it turned out, there's a lot
of gay sex going on, and although I will say
they for the most part, they handled it pretty well.
In elt John's gay I mean, you know, when you
go to the movie, there's gonna be a gay theme
involved because Elton John's gay, and it did not dominate
the movie. It was more about his career and his
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relationship with his parents, horrible relationship with his parents, especially
his father, and you could see how he ended up
the way he did in a lot addicted to drugs,
and how he came through on all those things. So
it was an interesting story and I didn't mind watching it,
and it was actually a pretty decent movie. But that's
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the movie I actually took a chance on and went
to the theaters and spent good money to go see. Post
the same question to our listeners, last time you went
to the movies, what you saw, whether or not it
was worth it? I mean, and I'm not talking about
streaming a movie, because we stream movies all the lot
of us stream movies all the time, you actually took
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the trouble to go to a movie theater to go
see it.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
To Jimmy, I can only speak for myself. The only
reason I haven't seen a movie recently is because all
they keep coming out is just pure crap, nothing but crap,
A lot of woke crap and a lot of crap
that is totally meaningless. Because I think more than half
of the nation has rejected Hollywood at this point. Now,
I will say I will keep an eye on Angel
Studios because they got something coming up about the life
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of George Washington just in time for two hundred and
fifty eighth birthday of our country.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'll probably look into that.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Indeed.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
From Katie, the last movie I saw was Elvis and
it was terrific.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'll probably never go back to the movies ever again.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Skip from Webster. It's been over ten years.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yes, it's a combination.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
They're weird politics and basically the stories are all lame
and they've been told one hundred times over the predictable
and they just sucked.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
The last movie I saw was The Forge, and that
was back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's a Christian movie.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Okay, there're gonna be exceptions obviously, you know, more family friendly, fair,
but but that's that's what I'm curious is what what
movie did you go see? What?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You know?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
What? What got you to go that kind of thing.
But for the most part, people really haven't been to
the movies very much.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
Yeah, it's Jason from Spring. Last movie I went to
was a midnight release of one of the Star Wars
movies in two thousand and five. It's just not worth
going to the movies anymore. All they do is just
remake stuff. It's expensive, it's just not worth It'd rather
just wait for something to come on cable, and really,
even when it comes on cable, they just all they
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do is defeat movies and they're stupid.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Tracy and Cyprus. We like to go to movies that
you don't really have to think a whole lot. So
the last one we saw was the most recent Naked
Gun with Liam Neeson. It was hilarious. We'll go see
Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible. Of course, we saw Top Gun,
Maverick and Anything James Bond seven. We are going to
be the first in line. Other than that, Nope, staying home.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's Allison in Lake City. I recently saw the re
release of Jaws for its fiftieth anniversary in the theater.
I had food and popcorn and cocktails and great company
and the whole experience was amazing. But so is Jaws. Donna, Donna,
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you'all have a great day.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Dun you think about when you think about it. I mean,
that was a blockbuster. That was a blockbuster movie when
Jaws came out. But when you think about it, maybe
the problem is Steven Spielberg's not making many movies anymore.
Maybe that's part of the problem. That was his Et
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the Extraterrestrial that was his Close Encounters of the Third
Kind that was his. I saw all those movies when
they came out, and they were they were awesome. And
I think, though, but I think back, she's describing Jaws,
how much he the fifth fiftieth anniversary, think about the mechanics,
how the how the special effects have changed since the
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original Jaw and Sharks and original Shark and Jaws, I
should say, And it's you know, today it looks pretty
hokey because they can do so many things, you know,
computer generated things that look much more realistic. But but
back then they had to rely on mechanics. And somehow
that movie did exactly what it was meant to do.
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Scare the crap out of you, all right, anybody else?
Speaker 11 (07:51):
Last movie that we went to see was the New
Top Gun movie.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It was awesome.
Speaker 12 (07:58):
It's Sami Cycho from Sprung. Last movie that I saw
was The City of Dreams. They had to do a
lot with the child exportation and child labor and child's abuse,
and I just wanted that movie to get out there
to the masses so more people were aware of what.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Was going on.
Speaker 13 (08:18):
Hey, Dave on Lake conrel Man. I can remember going
when my mom and dad would take me and my
brothers to see We saw Mary Poppins at the drive
in theater, and then my mom would take us to
Garden Oaks Theater over there and drop us off. And
we'd watched a Legend of Boggie Creek about two or
three times. But the last one since then was I
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think seventy seven Jaws Man, and then I have not
been to a theater after.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That, Andy from Spring.
Speaker 11 (08:45):
The last movie my wife and I went to see
was Beverly Hills Cop two in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Wow, Wow, nineteen eighty seven, oh man, and I thought,
I haven't been to the movies in a long long time.
He brought back the one call. It brought back a
fond memory. Though I remember driving movies, remember going the
drive in as a kid. Do you ever do that?
Were drive ins around when you were a kid. They
were around when I was a kid, and we used
to I remember, you know, my parents would get us
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all address in our pjs and we go to see
some Disney movie or something, when when Disney was actually
wholesome and fun and everybody liked to go and h
you know, my sisters who were younger than me, would
always fall asleep, and I never did. But man, I'm
too busy a bunch of on the popcorn and enjoying
the show. And then as a young adult, a very
very is a teen, I should say. You know, there
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were a few drivers drive ins were starting to phase out.
There weren't very many of them left, but I remember
taking a few dates to to the drive in. But
it wasn't because I was interested in watching the movie.
That was more interested in making out. Okay, let's grab
just a couple more before we wrap this one up up.
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My bad, I hit the button too hard that time,
didn't use my little finger. Let's try that again.
Speaker 14 (10:06):
Hey, Jimmy, it's Jason from San Antonio. Out of sheer boredom,
I went to see Tron this weekend. I have no
idea about the storyline. All I know is that I
checked out for about two hours. I didn't think about
anything else except just sitting there watching some mindless entertainment.
Speaker 15 (10:23):
I hate popcorn.
Speaker 14 (10:25):
The movie ticket was only about eleven bucks, and it
wasn't a terrible movie, but it wasn't all that great either.
Speaker 16 (10:32):
This is Etna from Summerwood, the last movie I believe
if I remember correctly, that we went to see in
the theater was john Wick four. And honestly, I didn't
know it was possible for something to suck and blow
at the same time, but this movie proved that it is.
I fell asleep halfway through it. I mean, seriously, who
can fall from a building, get hit by cars and
fight all those people? I sleep wrong and can't get
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out of bed anyway, It's totally unrealistic and boring.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
This is Laurie from Whinny and the last me I
fay to see if the theater was taking my family
to see the Sound of Freedom. Okay, that's just too
expensive to go to the theater.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah, it is a little pricey, I will admit that.
I'm I'm just thinking back to edit with john Wick four.
I think your clue that that one was going to
suck is that is john Wick four. This is the
fourth movie. I mean, is it possible that there's any
ideas left that are worth watching by the time you
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get to version number four?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Probably not? All right, quick little break back with bal
in a moment Jimmy Verrett show here at the AM
nine fifty KPRC. All right, President Trump sat down for
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an interview with sixty minutes. I'm not sure in this
interview with States within the last few days, I think,
and I'm really I don't know why. I'm more surprised
that the Trump was said, well, I'm not surprised that
Trump was sit down with the crew from sixty minutes.
I am surprised that sixty minutes would want to have
him on as a guest, given the fact that they
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have already they've spent tens of millions of dollars settling
in a lawsuit with the guy, you know, for how
they screwed him over in the past. Maybe they're just
trying to recoup some of their investment by having him on.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
By the way, he.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Talked about a whole variety of different topics, And I
think that Norah O'Donnell, who did the interview, she was
being a little feisty with him from time to time,
but she was also very very careful in the things
that she said. I'm sure she had very strict instructions
to not do anything that's going to get them suited again,
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and therefore it made for a pretty interesting interview. One
of the more and I'll share a couple of different
things from the interview with you. But let's start with
this one. Here is President Trump getting asked about the
government shutdown, and along with it the reason, the stated
reason by Democrats, which is healthcare. That's why they're shutting
down the government is over healthcare. So here's President Trump
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with Norah O'Donnell discussing all this.
