WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.080 And now Kevin Gordon filling in for Brian Thomas on 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:07.679 fifty five KOs the Talk Station. 3 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.519 Four minutes after five o'clock, Kevin Gordon in for Brian 4 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.719 Thomas fifty five k see the Talk Station. I guess, 5 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.199 as the introduction had explained, I didn't need to repeat 6 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.799 myself there, but okay I did. If you check my 7 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.079 Facebook page, you'll notice that I posted today what my 8 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.119 show guests for the day, and follow along with me 9 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.240 if you will. We got basically news and views and 10 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:46.280 probably can coax an opinion or two out of me 11 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:50.600 over the next couple hours. Of course, you know I 12 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:54.000 have an opinion. I'm not afraid to use it. Seven o'clock, 13 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.920 we've got Chris Fickensure. He is the owner of Cookie 14 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.840 Jar Bakery. We'll talk about his ninety seven year old 15 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:05.359 business a Newport, Kentucky institution. At seven thirty five, we're 16 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:08.000 going to be talking to Charlie Coach Coleman. Now he 17 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:13.159 is a former county commissioner in Campbell County and was 18 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:17.319 one of the last I guess conservative voices on Campbell 19 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:21.719 County commission And now it's as as I refer to it, 20 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:25.760 the people's Republic of Campbell County. He is, if you 21 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.400 may may not know, he's a coach at Bellevue High 22 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:31.439 School for a number of years, retired from them. Was 23 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:35.959 doing that Northern Kentucky sports Legends on gosh, what was it, 24 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:40.159 I think it was before time Warner, whichever iteration that was. 25 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:42.959 And now he's in the process of writing a book 26 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.079 about Northern Kentucky Legends. It's about to be published, so 27 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.280 we'll talk about that a little bit. Also at the 28 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:52.239 eight o'clock we're gonna be talking to Matt Donaho. He 29 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.680 is the owner president of Madewell Restoration. I met this 30 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.719 gentleman at our Christmas party on December the fourth, and 31 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:02.120 we got to talking. It seems we know a lot 32 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:05.280 of the same people. Young man owner of this company, 33 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.479 made Well Restoration, and we were talking about this project 34 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.800 that they did back in November for a World War 35 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.120 Two veteran, and we'll talk about that. I just it 36 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.039 was just if it's one of those things that when 37 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.599 you talk about companies and people giving back and people 38 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.039 doing the right thing this time of the well, actually 39 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:29.879 any time of the year, it's always a good thing. 40 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:31.919 And I thought, you know, what people need to hear 41 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.759 about this story and know about this company, and so 42 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:37.840 we'll go on from there. Now as far as the 43 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.439 news of the day, I hope you all had a 44 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.439 very good, happy and merry Christmas and looking forward to 45 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:46.639 the festivities for the new year. I know that there's 46 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.560 a lot of people in the hospitality industry that worked 47 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:54.960 over the holidays and so they get those celebrations get 48 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.800 pushed off to the next day or even the weekend. 49 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:02.960 In my situation, we've got our son that lives up 50 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:07.120 in Toledo and our granddaughter. She's got a birthday coming 51 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.439 up on January the third, so kind of do something 52 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:12.400 a little closer to that. So they're coming down this 53 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.840 weekend and we're gonna be doing a little bit of 54 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.280 the Christmas there. We got kids, our other our daughter 55 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:21.960 lives in the Netherlands, and so we did a little 56 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:27.199 facetiming yesterday, so kind of a quiet, quiet, I guess, 57 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.280 quiet time around the household yesterday watching a lot of 58 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.879 different movies. Got caught up on some of the movies 59 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.919 I've been putting off this time of year. I mean, 60 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:39.520 if you've got Christmas, you've got to watch. It's a 61 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.960 wonderful life. You got to watch the Christmas Story. You 62 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.479 got to at least watch that one time. Binge, what 63 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:46.840 I know they've run that to twenty four to seven. 64 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.400 It's a wonderful life was I guess you know they 65 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.039 well they've run it a couple of times that I've seen, 66 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.759 but we recorded it back in the first part of 67 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:00.520 the Christmas season. Got to watch that. It was a 68 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.159 really good, nice relaxing day. Did a little show prep 69 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.280 yesterday and got all ready for today, and so I'm 70 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:09.080 looking forward to spending some time with you this morning, 71 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.560 taking your phone calls and talking about the issues of 72 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:16.839 the day. Looking at some of the headlines as I do. Well, 73 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:19.120 you got to check the headlines when we first come 74 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:22.480 in in the morning because you never know what is 75 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.199 going to be transpiring overnight. You don't know what crazy 76 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.279 stuff is going on. But I was surprised to see 77 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.439 now usually around the Christmas period that there is always 78 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:38.040 some sort of oh, a terrorist act. Now that you 79 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:42.800 had that car that rammed into that Christmas what they 80 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:47.759 call them Christmas markets over in Europe, and they're still 81 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.240 trying to figure out what's going on with that. Obviously 82 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.959 it was done on purpose, so an act of terrorism, 83 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:59.000 but I didn't see anything here in the United States 84 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.160 that would qualify for that. We had some football games 85 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:06.079 yesterday and there is and I got admit, I was 86 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.120 busy doing other things and I didn't watch the games, 87 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.920 but there is an awful lot of blowback on Beyonce 88 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:19.879 and Mariah Carey for their performances yesterday. Now I've never well, 89 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:24.920 except for all I want for Christmas is you Mariah Carey. 90 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:27.680 You know, I've never really been a big fan, but 91 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.759 I'm not. You know, It's not like I don't like 92 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.639 her or anything. It's just that I think she's overrated. 93 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.720 I will say that. But the headline that caught my 94 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:40.360 attention was, I guess she was the lead into looking 95 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.319 at the video, she was the lead into the Pittsburgh 96 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:47.040 Steelers Kansas City Chiefs game, kind of along the lines 97 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.240 of what they do, you know, on Thursday night and 98 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.319 Sunday night football, where they do the intro to that, 99 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.439 and so they did this with her, and I saw 100 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:59.480 the headline and I thought, oh, well, I'm going to 101 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.360 look at this for myself. I'm going to make sure 102 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:04.600 that I'm not just jumping on the bandwagon. I'm not 103 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:08.199 going to base on what other people are saying. And 104 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.839 the best description of it was she phoned it in. 105 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.920 You could tell she was lip syncing. It wasn't any 106 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.920 kind of a live act. It was basically her mouth 107 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:23.079 and the words and doing all the the you know, 108 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.480 they had all the different scenes from the times that 109 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.240 Pittsburgh and the Chiefs have played, and back and forth 110 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.920 in between some of the I guess highlights of some 111 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.639 of the past games or highlights of their the different 112 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.800 things that the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Kansas City Chiefs 113 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.079 have done. And it was kind of like, why waste 114 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:47.279 our time? You know, if you're not going to put 115 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:51.279 any effort into it, if you're not gonna make any effort, 116 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.800 why should we even pay any attention to it? And 117 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.000 then apparently there was a halftime show by Beyonce, which 118 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.639 I watched getting ready for today, and I'm like, what 119 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:05.120 the hell was the point of that? I you know, 120 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:10.519 I am so tired of all the pyrotechnics and all 121 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.399 the dancers and all the stuff, the distractions in the back. 122 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.519 Remember the good old days when it was just about 123 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.240 the music, when it was about the artist performing the song, 124 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:24.879 and then you could actually see what they were doing. 125 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:29.680 But it's all covered up now between the lip syncing, 126 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.000 I don't know. I couldn't really tell whether she was 127 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.360 lip syncing or I was looking out on my phone. 128 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:41.360 And it's just it's all unnecessary, it's just all fluff. 129 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.319 It's just I want to when I go to IF, 130 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:47.079 I IF, and when I go to a concert, I 131 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.000 want to watch the band. I want to watch them 132 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.879 sing the songs that I like. I don't want all 133 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:57.160 the other distractions. I don't want all the other stuff. 134 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.040 And I don't want people sitting next to me singing 135 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.199 the words. If I want to go and hear them sing, 136 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.920 I will follow them home. I'm here to hear the artist, 137 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.160 not somebody else singing. But you know, that's just me. 138 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.480 By the way, the phone numbers seven five one three, 139 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.319 seven four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight 140 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:20.879 two three talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight 141 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.759 two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T 142 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:29.160 wireless phone. And I just it's just I don't know 143 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.600 these these artists and what they try to do and 144 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.600 how they try to make everybody. It's like, you know, 145 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.000 and when you listen to some of these songs on 146 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:45.519 the radio, anymore. It's like, well, what's the difference between 147 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.240 this song and somebody else. It's almost like you cannot 148 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:55.320 hear the other people singing, You can't hear the words, 149 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:01.200 you can't hear you know, they all sound alike. It's 150 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.320 just annoying to me. And I know that's why I 151 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.399 spend too much time, or a lot of time listening 152 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:11.320 to talk radio. Because again, if you're talking about as 153 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:16.519 I've mentioned several times before, if you're talking about reality television, 154 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:19.600 it doesn't get any more real than what we've experienced 155 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:24.879 over the last actually at least twenty four months or better, well, 156 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.639 going even back to twenty fifteen when Donald Trump came 157 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:35.919 down that escalator. You talk about the real world experiences 158 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.919 and all the carping back and forth and all the 159 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:43.399 accusations and all the lies, all the hoaxes, everything that 160 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.720 has gone on, that is better than any reality television 161 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.559 show that I think I've ever seen or even heard of. 162 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.960 And so when you break down what happens in your 163 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:57.840 real life, that is far more interesting and far more 164 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.639 exciting than anything that they could produce on the television. 165 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.759 And it's just a I don't know, maybe it's just 166 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:07.600 me maybe I'm just crazy, but you know, we know 167 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.960 that already having a little bit difficulties with our computers 168 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.919 this morning. I hope not missing any calls right now, 169 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.360 but yeah, we'll get it together here during the break 170 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.159 or thereabouts. The phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, 171 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.919 five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one, 172 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.960 eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, 173 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.000 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 174 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:32.200 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk 175 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:49.240 stage five nineteen in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for 176 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:53.639 Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station. You know, 177 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:58.679 I cannot wait till January the twentieth. I I have 178 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.679 been looking forward to the US for a long time. 179 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.639 I get as you may know I do. America struck 180 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:10.879 a network on our sister station, and over the period 181 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:14.440 of the last few years, you look at certain trends 182 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:16.879 as far as what's going on in the energy sector, 183 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:22.279 because again energy effects gas diesel affects the trucking community 184 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.919 as well. It affects us in terms of our commute. 185 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.399 It affects us at all. The energy prices. If you 186 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.279 look at your electric bill, you look at the companies. 187 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.960 I mean, isn't there isn't a business that isn't subject 188 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.279 to energy price increases. Right here at the station, we've 189 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.559 got all the all the lights into the station here, 190 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:49.360 so we've got the electricity there, the electricity that powers 191 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:53.799 some of these manufacturing facilities and keeping lights on there. 192 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:55.919 I don't care if you're a doctor, a lawyer, or 193 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.840 a hospital. All of it is based on energy. That's 194 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:03.159 one common dominated throughout the economy. So when the energy 195 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:06.639 prices go up, and when you have an administration like 196 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.480 we have as far as the Biden administration that has 197 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:16.639 jumped full uh full on headlong into unproven technology, this 198 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.639 green news steal as I call it, as far as wind. 199 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.519 So I'm not opposed to those, but if you're going 200 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:29.159 to have those, make it so that it's feasible that 201 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:32.919 it is available, that it is on a basis of 202 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:36.639 where you can use it on an ongoing basis. Don't 203 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:40.120 have a situation where you know what we're what they're 204 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.240 experiencing in Europe right now, it's eased up a little 205 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.559 bit there over the last couple of weeks, but you 206 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:50.519 had this blast of weather there where it was beginning 207 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.559 to be a much colder than anticipated winter, and it 208 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:59.080 really I mean, shoot, we didn't even winter began this 209 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.320 pass that we go, well, this past Saturday on the 210 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:05.639 twenty first, at four something like twenty one in the morning, 211 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:10.360 and so we are now officially into winter officially, but 212 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.320 if you go back in the Greater Insane Northern Kentucky area, 213 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.039 we've had snow flurries, and we've did have I don't 214 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.559 think we've really I know, we haven't had any accumulation 215 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:20.720 on the sidewalks. They haven't had to go out and 216 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:25.000 scrape that off from my neighbors and make sure that 217 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:29.320 they're safe. But over in Europe they've had the same thing. 218 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:34.159 They've had a very large cold spell. And along with that, 219 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.399 with the fact that they have gone feet first, headlong 220 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:43.320 into this green technology, they've closed a lot of their 221 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.759 coal burning power plants, they've started ratcheting back on nuclear energy, 222 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:53.039 and they've started being more dependent upon windmills and solar 223 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:59.159 panels and getting natural gas from Russia. And so when 224 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:04.000 this cold spell came through, the wind wasn't blowing, so 225 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:08.720 the electricity that was available wasn't there, and they had 226 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.879 to rely on some of their sources, their backup sources 227 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.559 for that. We've seen certain instances where with the solar 228 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.559 panels where they are not at certain temperatures, not as 229 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.240 efficient as they should be, and so you're not getting 230 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:27.360 the bang for your buck there. And so we've got 231 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:31.000 this all in the favor of this green technology, all 232 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:34.679 in the favor of saving the planet. And as I've 233 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:38.200 mentioned several times before in this probably you've heard this before, 234 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:41.840 where if you look at the environmental movement, it has 235 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:44.480 nothing to do with saving the planet. It has nothing 236 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.879 to do with preserving things. As a matter of fact, 237 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.000 it has more to do with control. Where you work, 238 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:55.480 how you work, where you live, how you live, how 239 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.360 you cook your food, what food you can eat, how 240 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:02.080 far you can drive with these e and everything is 241 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:04.720 all about control. And that has more to do with 242 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.559 communism socialism than it does with a free capital and 243 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:13.159 capitalism society. And so I just mashed the two together. 