Speaker 1: Three minutes after five o'clock. Happy sixth day of Christmas.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: We're already halfway through the Christmas season. And for those
Speaker 1: of you that weren't listening last week, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: seems to be confused in terms of when the twelve
Speaker 1: days of Christmas occur. Twelve days of Christmas don't occur
Speaker 1: up to Christmas. It actually begins on Christmas Day and
Speaker 1: then extends for the next twelve days through the twelfth night,
Speaker 1: which is January the fifth, and then the Epiphany on
Speaker 1: the sixth, which is the day that, according to legend,
Speaker 1: the Magei the three Wise Men appeared and this was
Speaker 1: the presentation of the divinity of the Christ Child. So
Speaker 1: again I kind of rail at people to take the
Speaker 1: Christmas decorations down early. They should all stay up for
Speaker 1: those twelve day period of time up until the Epiphany,
Speaker 1: and that is, according to tradition, the right way to
Speaker 1: do it. So that in mind, I just thought i'd
Speaker 1: rail about that for a second or two. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you check out my Facebook page, which every time
Speaker 1: I come in here I usually post. Usually I always
Speaker 1: post on Facebook who my guests are and just give
Speaker 1: you a little quick rundown of who's coming on. At
Speaker 1: seven twenty we're gonna be talking to Christopher Smitherman. Of course,
Speaker 1: he is the former vice mayor of Cincinnati, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've been when you listen in on Mondays, you
Speaker 1: know that Brian has a christherin Chris Smitherman on for
Speaker 1: the smither event, and looking forward to talking to him.
Speaker 1: He's always got some great stuff. Then at eight oh five,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking with Steven Moser. He's the president
Speaker 1: Population Research Institute. We'll discuss the miss of over the
Speaker 1: myths of over popular human rights abuses committed by population
Speaker 1: control programs, and the demonic nature of the communist China.
Speaker 1: He's got some firsthand knowledge of that, and of course
Speaker 1: their pro life we'll be talking about their Population Research
Speaker 1: Institute's goals pro life goals for twenty twenty five. So
Speaker 1: give you a kind of an update is as far
Speaker 1: as who we're going to be talking to today, who
Speaker 1: the guests on the program will be, and so big weekend.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody had a great weekend. I had a
Speaker 1: fantastic weekend. I don't know if I mentioned this last week,
Speaker 1: but we've got our son and his three daughters and
Speaker 1: of course his wife who live up in Toledo. Well
Speaker 1: the one daughter lives down here, but they moved up
Speaker 1: to Toledo to take a job up there, and so
Speaker 1: kind of postponed the Christmas festivities we got. On Christmas,
Speaker 1: I mentioned last week, we got to do the FaceTime
Speaker 1: and online with the grandchildren over the Netherlands, and then
Speaker 1: Christmas we just kind of had me and my wife
Speaker 1: just had a fun time around the house and had
Speaker 1: a great dinner and everything. Then we kind of, well,
Speaker 1: the way things worked out, Saturday after Christmas, they were
Speaker 1: going to come on down to try to celebrate because
Speaker 1: our granddaughter's birthday is January the third, so they're trying
Speaker 1: to separate or trying to I guess pick a time
Speaker 1: in between there to kind of celebrate both of those events.
Speaker 1: And so they came down and on Saturday and we
Speaker 1: had a great time. I mean, you know, you know
Speaker 1: sometimes when you plan something in advance and you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is how it's going to be, and this is
Speaker 1: what we're going to do, and it always seems that
Speaker 1: things seem to go awry. Generally a lot of times
Speaker 1: what happens is those impromptu things that you're doing as
Speaker 1: far as planning or you decide to do something at
Speaker 1: the last minute, those tend to work out the best.
Speaker 1: But on this occasion, we kind of planned ahead, figured
Speaker 1: out what we're going to do menu wise, and made
Speaker 1: sure that everything was there. Everything went smoothly. It was
Speaker 1: a great time. Everybody loved the gifts and it was
Speaker 1: it was just fantastic seeing the girls and just had
Speaker 1: a great time. And then, of course Saturday afternoon we
Speaker 1: capped that off after they took off because the one
Speaker 1: daughter had to go to work and then they were
Speaker 1: driving back up to Toledo. So watched the Bengals game,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what. We'll talk a lot about
Speaker 1: that here coming up, but man, I got to tell
Speaker 1: you that was one of the most exciting and one
Speaker 1: of the most interesting games that.
Speaker 2: I have seen in a very, very very long time.
Speaker 1: Of course, we came out on the winning end of that,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk a little bit about that tore. Of course,
Speaker 1: the playoff implications of that did gets a little bit
Speaker 1: of good news yesterday that one of the two teams
Speaker 1: that had to lose at least one game, the Indian Colts,
Speaker 1: lost their game, So now the only other team that's
Speaker 1: got to lose is Miami Dolphins, and of course Bengals
Speaker 1: have to beat Pittsburgh on or whatever, and now the
Speaker 1: playoff or the It seems like the NFL schedule here
Speaker 1: is kind of in a flux. I guess the NFL
Speaker 1: wants to get the best ratings and the most ratings
Speaker 1: and get as many eyes and on the various games,
Speaker 1: so they've been moving the schedules around, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff that I'm reading, I'm seeing stuff like, well,
Speaker 1: the players are just going to go where they're told
Speaker 1: to go, and they'll show up on what time they're.
Speaker 2: Supposed to show up.
Speaker 1: And it's going to be interesting to see how the
Speaker 1: schedule comes out and when that's going to happen. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be very interesting to see how it goes.
Speaker 1: And I was telling my wife, it just seems that
Speaker 1: there's something, and I don't know what it is. You
Speaker 1: look at certain things, and when you have something where
Speaker 1: everything has to fall in place, and if one thing
Speaker 1: happens and that doesn't happen, then everything just goes by
Speaker 1: the wayside.
Speaker 2: And with the.
Speaker 1: Bengals having to win out and having to have other
Speaker 1: teams lose. It's interesting how when you see the well,
Speaker 1: at least the first step okay, obviously step number one
Speaker 1: is doesn't happen, then step number two doesn't matter, three, four, five, whatever.
Speaker 1: But it seems that the way this is gone, they
Speaker 1: won their four final was it the four final games?
Speaker 1: And then of course they beat Broncos on Saturday, which
Speaker 1: is what they were supposed to do, and then Indianapolis loses,
Speaker 1: and if Miami winds up losing, and then it just
Speaker 1: seems that, you know, one of those things where things
Speaker 1: just seem to be heading in a direction where things
Speaker 1: are going to fall in place. Now, of course, this
Speaker 1: could be all or not if the Bengals don't beat
Speaker 1: the Steelers on I think they're playing on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what happens there. And of course,
Speaker 1: uh some other things. Of course, in the headlines, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter uh died at age at one hundred, passed away yesterday,
Speaker 1: and all the tributes are coming in guarding him, and
Speaker 1: some of the comments there that have come in about
Speaker 1: him is you know, of course a lot of people
Speaker 1: are there's they're singing his praises and I think we
Speaker 1: need to be very not optimistic, but at least honest
Speaker 1: about the Carter uh presidency for what it was. And
Speaker 1: of course we'll talk a little bit about that today
Speaker 1: as well. But I'm not one of these that are
Speaker 1: going to just, you know, pile on praises to somebody who,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, had a very bad presidency.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The only thing that you know, at least he lived
Speaker 1: long enough so that somebody else was the worst president
Speaker 1: the country ever had. And that's the current occupancy of
Speaker 1: the current occupant of the White House, and that will
Speaker 1: come to an end on January twentieth. But the things
Speaker 1: that I am seeing as far as the media, it
Speaker 1: seems that they're now granted, Jimmy Carter did have a
Speaker 1: great post presidency with his habitat for humanity and was
Speaker 1: a decent human being that way. But the thing that's
Speaker 1: always left out of these discussions when they talk about
Speaker 1: people that are decent people, and they especially those on
Speaker 1: the left, and those are the people that are the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, the one thing that's always left out of that,
Speaker 1: and in my opinion, I don't know how you can
Speaker 1: call somebody a decent person when they are pro choice
Speaker 1: and when they believe they don't believe in the sanctity
Speaker 1: of life, when they double down on the issue and
Speaker 1: they push that NonStop, and they're very outspoken about that,
Speaker 1: and people will say, well, well, Kevin, you know, how
Speaker 1: do you feel? You know, I'm sorry, you know that's
Speaker 1: the way I feel. And when people tell me their
Speaker 1: pro choice, my first comment is, obviously, you haven't thought
Speaker 1: about the issue long enough, because if you really think
Speaker 1: about the actual procedure, if you look at the pictures,
Speaker 1: if you look at the development of what they refer
Speaker 1: to as the fetus from day one, the first week,
Speaker 1: second week, the first month, second month, and so on,
Speaker 1: you quickly realize that what they tell everybody that is
Speaker 1: just a clump of cells is not a clump of
Speaker 1: cells when you look at the heartbeat, the fact that
Speaker 1: that when that occurs, and the whole.
Speaker 2: Business of this roe v. Wade.
Speaker 1: Back in the day when it was first passed, one
Speaker 1: of the people that wrote that opinion said, if they
Speaker 1: ever determine, if they ever determine, as if you know,
Speaker 1: that's not a matter of science, if they determine when
Speaker 1: life begins, roe v. Wade goes by the wayside, because
Speaker 1: if it's life and you kill it. That's not right,
Speaker 1: that's murder. And so to have this procedure and to
Speaker 1: not I mean I can remember when the Democrats talked
Speaker 1: about needs to be legal, safe, and rare. Well, they
Speaker 1: got the legal part. They certainly didn't get the safe part,
Speaker 1: and they didn't get the rare part either.
Speaker 2: In fact, they have.
Speaker 1: The more that they can do, the more that planned
Speaker 1: parenthood can perform, the more they justify their existence. And
Speaker 1: I cannot think of a worse organization that takes somebody
Speaker 1: in the time of one of their biggest crisis, that
Speaker 1: something that is they're afraid they don't know which an
Speaker 1: unplanned pregnancy, and instead of offering solutions, just get rid
Speaker 1: of it. And I think that is such a demonizing type.
Speaker 2: Of way to go. I think it's horrific.
Speaker 1: And when there are so many other options available that
Speaker 1: those are completely ignored, and then when you look at
Speaker 1: the risks that aren't discussed, when you look at the
Speaker 1: complications that aren't discussed, it is amazing that people actually
Speaker 1: get by with not inform a clear, clear, and you know,
Speaker 1: informed decision. So when you get right down to it,
Speaker 1: the people that are pushing pro choice they're not. They're
Speaker 1: not for U informed choice. It's just a matter of hey,
Speaker 1: can we perform the procedure and justify our existence. Of course,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about more about this, but I want to
Speaker 1: get a couple of comments and talk about Jimmy Carter's
Speaker 1: presidency here coming up, and of course we'll get to
Speaker 1: all of that as well as our guests later.
Speaker 2: On in the program.
Speaker 1: Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five,
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Speaker 1: five KR see the talk station. Okay, a little bit
Speaker 1: of hiccup here with the computers this morning, but we
Speaker 1: will work our way through it. You know, I want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about the Bengals because I
Speaker 1: thought it was an exciting game. I thought it was
Speaker 1: very amazing, and I thought the way that they pulled
Speaker 1: off this victory. I don't know if you watch the game.
Speaker 1: I know this isn't a sports show, but when you
Speaker 1: look at how the game started, the number of times
Speaker 1: that they went on fourth down and they just didn't
Speaker 1: quite well, they didn't weren't successful. It kind of looked
Speaker 1: like the game was going to go in the Broncos favor.
Speaker 1: And of course the Broncos had a couple of series
Speaker 1: where they just just annihilated the Bengals defense, coming down
Speaker 1: the field and just scoring. It almost seemed like they
Speaker 1: could score it well. And of course it always seems
Speaker 1: to happen that during a Bengals game or certain times
Speaker 1: during the year, that records are set that have never
Speaker 1: been done, and it's always against the Bengals. And I
Speaker 1: think one of the pass plays during the game was
Speaker 1: the longest pass play in air of the entire season,
Speaker 1: a sixty seven yard touchdown pass where somehow the defender
Speaker 1: let the guy get behind him. And it's just and
Speaker 1: you look at some of the techniques sometimes that it's
Speaker 1: done as far as these players are concerned, and it's
Speaker 1: almost like, you know, have they forgotten all of the
Speaker 1: stuff that they learned when they were in grade school,
Speaker 1: high school, college and some of the things that they
Speaker 1: should have learned as a professional. But again, the Bengals
Speaker 1: still pull it out. But it was a very exciting game.
Speaker 1: And the sad thing about this entire of this entire
Speaker 1: season is that Joe Burrow has had an MVP type.
Speaker 2: Season.
Speaker 1: He is one of the top passing I think he
Speaker 1: has the I think he's a league leader as far
Speaker 1: as passing yards, all the records that he's set, as
Speaker 1: far as the Bengals are concerned, the number of yards,
Speaker 1: that number of down and it's just it's so sad
Speaker 1: that when they do the figuring for the MVP that
Speaker 1: it isn't the best performance of everybody in or anybody
Speaker 1: in the league. If you don't have a winning record,
Speaker 1: if you're not going to the super Bowl, if you're
Speaker 1: not making the playoffs, it seems that all the other records,
Speaker 1: all the other individual achievements are pushed to the wayside.
Speaker 2: And it's a sad thing.
Speaker 1: And I have to say that I wish the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals of the front office, the management would do something
Speaker 1: in terms of recognizing that they have a once in
Speaker 1: a lifetime type of quarterback. I think Joe Burrow now,
Speaker 1: granted the first couple of years, with the injuries and
Speaker 1: so on, I wasn't quite sure. I wasn't convinced that
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was the all and end all. But when
Speaker 1: you see now that he's put on a few pounds,
Speaker 1: they see that the fact that he's healthy and the
Speaker 1: stuff that he can do. We always hear about Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and we could talk about all the wonderful stuff
Speaker 1: that he's done and what a great quarterback he is,
Speaker 1: and we will hear NonStop what a great quarterback Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills quarterback Josh Allen is and some of the things
Speaker 1: he can do. But when you look at the accomplishments
Speaker 1: of Joe Burrows stacked up against those two, and what
Speaker 1: he can do if he has the time, if he
Speaker 1: has the line in front of him, and the fact
Speaker 1: that he's got the receiving core that he has the
Speaker 1: stuff that he can accomplish that way, and if when
Speaker 1: you have a decent running back, and of course they
Speaker 1: do the backup that they've been using, the fact that
Speaker 1: he has been very, very good, But of course he
Speaker 1: got banged up over the weekend. And it just seems
Speaker 1: that if the Bengals would the front office would would
Speaker 1: solidify that team and spend at least the money that
Speaker 1: they could to get the quality talent. And in some
Speaker 1: instances you don't have to pay top dollars. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: can get somebody for a one year deal. What was
Speaker 1: I seeing last night though? Was it Matthew Stafford, No,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald that took the job. It was kind of
Speaker 1: floundering around as a free agent. Took a one year
Speaker 1: contract for ten million dollars. And it's just you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you get a bargain like that and the team
Speaker 1: loves him. He's doing very well, and it's just putting
Speaker 1: the right person in the right team in order to
Speaker 1: do well. And I wish that the Bengals, like I said,
Speaker 1: would do the necessary work to get a group around
Speaker 1: Burrow to take advantage of the fact that you have,
Speaker 1: as I said, a once in a lifetime talent. So
Speaker 1: just my two cents worth coming up, we'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about Jimmy Carter and his accomp puish months
Speaker 1: or lack thereof. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 1: Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five kre SEE the
Speaker 1: talk station. Some local headlines were covering for you this morning.
