Speaker 1: Right four minutes after five o'clock on this final day
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Gosh, who the time is flying? So h With that
Speaker 2: in mind, we are gonna have a little bit of
Speaker 2: fun today. We're gonna have a lot of stories, kind
Speaker 2: of look at the year and review and uh, some
Speaker 2: of the other stories that have popped up. There's, of
Speaker 2: course a couple of major sort of major stories that
Speaker 2: we need to cover as well. But we'll be reflecting
Speaker 2: on a lot of stuff and talk about our plans
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five. Basically, yeah, phone numbers by the way,
Speaker 2: five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five one, eight
Speaker 2: hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight two
Speaker 2: three eight two five five pound, five point fifty at
Speaker 2: and T wireless phone. Of course, we're gonna cover some
Speaker 2: of the biggest stories of twenty twenty four. And I'm
Speaker 2: kind of curious from your perspective what you see as
Speaker 2: the major story of twenty twenty four. Really, there are
Speaker 2: probably five stories out there or more that in any
Speaker 2: other year probably would have been one of the top
Speaker 2: stories of the year, but because of everything else going on,
Speaker 2: they either you know, move within that top five range,
Speaker 2: and so I'm kind of curious as to what is
Speaker 2: top of your list. Also, do you have any plans
Speaker 2: for tonight? Any New Year's celebrations that you're going to
Speaker 2: be going to? What are your plans for that? I
Speaker 2: know in the Gordon household, we generally just stay at home.
Speaker 2: And I watched the ball drop, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: watch a couple of movies or something beforehand, and then
Speaker 2: watch the ball drop and have a nice dinner.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 2: There's been two occasions where my wife decided that we
Speaker 2: were going to do something special. When one was for
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl an the other was for New Year's
Speaker 2: Eve one year. And we and now I've told you
Speaker 2: in the past that we are basically a family of
Speaker 2: three with the way I eat, sometimes maybe even a
Speaker 2: family of four. But she made some stuff for this
Speaker 2: super We were gonna have this, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. We're gonna watch the game, and so
Speaker 2: she started making all this stuff, and I swear we
Speaker 2: must have had enough food that we could have probably
Speaker 2: fed about ten people. Uh, And we were kind of
Speaker 2: looking at it and go, well, we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: lot of leftovers, But boy was it good stuff. And
Speaker 2: myself that day, and then a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: same thing on New Year's Eve, saw, well, why don't
Speaker 2: we try this recipe or try this, and oh, let's
Speaker 2: try this as well, and we had a ton of
Speaker 2: food that night as well. So it's it's always interesting
Speaker 2: around the house because I've always I've said numerous times,
Speaker 2: I live I happen to live in the best restaurant
Speaker 2: in the world. So it makes it tough to go
Speaker 2: out to eat. I don't you know. We go out
Speaker 2: to eat a couple of times a week, but it's
Speaker 2: always interesting when she makes something and then she just
Speaker 2: ruins it for me to go out and eat that
Speaker 2: anyplace else because it never comes up to the same standards,
Speaker 2: whether it's lasagna or whether it's soups that she makes.
Speaker 2: Just about everything she makes is just amazing compared to
Speaker 2: what you get out. And when we do stuff around
Speaker 2: the house, grill out, do whatever we're going to do,
Speaker 2: we kind of look at that and say, gosh, the
Speaker 2: cost of this versus going out to dinner. The other
Speaker 2: thing you're missing though, is the cleanup. You don't have
Speaker 2: the cleanup at the end, and you got to wait service,
Speaker 2: and so you don't have the mess. But sometimes it's
Speaker 2: just worth going out because the quality of food or
Speaker 2: what you're.
Speaker 3: Going to be eating is not as good.
Speaker 2: And I'm not one of these guys that goes to
Speaker 2: fancy restaurants. My preference has always been what they refer to,
Speaker 2: or what I've referred to if heard referred to as
Speaker 2: greasy spoons. They're the mom and pop restaurants where some
Speaker 2: home cooking and your basic restaurant type foods. I love hamburgers,
Speaker 2: I love pizza, love ham sandwiches, I love all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. So going to a restaurant or going
Speaker 2: to a greasy spoon, whenever we're out and whenever we're
Speaker 2: driving around, whenever we are on vacation, we can try
Speaker 2: to find the little hole in the wall type of
Speaker 2: place to go eat. I remember when I was doing
Speaker 2: a showdown a little Rock, Arkansas. That's one of the
Speaker 2: things I used to do. I used to go out
Speaker 2: and try to find different places. Of course, I asked
Speaker 2: when I first got there, I was asking a bunch
Speaker 2: of the people on air where to go, where to eat,
Speaker 2: Where's the best pizza, Where's the best burger? And then
Speaker 2: I just started going around testing the places out and
Speaker 2: I would come back and I would kind of kind
Speaker 2: of do a mini review. I'm not one to do
Speaker 2: you know, all the ambiance and you know the delicacies
Speaker 2: in terms of what was you know, the bread. All
Speaker 2: I know is whether it tastes good or not. And
Speaker 2: I described, you know where I'd be. And what was
Speaker 2: interesting is a couple of restaurants would call the station
Speaker 2: and say, hey, can Kevin come over and try our restaurant.
Speaker 2: We've got this specialty that seemed like it might be
Speaker 2: good for him. And it was pretty cool. It was
Speaker 2: a lot of fun, and some of the hole in
Speaker 2: the wall places that you find is just absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2: Now you've always heard, I'm sure, the phrase dive, and
Speaker 2: you've heard, you know, well, I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: ever heard the term greasy spoon. But a difference between
Speaker 2: a dive and a greasy spoon is whether or not
Speaker 2: they sell liquor. And so a dive would be a
Speaker 2: dive bar where it's kind of a homegrown type of
Speaker 2: neighborhood bar that has food. And sometimes a lot of
Speaker 2: those places have some excellent food as well. And so
Speaker 2: the culinary exploration of Kevin Gordon is kind of well documented,
Speaker 2: and my wife kind of well kind of just enjoys
Speaker 2: it as well. Now that's not to say that we
Speaker 2: don't occasionally go to a nice restaurant, but sometimes it's
Speaker 2: one of those things where you look at a price
Speaker 2: and you look at what you're eating and it's like, gosh,
Speaker 2: is it really worth it?
Speaker 3: I can remember going back to when.
Speaker 2: I was down in Little Rock, Arkansas, the salespeople or
Speaker 2: the program director in the in the station, the course,
Speaker 2: like we do here, have some rock stations and some
Speaker 2: music stations, and these radio or these record people would
Speaker 2: come in and try to whine and dine the program
Speaker 2: director or the disc jockeys to talk about some of
Speaker 2: the music that they're playing or kind of introduce them
Speaker 2: to some of the new songs that are coming up.
Speaker 2: And once in a while they take them to dinner.
Speaker 2: And every time there would be like one of the
Speaker 2: guys that couldn't go, and so they'd give me a
Speaker 2: holler and say, Hey, we're going out to dinner tonight.
Speaker 3: You want to you want to head out?
Speaker 2: And I got to tell you in a Little Rock, Arkansas,
Speaker 2: which is kind of a cool little town, well, you know,
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton obviously down there but a lot of stories
Speaker 2: about him down there. But going to a lot of
Speaker 2: these different restaurants. We went to some of the best
Speaker 2: restaurants in Little Rock, Arkansas, some very high class restaurants,
Speaker 2: steakhouses and stuff. And quite honestly, I'm looking at the
Speaker 2: menu and the guy says, you know, get whatever you want.
Speaker 2: I'm like, my goodness, I'm looking at the prices and
Speaker 2: I'm like, my god, I feel guilty eating this. And
Speaker 2: when i was eating and I was thinking, my god,
Speaker 2: I'm glad I'm not paying for this, because I'd have
Speaker 2: a heart attack based on the price that I'd get
Speaker 2: the bill at the end of the dinner. But I'm
Speaker 2: just kind of a basic kind of guy. And so anyway,
Speaker 2: getting back to the story. On New Year's Eve, I
Speaker 2: had a lot of stuff that that night, and we
Speaker 2: just had a great time watching movies, watching some of
Speaker 2: the news events, and then of course watching some of
Speaker 2: the entertainment, flipping around the stations, and then watching the
Speaker 2: ball drop at midnight. So I'm not quite sure what
Speaker 2: our plans are for tonight, but I'm sure we'll come
Speaker 2: up with something fun because we always do. So Anyway, again,
Speaker 2: got the phone numbers out there and I see Bobby.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones right now, Bobby fifty five
Speaker 2: k s. Happy New Year and Happy New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2: I guess I should say.
Speaker 4: Hey, my brother, I tell you what hold that torture
Speaker 4: of freedom up high and bright? It's dark outside.
Speaker 3: Oh, you bet you. We certainly will.
Speaker 4: Well, we got the governor of the state of Ohio.
Speaker 4: I think you'll make that appointment probably today or tomorrow,
Speaker 4: so I hope it's too I think it will be.
Speaker 3: What is the shortlist of you some of them? Have
Speaker 3: you seen the shortlist on that?
Speaker 4: Or well, Jane Daney, girl from up here in Columbus,
Speaker 4: and his uh you know number two man is the governor.
Speaker 4: But I thank you. I hope that he'd take Orlando Salsa. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, somebody from the Cincinnati area to replace the
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Senator. And you will find a better man than that.
Speaker 4: Change some of the guard out from the Columbus people.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: That would be great because you know, living over in Kentucky,
Speaker 2: I kind of I have to really well, I have
Speaker 2: to work it to get together with politicians over here
Speaker 2: on this side of the river. And so I've gone
Speaker 2: to a bunch of the fundraisers with Orlando. Very impressive
Speaker 2: young man and really has a lot of good ideas
Speaker 2: and a lot of and what he stood for. And
Speaker 2: it's amazing to me watching the inner workings of the
Speaker 2: Republican Party, especially in Hamilton County and as far as
Speaker 2: the state is concerned, they kind of still have that
Speaker 2: old guard mentality where they pick certain people and those
Speaker 2: are the people that they push as opposed to some
Speaker 2: of the bright young stars and some of the people
Speaker 2: that should be in line. But because somebody's been there
Speaker 2: for a while, all of a sudden, it seems as
Speaker 2: though that it's their shot instead of them having to
Speaker 2: go in the primary or go in and actually prove themselves.
Speaker 2: So that would be a that would be an excellent
Speaker 2: pick on the part of the Wine. But again, waiting
Speaker 2: for to Wine to do something right would be you know,
Speaker 2: that's like Annabasher in Kentucky trying to do something right.
Speaker 4: So you couldn't put it in better by brother. The
Speaker 4: next thing I'm really proud about is that when our
Speaker 4: President Trump comes and takes his inauguration, it's going to
Speaker 4: be on the MLK Day. So he's done a lot
Speaker 4: for the black community and he's going to be taking
Speaker 4: the oath of office on the MLK days.
Speaker 3: That's going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought that far ahead and looked at the
Speaker 2: at the date and I know it was around that time.
Speaker 2: But that's cool, that'd be That's interesting. What's your top
Speaker 2: story of twenty twenty four?
Speaker 5: Brother?
Speaker 4: I tell you what all we're going to try to
Speaker 4: do is keep that flag of flying and the torch
Speaker 4: of burning and try to do everything we can because
Speaker 4: we're in the midst of a cultural revolution. People need
Speaker 4: to understand that and don't be complacent. Be awall goes
Speaker 4: on around.
Speaker 3: You, exactly.
Speaker 2: And I think the overall theme should be with as
Speaker 2: vigilant as we were in twenty twenty, well actually since
Speaker 2: since twenty sixteen, as vigilant as we've been to try
Speaker 2: to make America great and to try to move America
Speaker 2: forward and keep us as strong and as impactful and
Speaker 2: world leaders in this world. We just can't stop. We
Speaker 2: got to keep the vigilance. We can't rest on our laurels.
Speaker 2: We got to keep pushing forward because the other side
Speaker 2: is always going to be pushing their agenda and trying
Speaker 2: to ramrod that down our throat. As we discussed yesterday
Speaker 2: with my guest Even Moser from a population research institute,
Speaker 2: talking about the communist influence around the world and how
Speaker 2: that has kind of creeped into the United States. And
Speaker 2: if you look at some of the policies of the
Speaker 2: Democrats and the Democratic platform, there's a little bit a
Speaker 2: twinge of a whole lot of twinge of socialism and
Speaker 2: a little dab communism in there as well.
Speaker 3: So we got it.
Speaker 4: As you say, I try to make a difference between
Speaker 4: a brand or a foe than an adversary or an inmate. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and using the word democrat anymore doesn't really fit the
Speaker 4: narrative of the individual that are on the left. Yah,
Speaker 4: there's nothing. But you know, I seem as short of
Speaker 4: enemies as the state. And that's how I feel.
Speaker 2: And I don't know that I can actually disagree with
Speaker 2: you on that when I look and as I as
Speaker 2: I've said, I if I could wave a magic wand
Speaker 2: I would kind of prefer that Fox News or some
Speaker 2: of the conservative outlets stop playing the clips of the
Speaker 2: people on the left on the view on some of
Speaker 2: these ms NBC shows or CNN, because they get more
Speaker 2: views and more ears on Fox than they do on
Speaker 2: their own programs. However, the other flip side of that
Speaker 2: is we still have to know what nonsense is going
Speaker 2: on on the left. It's good to know who your
Speaker 2: enemies are and what they're thinking, so that you're not
Speaker 2: a surprise when they bring these things out. So I'm
Speaker 2: kind of torn. I don't like seeing it on the
Speaker 2: air because you're giving them too much props. But on
Speaker 2: the other hand, you got to know where are coming from.
Speaker 2: So well, Bobby, I'm up against the break. You have
Speaker 2: a you have one book. We got one finals thought
Speaker 2: before we get out of here. Oh okay, well, Bobby,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for the phone call. I certainly appreciate
Speaker 2: it again. Five one three seven four nine fifty five
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Speaker 2: running with one of the best calls and one of
Speaker 2: the best callers of the day.
Speaker 3: Well see if you can top that.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR
Speaker 2: see the talk station five twenty one. I'm if almost
Speaker 2: five twenty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon and for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas fifty five KRS the talk station. You know,
Speaker 2: one of the things that again looking forward to twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, I've mentioned this before and I just there
Speaker 2: is just this air of optimism. You see this in
Speaker 2: a lot of different businesses. You see this as far
Speaker 2: as some of the people ramping up and thinking in
Speaker 2: terms of what they are going to capital expenditure wise,
Speaker 2: as far as their companies are concerned, looking at some
Speaker 2: of the companies that are looking to expand, and the
Speaker 2: idea that people are more optimistic as far as what
Speaker 2: they are looking for in twenty twenty five. And contrast
Speaker 2: you can trast that with what you are seeing in
Speaker 2: again the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. And
Speaker 2: you have to look in between the lines sometimes when
Speaker 2: you're reading some of these stories, because they always have
Speaker 2: to throw this little barb in there, and the one
Speaker 2: barb that they keep throwing in there that is just well,
Speaker 2: it's just so typical. How we can go back to
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, We can go back to whenever you want,
Speaker 2: of where the media will pick out a sentence of
Speaker 2: a speech or a comment from Trump and then blow
Speaker 2: that up as opposed to putting the contextual reasoning behind that,
Speaker 2: taking it out of context, or finishing the entire sentence
Speaker 2: as to what was being said. And one of the
Speaker 2: things we keep hearing about is tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, How
Speaker 2: this is going to lead to inflation? Even Jerome Powell
Speaker 2: with the Federal Reserve, which is not and even though
Speaker 2: that it's called the Federal Reserve, it is not connected
Speaker 2: to the government. A lot of people think it is,
Speaker 2: but it is supposed to be the separate, independent agency
Speaker 2: that handles money supply, money flow, interest rates, and the economy,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to tweak the economy because due to
Speaker 2: whether the jobs are strong or the inflation is high,
Speaker 2: and they generally have a pretty bad track record of
Speaker 2: doing that. And they have pretty much as far as
Speaker 2: what they've done as far as the economy, I would
Speaker 2: give them about a C minus in terms of what
Speaker 2: they've tried to do in terms of trying.
