Speaker 1: It's the stuff these kids that are protesting.
Speaker 2: People aren't talking about.
Speaker 1: They are making it so difficult, so chaotic.
Speaker 2: Fifty five krc D Talk Station. It's eighth five here
Speaker 2: at fifty five rc DE Talk Station. A very happy
Speaker 2: Friday eve to you. Bottom of the hour. iHeart met
Speaker 2: the aviation expert Jay Ratliff, and of course we will
Speaker 2: be talking about that tragedy in Washington, DC in the meantime.
Speaker 2: I'm pleased to welcome to the fifty five krc Morning
Speaker 2: Show for the first time, hopefully not the last, John Gordon.
Speaker 2: He is the host of the syndicated radio show The
Speaker 2: Truth with John Gordon. Fellow lawyer, he is a graduate
Speaker 2: Commercier University Law School in Georgia, business owner, entrepreneur. He's
Speaker 2: worked as a journalist and reporter in Making, Georgia as
Speaker 2: well as Atlanta, Georgia. Also ran as a Republican candidate
Speaker 2: to be Georgia's age Attorney General back in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two and endorsed by Donald Trump. Welcome to the Morning Show,
Speaker 2: John Gordon. A real pleasure to have you on today.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Brian my spear not the first person to say it,
Speaker 2: but it's easy to make the observation Donald Trump hit
Speaker 2: the ground sprinting. I mean, he has accomplished more in
Speaker 2: his first couple of weeks in office than Joe Biden
Speaker 2: could account for in four full years in office. Among
Speaker 2: all of the different things that Trump has done so far,
Speaker 2: have you been impressed by anything in particular? I mean,
Speaker 2: it's an impressive record thus far, and I think most
Speaker 2: people are pretty pleased with what's going on.
Speaker 1: There's so much to talk about as hard to pick
Speaker 1: just one. I mean, one of the things I'm ecstatic
Speaker 1: about is that he has ordered all federal workers to
Speaker 1: report for work, come to work, clock in, sit in
Speaker 1: your desk and work. Don't stay at home and watch
Speaker 1: Oprah whatever you're watching, or maybe they're listening to Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas for all I know. I'm not sure, but I
Speaker 1: know they're not working to earn their paycheck, and that
Speaker 1: in itself is going to have a tremendous impact because
Speaker 1: I predict, as come did that a large percentage of
Speaker 1: those workers are just going to say, oh, if I
Speaker 1: have to come to work, forget it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that's going to bear fruit. I've seen
Speaker 2: estimates that they believe about ten percent of the federal
Speaker 2: workers will take the buyout option, which will keep them
Speaker 2: with a salary until I guess September. So go on
Speaker 2: vacation and have your salary, but don't come back to work.
Speaker 2: Maybe that number is even low. I guess we'll keep
Speaker 2: our pop going out and see what happens. But I
Speaker 2: think it's interesting to observe John, and I doubt many
Speaker 2: of my listeners would think that the federal workers, although
Speaker 2: we're working remotely when using my quote fingers here, are
Speaker 2: not working remotely at least to the level they would
Speaker 2: have to work if they were in the office. As
Speaker 2: low as that might be. But isn't it a great
Speaker 2: thing to think about when you think none of us
Speaker 2: out here in the real world are really bothered by
Speaker 2: the fact that they're not showing up and doing their
Speaker 2: jobs every day. Maybe we can cut well.
Speaker 1: I'm upset about it, and I have been upset about it.
Speaker 1: I have this paradigm that there's a great number of
Speaker 1: workers in government in general. And this is not an
Speaker 1: indictment of every government worker, no, but certainly a large
Speaker 1: number of them are lazy. They don't want to work,
Speaker 1: they're taking money that they're not earning and their knee
Speaker 1: jerk reaction to every decision that they're asked to make
Speaker 1: is simply to say no or to impose their authority
Speaker 1: on others. And it's sickening. And I think Trump is
Speaker 1: going to change the model, as he should. You know,
Speaker 1: the federal government used to be a model for what
Speaker 1: government should look like. They attracted the best and the brightest,
Speaker 1: and they were in where they were conscientious for the
Speaker 1: most part. Not so today. It has become a morass
Speaker 1: of laziness and they're unpunishable, and you get their voicemailed.
