July 15, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
When's the last time I talked about food on this
show or a restaurant? It's it's been at least a
few days, right since I did that. We did a
Question of the Day this morning on the Morning Show
and kt R H and I thought I'd go ahead
and carry that over to the afternoon because this story
bugs me in so many different ways. Restaurants who want
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to reinvent themselves, I do not believe it can be done.
There are very few restaurants that have been around for
fifty or sixty or seventy years. That's number one. But
number two to that is the ones that have been
around fifty or sixty or seventy years are not restaurants
that reinvented themselves. There are restaurants who say stayed consistently
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the same the same as they were fifty or sixty
or seventy years ago, and that's why people like going
to them. So when I hear stories about restaurants wanting
to reinvent themselves or to modernize, or to try to
attract a younger crowd, I keep thinking to myself, m
I don't think that's really going to work. Cracker Barrel's
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the latest one to do this. Now, think of what
Cracker Barrel is. Southern comfort food, right, a country, old timey,
rustic setting. You know exactly what a Cracker Barrel restaurant
looks like because they all well they did all look
the same. They all look completely the same.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
They have a dark, dark wood paneling on the outside
and on the inside. They have fireplaces, even in climates
where it's do dog on hot to run the fire.
They've they've got a menu that's been very consistent. You know,
Grandma's this and Grandpa's that. When you first walk into
the place, they've got a store there. It's got keeche
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kind of you know, rural type stuff, clothing, you know
that kind of stuff, candy, you know, things like that.
And then you you walk in in the restaurant and
you sit down, and you know, a waiter or a
waitress will serve you, you know, wearing a very conservative
outfit and and you know, depending on what mill you're
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having in most of the time, at least for me,
it's breakfast. You know, you know exactly what to get.
I know, I know exactly what to order at at
uh at Uh at that restaurant, I know exactly what
I want. It's the pecan pancakes. That's it. That's why
I'm there. I'm there. I'm the cracker Barrel because I
want pecan pancakes. I'm in the mood for Bacan pancakes.
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I mean, I get eggs anywhere. I can get a
lot of the breakfast suits that they have anywhere, So
why would I go there. Their biscuits are really good,
and the Bacoan pancakes that's why I go. I don't
really care about the decor that much. I mean, they
got a bunch of antique pictures hanging up on the
walls and and that kind of stuff, and you know,
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just antiques. Basically, it's meant to evoke a feeling of
the past, which is one of the reasons why you
go there. It's very Southern, and it's it's Southern comfort food,
is what they serve. That's why you're there. You're you're
you're not there to get get a filet mignon. That's
not what you get at Cracker Barel. You're you're there
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to get you know, kind of meat loaf and chicken
and dumplings and fried chicken, that kinds that's why you're
there to and get your pecan pancakes. That's why you're there.
So when I saw this story this morning about this
modern is effort everything that they're trying to attract younger
people to come to Cracker Barrell, they're worried that their
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their audience is too old. And like most, like most,
they's the here's the problem with this philosophy. And you
hear this a lot well our you know, our patrons
are getting older. You know, someday they're going to die.
We have to be able to replace them. Listen, sometimes
a restaurant, you have to get to a certain point
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in life where you appreciate a certain thing. And let's
face it, I was I didn't used to be this age.
I used to be a young person. I'm sure when
I was eighteen or twenty one or twenty five, I
didn't think Cracker Barrel was very cool place to go.
But I can assure you now, at my age, I'm
more than happy to go to Cracker Barrel. In other words,
I aged into it. There's always going to be younger
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people who are going to be interested in you as
they get older. If that's who you cater to as
an older crowd, and that's why Cracker Barrell traditionally cater's
to an older crowd. I see families there. I don't
see a lot of you know, eighteen year olds by
themselves or you know, twenty somethings by themselves, unless they
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got married young and they have a family family. I
see younger families there all the time. I see a
cross section of races. I say, I don't think it's
strictly for old people. I'm not quite sure what they
hope to accomplish with this now. If all they're going
to do is do some you know, paint lighter colors
and and and maybe take down some of the antiques,
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but everything else stays the same, maybe they're going to
be fine. But I asked the question today if you
were to modernize the Cracker Barrel, what would you do?
And the result was pretty overwhelming that you folks have
no interest in seeing any changes at cracker barrel.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
This is Jack in Connecticut.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
When it comes to cracker barrel, if it ain't broke,
don't fix it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I have a good day.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
If Joe from Crosby was in charge of the Cracker
Berrey revamp, I would lay off all the older ladies
and hire all the yatta.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Work Hooters girls.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh yeah, hey, this is Andrew from Spring.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
As a gen xer, I will say leave cracker barrel alone.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
If the younger generations don't like it, let them find
somewhere else to eat.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
There are plenty of options. Y'all have a great morning.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
This is Billy with Cooley Construction.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Leave cracker barrel alone.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Home good cooking is the best.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Do not California up my cracker barrel.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Do not cracker barrel or California his cracker barrel. I
guess yeah, which don't change it so far. Other than
maybe having Hooter girls you know, wait on you at
a cracker barrel, there haven't been a modernization. Suggestions.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Joe from Conrad changing cracker barrel would be like putting
a vegan choice at waffle house.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Just don't work.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
How to make cracker barrel more suitable for young people.
Hire young room wait staff, be rude to customers. Menu
on QR, code or iPads, order on iPads, nasty unisex bathrooms,
credit card or bitcoin only, and sell CBD oil at
check out instead of candy.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
This is Jay deer Park.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
I'd give the younger generation a place of their home.
I would combine Dollar General and waffle House together and
leave cracker barrel alone.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And have a good morning.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
How would that work, buddy, Dollar General and waffle House together?
I'm not sure how that works anyway. I think our
audience is spoken. Please, you know, don't bother monernizing the
Houston area cracker barrels. We love them just the way
they are. A quick little break back with more in
a moment. Jimmy Barrett show here a NAM nine to
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fifty KPRC. I think I call this tex segment how
to handle a bully by being a bully yourself. Tom Holman,
(08:15):
would you agree with me that Tom Holman does not
strike me as somebody Maybe you either as somebody who
takes any crap from anybody. I pretty much think that
you know exactly what you get with Tom Holman. He'll
say exactly what's on his mind. So you're a turning
point USA, you're Tom Holman. You're a turning point USA.
You're giving a speech on ice and immigration, and you
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start getting heckled by I remember of the crowd who's
wearing a Trump hat. I'm thinking that Trump hat was
just as a sort of a disguise so that he
could get into turning point. He was obviously there, not
as a Trump supporter or an Ice supporter, but quite
the opposite. So he decides, he decides, in his wisdom
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or lack thereof, that he's gonna heckle Tom Holman. That
can't possibly end up very well, right, So here's Tom
Holman getting challenged by the heckler and Tom Holman's response
to it. Also some reaction on the other end on
the five wait, three.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Or five years Barney, are you an NS thirteen member?
