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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What it's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. Hello Bay.
We had a multi high school student in Philadelphia exposed
his classmates and the fact that they're practically illiterate, unable
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or at least struggling mightily to read very basic words
to comprehend relatively simple sentences, in a viral series of
videos on TikTok. He's done this. It's amazing. A picture
is worth a thousand words, but a moving picture, an
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actual video. Not a single of his high school school
age peers was able to read the sentence. She wore
a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat ghost
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Listen to this it is It is heartbreaking and disappointing,
but frankly not exactly shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
She were a clothes that were who's this extra ordinary?
But some way got.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Me.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I don't know. You were a solid of clothes that
were extra guurity.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Whatever, bro, but someway, what does that mean if you
were a lot of ways you were?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't know, Bro, You take the car back?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
She worry.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Way so well close that word.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's I don't know that word.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I don't even know how to read.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't know why she wore a silhohead of schools
that were extraordinary, but somewhat.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Calls all right, now, what does that mean? I have
as as tastes.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
She were.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He I don't know what she said. I don't know
what carried Cary and his girlfriendly. Now, these young people
are going to get their high school diploma and they're
going to go out and apply for a job, and
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it's going to be figured out pretty quickly. They can't
really read and write, not on a not on a
decent level, and they're not going to get the job.
And they've been taught you didn't get the job because
you're If being black means you can't read, then yes,
that's the reason you didn't get the job. But plenty
of black people can and would get that job. Employers
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are struggling to find people with basic life skills. They're
not looking for ways to keep f miring blacks. They're
wanting to hire people. But you've got to have depending
on the job. Can you imagine this person being an
admin job? Let's hear it some more so. This sentence
which they're supposed to read is the colonel Admittedly colonel
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is a tough word clo n e L. It's one
of those quirks of English. The colonel asked the choir
to accommodate the governor's schedule. Now, these are some atypical
irregular words. Granted, C HOI R should not be choir
by any traditional it should be sure, but we recognize
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it as choir in the way that we recognize the irregular herbs,
odd spellings. But these are kids that are not being
exposed to that, they're not being prepared for life. And
you'll notice that there's a lot of well, I don't
want to be embarrassed. I want to be cool. I
want to keep it real, bitch, I don't know what
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that means. You notice that, Yeah, because it's okay not
to be able to read. Just don't be uncool, all right.
Here goes the sentence. The sentence the colonel asked the
choir to accommodate the governor's schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Wow, my readingnessness.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
The colonel asked acquired to accommodate the governor's schedule. Does
that mean he's asking acquire commodate to the governor's schedule
in your own work, there's a governor's schedule, and so
the colonel is asking adquire to accommodate to it in.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Your own work.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't know, I know, act the acquired to accommodate
the governor's schedule.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Right, they ask the people tore thing for the governor's scheduled.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know what this means.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
We're calling to acquire to accommodate the governor's schedule.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He exquired a company.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know, bro, I mean, he asked them to
read a schedule.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I got to like, I mean, I don't know, as
the choir to accommodate the governor's schedule.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
With the government. So one of the misconceptions many people
have is that the consumer of the government's services. The
government provides a service that you, the the investor, the
taxpayer pay for, and that the consumer of that service
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is the people who go there. Well, you, in the
state of Texas, we don't have an income tax. We
have a property tax, which is very expensive, and the
biggest thing we fund from our property tax is our
local school districts public school, which is quote unquote free
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to anybody to go here. Now, one of the great
frustrations over illegal immigration was that we had to keep
building schools because the courts had ruled if somebody is
on American soil, even if they came here illegally, you
had to provide free school, free health care, and all
these sorts of things. So the taxpayer was having to
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pay for more schools for people whose parents hadn't paid
taxes already, and since many of them were off the
books and they're not getting all the governmental expenditure on
social security and all this, none of that was being
used to pay for these schools. But as society, we
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understand in this Western civilization notion that it is in
the interest of a community to educate people who come
out of the school because that's who's going to be
your cops and firefighters and business owners and doctors and
nurses and lawyers and teachers, and so we the community
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must demand that our schools do their jobs. But we've
seen again and again, in fact recently schools closing down
protesting over illegal immigration. Teachers' unions being the biggest grifters
and hustlers promoting left wing lunacy. Hell, the teachers union
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got very involved at the behest of the Biden administration
in pushing for mandatory vaccines. It's not even a vaccine
that killed people. What are they doing? Why are they
getting involved in that? So you get these teachers unions
that have been I'm the most powerful political lobby in
the country. They're what the teamsters used to be. They
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don't care about teaching anymore. Brandy Winegarden that weirdo and
so this is what you get. So now, these aren't outliers.
These are typical kids coming out of our inner cities.
They can't read or write. So what are they going
to do for them? Who's going to hire this? And
when you don't hire this?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Now what?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
News stories tend to bury, news stories and many things
that when they leave the public eye, lose the momentum
to do anything about them. And that always worries me
because the latest and greatest news cycle will keep people
focused on something, but when the news cycle moves on,
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not so much. There were a lot more resources thrown
at the Nancy Guthrie case when it was the lead
news than when people went back to normal, probably more
resources than the case deserved. It wasn't consistent with other
cases of that type. There were leads being chased down
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that weren't even good leads, but hey, it's in the news.
