What's the latest with transportation?

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• National Motorists Association's Jay Beeber on the Department of Transportation

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
The breaking down the world's nonsense.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
About how American common sense.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by viewind
dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
All right, welcome to our show. Today. We're going to
We had some fun with this this morning, so I
see no reason not to have some more fun with
this this afternoon. And that is very simply this things
that you know how to do that your kids don't
know how to do. What what prompted this was I

(00:52):
am a baby boomer. Yeah, I'm an old I'm an
old fart. I'm a baby boomer. And there are things
that gen Z that that baby boomer can't believe gen
Z doesn't know how to do. And you see these
stories all the time, and some of them are really,
you know, quite simple. They really, they really are quite simple.
I don't know why more people don't know how to

(01:15):
do some of these things, but they don't. So anyway,
some of the examples they gave cursive. Obviously they don't
teach cursive in the schools anymore. So, they cannot read
or write incursive. If you are you know, even uh,
you know, whether you're a baby boomer or millennial, you
know how to write in cursive. You know how to
read incursive. They don't know how to plunge it toilet.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
That one.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
That one mystifies me a little bit. We all have toilets,
they still make plungers. How is it we don't know
how to plunge a toilet? Why Why wasn't that skill taught?
They don't know how to cook, Well, there might be
some legitimacy there because their moms don't know how to
cook in many cases, and their mom's moms never taught

(01:58):
them how to cook. Cookie is a lot I'll start,
which is which I don't understand why kitchens remain such
an important part of what people look for in a home,
because there's precious little cooking going on inside of the
inside of American kitchens, where we're all about eating out
and taking takeout that kind of stuff. Not to say
that nobody, I mean, these are generalizations. Obviously, there are

(02:20):
people who can cook. There are young people who know
how to cook, and by cooking, by the way, I'm
not talking about opening up a can and you know,
heating it in the microwave. That's not That's not what
I'm talking about. And I'm talking about actually, you know,
taking a recipe and making something out of it. You know,
I think most people can grill, and I would consider

(02:43):
that cooking. So you know, there's they understand how to
cook a little bit, but as far as unless you're
studying to be a chef, most most of these kids
don't know how to cook. It's being a can openers.
They don't know how to operate a manual can opener,
you know, if the electric one is broken, they don't.
You don't how to operate the one that isn't electric,
which is funny because they're really quite simple. They don't

(03:07):
know how to tell time when the clock only has
hands on it. They're they're so into digital, they don't
they can't read an analog clock, many of them. I mean, again,
these are generalizations, and the list goes on and on
and on and on, and I think to myself, that's
quite amazing. Oh they don't. They don't know how to
do a typewriter. They don't know how to dial an

(03:30):
old fashioned telephone. You show a gen Z a telephone
from back in the day that had the rotary dial
on it, and they will be mystified into how you
operate something like that. So I was asking the question
on the air this morning on ktr HN on morning
show Houston's Morning News. I'm asking the question, all right,
what are the things that you know how to do

(03:51):
that your kids don't know how to do, either because
they weren't interested or you didn't teach them, whatever the
case may be. And some of the answer answers were
kind of interesting.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Hey, Jami Rick from the east Side.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
One thing that I know how to do that I
should have spent more.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Time on my kids with is check the dadgumb oil
in your car.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Learn how to read a dipstick, have a good date.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Now Now you get warnings vehicle if you're low on oil,
the vehicle will give you a warning. But do they
know where to put the oil? If you get a
low oil warning? Do they know where it goes? Or
are they just going to head right to the mechanic
in order to get that done? And speaking of mechanics,
here's the question I was asking this morning. You know,

(04:36):
can kids perform their own tune ups and that guy stuff. No,
not at all.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I was.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
First of all, I was as a baby boomer. I
was never taught that stuff because my dad didn't know
how to do that stuff either. Nobody taught him. But
cars have gotten so complicated. You know, cars back in
the fifties and the sixties and the seventies were really
quite simple vehicles. You know, you open up the hood,
there's a lot a lot of room and that engine
to work, and it's very easy to find the oil dipstick,

