What's Happening with the Ballroom?

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• What's happening with the ballroom?
• Have you taken a vacation recently?

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hello, Happy Thursday. Welcome to our show.
Where's the last time you took a vacation? A vacation,
and by vacation, I don't mean like a Friday off
or a Thursday Friday officer that you had a long weekend.

(00:50):
I mean like a week where you didn't go to work.
I was a little surprised by this survey of how
many people have not taken not only just a vacation,
but any vacation time at all during the year. Twenty
three percent of us used no vacation time last year.

(01:11):
Twenty three percent. That's the better part of the fourth
of the working public that took no vacation time. And
the statistic shocked me until I thought about it a
little bit more, and I thought, well, hang on, how
many of those people are self employed? How many of
those people own a business something like a restaurant. For example,

(01:33):
if you are a restaurant tour and you it's a
family operated business, and maybe it's the only one you have,
and this is your sole means of support for you
and maybe some other members of your family, then that
would make some sense, right. I mean, you're not going
to be taking vacation too. You're trying to make ends me,

(01:54):
You're trying to keep your business running. So I think
I'd like to think that maybe you know, twenty three
percent of a Marrias are either self employed, which means
that you're not getting paid for your vacation. You're only
getting paid if your work or you own a business.
That kind of prevents you from doing that. I happen
to think unless you really really love what you do,
and a lot of people do. I know, I love

(02:15):
what I do. I still need time to rest and
relax and to sleep in a little bit and to
clear my mind. But I certainly would never go to
the point where I'd say, well, I'm so happy working
I don't want any vacation. But by the same token,
I can understand how there are some people who just
absolutely love what they do so much that they don't

(02:36):
take a vacation. But that kind of surprise me. And
there are a lot of other people too who don't
use all of the vacation time, and the reason behind it,
in addition to maybe being self employed, is the concern
over how your business is going to react to it.
How is the boss going to react to my taking
time off. It's one thing to take a day here

(03:00):
or a day there, but when I put in for
a week, you know, is he going to roll his eyes?
Is he going to think I'm not committed to the business.
You know, we start thinking of all these reasons why
we shouldn't take a week and take a vacation or
heaven forbid, two weeks out of fear that the boss
of the company won't approve of what it is that

(03:20):
we're doing. And I'm pleased to say I got over that.
There was a time. There's a time in my radio career,
in particular, when I was young and getting started, and
I think it's true of a lot of people in
my business that you didn't want to have somebody substitute
for you on your show for fear that they would
be better than you were, that you might end up

(03:42):
losing your job, that somebody else might get your job
because they're they're as good or better than you are.
And therefore you know, we don't we don't don't. We
don't need to keep this guy employed. And there's a
part of my career where I felt that way and
I didn't want to be gone for too long, or
I didn't want to take on my vacation time because
I wanted them to think I'm a hard worker, and
I didn't want anybody coming in and sealing my thunder,

(04:03):
so to speak. I'm over that, man, I'm pleased to
report I'm over that, and I've been over that for
a long long time.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
But we kind of talked about in the morning show day.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Was there a question today at KTRH as far as
vacation time? Do you use your vacation time? Do you
actually go somewhere or do you spend all your time
at home? Do you leave vacation days on the table?
And we got some interesting responses, as you can imagine,
from people who actually, I think put a fair amount

(04:32):
of thinking of at all this.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yes, David and Oakridge. For some people, work is life.
And I have a friend who went to college with
and she's been through three marriages because work is all
she knows. Jim mclevil, I think would be a good
example of a person who's probably never had a vacation
day in his life.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Porter. Back in April,
my family and I went down to South Padre for
a week. I found after about three days sitting around
the beach or hanging out with the pool drinking beer,
I was ready to go home and go back to work.
I do use my vacation time, but I prefer to
spread it out through the year with three day weekends,

(05:11):
you know, taking a Friday off here and there. Anyway,
that's all I got.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Y'all have a good day, all right.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
But that's interesting. On the Mattress Mac thing, he might
be right. I don't know how many vacation days Mattress
Mac takes. He truly loves what he does. You could
tell he loves what he does. And I don't think
he takes a whole lot of vacation time. But by
the same joke, and I know he has other interests
other than work, you know, And I do know he travels.

