Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
Speaker 1: fifty five KOs the Talk station.
Speaker 2: Coming up on five minutes after five o'clock. I know
Speaker 2: this isn't Brian's Thomas as if you've got to my
Speaker 2: Facebook page. Every day when I come in fill in
Speaker 2: for Brian, I post on my Facebook page a rundown
Speaker 2: of who we have on the program, and today is
Speaker 2: no different. Brian is off today. He's got his final
Speaker 2: fitting for his stretchy pants for tailor made stretchy pants
Speaker 2: for the Thanksgiving holidays, because you know, when you do
Speaker 2: that Thanksgiving dinner and you start eating, you need those
Speaker 2: stretchy pants in order to accommodate all the food. But
Speaker 2: taking a look at who we've got going on today,
Speaker 2: coming up at seven oh five, we got Flynn senior
Speaker 2: market analysts with Price Futures Group, and he's author of
Speaker 2: the Energy Report, and he has a frequent contributor to
Speaker 2: Fox Business News. He is one of the He and
Speaker 2: Ice Eyed I and an awful lot of stuff. And
Speaker 2: on this Energy Report he's always talking about what's going
Speaker 2: on in the oil markets, commodity markets, and so on.
Speaker 2: But it's so important because everything that we do everything,
Speaker 2: every business. The one thing they all have in common
Speaker 2: is energy. Whether it's the electricity to run the machines,
Speaker 2: whether it's the gas that runs your car, whether it's
Speaker 2: the diesel that runs your truck, heating oil for your home,
Speaker 2: the electricity in your home, if you work from home.
Speaker 2: Everything revolves around energy. And one of the things about
Speaker 2: what we've been experiencing as far as this high inflation rate,
Speaker 2: if all you got to do is look at the
Speaker 2: energy prices and what a barrel of oil was back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, when we are energy independent for the
Speaker 2: first time since nineteen forty nine versus what it is today.
Speaker 2: And so he's very knowledgeable of that. We are on
Speaker 2: the same page as far as what was going on
Speaker 2: as far as the Biden administration, their energy policy, very
Speaker 2: up to date, as far as what's going on over
Speaker 2: in the Middle East. And so yeah, I really enjoy
Speaker 2: talking to him. And then in the eight o'clock hour
Speaker 2: eight oh five, we're gonna be talking to Jeff Pierce.
Speaker 2: He is the director of broadcast and media partnership with
Speaker 2: rees Across America. We'll discuss their mission, especially the upcoming
Speaker 2: National Reefs Across America day, which is going to be
Speaker 2: December the fourteenth, and I would encourage you that between
Speaker 2: now and then sometime this morning, go on the Rees
Speaker 2: across America website. There is a place there where you
Speaker 2: can volunteer. And if you're not familiar with the organization,
Speaker 2: this is an organization that started very small out of Maine,
Speaker 2: I believe is if my memory serves me correct, and
Speaker 2: have my notes in front of me right now. But
Speaker 2: it was very small. They had some reese leftover. They
Speaker 2: decided that, well, okay, we've sold these reefs and we've
Speaker 2: got some leftover, we'll go to Arlington National Cemetery and
Speaker 2: lay them on some of the reefs of these soldiers
Speaker 2: and go to the oldest part of the cemetery and
Speaker 2: do this. And they did this a couple of years,
Speaker 2: and one year it snowed that day and somebody took
Speaker 2: a picture of it, and that picture went viral, and
Speaker 2: from that point on they just started booming. And now
Speaker 2: they have I think it's forty six hundred volunteers over
Speaker 2: millions of reefs that are transported free of charge by
Speaker 2: various truckers and so on, trucking companies all over the
Speaker 2: United States and a couple of our territories, Guam and
Speaker 2: I think Puerto Rico or what And on the one
Speaker 2: day in December this year it happens to be December
Speaker 2: of the fourteenth, they gather and lay these reefs at
Speaker 2: these various military sites in these graveyards around the country.
Speaker 2: There's one in Southgate that I've gone to in the past.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be able to do it this
Speaker 2: year because my granddaughter's graduated from NKU and so we've
Speaker 2: got that going on that morning. But it is a
Speaker 2: great time. It's only a couple hours. And the purpose
Speaker 2: of this is they go to the oldest parts of
Speaker 2: the cemetery where the soldiers, where these are older grave markers,
Speaker 2: and the saying goes and every time I say this,
Speaker 2: I get choked up. But they say that a soldier
Speaker 2: dies twice. Once when they die they take their last breath,
Speaker 2: and the other is when their name is forgotten. And
Speaker 2: the purpose of this is the laying of the wreath.
Speaker 2: They lay the wreath and then they say the soldier
Speaker 2: of the person's name out loud, and then move on
Speaker 2: to the next lay the wreath and then say the
Speaker 2: person's name. And it is a great honor to do this.
Speaker 2: I would encourage anybody to get on board with this. Also,
Speaker 2: if you're interested in contributing, buying a wreath or sponsoring
Speaker 2: a wreath, it's only seventeen bucks. Seventeen bucks, and you
Speaker 2: can support the mission of Reese across from You can
Speaker 2: sponsor a wreath and you can actually dedicate it to
Speaker 2: a certain graveyard or somewhere near cemetery near where you live,
Speaker 2: or just do it anonymously, or just do it over
Speaker 2: the whole. And it's just a great organization. And I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward very much talking to Jeff Pierce at eight
Speaker 2: o'clock now. As far as what we've got going on today,
Speaker 2: of course, the day is Thanksgiving Eve, and I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to well, I got to tell you, I'm really
Speaker 2: looking forward to Thanksgiving this year, especially given the altern
Speaker 2: of the the results of the election. I'm telling you what,
Speaker 2: I have had this permanent smile on my face ever
Speaker 2: since November fifth, and especially when that race was called eventually,
Speaker 2: and what I've seen as far as the transition team
Speaker 2: is concerned, what I've seen as far as the cabinet appointments,
Speaker 2: I'm very positive on a lot of them. There's a
Speaker 2: couple that I have some question, but I kind of
Speaker 2: reserve that to see how things operate. And given the
Speaker 2: fact that they are appointments, given the fact that they
Speaker 2: are nominees and so on, if they don't turn out
Speaker 2: to be as good as they as we hope they are,
Speaker 2: there's a process of getting rid of them. And I
Speaker 2: think some of these, when you talk about surgeon General
Speaker 2: and some of these, there's some questions there in terms of,
Speaker 2: you know, this was apparently a doctor who was in
Speaker 2: support of the masks and so on. And I'm telling you, what,
Speaker 2: if we miss this opportunity, as far as Republicans are concerned,
Speaker 2: we have the House, we have the Senate, we have
Speaker 2: the presidency. If we miss the opportunity to do some
Speaker 2: good to root out some of this rot that is
Speaker 2: in our federal government. If Vavek and Elon are able
Speaker 2: to work and do their jobs and what they're appointed
Speaker 2: to do and what they hope to do, hopefully we
Speaker 2: can get rid of some of this waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 2: Now I'm hearing people talk about, well, you've got one
Speaker 2: half of the budget is entitlements. You've got half of
Speaker 2: the budget. You know, you can't touch Social Security, you
Speaker 2: can't touch Medicare and so on. Well, there are ways
Speaker 2: around that, I mean there are. I'm not talking about
Speaker 2: cutting benefits. I don't think there's a Republican that I
Speaker 2: know of that is in favor of reducing benefits to
Speaker 2: the people that earn them. What we do rail against
Speaker 2: is obviously Social Security SSI payments coming out of Social
Speaker 2: Security and paying for immigrants people that haven't put paid
Speaker 2: into the system, and robbing basically us of our future.
Speaker 2: And so when you eliminate that, when you eliminate some
Speaker 2: of the bureaucracy, because we've always read all these stories
Speaker 2: about payments going out to dead people, payments going to
Speaker 2: the wrong place, especially Medicare payments. We saw how some
Speaker 2: of these stimulus checks went out, and you know, obviously
Speaker 2: that wasn't part of Social Security and part of Medicare,
Speaker 2: but it's indicative of the government. Meant that they get
Speaker 2: a bunch of money, they get a pile of money,
Speaker 2: and the bureaucracy and the bloat they wind up misappropriating
Speaker 2: those funds, paying money to dead people, duplicating checks and
Speaker 2: so on, and so to tighten some of that up,
Speaker 2: to reduce some of the bureaucracy. And one of the
Speaker 2: things I would like to see, and by the way,
Speaker 2: phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty, five
Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight
Speaker 2: hundred eighty two, three eight two, five, five pound, five
Speaker 2: point fifty at and T wireless phone. One of the
Speaker 2: things I would I would like to see is that
Speaker 2: some of these organizations, some of these departments within the
Speaker 2: federal government, they don't the people that work in those
Speaker 2: departments don't all need to be in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: You probably need the Secretary of whatever the cabinet position
Speaker 2: is to be there to be in the Washington DC area,
Speaker 2: you're going to have small office space, et cetera. But
Speaker 2: the Department of Agriculture, for instance, maybe that should be
Speaker 2: in Kansas, Nebraska, in the farming belt of the country.
Speaker 2: The Energy Department, possibly down in Dallas or down in
Speaker 2: Texas or somewhere in the Gulf States where the oil
Speaker 2: rigs are. Department of Interior, maybe Wyoming, Montana, somewhere where
Speaker 2: there are a lot of national parks and a lot
Speaker 2: of federal lands. And Department of Commerce, maybe that could
Speaker 2: move to New York or maybe move to Chicago or
Speaker 2: some other commerce hub. The Department of Transportation, maybe that
Speaker 2: should be moved to the middle of the United States.
Speaker 2: I think the middle of the United States is somewhere
Speaker 2: around what is it, Missouri or Saint Louis, something like that,
Speaker 2: because the actual center of of the country where there's
Speaker 2: a lot of you know, a lot of transportation, a
Speaker 2: lot of movement east west, north, south, and so on,
Speaker 2: near the Mississippi River, near the confluence the Ohio and
Speaker 2: the Mississippi River, maybe that would be a good location
Speaker 2: for the Department of Transportation and the employees that work there.
Speaker 2: And so if you move those departments to those areas
Speaker 2: to different parts of the country, they're are people that
Speaker 2: are living there in Washington, d c. That have been
Speaker 2: this permanent bureaucratic nightmare there, and people that think they
Speaker 2: run the country when in fact that they are merely employees.
Speaker 2: We saw this in the trump Men first Trump administration,
Speaker 2: where a lot of these deep staters, a lot of
Speaker 2: these people thought that, hey, he's not taking my advice,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to start filtering and leaking stories to
Speaker 2: the press and so on. So moving these people or
Speaker 2: moving these departments out amongst the people to get more
Speaker 2: in touch with the people to know what their wants,
Speaker 2: needs and desires are. Some of these people from Washington
Speaker 2: aren't going to move. They'll refuse to move. Hell right now,
Speaker 2: you've got most of the people in the federal government
Speaker 2: that are still working from home. How productive is that
Speaker 2: many companies are going back to work. They're bringing their
Speaker 2: employees back, they're insisting they come back. Started off maybe
Speaker 2: two days a week, three days a week, four days
Speaker 2: a week. And you're seeing the real estate market and
Speaker 2: these downtown areas really suffering as a result of these
Speaker 2: office closures or these office people not coming back to work.
Speaker 2: You've got the restaurants, you've got the ancilliary businesses around
Speaker 2: the area that are suffering. And you've got the occupancy
Speaker 2: rates of these buildings that are suffering.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Of course, with the federal government, they just rent space
Speaker 2: and whether they occupy it or not, yeah, they're just
Speaker 2: right to check every month and it really doesn't matter
Speaker 2: because they're not concerned about their bottom line. But it's
Speaker 2: insidious to me that these people are not even in
Speaker 2: the office. There was a report. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I'm running a little loong here, but I'm picked this up.
Speaker 2: On the other side of the break, I wan to
Speaker 2: talk about some of these things that we've found as
Speaker 2: far as waste fraud abuse in the federal government. I'm
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KARC The
Speaker 2: Talks five nineteen in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas fifty five KRO see the talk station. Danny
Speaker 2: is in today. Joe has the day off, and I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to this because, uh, well, you know, as
Speaker 2: you can tell the bumper music, I kind of prefer
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventies and kind of that U seventies rock,
Speaker 2: you know, to me, they're in a better period of
Speaker 2: time in this country as far as music is concerned
Speaker 2: in there and so on. So uh, anyway, looking forward
Speaker 2: to hearing the bumper music. I'm sure Danny has some
Speaker 2: surprises for me along the way. Uh. But uh, getting
Speaker 2: back to what we were talking about previously. By the way,
Speaker 2: phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five
Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight
Speaker 2: hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, five
Speaker 2: point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Moving out the
Speaker 2: bureaucracy out of Washington, d C. And I, you know,
Speaker 2: I cannot, I cannot believe, I refuse, do I refuse
Speaker 2: to believe, or I just cannot believe anyway, this whole
Speaker 2: idea of people working from home. I don't see how
Speaker 2: people are very productive at home if they are more
Speaker 2: productive at home than they were at the office, which
Speaker 2: is some of the preliminary well at least during the
Speaker 2: first parts of COVID, what they were Preliminaryly, seeing that
Speaker 2: people were more productive being at home, my question would be,
Speaker 2: then what are they doing at work? Because apparently they
Speaker 2: weren't that productive at work, and you know, maybe too
Speaker 2: many trips or maybe hanging out to one I guess
Speaker 2: there's no water cool or anymore, but stand in the
Speaker 2: somebody's desk and chit chatting and whatever. But there's just
Speaker 2: just in the times that I've worked from home it
Speaker 2: first of all, you have a problem with you never
Speaker 2: leave work. You have even if you have a separate place,
Speaker 2: a separate office to work from, there's always that draw
Speaker 2: if well, if you're like me or like a lot
Speaker 2: of people, where you gotta maybe check that email or
Speaker 2: go in and send that one email at seven o'clock
Speaker 2: at night, or you need to check this or check that,
Speaker 2: and it seems like it's always on your mind. At
Speaker 2: least when at least I commuted back and forth to
Speaker 2: the office. And even now you have that decompression time
Speaker 2: where you're gearing up for the day. You're driving, and
Speaker 2: of course if you do it right, you don't get
Speaker 2: stuck in rush hour traffic, and even if you do,
Speaker 2: you just kind of roll with the flow, know that
Speaker 2: it's gonna either got to leave early or whatever. And
Speaker 2: in the Greater Sinsai Northern Kentucky area, unless there's a
Speaker 2: major accident, unless there's a major problem, commuting time is
Speaker 2: not that. I mean when you go into some of
Speaker 2: these cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and so
Speaker 2: on and see their commuting times, they're a lot longer.
Speaker 2: I think in the Greatest Insae Northern Kentucky area, the
Speaker 2: normal commune is somewhere around twenty minutes maybe, which is
Speaker 2: not much time. But during that time you kind of
Speaker 2: gear up to get ready for the day in the office,
Speaker 2: maybe flip on the radio, listen to some music, or
Speaker 2: listen to the talk radio, which I suggest that you do,
Speaker 2: and especially a fifty five care see the talk station,
Speaker 2: but you learn some of the news of the day,
Speaker 2: You get your traffic, weather and so on. And then
Speaker 2: at night when you go home, you've got that twenty
Speaker 2: minutes or so on the way home where you can
Speaker 2: kind of do that what I used to call mental vacations,
Speaker 2: where you just kind of push everything out from the day.
