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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense
will see us through With the common sense of Houston,
I'm just pro common sense for Houston from Houston. This
is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by viewind
dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, time to exercise a pet peever two would
you care to do that? We all have pet peace
when it comes to driving, whether you're talking about other
people's driving habits, people cutting you off, people who are
not paying My big one is people who are not
paying attention. They're on their cell phone. They get to
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a light, and you know, they can't sit there quietly
and wait for the light to change. They have to
get on their cell phone or maybe they're on their
cell phone and texting while they're driving and all that,
and they don't know when the light changes and they
just sit there and and we, being Texans and Southerners,
are generally pretty polite, right. We don't like to honk
a horn of people because when you hawk your horn,
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one of two things is going to happen. Either the
person in front of you that you honked, he's gonna
think you're rude, or even the people behind you might
think you're rude you don't honk your horn, or they
might set them off. Well, listen, if you're not paying
attention at the light, you're gonna get a little what
I call a love beep. You know, not that not
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that you know, you know, hanging on that horn, you know,
pushing it hard. Just the beep, beep, beepeep, Hello, wake up?
Be beep? You know, just a just a light one.
If it's every then that then that can cause problems.
But but you know enough about that. Here's here's the
pet peeve I would like to address today. And what
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got me started on this was Lee Selden, who is
the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Evidently he's
also pissed off about the auto stop feature on his car.
You buy a car and it has auto stop. Auto
stop is that thing that where when you come to
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a light or when you stop, if you're idling for
more than a few seconds, it seems then your engine
you can hear your engine cut off and then it'll
start again when you hit the accelerator. Now, some people
are not bothered by this, but it bothers the bejeebers
out of me. I had a Chevy Traverse that did
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not have an off button. Most vehicles will have a
button you can push to turn the auto stop off,
but you have to push the button to turn it
off every time you start up the vehicle. My Traverse
didn't have that. There was no way to disable. Well,
I turned out there was a way, but there was
no button to push to disable the auto stop. What
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you would have to do is you'd have to put
it into the low gear and then there was a
plus minus on the shifter and you could if you
hit plus, it would take you through all the different
speeds of the transmission. I want to say mine was
nine speed, a nine speed transmission, so you'd have to
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hit that button nine times to get the full range
that transmission was capable of. Then if you did that,
then it wouldn't stop on you at the stoplight. But
that was the only way to opt out of it.
But anyway, here's Lee's Eldon obviously bothered by it, and
evidently as the administrator of the EPA, ready to do
something about it.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Why do most Americans despise it? And to the level
of most Americans with a hatred of saying that this
is the single worst feature.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
In their motor vehicle.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
They want they want it eliminated. EPATT over a dozen
years ago, about thirteen years ago approved and off cycle
credit for this feature, and a lot of Americans over
the course of the last dozen years have grown in
frustration as they've had this experience where you're going to
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a red light and your car is stopping, maybe you're
in an area where your car is constantly turning on
and turning off. You start wondering, okay, so if this
saves a little bit, maybe if it saves a little
bit and gas, what is it doing to my starter?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Was it doing to my engine? Is is it safe?
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And some people say, okay, you give me the ability
every time I turn my car on to turn the
feature off while I'm driving, But why don't you just
give me the option to opt out where I don't
have to turn it off every single time.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
My car starts.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So universally, is it possible that every single one of
your watchers, your listeners all hate it, Nor is it
quite possible that most people watching us now are nodding
their head in the agreement saying yes, thank you again,
so what.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Are you gonna So then what are you gonna What
are you actually gonna do about it? Right, because at
the end of the day, there are sort of these
these fuel economy credits attached to this. But are you
going to say, you know what, cars that are built
in the US can't have it, have this?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What do you actually do about it?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
EPA, we go through the process of revoking its approval
on the off on the off cycle credit.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
All right, take away the financial incentive to the automotive manufacturers,
is what Lee Zeldon is saying. So we did the
question of the Day on the morning show in k
t r H today. I just wanted to see if
everybody else was as bothered by this auto stuff feature
as I was. Let's see how that turned up.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kiddy in the city.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We've manually disabled our auto stop start feature YouTube.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's really easy, take thirty seconds.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Why is that the car companies getting credit for a
discount that but and they're not asking it off Somewhere
the price of vehicles have gone way out of the
sweet I hate the ft, get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
My car would die to stop that for free. Now
we gotta pay for it. I hate it.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Hey, what's up, Jimmy, you know who this is. Yeah,
I hate this stupid freaking thing. I literally I was
pulling out onto the road and the thing kind of
you know, did this auto start thing and I almost
got a new accident.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It like it took a second to get it to start.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
So I always turned this thing off every time I
get in it because it's a peny ass. Yeah, I
almost kind of active because it's stupid thing.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I hate it. I hate it needs to go away.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Eric Messer here in Beaumont, Texas. I hate the auto
start feature in the new vehicles. I'm constantly having to
turn that off. I wish they would eliminate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Here. Here's here's my question.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Maybe there are a handful of people out there who
like this feature, and that's fine. If you like the feature,
sure you should have the ability to use it. I
don't know what it's really doing to help the planet
when you get right down to it, but I'm sure
there's somebody out there that thinks it's good for the environment,
although the head of the EPA doesn't think so. But
here's my question. Why don't we make it an opt
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in feature instead of an opt out. My Silverado has
a button for auto stop. It automatically comes on when
you turn the vehicle on, and in order to turn
the auto stop off, you have to push the button.
