November 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- When was the last time you went to Las Vegas?
- Nancy Pelosi is not running for reelection
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, Happy Friday, Welcome to our
show today. And he all been on vacation in Las Vegas.
I've been to Las Vegas. How many times? Have probably
two or three times. It's been a few years since
I've been there, though, and from what I'm being told,
I might not recognize the place. I mean not because
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there's so many more different new hotels, although there are
always our new hotels opening up on the strip, but
because of prices. Now here's what I remember about Las
Vegas that I hear is just off the same anymore.
I remember hotels being relatively inexpensive, I mean, maybe a
couple hundred bucks a night, but but nothing, nothing outrageous,
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even the really nice hotels. I also remember food being
relatively cheap unless you were going to a big, fancy restaurant,
a you know, a Wolfgang Puck restaurant or for example,
or something like that, that the that the hotel restaurants
were very inexpensive, because the idea here was that, you know,
we want we want to keep you. Drinks were cheap too.
We want to keep you here, We want to keep
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you drinking, we want to keep you gambling. We we
like to fleece you with the casino, so as happy
as we can make you in other places we want to.
We might even copy your room if you bet enough
with us. Evidently that's not what's going on in Vegas anymore.
Everything has gotten really, really expensive, and tourism is down
way down in Las Vegas as a result. And you
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kind of get the idea based on this report I heard.
This comes from News three in Las Vegas. Even the
news stations in Las Vegas are trying to figure out
why things have gotten so expensive. This reporter went looking
for a reasonably priced burger and found a very difficult
time finding a reasonably price burger.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
We walked from Mandalay Bay to Sahara and back, did
the four plus miles, and then as we got to
the Las Vegas sign, we grilled the tourists on how
much these burgers costs. We're also looking at the price
of food. How much do you think a burger costs
at some of these.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Restaurants and the burger that's a whole nother.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Story there, sir.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
And that story starts with the number six. Sixty dollars
paid for two hamburgers. That's what Houston, Texas resident Jennifer
and her daughter forked up to Johnny Rockets at the
ex Caliber. Are you are you paying sixty dollars for
two hamburgers in Houston? No, not at all, Jennifer says,
aside from the restaurant being on the Las Vegas Strip,
there was nothing else special about her or her daughter's order.
What was on the burger? Was it just a straight
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up It's.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
Just a same burger.
Speaker 9 (03:00):
Cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayonnaise, whatever, nothing not like double burger,
no bacon, nothing fancy.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
And that started my journey up and down the Las
Vegas trip to find a cheap burger with fries. What
do you think the cheapest burger is on Las Vegas Strip?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
P like fifteen dollars for the burger?
Speaker 10 (03:17):
Where or how much?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Do I think much?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Maybe about twenty bucks. I started at Mandalay Bay where
we encounter Johnny Rockets. Now Johnny Rockets has multiple locations,
with the menu showing prices in the twenties. Across the
street from Mandalay Bay is New York, New York, known
for being one of the more affordable options on the strip,
but only one sub twenty dollars burger was inside of
Tom's Watch Bar for nineteen fifty nine. Fine irishmen. Meanwhile,
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I saw their sizzling patties sit at twenty three dollars
a pipe. It goes without saying that the Las Vegas
Strip is the epicenter of where pop culture and hospitality mix,
and that meant we had to go to Gordon Ramsey
Burger at Play in Hollywood. The British chef has collected
millions for his various television shows, and his burger restaurant
collects quite a pretty penny too. Their menu, only available
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through a QR code, shows their most basic burger and
fries options, with the floor of twenty six ninety nine
For one of their specialty burgers like a Wagu beef patty.
The cost is nearly double at forty nine ninety.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Nine twenty six ninety nine for a basic burger and fries. Really,
that is incredibly ridiculous. I'm trying to think of what's
the most money I've ever spent on a burger, and locally,
I think it's at three Be's. That's the place I've
talked about before. They have something called the door stopper.
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But this thing is like it's it's like a one
pound burger. It's just massive. It's one of those things
you would share. You wouldn't eat this one by yourself
unless you have a really big appetite. And I think
it was eighteen dollars and fifty cents. It's a one
pound burger with cheese and bacon and a fried egg
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and an onion ring, and I mean anything you can
imagine pretty much. That's why they call it the door stopper.
The thing is four inches tall. There's no way you
can even begin to eat unless you cut it into
a couple of different pieces. You know. That's eighteen fifty
and Elizabeth and I would split something like that, so
that's like nine bucks apiece. I routinely see burgers on
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the menu for fifteen bucks here in Houston, thirteen to
fifteen bucks, somewhere in that range. I don't. I don't
think I could ever bring myself to spend twenty bucks
for hamburger and fries, not as long as there's a waterburger.
Speaker 11 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I know we're comparing restaurant burgers here to gor May
Burgers more Gore May Burgers, but I can't. I can't
imagine spending twenty twenty five bucks on a burger. I
just I just can't imagine doing that. And that's usually
one of your cheaper options at most restaurants. Gives you
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an idea of how outrageous the food has gotten in
Las Vegas, and no wonder why they're losing tourists. All right,
So we asked a question today because I said I
think I put less than twenty bucks is by limit?
What would be your limit? How much would you be
willing to spend for a really really good burger fries?
I mean really really good.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
This is Jack from Connecticut.
Speaker 12 (06:14):
The most of it ever spend on a hamburger slash teesburger,
whatever would have to be ten to fifteen, but it
would have to be a water burger.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
David and Oakridge. The most I've ever paid for a
burger was at a little place down in old town
spring called Lynn's Table that sells the best wagu beef
burger you will ever eat again at fifteen bucks. But
it's worth it.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Dave on Lake Conall, Yeah, I'd probably pay about ten
bucks for a good hamburger. I still got it one
of the gold coins from McDonald's, so I can get
a big Mac for that one dollar coin I got.
But just give me a barbecue sandwich.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, but you said a good burger is a big
Mac a good burger. I'm a little pick than you, sir.
I I would not put. I would not, I would
only I would put water burger is a good burger,
especially for a fast food burger. But but yeah, I'm
not Yeah McDonald's. I gave up on McDonald's hamburger is
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a long long time ago. I would not put them
in the good category. Anybody else, Hey.
Speaker 13 (07:20):
Ten dollars water burger combo really is as much as
I can go. I don't know. Roski's has some you know,
special barbecue burgers or you know barbecue with eggs or whatever.
That stuff I can also deal with. But I will never,
and I mean never, pay twenty dollars or more for
a hamburger. Sorry, Vegas. Not gonna gamble on that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Don't blame you. By the way, he looked up my
my favorite. I bet because I mentioned what burger? Because
I do love what a burger. Paddy melts my my
my go to choice, Paddy Melt fries and a drink
thirteen dollars and forty two cents, so you can you
could still get a decent burger for under fifteen bucks.
You're in Houston, Texas. All right, quick little break back
with more in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show here on
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AM nine fifty KPRC. Maybe one of the better pieces
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of political news that came out yesterday was that Nancy
Pelosi is not running for reelection. She's gonna go ahead
and retire. She's like, is she like eighty seven odd
years old? She's worth three hundred million dollars. Care to
guess how she made all that money Insider trading? Yeah,
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you know she did. They changed congressional rules just because
of her, But it didn't keep her from getting rich,
and it didn't keep her from being re elected over
and over and over again. Those politicians, once they get
into all office, the only way you can get rid
of them is by them retiring or dying. Pretty much
very few of them get get tossed. Maybe a good example.
