Speaker 1: We embrace the end of an error. The defeat does
Speaker 1: not mean we are defeated.
Speaker 2: The conversation's happening here at fifty five KRC, the talk station.
Speaker 1: All right, now, it's Christmas Eve, but when Joe Strucker
Speaker 1: is in the house, the van Halen is going to
Speaker 1: roll out. That's all this is to it. That's the stick.
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll just let us play a little bit.
Speaker 1: Wake you up at five oh four on this Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve morning, Tuesday morning. Who's got to get up today,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we're up and out him here
Speaker 1: at fifty five KRC. I'm Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: Joe Strecker is running the big board in the command
Speaker 1: center over there, and a lot of stuff I want
Speaker 1: to get to. My buddy Jim Serger is going to
Speaker 1: be here today, that'll be about seven thirty, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk some Christmas stuff with him, talk about his latest
Speaker 1: book and what kind of year he's had, a couple
Speaker 1: other conversation items I want to get to him with.
Speaker 1: And then my buddy Andrew Pappas will be here and
Speaker 1: that'll be in the eight o'clock hour, and Jody, we
Speaker 1: have Papas you know Papas likes that walk up music.
Speaker 1: It's got us. There's a song by Romeo Void that
Speaker 1: he likes then. I can't think the name of it,
Speaker 1: but it's very off the beaten path. I would say,
Speaker 1: does he when he comes on this show, does he
Speaker 1: demand walk up music? Adele learious? That's perfect love, I
Speaker 1: love it. That is that for that guy? That is
Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. Here's some good news. Some guy in New
Speaker 1: Jersey has stepped forward to claim the Mega Millions jackpot
Speaker 1: from nine months ago. That jackpot was worth one point
Speaker 1: one two billion dollars, fifth highest in the in the
Speaker 1: history of the game, and this player was in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Choosing to remain anonymous, will take home five hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven and a half million. This says before state
Speaker 1: and federal taxes. I think they mean after state and
Speaker 1: federal taxes. But nine months jackpot was the first one
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Claim nine months after it was
Speaker 1: one March twenty sixth, and there were thirty one consecutive
Speaker 1: Mega Million drawings without a winner before that ticket was sold,
Speaker 1: and it was purchased in Neptune Township, New Jersey. I
Speaker 1: have never I've been to New Jersey. I've not been
Speaker 1: to Neptune Township. I don't think.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one point was that number again, doesn't matter. One
Speaker 1: point one to two billion. That's nice, So Merry Christmas
Speaker 1: to that guy. If the winner had not claimed the jackpot,
Speaker 1: each participating state in the Mega Million's game would have
Speaker 1: gotten back all the money it contributed. The states used
Speaker 1: their unclaimed lottery prizes for different purposes, but unclaimed prizes
Speaker 1: typically remain in a state's lottery fund the New Jersey.
Speaker 1: In New Jersey, where the jackpot was one, lottery sales
Speaker 1: are a contributing factor to retirement funds of public servants.
Speaker 1: The people who could benefit from an unclaimed ticket are teachers,
Speaker 1: police officers, firefighters, and other public employees. The lottery said
Speaker 1: the Mega Million's jackpot reached an estimated nine hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four million ahead of the Christmas Eve, So there's
Speaker 1: a drawing tonight for the Mega Millions nine hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four million. That would be a nice Christmas gift,
Speaker 1: So that drawing will happen tonight. If a ticket wins
Speaker 1: the jackpot in the next drawing, it will be the
Speaker 1: second ticket one on Christmas Eve. According to mega millions.
Speaker 1: First Christmas Eve jackpot was worth sixty eight million and
Speaker 1: was one in New York. Joe, you'd be all right
Speaker 1: with sixty eight million, wouldn't you? Ab all right? He could,
Speaker 1: he could, He could scrape by with that. So that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. So there's some there's some good news to
Speaker 1: start your day. What else? What else? What else? Ram
Speaker 1: Paul is out with his Joe. What's the chance we
Speaker 1: can get ram Paul on the show today? He's zero?
Speaker 1: I thought you had his personal cell number, Yeah, Joe,
Speaker 1: ram Paul. I want to pick it up at five am.
Speaker 1: But no, ram Paul. Every year he comes out with
Speaker 1: his festivus list wasteful government spending Joe, how much money?
Speaker 1: If you had to guess how much money has the
Speaker 1: federal government wasted this year or this past year? According
Speaker 1: to rand Paul, Well, it's not day. He says ten trillion.
Speaker 1: It's not tenrally, and it is, but it is over
Speaker 1: a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars for things like let's see,
Speaker 1: this is just a partial list ghost towns on the
Speaker 1: government dime. The federal government spent ten billion dollars ten
Speaker 1: billion with a B ten billion dollars on maintaining, leasing,
Speaker 1: and furnishing almost entirely empty buildings, office buildings, and that
Speaker 1: right there is one of the main targets of the dogs.
Speaker 1: That's why I am so looking forward to when the
Speaker 1: DOGE gets started, right the Department of Government Efficiency d OGE.
Speaker 1: That's for Vake ramaswami Elon Musk And they are promising
Speaker 1: to have a website where everything they do is going
Speaker 1: to be transparent. It's all going to be out there.
Speaker 1: I think they're even going to have a podcast and
Speaker 1: they're going to talk about what the where they are
Speaker 1: looking to spend less money. It is a great concept,
Speaker 1: and this is one of the places where they're going
Speaker 1: to start, and they are going to tell federal employees
Speaker 1: to get back to work. You've got to come back
Speaker 1: to the office. I think the studies are out there
Speaker 1: that there are some people who can be productive while
Speaker 1: they are working at home, but by and large, productivity
Speaker 1: falls off when you have a majority of your employees
Speaker 1: working at home. I am not throwing shade on anyone
Speaker 1: who works from home. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: who do. If it was me, I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't I and I say this because I know that
Speaker 1: I don't think I am cut out to work from home.
Speaker 1: If maybe once in a while, but by and large,
Speaker 1: I think I'm the kind of person my type of personality.
Speaker 1: I need to come into the office. I need to
Speaker 1: come into the studio. I could broadcast from home if
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I choose not to. I choose to
Speaker 1: come to the station. It's just the way I'm wired.
Speaker 1: But I think this whole idea that you have ninety
Speaker 1: four or ninety six percent of federal employees who all
Speaker 1: went home to work during the Wuhan. That's over now, folks,
Speaker 1: that is over, and it's time to come back to
Speaker 1: the office. And Joe Biden, the despicable Joe Biden. I'm
Speaker 1: going to get into some of the horror stories that
Speaker 1: have come out about Joe Biden and the death sentences
Speaker 1: that he commuted yesterday. It is these people that he
Speaker 1: is cutting slack to and giving last minute commutations to.
Speaker 1: They literally are some of the worst of the absolute
Speaker 1: worst of horrific individuals. But getting back to the DOGE,
Speaker 1: this is one of the places where v Vaik and
Speaker 1: Elon Musk have said they are going to start. You
Speaker 1: can walk around Washington, DC, and there's one one empty
Speaker 1: office building after another, and in the area surrounding DC,
Speaker 1: and the leases continue, and the maintenance continues, and the
Speaker 1: heating and cooling continues, and everything else that goes on
Speaker 1: with running and managing a building continues and no one
Speaker 1: is using it. So it's time for federal employees to
Speaker 1: come back to work. Ten billion dollars ten billion dollars
Speaker 1: And okay, and I always hear this argument and people
Speaker 1: throw it back at me, Well, ten billion dollars when
Speaker 1: you look at all the money the federal governments spends,
Speaker 1: that's a drop in the bucket, that's a drop in
Speaker 1: the ocean. Well that may be true, but at some
Speaker 1: point the mindset has to change to just look at
Speaker 1: ten billion dollars and slough that off and act as
Speaker 1: if well, that's just the cost of doing business. That's
Speaker 1: you know, not that big of that, that's not even
Speaker 1: a rounding air none. The mindset on wasting ten billion dollars.
Speaker 1: That has to change. And I think that is what
Speaker 1: is going to be the biggest accomplishment, and I hope
Speaker 1: that is one of the most important accomplishments that happens
Speaker 1: with the Department of government efficiency is to change that mindset.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to Sharon Coolidge yesterday and she
Speaker 1: was reflecting on her ten years of covering City Hall
Speaker 1: and one of the stories that that she wrote about
Speaker 1: that she that jump out as her as a major
Speaker 1: story that she covered was the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District
Speaker 1: and that had a price tag of six hundred When
Speaker 1: was it six? And hold on, let me let me
Speaker 1: flip this over here. I've still got the I still
Speaker 1: got the copy here from yesterday, but I think it
Speaker 1: was six hundred and eighty nine million. And of course
Speaker 1: I can't find it when I want to find it.
Speaker 1: But it's a it's a number. It's a number like that,
Speaker 1: and that is a number that. Yeah, six hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty million, that's a number that that is a huge
Speaker 1: number here in Cincinnati. And so, and I was talking
Speaker 1: to her, I said, you know, when you have that
Speaker 1: kind of money that's changing hands, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that want to get their fingers in that pie.
Speaker 1: And that's where that's where the trouble starts. And that
Speaker 1: was a story I suggested that there's still a lot
Speaker 1: more to that story than ever met the eye. And
Speaker 1: and I believe she was in agreement with me. We
Speaker 1: got to get to a break here, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to continue on with the Festivist report from Senator Ram Paul.
Speaker 1: And if you want to jump on board five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: fifty five hundred, do you know the numbers to call?
Speaker 1: It's Dan Carroll and for Brian Thomas on this Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: And Joe told me he might roll out a little
Speaker 1: bit of Christmas music today, so we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: on fifty five KRC the talk station. Here's a nine
Speaker 1: first warning, whether forecast not, is cold this morning. It's
Speaker 1: going to be cloudy today in a mild day ahead
Speaker 1: with a higher forty five. Maybe some sprinkles here and there.
Speaker 4: Tonight, mostly cloudy from possible rain in the overnight hours,
Speaker 4: the overnight.
Speaker 1: Low thirty six. Christmas Day, cloudy, rainy. It'll be a
Speaker 1: rather warm Christmas with a high of forty eight, and
Speaker 1: then showers continue on into Thursday. And Thursday we're looking
Speaker 1: at a high of fifty six. It's forty four at
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC DE Talk station. Decender's half were gone
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Speaker 4: Is falling down fifty five krs the talk station, Dan
Speaker 4: Carroll and for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: Christmas time has coming.
Speaker 4: But the Blue This is the kind of Christmas music
Speaker 4: I could listen to all day.
Speaker 1: How about you, Joe Strucker, come on now, since out
Speaker 1: here with me Christmas thing Lackett used to be. That's
Speaker 1: good stuff right there. I gave Joe my favorite Christmas
Speaker 1: song list and he's going to roll those out during
Speaker 1: the day today, so I'm looking forward to that. There's
Speaker 1: also a list of what are considered the top seven
Speaker 1: best Christmas songs, and I must say there's one in
Speaker 1: there that I like pretty well, a couple actually, but
Speaker 1: the rest of them not on my top seven list.
Speaker 1: But the list I am talking about right now is
Speaker 1: rand Paul and the festivist list, and I love how
Speaker 1: he co opted that from Seinfeld because what is festivus
Speaker 1: if you're a Seinfeld fan. Festivus is the airing of grievances,
Speaker 1: and so ran Paul has been airing his grievances for
Speaker 1: I don't know. This has got to be what ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen years in a row he's done this now.
Speaker 1: But it's great for people like me because it gives
Speaker 1: us something to talk about. Let's see, so we talked
Speaker 1: about the ten billion that the government is spending to lease,
Speaker 1: furnish and maintain empty office buildings. Here's another one. A
Speaker 1: Florida man stole eight million dollars in COVID nineteen relief
Speaker 1: fund Someone could write a book on all the money
Speaker 1: that was wasted during the Wuhan. And we talked to
Speaker 1: Brad Webster about that a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: his report gets into all of that too, just the
Speaker 1: way they shovel money out the door with literally no
Speaker 1: oversight at all. And then I remember when those stories
Speaker 1: were first popping up, I would talk about him, and
Speaker 1: then the kicker those stories was there was in a
Speaker 1: lot of them, there was no effort made to get
Speaker 1: that money back. This one's a little bit different, though.
Speaker 1: Patrick Parker Walsh of Florida, businessman turned pandemic plunderer, made
Speaker 1: headlines for what he did. Stole nearly eight million dollars
Speaker 1: in federal COVID nineteen relief funds to buy Sweetheart Island
Speaker 1: a private paradise of his own. The bold act of
Speaker 1: fraud which led to his sentencing to sixty six months
Speaker 1: in federal prison. Joe has Joe Biden pardoned this guy
Speaker 1: for stealing nonviolent crime. Got to give these people a
Speaker 1: second chance sixty six months in federal prison. So at
Speaker 1: least this guy did sometime. Court documents illustrate the brazen
Speaker 1: acts of deceit sixteen fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program.
Speaker 1: And then there was a story the other day about
Speaker 1: a bunch of Hollywood celebrities that cashed in on the
Speaker 1: old PPP program millions of dollars, and I think Oprah
Speaker 1: might have been one of them. Want to go back
Speaker 1: and look that up. But the PPP program, featuring fictitious
Speaker 1: employees and companies, fabricated out of thin air the documents
Speaker 1: outline of staggering eleven million, nine hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars and requested PPP loan funds, of which he managed
Speaker 1: to obtain almost five million. Unsatisfied with one illicit endeavor,
Speaker 1: he he delved into economic injury disaster loans and raked
Speaker 1: in almost another three million dollars with little oversight or
Speaker 1: accountability to the COVID nineteen relief program represented an opportunity
Speaker 1: to plunder that only Blackbeard could have imagined. Walsh's case
Speaker 1: is just one of a trove of government oversight failures
Speaker 1: where the swindlers of pandemic relief programs ran ramp at.
Speaker 1: Many of them were from Russia or other places overseas.
Speaker 1: According to an analysis by the Associated Press, individuals engage
Speaker 1: in fraudulent activities potentially stole over two hundred eighty billion
Speaker 1: two hundred eighty billion dollars from COVID nineteen relief funding,
Speaker 1: with an additional one hundred and twenty three billion being
Speaker 1: squaderned or misused. The losses account for approximately ten percent
Speaker 1: of the four point two trillion dollars the government allocated
Speaker 1: thus far for COVID nineteen relief four point two trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: And so when you look at that number and you say, well,
Speaker 1: we only lost two hundred eighty billion of it, it's
Speaker 1: a fraud. That kind of stuff has got to stop.
Speaker 1: And this four point two trillion did not need to
Speaker 1: be spent. Maybe some of it, I think you can
Speaker 1: make a legitimate case, but four point two trillion dollars
Speaker 1: and just let it go out the door like that.
Speaker 1: The one thing that the report by Ran Paul doesn't
Speaker 1: indicate is if this guy made restitution at all. Still
Speaker 1: eight million dollars did he pay any of it back,
Speaker 1: but at least they've got a little tiny island in
Speaker 1: Florida for collateral on that. Not sure it's worth eight
Speaker 1: million dollars. Maybe it is, Maybe I'm wrong, but there's
Speaker 1: a picture of it. Doesn't look like you can It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like there's a lot of room to put
Speaker 1: anything on it. Five point twenty five Dan Carroll for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. I'm fifty five KRC detalk sticks. Happy holidays
Speaker 1: from Woodhall, known for over seventy one years. D nine
Speaker 1: first one forecast not as cold today, We'll have a
Speaker 1: high of forty five, mostly cloudy tonight, some rain as
Speaker 1: possible as well the overnight low thirty six. Here's the
Speaker 1: Christmas Day forecast, scattered rain and Christmas Day high of
Speaker 1: forty eight. Then some showers continue on into Thursday, when
Speaker 1: it will be mostly cloudy and we'll see a high
Speaker 1: of fifty six. So some mild weather happening out there.