Speaker 1: They don't respond to emails. It's just untenable. But then
Speaker 1: you know they're rounding up members of the cartels. They
Speaker 1: arrested a guy in New York just day before yesterday
Speaker 1: who was one of the guys who had the AK
Speaker 1: forty seven that barged into the apartment and commandeered it
Speaker 1: in Aurora, Colorado. Yeah, they have put him in shackles
Speaker 1: and they're hauling his ass and thrown him back into
Speaker 1: Guatemala or wherever he was from, maybe Columbia, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: And then the tariffs that Trump is imposing, he's not
Speaker 1: being punitive, he's just saying, guys, if you're going to
Speaker 1: tear off us, we're going to tear if you back.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? And so there's just so much
Speaker 1: right with what he's doing, and that's why people are
Speaker 1: celebrating and joining to support what he is doing because
Speaker 1: he's governing for us. I truly believe he's governing for
Speaker 1: the American people.
Speaker 2: Well, no question about it. A populist nature of the
Speaker 2: Republican Party these days, moving away from the old days
Speaker 2: when they were viewed as the party of big business.
Speaker 2: Clearly there's been a sea change in that in the
Speaker 2: alignment of the parties with large businesses. But flipping over,
Speaker 2: I was I was blessed to have in studio John
Speaker 2: Gordon earlier this morning the Division three Young Marine of
Speaker 2: the Year. This young lady sixteen years old is just
Speaker 2: so exceptional. Her name Abby Smith, and I know full
Speaker 2: well a young lady like Abby is confident and as
Speaker 2: proud as she is for her country. The idea that
Speaker 2: she has truly American values, represents freedom and liberty and
Speaker 2: understands the importance of those values. Would not be someone
Speaker 2: who would appreciate being forced to deal with DEI classes
Speaker 2: in the military. I mean these in the American military
Speaker 2: as as just one big giant indoctrination camp, much like
Speaker 2: the nation's universities. I was pleased to see Donald Trump
Speaker 2: roll that back and Pete Heggs, that's all over that.
Speaker 2: In terms of restoring the American military to the fighting force,
Speaker 2: it needs to be.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. The model was upside down, and now
Speaker 1: it's being turned back on its feet, and meritocracy and
Speaker 1: confidence and conscientiousness are going to rule the day as
Speaker 1: they should, and there's room for everybody. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're a minority and you have gotten a good education
Speaker 1: or you've got a CV that qualifies you, you will receive
Speaker 1: every consideration for any federal jobs. It as and it
Speaker 1: should be that way. There's no room for discrimination. But
Speaker 1: this notion that because you are a minority you should
Speaker 1: get a job because of the color of your skin
Speaker 1: or the place of your birth is lunacy. And so
Speaker 1: I'm glad to see it coming to an end. And
Speaker 1: so is everybody else except for the socialist Democrats like
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Everybody else is running tomorrow Largo to kiss
Speaker 1: the ring and tell the president that they support him,
Speaker 1: even his detractors, and Kamala Harris is saying fight, fight, fight.
Speaker 1: She I wonder where she got that slogan from. And
Speaker 1: there's no fighting now. The fight is over except for
Speaker 1: America first and the America first. That's what we have
Speaker 1: to fight for. And our freedoms, our freedom of speech,
Speaker 1: our Second Amendment. Those are the fights, not political infighting
Speaker 1: and partisan politics. It's time to join hands as Americans,
Speaker 1: come together and do what Trump said, make America great again.
Speaker 2: I'm all about it, and I think one of the
Speaker 2: challenges we face in making America great again is that
Speaker 2: so many people have bought into and something I do
Speaker 2: not believe in this religion, that is that we are
Speaker 2: somehow altering the weather by just merely existing. Our exhalation
Speaker 2: has been viewed as a pollutant, even though it's plant food.
