WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:15.119 Five four on this beautiful Thursday, Happy Thursday to you all. 2 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:17.440 I got to start off on a somber note here, 3 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:22.600 Gene Hackman. I got this over the newsmark about around 4 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.960 four o'clock this morning. Two time Oscar winner and author 5 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:30.640 Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, have 6 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:34.359 been found dead in their home in Santa Fe Summit 7 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:37.960 community northeast of the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 8 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.600 Officials confirmed just after midnight Thursday the couple had died, 9 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.079 along with their dog. Already said no immediate indication of 10 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.119 foul play. However, they did not provide a cause of 11 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.200 death or say what the couple may have died. 12 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.359 Just a shocking story. 13 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.640 Something you just don't normally seem to or think that 14 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:01.200 you're going to read. And then of course, you know, 15 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:04.159 you start thinking in terms of the actor and his 16 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:06.719 body of work and the stuff that you've seen him in, 17 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.519 and uh, it's just it's just sad. And of course 18 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.400 there'll be a full investigation, and I guess we'll find 19 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.480 out what happened. I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on 20 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:18.200 a limb here and guess carbon monoxide poisoning, but you 21 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:23.359 never know. Also, if you check your if you check 22 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:25.120 my Facebook page, you'll. 23 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.120 Know that I am in today. 24 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.359 And I always put that out there in terms of 25 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.719 who my guests are going to be, and today was 26 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:35.439 no different. It's kind of funny. I gotta tell a 27 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:37.599 little bit of a story. Maybe a little bit later on. 28 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:41.040 But at seven o'clock, we've got Phil Flynn, he's seen 29 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.920 your market analysts with Price Futures Group, author of the 30 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.200 Energy Report, and we're gonna be talking about He's a 31 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:50.400 contributor Fox Business Network. Let me test discussing wide range 32 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:53.719 of economic issues. He's a commodities broker and very well 33 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:56.480 versed in the energy markets. And of course he's talking 34 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.879 about the economy and talk about he's the author of 35 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:02.239 the Energy Report, so we'll talk about it's very very 36 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.640 well versed in politics too, and I just love reading 37 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.599 his Energy Report every morning that I do when I 38 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:12.199 do the America Struck A Network show. Also, we've got 39 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:16.360 seven twenty five, seven thirty ish, we've got Kevin Richardson. 40 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.319 I was turned on to him by a mutual friend. 41 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.680 He is senior director of Regional Advancement at Sunrise Children's Services, 42 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.599 they're going to have a summit, a first meeting in 43 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:35.000 March where it's to start addressing and try to do 44 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.759 something about human trafficking and some of the things that 45 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:41.719 he was telling we were talking about yesterday. Setting this 46 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:45.800 interview up just kind of frightening and something that you 47 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.879 wouldn't expect in this area to the numbers and the 48 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:54.120 extent that he was talking about. Then at eight thirty 49 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:57.560 we're going to be talking as representative some Animatics Kentucky 50 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:01.159 State representative. She's from the sixty first district. She's going 51 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.520 to give us an update on this year's legislative session 52 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:06.199 down in Frankfurt, and there's been a lot of activity 53 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:08.520 down there, so it's going to be interesting to talk 54 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.520 to her and find out what the heck is going 55 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.759 on down there. I haven't been paying as much attention 56 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.080 to Kentucky or at least what's going on in the 57 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.719 legislature down there this year like I normally do. This 58 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.680 has just been kind of a crazy, well not crazy year, 59 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.360 but I mean, you know, doing the America's Truck a 60 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:30.080 network show, and with all the regulations that are kind 61 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:33.080 of being wiped out, some of the optimism that has 62 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:35.960 come in as far as the trucking industry is concerned, 63 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.719 all the energy news that we've been seeing over the 64 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.759 last few weeks, and then of course roll backing, the 65 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.680 rollback of a lot of these regulations that for years 66 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.719 have been plaguing the trucking industry. And it's just trying 67 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.080 to keep track of what's going on in Washington, and 68 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.759 then of course as far as the other national issues 69 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:58.120 in terms war in Ukraine and how that's affecting the 70 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.960 world economy, how that has affected the prices of different things, 71 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:06.639 and it's just been crazy. So I haven't really had 72 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:08.960 a whole lot of time to pay attention down state, 73 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.479 So Savannah will catch us up on that. I'm looking 74 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.919 forward to talking to her. She's always a great person 75 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.199 to talk to and always got a lot of knowledge, 76 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:18.839 and I always like to hear how many people she's 77 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:19.879 upsetting down there. 78 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:22.160 One of the things we. 79 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.199 Want to talk about today is did you see And 80 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.560 we'll talk about this a little later maybe I actually 81 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:27.560 I want to backtrack here. 82 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.079 I'm going to talk about yesterday. 83 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.040 You know, Joe called me a few weeks ago and 84 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.839 told me Brian was going to be off today, and 85 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:37.800 I suspect you know, I'm looking at the calendar and 86 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:42.000 I guess National Chili Day and Brian being off, I mean, 87 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.920 can we read anything into that. Maybe he's out there 88 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.800 and first in line to get that breakfast chili, you know, 89 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.439 and then maybe the launch chili, then afternoon chili and 90 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.439 so on. But anyway, I got the phone call and 91 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:57.680 I started, you know, calling some people and trying to 92 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:02.759 set up interviews and stuff. Weird that some people were busy, 93 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:07.439 some people weren't able to be available, and then all 94 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.399 of a sudden yesterday, well I had Phil Flynn set 95 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.279 up last week, but then all of a sudden yesterday 96 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:16.279 I started getting all these phone calls from people and saying, well, 97 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:18.519 this guy can't make it, but can you talk to 98 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:21.040 this guy or how about talking to this person? So 99 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:22.720 I must have been on the phone for about an 100 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:24.680 hour and a half yesterday, and this was at like 101 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.399 six o'clock at night, and I'm thinking, well, I'm sitting 102 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:32.040 here putting together the program for the day and kind 103 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.439 of a synopsis of who I'm going to be talking 104 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:36.120 to or not talking. 105 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:36.680 To, so to speak. 106 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:40.720 And it was just incredible and just a whole bunch. 107 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:42.560 And it always seems that way. And I don't know 108 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.279 if it's like that in your life, but where you know, 109 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:49.160 you set a date and you know something's going to happen. 110 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.839 You know, you know you've got something planned, and then 111 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.120 all of a sudden, that week or that day, there's 112 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.199 like three other things that get put on the calendar 113 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:00.240 or that are available on anything. Well, why couldn't this been 114 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.360 tomorrow or couldn't have been yesterday? I would have liked 115 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.399 to have attended that, or I've liked to have done 116 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.560 this or that or the other thing. And it all 117 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.360 seems that it's always and it never ceases to amaze 118 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.519 me how something will come up and you plan ahead 119 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:15.120 and you say, okay, this is going to happen on 120 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:16.800 this date, and so we're going to be ready for it, 121 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:19.000 and then all of a sudden, four other things pop 122 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:22.839 on the radar screen. So yesterday was no different. I 123 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.279 got kind of a pleasant surprise. I should say that 124 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:28.879 talking to some of the people and getting future contacts 125 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.839 for future shows and so on, so that part is 126 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.160 not bad at all. But one of the things that 127 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:37.439 I want to talk about today and I think we're 128 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.560 going to do that maybe in the six six o'clock 129 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.879 hour as much as I appreciate and as much as 130 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.000 I enjoy what's going on in Washington right now with 131 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.360 the cutting. And I got to tell you that when 132 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.519 I look back on the number of presidents that I've 133 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:58.199 lived through, the presidential administrations that I've lived through throughout 134 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.240 my life, I look back at the Reagan administration, and 135 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.319 I thought there was going to be all this. I mean, 136 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.560 there was a lot of change. There was a tremendous 137 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.720 amount of change, and there was a lot of optimism, 138 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:13.000 and the economy was doing well. But there were some 139 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.600 things that didn't get done, some things that got done 140 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:19.399 that I wish hadn't gotten done, and so there were 141 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:23.680 some things left on the table, so to speak. And 142 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:28.360 then of course you had George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, 143 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:31.199 he came into office, and then that was not as 144 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.480 good as I had anticipated it to be. And then 145 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.920 we got stuck with Bill Clinton. And then of course 146 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:40.720 when George W. Bush, and honestly, I thought when George W. 147 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:46.680 Bush and Dick Cheney came into office, two supposed conservatives, 148 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.480 Dick Cheney being more conservative than at the time, I 149 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.560 can remember everybody talking about that Dick Cheney brings a 150 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:57.319 certain level of GRAVI toss to the administration. I was 151 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:02.519 expecting big changes and a lot of stuff going on, 152 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:07.399 a boost in the economy, and some things that I wanted, 153 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:10.519 as from a conservative stature, to have happen. 154 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.240 And of course, well, what you know, nine to eleven happened. 155 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.759 And then of course the War on Terror, which in 156 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:22.920 retrospect it was it's weird that how that transpired. And 157 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:26.279 as you look back on that now, it seems as 158 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:30.319 though that there was a lot of people in that administration, 159 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.080 John Bolton for one, and I guess to a certain 160 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:38.039 extent Dick Cheney that was part of this military industrial 161 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.279 complex that figured that hey, you know, we got these weapons, 162 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:43.600 we might as well use them. We might as well 163 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.639 play with the new toys, and got us involved in 164 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:51.559 some conflicts that at first sounded like it was a 165 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:55.080 good idea, but the way it dragged on and dragged 166 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:57.799 on and didn't give us the results that I would 167 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:02.320 have expected and had anticipated to have happened. And then 168 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:04.320 you know, of course, you know what else has gone on. 169 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.679 But this time around with Trump and the way that 170 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.000 they are going in with Doge and the way they're 171 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.200 going in and looking under the hood and looking at 172 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.600 all the different waste fraud and abuse that we have 173 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.679 been talking about. I mean, every year, if rand Paul 174 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.279 comes up with that Festivest report, the OMB or what 175 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:25.320 the Inspector General, I think it is every year they 176 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.600 come up with their analysis of waste fraud and abuse 177 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.679 and the government and all they would have to do 178 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.200 is follow that blueprint, cut out those programs, eliminate that spending, 179 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.480 and we wouldn't be in the deficits. 180 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.559 That we are today. But year after year they. 181 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.960 Keep getting funded, they keep pushing off these budget crisis things, 182 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.279 the signing of the budget, signing of the spending bills, 183 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.960 and as Thomas Massey has pointed out on this program 184 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.879 numerous times, the fact that these bills should be broken 185 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.519 up into nine individual bills and for whatever they're funding, 186 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:59.759 fund that part of the government and get it over with, 187 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.679 get it done. Quits c you know, cramming everything into 188 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.960 all this pork and all these extra bills, extra goodies 189 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:12.840 and everything that gets put into these things. Because with 190 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.519 the bill that size, I don't think there's any one 191 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.919 of these senators or congressman, with the exception of Thomas Massey, 192 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.279 that actually reads these bills and sees what's in them. 193 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.559 And that's why you see so many times Thomas Massey 194 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.200 voting no on a lot of bills that you would think, well, hell, 195 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:31.679 the name of the bill seems to be more conservative 196 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:34.600 than anything else. But hidden in the weeds is all 197 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.960 this weird spending and stuff. Ran Paul's the same way. 198 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:41.799 So I'm very happy with the voting record of my 199 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.440 Kentucky delegation, but it makes you want to pull your 200 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:49.399 hair out, and I really don't have enough. I don't 201 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:53.840 have that much hair to spare that you expect the 202 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.000 fiscal responsibility and we just haven't gotten that in the past. 203 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:59.559 And what I am seeing in this first month of 204 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:04.559 the Trump administration is just absolutely astounding. Though the press 205 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:07.000 can't keep up with it, the liberals can't keep up 206 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.679 with it. It's difficult for us who are on the 207 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.879 team and people that have been pushing for this to 208 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.559 keep up with what's going on and going down the 209 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:18.600 list of stories a day after day after day, and 210 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.840 some of the just the amount of abuse that we've 211 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.080 seen in our federal system. And I applaud that, But 212 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.200 the one thing that they've talked about that I'm not 213 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.480 big in favor of and I'm going to be some 214 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:32.159 pushback on that, and I hope we can push back. 215 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.759 They want to eliminate the penny, and that may seem 216 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.879 weird to people and say, oh, well, you know, what 217 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.919 they've been talking about is that it costs three cents 218 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.720 to make the penny, and that just seems like it's 219 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:47.080 something that should be cut out. But there's more to 220 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:48.799 it than that, and we're going to be talking about 221 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.240 it probably in the six o'clock hours, so anyway. Phone 222 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.360 numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred one, 223 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.879 eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight 224 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.120 two three eight two, five five pound, five point fifty 225 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:03.240 AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 226 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.519 fifty five KR see the talk station. 227 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.639 This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station, run a 228 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:10.559 business and. 229 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:21.279 Five point twenty in the morning. 230 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:24.200 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the 231 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:29.399 talk station. Phone numbers again, five one, three, seven, four, nine, 232 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:31.960 fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three Talk 233 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.519 one eight hundred eighty two three eight two, five five pound, 234 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.519 five point fifty at and T wireless phone. I saw 235 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:42.080 this story the other day and I thought it was 236 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.240 a joke. I thought it was a prank. I thought 237 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.000 there's no way in hell that this would be a thing. 238 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.159 And then I saw the video and I heard some 239 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:55.039 people online actually talking about it and saying that yes, 240 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.519 it did in fact work for them. And it's this 241 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.320 what they A new term that I heard that I 242 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:08.279 had never heard before. It's called phonetic overlap. Anybody out 243 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:12.440 there ever heard that phrase? Yeah, well, phonetic overlap. This 244 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:21.039 came out because Apple phones dictation transcribes racist with Trump. 245 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:25.879 So when somebody is voicing, you know, as you're doing 246 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:28.559 your voice on your on your phone, sending a text 247 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.960 and you put in trump, it shows racist for a 248 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:35.799 second and then changes it to trump. You know how 249 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.559 when you're doing your phone and you're saying something and 250 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.960 you look at the word that it's it's putting in there, 251 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.159 and you're like, where the hell did that word come from? 252 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:46.360 And then it changes to the word that you wanted. 253 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:51.480 And then sometimes in no matter however you pronounce the word, uh, 254 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:54.759 they'll pick it up as something else. A case in point, 255 00:13:55.399 --> 00:14:01.120 there is an organization called Wreaths across America, and every 256 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.080 time I talk about that organization and then give the 257 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.919 tagline to you know, you can look at the iHeart 258 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:12.279 app to get their shows and it's Reese across America 259 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.799 and the word is reath and then I spell that out. 260 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.080 But if I voice that into the phone, no matter 261 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:21.360 how I try to pronounce that, it comes out as 262 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:26.200 like Reese Reese's buttercup or something along those lines. And 263 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.639 you know, this technology and no matter how hard you 264 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.360 try to pronounce some of these words, they come up 265 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.440 and you wonder where the heck this comes from. But this, 266 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:40.919 this is just absolutely incredible. Over the last several days, 267 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:44.879 the bug has gained traction on various social networks, including TikTok. 268 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.600 In one video TikTok, you can see a iPhone user 269 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.440 using the built in dictation feature and clearly says the 270 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.639 word racist, only for the iPhone to momentarily transcribe it 271 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.759 as trump. And then in times they put in I believe, 272 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.840 and then the word racist comes up and then changes 273 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.440 or maybe it's just I'm going to go through this 274 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.320 because when I was watching and I saw the video 275 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:14.600 of it, but they talk about this phonetic overlap and 276 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:19.080 so you would think that if you put the word 277 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:25.240 romp rumble something like that, that maybe Trump would come up. 278 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:31.039 But where is the phonetic connection between racist and Trump? 279 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.080 Those words don't even sound alike. And this reminds me 280 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.679 of back. You remember during the campaign where they had 281 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:43.759 that video of Siri or Alexis rather and it says, Alexis, 282 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.840 should I vote for? Or what can you tell me about? 283 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:52.519 Donald Trump? And you know, in the Alexis voice, it's, well, 284 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:54.960 you know, we don't really get into polity. It's hard 285 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:59.360 to say about different candidates, and so I really don't 286 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.480 have anything to say. And then immediately followed up with well, 287 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:04.519 what can you tell us about should I vote for 288 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:07.679 Kamala Harris? And then there was all this, well, you know, 289 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.720 she's a flat first black woman to and she's got 290 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:15.440 several accomplishments behind her and so on. And every time 291 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.799 this happens, every time there is a screw up like this, 292 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.600 isn't it amazing that it only goes one way? It's 293 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.720 always anti conservative, it's always anti Trump, or it's something 294 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:27.799 along those lines. 