Speaker 1: Utter w LW Jerry Jeff Walker, I am me you
Speaker 1: or you and that it's perfectly fine with all concerned.
Speaker 1: I'm sure great show tonight as we come together on
Speaker 1: this Monday evening. At tail end of the show, an
Speaker 1: archive piece, but I thought it would be appropriate with
Speaker 1: spring training now in full bloom. The Reds have already
Speaker 1: played their first games and opening day just to scant,
Speaker 1: what is it fifty three days away? Not even that?
Speaker 1: All right, So all that action here in the Home
Speaker 1: of the Reds. Of course seven hunter WLW win. It happens,
Speaker 1: and we'll have some spring training games peppered in between
Speaker 1: now and March twenty seventh. But tonight an archived interview
Speaker 1: with my friend Flash Phelps about all the different baseball
Speaker 1: parks around the country. It's captivating discussion and maybe you
Speaker 1: compare and contrast notes with Flash on the great parks
Speaker 1: besides great American ballpark in Major League Baseball. Great lineup
Speaker 1: of guests as well, including Savannah Mattics, who will join
Speaker 1: us in just a few minutes to let us know
Speaker 1: the latest and the greatest from the Kentucky State Legislature
Speaker 1: as they are holding sessions and deciding about laws and
Speaker 1: bills that may become law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and stuff you ought to know. Plus we'll have Frank
Speaker 1: Levin on the Ukraine War, Shane Jenkins, who is a
Speaker 1: free January sixer, Steve Gorum from the Climate Science Coalition
Speaker 1: before the night is done, and we'll try and ring
Speaker 1: up the wild Man too. But I just wanted to
Speaker 1: take a moment to talk about what I saw last night,
Speaker 1: and you may have seen it too. If not, I
Speaker 1: recommend it highly for anybody who's interested in the Earth,
Speaker 1: and especially our half of the Earth here in the
Speaker 1: Western hemisphere. The America's debuted last night, and it was
Speaker 1: something you us to see on the History Channel or
Speaker 1: the Travel Channel back before all they had was haunted
Speaker 1: spaces and ancient aliens. It was so cool. What a
Speaker 1: trip underneath the ocean, into the rainforest, into the jungles,
Speaker 1: into the deserts narrated by Tom Hanks. And no matter
Speaker 1: what you think about Tom Hanks, he did a great
Speaker 1: job narrating that. But as Chris the two point oh
Speaker 1: and I am watching the first two installments last night,
Speaker 1: and there's eight more of these hour long shows to
Speaker 1: come in the Americas. It's on NBC and Peacock streaming anyway,
Speaker 1: if you want to just turn the sound off, mute
Speaker 1: to TV and put on some music. It's so stunning,
Speaker 1: it's so visually aesthetically pleasing and up close looks at
Speaker 1: things that you and I never get to see in
Speaker 1: the animal kingdom and in nature. It is absolutely a
Speaker 1: must watch. I recommended high the Americas. If you get
Speaker 1: a change, you saw the promos maybe on TV and
Speaker 1: forgot it was on last night or ignored it. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it is worth the time and your dime
Speaker 1: to check it out, all right, that being said, Savannah
Speaker 1: maddics up in just a moment as we get the
Speaker 1: ball rolling on this Monday night cap the last week
Speaker 1: of February here on seven hundred WLW.
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Speaker 1: As promised, another conversation with our friend Savanna Maddix, representative
Speaker 1: of sixty first District in the state of Kentucky in
Speaker 1: the commonwealth's legislator and legislature, and they have been of
Speaker 1: course on and off in session looking at laws, drafting
Speaker 1: bills and hopefully not passing too much nonsense with a
Speaker 1: super majority of supposedly right thinking conservative Republicans who manned
Speaker 1: the House and the Senate in Kentucky in sometimes star
Speaker 1: opposition to whatever Governor Brasher wants. And Savannah first and foremost,
Speaker 1: what if anything has a legislature been moving in during
Speaker 1: this session to address what is going to be a
Speaker 1: long running battle with Mother nature, especially in eastern central
Speaker 1: Kentucky with all the most recent flooding. What do you
Speaker 1: know about that and what's being talked about in Frankfurt
Speaker 1: as far as helping the citizens out in this time
Speaker 1: of need.
Speaker 4: So in the past we have had the ability to
Speaker 4: provide additional relief aid whenever we've had floods and tornadoes
Speaker 4: as a result of a healthy budget Reserve Trust fund.
Speaker 4: It's another word for a rainy day fund, and we've
Speaker 4: been having some rainy days in eastern Kentucky, so it's
Speaker 4: not a budget year. But at the same time, legislators
Speaker 4: are talking about what some of those relief efforts might
Speaker 4: look like. So far, all they've done is add an
Speaker 4: additional five NTI days for the schools. That's somewhat controversial
Speaker 4: in that areas that are not subject to a natural disaster.
Speaker 4: We've had parents complaining about the number of anti days,
Speaker 4: but certainly we want to make sure that any school
Speaker 4: systems that are impacted by a natural disaster would sources
Speaker 4: in the region itself.
Speaker 1: What is an NTI day. It's been so long since
Speaker 1: I was in school, I don't remember those.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the NTI day is a non traditional instruction
Speaker 4: where essentially you take a tablet home or have a
Speaker 4: tablet and you complete school. And that that may take
Speaker 4: on various permutations, but it's remote work one way or
Speaker 4: the other, whether it's a packet or whether it's online
Speaker 4: or so forth, so on, And we've been seeing a
Speaker 4: lot of that for snow days, but also for illness
Speaker 4: and I believe there was a windy day that they
Speaker 4: used NTIP A windy day. Okay, yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 4: windy today out there, so I don't think that qualifies.
Speaker 4: There's not quite enough wind today.
Speaker 1: And we saw, we saw how ineffective ntis were during
Speaker 1: COVID in the school lockdowns. I don't think we need
Speaker 1: more of that, do you no?
Speaker 4: And I will say this as far as the learning
Speaker 4: gap that ensued as a result from the schools being
Speaker 4: shut down. And you know, teachers don't want this either.
Speaker 4: They I've talked with several teachers about this, and they
Speaker 4: would prefer that the students be in the classroom as well.
Speaker 4: It can't be easy to try to teach virtually. I
Speaker 4: know whenever I do interviews virtually, it doesn't feel like
Speaker 4: the same as sitting down and talking to someone. So,
Speaker 4: you know, we can all agree that it's best to
Speaker 4: have kids in the seat in the classroom learning hopefully
Speaker 4: arithmetic and reading and writing and not some of these
Speaker 4: other things.
Speaker 3: Well, I can make.
Speaker 1: Last, Savannah, I can attest that I would much rather
Speaker 1: have you in the studio. I love having people in
Speaker 1: the studio because you make that eye contact and you
Speaker 1: feel like you're really really connecting and it makes the
Speaker 1: conversation better. I do a lot of phone interviews, so
Speaker 1: I've had to learn to overcome all of that. But
Speaker 1: after several hundred hours, maybe I might be able to
Speaker 1: get a pass on that particular end I wanted to talk.
Speaker 1: I saw you. I don't know where the video came from,
Speaker 1: but it was last week and you were talking about
Speaker 1: the push for constitutional carry in Kentucky for those eighteen
Speaker 1: and over. I think the cutoff age is twenty one
Speaker 1: right now. But if you can vote at eighteen, shouldn't
Speaker 1: you be able to rightfully constitutionally carry a firearm if
Speaker 1: you so desire and all of that. Your thoughts on this.
Speaker 4: Absolutely well. We passed constitutional carryback in twenty nineteen that
Speaker 4: enabled Kentuckians to be able to exercise at a second
Speaker 4: amendment rights without having asked government for permission or pay
Speaker 4: recurrent fees. But we said it at twenty one at
Speaker 4: that time because that is the best we can get.
Speaker 4: But the reality of it is, they are a multitude
Speaker 4: of other states that allow adults who have constitutional why
Speaker 4: exercise those And we need to lower the age eighteen
Speaker 4: because again, you can be sent overseas to fight for
Speaker 4: your country, but whenever you come back, you don't have
Speaker 4: the ability to defend yourself and your family. So I
Speaker 4: disagree with that, But we may get a committee hearing
Speaker 4: this bill actually might move this session. Of got a
Speaker 4: commitment out of the Judiciary chairman, so I'm pretty enthusiastic
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere on the Second Amendment in the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Savannah Maddox I had earlier on the show. I will
Speaker 1: actually have later on the show a guy named Dan
Speaker 1: Was who is so famous for his Good Gun, Bad
Speaker 1: Guy book series, and he's an outspoken advocate for our
Speaker 1: Second Amendment rights. And we'll be talking a little bit
Speaker 1: about red flag laws and how they violate not only
Speaker 1: the Second, the fourth, but the fourteenth amendments of our
Speaker 1: Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. And can
Speaker 1: you explain. I'll give you a little explanation. He does
Speaker 1: a wonderful job of defining what red flag law really are.
Speaker 1: But why this is a terrible idea for Kentucky.
Speaker 4: It violates due process, Like you said, in addition to
Speaker 4: violating our constitutional rights, not just limited to the Second im
Speaker 4: it violates due process in that it presumes guilt where
Speaker 4: innocence should be. We have that presumption of innocence as
Speaker 4: well enshrined in our legal system, so it is highly problematic.
Speaker 4: I've tried to do everything in my power to resist
Speaker 4: the adoption of a so called red flag wall ever
Speaker 4: since I've been in office, and we've managed to kill
Speaker 4: that bill every year since it first reared its ugly head.
Speaker 4: Going to continue to do that the full length of
Speaker 4: the time that I have the honor of being in office.
Speaker 1: Well, not that you have a crystal ball, none of
Speaker 1: us do. But we already know that Mitch McConnell will
Speaker 1: not be running for another term in the Senate. Thank god,
Speaker 1: we get a break from Mitch. And I say that
Speaker 1: as a Republican voter, But we know that's happening, and
Speaker 1: we know that there's going to be a governor's race
Speaker 1: coming up. Andy Basheer will have turned out and there
Speaker 1: will be a new governor in the House there in Frankfort,
Speaker 1: and we're going to have a whole lot of things
Speaker 1: up in the air on a statewide scale in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on any of that, and where do you
Speaker 1: think you see it going and are you going to
Speaker 1: be involved in maybe running for a higher office.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't have a crystal ball, but I do
Speaker 4: foresee an ugly Senate race. I think it's already gotten ugly,
Speaker 4: and we don't even know what that slate of candidates
Speaker 4: is going to fully look like yet. But as far
Speaker 4: as anyone who's looking at a higher office, we need
Speaker 4: to restore the appropriate role of government. We need to
Speaker 4: get back to the Constitution. We need to defend the
Speaker 4: principles of liberty and limited government, free market's, all of
Speaker 4: that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: And I have not.
Speaker 4: Seen a preponderance of that type of messaging out there
Speaker 4: at the higher levels. I mean outside of my good
Speaker 4: friend's Congressman Thomas Massey. I mean, he's been beating the
Speaker 4: drum on those issues for years and years. But I
Speaker 4: think overall Kentuckians need to look for people who are
Speaker 4: authentic Republicans, not folks who are just going to go
Speaker 4: along to get along and say whatever, that kind of
Speaker 4: that Mitch McConnell line of thinking that it's time to
Speaker 4: be done with that.
Speaker 1: I think Thomas Massey would make an excellent governor of
Speaker 1: the state of Kentucky. I really believe that. I think
Speaker 1: you'd make a great governor, Savannah. I know that there
Speaker 1: was a time when you you know where I am
Speaker 1: that possibility, and it just it's a money thing. And
Speaker 1: this is the thing you and I talked about before, Savannah,
Speaker 1: the major impact of money and money, not ideas, not
Speaker 1: grassroots support, but money, a lot of it coming from
Speaker 1: outside the state in many cases, which really always disturbs me.
Speaker 1: This is a Kentucky election, this isn't a federal election.
Speaker 1: Why are we allowing donors with dark money to come
Speaker 1: in from all corners of the country to influence a
Speaker 1: Kentucky election. I don't guess there's any way to get
Speaker 1: that train off the tracks, but man, I'd love to
Speaker 1: see it someday.
Speaker 4: My eyes have been open to that reality contemplating a
Speaker 4: statewide because you know, as you know, Congress and Massy
Speaker 4: was supportive of me and very helpful, and I had
Speaker 4: a lot of outside support because you have to have that.
Speaker 4: But at the other side of it, you have so
Speaker 4: called you know, allies, people that you think even within
Speaker 4: the liberty branch of the Republican Party that would be supportive,
Speaker 4: that we're not, and we're actively trying to stay it
Speaker 4: in the way so I think that some of those
Speaker 4: higher races you kind of find out who your friends are.
Speaker 4: But you know, again, we just need to focus on
Speaker 4: getting true limited government conservatives in office, folks that are
Speaker 4: going to hold the Constitution, and I look forward to
Speaker 4: doing whatever I can to make that happen.
Speaker 1: What's amazing to me, too, is a short attention span
Speaker 1: of voters, of all of us. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: said in some scientific study that the average human being
Speaker 1: has the attention span of a goldfish, which is maybe
Speaker 1: three or four seconds about things. But we really don't
Speaker 1: remember things we need to remember. And I said this
Speaker 1: when Andy was running for a second term. I said,
Speaker 1: don't you guys remember the COVID lockdowns. Don't you remember
Speaker 1: the boy dictator? Don't you remember him sending law enforcement
Speaker 1: out to take the license plates of people down who
Speaker 1: were defying his order and going to church to practice
Speaker 1: their First Amendment rights. Don't you remember the travel ban
Speaker 1: that got successfully knocked down, thank god, by people like
Speaker 1: Chris Weist and others. But people just they don't have
Speaker 1: a very good memory. And I don't know how to
Speaker 1: fix that, because that would go a long way to
Speaker 1: ensuring that the mistakes of the past aren't repeated into
Speaker 1: the future. Your thoughts on this, Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we have to make it a core function. It
Speaker 4: has to be part of the fabric of the ideology
Speaker 4: that no matter what happens, whether it's COVID or you know,
Speaker 4: any other or for example, like think about nine to eleven,
Speaker 4: how horrific that was. But look at the knee jerk reaction,
Speaker 4: the Patriot Act, the Real Idea Act, some of those
Speaker 4: things that happen as a result of using a circumstance
Speaker 4: to give government more power. We have to have a
Speaker 4: gag reflex developed when it comes to taking civil liberties
Speaker 4: away from people and taking power and giving it to
Speaker 4: the government. That's the path forward.
Speaker 1: Well as far as the gag reflex goes. The government
Speaker 1: at federal level, state level have done quite a few
Speaker 1: things that made me want to throw up a little
Speaker 1: bit in my mouth. So not to be gross, but
Speaker 1: is there any other thing I know they've talked about
Speaker 1: what we lowered the state income tax to three and
Speaker 1: a half percent. Has that happened yet or is that
Speaker 1: on the table to happen? What's going on with that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we lowered the income tax another half of
Speaker 4: a percent, it seems kind of anemic given that we
Speaker 4: have also not me, but the legislature has applied new
Speaker 4: service taxes that you know are in conjunction with that
Speaker 4: minimal tax cut, So you know, moving forward, it's good
Speaker 4: to move away from a production based tax to consumption.
Speaker 4: But if we need to eliminate the income tax period,
Speaker 4: we also need to look at the property tax on
Speaker 4: motor vehicles. People are tired of paying for a card
Speaker 4: he never truly owns, so that's something else. We just
Speaker 4: need to reduce spending. Once we cut spending, we can
Speaker 4: come in and cut some of these taxes too. Otherwise
Speaker 4: we're just going to be moving it from one area
Speaker 4: to tax code to the other and calling it a win.
Speaker 1: Could you do something about eliminating the fees on my
Speaker 1: spec trium Bill.
Speaker 3: Born, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Every month it's a different it's a different price, and
Speaker 1: you go, well, you know, it's taxes and fees. We
Speaker 1: can't do anything about that. I'm gonna have to take
Speaker 1: a fine comb and a microscope to figure it out
Speaker 1: all out. But or just cut the cut the cable completely,
Speaker 1: which is, believe me, becoming more and more of a possibility.
Speaker 1: But I mean those those kind of fees, like you said,
Speaker 1: the other taxes and fees. People don't understand that, even
Speaker 1: if you're not having it extracted at the point of
Speaker 1: a gun out of your paycheck. We are taxed and
Speaker 1: taxed and feed and feed to death in this country
Speaker 1: and Kentucky's no different.
