WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.600 There are people that are calling for Glenn beck an 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:04.879 end to modernity. 3 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.039 Weekdays at nine on fifty five KRC. 4 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:12.359 The Talk Station, and now Kevin Golden filling in for 5 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.199 Brian Thomas on fifty five KOs the Talk Station. 6 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:21.719 I'm right for. 7 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.479 Five minutes time for five o'clock, and as you can tell, 8 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:38.200 I am not Brian Thomas. Brian uh Well. To be 9 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.000 in full disclosure, watch if you go to my Facebook page, 10 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.280 I always put out a post in terms of who 11 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.159 the guests are when I'm filling in and so on, 12 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.600 and quite honestly, I hope I'm not outing him too much, 13 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:54.719 but I have been ben Binge watching Hallmark Christmas movies 14 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:57.159 ever since they started running them. I think it was 15 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.079 towards the end of October and so on, and of 16 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.119 course the Christmas in July stuff and whatever. And I 17 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.280 think Brian wanted a couple of days off after all 18 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.159 the election coverage and everything so that he could get 19 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.719 caught up on bin Wak Binge watching some of these movies. 20 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.079 So I'm here today, and by the way, to all 21 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.480 you veterans out there, Happy Veterans Day. I do not 22 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:21.040 want to go any further than to talk about that 23 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:26.159 and to talk about my deepest respect for all veterans 24 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:28.920 out there. Thank you so much for your service, and 25 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.599 as many of you as can call in today, I 26 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:33.400 want to give you a shout out and let you 27 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.599 know how much I appreciate you. But we cannot forget 28 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:39.159 our veterans. And I want to talk a little bit 29 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:43.959 later on about an organization that as as you may know, 30 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:47.239 I'm a host of America's truck and Network, which is 31 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.519 Monday or Tuesday through Fridays midnight till one am. And 32 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.040 one of the sponsors or one of the people that 33 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:58.239 we affiliate with is Reese across America. I learned about 34 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.359 them through the trucking industry, and we'll talk about them 35 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:05.840 and their upcoming event and just it's a fantastic organization. 36 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.240 So again, if you went to my Facebook page, you 37 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.840 know that I've posted what our topics for the day 38 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.879 is and it's who the guests are. Between now and 39 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.919 six fifty five or six fifty five, it's going to 40 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.159 be you, me and the phones. A few opinions on 41 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:23.599 my part, because as you know, I have an opinion 42 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:25.800 and I'm not afraid to use it. Coming up at 43 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.360 seven oh five, we're going to be talking to Ken Blackwell, 44 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.479 who's a former mayor of Cincinnati, Senior Fellow of Family 45 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.919 Empowerment Family at the Family Research Council, currently Vice president 46 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.719 of the Executive Committee of the Council for National Policy, 47 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:41.159 and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 48 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:46.639 Also it was anyway, So anyway, we're going to be 49 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.080 talking about presidential election and talking about some of the 50 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.599 Ohio politics and so on. And also I want to 51 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.680 talk to him a little bit about, you know, the 52 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:58.159 fact that we're both Xavier alumnus alumni and the fact 53 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.240 that he was on one of the last football teams 54 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.960 at Xavier and I was on the last team. But 55 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.080 he's I think he's about four or five years of 56 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.039 head of me in school. So he was on that 57 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:11.800 football team and was an outstanding athlete. So looking forward 58 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:13.919 to talking to him. At seven twenty. Let me talking 59 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:17.680 to Christopher Smitherman with the smither Event this week, and 60 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:19.479 then at eight oh five we're going to be talking 61 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.039 to the of course the Monday Monday and Brian James 62 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:26.479 will be in talking about pretty much the markets and 63 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.080 everything that's going on as far as the economy and 64 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.319 man I'll tell you what you talk about. A bunch 65 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:36.879 of good news ever since Tuesday, well Tuesday night early 66 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:40.719 Wednesday morning, and what we have seen since then in 67 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:42.960 terms of some of the news and stuff going on 68 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.400 overseas and so on, it is just very encouraging and 69 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:50.120 I'm really excited about what's going to happen over the 70 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:52.280 next four years. So let's start off and go to 71 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.479 the phones here and let's talk to Linda. Linda fifty 72 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:58.280 five case. Thank you so much for calling. I appreciate it. 73 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:03.759 Good morning, keV. Haven't seen you for a while. I 74 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:07.599 saw the attention that you gave the smoking ban and 75 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.680 the event spence Bridge, and you did a good job. 76 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:12.000 Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. 77 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.759 I wanted to call because they have Mitch McConnell has 78 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.319 called for a snap election in the Senate. This is 79 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.160 for the head of the Senate. The head of the Senate, 80 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:28.319 they decide who, what and where will be brought on 81 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.560 the floor, what will be voted for. There are three 82 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.800 people in contention, Corin, Zoom and Scott. In our opinion, 83 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.759 Scott is the only conservative in there. That they're putting 84 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:43.879 up the rest of rhinos and what I'm hoping is 85 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.839 that people will call their senators, right to their senators 86 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:52.199 and tell them that we have a mandate for President 87 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:56.720 Trump's agenda. And we already did this. They are voting 88 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:01.040 on Wednesday, and I hope other people contact their senators. 89 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.319 And you know, we want a battle, but we didn't 90 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:07.160 win the war. And I think it's going to take 91 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:11.079 vigilance on all our part and work on all our 92 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.040 part to see things really change in Washington. 93 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.800 And I think, well, I want to continue here. Don't 94 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.000 don't hang up yet. I hope this continues with the 95 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:25.120 fact that you know, as the current sitting senator, the JD. 96 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:30.240 Van sits, puts some pressure on Mitch McConnell. I hope 97 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.639 the other Senator, Ran Paul from Kentucky, puts some pressure 98 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.480 on him. And I hope that there is a movement 99 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:40.480 that puts pressure on Mitch McConnell to do the right thing. Now, 100 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:43.480 as far as what is normal, that you kind of 101 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:45.560 got me at a disadvantage here, I don't know what 102 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.759 the norm is because I know that as far as 103 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:52.759 the Speaker of the House, that doesn't happen until everybody 104 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.240 is sworn in. And I'd be kind of interested in 105 00:05:56.279 --> 00:06:00.600 the fact that if the Senate, the new member Senate, 106 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.839 which is going to give the Republicans at this point, 107 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.680 it appears fifty four seats. If I'm not mistaken, there 108 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.399 may maybe another one that dropped overnight. Those should those 109 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.920 people should have a vote, after all, they are going 110 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.879 to be there for the next six years. So I 111 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.800 don't know if this is too early. It sounds awfully early. 112 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:23.360 I don't ever remember hearing a situation where this vote 113 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:26.319 is done and so with a you know, they're not 114 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:31.079 even in the majority. So obviously McConnell is the minority 115 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.120 leader in the Senate, and right now, from what we've 116 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.839 seen in the past, there seems to be a few 117 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.959 rhinos in there, so who they vote in at this 118 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:44.040 present time, I'd be very suspect. So yeah, I. 119 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.160 Am also the only thing, the only credibility I heard 120 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:52.680 on this was Tucker Carlston and he was saying that 121 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:57.959 he hopes people around Trump get wind of this. 122 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:00.000 So oh, I'm sure. 123 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.319 Yeah, I'm not a conspiracy person, but it does not 124 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:07.560 hurt any of us to contact our senators. Of course, 125 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:12.439 minus is McConnell and Graham Paul, But it doesn't hurt 126 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.600 any of us to keep in touch with those senators 127 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:21.800 in Washington telling them what we want. Absolutely, absolutely, that's 128 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:24.519 that's the only thing that I had. I just I 129 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:26.959 heard that, and I thought, how can this be? How 130 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:30.480 can you have a snack election? And like you, I thought, 131 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.839 how you know people aren't even there yet exactly, But 132 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.279 evidently he said he's stepping down. 133 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:40.120 Yeah, he did announce that, so we do know that. 134 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:41.800 Anyway, pay attention. 135 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.959 Okay, you bet absolutely, Linda, Thanks so much for the 136 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.680 phone call. I certainly appreciate it. You have a great day, 137 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.560 and let's enjoy the next four years. Huh. Anyway, Yeah, 138 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.319 that's kind of a wrinkle that I've seen. I did 139 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.600 see a story earlier something about John Thune, and I 140 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.439 did hear something about John. And I'm going to have 141 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.160 to dig into those particular stories because I know, at 142 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:08.639 first it seems to me and I guess I'm I 143 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.120 don't know if I'm I may be mistaken, but I 144 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.480 think early on in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen, I 145 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:18.000 think Cornyan was on board, but somewhere along the line 146 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:21.079 he got off the Trump train. Now, John Thune has 147 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.040 been an ardent critic of Donald Trump, and I think, 148 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.600 if I'm not mistaken, he may have even been a 149 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.240 never Trumper. So I don't see and I don't understand 150 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:34.120 why you would want somebody like that. And I was 151 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:38.720 discouraged and very disheartened by the fact that Mitch McConnell 152 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:42.639 the week leading up to the election just really ripped 153 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.840 into Donald Trump and just kind of bought into all 154 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.919 the conspiracy theories and all the crap that the Democratic 155 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.559 Party has been saying, and then at the end said 156 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:53.399 we need to get behind him and get him elected. 157 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:57.320 So it's like, how do you how do you reconcile that? 158 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.279 And quite honestly, any liberals out there, and if you're 159 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.120 a liberal and you're listening to this program, I know 160 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.320 there's a bunch that listen to this program. I would 161 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.159 encourage you to call in. I want you and and 162 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.039 Sean is in the control room, and Sean a little 163 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:14.519 shout out to you, thank you and appreciate working with 164 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.240 you today. But if there's a liberal that calls in, 165 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.159 I don't care if we got fifteen calls on hold. 166 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.759 If there's a liberal that calls on, they move to 167 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.200 the front of the line, and I want to hear 168 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:29.720 their justification as to how they believe what they believe 169 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:31.480 and so on. And I want to put this little 170 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.080 thought before we go to our first break here, that 171 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:40.039 all this talk about the existential threat, and let's analyze 172 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.279 that for a second. Because when you say existential threat, 173 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:45.399 you know, I'm sure people just think, good, oh, it's 174 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.600 existential and whatever. But you define the word existential threat 175 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:55.120 means that they are a threat to the existence of 176 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.639 And so if you're calling somebody an existential threat to democracy, 177 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:04.559 you are calling them a threat to the existence of democracy. 178 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:09.279 You heard all the comments about Hitler, Mussolini, dictator, all 179 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:12.639 this sort of stuff, all the conspiracy hoaxes and all 180 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:16.159 that sort of stuff that was said during the during 181 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:19.480 the campaign, Kamala Harris being asked directly, do you think 182 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:23.480 Donald Trump is a fascist? Yeah, I don't believe he is. 183 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:24.320 And so. 184 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.559 Now, if he is a fascist, if he is a dictator, 185 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:35.440 if he is Hitler, why in the hell is Joe 186 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:40.960 Biden inviting him to the White House on Wednesday. If 187 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:46.679 somebody is an existential threat to democracy and is Hitler, 188 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:50.759 would FD well, maybe FDR would have invited Hitler to 189 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.399 the United States because looking at his background and so on. 190 00:10:53.720 --> 00:11:01.320 But would church Hill have invited Hitler to attend Downing Street? Hell? No, 191 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.639 So were we being lied to all this time? Were 192 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:10.360 we being hoodwinked? Were they catering to their base? Were 193 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.919 they as they accused Donald Trump of doing? Were they 194 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:18.440 doing the dog whistle that they always accuse the Republicans 195 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:20.279 of doing. I want to talk about this, and of 196 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:22.639 course we'll be talking about a lot of this today. 197 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.159 Uh coming up five by the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, 198 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.559 four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two 199 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:31.080 three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two 200 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:33.879 five five pound, five point fifty on your AT and 201 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:36.120 T wireless phone. Pete, you will be up as soon 202 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.759 as we get back. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. 203 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:41.159 Fifty five KRC, the talk. 204 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:42.960 Station, fifty five KRC. 205 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:43.799 Have you. 206 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:03.080 Five point twenty in the morning. Absolutely, we won't back down. 207 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.679 I will not back down. Donald Trump will not back down. 208 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.120 And how appropriate Tom Petty on this Friday morning, and 209 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:14.679 especially any of you veterans out there. I know you 210 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:17.279 didn't back down and you won't back down. Let's go 211 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:20.360 to the phones. Pete, fifty five krs. Thank you so 212 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:21.799 much for calling. I appreciate it. 213 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:25.600 How are you this morning, I'm good, thanks to taking 214 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:30.000 my call, my pleasure. I had heard that same segment 215 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.840 from Tucker that your previous caller was referring to, and 216 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.799 it was amazing. Tucker really shed a lot of light 217 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:42.200 on the whole subject. Mitsmocconnell that Thumb and cornn all 218 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:46.399 hate Trump, just like the Cheney's Liz Cheney, and they're 219 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.679 all bought and paid for by the military industrial accomplished, 220 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:53.840 just like Mike Pompeo and the lady I can't think 221 00:12:53.879 --> 00:13:00.799 of her name, No, the the girl, it was the ambassador. 222 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.600 And he already he already excluded those two from his 223 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:10.279 cabbinet because they're like undercover. But miss McConnell is trying 224 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.759 to slide one of those people into the head of 225 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.480 the Senate because the Senate, whoever is the head of 226 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.240 the Senate, determines what legislation comes on the floor, so 227 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:25.320 and so if if they're bought and paid for by 228 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.919 the military complex, they use that leverage to force Trump 229 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.720 to do stuff. He was telling that Miss McConnell threatened 230 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.960 Donald Trump to not to go through with the impeachment 231 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:42.639 if he if he pardoned Julius Assange, Trump wanted to 232 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:48.240 part in him and like and McConnell basically forced him 233 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.360 not to. And that's what he's got to perceive now. 234 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.639 And so I hope that that. 235 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.240 That they see that and they prevent those two clowns 236 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.399 from froun of the Senate and get Scott in there 237 00:13:58.440 --> 00:13:59.720 because he's actually on board. 238 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:01.960 But his points was. 239 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.279 There's still a big cabal of Republican rhinos who are 240 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:11.440 bought and paid for by corporations and especially the deep 241 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:15.639 staters and the military industrial complex. 242 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.440 And that they are not on board with Trump. 243 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:19.960 They pretend to be and they go along for the ride, 244 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:21.799 but they're they're just not with you. 245 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.399 Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And there's a lot of people 246 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:28.360 out there, and you know, if you got and hey, 247 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.720 if you're on Facebook, you got friends in other parts 248 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:32.960 of the country, you got friends in other states, you 249 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.440 got family relatives and stuff. It'd be a good time 250 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:36.960 to get in touch with them and have them call 251 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:40.519 their congressman or senator. And you know, when you call Washington, 252 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.480 and I'll dig out the phone nubers because I got 253 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:44.960 them somewhere. But when you call Washington. You can call 254 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:49.200 the main number and it's the Senate. Those people are 255 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.320 extremely friendly. You're not going to be on somebody's watch list, 256 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:55.279 You're not going to be on somebody's you know, target, 257 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.120 They're not gonna be a target on your back. All 258 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.279 you do is you call that number and you tell 259 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:02.399 them who you're senator is and who you want to 260 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.480 leave a message for, and they are extremely helpful. I've 261 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:08.960 called them several times. And the thing is is that 262 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.799 when you call a congressman or a senator, the people 263 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.559 that take the time to do that, or if you 264 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.679 email them, they will get those first. Don't send them 265 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.039 a letter because after nine to eleven, when letters are sent, 266 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.200 they go to a holding facility and they got to 267 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.919 check them to make sure that there's no toxic substances 268 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.919 or any what is it saren or whatever that stuff 269 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.480 was that they put on these letters to try to 270 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:35.559 poison people. So they have to do that and it 271 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.879 takes about two to three weeks for that letter to 272 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.000 get to your congressman or senator. So emails are very 273 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.720 effective in solar phone calls, they get back from launch 274 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.480 or they start their day with a stack of messages 275 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:49.399 from their constituents. And it only takes about fifteen to 276 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:52.200 twenty of these for people to hear from their constituents, 277 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:55.679 and that puts on the alarm bells with them and 278 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:59.039 they generally sit up and take notice. So again, I 279 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:01.639 would encourage everybody ready to do that. And uh, we 280 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.480 don't want Mitch McConnell pulling a fast one here, right here, 281 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:10.679 right now. Bete, thank you so much. I certainly appreciate 282 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:13.360 the phone call. You have a great day coming up. 283 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:15.080 We've got uh, let me see who we got a 284 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.120 hold a home. We've got Dick. We've got Dick from Dayton. 285 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.399 We'll talk to him coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in 286 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.440 for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR S the Talk Station. 287 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.440 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station. 