Speaker 2: You try to gear yourself up so you can be
Speaker 2: the husband or the spouse that you want to be,
Speaker 2: and then the parent for your children once you get
Speaker 2: through that door and just leave all the baggage of
Speaker 2: the office behind you and then enjoy your life. And
Speaker 2: I think this work balance situation is great. Now. Some
Speaker 2: of these people, I'm sure they can work from home
Speaker 2: and it's not a problem. But we saw some studies
Speaker 2: during COVID of the Department of Justice that the lawyers
Speaker 2: the FBI or some of these attorneys working for the
Speaker 2: federal government, they were spending something like ninety percent of
Speaker 2: their time on the work day looking at porn. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell they have as far
Speaker 2: as their overall review from management or something along those lines,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure that people that would monitor the email
Speaker 2: accounts and the searching websites for iHeartRadio. If I started
Speaker 2: looking at porn here, I don't know that I would.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here. And so if
Speaker 2: these people on the job are spending ninety percent of
Speaker 2: their day watching porn, obviously they're not well. Maybe they're
Speaker 2: not regulating this, maybe they're not creating problems for us,
Speaker 2: but they're not being very productive. Let's go to the
Speaker 2: phones real quick. Let's talk to Daniel Daniel Fitch five
Speaker 2: K see, thanks for calling. How are you? And happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: I'm good?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: I am fantastic.
Speaker 4: So I got a couple of things. First of all,
Speaker 4: I'm a career firefighter, so I didn't get any.
Speaker 5: Opportunities to work from home through COVID or any time
Speaker 5: for the past thirty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little difficult to put out fires from home.
Speaker 4: At the fact, right, Yeah, but I've got just a
Speaker 4: couple of positive examples of it at home. So my
Speaker 4: wife works in pharmaceuticals uh huh.
Speaker 5: And she's in the field three days a week, four.
Speaker 4: Days a week with her sales reps. She's a reachional
Speaker 4: sales director, and then every Friday it's her office day.
Speaker 4: And that woman is focused and uber productive throughout the
Speaker 4: entire day. And then I've got another really good friend
Speaker 4: who works for Northfolk Grumman as an engineer, and they
Speaker 4: hear and her husband have set up an entire she
Speaker 4: shed above her garage in Oakley and it's got all
Speaker 4: the computer monitors and she has never had an office,
Speaker 4: and she's worked there for probably fifteen twenty years. But
Speaker 4: that's a woman who gets up in the morning and
Speaker 4: goes to work, and her work is out the back door,
Speaker 4: up a couple of stairs into her she shed, shuts
Speaker 4: the door and the computer monitors are up, and she
Speaker 4: is productive the entire day. Now I'm thinking that those
Speaker 4: two women.
Speaker 6: Are quite possibly the exceptions.
Speaker 2: To the rule, but very possibly. Now, the thing with
Speaker 2: your wife is is that I'm guessing in the pharmaceutical
Speaker 2: business that she's on commission.
Speaker 7: Correct that she gets she does.
Speaker 4: It's not straight commission at all. She gets a very
Speaker 4: very good salary.
Speaker 2: Plus bonus, Okay, but the bonus her.
Speaker 4: Bonus structured based on how her eight sales are performed.
Speaker 2: So there's this incentive to make sure that she's working,
Speaker 2: you know, making sure that she's productive on her off
Speaker 2: day and her office day on this person you described
Speaker 2: as far as her she shed that I pronounce that properly,
Speaker 2: But you know, it's a it's it's kind of separate
Speaker 2: from the house. You have to go to a different
Speaker 2: place and shut the door. And I think I find
Speaker 2: sometimes when I'm working from home, there's that distraction of well,
Speaker 2: if a friend calls, or somebody a neighbor stops by,
Speaker 2: or something along those lines. But if you draw the
Speaker 2: line to where you're not having the answer your front
Speaker 2: door or for packages or something, and you're in that
Speaker 2: she shed, you're well somewhat isolated and you can concentrate
Speaker 2: on your work. And I think that's a great work
Speaker 2: balance situation of having that kind of a situation where
Speaker 2: you don't have to, you know, worry about, you know,
Speaker 2: stuff going on around the house and so on along
Speaker 2: those lines. So those are and I agree with you,
Speaker 2: those are probably exceptions to the.
Speaker 4: Rule, almost definitely.
Speaker 5: In fact, she's so isolated, in fact that because of
Speaker 5: her security clans, when when her husband knocks on the door,
Speaker 5: all the computer screens have to be turned off. He's
Speaker 5: bringing her coffee or something. It's a very interesting setup.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 4: He's not even allowed to stop in uninvited.
Speaker 2: Are you sure she doesn't work for the CIA, I
Speaker 2: mean pharmaceutical you know, is the pharmaceutical company there at
Speaker 2: air quotes.
Speaker 4: No, it's actually have a pretty pretty new drug.
Speaker 2: But anyway, alright, he dad.
Speaker 4: You guys all they're a very happy, uh happy Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: and merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Coming, and you have my permission on that one day
Speaker 2: to overeat because that's the one day to splurge. UH
Speaker 2: phone numbers five. I'd like to hear from some other
Speaker 2: people that have experience either working from home or people
Speaker 2: they know work from home, and what their thoughts are,
Speaker 2: uh five one, three, seven four nine fifty, five hundred one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight
Speaker 2: two three eight two five five pound five point fifty
Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: fifty five krs. The talk station Phone numbers five to
Speaker 2: one three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one eight
Speaker 2: hundred A two three talk one eight hundred eighty two
Speaker 2: three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT
Speaker 2: and T wireless phone. Getting up this morning. I've said
Speaker 2: this before and I just can't you know, I can't
Speaker 2: help myself, you know. I try to figure out is
Speaker 2: there a particular time of the day that I like
Speaker 2: more than others, and I really can't pinpoint it. We
Speaker 2: have this deck, and I've talked about this. It overlooks
Speaker 2: the Licking River and we can see the downtown area
Speaker 2: from our deck. I love going out there and smoking cigars,
Speaker 2: doing show prep or doing whatever I can do out
Speaker 2: on the deck when the weather permits, and it's very pleasant.
Speaker 2: I've been out there first thing in the morning, and
Speaker 2: it's got its qualities in terms of seeing the sunrise
Speaker 2: and how the sun hits the buildings downtown at different
Speaker 2: angles and stuff. Then in the late afternoon we get
Speaker 2: this western exposure, which can get kind of brutally hot
Speaker 2: out there. Let's put the shade down and you can
Speaker 2: tolerate it. I like a little heat. Sunset late at night, midnight,
Speaker 2: three o'clock in the morning, it doesn't matter. It's always
Speaker 2: just so pleasant, you know, hearing the birds and well
Speaker 2: not at night, but you hear those crickets and so on.
Speaker 2: But this morning was really pleasant, thirty nine degrees. When
Speaker 2: I got up and drove in a very little traffic,
Speaker 2: there were a lot of trucks on the road, which
Speaker 2: is a good sign that the wheels of the economy
Speaker 2: are moving. But crisp air and just a beautiful drive
Speaker 2: in and so on. So I really enjoyed it. Let's
Speaker 2: go to the phones. Let's talk to Bobby. Bobby fifty
Speaker 2: five KC. Thanks for calling. Happy Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Eve.
Speaker 2: I should say same.
Speaker 8: To you, myk frand happy hump today. Yes, absolutely, one
Speaker 8: thing I know for a fact that you keep files
Speaker 8: and you go back into your file cabinet and look
Speaker 8: at everything.
Speaker 2: You're out. You're outing me again. I mean yes, I've
Speaker 2: admitted to that, and much of the chagrin of my wife.
Speaker 3: I do the same thing, my friend. But what I'm
Speaker 3: calling about now is the Biden administration reissued a directive
Speaker 3: on September the twenty second. It's hush hush, and it's
Speaker 3: for the Department of Defense number fifty two forty days
Speaker 3: or fifty two to forty point oh one. And what
Speaker 3: they did they allowed the Department's offense to activate the
Speaker 3: military on special events. Now, what happened was the designation
Speaker 3: was for majorca and that has to do with the
Speaker 3: certification process. On the sixth of January and it's the
Speaker 3: first time it's ever been implemented, and it's a national
Speaker 3: special security event. Or prior to that, they've authorized the
Speaker 3: military to work with law enforcement or other agencies, and
Speaker 3: it's then it circumvents possecomo tas.
Speaker 2: Now, a lot of people don't realize that right now.
Speaker 2: Were they with it being September the twenty second and
Speaker 2: with the spoon federal regurgitators in the mainstream media predicting
Speaker 2: that Kamala was going to win. Did they think that
Speaker 2: there was going to be some sort of an insurrection
Speaker 2: to prevent that from happening, or did they know that
Speaker 2: Trump possibly was going to be win and maybe not
Speaker 2: want to transfer power a threat to democracy so to speak.
Speaker 3: Do we thank your second point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be interesting and be very interesting to
Speaker 2: see how that transpires and what that's all about. Now,
Speaker 2: again you go back to January sixth of twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: and then of course during that certification process, the so
Speaker 2: called insurrection, there could have been a lot of things
Speaker 2: that were done differently that the Capitol Police could have
Speaker 2: had they were offered to National Guard and so on.
Speaker 2: Pelosi turned that down. That was part of a video
Speaker 2: that she was shooting with her documentary with her daughter.
Speaker 2: So this whole insurrection crap, I think is a load
Speaker 2: of crap because I'm sure you've seen that video from
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson showing the hundreds of thousands of videos that
Speaker 2: were not given to the J six committee, and see
Speaker 2: that most people almost look like tourists in there as
Speaker 2: opposed to people that were trying to wreck things, break
Speaker 2: cat you know, knock over statues and stuff along those lines. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's britt up a very interesting point.
Speaker 3: They've had a couple of meetings on it. See now
Speaker 3: the Capitol Police and the police of the DC are
Speaker 3: not in charge indignation from MAJORCA. Let the Secret Service
Speaker 3: be in charge of all the capital protection. They've had
Speaker 3: two meetings on it, and I've got complete facts about
Speaker 3: it till the DC police chief was asleep at the meetings. There.
Speaker 3: It's almost like Butler again when they turned their heads
Speaker 3: the other way.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'll tell you what if if if if
Speaker 2: that is the case, And that's one of the things
Speaker 2: I'm excited about as far as this transition and what
Speaker 2: we will see after January the twentieth, is this just
Speaker 2: investigation of what the hell went on, how that was
Speaker 2: allowed to happen, Why we have not gotten any information
Speaker 2: at all on that. We've got this what's the route,
Speaker 2: what's his first name, Robert Ruth or whatever, the second
Speaker 2: attempted assassination. He's doing a media tour basically and sending
Speaker 2: letters to different axios and NBC and so on, trying
Speaker 2: to explain his actions and so on. We're not we're
Speaker 2: not out of the woods here. And I would I
Speaker 2: mentioned this to my wife the other day. Is that
Speaker 2: remember what happened in the previous administrative, first Trump administration,
Speaker 2: where you had the FBI actually doing those FISA warrants
Speaker 2: and doing the where they had the like Susan Rice
Speaker 2: and people were doing the unmasking of people in some
Speaker 2: of these investigations that were being done, and all that
Speaker 2: stuff being leaked to the press. Is that we're in
Speaker 2: for round two here again. Is there clandestine FBI investigations
Speaker 2: into the Trump Committee or something along those lines. It's
Speaker 2: going to be very interesting.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: Anybody thinks that this ain't over is crazy.
Speaker 3: But I think it's the setting it up for failure
Speaker 3: and this designation from MAJORCA and I can tell you
Speaker 3: whose special agent in charge is and the meeting day
Speaker 3: they had they're set up for failure.
Speaker 2: Who's the special agent involved? Who's a special agent?
Speaker 3: His name's Eric Raymi Ryannick Cam He's a special agent
Speaker 3: in charge in this transition thing.
Speaker 2: That'll be interesting. Well, Bobby, that's some great information. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to look into that. I certainly appreciate the
Speaker 2: phone call. Hey, you have a happy Thanksgiving and eat
Speaker 2: way too much? Will I know I'm not supposed to
Speaker 2: give that kind of advice out, but hey, it's Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: and it's fun. A little bit late for a break here,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take that before Danny starts us screaming at me.
Speaker 2: Five one three, seven, four nine fifty eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: Well at today being a travel day and actually the
Speaker 2: you know this year, well, I guess every year they
Speaker 2: have what they refer to as the Thanksgiving Week of traveling.
Speaker 2: We saw a lot of reports of people starting to
Speaker 2: do some of their travels beginning Sunday night, and uh
Speaker 2: then for the entire week and uh a big travel time.
Speaker 2: According to Triple A, there's going to be up to
Speaker 2: eighty million people that are going to over the course
Speaker 2: of the week, travel more than fifty miles away from
Speaker 2: home over this period of time. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: be one of them, but and I've seen some reports
Speaker 2: as high as eighty four million, So there's going to
Speaker 2: be almost what they call about a quarter of the population.
Speaker 2: Is that a third of the population, about a third
Speaker 2: of the population basically going to be out on the
Speaker 2: highways and byways, planes, trains, automobiles, and so on. So
Speaker 2: it's gonna be one of those times where if you're
Speaker 2: gonna be stuck in traffic, and obviously you want to
Speaker 2: play on your trip, accordingly, best to travel first thing
Speaker 2: in the morning or maybe late at night when traffic
Speaker 2: is down. You don't want to be traveling at midday
Speaker 2: or something along those lines, because that's when the traffic's
Speaker 2: going to be the most. But the people are going
Speaker 2: to these airports and stuff. We've been already seeing some interruptions.
Speaker 2: I think there was something like on last Sunday. It's
Speaker 2: only seventeen thousand flights that have been canceled a light
Speaker 2: load on Monday. I haven't looked at it so far today.
Speaker 2: But again, going into these airports and if you have
Speaker 2: a flight, be patient. Realize, you know, there's no sense
Speaker 2: getting upset if a flight is delayed or whatever, because
Speaker 2: you certainly want to make sure you get to your destination.
Speaker 2: You certainly don't want to go flying for the sake
Speaker 2: of flying, and because they're rushed, and you certainly don't
Speaker 2: want that plane to crash, so obviously you want to
Speaker 2: get their safe and sound. And plus if you're out
Speaker 2: on the highway, you want to do the same thing.
Speaker 2: And also, you know, kind of give a shout out
Speaker 2: to the truckers out there because as you're and celebrating
Speaker 2: there working. Now let's go to the phones. Let's talk
Speaker 2: to Larry. Larry fifty five k s. Thanks for calling,
Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving Eve.
Speaker 9: Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family this morning, well,
Speaker 9: thank you. I was calling in because I was listening
Speaker 9: to the news, the media last night and this morning,
Speaker 9: even our local Fox nineteen. If I'm allowed to say
Speaker 9: that we're bashing Trump already jumping on the bandwagon, He's
Speaker 9: not even an office yet and they're already ripping him
Speaker 9: about tariffs. As far as I'm concerned, Trump knows exactly
Speaker 9: what he is doing, and if everybody would stay out
Speaker 9: of the way, he could get more done for US
Speaker 9: than Biden ever did, which was nothing but take money
Speaker 9: in from China. But that's a whole different story.
Speaker 7: Oh sure, Uh so.
Speaker 9: My point I'm getting that is Trump, the last time
Speaker 9: he was in office, had the USMCA already put in place.
Speaker 9: Can you elaborate on that a little bit of why
Speaker 9: if those were already the US, Mexican and Canada trade
Speaker 9: agreements were already in place, what happened after he left
Speaker 9: office up to now as the reason why they're needed
Speaker 9: to go back and revisit this. Well, did Biden do
Speaker 9: you regulate something?
Speaker 2: I'm sure I think that some of these were done
Speaker 2: by executive order, which were all reversed. I mean, if
Speaker 2: there was an executive order that the Trump administration had
Speaker 2: put in place, first order of business was that was
Speaker 2: going to be revoked by Biden. They didn't do that
Speaker 2: with the tariffs, though they've kept most of those in
Speaker 2: place and then wind about it on the campaign trail.
Speaker 2: And when I say wine, I'm not talking about wi
Speaker 2: which I'm sure there was plenty of that consumed by
Speaker 2: Kamala Airas. But the the some of these agreements, a
Speaker 2: lot of these treaties are supposed to be passed by Congress,
Speaker 2: and quite honestly, I'm not sure if that was one
Speaker 2: of the trade agreements that was passed. There is an
Speaker 2: awful lot of flexibility that the president does have in
Speaker 2: some of these negotiations, but holding their feet to the
Speaker 2: fire and especially levying terrorists obviously that's within his purview.
