April 3, 2025 • 35 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Author Jared Knott on his book "Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever"
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
Today is always I am talking about food. But we
got onto the topic of steak this morning on Houston's
Morning News, and it turned out it got quite a reaction.
I was, well, I guess I'm not surprised because I
think you know, when it comes to specific restaurants, especially
barbecue or steakhouses, we Texans have a tendency to have
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a very firm opinion where we want to go to
get either the best barbecue or the best steak. And luckily,
in both categories, there's plenty of places to go. We
have a lot of great barbecue, we have a lot
of great, great steak places. We have a lot of
great seafood places. You know, We're pretty blessed when it
comes to that kind of stuff. But the reason I
got onto the topic this morning is I saw a
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list they said, here are America's favorite steakhouses now there
These are obviously, you know, corporate run establishments, chain restaurants,
if you will, that's the only way you're going to
find them all across America and h and there were
a couple of surprises on there. Number four was Golden Corral.
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And you know, I'm not putting down Golden Corral when
I say that, but is that where you go for
I guess some people go there for steak. First of all,
they only have sirloin steak. Is that You're not gonna
get a fil a at at Golden Coral. You're not
going to get a ribby Golden Crow. You're gonna get sorloin.
And I guess if sirloin is your favorite steak, they
do cook it to order. I will say that, But
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it's surprising to me that made number four. I guess
the way they decided to judge this was based on
how many people knew you and how many people who
knew you liked you, and that's how they came up
with this list, and that put Golden Crowd number four.
Number two was Texas Roadhouse. We weed a Texas Roadhouse
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fairly frequently. It is I think it's they've got the
best Prime Rib. And I've had Prime Rib in a
lot of places, including some pretty pricey restaurants, and I think, honestly,
Texas Roadhouse is Prime Rib is the best best I've had.
And number one, who was number one? Number one on
the list was out Back Steakhouse, which, you know, I
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think they're good, but like most chained restaurants, some of
them are really really good and some of them not
so much. Then I saw a list of local Houston
steakhouses and who ranks, you know, the most popular here
in Papa's Steakhouse, I think was number one. Again, we
got a lot of great steakhouses here. I'm a personal
fan of tastes of Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I go there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't go there a lot because after all, it's
not you know, it's you know, it's not in the
budget to be in there every week for goodness sake.
But whenever we have somebody come to town or it's
a special occasion, we generally go to Texas Roadhouse, Perry Steakhouse,
you know, that's that's on the list. There's there's quite
a few. Uh So I just kind of opened up
the phones today, but not really the phones. The talkback
feature the ihearted radio app ktr H. You could put
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k TRH. You could also put kPr C. Put KTRH
number one on your preset, put KPRC number two on
your reset, and you can listen to us in digital quality,
and you can also respond with the talkback button. So
we started taking some talkbacks. Your favorite Houston steak establishment,
even if they no longer exist. Maybe one that you
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used to really really like that it isn't around anymore,
or one you like to frequent. Who in your mind,
in your world, who's the best steakhouse when it comes
to Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Corrals Steakhouse too much it They've got a pretty awesome
steak at least the one in College Station. As we
go there pretty regular for the steak and I like mine.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Rare.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Porter Outback. Steakhouse is
my favorite national chain. Although I'm a little surprised it
came in at number one. Golden Corral. I meant Golden
Corral should not have even been on the list. As
of about six years ago, there was still a ponderous
steakhouse near Fairfield, Ohio, and I think you have.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
To go all the way out to the Socialist.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
People's Republic of California to find the black ankles.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's all I got, Hey.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Jimmy and spring. My favorite place to get a state
was the Artisans in Midtown, A black pepper in krustin palade, Mignon,
oh boy. Other than that, it's my house, pan Sears too,
perfection in crust and black pepper, big course, the Celtic Sea, salt,
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garlic and Rosemary.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
I said, bab hey, morning, everybody. This mark out of
Angleton Steakhout is no longer around Old San Francisco Steakhouse.
I sure do miss that little gal getting on that swing,
going back and forth and hitting that bell.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That one showed up a lot, is you'll suit. You'll
soon see that one showed up a ton. And I'm
trying to figure out why that is. But here's a
couple couple more endorsements. The problem with Old San Francisco
is it's not around anymore.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Cupcake and I love going to the Steakhouse and Sandler
Resort in Galveston.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You don't get no better than that Donald from Shiro.
My favorite steakhouse is.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
My Plage using good ranchers dot com.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
And do you know where the first Texas roadhouse was built?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
How come he didn't tell me? Where was the first
Texas roadhouse built? I'm some somewhere in Texas, although Texas
Roadhouse is all over the country.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Now, hello Jimmy.
Speaker 9 (05:59):
My favorite steak cast was the Old San Francisco Steak Cast.
Not only was the lady on the swing, but she
would also swing high enough to ring a bell on
the rafters. Very cool, and they had the best Swiss cheese.
Have a great day, guys.
Speaker 11 (06:16):
Old San Francisco Steakhouse has the best filet mignons I
have ever eaten. You could cut them with a butter knife,
the absolute best. And yes, the lady on the swing
wore what you would imagine someone a female working a
saloon in the Old West would be wearing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, she was on a I guess a red velvet swing.
I'm kind of I'm kind of angry that I didn't
know about this place, you know, a couple couple of
years ago, because it was open until sometime in twenty
twenty three, and I was asking on the air, I mean,
because we were getting so many calls about Old San
Francisco Steakhouse. You know, why why is it not around it?
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Or why did it close? And I had I had
a listener write me and say that they were in
a strip mall and the guy sold the strip mall
and then to redevelop into something else or redeveloped for
some other purpose. So you know, every tenant in there
ended up leaving. But you would think again, you know,
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I'm so curious. I mean, if it was so popular
and if it was so good and people liked it
so much, why didn't they just build a new location
or relocate because they were done after that. I understand
it's pretty pricey. Maybe that had something to do with it.
Maybe maybe people loved it, but they just didn't frequent
it enough to keep it going. All right, quick little
break back with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett Show
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here on AM nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Sorry, the big announcement came out.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yesterday from President Trump on tariffs. So if he was bluffing,
that no longer appears to be the case. No, he's
not bluffing about tariffs. He is instituting tariffs. Everybody, every
foreign country gets a ten percent tariff that goes into
effect on April the fifth. There are list of countries
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that are particularly bad as far as how they treat
the United States on tariffs, have just huge markups, and
it appears, based on the graph that the President was
showing yesterday, that those countries generally are getting about a
fifty percent of what we're getting tariff. In other words,
it's reciprocal, but not one hundred percent reciprocal. The European
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Union marks a lot of our stuff up like about
forty five fifty percent, and we're only marketing going to
mark their stuff up through terriffs by by twenty percent,
so they're actually most of these countries are actually getting
a deal, as it turns out. But the stock market
has not responded very well to that news today. I
don't know what it's at right now, but this morning,
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when we got off the air on katrh It, we'd
been down over a thousand points, so that didn't really
go over really really big. But President Trump, you know,
kind of laid it out. Let's start with this. Here's
President Trump in front of members of Congress in the
Rose Garden. Several members of the UAW will get to
them in the second. We're also there to support the president.
