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Speaker 5: and quite honestly, I hope I'm not outing him too much,
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Speaker 5: towards the end of October and so on, and of
Speaker 5: course the Christmas in July stuff and whatever. And I
Speaker 5: think Brian wanted a couple of days off after all
Speaker 5: the election coverage and everything so that he could get
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Speaker 5: So I'm here today, and by the way, to all
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Speaker 5: six fifty five or six fifty five, it's going to
Speaker 5: be you, me and the phones. A few opinions on
Speaker 5: my part, because as you know, I have an opinion
Speaker 5: and I'm not afraid to use it. Coming up at
Speaker 5: seven oh five, we're going to be talking to Ken Blackwell,
Speaker 5: who's a former mayor of Cincinnati, Senior Fellow of Family
Speaker 5: Empowerment Family at the Family Research Council, currently Vice president
Speaker 5: of the Executive Committee of the Council for National Policy,
Speaker 5: and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Speaker 5: Also it was anyway, So anyway, we're going to be
Speaker 5: talking about presidential election and talking about some of the
Speaker 5: Ohio politics and so on. And also I want to
Speaker 5: talk to him a little bit about, you know, the
Speaker 5: fact that we're both Xavier alumnus alumni and the fact
Speaker 5: that he was on one of the last football teams
Speaker 5: at Xavier and I was on the last team. But
Speaker 5: he's I think he's about four or five years of
Speaker 5: head of me in school. So he was on that
Speaker 5: football team and was an outstanding athlete. So looking forward
Speaker 5: to talking to him. At seven twenty. Let me talking
Speaker 5: to Christopher Smitherman with the smither Event this week, and
Speaker 5: then at eight oh five we're going to be talking
Speaker 5: to the of course the Monday Monday and Brian James
Speaker 5: will be in talking about pretty much the markets and
Speaker 5: everything that's going on as far as the economy and
Speaker 5: man I'll tell you what you talk about. A bunch
Speaker 5: of good news ever since Tuesday, well Tuesday night early
Speaker 5: Wednesday morning, and what we have seen since then in
Speaker 5: terms of some of the news and stuff going on
Speaker 5: overseas and so on, it is just very encouraging and
Speaker 5: I'm really excited about what's going to happen over the
Speaker 5: next four years. So let's start off and go to
Speaker 5: the phones here and let's talk to Linda. Linda fifty
Speaker 5: five case. Thank you so much for calling. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Good morning, keV. Haven't seen you for a while. I
Speaker 6: saw the attention that you gave the smoking ban and
Speaker 6: the event spence Bridge, and you did a good job.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: I wanted to call because they have Mitch McConnell has
Speaker 6: called for a snap election in the Senate. This is
Speaker 6: for the head of the Senate. The head of the Senate,
Speaker 6: they decide who, what and where will be brought on
Speaker 6: the floor, what will be voted for. There are three
Speaker 6: people in contention, Corin, Zoom and Scott. In our opinion,
Speaker 6: Scott is the only conservative in there. That they're putting
Speaker 6: up the rest of rhinos and what I'm hoping is
Speaker 6: that people will call their senators, right to their senators
Speaker 6: and tell them that we have a mandate for President
Speaker 6: Trump's agenda. And we already did this. They are voting
Speaker 6: on Wednesday, and I hope other people contact their senators.
Speaker 6: And you know, we want a battle, but we didn't
Speaker 6: win the war. And I think it's going to take
Speaker 6: vigilance on all our part and work on all our
Speaker 6: part to see things really change in Washington.
Speaker 5: And I think, well, I want to continue here. Don't
Speaker 5: don't hang up yet. I hope this continues with the
Speaker 5: fact that you know, as the current sitting senator, the JD.
Speaker 5: Van sits, puts some pressure on Mitch McConnell. I hope
Speaker 5: the other Senator, Ran Paul from Kentucky, puts some pressure
Speaker 5: on him. And I hope that there is a movement
Speaker 5: that puts pressure on Mitch McConnell to do the right thing. Now,
Speaker 5: as far as what is normal, that you kind of
Speaker 5: got me at a disadvantage here, I don't know what
Speaker 5: the norm is because I know that as far as
Speaker 5: the Speaker of the House, that doesn't happen until everybody
Speaker 5: is sworn in. And I'd be kind of interested in
Speaker 5: the fact that if the Senate, the new member Senate,
Speaker 5: which is going to give the Republicans at this point,
Speaker 5: it appears fifty four seats. If I'm not mistaken, there
Speaker 5: may maybe another one that dropped overnight. Those should those
Speaker 5: people should have a vote, after all, they are going
Speaker 5: to be there for the next six years. So I
Speaker 5: don't know if this is too early. It sounds awfully early.
Speaker 5: I don't ever remember hearing a situation where this vote
Speaker 5: is done and so with a you know, they're not
Speaker 5: even in the majority. So obviously McConnell is the minority
Speaker 5: leader in the Senate, and right now, from what we've
Speaker 5: seen in the past, there seems to be a few
Speaker 5: rhinos in there, so who they vote in at this
Speaker 5: present time, I'd be very suspect. So yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Am also the only thing, the only credibility I heard
Speaker 6: on this was Tucker Carlston and he was saying that
Speaker 6: he hopes people around Trump get wind of this.
Speaker 5: So oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not a conspiracy person, but it does not
Speaker 6: hurt any of us to contact our senators. Of course,
Speaker 6: minus is McConnell and Graham Paul, But it doesn't hurt
Speaker 6: any of us to keep in touch with those senators
Speaker 6: in Washington telling them what we want. Absolutely, absolutely, that's
Speaker 6: that's the only thing that I had. I just I
Speaker 6: heard that, and I thought, how can this be? How
Speaker 6: can you have a snack election? And like you, I thought,
Speaker 6: how you know people aren't even there yet exactly, But
Speaker 6: evidently he said he's stepping down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he did announce that, so we do know that.
Speaker 6: Anyway, pay attention.
Speaker 5: Okay, you bet absolutely, Linda, Thanks so much for the
Speaker 5: phone call. I certainly appreciate it. You have a great day,
Speaker 5: and let's enjoy the next four years. Huh. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's kind of a wrinkle that I've seen. I did
Speaker 5: see a story earlier something about John Thune, and I
Speaker 5: did hear something about John. And I'm going to have
Speaker 5: to dig into those particular stories because I know, at
Speaker 5: first it seems to me and I guess I'm I
Speaker 5: don't know if I'm I may be mistaken, but I
Speaker 5: think early on in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen, I
Speaker 5: think Cornyan was on board, but somewhere along the line
Speaker 5: he got off the Trump train. Now, John Thune has
Speaker 5: been an ardent critic of Donald Trump, and I think,
Speaker 5: if I'm not mistaken, he may have even been a
Speaker 5: never Trumper. So I don't see and I don't understand
Speaker 5: why you would want somebody like that. And I was
Speaker 5: discouraged and very disheartened by the fact that Mitch McConnell
Speaker 5: the week leading up to the election just really ripped
Speaker 5: into Donald Trump and just kind of bought into all
Speaker 5: the conspiracy theories and all the crap that the Democratic
Speaker 5: Party has been saying, and then at the end said
Speaker 5: we need to get behind him and get him elected.
Speaker 5: So it's like, how do you how do you reconcile that?
Speaker 5: And quite honestly, any liberals out there, and if you're
Speaker 5: a liberal and you're listening to this program, I know
Speaker 5: there's a bunch that listen to this program. I would
Speaker 5: encourage you to call in. I want you and and
Speaker 5: Sean is in the control room, and Sean a little
Speaker 5: shout out to you, thank you and appreciate working with
Speaker 5: you today. But if there's a liberal that calls in,
Speaker 5: I don't care if we got fifteen calls on hold.
Speaker 5: If there's a liberal that calls on, they move to
Speaker 5: the front of the line, and I want to hear
Speaker 5: their justification as to how they believe what they believe
Speaker 5: and so on. And I want to put this little
Speaker 5: thought before we go to our first break here, that
Speaker 5: all this talk about the existential threat, and let's analyze
Speaker 5: that for a second. Because when you say existential threat,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm sure people just think, good, oh, it's
Speaker 5: existential and whatever. But you define the word existential threat
Speaker 5: means that they are a threat to the existence of
Speaker 5: And so if you're calling somebody an existential threat to democracy,
Speaker 5: you are calling them a threat to the existence of democracy.
Speaker 5: You heard all the comments about Hitler, Mussolini, dictator, all
Speaker 5: this sort of stuff, all the conspiracy hoaxes and all
Speaker 5: that sort of stuff that was said during the during
Speaker 5: the campaign, Kamala Harris being asked directly, do you think
Speaker 5: Donald Trump is a fascist? Yeah, I don't believe he is.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 5: Now, if he is a fascist, if he is a dictator,
Speaker 5: if he is Hitler, why in the hell is Joe
Speaker 5: Biden inviting him to the White House on Wednesday. If
Speaker 5: somebody is an existential threat to democracy and is Hitler,
Speaker 5: would FD well, maybe FDR would have invited Hitler to
Speaker 5: the United States because looking at his background and so on.
Speaker 5: But would church Hill have invited Hitler to attend Downing Street? Hell? No,
Speaker 5: So were we being lied to all this time? Were
Speaker 5: we being hoodwinked? Were they catering to their base? Were
Speaker 5: they as they accused Donald Trump of doing? Were they
Speaker 5: doing the dog whistle that they always accuse the Republicans
Speaker 5: of doing. I want to talk about this, and of
Speaker 5: course we'll be talking about a lot of this today.
Speaker 5: Uh coming up five by the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 4: Have you.
Speaker 5: Five point twenty in the morning. Absolutely, we won't back down.
Speaker 5: I will not back down. Donald Trump will not back down.
Speaker 5: And how appropriate Tom Petty on this Friday morning, and
Speaker 5: especially any of you veterans out there. I know you
Speaker 5: didn't back down and you won't back down. Let's go
Speaker 5: to the phones. Pete, fifty five krs. Thank you so
Speaker 5: much for calling. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: How are you this morning, I'm good, thanks to taking
Speaker 8: my call, my pleasure. I had heard that same segment
Speaker 8: from Tucker that your previous caller was referring to, and
Speaker 8: it was amazing. Tucker really shed a lot of light
Speaker 8: on the whole subject. Mitsmocconnell that Thumb and cornn all
Speaker 8: hate Trump, just like the Cheney's Liz Cheney, and they're
Speaker 8: all bought and paid for by the military industrial accomplished,
Speaker 8: just like Mike Pompeo and the lady I can't think
Speaker 8: of her name, No, the the girl, it was the ambassador.
Speaker 8: And he already he already excluded those two from his
Speaker 8: cabbinet because they're like undercover. But miss McConnell is trying
Speaker 8: to slide one of those people into the head of
Speaker 8: the Senate because the Senate, whoever is the head of
Speaker 8: the Senate, determines what legislation comes on the floor, so
Speaker 8: and so if if they're bought and paid for by
Speaker 8: the military complex, they use that leverage to force Trump
Speaker 8: to do stuff. He was telling that Miss McConnell threatened
Speaker 8: Donald Trump to not to go through with the impeachment
Speaker 8: if he if he pardoned Julius Assange, Trump wanted to
Speaker 8: part in him and like and McConnell basically forced him
Speaker 8: not to. And that's what he's got to perceive now.
Speaker 8: And so I hope that that.
Speaker 9: That they see that and they prevent those two clowns
Speaker 9: from froun of the Senate and get Scott in there
Speaker 9: because he's actually on board.
Speaker 10: But his points was.
Speaker 9: There's still a big cabal of Republican rhinos who are
Speaker 9: bought and paid for by corporations and especially the deep
Speaker 9: staters and the military industrial complex.
Speaker 5: And that they are not on board with Trump.
Speaker 9: They pretend to be and they go along for the ride,
Speaker 9: but they're they're just not with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And there's a lot of people
Speaker 5: out there, and you know, if you got and hey,
Speaker 5: if you're on Facebook, you got friends in other parts
Speaker 5: of the country, you got friends in other states, you
Speaker 5: got family relatives and stuff. It'd be a good time
Speaker 5: to get in touch with them and have them call
Speaker 5: their congressman or senator. And you know, when you call Washington,
Speaker 5: and I'll dig out the phone nubers because I got
Speaker 5: them somewhere. But when you call Washington. You can call
Speaker 5: the main number and it's the Senate. Those people are
Speaker 5: extremely friendly. You're not going to be on somebody's watch list,
Speaker 5: You're not going to be on somebody's you know, target,
Speaker 5: They're not gonna be a target on your back. All
Speaker 5: you do is you call that number and you tell
Speaker 5: them who you're senator is and who you want to
Speaker 5: leave a message for, and they are extremely helpful. I've
Speaker 5: called them several times. And the thing is is that
Speaker 5: when you call a congressman or a senator, the people
Speaker 5: that take the time to do that, or if you
Speaker 5: email them, they will get those first. Don't send them
Speaker 5: a letter because after nine to eleven, when letters are sent,
Speaker 5: they go to a holding facility and they got to
Speaker 5: check them to make sure that there's no toxic substances
Speaker 5: or any what is it saren or whatever that stuff
Speaker 5: was that they put on these letters to try to
Speaker 5: poison people. So they have to do that and it
Speaker 5: takes about two to three weeks for that letter to
Speaker 5: get to your congressman or senator. So emails are very
Speaker 5: effective in solar phone calls, they get back from launch
Speaker 5: or they start their day with a stack of messages
Speaker 5: from their constituents. And it only takes about fifteen to
Speaker 5: twenty of these for people to hear from their constituents,
Speaker 5: and that puts on the alarm bells with them and
Speaker 5: they generally sit up and take notice. So again, I
Speaker 5: would encourage everybody ready to do that. And uh, we
Speaker 5: don't want Mitch McConnell pulling a fast one here, right here,
Speaker 5: right now. Bete, thank you so much. I certainly appreciate
Speaker 5: the phone call. You have a great day coming up.
Speaker 5: We've got uh, let me see who we got a
Speaker 5: hold a home. We've got Dick. We've got Dick from Dayton.
Speaker 5: We'll talk to him coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in
Speaker 5: for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR S the Talk Station.
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Speaker 5: Five point thirty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon and
Speaker 5: for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR the Talk Station. Yes,
Speaker 5: don't bring me down. We're not going to bring you
Speaker 5: down today. We're gonna be uplifting because we have a
Speaker 5: new Well here's here's five words that ought to put
Speaker 5: a big smile on your face today. President Elect Donald
Speaker 5: John Trump to me, I got to tell you I've
Speaker 5: it's been very tough for anybody to wipe a smile
Speaker 5: off my face since one forty one in the morning
Speaker 5: on Wednesday morning. And I've got a little story about
Speaker 5: that later on that we'll get to. But let's go
Speaker 5: to the phones and talk to Dick from Dayton. Dick,
Speaker 5: how the heck are you, my friend?
Speaker 12: All right? How are you?
Speaker 5: I am happy, happy, happy, yeah, extremely happy. As far
Speaker 5: as what transpired.
Speaker 12: All election day dream, I loved it. I loved every bed.
Speaker 13: At of it.
Speaker 5: Absolutely incredible, absolutely incredible, was great.
Speaker 12: It was great. I'm telling you, I'd think America is
Speaker 12: going to be back to.
Speaker 5: Normal now, you know, let's hope.
Speaker 12: So yeah, Oh, I wanted to salute my dad's family
Speaker 12: from up north. They were from Lorraine County that all
Speaker 12: served the country. My uncle Tony, my dad, my cousin Gil,
Speaker 12: my uncle Charlie, and dad was in the Navy. Uncle
Speaker 12: Chuck was in Okinawa, Gil was in the Air Force,
Speaker 12: Gary was in the Army, and you know, the family.
Speaker 12: I all love him because you know, as you probably know,
Speaker 12: I followed the tradition of music, you know, uh, playing music,
Speaker 12: and well you know, started the band Joe. Now I'm
Speaker 12: just since I retired, just having a lot of fun
Speaker 12: playing everywhere, you know, and that's a good thing. And
Speaker 12: I'm going to school taking some political science courses at
Speaker 12: Sinclair College.
Speaker 5: Oh great, how's that going? You like it?
Speaker 13: Good?
Speaker 12: Good, good good. Another thing I wanted to ask, you
Speaker 12: think the Bengals will win a couple bore games where
Speaker 12: Joe Burrow's been looking pretty good, hadn't he.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been looking really good. I just wish the
Speaker 5: defense and some of the other players would kind of
Speaker 5: step up to the plate. But you know, I didn't
Speaker 5: watch the game the other day. I forget what was
Speaker 5: I know, I was watching a lot of coverage just
Speaker 5: far as what was going on and kind of doing
Speaker 5: a victory lap as far as the news was concerned
Speaker 5: and so on, and so I didn't watch the game.