(05:38):
For example, he'll go to when the Astros were in
the World Series against the Phillies. You know, he remember
that the whole thing. He got picked on by the
Phillies fans in Philadelphia. So you know, he goes places.
He may not go there for a week, but he's
not afraid to travel and to take things on and sometimes,
you know, just going for an event like that, even
if it's just for two or three days, he is

(06:00):
enough to at least give you a little bit of downtime.
And yeah, I do know people who are workaholics. My
dad was a workaholic. He always had he didn't just
have one job, he always had two jobs. And it
was hard to get him to take any vacation time.
Maybe two weeks. He would take two weeks in the
summer and we'd go up north in Michigan. And we
did that every summer when I was a kid. And

(06:22):
that's the only time I ever saw him take off
other than maybe Christmas, you know, when nobody was open anyway.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Jimmy, being an educator, we have a lot of vacation
time built in, like Thanksgiving, break, Christmas, break Spring and
break a couple of days off him in February, so
there's plenty of relaxation in vacation time built into my
schedule naturally, so I don't have to use my designated
vacation days at all.

Speaker 8 (06:49):
Hey Jimmy, it's Jason from San Antonio. I take all
of my vacation time because my company policy is if
you don't use it, you lose it, and I know
that the past, there's been policy where companies would buy
back your vacation time if you didn't use it, but
that's not really an option so much anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
So I use all my vacation time for vacation.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
I love going to Fort Lauderdale, Key West, the Carolinas, Phoenix.
I've been to Seattle once. Also been having South Dakota
and I saw them Mount Rushmore. Get out there and
enjoy your vacation, y'all.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, it's good for you. I think. I think I've
learned to appreciate my vacations. I have.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
I've learned how to appreciate that. Yeah, those are interesting
responses the staycation. Have you perfected the staycation? That's I
never used to like a staycation, but I kind of
like that now. I don't and I used to. When
I used to stay home and take a vacation, I
used to find myself doing honeydow items. No painting or

(07:53):
doing whatever. I don't do that anymore either, which is
not to say I would never paint or do some
things around the house. I do, but I don't take
vacation time to do it.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I did.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Even if I'm just going to stay home, we'll go
do something. We'll go out to eat, we'll go see
you know, we'll go travel someplace in Texas we haven't
been before. Whatever the case is. You know, even if
we're staying close to home, we find something to do.
All right, quick little break back with mortemam a Jimmy
Part show here on a nine fifty k. All right,

(08:40):
the melkdown continues over the renovations at the White House,
namely a ballroom. The only thing that's really happening is
the addition of this ballroom, which is being added to
a portion of the East wing, which means they have
to demolish a portion of the East wing in order
to be able to attack to the ballroom that's being built.

(09:02):
They're not destroying the East Wing. They're not laying a
finger on the White House. And you would think that
Trump is going in there with a wrecking ball and
doing whatever the hell he wants to do. As we
discussed yesterday a little bit. Anyway, this is not the
first time the White House has been through a renovation.

(09:23):
This is the first time that we've had a meltdown
over it. And of course the meltdown's strictly coming from
the left and strictly because it is Trump. Here is
some of the meltdown from yesterday, with some reaction from
Jesse Waters.

Speaker 9 (09:36):
Donald Trump wants to be Okay, it's the best explanation
for everything he's been doing just in recent days.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Just look at what he's doing right.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Now to the White House.

Speaker 10 (09:45):
It does to me when I look at it quickly,
look like a Kim Jong n propaganda video.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Right when he does the noops on Washington River. It
might be, and there's something disturbing about it.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
This unprecedented moment does an app metaphor.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Trump's demolishing the White House as he also demolishes our
country's constitutional norms and rule of law.

Speaker 11 (10:04):
A perfect metaphor for how President Trump was trying to
just bulldoze his political folks.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I'll tell you what I don't care about.

Speaker 12 (10:09):
I don't care about that damn ballroom. If you thought
that was deranged, MSNBC's Jen Saki was making some truly
despicable comments about Vice President jd Vance's wife, Lusha Vance.

Speaker 10 (10:25):
I think the little mentoring candidate jd Vance wants to
be president more than anything else. I always wonder what's
going on in the mind of his wife.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Are you okay?

Speaker 10 (10:37):
Please bring blink four times? Yeah, we'll come over here.
We'll save you. He's scarier in certain ways, he's smarter
in some ways, and he's young.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
This is like all the things Democrats do.