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Here he is making the case for why these tariffs
have to happen.
Speaker 12 (09:40):
For decades, the United States slash trade barriers or other countries. Well,
those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created
outrageous non monetary barriers to decimate our industries. And in
many cases the non monetary barriers were worse than the
monetary ones. They manip related their currencies, subsidized their exports,
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stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant vat taxes to disadvantage
our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards, and created
filthy pollution havens. They were absolutely filthy. But they always
came to us and they said, we're violating. We should
pay for it. It's all detailed in a very big
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report by the US Trade Representative on foreign trade barriers.
And i'll just hold it up for you. It's available
and you don't have to pay too much. As I
understand it, you'll pay nothing. It's a lot of work,
a lot of work for something actually, because it's a
special it's a special book. It's very frankly, it's very
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upsetting when you read it, when you see what people
have been doing to US for thirty years. This all
happened with no response from the United States of America
none whatsoever. But those days are over. Let me offer
just a few examples of the vicious attacks workers have
faced for so many years. The United States charges of
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the countries only a two point four tariff on motorcycles. Meanwhile,
Thailand and others are charging much higher prices, like sixty percent.
India charges seventy percent, Vietnam charges seventy five percent, and
others are even higher than that. Likewise, until today, the
United States has for decades charged a two point five tariff.
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Think of that two point five percent on foreign made automobiles.
The European Union charges US more than ten percent tariffs,
and they have twenty percent vats much much higher. India
charges seventy percent, and perhaps worst of all, of the
non monetary restrictions imposed by South Korea, Japan, and very
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many other nations. As a result of these colossal trade barriers,
eighty one percent of the cars in South Carea made
in South Korea. Ninety four percent of the cars in
Japan are made in Japan. Toyota sells one million foreign
made automobiles into the United States and General Motor sells
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almost none, Ford sells very little. None of our companies
are allowed to go into other countries. And I say
that friend and foe, and in many cases the friend
is worse than the foe in terms of trade. But
such horrendous imbalances have devastated our industrial base and put
our national security at risk. I don't blame these other
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countries at all for this calamity. I blame former presidents
and past leaders who aren't doing their job. They let
it happen, and they let it happen to an extent
that nobody can even believe. That's why, effective at midnight,
we will impose the twenty five percent TERRA for no
all foreign made automobiles.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And that one has gone into effect. The other ones
April fifth and April the ninth. There's when they go
into effect. Now, how is that news? The twenty five
percent automotive tariff. How's that going over with members of
the UAW pretty well? Evidently there are about twenty of
them that were in the audience for the President's speech yesterday.
One of them, his name is Brian. I don't know
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his last name, but his name is Brian, was invited
up to the microphone.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
It's great on that you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Thanks, thank you, mister president.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
I grew up just north of Detroit, Michigan and McComb County,
known as the home of the Reagan Democrats.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
My first vote for president was for Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I thought that was going to be the best president
ever saw in my lifetime until Donald J.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Trump came along.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I have watched my entire life.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
I have watched plant after plant after plant in Detroit
and in the metro Detroit area close. There are now
plants sitting idle. There are now plants that are underutilized.
And Donald Trump's policies are going to bring product back
into those underutilized plants. There's gonna be new investment, there's
gonna be new plants built. And the UAW members and
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I brought twenty of them with me, they're sitting right
over here.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
We support Donald.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Trump's policies on tariffs one hundred percent. So, mister President,
we can't thank you enough. And in six months or
a year, we're gonna begin to see the benefits. I
can't wait to see what's happening three or four years
down the road. Thank you, mister President. No, the thing
I appreciate about those comments.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What he said is is there's a guy, he's an autoworker,
but he's using his head here. He's he's not just
putting together cars. He understands you know that this is
not just what happens in the short term. This is
what happens in the long term. In the short term, yeah,
there's gonna be some retaliation going on, there's gonna be
some higher prices going on. People are gonna bitch about that.
There's just no doubt about it. But at the end
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of the day, I think most of these countries are
going to realize that, you know, Trump means business and
he's not going to back down. If he's not going
to back down, then they're either going to have to
back down or go either way, we're gonna get our
We're gonna start getting our fair share, and that's gonna
be good for this country the long haul. The goal
here obviously to move manufacturing back to the United States.
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What did Democrats always say about that all you need
to learn to code? You know, we're not gonna have
these high paying steel jobs or these these high paying
automotive jobs going forward. You're gonna need to you're gonna
need to learn a new occupation. No, I mean for
national security reasons, a lot of other reasons. We need
to be able to manufacture here in this country ourselves.
And one more comment here from White House Council Senior
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Council Peter Navarro on tariffs.
Speaker 13 (15:41):
But here's what's really important, Jessie.
Speaker 14 (15:43):
As bad as the higher tariffs are that these countries
around the world charge us, the non tariff barriers are worse.
The non terror bared currency manipulation, the VAT tax distortions,
export subsidies, dumping, counterfeiting, and piracy, ip theft. It goes
on and on and on, and that kind of thing
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is going to be very very hard for our foreign
nations cheating us to get rid of overnight.
Speaker 13 (16:11):
This is not a negotiation, Jesse.
Speaker 14 (16:13):
This is a national emergency associated with chronic and massive
trade deficits that are brought about by higher tariffs and
higher non tarff barriers that take our jobs, that take
our factories, that lead to massive trade deficits, that result
in massive transfers of wealth into foreign hands, that jeopardizer
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manufacturing base and defense industrial base. So no, this is
not a negotiation. It's a national emergency, and the President
is treating it's such an it's liberation Day, Jesse. So
international traits it inquisitively designed to this international traits that's
exquisitely designed, Jesse, to steal our factories and our jobs
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and our wealth through unfair trade practices, higher tariffs, more importantly,
higher non t faarriers.
Speaker 13 (17:06):
Yes, liberation Day. Let us celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well, there's some people who aren't celebrating today, but we'll
see if they celebrate down the road a little bit
when they see the positive outcome, ultimate outcome of all this.
All right, quick low break back with more in a moment,
Jimmy Bart show here a name nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
All right, I have a special guest sentership to day.
His name is Jared Nod.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Jared wrote a book called Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters thirty
nine Tiny Mistakes that Change the World Forever. Are these things,
these these these blunders and disasters that you found. Are
these things that are wildly known because I'm thinking, if
they're tiny, they probably haven't made a lot of history books.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, yes, it's funny. They're all of the historical record.