(05:04):
and it's very easy to know where to put the
anti freeze. It's very easy to find the battery and
clean the battery cables. I mean that's kind of basic stuff.
They just about everybody knew how to do, even if
you didn't know how to fix a car. And I thought, well,
I was kind of put this call out the mechanics
this morning. I mean, can you even fix a car

(05:24):
without hooking it up to a computer? Do you have
I mean, do you have enough of a skill set?
Or if they made it impossible to diagnose what is
wrong with the car without hooking it up to a computer.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Good morning, mister Barrett. My name is Carlos from Porter, Texas.
I'm just gonna let's know that when you work on
newer cars today, you have to have a bi directional
scanner which helps you determine and read codes, and then
you look up the codes and go through a series
of basically diagnostic steps to correct the problem. And most
cars have up to twenty computers on. So yeah, it's

(05:59):
not as it used.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
To be, not to mention, not as cheap to fix
as it used to be. I mean, you know any
of those twenty computers go down. I mean you're talking
about a pretty expensive fix, right, So what else? What
else do your kids not know how to do that
that you either didn't teach them, or you didn't deem
important enough, or whatever the case may be.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Hey is Joe from Cromfi.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
I guess it's because of all the options nowadays with
edible gummies or kids.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
They don't know how to roll a big fat one.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
I bet there's a how to video on YouTube on
how to roll the big fat one. Somebody actually sent
me I was mentioning the don't know how to plunge
a toilet, somebody sent me a copy of a YouTube
video on how to plunge a toilet. That's what they
do now, if it's something they don't know how to
do that, they were never taught that. You just go
online and you look up a how to video on

(06:53):
it and you'll find plenty of those. What else do
kids not know how to do?

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Hi, this is Carrie in the Woodlands. The thing that
the next generation doesn't know how to do is how
to write a proper thank you note when someone gives
you a gift. I think that's so important, have a
great day.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
No, that is a lost art, isn't it? Thank you notes?
Nobody really writes thank you notes anymore, and they really should.
I mean, there are there are occasions where it's important
and they should. They should write a thank you note.
One of the times that comes to mind would be
like after a wedding or something that'll be interesting. I'll
see what happens here. I've got I'm actually presiding over

(07:30):
a wedding this summer in July. My I'm gonna be
efficient of my niece's wedding. She's engaged. She's getting married
in San Diego, California, and that's gonna be in July,
and uh, you know, they'll begin in wedding gifts. I'll

(07:52):
see if we get a thank you note. We'll see
what kind of job my sister did as far as
making sure that she knows that a thank you note
would be appropriate. You know, people still like to get that.
It's kind of an old fashioned way of doing things.
At the very least, you want to get a thank
you phone call, right, but a thank you note is
it kind of formalizes it a little bit more. All right? Anyway,

(08:13):
quick little break back with morning Moment Jimmy Barrett Show
here on AM nine fifty KPRC.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
All right, we are back.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
I didn't didn't take it from this morning, but but
I have comments he made before. You've heard about this
Katie Id dad, I assume, right, whose daughter evidently got
into a fight in a classroom fight. It's kind of
like from what he was telling me this morning, I mean,
he's been around with Michael Berry. You probably. I mean

(08:58):
he's really making the rounds. Good for him, by the way,
for making the rounds and trying to generate as much
publicity on this story as he can, because he's obviously
not getting anywhere with Katie Id right now. You know,
they're like the turtle. They kind of pulled themselves into
the shell. Here and they are trying very hard and
hoping very hard. I'm sure that this whole thing goes away,
but I don't think this. I don't think this dad

(09:21):
is going to make it easy on them as far
as making this thing go away. His name, by the way,
is Denny g and Francesco. He's a father, Katie iced parent.
His child goes to high school in Katie and got
into a fight, not a fight that she started, but
got into a fight, and it happened in the classroom.