Speaker 2: But what uh And and I hope that a lot
Speaker 2: of people in the administration, and I hope a lot
Speaker 2: of Republicans or conservatives. I don't care about the rhinos,
Speaker 2: but as far as US conservatives, I hope we uh
Speaker 2: listen a little bit to the media, but not give
Speaker 2: them much attention because obviously the spoon fed regurgitators in
Speaker 2: the mainstream media are irrelevant. Mainstream media obviously nobody listened
Speaker 2: to them. The entertainment world nobody listened to them, and
Speaker 2: so they can just flap their gums all they want.
Speaker 2: And the fact that just about everything that Trump has
Speaker 2: said usually comes true. It may not be within the
Speaker 2: first twenty four to forty eight hours or even a month,
Speaker 2: week or so, but a lot of this stuff does
Speaker 2: come true. And just the mere fact of threatening tariffs.
Speaker 2: You've seen a lot of these businesses starting to talk
Speaker 2: about pulling out of China and bringing manufacturing back to
Speaker 2: the United States. We've seen justin Trudeau get on the
Speaker 2: phone with Trump and say, hey, you know, maybe we
Speaker 2: can work something out here because you're a very important
Speaker 2: trading partner of us and we want to make sure
Speaker 2: and those twenty five percent terriffs talking.
Speaker 9: And I don't mean it inter rush, but in the meantime,
Speaker 9: you got your media saying, like this morning, I heard
Speaker 9: they're throwing numbers out there saying, well, these tariffs is
Speaker 9: going to cost the average American person twenty six hundred
Speaker 9: dollars more a year. There's going to be an increase
Speaker 9: on electronics and computers. So they already are starting to
Speaker 9: scare tactic. But yet, let's talk about the inflation of
Speaker 9: all the blast flo years Biden was in there. The
Speaker 9: inflation rate has been so much more that it's greater
Speaker 9: than any tax that a Democrat that Biden could have
Speaker 9: done to us.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, I'm sure listeners would agree.
Speaker 9: But yeah, you don't hear the media say that or
Speaker 9: talk about.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Larry, I'm up against the break here. I got
Speaker 2: to go, thank you so much for the phone call,
Speaker 2: and yeah, this is gonna be a hot topic and
Speaker 2: something that's got to be talked about more and more.
Speaker 2: But ignore the media because they are totally irrelevant. Uh
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five K see
Speaker 2: the talk station five fifty five in the morning. Time
Speaker 2: for us to get act actually here for the top
Speaker 2: of the hour. But coming up we're gonna be talking
Speaker 2: a little bit about travel times and talk about uh
Speaker 2: this uh story from Triple A about rebrand itself and
Speaker 2: their gas prices and bragging about low gas prices. Well,
Speaker 2: we've got the skinny on that. I'm Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas fifty five care See the Talk.
Speaker 1: Station and now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: on fifty five KOs the Talk Station.
Speaker 2: I'm right for six minutes after six Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas. As the intro said there, I didn't
Speaker 2: after I shouldn't have repeated myself there. But anyway, it
Speaker 2: is Thanksgiving Eve, and if you went to my Facebook page,
Speaker 2: as I always do, I put out a blurb in
Speaker 2: terms of what I am, who I am going to
Speaker 2: have on and today is no different. We're at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be speaking with Phil Flynn, senior market analyst,
Speaker 2: Price Futures Group, author of the Energy Report, contributor to
Speaker 2: frequent contributor. I might add Fox Business Network. We're discussing
Speaker 2: a wide range of political and energy issues from as
Speaker 2: a result of the presidential election, and as I mentioned
Speaker 2: in the previous hour, he is very knowledge when we
Speaker 2: see eye to eye on a lot of things in
Speaker 2: terms of how this energy policy in this country should work.
Speaker 2: And he's very knowledgeable as far as what's going on
Speaker 2: with OPEC plus and the energy markets themselves and geopolitical
Speaker 2: problems that we were seeing, so looking forward to talking
Speaker 2: to him. And then at eight o'clock we're we were
Speaker 2: talking with Jeff Pierce. He is the director of Broadcast
Speaker 2: Media Partnership rees Across America. We'll we talk about that
Speaker 2: great organization and of course we're talking about their rece
Speaker 2: Across America and their National rece Across America Day, which
Speaker 2: is Saturday, December the fourteenth, which is the day that
Speaker 2: all of these reefs that they distribute around the country,
Speaker 2: that those will be laid at the tombs of a
Speaker 2: lot of these soldiers, the formers, older soldiers that go
Speaker 2: to the older areas of the cemetery, because you know,
Speaker 2: as you go into some of these cemeteries, you'll notice
Speaker 2: that the newer parts of the cemetery there's always a
Speaker 2: bunch of flowers and the gravesites are well taken care of.
Speaker 2: And then you get, you know, back to the older
Speaker 2: and older part of the cemetery, you see fewer and
Speaker 2: fewer flowers, to the point where you see no flowers,
Speaker 2: no decorations, know nothing. So on this particular day they
Speaker 2: make sure they go to these sections of the cemeteries
Speaker 2: where these you know, soldiers from really as far back
Speaker 2: as the Revolutionary War in this area here, and Civil War,
Speaker 2: Spanish American War and so on, and put these reset
Speaker 2: these tombs of these soldiers, because as they say, in
Speaker 2: part of their mission, a soldier dies twice, once when
Speaker 2: they take their last breath, and then the next time
Speaker 2: when their name is no longer mentioned. And as part
Speaker 2: of the ceremony, they lay the wreath, say the person's name,
Speaker 2: and then move on to the next one. And it's
Speaker 2: really a beautiful thing to see. And I would encourage
Speaker 2: you to volunteer. Do they have place on there where
Speaker 2: you can actually volunteer. You give them your zip code
Speaker 2: and so on, and they'll set you up with a
Speaker 2: group that's in that particular area where you live. And
Speaker 2: if you are so inclined, you can also donate a
Speaker 2: wreath that you can sponsor a wreath, as they refer
Speaker 2: to it, only seventeen bucks and it's well worth it.
Speaker 2: Really a great organization. We're talking about travel And by
Speaker 2: the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 2: fifty five hundred, one, eight hundred eighty two three talk
Speaker 2: one eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five
Speaker 2: pound five point fifty on that at and T wireless phone.
Speaker 2: Talking about travel, and according to Triple A, is gonna
Speaker 2: be about eighty million people out on the highway. I've
Speaker 2: been seeing some estimates as far as far as Hello,
Speaker 2: as high as eighty four million, which about a third
Speaker 2: of the population. It is going to be traveling more
Speaker 2: than fifty miles away from home. Triple A has announced
Speaker 2: that they're rebranding their gas prices. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're familiar with their website, but you can actually get
Speaker 2: their national average for gas prices and so on on
Speaker 2: a daily basis. You can actually go to the individual
Speaker 2: states into your state find out what the or what
Speaker 2: the state average of gas prices are, and they have
Speaker 2: some travel tips and so on there. But they're rebranding
Speaker 2: their gas prices as fuel prices by adding ev charging
Speaker 2: rates from around the country. Now you can pinpoint on
Speaker 2: their website. Now you can go to the individual states
Speaker 2: and so on and see the national average there. But
Speaker 2: as far as this, this isn't quite as specific as
Speaker 2: it will be in the future. But as they talk
Speaker 2: about that, they will be offering those that are now
Speaker 2: twenty eight states with average I'm sorry, talking about the
Speaker 2: different charging stations. They talk about how many of their
Speaker 2: members have at least one car that's an EV. So
Speaker 2: they provide that they're also talking about as far as
Speaker 2: their gas prices that they're seeing national average and so on.
Speaker 2: There are twenty eight states which would blow three dollars
Speaker 2: a gallon. Now factored in there is Hawaii, which you
Speaker 2: would expect gas prices to be very high, California and
Speaker 2: so on, and those kind of skew the national average.
Speaker 2: But here in the Tri State, or at least in
Speaker 2: my neck of the woods, gasoline is currently is a
Speaker 2: two dollars and sixty four cents a gallon. I think
Speaker 2: I saw somewhere the other day I saw one gas
Speaker 2: station I think on my drive in that it was
Speaker 2: up around three toho nine I think. But at least
Speaker 2: in my area there is a low and it would
Speaker 2: it would behoove you to go to these apps. And
Speaker 2: I've seen a wide range of gaps in terms of
Speaker 2: almost a thirty cent difference between the highest and the
Speaker 2: lowest gas prices in the area. So there are different
Speaker 2: apps out there, and I would encourage you to use
Speaker 2: those But what's interesting is that Triple A is talking
Speaker 2: about and I've heard the newscast talking about how well
Speaker 2: you know gasoline currently the national average around three to
Speaker 2: zho six, three oh seven, somewhere in that range, which
Speaker 2: if you go a year ago that that was up
Speaker 2: around three twenty six, So gasoline is two twenty cents lower. Well,
Speaker 2: that's not quite the whole perspective there. In fact, they
Speaker 2: put on their story here national gas prices comparison twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one to twenty twenty four, and they show that
Speaker 2: gasoline right now at three oh six. On the far
Speaker 2: right of their graph is showing that at three oh six,
Speaker 2: it's the lowest at this point of the year of
Speaker 2: any of the years of the Biden administration. But if
Speaker 2: you go over to the far left of the graph
Speaker 2: and look at where it started in January of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, you'll see the gas prices at that time
Speaker 2: were down around two dollars and thirty cents two dollars
Speaker 2: and forty cents a gallon. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: on this week this week in twenty twenty, during the
Speaker 2: Trump administration, the gasoline was at two dollars and twenty
Speaker 2: one cents a gallon, diesel was at two dollars and
Speaker 2: fifty cents a gallon. So when they brag about gas
Speaker 2: prices being down twenty cents a gallon compared to a
Speaker 2: month ago, or even to last year and so on,
Speaker 2: that is not the whole story of my friends. You
Speaker 2: got to go back to twenty twenty and look at
Speaker 2: what gas prices were back then. We are and when
Speaker 2: when I talk about earlier, the fact that energy goes
Speaker 2: across every segment of the economy, whether you work out
Speaker 2: of your car, whether you work behind an eighteen wheeler
Speaker 2: you drive for a living, whether you work in a
Speaker 2: factory and the machinery and equipment to run on electricity,
Speaker 2: whether you work in an office or here broadcasting electricity
Speaker 2: is important, and the energy prices are important as far
Speaker 2: as that's concerned. And when you look at the fact
Speaker 2: that you know, when you're talking about what has caused inflation,
Speaker 2: right there, it's energy. Right now we are paying, even
Speaker 2: at the low rate that we're paying now because I
Speaker 2: think we've been beaten up over gas prices over the
Speaker 2: last four years, we are still paying thirty nine percent
Speaker 2: more than what we are paying this time in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: In November of twenty twenty, we are paying thirty nine
Speaker 2: percent more for gasoline. On the diesel side, we're paying
Speaker 2: forty two percent more. And you know that price, and
Speaker 2: that's thirty nine percent more per gallon for every gallon
Speaker 2: you put into your car every time you fill up
Speaker 2: your car. And so when you're talking about thirty cents
Speaker 2: more per gallon, and if you got eighteen eighteen gallon
Speaker 2: tank that adds up, that's a significant impact. And when
Speaker 2: you do that on a weekly basis, or however often
Speaker 2: you fill up, that is an impact. And diesel rigs
Speaker 2: are the same way. And so when you look at
Speaker 2: having to recoup those costs as far as these freight
Speaker 2: rates are concerned, and as far as the delivery charges
Speaker 2: with these companies are concerned, that adds to the inflation.
Speaker 2: Then you take into consideration over the last year, which
Speaker 2: is going to be interesting to see how this turns out.
Speaker 2: You had the dock workers on the western West coast
Speaker 2: that went on strike or were threatening to go on strike.
Speaker 2: They got a major pay increase. You have ups drivers
Speaker 2: that got a major increase. You have the auto workers
Speaker 2: that got a major pay increase, and you have the
Speaker 2: railroad workers. We have a looming strike, a threatening strike
Speaker 2: of the dock workers on the East Coast. You may
Speaker 2: recall the first part of October they went on a
Speaker 2: three day strike which backed up and every day that
Speaker 2: they are on strike, that backs up things for about
Speaker 2: two three four days at those ports, and about I
Speaker 2: think the number was about forty percent of what goods
Speaker 2: come into this country come in off the East Coast.
Speaker 2: And so if those docks are closed, which they're talking to,
Speaker 2: Actually the dock workers walked away from the latest contract negotiations,
Speaker 2: and that is supposed to I think they're scheduled to
Speaker 2: go on strike if they do not have any type
Speaker 2: of a contractotiated price or settlement. They are scheduled to
Speaker 2: go on strike on January the fifteenth, which is five
Speaker 2: days before Trump takes office. So it's going to be
Speaker 2: interesting to see what happens. They're demanding pay increases, and
Speaker 2: I just saw the other day that with travel this
Speaker 2: week that workers at the service workers at what is
Speaker 2: it Charlotte International Airport I have gone on strike and
Speaker 2: they're wanting a pay increase their minimum wage. They want
Speaker 2: their minimum wage up from twenty five dollars to thirty
Speaker 2: dollars an hour, and that's going to be disrupting some
Speaker 2: of the flights down there and around the country. So
Speaker 2: it'll be interesting with these travel times. I'm seeing some
Speaker 2: weather conditions and so on, So it would behoove you
Speaker 2: to pay attention to weather, know what you're getting into
Speaker 2: if you're driving, know what your flights are going to
Speaker 2: be like, if you're going to the airport, and kind
Speaker 2: of plan ahead in terms of maybe some cancelations, make
Speaker 2: sure that the flight is on time. See you know
Speaker 2: what waste the trip to the airport. And again I've
Speaker 2: talked about in the past of how if I have
Speaker 2: the option, I'm always behind the wheel. I I can't, Josh,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember the last time I was on
Speaker 2: a plane anyway. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
Speaker 2: eight hundred two three talk one eight hundred eighty two
Speaker 2: three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT
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Speaker 2: the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five
Speaker 2: care see the talk station More cowbells now?
Speaker 7: Is this?
Speaker 2: Uh uh? Don't fear the tariff? Is that the name
Speaker 2: of you get me? Huh uh? Interestingly enough, we were
Speaker 2: talking about tariffs in the previous hour and talking about
Speaker 2: how the media is starting to get all excited and
Speaker 2: not excited but criticizing the Trump administration, how this is
Speaker 2: going to lead to inflation and so on and so forth,
Speaker 2: and I would, you know, encourage everybody to quit paying
Speaker 2: attention to the media. We have determined that while we
Speaker 2: have learned that they are pretty much irrelevant because the
Speaker 2: broadcast journalists, or as I refer to them, the spoon
Speaker 2: fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. And I say that
Speaker 2: because you know, if you look at the it's basically
Speaker 2: just democratic talking points. I've heard people dancing around this.
Speaker 2: I just don't know why they just don't adopt what
Speaker 2: I call them, because would it would make things much
Speaker 2: simpler for the everybody to understand the fact is is
Speaker 2: that you don't have news. You know, in England and
Speaker 2: France and other countries they call them news presenters. To
Speaker 2: begin with, They're not anchors, they're not All they do
Speaker 2: is just you know, present the news. And so when
Speaker 2: you've got the news media that is basically the propaganda
Speaker 2: arm of the DNC. They're being spoon fed this information
Speaker 2: and they're regurgitating it to us. I've heard people talk
Speaker 2: about regurgitating talking points. I've heard people talk about the
Speaker 2: mainstream media just you know, do it, you know, just
Speaker 2: adopt my I coined the phrase hell ten years or
Speaker 2: so ago. Spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. They
Speaker 2: have proven themselves to be irrelevant in this past election.
Speaker 2: Nobody paid attention to what they had to say, and
Speaker 2: they got their news from other sources, although they'll say
Speaker 2: that it was misinformation. But again, they're talking about these terrofts.