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Hey, Hey, that's okay, that's o fairy, bringa there. Mourns
like this are the stunture. This guy, This guy wouldn't Norse.
We like the surface nation. This guy, you got the
balls to be a nice officer?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
Do you ever got the balls to be a born choice?
This guy he lives in his mother's basement. Get out
of here, your loser.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
There's a word on a motipa, which is phonetically describes
a word uh describes the sound something makes like oink
or meow or roar.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You hear them off and on the view, we need two.
Speaker 11 (10:00):
We need to invent a word for a person who
physically resembles his occupation.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I think it's called a Homan because like Homan's.
Speaker 11 (10:09):
Face is like the opposite opposite of a welcome Matt.
You see that face and you're going, I'm not sticking
around in this country.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
He is a walking rock slide.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
And it goes back to how Trump uses the message
and not the muscle to incentivize self deportation.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When you look at.
Speaker 11 (10:27):
Wasserman Schultz, she is doing the work by amplifying the
conditions of Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
She's saying, oh my god, this sucks, and.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
We're going, thank you, Debbie, that's the message we need
to get out because.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like the images of the roundups.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
Alligator Alcatraz, Homan himself, it incentivizes his people not to
wait around by then incentivized mass deportation. And now we're
doing the opposite. I was thinking about this weekend because
I do a lot of thinking.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Now.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Remember how for the left it was always about exploitation,
like capitalism exploits the poor. That was always a thing.
Now suddenly exploitation is.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They're doing the jobs we don't want to do, you know.
Speaker 11 (11:12):
And it's like, well, and because they're illegal, you get
the added benefit that the fact that they're doing it cheaply,
So it's no longer exploitation. It's that, Wow, they're just
here for us, doing cheap work. And it's like, you know,
you can use that argument for sex trafficking, like they
are doing this work because they have to survive. They're
doing the jobs cheaply that nobody else would want to do.
(11:35):
That describes people working at potform farms and doing sex
work in queens. So whenever you say that you know,
these people just want to earn a living, remember that
you're directly benefiting awful people who exploit them, which is
why you need legal immigration.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well said Sir Will said. By the way, he made
a comment about Wasserman Schultz and what she said about
Alligator ally, I wish i'd grabbed that clip. I forgot
to grab that clip, But I can paraphrase for you. Basically,
she's talking about they're in cages in there, and the
conditions are horrible and uh and and they they have
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this toilet thing in this in the cage with them,
and they have like a drinking fountain thing and it's
all connected together.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
They're drinking water from the toilet.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
They're not drinking water from the toilet. There's there's there's
a water line comes in and gets one gets split
over to the toilet. The other one gets, you know,
to the to the sink so you can get a
drink and wash your hands. In other words, it's like
a brand new jail cell. Everything's brand new in there.
The beds are brand new in there. Yes, there are cages,
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just like if you were in jail, you'd be in
a cell. There's there's ways in order to make sure
there's thirty people in there. Well, okay, but it's a
big cage, all right. It's a big it's a temporary
holding situation. It looks like it looks like a jail cell.
A nice jail cell, but a jail cell. And isn't
that pretty much what we want it to be. We're
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not sending women and children there we're sending, you know,
illegal aliens, many of whom are career criminals, murderers, child
predators and the like. Wouldn't we want them in a
secure situation? Wouldn't we want them in something that's like
a jail. I don't understand why they keep doubling down
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on this. There's nobody out there that feels sorry for
an illegal alien who's a criminal, who's a murderer, who's
being detained, except, of course, the people of you know
who live in the blue cities, sanctuary cities in the
Blue States. And there's no help for those folks. I'm
not gonna worry about them. Oh, by the way, that
was only part of the comments that Tom Holman had.
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Here is a longer clip of what and Tom holmansaid.
Greg Guttfeld was so impressed with this he did it
on his late night show last night as well. So
let's listen to that segment.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
This guy he lives in his mother's face bed, Nor
is it a surprise?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Mean, you don't have purple hair in a nose ring?
Get out of here, your losers, and you're such a badass,
bring me off stage.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
In thirteen minutes of such a second journey to you
desist on the pee.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
There's nothing wrong sitting down to pee. It's the only
way some of us can reach the bowl.
Speaker 12 (14:44):
But this is another example of how Trump's messaging does
all the heavy lifting of deportation. When Trump said he
would deport millions, that INCENTIVI is illegals to leave or
just stay in their own country, which Trump promotes Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
That incentivized it even more.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
Plus it provides the alligator community with much needed jobs.
When I surrounds up illegals at a weed farm, the
images go global, encouraging others.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
From not even trying to come here.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
And Tom Holman, just looking at him makes you want
to board a bus and go to Tijuana. He gives
off a vibe that shaving cream is for woosies. He's
a walking, talking human version of the Wall. Now compare
that to the previous borders. Are the only people she
put put fear into are the bartenders who cut her off.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Okay, here's another story I want to want to touch
on here quickly, fairly quickly anyway, and that is the
little feud. We talked a little bit about the feud
going on with Dan Bongino, and Cash Betel and Pam
Bondy And is there a file, an Epstein file or not?
Is there an Epstein list or not? Did Epstein really
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commit suicide or not? And nothing, nothing that's so far
that the Trump administration is released has has alleviated any
of that discussion. There's still plenty of people who will
not believe that Epstein committed suicide. You've got this Maxwell
chick now coming forward and saying she she she knows
who's on the list, she has the list, she will
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release it, which, of course is to me, you're in
jail and they're From what we're hearing, there are a
lot of very powerful names, a lot of them Democrats,
who are on that list. And you know that Bill
Clinton's got to be on that list based on his
past behavior. So would you, you know, would you volunteer
that information? Uh, that seems like a really kind of
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dangerous thing to do. TMZ did a report on it yesterday.
Before you snicker too much about it being TMZ, They've
they've broken quite a few stories. Actually, here's what TMZ
was reporting yesterday on the existence of an Epstein file,
not necessarily a list, but an Epstein file.
Speaker 13 (16:59):
There are numerous, numerous names in that file of famous
people and celebrities, and that he just reveled in having
all of these people in his universe. And the file
makes that clear, because remember, the government did a lot
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of investigating and talked to a lot of people, and
Epstein wrote things down too. But the file includes one
person who is privy said to me, it's half the
people in the world that are famous. Now, I think
that might be hyperbolic, but one of the people's he
mentioned several and I'm not going to mention their names,
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and I'll tell you why in a minute, but one
that I will mention that he said is Fidel.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Castro is in that file.
Speaker 13 (17:51):
The Fidel Castro, the dictator in Cuba, who is dead,
but he was in that file. So Jeff Epstein amassed
lots and lots of names. We talked about last week
that Donald Trump is on a flight manifest. Well, his
name is mentioned several times in the file.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Nothing untoward.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
There is nothing we're.