Everybody needs to show we're busy, act busy everybody. Well,
the Southern Poverty Law Center was taking money from donors
and funding the Klan and other bad actors, and those
people would then go commit crimes, hate crimes, and the
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Southern Poverty Law Center would then say, say, we told
you there's a lot of hateful people out here. Now
give us money so we can keep exposing them. But
actually you were paying them to do it. Well, they
have decided not to disappear amid their scandal. In fact,
they've released a new ad to explain exactly who the
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Southern Poverty Law Center is.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Here at the Southern Poverty Law Center, we hate hate.
In fact, we hate hate so much it's kind of
our thing. Some people collect stamps, some people run marathons.
We wake up every morning for a fair trade cup
of coffee and say, how can we hate hate even more?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Today?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
It's a calling. Really Now, over time, we've realized something
uncomfortable and our passionate opposition to hate. We had developed
a very strong dislike for hate groups, and that got
us thinking, aren't we in a way participating in the
very thing we oppose hate. So we did what any
reasonable organization would do. We took a step back, held
a series of deeply funded workshops, and came to a
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groundbreaking conclusion. If we truly want to eliminate hate, we
must begin by addressing the hate with ourselves.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And how do you confront your hatred of hate groups?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Well naturally by engaging with them in the most paradoxical
way possible.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Some might call it ironic, others might call it confusing.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
We call it transformational, because you can't just say you
oppose hate. You have to really wrestle with it, fund it,
study it, put it under a microscope, and occasionally you
wonder if you've tied yourself into a philosophical pretzel.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
But that's the work. So, yes, we hate hate.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We hate it so much we're willing to go to
extraordinary and occasionally bewildering lengths to prove just how much
we hated.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So, in an effort to end our own.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Hatred and be the change we wish to see in
the world, we've decided to fund the very hate groups
we once hated.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
This concept is known as a rule of perverse incentives.
You end up creating incentives for things that society doesn't want.
So the people donating to the SPLC, we're actually getting
more of what they claim they don't want. But I
would argue not really, because the left needs there to
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be a clan. They need there to be some crazy
people out there, they say, because then you don't notice
black lives matter, you don't notice Somali fraud, you don't
notice the overrun of the border by the illegal aliens.
But this law of perverse incentives, it's an interesting concept.
There's a story about during British colonial rule of India
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in the late forties India became independent. They're tryst with destinies,
they recalled it. But before that the British ruled it
as a colony as they had many of the sun
didn't shine on the didn't set on the English empire.
It was a vast empire. And they didn't like the
deadly cobras that were indigenous to India, so they try
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to They try to plan in New Delhi, the big capital.
They said, we'll pay a bounty as a government for
every cobra you bring us. So you just bring us
the head of the dead cobra and we'll give you,
you know whatever, it's ten rupees ahead, all right. And
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what we'll do is we'll basically outsource the killing of
the cobras and there'll be no more cobras. Well, those
who live under colonial rule, people who live as slaves, migrants,
they learn to get very clever because you have to
to survive. So the Indians began, I got this figured out.
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They started breeding the cobra, and so they would breed
the cobras to then kill the cobra and bring the
heads in. Today, I brought in ten cobras. Wow, Rumesh,
only four yesterday. Yes, I've stepped up my efforts. I
brought my family in. In the next day, twenty cobra heads.
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My goodness, Ramesh. Yes, Vijay, my cousin is involved, and
we're getting really good at this. The next day forty.
My goodness, you're going to bankrupt this. We're going to
be shed of all the cobras before you know it.
But somehow, the more money they spent on killing cobras
or bounties for dead cobras, it seemed like the worst
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the problem got because the guys who were breeding the
cobras were also releasing some of the cobras, because you've
got to keep the fear up right.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes, So at some point they figured out, wait a second,
we're spending one hundred acts what we were spending on
cobra control, and we have more cobras now than we
ever did, and so it came to be known as
the cobra effect. A German economist named hortzt Siebert in
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two thousand and one wrote an article about the cobra effect.
This is known in colonial governance. It's it's kind of
the lore of the you know, the clever, crafty, artful dodger,
resident native resident of the of the Empire's colonies. There's
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also known as the There's also the Hanoi rat bounty,
which the French colonial rulers supposedly offered a bounty for
rat tails. And so what ended up happening was supposedly
according to lore. According to legend, the Vietnamese would cut
off the tail, bring the rat to the colonials, then
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breed the rats because they can breed without the tail,
and increase the population, driving the French crazy, and then
that have more rat tails and more bounties. This is
known as the rule of perverse incentives, and the SPLC,
rather than helping with the problem of right wing hate,
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are actually making it worse. And all these perverse incentives,
all this money, it's good business. You see. Their job
is to hate hate. And when your job is to
hate hate, you don't want to hate to go away.
When your job is to hate racism, you don't want
racism to go away. So you end up breathing more
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racism because you get paid to fight racism. And you wonder,
while we have more racism than ever, while we spend
more money and effort to eradicate it. So we were
talking about what the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said about
Spirit Airlines going under. They went bankrupt, so their assets
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will be picked over. A lot of customer customers will
be screwed. You can request a refund, but a lot
of people won't have the time or energy to go
through that. A lot of jobs will be lost. Well,
what's interesting to think about as an economic phenomenon is
that there are still customers who were booked on flights
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who needed to go somewhere, so that demand still has
to be met, but maybe, just maybe that demand is
less than necessary at least at the price they're willing
to pay to keep Spirit Airlines afloat. So when Spirit
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Airlines goes under, the people who are currently booked and
would be in the future, there's travel needs didn't change.
The demand didn't change. People don't decide I want to
fly based on the fact that Spirit Airlines exists or doesn't.
