Congressman Jim Jordan

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You'll notice if you're one of those people that have
run out of gas the last couple of days, you'll
notice a difference in the gas prices.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
As a matter of fact, didn't we.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hear a little bit ago that gas is holding steady? Yeah,
I think we heard that in one of the reports,
and I'm like, no, it's not I saw your post
earlier today.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, fifty cents all over the West Side and Grove City.
Fifty cents overnight from two seventy nine to three nineteen,
all over the place, and you know there's here. It's
Thanksgiving week. We need it. They've got it. That's all
it is. That's all it is. There's no reason nobody
in Saudi Arabia has the flu.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Nothing. They they have it. We need it, and so
they're going to charge what they want.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Look, I understand supply and demand. I understand that, but
at this point it seems like we see a spike
around this time every year. It also seems especially egregious
when it's fifty cents and one fail swoop, It's just
like boom.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, ten cents overnight. Okay, I'll live with it. It's
a paint in the bud. But I'll live with it.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Fifty cents. It's just that's stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It does seem like a lot, and it never falls
at that rate, does it. No, it never goes down
fifty cents overnight. It's always up fifty cents or you know, whatever,
a chunk amount. It's never it never falls that huge amount.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
You wake up the day after Thanksgiving and suddenly it's
like two forty nine a gallon. Okay, then I'll be happy.
But yeah, it's never gonna draw. It'll drop four cents
at a time, but jump fifty at a time. I
just I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, I noticed it was three nineteen on the north
side by me in Delaware, and that was after I
saw your post. I was like, it was, you know,
two seventy nine. I drive right by. I stare at
it everything, as does everybody for the most part.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, we switched to the winter blend, so it's a
can't we just have one blend all year?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Why do we need different blends? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
There, we have the technology at this point just to
have one gasoline all the time. I don't need daylight
saving gas. I need just just give me gas.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Happy Thanksgiving. Congressman Jordan here he is. How are you brother?

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Happy? Thanksgiving to you guys. I've never heard that term either,
daylight saving gas.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
You write the legislation. We got a new session starting.
I wanted rite the legislation.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
You know anybody there, Well, you know a couple people.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Right, a few people. Yeah, but that's amazing. Well I
missed the first part. So you're saying, she'll go up this,
it'll jump big time. But when it comes down and everything, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well and that's why.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
So yeah, so we you know, we had a news
report a little bit ago on the air. It was
like Gus is holding steady and I'm like, no, it's
not like what wait a minute, what gas are you
looking at? Because Chuck posted on Facebook earlier today on
his beloved West Side Chuck lives on the West Side,
and he's like, it went up fifty cents overnight. It's like,
why does it ever fall that much all at once?

(03:02):
Because it never does. It's always down. Oh it's down
two cents, but it's up fifty you know or whatever.
So it's a weird dynamic, I guess.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, sir, sometimes it seems like it does that. Remember,
people are traveling here, we are Thanksgiving or Memorial Day
weekend or you know, Chrisma, I don't know it always
it's but good good news is it's going to get
better when President Trump's in office, when we got get
back to a common sense energy policy and use all
the energy we got here in our great country like
we should.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
So amen to that. Amen to that.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
And also, you know, I was saying this Thanksgiving Congressman,
I am extra thankful that forty seven is headed to
sixteen hundred. Extra thankful this Thanksgiving, and speaking of that,
hopefully you'll be partaking in a very nice spread and
nice Thanksgiving dinner. A couple of things, A couple things.
How many calories the average American eats at Thanksgiving dinner?

(03:54):
Now this would not, I guess, include yours, because you're
a guy. You look like you could still hit the
mat and wrestle somebody quite frankly without without breaking any
kind of a sweat, I might add, or even heavy
breath at that point. But the average American, according to this,
will consume two ninety two calories at Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
So wow, so outt yeah, go ahead, go ahead, And
now I just say that doesn't count a snacking later
in the day the execuse pie late at night for
helping him fate is. Wow, that's a lot of calories.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Well, when you're talking about one meal, and you probably
have already had breakfast, maybe while you're watching the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day parade or whatever, we usually end up clicking
that on and kind of watching that. Then to your
point a little bit later, so they do actually kind
of address that. So the leftovers, that's the thing where
people begin to really pack it in.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Here.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
The average person will eat around and seventy calories worth
of leftovers, it says though in the day's following Thanksgiving, which,
by the way, if you're spread that out over a
couple of days, not too bad, right, I mean, yeah,
too bad. Then they go on and say twenty seven
percent say they'll easily eat three thousand calories.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Then they go.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Nine percent say they'll be eating five thousand calories of leftovers. Now,
this is where you really start packing it on. So
the favorite Thanksgiving dish for those polled was roasted turkey.
Was turkey, Now it depends.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
On who you.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
I've seen some of these where they say turkey is
the least favorite dish, which I thought was odd.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right, I mean turkey's the main event.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I thought, yeah, yeah, and then followed by mashed potatoes
and stuffing and dressing. Do you know what the least
favorite holiday food overall is?

