February 25, 2025 • 41 mins
Today on The Jimmy Barrett Show -
- Jimmy is back from illness
- Did Dan Crenshaw threaten to kill Tucker Carlson?
- Retired ICE Agent Victor Avila on Colony Ridge
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right, we are back. We are feeling better. Sorry
about throwing the best of your way yesterday. But I
had some crazy bug. I don't know what it was.
This is something any of you all had a bug lately,
you know that just kind of it's about forty it's
a forty eight hour I guess, for lack of a
better trim, i'll call it the flu, a forty eight
hour version of the flu. With I don't think I
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had a fever, although I can't honestly say I took
my tempera dure. I did get the chills every now
and again, so maybe I did get a fever.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
With this.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Kind of lost my appetite for a couple of days.
And with me, that's saying something. I didn't have any nausea,
just really super tired, and it just kind of came
on on Sunday. I got up Sunday morning, and I'd
gotten a good night sleep Saturday night, and I just
I almost felt like I hadn't been to bed. I
felt really, really tired, and I probably slept most of
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the day on Sunday, came into work yesterday. I managed
to get through the morning show on KTRH yesterday, but
I didn't have enough energy left to do a show
like here on KPRC, so I went back. I slept
a lot yesterday, and then I went to bed early
on Sunday night. I think I was in like I
went to bed like at four o'clock in the afternoon
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for the night, and I was there until the next morning.
And then yesterday I went to bed like at about
five four point thirty or five o'clock, and I stayed
there till this morning. And now I feel pretty good.
I feel like I'm if not one hundred percent back,
I feel like I'm a lot, you know, eighty five
ninety percent, probably still feel like a still feel a
little clammy, But other than that, I'm okay. And I
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did something, and I want to say this, I took
a COVID test, but I didn't take the COVID test
because I care about whether it was COVID or not.
I was just curious because the symptoms reminded me of
how I felt after dumbass that I am, after I
took that COVID second COVID vaccine. You know, that was
back when even people like me were being compliant and
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taking the COVID vaccine. You know, managed to scare me
into taking the COVID vaccine. You couldn't scare my wife
into doing it, but you managed to scare me into
doing it. And luckily, I think healthwise, everything's worked out
fine for me as far as that goes. But that's
just dumb luck on my part because that's what the
symptoms reminded me of. That's how I felt after I
got the second COVID jab was, you know, really super tired.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
More than I else.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That was the big thing, like man, no energy at all,
muscle eggs, that kind of stuff. But it was negative,
so it wasn't that, So there must be some other
bug that's going around. Hey, we're back today, feeling better,
thank you very much. One of the talkback items that
we did this morning, Question of the Day on my
morning showing KTRH involved around term limits for some of
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our nation's top offices. I thought i'd share some of
the playback with you from the talkback we do the
talkback feature on KTRH. You could do it here. You
could talk back to me on KPRC too. All you
would have to do is go to the iHeartRadio app
and then you would put in KPRC and put that
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into your preset button or one of your preset buttons.
You could have more than one, and it will take
you there just by pushing the preset like you would
on your car radio. And then if you go there,
you can leave me messages and talk back to me
about things that we're talking about on the radio. But
we did it this morning on KTRH. What brought up
the topic was the story I saw about how all
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of our state wide offices pretty much right now are
held by people who have had the position for minimally
three terms. Governor Avetuz, governor obviously Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,
Attorney General Ken Paxton, AG Commissioner Sid Miller, state Comptroller
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Glenn Hager, and of course our United States senators. I
don't think anybody's suggesting that we term limit ted Cruz.
I wouldn't mind term limiting John Cornyn, but hey, this
is a different story. There are plenty ways to get
rid of John Cornyn, I would think. But here's the
thing about the state wide office. Here's the point of
the story. That we have people who have been in
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office for a long time, show no signs of not
running again, and therefore we kind of have a logjam
at the top where we have younger political talent, maybe
even more conservative talent. Here in Texas, a good case
could be made for finding a governor more conservative than
Glenn Abbott, than Greg Abbott what I call him, Glenn
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greg Abbott. Certainly there's got to be choices that are
more conservative than Greg Abbott. As it turns out now,
I admit when I first moved to Texas, I thought, hey,
Greg Abbott, he's the dude, and he is on some
things not so much on the others. I get the feeling,
and I get the feeling. A lot of you agree
that the longer he's gone on, the less conservative he
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has become, and therefore it might be a good idea
to make some changes. Anyway, let's get some of the
phone calls from this morning. Here's what you had to say.
This was the loan call I got or not call,
but the loan input I got on KTRH. And by
the way, if you want to do it on ktr
same thing I heard radio app KTRH. Put it on
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the pre set. You click the microphone, you get thirty
seconds to talk back. Here's one of the talkbacks who
didn't like the idea of term limits.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
This is Charles from Columbia. I think the term moments
are a bad idea. I think that we already have
term limits in the case of the sense of primaries
and elections. And the primary problem is with the electorate,
for lack of a better word, being too lazy to
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perform their duties to primary officials that they're not happy with.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think the problem with that but is there weren't
enough people who were upset with him that they were
willing to vote against his opponent, you know. And the
problem too is that the opponents in these primaries usually
they're just to be a figurehead. They don't really have
any financial backing. Governor Appt obviously is a huge war chest.
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It's going to be very difficult to get him out
of that position. Until such time as he decides he
doesn't want that position anymore or accept a position working
for the federal government it in some way, shape or form.
So I think we're stuck with Greg Abbott for a while.
Here's a couple more thoughts on the My suggestion was
three terms, a three term limit. And originally, before I
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came lucky enough to come here to my new home
state of Texas, I lived in Virginia, where you can't
even run for reelection. If you're the governor, you can't
succeed yourself. So once you're one and done, you could
run again. After in between you can do a Trump
you know, where you're the governor for four years and
then you're off for four years. Then you're the governor
again for four years. That rarely happens in Virginia. Usually
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you're a one term governor and that's it. But here
are a few people who thought the three term idea
might not be a bad one to try to employ.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I am not completely against term limits, but it has
to be for all offices, House, Senate and the higher
ups in Austin. Now how many I am not sure.
I have no problem with three term because honestly, I
think it takes a stay longer to develop well established
names before you can say yes, they are electable. So
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let's over with three terms on the entire realm and
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Okay, again, I don't disagree with that. In a perfect world,
I'd go with the first call and say no, no, no,
no such thing as term limits are needed. You got
the power of the ballid, But I think we have
to be realistic about that. At the end of the day,
in politics, money wins, and let's face it, the incumbents
will always have the advantage when it comes to money.
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Right scrab one more.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
This is Daniel from Porter and I agree with having
term limits in Texas. Recent being is the longer those
guys see empower, the longer they learn how to game
the system. Have it's a really good example of about
how to game the system. He's needed to go for
a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
He's heart a blind.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Eyed to that colony ridge just because those guys have
donated a lot to his campaign. So yeah, I agree.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
With term limits.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know, he's not the only one with a blind
eye to colony Ridge when you get right down to it.
The Houston Chronicle has been running stories about what's going
on in Colony Bridge. How concerned everybody is over the
residents of Colony Ridge who are being harassed by ICE
and have to deal with these ice raids, you know,
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And of course the people they're quoting are all people
who are probably their illegal aliens who are living there,
and there are plenty of them who are the only
reason why Ice was there was the apprehended MS thirteen
gang member who's been deported seven times, come back seven times,
and just murdered somebody. Maybe there's a reason why they're
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going to Colony Ridge, huh, other than just the people
who are laying low. If this remains the situation where
we're trying to get rid of the criminal and gang element,
that's the priority number one. All right, quick little break
back with more in a moment. Gonna be back and
feeling better, Jimmy Bart Show here on a nine fifty KRC.
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All right, a couple of different things to do here
with Sacred number two today. Uh, we're gonna be visited
with let me because I found out I found you
ever find out that you've been talking to somebody for
like five six years and you've been pronouncing their name wrong.