Now they may decide they want to fly because Spirit
Airlines prices are so low that it would induce somebody
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to fly who says, oh, well, I would have phoned
for one hundred and fifty nine dollars, but I'm not
going to fly for three to fifty nine. So in
that sense, the demand may change. But let's assume for
the sake of this argument that it doesn't. So Spirit
Airlines goes away, what happens to all the people who
would have flown on Spared Airlines but now it's not
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there and it was cheaper than the alternatives. Now those
people pivot and they say, well, that one hundred fifty
nine dollars ticket on Spared Airlines, I still need to
get from Houston to Cincinnati. So now I'll go to
Jet Blue or Continental or Southwest Airlines or United Airlines
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or whatever. So now all that demand floods the market.
So the airline revenue management guys are saying, hey, we
held back ten percent of our tickets for surge pricing
at the end. Now we got all these people, some
of whom can say I don't want to I'll just
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choose not to fly. But a lot of people will
say I had to get there for the birth of
my child for you know, whatever reason is that one
to do. It's going to drive prices higher. The lack
of competition is going to drift prices higher. This is
Transportation sector Sean Duffy, Why are we here today?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
There was a proposed merger between Jet Blue and Spirit
and Joe Biden and Pee BOOTA judge along with the
Biden DOJ decided that they did.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Not want that merger to take place. And at the
time the Biden and.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Buddha judge DOJ bragged and said as they canceled the
option for this merger that this was a victory for us.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Travess. Let's go back and listen to Buddha Gig say
that this is twenty twenty three. Then Transportation Secretary Pete
Buddha Gig explaining why the Biden administration blocked the Spirit
Airlines merger with Jet Blue.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Our Department of the Department of Transportation has generally not
gotten involved in these merger cases, but that's changing today.
It is so important to make sure that passengers have choices,
that they have access to low fares, that they have
access to competition, and yet we've seen less and less
and less of that competition over the years. We are
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taking a step that again is unusual in terms of
recent years, but we think is the right thing to do,
supporting the DOJ's lawsuit and independently using our own authorities
which are a little bit different from the DJ starting
our own investigation and taking other actions.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The same Senator Chris Murphy, who claimed that Joe Biden
was better than ever during the election he was his
campaign chairman, said that the Biden administration blocked the merger
to protect consumers. This was in January twenty twenty four.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
So this week, at the request of the Biden administration,
a federal judge blocked a big airline merger between two
airlines you've heard of, Jet Blue and Spirit.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I want to tell you why this is.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Really important for consumers, but also for the country. The
Biden administration has made it a priority to try to
break up these big monopolies to try to infuse more
competition into our economy. You know, this is a problem
because you've seen these massive companies become more and more powerful,
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and that's really bad for workers, it's really bad for consumers.
It just sort of guts the emotional soul of the
country when you've only got a couple companies that have
this much power. Well, that's happened in the airline industry.
There's only a handful of really big carriers. Spirit is
one of the few budget airlines out there, and wherever
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Spirit flies, there's a pressure for prices to stay low.
The big airlines have to compete with a low cost carrier.
If Spirit and Jet Blue merged, then that downward pressure
on price would be removed everywhere that Spirit flies. Jet
Blue admitted that it was planning to increase fair by
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twenty five percent or more after they merged with Spirit
on the roots that Spirit flies. So the Bide administration
stepped in and said, no, this merger is bad.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
For hold there, So evil Jet Blue if they took
over the unprofitable Spirit Airlines routes. How do we know
they're unprofitable. There's a reason Spirit Airlines was going under.
So they said, if we take over the routes and
the customers who bought tickets, and we'll buy tickets in
the future. Come on, we're going to write size level
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up the prices so we can make a profit. Oh no,
you don't evil business. We're not going to let you.
You're not going to be able to allow to raise
raise prices because we're the government and raising prices is bad. Okay.
So Spirit Airlines continue to operate at that rate and
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they went bankrupt. So where do those customers go? Now
to Jet Blue that charges twenty five percent or more
on each of those routes. The market doesn't lie. You
can artificially affect the market, but the market doesn't lie.
And by the way, there are definitely certain signs of
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the type of people that flew Spirit Airlines. Ladies and gentlemen.
Jeff Foxworthy, thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Look at this guy in the front row, wifebeaeder eyes,
cold Schlitz beer eating a cold hot dug hell. I
think he's tailgating for the Spirit Airlines funeral line. If
you ever reheated crab legs before boarding a plane or
might have flown Spirit Airline. If you have a support chicken,
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you might have flown Spirit Airlines. If you've ever given
yourself a pedicure on a flight with a pair of.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Scissors, you may have flown Spirit Airline. Trip to Walmart is.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Considered a vacation, you might have flown Spirit air If
you call a trash bag and duct tape a suitcase,
you might have flown Spirit Airlines. And finally, if you
booked a flight on the way to your carnival cruise vacation,
you definitely lose Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
This is DJ Hicks of your fight in Texas Aggies.
You're listening to my uncle Tzar Michael Berry. There's a
story that has been that was big in Houston over
the weekend. A man said his truck was stolen, and
this is happening across the country. This truck is stolen
and he's frustrated with the lack of response from the
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Houston Police Department. He says he has a GPS device
on the truck and then he was told that because
the truck was pinging on private property, there was nothing
they could do. Well, it's not because it's on private property.
