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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A lot lot going on.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I mean, you've got the ceremony at the White House
honoring Charlie Kirk and uh, but you've got the continued
showdown closure of the federal government and some of the
commentary attached to that. And then I think, Uh, herald
I don't know if you heard about Heroldo Rivera is
calling uh President Trump Elvis. I think that's I think
that's worth it. I think that's worth a segment right there.
(00:22):
So a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well, we've got that story. Also, I see you've recovered
from your birthday hangover. I didn't, Yes you did? You
look like you've been out all night, Joe, I was
partying it up. I'm old. I like to just go home,
watch TV like it was a game. Celebrated a little sushi. Yeah,
(00:44):
did you get sushi? Yes? Like sushi? Ya like. I
like sushi as well. But you look better because earlier
you came in you looked a little hungover. Today. Yeah,
don't say that in the building. What's wrong withw.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's that's just fake news. You know you shouldn't do that.
We're supposed to be the truth tellers. It's great to
be with you. I've got a story and Greg will
love this about what happened to a gorilla in the
San Diego Zoo.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now, we aren't going to tell you what it is. Yeah,
you're you're a gorilla freak. And we'll talk about what
happened to this gorilla. It's absolutely amazing. But coming up,
we'll talk about, you know, Veterans Day is what about
a little bit less than a month away now, and
we'll talk about what UTAH is doing to help veterans
and veterans who who died by suicide. We'll talk about that.
(01:33):
We'll talk about closing the Democratic Party mind. Do they
have a closed mind? I thought that would suggest it
had been opened. I thought they were the party with
a big tent and inclusive of.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Everybody, what's hermetically sealed. Maybe they were just you know,
just maybe not sealed closed. But now it's pretty much.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, that's just a little bit of what we've got
coming your way today. And we have four tickets to Lagoon.
They're they're underway weekends now with the big freight Maars thing. Yeah,
and ironerstand it's very popular. I've never been. We've got
some tickets one to the Amusing Park isn't isn't. It's
a little more.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's a little more expensive, a little more priced. Yeah, well,
I think our tickets might be well received.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We have four tickets that will give away sometime today,
so keep on listening. But we want to start off
the show today and talking more about the amazing historic
day that took place yesterday in the Middle East with
a return of the hostages. More of the remains of
hostages who were deceased were returned to Israel today. I
think four to eight more or returned today. They're having
(02:34):
a difficult finding them because, as you mentioned yesterday, Greg,
they could be buried in some of that rubble and
it may take a while. But more we're returned today.
But this story, Greg, this these are the type of
people that the world is having to deal with right now,
and it's members of Hamas. There is a story today
that Hamas carried out mass public executions in Gaza yesterday,
(02:58):
just hours after through the signing of the peace treaty
with Israel. Yeah, you told me this.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm a bit of a news junkie and I've been
watching I have not seen this story, but it's absolutely disturbing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, it's part of a series of bloody reply reprisals
following the withdrawal of the Israeli troops. There's video out
there if you want to look at it. I would
not recommend it, but the graphic footage shows eight badly beaten,
blindfolded men kneeling in the street before each of them
is shot dead by a Hamas gunman in front of
a cheering crowd. So the cheering crowd. Let's talk about
(03:33):
that for just a second. And this is.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Where when the agreement, the peace agreement, says that the
Hamas cannot govern in Gaza, they have to leave. I've
always said I don't know the daylight between Hamas and
everyone else over there, because they all seem to be
born and draw their first breath, taught to hate Israel
and see them destroyed. Well, that extends clearly from your
(03:56):
story down to those that live amongst them Palestinians, than
the Gaza strip that they felt had helped Israel, and
they assassinate him in the public square and everybody cheers.
So I don't I don't know what's the difference between
any of them.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, how do you deal with apparently these men who
were shot and executed had been working with the Israelis
during this whole two year conflict to get them information.
Hamas decided you're a trader and where I'll kill you,
and they did execution style. That's too bad that you're
That's what you're dealing with in Gossam, and that's why
the place is so unbelievably difficult. It is. Now a
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lot of reaction continues to flow in concerning the deal
with that the President signed yesterday and his efforts they're
in the Middle East. We've got all kinds of audio
on this, Greg. You have an audio sound bite I
believe from of all people, Heraldo Rivera.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yes, so in talking about all the progress that's been
made and who made it and who in past presidents
have not been able to make it, Rivera gives his take.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Are right, all right, let's hear him. He is now.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
He is the biggest movie star on earth, the most charismatic.
As he walks around, he walks around with the power
of the American Empire infusing him with, you know, with
confidence and power.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And he's a leader.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
He seizes the moment and is really putting his long
experience to work to solving these problems and he's got
some real problems to solve. But bringing this group together though,
that's the sheer force of personality. There's no one that
could have done that. I don't think Ronald Reagan could
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have done that. Maybe Roosevelt is the last president who
could have summoned the world or the part of the
world that you're most concerned with here and to essentially
to choreograph this historic breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's pretty interesting that he would compare Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
To FDR and think how different the world is today
versus when FDR was running the thing. I'm telling you,
it's a it's a tougher world, I would argue today.
But yeah, that the kind of the kind of power
and persuasion and influence he is demonstrating right now. We've
not seen.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well to bring thirty five nations, many of them Arab nations,
together to sign on to this agreement. It's truly an amazing,
an amazing event. It is.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And I'm laughing because I'm thinking about when he goes
when he's on that Air Force one and they're flying
back last night, you know, back to DC. He walks
back there to where the press are and he's just
going to talk and have a conversation and he says,
you know, I like the tough people so much more
than the weak ones. I like to work with the
tough ones. And you know how many times NATO calls
me to ask me if I can work out a
problem they're having with one of these countries, and I
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can do it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah. Yeah, it's just hilarious. Well, not only Rivera, but
here's Bill O'Reilly's take. He basically said last night on
newsbacks that Donald Trump has won over the entire Arab world.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Donald Trump's power worldwide has just increased about one thousand percent.
But he's going to Korea to talk to She. She
and the Chinese know that he has the Arab world
and the Middle East on his side. China needs the
Middle East, even though they're temporarily buying oil from Russia, Okay,
(07:24):
and Iran, they need the Middle East. They can't afford
to alienate the Arab nations. All right. The Trump's going
in with a big advantage, and he's looking at She
and he's saying, listen, the whole world is now coalescing
around the United States, NATO, EU, Middle East.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You gotta get on board. Yeah, they're an interesting message
to President G of China. You know, what are they
going to do? Because right now the momentum is behind
the United States, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Some of the strategy, some of the commentary is that
is that China announced those export controls during this time
to say, hey we're out here. Yeah, Hey we're here. Now,
he's not all powerful. We're still we still have some things.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
And the world adapted, didn't they. All Right, We've got
a lot to come here on the Rotten Greg Show,
the Tuesday afternoon edition right here on Utah's Talk Radio
one oh five nine k n rs. And what a
couple of weeks will be marking Veterans Day, the eleventh
hour of the eleventh Day and the eleventh month as
it is it was deemed in World War Two. But
you know, continued concern Greg about veterans and how they're
(08:30):
doing in this country today. And you hear unfortunately too
many stories about veterans who die by suicide. Yeah, very sad,
very tragic. Yeah it is well. Joining us on our
newsmaker line to talk about that they've just done a
new study on this is Kara Burne. She is the
Senior Health and Human Service analyst at the Gardener Policy
Institute up at the You Kara, how are you welcome
(08:52):
to the Rod and Greg Show. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Jarah. Tell us about this study and what you have
found when it comes to veterans and what we could
do better to help veterans.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Sure, So this study was for the Utah Department of
Veterans and Military Affairs, and essentially what we were looking
at was trying to understand how veterans are understanding how
to access suicide prevention resources. And you know, our study
actually was aiming to reach active service members and veterans,
(09:25):
but we had over ninety percent response from veterans. So
our report disproportionately represents veterans, So we'll be focusing on
that when we talk about our findings. Yeah, and what
we found is that, you know, really accessing resources remains
a challenge, and so what we did was we gove
a little bit deeper and tried to understand trust and
(09:48):
what the barriers are to accessing services, what the trustworthy
sources of information are, and things things along those lines.