The entire time, and they never corrected you, and nobody
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on your staff ever corrected you. What the hell? What
you're afraid you're gonna hurt my feelings? I've been calling
Victor Avila Victor Avila. His name is Avi avii La,
Victor avi La. He's a retired ICE agent. We'll get
into the colony ridge thing a little bit with him
in our next segment, and also see what he thinks
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about where these leagues are coming from. You know, how
is it that a lot of these you know, criminals
and others are getting tipped off? Who's tipping Who thinks
it's a good idea to tip off criminals about an
ICE ray that's coming. I mean, there's nobody that they've
been going after that either isn't a known gang member
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or criminal, or is one of several hundred thousand people
with a deportation order. That means that you either never
bothered to show up at your deportation hearing or you
lost your deportation hearing and you're still here. I mean,
how can you object to that? How in the world
can you object to it?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
All?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right, but I want to start with this though, and
I have to admit this is going to be very
difficult to hear. You're going to have to take our
word for it at some of this stuff. But Dan Crenshaw,
you want to talk about a politician, is undergone a
bit of a public relations I want to I don't
want to call it maybe a disaster, because he's clearly
still there and still being elected. But Dan Crenshaw has
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proven himself to be somebody who we didn't really understand
who he was to begin with. Dan Crenshaw. And I've
met Dan Crenshaw. He's kind of stand offish. That's okay,
you know, he's not really into you know, the pleasantries.
I mean, he's a former Navy seal. He's a tough guy.
I get that. He's also what's what's obvious is he's
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a neocon. He supports our involvement in foreign wars. He
supports sending our troops into places that we probably shouldn't
be sending our troops. And we just have to realize
that about him. And that's one thing. But he is
also callous and cold, and we have seen the way
he's treated. What was that high school he was speaking
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at and he took it question from a young girl
and he berated her. This is like a young teenage girl.
I don't think he has a whole lot of concern
for other people's feelings, which is not to say, you know,
being polite is the most important thing on the planet.
But there's something missing with this guy. There's there's something
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that's missing. Anyway, he was doing an interview with somebody
and this story. The only place I've seen this story
is on Sky News out of Australia. They did a
covering on this story and they talked to somebody from
our state when they found out about it. Evidently he
was doing an interview and the subject of Tucker Carlson
came up, who evidently he's not a big fan of
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And at the end of at the end of the interview,
when the mics mics are being taken off and the
mics are still hopped, they're being taken off, he gets
asked what he thinks of what he really thinks of
Tucker Carlson, and he basically threatens to kill the guy.
And he's not getting all I'd love I'll f and
kill him it and I'm not kidding or I'm not
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joking what so you can't really hear it that well,
but here's the clip coming up for you and the
reaction from a fellow Texan on Dan critshall there goes
let me try one more time, one more time go
Just coming back to.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
This one hundred billion tell us to Ukraine. I know
that people like Carlson were made the argument there's a
real opportunities to post that. You know, we could have
spent that money on the border or fixing, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Issues in America.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
What do you make of the argument that all this
money could have been spent to help Americans not Ukrainians.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You can walk into bubblegum.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
At the same time, you.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
Know, we we spend we spend seventy five eighty percent
of our budget on a welfare state in America, on social.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Scurity, Medica, at Medicaid.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
I would love to ask Tucker what he thinks that
hundred billions should be spent on and if you would
vote for it? As a conservative talko isn't always talking.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
About and Alex. This is what he had to say
after the interview. Have you ever met something.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
So he says, if I meet him, I'll kill him.
He followed that up with I'm not joking. He's your
state's Congressman Alex from the Great State of Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Do you approve of.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
These threats against Tucker Carlson's life?
Speaker 10 (15:31):
This shows you how insensitive Dan Crenshaw truly is. And
he's a guy, and I appreciate his service, lost his
I fighting and defending this country. And yet his biggest
mission in life is sending more young people to go
and lose their own eye in these unnecessary wars. And
Tucker Carlson has been calling out Dan Prinshall for a
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long time. So even though Dan Crenshaw, you know, considers
him self conservative, if he is truly conservative, he would
be more about individual liberty and limited government. And that's
not what Dan Crenshaw is interested in. So, you know,
him saying this, it just shows you that he's a
very callous individual that does not value human life.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Wow, can't disagree based on my experience of what I've seen,
you know, not that I think he's serious about Kelly
Doucker Carlson. I just think that he's just you know, granted,
he might not have said that if he'd known the
microphone was still hot, but who knows? Who knows? I
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have to wonder what does he think about some of
the things Michael Berry said about him, because Michael Berry
is one of the first people to figure out what
Dan Crenshaw is all about. And uh, and needless to say,
Michael Berry's not one of Dan Crenshaw's favorite people. So
I wonder if he would say the same thing about
Michael Berry. There's only one thing that did you know,
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one thing that during that one question on the interview,
that what Dan Crenshaw said about the welfare state, the
United States welfare state. He threw social Security in there.
If you get a Social Security check, do you consider
that welfare? You feel your welfare recipient because you're getting
a Social Security check you paid into Social Security, right.
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I know, I've paid tons of money into Social Security
every year that I've been working, and the more I made,
the more they took. So I you known, any money
I get back in a Social Security check going down
the line is just kind of paying me back a
little bit for what I put into the system. I
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don't consider that a welfare check for the United States government.
I'll I'll never get back what I put into it.
So no, I don't agree with that assessment. Don't agree
with that assessment at all all. Right, and let me
grab this one because it kind of dovetails here Bill
maher All Credit to Bill Maher at the comedian and
talk show hosts trying to get Democrats to wake up
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to the idea that if they don't change their stance
on some of these issues, that they're never going to
get elected. And one of them, of course is women
in men's sports, and in transgenders is another one, the
transgender issue of trying to push transgenderism, and everybody needs,
you know, to be get a sex change operation so
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they can be who they really are. Here he is
having a conversation about this, and it seems to be
falling in deaf ears.
Speaker 11 (18:25):
Do I think in most of America they did that
in schools, I don't, But I think in enough of them,
enough far left places, they did constantly have this idea
in the minds of children that maybe you're not in
the right body. That's why this debate goes on. And
the fact that you think are a lot of people
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on the left think that even if you just have
this debate, it makes you a bigot. You just have
to roll over. That was you asked about the Biden administration.
That was their position if you even question this, you're
some sort of a bigot you want you want to
lose every election. Just keep coming down on the side
of parents, coming in second in a who gets to
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decide what goes on with my kid contest.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
I think this is one of a number of cultural
issues that President Trump very successfully ran on in this
last election in making Democrats seem and look Democrats. We
didn't always help ourselves. I'm not just giving Trump all
the credit for it, but you know, making Democrats seem
out of touch with the mainstream like they you know,
they had these pet minority sort of causes and we
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couldn't see what most people wanted. And I think that
is a problem electorally. We have to balance that with
the morality of some of these issues, and I think
my party is struggling with that. It's worth noting that
Janet Mills is not some liberal. She was a prosecutor.
She's the governor of Maine, which is a very very
purple state, you know, trending sort of libertarian. Donald Trump
got a lot more votes and Maine this last time,
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So she's not some flame. You know, she's not gathered
newsome on the left. But Democrats have to figure out
how to defend our values. And there are trans kids
in this country today who are scared and I care
about that. But how do we do that in a
way where we are speaking to all of America about
what they feel and they care about. And that's a
tough that's a tough with a tough needle to thread
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last year and you know elections are coming up soon.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
We'll see how we do. So see how we do.
Probably are going to do that well. And it isn't
that tough a needle to the thread really? For one thing,
if you're gif, I don't want to get off on
a TI ready because I'm running over on time. And
we have a guest coming up next. We'll talked to
a former ice agent, Victor probably Lah, coming up next
here on AM nine fifty kight prcing the Jimmy Barrett Show.
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All right, we got a lot of this talk about
a little next guest, he's a retired ice agent. His
name is Victor Abby Lah. What yours were you with Ice?