Speaker 3: To control inflation.
Speaker 2: But when you have an administration that is out of
Speaker 2: control with their energy policy, when they don't know what
Speaker 2: they're doing as far as running businesses or how to
Speaker 2: run a country, when you start off your administration by
Speaker 2: saying we're going to just cancel everything and start from
Speaker 2: scratch from what the previous administration did. And so when
Speaker 2: you do that, you're going to open yourself up for failure.
Speaker 2: And then when you start throwing money into the economy
Speaker 2: like they did, and as they were worn with the
Speaker 2: stimulus packages, the final stimulus package that caused inflation, that
Speaker 2: put too much money into the pockets, because then people
Speaker 2: had more money and they could stay home. So the
Speaker 2: Federal Reserve had a task of fighting against the administration
Speaker 2: of them bidnomics and ruining the economy, and then them
Speaker 2: trying to put a rudder on that or a steering
Speaker 2: wheel or something to control all that. So when you
Speaker 2: look at going ahead, even Jerome Powell has said that, well,
Speaker 2: well it's uncertain whether we should decrease interest rates even
Speaker 2: further because there is a possibility of inflation on the horizon. Well,
Speaker 2: based on what you've got the previous four years when
Speaker 2: Trump was in office, what was the inflation rate? Then
Speaker 2: people were saying the tariffs that he levied back then
Speaker 2: were going to lead to inflation.
Speaker 3: They didn't.
Speaker 2: And when he talks about now as being tariffs as
Speaker 2: a negotiating tool in order to get better bargains or
Speaker 2: to get our goods into these different countries that are
Speaker 2: banning or you know, putting tariffs on our goods coming
Speaker 2: into their countries. You know, it's a little tit for
Speaker 2: tat there. Why should they be dumping their cheap goods
Speaker 2: in the United States and making an unfair competition with
Speaker 2: our domestic manufacturers and the people that are making here.
Speaker 2: And I've got a story coming up we'll get to
Speaker 2: pretty soon about how Walma and a particular country company
Speaker 2: we're able to reverse the tide in terms of manufacturing
Speaker 2: and manufacturing goods that can sell at a reasonable price
Speaker 2: in competition with foreign competition. Five one, three, seven, four
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, The
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Speaker 6: Fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2: Five thirty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
Speaker 2: fifty five KRC, The Talk Station. This one story just
Speaker 2: I keep seeing this pop up and it just absolutely
Speaker 2: boggles my mind and bothers me. The corner ideas. The
Speaker 2: thirty three year old girl that was mauled by I
Speaker 2: think I heard yesterday that this was the sixth, third
Speaker 2: or fourth mauling of a human in Ohio during this
Speaker 2: past year. And they are talking about the father was
Speaker 2: sleeping at the time, that the people calling nine to
Speaker 2: one one, and they've got the recordings of that. What
Speaker 2: amazes me is that, And I know I'm probably going
Speaker 2: to stir some pot here, but people keep forgetting that
Speaker 2: dogs are animals, that animals are going to act like animals,
Speaker 2: and at some time or another, they a flip of
Speaker 2: a coin, could go either way. They can be very
Speaker 2: gentle to a certain extent, but then at some point
Speaker 2: in time they can flip. And to have a dog
Speaker 2: that is of a very large size that would overpower
Speaker 2: and could maul a three year old, you gotta wonder,
Speaker 2: you gotta wonder. I know there are certain breeds that
Speaker 2: are very gentle. I know that they're but at any
Speaker 2: given time, a dog can react like it's an animal.
Speaker 2: It's not a human being, it is not a family member.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but a dog is a dog, a cat
Speaker 2: is a cat. They are animals. You can call yourself
Speaker 2: a I'm gonna get into it here. You can call
Speaker 2: yourself a pet parent, But the bottom line is is
Speaker 2: that animals are going to behave like animals. And when
Speaker 2: you look at certain breeds and when you see stories
Speaker 2: that certain breeds are vicious and that they are the
Speaker 2: type of dogs that will attack, then you need to
Speaker 2: be proactive. And if you're going to have children, or
Speaker 2: if you're gonna have kids around that animal, make sure
Speaker 2: that you have the right breed in the house in
Speaker 2: order to handle that. And I it bothers me that
Speaker 2: when these especially when you've got something that could be
Speaker 2: easily present preventable simply because they.
Speaker 3: Choose to have.
Speaker 2: This animal in the home that is too big and
Speaker 2: maybe not the right breed. When you look around and
Speaker 2: you say each year, seventeen thousand dog bites are reported
Speaker 2: by local public health agencies, seventeen thousand.
Speaker 3: That is a that it shocked.
Speaker 2: Me when I read the number, because we put so
Speaker 2: much emphasis and it seems so many people put so
Speaker 2: much emphasis on treating these animals as if they are humans,
Speaker 2: and where they how they feed them, where they feed them.
Speaker 2: You see these like for instance, you I mean, you
Speaker 2: do any reading on this, and you read that you know,
Speaker 2: dogs are meant to be eating stuff off with the
Speaker 2: way they eat them, like it's off the floor or
Speaker 2: at a low position, putting putting these dog bowls up
Speaker 2: in a position of where it's kind of like almost
Speaker 2: a mini table for them. That is not the way
Speaker 2: their bodies have been constructed. You look at these dogs,
Speaker 2: you look at animals in the wild, what they do,
Speaker 2: how they eat, and what they do when they're eating.
Speaker 2: If you tend to follow that, it would be like
Speaker 2: changing our eating habits by where we sit, where where
Speaker 2: we stand, how we do certain things. But the way
Speaker 2: it is is the way you the animal is made.
Speaker 2: And it's just amazing me. It bothers me every time
Speaker 2: I read one of these stories, and there are I think,
Speaker 2: out of the three maulings or whatever, two of them
Speaker 2: were children and one was a seventy eight year old
Speaker 2: woman somewhere in the state. But it's just, uh, it's
Speaker 2: just a tragic story. Phone numbers five one, three four
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Speaker 3: Five forty in the morning.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR, se the
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Speaker 8: UH.
Speaker 2: For my money, I would say that the biggest story
Speaker 2: of the year, UH overall.
Speaker 3: Was the election that we saw.
Speaker 2: We saw that all of the all the stuff that
Speaker 2: we've been hearing for oh ever, since Trump came down
Speaker 2: the later in twenty fifteen, being a threat to democracy,
Speaker 2: being Hitler, being Mussolini, the end of democracy as we
Speaker 2: know it, and that you know, as they called a
Speaker 2: existential thread, he's a Nazi and all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: I've mentioned this several times before, and it bears repeating
Speaker 2: and repeating, because certain things just don't quite sink in
Speaker 2: the first time, and you have to repeat things over
Speaker 2: and over again. And I cannot emphasize enough that if
Speaker 2: you see something, you see an attack from the left,
Speaker 2: when you hear an accusation from them. All you need
Speaker 2: to do is realize that I do a little bit
Speaker 2: of digging, and they are guilty of what it is
Speaker 2: that they are accusing the other side of I don't care. Well,
Speaker 2: you can go down the list. I don't care. If
Speaker 2: you can look at racism. Democratic Party is the party
Speaker 2: of racism. It is the party of Jim Crow Laws.
Speaker 2: It was the party of slavery, It was the party
Speaker 2: of the black codes. It is the party of segregation.
Speaker 2: If you go back and you look at all of
Speaker 2: the civil rights movement, if you look at all of
Speaker 2: the southern towns down there, all of the beatings, all
Speaker 2: of the every you know, when you listen to Martin
Speaker 2: Martin Luther King Junior's I have a dream speech. Every
Speaker 2: southern state that he mentions was had a Democrat governor
Speaker 2: in every one of these cities. Were Democrat mayors. In
Speaker 2: the sheriffs that were doing the beatings, the dogs that
Speaker 2: were turned on people, the water hoses, all Democrats, and
Speaker 2: coming across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, that bloody Sunday, Democrats
Speaker 2: doing the beatings, Democrats doing the billy clubs and trying
Speaker 2: to tamp down segregation, it wasn't until the Voting Rights Act,
Speaker 2: or first of all, the Civil Rights Act of nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty four, when the Republicans actually in more as far
Speaker 2: as a larger percentage voted for that bill got that passed.
Speaker 2: And if it wasn't for the efforts of Senator Everett Dirkson,
Speaker 2: who was probably one of the last Republican senators from
Speaker 2: the state of Illinois. He spearheaded that and pushed that
Speaker 2: through beyond the filibuster one of the longest filibusters in
Speaker 2: history by Robert Byrd. You know Robert KKK Bird, Democrat
Speaker 2: senator from West Virginia. Oh yes, a mentor to Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's friend. Yeah, Biden talks about Oh yeah, he
Speaker 2: used to work with some of these segregationists and they
Speaker 2: were you know that, but that's how they got things done. Okay,
Speaker 2: So you have there a member now, Robert Byrd. And
Speaker 2: this is probably old news to a lot of people,
Speaker 2: but Robert Byrd was more than just a racist. He
Speaker 2: was a former klansman. And I'm not so sure the
Speaker 2: former actually applies, because there were records of him being
Speaker 2: a klansman up until at least nineteen fifty even though
Speaker 2: he said that he stopped sometime in the forties, and
Speaker 2: he was a little bit more, a lot more than
Speaker 2: just a klansman. He was what they call a klegal,
Speaker 2: which is the guy that goes out and recruits people.
Speaker 2: So back in the day when you had during the depression,
Speaker 2: when you had during the low economic times, people were
Speaker 2: making about twenty bucks an hour or twenty bucks a day,
Speaker 2: Robert Byrd was making sixty dollars a week going out
Speaker 2: and recruiting people to come into the KKK. And he
Speaker 2: was made the chapter of the Exalted Cyclops of that
Speaker 2: particular chapter, so he had his own chapter. And yet
Speaker 2: every time we hear about racism and putting that on
Speaker 2: the Republican Party, Okay, all they can come up with
Speaker 2: is a disgraced David Duke who was run out of
Speaker 2: the Republican Party. Nobody wants to associate with him. Everybody
Speaker 2: pushed him aside. When his name comes up, they denounce him.
Speaker 2: Did anybody denounce Robert Byrd? Look at the eulogy that
Speaker 2: was done by Bill Clinton. It is incredible at praising
Speaker 2: this racist. And so when you look back on the
Speaker 2: allegations of racism, all they've got to do is look
Speaker 2: at what is going on in their own party. And
Speaker 2: if you look at Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, they
Speaker 2: have a history of racism between the two of them.
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton's mentor, Orville Fabas, He's the guy that infamously
Speaker 2: stood in front of the Central High School, Little Rock,
Speaker 2: Arkansas and prevented the Little Rock nine from coming into
Speaker 2: the school.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton Fulbright scholar, William Fulbright, avid racist, was a
Speaker 2: member of the what they referred to as the southerns
Speaker 2: what they call the Southern author of one of the
Speaker 2: authors of the Southern Manifesto. There was a group of
Speaker 2: Dixiecrats that after the Brown versus Board of Education Supreme
Speaker 2: Court ruling came down that not ended separate but equal,
Speaker 2: they protested and said that they were going to fight
Speaker 2: this and form this group of Dixiecrats wrote the Southern Manifesto.
Speaker 2: And William Fulbright was one of those people. And yet
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton Fulbright scholar comes from some pretty heavy races.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing that shocked me. When I was
Speaker 2: down to a Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually went and
Speaker 2: interviewed I was going to have her on the program,
Speaker 2: but I wound up leaving the station before I could
Speaker 2: get her on the air.
Speaker 3: Little Rock nine. After the.
Speaker 2: National Guard was there to allow those kids and to
Speaker 2: protect those kids to come in. The federal government took
Speaker 2: over the school system, the school district in Little Rock, Arkansas,
Speaker 2: and was in charge of that until the schools were desegregated.
Speaker 2: Take a wild guess when those schools were desegregated. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna save that until after the break. I'm Kevin Gordon
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Speaker 2: wireless phone. Before the break I mentioned, when do you
Speaker 2: suppose or when do you think the Little Rock, Arkansas
Speaker 2: School District was desegregated enough that the overall federal control
Speaker 2: was turned back over to the local school board. Now,
Speaker 2: this incident with the Little Rock nine happened in nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty nine when Orville Faubas stood in front of that
Speaker 2: school and prevented the Little Rock nine from attend, or
Speaker 2: actually any blacks, any blacks to attend. And then it
Speaker 2: took the federal troops to come down there, sent by Eisenhower,
Speaker 2: by the way, a Republican. So then the federal government
Speaker 2: took control of those schools until they desegregated. Now, mind you,
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton was the attorney general there for four years
Speaker 2: and then wound up being governor for eight, so in
Speaker 2: charge of or in a elected position in Arkansas for
Speaker 2: twelve years prior to him running for president nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton supposedly this champion of racial equality who was
Speaker 2: his wife, and talked about all the great things she
Speaker 2: did as first lady down there. So do you suppose
Speaker 2: that the Little Rock schools were desegregated by then? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you'd be wrong. Little Rock, Arkansas schools were turned over
Speaker 2: to the school District in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: Twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: It cost the taxpayers of Little Rock School District and
Speaker 2: the people of Arkansas almost a billion and a half
Speaker 2: dollars from nineteen fifty nine up until twenty fourteen, when
Speaker 2: they were sufficiently desegregated enough for the federal government to
Speaker 2: stop being in control of the schools there. So, if
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton was this big champion of racial rights and desegregation,
Speaker 2: why didn't he start in his own backyard.
Speaker 3: It's just the things when you learned.
Speaker 2: The history of what they accuse us of doing, when
Speaker 2: you look at when they talk about Nazis, when you
Speaker 2: talk about what was going on, what did FDR do
Speaker 2: to stop Nazi Nazi atrocities. He refused to bomb any
Speaker 2: of the railroad lines leading to the death camps. He
Speaker 2: knew what was going on in those death camps. He
Speaker 2: also knew some of the persecutions that were going on
Speaker 2: of the Jewish people prior to World War Two. And
Speaker 2: he's the one that didn't allow the ship, the Saint
Speaker 2: Louis from bringing nine hundred and thirty two Jewish settlers
Speaker 2: from Europe from Germany to land in the United States.
Speaker 2: And that ship went from port to port, was refused
Speaker 2: to entry, and then also refused entry down in South America,
Speaker 2: wound up returning to Europe. And these people were deposited
Speaker 2: in Belgium and they figured, Okay, well that's far enough
Speaker 2: away from Germany. Not so fast when Germany invaded Belgium
Speaker 2: and took over one third of those people on board
Speaker 2: that ship wound up dying in concentration camps. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much, Franklin Delano Roosevelt for fighting Nazism and the sympathizers.
Speaker 2: And then when you talk about communist influence in the
Speaker 2: FDR cabinet and in his government, there were numerous communists
Speaker 2: in there, and his thinking was, well, you know what,
Speaker 2: if I have some communists in my cabinet or communists
Speaker 2: in my administration, I can keep an eye on them
Speaker 2: and I know what they're up to.
Speaker 3: How did that work out for you?
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Speaker 2: Samoa and New Zealand. They are actually celebrating New Year's
Speaker 2: Day right as we speak. The ball has dropped there
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Speaker 2: the from the Pacific and on into the Eastern time zone,
Speaker 2: across the Europe and so on, it comes over heads
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Speaker 2: So happy news to all of our listeners out there
Speaker 2: on American Samoa and New Zealand. Now I got to
Speaker 2: tell you, I'm a little proud of myself. I love
Speaker 2: something over on I printed. I hit print on something,
Speaker 2: and for some reason it went over to our newsroom,
Speaker 2: which is probably about forty yards away. So after I
Speaker 2: did the weather announcement, I did the forty yard dash
Speaker 2: over there to get that and then back so probably
Speaker 2: under probably about forty yard dashing about the maybe about
Speaker 2: six seconds flat both ways. So not too bad, not
Speaker 2: too bad out of breath either. So I'm kind of
Speaker 2: proud of myself today, you know. So anyway, I just
Speaker 2: thought i'd give you a little bit of heads up there.