Speaker 5: But seeing the score and how it came down to
Speaker 5: the end there and they went for two instead of
Speaker 5: going for one, I applaud that decision because it appears
Speaker 5: as though the season is pretty much on the line,
Speaker 5: and so it shows a little bit of intestinal fortitude,
Speaker 5: if you will, on the part of the coach, which
Speaker 5: we haven't seen much of so far. But yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean the Bengals. I, you know, it's sad to see
Speaker 5: that they're they're they're wasting talent like Joe Burrow and
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase and some of these other people that are
Speaker 5: on the team that should be super Bowl content, should
Speaker 5: be on a super Bowl contending team, but are not
Speaker 5: surrounded by enough talent to get them there. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's interesting this.
Speaker 10: Morning, Dick.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. I certainly do. And you take care
Speaker 5: of yourself and enjoy what you're doing, okay, which sounds
Speaker 5: like you are coming up. We'll get into some other
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Speaker 5: Nine in the morning, Tell a song out to all
Speaker 5: my frenemies out there. I know a lot of you
Speaker 5: tune in that are liberals and probably don't like my
Speaker 5: opinion and this sort of stuff. It's but this is
Speaker 5: from Joan Jet. The song is I hate myself for
Speaker 5: loving you. So this is to all my friendemies out there.
Speaker 5: Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Bobby, Bobby
Speaker 5: fifty five k see. Thank you so much for calling
Speaker 5: in appreciate it. How are you this.
Speaker 15: Morning, my brother.
Speaker 16: It's a beautiful day. It certainly is. Okay, I'm so
Speaker 16: happy these progressive is a big kicked.
Speaker 2: To the curb.
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, absolutely yeah. I just it was. I you know,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be talking about this a little bit later on,
Speaker 5: but kind of give you a little bit of preview
Speaker 5: unless you got if you want to say something or whatever,
Speaker 5: because I can go on to a little diatribe here
Speaker 5: if you will.
Speaker 16: You go right here, Bob brother, good to hear you.
Speaker 5: I tell you. I go back to nineteen sixty four,
Speaker 5: when I was eleven years old. The first election returns
Speaker 5: that I watch. I watched with my mom during the
Speaker 5: gold Water year and we sat there watching the elect
Speaker 5: Course it was a short night because he got trouns.
Speaker 5: And every year, every presidential year since then, I have
Speaker 5: stayed up as late as I possibly could to watch
Speaker 5: all the results coming in. Whether I was going to
Speaker 5: school with a high school, college, professional career working, I
Speaker 5: would be sleep you know, being sleep deprived. I'd you know,
Speaker 5: do it. I'd you know, watch the election results as
Speaker 5: long as I could. Now some of them, you know,
Speaker 5: drifted on over into a couple of days and weeks.
Speaker 5: You remember the two thousand election with the Al Gore
Speaker 5: type of thing down there in Florida. But it's been
Speaker 5: kind of a tradition with me where I stay awake.
Speaker 5: And you know, I was excited in seventy two when
Speaker 5: I was able to vote for the first time with
Speaker 5: Richard Nixon running for office. And then I was even
Speaker 5: really excited about voting for Ronald Reagan and when he
Speaker 5: came in. I was excited about George W. Bush when
Speaker 5: he came in. I was over the moon excited when
Speaker 5: and of course I was disappointed with what Bush and
Speaker 5: Cheney wound up doing. But then in twenty twenty sixteen,
Speaker 5: I was extremely happy with the Trump But I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what, last Tuesday night, this well pun intended here
Speaker 5: trumped them all. I mean this, to me was one
Speaker 5: of the most exciting elections, one of the most encouraging
Speaker 5: and uplifting that I have ever seen in my life.
Speaker 5: And it is a testament to this man, his courage,
Speaker 5: his intestinal fortitude, and all he went through to get reelected.
Speaker 5: And for these liberals and these Democrats to say that,
Speaker 5: you know, he's not for the people, he's doing it
Speaker 5: only for himself. Are you freaking serious with all he's
Speaker 5: put through. They tried to impeach. They impeached him twice.
Speaker 5: They tried to throw him in jail, They tried to
Speaker 5: bankrupt him, they tried to keep him off the ballot
Speaker 5: in certain states, and they tried to kill him. And
Speaker 5: he still kept fighting and won the ultimate prize. And
Speaker 5: I you know, if he's if he's got an ego
Speaker 5: that big, that he's doing it just for himself, he
Speaker 5: needs to be committed, because nobody would go through that,
Speaker 5: anybody in their right mind.
Speaker 16: He's the tip of the spear of my brother. I've
Speaker 16: had so many people mentioned to me, oh, I'm so
Speaker 16: glad this election's over. That shows how naive they are.
Speaker 16: These progressive democratic Marxist individuals will not relinquish power.
Speaker 17: No.
Speaker 16: Then I tell everybody this, it's the beginning of the end,
Speaker 16: and it's the end of the beginning. Yeah, we got
Speaker 16: a whole future ahead of us.
Speaker 2: Donald J.
Speaker 16: Trump is the tip of the spear. He'll be gone eventually.
Speaker 16: You know, Biden's going to be gone. You know, old
Speaker 16: girl is going to be gone. The movement is going
Speaker 16: to go strong. And that's exactly where it's going to go.
Speaker 5: And when out of and when he looks in the
Speaker 5: camera and he says, the only reason they're coming after
Speaker 5: they're not coming after me, They're coming after you. I'm
Speaker 5: just in the way. That is no truer words have
Speaker 5: ever been spoken, Bobby. Thank you so much.
Speaker 16: Oh go ahead, I just wanted to tell you congrat
Speaker 16: though it won't take a second here, my friend, I
Speaker 16: just want to congratulate you on the election and thank
Speaker 16: you with my whole heart. You carry that torture freedom.
Speaker 16: I'm right every day, my brother.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. I appreciate the kind words. Uh okay
Speaker 5: when we had somebody to drop off some news on
Speaker 5: the line. But thank you very much for that phone call, Bobby.
Speaker 5: I certainly appreciate it. It just, you know, when you
Speaker 5: when you look at all he went through and what
Speaker 5: was going on during that election cycle and all the
Speaker 5: stuff that was talked about, it was just incredible. I'll
Speaker 5: tell you what, let me, I'm going to go to
Speaker 5: a Sean. Should I take this phone call or should I? Okay,
Speaker 5: let's go right to the phone call here. Let's talk
Speaker 5: to Tom Tom fifty five. Care see you're on their
Speaker 5: Thanks so much for calling.
Speaker 18: Hey, good morning, Kevin, Good morning. Yeah, I'm I'm feeling
Speaker 18: fairly fairly decent about last week's selection. But I am
Speaker 18: in no means in the mood despite the football, because
Speaker 18: as you probably have already pointed out, and you know,
Speaker 18: there is still a lot of idiots out there that
Speaker 18: can can do it, and we've been listening to it
Speaker 18: since the election was over, and all the excuses and
Speaker 18: then you know, even the craziness of hey Joe should
Speaker 18: step down so Kamala could be the first woman president
Speaker 18: and all this other garbage. So anybody out there just thinking,
Speaker 18: hey we can we can kick back and we got
Speaker 18: a nice decisive victory.
Speaker 19: No, there is no kicking back there.
Speaker 4: It is it is.
Speaker 18: It is game on. If nothing else, they're going to
Speaker 18: come at us even harder than they ever did. Oh
Speaker 18: with all of their crazy.
Speaker 5: Why absolutely absolutely yeah. And I want to say one
Speaker 5: thing here right off the bat, if I if I
Speaker 5: were in charge of Facebook, or if I were all
Speaker 5: like we've seen with Elon Musk with Twitter or X.
Speaker 5: The fact that all the opinions unless you know you're
Speaker 5: threatening somebody, you're threatening bodily harm, or you're you know,
Speaker 5: threatening to blow someplace up, like oh Madonna did back
Speaker 5: in twenty sixteen, yeah that doesn't count. But all voices.
Speaker 5: In fact, I always encouraged, you know, when people say, well,
Speaker 5: why do you let this guy on the air, or
Speaker 5: why do you talk to these people? I want to
Speaker 5: know what the left is. I want to know what
Speaker 5: the opposition is thinking. I want to know. And if
Speaker 5: I have the opportunity to broadcast that over the air
Speaker 5: here and point out the lunacy from some of these people,
Speaker 5: I am more than willing to do it, because you know,
Speaker 5: people kind of get consumed and they get kind of
Speaker 5: in their own echo chamber where they hear themselves and
Speaker 5: their friends talk and they don't realize how crazy. Because
Speaker 5: you know, we were content thinking that our teachers were
Speaker 5: being okay until we learned during COVID what the hell
Speaker 5: they've been indoctrinating our children with. We thought that the
Speaker 5: medical establishment had our best interest at heart until we
Speaker 5: saw what doctor Fauci did to us. We thought that
Speaker 5: our Food and Drug Administration was looking out after our food.
Speaker 5: But the next time you have some time and you
Speaker 5: want to spend a couple hours in the grocery store,
Speaker 5: look at the back of these the ingredients on things,
Speaker 5: and look for the artificial colors. Look for these dyes,
Speaker 5: look for you know, red dye this, red dye this,
Speaker 5: and look at how our processed food and and how
Speaker 5: bad it is. It's you know, we've trusted these institutions,
Speaker 5: and you know, Lincoln said, you hire the government to
Speaker 5: do for you collectively or what you can't do individually.
Speaker 5: And we've done that and we have been lied to
Speaker 5: and disappointed forever. And it's time to turn this ship around.
Speaker 18: Well, one of the things that contributed to that was
Speaker 18: our laziness and are just feeling content. You know some
Speaker 18: of us, you know, all of them, a lot of
Speaker 18: these people, a lot of us. We have we have lives,
Speaker 18: we have things to do, but I don't have time
Speaker 18: to pay attention to that. Well, you better pay attention
Speaker 18: exactly exactly, pay attention and stop being lazy and make
Speaker 18: sure you continue to talk to people and share all
Speaker 18: the stuff that you know, and don't let anybody just
Speaker 18: shut you down. I don't mean if we don't need
Speaker 18: to be rude or mean about it. We just need
Speaker 18: like we were been doing for the last few years. Hey,
Speaker 18: you know what they're saying. Look at what they're trying
Speaker 18: to do to us, Look at how they're trying to
Speaker 18: do this, and point it all out like you said,
Speaker 18: and make sure you tell everybody don't vote Democrat.
Speaker 5: Hey you too, Tom, Take care And oh, by the way,
Speaker 5: it's Kevin. It's okay. I've been called worst things. Coming up,
Speaker 5: I got a couple of thoughts that I want to
Speaker 5: add here before we get to the top of the
Speaker 5: are I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR.
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Speaker 5: a couple of things here before we get to the
Speaker 5: top of the hour. By the way, phone numbers five one, three,
Speaker 5: seven nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two
Speaker 5: three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two
Speaker 5: five five or pound five point fifty on that AT
Speaker 5: and T wireless phone, you know, finishing up a previous
Speaker 5: phone call, and I was Tom, and uh, you know,
Speaker 5: we need to be bold, we need to speak out.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you why because, as you may know,
Speaker 5: I've talked a couple of times where I live in
Speaker 5: a condo, and uh, in our side of the building,
Speaker 5: we have six condos. Of course, obviously I live in one.
Speaker 5: Other people live in five five of them. And two
Speaker 5: of the people in that building or on our side
Speaker 5: of the building are Democrats and very very very liberal Democrats. Okay,
Speaker 5: Now I make sure because I do a lot of
Speaker 5: work from home and uh so on. But I do
Speaker 5: know that my neighbors go out, and you know, my
Speaker 5: one neighbor goes to work around nine o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 5: and so on snowy days, I make sure that I
Speaker 5: shovel our sidewalk off to make sure and put the
Speaker 5: salt down because she is a bit handicapped and if
Speaker 5: they're not very steady on her feet, and I do
Speaker 5: a little pathway from the one side of the driveway
Speaker 5: all the way over to the other clean her car
Speaker 5: off and make sure that you know that the pathway
Speaker 5: is safe. Okay. I have another neighbor who lives across
Speaker 5: the hall from me, and she knows my political affiliations
Speaker 5: and so on. I'm not shy about it. But two
Speaker 5: cases in point, during the weekend before the election, my
Speaker 5: one neighbor, who I clean her car off, says to me.
Speaker 5: I walks by and says, I certainly hope you're not
Speaker 5: too disappointed when it comes on Tuesday, And I'm thinking,
Speaker 5: why any hell would you do that? Right now? Why
Speaker 5: would you go out of your way to kind of
Speaker 5: poke me or needle me because you think your candidate
Speaker 5: is going to in and you want to rub it
Speaker 5: in my face. I don't have time to get to
Speaker 5: the other story, but it basically boils down to where
Speaker 5: I was. Well, anyway, they are bold, they will get
Speaker 5: in your face. They will tell you where they stand,
Speaker 5: and do not be shy. Give it back to them, politely, definitively,
Speaker 5: and sternly, because we cannot sit by idly and take
Speaker 5: this crap anymore. Phone numbers top of the hour five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 5: Five minutes after six o'clock. And as you can tell,
Speaker 5: this is not Brian Thomas. Brian has the day off.
Speaker 5: As I posted on Facebook, this is kind of unofficial.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure that he wants me to tell everybody this,
Speaker 5: but Brian and I are switching roles today because since
Speaker 5: the beginning of the Hallmark Christmas Movies series and stuff,
Speaker 5: I have been binge watching Hallmark Christmas movies and in
Speaker 5: between election coverage and doing my show on america'struck A Network,
Speaker 5: and so on. So Brian decided on this day to
Speaker 5: take the day off so that he could get caught
Speaker 5: up with all the Hallmark movies, so that he could
Speaker 5: get into the holiday spirits. So anyway, talking about the
Speaker 5: show guests, if you went to my Facebook page, you'll
Speaker 5: see that we've got a line up today. Starting at
Speaker 5: seven oh five, we're gonna be talking to Ken Blackwell,
Speaker 5: former Mayor of Cincinnati, Xavier alumnus. I might add a
Speaker 5: fellow senior Fellow, Family Empowerment and Family Research Council, and
Speaker 5: so on, and we're gonna be talking about presidential politics,
Speaker 5: presidential election and Ohio politics. Seven twenty, we're gonna be
Speaker 5: talking to Christopher Smitherman during the smither event, and at
Speaker 5: eight o five we'll be talking Doing the Money Monday
Speaker 5: with Brian James. Now, today also is Veterans Day, and
Speaker 5: I want to give a shout out to all of
Speaker 5: our veterans who are out there. And I want to
Speaker 5: call attention to everybody out there. If you see a
Speaker 5: veteran today, if you know of a veteran, do us
Speaker 5: a little service, give them a call, thank them for
Speaker 5: their service to our country, find out how they're doing,
Speaker 5: and so on. If you see a veteran out, make
Speaker 5: sure you thank them for their service to the country,
Speaker 5: and that definitely always puts a smile on their face.
Speaker 5: Now the meaning of Veterans Day it was, and now
Speaker 5: this is celebrated and not celebrated, but honored on the
Speaker 5: eleventh month, the eleventh day, the eleventh hour. And I
Speaker 5: would encourage everybody at eleven o'clock am this morning, take
Speaker 5: about thirty seconds do a moment of silence for all
Speaker 5: of our veterans and recognize their accomplishments and what they
Speaker 5: have done for this free country that we live. In ceremony,
Speaker 5: there is a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Ceremony Commemories
Speaker 5: precise commences precisely at eleven am with a wreath laying
Speaker 5: at the tomb of the Unknowns. I think Biden and
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris are going to be there, and continues inside
Speaker 5: the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by veterans, organization,
Speaker 5: remarks by dignitaries, and of course there are different ceremonies
Speaker 5: going on around our areas, so if you might want
Speaker 5: to take a moment to check some of those out,
Speaker 5: Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, began on an occasion
Speaker 5: to reflect on the heroism those who died in our
Speaker 5: country service. It falls on November eleventh, the anniversary of
Speaker 5: the signing of the Armistice the end of World War One.