Speaker 1: There seems to have been a uh I can't believe this.
Speaker 1: In the last two weeks the state has felt the
Speaker 1: state of Ohio has felt two noticeable earthquakes. It's just
Speaker 1: Ohio isn't known for earthquakes, but you know, we sit
Speaker 1: on this uh New mad At fault that occasionally kind
Speaker 1: of rears its ugly head, and they've been told for
Speaker 1: a number of years that we are going to have
Speaker 1: one of a very massive earthquake. It hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1: There hasn't been one major occurrence in over hundreds of years,
Speaker 1: but in recent weeks recorded the US Geological Survey. Early Sunday,
Speaker 1: the USGS recorded a two point nine magnitude earthquake in
Speaker 1: northwest Ohio. The quake was detected at six forty six am,
Speaker 1: less than a mile southeast of Hicksville at the Indiana border.
Speaker 1: And then, on December the sixteenth, at four thirty pm,
Speaker 1: a three point three magnitude earthquake struck far southern Ohio,
Speaker 1: less than two miles northwest of Chesapeake along the Ohio River. Now,
Speaker 1: those earthquakes, earthquakes are very rare. The last time an
Speaker 1: earthquake the Cincinnati area was in twenty eighteen, a one
Speaker 1: point five magnitude quake shook Carmont County. And that was
Speaker 1: not that was something that was known or felt. Now
Speaker 1: I can remember, and I goosh, I'm trying to remember
Speaker 1: when it was it was. I think it was back
Speaker 1: in the late seventies. Possibly it had to be the
Speaker 1: late seventies. I was on the phone with my dad,
Speaker 1: He's lived from Columbus, and I was talking to him,
Speaker 1: and I'm standing in the kitchen. Of course, you know,
Speaker 1: back then, you didn't have cell phones. You didn't have
Speaker 1: even the wireless phones. You had the corded phone mostly.
Speaker 1: And I was on the phone with him, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the house started shaking and it felt
Speaker 1: like it sounded like some sort of an eighteen wheeler
Speaker 1: was coming down our street. Now we lived at the time,
Speaker 1: I lived in this residential area up in Mount Washington,
Speaker 1: and the only time you ever saw eighteen wheelers was
Speaker 1: you know, if people were moving or you know, you
Speaker 1: didn't never saw them because of the narrowness of the
Speaker 1: streets and you only saw the moving vans once in
Speaker 1: a while. But this literally sounded like a truck was
Speaker 1: coming down the street at about thirty five forty miles
Speaker 1: an hour and with the engine revving and whatever. And
Speaker 1: I said, oh my god, I said, it feels like
Speaker 1: a truck just passed by. And my dad said, well,
Speaker 1: our house just shook two. So they felt the tremors
Speaker 1: up there. As far as Columbus, now, it's very rare
Speaker 1: that we do get those kinds of things, and we
Speaker 1: are they tell us on record or due for a
Speaker 1: major earthquake sometime in the near future. Now, of course,
Speaker 1: what they determined as the near future, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's always amazing how much they predict
Speaker 1: these things and how few times they actually do happen. Now,
Speaker 1: there was an accident down there on the banks. I'm
Speaker 1: having trouble pulling that story up, but apparently there was
Speaker 1: a car that jumped the sidewalk down there and went
Speaker 1: ahead and injured some pedestrians. We'll get some facts on
Speaker 1: that here coming up. But it seems similar to a
Speaker 1: situation we had down in Newport a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: But it just doesn't appear to be a car that
Speaker 1: was being chased by the police, but there was a
Speaker 1: stolen car that was coming through the area and crashed
Speaker 1: into're building downtown Newport that killed several people a few
Speaker 1: years ago. But doesn't appear that anybody was killed, but
Speaker 1: certainly there were some injuries. So we're going to cut
Speaker 1: out here real quick, take an early break here and
Speaker 1: come back, and then we'll talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Jimmy Harder and his impact. Phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krc D
Speaker 1: Talk station. It's going to be interesting over the next
Speaker 1: several days to see all the tributes coming in for
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter. Now again, I'm not going to take away
Speaker 1: from the fact of his post presidency as far as
Speaker 1: what he accomplished and the the work that he did
Speaker 1: post presidency. But when I look at his presidency and
Speaker 1: when he was elected, it was after Watergate. We had
Speaker 1: the first president that was in office that was never
Speaker 1: elected to that office, either as a vice president or
Speaker 1: a president. We had the whole Watergate fiasco that had happened.
Speaker 1: We had during that period of time Spiro Agnew who
Speaker 1: resigned the vice presidency because of some misdeeds and some
Speaker 1: fraud that he did some financial dealings in Maryland where.
Speaker 2: He was from. I think he was from Maryland.
Speaker 1: So he resigned, and so then the presidency of the
Speaker 1: vice president was appointed and it was Gerald Ford. Then
Speaker 1: when Nixon resigned, Ford took over. Now Ford was never
Speaker 1: elected to that position, he was nominated to that position.
Speaker 1: So you had Nixon resigning in seventy four, and then
Speaker 1: you had a two year campaign of Gerald Ford trying
Speaker 1: to pull the country back from what had happened and
Speaker 1: what transpired during Watergate. And as a side note, if
Speaker 1: you look back on Watergate, what was done then and
Speaker 1: you look at the scandal that that was that led
Speaker 1: to the resignation of Richard Nixon far pales in comparison
Speaker 1: to what we have witnessed with the Biden administration over
Speaker 1: the last four years. You know, not to mention the
Speaker 1: record high inflation, but the cloud hanging over that nobody
Speaker 1: seems to want to investigate in the Justice Department, Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: Remember the whole deal with the laptop, that it was,
Speaker 1: that it was Russian disinformation, the hidden from the hidden
Speaker 1: stories from the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: And we can go on and on about the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: the corruption, the dealings with China, the dealings with Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: And we see over the weekend that they're actually pictures
Speaker 1: that were released by the National Archives showing Joe Biden
Speaker 1: with Hunter Biden, with some of the people that Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden was doing business with. And the fact that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden said, I never talked to my son about his business.
Speaker 1: I never talked to any family members. Well, that's a
Speaker 1: flat out lie. We know the millions of dollars that
Speaker 1: the Biden crime family got, so aside from all that,
Speaker 1: that pales in comparison. Then throw on top of that
Speaker 1: the fact that we have been lied to and the
Speaker 1: depths of the lives that have been told to us
Speaker 1: over the entire four year period of time. Washington, The
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal last week came out with that story,
Speaker 1: and we'll probably talk about that a little later on,
Speaker 1: talking about how they covered up for him, how they
Speaker 1: tried to hide his mental decline, and how they kept
Speaker 1: things from him, how he was only surrounded by certain
Speaker 1: certain members of his closest advisors, and so the press
Speaker 1: that saw this didn't report on it, so they didn't
Speaker 1: do their job. The people that were in the Oval
Speaker 1: office and the people that were part of his staff
Speaker 1: hid it from us. And so this is, to my
Speaker 1: in my opinion, one of the biggest scandal, the biggest
Speaker 1: scandals that we've ever had in this country. And yet
Speaker 1: Watergate pales in comparison to that. But aside from that, Okay,
Speaker 1: gerald Ford comes into office, He pardons Nixon because they
Speaker 1: wanted to prosecute him and all this, and he thought, well,
Speaker 1: we got to end this business and we need to
Speaker 1: move forward, and of course that hurt him politically. And
Speaker 1: then Jimmy Carter comes on as this wonderful kind of
Speaker 1: you know, the southern charm and governor of Georgia and
Speaker 1: speaks a good line and they vote him into office,
Speaker 1: and I think it was just a protest against Gerald
Speaker 1: Ford and the Republicans at that time. But from day one,
Speaker 1: I mean it was a disaster. We had record high inflation.
Speaker 1: I believe if I read correctly, that the average inflation
Speaker 1: numbers every year was nine point one percent or thereabout
Speaker 1: the average over his entire presidency. And so when you
Speaker 1: and this is the thing with inflation, is that inflation
Speaker 1: is not just a one off. If you look at
Speaker 1: inflation and they give you the number for a particular
Speaker 1: period of time and say inflation was four percent or
Speaker 1: as back in June of twenty twenty two at nine
Speaker 1: point one percent, that that is not just a one
Speaker 1: off and then it falls back to zero. No, the
Speaker 1: inflation that you get is then compounded by the next
Speaker 1: month's inflation on top of that. So if you've got
Speaker 1: nine point one percent in one month, and then the
Speaker 1: following month you've got another three percent, well now you're
Speaker 1: you know, twelve twelve percent beyond. And you see this
Speaker 1: in terms of a lot of the food that we
Speaker 1: have and a lot of stuff have doubled in price
Speaker 1: over the last four years or three and a half
Speaker 1: years or thereabouts. We've seen what that's done in the energy.
Speaker 1: But then Carter comes into office. We have record high inflation,
Speaker 1: We had record high interest rates. People don't remember or
Speaker 1: seem to remember that back during the Carter years, we
Speaker 1: had interest rates on homes, interest rates on homes of
Speaker 1: around twenty two percent. We freak out now when interest
Speaker 1: rates are nudging up against ten percent. But the housing
Speaker 1: market was horrendous. Then throw on top of that, you
Speaker 1: had the Iranian hostage situation. You had the energy crisis,
Speaker 1: you had the gas lines, you had the Russian invasion
Speaker 1: of Afghanistan. You had Carter forcing our athletes boycott the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Imagine working your entire life to achieve something and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're allowed to compete on that stage.
Speaker 1: And so when you got through the entire Carter administration,
Speaker 1: of course, with the hostage crisis, fifty two of our
Speaker 1: American diplomats and people at the Iran embassy in Tehran
Speaker 1: were held hostage for four hundred and forty four days.
Speaker 1: And all this talk about getting the hostages out, getting
Speaker 1: the hostages out, well, and I remember Ted Kopple, he
Speaker 1: used to he got on usually about what eleven thirty
Speaker 1: at night, after the local news it was. They thought
Speaker 1: that it was only going to go on for a
Speaker 1: little bit of time. But they started off doing the
Speaker 1: newscast or whatever you know this is, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: the name of the show was.
Speaker 2: Forget what it was, look, but it.
Speaker 1: Was number three or you know, number thirty that America
Speaker 1: held hostage. That's how he opened this program. And so
Speaker 1: that went on almost every night up until right before
Speaker 1: Reagan took office when they released the hostages. Now it
Speaker 1: was a political move on the part of Iran. Was
Speaker 1: it fear of Reagan? Who knows, but apparently this was done.
Speaker 1: Now in his presidency afterwards, Carter had an amazing, uh situation.
Speaker 1: It was a much better post president than he was president.
Speaker 1: So and now I'm seeing all kinds of crazy stuff
Speaker 1: on the left. We'll talk about coming up. Five phone
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Speaker 1: to the phone. So let's talk to Linda. Linda fifty
Speaker 1: five kerosee, thanks for Colin. How are you this morning?
Speaker 1: And an early happy New Year to you.
Speaker 4: I'm very well and I say happy New Year to everybody.
Speaker 4: I remember the Carter days. I was working for an
Speaker 4: oil company and uh, we were not allowed to have
Speaker 4: raises because the government said so. But Congress received their raises.
Speaker 4: Of course, I'll never forget that, but I often you
Speaker 4: know Carter was was not the best of presidents at all,
Speaker 4: but he'll be elevated. Watch in the news and in
Speaker 4: everything they say about him. He'll be the best president
Speaker 4: we ever had. I wanted to ask you a question
Speaker 4: and see if it was even worth talking about. Late
Speaker 4: in the program, do you think that our representative in Kentucky,
Speaker 4: Massey is going to hold up the certification of the
Speaker 4: new president?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: Have you seen that he's against it? He's against Johnson,
Speaker 4: and if he goes against Johnson, we do not have
Speaker 4: the votes to bring Johnson in again. And if he
Speaker 4: does this, we can't certify the election. And if this
Speaker 4: is true, I have to say, if it's true, then
Speaker 4: should we not all be contacting Massey in Kentucky and
Speaker 4: tell him to get with it. We need this president certified.
Speaker 4: You know, have you heard about that?
Speaker 2: I have heard.
Speaker 1: I know that Massey has not said he is not
Speaker 1: going to vote for Johnson for speaker, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: think that there's that He doesn't think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that will be voting for him. But they
Speaker 1: will have to find if that's the case, then they
Speaker 1: will have to find somebody. Now, granted, they've got from
Speaker 1: January the first until January the sixth, in order on
Speaker 1: January sixth when they do the certification, and they have
Speaker 1: that period of time to find a new speaker if
Speaker 1: he's not certified or does not become speaker. But I
Speaker 1: you know, we're not going to wind up with Hakeem Jefferies.
Speaker 1: That's for sure. It I have I don't know. I
Speaker 1: I wish that at one point, at one just once
Speaker 1: in my lifetime, that we had Republicans that realized that whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, granted, I applaud their their intentions. I applaud
Speaker 1: what they stand for, But sometimes what you stand for for,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're searching for that one
Speaker 1: hundred percent and you're not willing to compromise and you're
Speaker 1: not willing to back down for now and use the
Speaker 1: fight later on, that bothers me. And what would really
Speaker 1: upset me more than anything else is the fact that
Speaker 1: he would hold up or the possibility of holding up
Speaker 1: the certification of Donald Trump when he did absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: to stop the certification of Joe Biden, and he was
Speaker 1: very outspoken that he wasn't going to do that. So
Speaker 1: that would really bother me. And if you know, then yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say that people need to contact his office
Speaker 1: and and find out exactly what it is that that
Speaker 1: that you know needs to be done. But you know,
Speaker 1: as we saw with Johnson's election or Johnson's selection by
Speaker 1: the House to be the speaker, that took what five
Speaker 1: different votes or over a couple of a week or
Speaker 1: so period of time, and it's just a whole lot
Speaker 1: of it frustrates a hell.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's put it that way.
Speaker 4: I am very frustrated because it took him forever. It
Speaker 4: took him fourteen votes to get McCarthy in there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and now we're going to sit here and horse around
Speaker 4: and put this country on hold. I mean, that's what
Speaker 4: you're doing. We need to get these people in there
Speaker 4: and working and doing what they're supposed to do. You
Speaker 4: have to certify the election.
Speaker 5: You have to.
Speaker 4: Before January twentie. If we don't have time, and I'm
Speaker 4: sitting there, where is the common sense? Get your guys
Speaker 4: in there, and then address the Johnson right.
Speaker 1: And Johnson can be they can have a no confidence
Speaker 1: vote anytime they want as far as bringing him down,
Speaker 1: But in order to get things done and get things
Speaker 1: off to a start, you need to do that first.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, well, you know, you got to
Speaker 1: put You've got to do first things first. You know,
Speaker 1: Part A, part B, part C have to happen before
Speaker 1: you can get to part E.
Speaker 2: And I just.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've I've heard about that, but I you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like you hear things and you you
Speaker 1: kind of wonder, okay, well, cooler heads prevail. But I
Speaker 1: guess the closer we get to January first, and then
Speaker 1: the election of the speaker. I guess we'll see what happens,
Speaker 1: but uh, yeah, it never hurts. Hey, it never hurts
Speaker 1: to call your congressman or senators and let their offices
Speaker 1: know how you feel about certain things. So, uh, that
Speaker 1: part I would recommend for sure. But hey, Linda, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for the phone call. I'm up against
Speaker 1: the clock here. Time to get out of here for
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Speaker 1: right five minutes after six o'clock. Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 1: Hope you had a great weekend. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you look at my Facebook page, you'll see who we've
Speaker 1: got scheduled today. As I always do, I post when
Speaker 1: we have as our guest coming up to seven twenty.
