Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 12/31/24

Happy New Year's Eve! Kevin takes your calls and covers a variety of political topics to end 2024.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right four minutes after five o'clock on this final day
of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Gosh, who the time is flying? So h With that
in mind, we are gonna have a little bit of
fun today. We're gonna have a lot of stories, kind
of look at the year and review and uh, some
of the other stories that have popped up. There's, of
course a couple of major sort of major stories that
we need to cover as well. But we'll be reflecting

(00:37):
on a lot of stuff and talk about our plans
for twenty twenty five. Basically, yeah, phone numbers by the way,
five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five one, eight
hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five pound, five point fifty at
and T wireless phone. Of course, we're gonna cover some
of the biggest stories of twenty twenty four. And I'm

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kind of curious from your perspective what you see as
the major story of twenty twenty four. Really, there are
probably five stories out there or more that in any
other year probably would have been one of the top
stories of the year, but because of everything else going on,
they either you know, move within that top five range,

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and so I'm kind of curious as to what is
top of your list. Also, do you have any plans
for tonight? Any New Year's celebrations that you're going to
be going to? What are your plans for that? I
know in the Gordon household, we generally just stay at home.
And I watched the ball drop, and you know, yeah,
watch a couple of movies or something beforehand, and then

(01:42):
watch the ball drop and have a nice dinner.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
There's been two occasions where my wife decided that we
were going to do something special. When one was for
the Super Bowl an the other was for New Year's
Eve one year. And we and now I've told you
in the past that we are basically a family of
three with the way I eat, sometimes maybe even a

(02:08):
family of four. But she made some stuff for this
super We were gonna have this, you know, kind of
a Super Bowl. We're gonna watch the game, and so
she started making all this stuff, and I swear we
must have had enough food that we could have probably
fed about ten people. Uh, And we were kind of
looking at it and go, well, we're gonna have a

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lot of leftovers, But boy was it good stuff. And
myself that day, and then a couple of years ago,
same thing on New Year's Eve, saw, well, why don't
we try this recipe or try this, and oh, let's
try this as well, and we had a ton of
food that night as well. So it's it's always interesting
around the house because I've always I've said numerous times,

(02:51):
I live I happen to live in the best restaurant
in the world. So it makes it tough to go
out to eat. I don't you know. We go out
to eat a couple of times a week, but it's
always interesting when she makes something and then she just
ruins it for me to go out and eat that
anyplace else because it never comes up to the same standards,
whether it's lasagna or whether it's soups that she makes.

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Just about everything she makes is just amazing compared to
what you get out. And when we do stuff around
the house, grill out, do whatever we're going to do,
we kind of look at that and say, gosh, the
cost of this versus going out to dinner. The other
thing you're missing though, is the cleanup. You don't have
the cleanup at the end, and you got to wait service,

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and so you don't have the mess. But sometimes it's
just worth going out because the quality of food or
what you're.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Going to be eating is not as good.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And I'm not one of these guys that goes to
fancy restaurants. My preference has always been what they refer to,
or what I've referred to if heard referred to as
greasy spoons. They're the mom and pop restaurants where some
home cooking and your basic restaurant type foods. I love hamburgers,

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I love pizza, love ham sandwiches, I love all that
kind of stuff. So going to a restaurant or going
to a greasy spoon, whenever we're out and whenever we're
driving around, whenever we are on vacation, we can try
to find the little hole in the wall type of
place to go eat. I remember when I was doing
a showdown a little Rock, Arkansas. That's one of the

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things I used to do. I used to go out
and try to find different places. Of course, I asked
when I first got there, I was asking a bunch
of the people on air where to go, where to eat,
Where's the best pizza, Where's the best burger? And then
I just started going around testing the places out and
I would come back and I would kind of kind
of do a mini review. I'm not one to do

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you know, all the ambiance and you know the delicacies
in terms of what was you know, the bread. All
I know is whether it tastes good or not. And
I described, you know where I'd be. And what was
interesting is a couple of restaurants would call the station
and say, hey, can Kevin come over and try our restaurant.
We've got this specialty that seemed like it might be
good for him. And it was pretty cool. It was

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a lot of fun, and some of the hole in
the wall places that you find is just absolutely incredible.
Now you've always heard, I'm sure, the phrase dive, and
you've heard, you know, well, I don't know if you've
ever heard the term greasy spoon. But a difference between
a dive and a greasy spoon is whether or not
they sell liquor. And so a dive would be a

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dive bar where it's kind of a homegrown type of
neighborhood bar that has food. And sometimes a lot of
those places have some excellent food as well. And so
the culinary exploration of Kevin Gordon is kind of well documented,
and my wife kind of well kind of just enjoys
it as well. Now that's not to say that we

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don't occasionally go to a nice restaurant, but sometimes it's
one of those things where you look at a price
and you look at what you're eating and it's like, gosh,
is it really worth it?

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I can remember going back to when.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I was down in Little Rock, Arkansas, the salespeople or
the program director in the in the station, the course,
like we do here, have some rock stations and some
music stations, and these radio or these record people would
come in and try to whine and dine the program
director or the disc jockeys to talk about some of

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the music that they're playing or kind of introduce them
to some of the new songs that are coming up.
And once in a while they take them to dinner.
And every time there would be like one of the
guys that couldn't go, and so they'd give me a
holler and say, Hey, we're going out to dinner tonight.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
You want to you want to head out?

Speaker 2 (06:44):
And I got to tell you in a Little Rock, Arkansas,
which is kind of a cool little town, well, you know,
Bill Clinton obviously down there but a lot of stories
about him down there. But going to a lot of
these different restaurants. We went to some of the best
restaurants in Little Rock, Arkansas, some very high class restaurants,
steakhouses and stuff. And quite honestly, I'm looking at the

(07:07):
menu and the guy says, you know, get whatever you want.
I'm like, my goodness, I'm looking at the prices and
I'm like, my god, I feel guilty eating this. And
when i was eating and I was thinking, my god,
I'm glad I'm not paying for this, because I'd have
a heart attack based on the price that I'd get
the bill at the end of the dinner. But I'm
just kind of a basic kind of guy. And so anyway,
getting back to the story. On New Year's Eve, I

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had a lot of stuff that that night, and we
just had a great time watching movies, watching some of
the news events, and then of course watching some of
the entertainment, flipping around the stations, and then watching the
ball drop at midnight. So I'm not quite sure what
our plans are for tonight, but I'm sure we'll come
up with something fun because we always do. So Anyway, again,

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got the phone numbers out there and I see Bobby.
Let's go to the phones right now, Bobby fifty five
k s. Happy New Year and Happy New Year's Eve.
I guess I should say.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Hey, my brother, I tell you what hold that torture
of freedom up high and bright? It's dark outside.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, you bet you. We certainly will.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Well, we got the governor of the state of Ohio.
I think you'll make that appointment probably today or tomorrow,
so I hope it's too I think it will be.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
What is the shortlist of you some of them? Have
you seen the shortlist on that?

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Or well, Jane Daney, girl from up here in Columbus,
and his uh you know number two man is the governor.
But I thank you. I hope that he'd take Orlando Salsa. Yeah,
you know, somebody from the Cincinnati area to replace the
Cincinnati Senator. And you will find a better man than that.

(08:46):
Change some of the guard out from the Columbus people.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
That would be great because you know, living over in Kentucky,
I kind of I have to really well, I have
to work it to get together with politicians over here
on this side of the river. And so I've gone
to a bunch of the fundraisers with Orlando. Very impressive
young man and really has a lot of good ideas

(09:10):
and a lot of and what he stood for. And
it's amazing to me watching the inner workings of the
Republican Party, especially in Hamilton County and as far as
the state is concerned, they kind of still have that
old guard mentality where they pick certain people and those
are the people that they push as opposed to some
of the bright young stars and some of the people

(09:32):
that should be in line. But because somebody's been there
for a while, all of a sudden, it seems as
though that it's their shot instead of them having to
go in the primary or go in and actually prove themselves.
So that would be a that would be an excellent
pick on the part of the Wine. But again, waiting
for to Wine to do something right would be you know,

(09:55):
that's like Annabasher in Kentucky trying to do something right.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
So you couldn't put it in better by brother. The
next thing I'm really proud about is that when our
President Trump comes and takes his inauguration, it's going to
be on the MLK Day. So he's done a lot
for the black community and he's going to be taking
the oath of office on the MLK days.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's going to be interesting.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
I hadn't thought that far ahead and looked at the
at the date and I know it was around that time.
But that's cool, that'd be That's interesting. What's your top
story of twenty twenty four?

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Brother?

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I tell you what all we're going to try to
do is keep that flag of flying and the torch
of burning and try to do everything we can because
we're in the midst of a cultural revolution. People need
to understand that and don't be complacent. Be awall goes
on around.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
You, exactly.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I think the overall theme should be with as
vigilant as we were in twenty twenty, well actually since
since twenty sixteen, as vigilant as we've been to try
to make America great and to try to move America
forward and keep us as strong and as impactful and
world leaders in this world. We just can't stop. We

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got to keep the vigilance. We can't rest on our laurels.
We got to keep pushing forward because the other side
is always going to be pushing their agenda and trying
to ramrod that down our throat. As we discussed yesterday
with my guest Even Moser from a population research institute,
talking about the communist influence around the world and how
that has kind of creeped into the United States. And

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if you look at some of the policies of the
Democrats and the Democratic platform, there's a little bit a
twinge of a whole lot of twinge of socialism and
a little dab communism in there as well.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
So we got it.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
As you say, I try to make a difference between
a brand or a foe than an adversary or an inmate. Yeah,
and using the word democrat anymore doesn't really fit the
narrative of the individual that are on the left. Yah,
there's nothing. But you know, I seem as short of

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enemies as the state. And that's how I feel.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
And I don't know that I can actually disagree with
you on that when I look and as I as
I've said, I if I could wave a magic wand
I would kind of prefer that Fox News or some
of the conservative outlets stop playing the clips of the
people on the left on the view on some of
these ms NBC shows or CNN, because they get more

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views and more ears on Fox than they do on
their own programs. However, the other flip side of that
is we still have to know what nonsense is going
on on the left. It's good to know who your
enemies are and what they're thinking, so that you're not
a surprise when they bring these things out. So I'm

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kind of torn. I don't like seeing it on the
air because you're giving them too much props. But on
the other hand, you got to know where are coming from.
So well, Bobby, I'm up against the break. You have
a you have one book. We got one finals thought
before we get out of here. Oh okay, well, Bobby,
thanks so much for the phone call. I certainly appreciate
it again. Five one three seven four nine fifty five

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the best callers of the day.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well see if you can top that.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR
see the talk station five twenty one. I'm if almost
five twenty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon and for
Brian Thomas fifty five KRS the talk station. You know,
one of the things that again looking forward to twenty

(13:51):
twenty five, I've mentioned this before and I just there
is just this air of optimism. You see this in
a lot of different businesses. You see this as far
as some of the people ramping up and thinking in
terms of what they are going to capital expenditure wise,
as far as their companies are concerned, looking at some
of the companies that are looking to expand, and the

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idea that people are more optimistic as far as what
they are looking for in twenty twenty five. And contrast
you can trast that with what you are seeing in
again the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. And
you have to look in between the lines sometimes when

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you're reading some of these stories, because they always have
to throw this little barb in there, and the one
barb that they keep throwing in there that is just well,
it's just so typical. How we can go back to
twenty fifteen, We can go back to whenever you want,
of where the media will pick out a sentence of
a speech or a comment from Trump and then blow

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that up as opposed to putting the contextual reasoning behind that,
taking it out of context, or finishing the entire sentence
as to what was being said. And one of the
things we keep hearing about is tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, How
this is going to lead to inflation? Even Jerome Powell
with the Federal Reserve, which is not and even though

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that it's called the Federal Reserve, it is not connected
to the government. A lot of people think it is,
but it is supposed to be the separate, independent agency
that handles money supply, money flow, interest rates, and the economy,
you know, trying to tweak the economy because due to
whether the jobs are strong or the inflation is high,

