Speaker 1: Five four on this beautiful Thursday, Happy Thursday to you all.
Speaker 1: I got to start off on a somber note here,
Speaker 1: Gene Hackman. I got this over the newsmark about around
Speaker 1: four o'clock this morning. Two time Oscar winner and author
Speaker 1: Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, have
Speaker 1: been found dead in their home in Santa Fe Summit
Speaker 1: community northeast of the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Speaker 1: Officials confirmed just after midnight Thursday the couple had died,
Speaker 1: along with their dog. Already said no immediate indication of
Speaker 1: foul play. However, they did not provide a cause of
Speaker 1: death or say what the couple may have died.
Speaker 2: Just a shocking story.
Speaker 1: Something you just don't normally seem to or think that
Speaker 1: you're going to read. And then of course, you know,
Speaker 1: you start thinking in terms of the actor and his
Speaker 1: body of work and the stuff that you've seen him in,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's just it's just sad. And of course
Speaker 1: there'll be a full investigation, and I guess we'll find
Speaker 1: out what happened. I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on
Speaker 1: a limb here and guess carbon monoxide poisoning, but you
Speaker 1: never know. Also, if you check your if you check
Speaker 1: my Facebook page, you'll.
Speaker 2: Know that I am in today.
Speaker 1: And I always put that out there in terms of
Speaker 1: who my guests are going to be, and today was
Speaker 1: no different. It's kind of funny. I gotta tell a
Speaker 1: little bit of a story. Maybe a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: But at seven o'clock, we've got Phil Flynn, he's seen
Speaker 1: your market analysts with Price Futures Group, author of the
Speaker 1: Energy Report, and we're gonna be talking about He's a
Speaker 1: contributor Fox Business Network. Let me test discussing wide range
Speaker 1: of economic issues. He's a commodities broker and very well
Speaker 1: versed in the energy markets. And of course he's talking
Speaker 1: about the economy and talk about he's the author of
Speaker 1: the Energy Report, so we'll talk about it's very very
Speaker 1: well versed in politics too, and I just love reading
Speaker 1: his Energy Report every morning that I do when I
Speaker 1: do the America Struck A Network show. Also, we've got
Speaker 1: seven twenty five, seven thirty ish, we've got Kevin Richardson.
Speaker 1: I was turned on to him by a mutual friend.
Speaker 1: He is senior director of Regional Advancement at Sunrise Children's Services,
Speaker 1: they're going to have a summit, a first meeting in
Speaker 1: March where it's to start addressing and try to do
Speaker 1: something about human trafficking and some of the things that
Speaker 1: he was telling we were talking about yesterday. Setting this
Speaker 1: interview up just kind of frightening and something that you
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect in this area to the numbers and the
Speaker 1: extent that he was talking about. Then at eight thirty
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking as representative some Animatics Kentucky
Speaker 1: State representative. She's from the sixty first district. She's going
Speaker 1: to give us an update on this year's legislative session
Speaker 1: down in Frankfurt, and there's been a lot of activity
Speaker 1: down there, so it's going to be interesting to talk
Speaker 1: to her and find out what the heck is going
Speaker 1: on down there. I haven't been paying as much attention
Speaker 1: to Kentucky or at least what's going on in the
Speaker 1: legislature down there this year like I normally do. This
Speaker 1: has just been kind of a crazy, well not crazy year,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, doing the America's Truck a
Speaker 1: network show, and with all the regulations that are kind
Speaker 1: of being wiped out, some of the optimism that has
Speaker 1: come in as far as the trucking industry is concerned,
Speaker 1: all the energy news that we've been seeing over the
Speaker 1: last few weeks, and then of course roll backing, the
Speaker 1: rollback of a lot of these regulations that for years
Speaker 1: have been plaguing the trucking industry. And it's just trying
Speaker 1: to keep track of what's going on in Washington, and
Speaker 1: then of course as far as the other national issues
Speaker 1: in terms war in Ukraine and how that's affecting the
Speaker 1: world economy, how that has affected the prices of different things,
Speaker 1: and it's just been crazy. So I haven't really had
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time to pay attention down state,
Speaker 1: So Savannah will catch us up on that. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to talking to her. She's always a great person
Speaker 1: to talk to and always got a lot of knowledge,
Speaker 1: and I always like to hear how many people she's
Speaker 1: upsetting down there.
Speaker 2: One of the things we.
Speaker 1: Want to talk about today is did you see And
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this a little later maybe I actually
Speaker 1: I want to backtrack here.
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about yesterday.
Speaker 1: You know, Joe called me a few weeks ago and
Speaker 1: told me Brian was going to be off today, and
Speaker 1: I suspect you know, I'm looking at the calendar and
Speaker 1: I guess National Chili Day and Brian being off, I mean,
Speaker 1: can we read anything into that. Maybe he's out there
Speaker 1: and first in line to get that breakfast chili, you know,
Speaker 1: and then maybe the launch chili, then afternoon chili and
Speaker 1: so on. But anyway, I got the phone call and
Speaker 1: I started, you know, calling some people and trying to
Speaker 1: set up interviews and stuff. Weird that some people were busy,
Speaker 1: some people weren't able to be available, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden yesterday, well I had Phil Flynn set
Speaker 1: up last week, but then all of a sudden yesterday
Speaker 1: I started getting all these phone calls from people and saying, well,
Speaker 1: this guy can't make it, but can you talk to
Speaker 1: this guy or how about talking to this person? So
Speaker 1: I must have been on the phone for about an
Speaker 1: hour and a half yesterday, and this was at like
Speaker 1: six o'clock at night, and I'm thinking, well, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here putting together the program for the day and kind
Speaker 1: of a synopsis of who I'm going to be talking
Speaker 1: to or not talking.
Speaker 2: To, so to speak.
Speaker 1: And it was just incredible and just a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: And it always seems that way. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's like that in your life, but where you know,
Speaker 1: you set a date and you know something's going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, you know you've got something planned, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that week or that day, there's
Speaker 1: like three other things that get put on the calendar
Speaker 1: or that are available on anything. Well, why couldn't this been
Speaker 1: tomorrow or couldn't have been yesterday? I would have liked
Speaker 1: to have attended that, or I've liked to have done
Speaker 1: this or that or the other thing. And it all
Speaker 1: seems that it's always and it never ceases to amaze
Speaker 1: me how something will come up and you plan ahead
Speaker 1: and you say, okay, this is going to happen on
Speaker 1: this date, and so we're going to be ready for it,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, four other things pop
Speaker 1: on the radar screen. So yesterday was no different. I
Speaker 1: got kind of a pleasant surprise. I should say that
Speaker 1: talking to some of the people and getting future contacts
Speaker 1: for future shows and so on, so that part is
Speaker 1: not bad at all. But one of the things that
Speaker 1: I want to talk about today and I think we're
Speaker 1: going to do that maybe in the six six o'clock
Speaker 1: hour as much as I appreciate and as much as
Speaker 1: I enjoy what's going on in Washington right now with
Speaker 1: the cutting. And I got to tell you that when
Speaker 1: I look back on the number of presidents that I've
Speaker 1: lived through, the presidential administrations that I've lived through throughout
Speaker 1: my life, I look back at the Reagan administration, and
Speaker 1: I thought there was going to be all this. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of change. There was a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of change, and there was a lot of optimism,
Speaker 1: and the economy was doing well. But there were some
Speaker 1: things that didn't get done, some things that got done
Speaker 1: that I wish hadn't gotten done, and so there were
Speaker 1: some things left on the table, so to speak. And
Speaker 1: then of course you had George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush,
Speaker 1: he came into office, and then that was not as
Speaker 1: good as I had anticipated it to be. And then
Speaker 1: we got stuck with Bill Clinton. And then of course
Speaker 1: when George W. Bush, and honestly, I thought when George W.
Speaker 1: Bush and Dick Cheney came into office, two supposed conservatives,
Speaker 1: Dick Cheney being more conservative than at the time, I
Speaker 1: can remember everybody talking about that Dick Cheney brings a
Speaker 1: certain level of GRAVI toss to the administration. I was
Speaker 1: expecting big changes and a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 1: a boost in the economy, and some things that I wanted,
Speaker 1: as from a conservative stature, to have happen.
Speaker 2: And of course, well, what you know, nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 1: And then of course the War on Terror, which in
Speaker 1: retrospect it was it's weird that how that transpired. And
Speaker 1: as you look back on that now, it seems as
Speaker 1: though that there was a lot of people in that administration,
Speaker 1: John Bolton for one, and I guess to a certain
Speaker 1: extent Dick Cheney that was part of this military industrial
Speaker 1: complex that figured that hey, you know, we got these weapons,
Speaker 1: we might as well use them. We might as well
Speaker 1: play with the new toys, and got us involved in
Speaker 1: some conflicts that at first sounded like it was a
Speaker 1: good idea, but the way it dragged on and dragged
Speaker 1: on and didn't give us the results that I would
Speaker 1: have expected and had anticipated to have happened. And then
Speaker 1: you know, of course, you know what else has gone on.
Speaker 1: But this time around with Trump and the way that
Speaker 1: they are going in with Doge and the way they're
Speaker 1: going in and looking under the hood and looking at
Speaker 1: all the different waste fraud and abuse that we have
Speaker 1: been talking about. I mean, every year, if rand Paul
Speaker 1: comes up with that Festivest report, the OMB or what
Speaker 1: the Inspector General, I think it is every year they
Speaker 1: come up with their analysis of waste fraud and abuse
Speaker 1: and the government and all they would have to do
Speaker 1: is follow that blueprint, cut out those programs, eliminate that spending,
Speaker 1: and we wouldn't be in the deficits.
Speaker 2: That we are today. But year after year they.
Speaker 1: Keep getting funded, they keep pushing off these budget crisis things,
Speaker 1: the signing of the budget, signing of the spending bills,
Speaker 1: and as Thomas Massey has pointed out on this program
Speaker 1: numerous times, the fact that these bills should be broken
Speaker 1: up into nine individual bills and for whatever they're funding,
Speaker 1: fund that part of the government and get it over with,
Speaker 1: get it done. Quits c you know, cramming everything into
Speaker 1: all this pork and all these extra bills, extra goodies
Speaker 1: and everything that gets put into these things. Because with
Speaker 1: the bill that size, I don't think there's any one
Speaker 1: of these senators or congressman, with the exception of Thomas Massey,
Speaker 1: that actually reads these bills and sees what's in them.
Speaker 1: And that's why you see so many times Thomas Massey
Speaker 1: voting no on a lot of bills that you would think, well, hell,
Speaker 1: the name of the bill seems to be more conservative
Speaker 1: than anything else. But hidden in the weeds is all
Speaker 1: this weird spending and stuff. Ran Paul's the same way.
Speaker 1: So I'm very happy with the voting record of my
Speaker 1: Kentucky delegation, but it makes you want to pull your
Speaker 1: hair out, and I really don't have enough. I don't
Speaker 1: have that much hair to spare that you expect the
Speaker 1: fiscal responsibility and we just haven't gotten that in the past.
Speaker 1: And what I am seeing in this first month of
Speaker 1: the Trump administration is just absolutely astounding. Though the press
Speaker 1: can't keep up with it, the liberals can't keep up
Speaker 1: with it. It's difficult for us who are on the
Speaker 1: team and people that have been pushing for this to
Speaker 1: keep up with what's going on and going down the
Speaker 1: list of stories a day after day after day, and
Speaker 1: some of the just the amount of abuse that we've
Speaker 1: seen in our federal system. And I applaud that, But
Speaker 1: the one thing that they've talked about that I'm not
Speaker 1: big in favor of and I'm going to be some
Speaker 1: pushback on that, and I hope we can push back.
Speaker 1: They want to eliminate the penny, and that may seem
Speaker 1: weird to people and say, oh, well, you know, what
Speaker 1: they've been talking about is that it costs three cents
Speaker 1: to make the penny, and that just seems like it's
Speaker 1: something that should be cut out. But there's more to
Speaker 1: it than that, and we're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: it probably in the six o'clock hours, so anyway. Phone
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Speaker 3: This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station, run a
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Speaker 2: Five point twenty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the
Speaker 1: talk station. Phone numbers again, five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three Talk
Speaker 1: one eight hundred eighty two three eight two, five five pound,
Speaker 1: five point fifty at and T wireless phone. I saw
Speaker 1: this story the other day and I thought it was
Speaker 1: a joke. I thought it was a prank. I thought
Speaker 1: there's no way in hell that this would be a thing.
Speaker 1: And then I saw the video and I heard some
Speaker 1: people online actually talking about it and saying that yes,
Speaker 1: it did in fact work for them. And it's this
Speaker 1: what they A new term that I heard that I
Speaker 1: had never heard before. It's called phonetic overlap. Anybody out
Speaker 1: there ever heard that phrase? Yeah, well, phonetic overlap. This
Speaker 1: came out because Apple phones dictation transcribes racist with Trump.
Speaker 1: So when somebody is voicing, you know, as you're doing
Speaker 1: your voice on your on your phone, sending a text
Speaker 1: and you put in trump, it shows racist for a
Speaker 1: second and then changes it to trump. You know how
Speaker 1: when you're doing your phone and you're saying something and
Speaker 1: you look at the word that it's it's putting in there,
Speaker 1: and you're like, where the hell did that word come from?
Speaker 1: And then it changes to the word that you wanted.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes in no matter however you pronounce the word, uh,
Speaker 1: they'll pick it up as something else. A case in point,
Speaker 1: there is an organization called Wreaths across America, and every
Speaker 1: time I talk about that organization and then give the
Speaker 1: tagline to you know, you can look at the iHeart
Speaker 1: app to get their shows and it's Reese across America
Speaker 1: and the word is reath and then I spell that out.
Speaker 1: But if I voice that into the phone, no matter
Speaker 1: how I try to pronounce that, it comes out as
Speaker 1: like Reese Reese's buttercup or something along those lines. And
Speaker 1: you know, this technology and no matter how hard you
Speaker 1: try to pronounce some of these words, they come up
Speaker 1: and you wonder where the heck this comes from. But this,
Speaker 1: this is just absolutely incredible. Over the last several days,
Speaker 1: the bug has gained traction on various social networks, including TikTok.
Speaker 1: In one video TikTok, you can see a iPhone user
Speaker 1: using the built in dictation feature and clearly says the
Speaker 1: word racist, only for the iPhone to momentarily transcribe it
Speaker 1: as trump. And then in times they put in I believe,
Speaker 1: and then the word racist comes up and then changes
Speaker 1: or maybe it's just I'm going to go through this
Speaker 1: because when I was watching and I saw the video
Speaker 1: of it, but they talk about this phonetic overlap and
Speaker 1: so you would think that if you put the word
Speaker 1: romp rumble something like that, that maybe Trump would come up.
Speaker 1: But where is the phonetic connection between racist and Trump?
Speaker 1: Those words don't even sound alike. And this reminds me
Speaker 1: of back. You remember during the campaign where they had
Speaker 1: that video of Siri or Alexis rather and it says, Alexis,
Speaker 1: should I vote for? Or what can you tell me about?
Speaker 1: Donald Trump? And you know, in the Alexis voice, it's, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't really get into polity. It's hard
Speaker 1: to say about different candidates, and so I really don't
Speaker 1: have anything to say. And then immediately followed up with well,
Speaker 1: what can you tell us about should I vote for
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris? And then there was all this, well, you know,
Speaker 1: she's a flat first black woman to and she's got
Speaker 1: several accomplishments behind her and so on. And every time
Speaker 1: this happens, every time there is a screw up like this,
Speaker 1: isn't it amazing that it only goes one way? It's
Speaker 1: always anti conservative, it's always anti Trump, or it's something
Speaker 1: along those lines.
Speaker 2: And they put in the article.
Speaker 1: And they said that there was just a glitch and
Speaker 1: again trying to call it a phonetic overlap given the
Speaker 1: fact that and then you know, one of the iPhone
Speaker 1: people are one of the former members of the serie
Speaker 1: team and Apple still a regular contact with the team,
Speaker 1: says the issue began after an update of Apple servers.
