Speaker 1: And now Kevin Gordon filling in for Brian Thomas on
Speaker 1: fifty five KOs the Talk Station.
Speaker 2: Four minutes after five o'clock, Kevin Gordon in for Brian
Speaker 2: Thomas fifty five k see the Talk Station. I guess,
Speaker 2: as the introduction had explained, I didn't need to repeat
Speaker 2: myself there, but okay I did. If you check my
Speaker 2: Facebook page, you'll notice that I posted today what my
Speaker 2: show guests for the day, and follow along with me
Speaker 2: if you will. We got basically news and views and
Speaker 2: probably can coax an opinion or two out of me
Speaker 2: over the next couple hours. Of course, you know I
Speaker 2: have an opinion. I'm not afraid to use it. Seven o'clock,
Speaker 2: we've got Chris Fickensure. He is the owner of Cookie
Speaker 2: Jar Bakery. We'll talk about his ninety seven year old
Speaker 2: business a Newport, Kentucky institution. At seven thirty five, we're
Speaker 2: going to be talking to Charlie Coach Coleman. Now he
Speaker 2: is a former county commissioner in Campbell County and was
Speaker 2: one of the last I guess conservative voices on Campbell
Speaker 2: County commission And now it's as as I refer to it,
Speaker 2: the people's Republic of Campbell County. He is, if you
Speaker 2: may may not know, he's a coach at Bellevue High
Speaker 2: School for a number of years, retired from them. Was
Speaker 2: doing that Northern Kentucky sports Legends on gosh, what was it,
Speaker 2: I think it was before time Warner, whichever iteration that was.
Speaker 2: And now he's in the process of writing a book
Speaker 2: about Northern Kentucky Legends. It's about to be published, so
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that a little bit. Also at the
Speaker 2: eight o'clock we're gonna be talking to Matt Donaho. He
Speaker 2: is the owner president of Madewell Restoration. I met this
Speaker 2: gentleman at our Christmas party on December the fourth, and
Speaker 2: we got to talking. It seems we know a lot
Speaker 2: of the same people. Young man owner of this company,
Speaker 2: made Well Restoration, and we were talking about this project
Speaker 2: that they did back in November for a World War
Speaker 2: Two veteran, and we'll talk about that. I just it
Speaker 2: was just if it's one of those things that when
Speaker 2: you talk about companies and people giving back and people
Speaker 2: doing the right thing this time of the well, actually
Speaker 2: any time of the year, it's always a good thing.
Speaker 2: And I thought, you know, what people need to hear
Speaker 2: about this story and know about this company, and so
Speaker 2: we'll go on from there. Now as far as the
Speaker 2: news of the day, I hope you all had a
Speaker 2: very good, happy and merry Christmas and looking forward to
Speaker 2: the festivities for the new year. I know that there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people in the hospitality industry that worked
Speaker 2: over the holidays and so they get those celebrations get
Speaker 2: pushed off to the next day or even the weekend.
Speaker 2: In my situation, we've got our son that lives up
Speaker 2: in Toledo and our granddaughter. She's got a birthday coming
Speaker 2: up on January the third, so kind of do something
Speaker 2: a little closer to that. So they're coming down this
Speaker 2: weekend and we're gonna be doing a little bit of
Speaker 2: the Christmas there. We got kids, our other our daughter
Speaker 2: lives in the Netherlands, and so we did a little
Speaker 2: facetiming yesterday, so kind of a quiet, quiet, I guess,
Speaker 2: quiet time around the household yesterday watching a lot of
Speaker 2: different movies. Got caught up on some of the movies
Speaker 2: I've been putting off this time of year. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you've got Christmas, you've got to watch. It's a
Speaker 2: wonderful life. You got to watch the Christmas Story. You
Speaker 2: got to at least watch that one time. Binge, what
Speaker 2: I know they've run that to twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful life was I guess you know they
Speaker 2: well they've run it a couple of times that I've seen,
Speaker 2: but we recorded it back in the first part of
Speaker 2: the Christmas season. Got to watch that. It was a
Speaker 2: really good, nice relaxing day. Did a little show prep
Speaker 2: yesterday and got all ready for today, and so I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to spending some time with you this morning,
Speaker 2: taking your phone calls and talking about the issues of
Speaker 2: the day. Looking at some of the headlines as I do. Well,
Speaker 2: you got to check the headlines when we first come
Speaker 2: in in the morning because you never know what is
Speaker 2: going to be transpiring overnight. You don't know what crazy
Speaker 2: stuff is going on. But I was surprised to see
Speaker 2: now usually around the Christmas period that there is always
Speaker 2: some sort of oh, a terrorist act. Now that you
Speaker 2: had that car that rammed into that Christmas what they
Speaker 2: call them Christmas markets over in Europe, and they're still
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what's going on with that. Obviously
Speaker 2: it was done on purpose, so an act of terrorism,
Speaker 2: but I didn't see anything here in the United States
Speaker 2: that would qualify for that. We had some football games
Speaker 2: yesterday and there is and I got admit, I was
Speaker 2: busy doing other things and I didn't watch the games,
Speaker 2: but there is an awful lot of blowback on Beyonce
Speaker 2: and Mariah Carey for their performances yesterday. Now I've never well,
Speaker 2: except for all I want for Christmas is you Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2: You know, I've never really been a big fan, but
Speaker 2: I'm not. You know, It's not like I don't like
Speaker 2: her or anything. It's just that I think she's overrated.
Speaker 2: I will say that. But the headline that caught my
Speaker 2: attention was, I guess she was the lead into looking
Speaker 2: at the video, she was the lead into the Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: Steelers Kansas City Chiefs game, kind of along the lines
Speaker 2: of what they do, you know, on Thursday night and
Speaker 2: Sunday night football, where they do the intro to that,
Speaker 2: and so they did this with her, and I saw
Speaker 2: the headline and I thought, oh, well, I'm going to
Speaker 2: look at this for myself. I'm going to make sure
Speaker 2: that I'm not just jumping on the bandwagon. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to base on what other people are saying. And
Speaker 2: the best description of it was she phoned it in.
Speaker 2: You could tell she was lip syncing. It wasn't any
Speaker 2: kind of a live act. It was basically her mouth
Speaker 2: and the words and doing all the the you know,
Speaker 2: they had all the different scenes from the times that
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and the Chiefs have played, and back and forth
Speaker 2: in between some of the I guess highlights of some
Speaker 2: of the past games or highlights of their the different
Speaker 2: things that the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 2: have done. And it was kind of like, why waste
Speaker 2: our time? You know, if you're not going to put
Speaker 2: any effort into it, if you're not gonna make any effort,
Speaker 2: why should we even pay any attention to it? And
Speaker 2: then apparently there was a halftime show by Beyonce, which
Speaker 2: I watched getting ready for today, and I'm like, what
Speaker 2: the hell was the point of that? I you know,
Speaker 2: I am so tired of all the pyrotechnics and all
Speaker 2: the dancers and all the stuff, the distractions in the back.
Speaker 2: Remember the good old days when it was just about
Speaker 2: the music, when it was about the artist performing the song,
Speaker 2: and then you could actually see what they were doing.
Speaker 2: But it's all covered up now between the lip syncing,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I couldn't really tell whether she was
Speaker 2: lip syncing or I was looking out on my phone.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's all unnecessary, it's just all fluff.
Speaker 2: It's just I want to when I go to IF,
Speaker 2: I IF, and when I go to a concert, I
Speaker 2: want to watch the band. I want to watch them
Speaker 2: sing the songs that I like. I don't want all
Speaker 2: the other distractions. I don't want all the other stuff.
Speaker 2: And I don't want people sitting next to me singing
Speaker 2: the words. If I want to go and hear them sing,
Speaker 2: I will follow them home. I'm here to hear the artist,
Speaker 2: not somebody else singing. But you know, that's just me.
Speaker 2: By the way, the phone numbers seven five one three,
Speaker 2: seven four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight
Speaker 2: two three talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight
Speaker 2: two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T
Speaker 2: wireless phone. And I just it's just I don't know
Speaker 2: these these artists and what they try to do and
Speaker 2: how they try to make everybody. It's like, you know,
Speaker 2: and when you listen to some of these songs on
Speaker 2: the radio, anymore. It's like, well, what's the difference between
Speaker 2: this song and somebody else. It's almost like you cannot
Speaker 2: hear the other people singing, You can't hear the words,
Speaker 2: you can't hear you know, they all sound alike. It's
Speaker 2: just annoying to me. And I know that's why I
Speaker 2: spend too much time, or a lot of time listening
Speaker 2: to talk radio. Because again, if you're talking about as
Speaker 2: I've mentioned several times before, if you're talking about reality television,
Speaker 2: it doesn't get any more real than what we've experienced
Speaker 2: over the last actually at least twenty four months or better, well,
Speaker 2: going even back to twenty fifteen when Donald Trump came
Speaker 2: down that escalator. You talk about the real world experiences
Speaker 2: and all the carping back and forth and all the
Speaker 2: accusations and all the lies, all the hoaxes, everything that
Speaker 2: has gone on, that is better than any reality television
Speaker 2: show that I think I've ever seen or even heard of.
Speaker 2: And so when you break down what happens in your
Speaker 2: real life, that is far more interesting and far more
Speaker 2: exciting than anything that they could produce on the television.
Speaker 2: And it's just a I don't know, maybe it's just
Speaker 2: me maybe I'm just crazy, but you know, we know
Speaker 2: that already having a little bit difficulties with our computers
Speaker 2: this morning. I hope not missing any calls right now,
Speaker 2: but yeah, we'll get it together here during the break
Speaker 2: or thereabouts. The phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound,
Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk
Speaker 2: stage five nineteen in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station. You know,
Speaker 2: I cannot wait till January the twentieth. I I have
Speaker 2: been looking forward to the US for a long time.
Speaker 2: I get as you may know I do. America struck
Speaker 2: a network on our sister station, and over the period
Speaker 2: of the last few years, you look at certain trends
Speaker 2: as far as what's going on in the energy sector,
Speaker 2: because again energy effects gas diesel affects the trucking community
Speaker 2: as well. It affects us in terms of our commute.
Speaker 2: It affects us at all. The energy prices. If you
Speaker 2: look at your electric bill, you look at the companies.
Speaker 2: I mean, isn't there isn't a business that isn't subject
Speaker 2: to energy price increases. Right here at the station, we've
Speaker 2: got all the all the lights into the station here,
Speaker 2: so we've got the electricity there, the electricity that powers
Speaker 2: some of these manufacturing facilities and keeping lights on there.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're a doctor, a lawyer, or
Speaker 2: a hospital. All of it is based on energy. That's
Speaker 2: one common dominated throughout the economy. So when the energy
Speaker 2: prices go up, and when you have an administration like
Speaker 2: we have as far as the Biden administration that has
Speaker 2: jumped full uh full on headlong into unproven technology, this
Speaker 2: green news steal as I call it, as far as wind.
Speaker 2: So I'm not opposed to those, but if you're going
Speaker 2: to have those, make it so that it's feasible that
Speaker 2: it is available, that it is on a basis of
Speaker 2: where you can use it on an ongoing basis. Don't
Speaker 2: have a situation where you know what we're what they're
Speaker 2: experiencing in Europe right now, it's eased up a little
Speaker 2: bit there over the last couple of weeks, but you
Speaker 2: had this blast of weather there where it was beginning
Speaker 2: to be a much colder than anticipated winter, and it
Speaker 2: really I mean, shoot, we didn't even winter began this
Speaker 2: pass that we go, well, this past Saturday on the
Speaker 2: twenty first, at four something like twenty one in the morning,
Speaker 2: and so we are now officially into winter officially, but
Speaker 2: if you go back in the Greater Insane Northern Kentucky area,
Speaker 2: we've had snow flurries, and we've did have I don't
Speaker 2: think we've really I know, we haven't had any accumulation
Speaker 2: on the sidewalks. They haven't had to go out and
Speaker 2: scrape that off from my neighbors and make sure that
Speaker 2: they're safe. But over in Europe they've had the same thing.
Speaker 2: They've had a very large cold spell. And along with that,
Speaker 2: with the fact that they have gone feet first, headlong
Speaker 2: into this green technology, they've closed a lot of their
Speaker 2: coal burning power plants, they've started ratcheting back on nuclear energy,
Speaker 2: and they've started being more dependent upon windmills and solar
Speaker 2: panels and getting natural gas from Russia. And so when
Speaker 2: this cold spell came through, the wind wasn't blowing, so
Speaker 2: the electricity that was available wasn't there, and they had
Speaker 2: to rely on some of their sources, their backup sources
Speaker 2: for that. We've seen certain instances where with the solar
Speaker 2: panels where they are not at certain temperatures, not as
Speaker 2: efficient as they should be, and so you're not getting
Speaker 2: the bang for your buck there. And so we've got
Speaker 2: this all in the favor of this green technology, all
Speaker 2: in the favor of saving the planet. And as I've
Speaker 2: mentioned several times before in this probably you've heard this before,
Speaker 2: where if you look at the environmental movement, it has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with saving the planet. It has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with preserving things. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: it has more to do with control. Where you work,
Speaker 2: how you work, where you live, how you live, how
Speaker 2: you cook your food, what food you can eat, how
Speaker 2: far you can drive with these e and everything is
Speaker 2: all about control. And that has more to do with
Speaker 2: communism socialism than it does with a free capital and
Speaker 2: capitalism society. And so I just mashed the two together.
Speaker 2: Environmentalism has become the new communism. So I just call
Speaker 2: it climunism. And because of this climunism that has affected
Speaker 2: so much of the stuff of what we do as
Speaker 2: opposed to making sure that what is available and that
Speaker 2: we that of what is being converted or what is
Speaker 2: being used is ready for prime time. You don't go
Speaker 2: jumping into something. You don't eliminate a market, You don't
Speaker 2: eliminate an entire technology or do away with it, or
Speaker 2: what they call in terms of this demand destruction, where
Speaker 2: you eliminate a particular segment in favor of something else.
Speaker 2: And I'll explain a lot about that when we come
Speaker 2: up coming up, because this whole demand destruction that we
Speaker 2: keep hearing about is a term that I had not
Speaker 2: really heard much about until about a year or so
Speaker 2: ago when they started talking about demand destruction with internal
Speaker 2: combustion engines, demand destruction as far as coal fire plants
Speaker 2: and all of the movement towards this green news Steel
Speaker 2: phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five
Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight
Speaker 2: hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five
Speaker 2: point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the talk station five
Speaker 2: point twenty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station. As we
Speaker 2: try to continue to fix our little computer problems here.
Speaker 2: I believe that the the phone lines are working, so
Speaker 2: I'll give those phone numbers out rather than teasing you
Speaker 2: with something that doesn't work. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four,
Speaker 2: nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three
Speaker 2: talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five
Speaker 2: five pound five point fifty on that AT and T
Speaker 2: wireless phone. So, UH, give us a call here and
Speaker 2: see what's on your mind. Now again, looking forward to
Speaker 2: January the twentieth, Uh, I am seeing an awful lot
Speaker 2: of good. I'm seeing a lot of things that are
Speaker 2: giving me hope in terms of what is going to transpire.