295 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:30.919 And they put in the article. 296 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:35.360 And they said that there was just a glitch and 297 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:39.159 again trying to call it a phonetic overlap given the 298 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.519 fact that and then you know, one of the iPhone 299 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.679 people are one of the former members of the serie 300 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.960 team and Apple still a regular contact with the team, 301 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.279 says the issue began after an update of Apple servers. 302 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:54.519 This guy by the name of John Burkey. Burkie is 303 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:58.720 skeptical of phonetic overlap excuse and smells like a serious prank. 304 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:04.839 Now prank or not, this is not something that somebody 305 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.519 should be doing on the job. I don't care what 306 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:12.680 funny thing they think they're trying to pull. And this 307 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.599 is the thing that bothers me the most about AI 308 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:22.240 technology because on AI technology, it's only as good as 309 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.279 the input and I it's if it's crap in, there's 310 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.920 going to be crap out. And so if you're trying 311 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:33.759 to get this AI technology to learn certain things and 312 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.480 you're gaming the system, it's not going to give you 313 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:39.720 the right letter, it's not going to give you the 314 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.920 right information. And we've seen this how the pushing down 315 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:47.519 on Google and you're looking at conservative stories, how they 316 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:50.480 have been deplatformed or pushed down further on the page. 317 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.599 You got to go two or three pages deep, and 318 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.119 to get the conservative take on things, and you see, 319 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.119 you know, the censorship on social media that we've gone through. 320 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.039 Some of it's going better, but again, when you have 321 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.720 these algorithms in there that look for certain words and 322 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.920 they pull them out, Uh, it's just ridiculous. Phone numbers 323 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:10.279 five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one, 324 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.640 eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight 325 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:15.680 two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty 326 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.039 AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 327 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.559 fifty five KR. See the talk station. 328 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:23.880 It's like we're living in. 329 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:36.559 Five thirty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 330 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:40.240 fifty five KR. See the talk station. Uh, some local 331 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:44.119 headlines that were covering for you this morning. Ohio bill 332 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:49.480 would ban ticket arrest quotas for law enforcement. Now wait 333 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:52.200 a minute, why is this eat? Why why do you 334 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:55.599 need a bill for this? If you talk to any 335 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:59.160 law enforcement agency, I don't care whether the City of Cincinnati, 336 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:06.240 the State Highway Patrol, they don't have quotas. They no way. 337 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.519 I mean I can remember back in the late nineties. 338 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:13.119 I have a friend. You got folks are familiar with 339 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.559 the Debbie Gardner. She did that Survive Institute and into 340 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:20.640 the protecting women and how they can protect themselves. She 341 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.240 and her husband became very good We became very good friends. 342 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.000 And he was a Cincinnti police officer. So we're talking 343 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:28.160 back in the nineties and he used to talk about 344 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:32.160 how he used to get in trouble because they would say, hey, 345 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:35.960 did you lose your ticket book or is there something wrong? 346 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:37.119 And he goes, well, what do you mean. 347 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:41.000 He goes, well, you haven't written a ticket in about 348 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:43.720 a year and a half. And he'd say, well, you know, 349 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.240 most of the time I try to at least give 350 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.680 a warning or something along those lines. And they said, well, 351 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:51.519 you know you're not You're not playing by the rules. 352 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.599 You're not playing the game. And every time when you 353 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:58.279 ever question these people, and I've questioned our county police 354 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:02.400 department at fiscal court meetings about this, I've questioned different 355 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:06.119 law enforcement people and they say, no, there's no such 356 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:09.720 thing as a quota. We don't have quotas. What we 357 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:14.920 do are we are encouraged to have citizen contacts. Well, 358 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:20.279 what's the well citizen contact and the only proof that 359 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:24.519 you have a citizen contact a certain number of citizen 360 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:29.079 contacts per month, week whatever is by the number of 361 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:32.720 tickets that you've written. You don't have a quota of tickets. 362 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:36.920 You just have a quota of citizen contacts. And I 363 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:41.079 can remember years ago digging into the City of Cincinnati 364 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.720 budget and every year year after you know this, you've 365 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.160 heard this City of Cincinnati talks about having budget deficits 366 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:50.839 and they need to break this up. And you go 367 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:54.920 through the budget and a line item in their budget 368 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:02.839 was something like seven we're talking probably fifteen twenty years ago, 369 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.240 but a line item for seven million dollars a year 370 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.119 for traffic tickets. Now, tell me that's I mean, if 371 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:14.559 you've got a budget item there, you've got to meet 372 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:16.240 that and the only way you're going to meet that 373 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:19.200 is if you're writing tickets. So it was obvious there, 374 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:22.880 But I find this interesting. Ohio bill would ban ticket 375 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.920 arrest quotas for law enforcement. High lawmakers are pushing for 376 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.680 bipartisan legislation that would eliminate ticket and arrest quotas for 377 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:35.079 law enforcement agencies. State represented on Wednesday introduced House Bill 378 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:38.960 one thirty one, would make such quotas illegal. According to 379 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:44.880 Representative Bride Rose Sweeney, a Democrat from Westlake, Ohio. In Ohio, 380 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.319 is completely legal for us to mandate a police officer 381 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:50.279 to go out every single day on taxpayer time to 382 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:54.400 produce ten to twenty tickets. Hur remarks came during the 383 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.960 discussion of emphasizing the bills in ten to restore integrity 384 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:02.759 within the law enforcement areas. Ken Cobra, president of Fraternal 385 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:06.559 Order of Police Queens City Lodge sixty nine, express support 386 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:08.960 of the bill and said it would impact smaller departments 387 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.960 and villages in townships. Now, what you know in Ohio, 388 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:16.480 if you get a traffic ticket, a lot of that 389 00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:19.400 money I forget what the percentage is, but it was 390 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:23.400 something like eighty percent goes to the municipality or to 391 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:27.599 the local community and twenty percent goes to the state. 392 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:32.000 In Kentucky it's the opposite. Only about twenty percent goes 393 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.200 to the individual city and the majority goes down state. 394 00:22:35.640 --> 00:22:38.359 So there's really not that incentive for these local law 395 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:42.759 enforcement agencies to be writing tickets. Now in northern Kentucky, 396 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:45.599 there have always been these different areas where people know 397 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.480 that there are various speed traps that the cops always 398 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:50.279 just sit by and they just can't wait to write 399 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:53.160 tickets and so on. But those are few and far 400 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:57.160 between because there's really no incentive for them on them 401 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:00.839 from the mayor or for whomever to boost up the 402 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.160 number of tickets written because they really don't profit by it. 403 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:07.880 But in the city of Cincinnati and Ohio, yes, that's 404 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:10.119 big money for them. And when you put that on 405 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:13.039 a line item, that is something that you have to attain. 406 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:15.799 That is something that you've got to work for. You 407 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:18.359 don't put something in the budget you know that should 408 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:22.599 just be extra income and that should be part of 409 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.680 the extra well, extra income or other income is something 410 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:29.839 that you don't depend on as far as you're running 411 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:32.640 of your city. But when that is a specific line 412 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:35.640 item for traffic tickets, that tells you everything you need 413 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:39.119 to know. And this is you know, hope, hopefully this 414 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:41.799 bill will gets some legs and they actually get it passed, 415 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.839 because to have quotas just for the sake of writing 416 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:48.599 tickets or whatever, I mean, when you go down the road, 417 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.119 you can see any number of places where cops can 418 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:53.640 just sit there and write ten, fifteen, twenty tickets in 419 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.440 an hour based on the number of people. But is 420 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:01.000 it a dangerous area, is it traffic whatever? There's whole 421 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:03.039 kind of things. Maybe we'll talk about this a little 422 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:06.079 bit if anybody calls in about it. Uh five one, three, seven, 423 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:08.319 four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two 424 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.480 three Talk one, eight hundred eighty two three eight two, 425 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:14.279 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 426 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.519 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See 427 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:18.680 the talk station. 428 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:25.960 Five forty in the morning. 429 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:28.799 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See 430 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:33.079 the talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, 431 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:35.799 five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three Talk one 432 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:38.799 eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, 433 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:42.440 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Speaking of 434 00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:45.559 the phones, let's talk to Bill. Bill fifty five KR. 435 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:51.400 See how are you this morning? Welcome to the program. 436 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:51.720 Good morning, and thank you for taking my call. 437 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:52.440 My pleasure. 438 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:55.240 What all do respect? 439 00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:58.200 I mean, I know the policeman and it takes a 440 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:01.279 special kind of person wake up in mornings and go 441 00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:03.680 do what they do. God bless them. Oh yeah, but 442 00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:07.599 I don't agree that they say they ain't no quotas. 443 00:25:08.119 --> 00:25:12.279 I agree, I disagree with them. And one thing I 444 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:14.480 did notice through this journey of life. I mean I 445 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:16.799 was a teenager. I got pulled over, you know, being 446 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:20.519 a teenager. But the thing is, I'm through this journey. 447 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:23.400 I'm sixty two now, and I noticed. I noticed this. 448 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:26.720 I don't know if anybody else had to, but they 449 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:31.000 pulled over the nice cars and like I got, you know, 450 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:35.119 a couple of junker trucks and they ain't the hell, 451 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:37.079 they ain't got no money, they ain't gonna get to 452 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:42.160 give me a ticket. Really, I notice, man's notice out 453 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:46.200 there people. They pulled over the nice cars and these people, 454 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:48.119 you know they got family in there. 455 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:50.880 You know, these cars to go five or ten miles 456 00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:51.279 over the. 457 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:54.559 That's not been my experience. 458 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:57.319 I would. You know, I've seen cars pull over. 459 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:00.440 Well you know when you know they all always look 460 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:04.880 for I mean there's that you know, you you look 461 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:07.640 for a small violation that winds up leading to a 462 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.240 bigger violation, like if somebody's missing a headlight, or if 463 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:14.839 a broken tail light, or if the light's not reflecting 464 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.200 on their license plate or the license plate is bent 465 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.759 or something like that. They invented reason to pull somebody over, 466 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:23.720 and a lot of times they'll find some other contraband 467 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.000 or drugs or something like that. But I would think 468 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:29.799 with the older car, well, I don't know, that's a 469 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:32.319 that's a very good question. I have to We'll have 470 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:34.359 to throw that out to the audience and kind of 471 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:35.960 do an informal poll. 472 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:40.759 Here if you notice that I've noticed, I've noticed a 473 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:43.920 lot of things. And you know, like I said, I mean, 474 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:46.640 you hardly aber see and pull over road. 475 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:47.400 You're locky. 476 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.640 Yeah, well here it is here, it is all along. 477 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:54.480 I kept thinking, with my two thousand and one camera 478 00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:57.680 that has two hundred and ninety thousand miles on it, 479 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.880 that the reason they didn't pull it over is the 480 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:02.960 recognized the license plate and said, I don't want to 481 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:05.279 stay in court six months with this guy because he 482 00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:09.319 fights everything that we talk about. Maybe it's because I 483 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:11.240 got to maybe because it's an older car. 484 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.759 And these people man, because you know, they got a family, 485 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.359 they got their life. Well just you know, they get 486 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:20.839 the ticket, they just send it in thinking well I 487 00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:26.519 could fight this because this ain't right, pay. 488 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:28.319 The thing and move on with their life. 489 00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:32.559 But I mean it, I just noticed that glad I 490 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:35.039 got to be Joe opper truck two of them because 491 00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:38.160 all my life's work, and they ain't going to pull 492 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.039 me over. I probably look like I'm pulled, like I'm 493 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:45.240 barely got gash in the truck. You take care of 494 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:45.839 God bless you. 495 00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.640 Thank you so much. Bill. That was a great folk call. 496 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:53.200 I thank you. I appreciate that. That is an interesting observation. 497 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:56.759 I'm trying to think as I'm driving down the road, 498 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:01.400 what cars I notice being pulled over? Now, now I 499 00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:04.519 noticed that. You know, this is of course we got 500 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:08.799 to talk about pre pandemic. But going back to the 501 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:12.000 times when I'd come up here to the station, I mean, obviously, 502 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:14.680 you come up to the station at the four o'clock 503 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.599 in the morning or well actually three o'clock in the 504 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:20.079 morning and thereabouts, and you're not going to see much 505 00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:23.880 traffic at all. But going back home, I would always 506 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:30.160 see on seventy one where they had the motorcycle patrol vehicle, 507 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:32.759 and they'd always try to nail people in rush hour, 508 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:35.920 which I thought was kind of weird. But I guess 509 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:39.279 after nine o'clock you would expect rush hour to be 510 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:42.319 over because during rush hour there shouldn't be much speeding 511 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:44.559 because for crying out loud, you're lucky to get up 512 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:48.400 to the speed limit sometimes, but going back home, I'd 513 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.559 always notice cars pulled over on either side of either 514 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:54.759 northbound or southbound on seventy one. But I never really 515 00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:59.440 paid much attention to the cars. And that's interesting. I'm 516 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:04.960 going at the under that one. That's that's interesting because 517 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:08.680 I do notice on Route twenty seven in northern Kentucky, 518 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:10.920 which is you know, in Campbell County where I live, 519 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.160 You'll see around, you know, around the freeway, you'll see, 520 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.400 you know, people coming off the freeway continuing to speed 521 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:21.319 because it goes it goes from sixty five miles an 522 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:24.000 hour down to fifty five miles an hour, forty five 523 00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:26.359 miles an hour, and then thirty five miles an hour 524 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:28.720 once you get to the end of four seventy one there, 525 00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:31.240 and you'll see people pulled over. And then you'll see 526 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.920 a stretch of highway on twenty seven where it kind 527 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.680 of opens up. And if you don't pay attention because 528 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:40.319 of the hills, that if you start going down that hill, 529 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.920 you can very easily be doing fifty five miles an 530 00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:45.400 hour in a forty mile an hour zone before you 531 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.720 even know it. And so a lot of times I'll 532 00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:51.160 see people pulled over there. But it seems to me 533 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:55.640 more that they're interested in checking younger people because there 534 00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:58.160 always seems to be like three or four cars and 535 00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:01.279 two or three people outside the call while they're searching 536 00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:04.079 the car or something along those lines. But it would 537 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.640 be interesting. What's been your experience getting pulled over by 538 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:10.680 the police? Five one, three, seven four nine fifty five 539 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:13.200 hundred one, eight hundred and eighty two three talk one 540 00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:16.119 eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, 541 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:19.119 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 542 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:21.799 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. 543 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.319 The talk station, John says, don't bove the nine first 544 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:27.160 morning forecast. 545 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:29.599 During morning rush hower today, we're going to see rain 546 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:34.200 moving out, cold front moving in loa forty two uh 547 00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:37.160 this afternoon. Some sun's going to be cooking through, but 548 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:40.359 then showers pick up later on. This afternoon high of 549 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:44.759 fifty one uh LOA thirty one tonight, high of fifty 550 00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:47.759 seven tomorrow with part of the cloudis guys and a 551 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:51.160 low of thirty four right now forty seven degrees thirty 552 00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:55.039 five kr. See the talk talk station. Chuck Ingram has traffic. 553 00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.759 From the UC up Traffic Center. Around forty percent of 554 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:01.640 cancers are preventable. Lifestyle change in screenings can make a difference. 555 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:04.599 Called five one, three, five eighty five uc C seed. 556 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:07.920 Highways are doing fine this morning. I'm not seeing any 557 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.200 problems at all on the highways, even with some wet roads. 558 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:14.960 Northbound seventy five, northbound fourth seventy one both good coming 559 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.599 across the bridges. There's an accident on Kenwood near Wetzell. 560 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.000 Chuck Ingraham fifty five krs the talk station. 561 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.319 Five point fifty in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for 562 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:31.240 Brian Thomas. 563 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:31.640 Fifty five kr. 564 00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:34.559 See the talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, 565 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:37.839 four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two 566 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.680 three talk one eight hundred eighty two three eight two 567 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:44.440 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless 568 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.720 phone coming up in the six o'clock hour. I am 569 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:52.119 going to be doing the defense of the penny and 570 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:55.200 very much encourage you to get your thoughts together and 571 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:56.079 talk to me about that. 572 00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:56.839 Are you in. 573 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.079 Favor of this uh doze idea that they wanted to 574 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.960 drop the penny, that it costs three cents per to 575 00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:08.640 make the penny, so it's a money loser. Are they 576 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:12.000 being penny wise pound foolish? 577 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:13.319 Is it? 578 00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:19.319 Let's see, Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna have. 579 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.559 I'm gonna toss my two cents worth in at the 580 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:25.359 top of the hour. But anyway, that was an interesting 581 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:28.160 phone call from Bill, and I've been racking my brain 582 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:32.279 trying to think about just exactly what we I've experienced 583 00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:34.079 out on the highway, because we had this story at 584 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.559 the bottom of the hour about a Senate bill or 585 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:41.119 a bill in front of the Ohio Legislature banning the 586 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:46.799 House Bill one one to ban police officers or law 587 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.599 enforcement agencies to have a quota system. 