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We'll see if this works out, Maybe an exception of
that will be John Cornyn. Maybe John Cornyn will get primaried.
Maybe he will end up not being the Republican nominee
for the US Senate. And if that's the case, that
is going to be one of those rare occasions where
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you're able to get rid of a long sitting politician
in Washington, d C. Without them either resigning for whatever reason,
retiring or dying. But so far, it's a very rare thing.
No matter who you are, you know, we keep, we
keep evidently falling into the idea of everybody else thinks
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they're bad, but there are is and we don't think
they're bad. I think that's different with Cornyn. I think
a lot of a lot of people realize that John
Corny is bad, and and they just they're willing to
do something about it. But we'll see, he spent John
Corny and is spending money like he's got like there's
no tomorrow, running all these ads that make it look
like he's a big Trump supporter. He's not a Trump supporter.
He's never been a Trump supporter. He's he's just running
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as a Trump supporter because that's what it takes to
get elected this time around. So anyway, back to Nancy Pelosi,
she's she's giving up the ghosts. The Five was live
in New York somewhere, not in New York City, but
somewhere in New York doing their program yesterday, and they
got to talking about Pelosi's retirement, and of course Trump
reacteditude as well yesterday. So here they are talking about
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Nancy Pelosi's retirement on the Five.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
The Wolf of Wall Street is cashing out, Nancy Pelosi
not running for reelection after forty years in Congress.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
True enough, serving as your voice in Congress. And I've
always honored the song of Saint Francis, who would make
me an instrument of that piece, the anthem of our city.
That is why i want you, my fellow San Francisco's,
to be the first to know I will not be
seeking re election to Congress. With a grateful heart, I
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look forward to my final New York service as you were.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Proud represented.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
President Trump reacting with humility and grace at the retirement
of this long time nemesis.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I thought she was an evil woman who did a
poor job to cross the country a lot in damages
and in reputation.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I thought she was terrible.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
All right, So Dana, she will have a very comfortable
retirement because she is now worth about three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 14 (11:41):
In fact, you know the Stock Act. There's a reason
that they created that in Congress. But it's not that
she's having a comfortable retirement. She had a comfortable life, yep,
because of it. But let me back up for a second.
She did spend forty years in public service. She is
beloved by many people. I'm not saying in this room
for forty years. She was able to achieve things that
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no other woman had achieved at that point.
Speaker 15 (12:05):
And she.
Speaker 14 (12:07):
Was somebody who she really could take the criticism and
let it go. She had an ability to turn on
the charm and be gracious when she wanted to, and
then she could turn around and stab you in the back.
And it was she was quintessential Washington, DC.
Speaker 16 (12:22):
Don't you think it's interesting data that while she might
have been beloved for a long time, she's like a
band that's sayed on stage for her too long.
Speaker 14 (12:30):
Absolutely, and I think the other thing is is that
she was also feared and she was respected by the
people that she was trying to corralse.
Speaker 16 (12:37):
So she had lost that love and had lost that fear.
And it's no surprise that she would have been unpopular
in this room or among Republicans, but she had become
unpopular among Democrats. And that's what's interesting with her retirement.
Granted at the age of eighty five, she's turned over
the reins.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
She's unpopular, Jessica, She's unpopular with the people. She's turning
the reins over too.
Speaker 16 (12:57):
It's the AOCS, it is the socialist wing of the
Democratic Party. It's the ascendant side of the left. And
Nancy Pelosi's only the first. She might be the lead singer,
but the band's gotta go. Chuck Schumer on drums, he's done.
The rest of the band is edged in the stage
and get ready for the Zoron party.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah, well, she sees the hand running on the wall.
Chuck Shimmer evidently has not seen the hand running on
the wall a yet, which is why, Well, he's probably
feeling a little bit embolden. After all, the Republicans seem
to be getting the blame for the government shutdown, even
though they're not to blame for the government shutdown. The
Democrats are, but they're getting a lot of help from
the mainstream media. And let's face it, people are starting
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to be impacted by this government shutdown. And when people
get impacted by the government shut down, then all of
a sudden, they whatever party's in power, they say, well,
you ought to be able to fix this, and if
you can't fix this, then you get the blame. And
we're starting to feel it here in Houston, not so
much through the snap benefits yet, although we had a
judge rule that somehow they have to come up with
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enough money to pay all of the November benefits. How
are they supposed to do that the government shut down.
We'll see what happens with that whole thing. But you're
noticing it at the airport today at Bush we had
about at least as of the morning, we had thirty
three cancel flights. Hobby was like fifteen canceled flights, and
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we're only into four percent reduction today. So this is
a problem that's only going to get worse. Here's our
television partner KPRC two at Bush last night with a
report on these flight cancelations.
Speaker 17 (14:28):
Forty of the nation's busiest airports, including Bush and Hobby,
will feel the impact starting Friday.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You are coming in.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
From Chicago, any issues either airport or really was smooth?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Yeah, Actually it seemed even a little bit easier.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Less people there.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Maybe I don't know, traveler less travelers I don't own.
Speaker 17 (14:47):
United Airlines has canceled four percent of Friday's flights from Houston.
This comes out to roughly twenty regional flights daily, with
more expected next week.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You going to Kansas City, and that's one of the
effective flights.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
We'd get you there through chicag Go or Denver or
some other mechanism.
Speaker 17 (15:02):
As these cuts roll out, international travel and hub to
hub flights will not be impacted. United says any customer
choosing not to travel during this time can request a refund.
Houston's second busiest airline, Southwest Airlines, is offering its customers
flexibility in travel plans as well. The cuts come at
the directive of the FAA amid the longest government shutdown
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in US history.
Speaker 18 (15:27):
We have decided that a ten percent reduction and scheduled
capacity would be appropriate to again continue to take the
pressure off of our controllers, and as we continue to
see staff in triggers, there will be additional measures that
will be taken in those specific markets.
Speaker 17 (15:43):
And be shortag check with your airlines app before coming
down here to the airport, and remember to pack lightly.
This way you can pivot for any travel hiccups.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Wonder if these cancel flights will be enough to kind
of make things a little bit better, you know at
TSA trying to get through TSA. Maybe. Anyway, we had
a pilot on our program Morning Show. Today's name is
Patrick Arnsen. He's a former airline pilot and the CEO
thrust Flight. We add him on to talk about, you know,
air traffic control issues and and also this report that
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there may be an AI application that could maybe supplement
air traffic control. Let's take a listen to that conversation.
At ten percent probably doesn't sound like a lot to
a lot of people, But how many flights per day
do you think that it turns out to be ten percent?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Well, I don't think it's it's ten percent to every
single airport. I think what's happening is they're limiting the
flights to the busiest airports in the country. So you know,
I think when we you know, when we think about
ten percent, we need to think about you know, where.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Are we going.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know, the folks that are headed to New York
and LA and some of the more densely populated areas
are I think are going to really suffer a lot more,
whereas some of us you know, traveling to some of
these smaller airports may not notice quite as much with
with reduced schedules.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Were you ever, when you're during your pilot career, did
you ever work during a air traffic controllers strike or
a government shutdown? Never?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Never an air traffic controllers to strike. The as far
as the government shutdown. If I did, it wasn't meaningful
enough for me to remember it. But we're certainly noticing it,
you know, even even with you know, our relatively small operation,
you know, as compared to the airlines, we're even feeling
the effects of this right now.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah, and likely to get a whole lot of boards.