Speaker 2: One of the things I want to see happen in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty five. One of my goals, aside from
Speaker 2: everything on the national stage and wanting to make sure
Speaker 2: that doze it gets off to a good start. The
Speaker 2: Department of Government Efficiency, which again operating kind of independently
Speaker 2: outside the government, could have a long way because if
Speaker 2: you're in an advisory capacity and these guys are going
Speaker 2: to be doing this for free, they're not going to
Speaker 2: get paid for this, so they're not beholding to anybody.
Speaker 3: And one of the.
Speaker 2: Things and you know, all right, here I go, I'm
Speaker 2: interrupting myself. And this is one of the things my
Speaker 2: wife always tells me. She says, you know, when you're
Speaker 2: in the middle of the thought, you always interrupt yourself. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to interrupt myself here. You know, last week
Speaker 2: we kept hearing about all this. You know, Elon musk
Speaker 2: Is is actually the president and Donald Trump is the
Speaker 2: vice president. They're trying to draw this red wedge in
Speaker 2: between Donald Trump and Elon Musk and trying to sow
Speaker 2: some seeds of doubt and trying to stir the pot
Speaker 2: as far as everything is concerned, and people are talking about, well,
Speaker 2: we're uncomfortable with this relationship with this billionaire having an
Speaker 2: influence over our government. It's now become where like Russia.
Speaker 2: And of course because Trump, you know, loves Vlatimir Putin
Speaker 2: and wants to be a dictator, right, so he wants
Speaker 2: to have these oligarchs that are part of the federal.
Speaker 3: Government that run things.
Speaker 2: And so when they're talking about Elon Musk having too
Speaker 2: much influence because he helped fund you know, because of Twitter,
Speaker 2: because of actually having a fair and independent journalism outlet,
Speaker 2: I guess you will. You know, Twitter is not journalism,
Speaker 2: but people can get on there and express their thoughts.
Speaker 2: But by that, that's one of the things that people
Speaker 2: talked about, and especially some of the money that Elon
Speaker 2: Musk contributed that helped Donald Trump get elected. But why
Speaker 2: wouldn't you want to have advice from a billionaire another
Speaker 2: billionaire because who are they going to be influenced by?
Speaker 2: Are they going to be influenced by special interest? Are
Speaker 2: they going to be influenced by lobbyists. Are they going
Speaker 2: to be paid to have an opinion? How do you
Speaker 2: bribe them? How do you influence them? They've got more
Speaker 2: money than you know, just well the richest man in
Speaker 2: the world, So how how is that not a good thing?
Speaker 2: But of course when she was on the other foot,
Speaker 2: and again, who's doing the accusations, who's making the accusations,
Speaker 2: And let's not forget who's doing that accusations.
Speaker 3: That's the left.
Speaker 2: Well, you got Mark Zuckerberg, you got Bill Gates, You've
Speaker 2: got George Sorows, You've got all of the Hollywood people.
Speaker 2: Oprah Win Fee is a campaign donor and a supporter
Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: She's a billionaire.
Speaker 2: Nobody concerned themselves with those billionaires influencing things, But all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, when a Democrat or when a Republican
Speaker 2: has billionaires influencing them. And by the way, I did
Speaker 2: not misspeak. I know her name is oprah Winfree, but
Speaker 2: now I call her oprah win Fee because she is
Speaker 2: not free. You have to pay for her endorsement, as
Speaker 2: we found with the Kamala Harris fiasco.
Speaker 3: There So, going.
Speaker 2: Into the new year, Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk being
Speaker 2: on part of this DOGE Department of Government Efficiency, they
Speaker 2: can make all kinds of recommendations. They can get in,
Speaker 2: they can look at some of these things. And we
Speaker 2: talked last week about the Festivus Report that Ran Paul
Speaker 2: puts together every year, and it goes down some of
Speaker 2: the government funding and some of the projects that are
Speaker 2: being funded. And I'm sure you've heard some of the
Speaker 2: stories about different giving rats cocaine and do they prefer
Speaker 2: cocaine over food as if, as if you need that
Speaker 2: study as some of the crazy stuff that's done where
Speaker 2: we're spending money, who we're giving foreign aid to. Even
Speaker 2: Trump mentioned last week we're giving one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 2: a year, one hundred billion dollars a year in foreign
Speaker 2: aid to Canada. We're giving hundreds of billions of dollars
Speaker 2: to foreign aid in Mexico. And as he said, why
Speaker 2: not just the heck with him? Just make them a
Speaker 2: fifty first state. I mean, it makes and there's some
Speaker 2: levity to that, but all seriousness. So the Festivus Report
Speaker 2: put together by Rand Paul comes up with a little
Speaker 2: bit over a trillion dollars just there. The Office of
Speaker 2: Management and Budget every year comes up with their laundry list.
Speaker 2: The Inspector General's report comes out every year where they're
Speaker 2: talking about the different waste and fraud and abuses within
Speaker 2: the federal government.
Speaker 3: We see the.
Speaker 2: IG Department once in a while that'll come up and say,
Speaker 2: you know, they're the ones that started reporting or reported
Speaker 2: on some of the stimulus checks. The fraud there, some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that they've in investigated and people that
Speaker 2: they've prosecuted for getting the from the Cares Act, getting
Speaker 2: these government subsidies to keep their businesses open when in
Speaker 2: fact they didn't have a business, and that they've fraudulently
Speaker 2: claimed that they had employees, that they had a business,
Speaker 2: and they got federal funds. So we see those reports,
Speaker 2: we see that the stimulus check that went out, how
Speaker 2: some of them went to actually people that were in prison,
Speaker 2: some people that were in federal well penitentiaries around the country.
Speaker 3: I went to dead people.
Speaker 2: And so when the federal government doesn't watch what they're doing,
Speaker 2: they can waste a ton of money. And just by
Speaker 2: stopping that, and when you're talking about oh, well this
Speaker 2: is going to cut into Medicare, that's going to cut
Speaker 2: into Medicaid. This is going to cut in you know,
Speaker 2: social Security, They're going to cut benefits and all these
Speaker 2: lies that they've been telling. Well, you know, if you're
Speaker 2: going to bankrupt the fund, if you're not going to
Speaker 2: have money available for the intended purpose, the easiest way
Speaker 2: to do that is to raid that pot of money.
Speaker 2: And when you look at what has been done with
Speaker 2: us is Social Security. You know, even al Gore, remember
Speaker 2: al Gore talking about that Social Security was going to
Speaker 2: be put in a lock box where nobody could touch it. Well,
Speaker 2: why did he say that, Because in the past it
Speaker 2: wasn't in a lockbow, it wasn't set aside. The federal
Speaker 2: government used that stream of money to fund other things
Speaker 2: and dropped the little io you in there, just an
Speaker 2: io you, not with interest, but just an io you.
Speaker 2: We'll replace that money later on. And then when they
Speaker 2: started looking at Social Security and saying, you know what,
Speaker 2: soci Security is going bankrupt. You know, we're running out
Speaker 2: of money, then it had to be refortified. And during
Speaker 2: the Reagan years they had to do certain things to
Speaker 2: tweak it and extend it on for another thirty years.
Speaker 2: And we keep hearing this stuff and then on top
Speaker 2: of that, that's not enough. So we just can't have
Speaker 2: Social Security going out in the form of Social Security checks. No,
Speaker 2: we got to start layering in SSI payments, which is
Speaker 2: supplemental Security income for people who are on disability. Now
Speaker 2: they're taking money out of the retirement fund, which was
Speaker 2: supposed to be a retirement fund, and they're paying this,
Speaker 2: and then we find out that money has been coming
Speaker 2: out of that fund to pay and house illegal aliens.
Speaker 2: In addition to the funds that were supposed to be
Speaker 2: available for disaster relief that went to housing illegal aliens,
Speaker 2: so that when it came to a disaster relief for
Speaker 2: Hurricane Helene and Milton, that the funds weren't there. And
Speaker 2: they say, oh, that's a lie, that's a conspiracy, that
Speaker 2: is a lie, flat out lie, and you're just trying
Speaker 2: to mislead people. Well, the people that were misleading the
Speaker 2: people were the people that were saying that we were
Speaker 2: misleading because of the actual facts. And when the stories
Speaker 2: came out of the number of people that have been ignored,
Speaker 2: amount of people that hadn't seen a federal worker, hadn't
Speaker 2: seen any people from FEMA, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the words started getting out and they started having to
Speaker 2: do something about that. So when you start seeing these
Speaker 2: funds being distributed from one group to another because there's
Speaker 2: a pot of money there and one of my well,
Speaker 2: you know, I've talked about this numerous times before, when
Speaker 2: you talk about the funding and you talk about back
Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen, how they you know, finally, you know,
Speaker 2: we got to build this here, right here, right now,
Speaker 2: the replacement Brent Spence Bridge placement that that project had
Speaker 2: to be built. They had to do it right now.
Speaker 2: That they had to get this legislation passed in the
Speaker 2: Kentucky Senate and out which would fund public private partnerships
Speaker 2: and then they could use that in order to build
Speaker 2: this bridge with tolls, which you know, the story I've
Speaker 2: talked about that. Now you look at the Highway Trust Fund,
Speaker 2: this is a classic example of when we were fighting
Speaker 2: the tolls on the Brents Benz Bridge. Looking at the
Speaker 2: Federal Highway Trust Fund, You've got all this money going
Speaker 2: in there from gas taxes, diesel taxes, you got excise
Speaker 2: tax on tires on trucks, excise taxes on the trailers
Speaker 2: that they haul, on the cabs that they drive, and
Speaker 2: you have all these taxes that go into this fund
Speaker 2: to repair highways, and instead of leaving that money in
Speaker 2: there when you have a brand new highway system, when
Speaker 2: you don't have many repairs at all, what they did
Speaker 2: is they raided that and said, you know what, we've
Speaker 2: got this pot of money that's not going to be
Speaker 2: used for a few more years, because when something's brand new,
Speaker 2: it doesn't break down in the first four or five
Speaker 2: six years, So we'll just go ahead spend that money
Speaker 2: and then put it back in later on. Well, that
Speaker 2: later on never did happen. And then when it came
Speaker 2: time to start doing some of these repairs, that's when
Speaker 2: they started doing some of these tolls around the country,
Speaker 2: and they started doing higher assessments and making sure that
Speaker 2: the states were charging people to drive on these highways
Speaker 2: and upping these excise tax And when we came to
Speaker 2: find out in that investment and looking into that that
Speaker 2: a third, even to this day, a third of what
Speaker 2: goes into that Highway Trust Fund is spent on things
Speaker 2: other than highways, bridges, tunnels, and so on. And we'll
Speaker 2: bring that up. I'll let you know where that money
Speaker 2: goes coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
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Speaker 2: Six twenty one in the morning Kevin Gorton and for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas if you have KERO, see the talk station
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Speaker 2: phone rather looking at the bill for instance. As far
Speaker 2: as the Highway Trust Fund, I mentioned the previous segment
Speaker 2: that over a third of the money going into that
Speaker 2: Highway Trust Fund is spent on things other than highways
Speaker 2: and bridges. That we were told that, Well, when you
Speaker 2: pay your gasoline tax at the federal on the state level,
Speaker 2: that goes in the Highway Trust Fund. Right, So when
Speaker 2: you hear Highway trust fund, what do you think that
Speaker 2: this is a trust fund that's there for highways. Okay,
Speaker 2: so what's that money used for. Well, remember talking about
Speaker 2: Joe Biden, how he used to go from Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Back to Delaware every night on the train, supposedly to
Speaker 2: spend time with his family and just to be a
Speaker 2: good old lunch bucket Joe and blue collar Joe and whatever.
Speaker 2: Well that was funded. That was subsidized by you and me.
Speaker 2: Because the Northeastern Corridor, the Amtrak system up there, is
Speaker 2: funded out of the Highway Highway Trust Fund. So there's
Speaker 2: the subsidy there. They should be paying twice what they're
Speaker 2: paying for on a normal ticket. Then you look at
Speaker 2: hiking and biking trails, and before you start calling and saying,
Speaker 2: well Kevin, I love my hiking trails and I love
Speaker 2: my biking trails and on and on and on, Well
Speaker 2: that's all well and good, but is it a highway
Speaker 2: and walking trail hiking trail trust fund?
Speaker 3: Is it a highway.
Speaker 2: And bike trail trust fund? No, Now it would be
Speaker 2: very I mean we keep talking about when the arguments
Speaker 2: come about tolling, Well, if you use it, you use it,
Speaker 2: you pay for it. Why doesn't that apply to these
Speaker 2: hiking trails and biking trails and again I'm not opposed
Speaker 2: to those things, but when you look at the equipment,
Speaker 2: when you look at the bikes, when you look at
Speaker 2: the shoes, when you look at the walking sticks, backpacks, bottles, gloves, gear, helmets,
Speaker 2: the whole equipment, the clothing for biking and hiking that
Speaker 2: is used. Couldn't there be a little bit of a
Speaker 2: tiny tax on that, maybe a penny or so on,
Speaker 2: maybe a one percent tax on all the stuff that
Speaker 2: they do that that goes into a hiking trail and
Speaker 2: biking trail fund to fund these projects. And maybe if
Speaker 2: they did that, they wouldn't have to put them on
Speaker 2: streets or do them in certain areas where it just
Speaker 2: seems like, oh, you paint a solid white line, and
Speaker 2: then this part. You know, when you're driving down the road,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you see this solid white line
Speaker 2: and there's what about a five six foot space between
Speaker 2: that and the curb. Oh, well, that's for bikes over there,
Speaker 2: because you know a car can't go over that, that
Speaker 2: solid white line. And some of you drive down some
Speaker 2: of these areas and you see where these bike biking
Speaker 2: trails are, or the biking the coexistence with some of
Speaker 2: these streets and you go down and you look at
Speaker 2: those and in certain instances, and at least a lot
Speaker 2: of places where I've driven, you see you see the
Speaker 2: symbol for the bikes on that path, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you get to a street and it ends,
Speaker 2: and then it doesn't continue from that point on.
Speaker 3: So it's like, why bother?
Speaker 2: And you you know, build them where and use the
Speaker 2: money out of a trust fund that's set up for that,
Speaker 2: and tax the people that use them, unless they just
Speaker 2: want to put a turnstyle on these things and just
Speaker 2: have people drop a coin in there when they use them.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kre see
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Speaker 2: and I just cannot get away from this story. The
Speaker 2: three year old girl that was mauled by this dog.
Speaker 2: Actually there were three dogs in the home and appears
Speaker 2: as though that she was mauled by.
Speaker 3: Two of them. I just.
Speaker 2: Now in the latest stories, I don't see the breed
Speaker 2: of the dog, and I'm sure that's done for a
Speaker 2: particular reason. I'm sure that they're not identifying that that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that they're you know, I guess shaming, dog
Speaker 2: shaming or breed shaming. I don't know. But they talk
Speaker 2: about in this story and talk about how other dog
Speaker 2: attacks and some interesting facts according to what goes on.
Speaker 2: I mentioned on the previous hour that seventeen dog seventeen
Speaker 2: thousand dog bites are reported to local public agencies and
Speaker 2: all just in Ohio, experts say at least another seventeen
Speaker 2: thousand bites go unreported nationwide. One million of the four
Speaker 2: point seven million people bitten by dogs yearly require medical treatment.