So I'm happy to dive into those findings a little
bit more. If you'd like or do you have any
questions about the report?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, before we dive into the data, I just want
you to talk about the reluctance of veterans to look
for help. I find that those that are veterans served
this country for the most sincere and real reasons, none
of which were to get benefits. And so the idea
of having benefits but not really understanding what those benefits
are or how to get them. It seemed to be
(10:22):
when I was a lawmaker, we wanted to make sure
our veterans we were taking care of them. It's a
debt that we all collectively owe, but veterans weren't very
hot on trying to find out what those benefits are.
Did you find that at all? Even in your survey
It sounds like you a great participation rate, But what
was that personality like of a veteran who is eligible
for a lot of assistance.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah, So, I think the way this was framed so
we facilitated a mixed method studies. So we did interviews
with people that were working with veterans, and they kind
of gave us an idea of the types of questions
we could be asking. So it's really a nuanced question
and now you're asking. And the way that we looked
at it was looking at trust in the VA and
(11:05):
the mental health crisis response. We looked at barriers to
accessing mental health resources, and we you know, tried to
understand how they're accessing research care now. But what I
can say, you know, just based on our key findings,
is that the barriers tended to be the barriers to
accessing care, if you will, tended to be both personal
(11:26):
and systemic. And what I mean by that is personal
in that there's this warrior ethos of I can take
care of myself or you know, my friends or family
will know my business, but also systemic and that there's
this the feeling that it takes too long to get
into care or it's too expensive. And so in the report,
(11:48):
we kind of highlighted it in those two ways. Like
I said, the interviews that we facilitated first also hinted
that there may be a trust issue, and I think
that's maybe what you were wanting to for a little
bit as well. And we did ask about trust and
we found that trust kind of you know, varied between
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the VA and the mental health crisis response. There tended
to be a larger percentage of responses who said they
just don't know if they trust the Mental Health Crisis Response,
whereas in the VA we saw that, you know, over
fifty percent of those that we taught to trusted the VA.
But I think it's important to note that even though
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trust in the Mental Health Crisis Response was a little
bit varied, of those who did have experienced accessing the
Mental Health Crisis Response, fifty percent said that it was
a helpful response. So I think what our data is
pointing to, it's been me to do more research and
ask more questions about.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
This as well.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Can some of these barriers be overcome or did you
even explore that, Kara.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
You know, it's a good question, and I think for
that I would I would look to the Utah Department
of Veterans and Military Affairs to give some guidance on that.
But what I will say is that respondents and some
of the focus group and interview responders that we spoke
to did make some suggestions. They they talked about looking
at that personal connection. They talked about aligning the resources
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that exist and pooling those resources. They talked about targeting
rural communities and making efforts to reduce the stigma, whether
that's through communications or like I said, do that that
personal connection.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
And then and then.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Finally, they also talked about making a connection before the
veterans leave the service as well.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, I just I guess you're saying peer to peer
more than just someone that's part of the whatever Veterans
Association or veterans hospital, but maybe a peer, a fellow
veteran who'd say, hey, you can grab you can help,
you can receive some help, and they themselves are Is
that peer to peer communication?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Uh important?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
That's right?
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah, So people talked about trusting the VA, they talked
about trusting their doctors and their mental health clinicians, but
like you were saying, they also talked about connecting peer
to peer in conversation with family and friends. And then
that peer to peer component really came out in more
of the qualitative components, like in the interviews and the
focus groups with people that peer to peer connection was
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a key theme for SURES.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Very very important study. Thank you for spending a few
minutes of your time with us and sharing the results
of that study. Thank you, Kara, Yeah, thank.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
You for having me. You can find the report on
the kem Gardner website as well if you'd like to
learn more.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right, thank you. Sarah Burne joining us from the
kemc gardner Policians to Jude up the University of Utah,
talking about what can you do better to prevent better
in suicide? More coming up on the Rod and Greg
Show and Talk Radio one oh five nine k n RS.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Closing in the Democrat Party mind. I really very intrigued
by this.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You mean their closed mind. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
See, I would think it's very on brand. I wouldn't
think there'd be much to report other than how closed
that is or for how long? But you know it is,
it's it's it's worth talking about because I think that
I personally think that the Democrats are engaged in a
game of subtraction, and I think a game of addition
is what moves policy and politics.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, it does, well, let's talk about that. Joining us
on our any hour Newsmaker line right now is con
Carrol kN a good friend of the show comentary editor
at The Washington Examiner. He wrote about the closing of
the Democratic Party mind. Is it really that closed? Cohn?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
It's like, well, you know, if you go home and
get past the headline. You know, it starts with the
kind of the twenty sixteen election, in the sense that
the headline of the story centered on the recent talk
between Ezra Klein and Anton Hassei Coachs about the death
of Charlie Kirk and they're different reactions to it, and
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it really focuses around Hillary Quinton's quote from that twenty
sixteen election where shift course called protch half the country
the porables. And so what I argue and the piece
is that kind of since that moment, the Democratic Party
has really closed their mind to deplorables, stopped trying to
talk to half the country. And that's a problem for
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them because they're leaving a lot of voters out on
the table.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You know, what you describe is anthem to actual public
policy campaigns and elections. A game of subtraction has never worked.
I don't think it was meant to work. They, as
you point out, Hillary Clinton engaged in that game of
subtraction by writing off half the country as deplorables. Is
there any wins since she said that that they can
point to where this game of subtraction is supposed to
shame people from their positions and somehow win elections by
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just summarily discarding many, many thoughtful Americans from the process.
Does any of that ever work?
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Well, I mean, if you're a Democratic activist, you know,
you can point to twenty eighteen when arguably it works.
They took back the House in the Senate. It worked
in twenty twenty when Biden won the White House and
they secured fifty votes in the Senate. So I think
for a you know, large portion of the activists left. Yeah,
it has worked, and you know, we'll see if it
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works going forward. And that's kind of the internal debate
that Client and Coach were having on the podcast. I
thought was so interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Do those two even think the Democratic Party has a
problem right now?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Con well, one of them doesn't, one of them doesn't.
So Ez the definitely thinks that the Democratic Party has
a problem. Uh, you know, he looks back at the
passage of Obamacare and notes that at the time Republican
Party had senators from Arkansas, from Usiana, from Missouri, from Nebraska,
praises that they would never even come close to in
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an election now, and so he thinks that's a problem
that if they don't actually want to, you know, Wield
power at the national level, not like in California, New
York and Illinois where they have have state partyment office,
but at the national level, then they are going to
have to expand the electorate where a ton of the
coasts to get a point. And it was like, no, no,
everything is fine. You know, look we won in twenty twenty,
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we barely lost in twenty twenty four, and we just
need to keep eating out these elections.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know. It's an interesting concept. And I agreed eighteen.
You can't deny the results there twenty twenty Biden one.
But I remember seeing back in during the COVID era,
and I think it was in Brooklyn where you had
some Black Lives Matters protesters and you had people they
had to eat outdoors at that time because of COVID,
but they were eating at a restaurant and they just
descended upon the people that were eating outside and they
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start eating the food off their plate. And I thought
to myself, there's not a Republican to be found in
that area. That area looks about as dark blue as
you get, and it looked like that that was this
game of subtraction where people that were older or might
not identify with the Democrat base, are now being alienated
or not seen or being seen as part of the enemy.
Do you see that with a Schumer who looks like
he's too old and he's not part of the young
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base of the Democrats. Are they just going to look
to kick out kick out the older people as this
a young movement going on. I'm just trying to figure out,
how does it How does the Democrats get to the
numbers they need if they keep spotting people that were
once affiliated with their party that they just don't want
in there anymore.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Well, what they're going to do is they're going to
have a election in New York City where you have
a bunch of Democrats and they're going to run a
far left literally democratic socialist candidate, and he's going to
turn out a lot of young people, and they're going
to win that election, and they're going to think that's
a blueprint for twenty twenty eight and we'll see if
they're right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Con For people like Coachs and Kline, do they even
care about unifying the country? I mean, is that important
to them? Do they actually think they can do it.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Again? I think I think for Klein, No, you're right,
I think neither of them really do, right. I think
Client wants to get just enough political power where he
can enact his vision. Right. So, I mean, if you
were to look at like California, where Democrats do have
a monopoly on power, Client is perfectly fine not talking
to Republicans at all. It's only when it becomes necessary
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to wield power that Client cares at all what the
rest of the country thinks.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
So what does that look?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So what would what would a client as a client
Democrat party look like different than the one today? What
does it mean? I mean, what issues do they embrace?