Can you imagine what it would be like for Thanksgiving
and for Christmas if the government shutdown continues.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I mean, just the only thing I the words that
come to mind are just unmitigated mess. And I think
that's you know, that's what it's going to look like.
So I really hope we can get the government opened
up by by then.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
There's a couple of stories that we've seen about the possibility.
Seems like AI can be adapted for whole variety of
different things. It's hard to imagine that AI could be
adapted for use in replacing air traffic controllers. Is there
a role for AI when it comes to figuring out
flights and and paths and and ground and all the
other things that go into an airline and in an
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airport as well?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
If anybody is seeing terminator that the term skynet comes
comes to mind for me. So, look, there are so
many subtleties that go along into being an air traffic controller.
There's so many things that that these air traffic controllers
do to keep keep people safe, just down to noticing
the tone of a pilot or handed an emergency situation
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like like in most scenarios. I think AI could certainly augment,
you know, ultimately after you know, a lot of testing
and things like that, the air traffic controllers. But I
think you know, at the end of the day, the
decision needs to be made by human because there is
such a human component to what these folks do every
single day that that I would be very hesitant to,
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you know, to fly an airplane with you know, AI
guiding me.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
How much of a difference would it make just getting
air traffic control up to technological speed? They are what
twenty maybe thirty years behind the times when it comes
to the equipment they use.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
They are.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
I mean if you I was recently you know at
the up in the control tower where one of our
operations is, and you look at the you know, the
technology that these folks have, and it reminds me of
what I had when I was in high school. So
I think that would make a huge difference, you know,
getting the the technology that these that these folks need.
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You know, we've got a we have a flight school
up in North Texas, and that that airport doesn't have
a does not have a tower or not a tower,
but a radar rather, so they are literally relying on
looking out the window to try and keep keep air traffic,
you know, so o paraded along with you know, pilots
making position reports. Yeah, there's technology, cheap technology right now
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that exists, but because it's not certified, they can't use it.
So there's a lot of things you know, in my opinion,
that are standing the way of making the system safer.
And I'm not saying that it's not safe, but it
could certainly be made more safe.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, let's hope they get around to doing that. That's
something the Transportation Secretary says he's committed to doing the
getting the technology up to date. That's Patrick Arnesen Farmer,
airline pilot's CEO of thrust Light. All right, more in
the government shutdown coming up with our conversation with Congressmanship Royce.
Stand by for more Jimmy Bart Show. You're an AM
nine to fifty k PRC. All right, we are still
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dealing with the government shutdown, Lily. We just talked in
the last segment about the airport in the airlines and
here in Houston. Four percent viewer flights today, ten percent
viewers starting on Monday, mainly regional flights by the way,
that are going to be impacted by that. Supposedly there
are some deal talk about putting something together. We'll have
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a Congressman Chip roy our conversation with him coming up
here in just a moment to see whether or not
there's a potential deal brewing with the Senate Republicans trying
to come up with a plan to end this shutdown. First, though,
the GOP is still reeling, I think a little bit
from the election, the spanking they took in several different areas,
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including Virginia. Tuesday on election Day, New Gingrich has some
advice that he wants to pass along four Republicans, which
I think they probably sorely need.
Speaker 15 (21:48):
They got seleced in New Jersey, they got selected, and
then you they got selected in Georgia, your home state.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
What is it?
Speaker 15 (21:54):
The Public Service Utility Commission elected to Democrats for the
first time in a million years. Nisent one out there
in California for his crazy redissecting. Now that highest slice it.
It was a bad night for the GLP. Why what
was the big factor?
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Look, I think there are two big realities that Republicans
have to solve. The first is that the Democrats did
a brilliant job of sticking to a message and a
message which grew out of the American people, which I
want to come back to. And then the second is
Republicans have to find a way to motivate the Trump
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based voter to come out and vote.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
If Trump's not on the ballot. I mean it doesn't.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
I think President Trump was right in saying that the
fact that he wasn't on the ballot was a major factor,
but that doesn't solve anything. He's not going to be
on the ballot in twenty six and they had better
find a way to get people to decide to vote.
But they I want to go back to the supportability
issue because I think probably I disagree with you a
little bit, Larry.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I think you have a reality problem here, messaging problem.
Speaker 12 (23:01):
I think when you have a twenty percent increase in
the price of electricity in New Jersey, when the average
family health insurance plan is now twenty seven thousand dollars
a year, basically the equivalent of buying a small car
every year. I think when housing costs, a lot of
them caused by big government socialism, but when housing costs
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rise to a point where young people can't buy a house,
you have a real sense from the American people. And
I've always opposed efforts to tell the American people that
they're stupid about what they feel. The job of the
politician is to listen and learn and then try to
help people, and then they get to lead, and the
American people have been saying very clearly for about five
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years now that they're unhappy with the economy, that they
can't afford things, and that they're very worried about what's
going to happen. Republicans have to come up with a
series of strategies, for example, such that Treasure has said
that he thinks he has a housing strategy.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, they'd better roll it out.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Yeah, they better roll it out. Indeed, because time's away said,
all right, let's bring on Chip Roy. I talked to
him earlier this morning about this murmur that the Republicans
have some sort of an idea they're going to try
to get the Democrats to agree to. I don't know
if that's going to happen or not, but here's our
conversation from this morning with Congressman Chip Roy.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Do you haven't fun yet, Congressman, Well, I'm in Texas,
so you know, I'm always having fun in Texas. But
I should be in DC if we were getting our
job done. But Democrats are blocking him. So we'll see
what happens today.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, tell me what you know about the proposal that
Senator thun Is put together.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
So I believe what the leader is going to do
is take the bill that we passed in September the
House Republicans, which funded the government till November twentieth, which
at that time was you know, two months onto Thanksgiving basically,
and you're going to take that bill extend that date
into at least January, and then I think they might
combine it with the three appropriations bills that we passed
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and that the Senates worked through, which I think funds
it at the same levels or less. So it would
be doing our job keeping spending relatively flat while we
try to grow the economy, keeping basically a good set
of priorities that we work through both chambers in the
three bills and then a cr It's very common sense
and not very controversial. Frankly, for a conservative like me
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who wants to see greater reductions in spending. It's middle
of the road, right like I would reduce spending more
a lot of my conservative colleagues would. But we're willing
to work together to figure it out and hold spending flat.
And Democrats are blocking. As we're told that Chuck Schumer,
the Democrats plan to block that effort today, demanding that
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we'd go back and undo some of the riffs, some
of the reductions in workforce that the administration carried out
in order to deal with the prioritization of the spending
when the Democrats chose to shut down. So that's what's
going to be on the table today. We'll see what happens,
but we expect them to block it and continue to
shut down through the weekend, which course is interfering with travel. Obviously,
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the airport of Houston at Bush was a disaster, and
we're trying to figure out how to work through all
of that. What the Democrats blocking is, I think they
feel pretty embolden, don't you. I don't know that we
can blame the election results on Republicans getting the majority
blame for the government shutdown, which is completely unfair. But
it appears there's especially to say, like Virginia, which has
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so many federal workers and then so many other people
who are dependent on federal benefits that they just they
just want their money. And I think that showed up
in the vote in Virginia, don't you. Well, Look, I
don't know how to handicap the results there. There are
a lot of factors. What I know is is Virginia
is a state that is trending if it's not blue entirely.