Speaker 2: They're talking about the fact that it's going to lead
Speaker 2: to inflation. I think one of the callers last hour,
Speaker 2: it might have been Bobby, I think or Larry, one
Speaker 2: of the two, mentioned that the broadcast media is talking
Speaker 2: about that this could add twenty six hundred dollars a
Speaker 2: year to people and so on. Well, guess what and
Speaker 2: I mentioned and what they're leaving out of these stories
Speaker 2: when they're talking about the twenty five percent tariff on
Speaker 2: goods from Mexico or Canada, is that this is conditional
Speaker 2: on them stopping this invasion of our country of illegals
Speaker 2: coming into the country, and it was shocking to see
Speaker 2: how many are flooding in from Canada as well, because
Speaker 2: that border is not secure. We already know about the
Speaker 2: migrant caravans from the south, but these twenty five percent
Speaker 2: terroriffs are conditioned on them stopping the flow of the
Speaker 2: invasion into this country and the flow of illegal drugs
Speaker 2: fentanyl and so on. Okay, Now, over the weekend, I
Speaker 2: was watching the Ohio State game. This is kind of
Speaker 2: a side note. This is one of those areas, by
Speaker 2: the way of where my wife always says that I
Speaker 2: interrupt myself when I'm talking, So I'm interrupting myself right now.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, that was watching the Ohio State football game,
Speaker 2: and there was a shot of the stadium there now
Speaker 2: Ohio Stadium, the Horseshoe holds about one hundred thousand people.
Speaker 2: Just look at that stadium or pictures of that stadium
Speaker 2: and it's full a capacity crowd. Triple that and that
Speaker 2: is the number of people in this country that die
Speaker 2: from fentanyl poisoning every year. Just in the last year,
Speaker 2: three hundred thousand. We've got three hundred thousand migrant children below,
Speaker 2: children that are unaccounted for, and so to stop this
Speaker 2: flow of illegal drugs and the invasion, Trump has been
Speaker 2: threatening these tariffs. Well, lo and behold, migrant caravans not
Speaker 2: reaching the boarding border, Claudia Shinbaum says after Trump threats.
Speaker 2: Mexican President Claudia Shinbaum address US President elect Donald Trump's
Speaker 2: renewed threats of steep tariffs this week, asserting that migrant
Speaker 2: caravans are no longer reaching the Mexico border. Hmmm, just
Speaker 2: the mere threat. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk
Speaker 2: to Mike, Mike fifty five kro see. Thanks for calling,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Happy Thanksgiving, hy, everything's giving to you too.
Speaker 9: About the fake dudes media, there's a thing on CNN.
Speaker 4: It's a late night show. I forget what it's called.
Speaker 9: But they had always have one conservative I'm on there,
Speaker 9: and they always cry about him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Thot Jennings, I think.
Speaker 9: He brought up how that Twitter or x whatever call
Speaker 9: it now is almost fifty percent Republican fifty percent Democrat.
Speaker 9: And they're like, oh, we don't want to hear that.
Speaker 9: Where you get in your informations like this network, they
Speaker 9: had to think they had something earlier in the day
Speaker 9: where they showed in twenty twenty too, it was like
Speaker 9: fifty five percent Democrats thirty five percent Republicans, and now
Speaker 9: it's almost fifty fifty and that was their own network,
Speaker 9: and they wouldn't accept that.
Speaker 4: Where goes sources?
Speaker 2: Of course not, of course not. And that's uh, that
Speaker 2: is always funny when you can take their their own
Speaker 2: facts and and just shove it back in their face.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, where did you get your well
Speaker 2: from this network? So it's great, fantastic, Mike, thanks so
Speaker 2: much for the phone call. I appreciate that's uh, that's
Speaker 2: one of those things of where you know, when you
Speaker 2: have the opportunity to shove it back, you shove it back. Uh.
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Speaker 2: Consumer confidence rises to a sixteen month high on post
Speaker 2: election euphoria. Now, what was interesting is I was looking
Speaker 2: at this and you know, usually, uh, with the Trucking Show.
Speaker 2: You may know that I do America Structing Network at
Speaker 2: on WLW midnight to one am Tuesday through Friday, and
Speaker 2: as part of that, I talk about a lot of
Speaker 2: economic news and so on. And it's interesting when you
Speaker 2: see these economic numbers that come out and give us
Speaker 2: schedule every week of what reports are going to come out.
Speaker 2: Consumer confidence was one of the ones that came out
Speaker 2: this week. And there was a flurry of economic detail
Speaker 2: that came out this week, which is kind of unusual
Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving week, except for the fact that Thanksgiving is
Speaker 2: so late in the month this year, as far as
Speaker 2: November is concerned, that all this month and information and
Speaker 2: economic data that usually comes in is coming in this week. Now,
Speaker 2: if you know, Thanksgiving was a week earlier like it
Speaker 2: has been in normal years, all of this would be
Speaker 2: after Thanksgiving and you know, after Black Friday, cyber Monday
Speaker 2: and so on. But what these economic reports. And it's
Speaker 2: interesting to depending upon where you get your news and
Speaker 2: which source you look at. There was one source that
Speaker 2: said that, well, if this was a boxing match, it
Speaker 2: would be a draw. That Republicans are euphoric, Democrats are disappointed,
Speaker 2: and that's reflected in the numbers. However, when you look
Speaker 2: at the actual numbers themselves, consumer confidence increased to a
Speaker 2: sixteen month high in November, amid optimism over the labor market,
Speaker 2: expectations for lower inflation and higher stock prices over the
Speaker 2: next year. Part of the second straight monthly rise in
Speaker 2: confidence reported by the Conference Board on Tuesday likely reflected
Speaker 2: the outcome of the November fifth election, which returned Donald
Speaker 2: Trump to the White House and gave Republicans control of
Speaker 2: the US Congress. Now they have to throw this in mind,
Speaker 2: you even though that that is probably the truth and
Speaker 2: why people are euphoric, why the consumer confidence is high.
Speaker 2: The Conference Board not attribute the improvement to the election,
Speaker 2: but noted that write in responses about politics, including November elections,
Speaker 2: surge to a twenty twenty above twenty twenty levels, above
Speaker 2: twenty twenty levels. Now, the consumer confidence at that time
Speaker 2: was not as high as it is today. Consumer confidence
Speaker 2: number that came in was where's it in here? At
Speaker 2: one to eleven point seven. They were expecting it to
Speaker 2: be in the one poh nine area. So with that
Speaker 2: confidence level being up, and you see this as far
Speaker 2: as the economy is concerned. In the trucking industry, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of companies that are looking forward to the
Speaker 2: end of a about almost a two year truck recession
Speaker 2: that they have been experiencing. So they're excited about trucking freight,
Speaker 2: trucking tonnage going up and starting to pick up. We're
Speaker 2: starting to see some activity in the construction industry where
Speaker 2: people are starting to think in terms of actually getting
Speaker 2: out and starting to reach build and of course a
Speaker 2: lot of that has to do with possibly some hurricane
Speaker 2: damage and so on. But a lot of different industries,
Speaker 2: with the exception of car companies, are really excited about
Speaker 2: what's going on. But when you look at the car
Speaker 2: companies and that they're not quite as well well, their
Speaker 2: enthusiasm is stampered by the fact that they have just
Speaker 2: jumped so in depth, i mean both feet into this
Speaker 2: mire of ev transition. Even though as a lot of
Speaker 2: people point out evs are not ready for prime time.
Speaker 2: And so when you don't have the infrastructure, when the
Speaker 2: cost of these vehicles are more expensive than conventional vehicles
Speaker 2: gas powered internal combustion engines, and the fact that they
Speaker 2: weigh more, and the fact that the charging stations and
Speaker 2: the infrastructure isn't there, and the range of these things
Speaker 2: isn't that great to begin with. So all those factors,
Speaker 2: people are not wanting EV's the way they had been. Originally.
Speaker 2: They looked as though when they first came out they're
Speaker 2: the shiny new object. A lot of people wanted to
Speaker 2: get involved in them. If you look at some of
Speaker 2: the stuff coming from Tesla, their range is getting better
Speaker 2: and better and better. Their EV truck that they've been
Speaker 2: developing looks like it has I think they said something
Speaker 2: like a over five hundred mile range fully loaded before
Speaker 2: you'd have to stop and get it charged. And so
Speaker 2: when you see these innovations, but this is not something
Speaker 2: that you can ramrod down people's throat as they've done
Speaker 2: with these cafe standards, where they basically say to these
Speaker 2: car companies that even though there's not an EV mandate
Speaker 2: out there, they say to these car manufacturers that you
Speaker 2: have to have a certain amount of miles per gallon
Speaker 2: or you will be fined billions of dollars for that.
Speaker 2: The only way with the current technology for them to
Speaker 2: accomplish that is to sell more evs, and so they
Speaker 2: have to push out more evs and sell more EV's
Speaker 2: so they can stay within those mileage standards. Lifting that
Speaker 2: as far as the regulation from the EPA, would go
Speaker 2: a long way to stimulate the car manufacturers. Ford Motor Company,
Speaker 2: in their latest earnings call, has predicted that they are
Speaker 2: going to lose five five five billion dollars five billion
Speaker 2: dollars of their shareholder's money of the investment in that
Speaker 2: com They're going to lose five billion dollars directly attributed
Speaker 2: to their all in on these evs General Motors. Let's
Speaker 2: pick this up. I've got some other information about this.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon by the way, five one three seven four
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Speaker 2: consumer confidence level rising to a sixteen month high on
Speaker 2: post election euphoria and the fact that they're actually mentioning this.
Speaker 2: And you know when I talked about we had some
Speaker 2: call at a couple of callers in the previous hour
Speaker 2: talking about legacy media as they refer to it. I
Speaker 2: refer to them as spoon fed reck rigitators. The mainstream media,
Speaker 2: that portion of the media is dead. Journalism died years ago,
Speaker 2: because I would say, you know, uh, I know Sean
Speaker 2: talks about it from time to time that it died.
Speaker 2: He claims that it died back in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: I think it died years ago. I know as a kid,
Speaker 2: I noticed sitting there watching the New Is with my
Speaker 2: mom and she would point out some of the adjectives
Speaker 2: that were being made and kind of read between the
Speaker 2: lines in terms of what wasn't being reported versus what
Speaker 2: was being reported. And the fact at the time that
Speaker 2: you had AP and a UPI, United Press International, so
Speaker 2: you had all the news kind of filtering through basically
Speaker 2: two sources distributed to the network News and so on.
Speaker 2: And even Walter Cronkite, if you watch some of his newscasts,
Speaker 2: he wasn't unbiased. He was very biased in some of
Speaker 2: his reporting. And so the idea of journalists being unbiased.
Speaker 2: Journalism has been dead for a long time in this country,
Speaker 2: and it goes back further than two thousand and seven,
Speaker 2: but at least this time around, with this election, the
Speaker 2: broadcast media, spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media were
Speaker 2: totally irrelevant. Whatever they said. Ninety five what is it,
Speaker 2: ninety percent of the coverage of Trump was negative, ninety
Speaker 2: five percent of the coverage of Kamala Harris was positive.
Speaker 2: And even with that, with all the money that was
Speaker 2: raised by the Democrats was at one point four billion
Speaker 2: dollars outspent the Trump campaign what three to one something
Speaker 2: along those lines, and with all the positive coverage from
Speaker 2: the mainstream media that they still weren't able to push
Speaker 2: her across as a finish line because people ignored them.
Speaker 2: They knew that they were lying to them. They knew
Speaker 2: that they lied about the Russian hoax, They knew that
Speaker 2: they lied about the Hunter laptop scandal. They know that
Speaker 2: they lied about and that they have not been right
Speaker 2: about global warming. They know they were wrong about COVID.
Speaker 2: They know about all the things that the media has
Speaker 2: been telling us over the years that have been proven
Speaker 2: to be wrong, and they've turned them off. And so
Speaker 2: for legacy media now there is no anybody paying attention
Speaker 2: to them. And with that in mind, because people are
Speaker 2: independent thinkers and they're going along about their day to
Speaker 2: day business and getting their news from wherever they can
Speaker 2: get it, sometimes on social media, sometimes elsewhere talk is
Speaker 2: being a great place for them to get their news,
Speaker 2: or some of the other areas out there where there's
Speaker 2: a free flow of information. This is where people are
Speaker 2: getting their news. And the fact that these spoon fed
Speaker 2: regurgitators in the mainstream media keep talking about the downside
Speaker 2: of some of these picks, that how the Trump transition
Speaker 2: team isn't doing certain things, and the fact that as
Speaker 2: they talk about the consumer confidence, the fact that it's
Speaker 2: a sixteen month high, it all goes to where people
Speaker 2: are euphoric and even though they are trying to downplay
Speaker 2: the reason for this. The fact is is that people
Speaker 2: have a certain level of optimism. Consumers average inflation expectations
Speaker 2: of the next twelve months dropped to four point nine percent,
Speaker 2: the lowest since March of twenty twenty back during the
Speaker 2: first term of the Trump administration. They talking about the
Speaker 2: twenty five percent tariffs on goods is not moving the
Speaker 2: markets much because at least people are reading that and
Speaker 2: saying that that is based upon Mexico and Canada closing
Speaker 2: down the invasion coming into this country and the stop
Speaker 2: of illegal drugs coming into this country, and people are
Speaker 2: taking that into consideration. I just talked about a little
Speaker 2: while ago that Claudia what's your name, Claudia Shinbaum has
Speaker 2: said that the border is going to be secured, that
Speaker 2: these migrant caravans are going to be broken up and
Speaker 2: are not going to reach the border. Coming up, we'll
Speaker 2: be talking a little bit more about this consumer confidence
Speaker 2: because buried in here are also some comments having to
Speaker 2: do with what they're seeing as far as housing prices,
Speaker 2: how that has developed. And what's interesting is that even
Speaker 2: though the Federal Reserve has been lowering interest rates, that
Speaker 2: hasn't filtered its way down to the mortgage rates here,
Speaker 2: which is what a lot of people had anticipated happenings
Speaker 2: not happening. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, five
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Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Consumer confidence
Speaker 2: rises to a sixteen month high on post election euphoria.
Speaker 2: Now interesting digging into these numbers. Rise in confidence was
Speaker 2: led by consumers under the age of thirty five. Now,
Speaker 2: when you looked at going into the election, seventy nine
Speaker 2: percent of the people said that we were on the
Speaker 2: wrong track, and a lot of there's been a lot
Speaker 2: of discussion about how those under the age of thirty five,
Speaker 2: the people that are graduating from college, they have a
Speaker 2: dismal outlook as far as if their future ability to
Speaker 2: have a well paying job, as well as the ability
Speaker 2: to afford house and to get on with their adult life.
Speaker 2: But the fact that the rise in confidence was led
Speaker 2: by consumers under the age of thirty five, Confidence among
Speaker 2: consumers in the thirty five to fifty four age bracket
Speaker 2: fell slightly. It rose among all income groups, with the
Speaker 2: exception of those with annual incomes above one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand and consumers making less than fifteen thousand.
Speaker 2: A record fifty six point four percent of consumers expected
Speaker 2: stock prices to increase over the next year. Now people
Speaker 2: are talking about impossibility of inflation and when they and
Speaker 2: they always talk about these tariffs. However, the tariffs that
Speaker 2: were in place during the Trump administration, the previous Trump
Speaker 2: administration didn't leave to lead to inflation. In fact, inflation
Speaker 2: was negligible at the best, that down below two percent
Speaker 2: one point one or somewhere there in that neck of
Speaker 2: the woods. And we would expect to see that in
Speaker 2: the future. He's got a track record, So any of
Speaker 2: this concerned about low inflation or high inflation and so
Speaker 2: on is kind of a little bit ridiculous. New home
Speaker 2: sales tumble to a two year low in October. Again,
Speaker 2: that has to do with the interest rates. Even though
Speaker 2: the FED has been cutting interest rates, that only affects
Speaker 2: the overnight borrowing from bank to bank when banks need
Speaker 2: money for payroll or for you know, to cash checks
Speaker 2: or something on certain parts of the day. They have
Speaker 2: certain days of the month where they need a specific
Speaker 2: amount of money on hand, and if they don't have
Speaker 2: enough deposits on hand to handle that, they have to
Speaker 2: borrow money from other banks or from the Fed in
Speaker 2: order to have those numbers. That overnight rate that they
Speaker 2: talk about, that four point five or whatever was it
Speaker 2: four point five to four point seventy five now something
Speaker 2: around those range. That is that overnight rate that gives
Speaker 2: them less borrowing costs of the money that they have
Speaker 2: to have on hand. But that doesn't change them as
Speaker 2: far as what they do as far as the money
Speaker 2: they land out. A lot of that money is based
Speaker 2: on what they have to pay on interest in order
Speaker 2: to get people to make deposits into their bank, and
Speaker 2: so if their costs are high on that end, which
Speaker 2: if you look the Treasury yields those are up, then
Speaker 2: these interest rates haven't gone down. Matter of fact, mortgage
Speaker 2: rates have reversed all of the clients that have been
Speaker 2: pushed them to more than a one and a half
Speaker 2: year low of six point six point eight percent in September.
