Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas -- 11/11/24

Kevin Gordon fills in for Brian as he takes your calls, talks with former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell, former Vice Mayor of Cincinnati Christopher Smitherman and of course Money Monday with Brian James.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
There are people that are calling for Glenn beck an
end to modernity.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Weekdays at nine on fifty five KRC.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
The Talk Station, and now Kevin Golden filling in for
Brian Thomas on fifty five KOs the Talk Station.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
I'm right for.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Five minutes time for five o'clock, and as you can tell,
I am not Brian Thomas. Brian uh Well. To be
in full disclosure, watch if you go to my Facebook page,
I always put out a post in terms of who
the guests are when I'm filling in and so on,
and quite honestly, I hope I'm not outing him too much,

(00:49):
but I have been ben Binge watching Hallmark Christmas movies
ever since they started running them. I think it was
towards the end of October and so on, and of
course the Christmas in July stuff and whatever. And I
think Brian wanted a couple of days off after all
the election coverage and everything so that he could get
caught up on bin Wak Binge watching some of these movies.

(01:12):
So I'm here today, and by the way, to all
you veterans out there, Happy Veterans Day. I do not
want to go any further than to talk about that
and to talk about my deepest respect for all veterans
out there. Thank you so much for your service, and
as many of you as can call in today, I
want to give you a shout out and let you

(01:33):
know how much I appreciate you. But we cannot forget
our veterans. And I want to talk a little bit
later on about an organization that as as you may know,
I'm a host of America's truck and Network, which is
Monday or Tuesday through Fridays midnight till one am. And
one of the sponsors or one of the people that

(01:55):
we affiliate with is Reese across America. I learned about
them through the trucking industry, and we'll talk about them
and their upcoming event and just it's a fantastic organization.
So again, if you went to my Facebook page, you
know that I've posted what our topics for the day
is and it's who the guests are. Between now and
six fifty five or six fifty five, it's going to

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be you, me and the phones. A few opinions on
my part, because as you know, I have an opinion
and I'm not afraid to use it. Coming up at
seven oh five, we're going to be talking to Ken Blackwell,
who's a former mayor of Cincinnati, Senior Fellow of Family
Empowerment Family at the Family Research Council, currently Vice president
of the Executive Committee of the Council for National Policy,

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and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Also it was anyway, So anyway, we're going to be
talking about presidential election and talking about some of the
Ohio politics and so on. And also I want to
talk to him a little bit about, you know, the
fact that we're both Xavier alumnus alumni and the fact
that he was on one of the last football teams

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at Xavier and I was on the last team. But
he's I think he's about four or five years of
head of me in school. So he was on that
football team and was an outstanding athlete. So looking forward
to talking to him. At seven twenty. Let me talking
to Christopher Smitherman with the smither Event this week, and
then at eight oh five we're going to be talking
to the of course the Monday Monday and Brian James

(03:23):
will be in talking about pretty much the markets and
everything that's going on as far as the economy and
man I'll tell you what you talk about. A bunch
of good news ever since Tuesday, well Tuesday night early
Wednesday morning, and what we have seen since then in
terms of some of the news and stuff going on
overseas and so on, it is just very encouraging and

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I'm really excited about what's going to happen over the
next four years. So let's start off and go to
the phones here and let's talk to Linda. Linda fifty
five case. Thank you so much for calling. I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Good morning, keV. Haven't seen you for a while. I
saw the attention that you gave the smoking ban and
the event spence Bridge, and you did a good job.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
I wanted to call because they have Mitch McConnell has
called for a snap election in the Senate. This is
for the head of the Senate. The head of the Senate,
they decide who, what and where will be brought on
the floor, what will be voted for. There are three
people in contention, Corin, Zoom and Scott. In our opinion,

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Scott is the only conservative in there. That they're putting
up the rest of rhinos and what I'm hoping is
that people will call their senators, right to their senators
and tell them that we have a mandate for President
Trump's agenda. And we already did this. They are voting
on Wednesday, and I hope other people contact their senators.

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And you know, we want a battle, but we didn't
win the war. And I think it's going to take
vigilance on all our part and work on all our
part to see things really change in Washington.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
And I think, well, I want to continue here. Don't
don't hang up yet. I hope this continues with the
fact that you know, as the current sitting senator, the JD.
Van sits, puts some pressure on Mitch McConnell. I hope
the other Senator, Ran Paul from Kentucky, puts some pressure
on him. And I hope that there is a movement

(05:36):
that puts pressure on Mitch McConnell to do the right thing. Now,
as far as what is normal, that you kind of
got me at a disadvantage here, I don't know what
the norm is because I know that as far as
the Speaker of the House, that doesn't happen until everybody
is sworn in. And I'd be kind of interested in
the fact that if the Senate, the new member Senate,

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which is going to give the Republicans at this point,
it appears fifty four seats. If I'm not mistaken, there
may maybe another one that dropped overnight. Those should those
people should have a vote, after all, they are going
to be there for the next six years. So I
don't know if this is too early. It sounds awfully early.
I don't ever remember hearing a situation where this vote

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is done and so with a you know, they're not
even in the majority. So obviously McConnell is the minority
leader in the Senate, and right now, from what we've
seen in the past, there seems to be a few
rhinos in there, so who they vote in at this
present time, I'd be very suspect. So yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Am also the only thing, the only credibility I heard
on this was Tucker Carlston and he was saying that
he hopes people around Trump get wind of this.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
So oh, I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Yeah, I'm not a conspiracy person, but it does not
hurt any of us to contact our senators. Of course,
minus is McConnell and Graham Paul, But it doesn't hurt
any of us to keep in touch with those senators
in Washington telling them what we want. Absolutely, absolutely, that's

(07:22):
that's the only thing that I had. I just I
heard that, and I thought, how can this be? How
can you have a snack election? And like you, I thought,
how you know people aren't even there yet exactly, But
evidently he said he's stepping down.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah, he did announce that, so we do know that.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Anyway, pay attention.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Okay, you bet absolutely, Linda, Thanks so much for the
phone call. I certainly appreciate it. You have a great day,
and let's enjoy the next four years. Huh. Anyway, Yeah,
that's kind of a wrinkle that I've seen. I did
see a story earlier something about John Thune, and I
did hear something about John. And I'm going to have
to dig into those particular stories because I know, at

(08:05):
first it seems to me and I guess I'm I
don't know if I'm I may be mistaken, but I
think early on in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen, I
think Cornyan was on board, but somewhere along the line
he got off the Trump train. Now, John Thune has
been an ardent critic of Donald Trump, and I think,
if I'm not mistaken, he may have even been a

(08:26):
never Trumper. So I don't see and I don't understand
why you would want somebody like that. And I was
discouraged and very disheartened by the fact that Mitch McConnell
the week leading up to the election just really ripped
into Donald Trump and just kind of bought into all
the conspiracy theories and all the crap that the Democratic

(08:48):
Party has been saying, and then at the end said
we need to get behind him and get him elected.
So it's like, how do you how do you reconcile that?
And quite honestly, any liberals out there, and if you're
a liberal and you're listening to this program, I know
there's a bunch that listen to this program. I would
encourage you to call in. I want you and and

(09:09):
Sean is in the control room, and Sean a little
shout out to you, thank you and appreciate working with
you today. But if there's a liberal that calls in,
I don't care if we got fifteen calls on hold.
If there's a liberal that calls on, they move to
the front of the line, and I want to hear
their justification as to how they believe what they believe

(09:29):
and so on. And I want to put this little
thought before we go to our first break here, that
all this talk about the existential threat, and let's analyze
that for a second. Because when you say existential threat,
you know, I'm sure people just think, good, oh, it's
existential and whatever. But you define the word existential threat

(09:51):
means that they are a threat to the existence of
And so if you're calling somebody an existential threat to democracy,
you are calling them a threat to the existence of democracy.
You heard all the comments about Hitler, Mussolini, dictator, all
this sort of stuff, all the conspiracy hoaxes and all

(10:12):
that sort of stuff that was said during the during
the campaign, Kamala Harris being asked directly, do you think
Donald Trump is a fascist? Yeah, I don't believe he is.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
And so.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Now, if he is a fascist, if he is a dictator,
if he is Hitler, why in the hell is Joe
Biden inviting him to the White House on Wednesday. If
somebody is an existential threat to democracy and is Hitler,

(10:47):
would FD well, maybe FDR would have invited Hitler to
the United States because looking at his background and so on.
But would church Hill have invited Hitler to attend Downing Street? Hell? No,
So were we being lied to all this time? Were
we being hoodwinked? Were they catering to their base? Were

(11:10):
they as they accused Donald Trump of doing? Were they
doing the dog whistle that they always accuse the Republicans
of doing. I want to talk about this, and of
course we'll be talking about a lot of this today.
Uh coming up five by the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven,
four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two
three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two

(11:31):
five five pound, five point fifty on your AT and
T wireless phone. Pete, you will be up as soon
as we get back. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas.
Fifty five KRC, the talk.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
Station, fifty five KRC.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Have you.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Five point twenty in the morning. Absolutely, we won't back down.
I will not back down. Donald Trump will not back down.
And how appropriate Tom Petty on this Friday morning, and
especially any of you veterans out there. I know you
didn't back down and you won't back down. Let's go
to the phones. Pete, fifty five krs. Thank you so

(12:20):
much for calling. I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (12:21):
How are you this morning, I'm good, thanks to taking
my call, my pleasure. I had heard that same segment
from Tucker that your previous caller was referring to, and
it was amazing. Tucker really shed a lot of light
on the whole subject. Mitsmocconnell that Thumb and cornn all

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hate Trump, just like the Cheney's Liz Cheney, and they're
all bought and paid for by the military industrial accomplished,
just like Mike Pompeo and the lady I can't think
of her name, No, the the girl, it was the ambassador.

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And he already he already excluded those two from his
cabbinet because they're like undercover. But miss McConnell is trying
to slide one of those people into the head of
the Senate because the Senate, whoever is the head of
the Senate, determines what legislation comes on the floor, so
and so if if they're bought and paid for by

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the military complex, they use that leverage to force Trump
to do stuff. He was telling that Miss McConnell threatened
Donald Trump to not to go through with the impeachment
if he if he pardoned Julius Assange, Trump wanted to
part in him and like and McConnell basically forced him

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not to. And that's what he's got to perceive now.
And so I hope that that.

Speaker 9 (13:52):
That they see that and they prevent those two clowns
from froun of the Senate and get Scott in there
because he's actually on board.

Speaker 10 (14:00):
But his points was.

Speaker 9 (14:01):
There's still a big cabal of Republican rhinos who are
bought and paid for by corporations and especially the deep
staters and the military industrial complex.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
And that they are not on board with Trump.

Speaker 9 (14:17):
They pretend to be and they go along for the ride,
but they're they're just not with you.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And there's a lot of people
out there, and you know, if you got and hey,
if you're on Facebook, you got friends in other parts
of the country, you got friends in other states, you
got family relatives and stuff. It'd be a good time
to get in touch with them and have them call
their congressman or senator. And you know, when you call Washington,
and I'll dig out the phone nubers because I got

(14:42):
them somewhere. But when you call Washington. You can call
the main number and it's the Senate. Those people are
extremely friendly. You're not going to be on somebody's watch list,
You're not going to be on somebody's you know, target,
They're not gonna be a target on your back. All
you do is you call that number and you tell
them who you're senator is and who you want to
leave a message for, and they are extremely helpful. I've

(15:05):
called them several times. And the thing is is that
when you call a congressman or a senator, the people
that take the time to do that, or if you
email them, they will get those first. Don't send them
a letter because after nine to eleven, when letters are sent,
they go to a holding facility and they got to
check them to make sure that there's no toxic substances

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or any what is it saren or whatever that stuff
was that they put on these letters to try to
poison people. So they have to do that and it
takes about two to three weeks for that letter to
get to your congressman or senator. So emails are very
effective in solar phone calls, they get back from launch
or they start their day with a stack of messages

(15:46):
from their constituents. And it only takes about fifteen to
twenty of these for people to hear from their constituents,
and that puts on the alarm bells with them and
they generally sit up and take notice. So again, I
would encourage everybody ready to do that. And uh, we
don't want Mitch McConnell pulling a fast one here, right here,
right now. Bete, thank you so much. I certainly appreciate

(16:10):
the phone call. You have a great day coming up.
We've got uh, let me see who we got a
hold a home. We've got Dick. We've got Dick from Dayton.
We'll talk to him coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in
for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR S the Talk Station.

Speaker 11 (16:22):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Five point thirty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon and
for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR the Talk Station. Yes,
don't bring me down. We're not going to bring you
down today. We're gonna be uplifting because we have a
new Well here's here's five words that ought to put
a big smile on your face today. President Elect Donald
John Trump to me, I got to tell you I've

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it's been very tough for anybody to wipe a smile
off my face since one forty one in the morning
on Wednesday morning. And I've got a little story about
that later on that we'll get to. But let's go
to the phones and talk to Dick from Dayton. Dick,
how the heck are you, my friend?

Speaker 12 (17:19):
All right? How are you?

Speaker 5 (17:20):
I am happy, happy, happy, yeah, extremely happy. As far
as what transpired.

Speaker 12 (17:27):
All election day dream, I loved it. I loved every bed.

Speaker 13 (17:31):
At of it.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
Absolutely incredible, absolutely incredible, was great.

Speaker 12 (17:35):
It was great. I'm telling you, I'd think America is
going to be back to.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Normal now, you know, let's hope.