What if we made it so that when my car
stops starts up, that button is not pushed, and that
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if I want to use the auto stop feature, then
I push the button to use it. If I don't,
then it knows I don't want to do it. That
alone would save a lot of frustration. If I didn't
have to push that button every dog on time I
started the vehicle up, maybe I wouldn't be so frustrated
with it. All right, quick little back with Varner Mom
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a Jimmy Bear show. Here an Am nine fifty k PRC.
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Have you heard what former f I director James Comey did.
I would think by now, you know, at the four
o'clock hour of the afternoon on Friday. I'm thinking you've
probably heard about it by now, But just in case
you didn't, and even if you did, it's worth talking
about former FBI director James coming Now. We get it.
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He hates Trump with a passion. He is a he
is a he is a he's a progressive. How he
got to be the head of the FBI. I'm not sure,
but he clearly is not a good example for law
enforcement or for human beings in general. Here's what he
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did in a way to show how much he hates
Trump is Evidently he's walking on the beach and he
claims that he sees a design made out of seashells,
and he takes a picture of it, and he realizes
what it is. So he posted on his Facebook page
along with the caption this is cool or some words
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of that effect. Didn't say that much about it, just
that this is cool, all right. So what did he
take a picture of. What was the design of the seashells? Well,
the seashells were arranged in a pattern of numbers. First
number was eight, the second number was six, the third
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number was four, and the fourth number was seven eight
six four seven eighty forty seven, oh eighty six forty seven. Well,
you know who forty seven is, right, arch enemy to
him anyway, Donald Trump? He's president forty seven forty five
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as well. But forty seven, what about the eighty six?
What does that mean? What do you need me to
explain that to you? No, I didn't think so does
everybody know what that means? It can mean, it can mean.
I guess if you're talking about the world of restaurants,
when you eighty six a customer, you don't serve them,
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you don't you don't take care of them. In the
world of the mafia, or in the world of yeah,
in the world of organized crime, eighty six is when
you kill somebody, you eliminate them, you remove them. Yeah,
we got eighty six this guy. Yeah, that means you kellman,
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stuff him in the trunck of a car or whatever. So,
whether you're talking about refusing service or you're talking about
killing somebody, this strikes me as a direct threat to
the president of the United States. And this is the
former FBI director doing this, and then he tries to
make a claim he didn't know what the eighty six meant.
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I thought it was something political. But seriously, you mean
to tell me, sir, that in your years with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, you had no dealings with organized crime.
You had never heard the term eighty six somebody. You'd
never heard that before. You obviously thought you obviously knew
it meant something when you took a picture of it
and boasted it. So now, thank god that we have
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the current Department of Justice, Pam Bondy as the Attorney General,
and the Cash Betels the head of the FBI, and
this current justice system, this is going to be investigated.
At the very least, this guy's can be made much
more uncomfortable, and at the very least that needs to happen.
We've had two assassination attempts on President Trump. You know
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fully well what eighty six forty seven was when you
put it up there. This is the director of the
FBI basically trying to encourage somebody. He says, I don't
believe in violence. Okay, you don't believe in violence for yourself,
but you wouldn't mind if somebody else killed Trump?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I think that's what I think. That's what that's all about.
They asked Tulcay Gabbard, who was Director of National Intelligence
these days, about the whole James Cummy situation, and here
she is.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Are you buying that the former FBI director didn't know
what eighty six Trump meant?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Jesse that that is a ridiculous and insane statement to make,
certainly within this context, but especially coming from a guy
who's the former director of the FBI, a guy who
spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, people
who know and execute other humans, and use this exact
lingo of eighty six Kmy himself admitted in his follow
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on message that he knew that this was a political statement. Well,
the only reason he knew that, Jesse was because a
little over a month ago, a bunch of anti Trump,
anti Elon Musk protesters were proliferating the use of this
eighty six forty seven slogan, which was a veiled call
to action to murder the sitting president of the United States.
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So for Komy to think that we the American people
are so stupid as to think that he, as a
former FBI director, former prosecutor, and someone who clearly pays
attention to what's going on, would believe his lie that
he didn't know what this actually was calling for. The
dangerousness of this, Jesse cannot be underestimated. When we have
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two assassination attempts on the president's life, when we have
people who look two guys like Komee who've been celebrated
by MSNBC and the Democratic Lead and CNN as the
beacon of integrity, the law and order guy, the guy
who would tell the truth no matter what the consequences.