It's because there aren't enough officers to assign. See a
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lot of the really dumb things you hear a dispatcher say,
it's not because that's the policy. So you don't want
to waste a lot of your time arguing against that policy,
because that's not the policy. If an officer drives up
as someone is stealing a vehicle and they see them
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stealing the vehicle ands obviously they're still in the vehicle,
and the person run, he's still in my truck, they
don't go no, no, I shard stop him because of
the old private property provision from the Treaty of seventeen
forty one. That dispatcher is just spouting words that's not
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a policy. So people get real hung up on things
like that that what's really happening here is that in Houston,
I was told by one officer who has experience in
this in the Auto Theft division, that there's over fifty
cars a day. So and I don't know he was
exaggerating or not, but that's what I was told. There's
a lot of car sold in Houston every day and
in every major city, and there aren't enough officers to respond,
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and when they're stolen the sole purpose for an officer
to show up is to make a report, and the
sole purpose to get the report is to file it
with the insurance. Well, we've talked a lot about pricing
of late. If this is happening a lot in your
zip code through a no fault of your own, then
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the insurance company has an algorithm. He says, huh, if
you live in that zip code, more likely to get
your truck stolen, so they increase insurance rates. So again,
there are all these costs that the criminal element is
passing off to you that you're paying for that you
don't even notice. That's just one of them. When you
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go to the grocery store, some portion of every avocado,
every box, every cut of beef, some portion is dedicated
to recouping the loss from theft and covering lawsuits and
fill in the blank. But this fellow had gone to
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greater links to protect his truck, and he's a sympathetic
fellow because it looks like he's not rich. This this
really hurts him. This affects him to a great degree,
and it appears that nobody cares. And then ABC goes
into the article and says, are going into the story
and says, hey, well, here we go, three two hundred
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and eighty two vehicles stolen last year, three thousand and
eighty two vehicles reports stolen the same time last year,
and that was Oh, that's from January to March.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Okay, anyway, forevery March, so four times that So it's
coming out to nine vehicles per day. So wow, I
guess that doesn't change through the course of the year.
But then there was something that was understood even more
it was more disturbing, and that was that the rate
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that the Houston Police Department uses for cases that were
quote unquote cleared shows that a vehicle is cleared before
anything is actually really done, so that case isn't actually cleared,
it's just marked as cleared. I learned something within the
last year that I found very fascinating. Maybe you'll find
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an interesting, maybe you won't. Waterburger is a very popular
fast food restaurant in Texas, and I think most people
probably go to the drive through partly because you see
on social media there's a lot of fights and silliness inside.
You've got Democrats in there, you know, trying to kill
somebody because the lady forgot to put the ketchup in
their bag, or they didn't supersize when they were supposed to,
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or whatever else, And nobody wants to be around these people.
So you're there. You are in the drive through, and
you get up there and you order your food, and
they're clearly in the weeds, they're falling behind. You've come
in a busy time, and they say, could I get
you to pull up right over there?
Speaker 8 (29:21):
And you go, h.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, but that seems weird, but you do? You pull up?
And I asked that question on the air, and I
had a woman who worked at Waburger tell me that
the reason they have you pull up is that when
they report their public numbers up the chain as to
how fast an order is quote unquote cleared, the order
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is clear, there's a camera, and that camera uses artificial intelligence,
and from the time you pull up to the window
to the time you drive away is measured and recorded.
So let's say you're there for a minute and it's
clear they're not going to get you your food in
time for you to drive away in less than two minutes.
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If two minutes is the clear time that they're shooting for,
so at one thirty, they give you time to be
out of there by two minutes. The AI of the
system doesn't measure whether you pulled up forty feet and
an employee had to come all the way out and
hand you your food. So they wanted you to move
so they can clear that they're striving. It's all about
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hitting their numbers, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's
nothing wrong with having statistical analysis and goal setting and
these sorts of things. But that's the reason they're moving you.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
It's also true that major police departments play games with
how they report crimes. We've had major Democrat run cities
where they simply don't file cases and stories because if
they did, then have to admit that they had more
murders this year than last. Anyway, here was a story
from ABC thirty.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
It's a jab in the chest. I worked my butt
off for that drug and it's gone in less than
ten minutes.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
Ten minutes that's how long Bobby Brown says it took
for thieves to steal his new truck from in front
of his home Monday morning. He says he called nine
one one, went to the location of the truck's last
GPS ping, even flagged down law enforcement in the area
of the truck, but Brown says he was told there
was nothing anyone could do.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I've just been sitting here blind this whole week. Followed
the report on Monday, I had a mis work Monday
and Tuesday. Lucky I could go back to work Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
Brown says. On Thursday, Houston Police told him no investigator
would be assigned to the case, that the truck was
listed as stolen and they would keep an eye out
for it. ABC thirteen called HPD on Friday. They confirmed
that Brown did make a report with them, but say
they have no mention in the report about a GPS.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Device being on the truck.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
After we called, an investigator was assigned to Brown's case.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I said, you shouldn't have to have worry that the
news is about to do a report, knowing that HPD
isn't doing anything, and now you want to sign a detective.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I think it's crazy.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
According to HPD data, from January to March of this year,
two seven and ninety nine vehicles were reported stolen, which
is less than we saw in the same timeframe last year. However,
more cases have been cleared so far this year. The
Department of Public Safety marks a case cleared with somebody
who has been arrested in the case. Brown says days
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later he's not confident he'll ever see his car again,
but wonders if police had acted faster, if that could
have changed.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I feel like it's all a mess right now. I
have to do all the work when I feel like
it's their job, as in me going to the location
of the last note ping, I shouldn't have to do that.