Speaker 12 (17:42):
So yeah, Oh, I wanted to salute my dad's family
from up north. They were from Lorraine County that all
served the country. My uncle Tony, my dad, my cousin Gil,
my uncle Charlie, and dad was in the Navy. Uncle

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Chuck was in Okinawa, Gil was in the Air Force,
Gary was in the Army, and you know, the family.
I all love him because you know, as you probably know,
I followed the tradition of music, you know, uh, playing music,
and well you know, started the band Joe. Now I'm

(18:24):
just since I retired, just having a lot of fun
playing everywhere, you know, and that's a good thing. And
I'm going to school taking some political science courses at
Sinclair College.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
Oh great, how's that going? You like it?

Speaker 13 (18:39):
Good?

Speaker 12 (18:39):
Good, good good. Another thing I wanted to ask, you
think the Bengals will win a couple bore games where
Joe Burrow's been looking pretty good, hadn't he.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
Yeah, he's been looking really good. I just wish the
defense and some of the other players would kind of
step up to the plate. But you know, I didn't
watch the game the other day. I forget what was
I know, I was watching a lot of coverage just
far as what was going on and kind of doing
a victory lap as far as the news was concerned
and so on, and so I didn't watch the game.
But seeing the score and how it came down to

(19:09):
the end there and they went for two instead of
going for one, I applaud that decision because it appears
as though the season is pretty much on the line,
and so it shows a little bit of intestinal fortitude,
if you will, on the part of the coach, which
we haven't seen much of so far. But yeah, I
mean the Bengals. I, you know, it's sad to see

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that they're they're they're wasting talent like Joe Burrow and
Jamar Chase and some of these other people that are
on the team that should be super Bowl content, should
be on a super Bowl contending team, but are not
surrounded by enough talent to get them there. So, yeah,
it's interesting this.

Speaker 10 (19:47):
Morning, Dick.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
I appreciate it. I certainly do. And you take care
of yourself and enjoy what you're doing, okay, which sounds
like you are coming up. We'll get into some other
mischief here. Our phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one
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(20:11):
in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 11 (20:15):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station if you're.

Speaker 7 (20:19):
A business owner.

Speaker 14 (20:20):
The holiday, five thirty.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
Nine in the morning, Tell a song out to all
my frenemies out there. I know a lot of you
tune in that are liberals and probably don't like my
opinion and this sort of stuff. It's but this is
from Joan Jet. The song is I hate myself for
loving you. So this is to all my friendemies out there.

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Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Bobby, Bobby
fifty five k see. Thank you so much for calling
in appreciate it. How are you this.

Speaker 15 (21:13):
Morning, my brother.

Speaker 16 (21:16):
It's a beautiful day. It certainly is. Okay, I'm so
happy these progressive is a big kicked.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
To the curb.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Absolutely absolutely, absolutely yeah. I just it was. I you know,
I'm gonna be talking about this a little bit later on,
but kind of give you a little bit of preview
unless you got if you want to say something or whatever,
because I can go on to a little diatribe here
if you will.

Speaker 16 (21:41):
You go right here, Bob brother, good to hear you.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
I tell you. I go back to nineteen sixty four,
when I was eleven years old. The first election returns
that I watch. I watched with my mom during the
gold Water year and we sat there watching the elect
Course it was a short night because he got trouns.
And every year, every presidential year since then, I have

(22:04):
stayed up as late as I possibly could to watch
all the results coming in. Whether I was going to
school with a high school, college, professional career working, I
would be sleep you know, being sleep deprived. I'd you know,
do it. I'd you know, watch the election results as
long as I could. Now some of them, you know,
drifted on over into a couple of days and weeks.

(22:26):
You remember the two thousand election with the Al Gore
type of thing down there in Florida. But it's been
kind of a tradition with me where I stay awake.
And you know, I was excited in seventy two when
I was able to vote for the first time with
Richard Nixon running for office. And then I was even
really excited about voting for Ronald Reagan and when he

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came in. I was excited about George W. Bush when
he came in. I was over the moon excited when
and of course I was disappointed with what Bush and
Cheney wound up doing. But then in twenty twenty sixteen,
I was extremely happy with the Trump But I'll tell
you what, last Tuesday night, this well pun intended here

(23:09):
trumped them all. I mean this, to me was one
of the most exciting elections, one of the most encouraging
and uplifting that I have ever seen in my life.
And it is a testament to this man, his courage,
his intestinal fortitude, and all he went through to get reelected.

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And for these liberals and these Democrats to say that,
you know, he's not for the people, he's doing it
only for himself. Are you freaking serious with all he's
put through. They tried to impeach. They impeached him twice.
They tried to throw him in jail, They tried to
bankrupt him, they tried to keep him off the ballot

(23:51):
in certain states, and they tried to kill him. And
he still kept fighting and won the ultimate prize. And
I you know, if he's if he's got an ego
that big, that he's doing it just for himself, he
needs to be committed, because nobody would go through that,
anybody in their right mind.

Speaker 16 (24:11):
He's the tip of the spear of my brother. I've
had so many people mentioned to me, oh, I'm so
glad this election's over. That shows how naive they are.
These progressive democratic Marxist individuals will not relinquish power.

Speaker 17 (24:25):
No.

Speaker 16 (24:26):
Then I tell everybody this, it's the beginning of the end,
and it's the end of the beginning. Yeah, we got
a whole future ahead of us.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Donald J.

Speaker 16 (24:34):
Trump is the tip of the spear. He'll be gone eventually.
You know, Biden's going to be gone. You know, old
girl is going to be gone. The movement is going
to go strong. And that's exactly where it's going to go.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
And when out of and when he looks in the
camera and he says, the only reason they're coming after
they're not coming after me, They're coming after you. I'm
just in the way. That is no truer words have
ever been spoken, Bobby. Thank you so much.

Speaker 16 (25:02):
Oh go ahead, I just wanted to tell you congrat
though it won't take a second here, my friend, I
just want to congratulate you on the election and thank
you with my whole heart. You carry that torture freedom.
I'm right every day, my brother.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
I appreciate it. I appreciate the kind words. Uh okay
when we had somebody to drop off some news on
the line. But thank you very much for that phone call, Bobby.
I certainly appreciate it. It just, you know, when you
when you look at all he went through and what
was going on during that election cycle and all the
stuff that was talked about, it was just incredible. I'll

(25:36):
tell you what, let me, I'm going to go to
a Sean. Should I take this phone call or should I? Okay,
let's go right to the phone call here. Let's talk
to Tom Tom fifty five. Care see you're on their
Thanks so much for calling.

Speaker 18 (25:48):
Hey, good morning, Kevin, Good morning. Yeah, I'm I'm feeling
fairly fairly decent about last week's selection. But I am
in no means in the mood despite the football, because
as you probably have already pointed out, and you know,
there is still a lot of idiots out there that
can can do it, and we've been listening to it

(26:08):
since the election was over, and all the excuses and
then you know, even the craziness of hey Joe should
step down so Kamala could be the first woman president
and all this other garbage. So anybody out there just thinking,
hey we can we can kick back and we got
a nice decisive victory.

Speaker 19 (26:27):
No, there is no kicking back there.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
It is it is.

Speaker 18 (26:30):
It is game on. If nothing else, they're going to
come at us even harder than they ever did. Oh
with all of their crazy.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
Why absolutely absolutely yeah. And I want to say one
thing here right off the bat, if I if I
were in charge of Facebook, or if I were all
like we've seen with Elon Musk with Twitter or X.
The fact that all the opinions unless you know you're
threatening somebody, you're threatening bodily harm, or you're you know,

(26:56):
threatening to blow someplace up, like oh Madonna did back
in twenty sixteen, yeah that doesn't count. But all voices.
In fact, I always encouraged, you know, when people say, well,
why do you let this guy on the air, or
why do you talk to these people? I want to
know what the left is. I want to know what
the opposition is thinking. I want to know. And if

(27:19):
I have the opportunity to broadcast that over the air
here and point out the lunacy from some of these people,
I am more than willing to do it, because you know,
people kind of get consumed and they get kind of
in their own echo chamber where they hear themselves and
their friends talk and they don't realize how crazy. Because

(27:39):
you know, we were content thinking that our teachers were
being okay until we learned during COVID what the hell
they've been indoctrinating our children with. We thought that the
medical establishment had our best interest at heart until we
saw what doctor Fauci did to us. We thought that
our Food and Drug Administration was looking out after our food.

(28:00):
But the next time you have some time and you
want to spend a couple hours in the grocery store,
look at the back of these the ingredients on things,
and look for the artificial colors. Look for these dyes,
look for you know, red dye this, red dye this,
and look at how our processed food and and how
bad it is. It's you know, we've trusted these institutions,

(28:22):
and you know, Lincoln said, you hire the government to
do for you collectively or what you can't do individually.
And we've done that and we have been lied to
and disappointed forever. And it's time to turn this ship around.

Speaker 18 (28:38):
Well, one of the things that contributed to that was
our laziness and are just feeling content. You know some
of us, you know, all of them, a lot of
these people, a lot of us. We have we have lives,
we have things to do, but I don't have time
to pay attention to that. Well, you better pay attention
exactly exactly, pay attention and stop being lazy and make
sure you continue to talk to people and share all

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the stuff that you know, and don't let anybody just
shut you down. I don't mean if we don't need
to be rude or mean about it. We just need
like we were been doing for the last few years. Hey,
you know what they're saying. Look at what they're trying
to do to us, Look at how they're trying to
do this, and point it all out like you said,
and make sure you tell everybody don't vote Democrat.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Hey you too, Tom, Take care And oh, by the way,
it's Kevin. It's okay. I've been called worst things. Coming up,
I got a couple of thoughts that I want to
add here before we get to the top of the
are I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR.
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Speaker 5 (29:46):
Five fifty two coming up on five actually five fifty
three in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
fifty five KR, see the talk station. I'm talking about
a couple of things here before we get to the
top of the hour. By the way, phone numbers five one, three,
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and T wireless phone, you know, finishing up a previous
phone call, and I was Tom, and uh, you know,
we need to be bold, we need to speak out.
And I'll tell you why because, as you may know,
I've talked a couple of times where I live in
a condo, and uh, in our side of the building,
we have six condos. Of course, obviously I live in one.

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Other people live in five five of them. And two
of the people in that building or on our side
of the building are Democrats and very very very liberal Democrats. Okay,
Now I make sure because I do a lot of
work from home and uh so on. But I do

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know that my neighbors go out, and you know, my
one neighbor goes to work around nine o'clock in the morning,
and so on snowy days, I make sure that I
shovel our sidewalk off to make sure and put the
salt down because she is a bit handicapped and if
they're not very steady on her feet, and I do

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a little pathway from the one side of the driveway
all the way over to the other clean her car
off and make sure that you know that the pathway
is safe. Okay. I have another neighbor who lives across
the hall from me, and she knows my political affiliations
and so on. I'm not shy about it. But two

(31:32):
cases in point, during the weekend before the election, my
one neighbor, who I clean her car off, says to me.
I walks by and says, I certainly hope you're not
too disappointed when it comes on Tuesday, And I'm thinking,
why any hell would you do that? Right now? Why

(31:52):
would you go out of your way to kind of
poke me or needle me because you think your candidate
is going to in and you want to rub it
in my face. I don't have time to get to
the other story, but it basically boils down to where
I was. Well, anyway, they are bold, they will get
in your face. They will tell you where they stand,

(32:14):
and do not be shy. Give it back to them, politely, definitively,
and sternly, because we cannot sit by idly and take
this crap anymore. Phone numbers top of the hour five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Rhetoric against us, but if we dare to fight back,
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And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
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Speaker 5 (33:26):
Five minutes after six o'clock. And as you can tell,
this is not Brian Thomas. Brian has the day off.
As I posted on Facebook, this is kind of unofficial.
I'm not sure that he wants me to tell everybody this,
but Brian and I are switching roles today because since
the beginning of the Hallmark Christmas Movies series and stuff,

(33:47):
I have been binge watching Hallmark Christmas movies and in
between election coverage and doing my show on america'struck A Network,
and so on. So Brian decided on this day to
take the day off so that he could get caught
up with all the Hallmark movies, so that he could
get into the holiday spirits. So anyway, talking about the

(34:10):
show guests, if you went to my Facebook page, you'll
see that we've got a line up today. Starting at
seven oh five, we're gonna be talking to Ken Blackwell,
former Mayor of Cincinnati, Xavier alumnus. I might add a
fellow senior Fellow, Family Empowerment and Family Research Council, and
so on, and we're gonna be talking about presidential politics,
presidential election and Ohio politics. Seven twenty, we're gonna be

(34:33):
talking to Christopher Smitherman during the smither event, and at
eight o five we'll be talking Doing the Money Monday
with Brian James. Now, today also is Veterans Day, and
I want to give a shout out to all of
our veterans who are out there. And I want to
call attention to everybody out there. If you see a
veteran today, if you know of a veteran, do us

(34:54):
a little service, give them a call, thank them for
their service to our country, find out how they're doing,
and so on. If you see a veteran out, make
sure you thank them for their service to the country,
and that definitely always puts a smile on their face.
Now the meaning of Veterans Day it was, and now
this is celebrated and not celebrated, but honored on the

(35:15):
eleventh month, the eleventh day, the eleventh hour. And I
would encourage everybody at eleven o'clock am this morning, take
about thirty seconds do a moment of silence for all
of our veterans and recognize their accomplishments and what they
have done for this free country that we live. In ceremony,

(35:35):
there is a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Ceremony Commemories
precise commences precisely at eleven am with a wreath laying
at the tomb of the Unknowns. I think Biden and
Kamala Harris are going to be there, and continues inside
the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by veterans, organization,

(35:56):
remarks by dignitaries, and of course there are different ceremonies
going on around our areas, so if you might want
to take a moment to check some of those out,
Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, began on an occasion
to reflect on the heroism those who died in our
country service. It falls on November eleventh, the anniversary of
the signing of the Armistice the end of World War One.