Speaker 1: It is hold on one, well, it's forty eight at
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC detalk stations. Merry Christmas Eve. At Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. Continuing to go down the
Speaker 1: list of the Festivist report, from Ram Paul put this
Speaker 1: out yesterday. Let's see, how about twelve million dollars for
Speaker 1: a pick a ball complex? Any pickaball players in the crowd.
Speaker 1: I guess you can make a very nice pickleball complex
Speaker 1: for twelve million dollars. This was in Las Vegas, and
Speaker 1: I can't, Joe, it's hard to imagine that Las Vegas
Speaker 1: couldn't cough up twelve million dollars for a pick a
Speaker 1: ball complex, isn't it? Twelve million dollars? Las Vegas is like, look,
Speaker 1: we don't have it. We just can't find that in
Speaker 1: the budget anywhere. And so the federal government coughed up
Speaker 1: twelve million dollars for a pickle ball Congratulations, that's great.
Speaker 1: The Department of Energy, this is a great number right here,
Speaker 1: spent fifteen and a half billion. So you thought ten billion,
Speaker 1: four empty federal government buildings was a lot. No, fifteen
Speaker 1: and a half billion dollars to do? What to push
Speaker 1: Americans towards electric vehicles that they don't want? Electric vehicle
Speaker 1: owners report to have nearly eighty percent more problems. I
Speaker 1: don't if you want to own an electric car, police
Speaker 1: by all means own an electric car. They should if
Speaker 1: companies want to make electric cars and people want to
Speaker 1: buy them. That's the American way. But the government should
Speaker 1: not be forcing these things down our throat, and the
Speaker 1: subsidies of American taxpayer dollars for people who make, sell,
Speaker 1: or buy electric vehicles should not exist to my way
Speaker 1: of thinking. That's just plain and simple right there. Let
Speaker 1: this market develop on its own at its own pace.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure I just read we're in California. Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsome wants to go full speed ahead with the idea
Speaker 1: of having all vehicles or what it's like, ninety or
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of vehicles that are sold by the
Speaker 1: year twenty I believe it's twenty twenty thirty five that
Speaker 1: they won't be any gasoline powered cars being sold in
Speaker 1: the state of California. And there's still people who think
Speaker 1: this is a great idea. But electric vehicle owners report
Speaker 1: they have nearly eighty percent more problems than owners of
Speaker 1: gas powered vehicles, facing issues like unreliable performance, difficulty finding
Speaker 1: a charging station, ev battery is struggling in the cold,
Speaker 1: and we see those videos every year. It's freezing cold outside,
Speaker 1: it's twenty below people trying to go out there and
Speaker 1: start their cars. They go little sign that lights up,
Speaker 1: it's too cold. It's too cold to charge your battery.
Speaker 1: It's too cold to start the car. So what would
Speaker 1: be nice in the case like that, that you have
Speaker 1: a good old ice engine. They call them ice engines.
Speaker 1: Now internal combustion engines. Got one of those standing by
Speaker 1: to get you where you need to go. Let's see
Speaker 1: long charging times. These are one of the issues that
Speaker 1: electric vehicle owners have, higher maintenance costs, limited driving range.
Speaker 1: Despite the growing list of headaches for EV owners, the
Speaker 1: Biden administration is eager to waste your hard earned dollars
Speaker 1: on unpopular trend, the unpopular transition. Americans have spoken, and
Speaker 1: they overwhelmingly prefer reliable gas powered vehicles. Vehicle manufacturers are
Speaker 1: feeling the sting of producing vehicles that consumers don't want,
Speaker 1: losing money on every EV car they build. Ford had
Speaker 1: a loss of one point three billion dollars in its
Speaker 1: EV division in the first quarter alone. Lucid Motors reported
Speaker 1: losses of two hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars per
Speaker 1: car sold. Let's see. Rivian reported losses of one point
Speaker 1: four or five billion dollars in the same period. These
Speaker 1: are huge numbers, and I don't think they have numbers
Speaker 1: for Tesla in here. But the Biden administration is determined
Speaker 1: to throw twelve billion dollars at automakers to push EV
Speaker 1: production forward. It's as if they think throwing taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: at the problem will magically make us forget that Americans
Speaker 1: still prefer gas powered car. Of the twelve billion, ten
Speaker 1: billion dollars will come from the Energy Department, and an
Speaker 1: additional two billion will come from the Inflation Reduction Act,
Speaker 1: So there's that wonderful piece of legislation again. The Energy
Speaker 1: Department will also make three and a half billion dollars
Speaker 1: available to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for evs and
Speaker 1: the US grid, despite the fact that most battery materials
Speaker 1: are imported from abroad. Can you say China? So Trump
Speaker 1: is looking at all this and there's going to be
Speaker 1: some serious changes, at least we hope there's going to
Speaker 1: be some serious changes in the way this country deals
Speaker 1: with electric vehicles, because these electric vehicles are not the
Speaker 1: answer to saving the planet or changing the climate or
Speaker 1: making the weather better for anyone. And this kind of
Speaker 1: this kind of waste, fifteen and a half billion dollars
Speaker 1: on just from the Department of Energy to try and
Speaker 1: shove electric vehicles down our throats. Unbelievable, And the list
Speaker 1: goes on, and so do I. Dan Carroll for Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas on fifty five krc the talks Days V nine
Speaker 1: first warning weather forecast not as cold today, It'll be cloudy,
Speaker 1: will have a high of forty five. Clouds continue tonight
Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit of rain during the during
Speaker 1: the night time or overnight hours. The other night low
Speaker 1: thirty six. Heading into Christmas Day, some scattered rain showers.
Speaker 1: It'll be a warm Christmas with a high forty eight.
Speaker 1: Showers continue Christmas night into Thursday, and it'll be mostly
Speaker 1: cloudy on Thursday and a high of fifty six.
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Speaker 1: Wis chrismas Tefardy baby is no holograph, he is Christmas
Speaker 1: temparty babies.
Speaker 4: Nor yokome for it.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas sitting a good empy. No one doesn't like
Speaker 1: Dwhite yok That don't guy. I know we'll stay with
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Speaker 5: You almost see me coming in a crap Cadillac Christmas time.
Speaker 1: Anythy, that's great stuff, Thank you, Joe, Merry Christmas, rolling
Speaker 1: out my favorite Christmas songs, Dick and dating. You're up
Speaker 1: early this morning. Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 6: Verry Christmas, Dan and everybody.
Speaker 7: Boy, that was good.
Speaker 6: I love Da White yokas right yoakam.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been to his show a few times.
Speaker 1: It is uh, it is always great and never disappoints.
Speaker 1: I love that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you know he's learned from Buck Owens.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, yeah, he was very close. He was very
Speaker 1: close to Buck Owens. He played He played at buck
Speaker 1: Owen's funeral.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he was great. Hey, you know the Bengals
Speaker 6: are making a little bit of a comeback, aren't they.
Speaker 1: Well it's uh, you know, it's a they've got to
Speaker 1: win if they if they win, they have a chance. Well,
Speaker 1: well they've got to have a few other things happen
Speaker 1: as well. But this, Dame, this game against Denver is
Speaker 1: big And what is that, sad? I believe they play
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Yeah, so it's you know, they do this
Speaker 1: late in the season. They get some of those games
Speaker 1: going on Saturday, and then we'll have games on Sunday
Speaker 1: with the Bengals play on Saturday. And they played Denver
Speaker 1: and Hope is still alive, Dick, So I know you're
Speaker 1: holding on to Hope. But Dick, it's Christmas Eve, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you listening and appreciate the phone call, and
Speaker 1: you have a merry Christmas there and there you go,
Speaker 1: Dick from Dayton. Always great to hear from it. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see, let's see where are we at on the
Speaker 1: Festivus Report. How about the Disinformation Index? The Department of
Speaker 1: State wasted three hundred and thirty thousand dollars to fund
Speaker 1: the censorship of non liberal and conservative media. How about
Speaker 1: that spending our tax dollars to keep our voices down.
Speaker 1: That is just fantastic. The influencer effect hit foreign policy.
Speaker 1: The Department of State squandered four million dollars eight hundred
Speaker 1: and forty thousand on influencers. The Department of State State
Speaker 1: spending four million dollars on influencers. Why on earth will
Speaker 1: they be doing that? Influencers in other countries? And I
Speaker 1: gotta find the details on that one. And got I've
Speaker 1: got two different lists here. One is the one was
Speaker 1: put out by Bright Barton and the other is the
Speaker 1: actual report itself. I just don't understand. Let's see the
Speaker 1: Department of State, by a man, State Department wasted a
Speaker 1: lot of money this year, spent three million dollars on
Speaker 1: girl centered climate action. Girl centered climate action in Brazil.
Speaker 1: That is fantastic. Let's see Department of State spent two
Speaker 1: point one one million dollars for border security not in
Speaker 1: the United States but in Paraguay. Two point one million
Speaker 1: dollars for Paraguay and border security. That is just fantastic.
Speaker 1: This is the one that's getting a lot of headlines.
Speaker 1: Health and Human Services spent nearly a half million dollars
Speaker 1: on a study of lonely and starved rats. The Department
Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services spent four hundred and nineteen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more
Speaker 1: than happy rats And isn't that the kind of information
Speaker 1: that we need? And let me see, I saw that
Speaker 1: one just a second ago. Let's see, I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling,
Speaker 1: I'm scrolling. I know I've got that one to hear.
Speaker 1: It is right here. Despite spending over a trillion dollars
Speaker 1: to try and solve the drug crisis, cocaine, one of
Speaker 1: the most harmful and addictive drugs, continue to gain popularity
Speaker 1: in communities nationwide. Significant funding has been allocated to the
Speaker 1: study of cocaine addiction, but there seems to be no
Speaker 1: solution in sight. This raises questions, how are these scientific
Speaker 1: studies and grants really using your tax dollars. One of
Speaker 1: the studies examining cocaine took place in New York University
Speaker 1: and why you got four hundred and nineteen thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to investigate whether rats placed in positive environments would be
Speaker 1: more likely to abstain from cocaine than rats and negative
Speaker 1: and isolating environments. Here's my question, what is a positive
Speaker 1: environment for a rat? The last time I was in
Speaker 1: New York City, I saw lots of rats down there
Speaker 1: in the subway system. Is that a positive environment? Don't
Speaker 1: rats choose to live where there's water leaking, where there's
Speaker 1: where there's garbage, where there's filth. They seem to like
Speaker 1: those sorts of environments. Is that a positive environment for
Speaker 1: a rat? Researchers placed rats in small compartments injected them
Speaker 1: with cocaine to create a positive association with that location.
Speaker 1: The rats were then divided into different test groups. One
Speaker 1: group was allowed to socialize and had substantial access to
Speaker 1: food and toys. The other group was kept in isolation
Speaker 1: with no toys no access to food. After four weeks,
Speaker 1: researchers compared the true group's reactions to no One's surprised.
Speaker 1: The rats subjected to starvation and the more isolated environment
Speaker 1: sought their cocaine associated compartments more than those enriched in
Speaker 1: social environments. That is, that's fantastic. So you're going to
Speaker 1: put a rat in a box, cut them off from
Speaker 1: all the other rats, and only offer him cocaine, and
Speaker 1: you're surprised that he keeps going back for the cocaine brilliant,
Speaker 1: but it was only four hundred nineteen grand and Doge
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Speaker 1: This is one of those songs that one of those
Speaker 1: tunes that makes me wish I knew how to play piano.
Speaker 1: Joe and I how to play piano.
Speaker 6: No me either.
Speaker 1: My Anne, Barbara, God bless her. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: tried to tried to give me piano lessons, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to be outside. I wanted to, you know, go play.
Speaker 1: They can play in the pickup baseball game and jump
Speaker 1: my bike over homemade ramps, do all the fun stuff
Speaker 1: that the kids outside were. I didn't want to sit
Speaker 1: there and take piano lessons. No, no, no, Now, maybe
Speaker 1: I wish I would have paid a little more potential,
Speaker 1: but you know I had fun when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Ye pay for you wind up paying for it later on.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see word some more tax dollars getting wasted.
Speaker 1: How about magic? The federal government spent seven million dollars
Speaker 1: on various magical projects thanks to the visionary minds at
Speaker 1: the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the
Speaker 1: University of North Carolina, we can reveal the mystifying podcast
Speaker 1: Magic in the United States. Listen to this, Joe, this
Speaker 1: will be of interest to you. For the astonishing price
Speaker 1: of three hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars, you can
Speaker 1: enjoy the sixth episode season, A deep dive into Magic.
Speaker 1: Joe producing a podcast? Six episodes of a podcast? Is
Speaker 1: there any need, to your way of thinking, to spend
Speaker 1: three hundred eighty eight thousand dollars just tracker, just tracker
Speaker 1: does it? Does a little work podcasting, and no three
Speaker 1: hundred eighty eight thousand dollars to produce six podcasts. I
Speaker 1: don't think so.
Speaker 6: But no.
Speaker 1: Half he'd be happy to do it for. I'd be
Speaker 1: happy to do it for you know, a third event,
Speaker 1: I'd be great.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: That's beyond ridiculous. But somehow our federal government sees fit
Speaker 1: to spend three hundred eighty eight grand, almost four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for six episodes of a podcast. Let's see
Speaker 1: what else do we have here? Each episode promises to
Speaker 1: take us on a historical roller coaster through the spells,
Speaker 1: the superstitions, and the magico religious movements in American history.
Speaker 1: That is just beautiful. The Institute of Museum and Library
Speaker 1: Services awarded two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the
Speaker 1: American Museum of the Moving Image to update its exhibition
Speaker 1: on the Magic Lantern Show and Nickelodeon's That's that is fantastic.
Speaker 1: The National Science Foundation awarded ninety four grand to the
Speaker 1: study of the Magic School Bus. The Magic School Bus.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a cartoon back back in the day on PBS. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and someone needed ninety four grand to study that that offering.
Speaker 1: How about six million, two hundred ninety three thousand from
Speaker 1: the Department of Defense on a Magic City Discovery Center
Speaker 1: whatever the hell that is. But the DoD saw fit
Speaker 1: to spend over six million dollars on it. Absolutely unbelievable,
Speaker 1: And people say, you know what, there's really not that
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Speaker 1: on this Christmas Eve with a little Van Hannon Joe
Speaker 1: Strecker never disappoints when it comes to rolling out the
Speaker 1: mummery music. I appreciate it. I'm Dan Carroll and for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. Today. If you missed the first hour, we
Speaker 1: spent the whole hour talking about the Festivus list put
Speaker 1: out by Senator Ran Paul detailing how our government has
Speaker 1: wasted over a trillion dollars a trill with a T
Speaker 1: with a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars in wasted government
Speaker 1: money and just the most things that you couldn't even
Speaker 1: imagine that we're spending on money on ridicululess, ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We'll get back to that in a little bit, but
Speaker 1: there's other stuff I need to talk about this morning,
Speaker 1: and one was there is it was about this time
Speaker 1: yesterday morning that the White House came out and told
Speaker 1: us that Joe Biden was commuting death sentences of federal
Speaker 1: prisoners on death row. Thirty seven federal death row convicts
Speaker 1: are going to be saved because of Joe Biden's humanity
Speaker 1: towards man and in this instance, And this doesn't happen
Speaker 1: all that often. But I have to give some credit
Speaker 1: to CNN. The CNN Morning Show picked up this conversation
Speaker 1: about the death penalty, and they had their panel on it,
Speaker 1: and I cannot I don't know anyone on this panel
Speaker 1: because the CNN Morning Show is not it is not
Speaker 1: something that I regularly look at. I'm usually busy in
Speaker 1: the morning and I'm not watching CNN. If I'm watching
Speaker 1: morning television, I'm watching Fox and Friends. But you know what, Joe,
Speaker 1: that would be a great Christmas wish. If I had
Speaker 1: one Christmas wish for this station, it would be that
Speaker 1: the monitors in this room that I'm in would show
Speaker 1: you know, TV, is that asking too much?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: Maybe we could on one of the monitors I'd be
Speaker 1: able to turn on just look at a There's a
Speaker 1: room on the other side of this wall right behind
Speaker 1: me that has the same exact setup one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four or five monitors in the room, big ones too,
Speaker 1: and at least three of those. You can watch TV
Speaker 1: in here. No, not the case. I am cut off.
