Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas 12/24/24

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We embrace the end of an error. The defeat does
not mean we are defeated.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
The conversation's happening here at fifty five KRC, the talk station.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
All right, now, it's Christmas Eve, but when Joe Strucker
is in the house, the van Halen is going to
roll out. That's all this is to it. That's the stick.
So maybe we'll just let us play a little bit.
Wake you up at five oh four on this Christmas

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Eve morning, Tuesday morning. Who's got to get up today,
I don't know, but we're up and out him here
at fifty five KRC. I'm Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas.
Joe Strecker is running the big board in the command
center over there, and a lot of stuff I want

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to get to. My buddy Jim Serger is going to
be here today, that'll be about seven thirty, and we'll
talk some Christmas stuff with him, talk about his latest
book and what kind of year he's had, a couple
other conversation items I want to get to him with.
And then my buddy Andrew Pappas will be here and

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that'll be in the eight o'clock hour, and Jody, we
have Papas you know Papas likes that walk up music.
It's got us. There's a song by Romeo Void that
he likes then. I can't think the name of it,
but it's very off the beaten path. I would say,
does he when he comes on this show, does he

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demand walk up music? Adele learious? That's perfect love, I
love it. That is that for that guy? That is
absolutely perfect. Here's some good news. Some guy in New
Jersey has stepped forward to claim the Mega Millions jackpot

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from nine months ago. That jackpot was worth one point
one two billion dollars, fifth highest in the in the
history of the game, and this player was in New Jersey.
Choosing to remain anonymous, will take home five hundred and
thirty seven and a half million. This says before state

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and federal taxes. I think they mean after state and
federal taxes. But nine months jackpot was the first one
in twenty twenty four. Claim nine months after it was
one March twenty sixth, and there were thirty one consecutive
Mega Million drawings without a winner before that ticket was sold,

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and it was purchased in Neptune Township, New Jersey. I
have never I've been to New Jersey. I've not been
to Neptune Township. I don't think.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
So.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, one point was that number again, doesn't matter. One
point one to two billion. That's nice, So Merry Christmas
to that guy. If the winner had not claimed the jackpot,
each participating state in the Mega Million's game would have
gotten back all the money it contributed. The states used
their unclaimed lottery prizes for different purposes, but unclaimed prizes

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typically remain in a state's lottery fund the New Jersey.
In New Jersey, where the jackpot was one, lottery sales
are a contributing factor to retirement funds of public servants.
The people who could benefit from an unclaimed ticket are teachers,
police officers, firefighters, and other public employees. The lottery said

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the Mega Million's jackpot reached an estimated nine hundred and
forty four million ahead of the Christmas Eve, So there's
a drawing tonight for the Mega Millions nine hundred and
forty four million. That would be a nice Christmas gift,
So that drawing will happen tonight. If a ticket wins

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the jackpot in the next drawing, it will be the
second ticket one on Christmas Eve. According to mega millions.
First Christmas Eve jackpot was worth sixty eight million and
was one in New York. Joe, you'd be all right
with sixty eight million, wouldn't you? Ab all right? He could,
he could, He could scrape by with that. So that's
pretty good. So there's some there's some good news to

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start your day. What else? What else? What else? Ram
Paul is out with his Joe. What's the chance we
can get ram Paul on the show today? He's zero?
I thought you had his personal cell number, Yeah, Joe,
ram Paul. I want to pick it up at five am.
But no, ram Paul. Every year he comes out with

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his festivus list wasteful government spending Joe, how much money?
If you had to guess how much money has the
federal government wasted this year or this past year? According
to rand Paul, Well, it's not day. He says ten trillion.
It's not tenrally, and it is, but it is over
a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars for things like let's see,

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this is just a partial list ghost towns on the
government dime. The federal government spent ten billion dollars ten
billion with a B ten billion dollars on maintaining, leasing,
and furnishing almost entirely empty buildings, office buildings, and that

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right there is one of the main targets of the dogs.
That's why I am so looking forward to when the
DOGE gets started, right the Department of Government Efficiency d OGE.
That's for Vake ramaswami Elon Musk And they are promising
to have a website where everything they do is going

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to be transparent. It's all going to be out there.
I think they're even going to have a podcast and
they're going to talk about what the where they are
looking to spend less money. It is a great concept,
and this is one of the places where they're going
to start, and they are going to tell federal employees

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to get back to work. You've got to come back
to the office. I think the studies are out there
that there are some people who can be productive while
they are working at home, but by and large, productivity
falls off when you have a majority of your employees

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working at home. I am not throwing shade on anyone
who works from home. I know a lot of people
who do. If it was me, I don't think I
don't I and I say this because I know that
I don't think I am cut out to work from home.
If maybe once in a while, but by and large,

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I think I'm the kind of person my type of personality.
I need to come into the office. I need to
come into the studio. I could broadcast from home if
I wanted to. I choose not to. I choose to
come to the station. It's just the way I'm wired.
But I think this whole idea that you have ninety

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four or ninety six percent of federal employees who all
went home to work during the Wuhan. That's over now, folks,
that is over, and it's time to come back to
the office. And Joe Biden, the despicable Joe Biden. I'm
going to get into some of the horror stories that

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have come out about Joe Biden and the death sentences
that he commuted yesterday. It is these people that he
is cutting slack to and giving last minute commutations to.

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They literally are some of the worst of the absolute
worst of horrific individuals. But getting back to the DOGE,
this is one of the places where v Vaik and
Elon Musk have said they are going to start. You
can walk around Washington, DC, and there's one one empty

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office building after another, and in the area surrounding DC,
and the leases continue, and the maintenance continues, and the
heating and cooling continues, and everything else that goes on
with running and managing a building continues and no one
is using it. So it's time for federal employees to
come back to work. Ten billion dollars ten billion dollars

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And okay, and I always hear this argument and people
throw it back at me, Well, ten billion dollars when
you look at all the money the federal governments spends,
that's a drop in the bucket, that's a drop in
the ocean. Well that may be true, but at some
point the mindset has to change to just look at

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ten billion dollars and slough that off and act as
if well, that's just the cost of doing business. That's
you know, not that big of that, that's not even
a rounding air none. The mindset on wasting ten billion dollars.
That has to change. And I think that is what

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is going to be the biggest accomplishment, and I hope
that is one of the most important accomplishments that happens
with the Department of government efficiency is to change that mindset.
And I was talking to Sharon Coolidge yesterday and she
was reflecting on her ten years of covering City Hall

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and one of the stories that that she wrote about
that she that jump out as her as a major
story that she covered was the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District
and that had a price tag of six hundred When
was it six? And hold on, let me let me
flip this over here. I've still got the I still

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got the copy here from yesterday, but I think it
was six hundred and eighty nine million. And of course
I can't find it when I want to find it.
But it's a it's a number. It's a number like that,
and that is a number that. Yeah, six hundred and
eighty million, that's a number that that is a huge
number here in Cincinnati. And so, and I was talking

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to her, I said, you know, when you have that
kind of money that's changing hands, there's a lot of
people that want to get their fingers in that pie.
And that's where that's where the trouble starts. And that
was a story I suggested that there's still a lot
more to that story than ever met the eye. And
and I believe she was in agreement with me. We
got to get to a break here, but I'm going

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to continue on with the Festivist report from Senator Ram Paul.
And if you want to jump on board five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred, do you know the numbers to call?
It's Dan Carroll and for Brian Thomas on this Christmas Eve.
And Joe told me he might roll out a little
bit of Christmas music today, so we'll see what happens
on fifty five KRC the talk station. Here's a nine

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first warning, whether forecast not, is cold this morning. It's
going to be cloudy today in a mild day ahead
with a higher forty five. Maybe some sprinkles here and there.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Tonight, mostly cloudy from possible rain in the overnight hours,
the overnight.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Low thirty six. Christmas Day, cloudy, rainy. It'll be a
rather warm Christmas with a high of forty eight, and
then showers continue on into Thursday. And Thursday we're looking
at a high of fifty six. It's forty four at
fifty five KRC DE Talk station. Decender's half were gone

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and the snow.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Is falling down fifty five krs the talk station, Dan
Carroll and for Brian Thomas.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Christmas time has coming.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
But the Blue This is the kind of Christmas music
I could listen to all day.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
How about you, Joe Strucker, come on now, since out
here with me Christmas thing Lackett used to be. That's
good stuff right there. I gave Joe my favorite Christmas
song list and he's going to roll those out during
the day today, so I'm looking forward to that. There's
also a list of what are considered the top seven

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best Christmas songs, and I must say there's one in
there that I like pretty well, a couple actually, but
the rest of them not on my top seven list.
But the list I am talking about right now is
rand Paul and the festivist list, and I love how

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he co opted that from Seinfeld because what is festivus
if you're a Seinfeld fan. Festivus is the airing of grievances,
and so ran Paul has been airing his grievances for
I don't know. This has got to be what ten
or fifteen years in a row he's done this now.
But it's great for people like me because it gives
us something to talk about. Let's see, so we talked

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about the ten billion that the government is spending to lease,
furnish and maintain empty office buildings. Here's another one. A
Florida man stole eight million dollars in COVID nineteen relief
fund Someone could write a book on all the money
that was wasted during the Wuhan. And we talked to
Brad Webster about that a couple of weeks ago, and

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his report gets into all of that too, just the
way they shovel money out the door with literally no
oversight at all. And then I remember when those stories
were first popping up, I would talk about him, and
then the kicker those stories was there was in a

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lot of them, there was no effort made to get
that money back. This one's a little bit different, though.
Patrick Parker Walsh of Florida, businessman turned pandemic plunderer, made
headlines for what he did. Stole nearly eight million dollars
in federal COVID nineteen relief funds to buy Sweetheart Island

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a private paradise of his own. The bold act of
fraud which led to his sentencing to sixty six months
in federal prison. Joe has Joe Biden pardoned this guy
for stealing nonviolent crime. Got to give these people a
second chance sixty six months in federal prison. So at

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least this guy did sometime. Court documents illustrate the brazen
acts of deceit sixteen fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program.
And then there was a story the other day about
a bunch of Hollywood celebrities that cashed in on the
old PPP program millions of dollars, and I think Oprah

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might have been one of them. Want to go back
and look that up. But the PPP program, featuring fictitious
employees and companies, fabricated out of thin air the documents
outline of staggering eleven million, nine hundred and fifty thousand
dollars and requested PPP loan funds, of which he managed

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to obtain almost five million. Unsatisfied with one illicit endeavor,
he he delved into economic injury disaster loans and raked
in almost another three million dollars with little oversight or
accountability to the COVID nineteen relief program represented an opportunity

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to plunder that only Blackbeard could have imagined. Walsh's case
is just one of a trove of government oversight failures
where the swindlers of pandemic relief programs ran ramp at.
Many of them were from Russia or other places overseas.
According to an analysis by the Associated Press, individuals engage

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in fraudulent activities potentially stole over two hundred eighty billion
two hundred eighty billion dollars from COVID nineteen relief funding,
with an additional one hundred and twenty three billion being
squaderned or misused. The losses account for approximately ten percent
of the four point two trillion dollars the government allocated

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thus far for COVID nineteen relief four point two trillion dollars.
And so when you look at that number and you say, well,
we only lost two hundred eighty billion of it, it's
a fraud. That kind of stuff has got to stop.
And this four point two trillion did not need to

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be spent. Maybe some of it, I think you can
make a legitimate case, but four point two trillion dollars
and just let it go out the door like that.
The one thing that the report by Ran Paul doesn't

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indicate is if this guy made restitution at all. Still
eight million dollars did he pay any of it back,
but at least they've got a little tiny island in
Florida for collateral on that. Not sure it's worth eight
million dollars. Maybe it is, Maybe I'm wrong, but there's

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a picture of it. Doesn't look like you can It
doesn't look like there's a lot of room to put
anything on it. Five point twenty five Dan Carroll for
Brian Thomas. I'm fifty five KRC detalk sticks. Happy holidays
from Woodhall, known for over seventy one years. D nine
first one forecast not as cold today, We'll have a

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high of forty five, mostly cloudy tonight, some rain as
possible as well the overnight low thirty six. Here's the
Christmas Day forecast, scattered rain and Christmas Day high of
forty eight. Then some showers continue on into Thursday, when
it will be mostly cloudy and we'll see a high
of fifty six. So some mild weather happening out there.