Speaker 5: In nineteen fifty four, the name of the holiday was
Speaker 5: changed from change from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in
Speaker 5: order to recognize veterans of all wars. We celebrate in
Speaker 5: honor Americans veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and
Speaker 5: willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. A
Speaker 5: Veterans Day is a time for us to pay our
Speaker 5: respects for those who have served. For one day we
Speaker 5: stand united in respect for you. As I would say,
Speaker 5: not only one day, but every day. A Veterans Day
Speaker 5: is a time to honor and thank all those who served,
Speaker 5: and so on again. You can pull up some things
Speaker 5: online to find out what's going on. Today is a
Speaker 5: federal holiday, bank holiday, and in most states a state holiday.
Speaker 5: Means federal employees, including military members, are typically given the
Speaker 5: day off, and the most states state workers are as well.
Speaker 5: So you might want to check if you've got any
Speaker 5: banking to do, make sure that they're open, and I
Speaker 5: just want to thank every one of the veterans out there.
Speaker 5: I know there's a lot to listen to this program,
Speaker 5: and I cannot thank you enough for your service to
Speaker 5: this country. I want to talk a little bit about
Speaker 5: election day. I had mentioned in the previous hour. By
Speaker 5: the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
Speaker 5: five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one
Speaker 5: eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound,
Speaker 5: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. The first
Speaker 5: time I ever stayed awake for election results was in
Speaker 5: nineteen sixty four. My mother was a always conservative, always
Speaker 5: let her political leanings be known at the dinner table
Speaker 5: and so on, so we knew our my parents were stus.
Speaker 5: But it was interesting that mom my mom actually for
Speaker 5: the first time had some campaign literature and went door
Speaker 5: to door on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Now, in terms
Speaker 5: of that, I've read some of the literature. I read
Speaker 5: some of the stuff about him and say, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: I agree with this guy has to say in his
Speaker 5: policies of low taxation, less government, less deficits and so on.
Speaker 5: If we enter into a war, we should make sure
Speaker 5: that we win. We shouldn't just go in just for
Speaker 5: the sake of going in, like we had been doing
Speaker 5: in Korea and so on. And so that was his stance,
Speaker 5: and of course the media painted him as an extremist.
Speaker 5: Does that sound familiar to you? And so I stayed
Speaker 5: awake to listen to the you know, because my mom
Speaker 5: was going to stay up and watch the election results.
Speaker 5: Of course, that night didn't go too long because he
Speaker 5: got absolutely trounced in a landslide victory. First election I
Speaker 5: could vote for was in well, going back to that
Speaker 5: Goldwater election, my first political debate actually was when I
Speaker 5: was eleven years old, about a month before the election.
Speaker 5: I was at a lunch counter in my city and
Speaker 5: it was I think it was on a Saturday, and
Speaker 5: I was over there having my favorite, my hamburger, hamburger
Speaker 5: and fries, and I was sitting there and a group
Speaker 5: of adults were talking about the upcoming election and started
Speaker 5: talking about how great Johnson was, and I, you know,
Speaker 5: I just you know, piped up. I said, have you
Speaker 5: looked at Goldwater's record? Have you looked at what he
Speaker 5: stood for? And all this? And they turned and kind
Speaker 5: of looked at me like, what the hell, who the
Speaker 5: hell are you? And so I actually got into a
Speaker 5: debate with them about how I thought a gold Goldwater
Speaker 5: presidency would be better than Johnson. And the people that
Speaker 5: ran the lunch counter were kind of piping in too,
Speaker 5: and they were kind of looking at me, kind of
Speaker 5: weird and stuff like that. So but fast forward about
Speaker 5: seven years later, we were at church, my mom and I.
Speaker 5: We were going to come leaving church on a Sunday,
Speaker 5: and they came across the church and actually came up
Speaker 5: to and wanted to talk to my mom and said,
Speaker 5: you know, I remember him when he was young, and
Speaker 5: he was debating us at the lunch counter, and I
Speaker 5: can't believe how right he was, and I wish we
Speaker 5: had listened to him. And so, you know, I had
Speaker 5: that election experience, and then every election thereafter I'd stay
Speaker 5: up as late as I could, sleep deprived and so on,
Speaker 5: I would listen to all the results. And of course
Speaker 5: there are certain times when those election results didn't come
Speaker 5: in by the morning, so I just got cleaned up,
Speaker 5: either went to school, went to you know, high school, college,
Speaker 5: and then on to work. There's something along those lines.
Speaker 5: And so I was. You know, I always knew that
Speaker 5: I was going to be sleep deprived that one day,
Speaker 5: just because of the fascination with the election returns, and
Speaker 5: so of course, you know in twenty in two thousand,
Speaker 5: the election results went on for days, so I did
Speaker 5: get some sleep there. But going back to I was
Speaker 5: excited in seventy two when I voted for Litt Nixon
Speaker 5: for the first time. I was excited in eight nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty the Reagan Revolution and what that brought. I was
Speaker 5: excited in two thousand when I thought Dick Cheney and
Speaker 5: George W. Bush were going to be very conservative and
Speaker 5: do certain things and change the course of this country,
Speaker 5: which I think was in looking back, was kind of
Speaker 5: somewhat of a disappointment, a major disappointment, and looking at
Speaker 5: how they've turned out since and the stuff that they
Speaker 5: have been saying really bothers me even further. I was
Speaker 5: very excited in twenty sixteen. I was very happy with
Speaker 5: the way those election results came out, and of course
Speaker 5: disappointed in twenty twenty. But I'll tell you of all
Speaker 5: the elections that I have been pushing for, all the
Speaker 5: elections that I have sat by and watch Tuesday night
Speaker 5: last Tuesday night was one of the best ever. I
Speaker 5: cannot I mean watching those election returns were I was
Speaker 5: sitting there with my wife. She was saying, I don't
Speaker 5: know if I can you know, because she was, you know,
Speaker 5: there was all this lot run up to the election
Speaker 5: of all these posters were changing at the last second, saying,
Speaker 5: you know that it looks like Kamala Harris is going
Speaker 5: to win. And she says, I don't know if I
Speaker 5: can sit here and watch this. I don't know if
Speaker 5: I can tolerate this. And so she sat down and
Speaker 5: we started looking at some of the election results. And
Speaker 5: of course, when they started putting up the initial election
Speaker 5: results in a state like Pennsylvania or whatever, you know,
Speaker 5: it starts off with one percent of the voter is
Speaker 5: in and all of those are mostly absentee ballots, which
Speaker 5: are mostly Democrats coming voting. And so the election results
Speaker 5: were sixty percent for Kamala Harris and twenty percent or
Speaker 5: thereabouts or thirty percent for a Trump. And she was going,
Speaker 5: oh my god, she goes is this and I said no, no, no,
Speaker 5: I said, just look at the thing and so on.
Speaker 5: And there were a couple of times during the night
Speaker 5: and I know on Fox News, they had this analysis
Speaker 5: where they said, well, here's the lineup, here's how these
Speaker 5: states are going to go. We pretty much know these
Speaker 5: states are going to go to Harris, and we know
Speaker 5: these states are going to go to a Trump. And
Speaker 5: they had the seven swing states and they started doing
Speaker 5: a combination, well, you know, Kamala Harris, if she wins
Speaker 5: this and this, and it's kind of leaning that way,
Speaker 5: she will become president. Now, on the other hand, there's
Speaker 5: some analysis and the Fox opinion poll and stuff that
Speaker 5: came out that day in terms of preference, what people
Speaker 5: were interested in, the economy, the border, and all these
Speaker 5: sort of things, and how that was trending. So they
Speaker 5: were starting to move some of the states into Trump's column,
Speaker 5: and by the time they were done, they were saying,
Speaker 5: he's got a very good chance of pulling off all
Speaker 5: these swing states, but he could lose a couple of them.
Speaker 5: They put them back and forth, and so as we're
Speaker 5: watching this develop I was watching these swing states. When
Speaker 5: the results for New Jersey came in, I was kind
Speaker 5: of disappointed because I thought he had a real shot
Speaker 5: of New Jersey when that didn't happen, And of course
Speaker 5: Virginia came in and that didn't happen. I thought he
Speaker 5: had a good shot there with Governor Younkin and so on.
Speaker 5: And then all of a sudden, some of the other
Speaker 5: states started falling in place and whatever. And then we
Speaker 5: started seeing Florida big time, and then Georgia and so on,
Speaker 5: and got a little bit more comfortable with it. By
Speaker 5: one forty one in the morning Wednesday morning, the election
Speaker 5: was called by Fox News, and so we watched Donald
Speaker 5: Trump give his acceptance speech and so on, and talk
Speaker 5: about it up there with his family and so on.
Speaker 5: And then about three o'clock my wife went to bed.
Speaker 5: She said, wow, this is great. I've got to get
Speaker 5: some sleep though, and so I, you know, make sure
Speaker 5: that she was okay, and I actually tucked her in
Speaker 5: and so on. But I went back out in the
Speaker 5: living room. I said, you know, I've just got to
Speaker 5: flip on CNN and I've got to flip on MSNBC
Speaker 5: just to see what they're talking about. Talk about that
Speaker 5: coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty
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Speaker 4: Ken.
Speaker 5: I'm going to get to you very shortly here. I
Speaker 5: hope you beg my. I want to beg your indulgence here.
Speaker 5: I want to kind of finish up this story. So anyway,
Speaker 5: I was my wife went to bed. At three o'clock,
Speaker 5: I went out and watched CNN. I was especially turned
Speaker 5: on MSNBC. Jensaki was the host of the show and
Speaker 5: had a panel of guests and so on, And it
Speaker 5: was interesting that she started talking about immediately when I
Speaker 5: flipped over. She was talking about Trump's speech and so on,
Speaker 5: and that how there were members up, there were people
Speaker 5: on that stage that had nothing to do with the campaign,
Speaker 5: and it was amazing that some of these people were there.
Speaker 5: And she decided Avanka Trump, who was there, she didn't
Speaker 5: have anything to do and she distanced herself from this campaign. Hey, hey, Jen,
Speaker 5: that's his daughter. Okay, of course she's going to be there.
Speaker 5: Are you that dumb? Now, as far as the election
Speaker 5: results itself, see I'm sorry MSNB and CNN. One forty
Speaker 5: one is when is when Fox News covered that were
Speaker 5: called the race. It wasn't until five forty five that
Speaker 5: MSNBC called that race finally, And up until the very
Speaker 5: last second, this guy was up on the board and
Speaker 5: he was going, well, you know, there's one hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty thousand votes down here, and I think Kamala will
Speaker 5: get about ninety of those. Trump's lead currently is one
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty thousand. And then we got about ten
Speaker 5: thousand over here, and we got and she goes, ah,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, wait a minute. When we got this
Speaker 5: called and all this sort of stuff, and it was
Speaker 5: like the balloon of the air went out of their balloon,
Speaker 5: and she began to go into this diatribe. I don't
Speaker 5: know if you've seen it. At this point, she goes,
Speaker 5: we have elected a person refused to concede inside of
Speaker 5: a violent insurrection campaign while facing criminal indictments to and
Speaker 5: for overturning the two thousand election results, ran as a
Speaker 5: convicted felon and just on on down the road. And
Speaker 5: it's like you know there is going to be no
Speaker 5: compromise with these people. It is going to be bit
Speaker 5: to the bitter end. They're gonna fight. They're gonna fight,
Speaker 5: They're gonna fight, and they're gonna do everything they can
Speaker 5: to be an impediment to this president. And then, of
Speaker 5: course I did my you know, I stayed up until then,
Speaker 5: and so then I got about a couple of hours
Speaker 5: of sleep. I went to sleep about seven o'clock and
Speaker 5: made sure I set the alarm to get up at
Speaker 5: eleven o'clock so I could watch the view. Actually, I
Speaker 5: stayed awake. I didn't go to bed till seven because
Speaker 5: I had to watch Morning Joe. Is that fun to watch?
Speaker 5: And then of course I had to watch the view,
Speaker 5: and so at eleven o'clock and to see the meltdown,
Speaker 5: to see what was going on there. It was worth
Speaker 5: the price of admission, let me tell you it just
Speaker 5: it did nothing but to make my night even better.
Speaker 5: And it was an amazing night and I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: So let's get to the phones real quick. Let's talk
Speaker 5: to Ken. Ken fifty five k R. See you're on
Speaker 5: the air. Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 17: All right, Kelyn, thanks a lot and I want, first
Speaker 17: of all, I want to thank all the veterans out
Speaker 17: there and thank them for our service, for their service,
Speaker 17: and also to the youngest one I know, and that
Speaker 17: is the son of Christopher Smith, and he serves our country.
Speaker 5: So definitely, isn't he.
Speaker 20: No, he finished, he did, I'm not miss well, I
Speaker 20: will ask so definitely and always great hearing you and.
Speaker 5: Always great hear in your voice. I want to tell
Speaker 5: you I'm very happy you called, sir.
Speaker 20: And the thing is with the election results. You know,
Speaker 20: the Democrats are always talking about, uh, you know, we
Speaker 20: need to save our democracy, and but now they're just
Speaker 20: being very obstructive. And you know, we we had a
Speaker 20: democratic election. You know, people overwhelmingly voted for Trumpet, and
Speaker 20: they should just you know, accept the results.
Speaker 2: And move on.
Speaker 20: But I really we call the twenty sixteen protests of
Speaker 20: the women with the hats in the streets and falling
Speaker 20: out and yelling and screaming, so I probably wouldn't be
Speaker 20: surprised if they're trunk going to try to get that
Speaker 20: stuff kind of ramp back up. But the thing that
Speaker 20: really disturbed me the most I heard the governor of
Speaker 20: Illinois and he was saying Hey, Trump, if you come
Speaker 20: after my people, you're coming after me. I'm like, where
Speaker 20: is all that coming from. So I'm just putting a
Speaker 20: call out there. You know, they need you know, it
Speaker 20: just needs to stop. We're one nation and one nation
Speaker 20: under God, and we should be indivisible. And so I'm
Speaker 20: just putting a call out there, and I just want
Speaker 20: to thank everyone out there. And I do honestly believe
Speaker 20: in a spiritual solution to our material problem. And second
Speaker 20: Chronicles seven fourteen says if we do what God wants
Speaker 20: us to do, he will heal our land. And I
Speaker 20: just want to pass on love and healing to everyone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, God bless and I want to finish with also
Speaker 5: this thought is that if nothing else, I mean, one
Speaker 5: of the things that was proven by this, and I
Speaker 5: just amazed that we finally found out. I mean, I've
Speaker 5: known this for a number of years and I've called
Speaker 5: it out. We see that. Oh and I'm going to
Speaker 5: start calling her oprah win Fee because she got a
Speaker 5: million dollars for endorsing Kamala Harris and all the money
Speaker 5: that was sent out to pay these entertainers to endorse
Speaker 5: and to do a song or two of these concerts
Speaker 5: which I find horrendous. And the fact that they raised
Speaker 5: over a billion dollars for this election campaign and they
Speaker 5: are twenty million dollars in debt. And as I said,
Speaker 5: Oprah win Fee has been proven to be a fraud,
Speaker 5: and so has Barack Obama when he started going after
Speaker 5: the Brothers as he called them, and started talking talking
Speaker 5: the whole line that you know, if you know, you
Speaker 5: ain't black, and all that sort of stuff, and then
Speaker 5: he got on the stage and started all the conspiracy
Speaker 5: hoaks that have all been disproven. When he repeated those
Speaker 5: in front of the audience in the final day of
Speaker 5: the election, he proved himself to be a liar and
Speaker 5: a fraud that we all all knew that he was.
Speaker 5: Ken Thanks so much for the phone call. I see
Speaker 5: that dropped off, But coming up, we'll be talking to Gary.
Speaker 5: Coming up, but we've got to take a quick break
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Speaker 5: Six thirty one in the morning, eight Kevin Mordon in
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Speaker 5: had a little point of order to day for those
Speaker 5: of you that may be sending out Veterans Day greetings
Speaker 5: to folks and so on. Make sure that you don't
Speaker 5: do with some of our people in the spoon feder
Speaker 5: regurgitators in the mainstream media do when they put out
Speaker 5: these notifications. It is Veterans plural day, not veterans apostrophe s.
Speaker 5: Veterans Day, not possessive. It is Veterans plural day. So
Speaker 5: just you know, a little point of order there, because I,
Speaker 5: you know, it's what I do. Going to the phones,
Speaker 5: let's talk to Gary, Gary fifty five k see, thank
Speaker 5: you so much for calling. I appreciate it.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Kevin. I've got an interesting map for you
Speaker 13: that's going around on TikTok. It shows Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Speaker 13: New York, West Virginia, Maryland, and all the West coast California, Oregon,
Speaker 13: and Washington, as well as Illinois. They all have something
Speaker 13: in common. Besides, they were all voted bloom for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 13: All these states either have no voter ID required or
Speaker 13: no photo ID required. Interesting, You've got to go to
Speaker 13: X and pull this up. Every single one of them
Speaker 13: flipped for every single state that does not require photo
Speaker 13: ID or an ID to vote, all went blue. Yeah,
Speaker 13: every single one.