What it's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. Hello Bay.
We had a multi high school student in Philadelphia exposed
his classmates and the fact that they're practically illiterate, unable
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or at least struggling mightily to read very basic words
to comprehend relatively simple sentences, in a viral series of
videos on TikTok. He's done this. It's amazing. A picture
is worth a thousand words, but a moving picture, an
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actual video. Not a single of his high school school
age peers was able to read the sentence. She wore
a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat ghost
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Listen to this it is It is heartbreaking and disappointing,
but frankly not exactly shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
She were a clothes that were who's this extra ordinary?
But some way got.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Me.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I don't know. You were a solid of clothes that
were extra guurity.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Whatever, bro, but someway, what does that mean if you
were a lot of ways you were?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't know, Bro, You take the car back?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
She worry.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Way so well close that word.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's I don't know that word.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I don't even know how to read.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't know why she wore a silhohead of schools
that were extraordinary, but somewhat.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Calls all right, now, what does that mean? I have
as as tastes.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
She were.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He I don't know what she said. I don't know
what carried Cary and his girlfriendly. Now, these young people
are going to get their high school diploma and they're
going to go out and apply for a job, and
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it's going to be figured out pretty quickly. They can't
really read and write, not on a not on a
decent level, and they're not going to get the job.
And they've been taught you didn't get the job because
you're If being black means you can't read, then yes,
that's the reason you didn't get the job. But plenty
of black people can and would get that job. Employers
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are struggling to find people with basic life skills. They're
not looking for ways to keep f miring blacks. They're
wanting to hire people. But you've got to have depending
on the job. Can you imagine this person being an
admin job? Let's hear it some more so. This sentence
which they're supposed to read is the colonel Admittedly colonel
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is a tough word clo n e L. It's one
of those quirks of English. The colonel asked the choir
to accommodate the governor's schedule. Now, these are some atypical
irregular words. Granted, C HOI R should not be choir
by any traditional it should be sure, but we recognize
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it as choir in the way that we recognize the irregular herbs,
odd spellings. But these are kids that are not being
exposed to that, they're not being prepared for life. And
you'll notice that there's a lot of well, I don't
want to be embarrassed. I want to be cool. I
want to keep it real, bitch, I don't know what
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that means. You notice that, Yeah, because it's okay not
to be able to read. Just don't be uncool, all right.
Here goes the sentence. The sentence the colonel asked the
choir to accommodate the governor's schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Wow, my readingnessness.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
The colonel asked acquired to accommodate the governor's schedule. Does
that mean he's asking acquire commodate to the governor's schedule
in your own work, there's a governor's schedule, and so
the colonel is asking adquire to accommodate to it in.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Your own work.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't know, I know, act the acquired to accommodate
the governor's schedule.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Right, they ask the people tore thing for the governor's scheduled.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know what this means.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
We're calling to acquire to accommodate the governor's schedule.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He exquired a company.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know, bro, I mean, he asked them to
read a schedule.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I got to like, I mean, I don't know, as
the choir to accommodate the governor's schedule.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
With the government. So one of the misconceptions many people
have is that the consumer of the government's services. The
government provides a service that you, the the investor, the
taxpayer pay for, and that the consumer of that service
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is the people who go there. Well, you, in the
state of Texas, we don't have an income tax. We
have a property tax, which is very expensive, and the
biggest thing we fund from our property tax is our
local school districts public school, which is quote unquote free
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to anybody to go here. Now, one of the great
frustrations over illegal immigration was that we had to keep
building schools because the courts had ruled if somebody is
on American soil, even if they came here illegally, you
had to provide free school, free health care, and all
these sorts of things. So the taxpayer was having to
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pay for more schools for people whose parents hadn't paid
taxes already, and since many of them were off the
books and they're not getting all the governmental expenditure on
social security and all this, none of that was being
used to pay for these schools. But as society, we
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understand in this Western civilization notion that it is in
the interest of a community to educate people who come
out of the school because that's who's going to be
your cops and firefighters and business owners and doctors and
nurses and lawyers and teachers, and so we the community
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must demand that our schools do their jobs. But we've
seen again and again, in fact recently schools closing down
protesting over illegal immigration. Teachers' unions being the biggest grifters
and hustlers promoting left wing lunacy. Hell, the teachers union
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got very involved at the behest of the Biden administration
in pushing for mandatory vaccines. It's not even a vaccine
that killed people. What are they doing? Why are they
getting involved in that? So you get these teachers unions
that have been I'm the most powerful political lobby in
the country. They're what the teamsters used to be. They
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don't care about teaching anymore. Brandy Winegarden that weirdo and
so this is what you get. So now, these aren't outliers.
These are typical kids coming out of our inner cities.
They can't read or write. So what are they going
to do for them? Who's going to hire this? And
when you don't hire this?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Now what?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
News stories tend to bury, news stories and many things
that when they leave the public eye, lose the momentum
to do anything about them. And that always worries me
because the latest and greatest news cycle will keep people
focused on something, but when the news cycle moves on,
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not so much. There were a lot more resources thrown
at the Nancy Guthrie case when it was the lead
news than when people went back to normal, probably more
resources than the case deserved. It wasn't consistent with other
cases of that type. There were leads being chased down
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that weren't even good leads, but hey, it's in the news.
