PM Show Hr 1 | Ripples from the Biden Era Have Killed Spirit Airlines

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is on the air. Thousands of air travelers are waking up. to the news that their flights are cancelled after Spirit Airlines ended operations overnight. We're here right now at the Marine Air Terminal, otherwise known as Terminal A at LaGuardia Airport. And as until just overnight, it was exclusively servicing Spirit flights. Obviously, that is no more. The airline shuddering overnight, telling passengers who are stranded, some have even come into this terminal expecting to get on their flights, and they have been now turned away here. So in 2023, Biden administration sued to block that nearly $4 billion merger. In 2024, the federal judge blocked it. The Biden administration brought that lawsuit. It caused spirit not once, but twice to file for bankruptcy in 2024 and 2025. This is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration. In September 22, Elizabeth Warren, who loves to write letters, sent a letter to the Justice Department, to the labor, to the transport department, saying that they should oppose a merger with spared airlines. JetBlue wanted to buy them for $3.8 billion. It would have given them much more resiliency. And she and the transportation sector... Secretary Pete Buttigieg is probably the worst transportation secretary in history when he came to the office. They also were against the merger. And if JetBlue had merged with Spirit, we would have all these jobs that were lost yesterday. We had 30 airport, 30 regional airports who have lost service. When I mentioned Spirit Airways, most people that I know would think, oh, I ain't about to ride that plane. Because you've seen all the viral videos. You've seen the brawls in their terminal waiting on a flight to land or waiting on a flight to leave. You've heard the stories of what happens on the plane. You've seen the two employees fighting with each other. You've seen the two employees who wouldn't give the guy his ticket because they didn't like him because he was white and they were black and they were racist, which happens a lot. And so people kind of got this impression of Spirit Airlines, accurate or not, that it's cheap and terrible. And so people said, I'll pay more, because Spirit was cheapest. I'll pay more than the cheapest ticket because it's worth it to me to not have to deal with the trash. And we do that every day. We pay a premium. Not for what we're getting, but for what we're avoiding every day. You don't even realize it. That house you have, that same house in a gun zone would cost a lot less. You paid more for that property than the commodity to get it costs. You paid to be in a better school district. You paid for things.

So it's about to happen. It's coming. Maybe audibly laugh when I tell a joke like that, so I know you thought it was funny. Mr. Michael Barry. Oh, no, I won't do that. It's too much, Ramon. Yeah. She won't go that far. That was so funny. Back in March, Minnesota's governor, Tim Walz, oh, he of indeterminate, was a victim of political retribution, he said. Minnesota was a victim of political retribution. amid the Somali fraud scandal. Y'all are just picking on us. However, as Liz Collin explains on Fox News, the actual retribution occurred with the Walsh administration against the whistleblowers who pointed it all out. Our nation's governors work hard every single day to combat fraud in their programs. But even as we confront issues similar to our sister states, the people of Minnesota have been singled out and targeted for political retribution at an unparalleled scale, including blocking Medicaid reimbursements to our state. But last night, he tried to take credit for these actions. So I wonder how it's playing inside Minneapolis. Of course, we're playing it here on national cable news, but what's it like locally? Well, it's really interesting to hear him talk about retribution. I can't tell you the number of stories we've done over at Alpha News. The local media here as well, all the whistleblowers that have come forward over the years specifically to the office of Governor Walls saying you need to take these concerns seriously, this widespread fraud. Not only not even returning their calls in many cases and emails, but then the retribution that happens. So many people demoted, demoralized. Some of them have left the state as a result. result of bringing up these concerns, and we continue to hear about that. So it really is interesting. I don't think it's sitting very well with many Minnesotans, anybody who's actually paying attention to the skyrocketing fraud that really, for the most part, has happened under the watch of government. Timmy Walts, of course, is taking all the credit for the fraud raids. So Mogadishu is both being picked on by the federal government, but he wants you to know he's the reason. for the raids because he wants to clean all this up. Wait. So this was going on under your nose, probably with your assistance, because state agencies were supposed to be digging into this as part of the covenants of the federal grants. The federal government doesn't perform very many functions. It mostly sends money to states, counties, and cities where the rubber hits the road. But it controls, or at least guides. what services are delivered and how, based on how they attach covenants and requirements and guidance to the money they send. So that makes the state and the county and the city an agent of the federal government. We get all the money. We want you to do this. Well, the state says, all right, we'll administer these social service dollars. And per your requirement, we'll make sure there's no fraud. We'll make sure that the daycare is actually a daycare and not just people with a PO box, as it turned out to be, collecting money claiming that they were a daycare or home health care or any number of other things. So now Jazz Hand Timmy is ready to celebrate his victories. I'm the one raiding these operations. No, you're not. You let them go on forever.