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It is hold on one, well, it's forty eight at
fifty five KRC detalk stations. Merry Christmas Eve. At Christmas Eve,
Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. Continuing to go down the

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list of the Festivist report, from Ram Paul put this
out yesterday. Let's see, how about twelve million dollars for
a pick a ball complex? Any pickaball players in the crowd.
I guess you can make a very nice pickleball complex
for twelve million dollars. This was in Las Vegas, and

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I can't, Joe, it's hard to imagine that Las Vegas
couldn't cough up twelve million dollars for a pick a
ball complex, isn't it? Twelve million dollars? Las Vegas is like, look,
we don't have it. We just can't find that in
the budget anywhere. And so the federal government coughed up

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twelve million dollars for a pickle ball Congratulations, that's great.
The Department of Energy, this is a great number right here,
spent fifteen and a half billion. So you thought ten billion,
four empty federal government buildings was a lot. No, fifteen
and a half billion dollars to do? What to push

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Americans towards electric vehicles that they don't want? Electric vehicle
owners report to have nearly eighty percent more problems. I
don't if you want to own an electric car, police
by all means own an electric car. They should if

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companies want to make electric cars and people want to
buy them. That's the American way. But the government should
not be forcing these things down our throat, and the
subsidies of American taxpayer dollars for people who make, sell,

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or buy electric vehicles should not exist to my way
of thinking. That's just plain and simple right there. Let
this market develop on its own at its own pace.
And I'm sure I just read we're in California. Gavin

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Newsome wants to go full speed ahead with the idea
of having all vehicles or what it's like, ninety or
ninety five percent of vehicles that are sold by the
year twenty I believe it's twenty twenty thirty five that
they won't be any gasoline powered cars being sold in

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the state of California. And there's still people who think
this is a great idea. But electric vehicle owners report
they have nearly eighty percent more problems than owners of
gas powered vehicles, facing issues like unreliable performance, difficulty finding
a charging station, ev battery is struggling in the cold,

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and we see those videos every year. It's freezing cold outside,
it's twenty below people trying to go out there and
start their cars. They go little sign that lights up,
it's too cold. It's too cold to charge your battery.
It's too cold to start the car. So what would

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be nice in the case like that, that you have
a good old ice engine. They call them ice engines.
Now internal combustion engines. Got one of those standing by
to get you where you need to go. Let's see
long charging times. These are one of the issues that
electric vehicle owners have, higher maintenance costs, limited driving range.

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Despite the growing list of headaches for EV owners, the
Biden administration is eager to waste your hard earned dollars
on unpopular trend, the unpopular transition. Americans have spoken, and
they overwhelmingly prefer reliable gas powered vehicles. Vehicle manufacturers are

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feeling the sting of producing vehicles that consumers don't want,
losing money on every EV car they build. Ford had
a loss of one point three billion dollars in its
EV division in the first quarter alone. Lucid Motors reported

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losses of two hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars per
car sold. Let's see. Rivian reported losses of one point
four or five billion dollars in the same period. These
are huge numbers, and I don't think they have numbers

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for Tesla in here. But the Biden administration is determined
to throw twelve billion dollars at automakers to push EV
production forward. It's as if they think throwing taxpayer dollars
at the problem will magically make us forget that Americans
still prefer gas powered car. Of the twelve billion, ten

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billion dollars will come from the Energy Department, and an
additional two billion will come from the Inflation Reduction Act,
So there's that wonderful piece of legislation again. The Energy
Department will also make three and a half billion dollars
available to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for evs and

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the US grid, despite the fact that most battery materials
are imported from abroad. Can you say China? So Trump
is looking at all this and there's going to be
some serious changes, at least we hope there's going to
be some serious changes in the way this country deals

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with electric vehicles, because these electric vehicles are not the
answer to saving the planet or changing the climate or
making the weather better for anyone. And this kind of
this kind of waste, fifteen and a half billion dollars

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on just from the Department of Energy to try and
shove electric vehicles down our throats. Unbelievable, And the list
goes on, and so do I. Dan Carroll for Brian
Thomas on fifty five krc the talks Days V nine
first warning weather forecast not as cold today, It'll be cloudy,

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will have a high of forty five. Clouds continue tonight
and maybe a little bit of rain during the during
the night time or overnight hours. The other night low
thirty six. Heading into Christmas Day, some scattered rain showers.
It'll be a warm Christmas with a high forty eight.
Showers continue Christmas night into Thursday, and it'll be mostly

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cloudy on Thursday and a high of fifty six.

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Speaker 1 (27:38):
Wis chrismas Tefardy baby is no holograph, he is Christmas
temparty babies.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Nor yokome for it.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Merry Christmas sitting a good empy. No one doesn't like
Dwhite yok That don't guy. I know we'll stay with
ring and dig kind of toe and.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
You almost see me coming in a crap Cadillac Christmas time.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Anythy, that's great stuff, Thank you, Joe, Merry Christmas, rolling
out my favorite Christmas songs, Dick and dating. You're up
early this morning. Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Verry Christmas, Dan and everybody.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
Boy, that was good.

Speaker 6 (28:28):
I love Da White yokas right yoakam.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I've been I've been to his show a few times.
It is uh, it is always great and never disappoints.
I love that kind of stuff.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
Oh yeah, you know he's learned from Buck Owens.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Somebody said, yeah, he was very close. He was very
close to Buck Owens. He played He played at buck
Owen's funeral.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Oh yeah, he was great. Hey, you know the Bengals
are making a little bit of a comeback, aren't they.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well it's uh, you know, it's a they've got to
win if they if they win, they have a chance. Well,
well they've got to have a few other things happen
as well. But this, Dame, this game against Denver is
big And what is that, sad? I believe they play
on Saturday. Yeah, so it's you know, they do this
late in the season. They get some of those games

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going on Saturday, and then we'll have games on Sunday
with the Bengals play on Saturday. And they played Denver
and Hope is still alive, Dick, So I know you're
holding on to Hope. But Dick, it's Christmas Eve, and
I appreciate you listening and appreciate the phone call, and
you have a merry Christmas there and there you go,
Dick from Dayton. Always great to hear from it. Let's see,

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let's see, let's see where are we at on the
Festivus Report. How about the Disinformation Index? The Department of
State wasted three hundred and thirty thousand dollars to fund
the censorship of non liberal and conservative media. How about
that spending our tax dollars to keep our voices down.

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That is just fantastic. The influencer effect hit foreign policy.
The Department of State squandered four million dollars eight hundred
and forty thousand on influencers. The Department of State State
spending four million dollars on influencers. Why on earth will

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they be doing that? Influencers in other countries? And I
gotta find the details on that one. And got I've
got two different lists here. One is the one was
put out by Bright Barton and the other is the
actual report itself. I just don't understand. Let's see the

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Department of State, by a man, State Department wasted a
lot of money this year, spent three million dollars on
girl centered climate action. Girl centered climate action in Brazil.
That is fantastic. Let's see Department of State spent two
point one one million dollars for border security not in

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the United States but in Paraguay. Two point one million
dollars for Paraguay and border security. That is just fantastic.
This is the one that's getting a lot of headlines.
Health and Human Services spent nearly a half million dollars
on a study of lonely and starved rats. The Department

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of Health and Human Services spent four hundred and nineteen
thousand dollars to determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more
than happy rats And isn't that the kind of information
that we need? And let me see, I saw that
one just a second ago. Let's see, I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling,

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I'm scrolling. I know I've got that one to hear.
It is right here. Despite spending over a trillion dollars
to try and solve the drug crisis, cocaine, one of
the most harmful and addictive drugs, continue to gain popularity
in communities nationwide. Significant funding has been allocated to the
study of cocaine addiction, but there seems to be no
solution in sight. This raises questions, how are these scientific

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studies and grants really using your tax dollars. One of
the studies examining cocaine took place in New York University
and why you got four hundred and nineteen thousand dollars
to investigate whether rats placed in positive environments would be
more likely to abstain from cocaine than rats and negative

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and isolating environments. Here's my question, what is a positive
environment for a rat? The last time I was in
New York City, I saw lots of rats down there
in the subway system. Is that a positive environment? Don't
rats choose to live where there's water leaking, where there's

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where there's garbage, where there's filth. They seem to like
those sorts of environments. Is that a positive environment for
a rat? Researchers placed rats in small compartments injected them
with cocaine to create a positive association with that location.

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The rats were then divided into different test groups. One
group was allowed to socialize and had substantial access to
food and toys. The other group was kept in isolation
with no toys no access to food. After four weeks,
researchers compared the true group's reactions to no One's surprised.
The rats subjected to starvation and the more isolated environment

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sought their cocaine associated compartments more than those enriched in
social environments. That is, that's fantastic. So you're going to
put a rat in a box, cut them off from
all the other rats, and only offer him cocaine, and
you're surprised that he keeps going back for the cocaine brilliant,

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but it was only four hundred nineteen grand and Doge
can't get here soon enough. Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas
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The nine first morning forecast not as cold today, cloudy,
a high of thirty seven, I'm sorry, a high a
forty five, and then tonight it'll be mostly cloudy.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
We could have some rain possible every night. We had
a little bit of rain overnight last night into today.
The other night, low of thirty six. Christmas Day scattered
rain and a high of forty eight, then some rain
continues from Wednesday night, Christmas night into Thursday. Thursday's high
fifty six.

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Speaker 1 (35:41):
This is one of those songs that one of those
tunes that makes me wish I knew how to play piano.
Joe and I how to play piano.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
No me either.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
My Anne, Barbara, God bless her. When I was a kid,
tried to tried to give me piano lessons, but I
wanted to be outside. I wanted to, you know, go play.
They can play in the pickup baseball game and jump
my bike over homemade ramps, do all the fun stuff
that the kids outside were. I didn't want to sit

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there and take piano lessons. No, no, no, Now, maybe
I wish I would have paid a little more potential,
but you know I had fun when I was a kid.
Ye pay for you wind up paying for it later on.
Let's see, let's see word some more tax dollars getting wasted.
How about magic? The federal government spent seven million dollars

(36:32):
on various magical projects thanks to the visionary minds at
the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the
University of North Carolina, we can reveal the mystifying podcast
Magic in the United States. Listen to this, Joe, this
will be of interest to you. For the astonishing price

(36:56):
of three hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars, you can
enjoy the sixth episode season, A deep dive into Magic.
Joe producing a podcast? Six episodes of a podcast? Is
there any need, to your way of thinking, to spend
three hundred eighty eight thousand dollars just tracker, just tracker

(37:23):
does it? Does a little work podcasting, and no three
hundred eighty eight thousand dollars to produce six podcasts. I
don't think so.

Speaker 6 (37:37):
But no.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Half he'd be happy to do it for. I'd be
happy to do it for you know, a third event,
I'd be great.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
That.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
That's beyond ridiculous. But somehow our federal government sees fit
to spend three hundred eighty eight grand, almost four hundred
thousand dollars for six episodes of a podcast. Let's see
what else do we have here? Each episode promises to

(38:07):
take us on a historical roller coaster through the spells,
the superstitions, and the magico religious movements in American history.
That is just beautiful. The Institute of Museum and Library
Services awarded two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the
American Museum of the Moving Image to update its exhibition

(38:28):
on the Magic Lantern Show and Nickelodeon's That's that is fantastic.
The National Science Foundation awarded ninety four grand to the
study of the Magic School Bus. The Magic School Bus.
Wasn't that a cartoon back back in the day on PBS. Yeah,

(38:51):
and someone needed ninety four grand to study that that offering.
How about six million, two hundred ninety three thousand from
the Department of Defense on a Magic City Discovery Center
whatever the hell that is. But the DoD saw fit
to spend over six million dollars on it. Absolutely unbelievable,

(39:17):
And people say, you know what, there's really not that
much room to cut. I beg to differ, And the
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on this Christmas Eve with a little Van Hannon Joe
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mummery music. I appreciate it. I'm Dan Carroll and for
Brian Thomas. Today. If you missed the first hour, we

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spent the whole hour talking about the Festivus list put
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wasted over a trillion dollars a trill with a T
with a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars in wasted government
money and just the most things that you couldn't even

(40:57):
imagine that we're spending on money on ridicululess, ridiculous, ridiculous.
We'll get back to that in a little bit, but
there's other stuff I need to talk about this morning,
and one was there is it was about this time
yesterday morning that the White House came out and told
us that Joe Biden was commuting death sentences of federal

(41:21):
prisoners on death row. Thirty seven federal death row convicts
are going to be saved because of Joe Biden's humanity
towards man and in this instance, And this doesn't happen
all that often. But I have to give some credit
to CNN. The CNN Morning Show picked up this conversation

(41:44):
about the death penalty, and they had their panel on it,
and I cannot I don't know anyone on this panel
because the CNN Morning Show is not it is not
something that I regularly look at. I'm usually busy in
the morning and I'm not watching CNN. If I'm watching
morning television, I'm watching Fox and Friends. But you know what, Joe,

(42:08):
that would be a great Christmas wish. If I had
one Christmas wish for this station, it would be that
the monitors in this room that I'm in would show
you know, TV, is that asking too much?

Speaker 3 (42:25):
You know?

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Maybe we could on one of the monitors I'd be
able to turn on just look at a There's a
room on the other side of this wall right behind
me that has the same exact setup one, two, three,
four or five monitors in the room, big ones too,
and at least three of those. You can watch TV

(42:50):
in here. No, not the case. I am cut off.
I am totally cut off from the outside world except
for the Internet connection. I can get an Internet connection
on the computer in front of me and even on
my laptop over here, then we can have TV in
this room. I'm just saying that would be my Christmas

(43:11):
wish for this year for the fifty five KRC studio.
Be fantastic. But it was about this time yesterday when
we found out that Joe Biden was letting all these
killers go. And of course, look, I mean this guy,
Joe Biden, he is he is unwavering on this. I mean,

(43:31):
he's got deep feelings about well, you know, what's right,
and you know, you just can't the federal government just
can't go around killing people. No, Joe Biden knows what's
best because of his you know, deep abiding faith in

(43:53):
what's right and what's wrong. But the thing is he
didn't always feel that way. And again credit to CNN
for pointing that out, and they rolled out some video
of Joe Biden the devout Catholic that he is talking

(44:14):
about the death penalty. His stance was, and this goes
back about thirty years and his stance was slightly different
then than it is today. See if you can see
if you can pick out the subtle difference between Joe
Biden about thirty years ago on the floor of the
Senate and Joe Biden today. Joe, would you please roll

(44:36):
cut number one.