When did you retire?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
I retired in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Okay, all right, Back in twenty fifteen, things were still
pretty good at ice, right, there.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
Were they were still okay, they were still allowed to
do the jobs. And that's what's happening now is we're
getting back to those old days.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
We talked a little bit about that this morning. I
want you to elaborate on that. I found that interesting
because we were trying to figure out where maybe some
of the leaks are coming from on these raids that
are occurring, and there's all sorts of there's been rumors,
that's the FBI, there's been rumors that has been within
the confines of ICE, And you take a look at
who would have the information about where these raids are
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coming from, and you're kind of limited as to where
the leak could be coming from, aren't you.
Speaker 13 (21:46):
Yeah, And you know something that you always have to
be very careful as an investigator to protect that information
because that protects the integrity of the investigation, and especially
when you're going to go pick up in the visuals
that are criminal aliens have criminal histories, might be violent.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
This is the part that I understand that as far.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
As the.
Speaker 13 (22:10):
Media and maybe internally, why you would want to put
any ICE officer, or any law enforcement officer or the
public at that that matter, at any risk and uh,
and so I know.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
They're gains to the bottom of it.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
I know Tom Holman has came out and said they
had identified an individual within the government, and I haven't
heard back from that. But nevertheless, it doesn't hurt that
a lot of community members and sanctuary cities are backing
up the illegal alien community and makes it very difficult
for the government officials to.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Do the job.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, maybe maybe the government needs to be a little
bit more force law, although I think they've made it
pretty clearer, haven't they, that they're only going after criminals.
Only people that are going after are gang members of
people who are wanted for criminal activity, and people who
have already been deported And there's there's about seven hundred thousand
people on the list that have already lost their their
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deportation case or or skip their deportation hearing and have
a deportation order. They're not going after anybody else, that's right,
And so.
Speaker 13 (23:17):
You have that category, you have the god aways about
two million of those around the country that we have,
you know, no idea who they are, they were never
vet it, and so there's plenty of individuals here to
go pick up.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
The big difference.
Speaker 13 (23:31):
Here is that if you're an illegal and just an
illegal and don't have any other.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Criminal history, and you happen to be next.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
To a person that is targeted, that's the big difference
that you are going to get picked up as well.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah. I think one of the areas that you're familiar
with Colony Ridge here in the greater Houston area, right.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Oh yeah, I saw I saw the activity there yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
MS thirteen gang member, been deported seven times and returned
to this country. Evidently he attacks somebody with a knife,
probably another illegal athing and in their vehicle. That person
is dead, so they finally managed to round him up.
I'm assuming he's going to get murder charges. We're not
going to try to You wouldn't try to deport a
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guy again, would you, Who's who's already been deported seven
times and came back every time.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
No, that's a that's a great point because they committed crimes,
so they have to be prosecuted and held accountable for
the crime. Then after all this sort of time, whether
it's life in prison or it's fifteen years, whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It is, then you get removed.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
But here's the difference now that some that's why we're
having space created in Gitmo or some of these cases
that we know that if the criminal justice system is
going to release this guy, or the punishment's not going
to be adequate because of the sanctuary city policies or
whatever reason, then maybe we'll put them in a place
where we know we're going to be secure.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Eventually have to do something with them. Though, what do
we do with them? I guess we left. We certainly
left Terrace there for a long long time without doing
anything with them. Do we just do the same Do
they just there till further notice?
Speaker 13 (25:14):
Well, not indefinitely, because you just saw this past week
airplane full of Venezuelans was sent from Gitmo back to Venezuela.
So it's telling me that it's kind of most being
used as a staging area to kind of make that
assessment and then say, Okay, you're not going to stay
here longer, and then we're going to finally deport you
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to your home country. And so some might stay longer,
some might not that much, but at least we have
a place to put them temporarily once we take them
into custody.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I guess the other thing we have to count on, right, Victor,
is the fact that we have a situation now where
the border is under control, where we don't have a
whole bunch of people trying to sneak over by the thousands,
that we have some operational control there, and that if
we do deport somebody they're gon, we're gonna be able
to keep them from coming back in again.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
That's that's the point right here. And you saw the
numbers drastically. I mean, I had never seen it in
my career.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
There's like low.
Speaker 13 (26:08):
Over two hundred the entire border or southwest border that
try to come in. And so that's that's a great
point because we never saw that happen before. If you
don't secure the border, if you don't have operational control
of the border, then it wouldn't matter if you deported
deported someone because they'd be back that same day or
the next day. And now especially Texas is portified by
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you got National Guard, you got military marines, you got
obviously border patrols back on the line, and even our
Texas DPS troopers have been deputized. It's it's very hard
to uh to try to get in. So I've been
talking to a lot of my contacts, and the cartel.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is going back to the old ways.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
They're trying to sneak in those old gaps in the
border that are still there. By the way, we haven't
sealed them, and I know this that's coming. But they're
relying back to backpackers coming in at the port of entry.
They're not going to try to stop to smuggle now
the drugs and people. That's something that we have to
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look at for now.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, ICE is a part of the federal government. The
federal government is a giant bureaucracy thanks to DOGE. I
think we're finding out every day how much of a
bureaucracy it is. But as you take a look at ICE,
when you got hired in DICE, were you asked any
questions that might indicate what your political persuasion is? Do
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they ask agents anything that would tell them whether they're
dealing with a conservative or a liberal or anything that
might interfere with their ability to do the job.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
No, that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I'd never been asked that question.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
There's definitely a.
Speaker 13 (27:49):
Huge process and background that you have to go through,
very extensive, but never that political question. Because we have
the hatchhat and you know, as an agent, and you know,
I've been in the government since I was twenty two,
and you can't have a bumper sticker in your car
and sow any type of affiliation one way or the
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other because at work or any of that. And you
can't go to a rally for a political rally. But
that's something I think that we have to go back to,
because you have to have the neutrality. And I'll tell
you this, I have. I had co workers that are
far left, but they were very good at their job.
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They were able to separate their ideology. And let me
tell you, even when I was at the academy, I
had some screaming matches. Well, one of them is a
really good friend of mine, but happens to be very liberal,
and so it it never interfered with his job performance.
And so now maybe we have to have to consider
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that because if your ideology and your political affiliation is
going to interfere with the scope of your duties, then.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
We have a problem. Amen.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
And I would think that's all you really ask, right,
You don't really care what the political affiliation is of
anybody who's working for the agency, as long as they
can separate their politics from the mission that they're on.
The pledge that they are taking in order to perform
their job to the best of their ability.
Speaker 13 (29:15):
And remember, we take a very serious oath. I've taken
that oath several times in my career, and we have
to go back to holding these individuals.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Accountable for that oath, and that oath.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Means that you're to lead you into to the United
States and to the American people. And then when it
comes to home, RWN security is to defend the homeland.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
And protect our sovereignty.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
That's really what it comes down to. All of this
that we're talking about is about two things. It's about
public safety and national security. And I think everyone wants that,
no matter where you stand in.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The political spectrum, I would hope.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So what do you think of Tom Homan At the
end of the day, do you think Tom Homman is
the right guy to be bored as are?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Absolutely?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
Tom's a good friend and you know you see it
when every time he speaks publicly, that's the way he
is in person. He's so passionate about protecting our country
and and and the passion that he has to do it.
And you know how he says that he's very upset.
He's a different word every time he wakes up.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
But because it's very for us to.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Have done the job and been there and done that is.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
Very difficult, and especially in the last four years, to
see what was happening, and it's intolerable to see it.
And so when you have the opportunity to go back
and fix it and change it and make it right.
I definitely understand where he's coming from. And even the
frustration with sanctuary cities and people opposing the rule of law,
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I understand.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
It's very frustrating.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
It makes people upset, But there's no other person better
than Tom Holman to do this.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You Know, the thing I love about Tom Holman is
he's not going to take crap from anybody, and you
are not going to not going to change his mind
about the right what the right thing to do is you.
He'll on any talking head show, He'll take on anybody
who wants to take him on and tell them why
they're full of crap and why he's doing what he's doing.
And I think it takes at this point, it takes
that kind of mentality to make sure that department gets
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to where it needs to be.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
It really does, and DHS is, I believe, is the
next one up for those. I can't wait to see
what they find there. Because the bureaucracy, and you said it.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Is out of control.