Speaker 17 (13:23):
Mister President, we've talked about foreign policy. Now let's focus
on issues here at home, some of that you have
already mentioned. We are now approaching the longest shutdown in
American history, democraps world under your presidency. We're talking about
more than a million federal workers who are not getting
a paycheck, including our air traffic controllers. You see, there's
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traffic snarls out at the airports.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Now.
Speaker 17 (13:46):
This weekend, food aid for more than forty two million
Americans is set to expire. What are you doing, as
president to end the shutdown?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, we're doing is we keep voting.
Speaker 18 (13:58):
I mean, the Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it,
and the Democrats keep voting against ending it. You know,
they've never had this, This has happened like eighteen times
before that. Democrats always voted for an extension. Always saying
give us an extension, we'll work it out. They've lost
their way, They've become crazed lunatics. And all they have
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to do, Nora is say let's vote and you can
open the economy could open up.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
During our interview, is there something you do?
Speaker 17 (14:27):
Is there something you une facts?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Here's what I can't do.
Speaker 18 (14:32):
I can't give them a trillion and a half dollars
so that they can give welfare to people that came
into our country illegally, so that prisoners and that people
from mental institutions and people that are drug dealers get
vast amounts of money for health care.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
That I can't do.
Speaker 18 (14:49):
What I can do is I can continue to run
a great country. We have the best economy we've ever had.
I can continue to do that. What they should do. Look,
we started a long time ago. I always said, and
you know I've been very consistent, Obamacare is terrible. It's
bad health care at far too high a price.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We should fix that.
Speaker 18 (15:12):
We should fix it, and we can fix it with
the Democrats. All they have to do is let the
country open and we'll fix it. They have to know
that the country and I'll sit down with the Democrats
and we'll fix it.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
But they have to let the country and you know
what that wan to do. All they have to do
is raise five hands. We don't need all of them.
Speaker 17 (15:29):
But so you're saying your plan is to tell the
Democrats to vote to end the shutdown, for example, and
that you will put forward a health care plan.
Speaker 18 (15:38):
No, we will work on fixing the bad health care
that we have.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right now.
Speaker 18 (15:42):
We have terrible health care at too expensive for the people,
not for the government, for the people.
Speaker 17 (15:48):
You've been talking about fixing the health care and.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You can't do it because of the Democrats since fifteen.
I've been talking about it for a long time. We
almost did it. We were one vote short. We would
have had great health care.
Speaker 18 (16:00):
We were one vote short, and a couple of senators
that we currently have made the mistake, and they made
a big mistake. John McCain made a mistake. Frankly, we
were one vote short. We would have had great health care.
And I've been saying ever since, we can fix it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Expense.
Speaker 18 (16:17):
It's got two things. It's too expensive and it's lousy healthcare.
It's too expensive for the people. They're going to get
a very big increase this year.
Speaker 17 (16:26):
Well, they're going to get an industry if they don't,
if you don't extend the subsidies.
Speaker 18 (16:30):
No, no, But these subsidies is part of it. We're
supposed to spend trillions of dollars to take care of
something that is defective. What I'm saying is we can
make it much less expensive for people and give them
much better healthcare.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
She didn't quite seem to grasp that part of it,
did She the part that, well, wouldn't be more expensive
with the subsidies, Well, it's more expensive for the rest
of us with the substies. Those are taxpayer dollars on
the subsidies. That's what democrats want. Democrats want subsidies so
people can afford Obamacare, because Obamacare without the subsidies is
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not affordable. Well, that means that you would have to
The subsidies were supposed to be there in the beginning
until they could make it more affordable. They never did
because it's not designed to be affordable. So it will
never be affordable without subsidies. Without changing health care, which
is what President Trump is talking about, open the government
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will sit down and will fix the health care problem.
The problem is for Democrats, he's not going to fix
it the way that they want it fixed. They want
government run health care. They want subsidies for people to
make sure that they can afford the government run health care.
Even if the subsidies it's not cheap, but they're not
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getting good health care for it, and we're not getting
any bang for our buck. So could we like, maybe,
you know, if we're going to keep Obamacare. And at
this point in time, once you start a government entity
like Obamacare, you're never ever, ever going to get rid
of it. So I could think the best that we
can hope to do is to make it more affordable,
to try to make it work because we're stuck with it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All right.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
That's one topic. Here's next topic. President Trump talking about
his trade deal with China. He seems to think that
we got a good deal, where we made a good deal.
Time will tell if we did. But here's the president
talking to Nora O'Donnell in sixty minutes about the trade
deal with China.
Speaker 17 (18:38):
What did you get out of this deal that you wanted?
Speaker 18 (18:41):
Well, I got sort of everything that we wanted. We
got no rare earth threat that's gone completely gone. We
have tremendous amounts of dollars pouring in because we have
very big tariffs. Almost we never had anything in terms
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of tariffs, although I put tariffs on China, but Biden
let it lapsed by the fact that he gave exemptions
on almost everything, which was just ridiculous. But we have
billions and billions of dollars coming in, and we have
a very good relationship. I mean, we have a great
relationship with a powerful country. And I've always felt if
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we can make deals that are good, it's better to
get along with China than not. If you can't make
the right kind of a deal, than not, because you know, China,
along with many other countries, they're not alone in this.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
They've ripped us off from day one.
Speaker 18 (19:35):
They've ripped us so much, they've taken trillions of dollars
out of our country.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And now they're the opposite.
Speaker 18 (19:43):
I mean, we're doing very well with China, and hopefully
they're going to do very well with us. But I
do think it's important that China and the US get along,
and we get along very well.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
At the top.
Speaker 17 (19:55):
This trade war, though, was hurting Americans. I mean, are
soybean farmers. China had stopped buying the soybeans. China was
withholding these rare earth materials that you need for everything
from smartphones to build submarines. What was the crucial thing?
I mean, how tough of a negotiation, custy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It was a temporary hurt.
Speaker 18 (20:14):
It was a hurt because I was taking in a
lot of money from China. We were doing very well
against China, and all of a sudden they said, you know,
we have to fight back, and so they use their powers.
The power they have is rare earth because of the
fact that they've been accumulating it and really taking care
of it for a period of twenty five thirty years.
Other countries haven't. They use that against us, and we
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used other things against them, For instance, aeroplane parts. That's
a big deal. They have hundreds of Boeing airplanes. We
wouldn't give them parts. We were both acting, maybe a
little bit irrationally, but the big thing we had was tariff's. Ultimately,
I said, look, if you don't open up, then what
we're going to do is we're going to oppose one
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hundred percent tariff over of what you're already paying. And
as soon as I said that, they came to the table.
We met in South Korea. As you saw, a lot
of people watched, and we made a really good deal
and it was good for them also. I hope, I mean,
I want them to be good for both sides.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Okay, well, time will tell. I mean, China does what
China does? You know, they cheat the system. You know,
we we can't really count on China to deal with this, honestly,
I you know, we can. We can hope that they do,
but at the end of the day, they probably won't.
And I you know, if it's in their best interest
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to continue to withhold, you know, precious minerals from us,
then they'll probably continue to do that. But we'll see.
I think I think the press is putting a very
positive spin on it. They're very difficult. It's like the Russians.
It's very difficult to deal with them, and in really
difficult to be able to count on them doing what
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they say they're going to do. All right, one more,
we'll go a little long on this segment. We'll make
up for it. One more on this one, because I
thought this one was really interesting. The President also announcing
that we're going to begin testing art our nuclear capabilities.
Once again, we haven't done that in a long long time.
Here's that Q and A with Nordunal on sixty minutes BIPs.
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Hang on a second, that one just didn't start off right,
all right, let me try this one again and again.
The topic is the president talking about testing are nukes?
Speaker 17 (22:33):
Less than an hour before your meeting with President She,
you posted on social media that you instructed the quote
Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons through immediately.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
What did you mean?
Speaker 18 (22:45):
Well, we have more nuclear weapons than any other country,
and I think we should do something about denuclearization. And
I did actually discuss that with both President Putin and
President she. We have enough nuclear weapons to blow up
the world one hundred and fifty times. Russia has a
lot of nuclear weapons, and China will have a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
They have some, they have quite a bit.