(09:43):
This football player dude was evidently bullying her, had been
bullying her. The boyfriend said leave leave her alone, and
so the next class that they were in together, this
this football player decides to really start harassing her. He
ends up slapping her in the face. They end up
getting into a tussle, she gets punched multiple times. They

(10:06):
both end up getting suspended for three days because of
the fight. But you know, she's not the one. First
of all, she's not the one that started the fight.
Number two, I'm sorry, at the risk of sounding like
a male shoving us pig, we still have a situation
where you've got a kid, a male who's like maybe
one hundred pounds heavier than her, who's beating up on

(10:27):
this girl, and that all he's getting is a three
day suspension. And he didn't miss a beat from what
I'm told when it came to practice and all that
other kind of stuff. So they didn't do much in
the way of punishment here, and the punishment was not just.
And he's demanding answers, and they have shut us down
as best they can. Here is the dad again. His

(10:49):
name is Danny g and Francesco talking about his situation.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
My name is Danny Jeffrancisco, and I'm here because of
a video that shows my daughter being brutally assaulted.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Okay, yes, sir, sir, I want to make a stool
board meeting last night, by.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
The way, not about the specific industry, particular or particular people.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Okay, let's talk about how you handled this mutual confrontation.
I was told that this incident was a mutual confrontation,
but one student never hit the other. There's a video
out there that shows proof that this one student was assaulted,
physically assaulted, and who I talked to did not accept

(11:33):
the video. Assistant principles, cops. I've been everywhere after talking again,
I just want to. I just want to caution you,
we're not value aiding that specific instance here. This needs
to be we're not addressing a specific disc Okay, how
about this? I filed public information request the day after
it happened.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Three weeks later.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Instead of transparency, I received two documents. A useless, heavily
redacted report of which I've given y'all all a copy,
and it claims to be the offense offense report, but
the only thing reported on these six pages is my
name and address. Everything else is redacted. The other document
a letter written by the attorney written to the Attorney

(12:15):
General from the KISD attorney I'm sorry, Gretchen McCord, in
which she seeks permission to deny me access to all
other evidence and material related to my request, such as
bodycam footage, statements from witnesses, the video from the hallway.
I've been to Harris County Sheriff's office, District Attorney, constables,

(12:37):
everybody refers me back to KISD police who have the jurisdiction,
and refuse to allow me to press charges. Do you
know what it feels like when people ask me why
haven't I pressed charges against the student who assaulted my daughter?
How can I when the very system that should support
me is actively working against me. I've tried everything, and

(12:58):
yet here I stand still fighting for basic accountability and
the district continues to prevent me from getting it.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
And they prevented him from getting it again last night.
So what are you gonna do? Well, he's doing two things.
He's got a PR person who's having him make the rounds.
I mean, he's he started with Michael Berry, pretty good
place to start. He was on our morning show today
in KTRH. We're talking about him now this afternoon on KPRC.

(13:29):
So yeah, he's getting publicity, but he's not getting any satisfaction.
The report, the report on the fight six pages redacted
to the point where all it had was his name
and address on it. The rest of report redacted. What
was the point of doing that? Well, these are students, reminders,

(13:51):
we have to protect them. One of them is the
guy's daughter. We know who the other one is. Dad
knows who the other one is. So what's the report
on what happened? How are you supposed to know whether
or not there's anything accurate in that report if you're
not allowed to have access to the report. The report
involves your child. The report involves your child. Now, Unfortunately,

(14:16):
and this is you know, in my opinion, unfortunately, what's
going to end up happening here is that he's going
to have to file a lawsuit. And I think Katie
I st is counting on being able to use taxpayer
dollars to wait him out. They have their own attorneys.
They'll just wait this guy out. Because the only hope

(14:38):
you have of getting anywhere near the truth is to
talk to witnesses. Now, getting you know, student witnesses is
going to be very, very difficult. If they're miners, you're
not going to be able to get them as witnesses.
You're probably not going to be able to get access
to who all was in the classroom when this happened.
We do know one person that was in the classroom

