WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:14.080 Right four minutes after five o'clock on this final day 2 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.599 of twenty twenty four. 3 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.879 Gosh, who the time is flying? So h With that 4 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:22.760 in mind, we are gonna have a little bit of 5 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:25.320 fun today. We're gonna have a lot of stories, kind 6 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.079 of look at the year and review and uh, some 7 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:30.000 of the other stories that have popped up. There's, of 8 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:34.960 course a couple of major sort of major stories that 9 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.560 we need to cover as well. But we'll be reflecting 10 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:40.880 on a lot of stuff and talk about our plans 11 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.200 for twenty twenty five. Basically, yeah, phone numbers by the way, 12 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:46.880 five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five one, eight 13 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:49.439 hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight two 14 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:53.840 three eight two five five pound, five point fifty at 15 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.600 and T wireless phone. Of course, we're gonna cover some 16 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:58.719 of the biggest stories of twenty twenty four. And I'm 17 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.799 kind of curious from your perspective what you see as 18 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.840 the major story of twenty twenty four. Really, there are 19 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:11.079 probably five stories out there or more that in any 20 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:13.879 other year probably would have been one of the top 21 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:18.200 stories of the year, but because of everything else going on, 22 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.879 they either you know, move within that top five range, 23 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:25.480 and so I'm kind of curious as to what is 24 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:28.560 top of your list. Also, do you have any plans 25 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:32.000 for tonight? Any New Year's celebrations that you're going to 26 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.719 be going to? What are your plans for that? I 27 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.239 know in the Gordon household, we generally just stay at home. 28 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.319 And I watched the ball drop, and you know, yeah, 29 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:42.799 watch a couple of movies or something beforehand, and then 30 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.359 watch the ball drop and have a nice dinner. 31 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:47.000 It's funny. 32 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.000 There's been two occasions where my wife decided that we 33 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.719 were going to do something special. When one was for 34 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:57.680 the Super Bowl an the other was for New Year's 35 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.400 Eve one year. And we and now I've told you 36 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.719 in the past that we are basically a family of 37 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:08.560 three with the way I eat, sometimes maybe even a 38 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:13.800 family of four. But she made some stuff for this 39 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.599 super We were gonna have this, you know, kind of 40 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.039 a Super Bowl. We're gonna watch the game, and so 41 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:21.199 she started making all this stuff, and I swear we 42 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.039 must have had enough food that we could have probably 43 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.240 fed about ten people. Uh, And we were kind of 44 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:29.479 looking at it and go, well, we're gonna have a 45 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:32.599 lot of leftovers, But boy was it good stuff. And 46 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.080 myself that day, and then a couple of years ago, 47 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.919 same thing on New Year's Eve, saw, well, why don't 48 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.159 we try this recipe or try this, and oh, let's 49 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.759 try this as well, and we had a ton of 50 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:47.479 food that night as well. So it's it's always interesting 51 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:51.080 around the house because I've always I've said numerous times, 52 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.639 I live I happen to live in the best restaurant 53 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.319 in the world. So it makes it tough to go 54 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:57.759 out to eat. I don't you know. We go out 55 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:01.080 to eat a couple of times a week, but it's 56 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.080 always interesting when she makes something and then she just 57 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.439 ruins it for me to go out and eat that 58 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:10.280 anyplace else because it never comes up to the same standards, 59 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:15.319 whether it's lasagna or whether it's soups that she makes. 60 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:19.520 Just about everything she makes is just amazing compared to 61 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.000 what you get out. And when we do stuff around 62 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.680 the house, grill out, do whatever we're going to do, 63 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.080 we kind of look at that and say, gosh, the 64 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.719 cost of this versus going out to dinner. The other 65 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:33.680 thing you're missing though, is the cleanup. You don't have 66 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.719 the cleanup at the end, and you got to wait service, 67 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:40.719 and so you don't have the mess. But sometimes it's 68 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:44.319 just worth going out because the quality of food or 69 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:44.759 what you're. 70 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:46.680 Going to be eating is not as good. 71 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.840 And I'm not one of these guys that goes to 72 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.599 fancy restaurants. My preference has always been what they refer to, 73 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.039 or what I've referred to if heard referred to as 74 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:02.479 greasy spoons. They're the mom and pop restaurants where some 75 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:08.639 home cooking and your basic restaurant type foods. I love hamburgers, 76 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:12.759 I love pizza, love ham sandwiches, I love all that 77 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:16.360 kind of stuff. So going to a restaurant or going 78 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.480 to a greasy spoon, whenever we're out and whenever we're 79 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.199 driving around, whenever we are on vacation, we can try 80 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:25.240 to find the little hole in the wall type of 81 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.120 place to go eat. I remember when I was doing 82 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.720 a showdown a little Rock, Arkansas. That's one of the 83 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:32.360 things I used to do. I used to go out 84 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.959 and try to find different places. Of course, I asked 85 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.319 when I first got there, I was asking a bunch 86 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:40.399 of the people on air where to go, where to eat, 87 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.199 Where's the best pizza, Where's the best burger? And then 88 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.240 I just started going around testing the places out and 89 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.439 I would come back and I would kind of kind 90 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.720 of do a mini review. I'm not one to do 91 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.439 you know, all the ambiance and you know the delicacies 92 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.040 in terms of what was you know, the bread. All 93 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.240 I know is whether it tastes good or not. And 94 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.279 I described, you know where I'd be. And what was 95 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.519 interesting is a couple of restaurants would call the station 96 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.199 and say, hey, can Kevin come over and try our restaurant. 97 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:08.720 We've got this specialty that seemed like it might be 98 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.120 good for him. And it was pretty cool. It was 99 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:14.319 a lot of fun, and some of the hole in 100 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.279 the wall places that you find is just absolutely incredible. 101 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.800 Now you've always heard, I'm sure, the phrase dive, and 102 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:23.120 you've heard, you know, well, I don't know if you've 103 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.240 ever heard the term greasy spoon. But a difference between 104 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.519 a dive and a greasy spoon is whether or not 105 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.920 they sell liquor. And so a dive would be a 106 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.600 dive bar where it's kind of a homegrown type of 107 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.600 neighborhood bar that has food. And sometimes a lot of 108 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.480 those places have some excellent food as well. And so 109 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:49.360 the culinary exploration of Kevin Gordon is kind of well documented, 110 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:52.160 and my wife kind of well kind of just enjoys 111 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:54.160 it as well. Now that's not to say that we 112 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:58.639 don't occasionally go to a nice restaurant, but sometimes it's 113 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.480 one of those things where you look at a price 114 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.920 and you look at what you're eating and it's like, gosh, 115 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:03.839 is it really worth it? 116 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.000 I can remember going back to when. 117 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:10.480 I was down in Little Rock, Arkansas, the salespeople or 118 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.000 the program director in the in the station, the course, 119 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.160 like we do here, have some rock stations and some 120 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.399 music stations, and these radio or these record people would 121 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:24.680 come in and try to whine and dine the program 122 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.920 director or the disc jockeys to talk about some of 123 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.680 the music that they're playing or kind of introduce them 124 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:33.480 to some of the new songs that are coming up. 125 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:35.399 And once in a while they take them to dinner. 126 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:38.879 And every time there would be like one of the 127 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:41.240 guys that couldn't go, and so they'd give me a 128 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:43.360 holler and say, Hey, we're going out to dinner tonight. 129 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:44.680 You want to you want to head out? 130 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:46.920 And I got to tell you in a Little Rock, Arkansas, 131 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.839 which is kind of a cool little town, well, you know, 132 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:52.399 Bill Clinton obviously down there but a lot of stories 133 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:55.319 about him down there. But going to a lot of 134 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.959 these different restaurants. We went to some of the best 135 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:03.959 restaurants in Little Rock, Arkansas, some very high class restaurants, 136 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.519 steakhouses and stuff. And quite honestly, I'm looking at the 137 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:09.480 menu and the guy says, you know, get whatever you want. 138 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.040 I'm like, my goodness, I'm looking at the prices and 139 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.680 I'm like, my god, I feel guilty eating this. And 140 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.399 when i was eating and I was thinking, my god, 141 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.639 I'm glad I'm not paying for this, because I'd have 142 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.000 a heart attack based on the price that I'd get 143 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.759 the bill at the end of the dinner. But I'm 144 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.000 just kind of a basic kind of guy. And so anyway, 145 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.680 getting back to the story. On New Year's Eve, I 146 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.079 had a lot of stuff that that night, and we 147 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:37.079 just had a great time watching movies, watching some of 148 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:39.439 the news events, and then of course watching some of 149 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.480 the entertainment, flipping around the stations, and then watching the 150 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.759 ball drop at midnight. So I'm not quite sure what 151 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.519 our plans are for tonight, but I'm sure we'll come 152 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:52.920 up with something fun because we always do. So Anyway, again, 153 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.600 got the phone numbers out there and I see Bobby. 154 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:58.560 Let's go to the phones right now, Bobby fifty five 155 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.519 k s. Happy New Year and Happy New Year's Eve. 156 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:02.560 I guess I should say. 157 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.560 Hey, my brother, I tell you what hold that torture 158 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.079 of freedom up high and bright? It's dark outside. 159 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.639 Oh, you bet you. We certainly will. 160 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.680 Well, we got the governor of the state of Ohio. 161 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.480 I think you'll make that appointment probably today or tomorrow, 162 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.279 so I hope it's too I think it will be. 163 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:23.959 What is the shortlist of you some of them? Have 164 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:25.399 you seen the shortlist on that? 165 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:30.560 Or well, Jane Daney, girl from up here in Columbus, 166 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.840 and his uh you know number two man is the governor. 167 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:38.919 But I thank you. I hope that he'd take Orlando Salsa. Yeah, 168 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:42.000 you know, somebody from the Cincinnati area to replace the 169 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:46.360 Cincinnati Senator. And you will find a better man than that. 170 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.720 Change some of the guard out from the Columbus people. 171 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:50.279 I'll tell you what. 172 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.639 That would be great because you know, living over in Kentucky, 173 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:56.840 I kind of I have to really well, I have 174 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:01.080 to work it to get together with politicians over here 175 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:03.559 on this side of the river. And so I've gone 176 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.879 to a bunch of the fundraisers with Orlando. Very impressive 177 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:10.600 young man and really has a lot of good ideas 178 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.879 and a lot of and what he stood for. And 179 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.279 it's amazing to me watching the inner workings of the 180 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:20.080 Republican Party, especially in Hamilton County and as far as 181 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.840 the state is concerned, they kind of still have that 182 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.879 old guard mentality where they pick certain people and those 183 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.679 are the people that they push as opposed to some 184 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.320 of the bright young stars and some of the people 185 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:36.200 that should be in line. But because somebody's been there 186 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.159 for a while, all of a sudden, it seems as 187 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.159 though that it's their shot instead of them having to 188 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.840 go in the primary or go in and actually prove themselves. 189 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:47.960 So that would be a that would be an excellent 190 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.679 pick on the part of the Wine. But again, waiting 191 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.320 for to Wine to do something right would be you know, 192 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:58.600 that's like Annabasher in Kentucky trying to do something right. 193 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:03.279 So you couldn't put it in better by brother. The 194 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.879 next thing I'm really proud about is that when our 195 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.399 President Trump comes and takes his inauguration, it's going to 196 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.080 be on the MLK Day. So he's done a lot 197 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:15.200 for the black community and he's going to be taking 198 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.320 the oath of office on the MLK days. 199 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:18.840 That's going to be interesting. 200 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:22.480 I hadn't thought that far ahead and looked at the 201 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.399 at the date and I know it was around that time. 202 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:29.440 But that's cool, that'd be That's interesting. What's your top 203 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:30.840 story of twenty twenty four? 204 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:32.559 Brother? 205 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:34.200 I tell you what all we're going to try to 206 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.600 do is keep that flag of flying and the torch 207 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.200 of burning and try to do everything we can because 208 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.840 we're in the midst of a cultural revolution. People need 209 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.240 to understand that and don't be complacent. Be awall goes 210 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:46.159 on around. 211 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:46.679 You, exactly. 212 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:49.960 And I think the overall theme should be with as 213 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.039 vigilant as we were in twenty twenty, well actually since 214 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:58.320 since twenty sixteen, as vigilant as we've been to try 215 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:00.879 to make America great and to try to move America 216 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:04.799 forward and keep us as strong and as impactful and 217 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.799 world leaders in this world. We just can't stop. We 218 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.759 got to keep the vigilance. We can't rest on our laurels. 219 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.759 We got to keep pushing forward because the other side 220 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.679 is always going to be pushing their agenda and trying 221 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.799 to ramrod that down our throat. As we discussed yesterday 222 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.440 with my guest Even Moser from a population research institute, 223 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:28.879 talking about the communist influence around the world and how 224 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.360 that has kind of creeped into the United States. And 225 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.080 if you look at some of the policies of the 226 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:37.320 Democrats and the Democratic platform, there's a little bit a 227 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:41.360 twinge of a whole lot of twinge of socialism and 228 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.120 a little dab communism in there as well. 229 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:45.600 So we got it. 230 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:50.360 As you say, I try to make a difference between 231 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.840 a brand or a foe than an adversary or an inmate. Yeah, 232 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.519 and using the word democrat anymore doesn't really fit the 233 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.559 narrative of the individual that are on the left. Yah, 234 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.799 there's nothing. But you know, I seem as short of 235 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:08.200 enemies as the state. And that's how I feel. 236 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.200 And I don't know that I can actually disagree with 237 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.360 you on that when I look and as I as 238 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.879 I've said, I if I could wave a magic wand 239 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:20.879 I would kind of prefer that Fox News or some 240 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:25.440 of the conservative outlets stop playing the clips of the 241 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.120 people on the left on the view on some of 242 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:32.879 these ms NBC shows or CNN, because they get more 243 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:36.519 views and more ears on Fox than they do on 244 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:40.279 their own programs. However, the other flip side of that 245 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:44.360 is we still have to know what nonsense is going 246 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.159 on on the left. It's good to know who your 247 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.720 enemies are and what they're thinking, so that you're not 248 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.120 a surprise when they bring these things out. So I'm 249 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.240 kind of torn. I don't like seeing it on the 250 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.759 air because you're giving them too much props. But on 251 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:00.879 the other hand, you got to know where are coming from. 252 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.919 So well, Bobby, I'm up against the break. You have 253 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.440 a you have one book. We got one finals thought 254 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.919 before we get out of here. Oh okay, well, Bobby, 255 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:11.960 thanks so much for the phone call. I certainly appreciate 256 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.720 it again. Five one three seven four nine fifty five 257 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:17.039 hundred one eight hundred eight two three talk one eight 258 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:19.399 hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five 259 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:22.200 point fifty AT and T wireless phone. We're off and 260 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.559 running with one of the best calls and one of 261 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.320 the best callers of the day. 262 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:27.840 Well see if you can top that. 263 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.440 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR 264 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:41.879 see the talk station five twenty one. I'm if almost 265 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:43.639 five twenty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon and for 266 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:47.360 Brian Thomas fifty five KRS the talk station. You know, 267 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.159 one of the things that again looking forward to twenty 268 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:54.919 twenty five, I've mentioned this before and I just there 269 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.039 is just this air of optimism. You see this in 270 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.679 a lot of different businesses. You see this as far 271 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.759 as some of the people ramping up and thinking in 272 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.679 terms of what they are going to capital expenditure wise, 273 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.320 as far as their companies are concerned, looking at some 274 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.639 of the companies that are looking to expand, and the 275 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:19.120 idea that people are more optimistic as far as what 276 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:23.320 they are looking for in twenty twenty five. And contrast 277 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.639 you can trast that with what you are seeing in 278 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.440 again the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. And 279 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.879 you have to look in between the lines sometimes when 280 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.679 you're reading some of these stories, because they always have 281 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.320 to throw this little barb in there, and the one 282 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.039 barb that they keep throwing in there that is just well, 283 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.480 it's just so typical. How we can go back to 284 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.480 twenty fifteen, We can go back to whenever you want, 285 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.639 of where the media will pick out a sentence of 286 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:57.360 a speech or a comment from Trump and then blow 287 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:02.200 that up as opposed to putting the contextual reasoning behind that, 288 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:06.279 taking it out of context, or finishing the entire sentence 289 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.039 as to what was being said. And one of the 290 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.679 things we keep hearing about is tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, How 291 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:16.200 this is going to lead to inflation? Even Jerome Powell 292 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.279 with the Federal Reserve, which is not and even though 293 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:22.200 that it's called the Federal Reserve, it is not connected 294 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.159 to the government. A lot of people think it is, 295 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:27.519 but it is supposed to be the separate, independent agency 296 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:35.000 that handles money supply, money flow, interest rates, and the economy, 297 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:37.960 you know, trying to tweak the economy because due to 298 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:41.840 whether the jobs are strong or the inflation is high, 299 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.799 and they generally have a pretty bad track record of 300 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:50.960 doing that. And they have pretty much as far as 301 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:53.399 what they've done as far as the economy, I would 302 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.200 give them about a C minus in terms of what 303 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.080 they've tried to do in terms of trying. 