244 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.759 Environmentalism has become the new communism. So I just call 245 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:21.240 it climunism. And because of this climunism that has affected 246 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.879 so much of the stuff of what we do as 247 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:28.240 opposed to making sure that what is available and that 248 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:32.320 we that of what is being converted or what is 249 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.559 being used is ready for prime time. You don't go 250 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.679 jumping into something. You don't eliminate a market, You don't 251 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.480 eliminate an entire technology or do away with it, or 252 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:49.960 what they call in terms of this demand destruction, where 253 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:57.039 you eliminate a particular segment in favor of something else. 254 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:00.000 And I'll explain a lot about that when we come 255 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:03.120 up coming up, because this whole demand destruction that we 256 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.679 keep hearing about is a term that I had not 257 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.000 really heard much about until about a year or so 258 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:15.759 ago when they started talking about demand destruction with internal 259 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:20.559 combustion engines, demand destruction as far as coal fire plants 260 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:25.559 and all of the movement towards this green news Steel 261 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.960 phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five 262 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.519 hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight 263 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.519 hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five 264 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:37.399 point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in 265 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:57.960 for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the talk station five 266 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.879 point twenty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for 267 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.159 Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station. As we 268 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.839 try to continue to fix our little computer problems here. 269 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.920 I believe that the the phone lines are working, so 270 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:13.519 I'll give those phone numbers out rather than teasing you 271 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:17.079 with something that doesn't work. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, 272 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.920 nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three 273 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.640 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 274 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.359 five pound five point fifty on that AT and T 275 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:28.960 wireless phone. So, UH, give us a call here and 276 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.000 see what's on your mind. Now again, looking forward to 277 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.240 January the twentieth, Uh, I am seeing an awful lot 278 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.119 of good. I'm seeing a lot of things that are 279 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:42.240 giving me hope in terms of what is going to transpire. 280 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:46.400 I think that this administration this time around, he knows 281 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:48.960 the ins and out. He knows I think pretty much, 282 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.480 who he can trust, who he can't trust, and UH 283 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:59.160 as he attempts to get the UH the economy back 284 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:04.680 on track, as attempts to get everything going again. It's 285 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.920 interesting to see some of the comments from the spoon 286 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.720 fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. It seems as though 287 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.880 that they even though that they have been proven wrong 288 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:21.039 time and time and time again, that somehow they think 289 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:24.240 that people are listening to them. And when you look 290 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:29.680 at the ratings for MSNBC, CNN and realize that their viewers, 291 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:34.880 that they've lost almost fifty percent or more of their viewers, 292 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:39.279 they still haven't gotten it. They still haven't gotten the idea. 293 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:42.960 They still haven't gotten the clue, the fact that whatever 294 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:47.720 they've been regurgitating to the American public, the American public 295 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.119 isn't buying it, that they're not paying attention to them anymore. 296 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.240 And when you think about what Donald Trump has managed 297 00:18:55.279 --> 00:19:00.720 to do since as far as being president and being 298 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:05.480 in the spotlight on you know, NonStop, pretty much since 299 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:09.599 twenty fifteen, is the fact of how many people he 300 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:13.400 has basically embarrassed and pushed off to the side, not 301 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:17.039 the least of which at this point, you know, Hillary Clinton, 302 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:22.400 Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, all these people 303 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.960 are irrelevant the media. We talk about this, I talk 304 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:30.440 about the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. They 305 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.759 are no longer relevant. You talked about ninety five percent 306 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.920 of the coverage of this this man has been negative, 307 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:41.799 and still they were not able to break through and 308 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:45.200 break him down. You go to the law fair and 309 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.559 everything you know, it's all the stuff that we have 310 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.640 seen for the last nine years. It's just incredible and 311 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:54.680 it's going to be interesting to see what transpires. And 312 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:58.880 of course, you know with these with all these pardons 313 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.480 that are coming out from the world, Oh my god, 314 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:03.279 I'll tell you. Well, let's go to the phones real quick. 315 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:06.640 Let's talk to Linda Linda fifty five care see. Uh well, 316 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.680 I guess happy day after Christmas. I hope your Christmas 317 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.200 went well. Welcome to the program. Thanks for calling. 318 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.119 Oh our Christmas. Trump in the White House, I know it, 319 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.039 I know it. We keep our fingers crashed and nothing happened. 320 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.519 Yeah, he might as well be because I think the 321 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:22.000 car will be interesting. 322 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:25.799 I think that president that's in the White House checked 323 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:26.720 out when he moved in. 324 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:30.279 Well yeah, according to that one report from the Washington 325 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:32.599 or the Wall Street Journal for sure. 326 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:32.960 Yeah. 327 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.039 Anyway, I just I called because you have to do 328 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:38.759 all this talking this morning, and I thought, well, I'm 329 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:40.880 going to call him just say something that I heard. 330 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:44.799 You know, Ram Paul comes out with his list of 331 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.640 all the terrible spending that they're doing, which I thought 332 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.000 was really interesting. And then I heard that they went 333 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:57.319 ahead and passed the money for a new stadium in Washington, 334 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:01.000 and I went, oh, that's good. Now we want to stadium. 335 00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:03.799 And I went, oh, that's good too, more tax money. 336 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:08.920 And all I can say is whatever Trump does, he's 337 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:12.160 going to have a hard, hard, hard time doing it. 338 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.720 And the American people really have got to stand up 339 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:20.720 and be on these phones with the senators and representatives. 340 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:23.720 I know that that's real important. I learned that in 341 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:27.799 the tea party. You've got to get those slips down 342 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:30.400 there so that they have a stack of them so 343 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:34.400 they say, oh, this is important to the people anyway. 344 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:36.400 And I just called to say happy New Year. 345 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.160 To you, thanks, thank you so much, you know, And 346 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:41.720 it really doesn't take that much. I mean, if you have, 347 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.799 you know, if you know your senator congressman's name, or 348 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:49.240 even if you don't, you can call the switchboard and 349 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:52.640 they'll ask him. They're very, very efficient about that getting 350 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:56.000 you to the right voicemail and you can leave a 351 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:01.480 voicemail or leave a comment and you're not on anybody's 352 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:04.880 radar screen. That's not going to be any blowback to you. 353 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:09.279 And if they get fifteen to twenty five forty phone 354 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:13.519 calls from people, that gets their attention and all this 355 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.440 port that we've been seeing and ran Paul God bless 356 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:20.160 them with his festive US report. It is just incredible. 357 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:22.960 If you want to talk about the efficiency as a government, 358 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.160 start with that. Start with is that the Office of 359 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:29.079 Management and Budget that every year comes out with some 360 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.319 of the wasteful spending and they do their own report. 361 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:36.480 Let's start with those areas. Now that's not going to 362 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:38.799 get us the two trillion dollars, but it's going to 363 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:39.480 be a start. 364 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:43.480 Well, you know, I cannot help but think that there's 365 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:49.359 with all the empty office space in Washington that we 366 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:54.519 are paying for, just start cutting all of that crap. Yeah, 367 00:22:54.680 --> 00:22:58.960 just thinking how much money would go away from our 368 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:02.920 ceiling there that I just think that it's common sense. 369 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:06.039 And I don't think that these senators and representatives they 370 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:09.519 went to school, they're lawyers. They don't have any common sense. 371 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:11.759 No, they don't. And I think one of the things 372 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:13.640 is is that these people need to get back to 373 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:17.519 the office. I don't think we shouldn't be having those 374 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:21.000 empty offices. They need to get back to work and 375 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:23.680 they need to be there and be able to and 376 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.880 there needs to be something in terms of how productive 377 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.240 they are actually being because when you see some of 378 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.160 these stories about the what was it a couple of years, 379 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:35.759 four or five years ago that they looked at the 380 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:39.599 Justice Department lawyers and something like ninety five percent of 381 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:44.839 their day was spent looking at porn. Absolutely, I mean, 382 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:50.720 it's just unbelievable. And there's no you know, I question 383 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:53.440 here at the station if I happen to tap on 384 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:57.279 something that there's a couple of those what is it 385 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:02.920 the Sun his paper out of the UK. Sometimes there's 386 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:05.880 some kind of risky risk a pictures on that I 387 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:09.839 you know, I keep trying to stay to the stories 388 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.440 instead of some of those pictures that going along with it. 389 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.680 Figuring out that somebody's going to look at that and say, hey, Kevin, 390 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:17.720 what the hell you looking at here? And it's just 391 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:24.119 and yet nobody's checking their uh, their search engines or 392 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:26.680 search history and all that. It's just insanity. 393 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:29.839 Well, in closing, I'm going to get off of here. 394 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:32.359 I just want to say to the American public or 395 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:37.480 whoever's listening, let's support our president and the administration that 396 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:42.759 he has by being involved. And let's not forget FEMA 397 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:46.960 is not helping North Carolina or Georgia. 398 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:49.599 Exactly, Glinda, thank you so much. You have a merry 399 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.680 Chris or a happy new Year. We're beyond Christmas now, 400 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:57.720 happy new Year, all right, take care, thank you so much. Yeah, 401 00:24:57.559 --> 00:24:59.720 oh I'm late for a break here. Let's give the 402 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:02.079 phone numbers now five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty 403 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:04.599 five hundred one, eight hundred A two three talk one, 404 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:07.599 eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, 405 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:10.839 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 406 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:14.079 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr See the talk 407 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:26.480 station five forty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in 408 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.640 for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk station phone 409 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:33.119 numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one, 410 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:35.400 eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight 411 00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:38.519 two three eight two, five five pound, five point fifty 412 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:43.960 AT and T wireless phone. You know, when I look 413 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.880 at some of these newscasts and I start seeing some 414 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.319 of the stuff that's being said by the left, it 415 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:56.400 amazes well, it's laughable anymore. We had what was the 416 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:00.960 big flap last week that uh Elon Muss is the 417 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:05.519 president and they're trying to go Trump into getting upset 418 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:10.720 and trying to poke him a little bit. Yet we've 419 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.960 had and we saw the Wall Street Journal report last 420 00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:19.200 week that came out that this administration has been checked 421 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:23.119 out within the first couple of months of being sworn 422 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:27.240 into office. The reason he was hidden in the basement 423 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.880 in twenty twenty was that he couldn't go on the 424 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:33.240 campaign trail, that he didn't have the mental faculties to 425 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.200 do that. They talk about Jill Biden being out on 426 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:39.400 the campaign trail more than him, and yet this was 427 00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:42.519 hidden from the people. And you have all of these 428 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:46.680 spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, and I call 429 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.680 them that for a reason. All they do is get 430 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:54.279 the talking points from the DNC or from the podium 431 00:26:54.440 --> 00:27:00.720 or whoever, and then because they are liberal themselves, they 432 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.720 are going to prop up their guy or their person, 433 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.119 and they are going to run with whatever the dialogue 434 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.079 that's given to them to regurgitate to us. They're not 435 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.960 doing any of this independent analysis. And I have to 436 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.119 laugh now when I hear some of these people coming 437 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.880 out and saying, gosh, I wish that I had spoken 438 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.880 up sooner. Well, right there, that person should immediately be 439 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:30.720 fired because they are not a independent news analyst. At 440 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.680 that point, they are not a reporter. They didn't do 441 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:35.920 their job, and why do you think they're going to 442 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.799 do their job going forward? When you look at the 443 00:27:38.839 --> 00:27:41.240 amount of lies that were told to us about you know, 444 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:46.240 Joe Scarborough, you saw, I'm sure the rant that he did. 445 00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:50.160 You know, if you can't handle this fu this is 446 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:53.759 the best And this was a month before he actually 447 00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:58.680 within two or three weeks before he exited the stage. 448 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:01.680 As far as open up the door for Kamala Harris, 449 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:06.680 this is the best version of Joe Biden ever, all 450 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:10.759 the lies about he runs rings around people that he 451 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:14.400 is the sharpest one in the room, all of these lies. 452 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:21.720 None of these people, from the person in karreem Jean Pierre, 453 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:25.640 to anybody in the cabinet, there shouldn't be any of 454 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:31.160 these people anywhere connected with our government ever. Again, they 455 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:36.039 have done away with their fiduciary responsibility to the American people. 456 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.079 There should have been that twenty fifth amendment that people 457 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.519 get together and say that the president is incompetent. And 458 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:47.440 then you know, not that I wanted Kamala Harris to 459 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.519 be president. I think that would have been an even 460 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:55.240 bigger disaster. But again, it's the law, it's the way 461 00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:57.759 things are supposed to be done, and we have to 462 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:01.359 ask the question. We need to find out who has 463 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:05.039 been making these decisions. I believe that has been Barack 464 00:29:05.079 --> 00:29:08.519 Obama pulling the strings. I believe it's people like Susan 465 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:12.720 Rice and some of these other people in the administration. 466 00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:17.920 The look at the close advisors, the senior advisors to 467 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.519 the president. Do you think that any of these things 468 00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:24.799 that the executive orders that he signed, that he was 469 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.880 competent enough to sign those, And I think most of 470 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.880 those could be overturned. I think if you you know, 471 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:34.119 based on the Wall Street Journal report, everything has been 472 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.960 a fraud about this presidency, and if the president isn't 473 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:42.039 the one in charge, then anything that has happened as 474 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:46.079 a result of so called the president saying certain things 475 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:50.559 or signing pieces of legislation. You know, if you've got 476 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:54.359 an elderly person that is found to be dementia ridden 477 00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:57.440 and they try to sign a contract, that's an all 478 00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:01.359 and void. So everything that he is done, everything he's 479 00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:04.400 done for the last four years, should be null and void. 480 00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:06.400 And we go back to what it was at the 481 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:11.319 end of the Trump administration. So again, uh five to 482 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:14.240 one to three phone a little bit late for a break. 483 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:16.920 I'm doing it once again. Five one three, seven four 484 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:19.920 nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three 485 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.759 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 486 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.000 five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 487 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.440 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the 488 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:35.720 talk station, five fifty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon 489 00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:38.319 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station. 490 00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:43.240 You know, I do not think the people, and it 491 00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:47.039 takes some thinking about this because you know, when you 492 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:50.279 look back when he came down the escalator in August 493 00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:54.359 twenty fifteen and from that point on, how many attacks 494 00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:58.359 there's been on this person. There have been attacks on 495 00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:03.119 his integrity, attacks on whether or not he's telling the truth. 496 00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:08.240 You go through the whole thing about the Russia hoax, 497 00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:13.920 the Ukraine hoax, the phone call hoax, all of these 498 00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:18.319 things that have been thrown at him, these fake indictments, 499 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:23.759 these fake dragging him into court with that Egene Carroll 500 00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:27.960 and the defamation lawsuit. Every one of these is going 501 00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:32.440 to be overturned by the Supreme Court, and everything is 502 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:35.799 going to find that there was nothing done and that 503 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.720 there should never have been these cases should have never 504 00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:42.480 been brought. And then when you look at all of 505 00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:47.640 the talking about these other people, these other news networks, 506 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.920 and all of the lies that they have spilled over 507 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:56.000 the last nine years, it's all by the way, you've 508 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:01.599 got a guy that has destroyed what they call legacy media. 