Speaker 2: I think that this administration this time around, he knows
Speaker 2: the ins and out. He knows I think pretty much,
Speaker 2: who he can trust, who he can't trust, and UH
Speaker 2: as he attempts to get the UH the economy back
Speaker 2: on track, as attempts to get everything going again. It's
Speaker 2: interesting to see some of the comments from the spoon
Speaker 2: fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. It seems as though
Speaker 2: that they even though that they have been proven wrong
Speaker 2: time and time and time again, that somehow they think
Speaker 2: that people are listening to them. And when you look
Speaker 2: at the ratings for MSNBC, CNN and realize that their viewers,
Speaker 2: that they've lost almost fifty percent or more of their viewers,
Speaker 2: they still haven't gotten it. They still haven't gotten the idea.
Speaker 2: They still haven't gotten the clue, the fact that whatever
Speaker 2: they've been regurgitating to the American public, the American public
Speaker 2: isn't buying it, that they're not paying attention to them anymore.
Speaker 2: And when you think about what Donald Trump has managed
Speaker 2: to do since as far as being president and being
Speaker 2: in the spotlight on you know, NonStop, pretty much since
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, is the fact of how many people he
Speaker 2: has basically embarrassed and pushed off to the side, not
Speaker 2: the least of which at this point, you know, Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, all these people
Speaker 2: are irrelevant the media. We talk about this, I talk
Speaker 2: about the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. They
Speaker 2: are no longer relevant. You talked about ninety five percent
Speaker 2: of the coverage of this this man has been negative,
Speaker 2: and still they were not able to break through and
Speaker 2: break him down. You go to the law fair and
Speaker 2: everything you know, it's all the stuff that we have
Speaker 2: seen for the last nine years. It's just incredible and
Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting to see what transpires. And
Speaker 2: of course, you know with these with all these pardons
Speaker 2: that are coming out from the world, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. Well, let's go to the phones real quick.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Linda Linda fifty five care see. Uh well,
Speaker 2: I guess happy day after Christmas. I hope your Christmas
Speaker 2: went well. Welcome to the program. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: Oh our Christmas. Trump in the White House, I know it,
Speaker 3: I know it. We keep our fingers crashed and nothing happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might as well be because I think the
Speaker 2: car will be interesting.
Speaker 3: I think that president that's in the White House checked
Speaker 3: out when he moved in.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, according to that one report from the Washington
Speaker 2: or the Wall Street Journal for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I just I called because you have to do
Speaker 3: all this talking this morning, and I thought, well, I'm
Speaker 3: going to call him just say something that I heard.
Speaker 3: You know, Ram Paul comes out with his list of
Speaker 3: all the terrible spending that they're doing, which I thought
Speaker 3: was really interesting. And then I heard that they went
Speaker 3: ahead and passed the money for a new stadium in Washington,
Speaker 3: and I went, oh, that's good. Now we want to stadium.
Speaker 3: And I went, oh, that's good too, more tax money.
Speaker 3: And all I can say is whatever Trump does, he's
Speaker 3: going to have a hard, hard, hard time doing it.
Speaker 3: And the American people really have got to stand up
Speaker 3: and be on these phones with the senators and representatives.
Speaker 3: I know that that's real important. I learned that in
Speaker 3: the tea party. You've got to get those slips down
Speaker 3: there so that they have a stack of them so
Speaker 3: they say, oh, this is important to the people anyway.
Speaker 3: And I just called to say happy New Year.
Speaker 2: To you, thanks, thank you so much, you know, And
Speaker 2: it really doesn't take that much. I mean, if you have,
Speaker 2: you know, if you know your senator congressman's name, or
Speaker 2: even if you don't, you can call the switchboard and
Speaker 2: they'll ask him. They're very, very efficient about that getting
Speaker 2: you to the right voicemail and you can leave a
Speaker 2: voicemail or leave a comment and you're not on anybody's
Speaker 2: radar screen. That's not going to be any blowback to you.
Speaker 2: And if they get fifteen to twenty five forty phone
Speaker 2: calls from people, that gets their attention and all this
Speaker 2: port that we've been seeing and ran Paul God bless
Speaker 2: them with his festive US report. It is just incredible.
Speaker 2: If you want to talk about the efficiency as a government,
Speaker 2: start with that. Start with is that the Office of
Speaker 2: Management and Budget that every year comes out with some
Speaker 2: of the wasteful spending and they do their own report.
Speaker 2: Let's start with those areas. Now that's not going to
Speaker 2: get us the two trillion dollars, but it's going to
Speaker 2: be a start.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I cannot help but think that there's
Speaker 3: with all the empty office space in Washington that we
Speaker 3: are paying for, just start cutting all of that crap. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just thinking how much money would go away from our
Speaker 3: ceiling there that I just think that it's common sense.
Speaker 3: And I don't think that these senators and representatives they
Speaker 3: went to school, they're lawyers. They don't have any common sense.
Speaker 2: No, they don't. And I think one of the things
Speaker 2: is is that these people need to get back to
Speaker 2: the office. I don't think we shouldn't be having those
Speaker 2: empty offices. They need to get back to work and
Speaker 2: they need to be there and be able to and
Speaker 2: there needs to be something in terms of how productive
Speaker 2: they are actually being because when you see some of
Speaker 2: these stories about the what was it a couple of years,
Speaker 2: four or five years ago that they looked at the
Speaker 2: Justice Department lawyers and something like ninety five percent of
Speaker 2: their day was spent looking at porn. Absolutely, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just unbelievable. And there's no you know, I question
Speaker 2: here at the station if I happen to tap on
Speaker 2: something that there's a couple of those what is it
Speaker 2: the Sun his paper out of the UK. Sometimes there's
Speaker 2: some kind of risky risk a pictures on that I
Speaker 2: you know, I keep trying to stay to the stories
Speaker 2: instead of some of those pictures that going along with it.
Speaker 2: Figuring out that somebody's going to look at that and say, hey, Kevin,
Speaker 2: what the hell you looking at here? And it's just
Speaker 2: and yet nobody's checking their uh, their search engines or
Speaker 2: search history and all that. It's just insanity.
Speaker 3: Well, in closing, I'm going to get off of here.
Speaker 3: I just want to say to the American public or
Speaker 3: whoever's listening, let's support our president and the administration that
Speaker 3: he has by being involved. And let's not forget FEMA
Speaker 3: is not helping North Carolina or Georgia.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Glinda, thank you so much. You have a merry
Speaker 2: Chris or a happy new Year. We're beyond Christmas now,
Speaker 2: happy new Year, all right, take care, thank you so much. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh I'm late for a break here. Let's give the
Speaker 2: phone numbers now five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty
Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred A two three talk one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound,
Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr See the talk
Speaker 2: station five forty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk station phone
Speaker 2: numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight
Speaker 2: two three eight two, five five pound, five point fifty
Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. You know, when I look
Speaker 2: at some of these newscasts and I start seeing some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that's being said by the left, it
Speaker 2: amazes well, it's laughable anymore. We had what was the
Speaker 2: big flap last week that uh Elon Muss is the
Speaker 2: president and they're trying to go Trump into getting upset
Speaker 2: and trying to poke him a little bit. Yet we've
Speaker 2: had and we saw the Wall Street Journal report last
Speaker 2: week that came out that this administration has been checked
Speaker 2: out within the first couple of months of being sworn
Speaker 2: into office. The reason he was hidden in the basement
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty was that he couldn't go on the
Speaker 2: campaign trail, that he didn't have the mental faculties to
Speaker 2: do that. They talk about Jill Biden being out on
Speaker 2: the campaign trail more than him, and yet this was
Speaker 2: hidden from the people. And you have all of these
Speaker 2: spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, and I call
Speaker 2: them that for a reason. All they do is get
Speaker 2: the talking points from the DNC or from the podium
Speaker 2: or whoever, and then because they are liberal themselves, they
Speaker 2: are going to prop up their guy or their person,
Speaker 2: and they are going to run with whatever the dialogue
Speaker 2: that's given to them to regurgitate to us. They're not
Speaker 2: doing any of this independent analysis. And I have to
Speaker 2: laugh now when I hear some of these people coming
Speaker 2: out and saying, gosh, I wish that I had spoken
Speaker 2: up sooner. Well, right there, that person should immediately be
Speaker 2: fired because they are not a independent news analyst. At
Speaker 2: that point, they are not a reporter. They didn't do
Speaker 2: their job, and why do you think they're going to
Speaker 2: do their job going forward? When you look at the
Speaker 2: amount of lies that were told to us about you know,
Speaker 2: Joe Scarborough, you saw, I'm sure the rant that he did.
Speaker 2: You know, if you can't handle this fu this is
Speaker 2: the best And this was a month before he actually
Speaker 2: within two or three weeks before he exited the stage.
Speaker 2: As far as open up the door for Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: this is the best version of Joe Biden ever, all
Speaker 2: the lies about he runs rings around people that he
Speaker 2: is the sharpest one in the room, all of these lies.
Speaker 2: None of these people, from the person in karreem Jean Pierre,
Speaker 2: to anybody in the cabinet, there shouldn't be any of
Speaker 2: these people anywhere connected with our government ever. Again, they
Speaker 2: have done away with their fiduciary responsibility to the American people.
Speaker 2: There should have been that twenty fifth amendment that people
Speaker 2: get together and say that the president is incompetent. And
Speaker 2: then you know, not that I wanted Kamala Harris to
Speaker 2: be president. I think that would have been an even
Speaker 2: bigger disaster. But again, it's the law, it's the way
Speaker 2: things are supposed to be done, and we have to
Speaker 2: ask the question. We need to find out who has
Speaker 2: been making these decisions. I believe that has been Barack
Speaker 2: Obama pulling the strings. I believe it's people like Susan
Speaker 2: Rice and some of these other people in the administration.
Speaker 2: The look at the close advisors, the senior advisors to
Speaker 2: the president. Do you think that any of these things
Speaker 2: that the executive orders that he signed, that he was
Speaker 2: competent enough to sign those, And I think most of
Speaker 2: those could be overturned. I think if you you know,
Speaker 2: based on the Wall Street Journal report, everything has been
Speaker 2: a fraud about this presidency, and if the president isn't
Speaker 2: the one in charge, then anything that has happened as
Speaker 2: a result of so called the president saying certain things
Speaker 2: or signing pieces of legislation. You know, if you've got
Speaker 2: an elderly person that is found to be dementia ridden
Speaker 2: and they try to sign a contract, that's an all
Speaker 2: and void. So everything that he is done, everything he's
Speaker 2: done for the last four years, should be null and void.
Speaker 2: And we go back to what it was at the
Speaker 2: end of the Trump administration. So again, uh five to
Speaker 2: one to three phone a little bit late for a break.
Speaker 2: I'm doing it once again. Five one three, seven four
Speaker 2: nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three
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Speaker 2: You know, I do not think the people, and it
Speaker 2: takes some thinking about this because you know, when you
Speaker 2: look back when he came down the escalator in August
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen and from that point on, how many attacks
Speaker 2: there's been on this person. There have been attacks on
Speaker 2: his integrity, attacks on whether or not he's telling the truth.
Speaker 2: You go through the whole thing about the Russia hoax,
Speaker 2: the Ukraine hoax, the phone call hoax, all of these
Speaker 2: things that have been thrown at him, these fake indictments,
Speaker 2: these fake dragging him into court with that Egene Carroll
Speaker 2: and the defamation lawsuit. Every one of these is going
Speaker 2: to be overturned by the Supreme Court, and everything is
Speaker 2: going to find that there was nothing done and that
Speaker 2: there should never have been these cases should have never
Speaker 2: been brought. And then when you look at all of
Speaker 2: the talking about these other people, these other news networks,
Speaker 2: and all of the lies that they have spilled over
Speaker 2: the last nine years, it's all by the way, you've
Speaker 2: got a guy that has destroyed what they call legacy media.
Speaker 2: They are no longer relevant at all. It showed how
Speaker 2: irrelevant they were by the results of the election. It
Speaker 2: is proven by the amount of viewership and listeners that
Speaker 2: all the liberal outlets have lost over the period of
Speaker 2: time since the election. It's indicative of the fact that
Speaker 2: they're talking about spinning off MSNBC the time, is looking
Speaker 2: to sell CNN. At one time, CNN was the crown
Speaker 2: jewel of news, that it was the go to outlet
Speaker 2: to get the news. How far they have fallen. And
Speaker 2: then Trump has proven Hillary Clinton to be a fraud,
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris a fraud, Biden a fraud, Obama a fraud.
Speaker 2: And look what happened during the campaign. Two point five
Speaker 2: billion dollars that was wasted. Don't get me wrong, I
Speaker 2: love the fact that these rich people from the Democratic
Speaker 2: side wasted that money on her campaign, but were lied
Speaker 2: to buy the campaign, buy the DNC that hey, we've
Speaker 2: got this in the bag. It almost reminds me of Vietnam.
Speaker 2: Of the people in the cabinet. De Lynn and Johnson's
Speaker 2: people were telling us, hey, you know, we're just a
Speaker 2: month away from victory. Here, we've got this in the bag.
Speaker 2: We're going to win, all to to find out that
Speaker 2: it was all a lie. Now, if you're a donor,
Speaker 2: do you want to give to a bunch of people
Speaker 2: that are going to be lying to you? And then
Speaker 2: we see what a fraud Oprah Winfrey was, when we
Speaker 2: see what a fraud Bruce Springsteen was, the fact that
Speaker 2: these people get on stage and it appears is that
Speaker 2: they are endorsing Kamala Harris, and then we come to
Speaker 2: find out how much money they were paid. Why does
Speaker 2: Al Sharpton will have a job. He did an interview
Speaker 2: and was paid five hundred thousand dollars to do that interview.
Speaker 2: Do you think that that was a fair and balanced interview?
Speaker 2: Do you think that the people that watched that got
Speaker 2: the truth, that got hard hitting questions and then even
Speaker 2: coming onto the view, the disastrous question was to be
Speaker 2: anything that you could do that would have been different. Uh,
Speaker 2: I can't think of anything. I even the view. Why
Speaker 2: are they still on the air, all the lies that
Speaker 2: they have told. If you can't depend on certain outlets
Speaker 2: to give it to you straight, to give you the
Speaker 2: accurate information, they have no business being in business. Coming up,
Speaker 2: we got the top of the hour. We'll be discussing
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of things that we want to get to.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon Inver. I'll give you the phone numbers
Speaker 2: five one to three, seven four, nine, fifty five one
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three two three eight two five
Speaker 2: five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gorton in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs the
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Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
Speaker 1: fifty five KOs the talk station.
Speaker 2: Six oh five. As we roll into this Thursday morning,
Speaker 2: the day after Christmas, the second day of Christmas, I
Speaker 2: might add, you know this whole business, and you know
Speaker 2: they talk about the twelve days of Christmas and the song,
Speaker 2: and everybody kind of has a tendency of thinking that
Speaker 2: the twelve days of Christmas are actually the twelve days
Speaker 2: before Christmas, when in actuality it's the twelve Days of Christmas.