Speaker 1: I am totally cut off from the outside world except
Speaker 1: for the Internet connection. I can get an Internet connection
Speaker 1: on the computer in front of me and even on
Speaker 1: my laptop over here, then we can have TV in
Speaker 1: this room. I'm just saying that would be my Christmas
Speaker 1: wish for this year for the fifty five KRC studio.
Speaker 1: Be fantastic. But it was about this time yesterday when
Speaker 1: we found out that Joe Biden was letting all these
Speaker 1: killers go. And of course, look, I mean this guy,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, he is he is unwavering on this. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got deep feelings about well, you know, what's right,
Speaker 1: and you know, you just can't the federal government just
Speaker 1: can't go around killing people. No, Joe Biden knows what's
Speaker 1: best because of his you know, deep abiding faith in
Speaker 1: what's right and what's wrong. But the thing is he
Speaker 1: didn't always feel that way. And again credit to CNN
Speaker 1: for pointing that out, and they rolled out some video
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden the devout Catholic that he is talking
Speaker 1: about the death penalty. His stance was, and this goes
Speaker 1: back about thirty years and his stance was slightly different
Speaker 1: then than it is today. See if you can see
Speaker 1: if you can pick out the subtle difference between Joe
Speaker 1: Biden about thirty years ago on the floor of the
Speaker 1: Senate and Joe Biden today. Joe, would you please roll
Speaker 1: cut number one.
Speaker 9: I'm a death penalty supporter. I'm the guy that wrote
Speaker 9: this bill. Presumptuous thing to say.
Speaker 1: But I wrote this bill my old little hands.
Speaker 9: Can I added into the bill more than fifty death penalties?
Speaker 1: I support the death penalty. This president supports a death penalty.
Speaker 10: That was then Senator Joe Biden boasting about the nineteen
Speaker 10: ninety four Crime Bill, his nineteen ninety four crime Bill,
Speaker 10: which added a list of federal crimes punishable by the
Speaker 10: death penalty. But now this morning, President Joe Biden now
Speaker 10: announcing that he is commuting thirty seven federal death row
Speaker 10: inmate sentences to life in prison without parole.
Speaker 1: So there you go with his own little hands. And
Speaker 1: how many times have we heard and been lectured to
Speaker 1: by those on the left when we point out Joe's
Speaker 1: failing speech patterns, and we're told, hey, you can't do that,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Now you look, he's got a stutter. Everyone
Speaker 1: knows he's a stutter. When I listened to that clip
Speaker 1: and other clips of him from back in the day,
Speaker 1: do you detect any speech difficulties? Do you detect any stutter?
Speaker 1: I certainly didn't in that one. But are our friend
Speaker 1: over at front Page mag Daniel Greenfield, did a little
Speaker 1: research on some of the individuals that Joe Biden has
Speaker 1: seen fit to allow to live the rest of their
Speaker 1: life on the taxpayer dime. And maybe one day, I
Speaker 1: know it says life without parole, but we all know
Speaker 1: that there are exceptions to that rule too. Maybe one
Speaker 1: day these people will walk for you again. We can
Speaker 1: only hope. The recommendation of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Biden
Speaker 1: has stepped in to save death row inmates from the
Speaker 1: death penalty, commuting their sentences. He commuted the sentences of
Speaker 1: monsters like Jorge Avila Torres, who raped and murdered nine
Speaker 1: year old Crystal Tobias and eight year old Laura Hobbs
Speaker 1: while they were riding their bikes on Mother's Day. He
Speaker 1: also commuted the sentence of Cobanni Savage, the drug kingpin
Speaker 1: responsible for one of the worst crimes in Philadelphia. After
Speaker 1: running what prosecutors described as perhaps the most violent drug
Speaker 1: gain gang ever seen in the city, Savage murdered twelve people,
Speaker 1: including firebombing a family of six. The family Savage firebombed
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four belonged to Eugene Coleman, his
Speaker 1: former confident turned FBI informant. In retaliation, Savage killed Coleman's mother,
Speaker 1: plus his cousin, his infant son, and three other children.
Speaker 1: Coleman was in prison at the time, and the ages
Speaker 1: of those he killed were Kadja ten, Marcella twelve, a
Speaker 1: family friend, Sean Rodriguez fifteen. Killing kids with Savage especialty.
Speaker 1: The thirty four year old man, a drug kingpin serving
Speaker 1: thirty years in federal prison for drug trafficking in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: was caught on tape vowing to kill young children of
Speaker 1: witnesses who testified against him at his trial in two
Speaker 1: thousand and five. The kids got to pay for making
Speaker 1: my kids cry, he said, according to a copy of
Speaker 1: the indictment, I want to smack one of their four
Speaker 1: year old sons in the head with a bat straight up.
Speaker 1: I have dreams about killing their kids, killing their kids,
Speaker 1: cutting their heads off. Authorities alleged Savage ordered a blaze
Speaker 1: in October of two thousand and four to the North
Speaker 1: Philadelphia home of cocaine traffic returned informant Eugene Coleman killed
Speaker 1: Recoleman's mother, Toddler's son, is aunt, niece, and three children.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say two of Savage's fellow gang members set the fire.
Speaker 1: He joked afterward that barbecue sauce should be poured on
Speaker 1: the victims, according to the indictment. Savage also threatened to
Speaker 1: kill other witnesses. According to the indictment against him, them
Speaker 1: rats gotta pay. That's all I think about kids, They moms.
Speaker 1: He allegedly told one co conspirator, I had dreams about
Speaker 1: hitting pe daughter in the head man opening her head
Speaker 1: wide open with forty dumb dumbs. That's all I dream about.
Speaker 1: Savage threatening to kill a different witness and his young
Speaker 1: daughter in two thousand and four, he said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: kill everyone you love, Savage told the witness. According to
Speaker 1: the indictment, he said he said he's got a daughter,
Speaker 1: my own way, or let me say, yep, he's got
Speaker 1: a daughter down my way. I'm gonna blow her little
Speaker 1: head off. She like five. So that's uh, that's the guy,
Speaker 1: one of the guys that Joe Biden saw fit to
Speaker 1: commute the sentence of no, we can't and we can't
Speaker 1: have the death penalty for a guy like that, because
Speaker 1: you know Joe Biden, he just he just knows better,
Speaker 1: just knows better. And it looks the others that he
Speaker 1: that he cuts slack to yesterday, they're no better than
Speaker 1: this dude either. Six fifteen, got to get to a break.
Speaker 1: Damn Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the talk station.
Speaker 1: Then first warning forecast not as cold today, It's going
Speaker 1: to be cloudy, mile to high forty five. Mostly cloudy tonight,
Speaker 1: the overnight low thirty six. Heading into Christmas Day, some
Speaker 1: scattered rain. It'll be on the warm side of high
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Speaker 4: don't know much about that guy, but I love this song,
Speaker 4: and I love this kind.
Speaker 1: Of Christmas music. That's great stuff. Thank you, Joe. As
Speaker 1: we roll on this morning, back to what Joe Biden
Speaker 1: said when he decided to commute these death penalties death
Speaker 1: penalties yesterday. Here's the statement. I've dedicated my career to
Speaker 1: reducing violent crime and insuring a fair and effective justice system. Today,
Speaker 1: I'm commuting the sentences of thirty four of the forty
Speaker 1: individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the
Speaker 1: possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium
Speaker 1: my administration is imposed on federal executions in cases other
Speaker 1: than terrorism and hate motivated mass murder. Boy, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what the the nuance there. You don't get that
Speaker 1: just anywhere, because you know, Joe knows hate, and we
Speaker 1: certainly can't have that in this country. We can't have
Speaker 1: terrorism either, And Joe Biden is really on top of that.
Speaker 1: Make no mistake. He says, I condemn these murders. Grieve
Speaker 1: for the victims of their despicable acts. Oh he grieves,
Speaker 1: Yes he does. And not only does he grieve, he
Speaker 1: is reaching out to the families of those murder victims,
Speaker 1: and he is grieving with them. You can be assured
Speaker 1: of that. He aches for the families who have suffered
Speaker 1: unimaginable and irreparable loss. But guided by there's a big
Speaker 1: butt there. That's a big that's a big old button. Oh,
Speaker 1: these families have suffered these horrible things. Joe Biden's got
Speaker 1: a big old button there. Guided by my conscience and
Speaker 1: my experience as a public defender, Chairman of the Senate
Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, vice President and now President, I'm more convinced
Speaker 1: than ever that we must stop the use of the
Speaker 1: death penalty at the federal level. Now let the state
Speaker 1: level death penalty that that one's okay, federal level now
Speaker 1: can't have it in good conscience. I cannot stand back
Speaker 1: and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.
Speaker 1: And so therefore Joe Biden is cutting slack to murderers rapists,
Speaker 1: and one of those he cuts like too is Ricardo
Speaker 1: an Says Junior and Daniel Troya Florida judge sentenced those
Speaker 1: two men too death in two thousand and nine after
Speaker 1: finding them guilty of murdering a family of four on
Speaker 1: the highway. According to NBC News, Jose Escobedo, the father
Speaker 1: of Louis Julian four, Lewis Damian three, and the husband
Speaker 1: of Yessica Escobado, was involved in a drug ring with
Speaker 1: these two Troya and Sans. Yessica Escobedo was shot eleven
Speaker 1: times while cradling her two boys and trying to protect them.
Speaker 1: The two toddlers were shot a total of ten times,
Speaker 1: and Jose was shot five times alongside his family and
Speaker 1: found dead on the side of the highway. The outlet reported,
Speaker 1: I must confess I have no confidence that mister Troya
Speaker 1: would not do this again if the opportunity he presented itself.
Speaker 1: The judge who sentenced. The men said at the time,
Speaker 1: adding the Troya is enormously dangerous with no regard for
Speaker 1: taking a human life. Thomas Morocco Hager sentenced to death
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. He was found guilty of
Speaker 1: stabbing nineteen year old Barbara White. According to The Washington Times,
Speaker 1: White was found bound, gagged and stabbed eighty two times
Speaker 1: in the bathtub of her apartment eighty two times. Her
Speaker 1: one year old daughter is the one who made the
Speaker 1: discovery of the body. The one year old was not
Speaker 1: physically harmed during the murder, but upon finding her mom,
Speaker 1: left bloodstained footprints around the apartment, according to The Washington Times.
Speaker 1: Imagine that, Let's see Biden committed the sentence of Thomas Sanders,
Speaker 1: sentenced to death after he kidnapped and killed a twelve
Speaker 1: year old and murdered her. In twenty ten, Sanders began
Speaker 1: dating Sullen Roberts, and the pair took Robert's twelve year
Speaker 1: old daughter on a road trip that eventually led to
Speaker 1: their murders. While on the road, Sanders took the mother
Speaker 1: and daughter to an Arizona desert, where he shot Sullen
Speaker 1: Roberts in the head and forced Lexis Roberts back in
Speaker 1: the car. Sanders then shot Lexus Robert four times, cut
Speaker 1: her throat, and left her body in the woods. And
Speaker 1: these are the type of people that Joe Biden says,
Speaker 1: we cannot let these people suffer the death penalty. Terrible crimes, terrible,
Speaker 1: just terrible. But got to let them live on the
Speaker 1: taxpayerdim for the rest of their natural life. Doesn't feel
Speaker 1: the same way about babies in the womb, though. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how I mean, the mind of this guy,
Speaker 1: the way it works, it's something to be cold. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: we are fortunate to have him. They're in the office.
Speaker 1: We said to see him go on January twentieth, six,
Speaker 1: twenty six on fifty five KRCV talk stations The Truth
Speaker 1: and Nothing. But this is the Sean Hannity Morning Minute.
Speaker 5: And I said this last night, legacy media, and I
Speaker 5: said journalism is dead.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven and.
Speaker 5: Eight, all these conglomerates, all these big newspapers, New York Times,
Speaker 5: Washington Post, you name him, all of them, ABC, NBCCBS,
Speaker 5: all of them, you know, all these fake news you
Speaker 5: know channels together combined, they threw everything they had had
Speaker 5: this man to destroy him. And Donald Trump has defied
Speaker 5: every one of those critics and he's he's still stun
Speaker 5: only standing, he's standing triumphantly. I mean, is it really
Speaker 5: is an incredible thing?
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Speaker 1: See the talk station as little Garth Brooks go telling
Speaker 1: on the Mountain. I don't know, it's just me done
Speaker 1: something that's coming through right. But anyway, it's a good song.
Speaker 1: It's on my list and one of my favorites. Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, on this Christmas Day. Sorry, I might, you know,
Speaker 1: get into this, this whole thing with Biden, the death penalty,
Speaker 1: but he's the one that did it, and and I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy's mind is so far gone. Of course, we
Speaker 1: have the story. I talked a lot about this yesterday,
Speaker 1: the story that came out with the the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal talking about how almost from day one of his administration,
Speaker 1: actually one of the reports I read talked about it
Speaker 1: was actually before the administration started, how they were covering
Speaker 1: up for this guy, making excuses, keeping keeping people at
Speaker 1: arms length, putting up a wall between him and his
Speaker 1: cabinet members. And Beth Bregel at The Federalist read about
Speaker 1: this yesterday and was moved to write a really what
Speaker 1: I think is a moving column. And Beth writes that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and his handlers wanting you to believe that
Speaker 1: he use life just a few days before Christmas actually
Speaker 1: has Two days before Christmas, the White House announced through
Speaker 1: an online written statement that all but three people on
Speaker 1: federal death Row will have their sentences commuted from a
Speaker 1: death sentence to life without possibility of parole. Biden is
Speaker 1: on a high profile virtue signaling role. Last week, Biden
Speaker 1: had a phone call with Pope Francis to discuss efforts
Speaker 1: to advance peace around the world during the holiday season.
Speaker 1: The White House handlers wrote in a statement conspicuously leaving
Speaker 1: out the christ based name of the holiday Christmas, President
Speaker 1: thanked the Pope for has continued advocacy to alleviate global suffering,
Speaker 1: including his work to advance human rights and protect religious freedoms.
Speaker 1: Biden also graciously accepted his holiness Pope francis invitation to
Speaker 1: visit the Vatican next month. But we know Biden doesn't
Speaker 1: care about human rights and has worked to a spanned
Speaker 1: abortion access. Just last month, in the White House, he
Speaker 1: awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Nation's the
Speaker 1: nation's highest civilian honor, to Cecil Richards, former President of
Speaker 1: Parenthood Federation of America. During her period of leadership two
Speaker 1: thousand and six twenty eighteen, more than thirteen point three
Speaker 1: million unborn babies were killed in the United States as
Speaker 1: the federal has previously reported Richard's earned five hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year and facilitated more deaths than there were
Speaker 1: in the Holocaust. Killing voiceless, innocent babies doesn't stir Biden's conscience,
Speaker 1: but killing killers does make no mistake. I condemned these murders,
Speaker 1: grieved for the victims of their despicable acts, and eight
Speaker 1: for their families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,
Speaker 1: reads Biden's online statement. According to the statement, the decision
Speaker 1: to commute these death sentences was guided by his conscience.
Speaker 1: More convinced than ever we must stop the use of
Speaker 1: the death penalty at the federal level. The statement came
Speaker 1: from the White House, currently decorative with sparkling Christmas trees,
Speaker 1: traditionally used to celebrate the birth of Christ. But in
Speaker 1: today's American culture, the unborn Jesus we anticipate in advent,
Speaker 1: would be at risk of death by abortion, and his
Speaker 1: story would never be told. Biden's administration is committed to
Speaker 1: saving killers and killing saviors because in so many ways,
Speaker 1: all children are saviors to the people who love them.
