WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.120 And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.039 fifty five KOs the Talk station. 3 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.239 Coming up on five minutes after five o'clock. I know 4 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.320 this isn't Brian's Thomas as if you've got to my 5 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:28.839 Facebook page. Every day when I come in fill in 6 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.960 for Brian, I post on my Facebook page a rundown 7 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.600 of who we have on the program, and today is 8 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:39.560 no different. Brian is off today. He's got his final 9 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:45.439 fitting for his stretchy pants for tailor made stretchy pants 10 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.399 for the Thanksgiving holidays, because you know, when you do 11 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.240 that Thanksgiving dinner and you start eating, you need those 12 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:55.200 stretchy pants in order to accommodate all the food. But 13 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:58.079 taking a look at who we've got going on today, 14 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:01.399 coming up at seven oh five, we got Flynn senior 15 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:04.760 market analysts with Price Futures Group, and he's author of 16 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.439 the Energy Report, and he has a frequent contributor to 17 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:10.400 Fox Business News. He is one of the He and 18 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:12.439 Ice Eyed I and an awful lot of stuff. And 19 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.319 on this Energy Report he's always talking about what's going 20 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.640 on in the oil markets, commodity markets, and so on. 21 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:22.280 But it's so important because everything that we do everything, 22 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.439 every business. The one thing they all have in common 23 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.239 is energy. Whether it's the electricity to run the machines, 24 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.840 whether it's the gas that runs your car, whether it's 25 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.719 the diesel that runs your truck, heating oil for your home, 26 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.400 the electricity in your home, if you work from home. 27 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.040 Everything revolves around energy. And one of the things about 28 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:46.319 what we've been experiencing as far as this high inflation rate, 29 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:47.519 if all you got to do is look at the 30 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.280 energy prices and what a barrel of oil was back 31 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:52.959 in twenty twenty, when we are energy independent for the 32 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.120 first time since nineteen forty nine versus what it is today. 33 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:59.280 And so he's very knowledgeable of that. We are on 34 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.719 the same page as far as what was going on 35 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.000 as far as the Biden administration, their energy policy, very 36 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:06.840 up to date, as far as what's going on over 37 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.120 in the Middle East. And so yeah, I really enjoy 38 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.879 talking to him. And then in the eight o'clock hour 39 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:13.960 eight oh five, we're gonna be talking to Jeff Pierce. 40 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:16.719 He is the director of broadcast and media partnership with 41 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.719 rees Across America. We'll discuss their mission, especially the upcoming 42 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.319 National Reefs Across America day, which is going to be 43 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:27.599 December the fourteenth, and I would encourage you that between 44 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:31.879 now and then sometime this morning, go on the Rees 45 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:35.840 across America website. There is a place there where you 46 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.680 can volunteer. And if you're not familiar with the organization, 47 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.560 this is an organization that started very small out of Maine, 48 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:47.159 I believe is if my memory serves me correct, and 49 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:49.080 have my notes in front of me right now. But 50 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.520 it was very small. They had some reese leftover. They 51 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.199 decided that, well, okay, we've sold these reefs and we've 52 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:00.000 got some leftover, we'll go to Arlington National Cemetery and 53 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.400 lay them on some of the reefs of these soldiers 54 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:07.159 and go to the oldest part of the cemetery and 55 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.199 do this. And they did this a couple of years, 56 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:14.759 and one year it snowed that day and somebody took 57 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.000 a picture of it, and that picture went viral, and 58 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.039 from that point on they just started booming. And now 59 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.759 they have I think it's forty six hundred volunteers over 60 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:29.639 millions of reefs that are transported free of charge by 61 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:33.439 various truckers and so on, trucking companies all over the 62 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.000 United States and a couple of our territories, Guam and 63 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.319 I think Puerto Rico or what And on the one 64 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.879 day in December this year it happens to be December 65 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:48.560 of the fourteenth, they gather and lay these reefs at 66 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:53.120 these various military sites in these graveyards around the country. 67 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.319 There's one in Southgate that I've gone to in the past. 68 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:57.919 I'm not going to be able to do it this 69 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.120 year because my granddaughter's graduated from NKU and so we've 70 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.360 got that going on that morning. But it is a 71 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.360 great time. It's only a couple hours. And the purpose 72 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.680 of this is they go to the oldest parts of 73 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:17.199 the cemetery where the soldiers, where these are older grave markers, 74 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.040 and the saying goes and every time I say this, 75 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.000 I get choked up. But they say that a soldier 76 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:28.199 dies twice. Once when they die they take their last breath, 77 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:32.040 and the other is when their name is forgotten. And 78 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.319 the purpose of this is the laying of the wreath. 79 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.920 They lay the wreath and then they say the soldier 80 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:40.600 of the person's name out loud, and then move on 81 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:42.959 to the next lay the wreath and then say the 82 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.000 person's name. And it is a great honor to do this. 83 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.680 I would encourage anybody to get on board with this. Also, 84 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.920 if you're interested in contributing, buying a wreath or sponsoring 85 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:57.160 a wreath, it's only seventeen bucks. Seventeen bucks, and you 86 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:01.120 can support the mission of Reese across from You can 87 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.800 sponsor a wreath and you can actually dedicate it to 88 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.519 a certain graveyard or somewhere near cemetery near where you live, 89 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.120 or just do it anonymously, or just do it over 90 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.680 the whole. And it's just a great organization. And I'm 91 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.319 looking forward very much talking to Jeff Pierce at eight 92 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:22.560 o'clock now. As far as what we've got going on today, 93 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:27.519 of course, the day is Thanksgiving Eve, and I'm looking 94 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.160 forward to well, I got to tell you, I'm really 95 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:34.600 looking forward to Thanksgiving this year, especially given the altern 96 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:38.639 of the the results of the election. I'm telling you what, 97 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.800 I have had this permanent smile on my face ever 98 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:47.800 since November fifth, and especially when that race was called eventually, 99 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:52.000 and what I've seen as far as the transition team 100 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:55.240 is concerned, what I've seen as far as the cabinet appointments, 101 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.680 I'm very positive on a lot of them. There's a 102 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.879 couple that I have some question, but I kind of 103 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.600 reserve that to see how things operate. And given the 104 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:10.399 fact that they are appointments, given the fact that they 105 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.439 are nominees and so on, if they don't turn out 106 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.639 to be as good as they as we hope they are, 107 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:20.560 there's a process of getting rid of them. And I 108 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:23.199 think some of these, when you talk about surgeon General 109 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:26.000 and some of these, there's some questions there in terms of, 110 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:30.000 you know, this was apparently a doctor who was in 111 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:33.759 support of the masks and so on. And I'm telling you, what, 112 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.480 if we miss this opportunity, as far as Republicans are concerned, 113 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.519 we have the House, we have the Senate, we have 114 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.480 the presidency. If we miss the opportunity to do some 115 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.000 good to root out some of this rot that is 116 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:51.360 in our federal government. If Vavek and Elon are able 117 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:54.959 to work and do their jobs and what they're appointed 118 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:57.680 to do and what they hope to do, hopefully we 119 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:59.920 can get rid of some of this waste, fraud, and abuse. 120 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.120 Now I'm hearing people talk about, well, you've got one 121 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.639 half of the budget is entitlements. You've got half of 122 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:08.040 the budget. You know, you can't touch Social Security, you 123 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.480 can't touch Medicare and so on. Well, there are ways 124 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.800 around that, I mean there are. I'm not talking about 125 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.720 cutting benefits. I don't think there's a Republican that I 126 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:20.560 know of that is in favor of reducing benefits to 127 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:23.480 the people that earn them. What we do rail against 128 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:27.519 is obviously Social Security SSI payments coming out of Social 129 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:32.920 Security and paying for immigrants people that haven't put paid 130 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:37.839 into the system, and robbing basically us of our future. 131 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:42.040 And so when you eliminate that, when you eliminate some 132 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.160 of the bureaucracy, because we've always read all these stories 133 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.680 about payments going out to dead people, payments going to 134 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:52.319 the wrong place, especially Medicare payments. We saw how some 135 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.439 of these stimulus checks went out, and you know, obviously 136 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.160 that wasn't part of Social Security and part of Medicare, 137 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.000 but it's indicative of the government. Meant that they get 138 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.839 a bunch of money, they get a pile of money, 139 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:06.720 and the bureaucracy and the bloat they wind up misappropriating 140 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.920 those funds, paying money to dead people, duplicating checks and 141 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:14.040 so on, and so to tighten some of that up, 142 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:16.639 to reduce some of the bureaucracy. And one of the 143 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.680 things I would like to see, and by the way, 144 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:21.439 phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty, five 145 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:24.240 hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight 146 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.160 hundred eighty two, three eight two, five, five pound, five 147 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.959 point fifty at and T wireless phone. One of the 148 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.559 things I would I would like to see is that 149 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.600 some of these organizations, some of these departments within the 150 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.799 federal government, they don't the people that work in those 151 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.799 departments don't all need to be in Washington, d C. 152 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:49.600 You probably need the Secretary of whatever the cabinet position 153 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:53.200 is to be there to be in the Washington DC area, 154 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.600 you're going to have small office space, et cetera. But 155 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.759 the Department of Agriculture, for instance, maybe that should be 156 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:06.080 in Kansas, Nebraska, in the farming belt of the country. 157 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:09.759 The Energy Department, possibly down in Dallas or down in 158 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.960 Texas or somewhere in the Gulf States where the oil 159 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:20.159 rigs are. Department of Interior, maybe Wyoming, Montana, somewhere where 160 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.639 there are a lot of national parks and a lot 161 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.279 of federal lands. And Department of Commerce, maybe that could 162 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:31.639 move to New York or maybe move to Chicago or 163 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:37.360 some other commerce hub. The Department of Transportation, maybe that 164 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.159 should be moved to the middle of the United States. 165 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:42.879 I think the middle of the United States is somewhere 166 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.399 around what is it, Missouri or Saint Louis, something like that, 167 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.399 because the actual center of of the country where there's 168 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:53.639 a lot of you know, a lot of transportation, a 169 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.200 lot of movement east west, north, south, and so on, 170 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:00.679 near the Mississippi River, near the confluence the Ohio and 171 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.360 the Mississippi River, maybe that would be a good location 172 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:06.639 for the Department of Transportation and the employees that work there. 173 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:10.840 And so if you move those departments to those areas 174 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.000 to different parts of the country, they're are people that 175 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.039 are living there in Washington, d c. That have been 176 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.360 this permanent bureaucratic nightmare there, and people that think they 177 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.679 run the country when in fact that they are merely employees. 178 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.360 We saw this in the trump Men first Trump administration, 179 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:30.440 where a lot of these deep staters, a lot of 180 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.240 these people thought that, hey, he's not taking my advice, 181 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.960 so I'm going to start filtering and leaking stories to 182 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.480 the press and so on. So moving these people or 183 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:45.320 moving these departments out amongst the people to get more 184 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.000 in touch with the people to know what their wants, 185 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.080 needs and desires are. Some of these people from Washington 186 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.840 aren't going to move. They'll refuse to move. Hell right now, 187 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:57.759 you've got most of the people in the federal government 188 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:01.919 that are still working from home. How productive is that 189 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.200 many companies are going back to work. They're bringing their 190 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:08.320 employees back, they're insisting they come back. Started off maybe 191 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.200 two days a week, three days a week, four days 192 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.720 a week. And you're seeing the real estate market and 193 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:16.879 these downtown areas really suffering as a result of these 194 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.919 office closures or these office people not coming back to work. 195 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.840 You've got the restaurants, you've got the ancilliary businesses around 196 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.840 the area that are suffering. And you've got the occupancy 197 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:30.840 rates of these buildings that are suffering. 198 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:31.360 Now. 199 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.679 Of course, with the federal government, they just rent space 200 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:35.720 and whether they occupy it or not, yeah, they're just 201 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:37.879 right to check every month and it really doesn't matter 202 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:41.480 because they're not concerned about their bottom line. But it's 203 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.879 insidious to me that these people are not even in 204 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.279 the office. There was a report. I'll tell you what. 205 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.159 I'm running a little loong here, but I'm picked this up. 206 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.080 On the other side of the break, I wan to 207 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:52.919 talk about some of these things that we've found as 208 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.559 far as waste fraud abuse in the federal government. I'm 209 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:59.360 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KARC The 210 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:10.039 Talks five nineteen in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for 211 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:13.879 Brian Thomas fifty five KRO see the talk station. Danny 212 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.879 is in today. Joe has the day off, and I'm 213 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.279 looking forward to this because, uh, well, you know, as 214 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.480 you can tell the bumper music, I kind of prefer 215 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:27.279 the nineteen seventies and kind of that U seventies rock, 216 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:30.080 you know, to me, they're in a better period of 217 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.720 time in this country as far as music is concerned 218 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:35.960 in there and so on. So uh, anyway, looking forward 219 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:38.639 to hearing the bumper music. I'm sure Danny has some 220 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.799 surprises for me along the way. Uh. But uh, getting 221 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:44.960 back to what we were talking about previously. By the way, 222 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.480 phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five 223 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.279 hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight 224 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.000 hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, five 225 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.799 point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Moving out the 226 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:01.559 bureaucracy out of Washington, d C. And I, you know, 227 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:08.480 I cannot, I cannot believe, I refuse, do I refuse 228 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.600 to believe, or I just cannot believe anyway, this whole 229 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.399 idea of people working from home. I don't see how 230 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.200 people are very productive at home if they are more 231 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:25.360 productive at home than they were at the office, which 232 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:27.919 is some of the preliminary well at least during the 233 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:31.480 first parts of COVID, what they were Preliminaryly, seeing that 234 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.600 people were more productive being at home, my question would be, 235 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.919 then what are they doing at work? Because apparently they 236 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.799 weren't that productive at work, and you know, maybe too 237 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.639 many trips or maybe hanging out to one I guess 238 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.000 there's no water cool or anymore, but stand in the 239 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:55.960 somebody's desk and chit chatting and whatever. But there's just 240 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.720 just in the times that I've worked from home it 241 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:03.279 first of all, you have a problem with you never 242 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.120 leave work. You have even if you have a separate place, 243 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:11.639 a separate office to work from, there's always that draw 244 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:13.759 if well, if you're like me or like a lot 245 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.240 of people, where you gotta maybe check that email or 246 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:21.039 go in and send that one email at seven o'clock 247 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.240 at night, or you need to check this or check that, 248 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.720 and it seems like it's always on your mind. At 249 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.279 least when at least I commuted back and forth to 250 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:36.360 the office. And even now you have that decompression time 251 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.759 where you're gearing up for the day. You're driving, and 252 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:42.159 of course if you do it right, you don't get 253 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.799 stuck in rush hour traffic, and even if you do, 254 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.440 you just kind of roll with the flow, know that 255 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:49.960 it's gonna either got to leave early or whatever. And 256 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.960 in the Greater Sinsai Northern Kentucky area, unless there's a 257 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:57.120 major accident, unless there's a major problem, commuting time is 258 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.159 not that. I mean when you go into some of 259 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.960 these cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and so 260 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.240 on and see their commuting times, they're a lot longer. 