Speaker 13 (18:15):
Told that in any way implicates him on any of
the things for which Epstein was charged. Nothing untoward, but
his name, along with many, many, many other people mentioned
in that file. Why Donald Trump is so adamant now
about not releasing it. I don't know if it has
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to do with the fact that his name, along with
so many others, is there, because again now multiple people
have told me there's nothing untoward with respect to Trump.
So I'm not sure why he is so adamant about this.
But the way it's and put to me by two
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people is and again people with knowledge of this that
you know Epstein, he didn't blackmail people as much as
he just like holding things over the heads of the
rich and the famous. You know, I know you were here.
I know you were there, and I know that sounds weird,
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but I'm being told that by two people who don't
really have a real connection with each other on any
day to day basis. And he just liked to brag
and did brag, and that's why so many of these
names are in that file.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well, I'm sure there's some people whould be highly embarrassed
with the release of that file, and you know, maybe
maybe it's just the rich and famous protecting their own
could be all right, quick little break back with Boorn
in a moment, and we're going to talk about sirens
on the Guadalupe River with a guy who who is
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an ex spurt in alerts, weather alerts in the best
way to inform the public about emergencies. More than that
coming up next here on a m nine fifty KPRC
in the Jimmy Barrett Show. All right, there has been
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a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking about what needs to
happen as a result of the flooding in the Kerrville
Kirk County, and you know the hundreds of people who
died in the hunters who are still missing. Preventing something
like that from happening again, I'm here to say, is
horrible as it sounds. There's just no way to completely
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protect against the natural disaster this way. Eddie Bertola was
on our morning show today on ktr H. He's the
owner of Bertola Advisory Services. He's an alerts and warnings expert,
and I talked to him about sirens and whether or
not sirens might have made a difference, if that if
that's a worthwhile investment. Let's take a listen to that
seventy two now here in Houston's morning News. All right,
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the siren idea, it had been proposed, but it was
never acted upon. According to the Texas Tribune, it was
the fight going on between public officials and what they
thought they needed to keep people safe versus the taxpayers
and what they were willing to spend money on. Joining us.
Is any Bertola, the owner of Ptola Advisory Services. Let's
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let's talk about sirens in general. If there had been
sirens along the Guadaloupe River, how would that system have worked.
When would the sirens go off? Would they go off
when a flood warning was first issued or would it
go off when the flood when the river got to
a certain level.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Great question.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Sirens are a local decision, and so you'll get the
flash flood warnings from the National Weather Service, but at
the local level, well, they are the ones to decide
when to activate or to not to activate the sirens.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So if the decision had been made to only activate
the sirens if the river got to a certain level,
the sirens might not have been enough to save people
because that river rose so fast.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
You know, sirens are an interesting tool, and they're just
one of many tools that are used to communicate with
a public during an emergency. It has a technical element
and it has a human element. The technical elements obviously,
you know, do you have enough sirens, are they positioned
in a place. But you have the human element of
is the public educated on what to do when they
hear a siren because we have tornadoes, we have different
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weather events. Are they going to hear a siren and
think I need to go to the center of my
house or seek shelter by going underground, or are they
going to say, you know, I hear the siren, I
need to go you know, high above and there could
be a flash flood. Additionally, there are two types of sirens,
and people use sirens, but specific two main ones, and
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one is the audible tone that we're used to hearing
sometimes in the testing. But the second is one that
actually projects a voice or an actual message, so you
can hear it and it will give direction. So yeah,
two different options.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, that's just as system like that cost. I mean,
Guada Lupe. I'm not trying to think about how long
the Guadalupe River is if you were to put and
how how many sirens would you need to install along
a river of that size in order to be able
to make sure that everybody along the river could he
hear a warning message.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm sure it's expensive, and I say that you know,
looking back, as you talked about Monday morning quarterbacking, is
the price too high?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
And now I believe everybody would say no, the price
is not too high, But you have to I also
understand as we get to that technical elements, the purpose
of a siren if you're indoors, isn't to provide you information.
It's generally for those that are outside. It's for those
that are outside walking or on the streets to seek
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shelter or do whatever it is that you are trained
to do when you hear a siren. And so if
you're inside a residence, the likelihood of you receiving information
via a siren is actually quite low.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So it sounds to me. Here's the other issue that
I'd like to address with the Eddie, and that is,
and it kind of brought this up, is you don't
know how people are going to necessarily react to whatever
the morning, whatever the warning message is. For example, let's
come out now that the owner of Camp Mystic was
aware one fourteen of the morning that there had been
a flood flash flood warning that had been issued and
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began having his staff monitor the river, and when it
got to a point where he felt like the river
was getting too high. Then they started evacuation when the
course it became too late in some cases because the
river just rose so quickly. So again you've got that
human element. It's pretty tough to work around the human element.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
So it's very tough and it's very necessary at the
same time. And that's why when we talk about emergency
communication with a public in any community, it's got to
be a partnership and your local emergency managers, your local
elective officials have to work hand in hand with the
community members, especially if you have areas like Camp Mystic
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or others which have a dynamic population, which have a
group of people that may not be used to that area,
campers that this is the first time you know, near
a floodbone that may not understand what to do, and
so there is a higher risk and generally just a
higher need to be prepared.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
In your mind, Eddie, is there another system that may
be more cost effective that would also help to alert
people who don't have access to a cell phone or
a radio or a television in order to be able
to know what's going on in a case of an
emergency like this.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
But there are multiple tools in that toolbox. And that's
where we get into the responsibility of those that are
sending these alerts to understand that it's not just you
know that wireless emergency alert and radio is the most
resilient method that still exists today to give information out.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You have the no Weather radio. But on the other.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Side, you have to have a community that understands there
are multiple ways to get the information and they need
to have, you know, a resilient method. If they are
if they're in an area that doesn't have a good
cell phone coverage that they're not going to receive messages.
They need to also be then tuned into radio because
radio can reach they need to have the no weather
radio ready to go on. It's it's definitely a two
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way street, but I do believe there are methods and
a plan that can be used to help people stay safe.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Okay, Eddie Bertola, thanks for joining us. Good Eddie Bertola,
he's the owner of Bertola Advisory Services. A story we'll
have for tomorrow and KTRH and may talk a little
bit more about it in the afternoon tomorrow as well.