Speaker 9 (44:37):
I'm a death penalty supporter. I'm the guy that wrote
this bill. Presumptuous thing to say.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
But I wrote this bill my old little hands.

Speaker 9 (44:49):
Can I added into the bill more than fifty death penalties?

Speaker 1 (44:55):
I support the death penalty. This president supports a death penalty.

Speaker 10 (45:01):
That was then Senator Joe Biden boasting about the nineteen
ninety four Crime Bill, his nineteen ninety four crime Bill,
which added a list of federal crimes punishable by the
death penalty. But now this morning, President Joe Biden now
announcing that he is commuting thirty seven federal death row
inmate sentences to life in prison without parole.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
So there you go with his own little hands. And
how many times have we heard and been lectured to
by those on the left when we point out Joe's
failing speech patterns, and we're told, hey, you can't do that,

(45:41):
Joe Biden. Now you look, he's got a stutter. Everyone
knows he's a stutter. When I listened to that clip
and other clips of him from back in the day,
do you detect any speech difficulties? Do you detect any stutter?
I certainly didn't in that one. But are our friend
over at front Page mag Daniel Greenfield, did a little

(46:05):
research on some of the individuals that Joe Biden has
seen fit to allow to live the rest of their
life on the taxpayer dime. And maybe one day, I
know it says life without parole, but we all know
that there are exceptions to that rule too. Maybe one

(46:26):
day these people will walk for you again. We can
only hope. The recommendation of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Biden
has stepped in to save death row inmates from the
death penalty, commuting their sentences. He commuted the sentences of
monsters like Jorge Avila Torres, who raped and murdered nine
year old Crystal Tobias and eight year old Laura Hobbs

(46:48):
while they were riding their bikes on Mother's Day. He
also commuted the sentence of Cobanni Savage, the drug kingpin
responsible for one of the worst crimes in Philadelphia. After
running what prosecutors described as perhaps the most violent drug
gain gang ever seen in the city, Savage murdered twelve people,

(47:12):
including firebombing a family of six. The family Savage firebombed
in two thousand and four belonged to Eugene Coleman, his
former confident turned FBI informant. In retaliation, Savage killed Coleman's mother,
plus his cousin, his infant son, and three other children.

(47:33):
Coleman was in prison at the time, and the ages
of those he killed were Kadja ten, Marcella twelve, a
family friend, Sean Rodriguez fifteen. Killing kids with Savage especialty.
The thirty four year old man, a drug kingpin serving

(47:54):
thirty years in federal prison for drug trafficking in Philadelphia,
was caught on tape vowing to kill young children of
witnesses who testified against him at his trial in two
thousand and five. The kids got to pay for making
my kids cry, he said, according to a copy of
the indictment, I want to smack one of their four

(48:15):
year old sons in the head with a bat straight up.
I have dreams about killing their kids, killing their kids,
cutting their heads off. Authorities alleged Savage ordered a blaze
in October of two thousand and four to the North
Philadelphia home of cocaine traffic returned informant Eugene Coleman killed

(48:36):
Recoleman's mother, Toddler's son, is aunt, niece, and three children.
Prosecutors say two of Savage's fellow gang members set the fire.
He joked afterward that barbecue sauce should be poured on
the victims, according to the indictment. Savage also threatened to
kill other witnesses. According to the indictment against him, them

(48:56):
rats gotta pay. That's all I think about kids, They moms.
He allegedly told one co conspirator, I had dreams about
hitting pe daughter in the head man opening her head
wide open with forty dumb dumbs. That's all I dream about.
Savage threatening to kill a different witness and his young
daughter in two thousand and four, he said, I'm gonna

(49:20):
kill everyone you love, Savage told the witness. According to
the indictment, he said he said he's got a daughter,
my own way, or let me say, yep, he's got
a daughter down my way. I'm gonna blow her little
head off. She like five. So that's uh, that's the guy,

(49:40):
one of the guys that Joe Biden saw fit to
commute the sentence of no, we can't and we can't
have the death penalty for a guy like that, because
you know Joe Biden, he just he just knows better,
just knows better. And it looks the others that he

(50:05):
that he cuts slack to yesterday, they're no better than
this dude either. Six fifteen, got to get to a break.
Damn Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the talk station.
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Down the highways other than some wet roads, traffic's doing
just fine. Northbound seventy five, northbound four seventy one, No
trouble at all getting across the bridges. Chuck Ingram on
fifty five KRZ the talk station, Christmas Eve, fifty five

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krc DE Talk Station. I love this stuff, lowfuls. I
don't know much about that guy, but I love this song,

(52:14):
and I love this kind.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Of Christmas music. That's great stuff. Thank you, Joe. As
we roll on this morning, back to what Joe Biden
said when he decided to commute these death penalties death
penalties yesterday. Here's the statement. I've dedicated my career to

(52:36):
reducing violent crime and insuring a fair and effective justice system. Today,
I'm commuting the sentences of thirty four of the forty
individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the
possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium
my administration is imposed on federal executions in cases other

(52:59):
than terrorism and hate motivated mass murder. Boy, I'll tell
you what the the nuance there. You don't get that
just anywhere, because you know, Joe knows hate, and we
certainly can't have that in this country. We can't have

(53:20):
terrorism either, And Joe Biden is really on top of that.
Make no mistake. He says, I condemn these murders. Grieve
for the victims of their despicable acts. Oh he grieves,
Yes he does. And not only does he grieve, he

(53:44):
is reaching out to the families of those murder victims,
and he is grieving with them. You can be assured
of that. He aches for the families who have suffered
unimaginable and irreparable loss. But guided by there's a big
butt there. That's a big that's a big old button. Oh,

(54:04):
these families have suffered these horrible things. Joe Biden's got
a big old button there. Guided by my conscience and
my experience as a public defender, Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, vice President and now President, I'm more convinced
than ever that we must stop the use of the

(54:26):
death penalty at the federal level. Now let the state
level death penalty that that one's okay, federal level now
can't have it in good conscience. I cannot stand back
and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.

(54:48):
And so therefore Joe Biden is cutting slack to murderers rapists,
and one of those he cuts like too is Ricardo
an Says Junior and Daniel Troya Florida judge sentenced those
two men too death in two thousand and nine after
finding them guilty of murdering a family of four on

(55:11):
the highway. According to NBC News, Jose Escobedo, the father
of Louis Julian four, Lewis Damian three, and the husband
of Yessica Escobado, was involved in a drug ring with
these two Troya and Sans. Yessica Escobedo was shot eleven

(55:35):
times while cradling her two boys and trying to protect them.
The two toddlers were shot a total of ten times,
and Jose was shot five times alongside his family and
found dead on the side of the highway. The outlet reported,
I must confess I have no confidence that mister Troya

(55:58):
would not do this again if the opportunity he presented itself.
The judge who sentenced. The men said at the time,
adding the Troya is enormously dangerous with no regard for
taking a human life. Thomas Morocco Hager sentenced to death
in two thousand and seven. He was found guilty of
stabbing nineteen year old Barbara White. According to The Washington Times,

(56:22):
White was found bound, gagged and stabbed eighty two times
in the bathtub of her apartment eighty two times. Her
one year old daughter is the one who made the
discovery of the body. The one year old was not
physically harmed during the murder, but upon finding her mom,

(56:44):
left bloodstained footprints around the apartment, according to The Washington Times.
Imagine that, Let's see Biden committed the sentence of Thomas Sanders,
sentenced to death after he kidnapped and killed a twelve
year old and murdered her. In twenty ten, Sanders began
dating Sullen Roberts, and the pair took Robert's twelve year

(57:07):
old daughter on a road trip that eventually led to
their murders. While on the road, Sanders took the mother
and daughter to an Arizona desert, where he shot Sullen
Roberts in the head and forced Lexis Roberts back in
the car. Sanders then shot Lexus Robert four times, cut
her throat, and left her body in the woods. And

(57:29):
these are the type of people that Joe Biden says,
we cannot let these people suffer the death penalty. Terrible crimes, terrible,
just terrible. But got to let them live on the
taxpayerdim for the rest of their natural life. Doesn't feel
the same way about babies in the womb, though. It's amazing.
It's amazing how I mean, the mind of this guy,

(57:53):
the way it works, it's something to be cold. I mean, really,
we are fortunate to have him. They're in the office.
We said to see him go on January twentieth, six,
twenty six on fifty five KRCV talk stations The Truth
and Nothing. But this is the Sean Hannity Morning Minute.

Speaker 5 (58:16):
And I said this last night, legacy media, and I
said journalism is dead.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
In two thousand and seven and.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Eight, all these conglomerates, all these big newspapers, New York Times,
Washington Post, you name him, all of them, ABC, NBCCBS,
all of them, you know, all these fake news you
know channels together combined, they threw everything they had had

(58:45):
this man to destroy him. And Donald Trump has defied
every one of those critics and he's he's still stun
only standing, he's standing triumphantly. I mean, is it really
is an incredible thing?

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Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
See the talk station as little Garth Brooks go telling

(01:01:41):
on the Mountain. I don't know, it's just me done
something that's coming through right. But anyway, it's a good song.
It's on my list and one of my favorites. Merry
Christmas Day, on this Christmas Day. Sorry, I might, you know,
get into this, this whole thing with Biden, the death penalty,

(01:02:02):
but he's the one that did it, and and I mean,
this guy's mind is so far gone. Of course, we
have the story. I talked a lot about this yesterday,
the story that came out with the the Wall Street
Journal talking about how almost from day one of his administration,
actually one of the reports I read talked about it

(01:02:24):
was actually before the administration started, how they were covering
up for this guy, making excuses, keeping keeping people at
arms length, putting up a wall between him and his
cabinet members. And Beth Bregel at The Federalist read about

(01:02:48):
this yesterday and was moved to write a really what
I think is a moving column. And Beth writes that
Joe Biden and his handlers wanting you to believe that
he use life just a few days before Christmas actually
has Two days before Christmas, the White House announced through
an online written statement that all but three people on

(01:03:09):
federal death Row will have their sentences commuted from a
death sentence to life without possibility of parole. Biden is
on a high profile virtue signaling role. Last week, Biden
had a phone call with Pope Francis to discuss efforts
to advance peace around the world during the holiday season.

(01:03:31):
The White House handlers wrote in a statement conspicuously leaving
out the christ based name of the holiday Christmas, President
thanked the Pope for has continued advocacy to alleviate global suffering,
including his work to advance human rights and protect religious freedoms.
Biden also graciously accepted his holiness Pope francis invitation to

(01:03:53):
visit the Vatican next month. But we know Biden doesn't
care about human rights and has worked to a spanned
abortion access. Just last month, in the White House, he
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Nation's the
nation's highest civilian honor, to Cecil Richards, former President of

(01:04:14):
Parenthood Federation of America. During her period of leadership two
thousand and six twenty eighteen, more than thirteen point three
million unborn babies were killed in the United States as
the federal has previously reported Richard's earned five hundred thousand
dollars a year and facilitated more deaths than there were

(01:04:38):
in the Holocaust. Killing voiceless, innocent babies doesn't stir Biden's conscience,
but killing killers does make no mistake. I condemned these murders,
grieved for the victims of their despicable acts, and eight
for their families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,
reads Biden's online statement. According to the statement, the decision

(01:05:01):
to commute these death sentences was guided by his conscience.
More convinced than ever we must stop the use of
the death penalty at the federal level. The statement came
from the White House, currently decorative with sparkling Christmas trees,
traditionally used to celebrate the birth of Christ. But in
today's American culture, the unborn Jesus we anticipate in advent,

(01:05:25):
would be at risk of death by abortion, and his
story would never be told. Biden's administration is committed to
saving killers and killing saviors because in so many ways,
all children are saviors to the people who love them.
Babies change everything they come, whether parents are ready or not.
In all sorts of complicated ways before marriage, before graduation,

(01:05:47):
in a car on the way to the hospital in
a lowly starlet manger far from home. Pregnancy and birth
are the start of the story that will include hardships
and the most incredible reward. Having children changes everything, changes you.
Even the most flawed parents can't have hope their children
will do better. Biden's Christmas reward for death row murderers

(01:06:11):
does nothing for the victims or the inmates. It will
hopefully be the last time this vapid president squanders an
opportunity to move the nation in a more loving direction.
Rather than protecting the agents of death, Biden could have
led an effort to change our culture into one that
recognizes the humanity of the unborn. He could have developed

(01:06:33):
policies that encourage women in complicated pregnancies to allow their
babies to live. Instead, Biden and his handlers leave a
dark legacy that celebrates evil. Six point thirty five Dan
Carroll for Brian Thomas fifty five KRCV talk station.

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It is a very quiet morning on the highways with
no accidents to deal with, even with some wet roads
on this Christmas Eve morning. Southbound seventy five doing fine
past the Reagan Highways. So is southbound seventy one. Chuck
Ingram on fifty five KRC. The talk station.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Bill fill thee you being in.

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The lad.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
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Lilly side Christmas Eve I fifty five k r C.
The talk station Dad Carol and from Brian Thomas, and
there was no way I could do two days of
this show and not hear from this guy west side, Jim,
how are you this morning? Merry Christmas?