Speaker 11 (10:47):
They complain and complain, and then all of a sudden,
when there's like lower taxes and lower crime, they're secretly
happy about it. Barack Obama himself wanted a big, beautiful ballroom.
He had to hold a state dinner in a in
a tent, in a tent in the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
How stupid is that. This whole East Wing or.

Speaker 11 (11:07):
Whatever you call it, It was just a a ruse
to cover up a bunker.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
There's an underground bunker down there. That's the whole reason
we have this East Wing in the first place. And
Democrats had this whole epiphany, remember the whole book that
came out Abundance. We have to be able to do things.
We have to be able to build things. We have
to be able to make things work.

Speaker 11 (11:28):
Okay, so Trump's building stuff and they're against it. They
can't build anything. All they do is destroy. They destroy cities,
they tear down statues. At least Trump's demolishing something and
he's building it back up.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Look at the Palisades.

Speaker 11 (11:42):
That's a demolition site and Gavin Newsom hasn't even cut
any tape there. This guy is modernizing the country.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
AI. We're building nuclear.

Speaker 11 (11:53):
Power plants, bitcoin, he's rewiring world trade. We have to
go into this century with the full force of American ingenuity.
And if it means a big, beautiful ballroom, if it
means bitcoin, if it means a grand arch in the
middle of DC, that's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Hey, are we putting a grand arch in the middle
of DC? I don't think. I don't think we are.
Are we? Where's the complaint when you're improving a piece
of property by adding something to it that it really needs,
and you're not paying anything for it as the American taxpayer,

(12:33):
That's how I look at this. Now, do I care
if there's a ballroom at the White House? Not really
do I understand that maybe there's a need for that
because of state dinners and the other things that they do. Yeah, yeah,
I do. Do I consider it a luxury? Yeah I do.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I do.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
I do consider adding a ballroom a luxury. Which is
why I appreciate the fact that as an American taxpayer,
I don't have to pay for this. I may have
to end up paying to maintain it, but at least
I'm not paying to build it. Trump is using his
own money and donations in order to be able to
build this thing, corporate donations and maybe some private donations too.

(13:14):
You got the money to build it. Hey, I know
he's got the vision. I know that unlike any other president,
he knows how to build something and what's involved in
building something. And like I said, you know, there's nothing
really sacred that's getting demolished in the process and play
of sacred things have been demolished in the past. The

(13:35):
East room that was that's not original to the White House.
That was built in nineteen oh two by Teddy Roosevelt.
So it's not even from the seventeen or eighteen hundreds.
It's nineteen oh two. The White House itself, Democratic Harry
Truman completely rebuilt that. Oh, I know, the walls are

(13:57):
the same, the facade is the same, but have you
ever seen pictures of that. I know there are people
who don't care about history, and I know Democrats don't
particularly care about history most of them, or understand it
or even want to understand it. But when Harry Truman,
they had to rebuild the White House because the White
House was basically falling apart. It dated back to eighteen fourteen, when,

(14:20):
by the way, it had to be rebuilt completely after
the British burned it down. So the original White House, no,
it didn't exist as of eighteen fourteen. When during the
War of eighteen twelve the British burned it down, they
rebuilt it. So when Harry Truman rebuilt it again, this
time he left the walls on the outside, but everything

(14:43):
else inside was completely brand new because it was in
horrible shape, and it had the technology of the early
eighteen hundreds, not the technology of the mid nineteen nineteen hundreds.
I mean, there's nothing new about any of this, nothing
new at all. What's the only thing new about any

(15:06):
of this is that you and I as taxpayers are
not on the hook for it, and we should be
a little bit grateful for that. I would think Greg
Gutfeld was having a little fun with this on his show. Well,
this and the Trump meme, which I'm sure you've all
seen by now, right Trump a cartoon of Trump flying
in f eighteen wearing a crown, dumping poop all over

(15:30):
protesters down below. Yeah, they don't have a sense of
humor about that one either. Here's Greg Gutfell on his
panel talking about the White House remodel and about the
Trump meme so much.

Speaker 13 (15:42):
Joe here and I'm sure you already have some funny
things to say, but I just noticed for the first
time that the historian, Doug Brinkley, historian said that what
Trump was doing was unprecedented history.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
There's like there's like google the whole list of things
that have been done to the White House.