588 00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:51.160 That's interesting. 589 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:53.400 And then of course we talked a little bit about 590 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:56.160 earlier in the hour and more I dig into this 591 00:32:56.240 --> 00:33:00.079 and this idea that on the new or on the 592 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.039 iPhone there for a little while, apparently after an upgrade 593 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:08.200 and Apple upgrade, and by the way, it seems like 594 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:11.839 every time they do an Apple upgrade, I try I 595 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:13.920 try to avoid it as long as possible because it 596 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.839 always gets kind of funky with my phone and certain 597 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.599 things and certain features don't work right, having trouble connecting 598 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:23.400 with Bluetooth and some of the other stuff. But apparently 599 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.720 after a recent upgrade at a start of appearing that 600 00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:28.720 if you put in the word if you were voicing 601 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.200 the word racist for a second, Trump would come up 602 00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:34.880 and then would go away and correct it to racist 603 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:39.799 or back to racist. And so it's interesting to see 604 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:43.839 the way that that happened. And one of these former 605 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:48.400 tech had originally been on the SERY team. This John Burkie, 606 00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:51.279 former member of the Sery team, said that it smells 607 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:53.920 like a serious prank. But then The New York Times 608 00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:59.000 jumped in and says that they said that, wow, I'm sorry. 609 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:01.200 First of all, the Walls Journal talked about it and 610 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:04.000 said that maybe it had something to do with the 611 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:10.760 r consonant that temporarily replaced with Trump, including rampant or rampage, 612 00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:13.880 which would seem to me that words that you would 613 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:17.760 think would be derogatory towards Trump. New York Times cleverly 614 00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:20.960 omits the fact that in other words like rampage trigger 615 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.760 the glitch, not just racist, which again they try to 616 00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:29.760 give some credence to the whole idea phone of phonetic overlap. 617 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:34.039 Phonetic overlap, my friends, is two words that sound alike, 618 00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:37.599 not two words that are just because they have an 619 00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:44.239 r in It just unbelievable that again the people and 620 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:48.559 some of these tech companies are still out there doing 621 00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:51.639 stuff that what they think is a prank, but is 622 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:56.079 somehow trying to instill in people's mind a thought that 623 00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:59.320 really doesn't need to be there, and buying into this 624 00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.840 whole new narrative from the left. When again, if you 625 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:05.760 look at the left, if you look at the Democratic Party, 626 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:09.719 it's just go on down the line. The Democratic Party 627 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:12.800 has always been the party of races, and it goes 628 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.239 back to back during the Civil War. I mean, they 629 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:19.000 were the Party of slavery, Party of Jim Crow, the 630 00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:23.119 Black Codes, all that, and so many of their members, 631 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:27.119 Dixiecrats and beyond, were all part of the Democratic Party. 632 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:31.599 So again them trying to throw some shade on Republicans 633 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:35.400 as being racist, they want to turn the mirror around 634 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:39.639 and look at themselves. So again, anyway, so coming up, 635 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:42.320 we're gonna talk about the penny. What are your thoughts 636 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:44.559 on the penny? Should we get rid of it, should 637 00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:46.960 we continue it? What should we do with it? 638 00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:49.039 Seven four nine. 639 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.159 Five one three seven four nine fifty five one eight 640 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.199 hundred A two three talk one eight hundred A two 641 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:57.000 three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT 642 00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.000 and T wireless phone Kevin Gordon and for Brian Tomas 643 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:03.119 fifty five krc the talk station. 644 00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:05.760 Covering Trump's first one hundred days. 645 00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:09.119 Every day, promise is made, Promises kept. 646 00:36:09.199 --> 00:36:13.400 Fifty five krs the talk station get any gold. 647 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:17.679 See hey R. 648 00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:29.079 Five minutes after six o'clock on this beautiful Thursday morning. 649 00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:32.639 Oh rainy out there, but the temperatures are nice, and 650 00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.440 it was a very nice trip up here this morning. 651 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.039 And it's one of those days where the temperature is 652 00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:41.960 just very pleasant and very nice day. So just be 653 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:43.760 careful out on the roads because they might be a 654 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:46.679 little bit slick. I want to talk about one of 655 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:49.400 the things that one of the few things I disagree 656 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:53.280 with this administration, the Trump administration, and the whole doge 657 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:57.760 boys and the bulldozers, the dozers that i'd like to 658 00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:00.840 refer to them. I agree with going in and doing 659 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:03.800 cost cutting. I agree with going in and getting rid 660 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:07.480 of waste, fraud and abuse, making things more efficient and 661 00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:12.639 everything along those lines. As a recovering accountant, and I've 662 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.719 talked about this before, I am not what you consider 663 00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:19.880 a typical accountant. I am not one of these bean counters. 664 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:24.400 I don't look at something and say, okay, here is 665 00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:30.000 the cost and then here is the direct benefit. To 666 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:33.320 see that if you've got a particular cost, that you're 667 00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:37.679 recouping that as well or a profit off of that. 668 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:40.960 I look at things in terms of the whole picture. 669 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:45.920 As an example, one of my clients years ago, they 670 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:49.800 had restaurant chain. They had five or six restaurants. They 671 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.760 were losing money or at least break even with one 672 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.559 of their restaurants, and they said, well, we're just going 673 00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:57.239 to close it down. I said, well, wait a minute, 674 00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.800 here have you thought how have you thought this through? 675 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.000 Because number one, with six different restaurants, you're going to 676 00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:07.920 get a certain volume discount that you might lose as 677 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:11.880 a result of not having this volume, which would then 678 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.920 add more costs to your other stores. You have a 679 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:18.480 back office where you do the accounting, you do the financial, 680 00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:21.119 you do the bill paying all of that, and you 681 00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:23.440 have the overhead for the management, the people that go 682 00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:26.360 around and inspect the restaurants and all of that stuff. 683 00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:30.079 And so that cost currently is being spread out over 684 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:33.280 six different units. When you break that down to then 685 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:37.440 five units, that increases the cost per store, and then 686 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:40.320 all of a sudden you have one of those stores 687 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:42.920 not performing well, and what do you do get rid 688 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.480 of that to the point where you don't have any stores. 689 00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:49.119 The main thing is to go in and boost that 690 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.079 store up, find out why the sales aren't there, find 691 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:54.280 out why it isn't as profitable to the others, and 692 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:57.559 try to fix it. That's a little bit harder than 693 00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:59.360 just saying, oh, we're just going to cut that expense. 694 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.880 And when they look at this the penny that they 695 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:05.719 say that, oh, it costs three cents to do the 696 00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:08.760 penny and people go, well, yeah, pennies are nothing. I mean, 697 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:10.760 I don't take anything about that, and no way, Yeah, 698 00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:12.000 let's get it rid of it. 699 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:13.280 And the more. 700 00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:17.519 And when these things are talked about, it puts in 701 00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:21.719 people's brains that oh, yes, this should be done without 702 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:25.239 actually looking at the entire big picture of things and 703 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:29.079 how this would actually affect the economy, how this affects 704 00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:33.039 the individual consumer, and what it does to the overall 705 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:36.639 stability of things. And you would think, my goodness, Kevin, 706 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.880 it's just a penny. Well, you know, I'm going to 707 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:42.400 throw my two cents worth in it and talk about this. 708 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:47.159 I think that those and talking about doing this is 709 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:50.559 when you look at it is penny wise and pound foolish. 710 00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:52.960 And of course I would like a penny for your 711 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:55.400 thoughts if you want to call in and talk about this. 712 00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:59.440 Eric code five one three seven nine fifty five hundred 713 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.280 one hundred A two three talk one eight hundred A 714 00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:05.000 two three eight two five five pound five point fifty 715 00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:08.440 on that AT and T wireless phone. Now, when you 716 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:12.239 look at the cost of producing a penny, there's there's 717 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.360 all kinds of different studies about that and what that 718 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:20.440 does to the economy. First, consumers benefit with low denomination 719 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:24.000 a coin because it keeps prices in check. 720 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:26.440 You remember all the. 721 00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:29.840 Stores if you ever saw that movie office space where 722 00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:33.599 this group of people that were disgruntled with this company 723 00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:35.920 that they were working for, a tech company, that they 724 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:39.079 changed the program to where they'd round off these sets 725 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:41.199 and put them in a bank account for them and 726 00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:44.360 they would siphon that off and how much that that 727 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:48.320 got them and they were shocked because I think they 728 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:50.800 moved the decimal one way or the other. But back 729 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:52.920 in the early days of computers, when they do these 730 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:56.719 different transactions and then have these things where there'd be 731 00:40:56.760 --> 00:41:00.480 fractions of pennies. Somebody went in and ch change the 732 00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:03.679 code there to the point where that percentage of a 733 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:06.679 penny or half a percent or tenth of a penny 734 00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.280 would go into an accountant and then they would steal 735 00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:13.159 that money, and that wound up when they actually found 736 00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:17.519 out about it was millions of dollars that had cost 737 00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:23.599 this particular company. About that and the programming of different 738 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:28.280 businesses are that in their software currently. Obviously, a business 739 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:32.679 wants to make the most money, so if their transactions 740 00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:38.199 are a certain dollar amount and pennies, those are generally 741 00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:42.960 rounded up. They're never rounded down. And this is funny 742 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.639 that this came up because this past Friday, my wife 743 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:49.400 and I went down to Louisville for the day because 744 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:53.559 America's Struck a network. There's a truck show down there 745 00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:56.440 in March, and we wanted to get a layer of 746 00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:58.519 the land because my wife is coming down with me 747 00:41:58.559 --> 00:41:59.920 and she wanted to make sure that she knew how 748 00:41:59.960 --> 00:42:03.400 to drive around the area, get downtown and so on. 749 00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:06.239 So we were doing a dry run so that you 750 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:08.920 felt comfortable getting on and off the freeway because there, 751 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:10.719 I mean, I'll tell you what, it's a little tricky 752 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:14.320 down there. But anyway, I was standing, we were looking. 753 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:16.559 We went to the hotel, you know, made sure that 754 00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:18.840 we had the room reservation and everything, made sure we 755 00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:20.880 were going to be on the third floor, which is 756 00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:23.719 not a lot better. And we were just walking around 757 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:27.840 the hallways and the guy that was doing the he 758 00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:31.360 was doing a vending machine at the time, and apparently 759 00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:34.239 they were reprogramming it, and he goes, well, he goes, 760 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:37.280 he's on the phone, he's on the speakerphone, and he goes. 761 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.119 He goes, well, he says, I think this comes up 762 00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:43.079 to where it's going to be actually, you know, like 763 00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:45.480 twelve cents or something like that, So I'll just want 764 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:48.280 round that down. And the guy on the other end goes, 765 00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:50.760 why would you do that? Just round it up to 766 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:55.800 the next nickel. It's like, okay, this profitence centive is there, 767 00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:59.000 and so these numbers aren't going to be rounded down. 768 00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:00.599 So if you get a. 769 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:05.679 Penny, you know, you know, whatever your transaction is, oh 770 00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:08.559 one sense, they're gonna round that up to a nickel 771 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:11.360 and then you're going to be losing four cents per 772 00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:16.840 transaction on these transactions, and it adds up over time. 773 00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:19.440 It may be just a small amount to you at 774 00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:22.679 this particular point in time, but overall that is going 775 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.519 to be affecting the economy. And what do they do 776 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:31.079 as far as well, we'll get to this, But secondly, 777 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:34.559 there are polls that have been done based on this 778 00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:35.039 over the. 779 00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:37.760 Years and the average on this. 780 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:41.320 Now again, as they keep pushing this and keep talking 781 00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:45.639 about just one portion of the argument that has cost 782 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:48.199 three cents to make a penny, then of course people 783 00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:50.079 are gonna be thinking, we'll shoot, yeah, let's get rid 784 00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:52.679 of the penny. But in the past, whenever they've talked 785 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.440 about this, they've said, you know, are people in favor 786 00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:58.119 of getting rid of the penny? The numbers have been 787 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:01.199 like sixty six percent of thems that have been pulled 788 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:05.639 say no, keep the penny. Third, the penny elimination doesn't 789 00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:09.039 save money. In fact, the government costs will increase without 790 00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:12.199 the penny. First of all, a lot of is going 791 00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:17.000 to be hurting consumers, Penn State economist Ray Lombra said recently, 792 00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:21.960 and the Georgetown fellow Robert Shapiro showed that consumers would 793 00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:27.400 be hit with a multi billion dollar rounding tax without 794 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:33.159 the penny, multi billion dollar tax. So you know your 795 00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:36.840 four cents here, three cents here, two cents here. Over 796 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:39.559 the course of the year adds up. And then you 797 00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:42.559 compound that by the number of people that are doing that, 798 00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:46.760 and it adds up tremendously, courting the Federal Reserve. According 799 00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:50.679 to Federal Reserve studies, people who use more cash frequently 800 00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:55.760 with higher let me see, people with relatively low incomes, 801 00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:00.039 particularly young, elderly, and minorities use cash more frequently and 802 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.800 individuals with higher incomes. Years ago, I owned some liquor 803 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.559 stores in northern Kentucky, this back in the early nineties, 804 00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:12.400 and part of the business there was cashing checks and 805 00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:16.119 trying to figure out, you know, making sure that we 806 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:18.840 could you know, cash the checks for the customers so 807 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:19.599 that they would then. 808 00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:20.159 Be able to buy. 809 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:22.519 And I found at the time, and I was shocked, 810 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:26.119 And the numbers still hold true today. The twenty percent 811 00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:29.039 of the American public out there do not have a 812 00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:33.199 checking account. They don't deal with banks, and so they 813 00:45:33.239 --> 00:45:36.960 still get their paycheck and they have to cash it somewhere, 814 00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:39.719 and so then they take that money and they go 815 00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:43.079 around and buy money orders and pay their bills. But 816 00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:46.119 they just for some reason don't trust banks, and so 817 00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:51.000 you've got people that depend on cash. And then secondly, 818 00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:55.519 the fact that if you're rounding these up and you know, 819 00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:57.519 a couple of cents here and couple of cents there, 820 00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:00.559 that's going to affect minorities and if you uh, and 821 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.639 the elderly and the very young because of something like 822 00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:09.760 sixty percent of transactions under ten dollars is done by 823 00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:13.400 cash and not done by a credit card. And of course, 824 00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:15.760 when you start seeing some of these credit card fees 825 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:18.559 being tacked on to the transactions that you're doing at 826 00:46:18.559 --> 00:46:21.559 the store, that then adds up to because if you 827 00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:24.280 look at those transactions, how many people look at those 828 00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:27.599 transactions and say, well, okay, if they're going to charge me, 829 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:30.280 you know, three and a half percent on this purchase, 830 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:32.639 then well maybe I'll just pay cash for it. 831 00:46:33.079 --> 00:46:33.159 Uh. 832 00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:36.400 But again we'll pick this up. Phone numbers five one three, 833 00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:40.480 your thoughts, A penny for your thoughts if you will, seven, 834 00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:43.440 five one three, seven four nine fifty, five hundred one, 835 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.039 eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eighty 836 00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:49.159 two three eight two five five pound five point fifty 837 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:52.079 AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian 838 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.400 Thomas fifty five k see the talk station. Good morning 839 00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:59.320 weather for nine first warning forecast. I should say today 840 00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:03.079 during morning rush hour, rain moves out by morning rush hour. 841 00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:05.280 Let's see, we're gonna have a little. 842 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:08.239 Forty two sun is going to be poking through, be 843 00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.000 a little breezy. 844 00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:10.559 Afternoon showers are possible. 845 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:13.599 High a fifty one jumpsters continue to drop tonight thirty one, 846 00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:17.360 tomorrow high fifty seven and a low of thirty four. 847 00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:19.599 Right now forty seven. 848 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:23.639 Degrees fifty five k see detalk station Chuck Ingram has traffic. 849 00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:27.280 From the UCL Traffic Center. Around forty percent of cancers 850 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:31.039 are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. 851 00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:34.719 Called five one three five eighty five U see see see. 852 00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:38.239 Highways continue to look good this morning with no accidents 853 00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:41.599 to deal with. No delays either southbound two seventy five 854 00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:44.400 still little k pants the Lawrence burd Ramp in Bend 855 00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:47.480 seventy four less than ten minutes between two to seventy 856 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:50.559 five at the cold rain split to the seventy five ramp. 857 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:53.960 Chuck Ingram month fifty five k R see the talk station. 858 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:03.400 Six twenty in the morning. 859 00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:05.960 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five k see 860 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.400 the talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, 861 00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:11.960 five hundred one, eight hundred two three talk one eight 862 00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:14.599 hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five 863 00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:19.199 point fifty at and T wireless phone and defense of 864 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:24.360 the penny. Before we get to the I think we've 865 00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:25.920 got a phone caller up there. I'm gonna get to 866 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.159 that in a second. You know, when they start talking 867 00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:32.000 about the penny, and they keep making the point that 868 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:35.280 it costs three cents to make the penny, you're losing 869 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.679 two cents on each transaction. Well, if you get rid 870 00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:40.840 of the penny, you're gonna be you're gonna be minting 871 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:44.519 more nickels. And if you look at the cost of 872 00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:50.679 that round, the using the nickel will actually lead to 873 00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:56.599 higher production costs. It costs thirteen point five cents to 874 00:48:56.760 --> 00:48:59.800 make the nickel, So you're gonna do away with the 875 00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:05.159 and then make more nichols and then lose eight cents 876 00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:09.880 instead of three cents on the coins. It just doesn't 877 00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:12.760 make any sense. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk 878 00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:15.599 to Kirk. Kirk fifty five k s. You're on the air. 879 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:17.639 Thanks for calling. I certainly appreciate it. 880 00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:21.239 Good morning, Kevin. How you doing. 