(14:58):
that was an adult and should have to testify as
far as exactly what happened, and that would be the teacher.
This happened while the teacher was there. I don't know what,
if anything, the teacher did to try to prevent it
from happening. Doesn't sound like much or once the fight began,
but the teacher did other than calling the resource officer

(15:21):
that's probably about all this teacher did. But the teacher
saw what happened, and the teacher should have to testify
under oath. As far as what happened now, there's no
way the school system is going to make that happen.
So only way to make this happen is through a lawsuit.
He's going to have to school our sue that Katie

(15:41):
isd which has a lot deeper pockets, I'm guessing than
he does. The only thing he's got going for himself
right now is just the ability to create negative publicity, which,
as I've said many times on this show, is the
one thing that school systems fear the most is the
negative publicity they get from these things happening. They they

(16:07):
they all have fights, Some schools have fights almost on
a daily basis, and they do They all do their
level best to make it go away, to cover it up.
They only tell the parents about these things when they
have to tell them. And I guess that that's the
part of having Well here's the other thing. This whole

(16:28):
thing's on video. This whole thing is on video because
you know, there's always somebody with a cell phone who's
gonna tape this thing. And Dad has a copy of it.
How is it that you can take you can't take
this video to the police department and demand an investigation,

(16:52):
you know, Katie, Katie, police is gonna be there. They're
gonna kick this down to to U, Katie, I s D.
It's there's it's you know, they have their own police
off officers in the public schools. Now, that's what they're
telling me. It's their jurisdiction. So you know, it feels
like a massive cover up, is what it feels like.

(17:14):
And I don't know why Katie id is so afraid
to make justice happen. Now, what I don't know is
I don't know any demographics in this. And I think
you probably know where I'm going with this, right. In
other words, I know that the male student is a

(17:36):
male student and he's on the football team, but I
don't know anything else about him. I don't know if
he's white, he's black, he's hispanic, or what he is. Now,
let's say, for the sake of argument, for the sake
of arguing on this show, let's say that she's a
white girl and he's a black male. Do you think

(17:56):
that maybe that would have something to do with it either,
because they you'll have a DEEI approach to justice, or
that they're concerned that if they punish this kid more
than he already is, or allow him to, you know,
to be charged with assault, that that somehow they'll have
problems with his parents, they'll have problems with the football coach.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
I guess that's a possibility, right, that's a possibility that
this is playing into all this. We have to we
have to realize. But but the truth has to come
out at some point. The truth has to come out.
And certainly we will help this stat as far as
the publicity standpoint, and we'll see what happens. We'll see
if a lawsuit gets filed. All right, quick, little bray

(18:39):
back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett show here
at the M nine fifty KPRC. That is a lot

(19:00):
of things we can discuss with the next guest. His
name is Jay Bieber, who's executive director of policy at
the National Motorists Association. What a fun job that is?
Is that entitled you to drive classic cars anytime you
want to, By the.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
Way, Yeah, just go into people's garages and I and
I grab them and I gotten them around.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
You if only that were true. Huh, we're here actually
talk about Secretary Sean Duffy, who's doing a lot of things,
you know, very trump like things as regards transportation. One
of the things he's doing a lot of our listeners.
Of course, here in Houston, you know, everybody drives a car,
Nobody car pools. We have hov lanes that nobody uses

(19:38):
unless you're unless you're unless you're on a toll way,
in which case you'll pay a told to use that
particular lane. We're very independent when it comes to that.
So and we have we have traffic congestions you can imagine,
Jay that is just as bad as any other major
city in America. But nobody has ever threatened to charge
us more money to drive at certain times of the day,
which of course New York has threatened to do for

(19:58):
people entering places like New York or City. You do
it during drive time, you got to pay a premium
for that. Secretary Duffy says, no, you can't or should
not do that. Is this a state problem or a
federal problem? As far as you're concerned, it's.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
An everywhere problem. It's an everywhere problem because there are
people there that don't want you to drive your car,
and they hate the fact that you can get around
by your vehicle. You can go where you want to go,
when you want to go, how you want to go.
They want you on public transit that when you want
a bicycle. So you know this is part and parcel

(20:35):
of that. And then they also want you to charge
you more money to use your car than they're charging
you now. So this is part of that, part of
that plan.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, part of trying to convince people not to drive
their cars. Is this ever worked anywhere?