Speaker 17 (23:08):
So why do we need to test our nuclear.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well, well, because you have to see how they work,
you know, you do have to.
Speaker 18 (23:13):
And the reason I'm saying testing is because Russia announced
that they were going to be doing a test. If
you notice North Korea's testing constantly, Other countries are testing.
We're the only country that doesn't test. And I want
to be I don't want to be the only country
that doesn't test.
Speaker 17 (23:28):
Are you saying that after more than thirty years, the
United States is going to start detonating nuclear weapons.
Speaker 18 (23:35):
I'm saying that we're going to test nuclear weapons like
other countries, do you.
Speaker 17 (23:39):
But the only country that's testing nuclear weapons is North
Korea China.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I know Russia's testing nuclear weapon my understanding, and China's
testing them too, you just don't know about it.
Speaker 17 (23:48):
That would be certainly very newsworthy. Minderstanding is what Russia
did recently was test essentially the delivery systems for nuclear weapons,
essentially missiles, which we can do that, but what not
with nuclear wrush.
Speaker 18 (24:00):
Is testing in China's testing, but they don't talk about it.
You know, we're a open society, we're different.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We talk about it.
Speaker 18 (24:07):
We have to talk about it because otherwise you people
are going to report.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
They don't have reporters, they are going to be writing
about it. We do.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
In other words, uh, Nora, you may not realize that
this is going on, but it is going on. In
other words, there's nuclear testing going on that you're not
aware of, underground or.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What have you.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Interesting. All right, quick little break back with Morte moment
Jimmy Bart Show d'ren am nine P fifty KPRC. Okay,
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let's start with with our Agriculture Secretary Brook Rowlands with
this segment. Here. One of the things that there's two
things that are going on right now as relates to
the government shutdown, and let's cover both of them in
this segment. One of them is the Snap program. We'll
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cover that one first. The Snap program. There's no money
for Snap. We have a federal judge who's made an
order for the Trump administration to come up with a
planned to find money to fund the Snap program. So,
in other words, basically, we have a judge who's making
a court order for the Trump administration policy that they
have to fund the Snap program is if somehow they're
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supposed to magically make the money appear from a government
that's shut down. Basically, the judge is saying, you need
to move money from wherever to this program to keep
this program going. One of the things that is coming out,
and I'm glad to see it and we all know it,
but one things I'm very very glad to see coming
out is that we're learning just how any issues we
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have with the Snap program, just how much money is
being wasted just how many illegal immigrants are getting SNAP
benefits and other welfare benefits that are not supposed to
be receiving these things, just like Social Security. How many
dead people are still getting benefits even though they're dead
and not supposed to be getting any benefits. Here's Agriculture
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Secretary Brook Rowlands talking about some of the things they've
been finding out about the SNAP program.
Speaker 19 (26:26):
So we know that twenty percent of illegals are on SNAP,
and that fifty nine percent of households headed by illegals
use SNAP or some other multiple welfare programs. Talk to
us about that as well.
Speaker 20 (26:41):
Well a couple of things. There's been a lot of
miscommunication out there on the program. But the first this
is one of the first things we did when I
walked in the day Day one of USDA February thirteenth,
is we sent letters to every governor in America being
very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP zero zero.
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We asked every state for the first time in history,
and this was in February, to send us their data
and let us with DOGE and a war room actually
start going through this data to better understand how this
explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden. We increased
almost forty percent on this program in just a couple
of years under the Biden administration. Of course we know
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they were trying to buy the election, but that's a
conversation for another time. And since we have asked for
that data, twenty nine states have complied. Complied, of course
almost all the Red states, a couple of the you know,
the couple of blue states too. But in that data,
and I haven't talked about this yet publicly, in that data,
we have found We've studied about one hundred billion dollars
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in spend. We have found thousands and thousands of illegal
use of the EBT card. We have been moving people
off of Snap. We've got almost seven hundred thousand people.
I think we've moved off just since the President took
office at about one hundred and eighteen people. So this has
been ongoing.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
But Rachel, to.
Speaker 20 (28:04):
Your point, what this conversation has allowed is a national
spotlight on a broken and corrupt program. We found one
guy in six different states getting a benefit. We found
about five thousand people that are dead who are still
getting benefits. Like it is time to drastically reform this
program so that we can make sure that those who
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are truly needy, truly vulnerable are getting what they need
and the rest of the corruption goes away and we
can serve the American taxpayer.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
See the problem the problem is is that there needs
to be a permanent doze or version of doze, right.
I mean not just the things that Eli Musk was
doing at the beginning of the second term, but they're
just needs to exist all the time in order to
be able to clear up some of these corrupt government programs.
(28:53):
It's going to require somebody's steady hand on the wheel
for long periods of time in order to be able
to fix the problem. And I you know, our attention
span is not that long, we voters, our attention span
is not that long. And evidently government attention span is
not that long either. You know, there's all kinds of
things right now that just need to be dealt with, investigated.
(29:15):
The autopen Is anything going to come with that? Do
you think anything? Do you think anybody will end up
being prosecuted for the autopen scandal, which you know, if
if we're being truthful, I think is one of the
great scandals in the history of our country. To me,
this is far far worse than Watergate. I mean people
talk about you know, they attach Gate to everything that
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happens with Call this pen gate if you want to.
I mean, Watergate was nothing compared to this as far
as I'm concerned. I had Matt Kittle on our morning
show today, senior election correspondent to the Federals, to talk
about whether or not he thinks that we're ever going
to get around actually prosecuting the people responsible for the
Joe Biden autopen scandal. Who would you prosecute first, Matt Kittle?
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Well, I think there are a lot of people in
the shadowy government behind Joe Biden for several years who
were working the auto pen As we've come to know,
there should be prosecutions therein because the people of America,
(30:22):
I think, in twenty twenty, although there's evidence to suggest
they many of them, didn't they elected Joe Biden president.
They didn't elect a a committee to run the country.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Okay, true enough, but it gets to be the point
where you have to prove that Biden had no knowledge
of these autopen signings, that he did not personally approve them,
and then I would hope they if you can prove
that somehow, not only do the people who did the
autopen signings should they be prosecuted, but any of the
orders that were signed that way should be reversed.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Mike Howell of the Oversight Project was the leading investigator
in this, and he broke this issue back in March,
and at that time they had found, you know, real
problems with the auto pen and its authenticity, and that
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Joe Biden of course had no idea that you know,
who was being pardoned in all of these sorts of things.
And that is exactly what he says. Now we've found
out a lot more, of course, with James Comer and
the Oversight Committee last week with the bombshell report that
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they released, they're talking about more investigations and more reviews
from the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice needs
to stop all of the reviews. We've got the information,
we've got the evidence. Now it's time for prosecutions.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
And I guess that's up to the DOJ, Right, that's
up to Van BONDI do you think she's hesitating to prosecute.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
She is absolutely hesitating to prosecute. And there are a
number of reasons for that. Politics, of course, always plays
a big part in these kinds of things when we're
talking about accountability.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
But it is it is will.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
It is the will to hold people accountable. And while
this administration has done a pretty good job at that,
much better job than previous administrations, we're still lacking that
at this point, that accountability for this particular scandal. And
we know there have been a lot of scandals under
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Democrat control.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Okay, if you're a betting man, I know that you are.
But even if you're not, Matt KITTLEL, do you go
into Vegas right now? You're putting down one hundred bucks
on prosecutions versus no prosecutions, which gets your bet? Where
are you putting on a hundred bucks? Were under at
this point? Is I would say limited prosecutions. I think
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there there will be, whether we get accountability in this
federal court system that has you know, so many far.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Left judges in it.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
That's that's another question altogether.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah, it is scenes how he brought up over under.
I think he probably is a bidding man. All Right,
we'll back with more in a moment. Stick around, please,
Jimmy Barrett Show here on the AM nine fifty KTRC. Fine,
(33:54):
all quick stories. Let's cover one of them local. We'll
get to the local one last. The other one in Dearborn, Michigan.