288 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.080 Five point thirty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon and 289 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:43.600 for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR the Talk Station. Yes, 290 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:45.879 don't bring me down. We're not going to bring you 291 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.519 down today. We're gonna be uplifting because we have a 292 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.919 new Well here's here's five words that ought to put 293 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:57.559 a big smile on your face today. President Elect Donald 294 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:02.600 John Trump to me, I got to tell you I've 295 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.440 it's been very tough for anybody to wipe a smile 296 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.920 off my face since one forty one in the morning 297 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.680 on Wednesday morning. And I've got a little story about 298 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.759 that later on that we'll get to. But let's go 299 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.119 to the phones and talk to Dick from Dayton. Dick, 300 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:18.480 how the heck are you, my friend? 301 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:20.440 All right? How are you? 302 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:25.480 I am happy, happy, happy, yeah, extremely happy. As far 303 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.680 as what transpired. 304 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:31.880 All election day dream, I loved it. I loved every bed. 305 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:32.000 At of it. 306 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.000 Absolutely incredible, absolutely incredible, was great. 307 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:39.680 It was great. I'm telling you, I'd think America is 308 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:40.480 going to be back to. 309 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:42.480 Normal now, you know, let's hope. 310 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:47.319 So yeah, Oh, I wanted to salute my dad's family 311 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:51.000 from up north. They were from Lorraine County that all 312 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:58.599 served the country. My uncle Tony, my dad, my cousin Gil, 313 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:04.359 my uncle Charlie, and dad was in the Navy. Uncle 314 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:08.119 Chuck was in Okinawa, Gil was in the Air Force, 315 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:12.079 Gary was in the Army, and you know, the family. 316 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:16.119 I all love him because you know, as you probably know, 317 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:21.759 I followed the tradition of music, you know, uh, playing music, 318 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.519 and well you know, started the band Joe. Now I'm 319 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:27.400 just since I retired, just having a lot of fun 320 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.160 playing everywhere, you know, and that's a good thing. And 321 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.680 I'm going to school taking some political science courses at 322 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:35.559 Sinclair College. 323 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.880 Oh great, how's that going? You like it? 324 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:39.319 Good? 325 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:43.519 Good, good good. Another thing I wanted to ask, you 326 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.160 think the Bengals will win a couple bore games where 327 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.359 Joe Burrow's been looking pretty good, hadn't he. 328 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:50.480 Yeah, he's been looking really good. I just wish the 329 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:52.559 defense and some of the other players would kind of 330 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:55.839 step up to the plate. But you know, I didn't 331 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.079 watch the game the other day. I forget what was 332 00:18:58.319 --> 00:18:59.960 I know, I was watching a lot of coverage just 333 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.319 far as what was going on and kind of doing 334 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:04.759 a victory lap as far as the news was concerned 335 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:06.920 and so on, and so I didn't watch the game. 336 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:09.880 But seeing the score and how it came down to 337 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.960 the end there and they went for two instead of 338 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.000 going for one, I applaud that decision because it appears 339 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:17.720 as though the season is pretty much on the line, 340 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:22.559 and so it shows a little bit of intestinal fortitude, 341 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:24.599 if you will, on the part of the coach, which 342 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:27.440 we haven't seen much of so far. But yeah, I 343 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:30.359 mean the Bengals. I, you know, it's sad to see 344 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.880 that they're they're they're wasting talent like Joe Burrow and 345 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.839 Jamar Chase and some of these other people that are 346 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.880 on the team that should be super Bowl content, should 347 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:42.559 be on a super Bowl contending team, but are not 348 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.240 surrounded by enough talent to get them there. So, yeah, 349 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:47.640 it's interesting this. 350 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:48.440 Morning, Dick. 351 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:51.359 I appreciate it. I certainly do. And you take care 352 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.319 of yourself and enjoy what you're doing, okay, which sounds 353 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:59.240 like you are coming up. We'll get into some other 354 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:02.880 mischief here. Our phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, 355 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.440 five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one 356 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:07.960 eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, 357 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.160 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 358 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.160 in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC the talk station. 359 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:20.039 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station if you're. 360 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:20.680 A business owner. 361 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:44.279 The holiday, five thirty. 362 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:50.880 Nine in the morning, Tell a song out to all 363 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:54.640 my frenemies out there. I know a lot of you 364 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:57.440 tune in that are liberals and probably don't like my 365 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.400 opinion and this sort of stuff. It's but this is 366 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.440 from Joan Jet. The song is I hate myself for 367 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:06.160 loving you. So this is to all my friendemies out there. 368 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:09.279 Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Bobby, Bobby 369 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.359 fifty five k see. Thank you so much for calling 370 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:13.960 in appreciate it. How are you this. 371 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:16.160 Morning, my brother. 372 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:20.880 It's a beautiful day. It certainly is. Okay, I'm so 373 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:23.440 happy these progressive is a big kicked. 374 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:23.839 To the curb. 375 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:30.640 Absolutely absolutely, absolutely yeah. I just it was. I you know, 376 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:33.000 I'm gonna be talking about this a little bit later on, 377 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:34.839 but kind of give you a little bit of preview 378 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:37.440 unless you got if you want to say something or whatever, 379 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:39.680 because I can go on to a little diatribe here 380 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:40.519 if you will. 381 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:43.759 You go right here, Bob brother, good to hear you. 382 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:47.400 I tell you. I go back to nineteen sixty four, 383 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:51.599 when I was eleven years old. The first election returns 384 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:54.000 that I watch. I watched with my mom during the 385 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:58.599 gold Water year and we sat there watching the elect 386 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:00.559 Course it was a short night because he got trouns. 387 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:03.960 And every year, every presidential year since then, I have 388 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.240 stayed up as late as I possibly could to watch 389 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:09.720 all the results coming in. Whether I was going to 390 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:15.559 school with a high school, college, professional career working, I 391 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:18.759 would be sleep you know, being sleep deprived. I'd you know, 392 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:21.880 do it. I'd you know, watch the election results as 393 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:23.440 long as I could. Now some of them, you know, 394 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:25.839 drifted on over into a couple of days and weeks. 395 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:28.920 You remember the two thousand election with the Al Gore 396 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:31.799 type of thing down there in Florida. But it's been 397 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:34.599 kind of a tradition with me where I stay awake. 398 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:37.720 And you know, I was excited in seventy two when 399 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:39.400 I was able to vote for the first time with 400 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:44.279 Richard Nixon running for office. And then I was even 401 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:47.640 really excited about voting for Ronald Reagan and when he 402 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:50.839 came in. I was excited about George W. Bush when 403 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.799 he came in. I was over the moon excited when 404 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.240 and of course I was disappointed with what Bush and 405 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.920 Cheney wound up doing. But then in twenty twenty sixteen, 406 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.640 I was extremely happy with the Trump But I'll tell 407 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:08.799 you what, last Tuesday night, this well pun intended here 408 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.039 trumped them all. I mean this, to me was one 409 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:16.480 of the most exciting elections, one of the most encouraging 410 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:19.799 and uplifting that I have ever seen in my life. 411 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:23.720 And it is a testament to this man, his courage, 412 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:28.920 his intestinal fortitude, and all he went through to get reelected. 413 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:32.519 And for these liberals and these Democrats to say that, 414 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.759 you know, he's not for the people, he's doing it 415 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:39.960 only for himself. Are you freaking serious with all he's 416 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:44.079 put through. They tried to impeach. They impeached him twice. 417 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:47.599 They tried to throw him in jail, They tried to 418 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:51.000 bankrupt him, they tried to keep him off the ballot 419 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.519 in certain states, and they tried to kill him. And 420 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:58.200 he still kept fighting and won the ultimate prize. And 421 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:02.400 I you know, if he's if he's got an ego 422 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:05.119 that big, that he's doing it just for himself, he 423 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:08.119 needs to be committed, because nobody would go through that, 424 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:09.519 anybody in their right mind. 425 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:13.400 He's the tip of the spear of my brother. I've 426 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:16.240 had so many people mentioned to me, oh, I'm so 427 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:20.039 glad this election's over. That shows how naive they are. 428 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:25.680 These progressive democratic Marxist individuals will not relinquish power. 429 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:25.920 No. 430 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.319 Then I tell everybody this, it's the beginning of the end, 431 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:31.960 and it's the end of the beginning. Yeah, we got 432 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:33.519 a whole future ahead of us. 433 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:34.400 Donald J. 434 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:37.799 Trump is the tip of the spear. He'll be gone eventually. 435 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:41.119 You know, Biden's going to be gone. You know, old 436 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:43.680 girl is going to be gone. The movement is going 437 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:46.599 to go strong. And that's exactly where it's going to go. 438 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:48.759 And when out of and when he looks in the 439 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.240 camera and he says, the only reason they're coming after 440 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.079 they're not coming after me, They're coming after you. I'm 441 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:58.599 just in the way. That is no truer words have 442 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:01.680 ever been spoken, Bobby. Thank you so much. 443 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.119 Oh go ahead, I just wanted to tell you congrat 444 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:06.279 though it won't take a second here, my friend, I 445 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:09.039 just want to congratulate you on the election and thank 446 00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:12.160 you with my whole heart. You carry that torture freedom. 447 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.720 I'm right every day, my brother. 448 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:17.000 I appreciate it. I appreciate the kind words. Uh okay 449 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:18.640 when we had somebody to drop off some news on 450 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:20.559 the line. But thank you very much for that phone call, Bobby. 451 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:24.160 I certainly appreciate it. It just, you know, when you 452 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:28.680 when you look at all he went through and what 453 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:31.640 was going on during that election cycle and all the 454 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:36.680 stuff that was talked about, it was just incredible. I'll 455 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:38.519 tell you what, let me, I'm going to go to 456 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.000 a Sean. Should I take this phone call or should I? Okay, 457 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:44.160 let's go right to the phone call here. Let's talk 458 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:46.480 to Tom Tom fifty five. Care see you're on their 459 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:47.599 Thanks so much for calling. 460 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:53.480 Hey, good morning, Kevin, Good morning. Yeah, I'm I'm feeling 461 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.559 fairly fairly decent about last week's selection. But I am 462 00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:59.839 in no means in the mood despite the football, because 463 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:02.759 as you probably have already pointed out, and you know, 464 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:06.160 there is still a lot of idiots out there that 465 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:08.599 can can do it, and we've been listening to it 466 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:12.039 since the election was over, and all the excuses and 467 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:16.079 then you know, even the craziness of hey Joe should 468 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:18.799 step down so Kamala could be the first woman president 469 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:23.920 and all this other garbage. So anybody out there just thinking, 470 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:26.279 hey we can we can kick back and we got 471 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:27.599 a nice decisive victory. 472 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:29.160 No, there is no kicking back there. 473 00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:30.440 It is it is. 474 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:32.640 It is game on. If nothing else, they're going to 475 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:35.079 come at us even harder than they ever did. Oh 476 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:36.759 with all of their crazy. 477 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:39.960 Why absolutely absolutely yeah. And I want to say one 478 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:43.400 thing here right off the bat, if I if I 479 00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:45.920 were in charge of Facebook, or if I were all 480 00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:49.000 like we've seen with Elon Musk with Twitter or X. 481 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:53.359 The fact that all the opinions unless you know you're 482 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.720 threatening somebody, you're threatening bodily harm, or you're you know, 483 00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:59.680 threatening to blow someplace up, like oh Madonna did back 484 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:07.480 in twenty sixteen, yeah that doesn't count. But all voices. 485 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:10.599 In fact, I always encouraged, you know, when people say, well, 486 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:12.079 why do you let this guy on the air, or 487 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:14.319 why do you talk to these people? I want to 488 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:16.039 know what the left is. I want to know what 489 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:19.319 the opposition is thinking. I want to know. And if 490 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.440 I have the opportunity to broadcast that over the air 491 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.519 here and point out the lunacy from some of these people, 492 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:29.359 I am more than willing to do it, because you know, 493 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:32.079 people kind of get consumed and they get kind of 494 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:36.319 in their own echo chamber where they hear themselves and 495 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:39.599 their friends talk and they don't realize how crazy. Because 496 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:43.240 you know, we were content thinking that our teachers were 497 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:46.559 being okay until we learned during COVID what the hell 498 00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:50.000 they've been indoctrinating our children with. We thought that the 499 00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:54.319 medical establishment had our best interest at heart until we 500 00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:57.039 saw what doctor Fauci did to us. We thought that 501 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.319 our Food and Drug Administration was looking out after our food. 502 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:02.400 But the next time you have some time and you 503 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:04.559 want to spend a couple hours in the grocery store, 504 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:08.839 look at the back of these the ingredients on things, 505 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:11.720 and look for the artificial colors. Look for these dyes, 506 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:14.319 look for you know, red dye this, red dye this, 507 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.119 and look at how our processed food and and how 508 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.160 bad it is. It's you know, we've trusted these institutions, 509 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:25.559 and you know, Lincoln said, you hire the government to 510 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:29.039 do for you collectively or what you can't do individually. 511 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:33.200 And we've done that and we have been lied to 512 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:38.119 and disappointed forever. And it's time to turn this ship around. 513 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:40.799 Well, one of the things that contributed to that was 514 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.319 our laziness and are just feeling content. You know some 515 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:46.279 of us, you know, all of them, a lot of 516 00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:48.480 these people, a lot of us. We have we have lives, 517 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:50.720 we have things to do, but I don't have time 518 00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:52.720 to pay attention to that. Well, you better pay attention 519 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.240 exactly exactly, pay attention and stop being lazy and make 520 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:59.000 sure you continue to talk to people and share all 521 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:01.519 the stuff that you know, and don't let anybody just 522 00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:03.680 shut you down. I don't mean if we don't need 523 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:05.599 to be rude or mean about it. We just need 524 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:07.920 like we were been doing for the last few years. Hey, 525 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:10.400 you know what they're saying. Look at what they're trying 526 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:11.839 to do to us, Look at how they're trying to 527 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:13.960 do this, and point it all out like you said, 528 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:16.559 and make sure you tell everybody don't vote Democrat. 529 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:20.079 Hey you too, Tom, Take care And oh, by the way, 530 00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:25.039 it's Kevin. It's okay. I've been called worst things. Coming up, 531 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:26.599 I got a couple of thoughts that I want to 532 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:28.039 add here before we get to the top of the 533 00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:30.759 are I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. 534 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:31.680 See the talk. 535 00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:33.519 Station, fifty five KRC. 536 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:36.440 Booster your festivities this season with a half. 537 00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.640 Five fifty two coming up on five actually five fifty 538 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:51.799 three in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 539 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:55.880 fifty five KR, see the talk station. I'm talking about 540 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:57.440 a couple of things here before we get to the 541 00:29:57.440 --> 00:29:59.559 top of the hour. By the way, phone numbers five one, three, 542 00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.720 seven nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two 543 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:04.839 three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two 544 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:07.319 five five or pound five point fifty on that AT 545 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.119 and T wireless phone, you know, finishing up a previous 546 00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:13.720 phone call, and I was Tom, and uh, you know, 547 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.359 we need to be bold, we need to speak out. 548 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:20.640 And I'll tell you why because, as you may know, 549 00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:22.880 I've talked a couple of times where I live in 550 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.400 a condo, and uh, in our side of the building, 551 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.400 we have six condos. Of course, obviously I live in one. 552 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:33.160 Other people live in five five of them. And two 553 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:35.920 of the people in that building or on our side 554 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:41.559 of the building are Democrats and very very very liberal Democrats. Okay, 555 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:47.279 Now I make sure because I do a lot of 556 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:50.799 work from home and uh so on. But I do 557 00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:54.480 know that my neighbors go out, and you know, my 558 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:57.079 one neighbor goes to work around nine o'clock in the morning, 559 00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:01.480 and so on snowy days, I make sure that I 560 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.359 shovel our sidewalk off to make sure and put the 561 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:08.559 salt down because she is a bit handicapped and if 562 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:11.000 they're not very steady on her feet, and I do 563 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:14.039 a little pathway from the one side of the driveway 564 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:16.680 all the way over to the other clean her car 565 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:20.039 off and make sure that you know that the pathway 566 00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:24.920 is safe. Okay. I have another neighbor who lives across 567 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:29.279 the hall from me, and she knows my political affiliations 568 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.240 and so on. I'm not shy about it. But two 569 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:38.680 cases in point, during the weekend before the election, my 570 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.559 one neighbor, who I clean her car off, says to me. 571 00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:44.680 I walks by and says, I certainly hope you're not 572 00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.279 too disappointed when it comes on Tuesday, And I'm thinking, 573 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.920 why any hell would you do that? Right now? Why 574 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:55.519 would you go out of your way to kind of 575 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:59.160 poke me or needle me because you think your candidate 576 00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:01.279 is going to in and you want to rub it 577 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:03.000 in my face. I don't have time to get to 578 00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:05.400 the other story, but it basically boils down to where 579 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:10.400 I was. Well, anyway, they are bold, they will get 580 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:13.480 in your face. They will tell you where they stand, 581 00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:20.400 and do not be shy. Give it back to them, politely, definitively, 582 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:24.559 and sternly, because we cannot sit by idly and take 583 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:28.960 this crap anymore. Phone numbers top of the hour five one, three, seven, four, nine, 584 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:31.279 fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk 585 00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:34.200 one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, 586 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:36.960 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 587 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.160 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC The Talk Station. 