881 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.079 I called it. 882 00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:24.440 I just called to say hi. I don't know if 883 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:26.519 you remember me or not. My son and I sat 884 00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:26.960 down with. 885 00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:27.960 You last summer. 886 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.639 Yes, and uh he uh he. I told him you 887 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:32.400 were gonna be on the radio this morning. He said, well, 888 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:33.880 call him tell him. I said, Hi. 889 00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.239 He just uh, well, high back to you. 890 00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:38.440 Yeah. 891 00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:42.360 It's been a huge inspiration to to not only him, 892 00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:43.400 but to myself. 893 00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:44.519 He uh. 894 00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:47.639 He actually ran for the youth chair for the Boone 895 00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:50.480 County gop real last Saturday. 896 00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:50.880 Yeah. 897 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:55.519 Yeah, yeah, he lost. He lost, but but you know, 898 00:49:55.639 --> 00:49:58.880 the the important thing is that he's involved and and 899 00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:02.880 we're involved and and so uh yeah, he just he 900 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:04.519 went when he when I told him that you were 901 00:50:04.519 --> 00:50:06.440 philling in for Brian today, he said, we'll call him 902 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:10.360 up till I said hi, and uh so it. He 903 00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:12.519 has not made a decision yet whether he's going to 904 00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:16.679 go to UK or n k U, but I think 905 00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:19.519 he's going to lean towards NKU because he's a mama's boy. 906 00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.880 But yeah, yeah, like keeping him around the house and 907 00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:25.360 that type of thing. But yeah, now, dude, I think 908 00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:28.960 n k U they they they do have some on 909 00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:33.679 campus housing and they do have some dorms there, but 910 00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:36.000 I don't know how. I know they closed a couple 911 00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:38.440 of them down. But you guys live close enough that 912 00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:39.199 he could commute. 913 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:41.159 But uh yeah, I will. 914 00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:45.199 Say from a personal nature, I would the college experience 915 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.119 is something that is extremely fun and by being on 916 00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:54.559 campus you really get the full college experience. Going to Xavier, 917 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:57.559 there were some people that commuted and they never really 918 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.880 felt connected to the university or connect to the student 919 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:03.920 body there. But by being on campus and living there, 920 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:06.760 it gives you that at that dose of reality. I 921 00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.719 mean the first week in the dormitory. I mean back then, 922 00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:12.159 I mean, for crying out, we didn't have the many refrigerators. 923 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:14.519 You had the meal plan, you had the three meals 924 00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:17.400 a day, and anything that you could have like bags 925 00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:19.639 of chips and stuff. But you didn't have hot plates. 926 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:21.840 You didn't have this that some of these dormitories have. 927 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:24.559 And it was it was a shock the first couple 928 00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:28.159 of weeks thinking, you know, being at home, you you know, 929 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:30.360 eleven o'clock at night and oh, I'm gonna go to 930 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.159 the fridge, I'm gonna have a sandwich or I'm gonna 931 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:34.360 have this, and Oh wait a minute, that isn't there. 932 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:37.480 So uh, living on your own, learning. 933 00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:40.280 How to maintain your hours and and a little bit 934 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:43.119 of discipline in terms of studying I think is very good. 935 00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.280 But I think he's waiting a gear back from the 936 00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:51.159 Air Force Society because his great grandfather, his grandfather, his 937 00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:54.039 great uncle were all career Air Force. I was the 938 00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:56.320 only Marine in the family. So he's waiting to hear 939 00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:59.079 back from the Marine Corps League on whether he's going 940 00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:01.119 to get any kind of grand money from the from 941 00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:01.679 the Marines. 942 00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:03.599 But fantastic, Sorry. 943 00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:06.679 He'll yeah, sorry, he'll get some He'll get some schooling 944 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:11.000 money from the Air Force. But so getting a hear 945 00:52:11.039 --> 00:52:13.280 back from that if he if he gets a decent 946 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.840 grant from the Air Force, he'll probably go to UK 947 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:18.639 if he if the only people hears from his the Marines, 948 00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:20.039 he'll probably go to the n k U. 949 00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:22.960 All right, cool, well, Kirk, it was great talking to you. 950 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:24.119 Thank you so much for calling. 951 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:29.519 I thanks again, keep doing, keep fighting the good fighting, 952 00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:33.800 and hopefully hopefully on the next cycle around Shane will 953 00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:36.400 win his election and uh, then you can interview him 954 00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:36.880 on the radio. 955 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:39.119 There you go, there you go, Well tell him I 956 00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:41.079 said Hi. Tell Shane, I said, Hi. It was great 957 00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:42.679 meeting you guys, and it was a lot of fun, 958 00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:47.159 all right, take care. Yeah, Wow, that was a blast. 959 00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:49.599 I mean because I met him as a result of 960 00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:51.440 being on the air and we got in contact. We 961 00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:54.599 went and had some dinner and stuff and talked and 962 00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:58.000 it was really great time, but very interesting. And again 963 00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:00.880 getting back to the penny here, you know, and the 964 00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:04.719 whole nine yards here. With the cost of thirteen point 965 00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:07.960 eight cents to make a nickel, that is certainly not 966 00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:10.960 going to help the economy or help the treasury that 967 00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:13.599 much because you're going to be spending more money. And 968 00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:16.000 then of course you got the situation. We'll talk about 969 00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:19.000 this in a little while, talking about how much charities 970 00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:24.039 depend on pennies, and that this cashless society, in my opinion, 971 00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:28.360 this is a travel down the slippery slope in terms 972 00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:31.159 of a cashless society. I think we've got time to 973 00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:34.000 squeeze in a phone call here before the news. Let's 974 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.559 talk to Mike, Mike fifty five. Care, see you're on 975 00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:37.800 the air. Thanks for calling. 976 00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:40.960 Actually real quick about the penny. 977 00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:44.400 Instead of getting rid of it, why don't we just 978 00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:47.320 stop making them for a while there's gotta be billions 979 00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:48.039 of them out. 980 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:54.079 There, would you say just stop making them for a while. 981 00:53:55.159 --> 00:53:57.760 Yeah, I mean they constantly make coins. 982 00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:00.920 I mean I've been to the Minton DC. It's like 983 00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:02.119 constantly making money. 984 00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:04.519 I'm like, there's so much cash and so much so 985 00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:05.320 many pennies that. 986 00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:07.280 They why don't we take a break from making them 987 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.239 for a little bit and just use what's out there? 988 00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:10.880 Yeah. 989 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.920 Well, unfortunately a lot of people, uh, and we hear 990 00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:15.960 this from time to time, how many people are hoarding 991 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:18.719 pennies and for some reason, it's one of those things 992 00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:22.119 that they like filling those uh water cooler jars with 993 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:24.039 and see how many they can collect and all that. 994 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:27.239 So there's a lot of pennies out of circulation. But uh, 995 00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:29.480 Mike appreciate the phone call. And I just realized that 996 00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:31.320 I missed a break there, but I better get to it. 997 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:36.119 Five one eight hundred eight two three talk one eight 998 00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:38.880 hundred eight two three eight two five five pound five 999 00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:41.519 point fifty at and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in 1000 00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:44.480 for Brian Thomas, fifty five care see the talk station. 1001 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:46.119 The countdown is one. 1002 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:51.519 The nine first warning forecast. UH this morning rush hour rain, 1003 00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:54.440 moving out by the end of the rush hour. Look 1004 00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:57.320 for a low of forty two. But then this afternoon 1005 00:54:57.320 --> 00:54:59.599 we got a little peak of sun a little bit, 1006 00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:03.559 but then uh showers come back in the afternoon. High 1007 00:55:03.559 --> 00:55:07.039 a fifty five tonight low of thirty one. Tomorrow partley cloudy, 1008 00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:10.480 a high of fifty seven and a low of thirty four. 1009 00:55:10.599 --> 00:55:13.840 Right now forty seven degrees fifty five k see detalk 1010 00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:15.119 station and Chuck Ingram. 1011 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:19.760 How is traffic from the UCL Traffic Center. Around forty 1012 00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:23.559 percent of cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can 1013 00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:26.679 make a difference called five one three five eighty five 1014 00:55:26.840 --> 00:55:29.920 U see see see highways continue to look good this 1015 00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:32.199 morning with no accidents to deal with. 1016 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:33.679 No delays either Sat. 1017 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:36.599 Bend two seventy five still low k pants the Lawrence 1018 00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:39.760 Perg Ramp in Bend seventy four less than ten minutes 1019 00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:42.519 between two to seventy five at the cold rings split 1020 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:43.880 to the seventy five ramp. 1021 00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:46.280 Chuck Ingram month fifty five k r and see the 1022 00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:47.280 talk station. 1023 00:55:57.159 --> 00:55:59.320 Six thirty one in the morning Kevin Gordon in for 1024 00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:03.480 Brian Thomas fifty five krs the talk station. Some local 1025 00:56:03.519 --> 00:56:05.960 headlines that were covering for you this morning. Newport Independent 1026 00:56:06.280 --> 00:56:12.119 School District faces a one point nine million dollar deficit. Staff, students, 1027 00:56:12.119 --> 00:56:15.840 and parents all spoke at this meeting a jam packed audience, 1028 00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:19.159 voicing their concerns over potential factory cuts and the effect 1029 00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:23.559 on children's education. Newport's Superintendent, Tony Watts made a tentative 1030 00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:28.679 allocation to the budget cuts are being made to the building. 1031 00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:31.880 Let me see some of the comments. Who's this from 1032 00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:34.920 one of the teachers associations. Cuts are being made at 1033 00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:37.360 the building levels, but no one is willing to answer 1034 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:41.079 of what is being cut at this central office, which 1035 00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:43.639 I think is something that needs to be talked about. 1036 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:46.320 Some of the teachers you plan on cutting are teachers 1037 00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:48.719 who are not only play a role in kids education 1038 00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:51.880 and success, but also built foundation with the kids. I 1039 00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:54.360 got to tell you from a personal nature, from a 1040 00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:59.079 personal standpoint in my past, some of the most respected 1041 00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:02.239 people that I knew were teachers and had an impact 1042 00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:04.679 on my life. Well, I had this discussion with somebody 1043 00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:07.760 the other day about mentors, and I don't know that 1044 00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.320 I had a particular mentor, but it was a number 1045 00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:12.960 of people that I was exposed to over the years, 1046 00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:17.079 and teachers are that foundation the good ones, and not 1047 00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:20.000 every teacher is a good one. That's one thing you 1048 00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:23.440 need to talk about right off the bat. But when 1049 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:27.480 it comes to these budgets, I wish that and hopefully 1050 00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:30.480 that there are some enterprising accountants out there that would 1051 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:32.400 like to do a little bit of pro bono work 1052 00:57:32.599 --> 00:57:35.159 and maybe help out with the budget there to see 1053 00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:38.480 where things could be cut, things that could be done. 1054 00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:40.519 And one of the things that I've been wanting to 1055 00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:43.679 talk about forever and for some I'm going to have 1056 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:46.159 to do this, going to delve into it at some point, 1057 00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:50.679 is that if you eat any cereal, and I eat 1058 00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:53.159 a fair amount of cereal, I try to stay away 1059 00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:57.079 from the sugary cereals, but you know, it's nice to 1060 00:57:57.159 --> 00:57:59.239 have a bowl of cereal from time to time. And 1061 00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:04.079 you have the things on the top, the box tops. 1062 00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:07.519 I don't know how much of those are used. I 1063 00:58:07.559 --> 00:58:11.039 don't know what the volume is. But you don't see 1064 00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:13.840 any of these things with public schools. You notice that 1065 00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:17.800 during the summer there are always these church festivals and 1066 00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:22.280 school festivals that actually are the school festivals that then 1067 00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:25.719 support the schools and raise money for the schools. You 1068 00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:28.480 don't see any of that in any of the public schools, 1069 00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:33.840 with the exception of Woodfill School in Fort Thomas, and 1070 00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:37.400 every year they have their big Top festival, which is 1071 00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:39.360 money for the individual school. 1072 00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:41.760 So the schools. 1073 00:58:41.320 --> 00:58:45.880 Don't do from what I've seen, a program of trying 1074 00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:51.679 to raise money for the school as such. And you know, 1075 00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:55.159 either through turning in these box tops to these individual 1076 00:58:55.239 --> 00:58:57.559 ceial companies. I'm gonna have to dig into that and 1077 00:58:57.599 --> 00:59:02.079 see how much these these these cities could earn. And 1078 00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:04.639 again with all the students that you have, if you 1079 00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:07.280 do the scanning, if you do whatever the way they 1080 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:11.400 do that, or maybe have a festival organized with the 1081 00:59:11.719 --> 00:59:14.639 parents to have some sort of a festival, some way 1082 00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:18.079 of raising money on a regular basis. Just don't depend 1083 00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:21.280 on the taxpayers all the time for the funding of 1084 00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:23.599 these schools. Maybe that's a couple of things they need 1085 00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:26.199 to look at. Also, one of the headlines we're looking 1086 00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:30.039 at and Ohio bill would ban ticket arrests quotas for 1087 00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:34.320 law enforcement. House Bill one thirty one would make such 1088 00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:41.239 quotas illegal, which it's about time coming up. Phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine, 1089 00:59:41.320 --> 00:59:44.000 fifty five hundred one, eight hundred A two three talk 1090 00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:47.239 one eight hundred A two three eight two five five pound, 1091 00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:50.360 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 1092 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:53.000 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC. 1093 00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:55.440 The talk station Cincinnati's OH. 1094 00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:01.199 The nine first warning forecast rain moving out of the 1095 01:00:01.239 --> 01:00:03.119 area during the Monday morning rush hour. 1096 01:00:03.119 --> 01:00:04.719 We're gonna have a low of forty two. 1097 01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.800 Sun poking out the seat this afternoon for a little while. 1098 01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:11.119 Afternoon showers are possible. I'll high a fifty one. 1099 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:14.639 Temperatures continue to drop a bow of thirty one tomorrow. 1100 01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:16.320 It's going to be partly cloudy. 1101 01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:19.719 High a fifty seven and partly cloudy low of thirty four. 1102 01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:23.000 Right now forty seven degrees fifty five kr se DE 1103 01:00:23.159 --> 01:00:26.400 talk station Chuck has our traffic from. 1104 01:00:26.280 --> 01:00:29.719 The UCL Traffic Center. Around forty percent of cancers are preventable. 1105 01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:32.679 Lifestyle changes and screenings couldn't make a difference. Called five 1106 01:00:32.719 --> 01:00:35.800 one three five feet five U see see see beginning 1107 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.400 to fill in a bit. On the highways, northbound seventy 1108 01:00:38.440 --> 01:00:42.000 five slowing in the cut, southbound two seventy five slowing 1109 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:42.960 approaching the carrel. 1110 01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:44.599 Cropper Bridge crews. 1111 01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:48.119 Are working with an injury accident on Liberty Fairfield above Milliken, 1112 01:00:48.599 --> 01:00:51.599 Chucking ramonth fifty five krs, the talk station. 1113 01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:02.199 Thirty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for Brian 1114 01:01:02.199 --> 01:01:06.360 Thomas fifty five karosee the talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, 1115 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.760 four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two 1116 01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:11.440 three talk one, eight hundred eighty two three eight two 1117 01:01:11.559 --> 01:01:15.039 five five pound, five point fifty at and T wireless phone. 1118 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:17.800 Talking about the penny, I mean, this is something that 1119 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:21.960 Dose has been talking about that it costs three cents 1120 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:25.760 to make the penny, but if you switch to making 1121 01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:29.239 more nickels, it's gonna cost you eight cents more because 1122 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:32.559 it costs currently thirteen point eight cents to make a nickel. 1123 01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:34.360 And then at some point they're going to say, well, 1124 01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:36.360 maybe we should do away with a nickel. And then 1125 01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:39.000 you start rounding everything up and from the penny, because 1126 01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:42.000 no nothing ever gets rounded down. And you know, the 1127 01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:45.519 school of thought, as far as accountants was concerned, anything 1128 01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:48.519 over you know, fifty cents or whatever, fifty cents and 1129 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.079 above would be rounded up. But a lot of times 1130 01:01:51.239 --> 01:01:54.599 this stuff programmed into these computers and stuff, if it 1131 01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:58.320 comes into a percentage of point sense, it is rounded up, 1132 01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:01.480 and so I I don't like it from that standpoint. 1133 01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:04.760 And then this push to a cash list society, now, 1134 01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:07.880 a lot of this I think kind of gained a 1135 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:10.519 lot more ground. I know what gained more ground. My 1136 01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:14.000 wife never liked dealing with money. She always talked about 1137 01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:16.679 how dirty it is and you don't know where it's been. 1138 01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:19.119 And she's always telling me that if I'm handling money, 1139 01:02:19.119 --> 01:02:21.480 make sure I wash my hands and all this sort 1140 01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:23.440 of stuff. And yeah, I kind of get that with 1141 01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:29.239 the COVID issue and whatever, but you know, I'm kind 1142 01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:32.000 of the of the school of thought that. And maybe 1143 01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:35.559 it's because my immune system is pretty decent, but almost 1144 01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:37.559 you know, being exposed a little bit of germs once 1145 01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:40.679 in a while is good for you. But getting away 1146 01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.400 from cash. You know, I can't tell you the number 1147 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:47.119 of times I've been in a store and it's I 1148 01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:49.719 try to use CA. I used to use cash a 1149 01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:52.480 lot more often. But you go to buy something and 1150 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:54.840 you look at it and you say, well, gee, I've 1151 01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:57.320 the only I got a twenty and this thing's going 1152 01:02:57.400 --> 01:02:58.440 to cost a dollar fifty? 1153 01:02:58.519 --> 01:02:59.360 Do I really want it? 1154 01:02:59.440 --> 01:02:59.599 Now? 1155 01:02:59.840 --> 01:03:02.280 I'm not going to buy it, So, you know, once 1156 01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:05.639 you break that twenty man, it is gone. And so 1157 01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:09.760 when you go to credit cards, who thinks about paying 1158 01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:13.639 for something that is actual money coming out of your 1159 01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:16.639 account when you're paying by a credit card, does that 1160 01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:19.800 ring a bell with you? Or because you're not. You're 1161 01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:24.159 dealing with plastic as opposed to the actual, cold, hard currency, 1162 01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:28.840 and when you plunk that down and spend that, you don't. 1163 01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:31.320 I don't think that a lot of people think about that. 1164 01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:33.480 And you look at the amount of credit card debt 1165 01:03:33.480 --> 01:03:37.000 that we people have, it's incredible going back to the 1166 01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:39.880 nineteen eighties, the seventies, and you know, when credit cards 1167 01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:43.119 first started becoming more popular, the average debt the American 1168 01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:48.079 consumer had at that point was five hundred dollars. Now 1169 01:03:48.360 --> 01:03:51.920 people are maxed out on their credit cards. There's spending 1170 01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:55.679 tons of money on the interest, and it's because of 1171 01:03:55.719 --> 01:03:59.039 the money being easy to spend without having to pause 1172 01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:02.599 and think about it. And the fact that you go 1173 01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:05.119 to a cash list society is. 1174 01:04:05.079 --> 01:04:05.679 I think, you know? 1175 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:09.480 And then again that delves into all the controls that 1176 01:04:09.519 --> 01:04:12.719 can be done. We started seeing some of that where 1177 01:04:12.880 --> 01:04:15.480 you know, the banks were tracking on the behest of 1178 01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:20.199 the Biden administration, tracking purchase for conservatives, and were they 1179 01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:23.480 buying guns? What were they spending their money on and 1180 01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:25.639 so on, And I just think it's a slippery slope. 1181 01:04:25.960 --> 01:04:28.079 Let's go to the phones, talk to Tim and get 1182 01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:32.800 a penny for your thoughts. Tim. 1183 01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:37.679 Yeah, Chacy, how the school could possibly be under punted 1184 01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:42.559 because I remember the politicians tell us that if we 1185 01:04:42.599 --> 01:04:46.039 really just put for the lottery and to hire all 1186 01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.480 the schools with people ecunted, all the potholes of these 1187 01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:52.159 thick and everything would be great. 