Speaker 2: Kids under ten account for nearly half of the bite
Speaker 2: victims and are overrepresented in the fatalities. Now, you can
Speaker 2: imagine as far as a child is concerned, a child
Speaker 2: going up to a dog, you know, there's you know,
Speaker 2: an adult goes up and they pet a dog and
Speaker 2: they are you know whatever, they you know, petting a
Speaker 2: dog and sometimes play with a toy. But kids because
Speaker 2: they're used to their stuffed animals or used to certain things.
Speaker 2: How many times do you see a child go over
Speaker 2: and kind of almost jump on a dog or go
Speaker 2: up and try to lay on a dog because they
Speaker 2: look at it as if it's some sort of a
Speaker 2: stuffed animal. And then the dog sometimes, you know, some
Speaker 2: of the breeds, the dog will just you know, get
Speaker 2: up and kind of mosey on, mosy on its way.
Speaker 2: But in some instances the dog will turn around and
Speaker 2: kind of nip at the child. And if you have
Speaker 2: an aggressive breed of dog, then that could turn in
Speaker 2: this instance, and in many instances around the country deadly.
Speaker 2: And so why this is going on? And I was Gez,
Speaker 2: I read this and I couldn't believe what I was reading. Okay,
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Animal Care was called Friday morning to remove three
Speaker 2: dogs from the home. The dogs are currently being held
Speaker 2: for a state mandated ten day quarantine period. As shelter
Speaker 2: spokesperson said, judges have the discretion to order the euthanasia
Speaker 2: of dogs or vicious dogs after the first unprovoked attack.
Speaker 2: Often often it's left to the dog owner.
Speaker 3: If to the dog.
Speaker 2: Owner, now some mean it's it says the people. They
Speaker 2: love their animals. They're not going to kill them. You know,
Speaker 2: this is just a one off. This dog has never
Speaker 2: done this before. Often it's less up to the dog owner.
Speaker 2: If the dog is already deemed vicious gets out and
Speaker 2: kills a second person, the judge must order euthanasia a
Speaker 2: second person. So if a dog mauls somebody and kills them,
Speaker 2: I guess what you get one strike. You're not at out,
Speaker 2: but oh you go out and kill somebody else, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you're going to be put down.
Speaker 2: This is insane. And when you look at the story
Speaker 2: online and you look at this precious little well, all
Speaker 2: children are pressure, let's get right down to it.
Speaker 3: They are just so cute.
Speaker 2: And the picture of this little girl at Christmas time,
Speaker 2: at the Christmas tree and a photo of her opening gifts,
Speaker 2: it just it just tugs at your heart. And especially
Speaker 2: you know there are going to be accents. There are
Speaker 2: going to be things that happen. You can get killed
Speaker 2: in a traffic accent. You can get killed almost anywhere.
Speaker 2: And you read some of these stories of some of
Speaker 2: these weird ways that people have died, and you see
Speaker 2: them all the time. But when you have something as
Speaker 2: preventable as this, To have this happen, it just boggles
Speaker 2: my mind and bothers me looking at some of the
Speaker 2: other local headlines. One person has died after a small
Speaker 2: plane crashed in Adam's count a Monday afternoon, units of
Speaker 2: the Ohio State Patrol Georgetown Posts were dispatched at three
Speaker 2: point thirty four pm to Saving Savage Road in Bratton
Speaker 2: Township for reports of a small plane that had crashed.
Speaker 2: The area is north of Peebles and the west of
Speaker 2: State Route seventy three. Apparently the according to the sources,
Speaker 2: there was only one person on board.
Speaker 3: And it was the pilot that was killed in this accident.
Speaker 2: And if you've noticed that around the world, there's been
Speaker 2: a spate of plane crashes in other countries so far,
Speaker 2: not in the United States in terms of passenger planes.
Speaker 2: And I was seeing a report last night that said
Speaker 2: that this is one of the twenty twenty four has
Speaker 2: been one of the deadliest years for airplane accidents plane death.
Speaker 2: I thought that was amazing because I've except for these
Speaker 2: last two over the last few days, the one in
Speaker 2: South Korea and the other one and Azurebaijan, I wasn't
Speaker 2: really aware of many other plane crashes throughout the country
Speaker 2: or throughout the world.
Speaker 3: So interesting.
Speaker 2: By the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
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Speaker 6: The holiday.
Speaker 2: Six thirty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KISEE the talk station. I mentioned
Speaker 2: during the weather that it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 2: people do and go outside, because I know there's some
Speaker 2: some celebrations going on around a lot of celebrations, I'm sure,
Speaker 2: but I mentioned this before. Where we live. We live
Speaker 2: on the side of a hill. Well, go to my
Speaker 2: Facebook page and I live in one, Kentucky. We overlook
Speaker 2: the Licking River and sit up on top of a hill,
Speaker 2: so we see Latonio, we see Fort right, Fort Mitchell.
Speaker 2: We actually have a view of downtown the left, the
Speaker 2: west side of downtown. We can see a little bit
Speaker 2: of Paul Brown Stadium. Now that the leaves are off
Speaker 2: the tree. But especially during Fourth of July, we love
Speaker 2: sitting out on the deck and watching the fireworks displays
Speaker 2: because it's almost like every neighborhood. It's amazing some of
Speaker 2: the fireworks displays that they have, and you can see
Speaker 2: those just sitting out there on the deck, and at
Speaker 2: any one time you probably have one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: two hundred people that are shooting off these fireworks. And
Speaker 2: of course you see off in the distance the major
Speaker 2: displays from Independence and then Fort Wright, Fort Mitchell. You
Speaker 2: can see some of the fireworks displays at Davou Park,
Speaker 2: but you can't see we can't see down there by
Speaker 2: the Brent Spence Bridge because this hillside comes in and
Speaker 2: covers that, so we can't see that part down there,
Speaker 2: but anything to the west, and so it's always great
Speaker 2: to see that. And fourth July, now on New Year's Eve,
Speaker 2: there will be people in the area neighborhood below us
Speaker 2: that will shoot off some fireworks and do some you know,
Speaker 2: firecrackers and stuff. Not as much a major display as
Speaker 2: we saw as we see on July fourth, but there
Speaker 2: will be some. I mean, there'll be some booms and
Speaker 2: bangs and I know there are some people, and I
Speaker 2: hope we don't hear of any of them now, but
Speaker 2: some people will actually go outside and shoot guns in
Speaker 2: the air. Now, you know, let's remember that those bullets.
Speaker 2: Gravity still works. Okay, gravity still is in play. So
Speaker 2: the bullet can go up and be the trajectory can
Speaker 2: go up, but what goes up must come down. And
Speaker 2: there's numerous instances of where these bullets have fallen down
Speaker 2: and killed somebody. So let's not do that practice this year. Okay,
Speaker 2: no gun play, no violince, none of that stuff is
Speaker 2: shooting guns in the air. Do the fireworks if you must,
Speaker 2: but be safe out there. So again, it's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting to see what goes on. As I mentioned before,
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to tonight. I don't know what's on
Speaker 2: the menu at the best restaurant in the world, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll cook up something that is pretty cool
Speaker 2: and enjoyed. Just you know, spending time with your best friend.
Speaker 2: I mean, what can I say. So we're talking about
Speaker 2: the festivities, we're talking about what's going on. As far
Speaker 2: as this mauling is concerned. I just can't get my
Speaker 2: mind off of that, because when you look at something
Speaker 2: that is so preventible, but prevent a ball. It's just
Speaker 2: infuriating that something wasn't done, and the care and the
Speaker 2: consideration of what has to be done when we're talking
Speaker 2: about young children.
Speaker 3: Now, I mentioned.
Speaker 2: That because I brought up brid Spence Bridge, I thought
Speaker 2: i'd pull this up. Toll rates if you happen to
Speaker 2: be traveling around the country. Toll rates are set to
Speaker 2: rise in several states in twenty twenty five, starting in January.
Speaker 2: Toll rates on roads in Ohio, Oklahoma, Penncil, New Jersey,
Speaker 2: and New York are set to rise anywhere from three
Speaker 2: percent to fifteen percent for passenger and commercial vehicles in
Speaker 2: the most modest increases drivers traveling along New Jersey Turnpike.
Speaker 2: And I know a lot of listeners will talk about
Speaker 2: on this program that we'll talk about they have relatives
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania, they'll drive to New Jersey, They'll drive around
Speaker 2: the country. And it's becoming more and more a game
Speaker 2: if you do it much traveling to try to avoid
Speaker 2: these tolls. Now, I know that there are certain areas
Speaker 2: where you're going it's a lot more convenient just to
Speaker 2: go ahead and pay the toll. But how aggravating is
Speaker 2: that tolls are going into effect or a three percent hike.
Speaker 2: New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Pennsylvania drivers will see toll raids
Speaker 2: rise five percent. Now, I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: that use that Pennsylvania Turnpike going back and forth, and
Speaker 2: especially if you're going over to the Washington DC area
Speaker 2: from here. Anybody that goes over to Pennsylvania goes to Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: don't even tell you. Actually, if you're going up to Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: you kind of the exit right perform. I think you
Speaker 2: have to go on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for at least
Speaker 2: one exit or so to get to Pittsburgh. That's on
Speaker 2: my bucket lip list of places to go sometime. Let's
Speaker 2: see here, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission that five percent increase automatic
Speaker 2: automatic vehicle system that standardizes rates. Now, this is interesting.
Speaker 2: The state noted that while many passenger vehicle drivers will
Speaker 2: see tolls decline under the SHIFT, commercial users may see
Speaker 2: rates increase. Now with this automatic vehicle classification system. What
Speaker 2: they do is due to the changes with standardization and
Speaker 2: the AVC classification, nearly fifty percent of passenger car trips
Speaker 2: will see a lower toll rate because they are counting
Speaker 2: the axles, and so if you have more axles, and
Speaker 2: of course that would affect the commercial trucking industry that
Speaker 2: they will charge you a higher rate for that. Now,
Speaker 2: it used to be for trucks. It used to be
Speaker 2: based on weight. So if you had if you you know,
Speaker 2: we're doing a job, if you were doing a delivery
Speaker 2: on the Pennsylvania you know, along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and
Speaker 2: then you turned around and dead headed back, which meant
Speaker 2: that your truck was empty, you would pay a lesser toll.
Speaker 2: Now you're going to be paying the full toll both
Speaker 2: ways because they count axles and not weight. So commercial
Speaker 2: vehicles are going to be spending more money on tolls
Speaker 2: in these areas that have this what they refer to
Speaker 2: as the automatic vehicle classification. Now, the problem with that
Speaker 2: is is that like everything that is done in business,
Speaker 2: everything that is done as part of the merch that
Speaker 2: we buy, those things have to be added in as
Speaker 2: operating costs to the cost of the stuff that we buy.
Speaker 2: So instead of you know, this is not going to
Speaker 2: just be eaten by these freight companies, they're going to
Speaker 2: you have to figure that into the cost of delivering
Speaker 2: those goods, which will then be tacked onto the price
Speaker 2: of the goods when it's put on the shelf. And
Speaker 2: what we are going to wind up paying. Let's see
Speaker 2: the Ohio Turnpike. The state alsot's see Ohio Turnpike toll
Speaker 2: rates will rise. Let's see whereas that seven point seven
Speaker 2: percent for passenger vehicles as well as most commercial vehicles.
Speaker 2: The common commercial vehicles traveling in the Ohio Turnpike is
Speaker 2: what the state described as high vehicle with five axles.
Speaker 2: Toll fees will increase seven point eight cents to twenty
Speaker 2: two cents per mile. Now, the interesting thing about the
Speaker 2: Ohio Turnpike, and this is one of the things that
Speaker 2: we discovered, and you go back to John Kasik, he
Speaker 2: thought it was a brilliant idea that when the bonds
Speaker 2: and everything was paid off for the Ohio Turnpike see
Speaker 2: the Ohio Turnpike. When it was first built, there was
Speaker 2: supposed to be the sunset clause as far as the
Speaker 2: toll on that, and that was supposed to end sometime
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six. Well, the state looked at this
Speaker 2: revenue and said, hey, you know, this is a little
Speaker 2: cash cow going on up there. So we'll just go
Speaker 2: ahead and continue to charge the people up there. Well,
Speaker 2: when Kasik was governor, he decided, well, you know what,
Speaker 2: this is paid off. What we can do is leverage
Speaker 2: this and borrow money some industrial revenue bonds against that
Speaker 2: turnpike because it has a steady stream of funds, and
Speaker 2: we can use that money. Because they change the law
Speaker 2: that they could start funding road projects around the country.
Speaker 2: So if you ever go on the Ohio Turnpike, and
Speaker 2: for everybody that uses that, if you can hear me,
Speaker 2: if you're driving along that Ohio Turnpike on a regular
Speaker 2: basis to and from work, know that you have the
Speaker 2: privilege of driving on that and paying to drive on that,
Speaker 2: so that other places in the state can drive on
Speaker 2: their roads for free. Isn't that merry Christmas? Five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 2: The nine first War and forecast morning rush.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: Let's start to the day, Rainy wendy and a low
Speaker 2: of forty seven. Rain continues on through the day. Wins
Speaker 2: could reach as much as thirty miles per hour, high
Speaker 2: of fifty and then on into the night when the
Speaker 2: rain is supposed to stop before the midnight drying out
Speaker 2: a little bit. Temperature's ball and.
Speaker 3: The v colder. Look for a low of thirty two.
Speaker 2: New Year's Day, most of cloudy, some sun possible cold again,
Speaker 2: high of thirty eight, low of twenty six. Right now
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Speaker 2: Station six fifty two in the morning, Kevin Gordian for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas fifty five. Kara c DE Talk Station started
Speaker 2: the show off by asking what is the big stories
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four, what your plans are for tonight,
Speaker 2: and what you hope to see in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: One of the things I would like to see happen
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five was the same thing that should
Speaker 2: have happened in twenty twenty three and in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: And I wish that the city fathers would get their
Speaker 2: collective acts together and do something. As far as what
Speaker 2: we've been told, I remember back in twenty thirteen, it
Speaker 2: was such a crisis. There is such congestion on the
Speaker 2: Brent Spence Bridge. We have to build a new companion
Speaker 2: bridge there. And it doesn't matter if it's told or not.
Speaker 2: We've got to do that. Well, you know, you go
Speaker 2: back and as I said, you know, we stopped that
Speaker 2: and if you we stopped tolls on the Brent Spence Bridge.
Speaker 2: And let's not forget if you look at the amount
Speaker 2: of money that that would have collected. That would have
Speaker 2: collected more than a billion dollars from the taxpayers from
Speaker 2: the area as far as people commuting, and two thirds
Speaker 2: actually the billion dollars. That the number is a calculation
Speaker 2: of that since sixty percent of the traffic that comes
Speaker 2: across that bridge, almost two thirds of the traffic comes
Speaker 2: from northern Kentucky, so out of the pockets of northern
Speaker 2: Kentucky residents would have been over a billion dollars had
Speaker 2: that big bridge been built with tolls and buil available
Speaker 2: by twenty fifteen. Now, that was such a major deal
Speaker 2: that it had to be built right here, right now.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: December twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, they announced that the
Speaker 2: federal government had approved out of the Infrastructure Bill the
Speaker 2: funding for the Brents. Benz Bridge, So it wouldn't be
Speaker 2: told and it was supposed to be shovel ready. All
Speaker 2: of this stuff was supposed to be done, and they
Speaker 2: were supposed to turn the shovel of the groundbreaking sometime
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. Well that didn't happen. Now, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, we're at the end of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four and it still hasn't happened. And I've been online
Speaker 2: and I've looked, and I don't see anywhere where they're
Speaker 2: planning on doing it anytime soon. I mean, if it's
Speaker 2: if it's that important, get to it for crying out loud. Now,
Speaker 2: that's one of the hopes I have for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: if in fact they're going to do that now, I
Speaker 2: would have preferred to see in a Cincinnati since the
Speaker 2: Eastern bypassed. But that's a story for another day. We
Speaker 2: could get into that and talk about that for hours.