588 00:32:41.160 --> 00:32:44.319 It's the biggest news and trending news events from around 589 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.359 the world. At the top end and bottom of the 590 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:51.559 al this is fifty five krs the top seas. Welcome 591 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:55.000 your family guests into a fresh hum It's the stock 592 00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:58.200 they are pushing. People are talking about violent. 593 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.720 Rhetoric against us, but if we dare to fight back, 594 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:02.000 we are the violent one. 595 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:04.519 Fifty five KRS The Talk Station. 596 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:09.039 And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on 597 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:12.880 fifty five KOs the Talk Station. 598 00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:29.000 Five minutes after six o'clock. And as you can tell, 599 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.079 this is not Brian Thomas. Brian has the day off. 600 00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:35.400 As I posted on Facebook, this is kind of unofficial. 601 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:37.400 I'm not sure that he wants me to tell everybody this, 602 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:42.079 but Brian and I are switching roles today because since 603 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:47.039 the beginning of the Hallmark Christmas Movies series and stuff, 604 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:52.599 I have been binge watching Hallmark Christmas movies and in 605 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:56.880 between election coverage and doing my show on america'struck A Network, 606 00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:01.559 and so on. So Brian decided on this day to 607 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:03.880 take the day off so that he could get caught 608 00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:06.400 up with all the Hallmark movies, so that he could 609 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:10.519 get into the holiday spirits. So anyway, talking about the 610 00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:12.679 show guests, if you went to my Facebook page, you'll 611 00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:14.960 see that we've got a line up today. Starting at 612 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.639 seven oh five, we're gonna be talking to Ken Blackwell, 613 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:22.039 former Mayor of Cincinnati, Xavier alumnus. I might add a 614 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:26.599 fellow senior Fellow, Family Empowerment and Family Research Council, and 615 00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:29.599 so on, and we're gonna be talking about presidential politics, 616 00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:33.039 presidential election and Ohio politics. Seven twenty, we're gonna be 617 00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:36.599 talking to Christopher Smitherman during the smither event, and at 618 00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:39.239 eight o five we'll be talking Doing the Money Monday 619 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:43.760 with Brian James. Now, today also is Veterans Day, and 620 00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:45.599 I want to give a shout out to all of 621 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:48.440 our veterans who are out there. And I want to 622 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:50.960 call attention to everybody out there. If you see a 623 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:54.000 veteran today, if you know of a veteran, do us 624 00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:56.639 a little service, give them a call, thank them for 625 00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:59.280 their service to our country, find out how they're doing, 626 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.960 and so on. If you see a veteran out, make 627 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.440 sure you thank them for their service to the country, 628 00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:07.119 and that definitely always puts a smile on their face. 629 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:11.199 Now the meaning of Veterans Day it was, and now 630 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:14.199 this is celebrated and not celebrated, but honored on the 631 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.639 eleventh month, the eleventh day, the eleventh hour. And I 632 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:24.079 would encourage everybody at eleven o'clock am this morning, take 633 00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:26.880 about thirty seconds do a moment of silence for all 634 00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:31.559 of our veterans and recognize their accomplishments and what they 635 00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:35.199 have done for this free country that we live. In ceremony, 636 00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:39.119 there is a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Ceremony Commemories 637 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:44.039 precise commences precisely at eleven am with a wreath laying 638 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:46.280 at the tomb of the Unknowns. I think Biden and 639 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:52.119 Kamala Harris are going to be there, and continues inside 640 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:56.079 the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by veterans, organization, 641 00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:59.440 remarks by dignitaries, and of course there are different ceremonies 642 00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.519 going on around our areas, so if you might want 643 00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:04.679 to take a moment to check some of those out, 644 00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:09.320 Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, began on an occasion 645 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:12.199 to reflect on the heroism those who died in our 646 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.400 country service. It falls on November eleventh, the anniversary of 647 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:18.800 the signing of the Armistice the end of World War One. 648 00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:21.239 In nineteen fifty four, the name of the holiday was 649 00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:25.159 changed from change from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 650 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:29.119 order to recognize veterans of all wars. We celebrate in 651 00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:32.800 honor Americans veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and 652 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:37.119 willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. A 653 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:39.800 Veterans Day is a time for us to pay our 654 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:42.960 respects for those who have served. For one day we 655 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:46.000 stand united in respect for you. As I would say, 656 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:49.880 not only one day, but every day. A Veterans Day 657 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:52.079 is a time to honor and thank all those who served, 658 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:55.239 and so on again. You can pull up some things 659 00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:58.880 online to find out what's going on. Today is a 660 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:03.320 federal holiday, bank holiday, and in most states a state holiday. 661 00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:07.239 Means federal employees, including military members, are typically given the 662 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.360 day off, and the most states state workers are as well. 663 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:12.360 So you might want to check if you've got any 664 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:16.239 banking to do, make sure that they're open, and I 665 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:19.079 just want to thank every one of the veterans out there. 666 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:21.119 I know there's a lot to listen to this program, 667 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:23.519 and I cannot thank you enough for your service to 668 00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:26.440 this country. I want to talk a little bit about 669 00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:29.360 election day. I had mentioned in the previous hour. By 670 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:31.920 the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, 671 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.480 five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one 672 00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:37.280 eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, 673 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.840 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. The first 674 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:44.440 time I ever stayed awake for election results was in 675 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:50.079 nineteen sixty four. My mother was a always conservative, always 676 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:57.559 let her political leanings be known at the dinner table 677 00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.519 and so on, so we knew our my parents were stus. 678 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:04.079 But it was interesting that mom my mom actually for 679 00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:06.960 the first time had some campaign literature and went door 680 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:11.719 to door on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Now, in terms 681 00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:13.480 of that, I've read some of the literature. I read 682 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:15.239 some of the stuff about him and say, hey, you know, 683 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.960 I agree with this guy has to say in his 684 00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:24.800 policies of low taxation, less government, less deficits and so on. 685 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:28.599 If we enter into a war, we should make sure 686 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.480 that we win. We shouldn't just go in just for 687 00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:33.840 the sake of going in, like we had been doing 688 00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:38.519 in Korea and so on. And so that was his stance, 689 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:44.079 and of course the media painted him as an extremist. 690 00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:47.519 Does that sound familiar to you? And so I stayed 691 00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:49.320 awake to listen to the you know, because my mom 692 00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:51.079 was going to stay up and watch the election results. 693 00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.159 Of course, that night didn't go too long because he 694 00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:57.480 got absolutely trounced in a landslide victory. First election I 695 00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:00.239 could vote for was in well, going back to that 696 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:03.559 Goldwater election, my first political debate actually was when I 697 00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:05.920 was eleven years old, about a month before the election. 698 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:12.280 I was at a lunch counter in my city and 699 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:14.599 it was I think it was on a Saturday, and 700 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:18.679 I was over there having my favorite, my hamburger, hamburger 701 00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:22.199 and fries, and I was sitting there and a group 702 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.800 of adults were talking about the upcoming election and started 703 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:27.480 talking about how great Johnson was, and I, you know, 704 00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:30.079 I just you know, piped up. I said, have you 705 00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.440 looked at Goldwater's record? Have you looked at what he 706 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:34.639 stood for? And all this? And they turned and kind 707 00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:36.079 of looked at me like, what the hell, who the 708 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:38.519 hell are you? And so I actually got into a 709 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:41.280 debate with them about how I thought a gold Goldwater 710 00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.480 presidency would be better than Johnson. And the people that 711 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:48.119 ran the lunch counter were kind of piping in too, 712 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:49.719 and they were kind of looking at me, kind of 713 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:52.880 weird and stuff like that. So but fast forward about 714 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:55.639 seven years later, we were at church, my mom and I. 715 00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:58.239 We were going to come leaving church on a Sunday, 716 00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:01.559 and they came across the church and actually came up 717 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:04.239 to and wanted to talk to my mom and said, 718 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:06.880 you know, I remember him when he was young, and 719 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.360 he was debating us at the lunch counter, and I 720 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:12.599 can't believe how right he was, and I wish we 721 00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:15.119 had listened to him. And so, you know, I had 722 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:18.000 that election experience, and then every election thereafter I'd stay 723 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:20.440 up as late as I could, sleep deprived and so on, 724 00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:22.719 I would listen to all the results. And of course 725 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:25.280 there are certain times when those election results didn't come 726 00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:27.519 in by the morning, so I just got cleaned up, 727 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.440 either went to school, went to you know, high school, college, 728 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:32.880 and then on to work. There's something along those lines. 729 00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:36.199 And so I was. You know, I always knew that 730 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:38.159 I was going to be sleep deprived that one day, 731 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:41.960 just because of the fascination with the election returns, and 732 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:44.519 so of course, you know in twenty in two thousand, 733 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.280 the election results went on for days, so I did 734 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.559 get some sleep there. But going back to I was 735 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:52.960 excited in seventy two when I voted for Litt Nixon 736 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:56.199 for the first time. I was excited in eight nineteen 737 00:40:56.280 --> 00:41:00.239 eighty the Reagan Revolution and what that brought. I was 738 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.280 excited in two thousand when I thought Dick Cheney and 739 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:07.760 George W. Bush were going to be very conservative and 740 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:12.119 do certain things and change the course of this country, 741 00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.480 which I think was in looking back, was kind of 742 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:18.760 somewhat of a disappointment, a major disappointment, and looking at 743 00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:21.239 how they've turned out since and the stuff that they 744 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.199 have been saying really bothers me even further. I was 745 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:26.719 very excited in twenty sixteen. I was very happy with 746 00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:29.079 the way those election results came out, and of course 747 00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:31.920 disappointed in twenty twenty. But I'll tell you of all 748 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:34.159 the elections that I have been pushing for, all the 749 00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:38.239 elections that I have sat by and watch Tuesday night 750 00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:41.400 last Tuesday night was one of the best ever. I 751 00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:44.559 cannot I mean watching those election returns were I was 752 00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:46.760 sitting there with my wife. She was saying, I don't 753 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:48.360 know if I can you know, because she was, you know, 754 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:50.639 there was all this lot run up to the election 755 00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:53.679 of all these posters were changing at the last second, saying, 756 00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:56.000 you know that it looks like Kamala Harris is going 757 00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:57.280 to win. And she says, I don't know if I 758 00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:59.480 can sit here and watch this. I don't know if 759 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.880 I can tolerate this. And so she sat down and 760 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:04.800 we started looking at some of the election results. And 761 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.559 of course, when they started putting up the initial election 762 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:11.800 results in a state like Pennsylvania or whatever, you know, 763 00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:13.840 it starts off with one percent of the voter is 764 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:16.599 in and all of those are mostly absentee ballots, which 765 00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:21.000 are mostly Democrats coming voting. And so the election results 766 00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:24.440 were sixty percent for Kamala Harris and twenty percent or 767 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:28.079 thereabouts or thirty percent for a Trump. And she was going, 768 00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.840 oh my god, she goes is this and I said no, no, no, 769 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:32.760 I said, just look at the thing and so on. 770 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:34.440 And there were a couple of times during the night 771 00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:37.320 and I know on Fox News, they had this analysis 772 00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:39.920 where they said, well, here's the lineup, here's how these 773 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:42.239 states are going to go. We pretty much know these 774 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:44.280 states are going to go to Harris, and we know 775 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.679 these states are going to go to a Trump. And 776 00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:51.079 they had the seven swing states and they started doing 777 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:53.960 a combination, well, you know, Kamala Harris, if she wins 778 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.519 this and this, and it's kind of leaning that way, 779 00:42:56.719 --> 00:42:59.280 she will become president. Now, on the other hand, there's 780 00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.719 some analysis and the Fox opinion poll and stuff that 781 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:05.239 came out that day in terms of preference, what people 782 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.000 were interested in, the economy, the border, and all these 783 00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:10.400 sort of things, and how that was trending. So they 784 00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:15.719 were starting to move some of the states into Trump's column, 785 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:17.760 and by the time they were done, they were saying, 786 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:20.320 he's got a very good chance of pulling off all 787 00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.960 these swing states, but he could lose a couple of them. 788 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:25.079 They put them back and forth, and so as we're 789 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:28.199 watching this develop I was watching these swing states. When 790 00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:31.679 the results for New Jersey came in, I was kind 791 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:34.519 of disappointed because I thought he had a real shot 792 00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:37.480 of New Jersey when that didn't happen, And of course 793 00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:40.000 Virginia came in and that didn't happen. I thought he 794 00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:43.599 had a good shot there with Governor Younkin and so on. 795 00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:45.800 And then all of a sudden, some of the other 796 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:48.880 states started falling in place and whatever. And then we 797 00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:53.719 started seeing Florida big time, and then Georgia and so on, 798 00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:57.000 and got a little bit more comfortable with it. By 799 00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.920 one forty one in the morning Wednesday morning, the election 800 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:03.519 was called by Fox News, and so we watched Donald 801 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:07.360 Trump give his acceptance speech and so on, and talk 802 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:09.239 about it up there with his family and so on. 803 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:13.159 And then about three o'clock my wife went to bed. 804 00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:16.000 She said, wow, this is great. I've got to get 805 00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:18.559 some sleep though, and so I, you know, make sure 806 00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:21.440 that she was okay, and I actually tucked her in 807 00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:23.440 and so on. But I went back out in the 808 00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:25.840 living room. I said, you know, I've just got to 809 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.519 flip on CNN and I've got to flip on MSNBC 810 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.639 just to see what they're talking about. Talk about that 811 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.199 coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty 812 00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:37.559 five K. 813 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:42.840 The Talk Station, fifty five the Talk Station, the Great 814 00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.559 American Here for my buddies that coordated financial planning. 815 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:53.559 Are you thinking about retirement? Do you worry? Six? Twice 816 00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:55.880 in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty 817 00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:01.039 five K see the talk station five phone numbers five seven, nine, 818 00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:03.679 fifty five eight hundred eight two three eight two five 819 00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.360 five pound five fifty AT and T wireless phone. 820 00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:06.880 Ken. 821 00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:08.639 I'm going to get to you very shortly here. I 822 00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:10.920 hope you beg my. I want to beg your indulgence here. 823 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:14.199 I want to kind of finish up this story. So anyway, 824 00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:15.960 I was my wife went to bed. At three o'clock, 825 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:19.039 I went out and watched CNN. I was especially turned 826 00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:23.239 on MSNBC. Jensaki was the host of the show and 827 00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:26.079 had a panel of guests and so on, And it 828 00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:29.480 was interesting that she started talking about immediately when I 829 00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:33.000 flipped over. She was talking about Trump's speech and so on, 830 00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:36.239 and that how there were members up, there were people 831 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:40.000 on that stage that had nothing to do with the campaign, 832 00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:43.119 and it was amazing that some of these people were there. 833 00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:46.320 And she decided Avanka Trump, who was there, she didn't 834 00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:51.239 have anything to do and she distanced herself from this campaign. Hey, hey, Jen, 835 00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:54.320 that's his daughter. Okay, of course she's going to be there. 836 00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:58.360 Are you that dumb? Now, as far as the election 837 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:03.719 results itself, see I'm sorry MSNB and CNN. One forty 838 00:46:03.800 --> 00:46:08.800 one is when is when Fox News covered that were 839 00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:13.280 called the race. It wasn't until five forty five that 840 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:18.000 MSNBC called that race finally, And up until the very 841 00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:20.280 last second, this guy was up on the board and 842 00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:21.840 he was going, well, you know, there's one hundred and 843 00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:24.039 twenty thousand votes down here, and I think Kamala will 844 00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:27.119 get about ninety of those. Trump's lead currently is one 845 00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:29.440 hundred and sixty thousand. And then we got about ten 846 00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:31.320 thousand over here, and we got and she goes, ah, 847 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:33.039 wait a minute, wait a minute. When we got this 848 00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:34.599 called and all this sort of stuff, and it was 849 00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:36.880 like the balloon of the air went out of their balloon, 850 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:40.800 and she began to go into this diatribe. I don't 851 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:43.639 know if you've seen it. At this point, she goes, 852 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:47.519 we have elected a person refused to concede inside of 853 00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:53.639 a violent insurrection campaign while facing criminal indictments to and 854 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.079 for overturning the two thousand election results, ran as a 855 00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:01.039 convicted felon and just on on down the road. And 856 00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:02.920 it's like you know there is going to be no 857 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:05.440 compromise with these people. It is going to be bit 858 00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.440 to the bitter end. They're gonna fight. They're gonna fight, 859 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:09.960 They're gonna fight, and they're gonna do everything they can 860 00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:13.440 to be an impediment to this president. And then, of 861 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.360 course I did my you know, I stayed up until then, 862 00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:18.719 and so then I got about a couple of hours 863 00:47:18.719 --> 00:47:22.639 of sleep. I went to sleep about seven o'clock and 864 00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:24.400 made sure I set the alarm to get up at 865 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:27.639 eleven o'clock so I could watch the view. Actually, I 866 00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.639 stayed awake. I didn't go to bed till seven because 867 00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:36.760 I had to watch Morning Joe. Is that fun to watch? 