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and they generally have a pretty bad track record of
doing that. And they have pretty much as far as
what they've done as far as the economy, I would
give them about a C minus in terms of what
they've tried to do in terms of trying.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
To control inflation.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
But when you have an administration that is out of
control with their energy policy, when they don't know what
they're doing as far as running businesses or how to
run a country, when you start off your administration by
saying we're going to just cancel everything and start from
scratch from what the previous administration did. And so when

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you do that, you're going to open yourself up for failure.
And then when you start throwing money into the economy
like they did, and as they were worn with the
stimulus packages, the final stimulus package that caused inflation, that
put too much money into the pockets, because then people
had more money and they could stay home. So the

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Federal Reserve had a task of fighting against the administration
of them bidnomics and ruining the economy, and then them
trying to put a rudder on that or a steering
wheel or something to control all that. So when you
look at going ahead, even Jerome Powell has said that, well,

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well it's uncertain whether we should decrease interest rates even
further because there is a possibility of inflation on the horizon. Well,
based on what you've got the previous four years when
Trump was in office, what was the inflation rate? Then
people were saying the tariffs that he levied back then
were going to lead to inflation.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
They didn't.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
And when he talks about now as being tariffs as
a negotiating tool in order to get better bargains or
to get our goods into these different countries that are
banning or you know, putting tariffs on our goods coming
into their countries. You know, it's a little tit for
tat there. Why should they be dumping their cheap goods

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in the United States and making an unfair competition with
our domestic manufacturers and the people that are making here.
And I've got a story coming up we'll get to
pretty soon about how Walma and a particular country company
we're able to reverse the tide in terms of manufacturing
and manufacturing goods that can sell at a reasonable price

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in competition with foreign competition. Five one, three, seven, four
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Speaker 6 (18:26):
Fifty five KRC.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Five thirty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
fifty five KRC, The Talk Station. This one story just
I keep seeing this pop up and it just absolutely
boggles my mind and bothers me. The corner ideas. The
thirty three year old girl that was mauled by I
think I heard yesterday that this was the sixth, third

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or fourth mauling of a human in Ohio during this
past year. And they are talking about the father was
sleeping at the time, that the people calling nine to
one one, and they've got the recordings of that. What
amazes me is that, And I know I'm probably going

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to stir some pot here, but people keep forgetting that
dogs are animals, that animals are going to act like animals,
and at some time or another, they a flip of
a coin, could go either way. They can be very

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gentle to a certain extent, but then at some point
in time they can flip. And to have a dog
that is of a very large size that would overpower
and could maul a three year old, you gotta wonder,
you gotta wonder. I know there are certain breeds that
are very gentle. I know that they're but at any

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given time, a dog can react like it's an animal.
It's not a human being, it is not a family member.
I'm sorry, but a dog is a dog, a cat
is a cat. They are animals. You can call yourself
a I'm gonna get into it here. You can call
yourself a pet parent, But the bottom line is is

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that animals are going to behave like animals. And when
you look at certain breeds and when you see stories
that certain breeds are vicious and that they are the
type of dogs that will attack, then you need to
be proactive. And if you're going to have children, or
if you're gonna have kids around that animal, make sure

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that you have the right breed in the house in
order to handle that. And I it bothers me that
when these especially when you've got something that could be
easily present preventable simply because they.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Choose to have.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
This animal in the home that is too big and
maybe not the right breed. When you look around and
you say each year, seventeen thousand dog bites are reported
by local public health agencies, seventeen thousand.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
That is a that it shocked.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Me when I read the number, because we put so
much emphasis and it seems so many people put so
much emphasis on treating these animals as if they are humans,
and where they how they feed them, where they feed them.
You see these like for instance, you I mean, you
do any reading on this, and you read that you know,

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dogs are meant to be eating stuff off with the
way they eat them, like it's off the floor or
at a low position, putting putting these dog bowls up
in a position of where it's kind of like almost
a mini table for them. That is not the way
their bodies have been constructed. You look at these dogs,
you look at animals in the wild, what they do,

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how they eat, and what they do when they're eating.
If you tend to follow that, it would be like
changing our eating habits by where we sit, where where
we stand, how we do certain things. But the way
it is is the way you the animal is made.
And it's just amazing me. It bothers me every time

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I read one of these stories, and there are I think,
out of the three maulings or whatever, two of them
were children and one was a seventy eight year old
woman somewhere in the state. But it's just, uh, it's
just a tragic story. Phone numbers five one, three four
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Speaker 7 (23:11):
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Speaker 3 (23:25):
Five forty in the morning.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Kevin Gordon for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR, se the
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Speaker 8 (23:41):
UH.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
For my money, I would say that the biggest story
of the year, UH overall.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Was the election that we saw.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
We saw that all of the all the stuff that
we've been hearing for oh ever, since Trump came down
the later in twenty fifteen, being a threat to democracy,
being Hitler, being Mussolini, the end of democracy as we
know it, and that you know, as they called a

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existential thread, he's a Nazi and all this sort of stuff.
I've mentioned this several times before, and it bears repeating
and repeating, because certain things just don't quite sink in
the first time, and you have to repeat things over
and over again. And I cannot emphasize enough that if

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you see something, you see an attack from the left,
when you hear an accusation from them. All you need
to do is realize that I do a little bit
of digging, and they are guilty of what it is
that they are accusing the other side of I don't care. Well,
you can go down the list. I don't care. If

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you can look at racism. Democratic Party is the party
of racism. It is the party of Jim Crow Laws.
It was the party of slavery, It was the party
of the black codes. It is the party of segregation.
If you go back and you look at all of
the civil rights movement, if you look at all of

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the southern towns down there, all of the beatings, all
of the every you know, when you listen to Martin
Martin Luther King Junior's I have a dream speech. Every
southern state that he mentions was had a Democrat governor
in every one of these cities. Were Democrat mayors. In

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the sheriffs that were doing the beatings, the dogs that
were turned on people, the water hoses, all Democrats, and
coming across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, that bloody Sunday, Democrats
doing the beatings, Democrats doing the billy clubs and trying
to tamp down segregation, it wasn't until the Voting Rights Act,

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or first of all, the Civil Rights Act of nineteen
sixty four, when the Republicans actually in more as far
as a larger percentage voted for that bill got that passed.
And if it wasn't for the efforts of Senator Everett Dirkson,
who was probably one of the last Republican senators from

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the state of Illinois. He spearheaded that and pushed that
through beyond the filibuster one of the longest filibusters in
history by Robert Byrd. You know Robert KKK Bird, Democrat
senator from West Virginia. Oh yes, a mentor to Hillary Clinton,
Joe Biden's friend. Yeah, Biden talks about Oh yeah, he

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used to work with some of these segregationists and they
were you know that, but that's how they got things done. Okay,
So you have there a member now, Robert Byrd. And
this is probably old news to a lot of people,
but Robert Byrd was more than just a racist. He
was a former klansman. And I'm not so sure the

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former actually applies, because there were records of him being
a klansman up until at least nineteen fifty even though
he said that he stopped sometime in the forties, and
he was a little bit more, a lot more than
just a klansman. He was what they call a klegal,
which is the guy that goes out and recruits people.

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So back in the day when you had during the depression,
when you had during the low economic times, people were
making about twenty bucks an hour or twenty bucks a day,
Robert Byrd was making sixty dollars a week going out
and recruiting people to come into the KKK. And he

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was made the chapter of the Exalted Cyclops of that
particular chapter, so he had his own chapter. And yet
every time we hear about racism and putting that on
the Republican Party, Okay, all they can come up with
is a disgraced David Duke who was run out of

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the Republican Party. Nobody wants to associate with him. Everybody
pushed him aside. When his name comes up, they denounce him.
Did anybody denounce Robert Byrd? Look at the eulogy that
was done by Bill Clinton. It is incredible at praising
this racist. And so when you look back on the

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allegations of racism, all they've got to do is look
at what is going on in their own party. And
if you look at Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, they
have a history of racism between the two of them.
Bill Clinton's mentor, Orville Fabas, He's the guy that infamously
stood in front of the Central High School, Little Rock,

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Arkansas and prevented the Little Rock nine from coming into
the school.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
There.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Bill Clinton Fulbright scholar, William Fulbright, avid racist, was a
member of the what they referred to as the southerns
what they call the Southern author of one of the
authors of the Southern Manifesto. There was a group of
Dixiecrats that after the Brown versus Board of Education Supreme
Court ruling came down that not ended separate but equal,

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they protested and said that they were going to fight
this and form this group of Dixiecrats wrote the Southern Manifesto.
And William Fulbright was one of those people. And yet
Bill Clinton Fulbright scholar comes from some pretty heavy races.
And here's the thing that shocked me. When I was
down to a Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually went and

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interviewed I was going to have her on the program,
but I wound up leaving the station before I could
get her on the air.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Little Rock nine. After the.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
National Guard was there to allow those kids and to
protect those kids to come in. The federal government took
over the school system, the school district in Little Rock, Arkansas,
and was in charge of that until the schools were desegregated.
Take a wild guess when those schools were desegregated. I'm

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gonna save that until after the break. I'm Kevin Gordon
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The talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four
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wireless phone. Before the break I mentioned, when do you
suppose or when do you think the Little Rock, Arkansas
School District was desegregated enough that the overall federal control

(31:04):
was turned back over to the local school board. Now,
this incident with the Little Rock nine happened in nineteen
fifty nine when Orville Faubas stood in front of that
school and prevented the Little Rock nine from attend, or
actually any blacks, any blacks to attend. And then it
took the federal troops to come down there, sent by Eisenhower,

(31:27):
by the way, a Republican. So then the federal government
took control of those schools until they desegregated. Now, mind you,
Bill Clinton was the attorney general there for four years
and then wound up being governor for eight, so in
charge of or in a elected position in Arkansas for

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twelve years prior to him running for president nineteen ninety two.
Hillary Clinton supposedly this champion of racial equality who was
his wife, and talked about all the great things she
did as first lady down there. So do you suppose
that the Little Rock schools were desegregated by then? No, no, no, no,

(32:10):
you'd be wrong. Little Rock, Arkansas schools were turned over
to the school District in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Twenty fourteen.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
It cost the taxpayers of Little Rock School District and
the people of Arkansas almost a billion and a half
dollars from nineteen fifty nine up until twenty fourteen, when
they were sufficiently desegregated enough for the federal government to
stop being in control of the schools there. So, if

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Bill Clinton was this big champion of racial rights and desegregation,
why didn't he start in his own backyard.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
It's just the things when you learned.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
The history of what they accuse us of doing, when
you look at when they talk about Nazis, when you
talk about what was going on, what did FDR do
to stop Nazi Nazi atrocities. He refused to bomb any
of the railroad lines leading to the death camps. He

(33:19):
knew what was going on in those death camps. He
also knew some of the persecutions that were going on
of the Jewish people prior to World War Two. And
he's the one that didn't allow the ship, the Saint
Louis from bringing nine hundred and thirty two Jewish settlers

(33:39):
from Europe from Germany to land in the United States.
And that ship went from port to port, was refused
to entry, and then also refused entry down in South America,
wound up returning to Europe. And these people were deposited
in Belgium and they figured, Okay, well that's far enough
away from Germany. Not so fast when Germany invaded Belgium

(34:03):
and took over one third of those people on board
that ship wound up dying in concentration camps. Thank you
very much, Franklin Delano Roosevelt for fighting Nazism and the sympathizers.
And then when you talk about communist influence in the
FDR cabinet and in his government, there were numerous communists

(34:26):
in there, and his thinking was, well, you know what,
if I have some communists in my cabinet or communists
in my administration, I can keep an eye on them
and I know what they're up to.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
How did that work out for you?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Coming up the top of the hour, take your phone
calls and even more again setting the stage here, what's
your biggest story for the year, what's your plans for
the New Year's celebration and what are you hoping for
twenty twenty five? If I one three seven four nine
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in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station, there's.