Speaker 2: The first day of Christmas begins on Christmas Day and
Speaker 2: runs up to what they can all the Twelfth Night,
Speaker 2: which is the night before the Epiphany, which is January
Speaker 2: the sixth. And so the fact that we're not out
Speaker 2: of the Christmas season yet everybody kind of I know
Speaker 2: some people that like the day after Christmas. There are
Speaker 2: people that are taking down their Christmas decorations already, and
Speaker 2: it really kind of rushes the season now. I know that,
Speaker 2: you know, you have the Thanksgiving and then once after
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving begins or ends, then you have the Black Friday,
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday, and all of the sales that go on
Speaker 2: you see year after year. How I mean, it's almost
Speaker 2: like after Labor Day now they start putting out some
Speaker 2: of the Christmas decorations. They don't even get to get
Speaker 2: through the or the Halloween festivities or the Halloween season
Speaker 2: before they start putting stuff in the stores for these
Speaker 2: Christmas sales, trying to boost as much of the Christmas
Speaker 2: sales as they can. Because businesses, most retail establishments don't
Speaker 2: start turning a profit until the month of December. That's
Speaker 2: why they called it Black Friday because it's from that
Speaker 2: point on where the companies start turning a profit and
Speaker 2: start making money for their year end, and so they
Speaker 2: try to extend that out. Plus, this year we had
Speaker 2: what five less shopping days because Thanksgiving was so late
Speaker 2: in the year, and so that cut down the holiday season.
Speaker 2: It created a little bit of problem. As far as
Speaker 2: people trying to buy gifts online. I can tell you
Speaker 2: that I have not. I mean here in the Gordon household,
Speaker 2: we do not. We have been doing more and more online,
Speaker 2: but we have kind of not one of the how
Speaker 2: should I say we're not We weren't quick to jump
Speaker 2: on the bandwagon there because a lot of the stuff
Speaker 2: that we buy, it's almost like you want to look
Speaker 2: at it, feel it, examine it, because it's just a
Speaker 2: different way of buying. And we've gotten more and more
Speaker 2: into the online shopping over the last I would say
Speaker 2: five years or so, and this year in particular, the
Speaker 2: amount of frustration that we experienced as far as getting
Speaker 2: stuff on time, delivered, when promised, and then once you
Speaker 2: get the merchandise itself, that it doesn't live up to
Speaker 2: the expectations. We've gone to the extent of I have
Speaker 2: tried to buy a pair of shoes, a particular pair
Speaker 2: of shoes. I think this is now the fifth time
Speaker 2: that I bought that pair. Had to return it, and
Speaker 2: of course they have now some of this restocking fee
Speaker 2: that they want to charge you for shipping bringing it back.
Speaker 2: So I wind up taking it back to the individual
Speaker 2: stores themselves. But when they tell you that, you know,
Speaker 2: a size is a certain size, and they say, if
Speaker 2: your normal size is such that it either runs big
Speaker 2: or runs small, so do size up, size down, that
Speaker 2: doesn't work. My wife has sent had to send back
Speaker 2: two coats because they told her that the size was wrong.
Speaker 2: You know that the size if you're in this particular size,
Speaker 2: you want to size up because these run small. Not
Speaker 2: the case, and so I have shoot, I can remember
Speaker 2: being a kid, and even to this day, people cannot Well,
Speaker 2: it's very difficult to buy clothes for me because whatever
Speaker 2: size I am, you know, the waist size, length, size,
Speaker 2: end zeame that it depends on the brand, it depends
Speaker 2: on the manufacture. In some cases, within the manufacture itself,
Speaker 2: there are difference in sizing. And usually if I'm going
Speaker 2: to buy it pants, I go to the store, I
Speaker 2: buy you know, I get about three or four pairs
Speaker 2: of them, take them into the fitting room, and it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Some of them are like a quarter of an inch
Speaker 2: or a half an inch too long in the end scene.
Speaker 2: Some of them are a little that the waistband isn't
Speaker 2: isn't quite as wide, and it's and it's tighter. It's
Speaker 2: a tighter fit, and when you hold them up and
Speaker 2: you hold them side by side, you notice that there
Speaker 2: is a difference in the size. So having to try
Speaker 2: on the clothes, having to try on the shoes. Generally
Speaker 2: I can get by with with shirts. I don't have
Speaker 2: much of a problem in that way, but when I
Speaker 2: do see certain items that I think will fit, sometimes
Speaker 2: they don't. And it's been a very frustrating season this
Speaker 2: year as far as online buying online purchases, as well
Speaker 2: as the frustration with when they say a certain item
Speaker 2: will be available and then how soon you can get it.
Speaker 2: That is, you know, overnight or they say next day
Speaker 2: shipping or two three days extends sometimes almost into a week.
Speaker 2: And there's been some stores where we went to buy
Speaker 2: something it was available, it wasn't available in the store.
Speaker 2: They said that the closest place there wasn't any available
Speaker 2: in Columbus. There wasn't anything available anywhere in the Cincinnati area.
Speaker 2: The only place that had anything in stock was up
Speaker 2: in Dayton. So we went ahead and ordered this item,
Speaker 2: these actually three items online and we go back and
Speaker 2: check the account. The next day, order processing, next day,
Speaker 2: order processing, the day after that, order processing to the
Speaker 2: point where and it was going to be something that
Speaker 2: was going to be available or delivered within three days.
Speaker 2: And so we even at we actually went to the
Speaker 2: part of buying the item and paying for a wrap
Speaker 2: express shipping that would have gotten there overnight or not
Speaker 2: quite overnight, but two days. And so I kept seeing
Speaker 2: order processing, order processing, and after seven days they canceled
Speaker 2: the order because they said they were out of stock. Now,
Speaker 2: that is a crappy way of running a business. That
Speaker 2: is a crappy method of running a business. And quite honestly,
Speaker 2: if that is the way this e marketing is going
Speaker 2: to do, and I don't if you're if it's not convenient,
Speaker 2: if it's not going to get to you on time,
Speaker 2: if you're not going to be satisfied with that item,
Speaker 2: then my wife was saying, she says, you know what,
Speaker 2: I've almost had it with this e shopping to the
Speaker 2: point where I'm going to start at least well, there's
Speaker 2: three or four vendors right now that we won't buy
Speaker 2: online from. We will actually go to the store. And
Speaker 2: depending upon what you're buying, I don't care if it's
Speaker 2: uh so, you know some of these decorative soap dispensers
Speaker 2: or anything that has any kind of a painting on it.
Speaker 2: Go to the store sometime and look at that item,
Speaker 2: and look at each one of the items. Now, in
Speaker 2: a lot of instances, I don't know if there's some
Speaker 2: sort of a process or if it's part a handmade
Speaker 2: or hand painted or something. But the difference between one
Speaker 2: product versus another, and you see where something is not
Speaker 2: as shiny, something is a different color, something is the
Speaker 2: shine isn't the same, or the painting isn't the same.
Speaker 2: It's just incredible. And if you pay attention to these things,
Speaker 2: and if you're picky that way, then you look. You
Speaker 2: got to go and actually look at the autem because
Speaker 2: so many times you get that homet go, who the
Speaker 2: hell would put this in a box? And to the
Speaker 2: extent of I've well, one of the pairs of shoes
Speaker 2: that I bought. I opened the box and it looked
Speaker 2: like somebody had worn them all and they were they
Speaker 2: were scuffed up. So it's this online shopping. If they
Speaker 2: you know, of course, they're gonna blame the supply chain
Speaker 2: and they're gonna supply and complain about this, that and
Speaker 2: the other thing. But it basically boils down to the
Speaker 2: quality control within the organizations themselves, and if they don't
Speaker 2: get their act together, they're gonna have some serious problems.
Speaker 2: Phone numbers seven four nine, Dick, we'll get to you
Speaker 2: right after the break. Phone number seven four nine, five
Speaker 2: one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred one eight
Speaker 2: hundred eight two three Talk one eight hundred eight two
Speaker 2: three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT
Speaker 2: and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 2: along with Danny Gleeson. Fifty five krs The talk station
Speaker 2: six nineteen in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: fifty five kr see the talk station. Let's go to Bobby, Bobby,
Speaker 2: fifty five kr. See uh, thanks for calling. I hope
Speaker 2: you had a merry Christmas and so far towards a
Speaker 2: happy New Year. How are you this morning? Cavin.
Speaker 5: A simple thank you can't express our true feelings of
Speaker 5: appreciation because you're always holding that torture freedom high and
Speaker 5: bright every day.
Speaker 2: My brother, thank you, thank you, thank you. I really
Speaker 2: appreciate that. I really appreciate that. Yeah, I you know,
Speaker 2: it's one of those things of where we are in
Speaker 2: some we are in some exciting times, and I don't
Speaker 2: think people a lot of people have the full appreciation
Speaker 2: of what we have witness what we are witnessing, and
Speaker 2: the transformation that we're seeing. As far as this country
Speaker 2: is concerned. I think that when you look at these
Speaker 2: past four years, you know, the left is going to
Speaker 2: whine if there's any investigations, and I think there needs
Speaker 2: to be a whole slew of investigations because if the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal report last week was accurate and that
Speaker 2: they showed signs of dementia at two months into his
Speaker 2: presidency and they didn't institute the twenty fifth Amendment, folks,
Speaker 2: we have a constitutional crisis on our hand. We have
Speaker 2: a group of people who basically hajacked the presidency, started
Speaker 2: hiding information from him, insulated him, and were making decisions
Speaker 2: and they weren't elected. And so you talk about a
Speaker 2: threat to democracy. That is what we've been experiencing for
Speaker 2: the last four years.
Speaker 5: I just hope people aren't complacent because these individuals on
Speaker 5: the left, because we don't have due dog Democrats anymore. No,
Speaker 5: but these people on the left, they're just in shock
Speaker 5: and all right now. They are not going to relinquish
Speaker 5: any type of power they think they can get. And
Speaker 5: coming up to January sixth on the certification, how they
Speaker 5: change to the security and everything around the Capitol, it
Speaker 5: always makes me wonder Capital Police and the place of
Speaker 5: the deep excuse me, DC, they're uncle have control anymore,
Speaker 5: Uh huh, secret services.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I certainly hope that there isn't any type
Speaker 2: of things going on within the deep state that would
Speaker 2: try to prevent anything from going on, that they would
Speaker 2: allow something to get out of control, or anything that
Speaker 2: would interfere with that. And because you know, it boils
Speaker 2: down to Bobby. You look at everything that the Democrats,
Speaker 2: everything that the Liberals have been claiming, everything that they
Speaker 2: have accused Republicans of even for the last decade or so,
Speaker 2: it's stuff that they're already doing. I don't care if
Speaker 2: it's the Russian hoax. They were the ones with the
Speaker 2: Russian hoax. You look at how many of these Seriously,
Speaker 2: how many of these democrats have SA GUIVERA T shirts
Speaker 2: in their closets. There isn't a democrat out there that
Speaker 2: doesn't love communism or doesn't have some affiliation with or
Speaker 2: a soft spot in their heart for communism. Well, is
Speaker 2: putin more of a capitalist? Is he more of a
Speaker 2: of a democratic leader? Or is he a communist dictator?
Speaker 2: So who's cozying up to? Who there?
Speaker 5: That's just like the January sixth committee. You look at
Speaker 5: all of them. They are enemies of the state. That's
Speaker 5: how I see it. And there's no reaching across the aisle.
Speaker 5: I see those individual which, as you know, their enemies
Speaker 5: of the state. Now you can go right down the
Speaker 5: list of them. If they've committed crimes against the state,
Speaker 5: they need to be prosecuted by the state.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And of course, and of course the left is
Speaker 2: going to whine the weaponization of the Justice Department and
Speaker 2: all of that nonsense. Well, what have we been experiencing
Speaker 2: over the last actually nine years during when when President Trump,
Speaker 2: when he first announced that he was running for president.
Speaker 2: I mean, we had the we had the FBI and
Speaker 2: the CIA, spying on him almost from day one. I
Speaker 2: just unbelievable.
Speaker 5: It's no different than the contractors that were out there
Speaker 5: on the Capitol grounds. You know, they said, there's only
Speaker 5: twenty six of them. Yeah, give me a break. It
Speaker 5: was about thirteen that put up the gallows six o'clock
Speaker 5: in the morning that day. That didn't nobody took down.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And you look at some of the footage
Speaker 2: of the number of people the Capitol police that were
Speaker 2: breaking down the barriers and ushering people in, directing them
Speaker 2: as to where to go. The fact that you know,
Speaker 2: and I love how the FBI, when they're being questioned,
Speaker 2: they say, are you asking me if there were any
Speaker 2: FBI agents, any playing clothes or whatever. They're always careful
Speaker 2: to to speak their words specifically no, but if they're
Speaker 2: paid informants, paid gang members. I would love to know
Speaker 2: how many of the people there, and I would love
Speaker 2: to see the pictures of the people that were prosecuted
Speaker 2: versus the pictures of the people that were actually doing
Speaker 2: the destruction. And I guarantee you that there's an awful
Speaker 2: lot of people from Antifa that were part of that
Speaker 2: crowd that were stirring things up and not the actual
Speaker 2: Trump people.
Speaker 5: If a person wants to be able to look through
Speaker 5: the archives of photos, look at the individuals that took
Speaker 5: the fences down and orchestrated a lot of the problems.
Speaker 5: A lot of them were.
Speaker 4: Wearing Bulwick coveralls.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Period.
Speaker 5: If you look at those individuals that were wearing those
Speaker 5: the day before, you'll see it.
Speaker 2: Well, Bobby, thank you so much. You have a very
Speaker 2: happy new Year, and look forward to talking. And I'll
Speaker 2: be back on on the thirtieth and thirty first, so
Speaker 2: look forward to talking to you then as well. Dick,
Speaker 2: I swear we're going to get to you after the break.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five krc
Speaker 2: DE talk station six twenty nine in the morning. Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, but five Carosee the talk station.
Speaker 2: Let's take a quick chat with Dick here, Dick from
Speaker 2: Dayton Fitt five. Dick, how are you? How is your Christmas?
Speaker 6: Good? Good? Good?
Speaker 7: Good to talk to you, Kevin, Hello to Danny. I
Speaker 7: had a good Christmas.
Speaker 2: Buddy, Yeah, yeah, Well I don't know.
Speaker 7: As you probably don't. My friend she U girlfriend, she
Speaker 7: had to go to a nursing home, her legs were bad,
Speaker 7: she got sick, and yeah, it's been different. You know,
Speaker 7: I've watched a little cat here. But she's doing really
Speaker 7: well over there. She's doing uh, it's really good. She's
Speaker 7: getting taken care of there because one of her friends
Speaker 7: from Kettering Health comes in here, you know, during the week.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 7: Her daughter came down to God bless her from Columbus
Speaker 7: and we had a little party and then uh, the dinner,
Speaker 7: I mean the Thanksgiving dinner and the Christmas dinner was
Speaker 7: ham turkey. Oh gee, it was good, two kinds of pie.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I've been uh, well, you know, the music
Speaker 7: stops during the holidays, you know, but I might go
Speaker 7: if it's weather permitting up and seeing you. Uh, I'm
Speaker 7: telling this group I've been playing in Uh. I was
Speaker 7: telling you and Danny knows about the Drummers, the Beaver
Speaker 7: Creek Stummer, Yuka. Lately, I've never heard anything. We did
Speaker 7: five Christmas shows and we rocked the house, rocked the incredible.
Speaker 7: Yeah it is and you know, actually I started on mandolin,
Speaker 7: but I'm still I've got I can play the mandolin, banjo,
Speaker 7: the little guitar, yuke and you don't knowing everybody. It's
Speaker 7: it's just nice. And I retired four years ago. I'm
Speaker 7: I'm really and going to school part time at Sinclair.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Oh yet the brand I'm taking my classes and this
Speaker 7: next class is it should be good for me. It's
Speaker 7: called Introduction to Broadcasting.