261 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.720 I think in the Greatest Insae Northern Kentucky area, the 262 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:12.159 normal commune is somewhere around twenty minutes maybe, which is 263 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.799 not much time. But during that time you kind of 264 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.279 gear up to get ready for the day in the office, 265 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:21.279 maybe flip on the radio, listen to some music, or 266 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.840 listen to the talk radio, which I suggest that you do, 267 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:26.960 and especially a fifty five care see the talk station, 268 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.960 but you learn some of the news of the day, 269 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.480 You get your traffic, weather and so on. And then 270 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.159 at night when you go home, you've got that twenty 271 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.759 minutes or so on the way home where you can 272 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.960 kind of do that what I used to call mental vacations, 273 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:45.279 where you just kind of push everything out from the day. 274 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.240 You try to gear yourself up so you can be 275 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.840 the husband or the spouse that you want to be, 276 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.399 and then the parent for your children once you get 277 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.000 through that door and just leave all the baggage of 278 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:01.240 the office behind you and then enjoy your life. And 279 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.919 I think this work balance situation is great. Now. Some 280 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.080 of these people, I'm sure they can work from home 281 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.200 and it's not a problem. But we saw some studies 282 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:15.679 during COVID of the Department of Justice that the lawyers 283 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:20.080 the FBI or some of these attorneys working for the 284 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:24.679 federal government, they were spending something like ninety percent of 285 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:30.639 their time on the work day looking at porn. Now, 286 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.600 I don't know what the hell they have as far 287 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:41.559 as their overall review from management or something along those lines, 288 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.480 but I'm sure that people that would monitor the email 289 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:54.279 accounts and the searching websites for iHeartRadio. If I started 290 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:57.200 looking at porn here, I don't know that I would. 291 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.879 I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here. And so if 292 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:05.559 these people on the job are spending ninety percent of 293 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:10.359 their day watching porn, obviously they're not well. Maybe they're 294 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:14.079 not regulating this, maybe they're not creating problems for us, 295 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.519 but they're not being very productive. Let's go to the 296 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.119 phones real quick. Let's talk to Daniel Daniel Fitch five 297 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:22.559 K see, thanks for calling. How are you? And happy Thanksgiving? 298 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:24.759 I'm good? 299 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:25.160 How are you? 300 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:26.599 I am fantastic. 301 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.039 So I got a couple of things. First of all, 302 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.880 I'm a career firefighter, so I didn't get any. 303 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:38.160 Opportunities to work from home through COVID or any time 304 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:39.279 for the past thirty years. 305 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:42.240 Yeah, it's a little difficult to put out fires from home. 306 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.880 At the fact, right, Yeah, but I've got just a 307 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:50.119 couple of positive examples of it at home. So my 308 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:53.480 wife works in pharmaceuticals uh huh. 309 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.720 And she's in the field three days a week, four. 310 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.440 Days a week with her sales reps. She's a reachional 311 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.880 sales director, and then every Friday it's her office day. 312 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:09.599 And that woman is focused and uber productive throughout the 313 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:13.640 entire day. And then I've got another really good friend 314 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:18.359 who works for Northfolk Grumman as an engineer, and they 315 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.079 hear and her husband have set up an entire she 316 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:26.240 shed above her garage in Oakley and it's got all 317 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:29.039 the computer monitors and she has never had an office, 318 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:33.640 and she's worked there for probably fifteen twenty years. But 319 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:36.720 that's a woman who gets up in the morning and 320 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.200 goes to work, and her work is out the back door, 321 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:43.680 up a couple of stairs into her she shed, shuts 322 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:46.599 the door and the computer monitors are up, and she 323 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:49.839 is productive the entire day. Now I'm thinking that those 324 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:50.720 two women. 325 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:54.039 Are quite possibly the exceptions. 326 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.720 To the rule, but very possibly. Now, the thing with 327 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:01.359 your wife is is that I'm guessing in the pharmaceutical 328 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:02.960 business that she's on commission. 329 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.759 Correct that she gets she does. 330 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:10.960 It's not straight commission at all. She gets a very 331 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:12.559 very good salary. 332 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:15.559 Plus bonus, Okay, but the bonus her. 333 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:19.680 Bonus structured based on how her eight sales are performed. 334 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:23.200 So there's this incentive to make sure that she's working, 335 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:26.240 you know, making sure that she's productive on her off 336 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.200 day and her office day on this person you described 337 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:33.880 as far as her she shed that I pronounce that properly, 338 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.920 But you know, it's a it's it's kind of separate 339 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.200 from the house. You have to go to a different 340 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:44.960 place and shut the door. And I think I find 341 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:50.200 sometimes when I'm working from home, there's that distraction of well, 342 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:54.960 if a friend calls, or somebody a neighbor stops by, 343 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.599 or something along those lines. But if you draw the 344 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.240 line to where you're not having the answer your front 345 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:04.720 door or for packages or something, and you're in that 346 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:09.000 she shed, you're well somewhat isolated and you can concentrate 347 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:11.799 on your work. And I think that's a great work 348 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:15.440 balance situation of having that kind of a situation where 349 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:17.839 you don't have to, you know, worry about, you know, 350 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:20.559 stuff going on around the house and so on along 351 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:23.720 those lines. So those are and I agree with you, 352 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:25.240 those are probably exceptions to the. 353 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:27.480 Rule, almost definitely. 354 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:31.519 In fact, she's so isolated, in fact that because of 355 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:35.119 her security clans, when when her husband knocks on the door, 356 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:37.720 all the computer screens have to be turned off. He's 357 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:40.960 bringing her coffee or something. It's a very interesting setup. 358 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:43.759 Oh wow, that's amazing. 359 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:46.839 He's not even allowed to stop in uninvited. 360 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:52.319 Are you sure she doesn't work for the CIA, I 361 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:56.839 mean pharmaceutical you know, is the pharmaceutical company there at 362 00:20:56.920 --> 00:20:57.720 air quotes. 363 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.599 No, it's actually have a pretty pretty new drug. 364 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:06.799 But anyway, alright, he dad. 365 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:10.920 You guys all they're a very happy, uh happy Thanksgiving 366 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:12.559 and merry Christmas. 367 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.720 Coming, and you have my permission on that one day 368 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:18.400 to overeat because that's the one day to splurge. UH 369 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:20.359 phone numbers five. I'd like to hear from some other 370 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:24.400 people that have experience either working from home or people 371 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:26.839 they know work from home, and what their thoughts are, 372 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:30.319 uh five one, three, seven four nine fifty, five hundred one, 373 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:32.720 eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight 374 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:35.400 two three eight two five five pound five point fifty 375 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:39.000 AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 376 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:55.440 fifty five krs. The talk station Phone numbers five to 377 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:58.279 one three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one eight 378 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:00.839 hundred A two three talk one eight hundred eighty two 379 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.279 three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT 380 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:09.200 and T wireless phone. Getting up this morning. I've said 381 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:12.519 this before and I just can't you know, I can't 382 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:15.599 help myself, you know. I try to figure out is 383 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.359 there a particular time of the day that I like 384 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:23.039 more than others, and I really can't pinpoint it. We 385 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:25.480 have this deck, and I've talked about this. It overlooks 386 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:28.319 the Licking River and we can see the downtown area 387 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:31.400 from our deck. I love going out there and smoking cigars, 388 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:34.039 doing show prep or doing whatever I can do out 389 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:38.240 on the deck when the weather permits, and it's very pleasant. 390 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:40.599 I've been out there first thing in the morning, and 391 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:44.599 it's got its qualities in terms of seeing the sunrise 392 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.160 and how the sun hits the buildings downtown at different 393 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.160 angles and stuff. Then in the late afternoon we get 394 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:53.759 this western exposure, which can get kind of brutally hot 395 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:55.880 out there. Let's put the shade down and you can 396 00:22:56.039 --> 00:23:00.759 tolerate it. I like a little heat. Sunset late at night, midnight, 397 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:04.279 three o'clock in the morning, it doesn't matter. It's always 398 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:07.799 just so pleasant, you know, hearing the birds and well 399 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:10.559 not at night, but you hear those crickets and so on. 400 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:14.839 But this morning was really pleasant, thirty nine degrees. When 401 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.880 I got up and drove in a very little traffic, 402 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:19.480 there were a lot of trucks on the road, which 403 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:21.880 is a good sign that the wheels of the economy 404 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:27.759 are moving. But crisp air and just a beautiful drive 405 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:30.279 in and so on. So I really enjoyed it. Let's 406 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:32.319 go to the phones. Let's talk to Bobby. Bobby fifty 407 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:36.680 five KC. Thanks for calling. Happy Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Eve. 408 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:39.440 I should say same. 409 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:44.720 To you, myk frand happy hump today. Yes, absolutely, one 410 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:47.759 thing I know for a fact that you keep files 411 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:51.640 and you go back into your file cabinet and look 412 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:52.160 at everything. 413 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:55.799 You're out. You're outing me again. I mean yes, I've 414 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.319 admitted to that, and much of the chagrin of my wife. 415 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:02.880 I do the same thing, my friend. But what I'm 416 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:07.759 calling about now is the Biden administration reissued a directive 417 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:11.920 on September the twenty second. It's hush hush, and it's 418 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:16.240 for the Department of Defense number fifty two forty days 419 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:19.039 or fifty two to forty point oh one. And what 420 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:24.720 they did they allowed the Department's offense to activate the 421 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:32.880 military on special events. Now, what happened was the designation 422 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:35.640 was for majorca and that has to do with the 423 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:39.799 certification process. On the sixth of January and it's the 424 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:43.359 first time it's ever been implemented, and it's a national 425 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:49.200 special security event. Or prior to that, they've authorized the 426 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:55.680 military to work with law enforcement or other agencies, and 427 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:58.519 it's then it circumvents possecomo tas. 428 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.480 Now, a lot of people don't realize that right now. 429 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.240 Were they with it being September the twenty second and 430 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:11.880 with the spoon federal regurgitators in the mainstream media predicting 431 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:14.599 that Kamala was going to win. Did they think that 432 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:16.839 there was going to be some sort of an insurrection 433 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:21.079 to prevent that from happening, or did they know that 434 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:25.160 Trump possibly was going to be win and maybe not 435 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:29.640 want to transfer power a threat to democracy so to speak. 436 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:32.440 Do we thank your second point? 437 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:35.119 Yeah, it could be interesting and be very interesting to 438 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:39.160 see how that transpires and what that's all about. Now, 439 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.119 again you go back to January sixth of twenty twenty one, 440 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:50.039 and then of course during that certification process, the so 441 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:54.000 called insurrection, there could have been a lot of things 442 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:57.200 that were done differently that the Capitol Police could have 443 00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:59.640 had they were offered to National Guard and so on. 444 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.079 Pelosi turned that down. That was part of a video 445 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.079 that she was shooting with her documentary with her daughter. 446 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:12.240 So this whole insurrection crap, I think is a load 447 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:15.920 of crap because I'm sure you've seen that video from 448 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:21.720 Tucker Carlson showing the hundreds of thousands of videos that 449 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:25.319 were not given to the J six committee, and see 450 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:28.480 that most people almost look like tourists in there as 451 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:31.759 opposed to people that were trying to wreck things, break 452 00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:37.240 cat you know, knock over statues and stuff along those lines. So, yeah, 453 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:40.440 it's britt up a very interesting point. 454 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:43.400 They've had a couple of meetings on it. See now 455 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:48.680 the Capitol Police and the police of the DC are 456 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.640 not in charge indignation from MAJORCA. Let the Secret Service 457 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:57.240 be in charge of all the capital protection. They've had 458 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:02.240 two meetings on it, and I've got complete facts about 459 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:06.640 it till the DC police chief was asleep at the meetings. There. 460 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.200 It's almost like Butler again when they turned their heads 461 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:10.799 the other way. 462 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:14.839 Oh man, I'll tell you what if if if if 463 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.759 that is the case, And that's one of the things 464 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:22.200 I'm excited about as far as this transition and what 465 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:26.160 we will see after January the twentieth, is this just 466 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:31.079 investigation of what the hell went on, how that was 467 00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:34.960 allowed to happen, Why we have not gotten any information 468 00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:40.200 at all on that. We've got this what's the route, 469 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:44.400 what's his first name, Robert Ruth or whatever, the second 470 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:50.200 attempted assassination. He's doing a media tour basically and sending 471 00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:55.079 letters to different axios and NBC and so on, trying 472 00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:59.799 to explain his actions and so on. We're not we're 473 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:01.559 not out of the woods here. And I would I 474 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:04.039 mentioned this to my wife the other day. Is that 475 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:08.920 remember what happened in the previous administrative, first Trump administration, 476 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:15.480 where you had the FBI actually doing those FISA warrants 477 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:20.559 and doing the where they had the like Susan Rice 478 00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:24.480 and people were doing the unmasking of people in some 479 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:29.920 of these investigations that were being done, and all that 480 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:33.599 stuff being leaked to the press. Is that we're in 481 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:40.759 for round two here again. Is there clandestine FBI investigations 482 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.119 into the Trump Committee or something along those lines. It's 483 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:45.200 going to be very interesting. 484 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:45.960 You know. 485 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:49.119 Anybody thinks that this ain't over is crazy. 486 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.319 But I think it's the setting it up for failure 487 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:56.119 and this designation from MAJORCA and I can tell you 488 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:58.839 whose special agent in charge is and the meeting day 489 00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:01.359 they had they're set up for failure. 490 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:04.000 Who's the special agent involved? Who's a special agent? 491 00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:09.400 His name's Eric Raymi Ryannick Cam He's a special agent 492 00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:11.279 in charge in this transition thing. 493 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:14.279 That'll be interesting. Well, Bobby, that's some great information. I'm 494 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:16.160 gonna have to look into that. I certainly appreciate the 495 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:19.480 phone call. Hey, you have a happy Thanksgiving and eat 496 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:23.359 way too much? Will I know I'm not supposed to 497 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:25.799 give that kind of advice out, but hey, it's Thanksgiving 498 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:28.920 and it's fun. A little bit late for a break here, 499 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:31.480 I'm gonna take that before Danny starts us screaming at me. 500 00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:34.559 Five one three, seven, four nine fifty eight hundred eight 501 00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:36.759 two three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight 502 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:39.200 two five five pound five point fifty AT and T 503 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.920 wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five 504 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:55.359 KR see the talk station five forty five in the morning. 505 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:57.599 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fits a five K 506 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.680 see the talk stations Phone numbers five on three, seven 507 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.279 four nine fifty five one eight hundred day two three 508 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:05.880 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 509 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:09.799 five pound, five point fifty at and T wireless phone. 510 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:15.240 Well at today being a travel day and actually the 511 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.119 you know this year, well, I guess every year they 512 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.240 have what they refer to as the Thanksgiving Week of traveling. 513 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.039 We saw a lot of reports of people starting to 514 00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:29.079 do some of their travels beginning Sunday night, and uh 515 00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:33.440 then for the entire week and uh a big travel time. 516 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:36.240 According to Triple A, there's going to be up to 517 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:40.480 eighty million people that are going to over the course 518 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:43.160 of the week, travel more than fifty miles away from 519 00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:46.640 home over this period of time. I'm not going to 520 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.759 be one of them, but and I've seen some reports 521 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:52.359 as high as eighty four million, So there's going to 522 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:55.440 be almost what they call about a quarter of the population. 523 00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:58.440 Is that a third of the population, about a third 524 00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:00.680 of the population basically going to be out on the 525 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.720 highways and byways, planes, trains, automobiles, and so on. So 526 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:06.799 it's gonna be one of those times where if you're 527 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:09.319 gonna be stuck in traffic, and obviously you want to 528 00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:12.759 play on your trip, accordingly, best to travel first thing 529 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.559 in the morning or maybe late at night when traffic 530 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.319 is down. You don't want to be traveling at midday 531 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.039 or something along those lines, because that's when the traffic's 532 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:23.240 going to be the most. But the people are going 533 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.359 to these airports and stuff. We've been already seeing some interruptions. 534 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:29.000 I think there was something like on last Sunday. It's 535 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.079 only seventeen thousand flights that have been canceled a light 536 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:35.240 load on Monday. I haven't looked at it so far today. 537 00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:38.839 But again, going into these airports and if you have 538 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:42.720 a flight, be patient. Realize, you know, there's no sense 539 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:46.279 getting upset if a flight is delayed or whatever, because 540 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.880 you certainly want to make sure you get to your destination. 