But when we were taught history of high school and
college and so on. They put an into some of
the big events, the wars that are won and the
declarations of war and the trees signed and the president's
elected and so on and so forth. But underneath that,
down one or two levels, you'll find a lot of
small things happening. Some of those small things are mistakes,
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seemingly seemingly tiny at the time, that domino into big,
big disasters. It's sort of like the uh the the
cyclone effect, the hurricane effect that we talked about, the
butterfly effect, and so that's what we're talking about, little
tiny mistakes that domino domino multiply and puzzlement. Then you
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have an entire nation collapsing.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, give us an example. What what is maybe one
of the best examples of what you're talking about, Something
that began as tiny that just turned into an utter disaster.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yes, here's the teaser. A single piece of tape rotated
several inches of the wrong direction, changed the outcome of
the Vietnam War. The United States might very well have
won except for this single tiny mistake, which doesn't make
any sense at all. Right, the word we're talking about
it has to do with the Watergate break in when
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the James McCord and the Cuban operatators were jimmying the
lock for the parking garage in the office building, they
were told to hold a striker on the door and
down with a single piece of tape in the vertical
position so it could not be seen in the hallway
where they made a mistake and they held it down
with a tape in the horizontal positions. So in Frank
Willis a night watch when him walking down the hall
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he saw the tape and well, what's this tape on
the door? All the door has been jimmied. He called
the Washington d c. Police. Now there's a strong gloomer
that the uniformed officer who was charge at charge of
that picture area of the city that night was intoxicated
in a local bar and could not answer the call.
But they had to send the bump patrol in his place.
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That three officers addressed as Hobo's in a Jawackee car.
They pull up to the watergate. The lookout and does
not recognize them as police officers. They come into the watergate,
they arrest him forward as the Cuban operatives. They're hiding
it in the knee well of the desk and the
Watergate begins boom boom, one thing after another after another.
Hendry diisons, you gave an interview. They just signed a
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treaty with North Vietnamese ending the war in Vietnam, and
they did that. North Vietas are going to be testing
the tree. And he said the plan was to go
in there and bomb the daylight's out of them again
to get them back in compliance. But they couldn't do
that because they were so weak politically because of Watergate,
doctor bomb collapses, mix them as grace and collapses. It
all falls apart because of a single piece of tape
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rotated several inches of the wrong direction and a drunk cop.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Wow, that is crazy. That is that is that is
absolutely crazy. How long in the in the research did
first of all, where do you start looking for these things?
And then how do you ultimately connect the dots? Because
I mean, that's that's that's quite a process there to
go from a piece of tape to Vietnam. I mean
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you could you could go, you could go from point
A to point B. And saying that, well, the piece
the only reason why Watergate happened, or Richard Nexon's presidency
ended was because of a piece of tape.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But you didn't stop there. You took it all the
way to Vietnam.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yes, right, it's funny had that one little small thing
because domino domino dominot Way back in the nineteen fifty
the origin of that expression the butterfly effect, came from
this mathematician name is Lorenz, and he was a very
well recognized mathematician. He won the equivalent of the Nobel
Prize for mathematics, and he was had this formula. It
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was a predicting weather and it was a number with
a deci one and eighteen small numbers to the right
of it, which he has taken so long for the
computers of the day to run the program. Let me
eighteen numbers, Let me quacker around six of them. It'll
run that much faster in that little small amount won't
make much different. So it runs the program. And he
was a mazed what an enormous difference that it made.
It was somewhat analogous to somebody leaving Seattle, Washington, heading
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to London and there accompasses off just comfort grees. Instead
of arriving in London, they end up done in Lisbon.
Or Portugal someplace like that. So he said, Wow, that
means that if a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil,
they could set off a chain reaction. They can lead
to a cyclone in Texas a year and a half later,
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that was the origin of the big expression, the butterfly effect.
And we're looking at the butterfly effects and history which
happens over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Wow, very fascinating.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Let me let me ask you about the job that
you think American schools do in teaching history. It's a
difficult thing because the space of the historical record is
so long, and I guess we just kind of rely
on textbooks now right to guide what the conversation is
going to be in any particular grade, about what you're
going to learn about history, and a lot of really
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important stuff ends up on the cutting room floor.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And then also too, there's a heavy bias in recent years,
kind of woke left bias course America. They will say
it was based on racism, We were an unfair country,
some people that hate America, et cetera. So there's been
a heavy tilt to the left of blaming Columbus, who
deserves some blame. But not nearly as much as you.
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But given and maybe back in the nineteen fifties and
sixties seventies, maybe they were glorifying achievements of European settlers
too much. Maybe and maybe, but I think they've gone far, far,
too much to the other direction. White children made it
feel guilty because their benefits of beneficiary beneficiaries of white privilege.
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So I think it has gone too far the other way.
And so I think President Trump recently rebalanced it as
calling for a more objective presentation of history in our schools.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Well, you know the phrase that that I was always
brought up with, and the one I guess I probably
quote the most is those who don't learn from history
are doomed to repeat it. And and we and we
see that over and over and over again. Which is
why I'm personally concerned about what we teach in our
schools and how much we teach and how much of
an effort we put into history.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, it was always my favorite subject in school. But
but for a lot of people, I guess they just
find it boring because they think it's just about memorizing
names and dates.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yes, Now, in my two books that I have a
sequel that's come out now, A tiny bundles Big Disasters.
Book two of many tiny Mistakes. Its changed the world forever.
I've tried to put a big emphasis really on the personalities,
what they're doing, what they're thinking, what was their motivation,
et cetera. That makes it interesting. Just that they'll dry
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dates big events, that's kind of dull. But I take
a little bit of People magazine and kind of make
it into the story as well to it, and it
makes it that much more interesting. They gave them example
from book two, three different times in history a gate
and a fortress was left unlocked or open, which led
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to the downfall of that particular fortress. And one of
the biggest ones was Constantinople in fourteen fifty three when
a major gate in the fortress wall was not locked
and secure. Elon Musk in that little text about two
and a half years ago, now the cartoon that shows
that the soldier in bed with the helmet on the
sheet pulled up to his neck, the balloon over showing
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his thoughts, and he says, did I remember to lock
that gate yesterday? And the answer is no, he didn't.
And that's one of the reasons that the fortress fell,
which is a major event in history.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You're saying that Constantinople fell because of an unlocked gate.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
It was a contributing factor. Yes, a cartoon, which is
kind of funny. I had that the book. And the
Turks were a little bit offended by it was an
Ottoman empire out of Turkey that conquered Constantinople. They thought
that was a little bit dismiss Now, wow, but at
the five hundred years they get over it. But yes,
that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yes, that is amazing. Again, the author's named Jared Not.
The book is called Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters thirty nine
tiny mistakes that changed the world forever. I'm sure the
book's doing great. I can't wait to read it myself
because this is this is fascinating to me. Thank you
for being on our show today.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Yeah, Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters dot com. Tiny Blunder's Big
Disasters Economy have two free chapters there. It's a fun
website to visit.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Terrific.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Thanks again, Jared Bessel Luck.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I hope to talk again.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Thank you very much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Bet.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Author author Jared Not back with more in a moment
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All Right, we are back final segment today.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I thought I play something that I had on the
morning show today because it's a good follow up to
the conversation we had with State Representative Steve Toath yesterday
about Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick in his position on HTC
and THHC. I'm sorry, see I'm so good with drug names.
THHC and the possibility of a special session with Lieutenant
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Governor Dan Patrick was on our morning show today on
kat R H. Here's how that conversation went.