Speaker 5: I am. I you know, I support and love our constitution,
Speaker 5: and according to the Constitution, the states determine and decide
Speaker 5: how their elections are going to be conducted. But quite honestly,
Speaker 5: I think there ought to be somewhat of an exception
Speaker 5: to that. I wonder if there could be a national
Speaker 5: law passed that says that there needs to be a
Speaker 5: voter ID in. You know, you can have as many electors,
Speaker 5: you know, election facilities, precincts, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5: The legislators can do all whatever they're supposed to do
Speaker 5: according to the Constitution, but I think insisting on a
Speaker 5: voter ID and the fact that somebody proves their citizenship
Speaker 5: in order to be elected is necessary. I'm trying to
Speaker 5: get to the bottom of this of getting this stuff
Speaker 5: in bits and pieces. But I know of an individual
Speaker 5: who isn't I guess you would call them a low
Speaker 5: propensity voter or a low turnout doesn't vote that very often,
Speaker 5: but is a registered voter and went to vote on
Speaker 5: Tuesday and was told that he had already voted and
Speaker 5: that they he said, well, I haven't voted. I didn't,
Speaker 5: you know, ask for any ballot or whatever. And part
Speaker 5: of the discussion that I got and I don't know. Again,
Speaker 5: this is what it was told, was that they told
Speaker 5: him that somebody has been voting for him in his
Speaker 5: name for the last nine years. And I wonder how
Speaker 5: many and more of those are out there. I mean,
Speaker 5: if in my little circle of the world that I
Speaker 5: can that I know of at least one person that
Speaker 5: has happened to I'm sure there's a lot of people
Speaker 5: out there. And that's one of the reasons that I
Speaker 5: stringently oppose this whole business of early voting. You know,
Speaker 5: maybe in the last couple now, in the state of
Speaker 5: Kentucky where I live, open voting for people that didn't
Speaker 5: have absentee or excuse that they were going to be
Speaker 5: out of the city or whatever, we weren't allowed to
Speaker 5: do any early voting until Thursday. So we did Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 5: and Saturday. I think that's plenty of time. If you
Speaker 5: can't get off your butt and go to vote, you
Speaker 5: don't deserve to have your vote counted. I'm sorry, but
Speaker 5: this business of having these elections open for weeks on end,
Speaker 5: that kind of gives the other side, to a certain extent,
Speaker 5: or anybody a chance to say, well, these people haven't voted.
Speaker 5: These people haven't voted, maybe we should vote for them
Speaker 5: type of thing, and I just too much, too much.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 13: Actually to be follow o'keith on Twitter. There's a thing
Speaker 13: called smurfing and they're finding out people who have donated
Speaker 13: to pack blue Yeah, like one hundred bullets in that
Speaker 13: they've been finding out that a lot of people have
Speaker 13: unknowingly in their name, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 13: This is how the Democrat Party raids a billion dollars.
Speaker 5: Amazing a matter of three months, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 10: Height you guys have a nak you.
Speaker 5: Do the same. Thank you so much for the phone
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Speaker 5: Kevin Gordon in. By the way, Dennis, you will be
Speaker 5: up right right now shortly. I'm Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 5: Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Dennis. Dennis
Speaker 5: Fitch your five KR. See you're on the air. Thank
Speaker 5: you so much for calling.
Speaker 19: Hey, good morning, Kevin. Happy Veterans Day to you.
Speaker 5: Thank you same to you. Did you have the honor
Speaker 5: of serving? I did not.
Speaker 19: No, I did not, And I have some good friends
Speaker 19: and good neighbors who did. And I want to carry
Speaker 19: on my point about that that I'm the ones I
Speaker 19: know are all conservative, So I'm sure they're very happy
Speaker 19: about the most recent election. And I hope that this
Speaker 19: does a lot to encourage more people to sign up.
Speaker 19: You know, a foreign policy is a mess right now.
Speaker 19: And I knew people who were serving under Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 19: and I got to vote for Reagan and eighty and
Speaker 19: they did two and let's just say that morale went up.
Speaker 19: You know, if we saw after that, you know, asconder
Speaker 19: foreign policy, evil people in the military. And obviously Reagan
Speaker 19: did a great job, and Trump has long coattails. And
Speaker 19: I think the same thing's going to happen.
Speaker 5: There absolutely, and I think I think parents will be
Speaker 5: a little bit more encouraging of their children that decide
Speaker 5: to go into the military because I think they believed
Speaker 5: or will know that Donald Trump isn't going to send
Speaker 5: their kids off to war for no reason at all
Speaker 5: when we saw this military industrial complex and these endless
Speaker 5: wars that we had had, and of course with the
Speaker 5: woke military, I'm not sure a lot of people and
Speaker 5: that's why probably recruitment has been down. And I would
Speaker 5: think that that might turn up because there are an
Speaker 5: awful lot of people that I know that volunteered and
Speaker 5: that served, and they said it was one of the
Speaker 5: best things they the best decsion they ever made, turned
Speaker 5: their life around in certain instance, gave them a certain
Speaker 5: amount of discipline, and taught them some skills, and gave
Speaker 5: them the ability to use the GI Bill to pay
Speaker 5: for their college. And so yes, I think a lot
Speaker 5: of people and a lot of parents will be more
Speaker 5: willing to have their children and lists that will have
Speaker 5: that patriotic calling.
Speaker 19: Well, Kevin, if I could just segue to one more
Speaker 19: thing real fast. I've talked to you once before on
Speaker 19: the phone. I usually talk about education, immigration. I'll tie
Speaker 19: the two in very quickly here. I think that the
Speaker 19: Latino vote and the young people vote in the last
Speaker 19: election was very encouraging that this is going to be
Speaker 19: kind of like what we saw after Reagan's victory in
Speaker 19: nineteen eighty that more young people and the older Democrats
Speaker 19: figured out that the country was heading in the right direction.
Speaker 19: And you know, this is going to carry on. And
Speaker 19: I've known this for many decades. We're dealing with Latinos
Speaker 19: that they become increasingly conservative or Republican as they spend
Speaker 19: more time in this country. And the people that I
Speaker 19: know who were granted mnesty back in eighty six and
Speaker 19: eighty seven are conservative, okay. And on my street one
Speaker 19: of my Mexican neighbors has an American flag, you know,
Speaker 19: he has Mexican you know, decal on his car an
Speaker 19: American flag symbol as well. Ones I know are very patriotic.
Speaker 19: And we should be doing more in education to teach
Speaker 19: American history and dispel Democrat and myths. You and I
Speaker 19: talked once about the myth of the Southern strategy. Well,
Speaker 19: they'd like to say that Reagan created deficits by tax cuts,
Speaker 19: and that's not true. He also had it was military spending,
Speaker 19: which was hugely important then. And that if we can
Speaker 19: dispel the myth of the insurrection and some of the
Speaker 19: other things these people are promoting, and get them to
Speaker 19: simply stop hating Republicans, that some of these Democrats might
Speaker 19: become like the older Democrats who reflected and said, you know, like, hey,
Speaker 19: you know, this is a better way to go, because
Speaker 19: they're buying a lot of nonsense.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 19: It has to start in school, though, we have to
Speaker 19: just you can teach both sides. You can teach critical
Speaker 19: race theory as long as upset it with like, you know,
Speaker 19: this is a friends ideology coming from some sociology departments,
Speaker 19: but you know, mainstream sociology and political science says that, no,
Speaker 19: this has not been the basis of the history of
Speaker 19: the United States institutional discrimination exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that that has been sold to a lot
Speaker 5: of people and they actually believe that, which is sad.
Speaker 5: But Dennis, thanks so much for the phone call. I
Speaker 5: really appreciate it. Thanks so much for the kind words.
Speaker 5: Coming up, we'll have Mike coming up. But phone numbers,
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Speaker 5: Next forty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
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Speaker 5: go to the phones and talk to Mike. Mike fitty
Speaker 5: five hare see you're on the air. Thanks so much
Speaker 5: for calling.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Kevin, and I want to wish all my
Speaker 1: fellow veterans a happy Veterans Day. I served in the
Speaker 1: US maybe Submarine Service, and I'm here to say I
Speaker 1: have the utmost confidence in our next Secretary of Defense
Speaker 1: and the Trump administration to use a submarine term will
Speaker 1: torpedo the current woke agenda that permeates across all branches
Speaker 1: of our military getting core values.
Speaker 5: And Mike, thank you so much for your service to
Speaker 5: the country. I certainly appreciate it. I wish I'd had
Speaker 5: the honor of serving, but I did not, and so
Speaker 5: I appreciate your business.
Speaker 1: It was indeed an honor and memories memories that all
Speaker 1: lands forever. I enlisted in the Submarine Service in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five, right out of Elder high school and I've
Speaker 1: served for twenty nine years, so between being the post
Speaker 1: Vietnam era and the Jimmy Carter administration, the market difference
Speaker 1: between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty eight were off the chart.
Speaker 1: Recruitment re enlistments during the Reagan era was was hoping.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping is what we're going to see here coming
Speaker 1: up here in about three months, that when new people
Speaker 1: are put in.
Speaker 5: That would be that would be fantastic. I would love
Speaker 5: to see that happen. And of course, when you have
Speaker 5: an administration that proved in the previous four years when
Speaker 5: they were in that didn't involve in foreign wars and
Speaker 5: have kind of sent that. I've been seeing some very
Speaker 5: encouraging things. I mean, he's sent out a tweet or
Speaker 5: something and informed that, you know, those hostages that Hamas
Speaker 5: is holding better be back before I take office. He's
Speaker 5: already a shot across the bow of Putin that do
Speaker 5: not escalate this war. And I'm very encouraged by what
Speaker 5: I'm seeing there. I Mean, we saw how few missiles
Speaker 5: were fired during North by North Korea during the last
Speaker 5: few months in the last year of the Trump administration,
Speaker 5: versus the number that have been tested. Now it's it's
Speaker 5: you know, I think it. You know, it's going to
Speaker 5: be an interesting era in world tranquility, if you will,
Speaker 5: world peace, yes, sir, and what we were being experienced.
Speaker 5: I saw somebody online, a friend of mine who's in
Speaker 5: the commodities business and very into oil and gas. He
Speaker 5: talks about the peace dividend that we're going to be seeing,
Speaker 5: and I certainly hope, so good.
Speaker 1: Ope, And if I may, real quick, guys, I got
Speaker 1: a real short poem here that I think sums up
Speaker 1: what today is all about. It is the veteran, not
Speaker 1: the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
Speaker 1: It is the veteran, not the campus organizer that has
Speaker 1: given us freedom of speech. It is the veteran, not
Speaker 1: the politicians, that ensure our right to life, liberty, and
Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness. And it is the veteran who
Speaker 1: salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and who's
Speaker 1: cough and his drape with that flag. God bless America.
Speaker 5: Amen to that, Mikey, Thank you so much. That was
Speaker 5: a great poem. Appreciate it. Coming up. Well, we're getting
Speaker 5: in to the top of the hour. We're going to
Speaker 5: be talking to Ken Blackwell, but I don't think I'm
Speaker 5: late for a break here. I've been. I'm distracted here,
Speaker 5: I didn't pay attention. I haven't missed a break here,
Speaker 5: have I Okay, I'm good. Okay, So we can take
Speaker 5: this to the normal top of the hour. But this
Speaker 5: Veterans Day, I just want to make sure that everybody,
Speaker 5: you know, make sure that you honor a veteran take
Speaker 5: that time at eleven, eleven eleven or eleven o'clock this
Speaker 5: morning to take that thirty seconds or so and just
Speaker 5: kind of say a prayer or whatever, at least a
Speaker 5: moment of silence for our veterans out there, you know,
Speaker 5: Veterans Day, the eleventh month, the eleventh hour, the eleventh day,
Speaker 5: and so on. It is one of those things that
Speaker 5: is just again, as I said, I wish I hadn't
Speaker 5: had the honor of serving one of these days. I'll
Speaker 5: talk about that. I actually got a draft notice, but
Speaker 5: for some reason there was a postponed it for six months,
Speaker 5: and by that time they stopped taking people, so unfortunately
Speaker 5: I did not get called up. And so it was
Speaker 5: when I look back on that, to a certain extent,
Speaker 5: I wish I had gone and served. But anyway, but
Speaker 5: this election has been extremely gratifying to me and looking
Speaker 5: at all the stuff that has happened, you know, you
Speaker 5: have a situation where it's very few times where you
Speaker 5: have in the history of this country. There's only been
Speaker 5: one other time when somebody other than FDR but somebody
Speaker 5: that ran for office three times, and you have to
Speaker 5: go back one hundred years to Grover Cleveland, over one
Speaker 5: hundred years to get to that. But what is fascinating
Speaker 5: by this is that Donald Trump not only got the
Speaker 5: number I mean one in twenty sixteen, got twelve million
Speaker 5: more votes than he did in twenty twenty and got
Speaker 5: up to almost a million more seven hundred thousand votes
Speaker 5: I think or whatever, more than what he got in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty. That is unheard of. Barack Obama. I've got
Speaker 5: sixty nine million votes, and the second time he ran,
Speaker 5: he lost for I mean four million less people voted
Speaker 5: for him. So it is amazing to me that we
Speaker 5: have never seen a movement like this. We have never
Speaker 5: seen a politician like this, and we have never seen,
Speaker 5: as I said, a movement like this, And it's incredible
Speaker 5: and I'm very encouraged by what we can possibly see
Speaker 5: coming up. We've got Ken Blackwell at the top of
Speaker 5: the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty
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Speaker 2: Look what it happened.
Speaker 21: This is the greatest political comeback of all time.
Speaker 2: This has ever been two, three.
Speaker 15: Four times today fifty five krs the Talk station, this report.
Speaker 5: Five minutes after seven o'clock. I want to welcome the
Speaker 5: program right off the bat. Here a person I've been
Speaker 5: wanting to talk to for a number of years, and
Speaker 5: I am honored to be able to speak to him. Finally, Ken,
Speaker 5: I'm Blackwell, stand out three year letterman and lineman for
Speaker 5: my alma mater, Xavier, who was on the football team
Speaker 5: before I arrived there in seventy one, so we have
Speaker 5: that in common. He is former Mayor of Cincinnati, Senior
Speaker 5: Fellow of Family Empowerment, the Family Research Council, currently Vice
Speaker 5: President Executive Community the Council for National Policy, and as
Speaker 5: a member of the Council of Foret Relations. Thank you
Speaker 5: so much for being with us this morning. Can I
Speaker 5: certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Kevin.
Speaker 10: Good to hear your voice.
Speaker 5: Thank you, I appreciate it. Glad to talk to you.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I am gushing this morning being able
Speaker 5: to talk to you. You know, I can't help myself.
Speaker 10: One fall awful one.
Speaker 5: There you go. We won't launch into the fight song
Speaker 5: here together.
Speaker 10: All right, brother.
Speaker 2: So we had a little bit of an election in America.
Speaker 10: Kevin, it is morning, and it is morning in America. Absolutely,
Speaker 10: men do tremendous election in twenty twenty four. And let's
Speaker 10: just dive into some of the questions you may have
Speaker 10: about at least my observations of what happened and why
Speaker 10: those things happened.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, are you there? Yeah, Okay, go right ahead, as
Speaker 5: just buy it.
Speaker 10: Look. Look, one of the things after twenty twenty that
Speaker 10: I understood, just from a decade of being involved in
Speaker 10: not only national and state elections, but being involved in
Speaker 10: elections across the globe is that the left in national
Speaker 10: elections had a strategy of running campaigns to make sure
Speaker 10: that their votes fell within what I called the margin
Speaker 10: of litigation, and then the Democrats had a superior litigation
Speaker 10: strategy and they would pick off those closely contested elections. Uh.
Speaker 10: This time around, we in fact had a counter strategy,
Speaker 10: and that was to make the turnout and the margin
Speaker 10: of victory UH two too big to rig UH. And
Speaker 10: that was coupled with something that we've been working on
Speaker 10: UH for for at least four years, and that is
Speaker 10: to make sure that state by state, county back county,
Speaker 10: we made it easy to vote but hard to cheat.