This is the guy who's issuing a hit on President Trump,
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the president that the American people voted for.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So it's guys like Comy.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
And others who called the president the modern day Nazi,
people who are in great positions of influence, who are
saying that President Trump poses an existential threat to our country.
These are people who hate democracy and hate the American
people because they cannot stand that the people overwhelmingly chose
to elect Donald Trump and send him back to the
White House. So they are seeking other means to get
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their way and to try to remove him from that position.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
All right, and let's put this in another perspective as well.
Let's say that President Trump was not elected. Let's say
Kamala Harris was elected and somebody took a picture. You me,
anybody took a picture on the beach of seashells arranged
eighty six forty seven. Only now she's forty seven, not Trump.
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You I think they're going to assume eighty six. Men,
you think anybody's gonna say, well, don't give her any
service at a restaurant. No, there can consider that, they
would consider that that Department of Justice, that FBI would
consider that a direct threat, and Secret Service would be
knocking on your door, if not knocking it down wanting
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to talk to you, Yeah, they would be interrogating you
or me or anybody else who did that. So I
think we need to make sure we release return that
favor to James coming. He needs to be treated that way.
He needs to un He more than anybody else, should
understand the ramifications of his actions. You make a threat,
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you make a threat about that, then you just completely
have to you have to pay the consequences. So I'm
hoping that the FBI calls him in, and I'm hoping
very much that the Secret Service sits down and meets
with him, and I hope that he at least walks
away from this with a very very clear understanding that
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something like that should not happen again under any circumstances. Now,
I bet the media, I bet the progressive media is
not going to report this. Why would they? Why would
the progressive media report this? Right, this is not gonna
be much of a story on CNN or ABC or
the NBC or CBS because nothing has changed when it
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comes to the mainstream media. They are conducting themselves exactly
the same way, and they're probably all supporting what James
Comedy did. Here's Greg Guttfeld talking about something like that.
So it raises a new question. If we're tired of
the media's lies, why aren't they tired of it too.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
I mean, I can understand a liar continuing to lie
if it pays off. That's how I talk my way
past the height restrictions on most roller coasters. But what
if the filter you use keeps predicting the wrong outcome?
When you get tired of that, when you go back
to the drawing board, when you see that it doesn't
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work anymore. It's like when I realized I can't keep
firing my secretaries when they won't date me.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Again.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
It's one thing to make millions selling swampland in Florida,
but it's another thing to try to sell swampland, and
it's you who ends up in the moss and the mud.
The grift isn't just not working out on us, it's
not working for them either, And surely by now the
media and Dems have heard enough of the criticism they're
out of ideas, they're too woke, too disconnected from voters.
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But it's clear they still ignore it because they haven't changed.
But what they can't ignore is that the filter they're
using to perceive reality particts nothing except defeat in misery.
Think of the mindset that led them to embrace the
Maryland Dad, that led them to think men could play
in women's sports, that led them to think this corpse
was conscious or this clown could win. Their mindset led
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them to think parents would accept tampons in boys' bathroom.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, well, nothing has changed, and I don't know why
I'm surprised by it anymore. I just I guess I
keep expecting the legacy media to just kind of wake
up and say, Hey, this is this is what this
is what the people want. But they they don't really
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care what the people want. They want what they want
and it's a completely different set of values than the
rest of us have. All right, quick little break, We
are back with more in a moment Jimmy Bart Show
here on a nine fifty K p or C. Hey
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if I mentioned to you, I'm sure I have, But
for the sake of talking about what we're going to
talk about here in our last segment today on this Friday,
I'll mention it again in case in case you didn't
hear me mention before. We've got a group of listeners
who are going to Greece next month around the around
the nineteenth of June. I don't know, I can. I
guess I better better lock that date in, right, are
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gonna be going on that trip, but we were taking
a We're flying to Athens and then we are we're
taking a tour of Athens, and then we're doing a
Greek island cruise. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
It was a bucket list item for Elizabeth, me and
I'm guessing for our twenty some odd listeners that are
going along with us. So we may do this again.
(19:32):
Maybe not that that particular trip, but we might. We
might do an annual thing. I don't know, uh, annual
trip kind of thing. So I'll keep you posted on
that in case you want to join us in the future.
It's uh, it's fun to vacation with other people who
like doing the same things you like to do, So
we just might do that again. The only thing that
concerns me this is our regular group is going through.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
JFK.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I think on American airlines, I'm gonna work they're Ununited
because we well, we have a lot of frequent flyer
miles on United and that helps to the cost and
upgrades and all that kind of stuff, because that is
a long flight and I just couldn't imagine myself sitting
in economy for two and a half hours to the
East coast and then another eleven hours degree. Man, that's
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a long time to be on board a plane. So
we ended up going through United, and we ended up
booking through Newark. Yeah, and we did this like maybe
a week or so before the news broke about all
the problems. Now we've we've known that Newark is a
problem placed for a long long time. My wife, who
used to work for Continental Airlines, which is now part
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of United, is fond of saying, when a bird poops,
they shut it down. Bird poops on the runway, they
shut it down. It's not quite that bad, but it's
almost that bad. And they've had all the equipment problems
that they've had, and it's what kind of brought all
this to attention here. You know, the radar going down,
the communication lines, other issues that they've had at Newark.