Speaker 1: Babies change everything they come, whether parents are ready or not.
Speaker 1: In all sorts of complicated ways before marriage, before graduation,
Speaker 1: in a car on the way to the hospital in
Speaker 1: a lowly starlet manger far from home. Pregnancy and birth
Speaker 1: are the start of the story that will include hardships
Speaker 1: and the most incredible reward. Having children changes everything, changes you.
Speaker 1: Even the most flawed parents can't have hope their children
Speaker 1: will do better. Biden's Christmas reward for death row murderers
Speaker 1: does nothing for the victims or the inmates. It will
Speaker 1: hopefully be the last time this vapid president squanders an
Speaker 1: opportunity to move the nation in a more loving direction.
Speaker 1: Rather than protecting the agents of death, Biden could have
Speaker 1: led an effort to change our culture into one that
Speaker 1: recognizes the humanity of the unborn. He could have developed
Speaker 1: policies that encourage women in complicated pregnancies to allow their
Speaker 1: babies to live. Instead, Biden and his handlers leave a
Speaker 1: dark legacy that celebrates evil. Six point thirty five Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll for Brian Thomas fifty five KRCV talk station.
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Speaker 1: weather Forecast not as cold Today. It's going to be
Speaker 1: mild with the high of forty five under cloudy skies,
Speaker 1: and we'll have cloudy skies into the ninth tonight with
Speaker 1: some rain possible. The every night low thirty six, scattered
Speaker 1: rain showers for Christmas Day at the high of forty eight.
Speaker 1: Showers continue on into Thursday. It'll be mostly cloudy on Thursday.
Speaker 1: A high on Thursday of fifty six. It's forty four
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Speaker 4: It is a very quiet morning on the highways with
Speaker 4: no accidents to deal with, even with some wet roads
Speaker 4: on this Christmas Eve morning. Southbound seventy five doing fine
Speaker 4: past the Reagan Highways. So is southbound seventy one. Chuck
Speaker 4: Ingram on fifty five KRC. The talk station.
Speaker 1: Bill fill thee you being in.
Speaker 13: The lad.
Speaker 1: Oh leaves gold I have no friend once again? Why
Speaker 1: Lilly side Christmas Eve I fifty five k r C.
Speaker 1: The talk station Dad Carol and from Brian Thomas, and
Speaker 1: there was no way I could do two days of
Speaker 1: this show and not hear from this guy west side, Jim,
Speaker 1: how are you this morning? Merry Christmas?
Speaker 7: Merry Christmas, Dan, Carol. No, there wasn't going to be
Speaker 7: two days that I didn't call in and wish you are.
Speaker 1: I knew it couldn't happen. I knew it couldn't happen.
Speaker 7: And to Joe also, because without Joe, as they say,
Speaker 7: the show don't go, it does not.
Speaker 1: We Yeah, we are nowhere to be found without Joe
Speaker 1: Strucker being there. That is a fact.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: I was listening to you since about five oh five.
Speaker 7: And I do have to say, I hope when mister Biden,
Speaker 7: I will never call him a president even though he
Speaker 7: was elected, maybe meets his maker that all those people
Speaker 7: that you talked about this morning, that were slaughtered by
Speaker 7: these evil savages get to choose. They're in a panel
Speaker 7: up in heaven and they get to choose where he goes.
Speaker 7: I guarantee you he's not going to be let into
Speaker 7: the pearly gates.
Speaker 1: You know, we played the sound bite the CNN ram
Speaker 1: yesterday morning, thirty years ago and Joe Biden was so strident.
Speaker 1: And then you should see the video. I mean he is,
Speaker 1: he is running around, he's moving, he's moving all around,
Speaker 1: and there's a longer clip where he actually does that
Speaker 1: whispering thing, and and and and he's talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: how how strong he is and how staunch he is,
Speaker 1: and these these criminals almost like he did. Remember when
Speaker 1: he was talking about the cocaine dealers and how if
Speaker 1: you have you could have something to say, he holds
Speaker 1: up a quarter and he talks about if you have
Speaker 1: something the size of this quarter. And this is when
Speaker 1: crack cocaine was first coming on to the scene, and
Speaker 1: he was talking about how bad crack cocaine was and
Speaker 1: how terrible it was, and people who were using the
Speaker 1: crack cocaine and people who were dealing the crack cocaine
Speaker 1: and making it possible. And and that was probably right
Speaker 1: around the same time that his son was indulging in
Speaker 1: all of these things. So the guy's a total kypocrite.
Speaker 1: I may maybe he'll stand before Saint Peter and say, look,
Speaker 1: I was on the right side, because he's been on
Speaker 1: all sides of just about every issue that you can
Speaker 1: possibly think of. And the question, the question now is
Speaker 1: who's making these decisions for him. We've asked this question
Speaker 1: for how long now? Who is running the country and
Speaker 1: we know for certain that it's not Joe Biden. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 7: I almost have to give him a tiny bit of
Speaker 7: a break because he doesn't know what the hell he's
Speaker 7: doing and signing off on everybody. He's just given a
Speaker 7: paper shoved up in front of him, and these people
Speaker 7: are saying, here, Joe sign is it's probably oh he's
Speaker 7: a dog catcher. No, no, no, he have too many
Speaker 7: parking tickets, and oh, okay, he doesn't know what he's signing.
Speaker 7: And who's running who's running the country?
Speaker 1: We know who it is.
Speaker 6: It's the Obamas.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: It's Christmas Eve. And I didn't think I'd be sitting
Speaker 1: here detailing the horrific killing of individuals by these people
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden sees fit to allow to live on
Speaker 1: taxpayer dimes for the for the rest of their natural lives.
Speaker 1: And and and this statement is ridiculous because how do
Speaker 1: you discern between you know, he talks about these sentences
Speaker 1: have to be commuted, But when it comes to when
Speaker 1: it comes to hate crimes. When it comes to, you know,
Speaker 1: some of these other killers, that we have to have
Speaker 1: nuance there and say that these killers are worthy of
Speaker 1: the death penalty. But these other ones who you know,
Speaker 1: the cut the heads off of children, who kill parents
Speaker 1: in front of their children, who rape and murder and
Speaker 1: slit the throats of young kids, those people don't deserve
Speaker 1: the death penalty. How do you how do you even
Speaker 1: approach that sort of nuance.
Speaker 7: I laugh every time when I hear that life without
Speaker 7: parole because we all know within fifteen years these people
Speaker 7: are going to be out, like you said before, walking
Speaker 7: the streets. So you know, it's just a terrible, terrible
Speaker 7: thing at the way they designed this law, and you
Speaker 7: know Biden just added to it by letting these people commute.
Speaker 7: You know, these people can't be rehabilitated. What good arty
Speaker 7: in society, and for the crimes that they did. He
Speaker 7: should be ashamed if he actually knew what he did.
Speaker 1: Well. This is just another example of the people who
Speaker 1: still have their wits about him in the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: who are throwing up every possible turd that they can
Speaker 1: throw at the at the incoming Trump administration. They they
Speaker 1: want it. They want the Trump administration to spend the
Speaker 1: first three or four or five months doing nothing but
Speaker 1: clearing the crap out of the way that these people
Speaker 1: have thrown up to try and obstruct the Trump administration
Speaker 1: from pursuing their agenda. And they know all that we're
Speaker 1: going to hear all this talk about oh how classy
Speaker 1: the Bidens are and the peaceful transfer of power, and boy,
Speaker 1: there's going to be you know, and you know, west Side, Jim,
Speaker 1: you know it's coming when it comes time for Biden
Speaker 1: to leave the White House, there's going to be all
Speaker 1: this nostalgia and oh my god, this long political career
Speaker 1: coming to an end. Brilliant, this brilliant that you know,
Speaker 1: this country's going to miss Joe Biden. What a bunch
Speaker 1: of crap. This guy. It deserves to go down quite
Speaker 1: possibly the worst president this country's ever had.
Speaker 7: I always did say that Carter was, but guarantee you
Speaker 7: you just said he took the place of Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 7: and Jimmy Carter was on economics, he didn't do this
Speaker 7: kind of garbage.
Speaker 1: I mean, not to this extent. No, not this bad
Speaker 1: west Side Jim. We got to get to a break.
Speaker 1: But as always been.
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas to you, Thanks for your listenership and uh
Speaker 4: and thanks for calling in.
Speaker 1: Always great to have you on the show. Take care
Speaker 1: all right, there you go west side Jim and if
Speaker 1: you want to be like him, pick up the phone
Speaker 1: five one three seven nine fifty five hundred. Dan Carroll
Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRCV talk station.
Speaker 6: D nine.
Speaker 1: First warning weather forecast. Not as cold today, It's going
Speaker 1: to be mild, a high a forty five hunder, cloudy
Speaker 1: sky is cloudy skuy is tonight, a little bit of
Speaker 1: rain possible the other night, low thirty six. Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: it's going to be on the warm side, a high
Speaker 1: of forty eight with some scattered rain showers. Showers continue
Speaker 1: Christmas night into Thursday. Thursday's high fifty six, mostly cloudy
Speaker 1: skies and looks like we're in that cloudy pattern for
Speaker 1: the next few days, but mild, so it's not going
Speaker 1: to be freezing cold, and I guess that is worth celebrated.
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Speaker 4: That's not bad at all, even with some wet roads,
Speaker 4: no accidents to deal with. Sethbound seventy one traffic volumes
Speaker 4: very like pants Fighter in the Ragon Highway before getting
Speaker 4: into Kenwood, Chucking ramonth fifty five KRC the talk station
Speaker 4: fifty five k R CD talk Station. I've loved this
Speaker 4: one since I was a kid. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Speaker 4: Special Vin's Garaldi.
Speaker 1: Joe. Would they make a Christmas special today with music
Speaker 1: like this in? It wouldn't happen. But that's how great
Speaker 1: the music was. What with nineteen sixty five, it's fantastic,
Speaker 1: still as good today as it was back then. I
Speaker 1: could just put the the and I have the CD
Speaker 1: at home. I'm still one of those guys that has
Speaker 1: everyone Joe. Everyone makes fun of me when I talk
Speaker 1: about I have CDs or DVDs to watch movies, but
Speaker 1: why don't you just watch it online? I don't. I
Speaker 1: like to pop the disc in. I play it. It
Speaker 1: sounds great. I even have Vinyl record. Vinyl Records making
Speaker 1: a comeback. Will you walk into the store and you
Speaker 1: can see whole sections now where they sell where they
Speaker 1: sell vinyl records. Another study on coffee got to be
Speaker 1: having some coffee this morning. International study published in Cancer
Speaker 1: has found that drinking more than four cups of coffee
Speaker 1: a day forget too, it's up to four now. If
Speaker 1: you do that, you may reduce the risk of some
Speaker 1: head and nick cancer by seventeen percent. The research analyzed
Speaker 1: data from number two twenty five thousand individuals across fourteen studies,
Speaker 1: provides the strongest evidence yet of coffee's potential for cancer
Speaker 1: fighting properties. While there has been prior research on coffee
Speaker 1: and tea consumption and reduce risk of cancer, the study
Speaker 1: highlights their varying effects on different subsites of head and
Speaker 1: neck cancer, including the observation that even a decaffeinated coffee
Speaker 1: had some positive impact. So there you go, another study
Speaker 1: showing the positive impacts of coffee. Are there any studies
Speaker 1: out there? I think years ago there were some studies
Speaker 1: out there that we're talking about coffee and the negative impacts,
Speaker 1: and then of course studies like this come along and
Speaker 1: show the positive impacts. I think this is the first
Speaker 1: one I've seen this talking about four cups a day, though,
Speaker 1: and when you're in this business, four cups a day
Speaker 1: just doesn't sound like that much I've got. I've got
Speaker 1: my thermist full of coffee. There's at least almost I
Speaker 1: love this thermist. It's an old one, but it holds
Speaker 1: almost an entire coffee pot. Jo. Do you make coffee
Speaker 1: at home? Do you use the the A lot of
Speaker 1: people use the what is that the curerig now where
Speaker 1: you make up the one cup at a time, And uh,
Speaker 1: I to my way of thinking, when you when you
Speaker 1: use the krig and you put the pod in there
Speaker 1: and then you press the button, you get one cup
Speaker 1: of coffee, and you still have to fill up the
Speaker 1: reservoir in the back. And then when after your you
Speaker 1: know what what two or three or four cups, the
Speaker 1: reservoir gets and you got to fill it up again.
Speaker 1: I say, it just seems like too much work to me.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, we know, we we ustill. We still have
Speaker 1: the old fashioned for it for as long as I'm
Speaker 1: able to. And then the coffee makers don't last as
Speaker 1: long as they used to. But we've got a coffee
Speaker 1: maker at home. My wife and I have had four
Speaker 1: I know, gosh, five or six years now, that's a
Speaker 1: long time. Your mom still has a percolator. I saw
Speaker 1: one of those at a party the other day. The
Speaker 1: coffee is bubbling up in the middle. My parents used
Speaker 1: to have one of those. But I know I still
Speaker 1: got the coffee maker we've had in five or six
Speaker 1: years now. I know it's not going to last forever,
Speaker 1: but as long as I'm able, I'm going to have
Speaker 1: that old fashioned coffee maker, just making one pot at
Speaker 1: a time, that's what works best for me. Heavy coffee
Speaker 1: drinkers had a thirty percent lower risk of oral cavity
Speaker 1: cancer and a twenty two percent lower risk of throat
Speaker 1: cancer compared to non coffee drinkers. So there you go,
Speaker 1: drink your coffee and help fight cancer at the same time.
Speaker 1: There's your helpful tip of the day from your friendly
Speaker 1: substitute co host Dan carrollin for Brian Thomas on fifty
Speaker 1: five KRC The Talk Station.
Speaker 2: There's no shortage of stuff to talk about in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. The conversation is happening here on fifty five KRC,
Speaker 2: the Talk Station.
Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by Pure Talk fifty five k
Speaker 1: r C the Talk Station. Christmas Eve, Dan Carolyn for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. Good morning. So Joe Strucker always promises me
Speaker 1: the Van Hallen is coming out whenever I get to
Speaker 1: sit in for Brian Thomas, and I appreciate it. Do
Speaker 1: you do the same thing with Kevin Gordon when he's here?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Only me? How about that I'm special? That's Joe's Christmas
Speaker 1: gift to me telling me I'm special. That's fantastic. But
Speaker 1: I love I love being here on fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1: I love the Brian Thomas audience. I look, I'm a
Speaker 1: listener to myself when when I have the I don't
Speaker 1: always have the opportunity to listen in the morning, but
Speaker 1: when I do, I sound like, what's that? What's that
Speaker 1: beer commercial? Stay thirsty my friends?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: The what?
Speaker 1: What? What did that guy die? That guy that made
Speaker 1: the the Mexican I don't know if he's a Mexican
Speaker 1: dude or what, but he uh, you know, he's the
Speaker 1: older gentleman, distinguished looking.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: I know he's an actor, but uh, what's he say?
Speaker 1: I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I
Speaker 1: drink those sechis. Stay thirsty, my friends, oh Man, Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: The report came out about Matt Gates yesterday, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty ugly. But I mean, really, when you
Speaker 1: look at this, when you look at and I was
Speaker 1: talking to my buddy James Bogan about this and he
Speaker 1: and he made a good point. This is a This
Speaker 1: is not a court of law. There really are no
Speaker 1: standards when it comes to proof for evidence or cross
Speaker 1: examining witnesses. So the House Ethics Committee can gather all
Speaker 1: this evidence they want and then what their report said
Speaker 1: didn't say he was guilty of it. They said they
Speaker 1: found a lot of evidence that supports these allegations against
Speaker 1: Matt Gates. So they gathered evidence that Matt Gates of
Speaker 1: Florida paid multiple women for sex, including a seventeen year
Speaker 1: old high school junior, used illegal drugs like cocaine and ecstasy,
Speaker 1: and obstructed efforts by Congress to investigate his conduct. In
Speaker 1: other words, it sounds like he does everything that your
Speaker 1: average Democrat does. According to a draft of its findings
Speaker 1: that just The News obtained, whether they got it before
Speaker 1: the official release, but it all came out yesterday, here's
Speaker 1: what they said. The committee determined there is a there
Speaker 1: is substantial evidence that Representative Gates violated House rules and
Speaker 1: other standards of conduct, prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use,
Speaker 1: impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.