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and great.
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Every test, Oh empire wide.
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And glorious, you stand supremely blessed.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Seven to fifty odd time here in Houston's Warn news
Week Cardla Lextra time here at the end of the show,
so we get to spend a few quality minutes here
with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
He joins us on the phone from Austin.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
Good morning, sir, hey, good morning, good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Good to have you on. I know you are not
responsible for what happens in the Texas House, but you
have to be at least a little bit frustrated with
all the bills coming out of the Senate that just
aren't getting heard in the Texas House.
Speaker 15 (28:40):
Yeah, well we are. I think our forty list of
priority bills, our top priorities of the voters ask us
to pass, we've passed. We're in the mid thirties. Now
we're having them all completed in the next week or so.
We passed now close to one hundred and eighty five bills.
I think the House has passed two. So obviously I'm
concerned about the clock. Nine weeks to go, and that's
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nine weeks, but it's not a lot of days. And
some bills take six seven hours on the floor in
the House, so a lot of bills could possibly die.
But so far, so far, the new Speaker, Dustin Burrows,
has made commitments to pass school choice and other key
bills like bail reform because we need to keep murderers
off the street in Harris County. Do you realize, guys,
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that we have our team that we have sixteen hundred
over sixteen hundred murder cases waiting for trial in Harris County,
and eight hundred of those people who have been accused
of that are out on the streets murder, rape, child
sex offenders. So these are big issues that we have
to tackle and I'm trusting the speaker will come through,
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but he's got nine weeks to prove up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I want to ask you about the THC issue because
I got the there are some people who think that
you're just completely one hundred percent against medical marijuana or
or anything that can relieve veteran stress or pain or
those types of things. I got the impression from talking
to Steve Toth yesterday that's not really where you stand
on this. You have a very specific concern. Can you
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share that concern with us?
Speaker 15 (30:14):
Yeah? Sure, great question, Thank you. So. Number one, we're
going to expand the CUP program, which is compassionate use
for veterans with PTSD, cancer patients and children with the
various diseases. So we're going to expand that program. But
here's the danger. And you saw the story this week
in Houston. A fifteen year old I believe he was fifteen,
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got ahold of some gummies that were sold from a
smoke shop and shot and killed his mother because he
lost control. I want all the parents listening in grandparents
to understand something they don't realize what's going on, and
to give you put this in respective really fast. We
have about eleven hundred McDonald's in Texas and about thirteen
hundred Starbucks. You feel like that's a lot. You see
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him everywhere. We have over eight thousand smoke shops that
have opened in the last three years. And where have
they opened, as the Houston Chronicles showed, anywhere from within
a thousand and two thousand feet of schools. Because anyone
can buy this poison under twenty one and all these
shops just they took advantage of a loophole and the
Hemp bill and its synthetic cannabis that is three four
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five times stronger than what you could buy from a
drug dealer on the street, and kids are buying it.
We've had superintendents testify, We've had doctors testify. Our calls
of the Poison Center on THHC are up over five
hundred percent and a year, and parents have come to testify.
They're losing their children and they're twenty and thirty year
old children as well to schizophrenia and paranoia. This is
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dangerous poison that's being sold. Just to consider this, these
eight thousand shops or more have opened in the last
three years, all near our schools. What do you think
their market is? And so we're going to ban it
because it's pure poison and you've got to watch out
for what your kids are buying. It's in our schools everywhere,
and it's a serious, serious health risk for everyone.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Rather than banning the product, though, why don't we just
take more measures to make sure the kids can get
their hands on this stuff.
Speaker 15 (32:10):
Well you can do that. Well, you know, kids aren't
supposed to buy liquor and cigarettes either, but you know,
some manage to find a way to get it, and
sometimes if people over twenty one by and give it
to kids. Now we're talking about a different product here,
we're talking about no one knows what's in these companies.
No one knows what's there's nothing on there to indicate
and what is in there that comes from China, comes
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from Mexico, come from drug labs. You don't know what's
in there. You're putting your life at risk. Again, look
at this fifteen year old. He had a couple of
gummies and he killed his mother. And so we have
to This is not something you can regulate. It's illegal
now and it needs to We need to ban it.
You can't regulate it, and I want to it. Hats
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off to Specs Liquor because they were selling some drinks
that had THC in them. They've taken them off the shelf.
And restaurants have told us from their association that some
restaurants were selling drinks with THC. They're not any longer
doing it for most. For the most, most of them
have taken them out off the menu because they were
losing control of customers after two drinks. This is potent,
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powerful stuff and again serious serious health effects. And when
and again when I say that in three years, eight
thousand shops have opened up near our schools selling this
poison that no one knows what it is. And it's
an eight billion dollar business. That tells you it's it
is targeted to kids primarily, and and it's it's life altering.
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Some of these kids will never recover from the from
the mental illness.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Let me quickly ask you, because we're almost out of time, Kert,
did you anticipate a special session? What would trigger in
your mind a special session?
Speaker 15 (33:50):
Well, we've got to pass bail reform. We can't let
these murders and rapists and child defenders out on the street.
We passed it three times out of the Senate's ever
passed the House. The speaker says he'll pass a strong,
big reform bill. That's key. We've got to get thc
off the street and not poison our kids. That's key.
If those two things don't pass, that could trigger a
special session for sure. Look, property tax relief is our
number one issue. I became Lieutman a governor. Your homestead
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EXEMPTIONU was fifteen thousand. I raise it to one hundred
thousand this year. We've already passed a bill in the
Senate to raise one hundred and forty thousand. And while
property taxes are you know, we we have to look
at the local side. You know, we don't control, for
the most part, county governments. We don't. We don't control
all these bond issues that that people vote on. But
we do control what we can do on school taxes.
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So we have reduced everyone school taxes. You know, some
people look at their appraisal and say, my appraisals up. Well,
the appraisal does not impact your tax bill anymore because
we've we've broken that away. We did that in twenty nineteen.
So everyone's m ANDO school taxes about forty percent of
their bill, is down forty one percent and by this session,
by the end of this session, it'll be down fifty percent.
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And for seniors, if we get our way, it will
be pretty much totally gone. For seniors. I want to
raise the homes the exemption for seniors to two hundred thousand.
I'm working with the Speaker on that jointly at one
hundred and forty thousand, raise it two hundred and forty thousand.
For everyone else, we want to wipe out your m
and O school taxes, which are about thirty five to
forty percent of your property tax bill.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
All right, sir, we're out of time, but thank you,
as always for your time. We do appreciate it. That's
the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on our morning show today
in KTRH. All right, that's it for today. You all
have a great day, what's left of it. I'll see
you tomorrow morning. Right nearly starting to get five AM
on news radio seven forty KTRH. We are back here
at four. I know you have nine to fifty k
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
Today is always I am talking about food. But we
got onto the topic of steak this morning on Houston's
Morning News, and it turned out it got quite a reaction.