Speaker 7 (01:08:54):
Merry Christmas, Dan, Carol. No, there wasn't going to be
two days that I didn't call in and wish you are.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
I knew it couldn't happen. I knew it couldn't happen.

Speaker 7 (01:09:03):
And to Joe also, because without Joe, as they say,
the show don't go, it does not.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
We Yeah, we are nowhere to be found without Joe
Strucker being there. That is a fact.

Speaker 9 (01:09:13):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:09:14):
I was listening to you since about five oh five.
And I do have to say, I hope when mister Biden,
I will never call him a president even though he
was elected, maybe meets his maker that all those people
that you talked about this morning, that were slaughtered by
these evil savages get to choose. They're in a panel

(01:09:35):
up in heaven and they get to choose where he goes.
I guarantee you he's not going to be let into
the pearly gates.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
You know, we played the sound bite the CNN ram
yesterday morning, thirty years ago and Joe Biden was so strident.
And then you should see the video. I mean he is,
he is running around, he's moving, he's moving all around,
and there's a longer clip where he actually does that
whispering thing, and and and and he's talking about, you know,

(01:10:05):
how how strong he is and how staunch he is,
and these these criminals almost like he did. Remember when
he was talking about the cocaine dealers and how if
you have you could have something to say, he holds
up a quarter and he talks about if you have
something the size of this quarter. And this is when
crack cocaine was first coming on to the scene, and

(01:10:25):
he was talking about how bad crack cocaine was and
how terrible it was, and people who were using the
crack cocaine and people who were dealing the crack cocaine
and making it possible. And and that was probably right
around the same time that his son was indulging in
all of these things. So the guy's a total kypocrite.
I may maybe he'll stand before Saint Peter and say, look,

(01:10:48):
I was on the right side, because he's been on
all sides of just about every issue that you can
possibly think of. And the question, the question now is
who's making these decisions for him. We've asked this question
for how long now? Who is running the country and
we know for certain that it's not Joe Biden. Well,

(01:11:08):
that's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
Dan.

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
I almost have to give him a tiny bit of
a break because he doesn't know what the hell he's
doing and signing off on everybody. He's just given a
paper shoved up in front of him, and these people
are saying, here, Joe sign is it's probably oh he's
a dog catcher. No, no, no, he have too many
parking tickets, and oh, okay, he doesn't know what he's signing.
And who's running who's running the country?

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
We know who it is.

Speaker 6 (01:11:33):
It's the Obamas.

Speaker 9 (01:11:35):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
It's Christmas Eve. And I didn't think I'd be sitting
here detailing the horrific killing of individuals by these people
that Joe Biden sees fit to allow to live on
taxpayer dimes for the for the rest of their natural lives.
And and and this statement is ridiculous because how do
you discern between you know, he talks about these sentences

(01:12:00):
have to be commuted, But when it comes to when
it comes to hate crimes. When it comes to, you know,
some of these other killers, that we have to have
nuance there and say that these killers are worthy of
the death penalty. But these other ones who you know,
the cut the heads off of children, who kill parents
in front of their children, who rape and murder and

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slit the throats of young kids, those people don't deserve
the death penalty. How do you how do you even
approach that sort of nuance.

Speaker 7 (01:12:30):
I laugh every time when I hear that life without
parole because we all know within fifteen years these people
are going to be out, like you said before, walking
the streets. So you know, it's just a terrible, terrible
thing at the way they designed this law, and you
know Biden just added to it by letting these people commute.
You know, these people can't be rehabilitated. What good arty

(01:12:52):
in society, and for the crimes that they did. He
should be ashamed if he actually knew what he did.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
Well. This is just another example of the people who
still have their wits about him in the Biden administration,
who are throwing up every possible turd that they can
throw at the at the incoming Trump administration. They they
want it. They want the Trump administration to spend the
first three or four or five months doing nothing but

(01:13:19):
clearing the crap out of the way that these people
have thrown up to try and obstruct the Trump administration
from pursuing their agenda. And they know all that we're
going to hear all this talk about oh how classy
the Bidens are and the peaceful transfer of power, and boy,
there's going to be you know, and you know, west Side, Jim,

(01:13:41):
you know it's coming when it comes time for Biden
to leave the White House, there's going to be all
this nostalgia and oh my god, this long political career
coming to an end. Brilliant, this brilliant that you know,
this country's going to miss Joe Biden. What a bunch
of crap. This guy. It deserves to go down quite
possibly the worst president this country's ever had.

Speaker 7 (01:14:04):
I always did say that Carter was, but guarantee you
you just said he took the place of Jimmy Carter,
and Jimmy Carter was on economics, he didn't do this
kind of garbage.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
I mean, not to this extent. No, not this bad
west Side Jim. We got to get to a break.
But as always been.

Speaker 4 (01:14:21):
Merry Christmas to you, Thanks for your listenership and uh
and thanks for calling in.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Always great to have you on the show. Take care
all right, there you go west side Jim and if
you want to be like him, pick up the phone
five one three seven nine fifty five hundred. Dan Carroll
for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRCV talk station.

Speaker 6 (01:14:43):
D nine.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
First warning weather forecast. Not as cold today, It's going
to be mild, a high a forty five hunder, cloudy
sky is cloudy skuy is tonight, a little bit of
rain possible the other night, low thirty six. Christmas Day,
it's going to be on the warm side, a high
of forty eight with some scattered rain showers. Showers continue
Christmas night into Thursday. Thursday's high fifty six, mostly cloudy

(01:15:06):
skies and looks like we're in that cloudy pattern for
the next few days, but mild, so it's not going
to be freezing cold, and I guess that is worth celebrated.
It is forty two at Fidney five krc the talk
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Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
That's not bad at all, even with some wet roads,
no accidents to deal with. Sethbound seventy one traffic volumes
very like pants Fighter in the Ragon Highway before getting
into Kenwood, Chucking ramonth fifty five KRC the talk station

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fifty five k R CD talk Station. I've loved this
one since I was a kid. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Special Vin's Garaldi.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Joe. Would they make a Christmas special today with music
like this in? It wouldn't happen. But that's how great
the music was. What with nineteen sixty five, it's fantastic,
still as good today as it was back then. I
could just put the the and I have the CD

(01:16:42):
at home. I'm still one of those guys that has
everyone Joe. Everyone makes fun of me when I talk
about I have CDs or DVDs to watch movies, but
why don't you just watch it online? I don't. I
like to pop the disc in. I play it. It
sounds great. I even have Vinyl record. Vinyl Records making

(01:17:03):
a comeback. Will you walk into the store and you
can see whole sections now where they sell where they
sell vinyl records. Another study on coffee got to be
having some coffee this morning. International study published in Cancer
has found that drinking more than four cups of coffee

(01:17:25):
a day forget too, it's up to four now. If
you do that, you may reduce the risk of some
head and nick cancer by seventeen percent. The research analyzed
data from number two twenty five thousand individuals across fourteen studies,
provides the strongest evidence yet of coffee's potential for cancer

(01:17:47):
fighting properties. While there has been prior research on coffee
and tea consumption and reduce risk of cancer, the study
highlights their varying effects on different subsites of head and
neck cancer, including the observation that even a decaffeinated coffee
had some positive impact. So there you go, another study

(01:18:11):
showing the positive impacts of coffee. Are there any studies
out there? I think years ago there were some studies
out there that we're talking about coffee and the negative impacts,
and then of course studies like this come along and
show the positive impacts. I think this is the first
one I've seen this talking about four cups a day, though,

(01:18:35):
and when you're in this business, four cups a day
just doesn't sound like that much I've got. I've got
my thermist full of coffee. There's at least almost I
love this thermist. It's an old one, but it holds
almost an entire coffee pot. Jo. Do you make coffee
at home? Do you use the the A lot of

(01:18:57):
people use the what is that the curerig now where
you make up the one cup at a time, And uh,
I to my way of thinking, when you when you
use the krig and you put the pod in there
and then you press the button, you get one cup
of coffee, and you still have to fill up the

(01:19:18):
reservoir in the back. And then when after your you
know what what two or three or four cups, the
reservoir gets and you got to fill it up again.
I say, it just seems like too much work to me.
Uh yeah, we know, we we ustill. We still have
the old fashioned for it for as long as I'm
able to. And then the coffee makers don't last as

(01:19:40):
long as they used to. But we've got a coffee
maker at home. My wife and I have had four
I know, gosh, five or six years now, that's a
long time. Your mom still has a percolator. I saw
one of those at a party the other day. The
coffee is bubbling up in the middle. My parents used

(01:20:02):
to have one of those. But I know I still
got the coffee maker we've had in five or six
years now. I know it's not going to last forever,
but as long as I'm able, I'm going to have
that old fashioned coffee maker, just making one pot at
a time, that's what works best for me. Heavy coffee
drinkers had a thirty percent lower risk of oral cavity
cancer and a twenty two percent lower risk of throat

(01:20:23):
cancer compared to non coffee drinkers. So there you go,
drink your coffee and help fight cancer at the same time.
There's your helpful tip of the day from your friendly
substitute co host Dan carrollin for Brian Thomas on fifty
five KRC The Talk Station.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
There's no shortage of stuff to talk about in twenty
twenty five. The conversation is happening here on fifty five KRC,
the Talk Station.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
This report is sponsored by Pure Talk fifty five k
r C the Talk Station. Christmas Eve, Dan Carolyn for
Brian Thomas. Good morning. So Joe Strucker always promises me

(01:21:19):
the Van Hallen is coming out whenever I get to
sit in for Brian Thomas, and I appreciate it. Do
you do the same thing with Kevin Gordon when he's here?

Speaker 6 (01:21:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
Only me? How about that I'm special? That's Joe's Christmas
gift to me telling me I'm special. That's fantastic. But
I love I love being here on fifty five KRC.
I love the Brian Thomas audience. I look, I'm a
listener to myself when when I have the I don't
always have the opportunity to listen in the morning, but

(01:21:50):
when I do, I sound like, what's that? What's that
beer commercial? Stay thirsty my friends?

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
The what?

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
What? What did that guy die? That guy that made
the the Mexican I don't know if he's a Mexican
dude or what, but he uh, you know, he's the
older gentleman, distinguished looking.

Speaker 8 (01:22:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
I know he's an actor, but uh, what's he say?
I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I
drink those sechis. Stay thirsty, my friends, oh Man, Matt Gates.
The report came out about Matt Gates yesterday, and uh,

(01:22:37):
it's it's pretty ugly. But I mean, really, when you
look at this, when you look at and I was
talking to my buddy James Bogan about this and he
and he made a good point. This is a This
is not a court of law. There really are no
standards when it comes to proof for evidence or cross

(01:23:02):
examining witnesses. So the House Ethics Committee can gather all
this evidence they want and then what their report said
didn't say he was guilty of it. They said they
found a lot of evidence that supports these allegations against
Matt Gates. So they gathered evidence that Matt Gates of

(01:23:27):
Florida paid multiple women for sex, including a seventeen year
old high school junior, used illegal drugs like cocaine and ecstasy,
and obstructed efforts by Congress to investigate his conduct. In
other words, it sounds like he does everything that your
average Democrat does. According to a draft of its findings

(01:23:53):
that just The News obtained, whether they got it before
the official release, but it all came out yesterday, here's
what they said. The committee determined there is a there
is substantial evidence that Representative Gates violated House rules and
other standards of conduct, prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use,

(01:24:15):
impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.
The draft report also said it did not find evidence
the Gates had engaged in sex trafficking, as some had
alleged that would. I guess that would be really bad

(01:24:36):
if he engaged in sex trafficking. That to me sounds
sounds like crossing a line there. And wasn't that what
the media was running wild with for a while there,
talking about, oh, well, Gates was, you know, pimping girls
out and running these sex rings and all this other stuff.

(01:24:57):
But they said they did not find evidence in that,
and Gates himself put out a statement a few days
ago talking about how, you know, he has not always
been the most upstanding person that in his younger days.
And I don't know how old Gates is. I guess
I could look that up, Joe, Can you look that
up and tell me how old Gates is right now?