Speaker 10: And when you begin to look at that, we we
Speaker 10: we think that election administration, transparency UH and a tremendous
Speaker 10: turnout efforts across the country gave Trump a victory from
Speaker 10: a From from a veteran standpoint, I started to see
Speaker 10: a substantial siege change in voter perception and state in
Speaker 10: the November election actually took place when a guy massacreading
Speaker 10: as a woman in the Olympics hit a woman so
Speaker 10: hard that she in fact said enough is enough. All
Speaker 10: of a sudden, you know, Americans across the country started
Speaker 10: to push back against the hard left transgender advocacy men
Speaker 10: and women's sports men and women's locker rooms, and all
Speaker 10: of a sudden, I saw the intensity of the of
Speaker 10: the get out the vote effort start to formulate. And
Speaker 10: so look, I think one, if you go back and
Speaker 10: take a look that Trump got about seven million, six
Speaker 10: hundred and fifty thousand votes this time around, which was
Speaker 10: about almost a half a million more votes than he
Speaker 10: got in twenty twenty, and his twenty twenty take was
Speaker 10: a miraculous twelve million more votes than he got in
Speaker 10: twenty sixteen. And so from the campaign standpoint, identifying their voters,
Speaker 10: talking to them and then tying them into the intensity
Speaker 10: of voter reaction to the radical lifts agenda gave him
Speaker 10: a substantial victory in twenty twenty four where he is
Speaker 10: right now at three hundred and twelve Electorial College votes,
Speaker 10: and that was the result of the most miraculous return
Speaker 10: I think in modern one.
Speaker 5: Of the absolutely best run campaigns ever. And yes, you
Speaker 5: are absolutely correct, Ken Blackwell, the miraculous fact that he
Speaker 5: was able to get as many vote since he did
Speaker 5: survive everything that he survived just to get to this point.
Speaker 5: And you made a very good point that you know,
Speaker 5: and it kind of was low. I thought it was
Speaker 5: lost on a lot of people, but as you mentioned it,
Speaker 5: that punch of that Olympic athlete by a man, it
Speaker 5: was a wake up call for a lot of people,
Speaker 5: and I think it kind of served up on a
Speaker 5: silver platter to everybody what we had been hearing, what
Speaker 5: we had been seeing, and what we had been hearing about,
Speaker 5: but it was there in front of us, as opposed to, oh,
Speaker 5: it's just a story somewhere back on page fifteen or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And then and people were aware of the results of
Speaker 10: illegal aliens coming across our border in waste of millions.
Speaker 10: And as a consequence, what the radical left tried to
Speaker 10: get folks to believe was that there was no connection
Speaker 10: with these open borders and spiking crime in our cities
Speaker 10: and in our even in our suburban and rural areas
Speaker 10: as a consequence of illegal aliens flooding our country borders.
Speaker 10: And I'll tell you what happened again is that people
Speaker 10: started to say uh, particularly when it was in the
Speaker 10: waning uh moments of the campaign the federal government had
Speaker 10: to admit that they had short changed the spiking crime
Speaker 10: in our cities. Well, we didn't really need them to
Speaker 10: give us honest elections. People were I mean honest numbers.
Speaker 10: People were experiencing that in their in their in their homes,
Speaker 10: in their neighborhoods, in their cities.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 10: And as a consequence, that too, uh intensified the turnout.
Speaker 10: But I will give I will give a Trump campaign credit.
Speaker 10: They targeted they did a lot of targeted marketing. They
Speaker 10: actually understood where their voters were. He, in fact, through
Speaker 10: his personal leadership, inspired folks to turn out. I'll watch
Speaker 10: what happened in those devastated communities in North Carolina. People
Speaker 10: pushed through that devastation and had major, significant turnout to
Speaker 10: punch their ticket for Trump.
Speaker 5: Exactly the amount of intensity when you saw the crowds,
Speaker 5: the lines, the people that were just euphoric about getting
Speaker 5: to the polls and voting. And you know, it's amazing
Speaker 5: that the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media as
Speaker 5: I call them, because they are basically a propaganda arm
Speaker 5: and or spoon fed the information from the Democratic Party,
Speaker 5: and then they regurgitated to us the fact that they
Speaker 5: we're gaslighting us and trying to tell everybody that, you know,
Speaker 5: everything's fine, the economy is great, this type of thing.
Speaker 5: And yet people are sitting there and they're saying, well,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, my paycheck isn't as long as the month,
Speaker 5: and something's wrong, and prices are a lot higher, and
Speaker 5: I'm not you know, I'm not having as good a
Speaker 5: quality of life. And I think all those things coupled
Speaker 5: together the crime, as you mentioned the immigration was just incredible.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm kevin out, just tell you, and I don't
Speaker 10: want to close out without saying this, Ohio was the
Speaker 10: heart of it all. Again, Alex and his team at
Speaker 10: the state level the do check again, We in fact
Speaker 10: beat back the radical left attempt to change the way
Speaker 10: district lads are drawing. We were outspent six to one.
Speaker 10: We got it done. A Trump got what his margin
Speaker 10: to victory was eleven and that and he had Cotaales
Speaker 10: and they have Bernie Win that sentence seat. And I
Speaker 10: tell you know, Ohio level of organization is a model
Speaker 10: for other states across the nation.
Speaker 5: I know we got to let you go. We only
Speaker 5: have you till seven fifteen, But can we squeeze in
Speaker 5: one quick question about the replacement for jd Vance and
Speaker 5: what Dwine might do. I've been hearing a lot of
Speaker 5: rumors and so on. Do you have a.
Speaker 10: I don't want to put the kiss a diff on anybody?
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, oh you diplomat, there you go, There
Speaker 5: we go. Ken, I know you got to go. I
Speaker 5: really appreciate this opportunity to talk to you, and I
Speaker 5: really want to contact you. I think if you don't mind.
Speaker 5: I can get your contact information from that. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: to have you on again. Thank you so much for
Speaker 5: all you've done and all you do and go Muskies,
Speaker 5: all right, take care. Thank you so much. Ken Blackwell,
Speaker 5: I'm telling you what you know. You have certain people
Speaker 5: that you really want to meet, and certain people that
Speaker 5: you've kind of brushed up against or been introduced to,
Speaker 5: and some people that you really want to interview on air.
Speaker 5: And up to this point today I hadn't been able
Speaker 5: to do that. I was so glad when they asked
Speaker 5: me to fill in and they said, oh, well, you
Speaker 5: got some guests, and when his name came up, I
Speaker 5: was just so I was over the top excited to
Speaker 5: talk to him. And I hope you have him on
Speaker 5: again and sometime soon. We're got to get to Chris
Speaker 5: Smitherman here coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 5: Seven in the morning. Welcome to the program. One of
Speaker 5: my new found friends, Christopher Smitherman. Welcome back to the program.
Speaker 5: Let's getting to be a routine with us on Monday mornings.
Speaker 4: Here. Hey, Kevin, I'm glad to be with you, and
Speaker 4: what a beautiful morning, I tell you.
Speaker 2: You know, this has been a this has been.
Speaker 4: The most interesting election cycle of my lifetime. Oh Iah,
Speaker 4: to tell you, and I have so many observations, many
Speaker 4: that you've made and others have made. But let me
Speaker 4: start off by saying.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Before before we get going, I want to
Speaker 5: mention your son is still currently serving.
Speaker 4: Correct he he he did four years? Okay, and yes
Speaker 4: he did, and then he just got out about oh
Speaker 4: he did go okay, and then and then rejoined the
Speaker 4: Air National Gold cool another three year commitment. So yes, make.
Speaker 5: Sure, on the part for me, wash him a happy
Speaker 5: veteran's day. On my part, I certainly appreciate his service.
Speaker 2: So I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You you're saying that, Let me start off by saying,
Speaker 4: I've been watching you know, all different types of news,
Speaker 4: you know, mainstream media, and you know they're really having
Speaker 4: a miltdown over the over the weekend regarding the results.
Speaker 4: And what I what I really wanted to say, kind
Speaker 4: of in a nutshell, is it seems like they still
Speaker 4: don't understand what happened. They're still in denial and what
Speaker 4: I'll say about that is that this election was all
Speaker 4: about the economy. It was all about people surviving, trying
Speaker 4: to pay their rent, trying to pay food, trying to
Speaker 4: buy gas, trying to send their kids to school, whether
Speaker 4: that's high school or trying to send their kids to college.
Speaker 4: It was all pocketbook issues. And it just seemed like
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party, Kevin like they just totally missed it.
Speaker 4: And they were there talking about issues like abortion, or
Speaker 4: they were talking about issues like transgender people swimming and
Speaker 4: competing against against girls in sports, whatever the issue was. Now,
Speaker 4: these issues were important. They you know, might might have
Speaker 4: been in the top five, might have been in the
Speaker 4: top ten, but people were talking about the border, they
Speaker 4: were talking about the economy before any of those things.
Speaker 4: And so I think that's where they missed it. And
Speaker 4: when you look at the map, you know, it's very
Speaker 4: rare to see if presidential candidate do that well, meaning
Speaker 4: just for sure, just the entire map is read except
Speaker 4: about four or five states, and on top of it,
Speaker 4: when the popular vote and the electoral vote, and it
Speaker 4: looks like has wrong the Senate and most likely will
Speaker 4: win the House at two eighteen. So this is like
Speaker 4: a clean sweep. And what's interesting is when you listen
Speaker 4: to some of the mainstream media, Kevin, they're blame the voter,
Speaker 4: like they're blaming the public. I don't understand it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like you are your company and you sell
Speaker 5: a product that nobody wants, and you're blaming them because
Speaker 5: they're not smart enough to buy your product, rather than
Speaker 5: looking at it and saying, well, let me see, we've
Speaker 5: had this number of recalls, We've had this number of
Speaker 5: things failing, We've had a food item that doesn't taste good.
Speaker 5: But you know, it's the people's fault for not buying
Speaker 5: into our advertising. Christopher Smitherman and I, you know, I
Speaker 5: think the immigration and the whole economy we're you know,
Speaker 5: the top two items. And when you're talking about the
Speaker 5: stressing of abortion and you're talking about you know, I
Speaker 5: think the abortion issue, even what they were talking about
Speaker 5: was extreme, even for people that consider themselves pro choice.
Speaker 5: They were looking at the immigration policy and the open
Speaker 5: borders and the fact that you know, here's somebody that's saying,
Speaker 5: you know, whatever your problems are, whatever's going on, we're
Speaker 5: going to turn the page. We'll turn the page from
Speaker 5: what you've been there for four years and we're going
Speaker 5: to do something different. We're going to Well, you're the
Speaker 5: one that fixed it. Are you really serious about that,
Speaker 5: You're the one that's going to you broke it, You're
Speaker 5: the one that's going to be fixing it. It's just insanity.
Speaker 4: It was really, really unbelievable. And when you think about
Speaker 4: things like Lake and Riley, who was murdered in Georgia
Speaker 4: by someone who was in the country illegally, that totally
Speaker 4: changed the direction of Georgia. Georgia only went by twelve
Speaker 4: or thirteen thousand votes to President Biden four years ago.
Speaker 4: But if you're in Georgia and you're thinking, oh, the
Speaker 4: southern border doesn't have anything to do with me, but uh, oh,
Speaker 4: we have somebody who was in our country illegally coming
Speaker 4: to Georgia and killing one of a Georgian resident who
Speaker 4: was a nursing student minding her own business out Jawg
Speaker 4: on some random day and comes across this person who's
Speaker 4: a barbarian who kills her. It changes how Georgia thinks
Speaker 4: about the election. When the hurricanes happened right North Carolina,
Speaker 4: Georgia and Florida hit and you had the White House
Speaker 4: say we're going to give you seven hundred and fifty dollars, right,
Speaker 4: And people are saying, I just lost my entire house
Speaker 4: in a month fight. I lost my family, my parents,
Speaker 4: my wife, my dog, everything wiped out.
Speaker 5: And there are still five there are still five hundred
Speaker 5: people that haven't been found.
Speaker 4: Unbelievably.
Speaker 5: I've heard that over the weekend and I was shocked
Speaker 5: by that.
Speaker 4: But Kevin, these are the big things that the White
Speaker 4: House missed, meaning you had these opportunities to show that
Speaker 4: you were going to put America first. And what did
Speaker 4: they do. They sent I think it was one hundred
Speaker 4: and seventy million dollars to let right in the middle
Speaker 4: of this hurricane. They act as if the American people
Speaker 4: are stupid and were not. This was about the working
Speaker 4: middle class, meaning the everyday person getting up every day
Speaker 4: trying to feed their family. And I'm going to say this,
Speaker 4: and it didn't matter race. It wasn't about Latino or
Speaker 4: black or white or Asian. It was about the economy
Speaker 4: and how the economy was impacting the American family. And
Speaker 4: then those people who were here illegally, why they were
Speaker 4: being prioritized with resources the while Americans were suffering. It
Speaker 4: was such an easy message. But what happened is these
Speaker 4: guys are in such a bubble that they're talking about
Speaker 4: all of these other things that do not matter to Americans,
Speaker 4: and they lost this race.
Speaker 5: Big, bigly. Christopher smither and you know the drill here.
Speaker 5: We need to take a quick break and when we
Speaker 5: come back with pick up the conversation on this smother event.
Speaker 5: And did do you see the article that there was
Speaker 5: some FEMA agent that went around and told a supervisor
Speaker 5: that told people, if you see a Trump flag or
Speaker 5: a Trump sign, don't go there and offer assistance.
Speaker 4: We will talk about it.
Speaker 5: Unbelievable, absolutely, Christopher smither and my guest will pick this
Speaker 5: up on the other side of the break. I'm Kevin
Speaker 5: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the.
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Speaker 5: fifty five krs in the talk station, continuing our conversation
Speaker 5: with Christopher Smitherman the smither event this morning. And well,
Speaker 5: we talked about this FEMA situation, but I want to
Speaker 5: ask a quick question if there were if the Democrats
Speaker 5: had gotten three hundred and twelve electoral votes one the
Speaker 5: popular vote won the Senate and increase the margin by
Speaker 5: four or five seats. Looks like they're going to take
Speaker 5: over and increase their a majority in the House. Wouldn't
Speaker 5: you think that the pundits out there would be saying
Speaker 5: to the Republicans folks, this is a mandate. Shut up
Speaker 5: and sit down.
Speaker 4: And whether they and whether they say it or not. Again,
Speaker 4: you know, people listening to me, I always like to
Speaker 4: give this disclaimer. I watch politics like people watch sports.
Speaker 4: I'm just giving it to you. I'm just giving it
Speaker 4: to you like it is. And so Kevin, Yes, this
Speaker 4: is a mandate. Whether they have their head in the
Speaker 4: sand like an Ostrich or not for the next two years,
Speaker 4: this is a mandate. And what I will say about
Speaker 4: FEMA is this is a smoking gun, meaning people had
Speaker 4: suspicion that these kinds of things were happening, and think
Speaker 4: about them doing it when Americans are at their worst.
Speaker 4: House has been devastated. And my political view is different
Speaker 4: than yours. But I'm going to allow you to suffer.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to help you. I'm not going to
Speaker 4: give you the raft to get to the to safety
Speaker 4: because of your political position. That is what is so horrific,
Speaker 4: and the and the lack of humanity criminal by what
Speaker 4: FEMA was doing here. Yes, absolutely, it's criminal. People have
Speaker 4: the right in this country to support whoever they want
Speaker 4: to support. That's what's missing many times on the Democratic side,
Speaker 4: no matter what your position is. I've been a registered
Speaker 4: independent for for decades, but whatever whatever your political persuasion is,
Speaker 4: you have the right to have and FEMA shouldn't say, well,
Speaker 4: your house was devastated, you have a a Trump side,
Speaker 4: therefore we're not wanted to help you. This is a
Speaker 4: very big deal and I would suspect that the Senate
Speaker 4: or the House or both are going to hold hearings
Speaker 4: on this. And I would suspect that the FEMA director, DHS, FBI, CIA,
Speaker 4: Education Director, i r S Director, all of them are
Speaker 4: going to be resigning here very very soon. I would
Speaker 4: suspect that the new administration is going to clean house
Speaker 4: and this is going to be one of those examples
Speaker 4: of most likely why they need to do it. Kevin,
Speaker 4: I want to say this about this election. What President
Speaker 4: elect has shown the Republican Party is if you do
Speaker 4: the outreach, if you show that you care, Americans will
Speaker 4: vote for you, no matter their race or jender. And
Speaker 4: so what is happening in our own county, meaning in
Speaker 4: Hamilton County, I mean.
Speaker 5: The People's Republic of Hamilton County.