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In just highlighting, we don't have enough air traffic controllers,
we don't have appropriate equipment, we don't have modernized equipment.
A lot of these airports are running with equipment that's
thirty plus years old, nowhere near the latest technology available.
It's a wonder that flying is as safe as it is.
The question is is it's safe to fly into Newark?
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At this point's probably too late for me to change
the flight, So I guess I'm going to find out.
Maybe I'll be able to do a report after this
trip is over and done with. We're coming back through
Dulles in Washington, but we're going through Newark on our
way there. If I could just get there, I guess
I'll be okay. But anyway, the reason why bring all
this up is that Senator John Kennedy was asking questions
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of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy came to testify about what's
going on with air traffic control and what's going on
at Newark and other airports that are having similar issue
use and one thing I think they all wanted to
make pretty clear at least uh Senator Kennedy and Seawan
Duffy wanted to make clear is because you know, the
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the Progressive had been talking about you know, funding UH
and Doge and claiming that they've been, you know, they've
been letting air traffic controllers go, and they've been firing
you know, people involved with safety with the f a A,
you know, with these Doge cuts, and that could not
be further from the truth. As far as the people
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let go, you know from from from the f a A,
none of them had anything to do with safety or
air traffic control. So here's the here's the conversation as
Senator Kennedy tries to get the record straight with Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy, when you got.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
To the department, mcame, Secretary, did you punt? Did you
fire a bunch of traffic air traffic control?
Speaker 10 (22:55):
I did not, Senator, did mister Musk do that? He
did not.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Not Where'd all the stuff come from?
Speaker 10 (23:04):
So there were about three hundred and fifty probationary employees
at the FAA that were let go, and we're trying
to stream whether there's forty six thousand people that work
at the FAA. So this was a minuscule percentage, but
even air traffic controllers who were probationary employees were excluded.
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All safety positions were preserved at the FAA, including air
traffic controllers. And so I think it's a narrative that
some in media and in politics have tried to drive
as if we're not focused on safety.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Let's say it one more time. Yes, when you became secretary,
look me in the eye, did you fire any air
traffic control works?
Speaker 10 (23:45):
I did not, okay, and I did hire air traffic control,
did mister Musk. So, by the way, mister Musk doesn't
fire or hire anybody at the department.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I do.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
And so no, he didn't fire anybody, including air traffic controllers.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
When most people go through through TSA, they take your picture.
They have a little camera there and they say look
in the in the camera, we want to take your picture. Now.
Underneath it is this little bitty sign that you can
barely see, and I think it's written in Sanskrit that
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says this is option. I won't let them take my picture.
I won't either, Senator, And they promised us that they
destroy the data.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
I actually try to turn my head away from the
camera when I go through and they're taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
There's no need.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I think Americans have a right to privacy, and I
don't think you need a digital scan in my face
to allow me to have their way to fly on
an airplane. I think it's absolutely wrong. And what does
it do to security? I don't think it breeds any
more security.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You know, I hadn't really thought till I heard this segment.
I hadn't really thought that much about the picture taking process.
You know, you have a tendency to work your way
through the lines so quickly that you don't really think
about it that much. But for example, I am I
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am cleared for what is the name of the program
I'm trying, I'm losing my train of thought here the
name of the program where you are vetted ahead of
time by the government and you pay a little extra
money so that you can, you know, you can avoid
the long lines and you know the and and get
sort of the minimal tsa inspection. Let's put it that way.
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So if if if I have been vetted, you know
who I am. Uh, you know I'm not a terrorist.
You know I'm I'm not a fleeing criminal, and and
I've I've already earned this special exemption. You know why
is it that you need to take my picture? Are
you just taking it for the sake of taking it,
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or are you doing something with it?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The claim is, as you just heard, the claim is,
is that the facial recognition technology to verify your identity
by comparing a live photo to the photo on your
identification document like a driver's license or passport. I mean,
that's redundant. That's redundant. You've got an agent right there
who's taking the picture. They're capable of looking at your
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driver's license, determining whether or not your driver's license is
real or fake, and whether or not that picture's of you. Now,
they claim that they store this stuff for a minimum
period of time, that it's within a controlled testing environment,
and that the photos are not stored or saved. Do
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you believe that that's the case. I mean, I'm not
saying they're lying. I just I'm just questioning. I'm not
sure that that's really the case. All Right, have to
leave it at that. You all have a great weekend. Okay,
We will see you Monday morning, right nearly five am
over on news radio seven forty k t r H.