Is evidently they are raising the property taxes in Kirk
County already as a result of this historic flooding that
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has occurred, which for an area that we've already is
we just talked about in that last segment. The taxpayers
there are very conservative. They don't like, they don't like
paying higher taxes. One of the reasons why the sirens
system wasn't acted upon is because they felt it was
too expensive. So now another raising taxes as a result
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of what happened. I think the other thing that government
has to look at, and I think there's about fifty three,
I want to say, about fifty three thousand people who
live in Kirk County. One of the things that has
to be considered in all this is allowing these businesses
to be built. If you government approves or does not
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approve building a home, building a business, et cetera. And
I'm not suggesting, by the way, that government is to
blame for this, but one of the things that we
do here in Texas is we don't like we don't
like the zoning. We don't like telling people what they
can have and where they can have it. We avoid
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doing that. And this is part of the price, I
guess you pay for that freedom is the fact that
you are allowing people to build structures and to have
camps in an area that is flood prone. Now, granted
this is an historical flood, but it's still it floods
and there's a certain nature that comes with it. So
maybe maybe we should really consider whether we're going to
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allow building to happen in a place that's prone to
this type of flooding. All right, quick lout break back
with borne moment Jimmy Barrett Show. You're an AM nine
fifty k PRC. All right, so we opened the show
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today talking about Cracker Barrel and the desire of the
CEO of Cracker brow She knew she's she's probably new, right,
you know, that's the problem. The problem with these these
publicly held companies is that they're always changing CEOs and
a new CEO comes in and they always think that
they've got a better idea. Right, I know how we
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can fix this problem. Our our patronage is too old.
Here's what we'll do. Will modernize. We'll change the restaurant experience.
You know, we won't change enough that the old people
won't like us anymore, but the young people they't like us.
And of course that that's pretty dog one difficult to do.
Change is ever easy. And you know who especially doesn't
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like change old people. So if if your audience is
a little older, right, and you want to change things
to attract younger people, you're probably not going to affect
enough change to attract young people. Because it's cracker barrel.
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They know what cracker barrel is. You either like it
or you don't. You either grow into it or you don't.
So the likelihood that changing the paint color in the
decor and adding or subtracting a few menu items is
going to all of a sudden attract a younger crowd
that's pretty slim. In the meantime, the only thing you
did was piss off the old people who are your
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reliable customers. And you see this happening over and over
and over again at business after business, not just at
a national level, but at a local level too. I'm
gonna be on vacation again next week. I hate to
say that, because it seems like all I've been has
been on vacation. It's just weird how the schedule worked
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out this year. You know, we had the the uh,
the radio listener trip to Greece, and then my sister's
daughter got married and that was right after that, and
then we you know, the first thing I've put in
for every year vacation wise, is the last week of
July because as our annual trip to the Outer Banks,
our beach week with all our buddies from Virginia. So
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that's where I'll be next week. But one of the
things that I'm not gonna be able to do next
week is go to a place there called Owens. Owens
was like in business for like seventy plus years, family
owned and operated, you know, a seafood restaurant, but very
very old fashioned, you know, the kind of place where
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you have it's all fresh seafood and and you know,
you kind of had the decor was kind of on
the older side, and you know, maybe a little bit
like Cracker Burrow Southern comfort seafood, I guess is the
way I would describe it. And evidently the family find
the decided it was time for them to get out
of the restaurant business, and so they sold the restaurant. Now,
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when you're selling a restaurant like that that that has
a great clientele, has a ton of business, makes a
good profit, you would think that the first thing you
would want to do is to protect it, protect what
you've got. You don't change the name. You don't change
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the decor, at least not right away unless you're just
putting new decor in that matches the ill decorps. But
it's it's it's clean and it's new, and you don't
you don't, you know, you don't change the staff. You
just you try to, at least in the beginning, you
try to maintain what it is that you've got and
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show people, yeah, okay, it's new ownership, but we're still
here and we're still the same and we're not changing,
because that's why people come there. Well, that's how what
happened at Owens. Owens. They sold out and this other
family comes in and they think they got all these
great ideas, Oh we know how we'll fix this place.
They're gone, they're out of business. That story just kind
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of repeats itself over and over and over again. They're
never going to be able to successfully change Applebee's, for example.
You can, sure, you can add a few menu items,
but Applebee's is what Applebee's is. This is why businesses
go through a life cycle and a death cycle. Every
business does it, every business changs. There was a time.
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I can't think of a better example than Blockbuster. There
was a time when there was a Blockbuster video store
on every other corner in this country, and we'd all
go there and we'd all rent movies and take them
home and watch them, you know, first first in the
videotape form and then on the CD form. And they
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don't exist anymore because a new delivery method came where
you can rent a movie right in your living room.
You don't need to go to the store. You know,
there's channels that are available to you on TV where
you can run a movie anytime you want to. Every
business comes, every business has a lifespan. Every business dies
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at some point in time. And the amount of businesses
who have completely reinvented themselves you could probably list on
one hand. Now, what's going to be interesting to me
is whether or not certain certain food operations are going
to be able to a certain extent reinvent themselves. I
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think they will. I think it's going to drive up
the price a little bit. But you've got all of
these companies agreeing to get rid of these petroleum based
dies RFK Junior says he's been getting a lot of
cooperation as far as getting rid of these artificles petroleum
based dies.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
When we came in six months ago and we said
we're going to get rid of the nine petroleum based
synthetic dyes that are in our food that cause ADHD,
that are associated with cancers and all kinds of a
grim inventory of other health injuries, people laughed and they
said we'd never be able to do it. But what
happened today, which is the dairy industry has now made
(35:24):
a commitment to get rid of all dies with the
by the end of twenty twenty six, and some of
them are already taking action, some of them already gotten.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Rid of the dies.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
We now have with this contribution, with this commitment, we
now have about forty percent of the food industry that's
already made that commitment, and thirty five percent of the
food industry was already had already gotten.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Rid of the dies.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
So we're very proud of this public private partnership. I'm
very grateful for our partnership with Brooke and with our
partnership with the industry. We cannot make America healthy again
without the cooperation of the American farmers in American industry,
and they are stepping up to the plate, and we're
very grateful to them.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
There's urgency, and.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
You know, FDA also is stepping up to the plate.
We've already approved ASTRA and approved the last two months
three new vegetable day based eyes.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Today we approved the.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
New vegetable day based eye blue dye. So you know,
we're going to make sure that these companies and this
industry has the supply chain so that they're able to
get the products that they need to continue to plead
to meet the needs of their consumers, but in a
way that keeps our children healthy.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
That that Dairy Association, by the way, represents about ninety
percent of all the ice cream manufacturers in this country,
so there's a lot of progress getting made on that front.
They'll just end up using a vegetable dye that's probably
more expensive to produce, and we'll add a little bit
to the cost, but it's long overdue. I'm glad it's happening,
all right, listen, gotta leave it at that. You all
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When's the last time I talked about food on this
show or a restaurant? It's it's been at least a
few days, right since I did that. We did a
Question of the Day this morning on the Morning Show
and kt R H and I thought I'd go ahead
and carry that over to the afternoon because this story
bugs me in so many different ways. Restaurants who want
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to reinvent themselves, I do not believe it can be done.