So he's having a good old-fashioned raid parade. Hey guys, don't mind me. I'm just twirling my baton, shining my flute, getting ready for this weekend's raid parade. That's right, it's time to celebrate. Everybody loves a good parade, especially Minnesota. Your boy Tim Walz has been bringing down the hammer and leading the way as I cracked down on those naughty, sneaky Somali suckers and all their fraud I never knew an itty-bitty thing about. What I do know about are raids. I remember back in college all the boys love to raid the sorority panty drawers. Not me, I would think outside the box and raid the football team's chalk straps. What a ball. Those things were like a super-soaker slingshot. I get 15 or 20 of those suckers and hide them under my bed for secret special occasions. What's that? Oh, the staff says I need to record a new commercial for the Minnesota Travel Association. You know, Timmy loves to sing. If you live to Minnesota, it snows, but you'll never ski. Ice fishing seems really fun at first until frostbite hits your knee. Our sports teams are average at their best. In August, you wear a vest. If you want to get rich here, you see, give birth to a Somali. Oh, wait, okay. What? Who wrote this? John Pierre, was that you? Ha! You know what? We'll do it live. What just do it live? So the collapse of our company, of our country, occurred at the local level. There's really not a major big city in America you would want to live in any longer. Not in preference to the suburbs or rural America. And what we're seeing, much the chagrin of people who were comfortably ensconced in what was for them an affordable home and an affordable community without a lot of crowds and without the kind of people who ride Spirit Airlines. What we're witnessing now is people moving out of the cities in droves. They're moving out into the countryside. They like the fact that it's quiet. They like the fact that there's no crime, no traffic congestion. You don't have to lock your doors. But as they move out, they bring some of the problems that they're fleeing. And many of them being urban dwellers, bring urban sensibilities.

White liberalism. Ah, this is really the downfall of Minnesota. Minnesota has always had, much like Wisconsin, an odd patchwork of politics. Because Minnesotans are actually Scandinavians or were, is what the country used to be. They were Scandinavians with kind of a... an American, Canadian bent. But they always had, as part of their religious doctrine, as part of their ancestral, cultural legacy, a leaning for socialism. Oh, they call it community. They call it responsibility. But it's socialism. It's a sharing. When the divide is measured between the individual and the collective, they lean toward the collective because the collective was a bunch of people that looked and acted just like them. Until in their kindness and guilt, they committed suicide. And they brought in people from Somalia who don't share their values. And now the collective has overwhelmed them. And they're having to flee Minnesota because, well, it's become a Somali. The Michael Barry Show. Our Rose. Ray Breyer's is the pipe man. He owns Pipeyard Inc. And they buy and sell pipe all day long. And I am shocked how much business we've been able to send him across the country. Entire pipelines going across three different states where they need to get the pipe pulled out. He's like, I'll pull the pipe out, I'll sell the pipe. People buying pipe, people selling pipe. The people that buy pipe are environmental managers, pipeline project managers. Somebody that's got an abandoned pipeline that's been removed. They want the pipe yard ink. Compliance and regulatory folks, they want to get those pipes out of there. Selling pipe, folks that need carbon steel pipe, the Pipyard Inc stocks everything you need, any kind of pipe. There is stuff that people call him for, industrial stuff, that he doesn't even have, and he tracks it down. He's working his phone, and his team is working their phones all day long. He's got a yard, they've got pipe. They are working the phones to get stuff for people all day long. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. I'm on testosterone, and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350 on your testosterone level, a very good chance your insurance will pay for you to have it. You know why? There's a lot of studies that say it's very good for you, not just your sex life, but your energy, your strength, all sorts of good things. Do your own research. Don't trust me. But you should do your research, and you should get your blood panels checked, and they'll do all that for you at synergenics. Go to fixmylote.com. Fix my lowt.com. Whether you write a check every month or it's on direct deposit or auto pay, you write a check to your insurance company for a reason. You could have spent that money on anything else. You made a good decision to hedge against bad things happen, and then it did.