Speaker 1: The draft report also said it did not find evidence
Speaker 1: the Gates had engaged in sex trafficking, as some had
Speaker 1: alleged that would. I guess that would be really bad
Speaker 1: if he engaged in sex trafficking. That to me sounds
Speaker 1: sounds like crossing a line there. And wasn't that what
Speaker 1: the media was running wild with for a while there,
Speaker 1: talking about, oh, well, Gates was, you know, pimping girls
Speaker 1: out and running these sex rings and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: But they said they did not find evidence in that,
Speaker 1: and Gates himself put out a statement a few days
Speaker 1: ago talking about how, you know, he has not always
Speaker 1: been the most upstanding person that in his younger days.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how old Gates is. I guess
Speaker 1: I could look that up, Joe, Can you look that
Speaker 1: up and tell me how old Gates is right now?
Speaker 1: I think he's maybe what mid forties, late forties something
Speaker 1: like that, maybe early to mid forties, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but this was he's forty two, early forties, so he
Speaker 1: was in his younger days. Yeah, he admitted that he
Speaker 1: was out running around living the single life, partying, hooking
Speaker 1: up I guess, you know, with different apps and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. He said. He admitted that he paid money
Speaker 1: to some women that he liked. I don't know what
Speaker 1: there's a there. I know I looked at the report
Speaker 1: yesterday and there's a chart in there of some of
Speaker 1: the money that he paid out to some of these women.
Speaker 1: But again, there was no cross examination of these women
Speaker 1: who gave their testimony to the committee. Let's see. Let's see.
Speaker 1: The report lays out the sort of details of Gates's
Speaker 1: alegedra ledged drug fueled partying with young women, based on
Speaker 1: interviews with those women and eyewitnesses, but save some of
Speaker 1: its harsish criticism for the former Florida Republican's refusal to
Speaker 1: cooperate completely with the years long ethics inquiry. Why would you?
Speaker 1: Why would you cooperate with such a thing? It's it's standard.
Speaker 1: I mean again, I go back to brad Winstrop and
Speaker 1: to my way of thinking. It's a little bit different
Speaker 1: when you're looking at a government agency that has a
Speaker 1: responsibility to preserve documents. It has responsibility to document what
Speaker 1: it does because it's all it's all taxpayer funded research,
Speaker 1: it's all taxpayer funded activity, it's taxpayer funded work product,
Speaker 1: and those things must be preserved. Those at that evidence
Speaker 1: should not be destroyed. And when you when I talked
Speaker 1: to brad Winstrip, he talked about how documents were not
Speaker 1: forthcoming from various government agencies, how they kept things, did
Speaker 1: everything they could to keep things hidden. So when we're
Speaker 1: talking about Matt Gates and what appears to have been
Speaker 1: mostly private behavior, I didn't read all of the report yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I really didn't see how all this private behavior
Speaker 1: that he was gauging. And even though it was it
Speaker 1: may have been poor behavior. I don't know that he
Speaker 1: was doing on this, any of this on the on
Speaker 1: his public on the public dime. So and maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he was, I don't know if if if he was,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to that part in the report. The
Speaker 1: draft report A legends that he refused to comply with
Speaker 1: a subpoena demanding an interview be sent only only partial
Speaker 1: demanding an interview and sent only partial written answers, he
Speaker 1: intentionally withheld information about his trip with women to the
Speaker 1: Bahamas and the fact that he took a prohibited, free
Speaker 1: private plane ride back. Oh my god, Matt Gates flew
Speaker 1: on a private plane, Joe. Can you imagine such a
Speaker 1: thing that a lawmaker in Congress would fly to the
Speaker 1: Bahamas on a private plane. Oh my god.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 1: The height of hypocrisy that some of these people in Congress,
Speaker 1: now that this report is out, and I did not,
Speaker 1: I honest, yesterday was a weird news. I watched a
Speaker 1: lot less news yesterday than I normally watch because I'm
Speaker 1: doing it in the afternoon show on seven hundred as well,
Speaker 1: so I was busy with that. But I can only
Speaker 1: imagine that you've got all kinds of Democrat representatives out
Speaker 1: there who can't wait to get in front of a camera,
Speaker 1: can't wait to get in front of a microphone and
Speaker 1: condemn Matt Gates and talk about how bad it was
Speaker 1: that Trump picked this guy to be the Attorney General
Speaker 1: of the United States. And it is beyond it is
Speaker 1: just beyond the height of hypocrisy for some of these,
Speaker 1: especially Democrat representatives and members of Congress, to criticize and
Speaker 1: condemn Matt Gates when the likelihood is very possible that
Speaker 1: they have done if not the exact same thing, far worse,
Speaker 1: far worse. And Matt Gates says he even said one
Speaker 1: time that he would go back to Congress expose every
Speaker 1: single one of members of Congress who have taken advantage
Speaker 1: of the slush fund that's up there to pay people
Speaker 1: off for these sexual harassment claims. And you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, how many millions of taxpayer dollars have
Speaker 1: been spent to to settle these claims, to make them
Speaker 1: go away. And you know, they've got carte blanche to
Speaker 1: carry on as they see fit. So I'm certainly hoping
Speaker 1: that a lot of these people tread carefully. And I
Speaker 1: don't know how much of what kind of legs this
Speaker 1: report is going to have. Yes, it's uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's sallacious, all the stuff that's in there, talking
Speaker 1: about hooking up with multiple women and you know, paying
Speaker 1: for the partying and paying for drug sex and rock
Speaker 1: and rolls and so like, it's like a weekend at
Speaker 1: the Clinton's. So the Matt Gates report is out there,
Speaker 1: it's there for everyone to read. He's defending himself saying,
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't do some of the worst stuff.
Speaker 1: He's owning some of it. Then yeah, I had some
Speaker 1: poor behavior, but uh, not all of it. And it
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on. I mean they, I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of evidence that he did this stuff.
Speaker 1: But in the long run, it doesn't really matter. The
Speaker 1: drugs and all that stuff, that that stuff should not happen.
Speaker 1: But for these people, of these members of Congress to
Speaker 1: try and point the finger of blaming him for partying
Speaker 1: with young women, doing some drugs, flying on a private
Speaker 1: jet somewhere, No, that doesn't hold water with me, and
Speaker 1: I suspect most of you either. Five point three, seven,
Speaker 1: four nine, fifty five hundred if you want to get
Speaker 1: on board, those aren't the numbers to call on this
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. Dan Carol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCV
Speaker 1: talk station, the New d nine First Warning weather forecast
Speaker 1: not as cold today, It's going to be mild, the cloudy,
Speaker 1: a high of forty five, some showers possible tonight on
Speaker 1: this Christmas Eve night heading into Christmas Day, the overnight
Speaker 1: low only thirty six. Santa has no snow for his slay.
Speaker 1: How will he deliver the giddies? How will he deliver
Speaker 1: the presence? I used to worry about that when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Christmas Day scattered rain shower is going
Speaker 1: to be warm a high of forty eight, and the
Speaker 1: showers continue overnight intwo Thursday, when it will be mostly
Speaker 1: cloudy in a high a fifty six forty four At
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Speaker 1: by me.
Speaker 4: Tell him now, you talk about a guy that Peasant
Speaker 4: not only could do it with the vocals, but Joe,
Speaker 4: do you know this guy was just awesome on the
Speaker 4: drums too.
Speaker 1: There's there's videos out there you can find a Melturmee
Speaker 1: and you know he's doing one of his live shows,
Speaker 1: does a couple of songs where he jumps up on
Speaker 1: the skins and just just hairs it up. But Melturmey
Speaker 1: one of the all time greats. This story about Kay
Speaker 1: Granger House of Representatives, a member of Congress from Texas,
Speaker 1: eighty one years old. Elected to the House in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty six. He was the the mayor of Fort Worth
Speaker 1: before becoming Before getting elected to Congress, it turns out
Speaker 1: that she has been missing from Washington for six months.
Speaker 1: Six months, hasn't cast a vote in DC. Her absence
Speaker 1: had generated great concern in her district, which is the
Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area, and apparently her staff and
Speaker 1: her son had been running cover for her as she
Speaker 1: was absent from Congress for six months, and finally a
Speaker 1: reporter at the Dalex Express got a tip and found
Speaker 1: her living at a memory care facility eighty one years old.
Speaker 1: Apparently they put her in there after she'd been found
Speaker 1: wandering through the neighborhood lost and confused. But how do
Speaker 1: you go, Joe, how do how can you be absent
Speaker 1: six months? And and no one, no one notices, no
Speaker 1: one says anything. Only in Congress. But uh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a very strange story. That's uh kay Granger.
Speaker 1: It I mean, I mean, she seems like she's a Republican,
Speaker 1: seems like a good woman. I don't know that much
Speaker 1: about her, but the notion that and especially with when
Speaker 1: you look at the slim majorities that the Republicans had
Speaker 1: in the House, trying to uh hold off the nuttiness
Speaker 1: and the nonsense of the Democrats. Her son told The
Speaker 1: New York Post that, uh he said that the whole
Speaker 1: thing was a load of bs. That she moved into
Speaker 1: a condo and an independent living community because she was
Speaker 1: getting bored and lonely at her Fort Worth apartment. The
Speaker 1: sources close to Granger, including her son, her current spokesperson
Speaker 1: another source familiar, have denied to the Post that she's
Speaker 1: living in a memory care unit. But that's where they
Speaker 1: found her. So this is a woman that obviously needs help,
Speaker 1: and it shouldn't have I just don't think that six
Speaker 1: months should have elapsed where she is. She's not at
Speaker 1: the office, not going to committee meetings, not showing up
Speaker 1: for votes before someone does something and finds out what
Speaker 1: the heck is going on. Just a little human decency.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that story plays out. But got
Speaker 1: to wish her all the best. Tough time for her
Speaker 1: and her family, But six months and no one says anything.
Speaker 1: We got to get to a break. And then after
Speaker 1: the break, my buddy Jim Serger is going to be
Speaker 1: here talk about his latest book and talk about the season,
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll just have a nice conversation. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. As we roll on till nine
Speaker 1: o'clock this morning, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five
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Speaker 1: is going to be mild today, cloudy, a high of
Speaker 1: forty five, maybe a few rain showers moving in tonight
Speaker 1: the other night low thirty six. Christmas Day will be cloudy,
Speaker 1: maybe some scattered rain, a high of forty eight. Rain
Speaker 1: showers continue from Christmas Day into Thursday, where it's going
Speaker 1: to be overcast and cloudy a high of fifty six.
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Speaker 8: Hark how the bell, sweet silver bells all seem to say,
Speaker 8: throw cares away, Christmas is here, bringing a jeer to
Speaker 8: young and old Mike.
Speaker 6: And the ball.
Speaker 4: That's Dina Carter Carrol of the Bells, one of my
Speaker 4: all time favorites.
Speaker 1: Just a great arrangement of this song, Dean dunding Don,
Speaker 1: that is our song with joyful ring.
Speaker 7: Oh Caroline, once do your words of good year FuMB everywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about country artists when
Speaker 1: they a lot of country artists when they do Christmas albums,
Speaker 1: and it just seems that when these country artists do it,
Speaker 1: I mean they always go the extra mile. I mean
Speaker 1: the arrangements and the musicianship and everything else is just great.
Speaker 1: So I love that stuff, and that's on my list
Speaker 1: of all time favorite Christmas songs. And one of my
Speaker 1: favorite guys to talk to, not just Christmas time, but
Speaker 1: any time of the year is Jim Serger. A local guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's done so much in life and now
Speaker 1: he's living the dream, writing books and all the rest
Speaker 1: of it. Had him on when his book Jump came out,
Speaker 1: I believe that was in the summertime, and now his
Speaker 1: latest book is nine to eleven, A Time to Always Remember,
Speaker 1: Bond of Firefighters. And Jim Serger, it's great to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Merry Christmas and welcome to fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1: How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 6: Good morning, Dan, Married Christmas to you as well. Thanks
Speaker 6: for having me on today. I'm the Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Great time of the year, it certainly is. And
Speaker 1: I've been reading. Every once in a while I'll catch
Speaker 1: a review of someone who has had a chance to
Speaker 1: read your book. Nine to eleven a time to always
Speaker 1: remember bond of firefighters. And I'm seeing different firefighting organizations,
Speaker 1: different firefighting fraternities, people who are involved in the business
Speaker 1: talk about how meaningful this book has really become to them.
Speaker 1: So congratulations on this book. Yeah, this book is good.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of great books, but this one.
Speaker 1: It seems to me anyway that this one's got to
Speaker 1: be taking a special place for you.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, you know of the Royaltiece goes the tunnel
Speaker 6: to Towers, which is an amazing foundation. So I'm not
Speaker 6: for the money. This is for following veterans, first responders,
Speaker 6: injured veterans, so all of this goes to help them out,
Speaker 6: and just firefighters all across the United States sharing their
Speaker 6: personal nine to eleven story, how they dropped everything from
Speaker 6: California to hear in Cincinnati to Florida and headed up
Speaker 6: to Manhattan to render their services because a fallen brother
Speaker 6: or a sister. They're there. They took off. Some of
Speaker 6: them didn't even ask for permission to go. They detected
Speaker 6: or called their chief and said I'm headed up. So
Speaker 6: it was a very heartfelt book. A lot of personal
Speaker 6: stories I made it in there, just heartwarming, gut wrenching.
Speaker 6: It's a horrific day. But the silver lining is America
Speaker 6: was united and united. And that's that's what the book about,
Speaker 6: is the American spirit, how powerful it is when a
Speaker 6: crisis happens. We're there to help each other out.
Speaker 1: Tell me about your connection with Tunnel to Towers. Tell
Speaker 1: me how that came about, how you got hooked up
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 6: Well, you see them on Fox News all the time,
Speaker 6: and now they're hitting all the other mainstream media's as
Speaker 6: well currently. And about three or four years ago, I
Speaker 6: kept seeing the time nine to eleven and through almost
Speaker 6: twenty four years ago. Now Tunnel to Towers correlates with
Speaker 6: nine to eleven. Frank Filler and all of them up
Speaker 6: there are doing a terrific job. So I said to
Speaker 6: my wife, I said, nine to eleven is a message
Speaker 6: that I'm receiving, So let's give it back to those
Speaker 6: that are giving one hundred percent effort up there at
Speaker 6: the World Trade there. And then it led into now
Speaker 6: they're building veterans villages down in Phoenix, down in Florida,
Speaker 6: So it's not just for fallen firefighters anymore. So I
Speaker 6: love it. And I was in the Navy, and I
Speaker 6: have a lot of military friends, and I have friends
Speaker 6: that are firefighters, so I've seen the benefit of tunnel
Speaker 6: to towers firsthand. So why not give back.
Speaker 1: No, it's a beautiful thing. And I think people can
Speaker 1: look at your example, Jim Serger, and learn from that
Speaker 1: and and really that when you talk about things that
Speaker 1: are fulfilling in life, these are the kind of things
Speaker 1: that people do that you really get a lot of
Speaker 1: mileage out of. And I think when people look at
Speaker 1: what you're doing with this particular book and in this effort,
Speaker 1: I think they can be inspired too to do things
Speaker 1: in their own life that they find out.
Speaker 6: I meaning absolutely, just the smallest good intention goes a
Speaker 6: long way. It really does. It's just amazing how it
Speaker 6: makes one myself feel and then when others are a
Speaker 6: part of this book, it makes them feel good too.
