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Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 11/26/2025 · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: And now Kevin Gordon filling in for Brian Thomas on
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Speaker 1: fifty five KOs the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Five minutes after five o'clock, Kevin Bourdon in for Brian
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Speaker 2: Thomas fifty five KRC. As the intro said, at some
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Speaker 2: point this morning, I'm going to have to reintroduce or
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Speaker 2: make mention of why that opening is the way that
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Speaker 2: opening is, but we'll have to save that and tease
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Speaker 2: that for later. Hey, Happy Thanksgiving Eve. I hope everybody
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Speaker 2: is getting geared up. This is not the day to
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Speaker 2: tell people to be cautious, or tomorrow the day to
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Speaker 2: be cautious, or to tell people don't eat too much
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Speaker 2: or whatever. My advice is to you know, that's one
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Speaker 2: day out of the week or out of the year
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Speaker 2: that you can just you know, so crazy and enjoy yourself.
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Speaker 2: It is a feast, one of those things, you know,
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Speaker 2: very Americana and very much American. And what is interesting
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Speaker 2: is that, as far as the Gordon family is concerned,
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Speaker 2: over the last several years, we have been traveling going
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Speaker 2: to either our son's house or where he works. He
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Speaker 2: is a chef, and so they couldn't come. You know,
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Speaker 2: when you're in the food industry business, and you are
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Speaker 2: service industry, your schedule in terms of what your holiday
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Speaker 2: season is like, and it doesn't matter what holiday it is,
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Speaker 2: it is off a bit, you know. I do America's
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Speaker 2: truck and Network and so geared towards the trucking industry.
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Speaker 2: The trucking industry is not geared towards what is normal
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Speaker 2: holiday time, off, vacation time, et cetera. And what you
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Speaker 2: see in the service industry is a lot of people
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Speaker 2: if like police fire, whatever, they may have their Thanksgiving
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Speaker 2: on that Wednesday. They may have it and postpone it
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Speaker 2: till the weekend, but they don't generally celebrate it on
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving Day because they're on call, or they're on duty,
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Speaker 2: or they're out on the road and so on. So
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Speaker 2: in the food industry, food service industry, people are working
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Speaker 2: that day. And so when he was at a location
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Speaker 2: where he was working, we would go up there for Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 2: And then his family is out of town, Northwest, so
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Speaker 2: we've been going up there. So this year for the
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Speaker 2: first time, and gosh, I'm trying to figure out when
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Speaker 2: the last time we did it was we were actually
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Speaker 2: hosting Thanksgiving this year, I would say probably at least
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Speaker 2: going back to maybe pre pandemic, maybe something along those lines.
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Speaker 2: But what's interesting is that when you get out of
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Speaker 2: the swing of things. We have been doing Thanksgiving as
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Speaker 2: a family, my wife and I, for well, this is
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Speaker 2: about this is the thirty fourth year. And so when
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Speaker 2: you're doing that on a regular basis, year after year
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Speaker 2: after year, into a groove, I have a tendency. When
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Speaker 2: we started doing these things, I had some recipes that
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Speaker 2: my mom had and the first year that we had Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 2: we were going to have that we were together. We
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Speaker 2: decided to have a lot of the family member the
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Speaker 2: local family members from here because as you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: from Columbus, and so I wasn't able to you know,
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Speaker 2: break away, and we weren't able to go up there
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Speaker 2: for Thanksgiving. So we decided to have it down here
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Speaker 2: and had her family over and so on. And what
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Speaker 2: happened was is that I think it was the Monday before,
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Speaker 2: she got some sort of an upper respiratory virus or
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Speaker 2: something along those lines, and she was sick, and so
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Speaker 2: I wound up having to do the turkey, the dressing
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Speaker 2: or the stuffing. Rather, there's a cranberry recipe that my
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Speaker 2: mom had passed down and very excellent. I don't even
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Speaker 2: know what to call it. We call it, we used
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Speaker 2: to call it when I was a kid, cranberry sauce.
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Speaker 2: But it isn't out of the can. This has got apples, walnuts, apples, walnuts,
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Speaker 2: celery in it, jello, fresh cranberries, and some sugar and
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Speaker 2: water and so on. So it's not quite what you
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Speaker 2: would call a typical cranberry sauce, but it does set up.
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Speaker 2: There's jello in it, so it does set up a
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Speaker 2: little bit. You don't put it in a mold because
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Speaker 2: it's you know, with all the other ingredients. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: but what wound up happening is I wound up doing
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Speaker 2: everything myself, including making a cheesecake and I think one
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Speaker 2: other dessert I don't remember what it was, and she
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Speaker 2: got so sick that I wound up having the bundle
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Speaker 2: you bag everything up, put it in the roaster, and
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Speaker 2: transport it up to her sister's house so that the
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Speaker 2: family could meet up there and have Thanksgiving. So that
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Speaker 2: was our first Thanksgiving, and then from that point on
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Speaker 2: it wound up being pretty good to the point where
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Speaker 2: we were doing on a regular basis. I think the
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Speaker 2: maximum people are the largest number of people we ever
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Speaker 2: served was around twenty five. Generally we're around in the
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Speaker 2: almost ten eight nine somewhere around that neighborhood. This year
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Speaker 2: we're going to have about ten people over to the house.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting when you get out of that groove.
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Speaker 2: And I'm the kind of guy that when you have something,
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Speaker 2: when I learned this from my mom that when you
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Speaker 2: have an event or you do something, you have your
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Speaker 2: notes and you have your recipes, and then when something
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Speaker 2: goes wrong or something just doesn't turn out quite right,
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Speaker 2: you make a note of it and you adjusted for
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Speaker 2: the following year. When we used to go up to
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Speaker 2: Lake Erie, you had to have the cottage we stayed in.
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Speaker 2: You had to bring your blankets or sheets, You had
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Speaker 2: to bring all this stuff, and you couldn't depend on
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Speaker 2: them to have the actual pots and pans if there
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Speaker 2: were certain things that you needed to bring. So my
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Speaker 2: mom would make a list Lake Erie, whatever, and then
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Speaker 2: she'd make a list of everything that was to be taken,
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Speaker 2: and then the following year it would be the previous
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Speaker 2: list plus the items that they forgot or wanted to
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Speaker 2: have the previous year, and so on and so on.
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Speaker 2: All the recipes that I have. I have all these
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Speaker 2: notes out to the side and all this stuff that
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Speaker 2: we have done over the years, and a lot of
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Speaker 2: the stuff that we do, you know, we tweak it.
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Speaker 2: We tweak some of the recipes a little bit to
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Speaker 2: jazz them up a little bit. And so it's interesting
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Speaker 2: going back through the records and going back through the
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Speaker 2: stuff and seeing how this has evolved through the years,
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Speaker 2: and then getting back into the swing of things in
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Speaker 2: terms of timing, making sure that, okay, what you prepare
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Speaker 2: on Sunday night so it's available, so that it gets together,
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Speaker 2: then the desserts and all this, and this year it's
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Speaker 2: going to be a little bit of a wrinkle. Normally
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Speaker 2: we have Thanksgiving dinner around five o'clock, but our granddaughter
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Speaker 2: and one of the reasons that our son is coming
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Speaker 2: down here to celebrate is the fact that his daughter
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Speaker 2: has to work at three o'clock in the afternoon, so
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Speaker 2: we're going to actually have the Thanksgiving meal at twelve
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Speaker 2: o'clock or at noon, which is kind of really throws
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Speaker 2: the schedule off because you generally try to plan to
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Speaker 2: have stuff ready by five o'clock. So I've gone back
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Speaker 2: in and I've looked at the timetable, and I said, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we've got to back this up to here, got to
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Speaker 2: back this up to here and here as we go
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Speaker 2: go on from here. But it's interesting. I'm the kind
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Speaker 2: of guy I guess that if something doesn't go right,
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Speaker 2: I'm already thinking in terms of plan B, Plan C,
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Speaker 2: Plan D, and if that doesn't work, we go to D, E,
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Speaker 2: F G H, I j K. Sometimes, but it's all
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Speaker 2: it's to me. It's it's kind of the if something
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Speaker 2: goes wrong, something's not going right, or if you forget something.
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Speaker 2: You got to make numerous trips to the to the
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Speaker 2: grocery store because of certain dietary needs that people have
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Speaker 2: and something that they want to eat as opposed to
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Speaker 2: maybe something we plan just to you know, to kind
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Speaker 2: of cater to everybody. We have had. It's been I
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Speaker 2: don't want to say disruptive, but it has not been
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Speaker 2: the smoothest process. But part of the process is the
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Speaker 2: journey of getting there and letting the things get you down,
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Speaker 2: get you upset, you just kind of okay, take a
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Speaker 2: deep breath and move through it. I did an interview
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Speaker 2: with the folks from Butterball Turkey Talk Line a few
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Speaker 2: weeks ago, and one of the things that they talked
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Speaker 2: about was that even seasoned professionals at Thanksgiving, something like
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Speaker 2: forty percent of the people that do Thanksgiving have some
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Speaker 2: sort of a are disc are, are uncomfortable and are
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Speaker 2: not geared towards that, and it's and it's it makes
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Speaker 2: them upset. And the problem is is that when you
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Speaker 2: do a celebration only once a year and you make
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Speaker 2: the turkey and all that, you're not used to that
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Speaker 2: on a regular basis. So it requires planning, it requires
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Speaker 2: certain things, and to ease the I guess uncomfortableness of it,
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Speaker 2: the Butterball Turkey people are there. They're on. You can
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Speaker 2: go to their website if you have any questions, frequently
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Speaker 2: asked questions and whatever. It's a tremendous resource. Every year
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Speaker 2: that I'm on the air, I always try to have
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Speaker 2: them on, so that kind of relieve that stress for everybody,
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Speaker 2: so that people go into the Thanksgiving season stress free,
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Speaker 2: because it's supposed to be a day of celebration. It's
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Speaker 2: supposed to be a day of family and friends, and
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Speaker 2: you just don't want to run yourself crazy trying to
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Speaker 2: do stuff perfect. It's never always going to be one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent perfect, but part of the process is getting
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Speaker 2: there and making sure that you have a great time.