541 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:51.599 You certainly don't want to go flying for the sake 542 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:55.160 of flying, and because they're rushed, and you certainly don't 543 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:57.640 want that plane to crash, so obviously you want to 544 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:00.000 get their safe and sound. And plus if you're out 545 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:01.880 on the highway, you want to do the same thing. 546 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:04.720 And also, you know, kind of give a shout out 547 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:08.039 to the truckers out there because as you're and celebrating 548 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:11.079 there working. Now let's go to the phones. Let's talk 549 00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:13.799 to Larry. Larry fifty five k s. Thanks for calling, 550 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:15.200 Happy Thanksgiving Eve. 551 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:22.240 Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family this morning, well, 552 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.240 thank you. I was calling in because I was listening 553 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.920 to the news, the media last night and this morning, 554 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.039 even our local Fox nineteen. If I'm allowed to say 555 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:38.079 that we're bashing Trump already jumping on the bandwagon, He's 556 00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:40.519 not even an office yet and they're already ripping him 557 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:45.920 about tariffs. As far as I'm concerned, Trump knows exactly 558 00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:50.079 what he is doing, and if everybody would stay out 559 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.960 of the way, he could get more done for US 560 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:55.880 than Biden ever did, which was nothing but take money 561 00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:57.839 in from China. But that's a whole different story. 562 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.240 Oh sure, Uh so. 563 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:04.000 My point I'm getting that is Trump, the last time 564 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.440 he was in office, had the USMCA already put in place. 565 00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:11.359 Can you elaborate on that a little bit of why 566 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:15.920 if those were already the US, Mexican and Canada trade 567 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.279 agreements were already in place, what happened after he left 568 00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:24.160 office up to now as the reason why they're needed 569 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:29.000 to go back and revisit this. Well, did Biden do 570 00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:30.200 you regulate something? 571 00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:33.799 I'm sure I think that some of these were done 572 00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:36.880 by executive order, which were all reversed. I mean, if 573 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:39.680 there was an executive order that the Trump administration had 574 00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:43.039 put in place, first order of business was that was 575 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:46.720 going to be revoked by Biden. They didn't do that 576 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:49.119 with the tariffs, though they've kept most of those in 577 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:51.920 place and then wind about it on the campaign trail. 578 00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:56.359 And when I say wine, I'm not talking about wi 579 00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.920 which I'm sure there was plenty of that consumed by 580 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:05.079 Kamala Airas. But the the some of these agreements, a 581 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.920 lot of these treaties are supposed to be passed by Congress, 582 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:11.280 and quite honestly, I'm not sure if that was one 583 00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:13.960 of the trade agreements that was passed. There is an 584 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.840 awful lot of flexibility that the president does have in 585 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:21.280 some of these negotiations, but holding their feet to the 586 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:25.920 fire and especially levying terrorists obviously that's within his purview. 587 00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:29.840 But what uh And and I hope that a lot 588 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.920 of people in the administration, and I hope a lot 589 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:36.639 of Republicans or conservatives. I don't care about the rhinos, 590 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:41.320 but as far as US conservatives, I hope we uh 591 00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:45.480 listen a little bit to the media, but not give 592 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.559 them much attention because obviously the spoon fed regurgitators in 593 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:56.280 the mainstream media are irrelevant. Mainstream media obviously nobody listened 594 00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:59.599 to them. The entertainment world nobody listened to them, and 595 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:02.400 so they can just flap their gums all they want. 596 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:05.760 And the fact that just about everything that Trump has 597 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:08.960 said usually comes true. It may not be within the 598 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.480 first twenty four to forty eight hours or even a month, 599 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:13.719 week or so, but a lot of this stuff does 600 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:17.159 come true. And just the mere fact of threatening tariffs. 601 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:19.559 You've seen a lot of these businesses starting to talk 602 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:23.000 about pulling out of China and bringing manufacturing back to 603 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:26.800 the United States. We've seen justin Trudeau get on the 604 00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:29.800 phone with Trump and say, hey, you know, maybe we 605 00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:32.719 can work something out here because you're a very important 606 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:35.320 trading partner of us and we want to make sure 607 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:38.000 and those twenty five percent terriffs talking. 608 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.320 And I don't mean it inter rush, but in the meantime, 609 00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:43.440 you got your media saying, like this morning, I heard 610 00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.960 they're throwing numbers out there saying, well, these tariffs is 611 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:49.519 going to cost the average American person twenty six hundred 612 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:51.760 dollars more a year. There's going to be an increase 613 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:55.519 on electronics and computers. So they already are starting to 614 00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.000 scare tactic. But yet, let's talk about the inflation of 615 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:01.920 all the blast flo years Biden was in there. The 616 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:04.719 inflation rate has been so much more that it's greater 617 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.760 than any tax that a Democrat that Biden could have 618 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:08.360 done to us. 619 00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:13.719 Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, I'm sure listeners would agree. 620 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:16.239 But yeah, you don't hear the media say that or 621 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:17.000 talk about. 622 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:19.639 Absolutely, Larry, I'm up against the break here. I got 623 00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:21.480 to go, thank you so much for the phone call, 624 00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:23.480 and yeah, this is gonna be a hot topic and 625 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:26.000 something that's got to be talked about more and more. 626 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:29.800 But ignore the media because they are totally irrelevant. Uh 627 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:33.079 five one three seven four nifty eight hundred eight two 628 00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:35.400 three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two 629 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:38.440 five five pound five fifty at and T WIRELDS phone 630 00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:41.199 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five K see 631 00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:48.960 the talk station five fifty five in the morning. Time 632 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:51.880 for us to get act actually here for the top 633 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.519 of the hour. But coming up we're gonna be talking 634 00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:57.079 a little bit about travel times and talk about uh 635 00:36:57.119 --> 00:37:00.880 this uh story from Triple A about rebrand itself and 636 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:04.920 their gas prices and bragging about low gas prices. Well, 637 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.400 we've got the skinny on that. I'm Kevin Gordon in 638 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.320 for Brian Thomas fifty five care See the Talk. 639 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:14.440 Station and now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas 640 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:18.280 on fifty five KOs the Talk Station. 641 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:32.719 I'm right for six minutes after six Kevin Gordon in 642 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:35.360 for Brian Thomas. As the intro said there, I didn't 643 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:38.280 after I shouldn't have repeated myself there. But anyway, it 644 00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:41.400 is Thanksgiving Eve, and if you went to my Facebook page, 645 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:44.480 as I always do, I put out a blurb in 646 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.400 terms of what I am, who I am going to 647 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:50.719 have on and today is no different. We're at seven o'clock. 648 00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:54.119 We're gonna be speaking with Phil Flynn, senior market analyst, 649 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:57.719 Price Futures Group, author of the Energy Report, contributor to 650 00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.599 frequent contributor. I might add Fox Business Network. We're discussing 651 00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:05.199 a wide range of political and energy issues from as 652 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:07.679 a result of the presidential election, and as I mentioned 653 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:10.920 in the previous hour, he is very knowledge when we 654 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:12.559 see eye to eye on a lot of things in 655 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:16.119 terms of how this energy policy in this country should work. 656 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:18.440 And he's very knowledgeable as far as what's going on 657 00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:23.639 with OPEC plus and the energy markets themselves and geopolitical 658 00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:26.960 problems that we were seeing, so looking forward to talking 659 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:28.559 to him. And then at eight o'clock we're we were 660 00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:31.280 talking with Jeff Pierce. He is the director of Broadcast 661 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:34.559 Media Partnership rees Across America. We'll we talk about that 662 00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:38.599 great organization and of course we're talking about their rece 663 00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:43.119 Across America and their National rece Across America Day, which 664 00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:46.679 is Saturday, December the fourteenth, which is the day that 665 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:51.079 all of these reefs that they distribute around the country, 666 00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:53.280 that those will be laid at the tombs of a 667 00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:57.079 lot of these soldiers, the formers, older soldiers that go 668 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.840 to the older areas of the cemetery, because you know, 669 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:03.199 as you go into some of these cemeteries, you'll notice 670 00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:06.320 that the newer parts of the cemetery there's always a 671 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.639 bunch of flowers and the gravesites are well taken care of. 672 00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:11.840 And then you get, you know, back to the older 673 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:14.400 and older part of the cemetery, you see fewer and 674 00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:17.280 fewer flowers, to the point where you see no flowers, 675 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:21.519 no decorations, know nothing. So on this particular day they 676 00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:24.920 make sure they go to these sections of the cemeteries 677 00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.400 where these you know, soldiers from really as far back 678 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:33.840 as the Revolutionary War in this area here, and Civil War, 679 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.000 Spanish American War and so on, and put these reset 680 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.039 these tombs of these soldiers, because as they say, in 681 00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:42.840 part of their mission, a soldier dies twice, once when 682 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.559 they take their last breath, and then the next time 683 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:48.280 when their name is no longer mentioned. And as part 684 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:51.320 of the ceremony, they lay the wreath, say the person's name, 685 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.280 and then move on to the next one. And it's 686 00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:55.760 really a beautiful thing to see. And I would encourage 687 00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.960 you to volunteer. Do they have place on there where 688 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.159 you can actually volunteer. You give them your zip code 689 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:06.039 and so on, and they'll set you up with a 690 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.280 group that's in that particular area where you live. And 691 00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:12.440 if you are so inclined, you can also donate a 692 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:14.639 wreath that you can sponsor a wreath, as they refer 693 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:18.199 to it, only seventeen bucks and it's well worth it. 694 00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:22.400 Really a great organization. We're talking about travel And by 695 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:24.719 the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, 696 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:27.599 fifty five hundred, one, eight hundred eighty two three talk 697 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.440 one eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five 698 00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:34.960 pound five point fifty on that at and T wireless phone. 699 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:38.400 Talking about travel, and according to Triple A, is gonna 700 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:40.719 be about eighty million people out on the highway. I've 701 00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:44.280 been seeing some estimates as far as far as Hello, 702 00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:47.400 as high as eighty four million, which about a third 703 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:49.400 of the population. It is going to be traveling more 704 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:52.880 than fifty miles away from home. Triple A has announced 705 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:55.280 that they're rebranding their gas prices. I don't know if 706 00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.960 you're familiar with their website, but you can actually get 707 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:02.000 their national average for gas prices and so on on 708 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.880 a daily basis. You can actually go to the individual 709 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:08.440 states into your state find out what the or what 710 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:11.760 the state average of gas prices are, and they have 711 00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:15.039 some travel tips and so on there. But they're rebranding 712 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:19.199 their gas prices as fuel prices by adding ev charging 713 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:22.920 rates from around the country. Now you can pinpoint on 714 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:28.199 their website. Now you can go to the individual states 715 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:31.599 and so on and see the national average there. But 716 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:35.000 as far as this, this isn't quite as specific as 717 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:39.400 it will be in the future. But as they talk 718 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:42.920 about that, they will be offering those that are now 719 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:47.119 twenty eight states with average I'm sorry, talking about the 720 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:51.679 different charging stations. They talk about how many of their 721 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.360 members have at least one car that's an EV. So 722 00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:58.519 they provide that they're also talking about as far as 723 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:01.639 their gas prices that they're seeing national average and so on. 724 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:04.559 There are twenty eight states which would blow three dollars 725 00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:08.400 a gallon. Now factored in there is Hawaii, which you 726 00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:11.800 would expect gas prices to be very high, California and 727 00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:15.039 so on, and those kind of skew the national average. 728 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:17.559 But here in the Tri State, or at least in 729 00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:20.400 my neck of the woods, gasoline is currently is a 730 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.760 two dollars and sixty four cents a gallon. I think 731 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:26.639 I saw somewhere the other day I saw one gas 732 00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:28.920 station I think on my drive in that it was 733 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.639 up around three toho nine I think. But at least 734 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:33.800 in my area there is a low and it would 735 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.440 it would behoove you to go to these apps. And 736 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.760 I've seen a wide range of gaps in terms of 737 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.400 almost a thirty cent difference between the highest and the 738 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:47.000 lowest gas prices in the area. So there are different 739 00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:49.320 apps out there, and I would encourage you to use 740 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.360 those But what's interesting is that Triple A is talking 741 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:56.360 about and I've heard the newscast talking about how well 742 00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.119 you know gasoline currently the national average around three to 743 00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:02.440 zho six, three oh seven, somewhere in that range, which 744 00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:05.079 if you go a year ago that that was up 745 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:09.519 around three twenty six, So gasoline is two twenty cents lower. Well, 746 00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:14.480 that's not quite the whole perspective there. In fact, they 747 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:20.800 put on their story here national gas prices comparison twenty 748 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.920 twenty one to twenty twenty four, and they show that 749 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:27.000 gasoline right now at three oh six. On the far 750 00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:30.440 right of their graph is showing that at three oh six, 751 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:33.840 it's the lowest at this point of the year of 752 00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:37.840 any of the years of the Biden administration. But if 753 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.320 you go over to the far left of the graph 754 00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:43.800 and look at where it started in January of twenty 755 00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:47.079 twenty one, you'll see the gas prices at that time 756 00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:50.320 were down around two dollars and thirty cents two dollars 757 00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:52.760 and forty cents a gallon. And as a matter of fact, 758 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:58.239 on this week this week in twenty twenty, during the 759 00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:02.199 Trump administration, the gasoline was at two dollars and twenty 760 00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:05.280 one cents a gallon, diesel was at two dollars and 761 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.960 fifty cents a gallon. So when they brag about gas 762 00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:12.320 prices being down twenty cents a gallon compared to a 763 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.199 month ago, or even to last year and so on, 764 00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:17.559 that is not the whole story of my friends. You 765 00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:19.920 got to go back to twenty twenty and look at 766 00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.800 what gas prices were back then. We are and when 767 00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:26.360 when I talk about earlier, the fact that energy goes 768 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:30.360 across every segment of the economy, whether you work out 769 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.639 of your car, whether you work behind an eighteen wheeler 770 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.519 you drive for a living, whether you work in a 771 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:40.639 factory and the machinery and equipment to run on electricity, 772 00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:44.639 whether you work in an office or here broadcasting electricity 773 00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.760 is important, and the energy prices are important as far 774 00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:50.440 as that's concerned. And when you look at the fact 775 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.920 that you know, when you're talking about what has caused inflation, 776 00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:57.719 right there, it's energy. Right now we are paying, even 777 00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:00.239 at the low rate that we're paying now because I 778 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.800 think we've been beaten up over gas prices over the 779 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:08.079 last four years, we are still paying thirty nine percent 780 00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:11.880 more than what we are paying this time in twenty twenty. 781 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.679 In November of twenty twenty, we are paying thirty nine 782 00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:17.960 percent more for gasoline. On the diesel side, we're paying 783 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:21.119 forty two percent more. And you know that price, and 784 00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:26.000 that's thirty nine percent more per gallon for every gallon 785 00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:29.480 you put into your car every time you fill up 786 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:32.559 your car. And so when you're talking about thirty cents 787 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:36.480 more per gallon, and if you got eighteen eighteen gallon 788 00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:40.360 tank that adds up, that's a significant impact. And when 789 00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:43.079 you do that on a weekly basis, or however often 790 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:46.280 you fill up, that is an impact. And diesel rigs 791 00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:48.280 are the same way. And so when you look at 792 00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:51.320 having to recoup those costs as far as these freight 793 00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:53.960 rates are concerned, and as far as the delivery charges 794 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:56.800 with these companies are concerned, that adds to the inflation. 795 00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:00.199 Then you take into consideration over the last year, which 796 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:02.400 is going to be interesting to see how this turns out. 797 00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:05.440 You had the dock workers on the western West coast 798 00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:08.360 that went on strike or were threatening to go on strike. 799 00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:11.719 They got a major pay increase. You have ups drivers 800 00:46:11.719 --> 00:46:14.280 that got a major increase. You have the auto workers 801 00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:17.159 that got a major pay increase, and you have the 802 00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:20.960 railroad workers. We have a looming strike, a threatening strike 803 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.039 of the dock workers on the East Coast. You may 804 00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:27.159 recall the first part of October they went on a 805 00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.599 three day strike which backed up and every day that 806 00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:33.559 they are on strike, that backs up things for about 807 00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:37.800 two three four days at those ports, and about I 808 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:40.679 think the number was about forty percent of what goods 809 00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:43.840 come into this country come in off the East Coast. 