Speaker 1: We've got Christopher Smitherman Formers, vice Mayor of Cincinnati in
Speaker 1: the smither Event. And then at eight oh five we'll
Speaker 1: be talking to Stephen Moser. He's president of Population Research Institute.
Speaker 1: We'll discuss the myths of the of over the myths
Speaker 1: of over population, human rights abuse committed by popular population
Speaker 1: control programs, the dinam demonic nature of the communist China,
Speaker 1: and the Population Research Institute pr I as it's known,
Speaker 1: and their pro life agenda for twenty twenty five. Stumbling
Speaker 1: through that, I should have my mouth is has It's
Speaker 1: still on a weekend here. Everybody's talking about Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: and tributes to pouring in. But some of the interesting
Speaker 1: things that I've been seeing too is the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, the I don't know how else to say it.
Speaker 1: It's that the left is just so over the top
Speaker 1: as far as Trump derangement syndrome. And if anybody thought
Speaker 1: that the left was going to stop, was going to
Speaker 1: do what's best for the country, that they would ever
Speaker 1: do anything that would benefit the country, if they would
Speaker 1: just you know, pay attention to what the landslide election
Speaker 1: and say, all right, we need to refocus what we did,
Speaker 1: what we did wrong, how we blew the election, or
Speaker 1: why we lost the election or whatever.
Speaker 2: None of this. It's just still the constant attacks.
Speaker 1: And I would have to say that I don't understand
Speaker 1: why anybody on the right pays any attention to or
Speaker 1: listens to anything that comes out of Hollywood anymore, anything
Speaker 1: that comes out of the alphabet news organizations. They're all irrelevant.
Speaker 1: That was proven as a result of the election. I
Speaker 1: call her now oprah win fee because we heard or
Speaker 1: found out that, no, she wasn't endorsing Kamala Harris out
Speaker 1: of the goodness of her heart. She was paid to
Speaker 1: do so. Al Sharpton, why is he still on MSNBC.
Speaker 1: Why hasn't he been fired? He was paid to do
Speaker 1: the glowing interview with Kamala Harris. That's not journalistic integrity,
Speaker 1: that's not even promoting your ethics as far as the
Speaker 1: station is concerned and damaging the brand. And you look
Speaker 1: at the ladies of the view, if you look at
Speaker 1: the ratings of CNN MSNBC, how they have tanked. It
Speaker 1: is just, you know, there's talk that CNN is going
Speaker 1: to be spun off and sold, MSNBC is going to
Speaker 1: be spun off and sold. And when you look back
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, the lies that have
Speaker 1: been coming from the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media,
Speaker 1: nobody should even be taken seriously over there. They shouldn't
Speaker 1: be quoted, you shouldn't watch. And this is one of
Speaker 1: the rubs I have about Fox, is that more eyes
Speaker 1: see what the stupidity on the view or that it
Speaker 1: is done on any of the other networks by them
Speaker 1: showing clips of what they said, than the action viewers
Speaker 1: seeing those clips. And what we found out during this
Speaker 1: last election is that Hollywood is irrelevant. We learned what
Speaker 1: a fraud Oprah win Fee is. We learned what Bruce
Speaker 1: Springsteen is a fraud. Beyonce is a fraud. We also
Speaker 1: saw what a fraud Barack Obama is and this was
Speaker 1: exposed by the fact that he sung the praises he
Speaker 1: selected the Kamala Harris that they organized this coup. And
Speaker 1: we see over the last four years all of the
Speaker 1: stuff that's been hidden from us, as far as Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's decline, and it is astounding to me that nobody
Speaker 1: wants to be talking about that. And I think that
Speaker 1: one of the things that I talked about this last
Speaker 1: week is that there needs to be an investigation, a
Speaker 1: deep dive investigation, as to who's been running this country
Speaker 1: for the last four years. It obviously wasn't Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: and if the aides were making the decision and using
Speaker 1: him as a mouthpiece, that is talk about an existential
Speaker 1: threat to democracy where you have the pullet Bureau or
Speaker 1: the advisors running the show and not the person at
Speaker 1: the top. The president is the head of the country,
Speaker 1: and if he's in a diminished capacity, then the constitution
Speaker 1: demands that the members of the Cabinet do the twenty
Speaker 1: fifth Amendment and remove him from office.
Speaker 2: They didn't do that.
Speaker 1: We had all of these network people that talked about how,
Speaker 1: you know, I never forget Joe Scarborough, you know this
Speaker 1: is the best Joe Biden ever and fu if you
Speaker 1: can't handle the truth, that man should never be on
Speaker 1: the air again. Karine Jean Pierre the lies that she
Speaker 1: told from the podium, Jen Saki, the lies that she told,
Speaker 1: and talking about how sharp behind closed doors, how sharp
Speaker 1: he was ran rings around people. We saw over the
Speaker 1: weekend he spent forty percent of his presidency on vacation,
Speaker 1: hidden away on the beach, away from the cameras, away
Speaker 1: from actually being asked questions. The press was held at
Speaker 1: bay as he's walking to and from Air Force one
Speaker 1: or Marine one or whatever, and this was a complete
Speaker 1: cover up, and any of the bills that he signed,
Speaker 1: any of the stuff, any of the proclamations that he made,
Speaker 1: any of the executive orders that he did, should be
Speaker 1: all and void. And I think it'd be interesting to
Speaker 1: look at. And I've heard some legal experts say that
Speaker 1: I don't think this can be done. But the pardons
Speaker 1: that he is issued, even the pardon of his son,
Speaker 1: I think those need to be looked at also, because
Speaker 1: if somebody's in a diminished capacity and they go, maybe
Speaker 1: we won't be able to do something about the son
Speaker 1: because he might have the mental capacity for that. But
Speaker 1: the fact is is that if you are of a
Speaker 1: diminished capacity and you're doing stuff, that's all null and void.
Speaker 1: You see all the time the situations where in family
Speaker 1: and wills and trusts and stuff where the last will
Speaker 1: and testament is contested because it's alleged that the person
Speaker 1: that wrote the will or that signed the will was
Speaker 1: of diminished capacity, and they allitigate that.
Speaker 2: I think a case can be made here.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I've heard some of these.
Speaker 1: Legal experts that say, well, in order to have these overturned,
Speaker 1: you have to have a charge, or you have to
Speaker 1: have a he health exam, a mental exam, and you
Speaker 1: have to have it certified or done by a professional,
Speaker 1: by a physician. I think that's bs. I think you
Speaker 1: look at the recordings, you look at the tape. It's
Speaker 1: not tape, but it's the recordings of Biden's from the
Speaker 1: time of during his campaign up unto and the progression
Speaker 1: during his presidency, and see that diminished capacity, just the
Speaker 1: facial features alone, the wandering off, the confusion, not being
Speaker 1: able to put two sentences together. I think this is
Speaker 1: the thing that you can make a case that this
Speaker 1: was diminished capacity. And to say that you have to
Speaker 1: do that, well, then I'll say, okay, well, we are
Speaker 1: going to overturn every one of these pardons and we're
Speaker 1: putting these people back on death row. We're doing away
Speaker 1: with what the thirteen hundred pardons that he had already
Speaker 1: done or commutations, erase those and then start the conversation that, well,
Speaker 1: all right, if you want to if you want to
Speaker 1: prove this, then okay, Biden's got to take a mental
Speaker 1: competency exam. He has to be investigated by doctors, he
Speaker 1: has to be reviewed by examined by doctors. And again
Speaker 1: the White House physician. That guy should be that guy
Speaker 1: should have his license removed. He should be thrown out
Speaker 1: of the of the medical profession. I mean, all of
Speaker 1: the lies that we have seen, all of the stuff
Speaker 1: that has been done to this country. The embarrassment that
Speaker 1: this man has created is just astounding and should never go.
Speaker 1: I mean talk about you know, as I've said, an
Speaker 1: existential threat to democracy. And this is key everything that
Speaker 1: the left talks about. Whenever the left is accusing anybody
Speaker 1: on the right or making an allegation of anything, know
Speaker 1: for a fact that what they're saying is what they've
Speaker 1: already done or are doing, because you can go from
Speaker 1: the Russian hoax to everything else that was accused of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and they are guilty of it. And more so,
Speaker 1: you don't bend the law. You don't change the law
Speaker 1: so that then now you can prosecute somebody for something
Speaker 1: that wasn't against the law before, or that the statute
Speaker 1: of limitations has run out. And I think, and you know,
Speaker 1: when I look at these and when I look at
Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden, and I don't see anybody talking about
Speaker 1: this on a deep dive analysis. When you look at
Speaker 1: the broad and with of the pardon of Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: What is that covering up when you go back and
Speaker 1: that he's pardoned for anything he may have done up
Speaker 1: to eleven years ago. How do you pardon somebody from
Speaker 1: something that they haven't been charged with yet. I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's even legal. I mean, if you don't
Speaker 1: know what crimes the person committed, and you pardon them
Speaker 1: for everything lunch, then what if the person murdered somebody
Speaker 1: that we don't know about. What about any of the
Speaker 1: other crimes and the connected crimes with the other members
Speaker 1: of the family. I don't think that's legitimate. I don't
Speaker 1: think in the a reasonable person would look at that
Speaker 1: and say that makes sense. And if as as Biden
Speaker 1: is going out of office, has been theorized that he
Speaker 1: does all these blanket pardons for all these people that
Speaker 1: were part of his administration, for people in the media,
Speaker 1: for people here, all these different things that they're saying
Speaker 1: they ought to do a preemptive pardon for anybody because
Speaker 1: they're they're talking about that, Oh, the Trump administration is
Speaker 1: going to target individual people with law fair the way
Speaker 1: he was targeted with lawfair. Okay, they didn't they didn't
Speaker 1: care about that at the time. But because he's going
Speaker 1: supposedly going after his enemies, No, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a matter of going after the enemy, his enemies, because
Speaker 1: they are our enemy. They are enemies of this country
Speaker 1: who perpetrated this lie and all this stuff. As far
Speaker 1: as the Biden administration and these the use of the
Speaker 1: Justice Department to attack their rivals, this should be investigated.
Speaker 1: And if these people are and if these people are pardoned,
Speaker 1: then I would still do the investigation to bring out
Speaker 1: the details of what they did, because just sweeping this
Speaker 1: under the rug isn't going to send a message. Because
Speaker 1: these people need to be outed. They need the spotlight
Speaker 1: needs to go on them for all the crimes and
Speaker 1: all of the misdeeds and the destruction that they attempted
Speaker 1: at our southern border, with our economy, with everything with
Speaker 1: this administration. In my opinion, this is an administration and
Speaker 1: the people that were part of this administration don't care
Speaker 1: about this country. They want to see this country or
Speaker 1: they wanted to see this country completely torn down to
Speaker 1: the bottom and rebuilt. And that is something that I
Speaker 1: will never forgive them. For Phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 1: you about Jimmy Carter, And I'm encouraging anybody to call
Speaker 1: in and with their thoughts of Jimmy Carter and how
Speaker 1: you viewed his presidency and post presidency. And I will
Speaker 1: not dispute how his post presidency was and how he
Speaker 1: conducted himself in the post presidency. However, you know, when
Speaker 1: you're doing charitable work and you're doing certain things. One
Speaker 1: of the things that a lot of post or former
Speaker 1: presidents did is that they honored the office from which
Speaker 1: they held, and very rarely would they ever, and it
Speaker 1: was an unspoken rule that you don't criticize the administration
Speaker 1: after you. But it's amazing to me how all those
Speaker 1: rules change when the Democrats are out of power and
Speaker 1: Republicans are in power, because there was numerous times that
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter made statements regarding a Republican administration which I
Speaker 1: thought was not characteristic of how somebody should be. Now again,
Speaker 1: his post presidency was stellar, but I found it interesting
Speaker 1: that even in Biden's remarks looking at the presidency of
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter actually talked about his foreign policy achievements. One
Speaker 1: of them that he listed was returning Panama Canal.
Speaker 2: To the host nation.
Speaker 1: Really, I think that was one of the worst decisions
Speaker 1: that he ever made. We spent our capital, we spent
Speaker 1: our bodies of our Americans down there, numerous people that
Speaker 1: died building that canal. We made it a neutral site.
Speaker 1: We made sure that it had access to all shipping.
Speaker 1: So Panama gets control of the canal after being turned
Speaker 1: over by Jimmy Carter signing the agreement to turn that over,
Speaker 1: and now what we have is a Chinese companies on
Speaker 1: both ends of the canal, controlling the passageways, controlling the
Speaker 1: freight controlling the rates, and Trump has talked about if
Speaker 1: those things don't change, if the rates don't come down
Speaker 1: for American ships, he's going to take it back over.
Speaker 1: And of course everybody's screaming and yelling about that, but
Speaker 1: it should never have been turned over to them in
Speaker 1: the first part, and that was one of the blotches
Speaker 1: against him. The other thing I want to talk about
Speaker 1: quickly is this Trump arrangement syndrome even extends to the
Speaker 1: Carter death, where people are making comments about something along
Speaker 1: the lines on Twitter and other accounts that Carter's last
Speaker 1: act of his lifetime was to make sure that he
Speaker 1: died so that the flags will be at half staff
Speaker 1: coming into for the inauguration, that it will be a
Speaker 1: symbol of the death of the Republican Party or a
Speaker 1: symbol of the death of this country. Really, that's what
Speaker 1: you're going to go with the fact that this will
Speaker 1: take away from the splendor of having these flags at
Speaker 1: half staff, and seeing that, I would take it.
Speaker 2: I would look that a different way.
Speaker 1: If you're going to go there, which is someplace which
Speaker 1: you never should have gone in the first place.
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna go that.
Speaker 1: Route, if you're just gonna be mean and nasty just
Speaker 1: for this sake of being mean and nasty. Well, I'll
Speaker 1: take it a step further. What those flags at half
Speaker 1: mast are going to symbolize is the death of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, the death of the spoon fed regurgitators in
Speaker 1: the mainstream media, the death of Hollywood, the death of
Speaker 1: any possible influence that Obama should ever have in this country.
Speaker 2: How's that for you?
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Speaker 1: Caresee how are you this morning? Happy New Year?
Speaker 8: Yes, good morning, Kevin, and happy New Year to you
Speaker 8: and everyone else out there. And also condoles us to
Speaker 8: the Carter family. But the main reason why I was calling, uh,
Speaker 8: we you're one hundred percent right. We have to brand
Speaker 8: them as they are election deniers. The list is long.
Speaker 8: Kamala she started.
Speaker 9: Talking about fight, fight, fight, and she's coming out with
Speaker 9: you know, these videos looks like she's still I guess
Speaker 9: celebrating with bending her elbow.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Hillary, and he got questionable.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and then you got the infamous Al Gore. Still
Speaker 8: he's an original election denier at least in my generation.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 8: And Stacy Abrams and so the list goes on, and
Speaker 8: they did not hold back trying to box Republicans and
Speaker 8: politicians in and President Trump into asking them, well, will
Speaker 8: you accept the election results? Now we've accepted, we've had
Speaker 8: the election, and they're still continued continuing to fight, and
Speaker 8: it's just is just really wrong. So we have to
Speaker 8: let them know, just blame them, let them know who
Speaker 8: they really are, and that's election deniers. Also, you've got
Speaker 8: these democratic governors and mayors. Who are claiming that they're
Speaker 8: going to stand up and fight. And I and I
Speaker 8: heard it on when your Sisters station Will he said, hey,
Speaker 8: these are like the new Confederates. You know, why are
Speaker 8: they standing up saying we're not going to cooperate with
Speaker 8: law enforcement? It makes no sense. Is that does not
Speaker 8: bring our nation together?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: And I think you have to question when you hear
Speaker 1: that that they're not going to they're not going to
Speaker 1: cooperation and cooperate with ICE or Homeland Security to get
Speaker 1: rid of illegal aliens, and especially as they've laid out
Speaker 1: that the most violent gambs among them, who in their
Speaker 1: right mind want those people in their community, people that
Speaker 1: are ignoring the laws. I mean, let's face it, the
Speaker 1: people that are here illegally already committed a crime. Now
Speaker 1: you know, that's a lesser crime obviously than setting somebody
Speaker 1: on fire or murdering somebody or raping somebody. But there's
Speaker 1: plenty of those that go around, and you get rid
Speaker 1: of those first. You get rid of the gang members,
Speaker 1: the people that have been here or that have gotten
Speaker 1: here as the prisons and the mental institutions have been
Speaker 1: closed in these other countries. You get rid of that first,
Speaker 1: and to say that you're not going to cooperate with
Speaker 1: any of this, you got to have your head examined.