Speaker 2: And all these efforts to get people in electric vehicles,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, what no greater illustration than what's
Speaker 2: happening out in California, the wildfires, at which they blame
Speaker 2: on global warming, but we all can point to the
Speaker 2: failed policy positions. But now they're all complaining out there,
Speaker 2: and they've issued hazards because the electric vehicles that melted
Speaker 2: have created a massive toxic waste dump in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and it's rolling in to the oceans and polluting the beaches.
Speaker 2: I mean, how long do you think they can perpetuate
Speaker 2: the myth that electric vehicles are somehow good for the planet.
Speaker 1: Well, you and I can discuss that. I have an
Speaker 1: electric car. I happen to love it. I know that
Speaker 1: right now, godfriends, right now, go aheadkay, right now? Electric
Speaker 1: cars and ice vehicles contribute about the same amount to
Speaker 1: depletion of resources and pollution. The curve is changing. However,
Speaker 1: as batteries are developed, we will require less mining of lithium,
Speaker 1: and we will recycle the batteries and rejuvenate them. I
Speaker 1: am not a tree hugger, I do. I am, however,
Speaker 1: a conservationist, and I do believe it is incumbent upon
Speaker 1: each of us to leave the planet better than we
Speaker 1: found it. I think that long term electric vehicles and
Speaker 1: solar is the way to go, and I am a
Speaker 1: scaunch believer in that. But what happened to the EV
Speaker 1: tax credits? I thought Elon Musk was Trump's best friend.
Speaker 1: Surely Trump would reward him by leaving the EV tax
Speaker 1: credits in place.
Speaker 2: How do you reconcile that because you shouldn't need tax credit.
Speaker 2: If you build it, they will come. If it's product,
Speaker 2: good or service that people actually want and demand, they'll
Speaker 2: get it. And I know a lot of people have
Speaker 2: electric vehicles, and I understand, I'm a car guy. They
Speaker 2: have insane acceleration and torque, instant torque. You don't have
Speaker 2: to wait for a power curve. So from a performance standpoint,
Speaker 2: I have total respect for them. But from you know,
Speaker 2: along from a duration standpoint, from me, you know how
Speaker 2: long you're you going to go on a charge standpoint,
Speaker 2: from the charging, the charging up, the battery time that
Speaker 2: you must spend. I mean know it takes me three
Speaker 2: or four minutes to fill my gas tank. I like
Speaker 2: the convenience of having the gas station on the corner
Speaker 2: that is reliable and I don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: my battery catching on fire and burning down my neighborhood
Speaker 2: and before the fire department shows up and spends three
Speaker 2: days trying to put it out.
Speaker 1: But well, I think there's a bit of hyperbole in that.
Speaker 1: That is not my experience, Brian, I'm not yet. I've
Speaker 1: had my car for three years. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: how many times I've taken it into the service, into
Speaker 1: the shop to be serviced. Would you like to guess?
Speaker 2: Probably none?
Speaker 1: Zero, And I had one defect. The steering wheel started
Speaker 1: to delaminate. The leather had come off the steering wheel.
Speaker 1: It was a mess. So I called and before I
Speaker 1: got the words out of my mouth, the person on
Speaker 1: the other end of the phone said, that's a known defect.
Speaker 1: If you will make an appointment, bring it in, we'll
Speaker 1: give you a new steering wheel, no charge. Ten days
Speaker 1: two weeks later, my phone rang and it said, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is Billy Bob. I'm with Tesla. I am on
Speaker 1: my way to your house. If you will permit me
Speaker 1: to replace your steering wheel. He came. He was ten
Speaker 1: minutes early. He replaced my steering wheel and the new
Speaker 1: steering wheel came of the horn on it, which my
Speaker 1: old one did not have, which was one of my
Speaker 1: complaints about the car. You had to find the button
Speaker 1: to hit honk a horn. But it is it is
Speaker 1: an absolute engineering marvel. It's quiet, it's smooth. And I
Speaker 1: drove from my house in West Palm Beach to Miami
Speaker 1: two weeks ago with full self driving autopilot. I told
Speaker 1: the car where I wanted to go. I did not
Speaker 1: touch the wheel, Gog.