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In nineteen fifty four, the name of the holiday was
changed from change from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in
order to recognize veterans of all wars. We celebrate in
honor Americans veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and
willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. A
Veterans Day is a time for us to pay our

(36:39):
respects for those who have served. For one day we
stand united in respect for you. As I would say,
not only one day, but every day. A Veterans Day
is a time to honor and thank all those who served,
and so on again. You can pull up some things
online to find out what's going on. Today is a
federal holiday, bank holiday, and in most states a state holiday.

(37:03):
Means federal employees, including military members, are typically given the
day off, and the most states state workers are as well.
So you might want to check if you've got any
banking to do, make sure that they're open, and I
just want to thank every one of the veterans out there.
I know there's a lot to listen to this program,
and I cannot thank you enough for your service to
this country. I want to talk a little bit about

(37:26):
election day. I had mentioned in the previous hour. By
the way, phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one
eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound,
five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. The first
time I ever stayed awake for election results was in
nineteen sixty four. My mother was a always conservative, always

(37:51):
let her political leanings be known at the dinner table
and so on, so we knew our my parents were stus.
But it was interesting that mom my mom actually for
the first time had some campaign literature and went door
to door on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Now, in terms

(38:11):
of that, I've read some of the literature. I read
some of the stuff about him and say, hey, you know,
I agree with this guy has to say in his
policies of low taxation, less government, less deficits and so on.
If we enter into a war, we should make sure
that we win. We shouldn't just go in just for
the sake of going in, like we had been doing

(38:33):
in Korea and so on. And so that was his stance,
and of course the media painted him as an extremist.
Does that sound familiar to you? And so I stayed
awake to listen to the you know, because my mom
was going to stay up and watch the election results.
Of course, that night didn't go too long because he
got absolutely trounced in a landslide victory. First election I

(38:57):
could vote for was in well, going back to that
Goldwater election, my first political debate actually was when I
was eleven years old, about a month before the election.
I was at a lunch counter in my city and
it was I think it was on a Saturday, and
I was over there having my favorite, my hamburger, hamburger

(39:18):
and fries, and I was sitting there and a group
of adults were talking about the upcoming election and started
talking about how great Johnson was, and I, you know,
I just you know, piped up. I said, have you
looked at Goldwater's record? Have you looked at what he
stood for? And all this? And they turned and kind
of looked at me like, what the hell, who the
hell are you? And so I actually got into a
debate with them about how I thought a gold Goldwater

(39:41):
presidency would be better than Johnson. And the people that
ran the lunch counter were kind of piping in too,
and they were kind of looking at me, kind of
weird and stuff like that. So but fast forward about
seven years later, we were at church, my mom and I.
We were going to come leaving church on a Sunday,
and they came across the church and actually came up

(40:01):
to and wanted to talk to my mom and said,
you know, I remember him when he was young, and
he was debating us at the lunch counter, and I
can't believe how right he was, and I wish we
had listened to him. And so, you know, I had
that election experience, and then every election thereafter I'd stay
up as late as I could, sleep deprived and so on,
I would listen to all the results. And of course

(40:22):
there are certain times when those election results didn't come
in by the morning, so I just got cleaned up,
either went to school, went to you know, high school, college,
and then on to work. There's something along those lines.
And so I was. You know, I always knew that
I was going to be sleep deprived that one day,
just because of the fascination with the election returns, and
so of course, you know in twenty in two thousand,

(40:44):
the election results went on for days, so I did
get some sleep there. But going back to I was
excited in seventy two when I voted for Litt Nixon
for the first time. I was excited in eight nineteen
eighty the Reagan Revolution and what that brought. I was
excited in two thousand when I thought Dick Cheney and

(41:04):
George W. Bush were going to be very conservative and
do certain things and change the course of this country,
which I think was in looking back, was kind of
somewhat of a disappointment, a major disappointment, and looking at
how they've turned out since and the stuff that they
have been saying really bothers me even further. I was
very excited in twenty sixteen. I was very happy with

(41:26):
the way those election results came out, and of course
disappointed in twenty twenty. But I'll tell you of all
the elections that I have been pushing for, all the
elections that I have sat by and watch Tuesday night
last Tuesday night was one of the best ever. I
cannot I mean watching those election returns were I was
sitting there with my wife. She was saying, I don't

(41:46):
know if I can you know, because she was, you know,
there was all this lot run up to the election
of all these posters were changing at the last second, saying,
you know that it looks like Kamala Harris is going
to win. And she says, I don't know if I
can sit here and watch this. I don't know if
I can tolerate this. And so she sat down and
we started looking at some of the election results. And
of course, when they started putting up the initial election

(42:07):
results in a state like Pennsylvania or whatever, you know,
it starts off with one percent of the voter is
in and all of those are mostly absentee ballots, which
are mostly Democrats coming voting. And so the election results
were sixty percent for Kamala Harris and twenty percent or
thereabouts or thirty percent for a Trump. And she was going,

(42:28):
oh my god, she goes is this and I said no, no, no,
I said, just look at the thing and so on.
And there were a couple of times during the night
and I know on Fox News, they had this analysis
where they said, well, here's the lineup, here's how these
states are going to go. We pretty much know these
states are going to go to Harris, and we know
these states are going to go to a Trump. And
they had the seven swing states and they started doing

(42:51):
a combination, well, you know, Kamala Harris, if she wins
this and this, and it's kind of leaning that way,
she will become president. Now, on the other hand, there's
some analysis and the Fox opinion poll and stuff that
came out that day in terms of preference, what people
were interested in, the economy, the border, and all these
sort of things, and how that was trending. So they
were starting to move some of the states into Trump's column,

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and by the time they were done, they were saying,
he's got a very good chance of pulling off all
these swing states, but he could lose a couple of them.
They put them back and forth, and so as we're
watching this develop I was watching these swing states. When
the results for New Jersey came in, I was kind
of disappointed because I thought he had a real shot
of New Jersey when that didn't happen, And of course

(43:37):
Virginia came in and that didn't happen. I thought he
had a good shot there with Governor Younkin and so on.
And then all of a sudden, some of the other
states started falling in place and whatever. And then we
started seeing Florida big time, and then Georgia and so on,
and got a little bit more comfortable with it. By
one forty one in the morning Wednesday morning, the election

(44:00):
was called by Fox News, and so we watched Donald
Trump give his acceptance speech and so on, and talk
about it up there with his family and so on.
And then about three o'clock my wife went to bed.
She said, wow, this is great. I've got to get
some sleep though, and so I, you know, make sure
that she was okay, and I actually tucked her in

(44:21):
and so on. But I went back out in the
living room. I said, you know, I've just got to
flip on CNN and I've got to flip on MSNBC
just to see what they're talking about. Talk about that
coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty
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Are you thinking about retirement? Do you worry? Six? Twice
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Speaker 4 (45:06):
Ken.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
I'm going to get to you very shortly here. I
hope you beg my. I want to beg your indulgence here.
I want to kind of finish up this story. So anyway,
I was my wife went to bed. At three o'clock,
I went out and watched CNN. I was especially turned
on MSNBC. Jensaki was the host of the show and
had a panel of guests and so on, And it
was interesting that she started talking about immediately when I

(45:29):
flipped over. She was talking about Trump's speech and so on,
and that how there were members up, there were people
on that stage that had nothing to do with the campaign,
and it was amazing that some of these people were there.
And she decided Avanka Trump, who was there, she didn't
have anything to do and she distanced herself from this campaign. Hey, hey, Jen,

(45:51):
that's his daughter. Okay, of course she's going to be there.
Are you that dumb? Now, as far as the election
results itself, see I'm sorry MSNB and CNN. One forty
one is when is when Fox News covered that were
called the race. It wasn't until five forty five that

(46:13):
MSNBC called that race finally, And up until the very
last second, this guy was up on the board and
he was going, well, you know, there's one hundred and
twenty thousand votes down here, and I think Kamala will
get about ninety of those. Trump's lead currently is one
hundred and sixty thousand. And then we got about ten
thousand over here, and we got and she goes, ah,
wait a minute, wait a minute. When we got this
called and all this sort of stuff, and it was

(46:34):
like the balloon of the air went out of their balloon,
and she began to go into this diatribe. I don't
know if you've seen it. At this point, she goes,
we have elected a person refused to concede inside of
a violent insurrection campaign while facing criminal indictments to and
for overturning the two thousand election results, ran as a

(46:58):
convicted felon and just on on down the road. And
it's like you know there is going to be no
compromise with these people. It is going to be bit
to the bitter end. They're gonna fight. They're gonna fight,
They're gonna fight, and they're gonna do everything they can
to be an impediment to this president. And then, of
course I did my you know, I stayed up until then,
and so then I got about a couple of hours

(47:18):
of sleep. I went to sleep about seven o'clock and
made sure I set the alarm to get up at
eleven o'clock so I could watch the view. Actually, I
stayed awake. I didn't go to bed till seven because
I had to watch Morning Joe. Is that fun to watch?
And then of course I had to watch the view,
and so at eleven o'clock and to see the meltdown,

(47:41):
to see what was going on there. It was worth
the price of admission, let me tell you it just
it did nothing but to make my night even better.
And it was an amazing night and I really enjoyed it.
So let's get to the phones real quick. Let's talk
to Ken. Ken fifty five k R. See you're on
the air. Thank you so much for calling.

Speaker 17 (48:02):
All right, Kelyn, thanks a lot and I want, first
of all, I want to thank all the veterans out
there and thank them for our service, for their service,
and also to the youngest one I know, and that
is the son of Christopher Smith, and he serves our country.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
So definitely, isn't he.

Speaker 20 (48:20):
No, he finished, he did, I'm not miss well, I
will ask so definitely and always great hearing you and.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
Always great hear in your voice. I want to tell
you I'm very happy you called, sir.

Speaker 20 (48:37):
And the thing is with the election results. You know,
the Democrats are always talking about, uh, you know, we
need to save our democracy, and but now they're just
being very obstructive. And you know, we we had a
democratic election. You know, people overwhelmingly voted for Trumpet, and
they should just you know, accept the results.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
And move on.

Speaker 20 (48:59):
But I really we call the twenty sixteen protests of
the women with the hats in the streets and falling
out and yelling and screaming, so I probably wouldn't be
surprised if they're trunk going to try to get that
stuff kind of ramp back up. But the thing that
really disturbed me the most I heard the governor of
Illinois and he was saying Hey, Trump, if you come

(49:21):
after my people, you're coming after me. I'm like, where
is all that coming from. So I'm just putting a
call out there. You know, they need you know, it
just needs to stop. We're one nation and one nation
under God, and we should be indivisible. And so I'm
just putting a call out there, and I just want
to thank everyone out there. And I do honestly believe

(49:42):
in a spiritual solution to our material problem. And second
Chronicles seven fourteen says if we do what God wants
us to do, he will heal our land. And I
just want to pass on love and healing to everyone.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Yeah, God bless and I want to finish with also
this thought is that if nothing else, I mean, one
of the things that was proven by this, and I
just amazed that we finally found out. I mean, I've
known this for a number of years and I've called
it out. We see that. Oh and I'm going to
start calling her oprah win Fee because she got a

(50:16):
million dollars for endorsing Kamala Harris and all the money
that was sent out to pay these entertainers to endorse
and to do a song or two of these concerts
which I find horrendous. And the fact that they raised
over a billion dollars for this election campaign and they
are twenty million dollars in debt. And as I said,

(50:41):
Oprah win Fee has been proven to be a fraud,
and so has Barack Obama when he started going after
the Brothers as he called them, and started talking talking
the whole line that you know, if you know, you
ain't black, and all that sort of stuff, and then
he got on the stage and started all the conspiracy
hoaks that have all been disproven. When he repeated those

(51:03):
in front of the audience in the final day of
the election, he proved himself to be a liar and
a fraud that we all all knew that he was.
Ken Thanks so much for the phone call. I see
that dropped off, But coming up, we'll be talking to Gary.
Coming up, but we've got to take a quick break
here five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five one
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Speaker 21 (51:41):
Legacy media is dead. I said in two thousand and seven,
journalism is dead. Legacy media is dead. It is done,
it is gone, it is buried, it is over. And
these late night comics basically, you know, just start counting
the days. If they're going to be off the air,
it's going to be because nobody watts is them, because
they're not funny. If the view has ever taken off

(52:03):
the air, it's because the show sucks. Legacy media people,
their influence is gone. This landslide victory on Tuesday, where
he wins the popular vote, and I did ask many
of you in blue states please go out and vote,
even though your state likely isn't gonna go blue.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
A lot of you listen.