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Now New Jersey's blue and New York is notoriously blue.
So none of those are that surprising. But what we're
now looking at is with you know, I'm taking in
all the information of the impacts of the shutdown, Like
even as we speak Charles Stayin on Foxes on Fox
News talking about a two point seven billion dollars I
think impact just in a day of the shutdowns, from
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the travel you go through it all, and what's the
reason for the shutdown. It's Democrats' political priorities. They're trying
to pick fights to set the stage for twenty twenty six.
To your point, they feel in bolten, so they're trying
to use it as a political tool, a political weapon.
(27:35):
I think that's cynical. And again, as someone who's been
a part of shutdown conversations in the past, you've got
a really principal objection how the federal dollars are being
used for open borders or for example, when I was
with Senator Cruise and the implementation of Obamacare, we knew
that if those funds were used to implement Obamacare, we
were going to get just massively increased health care expenses
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and prices. Guess what's happened over the last fifteen year.
You can't afford healthcare anymore. So this is what we've
got to work through. Democrats, deem holden to your point.
We got to stand up and hold the line and
stand up for the hard working Texans that are taking.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
This the brunt of this, which I think brings me
to my last question for you, chif Roy, and that
is very simply this. Republicans have been known in the
past to cave. You have concerns that they will cave
again when it comes to the government shutdown because the
heat is just getting to be too much for them
to handle.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
The President's seems rightly frustrated at Chuck Schumer and the
way Democrats have handle this and wanting to hold the line.
And you know, I've been working with a speaker. Everybody
seems to be on the same page. I believe that
will hold the line. But there's always a block of
moderate members of the Republican conference that want to try
to cut a deal, and they're having those conversations, and
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my view is we need to hold the line and
explain to the American people why all of this continued
effort is thriving inflation, making life out of and it
is making life difficult for the people we represent. We
should hold the line for them. Look, the reason I'm
running for Attorney General, by the way, is Texas is
under assault and we're seeing it right now with the
Islamification of Texas, open borders, crime on the streets. Just
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one of your news interests to this segment was talking
about somebody let out or two brothers committing a crime
and getting out of jail in twelve days. It's happening
all the time, and it's a coordinated effort. Republicans got
to demonstrate that we're going to we're willing to stand
up and fight against that. So I hope the President
will hold the line on all respects because it's bloated
government funding and all these programs, it's all connected to
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the same stuff, and we got to stand up for
Texas and stand up for the people who send us
there or change it. So you know, we're going to
stand with the White House and the President as he's
trying to push back on what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Well, you know, I trust President Trump more than I
trust a whole lot of others. But there's plenty of
Republicans I don't necessarily trust. Maybe they can come up
with some sort of a deal that at least gets
it's enough Democrats to cross the line, like the Fetterman's
to cross the line and vote for the continuing Resolution
without having to, you know, getting cooperation from Chuck Schumer. Quick,
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quick low break here, Well back with our final segment
on a Friday in just a moment, Jimmy Bart show,
here a name, n I'm fifty k PRC. All right,
(30:33):
I've got a local story. I think that is just
the perfect demonstration of what is wrong with government, even
local government. You know, when you are governing based on
a philosophy, whatever your philosophy is, and you don't bother
to take a look at the reality of the decisions
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you're making and what could happen as a result, then
these sorts of things inevitably happen. Sylvester Turner, as the
mayor of Houston, evidently bought into the whole New Green
Deal thing and decided that he was going to be
an environmentally friendly mayor, which is why we had things
(31:15):
like overpriced bicycle lanes in the places where you shouldn't
have any bicycle lanes because it's not safe to have
a bicycle lane, and it's how we ended up with
this story. Ambulances, green ambulances that when it comes to
actually working, are problem. They're not really really set up
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to be efficient for what an ambulance is used for.
Here is the report from our television partner KPRC two.
Speaker 19 (31:45):
Mayor John Whitmyer was unaware of the issues until two
investigates came knocking. But it should be noted the ambulances
were purchased under previous Mayor Sylvester Turner as his administration
pushed for more environmentally friendly ambulances.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
It's been moved in second on eight and nine twelve
discussion discussion in favor of post granted.
Speaker 19 (32:05):
In October of twenty twenty two, with no opposition, City
Council approved the five point nine million dollar taxpayer funded
purchase of twenty one ambulances through Frasier. The ambulances included
special electrical systems that the city touted would allow HFD
to promote cleaner air for the environment.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Seconds matter.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's not politics.
Speaker 19 (32:28):
Marty Langton is the president of the Houston Professional Firefighters Association.
He says, aside from the problems listed by a department chief,
he has learned of charging problems.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
We don't have electricity in the back of an ambulance
because we don't have enough time to charge them or
have the right charging ports.
Speaker 19 (32:47):
Here's what hfd's top boss, chief Thomas Munos, had to
say about what we uncovered.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
It's not an electric car, but you have to plug
it and maintain it.
Speaker 19 (32:56):
In Layman's term, you're too busy, not enough to time
to charge. We sent the internal HFD email to Frasier.
They told us it is our understanding the unit's reference
to have been serviced and have returned to service. The
spokesperson added they have always acted with urgency regarding hfd's concerns.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
What about cost?
Speaker 19 (33:21):
Are they more than traditional ambulances?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Forty thousand more You heard.
Speaker 19 (33:27):
Right, forty thousand dollars more for ambulance.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
This is taxpayer money and this is why it's important
to have people that are making decisions that know the
impact of those decisions, not just pretending to solve a
problem when creating more problems.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, but they're green. They're green, And did I mention
they're green? They're polluting less and that's what's really important here.
It's nougat. We shouldn't be worried about, you know, whether
or not the ambulance can be on the road because
it's charged enough. Because after all, you know, if it
can't be on the can't be listen. This is an ambulance.
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What are ambulances used for. They're used for emergencies. They're
picking up patients having a heart attacks and strokes and
have gunshot wounds and taking them to the hospital for treatment.
You want to run out of juice halfway to the hospital.
You want to have to leave, not to be able
to respond to an incident with an ambulance because sorry,
it's charging. You know, I know you shot, but can
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you hang on for like fifteen twenty more minutes? We
should have enough juice to come get you. Who ever
thought that this would be a good idea for an ambulance,
I mean, if you want to try to do this
with you know, some other city vehicle that it doesn't
really matter if they show up on time or show
up at all. More power to you that that that's
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what you want to do. But why would you do
this with a fleet of ambulances? Just absolutely ridiculous. This
is what happens when you don't look, when you don't
try eat things like a business. You know, when you
bought the ambulances, you show thought. All right, we're in
the public safety business. We're in the ambulance business. What
do I need the ambulance to do? I need to
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respond quickly. I needed to have the following equipment. Most importantly,
I need to be able to respond quickly. And you
don't get you know, something that has to be plugged
in in order to be able to do that. All right, listen,
you'll have a great weekend. I'll see you Monday morning,
bright early at five AM on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
We'll be back here at four on AM nine fifty KPRC.
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, Happy Friday, Welcome to our
show today. And he all been on vacation in Las Vegas.