Speaker 4: It is, and a fee is a tax whenever it's
Speaker 4: administered by the government. I think that that's important because
Speaker 4: like in agriculture, for example, we have all of these fees.
Speaker 4: So you want to sell eggs, you want to do this,
Speaker 4: You want to process your own poultry, you want to
Speaker 4: sell jams, jealous, you pay these feeds, and when all
Speaker 4: these feeds add up, and you know, frankly, a lot
Speaker 4: of the regulations that exist are for no other purpos
Speaker 4: and to collect those feeds. So that's problematic as well.
Speaker 4: I'll see his attacks when it comes from your government.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and thank you for your time tonight. Savannah.
Speaker 1: It's always good to talk to you. It's nice to
Speaker 1: know that somebody with a sound mind is like watching
Speaker 1: the rest of the henhouse and watching for the foxes
Speaker 1: who are trying to steal our money at every turn.
Speaker 1: Savannah Maddox from the sixty first District in the House
Speaker 1: of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Tonight. Thank you, Savannah, thank you,
Speaker 1: you got it. Coming up next Steve Gorham from the
Speaker 1: Climate Science Coalition and Latest and the Greatest on the
Speaker 1: Green Breakdown.
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Speaker 7: Now being told an email is voluntary, but the nine
Speaker 7: to thirty report, I'm Sean Galviager breaking now. The Trump
Speaker 7: administration changed course today, telling federal agencies they don't have
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Speaker 7: past week. Heffy Kelly is the national president of the
Speaker 7: American Federation of Government Employees, who accused the administration and
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Speaker 8: They want to confuse the workforce.
Speaker 1: They want to put fear in the minds of the
Speaker 1: workforce that they'll just quit.
Speaker 7: Musk over the weekend took to x saying failure to
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Speaker 7: And radar at this time is showing a Claudie sky
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Speaker 7: fat Ramas Swami kicking off his campaign for Ohio governor
Speaker 7: this afternoon in his hometown of Cincinnati. The businessman who
Speaker 7: got into politics where they run for president last year,
Speaker 7: ending his campaign in the Republican primary after a fourth
Speaker 7: place finished in the Iowa Caucus enters a GOP field
Speaker 7: that features Ohio Attorney General dave Y eelst Ramas. Swami
Speaker 7: does have the support of Ohio Secretary of State Frank Lrose,
Speaker 7: who some thought might run for governor next year, but
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Speaker 7: this afternoon in Butler County destroying an auto shop. This
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Speaker 7: Everyone inside at the time, but the fire was able
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Speaker 7: damage he's expected to exceed a million dollars. Cactus League Action,
Speaker 7: the Reds beat the Dodgers in Goodyear today eight to one.
Speaker 7: Austin Hayes with a six RBI afternoon as he had
Speaker 7: two two run homers and Sal Stewart also had a
Speaker 7: solo home run. Following an off day Tuesday, the Reds
Speaker 7: are attempting to face the Angels Wednesday afternoon. The inside
Speaker 7: pitch will start our cover to two forty, followed by
Speaker 7: first pitch of three to ten on the big one.
Speaker 7: The Cleveland Guardians making the announcement of this afternoon that
Speaker 7: owner Larry Dolan passed away Sunday Night at the age
Speaker 7: of ninety four. Dolan purchased the team in the year
Speaker 7: two thousand. His son, Paul, in twenty fourteen, was approved
Speaker 7: by Major League Baseball to be the primary control person
Speaker 7: of the ball club. College Basketball UC Tuesday night will
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Speaker 6: My name is Kyle Tequila.
Speaker 1: And this Monday evening, we're talking now to executive director
Speaker 1: of the Climate Science Coalition, author of many, many books
Speaker 1: on sustainable energy, and the latest, of course, the Coming
Speaker 1: Green Breakdown or Green Breakdown becoming Green Energy Collapse. Well,
Speaker 1: I forget the subtitles, but I know it's Green Breakdown,
Speaker 1: and it's a fantastic book. It takes you through how
Speaker 1: all of these things that are supposedly sustainable energy and
Speaker 1: the things that the energy of the future is not
Speaker 1: ready for prime time yet. He lists the reasons why
Speaker 1: and the reason that all these efforts towards a green
Speaker 1: New Deal and everything else that we've been fed Spoon
Speaker 1: fed by the unso the so called settled science community
Speaker 1: are not true. Steve Gorham is here and after that
Speaker 1: rambling introduction, let's get to some real stuff.
Speaker 10: How you doing, Steve, Hi, Gary, Jeff, but good to
Speaker 10: join you again. Yeah, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: Yeah you said, you just returned from a trip to Australia,
Speaker 1: New Zealand and Hawaii and they're still They're still in
Speaker 1: those places sold on the bill of goods that we
Speaker 1: have to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we have
Speaker 1: to stop using fossil fuels, and wind and solar is
Speaker 1: the only way to go. How are they doing in
Speaker 1: those countries and do they still have the mandates in
Speaker 1: place in Australia New Zealand that now President Trump has
Speaker 1: taken out of the American Energy Policy.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they do have mandates in place. The beautiful places.
Speaker 10: We're in New Zealand and North Island, New Zealand. We're
Speaker 10: in Sydney. One thing I noticed though, is that it's
Speaker 10: terrible to get anywhere with cars out there. New Zealand
Speaker 10: has almost no express US ways and so you're driving
Speaker 10: on these two lane roads past schools and stop lights
Speaker 10: and everything else, trying to get somewhere, and then Sydney,
Speaker 10: Australia is loaded with traffic. Everywhere, the traffic is terrible.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a huge city in the US.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it is a big city, five million people. So
Speaker 10: we love our cars in the US, and we don't
Speaker 10: know how good we have it. We can drive anywhere
Speaker 10: and get quick anywhere in the country quickly, whereas in
Speaker 10: these other nations, you know, they just haven't done that.
Speaker 10: So we have a tremendous benefit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the.
Speaker 10: Folks in New Zealand and Australia, though, we are not real
Speaker 10: happy with President Trump. They think he's really a terrible
Speaker 10: guy and the press is terrible, and but I think
Speaker 10: he's going to have a tremendous impact on getting our
Speaker 10: energy situation straightened around.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I mean that's one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: I voted for him. A lot of people voted for
Speaker 1: President Trump for a myriad of reasons, just a reversal
Speaker 1: of course of the last four years before that and
Speaker 1: maybe longer, of nonsensical mandates and dictates that we're supposed
Speaker 1: to save the planet because of flawed data and just
Speaker 1: plane wrong data and misinformation. You know, the leftloffs that
Speaker 1: were misinformation that we got for years on global warming,
Speaker 1: and then climate train change, and then they climate crisis.
Speaker 1: You know, they keep morphing the words around to make
Speaker 1: it seem more prescient.
Speaker 8: You said.
Speaker 1: In his first month in office, the president dropped a
Speaker 1: bomb on green energy and climate policy. Can can you
Speaker 1: take off some of his actions here in this first
Speaker 1: month in office.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's really been huge in one month. So one
Speaker 10: of the first big ones is he did in executive
Speaker 10: order on offshore wind licenses. If you're going to put
Speaker 10: up a wind turbine, the federal government owns a land
Speaker 10: from three miles out to two hundred miles out off
Speaker 10: our coast, and you have to have a lease to
Speaker 10: put up a wind turbine. Well, he has stopped all
Speaker 10: of those one of his executive orders. He also asked
Speaker 10: a Secretary of Interior, Doug Burgham, to review all the
Speaker 10: ones that have been issued already. So prices in European
Speaker 10: win companies just plunged. We have people like Orsted that
Speaker 10: have written off one point seven billion dollars and other
Speaker 10: companies writing off funds, and all these plans on the
Speaker 10: East coast New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island all
Speaker 10: the way down to South Carolina and the California as well,
Speaker 10: want to put up a whole bunch of them. Many cases,
Speaker 10: they don't have leases for these and they're not going
Speaker 10: to get them, so their energy plans to transition to
Speaker 10: green energy are just put in a dumper. That was
Speaker 10: the first big one. The second one as he issued
Speaker 10: a executior called Unleashing American Energy, and in that he said,
Speaker 10: we're going to remove all promotions for electric vehicles, and
Speaker 10: we're going to remove the electric vehicle tax credits and
Speaker 10: all these other things. And we now have twenty two
Speaker 10: states that I want to transition all their vehicle sales
Speaker 10: to electric by twenty thirty five. So he's putting a
Speaker 10: big crunch on that. And by the way, there's also
Speaker 10: a bill in Congress right now that would add taxes
Speaker 10: to electric vehicles on sales. Today, evs don't pay any
Speaker 10: road tax really because that's all through gasoline for the
Speaker 10: federal road programs. And nevertheless, though evs are on average
Speaker 10: more fifty heavier, yes, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They are. They are causing damage to the road, maybe
Speaker 1: more like an eighteen wheeler, and yet they don't pay
Speaker 1: any road tax to maintain that infrastructure. That's just crazy,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 10: So not only they're going to eliminate and he's got
Speaker 10: to get this through Congress, but they're working on it
Speaker 10: eliminate the seventy five hundred dollars tax credit, but they
Speaker 10: also want to put one thousand dollars tax on an
Speaker 10: EV's sale for road taxes. So those things, if they
Speaker 10: get through, are going to have a tremendous impact. The
Speaker 10: third is the funding for renewables. We have about eighty
Speaker 10: billion dollars a year going on the Inflation Reduction Act
Speaker 10: for wind, solar and green hydrogen and carbon diox i
Speaker 10: capture pipelines and all these EV charging stations. Trump has
Speaker 10: put a stop on that. And we have places like
Speaker 10: Indiana that that said, well, we're going to put up
Speaker 10: all these solar cells for poor people on the roofs,
Speaker 10: and that that funding has been shut off. So it's
Speaker 10: been challenged in court, but he's just put a stop
Speaker 10: to that flow. So those are our big, big funding issues.
Speaker 10: And then of course there are the climate changes as
Speaker 10: well coming along.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love the fact that you're not getting subsidized
Speaker 1: to buy a car that you we were going to
Speaker 1: be forced to buy. And again, the reason, one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I voted for Resident Trump was because of
Speaker 1: his promise of this new energy policy for America going
Speaker 1: forward and out of the Paris Climate Accords, out of
Speaker 1: the cop stuff, just completely unleashing American energy. And we've
Speaker 1: got so many natural resources, as the President has said
Speaker 1: over and over again, underneath our feet, liquid gold, in
Speaker 1: clean natural gas and oil. We have enough to sustain
Speaker 1: us and to provide that energy for around the world
Speaker 1: if we're able to take the handcuffs off. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly Due is trying to do.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and so they go ahead.
Speaker 1: No, that's all I had at that particular point.
Speaker 10: So big climate changes as well. He's basically taking climate
Speaker 10: departments out of his administration, out of the EPA, out
Speaker 10: of the Department of Energy. He issued a executive order
Speaker 10: getting rid of the terminating the Green New Deal, withdrawing
Speaker 10: from the Paris Climate the Cords, and he even wants
Speaker 10: the new head of the EPA, Lease deald In, to
Speaker 10: take a look at the endangerment finding of December seven,
Speaker 10: two thousand and nine, a date that will live in
Speaker 10: infamy when the EPA found that carbon dioxide and other
Speaker 10: greenhouse gases were threatening the public health and welfare of
Speaker 10: current and future generations. He wants that to be revoked
Speaker 10: and that is the basis of all the green policies
Speaker 10: in the United States. So we'll see if the EPA
Speaker 10: is able to act on that.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 1: Another reason, a lot of people said that the Biden
Speaker 1: presidency was President Obama's third term because that was his
Speaker 1: big push when he took office in January of nine,
Speaker 1: and the EPA reflected that every president gets to at
Speaker 1: least present his policy and the things he campaigned on,
Speaker 1: and then hopefully they follow through with it. This president
Speaker 1: so far is batting a thousand on following through of
Speaker 1: the things he promised on the campaign trail.
Speaker 10: Now, yeah, absolutely, the.
Speaker 1: Funding for renewables, the Inflation Reduction Act, and you were
Speaker 1: talking about all these Green New Deal policies and moneies
Speaker 1: that were set aside, not just in the Department of Energy,
Speaker 1: but throughout the federal government. And that is all going
Speaker 1: away either by presidential executive order or Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: his gang of doze who keep on finding ways that
Speaker 1: we've been taken to the cleaners by the bureaucracy for
Speaker 1: the last I don't know, one hundred years.
Speaker 10: Probably well, they they've stopped the flow of it and
Speaker 10: they're being challenged in court, and there's also efforts to
Speaker 10: remove a lot of that in Congress. We'll see how
Speaker 10: that goes. I think they're trying to get it all
Speaker 10: into this big budget proposal that they're trying to work out.
Speaker 10: But you know, we had a lot of people that
Speaker 10: are opposing that. There were just eighty ent of these
Speaker 10: the other day, that including a whole bunch of oil companies,
Speaker 10: including the American Petroleum Institute, who said we need all
Speaker 10: these subsidies for green hydrogen. They want to they're supposed
Speaker 10: to get three dollars a kilogram. And by the way,
Speaker 10: the market price for on site hydrogen meat from oiler
Speaker 10: gas is a dollar a kilogram. So here's a subsidy
Speaker 10: that's triple the actual market price on site. That's what
Speaker 10: the Biden administration put into place. It's just like subsidizing
Speaker 10: four dollar gasolina twelve dollars a gallon.
Speaker 8: Did you ever hear.
Speaker 10: Anything so crazy? But anyway, you know, all these firms
Speaker 10: want these big subsidies. We'll see what Trump does with this,
Speaker 10: and hopefully he will shut these down as well.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We'll talk about some of the
Speaker 1: breakdown that's already occurring with bankruptcies and such. In just
Speaker 1: a moment after a break Steve Gorham on the night Cap,
Speaker 1: the Green breakdown. It's happening right before our eyes, and
Speaker 1: really it's been spurred on by President Trump, but it
Speaker 1: was going to occur whether he was in office or not.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and more in just a moment
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Speaker 1: It comes to energy in America and the Trump era
Speaker 1: executive director of the Climate Science Coalition, author of Green
Speaker 1: breakdown and much much more. Steve Gorum here on the show,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to ask you sent me some details
Speaker 1: about another you know, green company so called going belly up. Nicola,
Speaker 1: the electric truck manufacturer, just filed for bankruptcy last week.
Speaker 1: Are there are there more of these? Do you see
Speaker 1: on the horizon coming up? Steve?
Speaker 10: Yeah, there are a lot of these firms are dependent
Speaker 10: on federal money. Yeah, Nicola was when it went public
Speaker 10: five years ago, it was belled a thirty billion dollars
Speaker 10: and now it's a penny stock. It has dropped all
Speaker 10: the way to nothing. They were trying to do hydrogen
Speaker 10: trucks as well as electric trucks. They've only got four
Speaker 10: hundred on the road last year, and they're just losing
Speaker 10: piles of money. And finally they said, well, we're going
Speaker 10: to declare bankruptcy, which means a lot of these people
Speaker 10: that that invested in them are going to lose their money.
Speaker 10: And they're hoping they emerge from bankruptcy court. But another
Speaker 10: big problem. So so we'll see if they're able to
Speaker 10: do that the UH and another big one on the
Speaker 10: way is Rivian. In December, the Biden administration approved six
Speaker 10: point six billion dollar loan to Rivian Automotive to build
Speaker 10: a manufacturing plant in Georgia. Wow, this is another one
Speaker 10: that's going to make.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 10: I'm trying to think of the company that went bankrupt
Speaker 10: a few years ago and made all of the news.
Speaker 10: That was only six hundred millillion.
Speaker 1: You're talking about Solendra.
Speaker 10: Solendra, thank you.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was a big loan, six hundred million dollars
Speaker 10: down the drain. Well, this is is six point six
Speaker 10: billion dollars to Rivian. Rivian has never made a profit.