Speaker 9 (35:06):
No shortage of stuff to talk about in twenty twenty five.
I'm the conversation is happening here on fifty five KRS
the talk station.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
I'll right, five minutes after six o'clock. Happy New Year
to the people listening to fifty five KRC in America's
Samoa and New Zealand. They are actually celebrating New Year's

(35:39):
Day right as we speak. The ball has dropped there
at the top of the hour, and they're all in
the party mood there. So that will start going across
the from the Pacific and on into the Eastern time zone,
across the Europe and so on, it comes over heads
to the West, and eventually it comes to us at midnight.
So happy news to all of our listeners out there

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on American Samoa and New Zealand. Now I got to
tell you, I'm a little proud of myself. I love
something over on I printed. I hit print on something,
and for some reason it went over to our newsroom,
which is probably about forty yards away. So after I
did the weather announcement, I did the forty yard dash
over there to get that and then back so probably

(36:25):
under probably about forty yard dashing about the maybe about
six seconds flat both ways. So not too bad, not
too bad out of breath either. So I'm kind of
proud of myself today, you know. So anyway, I just
thought i'd give you a little bit of heads up there.
One of the things I want to see happen in
twenty twenty twenty five. One of my goals, aside from
everything on the national stage and wanting to make sure

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that doze it gets off to a good start. The
Department of Government Efficiency, which again operating kind of independently
outside the government, could have a long way because if
you're in an advisory capacity and these guys are going
to be doing this for free, they're not going to
get paid for this, so they're not beholding to anybody.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
And one of the.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Things and you know, all right, here I go, I'm
interrupting myself. And this is one of the things my
wife always tells me. She says, you know, when you're
in the middle of the thought, you always interrupt yourself. Well,
I'm going to interrupt myself here. You know, last week
we kept hearing about all this. You know, Elon musk
Is is actually the president and Donald Trump is the
vice president. They're trying to draw this red wedge in
between Donald Trump and Elon Musk and trying to sow

(37:29):
some seeds of doubt and trying to stir the pot
as far as everything is concerned, and people are talking about, well,
we're uncomfortable with this relationship with this billionaire having an
influence over our government. It's now become where like Russia.
And of course because Trump, you know, loves Vlatimir Putin
and wants to be a dictator, right, so he wants

(37:50):
to have these oligarchs that are part of the federal.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Government that run things.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
And so when they're talking about Elon Musk having too
much influence because he helped fund you know, because of Twitter,
because of actually having a fair and independent journalism outlet,
I guess you will. You know, Twitter is not journalism,
but people can get on there and express their thoughts.
But by that, that's one of the things that people

(38:17):
talked about, and especially some of the money that Elon
Musk contributed that helped Donald Trump get elected. But why
wouldn't you want to have advice from a billionaire another
billionaire because who are they going to be influenced by?
Are they going to be influenced by special interest? Are

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they going to be influenced by lobbyists. Are they going
to be paid to have an opinion? How do you
bribe them? How do you influence them? They've got more
money than you know, just well the richest man in
the world, So how how is that not a good thing?

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But of course when she was on the other foot,
and again, who's doing the accusations, who's making the accusations,
And let's not forget who's doing that accusations.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
That's the left.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Well, you got Mark Zuckerberg, you got Bill Gates, You've
got George Sorows, You've got all of the Hollywood people.
Oprah Win Fee is a campaign donor and a supporter
of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
She's a billionaire.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Nobody concerned themselves with those billionaires influencing things, But all
of a sudden, when a Democrat or when a Republican
has billionaires influencing them. And by the way, I did
not misspeak. I know her name is oprah Winfree, but
now I call her oprah win Fee because she is

(39:51):
not free. You have to pay for her endorsement, as
we found with the Kamala Harris fiasco.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
There So, going.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Into the new year, Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk being
on part of this DOGE Department of Government Efficiency, they
can make all kinds of recommendations. They can get in,
they can look at some of these things. And we
talked last week about the Festivus Report that Ran Paul
puts together every year, and it goes down some of

(40:19):
the government funding and some of the projects that are
being funded. And I'm sure you've heard some of the
stories about different giving rats cocaine and do they prefer
cocaine over food as if, as if you need that
study as some of the crazy stuff that's done where
we're spending money, who we're giving foreign aid to. Even

(40:41):
Trump mentioned last week we're giving one hundred billion dollars
a year, one hundred billion dollars a year in foreign
aid to Canada. We're giving hundreds of billions of dollars
to foreign aid in Mexico. And as he said, why
not just the heck with him? Just make them a
fifty first state. I mean, it makes and there's some

(41:03):
levity to that, but all seriousness. So the Festivus Report
put together by Rand Paul comes up with a little
bit over a trillion dollars just there. The Office of
Management and Budget every year comes up with their laundry list.
The Inspector General's report comes out every year where they're
talking about the different waste and fraud and abuses within

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the federal government.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
We see the.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
IG Department once in a while that'll come up and say,
you know, they're the ones that started reporting or reported
on some of the stimulus checks. The fraud there, some
of the stuff that they've in investigated and people that
they've prosecuted for getting the from the Cares Act, getting
these government subsidies to keep their businesses open when in

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fact they didn't have a business, and that they've fraudulently
claimed that they had employees, that they had a business,
and they got federal funds. So we see those reports,
we see that the stimulus check that went out, how
some of them went to actually people that were in prison,
some people that were in federal well penitentiaries around the country.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
I went to dead people.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
And so when the federal government doesn't watch what they're doing,
they can waste a ton of money. And just by
stopping that, and when you're talking about oh, well this
is going to cut into Medicare, that's going to cut
into Medicaid. This is going to cut in you know,
social Security, They're going to cut benefits and all these
lies that they've been telling. Well, you know, if you're

(42:31):
going to bankrupt the fund, if you're not going to
have money available for the intended purpose, the easiest way
to do that is to raid that pot of money.
And when you look at what has been done with
us is Social Security. You know, even al Gore, remember
al Gore talking about that Social Security was going to
be put in a lock box where nobody could touch it. Well,

(42:55):
why did he say that, Because in the past it
wasn't in a lockbow, it wasn't set aside. The federal
government used that stream of money to fund other things
and dropped the little io you in there, just an
io you, not with interest, but just an io you.
We'll replace that money later on. And then when they

(43:15):
started looking at Social Security and saying, you know what,
soci Security is going bankrupt. You know, we're running out
of money, then it had to be refortified. And during
the Reagan years they had to do certain things to
tweak it and extend it on for another thirty years.
And we keep hearing this stuff and then on top
of that, that's not enough. So we just can't have
Social Security going out in the form of Social Security checks. No,

(43:38):
we got to start layering in SSI payments, which is
supplemental Security income for people who are on disability. Now
they're taking money out of the retirement fund, which was
supposed to be a retirement fund, and they're paying this,
and then we find out that money has been coming
out of that fund to pay and house illegal aliens.
In addition to the funds that were supposed to be

(44:00):
available for disaster relief that went to housing illegal aliens,
so that when it came to a disaster relief for
Hurricane Helene and Milton, that the funds weren't there. And
they say, oh, that's a lie, that's a conspiracy, that
is a lie, flat out lie, and you're just trying
to mislead people. Well, the people that were misleading the

(44:22):
people were the people that were saying that we were
misleading because of the actual facts. And when the stories
came out of the number of people that have been ignored,
amount of people that hadn't seen a federal worker, hadn't
seen any people from FEMA, then all of a sudden,
the words started getting out and they started having to
do something about that. So when you start seeing these
funds being distributed from one group to another because there's

(44:44):
a pot of money there and one of my well,
you know, I've talked about this numerous times before, when
you talk about the funding and you talk about back
in twenty thirteen, how they you know, finally, you know,
we got to build this here, right here, right now,
the replacement Brent Spence Bridge placement that that project had
to be built. They had to do it right now.
That they had to get this legislation passed in the

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Kentucky Senate and out which would fund public private partnerships
and then they could use that in order to build
this bridge with tolls, which you know, the story I've
talked about that. Now you look at the Highway Trust Fund,
this is a classic example of when we were fighting
the tolls on the Brents Benz Bridge. Looking at the
Federal Highway Trust Fund, You've got all this money going

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in there from gas taxes, diesel taxes, you got excise
tax on tires on trucks, excise taxes on the trailers
that they haul, on the cabs that they drive, and
you have all these taxes that go into this fund
to repair highways, and instead of leaving that money in
there when you have a brand new highway system, when
you don't have many repairs at all, what they did

(45:50):
is they raided that and said, you know what, we've
got this pot of money that's not going to be
used for a few more years, because when something's brand new,
it doesn't break down in the first four or five
six years, So we'll just go ahead spend that money
and then put it back in later on. Well, that
later on never did happen. And then when it came
time to start doing some of these repairs, that's when
they started doing some of these tolls around the country,

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and they started doing higher assessments and making sure that
the states were charging people to drive on these highways
and upping these excise tax And when we came to
find out in that investment and looking into that that
a third, even to this day, a third of what
goes into that Highway Trust Fund is spent on things

(46:33):
other than highways, bridges, tunnels, and so on. And we'll
bring that up. I'll let you know where that money
goes coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
fifty five KRS the.

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It's cold again, a high of thirty eight and a
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There's some heavy rainfalling in some spots, so traffic slowing
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Six twenty one in the morning Kevin Gorton and for
Brian Thomas if you have KERO, see the talk station
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point fifty on that at and T wireless bill or
phone rather looking at the bill for instance. As far

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as the Highway Trust Fund, I mentioned the previous segment
that over a third of the money going into that
Highway Trust Fund is spent on things other than highways
and bridges. That we were told that, Well, when you
pay your gasoline tax at the federal on the state level,
that goes in the Highway Trust Fund. Right, So when
you hear Highway trust fund, what do you think that

(48:56):
this is a trust fund that's there for highways. Okay,
so what's that money used for. Well, remember talking about
Joe Biden, how he used to go from Washington, d C.
Back to Delaware every night on the train, supposedly to
spend time with his family and just to be a

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good old lunch bucket Joe and blue collar Joe and whatever.
Well that was funded. That was subsidized by you and me.
Because the Northeastern Corridor, the Amtrak system up there, is
funded out of the Highway Highway Trust Fund. So there's
the subsidy there. They should be paying twice what they're

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paying for on a normal ticket. Then you look at
hiking and biking trails, and before you start calling and saying,
well Kevin, I love my hiking trails and I love
my biking trails and on and on and on, Well
that's all well and good, but is it a highway
and walking trail hiking trail trust fund?

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Is it a highway.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
And bike trail trust fund? No, Now it would be
very I mean we keep talking about when the arguments
come about tolling, Well, if you use it, you use it,
you pay for it. Why doesn't that apply to these
hiking trails and biking trails and again I'm not opposed
to those things, but when you look at the equipment,

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when you look at the bikes, when you look at
the shoes, when you look at the walking sticks, backpacks, bottles, gloves, gear, helmets,
the whole equipment, the clothing for biking and hiking that
is used. Couldn't there be a little bit of a
tiny tax on that, maybe a penny or so on,

(50:44):
maybe a one percent tax on all the stuff that
they do that that goes into a hiking trail and
biking trail fund to fund these projects. And maybe if
they did that, they wouldn't have to put them on
streets or do them in certain areas where it just
seems like, oh, you paint a solid white line, and

(51:05):
then this part. You know, when you're driving down the road,
all of a sudden you see this solid white line
and there's what about a five six foot space between
that and the curb. Oh, well, that's for bikes over there,
because you know a car can't go over that, that
solid white line. And some of you drive down some
of these areas and you see where these bike biking

(51:26):
trails are, or the biking the coexistence with some of
these streets and you go down and you look at
those and in certain instances, and at least a lot
of places where I've driven, you see you see the
symbol for the bikes on that path, and then all
of a sudden you get to a street and it ends,
and then it doesn't continue from that point on.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
So it's like, why bother?

Speaker 2 (51:49):
And you you know, build them where and use the
money out of a trust fund that's set up for that,
and tax the people that use them, unless they just
want to put a turnstyle on these things and just
have people drop a coin in there when they use them.
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Six twenty nine in the morning.