810 00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:48.280 And so if those docks are closed, which they're talking to, 811 00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:52.559 Actually the dock workers walked away from the latest contract negotiations, 812 00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:55.719 and that is supposed to I think they're scheduled to 813 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:58.280 go on strike if they do not have any type 814 00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:02.880 of a contractotiated price or settlement. They are scheduled to 815 00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:06.159 go on strike on January the fifteenth, which is five 816 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.800 days before Trump takes office. So it's going to be 817 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:12.960 interesting to see what happens. They're demanding pay increases, and 818 00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:17.000 I just saw the other day that with travel this 819 00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:21.920 week that workers at the service workers at what is 820 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:25.880 it Charlotte International Airport I have gone on strike and 821 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:28.840 they're wanting a pay increase their minimum wage. They want 822 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:31.639 their minimum wage up from twenty five dollars to thirty 823 00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:34.039 dollars an hour, and that's going to be disrupting some 824 00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:36.840 of the flights down there and around the country. So 825 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:39.199 it'll be interesting with these travel times. I'm seeing some 826 00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:41.960 weather conditions and so on, So it would behoove you 827 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:44.760 to pay attention to weather, know what you're getting into 828 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.480 if you're driving, know what your flights are going to 829 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:49.719 be like, if you're going to the airport, and kind 830 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.000 of plan ahead in terms of maybe some cancelations, make 831 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:54.880 sure that the flight is on time. See you know 832 00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:57.440 what waste the trip to the airport. And again I've 833 00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:59.880 talked about in the past of how if I have 834 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:04.440 the option, I'm always behind the wheel. I I can't, Josh, 835 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:05.920 I'm trying to remember the last time I was on 836 00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:09.519 a plane anyway. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, 837 00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:12.760 eight hundred two three talk one eight hundred eighty two 838 00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.559 three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT 839 00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:18.280 and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 840 00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:32.840 fifty five kre see the talk station six twenty in 841 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.599 the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five 842 00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:43.920 care see the talk station More cowbells now? 843 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:44.320 Is this? 844 00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:48.239 Uh uh? Don't fear the tariff? Is that the name 845 00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:53.679 of you get me? Huh uh? Interestingly enough, we were 846 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:56.960 talking about tariffs in the previous hour and talking about 847 00:48:56.960 --> 00:49:01.559 how the media is starting to get all excited and 848 00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:05.519 not excited but criticizing the Trump administration, how this is 849 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:08.280 going to lead to inflation and so on and so forth, 850 00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:11.239 and I would, you know, encourage everybody to quit paying 851 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:13.480 attention to the media. We have determined that while we 852 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:16.400 have learned that they are pretty much irrelevant because the 853 00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:19.800 broadcast journalists, or as I refer to them, the spoon 854 00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:23.719 fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. And I say that 855 00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:27.239 because you know, if you look at the it's basically 856 00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.599 just democratic talking points. I've heard people dancing around this. 857 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.760 I just don't know why they just don't adopt what 858 00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:36.079 I call them, because would it would make things much 859 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.599 simpler for the everybody to understand the fact is is 860 00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:43.039 that you don't have news. You know, in England and 861 00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.679 France and other countries they call them news presenters. To 862 00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:49.519 begin with, They're not anchors, they're not All they do 863 00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:54.000 is just you know, present the news. And so when 864 00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:57.480 you've got the news media that is basically the propaganda 865 00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:01.199 arm of the DNC. They're being spoon fed this information 866 00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:04.719 and they're regurgitating it to us. I've heard people talk 867 00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:09.360 about regurgitating talking points. I've heard people talk about the 868 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:12.559 mainstream media just you know, do it, you know, just 869 00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:17.039 adopt my I coined the phrase hell ten years or 870 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:21.000 so ago. Spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. They 871 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:23.920 have proven themselves to be irrelevant in this past election. 872 00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:26.440 Nobody paid attention to what they had to say, and 873 00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:30.079 they got their news from other sources, although they'll say 874 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:33.760 that it was misinformation. But again, they're talking about these terrofts. 875 00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:35.800 They're talking about the fact that it's going to lead 876 00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:38.519 to inflation. I think one of the callers last hour, 877 00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:41.039 it might have been Bobby, I think or Larry, one 878 00:50:41.039 --> 00:50:43.960 of the two, mentioned that the broadcast media is talking 879 00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:47.159 about that this could add twenty six hundred dollars a 880 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:49.960 year to people and so on. Well, guess what and 881 00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.679 I mentioned and what they're leaving out of these stories 882 00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:55.719 when they're talking about the twenty five percent tariff on 883 00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:59.039 goods from Mexico or Canada, is that this is conditional 884 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:04.400 on them stopping this invasion of our country of illegals 885 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:08.559 coming into the country, and it was shocking to see 886 00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:13.000 how many are flooding in from Canada as well, because 887 00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:16.039 that border is not secure. We already know about the 888 00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:19.519 migrant caravans from the south, but these twenty five percent 889 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:24.039 terroriffs are conditioned on them stopping the flow of the 890 00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.400 invasion into this country and the flow of illegal drugs 891 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:32.480 fentanyl and so on. Okay, Now, over the weekend, I 892 00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:35.360 was watching the Ohio State game. This is kind of 893 00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:37.239 a side note. This is one of those areas, by 894 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.840 the way of where my wife always says that I 895 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.480 interrupt myself when I'm talking, So I'm interrupting myself right now. 896 00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:46.840 Over the weekend, that was watching the Ohio State football game, 897 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:51.079 and there was a shot of the stadium there now 898 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:55.440 Ohio Stadium, the Horseshoe holds about one hundred thousand people. 899 00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:59.360 Just look at that stadium or pictures of that stadium 900 00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:04.159 and it's full a capacity crowd. Triple that and that 901 00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:07.440 is the number of people in this country that die 902 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:11.599 from fentanyl poisoning every year. Just in the last year, 903 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:18.119 three hundred thousand. We've got three hundred thousand migrant children below, 904 00:52:18.559 --> 00:52:22.519 children that are unaccounted for, and so to stop this 905 00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:26.719 flow of illegal drugs and the invasion, Trump has been 906 00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:30.159 threatening these tariffs. Well, lo and behold, migrant caravans not 907 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:35.039 reaching the boarding border, Claudia Shinbaum says after Trump threats. 908 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:39.280 Mexican President Claudia Shinbaum address US President elect Donald Trump's 909 00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:42.800 renewed threats of steep tariffs this week, asserting that migrant 910 00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:47.960 caravans are no longer reaching the Mexico border. Hmmm, just 911 00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:50.000 the mere threat. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk 912 00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.320 to Mike, Mike fifty five kro see. Thanks for calling, 913 00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:56.880 appreciate it. Happy Thanksgiving, hy, everything's giving to you too. 914 00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:02.079 About the fake dudes media, there's a thing on CNN. 915 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:04.559 It's a late night show. I forget what it's called. 916 00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:07.840 But they had always have one conservative I'm on there, 917 00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:08.920 and they always cry about him. 918 00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:10.840 Yeah, but Thot Jennings, I think. 919 00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:16.840 He brought up how that Twitter or x whatever call 920 00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:20.480 it now is almost fifty percent Republican fifty percent Democrat. 921 00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:22.400 And they're like, oh, we don't want to hear that. 922 00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:26.960 Where you get in your informations like this network, they 923 00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:29.199 had to think they had something earlier in the day 924 00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:31.480 where they showed in twenty twenty too, it was like 925 00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:36.000 fifty five percent Democrats thirty five percent Republicans, and now 926 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.599 it's almost fifty fifty and that was their own network, 927 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:39.519 and they wouldn't accept that. 928 00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:40.400 Where goes sources? 929 00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:44.280 Of course not, of course not. And that's uh, that 930 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.840 is always funny when you can take their their own 931 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:51.559 facts and and just shove it back in their face. 932 00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:54.199 I mean, you know, where did you get your well 933 00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:58.719 from this network? So it's great, fantastic, Mike, thanks so 934 00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:01.559 much for the phone call. I appreciate that's uh, that's 935 00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:03.920 one of those things of where you know, when you 936 00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:07.920 have the opportunity to shove it back, you shove it back. Uh. 937 00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:10.559 Seven four nine five one three seven four nine fifty 938 00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:12.840 five hundred one eight hundred eighty two three talk one 939 00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.079 eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound 940 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:17.559 five fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in 941 00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:20.239 for Brian Thomas fifty five K see the talk station 942 00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:35.679 six thirty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 943 00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:39.599 fifty five K See the talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, 944 00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:42.000 four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two 945 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:44.719 three Talk one eight hundred eighty two three eight two 946 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:48.800 five five pound five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 947 00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:54.320 Consumer confidence rises to a sixteen month high on post 948 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:58.440 election euphoria. Now, what was interesting is I was looking 949 00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:02.199 at this and you know, usually, uh, with the Trucking Show. 950 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:04.440 You may know that I do America Structing Network at 951 00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:10.960 on WLW midnight to one am Tuesday through Friday, and 952 00:55:11.079 --> 00:55:12.800 as part of that, I talk about a lot of 953 00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:16.119 economic news and so on. And it's interesting when you 954 00:55:16.159 --> 00:55:18.920 see these economic numbers that come out and give us 955 00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:22.000 schedule every week of what reports are going to come out. 956 00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:24.480 Consumer confidence was one of the ones that came out 957 00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:27.360 this week. And there was a flurry of economic detail 958 00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:29.920 that came out this week, which is kind of unusual 959 00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:33.400 on Thanksgiving week, except for the fact that Thanksgiving is 960 00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:36.320 so late in the month this year, as far as 961 00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:40.679 November is concerned, that all this month and information and 962 00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:44.920 economic data that usually comes in is coming in this week. Now, 963 00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:48.480 if you know, Thanksgiving was a week earlier like it 964 00:55:48.519 --> 00:55:51.719 has been in normal years, all of this would be 965 00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:55.880 after Thanksgiving and you know, after Black Friday, cyber Monday 966 00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:59.440 and so on. But what these economic reports. And it's 967 00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:01.800 interesting to depending upon where you get your news and 968 00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:04.760 which source you look at. There was one source that 969 00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:07.559 said that, well, if this was a boxing match, it 970 00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:13.559 would be a draw. That Republicans are euphoric, Democrats are disappointed, 971 00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:17.199 and that's reflected in the numbers. However, when you look 972 00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:21.320 at the actual numbers themselves, consumer confidence increased to a 973 00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:25.920 sixteen month high in November, amid optimism over the labor market, 974 00:56:26.280 --> 00:56:30.559 expectations for lower inflation and higher stock prices over the 975 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:34.119 next year. Part of the second straight monthly rise in 976 00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:39.320 confidence reported by the Conference Board on Tuesday likely reflected 977 00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:43.119 the outcome of the November fifth election, which returned Donald 978 00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:46.360 Trump to the White House and gave Republicans control of 979 00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:51.639 the US Congress. Now they have to throw this in mind, 980 00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:55.039 you even though that that is probably the truth and 981 00:56:55.199 --> 00:56:58.920 why people are euphoric, why the consumer confidence is high. 982 00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:01.880 The Conference Board not attribute the improvement to the election, 983 00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:06.559 but noted that write in responses about politics, including November elections, 984 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:10.719 surge to a twenty twenty above twenty twenty levels, above 985 00:57:11.079 --> 00:57:14.719 twenty twenty levels. Now, the consumer confidence at that time 986 00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:18.119 was not as high as it is today. Consumer confidence 987 00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:22.440 number that came in was where's it in here? At 988 00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:26.639 one to eleven point seven. They were expecting it to 989 00:57:26.679 --> 00:57:30.280 be in the one poh nine area. So with that 990 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:34.360 confidence level being up, and you see this as far 991 00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:37.239 as the economy is concerned. In the trucking industry, there's 992 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:39.800 a lot of companies that are looking forward to the 993 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.400 end of a about almost a two year truck recession 994 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:48.519 that they have been experiencing. So they're excited about trucking freight, 995 00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:52.000 trucking tonnage going up and starting to pick up. We're 996 00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:55.800 starting to see some activity in the construction industry where 997 00:57:55.840 --> 00:57:58.880 people are starting to think in terms of actually getting 998 00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.119 out and starting to reach build and of course a 999 00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:04.440 lot of that has to do with possibly some hurricane 1000 00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:08.920 damage and so on. But a lot of different industries, 1001 00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:13.000 with the exception of car companies, are really excited about 1002 00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:16.280 what's going on. But when you look at the car 1003 00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:21.599 companies and that they're not quite as well well, their 1004 00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:24.639 enthusiasm is stampered by the fact that they have just 1005 00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:28.880 jumped so in depth, i mean both feet into this 1006 00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:33.920 mire of ev transition. Even though as a lot of 1007 00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:37.400 people point out evs are not ready for prime time. 1008 00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:41.360 And so when you don't have the infrastructure, when the 1009 00:58:41.800 --> 00:58:46.840 cost of these vehicles are more expensive than conventional vehicles 1010 00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:50.480 gas powered internal combustion engines, and the fact that they 1011 00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:54.519 weigh more, and the fact that the charging stations and 1012 00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:58.639 the infrastructure isn't there, and the range of these things 1013 00:58:58.679 --> 00:59:02.000 isn't that great to begin with. So all those factors, 1014 00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:06.000 people are not wanting EV's the way they had been. Originally. 1015 00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:08.400 They looked as though when they first came out they're 1016 00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:10.800 the shiny new object. A lot of people wanted to 1017 00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:12.840 get involved in them. If you look at some of 1018 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:16.320 the stuff coming from Tesla, their range is getting better 1019 00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:19.039 and better and better. Their EV truck that they've been 1020 00:59:19.079 --> 00:59:22.039 developing looks like it has I think they said something 1021 00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:26.480 like a over five hundred mile range fully loaded before 1022 00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:29.400 you'd have to stop and get it charged. And so 1023 00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:32.760 when you see these innovations, but this is not something 1024 00:59:33.039 --> 00:59:37.000 that you can ramrod down people's throat as they've done 1025 00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:41.159 with these cafe standards, where they basically say to these 1026 00:59:41.159 --> 00:59:44.199 car companies that even though there's not an EV mandate 1027 00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:47.519 out there, they say to these car manufacturers that you 1028 00:59:47.639 --> 00:59:50.920 have to have a certain amount of miles per gallon 1029 00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:54.760 or you will be fined billions of dollars for that. 1030 00:59:55.159 --> 00:59:58.000 The only way with the current technology for them to 1031 00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:01.719 accomplish that is to sell more evs, and so they 1032 01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:04.679 have to push out more evs and sell more EV's 1033 01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:08.760 so they can stay within those mileage standards. Lifting that 1034 01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:11.760 as far as the regulation from the EPA, would go 1035 01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:16.119 a long way to stimulate the car manufacturers. Ford Motor Company, 1036 01:00:16.360 --> 01:00:19.519 in their latest earnings call, has predicted that they are 1037 01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:26.760 going to lose five five five billion dollars five billion 1038 01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:31.239 dollars of their shareholder's money of the investment in that 1039 01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:34.440 com They're going to lose five billion dollars directly attributed 1040 01:00:34.599 --> 01:00:39.639 to their all in on these evs General Motors. Let's 1041 01:00:39.719 --> 01:00:42.559 pick this up. I've got some other information about this. 1042 01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:44.880 Kevin Gordon by the way, five one three seven four 1043 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:47.400 nine fifty five hundred one eight hundred eight two three 1044 01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:50.000 talk one eight hundred two three eight two five five 1045 01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.840 pound five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin 1046 01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:55.239 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five K see the 1047 01:00:55.320 --> 01:01:06.880 talk station six forty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in 1048 01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:09.519 for Brian Thomas fits five K see the talk station 1049 01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:12.440 five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred one, 1050 01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:15.000 eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eighty 1051 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:17.559 two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty 1052 01:01:17.639 --> 01:01:20.360 AT and T wireless phone. And we're talking about this 1053 01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:24.679 consumer confidence level rising to a sixteen month high on 1054 01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:28.960 post election euphoria and the fact that they're actually mentioning this. 1055 01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:32.599 And you know when I talked about we had some 1056 01:01:32.679 --> 01:01:35.440 call at a couple of callers in the previous hour 1057 01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:39.000 talking about legacy media as they refer to it. I 1058 01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:42.159 refer to them as spoon fed reck rigitators. The mainstream media, 1059 01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:45.760 that portion of the media is dead. Journalism died years ago, 1060 01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:49.639 because I would say, you know, uh, I know Sean 1061 01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:51.679 talks about it from time to time that it died. 1062 01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:54.280 He claims that it died back in two thousand and seven. 1063 01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:58.079 I think it died years ago. I know as a kid, 1064 01:01:58.440 --> 01:02:00.440 I noticed sitting there watching the New Is with my 1065 01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:03.039 mom and she would point out some of the adjectives 1066 01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:05.800 that were being made and kind of read between the 1067 01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:09.159 lines in terms of what wasn't being reported versus what 1068 01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:11.840 was being reported. And the fact at the time that 1069 01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:16.360 you had AP and a UPI, United Press International, so 1070 01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:19.239 you had all the news kind of filtering through basically 1071 01:02:19.280 --> 01:02:23.760 two sources distributed to the network News and so on. 1072 01:02:24.280 --> 01:02:28.480 And even Walter Cronkite, if you watch some of his newscasts, 1073 01:02:28.519 --> 01:02:31.559 he wasn't unbiased. He was very biased in some of 1074 01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:36.400 his reporting. And so the idea of journalists being unbiased. 