509 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:05.960 They are no longer relevant at all. It showed how 510 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:10.279 irrelevant they were by the results of the election. It 511 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.440 is proven by the amount of viewership and listeners that 512 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:18.400 all the liberal outlets have lost over the period of 513 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:22.960 time since the election. It's indicative of the fact that 514 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:27.960 they're talking about spinning off MSNBC the time, is looking 515 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:32.880 to sell CNN. At one time, CNN was the crown 516 00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:38.960 jewel of news, that it was the go to outlet 517 00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:42.920 to get the news. How far they have fallen. And 518 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:47.720 then Trump has proven Hillary Clinton to be a fraud, 519 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:53.200 Kamala Harris a fraud, Biden a fraud, Obama a fraud. 520 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:57.839 And look what happened during the campaign. Two point five 521 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:04.480 billion dollars that was wasted. Don't get me wrong, I 522 00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:09.759 love the fact that these rich people from the Democratic 523 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:13.759 side wasted that money on her campaign, but were lied 524 00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:17.599 to buy the campaign, buy the DNC that hey, we've 525 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.799 got this in the bag. It almost reminds me of Vietnam. 526 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.960 Of the people in the cabinet. De Lynn and Johnson's 527 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:28.519 people were telling us, hey, you know, we're just a 528 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.200 month away from victory. Here, we've got this in the bag. 529 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:33.680 We're going to win, all to to find out that 530 00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:37.200 it was all a lie. Now, if you're a donor, 531 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:39.160 do you want to give to a bunch of people 532 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:41.519 that are going to be lying to you? And then 533 00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:44.599 we see what a fraud Oprah Winfrey was, when we 534 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.960 see what a fraud Bruce Springsteen was, the fact that 535 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:51.200 these people get on stage and it appears is that 536 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.640 they are endorsing Kamala Harris, and then we come to 537 00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:59.119 find out how much money they were paid. Why does 538 00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:02.680 Al Sharpton will have a job. He did an interview 539 00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:07.920 and was paid five hundred thousand dollars to do that interview. 540 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:11.320 Do you think that that was a fair and balanced interview? 541 00:34:11.559 --> 00:34:14.599 Do you think that the people that watched that got 542 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:19.039 the truth, that got hard hitting questions and then even 543 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:23.320 coming onto the view, the disastrous question was to be 544 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:27.320 anything that you could do that would have been different. Uh, 545 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:32.760 I can't think of anything. I even the view. Why 546 00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:35.119 are they still on the air, all the lies that 547 00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:38.559 they have told. If you can't depend on certain outlets 548 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:41.519 to give it to you straight, to give you the 549 00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:47.159 accurate information, they have no business being in business. Coming up, 550 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:49.800 we got the top of the hour. We'll be discussing 551 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:52.440 a whole bunch of things that we want to get to. 552 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:55.679 I'm Kevin Gordon Inver. I'll give you the phone numbers 553 00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:58.719 five one to three, seven four, nine, fifty five one 554 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:02.320 eight hundred eight two three two three eight two five 555 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:05.400 five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 556 00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.880 Kevin Gorton in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs the 557 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:09.960 talk station. 558 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.920 And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on 559 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:17.719 fifty five KOs the talk station. 560 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:35.440 Six oh five. As we roll into this Thursday morning, 561 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:40.079 the day after Christmas, the second day of Christmas, I 562 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:43.719 might add, you know this whole business, and you know 563 00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.079 they talk about the twelve days of Christmas and the song, 564 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:49.360 and everybody kind of has a tendency of thinking that 565 00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:51.840 the twelve days of Christmas are actually the twelve days 566 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:55.679 before Christmas, when in actuality it's the twelve Days of Christmas. 567 00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:58.800 The first day of Christmas begins on Christmas Day and 568 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:02.119 runs up to what they can all the Twelfth Night, 569 00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:06.760 which is the night before the Epiphany, which is January 570 00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:10.559 the sixth. And so the fact that we're not out 571 00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.719 of the Christmas season yet everybody kind of I know 572 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.239 some people that like the day after Christmas. There are 573 00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:19.360 people that are taking down their Christmas decorations already, and 574 00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:25.079 it really kind of rushes the season now. I know that, 575 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:29.440 you know, you have the Thanksgiving and then once after 576 00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:32.920 Thanksgiving begins or ends, then you have the Black Friday, 577 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:36.519 Cyber Monday, and all of the sales that go on 578 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:41.119 you see year after year. How I mean, it's almost 579 00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:43.760 like after Labor Day now they start putting out some 580 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:46.800 of the Christmas decorations. They don't even get to get 581 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:53.039 through the or the Halloween festivities or the Halloween season 582 00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:56.599 before they start putting stuff in the stores for these 583 00:36:56.719 --> 00:37:00.000 Christmas sales, trying to boost as much of the Christmas 584 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.760 sales as they can. Because businesses, most retail establishments don't 585 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.719 start turning a profit until the month of December. That's 586 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:12.119 why they called it Black Friday because it's from that 587 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:16.039 point on where the companies start turning a profit and 588 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:20.079 start making money for their year end, and so they 589 00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:23.119 try to extend that out. Plus, this year we had 590 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:27.440 what five less shopping days because Thanksgiving was so late 591 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:31.199 in the year, and so that cut down the holiday season. 592 00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:33.800 It created a little bit of problem. As far as 593 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:37.519 people trying to buy gifts online. I can tell you 594 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:41.199 that I have not. I mean here in the Gordon household, 595 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.239 we do not. We have been doing more and more online, 596 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.320 but we have kind of not one of the how 597 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.239 should I say we're not We weren't quick to jump 598 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:56.400 on the bandwagon there because a lot of the stuff 599 00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:59.079 that we buy, it's almost like you want to look 600 00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:05.360 at it, feel it, examine it, because it's just a 601 00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:09.079 different way of buying. And we've gotten more and more 602 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:12.280 into the online shopping over the last I would say 603 00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:17.679 five years or so, and this year in particular, the 604 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:22.679 amount of frustration that we experienced as far as getting 605 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:28.320 stuff on time, delivered, when promised, and then once you 606 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:32.400 get the merchandise itself, that it doesn't live up to 607 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.079 the expectations. We've gone to the extent of I have 608 00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:39.599 tried to buy a pair of shoes, a particular pair 609 00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:43.320 of shoes. I think this is now the fifth time 610 00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:47.639 that I bought that pair. Had to return it, and 611 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:51.239 of course they have now some of this restocking fee 612 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.519 that they want to charge you for shipping bringing it back. 613 00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:58.000 So I wind up taking it back to the individual 614 00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:03.079 stores themselves. But when they tell you that, you know, 615 00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:05.719 a size is a certain size, and they say, if 616 00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:09.400 your normal size is such that it either runs big 617 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:13.280 or runs small, so do size up, size down, that 618 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:15.880 doesn't work. My wife has sent had to send back 619 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:20.000 two coats because they told her that the size was wrong. 620 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:23.159 You know that the size if you're in this particular size, 621 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:26.880 you want to size up because these run small. Not 622 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:31.880 the case, and so I have shoot, I can remember 623 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:37.039 being a kid, and even to this day, people cannot Well, 624 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.559 it's very difficult to buy clothes for me because whatever 625 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:46.480 size I am, you know, the waist size, length, size, 626 00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:50.320 end zeame that it depends on the brand, it depends 627 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:55.960 on the manufacture. In some cases, within the manufacture itself, 628 00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:59.519 there are difference in sizing. And usually if I'm going 629 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.599 to buy it pants, I go to the store, I 630 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:04.679 buy you know, I get about three or four pairs 631 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:07.880 of them, take them into the fitting room, and it's amazing. 632 00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:10.360 Some of them are like a quarter of an inch 633 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:12.920 or a half an inch too long in the end scene. 634 00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:17.480 Some of them are a little that the waistband isn't 635 00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.360 isn't quite as wide, and it's and it's tighter. It's 636 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:22.920 a tighter fit, and when you hold them up and 637 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.480 you hold them side by side, you notice that there 638 00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:28.840 is a difference in the size. So having to try 639 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:32.159 on the clothes, having to try on the shoes. Generally 640 00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:34.639 I can get by with with shirts. I don't have 641 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:38.000 much of a problem in that way, but when I 642 00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:44.119 do see certain items that I think will fit, sometimes 643 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:47.639 they don't. And it's been a very frustrating season this 644 00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.639 year as far as online buying online purchases, as well 645 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:56.639 as the frustration with when they say a certain item 646 00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:00.480 will be available and then how soon you can get it. 647 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:03.920 That is, you know, overnight or they say next day 648 00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:08.039 shipping or two three days extends sometimes almost into a week. 649 00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:13.280 And there's been some stores where we went to buy 650 00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:18.320 something it was available, it wasn't available in the store. 651 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:21.840 They said that the closest place there wasn't any available 652 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:26.000 in Columbus. There wasn't anything available anywhere in the Cincinnati area. 653 00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:30.119 The only place that had anything in stock was up 654 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:33.719 in Dayton. So we went ahead and ordered this item, 655 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:39.159 these actually three items online and we go back and 656 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:44.840 check the account. The next day, order processing, next day, 657 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:48.599 order processing, the day after that, order processing to the 658 00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:51.360 point where and it was going to be something that 659 00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.400 was going to be available or delivered within three days. 660 00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:58.199 And so we even at we actually went to the 661 00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:03.840 part of buying the item and paying for a wrap 662 00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:07.360 express shipping that would have gotten there overnight or not 663 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.880 quite overnight, but two days. And so I kept seeing 664 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:15.920 order processing, order processing, and after seven days they canceled 665 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.239 the order because they said they were out of stock. Now, 666 00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.360 that is a crappy way of running a business. That 667 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:26.440 is a crappy method of running a business. And quite honestly, 668 00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:29.159 if that is the way this e marketing is going 669 00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:33.559 to do, and I don't if you're if it's not convenient, 670 00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:36.320 if it's not going to get to you on time, 671 00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:39.800 if you're not going to be satisfied with that item, 672 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:43.280 then my wife was saying, she says, you know what, 673 00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:46.039 I've almost had it with this e shopping to the 674 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:49.639 point where I'm going to start at least well, there's 675 00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.880 three or four vendors right now that we won't buy 676 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:56.079 online from. We will actually go to the store. And 677 00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.800 depending upon what you're buying, I don't care if it's 678 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:03.679 uh so, you know some of these decorative soap dispensers 679 00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:07.199 or anything that has any kind of a painting on it. 680 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:11.119 Go to the store sometime and look at that item, 681 00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:14.360 and look at each one of the items. Now, in 682 00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.440 a lot of instances, I don't know if there's some 683 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:19.480 sort of a process or if it's part a handmade 684 00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:24.400 or hand painted or something. But the difference between one 685 00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.519 product versus another, and you see where something is not 686 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:33.440 as shiny, something is a different color, something is the 687 00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:37.519 shine isn't the same, or the painting isn't the same. 688 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:41.960 It's just incredible. And if you pay attention to these things, 689 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.559 and if you're picky that way, then you look. You 690 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:47.719 got to go and actually look at the autem because 691 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:50.320 so many times you get that homet go, who the 692 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:54.119 hell would put this in a box? And to the 693 00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:56.800 extent of I've well, one of the pairs of shoes 694 00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:58.920 that I bought. I opened the box and it looked 695 00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:00.960 like somebody had worn them all and they were they 696 00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:05.039 were scuffed up. So it's this online shopping. If they 697 00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.159 you know, of course, they're gonna blame the supply chain 698 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:09.840 and they're gonna supply and complain about this, that and 699 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:11.960 the other thing. But it basically boils down to the 700 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:15.599 quality control within the organizations themselves, and if they don't 701 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.920 get their act together, they're gonna have some serious problems. 702 00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:20.519 Phone numbers seven four nine, Dick, we'll get to you 703 00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:23.559 right after the break. Phone number seven four nine, five 704 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:26.199 one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred one eight 705 00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:28.920 hundred eight two three Talk one eight hundred eight two 706 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.280 three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT 707 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.159 and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 708 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:39.679 along with Danny Gleeson. Fifty five krs The talk station 709 00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.079 six nineteen in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 710 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:54.039 fifty five kr see the talk station. Let's go to Bobby, Bobby, 711 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:56.920 fifty five kr. See uh, thanks for calling. I hope 712 00:44:56.920 --> 00:45:00.119 you had a merry Christmas and so far towards a 713 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:04.119 happy New Year. How are you this morning? Cavin. 714 00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:07.280 A simple thank you can't express our true feelings of 715 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:11.320 appreciation because you're always holding that torture freedom high and 716 00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:12.119 bright every day. 717 00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:14.440 My brother, thank you, thank you, thank you. I really 718 00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:19.280 appreciate that. I really appreciate that. Yeah, I you know, 719 00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:21.920 it's one of those things of where we are in 720 00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:26.239 some we are in some exciting times, and I don't 721 00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:30.199 think people a lot of people have the full appreciation 722 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.519 of what we have witness what we are witnessing, and 723 00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:37.559 the transformation that we're seeing. As far as this country 724 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:41.280 is concerned. I think that when you look at these 725 00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:45.360 past four years, you know, the left is going to 726 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:50.000 whine if there's any investigations, and I think there needs 727 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:53.239 to be a whole slew of investigations because if the 728 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:56.760 Wall Street Journal report last week was accurate and that 729 00:45:56.840 --> 00:46:00.639 they showed signs of dementia at two months into his 730 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:06.039 presidency and they didn't institute the twenty fifth Amendment, folks, 731 00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:10.599 we have a constitutional crisis on our hand. We have 732 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:16.320 a group of people who basically hajacked the presidency, started 733 00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:21.360 hiding information from him, insulated him, and were making decisions 734 00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:25.840 and they weren't elected. And so you talk about a 735 00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:29.280 threat to democracy. That is what we've been experiencing for 736 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:30.360 the last four years. 737 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:36.079 I just hope people aren't complacent because these individuals on 738 00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:39.480 the left, because we don't have due dog Democrats anymore. No, 739 00:46:39.639 --> 00:46:43.280 but these people on the left, they're just in shock 740 00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:46.159 and all right now. They are not going to relinquish 741 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:49.079 any type of power they think they can get. And 742 00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:52.320 coming up to January sixth on the certification, how they 743 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:56.039 change to the security and everything around the Capitol, it 744 00:46:56.079 --> 00:47:00.880 always makes me wonder Capital Police and the place of 745 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:04.480 the deep excuse me, DC, they're uncle have control anymore, 746 00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:06.280 Uh huh, secret services. 747 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:10.519 Yeah, And I certainly hope that there isn't any type 748 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:15.039 of things going on within the deep state that would 749 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:19.119 try to prevent anything from going on, that they would 750 00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:23.480 allow something to get out of control, or anything that 751 00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:27.559 would interfere with that. And because you know, it boils 752 00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:31.360 down to Bobby. You look at everything that the Democrats, 753 00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:35.119 everything that the Liberals have been claiming, everything that they 754 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:39.760 have accused Republicans of even for the last decade or so, 755 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:43.760 it's stuff that they're already doing. I don't care if 756 00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.440 it's the Russian hoax. They were the ones with the 757 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:50.960 Russian hoax. You look at how many of these Seriously, 758 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.880 how many of these democrats have SA GUIVERA T shirts 759 00:47:54.920 --> 00:47:59.079 in their closets. There isn't a democrat out there that 760 00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:04.039 doesn't love communism or doesn't have some affiliation with or 761 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.320 a soft spot in their heart for communism. Well, is 762 00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:12.559 putin more of a capitalist? Is he more of a 763 00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:15.880 of a democratic leader? Or is he a communist dictator? 