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Speaker 2: So that's been what's going on around the Gordon household.
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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of stuff that we've got to
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Speaker 2: prepare today and then in order to have that meal
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Speaker 2: at noon tomorrow. But I'm looking forward to that and
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Speaker 2: looking forward to the process, and I hope every one
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Speaker 2: of you out there that so far what you're experiencing
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Speaker 2: is fun and make it fun. Coming up, I want
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Speaker 2: to talk about one thing that I saw last night
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Speaker 2: as I was getting ready to hit this hit the bed,
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Speaker 2: getting ready for the morning, that there's and we have
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Speaker 2: seen a lot of people relying on AI here recently,
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Speaker 2: and the process of AI is well, it's disruptive, it's
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Speaker 2: created some problems. It's not always accurate, and people are
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Speaker 2: finding that out in the food preparation process. Phone numbers
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Speaker 2: seven four, nine, fifty five five one three, seven four
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Speaker 2: nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three
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Speaker 2: talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five
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Speaker 2: five pound five point fifty on your AT and T
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Speaker 2: wireless phone. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty
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Speaker 2: five KR s the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Like that, the same under dreams at the same time
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Speaker 1: every night, following the ground and.
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Speaker 2: I wait you us so I get out of the bed,
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Speaker 2: put on my Susan in my head. Thus to the break,
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Speaker 2: these gaws are closing in. Look God, since five nineteen
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Speaker 2: in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty
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Speaker 2: five KRC. The fact that you are hearing that right now,
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Speaker 2: knowing that I have not been in here for several months,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've been out of your mind and out
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Speaker 2: of your head because you haven't been able to hear
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Speaker 2: my voice on fifty five KRC. So I played that
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Speaker 2: especially for you or actually Danny, my Danny Gleeson, my
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Speaker 2: producer today. So again here we are. Now. I mentioned
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Speaker 2: before for the break that AI is creating some problems.
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Speaker 2: As far as now, I don't know how much you
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Speaker 2: use AI. I know that you know artificial intelligence and
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Speaker 2: so on. Is that there's a big thing and everybody
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Speaker 2: is jumping on board and all this sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: I have to say that I am relying on Kevin
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Speaker 2: intelligence because you know, I've talked about this numerous times
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Speaker 2: in terms of autonomous cars and stuff like that. Driverless cars.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I will ever get into a car
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Speaker 2: that I can't that somebody's not controlling. And quite honestly,
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Speaker 2: I don't even like being in a car where somebody
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Speaker 2: else is driving. That's how I mean. It's because you know,
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Speaker 2: I trust my reaction time, and I trust how I
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Speaker 2: a judge looking at traffic and looking forward and looking
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Speaker 2: to the right. My wife one time I was coming
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Speaker 2: home and I had I was doing FaceTime with my
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Speaker 2: wife because we were talking and she was saying, my god,
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Speaker 2: your head is constantly turning, your eyes are going side
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Speaker 2: to side, back and forth and whatever. It's almost like,
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Speaker 2: are you okay? And I said, well, you know, that's
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Speaker 2: the way I drive. And I'm always looking at my
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Speaker 2: right mirror, my left mirror, but rear view mirror, cars
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Speaker 2: ahead of me, and that type of thing. So I'm
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Speaker 2: constantly aware of what's going on around me, so that
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Speaker 2: my reaction time. So if somebody, you know, if I
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Speaker 2: know somebody's you know, tailgate me or whatever, plan on
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Speaker 2: that how somebody is over in the other lane, if
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Speaker 2: for some reason somebody does something stupid. And I got
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Speaker 2: to tell you that since COVID, the COVID crazies out there.
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Speaker 2: I think people forgot how to drive or they're much
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Speaker 2: more aggressive because there's an awful lot of crazies on her. So,
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Speaker 2: as my wife says, I just interrupted myself because I
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Speaker 2: was talking about AI. But I don't trust artificial intelligence
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Speaker 2: to a great extent. It is a tool, just like
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Speaker 2: way back in the day when the Internet first happened,
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Speaker 2: you know the old saying that, well, if it's on
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Speaker 2: the Internet, it's to be true. We found out quickly
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Speaker 2: as far as the Internet was concerned, that not everything
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Speaker 2: on the Internet is accurate, not everything on Twitter is accurate.
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Speaker 2: As technology has evolved, and what we're seeing as far
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Speaker 2: as artificial intelligence, when you do a search and they say, well,
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Speaker 2: here's some of the responses based on AI, here's some
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Speaker 2: of the things. I find myself kind of looking at
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Speaker 2: that a little bit. But then the whole thing of trust,
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Speaker 2: but verify going to the original source or going to
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Speaker 2: a couple of stories in order to find out what
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Speaker 2: the actual facts are. Now what we're seeing here and
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Speaker 2: the story that I was talking about, and of course
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Speaker 2: we'll talk about a little bit more because we're probably
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Speaker 2: not going to have time to go through all of it.
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Speaker 2: But the title of this is AI slop recipes are
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Speaker 2: taking over the Internet and Thanksgiving dinner recipe bloggers say
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Speaker 2: AI generated some and recipes are distorting how people find
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Speaker 2: cooking advice online, damaging their businesses and potentially ruining holiday dinners.
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Speaker 2: AI AI generated content, including images and recipes, is often
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Speaker 2: inaccurate and can be hard to distinguish from real recipes,
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Speaker 2: with bloggers reporting sharp declines and visibility and traffic. I
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Speaker 2: don't I've talked to Dave Hatter yesterday and had him
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Speaker 2: on my Americastruck a network program, and it recorded something there.
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Speaker 2: Now I'll have him on tonight as far as the
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Speaker 2: show is concerned. But we talked about earlier that with
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Speaker 2: a lot of what's going on in terms of the
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Speaker 2: Internet and identity errors and these these thieves have gotten
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Speaker 2: so sophisticated in terms of being able to steal websites.
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Speaker 2: Change a number here, as he pointed out that if
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Speaker 2: the webs site itself has a zero in it, if
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Speaker 2: you replace that website, as you're cloning that website or
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Speaker 2: manufacturing a new website or a false website, if you
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Speaker 2: change that zero to a capital or to the capital letter, oh,
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Speaker 2: that changes the website completely, and so people are getting
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Speaker 2: very good. The thieves are getting very good at making
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Speaker 2: the websites appear accurate, and if you rely on that,
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Speaker 2: that gets into stolen identity, stolen bank accounts, and people
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Speaker 2: getting ripped off in the blogsphere. As far as these
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Speaker 2: people are concerned, people are actually going in and tweaking
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Speaker 2: even the image of these bloggers, changing it a little bit,
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Speaker 2: making it appear very similar similar to the original blog,
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Speaker 2: but then putting up false information on there as far
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Speaker 2: as recipes are concerned, and it's creating problems in the
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Speaker 2: food industry, or as far as these influencers or whatever
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Speaker 2: in terms of their customers coming to them, because if
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Speaker 2: it appears as though that it's their blog or their
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Speaker 2: web page and somebody goes there and does a download
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Speaker 2: of a recipe that is a disaster, then their business
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Speaker 2: takes a hit and they don't the people that get
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Speaker 2: burned by that don't understand that they went to the
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Speaker 2: wrong website, and so then all of a sudden they
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Speaker 2: distrust the original blogger, who really had nothing to do
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Speaker 2: with the false identity. So this is something that's going on,
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Speaker 2: and we'll talk a little bit about that coming up,
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Speaker 2: because it's gotten pretty crazy. Bloggers are warning some home
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Speaker 2: cooks to be wary of era AI generated recipes and
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Speaker 2: to verify the sources of the content they find online,
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Speaker 2: as the rise of AI generated content threatens livelihood of
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Speaker 2: food bloggers and the quality of online rest peak content.
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Speaker 2: You don't want to go to one of these false
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Speaker 2: because what AI does is they go out and they
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Speaker 2: pick up bits and pieces, sometimes from different recipes and
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Speaker 2: throw those in. AI isn't trained to know that, well,
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Speaker 2: this particular ingredient acts differently with this other ingredient here,
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Speaker 2: and you have to change the measurement if you're using
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Speaker 2: that instead of this other. And so if you're going
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Speaker 2: on based on the basic overall recipe, it can be
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Speaker 2: a disaster and the food can taste completely different because
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Speaker 2: you're not following the actual original recipe. Phone numbers five
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian
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Speaker 2: Thomas fifty five K see the talk station five twenty
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Speaker 2: nine in the morning, Kevin go an in for Brian
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Speaker 2: Thomas fifty five KRC the Talk station. I'm finishing up
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Speaker 2: on this particular story here that we ended the previous
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Speaker 2: segment with, is that a lot of these recipes talking
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Speaker 2: about this AI the title AI slop recipes are taking
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Speaker 2: over the Internet. And the sad thing is is that
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Speaker 2: as you know, people are relying more and more on
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Speaker 2: AI generated information. When you put in H and you
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Speaker 2: want to search for something, a lot of times what
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Speaker 2: is necessary is for you to check the sources, make
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Speaker 2: sure that you're getting the accurate information, make sure that
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Speaker 2: it's from a reputable source. Just like I said, going
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Speaker 2: back to when the Internet first came about, people were
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Speaker 2: relying way too much on the Internet. They felt that, well,
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Speaker 2: if it's on the Internet, it's got to be true.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we saw how that worked out years ago.