1075 01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:39.880 Journalism has been dead for a long time in this country, 1076 01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:42.159 and it goes back further than two thousand and seven, 1077 01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:46.119 but at least this time around, with this election, the 1078 01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:50.199 broadcast media, spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media were 1079 01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:53.840 totally irrelevant. Whatever they said. Ninety five what is it, 1080 01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:57.000 ninety percent of the coverage of Trump was negative, ninety 1081 01:02:57.000 --> 01:02:59.920 five percent of the coverage of Kamala Harris was positive. 1082 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.639 And even with that, with all the money that was 1083 01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.920 raised by the Democrats was at one point four billion 1084 01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:09.679 dollars outspent the Trump campaign what three to one something 1085 01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:13.239 along those lines, and with all the positive coverage from 1086 01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:15.880 the mainstream media that they still weren't able to push 1087 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:18.960 her across as a finish line because people ignored them. 1088 01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:21.199 They knew that they were lying to them. They knew 1089 01:03:21.239 --> 01:03:23.519 that they lied about the Russian hoax, They knew that 1090 01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:28.079 they lied about the Hunter laptop scandal. They know that 1091 01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:30.440 they lied about and that they have not been right 1092 01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:33.119 about global warming. They know they were wrong about COVID. 1093 01:03:33.280 --> 01:03:35.159 They know about all the things that the media has 1094 01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:37.199 been telling us over the years that have been proven 1095 01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:39.880 to be wrong, and they've turned them off. And so 1096 01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:47.159 for legacy media now there is no anybody paying attention 1097 01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:50.599 to them. And with that in mind, because people are 1098 01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:53.559 independent thinkers and they're going along about their day to 1099 01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:56.280 day business and getting their news from wherever they can 1100 01:03:56.320 --> 01:04:00.360 get it, sometimes on social media, sometimes elsewhere talk is 1101 01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:02.400 being a great place for them to get their news, 1102 01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:06.679 or some of the other areas out there where there's 1103 01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:09.639 a free flow of information. This is where people are 1104 01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:12.599 getting their news. And the fact that these spoon fed 1105 01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:18.079 regurgitators in the mainstream media keep talking about the downside 1106 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:21.280 of some of these picks, that how the Trump transition 1107 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:24.840 team isn't doing certain things, and the fact that as 1108 01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:28.800 they talk about the consumer confidence, the fact that it's 1109 01:04:28.840 --> 01:04:33.559 a sixteen month high, it all goes to where people 1110 01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:37.639 are euphoric and even though they are trying to downplay 1111 01:04:38.039 --> 01:04:41.360 the reason for this. The fact is is that people 1112 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:46.880 have a certain level of optimism. Consumers average inflation expectations 1113 01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:49.800 of the next twelve months dropped to four point nine percent, 1114 01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:53.400 the lowest since March of twenty twenty back during the 1115 01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:58.639 first term of the Trump administration. They talking about the 1116 01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:02.199 twenty five percent tariffs on goods is not moving the 1117 01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:05.039 markets much because at least people are reading that and 1118 01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:10.760 saying that that is based upon Mexico and Canada closing 1119 01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:14.519 down the invasion coming into this country and the stop 1120 01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:17.800 of illegal drugs coming into this country, and people are 1121 01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:20.400 taking that into consideration. I just talked about a little 1122 01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:26.320 while ago that Claudia what's your name, Claudia Shinbaum has 1123 01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:29.679 said that the border is going to be secured, that 1124 01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.960 these migrant caravans are going to be broken up and 1125 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:36.559 are not going to reach the border. Coming up, we'll 1126 01:05:36.599 --> 01:05:38.679 be talking a little bit more about this consumer confidence 1127 01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:42.440 because buried in here are also some comments having to 1128 01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:45.039 do with what they're seeing as far as housing prices, 1129 01:05:45.239 --> 01:05:49.760 how that has developed. And what's interesting is that even 1130 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:53.360 though the Federal Reserve has been lowering interest rates, that 1131 01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:56.320 hasn't filtered its way down to the mortgage rates here, 1132 01:05:56.599 --> 01:05:59.880 which is what a lot of people had anticipated happenings 1133 01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:03.119 not happening. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, five 1134 01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:05.400 hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight 1135 01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:08.440 hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, five 1136 01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:11.280 point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in 1137 01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:14.519 for Brian Thomas, fifty five K See the talk station 1138 01:06:19.199 --> 01:06:21.760 six fifty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 1139 01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:26.760 fifty five K See the talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, 1140 01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:29.440 five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three Talk one 1141 01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:32.039 eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, 1142 01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:35.639 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Consumer confidence 1143 01:06:35.719 --> 01:06:40.440 rises to a sixteen month high on post election euphoria. 1144 01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:44.639 Now interesting digging into these numbers. Rise in confidence was 1145 01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:49.159 led by consumers under the age of thirty five. Now, 1146 01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:53.119 when you looked at going into the election, seventy nine 1147 01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:55.400 percent of the people said that we were on the 1148 01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:58.360 wrong track, and a lot of there's been a lot 1149 01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:01.840 of discussion about how those under the age of thirty five, 1150 01:07:01.960 --> 01:07:04.239 the people that are graduating from college, they have a 1151 01:07:04.280 --> 01:07:07.880 dismal outlook as far as if their future ability to 1152 01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:11.760 have a well paying job, as well as the ability 1153 01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:14.679 to afford house and to get on with their adult life. 1154 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:17.239 But the fact that the rise in confidence was led 1155 01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:20.920 by consumers under the age of thirty five, Confidence among 1156 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:24.159 consumers in the thirty five to fifty four age bracket 1157 01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:28.719 fell slightly. It rose among all income groups, with the 1158 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:32.719 exception of those with annual incomes above one hundred and 1159 01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:36.599 twenty five thousand and consumers making less than fifteen thousand. 1160 01:07:37.039 --> 01:07:41.199 A record fifty six point four percent of consumers expected 1161 01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:46.079 stock prices to increase over the next year. Now people 1162 01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:49.760 are talking about impossibility of inflation and when they and 1163 01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:54.039 they always talk about these tariffs. However, the tariffs that 1164 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:57.360 were in place during the Trump administration, the previous Trump 1165 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:01.719 administration didn't leave to lead to inflation. In fact, inflation 1166 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:05.440 was negligible at the best, that down below two percent 1167 01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:08.639 one point one or somewhere there in that neck of 1168 01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:11.280 the woods. And we would expect to see that in 1169 01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:13.960 the future. He's got a track record, So any of 1170 01:08:14.039 --> 01:08:17.159 this concerned about low inflation or high inflation and so 1171 01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:20.439 on is kind of a little bit ridiculous. New home 1172 01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:24.560 sales tumble to a two year low in October. Again, 1173 01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:27.079 that has to do with the interest rates. Even though 1174 01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.359 the FED has been cutting interest rates, that only affects 1175 01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:34.479 the overnight borrowing from bank to bank when banks need 1176 01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:37.279 money for payroll or for you know, to cash checks 1177 01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:39.880 or something on certain parts of the day. They have 1178 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:42.439 certain days of the month where they need a specific 1179 01:08:42.439 --> 01:08:45.800 amount of money on hand, and if they don't have 1180 01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:48.199 enough deposits on hand to handle that, they have to 1181 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.359 borrow money from other banks or from the Fed in 1182 01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:54.600 order to have those numbers. That overnight rate that they 1183 01:08:54.640 --> 01:08:57.800 talk about, that four point five or whatever was it 1184 01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:01.319 four point five to four point seventy five now something 1185 01:09:01.359 --> 01:09:04.720 around those range. That is that overnight rate that gives 1186 01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:07.520 them less borrowing costs of the money that they have 1187 01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:10.359 to have on hand. But that doesn't change them as 1188 01:09:10.399 --> 01:09:12.199 far as what they do as far as the money 1189 01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:14.680 they land out. A lot of that money is based 1190 01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:17.479 on what they have to pay on interest in order 1191 01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:20.479 to get people to make deposits into their bank, and 1192 01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:22.880 so if their costs are high on that end, which 1193 01:09:22.920 --> 01:09:25.960 if you look the Treasury yields those are up, then 1194 01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:29.439 these interest rates haven't gone down. Matter of fact, mortgage 1195 01:09:29.479 --> 01:09:31.439 rates have reversed all of the clients that have been 1196 01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:33.359 pushed them to more than a one and a half 1197 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:37.600 year low of six point six point eight percent in September. 1198 01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:41.039 Mortgage rates now are up around six point seven to 1199 01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:44.479 two percent. And you still have this situation of where 1200 01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:47.880 they call the golden handcuffs with some people, of where 1201 01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:51.800 if they have a mortgage that is under three percent, 1202 01:09:52.039 --> 01:09:54.479 if they're in the two point seventy five percent range, 1203 01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:57.039 they're not about to give that up and sell that 1204 01:09:57.199 --> 01:10:00.600 home and move into something else. If they don't have 1205 01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:02.359 the cash word, they'd have to take out a loan, 1206 01:10:02.600 --> 01:10:05.319 and they don't want to take it out a higher 1207 01:10:05.359 --> 01:10:08.920 loan because when you factor in the interest rate with 1208 01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:12.039 a home, you have less buying power. You can afford 1209 01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:15.359 less house when interest rates are higher like that, and 1210 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:18.279 in some cases that can be just in some of 1211 01:10:18.279 --> 01:10:20.520 the stuff that we were seeing earlier with the higher 1212 01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:23.119 interest rates could be as much as almost seven hundred 1213 01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:26.199 to one thousand dollars more per month on your mortgage, 1214 01:10:26.239 --> 01:10:28.520 and people are not interested in doing that. And so 1215 01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:30.800 what we're seeing as far as new home sales tumble 1216 01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:33.840 to a two year low. Again. Expectation of fewer rate 1217 01:10:33.920 --> 01:10:37.239 cuts have also been strengthened by fears of resurgent inflation. 1218 01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:40.199 But if these interest rate cuts from the Fed aren't 1219 01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:44.039 making their way through these banks in form of mortgages, 1220 01:10:44.239 --> 01:10:46.520 then they can keep those interest rates as high as 1221 01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:49.680 they want because it's not going to affect mortgage prices. 1222 01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:53.479 Home prices growth has stalled. According to case Shiller. The 1223 01:10:53.600 --> 01:10:57.600 number of home prices in the twenty biggest US metropolitan 1224 01:10:57.640 --> 01:11:01.279 areas lost more steam in September, buckling under the pressure 1225 01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:05.079 of high mortgage rates and historic on affordability. And until 1226 01:11:05.119 --> 01:11:07.439 those prices start coming down, you're going to see a 1227 01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:10.840 lot more houses not on the market. Somewhere in here. 1228 01:11:10.880 --> 01:11:13.279 I think what they were saying is that if you 1229 01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:15.840 look at the number of houses on the market today, 1230 01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:18.560 in order to get rid of that backlog, it could 1231 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:21.319 take up to almost nine months to do that. Coming 1232 01:11:21.359 --> 01:11:22.840 up top the hour, we're going to be talking to 1233 01:11:22.920 --> 01:11:25.880 my friend and friend of the show, friend of America 1234 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:29.279 struck In Network, Phil Flynn with Price Futures Group. I'm 1235 01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:32.760 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC, the 1236 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:33.880 talk station. 1237 01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:38.279 And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on 1238 01:11:38.439 --> 01:11:42.239 fifty five KOSS the talk station. 1239 01:11:56.680 --> 01:12:01.600 Five minutes after seven o'clock. I guess this is Phil Flynn. 1240 01:12:01.800 --> 01:12:06.239 He's the senior market analyst Price Futures Group, author of 1241 01:12:06.279 --> 01:12:10.119 the Energy Report, and contributor to Fox Business News. Really 1242 01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:13.800 enjoyed reading his Energy Report on a daily basis and 1243 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:16.119 really gotten to know him over the last couple of years, 1244 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:20.960 and what insight this guy has. Welcome to the program, Phil, certainly, 1245 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:23.199 I appreciate you spending some time with us this morning. 1246 01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:26.920 Good morning, Kevin. Happy Thanksgiving? 1247 01:12:27.840 --> 01:12:30.680 Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. 1248 01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:36.159 Yeah, all right, No, I'm very excited because you know, 1249 01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:39.279 it's an oil analyst. This time of year, we look 1250 01:12:39.319 --> 01:12:41.359 at all the people going over the river and through 1251 01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:43.680 the woods, and we're going to see a record amount 1252 01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:45.760 of people on the roads according to the trip Awa. 1253 01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:48.960 So this is a big exciting time to be watching 1254 01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:50.560 these markets. I can tell you that. 1255 01:12:50.920 --> 01:12:53.359 Well, I'll tell you what. From looking at your Energy 1256 01:12:53.399 --> 01:12:58.399 Report on a regular basis, it's been an exciting I'm 1257 01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:01.039 a year pretty much because because if we've got this, 1258 01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:04.000 we had this war risk premium in there as far 1259 01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:08.319 as hes Blob and the go and Hamas war, the 1260 01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:12.279 houtis firing rockets, and you've got the Russia Ukraine war. 1261 01:13:12.399 --> 01:13:16.680 We're ramping up and ramping down. And what's that doing 1262 01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:19.359 as far as affecting the markets or concern Then, of 1263 01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:22.439 course the election itself and whether it was going to 1264 01:13:22.479 --> 01:13:25.720 be a status quo is what we've been experiencing over 1265 01:13:25.720 --> 01:13:28.399 the last disastrous four years, or whether we're going to 1266 01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:32.560 have the bright spot of the drill baby drill mentality. 1267 01:13:32.720 --> 01:13:35.720 So yeah, I'm. 1268 01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:39.159 Telling you, drill baby drill is back. And that's one 1269 01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:42.960 thing Americans can really give thanks for because the road 1270 01:13:43.039 --> 01:13:47.800 we were going down led to you know, inflation, when 1271 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:50.680 it came to our lack of an energy policy, it 1272 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:54.439 led to global instability as we see with wars around 1273 01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:58.239 the globe. And you know, I thank god, you know 1274 01:13:58.319 --> 01:14:00.960 that we're going to get back on track here, you know, 1275 01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:05.520 and really focus on reality, not some kind of aspirational 1276 01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:09.840 you know, energy policy, not you know, going into people's 1277 01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:12.600 houses to steal their stoves. I mean, let's get back 1278 01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:15.119 to reality. And when we do that, I think we 1279 01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:18.239 can not only you know, empower the US economy and 1280 01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:21.319 lower inflation, but you know, we can actually do it 1281 01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:24.560 a better job for the environment than some of these, 1282 01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:28.920 you know, just governments spending it crazy projects. It probably 1283 01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:30.720 won't ever work exactly. 1284 01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:32.720 And what we've talked about in the past is with 1285 01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:38.119 these evs, you know, nobody can well no, I can't 1286 01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:42.520 say nobody can fault. But the concept is a good 1287 01:14:42.520 --> 01:14:45.600 idea until you really get to I mean, theory is 1288 01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:48.279 always good. But when the rubber meets the road, when 1289 01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:51.720 you start talking about the lithium batteries, the construction of those, 1290 01:14:51.840 --> 01:14:54.760 and the fact that it's done by slave labor minds 1291 01:14:54.800 --> 01:14:57.199 in the Congo to get the precious metals and by 1292 01:14:57.319 --> 01:15:01.239 definition precious metals for crying out, which means that they're 1293 01:15:01.319 --> 01:15:04.359 rare earth minerals and so on. Then you go to 1294 01:15:04.479 --> 01:15:07.800 China and build these EV batteries and so on. They 1295 01:15:07.880 --> 01:15:11.479 weigh more, they're more expensive, and then they're a landfilled nightmare. 1296 01:15:11.720 --> 01:15:14.000 Then you have the charging stations, which aren't good. So 1297 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:17.119 it's not it's a technology. That's as you said, I 1298 01:15:17.159 --> 01:15:20.239 think numerous times in your energy report, it's not ready 1299 01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:21.000 for prime time. 1300 01:15:22.560 --> 01:15:26.640 It isn't. It's not ready to replace the internal combustion engine, 1301 01:15:26.680 --> 01:15:29.039 you know, But that's not to say, you know, electric 1302 01:15:29.039 --> 01:15:31.199 cars aren't going to pay a play a part. They will, 1303 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:33.199 you know, it's part of part of the overall solution. 1304 01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:37.039 But we have to let the market forces dictate that, right. 1305 01:15:37.439 --> 01:15:40.880 And if you're driving your electric car and you're feeling 1306 01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:44.239 all good about saving the environment, well you better think again, 1307 01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:47.560 because to build one of those electric cars, you know, 1308 01:15:47.600 --> 01:15:50.800 because of the mining for the lithium, because of the 1309 01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:56.720 technologies that have to go into it, you actually creating 1310 01:15:56.760 --> 01:16:00.000 with that car three or four times the amount of 1311 01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:03.199 carbon emissions that it does to make a traditional car. 1312 01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:06.359 So to get a break even on greenhouse gas emissions, 1313 01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:08.439 you may have to drive that car forty or fifty 1314 01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:10.680 thousand miles, you know, and by then you might be 1315 01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:12.840 ready for a new car because the battery isn't holding 1316 01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:15.960 a charge exactly. It's not ready for a prime time. 1317 01:16:16.119 --> 01:16:18.920 Yeah, And that's one of the things that's become abundantly 1318 01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:21.920 clear as far as looking at this EV technology. And 1319 01:16:21.920 --> 01:16:25.199 then when you take into consideration that the EPA, even 1320 01:16:25.239 --> 01:16:28.439 though Phil Flynn that they don't have this of what 1321 01:16:28.560 --> 01:16:32.680 they keep claiming, well, there's no EV mandate. Well, okay, 1322 01:16:32.680 --> 01:16:36.560 there's no EV mandate, But if you don't have the 1323 01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:41.600 proper mileage per fleet of what they want you to have, 1324 01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:44.880 they will find you billions of dollars, which is not 1325 01:16:44.960 --> 01:16:48.039 good for the stockholders or good for the company itself. 1326 01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:51.439 So it forces them to sell more evs, which people 1327 01:16:51.439 --> 01:16:54.000 don't want exactly, and. 1328 01:16:54.560 --> 01:16:57.039 You get hit on the important point. And it's not 1329 01:16:57.279 --> 01:17:01.159 just about you know, EV's, it's it's that kind of 1330 01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:06.239 government you know, persuasion. 1331 01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:06.239 So to speak. 1332 01:17:06.279 --> 01:17:09.960 And she is a nice word, you know, against everybody 1333 01:17:10.039 --> 01:17:13.720 in the industry, right, yeah, but that's what it is, 1334 01:17:13.720 --> 01:17:15.560 and say, oh, yeah, you can drive for oil, but 1335 01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:18.760 you know, we might come back and find you or sure, 1336 01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:21.399 you know, invest in this oil project, but we may 1337 01:17:21.439 --> 01:17:24.680 come back years later in at want to know what 1338 01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:28.159 you knew and when you knew about global warming or 1339 01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:31.760 you know, you know, did you know that this happens 1340 01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:34.479 to be a racist pipeline? I mean stuff like that 1341 01:17:34.479 --> 01:17:38.439 that just sighted you know, economic growth, right, and people 1342 01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:41.039 are spending their heads saying, you know, we don't know 1343 01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:42.800 what this government is going to come with us left. 1344 01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:44.800 So getting back to clarity is going to be good 1345 01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:47.319 for jobs, It's going to be good for the economy, 1346 01:17:47.720 --> 01:17:50.760 you know, you know, I'm more excited about the energy 1347 01:17:52.159 --> 01:17:55.119 future for the US today than might have been many 1348 01:17:55.159 --> 01:17:58.800 many years. We have new technologies with artificial intelligence. We're 1349 01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:01.840 going to be able to produce more oil more cleanly, 1350 01:18:01.840 --> 01:18:03.760 We're going to be able to move it more safely, 1351 01:18:03.880 --> 01:18:08.039 and and you know, liquified natural mass. All forms of energy, 1352 01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:10.680 and even solar and wind can play a part, but 1353 01:18:10.800 --> 01:18:13.520 it has to play its rightful part. It can't really 1354 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:15.920 replace those traditional sources of energy. 