Speaker 8: Oh my, about that. Oh that'd be That's that's gonna
Speaker 8: be nice. You know that'll be nice. Well, hey, we're
Speaker 8: up against the clock here. I got to get to
Speaker 8: the news the bottom of the hour. My friend. You
Speaker 8: take care and look forward to hearing from you.
Speaker 2: In the new year.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: Dick, take care. Five one three, seven four nine fifty
Speaker 2: five hundred one eight hundred eighty two three talk one
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound,
Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station.
Speaker 2: Six thirty six in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See the talk station. Let's
Speaker 2: go right to the phones and let's talk with Luke. Luke,
Speaker 2: fifty five krs. How are you this morning? I hope
Speaker 2: your Christmas was great?
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, this is a little dom a you know,
Speaker 9: optimistic about Doge about Trump. I do believe we have
Speaker 9: a great opportunity here that that I believe we will
Speaker 9: be taking advantage of. But re very back to what
Speaker 9: Bobby san Parsi inauguration in January sixth, with Trump.
Speaker 10: Vic and Elon all being I believe the billionaires on.
Speaker 9: Paper and I'm sure they have a lot of liquidation
Speaker 9: available as well that you know, to hire your own security.
Speaker 10: How if you have that money, resources, that many resources,
Speaker 10: there should be no assassin that you give nothing that
Speaker 10: goes on because I'd be paying for my own secrets ors,
Speaker 10: my own security team. That's that has been stacked into
Speaker 10: the hilt with every man possible make sure that another
Speaker 10: nothing ever gets around me that shouldn't be around me.
Speaker 2: Well, you know the problem with that, with the problem
Speaker 2: with that, Luke, is that within that framework, you have
Speaker 2: to have the communications between you know, the threat assessment
Speaker 2: with between the FBI, CIA and hopefully with the Secret Service,
Speaker 2: and have the communications available to because you cannot, I mean,
Speaker 2: you can hire a security detail around yourself, but as
Speaker 2: far as all of the things that go into that
Speaker 2: in terms of sweeping the buildings, making sure that they're
Speaker 2: secure that there's no assassination attempts, making sure that there's
Speaker 2: no interference from any type of outside attack. I mean,
Speaker 2: there is still as far as we're aware that there
Speaker 2: are still these threats of attacks from by Iran on
Speaker 2: the life of the president. And so the security detail
Speaker 2: that you would hire wouldn't necessarily have the security clearance
Speaker 2: to tap in to all those resources of the federal government.
Speaker 2: And you would hope that there would be people within
Speaker 2: the federal government that if there is any of these plans,
Speaker 2: any of this attempted crap that's going to go that
Speaker 2: people are thinking about going on, you would think that
Speaker 2: somebody would have the spine and realize the oath of
Speaker 2: office that they took and say we're not doing this
Speaker 2: and rap people out.
Speaker 10: I would hope, yeah, yeah, And I hope that as well.
Speaker 10: And I just hope that you know, and as president,
Speaker 10: I know there's a separation of power, but as president,
Speaker 10: you know that Trump can have enough to make sure
Speaker 10: that the other lettered agencies.
Speaker 9: Of the government are doing their damn job, if not
Speaker 9: have the ability to.
Speaker 10: Fire whoever's not whoever is in the swamp.
Speaker 9: I believe he knows he has the American people's vote
Speaker 9: of confidence to drain it at any cost necessary.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, And I tell you know that the sad
Speaker 2: thing is is we don't we still don't thank you
Speaker 2: for the call. We still don't have the the Secret
Speaker 2: Service report about what happened in Pennsylvania. We we where
Speaker 2: is the report on that? Where is the information as
Speaker 2: to what breakdown? What happened? Did they really was it just?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: Was it an accident? Was it a drop in the
Speaker 2: ball or was it on purpose? What? What exactly was it?
Speaker 2: And until we get that answer, we're not gonna I
Speaker 2: don't know if we can actually feel safe or feel
Speaker 2: secure that we're going to get the necessary information that
Speaker 2: we need to get. Let's get too too sweet, too sweet?
Speaker 2: How are you this morning? My goodness, I haven't heard
Speaker 2: from you in forever.
Speaker 6: I'm always out there listening, Kevin. I see this last
Speaker 6: move that the Biden administration did, would you know, flip
Speaker 6: the script on the guys that was on death row? Yes,
Speaker 6: those thirty seven. That really irks the hell out of me, Kevin, Yes, okay,
Speaker 6: you I just I just think that's so evil. But
Speaker 6: I was listened to Red Eye Radio and the gentleman
Speaker 6: was implying that the pro France has put the pressure
Speaker 6: on it.
Speaker 2: I heard that too, And what do you think about that? Well,
Speaker 2: first of all, I think, you know, if you're if
Speaker 2: you're one of these people that on the left to
Speaker 2: talk about separation of church and state, I think that's
Speaker 2: you don't hear any of them squawking about that. But
Speaker 2: I mean, how can this man say that he pays
Speaker 2: attention to Pope France US when he is all in
Speaker 2: on abortion? How?
Speaker 6: I mean, just he just gave a room a freaking
Speaker 6: award here recently, didn't you from Marcus Sanger?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably, yeah, exactly, they did. They did give
Speaker 2: her an award. And and you know, if you don't,
Speaker 2: if you don't value life at the very beginning, and
Speaker 2: you don't appreciate that and do everything for the least
Speaker 2: among us and help them the weakest among us, then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you.
Speaker 6: Get years old. Yeah, slaughtering families? Are you giving them
Speaker 6: cutting up some slack?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Now I just can't. I can't get over there. That
Speaker 6: really hurt me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now it's not you know, giving them amnesty or
Speaker 2: letting them out on the street. It's been reducing their
Speaker 2: sentence to life imprisonment.
Speaker 6: But which has cut them a whole.
Speaker 2: He slack to me exactly. So now we're going to
Speaker 2: be paying for these killers. The people that that suffered
Speaker 2: as a result of these heinous attacks are going to
Speaker 2: have to live with the idea that this person is
Speaker 2: still there.
Speaker 6: And that's what bothers me the most. Those FIM has
Speaker 6: got to this stuff got to come up again right
Speaker 6: in the face, right in the face. Yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 6: do you have any recourse at all other than just
Speaker 6: blow the White House?
Speaker 2: Growing up with well, you know, the thing is is
Speaker 2: that I mentioned in the previous one of the previous
Speaker 2: segments is the fact that you know, with the diminished
Speaker 2: capacity that was pointed out in the Wall Street Journal report,
Speaker 2: that they were actually insulating him and keeping things from him,
Speaker 2: and that we're limiting the amount of exposure and the
Speaker 2: meetings and meetings couldn't go the long because he would
Speaker 2: be tired and he wasn't functioning, and he should have
Speaker 2: been removed from office under the twenty fifth Amendment been in. Well,
Speaker 2: that's a story.
Speaker 6: For another His wife is.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the thing that we need to know.
Speaker 2: We need to know who who's been running things, because
Speaker 2: if they're unelected officials, you better believe Oh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: if they're unelected officials, if they have been making the
Speaker 2: decision and they've just been basically you know, holding his hand,
Speaker 2: signing the documents and whatever, you wouldn't put up that
Speaker 2: with a family member that's trying to steal the family's wealth.
Speaker 2: Uh uh. But all of a sudden, this is okay
Speaker 2: and people aren't outraged by this.
Speaker 6: And see that's what makes the wifey look bad. Yeah,
Speaker 6: she said, they're watching all this stuff and she don't
Speaker 6: seem to give a damn abundet exactly.
Speaker 2: We've been talking about, you know, on the on the
Speaker 2: right here for years, about elder abuse, and you know,
Speaker 2: how bad do you have to want power and hold
Speaker 2: on to power to be in a position that you
Speaker 2: would do that to your spouse let alone owned Well,
Speaker 2: well do it to your nation. Let alone do it
Speaker 2: to your spouse. I mean, there is pure and so
Speaker 2: that we and then.
Speaker 6: You stomp on these family tools with that nonsense. Well
Speaker 6: I really got to me.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, same to you, my friend. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for call. Yeah, I just don't know how
Speaker 2: you can reconcile this and say that that there doesn't
Speaker 2: need to be this full blown investigator. And I'll say it,
Speaker 2: and I'll say it again. Every one of these people
Speaker 2: that has been surrounding Biden, either an advisory capacity, senior advisors,
Speaker 2: the White House spokesperson, the secretaries of State, every one
Speaker 2: of these cabinet officials from the Defense Cabinet member on down,
Speaker 2: Where were where was the spine with these people? Where
Speaker 2: was the love of country That you don't have somebody
Speaker 2: in a diminished capacity that has to at certain times
Speaker 2: actually meet and speak with world leaders, that you would
Speaker 2: allow that to happen, and that these people that were
Speaker 2: pulling the strings, that were actually doing the decision making,
Speaker 2: that is unconstitution unconstitutional, and in fact a direct threat
Speaker 2: to democracy. That every one of these people and everyone
Speaker 2: in the mainstream media that wasn't pointing this out, those
Speaker 2: spoon fed regurgitators, and the people that met him, the
Speaker 2: George Clooneys, the Obamas, everybody that ever had a meeting
Speaker 2: with him that are now saying, well, you know, it
Speaker 2: seemed like he was a little slow. Joe Scarborough, all
Speaker 2: these people, they should be all fired, run out of town,
Speaker 2: nowhere near any type of position of power ever. Again,
Speaker 2: because that, my friend, was and is the existential threat
Speaker 2: to democracy that they have been accusing Donald Trump of
Speaker 2: over the last nine years. And again, this existential threat
Speaker 2: to democracy crap that they've talked about that is accusing
Speaker 2: somebody of being a threat to democracy. What is a
Speaker 2: bigger threat to democracy than to take a duly supposedly
Speaker 2: elected leader. And we can go back and probably question
Speaker 2: all of that, because let's look at the this story
Speaker 2: for another day, but let's look at the how do
Speaker 2: we wind up having seven million people suddenly disappear from
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty election to the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 2: Where do those people go? Because the vote totals are
Speaker 2: off by that number, And so you talk about an
Speaker 2: threat to the existence of democracy, We, my friends, have
Speaker 2: been witnessing that for the last four years. Phone number
Speaker 2: seven four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: Wireless Fund. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five
Speaker 2: KR see the talk station six fifty one in the morning.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the
Speaker 2: talk station. Hopefully we'll be able to get to some
Speaker 2: of this over the next couple hours, but we do
Speaker 2: have guests coming up and I'm sure well I've been
Speaker 2: hearing and seeing and listening to a lot of discussion.
Speaker 2: Is you know when we had that bill last week
Speaker 2: that it was at that fifteen hundred page monstrosity that
Speaker 2: was being pushed through and again because our government is
Speaker 2: not reacting to the will of the people, because they
Speaker 2: are not doing the spending bills the way they're supposed
Speaker 2: to be doing the spending bills. The fact that they
Speaker 2: are delaying until the last gone minute, that before the
Speaker 2: government shut down, and then they try to cram all
Speaker 2: this stuff in there. You know, we have on an
Speaker 2: annual basis, Rand Paul does this Festivus Report and every
Speaker 2: year it's page after page after page. This year forty
Speaker 2: one page is long. As far as different waste fraud
Speaker 2: and abuse in the federal government, and you have the
Speaker 2: Office of Management and Budget. I believe it's that August
Speaker 2: that or it's the ig Report, the Investigative Journal, Investigative
Speaker 2: General's Report talking about waste fraud, abute and there's different groups,
Speaker 2: watchdog groups within the federal government that list these things out.
Speaker 2: If you would follow those, that would be a very
Speaker 2: good start. And then if you take into consideration the
Speaker 2: fact that for you cut for every dollar that you spend,
Speaker 2: you cut maybe a penny of spending or keep the
Speaker 2: adjustments that whatever adjustments to these programs that are being done,
Speaker 2: they aren't automatically renewed with a cost of living adjustment.
Speaker 2: For crying out loud, we don't get that as an
Speaker 2: American people, as far as any things that we get.
Speaker 2: You look at the Social Security checks and you look
Speaker 2: at what's done there. The cost of living index or
Speaker 2: the cost of living that's used to determine that is
Speaker 2: just a joke. They wait till the latest possible time
Speaker 2: to make that adjustment, and then it has nothing related
Speaker 2: to what we're seeing as far as inflation throughout the year.
Speaker 2: But they pat themselves on the back and say, well,
Speaker 2: we've given this cost of living adjustment, and if you
Speaker 2: would just cut those down and say, okay, if you're
Speaker 2: in here for a cost of living adjustment, we want
Speaker 2: to know what the basis of that is. What in
Speaker 2: these bills or what in this spending is actually part
Speaker 2: of subject to cost of living, and there is just
Speaker 2: so much And when we start hearing stuff about well,
Speaker 2: you know, you're going to be cutting entitlements, you're going
Speaker 2: to be cutting into Social Security, You're going to be
Speaker 2: cutting into a lot of these programs, and it's going
Speaker 2: to take away or it's going to reduce the payments
Speaker 2: going out to Medicare, Medicaid, and you're going to be
Speaker 2: cutting benefits. Well, included in that budget are the office workers.
Speaker 2: Are the people that administer that. And if you're top
Speaker 2: heavy with that, and if you've got too many people
Speaker 2: on board and too many people that you're dealing with
Speaker 2: doing those programs, you've got waste, fraud, and abuse right there.
Speaker 2: So I fully believe that if the proper allowance is done,
Speaker 2: there will be more than two trillion dollars that can
Speaker 2: be cut out of this budget and people would be
Speaker 2: surprised by that. So I'm looking forward to seeing what
Speaker 2: dose come up with. It'll be interesting what and what
Speaker 2: you should follow is who's squawking the loudest about what,
Speaker 2: because those are the programs, those are the things that
Speaker 2: are the first things that should be looked at because
Speaker 2: if they're yelling that loud and that long about certain items.
Speaker 2: As I've said before, everything that we have seen being
Speaker 2: accused of over the last nine years with this president,
Speaker 2: President Trump, that has been accused of by the left,
Speaker 2: they themselves have been doing. And make no mistake about that.
Speaker 2: Every time they accuse something, look into what they have
Speaker 2: been doing themselves. Coming up, we've got Chris fickin Shure.
Speaker 2: He is the owner of Cookie Jar and very interesting story.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon Merrick fifty five KRC the Talk.
Speaker 1: Station and now Kevin Gordon filling in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: on fifty five KOs the Talk station.
Speaker 2: Five minutes after seven o'clock. And if you checked my
Speaker 2: Facebook page when I put out there, who I guess
Speaker 2: we're going to be for the day, you know that
Speaker 2: we're going to be speaking with Chris Thick. And sure,
Speaker 2: and I hope I pronounced that right. Who is the
Speaker 2: owner of the Cookie Jar Bakery in Newport, Kentucky. It
Speaker 2: is an institution, a very famous institution down there. Welcome
Speaker 2: the program, Chris, certainly appreciate you spending time with us.
Speaker 11: Oh, thanks thanks for having me. Kevin.
Speaker 2: Did I pronounce that name correctly?
Speaker 11: You got real close. It's sick and sure, But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did I do? What did I call it?
Speaker 2: I do? Did I put an R in there? Or thick?
Speaker 7: And sure?