(01:25:17):
I think he's maybe what mid forties, late forties something
like that, maybe early to mid forties, I don't know,
but this was he's forty two, early forties, so he
was in his younger days. Yeah, he admitted that he
was out running around living the single life, partying, hooking

(01:25:37):
up I guess, you know, with different apps and stuff
like that. He said. He admitted that he paid money
to some women that he liked. I don't know what
there's a there. I know I looked at the report
yesterday and there's a chart in there of some of

(01:25:58):
the money that he paid out to some of these women.
But again, there was no cross examination of these women
who gave their testimony to the committee. Let's see. Let's see.
The report lays out the sort of details of Gates's
alegedra ledged drug fueled partying with young women, based on
interviews with those women and eyewitnesses, but save some of

(01:26:21):
its harsish criticism for the former Florida Republican's refusal to
cooperate completely with the years long ethics inquiry. Why would you?
Why would you cooperate with such a thing? It's it's standard.
I mean again, I go back to brad Winstrop and

(01:26:42):
to my way of thinking. It's a little bit different
when you're looking at a government agency that has a
responsibility to preserve documents. It has responsibility to document what
it does because it's all it's all taxpayer funded research,

(01:27:09):
it's all taxpayer funded activity, it's taxpayer funded work product,
and those things must be preserved. Those at that evidence
should not be destroyed. And when you when I talked
to brad Winstrip, he talked about how documents were not

(01:27:32):
forthcoming from various government agencies, how they kept things, did
everything they could to keep things hidden. So when we're
talking about Matt Gates and what appears to have been
mostly private behavior, I didn't read all of the report yesterday,

(01:27:53):
but I really didn't see how all this private behavior
that he was gauging. And even though it was it
may have been poor behavior. I don't know that he
was doing on this, any of this on the on
his public on the public dime. So and maybe maybe

(01:28:13):
he was, I don't know if if if he was,
I didn't get to that part in the report. The
draft report A legends that he refused to comply with
a subpoena demanding an interview be sent only only partial
demanding an interview and sent only partial written answers, he

(01:28:37):
intentionally withheld information about his trip with women to the
Bahamas and the fact that he took a prohibited, free
private plane ride back. Oh my god, Matt Gates flew
on a private plane, Joe. Can you imagine such a
thing that a lawmaker in Congress would fly to the
Bahamas on a private plane. Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
The height of hypocrisy that some of these people in Congress,
now that this report is out, and I did not,
I honest, yesterday was a weird news. I watched a
lot less news yesterday than I normally watch because I'm
doing it in the afternoon show on seven hundred as well,

(01:29:26):
so I was busy with that. But I can only
imagine that you've got all kinds of Democrat representatives out
there who can't wait to get in front of a camera,
can't wait to get in front of a microphone and
condemn Matt Gates and talk about how bad it was
that Trump picked this guy to be the Attorney General

(01:29:46):
of the United States. And it is beyond it is
just beyond the height of hypocrisy for some of these,
especially Democrat representatives and members of Congress, to criticize and
condemn Matt Gates when the likelihood is very possible that

(01:30:08):
they have done if not the exact same thing, far worse,
far worse. And Matt Gates says he even said one
time that he would go back to Congress expose every
single one of members of Congress who have taken advantage

(01:30:33):
of the slush fund that's up there to pay people
off for these sexual harassment claims. And you know what
I'm talking about, how many millions of taxpayer dollars have
been spent to to settle these claims, to make them
go away. And you know, they've got carte blanche to

(01:30:54):
carry on as they see fit. So I'm certainly hoping
that a lot of these people tread carefully. And I
don't know how much of what kind of legs this
report is going to have. Yes, it's uh, I mean,
it's it's sallacious, all the stuff that's in there, talking

(01:31:15):
about hooking up with multiple women and you know, paying
for the partying and paying for drug sex and rock
and rolls and so like, it's like a weekend at
the Clinton's. So the Matt Gates report is out there,
it's there for everyone to read. He's defending himself saying,
you know, he didn't do some of the worst stuff.
He's owning some of it. Then yeah, I had some

(01:31:39):
poor behavior, but uh, not all of it. And it
goes on and on and on. I mean they, I mean,
they've got a lot of evidence that he did this stuff.
But in the long run, it doesn't really matter. The
drugs and all that stuff, that that stuff should not happen.
But for these people, of these members of Congress to
try and point the finger of blaming him for partying

(01:32:04):
with young women, doing some drugs, flying on a private
jet somewhere, No, that doesn't hold water with me, and
I suspect most of you either. Five point three, seven,
four nine, fifty five hundred if you want to get
on board, those aren't the numbers to call on this
Christmas Eve. Dan Carol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCV
talk station, the New d nine First Warning weather forecast

(01:32:28):
not as cold today, It's going to be mild, the cloudy,
a high of forty five, some showers possible tonight on
this Christmas Eve night heading into Christmas Day, the overnight
low only thirty six. Santa has no snow for his slay.
How will he deliver the giddies? How will he deliver
the presence? I used to worry about that when I

(01:32:49):
was a kid. Christmas Day scattered rain shower is going
to be warm a high of forty eight, and the
showers continue overnight intwo Thursday, when it will be mostly
cloudy in a high a fifty six forty four At
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Speaker 4 (01:33:16):
Highways continue to look good on this Christmas Eve morning,
expected to be a little bit lighter. It certainly is
southbound seventy one not a problem at all. Another twenty
minutes from a bud Field turtle through downtown northbound seventy
five and northbound four seventy one problem free. Same for
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Speaker 13 (01:33:43):
Good King winsors l sloped down vast of steam where
the snow lay around about deepen Chrispendyn bride Lease showing
them moon that night the frost was crew when a

(01:34:04):
poor man came in sat gathering went a few.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
No one can do it like melturmet pe and stand
by me.

Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
Tell him now, you talk about a guy that Peasant
not only could do it with the vocals, but Joe,
do you know this guy was just awesome on the
drums too.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
There's there's videos out there you can find a Melturmee
and you know he's doing one of his live shows,
does a couple of songs where he jumps up on
the skins and just just hairs it up. But Melturmey
one of the all time greats. This story about Kay
Granger House of Representatives, a member of Congress from Texas,

(01:34:54):
eighty one years old. Elected to the House in nineteen
sixty six. He was the the mayor of Fort Worth
before becoming Before getting elected to Congress, it turns out
that she has been missing from Washington for six months.
Six months, hasn't cast a vote in DC. Her absence

(01:35:19):
had generated great concern in her district, which is the
Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area, and apparently her staff and
her son had been running cover for her as she
was absent from Congress for six months, and finally a

(01:35:44):
reporter at the Dalex Express got a tip and found
her living at a memory care facility eighty one years old.
Apparently they put her in there after she'd been found
wandering through the neighborhood lost and confused. But how do
you go, Joe, how do how can you be absent

(01:36:04):
six months? And and no one, no one notices, no
one says anything. Only in Congress. But uh yeah, that's
a that's a very strange story. That's uh kay Granger.
It I mean, I mean, she seems like she's a Republican,

(01:36:28):
seems like a good woman. I don't know that much
about her, but the notion that and especially with when
you look at the slim majorities that the Republicans had
in the House, trying to uh hold off the nuttiness
and the nonsense of the Democrats. Her son told The

(01:36:50):
New York Post that, uh he said that the whole
thing was a load of bs. That she moved into
a condo and an independent living community because she was
getting bored and lonely at her Fort Worth apartment. The
sources close to Granger, including her son, her current spokesperson

(01:37:13):
another source familiar, have denied to the Post that she's
living in a memory care unit. But that's where they
found her. So this is a woman that obviously needs help,
and it shouldn't have I just don't think that six
months should have elapsed where she is. She's not at

(01:37:35):
the office, not going to committee meetings, not showing up
for votes before someone does something and finds out what
the heck is going on. Just a little human decency.
So we'll see how that story plays out. But got
to wish her all the best. Tough time for her

(01:37:57):
and her family, But six months and no one says anything.
We got to get to a break. And then after
the break, my buddy Jim Serger is going to be
here talk about his latest book and talk about the season,
and we'll we'll just have a nice conversation. So I'm
looking forward to that. As we roll on till nine
o'clock this morning, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five

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KRCD Talk Station D nine first morning weather forecast. It
is going to be mild today, cloudy, a high of
forty five, maybe a few rain showers moving in tonight
the other night low thirty six. Christmas Day will be cloudy,
maybe some scattered rain, a high of forty eight. Rain

(01:38:40):
showers continue from Christmas Day into Thursday, where it's going
to be overcast and cloudy a high of fifty six.

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Speaker 8 (01:39:37):
Hark how the bell, sweet silver bells all seem to say,
throw cares away, Christmas is here, bringing a jeer to
young and old Mike.

Speaker 6 (01:39:45):
And the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:39:47):
That's Dina Carter Carrol of the Bells, one of my
all time favorites.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
Just a great arrangement of this song, Dean dunding Don,
that is our song with joyful ring.

Speaker 7 (01:39:58):
Oh Caroline, once do your words of good year FuMB everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
I don't know what it is about country artists when
they a lot of country artists when they do Christmas albums,
and it just seems that when these country artists do it,
I mean they always go the extra mile. I mean
the arrangements and the musicianship and everything else is just great.

(01:40:25):
So I love that stuff, and that's on my list
of all time favorite Christmas songs. And one of my
favorite guys to talk to, not just Christmas time, but
any time of the year is Jim Serger. A local guy.
I mean, he's done so much in life and now
he's living the dream, writing books and all the rest

(01:40:46):
of it. Had him on when his book Jump came out,
I believe that was in the summertime, and now his
latest book is nine to eleven, A Time to Always Remember,
Bond of Firefighters. And Jim Serger, it's great to talk
to you. Merry Christmas and welcome to fifty five KRC.
How are you doing this morning?

Speaker 6 (01:41:02):
Good morning, Dan, Married Christmas to you as well. Thanks
for having me on today. I'm the Christmas Eve.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
Yeah. Great time of the year, it certainly is. And
I've been reading. Every once in a while I'll catch
a review of someone who has had a chance to
read your book. Nine to eleven a time to always
remember bond of firefighters. And I'm seeing different firefighting organizations,

(01:41:29):
different firefighting fraternities, people who are involved in the business
talk about how meaningful this book has really become to them.
So congratulations on this book. Yeah, this book is good.
You've got a lot of great books, but this one.
It seems to me anyway that this one's got to
be taking a special place for you.

Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
Yes, sir, you know of the Royaltiece goes the tunnel
to Towers, which is an amazing foundation. So I'm not
for the money. This is for following veterans, first responders,
injured veterans, so all of this goes to help them out,
and just firefighters all across the United States sharing their
personal nine to eleven story, how they dropped everything from

(01:42:14):
California to hear in Cincinnati to Florida and headed up
to Manhattan to render their services because a fallen brother
or a sister. They're there. They took off. Some of
them didn't even ask for permission to go. They detected
or called their chief and said I'm headed up. So
it was a very heartfelt book. A lot of personal

(01:42:34):
stories I made it in there, just heartwarming, gut wrenching.
It's a horrific day. But the silver lining is America
was united and united. And that's that's what the book about,
is the American spirit, how powerful it is when a
crisis happens. We're there to help each other out.

Speaker 1 (01:42:54):
Tell me about your connection with Tunnel to Towers. Tell
me how that came about, how you got hooked up
with them.

Speaker 6 (01:43:00):
Well, you see them on Fox News all the time,
and now they're hitting all the other mainstream media's as
well currently. And about three or four years ago, I
kept seeing the time nine to eleven and through almost
twenty four years ago. Now Tunnel to Towers correlates with
nine to eleven. Frank Filler and all of them up
there are doing a terrific job. So I said to

(01:43:22):
my wife, I said, nine to eleven is a message
that I'm receiving, So let's give it back to those
that are giving one hundred percent effort up there at
the World Trade there. And then it led into now
they're building veterans villages down in Phoenix, down in Florida,
So it's not just for fallen firefighters anymore. So I
love it. And I was in the Navy, and I

(01:43:43):
have a lot of military friends, and I have friends
that are firefighters, so I've seen the benefit of tunnel
to towers firsthand. So why not give back.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
No, it's a beautiful thing. And I think people can
look at your example, Jim Serger, and learn from that
and and really that when you talk about things that
are fulfilling in life, these are the kind of things
that people do that you really get a lot of
mileage out of. And I think when people look at

(01:44:15):
what you're doing with this particular book and in this effort,
I think they can be inspired too to do things
in their own life that they find out.

Speaker 6 (01:44:23):
I meaning absolutely, just the smallest good intention goes a
long way. It really does. It's just amazing how it
makes one myself feel and then when others are a
part of this book, it makes them feel good too.
It's just very warming. It's just the American spirit. I mean,
I sound like a broken record, but that's really it.
I mean, we're all feathered together in this how do

(01:44:45):
we help each other out? And here we are in
the middle of the Christmas season and people are always
looking for a way to give back. You know, to
towers as a foundation for eleven hours a month all
year round, correlates eleven to nine to eleven. So just
some very very minute goes a long way us.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
So much it all comes together. We were texting a
little bit yesterday and you brought up the subject of
Christmas cards, and I have a question for you along
those lines, but we got to get to a quick
break right here, so I'm going to ask you that
question on the other side of this as we will
continue on with Jim Serger, author of nine to eleven,

(01:45:24):
A Time to Always Remember, and really a whole bunch
of other great books, and we'll touch on some of
those as we continue on. Dan Carroll with Brian Thomas
or for Brian Thomas with Jim Serger on fifty five KRC,
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Not as cold today. It's going to be mild, under

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cloudy skies, a high today of forty five. It'll be
cloudy with some possible rang showers tonight heading into Christmas Day,
scattered rain likely. On Christmas Day it'll be warm with
a high of forty eight, and then Thursday mostly cloudy,
a high of fifty six fifty six.

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Speaker 3 (01:46:49):
Slave BILSI I listening in the lane snow is listening
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Speaker 13 (01:46:58):
We're happy to now.

Speaker 4 (01:47:03):
On this Tuesday morning, Christmas Eve, Happy Christmas Eve.

Speaker 1 (01:47:08):
We're continuing our conversation with Jim an author. Jim. Does
the Christmas music get you in the mood? Does it?
Bum Boy Bother Joe Joe, Look that one up, look
that one up at the at the behest to Jim
Serger will roll a little bit of that out of it.
If we if we get a chance. We were talking

(01:47:30):
yesterday about Christmas cards and I was thinking to myself,
you know what, someone has to write Christmas cards. And
Jim Serger is an author, he's a writer. Could you
write a Christmas card if you had to?