1355 01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:19.319 Yeah, at least not yet. And the fact that a 1356 01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:21.439 lot of this stuff and as we've talked about before, 1357 01:18:21.520 --> 01:18:25.520 these climbiness which again as I reiterate that that you know, 1358 01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.319 this whole green technology in the green new steel has 1359 01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:31.760 nothing to do with cleaning up the environment. It is 1360 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:35.119 all about government control where you eat, what you eat, 1361 01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:37.840 how you eat, how you cook your food, where you live, 1362 01:18:37.960 --> 01:18:40.359 how you live, what you drive, how far you can drive, 1363 01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:43.199 and all that, which has more in common with communism 1364 01:18:43.239 --> 01:18:46.279 than it does capitalism. I just massitude together and call 1365 01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:50.039 it climmunism. But moving away from that and getting to it, 1366 01:18:50.239 --> 01:18:54.960 as you talked about earlier, Phil Flynn, this energy mindset 1367 01:18:55.199 --> 01:18:59.439 of the free markets dictating what is done, and if 1368 01:18:59.439 --> 01:19:01.920 we're talking talking about and you hit the nail on 1369 01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:04.239 the head as well when you talked about how if 1370 01:19:04.279 --> 01:19:08.000 we're talking about cleaning up the environment, nobody drills for oil? 1371 01:19:08.640 --> 01:19:12.199 Was it cleaner, safer, and more affordable than in the 1372 01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:15.439 United States. So if we allow these other countries that 1373 01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:18.520 don't give a whiff about their own people, they certainly 1374 01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:22.359 don't give a whiff about the environment, and they're drilling 1375 01:19:22.520 --> 01:19:23.680 like crazy. 1376 01:19:24.880 --> 01:19:28.119 You're right, I mean, look at what has happened with 1377 01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:30.319 the other rand. You know, when President Trump was in 1378 01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:33.119 office the first time, you know, their production went down 1379 01:19:33.199 --> 01:19:36.760 to practically nothing, right, they put the screws to the 1380 01:19:36.920 --> 01:19:41.319 entire country, right, their revenue was down. Then of course 1381 01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:45.880 we took the pressure off, right and then allowed Iran's 1382 01:19:45.920 --> 01:19:48.239 exports to hit a five year high. They brought them 1383 01:19:48.239 --> 01:19:52.600 billions of dollars. We unfroze billions of dollars to their treasury. 1384 01:19:53.079 --> 01:19:54.880 And look how they spent the money. You know, they 1385 01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:58.119 spent the money on creating havoc in the world, you know, 1386 01:19:58.600 --> 01:20:03.039 supporting Hesba Lahamas to who the rebels, you know, and 1387 01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:06.720 you know, I hate to say it was very predictable, 1388 01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:10.600 but it was very predictable. It was and so you know, 1389 01:20:10.600 --> 01:20:15.079 and again and this goes back to this climate misdirection, right, 1390 01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:17.239 I mean, what's it's all about, really? Is it about 1391 01:20:17.239 --> 01:20:20.640 saving the environment? And you know, we've spent trillions of 1392 01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:23.800 dollars on this green energy movement, and you want to 1393 01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:26.880 know what little secret? Greenhouse cast emissions are higher in 1394 01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:29.640 the world than they've ever been before. So obviously what 1395 01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:31.920 they're doing isn't working. So we didn't need to come 1396 01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:36.760 back to to to real policies, real answers, and that's 1397 01:20:36.760 --> 01:20:39.039 the only way you're going to have solved this problem. 1398 01:20:39.239 --> 01:20:41.119 My guest is Phil Flyinn. Can you hang with us 1399 01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:43.640 for another segment because I want to get into sure 1400 01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:47.319 talking about obviously we talked about Iran, but also what's 1401 01:20:47.359 --> 01:20:50.079 going on as far as Russia is concerned. And you know, 1402 01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:53.439 they were on the verge of financial bankruptcy and then 1403 01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:56.800 all of a sudden, you know, oil became their major 1404 01:20:56.840 --> 01:20:58.960 export and they made a lot of money and they said, well, 1405 01:20:59.079 --> 01:21:01.079 rather than making our life, Well, we'll talk about what 1406 01:21:01.119 --> 01:21:03.159 they did with their money, and then we can talk 1407 01:21:03.199 --> 01:21:08.119 about how much this AI is eating up as far 1408 01:21:08.159 --> 01:21:11.960 as electrical grids coming up, So again we'll pick this up. 1409 01:21:12.439 --> 01:21:15.760 My guest is Phil Flynn. He is senior market analyst 1410 01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:19.359 and Price Futures Group, author of the Energy Report, and 1411 01:21:19.399 --> 01:21:22.840 I encourage anybody to go to his site Energy Report 1412 01:21:23.199 --> 01:21:26.239 and read that on a daily basis. He's also a 1413 01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:30.199 frequent contributor to Fox Businesses and to America's truck A Network. 1414 01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:34.439 So that's the best figure of a feather in his cap, 1415 01:21:34.479 --> 01:21:37.479 I might add. Picking this up on the other side, 1416 01:21:37.560 --> 01:21:40.000 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR 1417 01:21:40.039 --> 01:21:50.960 see the Talk station seven nineteen in the morning. Kevin 1418 01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:55.520 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the Talk station, 1419 01:21:57.079 --> 01:22:01.359 continuing our conversation with Phil Flynn, senior market analyst, Price 1420 01:22:01.399 --> 01:22:04.159 Futures Group and author of the Energy Report, contributed to 1421 01:22:04.199 --> 01:22:08.439 Fox Business Network and a contributor to fifty five KRC 1422 01:22:08.640 --> 01:22:13.079 now and ATM America's Trucking Network. Thanks for being Thanks 1423 01:22:13.119 --> 01:22:15.359 for being with us this morning. Phil certainly appreciate it. 1424 01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:19.239 I'm so happy to be here in loving to be 1425 01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:21.760 on WKRC in Cincinnati. 1426 01:22:22.079 --> 01:22:28.279 Yes. So, prior to the break, we were talking about 1427 01:22:28.760 --> 01:22:32.439 what Iran has done as far as their money that 1428 01:22:32.479 --> 01:22:36.600 they received as a result of us changing our energy 1429 01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:41.760 policy and having more foreign oil being produced and being 1430 01:22:42.039 --> 01:22:47.079 not being energy dominant. We saw what Iran did, but 1431 01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:49.800 then we also see what Russia did with the money 1432 01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:50.520 that they earned. 1433 01:22:52.560 --> 01:22:56.880 Absolutely, and it's kind of interesting. I mean, part of 1434 01:22:56.640 --> 01:23:02.079 the backstory of the Russian War in Ukraine has a 1435 01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:04.720 lot to do with NATO, but it also has a 1436 01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:08.600 lot to do with energy, because there's a huge energy 1437 01:23:08.720 --> 01:23:13.119 component behind this. You know, in Germany and other parts 1438 01:23:13.119 --> 01:23:15.720 of Europe, they decided to go all in on the 1439 01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:19.560 green energy movement. We're going to stop producing fossil fuels, 1440 01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:23.479 we're going to close down nuclear power plants, we're going 1441 01:23:23.520 --> 01:23:28.600 to close down drilling sites, all in the name of 1442 01:23:28.960 --> 01:23:32.720 saving the environment. But every time they did that, they 1443 01:23:32.760 --> 01:23:35.880 played right into Vladimir Putin's hands because they became more 1444 01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:39.880 dependent on Russia for supplies, supplies of oil, supplies from 1445 01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:43.560 natural gas. In fact, they are so dependent on Russia 1446 01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:46.039 for natural gas and even if when they wanted to 1447 01:23:46.119 --> 01:23:48.880 cut them off, they couldn't do it because they freeze 1448 01:23:48.920 --> 01:23:52.319 to death. And the last two winters they've had warm 1449 01:23:52.359 --> 01:23:56.079 winters in Europe and they've been able to skate by 1450 01:23:56.760 --> 01:24:00.399 without a major problem. But this winter started them off 1451 01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:03.439 cold and we're already hearing warnings that if we get 1452 01:24:03.439 --> 01:24:08.239 a cold winter, you know, Europe could have a major 1453 01:24:08.359 --> 01:24:12.319 energy crisis. And if Putin decided to, he could really 1454 01:24:12.359 --> 01:24:14.399 turn the screws. Also he'd have to do is cut 1455 01:24:14.439 --> 01:24:17.960 off you know, production or cut off their pipelines for 1456 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:19.960 a day or two, and you could have a real disaster. 1457 01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:23.640 And what was interesting is that President Trump back in 1458 01:24:23.920 --> 01:24:26.560 was at twenty seventeen in front of the UN talked 1459 01:24:26.560 --> 01:24:32.239 about that Germany will become hostage to the Russians if 1460 01:24:32.239 --> 01:24:35.600 they go on this path of converting and making sure 1461 01:24:35.600 --> 01:24:38.920 that all they're doing is buying their gas and from 1462 01:24:39.279 --> 01:24:43.560 a liquid national gas and whatever from Russia and doing 1463 01:24:43.600 --> 01:24:46.359 away with their coal mines and so on. And there 1464 01:24:46.439 --> 01:24:49.560 was a famous scene where he was speaking and the 1465 01:24:50.479 --> 01:24:53.600 German delegation we're laughing at him that look at this 1466 01:24:53.760 --> 01:24:57.479 idiot up there talking about this and you just brought 1467 01:24:57.479 --> 01:25:01.119 that up. They are being held hostage by Russia. How 1468 01:25:01.439 --> 01:25:04.199 much sanctions are they going to put on Russia when 1469 01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:07.359 Russia controls how they heat their homes and whether or 1470 01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:09.399 not they're going to be freezing to death in the winter. 1471 01:25:10.840 --> 01:25:13.720 Yeah, they put them in that corner you're right, and yeah, 1472 01:25:13.960 --> 01:25:15.920 I mean Donald Trump you had to say he was 1473 01:25:16.239 --> 01:25:19.840 a prophet. But you know, people of reason could see 1474 01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:23.000 this coming, right, I mean, people that were looking at 1475 01:25:23.000 --> 01:25:26.479 the numbers are like, well, okay, this sounds great, but 1476 01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:30.119 it just shows you the screen energy movement. It's not 1477 01:25:30.359 --> 01:25:35.199 based in science, it's not based in reality. You know, 1478 01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:39.720 this is based in politics, because any right thinking human 1479 01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:43.439 being would not lead their people in this precarious situation. 1480 01:25:44.039 --> 01:25:44.199 You know. 1481 01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:46.560 And this gets back to you know, Joe Biden. You know, 1482 01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:49.640 you know, we have wars going on all over the world, 1483 01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:52.079 and you know he says the biggest threat to the 1484 01:25:52.079 --> 01:25:55.560 country was climate change or the biggest extential threat to 1485 01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:56.159 the country. 1486 01:25:56.479 --> 01:25:58.920 You know, well, aside from trumperty. 1487 01:25:58.800 --> 01:26:04.079 Next yeah right, well that yeah, right exactly, yes, yes, yeah, 1488 01:26:04.079 --> 01:26:06.039 I got to watch out for the novel. You never know, 1489 01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:07.720 he might tweet us to death. 1490 01:26:07.720 --> 01:26:11.560 Yes, exactly. Well, this existential threat to the world being 1491 01:26:11.640 --> 01:26:14.439 climate change. I mean, given the fact of the terrorism 1492 01:26:14.479 --> 01:26:16.920 and all the stuff going on around the world, and 1493 01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:18.680 this was the thing that he wants to hang his 1494 01:26:18.760 --> 01:26:22.319 hat on. And you know, getting back to Europe, they've 1495 01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:27.319 is it, am I mistaken Phil Flynn that their energy 1496 01:26:27.359 --> 01:26:31.760 production from green energy, the solar and the wind is 1497 01:26:31.800 --> 01:26:35.880 not producing as much as it was in the years past. 1498 01:26:36.880 --> 01:26:37.640 Is that down? 1499 01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:42.000 It is down? You know. In fact, it was kind 1500 01:26:42.039 --> 01:26:45.760 of funny because, uh, there was a crisis in the 1501 01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:52.079 UK a few months ago because the wind didn't blow. Okay, 1502 01:26:52.199 --> 01:26:55.159 so when you start start, you know, put in your 1503 01:26:55.319 --> 01:26:58.199 your things. It reminds me remember that old commercial leads 1504 01:26:58.279 --> 01:27:00.000 to have with the farmer and they were talking about 1505 01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:02.760 energy and then the wind would start and they run 1506 01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:04.640 in and listen to the baseball game of the radio. 1507 01:27:04.680 --> 01:27:08.680 The wind stop. They lost the baseball game, you know. 1508 01:27:09.079 --> 01:27:12.039 Call I mean, that's that's kind of what Europe is doing, right, 1509 01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:15.640 And you know it's kind of funny, you know. I 1510 01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:19.399 mean when you you look at the arrogance of some 1511 01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:22.319 of these green energy folks saying, oh, we don't need 1512 01:27:22.359 --> 01:27:24.760 fossil fuels, we've got to stop doing it today to 1513 01:27:24.800 --> 01:27:28.359 save the planet, It's like, well, what's your alternative to 1514 01:27:28.439 --> 01:27:31.000 save the planet? Right? I mean, you know, your wind 1515 01:27:31.039 --> 01:27:35.640 and solar isn't really that efficient, and you know, and 1516 01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:38.439 it's not saving the planet because you know, these wind 1517 01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:41.199 turbines end up in the you know, landfills. You know 1518 01:27:41.600 --> 01:27:47.319 exactly solar panels are made with you know, toxic chemicals, 1519 01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:49.479 and they only have a short shelf life. What are 1520 01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:51.439 you going to do with them when they're all so 1521 01:27:51.560 --> 01:27:55.920 you know, they don't think these things out right, They 1522 01:27:55.960 --> 01:27:58.439 have to go back to reality. And I'll tell you this, 1523 01:27:59.039 --> 01:28:01.319 and I'm a big believer, we're going to solve a 1524 01:28:01.319 --> 01:28:03.920 lot of these problems using oil and gas, and we're 1525 01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:06.720 going to be able to reduce methane because we've got 1526 01:28:06.840 --> 01:28:11.079 new technologies coming online. The United States is forefront in 1527 01:28:11.119 --> 01:28:14.640 the world of clean energy technology when it comes to 1528 01:28:14.680 --> 01:28:17.920 oil and gas production. We you know, with the fracking, 1529 01:28:18.000 --> 01:28:21.720 we've reduced greenhouse gas emissions more than any major industrialized 1530 01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:26.079 country with that technology. And now with artificial intelligence coming 1531 01:28:26.119 --> 01:28:28.560 in being able to do these things more efficiently and 1532 01:28:28.600 --> 01:28:32.439 more cleanly, you know, the future looks very, very bright 1533 01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:33.439 for US energy. 1534 01:28:33.520 --> 01:28:36.800 Yeah, and it's not a small point to point out 1535 01:28:36.800 --> 01:28:40.680 that in the winter months in Europe, even though you know, 1536 01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:43.399 with the windmills and stuff, wind doesn't blow much in 1537 01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:46.920 the winter there. So you have this technology that's supposed 1538 01:28:46.920 --> 01:28:50.720 to replace what I refer to as natural resources because 1539 01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:53.239 I don't refer to them as fossil fuels. They are 1540 01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:58.000 a natural resources. They're available to be used that if 1541 01:28:58.000 --> 01:28:59.600 the wind's not blowing, you're not going to get that 1542 01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:04.600 the wind turbines. And then you talk about this AI 1543 01:29:05.239 --> 01:29:08.720 and we start seeing some of these complexes where this 1544 01:29:09.399 --> 01:29:14.279 artificial technology, artificial intelligence that some of these complexes are 1545 01:29:14.359 --> 01:29:19.760 taking as much electricity as small cities are taking, just 1546 01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:24.560 in a small confined area. So the electrical grid is 1547 01:29:24.600 --> 01:29:28.279 going to be pushed, and there's going to be this 1548 01:29:28.439 --> 01:29:31.720 need for you know, other things other than this green 1549 01:29:31.760 --> 01:29:33.199 technology that they're pushing. 1550 01:29:34.640 --> 01:29:38.439 You're absolutely correct, and listen that, you know, when you 1551 01:29:38.439 --> 01:29:41.199 know they Buiden administration want to say green energy jobs 1552 01:29:41.239 --> 01:29:43.680 are the future. We're going to create a million green 1553 01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:46.600 energy jobs. Where are the jobs? Where are the jobs? 1554 01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:50.960 Because they missed the mark. The future isn't building electric cars. Okay, 1555 01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:55.960 that's not it. The future is building up these data 1556 01:29:56.000 --> 01:29:59.960 centers and these power centers for artificial intelligence. Right. You know, 1557 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:02.039 it kind of reminds me of the old commercial you 1558 01:30:02.079 --> 01:30:04.600 know Biden was pushing, you know, the eight track. Hey, 1559 01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:07.359 this is a new technology. We're sell our money at 1560 01:30:07.359 --> 01:30:10.479 eight tracks, you know, you know, instead of computers. Right, yeah, 1561 01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:14.159 computers were the future. You know, It's like no, I 1562 01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:16.960 mean he was investing in the wrong technology. I mean 1563 01:30:17.039 --> 01:30:20.159 the when you go back in future and say, hey, 1564 01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:23.560 you know, was the future economy or economic growth based 1565 01:30:23.600 --> 01:30:27.279 on electric cars or was it artificial intelligence and data centers? 1566 01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:29.680 You're going to look back and look at the electric 1567 01:30:29.720 --> 01:30:32.319 car investment. It was like investing all your money in 1568 01:30:32.359 --> 01:30:34.359 an eight track, Right, It's going to have a limited 1569 01:30:34.399 --> 01:30:36.680 shelf life. There's going to be newer technologies that are 1570 01:30:36.680 --> 01:30:38.880 going to replace it. So you're you're barking up the 1571 01:30:38.920 --> 01:30:41.760 wrong horse, you know. And that's why the government sometimes 1572 01:30:41.840 --> 01:30:45.119 is the worst person or the worst group of people 1573 01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:47.399 to be making these decisions, because they're more often than 1574 01:30:47.439 --> 01:30:49.760 not wrong. That's why we need to encourage the free 1575 01:30:49.840 --> 01:30:53.039 market to do these things, not some government bureaucrat that 1576 01:30:53.119 --> 01:30:56.039 doesn't understand how things actually work well. 1577 01:30:56.079 --> 01:30:59.159 And you hit a good point there too, as well 1578 01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:02.279 as if you've got these bureaucrats that aren't used to 1579 01:31:02.319 --> 01:31:05.479 the private sector, if they have no real world technology 1580 01:31:05.800 --> 01:31:08.720 or real experience, and they start listening to some of 1581 01:31:08.760 --> 01:31:12.119 these climiness and listen to some of these theorists talking 1582 01:31:12.119 --> 01:31:15.239 about how this can work, and they start implementing that 1583 01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:20.640 without saying, Okay, what are the unintended consequences? What can 1584 01:31:20.680 --> 01:31:22.319 we do and what can we not do and what 1585 01:31:22.359 --> 01:31:24.960 will work and what will not work, instead of looking 1586 01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:28.079 at the business community to answer some of those questions. 1587 01:31:28.199 --> 01:31:30.960 If they do this on their own, they're destined to failure. 1588 01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:33.479 And it's just nuts. 1589 01:31:33.600 --> 01:31:37.000 So and that's what we suffer the last four years. 1590 01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:40.359 I mean, you know, nameing somebody in the Biden administration 1591 01:31:40.439 --> 01:31:44.039 that actually worked in the oil and gas industry exactly, 1592 01:31:44.119 --> 01:31:47.600 or the nuclear industry. No, I mean our Energy secretary 1593 01:31:48.039 --> 01:31:51.920 Jennifer Grenholm seems like a very nice lady, but my gosh, 1594 01:31:52.239 --> 01:31:55.920 she didn't even understand some of the basic questions about 1595 01:31:55.920 --> 01:31:59.840 oil production and how much we produce on a daily basis. 1596 01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:03.159 Huge learning curve, and that's what happens when he started putting, 1597 01:32:03.560 --> 01:32:07.199 you know, people making decisions, you know about a big 1598 01:32:07.239 --> 01:32:10.199 part of the US economy with little or no experience. 1599 01:32:10.520 --> 01:32:13.359 You're going to get, you know, what you pay for him, 1600 01:32:13.439 --> 01:32:16.560 and God was pretty much a disaster and a waste 1601 01:32:16.560 --> 01:32:17.399 of a lot of money. 1602 01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:21.079 Fantastic Phil. I really appreciate Phil Flynn been my guest 1603 01:32:21.680 --> 01:32:24.880 senior market analyst. Price Futures Group, author of the Energy Report. 1604 01:32:24.960 --> 01:32:28.199 I encourage people to subscribe to that and read that 1605 01:32:28.319 --> 01:32:31.199 on a daily basis. Also contributed to Fox Businesses. I 1606 01:32:31.199 --> 01:32:33.399 can't thank you enough for spending time with us. Have 1607 01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:37.000 a happy Thanksgiving, my friend you. 1608 01:32:37.039 --> 01:32:40.520 Too, my friend God. Blessings to you all and everybody listening. 1609 01:32:40.720 --> 01:32:45.720 All righty, take care. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 1610 01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:56.119 fifty five care see the talk station seven thirty three 1611 01:32:56.119 --> 01:32:58.000 and the more actually coming up on seven thirty four 1612 01:32:58.039 --> 01:33:00.359 in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty 1613 01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:03.720 five K see the talk station. Open up the phone 1614 01:33:03.760 --> 01:33:07.239 lines here five one, three, seven four, nine fifty one, 1615 01:33:07.279 --> 01:33:09.439 eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eighty 1616 01:33:09.399 --> 01:33:12.319 two three eight two five five pound five point fifty 1617 01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:15.479 on that at and T wireless phone. Even with all 1618 01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:21.319 this optimism, we're seeing the the consumer confidence level going up. 1619 01:33:21.640 --> 01:33:26.319 We're seeing construction industry kind of peeking out and saying, well, 1620 01:33:26.479 --> 01:33:28.359 things are starting to look good. We're seeing in the 1621 01:33:28.880 --> 01:33:33.520 trucking sector we're seeing uh, people being optimistic. There. The 1622 01:33:33.560 --> 01:33:37.000 only seems to be the dark spot on the economy 1623 01:33:37.079 --> 01:33:41.439 right now seems to be our auto industry. And that 1624 01:33:41.640 --> 01:33:44.039 is kind of as we were talking about with Phil 1625 01:33:44.079 --> 01:33:48.399 Flynn earlier in the previous segment, in the previous half hour, 1626 01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:53.279 that a lot of this is self inflicted, well self 1627 01:33:53.279 --> 01:33:56.840 inflicted to a certain extent of kind of jumping in 1628 01:33:56.960 --> 01:34:00.960 a whole hog or both feet. But all so, these 1629 01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:06.960 EV mandates or this this fuel mileage mandates from the 1630 01:34:07.000 --> 01:34:10.600 federal government, that the energy that the car industry have 1631 01:34:10.680 --> 01:34:14.000 not pushed back on hard enough, because when you tell 1632 01:34:14.039 --> 01:34:16.520 a fleet that you have to have a certain amount 1633 01:34:16.520 --> 01:34:20.600 of mileage per gallon, and that mileage per gallon can't 1634 01:34:20.600 --> 01:34:24.399 be gotten by with the current technology that forces you 1635 01:34:24.479 --> 01:34:27.920 to sell more evs, that forces you to sell more 1636 01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:32.199 evs and produce more evs which people don't want and 1637 01:34:32.239 --> 01:34:34.920 are sitting on the lots I mentioned I think earlier 1638 01:34:34.920 --> 01:34:39.159 in the day that Ford has lost predicted to lose 1639 01:34:39.159 --> 01:34:43.039 about five billion dollars. And until these car industries can 1640 01:34:43.079 --> 01:34:45.800 get a little bit of help, hopefully from the Trump 1641 01:34:45.840 --> 01:34:49.600 administration on these EV mandates and so on, I think 1642 01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:52.239 the car industry when don't I see the other day 1643 01:34:52.520 --> 01:34:56.840 that the new car average average monthly payment is like 1644 01:34:57.239 --> 01:35:02.359 seven hundred dollars a month folks, that's insane. That's a uh, 1645 01:35:02.560 --> 01:35:05.680 that's more than some people's house payments. Anyway, we'll pick 1646 01:35:05.720 --> 01:35:07.439 this up on the other side. I'm Kevin Gordon in 1647 01:35:07.479 --> 01:35:22.720 for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs DE talk station seven 1648 01:35:22.840 --> 01:35:26.279 thirty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 1649 01:35:26.279 --> 01:35:30.159 fifty five kr se DE talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, 1650 01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:32.560 four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two 1651 01:35:32.600 --> 01:35:34.880 three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two 1652 01:35:35.000 --> 01:35:39.079 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Hey, 1653 01:35:39.359 --> 01:35:45.199 nothing says happy holidays like the McRib Yeah, just in 1654 01:35:45.239 --> 01:35:48.000 time for the holidays. Mcribb is returning to men us 1655 01:35:48.079 --> 01:35:52.199 this holiday season, but don't get used to it. McDonald's 1656 01:35:52.199 --> 01:35:56.000 announced Wednesday that's the famous boneless pork patty sandwich will 1657 01:35:56.000 --> 01:35:59.439 be available again starting to December the third, but as 1658 01:35:59.439 --> 01:36:02.399 always little and be for a limited time. Now. This 1659 01:36:02.479 --> 01:36:05.960 is one of those moves, and I I have to say, 1660 01:36:06.319 --> 01:36:09.279 this is a product of McDonald's that I've never tried, 1661 01:36:09.439 --> 01:36:13.680 so I'm not speaking from experience here, so I'm not 1662 01:36:13.720 --> 01:36:16.239 really sure what all the excitement is. I know a 1663 01:36:16.239 --> 01:36:19.520 lot of people love the McRib and apparently it's very popular. 1664 01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:24.359 But again we're seeing some of this bid for nostalgia. 1665 01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:28.119 We're seeing Taco Bell bringing back some of their original 1666 01:36:28.159 --> 01:36:29.119 fan favorites. 