868 00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:38.400 And then of course I had to watch the view, 869 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.800 and so at eleven o'clock and to see the meltdown, 870 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.519 to see what was going on there. It was worth 871 00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:46.719 the price of admission, let me tell you it just 872 00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:51.199 it did nothing but to make my night even better. 873 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:55.360 And it was an amazing night and I really enjoyed it. 874 00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:57.360 So let's get to the phones real quick. Let's talk 875 00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:59.559 to Ken. Ken fifty five k R. See you're on 876 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:01.480 the air. Thank you so much for calling. 877 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:05.119 All right, Kelyn, thanks a lot and I want, first 878 00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:07.639 of all, I want to thank all the veterans out 879 00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:09.800 there and thank them for our service, for their service, 880 00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:11.679 and also to the youngest one I know, and that 881 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:16.360 is the son of Christopher Smith, and he serves our country. 882 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:19.559 So definitely, isn't he. 883 00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:25.199 No, he finished, he did, I'm not miss well, I 884 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:32.159 will ask so definitely and always great hearing you and. 885 00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:34.239 Always great hear in your voice. I want to tell 886 00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:37.280 you I'm very happy you called, sir. 887 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:40.639 And the thing is with the election results. You know, 888 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:43.159 the Democrats are always talking about, uh, you know, we 889 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:47.159 need to save our democracy, and but now they're just 890 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.719 being very obstructive. And you know, we we had a 891 00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:56.039 democratic election. You know, people overwhelmingly voted for Trumpet, and 892 00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.119 they should just you know, accept the results. 893 00:48:58.679 --> 00:48:59.119 And move on. 894 00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:02.639 But I really we call the twenty sixteen protests of 895 00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:05.159 the women with the hats in the streets and falling 896 00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:09.360 out and yelling and screaming, so I probably wouldn't be 897 00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:11.280 surprised if they're trunk going to try to get that 898 00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:15.239 stuff kind of ramp back up. But the thing that 899 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.760 really disturbed me the most I heard the governor of 900 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:21.280 Illinois and he was saying Hey, Trump, if you come 901 00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:24.119 after my people, you're coming after me. I'm like, where 902 00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:26.519 is all that coming from. So I'm just putting a 903 00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:30.119 call out there. You know, they need you know, it 904 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:33.679 just needs to stop. We're one nation and one nation 905 00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:38.559 under God, and we should be indivisible. And so I'm 906 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:40.199 just putting a call out there, and I just want 907 00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:42.639 to thank everyone out there. And I do honestly believe 908 00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:46.320 in a spiritual solution to our material problem. And second 909 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:49.719 Chronicles seven fourteen says if we do what God wants 910 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:52.000 us to do, he will heal our land. And I 911 00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:54.440 just want to pass on love and healing to everyone. 912 00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:57.679 Yeah, God bless and I want to finish with also 913 00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:00.440 this thought is that if nothing else, I mean, one 914 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:03.480 of the things that was proven by this, and I 915 00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:08.400 just amazed that we finally found out. I mean, I've 916 00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:10.440 known this for a number of years and I've called 917 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.079 it out. We see that. Oh and I'm going to 918 00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:16.800 start calling her oprah win Fee because she got a 919 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:22.159 million dollars for endorsing Kamala Harris and all the money 920 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.760 that was sent out to pay these entertainers to endorse 921 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:28.639 and to do a song or two of these concerts 922 00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:32.800 which I find horrendous. And the fact that they raised 923 00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:36.760 over a billion dollars for this election campaign and they 924 00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:40.800 are twenty million dollars in debt. And as I said, 925 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:44.400 Oprah win Fee has been proven to be a fraud, 926 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:48.280 and so has Barack Obama when he started going after 927 00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:51.480 the Brothers as he called them, and started talking talking 928 00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:53.719 the whole line that you know, if you know, you 929 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:56.119 ain't black, and all that sort of stuff, and then 930 00:50:56.199 --> 00:50:58.880 he got on the stage and started all the conspiracy 931 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:03.079 hoaks that have all been disproven. When he repeated those 932 00:51:03.159 --> 00:51:05.280 in front of the audience in the final day of 933 00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:08.480 the election, he proved himself to be a liar and 934 00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:11.039 a fraud that we all all knew that he was. 935 00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:13.880 Ken Thanks so much for the phone call. I see 936 00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:16.920 that dropped off, But coming up, we'll be talking to Gary. 937 00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:19.119 Coming up, but we've got to take a quick break 938 00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.039 here five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five one 939 00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:24.320 eight hundred day two three talk one eight hundred eight 940 00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:26.880 two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty 941 00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:29.719 AT and T wireless phone, Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas. 942 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.159 Fifty five KRC DE talk Station. 943 00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:37.599 Fifty five KRC dot Com turn out your radio. Here's 944 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.480 the Sean Hannity Morning Minutes. 945 00:51:41.880 --> 00:51:45.199 Legacy media is dead. I said in two thousand and seven, 946 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:49.119 journalism is dead. Legacy media is dead. It is done, 947 00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.079 it is gone, it is buried, it is over. And 948 00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:55.760 these late night comics basically, you know, just start counting 949 00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:58.239 the days. If they're going to be off the air, 950 00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:01.000 it's going to be because nobody watts is them, because 951 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:03.440 they're not funny. If the view has ever taken off 952 00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:06.760 the air, it's because the show sucks. Legacy media people, 953 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:11.400 their influence is gone. This landslide victory on Tuesday, where 954 00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:13.840 he wins the popular vote, and I did ask many 955 00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:16.039 of you in blue states please go out and vote, 956 00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:18.400 even though your state likely isn't gonna go blue. 957 00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:19.480 A lot of you listen. 958 00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:23.320 I'm glad you did, because that led to mandate election 959 00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:24.199 in this country. 960 00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:31.880 Check out the Sean Hannity radio show later today right here. 961 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:37.440 Hey, if you served our country or communities, there are 962 00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:41.519 massive benefits waiting for you. That's right, current and former military, 963 00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:45.599 law enforcement, first responders, teachers. You qualify for a free 964 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:50.800 membership at gov x. That's goovx. 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Make sure that you don't 987 00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:09.079 do with some of our people in the spoon feder 988 00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:11.920 regurgitators in the mainstream media do when they put out 989 00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:19.440 these notifications. It is Veterans plural day, not veterans apostrophe s. 990 00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:24.719 Veterans Day, not possessive. It is Veterans plural day. So 991 00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:26.800 just you know, a little point of order there, because I, 992 00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:29.440 you know, it's what I do. Going to the phones, 993 00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:32.159 let's talk to Gary, Gary fifty five k see, thank 994 00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:33.880 you so much for calling. I appreciate it. 995 00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:40.119 Good morning, Kevin. I've got an interesting map for you 996 00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:48.360 that's going around on TikTok. It shows Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, 997 00:54:48.920 --> 00:54:57.960 New York, West Virginia, Maryland, and all the West coast California, Oregon, 998 00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:04.000 and Washington, as well as Illinois. They all have something 999 00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:09.119 in common. Besides, they were all voted bloom for Kamala Harris. 1000 00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:15.480 All these states either have no voter ID required or 1001 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:23.280 no photo ID required. Interesting, You've got to go to 1002 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:27.159 X and pull this up. Every single one of them 1003 00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:33.440 flipped for every single state that does not require photo 1004 00:55:33.559 --> 00:55:37.679 ID or an ID to vote, all went blue. Yeah, 1005 00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:39.039 every single one. 1006 00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:43.400 I am. I you know, I support and love our constitution, 1007 00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:48.280 and according to the Constitution, the states determine and decide 1008 00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:51.760 how their elections are going to be conducted. But quite honestly, 1009 00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:54.079 I think there ought to be somewhat of an exception 1010 00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:56.559 to that. I wonder if there could be a national 1011 00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:59.559 law passed that says that there needs to be a 1012 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:04.599 voter ID in. You know, you can have as many electors, 1013 00:56:04.599 --> 00:56:09.000 you know, election facilities, precincts, all that sort of stuff. 1014 00:56:09.159 --> 00:56:11.639 The legislators can do all whatever they're supposed to do 1015 00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:14.360 according to the Constitution, but I think insisting on a 1016 00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:17.760 voter ID and the fact that somebody proves their citizenship 1017 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:22.440 in order to be elected is necessary. I'm trying to 1018 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:24.559 get to the bottom of this of getting this stuff 1019 00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:27.400 in bits and pieces. But I know of an individual 1020 00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:30.519 who isn't I guess you would call them a low 1021 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:34.119 propensity voter or a low turnout doesn't vote that very often, 1022 00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:37.559 but is a registered voter and went to vote on 1023 00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:42.639 Tuesday and was told that he had already voted and 1024 00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:44.920 that they he said, well, I haven't voted. I didn't, 1025 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:48.239 you know, ask for any ballot or whatever. And part 1026 00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:50.920 of the discussion that I got and I don't know. Again, 1027 00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:54.199 this is what it was told, was that they told 1028 00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:57.320 him that somebody has been voting for him in his 1029 00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:01.639 name for the last nine years. And I wonder how 1030 00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:04.079 many and more of those are out there. I mean, 1031 00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:06.920 if in my little circle of the world that I 1032 00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:09.360 can that I know of at least one person that 1033 00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:12.119 has happened to I'm sure there's a lot of people 1034 00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:14.800 out there. And that's one of the reasons that I 1035 00:57:14.880 --> 00:57:19.280 stringently oppose this whole business of early voting. You know, 1036 00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:21.760 maybe in the last couple now, in the state of 1037 00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:25.599 Kentucky where I live, open voting for people that didn't 1038 00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:27.639 have absentee or excuse that they were going to be 1039 00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:29.880 out of the city or whatever, we weren't allowed to 1040 00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:33.119 do any early voting until Thursday. So we did Thursday, Friday, 1041 00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:35.840 and Saturday. I think that's plenty of time. If you 1042 00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:38.519 can't get off your butt and go to vote, you 1043 00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:41.039 don't deserve to have your vote counted. I'm sorry, but 1044 00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:44.800 this business of having these elections open for weeks on end, 1045 00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.719 that kind of gives the other side, to a certain extent, 1046 00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:51.039 or anybody a chance to say, well, these people haven't voted. 1047 00:57:51.079 --> 00:57:54.440 These people haven't voted, maybe we should vote for them 1048 00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:57.360 type of thing, and I just too much, too much. 1049 00:57:57.440 --> 00:57:58.280 I'm sorry. 1050 00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:04.679 Actually to be follow o'keith on Twitter. There's a thing 1051 00:58:04.760 --> 00:58:09.079 called smurfing and they're finding out people who have donated 1052 00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:12.559 to pack blue Yeah, like one hundred bullets in that 1053 00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.800 they've been finding out that a lot of people have 1054 00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:21.039 unknowingly in their name, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. 1055 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:25.679 This is how the Democrat Party raids a billion dollars. 1056 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:28.840 Amazing a matter of three months, absolutely amazing. 1057 00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:30.960 Height you guys have a nak you. 1058 00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:32.719 Do the same. Thank you so much for the phone 1059 00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:35.079 call five to one three phone numbers five one, three, seven, 1060 00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.599 four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two 1061 00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:39.679 three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two 1062 00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:43.039 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 1063 00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.000 Kevin Gordon in. By the way, Dennis, you will be 1064 00:58:45.079 --> 00:58:48.480 up right right now shortly. I'm Kevin Gordon in for 1065 00:58:48.519 --> 00:58:51.119 Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC the talk station. 1066 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:54.760 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station. 1067 00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:06.639 Are you paying two sex forty in the morning. Kevin 1068 00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:09.920 Gorton in for Brian Thomas fitty five krs the talk station. 1069 00:59:11.079 --> 00:59:13.559 Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Dennis. Dennis 1070 00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:15.239 Fitch your five KR. See you're on the air. Thank 1071 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:16.239 you so much for calling. 1072 00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:19.599 Hey, good morning, Kevin. Happy Veterans Day to you. 1073 00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:23.639 Thank you same to you. Did you have the honor 1074 00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:24.760 of serving? I did not. 1075 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:28.360 No, I did not, And I have some good friends 1076 00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:31.360 and good neighbors who did. And I want to carry 1077 00:59:31.360 --> 00:59:35.119 on my point about that that I'm the ones I 1078 00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:37.480 know are all conservative, So I'm sure they're very happy 1079 00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:41.039 about the most recent election. And I hope that this 1080 00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:44.239 does a lot to encourage more people to sign up. 1081 00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:46.960 You know, a foreign policy is a mess right now. 1082 00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:50.159 And I knew people who were serving under Jimmy Carter, 1083 00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:52.519 and I got to vote for Reagan and eighty and 1084 00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:55.440 they did two and let's just say that morale went up. 1085 00:59:55.480 --> 00:59:58.239 You know, if we saw after that, you know, asconder 1086 00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:03.159 foreign policy, evil people in the military. And obviously Reagan 1087 01:00:03.159 --> 01:00:06.840 did a great job, and Trump has long coattails. And 1088 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:08.599 I think the same thing's going to happen. 1089 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:14.480 There absolutely, and I think I think parents will be 1090 01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:19.559 a little bit more encouraging of their children that decide 1091 01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:23.559 to go into the military because I think they believed 1092 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:26.960 or will know that Donald Trump isn't going to send 1093 01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:31.760 their kids off to war for no reason at all 1094 01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:36.599 when we saw this military industrial complex and these endless 1095 01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:39.639 wars that we had had, and of course with the 1096 01:00:39.679 --> 01:00:42.679 woke military, I'm not sure a lot of people and 1097 01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:46.360 that's why probably recruitment has been down. And I would 1098 01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:50.199 think that that might turn up because there are an 1099 01:00:50.199 --> 01:00:53.159 awful lot of people that I know that volunteered and 1100 01:00:53.239 --> 01:00:55.440 that served, and they said it was one of the 1101 01:00:55.480 --> 01:00:59.039 best things they the best decsion they ever made, turned 1102 01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:01.960 their life around in certain instance, gave them a certain 1103 01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.639 amount of discipline, and taught them some skills, and gave 1104 01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:08.559 them the ability to use the GI Bill to pay 1105 01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:11.400 for their college. And so yes, I think a lot 1106 01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:13.199 of people and a lot of parents will be more 1107 01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:16.880 willing to have their children and lists that will have 1108 01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:18.440 that patriotic calling. 1109 01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:21.400 Well, Kevin, if I could just segue to one more 1110 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:23.440 thing real fast. I've talked to you once before on 1111 01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:27.239 the phone. I usually talk about education, immigration. I'll tie 1112 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:31.440 the two in very quickly here. I think that the 1113 01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:33.960 Latino vote and the young people vote in the last 1114 01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:36.559 election was very encouraging that this is going to be 1115 01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.360 kind of like what we saw after Reagan's victory in 1116 01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:43.199 nineteen eighty that more young people and the older Democrats 1117 01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:45.960 figured out that the country was heading in the right direction. 1118 01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:48.679 And you know, this is going to carry on. And 1119 01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:52.159 I've known this for many decades. We're dealing with Latinos 1120 01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:56.639 that they become increasingly conservative or Republican as they spend 1121 01:01:56.679 --> 01:01:59.039 more time in this country. And the people that I 1122 01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:01.440 know who were granted mnesty back in eighty six and 1123 01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:07.400 eighty seven are conservative, okay. And on my street one 1124 01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:09.719 of my Mexican neighbors has an American flag, you know, 1125 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:12.079 he has Mexican you know, decal on his car an 1126 01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:15.960 American flag symbol as well. Ones I know are very patriotic. 1127 01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:19.480 And we should be doing more in education to teach 1128 01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:22.239 American history and dispel Democrat and myths. You and I 1129 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:27.719 talked once about the myth of the Southern strategy. Well, 1130 01:02:27.719 --> 01:02:30.679 they'd like to say that Reagan created deficits by tax cuts, 1131 01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:33.800 and that's not true. He also had it was military spending, 1132 01:02:33.800 --> 01:02:36.599 which was hugely important then. And that if we can 1133 01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:39.199 dispel the myth of the insurrection and some of the 1134 01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:41.199 other things these people are promoting, and get them to 1135 01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:45.000 simply stop hating Republicans, that some of these Democrats might 1136 01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:48.719 become like the older Democrats who reflected and said, you know, like, hey, 1137 01:02:48.760 --> 01:02:50.920 you know, this is a better way to go, because 1138 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:52.559 they're buying a lot of nonsense. 1139 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:52.800 Right. 1140 01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:56.000 It has to start in school, though, we have to 1141 01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:58.599 just you can teach both sides. You can teach critical 1142 01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:01.119 race theory as long as upset it with like, you know, 1143 01:03:01.159 --> 01:03:04.800 this is a friends ideology coming from some sociology departments, 1144 01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:09.079 but you know, mainstream sociology and political science says that, no, 1145 01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.239 this has not been the basis of the history of 1146 01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:16.159 the United States institutional discrimination exactly. 1147 01:03:16.679 --> 01:03:20.039 Yeah, and that that has been sold to a lot 1148 01:03:20.039 --> 01:03:22.599 of people and they actually believe that, which is sad. 1149 01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:25.519 But Dennis, thanks so much for the phone call. I 1150 01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:27.679 really appreciate it. Thanks so much for the kind words. 1151 01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:32.800 Coming up, we'll have Mike coming up. But phone numbers, 1152 01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:34.760 by the way, five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, 1153 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:37.519 eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight 1154 01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:39.880 two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty 1155 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.920 on that AT and T wireless phone Kevin Gordon in 1156 01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:45.440 for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk. 1157 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:49.440 Station fifty five KRC the talk station. What if you 1158 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:50.480 could get the best? 1159 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:56.039 Next forty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for 1160 01:03:56.079 --> 01:03:59.719 Brian Thomas fits about Kerr see the talks station. Let's 1161 01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:01.599 go to the phones and talk to Mike. Mike fitty 1162 01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:03.639 five hare see you're on the air. Thanks so much 1163 01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:04.079 for calling. 