Speaker 6 (01:47:42):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
Yes, sir, have you done it?

Speaker 8 (01:47:46):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:47:46):
But I love sending out Christmas cards? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:47:49):
Do you write? Indeed, do you send? And do you
send the ones out with the picture of the family
and all that?

Speaker 6 (01:47:54):
And absolutely I think the Christmas tree, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
I think I actually have your Christmas cards.

Speaker 6 (01:48:03):
That you know what about yourself? Do you send out
Christmas cards? You know what?

Speaker 1 (01:48:08):
I let my wife take care of that. And for
some reason, and I don't know why, we're more traditional
and we like the Christmas cards and I read them
and I like, you know, I like the ones with
the illustrations and the nice sayings on it and stuff
like that. Are the Christmas card companies just letting the
AI do that?

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
You think?

Speaker 6 (01:48:30):
No, I think there's somebody still behind that. Now they
might be auto. They might correct it. You just type
in a couple of words and type in Christmas card
and AI can you know generate it?

Speaker 1 (01:48:39):
Like two tenths of a second Frank.

Speaker 6 (01:48:41):
But I still think there's a lot of love and
passion still behind Christmas cards. People love Christmas, and we're
getting farther and farther away from that. My parents are
both passed away. They were baby boomers, but both of
my parents loved receiving Christmas cards and sending them out.
And I remember as a little kid running out to

(01:49:02):
the mailbox and there's a Christmas card from Grandma and Grandpa,
Uncle Frank. You know, goes on and on and on,
and I love that about Christmas. So I thoroughly enjoy
sending out Christmas cards. I think it's just absolutely a
tradition we cannot lose. It's like a fruitcake. I get
a fruitcake every year.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
I love fruitcake.

Speaker 6 (01:49:25):
You know, it's the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:28):
It's it's amazing how much how much tradition means in
our life. I was I was having a conversation with
a guy earlier this year. We were at an event
and and he was in the insurance business, and and
he was and somehow we got onto talking about artificial
intelligence AI. And he was talking about how, you know,

(01:49:49):
how how I and I'm still and maybe it's just
me and maybe I'm unnecessarily thinking about this, but I'm
still wary of AI. I feel like I don't want
to cross that. I don't want to cross that threshold.
I have not relied on artificial intelligence for anything that
I do, although I suppose I could for show prep

(01:50:10):
and other things like that getting ready for the radio.
But to my way of thinking, it's like it's like
coloring your hair. Right, if you've crossed that line one
time where you've got to get rid of some of
the gray, you know, whatever it is, you sort of
never come back for that. What is it for you?
Do you would? When you're writing books and researching and
doing things like that, Maybe you use it. Maybe I

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don't know, Maybe you use artificial intelligence, But what's it
like for you dealing with those sorts of issues.

Speaker 6 (01:50:39):
I have never used artificial intelligence. I would rather somebody
catch a mistake knowing that I misspelled a word or
had a sentence fragment, versus having an AI generated form.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:50:53):
I had a very good friend of mine, author of
about one hundred and fifty books, named Jim Denny He
out of californ He wrote a book using AI. He
put ten words in there, said it needed to be
two hundred pages long and needed to be sixty thousand words,
and it generated it in thirty three seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
My god, entire book out excuse me, an entire book,
two hundred pages.

Speaker 6 (01:51:18):
An entire book. And then he put that out there
for sale, and he circled everything that the AI made
mistakes on. So it's based on information uploaded that the
AI created the book on. And there were so many mistakes,
and he published the book to prove to everybody that
just because it's AI is not one hundred percent guaranteed

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correct because they misspelled words, fractions, everything else were all
over the place. And footnotes were wrong because they actually
footnoted an article that was they found obsolete. So had
Jim done the research himself, it would all been perfectly fine.

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So if that starts to happen, people are really really
going to find out, Wow, this is not legit.

Speaker 3 (01:52:05):
This is AI.

Speaker 1 (01:52:06):
This is AI, absolutely, and he proves the point, and
you know, yeah, I hope people are listening to this
because we we we shouldn't just run blindly, you know,
rush blindly head on into into these things. And hey,
I'm not I'm not criticizing anyone who does, but I'm
just thinking for my own purposes and uh, you know,

(01:52:27):
for purposes of being authentic, being your real self. You know,
don't turn that over to a computer. Don't turn that
over to someone else's way of thinking. Who creates? Because
I mean, to my way of thinking, that's really what
it is. The the whatever that artificial intelligence is, is
going to be a reflection somehow of the person that

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created it.

Speaker 6 (01:52:51):
Really, it can't be helped, can no, sir, Because I
think that everybody knows how everybody speaks, to begin with,
everybody understands how somebody says as an email, to begin with,
all of a sudden that transitions over to this is
one hundred percent words that a wordsmith doesn't even understand.
I think that their people will catch on very quickly
that this is not one genuine from the source, because

(01:53:15):
if the guy or the girl never spoke that way
to begin with, all of a sudden, they're sending out
these very very long, in depth, massive words. They're like,
where'd you come.

Speaker 13 (01:53:26):
Up with that?

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
Jim? Can you hang around for one more segment? Yes, sir,
all right, stay right there. We'll get we'll get a
quick update on traffic and weather, and then We'll continue
on with Jim Serger on fifty five KRCV talk stations.
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Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
Highway traffic continues to look pretty good with the one
wreck that is sapbound seventy five Spram to Eastpound for
Washington Waite. They're on the shoulder, but I'm hearing plenty
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Speaker 1 (01:54:30):
Seve on this Christmas Eve. Dan Carrolyn for Brian Thomas.
A little breaking news right now. American Airlines is putting
a hold on all its flights right now because of
what they're saying is a technical issue, and that hold
is only supposed to last till eight thirty this morning,
So if you're expecting someone on a on a American

(01:54:55):
Airlines flight, they might be a little bit late. Is
this the Bob Seeger song? Okay, here we go, Bob.

(01:55:16):
As suggested by our buddy Jim Serger, we play a
little Bob Seger, a little drummer boy. And you know,
you know what I like about that is I can
listen to that voice and I know right away it's
Bob Seger. And you talk about authentic and the songs
that Bob Seger wrote and the way he performed in concert,

(01:55:38):
there was nothing fake about that guy at.

Speaker 6 (01:55:39):
All, No, sir. I think Bob Seger song really nails it.
I love the little drummer boy theme. And when I
hear that song, instantly I just think about tradition with
my parents. I think about the tradition that my wife
and I have had for years, from going out on
Thanksgiving after the day after to go get our Christmas
tree and nan paps about forty minutes outside of Cincinnati.

(01:56:04):
We spend all day decorating the house, turning it into
a winter wonderland. So when I think of Bob Seeger
and a little drummer boy, I just think of all
the positive memories and the traditions that my family has had,
from going downtown to see Poke and Patter, to the
ge electric train set downtown and getting your little cookies,

(01:56:24):
to my mom and dad catching the nip they always
needed a nip to drink downtown when we were walking. Yeah,
all you know, all the Christmas little elves, of robotic
little elves downtown, just all those things. So when I
hear Bob Seeger or just about any Christmas song, really dan,
to be honest with you, I think of all the

(01:56:45):
fun I had as growing up as a kid, and
my wife and ies, you know, and my family. Last night,
they all came over here and we were playing games
all night. It was just a lot of fun. We
had Christmas music in the background. And I'm a tough guy,
but my heart was opened last night. It was so
much fun watching everybody laugh and the exchange a little

(01:57:06):
bit of gifts.

Speaker 1 (01:57:07):
That's good.

Speaker 6 (01:57:07):
It was really really a blast, and I think that
those traditions are here to stay.

Speaker 1 (01:57:12):
Yeah, you know, I was going to ask you what
Christmas looks like in the Serger household, but I think
he just told us, and I appreciate that, and I
think that is awesome.

Speaker 9 (01:57:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
One of the reasons I love talking to you and
having you on is because you're you're such a great
observer of life and what and what is happening in society,
and I'm looking at things and and I don't know
if it's just me, but I am really starting to
and I think this is a good thing. I think
I'm starting to sense a shift when it comes to
young people. I know you and I have talked before,

(01:57:42):
and I complained about how young people constantly had their
nose and their cell phone, as if you know, the
answer to life's problems were contained in there somehow, and
and you know, everything was being compartmentalized, that there were
no longer any more face to face conversation, and everything
human interaction was becoming so superficial. I really think, and

(01:58:06):
maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm wrong about this,
but I think I'm really starting to sense a shift,
especially as when it comes to young people, of how
they deal now with interpersonal relations. And it may sound silly,
but one of the areas where I'm seeing it is
over the years in this job and the jobs that
I've had, I've dealt a lot with professional athletes. And

(01:58:27):
there was a time when I absolutely despise professional athletes
because I knew, in my heart of hearts, they didn't
care about the game, they didn't care about other people.
All they cared about was that contract and making as
much money as they possibly could. Now, the drive to
make money and make as much money as you possibly
can is still there. But I think we have an

(01:58:49):
entire generation of athletes now and young people who find
themselves in these positions, and there's a humbleness to a
lot of these individuals now knowing that they are truly
are fortunate and just because they have exceeded their wildest
dreams at a young age. They do not look down
on other people and hold themselves above others simply because

(01:59:13):
you know they're making You know they're making millions and
millions and millions of dollars. And I think that is
starting to rub off. That sense of appreciation and being
thankful for what you have and getting back to dealing
with people on that individual sort of level is making
a comeback in this country. Am I off base here?
Are you sensing any of that?

Speaker 6 (01:59:35):
Yeah? Sure, I think that you're coming out of one extreme,
meaning COVID lockdown. You couldn't interact with people mess the
traditions like you and I were just talking about. They
missed being in front of the camera a lot, they
missed making commercials, whatever. But the interaction between like you said,
face to face was gone for three years basically during

(01:59:56):
the COVID And now it's been open. The floodgates are open.
And what we took for granted leading into COVID, now
we appreciate that a lot more. And I'll give you
a funny story. Dave Collins played for the Cincinnati Reds
back in the late seventies, and he actually would come
to my baseball practices here in Anderson Township. And I

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got a group team photo and there's Dave Collins in
the photo. He used to come to a lot of
our practice. Buddy Bell and Ronnie Oaster were the freshman
basketball coaches at mid Neck for a few years. So
that old tradition of still being involved in the community.

(02:00:38):
Your heyday is over with or in the middle of
your heyday. If becoming like you said, back to fruition.
They want to be a part of the community. They're
engaging with the community. Chase was out in Anderson Township
the last couple of years working at King's Chickens. Sometimes
he would just show up and work the drive through

(02:01:00):
and it would catch the kids off God.

Speaker 1 (02:01:02):
And the kids loved it.

Speaker 6 (02:01:05):
They loved it. And I think that that engaging aspect
of yes, you are an athlete, Yes you are for
the Bengals or the Rads or SC Cincinnati and the
Cyclones that they love the community involvement and everybody loves
to feel part of something, giving something back without anything
in return. They love it and they feel good, and

(02:01:28):
they're a spokesman. They're an ambassador for our community. People
look up to them, they want to be them. So
if you're five years old, ten years old and you're
seeing Joe Burrow drive the Batmobile down the beach Mont Avenue.

Speaker 1 (02:01:39):
Or something like that, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen
one of these days. That is fantastic. Well, Jim, we
got to run. But I love having you on man.
I love your perspective on things, and thank you so
much for the time. This morning, and we will talk again,
my friend Christmas to you for having me on. All right,
there you go, Jim Serger, look him up, look up
his books on. All you got to do is google

(02:02:01):
Jim Serger and you will get there. We're late for
a break, but who the heck cares? It's Christmas Eve,
Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk Stations.

Speaker 8 (02:02:10):
Your voice refreshing your country or reasonable American.

Speaker 1 (02:02:16):
Fifty five krc D Talk station This report.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
Fifty five krc the Talk Station, Christmas Eve, Dan Carroll.
Then for Brian Thomas, and you're listening to the music
of a band called Romeo Void. And the only reason

(02:02:51):
I'm playing this is because my buddy Andrew Pappus is here.

Speaker 1 (02:02:54):
He loves his song. Andrew Pappus, how you doing today.

Speaker 3 (02:03:01):
Dan Carroll? Good morning, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (02:03:03):
How about how about Joe Strecker. How about Joe Strecker
digging deep there and pulling out your walk.

Speaker 14 (02:03:08):
Up music, one of the best in the business, Joe
Stricker playing my holiday and everyday favorite.

Speaker 6 (02:03:16):
Grow me O boy.

Speaker 1 (02:03:20):
Someday you're going to tell me the story about how
you got onto that song. I don't want to hear
it right now.

Speaker 14 (02:03:25):
I won't get into it now, but it's is nothing
more than a casual, fond remembrance of the glorious and
height of music eighties and nineties, you know, music genre
that infects my mind.

Speaker 1 (02:03:41):
You know the full disclosure here, Andrew and I have
been doing a podcast called One Morning I'm out of
here and I'm reading today from the Festivus list put
out by Rand Paul, and I see where the National
Endowment for the Humanities paid three hundred and eighty eight
and sixty three dollars so we can all enjoy six

(02:04:03):
episodes of a podcast devoted to magic. You know you're
not doing anything today? Can you fill out the paperwork
so we can get three hundred and eighty eight grand
for our podcast? And can you accomplish that?