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Cranberry?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's it. Cranberry sauce. You got it. That's it.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
Because Polly makes it. She makes it, you know, she
makes it really nice. But I still don't like it
that well, everyone else says that I don't like that,
so I just going on what now. What's funny is
though you hear about like every every Thanksgiving there'll be
like some reports of people in the hospital just and
and they get there and it's only because they ate
too much, too much food. They had to go to
the emergency.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh that's awful.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Like one year we were sitting around afterwards, you're watching
football or something, and the news kicks on for a
minute or something like that, like someone had to go
to the hospital because they just ate too much food.
But my favorite, my favorite is the sweet potatoes. It's
almost like a dessert. It's the sweet potatoes with the
marshmallows sugary stuff on top. That's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, the candied yams, don't they call the candy jam.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
I've never had sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
You never had that?

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Come on?

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wow's never hear again?

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh my god, an in depth question about d C.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
While I'm thinking about it and Thanksgiving yesterday? Yesterday yesterday,
I saw, you know, the current president pardoned the turkeys
as this tradition. Is there any truth to the rumor
he also pardoned a canned ham and a box of
hungry Jack.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
But I'm just wondering I heard that.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
The more, maybe the more pressing question is is he
going to partner his son? Uh? You know, he got
the turkey yesterday? But is he gonna pardon Hunter? I
don't know. I kind of assume you will at some point.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, they said he's he's partnering a turkey, So there
it is.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I mean he's gonna.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Just to kind of put a bow on the rest
of this that they were talking about some of the
other people sides people are not really fond of, which
I was like, hang on a second, because they start
listing these I love deviled eggs, and that's on this list.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
You like devils eggs? Yes, Congressman, no is that?

Speaker 5 (07:36):
But again, Polly, she loved that stuff. She likes deviled eggs.
He makes him too, so those aren't my favorite either.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
So collared greens are on this list as well. I
love the green bean castle role is also on this list,
which I like. And then it's got to be fresh though,
it's got to be really hot because if that starts
getting lukewarm or even cold, forget it.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
All bets are off for that.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
For me.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
I hear it, and it's CLAUSEI healthy. There's green beans
in it. Of course, there's mushroom soup, pour it all
over it and everything else.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, and then cream's spinach was also on that list
of things that people yeah. When it comes to dessert,
apple pie beats pumpkin as their favorite for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Apple pie is America, baby.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
It's thanks It's not Thanksgiving, it's America.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
But Thanksgiving is pumpkin or sweet potato pie.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
I think, yeah, I would mark that one's apple pie
is America, but on Thanksgiving it's pumpkin pine and we
have pecan pie as well our peak. I don't know
how to keep in the South say it, but how
we say it up here?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
So yep, yep, so yeah, I guess I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Congressman what are you thinking as far as as you
watch the appointments and and the cabinet taking shape here
for President elect Trump. Uh man, it feels good to
say president elect Trump. I'm just gotta tell you, Oh
my gosh, it feels so good to continually say that
over and over. But you start looking at all these
First of all, you know, I haven't been able to
talk to you since the whole Gates thing, the way

(09:07):
that that played out.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
And then any of the other ones kind of jumping
out at gosh, there's so much there clearly.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
Well, yeah, I think we talked last last week or
the week before. I'm really I really hope Tulsi and
r Kid Jr. I'm hoping they make it. Tulsie, she's
been so good on the on the First Amendment, on
freedom ischions. You know, we had her come testify in
front of our committee year and a half ago. She
was great, and she's with us on the SPI of
this reform of five is something our committee worked a
lot on this this current Congress. So I really hope they.