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I'm glad you did, because that led to mandate election
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Six thirty one in the morning, eight Kevin Mordon in
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phone numbers five one, three, seven four nine, fifty five
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had a little point of order to day for those
of you that may be sending out Veterans Day greetings

(54:03):
to folks and so on. Make sure that you don't
do with some of our people in the spoon feder
regurgitators in the mainstream media do when they put out
these notifications. It is Veterans plural day, not veterans apostrophe s.
Veterans Day, not possessive. It is Veterans plural day. So

(54:24):
just you know, a little point of order there, because I,
you know, it's what I do. Going to the phones,
let's talk to Gary, Gary fifty five k see, thank
you so much for calling. I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (54:35):
Good morning, Kevin. I've got an interesting map for you
that's going around on TikTok. It shows Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island,
New York, West Virginia, Maryland, and all the West coast California, Oregon,

(54:59):
and Washington, as well as Illinois. They all have something
in common. Besides, they were all voted bloom for Kamala Harris.
All these states either have no voter ID required or
no photo ID required. Interesting, You've got to go to

(55:23):
X and pull this up. Every single one of them
flipped for every single state that does not require photo
ID or an ID to vote, all went blue. Yeah,
every single one.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
I am. I you know, I support and love our constitution,
and according to the Constitution, the states determine and decide
how their elections are going to be conducted. But quite honestly,
I think there ought to be somewhat of an exception
to that. I wonder if there could be a national
law passed that says that there needs to be a

(55:59):
voter ID in. You know, you can have as many electors,
you know, election facilities, precincts, all that sort of stuff.
The legislators can do all whatever they're supposed to do
according to the Constitution, but I think insisting on a
voter ID and the fact that somebody proves their citizenship
in order to be elected is necessary. I'm trying to

(56:22):
get to the bottom of this of getting this stuff
in bits and pieces. But I know of an individual
who isn't I guess you would call them a low
propensity voter or a low turnout doesn't vote that very often,
but is a registered voter and went to vote on
Tuesday and was told that he had already voted and

(56:42):
that they he said, well, I haven't voted. I didn't,
you know, ask for any ballot or whatever. And part
of the discussion that I got and I don't know. Again,
this is what it was told, was that they told
him that somebody has been voting for him in his
name for the last nine years. And I wonder how
many and more of those are out there. I mean,

(57:04):
if in my little circle of the world that I
can that I know of at least one person that
has happened to I'm sure there's a lot of people
out there. And that's one of the reasons that I
stringently oppose this whole business of early voting. You know,
maybe in the last couple now, in the state of
Kentucky where I live, open voting for people that didn't

(57:25):
have absentee or excuse that they were going to be
out of the city or whatever, we weren't allowed to
do any early voting until Thursday. So we did Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday. I think that's plenty of time. If you
can't get off your butt and go to vote, you
don't deserve to have your vote counted. I'm sorry, but
this business of having these elections open for weeks on end,
that kind of gives the other side, to a certain extent,

(57:47):
or anybody a chance to say, well, these people haven't voted.
These people haven't voted, maybe we should vote for them
type of thing, and I just too much, too much.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 13 (57:59):
Actually to be follow o'keith on Twitter. There's a thing
called smurfing and they're finding out people who have donated
to pack blue Yeah, like one hundred bullets in that
they've been finding out that a lot of people have
unknowingly in their name, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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This is how the Democrat Party raids a billion dollars.

Speaker 5 (58:25):
Amazing a matter of three months, absolutely amazing.

Speaker 10 (58:29):
Height you guys have a nak you.

Speaker 5 (58:30):
Do the same. Thank you so much for the phone
call five to one three phone numbers five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two
three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
Kevin Gordon in. By the way, Dennis, you will be
up right right now shortly. I'm Kevin Gordon in for
Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 11 (58:51):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
Are you paying two sex forty in the morning. Kevin
Gorton in for Brian Thomas fitty five krs the talk station.
Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Dennis. Dennis
Fitch your five KR. See you're on the air. Thank
you so much for calling.

Speaker 19 (59:17):
Hey, good morning, Kevin. Happy Veterans Day to you.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Thank you same to you. Did you have the honor
of serving? I did not.

Speaker 19 (59:25):
No, I did not, And I have some good friends
and good neighbors who did. And I want to carry
on my point about that that I'm the ones I
know are all conservative, So I'm sure they're very happy
about the most recent election. And I hope that this
does a lot to encourage more people to sign up.
You know, a foreign policy is a mess right now.

(59:47):
And I knew people who were serving under Jimmy Carter,
and I got to vote for Reagan and eighty and
they did two and let's just say that morale went up.
You know, if we saw after that, you know, asconder
foreign policy, evil people in the military. And obviously Reagan
did a great job, and Trump has long coattails. And
I think the same thing's going to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
There absolutely, and I think I think parents will be
a little bit more encouraging of their children that decide
to go into the military because I think they believed
or will know that Donald Trump isn't going to send
their kids off to war for no reason at all

(01:00:31):
when we saw this military industrial complex and these endless
wars that we had had, and of course with the
woke military, I'm not sure a lot of people and
that's why probably recruitment has been down. And I would
think that that might turn up because there are an
awful lot of people that I know that volunteered and

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that served, and they said it was one of the
best things they the best decsion they ever made, turned
their life around in certain instance, gave them a certain
amount of discipline, and taught them some skills, and gave
them the ability to use the GI Bill to pay
for their college. And so yes, I think a lot
of people and a lot of parents will be more
willing to have their children and lists that will have

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that patriotic calling.

Speaker 19 (01:01:19):
Well, Kevin, if I could just segue to one more
thing real fast. I've talked to you once before on
the phone. I usually talk about education, immigration. I'll tie
the two in very quickly here. I think that the
Latino vote and the young people vote in the last
election was very encouraging that this is going to be
kind of like what we saw after Reagan's victory in
nineteen eighty that more young people and the older Democrats

(01:01:43):
figured out that the country was heading in the right direction.
And you know, this is going to carry on. And
I've known this for many decades. We're dealing with Latinos
that they become increasingly conservative or Republican as they spend
more time in this country. And the people that I
know who were granted mnesty back in eighty six and
eighty seven are conservative, okay. And on my street one

(01:02:07):
of my Mexican neighbors has an American flag, you know,
he has Mexican you know, decal on his car an
American flag symbol as well. Ones I know are very patriotic.
And we should be doing more in education to teach
American history and dispel Democrat and myths. You and I
talked once about the myth of the Southern strategy. Well,

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they'd like to say that Reagan created deficits by tax cuts,
and that's not true. He also had it was military spending,
which was hugely important then. And that if we can
dispel the myth of the insurrection and some of the
other things these people are promoting, and get them to
simply stop hating Republicans, that some of these Democrats might
become like the older Democrats who reflected and said, you know, like, hey,

(01:02:48):
you know, this is a better way to go, because
they're buying a lot of nonsense.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
Right.

Speaker 19 (01:02:54):
It has to start in school, though, we have to
just you can teach both sides. You can teach critical
race theory as long as upset it with like, you know,
this is a friends ideology coming from some sociology departments,
but you know, mainstream sociology and political science says that, no,
this has not been the basis of the history of
the United States institutional discrimination exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Yeah, and that that has been sold to a lot
of people and they actually believe that, which is sad.
But Dennis, thanks so much for the phone call. I
really appreciate it. Thanks so much for the kind words.
Coming up, we'll have Mike coming up. But phone numbers,
by the way, five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight

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two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty
on that AT and T wireless phone Kevin Gordon in
for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Station fifty five KRC the talk station. What if you
could get the best?

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Next forty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
Brian Thomas fits about Kerr see the talks station. Let's
go to the phones and talk to Mike. Mike fitty
five hare see you're on the air. Thanks so much
for calling.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Good morning, Kevin, and I want to wish all my
fellow veterans a happy Veterans Day. I served in the
US maybe Submarine Service, and I'm here to say I
have the utmost confidence in our next Secretary of Defense
and the Trump administration to use a submarine term will
torpedo the current woke agenda that permeates across all branches
of our military getting core values.

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
And Mike, thank you so much for your service to
the country. I certainly appreciate it. I wish I'd had
the honor of serving, but I did not, and so
I appreciate your business.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
It was indeed an honor and memories memories that all
lands forever. I enlisted in the Submarine Service in nineteen
seventy five, right out of Elder high school and I've
served for twenty nine years, so between being the post
Vietnam era and the Jimmy Carter administration, the market difference
between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty eight were off the chart.

(01:04:58):
Recruitment re enlistments during the Reagan era was was hoping.
I'm hoping is what we're going to see here coming
up here in about three months, that when new people
are put in.

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
That would be that would be fantastic. I would love
to see that happen. And of course, when you have
an administration that proved in the previous four years when
they were in that didn't involve in foreign wars and
have kind of sent that. I've been seeing some very
encouraging things. I mean, he's sent out a tweet or
something and informed that, you know, those hostages that Hamas

(01:05:32):
is holding better be back before I take office. He's
already a shot across the bow of Putin that do
not escalate this war. And I'm very encouraged by what
I'm seeing there. I Mean, we saw how few missiles
were fired during North by North Korea during the last
few months in the last year of the Trump administration,

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versus the number that have been tested. Now it's it's
you know, I think it. You know, it's going to
be an interesting era in world tranquility, if you will,
world peace, yes, sir, and what we were being experienced.
I saw somebody online, a friend of mine who's in
the commodities business and very into oil and gas. He

(01:06:16):
talks about the peace dividend that we're going to be seeing,
and I certainly hope, so good.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Ope, And if I may, real quick, guys, I got
a real short poem here that I think sums up
what today is all about. It is the veteran, not
the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the veteran, not the campus organizer that has
given us freedom of speech. It is the veteran, not
the politicians, that ensure our right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. And it is the veteran who

(01:06:43):
salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and who's
cough and his drape with that flag. God bless America.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
Amen to that, Mikey, Thank you so much. That was
a great poem. Appreciate it. Coming up. Well, we're getting
in to the top of the hour. We're going to
be talking to Ken Blackwell, but I don't think I'm
late for a break here. I've been. I'm distracted here,
I didn't pay attention. I haven't missed a break here,
have I Okay, I'm good. Okay, So we can take

(01:07:09):
this to the normal top of the hour. But this
Veterans Day, I just want to make sure that everybody,
you know, make sure that you honor a veteran take
that time at eleven, eleven eleven or eleven o'clock this
morning to take that thirty seconds or so and just
kind of say a prayer or whatever, at least a
moment of silence for our veterans out there, you know,

(01:07:31):
Veterans Day, the eleventh month, the eleventh hour, the eleventh day,
and so on. It is one of those things that
is just again, as I said, I wish I hadn't
had the honor of serving one of these days. I'll
talk about that. I actually got a draft notice, but
for some reason there was a postponed it for six months,
and by that time they stopped taking people, so unfortunately

(01:07:55):
I did not get called up. And so it was
when I look back on that, to a certain extent,
I wish I had gone and served. But anyway, but
this election has been extremely gratifying to me and looking
at all the stuff that has happened, you know, you
have a situation where it's very few times where you

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have in the history of this country. There's only been
one other time when somebody other than FDR but somebody
that ran for office three times, and you have to
go back one hundred years to Grover Cleveland, over one
hundred years to get to that. But what is fascinating
by this is that Donald Trump not only got the

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number I mean one in twenty sixteen, got twelve million
more votes than he did in twenty twenty and got
up to almost a million more seven hundred thousand votes
I think or whatever, more than what he got in
twenty twenty. That is unheard of. Barack Obama. I've got

(01:09:00):
sixty nine million votes, and the second time he ran,
he lost for I mean four million less people voted
for him. So it is amazing to me that we
have never seen a movement like this. We have never
seen a politician like this, and we have never seen,
as I said, a movement like this, And it's incredible

(01:09:20):
and I'm very encouraged by what we can possibly see
coming up. We've got Ken Blackwell at the top of
the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty
five krs the Talk station.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
Look what it happened.

Speaker 21 (01:09:32):
This is the greatest political comeback of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
This has ever been two, three.

Speaker 15 (01:09:37):
Four times today fifty five krs the Talk station, this report.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
Five minutes after seven o'clock. I want to welcome the
program right off the bat. Here a person I've been
wanting to talk to for a number of years, and
I am honored to be able to speak to him. Finally, Ken,
I'm Blackwell, stand out three year letterman and lineman for
my alma mater, Xavier, who was on the football team
before I arrived there in seventy one, so we have
that in common. He is former Mayor of Cincinnati, Senior

(01:10:12):
Fellow of Family Empowerment, the Family Research Council, currently Vice
President Executive Community the Council for National Policy, and as
a member of the Council of Foret Relations. Thank you
so much for being with us this morning. Can I
certainly appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Kevin.

Speaker 10 (01:10:27):
Good to hear your voice.

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
Thank you, I appreciate it. Glad to talk to you.
Like I said, I am gushing this morning being able
to talk to you. You know, I can't help myself.

Speaker 10 (01:10:41):
One fall awful one.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
There you go. We won't launch into the fight song
here together.

Speaker 10 (01:10:50):
All right, brother.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
So we had a little bit of an election in America.

Speaker 10 (01:10:55):
Kevin, it is morning, and it is morning in America. Absolutely,
men do tremendous election in twenty twenty four. And let's
just dive into some of the questions you may have
about at least my observations of what happened and why
those things happened.

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
Absolutely, are you there? Yeah, Okay, go right ahead, as
just buy it.

Speaker 10 (01:11:23):
Look. Look, one of the things after twenty twenty that
I understood, just from a decade of being involved in
not only national and state elections, but being involved in
elections across the globe is that the left in national

(01:11:44):
elections had a strategy of running campaigns to make sure
that their votes fell within what I called the margin
of litigation, and then the Democrats had a superior litigation
strategy and they would pick off those closely contested elections. Uh.