Speaker 2: You're never, ever, ever going to convince me that that's
Speaker 2: a good idea. I love to.
Speaker 1: Drive with me, and if I don't, don't think that
Speaker 1: it's a good idea. When we're done, I'll buy you
Speaker 1: a steak dinner at the restaurant of your choice.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. Personally, I don't think it's a
Speaker 2: good idea. Is because I love the act of I
Speaker 2: love driving. I enjoy the chess game that exists on
Speaker 2: our crazy roadways. I am constantly paying attention to what's
Speaker 2: going on around me. I love paying attention to the road.
Speaker 2: I made this comment before. My wife would be like,
Speaker 2: you ever see that house around the corner of the
Speaker 2: front door and you're driving by. I'm like, no, I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the road when i'm driving. I'm not staring
Speaker 2: at front doors. I love to drive. So you know
Speaker 2: that's the idea of self driving cars. Is this not
Speaker 2: even appealing to me? Whether or not it's a technological marble,
Speaker 2: which I agree that it is.
Speaker 1: I got it. But let me pose this question to you.
Speaker 1: Would you be willing to sacrifice your own enjoyment of
Speaker 1: driving which I relate to. I mean, I stole the
Speaker 1: family car when I was fourteen, Yeah, and drove to
Speaker 1: the drug store because I like to drive so much.
Speaker 1: Was as much I love to drive, So I understand.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you, if you could sacrifice your
Speaker 1: enjoyment and in the process, say forty five thousand American
Speaker 1: lives a year that result in traffic fatalities and another
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people who are paralyzed or maamed in
Speaker 1: an automobile, would you be willing to make that accommodation.
Speaker 2: I'm not one of the people that's a thread on
Speaker 2: the road because I'm a great driver. Anyhow, moving away
Speaker 2: from that, John Gordon, I give it you a Tesla dealership,
Speaker 2: don't you, John?
Speaker 1: Fifty years, I don't have a point on my license.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a scribe, right, I got it all right.
Speaker 2: Finally, in the taal end of this conversation, speaking of
Speaker 2: green energy, do you think that we will ultimately now
Speaker 2: be able to get nuclear power since it doesn't produce carbon,
Speaker 2: it will leave our area in a cleaner position, and
Speaker 2: it will provide an abundance of energy without having a
Speaker 2: massive old cooling tower side platform like they used to
Speaker 2: have because of modular nuclear plants. France is running on them.
Speaker 2: They don't seem to be having a problem. How come
Speaker 2: we don't get any.
Speaker 1: The resistance to nuclear power is no different in my
Speaker 1: mind than the obsession with DEI. They're both political narratives
Speaker 1: that make no sense. Nuclear is safe, it's clean, and
Speaker 1: it's hugely effective. We're going to have a power shortage
Speaker 1: in this country and globally, really and we better just
Speaker 1: get wise to the fact that we're nuclear needs to
Speaker 1: be part of the equation.
Speaker 2: Agreement amen to that. I think the fact that we
Speaker 2: don't get any is the illustration that it's not about
Speaker 2: how our power is generated, it's about our consumption. And
Speaker 2: if we have we have very efficient, abundant nuclear power,
Speaker 2: then our consumption will not drop, our efficiencies will go
Speaker 2: up and will become a more successful society, which in
Speaker 2: the hearts and minds of the Marxist out there, is
Speaker 2: a bad thing my impression. John John Gordon Close to
Speaker 2: the Truth with John Gordon. That's the syndicated radio show.
Speaker 2: You can find them online. I'm sure wherever you get
Speaker 2: your podcasts, and it's been a real fun conversation John,
Speaker 2: and good luck with your your ev dealership that I
Speaker 2: think you own.
Speaker 1: No dealership, just ton't want to be But thank you, Brian.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your respectful conversation this morning. I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: it anytime.
Speaker 2: It's been a real pleasure, and I'm sure we'll get
Speaker 2: together again, John Gordon, take care and have a great week.
Speaker 2: And eight twenty a fifty five K city talk station.
Speaker 2: Good segment coming up. I Heeart Media aviation expert Jay Ra.
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