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Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kre see
the talk station. Look, yeah, some of the local headlines
and I just cannot get away from this story. The
three year old girl that was mauled by this dog.
Actually there were three dogs in the home and appears
as though that she was mauled by.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Two of them. I just.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Now in the latest stories, I don't see the breed
of the dog, and I'm sure that's done for a
particular reason. I'm sure that they're not identifying that that.
I'm sure that they're you know, I guess shaming, dog
shaming or breed shaming. I don't know. But they talk

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about in this story and talk about how other dog
attacks and some interesting facts according to what goes on.
I mentioned on the previous hour that seventeen dog seventeen
thousand dog bites are reported to local public agencies and
all just in Ohio, experts say at least another seventeen
thousand bites go unreported nationwide. One million of the four

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point seven million people bitten by dogs yearly require medical treatment.
Kids under ten account for nearly half of the bite
victims and are overrepresented in the fatalities. Now, you can
imagine as far as a child is concerned, a child
going up to a dog, you know, there's you know,

(54:03):
an adult goes up and they pet a dog and
they are you know whatever, they you know, petting a
dog and sometimes play with a toy. But kids because
they're used to their stuffed animals or used to certain things.
How many times do you see a child go over
and kind of almost jump on a dog or go

(54:23):
up and try to lay on a dog because they
look at it as if it's some sort of a
stuffed animal. And then the dog sometimes, you know, some
of the breeds, the dog will just you know, get
up and kind of mosey on, mosy on its way.
But in some instances the dog will turn around and
kind of nip at the child. And if you have
an aggressive breed of dog, then that could turn in

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this instance, and in many instances around the country deadly.
And so why this is going on? And I was Gez,
I read this and I couldn't believe what I was reading. Okay,
Cincinnati Animal Care was called Friday morning to remove three
dogs from the home. The dogs are currently being held

(55:08):
for a state mandated ten day quarantine period. As shelter
spokesperson said, judges have the discretion to order the euthanasia
of dogs or vicious dogs after the first unprovoked attack.
Often often it's left to the dog owner.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
If to the dog.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Owner, now some mean it's it says the people. They
love their animals. They're not going to kill them. You know,
this is just a one off. This dog has never
done this before. Often it's less up to the dog owner.
If the dog is already deemed vicious gets out and
kills a second person, the judge must order euthanasia a

(55:53):
second person. So if a dog mauls somebody and kills them,
I guess what you get one strike. You're not at out,
but oh you go out and kill somebody else, and
all of a sudden you're going to be put down.
This is insane. And when you look at the story
online and you look at this precious little well, all
children are pressure, let's get right down to it.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
They are just so cute.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
And the picture of this little girl at Christmas time,
at the Christmas tree and a photo of her opening gifts,
it just it just tugs at your heart. And especially
you know there are going to be accents. There are
going to be things that happen. You can get killed
in a traffic accent. You can get killed almost anywhere.
And you read some of these stories of some of

(56:36):
these weird ways that people have died, and you see
them all the time. But when you have something as
preventable as this, To have this happen, it just boggles
my mind and bothers me looking at some of the
other local headlines. One person has died after a small

(56:58):
plane crashed in Adam's count a Monday afternoon, units of
the Ohio State Patrol Georgetown Posts were dispatched at three
point thirty four pm to Saving Savage Road in Bratton
Township for reports of a small plane that had crashed.
The area is north of Peebles and the west of
State Route seventy three. Apparently the according to the sources,

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there was only one person on board.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
And it was the pilot that was killed in this accident.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
And if you've noticed that around the world, there's been
a spate of plane crashes in other countries so far,
not in the United States in terms of passenger planes.
And I was seeing a report last night that said
that this is one of the twenty twenty four has
been one of the deadliest years for airplane accidents plane death.

(57:52):
I thought that was amazing because I've except for these
last two over the last few days, the one in
South Korea and the other one and Azurebaijan, I wasn't
really aware of many other plane crashes throughout the country
or throughout the world.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
So interesting.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
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The holiday.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Six thirty nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
Brian Thomas, fifty five KISEE the talk station. I mentioned
during the weather that it'll be interesting to see what
people do and go outside, because I know there's some
some celebrations going on around a lot of celebrations, I'm sure,
but I mentioned this before. Where we live. We live

(58:55):
on the side of a hill. Well, go to my
Facebook page and I live in one, Kentucky. We overlook
the Licking River and sit up on top of a hill,
so we see Latonio, we see Fort right, Fort Mitchell.
We actually have a view of downtown the left, the
west side of downtown. We can see a little bit
of Paul Brown Stadium. Now that the leaves are off

(59:16):
the tree. But especially during Fourth of July, we love
sitting out on the deck and watching the fireworks displays
because it's almost like every neighborhood. It's amazing some of
the fireworks displays that they have, and you can see
those just sitting out there on the deck, and at
any one time you probably have one hundred and fifty
two hundred people that are shooting off these fireworks. And

(59:38):
of course you see off in the distance the major
displays from Independence and then Fort Wright, Fort Mitchell. You
can see some of the fireworks displays at Davou Park,
but you can't see we can't see down there by
the Brent Spence Bridge because this hillside comes in and
covers that, so we can't see that part down there,
but anything to the west, and so it's always great

(59:59):
to see that. And fourth July, now on New Year's Eve,
there will be people in the area neighborhood below us
that will shoot off some fireworks and do some you know,
firecrackers and stuff. Not as much a major display as
we saw as we see on July fourth, but there
will be some. I mean, there'll be some booms and

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bangs and I know there are some people, and I
hope we don't hear of any of them now, but
some people will actually go outside and shoot guns in
the air. Now, you know, let's remember that those bullets.
Gravity still works. Okay, gravity still is in play. So
the bullet can go up and be the trajectory can

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go up, but what goes up must come down. And
there's numerous instances of where these bullets have fallen down
and killed somebody. So let's not do that practice this year. Okay,
no gun play, no violince, none of that stuff is
shooting guns in the air. Do the fireworks if you must,
but be safe out there. So again, it's going to
be interesting to see what goes on. As I mentioned before,

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I'm looking forward to tonight. I don't know what's on
the menu at the best restaurant in the world, but
I'm sure we'll cook up something that is pretty cool
and enjoyed. Just you know, spending time with your best friend.
I mean, what can I say. So we're talking about
the festivities, we're talking about what's going on. As far
as this mauling is concerned. I just can't get my

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mind off of that, because when you look at something
that is so preventible, but prevent a ball. It's just
infuriating that something wasn't done, and the care and the
consideration of what has to be done when we're talking
about young children.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Now, I mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
That because I brought up brid Spence Bridge, I thought
i'd pull this up. Toll rates if you happen to
be traveling around the country. Toll rates are set to
rise in several states in twenty twenty five, starting in January.
Toll rates on roads in Ohio, Oklahoma, Penncil, New Jersey,
and New York are set to rise anywhere from three
percent to fifteen percent for passenger and commercial vehicles in

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the most modest increases drivers traveling along New Jersey Turnpike.
And I know a lot of listeners will talk about
on this program that we'll talk about they have relatives
in Pennsylvania, they'll drive to New Jersey, They'll drive around
the country. And it's becoming more and more a game
if you do it much traveling to try to avoid

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these tolls. Now, I know that there are certain areas
where you're going it's a lot more convenient just to
go ahead and pay the toll. But how aggravating is
that tolls are going into effect or a three percent hike.
New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Pennsylvania drivers will see toll raids
rise five percent. Now, I know a lot of people
that use that Pennsylvania Turnpike going back and forth, and

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especially if you're going over to the Washington DC area
from here. Anybody that goes over to Pennsylvania goes to Philadelphia,
don't even tell you. Actually, if you're going up to Pittsburgh,
you kind of the exit right perform. I think you
have to go on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for at least
one exit or so to get to Pittsburgh. That's on

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my bucket lip list of places to go sometime. Let's
see here, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission that five percent increase automatic
automatic vehicle system that standardizes rates. Now, this is interesting.
The state noted that while many passenger vehicle drivers will
see tolls decline under the SHIFT, commercial users may see

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rates increase. Now with this automatic vehicle classification system. What
they do is due to the changes with standardization and
the AVC classification, nearly fifty percent of passenger car trips
will see a lower toll rate because they are counting
the axles, and so if you have more axles, and

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of course that would affect the commercial trucking industry that
they will charge you a higher rate for that. Now,
it used to be for trucks. It used to be
based on weight. So if you had if you you know,
we're doing a job, if you were doing a delivery
on the Pennsylvania you know, along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and

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then you turned around and dead headed back, which meant
that your truck was empty, you would pay a lesser toll.
Now you're going to be paying the full toll both
ways because they count axles and not weight. So commercial
vehicles are going to be spending more money on tolls
in these areas that have this what they refer to
as the automatic vehicle classification. Now, the problem with that

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is is that like everything that is done in business,
everything that is done as part of the merch that
we buy, those things have to be added in as
operating costs to the cost of the stuff that we buy.
So instead of you know, this is not going to
just be eaten by these freight companies, they're going to

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you have to figure that into the cost of delivering
those goods, which will then be tacked onto the price
of the goods when it's put on the shelf. And
what we are going to wind up paying. Let's see
the Ohio Turnpike. The state alsot's see Ohio Turnpike toll
rates will rise. Let's see whereas that seven point seven
percent for passenger vehicles as well as most commercial vehicles.

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The common commercial vehicles traveling in the Ohio Turnpike is
what the state described as high vehicle with five axles.
Toll fees will increase seven point eight cents to twenty
two cents per mile. Now, the interesting thing about the
Ohio Turnpike, and this is one of the things that
we discovered, and you go back to John Kasik, he

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thought it was a brilliant idea that when the bonds
and everything was paid off for the Ohio Turnpike see
the Ohio Turnpike. When it was first built, there was
supposed to be the sunset clause as far as the
toll on that, and that was supposed to end sometime
in nineteen eighty six. Well, the state looked at this
revenue and said, hey, you know, this is a little

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cash cow going on up there. So we'll just go
ahead and continue to charge the people up there. Well,
when Kasik was governor, he decided, well, you know what,
this is paid off. What we can do is leverage
this and borrow money some industrial revenue bonds against that
turnpike because it has a steady stream of funds, and
we can use that money. Because they change the law

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that they could start funding road projects around the country.
So if you ever go on the Ohio Turnpike, and
for everybody that uses that, if you can hear me,
if you're driving along that Ohio Turnpike on a regular
basis to and from work, know that you have the
privilege of driving on that and paying to drive on that,
so that other places in the state can drive on

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Station six fifty two in the morning, Kevin Gordian for
Brian Thomas fifty five. Kara c DE Talk Station started
the show off by asking what is the big stories
of twenty twenty four, what your plans are for tonight,

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and what you hope to see in twenty twenty five.
One of the things I would like to see happen
in twenty twenty five was the same thing that should
have happened in twenty twenty three and in twenty twenty four.
And I wish that the city fathers would get their
collective acts together and do something. As far as what
we've been told, I remember back in twenty thirteen, it

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was such a crisis. There is such congestion on the
Brent Spence Bridge. We have to build a new companion
bridge there. And it doesn't matter if it's told or not.
We've got to do that. Well, you know, you go
back and as I said, you know, we stopped that
and if you we stopped tolls on the Brent Spence Bridge.
And let's not forget if you look at the amount

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of money that that would have collected. That would have
collected more than a billion dollars from the taxpayers from
the area as far as people commuting, and two thirds
actually the billion dollars. That the number is a calculation
of that since sixty percent of the traffic that comes

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across that bridge, almost two thirds of the traffic comes
from northern Kentucky, so out of the pockets of northern
Kentucky residents would have been over a billion dollars had
that big bridge been built with tolls and buil available
by twenty fifteen. Now, that was such a major deal
that it had to be built right here, right now.