Speaker 10: Last year they lost about four hundred million on four
Speaker 10: hundred million in sales. I mean, it's just uh, and
Speaker 10: there are more of these companies that are going another
Speaker 10: one of these EP charging companies EV charging companies. There's
Speaker 10: not a single one in the world that has ever
Speaker 10: made money. Uh. They they're all losing money. And you
Speaker 10: just can't break even trying to charge a EV because
Speaker 10: most people that are charging at home about eighty percent,
Speaker 10: and so occasionally they'll show up and do some charging,
Speaker 10: but they want to build these charging stations all over
Speaker 10: So we're gonna have a whole bunch of bankruptcies there
Speaker 10: By the way, the General Services Administration, the GSA of
Speaker 10: the federal government is about to shut down eight thousand
Speaker 10: EV charging stations. They were going to put them in
Speaker 10: place for the post office and all these people that
Speaker 10: are in the government that we're supposed to be doing
Speaker 10: evs and the subsidies of dollars for it are gone,
Speaker 10: so they can't keep these things going. They can't get
Speaker 10: them installed. We're going to see just a big rash
Speaker 10: of companies failing that are green equipment companies, charging companies,
Speaker 10: all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Well, you talk about all these addicts who insisted that
Speaker 1: this had to happen to reverse or turn around climate
Speaker 1: change and the crisis we were all facing based on
Speaker 1: their flawed data and models that we're always wrong. But
Speaker 1: this would have happened eventually with or without Trump, because
Speaker 1: it's the old adage, it's the economy stupid. They never
Speaker 1: make money, and we who are consumers wind up paying
Speaker 1: a lot more for less efficient energy. Is that true
Speaker 1: or not?
Speaker 10: I think it is, And that's what I talk about
Speaker 10: in Green Breakdown, which is a complete discussion of the
Speaker 10: proposed transition to net zero energy that talks about power
Speaker 10: plants and home appliances. You know, they wanted to get
Speaker 10: rid of the gas appliances, electric vehicles, heavy industry, heavy transportation,
Speaker 10: of the energy crisis in Europe over the last few years,
Speaker 10: and points out that zero is more than a reach,
Speaker 10: it's an impossibility. It's not going to occur. And what
Speaker 10: green energy means is higher energy prices, electricity blackouts because
Speaker 10: they're putting in intermittent wind and solar, less freedom because
Speaker 10: they want to take away your car and your home appliance,
Speaker 10: replace it with something that's electric, and then these energy
Speaker 10: shocks people are going to demand to return the low cost,
Speaker 10: reliable energy. In the book, I predicted this would take
Speaker 10: a few decades, and I think it still will because
Speaker 10: there's so much investment and so much entrenchment by the
Speaker 10: leaders of the world and others in the green transition.
Speaker 10: But twenty twenty five could be the first year that
Speaker 10: Doom's green energy. We could see the start of the
Speaker 10: start of the rollback. So really big things happening right now.
Speaker 1: Well, there's so much money and so much effort and
Speaker 1: so much I don't know, emotion that's been poured into
Speaker 1: this over the last twenty twenty five years. Basic predicated
Speaker 1: on the lie that CO two was turning our planet
Speaker 1: into an inhospitable place, and that we were going to
Speaker 1: all die and the Earth was going to be barren
Speaker 1: because of this climate catastrophe that was looming. And yet
Speaker 1: the Earth is greening at a rate that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen in a long, long time. All of the If
Speaker 1: you look at the Heritage Foundation and the CO two
Speaker 1: coalition's actual numbers on Arctic ice and glacial ice and
Speaker 1: rising sea levels, it's simply not there. All the dire
Speaker 1: predictions are coming unwound right before our very eyes with
Speaker 1: the truth. So and when we've had like another one
Speaker 1: of these boon doggles, these Green New Deal boon doggles,
Speaker 1: what was it eight billion dollars to build I don't know,
Speaker 1: half a million or so electric chargers and they built seven.
Speaker 1: They built seven with the eight billion dollars, and now
Speaker 1: there's snow money left for the rest. Where did that
Speaker 1: money goes? Where did that money go? We don't know.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you mentioned some of the predictions. They are amazing.
Speaker 10: There were predictions that we wouldn't have any ice in
Speaker 10: the Arctic in the summer, that those are all false.
Speaker 10: The United Nations predicted we'd have fifty million climate refugees.
Speaker 10: By twenty ten, while they revived that was in their website,
Speaker 10: they took that out of the website. We had a
Speaker 10: guy by the name of doctor David Viner in the
Speaker 10: United Kingdom said that children just aren't going to know
Speaker 10: what snow is, you know. So, how did that work
Speaker 10: this winter that was back in two thousand. Yeah, I
Speaker 10: think we got plenty of snow. Matter of fact, we
Speaker 10: had one day a week back or so when it
Speaker 10: was below thirty two degrees in all in forty nine
Speaker 10: of the fifty states in the United States, Hawaii was
Speaker 10: the only one where it didn't get down to thirty
Speaker 10: two degrees. But so, yeah, the predictions are wrong and
Speaker 10: people don't remember those, you know, they see the current
Speaker 10: headlines and they don't remember all the fallacies of the past.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: That's one of the problems is that we have such
Speaker 1: a short attention span as a population that you know,
Speaker 1: the next big headline and we're like a what Russia
Speaker 1: Limbo used to call it the drive by media because
Speaker 1: most people when it comes to getting their news and information,
Speaker 1: there are a lot more platforms now, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot more choice, which is a good thing, but it's
Speaker 1: so of the moment, like what's the news now, and
Speaker 1: then fifteen minutes later you forgot what the news now was,
Speaker 1: and it just piles on. I understand that very well.
Speaker 10: Yeah, climate is complex too. It's difficult for people to understand,
Speaker 10: and a lot of what they're reading the press. Probably
Speaker 10: if you read any article, it's got wrong things in
Speaker 10: it about the climate. But this is all going to crunch.
Speaker 10: We may go into a period of a couple of
Speaker 10: decades of cooling. It has been warming, but it's very
Speaker 10: possible it could change. Very difficult to predict what's going
Speaker 10: on in the future.
Speaker 1: But over overall, Steve Gorm, the warming that has been
Speaker 1: predicted and the warming that's actually happened, it's very minuscule.
Speaker 1: The warming that's happened over the last hundred two hundred years,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 10: As far below the models? Yeah, the models are predictingly
Speaker 10: much higher warming. We've had one degree of a one
Speaker 10: degree celsius at warming in one hundred and forty years
Speaker 10: since we've had thermometers, very gentle and actually it's been
Speaker 10: good for the planet. I mean, if you look at
Speaker 10: all the numbers, people do better in warm temperatures. We
Speaker 10: get more deaths in the winter, we get more people
Speaker 10: get sick in the winter, more COVID nineteen cases in
Speaker 10: the winter. A number of people pointed out that if
Speaker 10: we have a little bit of warming, will have a
Speaker 10: lot less people die. It's really better and it's better
Speaker 10: for the better the crops as well. So the histeria
Speaker 10: is just kind of goofy and its way off base.
Speaker 10: Yet fear is a powerful motivator and it's captured many people,
Speaker 10: and the ideology of climatism is powerful. We just have
Speaker 10: to work on it over time to get back to
Speaker 10: something that's sensible.
Speaker 1: The climate situation is one of those issues that President
Speaker 1: Trump has focused on of the many issues he's focused
Speaker 1: on in his first month or so. But it is
Speaker 1: another one where people want the choice of what kind
Speaker 1: of energy they want to use. They don't want to
Speaker 1: be told that they have to use this or that.
Speaker 1: And that's in poll after poll after polled, by a
Speaker 1: large majority, people think that you should have your own
Speaker 1: decision to make on whether you use gas, natural, gas electric.
Speaker 1: And you know, with the oncoming AI race that is
Speaker 1: underway right now, we're going to need a whole lot
Speaker 1: more energy that wind and solar cannot provide.
Speaker 10: Yes, we are the there's talk of all these data
Speaker 10: center using up to twenty percent of our electrical supply
Speaker 10: within a decade, and states like Virginia and Texas just
Speaker 10: don't know how to get there, and so they want
Speaker 10: to build nuclear plants which take a long long time.
Speaker 10: We have a lot of gas plants that are being
Speaker 10: built about two hundred and in planning or construction right now.
Speaker 10: That's going to be the big winner, even though it
Speaker 10: doesn't get the press and wind and solar just really
Speaker 10: can't hack it. You know, if you're in Hawaii, it's great.
Speaker 10: It's windy and it doesn't have any pipelines, and you
Speaker 10: get a lot of solar there. But if you're in
Speaker 10: if you're in Ohio or New York, then you got
Speaker 10: to rely on traditional, reliable energy.
Speaker 1: Tough toenails, Tommy, Steve Gorham, thank you very much. The
Speaker 1: book is the Green Braak Down, his latest in a
Speaker 1: series of fantastic, thoughtful and actual scientific results in data
Speaker 1: when it comes to climate and renewable energy. Steve Goran,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for your time tonight.
Speaker 10: Thank you your Jeff.
Speaker 1: You got it. It's the nightcap. It rolls on in
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Speaker 7: Hey, another name enters the race for Ohio's top office,
Speaker 7: but the ten o'clock report, I'm Sean Gallagher breaking down.
Speaker 11: I'm honored to announce my candidacy to serve as the
Speaker 11: next governor of the state of Ohio.
Speaker 7: The fact Ramaswamy, the Cincinnati native who was a Republican
Speaker 7: candidate for president last year before dropping out after a
Speaker 7: fourth place finish in the Iowa caucus, is now entering
Speaker 7: the GOP field for governor. In twenty twenty six, Ohio
Speaker 7: Attorney General Davios, who previously announced his campaign for getvenor,
Speaker 7: put out a statement not long after ramas Swami launched
Speaker 7: his bid saying, in part quote, I welcome mister ramas
Speaker 7: Swami to the race for however long he sticks around.
Speaker 7: Yost calling Ramaswami a quitter, citing his departure from the
Speaker 7: Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency recently, as well as
Speaker 7: saying ramas Swami quit on Ohio by moving his company
Speaker 7: to Texas. Heather Hill, an entrepreneur from northeast Ohio, also
Speaker 7: a Republican, candidate on the Democratic side. Former Ohio Department
Speaker 7: of Health director doctor Amy Acton is running for governor
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Speaker 9: Overnight with a small chance at scattered showers. Shoe the
Speaker 9: early parts of your Tuesday, temperatures warmer than normal into
Speaker 9: the mid tup of thirties, says, We'll look at a
Speaker 9: low near thirty seven out the door on Tuesday, wins
Speaker 9: from the southwest of night finally calming. They'll stay westerly
Speaker 9: throughout Tuesday. Rain should be done by seven or eight
Speaker 9: am Tuesday morning. Then from there will see clearing up
Speaker 9: to fifty six for a high sixty on Wednesday, with
Speaker 9: rain chances late in the day. From you Severe weather Station,
Speaker 9: I'm nine first Warning Meteorologist Brandon Spinner, News Radio seven
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Speaker 7: Claudie Skuys right now and our current temperature coming in
Speaker 7: at forty nine degrees. Doctors in Rome this past weekend
Speaker 7: said Paul Francis showed signs of decreased kidney function, but
Speaker 7: insists it's under control as he is battling pneumonia in
Speaker 7: both lungs. The Vaticans saying he is responding well to
Speaker 7: the treatments.
Speaker 14: Cardinals and the faithful gathering in Saint Peter's Square.
Speaker 15: My prayer is how would be done?
Speaker 4: Really, I don't know what to pray for.
Speaker 14: I hope he'll not suffering, The Vatican saying the eighty
Speaker 14: eight year old Pulpe showed slight improvement but remains in
Speaker 14: critical condition after suffering a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis over
Speaker 14: the weekend.
Speaker 3: AAVYC news as Marcus Moore.
Speaker 7: In Vatican City and Claremont County, a four year old
Speaker 7: has died after being struck by a delivery truck. This
Speaker 7: happened in a residential neighborhood off Clo Pike around four
Speaker 7: to thirty this afternoon. Ohio State Highway Patrol says a
Speaker 7: ups truck was turning when the boy was struck while
Speaker 7: on a scooter. The driver of the truck stayed at
Speaker 7: the scene and has been cooperating with the investigation. Ohio
Speaker 7: based Joined Fabrics, which was established in nineteen forty three,
Speaker 7: announcing today it's closing all of its locations this as
Speaker 7: a liquidator recently agreed to buy all of the company's assets,
Speaker 7: as it will start having going out of business sales.
Speaker 7: Joe Anne earlier this month had announced plans to close
Speaker 7: around five hundred of its roughly eight hundred stores, this
Speaker 7: after filing for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection in January. Cactus
Speaker 7: League Action Austin Hayes with a six RBI day, hitting
Speaker 7: two two run homers, and had a two run double
Speaker 7: with the Reds routing the Dodgers eight one in Goodyear.
Speaker 7: This afternoon. The Reds have it off day Tuesday. They'll
Speaker 7: visit the Angels in Tempe. Wednesday afternoon, Inside Pitch gets
Speaker 7: our coverage underway in the Big One.
Speaker 3: At two forty First pitch at three ten.
Speaker 7: College Basketball U see returning to the floor Tuesday night
Speaker 7: when they host Baylor. Tip off on seven highw is
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Speaker 1: Drunk nightcap on seven hundred WLW. Garret Jeff, I'm next
Speaker 1: excited about this. A guy who was on President Reagan's
Speaker 1: National Security Council in White House staff. He's got a
Speaker 1: new book coming out in just about three weeks March eighteenth,
Speaker 1: called inside the Reagan White House and to talk about
Speaker 1: that and to talk about what's going on now, especially
Speaker 1: with the Russian Ukraine War and the current negotiations that
Speaker 1: are going on in the back and forth with Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and even the Russians Vladimir Putin. Hopefully the Ukrainians
Speaker 1: get involved in this since there are definitely two sides
Speaker 1: to this conflict. Frank Lavin, how are you, Frank.
Speaker 16: Jerry Jeff, Thanks for having me on. I'm great, I'm
Speaker 16: great at it good.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm an Ohio boy.
Speaker 16: I'm really born and grew up in Campton on the
Speaker 16: north side of the state, so a little bit, a
Speaker 16: little bit outside the radio broadcast of BILW.
Speaker 12: But it's great to be back home, so to speak.
Speaker 1: We listen, We're on on a Monday night, and if
Speaker 1: it's clear, I believe it is that signals booming right
Speaker 1: into Canton. Anybody you want to see, anybody you want
Speaker 1: to shout out to, I'll.
Speaker 16: Say, how did my my mom still live in the
Speaker 16: family home in Canton?
Speaker 1: So how about that?
Speaker 16: Ninety seven years old?
Speaker 1: So good God, bless God, bless her. That's excellent, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: So I got to ask you first without giving away
Speaker 1: too much of the book. Inside the Reagan White House,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a different time, but we're seeing
Speaker 1: some parallels today with the reason that Ronald Reagan was
Speaker 1: elected and the reason Donald Trump was elected, although the
Speaker 1: men have definite different styles. I got to tell you,
Speaker 1: my wife and I absolutely adored the Reagan movie with
Speaker 1: Dennis Quaid. What what did you think of that? Did you
Speaker 1: think that was a true representation.
Speaker 16: I think it's very evocative. He's fundamentally a genial guy.
Speaker 1: He tried to.
Speaker 16: Manage to connect people by being approachable and friendly. So
Speaker 16: that's a very powerful you know, let a smile be
Speaker 16: your umbrella, and it's a very powerful way of building relationships.
Speaker 16: But yet he had a vision, he had a goal,
Speaker 16: he had a purpose. He wasn't there just to be
Speaker 16: everybody's friend. He was there to help take the country
Speaker 16: ahead and how to tackle some big problems that we're
Speaker 16: in front of us. And you're right, there are some
Speaker 16: parallels with today.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean you believe that the US has
Speaker 1: to and no one has talked about abandoning Ukraine at all,
Speaker 1: but we have seen so much money go there for
Speaker 1: as dubious things like you know, paying the pension of
Speaker 1: government employees Ukraine and all of that under the guise
Speaker 1: of helping them fight off Vladimir Putin and the Russians.
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan had a certain alliance building kind of strategy
Speaker 1: that strengthened our influence around the world. Why is it
Speaker 1: important that we continue to support Ukraine even if Europe
Speaker 1: isn't all in as they should be. And there's obviously
Speaker 1: corruption in Ukraine and that government as well. We know
Speaker 1: that from the dealings with with Joe Biden and Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden and all all of that. It is it is
Speaker 1: not as easy, It's not as clear cut as some
Speaker 1: other situations globally, is it.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I well, first, Russia is the aggressive Russia invaded Ukraine.
Speaker 16: So whatever problems would have with Ukraine or whatever problems
Speaker 16: we're going to have with other European countries building there
Speaker 16: is there's one country to precipitated all that, and that
Speaker 16: is Vladimir Putin. And the other troubling element of this
Speaker 16: for US, Gary, Jeff is the countries that are back.
Speaker 16: And I think you've made some comments about our coalition.
Speaker 1: So to speak.