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Speaker 2: But when we're seeing this AI and AI even it's
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Speaker 2: been around for a number of years, we're just seeing
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Speaker 2: more of it now because AI his technology has been
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Speaker 2: there gosh decades even, and so although it's becoming more
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Speaker 2: and more prominent, to a large extent, it's still in
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Speaker 2: its infancy because as you develop, as it grows, it
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Speaker 2: will be tweaked and it will get better, but at
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Speaker 2: least on the outset. The whole thing about you know,
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Speaker 2: when you're talking about computer programming, when you're talking about
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Speaker 2: the information that is derived from that, is the same
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Speaker 2: old thing of garbage in, garbage out. So if the
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Speaker 2: people that are putting these algorithms into this AI, if
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Speaker 2: it's not accurate and if it's not correct, you're going
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Speaker 2: to have a far different outcome. And so it's very
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Speaker 2: much necessary to be leary of what is going on
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Speaker 2: out there in terms of what you find, and especially
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Speaker 2: you know, I didn't even think well, I thought that
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Speaker 2: this was possibly a problem, but some of these bloggers
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Speaker 2: are saying that even the pictures they look at, some
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Speaker 2: of these pictures that accompany some of these false blogs
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Speaker 2: or these fake blogs, they can pick out right away
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Speaker 2: that whatever is there isn't like what the product is
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Speaker 2: supposed to look like. And so it's been creating some
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Speaker 2: problems for them as far as traffic into their website.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, let's get to the phones here real quick.
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Speaker 2: We've got Susie I believe Sudie fifty five, Caro, see
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Speaker 2: how are you this morning?
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Speaker 3: I'm just Peter kan jelly bean, how about.
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Speaker 2: Your sell I am doing just fine. I'm behind the
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Speaker 2: microphone and it doesn't get any better than that for me.
21:43
Speaker 3: Well, I am behind the wheel if it wasn't raining
21:49
Speaker 3: and everyone driving crazy.
21:53
Speaker 2: Where you at right.
21:56
Speaker 3: South seventy five passing Glendlle Milton. Oh okay, it's starting
22:01
Speaker 3: to rain. The winners picked up that six am thing?
22:05
Speaker 3: Is you're you know it's already here.
22:08
Speaker 2: Okay, So how are you doing this morning?
22:12
Speaker 3: Well, I'm on the way to pick up my first passenger,
22:14
Speaker 3: so that's a good thing.
22:15
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
22:17
Speaker 3: But I drive exactly the same way you do. I
22:20
Speaker 3: am constantly checking my mirrors. I am constantly looking around me.
22:26
Speaker 3: I memorize the types of cars, how fast are going
22:31
Speaker 3: because I can't tell you how many times I've had
22:33
Speaker 3: to make a split second decision and swerve in order
22:37
Speaker 3: to not get hit by some idiot he doesn't know
22:40
Speaker 3: how to drive or got his license from either. Gab
22:43
Speaker 3: and do some more a cracker jack box.
22:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. Exactly are you seeing it with
22:49
Speaker 2: passenger vehicles or more with trucks or what?
22:51
Speaker 4: Do you?
22:52
Speaker 2: Where are you seeing most of the I'm seeing it
22:54
Speaker 2: mostly with the passenger vehicles that people just and the
22:58
Speaker 2: way people drive, it almost seems like they think the
23:00
Speaker 2: repair bills, you can replace a front end of your
23:03
Speaker 2: car for twenty five bucks.
23:05
Speaker 3: You know, well they got their their are connections in
23:08
Speaker 3: the tap shop, so why not?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, But no, it's it's both.
23:15
Speaker 3: I have nearly been sandwiched between two semis before because
23:22
Speaker 3: when Semi decided he didn't want to exit off of
23:26
Speaker 3: one twenty nine and decided to move right back into
23:30
Speaker 3: the lane that I was now occupying, had a slam
23:34
Speaker 3: on my brakes. Thank god I was in a smaller
23:37
Speaker 3: vehicle than the suv I own now, because the back
23:40
Speaker 3: end of his trailer was over the top of my hood.
23:43
Speaker 3: That was how closed I came to being sandwiched.
23:46
Speaker 2: Wow, that is that is right, way too crazy. And yeah,
23:51
Speaker 2: we're seeing in the trucking industry a lot of these
23:55
Speaker 2: people that are going to these well it's it's almost
23:59
Speaker 2: where it's almost a fake driving school where they're not
24:02
Speaker 2: actually certifying these people as far as on the road
24:06
Speaker 2: as well as even making sure that they are English
24:09
Speaker 2: language proficiency and they're able to get these licenses. And
24:14
Speaker 2: there's been a crackdown on that. But believe it or not,
24:18
Speaker 2: there are courts that are actually fighting this because they
24:21
Speaker 2: think it's unfair to a certain segment of the community. Well,
24:25
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, if you're driving on the highway and you're
24:28
Speaker 2: trying to go from exit to exit or traveling, and
24:31
Speaker 2: especially if you're driving an eighty thousand pound vehicle, you
24:36
Speaker 2: ought to be able to understand road signs, traffic signals
24:41
Speaker 2: where you're at, and being able to read English. That
24:44
Speaker 2: would seem to me to be one of the basic
24:46
Speaker 2: qualifications and skills you should have.
24:50
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely agree with that. But they're also right in
24:54
Speaker 3: the fact that it is unfair. It's unfair to the
24:56
Speaker 3: people who actually know English, follow the laws, read the
24:59
Speaker 3: sign and.
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Speaker 6: Do what they're supposed to do.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely well, Susy, I want you to be safe out there. Okay,
25:05
Speaker 2: have a great holiday. You got big plans for Thanksgiving.
25:09
Speaker 3: I am actually catering one of my regular passengers family
25:13
Speaker 3: dinner for them.
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Speaker 2: Oh how cool.
25:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never actually quote unquote catered. I've always just
25:21
Speaker 3: cooked for people. But he's like, yeah, we don't want
25:25
Speaker 3: to do it, so will you?
25:27
Speaker 2: Yeah? How many people?
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Speaker 7: About fifteen?
25:32
Speaker 4: Oh?
25:32
Speaker 2: Wow? Wow, that is not a small That is not
25:35
Speaker 2: a small feast.
25:37
Speaker 3: Well, it's not the smallest I've ever done.
25:39
Speaker 4: I used to.
25:41
Speaker 3: I used to do the Thanksgiving dinner for the homeworks
25:46
Speaker 3: at my old church that fish shelter them.
25:50
Speaker 4: For the holidays. For you, I did.
25:52
Speaker 3: Christmas dinner for them, but that was twenty years ago.
25:56
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Well, best of luck, the best of luck
26:00
Speaker 2: to you. Hope everything turns out well. And be safe
26:02
Speaker 2: out there, will you? You too?
26:05
Speaker 6: Happy Thanksgiving?
26:06
Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving? Soothing phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See
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Speaker 2: talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven four nine, fifty,
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Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound
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Speaker 2: five point fifty on that AT and T wireless phone.
26:56
Speaker 2: By the way, every time I come in here. I
27:01
Speaker 2: generally not generally, I always try to post on Facebook
27:05
Speaker 2: as to the lineup, and if you went to my
27:07
Speaker 2: Facebook page you will see who I've got scheduled for today.
27:11
Speaker 2: Right now, the only person I've got scheduled is a
27:14
Speaker 2: fellow by the name of Guy Harper. He is the
27:16
Speaker 2: owner of Patriot Shop. Now. I ran into Guy. I
27:20
Speaker 2: met him way back, well not way back, but back
27:23
Speaker 2: in August. Remember two weeks after that violent attack in
27:29
Speaker 2: Cincinnati where that one woman was knocked out and the
27:33
Speaker 2: street violence was getting out of control. They had the
27:36
Speaker 2: town hall meeting there. Jim and Jack's over there on
27:40
Speaker 2: the west side, and Corey Bowman, the vek warm Ramaswami,
27:46
Speaker 2: they were both there and I met this gentleman there
27:50
Speaker 2: and during the process of the Q and A, he
27:54
Speaker 2: actually spoke up and had some very poignant comments to make,
27:59
Speaker 2: and it was interesting, so typical of when you go
28:04
Speaker 2: to events and then you read what the newspeople cover.
28:09
Speaker 2: As far as that event is concerned, it is completely different.
28:13
Speaker 2: And so I told him that the next time I
28:16
Speaker 2: was on, I was going to have him on and
28:18
Speaker 2: we talk about because of basically his business traveling around
28:22
Speaker 2: to do these different shows and selling Trump merchandise and
28:27
Speaker 2: so on. He is seeing a lot of what's going
28:29
Speaker 2: on at the grassroots level, and I wanted to get
28:31
Speaker 2: his feedback. Plus some of his comments that were etched
28:34
Speaker 2: from or deleted, I guess from the news story. And
28:40
Speaker 2: I've spoken about this numerous times that back in twenty
28:45
Speaker 2: ten twenty, throughout pretty much of the teens, as far
28:49
Speaker 2: as political stuff going on in northern Kentucky, a group
28:55
Speaker 2: of us were very active going to fiscal court meetings,
28:59
Speaker 2: county commissioner meetings, different city council meetings, just to kind
29:04
Speaker 2: of pay attention to what's going on, trying to hold
29:07
Speaker 2: their feet to the fire in terms of tax increases.