Speaker 1: This guy by the name of John Burkey. Burkie is
Speaker 1: skeptical of phonetic overlap excuse and smells like a serious prank.
Speaker 1: Now prank or not, this is not something that somebody
Speaker 1: should be doing on the job. I don't care what
Speaker 1: funny thing they think they're trying to pull. And this
Speaker 1: is the thing that bothers me the most about AI
Speaker 1: technology because on AI technology, it's only as good as
Speaker 1: the input and I it's if it's crap in, there's
Speaker 1: going to be crap out. And so if you're trying
Speaker 1: to get this AI technology to learn certain things and
Speaker 1: you're gaming the system, it's not going to give you
Speaker 1: the right letter, it's not going to give you the
Speaker 1: right information. And we've seen this how the pushing down
Speaker 1: on Google and you're looking at conservative stories, how they
Speaker 1: have been deplatformed or pushed down further on the page.
Speaker 1: You got to go two or three pages deep, and
Speaker 1: to get the conservative take on things, and you see,
Speaker 1: you know, the censorship on social media that we've gone through.
Speaker 1: Some of it's going better, but again, when you have
Speaker 1: these algorithms in there that look for certain words and
Speaker 1: they pull them out, Uh, it's just ridiculous. Phone numbers
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Speaker 4: It's like we're living in.
Speaker 1: Five thirty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: fifty five KR. See the talk station. Uh, some local
Speaker 1: headlines that were covering for you this morning. Ohio bill
Speaker 1: would ban ticket arrest quotas for law enforcement. Now wait
Speaker 1: a minute, why is this eat? Why why do you
Speaker 1: need a bill for this? If you talk to any
Speaker 1: law enforcement agency, I don't care whether the City of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: the State Highway Patrol, they don't have quotas. They no way.
Speaker 1: I mean I can remember back in the late nineties.
Speaker 1: I have a friend. You got folks are familiar with
Speaker 1: the Debbie Gardner. She did that Survive Institute and into
Speaker 1: the protecting women and how they can protect themselves. She
Speaker 1: and her husband became very good We became very good friends.
Speaker 1: And he was a Cincinnti police officer. So we're talking
Speaker 1: back in the nineties and he used to talk about
Speaker 1: how he used to get in trouble because they would say, hey,
Speaker 1: did you lose your ticket book or is there something wrong?
Speaker 2: And he goes, well, what do you mean.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, you haven't written a ticket in about
Speaker 1: a year and a half. And he'd say, well, you know,
Speaker 1: most of the time I try to at least give
Speaker 1: a warning or something along those lines. And they said, well,
Speaker 1: you know you're not You're not playing by the rules.
Speaker 1: You're not playing the game. And every time when you
Speaker 1: ever question these people, and I've questioned our county police
Speaker 1: department at fiscal court meetings about this, I've questioned different
Speaker 1: law enforcement people and they say, no, there's no such
Speaker 1: thing as a quota. We don't have quotas. What we
Speaker 1: do are we are encouraged to have citizen contacts. Well,
Speaker 1: what's the well citizen contact and the only proof that
Speaker 1: you have a citizen contact a certain number of citizen
Speaker 1: contacts per month, week whatever is by the number of
Speaker 1: tickets that you've written. You don't have a quota of tickets.
Speaker 1: You just have a quota of citizen contacts. And I
Speaker 1: can remember years ago digging into the City of Cincinnati
Speaker 1: budget and every year year after you know this, you've
Speaker 1: heard this City of Cincinnati talks about having budget deficits
Speaker 1: and they need to break this up. And you go
Speaker 1: through the budget and a line item in their budget
Speaker 1: was something like seven we're talking probably fifteen twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: but a line item for seven million dollars a year
Speaker 1: for traffic tickets. Now, tell me that's I mean, if
Speaker 1: you've got a budget item there, you've got to meet
Speaker 1: that and the only way you're going to meet that
Speaker 1: is if you're writing tickets. So it was obvious there,
Speaker 1: But I find this interesting. Ohio bill would ban ticket
Speaker 1: arrest quotas for law enforcement. High lawmakers are pushing for
Speaker 1: bipartisan legislation that would eliminate ticket and arrest quotas for
Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies. State represented on Wednesday introduced House Bill
Speaker 1: one thirty one, would make such quotas illegal. According to
Speaker 1: Representative Bride Rose Sweeney, a Democrat from Westlake, Ohio. In Ohio,
Speaker 1: is completely legal for us to mandate a police officer
Speaker 1: to go out every single day on taxpayer time to
Speaker 1: produce ten to twenty tickets. Hur remarks came during the
Speaker 1: discussion of emphasizing the bills in ten to restore integrity
Speaker 1: within the law enforcement areas. Ken Cobra, president of Fraternal
Speaker 1: Order of Police Queens City Lodge sixty nine, express support
Speaker 1: of the bill and said it would impact smaller departments
Speaker 1: and villages in townships. Now, what you know in Ohio,
Speaker 1: if you get a traffic ticket, a lot of that
Speaker 1: money I forget what the percentage is, but it was
Speaker 1: something like eighty percent goes to the municipality or to
Speaker 1: the local community and twenty percent goes to the state.
Speaker 1: In Kentucky it's the opposite. Only about twenty percent goes
Speaker 1: to the individual city and the majority goes down state.
Speaker 1: So there's really not that incentive for these local law
Speaker 1: enforcement agencies to be writing tickets. Now in northern Kentucky,
Speaker 1: there have always been these different areas where people know
Speaker 1: that there are various speed traps that the cops always
Speaker 1: just sit by and they just can't wait to write
Speaker 1: tickets and so on. But those are few and far
Speaker 1: between because there's really no incentive for them on them
Speaker 1: from the mayor or for whomever to boost up the
Speaker 1: number of tickets written because they really don't profit by it.
Speaker 1: But in the city of Cincinnati and Ohio, yes, that's
Speaker 1: big money for them. And when you put that on
Speaker 1: a line item, that is something that you have to attain.
Speaker 1: That is something that you've got to work for. You
Speaker 1: don't put something in the budget you know that should
Speaker 1: just be extra income and that should be part of
Speaker 1: the extra well, extra income or other income is something
Speaker 1: that you don't depend on as far as you're running
Speaker 1: of your city. But when that is a specific line
Speaker 1: item for traffic tickets, that tells you everything you need
Speaker 1: to know. And this is you know, hope, hopefully this
Speaker 1: bill will gets some legs and they actually get it passed,
Speaker 1: because to have quotas just for the sake of writing
Speaker 1: tickets or whatever, I mean, when you go down the road,
Speaker 1: you can see any number of places where cops can
Speaker 1: just sit there and write ten, fifteen, twenty tickets in
Speaker 1: an hour based on the number of people. But is
Speaker 1: it a dangerous area, is it traffic whatever? There's whole
Speaker 1: kind of things. Maybe we'll talk about this a little
Speaker 1: bit if anybody calls in about it. Uh five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See
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Speaker 2: Five forty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See
Speaker 1: the talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
Speaker 1: five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three Talk one
Speaker 1: eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound,
Speaker 1: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the phones, let's talk to Bill. Bill fifty five KR.
Speaker 1: See how are you this morning? Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5: Good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: My pleasure.
Speaker 6: What all do respect?
Speaker 5: I mean, I know the policeman and it takes a
Speaker 5: special kind of person wake up in mornings and go
Speaker 5: do what they do. God bless them. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 5: I don't agree that they say they ain't no quotas.
Speaker 5: I agree, I disagree with them. And one thing I
Speaker 5: did notice through this journey of life. I mean I
Speaker 5: was a teenager. I got pulled over, you know, being
Speaker 5: a teenager. But the thing is, I'm through this journey.
Speaker 5: I'm sixty two now, and I noticed. I noticed this.
Speaker 5: I don't know if anybody else had to, but they
Speaker 5: pulled over the nice cars and like I got, you know,
Speaker 5: a couple of junker trucks and they ain't the hell,
Speaker 5: they ain't got no money, they ain't gonna get to
Speaker 5: give me a ticket. Really, I notice, man's notice out
Speaker 5: there people. They pulled over the nice cars and these people,
Speaker 5: you know they got family in there.
Speaker 6: You know, these cars to go five or ten miles
Speaker 6: over the.
Speaker 1: That's not been my experience.
Speaker 2: I would. You know, I've seen cars pull over.
Speaker 1: Well you know when you know they all always look
Speaker 1: for I mean there's that you know, you you look
Speaker 1: for a small violation that winds up leading to a
Speaker 1: bigger violation, like if somebody's missing a headlight, or if
Speaker 1: a broken tail light, or if the light's not reflecting
Speaker 1: on their license plate or the license plate is bent
Speaker 1: or something like that. They invented reason to pull somebody over,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times they'll find some other contraband
Speaker 1: or drugs or something like that. But I would think
Speaker 1: with the older car, well, I don't know, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a very good question. I have to We'll have
Speaker 1: to throw that out to the audience and kind of
Speaker 1: do an informal poll.
Speaker 5: Here if you notice that I've noticed, I've noticed a
Speaker 5: lot of things. And you know, like I said, I mean,
Speaker 5: you hardly aber see and pull over road.
Speaker 4: You're locky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well here it is here, it is all along.
Speaker 1: I kept thinking, with my two thousand and one camera
Speaker 1: that has two hundred and ninety thousand miles on it,
Speaker 1: that the reason they didn't pull it over is the
Speaker 1: recognized the license plate and said, I don't want to
Speaker 1: stay in court six months with this guy because he
Speaker 1: fights everything that we talk about. Maybe it's because I
Speaker 1: got to maybe because it's an older car.
Speaker 5: And these people man, because you know, they got a family,
Speaker 5: they got their life. Well just you know, they get
Speaker 5: the ticket, they just send it in thinking well I
Speaker 5: could fight this because this ain't right, pay.
Speaker 1: The thing and move on with their life.
Speaker 5: But I mean it, I just noticed that glad I
Speaker 5: got to be Joe opper truck two of them because
Speaker 5: all my life's work, and they ain't going to pull
Speaker 5: me over. I probably look like I'm pulled, like I'm
Speaker 5: barely got gash in the truck. You take care of
Speaker 5: God bless you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Bill. That was a great folk call.
Speaker 1: I thank you. I appreciate that. That is an interesting observation.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think as I'm driving down the road,
Speaker 1: what cars I notice being pulled over? Now, now I
Speaker 1: noticed that. You know, this is of course we got
Speaker 1: to talk about pre pandemic. But going back to the
Speaker 1: times when I'd come up here to the station, I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: you come up to the station at the four o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning or well actually three o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning and thereabouts, and you're not going to see much
Speaker 1: traffic at all. But going back home, I would always
Speaker 1: see on seventy one where they had the motorcycle patrol vehicle,
Speaker 1: and they'd always try to nail people in rush hour,
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of weird. But I guess
Speaker 1: after nine o'clock you would expect rush hour to be
Speaker 1: over because during rush hour there shouldn't be much speeding
Speaker 1: because for crying out loud, you're lucky to get up
Speaker 1: to the speed limit sometimes, but going back home, I'd
Speaker 1: always notice cars pulled over on either side of either
Speaker 1: northbound or southbound on seventy one. But I never really
Speaker 1: paid much attention to the cars. And that's interesting. I'm
Speaker 1: going at the under that one. That's that's interesting because
Speaker 1: I do notice on Route twenty seven in northern Kentucky,
Speaker 1: which is you know, in Campbell County where I live,
Speaker 1: You'll see around, you know, around the freeway, you'll see,
Speaker 1: you know, people coming off the freeway continuing to speed
Speaker 1: because it goes it goes from sixty five miles an
Speaker 1: hour down to fifty five miles an hour, forty five
Speaker 1: miles an hour, and then thirty five miles an hour
Speaker 1: once you get to the end of four seventy one there,
Speaker 1: and you'll see people pulled over. And then you'll see
Speaker 1: a stretch of highway on twenty seven where it kind
Speaker 1: of opens up. And if you don't pay attention because
Speaker 1: of the hills, that if you start going down that hill,
Speaker 1: you can very easily be doing fifty five miles an
Speaker 1: hour in a forty mile an hour zone before you
Speaker 1: even know it. And so a lot of times I'll
Speaker 1: see people pulled over there. But it seems to me
Speaker 1: more that they're interested in checking younger people because there
Speaker 1: always seems to be like three or four cars and
Speaker 1: two or three people outside the call while they're searching
Speaker 1: the car or something along those lines. But it would
Speaker 1: be interesting. What's been your experience getting pulled over by
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Speaker 1: Five point fifty in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas.
Speaker 2: Fifty five kr.
Speaker 1: See the talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven,
Speaker 1: four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two
Speaker 1: three talk one eight hundred eighty two three eight two
Speaker 1: five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless
Speaker 1: phone coming up in the six o'clock hour. I am
Speaker 1: going to be doing the defense of the penny and
Speaker 1: very much encourage you to get your thoughts together and
Speaker 1: talk to me about that.
Speaker 2: Are you in.
Speaker 1: Favor of this uh doze idea that they wanted to
Speaker 1: drop the penny, that it costs three cents per to
Speaker 1: make the penny, so it's a money loser. Are they
Speaker 1: being penny wise pound foolish?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: Let's see, Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna have.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna toss my two cents worth in at the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. But anyway, that was an interesting
Speaker 1: phone call from Bill, and I've been racking my brain
Speaker 1: trying to think about just exactly what we I've experienced
Speaker 1: out on the highway, because we had this story at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour about a Senate bill or
Speaker 1: a bill in front of the Ohio Legislature banning the
Speaker 1: House Bill one one to ban police officers or law
Speaker 1: enforcement agencies to have a quota system.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: And then of course we talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: earlier in the hour and more I dig into this
Speaker 1: and this idea that on the new or on the
Speaker 1: iPhone there for a little while, apparently after an upgrade
Speaker 1: and Apple upgrade, and by the way, it seems like
Speaker 1: every time they do an Apple upgrade, I try I
Speaker 1: try to avoid it as long as possible because it
Speaker 1: always gets kind of funky with my phone and certain
Speaker 1: things and certain features don't work right, having trouble connecting
Speaker 1: with Bluetooth and some of the other stuff. But apparently
Speaker 1: after a recent upgrade at a start of appearing that
Speaker 1: if you put in the word if you were voicing
Speaker 1: the word racist for a second, Trump would come up
Speaker 1: and then would go away and correct it to racist
Speaker 1: or back to racist. And so it's interesting to see
Speaker 1: the way that that happened. And one of these former
Speaker 1: tech had originally been on the SERY team. This John Burkie,
Speaker 1: former member of the Sery team, said that it smells
Speaker 1: like a serious prank. But then The New York Times
Speaker 1: jumped in and says that they said that, wow, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: First of all, the Walls Journal talked about it and
Speaker 1: said that maybe it had something to do with the
Speaker 1: r consonant that temporarily replaced with Trump, including rampant or rampage,
Speaker 1: which would seem to me that words that you would
Speaker 1: think would be derogatory towards Trump. New York Times cleverly
Speaker 1: omits the fact that in other words like rampage trigger
Speaker 1: the glitch, not just racist, which again they try to
Speaker 1: give some credence to the whole idea phone of phonetic overlap.
Speaker 1: Phonetic overlap, my friends, is two words that sound alike,
Speaker 1: not two words that are just because they have an
Speaker 1: r in It just unbelievable that again the people and
Speaker 1: some of these tech companies are still out there doing
Speaker 1: stuff that what they think is a prank, but is
Speaker 1: somehow trying to instill in people's mind a thought that
Speaker 1: really doesn't need to be there, and buying into this
Speaker 1: whole new narrative from the left. When again, if you
Speaker 1: look at the left, if you look at the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: it's just go on down the line. The Democratic Party
Speaker 1: has always been the party of races, and it goes
Speaker 1: back to back during the Civil War. I mean, they
Speaker 1: were the Party of slavery, Party of Jim Crow, the
Speaker 1: Black Codes, all that, and so many of their members,
Speaker 1: Dixiecrats and beyond, were all part of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: So again them trying to throw some shade on Republicans
Speaker 1: as being racist, they want to turn the mirror around
Speaker 1: and look at themselves. So again, anyway, so coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the penny. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the penny? Should we get rid of it, should
Speaker 1: we continue it? What should we do with it?