Speaker 2: What I do? All right? All right, well, we won't
Speaker 2: make that mistake going forward. Here. You know, my wife
Speaker 2: she was on Facebook and she saw this post by
Speaker 2: your daughter. And I have been aware of the cookie
Speaker 2: jar for a number of years, but it seems that
Speaker 2: we're timing wise or whatever. Never I've been there once,
Speaker 2: I think in the afternoon, which probably pickens were slim,
Speaker 2: so I haven't been able to partake. But my wife
Speaker 2: read this article or read the Facebook post that you're
Speaker 2: a great Facebook post by your daughter, and it intrigued
Speaker 2: me from the standpoint that here we've got and this
Speaker 2: is all the things that intrigues me. We've got family,
Speaker 2: we've got history, we've got food, and we've got some
Speaker 2: very unusual hours. Number one, family, it's a family run business,
Speaker 2: been around for ninety seven years. The history, you know,
Speaker 2: the ninety seven years. And food, I mean, how can
Speaker 2: you go wrong there? And you're hours of operation being
Speaker 2: open at three o'clock in the morning and then until
Speaker 2: three o'clock in the afternoon. That is my kind of
Speaker 2: that is my kind of place because I'm a night
Speaker 2: out as you know, because I stopped by to talk
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 11: The other day, right, yeah, yeah, it's uh, we've always well,
Speaker 11: I'm down there working. I go in at midnight and
Speaker 11: everybody says, why are you up, and it's like, well,
Speaker 11: you'd be amazed at the people that are out, you
Speaker 11: know at that time of day. I used to they've
Speaker 11: trailed therry up the road. He had a lot of
Speaker 11: those drivers. We used to actually open them at midnight
Speaker 11: back in Newport's kind of heyday where you know what,
Speaker 11: they had some a lot more bars in that down
Speaker 11: there then. But right, yeah, so but yeah, it's uh, yeah,
Speaker 11: I've been down there for forty years working the night shift.
Speaker 2: Now, this business started back in nineteen twenty seven. Tell
Speaker 2: us a little bit about that and then how you
Speaker 2: came into the business and give people background.
Speaker 11: Then it's been part of my life, I guess since
Speaker 11: my grandpa started the business in nineteen twenty seven, and
Speaker 11: you know, since I was still a young teenager going
Speaker 11: down and helping dad work as he took over the
Speaker 11: business from Grandpa. But I also he's pick up Grandpa
Speaker 11: after school, go down there. And make donuts and in that,
Speaker 11: but never never really planned on being my life, uh work,
Speaker 11: But it's you know, circumstances. You know, you play the
Speaker 11: cards you dealt. And I actually lost my father in
Speaker 11: a car accident. I was eighteen, and I had no
Speaker 11: intention of being a baker me. My mother said, let's
Speaker 11: let's see what happens here, you know, or give this
Speaker 11: a couple of weeks and you'll go back to college
Speaker 11: and you know, life and you know, but it's been
Speaker 11: a great ride I have. I have no regrets, but
Speaker 11: it's just you know, just how it worked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in order to get in touch with you the
Speaker 2: other day, what was it Christmas Eve or something like that,
Speaker 2: early in the morning or whatever, I thought, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm up late, I'm gonna go down and talk to him,
Speaker 2: have him as a guest on the program. And as
Speaker 2: we started talking and you and you mentioned how your
Speaker 2: father died and you said you'd give it a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, the thing that came to mind was, Uh,
Speaker 2: it's a wonderful life. Or you're the local George Bailey,
Speaker 2: and I saw your Facebook post and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's what he's been saying. So great minds think alike,
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 11: A little bit of running joke. And don't gonna be honest,
Speaker 11: if I've never watched Wonderful Life till maybe ten years ago,
Speaker 11: uh huh, and we're sitting with a wife, I'm like, man,
Speaker 11: this kind of strikes the cord, kind of feels similar
Speaker 11: this out if I had that working on. You know,
Speaker 11: we didn't didn't travel a whole lot. You know, you
Speaker 11: can make a lot of being in a small business
Speaker 11: and you can make a lot of sacrifices. I even
Speaker 11: had my own version of Uncle Billy, you know, Uncle
Speaker 11: Tommy that I inherited with the bakriesh. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 11: it's a little parody there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I liked and I liked your equipment there,
Speaker 2: Chris talking about the whole experience that brought the story
Speaker 2: full circle out pouring the love and support from everybody
Speaker 2: has shown. At least I didn't get punched in the
Speaker 2: face and try to jump off a bridge, So I guess, yeah,
Speaker 2: all things considered, not too bad, now, go ahead, go ahead, No.
Speaker 11: No, no, I was just into my daughty as you put
Speaker 11: out a great little little post and just the people
Speaker 11: that showed up. I guess that's what going viral feels like.
Speaker 11: I have no idea, I'm not a but just the
Speaker 11: put out pourt of love, people coming in just saying
Speaker 11: they appreciate you, and you know, we were busier, you know,
Speaker 11: and all get out, So it was it was a
Speaker 11: really fun experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have been. I have always been somewhat of
Speaker 2: a night out. Years ago, when I was in college
Speaker 2: at Xavier, there used to be a lot of businesses
Speaker 2: that were a lot of restaurants that were open twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven, and I was always fascinated by those
Speaker 2: because you could go down there and you could get
Speaker 2: you know, well eat at any time during the day.
Speaker 2: And there's so few and far of those now anyway,
Speaker 2: that it's tough to find someplace that's open twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven where if you're a night out go get
Speaker 2: a bite to eat.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's it's dating. And it's kind of like a
Speaker 11: little secret of people that come in early at you know,
Speaker 11: three o'clock in the morning. They're getting hot. That's the
Speaker 11: hot donuts and there, you know, I got a little
Speaker 11: following of people that come in there just you know,
Speaker 11: knowing everything's going.
Speaker 4: Right out of the other and and all that.
Speaker 11: But yeah, I said, I'm Danner working, so we open
Speaker 11: the doors and welcome you in.
Speaker 2: So we're talking with Chris Fick and sure, he is
Speaker 2: the owner of Cookie Jar Bakery in Newport. And when
Speaker 2: I put this out on Facebook and I mentioned that
Speaker 2: it was going to have you on, I got a
Speaker 2: phone calls from some friends of mine and they started
Speaker 2: giving me stories about how one fellow used to work
Speaker 2: for since Aint Bell and he would stop there every
Speaker 2: morning on his way to work, and he said, you
Speaker 2: guys had the best coffee around and always look forward
Speaker 2: to that in the morning. Another couple of people called
Speaker 2: it and said, yeah, you know, And what is interesting
Speaker 2: about businesses like this is that it's sometimes it's like
Speaker 2: certain things where you take them for granted and you
Speaker 2: kind of move away, you kind of get out of
Speaker 2: the pattern of going to that particular facility, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it takes somebody to remind you
Speaker 2: of that, and it's like, wait a minute, I enjoy
Speaker 2: that I got to go back. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: this is something that I've been missing for the last
Speaker 2: few years or so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 11: Know, it's it's it's easy to fall I'm guilty of
Speaker 11: as well. You know, you just go to do the
Speaker 11: one stop shop somewhere, and yet you don't take a
Speaker 11: bunch of time to go to this small guy. But
Speaker 11: we had so many great stories, so many people. You know,
Speaker 11: if I'm coming in there, you know a gentleman that's
Speaker 11: eighty something years old, he used to work down there,
Speaker 11: and he told his story online, and you know, so
Speaker 11: it was really my you know, my George Bailey moment
Speaker 11: where we you know, at the end of the movie
Speaker 11: they come in there and they show their love and appreciation.
Speaker 2: That the kind of felt like that, right right, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what we're gonna well, speaking more about the
Speaker 2: history third fourth, your fourth generation, now grandparents came over
Speaker 2: from Germany, great great grandparents, I guess came over from Germany.
Speaker 2: Uh started will tell us that that part of the
Speaker 2: story as well.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, My grandpa came over with his two brothers
Speaker 11: from Germany, you know, when things are tough in Germany,
Speaker 11: and he settled somehow settled into the bakery business. His
Speaker 11: other brother, Rhiney as well, had a work for Grandpa.
Speaker 11: Then he started his own place down in Bellevue, Kentucky
Speaker 11: called Ryan's and that was a well known bakery for
Speaker 11: years down there. But then he married my grandma, whose
Speaker 11: father she grew up in a bakery, was a baker.
Speaker 11: Her grandfather was a baker, so I guess they didn't
Speaker 11: have much of a choice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in the blood. Well, it's amazing how the
Speaker 2: life life takes a turn, and had not something happened
Speaker 2: the way it happened, you wouldn't be where you are.
Speaker 2: And that's so involved in so many different lives and
Speaker 2: so many different facets of life, and it's these are
Speaker 2: the kinds of stories that I absolutely love about. You know,
Speaker 2: family run businesiness is because, as you said, people kind
Speaker 2: of take those for granted. They're usually you know, they
Speaker 2: don't have the notoriety, they don't have the familiarity with
Speaker 2: some of the more you know, the larger corporations or
Speaker 2: the institutions. And now every grocery store now has their
Speaker 2: own bakery, which is kind of questionable and their products,
Speaker 2: but the actual homemade products that a mom and pop
Speaker 2: place actually has is just phenomenal. And you just don't
Speaker 2: get that touch, you don't get that greeting with the
Speaker 2: individual that owns the place, that feeling of family walking
Speaker 2: in that they appreciate the business as opposed to just
Speaker 2: another number, and so I just love the whole story.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. We got to take a quick break.
Speaker 2: Can you hang with us? I want to talk about
Speaker 2: I want to talk about brag about some of your
Speaker 2: products as well. Get a lot of people know about that,
Speaker 2: and if you haven't been there, what they are missing.
Speaker 2: So I can attest to that. And I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to burn those calories off coming up here very shortly.
Speaker 11: I can stick around, all right.
Speaker 2: My guest is Chris ficken Sure. He is the owner
Speaker 2: of the Cookie Jar Bakery, an institution there in Newport, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five kr
Speaker 2: see the talk station seven nineteen in the morning. Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station,
Speaker 2: talking about one of my favorite subject food. You know,
Speaker 2: most people eat to live. I live to eat and
Speaker 2: this particular story we're talking with Chris Fickinger. He is
Speaker 2: the owner of fick and Sure rather, owner of Cookie
Speaker 2: Jar Bakery there in Newport, Kentucky. And I keep mispronouncing
Speaker 2: your name because I have a friend by a similar name,
Speaker 2: but ficking sure, I want to make sure that you
Speaker 2: got it. Yeah. Now, so you guys have been at
Speaker 2: that particular location for how many years now?
Speaker 11: Uh? Yes, it's gonna be ninety eight coming up here
Speaker 11: in jail.
Speaker 2: Also from day one. Oh well yeah, you know.
Speaker 11: That's a little bit of a story that he did
Speaker 11: start down to Dayton, Kentucky a couple of years and
Speaker 11: then opened that up. So he grandpa had like three
Speaker 11: shops and then I guess the depression came and uh huh,
Speaker 11: he just settled back on the new Port location. But yeah,
Speaker 11: we've been there pretty much the whole time.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: That's that That is incredible. And as I said, you know,
Speaker 2: you lose that that homie down home feel with other
Speaker 2: you know, big bakers and the more famous ones in town.
Speaker 2: That personal touch, the heart that has put into each
Speaker 2: one of these items. Uh, and just the feel of
Speaker 2: the being part of history and part of something that's
Speaker 2: so well established is to me is the thing that
Speaker 2: makes the whole deal.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Now, when I was in there, I was so fascinated
Speaker 2: talking to you that. I mean, I'll looked at a
Speaker 2: lot of the pastries and stuff, and but I didn't
Speaker 2: look you guys. Do you guys bake bread?
Speaker 11: We bake bread, pies, cakes, doughnuts. You have pretty much
Speaker 11: a full retail anything you think of. So and I said,
Speaker 11: to do it all from the same recipes that Grandpa
Speaker 11: hit the uh huh, stubborn or stupid or what. But
Speaker 11: I never really changed it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's interesting because there's always that tendency of
Speaker 2: when somebody has a particular recipe and then you you
Speaker 2: either tweak it or try to do something different. But
Speaker 2: what you know, if you're eating something there at the
Speaker 2: cookie jar, you're eating a piece of history. You're eating
Speaker 2: a recipe that's well more than one hundred years old
Speaker 2: because it's brought over from the old world.
Speaker 11: Right. Yeah, like I said, I never never really changed anything.
Speaker 11: I got the same but either those same icings, uh huh.
Speaker 11: And it's just that old say it's not broken, don't
Speaker 11: fix it, right, So, I mean there's no preserved or
Speaker 11: anything in it. So you got to eat it with
Speaker 11: a couple of days.
Speaker 2: You know, I meant to ask you that question, but
Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, I better not go there because I
Speaker 2: don't know the answer to that question. But that that
Speaker 2: is huge. The fact that there's no preservatives in that
Speaker 2: is huge because as we're starting to see as far
Speaker 2: as food nutrition and everything that is out there, the
Speaker 2: talking about the preservatives that are in food, that the
Speaker 2: stuff that's in there is not good for you and
Speaker 2: maybe be causing some of our health problems. So do
Speaker 2: your body a favor and go to some place that
Speaker 2: doesn't have the preservatives and that is well. I mean
Speaker 2: we've seen that with a lot of the health issues
Speaker 2: that we've been having in this country. Right now, I
Speaker 2: got to ask you this question before we get out,
Speaker 2: before I let you go. What is your best selling
Speaker 2: item that you that you have.
Speaker 11: Oh, I mean it's the Donus I mean we do
Speaker 11: a cooking yar role. It's kind of our signature one.
Speaker 11: It has like an almond round.
Speaker 2: Feeling which I can attest to is very good. That
Speaker 2: gives it Kevin Gordon's stamp of approval on that.
Speaker 11: Yeah. But we yeah, I have a lot of coffee cakes. Uh,
Speaker 11: you know, do tea rings, do a lot of you know,
Speaker 11: fundraisings with churches when we sell our tea rings and stuff.
Speaker 11: So uh huh, there's got a lot of traction. But
Speaker 11: but yeah, everything's you know a pretty good balance of
Speaker 11: what we sell.
Speaker 2: My guess is Chris picking Sure, the owner of cookie Jar,
Speaker 2: What is your favorite? Do you have a particular favorite?
Speaker 11: You know, I got about three or four go tos.
Speaker 11: Cookie Jar is one of them. I like the Danties,
Speaker 11: you know, like I said, the rolls are baked and
Speaker 11: the donuts are you know, it's fried. So but yeah,
Speaker 11: there's cookie Jars probably my top.
Speaker 2: It's very good. But when we were talking to.
Speaker 11: Other sign your donut don't you can't?
Speaker 2: Well true. But when we were talking the other day
Speaker 2: and you said, uh, that that is you know, you
Speaker 2: gotta try that one, I thought, Okay, I got I'm
Speaker 2: gotta give that a shot. And I and I see
Speaker 2: online a lot of people that that's their favorite too,
Speaker 2: and so I have to agree with them on that. Now.
Speaker 2: We did see online and it's it's interesting when you
Speaker 2: go from baker to baker. There's different terminology that is used.
Speaker 2: The cream field. I've heard those referred to as biz marks,
Speaker 2: long John's or some other names you call those.
Speaker 11: We just go play on creamfield.
Speaker 7: We have it.
Speaker 11: One guy, pretty simplified.
Speaker 2: Huh, nothing fancy there.
Speaker 11: We do sell an actel cler some people come in and say,
Speaker 11: give me the Claire, and I said, well, I say screenfield,
Speaker 11: don't it eclaire?