Hope to see you Monday afternoon. Four You're an Am
nine fifty k p r c
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense
will see us through With the common sense of Houston,
I'm just pro common sense for Houston from Houston. This
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, time to exercise a pet peever two would
you care to do that? We all have pet peace
when it comes to driving, whether you're talking about other
people's driving habits, people cutting you off, people who are
not paying My big one is people who are not
paying attention. They're on their cell phone. They get to
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a light, and you know, they can't sit there quietly
and wait for the light to change. They have to
get on their cell phone or maybe they're on their
cell phone and texting while they're driving and all that,
and they don't know when the light changes and they
just sit there and and we, being Texans and Southerners,
are generally pretty polite, right. We don't like to honk
a horn of people because when you hawk your horn,
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one of two things is going to happen. Either the
person in front of you that you honked, he's gonna
think you're rude, or even the people behind you might
think you're rude you don't honk your horn, or they
might set them off. Well, listen, if you're not paying
attention at the light, you're gonna get a little what
I call a love beep. You know, not that not
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that you know, you know, hanging on that horn, you know,
pushing it hard. Just the beep, beep, beepeep, Hello, wake up?
Be beep? You know, just a just a light one.
If it's every then that then that can cause problems.
But but you know enough about that. Here's here's the
pet peeve I would like to address today. And what
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got me started on this was Lee Selden, who is
the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Evidently he's
also pissed off about the auto stop feature on his car.
You buy a car and it has auto stop. Auto
stop is that thing that where when you come to
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a light or when you stop, if you're idling for
more than a few seconds, it seems then your engine
you can hear your engine cut off and then it'll
start again when you hit the accelerator. Now, some people
are not bothered by this, but it bothers the bejeebers
out of me. I had a Chevy Traverse that did
(02:37):
not have an off button. Most vehicles will have a
button you can push to turn the auto stop off,
but you have to push the button to turn it
off every time you start up the vehicle. My Traverse
didn't have that. There was no way to disable. Well,
I turned out there was a way, but there was
no button to push to disable the auto stop. What
(03:00):
you would have to do is you'd have to put
it into the low gear and then there was a
plus minus on the shifter and you could if you
hit plus, it would take you through all the different
speeds of the transmission. I want to say mine was
nine speed, a nine speed transmission, so you'd have to
(03:21):
hit that button nine times to get the full range
that transmission was capable of. Then if you did that,
then it wouldn't stop on you at the stoplight. But
that was the only way to opt out of it.
But anyway, here's Lee's Eldon obviously bothered by it, and
evidently as the administrator of the EPA, ready to do
something about it.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Why do most Americans despise it? And to the level
of most Americans with a hatred of saying that this
is the single worst feature.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
In their motor vehicle.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
They want they want it eliminated. EPATT over a dozen
years ago, about thirteen years ago approved and off cycle
credit for this feature, and a lot of Americans over
the course of the last dozen years have grown in
frustration as they've had this experience where you're going to
(04:15):
a red light and your car is stopping, maybe you're
in an area where your car is constantly turning on
and turning off. You start wondering, okay, so if this
saves a little bit, maybe if it saves a little
bit and gas, what is it doing to my starter?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Was it doing to my engine? Is is it safe?
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And some people say, okay, you give me the ability
every time I turn my car on to turn the
feature off while I'm driving, But why don't you just
give me the option to opt out where I don't
have to turn it off every single time.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
My car starts.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So universally, is it possible that every single one of
your watchers, your listeners all hate it, Nor is it
quite possible that most people watching us now are nodding
their head in the agreement saying yes, thank you again,
so what.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Are you gonna So then what are you gonna What
are you actually gonna do about it? Right, because at
the end of the day, there are sort of these
these fuel economy credits attached to this. But are you
going to say, you know what, cars that are built
in the US can't have it, have this?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What do you actually do about it?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
EPA, we go through the process of revoking its approval
on the off on the off cycle credit.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
All right, take away the financial incentive to the automotive manufacturers,
is what Lee Zeldon is saying. So we did the
question of the Day on the morning show in k
t r H today. I just wanted to see if
everybody else was as bothered by this auto stuff feature
as I was. Let's see how that turned up.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kiddy in the city.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We've manually disabled our auto stop start feature YouTube.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's really easy, take thirty seconds.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Why is that the car companies getting credit for a
discount that but and they're not asking it off Somewhere
the price of vehicles have gone way out of the
sweet I hate the ft, get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
My car would die to stop that for free. Now
we gotta pay for it. I hate it.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Hey, what's up, Jimmy, you know who this is. Yeah,
I hate this stupid freaking thing. I literally I was
pulling out onto the road and the thing kind of
you know, did this auto start thing and I almost
got a new accident.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It like it took a second to get it to start.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
So I always turned this thing off every time I
get in it because it's a peny ass. Yeah, I
almost kind of active because it's stupid thing.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I hate it. I hate it needs to go away.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Eric Messer here in Beaumont, Texas. I hate the auto
start feature in the new vehicles. I'm constantly having to
turn that off. I wish they would eliminate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Here. Here's here's my question.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Maybe there are a handful of people out there who
like this feature, and that's fine. If you like the feature,
sure you should have the ability to use it. I
don't know what it's really doing to help the planet
when you get right down to it, but I'm sure
there's somebody out there that thinks it's good for the environment,
although the head of the EPA doesn't think so. But
here's my question. Why don't we make it an opt
(07:18):
in feature instead of an opt out. My Silverado has
a button for auto stop. It automatically comes on when
you turn the vehicle on, and in order to turn
the auto stop off, you have to push the button.