Speaker 12 (16:02):
Anyone can say they're is a historian, just like anyone
can say they're a comedian, greg or male model. But
to me, you know, things aren't going well for the Democrats.
They're playing defense and blue states, and they're bringing up renovation.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Projects at the White House. I don't think you could
take a.

Speaker 12 (16:21):
Panel of swing voters and ask them if they're concerned
about a new ballroom being put in the White House.
They probably be like, I just got stabbed, and they're like, well,
what if I told you the floors were for Micah?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know it just it makes very little difference.

Speaker 12 (16:38):
It could backfire because Trump might gain popularity among fans
of ballroom dancing, which.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Heavily Democratic.

Speaker 12 (16:47):
And on the meme issue, I think there's a lack
of self awareness here among the Democrats, because you've got
Democrats at no King's protests holding up signs at say,
eighty six forty seven, and those results can be tragic
from that message. Trump's dropping poop out of an F
eighteen is not going to inspire any conservative to get

(17:09):
a fighter jet to drop poop.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
On Siples their biggest s. Worry about their.

Speaker 12 (17:15):
Biggest s, worry about getting poop on them is a
vacation in California.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
That's a pretty good analogy there. No, I would love
to buy an F eighteen flight and drop poop on
these protesters, but yeah, it's cost prohibitive. I haven't priced
in F eighteen. But every time I hear about a
Pentagon contract involving things like if at eighteen, it's billions
of dollars, so I feel pretty safe in saying that
that's not something I can afford to do. Speaking of

(17:48):
high prices, have you been pricing steak lately?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, I have.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I keep an eye on steak prices because steak is
one of those things I just really like to have
now and again. I don't need as much as I
used to, but I like a really good stake every
now and again, which is why Tastes of Texas is
one of my favorite places to go. And I, by
the way, kudos to them. Of course, I haven't been
there in a little while. We're going this weekend. You know,

(18:17):
we're meeting up with a bunch of our listeners who
went on our Greek cruise last summer, kind of catching
up with them and telling them about a new cruise
we're doing next August. I'm going to make an announcement
about that here on our show on Monday for any
of you who might want to tag along with us.
I mean, we made some great friends on that trip.

(18:39):
I mean, we don't get together with them all the time,
but we get together with them every now and again.
And that's just from the first time we'd never met
was on that Greek cruise. So it's a lot of fun.
I enjoy meeting all of our listeners. I hope they
enjoy spending time with Elizabeth and me, and we have
a good time. So Monday, I'll be making an announcement
about that. But coming up for those who who do

(19:00):
like the high price, well we don't like the high price.
We like steak. We'll have from our morning show today.
Agriculture Commissioners Sid Miller. You know President Trump has proposed
that we need to import more beef, Argentinean beef, in
particular to drive down the price of beef because well
because bat prices have gotten too high for a lot

(19:22):
of people. Is that a good idea or not so
good idea. I don't think he thinks it's a good idea,
but he has some logical reasons why, and it's more
than just protecting Texas ranchers. Stand by for more. Jimmy
Pairt show here on an in nine fifty KPRC. So

(19:51):
Elizabeth and I were shopping at Sam's Club. We shop
at a couple of different places. We give h be
plenty of our business, we give Kroger some of our business,
We give Sam's Club some of our business. It depends
on what we're shopping for. When I need to buy
enough toilet paper to make sure that my wife, who

(20:12):
hoards toilet paper, can't run out of toilet paper for
the next month, then we go to Sam's Club. And
in fairness, I'm the same way about paper towels. I
use a lot of paper towels. I'm a freak about
paper towels. She's a freak about toilet paper. That's that's
why we have Sam's Club when we when we're buying
stuff in bulk. But I've been kind of disappointed lately,

(20:33):
and I won't name which of the stores, but I've
been a little disappointed not only in the price of
beef in particular at at supermarkets, but also in the quality.
The quality hasn't been there. Maybe I'm getting picky my
old age. Maybe maybe it's because you know, the most places,

(20:56):
the meat they sell is choice, not prime. Prime is
a better cut of meat. Prime is a more tender
cut of meat. Prime is easier to cook, Prime has
less fat and gristle than all that kind of stuff.
And of course it's more expensive, especially at the supermarket.
You know, that's where you get into some of these
crazy prices, you see, Like where was I was at