Where do they go from where they are now?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Do you think, well, at the national level, I think
they're trying to work that out. At the state level,
like in California, I think we know what looks like
it looks like the modern democratic modern California Democratic Party.
But the national level, you know, does that mean they
you know, move away from transgender politics?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Do they do?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
They?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
You know, say, you know, look, maybe we shouldn't have
men in women's bathrooms, But that's very difficult. I mean,
we have a race going on right here in Virginia
where he supposedly moderate them credit But the supposedly moderate
Democratic Candida Abigail Spanger refuses to say men don't belong
in women's locker rooms. So the so called modern candidates
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still aren't at that place yet, and I don't know
if they all they get there.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Are they afraid you say anything about that because of
the far left wing of the party. Are they afraid
to say no, this is wrong and it shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Yeah, absolutely, That's that's pretty much exactly what it is.
I mean, I forget his name, but there was a
Massachusetts House Democrat that basically said, you know, look, we
need to move away from the politics, and basically his
whole staff quit. Right, So, I mean, you have the
voters that are out there that are not aligned with
the Democratic Party, but you look at the the not
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at the base, but the professional people that go in
and run the campaigns and staff the offices. They are
hardcore about these issues and they're not going to tolerate deviation.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Don Carroll from The Washington Examiner, Greg, I've never thought
of the Democratic Party as being closed minded, you know,
I thought they're the all inclusive party.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Well maybe not closed maybe no, maybe without absent absent minded.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Maybe that that couldn't be it, that could be it?
All right, mare coming up the Rod and Greg Show
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Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well, you know, they stopped calling it global warming because
everything was supposed to dry out and get hotter. Now
they say climate change so that they can accommodate for this. So, oh,
it's the most since then. Yeah, there's climate change. Yeah,
well that's climate change out because it's it's a record.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah you see.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I mean they've actually covered their bases. Now, any kind
of weather, be it cold, warm, whatever it is, that's
climate change. So they're indestructible in their philosophy.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, more rain is expected this weekend. Sorry, you'll probably
interrupt your golf game, that's true. What's the deal with
the rain? You know it could if we get more rain,
it could make this month one of the wettest in
the city's history. Who cares. I don't care. I you
know it. It's not sitting up on the snow. I
mean maybe there's snow and mountains, but I know there's
a little bit up there. I don't want all this rain.
(22:48):
I like it warm and dry. Arizona and Nevada.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I think of Brigham Young would have cut a left
or the south before he said this is the place.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Have you ever thought about this if he if he
would have kept going west, we would have been in California.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, now you look at California. Maybe we just saved
California from itsself.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I think we would. I would have rather been in
some warmer wed Yeah, but you know so, uh, you're
a big fan of gorillas. I love gorillas. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
If you want to know the secret of life, just
watch a watch a gorilla deal with his kids. It's
the most beautiful and his wife. You know, they take
a little family unit there, that little nuclear family. There's
a lot to learn from that interaction. It's a beautiful
thing to watch. I watch it on YouTube and knows
all the time. Oh, I watch it for out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well this would this would scare the daylights out of me.
I don't know about it. Yeah, but at a ten
year old Western Lowland gorilla, okay, broke a layer of
protective glass in its enclosure on Saturday. It just went
running right forward and broke that. That would there are
three there are three panes of glass, so no danger
(23:50):
of getting through. But boy did he do damage to
that one. Well, you know what, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I haven't seen the video, but I suspect I know
how that happened. You're not supposed to You're not supposed
to make eye contact with the with the head gorilla,
like the dad, it's the big dad. You're not supposed
to eye them. Well, they don't like to be eyeballed.
That's probably why he ran at the kid as a
kid kept staring at him.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Well, there was no kid. Apparently there wasn't a kid there.
He just decided to go run at h.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
There wasn't someone who was running at Oh, it's just
a break. He's just trying to make a break for
smart gorilla. No, I tell you, they tell you.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I went.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I went to Hugal Zoo and I was there and
I was with one of the zoo keepers and they
just said, as we were watching, they have like a
new baby there and I was to watch and they said,
do whatever you do, make sure you don't start staring
at the male gorills. They don't like to be eyeballed.
They get mad.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah. Well, a woman who was looking on her cell
phone when it happened, perked up and looked at and said, Wow,
what has just happened? She said. When I looked up
to see what had happened, I saw the gorilla staring
directly at me, making eye contact with me, and then
a giant crack. Whoa.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I'm telling you that's you don't want to mess around
with those grills.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
They those kids crawl over their head and they just
take their arm and just they just throw them, just
whip them. And then you see the moms sometimes get
a little agitated dad. But Dad's pretty patient with those
little with those little baby gorillas.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
They he puts up with a lot. I learned something
about gorillas. I bet you don't know what. Before they
fight they throw up dust. Yeah I did know that.
Did you know that? Then when they bang their chests,
they throw dust in the air, and then they attack.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Each other and they bang their chest a little bit too, really,
you know. And they have those sharp teeth, but they're
herbivores on a meat. They got the sharpest teeth. There's
those gorillas with that. When they do that, What do
they eat? Silverbacks? Man?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
What do they eat? They eat leaves and stuff. As
big as they are.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
They kind of stay in like a certain certain area.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah. I mean if you if you're a gorilla at
a zoo and you see one come charging at you, Yeah,
that's it. That will wake you up.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, welcome, Welcome to Gorilla World, our number two of
the rod and great show. Come in your way. Oh
that's not my Favorite's opposite of my favor. I know
you love going there. I still haven't figured out why
you have such a bone to pick with these guys.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You know, because somehow they thought our pioneer heritage. Men,
we all had to be pioneers going to that that
that airport and walking days and days.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
We'll be there next week. You don't have to walk.
You don't have to walk it again, man, I know.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
But I'm I'm I do it under protest. I mean,
what else am I supposed to do? I mean, I
got to get there. But that that airport is so
ridiculously long and it's brand new, is what it was like.
The only airport that was being torn down and completely rebuilt.
That's the best they could do. Heaven't forbid your park
in the structured parking they got to go with that
little you can't even get into the.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Would learn to drive you wouldn't have any problems if
you go.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Into that corkscrew nightmare parking, structured parking. Look at all
the metal and rubber from the tires, and the and
the and the cars that just are scraped across the
entrance and exits.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
That could it be people are going too fast?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It says it's too small. It is too small, it
should be big. Why once you get on the parking,
it's nice and wide. But when you just going up
that little thing poorly engineered, I'd say. And when I
see people say, oh, it's gets rated the nicest, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I think if you haven't walked it, I would. I
would say it is one of the best airports out there.
I love the new airport, except for all the rest.
I would take anything. I don't.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
They don't have a tram. How many airports do you
go to in America today doesn't have a tram to
get you from one gate over to where your baggage claim.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Is or whatever else. They have walking sidewalks.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, I like the trams that actually move you, not
the side side movie. You've got to walk on there
if you want to get anywhere at any any speed.
It's too slow.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, I bring that up because Christy Nome, who is
a Homeland Security chief, has put out a video explaining
to people why there me may be flight delays because
of the shutdown. Right, yes, I've seen the video. She's
just trying to explain it. Well, apparently a number of
airports are refusing to play an own video blaming the
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shutdown on the Democrats, including that's all Lake International Airport.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Of course, of course, you know it's what's funny about
that is, I'll bet you if you were to go
through the list of airports, they're all blue states or cities,
I guarantee you. But then you're gonna get to Utah,
we'll be probably one of the only will be the
outlier of a so called red state. That's that's joining
league with I would say probably if I were guessing
Seattle and Portland and.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Very very good Portland, Oregon, Buffalo, New York, Seattle, Washington,
Los Angeles, Charlotte, North Carolina, Cleveland, Ohio, Phoenix, Arizona, and
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah, Charlotte, North Carolina should be ashamed, We should be ashamed.
And uh, what's the other one? Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona get
a clue.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Sky Harbor down done, Arizona. Well, it's true what she would. Well,
the airport's claim the video is political in nature, well, okay,
and the FED is political in nature. It has turned
out to be. Sadly, I ask you this question. Do
they even still run CNN? I don't think they do.
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I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I don't I don't look up. I'm usually I don't
lollygagging airport. If I'm going, I'm probably getting there right
in time to get on.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't sit around, surprise, So I don't sit around much.