(01:12:07):
This time around, we in fact had a counter strategy,
and that was to make the turnout and the margin
of victory UH two too big to rig UH. And
that was coupled with something that we've been working on
UH for for at least four years, and that is

(01:12:28):
to make sure that state by state, county back county,
we made it easy to vote but hard to cheat.
And when you begin to look at that, we we
we think that election administration, transparency UH and a tremendous
turnout efforts across the country gave Trump a victory from

(01:12:52):
a From from a veteran standpoint, I started to see
a substantial siege change in voter perception and state in
the November election actually took place when a guy massacreading
as a woman in the Olympics hit a woman so

(01:13:16):
hard that she in fact said enough is enough. All
of a sudden, you know, Americans across the country started
to push back against the hard left transgender advocacy men
and women's sports men and women's locker rooms, and all

(01:13:39):
of a sudden, I saw the intensity of the of
the get out the vote effort start to formulate. And
so look, I think one, if you go back and
take a look that Trump got about seven million, six
hundred and fifty thousand votes this time around, which was

(01:14:01):
about almost a half a million more votes than he
got in twenty twenty, and his twenty twenty take was
a miraculous twelve million more votes than he got in
twenty sixteen. And so from the campaign standpoint, identifying their voters,
talking to them and then tying them into the intensity

(01:14:25):
of voter reaction to the radical lifts agenda gave him
a substantial victory in twenty twenty four where he is
right now at three hundred and twelve Electorial College votes,
and that was the result of the most miraculous return

(01:14:46):
I think in modern one.

Speaker 5 (01:14:47):
Of the absolutely best run campaigns ever. And yes, you
are absolutely correct, Ken Blackwell, the miraculous fact that he
was able to get as many vote since he did
survive everything that he survived just to get to this point.
And you made a very good point that you know,
and it kind of was low. I thought it was

(01:15:08):
lost on a lot of people, but as you mentioned it,
that punch of that Olympic athlete by a man, it
was a wake up call for a lot of people,
and I think it kind of served up on a
silver platter to everybody what we had been hearing, what
we had been seeing, and what we had been hearing about,
but it was there in front of us, as opposed to, oh,

(01:15:31):
it's just a story somewhere back on page fifteen or so.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:15:35):
And then and people were aware of the results of
illegal aliens coming across our border in waste of millions.
And as a consequence, what the radical left tried to
get folks to believe was that there was no connection
with these open borders and spiking crime in our cities

(01:15:59):
and in our even in our suburban and rural areas
as a consequence of illegal aliens flooding our country borders.
And I'll tell you what happened again is that people
started to say uh, particularly when it was in the

(01:16:22):
waning uh moments of the campaign the federal government had
to admit that they had short changed the spiking crime
in our cities. Well, we didn't really need them to
give us honest elections. People were I mean honest numbers.

(01:16:43):
People were experiencing that in their in their in their homes,
in their neighborhoods, in their cities.

Speaker 13 (01:16:50):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (01:16:50):
And as a consequence, that too, uh intensified the turnout.
But I will give I will give a Trump campaign credit.
They targeted they did a lot of targeted marketing. They
actually understood where their voters were. He, in fact, through

(01:17:11):
his personal leadership, inspired folks to turn out. I'll watch
what happened in those devastated communities in North Carolina. People
pushed through that devastation and had major, significant turnout to
punch their ticket for Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
Exactly the amount of intensity when you saw the crowds,
the lines, the people that were just euphoric about getting
to the polls and voting. And you know, it's amazing
that the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media as
I call them, because they are basically a propaganda arm
and or spoon fed the information from the Democratic Party,

(01:17:55):
and then they regurgitated to us the fact that they
we're gaslighting us and trying to tell everybody that, you know,
everything's fine, the economy is great, this type of thing.
And yet people are sitting there and they're saying, well,
wait a minute, my paycheck isn't as long as the month,
and something's wrong, and prices are a lot higher, and
I'm not you know, I'm not having as good a

(01:18:18):
quality of life. And I think all those things coupled
together the crime, as you mentioned the immigration was just incredible.

Speaker 10 (01:18:25):
Well, I'm kevin out, just tell you, and I don't
want to close out without saying this, Ohio was the
heart of it all. Again, Alex and his team at
the state level the do check again, We in fact
beat back the radical left attempt to change the way
district lads are drawing. We were outspent six to one.

(01:18:49):
We got it done. A Trump got what his margin
to victory was eleven and that and he had Cotaales
and they have Bernie Win that sentence seat. And I
tell you know, Ohio level of organization is a model

(01:19:14):
for other states across the nation.

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
I know we got to let you go. We only
have you till seven fifteen, But can we squeeze in
one quick question about the replacement for jd Vance and
what Dwine might do. I've been hearing a lot of
rumors and so on. Do you have a.

Speaker 10 (01:19:35):
I don't want to put the kiss a diff on anybody?

Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
Okay, all right, oh you diplomat, there you go, There
we go. Ken, I know you got to go. I
really appreciate this opportunity to talk to you, and I
really want to contact you. I think if you don't mind.
I can get your contact information from that. Yeah, and
to have you on again. Thank you so much for
all you've done and all you do and go Muskies,

(01:20:03):
all right, take care. Thank you so much. Ken Blackwell,
I'm telling you what you know. You have certain people
that you really want to meet, and certain people that
you've kind of brushed up against or been introduced to,
and some people that you really want to interview on air.
And up to this point today I hadn't been able
to do that. I was so glad when they asked

(01:20:25):
me to fill in and they said, oh, well, you
got some guests, and when his name came up, I
was just so I was over the top excited to
talk to him. And I hope you have him on
again and sometime soon. We're got to get to Chris
Smitherman here coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas.
Fifty five KRC, the talk station.

Speaker 11 (01:20:44):
This is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
Seven in the morning. Welcome to the program. One of
my new found friends, Christopher Smitherman. Welcome back to the program.
Let's getting to be a routine with us on Monday mornings.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
Here. Hey, Kevin, I'm glad to be with you, and
what a beautiful morning, I tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
You know, this has been a this has been.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
The most interesting election cycle of my lifetime. Oh Iah,
to tell you, and I have so many observations, many
that you've made and others have made. But let me
start off by saying.

Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
I'm sorry. Before before we get going, I want to
mention your son is still currently serving.

Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
Correct he he he did four years? Okay, and yes
he did, and then he just got out about oh
he did go okay, and then and then rejoined the
Air National Gold cool another three year commitment. So yes, make.

Speaker 5 (01:21:58):
Sure, on the part for me, wash him a happy
veteran's day. On my part, I certainly appreciate his service.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
So I really do appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:08):
You you're saying that, Let me start off by saying,
I've been watching you know, all different types of news,
you know, mainstream media, and you know they're really having
a miltdown over the over the weekend regarding the results.
And what I what I really wanted to say, kind

(01:22:29):
of in a nutshell, is it seems like they still
don't understand what happened. They're still in denial and what
I'll say about that is that this election was all
about the economy. It was all about people surviving, trying
to pay their rent, trying to pay food, trying to
buy gas, trying to send their kids to school, whether

(01:22:52):
that's high school or trying to send their kids to college.
It was all pocketbook issues. And it just seemed like
the Democratic Party, Kevin like they just totally missed it.
And they were there talking about issues like abortion, or
they were talking about issues like transgender people swimming and

(01:23:13):
competing against against girls in sports, whatever the issue was. Now,
these issues were important. They you know, might might have
been in the top five, might have been in the
top ten, but people were talking about the border, they
were talking about the economy before any of those things.
And so I think that's where they missed it. And
when you look at the map, you know, it's very

(01:23:34):
rare to see if presidential candidate do that well, meaning
just for sure, just the entire map is read except
about four or five states, and on top of it,
when the popular vote and the electoral vote, and it
looks like has wrong the Senate and most likely will
win the House at two eighteen. So this is like
a clean sweep. And what's interesting is when you listen

(01:23:57):
to some of the mainstream media, Kevin, they're blame the voter,
like they're blaming the public. I don't understand it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:04):
Yeah, it's like you are your company and you sell
a product that nobody wants, and you're blaming them because
they're not smart enough to buy your product, rather than
looking at it and saying, well, let me see, we've
had this number of recalls, We've had this number of

(01:24:24):
things failing, We've had a food item that doesn't taste good.
But you know, it's the people's fault for not buying
into our advertising. Christopher Smitherman and I, you know, I
think the immigration and the whole economy we're you know,
the top two items. And when you're talking about the
stressing of abortion and you're talking about you know, I

(01:24:46):
think the abortion issue, even what they were talking about
was extreme, even for people that consider themselves pro choice.
They were looking at the immigration policy and the open
borders and the fact that you know, here's somebody that's saying,
you know, whatever your problems are, whatever's going on, we're
going to turn the page. We'll turn the page from

(01:25:06):
what you've been there for four years and we're going
to do something different. We're going to Well, you're the
one that fixed it. Are you really serious about that,
You're the one that's going to you broke it, You're
the one that's going to be fixing it. It's just insanity.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
It was really, really unbelievable. And when you think about
things like Lake and Riley, who was murdered in Georgia
by someone who was in the country illegally, that totally
changed the direction of Georgia. Georgia only went by twelve
or thirteen thousand votes to President Biden four years ago.

(01:25:41):
But if you're in Georgia and you're thinking, oh, the
southern border doesn't have anything to do with me, but uh, oh,
we have somebody who was in our country illegally coming
to Georgia and killing one of a Georgian resident who
was a nursing student minding her own business out Jawg
on some random day and comes across this person who's

(01:26:05):
a barbarian who kills her. It changes how Georgia thinks
about the election. When the hurricanes happened right North Carolina,
Georgia and Florida hit and you had the White House
say we're going to give you seven hundred and fifty dollars, right,
And people are saying, I just lost my entire house

(01:26:25):
in a month fight. I lost my family, my parents,
my wife, my dog, everything wiped out.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
And there are still five there are still five hundred
people that haven't been found.

Speaker 4 (01:26:39):
Unbelievably.

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
I've heard that over the weekend and I was shocked
by that.

Speaker 4 (01:26:45):
But Kevin, these are the big things that the White
House missed, meaning you had these opportunities to show that
you were going to put America first. And what did
they do. They sent I think it was one hundred
and seventy million dollars to let right in the middle
of this hurricane. They act as if the American people

(01:27:06):
are stupid and were not. This was about the working
middle class, meaning the everyday person getting up every day
trying to feed their family. And I'm going to say this,
and it didn't matter race. It wasn't about Latino or
black or white or Asian. It was about the economy
and how the economy was impacting the American family. And

(01:27:29):
then those people who were here illegally, why they were
being prioritized with resources the while Americans were suffering. It
was such an easy message. But what happened is these
guys are in such a bubble that they're talking about
all of these other things that do not matter to Americans,
and they lost this race.

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
Big, bigly. Christopher smither and you know the drill here.
We need to take a quick break and when we
come back with pick up the conversation on this smother event.
And did do you see the article that there was
some FEMA agent that went around and told a supervisor
that told people, if you see a Trump flag or

(01:28:12):
a Trump sign, don't go there and offer assistance.

Speaker 4 (01:28:17):
We will talk about it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:18):
Unbelievable, absolutely, Christopher smither and my guest will pick this
up on the other side of the break. I'm Kevin
Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the.

Speaker 7 (01:28:26):
Talk station, fifty five KRC, seven thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
One in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
fifty five krs in the talk station, continuing our conversation
with Christopher Smitherman the smither event this morning. And well,
we talked about this FEMA situation, but I want to
ask a quick question if there were if the Democrats

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had gotten three hundred and twelve electoral votes one the
popular vote won the Senate and increase the margin by
four or five seats. Looks like they're going to take
over and increase their a majority in the House. Wouldn't
you think that the pundits out there would be saying

(01:29:16):
to the Republicans folks, this is a mandate. Shut up
and sit down.

Speaker 4 (01:29:24):
And whether they and whether they say it or not. Again,
you know, people listening to me, I always like to
give this disclaimer. I watch politics like people watch sports.
I'm just giving it to you. I'm just giving it
to you like it is. And so Kevin, Yes, this
is a mandate. Whether they have their head in the
sand like an Ostrich or not for the next two years,

(01:29:48):
this is a mandate. And what I will say about
FEMA is this is a smoking gun, meaning people had
suspicion that these kinds of things were happening, and think
about them doing it when Americans are at their worst.
House has been devastated. And my political view is different

(01:30:11):
than yours. But I'm going to allow you to suffer.
I'm not going to help you. I'm not going to
give you the raft to get to the to safety
because of your political position. That is what is so horrific,
and the and the lack of humanity criminal by what
FEMA was doing here. Yes, absolutely, it's criminal. People have

(01:30:34):
the right in this country to support whoever they want
to support. That's what's missing many times on the Democratic side,
no matter what your position is. I've been a registered
independent for for decades, but whatever whatever your political persuasion is,
you have the right to have and FEMA shouldn't say, well,
your house was devastated, you have a a Trump side,

(01:30:58):
therefore we're not wanted to help you. This is a
very big deal and I would suspect that the Senate
or the House or both are going to hold hearings
on this. And I would suspect that the FEMA director, DHS, FBI, CIA,
Education Director, i r S Director, all of them are
going to be resigning here very very soon. I would

(01:31:22):
suspect that the new administration is going to clean house
and this is going to be one of those examples
of most likely why they need to do it. Kevin,
I want to say this about this election. What President
elect has shown the Republican Party is if you do

(01:31:45):
the outreach, if you show that you care, Americans will
vote for you, no matter their race or jender. And
so what is happening in our own county, meaning in
Hamilton County, I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:32:04):
The People's Republic of Hamilton County.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
Saying I've been saying this, Kevin for a long time,
and I hope they're listening. That I've shared this with
with Alex Tramp and Felo. I've shared it with Chairman
Tramp and Felo. I shared it with Chairman Mock. If
you do the outreach, if you're sincere about it, if
you go to the barbershops, the churches, the festivals, and

(01:32:31):
you tell your story, you will be able to expand
the map right because what the Democratic Party has done
to most of these communities is get their votes and
then walk away. So what I'll share with you, what
I'll share with you, Kevin, is if this administration meets
their commitments, meaning they go back to those barbershops, they

(01:32:53):
go back to those communities, they really deal with the
public policies, like like a former at the time now
president elect, but he was former president then when he
provided funding to historically black colleges and universities that made
them permanent. If he delivers the public policy he follows
it up, not with handouts, but real opportunities raising the

(01:33:18):
economy where people feel like there's more money in their pocket,
they can pay their rent, that they see their food
prices going down, they see oil prices stabilized. Then they'll
get another shot and they will expand the map. Yet again,
I feel like the Democratic Party Kevin hasn't learned. They're
still saying the same thing. They're basically saying anybody who

(01:33:41):
voted for President Trump, and particularly if you're ethnic, meaning
you are in a minority, that you are stupid. That
message is being radiated out of the Democratic Party right now.
And I would say, if this administration can capitalize on
it and actually deliver the public policy, the map four

(01:34:03):
years from now will expand to.