Speaker 2: Uhhh a shell?
Speaker 11: You know that we bake separate and we sell those
Speaker 11: as well. But yeah, there's a lot of people come
Speaker 11: ou different terminologies.
Speaker 2: The Tigre tales bear clause and wasn't.
Speaker 11: Real creative with his name.
Speaker 6: He we just.
Speaker 11: Green builder Jai Villa exactly.
Speaker 2: Now, what what is the is there a specific I
Speaker 2: saw the Persian donuts? What what is there something about
Speaker 2: that that that we give that pretty?
Speaker 11: That's a pretty basic tone. I mean that's kind of
Speaker 11: it's not scrap. But we when we cut out our
Speaker 11: donuts on the bench, we have the glaze. You're gonna
Speaker 11: have all the holes, you're gonna have all the other
Speaker 11: little in between pieces. So we take those pieces and
Speaker 11: form of the and and roll them up and make
Speaker 11: a Persian don it like the white ice in their car. Yeah,
Speaker 11: so now that it's it's the leftovers, but it's you know,
Speaker 11: it's the way using up a dough with uh you know.
Speaker 9: They're having all that waste.
Speaker 11: So I'll try frying up don the holes once and
Speaker 11: that was that was a pain.
Speaker 2: Well, I do by the way. We want to make
Speaker 2: mention that people know how to get in touch with you.
Speaker 2: As far as the address, the address of the of
Speaker 2: the store.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, we're at nine nine Tea Mama Street. Uh
Speaker 11: break down. There a new quart across from the police
Speaker 11: station that you can call it. I wish, I said,
Speaker 11: I had a fancy website to send you to.
Speaker 2: I do not, but you do have a Facebook present.
Speaker 2: You're kind of like me with your Facebook present. So
Speaker 2: you have this, uh you have this hard to find
Speaker 2: uh Facebook page called the Cookie Jar Bakery, like a
Speaker 2: difficult of Facebook page like me, Kevin Gordon. So yeah,
Speaker 2: really cleverly disguised.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, But.
Speaker 2: Well I got to warn you about something, Chris. You're
Speaker 2: gonna see a lot more of me.
Speaker 11: I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2: It was it was well. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 2: getting up or still being up at three o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning, and I thought, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 2: to make a trip down there. Hopefully I can catch
Speaker 2: him there and hopefully we can get him on the air.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad I did. I wish you all the
Speaker 2: all the success in the world and people, if you
Speaker 2: haven't tried this, you you have to try it. That's
Speaker 2: all I got to say. So you're gonna be seeing
Speaker 2: a lot more of me, and so sorry.
Speaker 11: I appreciate it. I appreciate y'all do it. I just
Speaker 11: like to thank all the people that supported this to
Speaker 11: this and thank my daughter for putting that beautiful little post.
Speaker 2: App Yeah. That was that was that was that was great.
Speaker 11: I certainly got a fun experience. I hope everybody gets
Speaker 11: the experience like that in their life. So it was nice.
Speaker 2: Well, Chris, you have a year off. You open again when?
Speaker 11: Well, I'm going to open Thursday. I was going to
Speaker 11: take a lazy day, but now I gotta get in
Speaker 11: there and make more stuff up.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that they're you know, pounding on your doors already.
Speaker 2: There there's been, you know, the riots going on outside
Speaker 2: the door because you're not there. So yeah, I guess, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: give me one day.
Speaker 11: I'll recover. We'll be open Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh you're open to You're open today, Friday and
Speaker 2: Saturday Friday. I know, I get confused.
Speaker 11: Run together.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, Well, as you say, I'm to make donuts,
Speaker 2: all right, Chris, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Chris ficking Sure, the owner of a cookie Jar bakery.
Speaker 2: Just a fantastic guy. Boy, tell you what, when I
Speaker 2: started talking to him, it felt like we were old friends.
Speaker 2: It was just incredible. So I'm glad to have him
Speaker 2: on in a company well worth supporting. I'm Kevin Gordon
Speaker 2: and for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk
Speaker 2: station seven in the morning. Kevin Gordon and for Brian
Speaker 2: Thomas fifty five CAR see the talk station. If you
Speaker 2: paid attention to my Facebook page, you know that my
Speaker 2: guest right now is going to be Charlie Coach Coleman,
Speaker 2: a friend of mine. I'm proud to mention and uh
Speaker 2: give you a little bit of well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I'm going to let him tell his background and former
Speaker 2: coach at Bellevue High School. So Charlie, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: Thanks for spending time with us this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, Kevin. And I was just listening to
Speaker 4: your past guest and it reminded me. I'm a graduate
Speaker 4: of Newport High School and quite a few mornings I
Speaker 4: would stop by the Cookie Jar Bakery. Uh huh, I'm
Speaker 4: on my way to school of the morning, So it
Speaker 4: brought back some good memories of my growing up in Newport.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. I'll tell you what. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a go to destination for me. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: my hour. For some reason, I've always been a night owl,
Speaker 2: so that might be all that might be. It's going
Speaker 2: to be a go to place for me for a
Speaker 2: while here. Now. Coach at Bellevue High School for how
Speaker 2: many years I was there?
Speaker 4: Twenty three? I was the head football coach there fourteen
Speaker 4: and the athletic director as well for thirteen of those years.
Speaker 2: And state championship in there thrown in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was honored to be a part of six
Speaker 4: state championship games. We won two state championships four times
Speaker 4: we were running up, So six times in a career
Speaker 4: is six times more than most coaches. But yeah, for sure,
Speaker 4: we had a great community and some really great kids
Speaker 4: that had good character and they were good students. And
Speaker 4: God blessed me by leading me across the creek from
Speaker 4: Newport over to Bellevue back in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And for people that are not familiar with Bellevue, Kentucky,
Speaker 2: it is very small town. You know, you've got over
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati, Cincinnati but over across the river, you flip
Speaker 2: that map over and you've got you know, basically beginning
Speaker 2: with Silver Grove. Then you come into Dayton, Kentucky, Bellevue, Newport,
Speaker 2: and then coming to all across the river there and
Speaker 2: that is a very small community compared to a lot
Speaker 2: of the different teams and the various schools that you
Speaker 2: went up against. So making it to the final six
Speaker 2: years or six different times is a feed in and
Speaker 2: of itself. And then when I met you, we met
Speaker 2: back in twenty ten, twenty eleven during the well some
Speaker 2: things going on in Cambell County Fiscal Court and got
Speaker 2: to know you then, and then you became county commissioner
Speaker 2: there and probably the only conservative on that commission. Now
Speaker 2: we pretty much have the People's Republic of Campbell County
Speaker 2: as I refer to it. But before that you were
Speaker 2: involved in the Northern Kentucky sports legends on it was
Speaker 2: the forerunner to what was it, not Spectrum but Time Warner?
Speaker 2: What was it before that?
Speaker 13: Insight inside I heard the table In Northern Kentucky, we
Speaker 13: had our own channel was Channel six, which they referred
Speaker 13: to is ic in six, and it was all local programming.
Speaker 4: Throughout the day, including sports, but not exclusively sports. There
Speaker 4: were some talk shows, I think the Chamber of Commerce
Speaker 4: head a show, and a variety of programming. And when
Speaker 4: I retired from Bellevue High School, I was a history major.
Speaker 4: Taught history and government and always had an interest, especially
Speaker 4: in local history. And I thought about writing a book
Speaker 4: about Northern Kentucky sports history. And I got to thinking
Speaker 4: of book's got to have a beginning and an ending,
Speaker 4: and if I could do a TV show, it could
Speaker 4: go on and on and on, and so for ten
Speaker 4: years I did the Northern Kentucky Sports Legend show on
Speaker 4: IC in six and that was the forerunner to my
Speaker 4: book that will become coming out shortly here in January.
Speaker 2: Which we'll talk about when we get back. How about
Speaker 2: an how's that as a transition? Huh?
Speaker 4: My guess is.
Speaker 2: There you go. My guest is Charlie coach Coleman, truly
Speaker 2: a coach, not fake like what we saw during the campaign.
Speaker 2: But we won't get into that on the national level anyway.
Speaker 2: My guess is Charlie coach Coleman. We'll be talking to
Speaker 2: him when we get back about his upcoming book. I'm
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs The
Speaker 2: Talk station seven one in the morning. Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas fits to five KR see the talk station.
Speaker 2: My guest Charlie Coach Coleman, former head football coach at
Speaker 2: Bellevue High School, six trips to the state finals and
Speaker 2: as part of Inside Communications, did for ten years on
Speaker 2: Northern Kentucky sports alleges. And he has now put some
Speaker 2: of that stuff together to write a book. And I
Speaker 2: do have to mention this about Charlie is that when
Speaker 2: he ran for office in Campbell County, somebody that wanted
Speaker 2: to put people above politics at the fundraiser and I
Speaker 2: helped him with his campaign, and it was amazing the
Speaker 2: number of former students, former athletes, former people that he
Speaker 2: coached that just absolutely came out of the woodwork doing
Speaker 2: nothing but talking about what a great guy he was,
Speaker 2: how much of an inspiration he was to them, and
Speaker 2: how they how he influenced their lives. And for people
Speaker 2: that are ever involved in any kind of sport or
Speaker 2: any involved with people, realize that you may not know
Speaker 2: right off the bat or even ever how much you
Speaker 2: touch their lives, but by being involved in their lives.
Speaker 2: You have touched their lives considerably, so I just wanted
Speaker 2: to mention that before we continue on. So, Charlie, the
Speaker 2: impetus for this was all the different shows that you
Speaker 2: did for Insight, and you have put this together and
Speaker 2: the book is going to be released within the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, And thank you for those kind words. And
Speaker 4: if there's any young teachers listening right now, it's amazing
Speaker 4: the impact that you have on your students. Students will
Speaker 4: come up and say, do you remember when you said
Speaker 4: this or that? And of course I don't, but they do.
Speaker 2: But you're taking well well yeah.
Speaker 4: And coaching the same way. You know, you get awfully
Speaker 4: close to the kids. But getting back to the subject
Speaker 4: matter of the book, it was on my bucket list
Speaker 4: for many years, and I decided a year ago. My
Speaker 4: wife and I went on the cruise, and on that
Speaker 4: cruise in November twenty twenty three where I had some
Speaker 4: time and just some peace to sit down, and I
Speaker 4: started writing this book. And I have featured fifty sports
Speaker 4: legends from the decade of the nineteen fifties, and I
Speaker 4: chose that because there's so many athletes and of course
Speaker 4: even in my book there are missions, but not on
Speaker 4: purpose of all the athletes. But if I could do
Speaker 4: them by decades, and hopefully can do one on the
Speaker 4: nineteen sixties, I can recognize a lot of the athletes.
Speaker 4: Of course, in the nineteen fifties it was mainly males.
Speaker 4: I do have one female. I wrote about Pat Scott,
Speaker 4: who went to Saint Henry High School. And Pat, I
Speaker 4: think all your listeners will remember the movie A League
Speaker 4: of their Own about the women's professional baseball and she
Speaker 4: played for the Port Wayne Daisies. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: that yeah, the Barons of Crawford Museum in Davout Park
Speaker 4: has her uniform that she donated. But quite a story,
Speaker 4: and she said the movie was pretty accurate. Actually the
Speaker 4: girls were strict, very strict rules on how they they
Speaker 4: could be out and they were taught manners and so on.
Speaker 4: But that was one of my favorites and I included
Speaker 4: her in that book as well as I was forty
Speaker 4: nine others.
Speaker 2: And you know, people don't I think you know, today
Speaker 2: we kind of take women's athletics for granted, but going
Speaker 2: back to that period of time, the opportunities that were
Speaker 2: not there. The Trailblazers of that period are just absolutely
Speaker 2: phenomenal and talk about a league of their own for
Speaker 2: crying out loud.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and that was my subtitle, a League of her
Speaker 14: Own in my book about Pat But yeah, that was
Speaker 14: one of my favorites.
Speaker 4: They all were my a favorite. Another one I had
Speaker 4: was kind of a sad story but a success. Don Johnson,
Speaker 4: African American from Covington. Actually his nickname was Groundhoul because
Speaker 4: the way he could field ground balls, but groundhouled. I
Speaker 4: had him on my TV show and said he was
Speaker 4: the first African American actually signed by our hometown since
Speaker 4: Nae Reds. And the Reds sent sent him and a
Speaker 4: Cuban player out to Utah for minor leagues and they
Speaker 4: were denied an opportunity to play there and came back
Speaker 4: to Cincinnati. Both were released by the Reds and Groundhoul
Speaker 4: then signed in the Negro League and played for the
Speaker 4: Chicago American Giants, And as he told it, he had
Speaker 4: a hit off Satchel Page and that was kind of
Speaker 4: the highlight of his career but a great story. Not
Speaker 4: his baseball card and he signed it for me.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, And now.
Speaker 4: In the Chicago American giant uniforms. So those are two
Speaker 4: of my favorites.
Speaker 2: But we'll have to talk about a couple more. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we can get into Jim Bunning when we get back,
Speaker 2: because we got to again, We've got to take a
Speaker 2: quick break here and appreciate your time this morning, Charlie.
Speaker 2: My guest is Charlie Coach Coleman, author of the new book.
Speaker 2: Did you I am assuming that the title of the
Speaker 2: book is Northern Kentucky Sports Legends.
Speaker 4: Yes, No, the Kentucky Sports Legends out of the nineteen.
Speaker 2: Fifties, of the nineteen fifties, and of course I have
Speaker 2: the series of eventually the sixties, seventies and on. And
Speaker 2: you know what's amazing is just talking to you through
Speaker 2: the years the number of class acts and class athletes
Speaker 2: that have come out of this area that hopefully a
Speaker 2: book like this brings attention to that and an appreciation
Speaker 2: for what all has been contributed from this area that
Speaker 2: nobody talks about. So looking forward to talking more with
Speaker 2: you about that coming up. My guest again, Charlie Coach Coleman.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC,
Speaker 2: the Talk Station seven fifty two in the morning. Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the Talk station,
Speaker 2: continuing our conversation with Charlie Coach Coleman, author of the
Speaker 2: upcoming book Northern Kentucky Sports Legends through the fifties, and
Speaker 2: of course there'll be subsequent books from the sixties, seventies
Speaker 2: and on. But thanks for having with us. Charlie is
Speaker 2: certainly appreciate it. We left talking about lot now we
Speaker 2: left talking about Jim Bonning, which probably a very famous,
Speaker 2: not only a pretty famous, very famous person from the area.
Speaker 2: And I think somebody that a lot of people, I
Speaker 2: don't know, when somebody's in your own backyard, it's like
Speaker 2: you don't have the appreciation for him until you kind
Speaker 2: of step back and say, why look at this guy
Speaker 2: compared to other people in the profession. And then of
Speaker 2: course his life after baseball and being a congressman eventually
Speaker 2: a senator as well.
Speaker 4: So again, yeah, he was raised in Southgate, right outside
Speaker 4: of Newport, went to Saint Teres Elementary School. He did
Speaker 4: not go to high school in Norland, Kentucky. He cross
Speaker 4: the river and went to Saint X and I believe
Speaker 4: Sat X was in downtown Cincinnati at that time. But
Speaker 4: if you looked at what Jim Bunning accomplished, you know
Speaker 4: he won a hundred games in both leagues for the
Speaker 4: Phillies and the Detroit Tigers American National League and all
Speaker 4: far many years. And if he were playing today, he
Speaker 4: would be the premier player in Major League Baseball with
Speaker 4: those kind of statistics exactly, just a great player. Of course,
Speaker 4: he is a Hall of Fame, I'm well deserved, but
Speaker 4: a Northerland, Kentucky guy, and fucking mentioned at least two more.