There are very few restaurants that have been around for
fifty or sixty or seventy years. That's number one. But
number two to that is the ones that have been
around fifty or sixty or seventy years are not restaurants
that reinvented themselves. There are restaurants who say stayed consistently
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the same the same as they were fifty or sixty
or seventy years ago, and that's why people like going
to them. So when I hear stories about restaurants wanting
to reinvent themselves or to modernize, or to try to
attract a younger crowd, I keep thinking to myself, m
I don't think that's really going to work. Cracker Barrel's
(01:38):
the latest one to do this. Now, think of what
Cracker Barrel is. Southern comfort food, right, a country, old timey,
rustic setting. You know exactly what a Cracker Barrel restaurant
looks like because they all well they did all look
the same. They all look completely the same.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
They have a dark, dark wood paneling on the outside
and on the inside. They have fireplaces, even in climates
where it's do dog on hot to run the fire.
They've they've got a menu that's been very consistent. You know,
Grandma's this and Grandpa's that. When you first walk into
the place, they've got a store there. It's got keeche
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kind of you know, rural type stuff, clothing, you know
that kind of stuff, candy, you know, things like that.
And then you you walk in in the restaurant and
you sit down, and you know, a waiter or a
waitress will serve you, you know, wearing a very conservative
outfit and and you know, depending on what mill you're
(02:41):
having in most of the time, at least for me,
it's breakfast. You know, you know exactly what to get.
I know, I know exactly what to order at at
uh at Uh at that restaurant, I know exactly what
I want. It's the pecan pancakes. That's it. That's why
I'm there. I'm there. I'm the cracker Barrel because I
want pecan pancakes. I'm in the mood for Bacan pancakes.
(03:02):
I mean, I get eggs anywhere. I can get a
lot of the breakfast suits that they have anywhere, So
why would I go there. Their biscuits are really good,
and the Bacoan pancakes that's why I go. I don't
really care about the decor that much. I mean, they
got a bunch of antique pictures hanging up on the
walls and and that kind of stuff, and you know,
(03:22):
just antiques. Basically, it's meant to evoke a feeling of
the past, which is one of the reasons why you
go there. It's very Southern, and it's it's Southern comfort food,
is what they serve. That's why you're there. You're you're
you're not there to get get a filet mignon. That's
not what you get at Cracker Barel. You're you're there
(03:44):
to get you know, kind of meat loaf and chicken
and dumplings and fried chicken, that kinds that's why you're
there to and get your pecan pancakes. That's why you're there.
So when I saw this story this morning about this
modern is effort everything that they're trying to attract younger
people to come to Cracker Barrell, they're worried that their
(04:06):
their audience is too old. And like most, like most,
they's the here's the problem with this philosophy. And you
hear this a lot well our you know, our patrons
are getting older. You know, someday they're going to die.
We have to be able to replace them. Listen, sometimes
a restaurant, you have to get to a certain point
(04:27):
in life where you appreciate a certain thing. And let's
face it, I was I didn't used to be this age.
I used to be a young person. I'm sure when
I was eighteen or twenty one or twenty five, I
didn't think Cracker Barrel was very cool place to go.
But I can assure you now, at my age, I'm
more than happy to go to Cracker Barrel. In other words,
I aged into it. There's always going to be younger
(04:50):
people who are going to be interested in you as
they get older. If that's who you cater to as
an older crowd, and that's why Cracker Barrell traditionally cater's
to an older crowd. I see families there. I don't
see a lot of you know, eighteen year olds by
themselves or you know, twenty somethings by themselves, unless they
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got married young and they have a family family. I
see younger families there all the time. I see a
cross section of races. I say, I don't think it's
strictly for old people. I'm not quite sure what they
hope to accomplish with this now. If all they're going
to do is do some you know, paint lighter colors
and and and maybe take down some of the antiques,
(05:32):
but everything else stays the same, maybe they're going to
be fine. But I asked the question today if you
were to modernize the Cracker Barrel, what would you do?
And the result was pretty overwhelming that you folks have
no interest in seeing any changes at cracker barrel.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
This is Jack in Connecticut.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
When it comes to cracker barrel, if it ain't broke,
don't fix it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I have a good day.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
If Joe from Crosby was in charge of the Cracker
Berrey revamp, I would lay off all the older ladies
and hire all the yatta.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Work Hooters girls.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh yeah, hey, this is Andrew from Spring.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
As a gen xer, I will say leave cracker barrel alone.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
If the younger generations don't like it, let them find
somewhere else to eat.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
There are plenty of options. Y'all have a great morning.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
This is Billy with Cooley Construction.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Leave cracker barrel alone.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Home good cooking is the best.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Do not California up my cracker barrel.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Do not cracker barrel or California his cracker barrel. I
guess yeah, which don't change it so far. Other than
maybe having Hooter girls you know, wait on you at
a cracker barrel, there haven't been a modernization. Suggestions.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Joe from Conrad changing cracker barrel would be like putting
a vegan choice at waffle house.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Just don't work.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
How to make cracker barrel more suitable for young people.
Hire young room wait staff, be rude to customers. Menu
on QR, code or iPads, order on iPads, nasty unisex bathrooms,
credit card or bitcoin only, and sell CBD oil at
check out instead of candy.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
This is Jay deer Park.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
I'd give the younger generation a place of their home.
I would combine Dollar General and waffle House together and
leave cracker barrel alone.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And have a good morning.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
How would that work, buddy, Dollar General and waffle House together?
I'm not sure how that works anyway. I think our
audience is spoken. Please, you know, don't bother monernizing the
Houston area cracker barrels. We love them just the way
they are. A quick little break back with more in
a moment. Jimmy Barrett show here a NAM nine to
(07:48):
fifty KPRC. I think I call this tex segment how
to handle a bully by being a bully yourself. Tom Holman,
(08:15):
would you agree with me that Tom Holman does not
strike me as somebody Maybe you either as somebody who
takes any crap from anybody. I pretty much think that
you know exactly what you get with Tom Holman. He'll
say exactly what's on his mind. So you're a turning
point USA, you're Tom Holman. You're a turning point USA.
You're giving a speech on ice and immigration, and you
(08:39):
start getting heckled by I remember of the crowd who's
wearing a Trump hat. I'm thinking that Trump hat was
just as a sort of a disguise so that he
could get into turning point. He was obviously there, not
as a Trump supporter or an Ice supporter, but quite
the opposite. So he decides, he decides, in his wisdom
(08:59):
or lack thereof, that he's gonna heckle Tom Holman. That
can't possibly end up very well, right, So here's Tom
Holman getting challenged by the heckler and Tom Holman's response
to it. Also some reaction on the other end on
the five wait, three.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Or five years Barney, are you an NS thirteen member?
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Hey, Hey, that's okay, that's o fairy, bringa there. Mourns
like this are the stunture. This guy, This guy wouldn't Norse.
We like the surface nation. This guy, you got the
balls to be a nice officer?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
Do you ever got the balls to be a born choice?