Speaker 6: It's just very warming. It's just the American spirit. I mean,
Speaker 6: I sound like a broken record, but that's really it.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're all feathered together in this how do
Speaker 6: we help each other out? And here we are in
Speaker 6: the middle of the Christmas season and people are always
Speaker 6: looking for a way to give back. You know, to
Speaker 6: towers as a foundation for eleven hours a month all
Speaker 6: year round, correlates eleven to nine to eleven. So just
Speaker 6: some very very minute goes a long way us.
Speaker 1: So much it all comes together. We were texting a
Speaker 1: little bit yesterday and you brought up the subject of
Speaker 1: Christmas cards, and I have a question for you along
Speaker 1: those lines, but we got to get to a quick
Speaker 1: break right here, so I'm going to ask you that
Speaker 1: question on the other side of this as we will
Speaker 1: continue on with Jim Serger, author of nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: A Time to Always Remember, and really a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of other great books, and we'll touch on some of
Speaker 1: those as we continue on. Dan Carroll with Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: or for Brian Thomas with Jim Serger on fifty five KRC,
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Speaker 1: Not as cold today. It's going to be mild, under
Speaker 1: cloudy skies, a high today of forty five. It'll be
Speaker 1: cloudy with some possible rang showers tonight heading into Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: scattered rain likely. On Christmas Day it'll be warm with
Speaker 1: a high of forty eight, and then Thursday mostly cloudy,
Speaker 1: a high of fifty six fifty six.
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Speaker 1: We're continuing our conversation with Jim an author. Jim. Does
Speaker 1: the Christmas music get you in the mood? Does it?
Speaker 1: Bum Boy Bother Joe Joe, Look that one up, look
Speaker 1: that one up at the at the behest to Jim
Speaker 1: Serger will roll a little bit of that out of it.
Speaker 1: If we if we get a chance. We were talking
Speaker 1: yesterday about Christmas cards and I was thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: you know what, someone has to write Christmas cards. And
Speaker 1: Jim Serger is an author, he's a writer. Could you
Speaker 1: write a Christmas card if you had to?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, have you done it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: But I love sending out Christmas cards? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you write? Indeed, do you send? And do you
Speaker 1: send the ones out with the picture of the family
Speaker 1: and all that?
Speaker 6: And absolutely I think the Christmas tree, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I actually have your Christmas cards.
Speaker 6: That you know what about yourself? Do you send out
Speaker 6: Christmas cards? You know what?
Speaker 1: I let my wife take care of that. And for
Speaker 1: some reason, and I don't know why, we're more traditional
Speaker 1: and we like the Christmas cards and I read them
Speaker 1: and I like, you know, I like the ones with
Speaker 1: the illustrations and the nice sayings on it and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Are the Christmas card companies just letting the
Speaker 1: AI do that?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: You think?
Speaker 6: No, I think there's somebody still behind that. Now they
Speaker 6: might be auto. They might correct it. You just type
Speaker 6: in a couple of words and type in Christmas card
Speaker 6: and AI can you know generate it?
Speaker 1: Like two tenths of a second Frank.
Speaker 6: But I still think there's a lot of love and
Speaker 6: passion still behind Christmas cards. People love Christmas, and we're
Speaker 6: getting farther and farther away from that. My parents are
Speaker 6: both passed away. They were baby boomers, but both of
Speaker 6: my parents loved receiving Christmas cards and sending them out.
Speaker 6: And I remember as a little kid running out to
Speaker 6: the mailbox and there's a Christmas card from Grandma and Grandpa,
Speaker 6: Uncle Frank. You know, goes on and on and on,
Speaker 6: and I love that about Christmas. So I thoroughly enjoy
Speaker 6: sending out Christmas cards. I think it's just absolutely a
Speaker 6: tradition we cannot lose. It's like a fruitcake. I get
Speaker 6: a fruitcake every year.
Speaker 1: I love fruitcake.
Speaker 6: You know, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing how much how much tradition means in
Speaker 1: our life. I was I was having a conversation with
Speaker 1: a guy earlier this year. We were at an event
Speaker 1: and and he was in the insurance business, and and
Speaker 1: he was and somehow we got onto talking about artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence AI. And he was talking about how, you know,
Speaker 1: how how I and I'm still and maybe it's just
Speaker 1: me and maybe I'm unnecessarily thinking about this, but I'm
Speaker 1: still wary of AI. I feel like I don't want
Speaker 1: to cross that. I don't want to cross that threshold.
Speaker 1: I have not relied on artificial intelligence for anything that
Speaker 1: I do, although I suppose I could for show prep
Speaker 1: and other things like that getting ready for the radio.
Speaker 1: But to my way of thinking, it's like it's like
Speaker 1: coloring your hair. Right, if you've crossed that line one
Speaker 1: time where you've got to get rid of some of
Speaker 1: the gray, you know, whatever it is, you sort of
Speaker 1: never come back for that. What is it for you?
Speaker 1: Do you would? When you're writing books and researching and
Speaker 1: doing things like that, Maybe you use it. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, Maybe you use artificial intelligence, But what's it
Speaker 1: like for you dealing with those sorts of issues.
Speaker 6: I have never used artificial intelligence. I would rather somebody
Speaker 6: catch a mistake knowing that I misspelled a word or
Speaker 6: had a sentence fragment, versus having an AI generated form.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I had a very good friend of mine, author of
Speaker 6: about one hundred and fifty books, named Jim Denny He
Speaker 6: out of californ He wrote a book using AI. He
Speaker 6: put ten words in there, said it needed to be
Speaker 6: two hundred pages long and needed to be sixty thousand words,
Speaker 6: and it generated it in thirty three seconds.
Speaker 1: My god, entire book out excuse me, an entire book,
Speaker 1: two hundred pages.
Speaker 6: An entire book. And then he put that out there
Speaker 6: for sale, and he circled everything that the AI made
Speaker 6: mistakes on. So it's based on information uploaded that the
Speaker 6: AI created the book on. And there were so many mistakes,
Speaker 6: and he published the book to prove to everybody that
Speaker 6: just because it's AI is not one hundred percent guaranteed
Speaker 6: correct because they misspelled words, fractions, everything else were all
Speaker 6: over the place. And footnotes were wrong because they actually
Speaker 6: footnoted an article that was they found obsolete. So had
Speaker 6: Jim done the research himself, it would all been perfectly fine.
Speaker 6: So if that starts to happen, people are really really
Speaker 6: going to find out, Wow, this is not legit.
Speaker 3: This is AI.
Speaker 1: This is AI, absolutely, and he proves the point, and
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I hope people are listening to this
Speaker 1: because we we we shouldn't just run blindly, you know,
Speaker 1: rush blindly head on into into these things. And hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not criticizing anyone who does, but I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking for my own purposes and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: for purposes of being authentic, being your real self. You know,
Speaker 1: don't turn that over to a computer. Don't turn that
Speaker 1: over to someone else's way of thinking. Who creates? Because
Speaker 1: I mean, to my way of thinking, that's really what
Speaker 1: it is. The the whatever that artificial intelligence is, is
Speaker 1: going to be a reflection somehow of the person that
Speaker 1: created it.
Speaker 6: Really, it can't be helped, can no, sir, Because I
Speaker 6: think that everybody knows how everybody speaks, to begin with,
Speaker 6: everybody understands how somebody says as an email, to begin with,
Speaker 6: all of a sudden that transitions over to this is
Speaker 6: one hundred percent words that a wordsmith doesn't even understand.
Speaker 6: I think that their people will catch on very quickly
Speaker 6: that this is not one genuine from the source, because
Speaker 6: if the guy or the girl never spoke that way
Speaker 6: to begin with, all of a sudden, they're sending out
Speaker 6: these very very long, in depth, massive words. They're like,
Speaker 6: where'd you come.
Speaker 13: Up with that?
Speaker 1: Jim? Can you hang around for one more segment? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: all right, stay right there. We'll get we'll get a
Speaker 1: quick update on traffic and weather, and then We'll continue
Speaker 1: on with Jim Serger on fifty five KRCV talk stations.
Speaker 1: The n first warning forecast. It's going to be mild
Speaker 1: today under cloudy sky is a high of forty five,
Speaker 1: some showers tonight heading into Christmas Day where we could
Speaker 1: see some scattered rain showers on Christmas Day in a
Speaker 1: high of forty eight. It is forty two at fifty
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Speaker 1: Seve on this Christmas Eve. Dan Carrolyn for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: A little breaking news right now. American Airlines is putting
Speaker 1: a hold on all its flights right now because of
Speaker 1: what they're saying is a technical issue, and that hold
Speaker 1: is only supposed to last till eight thirty this morning,
Speaker 1: So if you're expecting someone on a on a American
Speaker 1: Airlines flight, they might be a little bit late. Is
Speaker 1: this the Bob Seeger song? Okay, here we go, Bob.
Speaker 1: As suggested by our buddy Jim Serger, we play a
Speaker 1: little Bob Seger, a little drummer boy. And you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I like about that is I can
Speaker 1: listen to that voice and I know right away it's
Speaker 1: Bob Seger. And you talk about authentic and the songs
Speaker 1: that Bob Seger wrote and the way he performed in concert,
Speaker 1: there was nothing fake about that guy at.
Speaker 6: All, No, sir. I think Bob Seger song really nails it.
Speaker 6: I love the little drummer boy theme. And when I
Speaker 6: hear that song, instantly I just think about tradition with
Speaker 6: my parents. I think about the tradition that my wife
Speaker 6: and I have had for years, from going out on
Speaker 6: Thanksgiving after the day after to go get our Christmas
Speaker 6: tree and nan paps about forty minutes outside of Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: We spend all day decorating the house, turning it into
Speaker 6: a winter wonderland. So when I think of Bob Seeger
Speaker 6: and a little drummer boy, I just think of all
Speaker 6: the positive memories and the traditions that my family has had,
Speaker 6: from going downtown to see Poke and Patter, to the
Speaker 6: ge electric train set downtown and getting your little cookies,
Speaker 6: to my mom and dad catching the nip they always
Speaker 6: needed a nip to drink downtown when we were walking. Yeah,
Speaker 6: all you know, all the Christmas little elves, of robotic
Speaker 6: little elves downtown, just all those things. So when I
Speaker 6: hear Bob Seeger or just about any Christmas song, really dan,
Speaker 6: to be honest with you, I think of all the
Speaker 6: fun I had as growing up as a kid, and
Speaker 6: my wife and ies, you know, and my family. Last night,
Speaker 6: they all came over here and we were playing games
Speaker 6: all night. It was just a lot of fun. We
Speaker 6: had Christmas music in the background. And I'm a tough guy,
Speaker 6: but my heart was opened last night. It was so
Speaker 6: much fun watching everybody laugh and the exchange a little
Speaker 6: bit of gifts.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 6: It was really really a blast, and I think that
Speaker 6: those traditions are here to stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was going to ask you what
Speaker 1: Christmas looks like in the Serger household, but I think
Speaker 1: he just told us, and I appreciate that, and I
Speaker 1: think that is awesome.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I love talking to you and
Speaker 1: having you on is because you're you're such a great
Speaker 1: observer of life and what and what is happening in society,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at things and and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's just me, but I am really starting to
Speaker 1: and I think this is a good thing. I think
Speaker 1: I'm starting to sense a shift when it comes to
Speaker 1: young people. I know you and I have talked before,
Speaker 1: and I complained about how young people constantly had their
Speaker 1: nose and their cell phone, as if you know, the
Speaker 1: answer to life's problems were contained in there somehow, and
Speaker 1: and you know, everything was being compartmentalized, that there were
Speaker 1: no longer any more face to face conversation, and everything
Speaker 1: human interaction was becoming so superficial. I really think, and
Speaker 1: maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm wrong about this,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm really starting to sense a shift,
Speaker 1: especially as when it comes to young people, of how
Speaker 1: they deal now with interpersonal relations. And it may sound silly,
Speaker 1: but one of the areas where I'm seeing it is
Speaker 1: over the years in this job and the jobs that
Speaker 1: I've had, I've dealt a lot with professional athletes. And
Speaker 1: there was a time when I absolutely despise professional athletes
Speaker 1: because I knew, in my heart of hearts, they didn't
Speaker 1: care about the game, they didn't care about other people.
Speaker 1: All they cared about was that contract and making as
Speaker 1: much money as they possibly could. Now, the drive to
Speaker 1: make money and make as much money as you possibly
Speaker 1: can is still there. But I think we have an
Speaker 1: entire generation of athletes now and young people who find
Speaker 1: themselves in these positions, and there's a humbleness to a
Speaker 1: lot of these individuals now knowing that they are truly
Speaker 1: are fortunate and just because they have exceeded their wildest
Speaker 1: dreams at a young age. They do not look down
Speaker 1: on other people and hold themselves above others simply because
Speaker 1: you know they're making You know they're making millions and
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars. And I think that is
Speaker 1: starting to rub off. That sense of appreciation and being
Speaker 1: thankful for what you have and getting back to dealing
Speaker 1: with people on that individual sort of level is making
Speaker 1: a comeback in this country. Am I off base here?
Speaker 1: Are you sensing any of that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Sure, I think that you're coming out of one extreme,
Speaker 6: meaning COVID lockdown. You couldn't interact with people mess the
Speaker 6: traditions like you and I were just talking about. They
Speaker 6: missed being in front of the camera a lot, they
Speaker 6: missed making commercials, whatever. But the interaction between like you said,
Speaker 6: face to face was gone for three years basically during
Speaker 6: the COVID And now it's been open. The floodgates are open.
Speaker 6: And what we took for granted leading into COVID, now
Speaker 6: we appreciate that a lot more. And I'll give you
Speaker 6: a funny story. Dave Collins played for the Cincinnati Reds
Speaker 6: back in the late seventies, and he actually would come
Speaker 6: to my baseball practices here in Anderson Township. And I
Speaker 6: got a group team photo and there's Dave Collins in
Speaker 6: the photo. He used to come to a lot of
Speaker 6: our practice. Buddy Bell and Ronnie Oaster were the freshman
Speaker 6: basketball coaches at mid Neck for a few years. So
Speaker 6: that old tradition of still being involved in the community.
Speaker 6: Your heyday is over with or in the middle of
Speaker 6: your heyday. If becoming like you said, back to fruition.
Speaker 6: They want to be a part of the community. They're
Speaker 6: engaging with the community. Chase was out in Anderson Township
Speaker 6: the last couple of years working at King's Chickens. Sometimes
Speaker 6: he would just show up and work the drive through
Speaker 6: and it would catch the kids off God.
Speaker 1: And the kids loved it.
Speaker 6: They loved it. And I think that that engaging aspect
Speaker 6: of yes, you are an athlete, Yes you are for
Speaker 6: the Bengals or the Rads or SC Cincinnati and the
Speaker 6: Cyclones that they love the community involvement and everybody loves
Speaker 6: to feel part of something, giving something back without anything
Speaker 6: in return. They love it and they feel good, and
Speaker 6: they're a spokesman. They're an ambassador for our community. People
Speaker 6: look up to them, they want to be them. So
Speaker 6: if you're five years old, ten years old and you're
Speaker 6: seeing Joe Burrow drive the Batmobile down the beach Mont Avenue.
Speaker 1: Or something like that, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen
Speaker 1: one of these days. That is fantastic. Well, Jim, we
Speaker 1: got to run. But I love having you on man.
Speaker 1: I love your perspective on things, and thank you so
Speaker 1: much for the time. This morning, and we will talk again,
Speaker 1: my friend Christmas to you for having me on. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go, Jim Serger, look him up, look up
Speaker 1: his books on. All you got to do is google
Speaker 1: Jim Serger and you will get there. We're late for
Speaker 1: a break, but who the heck cares? It's Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk Stations.
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Speaker 4: Fifty five krc the Talk Station, Christmas Eve, Dan Carroll.
Speaker 4: Then for Brian Thomas, and you're listening to the music
Speaker 4: of a band called Romeo Void. And the only reason
Speaker 4: I'm playing this is because my buddy Andrew Pappus is here.