1667 01:36:29.600 --> 01:36:29.720 Uh. 1668 01:36:29.920 --> 01:36:32.399 I know my wife was excited when they talked about 1669 01:36:32.399 --> 01:36:35.199 their uh some of these additions to their menu items 1670 01:36:35.279 --> 01:36:38.119 that we're going back to previous type of And so 1671 01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:41.800 we went and got those and she said, not quite 1672 01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:44.960 what she remembers them to be. And when you're talking 1673 01:36:44.960 --> 01:36:47.439 about nostalgia with some of these things, it's it's like, 1674 01:36:48.439 --> 01:36:51.119 you know, if you're if you're trying to do something 1675 01:36:51.359 --> 01:36:53.840 from a and I love that. I guess it's the 1676 01:36:53.880 --> 01:36:57.680 new phrase now that it's not uh it's not fast 1677 01:36:57.720 --> 01:37:02.359 food restaurants, it's it's quick servis restaurants. I guess is 1678 01:37:02.399 --> 01:37:07.680 the new politically correct term. When you roll something like 1679 01:37:07.760 --> 01:37:11.640 this out, it gives well, it gives it free publicity. 1680 01:37:11.680 --> 01:37:13.960 I mean, obviously they're not taking out ads and here 1681 01:37:14.079 --> 01:37:16.279 somebody like me is talking about it. You've seen it 1682 01:37:16.319 --> 01:37:19.359 on some of these other networks and them talking about it, 1683 01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:23.279 so it creates a certain amount of excitement. The additions 1684 01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:28.640 to the Taco Bell menu that saw some activity there. 1685 01:37:29.159 --> 01:37:32.720 Starbucks a few years ago when they ran brought out 1686 01:37:33.560 --> 01:37:36.439 average foot traffic for all locations increased by twenty six 1687 01:37:36.479 --> 01:37:39.520 percent a few days after the arrival of their limited 1688 01:37:39.640 --> 01:37:45.800 edition holiday drinks in twenty twenty two, according to Location Analytics. Again, 1689 01:37:45.920 --> 01:37:48.039 if you were talking about foot traffic, if you're talking 1690 01:37:48.039 --> 01:37:52.279 about something that draws some ears or some foot traffic 1691 01:37:52.359 --> 01:37:55.239 into your stores by announcing some of these things, and 1692 01:37:55.279 --> 01:37:57.600 of course media picks it up and they talk about it. 1693 01:37:57.640 --> 01:38:01.720 But it's interesting to see how this pans out again 1694 01:38:01.840 --> 01:38:06.159 stoking the hype and getting people into the stores. But again, 1695 01:38:06.239 --> 01:38:09.520 if you don't follow that up with something that is good, 1696 01:38:11.439 --> 01:38:14.359 can't you know, don't know what to say? Well, I 1697 01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:16.560 do you know what to say? People won't show up. Now. 1698 01:38:16.680 --> 01:38:19.520 If you notice there's a couple of other outlets that 1699 01:38:20.000 --> 01:38:23.920 around the fall, there's the pumpkin spice latte and stuff 1700 01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:26.880 that I have to say, I always look forward to 1701 01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:32.199 that at speedway gas stations. It's probably not good for you, 1702 01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:35.199 it's probably I don't know, but I know it tastes good, 1703 01:38:35.239 --> 01:38:38.479 so I like it. And usually that doesn't hang around. 1704 01:38:39.159 --> 01:38:41.039 I've seen in the years past where it was like 1705 01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:44.920 that appeared in September and then by the end of 1706 01:38:44.920 --> 01:38:48.760 October it was gone. And I'm happy to see that 1707 01:38:49.159 --> 01:38:52.279 it is now carried on into the Thanksgiving season that 1708 01:38:52.319 --> 01:38:54.960 it's available still at some of the stores. I guess 1709 01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:59.239 my complaining to corporate over the last dozen years or 1710 01:38:59.279 --> 01:39:02.000 so about hey, why don't you have this around longer 1711 01:39:02.359 --> 01:39:04.920 is finally paid off. I'll take the credit for it, 1712 01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:07.680 if you don't mind, but probably not. It was probably 1713 01:39:07.760 --> 01:39:11.880 a marketing decision on their part. But you know, it's 1714 01:39:12.039 --> 01:39:15.159 you know what you see in Hollywood too, when you 1715 01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:18.520 it seems like they've run out of ideas. They're revamping, 1716 01:39:18.560 --> 01:39:24.560 they're dusting off certain movies and doing you know, number four, 1717 01:39:24.720 --> 01:39:28.439 number five a sequel. You've seen this in Hollywood as 1718 01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:32.600 far as the television series are concerned. But you've got 1719 01:39:32.600 --> 01:39:35.439 to have something behind that. You just can't have the 1720 01:39:35.560 --> 01:39:39.840 hype of trying to return to the nostalgia without making 1721 01:39:40.359 --> 01:39:43.680 putting some how, should we say, meet on the bone 1722 01:39:44.119 --> 01:39:47.760 that would not only draw people to your product, but 1723 01:39:47.800 --> 01:39:52.199 then also keep them there going forward, because you're providing 1724 01:39:52.479 --> 01:39:57.239 a product at a good value and available for people. 1725 01:39:57.520 --> 01:40:00.159 But you know, when you start looking at some of 1726 01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:02.760 the prices at some of these fast food restaurants and 1727 01:40:02.800 --> 01:40:05.039 you see what's going on as far as food price 1728 01:40:05.119 --> 01:40:07.399 is eating out. That's one of the things that a 1729 01:40:07.399 --> 01:40:11.079 lot of people are just sticker shocked over. We had 1730 01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:15.760 the lockdowns during COVID, and people, as far as their 1731 01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:19.560 economy is concerned, once things opened up, they started going 1732 01:40:19.600 --> 01:40:25.319 out and trying to enjoy concerts and plays and all 1733 01:40:25.399 --> 01:40:28.920 kinds of activities away from the consumer goods. But then 1734 01:40:29.079 --> 01:40:31.880 when we started getting hit with inflation, and we started 1735 01:40:31.880 --> 01:40:35.600 seeing these nine point one percent inflation rate in June 1736 01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:38.800 of twenty twenty two, and with gas prices being high, 1737 01:40:39.159 --> 01:40:42.680 energy costs being high adding to the inflation amount of 1738 01:40:42.760 --> 01:40:46.920 where you're seeing inflation up around two and a half 1739 01:40:47.159 --> 01:40:50.199 to three percent, depending upon how you look at that. 1740 01:40:50.720 --> 01:40:53.680 When your own individual economics with the stuff that you 1741 01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:58.880 buy are up considerably, and even though the market basket 1742 01:40:59.000 --> 01:41:02.560 might be at a level, it's the specific items that 1743 01:41:02.680 --> 01:41:07.279 you buy that if those items are up tremendously, that's 1744 01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:11.079 going to affect your budget. And so when you find 1745 01:41:11.079 --> 01:41:14.319 a situation where you're living paycheck to paycheck, where your 1746 01:41:14.399 --> 01:41:17.399 paycheck doesn't go as far as the month is concerned, 1747 01:41:17.760 --> 01:41:20.960 that's where these things start kicking back. And then with inflation, 1748 01:41:21.319 --> 01:41:24.319 when you see the prices that are being experienced in 1749 01:41:24.399 --> 01:41:27.520 these restaurants over the last year, year and a half, 1750 01:41:27.760 --> 01:41:30.640 people are even starting to back away from that because 1751 01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:34.119 it's just too expensive to go out and eat sometimes. 1752 01:41:34.479 --> 01:41:36.279 And of course, you know, when I look at it 1753 01:41:36.279 --> 01:41:40.319 from my standpoint, I'm lucky. I live at the best 1754 01:41:40.359 --> 01:41:44.399 restaurant in the world. My wife when she makes stuff 1755 01:41:44.399 --> 01:41:48.640 around the house, it spoils it. You know, you have 1756 01:41:49.159 --> 01:41:51.479 a dish that's made at home and you're not going 1757 01:41:51.560 --> 01:41:53.119 to order that out because you know it's not going 1758 01:41:53.199 --> 01:41:57.760 to be as good. So you know, we've got to 1759 01:41:57.800 --> 01:42:00.840 get this inflation under control. And it's arts with energy 1760 01:42:01.159 --> 01:42:03.760 five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred one 1761 01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:06.199 eight hundred eight two three Talk one eight hundred eight 1762 01:42:06.199 --> 01:42:08.960 two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty 1763 01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:11.680 AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian 1764 01:42:11.720 --> 01:42:30.720 Thomas fifty five kr see the Talk stage seven fifty 1765 01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:32.680 one in the morning Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 1766 01:42:32.720 --> 01:42:36.840 fifty five krs the Talk station. You know, now that 1767 01:42:36.960 --> 01:42:40.840 Kamala is off of her vacation and the post mortem 1768 01:42:41.000 --> 01:42:45.239 of her campaign, there were a bunch of videos yesterday 1769 01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:48.159 having to do with some campaign workers that were talking 1770 01:42:48.159 --> 01:42:52.000 about what happened. I think it was U pod Saves 1771 01:42:52.039 --> 01:42:54.439 the World, and I'll tell you what, it looked like 1772 01:42:54.479 --> 01:42:58.880 a hostage situation. This guy, whoever the host was, looked 1773 01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:02.199 like he was just it just I don't know what. 1774 01:43:02.319 --> 01:43:03.880 It looked like he was in a coma as all 1775 01:43:03.920 --> 01:43:06.520 these people were talking about what went wrong and how 1776 01:43:06.720 --> 01:43:08.680 all the stuff that they did right and they're still 1777 01:43:08.720 --> 01:43:12.279 not sure how everything. And then Kamala comes out with this. 1778 01:43:13.439 --> 01:43:18.079 It was some nine minutes or so of a bizarre 1779 01:43:18.159 --> 01:43:22.800 to be quite honest, in terms of I guess it 1780 01:43:22.960 --> 01:43:25.920 was a conference call. Tim Walls was part of it, 1781 01:43:26.279 --> 01:43:28.520 and it was just weird. And here here's just a 1782 01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:29.439 little taste of it. 1783 01:43:30.439 --> 01:43:34.800 I just have to remind you, don't you ever let 1784 01:43:34.800 --> 01:43:38.680 anybody take your power from you. You have the same 1785 01:43:38.840 --> 01:43:43.479 power that you did before November fifth, and you have 1786 01:43:43.600 --> 01:43:48.319 the same purpose that you did, and you have the 1787 01:43:48.439 --> 01:43:53.640 same ability to engage and inspire. 1788 01:43:55.720 --> 01:43:59.359 What And if you watch the thing, there's a lot 1789 01:43:59.359 --> 01:44:02.479 of people on line that said, you know, was she drunk? 1790 01:44:03.279 --> 01:44:05.479 There's a lot I mean, when you really look at it, 1791 01:44:06.039 --> 01:44:08.319 and if you're looking at it on your phone. When 1792 01:44:08.319 --> 01:44:12.119 you look at the way she's talking, it does seem 1793 01:44:12.239 --> 01:44:17.119 like she's not that she's consume some alcohol or something else. 1794 01:44:17.640 --> 01:44:20.920 And it almost reminded me of somebody who does a 1795 01:44:21.840 --> 01:44:26.800 video that talks about to an ex boyfriend or you know, 1796 01:44:27.479 --> 01:44:31.079 you know I'm so good and you know you've dissed 1797 01:44:31.119 --> 01:44:33.039 me and so on, and you're not going to take 1798 01:44:33.079 --> 01:44:35.880 my power away from me. And Tim Walls got on 1799 01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:38.680 there and said some weird things as well, and it 1800 01:44:38.720 --> 01:44:42.000 was just, you know, sometimes it's best not to say 1801 01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.359 anything rather than say something. And what I find interesting 1802 01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:49.000 is that I thought Donald Trump was an existential threat 1803 01:44:49.000 --> 01:44:53.239 to democracy right after the election. The Wednesday after when 1804 01:44:53.279 --> 01:44:55.479 it was confirmed he gets invited to the White House, 1805 01:44:55.600 --> 01:45:01.239 Joe Biden, the General Millie was on a talk show, 1806 01:45:01.439 --> 01:45:05.359 was on stage with some hosts and said, ah, you know, 1807 01:45:05.399 --> 01:45:08.359 even though he said that he was that Donald Trump 1808 01:45:08.399 --> 01:45:12.279 was hitler that ended democracy as we know it, he said, 1809 01:45:12.479 --> 01:45:15.560 everything's gonna be fine. Then of course you got Joe 1810 01:45:15.920 --> 01:45:20.039 Scarborough and Mika Brezinski going to mar A Lago after 1811 01:45:20.159 --> 01:45:24.560 them talking about how existential threat to democracy and Joe 1812 01:45:24.600 --> 01:45:27.960 Scarborough saying, if you don't understand that this man is dangerous, 1813 01:45:28.000 --> 01:45:30.119 then you're stupid and all this sort of stuff. And 1814 01:45:30.239 --> 01:45:33.680 yet they go there to, I don't know, say that 1815 01:45:33.840 --> 01:45:37.720 we're going to start opening a dialogue with him. Unbelievable. 1816 01:45:37.760 --> 01:45:42.560 And now Kamala Harris because Donald Trump was an existential 1817 01:45:42.600 --> 01:45:46.520 threat to democracy and they paid Oprah Winfrey two point 1818 01:45:46.560 --> 01:45:50.520 five million dollars and she said that this is a fairy. 1819 01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:53.399 Don't sit this one out. If you don't vote now, 1820 01:45:53.680 --> 01:45:57.199 you may never ever be able to cast a ballot again. 1821 01:45:58.439 --> 01:46:01.359 Now if Kamala Harris is talking and has announced it 1822 01:46:01.399 --> 01:46:04.159 possibly that she's going to run for president again in 1823 01:46:04.199 --> 01:46:07.920 twenty twenty eight, well, I thought there weren't going to 1824 01:46:07.960 --> 01:46:12.359 be any elections. So everything that they told us, everything 1825 01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:16.399 that this spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media was 1826 01:46:16.439 --> 01:46:21.000 telling us for the last year, was an absolute lie. 1827 01:46:21.319 --> 01:46:23.199 Coming up, we're going to be talking with Jeff Pierce. 1828 01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:26.680 He is with Reese Across America Radio Network and we'll 1829 01:46:26.720 --> 01:46:29.399 be talking to him about the recent Across America event 1830 01:46:29.920 --> 01:46:33.079 coming up on de Summer the fourteenth. I'm Kevin Gordon 1831 01:46:33.079 --> 01:46:36.319 in for Brian Thomas fifty five K see the talk. 1832 01:46:36.199 --> 01:46:40.439 Station And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas 1833 01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:44.640 on fifty five KOs the talk station. 1834 01:46:57.039 --> 01:47:03.359 Six minutes after eight o'clock. My guest is Jeff Pierce, 1835 01:47:03.600 --> 01:47:08.239 Director of Broadcast Media Partnerships RECE Across America. Welcome to 1836 01:47:08.239 --> 01:47:10.960 the program. Jeff certainly appreciates you spending time with us 1837 01:47:10.960 --> 01:47:11.479 this morning. 1838 01:47:12.800 --> 01:47:15.359 Kevin, thank you for your support of our mission. To 1839 01:47:15.439 --> 01:47:18.399 appreciate you having you, having me on. This is becoming 1840 01:47:18.439 --> 01:47:19.359 a tradition for us. 1841 01:47:19.439 --> 01:47:21.199 Yes it is, Yes it is. And by the way, 1842 01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:27.000 happy Thanksgiving to you and do you for people that 1843 01:47:27.159 --> 01:47:30.520 may not be aware of this. Tell us about Reese 1844 01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:31.319 Across America. 1845 01:47:32.920 --> 01:47:34.680 Well, thank you for asking me that, because I love 1846 01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:37.439 to start with explaining what our mission is, because fifty 1847 01:47:37.479 --> 01:47:41.079 percent of my conversations every day are I don't know 1848 01:47:41.119 --> 01:47:44.279 what Reads Across America is. So Reads Across America is 1849 01:47:44.359 --> 01:47:48.640 a national nonprofit that honors veterans on National Reads Across 1850 01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:51.800 America Day, as proclaimed by Congress. This year will be 1851 01:47:51.880 --> 01:47:56.279 December fourteenth. This year, we will be in four thousand, 1852 01:47:56.840 --> 01:48:02.079 nine hundred plus locations and growing, by the way, where 1853 01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:06.159 we will honor a veteran with a veterans with fresh 1854 01:48:06.359 --> 01:48:12.479 Balsam Remembrance READS, and it is our mission for our 1855 01:48:12.560 --> 01:48:17.319 nonprofit is to remember the fallen, honor those who's all 1856 01:48:17.359 --> 01:48:20.880 who serve, and teach future generations the value of freedom. 1857 01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:23.800 So obviously the remember the fallen is laying the wreath 1858 01:48:23.920 --> 01:48:27.000 in these forty nine hundred plus locations. You can learn 1859 01:48:27.039 --> 01:48:29.840 more about that at Reads across America dot org. And 1860 01:48:29.960 --> 01:48:34.840 last year we honored just three million veterans nationwide, all 1861 01:48:34.880 --> 01:48:39.119 fifty states and overseas and Guam and Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. 1862 01:48:39.159 --> 01:48:43.239 So where this giant national nonprofit that is in all 1863 01:48:43.239 --> 01:48:46.239 these places. We're also a very small organization, so we 1864 01:48:46.359 --> 01:48:50.239 rely heavily on volunteers to help us fulfill our mission. 1865 01:48:50.479 --> 01:48:54.520 Yes, and if somebody wants to volunteer now in these 1866 01:48:55.680 --> 01:49:00.079 different cemeteries around the country, you can actually go on 1867 01:49:00.159 --> 01:49:04.880 line and specifically pinpoint where you live or what's near you, 1868 01:49:05.319 --> 01:49:08.520 and you can sign up and volunteer to be one 1869 01:49:08.520 --> 01:49:12.600 of these people that show up and distribute these wreaths 1870 01:49:13.039 --> 01:49:15.960 on December fourteenth. 1871 01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:18.720 That is correct. You know, we would love it if 1872 01:49:18.720 --> 01:49:21.520 you would sponsor a seventeen dollars remember It's wreath. But 1873 01:49:22.159 --> 01:49:25.159 if even if you just want to give the treasure 1874 01:49:25.199 --> 01:49:28.279 of your time. You've got to reads across America dot org. 1875 01:49:28.319 --> 01:49:31.279 And since the last time we spoke Kevin, we've improved 1876 01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:34.920 our search functionality so people should be able to easily 1877 01:49:35.039 --> 01:49:38.840 find a location near them, and with over forty nine 1878 01:49:38.920 --> 01:49:44.119 hundred locations, I'm confident there is one near you now. 1879 01:49:44.159 --> 01:49:47.680 When I signed up, I was amazed at how quickly 1880 01:49:48.079 --> 01:49:51.119 it seems like I know, no quicker put in my 1881 01:49:51.319 --> 01:49:55.399 information within about five minutes. It seems somebody contacted me 1882 01:49:55.439 --> 01:49:58.399 from the local chapter and was able to talk to 1883 01:49:58.439 --> 01:50:01.319 them and get all set up up for the first 1884 01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:05.319 time that I participated in this event. That and I 1885 01:50:05.399 --> 01:50:09.000 got to tell you it is a very, very rewarding 1886 01:50:09.159 --> 01:50:13.520 experience to be able to be there, to experience this, 1887 01:50:13.960 --> 01:50:17.560 the camaraderie of the people that are involved, as well 1888 01:50:17.600 --> 01:50:22.880 as doing something for the fallen soldiers. And a lot 1889 01:50:22.920 --> 01:50:27.560 of these are in at least in my area. It 1890 01:50:27.680 --> 01:50:31.199 was areas because of the amount of reefs. And we 1891 01:50:31.239 --> 01:50:34.079 would love, obviously, we would love and I would love 1892 01:50:34.119 --> 01:50:36.640 to see the organization be able to put a wreath 1893 01:50:36.720 --> 01:50:42.960 at every veteran's grave, but currently with limited resources and stuff, 1894 01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:47.239 they go to the oldest section first, to remember the 1895 01:50:47.279 --> 01:50:49.439 fallen that are no longer remembered. 1896 01:50:51.520 --> 01:50:54.920 You're absolutely right, Kevin. So with some locations that happens, right, 1897 01:50:55.000 --> 01:50:59.920 we don't get enough coverage and enough refs donated or 1898 01:51:00.039 --> 01:51:04.560 sponsored to cover the entire location. So we have to 1899 01:51:04.560 --> 01:51:09.279 make a choice, right what who who gets covered in 1900 01:51:09.319 --> 01:51:12.199 that location. And the important thing is that a lot 1901 01:51:12.239 --> 01:51:15.680 of these locations that don't have full coverage, they're still 1902 01:51:15.680 --> 01:51:19.479 going around to all of the markers for the veterans, 1903 01:51:19.760 --> 01:51:23.479 and they are saying their name out loud, right, because 1904 01:51:23.520 --> 01:51:27.720 there's there's an expression you die twice, the first time 1905 01:51:28.399 --> 01:51:31.439 when the last breath leaves your body, and the second 1906 01:51:31.439 --> 01:51:33.880 time when no one has spoken your name. So the 1907 01:51:34.000 --> 01:51:38.479 idea here is to ensure that these veterans get get remembered, 1908 01:51:38.600 --> 01:51:41.680 especially around the holiday season. Right. We always do it 1909 01:51:42.359 --> 01:51:46.319 the same, not the same exact date, but the same Saturday, 1910 01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:50.600 the second Saturday in December. Right, So December fourteenth is 1911 01:51:51.319 --> 01:51:55.800 National Reads Across America Day, and and and we do 1912 01:51:55.920 --> 01:52:00.760 it at that time because it's an opportunity for families 1913 01:52:00.760 --> 01:52:03.640 to come together and remember their loved ones. I go 1914 01:52:03.720 --> 01:52:07.920 to a lot of Gold Star Mothers conventions and they 1915 01:52:08.760 --> 01:52:13.760 gather around the moms the headstone for their loved one, 1916 01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:19.720 and and and spend time during the holiday season with 1917 01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:22.319 their loved one that's no longer with us, and they've 1918 01:52:22.600 --> 01:52:25.640 they've made the ultimate sacrifice right for our nation. And 1919 01:52:25.680 --> 01:52:28.239 we want to make sure that those men and women 1920 01:52:28.399 --> 01:52:31.880 get honored, and all men and women who have served 1921 01:52:31.920 --> 01:52:34.760 get honored, not just here in the United States, but 1922 01:52:34.840 --> 01:52:37.920 also overseas. Right we're expanding our mission overseas. The goal 1923 01:52:37.960 --> 01:52:42.960 of the organization is to honor every veteran of the 1924 01:52:43.079 --> 01:52:46.319 United States military, and at some point we'll get there. 1925 01:52:46.439 --> 01:52:49.319 You know, A three million last year was a great start, 1926 01:52:49.439 --> 01:52:53.359 and every year we sustainably, sustainably grow and people can 1927 01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:55.920 can learn how to help at leads across America dot 1928 01:52:56.000 --> 01:52:58.960 org uh and and like you said, I mean, even 1929 01:52:59.000 --> 01:53:02.199 if you've just ball interior time to lay the wreath 1930 01:53:02.319 --> 01:53:06.760 and say that veteran name, it's so important for that 1931 01:53:06.840 --> 01:53:07.760 to happen now. 1932 01:53:08.199 --> 01:53:10.079 At least in the location I was at, it was 1933 01:53:10.399 --> 01:53:13.960 about a two and a half three hours section. You 1934 01:53:14.039 --> 01:53:17.359 got gathered in the morning to get together and kind 1935 01:53:17.399 --> 01:53:19.800 of plan what's going on, and get all the reefs 1936 01:53:19.800 --> 01:53:22.720 loaded up, go to the cemetery around the corner from 1937 01:53:22.760 --> 01:53:26.840 where the site was, and there was a ceremony at 1938 01:53:26.840 --> 01:53:30.239 the end that was honoring the fallen and it was 1939 01:53:30.640 --> 01:53:32.680 about two and a half hours out of my day. 1940 01:53:33.079 --> 01:53:34.960 And I think that's the least we can do for 1941 01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:38.119 our fallen soldiers. And Jeff Pierce, I am so glad 1942 01:53:38.279 --> 01:53:41.479 that you said that line about when a soldier dies twice. 1943 01:53:41.920 --> 01:53:45.119 I get choked up every time. I can barely get 1944 01:53:45.119 --> 01:53:47.760 it out of my mouth. And when you said it, 1945 01:53:47.800 --> 01:53:51.159 I got chills up and down my body because when 1946 01:53:51.199 --> 01:53:54.199 you think about that, when you think about how you 1947 01:53:54.279 --> 01:53:57.119 go into these cemeteries, and especially the fallen soldiers, the 1948 01:53:57.119 --> 01:53:59.319 people that give in their life's blood for this country, 1949 01:53:59.319 --> 01:54:02.439 for the freedoms we enjoy, and the fact that over 1950 01:54:02.479 --> 01:54:05.920 the time people forget their families move away, the families 1951 01:54:06.039 --> 01:54:09.680 die off and those people are no longer remembered. And 1952 01:54:09.720 --> 01:54:12.479 the mere fact that somebody shows up put a wreath 1953 01:54:12.560 --> 01:54:17.439 on the grave says their name, It's truly a tremendous honor. 1954 01:54:17.520 --> 01:54:21.600 And with almost every wreath that I laid that day, 1955 01:54:22.960 --> 01:54:25.239 the days that I've done this, I get a chill 1956 01:54:25.319 --> 01:54:28.000 every time I do that. And it is just a 1957 01:54:28.079 --> 01:54:32.399 fantastic organization and a fantastic event. And as you say, 1958 01:54:32.640 --> 01:54:35.359 if you can show up and volunteer, there's a place 1959 01:54:35.399 --> 01:54:38.119 online where you can do that. Also, if you can 1960 01:54:38.800 --> 01:54:43.560 seventeen dollars to sponsor one of these wreaths, is what 1961 01:54:43.680 --> 01:54:46.760 a couple of Starbucks coffees for crying out loud? 1962 01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:51.279 And are we allowed to talk about your other job here, 1963 01:54:51.359 --> 01:54:57.760 Kevin on this station? Your other job sure, absolutely, so, 1964 01:54:58.760 --> 01:55:01.880 very heavily. I'll just say it this way. You're heavily 1965 01:55:01.920 --> 01:55:06.119 involved in transportation, right, yeah, And so we'll put it 1966 01:55:06.159 --> 01:55:10.239 that way. So the transportation industry a huge part of 1967 01:55:10.279 --> 01:55:14.640 what we do. We can't do it without our trucking industry, right, 1968 01:55:14.720 --> 01:55:19.439 So this year we're looking at over ninety five percent 1969 01:55:20.079 --> 01:55:25.479 of our reefs that will be transported that transpo will 1970 01:55:25.520 --> 01:55:33.239 be donated. That's trucks, drivers, fuel, cross docks, intermodal, the 1971 01:55:33.279 --> 01:55:39.399 whole nine yards donated this year thanks to the trucking industry. 1972 01:55:39.760 --> 01:55:45.760 Now, the trucking industry itself, I have never seen a well, 1973 01:55:45.920 --> 01:55:49.039 there are groups, but they are some of the most 1974 01:55:49.079 --> 01:55:53.159 giving and so much patriotic group of people that I've 1975 01:55:53.199 --> 01:55:57.000 had the pleasure of being around. And the amount of 1976 01:55:57.640 --> 01:56:01.960 learning about this organization race across America and the amount 1977 01:56:02.000 --> 01:56:04.720 of time, the amount of energy, the amount of fuel, 1978 01:56:04.840 --> 01:56:08.239 the amount of just gearing up the big rig and 1979 01:56:08.319 --> 01:56:11.479 being the person that delivers these raies is a monumental 1980 01:56:11.520 --> 01:56:13.720 task in and of itself, and the amount of time, 1981 01:56:13.760 --> 01:56:18.079 fuel and energy that's done with that is just a tremendous. 1982 01:56:19.399 --> 01:56:23.000 Absolutely, and the transportation industry has been with US Saints 1983 01:56:23.119 --> 01:56:26.760 day one. This organization started in nineteen ninety two as 1984 01:56:26.800 --> 01:56:31.199 a private family donation to the get special permission from 1985 01:56:31.359 --> 01:56:36.119 a state senator to laiden reefs at Arlington National Cemetery. 1986 01:56:36.159 --> 01:56:38.600 And it was just one truckload, and one truckload is 1987 01:56:38.600 --> 01:56:42.760 about five thousand, and last year we laid over three million. 1988 01:56:43.760 --> 01:56:46.000 So if you think about ninety to ninety five percent 1989 01:56:46.039 --> 01:56:51.000 of that transportation being donated, that's a lot of truckloads. 1990 01:56:51.119 --> 01:56:55.359 And we can't are without our truckers and a lot 1991 01:56:55.439 --> 01:57:00.399 of Medicans in the trucking industry that, you know, one 1992 01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:02.319 of one of one of the I don't like to 1993 01:57:02.359 --> 01:57:05.279 make people cry, Kevin, but to see a truck driver 1994 01:57:05.600 --> 01:57:08.880 break down into tears because they are so emotional about 1995 01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:12.640 hauling that load of wreaths because of you know, because 1996 01:57:12.680 --> 01:57:15.279 of you know their life experience. We've had some a gults, 1997 01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:20.119 our dads hauling hauling loads, or or you know, veterans 1998 01:57:20.159 --> 01:57:26.079 that have have lost friends and family. They it just 1999 01:57:26.159 --> 01:57:28.880 means so much to people to be able to do 2000 01:57:28.920 --> 01:57:31.640 this and and to make sure that their loved one 2001 01:57:31.760 --> 01:57:34.159 is honored, and you know, and to honor your loved 2002 01:57:34.159 --> 01:57:36.960 one is if you have someone you've lost, it's breaths 2003 01:57:36.960 --> 01:57:40.439 across America dot org. Uh and you can ask specifically 2004 01:57:41.439 --> 01:57:43.720 in a lot of locations to make sure that that 2005 01:57:43.840 --> 01:57:49.239 wreath goes to their their headstone or marker. 