Speaker 16: To look at Moscow's calls, is Vladimir's coalition. He's got
Speaker 16: China financing it as his largest trading partner. He's got
Speaker 16: North Korean troops in the field exactly in combat, and
Speaker 16: he's got Iran surplying drones. So we've got this sort
Speaker 16: of access of evil if you will, in there, fight
Speaker 16: in the fight. So we can't always pick or choose
Speaker 16: or manage our coalition as well as we'd want, But boy,
Speaker 16: Vladimir's got his coalition as Wellither there's no doubt in
Speaker 16: anybody's mind that if Russia scores a win, or China
Speaker 16: scores a win, or Iran a North Korea scores a
Speaker 16: win out of Ukraine, it is.
Speaker 12: Bad for the US.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well China is now. We heard today that China
Speaker 1: is coming to the negotiations table along with Russia and
Speaker 1: the US for some kind of solution. Now the war
Speaker 1: you would agree, anyone would agree that the war has
Speaker 1: to end, and it has to end soon. This has
Speaker 1: gone on for three years. There's no reason for it
Speaker 1: to continue with all of the death and destruction.
Speaker 16: Yeah, but there's only one reason there's a war, and
Speaker 16: that's platim repute invaded. You wanted to end. But there's
Speaker 16: one easy way to stop it. Ways just to have him,
Speaker 16: have him stop the war. So Ukraine is, Ukraine is
Speaker 16: fighting a defensive board. They made one incursion near Curse.
Speaker 16: They you know, threw a punch into Russia their curse,
Speaker 16: but they're basically the war is almost one hundred percent
Speaker 16: on Ukraine. Ukraine cities being bombed, Ukraine civilians being bombed,
Speaker 16: Ukraine economy being disrupted. So, boy, there's one guy that
Speaker 16: started this and he can sure end it.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, outside of him just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I was kidding, We're going to withdraw all the troops
Speaker 1: and we're not going to attack anymore. How do we
Speaker 1: get that? How do we get him to stop?
Speaker 16: No, that's a fair point because now Putin's painted himself
Speaker 16: into a corner. He's invested so much of his country's
Speaker 16: treasure and he's got like a million casualties out of
Speaker 16: this thing, more Russians killed any time since World War
Speaker 16: Two under Peutin. So he's done enormous damage to Russia.
Speaker 16: Now he can't just say, well, I made a mistake.
Speaker 16: He's got to be able to say to his people, well,
Speaker 16: we did this and we got something out of it.
Speaker 16: Although I don't think he necessarily did get anything out
Speaker 16: of it, and he certainly didn't have to do it.
Speaker 12: But he picked a fight and he's.
Speaker 16: Gotten a bloody nose out of this, and now he's
Speaker 16: trying to salve but some kind of dignity or some
Speaker 16: kind of moderate success out of this so he can
Speaker 16: save his neck with his own people.
Speaker 1: As my view, well, he took over Crimea back when
Speaker 1: Barack Obama was president and took took the attack to Akraine,
Speaker 1: Ukraine and invaded Ukraine. Will president Bible was president, right,
Speaker 1: we don't we don't have either one of those obstacles
Speaker 1: and how to peace because they're both out of office,
Speaker 1: thank god.
Speaker 16: Right, But wouldn't it be but Gary Jeff, wouldn't it
Speaker 16: just be crazy irony if Donald Trump said, hey, Obama
Speaker 16: was right, he grabs putin grabs Ukraine and Obama shrugged
Speaker 16: his shouldersays, well, I guess I can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be crazy if.
Speaker 16: Trump says basically the same thing, Well, Vladimir, you got it.
Speaker 16: You went and smashed and grabbed and got something, and
Speaker 16: I guess there's nothing I can.
Speaker 4: Do about it.
Speaker 1: Well, they're large.
Speaker 16: I would my advice to President Trump is, don't minimic Obama.
Speaker 16: I don't think Obama handled this well. Don't replicate that guy.
Speaker 16: Try to find some way to raise the cost for
Speaker 16: Putin to have him think more about peace.
Speaker 1: President Trump is the ultimate negotiation negotiator, wrote The Art
Speaker 1: of the Deal. Has practiced that to some great success
Speaker 1: when he has people who aren't trying to stab him
Speaker 1: in the back every time he turns around, which happened
Speaker 1: during the first administration. And I think that there has
Speaker 1: to be some kind of Putin has to get something
Speaker 1: out of it, because Ukraine is Ukraine. With our help,
Speaker 1: with anybody else's help, whatever coalition has put together, is
Speaker 1: never are going to put on the kind of military
Speaker 1: pressure that's going to stop Vladimir Putin in a war
Speaker 1: against Ukraine. And don't I don't know you as you.
Speaker 16: Know he began the war, he already had Crimea, and
Speaker 16: he had some provinces in Eastern Ukraine who already had
Speaker 16: grab some stuff and put in his pocket. Yeah, you're
Speaker 16: done by so to say, boy, we need to reward aggression. Look,
Speaker 16: I think that I think we need to be very
Speaker 16: very careful. You know, I've spent a lot of my
Speaker 16: life here, Jeff, working on China issues. I told a friend,
Speaker 16: our goal, our goal as Americans is six months after
Speaker 16: however it's solved. However, peace does come, we hope soon.
Speaker 16: Six months later, Shi Jinping is sitting now with his
Speaker 16: lieutenants in Beijing, and he says to his deputy students,
Speaker 16: an idiot, isn't he? We want the Chinese and the
Speaker 16: North Koreans and the Randians. Dod'll say, boy, the cost
Speaker 16: succeeded the benefit of that one. We better not know
Speaker 16: more monkey business. We don't need these adventures. We don't
Speaker 16: want to go attack Taiwan. We don't want to have
Speaker 16: other little experiments out there because we're just going to get.
Speaker 1: A bloody nose.
Speaker 16: We want them to take that home with them and
Speaker 16: not develop an appetite for say, boy putin. You know,
Speaker 16: he had a rough go. But he really got something
Speaker 16: out of this. Let's go see if we can do
Speaker 16: it again. That would be a weakened position for the
Speaker 16: United States.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I mean, how do you think things
Speaker 1: have changed, though, geopolitically and militarily since the Cold War
Speaker 1: when you were in the Reagan White House.
Speaker 17: Well, you know, we left the Cold War with a
Speaker 17: high degree of cohesion among the West, the democratic countries
Speaker 17: of Europe and Japan and Australia.
Speaker 16: Other there were treaty allies and like minded nations, and
Speaker 16: there was a sense of mission and a sense of purpose.
Speaker 16: Now that faded considerably over the subsequent decades, in part
Speaker 16: because there was no immediate threat, but because the Soviet
Speaker 16: Union did dissolve and a good chunk of the Warsaw
Speaker 16: Pac nations Poland joined the NATO.
Speaker 12: East Germany became.
Speaker 16: Part of West Germany. So a good part of what
Speaker 16: had been pillars of my Oscow strength faded away or
Speaker 16: moved away. So Europe's own commitments of defense and security
Speaker 16: dropped dramatically. And this is a point President Trump has made,
Speaker 16: these guys aren't paying their own way, which I think
Speaker 16: is a fair criticism. I still think we don't want
Speaker 16: pune to have a victory, but as a fair critics
Speaker 16: say Europe needs a heavy up on security if it
Speaker 16: wants to be taken seriously.
Speaker 1: Frank Lavin, I appreciate your time, and we will do
Speaker 1: this again before March eighteenth, because I'm interested to talk
Speaker 1: more about the book that's coming out Inside the Reagan
Speaker 1: White House. You were there and it's a it's a
Speaker 1: wonderful glimpse into the presidency that began my participation in
Speaker 1: American elections. My first my first eligible election was nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty and I voted for Ronald Reagan. I was great that,
Speaker 1: greatly loved that.
Speaker 16: That's a great story, Jerry Jeff, thanks for having me out.
Speaker 12: That's a fabulous story.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, and we'll talk again soon. I thank
Speaker 1: you so much. All Right, we have was coming up.
Speaker 1: He's out running guns somewhere next on the nightcap. Last night,
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Speaker 1: As I like to say, his pappy was a pistol.
Speaker 1: He's a son of a gun, the author of.
Speaker 19: The Good Gun, Bad Guy series of books, and a
Speaker 19: spokesperson for your and my and his second at rights
Speaker 19: codified and guaranteed in the Constitution as a right and
Speaker 19: inalienable rights given to us by our creator, the.
Speaker 1: One, the only Dan was, who was traveling somewhere in Florida. Dan,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 16: Hey?
Speaker 5: Good Garry Jeff, thanks for having me on the show.
Speaker 5: And I've been referred to as a son of something,
Speaker 5: but not a son of a gun. It's usually another word.
Speaker 5: So thank you, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Well, you're you're quite welcome. So what are you doing
Speaker 1: in Florida. You're running guns?
Speaker 8: Well, I did.
Speaker 5: No no gun running. Today. I did an event for
Speaker 5: fell the second Element of Freedom Freedom Rally, Okay, and
Speaker 5: that was in that was in Summerfield, Summerfield, yep. And
Speaker 5: now we're so I spoke at that event. We did,
Speaker 5: I did a book signing, and now we're headed to
Speaker 5: Tampa and we're going to try to hopefully get a
Speaker 5: nice day on the beach. I don't know, it seems
Speaker 5: like it's still going to be kind of cold here
Speaker 5: in Florida, but just vacationing now for the next few days.
Speaker 1: Just to make us jealous, sunning on the beach. All right, Well, Dan,
Speaker 1: you just attended the Second Amendment rally that you were
Speaker 1: talking about speaking there, and you go to a lot
Speaker 1: of these around the country. It's it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: escapes my memory. Has there ever been a mass shooting
Speaker 1: at a rally like that of Second Amendment gun loving,
Speaker 1: god fearing Americans. I don't. I don't think they're you
Speaker 1: know once, No.
Speaker 5: No one of the things that I say, because I,
Speaker 5: like I said, I speak at all the big events.
Speaker 8: Like the Goals event.
Speaker 20: Second Amendment Foundation has their big event and so I
Speaker 20: speak at a lot of these big unrights events, and
Speaker 20: I sometimes will get on stage and say, welcome to
Speaker 20: the safest place.
Speaker 5: In the in the country, because that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 5: With all those gun owners there, you are actually in
Speaker 5: the safest place because a mass shooting or anything like
Speaker 5: that will will never happen.
Speaker 21: And if, if anything, if anybody had.
Speaker 5: The the the uh you know, the the I don't know,
Speaker 5: I don't know what you call it, the golf to
Speaker 5: do it, they would be stopped rather quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, no doubt.
Speaker 1: I mean you you may, you may pop off one round,
Speaker 1: but then you've got about one hundred guns pointed right
Speaker 1: at you, making sure that the threat is vanquished.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 5: Well, and Robert Robert Highland said it, he said, you
Speaker 5: know what was his uh what was his quote? An
Speaker 5: armed society is a polite society. Sure, and that's really true.
Speaker 1: Right now, there is a push and we had Savannah
Speaker 1: Maddics on earlier tonight, who's a Kentucky legislator in the
Speaker 1: state House, and she is pushing for constitutional carrie for
Speaker 1: eighteen year olds in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and also
Speaker 1: against the red flag laws that continue to circulate through
Speaker 1: the legislators around the country in different states, depending on
Speaker 1: where you're at, that gets a lot of traction In
Speaker 1: Kentucky hopefully prayer Forlly not. But again we've talked about
Speaker 1: this many times before, Dan, but explain a red flag
Speaker 1: law so people aren't misled and think that this is
Speaker 1: something that could stop someone who shouldn't have a gun
Speaker 1: from owning one and using it. Why are red flag
Speaker 1: laws so, I don't know, misdirected.
Speaker 21: Well, they're probably twenty some state eighteen nineteen twenty state
Speaker 21: something like that who have these red flag laws.
Speaker 5: What they're called what they're called Extreme Risks Protection Orders,
Speaker 5: So they name them that because they want you to
Speaker 5: think that, you know, if you're under if you're under
Speaker 5: extreme risk by these dangerous gun owners, and the protection
Speaker 5: orders there to help keep you safe. You know, the
Speaker 5: politicians want to make sure that everybody that they're keeping
Speaker 5: everybody safe. What it really is, we call them red
Speaker 5: flag laws, and what it really is is a gun
Speaker 5: confiscation without due process, So a judge can sign off
Speaker 5: on the confiscation of someone's guns, and the most often
Speaker 5: based on nothing more than an accusation.
Speaker 21: And sometimes they can be anonymous.
Speaker 5: Accusations, where you know, somebody can deem you a threat.
Speaker 21: To society and cops let judge and sign off cops
Speaker 21: and come in and take your guns and figure it
Speaker 21: out later.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't have to. They don't. They don't have to
Speaker 1: prove or provide any evidence that you are a threat
Speaker 1: to anyone. Just as hearsay. If you've got a neighbor
Speaker 1: who doesn't particularly like the way you mow your lawn
Speaker 1: and he knows you've got guns, he could report you
Speaker 1: in these states that you were threatening him and that
Speaker 1: you have guns, and they could come out and confiscate
Speaker 1: your guns without any hearing or anything. And then you've
Speaker 1: got to go after the fact to prove your innocent,
Speaker 1: which is a violation of your rights in this country.
Speaker 1: As I understand it, you're you're innocent until proven guilty.
Speaker 1: But this makes someone guilty without any proof at all.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not only a violation of your Second Amendment,
Speaker 5: it's a violation of your Fourth Amendment and your fourteenth Amendment.
Speaker 5: You don't do for this, and then illegal teachers, so yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's terrible.
Speaker 8: And then what's the.
Speaker 5: Democrats really they would love to have a national red
Speaker 5: flag law. We've managed to keep him, keep him at
Speaker 5: bay for now, but they would love to have a
Speaker 5: national red flag law. And serialization and registration of all
Speaker 5: player arms, which is what they use. The ghost guns
Speaker 5: scare to try to do, try to scare everybody into
Speaker 5: thinking that they need to support serialization. But serialization has
Speaker 5: been you know, the homemade firearms has been a national
Speaker 5: tradition since our founding, and there's no U the serialized
Speaker 5: and everybody's numbers. Everybody's guns with serial numbers so you
Speaker 5: can track them. So they would love to have those
Speaker 5: two in place, so you could confiscate the guns through
Speaker 5: red flag laws and UH be able to track them
Speaker 5: down and locate them through the UH through the serialization
Speaker 5: and registration.
Speaker 1: Are there any new laws that you and your your
Speaker 1: folks think are especially heinous that have come on the
Speaker 1: books this year around the country. Have you been looking
Speaker 1: at the new gun laws, because there are I know
Speaker 1: a guy who puts out an annual book every January
Speaker 1: and list the new gun laws in every state. I
Speaker 1: don't know why we need more gun laws, but apparently
Speaker 1: some legislators think we do. Is there anything you know
Speaker 1: that's cropped up. That makes you go, well, somebody's got
Speaker 1: to stop that. What's going on in your home state
Speaker 1: of New York.
Speaker 5: Well, New York recently took not too long ago, took
Speaker 5: the flarearmed background check from the federal government, which is
Speaker 5: where it was protected, your information was protected from being
Speaker 5: put on a gun registry. Well, New York State Kathy
Speaker 5: Hopel decided that she wanted to take that background check
Speaker 5: in house to the state Police department, where there's no
Speaker 5: controls over what they do with that list of gun owners.
Speaker 5: So we can only assume that she is collecting creating
Speaker 5: a gun registry in the state of New York. Not
Speaker 5: only that, while taking that the gun the flarearmed background
Speaker 5: checks in house to the state police department, base also
Speaker 5: created an ammunition background check. So you go and buy
Speaker 5: a bullet and you're going to be put on a
Speaker 5: list in New York. So we're fighting against that stuff.
Speaker 5: Joe Biden encouraged the ATF to create what's called zero
Speaker 5: tolerance policy, which means that gun dealers, you know, firearm retailers,
Speaker 5: if the slightest mistake on paperwork and they can get
Speaker 5: their license to sell revoked. So that was the zero
Speaker 5: tolerance policy. Now we've got new people in Trump's cabinet,
Speaker 5: and we've got new people in these organizations, these agencies,
Speaker 5: and we're starting to turn some of that stuff around.
Speaker 5: So I think a GPAM BONDI is going to do
Speaker 5: some pretty good stuff reorganizing and get rid of some
Speaker 5: of the gun grabbers out of the atf.