I don't watch the video screens. Although I will tell
you this about Congress US Congress. When the Democrats are
in charge, they got TV monitors everywhere. When you're walking
in the hallways or there's like a little walkway or
a tram to get between the buildings to the main
you know, main building that those TVs usually have. When
Democrats are in charge, CNN on, and when the Republicans
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are majority of Fox News. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah
I did so this summer they're all they are all
Fox News on, all the TVs throughout the hallways of
the Congressional building.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, Salt Lake airport is not going to run these ends.
So if you're looking at them or looking for them,
don't worry. They won't be here.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
And you get Aaron Mennenhall's ways. Hi, I'm I'm the
welcome Welcome to our city.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
They ask you and I to do that.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, first off, she did do one thing to be
at that airport built. In fact, the airport was built
behind schedule and over budget, as per everything a Democrat touches. Meanwhile,
Utah's roads, everything we do is ahead to schedule, under budget.
Then we get that airport. What it was a joke,
all delayed. I think at the airport, you and I
should be the welcoming committee.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
If they were so lucky, if we could go there,
we could deliver a very nice message.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No, I would just say, folks, get prepared. I hope
you have walking shoes on. I hope you're healthy. If
you have children or your elderly, call for a shuttle
because you have no shot of making your connection.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Welcome to the Thunderdome. That would be my welcome. You
are such a whiner.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No, I would warn the passengers that you are about
to walk, especially from that b gate. I would warn
them you are going to be walking for a long time,
so get ready.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And if you we're going to have some sort of shuttle.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, there's well they have like the little ones will
go get for elderly people or something. But they should
have a they should.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Have a tram. Do I qualify for those? Now? You do? Really?
Speaker 10 (30:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, you don't have to walk another day. That place
is so big. They take one look at chan and say, yeah,
that guy's never making it. It's like eight miles back then.
Yeah you're not getting you look at it. You look
at where you're supposed to be and how far away
you are, and look at you go, oh we got
to get okay, go get a golf cart.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Now the stat the guys have kind of make it.
You know what, when I retired, some bait, that's what
I want to do at the airport. I want to
drive one of those golf carts. You don't.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You don't want to navigate all those those through those
things with all those people around them, run them over.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Have a horn, don't they know? Yes, they do, they
have a horn. That sat I think, I look, you,
you don't want to do that job.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
That job, that job, I'll bet it's the busiest shuttle
that's ever been in an airport. Because it's so long,
most people can't make it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
If you're younger and you have little kids, those little
kids are not making They may have to their little
baby strides. They can't even walk that far you are.
There's not It's like a million strides, those little kids.
So you have to carry them plus your luggage. You're
carry on luggage. It's just it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You're a whiner.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
The airport is. It's they made it for you to fail.
It's designed for you to fail.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
No more citizen hughes. You now become winer shoes. I'm
not a wier. I'm telling the truth. By wine and cheese.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Everybody says, oh, look, how nice is Everyone's embarrassed to
say I think this thing's a torture chamber. I'll tell
come clean, I'll tell you that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I know why you're mad, because you get used to
get a real nice parking spot. You don't anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I do miss that if I had one perk, that
was it. Really, there's only one up front. It's not upfront.
You just get the park in the structure without paying.
But I will tell you that was the only perk.
Everything else was just a stick to beat myself with.
But that parking pass was I miss it. Oh, I
love that thing. It was the only thing I really miss.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
You are just a complainer, No I'm not.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
And if they said you can keep it, but you
have to say nice things about this airport, I would
say you can have it. And I really love that perk,
but I would not do it.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
If I had to say something, I say one nice thing.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
No, it's ridiculous. I even find those things on those
white things they are supposed to be like sculptures or something.
I even find those to be distracting.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
How have your sat on one?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, get this, you used to until kids start climbing up.
Now they like rope them off. How smart is that?
Speaker 9 (33:12):
They?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yes, right over there where the missionary room is where
everybody waits there. Yeah, they don't let you on it
because all the kids are climbing up on it.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well they're there for aren't they? I thought? But no,
they don't let you do it. I'm telling you the
whole for you to Yeah, no, it's it's all one parking.
You can't drive in or out of the garage.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
The walk is a literal walking across the plains might
be shorter than trying to walk from the big gate to.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Just get a hand cart. It's just beyond it's not
excepted to get a handguard. And now you can't play
on the the playgrounds they have in there.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Well, you got those white things they are supposed to
sit on, but they kind of go up. And then
these kids started like thinking they could rock climbing or something,
so they now section that off.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
They banned it there.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
At least where were you in there, I'm telling you
where you come out. When you come out, there's like
a room where everyone waiting for missionary suppose, yes, wait
before they is a great idea, great idea that they've done. Well,
right in front of that, there's this white thing and
it's like the one over by baggage claim, but it's
on the other side. Well that's nearby age claim. Anyway,
wherever that thing is, you can't get on it. They
got they got a thing around it.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Well did someone climb it and fall down?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I just think kids were climbing it and they got
worried and so they just shut it down.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And it was a dumb idea to start. Well, I
just wanted to fill you in as to why if
you're looking for a comment from Christy Noman to saw
Lake Careboard, you won't see it, but you will from
Mayor sl La City mar Aaron Man. She'll welcome you
to the state of Utah. You will. Yeah, So you
got that all right. When we come back, we'll talk
about reaction, more reaction to Donald Trump's big day yesterday
(34:44):
in the mid East. CNN has apologized. We'll get into
that as well. That's all coming up the Roddy and
Greg Show with you right here on Utah's talk radio
one oh five nine k n RS.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Not a whiner, I'm just a dropping truth bombs. You
can't take it dropping truth bomb.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Can't hand all the truth beautiful salt like International air Police,
which I think is fantastic. You clearly aren't a traveler.
I don't even know what you're talking about. I travel occasionally,
not as much as I used to, but occasionally. Not
at that airport.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Or you got locked out and got the closest gate
to them to where you walk in, because I'm telling you,
the place is a it's a torture chamber.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Well, we have a couple of talkback messages for you today.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
One of them, Rod and Greg, I have a quick
little story last July, we were going to go to Alaska.
Day before we leave, I pull my handstring. So we
get to the airport. We wait and we wait and
we wait for the golf cart to take us down
to the b gates. It took us forever.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, poor guy, they should have a golf cart. Did
you just walk in and ask for.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, if you go to the ticket take a counter web.
But they should have eighty golf carts going full blast
every direction all the time. Because people, the elderly and
the people with children physical can't get to where they
need to go.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
It's they've made it impossible. They can man to the phones.
We go. Let's hear from David and Taylorsville. David, how
are you welcome to the Rodding Greg show.
Speaker 11 (36:11):
I'm doing very well, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
We're doing just fine? Your thoughts on this, David?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
I agree with citizens US.
Speaker 12 (36:19):
They studied all the best airports in the world and
rejected all those ideas and went their own way.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I will say, David, you're exactly right. See that's why
we love our listeners. He said they looked at every
best practice and said do the opposite of.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I thank you David for you coming. All right, you've
been to JFK.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, well you know that's an UNUK you walk it
for ever a JFK. I will say that in Lax. Yeah,
there's a bad airport. But but you know what, this
is supposed to be brand new. Those airports suffer from
not being updated. They're old and they need to be
they need to be refirshed. This is a brand new,
from the ground up airport. This isn't even a refurbishment
and it's would have been the state of the art.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Most How would they have done it differently? Uh, make
it so well we could watch.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Trams take those b gates and have trams going across
so you can get the other side.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
They were designed to have them.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
You know why you don't have Well, they were over budget,
behind schedule because a bunch of you know, because the
Salt Lake City runs it. Okay, of course they couldn't
get it done on schedule and on budget, so they
make you a walk where it was supposed to be
a tram to take you across. If you put that
tram there you're not talking about.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
So your perfect airport would be you drive your car,
you get a front row parking spot, you walk across
the street, and your gate is right there.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
No, I take the old Salt Lake City Airport was
so much easier to navigate us than even fun. That
airport was fine. They didn't need to be torn especially
for this one. No, they should have because you're walking
under a runway.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I mean to a gate and B gate. There's a
runway in between the two gates. That's where the planes
come into.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Shuttle there, and there was supposed to be a shuttle there.