Speaker 8 (20:51):
Well, Look, they're have these in different places. They're not great,
but they're more narrowly tailored. Like example, if you look
at London and Singapore, their plan is to charge people
only certain during certain parts of the day to get
you to use a different form of transportation. But the

(21:12):
problem with Manhattan is that they it's not legal what
they're doing this.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
This is a problem.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
Because what it is is there's something called Federal aid highways,
which is a highway in which federal funds were used
for that for that roadway, and so what what the
rules are is you can't charge extra to you can't
toll that roadway unless the federal government gives you permission.

(21:44):
And the only exception for that is for something called
a value pricing pilot program that was actually approved in
the nineteen nineties. And so the way that it's supposed
to work is you get a if you pay an
extra fee for a section of the roadway. Let's say
you know a toll lane like you see like around Houston.

(22:06):
You can choose to pay that extra fee and be
in a lane that supposedly is going to move faster
and give you better service, or you can choose to
stay in the regular lanes and go slower. But what's
happening in Manhattan is they are simply charging you to
use your car. You can't avoid the toll other than
avoiding using the vehicle. And so under the value pricing program,

(22:29):
which this congestion pricing plan was approved, it's not the
same thing. So so the Biden administration in the eleventh hour,
going out the door, they approve this plan, but it
really doesn't fit under federal law. And that's what really
what's going on here.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Gotcha? Okay, you know roads are I don't care who
you talk to. Roads is a major issue for just
about everybody. What do you think about the way our
roads are funded. You know, for a while there when
they were there was there's a push towards electric vehicles
by the Biden administration, you know, there was there was

(23:05):
talk about how they're going to have to figure out
a different way to tax you because you've got electric
vehicles who are not paying a gas tax. So the
punishment for everybody was to be more intrusive to keep
track because your car can report and does report your
information to the manufacturer and maybe some other people as
well as far as how many miles you've driven and
how fast you've driven and everything else. You know, I

(23:26):
kind of suspected that the direction they wanted to go
in was to charge you by the mile and then
have your car wrat you out on a monthly basis
or on a yearly basis as far as how many
miles you've.

Speaker 8 (23:37):
Driven, right, And explan is still in the works in
different places, whether I mean, it's probably paused at the
federal government right now, but other states are trying to
do it. And look, even even Texas has has been
flirting with this idea. I don't think it's been imposed yet,
or a pilot program for it has been imposed yet,

(23:59):
but you know every state is looking at ways to
fund roadways. The problem with charging people per mile is,
as you mentioned, it can be very intrusive. They can
know how many miles you drive. It might even be
able to know which roadways you drive on, so they
know how to allocate the funds. But the biggest problem
is that they can use this for social engineering. So

(24:24):
for example, if you drive too much, right like you
get a certain allotment, then they'll charge you more for
the next tier of miles. That's something that has been
proposed already, even without some of these programs ever even
getting into place. So or they can charge you like
if they decide, well, you could use that trip using transit,

(24:44):
so we're going to charge you more for that trip
because you didn't use our preferred form of transportation. And
so this is the problem with giving the government more
power to tax you, which is it can use it
for some nefarious purposes, not just hey, we need to
make you know, take money in order to pay for
the thing that you use, which from a purely libertarian
standpoint it would make sense. But it's the problem is