Everybody needs to show we're busy, act busy everybody. Well,
the Southern Poverty Law Center was taking money from donors
and funding the Klan and other bad actors, and those
people would then go commit crimes, hate crimes, and the
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Southern Poverty Law Center would then say, say, we told
you there's a lot of hateful people out here. Now
give us money so we can keep exposing them. But
actually you were paying them to do it. Well, they
have decided not to disappear amid their scandal. In fact,
they've released a new ad to explain exactly who the
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Southern Poverty Law Center is.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Here at the Southern Poverty Law Center, we hate hate.
In fact, we hate hate so much it's kind of
our thing. Some people collect stamps, some people run marathons.
We wake up every morning for a fair trade cup
of coffee and say, how can we hate hate even more?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Today?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
It's a calling. Really Now, over time, we've realized something
uncomfortable and our passionate opposition to hate. We had developed
a very strong dislike for hate groups, and that got
us thinking, aren't we in a way participating in the
very thing we oppose hate. So we did what any
reasonable organization would do. We took a step back, held
a series of deeply funded workshops, and came to a
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groundbreaking conclusion. If we truly want to eliminate hate, we
must begin by addressing the hate with ourselves.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And how do you confront your hatred of hate groups?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Well naturally by engaging with them in the most paradoxical
way possible.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Some might call it ironic, others might call it confusing.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
We call it transformational, because you can't just say you
oppose hate. You have to really wrestle with it, fund it,
study it, put it under a microscope, and occasionally you
wonder if you've tied yourself into a philosophical pretzel.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
But that's the work. So, yes, we hate hate.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We hate it so much we're willing to go to
extraordinary and occasionally bewildering lengths to prove just how much
we hated.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So, in an effort to end our own.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Hatred and be the change we wish to see in
the world, we've decided to fund the very hate groups
we once hated.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
This concept is known as a rule of perverse incentives.
You end up creating incentives for things that society doesn't want.
So the people donating to the SPLC, we're actually getting
more of what they claim they don't want. But I
would argue not really, because the left needs there to
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be a clan. They need there to be some crazy
people out there, they say, because then you don't notice
black lives matter, you don't notice Somali fraud, you don't
notice the overrun of the border by the illegal aliens.
But this law of perverse incentives, it's an interesting concept.
There's a story about during British colonial rule of India
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in the late forties India became independent. They're tryst with destinies,
they recalled it. But before that the British ruled it
as a colony as they had many of the sun
didn't shine on the didn't set on the English empire.
It was a vast empire. And they didn't like the
deadly cobras that were indigenous to India, so they try
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to They try to plan in New Delhi, the big capital.
They said, we'll pay a bounty as a government for
every cobra you bring us. So you just bring us
the head of the dead cobra and we'll give you,
you know whatever, it's ten rupees ahead, all right. And
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what we'll do is we'll basically outsource the killing of
the cobras and there'll be no more cobras. Well, those
who live under colonial rule, people who live as slaves, migrants,
they learn to get very clever because you have to
to survive. So the Indians began, I got this figured out.
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They started breeding the cobra, and so they would breed
the cobras to then kill the cobra and bring the
heads in. Today, I brought in ten cobras. Wow, Rumesh,
only four yesterday. Yes, I've stepped up my efforts. I
brought my family in. In the next day, twenty cobra heads.
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My goodness, Ramesh. Yes, Vijay, my cousin is involved, and
we're getting really good at this. The next day forty.
My goodness, you're going to bankrupt this. We're going to
be shed of all the cobras before you know it.
But somehow, the more money they spent on killing cobras
or bounties for dead cobras, it seemed like the worst
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the problem got because the guys who were breeding the
cobras were also releasing some of the cobras, because you've
got to keep the fear up right.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes, So at some point they figured out, wait a second,
we're spending one hundred acts what we were spending on
cobra control, and we have more cobras now than we
ever did, and so it came to be known as
the cobra effect. A German economist named hortzt Siebert in
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two thousand and one wrote an article about the cobra effect.
This is known in colonial governance. It's it's kind of
the lore of the you know, the clever, crafty, artful dodger,
resident native resident of the of the Empire's colonies. There's
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also known as the There's also the Hanoi rat bounty,
which the French colonial rulers supposedly offered a bounty for
rat tails. And so what ended up happening was supposedly
according to lore. According to legend, the Vietnamese would cut
off the tail, bring the rat to the colonials, then
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breed the rats because they can breed without the tail,
and increase the population, driving the French crazy, and then
that have more rat tails and more bounties. This is
known as the rule of perverse incentives, and the SPLC,
rather than helping with the problem of right wing hate,
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are actually making it worse. And all these perverse incentives,
all this money, it's good business. You see. Their job
is to hate hate. And when your job is to
hate hate, you don't want to hate to go away.
When your job is to hate racism, you don't want
racism to go away. So you end up breathing more
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racism because you get paid to fight racism. And you wonder,
while we have more racism than ever, while we spend
more money and effort to eradicate it. So we were
talking about what the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said about
Spirit Airlines going under. They went bankrupt, so their assets
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will be picked over. A lot of customer customers will
be screwed. You can request a refund, but a lot
of people won't have the time or energy to go
through that. A lot of jobs will be lost. Well,
what's interesting to think about as an economic phenomenon is
that there are still customers who were booked on flights
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who needed to go somewhere, so that demand still has
to be met, but maybe, just maybe that demand is
less than necessary at least at the price they're willing
to pay to keep Spirit Airlines afloat. So when Spirit
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Airlines goes under, the people who are currently booked and
would be in the future, there's travel needs didn't change.
The demand didn't change. People don't decide I want to
fly based on the fact that Spirit Airlines exists or doesn't.