1188 01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:55.000 Yeah, that's what they sold in Kentucky. Also, all this 1189 01:04:55.159 --> 01:04:58.000 money for education, if you just allow us to do 1190 01:04:58.519 --> 01:05:01.360 something that if anybody did that individually, it would be 1191 01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:05.000 called gambling. It would be called you know, Rico act, 1192 01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:07.360 and the mafia would be in charge of But when 1193 01:05:07.480 --> 01:05:14.599 the state is running it, that's okay, all right, DM, 1194 01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:17.039 thank you so much. And you know, getting back to 1195 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:20.119 this cash list society, I think it's like, as I said, 1196 01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:23.079 a slippery slope when you go down that path and 1197 01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:29.760 you can't you know, when you're when you're dealing again, 1198 01:05:29.800 --> 01:05:33.199 when you're dealing with cash, you kind of understand the 1199 01:05:33.239 --> 01:05:37.559 purchase that you're making, as opposed to just handing a 1200 01:05:37.679 --> 01:05:41.400 card over and then whatever. I mean, there are people 1201 01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:44.360 that I know that hardly ever look at a bill 1202 01:05:44.639 --> 01:05:47.440 when it comes to just hand them the credit card. 1203 01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:52.679 I just I don't understand it. And something that why 1204 01:05:52.719 --> 01:05:55.920 I think that it's so necessary to keep the currency 1205 01:05:56.239 --> 01:06:00.280 and keep that available, because again, we have a out 1206 01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:04.000 a twenty percent portion of the economy, twenty percent portion 1207 01:06:04.119 --> 01:06:07.880 of the population that don't use banks, and that they 1208 01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:12.719 rely solely on actual hard currency in order to make 1209 01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:16.000 their purchases. And I think it's a bad idea. I 1210 01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:20.079 don't think it's only going to add problems to the economy. 1211 01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:22.480 I don't think we're going to see any benefit from it. 1212 01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:24.960 And again, when you look at the fact that you're 1213 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:27.599 going to be printed or you're going to be minting 1214 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:31.880 more nickels, and if the nickels are costing thirteen point 1215 01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:35.800 eight cents in order for them to be made. And 1216 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:38.480 as I was digging into this too, I was looking 1217 01:06:38.559 --> 01:06:44.039 at how the mint actually takes their overhead and applies 1218 01:06:44.119 --> 01:06:49.639 it to these individual coins, and it seems from the 1219 01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:53.039 numbers that I was looking at, and somebody pointed this 1220 01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:56.239 out to me that if you look at the way 1221 01:06:56.400 --> 01:07:01.599 they divide their overhead for the entire treasury. Over the 1222 01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:08.559 individual coins, pennies get a higher percentage of that than 1223 01:07:08.599 --> 01:07:12.119 they actually should if you were doing straight accounting and 1224 01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:16.719 spreading those out evenly the way they should be over 1225 01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:21.800 the individual currency that is being done, and so that 1226 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:26.159 number of how much it costs to make the penny 1227 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:30.480 may actually be over inflated. So that's one of those things. 1228 01:07:30.639 --> 01:07:33.719 Rather than just going in and cutting something because it 1229 01:07:33.880 --> 01:07:36.920 seems like it costs more, you got to look at 1230 01:07:37.239 --> 01:07:39.840 what does it cost you in the long run if 1231 01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:43.639 you cut that. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, 1232 01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:46.119 five hundred one eight hundred day two three talk one 1233 01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:48.920 eight hundred eight two three A two five five pound, 1234 01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:52.280 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 1235 01:07:52.360 --> 01:07:54.559 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC. 1236 01:07:54.800 --> 01:08:00.639 The Tuxtre Warning. 1237 01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:04.599 Weather for nine first warning forecast during morning rush hour 1238 01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:06.800 is gonna have the rain moving out before the end 1239 01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:09.159 of the rush hour, and we're gonna have a kind 1240 01:08:09.159 --> 01:08:11.639 of the sun poking through for a little while. We're 1241 01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:15.039 gonna have a high today of fifty eight. Showers move 1242 01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:17.560 into the area a little bit later on the afternoon. 1243 01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:20.159 We're going to see a low temperature tonight of thirty one, 1244 01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:23.399 tomorrow partley cloudy, high of fifty seven and a low 1245 01:08:23.479 --> 01:08:26.880 of thirty four. Right now forty seven degrees fifty five KR. 1246 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:31.039 See the talk station. Chuck Ingram has traffic from. 1247 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:34.319 The UCL Traffics Center. Around forty percent of cancers are preventable. 1248 01:08:34.359 --> 01:08:37.960 Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. Called five 1249 01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:41.479 one three, five eighty five U see see see South 1250 01:08:41.479 --> 01:08:43.800 Bend seventy five. Beginning to get a bit heavier through 1251 01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:46.399 Locklan Northbound's going to cost you a couple of extra 1252 01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:50.279 minutes now between Dixie and Downtown Stop two seventy five 1253 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:54.079 slows approaching the Carrol Cropper Bridge. There's a wreck on 1254 01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:57.920 Liberty Fairfield at Milligan needing more medical help. Chuck Ingram 1255 01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.239 on fifty five k R and SEV talk station. 1256 01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:14.600 Six fifty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian 1257 01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:18.319 Thomas fifty five KR. See the talk station. Phone numbers 1258 01:09:18.359 --> 01:09:20.880 five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five one, eight 1259 01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:23.079 hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight two 1260 01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:26.119 three eight two five five pound five point fifty atn 1261 01:09:26.199 --> 01:09:28.319 T wireless phone coming up top. There we're gonna be 1262 01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:31.319 talking to my good friend Phil Flynn Price Futures Group, 1263 01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:34.079 talking about what's going on in the economy, and it's 1264 01:09:34.119 --> 01:09:38.000 also with oil and energy prices and a lot of stuff. 1265 01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:40.880 Just got a very good take on the economy. But 1266 01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:42.760 in the meantime, let's head to the phones and let's 1267 01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:46.439 talk to Larry. Larry fifty five carries KRC. How are 1268 01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:48.600 you this morning going? 1269 01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:48.800 Well? 1270 01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:49.560 How about yourself? 1271 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:52.319 I cannot complain. I'm behind the microphone. It doesn't get 1272 01:09:52.359 --> 01:09:53.399 any better than that for me. 1273 01:09:55.720 --> 01:09:58.119 Hey, I had a thought on the pennies and then 1274 01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:00.960 balls can kind of transpose to the nichols as well. 1275 01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:04.800 But what if there was a buyback program so my 1276 01:10:04.920 --> 01:10:07.319 two cents would be paid two cents per penny stop 1277 01:10:07.359 --> 01:10:08.520 making it for a year or two. 1278 01:10:09.279 --> 01:10:12.239 You know, I brought that up with somebody who had 1279 01:10:12.279 --> 01:10:15.439 been pushing you know that I talked to you about 1280 01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:19.479 the penny and you know Coinstar did something like that 1281 01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:23.159 years ago and it wasn't as successful as they would 1282 01:10:23.199 --> 01:10:25.840 have liked. But you know, you read some of this 1283 01:10:25.880 --> 01:10:28.479 stuff about how many people are hoarding pennies and how 1284 01:10:28.520 --> 01:10:32.479 many people have you know, just have these jugs that 1285 01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:35.760 are sitting around the house that have pennies in them, 1286 01:10:35.960 --> 01:10:38.880 And yeah, I liked the idea, and I I would 1287 01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:41.359 like to see the idea floated that if you turn 1288 01:10:41.399 --> 01:10:44.800 in a penny you get two pennies. That would you know, again, 1289 01:10:44.840 --> 01:10:47.119 if it costs three cents to do a penny and 1290 01:10:47.159 --> 01:10:50.560 you're paying two dollars or two pennies to get those 1291 01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:53.920 back in circulation, maybe you could stop. You wouldn't be 1292 01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:56.880 having to print as many pennies. And so there's a 1293 01:10:56.920 --> 01:10:58.640 lot of things that need to be done. I mean, 1294 01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:01.319 it's just not a matter of looking at the cost 1295 01:11:01.479 --> 01:11:04.439 and what it costs and what the value is, what 1296 01:11:04.600 --> 01:11:07.640 it does overall in the economy, what it does as 1297 01:11:07.640 --> 01:11:10.720 far as the charities are concerned, and what that does 1298 01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:13.479 to lower income people. All that has to be taken 1299 01:11:13.520 --> 01:11:17.319 into consideration, and you look at the whole picture as opposed. 1300 01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:18.600 To just that small amount of it. 1301 01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:22.479 Let's squeeze in Mike here, Mike fifty five, care see 1302 01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:24.399 the talk station. Welcome to the program. 1303 01:11:25.279 --> 01:11:29.920 Thank you. I'm first time caller. I wanted to put 1304 01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:34.560 my two cents in on We my wife and I 1305 01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:37.880 we use credit cards almost for everything, uh huh, but 1306 01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:43.720 we never leave home for a trip without cash, Yes, 1307 01:11:44.319 --> 01:11:47.319 and if they went to cash list, it would be 1308 01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:50.640 troubled because we have stopped plenty of times to get 1309 01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:55.960 gas and their computers are down. Yeah, and they say 1310 01:11:56.079 --> 01:11:59.359 unless you can pay cash, can't get gas. 1311 01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:02.760 Right, And you know, the whole idea cash is king 1312 01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:06.800 and that's extremely important. And you know, it's great to 1313 01:12:06.920 --> 01:12:09.119 have a credit card and look at your statements at 1314 01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:11.479 the end of the month and know where your purchases are. 1315 01:12:11.720 --> 01:12:13.680 That's one of the things that my wife says. She says, 1316 01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:18.039 if I use cash, then it's kind of you forget well, geez, 1317 01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:20.039 I had twenty dollars on me the other day and 1318 01:12:20.239 --> 01:12:22.840 I've got nothing. Now what did I spend that on? 1319 01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:25.239 Then you got to go back through and think about it. 1320 01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:30.159 But the idea of and like I said, I find 1321 01:12:30.359 --> 01:12:34.359 that when you pay with cash, it doesn't hurt. I mean, 1322 01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:36.960 when you pay with a credit card, it doesn't hurt 1323 01:12:37.479 --> 01:12:39.800 as opposed to dipping in your pocket and having to 1324 01:12:39.840 --> 01:12:40.640 count out the money. 1325 01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:41.279 You know what I mean. 1326 01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:47.079 Oh, I guess dropped off there, But yeah, Mike appreciate 1327 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:48.960 the phone call, and Larry I appreciates you calling in 1328 01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:51.279 as well. A first time caller that's cool, and it 1329 01:12:51.319 --> 01:12:53.600 makes sense that when you're out driving around and you're 1330 01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:56.119 on a trip, you need to have cash. And as 1331 01:12:56.159 --> 01:12:59.000 a matter of fact, one of the big reasons that 1332 01:12:59.119 --> 01:13:02.640 I that I carry cash is that when I'm at 1333 01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:05.960 a restaurant, I always try to leave the tip in 1334 01:13:06.039 --> 01:13:10.399 cash because that then you can you know, if you 1335 01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:13.439 put it on the credit card, then they will take 1336 01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:17.079 that amount itself and charge them that. Hopefully, with the 1337 01:13:17.119 --> 01:13:20.159 current administration and the tax bills that are going through 1338 01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:23.439 that they'll end the tax on tips, which I think 1339 01:13:23.479 --> 01:13:26.319 would be great. But in the meantime, because if you 1340 01:13:26.760 --> 01:13:29.840 go through the receipts and if they say that okay, 1341 01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:33.119 that they expected a five percent or ten percent tip, 1342 01:13:33.399 --> 01:13:35.359 and then that's what they're taxed on. But if you 1343 01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:39.560 can leave fifteen to twenty percent with cash, then they 1344 01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:42.680 make a lot more money that way. And again, spending 1345 01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:45.319 cash is a lot easier than waiting till pay day 1346 01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:47.600 and getting that on your on your on your paycheck. 1347 01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:51.399 So anyway, that's my two cents worth. As far as 1348 01:13:52.399 --> 01:13:56.199 the Penny and a cashlest Society coming up, Phil. 1349 01:13:55.960 --> 01:13:57.319 Flynn will be joining us. 1350 01:13:57.439 --> 01:14:00.359 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR 1351 01:14:00.399 --> 01:14:01.920 see the talk station. 1352 01:14:02.039 --> 01:14:04.319 Covering Trump's first one hundred days. 1353 01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:06.840 Every day we stand on the verge of the four 1354 01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:09.039 greatest years in American history. 1355 01:14:09.159 --> 01:14:13.640 Fifty five TRC the talk station. This report is sponsored 1356 01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:15.079 by I want. 1357 01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:17.880 To welcome back to the program our good friend Phil Flynn. 1358 01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:21.119 He's market analyst with Price Futures Group, author of the 1359 01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:24.680 Energy report that I read almost every day, most of 1360 01:14:24.680 --> 01:14:26.840 the times I read that, and he's a contributor to 1361 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:30.279 Fox Business Network. Phil, Welcome to the program. Welcome back 1362 01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:33.119 to the program. I should say, I'm. 1363 01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:36.000 Seeing the spring in the air. And you know the 1364 01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:38.760 first thing I think about when spring comes his higher 1365 01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:44.079 gasoline prices. 1366 01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:46.560 Not if we get these not if we get these 1367 01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:50.000 oil prices down a little bit better. I mean, they've 1368 01:14:50.039 --> 01:14:52.960 been seeing a big movement. One of the things I 1369 01:14:52.960 --> 01:14:55.640 guess the two biggest drivers are the two biggest and 1370 01:14:55.720 --> 01:14:59.720 mostly quoted, West Texas Intermedia Crewed and Brent Crude. West 1371 01:14:59.720 --> 01:15:03.159 Texas Intermediate Crude as of yesterday was down eleven percent 1372 01:15:03.279 --> 01:15:08.359 and then crude down eight percent just from the inauguration 1373 01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:12.359 on the twentieth, which is good news. Hopefully that'll push 1374 01:15:12.399 --> 01:15:15.159 through into the refineries and into the gas pumps, but 1375 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:16.119 you never know. 1376 01:15:17.560 --> 01:15:20.399 Well, you know what I'll tell you. President Trump has 1377 01:15:20.479 --> 01:15:24.479 been amazing in moving the oil market right and when 1378 01:15:24.520 --> 01:15:26.680 he said that he was going to get prices down 1379 01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:29.640 right away, everybody kind of laughed at him. But he's 1380 01:15:29.680 --> 01:15:34.000 had some success, you know. And I think one of 1381 01:15:34.039 --> 01:15:39.319 the biggest driving forces to the downside is President Trump 1382 01:15:39.359 --> 01:15:42.800 the peacemaker. You know. The possibility that he can get 1383 01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:46.359 Ukraine and Russia in the same room and the war 1384 01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:50.520 possibly lifts sanctions on Russian oil could have a huge 1385 01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:53.760 impact on the globe, not just for those barrels of oil, 1386 01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:56.960 you know, but the you know, the fact that you know, 1387 01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:01.319 the chances of World War three gos goes down, reduces 1388 01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:04.279 the risk to transport oil, and that lowers prices. So 1389 01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:06.840 sometimes you can do it without even drilling. 1390 01:16:06.600 --> 01:16:10.039 Right exactly exactly. And we've seen the peace dividend as 1391 01:16:10.079 --> 01:16:12.600 a result of what's going on in the Middle East, 1392 01:16:12.640 --> 01:16:16.399 the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. We have no longer 1393 01:16:16.439 --> 01:16:20.279 the Huti's attacking some of the ships in the Red Sea, 1394 01:16:20.359 --> 01:16:23.239 which opens that up and cuts down the amount of 1395 01:16:23.279 --> 01:16:25.760 time that these ships have to be out on the 1396 01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:30.479 ocean by as much as two weeks sometime. That's helping 1397 01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:32.319 the flow of oil as well. 1398 01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:36.159 It is, it is, And a lot of the tankers 1399 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:40.079 that would take that route through those canals, the Swiss 1400 01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:43.359 Canal and other places, you know, did go other ways. 1401 01:16:43.399 --> 01:16:45.840 They didn't want a chance, you know, their people or 1402 01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:50.880 their cargo getting attacked. And it's really sad when you 1403 01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:54.920 think about it, that the Biden administration allowed this rag 1404 01:16:55.039 --> 01:16:59.399 tag group of rebels to get funded by Iran so 1405 01:16:59.439 --> 01:17:03.279 they could you know, play havoc and international shipping lanes. 1406 01:17:03.319 --> 01:17:06.880 I mean, you know, it's it's almost kind of laughable 1407 01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:08.920 that they could allow that to happen. But it was 1408 01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:10.079 amazing that they did. 1409 01:17:10.199 --> 01:17:13.720 Yeah, a rank tag group of pirates basically that and 1410 01:17:13.720 --> 01:17:15.640 and you know there was supposed to be this what 1411 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:16.159 was it. 1412 01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:19.000 What is it capital? 1413 01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:23.159 There was some sort of a coalition that was put together, 1414 01:17:25.920 --> 01:17:27.479 I don't know coalation. 1415 01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:30.199 Right, the international coalition is to crack down on the 1416 01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:30.840 pirates correer. 1417 01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:34.039 Yeah, they called it some sort of thing like Operation 1418 01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:40.199 Freedom or Operation something. But and they couldn't stop it, 1419 01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:42.800 I mean, for crying out loud, I mean, how how 1420 01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:45.079 difficult would that have been? And then of course not 1421 01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:49.239 and allowing Iran and Russia under sanctions being able to 1422 01:17:49.279 --> 01:17:53.199 still sell their oil around the world and then funding 1423 01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:56.720 these you know, obviously if Iran's making more money off 1424 01:17:56.720 --> 01:17:59.720 their oil, Russia is making money off their oil instead 1425 01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:01.840 of turning that over to their people and making their 1426 01:18:01.840 --> 01:18:05.119 lives better. Now, let's let's invade another country, or let's 1427 01:18:05.119 --> 01:18:08.119 cause terrorism on the state of Israel or the country 1428 01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:13.479 of Israel. It's just the the the weakness of that 1429 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:16.880 previous administration is just criminal. 1430 01:18:18.680 --> 01:18:20.159 You know, I think it is. And you know, I 1431 01:18:20.199 --> 01:18:24.239 think it gets back to why uh. You know, leadership 1432 01:18:24.319 --> 01:18:27.720 is so important, but not only just leadership in the 1433 01:18:27.920 --> 01:18:29.880 energy policy, right. You know, a lot of people think 1434 01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:33.680 energy policy is just about you know, gasoline prices and 1435 01:18:34.359 --> 01:18:37.920 heating oil bills, but it's it's so much more. It's 1436 01:18:37.960 --> 01:18:44.199 it's geopolitical power. It's about trying to improve the economy. 1437 01:18:44.319 --> 01:18:48.600 It can mean growth and manufacturing, you know. So there's 1438 01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:51.319 so many elements and a lot of what we're seeing, 1439 01:18:51.359 --> 01:18:54.520 you know, with the war in Ukraine, you know, and 1440 01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:57.600 you know the situation with Iran and everybody else has 1441 01:18:57.640 --> 01:19:02.920 an oil subplot running underneath all these conflicts. 1442 01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:04.520 Yeah, Phil Flynn. 1443 01:19:04.680 --> 01:19:08.520 The thing that amazes me on your energy report is 1444 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:13.039 how dead on you are talking about economic issues. I mean, 1445 01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:16.199 you talk about the energy issue, as you just mentioned 1446 01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:18.680 that people think in terms of just gas or whatever. 1447 01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:21.359 But when you look at natural gas, when you look 1448 01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:25.399 at the energy component's heating, oil, diesel, and there isn't 1449 01:19:25.399 --> 01:19:28.159 a business and people are starting to talk about this. 1450 01:19:28.560 --> 01:19:31.359 There isn't a business out there that isn't affected by 1451 01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:35.840 energy prices. And if your energy prices are ten, fifteen 1452 01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:39.520 to twenty percent higher than they were four years ago, 1453 01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:42.319 that's going to be reflected in your bottom line and 1454 01:19:42.359 --> 01:19:44.760 that's got to be passed on to your. 1455 01:19:44.640 --> 01:19:49.399 Customers absolutely, you know. And one of the things, of course, 1456 01:19:49.479 --> 01:19:52.279 you know under Biden, you know, he declared a climate 1457 01:19:52.359 --> 01:19:56.920 emergency and you know, let's get away from fossil fuels. 1458 01:19:56.960 --> 01:20:00.279 And he denimized the US oil and gas industry, use 1459 01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:03.079 them of price gouging, even though his policies were the 1460 01:20:03.079 --> 01:20:05.479 ones that were driving their prices. When there was a 1461 01:20:05.520 --> 01:20:07.920 war in Ukraine, you know, a war that he should 1462 01:20:07.960 --> 01:20:10.560 have stopped, he blamed the oil companies because prices went 1463 01:20:10.600 --> 01:20:12.880 up because they're cutting off supplies from Russia and called 1464 01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:15.960 them war profiteers. Yeah, I mean, you know, such a 1465 01:20:15.960 --> 01:20:20.039 bad vision. But then they spend billions of dollars right 1466 01:20:20.159 --> 01:20:23.680 on green energy programs that went nowhere. And now we're 1467 01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:25.560 finding out what the jos that a lot of this 1468 01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:29.520 money went into the pockets of politicians and companies with 1469 01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:33.159 the you know, political connections, you know, so you know, 1470 01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:37.000 and that all cost every American. Everybody says, oh, there's 1471 01:20:37.039 --> 01:20:39.960 always crime in Washington. Well, you know, that's been going 1472 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:43.239 on for years. You know what, it's crime that's taking 1473 01:20:43.279 --> 01:20:46.479 money out of your pocket, my pocket, and in the 1474 01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:50.119 poor and middle classes pocket that you know, politicians always 1475 01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:52.520 say we care about the poor and middle class. Now 1476 01:20:52.640 --> 01:20:54.640 they're like to lease the poor in the middle classes 1477 01:20:54.680 --> 01:20:55.439 what they've been doing. 1478 01:20:55.760 --> 01:20:58.319 Yeah, and if one thing Donald Trump has done as 1479 01:20:58.359 --> 01:21:02.720 being president is actually giving I guess people more of 1480 01:21:02.760 --> 01:21:07.039 a backbone to speak up, because it appears as though 1481 01:21:07.039 --> 01:21:09.600 a lot of these companies that went down the green 1482 01:21:09.640 --> 01:21:14.239 new steel route in terms of transferring wealth from one 1483 01:21:14.279 --> 01:21:17.000 group of people to another, and they bought into this. 1484 01:21:17.119 --> 01:21:19.840 I mean, you pointed out your energy report yesterday, British 1485 01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:22.239 Petroleum five was it five years ago? 1486 01:21:22.319 --> 01:21:23.760 They tried to do they tried to. 1487 01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:28.199 Change their image from British petroleum to beyond petroleum, and 1488 01:21:28.239 --> 01:21:31.239 now all of a sudden they're reversing that back and saying, well, 1489 01:21:31.279 --> 01:21:33.960 you know what, we're taking our stock is not doing 1490 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:38.600 so well, and our investors are starting to scream and say, hey, 1491 01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:41.800 these other oil companies are doing better and I could 1492 01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:44.840 buy you know, have better stock there. All of a 1493 01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:47.319 sudden they're waking up. They're investing more in oil and 1494 01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:51.479 less in the green New Deal or the green as 1495 01:21:51.520 --> 01:21:55.000 I call it, the Green New Steel. But it's right, 1496 01:21:56.319 --> 01:21:59.439 it's like, it's okay now to not be woke. 1497 01:22:01.399 --> 01:22:04.760 Yeah, it is. And listen, I mean, you know, I mean, 1498 01:22:04.960 --> 01:22:07.640 I grew up in America, you know, you know when 1499 01:22:07.680 --> 01:22:09.479 I grew up, it was like, and we believe in 1500 01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:12.159 free speech. That's part of the constitution. That's what makes 1501 01:22:12.239 --> 01:22:16.319 us different than our compadres. Right, and the other countries 1502 01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:19.000 are bad because you know, they control the press, they 1503 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:22.039 control free speech, and that's why they're bad, right, you know, 1504 01:22:22.119 --> 01:22:24.760 But now we see what's been going on in this country. 1505 01:22:24.840 --> 01:22:27.680 It's sad. I mean when you see that the mainstream 1506 01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:30.119 media has been lying to you, they've been lying to 1507 01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:33.239 you about climate change. They've been lying to you, you know, 1508 01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:34.760 about where your money's going. 1509 01:22:35.039 --> 01:22:38.079 And Phil Flynn, this is a good point about. 1510 01:22:37.880 --> 01:22:39.920 You were canceled or whatever. 