(21:19):
AGB and looking at the lays, and they wanted something
like forty three dollars a pound. Forty three dollars a pound.
You know, that's two eight ounce steaks for forty three
you know. I guess if you're buying a prime cut
of meat, maybe that doesn't seem crazy, but it's certainly

(21:42):
a lot more expensive than it used to be. So
We're at Sam's Club, and I've actually had very good
luck at Sam's Club with meat. And we're in the
meat counter and we're looking and I see these beef
tender loins and I see the price forty three eighty one.
There is four beef tenderloin steaks in the package. And
I'm thinking back, and I'm not really doing the math

(22:03):
that quickly in my head. I'm thinking back to the
forty three dollars a pound, and I was going to
get two steaks, and now I'm looking at four steaks
for the same price, and I'm thinking, somehow, somehow my
mind it's not but I'm thinking it's a deal. And
they looked really good, they looked really tender, and they
didn't have a lot of fat and gristle and stuff,
and we made them and they were they were delicious,

(22:24):
they were very very good. But your average family, especially
if you have kids, you're not buying beef tenderloin steaks.
You're buying hamburger, you know, you're not. You're not buying
tomahawk ribbis, you're buying you're buying cube steak. You know,
we're not.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
We're you.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Just a lot of people right now can't afford to
buy that kind of beef. And and part of the
problem with beef prices is that, you know, especially here
in Texas, we've had some drought situations and some of
the things that have caused the herds to become much smaller.

(23:05):
It's always about supplying demand. So we had Sid Miller,
the Ag Commissioner, on our morning show today and kat
r h so that we could ask him about, you know,
the high price of beef and the President's idea of
importing more beef of Argentina and would this really make
a difference. Here's how that conversation went. President Trump would
like to import more beef, in particular, I think from

(23:26):
Argentina because he understands as a supply and demand issue
and beef prices have gotten so high. He wants to
try to get the price down. I'm thinking, though, Texas
ranchers probably don't like that idea very much.

Speaker 14 (23:39):
Good morning, This is Commissioner Miller. Good to be with
you this morning.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yes, sir, did you hear my question?

Speaker 14 (23:45):
Yes, sir, you know we've the ice of beef is
too high. I agree with President Trump on that. I'm
certainly agree with on his calves. I think there's better
ways to lower the price of beef and importing more beef.
Two problems with importing Argentine beef. For some Argentine beef
with to grind it all up in the hamburger because
it's very very low quality. Number One, it's grass fad,

(24:08):
it's not grain fed like our beef. And two it's
a different breed of catalysts, Brahmin influenced cattle, which are
very tough and stringing. So it will lower the price
of hamburger, but it's not going to lower the prost
of those flager this bought. Or are the strips or
the or the rabbis or Texas we love a brisket,
they want one of those those cuts. Two, it creates

(24:30):
a bigger problem that we're fighting tooth and nail. At
least I am. Under Biden administruction, we became id go
to trade deficit. Merchant has always been the bread basket
of the world. We've raised enough food for ourselves and
a lot of the rest of the world. But under
Biden we have a forty eight billion dollar agg trade deficit.

(24:51):
What that means is we're buying forty eight billion dollars
more food than we're selling, and buying more Argentine beef
compounds that problem. There's better ways, so.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
All right, well, I'd be interested to hear what the
what the better way would be. It seemed like the
only better way would be to raise more cattle. But
there's a lot of reasons why the cattle level is
at it at where it's at right now now, the
least of which is the drop we went through just
a few short years ago.

Speaker 14 (25:18):
Well, the route is a big part of it, but
also during the Biden demintuation, they kicked farmers and ranches
off the federal land. We have twenty four million idle
acres of grazing land that farmerly had livestock on it.
So yesterday Seth Trey Bergham announced that he was going
to open those back up to grazing. So that's a great,

(25:38):
great first step, but we can do a lot more
than that. There is a salt banklan we call it
CRP Conservation Reserve Program that private industry, private farmers and
rancors own. They put it in crass and agreed to
not farm it, but they don't let the farmers graze it.
So we could open that up for three years. Then

(25:58):
we'll have a place for our breeding happers that we
want to retain our cows. We're in a draft again,
so we need a place to graize our cattle. So
that would be very simple. All you have to do
on that one is just open the gate. Let's let
the cows in. So that's that's very easy to do.
To see r PA that. Now to rebuild the herd,
we've got to have some incentives. We have an incentive

(26:21):
it's a child tax credit. If you have kids seventeen
and younger, you just take a thousand bucks right off
your taxes, you know, for expense of raising those kids.
We could do something similar to retain breeding heppers. Let's
give a tax credit those cal calf operators they're making
really good money right now. They need a tax deduction.

