12.16: Christmas Shoes - Hour 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So obviously a lot of people travel for the holidays,
maybe getting back to their hometown because they've moved away,
or maybe they just I don't know, maybe they maybe
they travel because that's just their their tradition. But some
people can't travel, you know why, because it's expensive, it's
not convenient. And if that's the case, you probably find
yourself mailing Christmas gifts to folks that you won't see
in person. And the United States Postal Service they're letting

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folks know there's some deadlines coming up that you need
to be aware of. So if you're a procrastinator like me,
and I'm not, I don't think I've ever shipped a
Christmas present, But this would be me going to the
post office like next Monday, like, hey, how can I
get this where it needs to be by you know,
Christmas Eve? And they would look at me and probably laugh.
But right now says here that Tuesday, today is the

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last day of mail items using USPS ground advantage or
first class mail within the lower forty eight states and
still get it, you know, still get the expected Christmas delivery.
So again, USPS ground advantage or first class mail, Today's
the deadline. If you want to send something and that
person have it by Christmas. Thursday's the deadline for Priority

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Mail service, and then Saturday is the final cut off
for Primarity a Priority Mail Express, which it is the
fastest option that USPS offers.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
So just keep that in mind.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And I haven't even looked, which is kind of scared
to think about that. We are now nine days away
and I know what I'm getting, and it's not like
I've got to purchase a lot of things, but I
haven't even considered, like, am I in the window now
to buy something to where it would still get here?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I hope it. I hope.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Within you know, this amount of time, I should be okay,
probably should have ordered it, you know, last week, Probably
should order it today. So I'm going to make sure
I do that. And I'm lucky when it comes to
Christmas gifts for a lot of folks, like with within
our family my wife, usually you should ask me, hey,
what should we get your dad or what should we do?
So it's not that I don't have a part in
deciding what we give people. And obviously her money's my money,

(02:00):
my money's her money, that kind of thing. But as
far as like handling the actual process of purchase, delivery, wrapping.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I got it easy. She does most of that.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
But you know, when I get gifts for her and
some things that I want to get, you know, my
children that that she's not involved in, that's me. And
I've i feel like, as I'm saying it out loud,
I'm I'm I'm realizing I've I've done it again. I've procrastinated.
I mean, if it gets to next Monday and I'm scrambling,
that would typically feel like all right, we're up against it.

(02:30):
But now just knowing that, I'm like, you know, like
most people, I'm depending upon delivery. Maybe I have waited
too late.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I don't know. All this talk is making me anxious.
I don't mean to do so. I'm still I've still
got to take care of a few things in this regard.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So when you purchase gifts, are you and I guess
it all depends on like what you get. There's certain
things like you you would never get it online, But
like are you do you do online Christmas shopping?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah? Not exclusively, but I would say most of it's
done online. Man, it is It is wild to go
to a mall this time. I've been to do a
mall for Christmas shopping in years.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
So I've ended up there probably every year, or at
least almost every year for a long time, and it's
it's because I've waited and I got like one, one
or two gifts I need to get, like I need
one more thing for my mother, one more thing for
maybe my wife. And then also I've gone just to

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kind of like, I guess, think of what it used
to be, because it's nothing like it used to be
as far as just the overall atmosphere at a mall.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
And it's sad really.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I mean, I've seen different social media clips that surface
from like old v you know, camcorder footage of what
like the Jefferson, the Jefferson Mall, the Clarksville, the Green
Tree Mall looked like like back in the nineties when
I was growing up, and like that that's Christmas to me,
like that, just the overall everything about it. And now
obviously they still decorate for Christmas and you go to

(03:55):
the mall, you can tell that you know clearly it's
Christmas time with the decorations, but there's just I mean,
it's it's almost empty at times, and that is again
not surprising. When we know how much people rely on
ordering online and getting things shipped. And also I think
gifts like if if you were going to consider should
I get this online or should I get it in store?

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For me, it would be more about like clothing and whatnot,
because I would want to try it on see how
it fits. Well, you're not doing that for somebody you're
buying it for, so you know, when it comes to
Christmas time, when it comes to people getting gifts for others,
it's even I mean, I could you know, I think
you'd be more inclined to probably go to the mall
for yourself than you would a Christmas gift because again,

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a lot of things now it's more convenient. It's just
it's not even about hum I wonder what's more convenient.
It's now just routine people are, hey, I want to
buy something. I want to get something. You don't make
plans to, you know, getting your car and drive there
when you have time, you get out your phone and
you find it and you buy it. And that's just
kind of how we're all programmed now. And it's convenient,
but you know, it's definitely changed what it looks like

(04:57):
at a mall on Christmas. And if you're somebody that
has worked retail during Christmas, you're probably thinking, oh, this
guy is the worst. It's hell on earth for me.
And I get it. If you work, it's busy and
you know. But I just remember as a kid going
and waiting for what seemed to be a ten mile
long line to meet Santa, you know, And now you can.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Still meet him. He's still there, but it's just different.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
But certainly Christmas shopping more convenient, I would say, now
than it's ever been. All right, let's get to a
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with us, John Shannon as well Tony Dwi are coming your.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Way here shortly.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
So one of the things we've talked about quite a
bit today is the decision to well, I guess the
decision was made from the the Ford breakup with the plant.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Is it skoval That's what it's called.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's blue Oval es K Blue ovalescc SK stands for
anyway southuth Korea anyways.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
So electric vehicle, you don't have one, You've got a
brand new Ford Win fifteen. But like, were you surprised
that we're here now where it hasn't maybe taken off
as much as people would have thought four years ago
because I'm not at all.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Called it. Everybody called it. John Shannon called it.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Dwight called it.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I called it, everybody called it. Look, I love good ideas,
and we get in there and let's simplementum. Let's help
it with state money, let's help it with federal money.
But everyone knew this initiative was not going to fly.
It's common sense. It is basic finance. How many cars
are you selling it are gas and how many are