Speaker 2: Mortgage rates now are up around six point seven to
Speaker 2: two percent. And you still have this situation of where
Speaker 2: they call the golden handcuffs with some people, of where
Speaker 2: if they have a mortgage that is under three percent,
Speaker 2: if they're in the two point seventy five percent range,
Speaker 2: they're not about to give that up and sell that
Speaker 2: home and move into something else. If they don't have
Speaker 2: the cash word, they'd have to take out a loan,
Speaker 2: and they don't want to take it out a higher
Speaker 2: loan because when you factor in the interest rate with
Speaker 2: a home, you have less buying power. You can afford
Speaker 2: less house when interest rates are higher like that, and
Speaker 2: in some cases that can be just in some of
Speaker 2: the stuff that we were seeing earlier with the higher
Speaker 2: interest rates could be as much as almost seven hundred
Speaker 2: to one thousand dollars more per month on your mortgage,
Speaker 2: and people are not interested in doing that. And so
Speaker 2: what we're seeing as far as new home sales tumble
Speaker 2: to a two year low. Again. Expectation of fewer rate
Speaker 2: cuts have also been strengthened by fears of resurgent inflation.
Speaker 2: But if these interest rate cuts from the Fed aren't
Speaker 2: making their way through these banks in form of mortgages,
Speaker 2: then they can keep those interest rates as high as
Speaker 2: they want because it's not going to affect mortgage prices.
Speaker 2: Home prices growth has stalled. According to case Shiller. The
Speaker 2: number of home prices in the twenty biggest US metropolitan
Speaker 2: areas lost more steam in September, buckling under the pressure
Speaker 2: of high mortgage rates and historic on affordability. And until
Speaker 2: those prices start coming down, you're going to see a
Speaker 2: lot more houses not on the market. Somewhere in here.
Speaker 2: I think what they were saying is that if you
Speaker 2: look at the number of houses on the market today,
Speaker 2: in order to get rid of that backlog, it could
Speaker 2: take up to almost nine months to do that. Coming
Speaker 2: up top the hour, we're going to be talking to
Speaker 2: my friend and friend of the show, friend of America
Speaker 2: struck In Network, Phil Flynn with Price Futures Group. I'm
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC, the
Speaker 2: talk station.
Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
Speaker 1: fifty five KOSS the talk station.
Speaker 2: Five minutes after seven o'clock. I guess this is Phil Flynn.
Speaker 2: He's the senior market analyst Price Futures Group, author of
Speaker 2: the Energy Report, and contributor to Fox Business News. Really
Speaker 2: enjoyed reading his Energy Report on a daily basis and
Speaker 2: really gotten to know him over the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: and what insight this guy has. Welcome to the program, Phil, certainly,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you spending some time with us this morning.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Kevin. Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, No, I'm very excited because you know,
Speaker 10: it's an oil analyst. This time of year, we look
Speaker 10: at all the people going over the river and through
Speaker 10: the woods, and we're going to see a record amount
Speaker 10: of people on the roads according to the trip Awa.
Speaker 10: So this is a big exciting time to be watching
Speaker 10: these markets. I can tell you that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. From looking at your Energy
Speaker 2: Report on a regular basis, it's been an exciting I'm
Speaker 2: a year pretty much because because if we've got this,
Speaker 2: we had this war risk premium in there as far
Speaker 2: as hes Blob and the go and Hamas war, the
Speaker 2: houtis firing rockets, and you've got the Russia Ukraine war.
Speaker 2: We're ramping up and ramping down. And what's that doing
Speaker 2: as far as affecting the markets or concern Then, of
Speaker 2: course the election itself and whether it was going to
Speaker 2: be a status quo is what we've been experiencing over
Speaker 2: the last disastrous four years, or whether we're going to
Speaker 2: have the bright spot of the drill baby drill mentality.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm.
Speaker 10: Telling you, drill baby drill is back. And that's one
Speaker 10: thing Americans can really give thanks for because the road
Speaker 10: we were going down led to you know, inflation, when
Speaker 10: it came to our lack of an energy policy, it
Speaker 10: led to global instability as we see with wars around
Speaker 10: the globe. And you know, I thank god, you know
Speaker 10: that we're going to get back on track here, you know,
Speaker 10: and really focus on reality, not some kind of aspirational
Speaker 10: you know, energy policy, not you know, going into people's
Speaker 10: houses to steal their stoves. I mean, let's get back
Speaker 10: to reality. And when we do that, I think we
Speaker 10: can not only you know, empower the US economy and
Speaker 10: lower inflation, but you know, we can actually do it
Speaker 10: a better job for the environment than some of these,
Speaker 10: you know, just governments spending it crazy projects. It probably
Speaker 10: won't ever work exactly.
Speaker 2: And what we've talked about in the past is with
Speaker 2: these evs, you know, nobody can well no, I can't
Speaker 2: say nobody can fault. But the concept is a good
Speaker 2: idea until you really get to I mean, theory is
Speaker 2: always good. But when the rubber meets the road, when
Speaker 2: you start talking about the lithium batteries, the construction of those,
Speaker 2: and the fact that it's done by slave labor minds
Speaker 2: in the Congo to get the precious metals and by
Speaker 2: definition precious metals for crying out, which means that they're
Speaker 2: rare earth minerals and so on. Then you go to
Speaker 2: China and build these EV batteries and so on. They
Speaker 2: weigh more, they're more expensive, and then they're a landfilled nightmare.
Speaker 2: Then you have the charging stations, which aren't good. So
Speaker 2: it's not it's a technology. That's as you said, I
Speaker 2: think numerous times in your energy report, it's not ready
Speaker 2: for prime time.
Speaker 10: It isn't. It's not ready to replace the internal combustion engine,
Speaker 10: you know, But that's not to say, you know, electric
Speaker 10: cars aren't going to pay a play a part. They will,
Speaker 10: you know, it's part of part of the overall solution.
Speaker 10: But we have to let the market forces dictate that, right.
Speaker 10: And if you're driving your electric car and you're feeling
Speaker 10: all good about saving the environment, well you better think again,
Speaker 10: because to build one of those electric cars, you know,
Speaker 10: because of the mining for the lithium, because of the
Speaker 10: technologies that have to go into it, you actually creating
Speaker 10: with that car three or four times the amount of
Speaker 10: carbon emissions that it does to make a traditional car.
Speaker 10: So to get a break even on greenhouse gas emissions,
Speaker 10: you may have to drive that car forty or fifty
Speaker 10: thousand miles, you know, and by then you might be
Speaker 10: ready for a new car because the battery isn't holding
Speaker 10: a charge exactly. It's not ready for a prime time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's one of the things that's become abundantly
Speaker 2: clear as far as looking at this EV technology. And
Speaker 2: then when you take into consideration that the EPA, even
Speaker 2: though Phil Flynn that they don't have this of what
Speaker 2: they keep claiming, well, there's no EV mandate. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: there's no EV mandate, But if you don't have the
Speaker 2: proper mileage per fleet of what they want you to have,
Speaker 2: they will find you billions of dollars, which is not
Speaker 2: good for the stockholders or good for the company itself.
Speaker 2: So it forces them to sell more evs, which people
Speaker 2: don't want exactly, and.
Speaker 10: You get hit on the important point. And it's not
Speaker 10: just about you know, EV's, it's it's that kind of
Speaker 10: government you know, persuasion.
Speaker 6: So to speak.
Speaker 10: And she is a nice word, you know, against everybody
Speaker 10: in the industry, right, yeah, but that's what it is,
Speaker 10: and say, oh, yeah, you can drive for oil, but
Speaker 10: you know, we might come back and find you or sure,
Speaker 10: you know, invest in this oil project, but we may
Speaker 10: come back years later in at want to know what
Speaker 10: you knew and when you knew about global warming or
Speaker 10: you know, you know, did you know that this happens
Speaker 10: to be a racist pipeline? I mean stuff like that
Speaker 10: that just sighted you know, economic growth, right, and people
Speaker 10: are spending their heads saying, you know, we don't know
Speaker 10: what this government is going to come with us left.
Speaker 10: So getting back to clarity is going to be good
Speaker 10: for jobs, It's going to be good for the economy,
Speaker 10: you know, you know, I'm more excited about the energy
Speaker 10: future for the US today than might have been many
Speaker 10: many years. We have new technologies with artificial intelligence. We're
Speaker 10: going to be able to produce more oil more cleanly,
Speaker 10: We're going to be able to move it more safely,
Speaker 10: and and you know, liquified natural mass. All forms of energy,
Speaker 10: and even solar and wind can play a part, but
Speaker 10: it has to play its rightful part. It can't really
Speaker 10: replace those traditional sources of energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least not yet. And the fact that a
Speaker 2: lot of this stuff and as we've talked about before,
Speaker 2: these climbiness which again as I reiterate that that you know,
Speaker 2: this whole green technology in the green new steel has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with cleaning up the environment. It is
Speaker 2: all about government control where you eat, what you eat,
Speaker 2: how you eat, how you cook your food, where you live,
Speaker 2: how you live, what you drive, how far you can drive,
Speaker 2: and all that, which has more in common with communism
Speaker 2: than it does capitalism. I just massitude together and call
Speaker 2: it climmunism. But moving away from that and getting to it,
Speaker 2: as you talked about earlier, Phil Flynn, this energy mindset
Speaker 2: of the free markets dictating what is done, and if
Speaker 2: we're talking talking about and you hit the nail on
Speaker 2: the head as well when you talked about how if
Speaker 2: we're talking about cleaning up the environment, nobody drills for oil?
Speaker 2: Was it cleaner, safer, and more affordable than in the
Speaker 2: United States. So if we allow these other countries that
Speaker 2: don't give a whiff about their own people, they certainly
Speaker 2: don't give a whiff about the environment, and they're drilling
Speaker 2: like crazy.
Speaker 10: You're right, I mean, look at what has happened with
Speaker 10: the other rand. You know, when President Trump was in
Speaker 10: office the first time, you know, their production went down
Speaker 10: to practically nothing, right, they put the screws to the
Speaker 10: entire country, right, their revenue was down. Then of course
Speaker 10: we took the pressure off, right and then allowed Iran's
Speaker 10: exports to hit a five year high. They brought them
Speaker 10: billions of dollars. We unfroze billions of dollars to their treasury.
Speaker 10: And look how they spent the money. You know, they
Speaker 10: spent the money on creating havoc in the world, you know,
Speaker 10: supporting Hesba Lahamas to who the rebels, you know, and
Speaker 10: you know, I hate to say it was very predictable,
Speaker 10: but it was very predictable. It was and so you know,
Speaker 10: and again and this goes back to this climate misdirection, right,
Speaker 10: I mean, what's it's all about, really? Is it about
Speaker 10: saving the environment? And you know, we've spent trillions of
Speaker 10: dollars on this green energy movement, and you want to
Speaker 10: know what little secret? Greenhouse cast emissions are higher in
Speaker 10: the world than they've ever been before. So obviously what
Speaker 10: they're doing isn't working. So we didn't need to come
Speaker 10: back to to to real policies, real answers, and that's
Speaker 10: the only way you're going to have solved this problem.
Speaker 2: My guest is Phil Flyinn. Can you hang with us
Speaker 2: for another segment because I want to get into sure
Speaker 2: talking about obviously we talked about Iran, but also what's
Speaker 2: going on as far as Russia is concerned. And you know,
Speaker 2: they were on the verge of financial bankruptcy and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you know, oil became their major
Speaker 2: export and they made a lot of money and they said, well,
Speaker 2: rather than making our life, Well, we'll talk about what
Speaker 2: they did with their money, and then we can talk
Speaker 2: about how much this AI is eating up as far
Speaker 2: as electrical grids coming up, So again we'll pick this up.
Speaker 2: My guest is Phil Flynn. He is senior market analyst
Speaker 2: and Price Futures Group, author of the Energy Report, and
Speaker 2: I encourage anybody to go to his site Energy Report
Speaker 2: and read that on a daily basis. He's also a
Speaker 2: frequent contributor to Fox Businesses and to America's truck A Network.
Speaker 2: So that's the best figure of a feather in his cap,
Speaker 2: I might add. Picking this up on the other side,
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR
Speaker 2: see the Talk station seven nineteen in the morning. Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the Talk station,
Speaker 2: continuing our conversation with Phil Flynn, senior market analyst, Price
Speaker 2: Futures Group and author of the Energy Report, contributed to
Speaker 2: Fox Business Network and a contributor to fifty five KRC
Speaker 2: now and ATM America's Trucking Network. Thanks for being Thanks
Speaker 2: for being with us this morning. Phil certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 10: I'm so happy to be here in loving to be
Speaker 10: on WKRC in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Yes. So, prior to the break, we were talking about
Speaker 2: what Iran has done as far as their money that
Speaker 2: they received as a result of us changing our energy
Speaker 2: policy and having more foreign oil being produced and being
Speaker 2: not being energy dominant. We saw what Iran did, but
Speaker 2: then we also see what Russia did with the money
Speaker 2: that they earned.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, and it's kind of interesting. I mean, part of
Speaker 10: the backstory of the Russian War in Ukraine has a
Speaker 10: lot to do with NATO, but it also has a
Speaker 10: lot to do with energy, because there's a huge energy
Speaker 10: component behind this. You know, in Germany and other parts
Speaker 10: of Europe, they decided to go all in on the
Speaker 10: green energy movement. We're going to stop producing fossil fuels,
Speaker 10: we're going to close down nuclear power plants, we're going
Speaker 10: to close down drilling sites, all in the name of
Speaker 10: saving the environment. But every time they did that, they
Speaker 10: played right into Vladimir Putin's hands because they became more
Speaker 10: dependent on Russia for supplies, supplies of oil, supplies from
Speaker 10: natural gas. In fact, they are so dependent on Russia
Speaker 10: for natural gas and even if when they wanted to
Speaker 10: cut them off, they couldn't do it because they freeze
Speaker 10: to death. And the last two winters they've had warm
Speaker 10: winters in Europe and they've been able to skate by
Speaker 10: without a major problem. But this winter started them off
Speaker 10: cold and we're already hearing warnings that if we get
Speaker 10: a cold winter, you know, Europe could have a major
Speaker 10: energy crisis. And if Putin decided to, he could really
Speaker 10: turn the screws. Also he'd have to do is cut
Speaker 10: off you know, production or cut off their pipelines for
Speaker 10: a day or two, and you could have a real disaster.
Speaker 2: And what was interesting is that President Trump back in
Speaker 2: was at twenty seventeen in front of the UN talked
Speaker 2: about that Germany will become hostage to the Russians if
Speaker 2: they go on this path of converting and making sure
Speaker 2: that all they're doing is buying their gas and from
Speaker 2: a liquid national gas and whatever from Russia and doing
Speaker 2: away with their coal mines and so on. And there
Speaker 2: was a famous scene where he was speaking and the
Speaker 2: German delegation we're laughing at him that look at this
Speaker 2: idiot up there talking about this and you just brought
Speaker 2: that up. They are being held hostage by Russia. How
Speaker 2: much sanctions are they going to put on Russia when
Speaker 2: Russia controls how they heat their homes and whether or
Speaker 2: not they're going to be freezing to death in the winter.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they put them in that corner you're right, and yeah,
Speaker 10: I mean Donald Trump you had to say he was
Speaker 10: a prophet. But you know, people of reason could see
Speaker 10: this coming, right, I mean, people that were looking at
Speaker 10: the numbers are like, well, okay, this sounds great, but
Speaker 10: it just shows you the screen energy movement. It's not
Speaker 10: based in science, it's not based in reality. You know,
Speaker 10: this is based in politics, because any right thinking human
Speaker 10: being would not lead their people in this precarious situation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: And this gets back to you know, Joe Biden. You know,
Speaker 10: you know, we have wars going on all over the world,
Speaker 10: and you know he says the biggest threat to the
Speaker 10: country was climate change or the biggest extential threat to
Speaker 10: the country.