And I know that you've probably heard me mentioned before
that my wife Elizabeth is from Dearborn. We're both from
Michigan originally. And Dearborn has the highest Arab population outside
of the Middle East. They're about fifty four percent of
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the city of Dearborn is Arab, So that would make
about fifty sixty thousand Arabs of directed Arab descent living
just in the city of Dearborn. And of course it
goes you know past that Dearborn is just outside of Detroit.
You may have heard that there was a rest on Friday,
the FBI arrested I think five people in connection with
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what they were calling a terrace plot. They're plotting some
sort of a violent act for Halloween, and that they
were ISIS inspired. I don't know if they were online
ISIS inspired or not. Wouldn't be hard to think that
they're actual members of ISIS or other terrorist groups that
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are operating directly out of a community like that, because
after all, again, you know you've you've got that many
Arab Americans who are there, then chances are good that
there are people going back and forth between these Islamic
countries that have every opportunity to get radicalized. So anyway,
Cash Bettel saying, the FBI foiled the plot. But the
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attorneys representing these people who are arrested are going, whoa
wha wha wha wait wait wait wait wait, these are
not terrorists. This is just a big misunderstanding. Then again,
what would you expect their attorneys to say? Their attorneys,
by the way, are all Arab themselves. Here is the
report from uh from Fox two in Detroit. Again, Dearborne's
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a suburb of Detroit. Here's Fox two's report on what
the attorneys are saying about these so called terrorists.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Yeah, I can tell you.
Speaker 15 (35:52):
We just met with one of the attorneys at their
offices behind me here and Dearborn, and the first thing
that they said is that their group is innocent and
in fact, they haven't even seen any charges at all.
But let's take a look at that FBI activity that
was happening on Friday. Now, the FBI Terrorism Task Force
conducted operations at locations in Dearborn and in Inkster Friday, morning,
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FBI Director Cash Hotel stated on social media that the
FBI thwarted a possible terrorist plot in Michigan. Local FBI
could not confirm if the activity in Dearborn or Inkster
was connected to the online social media posts. Nevertheless, several
people were arrested. One of the attorneys who say Bozzi
of hallmackled in Dearborn, says five individuals were involved. Not
(36:37):
all are in custody, but all of them, he says,
are innocent.
Speaker 11 (36:41):
I hope these individuals are released, the ones that are
in custody, and I hope the ones that are out
of custody don't face any charges. And I hope that, frankly,
the government learns that they shouldn't be too quick to
release certain statements that are detrimental to the reputation of
individuals and communities. The individuals involved are innocent, their family
members are innocent, and more information that comes to light
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hopefully be favorable to them.
Speaker 15 (37:05):
Now this is that social media posts the statement that
Director Cash Hottel made on x on Friday morning about
the arrest and alleged quote plotting of a violence attack,
and he says that more details to come, and he
thanked the FBI for their.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
Efforts that day.
Speaker 15 (37:21):
Now we've also reached out to the FBI just for
an update on the case, and they say, right now
there is no update.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Sounds like there's a big social media component on this one,
you know that they were chatting online. I don't know,
you know, whether it was X or Facebook or what
other social media outlet it could have been, but they
were chatting about what it is they were talking about doing,
you know, making some sort of threats that made it
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sound like there was an attack that was emine. Now
whether or not they were just spouting off or not,
I guess remains to be seen. It also a suburb
you heard the name Inkster, another suburb of Detroit. I
think that's where they said they were a storage blocker
or something like that storage facility that they were investigating.
Don't know if they found anything in there, you know,
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like fertilizer for explosives or any of that kind of stuff.
But time will tell exactly what they've got, all right.
And the other one impacts everybody. We were talking last
week about this, how I really wouldn't want to be
making any travel plans with a government shutdown going on.
For Thanksgiving or Christmas. But it looks like we don't
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have to wait for Thanksgiving, her Christmas to get things
really crazy. Over the weekend, there was a wait as
long as four and a half hours at Bush and
an hour and a half at Hobby to get through TSA.
The in fact, they shut down TSA for everything but
Terminal A and Terminal E because they didn't have enough
(38:54):
staffing in order to be able to manage. So between
TSA staffing in air traffic control, it's a it's just
a mess at our nation's airports. Here's the report on
what happened locally Bush from k h o U eleven.
Speaker 21 (39:10):
Behind me is the lines for security coming out of
the doors of Terminal E at Bush Airports. Passengers that
we spoke with frustrated with the impacts of the ongoing
government shut down. What comes to.
Speaker 22 (39:22):
Mind, frankly, it's just two people are fighting over probably
politically issues, and this is the victim, the public.
Speaker 21 (39:34):
Niil Tanira saw this line outside of Terminal E and
decided it wasn't worth the effort. He missed his flight.
Others say passenger patients was wearing thin.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
I don't walk past people fighting plussing each other out
is crazy upstates Tamisia.
Speaker 21 (39:54):
Diggs is downstairs where the line began for security in
Terminal A.
Speaker 10 (40:00):
This is insane.
Speaker 21 (40:01):
I mean it looks like I will miss my fly.
That was the case for Urana Nance, who trepped from
Terminal A to Terminal ETH in hopes of boarding a
flight home to Detroit.
Speaker 15 (40:12):
I finally go over the air and is catastrophic.
Speaker 21 (40:14):
Instead of flying home, she's planning to stay overnight at
Bush Airport. With Hope's conditions improved. The Houston Airport System
saying wait times could exceed three hours while the shutdown continues.
Its own staff trying to help TSA workers move passengers.
Speaker 10 (40:29):
Safely for communication other issues going on.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
But I do understand, you know the shortage and.
Speaker 15 (40:34):
Staff and the why, but it's just very inconvenient for
all passengers.
Speaker 21 (40:38):
Passengers are hoping anyone can intervene to fix a flying fiasco.
Speaker 22 (40:44):
My only hope the authority, the governor here. He has
to call in the DSA people to come in and
open up more DSA and TRANSA as.
Speaker 21 (40:53):
The Houston Airport System is asking passengers to build an
extra time. If you do, you plan on flying soon.
As the government is expected to continue to be shut down.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Well, I don't know where that one passengers from. I
detect an accent, but he clearly doesn't know American politics.
The governor, unless the governor's gonna send the National Guard
to the airport to check you in, which I don't
think he's going to do. There's nothing the governor can do.
He cannot call in TSA agents. The TSA agents work
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for the federal government, they don't work for the state government.
There's nothing the governor can do. I don't know why
you would think that the governor could do anything about this.
He can't. Democrats sure could, though, Just open the freaking
government back up, berdou Can you imagine what Thanksgiving is
gonna be like? No, if they don't get that open
before Thanksgiving, look out. All right, listen, you all have
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a great day. Thanks for listening. I will see you
tomorrow morning. Burton early five am over on news radio
seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four on
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right to start off on our show with the
movies today, because the October box office figure for twenty
twenty five. October twenty twenty five just came out and
it showed that we quote unquote had the worst October
since nineteen excluding COVID in twenty twenty the pandemic year
(00:54):
since nineteen ninety seven. But that's not really true because
this October was a much worse than it was in
October of nineteen ninety seven. They had compared the dollars.
They only made like three hundred and fifteen million dollars
in October of nineteen ninety seven and the number of
something like four hundred and twelve maybe it might have
(01:16):
been four hundred and fifty five million dollars this year.
I think it was four fifty five, But that's comparing
nineteen ninety seven dollars to twenty twenty five dollars, And
if you figure in inflation, that three hundred and fifteen
million is about twice as much as as the three
hundred and fifteen So you're talking about, you know, almost
seven hundred million dollars in box office when adjusted for inflation,
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compared to less than five hundred million dollars. So actually
October of twenty twenty five was much worse than October
of twenty twenty seven. But then again, you take a
look at the list of movies they came out number one.
Just about all of them had bombed or flops, including
the Springsteen biopic Is Is flopped. Nobody cares about going
(02:02):
to see that. Nobody cares about any of the movies
that they are out. Most of the other movies I came,
you know, I saw the list, but none of them
even strike me as being familiar. So blockbuster movies are
pretty hard to come by. Movies that have got a buzz,
that have everybody talking, that are the things that we
all could go get interested in seeing because they're not
(02:25):
preachy and they're not trying to run, you know, run
far left politics than our throat and they're not woke
and all the other things that we've learned to hate
about Hollywood. There's nothing out there. There's just nothing out there.