Speaker 13 (31:28):
We have too many chiefs, nine enough soldiers and a
lot of these agencies.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Uh, the ses system of.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
A bunch of bosses out there that are not really
doing a lot, plus uh, people that do want to
do it that are not allowed to do it.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
And it is an overhaul, if you will.
Speaker 13 (31:46):
And so that's why you see these changes of personnel movements,
because it's gonna it's gonna become a well oil machine again.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, the acting we should leave on this note on
the acting ice director has been reassigned, not gonna he's
going to focus now on the interior alone. I assumely
the reason why he's being resigned is not because he's
not capable, but because as the acting director, you kind
of have your fingers in all the pies and you
can't really concentrate on any one thing. And the reality
is right now with the rest being well below or
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certainly below where they would like them to be after
a great start, they want to concentrate on getting the
rest arrest back up to where they should be.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Yeah, and that's why he was acting, and.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That means that you're there.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
In a temporary position and we're still waiting for President
Trump because he was actually going to nominate to be
ICE director. But you're right, ICE director is a lot
more than You're not an operational guy on the ground anymore.
You're overseeing the entire agency, both ICE enforcement removal operations
and homeland security investigations and the legal part of it
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as well, and you're become the you know, the political
almost a politician type to oversee it. But also well,
it's about the leadership, right and we need a good
leader there to to set the standard.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
So it goes all the way down to the field level.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yep, all right, Victor, Hey, thank you for your time.
As always, you're always generous with it and we sure
do appreciate it. You take care. Thank you so much,
you bet retired ICE agent Victor. I'll be love back
with more in a moment. Jimmy Baird Show. You're on
a nine fifty KPRC. All right, we are back. Quick
(33:42):
little break here. I thought it's gonna be quick little break.
Let's let's let's talk about the misunderstanding. Do we want
to know? I want I'll tell you what I'd rather
do this, Let's do this and stuff. I was going
to talk about the Elon mustling, but I think we've
talked enough pretty much about that. I would like to
think that most of most of us have figured out
(34:06):
what the exercise was really all about. People who don't
work at a corporate job working for a big company
probably don't know that this is a pretty common practice,
you know, at many different organizations. I'm sure I bet
Elon Musk did it when he took over Twitter before
it became x. I'm sure he did the same kind
(34:29):
of thing. He probably sent on an email to all
of his employees. You know what, tell me the five
things you did in the last week, to see what
kind of responses he would get. If he would get
a response, who would ignore him, Who who couldn't answer
because they weren't even with the company anymore. You you
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can weed out a lot of dead weight by doing
something like that. And that's really what the exercise was
all about. It wasn't about the answer to the question.
It was about that you saw the question. You still
have an active government email and you responded to the question.
That's really what it was all about. And I'm not
sure how many non responses they got, but Elon had
(35:11):
to put out a second request yesterday. Yeah, but we'll
give you one more chance to participate in this. So
here's your second and last chance. And if you don't,
if you don't respond back to us, then I'm going
to assume that you're not really working for the government anymore,
in which case we can take your name off the rolls.
That's really what it's all about. Again. The only thing
(35:34):
he's interested in at this point is eliminating the waste,
you know, the people we're paying that don't really have
a job working for the federal government, like the Social
Security system. Let's eliminate the social Security check to the
one hundred and twenty year olds, the three point something million,
one hundred and twenty plus year old people who don't
actually you can't be alive because one of two things.
(35:57):
Either they have they're a miracle talking miracle, or there's
social Security numbers being used by somebody else to defraud
the government. Or we're just we just still are sending
out a check to somebody because their death wasn't reported.
Whatever the case is bad accounting, whatever you want to
call it. There's gonna be so much waste that turns
(36:17):
up this way. But let's talk about this instead. Left
versus right on the departure of MSNBC's Joy read I
don't know. We've only played a few cuts from Joy
Reid over the course of time. She's not a likable person,
(36:42):
at least on her television persona. I don't know how
she is in real life. I don't know if the
views she expounds on her television show or what she
really thinks or feels, if it's an act that she
does for television. I really don't know. I know it
would shock you to find this out, but not everybody
(37:03):
who who's on radio TV is really like that in
real life. Sometimes, you know, you do things for entertainment purposes.
Sometimes you kind of pull back on a true opinion
that you have so you don't offend too many people.
Sometimes you grab an idea that isn't really you don't
feel that strongly about, but you go ahead and you
push it because you know it'll get people talking. Let's
(37:24):
face it, radio and television, show business, it's what it is.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I'd like to think I'm genuine. I'd like to think
that you know, I talk about things I really believe in.
I'd like to think I don't you know change. I mean,
I'm not saying I've never embellished a story. My wife
would be the first to tell you, oh, yeah he does.
Yeah he'll He'll tell a good story, but again, you know,
just to make it more entertaining. But in the case
(37:51):
of joy Read, if you were to ask somebody to
watch a segment from her show or a couple of
her shows who doesn't watch it on a regular basis
and doesn't really know who she is, and say, damn
that Woean's a racist. That's number one Black female racists
would would what would be would come out? I think
of most people's mouths, unless, of course, you are another
(38:14):
black female racist or a black racist, in which case
you would agree with everything she has to say about
white people. You know, that's that's kind of how that goes.
I always found it ironic. You know, in a world
we are supposed to go from a world where racism
was not okay for anybody, and all we did is
we went from a world where racism was not okay
(38:37):
except if the racism was against somebody who's white, in
which case it's okay if you're if you're if you
are a minority, and you feel that white people are racist,
You're allowed to believe that because white people are the
quote unquote majority, although they are in Texas, are the majority,
and therefore you're allowed to feel that way. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure how we ever got to that point.
(38:57):
I don't think that was Martin Luther King Junior's I
don't think that was his vision of what was supposed
to happen. Anyway. On the departure, back to the departure
of Joy Reid, here's an interesting perspective. We go from
Joy reads terriful goodbye. This was her private goodbye to
her audience that she posted online, followed by Megan Kelly,
(39:17):
conservative white female her reaction to it, followed by Don Lemon, liberal, gay,
progressive former CNN anchor, who I guess has a show
these days on YouTube. Anybody watched that show? Anyway, here
you go, here's how they reacted, all very definitely.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
And there I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Then what I was doing.
Speaker 14 (39:46):
He value hen value and in the end, I'm I'm
trying not to cry on TV, and I say, this
is kind of like me on TV, so I apologize.
The big news tonight will be Joy Read's final show
on NBC. Single tier white woman tears happening right here, Joy.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
She was officially fired over the weekend.
Speaker 14 (40:07):
Because she's a racist, horrible news anchor with no ratings,
and that's really been the truth for a long time.
MSNBC's under new management, and I guess they decided to
come to grips with reality. The truth is this is
very sad news for us, as she's provided so much.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Material over the years. So I feel the way.
Speaker 14 (40:29):
I felt when Brian Stelter got fired, but he came back,
and you never know. I'm sure Joy Read will wind
up doing something where we will continue to get to
respond to her absolutely insane pov.
Speaker 13 (40:42):
Let me just say, to Megan Kelly, in my thirty
some years as a journalist, in my fifty some years
as a person of color, go yourself.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Okay, classic liberal comeback, go after yourself, right, that's when
you've got nothing else to say, Dan to the conversation
that evolves into that. All right, anyway, I don't think
it had any her fire. I don't think I had
anything to do with anything other than ratings and revenue.
That's that's what it comes down to at the end
(41:11):
of the day. In the business we're in, in the
media business, how much, how what kind of ratings do
you get? What kind of revenue do you create? If
you're not creating ratings and revenue, then sorry, doesn't matter
what you believe, you're gone. Listen, you all have a
great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright nearly five
am over our news radio seven forty k t RH.
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right, we are back. We are feeling better. Sorry
about throwing the best of your way yesterday. But I
had some crazy bug. I don't know what it was.