I've been to Las Vegas. How many times? Have probably
two or three times. It's been a few years since
I've been there, though, and from what I'm being told,
I might not recognize the place. I mean not because
(00:49):
there's so many more different new hotels, although there are
always our new hotels opening up on the strip, but
because of prices. Now here's what I remember about Las
Vegas that I hear is just off the same anymore.
I remember hotels being relatively inexpensive, I mean, maybe a
couple hundred bucks a night, but but nothing, nothing outrageous,
(01:11):
even the really nice hotels. I also remember food being
relatively cheap unless you were going to a big, fancy restaurant,
a you know, a Wolfgang Puck restaurant or for example,
or something like that, that the that the hotel restaurants
were very inexpensive, because the idea here was that, you know,
we want we want to keep you. Drinks were cheap too.
We want to keep you here, We want to keep
(01:33):
you drinking, we want to keep you gambling. We we
like to fleece you with the casino, so as happy
as we can make you in other places we want to.
We might even copy your room if you bet enough
with us. Evidently that's not what's going on in Vegas anymore.
Everything has gotten really, really expensive, and tourism is down
way down in Las Vegas as a result. And you
(01:55):
kind of get the idea based on this report I heard.
This comes from News three in Las Vegas. Even the
news stations in Las Vegas are trying to figure out
why things have gotten so expensive. This reporter went looking
for a reasonably priced burger and found a very difficult
time finding a reasonably price burger.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
We walked from Mandalay Bay to Sahara and back, did
the four plus miles, and then as we got to
the Las Vegas sign, we grilled the tourists on how
much these burgers costs. We're also looking at the price
of food. How much do you think a burger costs
at some of these.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Restaurants and the burger that's a whole nother.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Story there, sir.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
And that story starts with the number six. Sixty dollars
paid for two hamburgers. That's what Houston, Texas resident Jennifer
and her daughter forked up to Johnny Rockets at the
ex Caliber. Are you are you paying sixty dollars for
two hamburgers in Houston? No, not at all, Jennifer says,
aside from the restaurant being on the Las Vegas Strip,
there was nothing else special about her or her daughter's order.
What was on the burger? Was it just a straight
(02:58):
up It's.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
Just a same burger.
Speaker 9 (03:00):
Cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayonnaise, whatever, nothing not like double burger,
no bacon, nothing fancy.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
And that started my journey up and down the Las
Vegas trip to find a cheap burger with fries. What
do you think the cheapest burger is on Las Vegas Strip?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
P like fifteen dollars for the burger?
Speaker 10 (03:17):
Where or how much?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Do I think much?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Maybe about twenty bucks. I started at Mandalay Bay where
we encounter Johnny Rockets. Now Johnny Rockets has multiple locations,
with the menu showing prices in the twenties. Across the
street from Mandalay Bay is New York, New York, known
for being one of the more affordable options on the strip,
but only one sub twenty dollars burger was inside of
Tom's Watch Bar for nineteen fifty nine. Fine irishmen. Meanwhile,
(03:41):
I saw their sizzling patties sit at twenty three dollars
a pipe. It goes without saying that the Las Vegas
Strip is the epicenter of where pop culture and hospitality mix,
and that meant we had to go to Gordon Ramsey
Burger at Play in Hollywood. The British chef has collected
millions for his various television shows, and his burger restaurant
collects quite a pretty penny too. Their menu, only available
(04:01):
through a QR code, shows their most basic burger and
fries options, with the floor of twenty six ninety nine
For one of their specialty burgers like a Wagu beef patty.
The cost is nearly double at forty nine ninety.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Nine twenty six ninety nine for a basic burger and fries. Really,
that is incredibly ridiculous. I'm trying to think of what's
the most money I've ever spent on a burger, and locally,
I think it's at three Be's. That's the place I've
talked about before. They have something called the door stopper.
(04:34):
But this thing is like it's it's like a one
pound burger. It's just massive. It's one of those things
you would share. You wouldn't eat this one by yourself
unless you have a really big appetite. And I think
it was eighteen dollars and fifty cents. It's a one
pound burger with cheese and bacon and a fried egg
(04:54):
and an onion ring, and I mean anything you can
imagine pretty much. That's why they call it the door stopper.
The thing is four inches tall. There's no way you
can even begin to eat unless you cut it into
a couple of different pieces. You know. That's eighteen fifty
and Elizabeth and I would split something like that, so
that's like nine bucks apiece. I routinely see burgers on
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the menu for fifteen bucks here in Houston, thirteen to
fifteen bucks, somewhere in that range. I don't. I don't
think I could ever bring myself to spend twenty bucks
for hamburger and fries, not as long as there's a waterburger.
Speaker 11 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I know we're comparing restaurant burgers here to gor May
Burgers more Gore May Burgers, but I can't. I can't
imagine spending twenty twenty five bucks on a burger. I
just I just can't imagine doing that. And that's usually
one of your cheaper options at most restaurants. Gives you
(05:54):
an idea of how outrageous the food has gotten in
Las Vegas, and no wonder why they're losing tourists. All right,
So we asked a question today because I said I
think I put less than twenty bucks is by limit?
What would be your limit? How much would you be
willing to spend for a really really good burger fries?
I mean really really good.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
This is Jack from Connecticut.
Speaker 12 (06:14):
The most of it ever spend on a hamburger slash teesburger,
whatever would have to be ten to fifteen, but it
would have to be a water burger.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
David and Oakridge. The most I've ever paid for a
burger was at a little place down in old town
spring called Lynn's Table that sells the best wagu beef
burger you will ever eat again at fifteen bucks. But
it's worth it.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Dave on Lake Conall, Yeah, I'd probably pay about ten
bucks for a good hamburger. I still got it one
of the gold coins from McDonald's, so I can get
a big Mac for that one dollar coin I got.
But just give me a barbecue sandwich.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, but you said a good burger is a big
Mac a good burger. I'm a little pick than you, sir.
I I would not put. I would not, I would
only I would put water burger is a good burger,
especially for a fast food burger. But but yeah, I'm
not Yeah McDonald's. I gave up on McDonald's hamburger is
(07:17):
a long long time ago. I would not put them
in the good category. Anybody else, Hey.
Speaker 13 (07:20):
Ten dollars water burger combo really is as much as
I can go. I don't know. Roski's has some you know,
special barbecue burgers or you know barbecue with eggs or whatever.
That stuff I can also deal with. But I will never,
and I mean never, pay twenty dollars or more for
a hamburger. Sorry, Vegas. Not gonna gamble on that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Don't blame you. By the way, he looked up my
my favorite. I bet because I mentioned what burger? Because
I do love what a burger. Paddy melts my my
my go to choice, Paddy Melt fries and a drink
thirteen dollars and forty two cents, so you can you
could still get a decent burger for under fifteen bucks.
You're in Houston, Texas. All right, quick little break back
with more in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show here on
(08:04):
AM nine fifty KPRC. Maybe one of the better pieces
(08:25):
of political news that came out yesterday was that Nancy
Pelosi is not running for reelection. She's gonna go ahead
and retire. She's like, is she like eighty seven odd
years old? She's worth three hundred million dollars. Care to
guess how she made all that money Insider trading? Yeah,
(08:47):
you know she did. They changed congressional rules just because
of her, But it didn't keep her from getting rich,
and it didn't keep her from being re elected over
and over and over again. Those politicians, once they get
into all office, the only way you can get rid
of them is by them retiring or dying. Pretty much
very few of them get get tossed. Maybe a good example.