And it's because they ran out of money because it
took them too long to build all the art and
all the tall seats, all the stuff they didn't need.
That the practical side of it they didn't do.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I'm telling you it's my biggest complaint.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I would I would have a much better If you
go to visit Minneapolis, they have a tram that's.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Above they do. They have a tram in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Well, they all have trams, but the one that's in
I think it's Minneapolis has one that's like above the walkway.
I think I think those gates are so long that
you should have to take it. You should get a
tram just in the gate you're in. But if you're
gonna walk all the way, if you're gonna have to
get the B gate, yeah, you should have a tram.
Wait till you miss a connection.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Hey, Carl, how are you welcome to the show? Carl straight?
Speaker 11 (38:42):
Well, you know, doesn't Dallas have a train or something
like that?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
A lot of them have logical trains.
Speaker 11 (38:47):
Yes, I think, yeah, it just makes a lot of
sense to have a train or something that connects everything.
I agree with that. I don't know that's crazy that
they don't have one.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Right, it really is. I mean you have now too.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
They've now have two gates well walking walkathons. They've got
two places that you're not in a wakathon to earn money,
you're there to actually try to get to your gate.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
And they're both so long. They should have had trams.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I mean that's what we were when I look, when
I was on a job, we were told before they
started breaking ground, they're gonna have trams there. They're gonna
have trams like every good airport does. Now they left
that out.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Now, can I explain something to you, when you get
on an airplane, you're gonna be sitting for two or
three hours. Oh you know what, This is not a
good argument. Isn't it better to walk a little bit
before you sit your keyster down for the next door?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
The assumption is, now, if you are a family and
you have a bunch of young children, good luck getting
all those little rud rats to their B gate. It's
impossible those kids. You see the stride of a little baby,
a little kid. You know how many steps that port
child has to take to get to B gate and
walk more. They'll walk more to get to the gate
than they've walked up to that point in their life.
That's that is just unfair to That is child abuse.
(39:58):
It is child abuse. Still, a little bit is a
little bit. You know, everybody's the Emperor has new clothes.
Everyone's afraid to admit that that airport is a monstrosity.
But I the Emperor has no clothes. I will not
follow that that line of thought. I will tell the
truth that airport is not worth I mean, it's one
of the most expensive airports ever built. It's it's just terrible,
(40:20):
Yes it is. Yeah, it's it's expensive. It's it's just
and then again, park in that structure of parking and
tell me you can get out of that cork screw.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
You want to go back to the old Oh, I would.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Take the old airport in a nanosecond over this one.
That one was so much better, so much better.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I love the new airport. Airport, folks, you've got me behind.
I feel he was. On the other hand, he whinds
about everything. You know, if someone wanted to tell me
to that he didn't get a gift for his birthday.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
You know what if someone said no, I said, for
my kids. My kids thinks just you know, they're in
their twenties now and they think saying happy birthday is
it is. They're at a time in their life now.
They could get me a pretty good gift. You know,
they were younger, it's just like me a picture, which
is cute.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I love it. But as you get older, you know,
the gift quality could go up. Not just a call.
Did you ever hear the term greedy? Gut I'm not greedy,
not greedy? All right? Mare, coming up, you're on the
rod at Greg Show. It's complaint day. We could call
a bitch and day on the sorry by bringing up
the airport. You know how I feel about that airport? Well,
I just love geting under your skin. Yeah yeah, News
(41:23):
with Abby is coming up next to stay with us.
The video from Christy Nome. It's only about thirty six seconds,
but she's blaming delayed at airport's on the shutdown and
blames the Democrats and Salt Lake Airport won't run that.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Oh it's true, but I guess truth hurts, right. So
you got some you got some cities like what'd you say, Portland, Seattle?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
In Seattle, yeah, Phoenix, Y, you're not doing it?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Yeah, Okay, So we've had the callers with patiently weighing.
Let's go to Sam in Salt Lake City, who's been waiting.
Thank you for holding Sam. Welcome to the Rod and
Greg Show. What do you think about that airport?
Speaker 6 (41:57):
Hi, guys, I have some insight information for you. I
hope it's accurate. I think it is, but I have
not been able to totally verify it. There were tunnels
that were built, uh to have tram underneath. That's correctly
when the airport was built. When the when the airport
was built over the top of the tunnels. Then later
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when they got the thing ready, they went to install
the trams and the tunnels were like one to two
inches too shallow. Now I don't know if that's correct,
but I've been told it is, and I mean I
mean our wonderful mayor Bike Path Mendenhall, who that is
(42:41):
her priority. Uh, they should be suing the engineering firms,
the architecture firms, the construction construction people, the tram people,
everybody on the earth who missed.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Yeah, so they were too shallow, Sam, Sam, So the
tunnels were too shallow.
Speaker 6 (43:02):
Yes, that's correct. Now, I'd like you guys, I'd like
you guys to do some investigating and report back to
your audience whether that is correct or not.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
All right, Sam, because I.
Speaker 6 (43:15):
Because I think that is an absolute abomination in today's world.
I have also heard that that was the largest infrastructure
project going on in America at the time.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Yes, it was, what was it four billion, four billion
or something it was at the time. Yeah, you're right,
it was.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
It was the only rebuilt the brand new airport. It
was the only rebuild, complete rebuild of an airport at
the time. And I know Sam, what Sam saying is true.
It was one of the biggest catalysts for not refurbishing
the existing Salt Lake Airport is that they had acquired
some grant money way back when that they used to wisely,
the idea was that they could put those tunnels in
place and then pave over for the for the for
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the runway. But those those tunnels sat unused. But that
was what was the catalyst for rebuilding entirely because they
had these tunnels already in place. Yeah, and what they
got the grants for when they built them were a
fraction of the cost of what if they were to
do it new it would have cost. So there was
a great cost savings they identified there. But come to
find out, if that what Sam says is true that
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when they went to put the trams in there it's
not engineered tall enough, wide en.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Effort, then you wouldn't have been complaining anymore. Now if
you had a tram, that's what every airport has. Scott
in Salt Lake said he wants to weigh in on
this tonight. Scott, how are you good? Thank you your
thoughts on this.
Speaker 12 (44:35):
So I have some inside information because I saw a
lot of stuff to the airport that's doing this project,
and they purposely built it seven feet short. If it
would have been any longer, by law, they would have
to put in a rail system. But when terminal fee
goes in, they will be putting in a train monorail
system that will connect A, B, and C to all
(44:56):
of the gates. They just have to finish and start concourse,
see before they finish out the real system, but there
will be a transportation system that will connect all of them.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
So it is coming, yeah, is what you're saying, Scott,
It is coming.
Speaker 12 (45:12):
Yes, that's correct, right.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Thank you, Scott. We appreciate that. See, Hughes, just be
patient and you can be Okay, can.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
We stop and listen to what he just said for
a second. Yeah, he said it can have been seven
feet longer. They would have been legally required to put
a tram in. So you're so we are talking there
is a law that would prohibit a human being from
having to walk that distance seven more feet? Okay, that
should tell you're right there, you're right there, right there,
(45:42):
billions of do you got seven feet within the legal obligation?
That means you are forcing yone to walk far more
than what you're supposed to have to walk, all right,
seven feet not halfway.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Got a lot of comments on this. Let's listen to
one of them.
Speaker 13 (45:57):
I've been working on that Salt Lake City Airport for
eight years now. I know the ins and outs of it.
I know what you're talking about. That has changed come
the end of October last year. It is much easier
to get around. I don't think you really know or
are you listening willing to listen to reason? And I
would love to have this conversation with you at some point.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Listen to reason that I've explained to our listeners. I
don't have the luxury of opinion.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
I just know. I just know.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
I think he's talking about the news. They got two
concourses now. They get you to the B gate and
the one that's closer to where you come in. You know,
when you get through TSA and you come through, there's
a concourse that's in that adjacentary that's not as long
as the one that's halfway down.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
A gate agate.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Yeah, it's to me, it's still too too long.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
It was supposed to have trams.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
They don't have trams, and therefore it is not even
in the top ten twenty of decent airports in America.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
All right, here's another comment.
Speaker 14 (47:01):
Enough of the crying for your big boy pants on.
Let me tell you how to get from point A
to point beat in the airport. It's called the escalator tracks.
They've got in there. You step on them, they'll take
it to your airport destination that you want to ride.