This is something any of you all had a bug lately,
you know that just kind of it's about forty it's
a forty eight hour I guess, for lack of a
better trim, i'll call it the flu, a forty eight
hour version of the flu. With I don't think I
(00:55):
had a fever, although I can't honestly say I took
my tempera dure. I did get the chills every now
and again, so maybe I did get a fever.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
With this.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Kind of lost my appetite for a couple of days.
And with me, that's saying something. I didn't have any nausea,
just really super tired, and it just kind of came
on on Sunday. I got up Sunday morning, and I'd
gotten a good night sleep Saturday night, and I just
I almost felt like I hadn't been to bed. I
felt really, really tired, and I probably slept most of
(01:28):
the day on Sunday, came into work yesterday. I managed
to get through the morning show on KTRH yesterday, but
I didn't have enough energy left to do a show
like here on KPRC, so I went back. I slept
a lot yesterday, and then I went to bed early
on Sunday night. I think I was in like I
went to bed like at four o'clock in the afternoon
(01:49):
for the night, and I was there until the next morning.
And then yesterday I went to bed like at about
five four point thirty or five o'clock, and I stayed
there till this morning. And now I feel pretty good.
I feel like I'm if not one hundred percent back,
I feel like I'm a lot, you know, eighty five
ninety percent, probably still feel like a still feel a
little clammy, But other than that, I'm okay. And I
(02:11):
did something, and I want to say this, I took
a COVID test, but I didn't take the COVID test
because I care about whether it was COVID or not.
I was just curious because the symptoms reminded me of
how I felt after dumbass that I am, after I
took that COVID second COVID vaccine. You know, that was
back when even people like me were being compliant and
(02:33):
taking the COVID vaccine. You know, managed to scare me
into taking the COVID vaccine. You couldn't scare my wife
into doing it, but you managed to scare me into
doing it. And luckily, I think healthwise, everything's worked out
fine for me as far as that goes. But that's
just dumb luck on my part because that's what the
symptoms reminded me of. That's how I felt after I
got the second COVID jab was, you know, really super tired.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
More than I else.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That was the big thing, like man, no energy at all,
muscle eggs, that kind of stuff. But it was negative,
so it wasn't that, So there must be some other
bug that's going around. Hey, we're back today, feeling better,
thank you very much. One of the talkback items that
we did this morning, Question of the Day on my
morning showing KTRH involved around term limits for some of
(03:21):
our nation's top offices. I thought i'd share some of
the playback with you from the talkback we do the
talkback feature on KTRH. You could do it here. You
could talk back to me on KPRC too. All you
would have to do is go to the iHeartRadio app
and then you would put in KPRC and put that
(03:43):
into your preset button or one of your preset buttons.
You could have more than one, and it will take
you there just by pushing the preset like you would
on your car radio. And then if you go there,
you can leave me messages and talk back to me
about things that we're talking about on the radio. But
we did it this morning on KTRH. What brought up
the topic was the story I saw about how all
(04:03):
of our state wide offices pretty much right now are
held by people who have had the position for minimally
three terms. Governor Avetuz, governor obviously Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,
Attorney General Ken Paxton, AG Commissioner Sid Miller, state Comptroller
(04:24):
Glenn Hager, and of course our United States senators. I
don't think anybody's suggesting that we term limit ted Cruz.
I wouldn't mind term limiting John Cornyn, but hey, this
is a different story. There are plenty ways to get
rid of John Cornyn, I would think. But here's the
thing about the state wide office. Here's the point of
the story. That we have people who have been in
(04:45):
office for a long time, show no signs of not
running again, and therefore we kind of have a logjam
at the top where we have younger political talent, maybe
even more conservative talent. Here in Texas, a good case
could be made for finding a governor more conservative than
Glenn Abbott, than Greg Abbott what I call him, Glenn
(05:07):
greg Abbott. Certainly there's got to be choices that are
more conservative than Greg Abbott. As it turns out now,
I admit when I first moved to Texas, I thought, hey,
Greg Abbott, he's the dude, and he is on some
things not so much on the others. I get the feeling,
and I get the feeling. A lot of you agree
that the longer he's gone on, the less conservative he
(05:30):
has become, and therefore it might be a good idea
to make some changes. Anyway, let's get some of the
phone calls from this morning. Here's what you had to say.
This was the loan call I got or not call,
but the loan input I got on KTRH. And by
the way, if you want to do it on ktr
same thing I heard radio app KTRH. Put it on
(05:51):
the pre set. You click the microphone, you get thirty
seconds to talk back. Here's one of the talkbacks who
didn't like the idea of term limits.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
This is Charles from Columbia. I think the term moments
are a bad idea. I think that we already have
term limits in the case of the sense of primaries
and elections. And the primary problem is with the electorate,
for lack of a better word, being too lazy to
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perform their duties to primary officials that they're not happy with.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think the problem with that but is there weren't
enough people who were upset with him that they were
willing to vote against his opponent, you know. And the
problem too is that the opponents in these primaries usually
they're just to be a figurehead. They don't really have
any financial backing. Governor Appt obviously is a huge war chest.
(06:49):
It's going to be very difficult to get him out
of that position. Until such time as he decides he
doesn't want that position anymore or accept a position working
for the federal government it in some way, shape or form.
So I think we're stuck with Greg Abbott for a while.
Here's a couple more thoughts on the My suggestion was
three terms, a three term limit. And originally, before I
(07:10):
came lucky enough to come here to my new home
state of Texas, I lived in Virginia, where you can't
even run for reelection. If you're the governor, you can't
succeed yourself. So once you're one and done, you could
run again. After in between you can do a Trump
you know, where you're the governor for four years and
then you're off for four years. Then you're the governor
again for four years. That rarely happens in Virginia. Usually
(07:35):
you're a one term governor and that's it. But here
are a few people who thought the three term idea
might not be a bad one to try to employ.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I am not completely against term limits, but it has
to be for all offices, House, Senate and the higher
ups in Austin. Now how many I am not sure.
I have no problem with three term because honestly, I
think it takes a stay longer to develop well established
names before you can say yes, they are electable. So
(08:06):
let's over with three terms on the entire realm and
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Okay, again, I don't disagree with that. In a perfect world,
I'd go with the first call and say no, no, no,
no such thing as term limits are needed. You got
the power of the ballid, But I think we have
to be realistic about that. At the end of the day,
in politics, money wins, and let's face it, the incumbents
will always have the advantage when it comes to money.
(08:31):
Right scrab one more.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
This is Daniel from Porter and I agree with having
term limits in Texas. Recent being is the longer those
guys see empower, the longer they learn how to game
the system. Have it's a really good example of about
how to game the system. He's needed to go for
a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
He's heart a blind.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Eyed to that colony ridge just because those guys have
donated a lot to his campaign. So yeah, I agree.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
With term limits.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know, he's not the only one with a blind
eye to colony Ridge when you get right down to it.
The Houston Chronicle has been running stories about what's going
on in Colony Bridge. How concerned everybody is over the
residents of Colony Ridge who are being harassed by ICE
and have to deal with these ice raids, you know,
(09:22):
And of course the people they're quoting are all people
who are probably their illegal aliens who are living there,
and there are plenty of them who are the only
reason why Ice was there was the apprehended MS thirteen
gang member who's been deported seven times, come back seven times,
and just murdered somebody. Maybe there's a reason why they're
(09:44):
going to Colony Ridge, huh, other than just the people
who are laying low. If this remains the situation where
we're trying to get rid of the criminal and gang element,
that's the priority number one. All right, quick little break
back with more in a moment. Gonna be back and
feeling better, Jimmy Bart Show here on a nine fifty KRC.
(10:25):
All right, a couple of different things to do here
with Sacred number two today. Uh, we're gonna be visited
with let me because I found out I found you
ever find out that you've been talking to somebody for
like five six years and you've been pronouncing their name wrong.