Speaker 2: But coming up we'll get into some other mischief here.
Speaker 2: I've got some other stories we can get to again.
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Speaker 1: I'm righty.
Speaker 2: Five minutes after seven o'clock. Happy New Year's Eve to you,
Speaker 2: the final day of the year.
Speaker 3: It's here already. Uh, it's Oh.
Speaker 2: There's a running joke in our in our family, always
Speaker 2: around birthdays when the granddaughters won I wish them a
Speaker 2: happy birthday, one of the things I always do. And
Speaker 2: grandsons as well. I always on their birthday, I'll call
Speaker 2: them and you know, if they turn eight, twelve, I mean, shoot,
Speaker 2: the oldest one just turned twenty two, and I did
Speaker 2: the same thing. I just said, honey, it just seemed
Speaker 2: like just yesterday you were twenty one, and so I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, so tomorrow I'll be going, Gee, it just
Speaker 2: seemed like just yesterday it was twenty twenty four. So anyway, it's,
Speaker 2: you know, one of those dad jokes that you got
Speaker 2: to get out there. But anyway, I saw this story.
Speaker 2: You know, we've been hearing all these stories about and
Speaker 2: of course in Kentucky they're doing these medical marijuana and
Speaker 2: that was a push into legislation, which is just a
Speaker 2: camel's nose in the tent to go to recreational marijuana.
Speaker 2: And this has always bothered me and it amazes me.
Speaker 2: At this point, there are twenty five states that currently
Speaker 2: are are that pot is legal, and and in every
Speaker 2: one of every one of them they have had issues
Speaker 2: with that. And we we start off or they keep
Speaker 2: trying to convince us of the medical advantages of marijuana,
Speaker 2: and if you do the research, if you read up
Speaker 2: on it, there is no definitive solution. There is no
Speaker 2: definitive proof that it does anything. The only effect that
Speaker 2: I have been able to see that makes any sense
Speaker 2: would be in the case of where you have cancer
Speaker 2: patients because of the weight loss that marijuana induces the munchies,
Speaker 2: and so it forces them or gets them over the
Speaker 2: nausea and they can go ahead and eat a lot
Speaker 2: or you know, have their monkeyes. Now, as far as
Speaker 2: any other advantages of marijuana, I don't see any, and
Speaker 2: it's interesting when I talk to people that now see.
Speaker 2: First of all, let me preface this with the fact
Speaker 2: that I am approaching this. I approach all drug used
Speaker 2: from a position of never having tried it at all.
Speaker 2: I've never even taken a puff off of a joint.
Speaker 2: I've never done any drugs. The most serious drugs I
Speaker 2: think I've ever done was a like eight hundred milligram
Speaker 2: tailenol or something when I had a knee injury or
Speaker 2: something along those lines. But I you know the old
Speaker 2: saying that drugs or a crutch used by people who
Speaker 2: can't handle reality.
Speaker 3: Well, my motto is reality is a.
Speaker 2: Drug used by people, or a crutch used by people
Speaker 2: who can't handle drugs. And you know, growing up in
Speaker 2: the seventies and being in college, the temptations were there.
Speaker 2: You had the cocaine craze of the eighties. Never tried it,
Speaker 2: never interested in trying it. So I'm coming from this
Speaker 2: from a position of never having tried it. So whatever
Speaker 2: benefits there are, or perceived benefits, I have not experienced those.
Speaker 2: All I've seen is the downside of it. And I
Speaker 2: came across this story. Elton John says legalizing marijuana is
Speaker 2: one of the greatest mistakes. Elton John has been sober
Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety and he thinks a recent policy shift
Speaker 2: might lead more people down the path to addiction. The
Speaker 2: Rocketman singer denounced the legalization of recreational marijuana during his
Speaker 2: time Icon of the Year profile. I maintain that it's addictive,
Speaker 2: it leads to other drugs, and when you're stoned, and
Speaker 2: I've been stoned, you don't think normally. According to Elton John,
Speaker 2: legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the
Speaker 2: greatest mistakes of all time. This was actually this story
Speaker 2: was released back on December the twelfth. Marijuana is currently
Speaker 2: legal in twenty five states and federally legal in Canada.
Speaker 2: Other countries, including Mexico, South American Germany, have legalized marijuana
Speaker 2: in the last decade. Now take a pause here for
Speaker 2: a moment, because, as you may be aware of, I
Speaker 2: do America's truck and Network on our sister station midnight
Speaker 2: to one AM. And one of the things that's interesting
Speaker 2: in the trucking industry, and I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 2: you people that are in that industry know this, that
Speaker 2: marijuana is still a level one substance akin to in
Speaker 2: the same class as cocaine and heroin. And if marijuana
Speaker 2: is detected in your system, you can lose your CDL license,
Speaker 2: and you've got to go through this entire a long
Speaker 2: process in order to get that license back. So, even
Speaker 2: though marijuana may be legal in your state and anybody
Speaker 2: that might be driving through the area and happen to
Speaker 2: be tuning in, if you're from a different state and
Speaker 2: your state has pot is legal, it is not legal
Speaker 2: on a federal level. And so if it's in your system,
Speaker 2: and if you're drug testing and it's in your system,
Speaker 2: you can lose your license. Now, the weird thing about that,
Speaker 2: as I've learned, is that people that will do recreational use,
Speaker 2: they think that, Okay, I can just go ahead, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm off the job on Friday, and then I can
Speaker 2: just go ahead and do this, and then I can
Speaker 2: be sober by Monday. Now, with cocaine and heroin, that
Speaker 2: is out of your system within twenty four to forty
Speaker 2: eight hours or at least detectable. But marijuana the only
Speaker 2: test for that. It takes a month for that to
Speaker 2: be out of your system. And so if you're tested,
Speaker 2: you could have take done marijuana a month ago and
Speaker 2: it would still be in your system. And one of
Speaker 2: the things that I've heard from a lot of employers
Speaker 2: and a lot of people in certain businesses, and especially
Speaker 2: a lot of businesses that does do drug testing. They
Speaker 2: will say and they've tried to get away or they
Speaker 2: you know, because drug testing, you know, when you're cutting costs,
Speaker 2: then you have to pay for the drug test and
Speaker 2: you have to send the person over there to get
Speaker 2: the drug test. Now, what they've done is that when
Speaker 2: the person is hired, they will ask the question can
Speaker 2: you pass a drug test? And then of course on
Speaker 2: the application and it will say that any false information
Speaker 2: is a subject determination. So a lot of people turn
Speaker 2: down jobs and don't show up for jobs because they
Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to pass a random drug test. So
Speaker 2: that's when you look at supply chain issues. When you
Speaker 2: look at the employment situation, when you go to a
Speaker 2: lot of service driven industries where it seems that they
Speaker 2: don't have enough employees, that's one of the reasons that
Speaker 2: people are their businesses are having trouble filling these spots.
Speaker 2: But the fact that a lot of these different states
Speaker 2: have gone to medical use or recreational use of marijuana
Speaker 2: is in my opinion, not the way to go. And
Speaker 2: what it boils down to is that just like with
Speaker 2: the lottery, Okay, gambling used to be illegal. You used
Speaker 2: to used to hear about the numbers racket, the numbers
Speaker 2: running that was done as far as the mob was concerned.
Speaker 2: They used to do these schemes as far as numbers.
Speaker 2: You bet on numbers, Well, that was illegal and they
Speaker 2: sent people to prison for that. But then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the states thought, hmm, you know, we can
Speaker 2: have the quick the pick three, the pick four, the
Speaker 2: pick five, and we can make revenue off of that.
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden it becomes legal, gambling is legal,
Speaker 2: and then you go to the entire lottery system.
Speaker 3: So they looked at cigarettes.
Speaker 2: And one of the things about tobacco that a lot
Speaker 2: of people don't know of is the fact that the largest,
Speaker 2: the the biggest profiteers of tobacco in this country is
Speaker 2: the federal and the state governments. The amount of taxes
Speaker 2: that are on cigarettes is astounding, and the amount of
Speaker 2: taxes on this on the state level is astounding. So
Speaker 2: they are the biggest profiteers. But as fewer and fewer
Speaker 2: people are smoking, then all of a sudden, now okay,
Speaker 2: you've got this lost revenue, where are you going to
Speaker 2: make it up? And all of a sudden, marijuana, which they,
Speaker 2: in their opinion, everybody's doing anyway, so we might as
Speaker 2: well make money from this. They're seeing in some of
Speaker 2: these states where they've legalized marijuana that the black market
Speaker 2: is still there. People are still buying marijuana illegally, and
Speaker 2: when you have, you do not have. I guess Highway
Speaker 2: patrol people and cops are starting to learn better as
Speaker 2: to how to tell when somebody's stoned. I mean, if
Speaker 2: somebody's drunk, you can generally tell you know, you got
Speaker 2: the smell of alcohol, they got the slurred speech and that,
Speaker 2: but it's much more difficult to tell if somebody's stoned.
Speaker 2: And so now they're doing certain sobriety tests for that.
Speaker 2: But a lot of these states they have actually had
Speaker 2: these situations where fatalities have gone up. Road fatality has
Speaker 2: gone up because of so many people stoned. And so
Speaker 2: they go into this and Elton John and of course
Speaker 2: we're gonna probably get more to this. Marijuana is currently
Speaker 2: legal in twenty five states we mentioned that legalize marijuana.
Speaker 2: It's the information on its information page on cannabis. The
Speaker 2: CDC notes that experts disagree whether it lives up to
Speaker 2: its long held reputation as a gateway drug that leads
Speaker 2: to further addiction. Now, of course they put gateway drug
Speaker 2: in quotation marks. However, the Health agency also reports that
Speaker 2: quote people who use cannabis and and do go on
Speaker 2: to use other drugs quote, including alcohol and tobacco, may
Speaker 2: have a higher risk of dependence or addiction to those drugs. Well,
Speaker 2: why add another layer of addiction on top of that?
Speaker 2: Is my you know, you know they always want to
Speaker 2: throw the alcohol and tobacco addiction in there. But we
Speaker 2: already understand and that, and we've lived with that. Now
Speaker 2: you're throwing another layer on top of that. Nelton John
Speaker 2: has a few more things to say. We'll pick this up.
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Speaker 3: Seven nineteen in the morning.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr SE
Speaker 2: the talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine,
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Speaker 3: To the phones, we go, well, we've got.
Speaker 2: Pete up there. Pete, fifty five kr S. How are
Speaker 2: you this morning? Happy New Year or New Year's Eve?
Speaker 2: I should say the.
Speaker 13: Same, Tavin, good morning. Yeah. I just wonder if you
Speaker 13: remember about twenty years or so ago, I drove to
Speaker 13: the Newport Shopping Center and there was a pain center there.
Speaker 13: I remember all little pain clints used to be around four.
Speaker 13: I would move through there, and all the octar coton
Speaker 13: they were hanging out like they were.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 13: Well you know that was that was a schedule war.
Speaker 13: And you said before about marijuana, right, but it's just
Speaker 13: it's a schedule one, you know. I mean, it's just
Speaker 13: I see going that way right. It's like it's like seabellow,
Speaker 13: you know, it's a the secondary thing, and the medical
Speaker 13: thing will come to you know, marijuana. You know, it'll
Speaker 13: be just it'll be it'll be free and easy to
Speaker 13: grow whatever, you know.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, Now, I remember, you know, you bring up
Speaker 2: an interesting point. I remember when they had those uh
Speaker 2: what they called the old pill mills. And of course,
Speaker 2: whenever something moves and won direct then of course the
Speaker 2: heavy hand of government has to pull it into another direction,
Speaker 2: which in terms of the unintended consequences they never think about. Now,
Speaker 2: there are legitimate reasons, and there are legitimate people that
Speaker 2: have pain and require medications, and it's required that some
Speaker 2: of the more severe pain requires more severe medication. But
Speaker 2: because it was abused and a lot of doctors or
Speaker 2: at least people were going around and shopping for different
Speaker 2: doctors that would prescribe the drugs for them, and they
Speaker 2: know where to go, and they didn't coordinate between doctors
Speaker 2: as to who was getting drugs in that so they
Speaker 2: tighten that up. But as a result of that, a
Speaker 2: lot of people were actually starting to be denied these drugs.
Speaker 2: Well rather than okay, if somebody is being denied a
Speaker 2: drug that they're addicted to, the addiction isn't automatically going
Speaker 2: to go away. And that's why you saw such a
Speaker 2: spike in the heroin epidem back in the UH two thousand,
Speaker 2: two thousand and twelve, twenty ten area, where you had
Speaker 2: people who it was a cheap substitute for the oxy
Speaker 2: cotton and oxy cotone in order to start relieving their pain.
Speaker 2: And so this unintended consequences led to this heroin addiction
Speaker 2: and this heroin crisis in the Tri state era and
Speaker 2: especially you know, then the way to solve that is, okay,
Speaker 2: put needle dispensaries, put the needle exchanges in different places,
Speaker 2: and as a matter of fact, in Campbell County they
Speaker 2: have drop boxes for used needles in the bathrooms of
Speaker 2: Campbell County libraries.
Speaker 3: Isn't that lovely? Where kids go? Isn't that lovely? Yeah?
Speaker 13: Well you remember the Oxy Cotton saying there after the
Speaker 13: you know, the they can get prescription, the story by
Speaker 13: both the house floves going over the rhine and going
Speaker 13: back to park in the corner. Yeah, and now they
Speaker 13: would get picked and the story was told. You know,
Speaker 13: the co said, why don't you run them off? Said
Speaker 13: if we run them off, we're just gonna go somewhere else.
Speaker 13: Because we keep them here, we can at least control it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of good that does too, Yeah, control
Speaker 2: it and that lovely?
Speaker 13: Yeah. Another thing on on your on your dog thing,
Speaker 13: get back to that day, Yes, Gus you port wall.
Speaker 13: Listen a lot of talk radio. They said it was
Speaker 13: a terrier, you know, it wasn't a poodle work ducks
Speaker 13: and we were a big or a polic I mean
Speaker 13: it was kept in a cage. Well, you don't put
Speaker 13: those kind of dogs in a cage.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: The terrier is also called an American pit bull terrier.
Speaker 13: Uh huh, Okay, there he was on WW something I
Speaker 13: heard that.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, interesting, thanks a lot of Pete, thanks
Speaker 2: for the information. Have yourself happy New you've got any
Speaker 2: big plans for tonight or okay? Oh he dropped off,
Speaker 2: he hung up on us. Well all right, let's uh,
Speaker 2: let's see we've got time. Yeah, let's go to Kyle
Speaker 2: Kyle fifty five. Care, see how are you this morning?
Speaker 4: I'm good?
Speaker 2: Are you doing I'm doing great, I'm behind the microphone.
Speaker 2: Doesn't getting better than that for me?
Speaker 12: Yeah? So I had some comments about the marijuana topics
Speaker 12: you're on. So I'm a police officer at a jurisdiction
Speaker 12: around Cincinnati. Now, what what I think the public generally
Speaker 12: doesn't know and what they're not aware of, is how
Speaker 12: it's impacting juveniles now that it's been made legal. So obviously,
Speaker 12: you have to be eighteen years old to buy medical
Speaker 12: marijuana at a dispensary. You have to be twenty one
Speaker 12: to buy it recreationally. But what I'm seeing now is,
Speaker 12: at least personally, you know, eighteen year olds are going
Speaker 12: in there for whatever reason, and then they're purchasing it,
Speaker 12: and then they're distributing it to their their friends that
Speaker 12: you know, in high school all the way down to
Speaker 12: middle school. At least where I'm working, our school resource
Speaker 12: officers are taking marijuana vapes and you know, bud and
Speaker 12: whatever else off of you know, kids as low as
Speaker 12: you know, fourth and fifth grade, and it's not something
Speaker 12: it's not something that I've seen until it's become legal
Speaker 12: more in you know, the school system. But I think
Speaker 12: that's that's just something that I think the state's just
Speaker 12: generally not aware of, and the general public is either.