(25:07):
the government never stays in its lane. No fun intended, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
No kidding.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Jay Beaver's with this executive director of Policy at the
National Motors Association now to be the slippery slope. Jay.
That starts with that as well, is if if your
car is going to rat you out as far as
how many miles you've driven, how long before, it's sopped
up so that every time you go over a certain
amount on the speed limit, it automatically sends that identification
to the police or whoever they're going to send it

(25:33):
to and generate or traffic court, and it just generates
you a ticket that you have to pay by mail.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
Oh yeah, I mean the technology exists to do that
right now. They haven't imposed that, but they have proposed
that the car will just simply won't go over a
certain speed. And the problem is that, like automated vehicles,
ones that are completely automated, when when you start giving

(26:01):
that power over to the government to control your vehicle,
it's much easier to control the person than it is
to control Sorry, it's much easier to control the vehicle
than it is to control the person. So all they
have to do is say, you know what, we don't
want people going more than twenty miles an hour. And
this has been a proposed one a mile of places.
So they just pass the law that says twenty miles
an hour on this road, whether it makes sense or not,

(26:22):
and your vehicle has to comply with that. You know,
some of the controls on government is that the individual
person will just say, heck, no, I'm not following this
ridiculous rule. But when the vehicle has to follow it,
then it's hard to get around the rule. And therefore
they can impose whatever ridiculous rules they want, and then

(26:42):
your car has to apply as opposed to you.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah, hey, Jay, before I let you go, what what
do you see as the future of transportation in this country?
You know, we we were talking about doing a high
speed rail between Houston and Dallas, and going back to
the trans Petation Secretary said, now, we're not gonna We're
not going to use federal funds for that. If that's
something you want to do as a state, that's fine,

(27:06):
use private funds and fund it. And I'm a firm
believer that if if something that we're going to use
in something we want, we should fund it ourselves and
not and not look to the federal government for that.
But what do you see generally speaking, as the future
of transportation. Are we ever going to be the Jetsons?
Are we ever going to run around in flying cars?
Or or is this the transportation model we've always had

(27:27):
and likely always will.

Speaker 8 (27:29):
Well, you know, I'm not sure I trust the general
public to fly around in cars. There's a lot of
knuckleheads out there, but I you know, I think we're
going to continue to see, especially depending on who ends
up at the federal level, and it's certainly happening at
the state level, that there's going to be an additional

(27:52):
encroachment on our liberties in terms of getting around by
your personal vehicle. There is an entire movement out there
that just wants you not to drive a car for
various reasons, some of which we've already mentioned. But you know,
some people think, you know, cars are the worst thing
ever because there's car accidents and sometimes people die, and
therefore we have to eliminate cars, like in the same

(28:13):
way they want to eliminate guns, right.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Like they're life.

Speaker 8 (28:15):
Well, you know, this is a bad thing that was invented,
and even though there might be some benefits to it,
the negatives, oh, you know, outweigh it. So, you know,
we should eliminate that thing and so. But that is
all part and parcel to a larger belief that your
vehicle that when you get in and drive for the
grocery store, you're destroying the planet or you're having an
effect on the planet. So they don't there's a lot

(28:37):
of people out there that just do not want you
to get in a car and go somewhere.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Jaye's been a pleasure talking to you. We'll have to
do this again sometimes. Thank you for joining me today.
Sure do appreciate it any time. You bet. Jay Biber
National Motors Association back with the morn a moment. Jimmy Verchow,
you're an AM nine fifty k PRC. All right, very

(29:12):
interesting day yesterday. You know, I've been wondering, you know,
when we were going to hear from RFK Jr. When
are we going to hear you know this? You know
this MAHA. It feels funny, just say it. MAH movement.
MAHA stands for Make America Healthy Again, right, not to

(29:33):
be confused with the MAGA move of Make America Great Again.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
MA.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
RFK Junior is in charge of MAH and evidently he's
been meeting with food company executives about banning petroleum based
dies and evidently has worked out some sort of a
deal with them. So here he is talking about, you know,
banning petroleum based dies, and at the end he gets