This guy he lives in his mother's basement. Get out
of here, your loser.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
There's a word on a motipa, which is phonetically describes
a word uh describes the sound something makes like oink
or meow or roar.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You hear them off and on the view, we need two.
Speaker 11 (10:00):
We need to invent a word for a person who
physically resembles his occupation.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I think it's called a Homan because like Homan's.
Speaker 11 (10:09):
Face is like the opposite opposite of a welcome Matt.
You see that face and you're going, I'm not sticking
around in this country.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
He is a walking rock slide.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
And it goes back to how Trump uses the message
and not the muscle to incentivize self deportation.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When you look at.
Speaker 11 (10:27):
Wasserman Schultz, she is doing the work by amplifying the
conditions of Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
She's saying, oh my god, this sucks, and.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
We're going, thank you, Debbie, that's the message we need
to get out because.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like the images of the roundups.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
Alligator Alcatraz, Homan himself, it incentivizes his people not to
wait around by then incentivized mass deportation. And now we're
doing the opposite. I was thinking about this weekend because
I do a lot of thinking.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Now.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
Remember how for the left it was always about exploitation,
like capitalism exploits the poor. That was always a thing.
Now suddenly exploitation is.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They're doing the jobs we don't want to do, you know.
Speaker 11 (11:12):
And it's like, well, and because they're illegal, you get
the added benefit that the fact that they're doing it cheaply,
So it's no longer exploitation. It's that, Wow, they're just
here for us, doing cheap work. And it's like, you know,
you can use that argument for sex trafficking, like they
are doing this work because they have to survive. They're
doing the jobs cheaply that nobody else would want to do.
(11:35):
That describes people working at potform farms and doing sex
work in queens. So whenever you say that you know,
these people just want to earn a living, remember that
you're directly benefiting awful people who exploit them, which is
why you need legal immigration.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well said Sir Will said. By the way, he made
a comment about Wasserman Schultz and what she said about
Alligator ally, I wish i'd grabbed that clip. I forgot
to grab that clip, But I can paraphrase for you. Basically,
she's talking about they're in cages in there, and the
conditions are horrible and uh and and they they have
(12:14):
this toilet thing in this in the cage with them,
and they have like a drinking fountain thing and it's
all connected together.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
They're drinking water from the toilet.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
They're not drinking water from the toilet. There's there's there's
a water line comes in and gets one gets split
over to the toilet. The other one gets, you know,
to the to the sink so you can get a
drink and wash your hands. In other words, it's like
a brand new jail cell. Everything's brand new in there.
The beds are brand new in there. Yes, there are cages,
(12:47):
just like if you were in jail, you'd be in
a cell. There's there's ways in order to make sure
there's thirty people in there. Well, okay, but it's a
big cage, all right. It's a big it's a temporary
holding situation. It looks like it looks like a jail cell.
A nice jail cell, but a jail cell. And isn't
that pretty much what we want it to be. We're
(13:10):
not sending women and children there we're sending, you know,
illegal aliens, many of whom are career criminals, murderers, child
predators and the like. Wouldn't we want them in a
secure situation? Wouldn't we want them in something that's like
a jail. I don't understand why they keep doubling down
(13:32):
on this. There's nobody out there that feels sorry for
an illegal alien who's a criminal, who's a murderer, who's
being detained, except, of course, the people of you know
who live in the blue cities, sanctuary cities in the
Blue States. And there's no help for those folks. I'm
not gonna worry about them. Oh, by the way, that
was only part of the comments that Tom Holman had.
(13:54):
Here is a longer clip of what and Tom holmansaid.
Greg Guttfeld was so impressed with this he did it
on his late night show last night as well. So
let's listen to that segment.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
This guy he lives in his mother's face bed, Nor
is it a surprise?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Mean, you don't have purple hair in a nose ring?
Get out of here, your losers, and you're such a badass,
bring me off stage.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
In thirteen minutes of such a second journey to you
desist on the pee.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
There's nothing wrong sitting down to pee. It's the only
way some of us can reach the bowl.
Speaker 12 (14:44):
But this is another example of how Trump's messaging does
all the heavy lifting of deportation. When Trump said he
would deport millions, that INCENTIVI is illegals to leave or
just stay in their own country, which Trump promotes Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
That incentivized it even more.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
Plus it provides the alligator community with much needed jobs.
When I surrounds up illegals at a weed farm, the
images go global, encouraging others.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
From not even trying to come here.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
And Tom Holman, just looking at him makes you want
to board a bus and go to Tijuana. He gives
off a vibe that shaving cream is for woosies. He's
a walking, talking human version of the Wall. Now compare
that to the previous borders. Are the only people she
put put fear into are the bartenders who cut her off.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Okay, here's another story I want to want to touch
on here quickly, fairly quickly anyway, and that is the
little feud. We talked a little bit about the feud
going on with Dan Bongino, and Cash Betel and Pam
Bondy And is there a file, an Epstein file or not?
Is there an Epstein list or not? Did Epstein really
(15:58):
commit suicide or not? And nothing, nothing that's so far
that the Trump administration is released has has alleviated any
of that discussion. There's still plenty of people who will
not believe that Epstein committed suicide. You've got this Maxwell
chick now coming forward and saying she she she knows
who's on the list, she has the list, she will
(16:20):
release it, which, of course is to me, you're in
jail and they're From what we're hearing, there are a
lot of very powerful names, a lot of them Democrats,
who are on that list. And you know that Bill
Clinton's got to be on that list based on his
past behavior. So would you, you know, would you volunteer
that information? Uh, that seems like a really kind of
(16:42):
dangerous thing to do. TMZ did a report on it yesterday.
Before you snicker too much about it being TMZ, They've
they've broken quite a few stories. Actually, here's what TMZ
was reporting yesterday on the existence of an Epstein file,
not necessarily a list, but an Epstein file.
Speaker 13 (16:59):
There are numerous, numerous names in that file of famous
people and celebrities, and that he just reveled in having
all of these people in his universe. And the file
makes that clear, because remember, the government did a lot
(17:21):
of investigating and talked to a lot of people, and
Epstein wrote things down too. But the file includes one
person who is privy said to me, it's half the
people in the world that are famous. Now, I think
that might be hyperbolic, but one of the people's he
mentioned several and I'm not going to mention their names,
(17:43):
and I'll tell you why in a minute, but one
that I will mention that he said is Fidel.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Castro is in that file.
Speaker 13 (17:51):
The Fidel Castro, the dictator in Cuba, who is dead,
but he was in that file. So Jeff Epstein amassed
lots and lots of names. We talked about last week
that Donald Trump is on a flight manifest. Well, his
name is mentioned several times in the file.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Nothing untoward.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
There is nothing we're.