What if we made it so that when my car
stops starts up, that button is not pushed, and that
(07:41):
if I want to use the auto stop feature, then
I push the button to use it. If I don't,
then it knows I don't want to do it. That
alone would save a lot of frustration. If I didn't
have to push that button every dog on time I
started the vehicle up, maybe I wouldn't be so frustrated
with it. All right, quick little back with Varner Mom
(08:01):
a Jimmy Bear show. Here an Am nine fifty k PRC.
(08:25):
Have you heard what former f I director James Comey did.
I would think by now, you know, at the four
o'clock hour of the afternoon on Friday. I'm thinking you've
probably heard about it by now, But just in case
you didn't, and even if you did, it's worth talking
about former FBI director James coming Now. We get it.
(08:46):
He hates Trump with a passion. He is a he
is a he is a he's a progressive. How he
got to be the head of the FBI. I'm not sure,
but he clearly is not a good example for law
enforcement or for human beings in general. Here's what he
(09:09):
did in a way to show how much he hates
Trump is Evidently he's walking on the beach and he
claims that he sees a design made out of seashells,
and he takes a picture of it, and he realizes
what it is. So he posted on his Facebook page
along with the caption this is cool or some words
(09:30):
of that effect. Didn't say that much about it, just
that this is cool, all right. So what did he
take a picture of. What was the design of the seashells? Well,
the seashells were arranged in a pattern of numbers. First
number was eight, the second number was six, the third
(09:51):
number was four, and the fourth number was seven eight
six four seven eighty forty seven, oh eighty six forty seven. Well,
you know who forty seven is, right, arch enemy to
him anyway, Donald Trump? He's president forty seven forty five
(10:16):
as well. But forty seven, what about the eighty six?
What does that mean? What do you need me to
explain that to you? No, I didn't think so does
everybody know what that means? It can mean, it can mean.
I guess if you're talking about the world of restaurants,
when you eighty six a customer, you don't serve them,
(10:39):
you don't you don't take care of them. In the
world of the mafia, or in the world of yeah,
in the world of organized crime, eighty six is when
you kill somebody, you eliminate them, you remove them. Yeah,
we got eighty six this guy. Yeah, that means you kellman,
(11:00):
stuff him in the trunck of a car or whatever. So,
whether you're talking about refusing service or you're talking about
killing somebody, this strikes me as a direct threat to
the president of the United States. And this is the
former FBI director doing this, and then he tries to
make a claim he didn't know what the eighty six meant.
(11:21):
I thought it was something political. But seriously, you mean
to tell me, sir, that in your years with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, you had no dealings with organized crime.
You had never heard the term eighty six somebody. You'd
never heard that before. You obviously thought you obviously knew
it meant something when you took a picture of it
and boasted it. So now, thank god that we have
(11:46):
the current Department of Justice, Pam Bondy as the Attorney General,
and the Cash Betels the head of the FBI, and
this current justice system, this is going to be investigated.
At the very least, this guy's can be made much
more uncomfortable, and at the very least that needs to happen.
We've had two assassination attempts on President Trump. You know
(12:10):
fully well what eighty six forty seven was when you
put it up there. This is the director of the
FBI basically trying to encourage somebody. He says, I don't
believe in violence. Okay, you don't believe in violence for yourself,
but you wouldn't mind if somebody else killed Trump?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I think that's what I think. That's what that's all about.
They asked Tulcay Gabbard, who was Director of National Intelligence
these days, about the whole James Cummy situation, and here
she is.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Are you buying that the former FBI director didn't know
what eighty six Trump meant?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Jesse that that is a ridiculous and insane statement to make,
certainly within this context, but especially coming from a guy
who's the former director of the FBI, a guy who
spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, people
who know and execute other humans, and use this exact
lingo of eighty six Kmy himself admitted in his follow
(13:02):
on message that he knew that this was a political statement. Well,
the only reason he knew that, Jesse was because a
little over a month ago, a bunch of anti Trump,
anti Elon Musk protesters were proliferating the use of this
eighty six forty seven slogan, which was a veiled call
to action to murder the sitting president of the United States.
(13:25):
So for Komy to think that we the American people
are so stupid as to think that he, as a
former FBI director, former prosecutor, and someone who clearly pays
attention to what's going on, would believe his lie that
he didn't know what this actually was calling for. The
dangerousness of this, Jesse cannot be underestimated. When we have
(13:46):
two assassination attempts on the president's life, when we have
people who look two guys like Komee who've been celebrated
by MSNBC and the Democratic Lead and CNN as the
beacon of integrity, the law and order guy, the guy
who would tell the truth no matter what the consequences.
This is the guy who's issuing a hit on President Trump,
(14:06):
the president that the American people voted for.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So it's guys like Comy.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
And others who called the president the modern day Nazi,
people who are in great positions of influence, who are
saying that President Trump poses an existential threat to our country.