So my question of the day today on KTRH was
the last movie you went to see that you actually
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got out of your seat, went to a movie theater,
plopped down good money, bought the popcorn, did the whole thing,
and went to see. As it turns out, most of
us have not been to a movie in a long,
long time. Last movie I went to, and I think
it was just because we were bored that weekend and
we thought, okay, it's about Elton John, this might be
kind of interesting was Rocketman and the guy who played
(03:08):
Elton John. The movie is very very good. The content
of the movie, as it turned out, there's a lot
of gay sex going on, and although I will say
they for the most part, they handled it pretty well.
In elt John's gay I mean, you know, when you
go to the movie, there's gonna be a gay theme
involved because Elton John's gay, and it did not dominate
the movie. It was more about his career and his
(03:32):
relationship with his parents, horrible relationship with his parents, especially
his father, and you could see how he ended up
the way he did in a lot addicted to drugs,
and how he came through on all those things. So
it was an interesting story and I didn't mind watching it,
and it was actually a pretty decent movie. But that's
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the movie I actually took a chance on and went
to the theaters and spent good money to go see. Post
the same question to our listeners, last time you went
to the movies, what you saw, whether or not it
was worth it? I mean, and I'm not talking about
streaming a movie, because we stream movies all the lot
of us stream movies all the time, you actually took
(04:15):
the trouble to go to a movie theater to go
see it.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
To Jimmy, I can only speak for myself. The only
reason I haven't seen a movie recently is because all
they keep coming out is just pure crap, nothing but crap,
A lot of woke crap and a lot of crap
that is totally meaningless. Because I think more than half
of the nation has rejected Hollywood at this point. Now,
I will say I will keep an eye on Angel
Studios because they got something coming up about the life
(04:40):
of George Washington just in time for two hundred and
fifty eighth birthday of our country.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'll probably look into that.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Indeed.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
From Katie, the last movie I saw was Elvis and
it was terrific.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'll probably never go back to the movies ever again.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Skip from Webster. It's been over ten years.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yes, it's a combination.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
They're weird politics and basically the stories are all lame
and they've been told one hundred times over the predictable
and they just sucked.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
The last movie I saw was The Forge, and that
was back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's a Christian movie.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Okay, there're gonna be exceptions obviously, you know, more family friendly, fair,
but but that's that's what I'm curious is what what
movie did you go see? What?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You know?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
What? What got you to go that kind of thing.
But for the most part, people really haven't been to
the movies very much.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
Yeah, it's Jason from Spring. Last movie I went to
was a midnight release of one of the Star Wars
movies in two thousand and five. It's just not worth
going to the movies anymore. All they do is just
remake stuff. It's expensive, it's just not worth It'd rather
just wait for something to come on cable, and really,
even when it comes on cable, they just all they
(05:59):
do is defeat movies and they're stupid.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Tracy and Cyprus. We like to go to movies that
you don't really have to think a whole lot. So
the last one we saw was the most recent Naked
Gun with Liam Neeson. It was hilarious. We'll go see
Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible. Of course, we saw Top Gun,
Maverick and Anything James Bond seven. We are going to
be the first in line. Other than that, Nope, staying home.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's Allison in Lake City. I recently saw the re
release of Jaws for its fiftieth anniversary in the theater.
I had food and popcorn and cocktails and great company
and the whole experience was amazing. But so is Jaws. Donna, Donna,
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you'all have a great day.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Dun you think about when you think about it. I mean,
that was a blockbuster. That was a blockbuster movie when
Jaws came out. But when you think about it, maybe
the problem is Steven Spielberg's not making many movies anymore.
Maybe that's part of the problem. That was his Et
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the Extraterrestrial that was his Close Encounters of the Third
Kind that was his. I saw all those movies when
they came out, and they were they were awesome. And
I think, though, but I think back, she's describing Jaws,
how much he the fifth fiftieth anniversary, think about the mechanics,
how the how the special effects have changed since the
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original Jaw and Sharks and original Shark and Jaws, I
should say, And it's you know, today it looks pretty
hokey because they can do so many things, you know,
computer generated things that look much more realistic. But but
back then they had to rely on mechanics. And somehow
that movie did exactly what it was meant to do.
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Scare the crap out of you, all right, anybody else?
Speaker 11 (07:51):
Last movie that we went to see was the New
Top Gun movie.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It was awesome.
Speaker 12 (07:58):
It's Sami Cycho from Sprung. Last movie that I saw
was The City of Dreams. They had to do a
lot with the child exportation and child labor and child's abuse,
and I just wanted that movie to get out there
to the masses so more people were aware of what.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Was going on.
Speaker 13 (08:18):
Hey, Dave on Lake conrel Man. I can remember going
when my mom and dad would take me and my
brothers to see We saw Mary Poppins at the drive
in theater, and then my mom would take us to
Garden Oaks Theater over there and drop us off. And
we'd watched a Legend of Boggie Creek about two or
three times. But the last one since then was I
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think seventy seven Jaws Man, and then I have not
been to a theater after.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That, Andy from Spring.
Speaker 11 (08:45):
The last movie my wife and I went to see
was Beverly Hills Cop two in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Wow, Wow, nineteen eighty seven, oh man, and I thought,
I haven't been to the movies in a long long time.
He brought back the one call. It brought back a
fond memory. Though I remember driving movies, remember going the
drive in as a kid. Do you ever do that?
Were drive ins around when you were a kid. They
were around when I was a kid, and we used
to I remember, you know, my parents would get us
(09:14):
all address in our pjs and we go to see
some Disney movie or something, when when Disney was actually
wholesome and fun and everybody liked to go and h
you know, my sisters who were younger than me, would
always fall asleep, and I never did. But man, I'm
too busy a bunch of on the popcorn and enjoying
the show. And then as a young adult, a very
very is a teen, I should say. You know, there
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were a few drivers drive ins were starting to phase out.
There weren't very many of them left, but I remember
taking a few dates to to the drive in. But
it wasn't because I was interested in watching the movie.
That was more interested in making out. Okay, let's grab
just a couple more before we wrap this one up up.
(10:01):
My bad, I hit the button too hard that time,
didn't use my little finger. Let's try that again.
Speaker 14 (10:06):
Hey, Jimmy, it's Jason from San Antonio. Out of sheer boredom,
I went to see Tron this weekend. I have no
idea about the storyline. All I know is that I
checked out for about two hours. I didn't think about
anything else except just sitting there watching some mindless entertainment.
Speaker 15 (10:23):
I hate popcorn.
Speaker 14 (10:25):
The movie ticket was only about eleven bucks, and it
wasn't a terrible movie, but it wasn't all that great either.
Speaker 16 (10:32):
This is Etna from Summerwood, the last movie I believe
if I remember correctly, that we went to see in
the theater was john Wick four. And honestly, I didn't
know it was possible for something to suck and blow
at the same time, but this movie proved that it is.
I fell asleep halfway through it. I mean, seriously, who
can fall from a building, get hit by cars and
fight all those people? I sleep wrong and can't get
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out of bed anyway, It's totally unrealistic and boring.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
This is Laurie from Whinny and the last me I
fay to see if the theater was taking my family
to see the Sound of Freedom. Okay, that's just too
expensive to go to the theater.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah, it is a little pricey, I will admit that.
I'm I'm just thinking back to edit with john Wick four.
I think your clue that that one was going to
suck is that is john Wick four. This is the
fourth movie. I mean, is it possible that there's any
ideas left that are worth watching by the time you
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get to version number four?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Probably not? All right, quick little break back with bal
in a moment Jimmy Verrett show here at the AM
nine fifty KPRC. All right, President Trump sat down for
(11:58):
an interview with sixty minutes. I'm not sure in this
interview with States within the last few days, I think,
and I'm really I don't know why. I'm more surprised
that the Trump was said, well, I'm not surprised that
Trump was sit down with the crew from sixty minutes.