Speaker 2: Now, do you know I'd love when you look at
Speaker 2: these reports from the CDC and they say that that
Speaker 2: there's there, experts aren't convinced, or that that they they
Speaker 2: don't have They disagree on whether it's a long held
Speaker 2: reputation of a great gateway drug. But how are they
Speaker 2: not studying this? I mean we are, we are doing
Speaker 2: funding of you know, to see if if you feed
Speaker 2: rats or rats cocaine, whether they will choose cocaine over food. Well,
Speaker 2: we can do those tests, but we can't do tests
Speaker 2: like this and come down to whether or not cannabis
Speaker 2: marijuana is harmful to people.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
Speaker 12: Unbelievable, Yeah, exactly, And it's it's it's been something that's
Speaker 12: been you know, readily available for what you know, forty
Speaker 12: years now within the general uh with the public.
Speaker 2: So fifty years, fifty years or more. Yeah, yeah, Jimmy
Speaker 2: Buffett's famous song only I forget what's in the name
Speaker 2: of the song, but when back when, the days when
Speaker 2: only jazz mosi musicians were smoking marijuana. So it's been
Speaker 2: around for a long period of time, so uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, well, I just.
Speaker 12: Wanted to give my two cents in you have a
Speaker 12: happy New Year.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you for your service, and be safe out there,
Speaker 2: my friend. Take care of having Mary Chris, Mary Christmas
Speaker 2: a happy New Year. Five one three, seven, four nine
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Speaker 13: Twenty twenty four is almost overseas.
Speaker 2: Seven in the morning Kevin rdon and for Brian Thommas
Speaker 2: if you five care see the talk station. You know.
Speaker 2: Following these local stories, the corner Corner IDs the three
Speaker 2: year old girl mauled by dogs and I'm more and
Speaker 2: more I read the stories about this and some of
Speaker 2: the events. This is one of those things that could
Speaker 2: have been prevented and should have been prevented, and it's
Speaker 2: a shame that this actually happened. Saw some information on
Speaker 2: another story where there was a visiting the people were
Speaker 2: visiting and the dogs weren't used to having kids around.
Speaker 2: That's one of the things I've been seeing.
Speaker 8: It just.
Speaker 2: You look at this little girl and they're all precious
Speaker 2: little angels. And to see to have a situation where
Speaker 2: dogs maul a child, and especially when I start reading
Speaker 2: stuff like judges have the discretion to order the euthanasia
Speaker 2: of dangerous or vicious dogs after the first unprovoked attack.
Speaker 2: Often it's left to the dog owner. If the dog
Speaker 2: is already deemed vicious, gets out and kills a second person,
Speaker 2: then the judge must order the dog euthanized.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Other story that we've been following cruise responding to a
Speaker 2: plane crash in Adams County. This occurred at ten actually
Speaker 2: ten o'clock, yes, well actually last night. One person has
Speaker 2: died after a small plane crash in Adams County on
Speaker 2: Monday afternoon. Units from the Ohio State Highway Patrol Georgetown
Speaker 2: Post were dispatched at three thirty four pm to Savage
Speaker 2: Road and Bratton Township for reports of a small plane
Speaker 2: that had crashed the areas north of Peebles and west
Speaker 2: of State Route seventy three. Source with the Adams County
Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office confirmed Monday night that one person died in
Speaker 2: the crash. They're learning to find more information what led
Speaker 2: to the crash and identify the victim. But of course
Speaker 2: the person that died was the pilot of that plane,
Speaker 2: so well, unfortunate, well, fortunately there were no other people
Speaker 2: on board, but unfortunately there was the pilot and we
Speaker 2: never know on those and what may have happened there.
Speaker 2: So again, it's interesting to see what is going on
Speaker 2: in the news and some of the local headlines, and
Speaker 2: of course everybody's getting ready for the celebrations as far
Speaker 2: as New Year's Eve and the New Year's celebrations. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of stories out there, and you can go
Speaker 2: online as everything should be pretty much open today.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of stores and you probably
Speaker 2: have to call the individual stores because as we have
Speaker 2: found and when we've been trying to go places that
Speaker 2: the hours that they put online and the hours that
Speaker 2: they have on that prone phone tree when you call
Speaker 2: aren't generally maybe up to date very well, and so
Speaker 2: don't push it to the last minute. If you know
Speaker 2: that these stores may be open, you might want to
Speaker 2: get there early enough because some of the stores will
Speaker 2: be closing early because of because it's Today's not a holiday,
Speaker 2: but some people are getting off early so that they
Speaker 2: can get ready for the night's festivities. And you can
Speaker 2: call around find out what's open. You know, banks are
Speaker 2: going to be open, other places, most places of business
Speaker 2: will be open, but they may have a little bit
Speaker 2: shorter hours, so you might want to check around and
Speaker 2: find all that out. And of course online you can
Speaker 2: find out any last minute activities that might be out
Speaker 2: there if you're interested in going to any place tonight.
Speaker 2: But the one thing I do want to emphasize is
Speaker 2: make sure that you have either a designated driver or
Speaker 2: take that uber home. Make sure that you're out there safe.
Speaker 2: Let's try to keep this one of the safest New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve celebrations that we've had on record. You know,
Speaker 2: it just takes a moment of stupidity or a moment
Speaker 2: of bad judgment to create a horrible and a horrific
Speaker 2: situation that then completely Mars, the entire event, the holiday season,
Speaker 2: and of course the grief that that brings to families
Speaker 2: that every time around the holidays they have to think
Speaker 2: about a tragedy that could have been prevented. Phone numbers
Speaker 2: five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: fifty five KRC, the Talk Station.
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Speaker 3: Seven forty in the morning.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five k the
Speaker 2: Talk Station. You know, sometimes things just work out perfectly.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think mental telepathy between me and Sean, who is
Speaker 2: my producer today, is there because I was going to
Speaker 2: talk about this anyway, but all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: go get your motor running and road songs type of thing.
Speaker 2: In the forecast, we're talking about or wind speeds being
Speaker 2: up to about thirty miles per hour. If you're out
Speaker 2: driving around today, you need to be aware of that,
Speaker 2: and especially if you're out on the highway in a
Speaker 2: flat area. And you're passing trucks, any kind of a truck,
Speaker 2: whether it be a tractor trailer or one of those
Speaker 2: big box trucks. Be aware of the fact that if
Speaker 2: a gust of wind comes up, that that could.
Speaker 3: Swerve that a trailer ever so slightly.
Speaker 2: So kind of pay attention to that because sometimes when
Speaker 2: you drive down the road, you can see those trailers
Speaker 2: kind of weaving back and forth, and you kind of wonder, well,
Speaker 2: is there something wrong with the truck driver. No, normally
Speaker 2: it's just a win, and it doesn't take much if
Speaker 2: you're driving down the road that if you turn the
Speaker 2: wheel a little bit a certain way and then back
Speaker 2: that that trailer will turn a little bit. So you know,
Speaker 2: there could be a little bit of normally done distracted driving.
Speaker 2: It's normally a win, but be aware of that while
Speaker 2: you're out there. And of course I have been in situations,
Speaker 2: even in a sedan, when you're driving down the road
Speaker 2: when the wind is enough, and there's a couple of
Speaker 2: times I've noticed that when i'd go across the Big
Speaker 2: Mac Bridge that there are certain times once the wind
Speaker 2: blows a certain way, you can actually feel that and
Speaker 2: in jerking the car. So be aware of that out
Speaker 2: there if you're going to be out on the highway
Speaker 2: this afternoon and pay attention to the wind condition. So
Speaker 2: with that phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound,
Speaker 2: five point fifty at and T wireless phone. I want
Speaker 2: to wrap this story up with Elton John because again,
Speaker 2: when you're talking about somebody who's been sober since nineteen ninety,
Speaker 2: somebody who's been part of the drug culture, somebody who
Speaker 2: has participated in smoking of marijuana, and somebody that well,
Speaker 2: I guess you consider could consider him somewhat of an
Speaker 2: expert of where he talks about his own use of
Speaker 2: drugs has disasterus effects in his personal life. You make
Speaker 2: terrible decision on drugs. I want to love you so badly.
Speaker 2: I just take hostages. I'd see somebody like to spend
Speaker 2: three or four months together, and then they would resent
Speaker 2: me because they had nothing in their lives apart from me.
Speaker 2: It really upsets me thinking back on how many people
Speaker 2: I probably hurt. It's just you know, when people go
Speaker 2: back and lament this. And I was talking to somebody
Speaker 2: too the other day, and he was asking me about
Speaker 2: the marijuana laws, and I could, well, you know, you
Speaker 2: can tell sometimes that somebody has been smoking pot or
Speaker 2: had been a smoking pot, or is a pot smoker.
Speaker 2: I don't know, or you can just guess. Maybe I'm
Speaker 2: jumping to the conclusions. But I thought, you know, the
Speaker 2: guy's asking my opinion, I'm just going to give it.
Speaker 2: And one of the things I pride myself on is
Speaker 2: that when you are in a conversation with me, when
Speaker 2: you walk away, you'll never say to yourself, gosh, I
Speaker 2: wonder what Kevin thinks about that particular subject, because whether
Speaker 2: you like it or not, you're gonna hear my Well,
Speaker 2: if you ask my opinion, I'm going to give it.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I even volunteer it because I have an
Speaker 2: opinion and I'm not afraid to use it. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I told him that I just I said, I just
Speaker 2: have no use for it. I don't think there's any
Speaker 2: benefit to it. And it just bothers me that this
Speaker 2: is beginning to be more and more a part of
Speaker 2: the culture, and I still think of it as a
Speaker 2: gateway drug. And I was shocked to find out from
Speaker 2: him he said, I have been a pot smoker. I've
Speaker 2: smoked pot. I still smoke pot. And he says, but
Speaker 2: I have noticed that I am not as sharp as
Speaker 2: I was. And this guy is a guy that's in
Speaker 2: his maybe a late forties, early fifties, and he says,
Speaker 2: there is just not the mental acuity that there was
Speaker 2: there years ago. I'm not as sharp. I seem to
Speaker 2: have a little bit less energy. I'm a little bit
Speaker 2: more laid back, more than I probably should be. And
Speaker 2: there's just certain things that I just can't do that
Speaker 2: I could do even five years ago.
Speaker 3: Excuse me.
Speaker 2: And I was shocked that he would admit that, because
Speaker 2: I've known of a lot of people that have done
Speaker 2: marijuana a lot over the years, and there's just something
Speaker 2: about them. They just don't seem like they're all there.
Speaker 2: They seem like the word searching is a lot more
Speaker 2: at a much younger age. And it's just why bother
Speaker 2: messing with the system like that? And I don't know,
Speaker 2: And don't get me started. I mean, I know people drink.
Speaker 2: I know that there's tobacco out there. I'm a cigar smoker,
Speaker 2: so I know that. But again, because I've never even
Speaker 2: smoked a cigarette. The advantage of that that I have
Speaker 2: is that I don't have that need or that reflex
Speaker 2: to actually inhale the smoke, and so you can get
Speaker 2: whatever the buzz there is from nicotine or whatever that is,
Speaker 2: from just smoking a cigar, puffing on a cigar, and
Speaker 2: it's relaxing, I find. But again, it's not like I'm
Speaker 2: smoking cigars every day. I'm trying to figure out. I
Speaker 2: think there's been about three months since I've had one.
Speaker 2: So now I'm getting myself interested. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: go home and have one. No, my wife probably won't
Speaker 2: want that anyway. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk
Speaker 2: to Bob or is it Rob?
Speaker 3: Rob? Rob fifty five? Caresee how are you this morning?
Speaker 15: I'm pretty good? How are you?
Speaker 3: Not too bad? Not too bad at all.
Speaker 15: So I'm sitting there listening this morning, coming into.
Speaker 10: Work, and.
Speaker 15: I just had yesterday twenty one years cleaning several off
Speaker 15: of every drug besides marijuana.
Speaker 2: Congratulations.
Speaker 15: And I just disagree with marijuana being the gayway drug.
Speaker 15: Because I was fifteen years completely severer of everything, came
Speaker 15: down with cancer. They were wanting to give me oxy cottins,
Speaker 15: which I refused. In the past, and I said, I'm
Speaker 15: not doing that. I said, I can't do it. I'm
Speaker 15: not going to take that chance. I seen people in
Speaker 15: the program I was in that had surgeries and they
Speaker 15: went back out, so I started. He said, well, you
Speaker 15: can try marijuana, and I did that and made it
Speaker 15: through having drank. Then I had a motorcycle wreck. Two
Speaker 15: years after that, same exact, same exact thing happened. He said,
Speaker 15: here's some moxies. I said, I can't do that, and
Speaker 15: I did marijuana. And I've been doing marijuana since for
Speaker 15: the last six years, and it has not let me
Speaker 15: do anything else. I go to bars, I said, there
Speaker 15: at a bar and drink Coca Cola, and as long
Speaker 15: as I go somewhere for a reason, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Now what you may have messed because I brought this.
Speaker 2: I brought this subject up probably close to the beginning
Speaker 2: of the hour, these comments by Elton John, and then
Speaker 2: we got sidetracked on some other things, and I just
Speaker 2: got back to it. One of the things that I've
Speaker 2: said is that with all of the studies and all
Speaker 2: the stuff that I've read in terms of marijuana medical
Speaker 2: use of marijuana, about the only thing that I have
Speaker 2: seen a benefit that I would probably say, hey, probably
Speaker 2: not a bad idea is in the event of cancer patients,
Speaker 2: because with cancer patients and with marijuana use, because of
Speaker 2: the weight loss and the level of comfort that that
Speaker 2: gives that you forces you to eat, and when you
Speaker 2: are under cancer treatments, one of the big things is
Speaker 2: weight loss. And so that's the only advantage that I
Speaker 2: have seen medical wise of marijuana. So from that aspect,
Speaker 2: I did use that as a qualifier. So that would
Speaker 2: fit into what you're saying. And it works for paying
Speaker 2: if you get the right kind for paying. And what
Speaker 2: I'll say to you is that I applaud your efforts
Speaker 2: and I applaud the fact that you have stayed.
Speaker 3: Was it twenty years now that you've cleaned and so.
Speaker 15: Years server that was a heavy cocaine user. I was
Speaker 15: a everything user.
Speaker 2: That is so difficult because once once something becomes a habit,
Speaker 2: there's certain things where there's a chemical dependence on it,
Speaker 2: but then also a psychological need for it, as what
Speaker 2: they refer to as the crutch. And to be able
Speaker 2: to avoid that for all these many years, I got
Speaker 2: hats off to you, my friend, and uh, I wish
Speaker 2: you all the best of luck have no more accidents
Speaker 2: so that you can recommend me.
Speaker 15: I'm try not to, Okay, New Year.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: the phone call. I certainly appreciate it. Five one three,
Speaker 2: seven four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: two five five pound five point fifty AT and T
Speaker 2: wireless phone. I think we went a little bit long
Speaker 2: with that segment, so we'll make it up on the
Speaker 2: other side. Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC,
Speaker 2: the talk Station.
Speaker 6: Fifty five KRC.
Speaker 9: The holidays are a blast of the financial.
Speaker 2: Seven fifty two in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five k see the talk station. Had
Speaker 2: a little cough there and got a little bit back
Speaker 2: by anyway, I'm back. We're talking about medical marijuana use,
Speaker 2: and I just want to kind of finish up here
Speaker 2: the fact that Elton John came out and spoke about
Speaker 2: this back on December the twelfth in an interview Icon
Speaker 2: of the Year award, and in the interview talking about
Speaker 2: his journey through as far as sobriety and looking at
Speaker 2: that as he refers to it as a gateway drug,
Speaker 2: and I was just caution people out there. And we
Speaker 2: had the police officer earlier in the hour talking about
Speaker 2: how they have seen Meraica medical marijuana being abused and
Speaker 2: that is being used and now invading and available at
Speaker 2: a lot of grade schools as low as fourth and
Speaker 2: fifth graders. School resource officers are having to deal with
Speaker 2: this and just all we need is just one more
Speaker 2: headache out there, one more thing that could cause addiction.