1164 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:06.800 Good morning, Kevin, and I want to wish all my 1165 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:10.320 fellow veterans a happy Veterans Day. I served in the 1166 01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:13.480 US maybe Submarine Service, and I'm here to say I 1167 01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:17.320 have the utmost confidence in our next Secretary of Defense 1168 01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:20.400 and the Trump administration to use a submarine term will 1169 01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:24.880 torpedo the current woke agenda that permeates across all branches 1170 01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:27.760 of our military getting core values. 1171 01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:30.039 And Mike, thank you so much for your service to 1172 01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:32.400 the country. I certainly appreciate it. I wish I'd had 1173 01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:34.920 the honor of serving, but I did not, and so 1174 01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:36.679 I appreciate your business. 1175 01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:39.840 It was indeed an honor and memories memories that all 1176 01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:44.679 lands forever. I enlisted in the Submarine Service in nineteen 1177 01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:47.320 seventy five, right out of Elder high school and I've 1178 01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:50.159 served for twenty nine years, so between being the post 1179 01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:54.639 Vietnam era and the Jimmy Carter administration, the market difference 1180 01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:57.880 between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty eight were off the chart. 1181 01:04:58.039 --> 01:05:03.320 Recruitment re enlistments during the Reagan era was was hoping. 1182 01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:06.559 I'm hoping is what we're going to see here coming 1183 01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:09.760 up here in about three months, that when new people 1184 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:10.280 are put in. 1185 01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:13.159 That would be that would be fantastic. I would love 1186 01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:15.400 to see that happen. And of course, when you have 1187 01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:18.320 an administration that proved in the previous four years when 1188 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:21.559 they were in that didn't involve in foreign wars and 1189 01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:23.960 have kind of sent that. I've been seeing some very 1190 01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:27.760 encouraging things. I mean, he's sent out a tweet or 1191 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:32.199 something and informed that, you know, those hostages that Hamas 1192 01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:35.639 is holding better be back before I take office. He's 1193 01:05:35.679 --> 01:05:39.559 already a shot across the bow of Putin that do 1194 01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:43.559 not escalate this war. And I'm very encouraged by what 1195 01:05:43.639 --> 01:05:46.400 I'm seeing there. I Mean, we saw how few missiles 1196 01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:51.559 were fired during North by North Korea during the last 1197 01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:54.119 few months in the last year of the Trump administration, 1198 01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:57.880 versus the number that have been tested. Now it's it's 1199 01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:01.239 you know, I think it. You know, it's going to 1200 01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:05.920 be an interesting era in world tranquility, if you will, 1201 01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:09.000 world peace, yes, sir, and what we were being experienced. 1202 01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:12.079 I saw somebody online, a friend of mine who's in 1203 01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:16.079 the commodities business and very into oil and gas. He 1204 01:06:16.280 --> 01:06:18.719 talks about the peace dividend that we're going to be seeing, 1205 01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:21.960 and I certainly hope, so good. 1206 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:24.400 Ope, And if I may, real quick, guys, I got 1207 01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:26.400 a real short poem here that I think sums up 1208 01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:29.519 what today is all about. It is the veteran, not 1209 01:06:29.599 --> 01:06:31.719 the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. 1210 01:06:32.039 --> 01:06:34.960 It is the veteran, not the campus organizer that has 1211 01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:37.519 given us freedom of speech. It is the veteran, not 1212 01:06:37.559 --> 01:06:40.320 the politicians, that ensure our right to life, liberty, and 1213 01:06:40.360 --> 01:06:42.880 the pursuit of happiness. And it is the veteran who 1214 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:46.280 salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and who's 1215 01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:49.239 cough and his drape with that flag. God bless America. 1216 01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:52.119 Amen to that, Mikey, Thank you so much. That was 1217 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:56.199 a great poem. Appreciate it. Coming up. Well, we're getting 1218 01:06:56.199 --> 01:06:57.280 in to the top of the hour. We're going to 1219 01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:01.760 be talking to Ken Blackwell, but I don't think I'm 1220 01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:04.760 late for a break here. I've been. I'm distracted here, 1221 01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:07.079 I didn't pay attention. I haven't missed a break here, 1222 01:07:07.159 --> 01:07:09.559 have I Okay, I'm good. Okay, So we can take 1223 01:07:09.599 --> 01:07:13.239 this to the normal top of the hour. But this 1224 01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:15.880 Veterans Day, I just want to make sure that everybody, 1225 01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:19.039 you know, make sure that you honor a veteran take 1226 01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:22.559 that time at eleven, eleven eleven or eleven o'clock this 1227 01:07:22.639 --> 01:07:26.000 morning to take that thirty seconds or so and just 1228 01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:27.880 kind of say a prayer or whatever, at least a 1229 01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:31.079 moment of silence for our veterans out there, you know, 1230 01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:34.559 Veterans Day, the eleventh month, the eleventh hour, the eleventh day, 1231 01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:37.440 and so on. It is one of those things that 1232 01:07:37.599 --> 01:07:40.960 is just again, as I said, I wish I hadn't 1233 01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:43.679 had the honor of serving one of these days. I'll 1234 01:07:43.719 --> 01:07:46.039 talk about that. I actually got a draft notice, but 1235 01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:51.039 for some reason there was a postponed it for six months, 1236 01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:55.039 and by that time they stopped taking people, so unfortunately 1237 01:07:55.599 --> 01:07:58.519 I did not get called up. And so it was 1238 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:00.960 when I look back on that, to a certain extent, 1239 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:06.320 I wish I had gone and served. But anyway, but 1240 01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:11.360 this election has been extremely gratifying to me and looking 1241 01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:13.800 at all the stuff that has happened, you know, you 1242 01:08:13.880 --> 01:08:17.119 have a situation where it's very few times where you 1243 01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:20.680 have in the history of this country. There's only been 1244 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:24.560 one other time when somebody other than FDR but somebody 1245 01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:27.239 that ran for office three times, and you have to 1246 01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:31.439 go back one hundred years to Grover Cleveland, over one 1247 01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:34.439 hundred years to get to that. But what is fascinating 1248 01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:39.640 by this is that Donald Trump not only got the 1249 01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:44.479 number I mean one in twenty sixteen, got twelve million 1250 01:08:44.720 --> 01:08:49.119 more votes than he did in twenty twenty and got 1251 01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:53.399 up to almost a million more seven hundred thousand votes 1252 01:08:53.439 --> 01:08:56.520 I think or whatever, more than what he got in 1253 01:08:56.600 --> 01:09:00.359 twenty twenty. That is unheard of. Barack Obama. I've got 1254 01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:03.520 sixty nine million votes, and the second time he ran, 1255 01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:08.119 he lost for I mean four million less people voted 1256 01:09:08.119 --> 01:09:11.760 for him. So it is amazing to me that we 1257 01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:14.479 have never seen a movement like this. We have never 1258 01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:17.399 seen a politician like this, and we have never seen, 1259 01:09:17.479 --> 01:09:20.479 as I said, a movement like this, And it's incredible 1260 01:09:20.600 --> 01:09:22.880 and I'm very encouraged by what we can possibly see 1261 01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.720 coming up. We've got Ken Blackwell at the top of 1262 01:09:25.720 --> 01:09:28.680 the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty 1263 01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:30.720 five krs the Talk station. 1264 01:09:31.319 --> 01:09:32.399 Look what it happened. 1265 01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:35.920 This is the greatest political comeback of all time. 1266 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:37.439 This has ever been two, three. 1267 01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:43.760 Four times today fifty five krs the Talk station, this report. 1268 01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:52.199 Five minutes after seven o'clock. I want to welcome the 1269 01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:55.319 program right off the bat. Here a person I've been 1270 01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:57.239 wanting to talk to for a number of years, and 1271 01:09:57.239 --> 01:09:59.920 I am honored to be able to speak to him. Finally, Ken, 1272 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:03.199 I'm Blackwell, stand out three year letterman and lineman for 1273 01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:06.359 my alma mater, Xavier, who was on the football team 1274 01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:09.399 before I arrived there in seventy one, so we have 1275 01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:12.479 that in common. He is former Mayor of Cincinnati, Senior 1276 01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:16.560 Fellow of Family Empowerment, the Family Research Council, currently Vice 1277 01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:19.920 President Executive Community the Council for National Policy, and as 1278 01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:23.319 a member of the Council of Foret Relations. Thank you 1279 01:10:23.359 --> 01:10:25.159 so much for being with us this morning. Can I 1280 01:10:25.159 --> 01:10:26.199 certainly appreciate it. 1281 01:10:27.279 --> 01:10:27.640 Kevin. 1282 01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:28.960 Good to hear your voice. 1283 01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:31.720 Thank you, I appreciate it. Glad to talk to you. 1284 01:10:32.039 --> 01:10:34.720 Like I said, I am gushing this morning being able 1285 01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:37.800 to talk to you. You know, I can't help myself. 1286 01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:42.920 One fall awful one. 1287 01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:46.119 There you go. We won't launch into the fight song 1288 01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:47.640 here together. 1289 01:10:50.800 --> 01:10:51.680 All right, brother. 1290 01:10:52.680 --> 01:10:55.239 So we had a little bit of an election in America. 1291 01:10:55.319 --> 01:10:59.399 Kevin, it is morning, and it is morning in America. Absolutely, 1292 01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:05.640 men do tremendous election in twenty twenty four. And let's 1293 01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:07.760 just dive into some of the questions you may have 1294 01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:12.239 about at least my observations of what happened and why 1295 01:11:12.319 --> 01:11:13.159 those things happened. 1296 01:11:13.359 --> 01:11:21.279 Absolutely, are you there? Yeah, Okay, go right ahead, as 1297 01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:23.279 just buy it. 1298 01:11:23.319 --> 01:11:29.279 Look. Look, one of the things after twenty twenty that 1299 01:11:29.560 --> 01:11:33.600 I understood, just from a decade of being involved in 1300 01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:37.560 not only national and state elections, but being involved in 1301 01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:44.640 elections across the globe is that the left in national 1302 01:11:44.680 --> 01:11:51.159 elections had a strategy of running campaigns to make sure 1303 01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:54.960 that their votes fell within what I called the margin 1304 01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:59.880 of litigation, and then the Democrats had a superior litigation 1305 01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:07.560 strategy and they would pick off those closely contested elections. Uh. 1306 01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:11.880 This time around, we in fact had a counter strategy, 1307 01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:15.119 and that was to make the turnout and the margin 1308 01:12:15.159 --> 01:12:20.760 of victory UH two too big to rig UH. And 1309 01:12:21.319 --> 01:12:24.439 that was coupled with something that we've been working on 1310 01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:28.159 UH for for at least four years, and that is 1311 01:12:28.199 --> 01:12:31.840 to make sure that state by state, county back county, 1312 01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:36.159 we made it easy to vote but hard to cheat. 1313 01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:40.239 And when you begin to look at that, we we 1314 01:12:40.239 --> 01:12:46.439 we think that election administration, transparency UH and a tremendous 1315 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:52.800 turnout efforts across the country gave Trump a victory from 1316 01:12:52.880 --> 01:12:57.800 a From from a veteran standpoint, I started to see 1317 01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:03.319 a substantial siege change in voter perception and state in 1318 01:13:03.479 --> 01:13:12.239 the November election actually took place when a guy massacreading 1319 01:13:12.640 --> 01:13:16.439 as a woman in the Olympics hit a woman so 1320 01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:21.479 hard that she in fact said enough is enough. All 1321 01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:26.760 of a sudden, you know, Americans across the country started 1322 01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:35.079 to push back against the hard left transgender advocacy men 1323 01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:39.000 and women's sports men and women's locker rooms, and all 1324 01:13:39.039 --> 01:13:43.520 of a sudden, I saw the intensity of the of 1325 01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:48.680 the get out the vote effort start to formulate. And 1326 01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:52.479 so look, I think one, if you go back and 1327 01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:56.960 take a look that Trump got about seven million, six 1328 01:13:57.039 --> 01:14:00.720 hundred and fifty thousand votes this time around, which was 1329 01:14:01.119 --> 01:14:05.439 about almost a half a million more votes than he 1330 01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:10.199 got in twenty twenty, and his twenty twenty take was 1331 01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:13.840 a miraculous twelve million more votes than he got in 1332 01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:19.199 twenty sixteen. And so from the campaign standpoint, identifying their voters, 1333 01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:25.199 talking to them and then tying them into the intensity 1334 01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:30.760 of voter reaction to the radical lifts agenda gave him 1335 01:14:31.199 --> 01:14:35.439 a substantial victory in twenty twenty four where he is 1336 01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:39.119 right now at three hundred and twelve Electorial College votes, 1337 01:14:39.680 --> 01:14:45.239 and that was the result of the most miraculous return 1338 01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:47.600 I think in modern one. 1339 01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:52.199 Of the absolutely best run campaigns ever. And yes, you 1340 01:14:52.359 --> 01:14:58.399 are absolutely correct, Ken Blackwell, the miraculous fact that he 1341 01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:00.640 was able to get as many vote since he did 1342 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:04.199 survive everything that he survived just to get to this point. 1343 01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:06.680 And you made a very good point that you know, 1344 01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:08.800 and it kind of was low. I thought it was 1345 01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:11.600 lost on a lot of people, but as you mentioned it, 1346 01:15:11.800 --> 01:15:16.439 that punch of that Olympic athlete by a man, it 1347 01:15:16.560 --> 01:15:18.680 was a wake up call for a lot of people, 1348 01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:22.000 and I think it kind of served up on a 1349 01:15:22.039 --> 01:15:25.119 silver platter to everybody what we had been hearing, what 1350 01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:27.760 we had been seeing, and what we had been hearing about, 1351 01:15:28.119 --> 01:15:31.239 but it was there in front of us, as opposed to, oh, 1352 01:15:31.239 --> 01:15:34.199 it's just a story somewhere back on page fifteen or so. 1353 01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:35.560 Yeah. 1354 01:15:35.640 --> 01:15:39.560 And then and people were aware of the results of 1355 01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:46.000 illegal aliens coming across our border in waste of millions. 1356 01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:49.760 And as a consequence, what the radical left tried to 1357 01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:52.960 get folks to believe was that there was no connection 1358 01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:59.680 with these open borders and spiking crime in our cities 1359 01:15:59.760 --> 01:16:03.840 and in our even in our suburban and rural areas 1360 01:16:04.640 --> 01:16:11.319 as a consequence of illegal aliens flooding our country borders. 1361 01:16:11.800 --> 01:16:18.399 And I'll tell you what happened again is that people 1362 01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:22.439 started to say uh, particularly when it was in the 1363 01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:27.840 waning uh moments of the campaign the federal government had 1364 01:16:27.880 --> 01:16:33.359 to admit that they had short changed the spiking crime 1365 01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:38.119 in our cities. Well, we didn't really need them to 1366 01:16:38.159 --> 01:16:43.159 give us honest elections. People were I mean honest numbers. 1367 01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:47.560 People were experiencing that in their in their in their homes, 1368 01:16:47.640 --> 01:16:49.640 in their neighborhoods, in their cities. 1369 01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:50.159 Uh. 1370 01:16:50.279 --> 01:16:56.439 And as a consequence, that too, uh intensified the turnout. 1371 01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:59.920 But I will give I will give a Trump campaign credit. 1372 01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:06.640 They targeted they did a lot of targeted marketing. They 1373 01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:11.880 actually understood where their voters were. He, in fact, through 1374 01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:18.000 his personal leadership, inspired folks to turn out. I'll watch 1375 01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:23.239 what happened in those devastated communities in North Carolina. People 1376 01:17:23.359 --> 01:17:28.600 pushed through that devastation and had major, significant turnout to 1377 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:33.239 punch their ticket for Trump. 1378 01:17:33.600 --> 01:17:38.359 Exactly the amount of intensity when you saw the crowds, 1379 01:17:38.439 --> 01:17:42.239 the lines, the people that were just euphoric about getting 1380 01:17:42.279 --> 01:17:45.600 to the polls and voting. And you know, it's amazing 1381 01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:49.359 that the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media as 1382 01:17:49.399 --> 01:17:52.279 I call them, because they are basically a propaganda arm 1383 01:17:52.359 --> 01:17:55.760 and or spoon fed the information from the Democratic Party, 1384 01:17:55.960 --> 01:17:59.600 and then they regurgitated to us the fact that they 1385 01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:03.319 we're gaslighting us and trying to tell everybody that, you know, 1386 01:18:03.439 --> 01:18:05.720 everything's fine, the economy is great, this type of thing. 1387 01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:07.640 And yet people are sitting there and they're saying, well, 1388 01:18:07.640 --> 01:18:10.880 wait a minute, my paycheck isn't as long as the month, 1389 01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:15.680 and something's wrong, and prices are a lot higher, and 1390 01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:18.560 I'm not you know, I'm not having as good a 1391 01:18:18.680 --> 01:18:21.640 quality of life. And I think all those things coupled 1392 01:18:21.640 --> 01:18:25.640 together the crime, as you mentioned the immigration was just incredible. 1393 01:18:25.760 --> 01:18:28.319 Well, I'm kevin out, just tell you, and I don't 1394 01:18:28.319 --> 01:18:32.119 want to close out without saying this, Ohio was the 1395 01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:36.319 heart of it all. Again, Alex and his team at 1396 01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:40.199 the state level the do check again, We in fact 1397 01:18:40.439 --> 01:18:45.319 beat back the radical left attempt to change the way 1398 01:18:45.479 --> 01:18:48.840 district lads are drawing. We were outspent six to one. 1399 01:18:49.760 --> 01:18:55.720 We got it done. A Trump got what his margin 1400 01:18:55.760 --> 01:19:01.199 to victory was eleven and that and he had Cotaales 1401 01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:05.279 and they have Bernie Win that sentence seat. And I 1402 01:19:05.439 --> 01:19:14.239 tell you know, Ohio level of organization is a model 1403 01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:16.640 for other states across the nation. 1404 01:19:17.119 --> 01:19:18.800 I know we got to let you go. We only 1405 01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:21.600 have you till seven fifteen, But can we squeeze in 1406 01:19:21.720 --> 01:19:26.039 one quick question about the replacement for jd Vance and 1407 01:19:26.119 --> 01:19:28.800 what Dwine might do. I've been hearing a lot of 1408 01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:31.680 rumors and so on. Do you have a. 1409 01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:38.159 I don't want to put the kiss a diff on anybody? 1410 01:19:38.359 --> 01:19:43.680 Okay, all right, oh you diplomat, there you go, There 1411 01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:47.279 we go. Ken, I know you got to go. I 1412 01:19:47.319 --> 01:19:49.520 really appreciate this opportunity to talk to you, and I 1413 01:19:49.560 --> 01:19:52.760 really want to contact you. I think if you don't mind. 1414 01:19:52.760 --> 01:19:55.279 I can get your contact information from that. Yeah, and 1415 01:19:55.399 --> 01:19:58.119 to have you on again. Thank you so much for 1416 01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:01.239 all you've done and all you do and go Muskies, 1417 01:20:03.560 --> 01:20:06.399 all right, take care. Thank you so much. Ken Blackwell, 1418 01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:09.720 I'm telling you what you know. You have certain people 1419 01:20:09.760 --> 01:20:12.399 that you really want to meet, and certain people that 1420 01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:16.640 you've kind of brushed up against or been introduced to, 1421 01:20:17.319 --> 01:20:19.960 and some people that you really want to interview on air. 1422 01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:23.520 And up to this point today I hadn't been able 1423 01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:25.560 to do that. I was so glad when they asked 1424 01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:27.000 me to fill in and they said, oh, well, you 1425 01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:29.359 got some guests, and when his name came up, I 1426 01:20:29.399 --> 01:20:32.279 was just so I was over the top excited to 1427 01:20:32.319 --> 01:20:33.960 talk to him. And I hope you have him on 1428 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:37.840 again and sometime soon. We're got to get to Chris 1429 01:20:37.840 --> 01:20:41.760 Smitherman here coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. 1430 01:20:41.800 --> 01:20:43.960 Fifty five KRC, the talk station. 1431 01:20:44.920 --> 01:20:48.600 This is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station. 1432 01:21:02.720 --> 01:21:06.600 Seven in the morning. Welcome to the program. One of 1433 01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:10.840 my new found friends, Christopher Smitherman. Welcome back to the program. 1434 01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:13.479 Let's getting to be a routine with us on Monday mornings. 1435 01:21:13.520 --> 01:21:19.079 Here. Hey, Kevin, I'm glad to be with you, and 1436 01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:23.479 what a beautiful morning, I tell you. 1437 01:21:23.479 --> 01:21:25.239 You know, this has been a this has been. 1438 01:21:25.359 --> 01:21:30.159 The most interesting election cycle of my lifetime. Oh Iah, 1439 01:21:30.199 --> 01:21:34.039 to tell you, and I have so many observations, many 1440 01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:36.680 that you've made and others have made. But let me 1441 01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:38.199 start off by saying. 1442 01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:40.079 I'm sorry. Before before we get going, I want to 1443 01:21:40.920 --> 01:21:43.479 mention your son is still currently serving. 1444 01:21:43.560 --> 01:21:49.079 Correct he he he did four years? Okay, and yes 1445 01:21:49.159 --> 01:21:51.439 he did, and then he just got out about oh 1446 01:21:51.479 --> 01:21:55.239 he did go okay, and then and then rejoined the 1447 01:21:55.279 --> 01:21:59.079 Air National Gold cool another three year commitment. So yes, make. 1448 01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:02.479 Sure, on the part for me, wash him a happy 1449 01:22:02.560 --> 01:22:05.600 veteran's day. On my part, I certainly appreciate his service. 1450 01:22:06.279 --> 01:22:08.800 So I really do appreciate it. 1451 01:22:08.880 --> 01:22:12.680 You you're saying that, Let me start off by saying, 1452 01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:16.640 I've been watching you know, all different types of news, 1453 01:22:17.199 --> 01:22:21.479 you know, mainstream media, and you know they're really having 1454 01:22:21.479 --> 01:22:25.199 a miltdown over the over the weekend regarding the results. 1455 01:22:25.840 --> 01:22:29.079 And what I what I really wanted to say, kind 1456 01:22:29.079 --> 01:22:31.800 of in a nutshell, is it seems like they still 1457 01:22:31.840 --> 01:22:37.880 don't understand what happened. They're still in denial and what 1458 01:22:37.920 --> 01:22:40.800 I'll say about that is that this election was all 1459 01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:45.359 about the economy. It was all about people surviving, trying 1460 01:22:45.359 --> 01:22:48.239 to pay their rent, trying to pay food, trying to 1461 01:22:48.279 --> 01:22:52.119 buy gas, trying to send their kids to school, whether 1462 01:22:52.159 --> 01:22:55.960 that's high school or trying to send their kids to college. 1463 01:22:56.560 --> 01:22:59.680 It was all pocketbook issues. And it just seemed like 1464 01:22:59.720 --> 01:23:04.039 the Democratic Party, Kevin like they just totally missed it. 1465 01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:07.800 And they were there talking about issues like abortion, or 1466 01:23:07.840 --> 01:23:13.159 they were talking about issues like transgender people swimming and 1467 01:23:13.199 --> 01:23:18.159 competing against against girls in sports, whatever the issue was. Now, 1468 01:23:18.199 --> 01:23:20.960 these issues were important. They you know, might might have 1469 01:23:21.039 --> 01:23:22.640 been in the top five, might have been in the 1470 01:23:22.680 --> 01:23:25.720 top ten, but people were talking about the border, they 1471 01:23:25.760 --> 01:23:29.359 were talking about the economy before any of those things. 