Speaker 2: Seven four nine.
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Speaker 1: Five minutes after six o'clock on this beautiful Thursday morning.
Speaker 1: Oh rainy out there, but the temperatures are nice, and
Speaker 1: it was a very nice trip up here this morning.
Speaker 1: And it's one of those days where the temperature is
Speaker 1: just very pleasant and very nice day. So just be
Speaker 1: careful out on the roads because they might be a
Speaker 1: little bit slick. I want to talk about one of
Speaker 1: the things that one of the few things I disagree
Speaker 1: with this administration, the Trump administration, and the whole doge
Speaker 1: boys and the bulldozers, the dozers that i'd like to
Speaker 1: refer to them. I agree with going in and doing
Speaker 1: cost cutting. I agree with going in and getting rid
Speaker 1: of waste, fraud and abuse, making things more efficient and
Speaker 1: everything along those lines. As a recovering accountant, and I've
Speaker 1: talked about this before, I am not what you consider
Speaker 1: a typical accountant. I am not one of these bean counters.
Speaker 1: I don't look at something and say, okay, here is
Speaker 1: the cost and then here is the direct benefit. To
Speaker 1: see that if you've got a particular cost, that you're
Speaker 1: recouping that as well or a profit off of that.
Speaker 1: I look at things in terms of the whole picture.
Speaker 1: As an example, one of my clients years ago, they
Speaker 1: had restaurant chain. They had five or six restaurants. They
Speaker 1: were losing money or at least break even with one
Speaker 1: of their restaurants, and they said, well, we're just going
Speaker 1: to close it down. I said, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: here have you thought how have you thought this through?
Speaker 1: Because number one, with six different restaurants, you're going to
Speaker 1: get a certain volume discount that you might lose as
Speaker 1: a result of not having this volume, which would then
Speaker 1: add more costs to your other stores. You have a
Speaker 1: back office where you do the accounting, you do the financial,
Speaker 1: you do the bill paying all of that, and you
Speaker 1: have the overhead for the management, the people that go
Speaker 1: around and inspect the restaurants and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: And so that cost currently is being spread out over
Speaker 1: six different units. When you break that down to then
Speaker 1: five units, that increases the cost per store, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have one of those stores
Speaker 1: not performing well, and what do you do get rid
Speaker 1: of that to the point where you don't have any stores.
Speaker 1: The main thing is to go in and boost that
Speaker 1: store up, find out why the sales aren't there, find
Speaker 1: out why it isn't as profitable to the others, and
Speaker 1: try to fix it. That's a little bit harder than
Speaker 1: just saying, oh, we're just going to cut that expense.
Speaker 1: And when they look at this the penny that they
Speaker 1: say that, oh, it costs three cents to do the
Speaker 1: penny and people go, well, yeah, pennies are nothing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't take anything about that, and no way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get it rid of it.
Speaker 4: And the more.
Speaker 1: And when these things are talked about, it puts in
Speaker 1: people's brains that oh, yes, this should be done without
Speaker 1: actually looking at the entire big picture of things and
Speaker 1: how this would actually affect the economy, how this affects
Speaker 1: the individual consumer, and what it does to the overall
Speaker 1: stability of things. And you would think, my goodness, Kevin,
Speaker 1: it's just a penny. Well, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: throw my two cents worth in it and talk about this.
Speaker 1: I think that those and talking about doing this is
Speaker 1: when you look at it is penny wise and pound foolish.
Speaker 1: And of course I would like a penny for your
Speaker 1: thoughts if you want to call in and talk about this.
Speaker 1: Eric code five one three seven nine fifty five hundred
Speaker 1: one hundred A two three talk one eight hundred A
Speaker 1: two three eight two five five pound five point fifty
Speaker 1: on that AT and T wireless phone. Now, when you
Speaker 1: look at the cost of producing a penny, there's there's
Speaker 1: all kinds of different studies about that and what that
Speaker 1: does to the economy. First, consumers benefit with low denomination
Speaker 1: a coin because it keeps prices in check.
Speaker 2: You remember all the.
Speaker 1: Stores if you ever saw that movie office space where
Speaker 1: this group of people that were disgruntled with this company
Speaker 1: that they were working for, a tech company, that they
Speaker 1: changed the program to where they'd round off these sets
Speaker 1: and put them in a bank account for them and
Speaker 1: they would siphon that off and how much that that
Speaker 1: got them and they were shocked because I think they
Speaker 1: moved the decimal one way or the other. But back
Speaker 1: in the early days of computers, when they do these
Speaker 1: different transactions and then have these things where there'd be
Speaker 1: fractions of pennies. Somebody went in and ch change the
Speaker 1: code there to the point where that percentage of a
Speaker 1: penny or half a percent or tenth of a penny
Speaker 1: would go into an accountant and then they would steal
Speaker 1: that money, and that wound up when they actually found
Speaker 1: out about it was millions of dollars that had cost
Speaker 1: this particular company. About that and the programming of different
Speaker 1: businesses are that in their software currently. Obviously, a business
Speaker 1: wants to make the most money, so if their transactions
Speaker 1: are a certain dollar amount and pennies, those are generally
Speaker 1: rounded up. They're never rounded down. And this is funny
Speaker 1: that this came up because this past Friday, my wife
Speaker 1: and I went down to Louisville for the day because
Speaker 1: America's Struck a network. There's a truck show down there
Speaker 1: in March, and we wanted to get a layer of
Speaker 1: the land because my wife is coming down with me
Speaker 1: and she wanted to make sure that she knew how
Speaker 1: to drive around the area, get downtown and so on.
Speaker 1: So we were doing a dry run so that you
Speaker 1: felt comfortable getting on and off the freeway because there,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you what, it's a little tricky
Speaker 1: down there. But anyway, I was standing, we were looking.
Speaker 1: We went to the hotel, you know, made sure that
Speaker 1: we had the room reservation and everything, made sure we
Speaker 1: were going to be on the third floor, which is
Speaker 1: not a lot better. And we were just walking around
Speaker 1: the hallways and the guy that was doing the he
Speaker 1: was doing a vending machine at the time, and apparently
Speaker 1: they were reprogramming it, and he goes, well, he goes,
Speaker 1: he's on the phone, he's on the speakerphone, and he goes.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, he says, I think this comes up
Speaker 1: to where it's going to be actually, you know, like
Speaker 1: twelve cents or something like that, So I'll just want
Speaker 1: round that down. And the guy on the other end goes,
Speaker 1: why would you do that? Just round it up to
Speaker 1: the next nickel. It's like, okay, this profitence centive is there,
Speaker 1: and so these numbers aren't going to be rounded down.
Speaker 2: So if you get a.
Speaker 1: Penny, you know, you know, whatever your transaction is, oh
Speaker 1: one sense, they're gonna round that up to a nickel
Speaker 1: and then you're going to be losing four cents per
Speaker 1: transaction on these transactions, and it adds up over time.
Speaker 1: It may be just a small amount to you at
Speaker 1: this particular point in time, but overall that is going
Speaker 1: to be affecting the economy. And what do they do
Speaker 1: as far as well, we'll get to this, But secondly,
Speaker 1: there are polls that have been done based on this
Speaker 1: over the.
Speaker 2: Years and the average on this.
Speaker 1: Now again, as they keep pushing this and keep talking
Speaker 1: about just one portion of the argument that has cost
Speaker 1: three cents to make a penny, then of course people
Speaker 1: are gonna be thinking, we'll shoot, yeah, let's get rid
Speaker 1: of the penny. But in the past, whenever they've talked
Speaker 1: about this, they've said, you know, are people in favor
Speaker 1: of getting rid of the penny? The numbers have been
Speaker 1: like sixty six percent of thems that have been pulled
Speaker 1: say no, keep the penny. Third, the penny elimination doesn't
Speaker 1: save money. In fact, the government costs will increase without
Speaker 1: the penny. First of all, a lot of is going
Speaker 1: to be hurting consumers, Penn State economist Ray Lombra said recently,
Speaker 1: and the Georgetown fellow Robert Shapiro showed that consumers would
Speaker 1: be hit with a multi billion dollar rounding tax without
Speaker 1: the penny, multi billion dollar tax. So you know your
Speaker 1: four cents here, three cents here, two cents here. Over
Speaker 1: the course of the year adds up. And then you
Speaker 1: compound that by the number of people that are doing that,
Speaker 1: and it adds up tremendously, courting the Federal Reserve. According
Speaker 1: to Federal Reserve studies, people who use more cash frequently
Speaker 1: with higher let me see, people with relatively low incomes,
Speaker 1: particularly young, elderly, and minorities use cash more frequently and
Speaker 1: individuals with higher incomes. Years ago, I owned some liquor
Speaker 1: stores in northern Kentucky, this back in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: and part of the business there was cashing checks and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know, making sure that we
Speaker 1: could you know, cash the checks for the customers so
Speaker 1: that they would then.
Speaker 2: Be able to buy.
Speaker 1: And I found at the time, and I was shocked,
Speaker 1: And the numbers still hold true today. The twenty percent
Speaker 1: of the American public out there do not have a
Speaker 1: checking account. They don't deal with banks, and so they
Speaker 1: still get their paycheck and they have to cash it somewhere,
Speaker 1: and so then they take that money and they go
Speaker 1: around and buy money orders and pay their bills. But
Speaker 1: they just for some reason don't trust banks, and so
Speaker 1: you've got people that depend on cash. And then secondly,
Speaker 1: the fact that if you're rounding these up and you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of cents here and couple of cents there,
Speaker 1: that's going to affect minorities and if you uh, and
Speaker 1: the elderly and the very young because of something like
Speaker 1: sixty percent of transactions under ten dollars is done by
Speaker 1: cash and not done by a credit card. And of course,
Speaker 1: when you start seeing some of these credit card fees
Speaker 1: being tacked on to the transactions that you're doing at
Speaker 1: the store, that then adds up to because if you
Speaker 1: look at those transactions, how many people look at those
Speaker 1: transactions and say, well, okay, if they're going to charge me,
Speaker 1: you know, three and a half percent on this purchase,
Speaker 1: then well maybe I'll just pay cash for it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: But again we'll pick this up. Phone numbers five one three,
Speaker 1: your thoughts, A penny for your thoughts if you will, seven,
Speaker 1: five one three, seven four nine fifty, five hundred one,
Speaker 1: eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eighty
Speaker 1: two three eight two five five pound five point fifty
Speaker 1: AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas fifty five k see the talk station. Good morning
Speaker 1: weather for nine first warning forecast. I should say today
Speaker 1: during morning rush hour, rain moves out by morning rush hour.
Speaker 2: Let's see, we're gonna have a little.
Speaker 1: Forty two sun is going to be poking through, be
Speaker 1: a little breezy.
Speaker 2: Afternoon showers are possible.
Speaker 1: High a fifty one jumpsters continue to drop tonight thirty one,
Speaker 1: tomorrow high fifty seven and a low of thirty four.
Speaker 2: Right now forty seven.
Speaker 1: Degrees fifty five k see detalk station Chuck Ingram has traffic.
Speaker 7: From the UCL Traffic Center. Around forty percent of cancers
Speaker 7: are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference.
Speaker 7: Called five one three five eighty five U see see see.
Speaker 7: Highways continue to look good this morning with no accidents
Speaker 7: to deal with. No delays either southbound two seventy five
Speaker 7: still little k pants the Lawrence burd Ramp in Bend
Speaker 7: seventy four less than ten minutes between two to seventy
Speaker 7: five at the cold rain split to the seventy five ramp.
Speaker 7: Chuck Ingram month fifty five k R see the talk station.
Speaker 2: Six twenty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five k see
Speaker 1: the talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
Speaker 1: five hundred one, eight hundred two three talk one eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five
Speaker 1: point fifty at and T wireless phone and defense of
Speaker 1: the penny. Before we get to the I think we've
Speaker 1: got a phone caller up there. I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: that in a second. You know, when they start talking
Speaker 1: about the penny, and they keep making the point that
Speaker 1: it costs three cents to make the penny, you're losing
Speaker 1: two cents on each transaction. Well, if you get rid
Speaker 1: of the penny, you're gonna be you're gonna be minting
Speaker 1: more nickels. And if you look at the cost of
Speaker 1: that round, the using the nickel will actually lead to
Speaker 1: higher production costs. It costs thirteen point five cents to
Speaker 1: make the nickel, So you're gonna do away with the
Speaker 1: and then make more nichols and then lose eight cents
Speaker 1: instead of three cents on the coins. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk
Speaker 1: to Kirk. Kirk fifty five k s. You're on the air.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. I certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Kevin. How you doing.
Speaker 6: I called it.
Speaker 8: I just called to say hi. I don't know if
Speaker 8: you remember me or not. My son and I sat
Speaker 8: down with.
Speaker 4: You last summer.
Speaker 8: Yes, and uh he uh he. I told him you
Speaker 8: were gonna be on the radio this morning. He said, well,
Speaker 8: call him tell him. I said, Hi.
Speaker 2: He just uh, well, high back to you.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It's been a huge inspiration to to not only him,
Speaker 8: but to myself.
Speaker 9: He uh.
Speaker 8: He actually ran for the youth chair for the Boone
Speaker 8: County gop real last Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, he lost. He lost, but but you know,
Speaker 8: the the important thing is that he's involved and and
Speaker 8: we're involved and and so uh yeah, he just he
Speaker 8: went when he when I told him that you were
Speaker 8: philling in for Brian today, he said, we'll call him
Speaker 8: up till I said hi, and uh so it. He
Speaker 8: has not made a decision yet whether he's going to
Speaker 8: go to UK or n k U, but I think
Speaker 8: he's going to lean towards NKU because he's a mama's boy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, like keeping him around the house and
Speaker 1: that type of thing. But yeah, now, dude, I think
Speaker 1: n k U they they they do have some on
Speaker 1: campus housing and they do have some dorms there, but
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I know they closed a couple
Speaker 1: of them down. But you guys live close enough that
Speaker 1: he could commute.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I will.
Speaker 1: Say from a personal nature, I would the college experience
Speaker 1: is something that is extremely fun and by being on
Speaker 1: campus you really get the full college experience. Going to Xavier,
Speaker 1: there were some people that commuted and they never really
Speaker 1: felt connected to the university or connect to the student
Speaker 1: body there. But by being on campus and living there,
Speaker 1: it gives you that at that dose of reality. I
Speaker 1: mean the first week in the dormitory. I mean back then,
Speaker 1: I mean, for crying out, we didn't have the many refrigerators.
Speaker 1: You had the meal plan, you had the three meals
Speaker 1: a day, and anything that you could have like bags
Speaker 1: of chips and stuff. But you didn't have hot plates.
Speaker 1: You didn't have this that some of these dormitories have.
Speaker 1: And it was it was a shock the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks thinking, you know, being at home, you you know,
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock at night and oh, I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: the fridge, I'm gonna have a sandwich or I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have this, and Oh wait a minute, that isn't there.
Speaker 2: So uh, living on your own, learning.
Speaker 1: How to maintain your hours and and a little bit
Speaker 1: of discipline in terms of studying I think is very good.
Speaker 8: But I think he's waiting a gear back from the
Speaker 8: Air Force Society because his great grandfather, his grandfather, his
Speaker 8: great uncle were all career Air Force. I was the
Speaker 8: only Marine in the family. So he's waiting to hear
Speaker 8: back from the Marine Corps League on whether he's going
Speaker 8: to get any kind of grand money from the from
Speaker 8: the Marines.
Speaker 4: But fantastic, Sorry.