Speaker 2: And Elton John in his comments said that he believes
Speaker 2: that it is some form of addiction. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's one of those things where what one person. You know,
Speaker 2: there are certain people that can smoke cigarettes forever, and
Speaker 2: you know the people they can quit cold turkey and
Speaker 2: never go back to it. There are others that it
Speaker 2: takes them three, four, five, six times. You hear the
Speaker 2: ads on the on the on the stations all the
Speaker 2: time about house people. They didn't quit the first time,
Speaker 2: they didn't quit the second time, but they learned more
Speaker 2: and more and then I finally was able to do it.
Speaker 2: I was finally able to kick the addiction. There are
Speaker 2: some people that have an addictive personality. And if people
Speaker 2: have an addictive personality, and they go into and take
Speaker 2: marijuana or use marijuana. They may be looking for something
Speaker 2: higher and again could lead to a great way drug.
Speaker 2: But again speaking from the standpoint of never having tried it,
Speaker 2: never used it, never wanted to try it, So you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to. But just look before you do it,
Speaker 2: Like anything else, do an informed consent. Look at what
Speaker 2: is being written. The fact that they admit in here
Speaker 2: CDC notes that experts experts disagree whether it lives up
Speaker 2: to its long held reputation. Now it's interesting that they
Speaker 2: would say that about marijuana. The same is true on
Speaker 2: climate change, but they'll never say that climate change, as
Speaker 2: you know, is absolutely settled science not.
Speaker 3: Coming up.
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Speaker 2: Five minutes after eight o'clock on this New Year's Eve morning,
Speaker 2: I still pinched myself realizing that this is the last
Speaker 2: day of the year. I hope everybody's having a great morning.
Speaker 2: I hope you're going to have a great night. I'm
Speaker 2: kind of curious as to what people are doing. What's
Speaker 2: on your agenda for the day, I've got any New
Speaker 2: Year's resolutions? What are you planning on for tonight? What
Speaker 2: are your hosts for twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: And what do you think is the top story of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Now I'm going to answer that a
Speaker 2: little bit, maybe get the ball rolling a little bit
Speaker 2: on that. But you know, I've mentioned that there's there's
Speaker 2: several stories. I mentioned this earlier that there are any
Speaker 2: There are several stories that in and of themselves could
Speaker 2: be the top story of the year in any other year,
Speaker 2: but the fact that it happened that they all happened
Speaker 2: this year was significant. Of course, I think overall overarching
Speaker 2: theme of the entire year would have been the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four presidential election. Leading up to that, the whole
Speaker 2: deal with Biden being in announcing that he was going
Speaker 2: to run, even though that people were saying that there
Speaker 2: appeared to be clearly that his mental faculties weren't all there.
Speaker 2: But of course then we got lied to by all
Speaker 2: the people in the administration telling us how sharp he was,
Speaker 2: that he could run rings around everybody. So then you
Speaker 2: have the June debate and just the absolute meltdown and
Speaker 2: Democratic Party goes into a panic. They decided that okay,
Speaker 2: they're going to convince him to drop out. The same
Speaker 2: people they kind of pushed him onto the ticket because
Speaker 2: he was a safe person, a safe bet, somebody that
Speaker 2: they could manipulate as far as their needs and wants
Speaker 2: as president. So the same people that brought him in
Speaker 2: are the same people that brought him out. And then
Speaker 2: we wind up with Kamala Harris where they don't, you know,
Speaker 2: the party that talks about Donald Trump being an existential
Speaker 2: threat to democracy, they themselves being the existential threat to
Speaker 2: democracy that they were. Even in their primaries before Biden
Speaker 2: even dropped out, they didn't allow certain people on the ticket.
Speaker 3: They sued to let the force them off.
Speaker 2: Bobby Kennedy Junior was on there, a couple of other
Speaker 2: people had chosen to run and they closed them out.
Speaker 2: So they did not really have an open primary process.
Speaker 2: They haven't had an open primary process for the last well,
Speaker 2: now three presidential cycles. So when Biden dropped out, instead
Speaker 2: of having a shortened nominating procedure or at least go
Speaker 2: in and interview for the job and take the credentials
Speaker 2: of everybody, and the party officials selecting no, they choose
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris because again, that was a safe bet, and
Speaker 2: even with her disastrous job as Borders Are, which they
Speaker 2: then tried to gaslight us, lie to us and tell
Speaker 2: us that Kamala Harris really in fact wasn't the Borders Are,
Speaker 2: even though people referred to her as that, she never
Speaker 2: corrected them. They never corrected it, the administration never corrected it.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden they're trying to clean up her resume,
Speaker 2: and yet people can't forget about the cackling, the inappropriate laughter,
Speaker 2: and just the gaps that she did throughout her vice presidency.
Speaker 2: Now all of a sudden, she's in charge and she's
Speaker 2: running this joyful campaign. And we started seeing cracks in
Speaker 2: that they lied to us that, oh, the polls were
Speaker 2: neck and neck, when in fact they probably weren't. We're
Speaker 2: hearing stories now that the polls were never tight, but
Speaker 2: that's what they were telling The Spoon Federal regurgitators in
Speaker 2: the mainstream media, and they continued that on. Then we
Speaker 2: come to election night and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: we find out that well not only find out how
Speaker 2: bad these polls were, but how it was an attempt
Speaker 2: by them to suppress the vote. And especially over the
Speaker 2: weekend before the election, they had that Iowa Bill, a
Speaker 2: poll that came out that talked about that the race
Speaker 2: was not close, that Kamala Harris was going to win.
Speaker 2: And so the election turned out the way it did,
Speaker 2: and of course the media has paid a price for that.
Speaker 2: They their ratings are way down. They should be if
Speaker 2: they had any brains about them, would be totally embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Then we come to find out that Kamala Harris raised
Speaker 2: two point five billion dollars, blew through that wound up
Speaker 2: with three hundred million dollars in debt as far as
Speaker 2: the DNC was concerned, and then goes begging back to
Speaker 2: these donors that had propped up this campaign. Then we
Speaker 2: come to find out through some of the election reports
Speaker 2: that Oprah win Fee had been paid what was a
Speaker 2: two point five million dollars Well, actually she directly wasn't paid,
Speaker 2: but it was her production company to do the production.
Speaker 2: They spent one hundred thousand dollars on the second construction
Speaker 2: of that Call Your Daddy podcast. We find out that
Speaker 2: they paid Bruce Springsteen to attempt to endorse and to
Speaker 2: actually show up and do a couple of songs at
Speaker 2: one of the campaign stops. Beyonce paid Al Sharpton, who
Speaker 2: is on MSNBC and is one of their commentators, one
Speaker 2: of their political people. All of a sudden we come
Speaker 2: to find out that he was paid five hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars by the Harris campaign in order to secure an
Speaker 2: interview with him, and of course the softball interview that
Speaker 2: pursued that proceeded from that. He hasn't paid the price,
Speaker 2: he hasn't lost his job. But of course they propped
Speaker 2: this up, and they call us the Republicans or Conservatives
Speaker 2: and existential threat to democracy, even though that we were
Speaker 2: being told that this woman was competent, that this woman
Speaker 2: was running a flawless campaign, and now that the dust
Speaker 2: is settled, they're still calling it a flawless campaign. We
Speaker 2: see Biden sitting down for interviews saying that he can't
Speaker 2: think of a single mistake that he made. Nothing comes
Speaker 2: to mind completely ignoring the Afghanistan embarrassment withdrawal, the crushing debt,
Speaker 2: that we've got record inflation, wide open borders, and South
Speaker 2: American gangs now running some of the cities, invading some
Speaker 2: of our cities, which was denied. So everything was perfect.
Speaker 2: Everything was perfect with Kamala Harris campaign, she couldn't think
Speaker 2: of anything, even a softball question. Even the people on
Speaker 2: the view were shocked when she gave the answer that
Speaker 2: do you think there's anything that comes to mind that
Speaker 2: you would do differently than what had been done previously?
Speaker 2: And she said, no, nothing comes to mind. So I
Speaker 2: think overarching the big story of twenty twenty four was
Speaker 2: the election. However, I think as a backdrop of that
Speaker 2: and the biggest scandal to ever face the United States
Speaker 2: happened over the last four years. We had that Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal expose the other day that talked about how
Speaker 2: even back during the campaign of twenty twenty that Biden
Speaker 2: was not as up to the campaigning as a lot
Speaker 2: of people. And they talked about how his wife was
Speaker 2: doing like nine campaign appearances on a particular day versus
Speaker 2: what one or two for Biden, and she was getting
Speaker 2: all this notoriety, and they started saying, well, you know,
Speaker 2: you got to tamp down those stories because you're making
Speaker 2: the president look bad or the candidate look bad, and
Speaker 2: we don't want that. And so all of the gaps,
Speaker 2: all the things that happened during that campaign were hidden
Speaker 2: from the American public. Then we come to find out
Speaker 2: through this Wall Street Journal article that even in the
Speaker 2: first couple of months, he started being isolated from advisers
Speaker 2: and from the outsiders, and he was surrounded by his
Speaker 2: close advisors and close associates. And they're not all his associates,
Speaker 2: of course, a lot of them were Obama associates. And
Speaker 2: so it's pretty safe to say that Obama and his
Speaker 2: people were pretty much running things. They insulated him. I mean,
Speaker 2: we see now that he spent four hundred and forty
Speaker 2: four days on vacation. It may be higher than that
Speaker 2: by now because he's still on vacation, and that more
Speaker 2: than forty percent of his presidency. Now, if you go
Speaker 2: back to and read some of these stories, now, I
Speaker 2: came across the story that it was called Death and
Speaker 2: the All American Boy. And this was a story written
Speaker 2: by Kitty Kelly, who you may be familiar with. She
Speaker 2: was a is a columnist was a columnist very popular
Speaker 2: back in the seventies. Wrote a story about him, and
Speaker 2: I think it was supposed to be a puff piece
Speaker 2: about him talking about the tragedy of him losing his
Speaker 2: wife and that he wanted that he actually believed that
Speaker 2: he should be the smart you know, being the smartest
Speaker 2: guy in the room. According to him, that he was
Speaker 2: destined to be president. So can you imagine a job
Speaker 2: something that you've wanted your entire life, that you're going
Speaker 2: to be there, that you wanted to be president of
Speaker 2: the United States, and you become president and you spend
Speaker 2: forty percent of your time away from Washington on vacation.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid that, even at my level of the respect
Speaker 2: for that office, I don't know that I would ever
Speaker 2: leave Washington except for some diplomatic tour or something that
Speaker 2: I would Because you cherish that job. You may only
Speaker 2: have it for four years or as the maximum of
Speaker 2: eight years, how you don't pull pour every bit of
Speaker 2: your heart and soul into that job to do the
Speaker 2: best job you can do for the American people. The
Speaker 2: hell with your legacy, but for the American people because
Speaker 2: they entrusted you with that position. I can't imagine spending
Speaker 2: that much time away. Now I know that, you know,
Speaker 2: you've got to have family, you got to be involved,
Speaker 2: But for crying out loud, as Ronald Reagan used to
Speaker 2: refer to it, just as proprietors and small businesses throughout
Speaker 2: the history of this country, he said, this is one
Speaker 2: of the jobs where you live above the store. And
Speaker 2: that's the way he looked at the office. That's the
Speaker 2: way he honored the office. The fact that it was
Speaker 2: the business was on the ground floor and your residence
Speaker 2: was on the second and third floor. So the respect
Speaker 2: for the office, wanting to be there and wanting to
Speaker 2: be part of that, and the fact that you have
Speaker 2: worked so hard to be in that position, it just
Speaker 2: dumbfounds me. The fact that how cavalier this presidency has been,
Speaker 2: and pretty much it appears as though that has been
Speaker 2: on autopilot, and that should be a major investigation going
Speaker 2: forward to get to the bottom of this. Who made
Speaker 2: the decision, who were pulling the strings? Because in effect,
Speaker 2: my friends, that is unconstitutional, it's undemocratic, and I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about the party. I'm talking about an existential threat
Speaker 2: to democracy and actually put our country in danger and
Speaker 2: actually is in my opinion, treason US five point three,
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Speaker 2: Looking at some of these stories I'm talking about, and
Speaker 2: I've asked UH, and we've had a couple of callers
Speaker 2: call in and talk about the biggest stories of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, plans for the New Year's Eve celebration, and
Speaker 2: of course any plans for or what you're anticipating on
Speaker 2: what you're looking forward to in twenty twenty five. Now,
Speaker 2: some of the headlines that I'm seeing inflation, elections in
Speaker 2: war dominated twenty twenty four, angered by the hefty ramp
Speaker 2: up in prices for everything from eggs to energy. Over
Speaker 2: the past few years, they punished incumbent and parties at
Speaker 2: almost every opportunity. The pain of inflation lingers and the
Speaker 2: ruling parties took the blame, that took the blame in
Speaker 2: election after election.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just the media.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 2: In the United States, high cost help Donald Trump win
Speaker 2: a second term as president four years after he was
Speaker 2: voted out of the White House and then falsely claimed
Speaker 2: election fraud. His supporters failed in their bid to overturn
Speaker 2: Trump's defeat by storming the US Capitol. You know, they
Speaker 2: just can't get a Scholert. But I just love the
Speaker 2: Trump derangement syndrome and stories like this. Let's see Trump's defeat.
Speaker 2: They could not stand Trump's defeat by storming the US
Speaker 2: Capitol on January sixth.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: This year, they made their voices heard at the ballot box,
Speaker 2: ushering in a new American leadership likely to test democratic
Speaker 2: institutions at home and relations abroad.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: The inflation driven and anti incumbent sentiment also ushered in
Speaker 2: new governments and writin and Botswana, Portugal and Panama, South
Speaker 2: Korean voters put the opposition into power in its parliament,
Speaker 2: a check on President Yun suk yol. In early December,
Speaker 2: the president imposed martial law, a move the National Assembly
Speaker 2: quickly reversed.
Speaker 3: Elections also shook up.
Speaker 2: France and Germany, and Japan and India. In one place
Speaker 2: where there was no change, Russia, where Vladimir Putin was
Speaker 2: re elected president with eighty eight percent of the vote,
Speaker 2: a record in post Soviet Russia. What you don't understand
Speaker 2: that that is still almost a communist country. There, damn
Speaker 2: near a communist country, that there is no freedom over there.
Speaker 2: But of course you know you can't tell this to
Speaker 2: so called well spoon fed Well, they are spoon fed
Speaker 2: regurgitators because I don't want to characterize them as journalists,
Speaker 2: because they are anything, but because they never report the
Speaker 2: actual truth or the facts, but their version of and
Speaker 2: let's face it, Okay, there has never been a communist
Speaker 2: or a communist idea that the left hasn't loved. I've
Speaker 2: made the comment before, kind of jokingly, but I would
Speaker 2: be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised. I wonder how many
Speaker 2: of the liberals out there actually have Sha Guevera t
Speaker 2: shirts in their closets. You know, it wouldn't surprise me
Speaker 2: because all the leftists that we see, all this leftist
Speaker 2: movement from the Green News Steel on down is all
Speaker 2: designed as control. It's not having to do anything with
Speaker 2: climate change, has nothing to do with anything other than
Speaker 2: making a ruling class where they are at the top
Speaker 2: and we are at the bottom. And of course they
Speaker 2: love that, because in their hearts they are all socialists.
Speaker 2: Moscow continued to prosecute its war against Ukraine, grinding out
Speaker 2: notable notable territorial gains. The big question is what impact
Speaker 2: Trump's return to the White House will have on the conflict.