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you selling that electric on your lot? Well, we're selling
one percent or electric whatever it is, right, and you're
gonna spend ten billion dollars on a battery plant that
never what it did produce a battery It is the
wrong batteries.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yes, and it's a layer I wasn't even aware of.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
And I tell you, I tell you who should be
mad Etown. They are, that's what we Yeah, that's been
a big Yeah, Glendale is. The people in Glendale are
highly upset over the.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Coffee shops it opened, because it's one thing.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's one thing to be to be, you know, underwhelmed
as far as what they were expecting. Now they're just
downright inconvenienced with a huge plant that even when they
do get this thing up and running at the end
of twenty twenty seven, and of course it's it's used
as a different Ford's going to use it differently, obviously
because this partnership is no more. But at that point
they're going to only use twenty three percent of the

(10:40):
entire capacity of what they built.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Like that's just a waste.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
How long will it be before it becomes a distribution
center for Amazon or Shean or whoever, Halloween or spiritual?
But the inconvenience for the Etown folks for the last
what three years, well how long have they been building it?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Three years? Three years ago?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
And by the way the construction, it has been a
mess since day one. They had problems with the floor,
They couldn't get the gear. The gear was from South Korea,
so it wasn't the best gear you could buy. They
didn't buy from American companies, right, so they bought from
South Korea. They teamed with the South Korean and when
we heard sk was getting taken off, everyone in the

(11:21):
situation knew this.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
And there's been.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
A monetary outlay by companies coming into Etown based our
team based on projected population. Yeah, I told Nick earlier,
we're getting a third Kroger. Etown is getting a third
Kroger being built right now, and a Publix. There's ahuah
wahs going in. All of this stuff coming in based
on what the projections for the population and the tax
base was going.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
So, I mean, I have my brother in law.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
He probably shouldn't mention him by name, but I already
kind of did here. But people who work in different
trades that have been a part of that problem.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
So yeah, they've just it's been hectic. It's been crazy.
It's been it's been crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
You got a bunch of different job sites, your line
of work and what you do over your career, that
one stood out as like just being not really not
everybody's on the same page.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, And look, a lot of these projects, the VA
Hospital should have used all Kentucky or American companies, right, right.
They shouldn't have outsourced the gear or whatever from Florida
or wherever. Right, it should have been from Kentucky. You know,
you know McConnell did it right, So he's got it
pushed through. That's fantastic. It's gonna be great for the vets.

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But they you should have used Kentucky companies or American
companies that are based out of Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
So the tax credit seventy five hundred dollars tax credit
for electric vehicles that I feel like if that wasn't
in place as long as it was, there'd be like
I feel like, guess one of the reasons why a
lot of people did it right, Like I don't it
just eventually it's going to be the future. But to
me that just when it comes to like driving in
what it still is every single Like a lot of
things have evolved over time, including vehicles and whatnot, but

(12:53):
like I just think you're still so far away from
people being like.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I got to get a new car. Guess somem
going ev.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Well, even if it was even if it was unshine
and it was perfect idea, Right, if it was perfect,
people would still not want to get rid of their
gas cars. Right, Well, it's not sunshine. The damn thing
if it catches on fire. Well, if you drive electric
vehicle into a lake that's on fire, it will burn underwater.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Problematic in that situation.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, you think fire departments hate the thought of these things. Uh,
salt water exploding these things into fire. Salt water explodes
these things. And then a couple of years ago in
Chicago when these cars wouldn't start in their cold and
you're like, it's not sunshine. It's not a perfect idea,
And I get it. They're trying to work out the bugs.

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And one other thing you can say, called it on
one thing I noticed. Ford said they're going to refocus
on as they go away from EVS. What's the one
kind of car you said they should focus.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Oh, it's it's the hybrids.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yes, that's what they're going to refocus on.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
The hybrids. Dude, I mean hybrid go there first.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
That's what they're going back to, the focus on hybrids.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, you know many people that have an evla. Our
boss Gus has one.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Did you know that.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Uh is it a cyber truck? No, he just got
the he got the Tesla, I think so.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
I haven't talked to him about it, but I know
two people that have it, and they they like it.
But they they would never act as if like, oh,
they realize what they're doing is vastly different.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
That would be a big adjustment for most people. Well, again,
the areas where they are. Those people believe that we
are everyone should have it. So if you go to California,
you go to California, spend any time there, half the
car out, half the cars are elected. Oh thank you,
Like half the cars are elected. That's all you see
on the road. So they believe, oh, everybody should do
this because we're doing it. No, no, no, yeah, no, yeah,

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California is in the process of banning like gas power.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Be able to get it done. But yeah, they won't.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I mean that's just what it is, all right, Tony
Dwider coming your way next right here. It was ready
to wait forty w h A s