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And then all of a sudden, in twenty twenty two,
December twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, they announced that the
federal government had approved out of the Infrastructure Bill the
funding for the Brents. Benz Bridge, So it wouldn't be
told and it was supposed to be shovel ready. All
of this stuff was supposed to be done, and they
were supposed to turn the shovel of the groundbreaking sometime

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in twenty twenty three. Well that didn't happen. Now, all
of a sudden, we're at the end of twenty twenty
four and it still hasn't happened. And I've been online
and I've looked, and I don't see anywhere where they're
planning on doing it anytime soon. I mean, if it's
if it's that important, get to it for crying out loud. Now,
that's one of the hopes I have for twenty twenty five,

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if in fact they're going to do that now, I
would have preferred to see in a Cincinnati since the
Eastern bypassed. But that's a story for another day. We
could get into that and talk about that for hours.
But coming up we'll get into some other mischief here.
I've got some other stories we can get to again.
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I'm righty.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Five minutes after seven o'clock. Happy New Year's Eve to you,
the final day of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
It's here already. Uh, it's Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
There's a running joke in our in our family, always
around birthdays when the granddaughters won I wish them a
happy birthday, one of the things I always do. And
grandsons as well. I always on their birthday, I'll call
them and you know, if they turn eight, twelve, I mean, shoot,
the oldest one just turned twenty two, and I did
the same thing. I just said, honey, it just seemed

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like just yesterday you were twenty one, and so I mean,
you know, so tomorrow I'll be going, Gee, it just
seemed like just yesterday it was twenty twenty four. So anyway, it's,
you know, one of those dad jokes that you got
to get out there. But anyway, I saw this story.
You know, we've been hearing all these stories about and
of course in Kentucky they're doing these medical marijuana and

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that was a push into legislation, which is just a
camel's nose in the tent to go to recreational marijuana.
And this has always bothered me and it amazes me.
At this point, there are twenty five states that currently
are are that pot is legal, and and in every

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one of every one of them they have had issues
with that. And we we start off or they keep
trying to convince us of the medical advantages of marijuana,
and if you do the research, if you read up
on it, there is no definitive solution. There is no

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definitive proof that it does anything. The only effect that
I have been able to see that makes any sense
would be in the case of where you have cancer
patients because of the weight loss that marijuana induces the munchies,
and so it forces them or gets them over the

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nausea and they can go ahead and eat a lot
or you know, have their monkeyes. Now, as far as
any other advantages of marijuana, I don't see any, and
it's interesting when I talk to people that now see.
First of all, let me preface this with the fact
that I am approaching this. I approach all drug used

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from a position of never having tried it at all.
I've never even taken a puff off of a joint.
I've never done any drugs. The most serious drugs I
think I've ever done was a like eight hundred milligram
tailenol or something when I had a knee injury or

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something along those lines. But I you know the old
saying that drugs or a crutch used by people who
can't handle reality.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
Well, my motto is reality is a.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Drug used by people, or a crutch used by people
who can't handle drugs. And you know, growing up in
the seventies and being in college, the temptations were there.
You had the cocaine craze of the eighties. Never tried it,
never interested in trying it. So I'm coming from this
from a position of never having tried it. So whatever

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benefits there are, or perceived benefits, I have not experienced those.
All I've seen is the downside of it. And I
came across this story. Elton John says legalizing marijuana is
one of the greatest mistakes. Elton John has been sober
since nineteen ninety and he thinks a recent policy shift
might lead more people down the path to addiction. The

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Rocketman singer denounced the legalization of recreational marijuana during his
time Icon of the Year profile. I maintain that it's addictive,
it leads to other drugs, and when you're stoned, and
I've been stoned, you don't think normally. According to Elton John,
legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the

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greatest mistakes of all time. This was actually this story
was released back on December the twelfth. Marijuana is currently
legal in twenty five states and federally legal in Canada.
Other countries, including Mexico, South American Germany, have legalized marijuana
in the last decade. Now take a pause here for

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a moment, because, as you may be aware of, I
do America's truck and Network on our sister station midnight
to one AM. And one of the things that's interesting
in the trucking industry, and I'm sure a lot of
you people that are in that industry know this, that
marijuana is still a level one substance akin to in
the same class as cocaine and heroin. And if marijuana

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is detected in your system, you can lose your CDL license,
and you've got to go through this entire a long
process in order to get that license back. So, even
though marijuana may be legal in your state and anybody
that might be driving through the area and happen to
be tuning in, if you're from a different state and
your state has pot is legal, it is not legal

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on a federal level. And so if it's in your system,
and if you're drug testing and it's in your system,
you can lose your license. Now, the weird thing about that,
as I've learned, is that people that will do recreational use,
they think that, Okay, I can just go ahead, you know,

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I'm off the job on Friday, and then I can
just go ahead and do this, and then I can
be sober by Monday. Now, with cocaine and heroin, that
is out of your system within twenty four to forty
eight hours or at least detectable. But marijuana the only
test for that. It takes a month for that to

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be out of your system. And so if you're tested,
you could have take done marijuana a month ago and
it would still be in your system. And one of
the things that I've heard from a lot of employers
and a lot of people in certain businesses, and especially
a lot of businesses that does do drug testing. They

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will say and they've tried to get away or they
you know, because drug testing, you know, when you're cutting costs,
then you have to pay for the drug test and
you have to send the person over there to get
the drug test. Now, what they've done is that when
the person is hired, they will ask the question can
you pass a drug test? And then of course on

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the application and it will say that any false information
is a subject determination. So a lot of people turn
down jobs and don't show up for jobs because they
wouldn't be able to pass a random drug test. So
that's when you look at supply chain issues. When you
look at the employment situation, when you go to a
lot of service driven industries where it seems that they

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don't have enough employees, that's one of the reasons that
people are their businesses are having trouble filling these spots.
But the fact that a lot of these different states
have gone to medical use or recreational use of marijuana
is in my opinion, not the way to go. And
what it boils down to is that just like with

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the lottery, Okay, gambling used to be illegal. You used
to used to hear about the numbers racket, the numbers
running that was done as far as the mob was concerned.
They used to do these schemes as far as numbers.
You bet on numbers, Well, that was illegal and they
sent people to prison for that. But then all of
a sudden, the states thought, hmm, you know, we can

(01:19:24):
have the quick the pick three, the pick four, the
pick five, and we can make revenue off of that.
And all of a sudden it becomes legal, gambling is legal,
and then you go to the entire lottery system.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
So they looked at cigarettes.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
And one of the things about tobacco that a lot
of people don't know of is the fact that the largest,
the the biggest profiteers of tobacco in this country is
the federal and the state governments. The amount of taxes
that are on cigarettes is astounding, and the amount of
taxes on this on the state level is astounding. So

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they are the biggest profiteers. But as fewer and fewer
people are smoking, then all of a sudden, now okay,
you've got this lost revenue, where are you going to
make it up? And all of a sudden, marijuana, which they,
in their opinion, everybody's doing anyway, so we might as
well make money from this. They're seeing in some of
these states where they've legalized marijuana that the black market

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is still there. People are still buying marijuana illegally, and
when you have, you do not have. I guess Highway
patrol people and cops are starting to learn better as
to how to tell when somebody's stoned. I mean, if
somebody's drunk, you can generally tell you know, you got
the smell of alcohol, they got the slurred speech and that,

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but it's much more difficult to tell if somebody's stoned.
And so now they're doing certain sobriety tests for that.
But a lot of these states they have actually had
these situations where fatalities have gone up. Road fatality has
gone up because of so many people stoned. And so
they go into this and Elton John and of course
we're gonna probably get more to this. Marijuana is currently

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legal in twenty five states we mentioned that legalize marijuana.
It's the information on its information page on cannabis. The
CDC notes that experts disagree whether it lives up to
its long held reputation as a gateway drug that leads
to further addiction. Now, of course they put gateway drug

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in quotation marks. However, the Health agency also reports that
quote people who use cannabis and and do go on
to use other drugs quote, including alcohol and tobacco, may
have a higher risk of dependence or addiction to those drugs. Well,
why add another layer of addiction on top of that?

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Is my you know, you know they always want to
throw the alcohol and tobacco addiction in there. But we
already understand and that, and we've lived with that. Now
you're throwing another layer on top of that. Nelton John
has a few more things to say. We'll pick this up.
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To the phones, we go, well, we've got.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
Pete up there. Pete, fifty five kr S. How are
you this morning? Happy New Year or New Year's Eve?
I should say the.

Speaker 13 (01:23:01):
Same, Tavin, good morning. Yeah. I just wonder if you
remember about twenty years or so ago, I drove to
the Newport Shopping Center and there was a pain center there.
I remember all little pain clints used to be around four.
I would move through there, and all the octar coton
they were hanging out like they were.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:23:21):
Well you know that was that was a schedule war.
And you said before about marijuana, right, but it's just
it's a schedule one, you know. I mean, it's just
I see going that way right. It's like it's like seabellow,
you know, it's a the secondary thing, and the medical
thing will come to you know, marijuana. You know, it'll
be just it'll be it'll be free and easy to

(01:23:43):
grow whatever, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
Uh huh, Now, I remember, you know, you bring up
an interesting point. I remember when they had those uh
what they called the old pill mills. And of course,
whenever something moves and won direct then of course the
heavy hand of government has to pull it into another direction,

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which in terms of the unintended consequences they never think about. Now,
there are legitimate reasons, and there are legitimate people that
have pain and require medications, and it's required that some
of the more severe pain requires more severe medication. But
because it was abused and a lot of doctors or

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at least people were going around and shopping for different
doctors that would prescribe the drugs for them, and they
know where to go, and they didn't coordinate between doctors
as to who was getting drugs in that so they
tighten that up. But as a result of that, a
lot of people were actually starting to be denied these drugs.

(01:24:48):
Well rather than okay, if somebody is being denied a
drug that they're addicted to, the addiction isn't automatically going
to go away. And that's why you saw such a
spike in the heroin epidem back in the UH two thousand,
two thousand and twelve, twenty ten area, where you had
people who it was a cheap substitute for the oxy

(01:25:10):
cotton and oxy cotone in order to start relieving their pain.
And so this unintended consequences led to this heroin addiction
and this heroin crisis in the Tri state era and
especially you know, then the way to solve that is, okay,
put needle dispensaries, put the needle exchanges in different places,

(01:25:33):
and as a matter of fact, in Campbell County they
have drop boxes for used needles in the bathrooms of
Campbell County libraries.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Isn't that lovely? Where kids go? Isn't that lovely? Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:25:45):
Well you remember the Oxy Cotton saying there after the
you know, the they can get prescription, the story by
both the house floves going over the rhine and going
back to park in the corner. Yeah, and now they
would get picked and the story was told. You know,
the co said, why don't you run them off? Said
if we run them off, we're just gonna go somewhere else.
Because we keep them here, we can at least control it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Yeah, a lot of good that does too, Yeah, control
it and that lovely?

Speaker 13 (01:26:14):
Yeah. Another thing on on your on your dog thing,
get back to that day, Yes, Gus you port wall.
Listen a lot of talk radio. They said it was
a terrier, you know, it wasn't a poodle work ducks
and we were a big or a polic I mean
it was kept in a cage. Well, you don't put
those kind of dogs in a cage.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:26:31):
The terrier is also called an American pit bull terrier.
Uh huh, Okay, there he was on WW something I
heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Okay, all right, interesting, thanks a lot of Pete, thanks
for the information. Have yourself happy New you've got any
big plans for tonight or okay? Oh he dropped off,
he hung up on us. Well all right, let's uh,
let's see we've got time. Yeah, let's go to Kyle
Kyle fifty five. Care, see how are you this morning?

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
I'm good?

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Are you doing I'm doing great, I'm behind the microphone.
Doesn't getting better than that for me?

Speaker 12 (01:27:07):
Yeah? So I had some comments about the marijuana topics
you're on. So I'm a police officer at a jurisdiction
around Cincinnati. Now, what what I think the public generally
doesn't know and what they're not aware of, is how
it's impacting juveniles now that it's been made legal. So obviously,
you have to be eighteen years old to buy medical
marijuana at a dispensary. You have to be twenty one

(01:27:29):
to buy it recreationally. But what I'm seeing now is,
at least personally, you know, eighteen year olds are going
in there for whatever reason, and then they're purchasing it,
and then they're distributing it to their their friends that
you know, in high school all the way down to
middle school. At least where I'm working, our school resource
officers are taking marijuana vapes and you know, bud and

(01:27:52):
whatever else off of you know, kids as low as
you know, fourth and fifth grade, and it's not something
it's not something that I've seen until it's become legal
more in you know, the school system. But I think
that's that's just something that I think the state's just
generally not aware of, and the general public is either.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Now, do you know I'd love when you look at
these reports from the CDC and they say that that
there's there, experts aren't convinced, or that that they they
don't have They disagree on whether it's a long held
reputation of a great gateway drug. But how are they

(01:28:36):
not studying this? I mean we are, we are doing
funding of you know, to see if if you feed
rats or rats cocaine, whether they will choose cocaine over food. Well,
we can do those tests, but we can't do tests
like this and come down to whether or not cannabis
marijuana is harmful to people.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 12 (01:28:59):
Unbelievable, Yeah, exactly, And it's it's it's been something that's
been you know, readily available for what you know, forty
years now within the general uh with the public.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
So fifty years, fifty years or more. Yeah, yeah, Jimmy
Buffett's famous song only I forget what's in the name
of the song, but when back when, the days when
only jazz mosi musicians were smoking marijuana. So it's been
around for a long period of time, so uh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
Anyway, well, I just.