Speaker 1: He loves his song. Andrew Pappus, how you doing today.
Speaker 3: Dan Carroll? Good morning, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: How about how about Joe Strecker. How about Joe Strecker
Speaker 1: digging deep there and pulling out your walk.
Speaker 14: Up music, one of the best in the business, Joe
Speaker 14: Stricker playing my holiday and everyday favorite.
Speaker 6: Grow me O boy.
Speaker 1: Someday you're going to tell me the story about how
Speaker 1: you got onto that song. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: it right now.
Speaker 14: I won't get into it now, but it's is nothing
Speaker 14: more than a casual, fond remembrance of the glorious and
Speaker 14: height of music eighties and nineties, you know, music genre
Speaker 14: that infects my mind.
Speaker 1: You know the full disclosure here, Andrew and I have
Speaker 1: been doing a podcast called One Morning I'm out of
Speaker 1: here and I'm reading today from the Festivus list put
Speaker 1: out by Rand Paul, and I see where the National
Speaker 1: Endowment for the Humanities paid three hundred and eighty eight
Speaker 1: and sixty three dollars so we can all enjoy six
Speaker 1: episodes of a podcast devoted to magic. You know you're
Speaker 1: not doing anything today? Can you fill out the paperwork
Speaker 1: so we can get three hundred and eighty eight grand
Speaker 1: for our podcast? And can you accomplish that?
Speaker 14: I would love to, but I think a lot of people,
Speaker 14: including myself, are going to be busy this morning and
Speaker 14: actually the rest of this very short work week because
Speaker 14: I don't know if you heard, but the the court
Speaker 14: in an appeals court reversed or.
Speaker 3: Put a stay on the appeal of Texas to.
Speaker 14: This new IRS rule regarding corporations, and that even includes
Speaker 14: LLC's so everyone's now going to be scrambling. They put
Speaker 14: a stay on this. I know we didn't intend to
Speaker 14: talk about it, but just jogged my memory. So the
Speaker 14: IRS has come out with some new rule that you
Speaker 14: have to provide D tailed ownership records and IDs photos,
Speaker 14: copies of the i DS or pictures or scans of
Speaker 14: everyone's I D that is a partner or at least
Speaker 14: a member part of a corporation, your board, significant whatever.
Speaker 14: And the the state, the Great State of Texas sued.
Speaker 14: I don't know if Ohio joined them in this suit
Speaker 14: and said, no, you're overstepping. I guess we had to
Speaker 14: something for those eighty thousand new I R S agents
Speaker 14: that were hired under another imbecile named Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: But well, they got to have something to do. They
Speaker 1: gotta they got to go have the andrew those those rich,
Speaker 1: those rich business corporate people need to pay their fair
Speaker 1: share in taxes. I guess so, so podcasts about magic
Speaker 1: can get three hundred That money doesn't come out of
Speaker 1: thin air. You've got collected. So a podcast about magic,
Speaker 1: six episodes can can go for three hundred eighty eight grand.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine?
Speaker 14: Can you imagine what we could do the good that
Speaker 14: one more and I'm out of here with our great
Speaker 14: co host Jason Kiefer, could do with that money, how
Speaker 14: far and wide we could spread both our message and
Speaker 14: our musings.
Speaker 3: It would be epic.
Speaker 1: We could have we could have a proper studio in
Speaker 1: which to do our podcast. That would be fantastical.
Speaker 14: We might have might be about a wider deck so
Speaker 14: that no one is stuck looking at half of my
Speaker 14: head because your bulbous head takes up a large portion
Speaker 14: of the of the screen.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't bring you on here to talk about us,
Speaker 1: but you know I love every year Rand Paul puts
Speaker 1: out the Festivus list, and this year we are topping
Speaker 1: a trillion dollars eight with a t a trillion dollars
Speaker 1: with a te So we can have so we can
Speaker 1: have giant sculptures of pigeons and things like that. So
Speaker 1: people in Las Vegas, you know Las Vegas, Andrew, they
Speaker 1: had to build a pick a ball court for twelve
Speaker 1: million dollars. And God knows that with all the casinos
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas and everything that goes on out there,
Speaker 1: there's no way they can put their hands on twelve
Speaker 1: million dollars in Las Vegas to build a pickle ball court.
Speaker 1: So thank god they were able to rely on the
Speaker 1: federal government for that.
Speaker 14: You know, Rand Paul does this, and I think it's
Speaker 14: going to be even more exposed by my new favorite
Speaker 14: quasi governmental entity known.
Speaker 3: As does dose.
Speaker 1: And I have used I'm all about.
Speaker 3: The doge, all about the doge, and I'll tell you,
Speaker 3: you know, let's not forget.
Speaker 14: Also, it was announced that I believe that the Biden
Speaker 14: administration that is quickly coming to an end but not
Speaker 14: soon enough, spent millions and millions of dollars on electric
Speaker 14: postal vehicles, but only we're able to deliver a fraction
Speaker 14: of those at a cost of something like twenty two
Speaker 14: million dollars a vehicle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, and money well spent.
Speaker 14: And I've seen reports of electric school bus companies filing
Speaker 14: for bankruptcy now that the gravy train of federal dollars
Speaker 14: is coming to an end.
Speaker 1: And I thought, but I thought Kamala. I thought Kamala
Speaker 1: loved the loved yellow school buses. That didn't help.
Speaker 14: Did she loved, well, she loved everything, but she was
Speaker 14: probably she's probably two bottles into her speech, and at
Speaker 14: that point, you really do love everything and everyone.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think, to my way of thinking,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the doge, the mindset needs to change. Look,
Speaker 1: a trillion dollars, even even with the way this federal
Speaker 1: government spends money, is still a lot of money. If if,
Speaker 1: if we can get to the mindset where it's not
Speaker 1: a good idea to waste ten billion dollars here, eight
Speaker 1: million dollars there, so some dude can buy an island
Speaker 1: in Florida twelve million dollars on a pick a ball.
Speaker 1: If we can get to the mindset where this kind
Speaker 1: of spending needs to stop, I think that's the first
Speaker 1: step into getting the fiscal house in order.
Speaker 14: What say you, well, Dan Carroll, you're exactly right, and
Speaker 14: that that is not just at the federal level. I'd
Speaker 14: like to remind everybody that this starts local. And what
Speaker 14: I mean by that is you need to be involved
Speaker 14: in your school boards and see what they're spending money on.
Speaker 14: You need to be involved in your local whether it
Speaker 14: be township or city, to see what they're.
Speaker 3: Spending money on.
Speaker 14: And more importantly, even that leads up to the state
Speaker 14: level to see what they're spending money on and hold
Speaker 14: them accountable. Let us not, you know, focus solely. I
Speaker 14: think we can walk in sho gum at the same time,
Speaker 14: at least on the Republican side, I know we can.
Speaker 14: Let us not focus solely on the federal government. You
Speaker 14: know what, what is the biblical passage remove the beam
Speaker 14: from thy own eye, because you know we have we
Speaker 14: have a much more uh bigger impact at the local level.
Speaker 14: So you need to look at that, and the bigger
Speaker 14: stuff will then eventually take care of itself. I'm not
Speaker 14: saying ignore the bigger things. I'm looking forward to dos
Speaker 14: and and and and and hearing of all the waste
Speaker 14: and fraud at the federal government level. But you know
Speaker 14: when you see your local local township, end or park
Speaker 14: district and or uh school district spending money frivolously, that.
Speaker 3: You know it's your tax dollars.
Speaker 14: And I loathe when I hear of a levee and
Speaker 14: uh not that all levees are bad. I'll be the
Speaker 14: first one in a bid. I'm a big I'm a
Speaker 14: big supporter of public safety. I think that's the primary
Speaker 14: uh service of any local government is public safety, providing
Speaker 14: for public safety. But when you hear, well, it's only
Speaker 14: x amount of dollars per hundred thousand additional if you
Speaker 14: pass this like, yes, but that's money out of my pocket.
Speaker 14: And then I think of the seniors or fixed income
Speaker 14: folks that you and I are quickly approaching that stage
Speaker 14: in our lives.
Speaker 3: You quicker than I.
Speaker 1: I think that I appreciate it.
Speaker 14: You got it, brother, But you know I think that
Speaker 14: you know, hey, who are you to put your hands
Speaker 14: in these people's pockets when the only way they have
Speaker 14: to offset that additional expense is to cut an expense
Speaker 14: somewhere else. They can't, you know, they can't easily go
Speaker 14: out and find additional income to offset that. So how
Speaker 14: dare you say to me or anyone else, well, it's
Speaker 14: only an additional fifty dollars per hundred thousand. Well, I
Speaker 14: hate to say it, but in my neighborhood, I mean, thankfully,
Speaker 14: you know, it's hard to find a hundred thousand dollars house,
Speaker 14: so we're talking multiples of one hundred thousand.
Speaker 3: Uh So, you know, this is something that we need
Speaker 3: to focus on. I think though, it is that I think.
Speaker 14: As you mentioned, I feel like, although I am recovering
Speaker 14: from holiday traffic yesterday, so my brain is a little foggy.
Speaker 14: I feel like there is a new time and we're
Speaker 14: approaching a new age in America where perhaps this thinking
Speaker 14: is more prevalent at every level of government and in society.
Speaker 3: Do we need it not?
Speaker 1: Do we want it? Yeah? Well, let me let me
Speaker 1: ask you this though, and we got to get to
Speaker 1: a break, So just ponder this for a second. But
Speaker 1: when is the last time. When was the last time
Speaker 1: you were aware of a local entity that said to
Speaker 1: either a state government or a federal government, you know what,
Speaker 1: don't send us that money. We don't need that money. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we we can take care of our own
Speaker 1: business here and and you the federal government, just you know,
Speaker 1: move on somewhere else. But please don't send us that
Speaker 1: that six or seven figure check. So when's the last
Speaker 1: time that happened? Think about that for a second and
Speaker 1: we'll can tinue on with Andrew pappis here on fifty
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Speaker 1: deal right low thirty six Christmas Day. Forget about a
Speaker 1: white Christmas. It is going to be scattered range showers
Speaker 1: and a high of forty eight. Thursday overcast and fifty
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Speaker 4: Fifty five k R the talk station rolling out my
Speaker 4: favorite Christmas songs today. This is Elvis when Elvis was
Speaker 4: at his best and his rendition of Merry Christmas Baby.
Speaker 1: This song is like seven minutes long, so I can
Speaker 1: just let this play and not continue on with Andrew Pappis,
Speaker 1: which would not be a bad thing. Let's see, I
Speaker 1: got I got Elvis on one hand, Papas on the other.
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? What am I going to.
Speaker 9: Marry?
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas Baby, come on now shooting dreaming. All right,
Speaker 1: there we go. That's Elvis Presley, Merry Christmas Baby, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Andrew Pappus, we were talking before the break, and I
Speaker 1: actually have an answer to this question. But you know,
Speaker 1: you were talking about local responsibility when it comes to
Speaker 1: spending and things like that, and local governments are always happy,
Speaker 1: it seems to accept money from state or federal governments
Speaker 1: and grants and other things like that. And so it
Speaker 1: you know, showing a little leadership in that area, saying
Speaker 1: that you know, we are going to take care of
Speaker 1: whatever the issue is ourselves, seems like it might be
Speaker 1: a good thing.
Speaker 15: It is.
Speaker 14: Having swam in that pool for eight years, I will
Speaker 14: say that the oftentimes, if we were notified of a
Speaker 14: grant or something that was possible, my first reaction was, well,
Speaker 14: what is this grant for? And if it was something
Speaker 14: like that I thought was you know, frivolous or not needed,
Speaker 14: I'd be like, you know what, I don't.
Speaker 3: Think that that's something we should be pursuing.
Speaker 14: However, the retort if it was something that let's say,
Speaker 14: improving sidewalks or whatever, the retort from all levels is, well,
Speaker 14: you know, Sadly.
Speaker 15: If we don't take this month, somebody else will, another
Speaker 15: entity will, because the federal government, I think, I think
Speaker 15: what you should do then is have where it's offered
Speaker 15: and it's there needs to be a mindset change, and
Speaker 15: I think there will.
Speaker 3: I think we're heading that way. Well.
Speaker 1: The thing is when when they can, when those local
Speaker 1: when those local government bodies accept that government money. There's
Speaker 1: always there's always uh, strings that that are attached to it, no.
Speaker 14: Question, and I would always ask, you know, if there
Speaker 14: are strings uh And I'm only speaking from our lovely
Speaker 14: hamlet Anderson Township, but there are always strings attached with
Speaker 14: federal dollars.
Speaker 3: And you and I both know that a lot of
Speaker 3: times we would be dealing with.
Speaker 14: State dollars and to an extent, there's strings attached with
Speaker 14: that as well, But depending on the grant and what
Speaker 14: it was designed for, those strings could be highly limited
Speaker 14: or I just think that that mindset is definitely changing,
Speaker 14: and we you know, sadly, as you and I both know,
Speaker 14: I believe there was a great show I watched Sunday
Speaker 14: night with Mark Levin that discussed the budget, the percentages
Speaker 14: that are discretionary and what we're actually fighting over regarding
Speaker 14: all these budget shutdowns that was coming up here that
Speaker 14: we were threatened with just sadly a week ago.
Speaker 3: You know what we are locked into so much.
Speaker 14: We're arguing over a very small fraction of it because
Speaker 14: we're spending too much money and we need a fundamental
Speaker 14: mindset change. We cannot and have not been able to
Speaker 14: afford what we've been spending. And you know, I'm not trying.
Speaker 14: You know, I want everyone to enjoy this holiday season,
Speaker 14: especially those poor folks that are stuck at the airport.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 14: I wouldn't want to be an American airline gate agent
Speaker 14: if he offered me every federal dollar out there right now.
Speaker 14: They're probably being abused. But you know, listening, folks, enjoy
Speaker 14: the tomorrow today, enjoy tomorrow. But we need to have
Speaker 14: a fundamental shift of thinking. And Ran Paul brings it
Speaker 14: to what brings it to light with what we've been
Speaker 14: spending money on. I believe that study office said something
Speaker 14: about was it not lonely rats with cocaine dependencies or
Speaker 14: something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, money, yeah, money for rat research. And they
Speaker 1: imagine this, They took a bunch of rats and they
Speaker 1: let some of the rats socialize with each other, and
Speaker 1: they let had other rats that were, you know, kept
Speaker 1: kept to themselves in isolation essentially, and then the other
Speaker 1: rats had food and access to water and all the
Speaker 1: rest of it, and the the other rats only had
Speaker 1: cocaine to rely on. So lo and behold, they they
Speaker 1: found out that the rats that won't only had the cocaine.
Speaker 1: The only thing they had was the cocaine. So they
Speaker 1: preferred the cocaine. Imagine that.
Speaker 3: Imagine that, and we spend that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we spent the use of tax pay about
Speaker 1: four hundred nineteen thousand dollars. And again you'll look at that,
Speaker 1: Oh it's only four hundred nineteen thousand dollars. But again
Speaker 1: we need to look at that and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we don't need to spend that kind of money on
Speaker 1: that kind of question.
Speaker 3: No question.
Speaker 14: And I hope we start January twentieth. You were discussing
Speaker 14: the pardons earlier. I had a long post about the
Speaker 14: about the newly found conscience of our unconscious president and
Speaker 14: where was his conscience during any number of the things
Speaker 14: I listed in my posts? Where was his conscience on
Speaker 14: the Afghanistan withdrawal? Where was his conscience on showering with
Speaker 14: his daughter.
Speaker 3: Where was his.
Speaker 14: Conscience on blaming an innocent man to the death of
Speaker 14: his wife for years and years and years? Where was
Speaker 14: his conscience for lying about any number of things, including
Speaker 14: his test scores while he was You know, I graduated
Speaker 14: at the top of my class andlah blah blah, and I.
Speaker 3: Imagine I'm smarter than you. Where was this?