Speaker 13 (18:15):
Told that in any way implicates him on any of
the things for which Epstein was charged. Nothing untoward, but
his name, along with many, many, many other people mentioned
in that file. Why Donald Trump is so adamant now
about not releasing it. I don't know if it has
(18:38):
to do with the fact that his name, along with
so many others, is there, because again now multiple people
have told me there's nothing untoward with respect to Trump.
So I'm not sure why he is so adamant about this.
But the way it's and put to me by two
(19:01):
people is and again people with knowledge of this that
you know Epstein, he didn't blackmail people as much as
he just like holding things over the heads of the
rich and the famous. You know, I know you were here.
I know you were there, and I know that sounds weird,
(19:21):
but I'm being told that by two people who don't
really have a real connection with each other on any
day to day basis. And he just liked to brag
and did brag, and that's why so many of these
names are in that file.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well, I'm sure there's some people whould be highly embarrassed
with the release of that file, and you know, maybe
maybe it's just the rich and famous protecting their own
could be all right, quick little break back with Boorn
in a moment, and we're going to talk about sirens
on the Guadalupe River with a guy who who is
(19:59):
an ex spurt in alerts, weather alerts in the best
way to inform the public about emergencies. More than that
coming up next here on a m nine fifty KPRC
in the Jimmy Barrett Show. All right, there has been
(20:28):
a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking about what needs to
happen as a result of the flooding in the Kerrville
Kirk County, and you know the hundreds of people who
died in the hunters who are still missing. Preventing something
like that from happening again, I'm here to say, is
horrible as it sounds. There's just no way to completely
(20:52):
protect against the natural disaster this way. Eddie Bertola was
on our morning show today on ktr H. He's the
owner of Bertola Advisory Services. He's an alerts and warnings expert,
and I talked to him about sirens and whether or
not sirens might have made a difference, if that if
that's a worthwhile investment. Let's take a listen to that
seventy two now here in Houston's morning News. All right,
(21:14):
the siren idea, it had been proposed, but it was
never acted upon. According to the Texas Tribune, it was
the fight going on between public officials and what they
thought they needed to keep people safe versus the taxpayers
and what they were willing to spend money on. Joining us.
Is any Bertola, the owner of Ptola Advisory Services. Let's
(21:34):
let's talk about sirens in general. If there had been
sirens along the Guadaloupe River, how would that system have worked.
When would the sirens go off? Would they go off
when a flood warning was first issued or would it
go off when the flood when the river got to
a certain level.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Great question.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Sirens are a local decision, and so you'll get the
flash flood warnings from the National Weather Service, but at
the local level, well, they are the ones to decide
when to activate or to not to activate the sirens.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So if the decision had been made to only activate
the sirens if the river got to a certain level,
the sirens might not have been enough to save people
because that river rose so fast.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
You know, sirens are an interesting tool, and they're just
one of many tools that are used to communicate with
a public during an emergency. It has a technical element
and it has a human element. The technical elements obviously,
you know, do you have enough sirens, are they positioned
in a place. But you have the human element of
is the public educated on what to do when they
hear a siren because we have tornadoes, we have different
(22:41):
weather events. Are they going to hear a siren and
think I need to go to the center of my
house or seek shelter by going underground, or are they
going to say, you know, I hear the siren, I
need to go you know, high above and there could
be a flash flood. Additionally, there are two types of sirens,
and people use sirens, but specific two main ones, and
(23:01):
one is the audible tone that we're used to hearing
sometimes in the testing. But the second is one that
actually projects a voice or an actual message, so you
can hear it and it will give direction. So yeah,
two different options.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, that's just as system like that cost. I mean,
Guada Lupe. I'm not trying to think about how long
the Guadalupe River is if you were to put and
how how many sirens would you need to install along
a river of that size in order to be able
to make sure that everybody along the river could he
hear a warning message.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm sure it's expensive, and I say that you know,
looking back, as you talked about Monday morning quarterbacking, is
the price too high?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
And now I believe everybody would say no, the price
is not too high, But you have to I also
understand as we get to that technical elements, the purpose
of a siren if you're indoors, isn't to provide you information.
It's generally for those that are outside. It's for those
that are outside walking or on the streets to seek
(24:04):
shelter or do whatever it is that you are trained
to do when you hear a siren. And so if
you're inside a residence, the likelihood of you receiving information
via a siren is actually quite low.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So it sounds to me. Here's the other issue that
I'd like to address with the Eddie, and that is,
and it kind of brought this up, is you don't
know how people are going to necessarily react to whatever
the morning, whatever the warning message is. For example, let's
come out now that the owner of Camp Mystic was
aware one fourteen of the morning that there had been
a flood flash flood warning that had been issued and
(24:40):
began having his staff monitor the river, and when it
got to a point where he felt like the river
was getting too high. Then they started evacuation when the
course it became too late in some cases because the
river just rose so quickly. So again you've got that
human element. It's pretty tough to work around the human element.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
So it's very tough and it's very necessary at the
same time. And that's why when we talk about emergency
communication with a public in any community, it's got to
be a partnership and your local emergency managers, your local
elective officials have to work hand in hand with the
community members, especially if you have areas like Camp Mystic
(25:22):
or others which have a dynamic population, which have a
group of people that may not be used to that area,
campers that this is the first time you know, near
a floodbone that may not understand what to do, and
so there is a higher risk and generally just a
higher need to be prepared.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
In your mind, Eddie, is there another system that may
be more cost effective that would also help to alert
people who don't have access to a cell phone or
a radio or a television in order to be able
to know what's going on in a case of an
emergency like this.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
But there are multiple tools in that toolbox. And that's
where we get into the responsibility of those that are
sending these alerts to understand that it's not just you
know that wireless emergency alert and radio is the most
resilient method that still exists today to give information out.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You have the no Weather radio. But on the other.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Side, you have to have a community that understands there
are multiple ways to get the information and they need
to have, you know, a resilient method. If they are
if they're in an area that doesn't have a good
cell phone coverage that they're not going to receive messages.
They need to also be then tuned into radio because
radio can reach they need to have the no weather
radio ready to go on. It's it's definitely a two
(26:45):
way street, but I do believe there are methods and
a plan that can be used to help people stay safe.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Okay, Eddie Bertola, thanks for joining us. Good Eddie Bertola,
he's the owner of Bertola Advisory Services. A story we'll
have for tomorrow and KTRH and may talk a little
bit more about it in the afternoon tomorrow as well.