(29:57):
a little bit into the whole sugar thing as well.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
When I met with and I want to commend the
food companies for working with us to achieve this.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Agreement or this settlement.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
And when I went in a few months or about
a month ago to meet with a few food companies,
I was talking with my estaff about these petroleum based
dies and I said, if they want to add petroleum,
they want to eat petroleum, they or to add at
themselves at home, if they shouldn't be feeding it to
the rest of us and.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Without our knowledge or consent. And unfortunately one of.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
Them, and we are going to we're going to get
rid of the dies, and one by one, we're going
to get rid of every ingredient and added in the
school in food that we can legally get addressed. One
of the problems is at the industry, which all of
these industries the dark shadow historically over this agency, and

(31:03):
there's so many conflicts that we are now systematically eliminating
that has allowed them to suppress the science. There's shockingly
few studies even on food dies and on all these
other industries, all these other ingredients as well. And Jay Bodichara,
who is here and who's running the director of NIAG,

(31:25):
is now narrowly targeting these kind of food additives or
the scientific study so that one by one we can
start eliminating with them where they can where we can't.
There's things that will never be able to eliminate, like sugar,
and sugar is poison and Americans need to know that
it is poisoning us. Is giving us a diabetes crisis.

(31:48):
When I was a kid, I always say this, a
typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes in his lifetime.
Today is one out of every three kids who walks
through his office door. And our most recent study from
niagent thirty eight percent of American teams. It's half our
told population. This is existential. We are spending as much

(32:11):
on my diochondrial disorders like diabetes as we spend on
our military budget.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
We can't continue to exist like this, you know I would.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
I'll get into the sugar thing here in a second,
because I don't completely agree with what he's saying about sugar.
But as long as he brought it up, let's allow
him to continue on his rant on sugar.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
I don't think that we're going to be able to
elemonade sugar, but I think what we need to do
probably is give Americans knowledge about how much sugar is
in their products, and also with the new nutrition guidelines,
we'll give them a very clear idea about how much
sugar they should be using, which is zero.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yes, Hi, Helena Bondemiller.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
Eve, it's with food fix men. The goal is to
work with the food industry to get the most of
the major synthetic food dies out. What is the plan
if the food industry does not voluntarily agree to do that?

Speaker 8 (33:10):
And what are.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
The next steps if you can't get agreement within the industry?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Thank you well.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
Here the industry is voluntarily agreed, and so you know,
I think as we move forward, we are going to
work with the industry. They've shown a lot of leadership
on this right now, and in fact, we're getting food
companies now and fast food companies who are calling us

(33:36):
almost every day and ask us, how do we do this?
What do you want us to do? Will you do
a press conference with US, and so we're really happy
with the reception.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I think they're ready to change the industry.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
They have children too, there's no such thing as Republican
children are democratic children.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
The air children are going to the same for schools.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
They're eating the same foods as the rest of us,
and I think most of them really want to have
a healthier America. They want clear guidelines and they want
to know what they can and can't do, and we're.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Going to give them that.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Okay, you know, back to the sugar thing for a second, though,
I disagree a little bit on the sugar. Do do
we have products with too much sugar? Yes, But we
have something far worse than sugar. It's high fruit toase
corn syrup. That is the stuff. I think is really
that that's the poison, that's the dangerous stuff. If you
look at a ketchup bottle from back in the day

(34:35):
versus today, and look at the list of ingredients. Back
in the day, it had real sugar, it had tomatoes,
it had vinegar, and that's about it. Now it's got
this laundry list of dyes and chemicals and high fruit
toase corn syrup. So that I think that's where the
problem is. All right, listen, enough of that. I'm going
to be off the next couple of days. You spend
a lot of time with my with my sons. I

(34:58):
will be back on Monday. We'll have a couple of
best ups for tomorrow. For Friday, you'll have a I'll
just wish you a great weekend. Now, see you Monday
here on AM nine fifty k p r C