Speaker 14 (02:04:17):
I would love to, but I think a lot of people,
including myself, are going to be busy this morning and
actually the rest of this very short work week because
I don't know if you heard, but the the court
in an appeals court reversed or.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Put a stay on the appeal of Texas to.

Speaker 14 (02:04:37):
This new IRS rule regarding corporations, and that even includes
LLC's so everyone's now going to be scrambling. They put
a stay on this. I know we didn't intend to
talk about it, but just jogged my memory. So the
IRS has come out with some new rule that you
have to provide D tailed ownership records and IDs photos,

(02:05:04):
copies of the i DS or pictures or scans of
everyone's I D that is a partner or at least
a member part of a corporation, your board, significant whatever.
And the the state, the Great State of Texas sued.
I don't know if Ohio joined them in this suit

(02:05:26):
and said, no, you're overstepping. I guess we had to
something for those eighty thousand new I R S agents
that were hired under another imbecile named Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 (02:05:36):
But well, they got to have something to do. They
gotta they got to go have the andrew those those rich,
those rich business corporate people need to pay their fair
share in taxes. I guess so, so podcasts about magic
can get three hundred That money doesn't come out of

(02:05:58):
thin air. You've got collected. So a podcast about magic,
six episodes can can go for three hundred eighty eight grand.

Speaker 3 (02:06:07):
Can you imagine?

Speaker 14 (02:06:08):
Can you imagine what we could do the good that
one more and I'm out of here with our great
co host Jason Kiefer, could do with that money, how
far and wide we could spread both our message and
our musings.

Speaker 3 (02:06:23):
It would be epic.

Speaker 1 (02:06:24):
We could have we could have a proper studio in
which to do our podcast. That would be fantastical.

Speaker 14 (02:06:30):
We might have might be about a wider deck so
that no one is stuck looking at half of my
head because your bulbous head takes up a large portion
of the of the screen.

Speaker 1 (02:06:42):
Well, I didn't bring you on here to talk about us,
but you know I love every year Rand Paul puts
out the Festivus list, and this year we are topping
a trillion dollars eight with a t a trillion dollars
with a te So we can have so we can
have giant sculptures of pigeons and things like that. So

(02:07:02):
people in Las Vegas, you know Las Vegas, Andrew, they
had to build a pick a ball court for twelve
million dollars. And God knows that with all the casinos
in Las Vegas and everything that goes on out there,
there's no way they can put their hands on twelve
million dollars in Las Vegas to build a pickle ball court.
So thank god they were able to rely on the

(02:07:23):
federal government for that.

Speaker 14 (02:07:25):
You know, Rand Paul does this, and I think it's
going to be even more exposed by my new favorite
quasi governmental entity known.

Speaker 3 (02:07:34):
As does dose.

Speaker 1 (02:07:35):
And I have used I'm all about.

Speaker 3 (02:07:37):
The doge, all about the doge, and I'll tell you,
you know, let's not forget.

Speaker 14 (02:07:43):
Also, it was announced that I believe that the Biden
administration that is quickly coming to an end but not
soon enough, spent millions and millions of dollars on electric
postal vehicles, but only we're able to deliver a fraction
of those at a cost of something like twenty two
million dollars a vehicle.

Speaker 1 (02:08:04):
Yeah, uh, and money well spent.

Speaker 14 (02:08:08):
And I've seen reports of electric school bus companies filing
for bankruptcy now that the gravy train of federal dollars
is coming to an end.

Speaker 1 (02:08:20):
And I thought, but I thought Kamala. I thought Kamala
loved the loved yellow school buses. That didn't help.

Speaker 14 (02:08:26):
Did she loved, well, she loved everything, but she was
probably she's probably two bottles into her speech, and at
that point, you really do love everything and everyone.

Speaker 1 (02:08:39):
But you know, I think, to my way of thinking,
when it comes to the doge, the mindset needs to change. Look,
a trillion dollars, even even with the way this federal
government spends money, is still a lot of money. If if,

(02:08:59):
if we can get to the mindset where it's not
a good idea to waste ten billion dollars here, eight
million dollars there, so some dude can buy an island
in Florida twelve million dollars on a pick a ball.
If we can get to the mindset where this kind

(02:09:20):
of spending needs to stop, I think that's the first
step into getting the fiscal house in order.

Speaker 14 (02:09:26):
What say you, well, Dan Carroll, you're exactly right, and
that that is not just at the federal level. I'd
like to remind everybody that this starts local. And what
I mean by that is you need to be involved
in your school boards and see what they're spending money on.
You need to be involved in your local whether it
be township or city, to see what they're.

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
Spending money on.

Speaker 14 (02:09:49):
And more importantly, even that leads up to the state
level to see what they're spending money on and hold
them accountable. Let us not, you know, focus solely. I
think we can walk in sho gum at the same time,
at least on the Republican side, I know we can.
Let us not focus solely on the federal government. You
know what, what is the biblical passage remove the beam

(02:10:11):
from thy own eye, because you know we have we
have a much more uh bigger impact at the local level.
So you need to look at that, and the bigger
stuff will then eventually take care of itself. I'm not
saying ignore the bigger things. I'm looking forward to dos
and and and and and hearing of all the waste

(02:10:31):
and fraud at the federal government level. But you know
when you see your local local township, end or park
district and or uh school district spending money frivolously, that.

Speaker 3 (02:10:42):
You know it's your tax dollars.

Speaker 14 (02:10:44):
And I loathe when I hear of a levee and
uh not that all levees are bad. I'll be the
first one in a bid. I'm a big I'm a
big supporter of public safety. I think that's the primary
uh service of any local government is public safety, providing
for public safety. But when you hear, well, it's only

(02:11:06):
x amount of dollars per hundred thousand additional if you
pass this like, yes, but that's money out of my pocket.
And then I think of the seniors or fixed income
folks that you and I are quickly approaching that stage
in our lives.

Speaker 3 (02:11:20):
You quicker than I.

Speaker 1 (02:11:22):
I think that I appreciate it.

Speaker 14 (02:11:24):
You got it, brother, But you know I think that
you know, hey, who are you to put your hands
in these people's pockets when the only way they have
to offset that additional expense is to cut an expense
somewhere else. They can't, you know, they can't easily go
out and find additional income to offset that. So how
dare you say to me or anyone else, well, it's

(02:11:46):
only an additional fifty dollars per hundred thousand. Well, I
hate to say it, but in my neighborhood, I mean, thankfully,
you know, it's hard to find a hundred thousand dollars house,
so we're talking multiples of one hundred thousand.

Speaker 3 (02:11:57):
Uh So, you know, this is something that we need
to focus on. I think though, it is that I think.

Speaker 14 (02:12:04):
As you mentioned, I feel like, although I am recovering
from holiday traffic yesterday, so my brain is a little foggy.
I feel like there is a new time and we're
approaching a new age in America where perhaps this thinking
is more prevalent at every level of government and in society.

Speaker 3 (02:12:24):
Do we need it not?

Speaker 1 (02:12:25):
Do we want it? Yeah? Well, let me let me
ask you this though, and we got to get to
a break, So just ponder this for a second. But
when is the last time. When was the last time
you were aware of a local entity that said to
either a state government or a federal government, you know what,
don't send us that money. We don't need that money. Well,
you know, we we can take care of our own

(02:12:47):
business here and and you the federal government, just you know,
move on somewhere else. But please don't send us that
that six or seven figure check. So when's the last
time that happened? Think about that for a second and
we'll can tinue on with Andrew pappis here on fifty
five krc DE talk station.

Speaker 6 (02:13:08):
V nine.

Speaker 1 (02:13:08):
First warning weather forecast cloudy today, not as cold. We'll
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Fifty five k R the talk station rolling out my
favorite Christmas songs today. This is Elvis when Elvis was
at his best and his rendition of Merry Christmas Baby.

Speaker 1 (02:14:31):
This song is like seven minutes long, so I can
just let this play and not continue on with Andrew Pappis,
which would not be a bad thing. Let's see, I
got I got Elvis on one hand, Papas on the other.
What am I gonna do? What am I going to.

Speaker 9 (02:14:49):
Marry?

Speaker 1 (02:14:50):
Merry Christmas Baby, come on now shooting dreaming. All right,
there we go. That's Elvis Presley, Merry Christmas Baby, fantastic.
Andrew Pappus, we were talking before the break, and I
actually have an answer to this question. But you know,
you were talking about local responsibility when it comes to
spending and things like that, and local governments are always happy,

(02:15:13):
it seems to accept money from state or federal governments
and grants and other things like that. And so it
you know, showing a little leadership in that area, saying
that you know, we are going to take care of
whatever the issue is ourselves, seems like it might be
a good thing.

Speaker 15 (02:15:30):
It is.

Speaker 14 (02:15:32):
Having swam in that pool for eight years, I will
say that the oftentimes, if we were notified of a
grant or something that was possible, my first reaction was, well,
what is this grant for? And if it was something
like that I thought was you know, frivolous or not needed,

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I'd be like, you know what, I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:15:54):
Think that that's something we should be pursuing.

Speaker 14 (02:15:56):
However, the retort if it was something that let's say,
improving sidewalks or whatever, the retort from all levels is, well,
you know, Sadly.

Speaker 15 (02:16:08):
If we don't take this month, somebody else will, another
entity will, because the federal government, I think, I think
what you should do then is have where it's offered
and it's there needs to be a mindset change, and
I think there will.

Speaker 3 (02:16:23):
I think we're heading that way. Well.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
The thing is when when they can, when those local
when those local government bodies accept that government money. There's
always there's always uh, strings that that are attached to it, no.

Speaker 14 (02:16:37):
Question, and I would always ask, you know, if there
are strings uh And I'm only speaking from our lovely
hamlet Anderson Township, but there are always strings attached with
federal dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:16:50):
And you and I both know that a lot of
times we would be dealing with.

Speaker 14 (02:16:55):
State dollars and to an extent, there's strings attached with
that as well, But depending on the grant and what
it was designed for, those strings could be highly limited
or I just think that that mindset is definitely changing,
and we you know, sadly, as you and I both know,
I believe there was a great show I watched Sunday

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night with Mark Levin that discussed the budget, the percentages
that are discretionary and what we're actually fighting over regarding
all these budget shutdowns that was coming up here that
we were threatened with just sadly a week ago.

Speaker 3 (02:17:33):
You know what we are locked into so much.

Speaker 14 (02:17:37):
We're arguing over a very small fraction of it because
we're spending too much money and we need a fundamental
mindset change. We cannot and have not been able to
afford what we've been spending. And you know, I'm not trying.
You know, I want everyone to enjoy this holiday season,
especially those poor folks that are stuck at the airport.

Speaker 1 (02:17:59):
Now.

Speaker 14 (02:18:00):
I wouldn't want to be an American airline gate agent
if he offered me every federal dollar out there right now.
They're probably being abused. But you know, listening, folks, enjoy
the tomorrow today, enjoy tomorrow. But we need to have
a fundamental shift of thinking. And Ran Paul brings it
to what brings it to light with what we've been
spending money on. I believe that study office said something

(02:18:22):
about was it not lonely rats with cocaine dependencies or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:18:28):
Yeah, yeah, money, yeah, money for rat research. And they
imagine this, They took a bunch of rats and they
let some of the rats socialize with each other, and
they let had other rats that were, you know, kept
kept to themselves in isolation essentially, and then the other
rats had food and access to water and all the
rest of it, and the the other rats only had

(02:18:50):
cocaine to rely on. So lo and behold, they they
found out that the rats that won't only had the cocaine.
The only thing they had was the cocaine. So they
preferred the cocaine. Imagine that.

Speaker 3 (02:19:03):
Imagine that, and we spend that.

Speaker 1 (02:19:05):
Yeah, and we spent the use of tax pay about
four hundred nineteen thousand dollars. And again you'll look at that,
Oh it's only four hundred nineteen thousand dollars. But again
we need to look at that and say, you know what,
we don't need to spend that kind of money on
that kind of question.

Speaker 3 (02:19:20):
No question.

Speaker 14 (02:19:20):
And I hope we start January twentieth. You were discussing
the pardons earlier. I had a long post about the
about the newly found conscience of our unconscious president and
where was his conscience during any number of the things
I listed in my posts? Where was his conscience on
the Afghanistan withdrawal? Where was his conscience on showering with

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his daughter.

Speaker 3 (02:19:45):
Where was his.

Speaker 14 (02:19:46):
Conscience on blaming an innocent man to the death of
his wife for years and years and years? Where was
his conscience for lying about any number of things, including
his test scores while he was You know, I graduated
at the top of my class andlah blah blah, and I.

Speaker 3 (02:20:01):
Imagine I'm smarter than you. Where was this?

Speaker 14 (02:20:03):
Tutches sin? But I agree with you, Dan, you know
we need a fundamental mind shift. I think it's I
think it's coming, and most encouragingly, as you mentioned, I
think it's occurring among the next generation.

Speaker 1 (02:20:14):
Well, Andrew, I'll tell you what can you can? You can?
You stay right there? We got to get a quick
break in you. You want to hang around for one
more segment? Absolutely all right, Andrew Pappas, stay right there
and we'll continue with Andrew on the other side of
this on fifty five KRC, the talk station. This is
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Speaker 1 (02:21:28):
See the talk station little Christmas music on this Christmas
Eve twenty twenty four. Thank you so much for being here.