764 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:18.639 So who's cozying up to? Who there? 765 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:22.960 That's just like the January sixth committee. You look at 766 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.079 all of them. They are enemies of the state. That's 767 00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:29.800 how I see it. And there's no reaching across the aisle. 768 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:33.159 I see those individual which, as you know, their enemies 769 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:35.280 of the state. Now you can go right down the 770 00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.519 list of them. If they've committed crimes against the state, 771 00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:40.559 they need to be prosecuted by the state. 772 00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:43.519 Yeah. And of course, and of course the left is 773 00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:47.679 going to whine the weaponization of the Justice Department and 774 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.159 all of that nonsense. Well, what have we been experiencing 775 00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:56.320 over the last actually nine years during when when President Trump, 776 00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:58.760 when he first announced that he was running for president. 777 00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:01.239 I mean, we had the we had the FBI and 778 00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:06.039 the CIA, spying on him almost from day one. I 779 00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:08.159 just unbelievable. 780 00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:11.960 It's no different than the contractors that were out there 781 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:15.039 on the Capitol grounds. You know, they said, there's only 782 00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:17.840 twenty six of them. Yeah, give me a break. It 783 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:20.880 was about thirteen that put up the gallows six o'clock 784 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.320 in the morning that day. That didn't nobody took down. 785 00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:27.039 Yeah. Yeah. And you look at some of the footage 786 00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:29.320 of the number of people the Capitol police that were 787 00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:33.480 breaking down the barriers and ushering people in, directing them 788 00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:36.920 as to where to go. The fact that you know, 789 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.559 and I love how the FBI, when they're being questioned, 790 00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:42.280 they say, are you asking me if there were any 791 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:49.679 FBI agents, any playing clothes or whatever. They're always careful 792 00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:55.519 to to speak their words specifically no, but if they're 793 00:49:56.360 --> 00:50:00.800 paid informants, paid gang members. I would love to know 794 00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:02.639 how many of the people there, and I would love 795 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:06.159 to see the pictures of the people that were prosecuted 796 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:08.840 versus the pictures of the people that were actually doing 797 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.559 the destruction. And I guarantee you that there's an awful 798 00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:14.039 lot of people from Antifa that were part of that 799 00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:17.400 crowd that were stirring things up and not the actual 800 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:18.079 Trump people. 801 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:21.639 If a person wants to be able to look through 802 00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:25.400 the archives of photos, look at the individuals that took 803 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:29.079 the fences down and orchestrated a lot of the problems. 804 00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:30.000 A lot of them were. 805 00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:32.039 Wearing Bulwick coveralls. 806 00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:34.119 Yeah. Period. 807 00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.679 If you look at those individuals that were wearing those 808 00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:38.760 the day before, you'll see it. 809 00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:42.320 Well, Bobby, thank you so much. You have a very 810 00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.280 happy new Year, and look forward to talking. And I'll 811 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.280 be back on on the thirtieth and thirty first, so 812 00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:50.440 look forward to talking to you then as well. Dick, 813 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.280 I swear we're going to get to you after the break. 814 00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:54.920 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five krc 815 00:50:55.360 --> 00:51:05.000 DE talk station six twenty nine in the morning. Kevin 816 00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:08.480 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, but five Carosee the talk station. 817 00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:12.800 Let's take a quick chat with Dick here, Dick from 818 00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:16.400 Dayton Fitt five. Dick, how are you? How is your Christmas? 819 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:17.679 Good? Good? Good? 820 00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:20.840 Good to talk to you, Kevin, Hello to Danny. I 821 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:22.440 had a good Christmas. 822 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:25.639 Buddy, Yeah, yeah, Well I don't know. 823 00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:29.239 As you probably don't. My friend she U girlfriend, she 824 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.880 had to go to a nursing home, her legs were bad, 825 00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:38.239 she got sick, and yeah, it's been different. You know, 826 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:41.880 I've watched a little cat here. But she's doing really 827 00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:45.679 well over there. She's doing uh, it's really good. She's 828 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.199 getting taken care of there because one of her friends 829 00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:53.280 from Kettering Health comes in here, you know, during the week. 830 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:53.880 And then. 831 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:58.239 Her daughter came down to God bless her from Columbus 832 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.280 and we had a little party and then uh, the dinner, 833 00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:06.119 I mean the Thanksgiving dinner and the Christmas dinner was 834 00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:11.320 ham turkey. Oh gee, it was good, two kinds of pie. 835 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:17.639 But yeah, I've been uh, well, you know, the music 836 00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:21.920 stops during the holidays, you know, but I might go 837 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:25.880 if it's weather permitting up and seeing you. Uh, I'm 838 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.360 telling this group I've been playing in Uh. I was 839 00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:33.039 telling you and Danny knows about the Drummers, the Beaver 840 00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:37.199 Creek Stummer, Yuka. Lately, I've never heard anything. We did 841 00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:42.719 five Christmas shows and we rocked the house, rocked the incredible. 842 00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:47.559 Yeah it is and you know, actually I started on mandolin, 843 00:52:48.119 --> 00:52:50.960 but I'm still I've got I can play the mandolin, banjo, 844 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:55.239 the little guitar, yuke and you don't knowing everybody. It's 845 00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:59.079 it's just nice. And I retired four years ago. I'm 846 00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:02.840 I'm really and going to school part time at Sinclair. 847 00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:03.559 Yeah. 848 00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:06.800 Oh yet the brand I'm taking my classes and this 849 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:09.400 next class is it should be good for me. It's 850 00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:11.840 called Introduction to Broadcasting. 851 00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:16.000 Oh my, about that. Oh that'd be That's that's gonna 852 00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:19.239 be nice. You know that'll be nice. Well, hey, we're 853 00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:20.920 up against the clock here. I got to get to 854 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:22.920 the news the bottom of the hour. My friend. You 855 00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:25.119 take care and look forward to hearing from you. 856 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:25.559 In the new year. 857 00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:27.639 Okay, okay, all right. 858 00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:31.119 Dick, take care. Five one three, seven four nine fifty 859 00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:33.519 five hundred one eight hundred eighty two three talk one 860 00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:36.039 eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, 861 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:38.880 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 862 00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:41.960 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station. 863 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:48.400 Six thirty six in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for 864 00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:51.320 Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See the talk station. Let's 865 00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:53.400 go right to the phones and let's talk with Luke. Luke, 866 00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:55.800 fifty five krs. How are you this morning? I hope 867 00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:56.840 your Christmas was great? 868 00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:01.119 Yes, yeah, this is a little dom a you know, 869 00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:03.880 optimistic about Doge about Trump. I do believe we have 870 00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:05.760 a great opportunity here that that I believe we will 871 00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:07.760 be taking advantage of. But re very back to what 872 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:11.559 Bobby san Parsi inauguration in January sixth, with Trump. 873 00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:14.920 Vic and Elon all being I believe the billionaires on. 874 00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:17.039 Paper and I'm sure they have a lot of liquidation 875 00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:20.840 available as well that you know, to hire your own security. 876 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:23.760 How if you have that money, resources, that many resources, 877 00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:25.760 there should be no assassin that you give nothing that 878 00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:28.760 goes on because I'd be paying for my own secrets ors, 879 00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:31.800 my own security team. That's that has been stacked into 880 00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:34.719 the hilt with every man possible make sure that another 881 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:37.159 nothing ever gets around me that shouldn't be around me. 882 00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:39.880 Well, you know the problem with that, with the problem 883 00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:44.599 with that, Luke, is that within that framework, you have 884 00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:49.199 to have the communications between you know, the threat assessment 885 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:54.480 with between the FBI, CIA and hopefully with the Secret Service, 886 00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:58.400 and have the communications available to because you cannot, I mean, 887 00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:02.320 you can hire a security detail around yourself, but as 888 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:04.480 far as all of the things that go into that 889 00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:09.079 in terms of sweeping the buildings, making sure that they're 890 00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:12.920 secure that there's no assassination attempts, making sure that there's 891 00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:18.360 no interference from any type of outside attack. I mean, 892 00:55:18.679 --> 00:55:21.239 there is still as far as we're aware that there 893 00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:25.239 are still these threats of attacks from by Iran on 894 00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:29.320 the life of the president. And so the security detail 895 00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:33.199 that you would hire wouldn't necessarily have the security clearance 896 00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:36.840 to tap in to all those resources of the federal government. 897 00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:39.880 And you would hope that there would be people within 898 00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:43.119 the federal government that if there is any of these plans, 899 00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:46.000 any of this attempted crap that's going to go that 900 00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:49.679 people are thinking about going on, you would think that 901 00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:54.599 somebody would have the spine and realize the oath of 902 00:55:54.599 --> 00:55:58.679 office that they took and say we're not doing this 903 00:55:58.880 --> 00:55:59.960 and rap people out. 904 00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:05.039 I would hope, yeah, yeah, And I hope that as well. 905 00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:06.920 And I just hope that you know, and as president, 906 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:09.559 I know there's a separation of power, but as president, 907 00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:12.119 you know that Trump can have enough to make sure 908 00:56:12.159 --> 00:56:14.880 that the other lettered agencies. 909 00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:16.480 Of the government are doing their damn job, if not 910 00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:17.119 have the ability to. 911 00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:19.239 Fire whoever's not whoever is in the swamp. 912 00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:22.480 I believe he knows he has the American people's vote 913 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:25.760 of confidence to drain it at any cost necessary. 914 00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:29.960 Exactly. Yeah, And I tell you know that the sad 915 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:32.639 thing is is we don't we still don't thank you 916 00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:36.559 for the call. We still don't have the the Secret 917 00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:42.679 Service report about what happened in Pennsylvania. We we where 918 00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:46.280 is the report on that? Where is the information as 919 00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:51.440 to what breakdown? What happened? Did they really was it just? 920 00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:52.079 Uh? 921 00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:56.679 Was it an accident? Was it a drop in the 922 00:56:56.719 --> 00:56:59.880 ball or was it on purpose? What? What exactly was it? 923 00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:04.159 And until we get that answer, we're not gonna I 924 00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:06.519 don't know if we can actually feel safe or feel 925 00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:09.679 secure that we're going to get the necessary information that 926 00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:13.800 we need to get. Let's get too too sweet, too sweet? 927 00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:16.000 How are you this morning? My goodness, I haven't heard 928 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:17.360 from you in forever. 929 00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:20.360 I'm always out there listening, Kevin. I see this last 930 00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:23.760 move that the Biden administration did, would you know, flip 931 00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:26.239 the script on the guys that was on death row? Yes, 932 00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:30.840 those thirty seven. That really irks the hell out of me, Kevin, Yes, okay, 933 00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:34.400 you I just I just think that's so evil. But 934 00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:36.719 I was listened to Red Eye Radio and the gentleman 935 00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:39.519 was implying that the pro France has put the pressure 936 00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:39.679 on it. 937 00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:44.280 I heard that too, And what do you think about that? Well, 938 00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:46.480 first of all, I think, you know, if you're if 939 00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:48.679 you're one of these people that on the left to 940 00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:51.480 talk about separation of church and state, I think that's 941 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:54.559 you don't hear any of them squawking about that. But 942 00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:58.599 I mean, how can this man say that he pays 943 00:57:58.639 --> 00:58:02.000 attention to Pope France US when he is all in 944 00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:04.679 on abortion? How? 945 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:07.800 I mean, just he just gave a room a freaking 946 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:10.199 award here recently, didn't you from Marcus Sanger? 947 00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:14.519 Yeah, I'm probably, yeah, exactly, they did. They did give 948 00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:17.880 her an award. And and you know, if you don't, 949 00:58:18.199 --> 00:58:22.800 if you don't value life at the very beginning, and 950 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:28.440 you don't appreciate that and do everything for the least 951 00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:32.079 among us and help them the weakest among us, then 952 00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:32.960 all of a sudden you. 953 00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:38.039 Get years old. Yeah, slaughtering families? Are you giving them 954 00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:39.079 cutting up some slack? 955 00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:39.960 Yeah? 956 00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:41.880 Now I just can't. I can't get over there. That 957 00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:42.840 really hurt me. 958 00:58:44.119 --> 00:58:48.960 Yeah. Now it's not you know, giving them amnesty or 959 00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:51.480 letting them out on the street. It's been reducing their 960 00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:53.599 sentence to life imprisonment. 961 00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:55.840 But which has cut them a whole. 962 00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:59.079 He slack to me exactly. So now we're going to 963 00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:03.840 be paying for these killers. The people that that suffered 964 00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:07.000 as a result of these heinous attacks are going to 965 00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:10.000 have to live with the idea that this person is 966 00:59:10.039 --> 00:59:11.039 still there. 967 00:59:11.719 --> 00:59:14.239 And that's what bothers me the most. Those FIM has 968 00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:17.159 got to this stuff got to come up again right 969 00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:20.519 in the face, right in the face. Yeah, yeah, And 970 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:22.719 do you have any recourse at all other than just 971 00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:23.559 blow the White House? 972 00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:25.960 Growing up with well, you know, the thing is is 973 00:59:25.960 --> 00:59:27.800 that I mentioned in the previous one of the previous 974 00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:31.360 segments is the fact that you know, with the diminished 975 00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:34.519 capacity that was pointed out in the Wall Street Journal report, 976 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:39.360 that they were actually insulating him and keeping things from him, 977 00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:42.360 and that we're limiting the amount of exposure and the 978 00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:45.840 meetings and meetings couldn't go the long because he would 979 00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:49.440 be tired and he wasn't functioning, and he should have 980 00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:54.320 been removed from office under the twenty fifth Amendment been in. Well, 981 00:59:53.760 --> 00:59:55.960 that's a story. 982 00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:57.079 For another His wife is. 983 00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:01.760 You know, that's the thing that we need to know. 984 01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:05.679 We need to know who who's been running things, because 985 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:11.679 if they're unelected officials, you better believe Oh yeah, I mean, 986 01:00:11.679 --> 01:00:14.480 if they're unelected officials, if they have been making the 987 01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:19.800 decision and they've just been basically you know, holding his hand, 988 01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:24.159 signing the documents and whatever, you wouldn't put up that 989 01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:27.639 with a family member that's trying to steal the family's wealth. 990 01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.960 Uh uh. But all of a sudden, this is okay 991 01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:32.960 and people aren't outraged by this. 992 01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:36.320 And see that's what makes the wifey look bad. Yeah, 993 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.199 she said, they're watching all this stuff and she don't 994 01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:42.280 seem to give a damn abundet exactly. 995 01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:45.079 We've been talking about, you know, on the on the 996 01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:49.760 right here for years, about elder abuse, and you know, 997 01:00:50.239 --> 01:00:53.239 how bad do you have to want power and hold 998 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:57.679 on to power to be in a position that you 999 01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:01.239 would do that to your spouse let alone owned Well, 1000 01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:04.679 well do it to your nation. Let alone do it 1001 01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:10.920 to your spouse. I mean, there is pure and so 1002 01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:13.000 that we and then. 1003 01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:15.800 You stomp on these family tools with that nonsense. Well 1004 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:18.920 I really got to me. 1005 01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:23.119 Oh yeah, absolutely, same to you, my friend. Thank you 1006 01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:26.039 so much for call. Yeah, I just don't know how 1007 01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:30.400 you can reconcile this and say that that there doesn't 1008 01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:33.280 need to be this full blown investigator. And I'll say it, 1009 01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:36.599 and I'll say it again. Every one of these people 1010 01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:43.360 that has been surrounding Biden, either an advisory capacity, senior advisors, 1011 01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:48.800 the White House spokesperson, the secretaries of State, every one 1012 01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:54.559 of these cabinet officials from the Defense Cabinet member on down, 1013 01:01:55.559 --> 01:01:59.239 Where were where was the spine with these people? Where 1014 01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:03.480 was the love of country That you don't have somebody 1015 01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:07.119 in a diminished capacity that has to at certain times 1016 01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:11.400 actually meet and speak with world leaders, that you would 1017 01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:15.119 allow that to happen, and that these people that were 1018 01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:18.519 pulling the strings, that were actually doing the decision making, 1019 01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:25.239 that is unconstitution unconstitutional, and in fact a direct threat 1020 01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:30.400 to democracy. That every one of these people and everyone 1021 01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:34.320 in the mainstream media that wasn't pointing this out, those 1022 01:02:34.360 --> 01:02:38.320 spoon fed regurgitators, and the people that met him, the 1023 01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:42.480 George Clooneys, the Obamas, everybody that ever had a meeting 1024 01:02:42.519 --> 01:02:44.440 with him that are now saying, well, you know, it 1025 01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:47.239 seemed like he was a little slow. Joe Scarborough, all 1026 01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:52.880 these people, they should be all fired, run out of town, 1027 01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:57.800 nowhere near any type of position of power ever. Again, 1028 01:02:58.360 --> 01:03:04.119 because that, my friend, was and is the existential threat 1029 01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:07.679 to democracy that they have been accusing Donald Trump of 1030 01:03:08.079 --> 01:03:12.800 over the last nine years. And again, this existential threat 1031 01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:16.639 to democracy crap that they've talked about that is accusing 1032 01:03:16.679 --> 01:03:20.400 somebody of being a threat to democracy. What is a 1033 01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:24.480 bigger threat to democracy than to take a duly supposedly 1034 01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:28.159 elected leader. And we can go back and probably question 1035 01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:32.480 all of that, because let's look at the this story 1036 01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:35.280 for another day, but let's look at the how do 1037 01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:40.719 we wind up having seven million people suddenly disappear from 1038 01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:43.880 the twenty twenty election to the twenty twenty four election. 