Speaker 8: Well, I think it's illegal. I think it's against the law.
Speaker 8: They take an oath to uphold the laws of the nation.
Speaker 8: And just because they want to thumb their nose at
Speaker 8: President Trump, that Trump hates syndrome is stronger than and
Speaker 8: their love for their own fellow Americans and has just
Speaker 8: gotten to that tipping point. And I think we need
Speaker 8: to call it like it is. And uh, also, if
Speaker 8: it comes out, what does it find out that maybe
Speaker 8: Biden or some of his associates they are maybe getting
Speaker 8: some remuneration for some of their commutations and pardons.
Speaker 1: You know, it wouldn't I wouldn't put it past them.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. You know, maybe Barry. You know, you go
Speaker 1: through a whole list, the laundry list of one of
Speaker 1: the pot partons that you're going to have, but among
Speaker 1: those could be sprinkled a bunch of people that have
Speaker 1: either contributed money or going to do a quid pro
Speaker 1: quo or something. As long as as far as the
Speaker 1: Bidens are concerned, that wouldn't surprise me at all. We
Speaker 1: saw this at the tail end of the Clinton administration
Speaker 1: when one of the big campaign contributors to him, and
Speaker 1: I think I can't remember the one. I remember the
Speaker 1: well the woman's uh is wife actually contributed money to
Speaker 1: Clinton's and then her husband got exonerated or got a pardon,
Speaker 1: and what was surprising. And you know, these pardons are
Speaker 1: not supposed to be just done because it's a whim
Speaker 1: there are the way it's supposed to work. From what
Speaker 1: I understand is the Justice Department has these requests, they
Speaker 1: go through them, they review them, see if they are worthwhile.
Speaker 1: And generally, what somebody has done is they've served their sentence,
Speaker 1: they've done better work, they've been model citizens in model
Speaker 1: prisoners and then model citizens afterwards and have shown remorse.
Speaker 1: But to just do a blanket pardon, and especially for
Speaker 1: those thirty seven people that are on death row, that
Speaker 1: to me is a slap in the face to the
Speaker 1: American public. It's a slap in the face to the justices.
Speaker 1: You know. In other words, apparently there are people that
Speaker 1: are above the law.
Speaker 8: Apparently, yes, apparently it appears to be so without a doubt.
Speaker 8: And finally, I did want to bring this up to
Speaker 8: because you've got a guest coming up. You know, when
Speaker 8: they talk about all the population and they talk about
Speaker 8: climate change, and they always say, way, you know COEO
Speaker 8: two is the cause of climate change. Well, science tells
Speaker 8: me that we exhale COEO two. So when I hear
Speaker 8: these global warmings people with their nonsense, what they're really
Speaker 8: saying is that we've got too many people breathing.
Speaker 1: Well, if you look at Bill Gates and his ilk,
Speaker 1: let's not forget that they are all population control people.
Speaker 1: And it amazes me. And it's interesting that when you
Speaker 1: look at the pandemic, the population control that that was
Speaker 1: supposed to or that brought about. When you look about
Speaker 1: all the policies that Bill Gates and his people are pushing,
Speaker 1: that's population control. And I you know, when you get
Speaker 1: right down to it, this whole environmental movement is nothing
Speaker 1: to do with cleaning up the planet making things better
Speaker 1: for the American people. It is all about control. We
Speaker 1: see it in terms of what kind of car you're
Speaker 1: going to drive, obviously the availability of how far you
Speaker 1: can drive with that car if you've got an EV
Speaker 1: because they certainly don't have the infrastructure. They want you
Speaker 1: to dictate where you live, where you eat, or where
Speaker 1: you live, what you live, where you live and what
Speaker 1: you live in, how you heat your food, what food
Speaker 1: you can eat, how you can eat, your home and everything.
Speaker 1: It's all about control, and it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with cleaning the planet. It's all about control, and that
Speaker 1: has more to do with communism, which again I think
Speaker 1: that a lot of people on the left would prefer
Speaker 1: that it has more to do with communism. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm always mashed the two together. Environmentalism has become the
Speaker 1: new communism. So I just call it climunism, and yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And so for them to try to push these policies
Speaker 1: through when the science doesn't dictate behind it, and when
Speaker 1: we look at some of the actual climate scientists that
Speaker 1: say there is no existential threat with climate change, that
Speaker 1: climate change is a myth, all of a sudden, nobody
Speaker 1: wants to talk about science. They only want to talk
Speaker 1: about their science, not the actual science.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Well, God bless you, and God bless audience,
Speaker 8: and have a healthy, prosperous new year.
Speaker 2: Same to you, my friend, Same to you.
Speaker 1: Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five,
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Speaker 1: Six forty three in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, fifty five k R see the talk station. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I find it interesting that as we're talking about the
Speaker 1: Carter years and talking about the accomplishments. Yeah, there were
Speaker 1: some accomplishments during his period of time. He did broke
Speaker 1: of the piece or had the was a Camp David
Speaker 1: Accords between Israel and Egypt, and it was one of
Speaker 1: the It was the first Arab country to actually recognize
Speaker 1: Israel's right to exist, which had not been done in
Speaker 1: the Arab countries up to that point. There were significant
Speaker 1: accomplishments there, but as far as economy, it was a
Speaker 1: disaster when we had you know, remember back when I
Speaker 1: keep going back through and I'm looking at different stories,
Speaker 1: you remember he started having They weren't I forget what
Speaker 1: they called him, but they were not the There were
Speaker 1: the fireside type chats that trying to harken back to
Speaker 1: the days of FDR and him sitting there at the
Speaker 1: fireplace and in his cardigan sweater and talking about the
Speaker 1: energy crisis that we had in this country. The fact
Speaker 1: that you know, to do your part, that if we
Speaker 1: had just turned our thermostats back during the day and
Speaker 1: at night, we could save half the amount of the
Speaker 1: amount of oil that we were short as far as
Speaker 1: the incoming supplies. This was all during the gas crisis,
Speaker 1: and the lines as far as gasoline lines at gas
Speaker 1: stations and so on. But the tempt you know, when
Speaker 1: we talk about lowering the temperature. You know, most people
Speaker 1: they have their house I think probably around what seventy
Speaker 1: two degrees normally or seventy degrees, and people when they
Speaker 1: talk about cutting back, they talk about, well, cut that
Speaker 1: thermostat down to around sixty seven, maybe sixty eight somewhere
Speaker 1: around there, and conserve energy. But during the Carter years,
Speaker 1: he was talking about lowering that thermostat during the day
Speaker 1: down to sixty five and then at night down to
Speaker 1: fifty five. You know what kind of a that talks
Speaker 1: to me, And that speaks to me of a failure
Speaker 1: of trying to institute and a sustainable energy policy instead
Speaker 1: of making sure that we have enough supplies for the
Speaker 1: American people, in other words, making instead of making things
Speaker 1: better for the American people, we should settle for something
Speaker 1: less and that we should do our part to sacrifice
Speaker 1: for the country. And because of his failed policies and
Speaker 1: the fact that we had rising inflation under his presidency,
Speaker 1: the fact that we had the gas lines, the fact
Speaker 1: that we had the general overall melees in terms of
Speaker 1: it seemed like the American dream had failed, that the
Speaker 1: American dream was not working, and that we had to
Speaker 1: rebuild and to get a better attitude going forward. It
Speaker 1: struck me as failure, an admission of failure, this whole
Speaker 1: idea that our best days are behind us, and I'm
Speaker 1: not buying that. That's why in nineteen eighty during the election,
Speaker 1: when Ronald Reagan came along, that the original hope and
Speaker 1: change candidate, the candidate that was optimistic, that always looked
Speaker 1: for the brighter days of America and American prosperity, the
Speaker 1: shining city on the hill. That's why he won in
Speaker 1: a landslide election. Because people, the American people, want better,
Speaker 1: They deserve better, They work hard to get better, and
Speaker 1: they should be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Speaker 1: Much the same mirror of the situation the way we've
Speaker 1: seen it with the Biden administration over the last four years.
Speaker 1: Talk about a comparison.
Speaker 2: And I tell you what.
Speaker 1: There is a picture that the Associated Press is running
Speaker 1: out there that shows Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden together,
Speaker 1: And if you want to look at the picture, it's
Speaker 1: on one of the headlines on axios. And I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: When you look back at Joe Biden in his days
Speaker 1: in the Senate, and you look at the scowl, and
Speaker 1: you look at how he treated Clarence Thomas during the
Speaker 1: head of the Judiciary Committee, this man has just got
Speaker 1: the creepiest look on his face all the time. How
Speaker 1: this guy ever got to a leadership position and ever
Speaker 1: made his way to the presidency always will boggle my mind.
Speaker 1: This guy should have been stopped day one. This guy
Speaker 1: should never have been re elected as Senator. And that
Speaker 1: just shows you, at least in my mind, how off beat,
Speaker 1: or how behind the curve or whatever the people of
Speaker 1: Delaware that would keep returning this man to office. Phone
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Speaker 1: Are talking to me a little bit about Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: and the passing of Jimmy Carter. Of course the left
Speaker 1: and Democrats are are singing his praises, and of course
Speaker 1: a lot of people are doing their their normal tributes.
Speaker 1: People are speaking fondly of him. But you know, I
Speaker 1: I the passing of anybody that lives to be one
Speaker 1: hundred is certainly remarkable, and the fact that there were
Speaker 1: certain accomplishments that he did do that that were good. Overall,
Speaker 1: he seemed to be somewhat of a decent person, although
Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, I don't know, somebody's legacy could
Speaker 1: be very well if they're pro choice, So I would
Speaker 1: that was to be a big mark against that person.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it that his presidency was marked as
Speaker 1: being the worst presidency in history. Fortunately he lived long
Speaker 1: enough to see the absolute worst presidency than his with
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. So at least he goes out on a
Speaker 1: high note. But I don't want to sugarcoat the Carter years.
Speaker 1: They were not good for the country. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of mistakes made and kind of laid the groundwork
Speaker 1: of some of the problems that we're facing today now.
Speaker 1: The certain accomplishments that should be praised, but we should
Speaker 1: have a realistic view of somebody, because I mean, at
Speaker 1: least I'm not doing what the left does when somebody
Speaker 1: like Rush Limbaugh died or Ronald Reagan died. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did everything but dance on the grave of those
Speaker 1: people and talked about, you know, thank goodness they're dead,
Speaker 1: Thank goodness that they're gone. We praise the fact. I'm
Speaker 1: not going there. I'm just saying we need to take
Speaker 1: a critical look and a realistic view of this Carter
Speaker 1: administration and his overall legacy, all the good as well
Speaker 1: as the bad. Coming up top of the hour, we'll
Speaker 1: take some of your phone calls, see what your opinion is.
Speaker 1: Let me know what you feel about the Carter years
Speaker 1: and what you remember about the Carter years. Five pet
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Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you. We are talking about we have
Speaker 1: been talking over the last hours, couple hours, talking about, well,
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Bengals, talking a little bit
Speaker 1: about their great victory on Saturday, talking about the presidency.
Speaker 2: Of Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 1: And I'm I don't know, I think I've been somewhat kind.
Speaker 1: What do you think out there talking about Producer I'm
Speaker 1: getting a thumbs up from him. In terms of my
Speaker 1: talking about Jimmy Carter. I think I've been pretty fair,
Speaker 1: don't you think just a little bit? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm not gonna just ignore all the
Speaker 1: stuff that that that were bad during the Carter years.
Speaker 1: I'm going to recognize the good. When anybody dies, that
Speaker 1: is sad. I mean, because no matter what, somebody's losing
Speaker 1: a parent, somebody's losing a family member, somebody's losing a friend,
Speaker 1: no matter what age they die. But this canonizing him
Speaker 1: for santhood I think is a little over the top. However,
Speaker 1: I mean, there were a lot of things that went
Speaker 1: on during the Carter years that were not good. By
Speaker 1: a lot of estimation, he was one of the worst
Speaker 1: presidents we've ever had. Of course, now the current president,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, has beat him as far as that's concerned,
Speaker 1: so at least he gets to go out of this
Speaker 1: world on a high note. But again, we're not going
Speaker 1: to sugarcoat it. By the way, if you look at
Speaker 1: my Facebook page, you'll know that I have a list
Speaker 1: there of guess that we're going to have today, and
Speaker 1: just run down that real quickly for you. Coming up
Speaker 1: at seven twenty and we're going to be talking to
Speaker 1: Christopher's P. Smither Money is the former vice mayor of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: doing the Smither Vent. And then at seven or at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock we're going to be talking about after the News.
Speaker 1: Eight oh five, we're talking with Steven Moser. He is
Speaker 1: president of the Population Research Institute. Their acronym is PRI.
Speaker 1: We will discuss the myth of overpopulation, humor and rights
Speaker 1: abuses committed in population control programs, and the demonic nature
Speaker 1: of the communist China, and of course PRI's pro life
Speaker 1: goals for twenty twenty five. Looking forward to speaking with
Speaker 1: him for sure. Now, as far as I did see that,
Speaker 1: they did establish the date and time for the Bengals
Speaker 1: game against Pittsburgh. That's going to be at eight o'clock
Speaker 1: eight pm on Saturday, So looking forward to that. Now,
Speaker 1: as we've seen over the last couple of days, they've
Speaker 1: been talking about watching some of these games of the
Speaker 1: weekend and they start talking about, well, your next opponent
Speaker 1: and what are you doing, and he said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know what date, we don't know what time.
Speaker 2: They're moving the schedule around.
Speaker 1: I guess to get as many eyes or to get
Speaker 1: as many likes, or get the most people watching those
Speaker 1: games for I guess the most revenue or the most
Speaker 1: revenue that they can get for those games. So they're
Speaker 1: changing the schedule around to accommodate different teams and to
Speaker 1: try to get as many eyes on those for advertising revenue.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see that. But we do
Speaker 1: know the Bengals will be on eight o'clock on Saturday,
Speaker 1: so looking forward to that. It was a great game
Speaker 1: of the weekend. I don't know if you watched it,
Speaker 1: but it was very entertaining and a lot of very
Speaker 1: in my opinion, let's just put it this way, it
Speaker 1: was one of the best games that I've seen in
Speaker 1: a very, very long time.
Speaker 2: So that's my two cents worth.
Speaker 1: We've been seeing, we've been talking about what is going
Speaker 1: on as far as Trump derangement syndrome. We've been talking
Speaker 1: a little bit about and we've been seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of people on the left how they're going to try
Speaker 1: to derail this administration, how they're going to try to
Speaker 1: throw up roadblocks, and how they're going to try to
Speaker 1: undermine this incoming administration. I think one of the worst
Speaker 1: things or one of the and I don't know why,
Speaker 1: And it puzzles me to no end why anybody at
Speaker 1: this point in time is even paying attention to anybody
Speaker 1: in the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, as
Speaker 1: I refer to them, because all they've done over the
Speaker 1: last four years is lie to us. They talked about
Speaker 1: Trump being an existential threat to democracy, and that's just
Speaker 1: not a term that's thrown out there. When you say
Speaker 1: something as an existential threat, you mean that it is
Speaker 1: a threat to the existence of whatever comes next. If
Speaker 1: you're saying an existential threat to the world as far
Speaker 1: as climate change is concerned, existential threat to democracy, you're
Speaker 1: talking about a threat to the existence of democracy. Now
Speaker 1: you know Hitler Mussolini, two assassination attempts on him, and
Speaker 1: yet they don't even tone down or dial down the rhetoric.