I am surprised that sixty minutes would want to have
him on as a guest, given the fact that they
(12:20):
have already they've spent tens of millions of dollars settling
in a lawsuit with the guy, you know, for how
they screwed him over in the past. Maybe they're just
trying to recoup some of their investment by having him on.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
By the way, he.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Talked about a whole variety of different topics, And I
think that Norah O'Donnell, who did the interview, she was
being a little feisty with him from time to time,
but she was also very very careful in the things
that she said. I'm sure she had very strict instructions
to not do anything that's going to get them suited again,
(12:56):
and therefore it made for a pretty interesting interview. One
of the more and I'll share a couple of different
things from the interview with you. But let's start with
this one. Here is President Trump getting asked about the
government shutdown, and along with it the reason, the stated
reason by Democrats, which is healthcare. That's why they're shutting
down the government is over healthcare. So here's President Trump
(13:19):
with Norah O'Donnell discussing all this.
Speaker 17 (13:23):
Mister President, we've talked about foreign policy. Now let's focus
on issues here at home, some of that you have
already mentioned. We are now approaching the longest shutdown in
American history, democraps world under your presidency. We're talking about
more than a million federal workers who are not getting
a paycheck, including our air traffic controllers. You see, there's
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traffic snarls out at the airports.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Now.
Speaker 17 (13:46):
This weekend, food aid for more than forty two million
Americans is set to expire. What are you doing, as
president to end the shutdown?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, we're doing is we keep voting.
Speaker 18 (13:58):
I mean, the Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it,
and the Democrats keep voting against ending it. You know,
they've never had this, This has happened like eighteen times
before that. Democrats always voted for an extension. Always saying
give us an extension, we'll work it out. They've lost
their way, They've become crazed lunatics. And all they have
(14:18):
to do, Nora is say let's vote and you can
open the economy could open up.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
During our interview, is there something you do?
Speaker 17 (14:27):
Is there something you une facts?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Here's what I can't do.
Speaker 18 (14:32):
I can't give them a trillion and a half dollars
so that they can give welfare to people that came
into our country illegally, so that prisoners and that people
from mental institutions and people that are drug dealers get
vast amounts of money for health care.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
That I can't do.
Speaker 18 (14:49):
What I can do is I can continue to run
a great country. We have the best economy we've ever had.
I can continue to do that. What they should do. Look,
we started a long time ago. I always said, and
you know I've been very consistent, Obamacare is terrible. It's
bad health care at far too high a price.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We should fix that.
Speaker 18 (15:12):
We should fix it, and we can fix it with
the Democrats. All they have to do is let the
country open and we'll fix it. They have to know
that the country and I'll sit down with the Democrats
and we'll fix it.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
But they have to let the country and you know
what that wan to do. All they have to do
is raise five hands. We don't need all of them.
Speaker 17 (15:29):
But so you're saying your plan is to tell the
Democrats to vote to end the shutdown, for example, and
that you will put forward a health care plan.
Speaker 18 (15:38):
No, we will work on fixing the bad health care
that we have.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right now.
Speaker 18 (15:42):
We have terrible health care at too expensive for the people,
not for the government, for the people.
Speaker 17 (15:48):
You've been talking about fixing the health care and.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You can't do it because of the Democrats since fifteen.
I've been talking about it for a long time. We
almost did it. We were one vote short. We would
have had great health care.
Speaker 18 (16:00):
We were one vote short, and a couple of senators
that we currently have made the mistake, and they made
a big mistake. John McCain made a mistake. Frankly, we
were one vote short. We would have had great health care.
And I've been saying ever since, we can fix it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Expense.
Speaker 18 (16:17):
It's got two things. It's too expensive and it's lousy healthcare.
It's too expensive for the people. They're going to get
a very big increase this year.
Speaker 17 (16:26):
Well, they're going to get an industry if they don't,
if you don't extend the subsidies.
Speaker 18 (16:30):
No, no, But these subsidies is part of it. We're
supposed to spend trillions of dollars to take care of
something that is defective. What I'm saying is we can
make it much less expensive for people and give them
much better healthcare.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
She didn't quite seem to grasp that part of it,
did She the part that, well, wouldn't be more expensive
with the subsidies, Well, it's more expensive for the rest
of us with the substies. Those are taxpayer dollars on
the subsidies. That's what democrats want. Democrats want subsidies so
people can afford Obamacare, because Obamacare without the subsidies is
(17:10):
not affordable. Well, that means that you would have to
The subsidies were supposed to be there in the beginning
until they could make it more affordable. They never did
because it's not designed to be affordable. So it will
never be affordable without subsidies. Without changing health care, which
is what President Trump is talking about, open the government
(17:33):
will sit down and will fix the health care problem.
The problem is for Democrats, he's not going to fix
it the way that they want it fixed. They want
government run health care. They want subsidies for people to
make sure that they can afford the government run health care.
Even if the subsidies it's not cheap, but they're not
(17:57):
getting good health care for it, and we're not getting
any bang for our buck. So could we like, maybe,
you know, if we're going to keep Obamacare. And at
this point in time, once you start a government entity
like Obamacare, you're never ever, ever going to get rid
of it. So I could think the best that we
can hope to do is to make it more affordable,
to try to make it work because we're stuck with it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All right.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
That's one topic. Here's next topic. President Trump talking about
his trade deal with China. He seems to think that
we got a good deal, where we made a good deal.
Time will tell if we did. But here's the president
talking to Nora O'Donnell in sixty minutes about the trade
deal with China.
Speaker 17 (18:38):
What did you get out of this deal that you wanted?
Speaker 18 (18:41):
Well, I got sort of everything that we wanted. We
got no rare earth threat that's gone completely gone. We
have tremendous amounts of dollars pouring in because we have
very big tariffs. Almost we never had anything in terms
(19:03):
of tariffs, although I put tariffs on China, but Biden
let it lapsed by the fact that he gave exemptions
on almost everything, which was just ridiculous. But we have
billions and billions of dollars coming in, and we have
a very good relationship. I mean, we have a great
relationship with a powerful country. And I've always felt if
(19:24):
we can make deals that are good, it's better to
get along with China than not. If you can't make
the right kind of a deal, than not, because you know, China,
along with many other countries, they're not alone in this.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
They've ripped us off from day one.
Speaker 18 (19:35):
They've ripped us so much, they've taken trillions of dollars
out of our country.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And now they're the opposite.
Speaker 18 (19:43):
I mean, we're doing very well with China, and hopefully
they're going to do very well with us. But I
do think it's important that China and the US get along,
and we get along very well.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
At the top.
Speaker 17 (19:55):
This trade war, though, was hurting Americans. I mean, are
soybean farmers. China had stopped buying the soybeans. China was
withholding these rare earth materials that you need for everything
from smartphones to build submarines. What was the crucial thing?
I mean, how tough of a negotiation, custy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It was a temporary hurt.
Speaker 18 (20:14):
It was a hurt because I was taking in a
lot of money from China. We were doing very well
against China, and all of a sudden they said, you know,
we have to fight back, and so they use their powers.
The power they have is rare earth because of the
fact that they've been accumulating it and really taking care
of it for a period of twenty five thirty years.
Other countries haven't. They use that against us, and we
(20:37):
used other things against them, For instance, aeroplane parts. That's
a big deal. They have hundreds of Boeing airplanes. We
wouldn't give them parts. We were both acting, maybe a
little bit irrationally, but the big thing we had was tariff's. Ultimately,
I said, look, if you don't open up, then what
we're going to do is we're going to oppose one
(20:58):
hundred percent tariff over of what you're already paying. And
as soon as I said that, they came to the table.
We met in South Korea. As you saw, a lot
of people watched, and we made a really good deal
and it was good for them also. I hope, I mean,
I want them to be good for both sides.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Okay, well, time will tell. I mean, China does what
China does? You know, they cheat the system. You know,
we we can't really count on China to deal with this, honestly,
I you know, we can. We can hope that they do,
but at the end of the day, they probably won't.
And I you know, if it's in their best interest
(21:38):
to continue to withhold, you know, precious minerals from us,
then they'll probably continue to do that. But we'll see.