1039 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:48.039 Where do those people go? Because the vote totals are 1040 01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:52.159 off by that number, And so you talk about an 1041 01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:56.679 threat to the existence of democracy, We, my friends, have 1042 01:03:56.719 --> 01:03:59.320 been witnessing that for the last four years. Phone number 1043 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:02.000 seven four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight 1044 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:04.320 two three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight 1045 01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:07.280 two five five pound five point fifty AT and T 1046 01:04:07.360 --> 01:04:10.199 Wireless Fund. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five 1047 01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:21.400 KR see the talk station six fifty one in the morning. 1048 01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:24.519 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the 1049 01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:27.480 talk station. Hopefully we'll be able to get to some 1050 01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:30.559 of this over the next couple hours, but we do 1051 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.519 have guests coming up and I'm sure well I've been 1052 01:04:35.039 --> 01:04:38.519 hearing and seeing and listening to a lot of discussion. 1053 01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:41.400 Is you know when we had that bill last week 1054 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:44.639 that it was at that fifteen hundred page monstrosity that 1055 01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:49.159 was being pushed through and again because our government is 1056 01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:52.559 not reacting to the will of the people, because they 1057 01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:55.079 are not doing the spending bills the way they're supposed 1058 01:04:55.079 --> 01:04:57.519 to be doing the spending bills. The fact that they 1059 01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:02.719 are delaying until the last gone minute, that before the 1060 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.639 government shut down, and then they try to cram all 1061 01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:08.960 this stuff in there. You know, we have on an 1062 01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:12.880 annual basis, Rand Paul does this Festivus Report and every 1063 01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:16.599 year it's page after page after page. This year forty 1064 01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:20.239 one page is long. As far as different waste fraud 1065 01:05:20.280 --> 01:05:23.400 and abuse in the federal government, and you have the 1066 01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:26.000 Office of Management and Budget. I believe it's that August 1067 01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:34.760 that or it's the ig Report, the Investigative Journal, Investigative 1068 01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:40.000 General's Report talking about waste fraud, abute and there's different groups, 1069 01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:43.960 watchdog groups within the federal government that list these things out. 1070 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:47.800 If you would follow those, that would be a very 1071 01:05:47.800 --> 01:05:51.599 good start. And then if you take into consideration the 1072 01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:56.559 fact that for you cut for every dollar that you spend, 1073 01:05:57.079 --> 01:06:02.480 you cut maybe a penny of spending or keep the 1074 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:07.480 adjustments that whatever adjustments to these programs that are being done, 1075 01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:12.400 they aren't automatically renewed with a cost of living adjustment. 1076 01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:15.480 For crying out loud, we don't get that as an 1077 01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:18.880 American people, as far as any things that we get. 1078 01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:21.840 You look at the Social Security checks and you look 1079 01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:25.000 at what's done there. The cost of living index or 1080 01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:28.199 the cost of living that's used to determine that is 1081 01:06:28.360 --> 01:06:34.400 just a joke. They wait till the latest possible time 1082 01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:38.119 to make that adjustment, and then it has nothing related 1083 01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:40.960 to what we're seeing as far as inflation throughout the year. 1084 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:43.719 But they pat themselves on the back and say, well, 1085 01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:46.880 we've given this cost of living adjustment, and if you 1086 01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:50.000 would just cut those down and say, okay, if you're 1087 01:06:50.199 --> 01:06:53.679 in here for a cost of living adjustment, we want 1088 01:06:53.719 --> 01:06:56.480 to know what the basis of that is. What in 1089 01:06:56.519 --> 01:07:00.320 these bills or what in this spending is actually part 1090 01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:05.880 of subject to cost of living, and there is just 1091 01:07:05.960 --> 01:07:08.920 so much And when we start hearing stuff about well, 1092 01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:11.079 you know, you're going to be cutting entitlements, you're going 1093 01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:13.639 to be cutting into Social Security, You're going to be 1094 01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:17.199 cutting into a lot of these programs, and it's going 1095 01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:21.000 to take away or it's going to reduce the payments 1096 01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:24.519 going out to Medicare, Medicaid, and you're going to be 1097 01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:30.599 cutting benefits. Well, included in that budget are the office workers. 1098 01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:34.000 Are the people that administer that. And if you're top 1099 01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:36.360 heavy with that, and if you've got too many people 1100 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:39.599 on board and too many people that you're dealing with 1101 01:07:40.599 --> 01:07:44.119 doing those programs, you've got waste, fraud, and abuse right there. 1102 01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:50.039 So I fully believe that if the proper allowance is done, 1103 01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:53.719 there will be more than two trillion dollars that can 1104 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:55.920 be cut out of this budget and people would be 1105 01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:59.239 surprised by that. So I'm looking forward to seeing what 1106 01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:04.239 dose come up with. It'll be interesting what and what 1107 01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:09.320 you should follow is who's squawking the loudest about what, 1108 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:13.519 because those are the programs, those are the things that 1109 01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:16.199 are the first things that should be looked at because 1110 01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:20.279 if they're yelling that loud and that long about certain items. 1111 01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:23.760 As I've said before, everything that we have seen being 1112 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:27.279 accused of over the last nine years with this president, 1113 01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:30.920 President Trump, that has been accused of by the left, 1114 01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:35.359 they themselves have been doing. And make no mistake about that. 1115 01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:39.000 Every time they accuse something, look into what they have 1116 01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:43.720 been doing themselves. Coming up, we've got Chris fickin Shure. 1117 01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:48.720 He is the owner of Cookie Jar and very interesting story. 1118 01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:52.960 I'm Kevin Gordon Merrick fifty five KRC the Talk. 1119 01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:57.079 Station and now Kevin Gordon filling in for Brian Thomas 1120 01:08:57.239 --> 01:09:01.279 on fifty five KOs the Talk station. 1121 01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:14.880 Five minutes after seven o'clock. And if you checked my 1122 01:09:15.039 --> 01:09:17.520 Facebook page when I put out there, who I guess 1123 01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:20.079 we're going to be for the day, you know that 1124 01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:22.840 we're going to be speaking with Chris Thick. And sure, 1125 01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:25.520 and I hope I pronounced that right. Who is the 1126 01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:29.520 owner of the Cookie Jar Bakery in Newport, Kentucky. It 1127 01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:34.039 is an institution, a very famous institution down there. Welcome 1128 01:09:34.119 --> 01:09:37.039 the program, Chris, certainly appreciate you spending time with us. 1129 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:39.159 Oh, thanks thanks for having me. Kevin. 1130 01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:40.840 Did I pronounce that name correctly? 1131 01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:42.960 You got real close. It's sick and sure, But. 1132 01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:45.840 Yeah, what did I do? What did I call it? 1133 01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:48.479 I do? Did I put an R in there? Or thick? 1134 01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:48.880 And sure? 1135 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:53.560 What I do? All right? All right, well, we won't 1136 01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:56.520 make that mistake going forward. Here. You know, my wife 1137 01:09:56.960 --> 01:09:59.359 she was on Facebook and she saw this post by 1138 01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:02.000 your daughter. And I have been aware of the cookie 1139 01:10:02.039 --> 01:10:04.119 jar for a number of years, but it seems that 1140 01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:09.159 we're timing wise or whatever. Never I've been there once, 1141 01:10:09.279 --> 01:10:12.640 I think in the afternoon, which probably pickens were slim, 1142 01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:17.800 so I haven't been able to partake. But my wife 1143 01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:20.199 read this article or read the Facebook post that you're 1144 01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:24.199 a great Facebook post by your daughter, and it intrigued 1145 01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:26.760 me from the standpoint that here we've got and this 1146 01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:29.800 is all the things that intrigues me. We've got family, 1147 01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:33.439 we've got history, we've got food, and we've got some 1148 01:10:33.640 --> 01:10:37.239 very unusual hours. Number one, family, it's a family run business, 1149 01:10:37.319 --> 01:10:41.439 been around for ninety seven years. The history, you know, 1150 01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:43.720 the ninety seven years. And food, I mean, how can 1151 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:47.720 you go wrong there? And you're hours of operation being 1152 01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:50.760 open at three o'clock in the morning and then until 1153 01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:53.119 three o'clock in the afternoon. That is my kind of 1154 01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:55.840 that is my kind of place because I'm a night 1155 01:10:55.880 --> 01:10:58.000 out as you know, because I stopped by to talk 1156 01:10:58.000 --> 01:10:58.319 to you. 1157 01:10:58.199 --> 01:11:03.560 The other day, right, yeah, yeah, it's uh, we've always well, 1158 01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:05.680 I'm down there working. I go in at midnight and 1159 01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:07.399 everybody says, why are you up, and it's like, well, 1160 01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:09.680 you'd be amazed at the people that are out, you 1161 01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:11.520 know at that time of day. I used to they've 1162 01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:12.960 trailed therry up the road. He had a lot of 1163 01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:15.600 those drivers. We used to actually open them at midnight 1164 01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:19.239 back in Newport's kind of heyday where you know what, 1165 01:11:19.319 --> 01:11:21.199 they had some a lot more bars in that down 1166 01:11:21.199 --> 01:11:25.920 there then. But right, yeah, so but yeah, it's uh, yeah, 1167 01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:29.119 I've been down there for forty years working the night shift. 1168 01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:33.800 Now, this business started back in nineteen twenty seven. Tell 1169 01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:35.840 us a little bit about that and then how you 1170 01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:39.079 came into the business and give people background. 1171 01:11:39.079 --> 01:11:41.840 Then it's been part of my life, I guess since 1172 01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:44.680 my grandpa started the business in nineteen twenty seven, and 1173 01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:48.920 you know, since I was still a young teenager going 1174 01:11:48.920 --> 01:11:50.680 down and helping dad work as he took over the 1175 01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:53.520 business from Grandpa. But I also he's pick up Grandpa 1176 01:11:53.560 --> 01:11:57.159 after school, go down there. And make donuts and in that, 1177 01:11:57.399 --> 01:12:00.920 but never never really planned on being my life, uh work, 1178 01:12:01.479 --> 01:12:04.720 But it's you know, circumstances. You know, you play the 1179 01:12:04.720 --> 01:12:07.760 cards you dealt. And I actually lost my father in 1180 01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:10.560 a car accident. I was eighteen, and I had no 1181 01:12:10.600 --> 01:12:12.840 intention of being a baker me. My mother said, let's 1182 01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:14.800 let's see what happens here, you know, or give this 1183 01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:17.279 a couple of weeks and you'll go back to college 1184 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:21.000 and you know, life and you know, but it's been 1185 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:23.359 a great ride I have. I have no regrets, but 1186 01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:25.359 it's just you know, just how it worked out. 1187 01:12:25.520 --> 01:12:27.199 Yeah, in order to get in touch with you the 1188 01:12:27.239 --> 01:12:30.119 other day, what was it Christmas Eve or something like that, 1189 01:12:30.239 --> 01:12:32.399 early in the morning or whatever, I thought, all right, 1190 01:12:32.399 --> 01:12:34.159 I'm up late, I'm gonna go down and talk to him, 1191 01:12:34.199 --> 01:12:36.800 have him as a guest on the program. And as 1192 01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:39.359 we started talking and you and you mentioned how your 1193 01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:40.920 father died and you said you'd give it a couple 1194 01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:43.640 of weeks, the thing that came to mind was, Uh, 1195 01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:48.199 it's a wonderful life. Or you're the local George Bailey, 1196 01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:54.159 and I saw your Facebook post and I was like, oh, 1197 01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:58.239 that's what he's been saying. So great minds think alike, 1198 01:12:58.680 --> 01:12:59.159 and so. 1199 01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:01.920 A little bit of running joke. And don't gonna be honest, 1200 01:13:02.079 --> 01:13:04.960 if I've never watched Wonderful Life till maybe ten years ago, 1201 01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:07.600 uh huh, and we're sitting with a wife, I'm like, man, 1202 01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:10.720 this kind of strikes the cord, kind of feels similar 1203 01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:13.439 this out if I had that working on. You know, 1204 01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:15.840 we didn't didn't travel a whole lot. You know, you 1205 01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:17.680 can make a lot of being in a small business 1206 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:20.439 and you can make a lot of sacrifices. I even 1207 01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:23.279 had my own version of Uncle Billy, you know, Uncle 1208 01:13:23.319 --> 01:13:27.560 Tommy that I inherited with the bakriesh. Yeah, it's it's 1209 01:13:27.640 --> 01:13:28.760 it's a little parody there. 1210 01:13:29.239 --> 01:13:31.520 Yeah. And I liked and I liked your equipment there, 1211 01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:35.159 Chris talking about the whole experience that brought the story 1212 01:13:35.239 --> 01:13:38.079 full circle out pouring the love and support from everybody 1213 01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:40.039 has shown. At least I didn't get punched in the 1214 01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:44.479 face and try to jump off a bridge, So I guess, yeah, 1215 01:13:44.520 --> 01:13:50.760 all things considered, not too bad, now, go ahead, go ahead, No. 1216 01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:52.239 No, no, I was just into my daughty as you put 1217 01:13:52.239 --> 01:13:54.520 out a great little little post and just the people 1218 01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:58.039 that showed up. I guess that's what going viral feels like. 1219 01:13:58.039 --> 01:14:00.600 I have no idea, I'm not a but just the 1220 01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.159 put out pourt of love, people coming in just saying 1221 01:14:03.159 --> 01:14:06.720 they appreciate you, and you know, we were busier, you know, 1222 01:14:06.840 --> 01:14:09.399 and all get out, So it was it was a 1223 01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:10.439 really fun experience. 1224 01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:13.199 Yeah, I have been. I have always been somewhat of 1225 01:14:13.239 --> 01:14:16.239 a night out. Years ago, when I was in college 1226 01:14:16.279 --> 01:14:18.920 at Xavier, there used to be a lot of businesses 1227 01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:20.800 that were a lot of restaurants that were open twenty 1228 01:14:20.840 --> 01:14:23.960 four to seven, and I was always fascinated by those 1229 01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:28.119 because you could go down there and you could get 1230 01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:31.520 you know, well eat at any time during the day. 1231 01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:35.319 And there's so few and far of those now anyway, 1232 01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:39.159 that it's tough to find someplace that's open twenty four 1233 01:14:39.199 --> 01:14:41.760 to seven where if you're a night out go get 1234 01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:43.199 a bite to eat. 1235 01:14:44.359 --> 01:14:44.600 Yeah. 1236 01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:46.920 Yeah, it's it's dating. And it's kind of like a 1237 01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:49.279 little secret of people that come in early at you know, 1238 01:14:49.319 --> 01:14:52.399 three o'clock in the morning. They're getting hot. That's the 1239 01:14:52.399 --> 01:14:55.159 hot donuts and there, you know, I got a little 1240 01:14:55.159 --> 01:14:57.079 following of people that come in there just you know, 1241 01:14:57.800 --> 01:14:58.680 knowing everything's going. 1242 01:14:58.640 --> 01:14:59.680 Right out of the other and and all that. 1243 01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:03.960 But yeah, I said, I'm Danner working, so we open 1244 01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:05.800 the doors and welcome you in. 1245 01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:10.560 So we're talking with Chris Fick and sure, he is 1246 01:15:10.680 --> 01:15:15.239 the owner of Cookie Jar Bakery in Newport. And when 1247 01:15:15.279 --> 01:15:17.520 I put this out on Facebook and I mentioned that 1248 01:15:17.560 --> 01:15:19.239 it was going to have you on, I got a 1249 01:15:19.279 --> 01:15:21.920 phone calls from some friends of mine and they started 1250 01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:26.159 giving me stories about how one fellow used to work 1251 01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:30.000 for since Aint Bell and he would stop there every 1252 01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.079 morning on his way to work, and he said, you 1253 01:15:33.079 --> 01:15:36.880 guys had the best coffee around and always look forward 1254 01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:39.560 to that in the morning. Another couple of people called 1255 01:15:39.560 --> 01:15:43.000 it and said, yeah, you know, And what is interesting 1256 01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:47.960 about businesses like this is that it's sometimes it's like 1257 01:15:48.920 --> 01:15:51.399 certain things where you take them for granted and you 1258 01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:53.039 kind of move away, you kind of get out of 1259 01:15:53.039 --> 01:15:56.800 the pattern of going to that particular facility, and then 1260 01:15:56.800 --> 01:15:58.720 all of a sudden, it takes somebody to remind you 1261 01:15:58.800 --> 01:16:01.720 of that, and it's like, wait a minute, I enjoy 1262 01:16:01.800 --> 01:16:03.800 that I got to go back. I mean, this is 1263 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:05.920 this is something that I've been missing for the last 1264 01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:06.680 few years or so. 1265 01:16:07.880 --> 01:16:08.920 Yeah, yeah, you. 1266 01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:11.000 Know, it's it's it's easy to fall I'm guilty of 1267 01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:12.760 as well. You know, you just go to do the 1268 01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:15.399 one stop shop somewhere, and yet you don't take a 1269 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:17.520 bunch of time to go to this small guy. But 1270 01:16:17.960 --> 01:16:20.560 we had so many great stories, so many people. You know, 1271 01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:23.560 if I'm coming in there, you know a gentleman that's 1272 01:16:23.560 --> 01:16:26.319 eighty something years old, he used to work down there, 1273 01:16:26.319 --> 01:16:29.239 and he told his story online, and you know, so 1274 01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:31.920 it was really my you know, my George Bailey moment 1275 01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:33.479 where we you know, at the end of the movie 1276 01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:36.279 they come in there and they show their love and appreciation. 1277 01:16:36.359 --> 01:16:39.720 That the kind of felt like that, right right, I'll 1278 01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:44.079 tell you what we're gonna well, speaking more about the 1279 01:16:44.359 --> 01:16:50.600 history third fourth, your fourth generation, now grandparents came over 1280 01:16:50.640 --> 01:16:53.800 from Germany, great great grandparents, I guess came over from Germany. 1281 01:16:54.359 --> 01:16:57.199 Uh started will tell us that that part of the 1282 01:16:57.239 --> 01:16:57.960 story as well. 1283 01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:02.840 Yeah, yeah, My grandpa came over with his two brothers 1284 01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:06.720 from Germany, you know, when things are tough in Germany, 1285 01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:10.720 and he settled somehow settled into the bakery business. His 1286 01:17:10.800 --> 01:17:14.279 other brother, Rhiney as well, had a work for Grandpa. 1287 01:17:14.399 --> 01:17:16.600 Then he started his own place down in Bellevue, Kentucky 1288 01:17:17.159 --> 01:17:20.159 called Ryan's and that was a well known bakery for 1289 01:17:20.239 --> 01:17:23.600 years down there. But then he married my grandma, whose 1290 01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:26.760 father she grew up in a bakery, was a baker. 1291 01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:30.119 Her grandfather was a baker, so I guess they didn't 1292 01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:31.000 have much of a choice. 