Now they may decide they want to fly because Spirit
Airlines prices are so low that it would induce somebody
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to fly who says, oh, well, I would have phoned
for one hundred and fifty nine dollars, but I'm not
going to fly for three to fifty nine. So in
that sense, the demand may change. But let's assume for
the sake of this argument that it doesn't. So Spirit
Airlines goes away, what happens to all the people who
would have flown on Spared Airlines but now it's not
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there and it was cheaper than the alternatives. Now those
people pivot and they say, well, that one hundred fifty
nine dollars ticket on Spared Airlines, I still need to
get from Houston to Cincinnati. So now I'll go to
Jet Blue or Continental or Southwest Airlines or United Airlines
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or whatever. So now all that demand floods the market.
So the airline revenue management guys are saying, hey, we
held back ten percent of our tickets for surge pricing
at the end. Now we got all these people, some
of whom can say I don't want to I'll just
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choose not to fly. But a lot of people will
say I had to get there for the birth of
my child for you know, whatever reason is that one
to do. It's going to drive prices higher. The lack
of competition is going to drift prices higher. This is
Transportation sector Sean Duffy, Why are we here today?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
There was a proposed merger between Jet Blue and Spirit
and Joe Biden and Pee BOOTA judge along with the
Biden DOJ decided that they did.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Not want that merger to take place. And at the
time the Biden and.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Buddha judge DOJ bragged and said as they canceled the
option for this merger that this was a victory for us.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Travess. Let's go back and listen to Buddha Gig say
that this is twenty twenty three. Then Transportation Secretary Pete
Buddha Gig explaining why the Biden administration blocked the Spirit
Airlines merger with Jet Blue.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Our Department of the Department of Transportation has generally not
gotten involved in these merger cases, but that's changing today.
It is so important to make sure that passengers have choices,
that they have access to low fares, that they have
access to competition, and yet we've seen less and less
and less of that competition over the years. We are
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taking a step that again is unusual in terms of
recent years, but we think is the right thing to do,
supporting the DOJ's lawsuit and independently using our own authorities
which are a little bit different from the DJ starting
our own investigation and taking other actions.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The same Senator Chris Murphy, who claimed that Joe Biden
was better than ever during the election he was his
campaign chairman, said that the Biden administration blocked the merger
to protect consumers. This was in January twenty twenty four.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
So this week, at the request of the Biden administration,
a federal judge blocked a big airline merger between two
airlines you've heard of, Jet Blue and Spirit.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I want to tell you why this is.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Really important for consumers, but also for the country. The
Biden administration has made it a priority to try to
break up these big monopolies to try to infuse more
competition into our economy. You know, this is a problem
because you've seen these massive companies become more and more powerful,
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and that's really bad for workers, it's really bad for consumers.
It just sort of guts the emotional soul of the
country when you've only got a couple companies that have
this much power. Well, that's happened in the airline industry.
There's only a handful of really big carriers. Spirit is
one of the few budget airlines out there, and wherever
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Spirit flies, there's a pressure for prices to stay low.
The big airlines have to compete with a low cost carrier.
If Spirit and Jet Blue merged, then that downward pressure
on price would be removed everywhere that Spirit flies. Jet
Blue admitted that it was planning to increase fair by
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twenty five percent or more after they merged with Spirit
on the roots that Spirit flies. So the Bide administration
stepped in and said, no, this merger is bad.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
For hold there, So evil Jet Blue if they took
over the unprofitable Spirit Airlines routes. How do we know
they're unprofitable. There's a reason Spirit Airlines was going under.
So they said, if we take over the routes and
the customers who bought tickets, and we'll buy tickets in
the future. Come on, we're going to write size level
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up the prices so we can make a profit. Oh no,
you don't evil business. We're not going to let you.
You're not going to be able to allow to raise
raise prices because we're the government and raising prices is bad. Okay.
So Spirit Airlines continue to operate at that rate and
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they went bankrupt. So where do those customers go? Now
to Jet Blue that charges twenty five percent or more
on each of those routes. The market doesn't lie. You
can artificially affect the market, but the market doesn't lie.
And by the way, there are definitely certain signs of
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the type of people that flew Spirit Airlines. Ladies and gentlemen.
Jeff Foxworthy, thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Look at this guy in the front row, wifebeaeder eyes,
cold Schlitz beer eating a cold hot dug hell. I
think he's tailgating for the Spirit Airlines funeral line. If
you ever reheated crab legs before boarding a plane or
might have flown Spirit Airline. If you have a support chicken,
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you might have flown Spirit Airlines. If you've ever given
yourself a pedicure on a flight with a pair of.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Scissors, you may have flown Spirit Airline. Trip to Walmart is.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Considered a vacation, you might have flown Spirit air If
you call a trash bag and duct tape a suitcase,
you might have flown Spirit Airlines. And finally, if you
booked a flight on the way to your carnival cruise vacation,
you definitely lose Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
This is DJ Hicks of your fight in Texas Aggies.
You're listening to my uncle Tzar Michael Berry. There's a
story that has been that was big in Houston over
the weekend. A man said his truck was stolen, and
this is happening across the country. This truck is stolen
and he's frustrated with the lack of response from the
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Houston Police Department. He says he has a GPS device
on the truck and then he was told that because
the truck was pinging on private property, there was nothing
they could do. Well, it's not because it's on private property.