Speaker 1: It's still that he's evil personified. They want to refer
Speaker 1: to him as a felon, They were going to refer
Speaker 1: to him as a as a law breaker, as a rave,
Speaker 1: all these kinds of things that they want to throw
Speaker 1: at him. People have already made the decision on that.
Speaker 1: People have heard all the crap that you've thrown out there,
Speaker 1: and they still elected him overwhelmingly because they looked at
Speaker 1: the alternative. They looked at their wallets, they looked at
Speaker 1: their four oh one case, they looked at now again,
Speaker 1: the market has been good, but the downside of that
Speaker 1: has been a horrible economy, high inflation, people can't afford homes,
Speaker 1: people living paycheck to paycheck, and people said enough is enough,
Speaker 1: we need to go in a different direction. And yet
Speaker 1: the people on the left are going to continue to
Speaker 1: attack after they've told us for four years Joe Scarborough
Speaker 1: and the like that this version of Biden is the
Speaker 1: best that's ever been. He runs rings around everybody, anybody
Speaker 1: associated with his administration, anybody that has reported on his administration,
Speaker 1: anybody that interviewed him and didn't out him, the members
Speaker 1: of his own cabinet that didn't put forth the twenty
Speaker 1: fifth Amendment and get him out of office because of
Speaker 1: his diminished capacity. None of these people should be anywhere
Speaker 1: in the position of power. Why Jensaki still has a
Speaker 1: show on what is an MSNBC, John Kareeine Jean Pierre
Speaker 1: should never be anywhere near a government position ever. Again,
Speaker 1: all of these newscasters that lied about his condition and
Speaker 1: lied to the American people about that.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: What we need to look at is what has what
Speaker 1: has he done, and what has he What commutations has
Speaker 1: he done, What executive orders has he done? Anything that
Speaker 1: he has done as far as any mandates, those should
Speaker 1: all be reversed immediately, because in a diminished capacity, even
Speaker 1: the commutation of sentences, all those commutations of the thirty
Speaker 1: seven people on death row, all the different pardons, was
Speaker 1: it thirteen hundred or so pardons that he let out
Speaker 1: or gave out a few weeks ago. I think Hunter
Speaker 1: and Biden's pardons should be looked at as well. How
Speaker 1: do you how do you take a person and say
Speaker 1: we're going to issue a blanket of pardon going back
Speaker 1: eleven years without knowing what the heck you know crimes
Speaker 1: have been committed. If the crimes were committed, then how
Speaker 1: do you how do you pass on that? How do
Speaker 1: you look at that and say, well, no matter what
Speaker 1: he has done, we are not going to prosecute him.
Speaker 1: That is crazy, And so again it's something that needs
Speaker 1: to be looked at. I've heard people, I've heard some
Speaker 1: legal people that supposedly know what they're talking about, saying
Speaker 1: that until you have a competency hearing, until you realize
Speaker 1: or make the determination that somebody is not competent, you
Speaker 1: can't you know, like you know, as we see in
Speaker 1: some of these cases where you challenge a will, where
Speaker 1: you challenge somebody's mental capacity in terms of their last
Speaker 1: will and testament, that where those have been contested because
Speaker 1: they are of diminished capacity, Well, the same thing would
Speaker 1: be true here. And unless you do a thorough examination
Speaker 1: of Biden and then look at that in terms of
Speaker 1: the progression of the disease apparently that he may have
Speaker 1: in terms of dementia, how far back that extends, and
Speaker 1: look at what he's done up to that point. I
Speaker 1: think that all needs to be looked at, and anything
Speaker 1: that he did that he was of mental capacity diminishmental
Speaker 1: capacity should be an all and void. You would do
Speaker 1: that for a family member, You would do that in
Speaker 1: any business, You do that in any type of situation.
Speaker 1: But somehow, as president, you get a pass on that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't buy that, and I think it's
Speaker 1: and let him, let him take it to court. And
Speaker 1: any of these people that he pardons, any of these
Speaker 1: people that he's done or has pardoned, I think should
Speaker 1: be looked at and the facts for that, because the
Speaker 1: Justice Department is supposed to do certain things as far
Speaker 1: as recommendations, and they're supposed to look at these and
Speaker 1: make sure and recommend them to the president. He just
Speaker 1: doesn't pick a number, a name out of a hat,
Speaker 1: any name and just does blanket.
Speaker 2: Pardons.
Speaker 1: That just is not done. So this all needs to
Speaker 1: be looked at. Coming up, we're gonna be talking at
Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman at seven twenty. So we'll let we'll take
Speaker 1: a we'll take a break here and then come back
Speaker 1: with Christopher Smithman. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
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Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: Fifty five krs The Talton Day.
Speaker 1: What an appropriate song? No, Yes, absolutely, I will not
Speaker 1: back down. As you know, I have an opinion. I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid to use it. And when I see him,
Speaker 1: I call him like I see him.
Speaker 2: And that's just though how I.
Speaker 1: Flow looking at h Well, probably I'm going to go
Speaker 1: down this list and at some point in time and
Speaker 1: talk about all the all the frauds that there are
Speaker 1: in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: I want to compare and contrast. Probably might don't throw off.
Speaker 1: I'll do it today, but maybe tomorrow we'll do this
Speaker 1: compare and contrasting of the list of people back in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen that said that if Trump was elected president
Speaker 1: that they're going to move out of the country, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that any one of them actually ever did.
Speaker 1: Then in twenty twenty four now there's a whole new
Speaker 1: list of people that have said that they're going to
Speaker 1: leave the country because Trump got elected president, and it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see how many are on
Speaker 1: the list. And it's like, how can you leave when
Speaker 1: you said you were going to leave before? So it's
Speaker 1: all a fraud. The people in Hollywood are not to
Speaker 1: be taken seriously. And I don't know why anybody's paying
Speaker 1: attention to any of the spoon fed regurgitators in the
Speaker 1: mainstream media. And we got Christopher smither in here. Christopher,
Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Happy New Year, and how you been.
Speaker 8: I'm doing good.
Speaker 10: And I hope you had to marry Christmasson and I
Speaker 10: hope you have a happy New Year.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 10: Let's just stay with your stay with your theme, brother.
Speaker 10: I mean, people want to leave the greatest country in
Speaker 10: the world, right is where this is. Everybody's trying to
Speaker 10: get in. Yeah, and you have people on the West
Speaker 10: Coast saying they want to leave. Let's give them a
Speaker 10: one way ticket. Let's get a go fund me if
Speaker 10: they need.
Speaker 2: One, you bet and ship them out exactly.
Speaker 10: Now. The deal has to be Kevin, is they can't
Speaker 10: come back? Yes, okay, So it's not like you go
Speaker 10: and then you come back. No, you are gone for
Speaker 10: the rest of your life. You give up your passport,
Speaker 10: you give up your citizenship and we don't want you
Speaker 10: to come back. It's a one way ticket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's it's as if people forget or they
Speaker 1: ask the question, or are not asked the question, Where
Speaker 1: would you go where it's any better?
Speaker 2: Where? Where do you want to go to?
Speaker 1: Europe where they're looking at their jumping full both feed
Speaker 1: in with this green energy technology and you're going to
Speaker 1: be freezing during the winter because you don't have enough
Speaker 1: electricity keep the lights on. You're going to go to
Speaker 1: a count country like England who is seeing a record
Speaker 1: inflation there. They don't have their act together, European Union, Where.
Speaker 2: Are you going to go? Just amazing, amazing.
Speaker 10: It's this notion and this is why you know this year,
Speaker 10: you know when you heard so many people out there
Speaker 10: saying they don't like our country, they don't like our flag,
Speaker 10: They don't want to say the pleasure legiance, they don't
Speaker 10: want to stand and cover their heart when the when
Speaker 10: the national anthem is being sung. They want to take
Speaker 10: a knee for the flag. While we've got people on
Speaker 10: the front lines protecting our democracies all over the world,
Speaker 10: right and those soldiers are coming back who are now
Speaker 10: veterans and you got people saying they don't love our country.
Speaker 10: This year was so bizarre. The other thing, Kevin in this,
Speaker 10: in my my vent to you, is it was a
Speaker 10: year to divide the black brothers from their white brothers.
Speaker 10: And so this notion of it, I'm going to to
Speaker 10: be divisive, and I'm going to make sure I look
Speaker 10: at you with a slanted eye. There has to be
Speaker 10: something nefarious about you because of your race, undermining us
Speaker 10: as Americans. This year was all about that, and ultimately
Speaker 10: it failed on November the sixth, where Americans said, you
Speaker 10: know what, I reject those narratives. I love my country, right,
Speaker 10: I don't want to defund the police department. And my
Speaker 10: neighbor who happens to be African American isn't my enemy.
Speaker 10: And my neighbor who happens to be white isn't my enemy.
Speaker 10: That was all baked into the November election, and Americans
Speaker 10: rejected the narrative, most from the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Christopher Smeatherman, my guests, the I believe
Speaker 1: that this actually this goes back to the Obama administration.
Speaker 1: I believe that during his presidency, you look at the
Speaker 1: situation of potential transformational figure somebody who is of mixed
Speaker 1: race is elected president and over well enough to get elected,
Speaker 1: I'm not well, it was kind of that was a
Speaker 1: pretty one sided election.
Speaker 2: McCain really didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean it was anyway, whatever the numbers were, all right,
Speaker 1: now here is an opportunity to bring the races together.
Speaker 1: Here is a way of saying that, no, we don't
Speaker 1: have a racist country. After all, I got elected. Here
Speaker 1: is what I'm going to try to do to bring
Speaker 1: this country together. But instead it was this constant divide
Speaker 1: any type of talking about that what was the Trayvon
Speaker 1: Martin could have been my son talking about having the
Speaker 1: beer summit. Because that Lewis Gates or whatever his name is,
Speaker 1: that at Harvard or University was approached by a police
Speaker 1: officer and ask if he belonged in the neighborhood there,
Speaker 1: Lewis Gates Junior. Now that was all divisive. This was
Speaker 1: stuff that he did, his going around the world apologizing
Speaker 1: for America and dividing one group against the other. And
Speaker 1: I think it started with him and it just progressed on.
Speaker 1: And you're right, this business of you know, going back
Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty election, you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: vote for me. You ain't black the whole nine yards this.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you ruin a country, Christopher? You
Speaker 1: divide individual groups off, you take away the unity, and
Speaker 1: you divide them off, and you tear them apart individually
Speaker 1: down to the core, and then by the time you
Speaker 1: get around everybody, there's nobody left.
Speaker 10: Well I can I can share with you, Kevin. I
Speaker 10: don't think our country was divided by any one president.
Speaker 10: There's been a lot of them. One died. My condolences
Speaker 10: for the president who died, Carter yesterday, and we can
Speaker 10: talk about Lyndon Johnson, we can talk about any of
Speaker 10: those presidents that have come prior before. But at the
Speaker 10: end of the day, over the last four years, President
Speaker 10: Biden was the president, and he ran on this notion
Speaker 10: that you and I are different in some kind of way,
Speaker 10: based on in my opinion, based on our race. And
Speaker 10: I think you made the comment if you're not black,
Speaker 10: if you if you don't vote for me, those kinds
Speaker 10: of things didn't help, and it didn't help the Vice
Speaker 10: President Harris at all in her bid for reelection. People
Speaker 10: are just tired of it. They want people to get
Speaker 10: up every day, go to work, handle your business, you know,
Speaker 10: if you're talking about I want to go to school,
Speaker 10: go to school, handle your business, whether you're in the
Speaker 10: first grade or kindergarten, or whether you're a college student.
Speaker 10: If this is about work, this is about success in
Speaker 10: your merit. That's what this country is built on. And
Speaker 10: so at the end of the day, which was so
Speaker 10: interesting going into November sixth, even after the rejection, if
Speaker 10: you listen to mainstream media, Kevin, they still haven't gotten
Speaker 10: the lesson. They're still out here doing the exact same
Speaker 10: thing they did before the election. And so I'm sitting
Speaker 10: there going can you all learn anything from what just happened.
Speaker 10: It's been a it's been a very interesting listen. And
Speaker 10: I've been watching CNN, I've been watching MSNBC. I've been
Speaker 10: trying to wait to see have they heard from the
Speaker 10: American people and any of those people who've been watching it,
Speaker 10: who are who are who are viewing the lens to
Speaker 10: maybe where you and I are seeing it. They haven't
Speaker 10: learned their lesson. There's still talking to continue the same narrative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're talking the same narrative that they've been talking
Speaker 1: for the last four years and up to and through
Speaker 1: the election, and why any And well, you see it
Speaker 1: in the ratings. You see it that that their ratings
Speaker 1: are plumbing, and that's an indication that people have turned
Speaker 1: them off. And I maintained that the only reason that
Speaker 1: they're getting any airtime at all is because some of
Speaker 1: the conservative outlets like Fox News will show clips of them,
Speaker 1: and there's more eyes look at those clips than when
Speaker 1: the actual clip occurred on that individual show on that network.
Speaker 1: And Christopher Smitherman, you know the deal here. We got
Speaker 1: to take a break real quick, Bob in the hour,
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll pick this all up.
Speaker 1: My guest Christopher Smitherman for Cincinnati Vice Mayor and of
Speaker 1: course just all around great guy and will continue with
Speaker 1: the smither Vent. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 1: Smither Vent, thanks for spending time with us, and hope
Speaker 1: you're Christmas and your New Year's shaping up there. Christopher,
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Speaker 10: Oh thank you brother. You know my heart goes out Kevin,
Speaker 10: to those who lost their lives in the Korean crash,
Speaker 10: you know, and one hundred and eighty people or one
Speaker 10: hundred and seventy nine people lost their lives. So I'm
Speaker 10: certainly watching that like you're watching it. But it also
Speaker 10: gives me an opportunity to highlight the aviation excellence in
Speaker 10: the United States of America. I mean, we have failures
Speaker 10: when you know, you have this many planes that are
Speaker 10: up in the air, whether it's an Airbus plane, whether
Speaker 10: it's a Boeing plane. We have some of the best
Speaker 10: pilots in the world, and they land planes under for
Speaker 10: terrible conditions every day and every week and every month.
Speaker 10: I don't know what happened in the air. There's you know,
Speaker 10: there's some talk that there was a bird strike that
Speaker 10: hid an engine. I'm sure we'll find out what happened there.
Speaker 10: But I can tell you again, every time I look
Speaker 10: at that, we haven't had one of these types of
Speaker 10: maybe in the in the United States of America in
Speaker 10: a long time, and it's because it's because of the
Speaker 10: training of our pilots, and we have a serious emphasis
Speaker 10: on safety here. We don't you know, I'm not saying
Speaker 10: we don't have twenty year old planes flying in the air,
Speaker 10: but the reality of it is we have the best
Speaker 10: aviation in the world. And again it comes back to
Speaker 10: where we started. Why would anybody say they want to
Speaker 10: leave the United States of America when so many people
Speaker 10: are trying to get in, Kevin, and so my heart
Speaker 10: goes out to those families.
Speaker 1: I went over the weekend we had that one in Azurebrai, John,
Speaker 1: and the other one they're going into you just mentioned it.