1293 01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:37.600 Yeah, it's in the blood. Well, it's amazing how the 1294 01:17:37.720 --> 01:17:43.760 life life takes a turn, and had not something happened 1295 01:17:43.800 --> 01:17:46.520 the way it happened, you wouldn't be where you are. 1296 01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:50.399 And that's so involved in so many different lives and 1297 01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:55.720 so many different facets of life, and it's these are 1298 01:17:55.720 --> 01:17:59.000 the kinds of stories that I absolutely love about. You know, 1299 01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:02.079 family run businesiness is because, as you said, people kind 1300 01:18:02.079 --> 01:18:04.600 of take those for granted. They're usually you know, they 1301 01:18:04.600 --> 01:18:08.520 don't have the notoriety, they don't have the familiarity with 1302 01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:12.479 some of the more you know, the larger corporations or 1303 01:18:12.520 --> 01:18:16.159 the institutions. And now every grocery store now has their 1304 01:18:16.199 --> 01:18:19.840 own bakery, which is kind of questionable and their products, 1305 01:18:20.039 --> 01:18:24.159 but the actual homemade products that a mom and pop 1306 01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:28.000 place actually has is just phenomenal. And you just don't 1307 01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:31.359 get that touch, you don't get that greeting with the 1308 01:18:31.399 --> 01:18:35.079 individual that owns the place, that feeling of family walking 1309 01:18:35.119 --> 01:18:38.119 in that they appreciate the business as opposed to just 1310 01:18:38.199 --> 01:18:41.600 another number, and so I just love the whole story. 1311 01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:43.199 I'll tell you what. We got to take a quick break. 1312 01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:44.600 Can you hang with us? I want to talk about 1313 01:18:44.680 --> 01:18:46.199 I want to talk about brag about some of your 1314 01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:48.960 products as well. Get a lot of people know about that, 1315 01:18:49.560 --> 01:18:52.119 and if you haven't been there, what they are missing. 1316 01:18:52.279 --> 01:18:55.399 So I can attest to that. And I'm gonna have 1317 01:18:55.399 --> 01:18:58.119 to burn those calories off coming up here very shortly. 1318 01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:02.359 I can stick around, all right. 1319 01:19:02.399 --> 01:19:04.720 My guest is Chris ficken Sure. He is the owner 1320 01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:10.640 of the Cookie Jar Bakery, an institution there in Newport, Kentucky. 1321 01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:13.279 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five kr 1322 01:19:13.319 --> 01:19:19.800 see the talk station seven nineteen in the morning. Kevin 1323 01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:23.159 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station, 1324 01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:27.640 talking about one of my favorite subject food. You know, 1325 01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:31.199 most people eat to live. I live to eat and 1326 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:34.520 this particular story we're talking with Chris Fickinger. He is 1327 01:19:34.560 --> 01:19:38.439 the owner of fick and Sure rather, owner of Cookie 1328 01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:42.920 Jar Bakery there in Newport, Kentucky. And I keep mispronouncing 1329 01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:45.319 your name because I have a friend by a similar name, 1330 01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:48.000 but ficking sure, I want to make sure that you 1331 01:19:48.119 --> 01:19:52.960 got it. Yeah. Now, so you guys have been at 1332 01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:56.399 that particular location for how many years now? 1333 01:19:57.479 --> 01:19:59.640 Uh? Yes, it's gonna be ninety eight coming up here 1334 01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:00.000 in jail. 1335 01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:03.880 Also from day one. Oh well yeah, you know. 1336 01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:06.079 That's a little bit of a story that he did 1337 01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:08.760 start down to Dayton, Kentucky a couple of years and 1338 01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:11.439 then opened that up. So he grandpa had like three 1339 01:20:11.479 --> 01:20:14.079 shops and then I guess the depression came and uh huh, 1340 01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:16.800 he just settled back on the new Port location. But yeah, 1341 01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:19.199 we've been there pretty much the whole time. 1342 01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:19.479 Oh. 1343 01:20:19.520 --> 01:20:22.840 That's that That is incredible. And as I said, you know, 1344 01:20:23.520 --> 01:20:29.479 you lose that that homie down home feel with other 1345 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:35.439 you know, big bakers and the more famous ones in town. 1346 01:20:35.760 --> 01:20:39.640 That personal touch, the heart that has put into each 1347 01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:44.920 one of these items. Uh, and just the feel of 1348 01:20:45.720 --> 01:20:50.359 the being part of history and part of something that's 1349 01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:54.439 so well established is to me is the thing that 1350 01:20:54.479 --> 01:20:55.399 makes the whole deal. 1351 01:20:55.640 --> 01:20:55.760 Uh. 1352 01:20:56.159 --> 01:20:58.039 Now, when I was in there, I was so fascinated 1353 01:20:58.159 --> 01:21:00.399 talking to you that. I mean, I'll looked at a 1354 01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:03.479 lot of the pastries and stuff, and but I didn't 1355 01:21:03.520 --> 01:21:06.079 look you guys. Do you guys bake bread? 1356 01:21:07.359 --> 01:21:11.439 We bake bread, pies, cakes, doughnuts. You have pretty much 1357 01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:15.960 a full retail anything you think of. So and I said, 1358 01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:17.840 to do it all from the same recipes that Grandpa 1359 01:21:17.920 --> 01:21:20.960 hit the uh huh, stubborn or stupid or what. But 1360 01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:22.239 I never really changed it. 1361 01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:25.960 Okay, Well that's interesting because there's always that tendency of 1362 01:21:26.039 --> 01:21:30.199 when somebody has a particular recipe and then you you 1363 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.760 either tweak it or try to do something different. But 1364 01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:36.640 what you know, if you're eating something there at the 1365 01:21:36.680 --> 01:21:39.920 cookie jar, you're eating a piece of history. You're eating 1366 01:21:40.239 --> 01:21:43.079 a recipe that's well more than one hundred years old 1367 01:21:43.399 --> 01:21:45.640 because it's brought over from the old world. 1368 01:21:47.119 --> 01:21:49.560 Right. Yeah, like I said, I never never really changed anything. 1369 01:21:49.560 --> 01:21:53.319 I got the same but either those same icings, uh huh. 1370 01:21:53.600 --> 01:21:56.000 And it's just that old say it's not broken, don't 1371 01:21:56.039 --> 01:21:59.239 fix it, right, So, I mean there's no preserved or 1372 01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:00.800 anything in it. So you got to eat it with 1373 01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:01.560 a couple of days. 1374 01:22:02.279 --> 01:22:04.319 You know, I meant to ask you that question, but 1375 01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:06.239 I thought, yeah, I better not go there because I 1376 01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:08.600 don't know the answer to that question. But that that 1377 01:22:08.880 --> 01:22:12.479 is huge. The fact that there's no preservatives in that 1378 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:15.840 is huge because as we're starting to see as far 1379 01:22:15.920 --> 01:22:21.279 as food nutrition and everything that is out there, the 1380 01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:25.119 talking about the preservatives that are in food, that the 1381 01:22:25.159 --> 01:22:28.039 stuff that's in there is not good for you and 1382 01:22:29.520 --> 01:22:32.640 maybe be causing some of our health problems. So do 1383 01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:34.920 your body a favor and go to some place that 1384 01:22:35.039 --> 01:22:39.760 doesn't have the preservatives and that is well. I mean 1385 01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:43.039 we've seen that with a lot of the health issues 1386 01:22:43.079 --> 01:22:46.039 that we've been having in this country. Right now, I 1387 01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:47.800 got to ask you this question before we get out, 1388 01:22:47.880 --> 01:22:51.159 before I let you go. What is your best selling 1389 01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:52.439 item that you that you have. 1390 01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:56.479 Oh, I mean it's the Donus I mean we do 1391 01:22:56.520 --> 01:22:59.039 a cooking yar role. It's kind of our signature one. 1392 01:22:59.119 --> 01:23:00.520 It has like an almond round. 1393 01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:05.800 Feeling which I can attest to is very good. That 1394 01:23:05.840 --> 01:23:08.039 gives it Kevin Gordon's stamp of approval on that. 1395 01:23:08.960 --> 01:23:12.199 Yeah. But we yeah, I have a lot of coffee cakes. Uh, 1396 01:23:12.880 --> 01:23:14.600 you know, do tea rings, do a lot of you know, 1397 01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:17.199 fundraisings with churches when we sell our tea rings and stuff. 1398 01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:20.760 So uh huh, there's got a lot of traction. But 1399 01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:23.840 but yeah, everything's you know a pretty good balance of 1400 01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:24.560 what we sell. 1401 01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:28.279 My guess is Chris picking Sure, the owner of cookie Jar, 1402 01:23:28.479 --> 01:23:30.920 What is your favorite? Do you have a particular favorite? 1403 01:23:31.479 --> 01:23:33.439 You know, I got about three or four go tos. 1404 01:23:33.520 --> 01:23:36.199 Cookie Jar is one of them. I like the Danties, 1405 01:23:36.319 --> 01:23:39.319 you know, like I said, the rolls are baked and 1406 01:23:39.359 --> 01:23:43.960 the donuts are you know, it's fried. So but yeah, 1407 01:23:43.960 --> 01:23:45.600 there's cookie Jars probably my top. 1408 01:23:47.239 --> 01:23:50.239 It's very good. But when we were talking to. 1409 01:23:50.279 --> 01:23:52.399 Other sign your donut don't you can't? 1410 01:23:52.680 --> 01:23:56.239 Well true. But when we were talking the other day 1411 01:23:56.279 --> 01:23:59.439 and you said, uh, that that is you know, you 1412 01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:02.119 gotta try that one, I thought, Okay, I got I'm 1413 01:24:02.119 --> 01:24:03.960 gotta give that a shot. And I and I see 1414 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.359 online a lot of people that that's their favorite too, 1415 01:24:06.399 --> 01:24:09.319 and so I have to agree with them on that. Now. 1416 01:24:10.199 --> 01:24:13.279 We did see online and it's it's interesting when you 1417 01:24:13.319 --> 01:24:16.920 go from baker to baker. There's different terminology that is used. 1418 01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:21.800 The cream field. I've heard those referred to as biz marks, 1419 01:24:21.920 --> 01:24:27.000 long John's or some other names you call those. 1420 01:24:28.920 --> 01:24:30.399 We just go play on creamfield. 1421 01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:30.640 We have it. 1422 01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:34.520 One guy, pretty simplified. 1423 01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:37.119 Huh, nothing fancy there. 1424 01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:41.039 We do sell an actel cler some people come in and say, 1425 01:24:41.079 --> 01:24:43.159 give me the Claire, and I said, well, I say screenfield, 1426 01:24:43.159 --> 01:24:43.840 don't it eclaire? 1427 01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:46.000 Uhhh a shell? 1428 01:24:46.159 --> 01:24:49.880 You know that we bake separate and we sell those 1429 01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:52.920 as well. But yeah, there's a lot of people come 1430 01:24:52.920 --> 01:24:54.000 ou different terminologies. 1431 01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:58.960 The Tigre tales bear clause and wasn't. 1432 01:24:58.760 --> 01:24:59.760 Real creative with his name. 1433 01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:00.560 He we just. 1434 01:25:02.880 --> 01:25:04.800 Green builder Jai Villa exactly. 1435 01:25:05.000 --> 01:25:09.479 Now, what what is the is there a specific I 1436 01:25:09.520 --> 01:25:14.920 saw the Persian donuts? What what is there something about 1437 01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:17.479 that that that we give that pretty? 1438 01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:20.199 That's a pretty basic tone. I mean that's kind of 1439 01:25:20.680 --> 01:25:22.520 it's not scrap. But we when we cut out our 1440 01:25:22.560 --> 01:25:25.159 donuts on the bench, we have the glaze. You're gonna 1441 01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:26.840 have all the holes, you're gonna have all the other 1442 01:25:26.960 --> 01:25:29.880 little in between pieces. So we take those pieces and 1443 01:25:29.920 --> 01:25:31.720 form of the and and roll them up and make 1444 01:25:31.960 --> 01:25:35.279 a Persian don it like the white ice in their car. Yeah, 1445 01:25:35.399 --> 01:25:38.680 so now that it's it's the leftovers, but it's you know, 1446 01:25:38.720 --> 01:25:41.159 it's the way using up a dough with uh you know. 1447 01:25:41.239 --> 01:25:42.399 They're having all that waste. 1448 01:25:42.640 --> 01:25:45.680 So I'll try frying up don the holes once and 1449 01:25:45.720 --> 01:25:46.880 that was that was a pain. 1450 01:25:47.119 --> 01:25:50.319 Well, I do by the way. We want to make 1451 01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:52.600 mention that people know how to get in touch with you. 1452 01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:56.920 As far as the address, the address of the of 1453 01:25:56.960 --> 01:25:57.399 the store. 1454 01:25:58.560 --> 01:26:01.600 Yeah yeah, we're at nine nine Tea Mama Street. Uh 1455 01:26:01.680 --> 01:26:04.239 break down. There a new quart across from the police 1456 01:26:04.239 --> 01:26:07.840 station that you can call it. I wish, I said, 1457 01:26:07.840 --> 01:26:09.359 I had a fancy website to send you to. 1458 01:26:09.439 --> 01:26:12.760 I do not, but you do have a Facebook present. 1459 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:15.359 You're kind of like me with your Facebook present. So 1460 01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:17.880 you have this, uh you have this hard to find 1461 01:26:18.119 --> 01:26:23.760 uh Facebook page called the Cookie Jar Bakery, like a 1462 01:26:23.840 --> 01:26:28.199 difficult of Facebook page like me, Kevin Gordon. So yeah, 1463 01:26:28.760 --> 01:26:30.359 really cleverly disguised. 1464 01:26:31.000 --> 01:26:33.119 Yeah yeah, yeah, But. 1465 01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:36.239 Well I got to warn you about something, Chris. You're 1466 01:26:36.239 --> 01:26:37.359 gonna see a lot more of me. 1467 01:26:39.279 --> 01:26:40.199 I'm looking forward to. 1468 01:26:41.119 --> 01:26:44.760 It was it was well. I mean, like I said, 1469 01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:47.319 getting up or still being up at three o'clock in 1470 01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:49.359 the morning, and I thought, you know what, I'm going 1471 01:26:49.439 --> 01:26:51.640 to make a trip down there. Hopefully I can catch 1472 01:26:51.720 --> 01:26:53.920 him there and hopefully we can get him on the air. 1473 01:26:53.960 --> 01:26:56.279 And I'm glad I did. I wish you all the 1474 01:26:56.439 --> 01:26:59.600 all the success in the world and people, if you 1475 01:26:59.640 --> 01:27:02.800 haven't tried this, you you have to try it. That's 1476 01:27:02.840 --> 01:27:04.960 all I got to say. So you're gonna be seeing 1477 01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:08.439 a lot more of me, and so sorry. 1478 01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:10.760 I appreciate it. I appreciate y'all do it. I just 1479 01:27:10.800 --> 01:27:12.560 like to thank all the people that supported this to 1480 01:27:12.680 --> 01:27:14.960 this and thank my daughter for putting that beautiful little post. 1481 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:17.600 App Yeah. That was that was that was that was great. 1482 01:27:18.079 --> 01:27:20.760 I certainly got a fun experience. I hope everybody gets 1483 01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:23.279 the experience like that in their life. So it was nice. 1484 01:27:23.439 --> 01:27:27.119 Well, Chris, you have a year off. You open again when? 1485 01:27:28.279 --> 01:27:30.239 Well, I'm going to open Thursday. I was going to 1486 01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:32.079 take a lazy day, but now I gotta get in 1487 01:27:32.159 --> 01:27:33.159 there and make more stuff up. 1488 01:27:33.399 --> 01:27:35.880 I'm sure that they're you know, pounding on your doors already. 1489 01:27:35.960 --> 01:27:39.560 There there's been, you know, the riots going on outside 1490 01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:43.680 the door because you're not there. So yeah, I guess, yeah, yeah, Okay, 1491 01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:44.640 give me one day. 1492 01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:47.000 I'll recover. We'll be open Thursday, Friday. 1493 01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:51.880 Okay, oh you're open to You're open today, Friday and 1494 01:27:51.920 --> 01:27:55.119 Saturday Friday. I know, I get confused. 1495 01:27:56.000 --> 01:27:56.479 Run together. 1496 01:27:56.600 --> 01:28:00.960 Yeah all right, Well, as you say, I'm to make donuts, 1497 01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:06.439 all right, Chris, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. 1498 01:28:06.760 --> 01:28:11.319 Chris ficking Sure, the owner of a cookie Jar bakery. 1499 01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:15.680 Just a fantastic guy. Boy, tell you what, when I 1500 01:28:15.720 --> 01:28:17.760 started talking to him, it felt like we were old friends. 1501 01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:20.640 It was just incredible. So I'm glad to have him 1502 01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:24.279 on in a company well worth supporting. I'm Kevin Gordon 1503 01:28:24.359 --> 01:28:26.880 and for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk 1504 01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:38.439 station seven in the morning. Kevin Gordon and for Brian 1505 01:28:38.479 --> 01:28:41.039 Thomas fifty five CAR see the talk station. If you 1506 01:28:41.159 --> 01:28:43.279 paid attention to my Facebook page, you know that my 1507 01:28:43.319 --> 01:28:45.399 guest right now is going to be Charlie Coach Coleman, 1508 01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:49.640 a friend of mine. I'm proud to mention and uh 1509 01:28:50.239 --> 01:28:51.800 give you a little bit of well, i'll tell you what. 1510 01:28:51.920 --> 01:28:54.119 I'm going to let him tell his background and former 1511 01:28:54.159 --> 01:28:58.520 coach at Bellevue High School. So Charlie, welcome to the program. 1512 01:28:58.520 --> 01:29:00.319 Thanks for spending time with us this morning. 1513 01:29:01.520 --> 01:29:05.199 Yeah, thank you, Kevin. And I was just listening to 1514 01:29:05.279 --> 01:29:08.359 your past guest and it reminded me. I'm a graduate 1515 01:29:08.399 --> 01:29:12.279 of Newport High School and quite a few mornings I 1516 01:29:12.319 --> 01:29:15.159 would stop by the Cookie Jar Bakery. Uh huh, I'm 1517 01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:18.560 on my way to school of the morning, So it 1518 01:29:18.680 --> 01:29:22.880 brought back some good memories of my growing up in Newport. 1519 01:29:22.960 --> 01:29:24.760 Uh huh. I'll tell you what. It's going to be 1520 01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:27.199 a go to destination for me. I mean, you know, 1521 01:29:27.479 --> 01:29:30.640 my hour. For some reason, I've always been a night owl, 1522 01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:34.199 so that might be all that might be. It's going 1523 01:29:34.239 --> 01:29:35.640 to be a go to place for me for a 1524 01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:40.159 while here. Now. Coach at Bellevue High School for how 1525 01:29:40.239 --> 01:29:42.479 many years I was there? 1526 01:29:42.600 --> 01:29:46.520 Twenty three? I was the head football coach there fourteen 1527 01:29:47.239 --> 01:29:51.439 and the athletic director as well for thirteen of those years. 1528 01:29:51.840 --> 01:29:55.560 And state championship in there thrown in there. 1529 01:29:55.600 --> 01:30:00.439 Yeah, I was honored to be a part of six 1530 01:30:00.560 --> 01:30:06.600 state championship games. We won two state championships four times 1531 01:30:06.640 --> 01:30:11.119 we were running up, So six times in a career 1532 01:30:11.399 --> 01:30:15.279 is six times more than most coaches. But yeah, for sure, 1533 01:30:15.840 --> 01:30:20.359 we had a great community and some really great kids 1534 01:30:20.479 --> 01:30:23.560 that had good character and they were good students. And 1535 01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:27.920 God blessed me by leading me across the creek from 1536 01:30:27.960 --> 01:30:32.399 Newport over to Bellevue back in the nineteen seventies. 1537 01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:36.479 Yeah, And for people that are not familiar with Bellevue, Kentucky, 1538 01:30:36.560 --> 01:30:40.199 it is very small town. You know, you've got over 1539 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:44.439 in Cincinnati, Cincinnati but over across the river, you flip 1540 01:30:44.520 --> 01:30:47.720 that map over and you've got you know, basically beginning 1541 01:30:47.760 --> 01:30:52.680 with Silver Grove. Then you come into Dayton, Kentucky, Bellevue, Newport, 1542 01:30:53.159 --> 01:30:56.439 and then coming to all across the river there and 1543 01:30:56.479 --> 01:30:58.960 that is a very small community compared to a lot 1544 01:30:59.000 --> 01:31:02.000 of the different teams and the various schools that you 1545 01:31:02.039 --> 01:31:04.840 went up against. So making it to the final six 1546 01:31:04.920 --> 01:31:08.640 years or six different times is a feed in and 1547 01:31:08.680 --> 01:31:13.640 of itself. And then when I met you, we met 1548 01:31:13.680 --> 01:31:19.560 back in twenty ten, twenty eleven during the well some 1549 01:31:19.720 --> 01:31:23.760 things going on in Cambell County Fiscal Court and got 1550 01:31:23.800 --> 01:31:26.520 to know you then, and then you became county commissioner 1551 01:31:26.560 --> 01:31:30.680 there and probably the only conservative on that commission. Now 1552 01:31:30.760 --> 01:31:33.640 we pretty much have the People's Republic of Campbell County 1553 01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:36.880 as I refer to it. But before that you were 1554 01:31:36.960 --> 01:31:43.439 involved in the Northern Kentucky sports legends on it was 1555 01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:48.039 the forerunner to what was it, not Spectrum but Time Warner? 1556 01:31:48.359 --> 01:31:49.960 What was it before that? 1557 01:31:50.600 --> 01:31:56.279 Insight inside I heard the table In Northern Kentucky, we 1558 01:31:56.359 --> 01:32:00.000 had our own channel was Channel six, which they referred 1559 01:31:59.960 --> 01:32:07.159 to is ic in six, and it was all local programming. 1560 01:32:07.199 --> 01:32:12.640 Throughout the day, including sports, but not exclusively sports. There 1561 01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:16.000 were some talk shows, I think the Chamber of Commerce 1562 01:32:16.039 --> 01:32:21.039 head a show, and a variety of programming. And when 1563 01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:26.640 I retired from Bellevue High School, I was a history major. 1564 01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:31.800 Taught history and government and always had an interest, especially 1565 01:32:31.800 --> 01:32:35.199 in local history. And I thought about writing a book 1566 01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:40.720 about Northern Kentucky sports history. And I got to thinking 1567 01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:42.960 of book's got to have a beginning and an ending, 1568 01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:46.840 and if I could do a TV show, it could 1569 01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:49.520 go on and on and on, and so for ten 1570 01:32:49.600 --> 01:32:53.439 years I did the Northern Kentucky Sports Legend show on 1571 01:32:53.760 --> 01:32:58.560 IC in six and that was the forerunner to my 1572 01:32:58.840 --> 01:33:03.279 book that will become coming out shortly here in January. 1573 01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:06.319 Which we'll talk about when we get back. How about 1574 01:33:06.319 --> 01:33:08.920 an how's that as a transition? Huh? 1575 01:33:09.439 --> 01:33:10.319 My guess is. 1576 01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:16.000 There you go. My guest is Charlie coach Coleman, truly 1577 01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:19.079 a coach, not fake like what we saw during the campaign. 1578 01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:23.000 But we won't get into that on the national level anyway. 1579 01:33:23.079 --> 01:33:25.119 My guess is Charlie coach Coleman. We'll be talking to 1580 01:33:25.159 --> 01:33:27.359 him when we get back about his upcoming book. I'm 1581 01:33:27.399 --> 01:33:30.479 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs The 1582 01:33:30.640 --> 01:33:37.399 Talk station seven one in the morning. Kevin Gordon in 1583 01:33:37.479 --> 01:33:40.039 for Brian Thomas fits to five KR see the talk station. 1584 01:33:40.119 --> 01:33:44.079 My guest Charlie Coach Coleman, former head football coach at 1585 01:33:44.119 --> 01:33:49.199 Bellevue High School, six trips to the state finals and 1586 01:33:49.239 --> 01:33:52.680 as part of Inside Communications, did for ten years on 1587 01:33:52.800 --> 01:33:55.800 Northern Kentucky sports alleges. And he has now put some 1588 01:33:55.840 --> 01:33:58.439 of that stuff together to write a book. And I 1589 01:33:58.479 --> 01:34:00.800 do have to mention this about Charlie is that when 1590 01:34:00.880 --> 01:34:05.760 he ran for office in Campbell County, somebody that wanted 1591 01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:09.439 to put people above politics at the fundraiser and I 1592 01:34:09.479 --> 01:34:13.319 helped him with his campaign, and it was amazing the 1593 01:34:13.399 --> 01:34:17.800 number of former students, former athletes, former people that he 1594 01:34:17.920 --> 01:34:22.239 coached that just absolutely came out of the woodwork doing 1595 01:34:22.319 --> 01:34:24.760 nothing but talking about what a great guy he was, 1596 01:34:25.199 --> 01:34:28.000 how much of an inspiration he was to them, and 1597 01:34:28.039 --> 01:34:32.319 how they how he influenced their lives. And for people 1598 01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:35.000 that are ever involved in any kind of sport or 1599 01:34:35.000 --> 01:34:38.560 any involved with people, realize that you may not know 1600 01:34:39.039 --> 01:34:41.720 right off the bat or even ever how much you 1601 01:34:41.880 --> 01:34:44.920 touch their lives, but by being involved in their lives. 1602 01:34:44.960 --> 01:34:47.920 You have touched their lives considerably, so I just wanted 1603 01:34:47.920 --> 01:34:54.000 to mention that before we continue on. So, Charlie, the 1604 01:34:54.039 --> 01:34:56.399 impetus for this was all the different shows that you 1605 01:34:56.439 --> 01:34:59.520 did for Insight, and you have put this together and 1606 01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:01.920 the book is going to be released within the next 1607 01:35:01.920 --> 01:35:03.720 couple of weeks. 