304 00:15:57.879 --> 00:15:59.960 To control inflation. 305 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.679 But when you have an administration that is out of 306 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.120 control with their energy policy, when they don't know what 307 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:11.200 they're doing as far as running businesses or how to 308 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:16.320 run a country, when you start off your administration by 309 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:19.919 saying we're going to just cancel everything and start from 310 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.799 scratch from what the previous administration did. And so when 311 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.039 you do that, you're going to open yourself up for failure. 312 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:31.720 And then when you start throwing money into the economy 313 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:34.240 like they did, and as they were worn with the 314 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:38.879 stimulus packages, the final stimulus package that caused inflation, that 315 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.039 put too much money into the pockets, because then people 316 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.519 had more money and they could stay home. So the 317 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:50.200 Federal Reserve had a task of fighting against the administration 318 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:55.759 of them bidnomics and ruining the economy, and then them 319 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.440 trying to put a rudder on that or a steering 320 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:02.240 wheel or something to control all that. So when you 321 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.960 look at going ahead, even Jerome Powell has said that, well, 322 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:11.000 well it's uncertain whether we should decrease interest rates even 323 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.920 further because there is a possibility of inflation on the horizon. Well, 324 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.079 based on what you've got the previous four years when 325 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.160 Trump was in office, what was the inflation rate? Then 326 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.880 people were saying the tariffs that he levied back then 327 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:26.720 were going to lead to inflation. 328 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:27.599 They didn't. 329 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.839 And when he talks about now as being tariffs as 330 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:34.160 a negotiating tool in order to get better bargains or 331 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.799 to get our goods into these different countries that are 332 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:41.799 banning or you know, putting tariffs on our goods coming 333 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.039 into their countries. You know, it's a little tit for 334 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.400 tat there. Why should they be dumping their cheap goods 335 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:51.680 in the United States and making an unfair competition with 336 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.279 our domestic manufacturers and the people that are making here. 337 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:57.759 And I've got a story coming up we'll get to 338 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.960 pretty soon about how Walma and a particular country company 339 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:06.359 we're able to reverse the tide in terms of manufacturing 340 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.599 and manufacturing goods that can sell at a reasonable price 341 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:14.240 in competition with foreign competition. Five one, three, seven, four 342 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:16.519 nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three 343 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:18.799 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 344 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.960 five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 345 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.359 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, The 346 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:26.119 Talk Station. 347 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:27.960 Fifty five KRC. 348 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.640 Five thirty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 349 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:49.559 fifty five KRC, The Talk Station. This one story just 350 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:52.759 I keep seeing this pop up and it just absolutely 351 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:57.680 boggles my mind and bothers me. The corner ideas. The 352 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:01.000 thirty three year old girl that was mauled by I 353 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:05.599 think I heard yesterday that this was the sixth, third 354 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:10.519 or fourth mauling of a human in Ohio during this 355 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:15.720 past year. And they are talking about the father was 356 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.400 sleeping at the time, that the people calling nine to 357 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:23.440 one one, and they've got the recordings of that. What 358 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.039 amazes me is that, And I know I'm probably going 359 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:34.400 to stir some pot here, but people keep forgetting that 360 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:40.160 dogs are animals, that animals are going to act like animals, 361 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:45.279 and at some time or another, they a flip of 362 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.880 a coin, could go either way. They can be very 363 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.079 gentle to a certain extent, but then at some point 364 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:56.079 in time they can flip. And to have a dog 365 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:01.000 that is of a very large size that would overpower 366 00:20:01.400 --> 00:20:05.240 and could maul a three year old, you gotta wonder, 367 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.799 you gotta wonder. I know there are certain breeds that 368 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:12.519 are very gentle. I know that they're but at any 369 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:16.400 given time, a dog can react like it's an animal. 370 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:21.559 It's not a human being, it is not a family member. 371 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:25.519 I'm sorry, but a dog is a dog, a cat 372 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.119 is a cat. They are animals. You can call yourself 373 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.160 a I'm gonna get into it here. You can call 374 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.680 yourself a pet parent, But the bottom line is is 375 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:39.240 that animals are going to behave like animals. And when 376 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:42.880 you look at certain breeds and when you see stories 377 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:46.319 that certain breeds are vicious and that they are the 378 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:49.839 type of dogs that will attack, then you need to 379 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:53.480 be proactive. And if you're going to have children, or 380 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:57.519 if you're gonna have kids around that animal, make sure 381 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.839 that you have the right breed in the house in 382 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.200 order to handle that. And I it bothers me that 383 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:08.319 when these especially when you've got something that could be 384 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:13.200 easily present preventable simply because they. 385 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:16.279 Choose to have. 386 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:20.359 This animal in the home that is too big and 387 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:23.279 maybe not the right breed. When you look around and 388 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:28.079 you say each year, seventeen thousand dog bites are reported 389 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:32.960 by local public health agencies, seventeen thousand. 390 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.319 That is a that it shocked. 391 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:40.599 Me when I read the number, because we put so 392 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:43.319 much emphasis and it seems so many people put so 393 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:48.480 much emphasis on treating these animals as if they are humans, 394 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:53.559 and where they how they feed them, where they feed them. 395 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:56.440 You see these like for instance, you I mean, you 396 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:58.640 do any reading on this, and you read that you know, 397 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:02.240 dogs are meant to be eating stuff off with the 398 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:04.519 way they eat them, like it's off the floor or 399 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.839 at a low position, putting putting these dog bowls up 400 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.839 in a position of where it's kind of like almost 401 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.240 a mini table for them. That is not the way 402 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:18.200 their bodies have been constructed. You look at these dogs, 403 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.680 you look at animals in the wild, what they do, 404 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:24.319 how they eat, and what they do when they're eating. 405 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:29.119 If you tend to follow that, it would be like 406 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:32.880 changing our eating habits by where we sit, where where 407 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:36.319 we stand, how we do certain things. But the way 408 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:39.759 it is is the way you the animal is made. 409 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:44.640 And it's just amazing me. It bothers me every time 410 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.640 I read one of these stories, and there are I think, 411 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.519 out of the three maulings or whatever, two of them 412 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.000 were children and one was a seventy eight year old 413 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.359 woman somewhere in the state. But it's just, uh, it's 414 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:00.240 just a tragic story. Phone numbers five one, three four 415 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.519 nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three 416 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:04.880 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 417 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:08.000 five pound, five point fifty at and T wireless phone 418 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:10.759 Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see 419 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:11.519 the talk station. 420 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:16.480 This is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station, run a business, 421 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:26.960 and not the. 422 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:26.519 Five forty in the morning. 423 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:29.079 Kevin Gordon for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR, se the 424 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:32.720 talk station phone there was five one three, seven four 425 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:35.039 nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three 426 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:37.400 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 427 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:40.720 five pound, five fifty AT and T wireless phone. 428 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:41.240 UH. 429 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:45.640 For my money, I would say that the biggest story 430 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.319 of the year, UH overall. 431 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:51.079 Was the election that we saw. 432 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:55.720 We saw that all of the all the stuff that 433 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:59.720 we've been hearing for oh ever, since Trump came down 434 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:03.480 the later in twenty fifteen, being a threat to democracy, 435 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.960 being Hitler, being Mussolini, the end of democracy as we 436 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:12.279 know it, and that you know, as they called a 437 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:16.160 existential thread, he's a Nazi and all this sort of stuff. 438 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:21.079 I've mentioned this several times before, and it bears repeating 439 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:25.319 and repeating, because certain things just don't quite sink in 440 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:28.799 the first time, and you have to repeat things over 441 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:32.759 and over again. And I cannot emphasize enough that if 442 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:36.000 you see something, you see an attack from the left, 443 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:40.160 when you hear an accusation from them. All you need 444 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:43.359 to do is realize that I do a little bit 445 00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:46.200 of digging, and they are guilty of what it is 446 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.799 that they are accusing the other side of I don't care. Well, 447 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:52.519 you can go down the list. I don't care. If 448 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.759 you can look at racism. Democratic Party is the party 449 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:59.839 of racism. It is the party of Jim Crow Laws. 450 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.079 It was the party of slavery, It was the party 451 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.880 of the black codes. It is the party of segregation. 452 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:10.640 If you go back and you look at all of 453 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:13.200 the civil rights movement, if you look at all of 454 00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:16.759 the southern towns down there, all of the beatings, all 455 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:19.640 of the every you know, when you listen to Martin 456 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:23.920 Martin Luther King Junior's I have a dream speech. Every 457 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:29.079 southern state that he mentions was had a Democrat governor 458 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:33.079 in every one of these cities. Were Democrat mayors. In 459 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:36.720 the sheriffs that were doing the beatings, the dogs that 460 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:41.279 were turned on people, the water hoses, all Democrats, and 461 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:47.359 coming across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, that bloody Sunday, Democrats 462 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:51.759 doing the beatings, Democrats doing the billy clubs and trying 463 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:56.759 to tamp down segregation, it wasn't until the Voting Rights Act, 464 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.079 or first of all, the Civil Rights Act of nineteen 465 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:04.920 sixty four, when the Republicans actually in more as far 466 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:09.559 as a larger percentage voted for that bill got that passed. 467 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:13.359 And if it wasn't for the efforts of Senator Everett Dirkson, 468 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:18.000 who was probably one of the last Republican senators from 469 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:21.839 the state of Illinois. He spearheaded that and pushed that 470 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:26.279 through beyond the filibuster one of the longest filibusters in 471 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:31.400 history by Robert Byrd. You know Robert KKK Bird, Democrat 472 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:36.359 senator from West Virginia. Oh yes, a mentor to Hillary Clinton, 473 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.920 Joe Biden's friend. Yeah, Biden talks about Oh yeah, he 474 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.039 used to work with some of these segregationists and they 475 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:48.279 were you know that, but that's how they got things done. Okay, 476 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:53.720 So you have there a member now, Robert Byrd. And 477 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:55.680 this is probably old news to a lot of people, 478 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:00.039 but Robert Byrd was more than just a racist. He 479 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.519 was a former klansman. And I'm not so sure the 480 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.240 former actually applies, because there were records of him being 481 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:10.680 a klansman up until at least nineteen fifty even though 482 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:14.039 he said that he stopped sometime in the forties, and 483 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:16.880 he was a little bit more, a lot more than 484 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:21.319 just a klansman. He was what they call a klegal, 485 00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:24.119 which is the guy that goes out and recruits people. 486 00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:28.319 So back in the day when you had during the depression, 487 00:27:28.599 --> 00:27:32.039 when you had during the low economic times, people were 488 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:35.960 making about twenty bucks an hour or twenty bucks a day, 489 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:42.000 Robert Byrd was making sixty dollars a week going out 490 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:47.039 and recruiting people to come into the KKK. And he 491 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:51.720 was made the chapter of the Exalted Cyclops of that 492 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:54.799 particular chapter, so he had his own chapter. And yet 493 00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:58.599 every time we hear about racism and putting that on 494 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:02.240 the Republican Party, Okay, all they can come up with 495 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:08.680 is a disgraced David Duke who was run out of 496 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:12.839 the Republican Party. Nobody wants to associate with him. Everybody 497 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:16.839 pushed him aside. When his name comes up, they denounce him. 498 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:21.640 Did anybody denounce Robert Byrd? Look at the eulogy that 499 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:26.160 was done by Bill Clinton. It is incredible at praising 500 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:29.880 this racist. And so when you look back on the 501 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:33.880 allegations of racism, all they've got to do is look 502 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:36.480 at what is going on in their own party. And 503 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:38.880 if you look at Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, they 504 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:42.559 have a history of racism between the two of them. 505 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:47.079 Bill Clinton's mentor, Orville Fabas, He's the guy that infamously 506 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:51.519 stood in front of the Central High School, Little Rock, 507 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:55.079 Arkansas and prevented the Little Rock nine from coming into 508 00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:55.559 the school. 509 00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:55.799 There. 510 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:01.400 Bill Clinton Fulbright scholar, William Fulbright, avid racist, was a 511 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:05.200 member of the what they referred to as the southerns 512 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:08.880 what they call the Southern author of one of the 513 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.839 authors of the Southern Manifesto. There was a group of 514 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:16.039 Dixiecrats that after the Brown versus Board of Education Supreme 515 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:19.720 Court ruling came down that not ended separate but equal, 516 00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:23.839 they protested and said that they were going to fight 517 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.680 this and form this group of Dixiecrats wrote the Southern Manifesto. 518 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:32.160 And William Fulbright was one of those people. And yet 519 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:36.640 Bill Clinton Fulbright scholar comes from some pretty heavy races. 520 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:39.200 And here's the thing that shocked me. When I was 521 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:42.039 down to a Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually went and 522 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:44.640 interviewed I was going to have her on the program, 523 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:48.319 but I wound up leaving the station before I could 524 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:49.359 get her on the air. 525 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:52.880 Little Rock nine. After the. 526 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.400 National Guard was there to allow those kids and to 527 00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:01.680 protect those kids to come in. The federal government took 528 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:04.880 over the school system, the school district in Little Rock, Arkansas, 529 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:09.279 and was in charge of that until the schools were desegregated. 530 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:17.440 Take a wild guess when those schools were desegregated. I'm 531 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:19.680 gonna save that until after the break. I'm Kevin Gordon 532 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.640 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr SE detalk. 533 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.559 Station fifty five KRC getting quality employees to fillp his. 534 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:37.720 Pick five fifty one in the morning, Kevin Gordon and 535 00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:38.960 for Brian Thomas. 536 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:39.640 Fifty five kr SE. 537 00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:43.240 The talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four 538 00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:45.720 nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three 539 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.559 talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five 540 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.759 five pound, five point fifty on that AT and T 541 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:55.480 wireless phone. Before the break I mentioned, when do you 542 00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:58.839 suppose or when do you think the Little Rock, Arkansas 543 00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:04.039 School District was desegregated enough that the overall federal control 544 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.839 was turned back over to the local school board. Now, 545 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.920 this incident with the Little Rock nine happened in nineteen 546 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.599 fifty nine when Orville Faubas stood in front of that 547 00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.519 school and prevented the Little Rock nine from attend, or 548 00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:23.599 actually any blacks, any blacks to attend. And then it 549 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:27.240 took the federal troops to come down there, sent by Eisenhower, 550 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:32.200 by the way, a Republican. So then the federal government 551 00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:35.960 took control of those schools until they desegregated. Now, mind you, 552 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:40.079 Bill Clinton was the attorney general there for four years 553 00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:44.359 and then wound up being governor for eight, so in 554 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.359 charge of or in a elected position in Arkansas for 555 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.079 twelve years prior to him running for president nineteen ninety two. 556 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:59.359 Hillary Clinton supposedly this champion of racial equality who was 557 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.519 his wife, and talked about all the great things she 558 00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:06.240 did as first lady down there. So do you suppose 559 00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:10.319 that the Little Rock schools were desegregated by then? No, no, no, no, 560 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:14.599 you'd be wrong. Little Rock, Arkansas schools were turned over 561 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:19.000 to the school District in twenty fourteen. 562 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:21.240 Twenty fourteen. 563 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:26.000 It cost the taxpayers of Little Rock School District and 564 00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:30.079 the people of Arkansas almost a billion and a half 565 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:35.039 dollars from nineteen fifty nine up until twenty fourteen, when 566 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:39.039 they were sufficiently desegregated enough for the federal government to 567 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:43.880 stop being in control of the schools there. So, if 568 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:49.880 Bill Clinton was this big champion of racial rights and desegregation, 569 00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:52.599 why didn't he start in his own backyard. 