Speaker 4: Saying I've been saying this, Kevin for a long time,
Speaker 4: and I hope they're listening. That I've shared this with
Speaker 4: with Alex Tramp and Felo. I've shared it with Chairman
Speaker 4: Tramp and Felo. I shared it with Chairman Mock. If
Speaker 4: you do the outreach, if you're sincere about it, if
Speaker 4: you go to the barbershops, the churches, the festivals, and
Speaker 4: you tell your story, you will be able to expand
Speaker 4: the map right because what the Democratic Party has done
Speaker 4: to most of these communities is get their votes and
Speaker 4: then walk away. So what I'll share with you, what
Speaker 4: I'll share with you, Kevin, is if this administration meets
Speaker 4: their commitments, meaning they go back to those barbershops, they
Speaker 4: go back to those communities, they really deal with the
Speaker 4: public policies, like like a former at the time now
Speaker 4: president elect, but he was former president then when he
Speaker 4: provided funding to historically black colleges and universities that made
Speaker 4: them permanent. If he delivers the public policy he follows
Speaker 4: it up, not with handouts, but real opportunities raising the
Speaker 4: economy where people feel like there's more money in their pocket,
Speaker 4: they can pay their rent, that they see their food
Speaker 4: prices going down, they see oil prices stabilized. Then they'll
Speaker 4: get another shot and they will expand the map. Yet again,
Speaker 4: I feel like the Democratic Party Kevin hasn't learned. They're
Speaker 4: still saying the same thing. They're basically saying anybody who
Speaker 4: voted for President Trump, and particularly if you're ethnic, meaning
Speaker 4: you are in a minority, that you are stupid. That
Speaker 4: message is being radiated out of the Democratic Party right now.
Speaker 4: And I would say, if this administration can capitalize on
Speaker 4: it and actually deliver the public policy, the map four
Speaker 4: years from now will expand to.
Speaker 5: Get absolutely And I've seen this in my home state
Speaker 5: of Kentucky and Mike County. There are certain pockets in
Speaker 5: a Newport in Bellevue and Dayton, Kentucky that are a
Speaker 5: very strong Democrat and just because somebody as a Republican
Speaker 5: can win the county or win certain areas because the
Speaker 5: population is bigger or whatever, I have stressed to them
Speaker 5: that they need to make an outreach to those communities
Speaker 5: and expand the tent and build up the Republican Party
Speaker 5: in all facets. And that's the missing link here as
Speaker 5: far as Hamilton County, because you've basically said we're writing
Speaker 5: it off. It's just not attainable. It is attainable. Your
Speaker 5: paycheck if it doesn't go as long as the month,
Speaker 5: you're having a problem. If you've got crime in the streets,
Speaker 5: it's a problem, and you know, fix that problem, Christopher.
Speaker 5: We need to take it. You know, we need to
Speaker 5: take quick break here and we come back and want
Speaker 5: to explore this a little bit more and continue our
Speaker 5: smither Vent. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. My guest,
Speaker 5: Christopher Smitherman. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five
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Speaker 5: My guest Christopher Smitherman. Christopher, I was listening to your
Speaker 5: interview last week, or your smither Vent with Brian last week,
Speaker 5: and one of the things that that came out and
Speaker 5: I've been hearing more and more about this, because I've
Speaker 5: you know, I've been talking about for years now that
Speaker 5: when I look at what the Allegiance and the Democratic Party,
Speaker 5: the African Americans and Black Americans and so on to this,
Speaker 5: and you hit the nail on the head, this plantation mentality,
Speaker 5: the fact that if you go back to the history
Speaker 5: of the Democratic Party, the part of the Democratic Party
Speaker 5: is party of racism, a party of Jim Crow, Jim
Speaker 5: you know, KK Clay, the KKK, the whole nine yards,
Speaker 5: and the more and more this history of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 5: and I've got these deniers and so on that I'm
Speaker 5: trying to school and all this sort of stuff. You know,
Speaker 5: a couple of them may talk off air sometime or
Speaker 5: I'll get your phone number and we'll talk about this.
Speaker 5: But there's a couple of people that I've been talking
Speaker 5: to and it's amazing how it seems like they don't
Speaker 5: want to hear any of this stuff. And the fact
Speaker 5: that you mentioned the fact that you know, you know,
Speaker 5: blacks and any whether it's Latinos, whether it's whites, whether
Speaker 5: it's Irish, whether it's whoever. We're not monolithic. We all
Speaker 5: have the same kitchen table issues. We all have the
Speaker 5: love of our family. We want our kids to do
Speaker 5: better than us. We want them to get a good education,
Speaker 5: and we want them to live in a safe neighborhood.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's you know, it's much more difficult
Speaker 5: than that. But when you've got one party that's been
Speaker 5: promising this for fifty years and never delivered, it's about
Speaker 5: time to maybe say, hey, I've been lied to.
Speaker 4: No, I think that's true, and I think that in
Speaker 4: the campaign we're finding out, you know, personalities like Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 10: J Low.
Speaker 5: I interrupt you here. I'm sorry, I'm calling her Oprah
Speaker 5: win Fee now because she was paid to her.
Speaker 4: A million dollars, yes, a million dollars to do that interview.
Speaker 4: But my point is all of these stars, all of
Speaker 4: these stars, Kevin could not deliver the election because it
Speaker 4: was about public policy, meaning people continue to ask the
Speaker 4: vice president about what your public policy positions were, and
Speaker 4: we were getting unclear answers. And so what this shows
Speaker 4: you is the electric is much smarter, much more tuned
Speaker 4: in than the demmer crabbing party thought they were. They
Speaker 4: thought that the media could lie about this, lie about this,
Speaker 4: whether hey, I got thirty five felonies, which was all
Speaker 4: a hoax down down in New York. The four hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty million dollars, let's try to take his property,
Speaker 4: let's the assassination attempt, and then the foiled assassination attempt
Speaker 4: during it. I mean, they thought that all of that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff going on wouldn't impact the election. It
Speaker 4: was just they thought that the media thought they could
Speaker 4: just say these these touched this is a KKK member,
Speaker 4: this is really Hitler, this is really a fascist. And
Speaker 4: so now this week on Wednesday, Biden has to sit
Speaker 4: down to a guy he said was a fascist and Hitler,
Speaker 4: and he's got to welcome him to the White House.
Speaker 10: Right, was playing us with he?
Speaker 5: What was he plan us? I mean, would Winston Churchill
Speaker 5: have invited Hitler to ten Downing Street at any point?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 5: Okay, so what they say or were they lying to us?
Speaker 4: They were lying to us the whole time, and we
Speaker 4: will continue to see that they were lying to us
Speaker 4: the whole time, and the public understands that. Here's what
Speaker 4: I want to say. We lost Militsa powers as a
Speaker 4: Hamilton County prosecutor here in Hamilton County. I want to
Speaker 4: commend her on a great election. Hamilton County has clearly
Speaker 4: turned blue, whether that was Sheriff Neil and some other
Speaker 4: very very important races. But now city council is all Democrat,
Speaker 4: all council members, the mayor Democrat, the county commissioners Democrat,
Speaker 4: the prosecutor Democrats. And so I look at Cincinnati and
Speaker 4: Hamilton County and say, probably not good for us to
Speaker 4: have one party running our entire region, in our entire county.
Speaker 4: And these are the kind of things we're going to
Speaker 4: have to think about public when we're voting that we're
Speaker 4: just not voting down one ticket, actually trying to identify
Speaker 4: who are the best candidates to run our county. And
Speaker 4: so I'm very concerned about that. I expressed that concern.
Speaker 4: So even though the state went a direction, the federal
Speaker 4: government went a different direction, went a different went a
Speaker 4: direction that Hamilton County here went all blue. And I'm
Speaker 4: just very concerned about that. And I think Melissa Powers
Speaker 4: was a great candidate. I thought that Orlando Sanza was
Speaker 4: a great candidate. You know, Happy Veterans Day, west Point
Speaker 4: graduate wife, west Point graduate. I just think we miss
Speaker 4: it sometimes when we're talking about our local politics, and
Speaker 4: I want to encourage anybody listening. Please, when these elections
Speaker 4: come up again, don't just vote party. We want diversity
Speaker 4: around our county. It's healthy for all of us, exactly
Speaker 4: just one. It's healthy.
Speaker 5: If your life and the people's Republic of Hamilton County
Speaker 5: doesn't improve, you only got one party to blame, folks,
Speaker 5: One final thing before I let you go. It made
Speaker 5: a comment about people whole their nose and voting for
Speaker 5: Donald Trump. Do you I don't think that was on
Speaker 5: a massive scale. I think it was some a small percentage,
Speaker 5: but I don't think that was a massive effort, do you.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 4: I think that suburban white women in particular, who were
Speaker 4: concerned about uh, President Trump's rhetoric, which, by the way,
Speaker 4: at times I'm concerned about President Trump's rhetoric. I think
Speaker 4: he has to who would he has to pull it
Speaker 4: in and and be the president of the United States
Speaker 4: for all of us. But I think that they're voters
Speaker 4: that went in and I don't know what that percentage was.
Speaker 4: Was that said, listen, I'd got to vote my economic situation.
Speaker 4: You know, this guy is far from perfect. I didn't
Speaker 4: vote for him the last time, but I'm voting for
Speaker 4: it for him this time, and so that's what I
Speaker 4: described those voters. I heard so many voters, you know,
Speaker 4: say the Democratic Party left me. I didn't leave the dimactly.
Speaker 4: I heard that all over the election day. So the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party is going to have to regroup itself. They're
Speaker 4: gonna have to change what they're doing, and they're gonna
Speaker 4: have to face reality.
Speaker 8: Kevin, thank you so so much for I appreciate your
Speaker 8: time at votes.
Speaker 5: There you go say that again for everybody, vote at vote. Okay,
Speaker 5: he's gone at votes Smitherman. I think this is uh
Speaker 5: X account. Anyway, coming up, we got to the top
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Speaker 5: tell you. You know. The thing is when I come into
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Speaker 5: and all this sorties of My wife will attest to
Speaker 5: the fact that I am a bit cluttery when it
Speaker 5: comes to certain things. But anyway, so we'll be talking
Speaker 5: to him at top the hour. Looking forward to talking
Speaker 5: to him. I don't think I've ever talked to him
Speaker 5: before on the air, so that'll be good. Probably, look
Speaker 5: at what we're seeing as far as the markets are concerned.
Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of things happening as far as
Speaker 5: the oil markets and some of the at least OPEC
Speaker 5: and some of the stuff that I'm looking at around
Speaker 5: the world. In terms of the world leaders, it's kind
Speaker 5: of like whatever we we're being told up to this
Speaker 5: point by the uh spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media,
Speaker 5: it's not coming true. And I think, well, I think
Speaker 5: I hope and pray that we take this opportunity and
Speaker 5: that the Republicans don't do what they normally do is,
Speaker 5: you know, fail to deliver. They have a unique opportunity
Speaker 5: here to really do some good. And you know, one
Speaker 5: of the things I'll say to anybody that's an elected
Speaker 5: official for once in a while, put the people first.
Speaker 5: Make sure that you do everything, and remember that when
Speaker 5: you go to work every day, you have earned the
Speaker 5: honor and the right to be in that position because
Speaker 5: somebody gave you something that is the most precious gift
Speaker 5: that they possibly give to you, and that is their vote.
Speaker 5: Do not trash that. Do not trash them. Listen to
Speaker 5: what the people tell you, and whether you want to
Speaker 5: hear it or not, at least hear it. And look
Speaker 5: at who puts you in that position in the first place.
Speaker 5: And as I said, put the people first. None of this,
Speaker 5: you know, party above politics, any of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5: You are there for the will of the people. Coming
Speaker 5: up with our money. Monday, I'm Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 23: There we go again.
Speaker 2: Hear about it.
Speaker 16: Understand the ignorant on the campuses talk about it.
Speaker 22: They're just getting away with all this rather.
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Speaker 5: awaiting our guests at the top of the hour, Brian
Speaker 5: James for our money Monday, and we seek to connect
Speaker 5: with him. But in the meantime you have me. So
Speaker 5: one of the things that is being talked about is
Speaker 5: this whole business of what the economy is going to
Speaker 5: do and how the economy is going to perform under
Speaker 5: Donald Trump. And this was the rhetoric that was coming
Speaker 5: from the Democratic Party and of course the spoon fed
Speaker 5: regurgitators in the mainstream media. And one of the myths
Speaker 5: that was from actually an outright lie. They said that
Speaker 5: Goldman Sachs had actually reviewed her policy versus his policy,
Speaker 5: and that his policy would lead to more inflation than hers,
Speaker 5: and that it would cause money for the American public. Now,
Speaker 5: based on that analysis, it was only a couple tens
Speaker 5: of percentage points different. But what was happened, what happened
Speaker 5: later on, is that the CEO of Golden and Sachs
Speaker 5: came out. I don't know why it took him a
Speaker 5: couple of days, but it did take him about forty
Speaker 5: eight hours to come out and say this was one
Speaker 5: of our analysts. That he was not speaking on behalf
Speaker 5: of the corporation, and we don't agree with his analysis.
Speaker 5: Much like what we've heard from all these so called
Speaker 5: experts that that you know, Nobel Prize winners and so on.
Speaker 5: You know, that's all well and good, but look into
Speaker 5: their backgrounds and look where their political affiliations. The Nobel
Speaker 5: Prize anymore is not as significant or as great an
Speaker 5: achievement as it once was. It is more of a
Speaker 5: political opportunist going towards a particular agenda as opposed to
Speaker 5: giving that prize to people that have the right or
Speaker 5: that are actually doing good. I mean, let's let's not
Speaker 5: forget that Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize before
Speaker 5: he even took office, before he took office, based on
Speaker 5: hope and change, and then what wound up happening is
Speaker 5: that he started wars. He so anyway, he prosecuted wars
Speaker 5: around the world, and so it wasn't very peaceful under
Speaker 5: his presidency. Hey, we've got in touch with Brian James here, Brian,
Speaker 5: welcome to the program. I think this is the first
Speaker 5: time you and I have had the opportunity to talk.
Speaker 5: So glad, welcome to the program, or welcome to my program,
Speaker 5: or me here whatever I'm trying to say.
Speaker 15: So whatever you're trying to say, apologies for the little
Speaker 15: hiccup there getting connected, but here we are, and I
Speaker 15: can hear you, you can hear me, so.
Speaker 5: Good, good, good good. So what are we saying as
Speaker 5: far as the financial markets and what are we seeing?
Speaker 5: And first of all, if there's any hot topics you
Speaker 5: want to talk about, but mostly I'm kind of concerned
Speaker 5: about the new administration effect on the economy. What you're thinking,
Speaker 5: what you're seeing, what you're expecting, and so on, and
Speaker 5: we'll take it from there.
Speaker 10: Sure.
Speaker 15: Well, you know, pretty quiet week for news. Not a
Speaker 15: heck of a lot going on out there, is there. No, No,
Speaker 15: that's obviously not true.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 15: So the markets, as far as the markets go, yeah,
Speaker 15: the markets got pretty excited about the Trump administration coming in.
Speaker 15: And that's because with the Republicans being on the verge
Speaker 15: of controlling the presidency sent it in the House that
Speaker 15: that not all of that is in place yet, but
Speaker 15: it looks like there's a real solid chance that the
Speaker 15: Republicans could control all free components there. So Wall Street
Speaker 15: feels like the proposed economic policies are going to be
Speaker 15: aimed at reducing corporate regulations and taxes and hopefully accelerate
Speaker 15: economic momentum and and expand profits as well. Obviously, whenever
Speaker 15: we have a business friendly administration, the stock market prefers that. Now,
Speaker 15: as we said oftentimes on these airwaves, and that all
Speaker 15: worth financial. We have a report we send out to
Speaker 15: our clients every single time there's a major election to
Speaker 15: remind us everybody that ultimately the market does not care, period,
Speaker 15: end of story, what flavor we have in the White House. Yes,
Speaker 15: it goes up no matter what they are. They are
Speaker 15: the ultimate Green Party.
Speaker 5: And I don't mean that they're right, and I don't
Speaker 5: mean that from environmental standpoint.
Speaker 15: Yeah here, listening to you back walking that already.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know when you say green party, that
Speaker 5: has certain connotation to it. But I'm talking about investors.
Speaker 5: Are the Green Party for money purposes so.