1608 01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:07.840 Yeah, exactly, And thank you for those kind words. And 1609 01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:13.720 if there's any young teachers listening right now, it's amazing 1610 01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:19.119 the impact that you have on your students. Students will 1611 01:35:19.159 --> 01:35:21.600 come up and say, do you remember when you said 1612 01:35:21.640 --> 01:35:25.159 this or that? And of course I don't, but they do. 1613 01:35:25.479 --> 01:35:31.920 But you're taking well well yeah. 1614 01:35:30.479 --> 01:35:33.000 And coaching the same way. You know, you get awfully 1615 01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:36.239 close to the kids. But getting back to the subject 1616 01:35:36.279 --> 01:35:40.560 matter of the book, it was on my bucket list 1617 01:35:40.600 --> 01:35:44.800 for many years, and I decided a year ago. My 1618 01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:47.239 wife and I went on the cruise, and on that 1619 01:35:47.399 --> 01:35:52.319 cruise in November twenty twenty three where I had some 1620 01:35:52.479 --> 01:35:55.840 time and just some peace to sit down, and I 1621 01:35:55.880 --> 01:36:00.960 started writing this book. And I have featured fifty sports 1622 01:36:01.039 --> 01:36:05.960 legends from the decade of the nineteen fifties, and I 1623 01:36:06.119 --> 01:36:11.159 chose that because there's so many athletes and of course 1624 01:36:11.479 --> 01:36:14.239 even in my book there are missions, but not on 1625 01:36:14.319 --> 01:36:18.359 purpose of all the athletes. But if I could do 1626 01:36:18.439 --> 01:36:21.079 them by decades, and hopefully can do one on the 1627 01:36:21.199 --> 01:36:26.359 nineteen sixties, I can recognize a lot of the athletes. 1628 01:36:26.880 --> 01:36:30.840 Of course, in the nineteen fifties it was mainly males. 1629 01:36:31.720 --> 01:36:37.479 I do have one female. I wrote about Pat Scott, 1630 01:36:37.960 --> 01:36:42.560 who went to Saint Henry High School. And Pat, I 1631 01:36:42.600 --> 01:36:45.199 think all your listeners will remember the movie A League 1632 01:36:45.239 --> 01:36:49.439 of their Own about the women's professional baseball and she 1633 01:36:49.640 --> 01:36:53.760 played for the Port Wayne Daisies. As a matter of fact, 1634 01:36:53.840 --> 01:36:57.479 that yeah, the Barons of Crawford Museum in Davout Park 1635 01:36:58.239 --> 01:37:04.079 has her uniform that she donated. But quite a story, 1636 01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:09.560 and she said the movie was pretty accurate. Actually the 1637 01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:13.960 girls were strict, very strict rules on how they they 1638 01:37:14.000 --> 01:37:17.680 could be out and they were taught manners and so on. 1639 01:37:17.800 --> 01:37:22.199 But that was one of my favorites and I included 1640 01:37:22.239 --> 01:37:25.239 her in that book as well as I was forty 1641 01:37:25.319 --> 01:37:26.000 nine others. 1642 01:37:26.319 --> 01:37:29.039 And you know, people don't I think you know, today 1643 01:37:29.159 --> 01:37:34.279 we kind of take women's athletics for granted, but going 1644 01:37:34.399 --> 01:37:38.039 back to that period of time, the opportunities that were 1645 01:37:38.079 --> 01:37:43.439 not there. The Trailblazers of that period are just absolutely 1646 01:37:43.520 --> 01:37:46.720 phenomenal and talk about a league of their own for 1647 01:37:46.840 --> 01:37:47.680 crying out loud. 1648 01:37:49.000 --> 01:37:52.479 Yeah, and that was my subtitle, a League of her 1649 01:37:52.560 --> 01:37:58.399 Own in my book about Pat But yeah, that was 1650 01:37:58.600 --> 01:37:59.640 one of my favorites. 1651 01:37:59.680 --> 01:38:04.680 They all were my a favorite. Another one I had 1652 01:38:04.840 --> 01:38:09.880 was kind of a sad story but a success. Don Johnson, 1653 01:38:10.479 --> 01:38:15.920 African American from Covington. Actually his nickname was Groundhoul because 1654 01:38:16.000 --> 01:38:21.079 the way he could field ground balls, but groundhouled. I 1655 01:38:21.119 --> 01:38:24.760 had him on my TV show and said he was 1656 01:38:24.800 --> 01:38:29.039 the first African American actually signed by our hometown since 1657 01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:35.720 Nae Reds. And the Reds sent sent him and a 1658 01:38:35.800 --> 01:38:40.439 Cuban player out to Utah for minor leagues and they 1659 01:38:40.479 --> 01:38:45.840 were denied an opportunity to play there and came back 1660 01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:50.840 to Cincinnati. Both were released by the Reds and Groundhoul 1661 01:38:50.920 --> 01:38:53.479 then signed in the Negro League and played for the 1662 01:38:53.560 --> 01:38:58.119 Chicago American Giants, And as he told it, he had 1663 01:38:58.159 --> 01:39:01.159 a hit off Satchel Page and that was kind of 1664 01:39:01.159 --> 01:39:06.479 the highlight of his career but a great story. Not 1665 01:39:06.600 --> 01:39:09.159 his baseball card and he signed it for me. 1666 01:39:09.439 --> 01:39:10.640 Oh cool, And now. 1667 01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:15.479 In the Chicago American giant uniforms. So those are two 1668 01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:16.680 of my favorites. 1669 01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:19.600 But we'll have to talk about a couple more. Oh yeah, 1670 01:39:19.760 --> 01:39:22.039 we can get into Jim Bunning when we get back, 1671 01:39:22.079 --> 01:39:23.800 because we got to again, We've got to take a 1672 01:39:23.840 --> 01:39:27.079 quick break here and appreciate your time this morning, Charlie. 1673 01:39:27.079 --> 01:39:30.760 My guest is Charlie Coach Coleman, author of the new book. 1674 01:39:31.479 --> 01:39:34.199 Did you I am assuming that the title of the 1675 01:39:34.199 --> 01:39:36.399 book is Northern Kentucky Sports Legends. 1676 01:39:37.000 --> 01:39:40.239 Yes, No, the Kentucky Sports Legends out of the nineteen. 1677 01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:42.520 Fifties, of the nineteen fifties, and of course I have 1678 01:39:42.600 --> 01:39:46.880 the series of eventually the sixties, seventies and on. And 1679 01:39:47.319 --> 01:39:49.239 you know what's amazing is just talking to you through 1680 01:39:49.239 --> 01:39:54.439 the years the number of class acts and class athletes 1681 01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:57.800 that have come out of this area that hopefully a 1682 01:39:57.840 --> 01:40:01.239 book like this brings attention to that and an appreciation 1683 01:40:01.399 --> 01:40:04.560 for what all has been contributed from this area that 1684 01:40:04.800 --> 01:40:07.640 nobody talks about. So looking forward to talking more with 1685 01:40:07.680 --> 01:40:10.840 you about that coming up. My guest again, Charlie Coach Coleman. 1686 01:40:10.920 --> 01:40:13.479 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC, 1687 01:40:13.960 --> 01:40:20.319 the Talk Station seven fifty two in the morning. Kevin 1688 01:40:20.319 --> 01:40:23.600 Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the Talk station, 1689 01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:26.960 continuing our conversation with Charlie Coach Coleman, author of the 1690 01:40:27.239 --> 01:40:31.399 upcoming book Northern Kentucky Sports Legends through the fifties, and 1691 01:40:31.439 --> 01:40:35.079 of course there'll be subsequent books from the sixties, seventies 1692 01:40:35.079 --> 01:40:37.960 and on. But thanks for having with us. Charlie is 1693 01:40:37.960 --> 01:40:41.840 certainly appreciate it. We left talking about lot now we 1694 01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:46.279 left talking about Jim Bonning, which probably a very famous, 1695 01:40:46.479 --> 01:40:49.880 not only a pretty famous, very famous person from the area. 1696 01:40:50.319 --> 01:40:53.119 And I think somebody that a lot of people, I 1697 01:40:53.119 --> 01:40:55.439 don't know, when somebody's in your own backyard, it's like 1698 01:40:55.479 --> 01:40:58.359 you don't have the appreciation for him until you kind 1699 01:40:58.359 --> 01:41:01.119 of step back and say, why look at this guy 1700 01:41:01.199 --> 01:41:04.720 compared to other people in the profession. And then of 1701 01:41:04.760 --> 01:41:08.359 course his life after baseball and being a congressman eventually 1702 01:41:08.359 --> 01:41:09.279 a senator as well. 1703 01:41:09.399 --> 01:41:15.319 So again, yeah, he was raised in Southgate, right outside 1704 01:41:15.319 --> 01:41:19.560 of Newport, went to Saint Teres Elementary School. He did 1705 01:41:19.600 --> 01:41:22.760 not go to high school in Norland, Kentucky. He cross 1706 01:41:22.760 --> 01:41:25.239 the river and went to Saint X and I believe 1707 01:41:25.319 --> 01:41:28.479 Sat X was in downtown Cincinnati at that time. But 1708 01:41:29.560 --> 01:41:32.640 if you looked at what Jim Bunning accomplished, you know 1709 01:41:32.760 --> 01:41:36.720 he won a hundred games in both leagues for the 1710 01:41:36.720 --> 01:41:41.319 Phillies and the Detroit Tigers American National League and all 1711 01:41:41.479 --> 01:41:45.680 far many years. And if he were playing today, he 1712 01:41:45.720 --> 01:41:49.479 would be the premier player in Major League Baseball with 1713 01:41:49.560 --> 01:41:53.560 those kind of statistics exactly, just a great player. Of course, 1714 01:41:53.560 --> 01:41:55.840 he is a Hall of Fame, I'm well deserved, but 1715 01:41:56.600 --> 01:42:01.600 a Northerland, Kentucky guy, and fucking mentioned at least two more. 1716 01:42:03.560 --> 01:42:09.600 Larry Staverman, a guy goes under the radar. Newport Catholic 1717 01:42:09.920 --> 01:42:16.319 graduate All boys school, then it's Newport Catholic. But if 1718 01:42:16.319 --> 01:42:19.000 someone would ask the trivia question, who was the very 1719 01:42:19.039 --> 01:42:23.840 first first coach of the Indiana Pacers, and the answer 1720 01:42:23.880 --> 01:42:27.840 would be Larry Staverman from right here in northern Kentucky. 1721 01:42:27.880 --> 01:42:31.920 And not only was he the first coach, and the 1722 01:42:31.960 --> 01:42:36.920 Pacers when the ADA then and when the ABA got started, 1723 01:42:36.960 --> 01:42:42.119 they did something revolutionary to separate themselves from the NBA, 1724 01:42:42.560 --> 01:42:47.439 and that was to incorporate the three point shot. Larry 1725 01:42:47.560 --> 01:42:51.840 Staverman was a driving force behind that. And of course 1726 01:42:51.880 --> 01:42:54.479 now the three point shot is all the way down 1727 01:42:54.479 --> 01:42:59.159 to the elementary school. A Northern k guy, Larry Staverman, 1728 01:42:59.800 --> 01:43:05.760 was very instrumental in convincing the to the ADA to 1729 01:43:05.960 --> 01:43:07.159 incorporate the three points. 1730 01:43:07.159 --> 01:43:09.399 Amazing, you got one more for us. We're kind of 1731 01:43:09.399 --> 01:43:11.840 getting up against the clock here real quick. 1732 01:43:11.880 --> 01:43:16.239 So I men, Homer Rights. Homer Rights who later coached 1733 01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:20.560 Sincene Bangalore. Oh yeah, and I actually born in Bellevue, 1734 01:43:20.600 --> 01:43:24.119 but made a name for himself at Poor Thomas Highlands 1735 01:43:24.159 --> 01:43:28.640 and really raised the bar for football in Kentucky the 1736 01:43:28.680 --> 01:43:34.000 whole commonwealth with his program. And of course just died 1737 01:43:34.560 --> 01:43:38.199 in the past year, as he had been athletic director 1738 01:43:38.319 --> 01:43:43.359 Georgia Tech University and author of several books. Leadership Fitness 1739 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:47.119 was his last one that is used at several colleges 1740 01:43:47.159 --> 01:43:48.720 and universities to this day. 1741 01:43:49.920 --> 01:43:53.119 And that's a fantastic thing about history and about bringing 1742 01:43:53.159 --> 01:43:56.279 up these people from the past and the impact that 1743 01:43:56.279 --> 01:43:59.359 they've had on their individual sports and stuff that people 1744 01:43:59.359 --> 01:44:02.000 aren't aware of. And I'm sure that this book there's 1745 01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:04.319 gonna be a lot of things that people never knew about, 1746 01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:08.279 and you know, it's gonna be a whole learning experience 1747 01:44:08.319 --> 01:44:10.680 for a lot of people. So Charlie, wish you all 1748 01:44:10.680 --> 01:44:12.479 the best with it. I'm looking forward to when's the 1749 01:44:12.479 --> 01:44:13.479 book going to be released? 1750 01:44:14.560 --> 01:44:18.520 Well? Played the second week in January, That's what I'm told. 1751 01:44:19.119 --> 01:44:19.399 Uh. 1752 01:44:19.800 --> 01:44:23.840 Doctor James Claypool and Bob Webster both helped me and 1753 01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:28.720 editing and publishing U to Northern Kentucky guys are well known, 1754 01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:32.119 and Bob tells me it'll be the second week in January. 1755 01:44:32.159 --> 01:44:35.199 Okay, And you're gonna have a I guess you're gonna 1756 01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:37.640 have a Facebook page. You have a website yet for it? 1757 01:44:37.760 --> 01:44:47.079 Or I do not and I don't do baseball forbid you, Arlie. 1758 01:44:48.119 --> 01:44:51.159 You're gonna have to get this out. They've gotta market 1759 01:44:51.199 --> 01:44:54.239 this book for sure. Well, Charlie was great talking to you, 1760 01:44:54.439 --> 01:44:57.279 and you have a merry, happy New Year and so on, 1761 01:44:57.399 --> 01:45:00.279 and we'll definitely be in touch. Van. 1762 01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:02.239 I value your friendship, you know that. 1763 01:45:02.439 --> 01:45:05.079 Thanks all Righty, you take care. Kevin Gordon in for 1764 01:45:05.199 --> 01:45:08.159 Brown of course, my guest, Charlie coach Coleman looking forward 1765 01:45:08.199 --> 01:45:10.359 to his book. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 1766 01:45:10.399 --> 01:45:12.920 fifty five krs The Talk Station. 1767 01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:16.800 And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on 1768 01:45:16.960 --> 01:45:20.720 fifty five KOSS the talk station. 1769 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:35.520 Seven minutes after eight o'clock. And if you checked out 1770 01:45:35.560 --> 01:45:38.359 my Facebook page, you'll know that I'm supposed to have 1771 01:45:38.399 --> 01:45:41.640 a guest in this hour or this half hour this segment, 1772 01:45:42.119 --> 01:45:44.520 fellow by the name of Matt Donaho. We're having a 1773 01:45:44.520 --> 01:45:47.880 little bit of communication issues this morning, and so hopefully 1774 01:45:47.920 --> 01:45:51.039 we'll get in touch with him shortly and be able 1775 01:45:51.079 --> 01:45:54.520 to talk about him and a fantastic story there. Now 1776 01:45:55.439 --> 01:46:00.680 we talked about earlier that you know, every year Rand Paul, 1777 01:46:00.800 --> 01:46:05.239 Senator from my state state of Kentucky comes up with 1778 01:46:05.319 --> 01:46:09.439 what's called the Festivus Report, and in that he outlines 1779 01:46:10.560 --> 01:46:13.319 different areas of waste fraud and abuse in the federal 1780 01:46:13.359 --> 01:46:17.840 government with the government agencies. And it's it's funny this morning, 1781 01:46:17.840 --> 01:46:22.800 when I was driving in there was this story that 1782 01:46:22.800 --> 01:46:25.159 that I was looking at that I was I was 1783 01:46:25.199 --> 01:46:27.920 playing a video and I had it off to the side, 1784 01:46:28.399 --> 01:46:33.000 and right after this video that was playing, a video 1785 01:46:33.119 --> 01:46:35.640 from Ronald Reagan came up when he was talking to 1786 01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:39.880 Johnny Carson. And it's amazing how much of the stuff 1787 01:46:39.880 --> 01:46:43.279 that he was talking about waste fraud and abuse, some 1788 01:46:43.359 --> 01:46:46.520 of the stupid government programs that we have and that 1789 01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:50.199 have been part of the government are are still there today. 1790 01:46:51.039 --> 01:46:55.760 He mentioned, and we've heard this before, that these different 1791 01:46:55.920 --> 01:47:01.359 bureaucrats in Washington have never had, in some cases a 1792 01:47:01.399 --> 01:47:05.039 real world experience. So many of them have never signed 1793 01:47:05.079 --> 01:47:08.119 the front end of a paycheck. They've only ever cashed 1794 01:47:08.199 --> 01:47:12.439 those checks, and so realizing what it's like to be 1795 01:47:12.680 --> 01:47:16.880 a business and to be in business, they have no clue. 1796 01:47:17.479 --> 01:47:20.640 And the thing that struck me because I'm listening to 1797 01:47:20.720 --> 01:47:24.239 this and Ronald Reagan was talking, and he said, you 1798 01:47:24.239 --> 01:47:27.920 know what people don't realize is that, yeah, we have 1799 01:47:28.079 --> 01:47:32.359 a tax bracket, we have a tax rate that we're 1800 01:47:32.359 --> 01:47:37.119 supposed to be paying. But even then, back in nineteen 1801 01:47:37.279 --> 01:47:40.199 eighty when he became president, up until the time he 1802 01:47:40.359 --> 01:47:43.720 left the presidency in nineteen eighty eight, he said, at 1803 01:47:43.720 --> 01:47:48.079 that point, the effective tax rate was close to fifty percent. 1804 01:47:49.319 --> 01:47:52.720 Now think about that, we have got to be way 1805 01:47:52.880 --> 01:47:56.199 higher than that now. And the way he talked about 1806 01:47:56.199 --> 01:47:59.960 it was that, you know, when you have a government 1807 01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:04.720 regulation that comes into play when a corporation has to 1808 01:48:04.840 --> 01:48:09.279 hire somebody to comply with that, and then the added 1809 01:48:09.399 --> 01:48:14.680 cost of putting whatever that item is into their product 1810 01:48:15.399 --> 01:48:18.880 or to comply with those things that requires man hours 1811 01:48:19.119 --> 01:48:22.159 and that has passed through to the consumer. This whole 1812 01:48:22.239 --> 01:48:27.319 idea of people taking that they're talking about loopholes, that 1813 01:48:27.359 --> 01:48:32.000 they're talking about that corporations need to pay more taxes. Well, 1814 01:48:32.880 --> 01:48:37.640 paying taxes is a cost of doing business, and corporations 1815 01:48:37.760 --> 01:48:42.520 do not pay taxes. We pay those taxes because they 1816 01:48:42.560 --> 01:48:47.000 pass those through onto us. And so when you take 1817 01:48:47.039 --> 01:48:50.279 in terms of what is built into the cost of 1818 01:48:50.319 --> 01:48:53.720 a particular product and then you add that up in 1819 01:48:53.800 --> 01:48:58.319 terms of an additional tax on that item, then that's 1820 01:48:58.399 --> 01:49:02.319 where that fifty percent numbers comes up. And when you 1821 01:49:02.359 --> 01:49:07.960 look at the various regulations that are involved, and it 1822 01:49:08.119 --> 01:49:10.560 just kind of blew me away listening to somebody to 1823 01:49:10.640 --> 01:49:15.319 talk about it says, you know that it requires somebody 1824 01:49:15.760 --> 01:49:23.800 who it requires more knowledge to figure out the tax 1825 01:49:24.039 --> 01:49:27.760 code than it does to make the money. And that 1826 01:49:28.000 --> 01:49:32.479 is an upside down situation where you have all this effort, 1827 01:49:32.600 --> 01:49:36.359 all these all going to work day in and day out, 1828 01:49:36.720 --> 01:49:39.800 and then you wind up with a situation where then 1829 01:49:39.880 --> 01:49:42.960 you have to pay somebody to figure out how to 1830 01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:46.560 pay the taxes on the income that you've worked so 1831 01:49:46.680 --> 01:49:50.279 hard for. So you pay somebody for the privilege, if 1832 01:49:50.319 --> 01:49:53.720 you will, of paying taxes. And when you listen to 1833 01:49:53.760 --> 01:49:57.840 some of these bureaucrats, it all boils down to the 1834 01:49:57.880 --> 01:50:03.159 fact that in their minds what they talk about loopholes, 1835 01:50:03.479 --> 01:50:07.520 what they talk about as far as income is concerned, 1836 01:50:08.239 --> 01:50:11.039 you can't think, you know, you and I we think 1837 01:50:11.079 --> 01:50:15.319 in terms of our net pay being the money that 1838 01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:18.960 we have left over after we've paid our taxes, and 1839 01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:25.399 it's our take home pay once they've taken out social Security, Medicare, federal, state, 1840 01:50:27.039 --> 01:50:30.600 social security, state, city, county, all that, and then you 1841 01:50:30.600 --> 01:50:34.439 see your net pay, well, in your mind, that's the 1842 01:50:34.479 --> 01:50:36.520 money that's left over to do the things that you 1843 01:50:36.640 --> 01:50:40.600 want to do. As far as these bureaucrats are concerned, 1844 01:50:41.279 --> 01:50:44.319 this is the money that they, in their minds, that 1845 01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:48.399 they let you keep because they think all the money 1846 01:50:48.399 --> 01:50:51.600 that you make is theirs, that that should be part 1847 01:50:51.760 --> 01:50:54.960 of what they fund the government with. And when they 1848 01:50:55.000 --> 01:50:59.000 talk about these loopholes and they point out and they say, oh, 1849 01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:03.720 the loopholes they're there, well, who put them there? The loopholes, 1850 01:51:03.880 --> 01:51:08.000 as they call them, were the were the legal tax 1851 01:51:08.079 --> 01:51:12.119 deductions that they when they wrote the tax law, put 1852 01:51:12.239 --> 01:51:17.119 in that tax system. And so if you take advantage 1853 01:51:17.319 --> 01:51:21.359 of those laws that they put in there, they make 1854 01:51:21.399 --> 01:51:24.800 it seem like you're doing something wrong by taking advantage 1855 01:51:24.840 --> 01:51:31.000 of it. It's just it's an entirely totally screwed up 1856 01:51:31.079 --> 01:51:34.319 concept as far as how these people look at things 1857 01:51:34.600 --> 01:51:37.640 and the way they go about governing. And then when 1858 01:51:37.680 --> 01:51:41.880 you look at with these as we're seeing and hopefully 1859 01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:44.760 in the coming administration, we get some of these things 1860 01:51:44.840 --> 01:51:48.000 knocked out when you look at the EV mandate. Now, 1861 01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:52.680 when I say EV mandates and that, they'll say, well, 1862 01:51:52.720 --> 01:51:56.920 there's no such thing as an EV mandate. Well, you 1863 01:51:56.920 --> 01:52:00.640 know when you say that to a car manufacture that 1864 01:52:00.840 --> 01:52:04.520 as far as your entire fleet of vehicles that if 1865 01:52:04.880 --> 01:52:08.399 you have within those vehicles, you have to have a 1866 01:52:08.479 --> 01:52:14.000 certain average amount of miles per gallon, and those standards 1867 01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:17.479 are set so high that the only way that you 1868 01:52:17.600 --> 01:52:23.560 can attain that would be to sell more EV's, and 1869 01:52:23.640 --> 01:52:26.359 so the more EV's that you have to sell to 1870 01:52:26.439 --> 01:52:31.479 comply with that. No, it's not a direct mandate, but 1871 01:52:31.600 --> 01:52:34.319 it might as well be, because in order to comply 1872 01:52:34.479 --> 01:52:39.640 with those mileage standards, you have to sell more evs, 1873 01:52:40.239 --> 01:52:43.319 and you have to sell something that the American public 1874 01:52:43.560 --> 01:52:47.399 has pretty much said that we're not interested in and 1875 01:52:47.520 --> 01:52:51.239 something that is not ready for prime time, which you're 1876 01:52:51.439 --> 01:52:55.399 forcing things in that shouldn't be forced in. And I 1877 01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:57.960 started seeing I mentioned this, Gosh, I think this is 1878 01:52:58.039 --> 01:53:02.840 back in the first hour, this concept of demand destruction. 1879 01:53:03.560 --> 01:53:06.880 And when I first heard this being said about two 1880 01:53:07.000 --> 01:53:10.520 years ago, I said, what the hell is demand destruction? 1881 01:53:11.079 --> 01:53:13.079 And I started looking it up to find out what 1882 01:53:13.159 --> 01:53:16.399 it was. And a little teaser here we'll talk about 1883 01:53:16.439 --> 01:53:19.399 that coming up. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, 1884 01:53:19.479 --> 01:53:22.000 fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk 1885 01:53:22.279 --> 01:53:24.560 one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five 1886 01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:28.239 pound five point fifty atn T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 1887 01:53:28.279 --> 01:53:31.359 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr see the talk 1888 01:53:31.439 --> 01:53:43.640 station eight twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for 1889 01:53:43.680 --> 01:53:48.199 Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station. Phone numbers 1890 01:53:48.239 --> 01:53:51.079 five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred one, 1891 01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:53.199 eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight 1892 01:53:53.199 --> 01:53:56.279 two three eight two, five five pound five point fifty 1893 01:53:56.279 --> 01:53:59.760 on that AT and T wireless phone. Every year Ran 1894 01:53:59.800 --> 01:54:03.159 Paul has been since he's been in the Senate, or 1895 01:54:03.199 --> 01:54:05.760 at least as far as I can remember, has come 1896 01:54:05.840 --> 01:54:09.319 up what he calls the Festivus Report, and each year 1897 01:54:09.439 --> 01:54:13.600 he outlines some of the waste, some a lot of waste, 1898 01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:16.960 fraud and abuse, and he starts off happy. Festivus already 1899 01:54:17.000 --> 01:54:20.159 wrapping up. Feels like we blinked in history, dumped a 1900 01:54:20.239 --> 01:54:23.399 year's worth a plot twist on us. Donald Trump dodged 1901 01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:27.840 two assassination attempts. Vice President Kamala Harris ousted President Biden 1902 01:54:28.079 --> 01:54:32.319 from the presidential race last minute, only to fail spectacularly. 1903 01:54:32.720 --> 01:54:36.479 The twenty twenty four Summer Olympics in Paris captured global 1904 01:54:36.520 --> 01:54:40.079 attention with a brilliant display of break dancing from our 1905 01:54:40.119 --> 01:54:44.279 friends in Australia. In November handed control of Congress to 1906 01:54:44.359 --> 01:54:49.199 the Republicans. And yet amongst these seismic events, one issue 1907 01:54:49.239 --> 01:54:53.760 remained unchanged, the ever mounting national debt. Now we keep 1908 01:54:53.800 --> 01:54:56.760 hearing people talk about the national debt. We keep hearing 1909 01:54:56.840 --> 01:55:00.439 talking about how things are a waste front. I mean, 1910 01:55:00.600 --> 01:55:04.119 when somebody lays out on a silver platter for you 1911 01:55:04.319 --> 01:55:08.720 areas where you can cut spending, you would think that 1912 01:55:08.800 --> 01:55:12.600 people would take note and do it. In this report, okay, 1913 01:55:12.880 --> 01:55:17.920 According to Doze, the Department of Government efficiency that Elon 1914 01:55:18.039 --> 01:55:23.159 Musk and Vivek Ramaswami is heading up. It's an unofficial arm, 1915 01:55:23.239 --> 01:55:27.680 but at least an advisory capacity that they are talking 1916 01:55:27.680 --> 01:55:32.520 about wanting to cut about two trillion dollars out of 1917 01:55:32.560 --> 01:55:36.720 our spending every year, or at least over the course 1918 01:55:36.760 --> 01:55:40.880 of a couple of years, this year or whenever, you know, 1919 01:55:40.920 --> 01:55:47.159 they can't. Now, justin Rand Paul's Festivus report alone, there 1920 01:55:47.279 --> 01:55:53.159 is over one trillion dollars that is available right there 1921 01:55:53.279 --> 01:55:57.399 on a silver platter to be cut. And in his 1922 01:55:57.520 --> 01:56:02.720 opening paragraphs he talks about at how this that we're 1923 01:56:02.760 --> 01:56:08.039 spending four point five million every minute, seventy four thousand 1924 01:56:08.079 --> 01:56:11.680 dollars every second. And when you start going through some 1925 01:56:11.800 --> 01:56:13.720 of these things, now just I mean, this is just 1926 01:56:14.079 --> 01:56:17.319 this is just off the top of the list here 1927 01:56:18.880 --> 01:56:26.079 government waste things like ice skating, drag queens, twelve million 1928 01:56:26.159 --> 01:56:32.239 dollar Las Vegas pickleball complex, a four point eight million 1929 01:56:32.319 --> 01:56:37.520 dollar on Ukrainian influencers. Now, this is not the weapons 1930 01:56:37.560 --> 01:56:40.880 that are going on there. These are people who have 1931 01:56:41.079 --> 01:56:46.520 blog pages, people who are influencers, whatever the heck that is. 1932 01:56:47.119 --> 01:56:50.279 Because you look at some of these influencers and anybody 1933 01:56:50.279 --> 01:56:51.960 that would pay. You know, when you look at some 1934 01:56:52.000 --> 01:56:55.359 of the so called influencers in this country and some 1935 01:56:55.399 --> 01:56:57.920 of the stuff that they talk about, and the fact 1936 01:56:57.960 --> 01:57:01.319 that they're influencing anybody, well, you know, they ought to 1937 01:57:01.319 --> 01:57:05.399 start with themselves and influence their own lives, because some 1938 01:57:05.520 --> 01:57:07.279 of the stuff coming out of their mouths is just 1939 01:57:07.399 --> 01:57:13.000 absolute nonsense. But okay, we're paying four million, four point 1940 01:57:13.039 --> 01:57:18.039 eight million dollars on Ukrainian influencers. What are they influencing. 