It's because there aren't enough officers to assign. See a
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lot of the really dumb things you hear a dispatcher say,
it's not because that's the policy. So you don't want
to waste a lot of your time arguing against that policy,
because that's not the policy. If an officer drives up
as someone is stealing a vehicle and they see them
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stealing the vehicle ands obviously they're still in the vehicle,
and the person run, he's still in my truck, they
don't go no, no, I shard stop him because of
the old private property provision from the Treaty of seventeen
forty one. That dispatcher is just spouting words that's not
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a policy. So people get real hung up on things
like that that what's really happening here is that in Houston,
I was told by one officer who has experience in
this in the Auto Theft division, that there's over fifty
cars a day. So and I don't know he was
exaggerating or not, but that's what I was told. There's
a lot of car sold in Houston every day and
in every major city, and there aren't enough officers to respond,
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and when they're stolen the sole purpose for an officer
to show up is to make a report, and the
sole purpose to get the report is to file it
with the insurance. Well, we've talked a lot about pricing
of late. If this is happening a lot in your
zip code through a no fault of your own, then
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the insurance company has an algorithm. He says, huh, if
you live in that zip code, more likely to get
your truck stolen, so they increase insurance rates. So again,
there are all these costs that the criminal element is
passing off to you that you're paying for that you
don't even notice. That's just one of them. When you
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go to the grocery store, some portion of every avocado,
every box, every cut of beef, some portion is dedicated
to recouping the loss from theft and covering lawsuits and
fill in the blank. But this fellow had gone to
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greater links to protect his truck, and he's a sympathetic
fellow because it looks like he's not rich. This this
really hurts him. This affects him to a great degree,
and it appears that nobody cares. And then ABC goes
into the article and says, are going into the story
and says, hey, well, here we go, three two hundred
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and eighty two vehicles stolen last year, three thousand and
eighty two vehicles reports stolen the same time last year,
and that was Oh, that's from January to March.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Okay, anyway, forevery March, so four times that So it's
coming out to nine vehicles per day. So wow, I
guess that doesn't change through the course of the year.
But then there was something that was understood even more
it was more disturbing, and that was that the rate
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that the Houston Police Department uses for cases that were
quote unquote cleared shows that a vehicle is cleared before
anything is actually really done, so that case isn't actually cleared,
it's just marked as cleared. I learned something within the
last year that I found very fascinating. Maybe you'll find
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an interesting, maybe you won't. Waterburger is a very popular
fast food restaurant in Texas, and I think most people
probably go to the drive through partly because you see
on social media there's a lot of fights and silliness inside.
You've got Democrats in there, you know, trying to kill
somebody because the lady forgot to put the ketchup in
their bag, or they didn't supersize when they were supposed to,
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or whatever else, And nobody wants to be around these people.
So you're there. You are in the drive through, and
you get up there and you order your food, and
they're clearly in the weeds, they're falling behind. You've come
in a busy time, and they say, could I get
you to pull up right over there?
Speaker 8 (29:21):
And you go, h.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, but that seems weird, but you do? You pull up?
And I asked that question on the air, and I
had a woman who worked at Waburger tell me that
the reason they have you pull up is that when
they report their public numbers up the chain as to
how fast an order is quote unquote cleared, the order
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is clear, there's a camera, and that camera uses artificial intelligence,
and from the time you pull up to the window
to the time you drive away is measured and recorded.
So let's say you're there for a minute and it's
clear they're not going to get you your food in
time for you to drive away in less than two minutes.
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If two minutes is the clear time that they're shooting for,
so at one thirty, they give you time to be
out of there by two minutes. The AI of the
system doesn't measure whether you pulled up forty feet and
an employee had to come all the way out and
hand you your food. So they wanted you to move
so they can clear that they're striving. It's all about
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hitting their numbers, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's
nothing wrong with having statistical analysis and goal setting and
these sorts of things. But that's the reason they're moving you.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
It's also true that major police departments play games with
how they report crimes. We've had major Democrat run cities
where they simply don't file cases and stories because if
they did, then have to admit that they had more
murders this year than last. Anyway, here was a story
from ABC thirty.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
It's a jab in the chest. I worked my butt
off for that drug and it's gone in less than
ten minutes.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
Ten minutes that's how long Bobby Brown says it took
for thieves to steal his new truck from in front
of his home Monday morning. He says he called nine
one one, went to the location of the truck's last
GPS ping, even flagged down law enforcement in the area
of the truck, but Brown says he was told there
was nothing anyone could do.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I've just been sitting here blind this whole week. Followed
the report on Monday, I had a mis work Monday
and Tuesday. Lucky I could go back to work Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
Brown says. On Thursday, Houston Police told him no investigator
would be assigned to the case, that the truck was
listed as stolen and they would keep an eye out
for it. ABC thirteen called HPD on Friday. They confirmed
that Brown did make a report with them, but say
they have no mention in the report about a GPS.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Device being on the truck.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
After we called, an investigator was assigned to Brown's case.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I said, you shouldn't have to have worry that the
news is about to do a report, knowing that HPD
isn't doing anything, and now you want to sign a detective.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I think it's crazy.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
According to HPD data, from January to March of this year,
two seven and ninety nine vehicles were reported stolen, which
is less than we saw in the same timeframe last year. However,
more cases have been cleared so far this year. The
Department of Public Safety marks a case cleared with somebody
who has been arrested in the case. Brown says days
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later he's not confident he'll ever see his car again,
but wonders if police had acted faster, if that could
have changed.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I feel like it's all a mess right now. I
have to do all the work when I feel like
it's their job, as in me going to the location
of the last note ping, I shouldn't have to do that.
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