Speaker 15: Exactly, and so are publicly traded corporations. They have a
Speaker 15: red playbook and they have a blue Playbook. They know
Speaker 15: what plays they want to run, they just need to
Speaker 15: know what environment they're in. So but regardless, what tends
Speaker 15: to happen historically is that we get a good run
Speaker 15: up in the first In the first it's kind of
Speaker 15: almost like a sugar high in the first year of
Speaker 15: a Republican presidency, because there does tend to be a
Speaker 15: bit of a you know, a tailwind from the standpoint
Speaker 15: of it's going to be easier to make profits because
Speaker 15: presumably less regulation and hope more focus on the ability
Speaker 15: to expand profits versus a focus on other different things
Speaker 15: that aren't quite so so profit friendly. But then in
Speaker 15: the last two or three years of Republican presidency it
Speaker 15: tends to back off a little bit historically speaking, and
Speaker 15: a lot of that has to do with the number
Speaker 15: one consumer of goods and services on the face of
Speaker 15: the earth is the US federal government itself. So if
Speaker 15: we're going to be spending less and doing less things
Speaker 15: as a government, that's not a bad thing, but it
Speaker 15: does tend to have a little bit of an impact.
Speaker 15: But again, regardless, the market doesn't care. We can be
Speaker 15: profitable in any environment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the market is interesting. Brian Brian James. Is
Speaker 5: the fact that the markets don't like uncertainty. If you
Speaker 5: tell a company what the regulations are going to be,
Speaker 5: if you tell them the environment that they're going to
Speaker 5: work in, they can deal with it. It's the uncertainty
Speaker 5: of will there be this regulation, will there be this regulation?
Speaker 5: Are they going to clamp down on this industry or
Speaker 5: pick and choose winners? As far as the economy is concerned,
Speaker 5: and as long as everything's on it, even as long
Speaker 5: as they know where they stand, people are you know
Speaker 5: the companies are going to do.
Speaker 15: Well, that's true, and it's just that it's just what
Speaker 15: is the environment? They have to know what the what
Speaker 15: the situation is. So now we know, of course we're
Speaker 15: going to be looking.
Speaker 5: At things like tariffs.
Speaker 15: Well, fortunately tariffs are no longer something that you studied
Speaker 15: in the fifth grade and have forgotten about ever since.
Speaker 15: Right now, now it all makes sense. Why why missus
Speaker 15: Teith over at Sainting Nacius on the West side explain
Speaker 15: that to me? I didn't get it back then in
Speaker 15: nineteen eighty five, but I sure as.
Speaker 2: Heck do now.
Speaker 15: But so let's look look, look a little bit of history.
Speaker 15: The last time we had this type of situation was
Speaker 15: of course the first chunk of the of the first
Speaker 15: Trump administration, where we had we did have a some
Speaker 15: tax cuts, We'll talk about that in a second, but
Speaker 15: also we had some the introduction of tariffs against a
Speaker 15: lot of the countries, including mostly China, who was the
Speaker 15: big target back then likely will be the big target
Speaker 15: this time around. But time you can see what happened
Speaker 15: in the market. So in twenty seventeen, which again that
Speaker 15: was that first year of the Trump administration, the first
Speaker 15: full year, the market was up about twenty percent. Twenty eighteen,
Speaker 15: the market was down about six and a quarter. And
Speaker 15: I remember this being very rattling to investors. I've been
Speaker 15: doing this about thirty years, so I've kind of I've
Speaker 15: gotten to see pretty much everything there is to see.
Speaker 15: It'll be good, bad, and different. But I remember that
Speaker 15: being very rattling to investors who thought, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 15: this is a business and friendly environment. What I thought,
Speaker 15: why isn't the stock market performing better? And we took
Speaker 15: a year to let the dust settle until companies can
Speaker 15: figure out what are we going to do? How are
Speaker 15: we going to deal with the fact that it's cost
Speaker 15: more to do business, and it took about a year
Speaker 15: for that to happen, and then by twenty nineteen we
Speaker 15: were up about twenty nine percent. So the pendulum is
Speaker 15: going to continue to swing, and nobody should be shocked
Speaker 15: by that. We've had a good bounce here in this
Speaker 15: past week if you're looking at four to oh one
Speaker 15: k and we'll see what happens next year. But if
Speaker 15: we're going to raise tariffs and make it more challenging
Speaker 15: for other companies to sell stuff to the United States,
Speaker 15: that means prices for US consumers are going to go up.
Speaker 15: So nobody should be shocked when the market does wabble
Speaker 15: a little bit here the short.
Speaker 5: Term, yeah, for sure. But I think one of the
Speaker 5: things that we'll see too is a little bit better.
Speaker 5: You know, when you look at the teriffs that are
Speaker 5: being charged on American goods going into some of these countries,
Speaker 5: that they figure that, okay, that if we're going to
Speaker 5: be if we're going to be issuing tariffs on them,
Speaker 5: you know, what goes around comes around, and we may
Speaker 5: get slapped without ourselves. But also you know, when you
Speaker 5: put America's on the even footing with the rest of
Speaker 5: the world in terms of the economy and competition and whatever.
Speaker 5: I mean, let's not forget the fact that when you're
Speaker 5: talking about China, you're talking about basically slave labor. So
Speaker 5: you're talking about the goods, the cost to manufacture those goods,
Speaker 5: at least from the labor standpoint, isn't cost as much
Speaker 5: as in the United States, and so that gives them
Speaker 5: an advantage as well. And of course they're able to
Speaker 5: give subsidies because they're mostly control you know, country owned
Speaker 5: companies over there. They're kind of a quasied capitalistic or
Speaker 5: they're getting a little bit more towards that, but for
Speaker 5: the most part it's still a communist country and so
Speaker 5: competing on the world level with that sometimes it is
Speaker 5: a little difficult.
Speaker 2: That's very true.
Speaker 15: And make no mistake about it, there's nothing about tariffs
Speaker 15: that is deflationary. Prices are not going to drop because
Speaker 15: we have tariffs. If anything, they're going to go up.
Speaker 15: And any business worth its salt is looking for the
Speaker 15: cheapest way to create the goods and services that it sells.
Speaker 15: And I would point to the Trump business empire itself.
Speaker 15: Remember those bibles and shoes and all that other stuff
Speaker 15: that there was the sort of promotional things you did
Speaker 15: during the election. But there's also there's furniture out there.
Speaker 15: There are suits and ties and all this stuff. A
Speaker 15: lot of that stuff is made overseas a matter of fact,
Speaker 15: I believe the suits are made here. Just about everything
Speaker 15: else now made in Mexico, Bangladesh, and China. So you know,
Speaker 15: Trump himself has taken advantage of the fact that it's
Speaker 15: cheaper to produce goods outside and import the men. Now,
Speaker 15: I think that something else to pay attention to if
Speaker 15: we raise tariffs on other country. Ultimately, at the end
Speaker 15: of the day, we're you and I are the consumers, right,
Speaker 15: We are the ones who will ultimately pay the prices.
Speaker 15: When you're a producer, you pass the cost on to
Speaker 15: the to the consumer. So I think it's also possible.
Speaker 15: What we could see is we would raise tariffs on
Speaker 15: other countries, and local companies here in the United States
Speaker 15: could say, wow, it's a lot more expensive for you know,
Speaker 15: for our customers to buy from our competition. If we
Speaker 15: raise our prices by fifty percent of what our competition
Speaker 15: just had to raise prices, then we can make more
Speaker 15: money and still be the cheapest option on the block.
Speaker 15: So it wouldn't shock me in the least if we
Speaker 15: saw a little bit of of opportunism happening in terms
Speaker 15: of increasing business that way.
Speaker 5: Okay, one of the things that you know, we keep
Speaker 5: you know, when you know people were talking about inflation,
Speaker 5: and one of the points that I made all along
Speaker 5: is the fact that you know, when you see inflation
Speaker 5: go up, you know when they talk about, well, the
Speaker 5: last month inflation went up three percent or on an
Speaker 5: annualized basis or whatever, and then it hit nine point
Speaker 5: one percent in June of twenty twenty two, and so on,
Speaker 5: those are all cumulative effects. That's why you have at
Speaker 5: the market, at the grocery store where you have items
Speaker 5: that were X and such back in twenty twenty and
Speaker 5: that are now twenty percent twenty five percent higher. That's
Speaker 5: why we have gasoline now that is forty percent more
Speaker 5: for a gallon of gas and fifty percent more for
Speaker 5: a gallon of diesel than what we had back in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty. But I think one of those things that
Speaker 5: will push a lot of that down is energy costs.
Speaker 5: And when you look at the energy costs with the
Speaker 5: drill baby drill thing, a Keystone XL pipeline, of drilling
Speaker 5: on federal lands and getting that energy cost down, you
Speaker 5: reduce those barrels of oil down to that fifty dollars
Speaker 5: range as opposed to seventy five eighty dollars a barrel.
Speaker 5: That's where you start seeing the cuts in the actual
Speaker 5: cost of these goods being manufactured. So I wanted to
Speaker 5: throw that out there, and I think we need to
Speaker 5: take quick break here. If you can hang with us,
Speaker 5: certainly appreciate it, and we'll respond to this when we
Speaker 5: get back. My guest is Brian James was all Worth
Speaker 5: Financial Money Monday. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
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Speaker 5: Eight twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for Brian
Speaker 5: Thomas fifty five KR see the talk station. My guest
Speaker 5: Brian James, all Worth Financial on this Monday Monday segment.
Speaker 5: Thanks for hanging with us to the break. Brian is
Speaker 5: certainly appreciated.
Speaker 15: Yeah, no worries. I appreciate the chance to talk to
Speaker 15: your listeners.
Speaker 5: Okay, before we took a break, there was talking about
Speaker 5: inflation rate and the possibility of that coming down with
Speaker 5: energy prices decreasing. What are your thoughts on that. What
Speaker 5: do you think is going to happen as far as
Speaker 5: that's concerned.
Speaker 15: Well, as you mentioned before we broke there, you know,
Speaker 15: one of Trump's major goals is to open up a
Speaker 15: lot of places for more drilling, which will think back
Speaker 15: to your economics classes from years ago, supply and demand.
Speaker 15: If we're going to drill places we weren't drilling before,
Speaker 15: then obviously that increases supply in that that should reduce
Speaker 15: price in theory that this is probably one of the
Speaker 15: places where consumers can expect to see a more immediate
Speaker 15: impact from a standpoint of once all these things occur.
Speaker 15: Right now, we're just talking until January.
Speaker 5: So sure.
Speaker 15: But this is something that comes out of the ground,
Speaker 15: of course, and consumers buy it at the pump, but
Speaker 15: it's not going to I don't think we're going to
Speaker 15: see it as readily in other areas just yet, because
Speaker 15: remember we're not really talking about our price is going
Speaker 15: to drop back to where they were in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 15: twenty nineteen. That's not really what this is about. Because
Speaker 15: a lot of this is baked in now. Companies that
Speaker 15: know what their profit margins need to be and they're
Speaker 15: not going to voluntarily reduce prices unless they have to.
Speaker 15: They will only only only do that if competition forces
Speaker 15: them to.
Speaker 5: No, we've had a lot of We've had a lot
Speaker 5: of union contracts that have been settled in the last
Speaker 5: year year and a half. We've got a potential dock
Speaker 5: workers strike pending or at least an increase there and
Speaker 5: their way just come out in January. But we had
Speaker 5: the UAW, we had ups, we had the dock workers
Speaker 5: out in the West Coast and railroad workers. So all
Speaker 5: as you say, that's already baked into the numbers, because
Speaker 5: those numbers are already in there as far as their
Speaker 5: labor costs.
Speaker 15: Right, and so yeah, so no boardroom is going to say, oh,
Speaker 15: thank goodness, the Trump administration has changed some policies and
Speaker 15: it's a more business friendly environment. Finally, finally, finally we
Speaker 15: can reduce prices for our poor consumers. That's not going
Speaker 15: to happen. They're going to pocket a good chunk of
Speaker 15: the difference unless they can get some attention and create
Speaker 15: perhaps a little bit of a of a price war
Speaker 15: within their industry.
Speaker 5: But only if it's going to.
Speaker 15: Benefit them directly. Now, now these are still these are
Speaker 15: still positive business. You know, it's going to be an
Speaker 15: easier business environment than it has been. But at the
Speaker 15: same time, you know, we were just talking about energy prices,
Speaker 15: price at the pump.
Speaker 5: It hasn't been a topic.
Speaker 15: This was a strange year for that. Yeah, I really
Speaker 15: don't remember talking to Brian about it, you know, all
Speaker 15: summer long, other than the normal hike that happens in
Speaker 15: May when we hit travel season.
Speaker 5: Right right. But I always well, I do America's truck
Speaker 5: of network on our sister station, and energy is always
Speaker 5: a big factor there. And one of the things I've
Speaker 5: always looked at is what the gasoline prices are nationwide
Speaker 5: compared even back to twenty twenty when we were energy
Speaker 5: independent for the first time since nineteen forty nine, and
Speaker 5: we saw what those prices were, and even based on that,
Speaker 5: I mean, granted, back in June of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: gas got up to a nationwide high of five dollars
Speaker 5: and one cents a gallon versus today where it's around
Speaker 5: what three twelve something like that nationwide, But back then
Speaker 5: it was round two and we're still paying forty percent
Speaker 5: more than what we were for a gallon of gas
Speaker 5: back in twenty twenty, so we see that already baked
Speaker 5: into the numbers. You reduce that, and of course, you know,
Speaker 5: energy goes across all sectors of the economy. Fact that
Speaker 5: we got lights on here in the studio, we depend
Speaker 5: on energy. We've got lights on at home and saw
Speaker 5: it so anyway, But I think one of the things
Speaker 5: that we might see too is a bit of a break.
Speaker 5: Brian James on this, on this regulatory situation, I would
Speaker 5: like to see a lot of cutting there and rollbacks
Speaker 5: and so on. Do you think we're you know, because
Speaker 5: that's one of the things I don't think a lot
Speaker 5: of people talk about in terms of how that is
Speaker 5: baked into these costs that we're seeing to the consumer. Yeah.
Speaker 15: So, so Trust's been known for rolling back regulations and
Speaker 15: that's been generally welcomed by businesses of course, because that
Speaker 15: makes life a little bit easier. However, some companies are
Speaker 15: going to find this a little too impulsive in leading
Speaker 15: to more uncertainty. We talked about that, right. We don't
Speaker 15: like uncertainty. We like to be able to know what
Speaker 15: to predict. But yeah, there are some industries that are
Speaker 15: probably going to just like we talked about the energy industry,
Speaker 15: it's going to be a heck of a lot easier
Speaker 15: to go find new places to drill for oil.
Speaker 5: That was, you know, the.
Speaker 15: Words right out of his mouth, and so hopefully there'll
Speaker 15: be some benefits there. There are other interest industries, such
Speaker 15: as the banking industry, which where the last administry. One
Speaker 15: of the big things that Trump did was roll back
Speaker 15: some of the consumer financial protections, which on one hand
Speaker 15: makes it easier to be a bank. On another hand,
Speaker 15: those came from somewhere. So if you were a bank
Speaker 15: consumer and you were frustrated by what banks had done
Speaker 15: over the prior fifteen to twenty years just looking for
Speaker 15: profits under every stone, just remember remember to be paying
Speaker 15: attention and read that fine print, because it's going to
Speaker 15: get a heck of a lot easier for them to
Speaker 15: do what has been successful in the past. So I'm
Speaker 15: not going to argue that all deregulations is.
Speaker 5: Right right, and I think this is one of these
Speaker 5: topics that been talked around and back as far back
Speaker 5: as two thousand and seven, was this proposal that was done.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, it was proposed by a
Speaker 5: resident of Campbell County, Kentucky to at that time, Oh gosh,
Speaker 5: Jeff Davis, this idea of what they call the Rains Act,
Speaker 5: and basically, in a simplified form, this Rains Act would
Speaker 5: say to the federal government that if there's any regulations
Speaker 5: that's going to cost the taxpayer more than one hundred
Speaker 5: million dollars that has to be voted on by Congress,
Speaker 5: they just can't willy nilly put forth these regulations they
Speaker 5: are going to cost. Basically, it's a taxi increase, if
Speaker 5: you will, in terms of the American public. Now, this
Speaker 5: has been passed by the House several times since twenty
Speaker 5: two thousand and seven, I think got to the Senate
Speaker 5: was putting a you know, on the desk and never voted.
Speaker 5: I would like to see that go forward in this administration,
Speaker 5: and I think that would go a long way to
Speaker 5: help our economy considerably.
Speaker 15: So yeah, right, So the Rains Act will if it
Speaker 15: survives you we'll see it if it if it surfaces again.