29:10
Speaker 2: Back during that period of time, of course, there was
29:12
Speaker 2: the attempt to toll the Brent Spence Bridge and all that, which,
29:17
Speaker 2: by the way, that was such an emergency situation that
29:23
Speaker 2: it had to be built right here right now, back
29:26
Speaker 2: in twenty what thirteen, twenty twelve, and we still don't
29:31
Speaker 2: have that first shovel turned over in order to build
29:36
Speaker 2: that companion bridge down there. So again, but off the
29:40
Speaker 2: subject there, but when I would attend these meetings, I
29:44
Speaker 2: would go to them and I'd come home and I'd
29:46
Speaker 2: tell my wife A said, boy, that was a pretty
29:47
Speaker 2: good meeting. This guy had this to say, this guy
29:50
Speaker 2: had that to say. And then when it got time
29:53
Speaker 2: for the nightly news or the newspaper report the following morning,
29:58
Speaker 2: she would say, and it was became a joke with us.
30:00
Speaker 2: She goes, did you really go to that meeting last night?
30:04
Speaker 2: Were you out doing something else? Because the report of
30:07
Speaker 2: this meeting, as far as what was said versus what
30:10
Speaker 2: you said was said, is completely different. And what it
30:14
Speaker 2: is is that I found at a lot of these meetings,
30:17
Speaker 2: you know, you could have somebody in the in the
30:19
Speaker 2: audience that makes a brilliant point about what they're they're doing,
30:24
Speaker 2: what they're not doing, et cetera, And as soon as
30:27
Speaker 2: the meeting's over, the reporters make a bee line not
30:30
Speaker 2: to the person that had the comment, not to the
30:33
Speaker 2: person that raised the question. They go to the commissioners
30:37
Speaker 2: or the mayor or somebody like that to get their
30:40
Speaker 2: take on it. I guess it's a way of them
30:43
Speaker 2: protecting quote their sources so they don't have to work
30:46
Speaker 2: very hard. So if they're fed this information from these people,
30:50
Speaker 2: then they've got a story. They don't have to do
30:52
Speaker 2: much work or do much digging. And that's why years
30:56
Speaker 2: ago I started referring I've been referring to them for
30:59
Speaker 2: a long time, about thirty years now, the spoon fed
31:02
Speaker 2: regurgitators in the mainstream media because there's very little reporting,
31:06
Speaker 2: actual reporting, digging into the details and finding out what's
31:10
Speaker 2: really going on as far as the story is concerned.
31:12
Speaker 2: And basically what they are done is they are fed
31:15
Speaker 2: this information and then they regurgitate it to us and
31:20
Speaker 2: so that we get what they want us to hear
31:23
Speaker 2: as opposed to what the accuracy is. So anyway, he'll
31:27
Speaker 2: be on at the seven o'clock hour. Uh So, got
31:30
Speaker 2: that coming up, and I want to talk a little
31:32
Speaker 2: bit more about this. AI slop recipes phone numbers five
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Speaker 2: to one, three, seven, four nine fifty, five hundred one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one, eight hundred eighty
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Speaker 2: two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: fifty five KRS de talk station five fifty one in
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Speaker 2: the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five
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Speaker 2: KRC the talk station phone numb where is this coming
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Speaker 2: from my voice anyway? Five one three, seven, four nine
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Speaker 2: fifty eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred
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Speaker 2: eight two three eight two five five pound, five point
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Speaker 2: fifty AT and T wireless phone if you want to
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Speaker 2: get on board now, kind of finishing up this story
32:34
Speaker 2: as far as AI generated recipes again, if you're relying
32:39
Speaker 2: on that for tomorrow. If you're planning on some recipes,
32:42
Speaker 2: make sure you go to the source. Make sure you
32:45
Speaker 2: go directly to the website, the influencer, the chef, or
32:52
Speaker 2: whoever you follow, whether it's you know, well, whatever website
32:56
Speaker 2: you go to, normally, make sure that you're getting the
32:59
Speaker 2: accurate recipe. Like I said, I can remember back when
33:03
Speaker 2: the internet first came about. You know, you used to
33:06
Speaker 2: depend on your mom or your grandmother to pass down
33:09
Speaker 2: recipes to the family and then you would tweak it
33:12
Speaker 2: from there. But people kind of got away a little
33:14
Speaker 2: bit from cooking or sharing. I can't tell you the
33:18
Speaker 2: number of people I've talked to who they said, well,
33:21
Speaker 2: my mom never let us in the kitchen. Now my mom,
33:25
Speaker 2: you know she would get well, you know, she was
33:27
Speaker 2: cooking for five of us, the five boys, and then
33:30
Speaker 2: my dad. So there was seven of us in the family,
33:33
Speaker 2: and then for Thanksgiving, we generally had my grandparents over
33:36
Speaker 2: and a couple of other people. So generally we were
33:40
Speaker 2: having a dinner for about twelve, sometimes as many of
33:43
Speaker 2: fifteen people, and to try to get that ready, it's
33:46
Speaker 2: kind of stressful. So I started helping my mom in
33:48
Speaker 2: the kitchen. Picked up a lot of information that way.
33:52
Speaker 2: But I'm surprised how many people will say, my mom
33:55
Speaker 2: never let me in the kitchen, so I don't know
33:57
Speaker 2: any of her recipes. She didn't write anything down, so
34:01
Speaker 2: I don't have that. You know, if you do something,
34:03
Speaker 2: if you are cooking, if you are preparing recipes and
34:07
Speaker 2: you family enjoys them, write them down so you can
34:10
Speaker 2: pass them through. It's kind of a bit of a legacy,
34:13
Speaker 2: if you will, so that people can remember those times.
34:17
Speaker 2: I've got a recipe that my mom gave me for
34:20
Speaker 2: as I said, this cranberry salad and stuff and being
34:24
Speaker 2: and using this over the last thirty four years. It's
34:27
Speaker 2: showing its age. You can see some of the splatters
34:31
Speaker 2: on it. You see some of the spots and stuff,
34:33
Speaker 2: and it's aging. It's aging. Well, you can still read it.
34:36
Speaker 2: But when I look at that I think in terms
34:38
Speaker 2: of back to the time when I first tried that
34:41
Speaker 2: recipe for the first time on my own, how great
34:45
Speaker 2: it was, and what the experience was. And so by
34:48
Speaker 2: having these notes, by having these recipes and then updating them,
34:53
Speaker 2: making sure that you make notes as far as what
34:55
Speaker 2: went wrong, what didn't, what went right, and some ways
34:59
Speaker 2: of pairing it or maybe the timetable shifting so on
35:04
Speaker 2: that way, you look back on that and it brings
35:07
Speaker 2: back a flood of memories in terms of, you know,
35:10
Speaker 2: a Thanksgiving of you know, two thousand and eight Thanksgiving
35:15
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen or something like that, because you see the
35:18
Speaker 2: individual notes there and it's kind of a bit of
35:20
Speaker 2: a time capsule. So again with this story, the title
35:25
Speaker 2: of this story was AI slop recipes are taking over
35:29
Speaker 2: the Internet. Make sure you go to the right websites.
35:32
Speaker 2: Even if the picture online looks right, make sure you
35:36
Speaker 2: put in the right URL and go to that because
35:39
Speaker 2: as I said, as Dave Hatter has pointed out, some
35:44
Speaker 2: of these hackers and when they go in here, they
35:47
Speaker 2: will actually change just one of the digits or one
35:50
Speaker 2: of the characters within that website and it takes you
35:54
Speaker 2: to a completely different website, So be aware and be cautious,
35:58
Speaker 2: because again you don't want your things Thanksgiving ruin by
36:01
Speaker 2: a crappy recipe. Uh So, coming up top of the arm,
36:05
Speaker 2: we'll get into a little bit of more mischief here.
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Speaker 2: Uh Phone numbers five one three, seven one, eight hundred
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Speaker 2: eight two three talk one eight hundred eight two three
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Speaker 2: eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT and
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Speaker 2: five KRC The Talk Station.
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Speaker 1: And now Kevin Gordon filling in for Brian Thomas on
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Speaker 1: fifty five KRS the Talk Station.
36:45
Speaker 2: Six o seven in the morning. Happy Thanksgiving Eve. I'm
36:51
Speaker 2: telling you what. I am so excited for this Thanksgiving holiday.
36:56
Speaker 2: As I mentioned in the previous hour, we are going
36:58
Speaker 2: to have Thanksgiving at our house for the first time
37:01
Speaker 2: and probably gosh, I think even pre pandemic because our
37:06
Speaker 2: son has been out of town and they have been wanting.
37:10
Speaker 2: He's a chef, so obviously he knows a lot about food,
37:14
Speaker 2: and it's very good. I'll tell you what. I'm a
37:16
Speaker 2: little sidetracked there. I've teased about the fact that there
37:20
Speaker 2: are certain foods that I have never ever wanted to eat.
37:23
Speaker 2: I mean for some reason that I just don't like
37:25
Speaker 2: the look of him. I don't like the taste of them.
37:28
Speaker 2: But Brussels sprouts has never been a favorite of mine.
37:32
Speaker 2: But he has a way of preparing those that is
37:35
Speaker 2: just absolutely excellent, to the point where I've said that
37:40
Speaker 2: he can put anything in front of me and I'll
37:42
Speaker 2: eat it, which is probably a bad thing if he
37:45
Speaker 2: didn't like me, or if somebody's trying to poison me,
37:48
Speaker 2: that would be a problem, because obviously you know i'd
37:51
Speaker 2: eat it. But I'm teasing. But sort of the last
37:55
Speaker 2: several years he has been cooking Thanksgiving, and so we
37:58
Speaker 2: have been going up there, been bringing some stuff and
38:01
Speaker 2: so on. But this year his daughter, who is still
38:05
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati. They moved up to the northern northwestern part
38:09
Speaker 2: of the state a couple of years ago, and so
38:12
Speaker 2: she is still down here, but she has to go
38:14
Speaker 2: to work at three o'clock on Thanksgiving afternoons, so she
38:18
Speaker 2: can't go up there for Thanksgiving. So we're just gonna
38:20
Speaker 2: go ahead and have it here. There'll be about ten
38:22
Speaker 2: people there at the Thanksgiving. And I mentioned how kind
38:25
Speaker 2: of interesting it is to get back in the saddle
38:29
Speaker 2: again trying to coordinate and going back through the notes
38:33
Speaker 2: in terms of when the prepper, you know, when you
38:36
Speaker 2: start prepping things, because it is a process. If you know,
38:40
Speaker 2: this is not something you just slop together one day.