1472 01:23:29.640 --> 01:23:31.560 And so I think that's where they missed it. And 1473 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:34.159 when you look at the map, you know, it's very 1474 01:23:34.239 --> 01:23:37.359 rare to see if presidential candidate do that well, meaning 1475 01:23:37.800 --> 01:23:41.159 just for sure, just the entire map is read except 1476 01:23:41.159 --> 01:23:43.920 about four or five states, and on top of it, 1477 01:23:44.319 --> 01:23:47.439 when the popular vote and the electoral vote, and it 1478 01:23:47.479 --> 01:23:51.079 looks like has wrong the Senate and most likely will 1479 01:23:51.119 --> 01:23:53.880 win the House at two eighteen. So this is like 1480 01:23:53.960 --> 01:23:57.319 a clean sweep. And what's interesting is when you listen 1481 01:23:57.359 --> 01:24:00.960 to some of the mainstream media, Kevin, they're blame the voter, 1482 01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:04.159 like they're blaming the public. I don't understand it. 1483 01:24:04.279 --> 01:24:11.159 Yeah, it's like you are your company and you sell 1484 01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:15.920 a product that nobody wants, and you're blaming them because 1485 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:19.199 they're not smart enough to buy your product, rather than 1486 01:24:19.239 --> 01:24:21.239 looking at it and saying, well, let me see, we've 1487 01:24:21.239 --> 01:24:24.880 had this number of recalls, We've had this number of 1488 01:24:24.920 --> 01:24:29.840 things failing, We've had a food item that doesn't taste good. 1489 01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:32.680 But you know, it's the people's fault for not buying 1490 01:24:32.720 --> 01:24:36.840 into our advertising. Christopher Smitherman and I, you know, I 1491 01:24:36.840 --> 01:24:40.239 think the immigration and the whole economy we're you know, 1492 01:24:40.439 --> 01:24:43.319 the top two items. And when you're talking about the 1493 01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:46.079 stressing of abortion and you're talking about you know, I 1494 01:24:46.079 --> 01:24:49.319 think the abortion issue, even what they were talking about 1495 01:24:49.520 --> 01:24:52.960 was extreme, even for people that consider themselves pro choice. 1496 01:24:54.199 --> 01:24:57.560 They were looking at the immigration policy and the open 1497 01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:00.640 borders and the fact that you know, here's somebody that's saying, 1498 01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:03.960 you know, whatever your problems are, whatever's going on, we're 1499 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:06.199 going to turn the page. We'll turn the page from 1500 01:25:06.199 --> 01:25:08.960 what you've been there for four years and we're going 1501 01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:11.920 to do something different. We're going to Well, you're the 1502 01:25:11.920 --> 01:25:14.520 one that fixed it. Are you really serious about that, 1503 01:25:14.520 --> 01:25:16.840 You're the one that's going to you broke it, You're 1504 01:25:16.880 --> 01:25:20.319 the one that's going to be fixing it. It's just insanity. 1505 01:25:20.439 --> 01:25:23.920 It was really, really unbelievable. And when you think about 1506 01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:27.880 things like Lake and Riley, who was murdered in Georgia 1507 01:25:28.520 --> 01:25:32.600 by someone who was in the country illegally, that totally 1508 01:25:32.720 --> 01:25:36.560 changed the direction of Georgia. Georgia only went by twelve 1509 01:25:36.680 --> 01:25:40.640 or thirteen thousand votes to President Biden four years ago. 1510 01:25:41.119 --> 01:25:43.399 But if you're in Georgia and you're thinking, oh, the 1511 01:25:43.439 --> 01:25:46.279 southern border doesn't have anything to do with me, but uh, oh, 1512 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:51.479 we have somebody who was in our country illegally coming 1513 01:25:51.479 --> 01:25:55.920 to Georgia and killing one of a Georgian resident who 1514 01:25:56.000 --> 01:26:00.079 was a nursing student minding her own business out Jawg 1515 01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:04.960 on some random day and comes across this person who's 1516 01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:09.600 a barbarian who kills her. It changes how Georgia thinks 1517 01:26:09.640 --> 01:26:15.199 about the election. When the hurricanes happened right North Carolina, 1518 01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:18.800 Georgia and Florida hit and you had the White House 1519 01:26:18.800 --> 01:26:21.840 say we're going to give you seven hundred and fifty dollars, right, 1520 01:26:22.039 --> 01:26:25.279 And people are saying, I just lost my entire house 1521 01:26:25.640 --> 01:26:28.800 in a month fight. I lost my family, my parents, 1522 01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:31.960 my wife, my dog, everything wiped out. 1523 01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:35.520 And there are still five there are still five hundred 1524 01:26:35.600 --> 01:26:37.479 people that haven't been found. 1525 01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:40.279 Unbelievably. 1526 01:26:40.359 --> 01:26:43.199 I've heard that over the weekend and I was shocked 1527 01:26:43.279 --> 01:26:43.640 by that. 1528 01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:49.000 But Kevin, these are the big things that the White 1529 01:26:49.000 --> 01:26:53.239 House missed, meaning you had these opportunities to show that 1530 01:26:53.319 --> 01:26:56.039 you were going to put America first. And what did 1531 01:26:56.039 --> 01:26:57.960 they do. They sent I think it was one hundred 1532 01:26:58.000 --> 01:27:02.039 and seventy million dollars to let right in the middle 1533 01:27:02.199 --> 01:27:06.680 of this hurricane. They act as if the American people 1534 01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:10.520 are stupid and were not. This was about the working 1535 01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:15.359 middle class, meaning the everyday person getting up every day 1536 01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:17.640 trying to feed their family. And I'm going to say this, 1537 01:27:17.880 --> 01:27:21.079 and it didn't matter race. It wasn't about Latino or 1538 01:27:21.159 --> 01:27:24.960 black or white or Asian. It was about the economy 1539 01:27:25.199 --> 01:27:29.199 and how the economy was impacting the American family. And 1540 01:27:29.239 --> 01:27:33.119 then those people who were here illegally, why they were 1541 01:27:33.159 --> 01:27:38.199 being prioritized with resources the while Americans were suffering. It 1542 01:27:38.319 --> 01:27:41.239 was such an easy message. But what happened is these 1543 01:27:41.279 --> 01:27:44.319 guys are in such a bubble that they're talking about 1544 01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:47.680 all of these other things that do not matter to Americans, 1545 01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:49.520 and they lost this race. 1546 01:27:50.159 --> 01:27:54.439 Big, bigly. Christopher smither and you know the drill here. 1547 01:27:54.479 --> 01:27:56.039 We need to take a quick break and when we 1548 01:27:56.119 --> 01:27:59.079 come back with pick up the conversation on this smother event. 1549 01:27:59.479 --> 01:28:02.680 And did do you see the article that there was 1550 01:28:03.079 --> 01:28:08.520 some FEMA agent that went around and told a supervisor 1551 01:28:08.560 --> 01:28:12.119 that told people, if you see a Trump flag or 1552 01:28:12.159 --> 01:28:16.000 a Trump sign, don't go there and offer assistance. 1553 01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:18.199 We will talk about it. 1554 01:28:18.279 --> 01:28:22.079 Unbelievable, absolutely, Christopher smither and my guest will pick this 1555 01:28:22.199 --> 01:28:23.640 up on the other side of the break. I'm Kevin 1556 01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:26.279 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the. 1557 01:28:26.359 --> 01:28:33.840 Talk station, fifty five KRC, seven thirty. 1558 01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:35.840 One in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 1559 01:28:36.239 --> 01:28:39.560 fifty five krs in the talk station, continuing our conversation 1560 01:28:39.640 --> 01:28:46.680 with Christopher Smitherman the smither event this morning. And well, 1561 01:28:47.159 --> 01:28:50.560 we talked about this FEMA situation, but I want to 1562 01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:55.600 ask a quick question if there were if the Democrats 1563 01:28:55.600 --> 01:29:00.279 had gotten three hundred and twelve electoral votes one the 1564 01:29:00.319 --> 01:29:04.840 popular vote won the Senate and increase the margin by 1565 01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:07.960 four or five seats. Looks like they're going to take 1566 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:12.920 over and increase their a majority in the House. Wouldn't 1567 01:29:12.920 --> 01:29:16.439 you think that the pundits out there would be saying 1568 01:29:16.439 --> 01:29:19.920 to the Republicans folks, this is a mandate. Shut up 1569 01:29:19.960 --> 01:29:22.760 and sit down. 1570 01:29:24.319 --> 01:29:27.279 And whether they and whether they say it or not. Again, 1571 01:29:27.479 --> 01:29:30.039 you know, people listening to me, I always like to 1572 01:29:30.039 --> 01:29:34.279 give this disclaimer. I watch politics like people watch sports. 1573 01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:37.279 I'm just giving it to you. I'm just giving it 1574 01:29:37.319 --> 01:29:40.600 to you like it is. And so Kevin, Yes, this 1575 01:29:40.760 --> 01:29:43.840 is a mandate. Whether they have their head in the 1576 01:29:43.880 --> 01:29:48.000 sand like an Ostrich or not for the next two years, 1577 01:29:48.079 --> 01:29:50.520 this is a mandate. And what I will say about 1578 01:29:50.600 --> 01:29:56.199 FEMA is this is a smoking gun, meaning people had 1579 01:29:56.319 --> 01:30:02.720 suspicion that these kinds of things were happening, and think 1580 01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:05.880 about them doing it when Americans are at their worst. 1581 01:30:06.680 --> 01:30:11.119 House has been devastated. And my political view is different 1582 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:14.760 than yours. But I'm going to allow you to suffer. 1583 01:30:15.279 --> 01:30:17.399 I'm not going to help you. I'm not going to 1584 01:30:17.479 --> 01:30:22.159 give you the raft to get to the to safety 1585 01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:27.680 because of your political position. That is what is so horrific, 1586 01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:30.560 and the and the lack of humanity criminal by what 1587 01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:34.640 FEMA was doing here. Yes, absolutely, it's criminal. People have 1588 01:30:34.720 --> 01:30:37.920 the right in this country to support whoever they want 1589 01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:42.560 to support. That's what's missing many times on the Democratic side, 1590 01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:45.359 no matter what your position is. I've been a registered 1591 01:30:45.359 --> 01:30:51.399 independent for for decades, but whatever whatever your political persuasion is, 1592 01:30:51.439 --> 01:30:54.119 you have the right to have and FEMA shouldn't say, well, 1593 01:30:54.359 --> 01:30:58.760 your house was devastated, you have a a Trump side, 1594 01:30:58.920 --> 01:31:01.840 therefore we're not wanted to help you. This is a 1595 01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:05.159 very big deal and I would suspect that the Senate 1596 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:08.039 or the House or both are going to hold hearings 1597 01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:13.479 on this. And I would suspect that the FEMA director, DHS, FBI, CIA, 1598 01:31:14.239 --> 01:31:18.319 Education Director, i r S Director, all of them are 1599 01:31:18.359 --> 01:31:22.800 going to be resigning here very very soon. I would 1600 01:31:22.800 --> 01:31:25.119 suspect that the new administration is going to clean house 1601 01:31:25.159 --> 01:31:27.239 and this is going to be one of those examples 1602 01:31:27.520 --> 01:31:30.640 of most likely why they need to do it. Kevin, 1603 01:31:33.199 --> 01:31:38.600 I want to say this about this election. What President 1604 01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:44.920 elect has shown the Republican Party is if you do 1605 01:31:45.079 --> 01:31:52.880 the outreach, if you show that you care, Americans will 1606 01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:57.279 vote for you, no matter their race or jender. And 1607 01:31:57.359 --> 01:32:01.920 so what is happening in our own county, meaning in 1608 01:32:01.960 --> 01:32:04.199 Hamilton County, I mean. 1609 01:32:04.720 --> 01:32:06.960 The People's Republic of Hamilton County. 1610 01:32:08.119 --> 01:32:12.000 Saying I've been saying this, Kevin for a long time, 1611 01:32:12.039 --> 01:32:16.520 and I hope they're listening. That I've shared this with 1612 01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:19.560 with Alex Tramp and Felo. I've shared it with Chairman 1613 01:32:20.119 --> 01:32:23.039 Tramp and Felo. I shared it with Chairman Mock. If 1614 01:32:23.079 --> 01:32:27.640 you do the outreach, if you're sincere about it, if 1615 01:32:27.640 --> 01:32:31.920 you go to the barbershops, the churches, the festivals, and 1616 01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:34.920 you tell your story, you will be able to expand 1617 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:38.159 the map right because what the Democratic Party has done 1618 01:32:39.159 --> 01:32:42.159 to most of these communities is get their votes and 1619 01:32:42.239 --> 01:32:44.920 then walk away. So what I'll share with you, what 1620 01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:50.319 I'll share with you, Kevin, is if this administration meets 1621 01:32:50.319 --> 01:32:53.439 their commitments, meaning they go back to those barbershops, they 1622 01:32:53.439 --> 01:32:56.640 go back to those communities, they really deal with the 1623 01:32:56.680 --> 01:33:01.119 public policies, like like a former at the time now 1624 01:33:01.199 --> 01:33:03.800 president elect, but he was former president then when he 1625 01:33:04.760 --> 01:33:08.319 provided funding to historically black colleges and universities that made 1626 01:33:08.319 --> 01:33:13.279 them permanent. If he delivers the public policy he follows 1627 01:33:13.279 --> 01:33:18.119 it up, not with handouts, but real opportunities raising the 1628 01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:21.479 economy where people feel like there's more money in their pocket, 1629 01:33:21.520 --> 01:33:23.960 they can pay their rent, that they see their food 1630 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:29.000 prices going down, they see oil prices stabilized. Then they'll 1631 01:33:29.039 --> 01:33:32.399 get another shot and they will expand the map. Yet again, 1632 01:33:33.840 --> 01:33:37.720 I feel like the Democratic Party Kevin hasn't learned. They're 1633 01:33:37.760 --> 01:33:41.760 still saying the same thing. They're basically saying anybody who 1634 01:33:41.920 --> 01:33:47.600 voted for President Trump, and particularly if you're ethnic, meaning 1635 01:33:47.640 --> 01:33:51.560 you are in a minority, that you are stupid. That 1636 01:33:51.760 --> 01:33:55.920 message is being radiated out of the Democratic Party right now. 1637 01:33:56.159 --> 01:33:59.359 And I would say, if this administration can capitalize on 1638 01:33:59.439 --> 01:34:03.000 it and actually deliver the public policy, the map four 1639 01:34:03.079 --> 01:34:04.880 years from now will expand to. 1640 01:34:04.800 --> 01:34:08.399 Get absolutely And I've seen this in my home state 1641 01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:13.920 of Kentucky and Mike County. There are certain pockets in 1642 01:34:14.079 --> 01:34:17.199 a Newport in Bellevue and Dayton, Kentucky that are a 1643 01:34:17.319 --> 01:34:21.800 very strong Democrat and just because somebody as a Republican 1644 01:34:21.920 --> 01:34:26.479 can win the county or win certain areas because the 1645 01:34:26.520 --> 01:34:29.960 population is bigger or whatever, I have stressed to them 1646 01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:33.960 that they need to make an outreach to those communities 1647 01:34:34.000 --> 01:34:38.359 and expand the tent and build up the Republican Party 1648 01:34:39.079 --> 01:34:43.199 in all facets. And that's the missing link here as 1649 01:34:43.239 --> 01:34:47.520 far as Hamilton County, because you've basically said we're writing 1650 01:34:47.560 --> 01:34:51.720 it off. It's just not attainable. It is attainable. Your 1651 01:34:51.880 --> 01:34:54.960 paycheck if it doesn't go as long as the month, 1652 01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:58.039 you're having a problem. If you've got crime in the streets, 1653 01:34:58.560 --> 01:35:02.319 it's a problem, and you know, fix that problem, Christopher. 1654 01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:03.760 We need to take it. You know, we need to 1655 01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:05.479 take quick break here and we come back and want 1656 01:35:05.520 --> 01:35:08.960 to explore this a little bit more and continue our 1657 01:35:09.319 --> 01:35:12.319 smither Vent. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. My guest, 1658 01:35:12.359 --> 01:35:15.239 Christopher Smitherman. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five 1659 01:35:15.319 --> 01:35:16.800 KR See the talk station. 1660 01:35:17.119 --> 01:35:20.760 This is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station. 1661 01:35:20.960 --> 01:35:30.520 Steve Perrin's coordinated Finance seven in the morning. Kevin Gordon 1662 01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:33.760 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station. 1663 01:35:34.199 --> 01:35:38.920 My guest Christopher Smitherman. Christopher, I was listening to your 1664 01:35:39.039 --> 01:35:43.840 interview last week, or your smither Vent with Brian last week, 1665 01:35:44.680 --> 01:35:47.720 and one of the things that that came out and 1666 01:35:47.760 --> 01:35:49.840 I've been hearing more and more about this, because I've 1667 01:35:49.880 --> 01:35:51.920 you know, I've been talking about for years now that 1668 01:35:52.399 --> 01:35:56.119 when I look at what the Allegiance and the Democratic Party, 1669 01:35:56.319 --> 01:35:59.680 the African Americans and Black Americans and so on to this, 1670 01:36:00.520 --> 01:36:03.279 and you hit the nail on the head, this plantation mentality, 1671 01:36:04.439 --> 01:36:06.600 the fact that if you go back to the history 1672 01:36:06.600 --> 01:36:09.279 of the Democratic Party, the part of the Democratic Party 1673 01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:12.560 is party of racism, a party of Jim Crow, Jim 1674 01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:16.279 you know, KK Clay, the KKK, the whole nine yards, 1675 01:36:16.640 --> 01:36:19.279 and the more and more this history of the Democratic Party, 1676 01:36:19.399 --> 01:36:21.439 and I've got these deniers and so on that I'm 1677 01:36:21.479 --> 01:36:23.760 trying to school and all this sort of stuff. You know, 1678 01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:26.439 a couple of them may talk off air sometime or 1679 01:36:26.520 --> 01:36:28.319 I'll get your phone number and we'll talk about this. 1680 01:36:28.640 --> 01:36:30.520 But there's a couple of people that I've been talking 1681 01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:32.920 to and it's amazing how it seems like they don't 1682 01:36:32.920 --> 01:36:35.920 want to hear any of this stuff. And the fact 1683 01:36:36.000 --> 01:36:39.039 that you mentioned the fact that you know, you know, 1684 01:36:39.720 --> 01:36:43.439 blacks and any whether it's Latinos, whether it's whites, whether 1685 01:36:43.479 --> 01:36:47.359 it's Irish, whether it's whoever. We're not monolithic. We all 1686 01:36:47.399 --> 01:36:51.199 have the same kitchen table issues. We all have the 1687 01:36:51.279 --> 01:36:53.800 love of our family. We want our kids to do 1688 01:36:53.880 --> 01:36:56.600 better than us. We want them to get a good education, 1689 01:36:57.039 --> 01:36:58.920 and we want them to live in a safe neighborhood. 1690 01:36:59.159 --> 01:37:01.359 I don't think it's you know, it's much more difficult 1691 01:37:01.479 --> 01:37:04.039 than that. But when you've got one party that's been 1692 01:37:04.039 --> 01:37:07.720 promising this for fifty years and never delivered, it's about 1693 01:37:07.760 --> 01:37:10.119 time to maybe say, hey, I've been lied to. 1694 01:37:12.439 --> 01:37:14.800 No, I think that's true, and I think that in 1695 01:37:14.840 --> 01:37:20.520 the campaign we're finding out, you know, personalities like Oprah Winfrey. 1696 01:37:20.840 --> 01:37:21.520 J Low. 1697 01:37:22.960 --> 01:37:26.600 I interrupt you here. I'm sorry, I'm calling her Oprah 1698 01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:30.600 win Fee now because she was paid to her. 1699 01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:34.479 A million dollars, yes, a million dollars to do that interview. 1700 01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:37.640 But my point is all of these stars, all of 1701 01:37:37.680 --> 01:37:42.800 these stars, Kevin could not deliver the election because it 1702 01:37:42.960 --> 01:37:47.079 was about public policy, meaning people continue to ask the 1703 01:37:47.159 --> 01:37:51.279 vice president about what your public policy positions were, and 1704 01:37:51.319 --> 01:37:54.640 we were getting unclear answers. And so what this shows 1705 01:37:54.680 --> 01:37:58.840 you is the electric is much smarter, much more tuned 1706 01:37:58.880 --> 01:38:01.800 in than the demmer crabbing party thought they were. They 1707 01:38:01.880 --> 01:38:05.079 thought that the media could lie about this, lie about this, 1708 01:38:05.439 --> 01:38:08.279 whether hey, I got thirty five felonies, which was all 1709 01:38:08.840 --> 01:38:11.960 a hoax down down in New York. The four hundred 1710 01:38:11.960 --> 01:38:15.000 and fifty million dollars, let's try to take his property, 1711 01:38:15.239 --> 01:38:20.960 let's the assassination attempt, and then the foiled assassination attempt 1712 01:38:21.560 --> 01:38:23.800 during it. I mean, they thought that all of that 1713 01:38:23.880 --> 01:38:27.159 kind of stuff going on wouldn't impact the election. It 1714 01:38:27.239 --> 01:38:29.439 was just they thought that the media thought they could 1715 01:38:29.439 --> 01:38:32.279 just say these these touched this is a KKK member, 1716 01:38:32.800 --> 01:38:35.760 this is really Hitler, this is really a fascist. And 1717 01:38:35.800 --> 01:38:39.600 so now this week on Wednesday, Biden has to sit 1718 01:38:39.680 --> 01:38:42.319 down to a guy he said was a fascist and Hitler, 1719 01:38:42.640 --> 01:38:45.079 and he's got to welcome him to the White House. 1720 01:38:45.159 --> 01:38:49.880 Right, was playing us with he? 1721 01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:53.399 What was he plan us? I mean, would Winston Churchill 1722 01:38:53.479 --> 01:38:57.720 have invited Hitler to ten Downing Street at any point? 1723 01:38:58.760 --> 01:38:58.960 No? 1724 01:38:59.319 --> 01:39:03.680 Okay, so what they say or were they lying to us? 1725 01:39:04.119 --> 01:39:06.239 They were lying to us the whole time, and we 1726 01:39:06.279 --> 01:39:09.000 will continue to see that they were lying to us 1727 01:39:09.000 --> 01:39:12.239 the whole time, and the public understands that. Here's what 1728 01:39:12.319 --> 01:39:16.159 I want to say. We lost Militsa powers as a 1729 01:39:16.199 --> 01:39:21.079 Hamilton County prosecutor here in Hamilton County. I want to 1730 01:39:21.079 --> 01:39:26.479 commend her on a great election. Hamilton County has clearly 1731 01:39:26.520 --> 01:39:30.239 turned blue, whether that was Sheriff Neil and some other 1732 01:39:30.399 --> 01:39:34.079 very very important races. But now city council is all Democrat, 1733 01:39:34.720 --> 01:39:39.640 all council members, the mayor Democrat, the county commissioners Democrat, 1734 01:39:40.079 --> 01:39:44.000 the prosecutor Democrats. And so I look at Cincinnati and 1735 01:39:44.039 --> 01:39:47.640 Hamilton County and say, probably not good for us to 1736 01:39:47.720 --> 01:39:52.560 have one party running our entire region, in our entire county. 1737 01:39:52.960 --> 01:39:54.439 And these are the kind of things we're going to 1738 01:39:54.520 --> 01:39:57.640 have to think about public when we're voting that we're 1739 01:39:57.720 --> 01:40:01.640 just not voting down one ticket, actually trying to identify 1740 01:40:02.159 --> 01:40:05.399 who are the best candidates to run our county. And 1741 01:40:05.479 --> 01:40:09.319 so I'm very concerned about that. I expressed that concern. 1742 01:40:09.439 --> 01:40:12.560 So even though the state went a direction, the federal 1743 01:40:12.560 --> 01:40:15.439 government went a different direction, went a different went a 1744 01:40:15.479 --> 01:40:19.840 direction that Hamilton County here went all blue. And I'm 1745 01:40:19.880 --> 01:40:22.239 just very concerned about that. And I think Melissa Powers 1746 01:40:22.399 --> 01:40:26.840 was a great candidate. I thought that Orlando Sanza was 1747 01:40:26.880 --> 01:40:29.840 a great candidate. You know, Happy Veterans Day, west Point 1748 01:40:29.880 --> 01:40:33.119 graduate wife, west Point graduate. I just think we miss 1749 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:36.279 it sometimes when we're talking about our local politics, and 1750 01:40:36.560 --> 01:40:40.039 I want to encourage anybody listening. Please, when these elections 1751 01:40:40.079 --> 01:40:44.279 come up again, don't just vote party. We want diversity 1752 01:40:44.399 --> 01:40:47.680 around our county. It's healthy for all of us, exactly 1753 01:40:47.760 --> 01:40:48.600 just one. It's healthy. 1754 01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:51.520 If your life and the people's Republic of Hamilton County 1755 01:40:51.560 --> 01:40:54.199 doesn't improve, you only got one party to blame, folks, 1756 01:40:54.880 --> 01:40:58.039 One final thing before I let you go. It made 1757 01:40:58.079 --> 01:41:01.439 a comment about people whole their nose and voting for 1758 01:41:01.520 --> 01:41:05.199 Donald Trump. Do you I don't think that was on 1759 01:41:05.399 --> 01:41:11.680 a massive scale. I think it was some a small percentage, 1760 01:41:11.880 --> 01:41:16.800 but I don't think that was a massive effort, do you. 1761 01:41:18.199 --> 01:41:18.239 No. 1762 01:41:18.520 --> 01:41:22.560 I think that suburban white women in particular, who were 1763 01:41:22.600 --> 01:41:27.560 concerned about uh, President Trump's rhetoric, which, by the way, 1764 01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:30.640 at times I'm concerned about President Trump's rhetoric. I think 1765 01:41:30.680 --> 01:41:33.399 he has to who would he has to pull it 1766 01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:36.119 in and and be the president of the United States 1767 01:41:36.119 --> 01:41:37.800 for all of us. But I think that they're voters 1768 01:41:37.800 --> 01:41:40.319 that went in and I don't know what that percentage was. 1769 01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:43.960 Was that said, listen, I'd got to vote my economic situation. 1770 01:41:44.199 --> 01:41:46.880 You know, this guy is far from perfect. I didn't 1771 01:41:46.960 --> 01:41:48.880 vote for him the last time, but I'm voting for 1772 01:41:48.960 --> 01:41:50.800 it for him this time, and so that's what I 1773 01:41:50.880 --> 01:41:54.399 described those voters. I heard so many voters, you know, 1774 01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:58.199 say the Democratic Party left me. I didn't leave the dimactly. 1775 01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:02.640 I heard that all over the election day. So the 1776 01:42:02.680 --> 01:42:04.960 Democratic Party is going to have to regroup itself. They're 1777 01:42:04.960 --> 01:42:07.279 gonna have to change what they're doing, and they're gonna 1778 01:42:07.279 --> 01:42:08.279 have to face reality. 1779 01:42:08.359 --> 01:42:12.039 Kevin, thank you so so much for I appreciate your 1780 01:42:12.119 --> 01:42:13.039 time at votes. 1781 01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:18.319 There you go say that again for everybody, vote at vote. Okay, 1782 01:42:18.319 --> 01:42:20.880 he's gone at votes Smitherman. I think this is uh 1783 01:42:22.439 --> 01:42:25.880 X account. Anyway, coming up, we got to the top 1784 01:42:25.880 --> 01:42:29.399 of the hour and then we'll be talking Monday Mondays. 1785 01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:31.760 But between now and then we can take your phone 1786 01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:35.039 calls five one, three, seven, four nine fifty eight hundred 1787 01:42:35.079 --> 01:42:37.079 eight two three talk one eight hundred day two three 1788 01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:39.439 eight two five five pound, five fifty AT and T 1789 01:42:39.479 --> 01:42:42.000 wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five 1790 01:42:42.039 --> 01:42:43.159 KR see the talk. 1791 01:42:43.039 --> 01:42:44.840 Station fifty five KRC. 1792 01:42:45.560 --> 01:42:56.880 Prescription products require completion seven fifty two in the morning. 1793 01:42:56.960 --> 01:42:59.760 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR, see 1794 01:42:59.800 --> 01:43:02.039 the talk station. Coming up to top the hour, we're 1795 01:43:02.039 --> 01:43:11.600 gonna be talking with Doing Our Money Monday with Brian James. Yes, 1796 01:43:11.680 --> 01:43:14.239 Brian James, I had that written down, but there it 1797 01:43:14.279 --> 01:43:16.479 is right in front of me. You know, boy, I'll 1798 01:43:16.479 --> 01:43:18.119 tell you. You know. The thing is when I come into 1799 01:43:18.159 --> 01:43:21.520 the studio and if you look in here, I've got 1800 01:43:21.560 --> 01:43:25.479 papers everywhere and trying to keep everything straight and organized 1801 01:43:25.479 --> 01:43:27.680 and all this sorties of My wife will attest to 1802 01:43:27.960 --> 01:43:31.000 the fact that I am a bit cluttery when it 1803 01:43:31.000 --> 01:43:33.439 comes to certain things. But anyway, so we'll be talking 1804 01:43:33.439 --> 01:43:35.199 to him at top the hour. Looking forward to talking 1805 01:43:35.199 --> 01:43:37.000 to him. I don't think I've ever talked to him 1806 01:43:37.039 --> 01:43:40.359 before on the air, so that'll be good. Probably, look 1807 01:43:40.399 --> 01:43:42.960 at what we're seeing as far as the markets are concerned. 1808 01:43:43.159 --> 01:43:45.079 I've seen a lot of things happening as far as 1809 01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:49.520 the oil markets and some of the at least OPEC 1810 01:43:49.680 --> 01:43:52.279 and some of the stuff that I'm looking at around 1811 01:43:52.319 --> 01:43:57.840 the world. In terms of the world leaders, it's kind 1812 01:43:57.880 --> 01:44:01.760 of like whatever we we're being told up to this 1813 01:44:02.000 --> 01:44:07.119 point by the uh spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, 1814 01:44:08.359 --> 01:44:12.399 it's not coming true. And I think, well, I think 1815 01:44:12.479 --> 01:44:16.199 I hope and pray that we take this opportunity and 1816 01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:20.359 that the Republicans don't do what they normally do is, 1817 01:44:20.840 --> 01:44:25.119 you know, fail to deliver. They have a unique opportunity 1818 01:44:25.159 --> 01:44:29.159 here to really do some good. And you know, one 1819 01:44:29.159 --> 01:44:31.800 of the things I'll say to anybody that's an elected 1820 01:44:31.840 --> 01:44:36.520 official for once in a while, put the people first. 