(09:11):
We'll see if this works out, Maybe an exception of
that will be John Cornyn. Maybe John Cornyn will get primaried.
Maybe he will end up not being the Republican nominee
for the US Senate. And if that's the case, that
is going to be one of those rare occasions where
(09:31):
you're able to get rid of a long sitting politician
in Washington, d C. Without them either resigning for whatever reason,
retiring or dying. But so far, it's a very rare thing.
No matter who you are, you know, we keep, we
keep evidently falling into the idea of everybody else thinks
(09:52):
they're bad, but there are is and we don't think
they're bad. I think that's different with Cornyn. I think
a lot of a lot of people realize that John
Corny is bad, and and they just they're willing to
do something about it. But we'll see, he spent John
Corny and is spending money like he's got like there's
no tomorrow, running all these ads that make it look
like he's a big Trump supporter. He's not a Trump supporter.
He's never been a Trump supporter. He's he's just running
(10:14):
as a Trump supporter because that's what it takes to
get elected this time around. So anyway, back to Nancy Pelosi,
she's she's giving up the ghosts. The Five was live
in New York somewhere, not in New York City, but
somewhere in New York doing their program yesterday, and they
got to talking about Pelosi's retirement, and of course Trump
reacteditude as well yesterday. So here they are talking about
(10:35):
Nancy Pelosi's retirement on the Five.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
The Wolf of Wall Street is cashing out, Nancy Pelosi
not running for reelection after forty years in Congress.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
True enough, serving as your voice in Congress. And I've
always honored the song of Saint Francis, who would make
me an instrument of that piece, the anthem of our city.
That is why i want you, my fellow San Francisco's,
to be the first to know I will not be
seeking re election to Congress. With a grateful heart, I
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look forward to my final New York service as you were.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Proud represented.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
President Trump reacting with humility and grace at the retirement
of this long time nemesis.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I thought she was an evil woman who did a
poor job to cross the country a lot in damages
and in reputation.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I thought she was terrible.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
All right, So Dana, she will have a very comfortable
retirement because she is now worth about three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 14 (11:41):
In fact, you know the Stock Act. There's a reason
that they created that in Congress. But it's not that
she's having a comfortable retirement. She had a comfortable life, yep,
because of it. But let me back up for a second.
She did spend forty years in public service. She is
beloved by many people. I'm not saying in this room
for forty years. She was able to achieve things that
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no other woman had achieved at that point.
Speaker 15 (12:05):
And she.
Speaker 14 (12:07):
Was somebody who she really could take the criticism and
let it go. She had an ability to turn on
the charm and be gracious when she wanted to, and
then she could turn around and stab you in the back.
And it was she was quintessential Washington, DC.
Speaker 16 (12:22):
Don't you think it's interesting data that while she might
have been beloved for a long time, she's like a
band that's sayed on stage for her too long.
Speaker 14 (12:30):
Absolutely, and I think the other thing is is that
she was also feared and she was respected by the
people that she was trying to corralse.
Speaker 16 (12:37):
So she had lost that love and had lost that fear.
And it's no surprise that she would have been unpopular
in this room or among Republicans, but she had become
unpopular among Democrats. And that's what's interesting with her retirement.
Granted at the age of eighty five, she's turned over
the reins.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
She's unpopular, Jessica, She's unpopular with the people. She's turning
the reins over too.
Speaker 16 (12:57):
It's the AOCS, it is the socialist wing of the
Democratic Party. It's the ascendant side of the left. And
Nancy Pelosi's only the first. She might be the lead singer,
but the band's gotta go. Chuck Schumer on drums, he's done.
The rest of the band is edged in the stage
and get ready for the Zoron party.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah, well, she sees the hand running on the wall.
Chuck Shimmer evidently has not seen the hand running on
the wall a yet, which is why, Well, he's probably
feeling a little bit embolden. After all, the Republicans seem
to be getting the blame for the government shutdown, even
though they're not to blame for the government shutdown. The
Democrats are, but they're getting a lot of help from
the mainstream media. And let's face it, people are starting
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to be impacted by this government shutdown. And when people
get impacted by the government shut down, then all of
a sudden, they whatever party's in power, they say, well,
you ought to be able to fix this, and if
you can't fix this, then you get the blame. And
we're starting to feel it here in Houston, not so
much through the snap benefits yet, although we had a
judge rule that somehow they have to come up with
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enough money to pay all of the November benefits. How
are they supposed to do that the government shut down.
We'll see what happens with that whole thing. But you're
noticing it at the airport today at Bush we had
about at least as of the morning, we had thirty
three cancel flights. Hobby was like fifteen canceled flights, and
(14:17):
we're only into four percent reduction today. So this is
a problem that's only going to get worse. Here's our
television partner KPRC two at Bush last night with a
report on these flight cancelations.
Speaker 17 (14:28):
Forty of the nation's busiest airports, including Bush and Hobby,
will feel the impact starting Friday.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You are coming in.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
From Chicago, any issues either airport or really was smooth?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Yeah, Actually it seemed even a little bit easier.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Less people there.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Maybe I don't know, traveler less travelers I don't own.
Speaker 17 (14:47):
United Airlines has canceled four percent of Friday's flights from Houston.
This comes out to roughly twenty regional flights daily, with
more expected next week.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You going to Kansas City, and that's one of the
effective flights.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
We'd get you there through chicag Go or Denver or
some other mechanism.
Speaker 17 (15:02):
As these cuts roll out, international travel and hub to
hub flights will not be impacted. United says any customer
choosing not to travel during this time can request a refund.
Houston's second busiest airline, Southwest Airlines, is offering its customers
flexibility in travel plans as well. The cuts come at
the directive of the FAA amid the longest government shutdown
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in US history.
Speaker 18 (15:27):
We have decided that a ten percent reduction and scheduled
capacity would be appropriate to again continue to take the
pressure off of our controllers, and as we continue to
see staff in triggers, there will be additional measures that
will be taken in those specific markets.
Speaker 17 (15:43):
And be shortag check with your airlines app before coming
down here to the airport, and remember to pack lightly.
This way you can pivot for any travel hiccups.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Wonder if these cancel flights will be enough to kind
of make things a little bit better, you know at
TSA trying to get through TSA. Maybe. Anyway, we had
a pilot on our program Morning Show. Today's name is
Patrick Arnsen. He's a former airline pilot and the CEO
thrust Flight. We add him on to talk about, you know,
air traffic control issues and and also this report that
(16:17):
there may be an AI application that could maybe supplement
air traffic control. Let's take a listen to that conversation.
At ten percent probably doesn't sound like a lot to
a lot of people, But how many flights per day
do you think that it turns out to be ten percent?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Well, I don't think it's it's ten percent to every
single airport. I think what's happening is they're limiting the
flights to the busiest airports in the country. So you know,
I think when we you know, when we think about
ten percent, we need to think about you know, where.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Are we going.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
You know, the folks that are headed to New York
and LA and some of the more densely populated areas
are I think are going to really suffer a lot more,
whereas some of us you know, traveling to some of
these smaller airports may not notice quite as much with
with reduced schedules.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Were you ever, when you're during your pilot career, did
you ever work during a air traffic controllers strike or
a government shutdown? Never?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Never an air traffic controllers to strike. The as far
as the government shutdown. If I did, it wasn't meaningful
enough for me to remember it. But we're certainly noticing it,
you know, even even with you know, our relatively small operation,
you know, as compared to the airlines, we're even feeling
the effects of this right now.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah, and likely to get a whole lot of boards.