38:43
Speaker 2: There are certain things that you have to bake, certain desserts,
38:46
Speaker 2: certain things, certain parts of the recipe that you start. Well,
38:50
Speaker 2: in my case, there's certain things that we start on
38:52
Speaker 2: Sunday and to make sure that they're available for Thursday.
38:56
Speaker 2: And so all that process and get the timing down
39:01
Speaker 2: and whatnot has been interesting. And of course going out
39:05
Speaker 2: and buying the groceries. Now that's one of the things
39:08
Speaker 2: I kind of want to talk about this hour. I've
39:10
Speaker 2: been here and we keep hearing a lot about food inflation.
39:14
Speaker 2: We've been hearing a lot about inflation overall, and the
39:18
Speaker 2: thing that is irritating me about these reports is that
39:23
Speaker 2: they don't dig into what is actually causing the inflation.
39:28
Speaker 2: It's one of those things. When Liberation Day happened back
39:31
Speaker 2: in April the second, when the tariffs were put into place,
39:35
Speaker 2: where the announcement of the tariffs were put in place, which,
39:37
Speaker 2: by the way, if you're talking about fair trade, if
39:42
Speaker 2: a country is charging massive amounts of tariffs on your
39:46
Speaker 2: goods going into that country, and you are charging very
39:50
Speaker 2: little on their goods coming into your country, you are
39:54
Speaker 2: at a competitive disadvantage. Their products coming in here in
39:58
Speaker 2: some cases are cheaper because the manufacturing process is less
40:03
Speaker 2: over there. Some of the stuff is government subsidized, especially
40:06
Speaker 2: when we're talking about China, we're talking about slave wages.
40:10
Speaker 2: I've talked about how the wages over in China are
40:13
Speaker 2: between five dollars and seven dollars an hour. There are
40:17
Speaker 2: no fringe benefits, there's no vacation time, there's no workers' compensation,
40:21
Speaker 2: unemployment insurance, or any of that. So their hourly wages
40:26
Speaker 2: are five to seven dollars. Here in the United States,
40:29
Speaker 2: that average hourly wages somewhere around north of thirty seven
40:34
Speaker 2: dollars and fifty cents. So, right off the bat, in
40:37
Speaker 2: terms of labor, with the same raw materials, the same manufacturing,
40:41
Speaker 2: the same energy process, you're going to have a product
40:45
Speaker 2: that's a little bit more expensive. So if we're trying
40:47
Speaker 2: to sell goods into Europe and they're subsidizing their countries,
40:51
Speaker 2: when was the last time you saw a story over
40:54
Speaker 2: in Japan where there was a Ford f one fifty
40:58
Speaker 2: or an American car. We've got plenty of Toyotas, Nissans, etc. Here,
41:02
Speaker 2: We've got plenty of Audi's, We've got plenty of Volkswagens.
41:05
Speaker 2: We've got plenty of BMW's and Mercedes in this country.
41:09
Speaker 2: But you don't see many American cars in Europe. So again,
41:14
Speaker 2: unfair advantage and so trying to level that playing field
41:18
Speaker 2: as a negotiating term, to try to bring their tariffs
41:21
Speaker 2: down to make things more competitive. That's what Liberation Day
41:25
Speaker 2: was all about. Now we have heard people say that
41:27
Speaker 2: in the Federal Reserve saying that tariffs are going to
41:30
Speaker 2: lead to inflation, and that there's going to be rampant inflation.
41:33
Speaker 2: It could possibly cause a recession. This was the talk
41:36
Speaker 2: back in April, and then May came around, June came around, August, July,
41:41
Speaker 2: August and so on, and they kept saying, well, we're
41:43
Speaker 2: not seeing inflation yet, but it's just around the corner.
41:45
Speaker 2: Well it hasn't been around the corner. And as a
41:48
Speaker 2: lot of experts say Phil Flynn, who I talked to
41:51
Speaker 2: on a regular basis, he is the senior advisor with
41:56
Speaker 2: a group called Price Futures Group. We've got Kevin o'lear,
42:00
Speaker 2: the one of the people on Shark Tank. We've got
42:04
Speaker 2: what's his name, Charles Payne from Fox Business Network, and
42:09
Speaker 2: Lou Dobbs and a couple of other people. But you
42:13
Speaker 2: go through the list of people that say that tariffs
42:17
Speaker 2: in and of themselves don't lead to inflation, I'm in
42:20
Speaker 2: that camp. Tariffs don't necessarily lead to inflation. What really
42:24
Speaker 2: does lead to inflation is overspending by the federal government,
42:29
Speaker 2: subsidies putting out putting out those the checks, the pandemic
42:37
Speaker 2: checks that came out that even the last round of those,
42:41
Speaker 2: people were saying they were unnecessary to put out there,
42:44
Speaker 2: that it would lead to inflation, and sure as hell,
42:47
Speaker 2: it did lead to inflation, nine point one percent inflation
42:51
Speaker 2: in the month of June of twenty twenty two. Now,
42:55
Speaker 2: when you've got government spending and you have subsidies going
42:59
Speaker 2: out there, that is what is going to raise prices.
43:02
Speaker 2: We saw that when the government put in these credits
43:05
Speaker 2: for the evs, they were saying that you could take
43:08
Speaker 2: a tax credit of seven thousand dollars. Miraculously, the cost
43:13
Speaker 2: of these evs across the board pretty much went up
43:17
Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars. So without doing the tax credit, that
43:22
Speaker 2: car would have been seven thousand dollars cheaper. But because
43:25
Speaker 2: they realized that people were going to get this tax credit,
43:28
Speaker 2: which they could deduct from their taxes, owed, they figured, well, shoot,
43:32
Speaker 2: we'll just bump up the price of these cars. And
43:34
Speaker 2: so they got an extra boost there, an extra profit
43:37
Speaker 2: as far as that was concerned. And so when you
43:41
Speaker 2: have these subsidies, these are the things that lead to inflation.
43:44
Speaker 2: When you have out of control of fiscal spending and
43:47
Speaker 2: wasteful spending as far as the government, that leads to inflation.
43:51
Speaker 2: Not necessarily tariffs tariffs. What they'll do is they'll raise
43:55
Speaker 2: prices on certain goods but lower prices on others, so
43:58
Speaker 2: that across the board the inflation is relatively even. And
44:01
Speaker 2: so that was some of the discussion back then. Now
44:06
Speaker 2: what we're seeing as far as some of the inflation
44:08
Speaker 2: going on, people are talking about, oh, it's teriffs, it's
44:12
Speaker 2: terriff related. Well, go back to the pandemic. Back when
44:16
Speaker 2: everything was shut down. The manufacturers were closed down, restaurants
44:20
Speaker 2: were closed, nobody was doing anything. Once those businesses opened
44:24
Speaker 2: back up, what happened We started having supply chain issues
44:28
Speaker 2: and some companies because they weren't prepared for the amount
44:31
Speaker 2: of customers that they were having. They didn't buy enough,
44:35
Speaker 2: and so they didn't have enough on hand to be
44:38
Speaker 2: able to sell. And so when customers would complain that, well,
44:42
Speaker 2: you know, I can't find anything I you know, certain
44:45
Speaker 2: items on the menu aren't available, sold out, and so on,
44:49
Speaker 2: they blamed it on supply chain issues, when in fact
44:52
Speaker 2: it was they're not ordering properly. So you saw some
44:56
Speaker 2: of these excuses. We had problems with people coming back
45:00
Speaker 2: into the workforce because of these COVID relief checks that
45:03
Speaker 2: were going out, and people were looking at that and saying, well,
45:06
Speaker 2: I'm still collecting state unemployment. I'm getting these government checks
45:10
Speaker 2: and when I add that all up, it's more than
45:13
Speaker 2: what I would be making going back to work. So
45:15
Speaker 2: a lot of people stayed out of the labor force,
45:18
Speaker 2: and the labor participation rate came down, and then of
45:21
Speaker 2: course the company's trying to gear back up to take
45:24
Speaker 2: care of the customers coming back in. They had a
45:27
Speaker 2: tough time dealing with the lack of having the available
45:31
Speaker 2: employees to take care of the business that they needed.
45:34
Speaker 2: So as an excuse, they talked about supply chain issues
45:38
Speaker 2: with this inflation. We're seeing people blaming it on teriffs.