1821 01:44:37.039 --> 01:44:40.760 Make sure that you do everything, and remember that when 1822 01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:44.800 you go to work every day, you have earned the 1823 01:44:45.079 --> 01:44:49.319 honor and the right to be in that position because 1824 01:44:49.399 --> 01:44:53.399 somebody gave you something that is the most precious gift 1825 01:44:53.399 --> 01:44:57.439 that they possibly give to you, and that is their vote. 1826 01:44:58.239 --> 01:45:02.800 Do not trash that. Do not trash them. Listen to 1827 01:45:02.880 --> 01:45:05.840 what the people tell you, and whether you want to 1828 01:45:05.920 --> 01:45:09.159 hear it or not, at least hear it. And look 1829 01:45:09.199 --> 01:45:12.239 at who puts you in that position in the first place. 1830 01:45:12.640 --> 01:45:17.159 And as I said, put the people first. None of this, 1831 01:45:17.600 --> 01:45:21.159 you know, party above politics, any of that sort of stuff. 1832 01:45:21.920 --> 01:45:25.159 You are there for the will of the people. Coming 1833 01:45:25.239 --> 01:45:27.680 up with our money. Monday, I'm Kevin Gordon in for 1834 01:45:27.760 --> 01:45:32.319 Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the talk station. 1835 01:45:32.880 --> 01:45:33.760 There we go again. 1836 01:45:33.920 --> 01:45:34.640 Hear about it. 1837 01:45:34.840 --> 01:45:37.960 Understand the ignorant on the campuses talk about it. 1838 01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:40.319 They're just getting away with all this rather. 1839 01:45:40.119 --> 01:45:44.239 Than know in fact fifty five KRC and now Kevin 1840 01:45:44.279 --> 01:45:48.239 Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on fifty five KOs 1841 01:45:49.119 --> 01:45:50.760 the talk station. 1842 01:46:03.680 --> 01:46:06.319 Four minutes after eight o'clock Kevin Gordon in for Brian 1843 01:46:06.359 --> 01:46:09.600 Thomas fifty five care see the talk station. We are 1844 01:46:09.720 --> 01:46:13.239 awaiting our guests at the top of the hour, Brian 1845 01:46:13.479 --> 01:46:18.600 James for our money Monday, and we seek to connect 1846 01:46:18.600 --> 01:46:21.640 with him. But in the meantime you have me. So 1847 01:46:22.720 --> 01:46:25.399 one of the things that is being talked about is 1848 01:46:25.439 --> 01:46:28.560 this whole business of what the economy is going to 1849 01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:31.800 do and how the economy is going to perform under 1850 01:46:32.039 --> 01:46:34.800 Donald Trump. And this was the rhetoric that was coming 1851 01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:37.520 from the Democratic Party and of course the spoon fed 1852 01:46:37.560 --> 01:46:41.359 regurgitators in the mainstream media. And one of the myths 1853 01:46:41.399 --> 01:46:44.600 that was from actually an outright lie. They said that 1854 01:46:44.920 --> 01:46:48.680 Goldman Sachs had actually reviewed her policy versus his policy, 1855 01:46:49.039 --> 01:46:52.319 and that his policy would lead to more inflation than hers, 1856 01:46:52.560 --> 01:46:55.920 and that it would cause money for the American public. Now, 1857 01:46:56.319 --> 01:47:00.439 based on that analysis, it was only a couple tens 1858 01:47:00.439 --> 01:47:05.119 of percentage points different. But what was happened, what happened 1859 01:47:05.159 --> 01:47:09.039 later on, is that the CEO of Golden and Sachs 1860 01:47:09.079 --> 01:47:11.279 came out. I don't know why it took him a 1861 01:47:11.319 --> 01:47:13.720 couple of days, but it did take him about forty 1862 01:47:13.760 --> 01:47:16.640 eight hours to come out and say this was one 1863 01:47:16.680 --> 01:47:19.680 of our analysts. That he was not speaking on behalf 1864 01:47:19.720 --> 01:47:23.079 of the corporation, and we don't agree with his analysis. 1865 01:47:23.479 --> 01:47:26.079 Much like what we've heard from all these so called 1866 01:47:26.159 --> 01:47:30.640 experts that that you know, Nobel Prize winners and so on. 1867 01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:35.079 You know, that's all well and good, but look into 1868 01:47:35.159 --> 01:47:39.079 their backgrounds and look where their political affiliations. The Nobel 1869 01:47:39.199 --> 01:47:43.159 Prize anymore is not as significant or as great an 1870 01:47:43.199 --> 01:47:46.279 achievement as it once was. It is more of a 1871 01:47:46.319 --> 01:47:52.079 political opportunist going towards a particular agenda as opposed to 1872 01:47:52.600 --> 01:47:57.239 giving that prize to people that have the right or 1873 01:47:57.279 --> 01:48:00.239 that are actually doing good. I mean, let's let's not 1874 01:48:00.399 --> 01:48:04.520 forget that Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize before 1875 01:48:04.600 --> 01:48:09.079 he even took office, before he took office, based on 1876 01:48:09.239 --> 01:48:12.760 hope and change, and then what wound up happening is 1877 01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:16.399 that he started wars. He so anyway, he prosecuted wars 1878 01:48:16.399 --> 01:48:19.760 around the world, and so it wasn't very peaceful under 1879 01:48:19.920 --> 01:48:24.399 his presidency. Hey, we've got in touch with Brian James here, Brian, 1880 01:48:24.479 --> 01:48:26.159 welcome to the program. I think this is the first 1881 01:48:26.159 --> 01:48:28.680 time you and I have had the opportunity to talk. 1882 01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:33.399 So glad, welcome to the program, or welcome to my program, 1883 01:48:33.520 --> 01:48:36.560 or me here whatever I'm trying to say. 1884 01:48:36.840 --> 01:48:41.359 So whatever you're trying to say, apologies for the little 1885 01:48:41.399 --> 01:48:43.880 hiccup there getting connected, but here we are, and I 1886 01:48:43.880 --> 01:48:45.319 can hear you, you can hear me, so. 1887 01:48:45.279 --> 01:48:48.159 Good, good, good good. So what are we saying as 1888 01:48:48.159 --> 01:48:50.359 far as the financial markets and what are we seeing? 1889 01:48:50.840 --> 01:48:53.479 And first of all, if there's any hot topics you 1890 01:48:53.479 --> 01:48:55.920 want to talk about, but mostly I'm kind of concerned 1891 01:48:55.920 --> 01:48:59.840 about the new administration effect on the economy. What you're thinking, 1892 01:49:00.039 --> 01:49:02.720 what you're seeing, what you're expecting, and so on, and 1893 01:49:03.199 --> 01:49:04.560 we'll take it from there. 1894 01:49:05.680 --> 01:49:05.920 Sure. 1895 01:49:06.079 --> 01:49:08.199 Well, you know, pretty quiet week for news. Not a 1896 01:49:08.199 --> 01:49:10.560 heck of a lot going on out there, is there. No, No, 1897 01:49:10.600 --> 01:49:11.880 that's obviously not true. 1898 01:49:13.039 --> 01:49:13.560 Yeah. 1899 01:49:13.640 --> 01:49:16.039 So the markets, as far as the markets go, yeah, 1900 01:49:16.079 --> 01:49:20.680 the markets got pretty excited about the Trump administration coming in. 1901 01:49:20.960 --> 01:49:25.039 And that's because with the Republicans being on the verge 1902 01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:27.600 of controlling the presidency sent it in the House that 1903 01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:29.359 that not all of that is in place yet, but 1904 01:49:29.359 --> 01:49:32.239 it looks like there's a real solid chance that the 1905 01:49:32.279 --> 01:49:36.199 Republicans could control all free components there. So Wall Street 1906 01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:39.359 feels like the proposed economic policies are going to be 1907 01:49:39.359 --> 01:49:43.560 aimed at reducing corporate regulations and taxes and hopefully accelerate 1908 01:49:43.640 --> 01:49:47.960 economic momentum and and expand profits as well. Obviously, whenever 1909 01:49:48.000 --> 01:49:52.680 we have a business friendly administration, the stock market prefers that. Now, 1910 01:49:52.760 --> 01:49:55.600 as we said oftentimes on these airwaves, and that all 1911 01:49:55.600 --> 01:49:57.479 worth financial. We have a report we send out to 1912 01:49:57.479 --> 01:49:59.600 our clients every single time there's a major election to 1913 01:49:59.600 --> 01:50:03.119 remind us everybody that ultimately the market does not care, period, 1914 01:50:03.239 --> 01:50:06.359 end of story, what flavor we have in the White House. Yes, 1915 01:50:06.359 --> 01:50:08.800 it goes up no matter what they are. They are 1916 01:50:08.920 --> 01:50:10.439 the ultimate Green Party. 1917 01:50:11.359 --> 01:50:13.399 And I don't mean that they're right, and I don't 1918 01:50:13.399 --> 01:50:15.439 mean that from environmental standpoint. 1919 01:50:17.000 --> 01:50:19.000 Yeah here, listening to you back walking that already. 1920 01:50:19.359 --> 01:50:21.359 Yeah, well, you know when you say green party, that 1921 01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:24.760 has certain connotation to it. But I'm talking about investors. 1922 01:50:24.760 --> 01:50:28.279 Are the Green Party for money purposes so. 1923 01:50:28.239 --> 01:50:31.039 Exactly, and so are publicly traded corporations. They have a 1924 01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:33.399 red playbook and they have a blue Playbook. They know 1925 01:50:33.439 --> 01:50:35.239 what plays they want to run, they just need to 1926 01:50:35.279 --> 01:50:39.399 know what environment they're in. So but regardless, what tends 1927 01:50:39.439 --> 01:50:42.960 to happen historically is that we get a good run 1928 01:50:43.039 --> 01:50:45.000 up in the first In the first it's kind of 1929 01:50:45.000 --> 01:50:47.039 almost like a sugar high in the first year of 1930 01:50:47.079 --> 01:50:50.720 a Republican presidency, because there does tend to be a 1931 01:50:50.720 --> 01:50:53.439 bit of a you know, a tailwind from the standpoint 1932 01:50:53.479 --> 01:50:55.840 of it's going to be easier to make profits because 1933 01:50:55.880 --> 01:51:02.720 presumably less regulation and hope more focus on the ability 1934 01:51:02.720 --> 01:51:06.479 to expand profits versus a focus on other different things 1935 01:51:06.479 --> 01:51:09.239 that aren't quite so so profit friendly. But then in 1936 01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:12.039 the last two or three years of Republican presidency it 1937 01:51:12.159 --> 01:51:15.159 tends to back off a little bit historically speaking, and 1938 01:51:15.720 --> 01:51:17.600 a lot of that has to do with the number 1939 01:51:17.640 --> 01:51:20.359 one consumer of goods and services on the face of 1940 01:51:20.399 --> 01:51:24.079 the earth is the US federal government itself. So if 1941 01:51:24.079 --> 01:51:25.920 we're going to be spending less and doing less things 1942 01:51:25.960 --> 01:51:27.520 as a government, that's not a bad thing, but it 1943 01:51:27.520 --> 01:51:29.039 does tend to have a little bit of an impact. 1944 01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:31.840 But again, regardless, the market doesn't care. We can be 1945 01:51:31.920 --> 01:51:33.640 profitable in any environment. 1946 01:51:34.039 --> 01:51:40.119 Yeah, and the market is interesting. Brian Brian James. Is 1947 01:51:40.199 --> 01:51:44.920 the fact that the markets don't like uncertainty. If you 1948 01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:47.720 tell a company what the regulations are going to be, 1949 01:51:47.920 --> 01:51:50.159 if you tell them the environment that they're going to 1950 01:51:50.239 --> 01:51:53.840 work in, they can deal with it. It's the uncertainty 1951 01:51:53.920 --> 01:51:57.560 of will there be this regulation, will there be this regulation? 1952 01:51:57.960 --> 01:52:01.079 Are they going to clamp down on this industry or 1953 01:52:01.159 --> 01:52:04.439 pick and choose winners? As far as the economy is concerned, 1954 01:52:05.199 --> 01:52:07.520 and as long as everything's on it, even as long 1955 01:52:07.560 --> 01:52:10.920 as they know where they stand, people are you know 1956 01:52:11.079 --> 01:52:12.479 the companies are going to do. 1957 01:52:12.600 --> 01:52:16.439 Well, that's true, and it's just that it's just what 1958 01:52:16.600 --> 01:52:18.319 is the environment? They have to know what the what 1959 01:52:18.359 --> 01:52:20.560 the situation is. So now we know, of course we're 1960 01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:21.439 going to be looking. 1961 01:52:21.159 --> 01:52:22.520 At things like tariffs. 1962 01:52:22.560 --> 01:52:25.560 Well, fortunately tariffs are no longer something that you studied 1963 01:52:25.560 --> 01:52:27.319 in the fifth grade and have forgotten about ever since. 1964 01:52:27.399 --> 01:52:29.680 Right now, now it all makes sense. Why why missus 1965 01:52:29.760 --> 01:52:32.359 Teith over at Sainting Nacius on the West side explain 1966 01:52:32.439 --> 01:52:33.720 that to me? I didn't get it back then in 1967 01:52:33.800 --> 01:52:35.159 nineteen eighty five, but I sure as. 1968 01:52:35.039 --> 01:52:35.600 Heck do now. 1969 01:52:36.520 --> 01:52:38.560 But so let's look look, look a little bit of history. 1970 01:52:38.720 --> 01:52:40.880 The last time we had this type of situation was 1971 01:52:40.920 --> 01:52:43.319 of course the first chunk of the of the first 1972 01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:47.119 Trump administration, where we had we did have a some 1973 01:52:47.199 --> 01:52:49.760 tax cuts, We'll talk about that in a second, but 1974 01:52:50.079 --> 01:52:53.600 also we had some the introduction of tariffs against a 1975 01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:55.880 lot of the countries, including mostly China, who was the 1976 01:52:55.880 --> 01:52:58.079 big target back then likely will be the big target 1977 01:52:58.079 --> 01:53:01.399 this time around. But time you can see what happened 1978 01:53:01.399 --> 01:53:03.960 in the market. So in twenty seventeen, which again that 1979 01:53:04.079 --> 01:53:06.039 was that first year of the Trump administration, the first 1980 01:53:06.079 --> 01:53:09.520 full year, the market was up about twenty percent. Twenty eighteen, 1981 01:53:09.800 --> 01:53:12.319 the market was down about six and a quarter. And 1982 01:53:12.359 --> 01:53:15.479 I remember this being very rattling to investors. I've been 1983 01:53:15.520 --> 01:53:17.000 doing this about thirty years, so I've kind of I've 1984 01:53:17.000 --> 01:53:19.880 gotten to see pretty much everything there is to see. 1985 01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:22.800 It'll be good, bad, and different. But I remember that 1986 01:53:22.880 --> 01:53:25.479 being very rattling to investors who thought, well, wait a minute, 1987 01:53:25.479 --> 01:53:27.560 this is a business and friendly environment. What I thought, 1988 01:53:27.720 --> 01:53:30.560 why isn't the stock market performing better? And we took 1989 01:53:30.560 --> 01:53:33.079 a year to let the dust settle until companies can 1990 01:53:33.119 --> 01:53:34.560 figure out what are we going to do? How are 1991 01:53:34.560 --> 01:53:36.560 we going to deal with the fact that it's cost 1992 01:53:36.720 --> 01:53:38.880 more to do business, and it took about a year 1993 01:53:38.920 --> 01:53:41.479 for that to happen, and then by twenty nineteen we 1994 01:53:41.479 --> 01:53:44.279 were up about twenty nine percent. So the pendulum is 1995 01:53:44.319 --> 01:53:46.560 going to continue to swing, and nobody should be shocked 1996 01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:48.199 by that. We've had a good bounce here in this 1997 01:53:48.239 --> 01:53:49.800 past week if you're looking at four to oh one 1998 01:53:49.840 --> 01:53:52.640 k and we'll see what happens next year. But if 1999 01:53:52.640 --> 01:53:56.439 we're going to raise tariffs and make it more challenging 2000 01:53:56.479 --> 01:53:59.159 for other companies to sell stuff to the United States, 2001 01:53:59.159 --> 01:54:02.039 that means prices for US consumers are going to go up. 2002 01:54:02.239 --> 01:54:04.520 So nobody should be shocked when the market does wabble 2003 01:54:04.520 --> 01:54:05.640 a little bit here the short. 2004 01:54:05.479 --> 01:54:08.000 Term, yeah, for sure. But I think one of the 2005 01:54:08.039 --> 01:54:10.439 things that we'll see too is a little bit better. 2006 01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:12.600 You know, when you look at the teriffs that are 2007 01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:15.800 being charged on American goods going into some of these countries, 2008 01:54:16.159 --> 01:54:19.119 that they figure that, okay, that if we're going to 2009 01:54:19.159 --> 01:54:21.800 be if we're going to be issuing tariffs on them, 2010 01:54:22.119 --> 01:54:24.800 you know, what goes around comes around, and we may 2011 01:54:24.840 --> 01:54:28.199 get slapped without ourselves. But also you know, when you 2012 01:54:28.279 --> 01:54:31.720 put America's on the even footing with the rest of 2013 01:54:31.760 --> 01:54:34.880 the world in terms of the economy and competition and whatever. 2014 01:54:35.079 --> 01:54:37.039 I mean, let's not forget the fact that when you're 2015 01:54:37.039 --> 01:54:40.720 talking about China, you're talking about basically slave labor. So 2016 01:54:41.199 --> 01:54:44.760 you're talking about the goods, the cost to manufacture those goods, 2017 01:54:44.760 --> 01:54:47.680 at least from the labor standpoint, isn't cost as much 2018 01:54:47.680 --> 01:54:50.680 as in the United States, and so that gives them 2019 01:54:50.680 --> 01:54:53.039 an advantage as well. And of course they're able to 2020 01:54:53.039 --> 01:54:56.359 give subsidies because they're mostly control you know, country owned 2021 01:54:56.880 --> 01:55:00.880 companies over there. They're kind of a quasied capitalistic or 2022 01:55:00.920 --> 01:55:03.000 they're getting a little bit more towards that, but for 2023 01:55:03.039 --> 01:55:05.199 the most part it's still a communist country and so 2024 01:55:05.920 --> 01:55:08.840 competing on the world level with that sometimes it is 2025 01:55:08.880 --> 01:55:09.600 a little difficult. 2026 01:55:11.640 --> 01:55:12.319 That's very true. 2027 01:55:12.359 --> 01:55:16.439 And make no mistake about it, there's nothing about tariffs 2028 01:55:16.439 --> 01:55:19.359 that is deflationary. Prices are not going to drop because 2029 01:55:19.359 --> 01:55:21.279 we have tariffs. If anything, they're going to go up. 2030 01:55:21.680 --> 01:55:24.920 And any business worth its salt is looking for the 2031 01:55:25.000 --> 01:55:27.800 cheapest way to create the goods and services that it sells. 2032 01:55:28.039 --> 01:55:30.960 And I would point to the Trump business empire itself. 2033 01:55:31.000 --> 01:55:33.560 Remember those bibles and shoes and all that other stuff 2034 01:55:33.840 --> 01:55:36.680 that there was the sort of promotional things you did 2035 01:55:37.000 --> 01:55:39.479 during the election. But there's also there's furniture out there. 2036 01:55:39.520 --> 01:55:41.279 There are suits and ties and all this stuff. A 2037 01:55:41.319 --> 01:55:44.000 lot of that stuff is made overseas a matter of fact, 2038 01:55:44.000 --> 01:55:46.199 I believe the suits are made here. Just about everything 2039 01:55:46.199 --> 01:55:49.760 else now made in Mexico, Bangladesh, and China. So you know, 2040 01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:52.239 Trump himself has taken advantage of the fact that it's 2041 01:55:52.279 --> 01:55:55.199 cheaper to produce goods outside and import the men. Now, 2042 01:55:55.680 --> 01:55:58.319 I think that something else to pay attention to if 2043 01:55:58.359 --> 01:56:01.399 we raise tariffs on other country. Ultimately, at the end 2044 01:56:01.399 --> 01:56:03.319 of the day, we're you and I are the consumers, right, 2045 01:56:03.359 --> 01:56:05.399 We are the ones who will ultimately pay the prices. 2046 01:56:05.399 --> 01:56:08.000 When you're a producer, you pass the cost on to 2047 01:56:08.119 --> 01:56:11.199 the to the consumer. So I think it's also possible. 2048 01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:13.560 What we could see is we would raise tariffs on 2049 01:56:13.600 --> 01:56:17.920 other countries, and local companies here in the United States 2050 01:56:18.000 --> 01:56:20.319 could say, wow, it's a lot more expensive for you know, 2051 01:56:20.399 --> 01:56:23.279 for our customers to buy from our competition. If we 2052 01:56:23.399 --> 01:56:26.479 raise our prices by fifty percent of what our competition 2053 01:56:26.640 --> 01:56:28.840 just had to raise prices, then we can make more 2054 01:56:28.880 --> 01:56:31.279 money and still be the cheapest option on the block. 2055 01:56:31.359 --> 01:56:33.600 So it wouldn't shock me in the least if we 2056 01:56:33.640 --> 01:56:37.199 saw a little bit of of opportunism happening in terms 2057 01:56:37.199 --> 01:56:38.399 of increasing business that way. 2058 01:56:38.560 --> 01:56:42.000 Okay, one of the things that you know, we keep 2059 01:56:42.199 --> 01:56:44.680 you know, when you know people were talking about inflation, 2060 01:56:44.880 --> 01:56:47.039 and one of the points that I made all along 2061 01:56:47.159 --> 01:56:49.239 is the fact that you know, when you see inflation 2062 01:56:49.359 --> 01:56:51.279 go up, you know when they talk about, well, the 2063 01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:53.760 last month inflation went up three percent or on an 2064 01:56:53.800 --> 01:56:58.159 annualized basis or whatever, and then it hit nine point 2065 01:56:58.239 --> 01:57:00.760 one percent in June of twenty twenty two, and so on, 2066 01:57:01.039 --> 01:57:03.960 those are all cumulative effects. That's why you have at 2067 01:57:03.960 --> 01:57:08.439 the market, at the grocery store where you have items 2068 01:57:08.479 --> 01:57:12.000 that were X and such back in twenty twenty and 2069 01:57:12.039 --> 01:57:15.000 that are now twenty percent twenty five percent higher. That's 2070 01:57:15.039 --> 01:57:18.239 why we have gasoline now that is forty percent more 2071 01:57:18.479 --> 01:57:21.279 for a gallon of gas and fifty percent more for 2072 01:57:21.319 --> 01:57:22.960 a gallon of diesel than what we had back in 2073 01:57:23.000 --> 01:57:25.199 twenty twenty. But I think one of those things that 2074 01:57:25.199 --> 01:57:28.359 will push a lot of that down is energy costs. 2075 01:57:28.399 --> 01:57:30.680 And when you look at the energy costs with the 2076 01:57:30.760 --> 01:57:35.479 drill baby drill thing, a Keystone XL pipeline, of drilling 2077 01:57:35.520 --> 01:57:38.520 on federal lands and getting that energy cost down, you 2078 01:57:38.560 --> 01:57:41.600 reduce those barrels of oil down to that fifty dollars 2079 01:57:41.680 --> 01:57:44.239 range as opposed to seventy five eighty dollars a barrel. 2080 01:57:44.439 --> 01:57:48.079 That's where you start seeing the cuts in the actual 2081 01:57:48.199 --> 01:57:51.399 cost of these goods being manufactured. So I wanted to 2082 01:57:51.439 --> 01:57:53.319 throw that out there, and I think we need to 2083 01:57:53.359 --> 01:57:55.119 take quick break here. If you can hang with us, 2084 01:57:55.239 --> 01:57:58.199 certainly appreciate it, and we'll respond to this when we 2085 01:57:58.199 --> 01:58:00.600 get back. My guest is Brian James was all Worth 2086 01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:04.039 Financial Money Monday. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 2087 01:58:04.159 --> 01:58:05.680 fifty five KRC, the. 2088 01:58:05.840 --> 01:58:08.319 Talk station fifty five KRC. 2089 01:58:11.760 --> 01:58:14.199 Eight twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for Brian 2090 01:58:14.239 --> 01:58:17.199 Thomas fifty five KR see the talk station. My guest 2091 01:58:17.319 --> 01:58:21.199 Brian James, all Worth Financial on this Monday Monday segment. 2092 01:58:21.800 --> 01:58:23.800 Thanks for hanging with us to the break. Brian is 2093 01:58:23.840 --> 01:58:24.720 certainly appreciated. 2094 01:58:25.880 --> 01:58:27.840 Yeah, no worries. I appreciate the chance to talk to 2095 01:58:27.920 --> 01:58:28.439 your listeners. 2096 01:58:28.560 --> 01:58:31.359 Okay, before we took a break, there was talking about 2097 01:58:31.640 --> 01:58:34.720 inflation rate and the possibility of that coming down with 2098 01:58:34.920 --> 01:58:38.520 energy prices decreasing. What are your thoughts on that. What 2099 01:58:38.560 --> 01:58:40.159 do you think is going to happen as far as 2100 01:58:40.239 --> 01:58:40.960 that's concerned. 2101 01:58:42.479 --> 01:58:45.600 Well, as you mentioned before we broke there, you know, 2102 01:58:45.720 --> 01:58:47.840 one of Trump's major goals is to open up a 2103 01:58:47.880 --> 01:58:51.439 lot of places for more drilling, which will think back 2104 01:58:51.479 --> 01:58:54.760 to your economics classes from years ago, supply and demand. 2105 01:58:54.760 --> 01:58:57.159 If we're going to drill places we weren't drilling before, 2106 01:58:57.199 --> 01:59:01.119 then obviously that increases supply in that that should reduce 2107 01:59:01.199 --> 01:59:03.399 price in theory that this is probably one of the 2108 01:59:03.399 --> 01:59:08.399 places where consumers can expect to see a more immediate 2109 01:59:08.479 --> 01:59:11.239 impact from a standpoint of once all these things occur. 2110 01:59:11.880 --> 01:59:14.119 Right now, we're just talking until January. 2111 01:59:13.640 --> 01:59:14.079 So sure. 2112 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:16.680 But this is something that comes out of the ground, 2113 01:59:16.720 --> 01:59:19.399 of course, and consumers buy it at the pump, but 2114 01:59:19.680 --> 01:59:22.239 it's not going to I don't think we're going to 2115 01:59:22.279 --> 01:59:27.079 see it as readily in other areas just yet, because 2116 01:59:27.640 --> 01:59:30.000 remember we're not really talking about our price is going 2117 01:59:30.039 --> 01:59:31.960 to drop back to where they were in twenty eighteen, 2118 01:59:32.000 --> 01:59:35.239 twenty nineteen. That's not really what this is about. Because 2119 01:59:35.239 --> 01:59:37.159 a lot of this is baked in now. Companies that 2120 01:59:37.319 --> 01:59:39.359 know what their profit margins need to be and they're 2121 01:59:39.399 --> 01:59:42.239 not going to voluntarily reduce prices unless they have to. 2122 01:59:42.319 --> 01:59:45.159 They will only only only do that if competition forces 2123 01:59:45.199 --> 01:59:45.479 them to. 2124 01:59:45.640 --> 01:59:47.760 No, we've had a lot of We've had a lot 2125 01:59:47.760 --> 01:59:51.600 of union contracts that have been settled in the last 2126 01:59:51.680 --> 01:59:54.720 year year and a half. We've got a potential dock 2127 01:59:54.800 --> 01:59:59.119 workers strike pending or at least an increase there and 2128 01:59:59.199 --> 02:00:01.199 their way just come out in January. But we had 2129 02:00:01.239 --> 02:00:04.920 the UAW, we had ups, we had the dock workers 2130 02:00:04.920 --> 02:00:08.279 out in the West Coast and railroad workers. So all 2131 02:00:08.439 --> 02:00:12.159 as you say, that's already baked into the numbers, because 2132 02:00:12.199 --> 02:00:14.479 those numbers are already in there as far as their 2133 02:00:14.720 --> 02:00:16.000 labor costs. 2134 02:00:17.000 --> 02:00:19.760 Right, and so yeah, so no boardroom is going to say, oh, 2135 02:00:19.800 --> 02:00:23.239 thank goodness, the Trump administration has changed some policies and 2136 02:00:23.279 --> 02:00:26.439 it's a more business friendly environment. Finally, finally, finally we 2137 02:00:26.479 --> 02:00:29.840 can reduce prices for our poor consumers. That's not going 2138 02:00:29.920 --> 02:00:32.159 to happen. They're going to pocket a good chunk of 2139 02:00:32.199 --> 02:00:34.640 the difference unless they can get some attention and create 2140 02:00:34.680 --> 02:00:36.760 perhaps a little bit of a of a price war 2141 02:00:36.800 --> 02:00:37.680 within their industry. 2142 02:00:37.680 --> 02:00:38.640 But only if it's going to. 2143 02:00:38.640 --> 02:00:40.800 Benefit them directly. Now, now these are still these are 2144 02:00:40.800 --> 02:00:44.279 still positive business. You know, it's going to be an 2145 02:00:44.319 --> 02:00:47.079 easier business environment than it has been. But at the 2146 02:00:47.119 --> 02:00:49.159 same time, you know, we were just talking about energy prices, 2147 02:00:49.159 --> 02:00:49.880 price at the pump. 2148 02:00:50.399 --> 02:00:51.479 It hasn't been a topic. 2149 02:00:51.560 --> 02:00:53.680 This was a strange year for that. Yeah, I really 2150 02:00:53.720 --> 02:00:55.920 don't remember talking to Brian about it, you know, all 2151 02:00:55.960 --> 02:00:58.479 summer long, other than the normal hike that happens in 2152 02:00:58.520 --> 02:01:00.079 May when we hit travel season. 2153 02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:04.079 Right right. But I always well, I do America's truck 2154 02:01:04.079 --> 02:01:08.039 of network on our sister station, and energy is always 2155 02:01:08.079 --> 02:01:09.760 a big factor there. And one of the things I've 2156 02:01:09.760 --> 02:01:12.960 always looked at is what the gasoline prices are nationwide 2157 02:01:13.000 --> 02:01:15.680 compared even back to twenty twenty when we were energy 2158 02:01:15.720 --> 02:01:18.479 independent for the first time since nineteen forty nine, and 2159 02:01:18.520 --> 02:01:21.119 we saw what those prices were, and even based on that, 2160 02:01:21.199 --> 02:01:24.319 I mean, granted, back in June of twenty twenty two, 2161 02:01:24.359 --> 02:01:26.800 gas got up to a nationwide high of five dollars 2162 02:01:26.880 --> 02:01:30.439 and one cents a gallon versus today where it's around 2163 02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:34.960 what three twelve something like that nationwide, But back then 2164 02:01:35.000 --> 02:01:38.079 it was round two and we're still paying forty percent 2165 02:01:38.159 --> 02:01:40.119 more than what we were for a gallon of gas 2166 02:01:40.359 --> 02:01:44.119 back in twenty twenty, so we see that already baked 2167 02:01:44.119 --> 02:01:46.359 into the numbers. You reduce that, and of course, you know, 2168 02:01:46.479 --> 02:01:49.279 energy goes across all sectors of the economy. Fact that 2169 02:01:49.279 --> 02:01:52.840 we got lights on here in the studio, we depend 2170 02:01:52.880 --> 02:01:54.840 on energy. We've got lights on at home and saw 2171 02:01:54.880 --> 02:01:57.039 it so anyway, But I think one of the things 2172 02:01:57.039 --> 02:01:59.640 that we might see too is a bit of a break. 