Speaker 12 (01:29:30):
Wanted to give my two cents in you have a
happy New Year.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Hey, thank you for your service, and be safe out there,
my friend. Take care of having Mary Chris, Mary Christmas
a happy New Year. Five one three, seven, four nine
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Speaker 13 (01:29:57):
Twenty twenty four is almost overseas.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Seven in the morning Kevin rdon and for Brian Thommas
if you five care see the talk station. You know.
Following these local stories, the corner Corner IDs the three
year old girl mauled by dogs and I'm more and
more I read the stories about this and some of
the events. This is one of those things that could
have been prevented and should have been prevented, and it's

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a shame that this actually happened. Saw some information on
another story where there was a visiting the people were
visiting and the dogs weren't used to having kids around.
That's one of the things I've been seeing.

Speaker 8 (01:30:39):
It just.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
You look at this little girl and they're all precious
little angels. And to see to have a situation where
dogs maul a child, and especially when I start reading
stuff like judges have the discretion to order the euthanasia
of dangerous or vicious dogs after the first unprovoked attack.

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Often it's left to the dog owner. If the dog
is already deemed vicious, gets out and kills a second person,
then the judge must order the dog euthanized.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
I mean, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Other story that we've been following cruise responding to a
plane crash in Adams County. This occurred at ten actually
ten o'clock, yes, well actually last night. One person has
died after a small plane crash in Adams County on
Monday afternoon. Units from the Ohio State Highway Patrol Georgetown
Post were dispatched at three thirty four pm to Savage

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Road and Bratton Township for reports of a small plane
that had crashed the areas north of Peebles and west
of State Route seventy three. Source with the Adams County
Sheriff's Office confirmed Monday night that one person died in
the crash. They're learning to find more information what led
to the crash and identify the victim. But of course

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the person that died was the pilot of that plane,
so well, unfortunate, well, fortunately there were no other people
on board, but unfortunately there was the pilot and we
never know on those and what may have happened there.
So again, it's interesting to see what is going on
in the news and some of the local headlines, and

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of course everybody's getting ready for the celebrations as far
as New Year's Eve and the New Year's celebrations. There's
a lot of stories out there, and you can go
online as everything should be pretty much open today.

Speaker 14 (01:32:34):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
I know there's a lot of stores and you probably
have to call the individual stores because as we have
found and when we've been trying to go places that
the hours that they put online and the hours that
they have on that prone phone tree when you call
aren't generally maybe up to date very well, and so

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don't push it to the last minute. If you know
that these stores may be open, you might want to
get there early enough because some of the stores will
be closing early because of because it's Today's not a holiday,
but some people are getting off early so that they
can get ready for the night's festivities. And you can
call around find out what's open. You know, banks are

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going to be open, other places, most places of business
will be open, but they may have a little bit
shorter hours, so you might want to check around and
find all that out. And of course online you can
find out any last minute activities that might be out
there if you're interested in going to any place tonight.
But the one thing I do want to emphasize is
make sure that you have either a designated driver or

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take that uber home. Make sure that you're out there safe.
Let's try to keep this one of the safest New
Year's Eve celebrations that we've had on record. You know,
it just takes a moment of stupidity or a moment
of bad judgment to create a horrible and a horrific

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situation that then completely Mars, the entire event, the holiday season,
and of course the grief that that brings to families
that every time around the holidays they have to think
about a tragedy that could have been prevented. Phone numbers
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This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
Seven forty in the morning.

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Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five k the
Talk Station. You know, sometimes things just work out perfectly.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
I think mental telepathy between me and Sean, who is
my producer today, is there because I was going to
talk about this anyway, but all of a sudden, you
go get your motor running and road songs type of thing.
In the forecast, we're talking about or wind speeds being
up to about thirty miles per hour. If you're out

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driving around today, you need to be aware of that,
and especially if you're out on the highway in a
flat area. And you're passing trucks, any kind of a truck,
whether it be a tractor trailer or one of those
big box trucks. Be aware of the fact that if
a gust of wind comes up, that that could.

Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
Swerve that a trailer ever so slightly.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
So kind of pay attention to that because sometimes when
you drive down the road, you can see those trailers
kind of weaving back and forth, and you kind of wonder, well,
is there something wrong with the truck driver. No, normally
it's just a win, and it doesn't take much if
you're driving down the road that if you turn the
wheel a little bit a certain way and then back

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that that trailer will turn a little bit. So you know,
there could be a little bit of normally done distracted driving.
It's normally a win, but be aware of that while
you're out there. And of course I have been in situations,
even in a sedan, when you're driving down the road
when the wind is enough, and there's a couple of
times I've noticed that when i'd go across the Big

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Mac Bridge that there are certain times once the wind
blows a certain way, you can actually feel that and
in jerking the car. So be aware of that out
there if you're going to be out on the highway
this afternoon and pay attention to the wind condition. So
with that phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
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to wrap this story up with Elton John because again,
when you're talking about somebody who's been sober since nineteen ninety,
somebody who's been part of the drug culture, somebody who
has participated in smoking of marijuana, and somebody that well,
I guess you consider could consider him somewhat of an

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expert of where he talks about his own use of
drugs has disasterus effects in his personal life. You make
terrible decision on drugs. I want to love you so badly.
I just take hostages. I'd see somebody like to spend
three or four months together, and then they would resent
me because they had nothing in their lives apart from me.
It really upsets me thinking back on how many people

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I probably hurt. It's just you know, when people go
back and lament this. And I was talking to somebody
too the other day, and he was asking me about
the marijuana laws, and I could, well, you know, you
can tell sometimes that somebody has been smoking pot or
had been a smoking pot, or is a pot smoker.

(01:37:50):
I don't know, or you can just guess. Maybe I'm
jumping to the conclusions. But I thought, you know, the
guy's asking my opinion, I'm just going to give it.
And one of the things I pride myself on is
that when you are in a conversation with me, when
you walk away, you'll never say to yourself, gosh, I
wonder what Kevin thinks about that particular subject, because whether
you like it or not, you're gonna hear my Well,

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if you ask my opinion, I'm going to give it.
And sometimes I even volunteer it because I have an
opinion and I'm not afraid to use it. So anyway,
I told him that I just I said, I just
have no use for it. I don't think there's any
benefit to it. And it just bothers me that this
is beginning to be more and more a part of
the culture, and I still think of it as a

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gateway drug. And I was shocked to find out from
him he said, I have been a pot smoker. I've
smoked pot. I still smoke pot. And he says, but
I have noticed that I am not as sharp as
I was. And this guy is a guy that's in
his maybe a late forties, early fifties, and he says,

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there is just not the mental acuity that there was
there years ago. I'm not as sharp. I seem to
have a little bit less energy. I'm a little bit
more laid back, more than I probably should be. And
there's just certain things that I just can't do that
I could do even five years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:39:11):
Excuse me.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
And I was shocked that he would admit that, because
I've known of a lot of people that have done
marijuana a lot over the years, and there's just something
about them. They just don't seem like they're all there.
They seem like the word searching is a lot more
at a much younger age. And it's just why bother

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messing with the system like that? And I don't know,
And don't get me started. I mean, I know people drink.
I know that there's tobacco out there. I'm a cigar smoker,
so I know that. But again, because I've never even
smoked a cigarette. The advantage of that that I have
is that I don't have that need or that reflex

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to actually inhale the smoke, and so you can get
whatever the buzz there is from nicotine or whatever that is,
from just smoking a cigar, puffing on a cigar, and
it's relaxing, I find. But again, it's not like I'm
smoking cigars every day. I'm trying to figure out. I
think there's been about three months since I've had one.

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So now I'm getting myself interested. I'm gonna have to
go home and have one. No, my wife probably won't
want that anyway. Let's go to the phones. Let's talk
to Bob or is it Rob?

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
Rob? Rob fifty five? Caresee how are you this morning?

Speaker 15 (01:40:33):
I'm pretty good? How are you?

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Not too bad? Not too bad at all.

Speaker 15 (01:40:37):
So I'm sitting there listening this morning, coming into.

Speaker 10 (01:40:40):
Work, and.

Speaker 15 (01:40:42):
I just had yesterday twenty one years cleaning several off
of every drug besides marijuana.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
Congratulations.

Speaker 15 (01:40:51):
And I just disagree with marijuana being the gayway drug.
Because I was fifteen years completely severer of everything, came
down with cancer. They were wanting to give me oxy cottins,
which I refused. In the past, and I said, I'm
not doing that. I said, I can't do it. I'm
not going to take that chance. I seen people in

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the program I was in that had surgeries and they
went back out, so I started. He said, well, you
can try marijuana, and I did that and made it
through having drank. Then I had a motorcycle wreck. Two
years after that, same exact, same exact thing happened. He said,
here's some moxies. I said, I can't do that, and

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I did marijuana. And I've been doing marijuana since for
the last six years, and it has not let me
do anything else. I go to bars, I said, there
at a bar and drink Coca Cola, and as long
as I go somewhere for a reason, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Now what you may have messed because I brought this.
I brought this subject up probably close to the beginning
of the hour, these comments by Elton John, and then
we got sidetracked on some other things, and I just
got back to it. One of the things that I've
said is that with all of the studies and all
the stuff that I've read in terms of marijuana medical
use of marijuana, about the only thing that I have

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seen a benefit that I would probably say, hey, probably
not a bad idea is in the event of cancer patients,
because with cancer patients and with marijuana use, because of
the weight loss and the level of comfort that that
gives that you forces you to eat, and when you
are under cancer treatments, one of the big things is

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weight loss. And so that's the only advantage that I
have seen medical wise of marijuana. So from that aspect,
I did use that as a qualifier. So that would
fit into what you're saying. And it works for paying
if you get the right kind for paying. And what
I'll say to you is that I applaud your efforts
and I applaud the fact that you have stayed.

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
Was it twenty years now that you've cleaned and so.

Speaker 15 (01:42:59):
Years server that was a heavy cocaine user. I was
a everything user.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
That is so difficult because once once something becomes a habit,
there's certain things where there's a chemical dependence on it,
but then also a psychological need for it, as what
they refer to as the crutch. And to be able
to avoid that for all these many years, I got
hats off to you, my friend, and uh, I wish
you all the best of luck have no more accidents

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so that you can recommend me.

Speaker 15 (01:43:31):
I'm try not to, Okay, New Year.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
Happy New Year to you. Thank you so much for
the phone call. I certainly appreciate it. Five one three,
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The holidays are a blast of the financial.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Seven fifty two in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
Brian Thomas, fifty five k see the talk station. Had
a little cough there and got a little bit back
by anyway, I'm back. We're talking about medical marijuana use,
and I just want to kind of finish up here
the fact that Elton John came out and spoke about
this back on December the twelfth in an interview Icon

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of the Year award, and in the interview talking about
his journey through as far as sobriety and looking at
that as he refers to it as a gateway drug,
and I was just caution people out there. And we
had the police officer earlier in the hour talking about
how they have seen Meraica medical marijuana being abused and

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that is being used and now invading and available at
a lot of grade schools as low as fourth and
fifth graders. School resource officers are having to deal with
this and just all we need is just one more
headache out there, one more thing that could cause addiction.
And Elton John in his comments said that he believes

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that it is some form of addiction. And you know,
it's one of those things where what one person. You know,
there are certain people that can smoke cigarettes forever, and
you know the people they can quit cold turkey and
never go back to it. There are others that it
takes them three, four, five, six times. You hear the

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ads on the on the on the stations all the
time about house people. They didn't quit the first time,
they didn't quit the second time, but they learned more
and more and then I finally was able to do it.
I was finally able to kick the addiction. There are
some people that have an addictive personality. And if people
have an addictive personality, and they go into and take

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marijuana or use marijuana. They may be looking for something
higher and again could lead to a great way drug.
But again speaking from the standpoint of never having tried it,
never used it, never wanted to try it, So you're
gonna have to. But just look before you do it,
Like anything else, do an informed consent. Look at what
is being written. The fact that they admit in here

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CDC notes that experts experts disagree whether it lives up
to its long held reputation. Now it's interesting that they
would say that about marijuana. The same is true on
climate change, but they'll never say that climate change, as
you know, is absolutely settled science not.