Speaker 8: He'll yeah, sorry, he'll get some He'll get some schooling
Speaker 8: money from the Air Force. But so getting a hear
Speaker 8: back from that if he if he gets a decent
Speaker 8: grant from the Air Force, he'll probably go to UK
Speaker 8: if he if the only people hears from his the Marines,
Speaker 8: he'll probably go to the n k U.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, well, Kirk, it was great talking to you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 10: I thanks again, keep doing, keep fighting the good fighting,
Speaker 10: and hopefully hopefully on the next cycle around Shane will
Speaker 10: win his election and uh, then you can interview him
Speaker 10: on the radio.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go, Well tell him I
Speaker 1: said Hi. Tell Shane, I said, Hi. It was great
Speaker 1: meeting you guys, and it was a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: all right, take care. Yeah, Wow, that was a blast.
Speaker 1: I mean because I met him as a result of
Speaker 1: being on the air and we got in contact. We
Speaker 1: went and had some dinner and stuff and talked and
Speaker 1: it was really great time, but very interesting. And again
Speaker 1: getting back to the penny here, you know, and the
Speaker 1: whole nine yards here. With the cost of thirteen point
Speaker 1: eight cents to make a nickel, that is certainly not
Speaker 1: going to help the economy or help the treasury that
Speaker 1: much because you're going to be spending more money. And
Speaker 1: then of course you got the situation. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: this in a little while, talking about how much charities
Speaker 1: depend on pennies, and that this cashless society, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: this is a travel down the slippery slope in terms
Speaker 1: of a cashless society. I think we've got time to
Speaker 1: squeeze in a phone call here before the news. Let's
Speaker 1: talk to Mike, Mike fifty five. Care, see you're on
Speaker 1: the air. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 6: Actually real quick about the penny.
Speaker 11: Instead of getting rid of it, why don't we just
Speaker 11: stop making them for a while there's gotta be billions
Speaker 11: of them out.
Speaker 2: There, would you say just stop making them for a while.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean they constantly make coins.
Speaker 6: I mean I've been to the Minton DC. It's like
Speaker 6: constantly making money.
Speaker 8: I'm like, there's so much cash and so much so
Speaker 8: many pennies that.
Speaker 11: They why don't we take a break from making them
Speaker 11: for a little bit and just use what's out there?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately a lot of people, uh, and we hear
Speaker 1: this from time to time, how many people are hoarding
Speaker 1: pennies and for some reason, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: that they like filling those uh water cooler jars with
Speaker 1: and see how many they can collect and all that.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of pennies out of circulation. But uh,
Speaker 1: Mike appreciate the phone call. And I just realized that
Speaker 1: I missed a break there, but I better get to it.
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Speaker 1: Six thirty one in the morning Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas fifty five krs the talk station. Some local
Speaker 1: headlines that were covering for you this morning. Newport Independent
Speaker 1: School District faces a one point nine million dollar deficit. Staff, students,
Speaker 1: and parents all spoke at this meeting a jam packed audience,
Speaker 1: voicing their concerns over potential factory cuts and the effect
Speaker 1: on children's education. Newport's Superintendent, Tony Watts made a tentative
Speaker 1: allocation to the budget cuts are being made to the building.
Speaker 1: Let me see some of the comments. Who's this from
Speaker 1: one of the teachers associations. Cuts are being made at
Speaker 1: the building levels, but no one is willing to answer
Speaker 1: of what is being cut at this central office, which
Speaker 1: I think is something that needs to be talked about.
Speaker 1: Some of the teachers you plan on cutting are teachers
Speaker 1: who are not only play a role in kids education
Speaker 1: and success, but also built foundation with the kids. I
Speaker 1: got to tell you from a personal nature, from a
Speaker 1: personal standpoint in my past, some of the most respected
Speaker 1: people that I knew were teachers and had an impact
Speaker 1: on my life. Well, I had this discussion with somebody
Speaker 1: the other day about mentors, and I don't know that
Speaker 1: I had a particular mentor, but it was a number
Speaker 1: of people that I was exposed to over the years,
Speaker 1: and teachers are that foundation the good ones, and not
Speaker 1: every teacher is a good one. That's one thing you
Speaker 1: need to talk about right off the bat. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to these budgets, I wish that and hopefully
Speaker 1: that there are some enterprising accountants out there that would
Speaker 1: like to do a little bit of pro bono work
Speaker 1: and maybe help out with the budget there to see
Speaker 1: where things could be cut, things that could be done.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I've been wanting to
Speaker 1: talk about forever and for some I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to do this, going to delve into it at some point,
Speaker 1: is that if you eat any cereal, and I eat
Speaker 1: a fair amount of cereal, I try to stay away
Speaker 1: from the sugary cereals, but you know, it's nice to
Speaker 1: have a bowl of cereal from time to time. And
Speaker 1: you have the things on the top, the box tops.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of those are used. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the volume is. But you don't see
Speaker 1: any of these things with public schools. You notice that
Speaker 1: during the summer there are always these church festivals and
Speaker 1: school festivals that actually are the school festivals that then
Speaker 1: support the schools and raise money for the schools. You
Speaker 1: don't see any of that in any of the public schools,
Speaker 1: with the exception of Woodfill School in Fort Thomas, and
Speaker 1: every year they have their big Top festival, which is
Speaker 1: money for the individual school.
Speaker 2: So the schools.
Speaker 1: Don't do from what I've seen, a program of trying
Speaker 1: to raise money for the school as such. And you know,
Speaker 1: either through turning in these box tops to these individual
Speaker 1: ceial companies. I'm gonna have to dig into that and
Speaker 1: see how much these these these cities could earn. And
Speaker 1: again with all the students that you have, if you
Speaker 1: do the scanning, if you do whatever the way they
Speaker 1: do that, or maybe have a festival organized with the
Speaker 1: parents to have some sort of a festival, some way
Speaker 1: of raising money on a regular basis. Just don't depend
Speaker 1: on the taxpayers all the time for the funding of
Speaker 1: these schools. Maybe that's a couple of things they need
Speaker 1: to look at. Also, one of the headlines we're looking
Speaker 1: at and Ohio bill would ban ticket arrests quotas for
Speaker 1: law enforcement. House Bill one thirty one would make such
Speaker 1: quotas illegal, which it's about time coming up. Phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 1: four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two
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Speaker 1: five five pound, five point fifty at and T wireless phone.
Speaker 1: Talking about the penny, I mean, this is something that
Speaker 1: Dose has been talking about that it costs three cents
Speaker 1: to make the penny, but if you switch to making
Speaker 1: more nickels, it's gonna cost you eight cents more because
Speaker 1: it costs currently thirteen point eight cents to make a nickel.
Speaker 1: And then at some point they're going to say, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we should do away with a nickel. And then
Speaker 1: you start rounding everything up and from the penny, because
Speaker 1: no nothing ever gets rounded down. And you know, the
Speaker 1: school of thought, as far as accountants was concerned, anything
Speaker 1: over you know, fifty cents or whatever, fifty cents and
Speaker 1: above would be rounded up. But a lot of times
Speaker 1: this stuff programmed into these computers and stuff, if it
Speaker 1: comes into a percentage of point sense, it is rounded up,
Speaker 1: and so I I don't like it from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: And then this push to a cash list society, now,
Speaker 1: a lot of this I think kind of gained a
Speaker 1: lot more ground. I know what gained more ground. My
Speaker 1: wife never liked dealing with money. She always talked about
Speaker 1: how dirty it is and you don't know where it's been.
Speaker 1: And she's always telling me that if I'm handling money,
Speaker 1: make sure I wash my hands and all this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. And yeah, I kind of get that with
Speaker 1: the COVID issue and whatever, but you know, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of the of the school of thought that. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's because my immune system is pretty decent, but almost
Speaker 1: you know, being exposed a little bit of germs once
Speaker 1: in a while is good for you. But getting away
Speaker 1: from cash. You know, I can't tell you the number
Speaker 1: of times I've been in a store and it's I
Speaker 1: try to use CA. I used to use cash a
Speaker 1: lot more often. But you go to buy something and
Speaker 1: you look at it and you say, well, gee, I've
Speaker 1: the only I got a twenty and this thing's going
Speaker 1: to cost a dollar fifty?
Speaker 2: Do I really want it?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: I'm not going to buy it, So, you know, once
Speaker 1: you break that twenty man, it is gone. And so
Speaker 1: when you go to credit cards, who thinks about paying
Speaker 1: for something that is actual money coming out of your
Speaker 1: account when you're paying by a credit card, does that
Speaker 1: ring a bell with you? Or because you're not. You're
Speaker 1: dealing with plastic as opposed to the actual, cold, hard currency,
Speaker 1: and when you plunk that down and spend that, you don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that a lot of people think about that.
Speaker 1: And you look at the amount of credit card debt
Speaker 1: that we people have, it's incredible going back to the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, the seventies, and you know, when credit cards
Speaker 1: first started becoming more popular, the average debt the American
Speaker 1: consumer had at that point was five hundred dollars. Now
Speaker 1: people are maxed out on their credit cards. There's spending
Speaker 1: tons of money on the interest, and it's because of
Speaker 1: the money being easy to spend without having to pause
Speaker 1: and think about it. And the fact that you go
Speaker 1: to a cash list society is.
Speaker 2: I think, you know?
Speaker 1: And then again that delves into all the controls that
Speaker 1: can be done. We started seeing some of that where
Speaker 1: you know, the banks were tracking on the behest of
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, tracking purchase for conservatives, and were they
Speaker 1: buying guns? What were they spending their money on and
Speaker 1: so on, And I just think it's a slippery slope.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones, talk to Tim and get
Speaker 1: a penny for your thoughts. Tim.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Chacy, how the school could possibly be under punted
Speaker 12: because I remember the politicians tell us that if we
Speaker 12: really just put for the lottery and to hire all
Speaker 12: the schools with people ecunted, all the potholes of these
Speaker 12: thick and everything would be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they sold in Kentucky. Also, all this
Speaker 1: money for education, if you just allow us to do
Speaker 1: something that if anybody did that individually, it would be
Speaker 1: called gambling. It would be called you know, Rico act,
Speaker 1: and the mafia would be in charge of But when
Speaker 1: the state is running it, that's okay, all right, DM,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. And you know, getting back to
Speaker 1: this cash list society, I think it's like, as I said,
Speaker 1: a slippery slope when you go down that path and
Speaker 1: you can't you know, when you're when you're dealing again,
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with cash, you kind of understand the
Speaker 1: purchase that you're making, as opposed to just handing a
Speaker 1: card over and then whatever. I mean, there are people
Speaker 1: that I know that hardly ever look at a bill
Speaker 1: when it comes to just hand them the credit card.
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand it. And something that why
Speaker 1: I think that it's so necessary to keep the currency
Speaker 1: and keep that available, because again, we have a out
Speaker 1: a twenty percent portion of the economy, twenty percent portion
Speaker 1: of the population that don't use banks, and that they
Speaker 1: rely solely on actual hard currency in order to make
Speaker 1: their purchases. And I think it's a bad idea. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's only going to add problems to the economy.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to see any benefit from it.
Speaker 1: And again, when you look at the fact that you're
Speaker 1: going to be printed or you're going to be minting
Speaker 1: more nickels, and if the nickels are costing thirteen point
Speaker 1: eight cents in order for them to be made. And
Speaker 1: as I was digging into this too, I was looking
Speaker 1: at how the mint actually takes their overhead and applies
Speaker 1: it to these individual coins, and it seems from the
Speaker 1: numbers that I was looking at, and somebody pointed this
Speaker 1: out to me that if you look at the way
Speaker 1: they divide their overhead for the entire treasury. Over the
Speaker 1: individual coins, pennies get a higher percentage of that than
Speaker 1: they actually should if you were doing straight accounting and
Speaker 1: spreading those out evenly the way they should be over
Speaker 1: the individual currency that is being done, and so that
Speaker 1: number of how much it costs to make the penny
Speaker 1: may actually be over inflated. So that's one of those things.
Speaker 1: Rather than just going in and cutting something because it
Speaker 1: seems like it costs more, you got to look at
Speaker 1: what does it cost you in the long run if
Speaker 1: you cut that. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
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Speaker 1: hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight two
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Speaker 1: talking to my good friend Phil Flynn Price Futures Group,
Speaker 1: talking about what's going on in the economy, and it's
Speaker 1: also with oil and energy prices and a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Just got a very good take on the economy. But
Speaker 1: in the meantime, let's head to the phones and let's
Speaker 1: talk to Larry. Larry fifty five carries KRC. How are
Speaker 1: you this morning going?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 6: How about yourself?
Speaker 1: I cannot complain. I'm behind the microphone. It doesn't get
Speaker 1: any better than that for me.
Speaker 11: Hey, I had a thought on the pennies and then
Speaker 11: balls can kind of transpose to the nichols as well.
Speaker 11: But what if there was a buyback program so my
Speaker 11: two cents would be paid two cents per penny stop
Speaker 11: making it for a year or two.
Speaker 1: You know, I brought that up with somebody who had
Speaker 1: been pushing you know that I talked to you about
Speaker 1: the penny and you know Coinstar did something like that
Speaker 1: years ago and it wasn't as successful as they would
Speaker 1: have liked. But you know, you read some of this
Speaker 1: stuff about how many people are hoarding pennies and how
Speaker 1: many people have you know, just have these jugs that
Speaker 1: are sitting around the house that have pennies in them,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I liked the idea, and I I would
Speaker 1: like to see the idea floated that if you turn
Speaker 1: in a penny you get two pennies. That would you know, again,
Speaker 1: if it costs three cents to do a penny and
Speaker 1: you're paying two dollars or two pennies to get those
Speaker 1: back in circulation, maybe you could stop. You wouldn't be
Speaker 1: having to print as many pennies. And so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that need to be done. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just not a matter of looking at the cost
Speaker 1: and what it costs and what the value is, what
Speaker 1: it does overall in the economy, what it does as
Speaker 1: far as the charities are concerned, and what that does
Speaker 1: to lower income people. All that has to be taken
Speaker 1: into consideration, and you look at the whole picture as opposed.
Speaker 2: To just that small amount of it.
Speaker 1: Let's squeeze in Mike here, Mike fifty five, care see
Speaker 1: the talk station. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 13: Thank you. I'm first time caller. I wanted to put
Speaker 13: my two cents in on We my wife and I
Speaker 13: we use credit cards almost for everything, uh huh, but
Speaker 13: we never leave home for a trip without cash, Yes,
Speaker 13: and if they went to cash list, it would be
Speaker 13: troubled because we have stopped plenty of times to get
Speaker 13: gas and their computers are down. Yeah, and they say
Speaker 13: unless you can pay cash, can't get gas.
Speaker 1: Right, And you know, the whole idea cash is king
Speaker 1: and that's extremely important. And you know, it's great to
Speaker 1: have a credit card and look at your statements at
Speaker 1: the end of the month and know where your purchases are.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that my wife says. She says,
Speaker 1: if I use cash, then it's kind of you forget well, geez,
Speaker 1: I had twenty dollars on me the other day and
Speaker 1: I've got nothing. Now what did I spend that on?
Speaker 1: Then you got to go back through and think about it.
Speaker 1: But the idea of and like I said, I find
Speaker 1: that when you pay with cash, it doesn't hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you pay with a credit card, it doesn't hurt
Speaker 1: as opposed to dipping in your pocket and having to
Speaker 1: count out the money.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Oh, I guess dropped off there, But yeah, Mike appreciate
Speaker 1: the phone call, and Larry I appreciates you calling in
Speaker 1: as well. A first time caller that's cool, and it
Speaker 1: makes sense that when you're out driving around and you're
Speaker 1: on a trip, you need to have cash. And as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, one of the big reasons that
Speaker 1: I that I carry cash is that when I'm at
Speaker 1: a restaurant, I always try to leave the tip in
Speaker 1: cash because that then you can you know, if you
Speaker 1: put it on the credit card, then they will take
Speaker 1: that amount itself and charge them that. Hopefully, with the
Speaker 1: current administration and the tax bills that are going through
Speaker 1: that they'll end the tax on tips, which I think
Speaker 1: would be great. But in the meantime, because if you
Speaker 1: go through the receipts and if they say that okay,
Speaker 1: that they expected a five percent or ten percent tip,
Speaker 1: and then that's what they're taxed on. But if you
Speaker 1: can leave fifteen to twenty percent with cash, then they
Speaker 1: make a lot more money that way. And again, spending
Speaker 1: cash is a lot easier than waiting till pay day
Speaker 1: and getting that on your on your on your paycheck.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's my two cents worth. As far as
Speaker 1: the Penny and a cashlest Society coming up, Phil.