1941 01:57:18.960 --> 01:57:22.520 I mean, we've got whatever lobbyists there are with the 1942 01:57:22.520 --> 01:57:28.000 military industrial complex already lobbying Congress because they want more 1943 01:57:28.079 --> 01:57:32.720 toys because we're not involved directly in any wars anywhere. 1944 01:57:33.039 --> 01:57:37.279 And when you're building these these weapons and you have 1945 01:57:37.399 --> 01:57:40.119 these toys at your disposal, you want to see if 1946 01:57:40.159 --> 01:57:42.840 they work, you want to see how well they operate. 1947 01:57:43.239 --> 01:57:46.399 And so you find a proxy war like the war 1948 01:57:46.439 --> 01:57:51.880 in Ukraine or somewhere else, and you get lobbied and 1949 01:57:52.239 --> 01:57:55.720 you sell these weapons to this country. Now, I'm not 1950 01:57:55.840 --> 01:57:59.000 downplaying the situation that you know, let's not fake. Let's 1951 01:57:59.000 --> 01:58:01.479 not forget the fact that there should never have been 1952 01:58:01.560 --> 01:58:04.720 an invasion of Ukraine in the first place. During the 1953 01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:10.760 Obama administration, during that Oh, you know, mister Nobel Peace Prize, 1954 01:58:11.960 --> 01:58:16.439 Russia invaded Crimea, or as Maxine Waters calls it, Korea. 1955 01:58:17.000 --> 01:58:21.079 But they invaded Crimea and nobody pushed back. So if 1956 01:58:21.119 --> 01:58:25.720 you're talking about Russian influence, when you're talking about kow 1957 01:58:25.840 --> 01:58:30.079 towing to Vladimir Putin, wasn't that cow towing to him? 1958 01:58:30.800 --> 01:58:35.279 And then okay, none of this transpired. Well, that transpired 1959 01:58:35.319 --> 01:58:38.279 back in twenty twelve, and then during the Trump administration, 1960 01:58:38.680 --> 01:58:41.359 none of this transpired and went on, and then all 1961 01:58:41.399 --> 01:58:45.199 of a sudden, Biden comes into office and in February 1962 01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:49.399 of twenty twenty two, after amassing all these troops on 1963 01:58:49.439 --> 01:58:52.239 the border, and if you're amassing troops on the border, 1964 01:58:52.399 --> 01:58:55.800 it's probably a good idea or probably a little bit 1965 01:58:55.800 --> 01:58:59.159 of a hint that they're planning on using those troops 1966 01:58:59.319 --> 01:59:02.439 that they will probably cross over the border and invade 1967 01:59:02.479 --> 01:59:05.800 the country. So where was NATO Now it's not a 1968 01:59:05.800 --> 01:59:08.800 member nation, but it's on their doorstep. Where's the UN 1969 01:59:09.039 --> 01:59:12.159 Where were they? Where was this warning? Where was this 1970 01:59:12.359 --> 01:59:16.399 threat of retaliation if they crossed? Why did they not 1971 01:59:16.680 --> 01:59:22.119 fear sanctions from this our government or the international community 1972 01:59:22.319 --> 01:59:27.199 by invading a sovereign entity yet they did under a 1973 01:59:27.279 --> 01:59:33.960 democratic administration, and so all the stuff Russian influence, Well, 1974 01:59:34.239 --> 01:59:37.600 what about that Russian influence, the fact that Biden didn't 1975 01:59:37.640 --> 01:59:40.279 do anything, and oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can 1976 01:59:40.319 --> 01:59:42.359 tell me, talk to me, call me up here and 1977 01:59:42.399 --> 01:59:45.119 tell me about all these sanctions that were put on 1978 01:59:45.199 --> 01:59:48.319 Russia and it was all even that was a hoax 1979 01:59:48.479 --> 01:59:51.520 because they never instituted them. And we can talk about that. 1980 01:59:51.720 --> 01:59:54.560 I'm Kevin Gordon. By the way. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, 1981 01:59:54.600 --> 01:59:57.079 four nine, fifty five, hundred one, eight hundred eight two 1982 01:59:57.119 --> 01:59:59.439 three Talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight two 1983 01:59:59.479 --> 02:00:02.960 five five pound five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 1984 02:00:03.079 --> 02:00:06.119 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See 1985 02:00:06.279 --> 02:00:20.000 the talk station eight thirty actually eight thirty one in 1986 02:00:20.039 --> 02:00:22.119 the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five 1987 02:00:22.199 --> 02:00:25.920 K see the talk station. What's Let me give you 1988 02:00:25.920 --> 02:00:28.279 the phone numbers real quick eight five nine eight eight 1989 02:00:28.800 --> 02:00:32.199 eight five Hello, five one three, seven four nine fifty five. 1990 02:00:32.279 --> 02:00:34.399 I almost give you my phone number five one three, 1991 02:00:34.439 --> 02:00:36.600 seven four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight 1992 02:00:36.640 --> 02:00:39.079 two three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight 1993 02:00:39.119 --> 02:00:42.560 two five five pound five fifty AT and T wireless phone, 1994 02:00:42.640 --> 02:00:45.760 Kevin Gordon and uh, I'm here, So let's go to 1995 02:00:45.760 --> 02:00:49.119 the phones. You're there, I'm here. Let's get to it. Alan, 1996 02:00:49.159 --> 02:00:51.039 how are you this morning? Thanks for calling in. 1997 02:00:52.359 --> 02:00:53.119 Hey, I'm good. 1998 02:00:53.760 --> 02:00:55.960 Is it still locy to Saint Mary Christmas? 1999 02:00:56.319 --> 02:00:59.399 Absolutely? On this show, it sure is. Actually, you know, 2000 02:00:59.479 --> 02:01:02.640 we are still in the Christmas season. Today is the 2001 02:01:02.680 --> 02:01:06.079 second day of Christmas, so it goes on for actually, 2002 02:01:06.079 --> 02:01:09.840 the Christmas season goes on for another ten days. So 2003 02:01:10.319 --> 02:01:14.640 you're well within your within the spectrum. 2004 02:01:14.960 --> 02:01:15.720 Well, I hope. 2005 02:01:15.920 --> 02:01:18.279 They hope you have that prosperous studie year. 2006 02:01:18.680 --> 02:01:21.199 I'm going to do my best. Is what's on your 2007 02:01:21.239 --> 02:01:23.079 line this morning? My friend? 2008 02:01:23.680 --> 02:01:27.079 Well, I've been out of the news cycle for at 2009 02:01:27.159 --> 02:01:30.680 least twenty four hours because I haven't heard the latest 2010 02:01:30.760 --> 02:01:32.600 on the Christmas bull shooting. 2011 02:01:33.880 --> 02:01:38.000 Then is there any new news that. 2012 02:01:38.119 --> 02:01:41.760 They came out with the background of votivation by the 2013 02:01:41.800 --> 02:01:43.520 shooter for any of that. 2014 02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:47.520 Honestly, I have not seen anything. I think a lot 2015 02:01:47.600 --> 02:01:50.439 of people have been more focused on this round of 2016 02:01:51.279 --> 02:01:56.439 thirty seven known killers, murderers, people that were a part well, 2017 02:01:56.439 --> 02:02:00.199 actually their sentence was reduced by Biden on some of 2018 02:02:00.239 --> 02:02:03.920 his pardoning, some of the stuff going on as far 2019 02:02:04.000 --> 02:02:09.319 as you know, getting ready for the incoming administration, the 2020 02:02:10.000 --> 02:02:14.840 trying to claim that that le Elon Musk is somehow 2021 02:02:15.199 --> 02:02:19.039 now the co president or president, and they keep referring 2022 02:02:19.039 --> 02:02:22.439 to Donald Trump as the vice president. So a lot 2023 02:02:22.520 --> 02:02:25.560 of nonsense. But as far as the school shooting, no, 2024 02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:28.479 I have not. I could dig into that a little bit, 2025 02:02:28.520 --> 02:02:31.479 but I've not heard anything further from that. And the 2026 02:02:31.600 --> 02:02:34.439 less you hear about something like that, the more you 2027 02:02:34.520 --> 02:02:36.720 know it's bad news for the left. 2028 02:02:37.840 --> 02:02:41.079 Yeah, that that was what I wanted to speculate on. 2029 02:02:42.800 --> 02:02:45.720 You know, I think, like you, I like to wait 2030 02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:49.800 until the news actually comes out to decide what whether 2031 02:02:49.920 --> 02:02:52.960 or not a person is, what they have done, whether 2032 02:02:52.960 --> 02:02:56.439 they're guilty or not guilty. Here she's gone. 2033 02:02:56.640 --> 02:03:01.680 But my speculation is, like you were saying, if the 2034 02:03:01.800 --> 02:03:06.359 longer you don't know anything about the shooter, Yeah, the 2035 02:03:06.800 --> 02:03:11.800 more likely it is that it's a leftist type of individual. 2036 02:03:12.600 --> 02:03:14.640 And the uh. 2037 02:03:15.079 --> 02:03:17.920 News media, the legacy media. 2038 02:03:18.359 --> 02:03:20.760 They want to cross over the fact that this was 2039 02:03:20.840 --> 02:03:24.760 a leftist because all leftists love everybody in the world 2040 02:03:24.920 --> 02:03:27.920 and and there's no way that a leftist would. 2041 02:03:27.720 --> 02:03:30.840 Do anything like this, Yeah, and you know a lot 2042 02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:33.960 of people have been focusing their attention on this uh 2043 02:03:34.119 --> 02:03:39.239 shooter of that United Health president and uh, the big 2044 02:03:39.279 --> 02:03:42.319 news on Friday was he was arraigned and he's in 2045 02:03:42.399 --> 02:03:45.960 there smirking, and his attorney and him were all were 2046 02:03:46.000 --> 02:03:51.560 both dressed alike. What was you know, trying to confuse? What? What? 2047 02:03:51.319 --> 02:03:51.359 What? 2048 02:03:51.560 --> 02:03:56.079 What was that all about? And they I've heard I 2049 02:03:56.119 --> 02:03:58.880 was just flipping through the channels and I think I 2050 02:03:58.920 --> 02:04:02.119 heard it was either seeing well one of the crazy outlets. 2051 02:04:02.319 --> 02:04:06.880 They were saying, oh, here is this young man who 2052 02:04:07.039 --> 02:04:10.640 is still you know, innocent until proven guilty, with the 2053 02:04:10.760 --> 02:04:17.199 law enforcement officers lurking over top of him. And I'm like, well, 2054 02:04:17.199 --> 02:04:19.760 if you've never been to a courtroom, do you remember 2055 02:04:19.800 --> 02:04:23.159 seeing when Trump was on trial and he was sitting 2056 02:04:23.159 --> 02:04:26.399 in that New York courtroom, the number of bailiffs and 2057 02:04:26.560 --> 02:04:29.479 cops that were standing behind him like he was going 2058 02:04:29.560 --> 02:04:32.840 to get up and do something disruptive or attack the 2059 02:04:33.000 --> 02:04:36.760 judge or try to escape. I mean, give me a break. 2060 02:04:37.039 --> 02:04:39.359 It's just you know, this young you know he's a 2061 02:04:39.399 --> 02:04:41.640 young man. Well you know he's a young man that 2062 02:04:42.119 --> 02:04:46.039 you know pretty much we have on tape that killed somebody, 2063 02:04:46.159 --> 02:04:50.039 So let's deal with that. So yeah, I have to 2064 02:04:50.039 --> 02:04:52.079 look into that school shooting and see what's coming up. 2065 02:04:53.159 --> 02:04:54.479 Oh thank you, all. 2066 02:04:54.439 --> 02:04:56.600 Right, hell and you have a good rest of your 2067 02:04:56.680 --> 02:04:58.399 day and a happy new year. If I don't speak 2068 02:04:58.399 --> 02:05:01.840 to you between now and then, all right, okay, you 2069 02:05:01.840 --> 02:05:04.000 know in this Festivus report, now I got to do. 2070 02:05:04.560 --> 02:05:07.760 I do have to take issue with one thing as 2071 02:05:07.800 --> 02:05:11.680 I'm going through these numbers and I'm seeing, you know, 2072 02:05:12.000 --> 02:05:16.359 currently the federal government is spending ten billion dollars on maintaining, leasing, 2073 02:05:16.439 --> 02:05:21.119 and furnishing almost entirely empty office buildings. Now that's merely 2074 02:05:21.159 --> 02:05:24.359 a matter of these buildings that are being least rented 2075 02:05:24.439 --> 02:05:28.520 and so on. That the workers, the government workers, are 2076 02:05:28.520 --> 02:05:32.239 not on the job. Most of the people that I'm 2077 02:05:32.279 --> 02:05:35.560 hearing that are calling into this station are in their car. 2078 02:05:36.479 --> 02:05:40.159 I am assuming they're commuting to the office. I'm assuming 2079 02:05:40.359 --> 02:05:43.760 that the pretty much. When I go to the hospital 2080 02:05:43.760 --> 02:05:46.319 and I see doctors and nurses there, they're not working 2081 02:05:46.359 --> 02:05:49.600 from home, although a lot of them would like to. 2082 02:05:50.000 --> 02:05:52.720 I don't see many teachers working from home. I don't 2083 02:05:52.720 --> 02:05:56.039 see construction workers working from home. I don't see police 2084 02:05:56.079 --> 02:06:00.359 and fire and first responders working from home. You see 2085 02:06:00.399 --> 02:06:04.600 a lot of the workers working from home. And why 2086 02:06:04.760 --> 02:06:10.119 are these federal government employees given a pass? Why aren't 2087 02:06:10.119 --> 02:06:13.880 they told to come back to the office and if 2088 02:06:14.159 --> 02:06:18.000 they're if and what we've seen in the past that 2089 02:06:18.119 --> 02:06:20.439 it doesn't appear is that there's any type of a 2090 02:06:20.600 --> 02:06:25.039 monitoring process of these workers to make sure that they're 2091 02:06:25.079 --> 02:06:28.039 being productive and if they're not, and if they don't 2092 02:06:28.079 --> 02:06:31.640 have those in place, Hey, how about installing some of 2093 02:06:31.640 --> 02:06:34.520 those controls in the software program? Hey, I'm late for 2094 02:06:34.560 --> 02:06:36.279 a break here. Let me get the phone numbers out 2095 02:06:36.319 --> 02:06:38.920 real quick. Five one three, seven, four nine fifty five 2096 02:06:39.000 --> 02:06:41.479 hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one eight 2097 02:06:41.600 --> 02:06:44.000 hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five 2098 02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:46.760 point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in 2099 02:06:46.840 --> 02:07:01.239 for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station and 2100 02:07:01.560 --> 02:07:06.439 Paul that he put out, I do have to take well, 2101 02:07:06.439 --> 02:07:11.399 what should I say? Correct? One thing in here he 2102 02:07:11.560 --> 02:07:15.239 talks about one of the on the surveys is when 2103 02:07:15.319 --> 02:07:19.520 bailouts go bus. United States Department of Transportation granted a 2104 02:07:19.520 --> 02:07:23.079 failed trucking company seven hundred million pandemic Era a loan, 2105 02:07:23.840 --> 02:07:26.479 talking about under the Cares Act four thousand and three 2106 02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:29.960 loan program, Uncle Sam went on a spending spree handing 2107 02:07:29.960 --> 02:07:33.680 out cash like monopoly money, seven hundred million dollars in 2108 02:07:33.760 --> 02:07:38.840 tax payer money to Yellow Corporation, which was a corporation. Now, 2109 02:07:39.119 --> 02:07:41.640 one of the justifications behind that is that they were 2110 02:07:41.680 --> 02:07:47.079 a big hauler for goods going into the various pxs 2111 02:07:47.119 --> 02:07:50.720 and the government contracts as far as bringing food and 2112 02:07:50.760 --> 02:07:55.840 supplies to our military basis. Plus it was a company 2113 02:07:55.880 --> 02:07:59.640 that most of their employees were teamsters, so there was 2114 02:07:59.720 --> 02:08:04.880 that pressure lobbying, et cetera. And the seven hundred million 2115 02:08:04.920 --> 02:08:07.840 dollar loan was lent to them. Now, back in two 2116 02:08:07.880 --> 02:08:11.920 thousand and eight, they were teetering. They had acquired a 2117 02:08:11.920 --> 02:08:14.760 bunch of businesses and sort of mismanaged those to a 2118 02:08:14.760 --> 02:08:18.239 certain extent, but had been teetering on bankruptcy because of 2119 02:08:18.359 --> 02:08:23.960 union contracts and whatnot. But they did file for bankruptcy. However, 2120 02:08:24.439 --> 02:08:29.800 since they filed bankruptcy in August of twenty twenty three, 2121 02:08:30.239 --> 02:08:34.279 I believe they sold the assets and those have been 2122 02:08:34.319 --> 02:08:39.680 auctioned off and the government loan was actually paid back 2123 02:08:40.079 --> 02:08:46.000 with interest. So yes, that was money that maybe shouldn't 2124 02:08:46.000 --> 02:08:48.880 have been I don't know, because when you've got a 2125 02:08:49.039 --> 02:08:54.680 particular contractor that is responsible. We're bringing food supplies, medicines 2126 02:08:54.720 --> 02:08:59.079 to your military basis, especially during COVID, you want to 2127 02:08:59.119 --> 02:09:03.560 make sure that that's continuing. And with these different healthcare 2128 02:09:04.199 --> 02:09:06.840 items that were being transported, you want to make sure 2129 02:09:06.880 --> 02:09:09.600 that those are provided as well. And yes, the company 2130 02:09:09.640 --> 02:09:12.159 was mismanaged, it went out of business, but with the 2131 02:09:12.239 --> 02:09:15.880 value of those assets, that loan has been paid back 2132 02:09:16.159 --> 02:09:18.880 with interest. Let's go to the phones. Carol fifty five. 2133 02:09:18.960 --> 02:09:22.840 Care see thanks for calling. Happy, well, actually happy Christmas 2134 02:09:22.880 --> 02:09:25.760 or Merry Christmas, because we're still in the Christmas season 2135 02:09:25.880 --> 02:09:27.760 and Happy New Year. How are you this morning? 2136 02:09:28.720 --> 02:09:31.680 I am done fine, And I just wanted to say, yes, 2137 02:09:31.800 --> 02:09:35.560 we are still in the Christmas season because the Epiphany 2138 02:09:35.680 --> 02:09:38.680 is not until they're celebrating it on the fifth. 2139 02:09:38.880 --> 02:09:45.960 Yeah, the fifth or the well yeah they yeah. January 2140 02:09:46.000 --> 02:09:49.680 sixth traditionally is the Epiphany, and it goes the twelve 2141 02:09:49.760 --> 02:09:52.960 Days of Christmas, goes from Deceummer the twenty fifth up 2142 02:09:53.039 --> 02:09:57.159 until what they call the twelfth Night, which is the fifth, 2143 02:09:57.199 --> 02:10:00.239 and then goes on into the Epiphany. So I guess 2144 02:10:00.279 --> 02:10:02.079 it's right up to that midnight and then you go 2145 02:10:02.079 --> 02:10:03.640 on to the epiphant, you know. 2146 02:10:04.039 --> 02:10:04.279 Yeah. 2147 02:10:04.520 --> 02:10:07.319 I always just sit there and say Merry Christmas all 2148 02:10:07.359 --> 02:10:09.920 the time anyway, because then we have an Epiphany party. 2149 02:10:10.159 --> 02:10:12.399 Yeah, well, there you go. 2150 02:10:14.279 --> 02:10:16.800 I always sit there and giggle because okay, I'm in 2151 02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:20.000 day no how And I look up and down my 2152 02:10:20.119 --> 02:10:23.800 street right now, and I would say there's at least 2153 02:10:23.880 --> 02:10:25.680 six Christmas trees. 2154 02:10:26.239 --> 02:10:32.520 Oh my gosh, already yeah, already, so Pete and people 2155 02:10:32.560 --> 02:10:36.039 who have put like lights up and stuff. Uh huh, 2156 02:10:36.600 --> 02:10:41.119 I'm down now. That's really rushing the season. 2157 02:10:41.319 --> 02:10:46.720 I mean, well, I always get in trouble because I 2158 02:10:46.840 --> 02:10:48.479 leave my lights up late too long. 2159 02:10:48.800 --> 02:10:52.760 Well yeah, but you know you're just look well that's 2160 02:10:52.800 --> 02:10:54.680 because you're always in a celebratory mood. 2161 02:10:57.479 --> 02:11:03.319 But I just wanted to say, Marry Christmas, Christmas, funderful. 2162 02:11:03.119 --> 02:11:05.479 Year, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. You 2163 02:11:05.520 --> 02:11:07.880 have a good day in the rest of the year. 2164 02:11:08.000 --> 02:11:11.039 Let's uh and uh yeah, keep those lights up until 2165 02:11:11.039 --> 02:11:14.960 the Epiphany for crying out loud, absolutely uh coming up, 2166 02:11:15.039 --> 02:11:17.039 We've got I want to touch on a couple other 2167 02:11:17.079 --> 02:11:19.000 things before we get out of here, get in some 2168 02:11:19.039 --> 02:11:21.840 other mischief. I'm Kevin Gordon, and for Brian Thomas fifty 2169 02:11:21.840 --> 02:11:31.039 five k DE Talk Station eight forty nine in the morning, 2170 02:11:31.119 --> 02:11:35.239 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five detalk station. 2171 02:11:35.880 --> 02:11:37.600 One of the things I always like to do around 2172 02:11:37.600 --> 02:11:39.399 the Christmas season, and one of the things I always 2173 02:11:39.439 --> 02:11:43.479 look forward to reading and uh looking at the numbers, 2174 02:11:43.640 --> 02:11:47.680 because as a recovering accountant, I enjoy these things. The 2175 02:11:48.199 --> 02:11:51.880 PNC Bank comes out with their Christmas Price Index CPI, 2176 02:11:52.359 --> 02:11:55.840 which mimics the Consumer Price Index, and it's a fun 2177 02:11:55.960 --> 02:11:59.000 look at the all of the things that go into 2178 02:11:59.239 --> 02:12:04.000 the Twelve Days of Christmas song, the partridge in the 2179 02:12:04.039 --> 02:12:08.800 pear tree, the lords of Leaping, and all the components 2180 02:12:08.840 --> 02:12:12.199 of that song. And every year they sit down and 2181 02:12:12.239 --> 02:12:15.159 they compile what it would cost if you would buy 2182 02:12:15.319 --> 02:12:18.720 every one of these items one time throughout the season, 2183 02:12:19.279 --> 02:12:23.199 or if you actually followed the song itself and so on. 2184 02:12:23.439 --> 02:12:25.279 You know, the first day of Christmas you have the 2185 02:12:25.359 --> 02:12:28.720 partridge in a par tree. Then the second day you 2186 02:12:28.840 --> 02:12:32.319 purchase not only the partridge in the par tree, but 2187 02:12:32.359 --> 02:12:35.199 the two turtle drugs, doves and a partridge in a 2188 02:12:35.239 --> 02:12:38.319 par tree. So you add that all up and throughout 2189 02:12:38.359 --> 02:12:41.239 the index there's three hundred there are three hundred and 2190 02:12:41.239 --> 02:12:45.079 sixty four actual gifts that would be purchased. And the 2191 02:12:45.119 --> 02:12:48.520 way that this index actually mirrors what goes on in 2192 02:12:48.560 --> 02:12:52.319 the economy because you have employee costs with the maids 2193 02:12:52.319 --> 02:12:55.920 of milking at the farm industry. There, you have the 2194 02:12:56.119 --> 02:12:59.720 entertainment industry with the pipers piping, drummer's drumming, lords of 2195 02:12:59.760 --> 02:13:03.239 lee dancing. Then you have the five gold rings, you 2196 02:13:03.319 --> 02:13:06.520 have poultry prices built in there, and so you have 2197 02:13:06.600 --> 02:13:10.840 a wide spectrum of the overall economy which pretty much 2198 02:13:10.880 --> 02:13:15.199 in most years mirrors this CPI, the consumer price Index. 2199 02:13:15.560 --> 02:13:18.680 Now this year in particular, if you were to buy 2200 02:13:19.000 --> 02:13:21.439 all three hundred and sixty four gifts, which would mean, 2201 02:13:21.720 --> 02:13:24.079 you know, every day that you'd purchase all those gifts 2202 02:13:24.119 --> 02:13:27.680 that are sung about during that day, the total bill 2203 02:13:27.680 --> 02:13:30.359 would come over for the first time crossed over two 2204 02:13:30.479 --> 02:13:33.680 hundred thousand dollars. It would cost you two hundred and 2205 02:13:34.039 --> 02:13:37.640 nine thousand, two hundred and seventy two dollars for each 2206 02:13:37.680 --> 02:13:40.600 one of those gifts. Now, if you were buying just 2207 02:13:40.680 --> 02:13:44.279 the individual gifts themselves, the number of the twelve gifts 2208 02:13:44.359 --> 02:13:47.600 just one time would be forty nine thousand, two hundred 2209 02:13:47.640 --> 02:13:50.399 and sixty three. But when you get into the components 2210 02:13:50.439 --> 02:13:54.000 of this, it's interesting that you look at the way 2211 02:13:54.600 --> 02:13:58.079 and the fact that this went up five point four 2212 02:13:58.199 --> 02:14:04.199 percent increase this year in this survey versus what the 2213 02:14:04.319 --> 02:14:09.439 national average for inflation at this current point is around 2214 02:14:09.439 --> 02:14:12.680 two point seven two point eight. In that neck of 2215 02:14:12.680 --> 02:14:16.319 the woods, it is double or close to double. But 2216 02:14:16.560 --> 02:14:20.279 this is kind of a fun example of depending upon 2217 02:14:20.479 --> 02:14:24.840 what you buy in the economy, what food components, what 2218 02:14:25.039 --> 02:14:31.079 hard goods, clothing, cars, and other things of even though 2219 02:14:31.439 --> 02:14:36.319 the overall inflation rate maybe two point seven, what you're 2220 02:14:36.439 --> 02:14:40.720 buying and what you're consuming may be well above that, 2221 02:14:41.319 --> 02:14:43.760 like in the instance of this, So if you're buying 2222 02:14:44.000 --> 02:14:48.439 these kinds of products, you are experiencing a five point 2223 02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:52.960 four percent increase in what you're buying is and your 2224 02:14:53.000 --> 02:14:57.520 dollars are not going that far. Now, when we hear 2225 02:14:57.600 --> 02:15:02.039 the Consumer Price Index two always here where they do 2226 02:15:02.199 --> 02:15:05.720 the CPI, the Consumer Price index, and they say, well, 2227 02:15:05.960 --> 02:15:08.720 we want to look at the core items because we 2228 02:15:08.800 --> 02:15:12.000 want to take out those that are fluctuating too much, 2229 02:15:12.279 --> 02:15:16.640 and we pull those out, and the consumer price the 2230 02:15:17.960 --> 02:15:24.359 PNC Christmas Price Index does that as well, and so 2231 02:15:24.640 --> 02:15:27.439 they take certain more volatile items, and it's a fun 2232 02:15:27.479 --> 02:15:30.399 way of kind of learning about economics, a fun way 2233 02:15:30.760 --> 02:15:34.359 of maybe teaching your kids about something. And I will 2234 02:15:34.399 --> 02:15:37.399 post this on Facebook. Usually I try to have one 2235 02:15:37.439 --> 02:15:40.800 of their folks on to talk about this as a guest. 2236 02:15:41.119 --> 02:15:44.000 But this being the day after Christmas and the way 2237 02:15:44.279 --> 02:15:46.720 things are, I mean, I'm looking out in our office 2238 02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:48.399 right now and it's kind of sparse. I think a 2239 02:15:48.399 --> 02:15:50.560 lot of people took the week off, or at least 2240 02:15:50.600 --> 02:15:53.399 take the rest of the week off, and so there's 2241 02:15:53.439 --> 02:15:56.680 not a whole lot of people that are in and 2242 02:15:56.880 --> 02:15:58.560 trying to get a hold of these folks and having 2243 02:15:58.560 --> 02:16:01.680 them on was a little difficult. But every year I 2244 02:16:01.720 --> 02:16:04.840 look forward to seeing this, look forward to talking about 2245 02:16:04.880 --> 02:16:08.640 it and the fact that they actually take the time 2246 02:16:09.039 --> 02:16:13.439 to do this. It's whimsical, it's fun, it's instructional, it's 2247 02:16:13.560 --> 02:16:17.960 educational and well, as I said, fun, which is probably 2248 02:16:18.000 --> 02:16:21.800 pretty much the big criteria. But it's interesting reading, it's 2249 02:16:21.840 --> 02:16:24.199 good stuff to talk about, good stuff to look at 2250 02:16:24.560 --> 02:16:29.439 and kind of looks at. How as far as items 2251 02:16:29.439 --> 02:16:32.719 that are on the list, some items that didn't go 2252 02:16:32.840 --> 02:16:35.600 up in price at all versus others that went up 2253 02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:38.399 as high as sixteen percent and kind of give you 2254 02:16:38.440 --> 02:16:41.719 an indication of how the overall economy. There are certain 2255 02:16:41.760 --> 02:16:44.200 things that didn't go up very much this past year, 2256 02:16:44.440 --> 02:16:46.239 but then there's a whole bunch of other things that 2257 02:16:46.280 --> 02:16:49.600 went up tremendously. So fun exercise. Wish we had more 2258 02:16:49.719 --> 02:16:52.319 time to talk about it, but we had a lot 2259 02:16:52.360 --> 02:16:55.239 of stuff to talk about today. Thanks to Charlie Coleman 2260 02:16:55.440 --> 02:17:00.840 and Chris and Chris Fick and Sure with a hooky 2261 02:17:00.920 --> 02:17:03.799 Jar for spending time with us this morning. Anyway, time 2262 02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:05.920 for us to get out of here, have a great 2263 02:17:06.000 --> 02:17:09.079 day and have a prosperous New York. I'll be back 2264 02:17:09.120 --> 02:17:11.639 on the thirtieth and thirty first filling in for Brian, 2265 02:17:11.760 --> 02:17:13.719 so have a great day. I'm Kevin Gordon in for 2266 02:17:13.760 --> 02:17:16.920 Brian Thomas. Fifty five krc DE Talk station,