Speaker 5 (01:34:04):
Get absolutely And I've seen this in my home state
of Kentucky and Mike County. There are certain pockets in
a Newport in Bellevue and Dayton, Kentucky that are a
very strong Democrat and just because somebody as a Republican
can win the county or win certain areas because the

(01:34:26):
population is bigger or whatever, I have stressed to them
that they need to make an outreach to those communities
and expand the tent and build up the Republican Party
in all facets. And that's the missing link here as
far as Hamilton County, because you've basically said we're writing

(01:34:47):
it off. It's just not attainable. It is attainable. Your
paycheck if it doesn't go as long as the month,
you're having a problem. If you've got crime in the streets,
it's a problem, and you know, fix that problem, Christopher.
We need to take it. You know, we need to
take quick break here and we come back and want
to explore this a little bit more and continue our

(01:35:09):
smither Vent. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. My guest,
Christopher Smitherman. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five
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Speaker 11 (01:35:17):
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Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
Steve Perrin's coordinated Finance seven in the morning. Kevin Gordon
in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station.
My guest Christopher Smitherman. Christopher, I was listening to your
interview last week, or your smither Vent with Brian last week,

(01:35:44):
and one of the things that that came out and
I've been hearing more and more about this, because I've
you know, I've been talking about for years now that
when I look at what the Allegiance and the Democratic Party,
the African Americans and Black Americans and so on to this,
and you hit the nail on the head, this plantation mentality,
the fact that if you go back to the history

(01:36:06):
of the Democratic Party, the part of the Democratic Party
is party of racism, a party of Jim Crow, Jim
you know, KK Clay, the KKK, the whole nine yards,
and the more and more this history of the Democratic Party,
and I've got these deniers and so on that I'm
trying to school and all this sort of stuff. You know,
a couple of them may talk off air sometime or
I'll get your phone number and we'll talk about this.

(01:36:28):
But there's a couple of people that I've been talking
to and it's amazing how it seems like they don't
want to hear any of this stuff. And the fact
that you mentioned the fact that you know, you know,
blacks and any whether it's Latinos, whether it's whites, whether
it's Irish, whether it's whoever. We're not monolithic. We all
have the same kitchen table issues. We all have the

(01:36:51):
love of our family. We want our kids to do
better than us. We want them to get a good education,
and we want them to live in a safe neighborhood.
I don't think it's you know, it's much more difficult
than that. But when you've got one party that's been
promising this for fifty years and never delivered, it's about
time to maybe say, hey, I've been lied to.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
No, I think that's true, and I think that in
the campaign we're finding out, you know, personalities like Oprah Winfrey.

Speaker 10 (01:37:20):
J Low.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
I interrupt you here. I'm sorry, I'm calling her Oprah
win Fee now because she was paid to her.

Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
A million dollars, yes, a million dollars to do that interview.
But my point is all of these stars, all of
these stars, Kevin could not deliver the election because it
was about public policy, meaning people continue to ask the
vice president about what your public policy positions were, and

(01:37:51):
we were getting unclear answers. And so what this shows
you is the electric is much smarter, much more tuned
in than the demmer crabbing party thought they were. They
thought that the media could lie about this, lie about this,
whether hey, I got thirty five felonies, which was all
a hoax down down in New York. The four hundred

(01:38:11):
and fifty million dollars, let's try to take his property,
let's the assassination attempt, and then the foiled assassination attempt
during it. I mean, they thought that all of that
kind of stuff going on wouldn't impact the election. It
was just they thought that the media thought they could
just say these these touched this is a KKK member,

(01:38:32):
this is really Hitler, this is really a fascist. And
so now this week on Wednesday, Biden has to sit
down to a guy he said was a fascist and Hitler,
and he's got to welcome him to the White House.

Speaker 10 (01:38:45):
Right, was playing us with he?

Speaker 5 (01:38:49):
What was he plan us? I mean, would Winston Churchill
have invited Hitler to ten Downing Street at any point?

Speaker 10 (01:38:58):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:38:59):
Okay, so what they say or were they lying to us?

Speaker 4 (01:39:04):
They were lying to us the whole time, and we
will continue to see that they were lying to us
the whole time, and the public understands that. Here's what
I want to say. We lost Militsa powers as a
Hamilton County prosecutor here in Hamilton County. I want to
commend her on a great election. Hamilton County has clearly

(01:39:26):
turned blue, whether that was Sheriff Neil and some other
very very important races. But now city council is all Democrat,
all council members, the mayor Democrat, the county commissioners Democrat,
the prosecutor Democrats. And so I look at Cincinnati and
Hamilton County and say, probably not good for us to

(01:39:47):
have one party running our entire region, in our entire county.
And these are the kind of things we're going to
have to think about public when we're voting that we're
just not voting down one ticket, actually trying to identify
who are the best candidates to run our county. And
so I'm very concerned about that. I expressed that concern.

(01:40:09):
So even though the state went a direction, the federal
government went a different direction, went a different went a
direction that Hamilton County here went all blue. And I'm
just very concerned about that. And I think Melissa Powers
was a great candidate. I thought that Orlando Sanza was
a great candidate. You know, Happy Veterans Day, west Point

(01:40:29):
graduate wife, west Point graduate. I just think we miss
it sometimes when we're talking about our local politics, and
I want to encourage anybody listening. Please, when these elections
come up again, don't just vote party. We want diversity
around our county. It's healthy for all of us, exactly
just one. It's healthy.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
If your life and the people's Republic of Hamilton County
doesn't improve, you only got one party to blame, folks,
One final thing before I let you go. It made
a comment about people whole their nose and voting for
Donald Trump. Do you I don't think that was on
a massive scale. I think it was some a small percentage,

(01:41:11):
but I don't think that was a massive effort, do you.

Speaker 12 (01:41:18):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
I think that suburban white women in particular, who were
concerned about uh, President Trump's rhetoric, which, by the way,
at times I'm concerned about President Trump's rhetoric. I think
he has to who would he has to pull it
in and and be the president of the United States
for all of us. But I think that they're voters
that went in and I don't know what that percentage was.

(01:41:40):
Was that said, listen, I'd got to vote my economic situation.
You know, this guy is far from perfect. I didn't
vote for him the last time, but I'm voting for
it for him this time, and so that's what I
described those voters. I heard so many voters, you know,
say the Democratic Party left me. I didn't leave the dimactly.
I heard that all over the election day. So the

(01:42:02):
Democratic Party is going to have to regroup itself. They're
gonna have to change what they're doing, and they're gonna
have to face reality.

Speaker 8 (01:42:08):
Kevin, thank you so so much for I appreciate your
time at votes.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
There you go say that again for everybody, vote at vote. Okay,
he's gone at votes Smitherman. I think this is uh
X account. Anyway, coming up, we got to the top
of the hour and then we'll be talking Monday Mondays.
But between now and then we can take your phone
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gonna be talking with Doing Our Money Monday with Brian James. Yes,

(01:43:11):
Brian James, I had that written down, but there it
is right in front of me. You know, boy, I'll
tell you. You know. The thing is when I come into
the studio and if you look in here, I've got
papers everywhere and trying to keep everything straight and organized
and all this sorties of My wife will attest to
the fact that I am a bit cluttery when it
comes to certain things. But anyway, so we'll be talking

(01:43:33):
to him at top the hour. Looking forward to talking
to him. I don't think I've ever talked to him
before on the air, so that'll be good. Probably, look
at what we're seeing as far as the markets are concerned.
I've seen a lot of things happening as far as
the oil markets and some of the at least OPEC
and some of the stuff that I'm looking at around
the world. In terms of the world leaders, it's kind

(01:43:57):
of like whatever we we're being told up to this
point by the uh spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media,
it's not coming true. And I think, well, I think
I hope and pray that we take this opportunity and
that the Republicans don't do what they normally do is,

(01:44:20):
you know, fail to deliver. They have a unique opportunity
here to really do some good. And you know, one
of the things I'll say to anybody that's an elected
official for once in a while, put the people first.
Make sure that you do everything, and remember that when
you go to work every day, you have earned the

(01:44:45):
honor and the right to be in that position because
somebody gave you something that is the most precious gift
that they possibly give to you, and that is their vote.
Do not trash that. Do not trash them. Listen to
what the people tell you, and whether you want to

(01:45:05):
hear it or not, at least hear it. And look
at who puts you in that position in the first place.
And as I said, put the people first. None of this,
you know, party above politics, any of that sort of stuff.
You are there for the will of the people. Coming
up with our money. Monday, I'm Kevin Gordon in for

(01:45:27):
Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the talk station.

Speaker 23 (01:45:32):
There we go again.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
Hear about it.

Speaker 16 (01:45:34):
Understand the ignorant on the campuses talk about it.

Speaker 22 (01:45:38):
They're just getting away with all this rather.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Than know in fact fifty five KRC and now Kevin
Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on fifty five KOs
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Speaker 5 (01:46:03):
Four minutes after eight o'clock Kevin Gordon in for Brian
Thomas fifty five care see the talk station. We are
awaiting our guests at the top of the hour, Brian
James for our money Monday, and we seek to connect
with him. But in the meantime you have me. So
one of the things that is being talked about is

(01:46:25):
this whole business of what the economy is going to
do and how the economy is going to perform under
Donald Trump. And this was the rhetoric that was coming
from the Democratic Party and of course the spoon fed
regurgitators in the mainstream media. And one of the myths
that was from actually an outright lie. They said that
Goldman Sachs had actually reviewed her policy versus his policy,

(01:46:49):
and that his policy would lead to more inflation than hers,
and that it would cause money for the American public. Now,
based on that analysis, it was only a couple tens
of percentage points different. But what was happened, what happened
later on, is that the CEO of Golden and Sachs

(01:47:09):
came out. I don't know why it took him a
couple of days, but it did take him about forty
eight hours to come out and say this was one
of our analysts. That he was not speaking on behalf
of the corporation, and we don't agree with his analysis.
Much like what we've heard from all these so called
experts that that you know, Nobel Prize winners and so on.

(01:47:31):
You know, that's all well and good, but look into
their backgrounds and look where their political affiliations. The Nobel
Prize anymore is not as significant or as great an
achievement as it once was. It is more of a
political opportunist going towards a particular agenda as opposed to

(01:47:52):
giving that prize to people that have the right or
that are actually doing good. I mean, let's let's not
forget that Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize before
he even took office, before he took office, based on
hope and change, and then what wound up happening is

(01:48:12):
that he started wars. He so anyway, he prosecuted wars
around the world, and so it wasn't very peaceful under
his presidency. Hey, we've got in touch with Brian James here, Brian,
welcome to the program. I think this is the first
time you and I have had the opportunity to talk.
So glad, welcome to the program, or welcome to my program,

(01:48:33):
or me here whatever I'm trying to say.

Speaker 15 (01:48:36):
So whatever you're trying to say, apologies for the little
hiccup there getting connected, but here we are, and I
can hear you, you can hear me, so.

Speaker 5 (01:48:45):
Good, good, good good. So what are we saying as
far as the financial markets and what are we seeing?
And first of all, if there's any hot topics you
want to talk about, but mostly I'm kind of concerned
about the new administration effect on the economy. What you're thinking,
what you're seeing, what you're expecting, and so on, and
we'll take it from there.

Speaker 10 (01:49:05):
Sure.

Speaker 15 (01:49:06):
Well, you know, pretty quiet week for news. Not a
heck of a lot going on out there, is there. No, No,
that's obviously not true.

Speaker 5 (01:49:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:49:13):
So the markets, as far as the markets go, yeah,
the markets got pretty excited about the Trump administration coming in.
And that's because with the Republicans being on the verge
of controlling the presidency sent it in the House that
that not all of that is in place yet, but
it looks like there's a real solid chance that the
Republicans could control all free components there. So Wall Street

(01:49:36):
feels like the proposed economic policies are going to be
aimed at reducing corporate regulations and taxes and hopefully accelerate
economic momentum and and expand profits as well. Obviously, whenever
we have a business friendly administration, the stock market prefers that. Now,
as we said oftentimes on these airwaves, and that all
worth financial. We have a report we send out to

(01:49:57):
our clients every single time there's a major election to
remind us everybody that ultimately the market does not care, period,
end of story, what flavor we have in the White House. Yes,
it goes up no matter what they are. They are
the ultimate Green Party.

Speaker 5 (01:50:11):
And I don't mean that they're right, and I don't
mean that from environmental standpoint.

Speaker 15 (01:50:17):
Yeah here, listening to you back walking that already.

Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
Yeah, well, you know when you say green party, that
has certain connotation to it. But I'm talking about investors.
Are the Green Party for money purposes so.

Speaker 15 (01:50:28):
Exactly, and so are publicly traded corporations. They have a
red playbook and they have a blue Playbook. They know
what plays they want to run, they just need to
know what environment they're in. So but regardless, what tends
to happen historically is that we get a good run
up in the first In the first it's kind of
almost like a sugar high in the first year of
a Republican presidency, because there does tend to be a

(01:50:50):
bit of a you know, a tailwind from the standpoint
of it's going to be easier to make profits because
presumably less regulation and hope more focus on the ability
to expand profits versus a focus on other different things
that aren't quite so so profit friendly. But then in
the last two or three years of Republican presidency it

(01:51:12):
tends to back off a little bit historically speaking, and
a lot of that has to do with the number
one consumer of goods and services on the face of
the earth is the US federal government itself. So if
we're going to be spending less and doing less things
as a government, that's not a bad thing, but it
does tend to have a little bit of an impact.
But again, regardless, the market doesn't care. We can be
profitable in any environment.

Speaker 5 (01:51:34):
Yeah, and the market is interesting. Brian Brian James. Is
the fact that the markets don't like uncertainty. If you
tell a company what the regulations are going to be,
if you tell them the environment that they're going to
work in, they can deal with it. It's the uncertainty
of will there be this regulation, will there be this regulation?

(01:51:57):
Are they going to clamp down on this industry or
pick and choose winners? As far as the economy is concerned,
and as long as everything's on it, even as long
as they know where they stand, people are you know
the companies are going to do.

Speaker 15 (01:52:12):
Well, that's true, and it's just that it's just what
is the environment? They have to know what the what
the situation is. So now we know, of course we're
going to be looking.

Speaker 5 (01:52:21):
At things like tariffs.

Speaker 15 (01:52:22):
Well, fortunately tariffs are no longer something that you studied
in the fifth grade and have forgotten about ever since.
Right now, now it all makes sense. Why why missus
Teith over at Sainting Nacius on the West side explain
that to me? I didn't get it back then in
nineteen eighty five, but I sure as.

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
Heck do now.

Speaker 15 (01:52:36):
But so let's look look, look a little bit of history.
The last time we had this type of situation was
of course the first chunk of the of the first
Trump administration, where we had we did have a some
tax cuts, We'll talk about that in a second, but
also we had some the introduction of tariffs against a
lot of the countries, including mostly China, who was the
big target back then likely will be the big target

(01:52:58):
this time around. But time you can see what happened
in the market. So in twenty seventeen, which again that
was that first year of the Trump administration, the first
full year, the market was up about twenty percent. Twenty eighteen,
the market was down about six and a quarter. And
I remember this being very rattling to investors. I've been
doing this about thirty years, so I've kind of I've
gotten to see pretty much everything there is to see.

(01:53:20):
It'll be good, bad, and different. But I remember that
being very rattling to investors who thought, well, wait a minute,
this is a business and friendly environment. What I thought,
why isn't the stock market performing better? And we took
a year to let the dust settle until companies can
figure out what are we going to do? How are
we going to deal with the fact that it's cost
more to do business, and it took about a year
for that to happen, and then by twenty nineteen we

(01:53:41):
were up about twenty nine percent. So the pendulum is
going to continue to swing, and nobody should be shocked
by that. We've had a good bounce here in this
past week if you're looking at four to oh one
k and we'll see what happens next year. But if
we're going to raise tariffs and make it more challenging
for other companies to sell stuff to the United States,
that means prices for US consumers are going to go up.

(01:54:02):
So nobody should be shocked when the market does wabble
a little bit here the short.

Speaker 5 (01:54:05):
Term, yeah, for sure. But I think one of the
things that we'll see too is a little bit better.
You know, when you look at the teriffs that are
being charged on American goods going into some of these countries,
that they figure that, okay, that if we're going to
be if we're going to be issuing tariffs on them,
you know, what goes around comes around, and we may
get slapped without ourselves. But also you know, when you

(01:54:28):
put America's on the even footing with the rest of
the world in terms of the economy and competition and whatever.
I mean, let's not forget the fact that when you're
talking about China, you're talking about basically slave labor. So
you're talking about the goods, the cost to manufacture those goods,
at least from the labor standpoint, isn't cost as much
as in the United States, and so that gives them

(01:54:50):
an advantage as well. And of course they're able to
give subsidies because they're mostly control you know, country owned
companies over there. They're kind of a quasied capitalistic or
they're getting a little bit more towards that, but for
the most part it's still a communist country and so
competing on the world level with that sometimes it is
a little difficult.

Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
That's very true.

Speaker 15 (01:55:12):
And make no mistake about it, there's nothing about tariffs
that is deflationary. Prices are not going to drop because
we have tariffs. If anything, they're going to go up.
And any business worth its salt is looking for the
cheapest way to create the goods and services that it sells.
And I would point to the Trump business empire itself.
Remember those bibles and shoes and all that other stuff

(01:55:33):
that there was the sort of promotional things you did
during the election. But there's also there's furniture out there.
There are suits and ties and all this stuff. A
lot of that stuff is made overseas a matter of fact,
I believe the suits are made here. Just about everything
else now made in Mexico, Bangladesh, and China. So you know,
Trump himself has taken advantage of the fact that it's
cheaper to produce goods outside and import the men. Now,

(01:55:55):
I think that something else to pay attention to if
we raise tariffs on other country. Ultimately, at the end
of the day, we're you and I are the consumers, right,
We are the ones who will ultimately pay the prices.
When you're a producer, you pass the cost on to
the to the consumer. So I think it's also possible.
What we could see is we would raise tariffs on
other countries, and local companies here in the United States

(01:56:18):
could say, wow, it's a lot more expensive for you know,
for our customers to buy from our competition. If we
raise our prices by fifty percent of what our competition
just had to raise prices, then we can make more
money and still be the cheapest option on the block.
So it wouldn't shock me in the least if we
saw a little bit of of opportunism happening in terms
of increasing business that way.

Speaker 5 (01:56:38):
Okay, one of the things that you know, we keep
you know, when you know people were talking about inflation,
and one of the points that I made all along
is the fact that you know, when you see inflation
go up, you know when they talk about, well, the
last month inflation went up three percent or on an
annualized basis or whatever, and then it hit nine point
one percent in June of twenty twenty two, and so on,

(01:57:01):
those are all cumulative effects. That's why you have at
the market, at the grocery store where you have items
that were X and such back in twenty twenty and
that are now twenty percent twenty five percent higher. That's
why we have gasoline now that is forty percent more
for a gallon of gas and fifty percent more for

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a gallon of diesel than what we had back in
twenty twenty. But I think one of those things that
will push a lot of that down is energy costs.
And when you look at the energy costs with the
drill baby drill thing, a Keystone XL pipeline, of drilling
on federal lands and getting that energy cost down, you
reduce those barrels of oil down to that fifty dollars

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range as opposed to seventy five eighty dollars a barrel.
That's where you start seeing the cuts in the actual
cost of these goods being manufactured. So I wanted to
throw that out there, and I think we need to
take quick break here. If you can hang with us,
certainly appreciate it, and we'll respond to this when we
get back. My guest is Brian James was all Worth
Financial Money Monday. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas

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Speaker 5 (01:58:11):
Eight twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for Brian
Thomas fifty five KR see the talk station. My guest
Brian James, all Worth Financial on this Monday Monday segment.
Thanks for hanging with us to the break. Brian is
certainly appreciated.

Speaker 15 (01:58:25):
Yeah, no worries. I appreciate the chance to talk to
your listeners.

Speaker 5 (01:58:28):
Okay, before we took a break, there was talking about
inflation rate and the possibility of that coming down with
energy prices decreasing. What are your thoughts on that. What
do you think is going to happen as far as
that's concerned.

Speaker 15 (01:58:42):
Well, as you mentioned before we broke there, you know,
one of Trump's major goals is to open up a
lot of places for more drilling, which will think back
to your economics classes from years ago, supply and demand.
If we're going to drill places we weren't drilling before,
then obviously that increases supply in that that should reduce
price in theory that this is probably one of the

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places where consumers can expect to see a more immediate
impact from a standpoint of once all these things occur.
Right now, we're just talking until January.

Speaker 5 (01:59:13):
So sure.

Speaker 15 (01:59:14):
But this is something that comes out of the ground,
of course, and consumers buy it at the pump, but
it's not going to I don't think we're going to
see it as readily in other areas just yet, because
remember we're not really talking about our price is going
to drop back to where they were in twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen. That's not really what this is about. Because

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a lot of this is baked in now. Companies that
know what their profit margins need to be and they're
not going to voluntarily reduce prices unless they have to.
They will only only only do that if competition forces
them to.

Speaker 5 (01:59:45):
No, we've had a lot of We've had a lot
of union contracts that have been settled in the last
year year and a half. We've got a potential dock
workers strike pending or at least an increase there and
their way just come out in January. But we had
the UAW, we had ups, we had the dock workers
out in the West Coast and railroad workers. So all

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as you say, that's already baked into the numbers, because
those numbers are already in there as far as their
labor costs.

Speaker 15 (02:00:17):
Right, and so yeah, so no boardroom is going to say, oh,
thank goodness, the Trump administration has changed some policies and
it's a more business friendly environment. Finally, finally, finally we
can reduce prices for our poor consumers. That's not going
to happen. They're going to pocket a good chunk of
the difference unless they can get some attention and create
perhaps a little bit of a of a price war
within their industry.

Speaker 5 (02:00:37):
But only if it's going to.

Speaker 15 (02:00:38):
Benefit them directly. Now, now these are still these are
still positive business. You know, it's going to be an
easier business environment than it has been. But at the
same time, you know, we were just talking about energy prices,
price at the pump.

Speaker 5 (02:00:50):
It hasn't been a topic.

Speaker 15 (02:00:51):
This was a strange year for that. Yeah, I really
don't remember talking to Brian about it, you know, all
summer long, other than the normal hike that happens in
May when we hit travel season.

Speaker 5 (02:01:00):
Right right. But I always well, I do America's truck
of network on our sister station, and energy is always
a big factor there. And one of the things I've
always looked at is what the gasoline prices are nationwide
compared even back to twenty twenty when we were energy
independent for the first time since nineteen forty nine, and
we saw what those prices were, and even based on that,

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I mean, granted, back in June of twenty twenty two,
gas got up to a nationwide high of five dollars
and one cents a gallon versus today where it's around
what three twelve something like that nationwide, But back then
it was round two and we're still paying forty percent
more than what we were for a gallon of gas
back in twenty twenty, so we see that already baked

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into the numbers. You reduce that, and of course, you know,
energy goes across all sectors of the economy. Fact that
we got lights on here in the studio, we depend
on energy. We've got lights on at home and saw
it so anyway, But I think one of the things
that we might see too is a bit of a break.
Brian James on this, on this regulatory situation, I would

(02:02:05):
like to see a lot of cutting there and rollbacks
and so on. Do you think we're you know, because
that's one of the things I don't think a lot
of people talk about in terms of how that is
baked into these costs that we're seeing to the consumer. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:02:22):
So, so Trust's been known for rolling back regulations and
that's been generally welcomed by businesses of course, because that
makes life a little bit easier. However, some companies are
going to find this a little too impulsive in leading
to more uncertainty. We talked about that, right. We don't
like uncertainty. We like to be able to know what
to predict. But yeah, there are some industries that are
probably going to just like we talked about the energy industry,

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it's going to be a heck of a lot easier
to go find new places to drill for oil.

Speaker 5 (02:02:47):
That was, you know, the.

Speaker 15 (02:02:48):
Words right out of his mouth, and so hopefully there'll
be some benefits there. There are other interest industries, such
as the banking industry, which where the last administry. One
of the big things that Trump did was roll back
some of the consumer financial protections, which on one hand
makes it easier to be a bank. On another hand,
those came from somewhere. So if you were a bank

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consumer and you were frustrated by what banks had done
over the prior fifteen to twenty years just looking for
profits under every stone, just remember remember to be paying
attention and read that fine print, because it's going to
get a heck of a lot easier for them to
do what has been successful in the past. So I'm
not going to argue that all deregulations is.

Speaker 5 (02:03:26):
Right right, and I think this is one of these
topics that been talked around and back as far back
as two thousand and seven, was this proposal that was done.
As a matter of fact, it was proposed by a
resident of Campbell County, Kentucky to at that time, Oh gosh,

(02:03:47):
Jeff Davis, this idea of what they call the Rains Act,
and basically, in a simplified form, this Rains Act would
say to the federal government that if there's any regulations
that's going to cost the taxpayer more than one hundred
million dollars that has to be voted on by Congress,
they just can't willy nilly put forth these regulations they

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are going to cost. Basically, it's a taxi increase, if
you will, in terms of the American public. Now, this
has been passed by the House several times since twenty
two thousand and seven, I think got to the Senate
was putting a you know, on the desk and never voted.
I would like to see that go forward in this administration,
and I think that would go a long way to
help our economy considerably.

Speaker 15 (02:04:29):
So yeah, right, So the Rains Act will if it
survives you we'll see it if it if it surfaces again.
The last version passed the House back in June, but
like you said, not yet passed by the Senate, so
it's not in law yet. But if we see you know,
we are still deciding who controls the Senate, right, I
think there's about five seats left last time. I loved

(02:04:51):
We'll see you know which way that goes. That will
interestingly to me, that is it's a level of bureaucracy
I think. On I agree with you on its On
its face, it seems like it would be helpful towards
the ultimate outcome. However, it's a level of bureaucracy that
I can't imagine Trump is super excited about supporting. So
I don't know, We'll have to see which way that goes.