Speaker 2: Flynn will be joining us.
Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR
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Speaker 1: To welcome back to the program our good friend Phil Flynn.
Speaker 1: He's market analyst with Price Futures Group, author of the
Speaker 1: Energy report that I read almost every day, most of
Speaker 1: the times I read that, and he's a contributor to
Speaker 1: Fox Business Network. Phil, Welcome to the program. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the program. I should say, I'm.
Speaker 9: Seeing the spring in the air. And you know the
Speaker 9: first thing I think about when spring comes his higher
Speaker 9: gasoline prices.
Speaker 1: Not if we get these not if we get these
Speaker 1: oil prices down a little bit better. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: been seeing a big movement. One of the things I
Speaker 1: guess the two biggest drivers are the two biggest and
Speaker 1: mostly quoted, West Texas Intermedia Crewed and Brent Crude. West
Speaker 1: Texas Intermediate Crude as of yesterday was down eleven percent
Speaker 1: and then crude down eight percent just from the inauguration
Speaker 1: on the twentieth, which is good news. Hopefully that'll push
Speaker 1: through into the refineries and into the gas pumps, but
Speaker 1: you never know.
Speaker 9: Well, you know what I'll tell you. President Trump has
Speaker 9: been amazing in moving the oil market right and when
Speaker 9: he said that he was going to get prices down
Speaker 9: right away, everybody kind of laughed at him. But he's
Speaker 9: had some success, you know. And I think one of
Speaker 9: the biggest driving forces to the downside is President Trump
Speaker 9: the peacemaker. You know. The possibility that he can get
Speaker 9: Ukraine and Russia in the same room and the war
Speaker 9: possibly lifts sanctions on Russian oil could have a huge
Speaker 9: impact on the globe, not just for those barrels of oil,
Speaker 9: you know, but the you know, the fact that you know,
Speaker 9: the chances of World War three gos goes down, reduces
Speaker 9: the risk to transport oil, and that lowers prices. So
Speaker 9: sometimes you can do it without even drilling.
Speaker 1: Right exactly exactly. And we've seen the peace dividend as
Speaker 1: a result of what's going on in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. We have no longer
Speaker 1: the Huti's attacking some of the ships in the Red Sea,
Speaker 1: which opens that up and cuts down the amount of
Speaker 1: time that these ships have to be out on the
Speaker 1: ocean by as much as two weeks sometime. That's helping
Speaker 1: the flow of oil as well.
Speaker 9: It is, it is, And a lot of the tankers
Speaker 9: that would take that route through those canals, the Swiss
Speaker 9: Canal and other places, you know, did go other ways.
Speaker 9: They didn't want a chance, you know, their people or
Speaker 9: their cargo getting attacked. And it's really sad when you
Speaker 9: think about it, that the Biden administration allowed this rag
Speaker 9: tag group of rebels to get funded by Iran so
Speaker 9: they could you know, play havoc and international shipping lanes.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, it's it's almost kind of laughable
Speaker 9: that they could allow that to happen. But it was
Speaker 9: amazing that they did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a rank tag group of pirates basically that and
Speaker 1: and you know there was supposed to be this what
Speaker 1: was it.
Speaker 2: What is it capital?
Speaker 1: There was some sort of a coalition that was put together,
Speaker 1: I don't know coalation.
Speaker 9: Right, the international coalition is to crack down on the
Speaker 9: pirates correer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they called it some sort of thing like Operation
Speaker 1: Freedom or Operation something. But and they couldn't stop it,
Speaker 1: I mean, for crying out loud, I mean, how how
Speaker 1: difficult would that have been? And then of course not
Speaker 1: and allowing Iran and Russia under sanctions being able to
Speaker 1: still sell their oil around the world and then funding
Speaker 1: these you know, obviously if Iran's making more money off
Speaker 1: their oil, Russia is making money off their oil instead
Speaker 1: of turning that over to their people and making their
Speaker 1: lives better. Now, let's let's invade another country, or let's
Speaker 1: cause terrorism on the state of Israel or the country
Speaker 1: of Israel. It's just the the the weakness of that
Speaker 1: previous administration is just criminal.
Speaker 9: You know, I think it is. And you know, I
Speaker 9: think it gets back to why uh. You know, leadership
Speaker 9: is so important, but not only just leadership in the
Speaker 9: energy policy, right. You know, a lot of people think
Speaker 9: energy policy is just about you know, gasoline prices and
Speaker 9: heating oil bills, but it's it's so much more. It's
Speaker 9: it's geopolitical power. It's about trying to improve the economy.
Speaker 9: It can mean growth and manufacturing, you know. So there's
Speaker 9: so many elements and a lot of what we're seeing,
Speaker 9: you know, with the war in Ukraine, you know, and
Speaker 9: you know the situation with Iran and everybody else has
Speaker 9: an oil subplot running underneath all these conflicts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Phil Flynn.
Speaker 1: The thing that amazes me on your energy report is
Speaker 1: how dead on you are talking about economic issues. I mean,
Speaker 1: you talk about the energy issue, as you just mentioned
Speaker 1: that people think in terms of just gas or whatever.
Speaker 1: But when you look at natural gas, when you look
Speaker 1: at the energy component's heating, oil, diesel, and there isn't
Speaker 1: a business and people are starting to talk about this.
Speaker 1: There isn't a business out there that isn't affected by
Speaker 1: energy prices. And if your energy prices are ten, fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty percent higher than they were four years ago,
Speaker 1: that's going to be reflected in your bottom line and
Speaker 1: that's got to be passed on to your.
Speaker 9: Customers absolutely, you know. And one of the things, of course,
Speaker 9: you know under Biden, you know, he declared a climate
Speaker 9: emergency and you know, let's get away from fossil fuels.
Speaker 9: And he denimized the US oil and gas industry, use
Speaker 9: them of price gouging, even though his policies were the
Speaker 9: ones that were driving their prices. When there was a
Speaker 9: war in Ukraine, you know, a war that he should
Speaker 9: have stopped, he blamed the oil companies because prices went
Speaker 9: up because they're cutting off supplies from Russia and called
Speaker 9: them war profiteers. Yeah, I mean, you know, such a
Speaker 9: bad vision. But then they spend billions of dollars right
Speaker 9: on green energy programs that went nowhere. And now we're
Speaker 9: finding out what the jos that a lot of this
Speaker 9: money went into the pockets of politicians and companies with
Speaker 9: the you know, political connections, you know, so you know,
Speaker 9: and that all cost every American. Everybody says, oh, there's
Speaker 9: always crime in Washington. Well, you know, that's been going
Speaker 9: on for years. You know what, it's crime that's taking
Speaker 9: money out of your pocket, my pocket, and in the
Speaker 9: poor and middle classes pocket that you know, politicians always
Speaker 9: say we care about the poor and middle class. Now
Speaker 9: they're like to lease the poor in the middle classes
Speaker 9: what they've been doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if one thing Donald Trump has done as
Speaker 1: being president is actually giving I guess people more of
Speaker 1: a backbone to speak up, because it appears as though
Speaker 1: a lot of these companies that went down the green
Speaker 1: new steel route in terms of transferring wealth from one
Speaker 1: group of people to another, and they bought into this.
Speaker 1: I mean, you pointed out your energy report yesterday, British
Speaker 1: Petroleum five was it five years ago?
Speaker 2: They tried to do they tried to.
Speaker 1: Change their image from British petroleum to beyond petroleum, and
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden they're reversing that back and saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're taking our stock is not doing
Speaker 1: so well, and our investors are starting to scream and say, hey,
Speaker 1: these other oil companies are doing better and I could
Speaker 1: buy you know, have better stock there. All of a
Speaker 1: sudden they're waking up. They're investing more in oil and
Speaker 1: less in the green New Deal or the green as
Speaker 1: I call it, the Green New Steel. But it's right,
Speaker 1: it's like, it's okay now to not be woke.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is. And listen, I mean, you know, I mean,
Speaker 9: I grew up in America, you know, you know when
Speaker 9: I grew up, it was like, and we believe in
Speaker 9: free speech. That's part of the constitution. That's what makes
Speaker 9: us different than our compadres. Right, and the other countries
Speaker 9: are bad because you know, they control the press, they
Speaker 9: control free speech, and that's why they're bad, right, you know,
Speaker 9: But now we see what's been going on in this country.
Speaker 9: It's sad. I mean when you see that the mainstream
Speaker 9: media has been lying to you, they've been lying to
Speaker 9: you about climate change. They've been lying to you, you know,
Speaker 9: about where your money's going.
Speaker 2: And Phil Flynn, this is a good point about.
Speaker 9: You were canceled or whatever.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, And Phil Flynn, we need to take a
Speaker 1: quick break here and come back and pick this up
Speaker 1: on the other side because this green energy and what
Speaker 1: they're doing as far as climate change and the whole
Speaker 1: hoax there has been astounding and we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: coming up. My guest is Phil Flynn, senior market analyst,
Speaker 1: Price Futures Group. Continue our conversation with Phil Flynn, the
Speaker 1: senior analysts, senior market analysts the Price Futures Group and
Speaker 1: author of the Energy Report, which I read. I got
Speaker 1: to say it's almost every day. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: a wealth of information in there. You've talked about this
Speaker 1: week Donald Trump being a great negotiator and it's amazing
Speaker 1: what he's been able to accomplish. Power to the people.
Speaker 1: The other day talking about energies, are trying to prompt
Speaker 1: these these companies to you with the necessity of AI
Speaker 1: and the technology that that's going to require to build
Speaker 1: up their energy production by ten to fifteen percent. And
Speaker 1: it is just a wealth of information. And you call
Speaker 1: them like you see them. You talk about the green energy,
Speaker 1: the green news, as I call it, the green news,
Speaker 1: steel about this climate change hope that the hoax that
Speaker 1: we've been fed over the.
Speaker 9: Years, it is, you know, and I appreciate your compliments
Speaker 9: and the report, and yeah, I mean when you look
Speaker 9: at what Donald Trump has achieved already, it's amazing. And
Speaker 9: we'll be talk about power to the people. Listen, the
Speaker 9: economy of the future is not going to be driven
Speaker 9: by electric cars. It's not going to be driven by
Speaker 9: solar panels and windmills. It's going to be driven by
Speaker 9: artificial intelligence. And if you're going to have the strongest
Speaker 9: economy in the world, if you're going to keep jobs
Speaker 9: in this country, if you're going to have a strong
Speaker 9: national defense, then the only way that you can take
Speaker 9: care of that is by expanding your capacity to produce
Speaker 9: energy and meet the demands that is coming. So that
Speaker 9: is definitely one of the things that Trump gets and
Speaker 9: we're going to have to expand our capacity.
Speaker 1: I don't hear anybody talking about as much as I
Speaker 1: think they should, just exactly how much this AI technology requires.
Speaker 1: As far as the energy production. I've seen reports that
Speaker 1: some of these buildings require almost the same amount of
Speaker 1: energy as a small city.
Speaker 9: It is, it is, it's amazing. And in fact, a
Speaker 9: couple of crypto currency what they call mining stations right
Speaker 9: in artificial intelligence, can consume as much energy as three
Speaker 9: or four countries in Europe combined. Okay, and so that's
Speaker 9: it's incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I didn't realize this much, And then I
Speaker 1: started thinking about it that you know, not only are
Speaker 1: you talking about the energy in order to run the
Speaker 1: equipment itself, but then there's energy that's required to cool
Speaker 1: down the equipment. Because of this, the amount of heat
Speaker 1: that comes off of these computers. And I remember doing
Speaker 1: an audit years ago and it was a smaller but
Speaker 1: they had in this one room and I think the
Speaker 1: room was probably too small, but they had I think
Speaker 1: thirty five servers in there. And you walk in that
Speaker 1: room and it was almost like a sauna. And if
Speaker 1: for some reason the air conditioner got blocked in there,
Speaker 1: all hell would break loose and that stuff would melt down,
Speaker 1: or you know, they damage the equipment. So not only
Speaker 1: do you have the energy to run the equipment, but
Speaker 1: you also have an awful lot of energy needed to
Speaker 1: cool the equipment.
Speaker 9: You're absolutely correct. And then when you look at the
Speaker 9: applications that are built, right because everything is going to
Speaker 9: have artificial intelligence. You know, a lot of people that
Speaker 9: are listening in to us today have maybe noticed on
Speaker 9: their updates and computers all of a sudden they have
Speaker 9: not just spell check, but they have something called my
Speaker 9: co pilot. Yeah, like, yeah, write you know what you're writing,
Speaker 9: or you can ask it questions, or it can summarize documents.
Speaker 9: You know, And this is just the beginning. It reminds me,
Speaker 9: Kevin of the beginning of the internet. Remember when you know,
Speaker 9: I'm old enough to remember, nobody had computers on our desk.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, flag rolls and paper right right, you know
Speaker 9: now I mean, uh, well little calculators if you could
Speaker 9: afford them, a big one, big one. But anyway, but yeah,
Speaker 9: but this is what's happening right now with the artificial intelligence,
Speaker 9: and Trump gets us. You know, you look at it
Speaker 9: and say, how are you going to pay off this
Speaker 9: ridiculous DAFA said, oh, yeah, we're cunning government spending. But
Speaker 9: is that going to be enough? You know? But how
Speaker 9: did we do it in the past? It was with
Speaker 9: tax cuts, economic growth and the Internet revolution, right, and
Speaker 9: so now we're going to have another iteration of this.
Speaker 9: And Donald Trump looks at the big picture and he
Speaker 9: gets it. And you know, we can either lead in
Speaker 9: this area or we can be left behind. And the
Speaker 9: sad part is if we get left behind, that means
Speaker 9: our children and our grandchildren are going to be left behind. Right. Good,
Speaker 9: everybody and everybody cares about the environment, right, and we
Speaker 9: want a safe environment. That's great, right, But you know
Speaker 9: the fear mongeringe over climate change. I mean, I can
Speaker 9: give you an example after example of all these fear
Speaker 9: mongering politicians. So give us money, or you know, the
Speaker 9: world's gonna end in six years and it's going to
Speaker 9: be irreversible. Uh, you know a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 9: I can go back thirty years and show that these
Speaker 9: predictions have been totally wrong. Listen to me.
Speaker 1: I think that we should have been Phil Flynn. I
Speaker 1: think we should have all been dead about ten years
Speaker 1: ago if the climate predictions had been true, and would
Speaker 1: be snorkling right now in New York City.
Speaker 9: Well yeah, and you know, I mean I thought, I
Speaker 9: could you know, buy beach property in Lake Mischigan, Michigan
Speaker 9: that I could be using today. Yeah, it's not working.
Speaker 1: Out that way, yeah, from the shoreline and Allison, your
Speaker 1: beachfront property. One thing before we got to the end
Speaker 1: is that you've been very adamant about this. And you're
Speaker 1: one of the few people, few economists that I've seeing,
Speaker 1: if I can call you an economist other than a
Speaker 1: analyst and a genius with commodities. But the whole idea
Speaker 1: of tariffs being inflationary, you have been very adamant that
Speaker 1: not necessarily, no.
Speaker 9: They or not in fact, that the one cause of inflation,
Speaker 9: and the major cause of inflation is government waste spending
Speaker 9: and printing money. Right. And you know, I can tell
Speaker 9: you there's a lot of farmers that are listening to
Speaker 9: us right now. Right. You know, remember when we put
Speaker 9: tariffs on grains and China, I mean, prices didn't go up,
Speaker 9: they went down, right, Not that it wasn't good for
Speaker 9: the farmers, but you know it is good for the consumers.