Hurricane, windstorm damage, hail damage, fire, smoke, water damage. And that insurance company, 10 states away, denied your claim, and they should not have, and you know it. Go to claimdenied.com. It's the Chad T. Wilson Law firm, and they will fight for you. Claimdenied.com. 713-2-2-6,000. 713-2-2-6,000. We play so many games. The media plays games, influencers play games, talk show hosts, play games, politicians play games. They bait you with things that will fire you up, rage baiting, clickbaiting. There's all the sort of terms. It's all things designed to get engagement. There are things designed to make you... Stop what you're doing and click on something or listen to something or watch something. My industry is one of the worst about it, saying bombastic things for the sole purpose of getting people interested. People will sometimes ask me when I'm off here. Do you believe everything you say? Every word of it. Kind of insulted you think I would just say things. For the sole purpose of getting people engaged. I'm smart enough to understand what kind of things would upset people. But most of what I talk about is not what people came to the show wanting to hear in the first place. And I hear that daily. They want to hear me defend Trump against the evil empire, assayed against him. Did I just say assayed against him, Ramon? As an assayer? You know what that means? That's people who tell you, like an assayer is someone who tells you whether that's pure gold or not, or whether that's actually nickel or silver. Things are not assayed against Donald Trump. They are arrayed against him. But we're talking today about pricing and economics, which is at the core of everything we do. Spirit Airlines went out of business. And we talk about why that is the case. And we assume, well, they spent more money than they made. They didn't make enough money. They're a bad airline. Okay. Well, they didn't start by wanting to be a bad airline. Something went wrong. They engaged in what's known as a race to the bottom. And that is an attempt to be the cheapest. And for much of their existence, they were. And many people think, I want the cheapest. You will hear service providers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, they'll say, you can have the cheapest or you can have the best. Can't have them both the same time. And a lot of people putting on their consumer hat go, I want the cheapest, all right? You can get the cheapest. You're not driving the cheapest car you could drive. Because the cheapest car you could drive is at risk of breaking down on you every day. I don't want that. I want a car I can rely on. You're willing to pay extra. Because what you need is four wheels, four wheels, and an engine, and a steering wheel, and a seat. But you're willing to pay more for the reliability. Yeah, but I drive a Honda Civic, or I drive a Chevy Silverado, I don't drive, I don't have all those extra features. You still paid more than you had to for the commodity. So coffee, like oil.

A commodity. In fact, a better topic of discussion because oil, you got sweet crude. You got crude that's light. You got crude that's able to be refined here and not elsewhere. You got a lot of factors. Coffee? Very simple commodity. One of the original commodities. So there is this clickbait, rage bait discussion that the Starbucks CEO said customers don't mind paying $9. For a cup of coffee. And people are saying, how dare he? How out of touch? What a horrible person lynch this man. He'll still be there tomorrow. And Starbucks will still be selling a $9 cup of coffee. And yet everyone's mad about it. Well, if you're mad, why not just not drink the coffee? Or you can say, I never do that. That's a horrible idea. Okay. But someone else will. I'd never go to a Maryland Manson concert, but apparently they do well. I never been to an Ed Shearing concert concert. So I don't know what an Ed Shearing concert ticket costs. Whatever it is, it's too much. This is me, Michael Bari Weiss, telling you Ed Shearing concert tickets are too much. That's horrible. They're terrible. Yeah, but I'm not the consumer. Why do we get so angry? at the pricing of an item that we're not going to buy in the first place. Oh, because we want to buy it. Why do we want to buy it? Coffee's just a commodity. Why is it so important to us to buy something that costs too much that if we're not willing to pay what they're charging, we're angry at them? Here's what he said. In some cases, you know, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging. And then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile, right? We've heard so much this year about the K-shaped economy, fortunes for some Americans, very different than for others. Is that not really something that's coming up in your sales? You know, we're not seeing that in our business. What we're seeing is people, you know, they want to have a special experience. And regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, you know, nine dollar experience does feel like you're splurging and then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile right and in other cases people believe well this is a really affordable premium experience because they're saying like, well, it's less than $10 and I get a really premium experience. So regardless of where you're stationed in those income cohorts, we want to make that experience worth your while. And what we know is what's definitely something that drives that value is to be able to have a great seat, have a great moment of connection with a barista. If you want to join this conversation, I posted this to Facebook today. And I posted my thoughts about it. And I posted about pricing, supply, demand, and what we're willing to pay for something. For instance, people will say, huh, I cut my own grass. I don't pay somebody to cut my own grass. That means that you don't value the free time and lack of effort of mowing your grass as much as someone who does. And that's okay. Guess what? We don't all have to be the same. It doesn't make someone a bad person.