Is evidently they are raising the property taxes in Kirk
County already as a result of this historic flooding that
(27:19):
has occurred, which for an area that we've already is
we just talked about in that last segment. The taxpayers
there are very conservative. They don't like, they don't like
paying higher taxes. One of the reasons why the sirens
system wasn't acted upon is because they felt it was
too expensive. So now another raising taxes as a result
(27:40):
of what happened. I think the other thing that government
has to look at, and I think there's about fifty three,
I want to say, about fifty three thousand people who
live in Kirk County. One of the things that has
to be considered in all this is allowing these businesses
to be built. If you government approves or does not
(28:01):
approve building a home, building a business, et cetera. And
I'm not suggesting, by the way, that government is to
blame for this, but one of the things that we
do here in Texas is we don't like we don't
like the zoning. We don't like telling people what they
can have and where they can have it. We avoid
(28:23):
doing that. And this is part of the price, I
guess you pay for that freedom is the fact that
you are allowing people to build structures and to have
camps in an area that is flood prone. Now, granted
this is an historical flood, but it's still it floods
and there's a certain nature that comes with it. So
maybe maybe we should really consider whether we're going to
(28:44):
allow building to happen in a place that's prone to
this type of flooding. All right, quick lout break back
with borne moment Jimmy Barrett Show. You're an AM nine
fifty k PRC. All right, so we opened the show
(29:09):
today talking about Cracker Barrel and the desire of the
CEO of Cracker brow She knew she's she's probably new, right,
you know, that's the problem. The problem with these these
publicly held companies is that they're always changing CEOs and
a new CEO comes in and they always think that
they've got a better idea. Right, I know how we
(29:33):
can fix this problem. Our our patronage is too old.
Here's what we'll do. Will modernize. We'll change the restaurant experience.
You know, we won't change enough that the old people
won't like us anymore, but the young people they't like us.
And of course that that's pretty dog one difficult to do.
Change is ever easy. And you know who especially doesn't
(29:56):
like change old people. So if if your audience is
a little older, right, and you want to change things
to attract younger people, you're probably not going to affect
enough change to attract young people. Because it's cracker barrel.
(30:18):
They know what cracker barrel is. You either like it
or you don't. You either grow into it or you don't.
So the likelihood that changing the paint color in the
decor and adding or subtracting a few menu items is
going to all of a sudden attract a younger crowd
that's pretty slim. In the meantime, the only thing you
did was piss off the old people who are your
(30:39):
reliable customers. And you see this happening over and over
and over again at business after business, not just at
a national level, but at a local level too. I'm
gonna be on vacation again next week. I hate to
say that, because it seems like all I've been has
been on vacation. It's just weird how the schedule worked
(30:59):
out this year. You know, we had the the uh,
the radio listener trip to Greece, and then my sister's
daughter got married and that was right after that, and
then we you know, the first thing I've put in
for every year vacation wise, is the last week of
July because as our annual trip to the Outer Banks,
our beach week with all our buddies from Virginia. So
(31:20):
that's where I'll be next week. But one of the
things that I'm not gonna be able to do next
week is go to a place there called Owens. Owens
was like in business for like seventy plus years, family
owned and operated, you know, a seafood restaurant, but very
very old fashioned, you know, the kind of place where
(31:42):
you have it's all fresh seafood and and you know,
you kind of had the decor was kind of on
the older side, and you know, maybe a little bit
like Cracker Burrow Southern comfort seafood, I guess is the
way I would describe it. And evidently the family find
the decided it was time for them to get out
of the restaurant business, and so they sold the restaurant. Now,
(32:07):
when you're selling a restaurant like that that that has
a great clientele, has a ton of business, makes a
good profit, you would think that the first thing you
would want to do is to protect it, protect what
you've got. You don't change the name. You don't change
(32:29):
the decor, at least not right away unless you're just
putting new decor in that matches the ill decorps. But
it's it's it's clean and it's new, and you don't
you don't, you know, you don't change the staff. You
just you try to, at least in the beginning, you
try to maintain what it is that you've got and
(32:50):
show people, yeah, okay, it's new ownership, but we're still
here and we're still the same and we're not changing,
because that's why people come there. Well, that's how what
happened at Owens. Owens. They sold out and this other
family comes in and they think they got all these
great ideas, Oh we know how we'll fix this place.
They're gone, they're out of business. That story just kind
(33:14):
of repeats itself over and over and over again. They're
never going to be able to successfully change Applebee's, for example.
You can, sure, you can add a few menu items,
but Applebee's is what Applebee's is. This is why businesses
go through a life cycle and a death cycle. Every
business does it, every business changs. There was a time.
(33:37):
I can't think of a better example than Blockbuster. There
was a time when there was a Blockbuster video store
on every other corner in this country, and we'd all
go there and we'd all rent movies and take them
home and watch them, you know, first first in the
videotape form and then on the CD form. And they
(34:02):
don't exist anymore because a new delivery method came where
you can rent a movie right in your living room.
You don't need to go to the store. You know,
there's channels that are available to you on TV where
you can run a movie anytime you want to. Every
business comes, every business has a lifespan. Every business dies
(34:24):
at some point in time. And the amount of businesses
who have completely reinvented themselves you could probably list on
one hand. Now, what's going to be interesting to me
is whether or not certain certain food operations are going
to be able to a certain extent reinvent themselves. I
(34:45):
think they will. I think it's going to drive up
the price a little bit. But you've got all of
these companies agreeing to get rid of these petroleum based
dies RFK Junior says he's been getting a lot of
cooperation as far as getting rid of these artificles petroleum
based dies.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
When we came in six months ago and we said
we're going to get rid of the nine petroleum based
synthetic dyes that are in our food that cause ADHD,
that are associated with cancers and all kinds of a
grim inventory of other health injuries, people laughed and they
said we'd never be able to do it. But what
happened today, which is the dairy industry has now made
(35:24):
a commitment to get rid of all dies with the
by the end of twenty twenty six, and some of
them are already taking action, some of them already gotten.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Rid of the dies.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
We now have with this contribution, with this commitment, we
now have about forty percent of the food industry that's
already made that commitment, and thirty five percent of the
food industry was already had already gotten.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Rid of the dies.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
So we're very proud of this public private partnership. I'm
very grateful for our partnership with Brooke and with our
partnership with the industry. We cannot make America healthy again
without the cooperation of the American farmers in American industry,
and they are stepping up to the plate, and we're
very grateful to them.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
There's urgency, and.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
You know, FDA also is stepping up to the plate.
We've already approved ASTRA and approved the last two months
three new vegetable day based eyes.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Today we approved the.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
New vegetable day based eye blue dye. So you know,
we're going to make sure that these companies and this
industry has the supply chain so that they're able to
get the products that they need to continue to plead
to meet the needs of their consumers, but in a
way that keeps our children healthy.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
That that Dairy Association, by the way, represents about ninety
percent of all the ice cream manufacturers in this country,
so there's a lot of progress getting made on that front.
They'll just end up using a vegetable dye that's probably
more expensive to produce, and we'll add a little bit
to the cost, but it's long overdue. I'm glad it's happening,
all right, listen, gotta leave it at that. You all
(37:06):
have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright
and early around five am over on news radio seven
forty k t r H. Hope to see you tomorrow
few at four here on AM nine fifty k pr
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