Speaker 9: So you know, when you talk about tariffs, tariffs are attacked.
Speaker 9: So when I hear a Democratic politicians and ah, he's
Speaker 9: just going to be added to inflation, and then I
Speaker 9: would say to them, well, you want to tax the
Speaker 9: millionaires and billionaires more money, So what you're saying, is
Speaker 9: the taxes, and so you're going to be adding to inflation,
Speaker 9: you know, so they talk out of both sides of
Speaker 9: their mouth. The only cause of inflation, and everybody can
Speaker 9: write this down is government mismanagement of the economy by
Speaker 9: printing too much money. And President Biden printed more money
Speaker 9: than any president you know, I think in history, and
Speaker 9: that is why we have inflation.
Speaker 1: Well, Phil, they also Phil Flynn. They also pointed out
Speaker 1: the fact that what that what was it, the Economic
Speaker 1: Recovery Act or whatever that was called the Last Round
Speaker 1: or the last few rounds of spending. The economists were
Speaker 1: warning him that this was going to add to inflation,
Speaker 1: and they said, no, it's not. And then when they
Speaker 1: had the what the Infrastructure Bill and they sold it
Speaker 1: as infrastructure, and then it had all these these green
Speaker 1: new steel stuff in there that siphoned off a bunch
Speaker 1: of money that went to waste, fraud, and abuse. Uh,
Speaker 1: those are the things that that caused inflation. And the
Speaker 1: people that said it was going to cause inflation were
Speaker 1: absolutely correct.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, you know. Instead of calling it the Inflation Reduction Act,
Speaker 9: they should have said the Inflation you know, explosion Act,
Speaker 9: because that's what it. Did you know, government inefficiency, government
Speaker 9: printing money that they don't have to pay for programs
Speaker 9: that will never be built. Right. Build back better was
Speaker 9: like build nothing right. Build back better is building back
Speaker 9: you know some bank accounts, that's what they were building
Speaker 9: back better. But you know, does anybody believe that things
Speaker 9: are better? Do you see? You know, everybody buying electric cars.
Speaker 9: You see that they're cheap. No, I mean, you know,
Speaker 9: they gave tax breaks to millionaires so they could buy
Speaker 9: electric cars while the poor middle class got hit with
Speaker 9: higher gasoline prices, higher heating bills. Right, and they all say, well,
Speaker 9: it's good to save the planet. You know, they don't
Speaker 9: care about the planet.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 9: If they cared about the planet, they would have a
Speaker 9: realistic energy policy that not you know, that didn't wipe
Speaker 9: out the poor and mittle class and you know, net
Speaker 9: the demands for our future and our children's future.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if they cared about the environment, if they
Speaker 1: cared about saving the planet, and they you know, you
Speaker 1: see these windmills out in the ocean that are beaching
Speaker 1: whales and killing birds. You see these solar panels that
Speaker 1: can't be good for the environment. And when they get
Speaker 1: disposed of that's not helping the environment, and they're really
Speaker 1: not producing the amount of energy that they had originally
Speaker 1: promised us that they would. So it's just a transfer
Speaker 1: of wealth from one organization to another. And then they
Speaker 1: can go belly up and they can take all the
Speaker 1: money that they siphoned off and go play on the
Speaker 1: beach in the Caribbean.
Speaker 2: I guess absolutely.
Speaker 9: And where do you do? You know the question you
Speaker 9: have to ask yourself where do old solar panels go
Speaker 9: when they lift their lifetime?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 9: Where did the old you know wind turbines goatly changed
Speaker 9: every year?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 9: Don't they end up back in the environment? Right, there's
Speaker 9: a graveyard of you know, massive you know wind turbines
Speaker 9: that have to be changed and they can't be recycled,
Speaker 9: so they're gonna sit there in the planet for years
Speaker 9: and years to unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Clint Well, Phili thank you so much. I really, I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you spending time with us this morning. We're
Speaker 1: kind of getting up to a hard break here and
Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate your time and I got to have
Speaker 1: you back more often.
Speaker 2: This is just too much fun, just amazing.
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Speaker 1: Seven thirty one in the morning. Actually he's seven thirty
Speaker 1: two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: fifty five KRC the talk Station. My next guest is
Speaker 1: a guy that well, I wish I didn't have to
Speaker 1: talk to him only because of the subject matter that
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Maybe we could talk about something else
Speaker 1: later on down the line. But my guest is Kevin Richardson.
Speaker 1: He's a pastor also senior director of Regional Advancement Sunrise
Speaker 1: Children Services. And I got told about this by one
Speaker 1: of Ran Paul's field guys talking about this event that's
Speaker 1: going to be happening out at Main Street Church Saturday,
Speaker 1: March the twenty second, and the purpose of this called
Speaker 1: fighting for freedom the community addressing human trafficking. And talking
Speaker 1: to you yesterday, Kevin, when you talked told about some
Speaker 1: of the things going on in our community and in
Speaker 1: this area, scared the actual actually gave me the piece shivers,
Speaker 1: as I should say. But welcome to the program anyway.
Speaker 6: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it so much. I appreciate
Speaker 6: the opportunity to be on and it is a difficult subject.
Speaker 6: I mean, I wish we could talk about pennies that
Speaker 6: you talked about earlier, because I agree with you one
Speaker 6: hundred percent on that, but unfortunately we have to delve
Speaker 6: into subjects like this, and I do want to thank
Speaker 6: Billy Matthews again, like you just mentioned at Senator Paul's
Speaker 6: office for setting us up, because this is huge. I
Speaker 6: am indeed senior Regional Advancement director for Sunrise Children's Services.
Speaker 6: We are across the Commonwealth, and I'm a bivocational pastor
Speaker 6: of Flag Springs Baptist Church in southern Campbell County. I've
Speaker 6: been dealing with this in our agency because we're getting
Speaker 6: more and more kids at our agency who have been trafficked,
Speaker 6: and I didn't realize the numbers until a friend of
Speaker 6: mine called me about setting this up. Where I work,
Speaker 6: it's a multifunctional agency. We contract with the Department of
Speaker 6: Community Based Services and Child Protective Services when kids are
Speaker 6: removed from the home or one of the larger agencies
Speaker 6: that take care of that. But you know, we provide
Speaker 6: residential psychiatric adolescent addiction, multifaceted levels of sexual abuse therapy,
Speaker 6: foster care, foster to adopt needing foster parents. You know,
Speaker 6: more and more all the time. So we've been in
Speaker 6: this fight, Kevin for many years anyway. But while I've
Speaker 6: been concerned about human trafficking from a Christian standpoint especially,
Speaker 6: and I've been reminding our congregation frequently about it here
Speaker 6: at Flags, rings about it being both a domestic and
Speaker 6: international problem. Especially you know, you know about it too,
Speaker 6: the children who were unaccompanied, especially the last four years
Speaker 6: at our southern border. You know, numbers ranging anywhere from
Speaker 6: thirty thousand to some estimates being a lot more than that.
Speaker 6: You've heard about that in the new Yeah, yeah. And
Speaker 6: it wasn't until I started getting data from our own
Speaker 6: agency about the kids who are coming in, especially to
Speaker 6: our residential who've been directly affected by this, that I
Speaker 6: really started to take a look and why it's become
Speaker 6: such an epidemic. Move it ahead. My friend and colleague,
Speaker 6: Linda Bates from wealth Care health Care is a friend
Speaker 6: of mine and an associate, and she's been trying to
Speaker 6: help solve at least try to begin to solve some
Speaker 6: of these problems through the passion she has for this.
Speaker 6: And she called me about trying to help her set
Speaker 6: this event up. And if you don't mind, I have
Speaker 6: Linda with me this morning because she can explain her
Speaker 6: pasth for this a lot better than I can. If
Speaker 6: you don't mind, Kevin, I'd like to have problem Linda
Speaker 6: to the audience.
Speaker 1: But let's pick this up on the other side of break.
Speaker 1: We've got to take a quick break here and we'll
Speaker 1: come right back and we'll be talking to Kevin Richardson
Speaker 1: and Linda Bates about this event and what's going on
Speaker 1: in the northern Kentucky area. I'm Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 1: The morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five
Speaker 1: KR see the talk station continuing our conversation with Kevin
Speaker 1: Richards sending his pastor and senior director of Regional Advancement
Speaker 1: Sunrise Services. And also we're going to be joined by
Speaker 1: Linda Bates, senior community relations coordinators at Weldcare. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the programmer. Thank you for being there, folks. And
Speaker 1: before the break you were going to talk Linda was
Speaker 1: going to bring a couple of talk about a couple
Speaker 1: of issues as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, she's the one passionate about this, She's the one
Speaker 6: that called me early on to try to get this
Speaker 6: thing together in the first place. So Linda, if you would, Yeah.
Speaker 14: So, in my role with well Care, which we are
Speaker 14: Medicaid provided for the State of Kentucky, I was able
Speaker 14: to go to an event that we sponsored in Louisville
Speaker 14: by Scarlett Hope, which is a nonprofit who addresses getting
Speaker 14: women out of the sex industry by providering meals and mentorship.
Speaker 14: And so I went to that event and that kind
Speaker 14: of opened my eyes to how big the problem was.
Speaker 14: And that day when I was at that event, I
Speaker 14: heard stories about lives being changed there, being saved from
Speaker 14: human trafficking. They were being one for Christ. And I
Speaker 14: walked out of there with really a burden on my
Speaker 14: heart to do something more in northern Kentucky where I live.
Speaker 14: And so, through a lots of twists and turns of
Speaker 14: that day three years ago, here we are now today
Speaker 14: with this event coming up on March twenty seconds, and
Speaker 14: we have some committed community partners, whether that be for profits,
Speaker 14: non for profits, retirees, teachers, church members, it's yes.
Speaker 6: And just Kevin just to kind of let you know,
Speaker 6: we've got a wider range of for example, table boots
Speaker 6: that are going to be there, Saint Elizabeth Healthcare with
Speaker 6: their sexual abuse nurse table, obviously, Sunrise Children's Services. Detective
Speaker 6: Eric Higgins is going to be there from Frankfort. He's
Speaker 6: going to give us signs to look at like at
Speaker 6: the airport and things. If you have a child with
Speaker 6: an adult, it doesn't look like it fits. How to
Speaker 6: get help, you know, without approaching them. Tiffany Brereton with
Speaker 6: she was made for More, Angie Young with a of course,
Speaker 6: let it be done, exposing sex trafficking, Ion Center, Bikers
Speaker 6: Against Child Abuse, Safe Passage, Barn and Grace Ministries. I mean,
Speaker 6: I could go on and on and on.
Speaker 1: Now, these are gonna be individual tables there that people
Speaker 1: can go and talk to them, and then.
Speaker 6: We're gonna have We're gonna have two keynotes, We're gonna
Speaker 6: have multiple testimonials, We're gonna have praise and worship there.
Speaker 6: We're gonna have time to go visit the tables. A
Speaker 6: light breakfast will be served in the morning and then
Speaker 6: lunch will be served, and uh, there will be plenty
Speaker 6: of time to gather a lot of information. I would
Speaker 6: recommend bringing multiple people with you so you can kind
Speaker 6: of divide and conquer, because you're gonna have three opportunities
Speaker 6: for eight different breakouts. So, uh, there's gonna be just
Speaker 6: a lot of information that's gonna be available there. And
Speaker 6: so once again just to remind everyone, this is going
Speaker 6: to be Saturday. Get there early. I would recommend getting
Speaker 6: there about seven forty five, eight o'clock for the light breakfast,
Speaker 6: and then map out what you want to do for
Speaker 6: the day. But March twenty second, Main Street Baptist Church, Alexandria, Kentucky,
Speaker 6: and it'll be a ten dollars registration. You know, we're
Speaker 6: just trying to get skin in the game. We're not
Speaker 6: trying to charge too much for this. But the sponsors
Speaker 6: are Flag Springs Baptist Church, Sunrise Children's Services, brass Key Coffee,
Speaker 6: Main Street Baptist, obviously Plum Creek Church, and obviously Wellcare
Speaker 6: of Kentucky. That lend to works's going to.
Speaker 1: Be okay when we get back, We've got to take
Speaker 1: a quick break here. When we get back, we're going
Speaker 1: to tell the listeners just exactly what we're dealing with
Speaker 1: by the numbers and the you know, people think in
Speaker 1: terms of trafficking, and they just think in terms of
Speaker 1: possibly prostitution and so on. But there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: more to this and it is a lot more prevalent
Speaker 1: than what we I think the most people understand. My
Speaker 1: guest is Kevin Richardson and Linda Bates. Kevin Richardson is pastor,
Speaker 1: Senior director of Regional Advancement Sunrise Children's Services, and Linda Bates,
Speaker 1: Senior Community Relations coordinator at Waldcare. I'm gonna pick this
Speaker 1: up on the other side of the break. I'm Kevin
Speaker 1: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Seven nine in the morning Kevin Gordon and for Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas fifty five k see the talk station. Continue our
Speaker 1: conversation with Kevin Richardson, pastor, Senior Director of Regional Advancement
Speaker 1: Sunrise Children's Services and Linda Bates, Senior Community Relations with
Speaker 1: a coordinator with Welcare talking about this event on March
Speaker 1: to twenty second at Main Street Church Fighting for Freedom
Speaker 1: a call to action become part of the community addressing
Speaker 1: human trafficking. Thanks for being with us. I certainly appreciate
Speaker 1: you hanging with us through the break.
Speaker 2: What are no worries people are?
Speaker 1: Tell us about the numbers, tell us about what you
Speaker 1: were seeing on an ongoing basis, and.
Speaker 6: Linda has those right here. I just wanted to briefly
Speaker 6: tell you the cost of care Kevin at Sunrise, especially
Speaker 6: with our residential facilities, has gone up astronomically, especially in
Speaker 6: like the last five years because a direct result of
Speaker 6: the trafficking that these kids have gone through. You know,
Speaker 6: there's just a lot of you know, angst and hatred
Speaker 6: that these kids have that who can blame them if
Speaker 6: you're traded among so many different adults for sexual favors
Speaker 6: and then you know, we wind up getting them just
Speaker 6: the cost. You know, from our standpoint, it has gone
Speaker 6: through the roof. So that's just part of it. But
Speaker 6: Linda's got some hard numbers here, Okay.
Speaker 14: So according to according to the National Human Trafficking in
Speaker 14: twenty twenty three, there were over thirty thousand reports of
Speaker 14: sexual trafficking and about seven thousand of those calls came
Speaker 14: actually from victims or survivors.
Speaker 1: Are we talking are we talking adults or these children
Speaker 1: or both?
Speaker 14: That national hotline does not break it does not break
Speaker 14: it down, So that could be a combination of everything.
Speaker 14: But when I look at the statistics in Kentucky in
Speaker 14: twenty twenty three, there were over close to five hundred
Speaker 14: reports of child sexual trafficking, and that's an increase of
Speaker 14: over fourteen percent from the previous year. And even though
Speaker 14: there might be five hundred reports of that, that is
Speaker 14: frequently more than one child in a report, so.
Speaker 6: A lot of was unreported.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I was just going to say that that
Speaker 1: number is way low.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, yes.
Speaker 14: Yes, it is very low. And when you think about
Speaker 14: the trafficking, it can be familial trafficking where children are
Speaker 14: trafficked for drugs or money, something of value. It could
Speaker 14: be survival sex where basic necessities are held from a
Speaker 14: child for them to be forced to participate in activities,
Speaker 14: powder being solicited for child sexual abuse material through.
Speaker 6: Online platforms dark web.
Speaker 14: Yeah, children are being forced to work while pay is
Speaker 14: being withheld.
Speaker 1: And just now, how much of this is a result
Speaker 1: of what we've seen at the southern border. How much
Speaker 1: of this is I guess domestic versus what has been
Speaker 1: flooding across the border. We've only got about a two
Speaker 1: minutes to go here.
Speaker 6: No, I mean it's bad both ways, Kevin. I mean
Speaker 6: that's the bottom line. But there's no question about it.