Speaker 1: I've drawn them blank here real quick.
Speaker 10: Of Korea.
Speaker 1: Korea, Yeah, the South Korean Airline. And in both of
Speaker 1: those there were malfunctions or it appeared as though that
Speaker 1: the plane was well. The one was coming in pretty
Speaker 1: heavy and then it seemed like it was going to
Speaker 1: skid around, but then it went behind the hangar and.
Speaker 2: You saw this fireball.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting that two of those came about on
Speaker 1: the same weekend or near the same weekend, and it
Speaker 1: just I hope what happens is that people double down
Speaker 1: on their maintenance and review and making sure that everything
Speaker 1: that goes into the air is safe and nothing gets
Speaker 1: left you know, oh like oh that's just a button,
Speaker 1: that's just a light that's out on the dashboard. That's
Speaker 1: usually nothing. No, you take everything seriously and especially and
Speaker 1: it commend the people that fly these planes. And look
Speaker 1: at the number of flights per day that go in
Speaker 1: and out at different airports across this country, and it
Speaker 1: is absolutely amazing the safety record.
Speaker 10: Absolutely And let me also say to you, Kevin, as
Speaker 10: we look into next week and we hear we hear
Speaker 10: the Republican drum beat of whether they are going to
Speaker 10: not vote for Speaker Johnson, this is a colossal mistake
Speaker 10: in my opinion. If they've already been through this, it
Speaker 10: didn't turn out well. It looks like they're going to
Speaker 10: start off with more chaos, which isn't going to turn
Speaker 10: out well. They need to certify the election and move forward.
Speaker 10: And so this notion that you know that that Speaker
Speaker 10: Johnson can only lose one person and then that's going
Speaker 10: to turn you know, the entire Congress on its head,
Speaker 10: is just crazy. And I just don't know why at times,
Speaker 10: the Republican Party continues to put these types of self
Speaker 10: inflicted wounds on themselves, right, like everything isn't going to
Speaker 10: be perfect, You're never you're gonna always get your way,
Speaker 10: and it just seems like there are these tipper tantrums
Speaker 10: that happen there to say, boom, here we are, let's
Speaker 10: cast a vote, let's move forward as a team. Maybe
Speaker 10: you don't like everything Johnson does, maybe you love everything
Speaker 10: he does, but at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 10: not about you. It's about the country. And I'm just
Speaker 10: telling you, the last time they went through this, it
Speaker 10: just looked horrible, the McCarthy thing to Johnson, And now
Speaker 10: who else are they going to? Who else wants to
Speaker 10: serve as the speaker? It seems like a really a
Speaker 10: job that nobody really wants, very thankfus job. But at
Speaker 10: the end of the day, if he wants the job,
Speaker 10: why not let him stay in the job. And why
Speaker 10: have some national fight for us all to watch starting
Speaker 10: next Friday. This doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And with that thin majority, we're only going to have
Speaker 1: a one seat majority because of the people that are
Speaker 1: either out of the Congress or people that are sick
Speaker 1: or people that have taken jobs in the administration. This
Speaker 1: is something where you know, it's going to be very
Speaker 1: delicate to be able to get the numbers to pass anything.
Speaker 1: And at this point, I would say to some of
Speaker 1: the people that you know, as you were kind of
Speaker 1: alluding to, is put your personal preferences to the side
Speaker 1: for a moment for the good of the country. You
Speaker 1: may think that your policies, that your procedures, that you
Speaker 1: are doing what's right for the American public, but in
Speaker 1: the long run, it's only going to hurt if you
Speaker 1: don't get the agenda done. If you don't you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you go back to the Revolutionary War. Decoration
Speaker 1: of Independence was absolutely meaningless if we didn't win, and
Speaker 1: so in order to have that document mean something, you
Speaker 1: had to win. Well, we've won. So let's make sure
Speaker 1: that we advance forward and put forth the agenda that
Speaker 1: the American people wanted. And you know, we've got to
Speaker 1: take a break, real quick break. Here a Christopher, my guess,
Speaker 1: Christopher Smitherman during the smither event here on fifty five
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Speaker 1: Seven in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: fifty five krs the talk station, continuing our conversation with
Speaker 1: former Cincinnati Vice mayor and Christopher Smitherman during our smither
Speaker 1: Vent on Monday mornings. Thanks for hanging with us to
Speaker 1: the break. Christopher certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Oh brother, thank you for having me. As we go
Speaker 10: into the new years. I tell you, it's been interesting
Speaker 10: watching what happened what's been happening with crime in New York.
Speaker 10: Just like we've seen crime in Cincinnati, or we've seen
Speaker 10: crime in Chicago, or we've seen crime in LA But
Speaker 10: New York is hosting the Big ball drop and now
Speaker 10: they've decided to clean up Times Square. Always interesting how
Speaker 10: they roll out their politics. Let's make sure the homeless
Speaker 10: people are here for the guests to see who are
Speaker 10: coming in the Times Square. Let's make sure that there
Speaker 10: isn't any crime around in this area. So we're going
Speaker 10: to bring in all the police. We're going to secure
Speaker 10: the area, but not for the people that live there
Speaker 10: day to day, just for the guests from from yesterday,
Speaker 10: from tomorrow into the next day. This is this is
Speaker 10: the insanity of elected officials, right when you know their heads,
Speaker 10: their policies are not screwed on right, and so it's
Speaker 10: very frustrating because we just came out of watching Penny,
Speaker 10: who was crucified for standing up for citizens black who
Speaker 10: were white, who were Latino. Matter of fact, when we
Speaker 10: highlight when Penny was holding the gentleman down, there was
Speaker 10: a black man holding him down to and it looked
Speaker 10: like somebody who might have been Latino. So this was
Speaker 10: this was a This was a group of people there
Speaker 10: who were trying to protect the people on the train.
Speaker 10: Two weeks later, thank god, they found him innocent. You
Speaker 10: have a man who sets a woman on fire while
Speaker 10: she's sleeping on the train, and now they're talking about
Speaker 10: possibly the death sentence for him. The Guardian Angels have
Speaker 10: now said they're going down in the subways to protect
Speaker 10: I just started was interesting, Kevin that that New York
Speaker 10: is now saying we're bringing out the police to secure
Speaker 10: Times Square, which starts with moving out the homeless and
Speaker 10: making sure the crime element is not there for the
Speaker 10: guests who are coming in and standing in line starting today.
Speaker 1: Well, if you move the criminal element out, then you
Speaker 1: can claim that there is no crime you see, rather
Speaker 1: than reporting on the crime that exists if you kind
Speaker 1: of push it away, if you do away with the
Speaker 1: homeless encampments, and then you can say, well, see where
Speaker 1: are the homeless encampments. You know, you don't see those now,
Speaker 1: So maybe all the reports before have been false, and
Speaker 1: it's just this this It's like the Potempkin village type
Speaker 1: of thing, where you put up this facade so that
Speaker 1: when the bizarre the dictator comes driving through, everything looks clean,
Speaker 1: everything looks wonderful, and then behind the facade is all
Speaker 1: the filth, the rout, the decay, that everything that is bad.
Speaker 1: And yet you're putting on this, You're shining this thing
Speaker 1: up just for appearances purposes. And I agree with you
Speaker 1: that this. You know, if they can do it for
Speaker 1: the ball drop, why not do it all year?
Speaker 10: Loan, And I think that the citizens of New York
Speaker 10: are going to have to sort it out. It's not
Speaker 10: a place that, you know, I'm really interested in living
Speaker 10: for a number of reasons. But the people that live there,
Speaker 10: I wish them the best of luck. But they can
Speaker 10: see how their government is responding to them. And I
Speaker 10: think people see this when the Olympics are coming to
Speaker 10: their community. You see the same kind of behavior from
Speaker 10: the politicians. We've got a whole them. Accountable crime has
Speaker 10: to be the number one issue. Keeping citizens faith as
Speaker 10: we go into the new year has to be the
Speaker 10: number one thing. This whole notion of defunding our police
Speaker 10: has really just hit, you know, different cities across the
Speaker 10: country with politicians saying they wanted to defund the police department,
Speaker 10: and that played out in the election that we just
Speaker 10: got out of. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: let me end on just a loving note and talk
Speaker 10: to you about President Carter and not talk about the
Speaker 10: four years that he served, but the ninety six years
Speaker 10: that he lived. And this was a man I think
Speaker 10: that I respected because of his faith, his faith in God.
Speaker 10: We've lost that in our country where so many people
Speaker 10: are agnostic or atheists or don't have a belief in God.
Speaker 10: I believe in God. I'm Catholic, a Catholic family, and
Speaker 10: so I respected President Carter and his wife for their faith.
Speaker 10: Number two married seventy seven years. There are people that
Speaker 10: can't stay married six months, let alone seventy seven years.
Speaker 10: And so they were a beacon of a couple who said,
Speaker 10: we got married, we respect our vows in sickness and
Speaker 10: in health, and they stayed together for seventy seven years,
Speaker 10: and people should recognize that kind of respect for the
Speaker 10: institution of marriage, which I respect. And the last thing
Speaker 10: I'll say is his humanitarian efforts, his desire to roll
Speaker 10: up his sleeves God every day, build houses, invest in
Speaker 10: the areas that he believed in that would make our
Speaker 10: society better. So I tip my hat to the Carter
Speaker 10: family and his children, and to him and his lovely wife.
Speaker 10: I tipped my hat to them in their wonderful marriage
Speaker 10: that they showed and reflected in everything that they did.
Speaker 1: Kevin, Yeah, Now again I would agree with you as
Speaker 1: far as you know. You look at him post presidency
Speaker 1: and you look at all the good that he did
Speaker 1: and the humanitarian efforts that he did, and I would
Speaker 1: applaud that, and I certainly agree with that. But you
Speaker 1: know we don't there there aren't. He wasn't a saint.
Speaker 1: I applaud as you say, his his marriage, his commitment
Speaker 1: to his family, and his humanitarian But again, as a
Speaker 1: as a Catholic, I still want when I look at
Speaker 1: certain politicians, I can't get over the pro choice issue.
Speaker 1: As far as some of these politicians are concerned, especially
Speaker 1: people who try who profess to be men and people
Speaker 1: of faith, that the two just don't combine as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned.
Speaker 10: Well, we agree, We agree that he was definitely not perfect, right,
Speaker 10: and I don't I don't share his position on abortion
Speaker 10: at all, nor did I share President Biden's position on abortion.
Speaker 10: But I wanted to just take a moment to salute,
Speaker 10: you know, a president who lived to be one hundred
Speaker 10: and I and I don't want to he was the
Speaker 10: president for four years ago. I don't want to define
Speaker 10: him just that, because there were ninety six other years
Speaker 10: and I just wanted to read exactly.
Speaker 2: And I agree with that. I agree with that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: And I am not going to be and and I
Speaker 1: rail against some of these people that would get on
Speaker 1: like you see from the left when a conservative passes.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they want to dance on the grave.
Speaker 1: They want to throw a party in a celebration and
Speaker 1: talk about how glad they are the person died.
Speaker 2: That to me is the height of evil.
Speaker 10: And so and it's not who we are. Kevin is
Speaker 10: not who we are as people. You know, if I
Speaker 10: suggest to you that if the vice president Kamala Harris
Speaker 10: had won, there would have been no discussions about any
Speaker 10: riots in any streets anywhere. No one would have been
Speaker 10: setting anything on fire or try to attempt to stop
Speaker 10: the election or not count votes or any of that
Speaker 10: kind of stuff. And so this is about as we
Speaker 10: go into the new year, I hope it's about rule
Speaker 10: of law. I'm really excited about the exploration of oil
Speaker 10: and resources in our country that will make us less dependent,
Speaker 10: which I think is a national security issue. I think
Speaker 10: it's at the top of the list. You know, I'm
Speaker 10: looking forward to the ending of wars. You know, I
Speaker 10: have a son who's who spent four years, just got
Speaker 10: back this year. He resigned with the uh with the
Speaker 10: Air National Guard, and so you know, all of these
Speaker 10: things mean a lot to our family because he could
Speaker 10: be sent somewhere on the front line. He could be
Speaker 10: called up, and that's very, very real. So I like
Speaker 10: a president who really takes ending wars seriously when you
Speaker 10: have so much on the line, like our family does,
Speaker 10: and so many other families that are listening to us,
Speaker 10: listening to us, and thank anybody, any veteran out there,
Speaker 10: We thank you for your service. And I'm going to
Speaker 10: really appreciate an emphasis on our veterans over the next
Speaker 10: four years. They need support, they deserve support. Can They've
Speaker 10: given so much to our country and many of the
Speaker 10: people out there that are homeless, many of them and
Speaker 10: too many of them are our veterans, and we need
Speaker 10: to deliver the services to them. And it shouldn't be
Speaker 10: a punch vine. Absolutely that this new administration will take
Speaker 10: it serious.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Christopher, I certainly appreciate your time this morning, and
Speaker 1: I'll always fascinated and we talk to you and look
Speaker 1: forward to the next time we can talk.
Speaker 2: Mappy New Year to you too.
Speaker 1: Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor and just an all around
Speaker 1: nice guy and just love hearing his smither vent and
Speaker 1: the politics that he talks about and the issues that
Speaker 1: he brings up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
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Speaker 1: For the seven four Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: fifty five KR see the talk station. Well, we just
Speaker 1: basically have enough time to introduce or talk about our
Speaker 1: coming up guests. At the top of the hour, we're
Speaker 1: going to be talking to Stephen Moser. If you've gone
Speaker 1: to my Facebook page, you'll know that I post that
Speaker 1: and who my guess is going to be. He is
Speaker 1: the president Population Research Institute. We'll be discussing the myths
Speaker 1: of the overpopulation, human rights abuses committed by in the
Speaker 1: name of population control, and we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: about the demonic nature of the Communist Party in China
Speaker 1: and much much more. So stay tuned for that. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to talking to him and of course his
Speaker 1: organization's efforts or their goals on pro life issues going
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty five. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas fifty five KRCD talk station five minutes after eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: My guest is Stephen Moser. He is the president of
Speaker 1: Population Research Institute. This is an amazing organization that I
Speaker 1: came to find out when I attended the September fifteenth
Speaker 1: Northern Kentucky Right to Life banquet talking about the issues
Speaker 1: of right to life and Stephen was the guest speaker.
Speaker 1: Population Research Institute's a nonprofit research group. Goals are to
Speaker 1: expose the myth of overpopulation, expose human rights abuses committed
Speaker 1: in population control programs make the case for people are
Speaker 1: the world's greatest resources. Stephen, welcome to the program.
Speaker 5: It's good to be with you this morning.
Speaker 2: It's my pleasure.
Speaker 1: You have a very interesting background as to how you
Speaker 1: arrived here, and nobody tells their story better than the
Speaker 1: person themselves, So tell people a little bit about your background.
Speaker 5: Well, I was first American social science that allowed in
Speaker 5: the communist China, way way back in nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 5: when President Jimmy Carter, who just passed away today, normalized
Speaker 5: relations with the People's Republic of China. China had been
Speaker 5: hidden behind the Bamboo Curtain for about thirty years, and
Speaker 5: there I was boots on the ground in early nineteen
Speaker 5: seventy nine trying to find out what the communists had
Speaker 5: done over the last thirty years to the Chinese people.