45:41
Speaker 2: They're blaming it on as far as you know, well,
45:45
Speaker 2: basically tariffs is what they're blaming it on. But when
45:47
Speaker 2: you dig into the numbers, some of the things just
45:50
Speaker 2: don't pan out. We'll talk about that coming up. Phone
45:53
Speaker 2: numbers five one, three seven form and by the way,
45:55
Speaker 2: I want your impression. I want your ideas in terms
45:58
Speaker 2: of this Thanksgiving season if you're seeing a large increase
46:02
Speaker 2: in what you're spending as far as your Thanksgiving meal
46:05
Speaker 2: versus what you've seen in the years past. Phone numbers
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Speaker 2: five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eighty
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Speaker 2: two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: fifty five kr s DE talk station six twenty one
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Speaker 2: in the morning Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty
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Speaker 2: five KRC the talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 2: fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk
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Speaker 2: one eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound,
46:48
Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Yeah, you're
46:51
Speaker 2: probably a little bit of thunder struck out there this morning,
46:56
Speaker 2: especially if you listen to the spoon fed regurgitators in
46:59
Speaker 2: the main stream media talking about the economy. Now, taking
47:03
Speaker 2: the consideration the fact that going back to twenty fifteen,
47:06
Speaker 2: when Donald Trump first came down the escalator, from that
47:11
Speaker 2: point on, ninety four percent thereabouts of the coverage of
47:15
Speaker 2: him has been negative during his presidency, the first presidency
47:22
Speaker 2: ninety some percent negative coverage, going into this presidency, ninety
47:27
Speaker 2: some percent, ninety four ish percentage negative coverage. As far
47:32
Speaker 2: as tariffs, as far as the economy, as far as
47:35
Speaker 2: everything that this man does, there's always this ninety four
47:39
Speaker 2: percent or thereabouts talking down. I talked about, and I've
47:43
Speaker 2: talked about several times, the fact that looking at the
47:47
Speaker 2: way the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media reacted
47:51
Speaker 2: since January, talking about prices, talking about the economy, talking
47:57
Speaker 2: about they were trying to talk down the economy, and
48:01
Speaker 2: and in my opinion, they are trying or we're trying
48:04
Speaker 2: to manufacture a recession. But the resilience of the American public,
48:09
Speaker 2: the resilience of the of the people, the fact that
48:12
Speaker 2: we go to work every day, we keep our nose
48:14
Speaker 2: to the grindstone, we do the things that we're supposed
48:17
Speaker 2: to do. Has been keeping this economy flowing. They keep
48:20
Speaker 2: talking about, well, retail sales are going to go down,
48:23
Speaker 2: and there I can't tell you the number of times
48:26
Speaker 2: that I've done the radio program for America's Trucking Network
48:30
Speaker 2: and talked about certain economic things where the sentence is
48:34
Speaker 2: or the headline is, consumer price index comes in lower
48:40
Speaker 2: than expected, retail sales higher than expected, job creation higher
48:46
Speaker 2: than expected, unemployment numbers lower than anticipated. And we keep
48:51
Speaker 2: seeing and every time there is a situation where maybe
48:55
Speaker 2: the unemployment numbers for the week go up a little bit,
49:00
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the sky is falling. And obviously
49:03
Speaker 2: this is a sign that we're heading towards a recession
49:06
Speaker 2: or a downturn in the economy. What we're seeing as
49:10
Speaker 2: far as the labor force right now, we are seeing
49:14
Speaker 2: a no higher, no fire situation. We've got a situation
49:18
Speaker 2: as far as the economy is concerned, because of high
49:22
Speaker 2: interest rates. And I will stress that high interest rates
49:26
Speaker 2: the fact that people businesses are not expanding, People are
49:31
Speaker 2: not going out and buying that new piece of equipment
49:33
Speaker 2: for their factory or for their business. They're not building
49:36
Speaker 2: onto their business. They're not making a physical addition. People
49:41
Speaker 2: in the trucking industry are not going out and buying
49:43
Speaker 2: new trucks because again they're not sure in terms of
49:47
Speaker 2: how the economy is going or is more than anything else,
49:52
Speaker 2: they are. They know where the economy is going, they
49:56
Speaker 2: know that their businesses is strong, but in order to
49:59
Speaker 2: go out and that piece of equipment, it's going to
50:02
Speaker 2: cost them money. And then when you look at the
50:04
Speaker 2: interest rate on top of that, that makes your return
50:07
Speaker 2: on investment not so great. And the fact that we
50:12
Speaker 2: have all this, you know, the higher interest rates. If
50:15
Speaker 2: you look at the interest rate on that overnight fed
50:18
Speaker 2: charge that they talk about, which is what the Federal
50:21
Speaker 2: Reserve does as far as their interest rate, that is
50:24
Speaker 2: the amount of interest that is charged to member banks
50:29
Speaker 2: who have to borrow money from other banks in order
50:32
Speaker 2: to meet their cash obligations, either on a payday or
50:36
Speaker 2: sometime during the month. And so that's the overnight rate.
50:40
Speaker 2: But that then is reflected in terms of your credit
50:42
Speaker 2: card payment of filters into your mortgage, filters into any
50:46
Speaker 2: of the other car loans and stuff that you go
50:49
Speaker 2: out and you buy or that you incur interests, and
50:53
Speaker 2: so when those rates go up, it costs you money
50:55
Speaker 2: on a regular basis, and it adds to the value
50:59
Speaker 2: or adds to the cost of a home, cuts into
51:01
Speaker 2: the amount of home you can afford because of the
51:04
Speaker 2: high prices that you're going the interest rate that you're
51:07
Speaker 2: going to pay, and so that's holding the housing market back. Well,
51:11
Speaker 2: the single biggest thing, in my opinion, that is holding
51:14
Speaker 2: back this economy right now is the interest rates. When
51:17
Speaker 2: you're looking at a mortgage in some areas above that
51:22
Speaker 2: six percent six point five percent interest rate, that is
51:25
Speaker 2: holding down interest rates. We saw a couple of weeks
51:29
Speaker 2: ago there was an eighty one percent increase in terms
51:32
Speaker 2: of people wanting to refinance their home because locally or
51:36
Speaker 2: in areas, the interest rate went down at half a
51:40
Speaker 2: percentage point. If that much is going to happen over
51:43
Speaker 2: a half a percentage point, imagine if we had interest
51:47
Speaker 2: rates down to where they were at the end of
51:50
Speaker 2: the first Trump administration around three percent. Most mortgages at
51:55
Speaker 2: that time were below three percent two point seventy five
52:00
Speaker 2: point eighty seven. That is one of the things that's
52:02
Speaker 2: holding back people from jumping into or or maybe downsizing
52:07
Speaker 2: or buying a new home because they have a low
52:09
Speaker 2: interest rate. They don't want to give that up, which
52:12
Speaker 2: means that then people going into the marketplace, there isn't
52:15
Speaker 2: a big supply. So a lot of the things that's
52:17
Speaker 2: holding back our economy right now, in my opinion, are
52:20
Speaker 2: interest rates and when you look at the different food costs,
52:23
Speaker 2: when you look at things as far as Thanksgiving is concerned,
52:26
Speaker 2: I'm not seeing personally, and I'm curious as to what
52:30
Speaker 2: you're seeing out there in terms of what these costs
52:32
Speaker 2: are doing as far as your Thanksgiving is concerned. Phone
52:36
Speaker 2: numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred one,
52:39
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eighty
52:42
Speaker 2: two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty
52:45
Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
52:48
Speaker 2: fifty five krs the talk station, six thirty one in
53:03
Speaker 2: the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five
53:05
Speaker 2: k see the talk station. Danny Gleason my producer this morning,
53:10
Speaker 2: and I must be on some sort of a wavelength
53:12
Speaker 2: here because we didn't talk about what bumper music to
53:16
Speaker 2: use for this session or this segment here, but how
53:21
Speaker 2: appropriate talking about local headlines. Joe Burrow is going to
53:26
Speaker 2: be on the field Thanksgiving night, so you know, kind
53:29
Speaker 2: of like who are you actually, It's going to be
53:33
Speaker 2: kind of like who are the Bengals? Which Bengals is
53:35
Speaker 2: going to show up? Are they going to ever show up?
53:38
Speaker 2: In terms of their well defense has been doing pretty well,
53:41
Speaker 2: but again the coverage or the protection of the quarterback
53:46
Speaker 2: has been horrific. Anyway, Joe, who are you? Burrow is
53:50
Speaker 2: going to be as confirming that he is going to
53:52
Speaker 2: be starting Thanksgiving night versus the Ravens. He said that
53:55
Speaker 2: during the press conference. Now some other local headlines that
53:57
Speaker 2: we're covering for you this morning, cruispond to a three
54:00
Speaker 2: alarm fire in Westchester. Several emergency agencies were called to
54:04
Speaker 2: a fire at a manufacturing facility in Westchester. Fire broke
54:08
Speaker 2: around three fifteen forty two hundred block of Thunderbird Lane
54:12
Speaker 2: inside a commercial building. Westchester officials said everyone who was
54:15
Speaker 2: inside the building made it out safely and there are
54:18
Speaker 2: no threat to public stil the fire was so intense
54:20
Speaker 2: that the cruise had to battle it from the outside
54:23
Speaker 2: first to make sure that no one was injured. Talking
54:26
Speaker 2: about the facility. It has happened producing matting for car floors.
54:32
Speaker 2: Prince said, the owner of Chief Prins the fire chief.
54:36
Speaker 2: The fire is reportedly a three alarm fire, resulting in
54:39
Speaker 2: numerous departments responding to the scene. So again, floor mats.
54:45
Speaker 2: That's going to have to be some sort of a
54:47
Speaker 2: toxic problem there, But threat to the community is not there.