570 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.400 It's just the things when you learned. 571 00:32:56.119 --> 00:33:00.240 The history of what they accuse us of doing, when 572 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.640 you look at when they talk about Nazis, when you 573 00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:08.480 talk about what was going on, what did FDR do 574 00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:15.279 to stop Nazi Nazi atrocities. He refused to bomb any 575 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:19.160 of the railroad lines leading to the death camps. He 576 00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:22.680 knew what was going on in those death camps. He 577 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:26.039 also knew some of the persecutions that were going on 578 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:29.759 of the Jewish people prior to World War Two. And 579 00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:34.200 he's the one that didn't allow the ship, the Saint 580 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:39.640 Louis from bringing nine hundred and thirty two Jewish settlers 581 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:43.759 from Europe from Germany to land in the United States. 582 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.720 And that ship went from port to port, was refused 583 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:52.160 to entry, and then also refused entry down in South America, 584 00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.720 wound up returning to Europe. And these people were deposited 585 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.079 in Belgium and they figured, Okay, well that's far enough 586 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:03.799 away from Germany. Not so fast when Germany invaded Belgium 587 00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:07.680 and took over one third of those people on board 588 00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:11.920 that ship wound up dying in concentration camps. Thank you 589 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:17.679 very much, Franklin Delano Roosevelt for fighting Nazism and the sympathizers. 590 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:21.960 And then when you talk about communist influence in the 591 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:26.679 FDR cabinet and in his government, there were numerous communists 592 00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:29.119 in there, and his thinking was, well, you know what, 593 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:32.920 if I have some communists in my cabinet or communists 594 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.960 in my administration, I can keep an eye on them 595 00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:37.440 and I know what they're up to. 596 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:39.320 How did that work out for you? 597 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:42.679 Coming up the top of the hour, take your phone 598 00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.800 calls and even more again setting the stage here, what's 599 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:48.400 your biggest story for the year, what's your plans for 600 00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:51.960 the New Year's celebration and what are you hoping for 601 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.360 twenty twenty five? If I one three seven four nine 602 00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:57.039 fifty five one eight hundred eight two three talk one 603 00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:59.559 eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound 604 00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.519 five fifty the AT and T wireless phone, Kevin Gordon 605 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:07.000 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station, there's. 606 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:09.880 No shortage of stuff to talk about in twenty twenty five. 607 00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:15.199 I'm the conversation is happening here on fifty five KRS 608 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:16.719 the talk station. 609 00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:30.280 I'll right, five minutes after six o'clock. Happy New Year 610 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.159 to the people listening to fifty five KRC in America's 611 00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:38.960 Samoa and New Zealand. They are actually celebrating New Year's 612 00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:42.119 Day right as we speak. The ball has dropped there 613 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:43.920 at the top of the hour, and they're all in 614 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:46.800 the party mood there. So that will start going across 615 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:51.800 the from the Pacific and on into the Eastern time zone, 616 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:55.280 across the Europe and so on, it comes over heads 617 00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:58.480 to the West, and eventually it comes to us at midnight. 618 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.599 So happy news to all of our listeners out there 619 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:04.519 on American Samoa and New Zealand. Now I got to 620 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:06.280 tell you, I'm a little proud of myself. I love 621 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:09.400 something over on I printed. I hit print on something, 622 00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:12.119 and for some reason it went over to our newsroom, 623 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:17.719 which is probably about forty yards away. So after I 624 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:21.159 did the weather announcement, I did the forty yard dash 625 00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.920 over there to get that and then back so probably 626 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:28.960 under probably about forty yard dashing about the maybe about 627 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.880 six seconds flat both ways. So not too bad, not 628 00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.679 too bad out of breath either. So I'm kind of 629 00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:36.119 proud of myself today, you know. So anyway, I just 630 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:37.760 thought i'd give you a little bit of heads up there. 631 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:40.320 One of the things I want to see happen in 632 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:43.920 twenty twenty twenty five. One of my goals, aside from 633 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:47.320 everything on the national stage and wanting to make sure 634 00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:49.639 that doze it gets off to a good start. The 635 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:55.000 Department of Government Efficiency, which again operating kind of independently 636 00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:57.800 outside the government, could have a long way because if 637 00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.679 you're in an advisory capacity and these guys are going 638 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:02.239 to be doing this for free, they're not going to 639 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:05.559 get paid for this, so they're not beholding to anybody. 640 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:06.360 And one of the. 641 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:08.920 Things and you know, all right, here I go, I'm 642 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:10.760 interrupting myself. And this is one of the things my 643 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:12.440 wife always tells me. She says, you know, when you're 644 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:14.719 in the middle of the thought, you always interrupt yourself. Well, 645 00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.440 I'm going to interrupt myself here. You know, last week 646 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:20.199 we kept hearing about all this. You know, Elon musk 647 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.440 Is is actually the president and Donald Trump is the 648 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:26.039 vice president. They're trying to draw this red wedge in 649 00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:29.320 between Donald Trump and Elon Musk and trying to sow 650 00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:32.159 some seeds of doubt and trying to stir the pot 651 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:35.000 as far as everything is concerned, and people are talking about, well, 652 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.519 we're uncomfortable with this relationship with this billionaire having an 653 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:44.000 influence over our government. It's now become where like Russia. 654 00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:47.280 And of course because Trump, you know, loves Vlatimir Putin 655 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:50.599 and wants to be a dictator, right, so he wants 656 00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:54.920 to have these oligarchs that are part of the federal. 657 00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:55.840 Government that run things. 658 00:37:56.719 --> 00:38:00.480 And so when they're talking about Elon Musk having too 659 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.320 much influence because he helped fund you know, because of Twitter, 660 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:10.199 because of actually having a fair and independent journalism outlet, 661 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:13.280 I guess you will. You know, Twitter is not journalism, 662 00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:15.400 but people can get on there and express their thoughts. 663 00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:17.440 But by that, that's one of the things that people 664 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:19.880 talked about, and especially some of the money that Elon 665 00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:25.679 Musk contributed that helped Donald Trump get elected. But why 666 00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:31.320 wouldn't you want to have advice from a billionaire another 667 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:35.679 billionaire because who are they going to be influenced by? 668 00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.519 Are they going to be influenced by special interest? Are 669 00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:43.199 they going to be influenced by lobbyists. Are they going 670 00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:47.400 to be paid to have an opinion? How do you 671 00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.840 bribe them? How do you influence them? They've got more 672 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.320 money than you know, just well the richest man in 673 00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.199 the world, So how how is that not a good thing? 674 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:03.800 But of course when she was on the other foot, 675 00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:08.320 and again, who's doing the accusations, who's making the accusations, 676 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:12.519 And let's not forget who's doing that accusations. 677 00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:13.559 That's the left. 678 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.639 Well, you got Mark Zuckerberg, you got Bill Gates, You've 679 00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:21.480 got George Sorows, You've got all of the Hollywood people. 680 00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:26.639 Oprah Win Fee is a campaign donor and a supporter 681 00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:28.800 of the Democratic Party. 682 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:30.079 She's a billionaire. 683 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:36.079 Nobody concerned themselves with those billionaires influencing things, But all 684 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:38.840 of a sudden, when a Democrat or when a Republican 685 00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:42.159 has billionaires influencing them. And by the way, I did 686 00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:46.239 not misspeak. I know her name is oprah Winfree, but 687 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:50.920 now I call her oprah win Fee because she is 688 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.199 not free. You have to pay for her endorsement, as 689 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:56.639 we found with the Kamala Harris fiasco. 690 00:39:56.760 --> 00:39:58.840 There So, going. 691 00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:02.920 Into the new year, Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk being 692 00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:07.519 on part of this DOGE Department of Government Efficiency, they 693 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.559 can make all kinds of recommendations. They can get in, 694 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:12.719 they can look at some of these things. And we 695 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:15.920 talked last week about the Festivus Report that Ran Paul 696 00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:19.000 puts together every year, and it goes down some of 697 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.239 the government funding and some of the projects that are 698 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.159 being funded. And I'm sure you've heard some of the 699 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:29.719 stories about different giving rats cocaine and do they prefer 700 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:34.679 cocaine over food as if, as if you need that 701 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:38.039 study as some of the crazy stuff that's done where 702 00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:41.079 we're spending money, who we're giving foreign aid to. Even 703 00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:44.800 Trump mentioned last week we're giving one hundred billion dollars 704 00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:48.400 a year, one hundred billion dollars a year in foreign 705 00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:52.960 aid to Canada. We're giving hundreds of billions of dollars 706 00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:57.159 to foreign aid in Mexico. And as he said, why 707 00:40:57.159 --> 00:40:59.159 not just the heck with him? Just make them a 708 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:02.760 fifty first state. I mean, it makes and there's some 709 00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:07.760 levity to that, but all seriousness. So the Festivus Report 710 00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.039 put together by Rand Paul comes up with a little 711 00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:12.960 bit over a trillion dollars just there. The Office of 712 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:16.079 Management and Budget every year comes up with their laundry list. 713 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:19.559 The Inspector General's report comes out every year where they're 714 00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:23.559 talking about the different waste and fraud and abuses within 715 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:24.559 the federal government. 716 00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:25.480 We see the. 717 00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.840 IG Department once in a while that'll come up and say, 718 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.119 you know, they're the ones that started reporting or reported 719 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:39.000 on some of the stimulus checks. The fraud there, some 720 00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:41.599 of the stuff that they've in investigated and people that 721 00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:45.199 they've prosecuted for getting the from the Cares Act, getting 722 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:48.239 these government subsidies to keep their businesses open when in 723 00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:51.400 fact they didn't have a business, and that they've fraudulently 724 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:54.480 claimed that they had employees, that they had a business, 725 00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:57.760 and they got federal funds. So we see those reports, 726 00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:01.159 we see that the stimulus check that went out, how 727 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:03.840 some of them went to actually people that were in prison, 728 00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.440 some people that were in federal well penitentiaries around the country. 729 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:09.119 I went to dead people. 730 00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:13.480 And so when the federal government doesn't watch what they're doing, 731 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.719 they can waste a ton of money. And just by 732 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:20.000 stopping that, and when you're talking about oh, well this 733 00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.280 is going to cut into Medicare, that's going to cut 734 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:24.719 into Medicaid. This is going to cut in you know, 735 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:28.199 social Security, They're going to cut benefits and all these 736 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:31.199 lies that they've been telling. Well, you know, if you're 737 00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:33.599 going to bankrupt the fund, if you're not going to 738 00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:38.719 have money available for the intended purpose, the easiest way 739 00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:42.079 to do that is to raid that pot of money. 740 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.039 And when you look at what has been done with 741 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:47.760 us is Social Security. You know, even al Gore, remember 742 00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:50.760 al Gore talking about that Social Security was going to 743 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:54.960 be put in a lock box where nobody could touch it. Well, 744 00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.079 why did he say that, Because in the past it 745 00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:02.320 wasn't in a lockbow, it wasn't set aside. The federal 746 00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:05.519 government used that stream of money to fund other things 747 00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:08.119 and dropped the little io you in there, just an 748 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:12.039 io you, not with interest, but just an io you. 749 00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.480 We'll replace that money later on. And then when they 750 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:17.320 started looking at Social Security and saying, you know what, 751 00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:19.800 soci Security is going bankrupt. You know, we're running out 752 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:23.000 of money, then it had to be refortified. And during 753 00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.000 the Reagan years they had to do certain things to 754 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:27.639 tweak it and extend it on for another thirty years. 755 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:31.880 And we keep hearing this stuff and then on top 756 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:34.679 of that, that's not enough. So we just can't have 757 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:38.639 Social Security going out in the form of Social Security checks. No, 758 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:42.079 we got to start layering in SSI payments, which is 759 00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:46.280 supplemental Security income for people who are on disability. Now 760 00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:49.000 they're taking money out of the retirement fund, which was 761 00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:51.800 supposed to be a retirement fund, and they're paying this, 762 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:54.360 and then we find out that money has been coming 763 00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:58.079 out of that fund to pay and house illegal aliens. 764 00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:00.559 In addition to the funds that were supposed to be 765 00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:05.320 available for disaster relief that went to housing illegal aliens, 766 00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:07.719 so that when it came to a disaster relief for 767 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.760 Hurricane Helene and Milton, that the funds weren't there. And 768 00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:15.039 they say, oh, that's a lie, that's a conspiracy, that 769 00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:17.960 is a lie, flat out lie, and you're just trying 770 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:22.480 to mislead people. Well, the people that were misleading the 771 00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:24.239 people were the people that were saying that we were 772 00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:27.960 misleading because of the actual facts. And when the stories 773 00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:29.880 came out of the number of people that have been ignored, 774 00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:33.480 amount of people that hadn't seen a federal worker, hadn't 775 00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:36.119 seen any people from FEMA, then all of a sudden, 776 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:38.119 the words started getting out and they started having to 777 00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:40.920 do something about that. So when you start seeing these 778 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:44.119 funds being distributed from one group to another because there's 779 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.000 a pot of money there and one of my well, 780 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:49.960 you know, I've talked about this numerous times before, when 781 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.360 you talk about the funding and you talk about back 782 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.360 in twenty thirteen, how they you know, finally, you know, 783 00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:57.559 we got to build this here, right here, right now, 784 00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:01.719 the replacement Brent Spence Bridge placement that that project had 785 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:03.760 to be built. They had to do it right now. 786 00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:06.239 That they had to get this legislation passed in the 787 00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:10.519 Kentucky Senate and out which would fund public private partnerships 788 00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:12.519 and then they could use that in order to build 789 00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:15.920 this bridge with tolls, which you know, the story I've 790 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:20.239 talked about that. Now you look at the Highway Trust Fund, 791 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:22.679 this is a classic example of when we were fighting 792 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:24.800 the tolls on the Brents Benz Bridge. Looking at the 793 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:27.440 Federal Highway Trust Fund, You've got all this money going 794 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:30.400 in there from gas taxes, diesel taxes, you got excise 795 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.079 tax on tires on trucks, excise taxes on the trailers 796 00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:36.599 that they haul, on the cabs that they drive, and 797 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:40.000 you have all these taxes that go into this fund 798 00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:44.320 to repair highways, and instead of leaving that money in 799 00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:47.320 there when you have a brand new highway system, when 800 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:50.119 you don't have many repairs at all, what they did 801 00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:52.719 is they raided that and said, you know what, we've 802 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:54.199 got this pot of money that's not going to be 803 00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.039 used for a few more years, because when something's brand new, 804 00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:59.039 it doesn't break down in the first four or five 805 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.840 six years, So we'll just go ahead spend that money 806 00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:04.519 and then put it back in later on. Well, that 807 00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:07.119 later on never did happen. And then when it came 808 00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:09.719 time to start doing some of these repairs, that's when 809 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:12.000 they started doing some of these tolls around the country, 810 00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:17.320 and they started doing higher assessments and making sure that 811 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:21.400 the states were charging people to drive on these highways 812 00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:24.079 and upping these excise tax And when we came to 813 00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:26.840 find out in that investment and looking into that that 814 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:29.519 a third, even to this day, a third of what 815 00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:33.199 goes into that Highway Trust Fund is spent on things 816 00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:38.079 other than highways, bridges, tunnels, and so on. And we'll 817 00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:40.119 bring that up. I'll let you know where that money 818 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:43.199 goes coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 819 00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:44.679 fifty five KRS the. 820 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:49.320 Talk station fifty five KARC just in time for the 821 00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:49.840 New year. 822 00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.960 The new and improved free iHeartRadio app. 823 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.920 Is the first one and forecast during morning rush, We're 824 00:46:55.960 --> 00:46:59.239 gonna have a wet start to the day, rainy, wendy 825 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:02.039 and a low of four twenty seven. Rain continues into 826 00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:04.719 the afternoon. Whins could reach as high as thirty to 827 00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:08.480 thirty miles per hour, a high of only fifty Tuesday night, 828 00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.960 getting ready for the New Year's eve Ball drop any 829 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.719 of your outside celebrations. Rain should be drying out prior 830 00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:18.320 to that tempature's fall colder. Look for a low of 831 00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:20.480 thirty two on a New Year's day, mostly cloudy, some 832 00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:21.360 sun possible. 833 00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.840 It's cold again, a high of thirty eight and a 834 00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:24.719 low of twenty six. 835 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:27.360 Right now forty four degree is fifty five per se 836 00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.519 detalk station and Chuck Ingram updates. 837 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.800 Our traffic from the U S Howth Traffic Center. 838 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:35.559 The University of sintin Ed Cancer Centers the region's first 839 00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:38.760 and only provider as specialized primary care services for cancer 840 00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:42.599 bass and survivors called five one three five eighty five 841 00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:45.480 U S seat Seed Highway Traffic. 842 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:47.320 Continues to look pretty good this morning. 