Speaker 1: Well, freedom is not free, and uh, we must maintain
Speaker 1: our liberty dan at all costs. And the Second Amendment
Speaker 1: of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights is a
Speaker 1: big part of that liberty. It's a big part of
Speaker 1: why this country even exists. And uh, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you're fighting a good fight every day getting the word out.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's the most important one because without
Speaker 5: our guns, we don't have anything. We don't have any freedoms,
Speaker 5: and that's the only thing that keeps these keeps these
Speaker 5: tyrants under control. And they we have to remind them
Speaker 5: who they work for. And our Second Amendment was designed
Speaker 5: to specifically do that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it ain't about deer hunting, but that's a nice
Speaker 1: byproduct for a lot of people. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: good Gunbadguy dot com. Check him out there and on YouTube,
Speaker 1: loaded mic podcasts, and the other things that Dan is
Speaker 1: maybe coming to a city near you, which that rally
Speaker 1: will be the safest place you can be in that city.
Speaker 1: I guarantee it. Thank you, Dan, take care, Thanks Thanks Bob,
Speaker 1: you got it. It's the nightcap and we're rolling. Let's
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Speaker 11: President Donald Trump can for now continue to exclude the
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Speaker 15: The White House responded to its first round win by
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Speaker 18: People are as upset with the government as he's ever
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Speaker 1: Being forward to talking to our next guest, who sadly
Speaker 1: was incarcerated for being patriotic and actually exercising his rights
Speaker 1: to assemble and freedom of speech on January. He's now
Speaker 1: working with the Foundation Stand in the Gap to help
Speaker 1: others who have been wronged and who have been mischaracterized
Speaker 1: as domestic terrorists and insurrectionist. Shane Jenkins joins us on
Speaker 1: the night cap. Shane, how are you doing.
Speaker 12: I'm doing wonderful, happy to be free.
Speaker 1: Yeah. How long were you in the in the January
Speaker 1: sixth stir gulag whatever.
Speaker 8: You want to call it, fourteen eighteen days, oh my goodness,
Speaker 8: from March fifth, twenty twenty one, until inauguration night.
Speaker 1: Well, it certainly was a welcome sight for you to
Speaker 1: see President Trump take the inauguration into office as our
Speaker 1: forty seventh president, knowing full well that his heart and
Speaker 1: his brain were with you guys all the way. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to what got you in so much trouble? Shane.
Speaker 1: Wait till your father gets on. You don't know how
Speaker 1: much trouble you're in. Uh what what was your What?
Speaker 1: What did you do on January sixth? That was so
Speaker 1: incredibly heinous? Shane?
Speaker 8: I gotta know, Well, probably the one thing is I
Speaker 8: broke a window and people are like, why did you
Speaker 8: break a window?
Speaker 12: And why did I had a tomahawk on me?
Speaker 8: And so people are always like, well, why would you
Speaker 8: It was a people peaceful process, Why would you carry tomahawk?
Speaker 8: And I would take people back? They had rallies before
Speaker 8: January the sixth, and people had been stabbed and jumped
Speaker 8: and robbed, and the people that were organizing this event
Speaker 8: said be prepared because they expect Antifa and blm UH
Speaker 8: members to be infiltrating the crowd dressed as Trump supporters,
Speaker 8: So protect yourself.
Speaker 12: So that's why everybody came.
Speaker 8: Somewhat with pepper spray or the dow rod is a
Speaker 8: flagstick or whatever. That's why I had tomahawks.
Speaker 1: Was something happened, was your into Shane Jenkins to overthrow
Speaker 1: the federal government, to take over Congress? Was What was
Speaker 1: the goal? What was the thing that you hoped to
Speaker 1: accomplish by protesting the twenty twenty election in Washington, d C.
Speaker 8: On January sixth, Well, my goal was just to exercise
Speaker 8: my First Amendment right and to protest. But the thing
Speaker 8: that I wanted is I had a lot of questions
Speaker 8: about the twenty twenty elections. Still have a lot of
Speaker 8: questions about the twenty twenty elections.
Speaker 12: I wanted, yeah, I want.
Speaker 8: I wanted Mike Fans to send it back to the states,
Speaker 8: any states that had questions or that the questionable videos
Speaker 8: that showed suspect things at best being released I wanted
Speaker 8: them to send those electors back to the States from
Speaker 8: January sixth, to give them about a ten day period
Speaker 8: to do conduct an investigation. And if it came back
Speaker 8: and they said Donald Trump lost and this may have
Speaker 8: looked this way, but this is what really happened, and
Speaker 8: Donald Trump lost, then I could accept that. But I
Speaker 8: felt like they owed the American people the respect to
Speaker 8: provide us like a small investigation and if we lose,
Speaker 8: I can accept that, but I'll if you lose the
Speaker 8: faith of in the integrity of the elections, and that's
Speaker 8: a dangerous place to be in because then you have
Speaker 8: selections and not elections. And I just there was too
Speaker 8: much going on that night.
Speaker 1: Well, and there's two reasons that they have fought back
Speaker 1: so hard, they being the establishment and mostly Democrats, but
Speaker 1: others have fought back so hard against the January sixth
Speaker 1: protests and against people who say the outcome was fraudulent
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. The first reason is what you just stated,
Speaker 1: if people lose faith in the integrity of our elections,
Speaker 1: then we devolve into total chaos. The second reason that
Speaker 1: they would do it, I'm just conjecturing here is because
Speaker 1: they really have a lot to hide. I think both
Speaker 1: of those things are at play. And had a guy
Speaker 1: who was fighting the election and integrity fraud in Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: and he's been on the guest, a guy named Gregory Stenstrom,
Speaker 1: and he proved in court just last year that the
Speaker 1: election in a judge agreed the election in Pennsylvania was
Speaker 1: filled with fraud and that the outcome was not the
Speaker 1: correct outcome in that state, and that one state alone
Speaker 1: made a huge difference, as you remember in that twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election.
Speaker 8: Where are you from, Shane, I'm from Texas, And you
Speaker 8: know that's the concerning party. You mentioned that one state,
Speaker 8: and these were very fine margins. You're talking about like
Speaker 8: ten thousand votes, yes, So which could I mean, it's
Speaker 8: not that's in votes that I mean states that cast
Speaker 8: millions of votes, and it's ten thousand one way or
Speaker 8: the other. That I mean, I think you've got to
Speaker 8: look at that because that could swing the election either way.
Speaker 1: So I talked to another young lady who also was
Speaker 1: arrested and sat in jail for months after January sixth,
Speaker 1: and she also broke a window, which according to the
Speaker 1: laws on the books, is a misdemeanor, and I don't
Speaker 1: think comes with any jail time like in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: I bet there are a lot of people who break
Speaker 1: windows committing burglary or other associated crimes, and I bet
Speaker 1: they're not in prison if they get caught for breaking
Speaker 1: the window for four years or fourteen hundred how many
Speaker 1: ever days you were in this slammer. It's the It
Speaker 1: is the miscarriage of justice to the extreme to make
Speaker 1: a political point, and it has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: actual anything based in the law. And you know what
Speaker 1: you talk about, people lose faith in the integrity of elections.
Speaker 1: When people lose faith in the rule of law and
Speaker 1: how it is unequally applied or has been in our society,
Speaker 1: that also can be a path to the stigion, pits
Speaker 1: of hell and chaos in a country. And and it
Speaker 1: seems like we were on the path of both of
Speaker 1: those things at the time of your arrest. Now, so
Speaker 1: you had a tomahawk? What they what they did they
Speaker 1: charge you with possessing a a lethal weapon or what
Speaker 1: was that added on to your file of misery?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so they did charge me that I didn't get
Speaker 8: to the rest of the parts is of it. I
Speaker 8: did have assaults on on alleged federal officers. But here's
Speaker 8: the deal. I've watched people be brutalized. Then I went
Speaker 8: to inspect. That's why I broke the windows. Lots of
Speaker 8: people get beat and I was like, if they're getting
Speaker 8: the crap beat out of them, why don't we just
Speaker 8: go in this window, like the window can be replaced.
Speaker 8: Like we knew that people were being let in on
Speaker 8: the other side, why don't we just go through the
Speaker 8: window that way, they're not assaulting police officers or whatever
Speaker 8: trying to get in. But the people that I saw
Speaker 8: getting hurt weren't doing anything and they were being assaulted.
Speaker 12: So after I hit the window.
Speaker 8: The crowd was like, no, no, we don't do that.
Speaker 8: So I was like, Okay, well what I'm gonna do
Speaker 8: is I'm going to go up to the front line
Speaker 8: where I saw these people getting hurt after that, and
Speaker 8: went up there. Before I even got up to the
Speaker 8: front line, I was pepper sprayed four times. So I
Speaker 8: turned my back on the officers and started working my
Speaker 8: way through the crowd backwards, And when I finally got
Speaker 8: up to the police line, I was struck by a
Speaker 8: commander Backshaw on the top of the head with an
Speaker 8: extendable baton for doing nothing. I mean, I couldn't even
Speaker 8: see him. I never took direct action against the police.
Speaker 8: And that's the same officer who beat Victoria White and
Speaker 8: about the head, like over the head thirty two times
Speaker 8: with the same extendable ass and it was sad. I mean,
Speaker 8: I've seen the video and it is absolutely horrific what
Speaker 8: they did to that woman. And she never not once
Speaker 8: raised a finger against any officer. And I don't know
Speaker 8: if it was because she was wearing a Maga hat
Speaker 8: that he was triggered, but he honed in on her
Speaker 8: and just went after her. And I feel like I
Speaker 8: was just collateral damage.
Speaker 12: Of her being.
Speaker 8: And so after that happened, I went out of the tunnel.
Speaker 8: I couldn't see her breathe. And then somebody got on
Speaker 8: a loud speaker on a megaphone and said, my dad
Speaker 8: just texted me. His name was Ryan Nichols, also January
Speaker 8: sixth er. He said, my dad just texted me and
Speaker 8: they shot an unarmed protester inside the Capitol. And when
Speaker 8: they told me that, I yeah, I actually bad it.
Speaker 8: I had been I had watched people be assaulted, I
Speaker 8: had been assaulted Victoria White had been assaulted and I
Speaker 8: come out and now they've told me they've killed somebody
Speaker 8: inside the Capitol. And on top of it all up,
Speaker 8: I felt like they're stealing an election. And so at
Speaker 8: that point I lost my cool and I started throwing
Speaker 8: sticks and what pieces of a crutch or desk or
Speaker 8: whatever's like laying on the ground, just refuse that I
Speaker 8: picked up off the ground. Nothing tomahawk, nothing like that.
Speaker 8: But I threw at the fully protected riot gear, face mask, helmets,
Speaker 8: shoulder pads, riot police. I threw them in their vicinity.
Speaker 8: No officer identified me as hurting them. Nobody suffered any
Speaker 8: bodily injury from anything I did. But the prosecutor asked
Speaker 8: for two hundred and thirty two months for me in prison,
Speaker 8: and they gave me eighty four months.
Speaker 1: Micah, And how much of that did you? Did you
Speaker 1: serve every bit of that or how much did you serve?
Speaker 8: I served forty six and a half months.
Speaker 1: Now, that's too that's too long, it's too long.
Speaker 8: Fourteen and eighteen days of a long, long stretch. And
Speaker 8: in those days in the DC jail, they denied us
Speaker 8: because we we were vaccine hesitant as well. I would
Speaker 8: say they were trying to make us get the vaccine,
Speaker 8: and they we wouldn't get it, And so they denied
Speaker 8: his visitation with our family for two years, They denied
Speaker 8: his haircuts for two years, and they also deny religious.
Speaker 12: Services for two years.
Speaker 8: And those are all basic human rights as well as
Speaker 8: under the constitutions, they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're able to do those they're constitutional rights, and
Speaker 1: they're guaranteed by God and supposed to be backed up
Speaker 1: by the given to us by God, guaranteed by the government.
Speaker 1: And you lost that guarantee. So you know what, that's
Speaker 1: a third that's a third leg of something that sows
Speaker 1: distrust and chaos into a society like ours. You can't
Speaker 1: you can't have any respect or or you don't have
Speaker 1: expectation of elections that are fair, you don't have jurisprudence,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're you're being denied all these things,
Speaker 1: and then you're being thrown into Now I will say
Speaker 1: that you're probably, from what you've described, the most violence
Speaker 1: of any January sixth detainee that I have talked to,
Speaker 1: and only because of the win and the tomahawk and
Speaker 1: the admission that, yeah, you were striking back against people
Speaker 1: that were abusing and hurting protesters who were doing nothing
Speaker 1: at all. I talked to another J sixer who and
Speaker 1: she said that we're just standing out on the sidewalk
Speaker 1: of the Capitol before anybody even came to the Capitol,
Speaker 1: and we're just sitting there with our signs and we're chanting,
Speaker 1: and they're firing rubber bullets. The Capitol police are filing
Speaker 1: rubber bullets at us just for standing there with signs.
Speaker 1: That's a violation of the First Amendment front and center
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, now, you know.
Speaker 8: And what's weird is my so I showed up about
Speaker 8: an hour later than I guess all those things transpired,
Speaker 8: they were fired, so because we had we had access
Speaker 8: to sixteen thousand hours in the DC jail of all
Speaker 8: this footage, and I, you know, I was late to
Speaker 8: the Lower West Terrace. And but what is weird is
Speaker 8: what eye witnessed matches up perfectly with everybody that was there.
Speaker 12: Early.
Speaker 8: The police were provoking launching munitions into the crowd, shooting
Speaker 8: pepper ball like paintball style munitions that people They were
Speaker 8: shooting like the thirty millimeter grenade launched like flash bangs,
Speaker 8: tear gas into a crowd that was taking no direct
Speaker 8: action against the officers. As a matter of fact, they
Speaker 8: were launching them over the front of the crowd into
Speaker 8: the back of the crowd, which then causes the people
Speaker 8: in the back to push forward, which then pushes the
Speaker 8: guys in the front up against the police lines. And
Speaker 8: so there was a lot like and then to get
Speaker 8: on up to when I showed up an hour later.
Speaker 8: The things continued, the provocation and the attacks on the
Speaker 8: general public by the police. So the mo by the
Speaker 8: police was the same early on and the same when
Speaker 8: I got there, which was interesting. That's what was weird,
Speaker 8: because a majority, not a majority, but a high percentage
Speaker 8: of the men in the jail with me were military marines,
Speaker 8: army rangers, army special forces, and the police officers, prison guards,
Speaker 8: and they all know how to respond to violence, and
Speaker 8: so the very same thing that they witnessed, they responded
Speaker 8: to the very same thing that I witnessed. I responded
Speaker 8: to it. And here we all sit in jail together,
Speaker 8: and so it wasn't a mistake that we all ended
Speaker 8: up in there together. It was because they witnessed women
Speaker 8: being pushed down the stairs, women being beaten, elderly people
Speaker 8: being beaten, and they reacted to it. Thomas Webster, for instance, career,
Speaker 8: honorable career at the NYPD Marine, served on the Governor's
Speaker 8: Detail in New York for ten years, witnessed the woman
Speaker 8: being brutalized, responded, never been in trouble, career law enforcement,
Speaker 8: and they gave him ten years in prison because he
Speaker 8: stood up for somebody being assaulted by.
Speaker 12: A DC police officer.
Speaker 8: And so on down the lad It was the same story,
Speaker 8: just a different person, different police officers.
Speaker 1: Do you believe Shane, that there were there were FBI
Speaker 1: and undercover federal agents in that crowd provoking the crowd
Speaker 1: and stirring things up.
Speaker 8: Oh absolutely, I would love to see. I believe there
Speaker 8: were some agents and they were probably more passive in
Speaker 8: the crowd. But who I believe was in the crowd
Speaker 8: was these cooperative informants. They are cooperative individuals that are
Speaker 8: professional assets for the FBI, or I would call professional
Speaker 8: snitches that were in the crowd. As as a matter
Speaker 8: of fact, also, I had the privilege, and I wouldn't
Speaker 8: say the honor, but I had an opportunity to sit
Speaker 8: down with an Antifa member that was put in the
Speaker 8: DC jail with us, and he shared his story of
Speaker 8: how there was eighteen Antifa members at the Capitol and
Speaker 8: I interviewed and he's a self about Antifa, and he
Speaker 8: shared his story, wrote a letter that he wanted me
Speaker 8: to release to the media. So I know they were
Speaker 8: counter protests in the crowd, provoking the police. And we
Speaker 8: watched video of him and his friends throwing frozen water
Speaker 8: bottles at the tops, cussing the tops out, like really
Speaker 8: almost provoking the police before the police started attacking the crowd.
Speaker 8: And that may have played a role in it. So
Speaker 8: there's so many different layers. And not to mention the
Speaker 8: level of security, the amount of security being dropped down low,
Speaker 8: two hundred out of two thousand Capitol Police officers being there.