Speaker 5 (02:05:09):
Yeah, and again, you know, you hope that some of
these companies that when certain things are deregulated, that they
have a certain amount of ethical core, that just because
something is not against the law doesn't mean that it's ethical,
And so hopefully that I think that's wishful thinking on.

Speaker 15 (02:05:30):
My part, a fine line, that's a very very fine
line in some gray area.

Speaker 5 (02:05:33):
But exactly well, Brian, thank you so much for spending
time with us this morning. I think I've went a
little too long with us here, but I certainly appreciate
your time, and hopefully we can do this again sometime,
and certainly appreciate it.

Speaker 15 (02:05:45):
Yes, sir, you have a great week.

Speaker 5 (02:05:46):
You do the same, Brian, James all Worth Financial on
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Speaker 5 (02:06:09):
Eight thirty three in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
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much for calling. How are you this morning?

Speaker 22 (02:06:33):
Hey, I'm doing good, Kevin. And as always, man, you
do a great job. When Brian is out.

Speaker 2 (02:06:37):
He's a uh he's a hall.

Speaker 22 (02:06:39):
Of Famer host, and man, you you are a hall
of famer as well.

Speaker 5 (02:06:42):
Yeah, so I appreciate this out. I appreciate that when
you're well. You know, Brian had to take some time
off today because you know, I've been binging on those
Hallmark Christmas movies and it's time for him to take
some time off to do that himself.

Speaker 16 (02:06:54):
You know, man, your.

Speaker 22 (02:06:55):
After good level is like going to be peaking. You
better get some of that testoster and stuff that I
keep hearing about.

Speaker 5 (02:07:03):
Well, you know, you know, I don't think I've got
to you know, turning my man card quite quite yet.

Speaker 22 (02:07:09):
But you know, well, well well maybe that's debatable, but
that's really not what I wanted to debate.

Speaker 5 (02:07:15):
You a man to be gentle and yet firms So anyway,
go ahead.

Speaker 22 (02:07:21):
Hey, wanted to make some comments on Alex Trantafilo. I'm
sure he is a good guy. I'm sure he worked
his tail off, but here here comes the butt. Last
week I heard him, Uh, Brian had him on and
he asked the same really good question you asked. Because
we're all hearing the the Wine the Rhino is going

(02:07:45):
to do. Uh, he's going to install one of his buddies,
which is going to be Matt Dolan, who Ohio voters
have soundly rejected in the past two Senate races. We
don't want him as senators. As a senator, we don't
want Jane Timpkin as a senator. And yet the Wine
could reach out and and and bring in somebody like
a Warren Davidson or Jim Jordan, a proven conservative Republican

(02:08:11):
h and asked them if they'd be interested in that
Senate seat versus going after a retread and uh, but
you know it, it sounds like he's going to go
for Dolan. And if they do that, then the Republican
Party did exactly what the Democrat Party did with Kamala Harris,
where they where they installed somebody who the voters soundly rejected.

(02:08:34):
Yamula couldn't get more than two percent during the primary.
Dolan never came in higher than third.

Speaker 5 (02:08:39):
Kamala didn't get any votes in the primary, that was
all just poland she got no votes in the Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:08:45):
Great point. Great point.

Speaker 22 (02:08:47):
So when Alex was asked that question by by Brian,
Alex's answer was, well, I trust governor to wine and
it's going to be his decision. And it was a
love fest for Mike DeWine who locked down, locked us
down during COVID raved our gas tax by ten cents
a gallon and when he was about ten seconds ten
you know, fifteen minutes into office, he did that along

(02:09:09):
with all of the other things. You know, you can't
have a drink after ten o'clock got to shut the
bars down.

Speaker 5 (02:09:15):
Yeah, because COVID. COVID only ruers of ugly head after
ten o'clock, you.

Speaker 22 (02:09:20):
Know, Oh, right, right, and darn remember that the he
wanted to extend his emergency powers and took the Republicans
in Ohio government to override his veto where he was saying, no,
I want to keep my tyrannical powers doing this lockdown,
and they had to put him back in his place.
Now for Alex Trantafelo last week today, I trust the governor.

(02:09:45):
He's a he's a great leader, and whoever he picks,
I'm going to be behind it. I would say, let's
let's cut the Alex Tranta Filo LoveFest. And if he's
not with us, then he's against us. And if we
can't call out what Mike the Wine is, the leader,
the leader of the Republican Party for Ohio can't do it, well,
then we're going to continue to be an embarrassment in

(02:10:07):
which I believe we are. Nationally, do we have a
super majority bigger than what Ron Santa says in Florida,
we can't get a damn thing done? Yeah, well, Jack,
the other Red states, look at Ohio, and say you're
not really red.

Speaker 5 (02:10:21):
Yeah, well Jay, you're red.

Speaker 22 (02:10:22):
You got your a bunch of damn rhinos.

Speaker 5 (02:10:24):
Well, Jay, what we have is an electric out there
electorate out there that went a certain way. There are
grassroots organizations that are out there. What they need to
do is they need to take the reins here and
call the governor's office let him know what your concerns are. Jd.
Vance doesn't take the oath of office until January the twentieth,

(02:10:44):
so I would imagine that he may be tasked with
coming back to Ohio and kind of trying to force
some things too. We need to call his office. We
need to call the Senate office. We need to call
our senators and you know, everybody else involved and let
them know where we stand. Bernie Moreno is a good

(02:11:07):
one to start talking to. You know, he's gotten elected,
he's going to be voted in. He should have a say,
and it's up to the current and you know, let's
face it, all right, we've got mayors, we've got council people,
we've got county commissioners, we've got state reps, state senators.

(02:11:27):
Let them know where you stand and let them know
that if this doesn't go the way we think it
should go. And if we wind up with a retread
as people are talking about, they are going to suffer
the consequences. At the polling booth. We hold the ultimate
authority here. We need exercise.

Speaker 22 (02:11:47):
I take that idea and I did exactly that. I
got a hold of jd Advance and because he has
the bully pulpit now and by the way, remember Mike
the Wine did not support jd Vance, that was Trump's pick.
Wine went against them and back Matt Dolan.

Speaker 5 (02:12:03):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 22 (02:12:04):
So you know, all I'm looking for is the head
of the Republican Party has a lot of way influence
money behind him. And honestly, I think if Mike de
Wine was to run for a third term, you'd see
Alex Trantafilo at grobbling in his feet asking him how
he can help and how much money does he need?
And that's not what we need is as Ohio Republican
Party leader, get in tune with read the room, take

(02:12:27):
a look at what what the rest of us take
of Mike to one exactly, but I'm with you, man,
get a hold of jd Vance. I think there is
our play. Does Dad Vance want to be working with
fricking Matt Dolan.

Speaker 5 (02:12:36):
Yeah, pick up the phone, folks in.

Speaker 22 (02:12:38):
Jordan, or Warren Davidson or somebody better.

Speaker 5 (02:12:41):
Pick up the phone, folks, make those phone calls. So, Jay,
thank you so much for calling. I certainly appreciate it.
Have a nice day well. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, two,
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up the show and see where we go from there.

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Maybe some other mischief we can get into. I'm Kevin
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Eight forty three in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see in the talk station.
You know, one of the things I'm pretty sure that
Brian and I are on the same page on is
this whole green energy hoax that we've been climate change
and so on that we've been fed over the last
several years. And you know, I take you back to

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and you've heard this before. I'm sure that going back
to the first you know, Earth Day back in seventy
nineteen seventy six, we're all talking about global cooling, that
we're going into this ice age. Well that didn't pan out,
so then it had to be global warming, and it
had to be acid rain and all this sort of stuff.
And then well you know that didn't pan out, So
now we just got to call it climate change. So

(02:14:12):
anything that happens has to do with climate change. And
we've been sold this bill of goods. As far as
EV's wind. Now I'm not opposed to wind, I'm not
opposed to solar energy, but it is not ready for
prime time. And these EV batteries, these electric vehicles that
are coming along, it's just it is not a technology
that's ready for prime time. And so one of the

(02:14:34):
things I hope that we see with this administration, the
Trump administration coming in, is some of the turning back
away from this all this what I call, well, I
just call it what it is. It's climingism. You know,
if you look at what is being talked about, it
has nothing to do with cleaning up the environment. It
has nothing to do with making our lives better. It's

(02:14:56):
all about control where you live, how you live, what
you eat, when you eat, how you cook, your food,
where you live, what car you drive, how far you
can travel, when you can travel, and everything. It's all
about control. And that has more to do with communism
than it does environmentalism. So I just mashed the two.
You know, communism has or environmentalism has become the new communism,

(02:15:19):
and I just mashed the two together and just call
it climmunism. And climunism is one of the things that
needs to end. And I don't pick this. I'm going
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to Evelyn. Evelyn fifty five krs the talk station. Thank
you so much for being there. Certainly appreciate the phone call.
How are you this morning?

Speaker 23 (02:16:57):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (02:16:58):
Good?

Speaker 23 (02:16:58):
Thanks Givin. Would you explain how to I'd like to
call JD Van's and tell him to not choose Kevin
Gordon and to suggest Orlando's Sandra.

Speaker 5 (02:17:13):
But exactly wait a minute, don't choose Kevin Gordon, you
mean Matt Dolan. Now if he chose, if the wine
chose me, I mean I would make the move over
to Ohio from Kentucky to do that. But uh, you know,
I haven't been called, so yeah.

Speaker 23 (02:17:35):
I like that, so by goodness, well, I just I'd
like to know how to explain it. Uh would I
make a call to their office, to JD. Bean's office.
I'm not sure I know exactly how to approach that.
Quick call. I'm sure it wouldn't be too well.

Speaker 5 (02:17:55):
If you call. If you call the the the office
of the of the Congress, the Congressional Office, it's a
two oh two number. Just say I want to leave
a message for JD. Vance and say that, you know,
we want to make sure that and just say we
want to make sure that the decision that Governor Dwine

(02:18:17):
makes will help the Trump administration and advance the agenda
of the Trump administration and not one of a squishy rhino.
I don't know if you want to say rhino, but somebody.

Speaker 16 (02:18:32):
Who is not like.

Speaker 5 (02:18:35):
But not and that's kind of offense, so you know,
they may take offense to that, but say that we
want somebody who is a conservative to replace a conservative
that's we're losing being advanced to vice president, and we
like him to make sure that he that he you know,
lets that be known.

Speaker 23 (02:18:55):
Okay, great, So I should not use rhino as that.

Speaker 5 (02:18:58):
Yeah, that's you know, it's kind of well, you know,
we know what it means, and some people may take
you know, if somebody sees that in a message, it
may you know, kind of discount it. But just you know, hey,
you know, we have a senator, we have a good
conservative senator. Now we're going to have another good conservative
Bernie Moreno, and we want to make sure that we

(02:19:19):
keep the momentum going and somebody that will be there
to support the Trump administration as opposed to any other agendas.
So yeah, that's great, great, great, all right, not a problem,
Thank you so much. Appreciate the phone call. I want
to wrap up here. We've got a couple of minutes
before we get out of here. I want to make

(02:19:40):
a stress to everybody. At eleven o'clock today, make sure
you take that opportunity to do a moment of silence
the eleventh eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month, in honor of Veterans Day. And I want
to when I talk about climbingism and so on, and
I talk about this business of being somewhat of a
when I say it's a whole and so on. You know,

(02:20:01):
none of this stuff has been proven. And I saw
this story last week. I find it very interesting. And
this is interesting on two counts. Okay, a vast ancient
Mayan city is found in the Mexican jungle. By accident,
a graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico
unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried beneath

(02:20:25):
dense jungle for centuries. The city lay hidden in the
amid the jungle canopy in the state of Campeachy on
the Gulf of Mexico. New research published Tuesday in the
Journal of Antiquity reveals sites that in total cover an
area about one and a half times the size of Washington,
d C. That's how big this place was. And first

(02:20:47):
of all, the first lesson here is a graduate student.
Think of all of the academics that went before him,
all the doctors, all the PhDs, all these so called scientists,
and it took a graduate student to look at these
documents and say, hey, you know, there's possibly a city here,
which it borne out. Okay, the researchers uncovered a densely

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packed area containing six thousand, six hundred and seventy four structures,
including pyramids resembling those in Chichen It's A in the
Mexican state of Yucatan and Tikal in the ancient citadel
and rainforest of northern Guatemala. This graduate student, Luke Ald Thomas,
PhD Candidate at Tulane University, discovered this. The researchers said

(02:21:32):
that this city and they've may have had been the
home to thirty to fifty thousand people at its peak
between eight hundred AD and one thousand AD. Folks were
talking about a city that existed sixteen hundred years ago
or fourteen hundred years ago. Okay, now for a Now,

(02:21:58):
this city disappeared for a complex of reasons, including climate change. Okay, so,
how many coal burning fires were, plants manufacturing plants were
back in Mexico at eight hundred AD, how many diesel

(02:22:20):
trucks were rolling down the highway at that point, how
much pollutants were in the air at that point? And
climate change eliminated the city of thirty to fifty thousand people.
Climate change has been ongoing. The Earth can handle it,
at least now we know the technology that we can

(02:22:41):
deal with it and contain it and actually adapt to it.
So with that I'll leave that with you. Thanks, thank
you all for the phone calls, Thank you for being here,
Thanks to my guest Ken Blackwell, and of course Christopher
Smitherman and Brian James with all Worth Financial Christopher Smithers Well.
So anyway, folks, that does it for me. Thank you

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