I rode on him this summer with the three kids.
Speaker 6 (47:23):
That I have.
Speaker 14 (47:24):
I'm a single dad and I took care of it.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
So you just need to You just need first.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
First off, I think Craig does whoever that Craig died is,
But I'll tell you this about Greg.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
They got spots in between those. And then if.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
You see how slow those things go when you get
on that thing, don't you when you walk on the
moving sidewalk, aren't Don't you find yourself walking?
Speaker 6 (47:47):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (47:47):
It makes you fast. You gotta go fast, It makes
you go faster. So you're still walking.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
You're still walking on the moving sidewalk because you got
to still get there before the plane takes off, and
you got to be walking like a pioneer. This is
this is like they thought they took our whole pioneer
heritage to the next level, like we're still pioneers.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
We're not we're not.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
We put some oxen in there, you know, just start,
you know, push carts in there.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
It's just ridiculous. By the way, Edna was on hold,
but she I could see she got impatient waiting. I
could see why. But Edna was on my side too,
but she she didn't couldn't hold.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
So I'm looking for someone to say they absolutely love
the airport.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Because I do well that one gentleman says that I
that well, one guy says Craig doesn't understand it, and
the other guy said that he if I says, I
don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Discussion about it all right. Airport and Dark Radio one
O five dying k n R s the Salt Lake
International Airport had started off as we explained that the
Salt Lake Airport is one of several around the country
that are refusing to air. A video from Homeland Security
Secretary Christy Noman was she basically explaining, Hey, the flight
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delays that you're facing is because of the government being
led by the Democrats. Now some claim that that is
a political statement and therefore they cannot air it. That's
what Salt Lake City is claiming. That's what they're saying,
so Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, several airports around the country are
like sold Lake and not airing that video.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
It's pretty interesting im when Barack Obama did close the
airlines because he wanted to make the point that it
was that Republicans that were closing down and we'd like
to we'd like to open it, but they closed the
government down. So we're gonna have to stop airline flights
that that, you know, so you can have a video
that explains why there's delays, or you can have a
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Democrat president that just shut it down. That's what he
was looking for, the most raconian shutdowns to really it
raised the Yes. He wanted to create the misery index
so the people will get mad at the Republicans who
was very manipulative.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
But here we are. Yeah, we had a lot of
We've had a lot of great callers and talked back
comments on the line. Today. Here's another one on the
talk back line a new.
Speaker 15 (50:00):
Salt Lake City airport.
Speaker 9 (50:01):
It's kind of bad when the walk to your airplane
takes longer than your actual flight that you spend on
the plane.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
Yeah, well, like I look, this.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
Is how you know how bad it is when you
go to a comedy show, okay, and the warm up
act says, hey, welcome everyone, Hey I just got here.
I just got here from the Salt Lake Airport? What
is going on with that airport? And everybody laughs At
the same time the comedian, the comedian's opening line, I
don't remember his name was.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
It was an opening act. It was for Bill Burr.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
He is opening act and he's like, what is going
on with that airport? And the whole Delta Center laughed
in Unison, no way, it's.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
So nice, Like you think, why what would people be laughing.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
At the airports that No, no, that airport because as
the as the caller just said on the talk back line,
it takes you a longer to walk there than to
get to than to fly in the air where you're going.
You think about this, You could, honestly, you could fly.
You could drive to Saint George, or you could get
on one of those flights. And heaven forbid if it's
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on a B gate getting there an hour early and
then making the walk. Man, you were should have just
drove you get there four am. I'm telling you that.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
You want to park at the gate, you want to
get out of your car, take ten steps and be
on the airplane. That's your ideal.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
Now I'm telling you you can I can't even go
to the design these things used to be. You'd walk
down a long corridor like the old Salt Lake Airport,
and then they would have a cluster where the planes
would park around like a the top of it. They said,
I know, we have an engineering idea. We're going to
make it easier for those planes. So they just made
it one straight shot where they can pull up to
the side. They have the ones where you walk down
(51:45):
the hall, and then they have them like five around
the like a hug.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Every topport has the long taxis probably if they have
If they have the long haul, they have a tram
to get back and forth. You heard whatever guys say,
a tram is coming. How long is that airport open?
How long did they How long did they planted.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
A torture the population of this delta hub seven years
before they put a tram in seven feet short. If
our listener was correct, that short of a legal requirement
that you can't make human beings walk that far. If
that was correct, and we'll just say that we have
the smartest listening audience in the world. So I have
no reasona believe otherwise. You are seven feet short of
(52:23):
a law to prohibit a human from having to walk
that far.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
Think about that, Gonna state what I believe. I like here.
You don't go to clearly a third hour.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
No they didn't, Well they didn't. They didn't design it
with the passengers experience in mind at all. Okay, Yeah,
it's a lot more luxurious for the planes to pull
up a mile away. That's nice, but us, the passengers
have to get there.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Good luck. Shall we move on, mister Winer, Yes, let's
move on, shall we? Do you feel better? You've made
your point? Well, I had to show you.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
If you overhead shot of both the old airport and
the new one, I can show you. I mean, the
evidence that if you just look overhead of the two,
you know which one you'd rather go to.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
H in a heartbeat, Yeah, I like the new one.
All right, let's move on. Let's talk about what's going
on down on the border. No doubt the President has
made a world of difference down there in the southern border.
Matter of fact, Greg, do we have numbers a week
or two ago the lowest number of encounters with illegal
people trying to get into since the seventy It is
(53:25):
pretty amazing. Well, what about the wall. There is progress
being made on the wall. Some four point five billion
dollars has been awarded in new contracts to build a wall.
But it's not just any wall, Greg, It's a smart wall.
I know, I like this smart wall. Well, joining us
on our Newsmaker line to talk all about it is
Bethany Blakely. She has been looking at this, she's reporting
(53:48):
on this. Bethany, thank you. It's not a wall, it's
a smart wall. What's all that about.
Speaker 16 (53:53):
Well, it's smart technology and it has existed for some time.
A lot of people may not know this, but the
border wall isn't just a wall. There are towers. It's
a whole component. It's an ecosystem. The wall is one
aspect to it. There are aerostats, which are these massive balloons.
(54:13):
There are towers that have beacons on them. If somebody's
lost in the desert and they end up at a tower,
there's a red button you can push at the bottom
and it notifies border patrol agents to come. There are
sensors in different areas. But I don't want to tell
too much but I can give you an example when
(54:33):
I first started covering the border and I was in
Del Rio. The Bush era wall is really just a fence.
Looks like a fence that could be in somebody's backyard
if they had a lot of money, maybe ten feet tall.
And there was a hole in it and I could
stick my leg through it. And I was with a
friend who's a retired Border Patrol agent, and all of
(54:54):
a sudden, Bard Patrol came running around the corner. There
was nobody there, but there were sensors and cam is
that could tell I was there, and they were like,
what are you doing? And I said, well, I'm a reporter.
I'm showing how people can come through this hole and
walk right down to the river. And so the system exists,
but under Biden, they cut the funded and they reappropriated
(55:16):
the funding, and so a lot of areas that needed
upgrades and repairs weren't done. And so that's what they're
doing now.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
You know, it's interesting to hear that history because I
remember when Biden was in his term, when he was
in office, a lot of people were saying, you don't
need a physical wall. I think Americans were expecting a
wall like President Trump had started to build in his
first term and was talking about and they were saying
that you don't need a physical wall. There's enough technology
to make to do exactly as maybe you're describing, how
(55:46):
does a physical wall and the technology akin to a wall,
how do they work together or can you do? What
can you do without a physical wall and just depend
entirely on the technology.
Speaker 16 (55:57):
Well, there are several hundred miles. I can really only
speak to Texas and New Mexico because that's where I've been.
I live in Texas, and so it's the easiest area
for me to get to. There are sections, several hundred
miles of sections of the border where a wall is
just completely impossible.
Speaker 7 (56:14):
If you go to the Big.
Speaker 16 (56:15):
Bend area of Texas where there are canyons, there's other
areas where the dirt and the soil it's just not conducive.