Speaker 5: And you know, it wasn't a very pretty story. There
Speaker 5: were persecutions and purges and the Cultural Revolution. But the
Speaker 5: one thing that happened when I was in China was
Speaker 5: China's longest running political campaign. It was called the One
Speaker 5: Child policy, where everybody in China was restricted to one child,
Speaker 5: and God helped those women who were pregnant with a
Speaker 5: second or a third child because they were arrested for
Speaker 5: the crime of being pregnant, the crime of getting pregnant
Speaker 5: without government permission. It was a crime in China in
Speaker 5: those days. It continued to be a crime in China
Speaker 5: until just a few years ago. So I was an
Speaker 5: eyewitness to women being forcibly aborted and forcibly sterilized under
Speaker 5: the one child policy. And you know, the total human
Speaker 5: cost of that program was four hundred million lives were
Speaker 5: lost in China from nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty to
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen to the one child policy. That's about half
Speaker 5: of the last two generations. And they're paying a heavy
Speaker 5: price for that today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because once you do away with a certain segment
Speaker 1: of the population. Let's concentrate on that number, four hundred
Speaker 1: million souls killed as a result of this one child policy.
Speaker 1: But you take that number out and then from there
Speaker 1: you don't have that number of kids producing other children.
Speaker 1: You don't replace the population that you have, and you
Speaker 1: start going into actually a population decline which is almost
Speaker 1: impossible to pull out at times.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and that's where Chinese today. China has actually
Speaker 5: been in population declined for the last five years. They
Speaker 5: just admitted this year that their population was beginning to shrink.
Speaker 5: But it's actually you know, the Chinese Communist Party rarely
Speaker 5: tells the truth about anything, and they've been lying about
Speaker 5: their population numbers for years too. The average Chinese woman
Speaker 5: today gives birth only about one child. That's a recipe
Speaker 5: for demographic disaster, which is quickly coming upon the Chinese people.
Speaker 5: The Chinese population is aging and dying. You've got well,
Speaker 5: the result of the one child policy was you have
Speaker 5: four grandparents who have two children together and only one grandchild.
Speaker 5: So you've shorn away all the branches of the family tree,
Speaker 5: leaving only the trunk. And I'll tell you what. These
Speaker 5: only children, second generation only children are not interested in
Speaker 5: getting married, not interested in starting families or having children
Speaker 5: of their own, because they've been told that children are burdened,
Speaker 5: not a blessing. They've been told that you can't get
Speaker 5: ahead in live. You know, the most important things are
Speaker 5: buying a car, not having a child or two. So
Speaker 5: China is in absolute population decline. China is now no
Speaker 5: longer the most populous country in the world. It was
Speaker 5: the most populous country in the world for thousands of
Speaker 5: years and now India has overtaken it. I think that
Speaker 5: that's what you should write as the epitaph on the
Speaker 5: gravestone of the Chinese Communist Party is we killed off
Speaker 5: China's future, because that's.
Speaker 1: What they did, literally absolutely, and you know, as almost
Speaker 1: the reverse pyramid scheme, this is almostly flip of that.
Speaker 1: You've got, you know, very little coming up through the pipeline,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna wind up with nothing there. And I
Speaker 1: think possibly, you know, when you look at I guess
Speaker 1: maybe some foreign influence, Western influence in communist China that
Speaker 1: they see how bad things are there and think, well, gee,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bring another child into this world.
Speaker 1: The future is bright, and as you said, children are
Speaker 1: a burden to them and so they're not repopulating and
Speaker 1: a society can't continue that way.
Speaker 5: No, no, And you know what the China dream of
Speaker 5: Sijing Ping and the Chinese Communist Party was that in
Speaker 5: this century, the twenty first century, that China was going
Speaker 5: to come to dominate the world. And you know what,
Speaker 5: the Chinese Communist Party has killed the China dream by
Speaker 5: killing off half of the last two generations of Chinese.
Speaker 5: And of course you add to that not just the
Speaker 5: population decline, not just the aging and dying of the population.
Speaker 5: You add to that the massive corruption of the Chinese
Speaker 5: Communist Party. You add to that the fact that Shijing Ping,
Speaker 5: as he gets older, is becoming an erratic megalomaniac, who
Speaker 5: is cashiering, who is purging, who is arresting, imprisoning people
Speaker 5: who are once close to him, and behaving radically. You know,
Speaker 5: that's not a recipe for success. That's a recipe for failure.
Speaker 2: Failure.
Speaker 5: This century will not belong to China. It may very
Speaker 5: well belong to the United States, which as an American
Speaker 5: I'm happy to contemplate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it means that somebody that is of a
Speaker 1: strong will and somebody that can stand up to, as
Speaker 1: one of your books points out, the bully of Asia,
Speaker 1: to back them down from their expansionist ideas. And as
Speaker 1: they try this expansionism, if they just get away with it,
Speaker 1: they're going to get You know, people just stand by.
Speaker 1: But if you put your foot down and say this
Speaker 1: ain't going to happen, especially on my watch, you can
Speaker 1: put an end to this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, aggressors are always encouraged when their aggression is successful.
Speaker 5: They take a bite here and a bite there, and
Speaker 5: if they don't get pushback, they'll keep, you know, devouring
Speaker 5: more and more territory. I think we have an administration
Speaker 5: coming in which earlier during Trump's first term, set China
Speaker 5: back on its heels, and this time they'll do the same.
Speaker 5: Because you have peace through strength, you don't have peace
Speaker 5: through weakness, uh, weakness and byteses aggression. So I think
Speaker 5: that China's very worried now. I recently heard Chinese senior
Speaker 5: officials saying that they don't have many channels into the
Speaker 5: new administration. And I'm laughing to myself as the China expert,
Speaker 5: thinking channels, you mean, like, you know, the Secretary of
Speaker 5: Saint Anthony Blincoln, who was on the payroll of the
Speaker 5: University of Pennsylvania's uh you know uh center, which was
Speaker 5: funded by the Chinese Communist Party. You mean that kind
Speaker 5: of connection. Yeah, they don't have those kinds of connections
Speaker 5: with the Trump administrat don't have any.
Speaker 1: Well, they call them the Confucius Institutes of every one
Speaker 1: of a lot of these different universities.
Speaker 5: China is going around the world setting up Confucius Institutes,
Speaker 5: which basically are propaganda centers on campuses all around the world. Now,
Speaker 5: we had about one hundred of them in the United
Speaker 5: States because well, a few years ago I testified before
Speaker 5: the US Congress we call we shone a light on
Speaker 5: the fact that they were going into campuses all across
Speaker 5: the United States, offering the campus president a million dollars
Speaker 5: to set up a Confucius institute. They were welcome. Now,
Speaker 5: of course we're kicking them off American campuses, but they're in.
Speaker 8: They're in.
Speaker 5: They're in places all around the world. This is part
Speaker 5: of their what's called the United Front operation of the
Speaker 5: Chinese Communist Party, where they're trying to win friends and
Speaker 5: influence people around the around the globe, and and you know,
Speaker 5: they they were very successful. For a long long time.
Speaker 5: They had people like Tim Walls, the vice presidential nominee,
Speaker 5: taking groups of students to China, high school students to
Speaker 5: China uh on guided tours to tell them how wonderful
Speaker 5: communism was and how successful it had been in improving
Speaker 5: the lives of the Chinese people. All fabrications, all lives,
Speaker 5: of course, but if you're a young, impressionable high school
Speaker 5: or college student, you tend to believe those things.
Speaker 1: Well, you have that we're taking you there and putting
Speaker 1: his stamp of approval on it. That goes a long
Speaker 1: way to form an impression in your mind.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, this was their teacher, and their teacher was teaching
Speaker 5: them that communism was wonderful. It had worked in China.
Speaker 5: It hadn't worked in China. We talked about the death
Speaker 5: poll already, and add to that four hundred million unborn
Speaker 5: and newborn children who were killed. Add to that the
Speaker 5: forty five million people who died in the famine in
Speaker 5: nineteen sixty nineteen sixty one, Add to that the ten
Speaker 5: million people killed in the Land Reform, the millions who
Speaker 5: died in the Cultural Revolution, and you've got a death
Speaker 5: hole of about five hundred million people. So the Chinese
Speaker 5: Communist Party does win a prize for being the biggest
Speaker 5: killing machine in human history. They have killed up more
Speaker 5: people than any political organization in human history, more than Stalin,
Speaker 5: more than Hitler, more than any other dougish, brute google
Speaker 5: dictator you can think of.
Speaker 1: And the thing that boggles my mind is that when
Speaker 1: they talk about China, they continue to talk about them
Speaker 1: as a developing country, open to trade deals, open to
Speaker 1: all kinds of functions and breaks from the UN and
Speaker 1: it just here you have a country that's got the nukes.
Speaker 1: They have this navy that they're building up, and they're
Speaker 1: developing country.
Speaker 2: Give me a break.
Speaker 5: China now has the biggest navy in the world, not
Speaker 5: by tonies, but by number of ships. They have a
Speaker 5: shi building capability that is two hundred and fifty times
Speaker 5: the size of ours. That is, they can build two
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty ships in the time it takes us
Speaker 5: to build one. Because most of our shipbuilding facilities have
Speaker 5: closed down. They now have closing in on a thousand nukes.
Speaker 5: They'll have a thousand nuclear weapons in a couple of
Speaker 5: years and the means to deliver them all around the world.
Speaker 5: So this is not a developing country anymore. They pretend
Speaker 5: to be a developing so they can get breaks on trade.
Speaker 5: But I think those the days of that gravy train
Speaker 5: are over now. On January twentieth, we're going to see
Speaker 5: I think tariffs imposed on Chinese goods, which people need
Speaker 5: to understand, are made by slave labor, are made by serfs,
Speaker 5: are made by Chinese workers who can't strike for higher wages.
Speaker 5: They can't organize labor unions, they can't even engage in
Speaker 5: a worker slowed down on the assembly line or what
Speaker 5: or the police are called out and the unrest, the demonstration,
Speaker 5: the strike for higher wages is put down. So these
Speaker 5: people are not free workers. And it's unfair to make
Speaker 5: American workers compete with slaves and serfs.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And of course Chinese economy is not doing very
Speaker 1: well itself because of the restrictions that they had during
Speaker 1: the as I call it the plandemic, and the draconian
Speaker 1: restrictions that they had, and now they're trying to build
Speaker 1: up their economy and they're having some serious problems.
Speaker 2: My guess is even Moser.
Speaker 1: And we're going to step out for a quick break,
Speaker 1: and when we come back, I want to continue the
Speaker 1: conversation but also get into the efforts of PRI the
Speaker 1: Population Research Institute, and talk about your efforts having to
Speaker 1: do with the pro life movement. I am Kevin Gordon
Speaker 1: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the
Speaker 1: Talk Station. Continue our conversation with Steven Moser. He is
Speaker 1: president of Population Research Institute. We've been talking about his
Speaker 1: knowledge and firsthand knowledge of communist China, their one child
Speaker 1: policy and what was going on in that country, and
Speaker 1: as far as his movement in terms of pro life agenda.
Speaker 1: And before we get into your background and how you
Speaker 1: arrived at being pro life, by the way, thank you
Speaker 1: for being with us and hanging with us through the break.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the attraction of communism to
Speaker 1: so many liberals?
Speaker 2: What is well?
Speaker 5: Communism is supposedly makes life easy. I mean, the government
Speaker 5: is going to do everything for you. All of your
Speaker 5: needs will be supplied. You want to worry about food
Speaker 5: or housing, you want to worry about medical care, you
Speaker 5: won't have to worry about anything, because the government will
Speaker 5: give everything according to their need. And everyone, of course
Speaker 5: is supposed to respond by saying, well, we're going to
Speaker 5: give everything we can to the government according to our ability.
Speaker 5: Except that's not the way human nature works.
Speaker 10: Is it.
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: And in China, when I was in China living in
Speaker 5: a Chinese commune, people used to say, no, they had
Speaker 5: little private gardens, and then they had the big communal
Speaker 5: fields where everybody worked in common all day long, and
Speaker 5: then they had their little private gardens where they worked
Speaker 5: in the evening, and they told me that people were
Speaker 5: as lazy as worms in the communal fields and as
Speaker 5: active as dragon in their private gardens. In other words,
Speaker 5: they did as little as possible in the communal fields
Speaker 5: during the day to save their energy so they can
Speaker 5: work on their private garden plots at night. And I
Speaker 5: think that sums up the whole failure of communism, because
Speaker 5: those people who are lazy will take advantage of the system.
Speaker 5: The rest of the people who are trying to work
Speaker 5: and make it work will soon find out that they're
Speaker 5: being taken for a ride, and the whole system gradually
Speaker 5: grinds to a halt, and everyone lives in abject property,
Speaker 5: except for the Communist Party officials in charge, who live
Speaker 5: a life of luxury. And you know that's the case
Speaker 5: in China today. You've got the Chinese Communist Party ninety
Speaker 5: two million members strong, controlling almost all the wealth of China.
Speaker 5: The Chinese Communist Party consumes probably at least a third
Speaker 5: of the wealth of China produced by the one billion
Speaker 5: Chinese people in their junket, in their foreign junkets and
Speaker 5: their banquets, and their gardens in their pavilions, you know,
Speaker 5: in their resorts uh in you know, all of the
Speaker 5: all of the luxuries they enjoy, the chauffeurd limousines are
Speaker 5: come at the expense of you know, the blood, sweat
Speaker 5: and tears of the Chinese people. That's how communism works
Speaker 5: in practice. It is a great way of exploiting the masses.
Speaker 1: Now do you see a connection between this environmental movement
Speaker 1: and communism?
Speaker 2: Because as I been I think, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been seeing that environmentalism has become more about control,
Speaker 1: which has more to do with communism than trying to
Speaker 1: clean up the planet. And I've mashed the two together
Speaker 1: and I call it climunism. Uh do you see the
Speaker 1: connect Do you see a connection there?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think there's a kind of green communism where people
Speaker 5: will use the exclusive the excuse of climate change, rising
Speaker 5: CO two levels, whatever, rising sea levels to say, we
Speaker 5: can run your life better than you can. So you
Speaker 5: give us all of your money and all of your resources,
Speaker 5: and we will decide what you eat, and where you
Speaker 5: live and where you go, and whether or not you
Speaker 5: can fly on a plane more than once a year.
Speaker 5: And I mean all of the other elements of control
Speaker 5: are follow from that. Right. So the radical environmentalist want
Speaker 5: to radically control us, and it would wind up being
Speaker 5: something akin to a communist state. Now that's the end state. Now,
Speaker 5: the radical population controllers not only want to control us,
Speaker 5: they want to drastically reduce our numbers. And you hear
Speaker 5: them say things like, well, we need to reduce the
Speaker 5: population of the planet from eight billion down to one billion. Okay,
Speaker 5: what are they going to do with the other seven
Speaker 5: billion of us? Some of them say the carrying capacity
Speaker 5: of the planet is only one hundred billion, Well, that
Speaker 5: would mean eliminating even more of the rest of the population.
Speaker 5: And the advisor, the Chief advisor to the World Economic Forum,
Speaker 5: says that we only need to keep two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty thousand of the most creative, enterprising, innovative humans alive.
Speaker 5: The rest of us are just dead weight and can
Speaker 5: be eliminated. That's fine for the lucky two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty thousand. What are they going to do with the
Speaker 5: rest of us, he said, We can be replaced by
Speaker 5: artificial intelligence and robots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to see that come into play,
Speaker 1: because once these people have to fend for themselves because
Speaker 1: everything else isn't working, that would that would end very
Speaker 1: quickly and not very pretty. I just this whole idea
Speaker 1: of this group of people controlling the masses is just
Speaker 1: something that we need to put the steak in the
Speaker 1: ground and make sure that this never happens and stay
Speaker 1: vigilant that we don't allow it to happen.
Speaker 5: Well, it's absolutely the opposite, the polar opposite of the
Speaker 5: American dream.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: The American dream is one of rugged individualism, is one
Speaker 5: of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, is one
Speaker 5: of people improving the lives themselves and their families. And
Speaker 5: the communists, the radical environmentalists, the radical population and controllers
Speaker 5: all have this idea that they can run our lives
Speaker 5: better than we can if we simply give them all
Speaker 5: of our money and all the power to do so.