I was, well, I guess I'm not surprised because I
think you know, when it comes to specific restaurants, especially
barbecue or steakhouses, we Texans have a tendency to have
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a very firm opinion where we want to go to
get either the best barbecue or the best steak. And luckily,
in both categories, there's plenty of places to go. We
have a lot of great barbecue, we have a lot
of great, great steak places. We have a lot of
great seafood places. You know, We're pretty blessed when it
comes to that kind of stuff. But the reason I
got onto the topic this morning is I saw a
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list they said, here are America's favorite steakhouses now there
These are obviously, you know, corporate run establishments, chain restaurants,
if you will, that's the only way you're going to
find them all across America and h and there were
a couple of surprises on there. Number four was Golden Corral.
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And you know, I'm not putting down Golden Corral when
I say that, but is that where you go for
I guess some people go there for steak. First of all,
they only have sirloin steak. Is that You're not gonna
get a fil a at at Golden Coral. You're not
going to get a ribby Golden Crow. You're gonna get sorloin.
And I guess if sirloin is your favorite steak, they
do cook it to order. I will say that, But
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it's surprising to me that made number four. I guess
the way they decided to judge this was based on
how many people knew you and how many people who
knew you liked you, and that's how they came up
with this list, and that put Golden Crowd number four.
Number two was Texas Roadhouse. We weed a Texas Roadhouse
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fairly frequently. It is I think it's they've got the
best Prime Rib. And I've had Prime Rib in a
lot of places, including some pretty pricey restaurants, and I think, honestly,
Texas Roadhouse is Prime Rib is the best best I've had.
And number one, who was number one? Number one on
the list was out Back Steakhouse, which, you know, I
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think they're good, but like most chained restaurants, some of
them are really really good and some of them not
so much. Then I saw a list of local Houston
steakhouses and who ranks, you know, the most popular here
in Papa's Steakhouse, I think was number one. Again, we
got a lot of great steakhouses here. I'm a personal
fan of tastes of Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I go there.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't go there a lot because after all, it's
not you know, it's you know, it's not in the
budget to be in there every week for goodness sake.
But whenever we have somebody come to town or it's
a special occasion, we generally go to Texas Roadhouse, Perry Steakhouse,
you know, that's that's on the list. There's there's quite
a few. Uh So I just kind of opened up
the phones today, but not really the phones. The talkback
feature the ihearted radio app ktr H. You could put
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k TRH. You could also put kPr C. Put KTRH
number one on your preset, put KPRC number two on
your reset, and you can listen to us in digital quality,
and you can also respond with the talkback button. So
we started taking some talkbacks. Your favorite Houston steak establishment,
even if they no longer exist. Maybe one that you
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used to really really like that it isn't around anymore,
or one you like to frequent. Who in your mind,
in your world, who's the best steakhouse when it comes
to Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Corrals Steakhouse too much it They've got a pretty awesome
steak at least the one in College Station. As we
go there pretty regular for the steak and I like mine.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Rare.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Porter Outback. Steakhouse is
my favorite national chain. Although I'm a little surprised it
came in at number one. Golden Corral. I meant Golden
Corral should not have even been on the list. As
of about six years ago, there was still a ponderous
steakhouse near Fairfield, Ohio, and I think you have.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
To go all the way out to the Socialist.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
People's Republic of California to find the black ankles.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's all I got, Hey.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Jimmy and spring. My favorite place to get a state
was the Artisans in Midtown, A black pepper in krustin palade, Mignon,
oh boy. Other than that, it's my house, pan Sears too,
perfection in crust and black pepper, big course, the Celtic Sea, salt,
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garlic and Rosemary.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
I said, bab hey, morning, everybody. This mark out of
Angleton Steakhout is no longer around Old San Francisco Steakhouse.
I sure do miss that little gal getting on that swing,
going back and forth and hitting that bell.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That one showed up a lot, is you'll suit. You'll
soon see that one showed up a ton. And I'm
trying to figure out why that is. But here's a
couple couple more endorsements. The problem with Old San Francisco
is it's not around anymore.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Cupcake and I love going to the Steakhouse and Sandler
Resort in Galveston.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You don't get no better than that Donald from Shiro.
My favorite steakhouse is.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
My Plage using good ranchers dot com.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
And do you know where the first Texas roadhouse was built?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
How come he didn't tell me? Where was the first
Texas roadhouse built? I'm some somewhere in Texas, although Texas
Roadhouse is all over the country.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Now, hello Jimmy.
Speaker 9 (05:59):
My favorite steak cast was the Old San Francisco Steak Cast.
Not only was the lady on the swing, but she
would also swing high enough to ring a bell on
the rafters. Very cool, and they had the best Swiss cheese.
Have a great day, guys.
Speaker 11 (06:16):
Old San Francisco Steakhouse has the best filet mignons I
have ever eaten. You could cut them with a butter knife,
the absolute best. And yes, the lady on the swing
wore what you would imagine someone a female working a
saloon in the Old West would be wearing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, she was on a I guess a red velvet swing.
I'm kind of I'm kind of angry that I didn't
know about this place, you know, a couple couple of
years ago, because it was open until sometime in twenty
twenty three, and I was asking on the air, I mean,
because we were getting so many calls about Old San
Francisco Steakhouse. You know, why why is it not around it?
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Or why did it close? And I had I had
a listener write me and say that they were in
a strip mall and the guy sold the strip mall
and then to redevelop into something else or redeveloped for
some other purpose. So you know, every tenant in there
ended up leaving. But you would think again, you know,
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I'm so curious. I mean, if it was so popular
and if it was so good and people liked it
so much, why didn't they just build a new location
or relocate because they were done after that. I understand
it's pretty pricey. Maybe that had something to do with it.
Maybe maybe people loved it, but they just didn't frequent
it enough to keep it going. All right, quick little
break back with more in a moment, Jimmy Barrett Show
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here on AM nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Sorry, the big announcement came out.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yesterday from President Trump on tariffs. So if he was bluffing,
that no longer appears to be the case. No, he's
not bluffing about tariffs. He is instituting tariffs. Everybody, every
foreign country gets a ten percent tariff that goes into
effect on April the fifth. There are list of countries
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that are particularly bad as far as how they treat
the United States on tariffs, have just huge markups, and
it appears, based on the graph that the President was
showing yesterday, that those countries generally are getting about a
fifty percent of what we're getting tariff. In other words,
it's reciprocal, but not one hundred percent reciprocal. The European
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Union marks a lot of our stuff up like about
forty five fifty percent, and we're only marketing going to
mark their stuff up through terriffs by by twenty percent,
so they're actually most of these countries are actually getting
a deal, as it turns out. But the stock market
has not responded very well to that news today. I
don't know what it's at right now, but this morning,
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when we got off the air on katrh It, we'd
been down over a thousand points, so that didn't really
go over really really big. But President Trump, you know,
kind of laid it out. Let's start with this. Here's
President Trump in front of members of Congress in the
Rose Garden. Several members of the UAW will get to
them in the second. We're also there to support the president.
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Here he is making the case for why these tariffs
have to happen.