You just it's impossible. You can't build a wall in
a mountains or in a canyon range. It's just you
can't be like it would be like going to the
Grand Canyon and expecting to build a wall along the
(56:36):
edge or in the canyon. It's just it's not going
to happen. So what they do is they have technology
in places where they know and have intelligence as to
where people are coming. And the purpose of the wall
is like a funnel, you want to control a flow
if you were inundated, you want to control a flow
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of where people are coming through, so you could potentially
direct or block traffic. And that's what you saw in
the videos, especially in you my Arizona. A lot of
people don't realize you my Arizona is extremely remote. It
takes several hours to get there from a major city
in Arizona. You just can't get You just can't drive there,
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and it's extreme. It's extremely remote. Your GPS doesn't work,
it's dirt roads. A lot of times when I'm at
the border, I would get lost my phone, no phone reception,
no no GPS. So you're you are there. It's just
extremely remote. So they have some advanced technology where they
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they also have drones, they have things in the sky
where they're able to look and identify where people are
coming through. But border patrol, who's been there for years,
no where people where the traffic is coming through. So
in so in Big Bend, for example, which is a
huge national park in Texas. You had mostly men, single
(58:05):
military age men that were coming in in groups of
maybe twenty and they were hiking up this terrain with
backpacks like mules, carrying all the drugs in. So in
another section in South Texas, the Rama Bluff, that's where
there's no wall, but people were bringing the kids up
and down, trafficking the little children. So there are just
(58:28):
spots where border patrol knows to go to interdict the people.
And then they had technology that they use to help
them track and find them.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
Final question for you, Bethany, is the technology up and
running now or are they in the process of getting
a going in. If so, what does Border patrol think
of of the technology? Are they pleased with it? Oh?
Speaker 16 (58:50):
They love it. A couple of years ago Biden canceled
funding for aerostat, and that is a huge, huge tool
that people use. It's it's kind of like think of
the Goodyear blimp. You have this massive, white fish looking
floating thing up in the sky and it's massive technology
(59:12):
that is surveiling below and so they can use that
to see. But yes, the technology exists, and what they're
doing is they're expanding it along about five hundred and
fifty miles they're adding new technology to previously construct a barrier,
and then they're adding new technology along another five hundred
(59:33):
and thirty two miles of the border where no barrier
exists in those remote areas that I was telling you
about it.
Speaker 1 (59:38):
And thank you Bethan for joining us on our newsmaker
line talking about a smart wall. I just keep going
back to that line that the President had in his
addressed to Congress earlier this year. You don't need new laws,
you just need a new president. Right, it's proven to
it's all is taken. Pretty amazing what he's been able
to do down there on the border. The man gets
things done. He does.
Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
And again, the Republicans and the or the Rhino Republicans
and the Democrats were telling you you needed new laws
or else you'd get what Biden.
Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Was giving us. Yeah, no, you didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Not one single laws changed, and here you have the
lowest border illegal border crossing since the seventies.
Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Yeah, imagine that. All Right, We've got more to come
on this Tuesday edition of The Rod and Greg Show
and Talk Radio one O five to nine knrs. So
we go to the White House thirty years and events
takes place. You know, if he were alive today, Charlie
Kirk would be thirty two years old today, October fourteenth. Yes,
and the President today honored him by giving him posthumously
(01:00:40):
the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award this country
gives out quite a tribute today.
Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
And it's appropriate too. Yeah, I mean, you can just
see from the aftermath what happens. So let's hear from
our good president and what he had to say. Just briefly,
he said a lot, But here's what he had to
say regarding Charlie receiving this award.
Speaker 17 (01:00:57):
It was supposed to be terrible, rainy, I was telling Eric,
and God was watching, and he didn't want that for Charlie.
Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
He just didn't want that. So it's really beautiful. Couldn't
be more beautiful.
Speaker 17 (01:01:14):
Today we're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior
for liberty, beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like
nobody I've ever seen before, and an American patriot of
the deepest conviction, the finest quality, and the highest caliber,
the late great Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
So they're outside, and what he was referring to at
the beginning of that quote was that it was supposed to rain,
but it was the skies were blue, and he said,
it's very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
Well, some people honoring Charlie today have put together a
little tribute to Charlie. We thought you'd enjoy this.
Speaker 15 (01:01:52):
What does success look like? What are you willing to
do to get to that line of success? And will
you ever disengage if all of a sudden this get
too high or you get too close to failure? I
would say that focusing smaller and more micro right, How
can I improve myself? How can I make myself physically stronger?
How can I make my faith stronger? People say, Charlie,
(01:02:12):
why should Christians be political? I think Christians should be political.
We're actually going to go a step even further than political.
I think Christians need to be talking about morals right
and wrong. What we are finding is a spiritual battle.
This is a spiritual sickness throughout the West. And if
you're here and you don't believe in God, I want
you to open your heart and open your mind and.
Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Say, I'm going to entertain even.
Speaker 15 (01:02:32):
Just because somebody told me this idea that there is
a God and you are not him, and that God
loves you those three things, that there is a God,
you are not him, and that God loves you. He
says three hundred and sixty five times throughout the Bible,
do not be afraid, once for every day. And yet
I feel in the last year and a half we've
(01:02:53):
been living in a NonStop, perpetual place of constant fear.
Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
God does not want you to be afraid. He does not.
Speaker 15 (01:03:00):
He's not giving you a spirit of fear, but a
spirit of courage.
Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
And that of a sound mind.
Speaker 15 (01:03:04):
But I want you to remember this moment. I want
you to be fired up and encouraged because you are
not alone.
Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Quite a tribute today to Charlie Kirk. I would have
been thirty two years ago today honored with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by President Trump. A host of dignitaries
there today to honor Charlie Kirk. Quite a day at
the White House. I mean, they're in such a role
right now. You can't stop this guy.
Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Well, you know, I was listening today and I heard
that Sean Handy wasn't on the air today.
Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
It's because he was at there. Was there, Glenn Beck
was there. He talked about this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Hess Waters was there. Phil a lot of our opinion leaders.
A lot of people that have shows on this pro
on this station, were there they do?
Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
They do? All right, We've got more to cut them.
Another half hour coming your way right here on Utah's
Talk Radio one oh five nine kay n rs. The
social contagion, Greg known as some boys who don't know
which gender they are yes, is dying. Apparently it is
passing this. Mark Gregorian, who we know from the is
(01:04:09):
IT Center for Immigration Studies, put out this graft today
showing the share of students not identifying as male or
female from twenty sixteen to two thousand and five, it
went up, and then starting in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
It is a mind virus, isn't it that really started
to grasp our kids and our you know, or even
our parents. I don't know how these parents are going
to live with themselves going forward with I think the
damage that's been done over the last five six years.
Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Yeah, neither do I, Greg. Well, one of the issues,
of course, has been what's happening in the media. Of course,
Netflix under sharp attack. But the Rainbow people. Now, a
lot of people over the years, Greg, as you well know,
have said, well, the gay community, they aren't after your children.
Don't worry about it. They aren't after your kids. Sure,
sure yeah. Joining us on our newsmaker line to talk
(01:04:57):
about that is Nathaniel Blake. He is a senior can
tributor at the Federalist. He's also a fellow with the
Ethics and Public Policy Center. Nathaniel, thank you for joining us.
What about this message that was given to us for
so many years that they gain community now we aren't
interested in your children?
Speaker 8 (01:05:15):
Well, I think that it was always implicit, right, Just
think of the mantra that was even a hit song,
born this way. Well, if people are born this way,
that means that, of course there are kids who are
born into the LGBTQ community, and if you believe that,
then of course you're going to try to claim them,
to allow them to live as their authentic selves and
(01:05:37):
so on. So it was inevitable with that argument that
we were going to see what has in fact happened
where public schools, public libraries, entertain the entertainment industry and
so on have all really combined pushed LGBTQ plus whatever
identity go on to children.
Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
So here here's the biggest shock for me. I thought
there was a just a a more race, or just
just shared values in society that were not political that
we protect kids. I mean, I've heard stories that if
you went to jail or to a prison, a federal penitentiary,
and you were known to have harmed children or worse
that you were you were it was going to be
(01:06:20):
very dangerous for you in that in that penitentiary because
the other inmates would would harm you for harming a child.
There was like a baseline here that's it seems that
that has disappeared. Is that an overstatement or do you
think that protecting children just isn't in the in the
code anymore for our society.
Speaker 8 (01:06:38):
Well, I think there's been a shift in what we
understand is protecting children, at least what many people understand
protecting children to mean. We meet you know, conservative conservative
Christians would say it means protecting children's innocence. But those
who think that human sexuality is at the core of
our being, that what we want and desire or with
(01:06:59):
regard to sex and gender is our truest self, then
protecting children means helping children express That is a complete test,
get right. They would say they're protect you'll see, you know,
with signs and T shirts and things saying protect trans.
Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
Kids or whatever.
Speaker 8 (01:07:18):
The problem, of course, is that in truth, there are
no trans children. No child is born in the wrong body.
So what they think is protecting or helping children is
in fact deeply damaging and harmful to them.
Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Nathaniel, I think the clearest example of this now, and
you're right about this, is what is going on with Netflix.
What is your reaction to that and were you surprised
at this bio at all?
Speaker 8 (01:07:40):
Well, I'm a little surprised that we're finally seeing a
bit of a backlash to that. I think that vibe
shift that people talk about and the culture has reached
that point where the entertainment industry can't make these choices
to emphasize LGBTQ themes for children and not paying any
price for it. We've got Elon, you know, the world's
(01:08:01):
richest man, and someone tweeting out, you know, cancel Netflix.
That hurts any company. So what we're seeing there is
a real backlash, and I think it's grounded in the
realization that these shows promoting things sexuality that children are wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
You know, you stick around long enough, you start to
hear contradictions amongst these amongst these advocates. You know you
said it. People say that, well, you were born that way,
that's how you were born. Well, if you listen long enough,
it might be a struggle to listen to it. But
if you listen to this transgender discussion, they will argue,
or I've heard some argue that it's all fluid. You
could feel like you could be a man today, but
(01:08:39):
you might think you're a woman tomorrow. It's all fluid. Well,
how are you born that way? Where it's up in
the air and it could change from month to month,
or year to year or day to day. There is
no It doesn't seem like it just seems like every
time they get some societal advancement, they just keep pushing
the envelope to something that even contradicts what they said.
(01:09:00):
The said prior, Are you born that way? Is it fluid?
What's the state of play right now?
Speaker 8 (01:09:06):
Well, I think that the key to understanding them is
to realize that what it's really all about is desire
and serving whatever your desires are. So, if you feel
that you need to your desires are fixed this way,
you're going to insist on that. But if you feel
that your desires are changeable. I'm still going to insist
on serving and doing what you want now. And you know,
(01:09:28):
whether you're an ancient Stoic or a Christian, that's really
a form of slavery. We recognize that just living for
what you want is being enslaved her desires, and it's
not a good way to live.
Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Nathaniel. Final comment, You right, hurting Netflix for promoting perversion
is simply not enough to heal our culture. There's going
to be an ongoing battle, isn't it, Nathaniel.
Speaker 8 (01:09:53):
It's going to be an ongoing battle. And one of
the points that I make is that I'm incredibly pleased
we have people like Elon Musk recognizing that these things
are wrong. But that's enough to establish a good, healthy
sexual culture where we understand what it means to be male,
what it means to be female, how we're supposed to
come together to form boving stable families, all of these
(01:10:15):
things that conservatives have emphasized the importance of the family.
We need to reclaim and promote this understand to really
fix our culture in order to present a positive vision
as well as saying what's gone wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
Nathaniel Blake joining us on our newsmaker line. He's from
the Federalist talking about the rainbow. People are in fact
coming for your children. Well, we've got a lot of
a lot more comments on our talkback line, and we
didn't get to air mall. And we will when we're
going to break. Yeah, and we will when we come back.
I love them giving education where they're going. That's coming
(01:10:51):
up on the Rod and Greg Show and Talk Radio
one oh five nine d n R S. Mister Hughes's
whining about the Salt Lake International Airport. Just warning, I'm
just I'm a clarion call. Caution, you're a clearing call.
All right. Uh So we thought we'd play a few
more of our talkback comments because we can get to
all of them.
Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Know, somehody can disguise his voice so many ways. Okay,
I call. I think the fix is in. The fix
is absolutely in.
Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
Well, let's listen to a few of them. Here's one
of them.
Speaker 9 (01:11:20):
Hey, Greg, maybe you should consider the sky club a
little before your flight.
Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
You can go in three hours early.
Speaker 10 (01:11:28):
And maybe you should consider the drinking too.
Speaker 9 (01:11:33):
Thanks and have a great day.
Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Got up and clear field.
Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Now, Scott, he feels my pain. He's just saying you
might want to self medicate when you get through. I'm
going to tell you, if everybody had that option, everybody
was getting a little bit lit before they got on
the plane because it's such a miserable experience.
Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
Here's another one of our comments on the talk back line.
Speaker 10 (01:11:53):
Greg, get on your phone right now and call the
wambulous get side that thing right. It is so unmanly
to whine. Do you whin like this with Queen Bee
in the legislature? Come on, this is not what men do,
(01:12:13):
not whine over a little having to walk at the
airport when.
Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
You know he makes a good argument if I was whining,
but I'm not. What I'm doing is I'm telling you,
I'm speaking truth to power, is what I'm doing. Okay,
I am warning. I don't know how sot Lake City
making a debacle of that airport, which the old one
was perfectly it was actually better, not even fine, it
was better. They have everyone like they think it's a
it's a fence of their manliness to admit that this
(01:12:43):
new airport is a disaster.
Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
I'm I'm I'm breaking that argument argument, you're not.
Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Actually we've had more people. Edna was on the line
waiting she got off.
Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Here's another one.
Speaker 14 (01:12:55):
Rod, you need to feed the baby to make him happy.
Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Just we're tired of hearing him cry all the time.
Speaker 14 (01:13:03):
And while you're at it and getting him some food,
can you give e Ray pay raise? He's a great guy.
Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Wait a minute, that he raised disguising.
Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
It ends with getting a raise? How do how does it?
How does it? That's whatever that was? That was?
Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Is he raised fantasy, called a rip on me and
and demand he get a race. I mean, is there
any better caller for Eric Ray? I think that I
think he planned that.
Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Yeah, there's another one. That guy just says that is
not doing a good job. James in Utah County. Unfortunately, Rod,
you're wrong. That airport is a piece of crap. Everybody
hates it. Greg's right there.
Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
You than thank you, sir, thank you. Someone broke we
got through the one eighteen O. That man is speaking
for the masses there, I know he is. That's that's
an everyday man you just heard from.
Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
See we can say this.
Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
We don't have We didn't let Salt Lake City challenge
our masculinity by calling out their bad airport.
Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
We we we are still made. We're still going to
say we are never going to solve this. To be well,
all you need is a couple more b Gate flights
and you'll be right on my side. There is not
going to be well. I'm going to the gate next week.
Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Well, Rodeo Queen, let me know how rody Rodeo Queen
feels about that that long pioneer journey you had.
Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
A bad hip. She's nursing right now, so we may
use a card. Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
I cannot wait for the report back, okay, because I
think you will have a new experience and you're going
to say, you know what.
Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Well, I'll call the folks out there and say, guys
can to take care of me. They'll take care of me.
You gonna drop your name and say, you know I
talk on the radio about you. Guys. You can either
help me and supporter of yours. So if you want
that support to continue, get me a card. Do you
know who? Do you know who I am? Play that
card that always goes well, have you ever pulled that car?
You really don't your line, dog face pony soldier, I
(01:15:08):
don't play that card. Real quick question. Did you ever
get pulled over for speeding and they recognize who you
are and let you go.
Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
I don't know that they recognize who I am. But
during my time of service, I didn't get a lot
of tickets. Now I don't, but I didn't say I
never volunteered who I am. I gave him my license
and registration and sat there in.
Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
Case it happened to me. I don't get pulled over
for speeding anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
A miracle, folks, because I followed him somewhere and he
drives like a maniac.
Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Like he drives. He's a hazard, but he's a menace.
Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
I'll get on the road, I won't say anything to him,
just give my license and they'll they'll go back to
their car, come back and sometimes they'll say to me,
Roger slowed down a little bit. So that would mean
they would tell me you didn't get you never pulled
a car. You know. I have a hard time provokes him.
I have a hard No.
Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
I think it's I don't think it works for you.
I think it's a if someone did that to me,
it annoy me. Someone say you know who I am? Unfortunately,
I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't like that.
Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Yeah, Yeah, I've heard other things about getting out of
tickets as well, which we won't share on the air,
not from me, not from you. No, all right, that
doesn't for us. Tonight, head off, shoulders back. May God
bless you and your family in this great country of ours.
Weelan Wednesday starts tomorrow at four. We'll talk to you
then