Speaker 4: Larry Staverman, a guy goes under the radar. Newport Catholic
Speaker 4: graduate All boys school, then it's Newport Catholic. But if
Speaker 4: someone would ask the trivia question, who was the very
Speaker 4: first first coach of the Indiana Pacers, and the answer
Speaker 4: would be Larry Staverman from right here in northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4: And not only was he the first coach, and the
Speaker 4: Pacers when the ADA then and when the ABA got started,
Speaker 4: they did something revolutionary to separate themselves from the NBA,
Speaker 4: and that was to incorporate the three point shot. Larry
Speaker 4: Staverman was a driving force behind that. And of course
Speaker 4: now the three point shot is all the way down
Speaker 4: to the elementary school. A Northern k guy, Larry Staverman,
Speaker 4: was very instrumental in convincing the to the ADA to
Speaker 4: incorporate the three points.
Speaker 2: Amazing, you got one more for us. We're kind of
Speaker 2: getting up against the clock here real quick.
Speaker 4: So I men, Homer Rights. Homer Rights who later coached
Speaker 4: Sincene Bangalore. Oh yeah, and I actually born in Bellevue,
Speaker 4: but made a name for himself at Poor Thomas Highlands
Speaker 4: and really raised the bar for football in Kentucky the
Speaker 4: whole commonwealth with his program. And of course just died
Speaker 4: in the past year, as he had been athletic director
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech University and author of several books. Leadership Fitness
Speaker 4: was his last one that is used at several colleges
Speaker 4: and universities to this day.
Speaker 2: And that's a fantastic thing about history and about bringing
Speaker 2: up these people from the past and the impact that
Speaker 2: they've had on their individual sports and stuff that people
Speaker 2: aren't aware of. And I'm sure that this book there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of things that people never knew about,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's gonna be a whole learning experience
Speaker 2: for a lot of people. So Charlie, wish you all
Speaker 2: the best with it. I'm looking forward to when's the
Speaker 2: book going to be released?
Speaker 4: Well? Played the second week in January, That's what I'm told.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Doctor James Claypool and Bob Webster both helped me and
Speaker 4: editing and publishing U to Northern Kentucky guys are well known,
Speaker 4: and Bob tells me it'll be the second week in January.
Speaker 2: Okay, And you're gonna have a I guess you're gonna
Speaker 2: have a Facebook page. You have a website yet for it?
Speaker 4: Or I do not and I don't do baseball forbid you, Arlie.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to get this out. They've gotta market
Speaker 2: this book for sure. Well, Charlie was great talking to you,
Speaker 2: and you have a merry, happy New Year and so on,
Speaker 2: and we'll definitely be in touch. Van.
Speaker 4: I value your friendship, you know that.
Speaker 2: Thanks all Righty, you take care. Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brown of course, my guest, Charlie coach Coleman looking forward
Speaker 2: to his book. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
Speaker 2: fifty five krs The Talk Station.
Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
Speaker 1: fifty five KOSS the talk station.
Speaker 2: Seven minutes after eight o'clock. And if you checked out
Speaker 2: my Facebook page, you'll know that I'm supposed to have
Speaker 2: a guest in this hour or this half hour this segment,
Speaker 2: fellow by the name of Matt Donaho. We're having a
Speaker 2: little bit of communication issues this morning, and so hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll get in touch with him shortly and be able
Speaker 2: to talk about him and a fantastic story there. Now
Speaker 2: we talked about earlier that you know, every year Rand Paul,
Speaker 2: Senator from my state state of Kentucky comes up with
Speaker 2: what's called the Festivus Report, and in that he outlines
Speaker 2: different areas of waste fraud and abuse in the federal
Speaker 2: government with the government agencies. And it's it's funny this morning,
Speaker 2: when I was driving in there was this story that
Speaker 2: that I was looking at that I was I was
Speaker 2: playing a video and I had it off to the side,
Speaker 2: and right after this video that was playing, a video
Speaker 2: from Ronald Reagan came up when he was talking to
Speaker 2: Johnny Carson. And it's amazing how much of the stuff
Speaker 2: that he was talking about waste fraud and abuse, some
Speaker 2: of the stupid government programs that we have and that
Speaker 2: have been part of the government are are still there today.
Speaker 2: He mentioned, and we've heard this before, that these different
Speaker 2: bureaucrats in Washington have never had, in some cases a
Speaker 2: real world experience. So many of them have never signed
Speaker 2: the front end of a paycheck. They've only ever cashed
Speaker 2: those checks, and so realizing what it's like to be
Speaker 2: a business and to be in business, they have no clue.
Speaker 2: And the thing that struck me because I'm listening to
Speaker 2: this and Ronald Reagan was talking, and he said, you
Speaker 2: know what people don't realize is that, yeah, we have
Speaker 2: a tax bracket, we have a tax rate that we're
Speaker 2: supposed to be paying. But even then, back in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty when he became president, up until the time he
Speaker 2: left the presidency in nineteen eighty eight, he said, at
Speaker 2: that point, the effective tax rate was close to fifty percent.
Speaker 2: Now think about that, we have got to be way
Speaker 2: higher than that now. And the way he talked about
Speaker 2: it was that, you know, when you have a government
Speaker 2: regulation that comes into play when a corporation has to
Speaker 2: hire somebody to comply with that, and then the added
Speaker 2: cost of putting whatever that item is into their product
Speaker 2: or to comply with those things that requires man hours
Speaker 2: and that has passed through to the consumer. This whole
Speaker 2: idea of people taking that they're talking about loopholes, that
Speaker 2: they're talking about that corporations need to pay more taxes. Well,
Speaker 2: paying taxes is a cost of doing business, and corporations
Speaker 2: do not pay taxes. We pay those taxes because they
Speaker 2: pass those through onto us. And so when you take
Speaker 2: in terms of what is built into the cost of
Speaker 2: a particular product and then you add that up in
Speaker 2: terms of an additional tax on that item, then that's
Speaker 2: where that fifty percent numbers comes up. And when you
Speaker 2: look at the various regulations that are involved, and it
Speaker 2: just kind of blew me away listening to somebody to
Speaker 2: talk about it says, you know that it requires somebody
Speaker 2: who it requires more knowledge to figure out the tax
Speaker 2: code than it does to make the money. And that
Speaker 2: is an upside down situation where you have all this effort,
Speaker 2: all these all going to work day in and day out,
Speaker 2: and then you wind up with a situation where then
Speaker 2: you have to pay somebody to figure out how to
Speaker 2: pay the taxes on the income that you've worked so
Speaker 2: hard for. So you pay somebody for the privilege, if
Speaker 2: you will, of paying taxes. And when you listen to
Speaker 2: some of these bureaucrats, it all boils down to the
Speaker 2: fact that in their minds what they talk about loopholes,
Speaker 2: what they talk about as far as income is concerned,
Speaker 2: you can't think, you know, you and I we think
Speaker 2: in terms of our net pay being the money that
Speaker 2: we have left over after we've paid our taxes, and
Speaker 2: it's our take home pay once they've taken out social Security, Medicare, federal, state,
Speaker 2: social security, state, city, county, all that, and then you
Speaker 2: see your net pay, well, in your mind, that's the
Speaker 2: money that's left over to do the things that you
Speaker 2: want to do. As far as these bureaucrats are concerned,
Speaker 2: this is the money that they, in their minds, that
Speaker 2: they let you keep because they think all the money
Speaker 2: that you make is theirs, that that should be part
Speaker 2: of what they fund the government with. And when they
Speaker 2: talk about these loopholes and they point out and they say, oh,
Speaker 2: the loopholes they're there, well, who put them there? The loopholes,
Speaker 2: as they call them, were the were the legal tax
Speaker 2: deductions that they when they wrote the tax law, put
Speaker 2: in that tax system. And so if you take advantage
Speaker 2: of those laws that they put in there, they make
Speaker 2: it seem like you're doing something wrong by taking advantage
Speaker 2: of it. It's just it's an entirely totally screwed up
Speaker 2: concept as far as how these people look at things
Speaker 2: and the way they go about governing. And then when
Speaker 2: you look at with these as we're seeing and hopefully
Speaker 2: in the coming administration, we get some of these things
Speaker 2: knocked out when you look at the EV mandate. Now,
Speaker 2: when I say EV mandates and that, they'll say, well,
Speaker 2: there's no such thing as an EV mandate. Well, you
Speaker 2: know when you say that to a car manufacture that
Speaker 2: as far as your entire fleet of vehicles that if
Speaker 2: you have within those vehicles, you have to have a
Speaker 2: certain average amount of miles per gallon, and those standards
Speaker 2: are set so high that the only way that you
Speaker 2: can attain that would be to sell more EV's, and
Speaker 2: so the more EV's that you have to sell to
Speaker 2: comply with that. No, it's not a direct mandate, but
Speaker 2: it might as well be, because in order to comply
Speaker 2: with those mileage standards, you have to sell more evs,
Speaker 2: and you have to sell something that the American public
Speaker 2: has pretty much said that we're not interested in and
Speaker 2: something that is not ready for prime time, which you're
Speaker 2: forcing things in that shouldn't be forced in. And I
Speaker 2: started seeing I mentioned this, Gosh, I think this is
Speaker 2: back in the first hour, this concept of demand destruction.
Speaker 2: And when I first heard this being said about two
Speaker 2: years ago, I said, what the hell is demand destruction?
Speaker 2: And I started looking it up to find out what
Speaker 2: it was. And a little teaser here we'll talk about
Speaker 2: that coming up. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine,
Speaker 2: fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk
Speaker 2: one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
Speaker 2: pound five point fifty atn T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr see the talk
Speaker 2: station eight twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station. Phone numbers
Speaker 2: five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight
Speaker 2: two three eight two, five five pound five point fifty
Speaker 2: on that AT and T wireless phone. Every year Ran
Speaker 2: Paul has been since he's been in the Senate, or
Speaker 2: at least as far as I can remember, has come
Speaker 2: up what he calls the Festivus Report, and each year
Speaker 2: he outlines some of the waste, some a lot of waste,
Speaker 2: fraud and abuse, and he starts off happy. Festivus already
Speaker 2: wrapping up. Feels like we blinked in history, dumped a
Speaker 2: year's worth a plot twist on us. Donald Trump dodged
Speaker 2: two assassination attempts. Vice President Kamala Harris ousted President Biden
Speaker 2: from the presidential race last minute, only to fail spectacularly.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty four Summer Olympics in Paris captured global
Speaker 2: attention with a brilliant display of break dancing from our
Speaker 2: friends in Australia. In November handed control of Congress to
Speaker 2: the Republicans. And yet amongst these seismic events, one issue
Speaker 2: remained unchanged, the ever mounting national debt. Now we keep
Speaker 2: hearing people talk about the national debt. We keep hearing
Speaker 2: talking about how things are a waste front. I mean,
Speaker 2: when somebody lays out on a silver platter for you
Speaker 2: areas where you can cut spending, you would think that
Speaker 2: people would take note and do it. In this report, okay,
Speaker 2: According to Doze, the Department of Government efficiency that Elon
Speaker 2: Musk and Vivek Ramaswami is heading up. It's an unofficial arm,
Speaker 2: but at least an advisory capacity that they are talking
Speaker 2: about wanting to cut about two trillion dollars out of
Speaker 2: our spending every year, or at least over the course
Speaker 2: of a couple of years, this year or whenever, you know,
Speaker 2: they can't. Now, justin Rand Paul's Festivus report alone, there
Speaker 2: is over one trillion dollars that is available right there
Speaker 2: on a silver platter to be cut. And in his
Speaker 2: opening paragraphs he talks about at how this that we're
Speaker 2: spending four point five million every minute, seventy four thousand
Speaker 2: dollars every second. And when you start going through some
Speaker 2: of these things, now just I mean, this is just
Speaker 2: this is just off the top of the list here
Speaker 2: government waste things like ice skating, drag queens, twelve million
Speaker 2: dollar Las Vegas pickleball complex, a four point eight million
Speaker 2: dollar on Ukrainian influencers. Now, this is not the weapons
Speaker 2: that are going on there. These are people who have
Speaker 2: blog pages, people who are influencers, whatever the heck that is.
Speaker 2: Because you look at some of these influencers and anybody
Speaker 2: that would pay. You know, when you look at some
Speaker 2: of the so called influencers in this country and some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that they talk about, and the fact
Speaker 2: that they're influencing anybody, well, you know, they ought to
Speaker 2: start with themselves and influence their own lives, because some
Speaker 2: of the stuff coming out of their mouths is just
Speaker 2: absolute nonsense. But okay, we're paying four million, four point
Speaker 2: eight million dollars on Ukrainian influencers. What are they influencing.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've got whatever lobbyists there are with the
Speaker 2: military industrial complex already lobbying Congress because they want more
Speaker 2: toys because we're not involved directly in any wars anywhere.
Speaker 2: And when you're building these these weapons and you have
Speaker 2: these toys at your disposal, you want to see if
Speaker 2: they work, you want to see how well they operate.
Speaker 2: And so you find a proxy war like the war
Speaker 2: in Ukraine or somewhere else, and you get lobbied and
Speaker 2: you sell these weapons to this country. Now, I'm not
Speaker 2: downplaying the situation that you know, let's not fake. Let's
Speaker 2: not forget the fact that there should never have been
Speaker 2: an invasion of Ukraine in the first place. During the
Speaker 2: Obama administration, during that Oh, you know, mister Nobel Peace Prize,
Speaker 2: Russia invaded Crimea, or as Maxine Waters calls it, Korea.
Speaker 2: But they invaded Crimea and nobody pushed back. So if
Speaker 2: you're talking about Russian influence, when you're talking about kow
Speaker 2: towing to Vladimir Putin, wasn't that cow towing to him?
Speaker 2: And then okay, none of this transpired. Well, that transpired
Speaker 2: back in twenty twelve, and then during the Trump administration,
Speaker 2: none of this transpired and went on, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Biden comes into office and in February
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two, after amassing all these troops on
Speaker 2: the border, and if you're amassing troops on the border,
Speaker 2: it's probably a good idea or probably a little bit
Speaker 2: of a hint that they're planning on using those troops
Speaker 2: that they will probably cross over the border and invade
Speaker 2: the country. So where was NATO Now it's not a
Speaker 2: member nation, but it's on their doorstep. Where's the UN
Speaker 2: Where were they? Where was this warning? Where was this
Speaker 2: threat of retaliation if they crossed? Why did they not
Speaker 2: fear sanctions from this our government or the international community
Speaker 2: by invading a sovereign entity yet they did under a
Speaker 2: democratic administration, and so all the stuff Russian influence, Well,
Speaker 2: what about that Russian influence, the fact that Biden didn't
Speaker 2: do anything, and oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can
Speaker 2: tell me, talk to me, call me up here and
Speaker 2: tell me about all these sanctions that were put on
Speaker 2: Russia and it was all even that was a hoax
Speaker 2: because they never instituted them. And we can talk about that.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon. By the way. Phone numbers five one, three, seven,
Speaker 2: four nine, fifty five, hundred one, eight hundred eight two
Speaker 2: three Talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight two
Speaker 2: five five pound five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See
Speaker 2: the talk station eight thirty actually eight thirty one in
Speaker 2: the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five
Speaker 2: K see the talk station. What's Let me give you
Speaker 2: the phone numbers real quick eight five nine eight eight
Speaker 2: eight five Hello, five one three, seven four nine fifty five.