Speaker 12 (09:40):
For decades, the United States slash trade barriers or other countries. Well,
those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created
outrageous non monetary barriers to decimate our industries. And in
many cases the non monetary barriers were worse than the
monetary ones. They manip related their currencies, subsidized their exports,
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stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant vat taxes to disadvantage
our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards, and created
filthy pollution havens. They were absolutely filthy. But they always
came to us and they said, we're violating. We should
pay for it. It's all detailed in a very big
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report by the US Trade Representative on foreign trade barriers.
And i'll just hold it up for you. It's available
and you don't have to pay too much. As I
understand it, you'll pay nothing. It's a lot of work,
a lot of work for something actually, because it's a
special it's a special book. It's very frankly, it's very
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upsetting when you read it, when you see what people
have been doing to US for thirty years. This all
happened with no response from the United States of America
none whatsoever. But those days are over. Let me offer
just a few examples of the vicious attacks workers have
faced for so many years. The United States charges of
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the countries only a two point four tariff on motorcycles. Meanwhile,
Thailand and others are charging much higher prices, like sixty percent.
India charges seventy percent, Vietnam charges seventy five percent, and
others are even higher than that. Likewise, until today, the
United States has for decades charged a two point five tariff.
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Think of that two point five percent on foreign made automobiles.
The European Union charges US more than ten percent tariffs,
and they have twenty percent vats much much higher. India
charges seventy percent, and perhaps worst of all, of the
non monetary restrictions imposed by South Korea, Japan, and very
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many other nations. As a result of these colossal trade barriers,
eighty one percent of the cars in South Carea made
in South Korea. Ninety four percent of the cars in
Japan are made in Japan. Toyota sells one million foreign
made automobiles into the United States and General Motor sells
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almost none, Ford sells very little. None of our companies
are allowed to go into other countries. And I say
that friend and foe, and in many cases the friend
is worse than the foe in terms of trade. But
such horrendous imbalances have devastated our industrial base and put
our national security at risk. I don't blame these other
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countries at all for this calamity. I blame former presidents
and past leaders who aren't doing their job. They let
it happen, and they let it happen to an extent
that nobody can even believe. That's why, effective at midnight,
we will impose the twenty five percent TERRA for no
all foreign made automobiles.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And that one has gone into effect. The other ones
April fifth and April the ninth. There's when they go
into effect. Now, how is that news? The twenty five
percent automotive tariff. How's that going over with members of
the UAW pretty well? Evidently there are about twenty of
them that were in the audience for the President's speech yesterday.
One of them, his name is Brian. I don't know
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his last name, but his name is Brian, was invited
up to the microphone.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
It's great on that you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Thanks, thank you, mister president.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
I grew up just north of Detroit, Michigan and McComb County,
known as the home of the Reagan Democrats.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
My first vote for president was for Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I thought that was going to be the best president
ever saw in my lifetime until Donald J.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Trump came along.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I have watched my entire life.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
I have watched plant after plant after plant in Detroit
and in the metro Detroit area close. There are now
plants sitting idle. There are now plants that are underutilized.
And Donald Trump's policies are going to bring product back
into those underutilized plants. There's gonna be new investment, there's
gonna be new plants built. And the UAW members and
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I brought twenty of them with me, they're sitting right
over here.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
We support Donald.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Trump's policies on tariffs one hundred percent. So, mister President,
we can't thank you enough. And in six months or
a year, we're gonna begin to see the benefits. I
can't wait to see what's happening three or four years
down the road. Thank you, mister President. No, the thing
I appreciate about those comments.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What he said is is there's a guy, he's an autoworker,
but he's using his head here. He's he's not just
putting together cars. He understands you know that this is
not just what happens in the short term. This is
what happens in the long term. In the short term, yeah,
there's gonna be some retaliation going on, there's gonna be
some higher prices going on. People are gonna bitch about that.
There's just no doubt about it. But at the end
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of the day, I think most of these countries are
going to realize that, you know, Trump means business and
he's not going to back down. If he's not going
to back down, then they're either going to have to
back down or go either way, we're gonna get our
We're gonna start getting our fair share, and that's gonna
be good for this country the long haul. The goal
here obviously to move manufacturing back to the United States.
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What did Democrats always say about that all you need
to learn to code? You know, we're not gonna have
these high paying steel jobs or these these high paying
automotive jobs going forward. You're gonna need to you're gonna
need to learn a new occupation. No, I mean for
national security reasons, a lot of other reasons. We need
to be able to manufacture here in this country ourselves.
And one more comment here from White House Council Senior
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Council Peter Navarro on tariffs.
Speaker 13 (15:41):
But here's what's really important, Jessie.
Speaker 14 (15:43):
As bad as the higher tariffs are that these countries
around the world charge us, the non tariff barriers are worse.
The non terror bared currency manipulation, the VAT tax distortions,
export subsidies, dumping, counterfeiting, and piracy, ip theft. It goes
on and on and on, and that kind of thing
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is going to be very very hard for our foreign
nations cheating us to get rid of overnight.
Speaker 13 (16:11):
This is not a negotiation, Jesse.
Speaker 14 (16:13):
This is a national emergency associated with chronic and massive
trade deficits that are brought about by higher tariffs and
higher non tarff barriers that take our jobs, that take
our factories, that lead to massive trade deficits, that result
in massive transfers of wealth into foreign hands, that jeopardizer
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manufacturing base and defense industrial base. So no, this is
not a negotiation. It's a national emergency, and the President
is treating it's such an it's liberation Day, Jesse. So
international traits it inquisitively designed to this international traits that's
exquisitely designed, Jesse, to steal our factories and our jobs
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and our wealth through unfair trade practices, higher tariffs, more importantly,
higher non t faarriers.
Speaker 13 (17:06):
Yes, liberation Day. Let us celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well, there's some people who aren't celebrating today, but we'll
see if they celebrate down the road a little bit
when they see the positive outcome, ultimate outcome of all this.
All right, quick low break back with more in a moment,
Jimmy Bart show here a name nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
All right, I have a special guest sentership to day.
His name is Jared Nod.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Jared wrote a book called Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters thirty
nine Tiny Mistakes that Change the World Forever. Are these things,
these these these blunders and disasters that you found. Are
these things that are wildly known because I'm thinking, if
they're tiny, they probably haven't made a lot of history books.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, yes, it's funny. They're all of the historical record.
But when we were taught history of high school and
college and so on. They put an into some of
the big events, the wars that are won and the
declarations of war and the trees signed and the president's
elected and so on and so forth. But underneath that,
down one or two levels, you'll find a lot of
small things happening. Some of those small things are mistakes,
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seemingly seemingly tiny at the time, that domino into big,
big disasters. It's sort of like the uh the the
cyclone effect, the hurricane effect that we talked about, the
butterfly effect, and so that's what we're talking about, little
tiny mistakes that domino domino multiply and puzzlement. Then you
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have an entire nation collapsing.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, give us an example. What what is maybe one
of the best examples of what you're talking about, Something
that began as tiny that just turned into an utter disaster.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yes, here's the teaser. A single piece of tape rotated
several inches of the wrong direction, changed the outcome of
the Vietnam War. The United States might very well have
won except for this single tiny mistake, which doesn't make
any sense at all. Right, the word we're talking about
it has to do with the Watergate break in when
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the James McCord and the Cuban operatators were jimmying the
lock for the parking garage in the office building, they
were told to hold a striker on the door and
down with a single piece of tape in the vertical
position so it could not be seen in the hallway
where they made a mistake and they held it down
with a tape in the horizontal positions. So in Frank
Willis a night watch when him walking down the hall
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he saw the tape and well, what's this tape on
the door? All the door has been jimmied. He called
the Washington d c. Police. Now there's a strong gloomer
that the uniformed officer who was charge at charge of
that picture area of the city that night was intoxicated
in a local bar and could not answer the call.