Speaker 8: Not to mention the reports that Congress had received that
Speaker 8: Troy Nell was released in his book that they talked about.
Speaker 8: They had several like October, November, December security reports saying
Speaker 8: there's a high level of hyperpensity for violence on January sixth,
Speaker 8: because they were getting all this intel coming in and
Speaker 8: so that they should have been on their guard. They
Speaker 8: should have had all hands on deck and been prepared
Speaker 8: for events to get out of control. But I believe
Speaker 8: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and these people wanted to give
Speaker 8: MAGA a black eye, and they gave us the perfect
Speaker 8: circumstances and opportunity, oh yeah, to walk everybody into a trap.
Speaker 1: That was a carefully orchestrated si op by Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: and the left who wanted to permanently demonize Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and anyone who supported him. He offered Donald president, Donald,
Speaker 1: who was president on January sixth, had offered and been
Speaker 1: refused by Nancy Pelosi and the Senate Sergeant at Arms
Speaker 1: the ten thousand extra National Guard troops that he offered
Speaker 1: to deploy because of those same reports you're talking about,
Speaker 1: and they said, no, we're fine, We're fine, and then
Speaker 1: claimed that they were in fear for their lives afterwards.
Speaker 8: All right, I don't know what you would call that,
Speaker 8: Darrel dy or I don't know what you would call that,
Speaker 8: but yeah, it seems treatments.
Speaker 1: So I mean, Shane, if there had been ten thousand
Speaker 1: National Guard this, you wouldn't have had a chance to
Speaker 1: break a window that day, right, No, absolutely.
Speaker 8: Not no, And we would have been we would have
Speaker 8: been loving on those people, shaking their hands, so thank
Speaker 8: you for serving.
Speaker 1: And all those things.
Speaker 8: It was not I totally did not expect that to
Speaker 8: happen at the Capitol. What I saw at the Ellipse
Speaker 8: was praying and singing and dancing and people smiling, and
Speaker 8: it was like a church spiritual concert atmosphere, and it
Speaker 8: was one of the most beautiful experiences I'd ever seen.
Speaker 8: And then to come to the Capitol and just see
Speaker 8: something completely.
Speaker 12: Different.
Speaker 8: Had I used my right thinking, I'd be like, this
Speaker 8: is a trap. You know, my buddy Rob Morris Lego
Speaker 8: Man calls it. January sixth was a lobster trap, and
Speaker 8: it was. It was.
Speaker 12: It was set up to not.
Speaker 8: Only it cooled any desire to go to DC to
Speaker 8: protest or to do anything like that from the right
Speaker 8: after that point, because it was people were like, I can't.
Speaker 12: I'm not willing to lose everything. I'm not willing to
Speaker 12: get canceled, I'm not willing to go to jail.
Speaker 8: And so that served their purpose.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. A sad chapter. Uh that hopefully
Speaker 1: is closed for you and everybody else who had to
Speaker 1: experience a political prison in America. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: amazing that that that ain't even happened. And and you
Speaker 1: know what else is ironic to me or not ironic,
Speaker 1: it's it's sympathy simpatico. Was what happened to the election.
Speaker 1: We had a fake election and then we had a
Speaker 1: fake insurrection and it was all orchestrated by the same people.
Speaker 12: That's right.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you what what the devilment to use
Speaker 8: to destroy us? God is going to use it for
Speaker 8: his glory. And I feel like am we got to
Speaker 8: serve in a capacity and help get President Trump elected
Speaker 8: for the second and for the third time, really I believe.
Speaker 8: But and so a lot of positive things have come
Speaker 8: of this. Not to mention no one where we started
Speaker 8: the foundation, we're going to work on justice reform and
Speaker 8: set in the January sixth, Men's Lives is back on track.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about the organization again.
Speaker 8: Yeah. So we're working went to two prong attack. One
Speaker 8: of them for the you know right now, is trying
Speaker 8: to help January six guys get their lives back. We're
Speaker 8: going to be working on credit reprayer. We're working on
Speaker 8: a program called Operation Memory Maker, where we're going to
Speaker 8: be funding a three to five day vacation with husband
Speaker 8: and wife and children and whatever their familial situation is.
Speaker 8: But we wanted them to be able to take a
Speaker 8: vacation and get those family bonds back together because a
Speaker 8: lot of the guys have been gone almost four years,
Speaker 8: and so we want them to be able to get away,
Speaker 8: just unplug, spend some time with the wife and kid,
Speaker 8: and just get right and not have to pay for anything.
Speaker 8: So that's another thing we're working on. We're also working
Speaker 8: on healthcare because the medical and dental treatment in the
Speaker 8: prison is horrific, and so we're trying to just get
Speaker 8: everybody situated and get them back to the quality of
Speaker 8: life at least that they had before, if not better.
Speaker 8: And then the second prong of the attack is moving forward,
Speaker 8: is we're going to work on prison reform and justice.
Speaker 8: And so I've had some very interesting conversations with some
Speaker 8: people high up in the government that tell us that
Speaker 8: President Trump is passionate about prison informance.
Speaker 12: So we want to we want.
Speaker 8: To reach back and help these people who are going
Speaker 8: to be your neighbors and my neighbors, and whose kids
Speaker 8: are going to be going to school with our kids,
Speaker 8: and we want them to be the best they can be.
Speaker 8: And we think we need to fundamentally rethink the prison system,
Speaker 8: especially the Federal BOP, because what I saw, I saw
Speaker 8: multiple people die in there, and I saw an insane
Speaker 8: amount of drug abuse and overdoses and all kinds of
Speaker 8: stuff like that, and I saw very little focus.
Speaker 12: On bettering the men and investing in those men.
Speaker 8: And trying to have an environment that's conducive for them
Speaker 8: to get vocational training or college education or anything like that.
Speaker 8: From what I saw, the first step back was a joke,
Speaker 8: and the courses that the guys are taking or it's
Speaker 8: it's really a joke, and I feel like it's set
Speaker 8: up to be a money scam. And so we gotta
Speaker 8: we got to promote an environment that is peaceful, and
Speaker 8: we got to get the gangs under control in there,
Speaker 8: and we've got to get the drug and all that
Speaker 8: stuff out of there.
Speaker 12: And so so to have a huge.
Speaker 8: Fight for that.
Speaker 1: How to how do people? How do people find out more?
Speaker 1: Maybe help Shane?
Speaker 8: Is there a website or yes, sir, if you go
Speaker 8: to Stand in the Gap Dot Foundation that Stand in
Speaker 8: the Gap Dot Foundation, you can go and you can
Speaker 8: see what we're doing. You can see the team that
Speaker 8: we've assembled, see the programs if you want to donate,
Speaker 8: we would love that that will help us fight the fight.
Speaker 8: And there's we have heard there's something like Jared Kushner,
Speaker 8: Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro are passionate about this prison reform
Speaker 8: and so we're jumping in the middle of it. We're
Speaker 8: gonna we're gonna fight all the way to invest in
Speaker 8: these people and hopefully make America better, make make prison
Speaker 8: great again.
Speaker 1: I know that doesn't sound like it was ever great,
Speaker 1: but all right, Shane Jenkins, thank you so much. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're out, and I'm glad you're doing the work
Speaker 1: and focusing on what you're focusing on because you could
Speaker 1: be a very better person and I don't hear that
Speaker 1: in your voice. Thank you so much, sir for everything.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, thank you for having me.
Speaker 12: God bless you.
Speaker 1: You got it. Another hour of the Nightcap as we
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Speaker 11: Hey, it's Tony Pike and if you're busy with life
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Speaker 1: months and reds Baseball ongoing. We're at the All Star
Speaker 1: Break and tonight at Arlington, Texas at Globe Live Field,
Speaker 1: the home run derby tomorrow night, the Al versus the NL.
Speaker 1: And I thought, you know, just as a special kind
Speaker 1: of thing, how about we get somebody who not only
Speaker 1: loves baseball, but has been to numerous ballparks around the
Speaker 1: country to talk baseball and traveling. And there is no
Speaker 1: greater than well, let's introduce him this way.
Speaker 16: Wiz Kids had wonted, Bobby Tomson had done it, and
Speaker 16: you'll read the comics all the one.
Speaker 1: The rock and Roll was being born marijuana We with.
Speaker 6: Scorn so down on the corner of the national pastime
Speaker 6: went on, trap.
Speaker 3: It's off and ball.
Speaker 1: That's right. It's the great Terry Cashman talking baseball. That's right,
Speaker 1: with Willie Mickey and the Duke and more and more
Speaker 1: and more ever since. Flash Phelps joins us the host
Speaker 1: of Serius XM sixties Gold in the Mornings, and again
Speaker 1: a guy who's been to all fifty states, all but
Speaker 1: a few hundred counties in the entire country. And I
Speaker 1: know he's a huge baseball fan. Flash you are you
Speaker 1: are a guest for this first hour on the All
Speaker 1: Star break and oh, oh, this is so nice. Uh,
Speaker 1: I know that you sent me a picture of you
Speaker 1: in the broadcast booth in Boston during a Red Sox game.
Speaker 22: Do you have a that was Yeah, that was actually
Speaker 22: here in joke Astigley on and the and he's getting
Speaker 22: ready to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
Speaker 22: on Saturday. So I'm I'll be on my way to
Speaker 22: Cooperstown so later in the week, and he wants to
Speaker 22: see me.
Speaker 1: Inductor is very cool.
Speaker 22: In the mail, I get a thing from the Baseball
Speaker 22: Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York. You are quarterly invited
Speaker 22: to be here thanks to Jokestigli and his wife Jen,
Speaker 22: and they invited me, so I'll be out there. This
Speaker 22: is coming Saturday for broadcast because he started with Cleveland
Speaker 22: and then he went to Boston all over forty years.
Speaker 22: So it's just really amazing. And here's how let me
Speaker 22: can I tell you how we met? This is actually
Speaker 22: really cool. Sure so so stickly on the Voice of
Speaker 22: the Rights. And by the way, before that, I'm going
Speaker 22: to start with the guy right before that, Marty Brenneman,
Speaker 22: who you obviously know.
Speaker 1: Also who's also in the Baseball Hall of Fame and
Speaker 1: the four Frick Wing of Broadcasters. So let me first
Speaker 1: tell you that story.
Speaker 22: I'm on the air and I get a call and
Speaker 22: I see a five to one three area code, so
Speaker 22: I know it's the Cincinnati area. And he's said, flash,
Speaker 22: it's Marty Brenneman. And now at this point I didn't
Speaker 22: know who he was right away, and I go, okay, hey, Marty,
Speaker 22: what are you doing? He goes, I'm driving up I
Speaker 22: seventy five to go to see the Dayton Dragons. I'm
Speaker 22: talking up there. I said, wow, what do you do?
Speaker 22: He said, I'm with the Reds. I said, what do
Speaker 22: you do with the Reds? He said, I'm the voice?
Speaker 22: I said, oh that jeez. So so that's how I
Speaker 22: met Marty. So Marty and a man that I we
Speaker 22: And by the way, he just went, they're overseas right now.
Speaker 1: They just left this weekend. Is oh? So that was it.
Speaker 22: So now I get this message from our MLB channel
Speaker 22: and they said, flash, do you know who joke Astiglio is.
Speaker 1: I said, you mean the Red Sox is the voice
Speaker 1: of the Red Sox. They said, yeah.
Speaker 22: All he wants to do is not talk baseball. When
Speaker 22: he calls in, he just wants to talk about your travels.
Speaker 1: He listens to you and then goes out and does
Speaker 1: the games. So he said, can I just let you
Speaker 1: two talk?
Speaker 22: So when he came down to play in Baltimore, he
Speaker 22: came down to d C, took the train and hung
Speaker 22: out with me because he wanted to meet me. And
Speaker 22: then I brought him back to Camden Yards. He said,
Speaker 22: come on back and be in the in the booth
Speaker 22: with me. So I went to the booth with him
Speaker 22: a number of times. Come to Fenway, let's meet here,
Speaker 22: let's and so I started meeting him in all these
Speaker 22: different places because he's just a big fan and I'll
Speaker 22: listen during the day. And then I was there friendly
Speaker 22: with him. But this last time he said, hey, I'm
Speaker 22: coming out to Baltimore and can you be in the booth.
Speaker 22: And it was Memorial Day, so I was there with
Speaker 22: the Jokistiglio and again going into the Baseball Hall of
Speaker 22: Fame in Cooper's Town. Congratulations Joe, and he and Marty
Speaker 22: Brenneman are such good friends. Marty flew into Boston to
Speaker 22: hang out with him.
Speaker 1: Oh that is fantastic. I love the fact that you're
Speaker 1: a baseball fan. But he did. He didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about baseball. He wanted to talk about your travels
Speaker 1: or much like me. I mean, yeah, tonight, tonight we're
Speaker 1: talking baseball a little bit because of your travels around
Speaker 1: the country. How many ballparks have you been to? Flash,
Speaker 1: you're ready for this? All right, there's thirty MLB stadiums.
Speaker 1: I've been to all thirty of them. There are two
Speaker 1: hundred and six MiLB stadiums for a total, and MLB
Speaker 1: and MLB for two hundred and thirty six stadiums. You
Speaker 1: want to take a guess how many I've been to?
Speaker 1: How many?
Speaker 22: Two hundred and thirty three? I'm only missing three.
Speaker 1: How do you say MiLB? What is MiLB for the uninitiated?
Speaker 22: Okay, that's the minor leagues underneath so underneath the red
Speaker 22: so you would have all the different whether or not
Speaker 22: you're talking about Louisville and all the way down, so
Speaker 22: all the different ones that because what happens, they're independent,
Speaker 22: so and including your Florence Yawls, so that's independent. Though
Speaker 22: I've been to the stadium, I've been to almost all
Speaker 22: the independent ones as well. But see MLB had so
Speaker 22: many teams that they could have under it, and then
Speaker 22: they said, okay, here's going to be the cutoff. So
Speaker 22: a couple of years ago and they made it two
Speaker 22: hundred and six teams and it used to be more
Speaker 22: than that. So that's why all these other leagues are
Speaker 22: in there. But here are the three that I'm missing
Speaker 22: of all the MLBS and m ILB for minor league,
Speaker 22: the three I'm missing are Hillsboro High Tops, which a
Speaker 22: lot of people probably coldn't even tell you where Hillsboro is.
Speaker 22: That's Oregon. It's the suburb to Portland. It's Portland, Oregon's
Speaker 22: minor league baseball team, the Vancouver Canadians. I've been to Vancouver,
Speaker 22: but I didn't go to the stadium. So I've been
Speaker 22: over there and the only one in the East is
Speaker 22: and I've been to their old stadium, but I haven't
Speaker 22: been to their new one, and that's the Augusta Green
Speaker 22: Jackets known after the Masters, and they built the stadium
Speaker 22: now on what's called the CM what they called that
Speaker 22: such as m Central Savannah River CSRA is what they
Speaker 22: call it, standing for the Central Savannah River Area at Augusta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: So it's built on the South Carolina side.
Speaker 22: So those three stadiums would then complete the two hundred
Speaker 22: and thirty six stadiums.
Speaker 1: So I've seen some credit. I go all over. I
Speaker 1: just love.
Speaker 22: Seeing all these stadiums. And you know how I got
Speaker 22: into it because my dad, my dad. Now you've heard
Speaker 22: of the sav Bananas. Yes, okay, my dad played at
Speaker 22: that stadium. It's called Grayson Stadium. So when my dad,
Speaker 22: this is how my mom and dad met. So my
Speaker 22: dad from Baltimore and he goes to World War Two.
Speaker 22: Once he gets back, he gets into baseball and he
Speaker 22: starts playing under the Philadelphia Athletics in nineteen fifty and
Speaker 22: he plays for West Palm Beach and then Savannah. These
Speaker 22: are both under the Philadelphia Athletics, you're dad, or.
Speaker 1: Known as the my dad did, yeah, so the Indians.
Speaker 22: So this is Will Phelps and so as he's playing there,
Speaker 22: he is playing in Tampa and he's at the hotel
Speaker 22: and he sees the telephone operator and that becomes my mom.
Speaker 1: So that's where they met.
Speaker 22: Then they married on the diamond, they right there at
Speaker 22: home Plate. They got married at home Plate on July fifth,
Speaker 22: nineteen fifty and it took him sixteen more years just
Speaker 22: to even have me after that.
Speaker 1: Was going to say, so he played. Yeah, it took
Speaker 1: a little while.
Speaker 22: So I should have probably been born in the early
Speaker 22: fifties and then really have played all.