Speaker 2: I almost give you my phone number five one three,
Speaker 2: seven four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight
Speaker 2: two three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight
Speaker 2: two five five pound five fifty AT and T wireless phone,
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon and uh, I'm here, So let's go to
Speaker 2: the phones. You're there, I'm here. Let's get to it. Alan,
Speaker 2: how are you this morning? Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 15: Hey, I'm good.
Speaker 11: Is it still locy to Saint Mary Christmas?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? On this show, it sure is. Actually, you know,
Speaker 2: we are still in the Christmas season. Today is the
Speaker 2: second day of Christmas, so it goes on for actually,
Speaker 2: the Christmas season goes on for another ten days. So
Speaker 2: you're well within your within the spectrum.
Speaker 5: Well, I hope.
Speaker 16: They hope you have that prosperous studie year.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do my best. Is what's on your
Speaker 2: line this morning? My friend?
Speaker 16: Well, I've been out of the news cycle for at
Speaker 16: least twenty four hours because I haven't heard the latest
Speaker 16: on the Christmas bull shooting.
Speaker 5: Then is there any new news that.
Speaker 16: They came out with the background of votivation by the
Speaker 16: shooter for any of that.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I have not seen anything. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people have been more focused on this round of
Speaker 2: thirty seven known killers, murderers, people that were a part well,
Speaker 2: actually their sentence was reduced by Biden on some of
Speaker 2: his pardoning, some of the stuff going on as far
Speaker 2: as you know, getting ready for the incoming administration, the
Speaker 2: trying to claim that that le Elon Musk is somehow
Speaker 2: now the co president or president, and they keep referring
Speaker 2: to Donald Trump as the vice president. So a lot
Speaker 2: of nonsense. But as far as the school shooting, no,
Speaker 2: I have not. I could dig into that a little bit,
Speaker 2: but I've not heard anything further from that. And the
Speaker 2: less you hear about something like that, the more you
Speaker 2: know it's bad news for the left.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that that was what I wanted to speculate on.
Speaker 15: You know, I think, like you, I like to wait
Speaker 15: until the news actually comes out to decide what whether
Speaker 15: or not a person is, what they have done, whether
Speaker 15: they're guilty or not guilty. Here she's gone.
Speaker 16: But my speculation is, like you were saying, if the
Speaker 16: longer you don't know anything about the shooter, Yeah, the
Speaker 16: more likely it is that it's a leftist type of individual.
Speaker 16: And the uh.
Speaker 15: News media, the legacy media.
Speaker 16: They want to cross over the fact that this was
Speaker 16: a leftist because all leftists love everybody in the world
Speaker 16: and and there's no way that a leftist would.
Speaker 2: Do anything like this, Yeah, and you know a lot
Speaker 2: of people have been focusing their attention on this uh
Speaker 2: shooter of that United Health president and uh, the big
Speaker 2: news on Friday was he was arraigned and he's in
Speaker 2: there smirking, and his attorney and him were all were
Speaker 2: both dressed alike. What was you know, trying to confuse? What? What?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 2: What was that all about? And they I've heard I
Speaker 2: was just flipping through the channels and I think I
Speaker 2: heard it was either seeing well one of the crazy outlets.
Speaker 2: They were saying, oh, here is this young man who
Speaker 2: is still you know, innocent until proven guilty, with the
Speaker 2: law enforcement officers lurking over top of him. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: if you've never been to a courtroom, do you remember
Speaker 2: seeing when Trump was on trial and he was sitting
Speaker 2: in that New York courtroom, the number of bailiffs and
Speaker 2: cops that were standing behind him like he was going
Speaker 2: to get up and do something disruptive or attack the
Speaker 2: judge or try to escape. I mean, give me a break.
Speaker 2: It's just you know, this young you know he's a
Speaker 2: young man. Well you know he's a young man that
Speaker 2: you know pretty much we have on tape that killed somebody,
Speaker 2: So let's deal with that. So yeah, I have to
Speaker 2: look into that school shooting and see what's coming up.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you, all.
Speaker 2: Right, hell and you have a good rest of your
Speaker 2: day and a happy new year. If I don't speak
Speaker 2: to you between now and then, all right, okay, you
Speaker 2: know in this Festivus report, now I got to do.
Speaker 2: I do have to take issue with one thing as
Speaker 2: I'm going through these numbers and I'm seeing, you know,
Speaker 2: currently the federal government is spending ten billion dollars on maintaining, leasing,
Speaker 2: and furnishing almost entirely empty office buildings. Now that's merely
Speaker 2: a matter of these buildings that are being least rented
Speaker 2: and so on. That the workers, the government workers, are
Speaker 2: not on the job. Most of the people that I'm
Speaker 2: hearing that are calling into this station are in their car.
Speaker 2: I am assuming they're commuting to the office. I'm assuming
Speaker 2: that the pretty much. When I go to the hospital
Speaker 2: and I see doctors and nurses there, they're not working
Speaker 2: from home, although a lot of them would like to.
Speaker 2: I don't see many teachers working from home. I don't
Speaker 2: see construction workers working from home. I don't see police
Speaker 2: and fire and first responders working from home. You see
Speaker 2: a lot of the workers working from home. And why
Speaker 2: are these federal government employees given a pass? Why aren't
Speaker 2: they told to come back to the office and if
Speaker 2: they're if and what we've seen in the past that
Speaker 2: it doesn't appear is that there's any type of a
Speaker 2: monitoring process of these workers to make sure that they're
Speaker 2: being productive and if they're not, and if they don't
Speaker 2: have those in place, Hey, how about installing some of
Speaker 2: those controls in the software program? Hey, I'm late for
Speaker 2: a break here. Let me get the phone numbers out
Speaker 2: real quick. Five one three, seven, four nine fifty five
Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one eight
Speaker 2: hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five
Speaker 2: point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station and
Speaker 2: Paul that he put out, I do have to take well,
Speaker 2: what should I say? Correct? One thing in here he
Speaker 2: talks about one of the on the surveys is when
Speaker 2: bailouts go bus. United States Department of Transportation granted a
Speaker 2: failed trucking company seven hundred million pandemic Era a loan,
Speaker 2: talking about under the Cares Act four thousand and three
Speaker 2: loan program, Uncle Sam went on a spending spree handing
Speaker 2: out cash like monopoly money, seven hundred million dollars in
Speaker 2: tax payer money to Yellow Corporation, which was a corporation. Now,
Speaker 2: one of the justifications behind that is that they were
Speaker 2: a big hauler for goods going into the various pxs
Speaker 2: and the government contracts as far as bringing food and
Speaker 2: supplies to our military basis. Plus it was a company
Speaker 2: that most of their employees were teamsters, so there was
Speaker 2: that pressure lobbying, et cetera. And the seven hundred million
Speaker 2: dollar loan was lent to them. Now, back in two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, they were teetering. They had acquired a
Speaker 2: bunch of businesses and sort of mismanaged those to a
Speaker 2: certain extent, but had been teetering on bankruptcy because of
Speaker 2: union contracts and whatnot. But they did file for bankruptcy. However,
Speaker 2: since they filed bankruptcy in August of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: I believe they sold the assets and those have been
Speaker 2: auctioned off and the government loan was actually paid back
Speaker 2: with interest. So yes, that was money that maybe shouldn't
Speaker 2: have been I don't know, because when you've got a
Speaker 2: particular contractor that is responsible. We're bringing food supplies, medicines
Speaker 2: to your military basis, especially during COVID, you want to
Speaker 2: make sure that that's continuing. And with these different healthcare
Speaker 2: items that were being transported, you want to make sure
Speaker 2: that those are provided as well. And yes, the company
Speaker 2: was mismanaged, it went out of business, but with the
Speaker 2: value of those assets, that loan has been paid back
Speaker 2: with interest. Let's go to the phones. Carol fifty five.
Speaker 2: Care see thanks for calling. Happy, well, actually happy Christmas
Speaker 2: or Merry Christmas, because we're still in the Christmas season
Speaker 2: and Happy New Year. How are you this morning?
Speaker 12: I am done fine, And I just wanted to say, yes,
Speaker 12: we are still in the Christmas season because the Epiphany
Speaker 12: is not until they're celebrating it on the fifth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fifth or the well yeah they yeah. January
Speaker 2: sixth traditionally is the Epiphany, and it goes the twelve
Speaker 2: Days of Christmas, goes from Deceummer the twenty fifth up
Speaker 2: until what they call the twelfth Night, which is the fifth,
Speaker 2: and then goes on into the Epiphany. So I guess
Speaker 2: it's right up to that midnight and then you go
Speaker 2: on to the epiphant, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I always just sit there and say Merry Christmas all
Speaker 12: the time anyway, because then we have an Epiphany party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there you go.
Speaker 12: I always sit there and giggle because okay, I'm in
Speaker 12: day no how And I look up and down my
Speaker 12: street right now, and I would say there's at least
Speaker 12: six Christmas trees.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, already yeah, already, so Pete and people
Speaker 2: who have put like lights up and stuff. Uh huh,
Speaker 2: I'm down now. That's really rushing the season.
Speaker 12: I mean, well, I always get in trouble because I
Speaker 12: leave my lights up late too long.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but you know you're just look well that's
Speaker 2: because you're always in a celebratory mood.
Speaker 12: But I just wanted to say, Marry Christmas, Christmas, funderful.
Speaker 2: Year, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. You
Speaker 2: have a good day in the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Let's uh and uh yeah, keep those lights up until
Speaker 2: the Epiphany for crying out loud, absolutely uh coming up,
Speaker 2: We've got I want to touch on a couple other
Speaker 2: things before we get out of here, get in some
Speaker 2: other mischief. I'm Kevin Gordon, and for Brian Thomas fifty
Speaker 2: five k DE Talk Station eight forty nine in the morning,
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five detalk station.
Speaker 2: One of the things I always like to do around
Speaker 2: the Christmas season, and one of the things I always
Speaker 2: look forward to reading and uh looking at the numbers,
Speaker 2: because as a recovering accountant, I enjoy these things. The
Speaker 2: PNC Bank comes out with their Christmas Price Index CPI,
Speaker 2: which mimics the Consumer Price Index, and it's a fun
Speaker 2: look at the all of the things that go into
Speaker 2: the Twelve Days of Christmas song, the partridge in the
Speaker 2: pear tree, the lords of Leaping, and all the components
Speaker 2: of that song. And every year they sit down and
Speaker 2: they compile what it would cost if you would buy
Speaker 2: every one of these items one time throughout the season,
Speaker 2: or if you actually followed the song itself and so on.
Speaker 2: You know, the first day of Christmas you have the
Speaker 2: partridge in a par tree. Then the second day you
Speaker 2: purchase not only the partridge in the par tree, but
Speaker 2: the two turtle drugs, doves and a partridge in a
Speaker 2: par tree. So you add that all up and throughout
Speaker 2: the index there's three hundred there are three hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty four actual gifts that would be purchased. And the
Speaker 2: way that this index actually mirrors what goes on in
Speaker 2: the economy because you have employee costs with the maids
Speaker 2: of milking at the farm industry. There, you have the
Speaker 2: entertainment industry with the pipers piping, drummer's drumming, lords of
Speaker 2: lee dancing. Then you have the five gold rings, you
Speaker 2: have poultry prices built in there, and so you have
Speaker 2: a wide spectrum of the overall economy which pretty much
Speaker 2: in most years mirrors this CPI, the consumer price Index.
Speaker 2: Now this year in particular, if you were to buy
Speaker 2: all three hundred and sixty four gifts, which would mean,
Speaker 2: you know, every day that you'd purchase all those gifts
Speaker 2: that are sung about during that day, the total bill
Speaker 2: would come over for the first time crossed over two
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. It would cost you two hundred and
Speaker 2: nine thousand, two hundred and seventy two dollars for each
Speaker 2: one of those gifts. Now, if you were buying just
Speaker 2: the individual gifts themselves, the number of the twelve gifts
Speaker 2: just one time would be forty nine thousand, two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty three. But when you get into the components
Speaker 2: of this, it's interesting that you look at the way
Speaker 2: and the fact that this went up five point four
Speaker 2: percent increase this year in this survey versus what the
Speaker 2: national average for inflation at this current point is around
Speaker 2: two point seven two point eight. In that neck of
Speaker 2: the woods, it is double or close to double. But
Speaker 2: this is kind of a fun example of depending upon
Speaker 2: what you buy in the economy, what food components, what
Speaker 2: hard goods, clothing, cars, and other things of even though
Speaker 2: the overall inflation rate maybe two point seven, what you're
Speaker 2: buying and what you're consuming may be well above that,
Speaker 2: like in the instance of this, So if you're buying
Speaker 2: these kinds of products, you are experiencing a five point
Speaker 2: four percent increase in what you're buying is and your
Speaker 2: dollars are not going that far. Now, when we hear
Speaker 2: the Consumer Price Index two always here where they do
Speaker 2: the CPI, the Consumer Price index, and they say, well,
Speaker 2: we want to look at the core items because we
Speaker 2: want to take out those that are fluctuating too much,
Speaker 2: and we pull those out, and the consumer price the
Speaker 2: PNC Christmas Price Index does that as well, and so
Speaker 2: they take certain more volatile items, and it's a fun
Speaker 2: way of kind of learning about economics, a fun way
Speaker 2: of maybe teaching your kids about something. And I will
Speaker 2: post this on Facebook. Usually I try to have one
Speaker 2: of their folks on to talk about this as a guest.
Speaker 2: But this being the day after Christmas and the way
Speaker 2: things are, I mean, I'm looking out in our office
Speaker 2: right now and it's kind of sparse. I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people took the week off, or at least
Speaker 2: take the rest of the week off, and so there's
Speaker 2: not a whole lot of people that are in and
Speaker 2: trying to get a hold of these folks and having
Speaker 2: them on was a little difficult. But every year I
Speaker 2: look forward to seeing this, look forward to talking about
Speaker 2: it and the fact that they actually take the time
Speaker 2: to do this. It's whimsical, it's fun, it's instructional, it's
Speaker 2: educational and well, as I said, fun, which is probably
Speaker 2: pretty much the big criteria. But it's interesting reading, it's
Speaker 2: good stuff to talk about, good stuff to look at
Speaker 2: and kind of looks at. How as far as items
Speaker 2: that are on the list, some items that didn't go
Speaker 2: up in price at all versus others that went up
Speaker 2: as high as sixteen percent and kind of give you
Speaker 2: an indication of how the overall economy. There are certain
Speaker 2: things that didn't go up very much this past year,
Speaker 2: but then there's a whole bunch of other things that
Speaker 2: went up tremendously. So fun exercise. Wish we had more
Speaker 2: time to talk about it, but we had a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff to talk about today. Thanks to Charlie Coleman
Speaker 2: and Chris and Chris Fick and Sure with a hooky
Speaker 2: Jar for spending time with us this morning. Anyway, time
Speaker 2: for us to get out of here, have a great
Speaker 2: day and have a prosperous New York. I'll be back
Speaker 2: on the thirtieth and thirty first filling in for Brian,
Speaker 2: so have a great day. I'm Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. Fifty five krc DE Talk station,