But they had to send the bump patrol in his place.
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That three officers addressed as Hobo's in a Jawackee car.
They pull up to the watergate. The lookout and does
not recognize them as police officers. They come into the watergate,
they arrest him forward as the Cuban operatives. They're hiding
it in the knee well of the desk and the
Watergate begins boom boom, one thing after another after another.
Hendry diisons, you gave an interview. They just signed a
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treaty with North Vietnamese ending the war in Vietnam, and
they did that. North Vietas are going to be testing
the tree. And he said the plan was to go
in there and bomb the daylight's out of them again
to get them back in compliance. But they couldn't do
that because they were so weak politically because of Watergate,
doctor bomb collapses, mix them as grace and collapses. It
all falls apart because of a single piece of tape
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rotated several inches of the wrong direction and a drunk cop.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Wow, that is crazy. That is that is that is
absolutely crazy. How long in the in the research did
first of all, where do you start looking for these things?
And then how do you ultimately connect the dots? Because
I mean, that's that's that's quite a process there to
go from a piece of tape to Vietnam. I mean
(21:07):
you could you could go, you could go from point
A to point B. And saying that, well, the piece
the only reason why Watergate happened, or Richard Nexon's presidency
ended was because of a piece of tape.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But you didn't stop there. You took it all the
way to Vietnam.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yes, right, it's funny had that one little small thing
because domino domino dominot Way back in the nineteen fifty
the origin of that expression the butterfly effect, came from
this mathematician name is Lorenz, and he was a very
well recognized mathematician. He won the equivalent of the Nobel
Prize for mathematics, and he was had this formula. It
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was a predicting weather and it was a number with
a deci one and eighteen small numbers to the right
of it, which he has taken so long for the
computers of the day to run the program. Let me
eighteen numbers, Let me quacker around six of them. It'll
run that much faster in that little small amount won't
make much different. So it runs the program. And he
was a mazed what an enormous difference that it made.
It was somewhat analogous to somebody leaving Seattle, Washington, heading
(22:07):
to London and there accompasses off just comfort grees. Instead
of arriving in London, they end up done in Lisbon.
Or Portugal someplace like that. So he said, Wow, that
means that if a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil,
they could set off a chain reaction. They can lead
to a cyclone in Texas a year and a half later,
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that was the origin of the big expression, the butterfly effect.
And we're looking at the butterfly effects and history which
happens over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Wow, very fascinating.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Let me let me ask you about the job that
you think American schools do in teaching history. It's a
difficult thing because the space of the historical record is
so long, and I guess we just kind of rely
on textbooks now right to guide what the conversation is
going to be in any particular grade, about what you're
going to learn about history, and a lot of really
(23:01):
important stuff ends up on the cutting room floor.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And then also too, there's a heavy bias in recent years,
kind of woke left bias course America. They will say
it was based on racism, We were an unfair country,
some people that hate America, et cetera. So there's been
a heavy tilt to the left of blaming Columbus, who
deserves some blame. But not nearly as much as you.
(23:28):
But given and maybe back in the nineteen fifties and
sixties seventies, maybe they were glorifying achievements of European settlers
too much. Maybe and maybe, but I think they've gone far, far,
too much to the other direction. White children made it
feel guilty because their benefits of beneficiary beneficiaries of white privilege.
(23:49):
So I think it has gone too far the other way.
And so I think President Trump recently rebalanced it as
calling for a more objective presentation of history in our schools.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Well, you know the phrase that that I was always
brought up with, and the one I guess I probably
quote the most is those who don't learn from history
are doomed to repeat it. And and we and we
see that over and over and over again. Which is
why I'm personally concerned about what we teach in our
schools and how much we teach and how much of
an effort we put into history.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, it was always my favorite subject in school. But
but for a lot of people, I guess they just
find it boring because they think it's just about memorizing
names and dates.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yes, Now, in my two books that I have a
sequel that's come out now, A tiny bundles Big Disasters.
Book two of many tiny Mistakes. Its changed the world forever.
I've tried to put a big emphasis really on the personalities,
what they're doing, what they're thinking, what was their motivation,
et cetera. That makes it interesting. Just that they'll dry
(24:52):
dates big events, that's kind of dull. But I take
a little bit of People magazine and kind of make
it into the story as well to it, and it
makes it that much more interesting. They gave them example
from book two, three different times in history a gate
and a fortress was left unlocked or open, which led
(25:14):
to the downfall of that particular fortress. And one of
the biggest ones was Constantinople in fourteen fifty three when
a major gate in the fortress wall was not locked
and secure. Elon Musk in that little text about two
and a half years ago, now the cartoon that shows
that the soldier in bed with the helmet on the
sheet pulled up to his neck, the balloon over showing
(25:36):
his thoughts, and he says, did I remember to lock
that gate yesterday? And the answer is no, he didn't.
And that's one of the reasons that the fortress fell,
which is a major event in history.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You're saying that Constantinople fell because of an unlocked gate.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
It was a contributing factor. Yes, a cartoon, which is
kind of funny. I had that the book. And the
Turks were a little bit offended by it was an
Ottoman empire out of Turkey that conquered Constantinople. They thought
that was a little bit dismiss Now, wow, but at
the five hundred years they get over it. But yes,
that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yes, that is amazing. Again, the author's named Jared Not.
The book is called Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters thirty nine
tiny mistakes that changed the world forever. I'm sure the
book's doing great. I can't wait to read it myself
because this is this is fascinating to me. Thank you
for being on our show today.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Yeah, Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters dot com. Tiny Blunder's Big
Disasters Economy have two free chapters there. It's a fun
website to visit.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Terrific.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Thanks again, Jared Bessel Luck.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I hope to talk again.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Thank you very much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Bet.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Author author Jared Not back with more in a moment
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Speaker 2 (27:01):
Kids starting the conversation. We rock Houston Talk. This is
kat RC Real Texas Real Talk.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
All Right, we are back final segment today.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I thought I play something that I had on the
morning show today because it's a good follow up to
the conversation we had with State Representative Steve Toath yesterday
about Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick in his position on HTC
and THHC. I'm sorry, see I'm so good with drug names.