Someone else may say, I work 16 hours a day, I don't have time to mow my own grass or change my own oil or change my baby's diaper. So why is it that the people who make the decision or who are left in a situation that they can't afford to pay for something or are unwilling to pay for something at that price are so angry at that item? If you're not interested in it, then why do you care? If they're selling clipped toenails for $3 a pound, you'd choose somebody else's toenails that have been clipped off. You don't go, oh my God, that's too much. You go, that's gross. Okay, sell it for whatever you want, because you have no interest in it. But there are people who want to eat it who want to stop at Starbucks. That's who's complaining. They're mad that someone else is doing something they can't afford to. But why do you want to do it? Coffee is a commodity. You can get coffee for some places serve coffee for free. I don't know a car dealership, you can get a freak coffee, just walk in there and stand around. Well, they're going to sell you a car and make the money on the car. So why are people so upset about the price of an item they're not going to buy in the first place? Because it is a splurge. It is a special occasion. It is something that people are willing to pay for it. Guess what? The market will tell us whether that's stupid or not. The market will tell us that that's the dumbest thing ever. And that's okay. If it is, they'll drop their price. Why can't we understand this? Do you work for less than your worth? Because if you do, you're an idiot. I've worked $70 an hour, and I only work for $20 an hour. And I'm proud of that because I don't want to rip anybody off. Okay. Some of you have managed to get paid top dollar for your services. You sell your labor for the top of the market. And the rest of those aren't sitting around and going, you don't deserve that. You're making too much. Pricing. Don't get caught in the language of the life. Lock and low. Lock and low. You've got a Michael Bari Weiss show. The media loves to stir things up and play to people's jealousies and anger and biases and prejudices. I'll give you a great example. So they used to call them Lexus lanes in California. They were toll lanes that had sur pricing. And this was 25 years ago. The pricing from downtown to the nearest suburb was $15. And that was a princely sum at the time. And so people who wanted to be on the toll road. But we're unwilling to pay $15, called them Lexus Lanes, because we have created a very, very healthy hatred for people who have money in this country. It wasn't always the case, but this is part of the populism of the modern era. It's the only way anybody has any money is if they're evil. They stole that money, and we're going to get it back, French Revolution 1789. So you had these Lexus lanes. And the rest of us are stuck in traffic. And they're over there and their Lexus speeding by, not stuck in traffic, living better than me because they have more money. And this is evil. So a study was done. And it turns out that the largest demographic of people, when surge pricing hit, which was 5 o'clock, 5 p.m.

The largest demographic of people on there were women on their way to child pickup, to child care. And these women were largely support staff, admin, staff, secretaries. So how on earth did they have $15 to pay for a toll road? Well, they didn't. Not every day. But a couple of times a month. They would get something dumped on their desk at 4.30. And they couldn't leave in time to get home with the regular mass of traffic congestion. So they didn't want to lose their job. Single mom can't afford to. So they would stay late. They might not get out until 5.30. And they had to be out at 5.5 to make it to the daycare on time before the daycare closed. So they'd leave at 5.30. If they stayed there. They would be charged a $50 fee from the daycare for paying the staff to have to stay back for only one child because the daycare is closed already. Because now we have to incentivize the worker at the daycare. Well, that's too much. They shouldn't get $50. That's a horrible idea. I'm not paying $50, okay? Well, then you're going to pay $15 for the toll to get home. Not every day, but on this day. because the 15 was less than the $50 fine. But wait, there was another calculation. It was going to cost you more than $50 single mom to get home and pick up your kid. Or to get to the school to pick up your kid. There's going to be the shame. Your child's crying because that teacher has sat there grumbling. Your mom's late. The reason we're having to sit out here? Your mom's late. I'm supposed to be at a movie that I bought tickets for. I'm supposed to be at a concert that I bought tickets for. And I'm having to stay here late at the daycare because your mom is late. So the kid's crying. You show up. Your kid's mad at you. You're ashamed. The staffer is angry at you. So it's going to cost you more than $50. It's going to cost you whatever you value. The shame and embarrassment and frustration and anxiety of that whole experience. So $15 was a lot less than that. So $15 for a road to get home seems crazy. But it made sense at that time. We had a terrible storm here in Texas. Oh, I don't know, 15 years ago, 20 years ago. And... There was a surge zone. The storm was supposed to come up through Galveston and north into Houston, and everybody hit the road. But it was so stupid. Everybody didn't need to hit the road. Most people should have just hunkered down. But this comes after Katrina in New Orleans where people got stuck because they wouldn't hit the road. It was a whole different situation. Well, as everyone got on the road and the traffic wasn't moving, the cars were idling and running out of gas. So everyone all at once, surge, moved over to stop in at the gas stations. But guess what? The gas station owners hit the road also. So the stations were closed. The few that were open had only a limited capacity. So they said, hey, gas is normally, whatever it was, $3 a gallon. We only have a certain amount. So we're going to charge $10 a gallon.