1511 01:22:40.079 --> 01:22:41.760 Right, Yeah, And Phil Flynn, we need to take a 1512 01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:43.920 quick break here and come back and pick this up 1513 01:22:43.960 --> 01:22:47.439 on the other side because this green energy and what 1514 01:22:47.479 --> 01:22:50.000 they're doing as far as climate change and the whole 1515 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:52.960 hoax there has been astounding and we'll talk about that 1516 01:22:53.000 --> 01:22:56.199 coming up. My guest is Phil Flynn, senior market analyst, 1517 01:22:56.279 --> 01:23:00.520 Price Futures Group. Continue our conversation with Phil Flynn, the 1518 01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:03.720 senior analysts, senior market analysts the Price Futures Group and 1519 01:23:03.760 --> 01:23:07.159 author of the Energy Report, which I read. I got 1520 01:23:07.199 --> 01:23:09.000 to say it's almost every day. I mean, it's just 1521 01:23:09.159 --> 01:23:12.239 a wealth of information in there. You've talked about this 1522 01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:16.640 week Donald Trump being a great negotiator and it's amazing 1523 01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:19.439 what he's been able to accomplish. Power to the people. 1524 01:23:19.520 --> 01:23:22.600 The other day talking about energies, are trying to prompt 1525 01:23:22.600 --> 01:23:27.479 these these companies to you with the necessity of AI 1526 01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:30.359 and the technology that that's going to require to build 1527 01:23:30.479 --> 01:23:34.159 up their energy production by ten to fifteen percent. And 1528 01:23:34.319 --> 01:23:36.479 it is just a wealth of information. And you call 1529 01:23:36.520 --> 01:23:39.840 them like you see them. You talk about the green energy, 1530 01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:42.079 the green news, as I call it, the green news, 1531 01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:45.720 steel about this climate change hope that the hoax that 1532 01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:47.159 we've been fed over the. 1533 01:23:47.159 --> 01:23:52.439 Years, it is, you know, and I appreciate your compliments 1534 01:23:52.439 --> 01:23:54.720 and the report, and yeah, I mean when you look 1535 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:59.600 at what Donald Trump has achieved already, it's amazing. And 1536 01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:03.279 we'll be talk about power to the people. Listen, the 1537 01:24:03.680 --> 01:24:06.159 economy of the future is not going to be driven 1538 01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:09.279 by electric cars. It's not going to be driven by 1539 01:24:09.479 --> 01:24:13.279 solar panels and windmills. It's going to be driven by 1540 01:24:13.359 --> 01:24:18.000 artificial intelligence. And if you're going to have the strongest 1541 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:21.199 economy in the world, if you're going to keep jobs 1542 01:24:21.199 --> 01:24:24.359 in this country, if you're going to have a strong 1543 01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:30.159 national defense, then the only way that you can take 1544 01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:35.399 care of that is by expanding your capacity to produce 1545 01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:38.880 energy and meet the demands that is coming. So that 1546 01:24:39.039 --> 01:24:43.239 is definitely one of the things that Trump gets and 1547 01:24:43.319 --> 01:24:45.800 we're going to have to expand our capacity. 1548 01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:49.439 I don't hear anybody talking about as much as I 1549 01:24:49.479 --> 01:24:55.600 think they should, just exactly how much this AI technology requires. 1550 01:24:55.760 --> 01:24:59.520 As far as the energy production. I've seen reports that 1551 01:24:59.560 --> 01:25:02.359 some of these buildings require almost the same amount of 1552 01:25:02.479 --> 01:25:04.119 energy as a small city. 1553 01:25:05.920 --> 01:25:11.079 It is, it is, it's amazing. And in fact, a 1554 01:25:11.159 --> 01:25:17.399 couple of crypto currency what they call mining stations right 1555 01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:24.880 in artificial intelligence, can consume as much energy as three 1556 01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:28.840 or four countries in Europe combined. Okay, and so that's 1557 01:25:28.640 --> 01:25:29.920 it's incredible. 1558 01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:34.079 Yeah, And I didn't realize this much, And then I 1559 01:25:34.119 --> 01:25:37.119 started thinking about it that you know, not only are 1560 01:25:37.159 --> 01:25:41.239 you talking about the energy in order to run the 1561 01:25:41.439 --> 01:25:46.119 equipment itself, but then there's energy that's required to cool 1562 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:50.119 down the equipment. Because of this, the amount of heat 1563 01:25:50.199 --> 01:25:53.439 that comes off of these computers. And I remember doing 1564 01:25:53.479 --> 01:25:57.279 an audit years ago and it was a smaller but 1565 01:25:57.399 --> 01:25:59.800 they had in this one room and I think the 1566 01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:02.720 room was probably too small, but they had I think 1567 01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:06.119 thirty five servers in there. And you walk in that 1568 01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:09.000 room and it was almost like a sauna. And if 1569 01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:12.039 for some reason the air conditioner got blocked in there, 1570 01:26:12.479 --> 01:26:14.960 all hell would break loose and that stuff would melt down, 1571 01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:18.000 or you know, they damage the equipment. So not only 1572 01:26:18.039 --> 01:26:21.079 do you have the energy to run the equipment, but 1573 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:23.880 you also have an awful lot of energy needed to 1574 01:26:24.079 --> 01:26:25.119 cool the equipment. 1575 01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:29.319 You're absolutely correct. And then when you look at the 1576 01:26:29.359 --> 01:26:33.800 applications that are built, right because everything is going to 1577 01:26:33.840 --> 01:26:37.159 have artificial intelligence. You know, a lot of people that 1578 01:26:37.239 --> 01:26:40.760 are listening in to us today have maybe noticed on 1579 01:26:40.800 --> 01:26:43.560 their updates and computers all of a sudden they have 1580 01:26:44.399 --> 01:26:46.680 not just spell check, but they have something called my 1581 01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:50.479 co pilot. Yeah, like, yeah, write you know what you're writing, 1582 01:26:50.760 --> 01:26:54.800 or you can ask it questions, or it can summarize documents. 1583 01:26:55.119 --> 01:26:58.239 You know, And this is just the beginning. It reminds me, 1584 01:26:58.439 --> 01:27:01.680 Kevin of the beginning of the internet. Remember when you know, 1585 01:27:01.840 --> 01:27:04.560 I'm old enough to remember, nobody had computers on our desk. 1586 01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:11.720 Oh yeah, flag rolls and paper right right, you know 1587 01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:15.319 now I mean, uh, well little calculators if you could 1588 01:27:15.319 --> 01:27:17.960 afford them, a big one, big one. But anyway, but yeah, 1589 01:27:18.079 --> 01:27:20.920 but this is what's happening right now with the artificial intelligence, 1590 01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:23.840 and Trump gets us. You know, you look at it 1591 01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:25.159 and say, how are you going to pay off this 1592 01:27:25.239 --> 01:27:28.479 ridiculous DAFA said, oh, yeah, we're cunning government spending. But 1593 01:27:28.600 --> 01:27:30.479 is that going to be enough? You know? But how 1594 01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:32.399 did we do it in the past? It was with 1595 01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:38.359 tax cuts, economic growth and the Internet revolution, right, and 1596 01:27:38.439 --> 01:27:40.800 so now we're going to have another iteration of this. 1597 01:27:41.039 --> 01:27:44.119 And Donald Trump looks at the big picture and he 1598 01:27:44.159 --> 01:27:48.119 gets it. And you know, we can either lead in 1599 01:27:48.159 --> 01:27:50.640 this area or we can be left behind. And the 1600 01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:53.800 sad part is if we get left behind, that means 1601 01:27:53.960 --> 01:27:58.560 our children and our grandchildren are going to be left behind. Right. Good, 1602 01:27:58.960 --> 01:28:02.319 everybody and everybody cares about the environment, right, and we 1603 01:28:02.359 --> 01:28:05.479 want a safe environment. That's great, right, But you know 1604 01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:08.000 the fear mongeringe over climate change. I mean, I can 1605 01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:10.760 give you an example after example of all these fear 1606 01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:13.800 mongering politicians. So give us money, or you know, the 1607 01:28:13.800 --> 01:28:16.359 world's gonna end in six years and it's going to 1608 01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:20.720 be irreversible. Uh, you know a lot of that stuff. 1609 01:28:21.000 --> 01:28:23.760 I can go back thirty years and show that these 1610 01:28:23.800 --> 01:28:26.359 predictions have been totally wrong. Listen to me. 1611 01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:29.359 I think that we should have been Phil Flynn. I 1612 01:28:29.399 --> 01:28:31.399 think we should have all been dead about ten years 1613 01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:34.720 ago if the climate predictions had been true, and would 1614 01:28:34.760 --> 01:28:37.920 be snorkling right now in New York City. 1615 01:28:38.479 --> 01:28:40.840 Well yeah, and you know, I mean I thought, I 1616 01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:44.279 could you know, buy beach property in Lake Mischigan, Michigan 1617 01:28:44.319 --> 01:28:47.520 that I could be using today. Yeah, it's not working. 1618 01:28:47.600 --> 01:28:50.720 Out that way, yeah, from the shoreline and Allison, your 1619 01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:54.039 beachfront property. One thing before we got to the end 1620 01:28:54.359 --> 01:28:57.640 is that you've been very adamant about this. And you're 1621 01:28:57.680 --> 01:29:00.279 one of the few people, few economists that I've seeing, 1622 01:29:00.680 --> 01:29:03.439 if I can call you an economist other than a 1623 01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:11.600 analyst and a genius with commodities. But the whole idea 1624 01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:16.760 of tariffs being inflationary, you have been very adamant that 1625 01:29:16.960 --> 01:29:20.399 not necessarily, no. 1626 01:29:20.239 --> 01:29:24.479 They or not in fact, that the one cause of inflation, 1627 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:28.800 and the major cause of inflation is government waste spending 1628 01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:31.880 and printing money. Right. And you know, I can tell 1629 01:29:31.880 --> 01:29:33.760 you there's a lot of farmers that are listening to 1630 01:29:33.840 --> 01:29:36.800 us right now. Right. You know, remember when we put 1631 01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:40.600 tariffs on grains and China, I mean, prices didn't go up, 1632 01:29:40.680 --> 01:29:42.880 they went down, right, Not that it wasn't good for 1633 01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:45.840 the farmers, but you know it is good for the consumers. 1634 01:29:46.199 --> 01:29:49.319 So you know, when you talk about tariffs, tariffs are attacked. 1635 01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:52.000 So when I hear a Democratic politicians and ah, he's 1636 01:29:52.039 --> 01:29:54.359 just going to be added to inflation, and then I 1637 01:29:54.359 --> 01:29:56.119 would say to them, well, you want to tax the 1638 01:29:56.560 --> 01:29:59.159 millionaires and billionaires more money, So what you're saying, is 1639 01:29:59.199 --> 01:30:01.920 the taxes, and so you're going to be adding to inflation, 1640 01:30:02.479 --> 01:30:04.680 you know, so they talk out of both sides of 1641 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:08.039 their mouth. The only cause of inflation, and everybody can 1642 01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:12.439 write this down is government mismanagement of the economy by 1643 01:30:12.680 --> 01:30:16.960 printing too much money. And President Biden printed more money 1644 01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:20.600 than any president you know, I think in history, and 1645 01:30:20.640 --> 01:30:22.079 that is why we have inflation. 1646 01:30:22.640 --> 01:30:25.760 Well, Phil, they also Phil Flynn. They also pointed out 1647 01:30:25.760 --> 01:30:28.399 the fact that what that what was it, the Economic 1648 01:30:28.439 --> 01:30:31.600 Recovery Act or whatever that was called the Last Round 1649 01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:36.079 or the last few rounds of spending. The economists were 1650 01:30:36.119 --> 01:30:38.439 warning him that this was going to add to inflation, 1651 01:30:38.520 --> 01:30:40.720 and they said, no, it's not. And then when they 1652 01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:43.720 had the what the Infrastructure Bill and they sold it 1653 01:30:43.760 --> 01:30:47.000 as infrastructure, and then it had all these these green 1654 01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:50.560 new steel stuff in there that siphoned off a bunch 1655 01:30:50.560 --> 01:30:53.279 of money that went to waste, fraud, and abuse. Uh, 1656 01:30:53.399 --> 01:30:57.840 those are the things that that caused inflation. And the 1657 01:30:57.920 --> 01:31:00.239 people that said it was going to cause inflation were 1658 01:31:00.239 --> 01:31:01.359 absolutely correct. 1659 01:31:02.640 --> 01:31:06.119 Absolutely, you know. Instead of calling it the Inflation Reduction Act, 1660 01:31:06.199 --> 01:31:09.560 they should have said the Inflation you know, explosion Act, 1661 01:31:09.640 --> 01:31:13.680 because that's what it. Did you know, government inefficiency, government 1662 01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:16.520 printing money that they don't have to pay for programs 1663 01:31:16.760 --> 01:31:20.720 that will never be built. Right. Build back better was 1664 01:31:20.840 --> 01:31:24.560 like build nothing right. Build back better is building back 1665 01:31:24.880 --> 01:31:27.640 you know some bank accounts, that's what they were building 1666 01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:30.680 back better. But you know, does anybody believe that things 1667 01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:33.960 are better? Do you see? You know, everybody buying electric cars. 1668 01:31:34.000 --> 01:31:36.439 You see that they're cheap. No, I mean, you know, 1669 01:31:36.479 --> 01:31:39.640 they gave tax breaks to millionaires so they could buy 1670 01:31:39.680 --> 01:31:43.319 electric cars while the poor middle class got hit with 1671 01:31:43.399 --> 01:31:47.800 higher gasoline prices, higher heating bills. Right, and they all say, well, 1672 01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:50.600 it's good to save the planet. You know, they don't 1673 01:31:50.640 --> 01:31:51.840 care about the planet. 1674 01:31:52.000 --> 01:31:52.119 Right. 1675 01:31:52.159 --> 01:31:54.520 If they cared about the planet, they would have a 1676 01:31:54.640 --> 01:31:59.760 realistic energy policy that not you know, that didn't wipe 1677 01:31:59.760 --> 01:32:03.880 out the poor and mittle class and you know, net 1678 01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:07.680 the demands for our future and our children's future. 1679 01:32:07.800 --> 01:32:09.800 Yeah, And if they cared about the environment, if they 1680 01:32:09.800 --> 01:32:12.279 cared about saving the planet, and they you know, you 1681 01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:16.079 see these windmills out in the ocean that are beaching 1682 01:32:16.079 --> 01:32:19.960 whales and killing birds. You see these solar panels that 1683 01:32:20.720 --> 01:32:23.560 can't be good for the environment. And when they get 1684 01:32:23.600 --> 01:32:27.079 disposed of that's not helping the environment, and they're really 1685 01:32:27.119 --> 01:32:30.800 not producing the amount of energy that they had originally 1686 01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:35.159 promised us that they would. So it's just a transfer 1687 01:32:35.199 --> 01:32:38.079 of wealth from one organization to another. And then they 1688 01:32:38.079 --> 01:32:40.079 can go belly up and they can take all the 1689 01:32:40.119 --> 01:32:42.960 money that they siphoned off and go play on the 1690 01:32:42.960 --> 01:32:43.920 beach in the Caribbean. 1691 01:32:43.960 --> 01:32:46.239 I guess absolutely. 1692 01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:48.760 And where do you do? You know the question you 1693 01:32:48.840 --> 01:32:51.520 have to ask yourself where do old solar panels go 1694 01:32:51.960 --> 01:32:53.520 when they lift their lifetime? 1695 01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:53.760 Right? 1696 01:32:53.840 --> 01:32:56.760 Where did the old you know wind turbines goatly changed 1697 01:32:56.800 --> 01:32:57.199 every year? 1698 01:32:57.479 --> 01:32:57.800 Exactly? 1699 01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:00.279 Don't they end up back in the environment? Right, there's 1700 01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:05.199 a graveyard of you know, massive you know wind turbines 1701 01:33:05.239 --> 01:33:08.000 that have to be changed and they can't be recycled, 1702 01:33:08.199 --> 01:33:11.319 so they're gonna sit there in the planet for years 1703 01:33:11.359 --> 01:33:12.600 and years to unbelievable. 1704 01:33:12.720 --> 01:33:15.039 Clint Well, Phili thank you so much. I really, I 1705 01:33:15.079 --> 01:33:17.560 really appreciate you spending time with us this morning. We're 1706 01:33:17.600 --> 01:33:19.479 kind of getting up to a hard break here and 1707 01:33:19.880 --> 01:33:22.119 I certainly appreciate your time and I got to have 1708 01:33:22.279 --> 01:33:23.159 you back more often. 1709 01:33:23.279 --> 01:33:26.640 This is just too much fun, just amazing. 1710 01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:31.720 The nine first morning forecast Morning Rush how we're going 1711 01:33:31.800 --> 01:33:33.920 to see an end to the rain and then we're 1712 01:33:33.920 --> 01:33:37.520 gonna have a little peaking of the sun later on 1713 01:33:37.560 --> 01:33:41.199 this afternoon high of fifty one, then showers continue or 1714 01:33:41.399 --> 01:33:44.039 come back later on the afternoon. Rembe a load tonight 1715 01:33:44.039 --> 01:33:47.800 of thirty one, high of fifty seven tomorrow with partly scout, 1716 01:33:48.159 --> 01:33:51.880 partly cloudy skies, and then a low of thirty four. 1717 01:33:51.960 --> 01:33:55.840 Right now forty seven degrees fifty five k see detalk station. 1718 01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:58.399 Chuck Ingram has traffic from. 1719 01:33:58.319 --> 01:34:01.279 The Ucing Health Triumphing Center run. Forty percent of cancers 1720 01:34:01.359 --> 01:34:05.119 are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. 1721 01:34:05.199 --> 01:34:08.239 Called five one three five eighty five U se sec 1722 01:34:08.760 --> 01:34:11.600 setbound seventy five slows through Blackland and here come the 1723 01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:15.239 break line, setbound seventy one from above two seventy five 1724 01:34:15.319 --> 01:34:18.079 into blue Ash. There's a wreck on seven forty seven 1725 01:34:18.319 --> 01:34:21.640 at one twenty nine and on Liberty Fairfield at Millica. 1726 01:34:22.039 --> 01:34:25.119 Chuck Ingram on fifty five KRC the talk station. 1727 01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:33.680 Seven thirty one in the morning. Actually he's seven thirty 1728 01:34:33.680 --> 01:34:35.640 two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 1729 01:34:35.640 --> 01:34:38.960 fifty five KRC the talk Station. My next guest is 1730 01:34:39.000 --> 01:34:42.319 a guy that well, I wish I didn't have to 1731 01:34:42.359 --> 01:34:45.479 talk to him only because of the subject matter that 1732 01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:47.960 we're talking about. Maybe we could talk about something else 1733 01:34:48.039 --> 01:34:52.239 later on down the line. But my guest is Kevin Richardson. 1734 01:34:52.319 --> 01:34:56.159 He's a pastor also senior director of Regional Advancement Sunrise 1735 01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:59.800 Children Services. And I got told about this by one 1736 01:34:59.840 --> 01:35:04.119 of Ran Paul's field guys talking about this event that's 1737 01:35:04.159 --> 01:35:06.720 going to be happening out at Main Street Church Saturday, 1738 01:35:06.880 --> 01:35:10.600 March the twenty second, and the purpose of this called 1739 01:35:10.880 --> 01:35:16.319 fighting for freedom the community addressing human trafficking. And talking 1740 01:35:16.359 --> 01:35:19.640 to you yesterday, Kevin, when you talked told about some 1741 01:35:19.760 --> 01:35:22.359 of the things going on in our community and in 1742 01:35:22.399 --> 01:35:27.119 this area, scared the actual actually gave me the piece shivers, 1743 01:35:27.159 --> 01:35:30.239 as I should say. But welcome to the program anyway. 1744 01:35:31.439 --> 01:35:34.119 Thank you, sir. I appreciate it so much. I appreciate 1745 01:35:34.159 --> 01:35:37.840 the opportunity to be on and it is a difficult subject. 1746 01:35:38.000 --> 01:35:40.000 I mean, I wish we could talk about pennies that 1747 01:35:40.079 --> 01:35:41.720 you talked about earlier, because I agree with you one 1748 01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:44.920 hundred percent on that, but unfortunately we have to delve 1749 01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:47.920 into subjects like this, and I do want to thank 1750 01:35:47.960 --> 01:35:51.239 Billy Matthews again, like you just mentioned at Senator Paul's 1751 01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:54.600 office for setting us up, because this is huge. I 1752 01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:59.039 am indeed senior Regional Advancement director for Sunrise Children's Services. 1753 01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:03.079 We are across the Commonwealth, and I'm a bivocational pastor 1754 01:36:03.079 --> 01:36:08.079 of Flag Springs Baptist Church in southern Campbell County. I've 1755 01:36:08.119 --> 01:36:11.319 been dealing with this in our agency because we're getting 1756 01:36:11.319 --> 01:36:15.520 more and more kids at our agency who have been trafficked, 1757 01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:17.840 and I didn't realize the numbers until a friend of 1758 01:36:17.840 --> 01:36:22.079 mine called me about setting this up. Where I work, 1759 01:36:22.119 --> 01:36:25.359 it's a multifunctional agency. We contract with the Department of 1760 01:36:25.399 --> 01:36:29.479 Community Based Services and Child Protective Services when kids are 1761 01:36:29.520 --> 01:36:32.279 removed from the home or one of the larger agencies 1762 01:36:32.319 --> 01:36:34.720 that take care of that. But you know, we provide 1763 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:40.760 residential psychiatric adolescent addiction, multifaceted levels of sexual abuse therapy, 1764 01:36:41.399 --> 01:36:44.960 foster care, foster to adopt needing foster parents. You know, 1765 01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:47.119 more and more all the time. So we've been in 1766 01:36:47.159 --> 01:36:52.199 this fight, Kevin for many years anyway. But while I've 1767 01:36:52.199 --> 01:36:56.319 been concerned about human trafficking from a Christian standpoint especially, 1768 01:36:56.399 --> 01:36:59.439 and I've been reminding our congregation frequently about it here 1769 01:36:59.479 --> 01:37:03.119 at Flags, rings about it being both a domestic and 1770 01:37:03.319 --> 01:37:06.920 international problem. Especially you know, you know about it too, 1771 01:37:07.319 --> 01:37:10.520 the children who were unaccompanied, especially the last four years 1772 01:37:10.560 --> 01:37:13.920 at our southern border. You know, numbers ranging anywhere from 1773 01:37:13.960 --> 01:37:16.920 thirty thousand to some estimates being a lot more than that. 1774 01:37:17.079 --> 01:37:22.720 You've heard about that in the new Yeah, yeah. And 1775 01:37:22.760 --> 01:37:25.199 it wasn't until I started getting data from our own 1776 01:37:25.279 --> 01:37:28.239 agency about the kids who are coming in, especially to 1777 01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:32.439 our residential who've been directly affected by this, that I 1778 01:37:32.479 --> 01:37:34.760 really started to take a look and why it's become 1779 01:37:34.840 --> 01:37:39.319 such an epidemic. Move it ahead. My friend and colleague, 1780 01:37:39.359 --> 01:37:42.560 Linda Bates from wealth Care health Care is a friend 1781 01:37:42.560 --> 01:37:46.039 of mine and an associate, and she's been trying to 1782 01:37:46.079 --> 01:37:48.560 help solve at least try to begin to solve some 1783 01:37:48.600 --> 01:37:51.000 of these problems through the passion she has for this. 1784 01:37:51.600 --> 01:37:54.119 And she called me about trying to help her set 1785 01:37:54.159 --> 01:37:57.000 this event up. And if you don't mind, I have 1786 01:37:57.119 --> 01:37:59.720 Linda with me this morning because she can explain her 1787 01:37:59.760 --> 01:38:03.279 pasth for this a lot better than I can. If 1788 01:38:03.279 --> 01:38:05.479 you don't mind, Kevin, I'd like to have problem Linda 1789 01:38:05.520 --> 01:38:06.119 to the audience. 1790 01:38:06.199 --> 01:38:08.119 But let's pick this up on the other side of break. 1791 01:38:08.119 --> 01:38:09.640 We've got to take a quick break here and we'll 1792 01:38:09.640 --> 01:38:12.520 come right back and we'll be talking to Kevin Richardson 1793 01:38:12.600 --> 01:38:15.960 and Linda Bates about this event and what's going on 1794 01:38:16.119 --> 01:38:18.880 in the northern Kentucky area. I'm Kevin Gordon in for 1795 01:38:18.920 --> 01:38:21.880 Brian Thomas, fifty five kr Seethe Talk Station. 1796 01:38:21.840 --> 01:38:25.000 Fifty five KRC dot com. Get ready for spring and 1797 01:38:25.039 --> 01:38:25.960 have your roof gutters. 1798 01:38:26.479 --> 01:38:29.520 Nine First warning weather forecast morning rushower. We're going to 1799 01:38:29.560 --> 01:38:31.520 see the end of rain by the end of the 1800 01:38:31.760 --> 01:38:35.600 rush hour. LOA forty two. Sun's gonna peek out later on, 1801 01:38:36.119 --> 01:38:38.800 but then we're gonna have showers later on in the afternoon. 1802 01:38:39.000 --> 01:38:41.439 A high of fifty one, down to a LOA thirty 1803 01:38:41.479 --> 01:38:45.279 one this tonight and then tomorrow. Partly cloudy, breezy, a 1804 01:38:45.359 --> 01:38:47.880 high of fifty seven and a low of thirty four. 1805 01:38:48.000 --> 01:38:52.359 Right now forty seven degrees. Fifty five KRS Detalk station 1806 01:38:52.560 --> 01:38:55.079 Chuck Ingramhanas traffic from. 1807 01:38:54.920 --> 01:38:57.840 The uc Health Trampling Center. Around forty percent of cancers 1808 01:38:57.960 --> 01:39:01.720 are preventable. Lifestyle change and screenings can make a difference. 1809 01:39:01.800 --> 01:39:05.840 Called five one three five eighty five uc CEC satband 1810 01:39:05.880 --> 01:39:08.199 seventy five slows through block on name Here come the 1811 01:39:08.199 --> 01:39:11.560 break line set found seventy one from above two seventy 1812 01:39:11.600 --> 01:39:14.319 five into blue Ash That's our wreck on seven forty 1813 01:39:14.399 --> 01:39:17.840 seven at one twenty nine and on Liberty Fairfield at 1814 01:39:17.840 --> 01:39:21.720 Milliken Chuck Ingram on fifty five KRC the talk station. 1815 01:39:28.239 --> 01:39:28.960 Seven forty in. 1816 01:39:28.960 --> 01:39:31.199 The morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five 1817 01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:34.720 KR see the talk station continuing our conversation with Kevin 1818 01:39:34.800 --> 01:39:38.399 Richards sending his pastor and senior director of Regional Advancement 1819 01:39:38.760 --> 01:39:41.560 Sunrise Services. And also we're going to be joined by 1820 01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:46.680 Linda Bates, senior community relations coordinators at Weldcare. Welcome back 1821 01:39:46.680 --> 01:39:49.800 to the programmer. Thank you for being there, folks. And 1822 01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:53.079 before the break you were going to talk Linda was 1823 01:39:53.119 --> 01:39:57.039 going to bring a couple of talk about a couple 1824 01:39:57.039 --> 01:39:57.960 of issues as well. 1825 01:39:59.199 --> 01:39:59.560 Yeah. 1826 01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:02.479 Well, she's the one passionate about this, She's the one 1827 01:40:02.479 --> 01:40:04.680 that called me early on to try to get this 1828 01:40:04.960 --> 01:40:08.359 thing together in the first place. So Linda, if you would, Yeah. 1829 01:40:08.399 --> 01:40:11.039 So, in my role with well Care, which we are 1830 01:40:11.159 --> 01:40:15.279 Medicaid provided for the State of Kentucky, I was able 1831 01:40:15.319 --> 01:40:19.680 to go to an event that we sponsored in Louisville 1832 01:40:20.520 --> 01:40:27.119 by Scarlett Hope, which is a nonprofit who addresses getting 1833 01:40:27.359 --> 01:40:34.800 women out of the sex industry by providering meals and mentorship. 1834 01:40:35.239 --> 01:40:37.720 And so I went to that event and that kind 1835 01:40:37.760 --> 01:40:42.000 of opened my eyes to how big the problem was. 1836 01:40:42.720 --> 01:40:44.960 And that day when I was at that event, I 1837 01:40:45.000 --> 01:40:48.359 heard stories about lives being changed there, being saved from 1838 01:40:48.399 --> 01:40:51.800 human trafficking. They were being one for Christ. And I 1839 01:40:51.840 --> 01:40:54.680 walked out of there with really a burden on my 1840 01:40:54.760 --> 01:41:00.359 heart to do something more in northern Kentucky where I live. 1841 01:41:01.600 --> 01:41:04.479 And so, through a lots of twists and turns of 1842 01:41:04.680 --> 01:41:08.079 that day three years ago, here we are now today 1843 01:41:08.239 --> 01:41:12.680 with this event coming up on March twenty seconds, and 1844 01:41:13.239 --> 01:41:19.960 we have some committed community partners, whether that be for profits, 1845 01:41:20.119 --> 01:41:27.960 non for profits, retirees, teachers, church members, it's yes. 1846 01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:31.239 And just Kevin just to kind of let you know, 1847 01:41:31.319 --> 01:41:35.680 we've got a wider range of for example, table boots 1848 01:41:35.720 --> 01:41:37.760 that are going to be there, Saint Elizabeth Healthcare with 1849 01:41:37.840 --> 01:41:43.199 their sexual abuse nurse table, obviously, Sunrise Children's Services. Detective 1850 01:41:43.359 --> 01:41:45.760 Eric Higgins is going to be there from Frankfort. He's 1851 01:41:45.760 --> 01:41:48.239 going to give us signs to look at like at 1852 01:41:48.279 --> 01:41:50.359 the airport and things. If you have a child with 1853 01:41:50.399 --> 01:41:52.840 an adult, it doesn't look like it fits. How to 1854 01:41:52.880 --> 01:41:56.640 get help, you know, without approaching them. Tiffany Brereton with 1855 01:41:57.119 --> 01:42:00.840 she was made for More, Angie Young with a of course, 1856 01:42:00.920 --> 01:42:05.520 let it be done, exposing sex trafficking, Ion Center, Bikers 1857 01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:10.279 Against Child Abuse, Safe Passage, Barn and Grace Ministries. I mean, 1858 01:42:10.359 --> 01:42:11.640 I could go on and on and on. 1859 01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:16.199 Now, these are gonna be individual tables there that people 1860 01:42:16.239 --> 01:42:18.039 can go and talk to them, and then. 1861 01:42:18.720 --> 01:42:22.479 We're gonna have We're gonna have two keynotes, We're gonna 1862 01:42:22.479 --> 01:42:26.800 have multiple testimonials, We're gonna have praise and worship there. 