54:51
Speaker 2: Community rallies around help after a Northern Kentucky family loses
54:55
Speaker 2: fire loses everything to a fire. Northern Kentucky family is
54:59
Speaker 2: safe tonight after fast moving the house fire destroyed everything
55:04
Speaker 2: they own just days before the holiday season. Relatives say
55:07
Speaker 2: the caught Ill family Sycamore Drive home went up in
55:11
Speaker 2: flames around two am November sixteenth. According to Nicole hard
55:15
Speaker 2: Reader hark Hearken Reader Homes, the homeowners sister, fire may
55:20
Speaker 2: have started from faulty wiring connected to a fish tank
55:23
Speaker 2: in the middle of the home. However, a lot of
55:25
Speaker 2: the people in the community has come to the aid
55:27
Speaker 2: of this family. They were talking about some of the
55:30
Speaker 2: stuff that they've done as far as go fund me
55:32
Speaker 2: trying to get this family back on their feet. And
55:35
Speaker 2: I can't imagine a worse time well, having a fire
55:39
Speaker 2: at any time during the year is bad, but generally
55:44
Speaker 2: when you have a tragedy around a holiday season, that
55:48
Speaker 2: then obviously marks that holiday season, but every holiday season
55:53
Speaker 2: thereafter and there's always that constant reminder year after year
55:57
Speaker 2: after year of that tragedy. So again, uh, hope everybody
56:02
Speaker 2: is safe out there. Pay attention to what you're doing,
56:05
Speaker 2: making sure make sure you don't overload certain circuits, don't
56:09
Speaker 2: hook stuff up electrically. Electrically, especially when you're putting up lights,
56:14
Speaker 2: make sure that they're outdoor type of chords that you
56:18
Speaker 2: don't use inside chords for that, and be sure that
56:22
Speaker 2: you're not overloading certain circuits. You don't want to cause
56:25
Speaker 2: any fire this time of the year. So just a
56:27
Speaker 2: little bit of the warning there. Coming up. We got
56:30
Speaker 2: a little bit more in terms of I want to talk.
56:32
Speaker 2: I keep wanting to talk about this, you know, inflation
56:36
Speaker 2: that we're that we're either seeing or not seeing phone
56:39
Speaker 2: numbers five one, three, seven four nine, fifty five hundred one,
56:42
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight seven four phone numbers
56:49
Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk. Let's just go to
56:53
Speaker 2: the news six thirty nine in the morning, Kevin Mordon
57:08
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five K. See the talk
57:11
Speaker 2: station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five,
57:16
Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight
57:18
Speaker 2: hundred eight two three, eight two five five or a
57:21
Speaker 2: pound five point fifty on that AT and T wireless phone.
57:24
Speaker 2: To the phones we go, Let's talk to Bobby. Bobby,
57:27
Speaker 2: how are you.
57:28
Speaker 8: This morning, mister Gordon. It's a pleasure that it.
57:32
Speaker 2: Is a pleasure to hear your voice. Let me tell
57:35
Speaker 2: you that. Yeah, yeah, how are you.
57:39
Speaker 8: I'm doing well, my friend.
57:40
Speaker 2: It's been a while.
57:42
Speaker 8: It's been a while, but I want to congratulate you
57:45
Speaker 8: because we discussed conspiracy theories in the last few years
57:50
Speaker 8: and they've all come to pass. I didn't know if
57:52
Speaker 8: you had your crystal ball out.
57:54
Speaker 2: Today you're not well. Yes, we do. You know when
57:57
Speaker 2: you you know, as we've discussed in the past, it's
58:01
Speaker 2: a matter of kind of seeing things from history, seeing
58:06
Speaker 2: things the way they develop, and a good dose of
58:10
Speaker 2: common sense. So you know, when you're thinking in terms
58:14
Speaker 2: of something you know, we used to talk and being
58:17
Speaker 2: a recovering accountant, you're talking in terms of stuff not
58:20
Speaker 2: passing the smell test, and when something doesn't pass the
58:24
Speaker 2: smell test. You know, certain people will tell you it's
58:27
Speaker 2: a conspiracy theory, when in fact it is Actually you're
58:30
Speaker 2: the one that's right. So yeah, it's interesting.
58:35
Speaker 8: It's a lot of times they don't they it's not
58:38
Speaker 8: what they tell you, it's not what they say exactly exactly.
58:42
Speaker 8: They hide everything. It's no different than what came out
58:45
Speaker 8: here a couple of weeks ago on the January fifth
58:49
Speaker 8: d NC bomber. And they identified the individual. And I
58:53
Speaker 8: don't want to save the name or anything like that,
58:56
Speaker 8: but I mean they've rubbled some feathers. You know, the
59:01
Speaker 8: security detail for Kamala Harris was involved, the Capitol Police
59:06
Speaker 8: was involved, and they're scared to talk about it.
59:10
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. And the thing that irritates me the
59:13
Speaker 2: most about a lot of these things in terms of
59:16
Speaker 2: what we're not hearing, the things that you know are
59:19
Speaker 2: not said, is that they treat us like we're children
59:22
Speaker 2: for crying out loud. We are adults. Does anybody believe
59:27
Speaker 2: that we still do we know exactly what happened with JFK,
59:31
Speaker 2: with RFK, Martin Luther King Junior? Are we ever going
59:36
Speaker 2: to know anything completely about what happened in Butler Pennsylvania.
59:40
Speaker 2: What happened with Charlie Kirk. Are we going to know ever? Well,
59:44
Speaker 2: we're starting to see a lot of the details as
59:46
Speaker 2: far as the pandemic is concerned, a lot of the
59:49
Speaker 2: lies and the stuff that we're done during that. But
59:53
Speaker 2: you know the problem with conspiracy theories in the past
59:56
Speaker 2: is I always fought the temptation to go down that path, Bob,
1:00:00
Speaker 2: because when you look at the stuff and you say,
1:00:03
Speaker 2: gee whiz, the only way two people can keep a
1:00:06
Speaker 2: secret if if one of them's dead, and the conspiracies
1:00:10
Speaker 2: would have to be so far reaching and so many
1:00:12
Speaker 2: people involved that there'd be no way that they could
1:00:14
Speaker 2: keep it quiet. But seeing what we did in the
1:00:17
Speaker 2: first Trump administration, the number of rats that came out
1:00:20
Speaker 2: of the woodwork to try to derail that. Yeah, there
1:00:25
Speaker 2: are a lot of people out there that are in
1:00:27
Speaker 2: these conspiracies.
1:00:30
Speaker 8: Well, I appreciate what you do, my friend. You you're
1:00:34
Speaker 8: the voice of the common man. Yeah, it's like across
1:00:38
Speaker 8: from the oak table with the kitchen. You know what
1:00:40
Speaker 8: I'm saying, that's always, that's always, that's what I like
1:00:43
Speaker 8: to hear, just the common man.
1:00:44
Speaker 2: What are your plans for Thanksgiving?
1:00:47
Speaker 8: My brother they're all great.
1:00:49
Speaker 7: No good for River.
1:00:50
Speaker 8: I've had Marin Nate and I'm gonna blow torch it
1:00:52
Speaker 8: in the morning to sear it in. Real good and
1:00:55
Speaker 8: just smoking out on the grill.
1:00:57
Speaker 2: Excellent. Well, be safe, okay, take care of you. I
1:01:00
Speaker 2: appreciate it, alrighty, take care, thank you. It just I
1:01:04
Speaker 2: love talking to him. I always look forward to talking
1:01:07
Speaker 2: him when I fill in. Let's go to the phones
1:01:08
Speaker 2: again and let's talk to Mic real quick, Mike fifty
1:01:11
Speaker 2: five K. See how are you this morning?
1:01:14
Speaker 9: Thank Kevin.
1:01:15
Speaker 8: A couple of things actually you're talking about the price
1:01:19
Speaker 8: is not coming downs. Like one thing, people understand. We
1:01:21
Speaker 8: need to figure out how to get diesel prices down
1:01:24
Speaker 8: if you want good prices to.
1:01:25
Speaker 2: Come down, Yeah, exactly. And one of the problems with it,
1:01:28
Speaker 2: they're down like yeah.
1:01:29
Speaker 6: Gas prices, but diesel prices where they've been for the
1:01:33
Speaker 6: last two or three years.
1:01:34
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Gall As a matter of fact,
1:01:37
Speaker 2: diesel prices, uh, because I do this on a daily basis.
1:01:40
Speaker 2: Look at you know what they were last week, the
1:01:43
Speaker 2: month before, and then last year and even going back
1:01:45
Speaker 2: as far as twenty twenty. And if you look at
1:01:48
Speaker 2: the prices this time this year, they are about twenty
1:01:51
Speaker 2: five cents higher than they were this time last year,
1:01:54
Speaker 2: whereas gas prices themselves are down somewhere between two three
1:01:58
Speaker 2: four cents a gallon from what they were last year. Now,
1:02:02
Speaker 2: what we're seeing is that the problem with diesel is
1:02:05
Speaker 2: that there's a heavy grade of crude that is necessary
1:02:08
Speaker 2: for that, and here in the United States, Brent crude
1:02:12
Speaker 2: is more of a light crude that we process from
1:02:14
Speaker 2: our oil wells. And you know, the thing I've not
1:02:17
Speaker 2: been able to figure out over the years is why
1:02:20
Speaker 2: don't we have the crude oil and the refineries geared
1:02:25
Speaker 2: to what we produce. We have to import a lot
1:02:29
Speaker 2: of heavy crude from Russia, Venezuela and some of these
1:02:32
Speaker 2: other countries in order to get that in, and then
1:02:35
Speaker 2: with the additives that have to be done as far
1:02:37
Speaker 2: as diesel are concerned, especially with the war in Ukraine
1:02:41
Speaker 2: and the energy prices there Venezuela, with the nonsense going
1:02:45
Speaker 2: on down there, some of these oil embargoes or some
1:02:48
Speaker 2: of these things that are going on that has disrupted
1:02:51
Speaker 2: that diesel area significantly. So there is a problem as
1:02:56
Speaker 2: far as that's concerned. But again, overall, yeah, you're right,
1:03:01
Speaker 2: trying to get inflation down, especially when those oil prices, well,
1:03:05
Speaker 2: the oil prices themselves are down. Uh, but the processing
1:03:10
Speaker 2: of particular diesel grades is what's up. And so that
1:03:14
Speaker 2: that is a problem that has to be dealt with.