I think I think the press is putting a very
positive spin on it. They're very difficult. It's like the Russians.
It's very difficult to deal with them, and in really
difficult to be able to count on them doing what
(21:59):
they say they're going to do. All right, one more,
we'll go a little long on this segment. We'll make
up for it. One more on this one, because I
thought this one was really interesting. The President also announcing
that we're going to begin testing art our nuclear capabilities.
Once again, we haven't done that in a long long time.
Here's that Q and A with Nordunal on sixty minutes BIPs.
(22:23):
Hang on a second, that one just didn't start off right,
all right, let me try this one again and again.
The topic is the president talking about testing are nukes?
Speaker 17 (22:33):
Less than an hour before your meeting with President She,
you posted on social media that you instructed the quote
Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons through immediately.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
What did you mean?
Speaker 18 (22:45):
Well, we have more nuclear weapons than any other country,
and I think we should do something about denuclearization. And
I did actually discuss that with both President Putin and
President she. We have enough nuclear weapons to blow up
the world one hundred and fifty times. Russia has a
lot of nuclear weapons, and China will have a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
They have some, they have quite a bit.
Speaker 17 (23:08):
So why do we need to test our nuclear.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well, well, because you have to see how they work,
you know, you do have to.
Speaker 18 (23:13):
And the reason I'm saying testing is because Russia announced
that they were going to be doing a test. If
you notice North Korea's testing constantly, Other countries are testing.
We're the only country that doesn't test. And I want
to be I don't want to be the only country
that doesn't test.
Speaker 17 (23:28):
Are you saying that after more than thirty years, the
United States is going to start detonating nuclear weapons.
Speaker 18 (23:35):
I'm saying that we're going to test nuclear weapons like
other countries, do you.
Speaker 17 (23:39):
But the only country that's testing nuclear weapons is North
Korea China.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I know Russia's testing nuclear weapon my understanding, and China's
testing them too, you just don't know about it.
Speaker 17 (23:48):
That would be certainly very newsworthy. Minderstanding is what Russia
did recently was test essentially the delivery systems for nuclear weapons,
essentially missiles, which we can do that, but what not
with nuclear wrush.
Speaker 18 (24:00):
Is testing in China's testing, but they don't talk about it.
You know, we're a open society, we're different.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We talk about it.
Speaker 18 (24:07):
We have to talk about it because otherwise you people
are going to report.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
They don't have reporters, they are going to be writing
about it. We do.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
In other words, uh, Nora, you may not realize that
this is going on, but it is going on. In
other words, there's nuclear testing going on that you're not
aware of, underground or.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What have you.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Interesting. All right, quick little break back with Morte moment
Jimmy Bart Show d'ren am nine P fifty KPRC. Okay,
(24:54):
let's start with with our Agriculture Secretary Brook Rowlands with
this segment. Here. One of the things that there's two
things that are going on right now as relates to
the government shutdown, and let's cover both of them in
this segment. One of them is the Snap program. We'll
(25:15):
cover that one first. The Snap program. There's no money
for Snap. We have a federal judge who's made an
order for the Trump administration to come up with a
planned to find money to fund the Snap program. So,
in other words, basically, we have a judge who's making
a court order for the Trump administration policy that they
have to fund the Snap program is if somehow they're
(25:38):
supposed to magically make the money appear from a government
that's shut down. Basically, the judge is saying, you need
to move money from wherever to this program to keep
this program going. One of the things that is coming out,
and I'm glad to see it and we all know it,
but one things I'm very very glad to see coming
out is that we're learning just how any issues we
(26:01):
have with the Snap program, just how much money is
being wasted just how many illegal immigrants are getting SNAP
benefits and other welfare benefits that are not supposed to
be receiving these things, just like Social Security. How many
dead people are still getting benefits even though they're dead
and not supposed to be getting any benefits. Here's Agriculture
(26:21):
Secretary Brook Rowlands talking about some of the things they've
been finding out about the SNAP program.
Speaker 19 (26:26):
So we know that twenty percent of illegals are on SNAP,
and that fifty nine percent of households headed by illegals
use SNAP or some other multiple welfare programs. Talk to
us about that as well.
Speaker 20 (26:41):
Well a couple of things. There's been a lot of
miscommunication out there on the program. But the first this
is one of the first things we did when I
walked in the day Day one of USDA February thirteenth,
is we sent letters to every governor in America being
very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP zero zero.
(27:01):
We asked every state for the first time in history,
and this was in February, to send us their data
and let us with DOGE and a war room actually
start going through this data to better understand how this
explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden. We increased
almost forty percent on this program in just a couple
of years under the Biden administration. Of course we know
(27:23):
they were trying to buy the election, but that's a
conversation for another time. And since we have asked for
that data, twenty nine states have complied. Complied, of course
almost all the Red states, a couple of the you know,
the couple of blue states too. But in that data,
and I haven't talked about this yet publicly, in that data,
we have found We've studied about one hundred billion dollars
(27:43):
in spend. We have found thousands and thousands of illegal
use of the EBT card. We have been moving people
off of Snap. We've got almost seven hundred thousand people.
I think we've moved off just since the President took
office at about one hundred and eighteen people. So this has
been ongoing.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
But Rachel, to.
Speaker 20 (28:04):
Your point, what this conversation has allowed is a national
spotlight on a broken and corrupt program. We found one
guy in six different states getting a benefit. We found
about five thousand people that are dead who are still
getting benefits. Like it is time to drastically reform this
program so that we can make sure that those who
(28:25):
are truly needy, truly vulnerable are getting what they need
and the rest of the corruption goes away and we
can serve the American taxpayer.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
See the problem the problem is is that there needs
to be a permanent doze or version of doze, right.
I mean not just the things that Eli Musk was
doing at the beginning of the second term, but they're
just needs to exist all the time in order to
be able to clear up some of these corrupt government programs.
(28:53):
It's going to require somebody's steady hand on the wheel
for long periods of time in order to be able
to fix the problem. And I you know, our attention
span is not that long, we voters, our attention span
is not that long. And evidently government attention span is
not that long either. You know, there's all kinds of
things right now that just need to be dealt with, investigated.
(29:15):
The autopen Is anything going to come with that? Do
you think anything? Do you think anybody will end up
being prosecuted for the autopen scandal, which you know, if
if we're being truthful, I think is one of the
great scandals in the history of our country. To me,
this is far far worse than Watergate. I mean people
talk about you know, they attach Gate to everything that
(29:38):
happens with Call this pen gate if you want to.
I mean, Watergate was nothing compared to this as far
as I'm concerned. I had Matt Kittle on our morning
show today, senior election correspondent to the Federals, to talk
about whether or not he thinks that we're ever going
to get around actually prosecuting the people responsible for the
Joe Biden autopen scandal. Who would you prosecute first, Matt Kittle?
Speaker 9 (30:01):
Well, I think there are a lot of people in
the shadowy government behind Joe Biden for several years who
were working the auto pen As we've come to know,
there should be prosecutions therein because the people of America,
(30:22):
I think, in twenty twenty, although there's evidence to suggest
they many of them, didn't they elected Joe Biden president.
They didn't elect a a committee to run the country.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Okay, true enough, but it gets to be the point
where you have to prove that Biden had no knowledge
of these autopen signings, that he did not personally approve them,
and then I would hope they if you can prove
that somehow, not only do the people who did the
autopen signings should they be prosecuted, but any of the
orders that were signed that way should be reversed.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Mike Howell of the Oversight Project was the leading investigator
in this, and he broke this issue back in March,
and at that time they had found, you know, real
problems with the auto pen and its authenticity, and that
(31:22):
Joe Biden of course had no idea that you know,
who was being pardoned in all of these sorts of things.
And that is exactly what he says. Now we've found
out a lot more, of course, with James Comer and
the Oversight Committee last week with the bombshell report that
(31:42):
they released, they're talking about more investigations and more reviews
from the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice needs
to stop all of the reviews. We've got the information,
we've got the evidence. Now it's time for prosecutions.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
And I guess that's up to the DOJ, Right, that's
up to Van BONDI do you think she's hesitating to prosecute.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
She is absolutely hesitating to prosecute. And there are a
number of reasons for that. Politics, of course, always plays
a big part in these kinds of things when we're
talking about accountability.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
But it is it is will.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
It is the will to hold people accountable. And while
this administration has done a pretty good job at that,
much better job than previous administrations, we're still lacking that
at this point, that accountability for this particular scandal. And
we know there have been a lot of scandals under
(32:43):
Democrat control.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Okay, if you're a betting man, I know that you are.