Can you imagine what it would be like for Thanksgiving
and for Christmas if the government shutdown continues.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I mean, just the only thing I the words that
come to mind are just unmitigated mess. And I think
that's you know, that's what it's going to look like.
So I really hope we can get the government opened
up by by then.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
There's a couple of stories that we've seen about the possibility.
Seems like AI can be adapted for whole variety of
different things. It's hard to imagine that AI could be
adapted for use in replacing air traffic controllers. Is there
a role for AI when it comes to figuring out
flights and and paths and and ground and all the
other things that go into an airline and in an
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airport as well?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
If anybody is seeing terminator that the term skynet comes
comes to mind for me. So, look, there are so
many subtleties that go along into being an air traffic controller.
There's so many things that that these air traffic controllers
do to keep keep people safe, just down to noticing
the tone of a pilot or handed an emergency situation
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like like in most scenarios. I think AI could certainly augment,
you know, ultimately after you know, a lot of testing
and things like that, the air traffic controllers. But I
think you know, at the end of the day, the
decision needs to be made by human because there is
such a human component to what these folks do every
single day that that I would be very hesitant to,
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you know, to fly an airplane with you know, AI
guiding me.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
How much of a difference would it make just getting
air traffic control up to technological speed? They are what
twenty maybe thirty years behind the times when it comes
to the equipment they use.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
They are.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
I mean if you I was recently you know at
the up in the control tower where one of our
operations is, and you look at the you know, the
technology that these folks have, and it reminds me of
what I had when I was in high school. So
I think that would make a huge difference, you know,
getting the the technology that these that these folks need.
(19:43):
You know, we've got a we have a flight school
up in North Texas, and that that airport doesn't have
a does not have a tower or not a tower,
but a radar rather, so they are literally relying on
looking out the window to try and keep keep air traffic,
you know, so o paraded along with you know, pilots
making position reports. Yeah, there's technology, cheap technology right now
(20:05):
that exists, but because it's not certified, they can't use it.
So there's a lot of things you know, in my opinion,
that are standing the way of making the system safer.
And I'm not saying that it's not safe, but it
could certainly be made more safe.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, let's hope they get around to doing that. That's
something the Transportation Secretary says he's committed to doing the
getting the technology up to date. That's Patrick Arnesen Farmer,
airline pilot's CEO of thrust Light. All right, more in
the government shutdown coming up with our conversation with Congressmanship Royce.
Stand by for more Jimmy Bart Show. You're an AM
nine to fifty k PRC. All right, we are still
(20:55):
dealing with the government shutdown, Lily. We just talked in
the last segment about the airport in the airlines and
here in Houston. Four percent viewer flights today, ten percent
viewers starting on Monday, mainly regional flights by the way,
that are going to be impacted by that. Supposedly there
are some deal talk about putting something together. We'll have
(21:18):
a Congressman Chip roy our conversation with him coming up
here in just a moment to see whether or not
there's a potential deal brewing with the Senate Republicans trying
to come up with a plan to end this shutdown. First, though,
the GOP is still reeling, I think a little bit
from the election, the spanking they took in several different areas,
(21:38):
including Virginia. Tuesday on election Day, New Gingrich has some
advice that he wants to pass along four Republicans, which
I think they probably sorely need.
Speaker 15 (21:48):
They got seleced in New Jersey, they got selected, and
then you they got selected in Georgia, your home state.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
What is it?
Speaker 15 (21:54):
The Public Service Utility Commission elected to Democrats for the
first time in a million years. Nisent one out there
in California for his crazy redissecting. Now that highest slice it.
It was a bad night for the GLP. Why what
was the big factor?
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Look, I think there are two big realities that Republicans
have to solve. The first is that the Democrats did
a brilliant job of sticking to a message and a
message which grew out of the American people, which I
want to come back to. And then the second is
Republicans have to find a way to motivate the Trump
(22:33):
based voter to come out and vote.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
If Trump's not on the ballot. I mean it doesn't.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
I think President Trump was right in saying that the
fact that he wasn't on the ballot was a major factor,
but that doesn't solve anything. He's not going to be
on the ballot in twenty six and they had better
find a way to get people to decide to vote.
But they I want to go back to the supportability
issue because I think probably I disagree with you a
little bit, Larry.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I think you have a reality problem here, messaging problem.
Speaker 12 (23:01):
I think when you have a twenty percent increase in
the price of electricity in New Jersey, when the average
family health insurance plan is now twenty seven thousand dollars
a year, basically the equivalent of buying a small car
every year. I think when housing costs, a lot of
them caused by big government socialism, but when housing costs
(23:23):
rise to a point where young people can't buy a house,
you have a real sense from the American people. And
I've always opposed efforts to tell the American people that
they're stupid about what they feel. The job of the
politician is to listen and learn and then try to
help people, and then they get to lead, and the
American people have been saying very clearly for about five
(23:46):
years now that they're unhappy with the economy, that they
can't afford things, and that they're very worried about what's
going to happen. Republicans have to come up with a
series of strategies, for example, such that Treasure has said
that he thinks he has a housing strategy.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, they'd better roll it out.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Yeah, they better roll it out. Indeed, because time's away said,
all right, let's bring on Chip Roy. I talked to
him earlier this morning about this murmur that the Republicans
have some sort of an idea they're going to try
to get the Democrats to agree to. I don't know
if that's going to happen or not, but here's our
conversation from this morning with Congressman Chip Roy.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Do you haven't fun yet, Congressman, Well, I'm in Texas,
so you know, I'm always having fun in Texas. But
I should be in DC if we were getting our
job done. But Democrats are blocking him. So we'll see
what happens today.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, tell me what you know about the proposal that
Senator thun Is put together.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
So I believe what the leader is going to do
is take the bill that we passed in September the
House Republicans, which funded the government till November twentieth, which
at that time was you know, two months onto Thanksgiving basically,
and you're going to take that bill extend that date
into at least January, and then I think they might
combine it with the three appropriations bills that we passed
(25:05):
and that the Senates worked through, which I think funds
it at the same levels or less. So it would
be doing our job keeping spending relatively flat while we
try to grow the economy, keeping basically a good set
of priorities that we work through both chambers in the
three bills and then a cr It's very common sense
and not very controversial. Frankly, for a conservative like me
(25:26):
who wants to see greater reductions in spending. It's middle
of the road, right like I would reduce spending more
a lot of my conservative colleagues would. But we're willing
to work together to figure it out and hold spending flat.
And Democrats are blocking. As we're told that Chuck Schumer,
the Democrats plan to block that effort today, demanding that
(25:46):
we'd go back and undo some of the riffs, some
of the reductions in workforce that the administration carried out
in order to deal with the prioritization of the spending
when the Democrats chose to shut down. So that's what's
going to be on the table today. We'll see what happens,
but we expect them to block it and continue to
shut down through the weekend, which course is interfering with travel. Obviously,
(26:09):
the airport of Houston at Bush was a disaster, and
we're trying to figure out how to work through all
of that. What the Democrats blocking is, I think they
feel pretty embolden, don't you. I don't know that we
can blame the election results on Republicans getting the majority
blame for the government shutdown, which is completely unfair. But
it appears there's especially to say, like Virginia, which has
(26:31):
so many federal workers and then so many other people
who are dependent on federal benefits that they just they
just want their money. And I think that showed up
in the vote in Virginia, don't you. Well, Look, I
don't know how to handicap the results there. There are
a lot of factors. What I know is is Virginia
is a state that is trending if it's not blue entirely.