(02:21:48):
As we continue on with Andrew Pappus. And you know,
it's not just the guy in the White House, but
so many of these Democrats who are in charge. And
I think of Kaffe Hochel, the governor, the governor of
New York who on the same day, the same day
as a woman was set on fire on the subway

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and the the alleged killer uh sat there and fanned
the flames and then sat back on a bench and
watched it, watched his work as this woman burned to death.
The governor of New York puts out a post on
social media talking about how great and safe the subway
system is under her leadership. I mean, just the brain

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deadness of some of these individuals that get into office
is is staggering in their in their stupidity and and
the things that they do. So it's you know, there's
there's plenty of places where these things need to be
cleaned out, no question.

Speaker 3 (02:22:50):
And you know, and you mentioned that.

Speaker 14 (02:22:54):
The thing that really disgusted me most about that was
the your your your live old media headlines said woman
one of the New York papers.

Speaker 3 (02:23:04):
Woman caught fire like she like she's spontaneously combusted.

Speaker 1 (02:23:08):
That was that was the headline. You know, happens. Well,
that's like that's like a car drives through a Christmas
festival in Germany just just by itself. Man just drove
through there happened.

Speaker 14 (02:23:17):
Yeah, And I know many journalists that that that that
never criticize the media because they think they're you know.

Speaker 3 (02:23:24):
Holier than now.

Speaker 14 (02:23:25):
They went to school and got a some sort of
journalism degree, and that gives them license to you know,
they know better than you and I, you know, I
think that people, as we've seen the the your your
mainstream media.

Speaker 3 (02:23:37):
That your in their influence is waning at best.

Speaker 14 (02:23:40):
And and and we are seeing a ship that the
curtain has been pulled back, and we're seeing the wizard behind,
you know, the emperor has no clothes and the person
behind the curtain actually pulling the strings. And I think
it's a great thing. But you know, it is Christmas time,
so we're going to have plenty of time to bemoan

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and discuss all these things. But I if I could
just pivot for a moment, a lot of people, because
I'm so adept, I will pivot, And of course we
might circle back to this.

Speaker 3 (02:24:14):
Another term I won't miss anytime soon.

Speaker 14 (02:24:17):
But you know, a lot of folks are going to
be looking, and your prior guests mentioned it, a lot
of folks this the time of year, are looking for
charitable organizations to support. And I'd just like to just
give a shout out. He did mention tunnel the Towers.
I can't think of you know a better national charity.

(02:24:37):
Do you know I do a lot of work with
Honor Flight tri State. They are another one that helps
a lot of local veterans. And I'd like to also
mention locally here and Anderson at least the Yellow Ribbon
Support Center run by Keith Mappin, who helps send packages
overseas to soldiers. And and you know, it is the
holidays we need to especially this time year with As

(02:25:01):
I said, I'm not really in the holiday spirit as
fully as I should be because I had to make
a thirty minute connection in Atlanta yesterday and I think
they're still mopping up the carnage from that event. But
I will say, let's focus on at least this next
week charitable giving if you can, if you have the means.

(02:25:22):
I realize that the economy has been, especially under Joe Biden, horrendous,
but things are looking up. We have a new administration
coming into office. Optimism is growing, and I think we're
going to turn this chip around. And part of that
can be reflected in your end of year taxeductible holiday giving.

(02:25:43):
And I wish everybody out there a very merry Christmas,
a blessed holiday season, and a happy new year, including you.
Dan Carroll You're doing a fantastic job filling in for
Brian Thomas and all the other work that you do.
I really appreciate you. Joe Strecker in the background, and
everybody out there, well Andrew, wait wait, I might have

(02:26:04):
it christ except the Flaviians I'm not really fond of.

Speaker 1 (02:26:08):
Well, you can't win them all, but but you try.
But Andrew, I know I have with that going out
on a high note. That is the that is the
thing to do, especially today. And yeah, all the other
stuff that we have to talk about, we can save
that for another time. But I know that I agree
with you. There is there is reason for optimism, There
is reason for hope despite all the all the just

(02:26:30):
horrendous and horrible news that has come out in the
last forty eight hours. We can let that sit aside
and we pray for those families that are affected by that.
But there's always again, hope and light at the end
of the tunnel. And Andrew, thank you for the time.
Have a great Christmas Day, and I'm sure we'll see
you sometime here around New Year's or sometime around that.

Speaker 3 (02:26:53):
Yes, sir, you too as well.

Speaker 1 (02:26:54):
All right, there you go. The one and only Andrew
Pappus and as always great to talk to him and
want to thank him for his time today. Joe, Let's
go ahead and open the phone lines for the last
fifteen or twenty minutes that we have with you this morning,
and if anybody wants to check in five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred. As we head down the home stretch,
Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas on fifty five krc

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The overnight low thirty six looks like Christmas Day is
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on fifty five K see the talk station.

Speaker 1 (02:28:46):
This is the time.

Speaker 6 (02:28:48):
Come.

Speaker 1 (02:28:49):
But what's here? I'm happy is a happy to take
the next hit month, pay you my bills, time and
things about it.

Speaker 12 (02:29:05):
It gives me tills.

Speaker 6 (02:29:07):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (02:29:09):
Christmas come but grunts again getting ready? This is great stuff.

Speaker 6 (02:29:16):
I love this.

Speaker 1 (02:29:17):
Joe Strecker, What am I listening to?

Speaker 15 (02:29:20):
Going?

Speaker 1 (02:29:20):
Pardon? Oh this is Charles Brown. Okay, this is great
going a thing about you knew his day. I don't
care what I have to pay the good time for
Christmas combent once you say this is this is the
kind of Christmas music I love. And I'm looking at

(02:29:44):
this list of the what's considered the consensus of the
best Christmas songs of all time, and uh well, just
let me backtrack here for a second. Andrew was talking
about the American airlines. Say they had a problem. So
it's it's six point fifty this morning. They stopped all

(02:30:05):
their flights, said they had some sort of technical issue,
and those flights were supposed to resume at eight thirty
this morning. So I'm gonna have to look that up
and Joe looked at up and see if we know
if those flights have resumed or not. But anyway, the
top seven Christmas songs according to this and you can

(02:30:27):
tell me if if you agree with ease night. But
I'll go back down. Let me scroll down the list
here and get to number seven. Number seven is the
Happy Christmas War Is Over song by John Lennon and
Yoko Ono. And if the airlines have not the American
Airlines has not resumed flights yet. Oh okay, Joe doesn't

(02:30:51):
like this one. And this is I you know what
I should have sent you, Joe. This is my fault.
I should have sent you this so you can roll
a little bit of these songs so we can actually
hear them. But this is John and Yoko and the
Plastic O No Band, and I don't you know what.
I kind of like this song. It's probably not one

(02:31:15):
of my favorites. I don't know if it's top seven,
but if I hear it, I won't turn it off.
I'll listen to it. So that is number seven. Number six,
very traditional the Christmas song Merry Christmas to You by
Nat King Cole, recorded in nineteen forty six. Yeah, this

(02:31:39):
is you know Nat King Cole. They talk about the smooth,
the velvety voice, and I listened to that and I
think I was talking about this yesterday with Jason Williams,
and this is one of his favorite songs. And I
just remark at the quality of that particular recording in

(02:32:01):
nineteen forty six, and it sounds as good and crisp
and clear as it did on the day that they
made it. So I don't know. Maybe that's a little
bit of a Christmas miracle there, but no, that is
a that is a great song. Then we have Darlene
Love nineteen sixty three Christmas Baby, Please Come Home, which

(02:32:25):
is another it is that is a song that I
like very much. I like her rendition of it, and
that is another song that I can do. That song
that has wound up in the soundtrack of a lot
of different movies, and I kind of like that one.
Let's see what's the next one. Fairy Tale of New

(02:32:47):
York by the Pogues and Christy McCall and I gotta
tell you, off the top of my head, I cannot
think of what that song sounds like. I don't have
the ability to listen to it here in the studio.
But that's number four of the all time You would
think that a song that ranks number four on the

(02:33:09):
all time best list would be something that you've heard
of before.

Speaker 6 (02:33:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:33:15):
White Christmas by Ben Crosby. That is another classic, another
standard around Christmas time. That's number three on the list.
Number two is and Joe, I don't know if you're
going to agree with this one. This is Last Christmas
by Wham, beloved holiday classic that has captured the hearts

(02:33:41):
of listeners since its release. Written and performed by Wham,
the song has remained a staple on Christmas playlist worldwide
the eighties. Gem had an interesting journey to the top
island inspired countless cover versions over the years. It didn't
reach number one until twenty seventeen, following George Michael's passing.
So there you go, and let's see. We got to

(02:34:04):
get a break in here, and I'm gonna Joe, I'm
gonna send this to you and you should be able
to dial up number one while we're in the break here.
How about that. We'll try that and we will hear
what is considered the number one best Christmas song, according
at least to this list, and we'll have that after
this on fifty five krs DE talk station in this

(02:34:31):
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a high a forty five, forty five on the on
the day before Christmas, cloudy tonight, some showers possible, the
overnight low of thirty six, and then scattered rain as
possible tomorrow. On Christmas Day, we'll have a high near
fifty and then some showers continue and a high on

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Thursday of fifty six.

Speaker 4 (02:34:54):
So it's going to be a mild Christmas. It is
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Speaker 1 (02:35:38):
OH one A lot Christmas, Just walk.

Speaker 4 (02:35:48):
It's eight fifty Christmas Eve, Christmas and uh under protest,
Joe st Record is rolling this one out?

Speaker 1 (02:35:59):
Is Mariah Carey? All I Want for Christmas is you?
Recorded in nineteen ninety four. Ah, there you go.

Speaker 4 (02:36:21):
Mariah carey timeless Holiday classics synonymous with the Fest Season,
released in nineteen ninety four, not only capture the heart
of millions, but also solidified its place as the most
beloved Christmas song of all time?

Speaker 1 (02:36:41):
Is that true?

Speaker 6 (02:36:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:36:45):
Look, I think Mariah Carey is a very talented singer.
I think the way she resurrected her career. I remember
doing an interview about her one time. This is back
in My Fox nineteen days, and we had a guest
on that was some sort of this expert in the
music industry, and I said, you know what in Mariah Carey.

(02:37:10):
This was when she was making her comeback. And I
said her career literally had one foot in the grave,
and he agreed with me. I don't know if it
was this song that brought her back, but Mariah Carey
very talented singer, and I think she's living a good
life now, so I'm happy for her this time. But
that song is number one on the all time I'm

(02:37:31):
not buying it. I'm not saying it's a bad song.
And then Joe also agreed with me that this song
that's at number four, fairy Tale of New York by
the Pogues and Christy McCall, recorded in nineteen eighty eight,
never heard of it. And I'm sorry to say, here's
some good news. Actually I've got I have two pieces

(02:37:54):
of good news. As we get ready to close it out.
We talked earlier about American Airlines. They had to stop
more than one hundred flights this morning because of a
quote technical issue, so American Airlines briefly grounded their flights.
The actual of the groundstop was issued by the FAA

(02:38:15):
just before six thirty this morning the Central time. So
that issue has apparently been fixed, and American Airlines is
up and flying again. So if you are expecting someone
or you are traveling on American Airlines, don't change your plans.

(02:38:35):
There will likely be a delay that will ripple throughout
the rest of the of the day, But American Airlines
is flying again, So there's a little bit of a
Christmas miracle right there, and we'll hope that that continues
on for the rest of the day, all right, how
about this for good news. According to WLWT, the Ohio

(02:38:59):
Lottery says a classic lotto jackpot ticket has been sold
in Cincinnati. Listen to this, Joe, worth one point nine
million dollars. One point nine million sold in Cincinnati. Joe,

(02:39:22):
have you been on the west side lately? The ticket
was purchased at the Ameristop food mart on Muddy Creek
Road in Cincinnati. That's Western Hills, not just about a
couple of blocks away off of Glenway Avenue. And if
you have been there to the marathon station on Muddy

(02:39:43):
Creek in Western Hills and you bought a lottery ticket there,
check out those tickets. Someone in Cincinnati has a ticket
right now today worth one point nine million dollars. The
classic of this was Classic Lotto. That's a game I
never play, so I know I don't have to worry
ab about it. But the numbers are one, two, nine,
thirty three, thirty eight and thirty nine. So someone hit

(02:40:06):
that Christmas Eve one point nine million. Congratulations to you.
And if it's you, the next time I'm on the radio,
pick up the phone and give me a call. I'd
love to hear that story. But that is going to
be it for me. I got to get out of here.
Thanks Joe for letting me sit in for Brian Thomas.
Thanks to Brian Thomas, all the listeners of fifty five KRC,

(02:40:27):
I certainly hope you have a great and blessed Christmas
and a happy New Year and all the rest of it.
I don't know when I'll get a chance to sit
in this seat again, but someone will be here later
this week filling in for Brian Thomas. So once again
I have nothing but thanks for everyone here at fifty
five KRC and all the listeners of the Brian Thomas Show.

(02:40:50):
It's such a great audience and my pleasure to be
here and sit in this seat, so I can't thank
you enough again. Merry Christmas everyone, and we'll see you
next time here on fifty five KRC, the Talk station.
Your voice, Thank you for taking McColl your country.

Speaker 6 (02:41:06):
It's refreshing to hear it every day.

Speaker 1 (02:41:08):
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