These are people who hate democracy and hate the American
people because they cannot stand that the people overwhelmingly chose
to elect Donald Trump and send him back to the
White House. So they are seeking other means to get
(14:33):
their way and to try to remove him from that position.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
All right, and let's put this in another perspective as well.
Let's say that President Trump was not elected. Let's say
Kamala Harris was elected and somebody took a picture. You me,
anybody took a picture on the beach of seashells arranged
eighty six forty seven. Only now she's forty seven, not Trump.
(14:59):
You I think they're going to assume eighty six. Men,
you think anybody's gonna say, well, don't give her any
service at a restaurant. No, there can consider that, they
would consider that that Department of Justice, that FBI would
consider that a direct threat, and Secret Service would be
knocking on your door, if not knocking it down wanting
(15:21):
to talk to you, Yeah, they would be interrogating you
or me or anybody else who did that. So I
think we need to make sure we release return that
favor to James coming. He needs to be treated that way.
He needs to un He more than anybody else, should
understand the ramifications of his actions. You make a threat,
(15:43):
you make a threat about that, then you just completely
have to you have to pay the consequences. So I'm
hoping that the FBI calls him in, and I'm hoping
very much that the Secret Service sits down and meets
with him, and I hope that he at least walks
away from this with a very very clear understanding that
(16:05):
something like that should not happen again under any circumstances. Now,
I bet the media, I bet the progressive media is
not going to report this. Why would they? Why would
the progressive media report this? Right, this is not gonna
be much of a story on CNN or ABC or
the NBC or CBS because nothing has changed when it
(16:25):
comes to the mainstream media. They are conducting themselves exactly
the same way, and they're probably all supporting what James
Comedy did. Here's Greg Guttfeld talking about something like that.
So it raises a new question. If we're tired of
the media's lies, why aren't they tired of it too.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
I mean, I can understand a liar continuing to lie
if it pays off. That's how I talk my way
past the height restrictions on most roller coasters. But what
if the filter you use keeps predicting the wrong outcome?
When you get tired of that, when you go back
to the drawing board, when you see that it doesn't
(17:03):
work anymore. It's like when I realized I can't keep
firing my secretaries when they won't date me.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Again.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
It's one thing to make millions selling swampland in Florida,
but it's another thing to try to sell swampland, and
it's you who ends up in the moss and the mud.
The grift isn't just not working out on us, it's
not working for them either, And surely by now the
media and Dems have heard enough of the criticism they're
out of ideas, they're too woke, too disconnected from voters.
(17:32):
But it's clear they still ignore it because they haven't changed.
But what they can't ignore is that the filter they're
using to perceive reality particts nothing except defeat in misery.
Think of the mindset that led them to embrace the
Maryland Dad, that led them to think men could play
in women's sports, that led them to think this corpse
was conscious or this clown could win. Their mindset led
(17:57):
them to think parents would accept tampons in boys' bathroom.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, well, nothing has changed, and I don't know why
I'm surprised by it anymore. I just I guess I
keep expecting the legacy media to just kind of wake
up and say, Hey, this is this is what this
is what the people want. But they they don't really
(18:22):
care what the people want. They want what they want
and it's a completely different set of values than the
rest of us have. All right, quick little break, We
are back with more in a moment Jimmy Bart Show
here on a nine fifty K p or C. Hey
(18:50):
if I mentioned to you, I'm sure I have, But
for the sake of talking about what we're going to
talk about here in our last segment today on this Friday,
I'll mention it again in case in case you didn't
hear me mention before. We've got a group of listeners
who are going to Greece next month around the around
the nineteenth of June. I don't know, I can. I
guess I better better lock that date in, right, are
(19:11):
gonna be going on that trip, but we were taking
a We're flying to Athens and then we are we're
taking a tour of Athens, and then we're doing a
Greek island cruise. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
It was a bucket list item for Elizabeth, me and
I'm guessing for our twenty some odd listeners that are
going along with us. So we may do this again.
(19:32):
Maybe not that that particular trip, but we might. We
might do an annual thing. I don't know, uh, annual
trip kind of thing. So I'll keep you posted on
that in case you want to join us in the future.
It's uh, it's fun to vacation with other people who
like doing the same things you like to do, So
we just might do that again. The only thing that
concerns me this is our regular group is going through.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
JFK.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I think on American airlines, I'm gonna work they're Ununited
because we well, we have a lot of frequent flyer
miles on United and that helps to the cost and
upgrades and all that kind of stuff, because that is
a long flight and I just couldn't imagine myself sitting
in economy for two and a half hours to the
East coast and then another eleven hours degree. Man, that's
(20:17):
a long time to be on board a plane. So
we ended up going through United, and we ended up
booking through Newark. Yeah, and we did this like maybe
a week or so before the news broke about all
the problems. Now we've we've known that Newark is a
problem placed for a long long time. My wife, who
used to work for Continental Airlines, which is now part
(20:39):
of United, is fond of saying, when a bird poops,
they shut it down. Bird poops on the runway, they
shut it down. It's not quite that bad, but it's
almost that bad. And they've had all the equipment problems
that they've had, and it's what kind of brought all
this to attention here. You know, the radar going down,
the communication lines, other issues that they've had at Newark.