Speaker 6: I would love to see you know, And I don't
Speaker 6: want to get political with this, because this is a
Speaker 6: scourge no matter what you're talking about politically. But we
Speaker 6: have seen such a huge number of unaccompanied miners, as
Speaker 6: we said before, that have come across what happened to them.
Speaker 6: You know, many could be dead, many could be still
Speaker 6: being traffic. You've heard things like organ harvesting and things
Speaker 6: like that. I mean, I'm just looking forward to some
Speaker 6: type of new report and update as to exactly what
Speaker 6: happened and what happened to these children. But by saying that,
Speaker 6: I don't want to under talk about the domestic problem
Speaker 6: because you have people who are addicted to drugs, you
Speaker 6: may sell their children. You have people who get in
Speaker 6: financial straits. I mean, to me, as a pastor, it's
Speaker 6: a morality problem. Obviously, I believe people need christ and
Speaker 6: I'm unapologetic about this, and this is a Christian event.
Speaker 6: We're unapologetic about that too, even though we're going to
Speaker 6: have secular agencies there. But Kevin across the board is
Speaker 6: bad both domestically and internationally, and it's it's getting worse now.
Speaker 6: I'm hoping that with the closure of the border and
Speaker 6: things like that that it will help. But obviously all
Speaker 6: of this stuff needs to be addressed both domestically and internationally.
Speaker 6: As to what's already gone on, I'm hoping that data
Speaker 6: will be completely updated as to what you know happen
Speaker 6: to those kids and the bottom line, agencies like ours
Speaker 6: and agencies we've already talked about are suffering mightily because
Speaker 6: of the amount of mental abuse and sexual abuse that
Speaker 6: they had.
Speaker 1: And finally to wrap up here because we're up against
Speaker 1: a hard break and I apologize for you. The event
Speaker 1: is Saturday, March the twenty second, nine to four thirty pm.
Speaker 1: Breakfast is early. People want to get in contact. Where
Speaker 1: do they go? Where do can they look this up?
Speaker 6: Yes, we have a registration to go to. The best
Speaker 6: thing to do for our purposes here is you can
Speaker 6: either call Linda.
Speaker 14: At five O two four three eight six.
Speaker 6: Seven one eighth, or you can go to Linda dot
Speaker 6: Bates at Wellcare dot com. Or you can call me,
Speaker 6: go to Sunrise dot org, or go to Linda's email
Speaker 6: and get more information and you can do The main
Speaker 6: thing is call Linda and she'll get you set up
Speaker 6: no problem. And if you would like a table, if
Speaker 6: you're a resource, table is available to you as well.
Speaker 6: The more of the merrier if you can help this
Speaker 6: situation along well.
Speaker 1: Kevin Richardson and Linda Bates, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: spending time with us. This is a scary topic and
Speaker 1: I hope we can get some resolution into it and
Speaker 1: move towards ending this scourge. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being with us. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty
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Speaker 1: Coming up on six minutes after eight o'clock. Welcome to
Speaker 1: this beautiful Thursday. One of the things that I want
Speaker 1: to talk about here briefly is well, I just want
Speaker 1: to answer ask the question. As many of you know,
Speaker 1: I was involved in the group that was back in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen that when they started proposing public private partnership
Speaker 1: and they we're going to build a companion bridge down
Speaker 1: there on next to the Brents Benz Bridge, that it
Speaker 1: was going to be a public private partnership that would
Speaker 1: lead to tolling.
Speaker 2: We opposed that.
Speaker 1: We knocked it out of the park as far as
Speaker 1: that stopped that in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: on the legislative session got it killed. But I remember
Speaker 1: Obama being down there in twenty eleven talking about shovel
Speaker 1: ready projects. As far as some of his proposals, I
Speaker 1: remember Biden being down there talking about his infrastructure bill
Speaker 1: and how this was a project that was part of that.
Speaker 1: The funding has been there since twenty twenty two when
Speaker 1: they got the grant for this funding that would then
Speaker 1: lead to the construction of the bridge down there with
Speaker 1: no tolling, and yet today still there has never not
Speaker 1: been a groundbreaking ceremony.
Speaker 2: Is the bridge not needed?
Speaker 1: Were we being lied to in terms of the volume
Speaker 1: coming across that bridge or the delays.
Speaker 2: Or any event? What is the deal down there?
Speaker 1: And why isn't anybody putting the pressure on these people
Speaker 1: Okai and whoever that was selling us this bill of
Speaker 1: goods that apparently this wasn't as big as a crisis
Speaker 1: as they were telling us back in twenty thirteen, and
Speaker 1: why did they What's going on? I see, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, or actually when when the
Speaker 1: heck was this? This was back in January. Group aims
Speaker 1: to nix the three point six billion river bridge project.
Speaker 1: Talking about the pig toes and the wardy backs, the
Speaker 1: endangered species and stuff down there, just unbelievable. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we were told that this was crisis situation
Speaker 1: had to be built right here right now, and here
Speaker 1: we are twelve years later, and you know, glad that
Speaker 1: the group that I was part of, have saved this area,
Speaker 1: especially northern Kentucky over a billion dollars folks, that's with
Speaker 1: a B in terms of money coming out of their
Speaker 1: pockets that would have been funding tolls over that period
Speaker 1: of time. So I'm very proud to have saved the
Speaker 1: area that much money. But it just amazes me that
Speaker 1: this is not talked about. There was some news last
Speaker 1: night that the Epstein flight logs are going to be
Speaker 1: released here soon, the guest list, if you will.
Speaker 2: That's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of people in Washington and
Speaker 1: around the country that are kind of going on, how am
Speaker 1: I going to explain this one away? Now? As they say,
Speaker 1: just being on the flight log doesn't necessarily mean that
Speaker 1: you participated in any of this going on on Epstein Island.
Speaker 1: But interesting also on the desk of the Attorney General
Speaker 1: and the investigations going on. I want to know what
Speaker 1: the hell happened in Butler, Pennsylvania. I want to get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of that and get the bottom of
Speaker 1: that quickly. I see that the Secret Service agent that
Speaker 1: one of the guys that was shielding Trump that day
Speaker 1: has been promoted to head of the Secret Service, which
Speaker 1: is good. I would like to see as far as
Speaker 1: the individual investmentations, when are we going to see the release?
Speaker 1: And I guess we're getting close to it, to see
Speaker 1: what actually happened. As far as RFK Junior, John F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, I think it's about
Speaker 1: time that the American public know what the hell happened
Speaker 1: there and again in the in the vacuum of not
Speaker 1: getting information, of not being this put to rest, you've
Speaker 1: got all these conspiracy theories, and quite honestly, at this
Speaker 1: point in time, the fact that this is dragged on
Speaker 1: so well so long, I don't know that the actual
Speaker 1: documents coming out of the FBI or whatever agencies is
Speaker 1: going to quell those rumors and quell those conspiracy theories,
Speaker 1: because it's just.
Speaker 2: Gone on too long.
Speaker 1: And when you you know the absence of information, people
Speaker 1: fill in the blanks themselves. And when you fill in
Speaker 1: the blanks, you can come up with all kinds of
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, and there's been a bunch floated out there
Speaker 1: over the years. I would like to get a resolution
Speaker 1: to that. Again, I'd like to know what's in those
Speaker 1: files and just exactly what they're saying. But like so
Speaker 1: many things, and look at what we look at what
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna I'm not going I am going
Speaker 1: to lay this at the feet of the Democrats. Look
Speaker 1: what the Democratic Party has done to turn us against
Speaker 1: the institutions that we were supposed to rely on. You know,
Speaker 1: the liberals back in the day, they wanted to tear
Speaker 1: down the Catholic Church, they wanted to tear down religion.
Speaker 1: They wanted to get morality out of the talking about
Speaker 1: and out of schools and out of every place else.
Speaker 1: And we've seen what that done as far as the
Speaker 1: moral decline. But then you start having the fact of
Speaker 1: people were always supportive of the military. They tried to
Speaker 1: destroy that. And with Johnson dragging on the war in Vietnam,
Speaker 1: how the military got a bad name with some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that they were doing there. And we've seen
Speaker 1: how the Democrats over the years have tried to demilitarize
Speaker 1: or try to ruin the military. And now that we're seeing,
Speaker 1: you know, every time the Republicans come in, they start
Speaker 1: building back up the morale and the military, and look
Speaker 1: at what happened as a result of the weaponization of
Speaker 1: the FBI, the Justice Apartment, the NIS, the CDC. Of course,
Speaker 1: I've not been a big fan or trusting much as
Speaker 1: far as the CDC is concerned, ever since I started
Speaker 1: learning about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment that was started back
Speaker 1: during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency in the forties, where they actually
Speaker 1: allowed black men down in the South in Tuskegee, Alabama,
Speaker 1: to get syphilis and then not treat it, telling them
Speaker 1: that they were giving them the medicine for this, but
Speaker 1: the experiment was to watch how this destroyed their bodies
Speaker 1: and how this would ravage that And this went on
Speaker 1: for forty almost well thirty plus years and was ended
Speaker 1: during the Nixon administration. So when you have the CDC
Speaker 1: at that point, where the forerunner of the CDC I
Speaker 1: think was National something Health Department or whatever that when
Speaker 1: this was found out, wound up forming the CDC and
Speaker 1: nobody went to jail. As a result of the torture
Speaker 1: and the killing of these people down there, I started thinking, well,
Speaker 1: what other things are they hiding? And then, of course,
Speaker 1: once we got the pandemic that came about, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we started seeing how we were being censored,
Speaker 1: We were being kicked off of social media if you
Speaker 1: dare say anything different than what the agenda was. We
Speaker 1: had Fauci talking about that, oh, this could not have
Speaker 1: possibly been coming from the Wuhan lab, even though the
Speaker 1: virus came out of the Wuhn wet market in no
Speaker 1: connection there.
Speaker 2: And all the things.
Speaker 1: That they kicked doctors out, they suspended their licenses, they
Speaker 1: took away their livelihood because they dared to speak up
Speaker 1: about this, and all the lives ruined as a result
Speaker 1: of the shutdowns, because we were lied to as far
Speaker 1: as the six foot distancing, as far as how contagious
Speaker 1: this was, how rampant it was, the necessity and how
Speaker 1: they closed down the schools and close down the business,
Speaker 1: wrecked the economy, and we still don't have all the
Speaker 1: details from that and why they felt that was all necessary,
Speaker 1: and the amount of lies that we were told about
Speaker 1: this virus and the fact that now we don't well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of us me included that I always
Speaker 1: I kind of take with a grain of salt. I've
Speaker 1: always been kind of suspicious of medical community, either from
Speaker 1: knowing that you know, you have a difference between sports
Speaker 1: medicine versus other type of medicine, going from one doctor
Speaker 1: to another getting a second opinion, and you talk to
Speaker 1: some doctors at pushpills some that don't, and you have
Speaker 1: a healthy skepticism of what's going on, because if you're
Speaker 1: in tune with your body and try to pay attention
Speaker 1: to your own body, you kind of know what the
Speaker 1: ailment is. But you depend on the medical community in
Speaker 1: times of need, and how many times the joke about
Speaker 1: practicing medicine and so all these institutions that have been
Speaker 1: ruined because of the lies perpetrated, the lies coming out
Speaker 1: the lawfair that was going against Trump for the four years,
Speaker 1: well for the four years he was in office and
Speaker 1: the four years after being in office. And we have
Speaker 1: all of these conspiracy theories that are out there that
Speaker 1: many of them have been proven true. This whole deal
Speaker 1: with climate change that we were talking with Phil Flynn
Speaker 1: over the fact that we've been lied to about that
Speaker 1: and all of the stuff that we've be being told.
Speaker 1: It's almost like, what do you believe now? Phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 1: Twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: fifty five Carosee the talk station. Coming up to the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, we're gonna be talking as Savannah Maddox.
Speaker 1: She is a state representative Kentucky state representative in the
Speaker 1: sixty first district. Kind of give us a legislative update
Speaker 1: from Frankfort to be interesting there. I hate to admit this,
Speaker 1: but I have not been as engaged in the legislative
Speaker 1: session this year as I normally have been in the
Speaker 1: past because of other things that I've been doing and
Speaker 1: I'm working on the America's Truck and Network show. I mean,
Speaker 1: there has just been a lot of news in terms
Speaker 1: of everything affecting transportation, industry, energy and everything going on.
Speaker 1: To try to keep track of what's going on, and
Speaker 1: of course you got to get your daily update of
Speaker 1: what's going on as far as Doze and as far
Speaker 1: as what's going on in the administration. And I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you it's been extremely entertaining to watch the Hair
Speaker 1: on Fire, the hysterics coming from the left.
Speaker 2: And what amazes.
Speaker 1: Me is the thing that's put into perspective is that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has gone on and gone for the things
Speaker 1: that about eighty to eighty five percent of the American
Speaker 1: people are in favor of, and the Democratic Party is
Speaker 1: being faced with defending the things that only twenty percent
Speaker 1: of the population want, so being out of touch, and
Speaker 1: it is just no matter what Trump does, they are
Speaker 1: screaming and yelling. And when you see what has been done,
Speaker 1: when I go back and I look at how far
Speaker 1: and what institutions that Donald Trump has taken on and destroyed,
Speaker 1: You've got the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: You have every one of them back on their heels.
Speaker 1: You have a joy Read been fired less or Holt
Speaker 1: that's stepping down. You have a whole host of people
Speaker 1: that have been reduced. MSNBC, CNN. MSNBC is on this
Speaker 1: seller's block. Even NBC doesn't want to be part of them.
Speaker 1: CNN is teetering on Washington Post. They're changing their editorial
Speaker 1: tune to be more fair and balanced and to produce
Speaker 1: more conservative opinions there, and the liberals there are going
Speaker 1: on now. Mind you. These are journalists. These are people
Speaker 1: that are we've been told over the years, are going
Speaker 1: to give us the who, what, when, we're how and
Speaker 1: why reporting, But instead it's been opinion opinion, opinion opinion
Speaker 1: and trying to gaslight us in terms of what we
Speaker 1: have seen with our own eyes, that somehow we're not
Speaker 1: seeing what we're seeing. And the fact that this has
Speaker 1: been destroyed the FBI that investigated Trump, the fact that
Speaker 1: they had these spies within his organization or spying on
Speaker 1: his campaign, that we were told was just a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: Now we've got Jake Tapper, of all people, Jake Tapper,
Speaker 1: who they were showing last night an interview that he
Speaker 1: had with Lara Trump and where she was talking about
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's decline and dementia, and he started almost, you know,
Speaker 1: talking over here, and he was just short of screaming
Speaker 1: at her that you know, you are making assumptions, you're
Speaker 1: not a doctor, you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And what you're doing is you're making fun of his
Speaker 1: speech impediment. His stuttering isn't an amazing This guy was
Speaker 1: in his eighties and he'd been in Washington for fifty
Speaker 1: plus years, and the first time we heard that he
Speaker 1: had a quote stuttering situation or issue was what it
Speaker 1: was obvious to everybody, the mental decline that he was
Speaker 1: going under because of somewhat dementia, Alzheimer's, whatever. And now
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper is writing a book about the decline and
Speaker 1: the misreporting by the media about his cognitive decline and
Speaker 1: how they hit it. So he was wrong about denying
Speaker 1: it and covering it up, and now he's going to
Speaker 1: tell the truth about it. So he's making money on
Speaker 1: the lie. And now he's going to be making money
Speaker 1: on the truth. Isn't that just lovely? And Monica Lewinsky,
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden she's in the news and
Speaker 1: she's talking about Bill Clinton possibly should have resigned for
Speaker 1: what he did. All up to this point, it's all been, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I still love him, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think he was a good president, and I don't have
Speaker 1: any ill will.
Speaker 2: And all this.