Speaker 1: These songs originally. But that's that's where it all started.
Speaker 22: And so growing up he was all about He wasn't
Speaker 22: about the Colts or because you know, we had them
Speaker 22: here in Baltimore at that time. He was all about
Speaker 22: the Orioles. It was just all baseball. Everything was baseball,
Speaker 22: and he was so into it. And then I played
Speaker 22: for a while, but then I realized he got me
Speaker 22: into a radio station locally, and I said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 22: I love radio.
Speaker 1: More than a ball and these are like you just
Speaker 1: do whatever you love. It's better to get paid for
Speaker 1: whatever you love doing. And that's how I got into
Speaker 1: radio because he gave me thumbs up, even though I
Speaker 1: think he would have rather had me play baseball. I agree,
Speaker 1: do what you love, and you there's a chance that
Speaker 1: you will never work a day in your life. Really
Speaker 1: now are what it was? Yeah? Are the Orioles your
Speaker 1: favorite team? Do you have a favorite Major League tea?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 22: Yeah, I see, I grew up here, and then I
Speaker 22: got into radio and going all over the place. But
Speaker 22: I was always in some of the smaller markets, so
Speaker 22: I was not in major league cities, but I was
Speaker 22: close enough to others. I stayed as an Orioles fan
Speaker 22: even when I was in the US. Virgin Islands was
Speaker 22: ninety seven, great year for the Orioles, and then but
Speaker 22: I was there in eighty three. I was there in
Speaker 22: seventy nine when they lost in Game six in the
Speaker 22: World Series of the Pirates, and then they lost it
Speaker 22: again in Game seven. But it was so cool to
Speaker 22: go that World Series game at Memorial Stadium. And then
Speaker 22: after that in eighty three, I went out there for
Speaker 22: the big celebration after they had beaten the White Sox
Speaker 22: and they came back to Baltimore, and then that was
Speaker 22: when they played Phillies to when the last time they
Speaker 22: even won the World Series is.
Speaker 1: As you know, it's not an easy thing to even
Speaker 1: get to a World so well it's been it's been
Speaker 1: since it's been since nineteen ninety that the Reds have
Speaker 1: won a World Series. And that was the way. That
Speaker 1: was the wired to wire team that led from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season to the end and then swept
Speaker 1: the A's in the World Series in nineteen ninety. So Flash,
Speaker 1: we're trying to Flash Phelps, a serious XM radio who's
Speaker 1: joining us tonight to talk about his baseball travels around
Speaker 1: the country. And Flash, I wanted to add I started.
Speaker 1: I started my radio career in the Nashville area, in Nashville, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and for a long long time, the owner of the
Speaker 1: minor league club there, the Nashville Sounds, as a sound
Speaker 1: great guy named Larry Schmidow, and he petitioned the major leagues.
Speaker 1: I mean, he never stopped. And he built this new
Speaker 1: stadium thinking that maybe, just maybe they'd finally award him
Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball franchise. And I think there's still
Speaker 1: an opinion now that Nashville is a major league town
Speaker 1: in hockey and in football obviously that one of these
Speaker 1: days maybe one of these fledgling or failing MLB teams
Speaker 1: will move to Nashville. What did you think about Sound
Speaker 1: Stadium in Nashville, the new owner of the old one
Speaker 1: either one. I liked it. I liked the giant guitar,
Speaker 1: and I like the fact that they kept it.
Speaker 22: I don't know if you know this, but they kept
Speaker 22: that giant scoreboard.
Speaker 1: That looks like a guitar.
Speaker 22: Did you know they have that on the south side
Speaker 22: of Nashville. You can still get your photo with that.
Speaker 22: But uh, I mean, I like the sounds, but I
Speaker 22: do like the way they built this new stadium on
Speaker 22: the north side. It's an area that needed to be
Speaker 22: redone and I just think both stadiums were just fantastic
Speaker 22: in the Nashville area. Did you know Knoxville's getting a
Speaker 22: new stadium for the Tennessee smoking No, Yeah, that's being
Speaker 22: built right now.
Speaker 1: So as soon as they start.
Speaker 22: Building them, I want to go and like Field of
Speaker 22: Dreams oh Man out in Iowa, you go to Dyersville
Speaker 22: and you just I mean, even though it's not a stadium,
Speaker 22: you go there and you just relive baseball and walk
Speaker 22: into the corn good time of the year.
Speaker 1: Nashville's fun.
Speaker 3: Since we're in the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Real briefly, I can tell you something about the old
Speaker 1: Ingles Stadium in Chattanooga that you may know. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something you do not know. You probably okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me. I was working in Chattanooga on the radio
Speaker 1: and we had a celebrity softball team for the radio station.
Speaker 1: We are in close proximity proximity to Fort Payne, Alabama,
Speaker 1: where the group Alabama's from, and they had a celebrity
Speaker 1: softball team too, the band did Alabama, Randy Owens and
Speaker 1: all those guys. Yeah, and so at the time this
Speaker 1: and Yetta Entry. Yes, and so we're we're playing all
Speaker 1: of their records. At the early nineteen eighties, even though
Speaker 1: we were a rock station, we played all the Alabama
Speaker 1: stuff because they were immensely popular there in that area.
Speaker 1: You know, they're from there. So we played all of
Speaker 1: the big Alabama hits. And somehow we got the chance
Speaker 1: to host them at the old Ingles Stadium which was
Speaker 1: about to fall in on itself then forty years ago,
Speaker 1: and it held like nine thousand people something like that.
Speaker 1: That stadium had never been sold out until KZ one
Speaker 1: O six played Alabama in a softball game and we
Speaker 1: had over nine thousand people and you know what, flash,
Speaker 1: we got boot off the field at the end of
Speaker 1: the game because we beat Alabama seven to six. What
Speaker 1: a great story. And that is a fantastic one because
Speaker 1: I always.
Speaker 22: Loved the group Alabama as well. And you know what
Speaker 22: country radio is, how I started in radio. My first
Speaker 22: on air job was playing country, but I wanted to
Speaker 22: be on KZ one O six. I got the chance
Speaker 22: to be up at WOKI in Knoxville for one night
Speaker 22: before they said no.
Speaker 3: That was a quick audition, Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: I did five hours on the air and they said no, No,
Speaker 1: I was. I was. I was on the wings of
Speaker 1: rock and roll as they call it for three and
Speaker 1: a half years in the early eighties, my first big
Speaker 1: radio job away from home.
Speaker 22: Well, see, my mom grew up there. My mom grew
Speaker 22: up right there in Chattanooga. That was her whole area
Speaker 22: as well. Yeah, so that was I love going over
Speaker 22: into that area because even you know, what I need
Speaker 22: to do is go back. My grandparents are buried there.
Speaker 22: I never got a chance to meet them. Oh they
Speaker 22: passed before I was even born. But I now know
Speaker 22: where they are thanks to my uncle. He's actually giving
Speaker 22: me some info. So Chattanooga, I love it so outs.
Speaker 1: So that's right. Camden Yards is your baseball home now
Speaker 1: when you're at home, which you never are since you're
Speaker 1: traveling all the time. And the Oriols your favorite team.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else that really stands out on the
Speaker 1: East Coast? As far as as baseball fields, as stadiums go,
Speaker 1: that you really love to go there the it's not
Speaker 1: that you hate the rest, but what do you really
Speaker 1: like to go When you're traveling and you're visiting a
Speaker 1: baseball stadium on the East Coast, what's your favorite?
Speaker 22: Well, see a lot of them are the m i ILB,
Speaker 22: save the minor league. I love trying to find all
Speaker 22: the minor league ones, which I've done. But they just
Speaker 22: built a brand new one right here in Hagarstown, Maryland.
Speaker 22: So if you're coming in on I seventy, you always
Speaker 22: go through Hagar'stown and they have a new one they
Speaker 22: just built in downtown and they just renamed them the
Speaker 22: Flying box Cars, and they built it all around these buildings.
Speaker 22: They had to take out the buildings and put it
Speaker 22: right in. It's kind of the way they did Camden Yards,
Speaker 22: having to take it out but leaving the warehouse. So
Speaker 22: I really like the ones that bring in the atmosphere.
Speaker 22: And you know, I don't know if you realize this,
Speaker 22: but they always have to put home plate in the
Speaker 22: left in the southwest corner or the southern corner of
Speaker 22: the stadium. If you're playing outside, it's always the right
Speaker 22: fielder that gets that sun right in its space.
Speaker 1: Did you realize that?
Speaker 22: So you'll always notice home plate is always southwest corner
Speaker 22: or the right in the south.
Speaker 1: That's exactly where they put them.
Speaker 22: So it's kind of tough where Sometimes they'll put them
Speaker 22: in cities and they want to have that opening in
Speaker 22: the outfield to the skyline, but sometimes they just don't
Speaker 22: have that area on the southwest side. Automore they did,
Speaker 22: and having Camden Yards, let's get that view towards the skyline.
Speaker 22: With Cincinnati you get a chance for it as well,
Speaker 22: though the uh you get that more of that opening
Speaker 22: towards the Ohio River right there.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly that shot.
Speaker 22: But so they put that home plate if you notice,
Speaker 22: in Cincinnati more in the northwest corner. As long as
Speaker 22: you put it on the west side of the stadium,
Speaker 22: it doesn't affect those batting during those evening games when
Speaker 22: usually they're at seven or eight o'clock or like six
Speaker 22: o'clock and.
Speaker 1: Nine, So that's why they do that.
Speaker 22: But yeah, you guys got a beautiful view out of
Speaker 22: the Ohio River and the and to be able to
Speaker 22: see that purple bridge down the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the purple people bridge so, yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1: I like Newport so word, Yeah, that's right. I work
Speaker 1: in Newport and live just about I live about a
Speaker 1: mile and a half away from the stadium there on
Speaker 1: the Riverfront. I remember the Riverfront, the Riverfront Stadium that
Speaker 1: used to host both the Reds and the Bengals at
Speaker 1: one point. Uh right, and was there? Yeah, And and
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I just love Great American Ballpark
Speaker 1: over Riverfront. Riverfront was one of those nineteen sixties nineteen
Speaker 1: seventies kind of cookie cutter round stadiums.
Speaker 3: It looked like it looked like like a stadium.
Speaker 1: It looked like exactly a bush. Yes it did. But
Speaker 1: Great American Ballpark, and I know you've been there, is
Speaker 1: so different. The great thing about Great American Ballpark to
Speaker 1: me as a fan going is that you can be
Speaker 1: anywhere in the stadium and you don't have an obstructed
Speaker 1: view of the field. I mean, the site lines are unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 22: Amazing how they can build that, Unlike in the past
Speaker 22: where you had to, oh, you might be behind a
Speaker 22: post right here in the old stadiums and you have
Speaker 22: a bad view. But now it's like, how do they
Speaker 22: architecturally build them where everybody can see you and these
Speaker 22: people are hanging above you and all that way. It's
Speaker 22: amazing what they do building them board the views that
Speaker 22: we get today.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, Flash Phelps, Let's sit and do
Speaker 1: another another segment, if you don't mind. We've only made
Speaker 1: it to just about a third of the country in
Speaker 1: the ballparks. This is like when we were so we
Speaker 1: were on the last time and I was going through
Speaker 1: all the states and get you give me one thing.
Speaker 1: And we had got about I don't know, maybe twenty
Speaker 1: five states. Then the time was over. So if you
Speaker 1: will be indulgent of me, we will take a break
Speaker 1: and come back more with Flash Phelps on his travels
Speaker 1: around the country to America's great baseball parks. He's been
Speaker 1: to all but three of the MLB and the MiLB
Speaker 1: stadiums and parks around the country. It's the nightcap and
Speaker 1: it continues here on this All Star Week on seven
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Speaker 1: We're talking about baseball parks and stadiums across America with
Speaker 1: the one the Only Flash Phelps from SiriusXM. He is
Speaker 1: our guest once again on his travels around the country
Speaker 1: and he has been literally, well, if not everywhere, very close.
Speaker 1: So in the last half hour football Stadium. Right in
Speaker 1: the last half hour, we talked about Camden Yards, we
Speaker 1: talked about the Orioles and being at Fenway Park in
Speaker 1: Boston a little bit. We didn't get to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on ye stadium probably the most
Speaker 1: prestigious historic ballparks around the country. Yeah, the first time
Speaker 1: I ever went, I went to the old Yankee Stadium
Speaker 1: and I was just hoping everything would be all right.
Speaker 1: And the same thing when I went.
Speaker 22: To the other one, because I at the end. The
Speaker 22: terrible thing is where people put things in your mind
Speaker 22: going oh it's the Bronx, and you sit there and go,
Speaker 22: oh my gosh, should I even go well, and then
Speaker 22: all of a sudden you go and you go, hey,
Speaker 22: this is a great place. So that it's like me
Speaker 22: going to Coney Island and I love going there right now,
Speaker 22: so don't let anybody put something.
Speaker 1: Bad into your mind.
Speaker 22: And it is just such a really incredible area with
Speaker 22: their monument park, but the way they built it just
Speaker 22: up the street. I like the views from there as well.
Speaker 22: So yeah, another great stadium. I don't have anything, you know, incredible.
Speaker 1: To say about it.
Speaker 22: I've been to Steinbrunner as well, if you've ever been
Speaker 22: down to Steinbrunner Field, which is down in Tampa. So
Speaker 22: where they because I've been to all the spring training
Speaker 22: stadiums as well. So I've done all the spring training.
Speaker 22: And by the way, if you drive around in Phoenix,
Speaker 22: you can in about seven hours you can drive from
Speaker 22: every stadium. You can't do that in Florida. Seven hours.
Speaker 22: You can go to every stadium in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Well, you know for Reds fans, since they're in Goodyear
Speaker 1: now for spring training. Yeah, they moved from Florida. And
Speaker 1: the only thing is it's problem more problematic to be
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati and go to Arizona for spring training baseball
Speaker 1: than it works to Florida. I mean I know the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, scads of people who used to trek down
Speaker 1: to Florida every year when the Red spring training was
Speaker 1: down in I think Sarasota perhaps or wherever it was,
Speaker 1: and and that was that was kind of like one
Speaker 1: of those vacation trips that everybody planned on making who
Speaker 1: was really into baseball was was going to Florida to
Speaker 1: spring training. But you say, it's it's once you get
Speaker 1: to Arizona, once you get to Phoenix, all of the
Speaker 1: ballparks where the teams are training are pretty close proximity, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 22: It was up until about twenty ten, twenty eleven they
Speaker 22: made the move of Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks
Speaker 22: used to play down in Tucson, so they were the
Speaker 22: furthest away and they decided, let's build Salt River Field,
Speaker 22: so they built that over on the east side. So
Speaker 22: if you're familiar with the Loop one oh one, so
Speaker 22: you have Cincinnati and Cleveland out on that side. Then
Speaker 22: you have where the Phoenix Raceway is, that's right next
Speaker 22: to it. And now you come in and Milwaukee is next,
Speaker 22: and then you go around Loop one on one and
Speaker 22: you'll go by every one of the stadiums almost on
Speaker 22: Loop one on one, you just have to hop off
Speaker 22: for a little until you finally get over to the
Speaker 22: other side where the Cubs are and the Oakland A's
Speaker 22: or the A's whatever they're going to be after this,
Speaker 22: So that's all in that area, so you can do
Speaker 22: that a lot faster. So for Cincinnati Reds fans, if
Speaker 22: you haven't gone out to Phoenix, if it doesn't matter
Speaker 22: where they're playing, that's the best thing. So you go
Speaker 22: to Florida and your team's down there, Oh, your team's
Speaker 22: going to be playing. They try to keep them pretty
Speaker 22: close now, but sometimes you may be playing on the
Speaker 22: South Florida side, not Southwest Floridas side, or you'll be
Speaker 22: playing up with the Tigers in Lakeland or Toronto, which
Speaker 22: is up in dn Eden.
Speaker 1: So they're usually the furthest away because as.
Speaker 22: You know, the Atlanta Braves they left the Disney World
Speaker 22: area and they moved down to Northport, which Northport is
Speaker 22: right there next to North of Port Myers right there,
Speaker 22: so there almost everybody's near each other.