Speaker 2: You know, well, aside from trumperty.
Speaker 10: Next yeah right, well that yeah, right exactly, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 10: I got to watch out for the novel. You never know,
Speaker 10: he might tweet us to death.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. Well, this existential threat to the world being
Speaker 2: climate change. I mean, given the fact of the terrorism
Speaker 2: and all the stuff going on around the world, and
Speaker 2: this was the thing that he wants to hang his
Speaker 2: hat on. And you know, getting back to Europe, they've
Speaker 2: is it, am I mistaken Phil Flynn that their energy
Speaker 2: production from green energy, the solar and the wind is
Speaker 2: not producing as much as it was in the years past.
Speaker 2: Is that down?
Speaker 10: It is down? You know. In fact, it was kind
Speaker 10: of funny because, uh, there was a crisis in the
Speaker 10: UK a few months ago because the wind didn't blow. Okay,
Speaker 10: so when you start start, you know, put in your
Speaker 10: your things. It reminds me remember that old commercial leads
Speaker 10: to have with the farmer and they were talking about
Speaker 10: energy and then the wind would start and they run
Speaker 10: in and listen to the baseball game of the radio.
Speaker 10: The wind stop. They lost the baseball game, you know.
Speaker 10: Call I mean, that's that's kind of what Europe is doing, right,
Speaker 10: And you know it's kind of funny, you know. I
Speaker 10: mean when you you look at the arrogance of some
Speaker 10: of these green energy folks saying, oh, we don't need
Speaker 10: fossil fuels, we've got to stop doing it today to
Speaker 10: save the planet, It's like, well, what's your alternative to
Speaker 10: save the planet? Right? I mean, you know, your wind
Speaker 10: and solar isn't really that efficient, and you know, and
Speaker 10: it's not saving the planet because you know, these wind
Speaker 10: turbines end up in the you know, landfills. You know
Speaker 10: exactly solar panels are made with you know, toxic chemicals,
Speaker 10: and they only have a short shelf life. What are
Speaker 10: you going to do with them when they're all so
Speaker 10: you know, they don't think these things out right, They
Speaker 10: have to go back to reality. And I'll tell you this,
Speaker 10: and I'm a big believer, we're going to solve a
Speaker 10: lot of these problems using oil and gas, and we're
Speaker 10: going to be able to reduce methane because we've got
Speaker 10: new technologies coming online. The United States is forefront in
Speaker 10: the world of clean energy technology when it comes to
Speaker 10: oil and gas production. We you know, with the fracking,
Speaker 10: we've reduced greenhouse gas emissions more than any major industrialized
Speaker 10: country with that technology. And now with artificial intelligence coming
Speaker 10: in being able to do these things more efficiently and
Speaker 10: more cleanly, you know, the future looks very, very bright
Speaker 10: for US energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not a small point to point out
Speaker 2: that in the winter months in Europe, even though you know,
Speaker 2: with the windmills and stuff, wind doesn't blow much in
Speaker 2: the winter there. So you have this technology that's supposed
Speaker 2: to replace what I refer to as natural resources because
Speaker 2: I don't refer to them as fossil fuels. They are
Speaker 2: a natural resources. They're available to be used that if
Speaker 2: the wind's not blowing, you're not going to get that
Speaker 2: the wind turbines. And then you talk about this AI
Speaker 2: and we start seeing some of these complexes where this
Speaker 2: artificial technology, artificial intelligence that some of these complexes are
Speaker 2: taking as much electricity as small cities are taking, just
Speaker 2: in a small confined area. So the electrical grid is
Speaker 2: going to be pushed, and there's going to be this
Speaker 2: need for you know, other things other than this green
Speaker 2: technology that they're pushing.
Speaker 10: You're absolutely correct, and listen that, you know, when you
Speaker 10: know they Buiden administration want to say green energy jobs
Speaker 10: are the future. We're going to create a million green
Speaker 10: energy jobs. Where are the jobs? Where are the jobs?
Speaker 10: Because they missed the mark. The future isn't building electric cars. Okay,
Speaker 10: that's not it. The future is building up these data
Speaker 10: centers and these power centers for artificial intelligence. Right. You know,
Speaker 10: it kind of reminds me of the old commercial you
Speaker 10: know Biden was pushing, you know, the eight track. Hey,
Speaker 10: this is a new technology. We're sell our money at
Speaker 10: eight tracks, you know, you know, instead of computers. Right, yeah,
Speaker 10: computers were the future. You know, It's like no, I
Speaker 10: mean he was investing in the wrong technology. I mean
Speaker 10: the when you go back in future and say, hey,
Speaker 10: you know, was the future economy or economic growth based
Speaker 10: on electric cars or was it artificial intelligence and data centers?
Speaker 10: You're going to look back and look at the electric
Speaker 10: car investment. It was like investing all your money in
Speaker 10: an eight track, Right, It's going to have a limited
Speaker 10: shelf life. There's going to be newer technologies that are
Speaker 10: going to replace it. So you're you're barking up the
Speaker 10: wrong horse, you know. And that's why the government sometimes
Speaker 10: is the worst person or the worst group of people
Speaker 10: to be making these decisions, because they're more often than
Speaker 10: not wrong. That's why we need to encourage the free
Speaker 10: market to do these things, not some government bureaucrat that
Speaker 10: doesn't understand how things actually work well.
Speaker 2: And you hit a good point there too, as well
Speaker 2: as if you've got these bureaucrats that aren't used to
Speaker 2: the private sector, if they have no real world technology
Speaker 2: or real experience, and they start listening to some of
Speaker 2: these climiness and listen to some of these theorists talking
Speaker 2: about how this can work, and they start implementing that
Speaker 2: without saying, Okay, what are the unintended consequences? What can
Speaker 2: we do and what can we not do and what
Speaker 2: will work and what will not work, instead of looking
Speaker 2: at the business community to answer some of those questions.
Speaker 2: If they do this on their own, they're destined to failure.
Speaker 2: And it's just nuts.
Speaker 10: So and that's what we suffer the last four years.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, nameing somebody in the Biden administration
Speaker 10: that actually worked in the oil and gas industry exactly,
Speaker 10: or the nuclear industry. No, I mean our Energy secretary
Speaker 10: Jennifer Grenholm seems like a very nice lady, but my gosh,
Speaker 10: she didn't even understand some of the basic questions about
Speaker 10: oil production and how much we produce on a daily basis.
Speaker 10: Huge learning curve, and that's what happens when he started putting,
Speaker 10: you know, people making decisions, you know about a big
Speaker 10: part of the US economy with little or no experience.
Speaker 10: You're going to get, you know, what you pay for him,
Speaker 10: and God was pretty much a disaster and a waste
Speaker 10: of a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Phil. I really appreciate Phil Flynn been my guest
Speaker 2: senior market analyst. Price Futures Group, author of the Energy Report.
Speaker 2: I encourage people to subscribe to that and read that
Speaker 2: on a daily basis. Also contributed to Fox Businesses. I
Speaker 2: can't thank you enough for spending time with us. Have
Speaker 2: a happy Thanksgiving, my friend you.
Speaker 10: Too, my friend God. Blessings to you all and everybody listening.
Speaker 2: All righty, take care. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: fifty five care see the talk station seven thirty three
Speaker 2: and the more actually coming up on seven thirty four
Speaker 2: in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty
Speaker 2: five K see the talk station. Open up the phone
Speaker 2: lines here five one, three, seven four, nine fifty one,
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Speaker 2: two three eight two five five pound five point fifty
Speaker 2: on that at and T wireless phone. Even with all
Speaker 2: this optimism, we're seeing the the consumer confidence level going up.
Speaker 2: We're seeing construction industry kind of peeking out and saying, well,
Speaker 2: things are starting to look good. We're seeing in the
Speaker 2: trucking sector we're seeing uh, people being optimistic. There. The
Speaker 2: only seems to be the dark spot on the economy
Speaker 2: right now seems to be our auto industry. And that
Speaker 2: is kind of as we were talking about with Phil
Speaker 2: Flynn earlier in the previous segment, in the previous half hour,
Speaker 2: that a lot of this is self inflicted, well self
Speaker 2: inflicted to a certain extent of kind of jumping in
Speaker 2: a whole hog or both feet. But all so, these
Speaker 2: EV mandates or this this fuel mileage mandates from the
Speaker 2: federal government, that the energy that the car industry have
Speaker 2: not pushed back on hard enough, because when you tell
Speaker 2: a fleet that you have to have a certain amount
Speaker 2: of mileage per gallon, and that mileage per gallon can't
Speaker 2: be gotten by with the current technology that forces you
Speaker 2: to sell more evs, that forces you to sell more
Speaker 2: evs and produce more evs which people don't want and
Speaker 2: are sitting on the lots I mentioned I think earlier
Speaker 2: in the day that Ford has lost predicted to lose
Speaker 2: about five billion dollars. And until these car industries can
Speaker 2: get a little bit of help, hopefully from the Trump
Speaker 2: administration on these EV mandates and so on, I think
Speaker 2: the car industry when don't I see the other day
Speaker 2: that the new car average average monthly payment is like
Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars a month folks, that's insane. That's a uh,
Speaker 2: that's more than some people's house payments. Anyway, we'll pick
Speaker 2: this up on the other side. I'm Kevin Gordon in
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Speaker 2: thirty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: nothing says happy holidays like the McRib Yeah, just in
Speaker 2: time for the holidays. Mcribb is returning to men us
Speaker 2: this holiday season, but don't get used to it. McDonald's
Speaker 2: announced Wednesday that's the famous boneless pork patty sandwich will
Speaker 2: be available again starting to December the third, but as
Speaker 2: always little and be for a limited time. Now. This
Speaker 2: is one of those moves, and I I have to say,
Speaker 2: this is a product of McDonald's that I've never tried,
Speaker 2: so I'm not speaking from experience here, so I'm not
Speaker 2: really sure what all the excitement is. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people love the McRib and apparently it's very popular.
Speaker 2: But again we're seeing some of this bid for nostalgia.
Speaker 2: We're seeing Taco Bell bringing back some of their original
Speaker 2: fan favorites.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: I know my wife was excited when they talked about
Speaker 2: their uh some of these additions to their menu items
Speaker 2: that we're going back to previous type of And so
Speaker 2: we went and got those and she said, not quite
Speaker 2: what she remembers them to be. And when you're talking
Speaker 2: about nostalgia with some of these things, it's it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're if you're trying to do something
Speaker 2: from a and I love that. I guess it's the
Speaker 2: new phrase now that it's not uh it's not fast
Speaker 2: food restaurants, it's it's quick servis restaurants. I guess is
Speaker 2: the new politically correct term. When you roll something like
Speaker 2: this out, it gives well, it gives it free publicity.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously they're not taking out ads and here
Speaker 2: somebody like me is talking about it. You've seen it
Speaker 2: on some of these other networks and them talking about it,
Speaker 2: so it creates a certain amount of excitement. The additions
Speaker 2: to the Taco Bell menu that saw some activity there.
Speaker 2: Starbucks a few years ago when they ran brought out
Speaker 2: average foot traffic for all locations increased by twenty six
Speaker 2: percent a few days after the arrival of their limited
Speaker 2: edition holiday drinks in twenty twenty two, according to Location Analytics. Again,
Speaker 2: if you were talking about foot traffic, if you're talking
Speaker 2: about something that draws some ears or some foot traffic
Speaker 2: into your stores by announcing some of these things, and
Speaker 2: of course media picks it up and they talk about it.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting to see how this pans out again
Speaker 2: stoking the hype and getting people into the stores. But again,
Speaker 2: if you don't follow that up with something that is good,
Speaker 2: can't you know, don't know what to say? Well, I
Speaker 2: do you know what to say? People won't show up. Now.
Speaker 2: If you notice there's a couple of other outlets that
Speaker 2: around the fall, there's the pumpkin spice latte and stuff
Speaker 2: that I have to say, I always look forward to
Speaker 2: that at speedway gas stations. It's probably not good for you,
Speaker 2: it's probably I don't know, but I know it tastes good,
Speaker 2: so I like it. And usually that doesn't hang around.
Speaker 2: I've seen in the years past where it was like
Speaker 2: that appeared in September and then by the end of
Speaker 2: October it was gone. And I'm happy to see that
Speaker 2: it is now carried on into the Thanksgiving season that
Speaker 2: it's available still at some of the stores. I guess
Speaker 2: my complaining to corporate over the last dozen years or
Speaker 2: so about hey, why don't you have this around longer
Speaker 2: is finally paid off. I'll take the credit for it,
Speaker 2: if you don't mind, but probably not. It was probably
Speaker 2: a marketing decision on their part. But you know, it's
Speaker 2: you know what you see in Hollywood too, when you
Speaker 2: it seems like they've run out of ideas. They're revamping,
Speaker 2: they're dusting off certain movies and doing you know, number four,
Speaker 2: number five a sequel. You've seen this in Hollywood as
Speaker 2: far as the television series are concerned. But you've got
Speaker 2: to have something behind that. You just can't have the
Speaker 2: hype of trying to return to the nostalgia without making
Speaker 2: putting some how, should we say, meet on the bone
Speaker 2: that would not only draw people to your product, but
Speaker 2: then also keep them there going forward, because you're providing
Speaker 2: a product at a good value and available for people.
Speaker 2: But you know, when you start looking at some of
Speaker 2: the prices at some of these fast food restaurants and
Speaker 2: you see what's going on as far as food price
Speaker 2: is eating out. That's one of the things that a
Speaker 2: lot of people are just sticker shocked over. We had
Speaker 2: the lockdowns during COVID, and people, as far as their
Speaker 2: economy is concerned, once things opened up, they started going
Speaker 2: out and trying to enjoy concerts and plays and all
Speaker 2: kinds of activities away from the consumer goods. But then
Speaker 2: when we started getting hit with inflation, and we started
Speaker 2: seeing these nine point one percent inflation rate in June
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two, and with gas prices being high,
Speaker 2: energy costs being high adding to the inflation amount of
Speaker 2: where you're seeing inflation up around two and a half
Speaker 2: to three percent, depending upon how you look at that.
Speaker 2: When your own individual economics with the stuff that you
Speaker 2: buy are up considerably, and even though the market basket
Speaker 2: might be at a level, it's the specific items that
Speaker 2: you buy that if those items are up tremendously, that's
Speaker 2: going to affect your budget. And so when you find
Speaker 2: a situation where you're living paycheck to paycheck, where your
Speaker 2: paycheck doesn't go as far as the month is concerned,
Speaker 2: that's where these things start kicking back. And then with inflation,
Speaker 2: when you see the prices that are being experienced in
Speaker 2: these restaurants over the last year, year and a half,
Speaker 2: people are even starting to back away from that because
Speaker 2: it's just too expensive to go out and eat sometimes.
Speaker 2: And of course, you know, when I look at it
Speaker 2: from my standpoint, I'm lucky. I live at the best
Speaker 2: restaurant in the world. My wife when she makes stuff
Speaker 2: around the house, it spoils it. You know, you have
Speaker 2: a dish that's made at home and you're not going
Speaker 2: to order that out because you know it's not going
Speaker 2: to be as good. So you know, we've got to
Speaker 2: get this inflation under control. And it's arts with energy
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Speaker 2: one in the morning Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 2: fifty five krs the Talk station. You know, now that
Speaker 2: Kamala is off of her vacation and the post mortem
Speaker 2: of her campaign, there were a bunch of videos yesterday
Speaker 2: having to do with some campaign workers that were talking
Speaker 2: about what happened. I think it was U pod Saves
Speaker 2: the World, and I'll tell you what, it looked like
Speaker 2: a hostage situation. This guy, whoever the host was, looked
Speaker 2: like he was just it just I don't know what.