The entire time, and they never corrected you, and nobody
(10:45):
on your staff ever corrected you. What the hell? What
you're afraid you're gonna hurt my feelings? I've been calling
Victor Avila Victor Avila. His name is Avi avii La,
Victor avi La. He's a retired ICE agent. We'll get
into the colony ridge thing a little bit with him
in our next segment, and also see what he thinks
(11:08):
about where these leagues are coming from. You know, how
is it that a lot of these you know, criminals
and others are getting tipped off? Who's tipping Who thinks
it's a good idea to tip off criminals about an
ICE ray that's coming. I mean, there's nobody that they've
been going after that either isn't a known gang member
(11:29):
or criminal, or is one of several hundred thousand people
with a deportation order. That means that you either never
bothered to show up at your deportation hearing or you
lost your deportation hearing and you're still here. I mean,
how can you object to that? How in the world
can you object to it?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
All?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right, but I want to start with this though, and
I have to admit this is going to be very
difficult to hear. You're going to have to take our
word for it at some of this stuff. But Dan Crenshaw,
you want to talk about a politician, is undergone a
bit of a public relations I want to I don't
want to call it maybe a disaster, because he's clearly
still there and still being elected. But Dan Crenshaw has
(12:13):
proven himself to be somebody who we didn't really understand
who he was to begin with. Dan Crenshaw. And I've
met Dan Crenshaw. He's kind of stand offish. That's okay,
you know, he's not really into you know, the pleasantries.
I mean, he's a former Navy seal. He's a tough guy.
I get that. He's also what's what's obvious is he's
(12:36):
a neocon. He supports our involvement in foreign wars. He
supports sending our troops into places that we probably shouldn't
be sending our troops. And we just have to realize
that about him. And that's one thing. But he is
also callous and cold, and we have seen the way
he's treated. What was that high school he was speaking
(12:57):
at and he took it question from a young girl
and he berated her. This is like a young teenage girl.
I don't think he has a whole lot of concern
for other people's feelings, which is not to say, you know,
being polite is the most important thing on the planet.
But there's something missing with this guy. There's there's something
(13:20):
that's missing. Anyway, he was doing an interview with somebody
and this story. The only place I've seen this story
is on Sky News out of Australia. They did a
covering on this story and they talked to somebody from
our state when they found out about it. Evidently he
was doing an interview and the subject of Tucker Carlson
came up, who evidently he's not a big fan of
(13:43):
And at the end of at the end of the interview,
when the mics mics are being taken off and the
mics are still hopped, they're being taken off, he gets
asked what he thinks of what he really thinks of
Tucker Carlson, and he basically threatens to kill the guy.
And he's not getting all I'd love I'll f and
kill him it and I'm not kidding or I'm not
(14:04):
joking what so you can't really hear it that well,
but here's the clip coming up for you and the
reaction from a fellow Texan on Dan critshall there goes
let me try one more time, one more time go
Just coming back to.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
This one hundred billion tell us to Ukraine. I know
that people like Carlson were made the argument there's a
real opportunities to post that. You know, we could have
spent that money on the border or fixing, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Issues in America.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
What do you make of the argument that all this
money could have been spent to help Americans not Ukrainians.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You can walk into bubblegum.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
At the same time, you.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
Know, we we spend we spend seventy five eighty percent
of our budget on a welfare state in America, on social.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Scurity, Medica, at Medicaid.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
I would love to ask Tucker what he thinks that
hundred billions should be spent on and if you would
vote for it? As a conservative talko isn't always talking.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
About and Alex. This is what he had to say
after the interview. Have you ever met something.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
So he says, if I meet him, I'll kill him.
He followed that up with I'm not joking. He's your
state's Congressman Alex from the Great State of Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Do you approve of.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
These threats against Tucker Carlson's life?
Speaker 10 (15:31):
This shows you how insensitive Dan Crenshaw truly is. And
he's a guy, and I appreciate his service, lost his
I fighting and defending this country. And yet his biggest
mission in life is sending more young people to go
and lose their own eye in these unnecessary wars. And
Tucker Carlson has been calling out Dan Prinshall for a
(15:52):
long time. So even though Dan Crenshaw, you know, considers
him self conservative, if he is truly conservative, he would
be more about individual liberty and limited government. And that's
not what Dan Crenshaw is interested in. So, you know,
him saying this, it just shows you that he's a
very callous individual that does not value human life.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Wow, can't disagree based on my experience of what I've seen,
you know, not that I think he's serious about Kelly
Doucker Carlson. I just think that he's just you know, granted,
he might not have said that if he'd known the
microphone was still hot, but who knows? Who knows? I
(16:32):
have to wonder what does he think about some of
the things Michael Berry said about him, because Michael Berry
is one of the first people to figure out what
Dan Crenshaw is all about. And uh, and needless to say,
Michael Berry's not one of Dan Crenshaw's favorite people. So
I wonder if he would say the same thing about
Michael Berry. There's only one thing that did you know,
(16:53):
one thing that during that one question on the interview,
that what Dan Crenshaw said about the welfare state, the
United States welfare state. He threw social Security in there.
If you get a Social Security check, do you consider
that welfare? You feel your welfare recipient because you're getting
a Social Security check you paid into Social Security, right.
(17:15):
I know, I've paid tons of money into Social Security
every year that I've been working, and the more I made,
the more they took. So I you known, any money
I get back in a Social Security check going down
the line is just kind of paying me back a
little bit for what I put into the system. I
(17:36):
don't consider that a welfare check for the United States government.
I'll I'll never get back what I put into it.
So no, I don't agree with that assessment. Don't agree
with that assessment at all all. Right, and let me
grab this one because it kind of dovetails here Bill
maher All Credit to Bill Maher at the comedian and
talk show hosts trying to get Democrats to wake up
(17:58):
to the idea that if they don't change their stance
on some of these issues, that they're never going to
get elected. And one of them, of course is women
in men's sports, and in transgenders is another one, the
transgender issue of trying to push transgenderism, and everybody needs,
you know, to be get a sex change operation so
(18:19):
they can be who they really are. Here he is
having a conversation about this, and it seems to be
falling in deaf ears.
Speaker 11 (18:25):
Do I think in most of America they did that
in schools, I don't, But I think in enough of them,
enough far left places, they did constantly have this idea
in the minds of children that maybe you're not in
the right body. That's why this debate goes on. And
the fact that you think are a lot of people
(18:46):
on the left think that even if you just have
this debate, it makes you a bigot. You just have
to roll over. That was you asked about the Biden administration.
That was their position if you even question this, you're
some sort of a bigot you want you want to
lose every election. Just keep coming down on the side
of parents, coming in second in a who gets to
(19:06):
decide what goes on with my kid contest.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
I think this is one of a number of cultural
issues that President Trump very successfully ran on in this
last election in making Democrats seem and look Democrats. We
didn't always help ourselves. I'm not just giving Trump all
the credit for it, but you know, making Democrats seem
out of touch with the mainstream like they you know,
they had these pet minority sort of causes and we
(19:29):
couldn't see what most people wanted. And I think that
is a problem electorally. We have to balance that with
the morality of some of these issues, and I think
my party is struggling with that. It's worth noting that
Janet Mills is not some liberal. She was a prosecutor.
She's the governor of Maine, which is a very very
purple state, you know, trending sort of libertarian. Donald Trump
got a lot more votes and Maine this last time,
(19:50):
So she's not some flame. You know, she's not gathered
newsome on the left. But Democrats have to figure out
how to defend our values. And there are trans kids
in this country today who are scared and I care
about that. But how do we do that in a
way where we are speaking to all of America about
what they feel and they care about. And that's a
tough that's a tough with a tough needle to thread
(20:12):
last year and you know elections are coming up soon.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
We'll see how we do. So see how we do.
Probably are going to do that well. And it isn't
that tough a needle to the thread really? For one thing,
if you're gif, I don't want to get off on
a TI ready because I'm running over on time. And
we have a guest coming up next. We'll talked to
a former ice agent, Victor probably Lah, coming up next
here on AM nine fifty kight prcing the Jimmy Barrett Show.
(20:52):
All right, we got a lot of this talk about
a little next guest, he's a retired ice agent. His
name is Victor Abby Lah. What yours were you with Ice?