(21:02):
In just highlighting, we don't have enough air traffic controllers,
we don't have appropriate equipment, we don't have modernized equipment.
A lot of these airports are running with equipment that's
thirty plus years old, nowhere near the latest technology available.
It's a wonder that flying is as safe as it is.
The question is is it's safe to fly into Newark?
(21:25):
At this point's probably too late for me to change
the flight, So I guess I'm going to find out.
Maybe I'll be able to do a report after this
trip is over and done with. We're coming back through
Dulles in Washington, but we're going through Newark on our
way there. If I could just get there, I guess
I'll be okay. But anyway, the reason why bring all
this up is that Senator John Kennedy was asking questions
(21:48):
of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy came to testify about what's
going on with air traffic control and what's going on
at Newark and other airports that are having similar issue
use and one thing I think they all wanted to
make pretty clear at least uh Senator Kennedy and Seawan
Duffy wanted to make clear is because you know, the
(22:09):
the Progressive had been talking about you know, funding UH
and Doge and claiming that they've been, you know, they've
been letting air traffic controllers go, and they've been firing
you know, people involved with safety with the f a A,
you know, with these Doge cuts, and that could not
be further from the truth. As far as the people
(22:30):
let go, you know from from from the f a A,
none of them had anything to do with safety or
air traffic control. So here's the here's the conversation as
Senator Kennedy tries to get the record straight with Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy, when you got.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
To the department, mcame, Secretary, did you punt? Did you
fire a bunch of traffic air traffic control?
Speaker 10 (22:55):
I did not, Senator, did mister Musk do that? He
did not.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Not Where'd all the stuff come from?
Speaker 10 (23:04):
So there were about three hundred and fifty probationary employees
at the FAA that were let go, and we're trying
to stream whether there's forty six thousand people that work
at the FAA. So this was a minuscule percentage, but
even air traffic controllers who were probationary employees were excluded.
(23:24):
All safety positions were preserved at the FAA, including air
traffic controllers. And so I think it's a narrative that
some in media and in politics have tried to drive
as if we're not focused on safety.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Let's say it one more time. Yes, when you became secretary,
look me in the eye, did you fire any air
traffic control works?
Speaker 10 (23:45):
I did not, okay, and I did hire air traffic control,
did mister Musk. So, by the way, mister Musk doesn't
fire or hire anybody at the department.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I do.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
And so no, he didn't fire anybody, including air traffic controllers.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
When most people go through through TSA, they take your picture.
They have a little camera there and they say look
in the in the camera, we want to take your picture. Now.
Underneath it is this little bitty sign that you can
barely see, and I think it's written in Sanskrit that
(24:21):
says this is option. I won't let them take my picture.
I won't either, Senator, And they promised us that they
destroy the data.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
I actually try to turn my head away from the
camera when I go through and they're taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
There's no need.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I think Americans have a right to privacy, and I
don't think you need a digital scan in my face
to allow me to have their way to fly on
an airplane. I think it's absolutely wrong. And what does
it do to security? I don't think it breeds any
more security.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You know, I hadn't really thought till I heard this segment.
I hadn't really thought that much about the picture taking process.
You know, you have a tendency to work your way
through the lines so quickly that you don't really think
about it that much. But for example, I am I
(25:18):
am cleared for what is the name of the program
I'm trying, I'm losing my train of thought here the
name of the program where you are vetted ahead of
time by the government and you pay a little extra
money so that you can, you know, you can avoid
the long lines and you know the and and get
sort of the minimal tsa inspection. Let's put it that way.
(25:39):
So if if if I have been vetted, you know
who I am. Uh, you know I'm not a terrorist.
You know I'm I'm not a fleeing criminal, and and
I've I've already earned this special exemption. You know why
is it that you need to take my picture? Are
you just taking it for the sake of taking it,
(26:02):
or are you doing something with it?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The claim is, as you just heard, the claim is,
is that the facial recognition technology to verify your identity
by comparing a live photo to the photo on your
identification document like a driver's license or passport. I mean,
that's redundant. That's redundant. You've got an agent right there
who's taking the picture. They're capable of looking at your
(26:27):
driver's license, determining whether or not your driver's license is
real or fake, and whether or not that picture's of you. Now,
they claim that they store this stuff for a minimum
period of time, that it's within a controlled testing environment,
and that the photos are not stored or saved. Do
(26:48):
you believe that that's the case. I mean, I'm not
saying they're lying. I just I'm just questioning. I'm not
sure that that's really the case. All Right, have to
leave it at that. You all have a great weekend. Okay,
We will see you Monday morning, right nearly five am
over on news radio seven forty k t r H.
Hope to see you Monday afternoon. Four You're an Am
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