2006 01:57:49.359 --> 01:57:51.840 Absolutely, my guest has been Jeff Pearson. Jeff, I know 2007 01:57:51.840 --> 01:57:53.800 you've got to get out of here, and uh, I 2008 01:57:53.840 --> 01:57:56.520 certainly appreciate you spending some time with us today. And 2009 01:57:56.760 --> 01:57:59.920 again it's reesecross America dot org. You can go on there. 2010 01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:04.479 It's a great website. You can volunteer, and if you 2011 01:58:04.560 --> 01:58:07.960 can't volunteer, if you can't take the time, please consider 2012 01:58:08.159 --> 01:58:12.479 the seventeen dollars sponsoring of a wreath for a fallen soldier. 2013 01:58:12.520 --> 01:58:14.800 It's pretty much the least we can do for them 2014 01:58:14.880 --> 01:58:17.760 and for their memory. Jeff, again, best to you and 2015 01:58:18.159 --> 01:58:22.159 happy Thanksgiving and we'll be talking very soon, I'm sure 2016 01:58:22.159 --> 01:58:25.479 before mid American Trucking Show. I'm sure. 2017 01:58:26.720 --> 01:58:29.560 Absolutely, Kevin. And thank you again for always looking for 2018 01:58:29.600 --> 01:58:33.600 a ways to support our mission. And Happy Thanksgiving to you, 2019 01:58:33.600 --> 01:58:34.720 your family and your team. 2020 01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:37.239 All right, you take care of have a happy Thanksgiving. 2021 01:58:37.399 --> 01:58:43.479 Jeff Pierces, Director Broadcast Media Partnership Reese Across America. I'm 2022 01:58:43.560 --> 01:58:46.760 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the 2023 01:58:47.039 --> 01:59:02.000 talk stations in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 2024 01:59:02.079 --> 01:59:05.800 fifty five KROSEE the talk station. You know the problem 2025 01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:10.279 of having music bumper music that you really like, you 2026 01:59:10.399 --> 01:59:12.199 kind of want to let it go a little bit 2027 01:59:12.239 --> 01:59:15.640 longer than you should going into and out of segments. 2028 01:59:15.640 --> 01:59:18.600 So but again, Danny doing a great job there with 2029 01:59:18.640 --> 01:59:22.479 the music this morning, certainly appreciated. I saw, let's sell. 2030 01:59:22.560 --> 01:59:24.000 I'll tell you, well, let's go to the phones here, 2031 01:59:24.319 --> 01:59:26.479 uh by the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, 2032 01:59:26.560 --> 01:59:29.199 four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two 2033 01:59:29.199 --> 01:59:31.840 three talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight two, 2034 01:59:31.880 --> 01:59:34.960 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless 2035 01:59:34.960 --> 01:59:38.479 phone to the phones. We go, Ken fifty five Kerosee. 2036 01:59:38.680 --> 01:59:40.560 You're on the air. Thank you so much for calling, 2037 01:59:40.560 --> 01:59:42.119 and Happy Thanksgiving to you. 2038 01:59:43.319 --> 01:59:46.119 Yeah, I'm happy Thanksgiving to you, Kevin, and to everyone 2039 01:59:46.199 --> 01:59:48.720 out there. One of a great share. And one of 2040 01:59:48.720 --> 01:59:50.520 the things I wanted to mention was the fact that 2041 01:59:50.920 --> 01:59:55.760 the nine million Biden Democrat voters that disappeared when it 2042 01:59:55.840 --> 01:59:59.479 came to voting for Kamala and so no one has 2043 01:59:59.520 --> 02:00:03.399 ever dealt with that. I mean, Kamala had I think 2044 02:00:03.520 --> 02:00:09.479 seventy four million maybe and he had maybe eighty one 2045 02:00:09.840 --> 02:00:10.079 or so. 2046 02:00:10.880 --> 02:00:12.159 We believe that number. 2047 02:00:13.439 --> 02:00:15.359 Well, see that's why I said. That's why I said 2048 02:00:15.399 --> 02:00:18.960 they disappeared when it came to voting, because if you, 2049 02:00:19.600 --> 02:00:21.439 my son and I, we actually look at the chart 2050 02:00:21.560 --> 02:00:27.039 from twenty twelve, from twenty twelve on up and and 2051 02:00:27.960 --> 02:00:30.920 the spike in twenty twenty was just totally off the 2052 02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:34.800 charge it was, you know. So anyway that I've asked 2053 02:00:34.800 --> 02:00:38.359 that to many Democrats. So that's one thing that you 2054 02:00:38.520 --> 02:00:41.079 do well real quick. The other thing, one thing that 2055 02:00:41.159 --> 02:00:44.600 I've been pushing for is to reduce student loan rates 2056 02:00:44.640 --> 02:00:47.720 to two percent since Obama took it over. Instead of 2057 02:00:47.800 --> 02:00:50.680 keeping the rates of six percent, reduce the student loan 2058 02:00:50.760 --> 02:00:53.199 rates to two percent across the board and have all 2059 02:00:53.239 --> 02:00:56.279 the payments go to the principal first, so that will 2060 02:00:56.319 --> 02:00:59.560 reward the people to pay their loans off early in 2061 02:00:59.720 --> 02:01:02.960 full amount. And and and I think that's doable. I've 2062 02:01:02.960 --> 02:01:06.960 been pushing that. Send something to UH about then and 2063 02:01:07.079 --> 02:01:12.039 hopefully that and UH locally UH in Cincinnati coming up, 2064 02:01:12.159 --> 02:01:14.800 they are really going to try to take another attack 2065 02:01:14.840 --> 02:01:16.640 at the water work. So they're going to try to 2066 02:01:16.920 --> 02:01:20.880 privatize that, take that from a public entity as we 2067 02:01:21.279 --> 02:01:24.800 know it to a one that's controlled by a private 2068 02:01:24.840 --> 02:01:27.279 board similar to the railroad, and then they're going to 2069 02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:30.159 use that. So that's coming down the pipeline and they're 2070 02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:30.920 going to do the same. 2071 02:01:31.680 --> 02:01:35.319 Where do where do you stand on that? Forward? Against it? 2072 02:01:36.399 --> 02:01:39.399 Oh, I'm one hundred percent against that. You know, politics, 2073 02:01:39.520 --> 02:01:44.159 Some say politics is a privatization of the public assets. 2074 02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:48.239 So if you've got money making public assets and you 2075 02:01:48.319 --> 02:01:52.840 can somehow divert the income over from the public treasury 2076 02:01:52.920 --> 02:01:56.520 to a private entity treasury, that private entity is the 2077 02:01:56.520 --> 02:01:59.479 one that's better off. And the public tres treasury has 2078 02:01:59.520 --> 02:02:03.560 never relished right and parking. 2079 02:02:03.520 --> 02:02:05.600 And I think and I think what we see is 2080 02:02:05.800 --> 02:02:10.399 when you turn over that responsibility another agency may be 2081 02:02:10.479 --> 02:02:14.399 able to do it well. It should be with some oversight, 2082 02:02:14.520 --> 02:02:19.359 and you should have people in these areas that understand 2083 02:02:19.439 --> 02:02:23.319 the business and operate within the confines of the city 2084 02:02:23.399 --> 02:02:27.439 or the county as far instead of privatizing all this stuff. 2085 02:02:27.479 --> 02:02:31.039 Because again, the whole concept of government is we hire 2086 02:02:31.079 --> 02:02:33.920 a government to do for us collectively what we can't 2087 02:02:33.920 --> 02:02:40.840 do individually, and so the entities, the individual governments, having 2088 02:02:40.920 --> 02:02:43.960 the responsibility to do that and to do that in 2089 02:02:44.000 --> 02:02:46.520 an expeditious fashion is the way to. 2090 02:02:46.479 --> 02:02:50.560 Go well, definitely, and something as major as the water 2091 02:02:50.640 --> 02:02:53.680 works that is primary. I mean, you can't get any 2092 02:02:53.720 --> 02:02:58.439 more major life blood than that. So that's why that's 2093 02:02:58.479 --> 02:03:00.359 coming down the pipe. And I just want to kind 2094 02:03:00.359 --> 02:03:04.760 of give people poly via type of warning to be 2095 02:03:04.840 --> 02:03:06.600 on the lookout for that because they're gonna have some 2096 02:03:06.760 --> 02:03:09.600 very popular people. The same way they did the railroad, 2097 02:03:09.600 --> 02:03:11.960 they're gonna do that with the waterworks. And that's coming 2098 02:03:12.039 --> 02:03:14.279 up within the next I say, six to nine months. 2099 02:03:14.359 --> 02:03:16.680 Okay, very good, great, And at some point in time 2100 02:03:16.680 --> 02:03:20.239 we're gonna have to because I've put my accountant's hat on, 2101 02:03:20.279 --> 02:03:23.159 because as you know, I'm a recovering accountant, and I 2102 02:03:23.239 --> 02:03:26.640 took those numbers back to nineteen sixty as far as 2103 02:03:26.680 --> 02:03:29.760 the elections are concerned, and I'll share that with you 2104 02:03:29.840 --> 02:03:32.520 at some point in time and see the big spike 2105 02:03:32.600 --> 02:03:36.079 in twenty twenty for that missing nine million voters that 2106 02:03:36.119 --> 02:03:39.600 were supposedly out the phantom voters that were out there. 2107 02:03:41.000 --> 02:03:43.760 They just flat out disappeared. Yes, hey, you have a 2108 02:03:43.760 --> 02:03:44.199 great one. 2109 02:03:44.279 --> 02:03:46.520 You do the same, Ken, Thanks so much for the call. 2110 02:03:48.159 --> 02:03:52.079 Nine million voters suddenly disappearing five one, three, seven, four 2111 02:03:52.159 --> 02:03:54.439 nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three 2112 02:03:54.479 --> 02:03:56.840 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 2113 02:03:56.960 --> 02:04:00.359 five pound, five point fifty at and t wireless. Kevin 2114 02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:03.800 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs The Talk Station, 2115 02:04:12.920 --> 02:04:15.359 eight thirty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for 2116 02:04:15.399 --> 02:04:19.720 Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the Talk Station. By the way, 2117 02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:23.560 if you voted for Donald Trump, do you realize that 2118 02:04:23.600 --> 02:04:29.239 you're uninformed about reality? So says Alec Baldwin, and those 2119 02:04:29.319 --> 02:04:32.399 sentiments were shared, I believe by Sharon Stone. I think 2120 02:04:32.439 --> 02:04:36.359 she said that basically that people were uninformed, that they 2121 02:04:36.359 --> 02:04:38.800 were misinformed, that they didn't have a full grasp on 2122 02:04:38.840 --> 02:04:42.159 the news, and that Alec Balden basically said that people 2123 02:04:42.239 --> 02:04:46.720 weren't very educated. Really, Okay, well, let's go to something 2124 02:04:46.760 --> 02:04:51.399 here that I thought was rather interesting. Alec Baldwin let 2125 02:04:51.399 --> 02:04:55.800 me see, attended Georgetown or let me see. From nineteen 2126 02:04:55.920 --> 02:05:00.159 seventy six to nineteen seventy nine, he attended George Washington University. 2127 02:05:00.600 --> 02:05:03.920 In nineteen seventy nine, he lost the election for student 2128 02:05:03.960 --> 02:05:07.960 body president and received a personal letter from former US 2129 02:05:08.039 --> 02:05:11.880 President Richard Nixon, with whom he had a common friend, 2130 02:05:12.319 --> 02:05:16.920 encourage him to use the LASS as a learning experience. Afterward, 2131 02:05:17.000 --> 02:05:21.159 he transferred to the Tish School of the Arts of 2132 02:05:21.239 --> 02:05:25.720 New York University, where he studied and so on. Did 2133 02:05:25.720 --> 02:05:31.399 not get his degree. Now, he started his acting career 2134 02:05:31.520 --> 02:05:35.079 in seventy nine nineteen eighty thereabouts, and it wasn't until 2135 02:05:35.199 --> 02:05:40.520 nineteen ninety four that he completed his Bachelor of Fine 2136 02:05:40.840 --> 02:05:46.800 Arts degree at NYU. So this makes him an informed genius. 2137 02:05:46.840 --> 02:05:53.880 I suppose in terms of political content, economics, all kinds 2138 02:05:53.880 --> 02:05:59.119 of information, as far as the stock market is concerned, business, technology, 2139 02:05:59.399 --> 02:06:03.119 energy production, and so on, and that we merely are 2140 02:06:03.319 --> 02:06:07.399 just the roobs out here, that we are uninformed. Now, 2141 02:06:07.880 --> 02:06:11.439 I wonder I went online and I was looking at 2142 02:06:11.439 --> 02:06:17.359 some stats, and if you start a degree and you stop, 2143 02:06:18.560 --> 02:06:25.359 those credits, depending upon most institutions, don't last unless I mean, 2144 02:06:25.560 --> 02:06:28.880 you can start in college and you can work towards 2145 02:06:28.880 --> 02:06:33.399 a degree, and you can take one class, then another class, 2146 02:06:33.800 --> 02:06:35.960 and you can complete this over a t but as 2147 02:06:36.000 --> 02:06:38.960 long as you're showing steady progress, but where you have 2148 02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:43.319 a gap of fourteen years, I'm not sure that those 2149 02:06:43.359 --> 02:06:48.039 credits can continue. So this was probably a gift to 2150 02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:51.960 him because of his notoriety. Sharon Stone, on the other hand, 2151 02:06:52.359 --> 02:06:57.159 she dropped out of college for a modeling career and then, 2152 02:06:57.560 --> 02:07:01.720 being inspired by Hillary Clinton, went back and got her 2153 02:07:01.800 --> 02:07:06.640 degree in twenty sixteen. So I guess as of twenty sixteen, 2154 02:07:07.039 --> 02:07:10.279 she is now informed. And we are the idiots out 2155 02:07:10.279 --> 02:07:16.439 here unbelievable how ignorant these people are, and what they 2156 02:07:16.479 --> 02:07:20.439 call the Dunning Krueger effect, which means that you don't 2157 02:07:20.720 --> 02:07:24.960 have enough. See, in order to be stupid, you have 2158 02:07:25.079 --> 02:07:29.399 to have a certain level of intelligence to realize that 2159 02:07:29.479 --> 02:07:33.439 you're stupid. These people don't even have that. The Dunning 2160 02:07:33.520 --> 02:07:37.079 Krueger effect is basically somebody that thinks they're a heck 2161 02:07:37.119 --> 02:07:40.319 of a lot smarter than they actually are. And they 2162 02:07:40.319 --> 02:07:45.680 have a bigger idea of their worth and their intelligence. 2163 02:07:46.039 --> 02:07:49.439 And unfortunately, in this case this applies to these two 2164 02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:52.600 UH phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty 2165 02:07:52.640 --> 02:07:55.119 five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one 2166 02:07:55.159 --> 02:07:58.159 eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, 2167 02:07:58.239 --> 02:08:00.960 five point fifty AT and tire from Kevin Gordon in 2168 02:08:01.039 --> 02:08:04.479 for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station 2169 02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:15.479 eight thirty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for 2170 02:08:15.520 --> 02:08:19.039 Brian Thomas, fifty five K see the talk station. Hey, 2171 02:08:19.279 --> 02:08:22.520 is it too soon to be talking about the peace 2172 02:08:22.600 --> 02:08:27.640 dividend from the election all of a sudden? Isn't it 2173 02:08:27.680 --> 02:08:32.399 interesting that their talks about there was some talk a 2174 02:08:32.439 --> 02:08:36.119 couple of weeks ago about Iran kind of ramping down 2175 02:08:36.279 --> 02:08:41.119 their nuclear energy or their nuclear weapons program. Now that 2176 02:08:41.279 --> 02:08:43.960 was only for a couple of days, and there's that 2177 02:08:44.119 --> 02:08:45.720 was kind of one of those things that was leaked 2178 02:08:45.720 --> 02:08:48.000 out but then backed off. But you wonder if some 2179 02:08:48.079 --> 02:08:50.840 of that hasn't been leaked out on purpose. We have, 2180 02:08:51.880 --> 02:08:54.760 you know, because of Iran being state sponsor of terror 2181 02:08:55.039 --> 02:08:57.920 and the fact that their oil exports and their oil 2182 02:08:58.000 --> 02:09:00.840 revenues came in dramatically as we talked about with Phil 2183 02:09:00.880 --> 02:09:05.640 Flynn earlier in the program, that the oil revenues that 2184 02:09:05.680 --> 02:09:08.520 they got that was they they were on the verge 2185 02:09:08.520 --> 02:09:11.359 of bankruptcy during the Trump administration because they weren't making 2186 02:09:11.439 --> 02:09:13.720 enough money from their oil. But with the billions of 2187 02:09:13.720 --> 02:09:16.640 dollars that they've received since a Biden administration came into 2188 02:09:16.680 --> 02:09:19.920 office and the money that was released to them UH 2189 02:09:20.039 --> 02:09:23.079 Front that had been held in UH that was was 2190 02:09:23.119 --> 02:09:26.800 embargoed against them, all of a sudden, now they're flushed 2191 02:09:26.840 --> 02:09:30.119 with cash and they can afford to state sponsor of 2192 02:09:30.199 --> 02:09:38.359 terrorism through Hesbealah Hamas and the Uti rebels and uh yeah, 2193 02:09:38.760 --> 02:09:43.239 Uti Rebels in what is it yelp, yelp and whatever. 2194 02:09:43.880 --> 02:09:50.640 But anyway, so we got these terrorist attacks happening as 2195 02:09:50.680 --> 02:09:54.560 a result of these satellite groups or the space with 2196 02:09:55.199 --> 02:09:59.119 ran funding all of a sudden, just yesterday, it was 2197 02:09:59.159 --> 02:10:03.600 announced on Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon, Biden announced that there was 2198 02:10:03.640 --> 02:10:09.039 a ceasefire and agreed to between Hesbelah and the Israelis 2199 02:10:09.319 --> 02:10:13.880 so that the missiles that are firing into Israel into 2200 02:10:13.960 --> 02:10:18.279 the northern part of Israel from Hesbelah will cease and 2201 02:10:18.439 --> 02:10:21.319 the one hundred or the fifty thousand to one hundred 2202 02:10:21.359 --> 02:10:26.760 thousand Israelis who are currently refugees within their own country 2203 02:10:26.960 --> 02:10:30.239 because they've had to evacuate that area because of the 2204 02:10:30.319 --> 02:10:35.239 number of missiles coming into their country. They are able 2205 02:10:35.279 --> 02:10:39.479 to move back home, and Donald Trump on the campaign 2206 02:10:39.560 --> 02:10:43.600 trail said that he was going to be that he 2207 02:10:43.720 --> 02:10:46.840 was going to make sure that there was peace brought 2208 02:10:46.880 --> 02:10:50.079 to the Middle East. Now, either you do, and I 2209 02:10:50.119 --> 02:10:53.359 guess hopefully, is this a peace dividend? Is this something 2210 02:10:53.399 --> 02:10:56.199 that they said, Well, we don't want this forced on us. 2211 02:10:56.239 --> 02:10:59.960 We want to at least have some rooment negotiating table. 2212 02:11:00.000 --> 02:11:03.199 We don't want to be wiped out by Israel. And 2213 02:11:03.239 --> 02:11:05.479 we want to because as you've seen over the last 2214 02:11:05.520 --> 02:11:09.039 several months, if you're a Hesbeal a leader, or you're 2215 02:11:09.039 --> 02:11:13.520 a Hamas leader, your days on this earth aren't aren't 2216 02:11:13.600 --> 02:11:17.960 very good, aren't very numbered, I should say, so if 2217 02:11:17.960 --> 02:11:22.560 you have these threats that you're going to be wiped 2218 02:11:22.600 --> 02:11:28.079 out instead of an administration that is kind of kind 2219 02:11:28.079 --> 02:11:31.399 of not very I mean, yeah, they're supportive of Israel, 2220 02:11:31.479 --> 02:11:34.199 but not as supportive as Donald Trump was during his 2221 02:11:34.279 --> 02:11:37.640 tenure as president. And if you have somebody that's got 2222 02:11:37.680 --> 02:11:40.760 Israel's back, then maybe you want to get to the 2223 02:11:40.800 --> 02:11:44.000 negotiating table. And this is part of the peace process 2224 02:11:44.039 --> 02:11:47.399 that they're exploring. This is big news and I don't 2225 02:11:47.479 --> 02:11:50.720 see it being talked about very much. I mean, this 2226 02:11:50.760 --> 02:11:55.319 has been ongoing and there have been refugees within Israel 2227 02:11:55.560 --> 02:11:58.159 from the fifty to one hundred thousand people that have 2228 02:11:58.239 --> 02:12:02.640 had to vacate their homes. Israel finally said after they 2229 02:12:03.039 --> 02:12:06.079 attacks by Hamas on October the seventh of twenty twenty three, 2230 02:12:06.479 --> 02:12:09.199 enough is enough. We're not putting up with these And 2231 02:12:09.800 --> 02:12:12.720 you know, Israel is a country and look on a map, 2232 02:12:12.800 --> 02:12:16.560 do yourself a favor. Look on a map. Israel is 2233 02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:20.359 about the size of New Jersey. And can you imagine 2234 02:12:20.520 --> 02:12:26.880 the state of New Jersey taking over one thousand missiles 2235 02:12:27.119 --> 02:12:31.680 fired into it from hostile neighbors New York, Connecticut, any 2236 02:12:31.720 --> 02:12:35.760 of these countries around them being fired in there with 2237 02:12:35.880 --> 02:12:39.039 them just sitting back and taking it and not saying that, 2238 02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:41.560 you know what, We're going to go attack these people 2239 02:12:41.760 --> 02:12:44.239 and put them out of business. And this is what 2240 02:12:44.399 --> 02:12:47.159 is going on in Israel. Yes they've got the Iron Dome, 2241 02:12:47.479 --> 02:12:50.439 Yes they have the ability to shoot down most of 2242 02:12:50.479 --> 02:12:53.920 these missiles being fired into their country, but sometimes some 2243 02:12:53.960 --> 02:12:57.000 of them do land and cause injury and death. And 2244 02:12:57.039 --> 02:13:02.039 so when you have this being israel Is saying enough 2245 02:13:02.079 --> 02:13:05.119 is enough, We're going to stop this terrorism and go 2246 02:13:05.199 --> 02:13:07.319 and attack these people. Then all of a sudden, the 2247 02:13:07.359 --> 02:13:10.760 world community says, oh, well, what about the collateral damage? 2248 02:13:10.880 --> 02:13:12.520 And I was talking to somebody the other day and 2249 02:13:12.560 --> 02:13:16.479 they talked about how many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. 2250 02:13:16.920 --> 02:13:20.399 You know, in the Jewish community and Jewish religion and 2251 02:13:20.520 --> 02:13:23.920 in Islamic religion, you are supposed to bury your dead 2252 02:13:23.960 --> 02:13:29.479 within twenty four hours of their death. And when if 2253 02:13:29.520 --> 02:13:32.840 you notice that during the Hamas attack, a lot of 2254 02:13:32.880 --> 02:13:36.159 these bodies were dismembered and the body parts were thrown 2255 02:13:36.479 --> 02:13:39.720 out in the you know, on the ground and kicked 2256 02:13:39.760 --> 02:13:42.720 around and actually transported away from the area. So those 2257 02:13:42.760 --> 02:13:46.159 bodies necessarily couldn't be buried until all the body parts 2258 02:13:46.159 --> 02:13:49.199 were assembled, or at least the majority of them were assembled. 2259 02:13:49.319 --> 02:13:52.239 But again, if you've got forty thousand people of these 2260 02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:55.199 Palestinians that have been killed, where are you know, if 2261 02:13:55.239 --> 02:13:58.279 you hit an apartment complex and supposedly one hundred and 2262 02:13:58.319 --> 02:14:01.239 thirty people have died, all right, you got to bury 2263 02:14:01.279 --> 02:14:03.920 those within a day or so. But why don't they 2264 02:14:03.960 --> 02:14:06.319 line up the bodies and say, look what these cruel 2265 02:14:06.399 --> 02:14:09.640 Israelis have done. They claim that there's been forty thousand 2266 02:14:09.640 --> 02:14:14.800 people that have died, citizens, innocent people, But where are 2267 02:14:14.800 --> 02:14:18.640 the bodies lined up? We're accepting numbers, and the world 2268 02:14:18.640 --> 02:14:24.640 community is accepting numbers from a terrorist organization, a propagandist organization, 2269 02:14:25.159 --> 02:14:29.159 and an organization that has provided terror to the people 2270 02:14:29.199 --> 02:14:33.319 that they're supposed to be overseeing and governing. So are 2271 02:14:33.359 --> 02:14:38.159 there forty thousand deaths over in the Gaza or they've 2272 02:14:38.159 --> 02:14:40.119 been lying to us as well. And the spoon fed 2273 02:14:40.199 --> 02:14:45.439 regurgitators in the mainstream media provide the narrative five one, three, seven, 2274 02:14:45.439 --> 02:14:47.680 four nine fifty five hundred one eight hundred, Day two 2275 02:14:47.760 --> 02:14:49.880 three talk one eight hundred day two three eight two 2276 02:14:49.960 --> 02:14:53.279 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 2277 02:14:53.399 --> 02:14:56.600 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see 2278 02:14:56.920 --> 02:15:06.800 the talk station. Eight thirty one in the morning, Kevin 2279 02:15:06.800 --> 02:15:09.279 Gordon in for Brian Thommas fifty five K see the 2280 02:15:09.439 --> 02:15:14.399 talk station. You know, as we wind up this Thanksgiving 2281 02:15:14.520 --> 02:15:18.079 Eve show, I just want to say how much I 2282 02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:21.560 want to give thanks to the fact that I have 2283 02:15:21.680 --> 02:15:25.000 a great family, have a great wife, and I certainly 2284 02:15:25.039 --> 02:15:27.680 appreciate all the blessings that have been bestowed on us. 2285 02:15:27.920 --> 02:15:30.479 I thank for the friends, I think, the fact that 2286 02:15:30.560 --> 02:15:36.560 we have the potential of this this incoming administration. I'm 2287 02:15:36.600 --> 02:15:39.319 thankful that the voters of the United States saw it 2288 02:15:39.439 --> 02:15:42.000 in their best interest to vote somebody in that has 2289 02:15:42.159 --> 02:15:45.039 their best interest at heart as well. I want to 2290 02:15:45.039 --> 02:15:47.479 finish the story. You know, we're seeing all this post 2291 02:15:47.520 --> 02:15:52.560 mortem about the election and all these comments, and all 2292 02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:55.279 of a sudden, we're seeing a lot of comments by 2293 02:15:55.399 --> 02:15:59.760 James Carville. You know, when you talk about somebody's claim 2294 02:15:59.800 --> 02:16:05.720 to fame of basically handling Clinton's election, and really, other 2295 02:16:05.800 --> 02:16:10.720 than being a political commentator, he hasn't really been all 2296 02:16:10.760 --> 02:16:14.439 that brilliant up to this point. And the thing that 2297 02:16:14.479 --> 02:16:18.560 bothers me the most is that the spoon fed regurgitators 2298 02:16:18.560 --> 02:16:22.880 in the mainstream media actually give him any credit. I 2299 02:16:22.880 --> 02:16:26.000 thought we went through this, whatever happened to the me 2300 02:16:26.079 --> 02:16:30.039 too movement? Believe the woman, you know, James Carville was 2301 02:16:30.079 --> 02:16:32.520 the one with the drag, the one hundred dollars, you know, 2302 02:16:32.559 --> 02:16:36.079 with Paula Jones when she was making the accusations against 2303 02:16:36.079 --> 02:16:39.559 Bill Clinton, drag one hundred dollars Bill through a trailer 2304 02:16:39.680 --> 02:16:44.399 park and there's no telling what you will find. Isn't 2305 02:16:44.440 --> 02:16:46.319 that one of the most demeaning things that you can 2306 02:16:46.360 --> 02:16:51.200 possibly say about a potential accuser That eventually Bill Clinton 2307 02:16:51.479 --> 02:16:53.760 was fined and found out that he lied about the 2308 02:16:54.840 --> 02:16:58.680 sexual encounter and then of course lied about his liaison 2309 02:16:58.879 --> 02:17:03.079 and his sexual acts with Monica Lewinsky. I mean, for 2310 02:17:03.200 --> 02:17:06.559 crying out loud and this guy actually has a platform 2311 02:17:06.799 --> 02:17:10.159 where he can actually talk about his ideas. But anyway, 2312 02:17:10.239 --> 02:17:11.479 I just wanted to get that out one of the 2313 02:17:11.520 --> 02:17:14.040 final thoughts. But again, I do want to say again 2314 02:17:14.280 --> 02:17:16.879 how thankful I am for being able to spend time 2315 02:17:16.920 --> 02:17:19.479 with you guys this morning and all the phone calls 2316 02:17:19.719 --> 02:17:22.799 and the guests Phil Flynn with Price Futures Group and 2317 02:17:22.879 --> 02:17:26.920 Jeff Pierce with reesecross America. Again, if you have an opportunity, 2318 02:17:27.200 --> 02:17:30.799 check out reesecross America their website. You can go online 2319 02:17:30.799 --> 02:17:33.399 and donate, or you can donate a volunteer your time 2320 02:17:33.760 --> 02:17:37.040 on December the fourteenth for the laying of these wreaths 2321 02:17:37.079 --> 02:17:41.280 at these gravesites and of course, seventeen dollars for these 2322 02:17:41.680 --> 02:17:44.680 reefs to be able to sponsor one of these wreaths 2323 02:17:44.680 --> 02:17:46.959 for crying out loud, and you probably spend that on 2324 02:17:47.000 --> 02:17:51.040 a couple of cups of Starbucks coffee or whatever. So 2325 02:17:51.799 --> 02:17:54.639 it's a very worthwhile cause there is a lot of 2326 02:17:54.840 --> 02:17:57.360 over there. There is a lot of overhead that has 2327 02:17:57.360 --> 02:17:59.799 been donating, as Jeff pointed out, a lot of these 2328 02:18:00.360 --> 02:18:03.840 and a lot of people in the transportation industry volunteer 2329 02:18:03.879 --> 02:18:06.079 a lot of their times to get these wreaths delivered 2330 02:18:06.159 --> 02:18:08.440 because it all comes out of one location in Maine 2331 02:18:08.840 --> 02:18:13.239 and it gets distributed to these thirty nine hundred different 2332 02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:16.399 graveyards around the country. Well, folks, when we're up against 2333 02:18:16.399 --> 02:18:18.159 the clock here, time for us to get out of here. 2334 02:18:19.000 --> 02:18:22.120 Glenn Beck comes up later on today or right after 2335 02:18:22.159 --> 02:18:25.319 the show, and certainly appreciate spending this time with you, 2336 02:18:25.719 --> 02:18:28.799 and I hope everybody has a safe and happy Thanksgiving. 2337 02:18:29.000 --> 02:18:30.920 If you're going to be out on the road, make 2338 02:18:30.959 --> 02:18:33.879 sure be aware of the fact that there's going to 2339 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:36.639 be a lot of traffic out there and plan ahead. 2340 02:18:36.719 --> 02:18:40.319 Since you're not rushing. The key idea is to get there. 2341 02:18:40.520 --> 02:18:43.239 You don't necessarily have to get there on time. You 2342 02:18:43.280 --> 02:18:45.600 want to get there in one piece and want to 2343 02:18:45.600 --> 02:18:48.760 get there safely, so everybody have a blessed and a 2344 02:18:48.799 --> 02:18:53.680 happy Thanksgiving. And especially if you want, if you want 2345 02:18:53.719 --> 02:18:59.319 to reduce your Christmas list, giving present gifts, talk politics 2346 02:18:59.360 --> 02:19:02.879 at Thanksgiving, that'll cut your licks list down. I'm Kevin 2347 02:19:02.920 --> 02:19:05.879 Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five karas the Talk 2348 02:19:05.959 --> 02:19:06.159 State