843 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:50.679 There's some heavy rainfalling in some spots, so traffic slowing 844 00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:53.559 the bit they are and construction isn't helping any On 845 00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:56.480 the Carroll Cropper Bridge, both east and westbound. I see 846 00:47:56.480 --> 00:48:00.960 a few break lights between Indiana and Kentucky judging the tide. 847 00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:02.840 Prez DE talk station. 848 00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:13.280 Six twenty one in the morning Kevin Gorton and for 849 00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.119 Brian Thomas if you have KERO, see the talk station 850 00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:19.599 plone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, five 851 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.079 hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight 852 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:25.599 hundred eight two three eight two five five pound five 853 00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:29.159 point fifty on that at and T wireless bill or 854 00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:32.719 phone rather looking at the bill for instance. As far 855 00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:35.000 as the Highway Trust Fund, I mentioned the previous segment 856 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.480 that over a third of the money going into that 857 00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:42.800 Highway Trust Fund is spent on things other than highways 858 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:45.920 and bridges. That we were told that, Well, when you 859 00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:48.719 pay your gasoline tax at the federal on the state level, 860 00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:52.280 that goes in the Highway Trust Fund. Right, So when 861 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.960 you hear Highway trust fund, what do you think that 862 00:48:56.079 --> 00:49:00.280 this is a trust fund that's there for highways. Okay, 863 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:04.360 so what's that money used for. Well, remember talking about 864 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.639 Joe Biden, how he used to go from Washington, d C. 865 00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:12.639 Back to Delaware every night on the train, supposedly to 866 00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:16.119 spend time with his family and just to be a 867 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:20.800 good old lunch bucket Joe and blue collar Joe and whatever. 868 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.199 Well that was funded. That was subsidized by you and me. 869 00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:28.480 Because the Northeastern Corridor, the Amtrak system up there, is 870 00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:33.199 funded out of the Highway Highway Trust Fund. So there's 871 00:49:33.239 --> 00:49:36.360 the subsidy there. They should be paying twice what they're 872 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:39.239 paying for on a normal ticket. Then you look at 873 00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:42.440 hiking and biking trails, and before you start calling and saying, 874 00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:44.760 well Kevin, I love my hiking trails and I love 875 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:47.960 my biking trails and on and on and on, Well 876 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:52.000 that's all well and good, but is it a highway 877 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:56.159 and walking trail hiking trail trust fund? 878 00:49:56.639 --> 00:49:58.480 Is it a highway. 879 00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:05.280 And bike trail trust fund? No, Now it would be 880 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:08.039 very I mean we keep talking about when the arguments 881 00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:10.840 come about tolling, Well, if you use it, you use it, 882 00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:14.280 you pay for it. Why doesn't that apply to these 883 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:17.719 hiking trails and biking trails and again I'm not opposed 884 00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:22.599 to those things, but when you look at the equipment, 885 00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.440 when you look at the bikes, when you look at 886 00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:31.480 the shoes, when you look at the walking sticks, backpacks, bottles, gloves, gear, helmets, 887 00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:37.039 the whole equipment, the clothing for biking and hiking that 888 00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:40.119 is used. Couldn't there be a little bit of a 889 00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:43.679 tiny tax on that, maybe a penny or so on, 890 00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.519 maybe a one percent tax on all the stuff that 891 00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:49.840 they do that that goes into a hiking trail and 892 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:54.320 biking trail fund to fund these projects. And maybe if 893 00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:57.559 they did that, they wouldn't have to put them on 894 00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:01.519 streets or do them in certain areas where it just 895 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:05.639 seems like, oh, you paint a solid white line, and 896 00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:08.280 then this part. You know, when you're driving down the road, 897 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.280 all of a sudden you see this solid white line 898 00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:14.159 and there's what about a five six foot space between 899 00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:17.079 that and the curb. Oh, well, that's for bikes over there, 900 00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:20.079 because you know a car can't go over that, that 901 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:23.599 solid white line. And some of you drive down some 902 00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:26.280 of these areas and you see where these bike biking 903 00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:30.039 trails are, or the biking the coexistence with some of 904 00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:32.360 these streets and you go down and you look at 905 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:36.079 those and in certain instances, and at least a lot 906 00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:38.719 of places where I've driven, you see you see the 907 00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:42.079 symbol for the bikes on that path, and then all 908 00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:44.480 of a sudden you get to a street and it ends, 909 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:46.880 and then it doesn't continue from that point on. 910 00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:49.360 So it's like, why bother? 911 00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:54.320 And you you know, build them where and use the 912 00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:57.199 money out of a trust fund that's set up for that, 913 00:51:57.679 --> 00:52:01.280 and tax the people that use them, unless they just 914 00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:03.280 want to put a turnstyle on these things and just 915 00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:06.320 have people drop a coin in there when they use them. 916 00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:09.440 Five one three seven four nine fifty eight hundred eight 917 00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:11.639 two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight 918 00:52:11.639 --> 00:52:14.639 two five five pound five fifty AT and T wireless phone. 919 00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:17.559 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five K see 920 00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:18.400 the talk station. 921 00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:23.960 Fifty five the talks station in the US there. 922 00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:34.960 Six twenty nine in the morning. 923 00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:38.159 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kre see 924 00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:41.280 the talk station. Look, yeah, some of the local headlines 925 00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:45.480 and I just cannot get away from this story. The 926 00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:48.239 three year old girl that was mauled by this dog. 927 00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:51.360 Actually there were three dogs in the home and appears 928 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:53.000 as though that she was mauled by. 929 00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:55.320 Two of them. I just. 930 00:52:57.159 --> 00:53:00.639 Now in the latest stories, I don't see the breed 931 00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:03.559 of the dog, and I'm sure that's done for a 932 00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:08.519 particular reason. I'm sure that they're not identifying that that. 933 00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:13.599 I'm sure that they're you know, I guess shaming, dog 934 00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:17.519 shaming or breed shaming. I don't know. But they talk 935 00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:20.519 about in this story and talk about how other dog 936 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:24.599 attacks and some interesting facts according to what goes on. 937 00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:28.639 I mentioned on the previous hour that seventeen dog seventeen 938 00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:31.960 thousand dog bites are reported to local public agencies and 939 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:36.320 all just in Ohio, experts say at least another seventeen 940 00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:41.119 thousand bites go unreported nationwide. One million of the four 941 00:53:41.159 --> 00:53:47.079 point seven million people bitten by dogs yearly require medical treatment. 942 00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:50.880 Kids under ten account for nearly half of the bite 943 00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:55.960 victims and are overrepresented in the fatalities. Now, you can 944 00:53:56.039 --> 00:54:00.000 imagine as far as a child is concerned, a child 945 00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:02.840 going up to a dog, you know, there's you know, 946 00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:05.639 an adult goes up and they pet a dog and 947 00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:10.239 they are you know whatever, they you know, petting a 948 00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:14.880 dog and sometimes play with a toy. But kids because 949 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:18.079 they're used to their stuffed animals or used to certain things. 950 00:54:18.280 --> 00:54:20.840 How many times do you see a child go over 951 00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:23.679 and kind of almost jump on a dog or go 952 00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:26.119 up and try to lay on a dog because they 953 00:54:26.920 --> 00:54:28.760 look at it as if it's some sort of a 954 00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:32.960 stuffed animal. And then the dog sometimes, you know, some 955 00:54:33.039 --> 00:54:34.880 of the breeds, the dog will just you know, get 956 00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:37.920 up and kind of mosey on, mosy on its way. 957 00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:40.519 But in some instances the dog will turn around and 958 00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:43.239 kind of nip at the child. And if you have 959 00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:47.920 an aggressive breed of dog, then that could turn in 960 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:51.920 this instance, and in many instances around the country deadly. 961 00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:57.480 And so why this is going on? And I was Gez, 962 00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:01.840 I read this and I couldn't believe what I was reading. Okay, 963 00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:05.760 Cincinnati Animal Care was called Friday morning to remove three 964 00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:08.559 dogs from the home. The dogs are currently being held 965 00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:12.800 for a state mandated ten day quarantine period. As shelter 966 00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:18.159 spokesperson said, judges have the discretion to order the euthanasia 967 00:55:18.239 --> 00:55:22.360 of dogs or vicious dogs after the first unprovoked attack. 968 00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:27.599 Often often it's left to the dog owner. 969 00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:30.679 If to the dog. 970 00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:35.320 Owner, now some mean it's it says the people. They 971 00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:37.599 love their animals. They're not going to kill them. You know, 972 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:39.880 this is just a one off. This dog has never 973 00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:43.480 done this before. Often it's less up to the dog owner. 974 00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:47.159 If the dog is already deemed vicious gets out and 975 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:53.320 kills a second person, the judge must order euthanasia a 976 00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:56.719 second person. So if a dog mauls somebody and kills them, 977 00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.199 I guess what you get one strike. You're not at out, 978 00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:02.800 but oh you go out and kill somebody else, and 979 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:04.519 all of a sudden you're going to be put down. 980 00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:09.079 This is insane. And when you look at the story 981 00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:11.800 online and you look at this precious little well, all 982 00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:13.960 children are pressure, let's get right down to it. 983 00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:15.239 They are just so cute. 984 00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:18.480 And the picture of this little girl at Christmas time, 985 00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:23.480 at the Christmas tree and a photo of her opening gifts, 986 00:56:23.320 --> 00:56:26.719 it just it just tugs at your heart. And especially 987 00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:28.719 you know there are going to be accents. There are 988 00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:30.960 going to be things that happen. You can get killed 989 00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:34.079 in a traffic accent. You can get killed almost anywhere. 990 00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:36.360 And you read some of these stories of some of 991 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:41.079 these weird ways that people have died, and you see 992 00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:44.280 them all the time. But when you have something as 993 00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:51.440 preventable as this, To have this happen, it just boggles 994 00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:54.960 my mind and bothers me looking at some of the 995 00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:58.320 other local headlines. One person has died after a small 996 00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:01.960 plane crashed in Adam's count a Monday afternoon, units of 997 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:05.519 the Ohio State Patrol Georgetown Posts were dispatched at three 998 00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:10.920 point thirty four pm to Saving Savage Road in Bratton 999 00:57:11.280 --> 00:57:14.239 Township for reports of a small plane that had crashed. 1000 00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:17.880 The area is north of Peebles and the west of 1001 00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:21.880 State Route seventy three. Apparently the according to the sources, 1002 00:57:21.960 --> 00:57:24.119 there was only one person on board. 1003 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.800 And it was the pilot that was killed in this accident. 1004 00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:31.000 And if you've noticed that around the world, there's been 1005 00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:35.960 a spate of plane crashes in other countries so far, 1006 00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:38.639 not in the United States in terms of passenger planes. 1007 00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:41.920 And I was seeing a report last night that said 1008 00:57:42.039 --> 00:57:45.679 that this is one of the twenty twenty four has 1009 00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:52.119 been one of the deadliest years for airplane accidents plane death. 1010 00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:56.559 I thought that was amazing because I've except for these 1011 00:57:56.639 --> 00:57:59.039 last two over the last few days, the one in 1012 00:57:59.079 --> 00:58:02.360 South Korea and the other one and Azurebaijan, I wasn't 1013 00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:05.480 really aware of many other plane crashes throughout the country 1014 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:06.440 or throughout the world. 1015 00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:07.800 So interesting. 1016 00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:10.800 By the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, 1017 00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:13.440 five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one 1018 00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:16.199 eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, 1019 00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:19.159 five point fifty AT and T Wireless fund. Kevin Gordon 1020 00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:22.519 in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr SE the talk station. 1021 00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:26.360 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station. 1022 00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:39.079 The holiday. 1023 00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:37.119 Six thirty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for 1024 00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:41.719 Brian Thomas, fifty five KISEE the talk station. I mentioned 1025 00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:45.960 during the weather that it'll be interesting to see what 1026 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:48.920 people do and go outside, because I know there's some 1027 00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:52.320 some celebrations going on around a lot of celebrations, I'm sure, 1028 00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:55.840 but I mentioned this before. Where we live. We live 1029 00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.760 on the side of a hill. Well, go to my 1030 00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:01.920 Facebook page and I live in one, Kentucky. We overlook 1031 00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:06.159 the Licking River and sit up on top of a hill, 1032 00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:08.960 so we see Latonio, we see Fort right, Fort Mitchell. 1033 00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:11.800 We actually have a view of downtown the left, the 1034 00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:13.559 west side of downtown. We can see a little bit 1035 00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.159 of Paul Brown Stadium. Now that the leaves are off 1036 00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:19.920 the tree. But especially during Fourth of July, we love 1037 00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:22.840 sitting out on the deck and watching the fireworks displays 1038 00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:26.599 because it's almost like every neighborhood. It's amazing some of 1039 00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:30.480 the fireworks displays that they have, and you can see 1040 00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:32.840 those just sitting out there on the deck, and at 1041 00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:35.400 any one time you probably have one hundred and fifty 1042 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.239 two hundred people that are shooting off these fireworks. And 1043 00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:40.400 of course you see off in the distance the major 1044 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:44.360 displays from Independence and then Fort Wright, Fort Mitchell. You 1045 00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:47.679 can see some of the fireworks displays at Davou Park, 1046 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:50.360 but you can't see we can't see down there by 1047 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:53.559 the Brent Spence Bridge because this hillside comes in and 1048 00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:56.360 covers that, so we can't see that part down there, 1049 00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:59.159 but anything to the west, and so it's always great 1050 00:59:59.199 --> 01:00:02.559 to see that. And fourth July, now on New Year's Eve, 1051 01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:06.840 there will be people in the area neighborhood below us 1052 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:10.800 that will shoot off some fireworks and do some you know, 1053 01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:15.159 firecrackers and stuff. Not as much a major display as 1054 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:17.480 we saw as we see on July fourth, but there 1055 01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:20.000 will be some. I mean, there'll be some booms and 1056 01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.920 bangs and I know there are some people, and I 1057 01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:26.599 hope we don't hear of any of them now, but 1058 01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:28.760 some people will actually go outside and shoot guns in 1059 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:32.199 the air. Now, you know, let's remember that those bullets. 1060 01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:37.039 Gravity still works. Okay, gravity still is in play. So 1061 01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:40.280 the bullet can go up and be the trajectory can 1062 01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:43.480 go up, but what goes up must come down. And 1063 01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:46.639 there's numerous instances of where these bullets have fallen down 1064 01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:50.280 and killed somebody. So let's not do that practice this year. Okay, 1065 01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:53.159 no gun play, no violince, none of that stuff is 1066 01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:55.960 shooting guns in the air. Do the fireworks if you must, 1067 01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:59.800 but be safe out there. So again, it's going to 1068 01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:02.880 be interesting to see what goes on. As I mentioned before, 1069 01:01:02.920 --> 01:01:05.320 I'm looking forward to tonight. I don't know what's on 1070 01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:08.039 the menu at the best restaurant in the world, but 1071 01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:11.679 I'm sure we'll cook up something that is pretty cool 1072 01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:16.199 and enjoyed. Just you know, spending time with your best friend. 1073 01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:19.760 I mean, what can I say. So we're talking about 1074 01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:22.119 the festivities, we're talking about what's going on. As far 1075 01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:25.280 as this mauling is concerned. I just can't get my 1076 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:28.440 mind off of that, because when you look at something 1077 01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:31.800 that is so preventible, but prevent a ball. It's just 1078 01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:38.199 infuriating that something wasn't done, and the care and the 1079 01:01:38.280 --> 01:01:41.320 consideration of what has to be done when we're talking 1080 01:01:41.400 --> 01:01:42.480 about young children. 1081 01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:44.599 Now, I mentioned. 1082 01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:47.440 That because I brought up brid Spence Bridge, I thought 1083 01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:50.800 i'd pull this up. Toll rates if you happen to 1084 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:53.280 be traveling around the country. Toll rates are set to 1085 01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:57.079 rise in several states in twenty twenty five, starting in January. 1086 01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:01.039 Toll rates on roads in Ohio, Oklahoma, Penncil, New Jersey, 1087 01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:03.760 and New York are set to rise anywhere from three 1088 01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:08.679 percent to fifteen percent for passenger and commercial vehicles in 1089 01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:12.800 the most modest increases drivers traveling along New Jersey Turnpike. 1090 01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:15.159 And I know a lot of listeners will talk about 1091 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:19.519 on this program that we'll talk about they have relatives 1092 01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.840 in Pennsylvania, they'll drive to New Jersey, They'll drive around 1093 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:26.559 the country. And it's becoming more and more a game 1094 01:02:26.960 --> 01:02:29.119 if you do it much traveling to try to avoid 1095 01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:31.840 these tolls. Now, I know that there are certain areas 1096 01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.480 where you're going it's a lot more convenient just to 1097 01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:37.400 go ahead and pay the toll. But how aggravating is 1098 01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:41.480 that tolls are going into effect or a three percent hike. 1099 01:02:41.599 --> 01:02:45.360 New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Pennsylvania drivers will see toll raids 1100 01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:47.800 rise five percent. Now, I know a lot of people 1101 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:50.760 that use that Pennsylvania Turnpike going back and forth, and 1102 01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:53.599 especially if you're going over to the Washington DC area 1103 01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:58.519 from here. Anybody that goes over to Pennsylvania goes to Philadelphia, 1104 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:02.639 don't even tell you. Actually, if you're going up to Pittsburgh, 1105 01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.599 you kind of the exit right perform. I think you 1106 01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:07.639 have to go on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for at least 1107 01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:10.880 one exit or so to get to Pittsburgh. That's on 1108 01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:15.320 my bucket lip list of places to go sometime. Let's 1109 01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:20.119 see here, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission that five percent increase automatic 1110 01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:25.280 automatic vehicle system that standardizes rates. Now, this is interesting. 