(26:41):
Let's give them some credit for holding some heifers back
and increasing our national calfry. That's just almost a no brain. Now.
Thereat the last name is this would lower it immediately tomorrow.
The process of deep would come down. Instead of bringing
beef in and a box, let's bring in on the hoof.

(27:01):
And what I mean by that, we have closed the
border to Mexico. We get fifteen percent of our feeder
cattle out there, and we've got a year's worth backed
up and another year's worth ready to come in. So
we could methodically. You have to do it very judiciously.
You can't just throw it wide open. It would totally
crash the market. But a very measured approach. We've got

(27:21):
to open that border. Sometimes we can do it very
safely without having any problems of having the screw worms
come in. You announce that we're open the border to
Mexican imports, immediately, the price of beef will come down.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Those are all good ideas, sir. I hope you have
some success convincing the folks in Washington and all this.
Thank you, Sid Miller, our Texas Agriculture Commissioner. Yep, he's
a good guy too. Those are all valid ideas. And
I really didn't understand that about Argentinean meat, did you.

Speaker 15 (27:53):
That?

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Really the only thing we use that for is hamburger.
So that's the only thing that really helps on is
maybe the hamburger issue. You're not going to get, you know,
good quality stakes evidently, my, you know, with a kind
of although I've been to more than a few Brazilian
steakhouse they seem pretty good to me. Anyway, Coming up here,

(28:14):
I want to do this. In our last segment, you
may have heard about this horrible traffic accident in southern California.
If I were the people of southern California, I would
hope that they're paying attention to this story, and I
hope they're storming Gavin Newsom's house wherever the governor California
lives in Sacramento to get him. He's the only he

(28:37):
is the only governor in the entire country who is
refusing to cooperate with the transportation to Barbara when it
comes to CDLs for illegal immigrants in people who do
not speak English.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
More than that.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Coming up next, Jimmy Barrett show here in the nine
fifty k PRC. So there's a really bad traffic accent.

(29:17):
You may have heard about this in southern California. Well,
first of all, southern I don't know if you've ever
driven in southern California. It's uh, it's like Houston on steroids.
Another reason not to live there, there's play races, is
not to live there. It's a beautiful state. It is
a beautiful, beautiful state, but everybody has moved there. Well

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not anymore, they're starting to leave. But with everybody moving
there and all the things that they did in the
government and everything else in the Texas, it's just a
horrible place to live. A beautiful, beautiful state, that's a
horrible place to live. And part of the reason why
it's a horrible place to live, maybe the major reason
is California state government overwhelmingly progressive. They are not the

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least bit interested in following any laws that have anything
to do with illegal immigration. And that includes the edict
put out by the Trump administration's Transportation Department and Sean
Duffy that you need to revoke CDL licenses from anybody
who's an illegal alien and anybody who can't speak the language.

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If you can't communicate with police officers, if you can't
read road signs, if you don't understand the language, you
cannot have a CDL license. You can't drive a big
rig truck and deliver goods and services. Now, I don't
know what company this guy was driving for. If I

(30:47):
knew what company he was driving for, I doubt them too.
But here's a guy. He's twenty one years old. He's
from India. You'll get all this information of the report,
but I just thought I throw it out there as
a talking point. He's got a CDL license. He would
not qualify for CDLL license in any place other than California,

(31:10):
and he ran. He caused a traffic accident the other
day that took three lives. Here is the report of
the story from Los Angeles. ABC seven.