(26:52):
Now New Jersey's blue and New York is notoriously blue.
So none of those are that surprising. But what we're
now looking at is with you know, I'm taking in
all the information of the impacts of the shutdown, Like
even as we speak Charles Stayin on Foxes on Fox
News talking about a two point seven billion dollars I
think impact just in a day of the shutdowns, from
(27:14):
the travel you go through it all, and what's the
reason for the shutdown. It's Democrats' political priorities. They're trying
to pick fights to set the stage for twenty twenty six.
To your point, they feel in bolten, so they're trying
to use it as a political tool, a political weapon.
(27:35):
I think that's cynical. And again, as someone who's been
a part of shutdown conversations in the past, you've got
a really principal objection how the federal dollars are being
used for open borders or for example, when I was
with Senator Cruise and the implementation of Obamacare, we knew
that if those funds were used to implement Obamacare, we
were going to get just massively increased health care expenses
(27:57):
and prices. Guess what's happened over the last fifteen year.
You can't afford healthcare anymore. So this is what we've
got to work through. Democrats, deem holden to your point.
We got to stand up and hold the line and
stand up for the hard working Texans that are taking.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
This the brunt of this, which I think brings me
to my last question for you, chif Roy, and that
is very simply this. Republicans have been known in the
past to cave. You have concerns that they will cave
again when it comes to the government shutdown because the
heat is just getting to be too much for them
to handle.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
The President's seems rightly frustrated at Chuck Schumer and the
way Democrats have handle this and wanting to hold the line.
And you know, I've been working with a speaker. Everybody
seems to be on the same page. I believe that
will hold the line. But there's always a block of
moderate members of the Republican conference that want to try
to cut a deal, and they're having those conversations, and
(28:51):
my view is we need to hold the line and
explain to the American people why all of this continued
effort is thriving inflation, making life out of and it
is making life difficult for the people we represent. We
should hold the line for them. Look, the reason I'm
running for Attorney General, by the way, is Texas is
under assault and we're seeing it right now with the
Islamification of Texas, open borders, crime on the streets. Just
(29:15):
one of your news interests to this segment was talking
about somebody let out or two brothers committing a crime
and getting out of jail in twelve days. It's happening
all the time, and it's a coordinated effort. Republicans got
to demonstrate that we're going to we're willing to stand
up and fight against that. So I hope the President
will hold the line on all respects because it's bloated
government funding and all these programs, it's all connected to
(29:38):
the same stuff, and we got to stand up for
Texas and stand up for the people who send us
there or change it. So you know, we're going to
stand with the White House and the President as he's
trying to push back on what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Well, you know, I trust President Trump more than I
trust a whole lot of others. But there's plenty of
Republicans I don't necessarily trust. Maybe they can come up
with some sort of a deal that at least gets
it's enough Democrats to cross the line, like the Fetterman's
to cross the line and vote for the continuing Resolution
without having to, you know, getting cooperation from Chuck Schumer. Quick,
(30:11):
quick low break here, Well back with our final segment
on a Friday in just a moment, Jimmy Bart show,
here a name, n I'm fifty k PRC. All right,
(30:33):
I've got a local story. I think that is just
the perfect demonstration of what is wrong with government, even
local government. You know, when you are governing based on
a philosophy, whatever your philosophy is, and you don't bother
to take a look at the reality of the decisions
(30:54):
you're making and what could happen as a result, then
these sorts of things inevitably happen. Sylvester Turner, as the
mayor of Houston, evidently bought into the whole New Green
Deal thing and decided that he was going to be
an environmentally friendly mayor, which is why we had things
(31:15):
like overpriced bicycle lanes in the places where you shouldn't
have any bicycle lanes because it's not safe to have
a bicycle lane, and it's how we ended up with
this story. Ambulances, green ambulances that when it comes to
actually working, are problem. They're not really really set up
(31:37):
to be efficient for what an ambulance is used for.
Here is the report from our television partner KPRC two.
Speaker 19 (31:45):
Mayor John Whitmyer was unaware of the issues until two
investigates came knocking. But it should be noted the ambulances
were purchased under previous Mayor Sylvester Turner as his administration
pushed for more environmentally friendly ambulances.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
It's been moved in second on eight and nine twelve
discussion discussion in favor of post granted.
Speaker 19 (32:05):
In October of twenty twenty two, with no opposition, City
Council approved the five point nine million dollar taxpayer funded
purchase of twenty one ambulances through Frasier. The ambulances included
special electrical systems that the city touted would allow HFD
to promote cleaner air for the environment.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Seconds matter.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
It's not politics.
Speaker 19 (32:28):
Marty Langton is the president of the Houston Professional Firefighters Association.
He says, aside from the problems listed by a department chief,
he has learned of charging problems.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
We don't have electricity in the back of an ambulance
because we don't have enough time to charge them or
have the right charging ports.
Speaker 19 (32:47):
Here's what hfd's top boss, chief Thomas Munos, had to
say about what we uncovered.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
It's not an electric car, but you have to plug
it and maintain it.
Speaker 19 (32:56):
In Layman's term, you're too busy, not enough to time
to charge. We sent the internal HFD email to Frasier.
They told us it is our understanding the unit's reference
to have been serviced and have returned to service. The
spokesperson added they have always acted with urgency regarding hfd's concerns.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
What about cost?
Speaker 19 (33:21):
Are they more than traditional ambulances?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Forty thousand more You heard.
Speaker 19 (33:27):
Right, forty thousand dollars more for ambulance.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
This is taxpayer money and this is why it's important
to have people that are making decisions that know the
impact of those decisions, not just pretending to solve a
problem when creating more problems.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, but they're green. They're green, And did I mention
they're green? They're polluting less and that's what's really important here.
It's nougat. We shouldn't be worried about, you know, whether
or not the ambulance can be on the road because
it's charged enough. Because after all, you know, if it
can't be on the can't be listen. This is an ambulance.
(34:04):
What are ambulances used for. They're used for emergencies. They're
picking up patients having a heart attacks and strokes and
have gunshot wounds and taking them to the hospital for treatment.
You want to run out of juice halfway to the hospital.
You want to have to leave, not to be able
to respond to an incident with an ambulance because sorry,
it's charging. You know, I know you shot, but can
(34:27):
you hang on for like fifteen twenty more minutes? We
should have enough juice to come get you. Who ever
thought that this would be a good idea for an ambulance,
I mean, if you want to try to do this
with you know, some other city vehicle that it doesn't
really matter if they show up on time or show
up at all. More power to you that that that's
(34:49):
what you want to do. But why would you do
this with a fleet of ambulances? Just absolutely ridiculous. This
is what happens when you don't look, when you don't
try eat things like a business. You know, when you
bought the ambulances, you show thought. All right, we're in
the public safety business. We're in the ambulance business. What
do I need the ambulance to do? I need to
(35:09):
respond quickly. I needed to have the following equipment. Most importantly,
I need to be able to respond quickly. And you
don't get you know, something that has to be plugged
in in order to be able to do that. All right, listen,
you'll have a great weekend. I'll see you Monday morning,
bright early at five AM on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
We'll be back here at four on AM nine fifty KPRC.
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