THHC and the possibility of a special session with Lieutenant
(27:43):
Governor Dan Patrick was on our morning show today on
kat R H. Here's how that conversation went.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Texas Texas.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Saul hails the mighty state Texas, Oh Texas, You're wonderful
and great.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Build is stand grand is withstanding.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Every test, Oh empire wide.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
And glorious, you stand supremely blessed.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Seven to fifty odd time here in Houston's Warn news
Week Cardla Lextra time here at the end of the show,
so we get to spend a few quality minutes here
with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
He joins us on the phone from Austin.
Speaker 15 (28:25):
Good morning, sir, hey, good morning, good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Good to have you on. I know you are not
responsible for what happens in the Texas House, but you
have to be at least a little bit frustrated with
all the bills coming out of the Senate that just
aren't getting heard in the Texas House.
Speaker 15 (28:40):
Yeah, well we are. I think our forty list of
priority bills, our top priorities of the voters ask us
to pass, we've passed. We're in the mid thirties. Now
we're having them all completed in the next week or so.
We passed now close to one hundred and eighty five bills.
I think the House has passed two. So obviously I'm
concerned about the clock. Nine weeks to go, and that's
(29:03):
nine weeks, but it's not a lot of days. And
some bills take six seven hours on the floor in
the House, so a lot of bills could possibly die.
But so far, so far, the new Speaker, Dustin Burrows,
has made commitments to pass school choice and other key
bills like bail reform because we need to keep murderers
off the street in Harris County. Do you realize, guys,
(29:26):
that we have our team that we have sixteen hundred
over sixteen hundred murder cases waiting for trial in Harris County,
and eight hundred of those people who have been accused
of that are out on the streets murder, rape, child
sex offenders. So these are big issues that we have
to tackle and I'm trusting the speaker will come through,
(29:48):
but he's got nine weeks to prove up.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I want to ask you about the THC issue because
I got the there are some people who think that
you're just completely one hundred percent against medical marijuana or
or anything that can relieve veteran stress or pain or
those types of things. I got the impression from talking
to Steve Toth yesterday that's not really where you stand
on this. You have a very specific concern. Can you
(30:12):
share that concern with us?
Speaker 15 (30:14):
Yeah? Sure, great question, Thank you. So. Number one, we're
going to expand the CUP program, which is compassionate use
for veterans with PTSD, cancer patients and children with the
various diseases. So we're going to expand that program. But
here's the danger. And you saw the story this week
in Houston. A fifteen year old I believe he was fifteen,
(30:36):
got ahold of some gummies that were sold from a
smoke shop and shot and killed his mother because he
lost control. I want all the parents listening in grandparents
to understand something they don't realize what's going on, and
to give you put this in respective really fast. We
have about eleven hundred McDonald's in Texas and about thirteen
hundred Starbucks. You feel like that's a lot. You see
(30:56):
him everywhere. We have over eight thousand smoke shops that
have opened in the last three years. And where have
they opened, as the Houston Chronicles showed, anywhere from within
a thousand and two thousand feet of schools. Because anyone
can buy this poison under twenty one and all these
shops just they took advantage of a loophole and the
Hemp bill and its synthetic cannabis that is three four
(31:19):
five times stronger than what you could buy from a
drug dealer on the street, and kids are buying it.
We've had superintendents testify, We've had doctors testify. Our calls
of the Poison Center on THHC are up over five
hundred percent and a year, and parents have come to testify.
They're losing their children and they're twenty and thirty year
old children as well to schizophrenia and paranoia. This is
(31:42):
dangerous poison that's being sold. Just to consider this, these
eight thousand shops or more have opened in the last
three years, all near our schools. What do you think
their market is? And so we're going to ban it
because it's pure poison and you've got to watch out
for what your kids are buying. It's in our schools everywhere,
and it's a serious, serious health risk for everyone.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Rather than banning the product, though, why don't we just
take more measures to make sure the kids can get
their hands on this stuff.
Speaker 15 (32:10):
Well you can do that. Well, you know, kids aren't
supposed to buy liquor and cigarettes either, but you know,
some manage to find a way to get it, and
sometimes if people over twenty one by and give it
to kids. Now we're talking about a different product here,
we're talking about no one knows what's in these companies.
No one knows what's there's nothing on there to indicate
and what is in there that comes from China, comes
(32:33):
from Mexico, come from drug labs. You don't know what's
in there. You're putting your life at risk. Again, look
at this fifteen year old. He had a couple of
gummies and he killed his mother. And so we have
to This is not something you can regulate. It's illegal
now and it needs to We need to ban it.
You can't regulate it, and I want to it. Hats
(32:53):
off to Specs Liquor because they were selling some drinks
that had THC in them. They've taken them off the shelf.
And restaurants have told us from their association that some
restaurants were selling drinks with THC. They're not any longer
doing it for most. For the most, most of them
have taken them out off the menu because they were
losing control of customers after two drinks. This is potent,
(33:15):
powerful stuff and again serious serious health effects. And when
and again when I say that in three years, eight
thousand shops have opened up near our schools selling this
poison that no one knows what it is. And it's
an eight billion dollar business. That tells you it's it
is targeted to kids primarily, and and it's it's life altering.
(33:38):
Some of these kids will never recover from the from
the mental illness.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Let me quickly ask you, because we're almost out of time, Kert,
did you anticipate a special session? What would trigger in
your mind a special session?
Speaker 15 (33:50):
Well, we've got to pass bail reform. We can't let
these murders and rapists and child defenders out on the street.
We passed it three times out of the Senate's ever
passed the House. The speaker says he'll pass a strong,
big reform bill. That's key. We've got to get thc
off the street and not poison our kids. That's key.
If those two things don't pass, that could trigger a
special session for sure. Look, property tax relief is our
number one issue. I became Lieutman a governor. Your homestead
(34:12):
EXEMPTIONU was fifteen thousand. I raise it to one hundred
thousand this year. We've already passed a bill in the
Senate to raise one hundred and forty thousand. And while
property taxes are you know, we we have to look
at the local side. You know, we don't control, for
the most part, county governments. We don't. We don't control
all these bond issues that that people vote on. But
we do control what we can do on school taxes.
(34:34):
So we have reduced everyone school taxes. You know, some
people look at their appraisal and say, my appraisals up. Well,
the appraisal does not impact your tax bill anymore because
we've we've broken that away. We did that in twenty nineteen.
So everyone's m ANDO school taxes about forty percent of
their bill, is down forty one percent and by this session,
by the end of this session, it'll be down fifty percent.
(34:54):
And for seniors, if we get our way, it will
be pretty much totally gone. For seniors. I want to
raise the homes the exemption for seniors to two hundred thousand.
I'm working with the Speaker on that jointly at one
hundred and forty thousand, raise it two hundred and forty thousand.
For everyone else, we want to wipe out your m
and O school taxes, which are about thirty five to
forty percent of your property tax bill.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
All right, sir, we're out of time, but thank you,
as always for your time. We do appreciate it. That's
the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on our morning show today
in KTRH. All right, that's it for today. You all
have a great day, what's left of it. I'll see
you tomorrow morning. Right nearly starting to get five AM
on news radio seven forty KTRH. We are back here
at four. I know you have nine to fifty k
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