And the people who valued it the most were willing to pay for it. Now, is that only rich people? Some people weren't rich, but it was that important to them to get to the hospital, to get their wife to the hospital to deliver, whatever the reason. So they'd say, I'll pay any amount of money. I've got to do it right now. I don't want to do it, but I will. And the next guy was like, I don't want to spend my money. See, people will pay for a ticket to a football game at a price much higher than they would otherwise. Because it's the last game of their favorite player. Because it's their son's birthday. People will pay for an upgraded room in the maternity suite to be there overnight with their wife and not have someone else in the room. Then they would pay normally for a hotel room because it's worth it for that one night because it's special. People will pay for a limo for their kid to go to prom or for a wedding. They'll pay for a caterer to bring food that they would never pay for otherwise because it's their daughter's wedding and this is important. This is the one time they do that. At that moment, that commodity has a higher value than it would otherwise, right? Some number of people walking into Starbucks are walking in there the only time they would walk in there once a week or once every two weeks or once a month. This is a splurge. Trust that that CEO knows his customer more than you do. So I see all these articles. I'm never going to eat there again. I'm never going to go there again. Other people. I can get my coffee at the gas station. And it's better anyway. Then get your coffee at the gas station. But I find it odd that you feel the need to talk about this. You feel the need to hurl insults at Starbucks. How about we look at what you pay, what you make? Because you sell your services. You sell your services to some magazine that pays you to write articles. Nobody's sitting around going, he's paid $100,000 for that. He's not any good. All right for $20,000. He's not any good. What we value things at is their price. Everything's not a commodity to be reduced to the component parts. People tell me all the time that a burger at a restaurant is not worth filling the blank, depending on where you are, $10, $20, $30, whatever that burger costs. I can make that burger a whole lot less myself at home. Yeah. But you had to pay for your own air conditioning. You had to pay for your own rent. You had to pay for the component parts, the meat, the bun, the skillet, the gas to warm it. You had to store it in refrigeration. You don't calculate all that. You didn't have to serve it to yourself or you had to pay someone to serve it to you. You did that. You didn't have to pay someone to cook it as you do at the restaurant. You gave your labor for free. You sold your labor to yourself. You didn't pay for it, but that's the trade-off. These are the sorts of things we should be teaching in school. These are the rules of Thomas Sol. These are the rules of Milton Friedman. These are the rules of Adam Smith. These are the rules we should be learning. These are the things, not queer, cisgender ideology. People should understand how the pricing mechanism works. If we're going to be a capitalist society, let's understand why capital flows the way it does. How things are valued, how things are priced. It's not for government to set the price. The Russians did that with their five-year plan. It didn't work.

It is for the consumer and capital to ebb and flow in a liquid form. That's how pricing is established. Value is established. Goods are transacted. Deals are transacted. Ray Breyer's is the pipe man. He owns Pipeyard Inc. and they buy and sell pipe all day long. And I am shocked how much business we've been able to send him across the country. Entire pipelines going across three different states where they need to get the pipe pulled out. He's like, I'll pull the pipe out. I'll sell the pipe. People buying pipe, people selling pipe. The people that buy pipe are environmental managers, pipeline project managers, somebody that's got an abandoned pipeline that's been removed. They want the pipe, the Pipyard Inc. Compliance and regulatory folks, they want to get those pipes out of there. Selling pipe, folks that need carbon steel pipe, the Pipyard Inc. stocks everything you need, any kind of pipe. There is stuff that people call him for, industrial stuff, that he doesn't even have. And he tracks it down. He's working his phone and his team is working their phones all day long. He's got a yard. They've got pipe. But they are working the phones to get stuff for people all day long. 409-78 pipe. 409-78 pipe. I'm on testosterone and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350 on your testosterone level, a very good chance your insurance will pay for you to have it. You know why? There's a lot of studies that say it's very good for you, not just your sex life. but your energy, your strength, all sorts of good things. Do your own research. Don't trust me, but you should do your research, and you should get your blood panels checked, and they'll do all that for you at synergenics. Go to fixmylowt.com. Fix my lowtie.com. Whether you write a check every month or it's on direct deposit or auto pay, you write a check to your insurance company for a reason. You could have spent that money on anything else. You made a good decision to hedge against bad things happen, and then it did. Hurricane, windstorm damage, hail damage, fire, smoke, water damage. And that insurance company, 10 states away, denied your claim, and they should not have, and you know it. Go to claimdenied.com. It's the Chad T. Wilson Law firm, and they will fight for you. Claimdenied.com. 713-226,000. 7132-2-6,000.