But even if you're not, Matt KITTLEL, do you go
into Vegas right now? You're putting down one hundred bucks
on prosecutions versus no prosecutions, which gets your bet? Where
are you putting on a hundred bucks? Were under at
this point? Is I would say limited prosecutions. I think
(33:06):
there there will be, whether we get accountability in this
federal court system that has you know, so many far.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Left judges in it.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
That's that's another question altogether.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah, it is scenes how he brought up over under.
I think he probably is a bidding man. All Right,
we'll back with more in a moment. Stick around, please,
Jimmy Barrett Show here on the AM nine fifty KTRC. Fine,
(33:54):
all quick stories. Let's cover one of them local. We'll
get to the local one last. The other one in Dearborn, Michigan.
And I know that you've probably heard me mentioned before
that my wife Elizabeth is from Dearborn. We're both from
Michigan originally. And Dearborn has the highest Arab population outside
of the Middle East. They're about fifty four percent of
(34:19):
the city of Dearborn is Arab, So that would make
about fifty sixty thousand Arabs of directed Arab descent living
just in the city of Dearborn. And of course it
goes you know past that Dearborn is just outside of Detroit.
You may have heard that there was a rest on Friday,
the FBI arrested I think five people in connection with
(34:42):
what they were calling a terrace plot. They're plotting some
sort of a violent act for Halloween, and that they
were ISIS inspired. I don't know if they were online
ISIS inspired or not. Wouldn't be hard to think that
they're actual members of ISIS or other terrorist groups that
(35:03):
are operating directly out of a community like that, because
after all, again, you know you've you've got that many
Arab Americans who are there, then chances are good that
there are people going back and forth between these Islamic
countries that have every opportunity to get radicalized. So anyway,
Cash Bettel saying, the FBI foiled the plot. But the
(35:23):
attorneys representing these people who are arrested are going, whoa
wha wha wha wait wait wait wait wait, these are
not terrorists. This is just a big misunderstanding. Then again,
what would you expect their attorneys to say? Their attorneys,
by the way, are all Arab themselves. Here is the
report from uh from Fox two in Detroit. Again, Dearborne's
(35:46):
a suburb of Detroit. Here's Fox two's report on what
the attorneys are saying about these so called terrorists.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Yeah, I can tell you.
Speaker 15 (35:52):
We just met with one of the attorneys at their
offices behind me here and Dearborn, and the first thing
that they said is that their group is innocent and
in fact, they haven't even seen any charges at all.
But let's take a look at that FBI activity that
was happening on Friday. Now, the FBI Terrorism Task Force
conducted operations at locations in Dearborn and in Inkster Friday, morning,
(36:14):
FBI Director Cash Hotel stated on social media that the
FBI thwarted a possible terrorist plot in Michigan. Local FBI
could not confirm if the activity in Dearborn or Inkster
was connected to the online social media posts. Nevertheless, several
people were arrested. One of the attorneys who say Bozzi
of hallmackled in Dearborn, says five individuals were involved. Not
(36:37):
all are in custody, but all of them, he says,
are innocent.
Speaker 11 (36:41):
I hope these individuals are released, the ones that are
in custody, and I hope the ones that are out
of custody don't face any charges. And I hope that, frankly,
the government learns that they shouldn't be too quick to
release certain statements that are detrimental to the reputation of
individuals and communities. The individuals involved are innocent, their family
members are innocent, and more information that comes to light
(37:03):
hopefully be favorable to them.
Speaker 15 (37:05):
Now this is that social media posts the statement that
Director Cash Hottel made on x on Friday morning about
the arrest and alleged quote plotting of a violence attack,
and he says that more details to come, and he
thanked the FBI for their.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
Efforts that day.
Speaker 15 (37:21):
Now we've also reached out to the FBI just for
an update on the case, and they say, right now
there is no update.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Sounds like there's a big social media component on this one,
you know that they were chatting online. I don't know,
you know, whether it was X or Facebook or what
other social media outlet it could have been, but they
were chatting about what it is they were talking about doing,
you know, making some sort of threats that made it
(37:48):
sound like there was an attack that was emine. Now
whether or not they were just spouting off or not,
I guess remains to be seen. It also a suburb
you heard the name Inkster, another suburb of Detroit. I
think that's where they said they were a storage blocker
or something like that storage facility that they were investigating.
Don't know if they found anything in there, you know,
(38:10):
like fertilizer for explosives or any of that kind of stuff.
But time will tell exactly what they've got, all right.
And the other one impacts everybody. We were talking last
week about this, how I really wouldn't want to be
making any travel plans with a government shutdown going on.
For Thanksgiving or Christmas. But it looks like we don't
(38:32):
have to wait for Thanksgiving, her Christmas to get things
really crazy. Over the weekend, there was a wait as
long as four and a half hours at Bush and
an hour and a half at Hobby to get through TSA.
The in fact, they shut down TSA for everything but
Terminal A and Terminal E because they didn't have enough
(38:54):
staffing in order to be able to manage. So between
TSA staffing in air traffic control, it's a it's just
a mess at our nation's airports. Here's the report on
what happened locally Bush from k h o U eleven.
Speaker 21 (39:10):
Behind me is the lines for security coming out of
the doors of Terminal E at Bush Airports. Passengers that
we spoke with frustrated with the impacts of the ongoing
government shut down. What comes to.
Speaker 22 (39:22):
Mind, frankly, it's just two people are fighting over probably
politically issues, and this is the victim, the public.
Speaker 21 (39:34):
Niil Tanira saw this line outside of Terminal E and
decided it wasn't worth the effort. He missed his flight.
Others say passenger patients was wearing thin.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
I don't walk past people fighting plussing each other out
is crazy upstates Tamisia.
Speaker 21 (39:54):
Diggs is downstairs where the line began for security in
Terminal A.
Speaker 10 (40:00):
This is insane.
Speaker 21 (40:01):
I mean it looks like I will miss my fly.
That was the case for Urana Nance, who trepped from
Terminal A to Terminal ETH in hopes of boarding a
flight home to Detroit.
Speaker 15 (40:12):
I finally go over the air and is catastrophic.
Speaker 21 (40:14):
Instead of flying home, she's planning to stay overnight at
Bush Airport. With Hope's conditions improved. The Houston Airport System
saying wait times could exceed three hours while the shutdown continues.
Its own staff trying to help TSA workers move passengers.
Speaker 10 (40:29):
Safely for communication other issues going on.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
But I do understand, you know the shortage and.
Speaker 15 (40:34):
Staff and the why, but it's just very inconvenient for
all passengers.
Speaker 21 (40:38):
Passengers are hoping anyone can intervene to fix a flying fiasco.
Speaker 22 (40:44):
My only hope the authority, the governor here. He has
to call in the DSA people to come in and
open up more DSA and TRANSA as.
Speaker 21 (40:53):
The Houston Airport System is asking passengers to build an
extra time. If you do, you plan on flying soon.
As the government is expected to continue to be shut down.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Well, I don't know where that one passengers from. I
detect an accent, but he clearly doesn't know American politics.
The governor, unless the governor's gonna send the National Guard
to the airport to check you in, which I don't
think he's going to do. There's nothing the governor can do.
He cannot call in TSA agents. The TSA agents work
(41:25):
for the federal government, they don't work for the state government.
There's nothing the governor can do. I don't know why
you would think that the governor could do anything about this.
He can't. Democrats sure could, though, Just open the freaking
government back up, berdou Can you imagine what Thanksgiving is
gonna be like? No, if they don't get that open
before Thanksgiving, look out. All right, listen, you all have
(41:46):
a great day. Thanks for listening. I will see you
tomorrow morning. Burton early five am over on news radio
seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four on
a nine fifty KTRC.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.