Speaker 15 (31:22):
Investigators say the driver of this devastating crash was illegally
living and working in California, and tonight for the first time,
we are seeing his face. This exclusive dash cam video
shows the final seconds before three people died in this explosive,
chaotic wreck. This dramatic video on the ten Freeway in

(31:42):
Ontario is from inside this red freightliner truck, which authorities
say was driven by josh Sean Preet Singh. Investigators say
the twenty one year old was driving inpaired when the
truck caused this chain reaction crash. A law enforcement source
confirmed to ABC News that's seeing is an Indian national
who entered the US illegally three years ago. The deadly

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crash turning political, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posting on
x quote, this is exactly why US DOT has withheld
forty million from California for failure to comply with our
rules to protect drivers. We cannot allow our rows to
be a dangerous place. Eight cars were damaged during the
crash Tuesday, which happened in the middle of the day.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
The hardest part is knowing that at least three of
these individuals will not have a Christmas.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
We will not make it home as we're getting to
the holiday season.

Speaker 15 (32:31):
One of the victims identified as a fifty four year
old man from upland two of the other people who
died were burned so badly in the fire they haven't
been identified.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Imagine that now burned so badly that they could not
be identified, which means the vehicle was destroyed so badly
they couldn't read the license plate. So they have no
idea who these people are. I don't know how long
takes them to find out. Maybe they've already found out

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who they are. But there's dash cam of the accident.
And the guy, who evidently was intoxicated, ran into you know,
the traffic had come to a stop on the on
the freeway, which it oftentimes does in southern California, and
this guy just kept on going, plowed into the back

(33:25):
of a car, which plowed into the back of another car,
which plowed into the back of a truck, which plowed
into you know, a chain reaction, change reaction. Three people
dead as a result of that, something that never would
have happened if if this guy was not on the road,
and if we followed our laws, he wouldn't have been

(33:46):
on the road. So to me, this is this is
where we have This is an instance where in my mind,
we have every right to sue government. Government has found
all kinds of ways to protect themselves against legal action.
You shouldn't be able to protect yourself against legal action
when you do things like this, when you endanger the

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public this way, it's ridiculous all right, what more story
for you, And that has to do with the government shutdown. Now,
this doesn't impact you, I'm guessing, or me or most
of the people we know, but the government shutdown has
been impacting our airport. So some of us are starting

(34:27):
to feel some of this, and some other people are
going to feel it in a big way. People who
are on food stamps the SNAP program. SNAP benefits were
paid for October, but there's not enough money to pay
for the November SNAP payments with the government being closed.
If they don't open the government, a lot of people
aren't going to get the SNAP benefits for the month

(34:49):
of November. Here is the report.

Speaker 9 (34:53):
The USDA warning that if the shutdown goes past October
twenty seventh, there won't be enough funding for November's benefits.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Some people will talk for what they got. He still
came out of what they need.

Speaker 9 (35:03):
And Sunshine used to be a recipient of SNAP benefits.
She stresses just how important they wore to make ends meet.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
We didn't have to.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Worry and yeah, everything you need and you should have
leftovers for the next month to come back.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
But if you don't have these, how wise the weapons.

Speaker 9 (35:20):
Now some three point five a million Texans who are
dependent on the program could be without critical food assistance.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Well, then you roster shop and vidivove food.

Speaker 8 (35:30):
That is a big head and a big help for
those out there that had out save.

Speaker 9 (35:34):
Oh just as without SNAP, it leaves many with only
one option food banks.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
But the reality is is that food banks alone cannot
make up for the shortfall.

Speaker 9 (35:44):
Saravatsky is the CEO of the Central Texas Food Bank,
which supports individuals facing food and security, and over twenty
one counties and their service region, over one hundred and
twenty seven thousand households are dependent on SNAP.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
Assuming the average household receives them and an a mum of
four hundred dollars a month, we were looking at a
deficit of fifty one million dollars per month throughout our
twenty one counties.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
That budget too much for any food being to handle.
Beyond trying to secure extra donations, the only other solution
is cutting back on how much they can give out.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
So did you get that report, by the ways from
Channel seven in Austin. Fifty one million dollars that's Texas
for one month in food SNAP benefits. Imagine how much
we're spending on this all across the entire country. It's
not the adult so much I feel sorry for because
I think the system gets abused, I really do. But

(36:37):
the children, I do, and we have millions of kids
that are on snap benefits that they're probably going to
go hungry. And it's got the Democrats handwriting all over
it because why they want leverage. All right, listen, y'all
have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright,
early five am over on news radio seven forty KTRH.
We are back here at four on a nine five

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be k p r C.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
And the

Speaker 13 (37:11):
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