Speaker 1: Flash As a kid, I grew up in Chicago for
Speaker 1: we were there in the West side of Chicago for
Speaker 1: about six years, and my dad did my dad did
Speaker 1: take us once to the old Comiskey Park, which wasn't
Speaker 1: a really bad part of Chicago. I mean, it's still
Speaker 1: the South Side is not exactly exemplary of somebody you
Speaker 1: want to take a family to necessarily, But as you
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, see for yourself. Don't listen to the warnings
Speaker 1: of other people before you make a judgment. But I
Speaker 1: will tell you that in third and fourth grades, both years,
Speaker 1: our field trip as kids, coming from Naperville, Illinois to
Speaker 1: Downtownshipgo consisted of seeing all of the museums in the
Speaker 1: morning downtown and then going to a Cubs game because
Speaker 1: they were still all played during the daytime. Then yeah,
Speaker 1: and there is. There is absolutely nothing like Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: I remember being a six seven year old kid and
Speaker 1: walking into that environment the first time on a field
Speaker 1: trip from school. Not only was I getting out of school,
Speaker 1: but I was getting to walk into this environment that
Speaker 1: has its own atmosphere, the ivy colored walls, and you
Speaker 1: know just how Wriggly Field is. Give me your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Chicago Cubs Wriggly Field flash See.
Speaker 22: I always love it because do you remember there used
Speaker 22: to be the McDonald's across the street. I remember because
Speaker 22: I was watching the movie The Blues Brothers. Yes, this
Speaker 22: is prior to me going so in nineteen eighty and
Speaker 22: that dan Ackroyd says to John Belushi, what address did
Speaker 22: you give him? And he gives them the address right
Speaker 22: there on Addison and dan Ackroyd sits back and goes,
Speaker 22: that's wriggly Field.
Speaker 1: You gave him a wriggly Field, do you remember that?
Speaker 1: And the cops showed up and there at Wrigley Field
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 22: But so when I got to Chicago, the first time
Speaker 22: I won was nineteen eighty three, and this was the year.
Speaker 22: I'm pretty sure the All Star Game was a COMISKI
Speaker 22: that year as well. And so here it is the
Speaker 22: summer and I get a chance to go over and
Speaker 22: I see Wrigley Field for the very first time. So
Speaker 22: and then years later I was doing a tour with
Speaker 22: the Sally Radio and I made a stop there as well.
Speaker 1: I got a picture right in front. I went back.
Speaker 22: Last time I went back was about five six years ago.
Speaker 22: But just a fantastic you know what, I love that
Speaker 22: whole area. When we talk about Wriggleyville, it's just it's
Speaker 22: the experience when they can put these baseball stadiums and
Speaker 22: have a field.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with Cincinnati.
Speaker 22: You have places to walk around, you have all the
Speaker 22: restaurants right there on the riverfront, and the same thing
Speaker 22: with Chicago, you have other places to go besides walking
Speaker 22: around seeing that Harry Kerry statue were and seeing all
Speaker 22: the statues all the way around.
Speaker 1: But that's one thing. I love how classic it is.
Speaker 22: So that's one of the things that you like and go, gosh,
Speaker 22: I hope they never build another stadium, even though what's
Speaker 22: going to happen now that.
Speaker 1: It's over one hundred years old. Same thing with Fenway.
Speaker 22: But I don't think that we'll ever, probably in our lifetime,
Speaker 22: see them build another stadium because I think there would
Speaker 22: be an uprising if they ever got.
Speaker 1: Rid of it. Wasn't they Oh yeah, I mean they
Speaker 1: are doing work constantly to bolster the current structure, to
Speaker 1: make sure that they can preserve that history and that
Speaker 1: tradition in those places because it means so much to
Speaker 1: the locals and uh to baseball purists in general. Saint
Speaker 1: Louis Bush Stadium, the new one, what do you think, Oh,
Speaker 1: the new I love the new one.
Speaker 22: I like the way that they had built that in
Speaker 22: there as well, and that they had to build it
Speaker 22: over top of the other one. And when you're walking
Speaker 22: down and you have everything in there in.
Speaker 1: The dotted line. So you'll go over to the Jack
Speaker 1: Buck statue and when you see his bust, you'll see
Speaker 1: right there there's the dotted line. This used to be
Speaker 1: where the field was.
Speaker 22: So it shows you how they had to build one
Speaker 22: inside the the same thing with Shay Stadium and with
Speaker 22: City Field where they had to overlap them because of
Speaker 22: the area, and they couldn't finish one until they had
Speaker 22: the other one done.
Speaker 1: So I do like Bush because I enjoy going over there.
Speaker 22: And by the way, I was talking about Donora on
Speaker 22: my show Donora, Pennsylvania, which happens to be the home
Speaker 22: of stam Usual stam Usual. Also Ken Griffy Senior and
Speaker 22: Ken Griffy Junior are all from Donora, Pennsylvania. Together, those
Speaker 22: three have it more MLB home runs over a thousand
Speaker 22: then came from any other city. All three were born
Speaker 22: in Donor, Pa, just south of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Did you realize that's amazing? That was a very cool
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Being in Cincinnati, I should know where the
Speaker 1: Griffies came from originally, and.
Speaker 22: The answer is Donraa on the Monoga Hilla River and
Speaker 22: stam Usual and this statue is you know, there's two
Speaker 22: of them that.
Speaker 1: Are out there.
Speaker 22: And I love that plaza with all the statues out
Speaker 22: front of the stadium. So I enjoy it. Because if
Speaker 22: you dude, like, it's like when you go to Pittsburgh, Hey,
Speaker 22: sit me in the upper deck so.
Speaker 1: I get the view.
Speaker 22: I want to be an upper deck on the leftfield,
Speaker 22: on the leftfield side, so I have a view of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 22: Same thing in Saint Louis where you go, We'll sit
Speaker 22: me down here on the right field side because I
Speaker 22: want the view of the arch. Sometimes I want to
Speaker 22: sit in a place where I get the view more
Speaker 22: than the game because it's like, oh, I love the
Speaker 22: experience of just this view.
Speaker 1: Sure lots to see besides baseball when you go to
Speaker 1: these parks. So you're going to Cooperstown, home of the
Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame, later this week. Tell me about Cooperstown,
Speaker 1: New York. I've never been. Oh, it is so cool.
Speaker 1: So if you're ever in upstate New York, So you.
Speaker 22: Got Buffalo out on the west and the next city's
Speaker 22: of Rochester, Syracuse, and then you come up to U
Speaker 22: to Carome right below Uticrome. This will be west of Albany.
Speaker 22: I just took you right across the New Jersey.
Speaker 1: State through it.
Speaker 22: Then you have Binghamton, which is on that northwest corner
Speaker 22: of Pennsylvania, a little northeast.
Speaker 1: I eighty eight is.
Speaker 22: What connects Binghamton up to Albanyady. And then right there
Speaker 22: in these hilly areas, and this happens to be the
Speaker 22: start of the Susquehanna River, which is really weird. I
Speaker 22: live on the Susquehanna River in Maryland. Now that river
Speaker 22: runs from Cooperstown and it goes all the way down
Speaker 22: through Pennsylvania, comes down through Harrisburg until it finally dumps
Speaker 22: out of the Chesapeake Bay, which is where I live
Speaker 22: right here at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on
Speaker 22: the same river. So all I have to do if
Speaker 22: I could go up the river backwards, I'd end up
Speaker 22: in Cooperstown. But it's this, it's this really small town.
Speaker 1: I just did that. I just had this image of
Speaker 1: you in a rowboat growing backwards.
Speaker 22: Up the river, and eventually, if I could do it,
Speaker 22: I would get to Cooper's down that it'll be a
Speaker 22: lot quicker in my four or five, five, six hours
Speaker 22: to drive up there.
Speaker 1: But here's one thing.
Speaker 22: I've never been to Cooperstown during the Baseball Hall of
Speaker 22: Fame weekend, so this is going to be the experience
Speaker 22: I'm used to driving in and then going.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is really cool. I can drive around. I'll
Speaker 1: just park here. Now.
Speaker 22: I have no idea what do you expect for this weekend.
Speaker 22: I just know that the induction ceremony for Joe's going
Speaker 22: to be on the north side, so I may have
Speaker 22: to go into a loop into Utica Rome and then
Speaker 22: come down from the top because our event is going
Speaker 22: to be on the north side, right there before the
Speaker 22: Susquehanna River.
Speaker 1: But I love it though. Walk. You know what made
Speaker 1: me want to go.
Speaker 22: To the Baseball Hall of Fame in the movie A
Speaker 22: League of their Own, A League of their Own, which
Speaker 22: is film not too far away from you out there
Speaker 22: in Huntingburg, Indiana and then Evansville.
Speaker 1: They were the two stadiums that were used.
Speaker 22: And then when they did the All for the women
Speaker 22: for the Baseball Hall of Fame, and I saw it
Speaker 22: in the movie, I said, I'm going to go find
Speaker 22: that park and I went to it, and they have
Speaker 22: a bigger section.
Speaker 1: It's not the one that they used in the movie.
Speaker 1: That's not where it is now.
Speaker 22: They did a big section now for the women, but
Speaker 22: that's another section.
Speaker 1: But I found it right at the bottom of the escalators.
Speaker 1: So I love that place. It's fun to see Flash
Speaker 1: Phelps from Sirius XM as our guest. We're talking about
Speaker 1: baseball across the country and this Hall of Fame and
Speaker 1: also All Star Week in Major League Baseball. Just because
Speaker 1: our time is limited, let's do a couple of quick
Speaker 1: snapshots out on the West Coast since we haven't been
Speaker 1: there yet. Flash Candlestick Park. Tell me something about Candlestick Park. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not there now, I know. You go there.
Speaker 22: It was very windy that was right there and then
Speaker 22: became three m But what a great view to look out,
Speaker 22: and because you almost see Oakland from there, it was
Speaker 22: a great view on the Bay side to be able
Speaker 22: to see Candlestick before they had built all the way
Speaker 22: up there with the Willie May statue in downtown.
Speaker 1: But no, I like Candlestick. I stopped by twice. I've
Speaker 1: been there.
Speaker 22: I was there twice and then finally it was sad
Speaker 22: to hear it was gone. You know what I was
Speaker 22: thinking about the earthquake nineteen eighty nine. Yes, Oakland, a
Speaker 22: San Francisco Giants are playing, and then that earthquake hits
Speaker 22: at Candlestick. So every time I would go back, I
Speaker 22: think of that. But yeah, I like the park, but
Speaker 22: I'm glad they now have this with the McCovey cove
Speaker 22: there where I can be in their kayak and try
Speaker 22: to get night field home run over the wall.
Speaker 1: That's fun. Tell me about Seattle where the Mariners play.
Speaker 1: That was a good one.
Speaker 22: I saw the Orioles play there with them because I
Speaker 22: moved out there in nineteen ninety nine, and so the
Speaker 22: summer of two thousand and I finally got a chance
Speaker 22: to go.
Speaker 1: It's called t mobile now a safe go back when
Speaker 1: I went there.
Speaker 22: Yeah, and it's just a very nice one because that's
Speaker 22: the one with the retractable roof. They can move that roof.
Speaker 22: And luckily I got a chance to have a game
Speaker 22: with a doll because it wasn't raining that it was amazing.
Speaker 22: It wasn't raining, and I was in western Washington, so
Speaker 22: that's always a great place. But yeah, I've had a
Speaker 22: good time because it's just like Cincinnati where you have
Speaker 22: your football stadium right next door, and it's right there
Speaker 22: on the south side of the buildings, and it's a
Speaker 22: great walking area. Seattle always a lot of fun to
Speaker 22: be able to be around.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I did enjoy that.
Speaker 22: Tacoma their Triple A right down there. I went to
Speaker 22: go see a Tacoma Rainiers game when they played Saltlake Beeves.
Speaker 1: So I tried to go see as many of these
Speaker 1: as I can.
Speaker 22: If not, I definitely walk around all the outside of
Speaker 22: stadium and do as many photos as I can if
Speaker 22: I can't get in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're big on that. I love the photo. I
Speaker 1: love that you put out Denver where the Rockies play.
Speaker 22: Yeah, that is a fantastic place. In fact, just a
Speaker 22: little a couple of miles west of there, they did
Speaker 22: a replica to the stadium as well of corse Field,
Speaker 22: So if you want to see a little version of it,
Speaker 22: somebody was able to put it together as well, So
Speaker 22: look up the little version of Corsfield. But again, they
Speaker 22: built that in another neighborhood right there on the west
Speaker 22: side of downtown, northwest side of downtown. You got six
Speaker 22: flags right there as well, and it's just in a
Speaker 22: very nice area.
Speaker 1: And that again being a mile high.
Speaker 22: Being at the two hundred and eighty feet, it's amazing
Speaker 22: to watch how the balls do fly there.
Speaker 1: I always like Denver, Denver.
Speaker 22: I always wanted to work there, but I went to
Speaker 22: Colorado Springs and they never put me on the air,
Speaker 22: so I never got to work in Colorado. Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 22: Dodger Stadium, I went there and this was back and
Speaker 22: I had just started working here, so this is about
Speaker 22: two thousand and two three, And you know what amazed me.
Speaker 22: I got there early, so I could walk around even
Speaker 22: the perimeter of the parking lot because they had the
Speaker 22: views that looked over Echo Lake and you could look
Speaker 22: back into downtown LA. But I was there on the
Speaker 22: mezzanine to be able to watch that game, and it
Speaker 22: was one of those that I had always seen on TV,
Speaker 22: whether or not they were doing celebrity games.
Speaker 1: And it was so cool because I saw.
Speaker 22: George what's his name, George from the TV the Star,
Speaker 22: I can't think of his last name.
Speaker 8: He was there.
Speaker 1: He was he was, you know, the comedian George, George Lopez,
Speaker 1: George Lopez. He was there. So I got a chance
Speaker 1: to see George. Yeah, that was very cool.
Speaker 22: And Tommy Lasorda was sitting right near him, and I
Speaker 22: had had Tommy Lasorda on my show. So George and
Speaker 22: Tommy Lasorda, I was excited just to see them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's and you know who I didn't see?
Speaker 22: It was Mary Hart and Mary Heart usually sits right
Speaker 22: behind home plate, but I didn't see her.
Speaker 1: All right, So finally we're the home run Derby is
Speaker 1: taking place this evening as we're speaking, and where the
Speaker 1: All Star Game would be played a Globe Live field
Speaker 1: in Arlington, Texas. Tell me about that.
Speaker 22: Yeah, now, right across the strait, if you're familiar with
Speaker 22: going into Arlington, very crowded, because that's where six Flags started.
Speaker 22: Why is it called six Flags because six Flags flew
Speaker 22: over Texas. Right next to there, they have the stadium
Speaker 22: where they used to play. Now they have soccer in there.
Speaker 22: They built the new baseball stadium directly across the street,
Speaker 22: and they built it to look like a warehouse. It
Speaker 22: was one of the weirdest things where they were building
Speaker 22: that thing. It was like, this is not going to
Speaker 22: be good. It wasn't until it was done and then
Speaker 22: you'd see the inside to go. Oh, this is a
Speaker 22: great area because if you've ever been, you know, the
Speaker 22: Cowboys play at AT and T on the west side.
Speaker 22: Then now you have their stadium for the Rangers, and
Speaker 22: then on the north side is the old Rangers stadium.
Speaker 22: So it's just a really nice thing that they built
Speaker 22: them all next to each other, so a big growing area.
Speaker 22: And they only opened up that in twenty twenty. Now,
Speaker 22: when I was down there a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 22: I didn't go back over, but the last time I
Speaker 22: was there was twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: It was the year.
Speaker 22: It was right after they had opened it. So fantastic.
Speaker 22: And we'll look forward to Home Run Derby All Star
Speaker 22: Game and just see how it comes out. Hey, Gunnar
Speaker 22: Henderson with the Ohs, he's in the Home Run Derby.
Speaker 1: Well, and we got to La Da La Cruz in
Speaker 1: the game tomorrow night and Hunter Green appear and.
Speaker 22: Talk about some incredible people that are in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 22: well they call it the All Star Game for a reason.
Speaker 27: Hey, these guys are good, and you know what they
Speaker 27: somebody just told me that there's never been over twenty
Speaker 27: one run score during a game of any All Star game.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of good defense in pitching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Well, you got the best in
Speaker 1: the game plan and yeah, and I got the best
Speaker 1: in the game of travel on my show again, and
Speaker 1: I thank you so much. I thank you profusely for
Speaker 1: making time to talk to us today, Flash Phelps. Keep
Speaker 1: humping the hits on Sirius XMS sixties Gold and keep
Speaker 1: on traveling because the stories are priceless and I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you sharing them with us tonight. All right, I
Speaker 1: gotta get back to those three stadiums I'm missing, all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well we'll get an update soon, maybe at the end
Speaker 1: of this summer. All right, Okay, Flash, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: take care, all right, thank you so much. Haring jeeh
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