Speaker 1: And yet now all of a sudden, when the curtain's
Speaker 1: been drawn pulled back from all of these people in
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, all of a sudden, now she's coming
Speaker 1: out and saying, well, maybe he should have resigned. So,
Speaker 1: in other words, all the stuff that we were being
Speaker 1: told back in ninety six, and so that we were stupid,
Speaker 1: that we were you know, it's just about sex. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, people are saying that, well, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a superior this is somebody taking advantage of
Speaker 1: an intern. And I remember at the time that her
Speaker 1: being twenty two years old, Oh, she was an adult.
Speaker 2: She you know, she knew.
Speaker 1: Better and all this ors. She was past the age
Speaker 1: of reasoning. Yet Hunter Biden forty five, fifty years old,
Speaker 1: he's just a kid. He made some mistakes. We shouldn't
Speaker 1: be so hard on president's children. Coming up with the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, we got Savannah Mattox when we
Speaker 1: were talking to her. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian
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Speaker 1: Eight thirty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: fifty five krs the Talk Station. If you looked at
Speaker 1: my Facebook page, you'll know that I have my next
Speaker 1: guests of animatics State Representative sixty first district in Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 1: And I make no qualms about the fact that she
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite people in the whole world
Speaker 1: and probably the most conservative person down in Frankfort, hands down.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the program, Savannah, great to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Good morning. Well, it's great to be back, Kevin.
Speaker 2: That's my pleasure.
Speaker 1: I admitted this to you yesterday that I've not been
Speaker 1: keeping my I guess my finger on the pulse of
Speaker 1: what's going on down there.
Speaker 2: So, what is.
Speaker 1: Going on down there in Frankfort so far?
Speaker 3: So we are in day nineteen of a thirty day
Speaker 3: legislative session, and we are reaching the ends. We've passed,
Speaker 3: made a few bills, but usually this is the time
Speaker 3: of year that things are really starting to heat up
Speaker 3: and we're getting a pulse on some of the good
Speaker 3: bills that need to pass, but also the bad bills
Speaker 3: that need to be killed. That's what I try to
Speaker 3: keep my eye on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, been some legislative victories. Can you talk
Speaker 1: about a couple of them, just to give us a
Speaker 1: thumbnail sketch of what the successes so far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, early on in the session, we passed to
Speaker 3: build to lower the income tax by a half a percent,
Speaker 3: and that's being considered a victory. Obviously, I'm in favor
Speaker 3: of lowering the income tax by eliminating it all together,
Speaker 3: as well as eliminating the property tax on motor vehicles.
Speaker 3: I think that that's all we need to do, yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure, But right now people are kind of feeling
Speaker 3: like that half a percent is paltry, So well, we'll
Speaker 3: put that in the victory column. But you know, again,
Speaker 3: there's there's a whole lot more room with regard to
Speaker 3: tax reform, and it needs to be revenue negative and
Speaker 3: actually cut spending. That's the direction that we need to
Speaker 3: take in Frankfort, not just moving these taxes around to
Speaker 3: various other areas of the tax code.
Speaker 1: A little bit of doze activity is needed down in Frankfurt,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Unlike at the federal level, we have to have a
Speaker 3: balanced budget for our constitution. So in addition to any
Speaker 3: type of entity that would audit our spending and draw
Speaker 3: attention to it, we as legislators just need to be
Speaker 3: willing to say no to wasteful spending to actually make
Speaker 3: the difficult votes. There have been very few permutations of
Speaker 3: budgets that I have been able to vote in favor
Speaker 3: of my whole time in Frankfort. Because the wasteful spending
Speaker 3: is so pervasive. Four million dollars for a Japanese garden
Speaker 3: in Louisville. What is that? That's just one example of
Speaker 3: its kind of wasteful spending that we could be cutting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, so that's a form Japanese garden, Okay,
Speaker 1: one of whose pockets are getting around.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, for four million dollars, it darnwell better be.
Speaker 12: H.
Speaker 1: I did see a post the other day talking about
Speaker 1: the well addressing egg prices and being farmers being able
Speaker 1: to sell more to the general public. Is how's that
Speaker 1: moving or moved or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is something that we should have done
Speaker 3: long before egg prices started to skyrocket. We need good, strong,
Speaker 3: agricultural deepregulation. Kentuckians deserve access to locally sourced, affordable, nutritious foods,
Speaker 3: and this is an effort to allow farmers to or
Speaker 3: any type of egg producer to sell more eggs without
Speaker 3: the government regulation standing in the world. Between that and
Speaker 3: my real ID bill, those have both been very popular bills.
Speaker 3: And with the real ID bill, we're hoping to move
Speaker 3: the issuance of the standard driver's license back to the
Speaker 3: circuit clerks to stop these long wait times and the
Speaker 3: ridiculous hoops that people have had to jump through as
Speaker 3: a result of the failed implementation.
Speaker 4: Of real ID wonderful.
Speaker 1: We can pick that up because we've got to take
Speaker 1: a quick break here, But I would like to get
Speaker 1: into that because I think the last time I renewed
Speaker 1: my license it was before all of this went in
Speaker 1: a place, and I understand that there's a whole laundry
Speaker 1: list of things that you're going to need to produce
Speaker 1: going forward, and stuff you're going to have to prove
Speaker 1: that I find amazing. But maybe you can make some
Speaker 1: sense of it, or maybe I'm misinformed or whatever. But
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that coming up. My guess is of
Speaker 1: Animatics Kentucky State Representative District sixty one. Give us an
Speaker 1: update down in the Frankfurt Legislative session. Kevin Gordon in
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Speaker 1: Eight forty coming up on eight to forty in the morning,
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas fifty five K see
Speaker 1: the talk station. Continue our conversation with Savannah mannox Is,
Speaker 1: Kentucky State Representative sixty first District giving us an update
Speaker 1: on what's going on down in the legislative session, day
Speaker 1: number nineteen of the thirty day session. Welcome, Thanks for
Speaker 1: hanging with us, Savannah. I certainly appreciate.
Speaker 3: It, absolutely my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Yes, So we were talking about real ID and some
Speaker 1: of the tweaks that need to be done with that,
Speaker 1: what is being proposed or what, Well, this kind of
Speaker 1: fills on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So we have folks that are having to drive
Speaker 3: long distances making an appointment to get their driver's license renewed,
Speaker 3: only to find that they're still having to wait multiple hours,
Speaker 3: in some cases half the day or longer, and then
Speaker 3: they sometimes their documentation is not sufficient or they fail
Speaker 3: an eye test. It's been a debacle, it's been a disaster.
Speaker 3: It's time for the legislature to stop pointing fingers and
Speaker 3: to fix this uh huh, once and for all. I
Speaker 3: want to do that by removing or by renewing the
Speaker 3: standard issued driver's licenses at the circuit clerk's office versus
Speaker 3: these regional centers.
Speaker 1: Right, it just doesn't make any sense where you have
Speaker 1: individual counties and county seats and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you consolidate this into a regional type of thing,
Speaker 1: of something that everybody has to do within that county.
Speaker 1: The purpose of having a county seat is where its
Speaker 1: convenient for everybody in that county to do stuff with
Speaker 1: their government.
Speaker 9: It just.
Speaker 2: Somebody dropped the ball on that one, for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So essentially we were accustomed at the county level
Speaker 3: to renew our license that way with our circuit clerks.
Speaker 3: But because of a knee jerk reaction at the federal
Speaker 3: level back in two thousand and five, twenty years ago,
Speaker 3: knee jerk reaction to nine to eleven, similar to the
Speaker 3: Patriot Act, the real ID has put this unfunded mandate
Speaker 3: on the states and required them to have this enhanced credentially,
Speaker 3: but not everybody needs a real ID. If you want
Speaker 3: to board an airplane or visit a military base or
Speaker 3: other restricted federal building, you've got to have real ID.
Speaker 3: But you can also use your passport or a passport
Speaker 3: card for those purposes. Some folks just want to get
Speaker 3: a driver's license, they should be able to do that
Speaker 3: in their home county without having to jump through all
Speaker 3: the hoops. And you know, I'm truly hopeful that we'll
Speaker 3: be able to get this done this well.
Speaker 1: Do it before I have to renew my license in
Speaker 1: about two or three years, I think, so, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be yelling and screaming at a
Speaker 1: regional center for you know, because I can't get my
Speaker 1: driver's license.
Speaker 2: It's just you know, and I find it now.
Speaker 1: As part of that, you have to like prove citizenship right,
Speaker 1: whether like a birth certificate or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there is enhanced credential and you have to
Speaker 3: provide additional documents for the real ID. And that's part
Speaker 3: of the reason that they created these regional offices, because
Speaker 3: they said that our circuit clerks were not equipped for
Speaker 3: that enhanced process. And it's like, okay, fine, if you
Speaker 3: want a real ID, go to a regional center. But
Speaker 3: if you just want your driver's license, you shouldn't have
Speaker 3: to drive to one of these regional centers and wait
Speaker 3: all of that time, even if you have an appointment.
Speaker 3: You know, we've got instances that folks having an appointment
Speaker 3: and then showing up in the offices just can't.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell on myself here. I'm seventy one
Speaker 1: years old. I know, I don't look at it because
Speaker 1: I'm so ruggedly handsome and everything. However, having not had
Speaker 1: to prove the fact that I'm a citizen for seventy
Speaker 1: one years, I think it's kind of appalling that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Hey, are you a citizen? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, I think I had to have a driver
Speaker 1: I think I had to have a birth certificate originally
Speaker 1: when I got my driver's license when I turned sixteen.
Speaker 1: For crying out loud, it's just okay anyway, So what
Speaker 1: else is going on? What should we be aware of
Speaker 1: and talking to our representatives to get them pushed into
Speaker 1: a certain area on certain votes and certain bills that
Speaker 1: we should be paying attention to.
Speaker 3: I've got my eye on a bill that I think
Speaker 3: has the potential to be very dangerous. It just came
Speaker 3: out of Judiciary Committee yesterday. It's House Built ninety six
Speaker 3: called coercive control, and essentially it creates a mechanism for
Speaker 3: a red flaglaw insomuch as it changes the definitions under
Speaker 3: which someone can seek an emergency Protective Order an EPO.
Speaker 3: And in Kentucky, whenever you seek an EPO, you lose
Speaker 3: your ability to carry a firearm, or the person you're
Speaker 3: seeking the EPO against loses their ability to carry a firearm,
Speaker 3: and the definition would change to include language that is
Speaker 3: very scary, like, for example, if you use technology to
Speaker 3: humiliate or exert undue influence over someone that could be
Speaker 3: sufficient to have an EPO against you and lose your firearms.
Speaker 3: That is scary. So I'm doing everything I can to
Speaker 3: stop House Bill ninety six. It's a backdoor red flag
Speaker 3: or really an outright red flag, depends on how you
Speaker 3: look at it.
Speaker 2: Jeez.
Speaker 1: Okay, we need to take another quick break. Have you
Speaker 1: got time to hang with us and give us a
Speaker 1: couple more that we need to be paying attention to.
Speaker 1: So we definitely want to get some pressure on people
Speaker 1: to eliminate this house built ninety six.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: My guest is Savannah Mattox, Kentucky State Representative, District sixty one,
Speaker 1: and just a phenomenon. We are got to tell you
Speaker 1: we are so lucky to have a watchdog like you
Speaker 1: down there supporting conservative causes and actually front and center
Speaker 1: taking the arrows and the abuse from people down there
Speaker 1: as a result of your conservative stance. And I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how much I appreciated. And I'm sure there's well,
Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot of people in Kentucky that do.
Speaker 1: So we'll continue our conversation with Savannah Mannicks. Kevin Gordon
Speaker 1: in for Brian Thomas fifty five care see the talk station?
Speaker 4: Have you found.
Speaker 1: Eight point fifty in the morning, continue our conversation with
Speaker 1: Savanna Mannix.
Speaker 2: And I certainly appreciate you spending time with us this morning.
Speaker 1: I know you are so busy down there, and I'm
Speaker 1: just glad that you were able to spend some time
Speaker 1: with us this morning to kind of bring us up
Speaker 1: to date on what's going down down there in Frankfurt, Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Now, so other bills that we need to be watching
Speaker 1: and maybe talk to our legislators about and see if
Speaker 1: we can't move the needle up or down.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So we talked about a bad bill, but I
Speaker 3: want to talk about a good bill. Howse still one
Speaker 3: thirty nine. It's actually my bill, and it would expand
Speaker 3: our Second Amendment rights and it has a chance to move.
Speaker 3: I've been in conversations with the chair of the Judiciary
Speaker 3: Committee as well as our floor leader who is primary
Speaker 3: co sponsor with me. This bill would lower the constantitutional
Speaker 3: carry age from twenty one to eighteen, which is something
Speaker 3: that a multitude of other states have done something that
Speaker 3: we need to do, because if you can go overseas
Speaker 3: and fight for your country, you certainly should have your
Speaker 3: constitutional rights here at home. But it needs to move,
Speaker 3: it needs to move quickly. It has the potential to
Speaker 3: come up for a committee hearing on Wednesday of next week,
Speaker 3: but we are running out of time. So I would
Speaker 3: to ask that folks take a look at House Bill
Speaker 3: one thirty nine and ask their legislators to support it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and get behind that bill, that's for sure. And
Speaker 1: so many of the things that we look at in
Speaker 1: terms of what we expect of our eighteen year olds
Speaker 1: and then then deny them the full rights. You know,
Speaker 1: I know it's an issue as far as the drinking age,
Speaker 1: for instance, go overseas and die for your country, but
Speaker 1: you can't come back and have a drink. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a whole nother and then of course the concealed
Speaker 1: carry thing as well. So it's it's amazing how some
Speaker 1: of these things just don't don't fit. And then yet
Speaker 1: well this is another subject for another day, but where
Speaker 1: somebody at age seven years old is smart enough and
Speaker 1: mature enough to transition, but we won't get into that
Speaker 1: right now, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I mean absolutely. As far as not being
Speaker 3: able to take a drink or to light up a
Speaker 3: smoke after you've been overseas serving your country, that's astonine.
Speaker 14: But in this.
Speaker 3: Particular instance, the distinction that I would make is it's
Speaker 3: not a constitutional right. You your Second Amendment rights are
Speaker 3: constitutional rights. So exactly, definitely, And the Fifth Circuit has
Speaker 3: already issued an opinion and where we're seeing a multitude
Speaker 3: of cases within you know, the legal structure of this
Speaker 3: argument that it's time Kentucky. We could be facing litigation
Speaker 3: if we don't pass this law. So it's the right
Speaker 3: thing to do to holding the Constitution. We need to
Speaker 3: get it done.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good.
Speaker 1: Well, Savannah, I know you're driving back and forth and communing,
Speaker 1: and I think you told me yesterday ISS about a
Speaker 1: forty five minute drive, which yeah, anyway, that is not
Speaker 1: a you know, it's not like driving down the road
Speaker 1: to you know, forty five minutes or so. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of twists and turns down there. So I ask
Speaker 1: you to certainly, you know, make sure hopefully travel safe
Speaker 1: and all the best to you because you're such a
Speaker 1: bright spot down there. In Frankfurt for the conservative cause,
Speaker 1: and I certainly appreciate your efforts down there, and so
Speaker 1: travel safe and be safe.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Kevin, Thank you, Savannah. I certainly appreciate it. Savannah Maddox,
Speaker 1: Kentucky state representative from the District sixty one, which is
Speaker 1: over in the Boon County area, And we didn't get
Speaker 1: into that, but she's not my representative, which I wish
Speaker 1: she was, but anyway, but a great person and fantastic
Speaker 1: and always a great person to talk to about what's
Speaker 1: going on down in Frankfurt. If you want to get
Speaker 1: the conservative view, that's the person to talk to. Well, folks,
Speaker 1: we're kind of running up against the clock here. It's
Speaker 1: been a blast. I appreciate being in here. Thank Joe
Speaker 1: for all of his efforts and all the bumper music
Speaker 1: and getting all the guests that we had scheduled and
Speaker 1: everything and get them on and with a flawless campaign here.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of stuff that we talked about today,
Speaker 1: and I certainly appreciate the opportunity to spend time with
Speaker 1: you this morning. And hey, we'll do this again sometime.
Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC
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