Speaker 2: It looked like he was in a coma as all
Speaker 2: these people were talking about what went wrong and how
Speaker 2: all the stuff that they did right and they're still
Speaker 2: not sure how everything. And then Kamala comes out with this.
Speaker 2: It was some nine minutes or so of a bizarre
Speaker 2: to be quite honest, in terms of I guess it
Speaker 2: was a conference call. Tim Walls was part of it,
Speaker 2: and it was just weird. And here here's just a
Speaker 2: little taste of it.
Speaker 11: I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
Speaker 11: anybody take your power from you. You have the same
Speaker 11: power that you did before November fifth, and you have
Speaker 11: the same purpose that you did, and you have the
Speaker 11: same ability to engage and inspire.
Speaker 2: What And if you watch the thing, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people on line that said, you know, was she drunk?
Speaker 2: There's a lot I mean, when you really look at it,
Speaker 2: and if you're looking at it on your phone. When
Speaker 2: you look at the way she's talking, it does seem
Speaker 2: like she's not that she's consume some alcohol or something else.
Speaker 2: And it almost reminded me of somebody who does a
Speaker 2: video that talks about to an ex boyfriend or you know,
Speaker 2: you know I'm so good and you know you've dissed
Speaker 2: me and so on, and you're not going to take
Speaker 2: my power away from me. And Tim Walls got on
Speaker 2: there and said some weird things as well, and it
Speaker 2: was just, you know, sometimes it's best not to say
Speaker 2: anything rather than say something. And what I find interesting
Speaker 2: is that I thought Donald Trump was an existential threat
Speaker 2: to democracy right after the election. The Wednesday after when
Speaker 2: it was confirmed he gets invited to the White House,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden, the General Millie was on a talk show,
Speaker 2: was on stage with some hosts and said, ah, you know,
Speaker 2: even though he said that he was that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: was hitler that ended democracy as we know it, he said,
Speaker 2: everything's gonna be fine. Then of course you got Joe
Speaker 2: Scarborough and Mika Brezinski going to mar A Lago after
Speaker 2: them talking about how existential threat to democracy and Joe
Speaker 2: Scarborough saying, if you don't understand that this man is dangerous,
Speaker 2: then you're stupid and all this sort of stuff. And
Speaker 2: yet they go there to, I don't know, say that
Speaker 2: we're going to start opening a dialogue with him. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: And now Kamala Harris because Donald Trump was an existential
Speaker 2: threat to democracy and they paid Oprah Winfrey two point
Speaker 2: five million dollars and she said that this is a fairy.
Speaker 2: Don't sit this one out. If you don't vote now,
Speaker 2: you may never ever be able to cast a ballot again.
Speaker 2: Now if Kamala Harris is talking and has announced it
Speaker 2: possibly that she's going to run for president again in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, well, I thought there weren't going to
Speaker 2: be any elections. So everything that they told us, everything
Speaker 2: that this spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media was
Speaker 2: telling us for the last year, was an absolute lie.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're going to be talking with Jeff Pierce.
Speaker 2: He is with Reese Across America Radio Network and we'll
Speaker 2: be talking to him about the recent Across America event
Speaker 2: coming up on de Summer the fourteenth. I'm Kevin Gordon
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five K see the talk.
Speaker 1: Station And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: on fifty five KOs the talk station.
Speaker 2: Six minutes after eight o'clock. My guest is Jeff Pierce,
Speaker 2: Director of Broadcast Media Partnerships RECE Across America. Welcome to
Speaker 2: the program. Jeff certainly appreciates you spending time with us
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 7: Kevin, thank you for your support of our mission. To
Speaker 7: appreciate you having you, having me on. This is becoming
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Speaker 2: Yes it is, Yes it is. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: Across America.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you for asking me that, because I love
Speaker 7: to start with explaining what our mission is, because fifty
Speaker 7: percent of my conversations every day are I don't know
Speaker 7: what Reads Across America is. So Reads Across America is
Speaker 7: a national nonprofit that honors veterans on National Reads Across
Speaker 7: America Day, as proclaimed by Congress. This year will be
Speaker 7: December fourteenth. This year, we will be in four thousand,
Speaker 7: nine hundred plus locations and growing, by the way, where
Speaker 7: we will honor a veteran with a veterans with fresh
Speaker 7: Balsam Remembrance READS, and it is our mission for our
Speaker 7: nonprofit is to remember the fallen, honor those who's all
Speaker 7: who serve, and teach future generations the value of freedom.
Speaker 7: So obviously the remember the fallen is laying the wreath
Speaker 7: in these forty nine hundred plus locations. You can learn
Speaker 7: more about that at Reads across America dot org. And
Speaker 7: last year we honored just three million veterans nationwide, all
Speaker 7: fifty states and overseas and Guam and Quantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Speaker 7: So where this giant national nonprofit that is in all
Speaker 7: these places. We're also a very small organization, so we
Speaker 7: rely heavily on volunteers to help us fulfill our mission.
Speaker 2: Yes, and if somebody wants to volunteer now in these
Speaker 2: different cemeteries around the country, you can actually go on
Speaker 2: line and specifically pinpoint where you live or what's near you,
Speaker 2: and you can sign up and volunteer to be one
Speaker 2: of these people that show up and distribute these wreaths
Speaker 2: on December fourteenth.
Speaker 7: That is correct. You know, we would love it if
Speaker 7: you would sponsor a seventeen dollars remember It's wreath. But
Speaker 7: if even if you just want to give the treasure
Speaker 7: of your time. You've got to reads across America dot org.
Speaker 7: And since the last time we spoke Kevin, we've improved
Speaker 7: our search functionality so people should be able to easily
Speaker 7: find a location near them, and with over forty nine
Speaker 7: hundred locations, I'm confident there is one near you now.
Speaker 2: When I signed up, I was amazed at how quickly
Speaker 2: it seems like I know, no quicker put in my
Speaker 2: information within about five minutes. It seems somebody contacted me
Speaker 2: from the local chapter and was able to talk to
Speaker 2: them and get all set up up for the first
Speaker 2: time that I participated in this event. That and I
Speaker 2: got to tell you it is a very, very rewarding
Speaker 2: experience to be able to be there, to experience this,
Speaker 2: the camaraderie of the people that are involved, as well
Speaker 2: as doing something for the fallen soldiers. And a lot
Speaker 2: of these are in at least in my area. It
Speaker 2: was areas because of the amount of reefs. And we
Speaker 2: would love, obviously, we would love and I would love
Speaker 2: to see the organization be able to put a wreath
Speaker 2: at every veteran's grave, but currently with limited resources and stuff,
Speaker 2: they go to the oldest section first, to remember the
Speaker 2: fallen that are no longer remembered.
Speaker 7: You're absolutely right, Kevin. So with some locations that happens, right,
Speaker 7: we don't get enough coverage and enough refs donated or
Speaker 7: sponsored to cover the entire location. So we have to
Speaker 7: make a choice, right what who who gets covered in
Speaker 7: that location. And the important thing is that a lot
Speaker 7: of these locations that don't have full coverage, they're still
Speaker 7: going around to all of the markers for the veterans,
Speaker 7: and they are saying their name out loud, right, because
Speaker 7: there's there's an expression you die twice, the first time
Speaker 7: when the last breath leaves your body, and the second
Speaker 7: time when no one has spoken your name. So the
Speaker 7: idea here is to ensure that these veterans get get remembered,
Speaker 7: especially around the holiday season. Right. We always do it
Speaker 7: the same, not the same exact date, but the same Saturday,
Speaker 7: the second Saturday in December. Right, So December fourteenth is
Speaker 7: National Reads Across America Day, and and and we do
Speaker 7: it at that time because it's an opportunity for families
Speaker 7: to come together and remember their loved ones. I go
Speaker 7: to a lot of Gold Star Mothers conventions and they
Speaker 7: gather around the moms the headstone for their loved one,
Speaker 7: and and and spend time during the holiday season with
Speaker 7: their loved one that's no longer with us, and they've
Speaker 7: they've made the ultimate sacrifice right for our nation. And
Speaker 7: we want to make sure that those men and women
Speaker 7: get honored, and all men and women who have served
Speaker 7: get honored, not just here in the United States, but
Speaker 7: also overseas. Right we're expanding our mission overseas. The goal
Speaker 7: of the organization is to honor every veteran of the
Speaker 7: United States military, and at some point we'll get there.
Speaker 7: You know, A three million last year was a great start,
Speaker 7: and every year we sustainably, sustainably grow and people can
Speaker 7: can learn how to help at leads across America dot
Speaker 7: org uh and and like you said, I mean, even
Speaker 7: if you've just ball interior time to lay the wreath
Speaker 7: and say that veteran name, it's so important for that
Speaker 7: to happen now.
Speaker 2: At least in the location I was at, it was
Speaker 2: about a two and a half three hours section. You
Speaker 2: got gathered in the morning to get together and kind
Speaker 2: of plan what's going on, and get all the reefs
Speaker 2: loaded up, go to the cemetery around the corner from
Speaker 2: where the site was, and there was a ceremony at
Speaker 2: the end that was honoring the fallen and it was
Speaker 2: about two and a half hours out of my day.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the least we can do for
Speaker 2: our fallen soldiers. And Jeff Pierce, I am so glad
Speaker 2: that you said that line about when a soldier dies twice.
Speaker 2: I get choked up every time. I can barely get
Speaker 2: it out of my mouth. And when you said it,
Speaker 2: I got chills up and down my body because when
Speaker 2: you think about that, when you think about how you
Speaker 2: go into these cemeteries, and especially the fallen soldiers, the
Speaker 2: people that give in their life's blood for this country,
Speaker 2: for the freedoms we enjoy, and the fact that over
Speaker 2: the time people forget their families move away, the families
Speaker 2: die off and those people are no longer remembered. And
Speaker 2: the mere fact that somebody shows up put a wreath
Speaker 2: on the grave says their name, It's truly a tremendous honor.
Speaker 2: And with almost every wreath that I laid that day,
Speaker 2: the days that I've done this, I get a chill
Speaker 2: every time I do that. And it is just a
Speaker 2: fantastic organization and a fantastic event. And as you say,
Speaker 2: if you can show up and volunteer, there's a place
Speaker 2: online where you can do that. Also, if you can
Speaker 2: seventeen dollars to sponsor one of these wreaths, is what
Speaker 2: a couple of Starbucks coffees for crying out loud?
Speaker 7: And are we allowed to talk about your other job here,
Speaker 7: Kevin on this station? Your other job sure, absolutely, so,
Speaker 7: very heavily. I'll just say it this way. You're heavily
Speaker 7: involved in transportation, right, yeah, And so we'll put it
Speaker 7: that way. So the transportation industry a huge part of
Speaker 7: what we do. We can't do it without our trucking industry, right,
Speaker 7: So this year we're looking at over ninety five percent
Speaker 7: of our reefs that will be transported that transpo will
Speaker 7: be donated. That's trucks, drivers, fuel, cross docks, intermodal, the
Speaker 7: whole nine yards donated this year thanks to the trucking industry.
Speaker 2: Now, the trucking industry itself, I have never seen a well,
Speaker 2: there are groups, but they are some of the most
Speaker 2: giving and so much patriotic group of people that I've
Speaker 2: had the pleasure of being around. And the amount of
Speaker 2: learning about this organization race across America and the amount
Speaker 2: of time, the amount of energy, the amount of fuel,
Speaker 2: the amount of just gearing up the big rig and
Speaker 2: being the person that delivers these raies is a monumental
Speaker 2: task in and of itself, and the amount of time,
Speaker 2: fuel and energy that's done with that is just a tremendous.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and the transportation industry has been with US Saints
Speaker 7: day one. This organization started in nineteen ninety two as
Speaker 7: a private family donation to the get special permission from
Speaker 7: a state senator to laiden reefs at Arlington National Cemetery.
Speaker 7: And it was just one truckload, and one truckload is
Speaker 7: about five thousand, and last year we laid over three million.
Speaker 7: So if you think about ninety to ninety five percent
Speaker 7: of that transportation being donated, that's a lot of truckloads.
Speaker 7: And we can't are without our truckers and a lot
Speaker 7: of Medicans in the trucking industry that, you know, one
Speaker 7: of one of one of the I don't like to
Speaker 7: make people cry, Kevin, but to see a truck driver
Speaker 7: break down into tears because they are so emotional about
Speaker 7: hauling that load of wreaths because of you know, because
Speaker 7: of you know their life experience. We've had some a gults,
Speaker 7: our dads hauling hauling loads, or or you know, veterans
Speaker 7: that have have lost friends and family. They it just
Speaker 7: means so much to people to be able to do
Speaker 7: this and and to make sure that their loved one
Speaker 7: is honored, and you know, and to honor your loved
Speaker 7: one is if you have someone you've lost, it's breaths
Speaker 7: across America dot org. Uh and you can ask specifically
Speaker 7: in a lot of locations to make sure that that
Speaker 7: wreath goes to their their headstone or marker.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, my guest has been Jeff Pearson. Jeff, I know
Speaker 2: you've got to get out of here, and uh, I
Speaker 2: certainly appreciate you spending some time with us today. And
Speaker 2: again it's reesecross America dot org. You can go on there.
Speaker 2: It's a great website. You can volunteer, and if you
Speaker 2: can't volunteer, if you can't take the time, please consider
Speaker 2: the seventeen dollars sponsoring of a wreath for a fallen soldier.
Speaker 2: It's pretty much the least we can do for them
Speaker 2: and for their memory. Jeff, again, best to you and
Speaker 2: happy Thanksgiving and we'll be talking very soon, I'm sure
Speaker 2: before mid American Trucking Show. I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Kevin. And thank you again for always looking for
Speaker 7: a ways to support our mission. And Happy Thanksgiving to you,
Speaker 7: your family and your team.
Speaker 2: All right, you take care of have a happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Jeff Pierces, Director Broadcast Media Partnership Reese Across America. I'm
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the
Speaker 2: talk stations in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: fifty five KROSEE the talk station. You know the problem
Speaker 2: of having music bumper music that you really like, you
Speaker 2: kind of want to let it go a little bit
Speaker 2: longer than you should going into and out of segments.
Speaker 2: So but again, Danny doing a great job there with
Speaker 2: the music this morning, certainly appreciated. I saw, let's sell.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, well, let's go to the phones here,
Speaker 2: uh by the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven,
Speaker 2: four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two
Speaker 2: three talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight two,
Speaker 2: five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless
Speaker 2: phone to the phones. We go, Ken fifty five Kerosee.
Speaker 2: You're on the air. Thank you so much for calling,
Speaker 2: and Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm happy Thanksgiving to you, Kevin, and to everyone
Speaker 6: out there. One of a great share. And one of
Speaker 6: the things I wanted to mention was the fact that
Speaker 6: the nine million Biden Democrat voters that disappeared when it
Speaker 6: came to voting for Kamala and so no one has
Speaker 6: ever dealt with that. I mean, Kamala had I think
Speaker 6: seventy four million maybe and he had maybe eighty one
Speaker 6: or so.
Speaker 2: We believe that number.
Speaker 6: Well, see that's why I said. That's why I said
Speaker 6: they disappeared when it came to voting, because if you,
Speaker 6: my son and I, we actually look at the chart
Speaker 6: from twenty twelve, from twenty twelve on up and and
Speaker 6: the spike in twenty twenty was just totally off the
Speaker 6: charge it was, you know. So anyway that I've asked
Speaker 6: that to many Democrats. So that's one thing that you
Speaker 6: do well real quick. The other thing, one thing that
Speaker 6: I've been pushing for is to reduce student loan rates
Speaker 6: to two percent since Obama took it over. Instead of
Speaker 6: keeping the rates of six percent, reduce the student loan
Speaker 6: rates to two percent across the board and have all
Speaker 6: the payments go to the principal first, so that will
Speaker 6: reward the people to pay their loans off early in
Speaker 6: full amount. And and and I think that's doable. I've
Speaker 6: been pushing that. Send something to UH about then and
Speaker 6: hopefully that and UH locally UH in Cincinnati coming up,
Speaker 6: they are really going to try to take another attack
Speaker 6: at the water work. So they're going to try to
Speaker 6: privatize that, take that from a public entity as we
Speaker 6: know it to a one that's controlled by a private
Speaker 6: board similar to the railroad, and then they're going to
Speaker 6: use that. So that's coming down the pipeline and they're
Speaker 6: going to do the same.