When did you retire?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
I retired in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Okay, all right, Back in twenty fifteen, things were still
pretty good at ice, right, there.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
Were they were still okay, they were still allowed to
do the jobs. And that's what's happening now is we're
getting back to those old days.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
We talked a little bit about that this morning. I
want you to elaborate on that. I found that interesting
because we were trying to figure out where maybe some
of the leaks are coming from on these raids that
are occurring, and there's all sorts of there's been rumors,
that's the FBI, there's been rumors that has been within
the confines of ICE, And you take a look at
who would have the information about where these raids are
(21:40):
coming from, and you're kind of limited as to where
the leak could be coming from, aren't you.
Speaker 13 (21:46):
Yeah, And you know something that you always have to
be very careful as an investigator to protect that information
because that protects the integrity of the investigation, and especially
when you're going to go pick up in the visuals
that are criminal aliens have criminal histories, might be violent.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
This is the part that I understand that as far.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
As the.
Speaker 13 (22:10):
Media and maybe internally, why you would want to put
any ICE officer, or any law enforcement officer or the
public at that that matter, at any risk and uh,
and so I know.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
They're gains to the bottom of it.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
I know Tom Holman has came out and said they
had identified an individual within the government, and I haven't
heard back from that. But nevertheless, it doesn't hurt that
a lot of community members and sanctuary cities are backing
up the illegal alien community and makes it very difficult
for the government officials to.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Do the job.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, maybe maybe the government needs to be a little
bit more force law, although I think they've made it
pretty clearer, haven't they, that they're only going after criminals.
Only people that are going after are gang members of
people who are wanted for criminal activity, and people who
have already been deported And there's there's about seven hundred thousand
people on the list that have already lost their their
(23:07):
deportation case or or skip their deportation hearing and have
a deportation order. They're not going after anybody else, that's right,
And so.
Speaker 13 (23:17):
You have that category, you have the god aways about
two million of those around the country that we have,
you know, no idea who they are, they were never
vet it, and so there's plenty of individuals here to
go pick up.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
The big difference.
Speaker 13 (23:31):
Here is that if you're an illegal and just an
illegal and don't have any other.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Criminal history, and you happen to be next.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
To a person that is targeted, that's the big difference
that you are going to get picked up as well.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah. I think one of the areas that you're familiar
with Colony Ridge here in the greater Houston area, right.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Oh yeah, I saw I saw the activity there yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
MS thirteen gang member, been deported seven times and returned
to this country. Evidently he attacks somebody with a knife,
probably another illegal athing and in their vehicle. That person
is dead, so they finally managed to round him up.
I'm assuming he's going to get murder charges. We're not
going to try to You wouldn't try to deport a
(24:15):
guy again, would you, Who's who's already been deported seven
times and came back every time.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
No, that's a that's a great point because they committed crimes,
so they have to be prosecuted and held accountable for
the crime. Then after all this sort of time, whether
it's life in prison or it's fifteen years, whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It is, then you get removed.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
But here's the difference now that some that's why we're
having space created in Gitmo or some of these cases
that we know that if the criminal justice system is
going to release this guy, or the punishment's not going
to be adequate because of the sanctuary city policies or
whatever reason, then maybe we'll put them in a place
where we know we're going to be secure.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Eventually have to do something with them. Though, what do
we do with them? I guess we left. We certainly
left Terrace there for a long long time without doing
anything with them. Do we just do the same Do
they just there till further notice?
Speaker 13 (25:14):
Well, not indefinitely, because you just saw this past week
airplane full of Venezuelans was sent from Gitmo back to Venezuela.
So it's telling me that it's kind of most being
used as a staging area to kind of make that
assessment and then say, Okay, you're not going to stay
here longer, and then we're going to finally deport you
(25:35):
to your home country. And so some might stay longer,
some might not that much, but at least we have
a place to put them temporarily once we take them
into custody.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I guess the other thing we have to count on, right, Victor,
is the fact that we have a situation now where
the border is under control, where we don't have a
whole bunch of people trying to sneak over by the thousands,
that we have some operational control there, and that if
we do deport somebody they're gon, we're gonna be able
to keep them from coming back in again.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
That's that's the point right here. And you saw the
numbers drastically. I mean, I had never seen it in
my career.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
There's like low.
Speaker 13 (26:08):
Over two hundred the entire border or southwest border that
try to come in. And so that's that's a great
point because we never saw that happen before. If you
don't secure the border, if you don't have operational control
of the border, then it wouldn't matter if you deported
deported someone because they'd be back that same day or
the next day. And now especially Texas is portified by
(26:31):
you got National Guard, you got military marines, you got
obviously border patrols back on the line, and even our
Texas DPS troopers have been deputized. It's it's very hard
to uh to try to get in. So I've been
talking to a lot of my contacts, and the cartel.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is going back to the old ways.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
They're trying to sneak in those old gaps in the
border that are still there. By the way, we haven't
sealed them, and I know this that's coming. But they're
relying back to backpackers coming in at the port of entry.
They're not going to try to stop to smuggle now
the drugs and people. That's something that we have to
(27:11):
look at for now.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, ICE is a part of the federal government. The
federal government is a giant bureaucracy thanks to DOGE. I
think we're finding out every day how much of a
bureaucracy it is. But as you take a look at ICE,
when you got hired in DICE, were you asked any
questions that might indicate what your political persuasion is? Do
(27:33):
they ask agents anything that would tell them whether they're
dealing with a conservative or a liberal or anything that
might interfere with their ability to do the job.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
No, that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I'd never been asked that question.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
There's definitely a.
Speaker 13 (27:49):
Huge process and background that you have to go through,
very extensive, but never that political question. Because we have
the hatchhat and you know, as an agent, and you know,
I've been in the government since I was twenty two,
and you can't have a bumper sticker in your car
and sow any type of affiliation one way or the
(28:10):
other because at work or any of that. And you
can't go to a rally for a political rally. But
that's something I think that we have to go back to,
because you have to have the neutrality. And I'll tell
you this, I have. I had co workers that are
far left, but they were very good at their job.
(28:30):
They were able to separate their ideology. And let me
tell you, even when I was at the academy, I
had some screaming matches. Well, one of them is a
really good friend of mine, but happens to be very liberal,
and so it it never interfered with his job performance.
And so now maybe we have to have to consider
(28:52):
that because if your ideology and your political affiliation is
going to interfere with the scope of your duties, then.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
We have a problem. Amen.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
And I would think that's all you really ask, right,
You don't really care what the political affiliation is of
anybody who's working for the agency, as long as they
can separate their politics from the mission that they're on.
The pledge that they are taking in order to perform
their job to the best of their ability.
Speaker 13 (29:15):
And remember, we take a very serious oath. I've taken
that oath several times in my career, and we have
to go back to holding these individuals.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Accountable for that oath, and that oath.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Means that you're to lead you into to the United
States and to the American people. And then when it
comes to home, RWN security is to defend the homeland.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
And protect our sovereignty.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
That's really what it comes down to. All of this
that we're talking about is about two things. It's about
public safety and national security. And I think everyone wants that,
no matter where you stand in.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The political spectrum, I would hope.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So what do you think of Tom Homan At the
end of the day, do you think Tom Homman is
the right guy to be bored as are?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Absolutely?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
Tom's a good friend and you know you see it
when every time he speaks publicly, that's the way he
is in person. He's so passionate about protecting our country
and and and the passion that he has to do it.
And you know how he says that he's very upset.
He's a different word every time he wakes up.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
But because it's very for us to.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Have done the job and been there and done that is.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
Very difficult, and especially in the last four years, to
see what was happening, and it's intolerable to see it.
And so when you have the opportunity to go back
and fix it and change it and make it right.
I definitely understand where he's coming from. And even the
frustration with sanctuary cities and people opposing the rule of law,
(30:43):
I understand.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
It's very frustrating.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
It makes people upset, But there's no other person better
than Tom Holman to do this.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You Know, the thing I love about Tom Holman is
he's not going to take crap from anybody, and you
are not going to not going to change his mind
about the right what the right thing to do is you.
He'll on any talking head show, He'll take on anybody
who wants to take him on and tell them why
they're full of crap and why he's doing what he's doing.