2173 02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:05.479 Brian James on this, on this regulatory situation, I would 2174 02:02:05.560 --> 02:02:09.479 like to see a lot of cutting there and rollbacks 2175 02:02:09.560 --> 02:02:13.199 and so on. Do you think we're you know, because 2176 02:02:13.359 --> 02:02:14.560 that's one of the things I don't think a lot 2177 02:02:14.600 --> 02:02:17.000 of people talk about in terms of how that is 2178 02:02:17.319 --> 02:02:22.800 baked into these costs that we're seeing to the consumer. Yeah. 2179 02:02:22.840 --> 02:02:25.640 So, so Trust's been known for rolling back regulations and 2180 02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:28.479 that's been generally welcomed by businesses of course, because that 2181 02:02:28.520 --> 02:02:31.600 makes life a little bit easier. However, some companies are 2182 02:02:31.600 --> 02:02:34.720 going to find this a little too impulsive in leading 2183 02:02:34.720 --> 02:02:36.760 to more uncertainty. We talked about that, right. We don't 2184 02:02:36.880 --> 02:02:39.039 like uncertainty. We like to be able to know what 2185 02:02:39.119 --> 02:02:41.479 to predict. But yeah, there are some industries that are 2186 02:02:41.479 --> 02:02:44.520 probably going to just like we talked about the energy industry, 2187 02:02:44.560 --> 02:02:45.800 it's going to be a heck of a lot easier 2188 02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:47.680 to go find new places to drill for oil. 2189 02:02:47.760 --> 02:02:48.680 That was, you know, the. 2190 02:02:48.600 --> 02:02:51.920 Words right out of his mouth, and so hopefully there'll 2191 02:02:51.920 --> 02:02:54.920 be some benefits there. There are other interest industries, such 2192 02:02:55.000 --> 02:03:00.319 as the banking industry, which where the last administry. One 2193 02:03:00.359 --> 02:03:02.119 of the big things that Trump did was roll back 2194 02:03:02.119 --> 02:03:05.479 some of the consumer financial protections, which on one hand 2195 02:03:05.479 --> 02:03:08.119 makes it easier to be a bank. On another hand, 2196 02:03:08.520 --> 02:03:11.039 those came from somewhere. So if you were a bank 2197 02:03:11.079 --> 02:03:13.359 consumer and you were frustrated by what banks had done 2198 02:03:13.359 --> 02:03:15.760 over the prior fifteen to twenty years just looking for 2199 02:03:15.800 --> 02:03:19.039 profits under every stone, just remember remember to be paying 2200 02:03:19.039 --> 02:03:20.960 attention and read that fine print, because it's going to 2201 02:03:21.119 --> 02:03:22.479 get a heck of a lot easier for them to 2202 02:03:22.479 --> 02:03:24.680 do what has been successful in the past. So I'm 2203 02:03:24.720 --> 02:03:26.640 not going to argue that all deregulations is. 2204 02:03:26.680 --> 02:03:29.680 Right right, and I think this is one of these 2205 02:03:29.880 --> 02:03:33.279 topics that been talked around and back as far back 2206 02:03:33.319 --> 02:03:37.520 as two thousand and seven, was this proposal that was done. 2207 02:03:37.560 --> 02:03:40.720 As a matter of fact, it was proposed by a 2208 02:03:40.920 --> 02:03:47.560 resident of Campbell County, Kentucky to at that time, Oh gosh, 2209 02:03:47.640 --> 02:03:52.000 Jeff Davis, this idea of what they call the Rains Act, 2210 02:03:52.600 --> 02:03:55.520 and basically, in a simplified form, this Rains Act would 2211 02:03:55.520 --> 02:03:58.680 say to the federal government that if there's any regulations 2212 02:03:58.720 --> 02:04:01.239 that's going to cost the taxpayer more than one hundred 2213 02:04:01.239 --> 02:04:04.319 million dollars that has to be voted on by Congress, 2214 02:04:04.600 --> 02:04:08.159 they just can't willy nilly put forth these regulations they 2215 02:04:08.159 --> 02:04:10.279 are going to cost. Basically, it's a taxi increase, if 2216 02:04:10.279 --> 02:04:12.920 you will, in terms of the American public. Now, this 2217 02:04:12.960 --> 02:04:16.520 has been passed by the House several times since twenty 2218 02:04:16.920 --> 02:04:20.119 two thousand and seven, I think got to the Senate 2219 02:04:20.239 --> 02:04:22.359 was putting a you know, on the desk and never voted. 2220 02:04:22.560 --> 02:04:25.279 I would like to see that go forward in this administration, 2221 02:04:25.520 --> 02:04:27.039 and I think that would go a long way to 2222 02:04:27.600 --> 02:04:29.359 help our economy considerably. 2223 02:04:29.479 --> 02:04:34.239 So yeah, right, So the Rains Act will if it 2224 02:04:34.359 --> 02:04:37.960 survives you we'll see it if it if it surfaces again. 2225 02:04:38.039 --> 02:04:41.880 The last version passed the House back in June, but 2226 02:04:42.039 --> 02:04:43.640 like you said, not yet passed by the Senate, so 2227 02:04:43.680 --> 02:04:46.479 it's not in law yet. But if we see you know, 2228 02:04:46.720 --> 02:04:49.000 we are still deciding who controls the Senate, right, I 2229 02:04:49.000 --> 02:04:51.199 think there's about five seats left last time. I loved 2230 02:04:51.239 --> 02:04:53.479 We'll see you know which way that goes. That will 2231 02:04:53.720 --> 02:04:57.159 interestingly to me, that is it's a level of bureaucracy 2232 02:04:57.399 --> 02:04:59.520 I think. On I agree with you on its On 2233 02:04:59.560 --> 02:05:01.600 its face, it seems like it would be helpful towards 2234 02:05:01.640 --> 02:05:04.840 the ultimate outcome. However, it's a level of bureaucracy that 2235 02:05:04.880 --> 02:05:07.760 I can't imagine Trump is super excited about supporting. So 2236 02:05:07.760 --> 02:05:09.319 I don't know, We'll have to see which way that goes. 2237 02:05:09.439 --> 02:05:14.039 Yeah, and again, you know, you hope that some of 2238 02:05:14.039 --> 02:05:17.680 these companies that when certain things are deregulated, that they 2239 02:05:18.039 --> 02:05:21.760 have a certain amount of ethical core, that just because 2240 02:05:21.800 --> 02:05:25.279 something is not against the law doesn't mean that it's ethical, 2241 02:05:25.479 --> 02:05:30.039 And so hopefully that I think that's wishful thinking on. 2242 02:05:30.000 --> 02:05:32.680 My part, a fine line, that's a very very fine 2243 02:05:32.720 --> 02:05:33.680 line in some gray area. 2244 02:05:33.680 --> 02:05:36.720 But exactly well, Brian, thank you so much for spending 2245 02:05:36.720 --> 02:05:38.239 time with us this morning. I think I've went a 2246 02:05:38.239 --> 02:05:41.000 little too long with us here, but I certainly appreciate 2247 02:05:41.039 --> 02:05:43.079 your time, and hopefully we can do this again sometime, 2248 02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:44.159 and certainly appreciate it. 2249 02:05:45.079 --> 02:05:46.239 Yes, sir, you have a great week. 2250 02:05:46.279 --> 02:05:49.279 You do the same, Brian, James all Worth Financial on 2251 02:05:49.319 --> 02:05:53.000 our Money Monday segment here coming up once you me 2252 02:05:53.079 --> 02:05:55.199 and the phones between now and the top of the hour. 2253 02:05:55.359 --> 02:05:58.000 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. 2254 02:05:58.039 --> 02:06:00.119 See the talk station fifty. 2255 02:05:59.760 --> 02:06:02.159 Five KRC the Simply Money min. 2256 02:06:09.880 --> 02:06:12.119 Eight thirty three in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for 2257 02:06:12.159 --> 02:06:15.840 Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, The talk station. Phone numbers 2258 02:06:15.880 --> 02:06:18.520 five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five, hundred one, 2259 02:06:18.560 --> 02:06:20.920 eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight 2260 02:06:20.960 --> 02:06:23.840 two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty 2261 02:06:24.119 --> 02:06:27.520 AT and T wireless phone. Let's go to the phones here, 2262 02:06:27.600 --> 02:06:30.920 let's talk to h J fifty five krs. Thanks so 2263 02:06:31.000 --> 02:06:32.560 much for calling. How are you this morning? 2264 02:06:33.159 --> 02:06:35.479 Hey, I'm doing good, Kevin. And as always, man, you 2265 02:06:35.520 --> 02:06:37.319 do a great job. When Brian is out. 2266 02:06:37.239 --> 02:06:39.279 He's a uh he's a hall. 2267 02:06:39.199 --> 02:06:41.399 Of Famer host, and man, you you are a hall 2268 02:06:41.439 --> 02:06:42.279 of famer as well. 2269 02:06:42.439 --> 02:06:45.720 Yeah, so I appreciate this out. I appreciate that when 2270 02:06:45.720 --> 02:06:47.640 you're well. You know, Brian had to take some time 2271 02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:49.560 off today because you know, I've been binging on those 2272 02:06:49.800 --> 02:06:52.720 Hallmark Christmas movies and it's time for him to take 2273 02:06:52.760 --> 02:06:54.319 some time off to do that himself. 2274 02:06:54.359 --> 02:06:55.920 You know, man, your. 2275 02:06:55.800 --> 02:06:57.920 After good level is like going to be peaking. You 2276 02:06:58.000 --> 02:07:00.199 better get some of that testoster and stuff that I 2277 02:07:00.279 --> 02:07:01.079 keep hearing about. 2278 02:07:03.000 --> 02:07:06.439 Well, you know, you know, I don't think I've got 2279 02:07:06.479 --> 02:07:09.239 to you know, turning my man card quite quite yet. 2280 02:07:09.279 --> 02:07:13.560 But you know, well, well well maybe that's debatable, but 2281 02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:15.119 that's really not what I wanted to debate. 2282 02:07:15.159 --> 02:07:18.600 You a man to be gentle and yet firms So anyway, 2283 02:07:18.640 --> 02:07:19.279 go ahead. 2284 02:07:21.399 --> 02:07:27.399 Hey, wanted to make some comments on Alex Trantafilo. I'm 2285 02:07:27.399 --> 02:07:29.880 sure he is a good guy. I'm sure he worked 2286 02:07:29.880 --> 02:07:35.199 his tail off, but here here comes the butt. Last 2287 02:07:35.199 --> 02:07:38.279 week I heard him, Uh, Brian had him on and 2288 02:07:38.840 --> 02:07:41.159 he asked the same really good question you asked. Because 2289 02:07:41.159 --> 02:07:45.319 we're all hearing the the Wine the Rhino is going 2290 02:07:45.359 --> 02:07:48.079 to do. Uh, he's going to install one of his buddies, 2291 02:07:48.119 --> 02:07:51.319 which is going to be Matt Dolan, who Ohio voters 2292 02:07:51.359 --> 02:07:54.640 have soundly rejected in the past two Senate races. We 2293 02:07:54.680 --> 02:07:58.000 don't want him as senators. As a senator, we don't 2294 02:07:58.000 --> 02:08:01.199 want Jane Timpkin as a senator. And yet the Wine 2295 02:08:01.239 --> 02:08:04.479 could reach out and and and bring in somebody like 2296 02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:10.279 a Warren Davidson or Jim Jordan, a proven conservative Republican 2297 02:08:11.439 --> 02:08:13.600 h and asked them if they'd be interested in that 2298 02:08:13.720 --> 02:08:18.439 Senate seat versus going after a retread and uh, but 2299 02:08:18.560 --> 02:08:21.479 you know it, it sounds like he's going to go 2300 02:08:21.520 --> 02:08:25.399 for Dolan. And if they do that, then the Republican 2301 02:08:25.439 --> 02:08:28.680 Party did exactly what the Democrat Party did with Kamala Harris, 2302 02:08:29.399 --> 02:08:34.199 where they where they installed somebody who the voters soundly rejected. 2303 02:08:34.279 --> 02:08:37.000 Yamula couldn't get more than two percent during the primary. 2304 02:08:37.279 --> 02:08:38.880 Dolan never came in higher than third. 2305 02:08:39.920 --> 02:08:42.319 Kamala didn't get any votes in the primary, that was 2306 02:08:42.359 --> 02:08:45.399 all just poland she got no votes in the Yeah. 2307 02:08:45.680 --> 02:08:47.000 Great point. Great point. 2308 02:08:47.079 --> 02:08:50.039 So when Alex was asked that question by by Brian, 2309 02:08:50.760 --> 02:08:54.239 Alex's answer was, well, I trust governor to wine and 2310 02:08:54.279 --> 02:08:56.000 it's going to be his decision. And it was a 2311 02:08:56.039 --> 02:08:59.199 love fest for Mike DeWine who locked down, locked us 2312 02:08:59.199 --> 02:09:04.439 down during COVID raved our gas tax by ten cents 2313 02:09:04.439 --> 02:09:06.680 a gallon and when he was about ten seconds ten 2314 02:09:06.720 --> 02:09:09.800 you know, fifteen minutes into office, he did that along 2315 02:09:09.840 --> 02:09:11.880 with all of the other things. You know, you can't 2316 02:09:11.920 --> 02:09:14.079 have a drink after ten o'clock got to shut the 2317 02:09:14.119 --> 02:09:14.640 bars down. 2318 02:09:15.199 --> 02:09:19.279 Yeah, because COVID. COVID only ruers of ugly head after 2319 02:09:19.319 --> 02:09:20.439 ten o'clock, you. 2320 02:09:20.399 --> 02:09:24.039 Know, Oh, right, right, and darn remember that the he 2321 02:09:24.119 --> 02:09:28.680 wanted to extend his emergency powers and took the Republicans 2322 02:09:28.720 --> 02:09:34.399 in Ohio government to override his veto where he was saying, no, 2323 02:09:34.479 --> 02:09:37.640 I want to keep my tyrannical powers doing this lockdown, 2324 02:09:38.159 --> 02:09:39.760 and they had to put him back in his place. 2325 02:09:39.840 --> 02:09:44.920 Now for Alex Trantafelo last week today, I trust the governor. 2326 02:09:45.000 --> 02:09:47.840 He's a he's a great leader, and whoever he picks, 2327 02:09:47.880 --> 02:09:50.800 I'm going to be behind it. I would say, let's 2328 02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:54.239 let's cut the Alex Tranta Filo LoveFest. And if he's 2329 02:09:54.279 --> 02:09:57.119 not with us, then he's against us. And if we 2330 02:09:57.159 --> 02:10:00.479 can't call out what Mike the Wine is, the leader, 2331 02:10:00.840 --> 02:10:04.600 the leader of the Republican Party for Ohio can't do it, well, 2332 02:10:04.640 --> 02:10:07.800 then we're going to continue to be an embarrassment in 2333 02:10:07.880 --> 02:10:10.760 which I believe we are. Nationally, do we have a 2334 02:10:10.800 --> 02:10:14.399 super majority bigger than what Ron Santa says in Florida, 2335 02:10:14.800 --> 02:10:17.239 we can't get a damn thing done? Yeah, well, Jack, 2336 02:10:17.520 --> 02:10:20.359 the other Red states, look at Ohio, and say you're 2337 02:10:20.359 --> 02:10:21.079 not really red. 2338 02:10:21.239 --> 02:10:22.560 Yeah, well Jay, you're red. 2339 02:10:22.680 --> 02:10:24.039 You got your a bunch of damn rhinos. 2340 02:10:24.079 --> 02:10:26.359 Well, Jay, what we have is an electric out there 2341 02:10:26.439 --> 02:10:29.359 electorate out there that went a certain way. There are 2342 02:10:29.439 --> 02:10:32.640 grassroots organizations that are out there. What they need to 2343 02:10:32.680 --> 02:10:35.399 do is they need to take the reins here and 2344 02:10:36.479 --> 02:10:40.479 call the governor's office let him know what your concerns are. Jd. 2345 02:10:40.680 --> 02:10:44.199 Vance doesn't take the oath of office until January the twentieth, 2346 02:10:44.600 --> 02:10:48.079 so I would imagine that he may be tasked with 2347 02:10:48.159 --> 02:10:52.279 coming back to Ohio and kind of trying to force 2348 02:10:52.319 --> 02:10:55.359 some things too. We need to call his office. We 2349 02:10:55.439 --> 02:10:57.720 need to call the Senate office. We need to call 2350 02:10:58.039 --> 02:11:03.920 our senators and you know, everybody else involved and let 2351 02:11:03.960 --> 02:11:07.520 them know where we stand. Bernie Moreno is a good 2352 02:11:07.520 --> 02:11:11.760 one to start talking to. You know, he's gotten elected, 2353 02:11:11.760 --> 02:11:14.279 he's going to be voted in. He should have a say, 2354 02:11:14.760 --> 02:11:17.840 and it's up to the current and you know, let's 2355 02:11:17.840 --> 02:11:23.039 face it, all right, we've got mayors, we've got council people, 2356 02:11:23.119 --> 02:11:27.199 we've got county commissioners, we've got state reps, state senators. 2357 02:11:27.760 --> 02:11:30.760 Let them know where you stand and let them know 2358 02:11:31.279 --> 02:11:34.640 that if this doesn't go the way we think it 2359 02:11:34.720 --> 02:11:37.960 should go. And if we wind up with a retread 2360 02:11:38.039 --> 02:11:41.439 as people are talking about, they are going to suffer 2361 02:11:41.479 --> 02:11:45.079 the consequences. At the polling booth. We hold the ultimate 2362 02:11:45.119 --> 02:11:47.760 authority here. We need exercise. 2363 02:11:47.840 --> 02:11:50.920 I take that idea and I did exactly that. I 2364 02:11:50.960 --> 02:11:54.000 got a hold of jd Advance and because he has 2365 02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:56.960 the bully pulpit now and by the way, remember Mike 2366 02:11:57.039 --> 02:12:00.920 the Wine did not support jd Vance, that was Trump's pick. 2367 02:12:01.199 --> 02:12:03.279 Wine went against them and back Matt Dolan. 2368 02:12:03.479 --> 02:12:04.279 Yeah exactly. 2369 02:12:04.319 --> 02:12:07.000 So you know, all I'm looking for is the head 2370 02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:09.680 of the Republican Party has a lot of way influence 2371 02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:12.119 money behind him. And honestly, I think if Mike de 2372 02:12:12.199 --> 02:12:14.239 Wine was to run for a third term, you'd see 2373 02:12:14.279 --> 02:12:17.960 Alex Trantafilo at grobbling in his feet asking him how 2374 02:12:17.960 --> 02:12:19.840 he can help and how much money does he need? 2375 02:12:20.399 --> 02:12:23.520 And that's not what we need is as Ohio Republican 2376 02:12:23.560 --> 02:12:27.199 Party leader, get in tune with read the room, take 2377 02:12:27.239 --> 02:12:28.960 a look at what what the rest of us take 2378 02:12:29.000 --> 02:12:31.239 of Mike to one exactly, but I'm with you, man, 2379 02:12:31.479 --> 02:12:33.439 get a hold of jd Vance. I think there is 2380 02:12:33.439 --> 02:12:35.479 our play. Does Dad Vance want to be working with 2381 02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:36.640 fricking Matt Dolan. 2382 02:12:36.760 --> 02:12:38.439 Yeah, pick up the phone, folks in. 2383 02:12:38.560 --> 02:12:41.239 Jordan, or Warren Davidson or somebody better. 2384 02:12:41.079 --> 02:12:44.399 Pick up the phone, folks, make those phone calls. So, Jay, 2385 02:12:44.439 --> 02:12:46.680 thank you so much for calling. I certainly appreciate it. 2386 02:12:46.840 --> 02:12:53.479 Have a nice day well. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, two, 2387 02:12:53.560 --> 02:12:56.079 three eight two five, five pound five fifty A T 2388 02:12:56.119 --> 02:12:59.279 and T wireless phone coming up. We'll kind of wrap 2389 02:12:59.399 --> 02:13:01.159 up the show and see where we go from there. 2390 02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:03.560 Maybe some other mischief we can get into. I'm Kevin 2391 02:13:03.600 --> 02:13:06.159 Gordon and for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the 2392 02:13:06.319 --> 02:13:06.880 talk station. 2393 02:13:07.199 --> 02:13:12.000 This is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station, prescription. 2394 02:13:28.399 --> 02:13:30.720 Eight forty three in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for 2395 02:13:30.760 --> 02:13:34.039 Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see in the talk station. 2396 02:13:34.479 --> 02:13:36.439 You know, one of the things I'm pretty sure that 2397 02:13:36.479 --> 02:13:39.520 Brian and I are on the same page on is 2398 02:13:39.560 --> 02:13:45.279 this whole green energy hoax that we've been climate change 2399 02:13:45.279 --> 02:13:47.159 and so on that we've been fed over the last 2400 02:13:47.199 --> 02:13:50.159 several years. And you know, I take you back to 2401 02:13:50.239 --> 02:13:52.720 and you've heard this before. I'm sure that going back 2402 02:13:52.760 --> 02:13:56.439 to the first you know, Earth Day back in seventy 2403 02:13:56.720 --> 02:13:59.840 nineteen seventy six, we're all talking about global cooling, that 2404 02:13:59.840 --> 02:14:02.760 we're going into this ice age. Well that didn't pan out, 2405 02:14:02.760 --> 02:14:05.159 so then it had to be global warming, and it 2406 02:14:05.199 --> 02:14:07.399 had to be acid rain and all this sort of stuff. 2407 02:14:07.800 --> 02:14:10.159 And then well you know that didn't pan out, So 2408 02:14:10.199 --> 02:14:12.199 now we just got to call it climate change. So 2409 02:14:12.279 --> 02:14:15.239 anything that happens has to do with climate change. And 2410 02:14:15.279 --> 02:14:17.319 we've been sold this bill of goods. As far as 2411 02:14:17.359 --> 02:14:20.800 EV's wind. Now I'm not opposed to wind, I'm not 2412 02:14:20.840 --> 02:14:23.840 opposed to solar energy, but it is not ready for 2413 02:14:23.920 --> 02:14:27.439 prime time. And these EV batteries, these electric vehicles that 2414 02:14:27.439 --> 02:14:31.760 are coming along, it's just it is not a technology 2415 02:14:31.800 --> 02:14:34.239 that's ready for prime time. And so one of the 2416 02:14:34.239 --> 02:14:37.319 things I hope that we see with this administration, the 2417 02:14:37.319 --> 02:14:41.079 Trump administration coming in, is some of the turning back 2418 02:14:41.159 --> 02:14:44.479 away from this all this what I call, well, I 2419 02:14:44.600 --> 02:14:47.239 just call it what it is. It's climingism. You know, 2420 02:14:47.359 --> 02:14:49.640 if you look at what is being talked about, it 2421 02:14:49.680 --> 02:14:52.319 has nothing to do with cleaning up the environment. It 2422 02:14:52.319 --> 02:14:56.000 has nothing to do with making our lives better. It's 2423 02:14:56.039 --> 02:14:59.800 all about control where you live, how you live, what 2424 02:15:00.119 --> 02:15:02.600 you eat, when you eat, how you cook, your food, 2425 02:15:02.640 --> 02:15:05.239 where you live, what car you drive, how far you 2426 02:15:05.279 --> 02:15:08.319 can travel, when you can travel, and everything. It's all 2427 02:15:08.359 --> 02:15:11.520 about control. And that has more to do with communism 2428 02:15:11.600 --> 02:15:14.560 than it does environmentalism. So I just mashed the two. 2429 02:15:14.720 --> 02:15:19.600 You know, communism has or environmentalism has become the new communism, 2430 02:15:19.800 --> 02:15:21.720 and I just mashed the two together and just call 2431 02:15:21.760 --> 02:15:25.119 it climmunism. And climunism is one of the things that 2432 02:15:25.640 --> 02:15:27.359 needs to end. And I don't pick this. I'm going 2433 02:15:27.399 --> 02:15:29.399 to kind of clarify that a little bit coming up. 2434 02:15:29.479 --> 02:15:32.279 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, 2435 02:15:32.560 --> 02:15:33.159 the talk. 2436 02:15:33.079 --> 02:15:35.119 Station fifty five KRC. 2437 02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:42.479 Most people think nine first warning. Weather forecasts Today rush hour, clear, 2438 02:15:42.479 --> 02:15:46.399 skys calm, wins low forty five Veteran's day. The rest 2439 02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:49.079 of the day mostly sunny, pleasant, the high of sixty three. 2440 02:15:49.199 --> 02:15:52.479 Monday night mostly clear, colder but dry. Look for lower 2441 02:15:52.520 --> 02:15:55.600 thirty six. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, high of fifty four and 2442 02:15:55.640 --> 02:15:59.239 a low of thirty five. Right now forty eight degrees 2443 02:15:59.560 --> 02:16:02.359 fifty five five kr CE DE talk station Chuck ingram 2444 02:16:02.399 --> 02:16:04.279 S has our final look at traffic. 2445 02:16:04.520 --> 02:16:07.720 From the UCL Tramfic Center, the University of Cincinnati Cancer 2446 02:16:07.800 --> 02:16:11.239 Center is Humed and Nastley recognize pank credit cancer experts 2447 02:16:11.239 --> 02:16:14.800 who offer personalized care plans and new treatments through innovative 2448 02:16:14.800 --> 02:16:17.800 clinical trials called five one three five eighty five U 2449 02:16:17.840 --> 02:16:20.479 see see seed cruise continue to work with a couple 2450 02:16:20.479 --> 02:16:23.319 of brecks on two seventy five stop bound thirty two 2451 02:16:23.319 --> 02:16:26.279 at East Gate, right Lane's block west bound at near 2452 02:16:26.359 --> 02:16:29.720 Montgomery Road over on the right shoulder. Chuck ingram On 2453 02:16:29.800 --> 02:16:32.479 fifty five krz the talk station. 2454 02:16:41.959 --> 02:16:44.239 Eight forty nine in the morning. Kevin Morton in for 2455 02:16:44.319 --> 02:16:47.600 Brian Hammas, fifty five kr see the talk station. Let's 2456 02:16:47.639 --> 02:16:49.879 go back to the phones real quick here and talk 2457 02:16:49.920 --> 02:16:53.319 to Evelyn. Evelyn fifty five krs the talk station. Thank 2458 02:16:53.360 --> 02:16:55.879 you so much for being there. Certainly appreciate the phone call. 2459 02:16:55.920 --> 02:16:56.879 How are you this morning? 2460 02:16:57.920 --> 02:16:58.120 Oh? 2461 02:16:58.200 --> 02:16:58.440 Good? 2462 02:16:58.520 --> 02:17:04.159 Thanks Givin. Would you explain how to I'd like to 2463 02:17:04.200 --> 02:17:09.559 call JD Van's and tell him to not choose Kevin 2464 02:17:09.639 --> 02:17:13.200 Gordon and to suggest Orlando's Sandra. 2465 02:17:13.559 --> 02:17:19.000 But exactly wait a minute, don't choose Kevin Gordon, you 2466 02:17:19.040 --> 02:17:25.639 mean Matt Dolan. Now if he chose, if the wine 2467 02:17:25.719 --> 02:17:28.000 chose me, I mean I would make the move over 2468 02:17:28.040 --> 02:17:31.239 to Ohio from Kentucky to do that. But uh, you know, 2469 02:17:31.559 --> 02:17:37.200 I haven't been called, so yeah. 2470 02:17:35.799 --> 02:17:39.399 I like that, so by goodness, well, I just I'd 2471 02:17:39.479 --> 02:17:43.200 like to know how to explain it. Uh would I 2472 02:17:43.280 --> 02:17:47.120 make a call to their office, to JD. Bean's office. 2473 02:17:47.319 --> 02:17:51.159 I'm not sure I know exactly how to approach that. 2474 02:17:51.680 --> 02:17:55.239 Quick call. I'm sure it wouldn't be too well. 2475 02:17:55.079 --> 02:17:58.920 If you call. If you call the the the office 2476 02:17:59.120 --> 02:18:04.159 of the of the Congress, the Congressional Office, it's a 2477 02:18:04.159 --> 02:18:06.680 two oh two number. Just say I want to leave 2478 02:18:06.680 --> 02:18:10.159 a message for JD. Vance and say that, you know, 2479 02:18:10.719 --> 02:18:13.879 we want to make sure that and just say we 2480 02:18:13.920 --> 02:18:17.200 want to make sure that the decision that Governor Dwine 2481 02:18:17.440 --> 02:18:23.680 makes will help the Trump administration and advance the agenda 2482 02:18:23.799 --> 02:18:29.879 of the Trump administration and not one of a squishy rhino. 2483 02:18:30.319 --> 02:18:33.040 I don't know if you want to say rhino, but somebody. 2484 02:18:32.760 --> 02:18:34.879 Who is not like. 2485 02:18:35.760 --> 02:18:38.280 But not and that's kind of offense, so you know, 2486 02:18:38.280 --> 02:18:40.120 they may take offense to that, but say that we 2487 02:18:40.200 --> 02:18:44.920 want somebody who is a conservative to replace a conservative 2488 02:18:45.000 --> 02:18:48.559 that's we're losing being advanced to vice president, and we 2489 02:18:48.799 --> 02:18:52.440 like him to make sure that he that he you know, 2490 02:18:52.520 --> 02:18:53.399 lets that be known. 2491 02:18:55.000 --> 02:18:58.239 Okay, great, So I should not use rhino as that. 2492 02:18:58.680 --> 02:19:00.959 Yeah, that's you know, it's kind of well, you know, 2493 02:19:01.360 --> 02:19:03.639 we know what it means, and some people may take 2494 02:19:03.799 --> 02:19:05.920 you know, if somebody sees that in a message, it 2495 02:19:06.000 --> 02:19:09.159 may you know, kind of discount it. But just you know, hey, 2496 02:19:09.319 --> 02:19:12.799 you know, we have a senator, we have a good 2497 02:19:12.879 --> 02:19:17.239 conservative senator. Now we're going to have another good conservative 2498 02:19:17.239 --> 02:19:19.680 Bernie Moreno, and we want to make sure that we 2499 02:19:19.799 --> 02:19:22.799 keep the momentum going and somebody that will be there 2500 02:19:22.879 --> 02:19:27.559 to support the Trump administration as opposed to any other agendas. 2501 02:19:27.600 --> 02:19:34.040 So yeah, that's great, great, great, all right, not a problem, 2502 02:19:34.440 --> 02:19:36.959 Thank you so much. Appreciate the phone call. I want 2503 02:19:36.959 --> 02:19:38.559 to wrap up here. We've got a couple of minutes 2504 02:19:38.559 --> 02:19:40.120 before we get out of here. I want to make 2505 02:19:40.399 --> 02:19:42.840 a stress to everybody. At eleven o'clock today, make sure 2506 02:19:42.879 --> 02:19:45.920 you take that opportunity to do a moment of silence 2507 02:19:46.239 --> 02:19:49.360 the eleventh eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the 2508 02:19:49.399 --> 02:19:53.000 eleventh month, in honor of Veterans Day. And I want 2509 02:19:53.040 --> 02:19:55.319 to when I talk about climbingism and so on, and 2510 02:19:55.360 --> 02:19:58.239 I talk about this business of being somewhat of a 2511 02:19:58.559 --> 02:20:01.559 when I say it's a whole and so on. You know, 2512 02:20:01.639 --> 02:20:03.799 none of this stuff has been proven. And I saw 2513 02:20:03.840 --> 02:20:06.680 this story last week. I find it very interesting. And 2514 02:20:06.799 --> 02:20:11.079 this is interesting on two counts. Okay, a vast ancient 2515 02:20:11.280 --> 02:20:15.040 Mayan city is found in the Mexican jungle. By accident, 2516 02:20:15.440 --> 02:20:19.680 a graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico 2517 02:20:20.200 --> 02:20:25.639 unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried beneath 2518 02:20:25.760 --> 02:20:29.000 dense jungle for centuries. The city lay hidden in the 2519 02:20:29.120 --> 02:20:32.520 amid the jungle canopy in the state of Campeachy on 2520 02:20:32.600 --> 02:20:35.959 the Gulf of Mexico. New research published Tuesday in the 2521 02:20:36.040 --> 02:20:39.959 Journal of Antiquity reveals sites that in total cover an 2522 02:20:40.040 --> 02:20:43.680 area about one and a half times the size of Washington, 2523 02:20:43.799 --> 02:20:47.440 d C. That's how big this place was. And first 2524 02:20:47.479 --> 02:20:50.879 of all, the first lesson here is a graduate student. 2525 02:20:51.360 --> 02:20:55.399 Think of all of the academics that went before him, 2526 02:20:55.520 --> 02:20:59.760 all the doctors, all the PhDs, all these so called scientists, 2527 02:20:59.799 --> 02:21:01.920 and it took a graduate student to look at these 2528 02:21:02.040 --> 02:21:05.440 documents and say, hey, you know, there's possibly a city here, 2529 02:21:05.559 --> 02:21:09.360 which it borne out. Okay, the researchers uncovered a densely 2530 02:21:09.399 --> 02:21:13.559 packed area containing six thousand, six hundred and seventy four structures, 2531 02:21:13.840 --> 02:21:18.040 including pyramids resembling those in Chichen It's A in the 2532 02:21:18.079 --> 02:21:22.159 Mexican state of Yucatan and Tikal in the ancient citadel 2533 02:21:22.200 --> 02:21:26.959 and rainforest of northern Guatemala. This graduate student, Luke Ald Thomas, 2534 02:21:27.000 --> 02:21:32.799 PhD Candidate at Tulane University, discovered this. The researchers said 2535 02:21:32.840 --> 02:21:36.040 that this city and they've may have had been the 2536 02:21:36.079 --> 02:21:41.799 home to thirty to fifty thousand people at its peak 2537 02:21:42.120 --> 02:21:47.559 between eight hundred AD and one thousand AD. Folks were 2538 02:21:47.600 --> 02:21:52.079 talking about a city that existed sixteen hundred years ago 2539 02:21:52.520 --> 02:21:58.120 or fourteen hundred years ago. Okay, now for a Now, 2540 02:21:58.520 --> 02:22:09.799 this city disappeared for a complex of reasons, including climate change. Okay, so, 2541 02:22:10.000 --> 02:22:15.559 how many coal burning fires were, plants manufacturing plants were 2542 02:22:15.600 --> 02:22:20.520 back in Mexico at eight hundred AD, how many diesel 2543 02:22:20.639 --> 02:22:24.280 trucks were rolling down the highway at that point, how 2544 02:22:24.399 --> 02:22:27.399 much pollutants were in the air at that point? And 2545 02:22:27.559 --> 02:22:33.360 climate change eliminated the city of thirty to fifty thousand people. 2546 02:22:33.840 --> 02:22:37.559 Climate change has been ongoing. The Earth can handle it, 2547 02:22:37.719 --> 02:22:41.159 at least now we know the technology that we can 2548 02:22:41.280 --> 02:22:46.440 deal with it and contain it and actually adapt to it. 2549 02:22:46.680 --> 02:22:49.639 So with that I'll leave that with you. Thanks, thank 2550 02:22:49.719 --> 02:22:51.600 you all for the phone calls, Thank you for being here, 2551 02:22:51.639 --> 02:22:56.200 Thanks to my guest Ken Blackwell, and of course Christopher 2552 02:22:56.200 --> 02:23:00.399 Smitherman and Brian James with all Worth Financial Christopher Smithers Well. 2553 02:23:00.680 --> 02:23:02.879 So anyway, folks, that does it for me. Thank you 2554 02:23:02.920 --> 02:23:06.040 so much, have a great day and honor of that. 2555 02:23:06.159 --> 02:23:08.840 Today I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five 2556 02:23:08.920 --> 02:23:10.680 KR see the talks station. 2557 02:23:11.680 --> 02:23:13.799 When you want to know, when you need to know, 2558 02:23:13.959 --> 02:23:16.280 when you have to know, you can be in the 2559 02:23:16.360 --> 02:23:20.639 know right here on fifty five a talkstation. 2560 02:23:21.719 --> 02:23:23.360 This report is sponsored by