Speaker 14: Tutches sin? But I agree with you, Dan, you know
Speaker 14: we need a fundamental mind shift. I think it's I
Speaker 14: think it's coming, and most encouragingly, as you mentioned, I
Speaker 14: think it's occurring among the next generation.
Speaker 1: Well, Andrew, I'll tell you what can you can? You can?
Speaker 1: You stay right there? We got to get a quick
Speaker 1: break in you. You want to hang around for one
Speaker 1: more segment? Absolutely all right, Andrew Pappas, stay right there
Speaker 1: and we'll continue with Andrew on the other side of
Speaker 1: this on fifty five KRC, the talk station. This is
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Speaker 1: See the talk station little Christmas music on this Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve twenty twenty four. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: As we continue on with Andrew Pappus. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's not just the guy in the White House, but
Speaker 1: so many of these Democrats who are in charge. And
Speaker 1: I think of Kaffe Hochel, the governor, the governor of
Speaker 1: New York who on the same day, the same day
Speaker 1: as a woman was set on fire on the subway
Speaker 1: and the the alleged killer uh sat there and fanned
Speaker 1: the flames and then sat back on a bench and
Speaker 1: watched it, watched his work as this woman burned to death.
Speaker 1: The governor of New York puts out a post on
Speaker 1: social media talking about how great and safe the subway
Speaker 1: system is under her leadership. I mean, just the brain
Speaker 1: deadness of some of these individuals that get into office
Speaker 1: is is staggering in their in their stupidity and and
Speaker 1: the things that they do. So it's you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's plenty of places where these things need to be
Speaker 1: cleaned out, no question.
Speaker 3: And you know, and you mentioned that.
Speaker 14: The thing that really disgusted me most about that was
Speaker 14: the your your your live old media headlines said woman
Speaker 14: one of the New York papers.
Speaker 3: Woman caught fire like she like she's spontaneously combusted.
Speaker 1: That was that was the headline. You know, happens. Well,
Speaker 1: that's like that's like a car drives through a Christmas
Speaker 1: festival in Germany just just by itself. Man just drove
Speaker 1: through there happened.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And I know many journalists that that that that
Speaker 14: never criticize the media because they think they're you know.
Speaker 3: Holier than now.
Speaker 14: They went to school and got a some sort of
Speaker 14: journalism degree, and that gives them license to you know,
Speaker 14: they know better than you and I, you know, I
Speaker 14: think that people, as we've seen the the your your
Speaker 14: mainstream media.
Speaker 3: That your in their influence is waning at best.
Speaker 14: And and and we are seeing a ship that the
Speaker 14: curtain has been pulled back, and we're seeing the wizard behind,
Speaker 14: you know, the emperor has no clothes and the person
Speaker 14: behind the curtain actually pulling the strings. And I think
Speaker 14: it's a great thing. But you know, it is Christmas time,
Speaker 14: so we're going to have plenty of time to bemoan
Speaker 14: and discuss all these things. But I if I could
Speaker 14: just pivot for a moment, a lot of people, because
Speaker 14: I'm so adept, I will pivot, And of course we
Speaker 14: might circle back to this.
Speaker 3: Another term I won't miss anytime soon.
Speaker 14: But you know, a lot of folks are going to
Speaker 14: be looking, and your prior guests mentioned it, a lot
Speaker 14: of folks this the time of year, are looking for
Speaker 14: charitable organizations to support. And I'd just like to just
Speaker 14: give a shout out. He did mention tunnel the Towers.
Speaker 14: I can't think of you know a better national charity.
Speaker 14: Do you know I do a lot of work with
Speaker 14: Honor Flight tri State. They are another one that helps
Speaker 14: a lot of local veterans. And I'd like to also
Speaker 14: mention locally here and Anderson at least the Yellow Ribbon
Speaker 14: Support Center run by Keith Mappin, who helps send packages
Speaker 14: overseas to soldiers. And and you know, it is the
Speaker 14: holidays we need to especially this time year with As
Speaker 14: I said, I'm not really in the holiday spirit as
Speaker 14: fully as I should be because I had to make
Speaker 14: a thirty minute connection in Atlanta yesterday and I think
Speaker 14: they're still mopping up the carnage from that event. But
Speaker 14: I will say, let's focus on at least this next
Speaker 14: week charitable giving if you can, if you have the means.
Speaker 14: I realize that the economy has been, especially under Joe Biden, horrendous,
Speaker 14: but things are looking up. We have a new administration
Speaker 14: coming into office. Optimism is growing, and I think we're
Speaker 14: going to turn this chip around. And part of that
Speaker 14: can be reflected in your end of year taxeductible holiday giving.
Speaker 14: And I wish everybody out there a very merry Christmas,
Speaker 14: a blessed holiday season, and a happy new year, including you.
Speaker 14: Dan Carroll You're doing a fantastic job filling in for
Speaker 14: Brian Thomas and all the other work that you do.
Speaker 14: I really appreciate you. Joe Strecker in the background, and
Speaker 14: everybody out there, well Andrew, wait wait, I might have
Speaker 14: it christ except the Flaviians I'm not really fond of.
Speaker 1: Well, you can't win them all, but but you try.
Speaker 1: But Andrew, I know I have with that going out
Speaker 1: on a high note. That is the that is the
Speaker 1: thing to do, especially today. And yeah, all the other
Speaker 1: stuff that we have to talk about, we can save
Speaker 1: that for another time. But I know that I agree
Speaker 1: with you. There is there is reason for optimism, There
Speaker 1: is reason for hope despite all the all the just
Speaker 1: horrendous and horrible news that has come out in the
Speaker 1: last forty eight hours. We can let that sit aside
Speaker 1: and we pray for those families that are affected by that.
Speaker 1: But there's always again, hope and light at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel. And Andrew, thank you for the time.
Speaker 1: Have a great Christmas Day, and I'm sure we'll see
Speaker 1: you sometime here around New Year's or sometime around that.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you too as well.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. The one and only Andrew
Speaker 1: Pappus and as always great to talk to him and
Speaker 1: want to thank him for his time today. Joe, Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and open the phone lines for the last
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty minutes that we have with you this morning,
Speaker 1: and if anybody wants to check in five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: fifty five hundred. As we head down the home stretch,
Speaker 1: Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas on fifty five krc
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Speaker 1: high forty five, some rain possible tonight heading into Christmas morning.
Speaker 1: The overnight low thirty six looks like Christmas Day is
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Speaker 1: This is the time.
Speaker 6: Come.
Speaker 1: But what's here? I'm happy is a happy to take
Speaker 1: the next hit month, pay you my bills, time and
Speaker 1: things about it.
Speaker 12: It gives me tills.
Speaker 6: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Christmas come but grunts again getting ready? This is great stuff.
Speaker 6: I love this.
Speaker 1: Joe Strecker, What am I listening to?
Speaker 15: Going?
Speaker 1: Pardon? Oh this is Charles Brown. Okay, this is great
Speaker 1: going a thing about you knew his day. I don't
Speaker 1: care what I have to pay the good time for
Speaker 1: Christmas combent once you say this is this is the
Speaker 1: kind of Christmas music I love. And I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this list of the what's considered the consensus of the
Speaker 1: best Christmas songs of all time, and uh well, just
Speaker 1: let me backtrack here for a second. Andrew was talking
Speaker 1: about the American airlines. Say they had a problem. So
Speaker 1: it's it's six point fifty this morning. They stopped all
Speaker 1: their flights, said they had some sort of technical issue,
Speaker 1: and those flights were supposed to resume at eight thirty
Speaker 1: this morning. So I'm gonna have to look that up
Speaker 1: and Joe looked at up and see if we know
Speaker 1: if those flights have resumed or not. But anyway, the
Speaker 1: top seven Christmas songs according to this and you can
Speaker 1: tell me if if you agree with ease night. But
Speaker 1: I'll go back down. Let me scroll down the list
Speaker 1: here and get to number seven. Number seven is the
Speaker 1: Happy Christmas War Is Over song by John Lennon and
Speaker 1: Yoko Ono. And if the airlines have not the American
Speaker 1: Airlines has not resumed flights yet. Oh okay, Joe doesn't
Speaker 1: like this one. And this is I you know what
Speaker 1: I should have sent you, Joe. This is my fault.
Speaker 1: I should have sent you this so you can roll
Speaker 1: a little bit of these songs so we can actually
Speaker 1: hear them. But this is John and Yoko and the
Speaker 1: Plastic O No Band, and I don't you know what.
Speaker 1: I kind of like this song. It's probably not one
Speaker 1: of my favorites. I don't know if it's top seven,
Speaker 1: but if I hear it, I won't turn it off.
Speaker 1: I'll listen to it. So that is number seven. Number six,
Speaker 1: very traditional the Christmas song Merry Christmas to You by
Speaker 1: Nat King Cole, recorded in nineteen forty six. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is you know Nat King Cole. They talk about the smooth,
Speaker 1: the velvety voice, and I listened to that and I
Speaker 1: think I was talking about this yesterday with Jason Williams,
Speaker 1: and this is one of his favorite songs. And I
Speaker 1: just remark at the quality of that particular recording in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty six, and it sounds as good and crisp
Speaker 1: and clear as it did on the day that they
Speaker 1: made it. So I don't know. Maybe that's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a Christmas miracle there, but no, that is
Speaker 1: a that is a great song. Then we have Darlene
Speaker 1: Love nineteen sixty three Christmas Baby, Please Come Home, which
Speaker 1: is another it is that is a song that I
Speaker 1: like very much. I like her rendition of it, and
Speaker 1: that is another song that I can do. That song
Speaker 1: that has wound up in the soundtrack of a lot
Speaker 1: of different movies, and I kind of like that one.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's the next one. Fairy Tale of New
Speaker 1: York by the Pogues and Christy McCall and I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, off the top of my head, I cannot
Speaker 1: think of what that song sounds like. I don't have
Speaker 1: the ability to listen to it here in the studio.
Speaker 1: But that's number four of the all time You would
Speaker 1: think that a song that ranks number four on the
Speaker 1: all time best list would be something that you've heard
Speaker 1: of before.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: White Christmas by Ben Crosby. That is another classic, another
Speaker 1: standard around Christmas time. That's number three on the list.
Speaker 1: Number two is and Joe, I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: going to agree with this one. This is Last Christmas
Speaker 1: by Wham, beloved holiday classic that has captured the hearts
Speaker 1: of listeners since its release. Written and performed by Wham,
Speaker 1: the song has remained a staple on Christmas playlist worldwide
Speaker 1: the eighties. Gem had an interesting journey to the top
Speaker 1: island inspired countless cover versions over the years. It didn't
Speaker 1: reach number one until twenty seventeen, following George Michael's passing.
Speaker 1: So there you go, and let's see. We got to
Speaker 1: get a break in here, and I'm gonna Joe, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna send this to you and you should be able
Speaker 1: to dial up number one while we're in the break here.
Speaker 1: How about that. We'll try that and we will hear
Speaker 1: what is considered the number one best Christmas song, according
Speaker 1: at least to this list, and we'll have that after
Speaker 1: this on fifty five krs DE talk station in this
Speaker 1: D nine first one forecast a cloudy not as cold today,
Speaker 1: a high a forty five, forty five on the on
Speaker 1: the day before Christmas, cloudy tonight, some showers possible, the
Speaker 1: overnight low of thirty six, and then scattered rain as
Speaker 1: possible tomorrow. On Christmas Day, we'll have a high near
Speaker 1: fifty and then some showers continue and a high on
Speaker 1: Thursday of fifty six.
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Speaker 1: OH one A lot Christmas, Just walk.
Speaker 4: It's eight fifty Christmas Eve, Christmas and uh under protest,
Speaker 4: Joe st Record is rolling this one out?
Speaker 1: Is Mariah Carey? All I Want for Christmas is you?
Speaker 1: Recorded in nineteen ninety four. Ah, there you go.
Speaker 4: Mariah carey timeless Holiday classics synonymous with the Fest Season,
Speaker 4: released in nineteen ninety four, not only capture the heart
Speaker 4: of millions, but also solidified its place as the most
Speaker 4: beloved Christmas song of all time?
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Look, I think Mariah Carey is a very talented singer.
Speaker 1: I think the way she resurrected her career. I remember
Speaker 1: doing an interview about her one time. This is back
Speaker 1: in My Fox nineteen days, and we had a guest
Speaker 1: on that was some sort of this expert in the
Speaker 1: music industry, and I said, you know what in Mariah Carey.
Speaker 1: This was when she was making her comeback. And I
Speaker 1: said her career literally had one foot in the grave,
Speaker 1: and he agreed with me. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was this song that brought her back, but Mariah Carey
Speaker 1: very talented singer, and I think she's living a good
Speaker 1: life now, so I'm happy for her this time. But
Speaker 1: that song is number one on the all time I'm
Speaker 1: not buying it. I'm not saying it's a bad song.
Speaker 1: And then Joe also agreed with me that this song
Speaker 1: that's at number four, fairy Tale of New York by
Speaker 1: the Pogues and Christy McCall, recorded in nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: never heard of it. And I'm sorry to say, here's
Speaker 1: some good news. Actually I've got I have two pieces
Speaker 1: of good news. As we get ready to close it out.
Speaker 1: We talked earlier about American Airlines. They had to stop
Speaker 1: more than one hundred flights this morning because of a
Speaker 1: quote technical issue, so American Airlines briefly grounded their flights.
Speaker 1: The actual of the groundstop was issued by the FAA
Speaker 1: just before six thirty this morning the Central time. So
Speaker 1: that issue has apparently been fixed, and American Airlines is
Speaker 1: up and flying again. So if you are expecting someone
Speaker 1: or you are traveling on American Airlines, don't change your plans.
Speaker 1: There will likely be a delay that will ripple throughout
Speaker 1: the rest of the of the day, But American Airlines
Speaker 1: is flying again, So there's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: Christmas miracle right there, and we'll hope that that continues
Speaker 1: on for the rest of the day, all right, how
Speaker 1: about this for good news. According to WLWT, the Ohio
Speaker 1: Lottery says a classic lotto jackpot ticket has been sold
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Listen to this, Joe, worth one point nine
Speaker 1: million dollars. One point nine million sold in Cincinnati. Joe,
Speaker 1: have you been on the west side lately? The ticket
Speaker 1: was purchased at the Ameristop food mart on Muddy Creek
Speaker 1: Road in Cincinnati. That's Western Hills, not just about a
Speaker 1: couple of blocks away off of Glenway Avenue. And if
Speaker 1: you have been there to the marathon station on Muddy
Speaker 1: Creek in Western Hills and you bought a lottery ticket there,
Speaker 1: check out those tickets. Someone in Cincinnati has a ticket
Speaker 1: right now today worth one point nine million dollars. The
Speaker 1: classic of this was Classic Lotto. That's a game I
Speaker 1: never play, so I know I don't have to worry
Speaker 1: ab about it. But the numbers are one, two, nine,
Speaker 1: thirty three, thirty eight and thirty nine. So someone hit
Speaker 1: that Christmas Eve one point nine million. Congratulations to you.
Speaker 1: And if it's you, the next time I'm on the radio,
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and give me a call. I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear that story. But that is going to
Speaker 1: be it for me. I got to get out of here.
Speaker 1: Thanks Joe for letting me sit in for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Brian Thomas, all the listeners of fifty five KRC,
Speaker 1: I certainly hope you have a great and blessed Christmas
Speaker 1: and a happy New Year and all the rest of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I'll get a chance to sit
Speaker 1: in this seat again, but someone will be here later
Speaker 1: this week filling in for Brian Thomas. So once again
Speaker 1: I have nothing but thanks for everyone here at fifty
Speaker 1: five KRC and all the listeners of the Brian Thomas Show.
Speaker 1: It's such a great audience and my pleasure to be
Speaker 1: here and sit in this seat, so I can't thank
Speaker 1: you enough again. Merry Christmas everyone, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: next time here on fifty five KRC, the Talk station.
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