Speaker 15: The last version passed the House back in June, but
Speaker 15: like you said, not yet passed by the Senate, so
Speaker 15: it's not in law yet. But if we see you know,
Speaker 15: we are still deciding who controls the Senate, right, I
Speaker 15: think there's about five seats left last time. I loved
Speaker 15: We'll see you know which way that goes. That will
Speaker 15: interestingly to me, that is it's a level of bureaucracy
Speaker 15: I think. On I agree with you on its On
Speaker 15: its face, it seems like it would be helpful towards
Speaker 15: the ultimate outcome. However, it's a level of bureaucracy that
Speaker 15: I can't imagine Trump is super excited about supporting. So
Speaker 15: I don't know, We'll have to see which way that goes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and again, you know, you hope that some of
Speaker 5: these companies that when certain things are deregulated, that they
Speaker 5: have a certain amount of ethical core, that just because
Speaker 5: something is not against the law doesn't mean that it's ethical,
Speaker 5: And so hopefully that I think that's wishful thinking on.
Speaker 15: My part, a fine line, that's a very very fine
Speaker 15: line in some gray area.
Speaker 5: But exactly well, Brian, thank you so much for spending
Speaker 5: time with us this morning. I think I've went a
Speaker 5: little too long with us here, but I certainly appreciate
Speaker 5: your time, and hopefully we can do this again sometime,
Speaker 5: and certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, you have a great week.
Speaker 5: You do the same, Brian, James all Worth Financial on
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Speaker 5: let's talk to h J fifty five krs. Thanks so
Speaker 5: much for calling. How are you this morning?
Speaker 22: Hey, I'm doing good, Kevin. And as always, man, you
Speaker 22: do a great job. When Brian is out.
Speaker 2: He's a uh he's a hall.
Speaker 22: Of Famer host, and man, you you are a hall
Speaker 22: of famer as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I appreciate this out. I appreciate that when
Speaker 5: you're well. You know, Brian had to take some time
Speaker 5: off today because you know, I've been binging on those
Speaker 5: Hallmark Christmas movies and it's time for him to take
Speaker 5: some time off to do that himself.
Speaker 16: You know, man, your.
Speaker 22: After good level is like going to be peaking. You
Speaker 22: better get some of that testoster and stuff that I
Speaker 22: keep hearing about.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, you know, I don't think I've got
Speaker 5: to you know, turning my man card quite quite yet.
Speaker 22: But you know, well, well well maybe that's debatable, but
Speaker 22: that's really not what I wanted to debate.
Speaker 5: You a man to be gentle and yet firms So anyway,
Speaker 5: go ahead.
Speaker 22: Hey, wanted to make some comments on Alex Trantafilo. I'm
Speaker 22: sure he is a good guy. I'm sure he worked
Speaker 22: his tail off, but here here comes the butt. Last
Speaker 22: week I heard him, Uh, Brian had him on and
Speaker 22: he asked the same really good question you asked. Because
Speaker 22: we're all hearing the the Wine the Rhino is going
Speaker 22: to do. Uh, he's going to install one of his buddies,
Speaker 22: which is going to be Matt Dolan, who Ohio voters
Speaker 22: have soundly rejected in the past two Senate races. We
Speaker 22: don't want him as senators. As a senator, we don't
Speaker 22: want Jane Timpkin as a senator. And yet the Wine
Speaker 22: could reach out and and and bring in somebody like
Speaker 22: a Warren Davidson or Jim Jordan, a proven conservative Republican
Speaker 22: h and asked them if they'd be interested in that
Speaker 22: Senate seat versus going after a retread and uh, but
Speaker 22: you know it, it sounds like he's going to go
Speaker 22: for Dolan. And if they do that, then the Republican
Speaker 22: Party did exactly what the Democrat Party did with Kamala Harris,
Speaker 22: where they where they installed somebody who the voters soundly rejected.
Speaker 22: Yamula couldn't get more than two percent during the primary.
Speaker 22: Dolan never came in higher than third.
Speaker 5: Kamala didn't get any votes in the primary, that was
Speaker 5: all just poland she got no votes in the Yeah.
Speaker 4: Great point. Great point.
Speaker 22: So when Alex was asked that question by by Brian,
Speaker 22: Alex's answer was, well, I trust governor to wine and
Speaker 22: it's going to be his decision. And it was a
Speaker 22: love fest for Mike DeWine who locked down, locked us
Speaker 22: down during COVID raved our gas tax by ten cents
Speaker 22: a gallon and when he was about ten seconds ten
Speaker 22: you know, fifteen minutes into office, he did that along
Speaker 22: with all of the other things. You know, you can't
Speaker 22: have a drink after ten o'clock got to shut the
Speaker 22: bars down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because COVID. COVID only ruers of ugly head after
Speaker 5: ten o'clock, you.
Speaker 22: Know, Oh, right, right, and darn remember that the he
Speaker 22: wanted to extend his emergency powers and took the Republicans
Speaker 22: in Ohio government to override his veto where he was saying, no,
Speaker 22: I want to keep my tyrannical powers doing this lockdown,
Speaker 22: and they had to put him back in his place.
Speaker 22: Now for Alex Trantafelo last week today, I trust the governor.
Speaker 22: He's a he's a great leader, and whoever he picks,
Speaker 22: I'm going to be behind it. I would say, let's
Speaker 22: let's cut the Alex Tranta Filo LoveFest. And if he's
Speaker 22: not with us, then he's against us. And if we
Speaker 22: can't call out what Mike the Wine is, the leader,
Speaker 22: the leader of the Republican Party for Ohio can't do it, well,
Speaker 22: then we're going to continue to be an embarrassment in
Speaker 22: which I believe we are. Nationally, do we have a
Speaker 22: super majority bigger than what Ron Santa says in Florida,
Speaker 22: we can't get a damn thing done? Yeah, well, Jack,
Speaker 22: the other Red states, look at Ohio, and say you're
Speaker 22: not really red.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well Jay, you're red.
Speaker 22: You got your a bunch of damn rhinos.
Speaker 5: Well, Jay, what we have is an electric out there
Speaker 5: electorate out there that went a certain way. There are
Speaker 5: grassroots organizations that are out there. What they need to
Speaker 5: do is they need to take the reins here and
Speaker 5: call the governor's office let him know what your concerns are. Jd.
Speaker 5: Vance doesn't take the oath of office until January the twentieth,
Speaker 5: so I would imagine that he may be tasked with
Speaker 5: coming back to Ohio and kind of trying to force
Speaker 5: some things too. We need to call his office. We
Speaker 5: need to call the Senate office. We need to call
Speaker 5: our senators and you know, everybody else involved and let
Speaker 5: them know where we stand. Bernie Moreno is a good
Speaker 5: one to start talking to. You know, he's gotten elected,
Speaker 5: he's going to be voted in. He should have a say,
Speaker 5: and it's up to the current and you know, let's
Speaker 5: face it, all right, we've got mayors, we've got council people,
Speaker 5: we've got county commissioners, we've got state reps, state senators.
Speaker 5: Let them know where you stand and let them know
Speaker 5: that if this doesn't go the way we think it
Speaker 5: should go. And if we wind up with a retread
Speaker 5: as people are talking about, they are going to suffer
Speaker 5: the consequences. At the polling booth. We hold the ultimate
Speaker 5: authority here. We need exercise.
Speaker 22: I take that idea and I did exactly that. I
Speaker 22: got a hold of jd Advance and because he has
Speaker 22: the bully pulpit now and by the way, remember Mike
Speaker 22: the Wine did not support jd Vance, that was Trump's pick.
Speaker 22: Wine went against them and back Matt Dolan.
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 22: So you know, all I'm looking for is the head
Speaker 22: of the Republican Party has a lot of way influence
Speaker 22: money behind him. And honestly, I think if Mike de
Speaker 22: Wine was to run for a third term, you'd see
Speaker 22: Alex Trantafilo at grobbling in his feet asking him how
Speaker 22: he can help and how much money does he need?
Speaker 22: And that's not what we need is as Ohio Republican
Speaker 22: Party leader, get in tune with read the room, take
Speaker 22: a look at what what the rest of us take
Speaker 22: of Mike to one exactly, but I'm with you, man,
Speaker 22: get a hold of jd Vance. I think there is
Speaker 22: our play. Does Dad Vance want to be working with
Speaker 22: fricking Matt Dolan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pick up the phone, folks in.
Speaker 22: Jordan, or Warren Davidson or somebody better.
Speaker 5: Pick up the phone, folks, make those phone calls. So, Jay,
Speaker 5: thank you so much for calling. I certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Have a nice day well. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, two,
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Speaker 5: Maybe some other mischief we can get into. I'm Kevin
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Speaker 5: Eight forty three in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
Speaker 5: Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see in the talk station.
Speaker 5: You know, one of the things I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 5: Brian and I are on the same page on is
Speaker 5: this whole green energy hoax that we've been climate change
Speaker 5: and so on that we've been fed over the last
Speaker 5: several years. And you know, I take you back to
Speaker 5: and you've heard this before. I'm sure that going back
Speaker 5: to the first you know, Earth Day back in seventy
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy six, we're all talking about global cooling, that
Speaker 5: we're going into this ice age. Well that didn't pan out,
Speaker 5: so then it had to be global warming, and it
Speaker 5: had to be acid rain and all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 5: And then well you know that didn't pan out, So
Speaker 5: now we just got to call it climate change. So
Speaker 5: anything that happens has to do with climate change. And
Speaker 5: we've been sold this bill of goods. As far as
Speaker 5: EV's wind. Now I'm not opposed to wind, I'm not
Speaker 5: opposed to solar energy, but it is not ready for
Speaker 5: prime time. And these EV batteries, these electric vehicles that
Speaker 5: are coming along, it's just it is not a technology
Speaker 5: that's ready for prime time. And so one of the
Speaker 5: things I hope that we see with this administration, the
Speaker 5: Trump administration coming in, is some of the turning back
Speaker 5: away from this all this what I call, well, I
Speaker 5: just call it what it is. It's climingism. You know,
Speaker 5: if you look at what is being talked about, it
Speaker 5: has nothing to do with cleaning up the environment. It
Speaker 5: has nothing to do with making our lives better. It's
Speaker 5: all about control where you live, how you live, what
Speaker 5: you eat, when you eat, how you cook, your food,
Speaker 5: where you live, what car you drive, how far you
Speaker 5: can travel, when you can travel, and everything. It's all
Speaker 5: about control. And that has more to do with communism
Speaker 5: than it does environmentalism. So I just mashed the two.
Speaker 5: You know, communism has or environmentalism has become the new communism,
Speaker 5: and I just mashed the two together and just call
Speaker 5: it climmunism. And climunism is one of the things that
Speaker 5: needs to end. And I don't pick this. I'm going
Speaker 5: to kind of clarify that a little bit coming up.
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Speaker 5: to Evelyn. Evelyn fifty five krs the talk station. Thank
Speaker 5: you so much for being there. Certainly appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 5: How are you this morning?
Speaker 23: Oh?
Speaker 12: Good?
Speaker 23: Thanks Givin. Would you explain how to I'd like to
Speaker 23: call JD Van's and tell him to not choose Kevin
Speaker 23: Gordon and to suggest Orlando's Sandra.
Speaker 5: But exactly wait a minute, don't choose Kevin Gordon, you
Speaker 5: mean Matt Dolan. Now if he chose, if the wine
Speaker 5: chose me, I mean I would make the move over
Speaker 5: to Ohio from Kentucky to do that. But uh, you know,
Speaker 5: I haven't been called, so yeah.
Speaker 23: I like that, so by goodness, well, I just I'd
Speaker 23: like to know how to explain it. Uh would I
Speaker 23: make a call to their office, to JD. Bean's office.
Speaker 23: I'm not sure I know exactly how to approach that.
Speaker 23: Quick call. I'm sure it wouldn't be too well.
Speaker 5: If you call. If you call the the the office
Speaker 5: of the of the Congress, the Congressional Office, it's a
Speaker 5: two oh two number. Just say I want to leave
Speaker 5: a message for JD. Vance and say that, you know,
Speaker 5: we want to make sure that and just say we
Speaker 5: want to make sure that the decision that Governor Dwine
Speaker 5: makes will help the Trump administration and advance the agenda
Speaker 5: of the Trump administration and not one of a squishy rhino.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you want to say rhino, but somebody.
Speaker 16: Who is not like.
Speaker 5: But not and that's kind of offense, so you know,
Speaker 5: they may take offense to that, but say that we
Speaker 5: want somebody who is a conservative to replace a conservative
Speaker 5: that's we're losing being advanced to vice president, and we
Speaker 5: like him to make sure that he that he you know,
Speaker 5: lets that be known.
Speaker 23: Okay, great, So I should not use rhino as that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's you know, it's kind of well, you know,
Speaker 5: we know what it means, and some people may take
Speaker 5: you know, if somebody sees that in a message, it
Speaker 5: may you know, kind of discount it. But just you know, hey,
Speaker 5: you know, we have a senator, we have a good
Speaker 5: conservative senator. Now we're going to have another good conservative
Speaker 5: Bernie Moreno, and we want to make sure that we
Speaker 5: keep the momentum going and somebody that will be there
Speaker 5: to support the Trump administration as opposed to any other agendas.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's great, great, great, all right, not a problem,
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Appreciate the phone call. I want
Speaker 5: to wrap up here. We've got a couple of minutes
Speaker 5: before we get out of here. I want to make
Speaker 5: a stress to everybody. At eleven o'clock today, make sure
Speaker 5: you take that opportunity to do a moment of silence
Speaker 5: the eleventh eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
Speaker 5: eleventh month, in honor of Veterans Day. And I want
Speaker 5: to when I talk about climbingism and so on, and
Speaker 5: I talk about this business of being somewhat of a
Speaker 5: when I say it's a whole and so on. You know,
Speaker 5: none of this stuff has been proven. And I saw
Speaker 5: this story last week. I find it very interesting. And
Speaker 5: this is interesting on two counts. Okay, a vast ancient
Speaker 5: Mayan city is found in the Mexican jungle. By accident,
Speaker 5: a graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico
Speaker 5: unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried beneath
Speaker 5: dense jungle for centuries. The city lay hidden in the
Speaker 5: amid the jungle canopy in the state of Campeachy on
Speaker 5: the Gulf of Mexico. New research published Tuesday in the
Speaker 5: Journal of Antiquity reveals sites that in total cover an
Speaker 5: area about one and a half times the size of Washington,
Speaker 5: d C. That's how big this place was. And first
Speaker 5: of all, the first lesson here is a graduate student.
Speaker 5: Think of all of the academics that went before him,
Speaker 5: all the doctors, all the PhDs, all these so called scientists,
Speaker 5: and it took a graduate student to look at these
Speaker 5: documents and say, hey, you know, there's possibly a city here,
Speaker 5: which it borne out. Okay, the researchers uncovered a densely
Speaker 5: packed area containing six thousand, six hundred and seventy four structures,
Speaker 5: including pyramids resembling those in Chichen It's A in the
Speaker 5: Mexican state of Yucatan and Tikal in the ancient citadel
Speaker 5: and rainforest of northern Guatemala. This graduate student, Luke Ald Thomas,
Speaker 5: PhD Candidate at Tulane University, discovered this. The researchers said
Speaker 5: that this city and they've may have had been the
Speaker 5: home to thirty to fifty thousand people at its peak
Speaker 5: between eight hundred AD and one thousand AD. Folks were
Speaker 5: talking about a city that existed sixteen hundred years ago
Speaker 5: or fourteen hundred years ago. Okay, now for a Now,
Speaker 5: this city disappeared for a complex of reasons, including climate change. Okay, so,
Speaker 5: how many coal burning fires were, plants manufacturing plants were
Speaker 5: back in Mexico at eight hundred AD, how many diesel
Speaker 5: trucks were rolling down the highway at that point, how
Speaker 5: much pollutants were in the air at that point? And
Speaker 5: climate change eliminated the city of thirty to fifty thousand people.
Speaker 5: Climate change has been ongoing. The Earth can handle it,
Speaker 5: at least now we know the technology that we can
Speaker 5: deal with it and contain it and actually adapt to it.
Speaker 5: So with that I'll leave that with you. Thanks, thank
Speaker 5: you all for the phone calls, Thank you for being here,
Speaker 5: Thanks to my guest Ken Blackwell, and of course Christopher
Speaker 5: Smitherman and Brian James with all Worth Financial Christopher Smithers Well.
Speaker 5: So anyway, folks, that does it for me. Thank you
Speaker 5: so much, have a great day and honor of that.
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