Speaker 2: He has promised end the war in a day. Many
Speaker 2: in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe fear that will mean
Speaker 2: siding with Putin and freezing the status quo. In the
Speaker 2: Middle East, Israel continues its war against Gaza and extended
Speaker 2: it to Lebanon, where it left Iran backed Hezbola damage
Speaker 2: and in disarray. In Syria, a well coordinated collection of
Speaker 2: rebel groups top oled Bashir l Asad and now seeks
Speaker 2: to run the country. In business, companies around the world
Speaker 2: grappled with how to adapt to artificial intelligence. The dominance
Speaker 2: of tech companies for investors can be summed up as
Speaker 2: one simple fact. Seven tech firms, the so called Magnificent seven,
Speaker 2: now account for more than one third of the S
Speaker 2: and P five hundred's market cap. Elon Musk, who runs
Speaker 2: one of those companies, Tesla, is an advisor and financial
Speaker 2: backer of President Trump. Looking ahead, that combination of tech
Speaker 2: bro mojo and political power could well defined twenty five Interesting. Interesting,
Speaker 2: see a little bit of slant in that particular story.
Speaker 2: And oh lo and behold, we'll dig into this coming up.
Speaker 2: Hamas suddenly open to release of some Israeli hostages before
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Speaker 2: In the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty
Speaker 2: five KRC, the Talk Stations. We're following some local headlines
Speaker 2: and I just cannot get my It's just this, this
Speaker 2: story just completely keeps bothering me over and over again. Cruse,
Speaker 2: responding to the point, well, the nine one one calls
Speaker 2: say dad was asleep when three year old child died.
Speaker 2: A nine to eleven call father of killed daughter of
Speaker 2: dog attack woke up found her already dead in the apartment.
Speaker 2: Father of three year old girl was killed in the
Speaker 2: dog attack told dispatchers he woke up Friday to find
Speaker 2: her already dead in the living room. The man called
Speaker 2: Sin Santa Police seven fifty am just after he woke
Speaker 2: up in the Roselawn apartment. According to nine to one
Speaker 2: one calls recording the computer aided dispatched documents in a
Speaker 2: panic state. He identified himself as the girl's father and
Speaker 2: described the scene just a horrific situation. We had a
Speaker 2: caller earlier that called in said they described the dog
Speaker 2: as a terrier, but that could actually be a pit
Speaker 2: bull terrier, which is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Just sad.
Speaker 2: Cruse responded that they had the let's see they idd
Speaker 2: the girl killed in the attack. Let me see county
Speaker 2: two dogs cat Kingsley right inside the home a seven
Speaker 2: thousand blocks a Stillwell Road, according to police. And then
Speaker 2: they talk in here about some of the other dog
Speaker 2: attacks that have happened around the state and kind of
Speaker 2: some national statistics. Also, we looked at a cruise responding
Speaker 2: to a plane crash in Adams County. They do have
Speaker 2: they have identified the person that lost their life in
Speaker 2: that plane crash.
Speaker 3: A gentleman by the name of.
Speaker 2: Robert Harris Coles of Vicksburg, Michigan, is a pilot flying
Speaker 2: the small plane when it crashed into a wooded area
Speaker 2: and the Ohios according to Ohio State Highway Patrols Georgetown
Speaker 2: Division wrote in a press release, preliminary investigation revealed that
Speaker 2: Coles was flying the nineteen sixty twin engine Cessna three
Speaker 2: ten D when a crash near the property of at
Speaker 2: twenty one seventy three Savage Road. A trooper at the
Speaker 2: scene told news agencies that the plane was headed to
Speaker 2: West Union. Once officer emergency crews located the crash site,
Speaker 2: they found Coles, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Speaker 2: There's no other occupants in the plane, so it was
Speaker 2: just a single death. But again, tragedy around the Christmas holidays.
Speaker 2: Tragedy of any time at any any time of the
Speaker 2: year is always tragic, but when it occurs around the
Speaker 2: holidays or a holiday that creates problems because when those
Speaker 2: anniversaries come around, when you're supposed to be in a
Speaker 2: celebratory mood, when you're supposed to be ready for a holiday,
Speaker 2: you have that reminder the anniversary of the loss of
Speaker 2: a loved one or the tragic death of someone that
Speaker 2: in some cases could have been prevented. Coming up, we've
Speaker 2: got let's go a little bit of fun facts and
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about New Year's and what people
Speaker 2: can expect. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, nine, fifty
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Speaker 9: The holidays are a blast.
Speaker 2: Eight thirty eight in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Joe fifty
Speaker 2: five KR. See how are you this morning? Happy New
Speaker 2: Year Eve? And uh what.
Speaker 3: You got for us?
Speaker 14: Happy New Year? Kevin, God bless you and prayers for
Speaker 14: uh say sorry about the background was the victims of
Speaker 14: that tragedy you just spoke about. I wanted to get
Speaker 14: your opinion on saying two things. They are kind of
Speaker 14: a conundrum to me.
Speaker 2: Now, what would make you think I have an opinion
Speaker 2: on anything?
Speaker 3: What would give you that I your brother?
Speaker 14: I'm sorry, that's okay, love, It is good to laugh.
Speaker 3: First.
Speaker 14: I don't know how we reconcile this three or you know,
Speaker 14: I look in terms of six months that you have
Speaker 14: to be able to get by. But eventually it comes
Speaker 14: down in my mind a community. You know, you can't
Speaker 14: be everything to everybody. And I'm going to get out
Speaker 14: of the way because I'd rather listen.
Speaker 2: Well, what what was your first first question on what?
Speaker 3: Now? It was?
Speaker 14: There's apparently and I'm not educated on this. I need
Speaker 14: to catch up. Controversy regarding Trump's view of the green
Speaker 14: card extensions.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, you follow Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, Well
Speaker 2: you don't have to hang up. But anyway, there the
Speaker 2: controversy over these h H one B visas that had
Speaker 2: been around for a number of years. In fact, I
Speaker 2: believe there was some testimony by Bill Gates back in
Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties talking about how you need to have
Speaker 2: what they call the best and brightest available and when
Speaker 2: you get into some of this tech and some of
Speaker 2: the computer stuff, the Americans the workforce wasn't enough and
Speaker 2: that you have to be able to bring in people
Speaker 2: who can handle that. But what we've seen, and I
Speaker 2: think there was supposed to be something like eight hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty of these that would be allowed every year,
Speaker 2: that has more than exploded to over eighty six thousand
Speaker 2: a year. And what we are seeing is that companies
Speaker 2: are using this the way that they're using the cheap
Speaker 2: labor coming across the border the illegals, and using that
Speaker 2: cheap labor in certain areas, they are bringing in people
Speaker 2: from other countries into things that aren't really a H
Speaker 2: one B was supposed to be a specific set of
Speaker 2: skills for a specific industry, and they have brought people
Speaker 2: in that are basically pushing computer programmers that are in
Speaker 2: those positions out. There was a story about Disney where
Speaker 2: all of their employees there were told you're losing your job,
Speaker 2: and it's your job now to train the person coming
Speaker 2: in behind you. If you don't do that, and if
Speaker 2: you refuse to do that, you will get no severance package.
Speaker 2: So they brought these people in from the outside making
Speaker 2: less money than what the people that were there.
Speaker 3: We've seen this.
Speaker 2: I saw some reports in my profession or original profession
Speaker 2: as a recovering accountant, I look back on that companies,
Speaker 2: accounting firms are bringing people in at lower wages in
Speaker 2: order to do certain accounting work for their clients. Now, again,
Speaker 2: if you're abusing this program, that needs to be tightened
Speaker 2: up tremendously. And although there are if there are industries
Speaker 2: and if there are needs for certain employees that you
Speaker 2: cannot find, then yes, being able to bring those in
Speaker 2: from the outside would be great. But when you start
Speaker 2: abusing the heck out of this like that, that is wrong.
Speaker 2: That is flat out wrong. And when this happens, that's
Speaker 2: when the thing needs to be either disbanded or built
Speaker 2: up back from the ground up. So does that answer
Speaker 2: the question?
Speaker 3: It all? We're here? Yeah?
Speaker 14: I needed to get educated, and now I feel like
Speaker 14: I can articulate based on what you told me and
Speaker 14: my thoughts and concerns.
Speaker 4: Thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good, Have a happy new year and be
Speaker 2: safe out there. Where do we go now, Sean? Who
Speaker 2: do I go to next? Tim, Tim fifty five cares
Speaker 2: how are you this morning?
Speaker 16: The boy, sir, just fine. How you did it?
Speaker 3: I cannot complain.
Speaker 16: As far as the visas there, you know, there's a
Speaker 16: lot of places these companies want to build. You know,
Speaker 16: it's cheaper to build out in the country. But then
Speaker 16: there's not a workforce. You've got to bring them in
Speaker 16: from somewhere, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you can bring them in from the cities,
Speaker 2: you can bring them in from the surrounding areas. You
Speaker 2: don't necessarily have to bring them in as immigrants or
Speaker 2: on a visa from another country.
Speaker 3: You can do go ahead, No.
Speaker 16: That well, that they should work on that. Then they
Speaker 16: should try, you know, try to do that more.
Speaker 2: But where you have again, when you have a program
Speaker 2: that is set up for a specific set of skills
Speaker 2: in a narrow field that there aren't a whole lot
Speaker 2: of so called experts in that field, when you bring
Speaker 2: those people in that should be for that specific task,
Speaker 2: you don't bring people in on those visas just to
Speaker 2: do research work, accounting work, or programming work, and you
Speaker 2: don't fire the people that are currently doing that job
Speaker 2: so that you can bring in people who will work cheaper.
Speaker 2: I'm going back on my experience as a recovering accountant.
Speaker 2: People may be familiar with if you're old enough to remember,
Speaker 2: French Bauer ice Cream, French Bower Dairy down in downtown Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I remember going to an audit there and I was
Speaker 2: talking to a gentleman who was from India, who as
Speaker 2: his background, was a doctor but could not get licensed
Speaker 2: in the United States and was working there in their
Speaker 2: accounts receivable, the accounts receivable department, and we got to
Speaker 2: talking and I was talking to him about where he lived,
Speaker 2: and he lived over near Cincinnati Gardens, and he talked
Speaker 2: about what a wonderful place that was, and if you
Speaker 2: remember back during the seventies eighties is when that area
Speaker 2: started deterioring over there. So he was working at a
Speaker 2: profession that he wasn't trained in at a cheaper rate
Speaker 2: than what he normally would be paid in a position. Now,
Speaker 2: when you're bringing these people in, and I've talked to
Speaker 2: a lot of people in the programming departments, and they
Speaker 2: say that if you're applying for a job, if you
Speaker 2: aren't from a particular country, if you're not Indian, and
Speaker 2: you don't have the technical I mean, if you have
Speaker 2: the technical skills. But again, if you're not that nationality,
Speaker 2: you don't get hired. And I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: a form of discrimination. I guess this needs to be
Speaker 2: looked at. If they're being paid less than what the
Speaker 2: marketplace would bear, then you're starting to skew the scales
Speaker 2: here in the United States and bringing people in for
Speaker 2: an intended purpose that it wasn't intended in the first place.
Speaker 2: So we'll pick the U up phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 2: Will and Mark. We'll get to you right after the break.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the.
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Speaker 2: Coming up on a fifty one in the morning. Kevin
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the
Speaker 2: talk station. Let's do some clean up here. We got
Speaker 2: a bunch of phone calls. Let's try to get to
Speaker 2: as many of them as we can will fifty five KR.
Speaker 2: See how are you this morning?
Speaker 5: Hey, Kevin, how you doing today?
Speaker 3: Good? Good good.
Speaker 5: That same thing happened to me just last December. I
Speaker 5: worked for CBS Fashion. They laid four thousand of their
Speaker 5: IT people off. They were a big company, you have
Speaker 5: a million people. But they also brought them in for
Speaker 5: us to train first and then get the jobs to
Speaker 5: India because everything was remote.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they now know.
Speaker 5: They sent four thousand jobs to a censure. That same
Speaker 5: thing that was going on back in the eighties with
Speaker 5: General Electric. They were using a company called Tata.
Speaker 3: I remember, Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: And they would they would. I think they did other
Speaker 5: things besides just I t you know, it's really frustrating. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you go to all these years at the school and
Speaker 5: to get trained, and they would train you and tell you,
Speaker 5: you know, the more you gotta leave you need to
Speaker 5: learn this, this and this. Well the reason why you
Speaker 5: need to learn that, which said that you could train
Speaker 5: the people that are going to take your place.
Speaker 3: That's insane, you know.
Speaker 2: And and where they talk about big business and you know,
Speaker 2: in the agriculture area and all these sort of thing
Speaker 2: taking advantage of people, and people are taking advantage of
Speaker 2: it all. And I think it is one of the
Speaker 2: big ones. Let's get you a Nick. By the way,
Speaker 2: thank you for that phone call. Will Let's try to
Speaker 2: get to Nick here real quick.
Speaker 4: Hi, Kevin, this is Nick Knowle. I am I'm the author.
Speaker 16: Hi.
Speaker 14: I am the author of.
Speaker 8: A book called Our God Given Freedom, not our freedom itself,
Speaker 8: but the book called Our God Given Freedom that I've
Speaker 8: been on with Brian about several times. And you know,
Speaker 8: and this book actually addresses the reason that we have
Speaker 8: these vises and the reason there's a controversy over it.
Speaker 8: The reason that we have these verses and the reason
Speaker 8: there's a controversy is because the education system in this
Speaker 8: country has done such a poor job of educating people
Speaker 8: in this country, especially Black Americans. They purposely do not
Speaker 8: educate Black Americans the same way they educate white people.
Speaker 8: And it's been that way. Walter Williams used to write
Speaker 8: about this a lot, and I wrote about it a
Speaker 8: lot in my book and the book before that, Our
Speaker 8: God Given Freedom. And this is this is the thing
Speaker 8: as right now we don't have an educated populous because
Speaker 8: the schools don't do a good job. But they especially
Speaker 8: discriminate against Black Americans and education. And they've been doing
Speaker 8: that ever since the Democratic Party has been in charge
Speaker 8: of running our schools, and that's been the case for
Speaker 8: a long long time.
Speaker 2: I have been maintaining all along, Nick, that the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party is the party of racism.
Speaker 3: And you know, George W.
Speaker 2: Bush used to say that was the soft bigotry of
Speaker 2: low expectations. Well, I think it's the hard bigotry of
Speaker 2: no expectations in certain instances. And this is what they
Speaker 2: have done. Now I'm getting close to the top of
Speaker 2: the ron. I got to wrap this up. Can Sean,
Speaker 2: can you put him on hold, get his number and
Speaker 2: I'll talk to him. Maybe we can have him on
Speaker 2: in some future future time, Nick, because I'd really like
Speaker 2: to get into this a lot more in depth with you. Okay, great,
Speaker 2: thank you very much having Mary. I have a happy
Speaker 2: New Year. Well, folks, we got about a minute here
Speaker 2: before I got to scoot out of here. But I
Speaker 2: just want to tell everybody it's been great being here.
Speaker 2: I've enjoyed all the calls, enjoyed the subject matter. Shoot,
Speaker 2: if I'd have known this H one B visa thing
Speaker 2: was going to be a topic that would drive the day, maybe.
Speaker 3: I should have started off with that.
Speaker 2: But then again, you would have missed out on me
Speaker 2: waxing eloquently about so many subjects throughout the day, So
Speaker 2: you know, you kind of got to take the good
Speaker 2: with the bad here. I mean, otherwise you wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been so well informed on some of these other subjects.
Speaker 2: But we'll have to. This is a subject that really
Speaker 2: is heating up and something that needs to be addressed
Speaker 2: and something that needs to be talked about. Well, folks,
Speaker 2: have a very safe and very happy New Year's Eve tonight.
Speaker 2: Let's be safe out there and have a great time.
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC,
Speaker 2: the Talk Station.
Speaker 9: Your voice, thank you for taking my call. Your country
Speaker 9: gives us all somewhat to think about. Fifty five KRC
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