And I think it takes at this point, it takes
that kind of mentality to make sure that department gets
(31:11):
to where it needs to be.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
It really does, and DHS is, I believe, is the
next one up for those. I can't wait to see
what they find there. Because the bureaucracy, and you said it.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Is out of control.
Speaker 13 (31:28):
We have too many chiefs, nine enough soldiers and a
lot of these agencies.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Uh, the ses system of.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
A bunch of bosses out there that are not really
doing a lot, plus uh, people that do want to
do it that are not allowed to do it.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
And it is an overhaul, if you will.
Speaker 13 (31:46):
And so that's why you see these changes of personnel movements,
because it's gonna it's gonna become a well oil machine again.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, the acting we should leave on this note on
the acting ice director has been reassigned, not gonna he's
going to focus now on the interior alone. I assumely
the reason why he's being resigned is not because he's
not capable, but because as the acting director, you kind
of have your fingers in all the pies and you
can't really concentrate on any one thing. And the reality
is right now with the rest being well below or
(32:16):
certainly below where they would like them to be after
a great start, they want to concentrate on getting the
rest arrest back up to where they should be.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Yeah, and that's why he was acting, and.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That means that you're there.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
In a temporary position and we're still waiting for President
Trump because he was actually going to nominate to be
ICE director. But you're right, ICE director is a lot
more than You're not an operational guy on the ground anymore.
You're overseeing the entire agency, both ICE enforcement removal operations
and homeland security investigations and the legal part of it
(32:50):
as well, and you're become the you know, the political
almost a politician type to oversee it. But also well,
it's about the leadership, right and we need a good
leader there to to set the standard.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
So it goes all the way down to the field level.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yep, all right, Victor, Hey, thank you for your time.
As always, you're always generous with it and we sure
do appreciate it. You take care. Thank you so much,
you bet retired ICE agent Victor. I'll be love back
with more in a moment. Jimmy Baird Show. You're on
a nine fifty KPRC. All right, we are back. Quick
(33:42):
little break here. I thought it's gonna be quick little break.
Let's let's let's talk about the misunderstanding. Do we want
to know? I want I'll tell you what I'd rather
do this, Let's do this and stuff. I was going
to talk about the Elon mustling, but I think we've
talked enough pretty much about that. I would like to
think that most of most of us have figured out
(34:06):
what the exercise was really all about. People who don't
work at a corporate job working for a big company
probably don't know that this is a pretty common practice,
you know, at many different organizations. I'm sure I bet
Elon Musk did it when he took over Twitter before
it became x. I'm sure he did the same kind
(34:29):
of thing. He probably sent on an email to all
of his employees. You know what, tell me the five
things you did in the last week, to see what
kind of responses he would get. If he would get
a response, who would ignore him, Who who couldn't answer
because they weren't even with the company anymore. You you
(34:49):
can weed out a lot of dead weight by doing
something like that. And that's really what the exercise was
all about. It wasn't about the answer to the question.
It was about that you saw the question. You still
have an active government email and you responded to the question.
That's really what it was all about. And I'm not
sure how many non responses they got, but Elon had
(35:11):
to put out a second request yesterday. Yeah, but we'll
give you one more chance to participate in this. So
here's your second and last chance. And if you don't,
if you don't respond back to us, then I'm going
to assume that you're not really working for the government anymore,
in which case we can take your name off the rolls.
That's really what it's all about. Again. The only thing
(35:34):
he's interested in at this point is eliminating the waste,
you know, the people we're paying that don't really have
a job working for the federal government, like the Social
Security system. Let's eliminate the social Security check to the
one hundred and twenty year olds, the three point something million,
one hundred and twenty plus year old people who don't
actually you can't be alive because one of two things.
(35:57):
Either they have they're a miracle talking miracle, or there's
social Security numbers being used by somebody else to defraud
the government. Or we're just we just still are sending
out a check to somebody because their death wasn't reported.
Whatever the case is bad accounting, whatever you want to
call it. There's gonna be so much waste that turns
(36:17):
up this way. But let's talk about this instead. Left
versus right on the departure of MSNBC's Joy read I
don't know. We've only played a few cuts from Joy
Reid over the course of time. She's not a likable person,
(36:42):
at least on her television persona. I don't know how
she is in real life. I don't know if the
views she expounds on her television show or what she
really thinks or feels, if it's an act that she
does for television. I really don't know. I know it
would shock you to find this out, but not everybody
(37:03):
who who's on radio TV is really like that in
real life. Sometimes, you know, you do things for entertainment purposes.
Sometimes you kind of pull back on a true opinion
that you have so you don't offend too many people.
Sometimes you grab an idea that isn't really you don't
feel that strongly about, but you go ahead and you
push it because you know it'll get people talking. Let's
(37:24):
face it, radio and television, show business, it's what it is.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I'd like to think I'm genuine. I'd like to think
that you know, I talk about things I really believe in.
I'd like to think I don't you know change. I mean,
I'm not saying I've never embellished a story. My wife
would be the first to tell you, oh, yeah he does.
Yeah he'll He'll tell a good story, but again, you know,
just to make it more entertaining. But in the case
(37:51):
of joy Read, if you were to ask somebody to
watch a segment from her show or a couple of
her shows who doesn't watch it on a regular basis
and doesn't really know who she is, and say, damn
that Woean's a racist. That's number one Black female racists
would would what would be would come out? I think
of most people's mouths, unless, of course, you are another
(38:14):
black female racist or a black racist, in which case
you would agree with everything she has to say about
white people. You know, that's that's kind of how that goes.
I always found it ironic. You know, in a world
we are supposed to go from a world where racism
was not okay for anybody, and all we did is
we went from a world where racism was not okay
(38:37):
except if the racism was against somebody who's white, in
which case it's okay if you're if you're if you
are a minority, and you feel that white people are racist,
You're allowed to believe that because white people are the
quote unquote majority, although they are in Texas, are the majority,
and therefore you're allowed to feel that way. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure how we ever got to that point.
(38:57):
I don't think that was Martin Luther King Junior's I
don't think that was his vision of what was supposed
to happen. Anyway. On the departure, back to the departure
of Joy Reid, here's an interesting perspective. We go from
Joy reads terriful goodbye. This was her private goodbye to
her audience that she posted online, followed by Megan Kelly,
(39:17):
conservative white female her reaction to it, followed by Don Lemon, liberal, gay,
progressive former CNN anchor, who I guess has a show
these days on YouTube. Anybody watched that show? Anyway, here
you go, here's how they reacted, all very definitely.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
And there I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Then what I was doing.
Speaker 14 (39:46):
He value hen value and in the end, I'm I'm
trying not to cry on TV, and I say, this
is kind of like me on TV, so I apologize.
The big news tonight will be Joy Read's final show
on NBC. Single tier white woman tears happening right here, Joy.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
She was officially fired over the weekend.
Speaker 14 (40:07):
Because she's a racist, horrible news anchor with no ratings,
and that's really been the truth for a long time.
MSNBC's under new management, and I guess they decided to
come to grips with reality. The truth is this is
very sad news for us, as she's provided so much.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Material over the years. So I feel the way.
Speaker 14 (40:29):
I felt when Brian Stelter got fired, but he came back,
and you never know. I'm sure Joy Read will wind
up doing something where we will continue to get to
respond to her absolutely insane pov.
Speaker 13 (40:42):
Let me just say, to Megan Kelly, in my thirty
some years as a journalist, in my fifty some years
as a person of color, go yourself.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Okay, classic liberal comeback, go after yourself, right, that's when
you've got nothing else to say, Dan to the conversation
that evolves into that. All right, anyway, I don't think
it had any her fire. I don't think I had
anything to do with anything other than ratings and revenue.
That's that's what it comes down to at the end
(41:11):
of the day. In the business we're in, in the
media business, how much, how what kind of ratings do
you get? What kind of revenue do you create? If
you're not creating ratings and revenue, then sorry, doesn't matter
what you believe, you're gone. Listen, you all have a
great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright nearly five
am over our news radio seven forty k t RH.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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