(09:37):
I like those picks, I mean I like his picks
across the board relative to Matt Gates. I was. I
actually was walking out of something, and then the precious
walked up to me, said, Gates just announced he's pulling
his OMNAE. You know, he's withdrawing. And I'm like, I
didn't know. I mean sort of after he goes he's
been what I think it was eight days and then
just to suddenly to do it. I guess maybe he

(09:57):
had talked to some senators and just felt that it
wasn't gonna work out. But I like tam Bondi. We
worked with her a little bit back during the impeachment,
so I think I think she's a great pick. So
I've been pleased with his picks across the board's I
think it's in some ways a good cross section of
the country and uh and then also people who are
going to go shake things up, which is what the
people voted for.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, you know, I'm curious, and I think the RFK
thing is going to go okay as far as the
uh yeah getting the approval. However, I'm interested to see
where that is a year from now, because he has
some very idealistic and kind of pie in the sky
ideas about health and nutrition and so forth, and I
think Donald Trump, being a man of dollar size, is
going to understand. Look, families need access to some things

(10:40):
that maybe you don't think are particularly healthy. We don't
want to implement a policy that makes it more difficult
to feed the family, even if it's not the best
stuff in the world. And I'm kind of worried about that.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Well, I mean, I think, I mean, I like our
Pidgeor And like I said, he testified as well on
the whole censorship issue because the Biden Harris administration went
directly after him him trying to pressure Twitter to take
down one of his one of his tweets. So he's
great on that. But I think one of the main
reasons he became so such an important figure this past

(11:11):
couple of years is because of his stance on COVID
and his and his pushing back on all the crazy
stuff we heard from Fauci, and I so appreciate that.
I just hope he gets confirmed as well, and then
we'll see how he does as our new AHHS sector.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
And finally, Congressman Jordan, you know I'm watching I go
through all of the morning news stories I do this
or new shows I should say, every morning, I kind
of go through. I run tape roll tape on all
of them. I was watching something on Good Morning America,
and I do this simply because I like to. I
like to see what the opposition is saying about what's

(11:47):
happening right now. And they run this long story on
what it could possibly cost families if Trump's tariffs on
Mexico and Canada and China take place. They threw the
number out twenty six hundred dollars a year. And so
once this doesn't happen, I in my notes, I put down, well,
let's see if they run a story once this doesn't happen,

(12:08):
which we know the answer to that they won't. But
you know, you notice them talking about what is possible
and how inflation and prices could increase. Meanwhile, this entire
four years, Yeah, they dodged anything that had to do
with not just speculation on what could be coming.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
We were witnessing it. We had front row seats.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
We were going and getting hit over the head when
we would go to the store, and all of this
absolutely unbelievable. But let the bs begin. The media has
it all backwards, and here we go again. It's just
going to be a pose a posa posed the whole time,
and you know, it's like they learned zilch after this election.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Zella. That's a that's a great point because where was
this story a few years back when they did the
falsely named Inflation Reduction Act that spent a couple trillion
dollars in oured in a forty year high inflation rate.
Where was the story, Oh, this could this Inflation Reduction
Act which spends all this money could in fact causing place.

(13:08):
I don't remember those stories. In fact, they were telling us,
the Biden administration was telling us that, oh, this is
going to cause inflation to go down, cause prices to
go and you're like, what are you talking about? What
do they think We're all stupid? So there was none
of those stories. And now something that hasn't happened and
they're saying it's going to cause inflation, when again, I
think in many ways, preident Trump is going to use
tariffs as a way to say, if you don't change behaviors,

(13:30):
tariffs are coming. They use it as almost a threat
and as a way to negotiate, is how he's typically
used them. And then if he has to implement some
so be it. But yeah, this is again This is
the left wing press and the left out to try
to sabotage and attack President Trump right from the get bill.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
And when you think too about how they told us
over and over. I loved how they kept feeding this
this line of you're not experiencing price hikes, they're blaming
it on anything, if in fact they even had to
acknowledge it whatsoever. It's just like, stop telling the American
people that there isn't a price hike that you're just

(14:07):
it's basically a figment of your imagination. You're like, really,
because somebody magic is making money disappear out of my account.
And and it's just crazy to me how they did
that over and over and over.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
And they did nothing but feed us a line this
whole time.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
From that to you know, Biden's fit is a fiddle
and all of these different things. And you know what
they it was a referendum on this administration, this this election.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
People. The American people said that is enough.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, don't believe what you're seeing. Don't believe what you
know when you pay the bill and you take your
family out to dinner, when you pull up to the pump,
don't believe. Or you go to the grocery. Don't believe
what you're seeing. Yeah, and and uh, you know that's
a and if there is some price increase, it's price
galuging in the part of companies, not it's not causes
by a place like that's the that's the game, they
told us. And again the American people saw through it.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Souly.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's why Donald Trump is our president. It's got nothing
to do with politics or policy or anything else. Even
the dumbest person on the planet does not want to
be treated like they are stupid.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, and they know that people got tired of being
treated well.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
They know better days are coming, lower interest rates and
lower prices and so.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
On and so forth.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
So it's all a combination and it was the perfect
storm if you ask me so.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Congressman Jim Jordan, Happy Thanksgiving, Thanks for calling.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Have a great Thanksgiving, great country.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yes, absolutely, see ya.