1111 01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:28.880 The state noted that while many passenger vehicle drivers will 1112 01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:34.599 see tolls decline under the SHIFT, commercial users may see 1113 01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:39.800 rates increase. Now with this automatic vehicle classification system. What 1114 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:42.960 they do is due to the changes with standardization and 1115 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:47.760 the AVC classification, nearly fifty percent of passenger car trips 1116 01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:51.320 will see a lower toll rate because they are counting 1117 01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:55.000 the axles, and so if you have more axles, and 1118 01:03:55.079 --> 01:03:58.480 of course that would affect the commercial trucking industry that 1119 01:03:58.519 --> 01:04:02.320 they will charge you a higher rate for that. Now, 1120 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:04.800 it used to be for trucks. It used to be 1121 01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:07.960 based on weight. So if you had if you you know, 1122 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:11.400 we're doing a job, if you were doing a delivery 1123 01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:15.280 on the Pennsylvania you know, along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and 1124 01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:17.800 then you turned around and dead headed back, which meant 1125 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:21.239 that your truck was empty, you would pay a lesser toll. 1126 01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:24.599 Now you're going to be paying the full toll both 1127 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:29.199 ways because they count axles and not weight. So commercial 1128 01:04:29.239 --> 01:04:31.920 vehicles are going to be spending more money on tolls 1129 01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.159 in these areas that have this what they refer to 1130 01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:39.559 as the automatic vehicle classification. Now, the problem with that 1131 01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:43.400 is is that like everything that is done in business, 1132 01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:46.800 everything that is done as part of the merch that 1133 01:04:46.840 --> 01:04:50.760 we buy, those things have to be added in as 1134 01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:53.960 operating costs to the cost of the stuff that we buy. 1135 01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:57.199 So instead of you know, this is not going to 1136 01:04:57.320 --> 01:04:59.920 just be eaten by these freight companies, they're going to 1137 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:02.679 you have to figure that into the cost of delivering 1138 01:05:02.679 --> 01:05:05.280 those goods, which will then be tacked onto the price 1139 01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:07.480 of the goods when it's put on the shelf. And 1140 01:05:07.519 --> 01:05:11.079 what we are going to wind up paying. Let's see 1141 01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:15.519 the Ohio Turnpike. The state alsot's see Ohio Turnpike toll 1142 01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:19.360 rates will rise. Let's see whereas that seven point seven 1143 01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:23.519 percent for passenger vehicles as well as most commercial vehicles. 1144 01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:27.400 The common commercial vehicles traveling in the Ohio Turnpike is 1145 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:31.800 what the state described as high vehicle with five axles. 1146 01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:35.960 Toll fees will increase seven point eight cents to twenty 1147 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:40.880 two cents per mile. Now, the interesting thing about the 1148 01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:43.199 Ohio Turnpike, and this is one of the things that 1149 01:05:43.239 --> 01:05:47.159 we discovered, and you go back to John Kasik, he 1150 01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:50.719 thought it was a brilliant idea that when the bonds 1151 01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:53.920 and everything was paid off for the Ohio Turnpike see 1152 01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:56.639 the Ohio Turnpike. When it was first built, there was 1153 01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:59.559 supposed to be the sunset clause as far as the 1154 01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:02.599 toll on that, and that was supposed to end sometime 1155 01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:06.159 in nineteen eighty six. Well, the state looked at this 1156 01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:08.039 revenue and said, hey, you know, this is a little 1157 01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:10.599 cash cow going on up there. So we'll just go 1158 01:06:10.599 --> 01:06:13.199 ahead and continue to charge the people up there. Well, 1159 01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:16.039 when Kasik was governor, he decided, well, you know what, 1160 01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:19.159 this is paid off. What we can do is leverage 1161 01:06:19.199 --> 01:06:23.320 this and borrow money some industrial revenue bonds against that 1162 01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:27.800 turnpike because it has a steady stream of funds, and 1163 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:30.880 we can use that money. Because they change the law 1164 01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:34.719 that they could start funding road projects around the country. 1165 01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:37.159 So if you ever go on the Ohio Turnpike, and 1166 01:06:37.239 --> 01:06:39.519 for everybody that uses that, if you can hear me, 1167 01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:42.639 if you're driving along that Ohio Turnpike on a regular 1168 01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:45.400 basis to and from work, know that you have the 1169 01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:48.519 privilege of driving on that and paying to drive on that, 1170 01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:51.159 so that other places in the state can drive on 1171 01:06:51.199 --> 01:06:55.039 their roads for free. Isn't that merry Christmas? Five one, three, seven, 1172 01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:57.719 four nine fifty one, eight hundred day two three talk 1173 01:06:57.960 --> 01:07:00.639 one eight hundred day two three eight two five five pound, 1174 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:03.280 five point fifty at and T wireless from Kevin Gordon 1175 01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:07.000 in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk station. 1176 01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:09.920 Fifty five KRC dot com, run a bit. 1177 01:07:12.079 --> 01:07:15.400 The nine first War and forecast morning rush. 1178 01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:15.800 Today. 1179 01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:19.519 Let's start to the day, Rainy wendy and a low 1180 01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:22.920 of forty seven. Rain continues on through the day. Wins 1181 01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:25.519 could reach as much as thirty miles per hour, high 1182 01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:27.920 of fifty and then on into the night when the 1183 01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:31.920 rain is supposed to stop before the midnight drying out 1184 01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:33.719 a little bit. Temperature's ball and. 1185 01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:36.039 The v colder. Look for a low of thirty two. 1186 01:07:36.280 --> 01:07:39.480 New Year's Day, most of cloudy, some sun possible cold again, 1187 01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:42.880 high of thirty eight, low of twenty six. Right now 1188 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:46.159 forty four degrees fifty five car see the talk station. 1189 01:07:46.480 --> 01:07:48.159 Chuck Ingram has tramped. 1190 01:07:48.559 --> 01:07:49.920 Rugley UCF Tramphic Center. 1191 01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:52.760 The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center is the region's first 1192 01:07:52.760 --> 01:07:56.159 and only provider of specialized primary care services for cancer 1193 01:07:56.239 --> 01:07:57.840 patients and survivors. 1194 01:07:58.039 --> 01:07:59.800 Called five out three five eighty five. 1195 01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:03.480 Yees, set crews continue to work for the wreck North 1196 01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:06.440 Pens seventy five. Before the Western News fid up right 1197 01:08:06.519 --> 01:08:09.760 leans or block tramping heavy from mister Charles west Poud 1198 01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:12.880 two seventy five. There's an accident at Witting that blocks 1199 01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:16.000 the right let Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR seat 1200 01:08:16.239 --> 01:08:16.880 the talk. 1201 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:30.239 Station six fifty two in the morning, Kevin Gordian for 1202 01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:33.960 Brian Thomas fifty five. Kara c DE Talk Station started 1203 01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:36.640 the show off by asking what is the big stories 1204 01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:40.319 of twenty twenty four, what your plans are for tonight, 1205 01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:43.760 and what you hope to see in twenty twenty five. 1206 01:08:44.119 --> 01:08:45.960 One of the things I would like to see happen 1207 01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:48.760 in twenty twenty five was the same thing that should 1208 01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:51.680 have happened in twenty twenty three and in twenty twenty four. 1209 01:08:52.239 --> 01:08:55.640 And I wish that the city fathers would get their 1210 01:08:55.720 --> 01:09:00.359 collective acts together and do something. As far as what 1211 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:03.880 we've been told, I remember back in twenty thirteen, it 1212 01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:06.520 was such a crisis. There is such congestion on the 1213 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:09.359 Brent Spence Bridge. We have to build a new companion 1214 01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:12.199 bridge there. And it doesn't matter if it's told or not. 1215 01:09:12.479 --> 01:09:15.039 We've got to do that. Well, you know, you go 1216 01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:18.880 back and as I said, you know, we stopped that 1217 01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:23.239 and if you we stopped tolls on the Brent Spence Bridge. 1218 01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:26.520 And let's not forget if you look at the amount 1219 01:09:26.520 --> 01:09:29.319 of money that that would have collected. That would have 1220 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:35.720 collected more than a billion dollars from the taxpayers from 1221 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:40.079 the area as far as people commuting, and two thirds 1222 01:09:40.119 --> 01:09:44.079 actually the billion dollars. That the number is a calculation 1223 01:09:44.239 --> 01:09:47.479 of that since sixty percent of the traffic that comes 1224 01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:50.319 across that bridge, almost two thirds of the traffic comes 1225 01:09:50.319 --> 01:09:53.720 from northern Kentucky, so out of the pockets of northern 1226 01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:57.359 Kentucky residents would have been over a billion dollars had 1227 01:09:57.399 --> 01:10:00.640 that big bridge been built with tolls and buil available 1228 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:06.279 by twenty fifteen. Now, that was such a major deal 1229 01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:08.600 that it had to be built right here, right now. 1230 01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:12.199 And then all of a sudden, in twenty twenty two, 1231 01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:15.760 December twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, they announced that the 1232 01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:19.479 federal government had approved out of the Infrastructure Bill the 1233 01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:22.079 funding for the Brents. Benz Bridge, So it wouldn't be 1234 01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:25.600 told and it was supposed to be shovel ready. All 1235 01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:27.720 of this stuff was supposed to be done, and they 1236 01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:31.399 were supposed to turn the shovel of the groundbreaking sometime 1237 01:10:31.439 --> 01:10:34.600 in twenty twenty three. Well that didn't happen. Now, all 1238 01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:36.279 of a sudden, we're at the end of twenty twenty 1239 01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:39.800 four and it still hasn't happened. And I've been online 1240 01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:42.680 and I've looked, and I don't see anywhere where they're 1241 01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:46.520 planning on doing it anytime soon. I mean, if it's 1242 01:10:46.760 --> 01:10:50.680 if it's that important, get to it for crying out loud. Now, 1243 01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:52.800 that's one of the hopes I have for twenty twenty five, 1244 01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:54.920 if in fact they're going to do that now, I 1245 01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:57.119 would have preferred to see in a Cincinnati since the 1246 01:10:57.199 --> 01:11:00.119 Eastern bypassed. But that's a story for another day. We 1247 01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:02.239 could get into that and talk about that for hours. 1248 01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:05.560 But coming up we'll get into some other mischief here. 1249 01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:08.039 I've got some other stories we can get to again. 1250 01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:10.840 Take your phone calls five one, three, seven, four nine 1251 01:11:10.880 --> 01:11:13.439 fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk 1252 01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:16.760 one eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, 1253 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:19.880 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon 1254 01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:23.680 in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC the talk station. 1255 01:11:24.319 --> 01:11:30.199 Your Voice, Refreshing Voice, Your Country for Reasonable American. 1256 01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:35.439 Fifty five KRC the talk Station. This report is sponsored 1257 01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:36.199 by Peter. 1258 01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:47.279 I'm righty. 1259 01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:51.800 Five minutes after seven o'clock. Happy New Year's Eve to you, 1260 01:11:52.119 --> 01:11:54.039 the final day of the year. 1261 01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:57.560 It's here already. Uh, it's Oh. 1262 01:11:57.560 --> 01:11:59.840 There's a running joke in our in our family, always 1263 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:02.880 around birthdays when the granddaughters won I wish them a 1264 01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:05.479 happy birthday, one of the things I always do. And 1265 01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:08.560 grandsons as well. I always on their birthday, I'll call 1266 01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:11.439 them and you know, if they turn eight, twelve, I mean, shoot, 1267 01:12:11.479 --> 01:12:15.359 the oldest one just turned twenty two, and I did 1268 01:12:15.439 --> 01:12:17.640 the same thing. I just said, honey, it just seemed 1269 01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:20.319 like just yesterday you were twenty one, and so I mean, 1270 01:12:20.560 --> 01:12:22.600 you know, so tomorrow I'll be going, Gee, it just 1271 01:12:22.600 --> 01:12:26.680 seemed like just yesterday it was twenty twenty four. So anyway, it's, 1272 01:12:26.760 --> 01:12:28.880 you know, one of those dad jokes that you got 1273 01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:32.039 to get out there. But anyway, I saw this story. 1274 01:12:32.079 --> 01:12:34.640 You know, we've been hearing all these stories about and 1275 01:12:34.640 --> 01:12:38.159 of course in Kentucky they're doing these medical marijuana and 1276 01:12:38.159 --> 01:12:41.359 that was a push into legislation, which is just a 1277 01:12:42.479 --> 01:12:46.720 camel's nose in the tent to go to recreational marijuana. 1278 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:52.760 And this has always bothered me and it amazes me. 1279 01:12:53.199 --> 01:12:56.159 At this point, there are twenty five states that currently 1280 01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:01.680 are are that pot is legal, and and in every 1281 01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:05.000 one of every one of them they have had issues 1282 01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:10.560 with that. And we we start off or they keep 1283 01:13:10.600 --> 01:13:15.279 trying to convince us of the medical advantages of marijuana, 1284 01:13:16.039 --> 01:13:18.880 and if you do the research, if you read up 1285 01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:23.680 on it, there is no definitive solution. There is no 1286 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:28.960 definitive proof that it does anything. The only effect that 1287 01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:31.960 I have been able to see that makes any sense 1288 01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:35.119 would be in the case of where you have cancer 1289 01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:40.640 patients because of the weight loss that marijuana induces the munchies, 1290 01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:43.920 and so it forces them or gets them over the 1291 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:46.920 nausea and they can go ahead and eat a lot 1292 01:13:47.039 --> 01:13:50.239 or you know, have their monkeyes. Now, as far as 1293 01:13:50.520 --> 01:13:55.439 any other advantages of marijuana, I don't see any, and 1294 01:13:55.760 --> 01:13:59.960 it's interesting when I talk to people that now see. 1295 01:14:00.239 --> 01:14:02.279 First of all, let me preface this with the fact 1296 01:14:02.319 --> 01:14:05.840 that I am approaching this. I approach all drug used 1297 01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:10.520 from a position of never having tried it at all. 1298 01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:15.880 I've never even taken a puff off of a joint. 1299 01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:20.000 I've never done any drugs. The most serious drugs I 1300 01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:24.279 think I've ever done was a like eight hundred milligram 1301 01:14:24.319 --> 01:14:26.840 tailenol or something when I had a knee injury or 1302 01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:30.560 something along those lines. But I you know the old 1303 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:33.760 saying that drugs or a crutch used by people who 1304 01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:34.880 can't handle reality. 1305 01:14:34.920 --> 01:14:37.399 Well, my motto is reality is a. 1306 01:14:37.439 --> 01:14:40.000 Drug used by people, or a crutch used by people 1307 01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:43.039 who can't handle drugs. And you know, growing up in 1308 01:14:43.079 --> 01:14:46.840 the seventies and being in college, the temptations were there. 1309 01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:50.680 You had the cocaine craze of the eighties. Never tried it, 1310 01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:53.720 never interested in trying it. So I'm coming from this 1311 01:14:53.760 --> 01:14:57.760 from a position of never having tried it. So whatever 1312 01:14:58.600 --> 01:15:03.159 benefits there are, or perceived benefits, I have not experienced those. 1313 01:15:03.359 --> 01:15:06.239 All I've seen is the downside of it. And I 1314 01:15:06.279 --> 01:15:10.760 came across this story. Elton John says legalizing marijuana is 1315 01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:14.479 one of the greatest mistakes. Elton John has been sober 1316 01:15:14.520 --> 01:15:17.880 since nineteen ninety and he thinks a recent policy shift 1317 01:15:18.199 --> 01:15:20.960 might lead more people down the path to addiction. The 1318 01:15:21.079 --> 01:15:25.600 Rocketman singer denounced the legalization of recreational marijuana during his 1319 01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:30.000 time Icon of the Year profile. I maintain that it's addictive, 1320 01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:33.880 it leads to other drugs, and when you're stoned, and 1321 01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:38.720 I've been stoned, you don't think normally. According to Elton John, 1322 01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:42.960 legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the 1323 01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:48.520 greatest mistakes of all time. This was actually this story 1324 01:15:48.640 --> 01:15:52.479 was released back on December the twelfth. Marijuana is currently 1325 01:15:52.560 --> 01:15:56.159 legal in twenty five states and federally legal in Canada. 1326 01:15:57.199 --> 01:16:01.760 Other countries, including Mexico, South American Germany, have legalized marijuana 1327 01:16:01.800 --> 01:16:04.439 in the last decade. Now take a pause here for 1328 01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:07.159 a moment, because, as you may be aware of, I 1329 01:16:07.279 --> 01:16:10.560 do America's truck and Network on our sister station midnight 1330 01:16:10.600 --> 01:16:13.079 to one AM. And one of the things that's interesting 1331 01:16:13.159 --> 01:16:15.239 in the trucking industry, and I'm sure a lot of 1332 01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:17.880 you people that are in that industry know this, that 1333 01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:23.840 marijuana is still a level one substance akin to in 1334 01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:28.800 the same class as cocaine and heroin. And if marijuana 1335 01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:32.800 is detected in your system, you can lose your CDL license, 1336 01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:36.079 and you've got to go through this entire a long 1337 01:16:36.359 --> 01:16:39.720 process in order to get that license back. So, even 1338 01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:44.079 though marijuana may be legal in your state and anybody 1339 01:16:44.159 --> 01:16:46.239 that might be driving through the area and happen to 1340 01:16:46.239 --> 01:16:48.800 be tuning in, if you're from a different state and 1341 01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:52.840 your state has pot is legal, it is not legal 1342 01:16:52.880 --> 01:16:56.119 on a federal level. And so if it's in your system, 1343 01:16:56.239 --> 01:16:59.119 and if you're drug testing and it's in your system, 1344 01:16:59.479 --> 01:17:04.840 you can lose your license. Now, the weird thing about that, 1345 01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:10.600 as I've learned, is that people that will do recreational use, 1346 01:17:11.239 --> 01:17:14.239 they think that, Okay, I can just go ahead, you know, 1347 01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:16.720 I'm off the job on Friday, and then I can 1348 01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:19.439 just go ahead and do this, and then I can 1349 01:17:19.479 --> 01:17:25.520 be sober by Monday. Now, with cocaine and heroin, that 1350 01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:27.960 is out of your system within twenty four to forty 1351 01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:31.680 eight hours or at least detectable. But marijuana the only 1352 01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:34.880 test for that. It takes a month for that to 1353 01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:37.720 be out of your system. And so if you're tested, 1354 01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:40.840 you could have take done marijuana a month ago and 1355 01:17:40.920 --> 01:17:43.319 it would still be in your system. And one of 1356 01:17:43.399 --> 01:17:46.079 the things that I've heard from a lot of employers 1357 01:17:46.119 --> 01:17:49.920 and a lot of people in certain businesses, and especially 1358 01:17:50.720 --> 01:17:55.520 a lot of businesses that does do drug testing. They 1359 01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:58.880 will say and they've tried to get away or they 1360 01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:01.760 you know, because drug testing, you know, when you're cutting costs, 1361 01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:04.399 then you have to pay for the drug test and 1362 01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:07.199 you have to send the person over there to get 1363 01:18:07.199 --> 01:18:11.199 the drug test. Now, what they've done is that when 1364 01:18:11.239 --> 01:18:14.840 the person is hired, they will ask the question can 1365 01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:18.319 you pass a drug test? And then of course on 1366 01:18:18.399 --> 01:18:21.840 the application and it will say that any false information 1367 01:18:22.279 --> 01:18:26.359 is a subject determination. So a lot of people turn 1368 01:18:26.479 --> 01:18:29.399 down jobs and don't show up for jobs because they 1369 01:18:29.439 --> 01:18:32.520 wouldn't be able to pass a random drug test. So 1370 01:18:32.920 --> 01:18:35.159 that's when you look at supply chain issues. When you 1371 01:18:35.159 --> 01:18:37.560 look at the employment situation, when you go to a 1372 01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:42.119 lot of service driven industries where it seems that they 1373 01:18:42.119 --> 01:18:44.840 don't have enough employees, that's one of the reasons that 1374 01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:49.439 people are their businesses are having trouble filling these spots. 1375 01:18:49.960 --> 01:18:52.319 But the fact that a lot of these different states 1376 01:18:52.359 --> 01:18:55.720 have gone to medical use or recreational use of marijuana 1377 01:18:56.359 --> 01:18:59.560 is in my opinion, not the way to go. And 1378 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:02.560 what it boils down to is that just like with 1379 01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:06.319 the lottery, Okay, gambling used to be illegal. You used 1380 01:19:06.319 --> 01:19:09.920 to used to hear about the numbers racket, the numbers 1381 01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:12.760 running that was done as far as the mob was concerned. 1382 01:19:12.920 --> 01:19:15.479 They used to do these schemes as far as numbers. 1383 01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:19.039 You bet on numbers, Well, that was illegal and they 1384 01:19:19.399 --> 01:19:21.399 sent people to prison for that. But then all of 1385 01:19:21.479 --> 01:19:24.720 a sudden, the states thought, hmm, you know, we can 1386 01:19:24.800 --> 01:19:27.880 have the quick the pick three, the pick four, the 1387 01:19:27.920 --> 01:19:30.760 pick five, and we can make revenue off of that. 1388 01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:33.600 And all of a sudden it becomes legal, gambling is legal, 1389 01:19:34.039 --> 01:19:37.439 and then you go to the entire lottery system. 1390 01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:40.199 So they looked at cigarettes. 1391 01:19:40.359 --> 01:19:43.079 And one of the things about tobacco that a lot 1392 01:19:43.079 --> 01:19:46.279 of people don't know of is the fact that the largest, 1393 01:19:47.239 --> 01:19:51.720 the the biggest profiteers of tobacco in this country is 1394 01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:54.920 the federal and the state governments. The amount of taxes 1395 01:19:54.960 --> 01:19:58.319 that are on cigarettes is astounding, and the amount of 1396 01:19:58.359 --> 01:20:02.279 taxes on this on the state level is astounding. So 1397 01:20:02.359 --> 01:20:04.840 they are the biggest profiteers. But as fewer and fewer 1398 01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:07.399 people are smoking, then all of a sudden, now okay, 1399 01:20:07.439 --> 01:20:09.399 you've got this lost revenue, where are you going to 1400 01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:13.439 make it up? And all of a sudden, marijuana, which they, 1401 01:20:13.600 --> 01:20:17.199 in their opinion, everybody's doing anyway, so we might as 1402 01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:20.039 well make money from this. They're seeing in some of 1403 01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:24.079 these states where they've legalized marijuana that the black market 1404 01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:29.359 is still there. People are still buying marijuana illegally, and 1405 01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:33.359 when you have, you do not have. I guess Highway 1406 01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:36.359 patrol people and cops are starting to learn better as 1407 01:20:36.359 --> 01:20:39.039 to how to tell when somebody's stoned. I mean, if 1408 01:20:39.039 --> 01:20:41.239 somebody's drunk, you can generally tell you know, you got 1409 01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.960 the smell of alcohol, they got the slurred speech and that, 1410 01:20:45.359 --> 01:20:48.479 but it's much more difficult to tell if somebody's stoned. 1411 01:20:48.760 --> 01:20:52.600 And so now they're doing certain sobriety tests for that. 1412 01:20:52.880 --> 01:20:55.239 But a lot of these states they have actually had 1413 01:20:55.720 --> 01:20:59.600 these situations where fatalities have gone up. Road fatality has 1414 01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:02.680 gone up because of so many people stoned. And so 1415 01:21:03.079 --> 01:21:05.279 they go into this and Elton John and of course 1416 01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:09.039 we're gonna probably get more to this. Marijuana is currently 1417 01:21:09.119 --> 01:21:12.600 legal in twenty five states we mentioned that legalize marijuana. 