1863 01:42:27.159 --> 01:42:30.159 We're gonna have time to go visit the tables. A 1864 01:42:30.279 --> 01:42:32.840 light breakfast will be served in the morning and then 1865 01:42:32.960 --> 01:42:36.159 lunch will be served, and uh, there will be plenty 1866 01:42:36.199 --> 01:42:38.680 of time to gather a lot of information. I would 1867 01:42:38.680 --> 01:42:41.680 recommend bringing multiple people with you so you can kind 1868 01:42:41.680 --> 01:42:45.159 of divide and conquer, because you're gonna have three opportunities 1869 01:42:45.520 --> 01:42:49.800 for eight different breakouts. So, uh, there's gonna be just 1870 01:42:49.880 --> 01:42:53.920 a lot of information that's gonna be available there. And 1871 01:42:54.479 --> 01:42:57.520 so once again just to remind everyone, this is going 1872 01:42:57.560 --> 01:43:01.760 to be Saturday. Get there early. I would recommend getting 1873 01:43:01.760 --> 01:43:04.600 there about seven forty five, eight o'clock for the light breakfast, 1874 01:43:04.640 --> 01:43:06.239 and then map out what you want to do for 1875 01:43:06.279 --> 01:43:13.039 the day. But March twenty second, Main Street Baptist Church, Alexandria, Kentucky, 1876 01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:17.520 and it'll be a ten dollars registration. You know, we're 1877 01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:19.119 just trying to get skin in the game. We're not 1878 01:43:19.159 --> 01:43:22.520 trying to charge too much for this. But the sponsors 1879 01:43:22.560 --> 01:43:27.560 are Flag Springs Baptist Church, Sunrise Children's Services, brass Key Coffee, 1880 01:43:27.600 --> 01:43:31.920 Main Street Baptist, obviously Plum Creek Church, and obviously Wellcare 1881 01:43:32.000 --> 01:43:36.600 of Kentucky. That lend to works's going to. 1882 01:43:36.520 --> 01:43:38.279 Be okay when we get back, We've got to take 1883 01:43:38.279 --> 01:43:41.000 a quick break here. When we get back, we're going 1884 01:43:41.079 --> 01:43:44.119 to tell the listeners just exactly what we're dealing with 1885 01:43:44.279 --> 01:43:48.560 by the numbers and the you know, people think in 1886 01:43:48.640 --> 01:43:50.920 terms of trafficking, and they just think in terms of 1887 01:43:51.279 --> 01:43:55.079 possibly prostitution and so on. But there's a whole lot 1888 01:43:55.159 --> 01:43:59.039 more to this and it is a lot more prevalent 1889 01:43:59.079 --> 01:44:02.600 than what we I think the most people understand. My 1890 01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:07.960 guest is Kevin Richardson and Linda Bates. Kevin Richardson is pastor, 1891 01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:12.640 Senior director of Regional Advancement Sunrise Children's Services, and Linda Bates, 1892 01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:16.279 Senior Community Relations coordinator at Waldcare. I'm gonna pick this 1893 01:44:16.359 --> 01:44:18.039 up on the other side of the break. I'm Kevin 1894 01:44:18.079 --> 01:44:21.960 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the talk station. 1895 01:44:22.399 --> 01:44:23.239 Why does it God? 1896 01:44:23.279 --> 01:44:29.039 For nine first warning forecast, Good morning Rush. We're going 1897 01:44:29.079 --> 01:44:30.840 to see an end of the rain by the end 1898 01:44:30.880 --> 01:44:33.680 of the period, but we're gonna have a little bit 1899 01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:37.000 of sun poking through and but the rain comes back 1900 01:44:37.039 --> 01:44:40.640 in the afternoon. Load to this morning at forty two 1901 01:44:40.760 --> 01:44:43.239 high this afternoon fifty one. Load to this evening it's 1902 01:44:43.319 --> 01:44:47.000 thirty one. I'm harty, breeze and cloudy. Tomorrow high of 1903 01:44:47.079 --> 01:44:50.159 fifty seven and a low of thirty four. Right now 1904 01:44:50.319 --> 01:44:54.239 forty seven degrees. Fifty five krc DE talk station Chuck 1905 01:44:54.359 --> 01:44:55.640 Ingram has traffic. 1906 01:44:56.039 --> 01:44:59.600 From the UCL Tramping Center. Around forty percent of cancers 1907 01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:02.880 are ventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. 1908 01:45:02.960 --> 01:45:06.840 Called five one three, five eighty five uce CEC northbound 1909 01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:09.520 seventy fives getting close to a twenty minute delay between 1910 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:12.800 Florence and downtown. Southbound has had to gets through the 1911 01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:15.920 Lochlan split. Crews continue to work with an accident on 1912 01:45:16.000 --> 01:45:19.359 seven forty seven at one twenty nine and ken Woods 1913 01:45:19.359 --> 01:45:22.720 blocked off near Whatzell from an early morning accident with 1914 01:45:22.880 --> 01:45:24.000 low power lines. 1915 01:45:24.359 --> 01:45:27.199 Chuck Ingram On fifty five k R see the talk station. 1916 01:45:33.039 --> 01:45:35.439 Seven nine in the morning Kevin Gordon and for Brian 1917 01:45:35.479 --> 01:45:38.239 Thomas fifty five k see the talk station. Continue our 1918 01:45:38.239 --> 01:45:42.359 conversation with Kevin Richardson, pastor, Senior Director of Regional Advancement 1919 01:45:42.439 --> 01:45:47.600 Sunrise Children's Services and Linda Bates, Senior Community Relations with 1920 01:45:47.760 --> 01:45:52.159 a coordinator with Welcare talking about this event on March 1921 01:45:52.199 --> 01:45:56.159 to twenty second at Main Street Church Fighting for Freedom 1922 01:45:56.600 --> 01:45:59.319 a call to action become part of the community addressing 1923 01:45:59.479 --> 01:46:03.239 human trafficking. Thanks for being with us. I certainly appreciate 1924 01:46:03.279 --> 01:46:04.600 you hanging with us through the break. 1925 01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:07.760 What are no worries people are? 1926 01:46:09.880 --> 01:46:12.720 Tell us about the numbers, tell us about what you 1927 01:46:12.800 --> 01:46:16.760 were seeing on an ongoing basis, and. 1928 01:46:16.760 --> 01:46:19.199 Linda has those right here. I just wanted to briefly 1929 01:46:19.279 --> 01:46:23.520 tell you the cost of care Kevin at Sunrise, especially 1930 01:46:23.520 --> 01:46:27.880 with our residential facilities, has gone up astronomically, especially in 1931 01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:32.079 like the last five years because a direct result of 1932 01:46:32.119 --> 01:46:36.560 the trafficking that these kids have gone through. You know, 1933 01:46:36.600 --> 01:46:39.279 there's just a lot of you know, angst and hatred 1934 01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:42.279 that these kids have that who can blame them if 1935 01:46:42.319 --> 01:46:46.279 you're traded among so many different adults for sexual favors 1936 01:46:46.720 --> 01:46:48.960 and then you know, we wind up getting them just 1937 01:46:49.000 --> 01:46:51.880 the cost. You know, from our standpoint, it has gone 1938 01:46:51.880 --> 01:46:53.960 through the roof. So that's just part of it. But 1939 01:46:54.079 --> 01:46:56.319 Linda's got some hard numbers here, Okay. 1940 01:46:56.560 --> 01:47:00.359 So according to according to the National Human Trafficking in 1941 01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:04.800 twenty twenty three, there were over thirty thousand reports of 1942 01:47:06.840 --> 01:47:12.640 sexual trafficking and about seven thousand of those calls came 1943 01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:15.600 actually from victims or survivors. 1944 01:47:15.880 --> 01:47:19.159 Are we talking are we talking adults or these children 1945 01:47:20.039 --> 01:47:20.520 or both? 1946 01:47:21.520 --> 01:47:24.239 That national hotline does not break it does not break 1947 01:47:24.279 --> 01:47:26.560 it down, So that could be a combination of everything. 1948 01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:30.600 But when I look at the statistics in Kentucky in 1949 01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:36.720 twenty twenty three, there were over close to five hundred 1950 01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:44.319 reports of child sexual trafficking, and that's an increase of 1951 01:47:44.439 --> 01:47:48.960 over fourteen percent from the previous year. And even though 1952 01:47:49.359 --> 01:47:55.760 there might be five hundred reports of that, that is 1953 01:47:56.079 --> 01:47:59.000 frequently more than one child in a report, so. 1954 01:47:59.439 --> 01:48:00.880 A lot of was unreported. 1955 01:48:01.039 --> 01:48:03.680 Yeah, No, I was just going to say that that 1956 01:48:03.800 --> 01:48:04.800 number is way low. 1957 01:48:04.840 --> 01:48:06.960 I'm sure, yes. 1958 01:48:07.039 --> 01:48:10.600 Yes, it is very low. And when you think about 1959 01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:14.680 the trafficking, it can be familial trafficking where children are 1960 01:48:14.720 --> 01:48:19.159 trafficked for drugs or money, something of value. It could 1961 01:48:19.199 --> 01:48:24.039 be survival sex where basic necessities are held from a 1962 01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:29.520 child for them to be forced to participate in activities, 1963 01:48:31.359 --> 01:48:37.560 powder being solicited for child sexual abuse material through. 1964 01:48:37.479 --> 01:48:40.479 Online platforms dark web. 1965 01:48:40.960 --> 01:48:45.720 Yeah, children are being forced to work while pay is 1966 01:48:45.800 --> 01:48:46.560 being withheld. 1967 01:48:48.479 --> 01:48:51.880 And just now, how much of this is a result 1968 01:48:51.960 --> 01:48:54.680 of what we've seen at the southern border. How much 1969 01:48:54.720 --> 01:48:58.119 of this is I guess domestic versus what has been 1970 01:48:58.159 --> 01:49:01.000 flooding across the border. We've only got about a two 1971 01:49:01.039 --> 01:49:02.399 minutes to go here. 1972 01:49:03.239 --> 01:49:06.640 No, I mean it's bad both ways, Kevin. I mean 1973 01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:10.119 that's the bottom line. But there's no question about it. 1974 01:49:10.159 --> 01:49:12.399 I would love to see you know, And I don't 1975 01:49:12.399 --> 01:49:14.359 want to get political with this, because this is a 1976 01:49:14.399 --> 01:49:17.920 scourge no matter what you're talking about politically. But we 1977 01:49:18.039 --> 01:49:21.920 have seen such a huge number of unaccompanied miners, as 1978 01:49:21.960 --> 01:49:25.359 we said before, that have come across what happened to them. 1979 01:49:25.600 --> 01:49:28.880 You know, many could be dead, many could be still 1980 01:49:28.920 --> 01:49:33.239 being traffic. You've heard things like organ harvesting and things 1981 01:49:33.319 --> 01:49:36.279 like that. I mean, I'm just looking forward to some 1982 01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:39.439 type of new report and update as to exactly what 1983 01:49:39.640 --> 01:49:42.880 happened and what happened to these children. But by saying that, 1984 01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:47.199 I don't want to under talk about the domestic problem 1985 01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:49.560 because you have people who are addicted to drugs, you 1986 01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:53.439 may sell their children. You have people who get in 1987 01:49:53.520 --> 01:49:56.600 financial straits. I mean, to me, as a pastor, it's 1988 01:49:56.640 --> 01:50:00.600 a morality problem. Obviously, I believe people need christ and 1989 01:50:00.800 --> 01:50:04.279 I'm unapologetic about this, and this is a Christian event. 1990 01:50:04.319 --> 01:50:06.600 We're unapologetic about that too, even though we're going to 1991 01:50:06.640 --> 01:50:10.279 have secular agencies there. But Kevin across the board is 1992 01:50:10.359 --> 01:50:14.920 bad both domestically and internationally, and it's it's getting worse now. 1993 01:50:14.960 --> 01:50:18.159 I'm hoping that with the closure of the border and 1994 01:50:18.199 --> 01:50:21.079 things like that that it will help. But obviously all 1995 01:50:21.119 --> 01:50:24.840 of this stuff needs to be addressed both domestically and internationally. 1996 01:50:24.880 --> 01:50:28.000 As to what's already gone on, I'm hoping that data 1997 01:50:28.079 --> 01:50:30.680 will be completely updated as to what you know happen 1998 01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:34.119 to those kids and the bottom line, agencies like ours 1999 01:50:34.119 --> 01:50:38.640 and agencies we've already talked about are suffering mightily because 2000 01:50:38.680 --> 01:50:41.359 of the amount of mental abuse and sexual abuse that 2001 01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:41.960 they had. 2002 01:50:42.520 --> 01:50:45.359 And finally to wrap up here because we're up against 2003 01:50:45.399 --> 01:50:48.560 a hard break and I apologize for you. The event 2004 01:50:49.000 --> 01:50:53.880 is Saturday, March the twenty second, nine to four thirty pm. 2005 01:50:53.920 --> 01:50:57.640 Breakfast is early. People want to get in contact. Where 2006 01:50:57.640 --> 01:50:59.720 do they go? Where do can they look this up? 2007 01:51:01.520 --> 01:51:05.760 Yes, we have a registration to go to. The best 2008 01:51:05.760 --> 01:51:08.479 thing to do for our purposes here is you can 2009 01:51:08.520 --> 01:51:09.880 either call Linda. 2010 01:51:09.800 --> 01:51:12.159 At five O two four three eight six. 2011 01:51:12.119 --> 01:51:14.880 Seven one eighth, or you can go to Linda dot 2012 01:51:15.000 --> 01:51:18.800 Bates at Wellcare dot com. Or you can call me, 2013 01:51:19.319 --> 01:51:24.199 go to Sunrise dot org, or go to Linda's email 2014 01:51:24.920 --> 01:51:27.840 and get more information and you can do The main 2015 01:51:27.920 --> 01:51:30.279 thing is call Linda and she'll get you set up 2016 01:51:30.479 --> 01:51:33.079 no problem. And if you would like a table, if 2017 01:51:33.119 --> 01:51:36.800 you're a resource, table is available to you as well. 2018 01:51:37.119 --> 01:51:39.199 The more of the merrier if you can help this 2019 01:51:39.479 --> 01:51:40.800 situation along well. 2020 01:51:40.880 --> 01:51:43.560 Kevin Richardson and Linda Bates, thank you so much for 2021 01:51:43.600 --> 01:51:45.840 spending time with us. This is a scary topic and 2022 01:51:45.880 --> 01:51:48.479 I hope we can get some resolution into it and 2023 01:51:49.159 --> 01:51:52.000 move towards ending this scourge. Thank you so much for 2024 01:51:52.039 --> 01:51:54.800 being with us. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty 2025 01:51:54.800 --> 01:51:57.079 five kr. See the talk station. 2026 01:51:57.640 --> 01:51:59.840 Covering Trump's first one hundred days. 2027 01:52:00.039 --> 01:52:04.960 Every day America's deadline is over fifty five krs. 2028 01:52:05.479 --> 01:52:06.680 The flock station. 2029 01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:19.640 Coming up on six minutes after eight o'clock. Welcome to 2030 01:52:19.720 --> 01:52:25.199 this beautiful Thursday. One of the things that I want 2031 01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:27.800 to talk about here briefly is well, I just want 2032 01:52:27.840 --> 01:52:31.680 to answer ask the question. As many of you know, 2033 01:52:31.960 --> 01:52:34.720 I was involved in the group that was back in 2034 01:52:34.760 --> 01:52:39.760 twenty thirteen that when they started proposing public private partnership 2035 01:52:39.760 --> 01:52:41.720 and they we're going to build a companion bridge down 2036 01:52:41.760 --> 01:52:44.479 there on next to the Brents Benz Bridge, that it 2037 01:52:44.560 --> 01:52:46.680 was going to be a public private partnership that would 2038 01:52:46.760 --> 01:52:47.439 lead to tolling. 2039 01:52:47.800 --> 01:52:48.720 We opposed that. 2040 01:52:49.119 --> 01:52:50.960 We knocked it out of the park as far as 2041 01:52:50.960 --> 01:52:55.079 that stopped that in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen 2042 01:52:55.359 --> 01:52:59.520 on the legislative session got it killed. But I remember 2043 01:53:00.399 --> 01:53:04.479 Obama being down there in twenty eleven talking about shovel 2044 01:53:04.520 --> 01:53:07.880 ready projects. As far as some of his proposals, I 2045 01:53:07.920 --> 01:53:12.720 remember Biden being down there talking about his infrastructure bill 2046 01:53:13.039 --> 01:53:16.159 and how this was a project that was part of that. 2047 01:53:16.640 --> 01:53:19.560 The funding has been there since twenty twenty two when 2048 01:53:19.600 --> 01:53:22.920 they got the grant for this funding that would then 2049 01:53:23.119 --> 01:53:25.439 lead to the construction of the bridge down there with 2050 01:53:25.600 --> 01:53:30.760 no tolling, and yet today still there has never not 2051 01:53:30.920 --> 01:53:33.079 been a groundbreaking ceremony. 2052 01:53:33.680 --> 01:53:35.399 Is the bridge not needed? 2053 01:53:35.720 --> 01:53:38.800 Were we being lied to in terms of the volume 2054 01:53:38.840 --> 01:53:41.880 coming across that bridge or the delays. 2055 01:53:41.600 --> 01:53:44.680 Or any event? What is the deal down there? 2056 01:53:44.840 --> 01:53:49.079 And why isn't anybody putting the pressure on these people 2057 01:53:49.520 --> 01:53:52.640 Okai and whoever that was selling us this bill of 2058 01:53:52.720 --> 01:53:56.640 goods that apparently this wasn't as big as a crisis 2059 01:53:56.840 --> 01:53:59.840 as they were telling us back in twenty thirteen, and 2060 01:54:00.119 --> 01:54:04.000 why did they What's going on? I see, you know, 2061 01:54:04.000 --> 01:54:06.199 a couple of weeks ago, or actually when when the 2062 01:54:06.279 --> 01:54:10.039 heck was this? This was back in January. Group aims 2063 01:54:10.079 --> 01:54:13.800 to nix the three point six billion river bridge project. 2064 01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:18.680 Talking about the pig toes and the wardy backs, the 2065 01:54:19.279 --> 01:54:23.720 endangered species and stuff down there, just unbelievable. I mean, 2066 01:54:24.000 --> 01:54:26.960 you know, we were told that this was crisis situation 2067 01:54:27.479 --> 01:54:31.119 had to be built right here right now, and here 2068 01:54:31.159 --> 01:54:35.680 we are twelve years later, and you know, glad that 2069 01:54:36.239 --> 01:54:39.720 the group that I was part of, have saved this area, 2070 01:54:40.119 --> 01:54:45.279 especially northern Kentucky over a billion dollars folks, that's with 2071 01:54:45.359 --> 01:54:48.359 a B in terms of money coming out of their 2072 01:54:48.399 --> 01:54:51.760 pockets that would have been funding tolls over that period 2073 01:54:51.800 --> 01:54:54.319 of time. So I'm very proud to have saved the 2074 01:54:54.399 --> 01:54:58.119 area that much money. But it just amazes me that 2075 01:54:58.159 --> 01:55:01.640 this is not talked about. There was some news last 2076 01:55:01.720 --> 01:55:05.199 night that the Epstein flight logs are going to be 2077 01:55:05.640 --> 01:55:09.159 released here soon, the guest list, if you will. 2078 01:55:09.760 --> 01:55:11.000 That's going to be interesting. 2079 01:55:11.039 --> 01:55:14.079 I'm sure there's a lot of people in Washington and 2080 01:55:14.199 --> 01:55:17.520 around the country that are kind of going on, how am 2081 01:55:17.560 --> 01:55:20.920 I going to explain this one away? Now? As they say, 2082 01:55:21.359 --> 01:55:25.399 just being on the flight log doesn't necessarily mean that 2083 01:55:25.520 --> 01:55:29.640 you participated in any of this going on on Epstein Island. 2084 01:55:30.039 --> 01:55:35.079 But interesting also on the desk of the Attorney General 2085 01:55:35.199 --> 01:55:38.479 and the investigations going on. I want to know what 2086 01:55:38.640 --> 01:55:42.119 the hell happened in Butler, Pennsylvania. I want to get 2087 01:55:42.159 --> 01:55:44.159 to the bottom of that and get the bottom of 2088 01:55:44.199 --> 01:55:47.600 that quickly. I see that the Secret Service agent that 2089 01:55:47.720 --> 01:55:50.199 one of the guys that was shielding Trump that day 2090 01:55:50.239 --> 01:55:53.920 has been promoted to head of the Secret Service, which 2091 01:55:53.960 --> 01:55:58.520 is good. I would like to see as far as 2092 01:55:58.760 --> 01:56:03.039 the individual investmentations, when are we going to see the release? 2093 01:56:03.079 --> 01:56:05.079 And I guess we're getting close to it, to see 2094 01:56:05.119 --> 01:56:08.760 what actually happened. As far as RFK Junior, John F. 2095 01:56:08.840 --> 01:56:12.880 Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, I think it's about 2096 01:56:12.960 --> 01:56:15.960 time that the American public know what the hell happened 2097 01:56:15.960 --> 01:56:20.920 there and again in the in the vacuum of not 2098 01:56:21.119 --> 01:56:25.479 getting information, of not being this put to rest, you've 2099 01:56:25.479 --> 01:56:29.359 got all these conspiracy theories, and quite honestly, at this 2100 01:56:29.520 --> 01:56:32.720 point in time, the fact that this is dragged on 2101 01:56:32.960 --> 01:56:38.319 so well so long, I don't know that the actual 2102 01:56:39.560 --> 01:56:46.640 documents coming out of the FBI or whatever agencies is 2103 01:56:46.680 --> 01:56:51.520 going to quell those rumors and quell those conspiracy theories, 2104 01:56:51.840 --> 01:56:52.920 because it's just. 2105 01:56:53.119 --> 01:56:54.359 Gone on too long. 2106 01:56:55.000 --> 01:57:00.560 And when you you know the absence of information, people 2107 01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:03.920 fill in the blanks themselves. And when you fill in 2108 01:57:04.000 --> 01:57:06.600 the blanks, you can come up with all kinds of 2109 01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:09.680 conspiracy theories, and there's been a bunch floated out there 2110 01:57:09.720 --> 01:57:12.359 over the years. I would like to get a resolution 2111 01:57:12.520 --> 01:57:16.199 to that. Again, I'd like to know what's in those 2112 01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:19.880 files and just exactly what they're saying. But like so 2113 01:57:19.960 --> 01:57:23.199 many things, and look at what we look at what 2114 01:57:24.920 --> 01:57:29.439 I guess I'm gonna I'm not going I am going 2115 01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:33.039 to lay this at the feet of the Democrats. Look 2116 01:57:33.119 --> 01:57:39.159 what the Democratic Party has done to turn us against 2117 01:57:39.399 --> 01:57:43.720 the institutions that we were supposed to rely on. You know, 2118 01:57:44.199 --> 01:57:47.840 the liberals back in the day, they wanted to tear 2119 01:57:47.880 --> 01:57:51.159 down the Catholic Church, they wanted to tear down religion. 2120 01:57:51.439 --> 01:57:56.680 They wanted to get morality out of the talking about 2121 01:57:56.920 --> 01:57:59.840 and out of schools and out of every place else. 2122 01:58:00.479 --> 01:58:02.399 And we've seen what that done as far as the 2123 01:58:02.439 --> 01:58:07.079 moral decline. But then you start having the fact of 2124 01:58:07.359 --> 01:58:10.760 people were always supportive of the military. They tried to 2125 01:58:10.800 --> 01:58:14.800 destroy that. And with Johnson dragging on the war in Vietnam, 2126 01:58:15.119 --> 01:58:18.239 how the military got a bad name with some of 2127 01:58:18.319 --> 01:58:20.920 the stuff that they were doing there. And we've seen 2128 01:58:21.039 --> 01:58:24.800 how the Democrats over the years have tried to demilitarize 2129 01:58:25.199 --> 01:58:28.720 or try to ruin the military. And now that we're seeing, 2130 01:58:28.960 --> 01:58:31.520 you know, every time the Republicans come in, they start 2131 01:58:31.520 --> 01:58:34.520 building back up the morale and the military, and look 2132 01:58:34.520 --> 01:58:37.319 at what happened as a result of the weaponization of 2133 01:58:37.399 --> 01:58:42.800 the FBI, the Justice Apartment, the NIS, the CDC. Of course, 2134 01:58:42.920 --> 01:58:47.399 I've not been a big fan or trusting much as 2135 01:58:47.399 --> 01:58:50.520 far as the CDC is concerned, ever since I started 2136 01:58:50.560 --> 01:58:55.920 learning about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment that was started back 2137 01:58:56.039 --> 01:59:00.800 during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency in the forties, where they actually 2138 01:59:00.960 --> 01:59:06.600 allowed black men down in the South in Tuskegee, Alabama, 2139 01:59:07.239 --> 01:59:12.439 to get syphilis and then not treat it, telling them 2140 01:59:12.680 --> 01:59:15.520 that they were giving them the medicine for this, but 2141 01:59:15.600 --> 01:59:21.640 the experiment was to watch how this destroyed their bodies 2142 01:59:21.920 --> 01:59:25.560 and how this would ravage that And this went on 2143 01:59:26.159 --> 01:59:31.079 for forty almost well thirty plus years and was ended 2144 01:59:31.159 --> 01:59:35.800 during the Nixon administration. So when you have the CDC 2145 01:59:36.079 --> 01:59:38.680 at that point, where the forerunner of the CDC I 2146 01:59:38.720 --> 01:59:44.119 think was National something Health Department or whatever that when 2147 01:59:45.199 --> 01:59:49.600 this was found out, wound up forming the CDC and 2148 01:59:49.680 --> 01:59:53.159 nobody went to jail. As a result of the torture 2149 01:59:53.560 --> 01:59:58.079 and the killing of these people down there, I started thinking, well, 2150 01:59:58.079 --> 02:00:01.000 what other things are they hiding? And then, of course, 2151 02:00:01.039 --> 02:00:05.800 once we got the pandemic that came about, and all 2152 02:00:05.800 --> 02:00:11.359 of a sudden, we started seeing how we were being censored, 2153 02:00:11.680 --> 02:00:14.520 We were being kicked off of social media if you 2154 02:00:14.720 --> 02:00:19.319 dare say anything different than what the agenda was. We 2155 02:00:19.399 --> 02:00:22.880 had Fauci talking about that, oh, this could not have 2156 02:00:23.000 --> 02:00:27.039 possibly been coming from the Wuhan lab, even though the 2157 02:00:27.119 --> 02:00:31.039 virus came out of the Wuhn wet market in no 2158 02:00:31.159 --> 02:00:32.000 connection there. 2159 02:00:32.800 --> 02:00:34.079 And all the things. 2160 02:00:33.800 --> 02:00:38.119 That they kicked doctors out, they suspended their licenses, they 2161 02:00:38.159 --> 02:00:42.279 took away their livelihood because they dared to speak up 2162 02:00:42.359 --> 02:00:46.119 about this, and all the lives ruined as a result 2163 02:00:46.199 --> 02:00:50.079 of the shutdowns, because we were lied to as far 2164 02:00:50.119 --> 02:00:53.720 as the six foot distancing, as far as how contagious 2165 02:00:53.760 --> 02:00:57.399 this was, how rampant it was, the necessity and how 2166 02:00:57.880 --> 02:01:01.359 they closed down the schools and close down the business, 2167 02:01:01.439 --> 02:01:05.279 wrecked the economy, and we still don't have all the 2168 02:01:05.319 --> 02:01:09.279 details from that and why they felt that was all necessary, 2169 02:01:09.600 --> 02:01:12.840 and the amount of lies that we were told about 2170 02:01:12.840 --> 02:01:17.880 this virus and the fact that now we don't well, 2171 02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:20.800 there's a lot of us me included that I always 2172 02:01:20.920 --> 02:01:24.960 I kind of take with a grain of salt. I've 2173 02:01:25.000 --> 02:01:29.880 always been kind of suspicious of medical community, either from 2174 02:01:30.359 --> 02:01:33.399 knowing that you know, you have a difference between sports 2175 02:01:33.439 --> 02:01:37.359 medicine versus other type of medicine, going from one doctor 2176 02:01:37.359 --> 02:01:40.880 to another getting a second opinion, and you talk to 2177 02:01:40.920 --> 02:01:45.119 some doctors at pushpills some that don't, and you have 2178 02:01:45.199 --> 02:01:48.560 a healthy skepticism of what's going on, because if you're 2179 02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:51.159 in tune with your body and try to pay attention 2180 02:01:51.199 --> 02:01:53.520 to your own body, you kind of know what the 2181 02:01:53.600 --> 02:01:56.640 ailment is. But you depend on the medical community in 2182 02:01:56.680 --> 02:02:00.199 times of need, and how many times the joke about 2183 02:02:00.359 --> 02:02:04.720 practicing medicine and so all these institutions that have been 2184 02:02:04.800 --> 02:02:08.439 ruined because of the lies perpetrated, the lies coming out 2185 02:02:08.439 --> 02:02:11.399 the lawfair that was going against Trump for the four years, 2186 02:02:11.640 --> 02:02:13.720 well for the four years he was in office and 2187 02:02:13.760 --> 02:02:16.079 the four years after being in office. And we have 2188 02:02:16.279 --> 02:02:19.319 all of these conspiracy theories that are out there that 2189 02:02:19.479 --> 02:02:22.239 many of them have been proven true. This whole deal 2190 02:02:22.319 --> 02:02:25.600 with climate change that we were talking with Phil Flynn 2191 02:02:25.600 --> 02:02:28.399 over the fact that we've been lied to about that 2192 02:02:28.880 --> 02:02:31.399 and all of the stuff that we've be being told. 2193 02:02:31.479 --> 02:02:36.640 It's almost like, what do you believe now? Phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine, 2194 02:02:36.680 --> 02:02:38.960 fifty five hundred, one, eight hundred day two three talk 2195 02:02:39.199 --> 02:02:41.600 one eight hundred A two three eight two five five 2196 02:02:41.680 --> 02:02:44.520 pound five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin 2197 02:02:44.560 --> 02:02:47.560 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five K see the 2198 02:02:47.760 --> 02:02:48.319 talk station. 2199 02:02:49.119 --> 02:02:51.000 I'm finding it hard. The team might be hoping. 2200 02:02:53.600 --> 02:02:58.359 Nine first warning forecast U rain's probably much ending here 2201 02:02:58.439 --> 02:03:02.359 shortly in the morning rush hour low forty two, high 2202 02:03:02.359 --> 02:03:04.920 a fifty one. Later on this afternoon with some showers 2203 02:03:04.920 --> 02:03:07.199 coming back in, we'll get a couple of peaks of 2204 02:03:07.239 --> 02:03:10.640 the sun here and there. Load tonight of thirty one, 2205 02:03:10.760 --> 02:03:13.880 partly cloudy and breezy, Tomorrow high at fifty seven and 2206 02:03:13.960 --> 02:03:17.199 a low of thirty four. Right now forty seven degrees 2207 02:03:17.279 --> 02:03:21.359 fifty five kr S talk station Chuck Ingram has traffic. 2208 02:03:21.920 --> 02:03:24.720 From the UC Tramping Center. Around forty percent of cancers 2209 02:03:24.720 --> 02:03:28.800 are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference. 2210 02:03:28.960 --> 02:03:32.640 Called five one three five eighty five. UCCZE crews have 2211 02:03:32.680 --> 02:03:35.199 cleared the wreck eastbound Fort Washington Way out of the 2212 02:03:35.199 --> 02:03:38.439 way rather quickly. North Bend seventy five continues a bit 2213 02:03:38.479 --> 02:03:42.319 slow between Buttermilk and Kyle's. Kenwood Road is blocked off 2214 02:03:42.399 --> 02:03:45.479 between Wetsall and Kenwood Hills. Drive due to an early 2215 02:03:45.520 --> 02:03:48.680 morning wreck, low power lines. You can still use Wetzell, 2216 02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:51.960 Chuck Ingraman fifty five krs, the talk station. 2217 02:04:01.119 --> 02:04:03.479 Twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas 2218 02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:05.720 fifty five Carosee the talk station. Coming up to the 2219 02:04:05.720 --> 02:04:08.560 bottom of the hour, we're gonna be talking as Savannah Maddox. 2220 02:04:08.920 --> 02:04:11.920 She is a state representative Kentucky state representative in the 2221 02:04:12.000 --> 02:04:15.479 sixty first district. Kind of give us a legislative update 2222 02:04:15.479 --> 02:04:20.720 from Frankfort to be interesting there. I hate to admit this, 2223 02:04:20.840 --> 02:04:24.279 but I have not been as engaged in the legislative 2224 02:04:24.279 --> 02:04:26.600 session this year as I normally have been in the 2225 02:04:26.640 --> 02:04:30.279 past because of other things that I've been doing and 2226 02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:33.520 I'm working on the America's Truck and Network show. I mean, 2227 02:04:33.560 --> 02:04:35.720 there has just been a lot of news in terms 2228 02:04:35.760 --> 02:04:41.560 of everything affecting transportation, industry, energy and everything going on. 2229 02:04:41.680 --> 02:04:43.479 To try to keep track of what's going on, and 2230 02:04:43.600 --> 02:04:45.760 of course you got to get your daily update of 2231 02:04:45.760 --> 02:04:48.079 what's going on as far as Doze and as far 2232 02:04:48.119 --> 02:04:51.520 as what's going on in the administration. And I gotta 2233 02:04:51.640 --> 02:04:58.159 tell you it's been extremely entertaining to watch the Hair 2234 02:04:58.239 --> 02:05:02.560 on Fire, the hysterics coming from the left. 2235 02:05:03.199 --> 02:05:05.119 And what amazes. 