Speaker 2: Where do where do you stand on that? Forward? Against it?
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm one hundred percent against that. You know, politics,
Speaker 6: Some say politics is a privatization of the public assets.
Speaker 6: So if you've got money making public assets and you
Speaker 6: can somehow divert the income over from the public treasury
Speaker 6: to a private entity treasury, that private entity is the
Speaker 6: one that's better off. And the public tres treasury has
Speaker 6: never relished right and parking.
Speaker 2: And I think and I think what we see is
Speaker 2: when you turn over that responsibility another agency may be
Speaker 2: able to do it well. It should be with some oversight,
Speaker 2: and you should have people in these areas that understand
Speaker 2: the business and operate within the confines of the city
Speaker 2: or the county as far instead of privatizing all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Because again, the whole concept of government is we hire
Speaker 2: a government to do for us collectively what we can't
Speaker 2: do individually, and so the entities, the individual governments, having
Speaker 2: the responsibility to do that and to do that in
Speaker 2: an expeditious fashion is the way to.
Speaker 6: Go well, definitely, and something as major as the water
Speaker 6: works that is primary. I mean, you can't get any
Speaker 6: more major life blood than that. So that's why that's
Speaker 6: coming down the pipe. And I just want to kind
Speaker 6: of give people poly via type of warning to be
Speaker 6: on the lookout for that because they're gonna have some
Speaker 6: very popular people. The same way they did the railroad,
Speaker 6: they're gonna do that with the waterworks. And that's coming
Speaker 6: up within the next I say, six to nine months.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good, great, And at some point in time
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to because I've put my accountant's hat on,
Speaker 2: because as you know, I'm a recovering accountant, and I
Speaker 2: took those numbers back to nineteen sixty as far as
Speaker 2: the elections are concerned, and I'll share that with you
Speaker 2: at some point in time and see the big spike
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty for that missing nine million voters that
Speaker 2: were supposedly out the phantom voters that were out there.
Speaker 6: They just flat out disappeared. Yes, hey, you have a
Speaker 6: great one.
Speaker 2: You do the same, Ken, Thanks so much for the call.
Speaker 2: Nine million voters suddenly disappearing five one, three, seven, four
Speaker 2: nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three
Speaker 2: talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five
Speaker 2: five pound, five point fifty at and t wireless. Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs The Talk Station,
Speaker 2: eight thirty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the Talk Station. By the way,
Speaker 2: if you voted for Donald Trump, do you realize that
Speaker 2: you're uninformed about reality? So says Alec Baldwin, and those
Speaker 2: sentiments were shared, I believe by Sharon Stone. I think
Speaker 2: she said that basically that people were uninformed, that they
Speaker 2: were misinformed, that they didn't have a full grasp on
Speaker 2: the news, and that Alec Balden basically said that people
Speaker 2: weren't very educated. Really, Okay, well, let's go to something
Speaker 2: here that I thought was rather interesting. Alec Baldwin let
Speaker 2: me see, attended Georgetown or let me see. From nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy six to nineteen seventy nine, he attended George Washington University.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy nine, he lost the election for student
Speaker 2: body president and received a personal letter from former US
Speaker 2: President Richard Nixon, with whom he had a common friend,
Speaker 2: encourage him to use the LASS as a learning experience. Afterward,
Speaker 2: he transferred to the Tish School of the Arts of
Speaker 2: New York University, where he studied and so on. Did
Speaker 2: not get his degree. Now, he started his acting career
Speaker 2: in seventy nine nineteen eighty thereabouts, and it wasn't until
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four that he completed his Bachelor of Fine
Speaker 2: Arts degree at NYU. So this makes him an informed genius.
Speaker 2: I suppose in terms of political content, economics, all kinds
Speaker 2: of information, as far as the stock market is concerned, business, technology,
Speaker 2: energy production, and so on, and that we merely are
Speaker 2: just the roobs out here, that we are uninformed. Now,
Speaker 2: I wonder I went online and I was looking at
Speaker 2: some stats, and if you start a degree and you stop,
Speaker 2: those credits, depending upon most institutions, don't last unless I mean,
Speaker 2: you can start in college and you can work towards
Speaker 2: a degree, and you can take one class, then another class,
Speaker 2: and you can complete this over a t but as
Speaker 2: long as you're showing steady progress, but where you have
Speaker 2: a gap of fourteen years, I'm not sure that those
Speaker 2: credits can continue. So this was probably a gift to
Speaker 2: him because of his notoriety. Sharon Stone, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: she dropped out of college for a modeling career and then,
Speaker 2: being inspired by Hillary Clinton, went back and got her
Speaker 2: degree in twenty sixteen. So I guess as of twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: she is now informed. And we are the idiots out
Speaker 2: here unbelievable how ignorant these people are, and what they
Speaker 2: call the Dunning Krueger effect, which means that you don't
Speaker 2: have enough. See, in order to be stupid, you have
Speaker 2: to have a certain level of intelligence to realize that
Speaker 2: you're stupid. These people don't even have that. The Dunning
Speaker 2: Krueger effect is basically somebody that thinks they're a heck
Speaker 2: of a lot smarter than they actually are. And they
Speaker 2: have a bigger idea of their worth and their intelligence.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately, in this case this applies to these two
Speaker 2: UH phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty
Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one
Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound,
Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and tire from Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station
Speaker 2: eight thirty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five K see the talk station. Hey,
Speaker 2: is it too soon to be talking about the peace
Speaker 2: dividend from the election all of a sudden? Isn't it
Speaker 2: interesting that their talks about there was some talk a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago about Iran kind of ramping down
Speaker 2: their nuclear energy or their nuclear weapons program. Now that
Speaker 2: was only for a couple of days, and there's that
Speaker 2: was kind of one of those things that was leaked
Speaker 2: out but then backed off. But you wonder if some
Speaker 2: of that hasn't been leaked out on purpose. We have,
Speaker 2: you know, because of Iran being state sponsor of terror
Speaker 2: and the fact that their oil exports and their oil
Speaker 2: revenues came in dramatically as we talked about with Phil
Speaker 2: Flynn earlier in the program, that the oil revenues that
Speaker 2: they got that was they they were on the verge
Speaker 2: of bankruptcy during the Trump administration because they weren't making
Speaker 2: enough money from their oil. But with the billions of
Speaker 2: dollars that they've received since a Biden administration came into
Speaker 2: office and the money that was released to them UH
Speaker 2: Front that had been held in UH that was was
Speaker 2: embargoed against them, all of a sudden, now they're flushed
Speaker 2: with cash and they can afford to state sponsor of
Speaker 2: terrorism through Hesbealah Hamas and the Uti rebels and uh yeah,
Speaker 2: Uti Rebels in what is it yelp, yelp and whatever.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so we got these terrorist attacks happening as
Speaker 2: a result of these satellite groups or the space with
Speaker 2: ran funding all of a sudden, just yesterday, it was
Speaker 2: announced on Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon, Biden announced that there was
Speaker 2: a ceasefire and agreed to between Hesbelah and the Israelis
Speaker 2: so that the missiles that are firing into Israel into
Speaker 2: the northern part of Israel from Hesbelah will cease and
Speaker 2: the one hundred or the fifty thousand to one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand Israelis who are currently refugees within their own country
Speaker 2: because they've had to evacuate that area because of the
Speaker 2: number of missiles coming into their country. They are able
Speaker 2: to move back home, and Donald Trump on the campaign
Speaker 2: trail said that he was going to be that he
Speaker 2: was going to make sure that there was peace brought
Speaker 2: to the Middle East. Now, either you do, and I
Speaker 2: guess hopefully, is this a peace dividend? Is this something
Speaker 2: that they said, Well, we don't want this forced on us.
Speaker 2: We want to at least have some rooment negotiating table.
Speaker 2: We don't want to be wiped out by Israel. And
Speaker 2: we want to because as you've seen over the last
Speaker 2: several months, if you're a Hesbeal a leader, or you're
Speaker 2: a Hamas leader, your days on this earth aren't aren't
Speaker 2: very good, aren't very numbered, I should say, so if
Speaker 2: you have these threats that you're going to be wiped
Speaker 2: out instead of an administration that is kind of kind
Speaker 2: of not very I mean, yeah, they're supportive of Israel,
Speaker 2: but not as supportive as Donald Trump was during his
Speaker 2: tenure as president. And if you have somebody that's got
Speaker 2: Israel's back, then maybe you want to get to the
Speaker 2: negotiating table. And this is part of the peace process
Speaker 2: that they're exploring. This is big news and I don't
Speaker 2: see it being talked about very much. I mean, this
Speaker 2: has been ongoing and there have been refugees within Israel
Speaker 2: from the fifty to one hundred thousand people that have
Speaker 2: had to vacate their homes. Israel finally said after they
Speaker 2: attacks by Hamas on October the seventh of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: enough is enough. We're not putting up with these And
Speaker 2: you know, Israel is a country and look on a map,
Speaker 2: do yourself a favor. Look on a map. Israel is
Speaker 2: about the size of New Jersey. And can you imagine
Speaker 2: the state of New Jersey taking over one thousand missiles
Speaker 2: fired into it from hostile neighbors New York, Connecticut, any
Speaker 2: of these countries around them being fired in there with
Speaker 2: them just sitting back and taking it and not saying that,
Speaker 2: you know what, We're going to go attack these people
Speaker 2: and put them out of business. And this is what
Speaker 2: is going on in Israel. Yes they've got the Iron Dome,
Speaker 2: Yes they have the ability to shoot down most of
Speaker 2: these missiles being fired into their country, but sometimes some
Speaker 2: of them do land and cause injury and death. And
Speaker 2: so when you have this being israel Is saying enough
Speaker 2: is enough, We're going to stop this terrorism and go
Speaker 2: and attack these people. Then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 2: world community says, oh, well, what about the collateral damage?
Speaker 2: And I was talking to somebody the other day and
Speaker 2: they talked about how many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.
Speaker 2: You know, in the Jewish community and Jewish religion and
Speaker 2: in Islamic religion, you are supposed to bury your dead
Speaker 2: within twenty four hours of their death. And when if
Speaker 2: you notice that during the Hamas attack, a lot of
Speaker 2: these bodies were dismembered and the body parts were thrown
Speaker 2: out in the you know, on the ground and kicked
Speaker 2: around and actually transported away from the area. So those
Speaker 2: bodies necessarily couldn't be buried until all the body parts
Speaker 2: were assembled, or at least the majority of them were assembled.
Speaker 2: But again, if you've got forty thousand people of these
Speaker 2: Palestinians that have been killed, where are you know, if
Speaker 2: you hit an apartment complex and supposedly one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty people have died, all right, you got to bury
Speaker 2: those within a day or so. But why don't they
Speaker 2: line up the bodies and say, look what these cruel
Speaker 2: Israelis have done. They claim that there's been forty thousand
Speaker 2: people that have died, citizens, innocent people, But where are
Speaker 2: the bodies lined up? We're accepting numbers, and the world
Speaker 2: community is accepting numbers from a terrorist organization, a propagandist organization,
Speaker 2: and an organization that has provided terror to the people
Speaker 2: that they're supposed to be overseeing and governing. So are
Speaker 2: there forty thousand deaths over in the Gaza or they've
Speaker 2: been lying to us as well. And the spoon fed
Speaker 2: regurgitators in the mainstream media provide the narrative five one, three, seven,
Speaker 2: four nine fifty five hundred one eight hundred, Day two
Speaker 2: three talk one eight hundred day two three eight two
Speaker 2: five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see
Speaker 2: the talk station. Eight thirty one in the morning, Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thommas fifty five K see the
Speaker 2: talk station. You know, as we wind up this Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: Eve show, I just want to say how much I
Speaker 2: want to give thanks to the fact that I have
Speaker 2: a great family, have a great wife, and I certainly
Speaker 2: appreciate all the blessings that have been bestowed on us.
Speaker 2: I thank for the friends, I think, the fact that
Speaker 2: we have the potential of this this incoming administration. I'm
Speaker 2: thankful that the voters of the United States saw it
Speaker 2: in their best interest to vote somebody in that has
Speaker 2: their best interest at heart as well. I want to
Speaker 2: finish the story. You know, we're seeing all this post
Speaker 2: mortem about the election and all these comments, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, we're seeing a lot of comments by
Speaker 2: James Carville. You know, when you talk about somebody's claim
Speaker 2: to fame of basically handling Clinton's election, and really, other
Speaker 2: than being a political commentator, he hasn't really been all
Speaker 2: that brilliant up to this point. And the thing that
Speaker 2: bothers me the most is that the spoon fed regurgitators
Speaker 2: in the mainstream media actually give him any credit. I
Speaker 2: thought we went through this, whatever happened to the me
Speaker 2: too movement? Believe the woman, you know, James Carville was
Speaker 2: the one with the drag, the one hundred dollars, you know,
Speaker 2: with Paula Jones when she was making the accusations against
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton, drag one hundred dollars Bill through a trailer
Speaker 2: park and there's no telling what you will find. Isn't
Speaker 2: that one of the most demeaning things that you can
Speaker 2: possibly say about a potential accuser That eventually Bill Clinton
Speaker 2: was fined and found out that he lied about the
Speaker 2: sexual encounter and then of course lied about his liaison
Speaker 2: and his sexual acts with Monica Lewinsky. I mean, for
Speaker 2: crying out loud and this guy actually has a platform
Speaker 2: where he can actually talk about his ideas. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get that out one of the
Speaker 2: final thoughts. But again, I do want to say again
Speaker 2: how thankful I am for being able to spend time
Speaker 2: with you guys this morning and all the phone calls
Speaker 2: and the guests Phil Flynn with Price Futures Group and
Speaker 2: Jeff Pierce with reesecross America. Again, if you have an opportunity,
Speaker 2: check out reesecross America their website. You can go online
Speaker 2: and donate, or you can donate a volunteer your time
Speaker 2: on December the fourteenth for the laying of these wreaths
Speaker 2: at these gravesites and of course, seventeen dollars for these
Speaker 2: reefs to be able to sponsor one of these wreaths
Speaker 2: for crying out loud, and you probably spend that on
Speaker 2: a couple of cups of Starbucks coffee or whatever. So
Speaker 2: it's a very worthwhile cause there is a lot of
Speaker 2: over there. There is a lot of overhead that has
Speaker 2: been donating, as Jeff pointed out, a lot of these
Speaker 2: and a lot of people in the transportation industry volunteer
Speaker 2: a lot of their times to get these wreaths delivered
Speaker 2: because it all comes out of one location in Maine
Speaker 2: and it gets distributed to these thirty nine hundred different
Speaker 2: graveyards around the country. Well, folks, when we're up against
Speaker 2: the clock here, time for us to get out of here.
Speaker 2: Glenn Beck comes up later on today or right after
Speaker 2: the show, and certainly appreciate spending this time with you,
Speaker 2: and I hope everybody has a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: If you're going to be out on the road, make
Speaker 2: sure be aware of the fact that there's going to
Speaker 2: be a lot of traffic out there and plan ahead.
Speaker 2: Since you're not rushing. The key idea is to get there.
Speaker 2: You don't necessarily have to get there on time. You
Speaker 2: want to get there in one piece and want to
Speaker 2: get there safely, so everybody have a blessed and a
Speaker 2: happy Thanksgiving. And especially if you want, if you want
Speaker 2: to reduce your Christmas list, giving present gifts, talk politics
Speaker 2: at Thanksgiving, that'll cut your licks list down. I'm Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five karas the Talk
Speaker 2: State