1418 01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:16.640 It's the information on its information page on cannabis. The 1419 01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:21.439 CDC notes that experts disagree whether it lives up to 1420 01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:26.439 its long held reputation as a gateway drug that leads 1421 01:21:26.520 --> 01:21:29.319 to further addiction. Now, of course they put gateway drug 1422 01:21:29.319 --> 01:21:33.159 in quotation marks. However, the Health agency also reports that 1423 01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:38.239 quote people who use cannabis and and do go on 1424 01:21:38.439 --> 01:21:43.159 to use other drugs quote, including alcohol and tobacco, may 1425 01:21:43.319 --> 01:21:48.680 have a higher risk of dependence or addiction to those drugs. Well, 1426 01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:51.840 why add another layer of addiction on top of that? 1427 01:21:52.039 --> 01:21:54.960 Is my you know, you know they always want to 1428 01:21:55.000 --> 01:21:58.920 throw the alcohol and tobacco addiction in there. But we 1429 01:21:59.079 --> 01:22:02.640 already understand and that, and we've lived with that. Now 1430 01:22:02.680 --> 01:22:05.359 you're throwing another layer on top of that. Nelton John 1431 01:22:05.399 --> 01:22:07.680 has a few more things to say. We'll pick this up. 1432 01:22:08.439 --> 01:22:10.920 Five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred one, 1433 01:22:10.960 --> 01:22:13.079 eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight 1434 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:15.800 two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty 1435 01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:19.159 AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 1436 01:22:19.359 --> 01:22:21.720 fifty five KRC the talk station. 1437 01:22:22.119 --> 01:22:26.680 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station leak hel del. 1438 01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:36.119 Seven nineteen in the morning. 1439 01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:38.479 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr SE 1440 01:22:38.600 --> 01:22:42.479 the talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, 1441 01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:44.920 fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk 1442 01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:48.039 one eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, 1443 01:22:48.079 --> 01:22:50.000 five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 1444 01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:53.159 To the phones, we go, well, we've got. 1445 01:22:53.680 --> 01:22:56.720 Pete up there. Pete, fifty five kr S. How are 1446 01:22:56.800 --> 01:22:59.479 you this morning? Happy New Year or New Year's Eve? 1447 01:22:59.479 --> 01:23:01.439 I should say the. 1448 01:23:01.520 --> 01:23:04.159 Same, Tavin, good morning. Yeah. I just wonder if you 1449 01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:07.319 remember about twenty years or so ago, I drove to 1450 01:23:07.359 --> 01:23:11.000 the Newport Shopping Center and there was a pain center there. 1451 01:23:11.720 --> 01:23:14.000 I remember all little pain clints used to be around four. 1452 01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:16.720 I would move through there, and all the octar coton 1453 01:23:16.760 --> 01:23:17.760 they were hanging out like they were. 1454 01:23:17.800 --> 01:23:21.600 Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. 1455 01:23:21.439 --> 01:23:25.000 Well you know that was that was a schedule war. 1456 01:23:25.039 --> 01:23:28.000 And you said before about marijuana, right, but it's just 1457 01:23:28.279 --> 01:23:30.399 it's a schedule one, you know. I mean, it's just 1458 01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:34.319 I see going that way right. It's like it's like seabellow, 1459 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:37.359 you know, it's a the secondary thing, and the medical 1460 01:23:37.399 --> 01:23:40.560 thing will come to you know, marijuana. You know, it'll 1461 01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:43.680 be just it'll be it'll be free and easy to 1462 01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:44.640 grow whatever, you know. 1463 01:23:44.920 --> 01:23:47.680 Uh huh, Now, I remember, you know, you bring up 1464 01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:50.680 an interesting point. I remember when they had those uh 1465 01:23:51.039 --> 01:23:57.119 what they called the old pill mills. And of course, 1466 01:23:57.479 --> 01:24:02.119 whenever something moves and won direct then of course the 1467 01:24:02.159 --> 01:24:06.000 heavy hand of government has to pull it into another direction, 1468 01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:12.439 which in terms of the unintended consequences they never think about. Now, 1469 01:24:12.840 --> 01:24:15.920 there are legitimate reasons, and there are legitimate people that 1470 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:21.560 have pain and require medications, and it's required that some 1471 01:24:21.640 --> 01:24:25.239 of the more severe pain requires more severe medication. But 1472 01:24:25.399 --> 01:24:28.680 because it was abused and a lot of doctors or 1473 01:24:28.720 --> 01:24:32.079 at least people were going around and shopping for different 1474 01:24:32.119 --> 01:24:35.079 doctors that would prescribe the drugs for them, and they 1475 01:24:35.119 --> 01:24:38.640 know where to go, and they didn't coordinate between doctors 1476 01:24:38.840 --> 01:24:41.960 as to who was getting drugs in that so they 1477 01:24:42.159 --> 01:24:44.439 tighten that up. But as a result of that, a 1478 01:24:44.439 --> 01:24:48.560 lot of people were actually starting to be denied these drugs. 1479 01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:52.079 Well rather than okay, if somebody is being denied a 1480 01:24:52.159 --> 01:24:55.800 drug that they're addicted to, the addiction isn't automatically going 1481 01:24:55.840 --> 01:24:58.439 to go away. And that's why you saw such a 1482 01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:02.359 spike in the heroin epidem back in the UH two thousand, 1483 01:25:02.439 --> 01:25:07.039 two thousand and twelve, twenty ten area, where you had 1484 01:25:07.079 --> 01:25:10.600 people who it was a cheap substitute for the oxy 1485 01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:14.600 cotton and oxy cotone in order to start relieving their pain. 1486 01:25:14.920 --> 01:25:18.800 And so this unintended consequences led to this heroin addiction 1487 01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:22.359 and this heroin crisis in the Tri state era and 1488 01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:25.720 especially you know, then the way to solve that is, okay, 1489 01:25:26.039 --> 01:25:33.039 put needle dispensaries, put the needle exchanges in different places, 1490 01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:35.520 and as a matter of fact, in Campbell County they 1491 01:25:35.560 --> 01:25:39.840 have drop boxes for used needles in the bathrooms of 1492 01:25:39.880 --> 01:25:41.159 Campbell County libraries. 1493 01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:45.720 Isn't that lovely? Where kids go? Isn't that lovely? Yeah? 1494 01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:48.119 Well you remember the Oxy Cotton saying there after the 1495 01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:51.159 you know, the they can get prescription, the story by 1496 01:25:51.199 --> 01:25:54.600 both the house floves going over the rhine and going 1497 01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:56.760 back to park in the corner. Yeah, and now they 1498 01:25:56.760 --> 01:26:00.199 would get picked and the story was told. You know, 1499 01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:02.520 the co said, why don't you run them off? Said 1500 01:26:02.560 --> 01:26:05.359 if we run them off, we're just gonna go somewhere else. 1501 01:26:05.439 --> 01:26:08.640 Because we keep them here, we can at least control it. 1502 01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:09.439 Yeah. 1503 01:26:09.600 --> 01:26:12.960 Yeah, a lot of good that does too, Yeah, control 1504 01:26:13.039 --> 01:26:13.960 it and that lovely? 1505 01:26:14.239 --> 01:26:17.439 Yeah. Another thing on on your on your dog thing, 1506 01:26:17.479 --> 01:26:19.399 get back to that day, Yes, Gus you port wall. 1507 01:26:19.439 --> 01:26:21.680 Listen a lot of talk radio. They said it was 1508 01:26:21.720 --> 01:26:25.520 a terrier, you know, it wasn't a poodle work ducks 1509 01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:28.079 and we were a big or a polic I mean 1510 01:26:28.079 --> 01:26:29.880 it was kept in a cage. Well, you don't put 1511 01:26:29.880 --> 01:26:31.239 those kind of dogs in a cage. 1512 01:26:31.399 --> 01:26:31.640 Yeah. 1513 01:26:31.800 --> 01:26:35.760 The terrier is also called an American pit bull terrier. 1514 01:26:36.039 --> 01:26:41.119 Uh huh, Okay, there he was on WW something I 1515 01:26:41.119 --> 01:26:41.399 heard that. 1516 01:26:41.800 --> 01:26:45.840 Okay, all right, interesting, thanks a lot of Pete, thanks 1517 01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:48.199 for the information. Have yourself happy New you've got any 1518 01:26:48.239 --> 01:26:53.239 big plans for tonight or okay? Oh he dropped off, 1519 01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:55.680 he hung up on us. Well all right, let's uh, 1520 01:26:55.840 --> 01:26:58.119 let's see we've got time. Yeah, let's go to Kyle 1521 01:26:58.359 --> 01:27:00.560 Kyle fifty five. Care, see how are you this morning? 1522 01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:02.000 I'm good? 1523 01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:04.520 Are you doing I'm doing great, I'm behind the microphone. 1524 01:27:04.640 --> 01:27:06.039 Doesn't getting better than that for me? 1525 01:27:07.199 --> 01:27:10.960 Yeah? So I had some comments about the marijuana topics 1526 01:27:11.000 --> 01:27:14.439 you're on. So I'm a police officer at a jurisdiction 1527 01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:17.600 around Cincinnati. Now, what what I think the public generally 1528 01:27:17.640 --> 01:27:19.640 doesn't know and what they're not aware of, is how 1529 01:27:19.840 --> 01:27:24.319 it's impacting juveniles now that it's been made legal. So obviously, 1530 01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:26.880 you have to be eighteen years old to buy medical 1531 01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:29.800 marijuana at a dispensary. You have to be twenty one 1532 01:27:29.840 --> 01:27:33.479 to buy it recreationally. But what I'm seeing now is, 1533 01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:36.239 at least personally, you know, eighteen year olds are going 1534 01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:39.359 in there for whatever reason, and then they're purchasing it, 1535 01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:41.920 and then they're distributing it to their their friends that 1536 01:27:42.119 --> 01:27:43.640 you know, in high school all the way down to 1537 01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:46.880 middle school. At least where I'm working, our school resource 1538 01:27:46.880 --> 01:27:52.079 officers are taking marijuana vapes and you know, bud and 1539 01:27:52.239 --> 01:27:55.560 whatever else off of you know, kids as low as 1540 01:27:55.600 --> 01:27:58.399 you know, fourth and fifth grade, and it's not something 1541 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:03.399 it's not something that I've seen until it's become legal 1542 01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:07.439 more in you know, the school system. But I think 1543 01:28:07.479 --> 01:28:09.840 that's that's just something that I think the state's just 1544 01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:11.800 generally not aware of, and the general public is either. 1545 01:28:12.439 --> 01:28:16.840 Now, do you know I'd love when you look at 1546 01:28:16.880 --> 01:28:21.000 these reports from the CDC and they say that that 1547 01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:27.159 there's there, experts aren't convinced, or that that they they 1548 01:28:27.159 --> 01:28:30.720 don't have They disagree on whether it's a long held 1549 01:28:30.760 --> 01:28:36.800 reputation of a great gateway drug. But how are they 1550 01:28:36.880 --> 01:28:40.119 not studying this? I mean we are, we are doing 1551 01:28:40.359 --> 01:28:43.680 funding of you know, to see if if you feed 1552 01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:49.640 rats or rats cocaine, whether they will choose cocaine over food. Well, 1553 01:28:49.640 --> 01:28:52.439 we can do those tests, but we can't do tests 1554 01:28:52.479 --> 01:28:55.239 like this and come down to whether or not cannabis 1555 01:28:55.359 --> 01:28:57.199 marijuana is harmful to people. 1556 01:28:58.079 --> 01:28:58.840 Unbelievable. 1557 01:28:59.079 --> 01:29:03.479 Unbelievable, Yeah, exactly, And it's it's it's been something that's 1558 01:29:03.520 --> 01:29:07.479 been you know, readily available for what you know, forty 1559 01:29:07.560 --> 01:29:10.840 years now within the general uh with the public. 1560 01:29:10.920 --> 01:29:14.600 So fifty years, fifty years or more. Yeah, yeah, Jimmy 1561 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:18.520 Buffett's famous song only I forget what's in the name 1562 01:29:18.560 --> 01:29:21.079 of the song, but when back when, the days when 1563 01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:25.840 only jazz mosi musicians were smoking marijuana. So it's been 1564 01:29:25.880 --> 01:29:29.039 around for a long period of time, so uh yeah. 1565 01:29:29.079 --> 01:29:30.560 Anyway, well, I just. 1566 01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:32.199 Wanted to give my two cents in you have a 1567 01:29:32.239 --> 01:29:32.840 happy New Year. 1568 01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:35.319 Hey, thank you for your service, and be safe out there, 1569 01:29:35.359 --> 01:29:39.479 my friend. Take care of having Mary Chris, Mary Christmas 1570 01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:42.760 a happy New Year. Five one three, seven, four nine 1571 01:29:42.800 --> 01:29:45.279 fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk 1572 01:29:45.479 --> 01:29:47.720 one eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five 1573 01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:51.000 pound five fifty at and t Wileer's phone. Kevin Gordon 1574 01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:54.039 in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk. 1575 01:29:53.920 --> 01:29:57.520 Station fifty five KRC. The talk station. 1576 01:29:57.520 --> 01:30:02.600 Twenty twenty four is almost overseas. 1577 01:30:03.640 --> 01:30:06.560 Seven in the morning Kevin rdon and for Brian Thommas 1578 01:30:07.039 --> 01:30:09.960 if you five care see the talk station. You know. 1579 01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:13.279 Following these local stories, the corner Corner IDs the three 1580 01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:15.880 year old girl mauled by dogs and I'm more and 1581 01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:19.319 more I read the stories about this and some of 1582 01:30:18.600 --> 01:30:22.079 the events. This is one of those things that could 1583 01:30:22.119 --> 01:30:24.680 have been prevented and should have been prevented, and it's 1584 01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:29.279 a shame that this actually happened. Saw some information on 1585 01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:33.399 another story where there was a visiting the people were 1586 01:30:33.439 --> 01:30:35.920 visiting and the dogs weren't used to having kids around. 1587 01:30:36.439 --> 01:30:38.399 That's one of the things I've been seeing. 1588 01:30:39.319 --> 01:30:39.800 It just. 1589 01:30:41.479 --> 01:30:44.720 You look at this little girl and they're all precious 1590 01:30:44.760 --> 01:30:48.920 little angels. And to see to have a situation where 1591 01:30:49.640 --> 01:30:52.680 dogs maul a child, and especially when I start reading 1592 01:30:52.760 --> 01:30:57.079 stuff like judges have the discretion to order the euthanasia 1593 01:30:56.800 --> 01:31:01.239 of dangerous or vicious dogs after the first unprovoked attack. 1594 01:31:01.880 --> 01:31:04.960 Often it's left to the dog owner. If the dog 1595 01:31:05.239 --> 01:31:10.359 is already deemed vicious, gets out and kills a second person, 1596 01:31:10.680 --> 01:31:13.479 then the judge must order the dog euthanized. 1597 01:31:13.560 --> 01:31:17.000 I mean, it's unbelievable. 1598 01:31:17.600 --> 01:31:20.840 Other story that we've been following cruise responding to a 1599 01:31:20.840 --> 01:31:26.479 plane crash in Adams County. This occurred at ten actually 1600 01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:31.000 ten o'clock, yes, well actually last night. One person has 1601 01:31:31.000 --> 01:31:33.199 died after a small plane crash in Adams County on 1602 01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:37.199 Monday afternoon. Units from the Ohio State Highway Patrol Georgetown 1603 01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:40.640 Post were dispatched at three thirty four pm to Savage 1604 01:31:40.720 --> 01:31:43.960 Road and Bratton Township for reports of a small plane 1605 01:31:44.159 --> 01:31:47.000 that had crashed the areas north of Peebles and west 1606 01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:50.680 of State Route seventy three. Source with the Adams County 1607 01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:54.039 Sheriff's Office confirmed Monday night that one person died in 1608 01:31:54.079 --> 01:31:58.039 the crash. They're learning to find more information what led 1609 01:31:58.079 --> 01:32:01.479 to the crash and identify the victim. But of course 1610 01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:04.199 the person that died was the pilot of that plane, 1611 01:32:04.279 --> 01:32:08.239 so well, unfortunate, well, fortunately there were no other people 1612 01:32:08.319 --> 01:32:11.479 on board, but unfortunately there was the pilot and we 1613 01:32:11.560 --> 01:32:14.640 never know on those and what may have happened there. 1614 01:32:14.880 --> 01:32:19.600 So again, it's interesting to see what is going on 1615 01:32:19.680 --> 01:32:22.279 in the news and some of the local headlines, and 1616 01:32:22.279 --> 01:32:26.359 of course everybody's getting ready for the celebrations as far 1617 01:32:26.399 --> 01:32:29.439 as New Year's Eve and the New Year's celebrations. There's 1618 01:32:29.479 --> 01:32:31.119 a lot of stories out there, and you can go 1619 01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:34.239 online as everything should be pretty much open today. 1620 01:32:34.439 --> 01:32:34.600 Now. 1621 01:32:34.640 --> 01:32:37.000 I know there's a lot of stores and you probably 1622 01:32:37.000 --> 01:32:40.000 have to call the individual stores because as we have 1623 01:32:40.119 --> 01:32:43.560 found and when we've been trying to go places that 1624 01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:46.920 the hours that they put online and the hours that 1625 01:32:46.920 --> 01:32:49.520 they have on that prone phone tree when you call 1626 01:32:49.920 --> 01:32:53.960 aren't generally maybe up to date very well, and so 1627 01:32:54.680 --> 01:32:56.600 don't push it to the last minute. If you know 1628 01:32:56.720 --> 01:33:00.119 that these stores may be open, you might want to 1629 01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:02.920 get there early enough because some of the stores will 1630 01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:07.560 be closing early because of because it's Today's not a holiday, 1631 01:33:07.840 --> 01:33:10.319 but some people are getting off early so that they 1632 01:33:10.319 --> 01:33:12.760 can get ready for the night's festivities. And you can 1633 01:33:12.800 --> 01:33:15.560 call around find out what's open. You know, banks are 1634 01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:19.560 going to be open, other places, most places of business 1635 01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:21.560 will be open, but they may have a little bit 1636 01:33:21.600 --> 01:33:24.279 shorter hours, so you might want to check around and 1637 01:33:24.319 --> 01:33:26.680 find all that out. And of course online you can 1638 01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:30.000 find out any last minute activities that might be out 1639 01:33:30.039 --> 01:33:32.720 there if you're interested in going to any place tonight. 1640 01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:34.840 But the one thing I do want to emphasize is 1641 01:33:34.920 --> 01:33:37.880 make sure that you have either a designated driver or 1642 01:33:37.960 --> 01:33:41.079 take that uber home. Make sure that you're out there safe. 1643 01:33:41.279 --> 01:33:45.640 Let's try to keep this one of the safest New 1644 01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:49.880 Year's Eve celebrations that we've had on record. You know, 1645 01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:53.279 it just takes a moment of stupidity or a moment 1646 01:33:53.479 --> 01:33:58.359 of bad judgment to create a horrible and a horrific 1647 01:33:58.439 --> 01:34:04.680 situation that then completely Mars, the entire event, the holiday season, 1648 01:34:04.920 --> 01:34:07.520 and of course the grief that that brings to families 1649 01:34:07.720 --> 01:34:10.640 that every time around the holidays they have to think 1650 01:34:10.680 --> 01:34:13.560 about a tragedy that could have been prevented. Phone numbers 1651 01:34:13.600 --> 01:34:16.039 five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one, 1652 01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:18.439 eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight 1653 01:34:18.439 --> 01:34:21.039 two three eight two five, five pound, five point fifty 1654 01:34:21.279 --> 01:34:24.399 AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, 1655 01:34:24.560 --> 01:34:26.920 fifty five KRC, the Talk Station. 1656 01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:30.800 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station. 1657 01:34:43.079 --> 01:34:44.239 Seven forty in the morning. 1658 01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:46.920 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five k the 1659 01:34:47.079 --> 01:34:52.000 Talk Station. You know, sometimes things just work out perfectly. 1660 01:34:52.159 --> 01:34:52.840 I don't know. 1661 01:34:52.920 --> 01:34:56.199 I think mental telepathy between me and Sean, who is 1662 01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:59.560 my producer today, is there because I was going to 1663 01:34:59.600 --> 01:35:01.920 talk about this anyway, but all of a sudden, you 1664 01:35:01.920 --> 01:35:06.039 go get your motor running and road songs type of thing. 1665 01:35:07.600 --> 01:35:12.479 In the forecast, we're talking about or wind speeds being 1666 01:35:12.560 --> 01:35:15.720 up to about thirty miles per hour. If you're out 1667 01:35:15.880 --> 01:35:18.640 driving around today, you need to be aware of that, 1668 01:35:18.720 --> 01:35:22.239 and especially if you're out on the highway in a 1669 01:35:22.279 --> 01:35:26.520 flat area. And you're passing trucks, any kind of a truck, 1670 01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:29.520 whether it be a tractor trailer or one of those 1671 01:35:29.560 --> 01:35:32.960 big box trucks. Be aware of the fact that if 1672 01:35:32.960 --> 01:35:36.600 a gust of wind comes up, that that could. 1673 01:35:36.359 --> 01:35:40.399 Swerve that a trailer ever so slightly. 1674 01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:44.159 So kind of pay attention to that because sometimes when 1675 01:35:44.239 --> 01:35:48.319 you drive down the road, you can see those trailers 1676 01:35:48.399 --> 01:35:51.000 kind of weaving back and forth, and you kind of wonder, well, 1677 01:35:51.119 --> 01:35:53.920 is there something wrong with the truck driver. No, normally 1678 01:35:53.960 --> 01:35:56.640 it's just a win, and it doesn't take much if 1679 01:35:56.640 --> 01:35:59.840 you're driving down the road that if you turn the 1680 01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:02.239 wheel a little bit a certain way and then back 1681 01:36:02.439 --> 01:36:05.479 that that trailer will turn a little bit. So you know, 1682 01:36:05.520 --> 01:36:09.039 there could be a little bit of normally done distracted driving. 1683 01:36:09.039 --> 01:36:12.000 It's normally a win, but be aware of that while 1684 01:36:12.000 --> 01:36:14.920 you're out there. And of course I have been in situations, 1685 01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:17.640 even in a sedan, when you're driving down the road 1686 01:36:17.680 --> 01:36:20.359 when the wind is enough, and there's a couple of 1687 01:36:20.359 --> 01:36:22.840 times I've noticed that when i'd go across the Big 1688 01:36:22.880 --> 01:36:26.119 Mac Bridge that there are certain times once the wind 1689 01:36:26.199 --> 01:36:28.720 blows a certain way, you can actually feel that and 1690 01:36:28.760 --> 01:36:31.359 in jerking the car. So be aware of that out 1691 01:36:31.399 --> 01:36:33.159 there if you're going to be out on the highway 1692 01:36:33.199 --> 01:36:36.640 this afternoon and pay attention to the wind condition. So 1693 01:36:37.199 --> 01:36:41.239 with that phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, 1694 01:36:41.239 --> 01:36:43.640 five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one 1695 01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:46.359 eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, 1696 01:36:46.359 --> 01:36:48.720 five point fifty at and T wireless phone. I want 1697 01:36:48.720 --> 01:36:51.680 to wrap this story up with Elton John because again, 1698 01:36:51.720 --> 01:36:54.840 when you're talking about somebody who's been sober since nineteen ninety, 1699 01:36:55.039 --> 01:36:58.079 somebody who's been part of the drug culture, somebody who 1700 01:36:58.159 --> 01:37:02.760 has participated in smoking of marijuana, and somebody that well, 1701 01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:05.640 I guess you consider could consider him somewhat of an 1702 01:37:05.680 --> 01:37:08.359 expert of where he talks about his own use of 1703 01:37:08.399 --> 01:37:11.479 drugs has disasterus effects in his personal life. You make 1704 01:37:11.600 --> 01:37:14.920 terrible decision on drugs. I want to love you so badly. 1705 01:37:15.279 --> 01:37:18.880 I just take hostages. I'd see somebody like to spend 1706 01:37:18.920 --> 01:37:21.399 three or four months together, and then they would resent 1707 01:37:21.479 --> 01:37:24.439 me because they had nothing in their lives apart from me. 1708 01:37:24.720 --> 01:37:27.319 It really upsets me thinking back on how many people 1709 01:37:27.520 --> 01:37:31.399 I probably hurt. It's just you know, when people go 1710 01:37:31.520 --> 01:37:35.239 back and lament this. And I was talking to somebody 1711 01:37:35.279 --> 01:37:38.479 too the other day, and he was asking me about 1712 01:37:39.600 --> 01:37:43.279 the marijuana laws, and I could, well, you know, you 1713 01:37:43.319 --> 01:37:46.560 can tell sometimes that somebody has been smoking pot or 1714 01:37:46.680 --> 01:37:49.520 had been a smoking pot, or is a pot smoker. 1715 01:37:50.039 --> 01:37:52.479 I don't know, or you can just guess. Maybe I'm 1716 01:37:52.560 --> 01:37:55.600 jumping to the conclusions. But I thought, you know, the 1717 01:37:55.640 --> 01:37:57.920 guy's asking my opinion, I'm just going to give it. 1718 01:37:58.159 --> 01:38:00.399 And one of the things I pride myself on is 1719 01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:02.960 that when you are in a conversation with me, when 1720 01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:06.000 you walk away, you'll never say to yourself, gosh, I 1721 01:38:06.000 --> 01:38:09.119 wonder what Kevin thinks about that particular subject, because whether 1722 01:38:09.159 --> 01:38:10.880 you like it or not, you're gonna hear my Well, 1723 01:38:11.199 --> 01:38:12.960 if you ask my opinion, I'm going to give it. 1724 01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:15.760 And sometimes I even volunteer it because I have an 1725 01:38:15.760 --> 01:38:18.199 opinion and I'm not afraid to use it. So anyway, 1726 01:38:18.239 --> 01:38:20.840 I told him that I just I said, I just 1727 01:38:20.880 --> 01:38:22.560 have no use for it. I don't think there's any 1728 01:38:22.880 --> 01:38:25.399 benefit to it. And it just bothers me that this 1729 01:38:25.479 --> 01:38:29.239 is beginning to be more and more a part of 1730 01:38:29.279 --> 01:38:31.920 the culture, and I still think of it as a 1731 01:38:31.960 --> 01:38:35.079 gateway drug. And I was shocked to find out from 1732 01:38:35.159 --> 01:38:38.199 him he said, I have been a pot smoker. I've 1733 01:38:38.239 --> 01:38:41.279 smoked pot. I still smoke pot. And he says, but 1734 01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:44.399 I have noticed that I am not as sharp as 1735 01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:46.520 I was. And this guy is a guy that's in 1736 01:38:46.560 --> 01:38:52.119 his maybe a late forties, early fifties, and he says, 1737 01:38:52.359 --> 01:38:55.319 there is just not the mental acuity that there was 1738 01:38:55.359 --> 01:38:58.680 there years ago. I'm not as sharp. I seem to 1739 01:38:58.760 --> 01:39:01.840 have a little bit less energy. I'm a little bit 1740 01:39:01.920 --> 01:39:05.359 more laid back, more than I probably should be. And 1741 01:39:05.399 --> 01:39:09.119 there's just certain things that I just can't do that 1742 01:39:09.199 --> 01:39:10.880 I could do even five years ago. 1743 01:39:11.920 --> 01:39:12.439 Excuse me. 1744 01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:17.199 And I was shocked that he would admit that, because 1745 01:39:17.239 --> 01:39:19.079 I've known of a lot of people that have done 1746 01:39:19.239 --> 01:39:23.920 marijuana a lot over the years, and there's just something 1747 01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:26.279 about them. They just don't seem like they're all there. 1748 01:39:26.479 --> 01:39:29.520 They seem like the word searching is a lot more 1749 01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:33.640 at a much younger age. And it's just why bother 1750 01:39:33.920 --> 01:39:37.279 messing with the system like that? And I don't know, 1751 01:39:37.640 --> 01:39:40.159 And don't get me started. I mean, I know people drink. 1752 01:39:40.239 --> 01:39:43.479 I know that there's tobacco out there. I'm a cigar smoker, 1753 01:39:44.039 --> 01:39:48.199 so I know that. But again, because I've never even 1754 01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:51.760 smoked a cigarette. The advantage of that that I have 1755 01:39:51.960 --> 01:39:56.159 is that I don't have that need or that reflex 1756 01:39:56.239 --> 01:39:59.840 to actually inhale the smoke, and so you can get 1757 01:40:00.119 --> 01:40:04.600 whatever the buzz there is from nicotine or whatever that is, 1758 01:40:05.319 --> 01:40:08.920 from just smoking a cigar, puffing on a cigar, and 1759 01:40:09.000 --> 01:40:12.840 it's relaxing, I find. But again, it's not like I'm 1760 01:40:12.880 --> 01:40:15.720 smoking cigars every day. I'm trying to figure out. I 1761 01:40:15.800 --> 01:40:18.119 think there's been about three months since I've had one. 1762 01:40:18.239 --> 01:40:21.039 So now I'm getting myself interested. I'm gonna have to 1763 01:40:21.199 --> 01:40:23.560 go home and have one. No, my wife probably won't 1764 01:40:23.680 --> 01:40:25.640 want that anyway. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk 1765 01:40:25.680 --> 01:40:27.720 to Bob or is it Rob? 1766 01:40:29.880 --> 01:40:32.520 Rob? Rob fifty five? Caresee how are you this morning? 1767 01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:34.600 I'm pretty good? How are you? 1768 01:40:34.840 --> 01:40:36.439 Not too bad? Not too bad at all. 1769 01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:40.319 So I'm sitting there listening this morning, coming into. 1770 01:40:40.119 --> 01:40:40.720 Work, and. 1771 01:40:42.239 --> 01:40:46.279 I just had yesterday twenty one years cleaning several off 1772 01:40:46.319 --> 01:40:48.680 of every drug besides marijuana. 1773 01:40:49.319 --> 01:40:50.279 Congratulations. 1774 01:40:51.560 --> 01:40:55.239 And I just disagree with marijuana being the gayway drug. 1775 01:40:56.520 --> 01:41:01.039 Because I was fifteen years completely severer of everything, came 1776 01:41:01.079 --> 01:41:04.039 down with cancer. They were wanting to give me oxy cottins, 1777 01:41:04.279 --> 01:41:08.000 which I refused. In the past, and I said, I'm 1778 01:41:08.000 --> 01:41:10.079 not doing that. I said, I can't do it. I'm 1779 01:41:10.079 --> 01:41:12.000 not going to take that chance. I seen people in 1780 01:41:12.039 --> 01:41:14.319 the program I was in that had surgeries and they 1781 01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:17.479 went back out, so I started. He said, well, you 1782 01:41:17.479 --> 01:41:21.399 can try marijuana, and I did that and made it 1783 01:41:21.439 --> 01:41:25.479 through having drank. Then I had a motorcycle wreck. Two 1784 01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:31.279 years after that, same exact, same exact thing happened. He said, 1785 01:41:31.560 --> 01:41:35.039 here's some moxies. I said, I can't do that, and 1786 01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:37.600 I did marijuana. And I've been doing marijuana since for 1787 01:41:37.600 --> 01:41:40.720 the last six years, and it has not let me 1788 01:41:40.840 --> 01:41:42.880 do anything else. I go to bars, I said, there 1789 01:41:42.920 --> 01:41:45.800 at a bar and drink Coca Cola, and as long 1790 01:41:45.840 --> 01:41:48.439 as I go somewhere for a reason, I'm good. 1791 01:41:48.880 --> 01:41:51.079 Now what you may have messed because I brought this. 1792 01:41:51.439 --> 01:41:54.039 I brought this subject up probably close to the beginning 1793 01:41:54.039 --> 01:41:56.479 of the hour, these comments by Elton John, and then 1794 01:41:56.520 --> 01:41:58.960 we got sidetracked on some other things, and I just 1795 01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:01.079 got back to it. One of the things that I've 1796 01:42:01.119 --> 01:42:03.159 said is that with all of the studies and all 1797 01:42:03.199 --> 01:42:07.119 the stuff that I've read in terms of marijuana medical 1798 01:42:07.239 --> 01:42:10.079 use of marijuana, about the only thing that I have 1799 01:42:10.199 --> 01:42:13.359 seen a benefit that I would probably say, hey, probably 1800 01:42:13.399 --> 01:42:16.760 not a bad idea is in the event of cancer patients, 1801 01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:21.479 because with cancer patients and with marijuana use, because of 1802 01:42:21.479 --> 01:42:25.520 the weight loss and the level of comfort that that 1803 01:42:25.680 --> 01:42:29.600 gives that you forces you to eat, and when you 1804 01:42:29.760 --> 01:42:33.079 are under cancer treatments, one of the big things is 1805 01:42:33.720 --> 01:42:37.039 weight loss. And so that's the only advantage that I 1806 01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:41.560 have seen medical wise of marijuana. So from that aspect, 1807 01:42:41.760 --> 01:42:44.279 I did use that as a qualifier. So that would 1808 01:42:44.319 --> 01:42:47.520 fit into what you're saying. And it works for paying 1809 01:42:47.560 --> 01:42:50.680 if you get the right kind for paying. And what 1810 01:42:50.720 --> 01:42:53.680 I'll say to you is that I applaud your efforts 1811 01:42:53.680 --> 01:42:56.039 and I applaud the fact that you have stayed. 1812 01:42:56.319 --> 01:42:58.439 Was it twenty years now that you've cleaned and so. 1813 01:42:59.720 --> 01:43:03.199 Years server that was a heavy cocaine user. I was 1814 01:43:03.239 --> 01:43:05.239 a everything user. 1815 01:43:05.439 --> 01:43:10.279 That is so difficult because once once something becomes a habit, 1816 01:43:10.640 --> 01:43:14.279 there's certain things where there's a chemical dependence on it, 1817 01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:17.640 but then also a psychological need for it, as what 1818 01:43:17.680 --> 01:43:20.000 they refer to as the crutch. And to be able 1819 01:43:20.039 --> 01:43:22.680 to avoid that for all these many years, I got 1820 01:43:22.720 --> 01:43:25.199 hats off to you, my friend, and uh, I wish 1821 01:43:25.279 --> 01:43:28.039 you all the best of luck have no more accidents 1822 01:43:28.239 --> 01:43:30.199 so that you can recommend me. 1823 01:43:31.239 --> 01:43:34.399 I'm try not to, Okay, New Year. 1824 01:43:34.239 --> 01:43:35.960 Happy New Year to you. Thank you so much for 1825 01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:38.479 the phone call. I certainly appreciate it. Five one three, 1826 01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:40.880 seven four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight 1827 01:43:40.880 --> 01:43:42.880 two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight 1828 01:43:42.920 --> 01:43:45.600 two five five pound five point fifty AT and T 1829 01:43:45.800 --> 01:43:47.720 wireless phone. I think we went a little bit long 1830 01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:49.600 with that segment, so we'll make it up on the 1831 01:43:49.600 --> 01:43:52.720 other side. Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, 1832 01:43:53.239 --> 01:43:54.399 the talk Station. 1833 01:43:54.359 --> 01:43:55.520 Fifty five KRC. 1834 01:43:56.119 --> 01:43:58.560 The holidays are a blast of the financial. 1835 01:44:13.399 --> 01:44:15.399 Seven fifty two in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for 1836 01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:18.720 Brian Thomas, fifty five k see the talk station. Had 1837 01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:20.479 a little cough there and got a little bit back 1838 01:44:20.560 --> 01:44:25.600 by anyway, I'm back. We're talking about medical marijuana use, 1839 01:44:25.600 --> 01:44:27.000 and I just want to kind of finish up here 1840 01:44:27.079 --> 01:44:29.920 the fact that Elton John came out and spoke about 1841 01:44:29.960 --> 01:44:33.359 this back on December the twelfth in an interview Icon 1842 01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:37.199 of the Year award, and in the interview talking about 1843 01:44:37.840 --> 01:44:44.039 his journey through as far as sobriety and looking at 1844 01:44:44.039 --> 01:44:46.600 that as he refers to it as a gateway drug, 1845 01:44:46.840 --> 01:44:48.680 and I was just caution people out there. And we 1846 01:44:48.720 --> 01:44:51.359 had the police officer earlier in the hour talking about 1847 01:44:51.399 --> 01:44:56.239 how they have seen Meraica medical marijuana being abused and 1848 01:44:56.319 --> 01:45:00.960 that is being used and now invading and available at 1849 01:45:01.039 --> 01:45:04.159 a lot of grade schools as low as fourth and 1850 01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:07.960 fifth graders. School resource officers are having to deal with 1851 01:45:08.000 --> 01:45:10.680 this and just all we need is just one more 1852 01:45:10.720 --> 01:45:13.840 headache out there, one more thing that could cause addiction. 1853 01:45:14.199 --> 01:45:17.159 And Elton John in his comments said that he believes 1854 01:45:17.159 --> 01:45:21.439 that it is some form of addiction. And you know, 1855 01:45:22.000 --> 01:45:26.359 it's one of those things where what one person. You know, 1856 01:45:26.439 --> 01:45:30.680 there are certain people that can smoke cigarettes forever, and 1857 01:45:30.720 --> 01:45:33.960 you know the people they can quit cold turkey and 1858 01:45:34.119 --> 01:45:36.560 never go back to it. There are others that it 1859 01:45:36.600 --> 01:45:39.039 takes them three, four, five, six times. You hear the 1860 01:45:39.079 --> 01:45:41.720 ads on the on the on the stations all the 1861 01:45:41.800 --> 01:45:45.119 time about house people. They didn't quit the first time, 1862 01:45:45.239 --> 01:45:47.199 they didn't quit the second time, but they learned more 1863 01:45:47.239 --> 01:45:49.600 and more and then I finally was able to do it. 1864 01:45:49.920 --> 01:45:52.680 I was finally able to kick the addiction. There are 1865 01:45:52.720 --> 01:45:56.279 some people that have an addictive personality. And if people 1866 01:45:56.399 --> 01:46:00.279 have an addictive personality, and they go into and take 1867 01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.520 marijuana or use marijuana. They may be looking for something 1868 01:46:03.720 --> 01:46:06.720 higher and again could lead to a great way drug. 1869 01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:09.960 But again speaking from the standpoint of never having tried it, 1870 01:46:10.119 --> 01:46:13.640 never used it, never wanted to try it, So you're 1871 01:46:13.680 --> 01:46:16.800 gonna have to. But just look before you do it, 1872 01:46:16.880 --> 01:46:19.960 Like anything else, do an informed consent. Look at what 1873 01:46:20.239 --> 01:46:23.760 is being written. The fact that they admit in here 1874 01:46:24.079 --> 01:46:28.800 CDC notes that experts experts disagree whether it lives up 1875 01:46:28.840 --> 01:46:32.439 to its long held reputation. Now it's interesting that they 1876 01:46:32.479 --> 01:46:36.760 would say that about marijuana. The same is true on 1877 01:46:36.880 --> 01:46:41.119 climate change, but they'll never say that climate change, as 1878 01:46:41.159 --> 01:46:45.720 you know, is absolutely settled science not. 1879 01:46:47.319 --> 01:46:47.720 Coming up. 1880 01:46:47.720 --> 01:46:50.399 We'll talk a couple other things, some mischief that we 1881 01:46:50.479 --> 01:46:53.000 can get into. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. 1882 01:46:53.119 --> 01:46:55.159 Fifty five kr se de Talk station. 1883 01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:58.760 Your voice beg you for Dayan McColl. 1884 01:46:58.439 --> 01:47:03.159 Your country to hear it every day fifty five krs 1885 01:47:03.279 --> 01:47:04.199 the talk station. 1886 01:47:04.680 --> 01:47:07.560 This report is sponsored by puretalk dot com. 1887 01:47:07.600 --> 01:47:10.359 It's time to dip, all right. 1888 01:47:18.479 --> 01:47:23.560 Five minutes after eight o'clock on this New Year's Eve morning, 1889 01:47:24.479 --> 01:47:27.920 I still pinched myself realizing that this is the last 1890 01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:31.520 day of the year. I hope everybody's having a great morning. 1891 01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:33.159 I hope you're going to have a great night. I'm 1892 01:47:33.239 --> 01:47:35.239 kind of curious as to what people are doing. What's 1893 01:47:35.279 --> 01:47:37.960 on your agenda for the day, I've got any New 1894 01:47:38.039 --> 01:47:41.239 Year's resolutions? What are you planning on for tonight? What 1895 01:47:41.279 --> 01:47:44.119 are your hosts for twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five, 1896 01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:46.760 And what do you think is the top story of 1897 01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:49.760 twenty twenty four. Now I'm going to answer that a 1898 01:47:49.800 --> 01:47:52.239 little bit, maybe get the ball rolling a little bit 1899 01:47:52.279 --> 01:47:56.319 on that. But you know, I've mentioned that there's there's 1900 01:47:56.399 --> 01:47:59.560 several stories. I mentioned this earlier that there are any 1901 01:47:59.800 --> 01:48:02.159 There are several stories that in and of themselves could 1902 01:48:02.199 --> 01:48:04.920 be the top story of the year in any other year, 1903 01:48:05.439 --> 01:48:08.159 but the fact that it happened that they all happened 1904 01:48:08.199 --> 01:48:14.640 this year was significant. Of course, I think overall overarching 1905 01:48:14.800 --> 01:48:16.880 theme of the entire year would have been the twenty 1906 01:48:16.920 --> 01:48:20.720 twenty four presidential election. Leading up to that, the whole 1907 01:48:20.920 --> 01:48:24.439 deal with Biden being in announcing that he was going 1908 01:48:24.479 --> 01:48:28.199 to run, even though that people were saying that there 1909 01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:32.520 appeared to be clearly that his mental faculties weren't all there. 1910 01:48:32.760 --> 01:48:34.800 But of course then we got lied to by all 1911 01:48:34.840 --> 01:48:38.239 the people in the administration telling us how sharp he was, 1912 01:48:38.520 --> 01:48:42.920 that he could run rings around everybody. So then you 1913 01:48:43.000 --> 01:48:48.359 have the June debate and just the absolute meltdown and 1914 01:48:48.760 --> 01:48:52.560 Democratic Party goes into a panic. They decided that okay, 1915 01:48:52.680 --> 01:48:55.079 they're going to convince him to drop out. The same 1916 01:48:55.159 --> 01:48:58.000 people they kind of pushed him onto the ticket because 1917 01:48:58.039 --> 01:49:01.960 he was a safe person, a safe bet, somebody that 1918 01:49:02.000 --> 01:49:06.560 they could manipulate as far as their needs and wants 1919 01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:10.800 as president. So the same people that brought him in 1920 01:49:10.920 --> 01:49:13.640 are the same people that brought him out. And then 1921 01:49:13.720 --> 01:49:17.279 we wind up with Kamala Harris where they don't, you know, 1922 01:49:17.439 --> 01:49:24.880 the party that talks about Donald Trump being an existential 1923 01:49:24.960 --> 01:49:30.000 threat to democracy, they themselves being the existential threat to 1924 01:49:30.079 --> 01:49:34.880 democracy that they were. Even in their primaries before Biden 1925 01:49:34.920 --> 01:49:38.119 even dropped out, they didn't allow certain people on the ticket. 1926 01:49:38.159 --> 01:49:40.439 They sued to let the force them off. 1927 01:49:40.720 --> 01:49:43.800 Bobby Kennedy Junior was on there, a couple of other 1928 01:49:43.840 --> 01:49:47.039 people had chosen to run and they closed them out. 1929 01:49:47.359 --> 01:49:50.760 So they did not really have an open primary process. 1930 01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:54.640 They haven't had an open primary process for the last well, 1931 01:49:54.680 --> 01:49:59.720 now three presidential cycles. So when Biden dropped out, instead 1932 01:49:59.720 --> 01:50:03.840 of having a shortened nominating procedure or at least go 1933 01:50:03.880 --> 01:50:07.319 in and interview for the job and take the credentials 1934 01:50:07.359 --> 01:50:10.760 of everybody, and the party officials selecting no, they choose 1935 01:50:11.000 --> 01:50:14.760 Kamala Harris because again, that was a safe bet, and 1936 01:50:14.840 --> 01:50:20.479 even with her disastrous job as Borders Are, which they 1937 01:50:20.520 --> 01:50:23.000 then tried to gaslight us, lie to us and tell 1938 01:50:23.079 --> 01:50:26.560 us that Kamala Harris really in fact wasn't the Borders Are, 1939 01:50:26.880 --> 01:50:29.600 even though people referred to her as that, she never 1940 01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:33.279 corrected them. They never corrected it, the administration never corrected it. 1941 01:50:33.479 --> 01:50:35.520 All of a sudden they're trying to clean up her resume, 1942 01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:40.600 and yet people can't forget about the cackling, the inappropriate laughter, 1943 01:50:41.039 --> 01:50:45.880 and just the gaps that she did throughout her vice presidency. 1944 01:50:46.520 --> 01:50:49.520 Now all of a sudden, she's in charge and she's 1945 01:50:49.560 --> 01:50:53.720 running this joyful campaign. And we started seeing cracks in 1946 01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:56.079 that they lied to us that, oh, the polls were 1947 01:50:56.119 --> 01:50:59.079 neck and neck, when in fact they probably weren't. We're 1948 01:50:59.119 --> 01:51:02.399 hearing stories now that the polls were never tight, but 1949 01:51:02.720 --> 01:51:05.520 that's what they were telling The Spoon Federal regurgitators in 1950 01:51:05.520 --> 01:51:08.560 the mainstream media, and they continued that on. Then we 1951 01:51:08.640 --> 01:51:10.960 come to election night and then all of a sudden 1952 01:51:11.000 --> 01:51:13.279 we find out that well not only find out how 1953 01:51:13.319 --> 01:51:16.319 bad these polls were, but how it was an attempt 1954 01:51:16.319 --> 01:51:19.680 by them to suppress the vote. And especially over the 1955 01:51:19.680 --> 01:51:24.039 weekend before the election, they had that Iowa Bill, a 1956 01:51:24.079 --> 01:51:27.720 poll that came out that talked about that the race 1957 01:51:27.920 --> 01:51:30.560 was not close, that Kamala Harris was going to win. 1958 01:51:31.079 --> 01:51:34.600 And so the election turned out the way it did, 1959 01:51:34.880 --> 01:51:38.239 and of course the media has paid a price for that. 1960 01:51:38.680 --> 01:51:41.960 They their ratings are way down. They should be if 1961 01:51:42.000 --> 01:51:44.960 they had any brains about them, would be totally embarrassed. 1962 01:51:45.119 --> 01:51:48.960 Then we come to find out that Kamala Harris raised 1963 01:51:49.039 --> 01:51:53.159 two point five billion dollars, blew through that wound up 1964 01:51:53.199 --> 01:51:57.079 with three hundred million dollars in debt as far as 1965 01:51:57.159 --> 01:52:00.439 the DNC was concerned, and then goes begging back to 1966 01:52:00.479 --> 01:52:04.720 these donors that had propped up this campaign. Then we 1967 01:52:04.800 --> 01:52:07.439 come to find out through some of the election reports 1968 01:52:07.560 --> 01:52:11.159 that Oprah win Fee had been paid what was a 1969 01:52:11.199 --> 01:52:15.600 two point five million dollars Well, actually she directly wasn't paid, 1970 01:52:15.760 --> 01:52:18.239 but it was her production company to do the production. 1971 01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:21.439 They spent one hundred thousand dollars on the second construction 1972 01:52:21.520 --> 01:52:25.640 of that Call Your Daddy podcast. We find out that 1973 01:52:25.720 --> 01:52:29.840 they paid Bruce Springsteen to attempt to endorse and to 1974 01:52:29.920 --> 01:52:32.520 actually show up and do a couple of songs at 1975 01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:40.159 one of the campaign stops. Beyonce paid Al Sharpton, who 1976 01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:43.720 is on MSNBC and is one of their commentators, one 1977 01:52:43.720 --> 01:52:46.079 of their political people. All of a sudden we come 1978 01:52:46.119 --> 01:52:49.119 to find out that he was paid five hundred thousand 1979 01:52:49.119 --> 01:52:53.560 dollars by the Harris campaign in order to secure an 1980 01:52:53.640 --> 01:52:56.880 interview with him, and of course the softball interview that 1981 01:52:57.000 --> 01:53:01.199 pursued that proceeded from that. He hasn't paid the price, 1982 01:53:01.439 --> 01:53:05.000 he hasn't lost his job. But of course they propped 1983 01:53:05.000 --> 01:53:08.520 this up, and they call us the Republicans or Conservatives 1984 01:53:08.520 --> 01:53:12.039 and existential threat to democracy, even though that we were 1985 01:53:12.239 --> 01:53:15.119 being told that this woman was competent, that this woman 1986 01:53:15.159 --> 01:53:18.399 was running a flawless campaign, and now that the dust 1987 01:53:18.439 --> 01:53:22.079 is settled, they're still calling it a flawless campaign. We 1988 01:53:22.119 --> 01:53:26.199 see Biden sitting down for interviews saying that he can't 1989 01:53:26.199 --> 01:53:29.199 think of a single mistake that he made. Nothing comes 1990 01:53:29.199 --> 01:53:35.840 to mind completely ignoring the Afghanistan embarrassment withdrawal, the crushing debt, 1991 01:53:36.159 --> 01:53:40.439 that we've got record inflation, wide open borders, and South 1992 01:53:40.479 --> 01:53:45.199 American gangs now running some of the cities, invading some 1993 01:53:45.239 --> 01:53:50.079 of our cities, which was denied. So everything was perfect. 1994 01:53:50.119 --> 01:53:54.079 Everything was perfect with Kamala Harris campaign, she couldn't think 1995 01:53:54.079 --> 01:53:57.479 of anything, even a softball question. Even the people on 1996 01:53:57.520 --> 01:54:00.199 the view were shocked when she gave the answer that 1997 01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:02.600 do you think there's anything that comes to mind that 1998 01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:05.880 you would do differently than what had been done previously? 1999 01:54:06.640 --> 01:54:11.199 And she said, no, nothing comes to mind. So I 2000 01:54:11.199 --> 01:54:15.079 think overarching the big story of twenty twenty four was 2001 01:54:15.119 --> 01:54:18.159 the election. However, I think as a backdrop of that 2002 01:54:18.560 --> 01:54:21.439 and the biggest scandal to ever face the United States 2003 01:54:21.680 --> 01:54:24.159 happened over the last four years. We had that Wall 2004 01:54:24.239 --> 01:54:27.680 Street Journal expose the other day that talked about how 2005 01:54:27.920 --> 01:54:32.000 even back during the campaign of twenty twenty that Biden 2006 01:54:32.279 --> 01:54:35.800 was not as up to the campaigning as a lot 2007 01:54:35.840 --> 01:54:39.119 of people. And they talked about how his wife was 2008 01:54:39.159 --> 01:54:43.039 doing like nine campaign appearances on a particular day versus 2009 01:54:43.079 --> 01:54:46.279 what one or two for Biden, and she was getting 2010 01:54:46.319 --> 01:54:48.359 all this notoriety, and they started saying, well, you know, 2011 01:54:48.399 --> 01:54:51.039 you got to tamp down those stories because you're making 2012 01:54:51.079 --> 01:54:54.319 the president look bad or the candidate look bad, and 2013 01:54:54.359 --> 01:54:57.000 we don't want that. And so all of the gaps, 2014 01:54:57.039 --> 01:54:59.680 all the things that happened during that campaign were hidden 2015 01:54:59.680 --> 01:55:02.159 from the American public. Then we come to find out 2016 01:55:02.159 --> 01:55:05.479 through this Wall Street Journal article that even in the 2017 01:55:05.520 --> 01:55:09.159 first couple of months, he started being isolated from advisers 2018 01:55:09.439 --> 01:55:12.399 and from the outsiders, and he was surrounded by his 2019 01:55:12.520 --> 01:55:17.079 close advisors and close associates. And they're not all his associates, 2020 01:55:17.079 --> 01:55:21.560 of course, a lot of them were Obama associates. And 2021 01:55:21.640 --> 01:55:25.079 so it's pretty safe to say that Obama and his 2022 01:55:25.239 --> 01:55:29.079 people were pretty much running things. They insulated him. I mean, 2023 01:55:29.119 --> 01:55:31.680 we see now that he spent four hundred and forty 2024 01:55:31.680 --> 01:55:34.640 four days on vacation. It may be higher than that 2025 01:55:34.760 --> 01:55:37.880 by now because he's still on vacation, and that more 2026 01:55:37.960 --> 01:55:40.920 than forty percent of his presidency. Now, if you go 2027 01:55:41.079 --> 01:55:43.640 back to and read some of these stories, now, I 2028 01:55:43.720 --> 01:55:47.760 came across the story that it was called Death and 2029 01:55:47.800 --> 01:55:50.920 the All American Boy. And this was a story written 2030 01:55:50.960 --> 01:55:54.520 by Kitty Kelly, who you may be familiar with. She 2031 01:55:54.920 --> 01:55:58.560 was a is a columnist was a columnist very popular 2032 01:55:58.800 --> 01:56:02.279 back in the seventies. Wrote a story about him, and 2033 01:56:02.520 --> 01:56:05.000 I think it was supposed to be a puff piece 2034 01:56:05.039 --> 01:56:08.119 about him talking about the tragedy of him losing his 2035 01:56:08.199 --> 01:56:11.800 wife and that he wanted that he actually believed that 2036 01:56:11.840 --> 01:56:14.439 he should be the smart you know, being the smartest 2037 01:56:14.479 --> 01:56:16.920 guy in the room. According to him, that he was 2038 01:56:17.000 --> 01:56:20.199 destined to be president. So can you imagine a job 2039 01:56:20.479 --> 01:56:23.359 something that you've wanted your entire life, that you're going 2040 01:56:23.399 --> 01:56:25.680 to be there, that you wanted to be president of 2041 01:56:25.680 --> 01:56:30.239 the United States, and you become president and you spend 2042 01:56:30.880 --> 01:56:34.840 forty percent of your time away from Washington on vacation. 2043 01:56:35.880 --> 01:56:41.840 I'm afraid that, even at my level of the respect 2044 01:56:41.920 --> 01:56:46.520 for that office, I don't know that I would ever 2045 01:56:46.960 --> 01:56:51.920 leave Washington except for some diplomatic tour or something that 2046 01:56:52.079 --> 01:56:55.439 I would Because you cherish that job. You may only 2047 01:56:55.479 --> 01:56:57.960 have it for four years or as the maximum of 2048 01:56:58.039 --> 01:57:02.039 eight years, how you don't pull pour every bit of 2049 01:57:02.079 --> 01:57:05.640 your heart and soul into that job to do the 2050 01:57:05.640 --> 01:57:09.720 best job you can do for the American people. The 2051 01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:13.840 hell with your legacy, but for the American people because 2052 01:57:13.880 --> 01:57:18.439 they entrusted you with that position. I can't imagine spending 2053 01:57:18.520 --> 01:57:21.720 that much time away. Now I know that, you know, 2054 01:57:21.760 --> 01:57:24.199 you've got to have family, you got to be involved, 2055 01:57:24.199 --> 01:57:26.840 But for crying out loud, as Ronald Reagan used to 2056 01:57:26.880 --> 01:57:32.760 refer to it, just as proprietors and small businesses throughout 2057 01:57:33.399 --> 01:57:36.079 the history of this country, he said, this is one 2058 01:57:36.119 --> 01:57:39.279 of the jobs where you live above the store. And 2059 01:57:39.319 --> 01:57:41.560 that's the way he looked at the office. That's the 2060 01:57:41.600 --> 01:57:44.439 way he honored the office. The fact that it was 2061 01:57:45.000 --> 01:57:48.439 the business was on the ground floor and your residence 2062 01:57:48.520 --> 01:57:51.760 was on the second and third floor. So the respect 2063 01:57:51.760 --> 01:57:54.359 for the office, wanting to be there and wanting to 2064 01:57:54.439 --> 01:57:57.199 be part of that, and the fact that you have 2065 01:57:58.680 --> 01:58:02.399 worked so hard to be in that position, it just 2066 01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:06.960 dumbfounds me. The fact that how cavalier this presidency has been, 2067 01:58:07.199 --> 01:58:09.640 and pretty much it appears as though that has been 2068 01:58:09.640 --> 01:58:13.560 on autopilot, and that should be a major investigation going 2069 01:58:13.600 --> 01:58:16.000 forward to get to the bottom of this. Who made 2070 01:58:16.000 --> 01:58:20.079 the decision, who were pulling the strings? Because in effect, 2071 01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:24.359 my friends, that is unconstitutional, it's undemocratic, and I'm not 2072 01:58:24.399 --> 01:58:27.840 talking about the party. I'm talking about an existential threat 2073 01:58:27.880 --> 01:58:31.840 to democracy and actually put our country in danger and 2074 01:58:32.000 --> 01:58:35.760 actually is in my opinion, treason US five point three, 2075 01:58:35.800 --> 01:58:38.319 seven four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight 2076 01:58:38.319 --> 01:58:41.000 two three talk one, eight hundred eighty two three eight two, 2077 01:58:41.039 --> 01:58:44.359 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 2078 01:58:44.479 --> 01:58:47.800 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the 2079 01:58:47.960 --> 01:58:48.840 talk station. 2080 01:58:48.880 --> 01:58:52.159 Fifty five KRC just in time for the New. 2081 01:58:52.079 --> 01:59:04.239 Year twenty one in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for 2082 01:59:04.279 --> 01:59:07.560 Brian Thomas fifty five ker See the talk stations phone 2083 01:59:07.640 --> 01:59:12.199 numbers five one, three, seven four nine, fifty, five hundred one, 2084 01:59:12.319 --> 01:59:14.720 eight hundred, talk one, eight hundred. 2085 01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:16.199 Eight two three eight two. 2086 01:59:16.039 --> 01:59:20.359 Five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 2087 01:59:21.000 --> 01:59:23.199 Looking at some of these stories I'm talking about, and 2088 01:59:23.279 --> 01:59:25.840 I've asked UH, and we've had a couple of callers 2089 01:59:25.920 --> 01:59:28.680 call in and talk about the biggest stories of twenty 2090 01:59:28.760 --> 01:59:32.880 twenty four, plans for the New Year's Eve celebration, and 2091 01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:36.560 of course any plans for or what you're anticipating on 2092 01:59:36.680 --> 01:59:42.079 what you're looking forward to in twenty twenty five. Now, 2093 01:59:42.520 --> 01:59:45.399 some of the headlines that I'm seeing inflation, elections in 2094 01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:50.119 war dominated twenty twenty four, angered by the hefty ramp 2095 01:59:50.199 --> 01:59:53.439 up in prices for everything from eggs to energy. Over 2096 01:59:53.479 --> 01:59:57.039 the past few years, they punished incumbent and parties at 2097 01:59:57.079 --> 02:00:00.840 almost every opportunity. The pain of inflation lingers and the 2098 02:00:00.960 --> 02:00:03.800 ruling parties took the blame, that took the blame in 2099 02:00:03.920 --> 02:00:05.199 election after election. 2100 02:00:07.560 --> 02:00:11.119 Yeah, it's just the media. 2101 02:00:11.439 --> 02:00:11.760 You know. 2102 02:00:12.560 --> 02:00:15.119 In the United States, high cost help Donald Trump win 2103 02:00:15.159 --> 02:00:17.920 a second term as president four years after he was 2104 02:00:18.000 --> 02:00:20.800 voted out of the White House and then falsely claimed 2105 02:00:21.000 --> 02:00:24.479 election fraud. His supporters failed in their bid to overturn 2106 02:00:24.560 --> 02:00:27.920 Trump's defeat by storming the US Capitol. You know, they 2107 02:00:28.000 --> 02:00:31.079 just can't get a Scholert. But I just love the 2108 02:00:31.520 --> 02:00:35.920 Trump derangement syndrome and stories like this. Let's see Trump's defeat. 2109 02:00:35.960 --> 02:00:38.600 They could not stand Trump's defeat by storming the US 2110 02:00:38.720 --> 02:00:40.399 Capitol on January sixth. 2111 02:00:40.079 --> 02:00:41.239 Twenty twenty one. 2112 02:00:41.760 --> 02:00:44.720 This year, they made their voices heard at the ballot box, 2113 02:00:45.000 --> 02:00:49.680 ushering in a new American leadership likely to test democratic 2114 02:00:49.760 --> 02:00:52.880 institutions at home and relations abroad. 