2236 02:05:04.640 --> 02:05:09.680 Me is the thing that's put into perspective is that 2237 02:05:09.720 --> 02:05:14.000 Donald Trump has gone on and gone for the things 2238 02:05:14.000 --> 02:05:18.359 that about eighty to eighty five percent of the American 2239 02:05:18.439 --> 02:05:23.039 people are in favor of, and the Democratic Party is 2240 02:05:23.079 --> 02:05:27.720 being faced with defending the things that only twenty percent 2241 02:05:28.039 --> 02:05:32.640 of the population want, so being out of touch, and 2242 02:05:32.720 --> 02:05:37.119 it is just no matter what Trump does, they are 2243 02:05:37.119 --> 02:05:40.960 screaming and yelling. And when you see what has been done, 2244 02:05:41.359 --> 02:05:43.720 when I go back and I look at how far 2245 02:05:44.279 --> 02:05:49.640 and what institutions that Donald Trump has taken on and destroyed, 2246 02:05:50.520 --> 02:05:54.279 You've got the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. 2247 02:05:54.600 --> 02:05:57.600 You have every one of them back on their heels. 2248 02:05:57.960 --> 02:06:01.520 You have a joy Read been fired less or Holt 2249 02:06:01.560 --> 02:06:04.359 that's stepping down. You have a whole host of people 2250 02:06:04.399 --> 02:06:08.960 that have been reduced. MSNBC, CNN. MSNBC is on this 2251 02:06:09.560 --> 02:06:12.840 seller's block. Even NBC doesn't want to be part of them. 2252 02:06:13.199 --> 02:06:17.720 CNN is teetering on Washington Post. They're changing their editorial 2253 02:06:17.760 --> 02:06:21.039 tune to be more fair and balanced and to produce 2254 02:06:21.279 --> 02:06:25.319 more conservative opinions there, and the liberals there are going 2255 02:06:25.359 --> 02:06:28.079 on now. Mind you. These are journalists. These are people 2256 02:06:28.119 --> 02:06:30.920 that are we've been told over the years, are going 2257 02:06:31.000 --> 02:06:34.039 to give us the who, what, when, we're how and 2258 02:06:34.159 --> 02:06:39.920 why reporting, But instead it's been opinion opinion, opinion opinion 2259 02:06:40.319 --> 02:06:43.920 and trying to gaslight us in terms of what we 2260 02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:47.000 have seen with our own eyes, that somehow we're not 2261 02:06:47.039 --> 02:06:50.680 seeing what we're seeing. And the fact that this has 2262 02:06:50.720 --> 02:06:57.600 been destroyed the FBI that investigated Trump, the fact that 2263 02:06:57.640 --> 02:07:01.279 they had these spies within his organization or spying on 2264 02:07:01.359 --> 02:07:04.920 his campaign, that we were told was just a conspiracy theory. 2265 02:07:05.199 --> 02:07:09.439 Now we've got Jake Tapper, of all people, Jake Tapper, 2266 02:07:10.199 --> 02:07:13.359 who they were showing last night an interview that he 2267 02:07:13.399 --> 02:07:16.279 had with Lara Trump and where she was talking about 2268 02:07:16.520 --> 02:07:21.479 Joe Biden's decline and dementia, and he started almost, you know, 2269 02:07:21.680 --> 02:07:25.760 talking over here, and he was just short of screaming 2270 02:07:25.800 --> 02:07:28.920 at her that you know, you are making assumptions, you're 2271 02:07:28.960 --> 02:07:31.239 not a doctor, you don't know what you're talking about. 2272 02:07:31.399 --> 02:07:35.119 And what you're doing is you're making fun of his 2273 02:07:35.239 --> 02:07:40.119 speech impediment. His stuttering isn't an amazing This guy was 2274 02:07:40.159 --> 02:07:44.600 in his eighties and he'd been in Washington for fifty 2275 02:07:44.680 --> 02:07:48.960 plus years, and the first time we heard that he 2276 02:07:49.039 --> 02:07:54.920 had a quote stuttering situation or issue was what it 2277 02:07:55.000 --> 02:07:57.920 was obvious to everybody, the mental decline that he was 2278 02:07:57.960 --> 02:08:03.079 going under because of somewhat dementia, Alzheimer's, whatever. And now 2279 02:08:03.279 --> 02:08:08.399 Jake Tapper is writing a book about the decline and 2280 02:08:08.479 --> 02:08:14.039 the misreporting by the media about his cognitive decline and 2281 02:08:14.079 --> 02:08:20.520 how they hit it. So he was wrong about denying 2282 02:08:20.600 --> 02:08:24.279 it and covering it up, and now he's going to 2283 02:08:24.359 --> 02:08:27.640 tell the truth about it. So he's making money on 2284 02:08:27.680 --> 02:08:30.479 the lie. And now he's going to be making money 2285 02:08:30.520 --> 02:08:34.960 on the truth. Isn't that just lovely? And Monica Lewinsky, 2286 02:08:35.039 --> 02:08:37.680 now all of a sudden she's in the news and 2287 02:08:37.720 --> 02:08:41.479 she's talking about Bill Clinton possibly should have resigned for 2288 02:08:41.600 --> 02:08:45.439 what he did. All up to this point, it's all been, well, 2289 02:08:45.520 --> 02:08:49.119 you know, I still love him, and you know, I 2290 02:08:49.159 --> 02:08:51.680 think he was a good president, and I don't have 2291 02:08:51.720 --> 02:08:53.000 any ill will. 2292 02:08:52.880 --> 02:08:53.720 And all this. 2293 02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:58.199 And yet now all of a sudden, when the curtain's 2294 02:08:58.199 --> 02:09:02.079 been drawn pulled back from all of these people in 2295 02:09:02.119 --> 02:09:06.199 the Democratic Party, all of a sudden, now she's coming 2296 02:09:06.199 --> 02:09:08.960 out and saying, well, maybe he should have resigned. So, 2297 02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:11.119 in other words, all the stuff that we were being 2298 02:09:11.119 --> 02:09:14.359 told back in ninety six, and so that we were stupid, 2299 02:09:14.560 --> 02:09:17.399 that we were you know, it's just about sex. All 2300 02:09:17.439 --> 02:09:19.640 of a sudden, people are saying that, well, you know, 2301 02:09:19.960 --> 02:09:24.239 this is a superior this is somebody taking advantage of 2302 02:09:24.279 --> 02:09:27.600 an intern. And I remember at the time that her 2303 02:09:27.640 --> 02:09:30.159 being twenty two years old, Oh, she was an adult. 2304 02:09:30.239 --> 02:09:31.520 She you know, she knew. 2305 02:09:31.399 --> 02:09:33.760 Better and all this ors. She was past the age 2306 02:09:33.760 --> 02:09:39.119 of reasoning. Yet Hunter Biden forty five, fifty years old, 2307 02:09:39.279 --> 02:09:43.600 he's just a kid. He made some mistakes. We shouldn't 2308 02:09:43.640 --> 02:09:48.279 be so hard on president's children. Coming up with the 2309 02:09:48.319 --> 02:09:50.279 bottom of the hour, we got Savannah Mattox when we 2310 02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:52.079 were talking to her. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian 2311 02:09:52.159 --> 02:09:55.039 Thomas fifty five k see the talk station. 2312 02:09:55.800 --> 02:09:59.159 We know you're loving the new preset feature. 2313 02:10:00.520 --> 02:10:03.199 Eight thirty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 2314 02:10:03.239 --> 02:10:06.239 fifty five krs the Talk Station. If you looked at 2315 02:10:06.239 --> 02:10:09.520 my Facebook page, you'll know that I have my next 2316 02:10:09.520 --> 02:10:14.720 guests of animatics State Representative sixty first district in Northern Kentucky. 2317 02:10:15.199 --> 02:10:17.920 And I make no qualms about the fact that she 2318 02:10:18.039 --> 02:10:20.159 is one of my favorite people in the whole world 2319 02:10:20.199 --> 02:10:26.680 and probably the most conservative person down in Frankfort, hands down. 2320 02:10:26.960 --> 02:10:29.520 Welcome back to the program, Savannah, great to talk to you. 2321 02:10:30.840 --> 02:10:33.079 Good morning. Well, it's great to be back, Kevin. 2322 02:10:33.319 --> 02:10:34.359 That's my pleasure. 2323 02:10:34.840 --> 02:10:38.359 I admitted this to you yesterday that I've not been 2324 02:10:38.439 --> 02:10:41.880 keeping my I guess my finger on the pulse of 2325 02:10:41.960 --> 02:10:43.000 what's going on down there. 2326 02:10:43.079 --> 02:10:44.680 So, what is. 2327 02:10:44.640 --> 02:10:49.439 Going on down there in Frankfort so far? 2328 02:10:51.279 --> 02:10:54.640 So we are in day nineteen of a thirty day 2329 02:10:54.720 --> 02:10:59.560 legislative session, and we are reaching the ends. We've passed, 2330 02:11:00.039 --> 02:11:03.159 made a few bills, but usually this is the time 2331 02:11:03.199 --> 02:11:06.119 of year that things are really starting to heat up 2332 02:11:06.159 --> 02:11:08.560 and we're getting a pulse on some of the good 2333 02:11:08.600 --> 02:11:12.600 bills that need to pass, but also the bad bills 2334 02:11:12.600 --> 02:11:14.600 that need to be killed. That's what I try to 2335 02:11:14.640 --> 02:11:15.319 keep my eye on. 2336 02:11:15.640 --> 02:11:22.520 Yeah, for sure, been some legislative victories. Can you talk 2337 02:11:22.520 --> 02:11:24.199 about a couple of them, just to give us a 2338 02:11:24.239 --> 02:11:27.439 thumbnail sketch of what the successes so far. 2339 02:11:29.199 --> 02:11:31.840 Yeah, So, early on in the session, we passed to 2340 02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:34.960 build to lower the income tax by a half a percent, 2341 02:11:35.119 --> 02:11:38.479 and that's being considered a victory. Obviously, I'm in favor 2342 02:11:38.520 --> 02:11:42.119 of lowering the income tax by eliminating it all together, 2343 02:11:42.840 --> 02:11:47.680 as well as eliminating the property tax on motor vehicles. 2344 02:11:47.720 --> 02:11:50.560 I think that that's all we need to do, yeah, 2345 02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:54.159 for sure, But right now people are kind of feeling 2346 02:11:54.199 --> 02:11:56.359 like that half a percent is paltry, So well, we'll 2347 02:11:56.399 --> 02:11:59.119 put that in the victory column. But you know, again, 2348 02:11:59.199 --> 02:12:02.319 there's there's a whole lot more room with regard to 2349 02:12:02.720 --> 02:12:05.600 tax reform, and it needs to be revenue negative and 2350 02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:08.720 actually cut spending. That's the direction that we need to 2351 02:12:08.760 --> 02:12:12.680 take in Frankfort, not just moving these taxes around to 2352 02:12:12.920 --> 02:12:15.079 various other areas of the tax code. 2353 02:12:16.199 --> 02:12:19.319 A little bit of doze activity is needed down in Frankfurt, 2354 02:12:19.399 --> 02:12:22.600 I'm guessing. Yeah. 2355 02:12:23.279 --> 02:12:26.000 Unlike at the federal level, we have to have a 2356 02:12:26.039 --> 02:12:30.600 balanced budget for our constitution. So in addition to any 2357 02:12:30.640 --> 02:12:33.520 type of entity that would audit our spending and draw 2358 02:12:33.560 --> 02:12:37.359 attention to it, we as legislators just need to be 2359 02:12:37.439 --> 02:12:40.520 willing to say no to wasteful spending to actually make 2360 02:12:40.560 --> 02:12:44.720 the difficult votes. There have been very few permutations of 2361 02:12:44.760 --> 02:12:47.039 budgets that I have been able to vote in favor 2362 02:12:47.079 --> 02:12:51.000 of my whole time in Frankfort. Because the wasteful spending 2363 02:12:51.079 --> 02:12:55.119 is so pervasive. Four million dollars for a Japanese garden 2364 02:12:55.199 --> 02:12:59.800 in Louisville. What is that? That's just one example of 2365 02:13:00.000 --> 02:13:02.319 its kind of wasteful spending that we could be cutting. 2366 02:13:02.560 --> 02:13:08.119 Yeah, I would say, so that's a form Japanese garden, Okay, 2367 02:13:08.439 --> 02:13:09.960 one of whose pockets are getting around. 2368 02:13:10.800 --> 02:13:15.039 Oh sure, for four million dollars, it darnwell better be. 2369 02:13:16.520 --> 02:13:16.560 H. 2370 02:13:17.199 --> 02:13:20.880 I did see a post the other day talking about 2371 02:13:21.000 --> 02:13:26.199 the well addressing egg prices and being farmers being able 2372 02:13:26.239 --> 02:13:30.159 to sell more to the general public. Is how's that 2373 02:13:30.319 --> 02:13:33.079 moving or moved or whatever. 2374 02:13:34.520 --> 02:13:37.000 Yeah, so this is something that we should have done 2375 02:13:37.199 --> 02:13:42.239 long before egg prices started to skyrocket. We need good, strong, 2376 02:13:42.279 --> 02:13:49.359 agricultural deepregulation. Kentuckians deserve access to locally sourced, affordable, nutritious foods, 2377 02:13:50.000 --> 02:13:53.159 and this is an effort to allow farmers to or 2378 02:13:53.199 --> 02:13:56.640 any type of egg producer to sell more eggs without 2379 02:13:57.199 --> 02:14:01.560 the government regulation standing in the world. Between that and 2380 02:14:01.640 --> 02:14:06.439 my real ID bill, those have both been very popular bills. 2381 02:14:06.479 --> 02:14:09.039 And with the real ID bill, we're hoping to move 2382 02:14:09.119 --> 02:14:11.880 the issuance of the standard driver's license back to the 2383 02:14:11.920 --> 02:14:16.800 circuit clerks to stop these long wait times and the 2384 02:14:17.079 --> 02:14:19.560 ridiculous hoops that people have had to jump through as 2385 02:14:19.600 --> 02:14:21.800 a result of the failed implementation. 2386 02:14:21.159 --> 02:14:22.600 Of real ID wonderful. 2387 02:14:22.680 --> 02:14:24.239 We can pick that up because we've got to take 2388 02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:26.000 a quick break here, But I would like to get 2389 02:14:26.000 --> 02:14:29.119 into that because I think the last time I renewed 2390 02:14:29.119 --> 02:14:32.600 my license it was before all of this went in 2391 02:14:32.640 --> 02:14:35.520 a place, and I understand that there's a whole laundry 2392 02:14:35.600 --> 02:14:37.680 list of things that you're going to need to produce 2393 02:14:38.520 --> 02:14:41.000 going forward, and stuff you're going to have to prove 2394 02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:44.840 that I find amazing. But maybe you can make some 2395 02:14:44.880 --> 02:14:48.000 sense of it, or maybe I'm misinformed or whatever. But 2396 02:14:48.079 --> 02:14:50.520 we'll talk about that coming up. My guess is of 2397 02:14:50.560 --> 02:14:54.319 Animatics Kentucky State Representative District sixty one. Give us an 2398 02:14:54.359 --> 02:14:58.039 update down in the Frankfurt Legislative session. Kevin Gordon in 2399 02:14:58.039 --> 02:15:01.319 for Brian Thomas fifty five K see the talk station. 2400 02:15:01.760 --> 02:15:04.960 The countdown is on to our Nightheart Podcast Awards. Wy 2401 02:15:04.960 --> 02:15:06.560 I bet Top, black Top, Web. 2402 02:15:06.399 --> 02:15:11.279 Creativity, Knowledge and Passion will all be unfolded. Nine first 2403 02:15:11.319 --> 02:15:14.840 War and forecast morning worth showers pretty much over. We're 2404 02:15:14.880 --> 02:15:17.800 gonna have a little bit of sunshine this afternoon. Showers 2405 02:15:18.399 --> 02:15:21.760 are possible in the afternoon, gonna be a high fifty 2406 02:15:21.880 --> 02:15:28.439 one the fifties today, Tonight gonna be temperatures low thirty 2407 02:15:28.439 --> 02:15:32.359 one Hartley breezy, cloudy tomorrow high of fifty. 2408 02:15:32.079 --> 02:15:33.800 Seven and a low of thirty four. 2409 02:15:34.319 --> 02:15:37.279 Right now forty seven degrees fifty five care see de 2410 02:15:37.439 --> 02:15:40.359 talk station Chuck House traffic out there. 2411 02:15:42.119 --> 02:15:45.000 From the UCL Traffic Center round forty percent of cancers. 2412 02:15:45.039 --> 02:15:48.600 Our preventable lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference 2413 02:15:48.640 --> 02:15:51.119 called five one three, five eight five U see see 2414 02:15:51.119 --> 02:15:55.000 see highway traffic clearing out a bit early sapband seventy five, 2415 02:15:55.039 --> 02:15:58.159 though still heavy through walkland. That's an extra ten minutes 2416 02:15:58.439 --> 02:16:00.960 sapbound seventy one. You're off ben on the breaks from 2417 02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:04.399 two seventy five down to Red Bank northbound fourth seventy 2418 02:16:04.399 --> 02:16:07.560 one clearing out into town sing for northbound seventy five. 2419 02:16:07.840 --> 02:16:10.680 The bias of the slow goat Dixie to Kyles Chuck 2420 02:16:10.720 --> 02:16:13.239 Ambramont fifty five K see the talk station. 2421 02:16:18.960 --> 02:16:21.239 Eight forty coming up on eight to forty in the morning, 2422 02:16:21.319 --> 02:16:23.880 Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas fifty five K see 2423 02:16:23.880 --> 02:16:27.520 the talk station. Continue our conversation with Savannah mannox Is, 2424 02:16:27.840 --> 02:16:32.159 Kentucky State Representative sixty first District giving us an update 2425 02:16:32.200 --> 02:16:35.639 on what's going on down in the legislative session, day 2426 02:16:35.719 --> 02:16:40.319 number nineteen of the thirty day session. Welcome, Thanks for 2427 02:16:40.360 --> 02:16:42.719 hanging with us, Savannah. I certainly appreciate. 2428 02:16:42.239 --> 02:16:45.479 It, absolutely my pleasure. 2429 02:16:45.639 --> 02:16:49.040 Yes, So we were talking about real ID and some 2430 02:16:49.079 --> 02:16:50.639 of the tweaks that need to be done with that, 2431 02:16:52.040 --> 02:16:58.520 what is being proposed or what, Well, this kind of 2432 02:16:59.479 --> 02:17:00.479 fills on that. 2433 02:17:02.120 --> 02:17:05.200 Yeah. So we have folks that are having to drive 2434 02:17:05.280 --> 02:17:09.680 long distances making an appointment to get their driver's license renewed, 2435 02:17:10.159 --> 02:17:13.639 only to find that they're still having to wait multiple hours, 2436 02:17:14.000 --> 02:17:17.319 in some cases half the day or longer, and then 2437 02:17:18.120 --> 02:17:22.040 they sometimes their documentation is not sufficient or they fail 2438 02:17:22.079 --> 02:17:25.040 an eye test. It's been a debacle, it's been a disaster. 2439 02:17:25.159 --> 02:17:29.200 It's time for the legislature to stop pointing fingers and 2440 02:17:29.280 --> 02:17:31.879 to fix this uh huh, once and for all. I 2441 02:17:31.959 --> 02:17:36.000 want to do that by removing or by renewing the 2442 02:17:36.040 --> 02:17:41.040 standard issued driver's licenses at the circuit clerk's office versus 2443 02:17:41.079 --> 02:17:42.319 these regional centers. 2444 02:17:42.520 --> 02:17:46.200 Right, it just doesn't make any sense where you have 2445 02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:50.040 individual counties and county seats and then all of a 2446 02:17:50.079 --> 02:17:55.040 sudden you consolidate this into a regional type of thing, 2447 02:17:55.200 --> 02:17:59.840 of something that everybody has to do within that county. 2448 02:18:00.120 --> 02:18:02.840 The purpose of having a county seat is where its 2449 02:18:02.840 --> 02:18:06.719 convenient for everybody in that county to do stuff with 2450 02:18:07.000 --> 02:18:07.760 their government. 2451 02:18:08.079 --> 02:18:08.520 It just. 2452 02:18:10.559 --> 02:18:12.840 Somebody dropped the ball on that one, for sure. 2453 02:18:14.719 --> 02:18:18.159 Yeah. So essentially we were accustomed at the county level 2454 02:18:18.200 --> 02:18:21.639 to renew our license that way with our circuit clerks. 2455 02:18:21.719 --> 02:18:25.200 But because of a knee jerk reaction at the federal 2456 02:18:25.319 --> 02:18:28.159 level back in two thousand and five, twenty years ago, 2457 02:18:28.280 --> 02:18:30.760 knee jerk reaction to nine to eleven, similar to the 2458 02:18:30.760 --> 02:18:34.520 Patriot Act, the real ID has put this unfunded mandate 2459 02:18:34.600 --> 02:18:40.399 on the states and required them to have this enhanced credentially, 2460 02:18:40.479 --> 02:18:43.319 but not everybody needs a real ID. If you want 2461 02:18:43.319 --> 02:18:46.760 to board an airplane or visit a military base or 2462 02:18:46.799 --> 02:18:50.200 other restricted federal building, you've got to have real ID. 2463 02:18:50.360 --> 02:18:53.920 But you can also use your passport or a passport 2464 02:18:54.040 --> 02:18:57.040 card for those purposes. Some folks just want to get 2465 02:18:57.079 --> 02:18:59.200 a driver's license, they should be able to do that 2466 02:18:59.440 --> 02:19:02.440 in their home county without having to jump through all 2467 02:19:02.440 --> 02:19:05.040 the hoops. And you know, I'm truly hopeful that we'll 2468 02:19:05.040 --> 02:19:07.120 be able to get this done this well. 2469 02:19:07.079 --> 02:19:09.040 Do it before I have to renew my license in 2470 02:19:09.079 --> 02:19:14.120 about two or three years, I think, so, yeah, absolutely, 2471 02:19:14.639 --> 02:19:16.559 I don't want to be yelling and screaming at a 2472 02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:19.479 regional center for you know, because I can't get my 2473 02:19:19.559 --> 02:19:20.360 driver's license. 2474 02:19:20.399 --> 02:19:23.239 It's just you know, and I find it now. 2475 02:19:23.360 --> 02:19:26.239 As part of that, you have to like prove citizenship right, 2476 02:19:26.280 --> 02:19:28.120 whether like a birth certificate or something. 2477 02:19:29.479 --> 02:19:32.280 Yeah, so there is enhanced credential and you have to 2478 02:19:32.319 --> 02:19:36.239 provide additional documents for the real ID. And that's part 2479 02:19:36.319 --> 02:19:39.520 of the reason that they created these regional offices, because 2480 02:19:39.520 --> 02:19:43.120 they said that our circuit clerks were not equipped for 2481 02:19:43.200 --> 02:19:45.959 that enhanced process. And it's like, okay, fine, if you 2482 02:19:46.000 --> 02:19:47.920 want a real ID, go to a regional center. But 2483 02:19:47.920 --> 02:19:50.159 if you just want your driver's license, you shouldn't have 2484 02:19:50.239 --> 02:19:53.440 to drive to one of these regional centers and wait 2485 02:19:53.639 --> 02:19:55.799 all of that time, even if you have an appointment. 2486 02:19:55.920 --> 02:19:58.239 You know, we've got instances that folks having an appointment 2487 02:19:58.280 --> 02:20:00.000 and then showing up in the offices just can't. 2488 02:20:01.040 --> 02:20:03.840 I'm going to tell on myself here. I'm seventy one 2489 02:20:03.920 --> 02:20:05.799 years old. I know, I don't look at it because 2490 02:20:05.799 --> 02:20:11.239 I'm so ruggedly handsome and everything. However, having not had 2491 02:20:11.280 --> 02:20:14.159 to prove the fact that I'm a citizen for seventy 2492 02:20:14.200 --> 02:20:17.639 one years, I think it's kind of appalling that all 2493 02:20:17.639 --> 02:20:20.479 of a sudden, Hey, are you a citizen? I mean, 2494 02:20:20.600 --> 02:20:23.399 come on, I think I had to have a driver 2495 02:20:23.479 --> 02:20:26.479 I think I had to have a birth certificate originally 2496 02:20:26.600 --> 02:20:29.239 when I got my driver's license when I turned sixteen. 2497 02:20:29.360 --> 02:20:36.440 For crying out loud, it's just okay anyway, So what 2498 02:20:36.799 --> 02:20:41.319 else is going on? What should we be aware of 2499 02:20:41.520 --> 02:20:47.799 and talking to our representatives to get them pushed into 2500 02:20:47.840 --> 02:20:51.360 a certain area on certain votes and certain bills that 2501 02:20:51.360 --> 02:20:53.120 we should be paying attention to. 2502 02:20:54.760 --> 02:20:57.000 I've got my eye on a bill that I think 2503 02:20:57.079 --> 02:20:59.680 has the potential to be very dangerous. It just came 2504 02:20:59.680 --> 02:21:03.680 out of Judiciary Committee yesterday. It's House Built ninety six 2505 02:21:04.399 --> 02:21:08.639 called coercive control, and essentially it creates a mechanism for 2506 02:21:08.760 --> 02:21:14.360 a red flaglaw insomuch as it changes the definitions under 2507 02:21:14.399 --> 02:21:18.360 which someone can seek an emergency Protective Order an EPO. 2508 02:21:19.040 --> 02:21:22.479 And in Kentucky, whenever you seek an EPO, you lose 2509 02:21:22.559 --> 02:21:25.760 your ability to carry a firearm, or the person you're 2510 02:21:25.760 --> 02:21:29.120 seeking the EPO against loses their ability to carry a firearm, 2511 02:21:29.680 --> 02:21:35.719 and the definition would change to include language that is 2512 02:21:35.840 --> 02:21:39.239 very scary, like, for example, if you use technology to 2513 02:21:39.479 --> 02:21:43.959 humiliate or exert undue influence over someone that could be 2514 02:21:44.040 --> 02:21:48.520 sufficient to have an EPO against you and lose your firearms. 2515 02:21:48.760 --> 02:21:51.719 That is scary. So I'm doing everything I can to 2516 02:21:51.840 --> 02:21:55.920 stop House Bill ninety six. It's a backdoor red flag 2517 02:21:56.000 --> 02:21:58.440 or really an outright red flag, depends on how you 2518 02:21:58.479 --> 02:21:58.959 look at it. 2519 02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:00.319 Jeez. 2520 02:22:00.920 --> 02:22:03.600 Okay, we need to take another quick break. Have you 2521 02:22:03.680 --> 02:22:05.879 got time to hang with us and give us a 2522 02:22:05.879 --> 02:22:07.840 couple more that we need to be paying attention to. 2523 02:22:08.200 --> 02:22:11.399 So we definitely want to get some pressure on people 2524 02:22:11.399 --> 02:22:15.200 to eliminate this house built ninety six. 2525 02:22:15.440 --> 02:22:16.680 Okay, all right. 2526 02:22:16.879 --> 02:22:22.280 My guest is Savannah Mattox, Kentucky State Representative, District sixty one, 2527 02:22:22.520 --> 02:22:26.840 and just a phenomenon. We are got to tell you 2528 02:22:26.840 --> 02:22:30.600 we are so lucky to have a watchdog like you 2529 02:22:30.879 --> 02:22:35.840 down there supporting conservative causes and actually front and center 2530 02:22:36.200 --> 02:22:40.200 taking the arrows and the abuse from people down there 2531 02:22:40.239 --> 02:22:43.079 as a result of your conservative stance. And I can't 2532 02:22:43.079 --> 02:22:46.920 tell you how much I appreciated. And I'm sure there's well, 2533 02:22:46.959 --> 02:22:49.040 obviously there's a lot of people in Kentucky that do. 2534 02:22:49.239 --> 02:22:52.760 So we'll continue our conversation with Savannah Mannicks. Kevin Gordon 2535 02:22:52.920 --> 02:22:56.040 in for Brian Thomas fifty five care see the talk station? 2536 02:22:56.479 --> 02:22:57.319 Have you found. 2537 02:23:03.079 --> 02:23:05.840 Eight point fifty in the morning, continue our conversation with 2538 02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:06.639 Savanna Mannix. 2539 02:23:06.639 --> 02:23:09.360 And I certainly appreciate you spending time with us this morning. 2540 02:23:09.799 --> 02:23:13.440 I know you are so busy down there, and I'm 2541 02:23:13.479 --> 02:23:15.280 just glad that you were able to spend some time 2542 02:23:15.319 --> 02:23:17.120 with us this morning to kind of bring us up 2543 02:23:17.120 --> 02:23:20.239 to date on what's going down down there in Frankfurt, Kentucky. 2544 02:23:23.559 --> 02:23:24.200 Absolutely. 2545 02:23:24.280 --> 02:23:29.079 Now, so other bills that we need to be watching 2546 02:23:29.200 --> 02:23:33.879 and maybe talk to our legislators about and see if 2547 02:23:33.879 --> 02:23:37.040 we can't move the needle up or down. 2548 02:23:38.879 --> 02:23:40.760 Yeah. So we talked about a bad bill, but I 2549 02:23:40.799 --> 02:23:42.799 want to talk about a good bill. Howse still one 2550 02:23:42.879 --> 02:23:45.719 thirty nine. It's actually my bill, and it would expand 2551 02:23:45.799 --> 02:23:48.920 our Second Amendment rights and it has a chance to move. 2552 02:23:49.760 --> 02:23:54.120 I've been in conversations with the chair of the Judiciary 2553 02:23:54.159 --> 02:23:57.239 Committee as well as our floor leader who is primary 2554 02:23:57.280 --> 02:24:00.440 co sponsor with me. This bill would lower the constantitutional 2555 02:24:00.559 --> 02:24:04.559 carry age from twenty one to eighteen, which is something 2556 02:24:04.639 --> 02:24:07.319 that a multitude of other states have done something that 2557 02:24:07.319 --> 02:24:10.600 we need to do, because if you can go overseas 2558 02:24:10.600 --> 02:24:13.120 and fight for your country, you certainly should have your 2559 02:24:13.399 --> 02:24:17.399 constitutional rights here at home. But it needs to move, 2560 02:24:17.479 --> 02:24:19.879 it needs to move quickly. It has the potential to 2561 02:24:20.000 --> 02:24:24.879 come up for a committee hearing on Wednesday of next week, 2562 02:24:24.959 --> 02:24:27.040 but we are running out of time. So I would 2563 02:24:27.040 --> 02:24:29.159 to ask that folks take a look at House Bill 2564 02:24:29.239 --> 02:24:32.280 one thirty nine and ask their legislators to support it. 2565 02:24:32.479 --> 02:24:35.120 Yeah, and get behind that bill, that's for sure. And 2566 02:24:35.239 --> 02:24:37.079 so many of the things that we look at in 2567 02:24:37.159 --> 02:24:40.120 terms of what we expect of our eighteen year olds 2568 02:24:40.159 --> 02:24:45.719 and then then deny them the full rights. You know, 2569 02:24:46.280 --> 02:24:49.760 I know it's an issue as far as the drinking age, 2570 02:24:49.799 --> 02:24:54.079 for instance, go overseas and die for your country, but 2571 02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:55.840 you can't come back and have a drink. I mean, 2572 02:24:57.319 --> 02:25:00.000 that's a whole nother and then of course the concealed 2573 02:25:00.159 --> 02:25:03.639 carry thing as well. So it's it's amazing how some 2574 02:25:03.719 --> 02:25:06.479 of these things just don't don't fit. And then yet 2575 02:25:06.959 --> 02:25:09.879 well this is another subject for another day, but where 2576 02:25:10.000 --> 02:25:12.879 somebody at age seven years old is smart enough and 2577 02:25:13.600 --> 02:25:16.799 mature enough to transition, but we won't get into that 2578 02:25:17.000 --> 02:25:17.760 right now, but. 2579 02:25:18.360 --> 02:25:22.040 Yeah, yes, I mean absolutely. As far as not being 2580 02:25:22.079 --> 02:25:24.360 able to take a drink or to light up a 2581 02:25:24.440 --> 02:25:27.799 smoke after you've been overseas serving your country, that's astonine. 2582 02:25:28.000 --> 02:25:28.600 But in this. 2583 02:25:28.479 --> 02:25:31.079 Particular instance, the distinction that I would make is it's 2584 02:25:31.159 --> 02:25:33.840 not a constitutional right. You your Second Amendment rights are 2585 02:25:33.920 --> 02:25:37.920 constitutional rights. So exactly, definitely, And the Fifth Circuit has 2586 02:25:37.959 --> 02:25:41.479 already issued an opinion and where we're seeing a multitude 2587 02:25:41.639 --> 02:25:44.520 of cases within you know, the legal structure of this 2588 02:25:44.680 --> 02:25:48.479 argument that it's time Kentucky. We could be facing litigation 2589 02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:51.159 if we don't pass this law. So it's the right 2590 02:25:51.200 --> 02:25:53.760 thing to do to holding the Constitution. We need to 2591 02:25:53.760 --> 02:25:54.399 get it done. 2592 02:25:54.520 --> 02:25:55.719 Okay, very good. 2593 02:25:55.799 --> 02:25:58.239 Well, Savannah, I know you're driving back and forth and communing, 2594 02:25:58.319 --> 02:25:59.719 and I think you told me yesterday ISS about a 2595 02:25:59.760 --> 02:26:03.719 forty five minute drive, which yeah, anyway, that is not 2596 02:26:03.959 --> 02:26:06.600 a you know, it's not like driving down the road 2597 02:26:06.639 --> 02:26:08.479 to you know, forty five minutes or so. There's a 2598 02:26:08.479 --> 02:26:10.799 lot of twists and turns down there. So I ask 2599 02:26:10.879 --> 02:26:14.440 you to certainly, you know, make sure hopefully travel safe 2600 02:26:14.520 --> 02:26:17.840 and all the best to you because you're such a 2601 02:26:18.479 --> 02:26:21.680 bright spot down there. In Frankfurt for the conservative cause, 2602 02:26:21.719 --> 02:26:24.840 and I certainly appreciate your efforts down there, and so 2603 02:26:25.000 --> 02:26:26.959 travel safe and be safe. 2604 02:26:27.000 --> 02:26:29.920 Okay, all right, thanks so much. 2605 02:26:29.840 --> 02:26:32.680 Kevin, Thank you, Savannah. I certainly appreciate it. Savannah Maddox, 2606 02:26:33.079 --> 02:26:37.360 Kentucky state representative from the District sixty one, which is 2607 02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:40.040 over in the Boon County area, And we didn't get 2608 02:26:40.040 --> 02:26:42.799 into that, but she's not my representative, which I wish 2609 02:26:42.840 --> 02:26:48.200 she was, but anyway, but a great person and fantastic 2610 02:26:48.440 --> 02:26:50.840 and always a great person to talk to about what's 2611 02:26:50.879 --> 02:26:52.760 going on down in Frankfurt. If you want to get 2612 02:26:52.799 --> 02:26:56.079 the conservative view, that's the person to talk to. Well, folks, 2613 02:26:56.280 --> 02:26:59.040 we're kind of running up against the clock here. It's 2614 02:26:59.079 --> 02:27:02.239 been a blast. I appreciate being in here. Thank Joe 2615 02:27:02.280 --> 02:27:05.440 for all of his efforts and all the bumper music 2616 02:27:05.479 --> 02:27:09.079 and getting all the guests that we had scheduled and 2617 02:27:09.120 --> 02:27:12.959 everything and get them on and with a flawless campaign here. 2618 02:27:13.399 --> 02:27:15.319 I had a lot of stuff that we talked about today, 2619 02:27:15.440 --> 02:27:18.319 and I certainly appreciate the opportunity to spend time with 2620 02:27:18.360 --> 02:27:21.879 you this morning. And hey, we'll do this again sometime. 2621 02:27:22.120 --> 02:27:25.760 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC 2622 02:27:26.399 --> 02:27:28.440 the talk station from. 2623 02:27:28.319 --> 02:27:31.239 A full rundown and the biggest headlines there's minutes away. 2624 02:27:31.440 --> 02:27:33.120 At the top of the hour. I'm giving you a 2625 02:27:33.200 --> 02:27:37.399 fact now, Americans should know. Fifty five KRS the Talk station. 2626 02:27:37.840 --> 02:27:39.520 This report is sponsored by Rapid