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It's time to dip, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
Five minutes after eight o'clock on this New Year's Eve morning,
I still pinched myself realizing that this is the last
day of the year. I hope everybody's having a great morning.
I hope you're going to have a great night. I'm
kind of curious as to what people are doing. What's
on your agenda for the day, I've got any New
Year's resolutions? What are you planning on for tonight? What

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are your hosts for twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five,
And what do you think is the top story of
twenty twenty four. Now I'm going to answer that a
little bit, maybe get the ball rolling a little bit
on that. But you know, I've mentioned that there's there's
several stories. I mentioned this earlier that there are any
There are several stories that in and of themselves could

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be the top story of the year in any other year,
but the fact that it happened that they all happened
this year was significant. Of course, I think overall overarching
theme of the entire year would have been the twenty
twenty four presidential election. Leading up to that, the whole
deal with Biden being in announcing that he was going

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to run, even though that people were saying that there
appeared to be clearly that his mental faculties weren't all there.
But of course then we got lied to by all
the people in the administration telling us how sharp he was,
that he could run rings around everybody. So then you
have the June debate and just the absolute meltdown and

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Democratic Party goes into a panic. They decided that okay,
they're going to convince him to drop out. The same
people they kind of pushed him onto the ticket because
he was a safe person, a safe bet, somebody that
they could manipulate as far as their needs and wants
as president. So the same people that brought him in

(01:49:10):
are the same people that brought him out. And then
we wind up with Kamala Harris where they don't, you know,
the party that talks about Donald Trump being an existential
threat to democracy, they themselves being the existential threat to
democracy that they were. Even in their primaries before Biden

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even dropped out, they didn't allow certain people on the ticket.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
They sued to let the force them off.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
Bobby Kennedy Junior was on there, a couple of other
people had chosen to run and they closed them out.
So they did not really have an open primary process.
They haven't had an open primary process for the last well,
now three presidential cycles. So when Biden dropped out, instead
of having a shortened nominating procedure or at least go

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in and interview for the job and take the credentials
of everybody, and the party officials selecting no, they choose
Kamala Harris because again, that was a safe bet, and
even with her disastrous job as Borders Are, which they
then tried to gaslight us, lie to us and tell
us that Kamala Harris really in fact wasn't the Borders Are,

(01:50:26):
even though people referred to her as that, she never
corrected them. They never corrected it, the administration never corrected it.
All of a sudden they're trying to clean up her resume,
and yet people can't forget about the cackling, the inappropriate laughter,
and just the gaps that she did throughout her vice presidency.
Now all of a sudden, she's in charge and she's

(01:50:49):
running this joyful campaign. And we started seeing cracks in
that they lied to us that, oh, the polls were
neck and neck, when in fact they probably weren't. We're
hearing stories now that the polls were never tight, but
that's what they were telling The Spoon Federal regurgitators in
the mainstream media, and they continued that on. Then we
come to election night and then all of a sudden

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we find out that well not only find out how
bad these polls were, but how it was an attempt
by them to suppress the vote. And especially over the
weekend before the election, they had that Iowa Bill, a
poll that came out that talked about that the race
was not close, that Kamala Harris was going to win.

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And so the election turned out the way it did,
and of course the media has paid a price for that.
They their ratings are way down. They should be if
they had any brains about them, would be totally embarrassed.
Then we come to find out that Kamala Harris raised
two point five billion dollars, blew through that wound up

(01:51:53):
with three hundred million dollars in debt as far as
the DNC was concerned, and then goes begging back to
these donors that had propped up this campaign. Then we
come to find out through some of the election reports
that Oprah win Fee had been paid what was a
two point five million dollars Well, actually she directly wasn't paid,

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but it was her production company to do the production.
They spent one hundred thousand dollars on the second construction
of that Call Your Daddy podcast. We find out that
they paid Bruce Springsteen to attempt to endorse and to
actually show up and do a couple of songs at
one of the campaign stops. Beyonce paid Al Sharpton, who

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is on MSNBC and is one of their commentators, one
of their political people. All of a sudden we come
to find out that he was paid five hundred thousand
dollars by the Harris campaign in order to secure an
interview with him, and of course the softball interview that
pursued that proceeded from that. He hasn't paid the price,

(01:53:01):
he hasn't lost his job. But of course they propped
this up, and they call us the Republicans or Conservatives
and existential threat to democracy, even though that we were
being told that this woman was competent, that this woman
was running a flawless campaign, and now that the dust
is settled, they're still calling it a flawless campaign. We

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see Biden sitting down for interviews saying that he can't
think of a single mistake that he made. Nothing comes
to mind completely ignoring the Afghanistan embarrassment withdrawal, the crushing debt,
that we've got record inflation, wide open borders, and South
American gangs now running some of the cities, invading some

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of our cities, which was denied. So everything was perfect.
Everything was perfect with Kamala Harris campaign, she couldn't think
of anything, even a softball question. Even the people on
the view were shocked when she gave the answer that
do you think there's anything that comes to mind that
you would do differently than what had been done previously?

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And she said, no, nothing comes to mind. So I
think overarching the big story of twenty twenty four was
the election. However, I think as a backdrop of that
and the biggest scandal to ever face the United States
happened over the last four years. We had that Wall
Street Journal expose the other day that talked about how

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even back during the campaign of twenty twenty that Biden
was not as up to the campaigning as a lot
of people. And they talked about how his wife was
doing like nine campaign appearances on a particular day versus
what one or two for Biden, and she was getting
all this notoriety, and they started saying, well, you know,

(01:54:48):
you got to tamp down those stories because you're making
the president look bad or the candidate look bad, and
we don't want that. And so all of the gaps,
all the things that happened during that campaign were hidden
from the American public. Then we come to find out
through this Wall Street Journal article that even in the
first couple of months, he started being isolated from advisers

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and from the outsiders, and he was surrounded by his
close advisors and close associates. And they're not all his associates,
of course, a lot of them were Obama associates. And
so it's pretty safe to say that Obama and his
people were pretty much running things. They insulated him. I mean,
we see now that he spent four hundred and forty

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four days on vacation. It may be higher than that
by now because he's still on vacation, and that more
than forty percent of his presidency. Now, if you go
back to and read some of these stories, now, I
came across the story that it was called Death and
the All American Boy. And this was a story written
by Kitty Kelly, who you may be familiar with. She

(01:55:54):
was a is a columnist was a columnist very popular
back in the seventies. Wrote a story about him, and
I think it was supposed to be a puff piece
about him talking about the tragedy of him losing his
wife and that he wanted that he actually believed that
he should be the smart you know, being the smartest
guy in the room. According to him, that he was

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destined to be president. So can you imagine a job
something that you've wanted your entire life, that you're going
to be there, that you wanted to be president of
the United States, and you become president and you spend
forty percent of your time away from Washington on vacation.
I'm afraid that, even at my level of the respect

(01:56:41):
for that office, I don't know that I would ever
leave Washington except for some diplomatic tour or something that
I would Because you cherish that job. You may only
have it for four years or as the maximum of
eight years, how you don't pull pour every bit of

(01:57:02):
your heart and soul into that job to do the
best job you can do for the American people. The
hell with your legacy, but for the American people because
they entrusted you with that position. I can't imagine spending
that much time away. Now I know that, you know,
you've got to have family, you got to be involved,

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But for crying out loud, as Ronald Reagan used to
refer to it, just as proprietors and small businesses throughout
the history of this country, he said, this is one
of the jobs where you live above the store. And
that's the way he looked at the office. That's the
way he honored the office. The fact that it was

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the business was on the ground floor and your residence
was on the second and third floor. So the respect
for the office, wanting to be there and wanting to
be part of that, and the fact that you have
worked so hard to be in that position, it just
dumbfounds me. The fact that how cavalier this presidency has been,

(01:58:07):
and pretty much it appears as though that has been
on autopilot, and that should be a major investigation going
forward to get to the bottom of this. Who made
the decision, who were pulling the strings? Because in effect,
my friends, that is unconstitutional, it's undemocratic, and I'm not
talking about the party. I'm talking about an existential threat

(01:58:27):
to democracy and actually put our country in danger and
actually is in my opinion, treason US five point three,
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Year twenty one in the morning, Kevin Gordon and for
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Looking at some of these stories I'm talking about, and
I've asked UH, and we've had a couple of callers
call in and talk about the biggest stories of twenty
twenty four, plans for the New Year's Eve celebration, and
of course any plans for or what you're anticipating on

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what you're looking forward to in twenty twenty five. Now,
some of the headlines that I'm seeing inflation, elections in
war dominated twenty twenty four, angered by the hefty ramp
up in prices for everything from eggs to energy. Over
the past few years, they punished incumbent and parties at

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almost every opportunity. The pain of inflation lingers and the
ruling parties took the blame, that took the blame in
election after election.

Speaker 3 (02:00:07):
Yeah, it's just the media.

Speaker 13 (02:00:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
In the United States, high cost help Donald Trump win
a second term as president four years after he was
voted out of the White House and then falsely claimed
election fraud. His supporters failed in their bid to overturn
Trump's defeat by storming the US Capitol. You know, they
just can't get a Scholert. But I just love the
Trump derangement syndrome and stories like this. Let's see Trump's defeat.

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They could not stand Trump's defeat by storming the US
Capitol on January sixth.

Speaker 3 (02:00:40):
Twenty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
This year, they made their voices heard at the ballot box,
ushering in a new American leadership likely to test democratic
institutions at home and relations abroad.

Speaker 3 (02:00:53):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (02:00:55):
The inflation driven and anti incumbent sentiment also ushered in
new governments and writin and Botswana, Portugal and Panama, South
Korean voters put the opposition into power in its parliament,
a check on President Yun suk yol. In early December,
the president imposed martial law, a move the National Assembly

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quickly reversed.

Speaker 3 (02:01:17):
Elections also shook up.

Speaker 2 (02:01:18):
France and Germany, and Japan and India. In one place
where there was no change, Russia, where Vladimir Putin was
re elected president with eighty eight percent of the vote,
a record in post Soviet Russia. What you don't understand
that that is still almost a communist country. There, damn
near a communist country, that there is no freedom over there.

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But of course you know you can't tell this to
so called well spoon fed Well, they are spoon fed
regurgitators because I don't want to characterize them as journalists,
because they are anything, but because they never report the
actual truth or the facts, but their version of and

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let's face it, Okay, there has never been a communist
or a communist idea that the left hasn't loved. I've
made the comment before, kind of jokingly, but I would
be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised. I wonder how many
of the liberals out there actually have Sha Guevera t
shirts in their closets. You know, it wouldn't surprise me

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because all the leftists that we see, all this leftist
movement from the Green News Steel on down is all
designed as control. It's not having to do anything with
climate change, has nothing to do with anything other than
making a ruling class where they are at the top
and we are at the bottom. And of course they

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love that, because in their hearts they are all socialists.
Moscow continued to prosecute its war against Ukraine, grinding out
notable notable territorial gains. The big question is what impact
Trump's return to the White House will have on the conflict.
He has promised end the war in a day. Many
in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe fear that will mean

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siding with Putin and freezing the status quo. In the
Middle East, Israel continues its war against Gaza and extended
it to Lebanon, where it left Iran backed Hezbola damage
and in disarray. In Syria, a well coordinated collection of
rebel groups top oled Bashir l Asad and now seeks
to run the country. In business, companies around the world

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grappled with how to adapt to artificial intelligence. The dominance
of tech companies for investors can be summed up as
one simple fact. Seven tech firms, the so called Magnificent seven,
now account for more than one third of the S
and P five hundred's market cap. Elon Musk, who runs
one of those companies, Tesla, is an advisor and financial

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backer of President Trump. Looking ahead, that combination of tech
bro mojo and political power could well defined twenty five Interesting. Interesting,
see a little bit of slant in that particular story.
And oh lo and behold, we'll dig into this coming up.
Hamas suddenly open to release of some Israeli hostages before

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In the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty
five KRC, the Talk Stations. We're following some local headlines
and I just cannot get my It's just this, this
story just completely keeps bothering me over and over again. Cruse,
responding to the point, well, the nine one one calls
say dad was asleep when three year old child died.