2115 02:00:53.159 --> 02:00:54.279 Are you kidding me? 2116 02:00:55.039 --> 02:00:58.800 The inflation driven and anti incumbent sentiment also ushered in 2117 02:00:59.079 --> 02:01:03.319 new governments and writin and Botswana, Portugal and Panama, South 2118 02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:07.760 Korean voters put the opposition into power in its parliament, 2119 02:01:08.039 --> 02:01:12.760 a check on President Yun suk yol. In early December, 2120 02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:16.239 the president imposed martial law, a move the National Assembly 2121 02:01:16.319 --> 02:01:17.239 quickly reversed. 2122 02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:18.880 Elections also shook up. 2123 02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:23.479 France and Germany, and Japan and India. In one place 2124 02:01:23.800 --> 02:01:26.920 where there was no change, Russia, where Vladimir Putin was 2125 02:01:26.960 --> 02:01:29.600 re elected president with eighty eight percent of the vote, 2126 02:01:29.680 --> 02:01:34.279 a record in post Soviet Russia. What you don't understand 2127 02:01:34.319 --> 02:01:37.520 that that is still almost a communist country. There, damn 2128 02:01:37.560 --> 02:01:41.239 near a communist country, that there is no freedom over there. 2129 02:01:41.359 --> 02:01:43.520 But of course you know you can't tell this to 2130 02:01:44.279 --> 02:01:47.880 so called well spoon fed Well, they are spoon fed 2131 02:01:47.880 --> 02:01:52.079 regurgitators because I don't want to characterize them as journalists, 2132 02:01:52.119 --> 02:01:55.600 because they are anything, but because they never report the 2133 02:01:55.640 --> 02:02:00.640 actual truth or the facts, but their version of and 2134 02:02:01.479 --> 02:02:05.800 let's face it, Okay, there has never been a communist 2135 02:02:06.119 --> 02:02:09.760 or a communist idea that the left hasn't loved. I've 2136 02:02:09.800 --> 02:02:12.560 made the comment before, kind of jokingly, but I would 2137 02:02:12.600 --> 02:02:15.520 be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised. I wonder how many 2138 02:02:15.600 --> 02:02:18.760 of the liberals out there actually have Sha Guevera t 2139 02:02:18.920 --> 02:02:24.359 shirts in their closets. You know, it wouldn't surprise me 2140 02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:28.119 because all the leftists that we see, all this leftist 2141 02:02:28.159 --> 02:02:31.600 movement from the Green News Steel on down is all 2142 02:02:31.880 --> 02:02:35.680 designed as control. It's not having to do anything with 2143 02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:39.520 climate change, has nothing to do with anything other than 2144 02:02:39.920 --> 02:02:42.800 making a ruling class where they are at the top 2145 02:02:43.000 --> 02:02:45.319 and we are at the bottom. And of course they 2146 02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:49.039 love that, because in their hearts they are all socialists. 2147 02:02:50.279 --> 02:02:53.920 Moscow continued to prosecute its war against Ukraine, grinding out 2148 02:02:54.000 --> 02:02:58.760 notable notable territorial gains. The big question is what impact 2149 02:02:58.960 --> 02:03:01.880 Trump's return to the White House will have on the conflict. 2150 02:03:02.079 --> 02:03:05.039 He has promised end the war in a day. Many 2151 02:03:05.039 --> 02:03:08.520 in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe fear that will mean 2152 02:03:08.720 --> 02:03:12.920 siding with Putin and freezing the status quo. In the 2153 02:03:12.960 --> 02:03:16.319 Middle East, Israel continues its war against Gaza and extended 2154 02:03:16.319 --> 02:03:19.880 it to Lebanon, where it left Iran backed Hezbola damage 2155 02:03:20.079 --> 02:03:23.840 and in disarray. In Syria, a well coordinated collection of 2156 02:03:23.880 --> 02:03:27.319 rebel groups top oled Bashir l Asad and now seeks 2157 02:03:27.359 --> 02:03:31.039 to run the country. In business, companies around the world 2158 02:03:31.199 --> 02:03:35.119 grappled with how to adapt to artificial intelligence. The dominance 2159 02:03:35.159 --> 02:03:38.039 of tech companies for investors can be summed up as 2160 02:03:38.119 --> 02:03:42.520 one simple fact. Seven tech firms, the so called Magnificent seven, 2161 02:03:42.840 --> 02:03:45.199 now account for more than one third of the S 2162 02:03:45.199 --> 02:03:48.520 and P five hundred's market cap. Elon Musk, who runs 2163 02:03:48.520 --> 02:03:51.920 one of those companies, Tesla, is an advisor and financial 2164 02:03:51.960 --> 02:03:55.800 backer of President Trump. Looking ahead, that combination of tech 2165 02:03:56.159 --> 02:04:03.239 bro mojo and political power could well defined twenty five Interesting. Interesting, 2166 02:04:03.760 --> 02:04:06.720 see a little bit of slant in that particular story. 2167 02:04:06.880 --> 02:04:10.840 And oh lo and behold, we'll dig into this coming up. 2168 02:04:11.359 --> 02:04:15.880 Hamas suddenly open to release of some Israeli hostages before 2169 02:04:15.920 --> 02:04:19.439 the Trump Trump inauguration five one three seven four nine 2170 02:04:19.520 --> 02:04:22.319 fifty five hundred one eight hundred eight two three talk 2171 02:04:22.600 --> 02:04:25.359 one eight hundred eight eight two three eight two five 2172 02:04:25.479 --> 02:04:28.640 five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 2173 02:04:28.800 --> 02:04:32.439 Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the 2174 02:04:32.640 --> 02:04:33.239 Talk station. 2175 02:04:33.600 --> 02:04:45.840 Fifty five KRC, eight thirty two. 2176 02:04:45.840 --> 02:04:48.520 In the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty 2177 02:04:48.520 --> 02:04:53.439 five KRC, the Talk Stations. We're following some local headlines 2178 02:04:53.439 --> 02:04:57.079 and I just cannot get my It's just this, this 2179 02:04:57.119 --> 02:05:01.079 story just completely keeps bothering me over and over again. Cruse, 2180 02:05:01.119 --> 02:05:04.039 responding to the point, well, the nine one one calls 2181 02:05:04.079 --> 02:05:06.960 say dad was asleep when three year old child died. 2182 02:05:07.319 --> 02:05:10.159 A nine to eleven call father of killed daughter of 2183 02:05:10.359 --> 02:05:13.279 dog attack woke up found her already dead in the apartment. 2184 02:05:13.560 --> 02:05:15.439 Father of three year old girl was killed in the 2185 02:05:15.439 --> 02:05:18.159 dog attack told dispatchers he woke up Friday to find 2186 02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:20.640 her already dead in the living room. The man called 2187 02:05:20.720 --> 02:05:23.479 Sin Santa Police seven fifty am just after he woke 2188 02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:25.920 up in the Roselawn apartment. According to nine to one 2189 02:05:26.039 --> 02:05:29.720 one calls recording the computer aided dispatched documents in a 2190 02:05:29.760 --> 02:05:32.960 panic state. He identified himself as the girl's father and 2191 02:05:33.039 --> 02:05:36.840 described the scene just a horrific situation. We had a 2192 02:05:36.880 --> 02:05:39.479 caller earlier that called in said they described the dog 2193 02:05:39.520 --> 02:05:42.439 as a terrier, but that could actually be a pit 2194 02:05:42.600 --> 02:05:45.960 bull terrier, which is unbelievable. 2195 02:05:48.359 --> 02:05:48.880 Just sad. 2196 02:05:49.119 --> 02:05:55.880 Cruse responded that they had the let's see they idd 2197 02:05:55.199 --> 02:06:00.479 the girl killed in the attack. Let me see county 2198 02:06:00.760 --> 02:06:04.159 two dogs cat Kingsley right inside the home a seven 2199 02:06:04.239 --> 02:06:07.720 thousand blocks a Stillwell Road, according to police. And then 2200 02:06:07.760 --> 02:06:09.760 they talk in here about some of the other dog 2201 02:06:09.800 --> 02:06:12.720 attacks that have happened around the state and kind of 2202 02:06:12.720 --> 02:06:17.239 some national statistics. Also, we looked at a cruise responding 2203 02:06:17.279 --> 02:06:20.319 to a plane crash in Adams County. They do have 2204 02:06:20.720 --> 02:06:24.159 they have identified the person that lost their life in 2205 02:06:24.159 --> 02:06:25.239 that plane crash. 2206 02:06:25.880 --> 02:06:26.960 A gentleman by the name of. 2207 02:06:27.000 --> 02:06:31.720 Robert Harris Coles of Vicksburg, Michigan, is a pilot flying 2208 02:06:31.760 --> 02:06:34.359 the small plane when it crashed into a wooded area 2209 02:06:34.399 --> 02:06:38.520 and the Ohios according to Ohio State Highway Patrols Georgetown 2210 02:06:38.560 --> 02:06:42.159 Division wrote in a press release, preliminary investigation revealed that 2211 02:06:42.479 --> 02:06:46.479 Coles was flying the nineteen sixty twin engine Cessna three 2212 02:06:46.640 --> 02:06:49.800 ten D when a crash near the property of at 2213 02:06:49.880 --> 02:06:52.920 twenty one seventy three Savage Road. A trooper at the 2214 02:06:52.960 --> 02:06:57.079 scene told news agencies that the plane was headed to 2215 02:06:57.239 --> 02:07:02.600 West Union. Once officer emergency crews located the crash site, 2216 02:07:02.680 --> 02:07:05.840 they found Coles, who was pronounced dead at the scene. 2217 02:07:06.439 --> 02:07:09.119 There's no other occupants in the plane, so it was 2218 02:07:09.159 --> 02:07:15.079 just a single death. But again, tragedy around the Christmas holidays. 2219 02:07:15.239 --> 02:07:18.119 Tragedy of any time at any any time of the 2220 02:07:18.239 --> 02:07:21.720 year is always tragic, but when it occurs around the 2221 02:07:21.760 --> 02:07:27.319 holidays or a holiday that creates problems because when those 2222 02:07:27.359 --> 02:07:30.399 anniversaries come around, when you're supposed to be in a 2223 02:07:30.479 --> 02:07:34.279 celebratory mood, when you're supposed to be ready for a holiday, 2224 02:07:34.600 --> 02:07:38.000 you have that reminder the anniversary of the loss of 2225 02:07:38.079 --> 02:07:41.399 a loved one or the tragic death of someone that 2226 02:07:41.920 --> 02:07:46.039 in some cases could have been prevented. Coming up, we've 2227 02:07:46.079 --> 02:07:48.920 got let's go a little bit of fun facts and 2228 02:07:48.960 --> 02:07:52.880 talk a little bit about New Year's and what people 2229 02:07:52.880 --> 02:07:57.479 can expect. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, nine, fifty 2230 02:07:57.520 --> 02:08:00.520 five one, eight hundred eight two three talk one, eight 2231 02:08:00.600 --> 02:08:03.640 hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, five 2232 02:08:03.680 --> 02:08:06.720 point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in 2233 02:08:06.880 --> 02:08:10.039 for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station. 2234 02:08:10.359 --> 02:08:13.680 This is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station. 2235 02:08:14.199 --> 02:08:21.000 The holidays are a blast. 2236 02:08:21.000 --> 02:08:23.239 Eight thirty eight in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for 2237 02:08:23.279 --> 02:08:24.199 Brian Thomas. 2238 02:08:23.920 --> 02:08:25.680 Fifty five krises the talk station. 2239 02:08:26.159 --> 02:08:28.640 Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Joe fifty 2240 02:08:28.680 --> 02:08:31.600 five KR. See how are you this morning? Happy New 2241 02:08:31.680 --> 02:08:34.000 Year Eve? And uh what. 2242 02:08:34.079 --> 02:08:34.960 You got for us? 2243 02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:39.439 Happy New Year? Kevin, God bless you and prayers for 2244 02:08:39.640 --> 02:08:44.319 uh say sorry about the background was the victims of 2245 02:08:44.359 --> 02:08:49.000 that tragedy you just spoke about. I wanted to get 2246 02:08:49.039 --> 02:08:51.279 your opinion on saying two things. They are kind of 2247 02:08:51.279 --> 02:08:52.239 a conundrum to me. 2248 02:08:52.720 --> 02:08:55.119 Now, what would make you think I have an opinion 2249 02:08:55.159 --> 02:08:55.760 on anything? 2250 02:08:57.960 --> 02:09:01.680 What would give you that I your brother? 2251 02:09:04.319 --> 02:09:08.680 I'm sorry, that's okay, love, It is good to laugh. 2252 02:09:09.600 --> 02:09:09.920 First. 2253 02:09:10.159 --> 02:09:12.960 I don't know how we reconcile this three or you know, 2254 02:09:13.000 --> 02:09:15.159 I look in terms of six months that you have 2255 02:09:15.239 --> 02:09:18.239 to be able to get by. But eventually it comes 2256 02:09:18.279 --> 02:09:20.760 down in my mind a community. You know, you can't 2257 02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:24.039 be everything to everybody. And I'm going to get out 2258 02:09:24.039 --> 02:09:25.520 of the way because I'd rather listen. 2259 02:09:26.000 --> 02:09:29.319 Well, what what was your first first question on what? 2260 02:09:29.560 --> 02:09:31.920 Now? It was? 2261 02:09:32.760 --> 02:09:36.520 There's apparently and I'm not educated on this. I need 2262 02:09:36.520 --> 02:09:41.119 to catch up. Controversy regarding Trump's view of the green 2263 02:09:41.199 --> 02:09:42.279 card extensions. 2264 02:09:42.560 --> 02:09:48.640 Oh okay, okay, you follow Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, Well 2265 02:09:48.680 --> 02:09:52.520 you don't have to hang up. But anyway, there the 2266 02:09:52.760 --> 02:09:57.079 controversy over these h H one B visas that had 2267 02:09:57.119 --> 02:10:01.000 been around for a number of years. In fact, I 2268 02:10:01.079 --> 02:10:04.199 believe there was some testimony by Bill Gates back in 2269 02:10:04.239 --> 02:10:09.640 the nineteen nineties talking about how you need to have 2270 02:10:10.119 --> 02:10:14.079 what they call the best and brightest available and when 2271 02:10:14.079 --> 02:10:16.560 you get into some of this tech and some of 2272 02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:22.479 the computer stuff, the Americans the workforce wasn't enough and 2273 02:10:22.479 --> 02:10:26.239 that you have to be able to bring in people 2274 02:10:26.239 --> 02:10:29.680 who can handle that. But what we've seen, and I 2275 02:10:29.720 --> 02:10:32.920 think there was supposed to be something like eight hundred 2276 02:10:32.960 --> 02:10:36.359 and sixty of these that would be allowed every year, 2277 02:10:36.840 --> 02:10:43.159 that has more than exploded to over eighty six thousand 2278 02:10:43.199 --> 02:10:47.520 a year. And what we are seeing is that companies 2279 02:10:47.680 --> 02:10:52.199 are using this the way that they're using the cheap 2280 02:10:52.319 --> 02:10:56.119 labor coming across the border the illegals, and using that 2281 02:10:56.279 --> 02:10:59.520 cheap labor in certain areas, they are bringing in people 2282 02:10:59.640 --> 02:11:05.279 from other countries into things that aren't really a H 2283 02:11:05.359 --> 02:11:08.640 one B was supposed to be a specific set of 2284 02:11:08.680 --> 02:11:14.159 skills for a specific industry, and they have brought people 2285 02:11:14.279 --> 02:11:19.079 in that are basically pushing computer programmers that are in 2286 02:11:19.119 --> 02:11:23.159 those positions out. There was a story about Disney where 2287 02:11:23.199 --> 02:11:27.119 all of their employees there were told you're losing your job, 2288 02:11:27.479 --> 02:11:30.760 and it's your job now to train the person coming 2289 02:11:30.800 --> 02:11:33.479 in behind you. If you don't do that, and if 2290 02:11:33.520 --> 02:11:36.800 you refuse to do that, you will get no severance package. 2291 02:11:36.920 --> 02:11:39.560 So they brought these people in from the outside making 2292 02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:41.880 less money than what the people that were there. 2293 02:11:42.520 --> 02:11:43.079 We've seen this. 2294 02:11:43.439 --> 02:11:48.560 I saw some reports in my profession or original profession 2295 02:11:48.760 --> 02:11:52.239 as a recovering accountant, I look back on that companies, 2296 02:11:52.359 --> 02:11:56.399 accounting firms are bringing people in at lower wages in 2297 02:11:56.479 --> 02:12:00.479 order to do certain accounting work for their clients. Now, again, 2298 02:12:00.760 --> 02:12:03.760 if you're abusing this program, that needs to be tightened 2299 02:12:03.800 --> 02:12:09.039 up tremendously. And although there are if there are industries 2300 02:12:09.199 --> 02:12:13.000 and if there are needs for certain employees that you 2301 02:12:13.199 --> 02:12:17.800 cannot find, then yes, being able to bring those in 2302 02:12:17.840 --> 02:12:20.920 from the outside would be great. But when you start 2303 02:12:20.920 --> 02:12:23.920 abusing the heck out of this like that, that is wrong. 2304 02:12:24.039 --> 02:12:27.640 That is flat out wrong. And when this happens, that's 2305 02:12:27.680 --> 02:12:31.119 when the thing needs to be either disbanded or built 2306 02:12:31.199 --> 02:12:35.479 up back from the ground up. So does that answer 2307 02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:36.079 the question? 2308 02:12:36.159 --> 02:12:37.960 It all? We're here? Yeah? 2309 02:12:38.039 --> 02:12:40.239 I needed to get educated, and now I feel like 2310 02:12:40.359 --> 02:12:44.039 I can articulate based on what you told me and 2311 02:12:44.279 --> 02:12:45.520 my thoughts and concerns. 2312 02:12:45.760 --> 02:12:46.359 Thank you for that. 2313 02:12:46.680 --> 02:12:50.399 Okay, very good, Have a happy new year and be 2314 02:12:50.520 --> 02:12:53.720 safe out there. Where do we go now, Sean? Who 2315 02:12:53.760 --> 02:12:56.359 do I go to next? Tim, Tim fifty five cares 2316 02:12:56.520 --> 02:12:57.479 how are you this morning? 2317 02:12:58.239 --> 02:13:00.159 The boy, sir, just fine. How you did it? 2318 02:13:00.239 --> 02:13:01.279 I cannot complain. 2319 02:13:02.720 --> 02:13:05.960 As far as the visas there, you know, there's a 2320 02:13:05.960 --> 02:13:09.000 lot of places these companies want to build. You know, 2321 02:13:09.039 --> 02:13:11.239 it's cheaper to build out in the country. But then 2322 02:13:11.239 --> 02:13:13.439 there's not a workforce. You've got to bring them in 2323 02:13:13.479 --> 02:13:15.960 from somewhere, you know. 2324 02:13:17.399 --> 02:13:19.880 Yeah, because you can bring them in from the cities, 2325 02:13:19.920 --> 02:13:22.880 you can bring them in from the surrounding areas. You 2326 02:13:22.880 --> 02:13:26.520 don't necessarily have to bring them in as immigrants or 2327 02:13:26.800 --> 02:13:28.640 on a visa from another country. 2328 02:13:29.520 --> 02:13:32.039 You can do go ahead, No. 2329 02:13:32.159 --> 02:13:34.199 That well, that they should work on that. Then they 2330 02:13:34.199 --> 02:13:36.399 should try, you know, try to do that more. 2331 02:13:36.760 --> 02:13:40.439 But where you have again, when you have a program 2332 02:13:40.479 --> 02:13:44.760 that is set up for a specific set of skills 2333 02:13:44.800 --> 02:13:49.840 in a narrow field that there aren't a whole lot 2334 02:13:49.840 --> 02:13:53.479 of so called experts in that field, when you bring 2335 02:13:53.560 --> 02:13:57.079 those people in that should be for that specific task, 2336 02:13:57.439 --> 02:14:00.960 you don't bring people in on those visas just to 2337 02:14:01.000 --> 02:14:08.680 do research work, accounting work, or programming work, and you 2338 02:14:08.720 --> 02:14:11.960 don't fire the people that are currently doing that job 2339 02:14:12.279 --> 02:14:15.600 so that you can bring in people who will work cheaper. 2340 02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:22.239 I'm going back on my experience as a recovering accountant. 2341 02:14:23.079 --> 02:14:26.000 People may be familiar with if you're old enough to remember, 2342 02:14:26.319 --> 02:14:31.199 French Bauer ice Cream, French Bower Dairy down in downtown Cincinnati. 2343 02:14:31.920 --> 02:14:35.479 I remember going to an audit there and I was 2344 02:14:35.520 --> 02:14:39.880 talking to a gentleman who was from India, who as 2345 02:14:40.079 --> 02:14:44.800 his background, was a doctor but could not get licensed 2346 02:14:44.840 --> 02:14:47.920 in the United States and was working there in their 2347 02:14:47.960 --> 02:14:52.600 accounts receivable, the accounts receivable department, and we got to 2348 02:14:52.680 --> 02:14:55.000 talking and I was talking to him about where he lived, 2349 02:14:55.279 --> 02:14:59.680 and he lived over near Cincinnati Gardens, and he talked 2350 02:14:59.680 --> 02:15:02.840 about what a wonderful place that was, and if you 2351 02:15:02.920 --> 02:15:07.119 remember back during the seventies eighties is when that area 2352 02:15:07.159 --> 02:15:11.159 started deterioring over there. So he was working at a 2353 02:15:11.199 --> 02:15:14.680 profession that he wasn't trained in at a cheaper rate 2354 02:15:14.960 --> 02:15:18.560 than what he normally would be paid in a position. Now, 2355 02:15:18.600 --> 02:15:20.600 when you're bringing these people in, and I've talked to 2356 02:15:20.640 --> 02:15:25.159 a lot of people in the programming departments, and they 2357 02:15:25.239 --> 02:15:28.119 say that if you're applying for a job, if you 2358 02:15:28.439 --> 02:15:32.960 aren't from a particular country, if you're not Indian, and 2359 02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:35.119 you don't have the technical I mean, if you have 2360 02:15:35.239 --> 02:15:38.880 the technical skills. But again, if you're not that nationality, 2361 02:15:39.079 --> 02:15:41.359 you don't get hired. And I don't know if it's 2362 02:15:41.359 --> 02:15:43.880 a form of discrimination. I guess this needs to be 2363 02:15:43.920 --> 02:15:47.319 looked at. If they're being paid less than what the 2364 02:15:47.319 --> 02:15:52.479 marketplace would bear, then you're starting to skew the scales 2365 02:15:52.520 --> 02:15:55.680 here in the United States and bringing people in for 2366 02:15:55.880 --> 02:15:59.039 an intended purpose that it wasn't intended in the first place. 2367 02:15:59.079 --> 02:16:01.840 So we'll pick the U up phone numbers five one, three, seven, 2368 02:16:01.960 --> 02:16:04.520 four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two 2369 02:16:04.600 --> 02:16:06.960 three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two 2370 02:16:07.119 --> 02:16:10.520 five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. 2371 02:16:10.720 --> 02:16:15.439 Will and Mark. We'll get to you right after the break. 2372 02:16:15.439 --> 02:16:18.960 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the. 2373 02:16:19.039 --> 02:16:22.880 Talk station fifty five KRC Cyber retire. 2374 02:16:24.479 --> 02:16:28.119 The nine first morning forecast, the Morning Rush. We're going 2375 02:16:28.199 --> 02:16:31.600 to see what start of the day rainy, windy, and 2376 02:16:31.640 --> 02:16:35.040 a low of forty seven, and the rain continues on 2377 02:16:35.159 --> 02:16:40.239 into the afternoon. The winds could reach his nearly thirty 2378 02:16:40.280 --> 02:16:43.879 miles per hour, be a high of fifty tonight right 2379 02:16:43.879 --> 02:16:47.159 before midnight, should dry out a little bit temperatures will 2380 02:16:47.200 --> 02:16:50.000 fall colder. It's going to be about thirty two degrees. 2381 02:16:50.280 --> 02:16:54.040 New Year's Day, mostly cloudy, some sun possible. It's cold again, 2382 02:16:54.319 --> 02:16:56.600 a high of thirty eight and a low of twenty six. 2383 02:16:57.000 --> 02:17:00.120 Right now, all forty four degrees. Fifty five KRC DE 2384 02:17:00.239 --> 02:17:02.479 talk station Chuck Ingram has traffic. 2385 02:17:02.600 --> 02:17:04.120 From the UCUP Traffic Center. 2386 02:17:04.159 --> 02:17:07.399 The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center is the region's first 2387 02:17:07.399 --> 02:17:11.399 and only provider of specialized primary care services for cancer 2388 02:17:11.440 --> 02:17:15.159 patients and survivors. Called five one three five eighty five 2389 02:17:15.639 --> 02:17:17.719 uc CC highwaight traffic. 2390 02:17:17.520 --> 02:17:18.520 In pretty good shape. 2391 02:17:18.680 --> 02:17:21.520 Had a reporter of an accident northbound seventy one's ramp 2392 02:17:21.639 --> 02:17:25.360 to the lateral westbound. So far, I'm seeing no slow 2393 02:17:25.440 --> 02:17:28.840 traffic in that area. Seventy five is doing fine too. 2394 02:17:28.959 --> 02:17:29.680 Through Lacklan. 2395 02:17:30.079 --> 02:17:33.200 Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR SE deep talk station. 2396 02:17:37.239 --> 02:17:39.239 Coming up on a fifty one in the morning. Kevin 2397 02:17:39.239 --> 02:17:41.479 Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the 2398 02:17:41.639 --> 02:17:44.040 talk station. Let's do some clean up here. We got 2399 02:17:44.040 --> 02:17:45.479 a bunch of phone calls. Let's try to get to 2400 02:17:45.559 --> 02:17:47.840 as many of them as we can will fifty five KR. 2401 02:17:47.959 --> 02:17:49.079 See how are you this morning? 2402 02:17:50.200 --> 02:17:51.559 Hey, Kevin, how you doing today? 2403 02:17:51.639 --> 02:17:52.280 Good? Good good. 2404 02:17:53.440 --> 02:17:56.360 That same thing happened to me just last December. I 2405 02:17:56.479 --> 02:18:01.600 worked for CBS Fashion. They laid four thousand of their 2406 02:18:01.600 --> 02:18:04.600 IT people off. They were a big company, you have 2407 02:18:04.680 --> 02:18:08.000 a million people. But they also brought them in for 2408 02:18:08.120 --> 02:18:10.879 us to train first and then get the jobs to 2409 02:18:11.040 --> 02:18:12.799 India because everything was remote. 2410 02:18:13.120 --> 02:18:14.399 Yeah, so they now know. 2411 02:18:14.440 --> 02:18:17.280 They sent four thousand jobs to a censure. That same 2412 02:18:17.319 --> 02:18:19.000 thing that was going on back in the eighties with 2413 02:18:19.079 --> 02:18:21.879 General Electric. They were using a company called Tata. 2414 02:18:21.920 --> 02:18:24.440 I remember, Oh yeah, for sure. 2415 02:18:25.520 --> 02:18:27.520 And they would they would. I think they did other 2416 02:18:27.559 --> 02:18:32.239 things besides just I t you know, it's really frustrating. Yeah, 2417 02:18:32.239 --> 02:18:35.559 you go to all these years at the school and 2418 02:18:35.559 --> 02:18:38.680 to get trained, and they would train you and tell you, 2419 02:18:38.680 --> 02:18:40.559 you know, the more you gotta leave you need to 2420 02:18:40.639 --> 02:18:42.959 learn this, this and this. Well the reason why you 2421 02:18:43.000 --> 02:18:44.920 need to learn that, which said that you could train 2422 02:18:44.959 --> 02:18:46.399 the people that are going to take your place. 2423 02:18:47.079 --> 02:18:48.079 That's insane, you know. 2424 02:18:48.200 --> 02:18:51.200 And and where they talk about big business and you know, 2425 02:18:51.239 --> 02:18:53.280 in the agriculture area and all these sort of thing 2426 02:18:53.360 --> 02:18:56.520 taking advantage of people, and people are taking advantage of 2427 02:18:56.559 --> 02:18:58.360 it all. And I think it is one of the 2428 02:18:58.360 --> 02:19:00.479 big ones. Let's get you a Nick. By the way, 2429 02:19:00.520 --> 02:19:02.840 thank you for that phone call. Will Let's try to 2430 02:19:03.000 --> 02:19:04.200 get to Nick here real quick. 2431 02:19:05.319 --> 02:19:08.600 Hi, Kevin, this is Nick Knowle. I am I'm the author. 2432 02:19:08.840 --> 02:19:09.040 Hi. 2433 02:19:09.360 --> 02:19:10.239 I am the author of. 2434 02:19:10.680 --> 02:19:14.399 A book called Our God Given Freedom, not our freedom itself, 2435 02:19:14.440 --> 02:19:16.600 but the book called Our God Given Freedom that I've 2436 02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:21.120 been on with Brian about several times. And you know, 2437 02:19:21.559 --> 02:19:27.639 and this book actually addresses the reason that we have 2438 02:19:27.799 --> 02:19:30.360 these vises and the reason there's a controversy over it. 2439 02:19:30.680 --> 02:19:32.920 The reason that we have these verses and the reason 2440 02:19:32.959 --> 02:19:36.520 there's a controversy is because the education system in this 2441 02:19:36.639 --> 02:19:40.159 country has done such a poor job of educating people 2442 02:19:40.159 --> 02:19:44.559 in this country, especially Black Americans. They purposely do not 2443 02:19:44.879 --> 02:19:49.040 educate Black Americans the same way they educate white people. 2444 02:19:49.399 --> 02:19:51.920 And it's been that way. Walter Williams used to write 2445 02:19:51.959 --> 02:19:54.639 about this a lot, and I wrote about it a 2446 02:19:54.719 --> 02:19:57.760 lot in my book and the book before that, Our 2447 02:19:57.799 --> 02:20:00.920 God Given Freedom. And this is this is the thing 2448 02:20:01.280 --> 02:20:05.840 as right now we don't have an educated populous because 2449 02:20:06.079 --> 02:20:08.600 the schools don't do a good job. But they especially 2450 02:20:08.639 --> 02:20:12.639 discriminate against Black Americans and education. And they've been doing 2451 02:20:12.639 --> 02:20:16.559 that ever since the Democratic Party has been in charge 2452 02:20:16.639 --> 02:20:19.319 of running our schools, and that's been the case for 2453 02:20:19.360 --> 02:20:20.520 a long long time. 2454 02:20:20.680 --> 02:20:24.000 I have been maintaining all along, Nick, that the Democratic 2455 02:20:24.040 --> 02:20:25.760 Party is the party of racism. 2456 02:20:25.840 --> 02:20:27.159 And you know, George W. 2457 02:20:27.319 --> 02:20:30.840 Bush used to say that was the soft bigotry of 2458 02:20:30.879 --> 02:20:34.040 low expectations. Well, I think it's the hard bigotry of 2459 02:20:34.120 --> 02:20:38.319 no expectations in certain instances. And this is what they 2460 02:20:38.360 --> 02:20:40.639 have done. Now I'm getting close to the top of 2461 02:20:40.680 --> 02:20:43.959 the ron. I got to wrap this up. Can Sean, 2462 02:20:44.000 --> 02:20:46.040 can you put him on hold, get his number and 2463 02:20:46.079 --> 02:20:48.280 I'll talk to him. Maybe we can have him on 2464 02:20:48.319 --> 02:20:51.639 in some future future time, Nick, because I'd really like 2465 02:20:51.719 --> 02:20:56.000 to get into this a lot more in depth with you. Okay, great, 2466 02:20:56.040 --> 02:20:58.280 thank you very much having Mary. I have a happy 2467 02:20:58.399 --> 02:21:01.040 New Year. Well, folks, we got about a minute here 2468 02:21:01.079 --> 02:21:03.520 before I got to scoot out of here. But I 2469 02:21:03.559 --> 02:21:05.639 just want to tell everybody it's been great being here. 2470 02:21:05.680 --> 02:21:09.639 I've enjoyed all the calls, enjoyed the subject matter. Shoot, 2471 02:21:09.680 --> 02:21:13.120 if I'd have known this H one B visa thing 2472 02:21:13.239 --> 02:21:15.840 was going to be a topic that would drive the day, maybe. 2473 02:21:15.639 --> 02:21:16.840 I should have started off with that. 2474 02:21:17.159 --> 02:21:19.879 But then again, you would have missed out on me 2475 02:21:20.040 --> 02:21:24.040 waxing eloquently about so many subjects throughout the day, So 2476 02:21:24.600 --> 02:21:26.360 you know, you kind of got to take the good 2477 02:21:26.360 --> 02:21:28.520 with the bad here. I mean, otherwise you wouldn't have 2478 02:21:28.559 --> 02:21:31.239 been so well informed on some of these other subjects. 2479 02:21:31.239 --> 02:21:33.959 But we'll have to. This is a subject that really 2480 02:21:34.000 --> 02:21:36.399 is heating up and something that needs to be addressed 2481 02:21:36.440 --> 02:21:38.559 and something that needs to be talked about. Well, folks, 2482 02:21:38.719 --> 02:21:42.399 have a very safe and very happy New Year's Eve tonight. 2483 02:21:42.639 --> 02:21:45.760 Let's be safe out there and have a great time. 2484 02:21:45.920 --> 02:21:49.319 I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC, 2485 02:21:49.840 --> 02:21:50.760 the Talk Station. 2486 02:21:51.639 --> 02:21:55.120 Your voice, thank you for taking my call. Your country 2487 02:21:55.280 --> 02:21:58.479 gives us all somewhat to think about. Fifty five KRC 2488 02:21:59.000 --> 02:22:00.879 the Talk Station, This reapel