Speaker 5: And of course it will wind up at the end
Speaker 5: of the day killing off most of the population of
Speaker 5: the planet.
Speaker 1: Now, Stephen, we normally don't do this, and I usually,
Speaker 1: you know, we try to keep an interview to the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. Can you hang with us for
Speaker 1: one more segment after the news at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, because I want to talk to you about
Speaker 1: your efforts on the pro life movement, how you came
Speaker 1: to the pro life movement and talk about your goals
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five and talk about population research and
Speaker 1: what you guys are involved in.
Speaker 2: Have you got time for you to stay with you
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 1: My guest Stephen Moser, president of Population Research Institute. Just
Speaker 1: fascinating conversation with him. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC DE Talk station fifty five, eight.
Speaker 2: Thirty one in the morning.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the
Speaker 1: talk station. My guest is Stephen Moser, President and Population
Speaker 1: Research Institute. We've been talking about the previous couple of
Speaker 1: segments and since the beginning of the hour talking about
Speaker 1: China and their influence and their one child population and
Speaker 1: their threat to the entire global world or global world
Speaker 1: now talking about the dangers of communism.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that you have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to talk about your efforts as far as the pro
Speaker 1: life movement, which is a big component of your organization,
Speaker 1: and talk about your goals for twenty twenty five. And
Speaker 1: you did not come to this and by the way,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the program. Thank you for hanging with us.
Speaker 1: You did not come to this originally. You were not
Speaker 1: an original pro life individual. Can you kind of walk
Speaker 1: us through?
Speaker 5: That was at Sanford University in the nineteen seventies. One
Speaker 5: of my colleagues at Stanford was Paul Airley, the infamous
Speaker 5: author of the Population Bob, which argued, of course, that
Speaker 5: we were breeding ourselves off the face of the planet,
Speaker 5: that massive famines were going to destroy, you know, a
Speaker 5: good portion of humanity, and then the rest would soon
Speaker 5: follow from, you know, catastrophic economic and societal collapse. That
Speaker 5: never happened. So, but I went to China with the
Speaker 5: idea that maybe China was overpopulated. I came back from
Speaker 5: China realizing that China's problem was not too many people.
Speaker 5: It was too much government and too overbearing and too
Speaker 5: dictatorial a government. China's problem was a communist party that
Speaker 5: was actually killing off China's future in the person of
Speaker 5: millions and millions of unborn and newborn children. And let
Speaker 5: me point out that they were actually killing babies at
Speaker 5: birth by lethal injection in order to enforce the one
Speaker 5: child policy. I was in the operating room when they
Speaker 5: were doing forced abortions on women. These weren't early abortions.
Speaker 5: These were abortions at seven, eight and nine months. And
Speaker 5: I left China thinking that the taking of a human
Speaker 5: life at any point in pregnancy is wrong. And I
Speaker 5: left China understanding that China's problem was not its people,
Speaker 5: but it's politics. And so that's the message that I
Speaker 5: came back to Stanford with. They didn't want to hear it,
Speaker 5: by the way, so they fired me.
Speaker 2: Of course, surprise, friend.
Speaker 5: That's that's I was a victim of political correctness before
Speaker 5: we called it political correctness, but it was the best
Speaker 5: thing that ever happened to me. Went on to run
Speaker 5: the Population Research Institute, where we make.
Speaker 2: The case for people.
Speaker 5: And you know, if you look around the world, you'll
Speaker 5: see that more than half the countries of the world
Speaker 5: actually have birth rates that are below replacement. Italy, Great Britain, France, Germany.
Speaker 5: These are all dying countries. Taiwan, China itself, because of
Speaker 5: the one child policy, South three, Japan, South America. The
Speaker 5: birth rates are now at or below replacement in those
Speaker 5: once prolific countries, you know, once Catholic countries. All over
Speaker 5: the world you see dying populations. And now, for the
Speaker 5: first time, I believe that the entire population of the
Speaker 5: world is now below replacement rate fertility. What does that mean.
Speaker 5: It means that on average, people around the world are
Speaker 5: having fewer than two point one children. You need two
Speaker 5: point one children to replace the current population. A husband
Speaker 5: and wife have to have two a little more than
Speaker 5: two children to ensure that the next generation, you know,
Speaker 5: produces a number of children capable of sustaining the population
Speaker 5: that would be two point one would zero population growth.
Speaker 5: We are now below that. So the population of the
Speaker 5: world is now going to be shrinking in the years
Speaker 5: to come, and that decline will accelerate over time as
Speaker 5: fewer and fewer babies come into the world and fewer
Speaker 5: and fewer babies are born. So our long term problem,
Speaker 5: humanity's long term problem, despite what people may have heard,
Speaker 5: is not too many children.
Speaker 8: It's too few.
Speaker 1: Children absolutely, Steven Moser. We in other words, what we
Speaker 1: kind of need pretty much is a rebirth of birth,
Speaker 1: honoring the family, honoring being a parent, and making the
Speaker 1: programs geared towards parent two parent households, and which falls
Speaker 1: into the pro life movement itself to where you eliminate
Speaker 1: and get away from this planned parenthood narrative that tells
Speaker 1: us that your life will be better without children.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And you know, for decades, we've been playing defense.
Speaker 5: We've been trying to cut funding to planned parenthood, which
Speaker 5: exists to destroy, you know, innocent, unborn human life. We
Speaker 5: have tried to cut funding to population control programs around
Speaker 5: the world because it's none of our business how many
Speaker 5: children the people of Argentina or Brazil decide to have.
Speaker 5: It should be up to the people of that country,
Speaker 5: not up to us. And we've tried to cut funding
Speaker 5: to other radical programs. The cultural imperialism that the West
Speaker 5: seems to want to deliver to places like Africa and
Speaker 5: Latin America has to end. So we've been playing defense. Now,
Speaker 5: I think we've got a lot of people onside with
Speaker 5: the idea, including Donald Trump, including Elon Musk, with the
Speaker 5: idea that we need pronatal policies, that the population is
Speaker 5: aging and dying in the United States and other countries,
Speaker 5: and we need pronatal policies to encourage family formation and
Speaker 5: to encourage childbearing. We fought for years to get the
Speaker 5: child tex credit raised, and I think that during the campaign.
Speaker 5: JD Vansi, incoming Vice President, said five thousand dollars a
Speaker 5: year tax credit for each child from birth sixteen. I
Speaker 5: think it ought to start from conception to age twenty
Speaker 5: one myself. But we're moving in the direction of protecting
Speaker 5: our most vital research resource, which is young couples who
Speaker 5: are willing to have children are providing for the future
Speaker 5: of America in the most fundamental way by providing the
Speaker 5: next generation. They need to be protected from taxes that
Speaker 5: take half of their wealth away and in many cases
Speaker 5: leave young couples thinking, we can't afford to have a child.
Speaker 5: My goodness, we can barely make our rent payment. Let's
Speaker 5: protect that vital resource, these young couples who are willing
Speaker 5: to have children, from exorbitant taxes so they can provide
Speaker 5: for the future of the United States.
Speaker 1: We need to praise them instead of demonizing them for
Speaker 1: having families and wanting to be parents. If people want
Speaker 1: to get in touch with Population Research Institute, how do
Speaker 1: they do that, Well.
Speaker 5: We are at pop dot org. Pop dotorg. POP is
Speaker 5: short for Population Research Institute, so it's easy to find
Speaker 5: our website and you've got lots of information there about
Speaker 5: why babies are blessings and not burdens, and why we
Speaker 5: need to stop funding programs to reduce the number of
Speaker 5: babies born in this country and around the world.
Speaker 1: I would encourage anybody out there in listening to go
Speaker 1: to that website, Population Research Institute. Right on their front
Speaker 1: page their goals for twenty twenty five. Eliminate Planned Parenthood's
Speaker 1: taxpayer funding, stop US promotion of abortion abroad, enforce federal
Speaker 1: law on abortion drugs, Strengthen the Mexico City Policy, defund
Speaker 1: UNFPA and complicit agencies, and ensrine the High Amendment permanently.
Speaker 1: And go to their website and learn everything about those programs.
Speaker 1: Steve and I can't thank you enough for spending time
Speaker 1: with us. It's been a pleasure. Hope to have you
Speaker 1: back sometime soon and we'll talk about the efforts, and
Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: I look forward to it, all right.
Speaker 1: Stephen Moser, President Population Research Institute, I've been long on
Speaker 1: these breaks, so I've got to kind of clean that
Speaker 1: up a little bit. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 1: So glad that Stephen Moser could spend time with us,
Speaker 1: And like I said, I would encourage you to go
Speaker 1: to his website. And obviously you can tell by the
Speaker 1: interview that he's a very dynamic speaker. He's a guest
Speaker 1: speaker and a lot of different functions. Author of a couple
Speaker 1: of books, Bully of Asia White, China's Dream Is a
Speaker 1: New Threat to World Order, and his most recent book,
Speaker 1: The Devil and Communist China from Maw Down to z
Speaker 1: And it talks about their influence and just how evil
Speaker 1: they are and the thing that has always surprised me
Speaker 1: by the left. And as I point out, I wonder
Speaker 1: how many of the people on the left have Shai
Speaker 1: Guavera t shirts in their closet. So many of them
Speaker 1: think in terms of communism being this panacea, this great ability,
Speaker 1: or this great way of running a government, of everything
Speaker 1: being taken of and expanding their power, and of course
Speaker 1: they hope to be in power. But what they don't
Speaker 1: realize and what I don't know where they get and
Speaker 1: why they don't know about this. But if you look
Speaker 1: at each communist country, whether it be the Soviet Union
Speaker 1: or Communist China or any other communist nations, once the
Speaker 1: communists take over, once the people are in power, they
Speaker 1: don't want people around them that know how to form
Speaker 1: a revolution, how to start a revolution, and they don't
Speaker 1: want anybody in power smarter than them or somebody that
Speaker 1: could challenge them. So all of a sudden, you start
Speaker 1: seeing all of these leaders get whacked and you start
Speaker 1: dealing with just so you can push the population down,
Speaker 1: just so that leaders can stay on top. And as
Speaker 1: Stephen pointed out, this is a recipe for disaster and
Speaker 1: why people would want that in their country, and especially
Speaker 1: from what we know of this country and the greatness
Speaker 1: of this country and how wonderful this country has been
Speaker 1: as far as the world is concerned. To want to
Speaker 1: go to any type of communism, they must think that
Speaker 1: they are the elites. They must think that they're the
Speaker 1: ones that are going to be on top. They think
Speaker 1: that they're going to be the ones that are in charge,
Speaker 1: and they are in for a rude awakening. It is
Speaker 1: not the way to go. And the more you study
Speaker 1: history and the more you understand and you look at it.
Speaker 1: As Stephen pointed out, over five hundred million people have
Speaker 1: been murdered.
Speaker 2: In communist China.
Speaker 1: Stalin is responsible for fifty million murders alone in his country,
Speaker 1: and the record of communism, the hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: people that have died as a result of these takeovers.
Speaker 1: This is not how you start a country, This is
Speaker 1: not how you become a world power, and this is
Speaker 1: not how you try to make your mark on society.
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Speaker 1: wind dust is going to be a little high in
Speaker 1: the twenty mile an hour range. Monday afternoon, we're going
Speaker 1: to have a little bit of sunshine creeping in for
Speaker 1: a brief period of time.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a high of fifty one.
Speaker 1: Then we have some rain possible later on tonight into
Speaker 1: the early morning hours, and Tomorrow is going.
Speaker 2: To be a rainy day.
Speaker 1: Big old front supposedly coming in and hopefully that'll hold
Speaker 1: off of maybe at least a day, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: look good. We're gonna have a low of thirty four
Speaker 1: going into New Year's Day, mostly cloudy day, a high
Speaker 1: of thirty nine and a low of twenty six. Right
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Speaker 1: Eighteen fifty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking a little bit about now,
Speaker 1: you know, the end kind of the urine review type
Speaker 1: of thing, some of the stuff that went on, the
Speaker 1: highest spots and bright spots. I don't know you can
Speaker 1: get much more of a bright spot than the November
Speaker 1: fifth election, but we'll talk about that as well as
Speaker 1: other things. Right now, let's go to the phones. Talk
Speaker 1: to Robert. Robert fifty five k S. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 1: How are you today? And marry or a happy New Year.
Speaker 10: To you, Hbride.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it, thanks for take my call. I just
Speaker 7: you know, I always thought that, you know, perhaps the
Speaker 7: COVID nineteen itself, you know, they're in China may have
Speaker 7: very well been part of a project for limiting or
Speaker 7: killing off some of the population as tool. The greenest
Speaker 7: was just a thought, but that, you know, that did
Speaker 7: cross my mind that maybe they were trying to make
Speaker 7: experiments they're in China to do that.
Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if there is a thorough investigation
Speaker 1: as to what's going on. I mean, you don't do
Speaker 1: gain a function and try to manufacture certain diseases and
Speaker 1: try to pinpoint them. As it appears as though that
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen was kind of more directed at to the
Speaker 1: elderly people who had pre existing conditions pro co morbidity,
Speaker 1: co morbidity rates and possibly quite possibly a test if
Speaker 1: you will, to see what we could do, how we
Speaker 1: could control the population, and to see how much these
Speaker 1: are working. Because if you're developing something, you want to
Speaker 1: make sure or you want to see that it is working.
Speaker 1: And if it's not working, then you know you got
Speaker 1: to perfect it. And I don't you know that is
Speaker 1: not a far fetched theory when you look at what happened.
Speaker 2: And what went on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, I mean look at it mostly did effect,
Speaker 7: you know when it came to COVID nineteen, and you know.
Speaker 10: Hopefully they stop.
Speaker 7: Maybe people's eyes are you know, woking up my grants
Speaker 7: we say about November fifth.
Speaker 5: Or early Christmas present there, yeah.
Speaker 10: For America.
Speaker 7: But yeah, again that's just the thought of wonder how
Speaker 7: many that's well, I'll ever get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: Frankly, Well, I hope that you know that the incoming
Speaker 1: administration gets to the bottom of this, because we did
Speaker 1: see some reports last last week that yes, in fact,
Speaker 1: they knew about this, They knew that this was coming
Speaker 1: out of the wet Mart well that Wuhan Lab as
Speaker 1: early as October of twenty nineteen, and that the Secure,
Speaker 1: the CIA and the security officials tamped that information down
Speaker 1: and try to prevent that information from going out. How
Speaker 1: many lives could have been saved had we known this
Speaker 1: back in October or November, because it really didn't start
Speaker 1: hitting the United States until the beginning of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and by that time we were behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1: And if you've got a and these scientists, if they're
Speaker 1: working on something, they should know how to prevent it.
Speaker 1: And the fact that that was let to go on
Speaker 1: and didn't try to help end it, I think is
Speaker 1: a criminal in itself, and I hope that this is
Speaker 1: all looked into in the coming year. Robert, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for the phone call. I certainly appreciate it. Well, folks,
Speaker 1: that pretty much does it for us this morning. I
Speaker 1: certainly appress appreciate Christopher Smitherman and the smither event. I
Speaker 1: always appreciate talking to him, and especially talking to talking
Speaker 1: to our friend that with Population, Stephen Moser, the Population
Speaker 1: Research Institute, and talking about all their work, and especially
Speaker 1: trying to open our eyes a bit to what is
Speaker 1: going on in communist China and what their plan is
Speaker 1: for the world. And again tomorrow we'll be picking up
Speaker 1: and talking. I'll be in again tomorrow and talk about
Speaker 1: some of the stuff for the year in review and
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that we've looking forward to the
Speaker 1: coming year.
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Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five krs
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