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A nine to eleven call father of killed daughter of
dog attack woke up found her already dead in the apartment.
Father of three year old girl was killed in the
dog attack told dispatchers he woke up Friday to find
her already dead in the living room. The man called
Sin Santa Police seven fifty am just after he woke
up in the Roselawn apartment. According to nine to one
one calls recording the computer aided dispatched documents in a

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panic state. He identified himself as the girl's father and
described the scene just a horrific situation. We had a
caller earlier that called in said they described the dog
as a terrier, but that could actually be a pit
bull terrier, which is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (02:05:48):
Just sad.

Speaker 2 (02:05:49):
Cruse responded that they had the let's see they idd
the girl killed in the attack. Let me see county
two dogs cat Kingsley right inside the home a seven
thousand blocks a Stillwell Road, according to police. And then
they talk in here about some of the other dog

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attacks that have happened around the state and kind of
some national statistics. Also, we looked at a cruise responding
to a plane crash in Adams County. They do have
they have identified the person that lost their life in
that plane crash.

Speaker 3 (02:06:25):
A gentleman by the name of.

Speaker 2 (02:06:27):
Robert Harris Coles of Vicksburg, Michigan, is a pilot flying
the small plane when it crashed into a wooded area
and the Ohios according to Ohio State Highway Patrols Georgetown
Division wrote in a press release, preliminary investigation revealed that
Coles was flying the nineteen sixty twin engine Cessna three
ten D when a crash near the property of at

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twenty one seventy three Savage Road. A trooper at the
scene told news agencies that the plane was headed to
West Union. Once officer emergency crews located the crash site,
they found Coles, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
There's no other occupants in the plane, so it was
just a single death. But again, tragedy around the Christmas holidays.

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Tragedy of any time at any any time of the
year is always tragic, but when it occurs around the
holidays or a holiday that creates problems because when those
anniversaries come around, when you're supposed to be in a
celebratory mood, when you're supposed to be ready for a holiday,
you have that reminder the anniversary of the loss of

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a loved one or the tragic death of someone that
in some cases could have been prevented. Coming up, we've
got let's go a little bit of fun facts and
talk a little bit about New Year's and what people
can expect. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, nine, fifty
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Speaker 9 (02:08:14):
The holidays are a blast.

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Eight thirty eight in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
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Let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Joe fifty
five KR. See how are you this morning? Happy New
Year Eve? And uh what.

Speaker 3 (02:08:34):
You got for us?

Speaker 14 (02:08:35):
Happy New Year? Kevin, God bless you and prayers for
uh say sorry about the background was the victims of
that tragedy you just spoke about. I wanted to get
your opinion on saying two things. They are kind of
a conundrum to me.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
Now, what would make you think I have an opinion
on anything?

Speaker 3 (02:08:57):
What would give you that I your brother?

Speaker 14 (02:09:04):
I'm sorry, that's okay, love, It is good to laugh.

Speaker 3 (02:09:09):
First.

Speaker 14 (02:09:10):
I don't know how we reconcile this three or you know,
I look in terms of six months that you have
to be able to get by. But eventually it comes
down in my mind a community. You know, you can't
be everything to everybody. And I'm going to get out
of the way because I'd rather listen.

Speaker 2 (02:09:26):
Well, what what was your first first question on what?

Speaker 3 (02:09:29):
Now? It was?

Speaker 14 (02:09:32):
There's apparently and I'm not educated on this. I need
to catch up. Controversy regarding Trump's view of the green
card extensions.

Speaker 2 (02:09:42):
Oh okay, okay, you follow Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, Well
you don't have to hang up. But anyway, there the
controversy over these h H one B visas that had
been around for a number of years. In fact, I
believe there was some testimony by Bill Gates back in

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the nineteen nineties talking about how you need to have
what they call the best and brightest available and when
you get into some of this tech and some of
the computer stuff, the Americans the workforce wasn't enough and
that you have to be able to bring in people

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who can handle that. But what we've seen, and I
think there was supposed to be something like eight hundred
and sixty of these that would be allowed every year,
that has more than exploded to over eighty six thousand
a year. And what we are seeing is that companies

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are using this the way that they're using the cheap
labor coming across the border the illegals, and using that
cheap labor in certain areas, they are bringing in people
from other countries into things that aren't really a H
one B was supposed to be a specific set of

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skills for a specific industry, and they have brought people
in that are basically pushing computer programmers that are in
those positions out. There was a story about Disney where
all of their employees there were told you're losing your job,
and it's your job now to train the person coming

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in behind you. If you don't do that, and if
you refuse to do that, you will get no severance package.
So they brought these people in from the outside making
less money than what the people that were there.

Speaker 3 (02:11:42):
We've seen this.

Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
I saw some reports in my profession or original profession
as a recovering accountant, I look back on that companies,
accounting firms are bringing people in at lower wages in
order to do certain accounting work for their clients. Now, again,
if you're abusing this program, that needs to be tightened

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up tremendously. And although there are if there are industries
and if there are needs for certain employees that you
cannot find, then yes, being able to bring those in
from the outside would be great. But when you start
abusing the heck out of this like that, that is wrong.

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That is flat out wrong. And when this happens, that's
when the thing needs to be either disbanded or built
up back from the ground up. So does that answer
the question?

Speaker 3 (02:12:36):
It all? We're here? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (02:12:38):
I needed to get educated, and now I feel like
I can articulate based on what you told me and
my thoughts and concerns.

Speaker 4 (02:12:45):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
Okay, very good, Have a happy new year and be
safe out there. Where do we go now, Sean? Who
do I go to next? Tim, Tim fifty five cares
how are you this morning?

Speaker 16 (02:12:58):
The boy, sir, just fine. How you did it?

Speaker 3 (02:13:00):
I cannot complain.

Speaker 16 (02:13:02):
As far as the visas there, you know, there's a
lot of places these companies want to build. You know,
it's cheaper to build out in the country. But then
there's not a workforce. You've got to bring them in
from somewhere, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:13:17):
Yeah, because you can bring them in from the cities,
you can bring them in from the surrounding areas. You
don't necessarily have to bring them in as immigrants or
on a visa from another country.

Speaker 3 (02:13:29):
You can do go ahead, No.

Speaker 16 (02:13:32):
That well, that they should work on that. Then they
should try, you know, try to do that more.

Speaker 2 (02:13:36):
But where you have again, when you have a program
that is set up for a specific set of skills
in a narrow field that there aren't a whole lot
of so called experts in that field, when you bring
those people in that should be for that specific task,

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you don't bring people in on those visas just to
do research work, accounting work, or programming work, and you
don't fire the people that are currently doing that job
so that you can bring in people who will work cheaper.
I'm going back on my experience as a recovering accountant.

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People may be familiar with if you're old enough to remember,
French Bauer ice Cream, French Bower Dairy down in downtown Cincinnati.
I remember going to an audit there and I was
talking to a gentleman who was from India, who as
his background, was a doctor but could not get licensed

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in the United States and was working there in their
accounts receivable, the accounts receivable department, and we got to
talking and I was talking to him about where he lived,
and he lived over near Cincinnati Gardens, and he talked
about what a wonderful place that was, and if you
remember back during the seventies eighties is when that area

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started deterioring over there. So he was working at a
profession that he wasn't trained in at a cheaper rate
than what he normally would be paid in a position. Now,
when you're bringing these people in, and I've talked to
a lot of people in the programming departments, and they
say that if you're applying for a job, if you

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aren't from a particular country, if you're not Indian, and
you don't have the technical I mean, if you have
the technical skills. But again, if you're not that nationality,
you don't get hired. And I don't know if it's
a form of discrimination. I guess this needs to be
looked at. If they're being paid less than what the
marketplace would bear, then you're starting to skew the scales

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here in the United States and bringing people in for
an intended purpose that it wasn't intended in the first place.
So we'll pick the U up phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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Will and Mark. We'll get to you right after the break.

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I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the.

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Talk station fifty five KRC Cyber retire.

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fall colder. It's going to be about thirty two degrees.
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Coming up on a fifty one in the morning. Kevin
Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the
talk station. Let's do some clean up here. We got
a bunch of phone calls. Let's try to get to
as many of them as we can will fifty five KR.
See how are you this morning?

Speaker 5 (02:17:50):
Hey, Kevin, how you doing today?

Speaker 3 (02:17:51):
Good? Good good.

Speaker 5 (02:17:53):
That same thing happened to me just last December. I
worked for CBS Fashion. They laid four thousand of their
IT people off. They were a big company, you have
a million people. But they also brought them in for
us to train first and then get the jobs to
India because everything was remote.

Speaker 4 (02:18:13):
Yeah, so they now know.

Speaker 5 (02:18:14):
They sent four thousand jobs to a censure. That same
thing that was going on back in the eighties with
General Electric. They were using a company called Tata.

Speaker 3 (02:18:21):
I remember, Oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (02:18:25):
And they would they would. I think they did other
things besides just I t you know, it's really frustrating. Yeah,
you go to all these years at the school and
to get trained, and they would train you and tell you,
you know, the more you gotta leave you need to
learn this, this and this. Well the reason why you
need to learn that, which said that you could train
the people that are going to take your place.

Speaker 3 (02:18:47):
That's insane, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:18:48):
And and where they talk about big business and you know,
in the agriculture area and all these sort of thing
taking advantage of people, and people are taking advantage of
it all. And I think it is one of the
big ones. Let's get you a Nick. By the way,
thank you for that phone call. Will Let's try to
get to Nick here real quick.

Speaker 4 (02:19:05):
Hi, Kevin, this is Nick Knowle. I am I'm the author.

Speaker 16 (02:19:08):
Hi.

Speaker 14 (02:19:09):
I am the author of.

Speaker 8 (02:19:10):
A book called Our God Given Freedom, not our freedom itself,
but the book called Our God Given Freedom that I've
been on with Brian about several times. And you know,
and this book actually addresses the reason that we have
these vises and the reason there's a controversy over it.
The reason that we have these verses and the reason

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there's a controversy is because the education system in this
country has done such a poor job of educating people
in this country, especially Black Americans. They purposely do not
educate Black Americans the same way they educate white people.
And it's been that way. Walter Williams used to write
about this a lot, and I wrote about it a

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lot in my book and the book before that, Our
God Given Freedom. And this is this is the thing
as right now we don't have an educated populous because
the schools don't do a good job. But they especially
discriminate against Black Americans and education. And they've been doing
that ever since the Democratic Party has been in charge

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of running our schools, and that's been the case for
a long long time.

Speaker 2 (02:20:20):
I have been maintaining all along, Nick, that the Democratic
Party is the party of racism.

Speaker 3 (02:20:25):
And you know, George W.

Speaker 2 (02:20:27):
Bush used to say that was the soft bigotry of
low expectations. Well, I think it's the hard bigotry of
no expectations in certain instances. And this is what they
have done. Now I'm getting close to the top of
the ron. I got to wrap this up. Can Sean,
can you put him on hold, get his number and
I'll talk to him. Maybe we can have him on

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in some future future time, Nick, because I'd really like
to get into this a lot more in depth with you. Okay, great,
thank you very much having Mary. I have a happy
New Year. Well, folks, we got about a minute here
before I got to scoot out of here. But I
just want to tell everybody it's been great being here.
I've enjoyed all the calls, enjoyed the subject matter. Shoot,

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if I'd have known this H one B visa thing
was going to be a topic that would drive the day, maybe.

Speaker 3 (02:21:15):
I should have started off with that.

Speaker 2 (02:21:17):
But then again, you would have missed out on me
waxing eloquently about so many subjects throughout the day, So
you know, you kind of got to take the good
with the bad here. I mean, otherwise you wouldn't have
been so well informed on some of these other subjects.
But we'll have to. This is a subject that really
is heating up and something that needs to be addressed
and something that needs to be talked about. Well, folks,

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have a very safe and very happy New Year's Eve tonight.
Let's be safe out there and have a great time.
I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five KRC,
the Talk Station.

Speaker 9 (02:21:51):
Your voice, thank you for taking my call. Your country
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