1:03:16
Speaker 2: Are you are you are you a truck driver?
1:03:19
Speaker 4: No?
1:03:19
Speaker 10: I just notice that.
1:03:21
Speaker 8: I mean gas prices are coming down, but diesel stays
1:03:23
Speaker 8: right where it stays it.
1:03:25
Speaker 9: It's like people, people wonder.
1:03:27
Speaker 8: Why your favorite there.
1:03:29
Speaker 9: You gotta have a trick to get it to the gate.
1:03:31
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. Well, thanks, Oh go ahead.
1:03:36
Speaker 7: He says that about the pandemic.
1:03:38
Speaker 4: Uh.
1:03:39
Speaker 8: Scary thing is doctor Amy's running for governor.
1:03:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that that's.
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Speaker 10: Kind of scary.
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Speaker 2: I hope some of her previous comments come out to
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Speaker 2: haunt her when the campaign gets up and running, that's
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Speaker 2: for sure. Well, Mike, I have a very safe Thanksgimming.
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Speaker 2: You got a big plans for tomorrow. Oh okay, Well thanks.
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Speaker 2: Mike certainly appreciates phone call. Coming up next. We'll be
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Speaker 2: talking with Matt after the break. Phone number seven four
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Speaker 2: nine uh five one three seven four nine fifty five
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Speaker 2: hundred one eight hundred eight two three talk one eight
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Speaker 2: hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, five
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Speaker 2: point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in
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Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See the talk station
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Speaker 2: coming up on six fifty two in the morning. Kevin
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Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR, See the
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Speaker 2: talk station. No, we won't get fooled again by any
1:04:42
Speaker 2: of these cooples, well what they call us when we
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Speaker 2: talk about what they say or conspiracy theories. We're not
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Speaker 2: going to get fooled again because we know the facts,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to talk to facts, and of course
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Speaker 2: we're going to have an opinion or two along the way.
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Speaker 2: Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, five
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Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one eight
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Speaker 2: three eight two, five five pound, fifty AT and T
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Speaker 2: wireless phone To the phones we go. Matt is on
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Speaker 2: the line. Matt fifty five, Carose, Welcome to the program,
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Speaker 2: Thanks for being there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning, Kevin. One way you can beat inflations
1:05:15
Speaker 6: go to the different retailers websites every week, find out
1:05:20
Speaker 6: what's on sale and stock up what's on sale. One
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Speaker 6: retailer had turkey for fifty nine cents pound. That's incredible.
1:05:28
Speaker 6: Another retailer had it for forty nine cents pound. You
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Speaker 6: can't beat that.
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Speaker 2: I saw one of I saw one my friend of
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Speaker 2: thirty nine cents a pound.
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Speaker 6: Excellent. Great, go go there, stock up, buy those things.
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Speaker 6: And also if they have loyalty, sign up with the
1:05:45
Speaker 6: loyalty because you'll get gas y retail cell gas. I
1:05:50
Speaker 6: have been getting a dollar off a gallon for the
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Speaker 6: last five years on all my gas. I buy gas
1:05:57
Speaker 6: once a month and I get of gas cans lined up.
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Speaker 6: I buy the Maxrommount of games. It's a ball off
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Speaker 6: a gallon. That's thirty three off of a three.
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Speaker 2: Dollars gallon exactly.
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Speaker 6: So you got to play the game. You gotta follow
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Speaker 6: the rules. That's how you beat the inflation.
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Speaker 2: Matt, are we related because you are? You are speaking mine.
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Speaker 2: You know we benefit from the area here in the
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Speaker 2: Tri state area. I mean we've got Kroger, we got Meyer,
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Speaker 2: We've got Aldie, We've got Fresh Time. Who am I
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Speaker 2: missing Remkey? Who else? Public? Public soon? And there is competition,
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Speaker 2: and you're right. You've got to go to the individual websites,
1:06:42
Speaker 2: download their digital coupons and you can look at their
1:06:48
Speaker 2: the circulars on a weekly basis. And if you notice,
1:06:51
Speaker 2: if you get used to it, you'll notice that it
1:06:54
Speaker 2: seems like certain it's like a three week cycle. If
1:06:57
Speaker 2: you see coffee, I drink Folger's Blacks. I love the coffee.
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Speaker 2: About every three weeks they reduce that down. Normally it's
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Speaker 2: like sixteen ninety nine a can. It'll go down to
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Speaker 2: nine to ninety nine a can. So you stock up
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Speaker 2: Milt the same way you and the way I do
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Speaker 2: it is that if I'm going, if I know I'm
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Speaker 2: going to be in a certain area nor south east
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Speaker 2: west where either Kroger Meyer or whoever is, if they
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Speaker 2: have the cheapest price on something, I'll make it a
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Speaker 2: point to stop by there on my way home or
1:07:29
Speaker 2: going to and from an appointment or something like that.
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Speaker 2: And like I said, like you said, you go around,
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Speaker 2: you shop for the bargains. Now I brag about the
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Speaker 2: fact here that you know on the loyalty card, I'll
1:07:41
Speaker 2: just mention Kroger on the fact that their plus card. Now,
1:07:47
Speaker 2: in the past, what I've tried to do. We are
1:07:50
Speaker 2: a family to my wife and I, but the amount
1:07:52
Speaker 2: of food I eat, we're a family of three, and
1:07:54
Speaker 2: I always wanted to make sure that we were saving
1:07:56
Speaker 2: about maybe one hundred dollars a month in terms of groceries.
1:08:00
Speaker 2: We are closing in this month. By the end of
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Speaker 2: the month, we'll probably have saved almost two thousand dollars
1:08:07
Speaker 2: in terms of our groceries just for this year. So
1:08:10
Speaker 2: that's well above that one hundred dollars per month. And
1:08:13
Speaker 2: it's and it's like you said, you've got to pay attention.
1:08:16
Speaker 2: You just don't go in and grab something. You don't grab,
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Speaker 2: you know, things off the eye level, the better price
1:08:22
Speaker 2: per ounce or whatever is down on the lower shelf
1:08:25
Speaker 2: or the upper shelf for something along those lines. You
1:08:27
Speaker 2: got to be grocery knowledgeable. And you're absolutely right that
1:08:33
Speaker 2: dollar off a gallon really comes in handy, Matt, thank
1:08:36
Speaker 2: you so much. You have a very safe and happy Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 2: My friend Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine
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Speaker 2: fifty five one, eight hundred eight two three talk one
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Speaker 2: eight hundred two three eight two five five pound, five
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Speaker 2: point fifty AT and T wireless phone coming up. We've
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Speaker 2: got Guy Harper, a fellow that I met back in
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Speaker 2: August during that rally or that town hall meeting at
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Speaker 2: Jim and Jacks back in August. I'm Kevin Gordon in
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Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC The Talk Station.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on fifty five
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Speaker 1: KOs the Talk Station.
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Speaker 2: Seven oh six in the morning. If you listen, if
1:09:29
Speaker 2: you looked at my Facebook page overnight, you'll know that
1:09:31
Speaker 2: I post who my guests are going to be. And
1:09:34
Speaker 2: my next guest, Guy Harper, I want to welcome him
1:09:37
Speaker 2: to the program. I met Guy back in August during
1:09:42
Speaker 2: that town hall meeting that Vivek Ramaswami and Corey Bowman
1:09:47
Speaker 2: well actually had in the Jim and Jacks out there
1:09:51
Speaker 2: after the riot basically the beatdown of those people the
1:09:56
Speaker 2: Cincinnati cops, you know, the whole beat down there. Well,
1:10:00
Speaker 2: a woman got knocked out and so on, and this
1:10:02
Speaker 2: was supposed to be a town hall meeting to kind
1:10:05
Speaker 2: of clear the air and so on. And I met
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Speaker 2: Guy Harper, their Guy Harper, owner of Patriot Shop. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to the program, Guy, Thanks for spending time.
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Speaker 7: With us, Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: The reason I wanted to have you on, and we
1:10:18
Speaker 2: talked about that night, is that you had some very
1:10:21
Speaker 2: interesting comments to say about what was going on. And
1:10:26
Speaker 2: you own this company called Patriots, So first of all,
1:10:30
Speaker 2: tell us about Patriot Shop and what you do and
1:10:32
Speaker 2: a little bit about your background.
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Speaker 11: All right, Well, Patriots Shop is our e commerce website.
1:10:40
Speaker 7: We sell.
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Speaker 11: Trump apparel, conservative apparel, Second Amendment apparel, stuff like that
1:10:49
Speaker 11: on there, and we've had Patriots Shops started back in
1:10:52
Speaker 11: twenty nineteen. I'm a traveling vendor, so I do all
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Speaker 11: the Trump rallies when he has them all over the country.
1:11:02
Speaker 11: I've been doing this since twenty twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 2: And you were at this, well, they it was a
1:11:10
Speaker 2: town hall meeting, and the way they set this up, okay,
1:11:14
Speaker 2: and the reporter talking about the crowd filled mostly with Republicans,
1:11:18
Speaker 2: a few Democrats, which meant that there were few Klansmen
1:11:21
Speaker 2: there because no Democrats were there. Supporters of GP coitorial
1:11:25
Speaker 2: candidate Reffect Ramaswami. Ramaswami and former city council member Christopher
1:11:30
Speaker 2: Smitherman hosted the town hall event and it started off
1:11:34
Speaker 2: with a couple of comments, and then you had a
1:11:37
Speaker 2: comment that you talked about in terms of the guy
1:11:40
Speaker 2: that started talking about four hundred years of the inequity
1:11:48
Speaker 2: and so on, and you had some very poignant things
1:11:50
Speaker 2: to say about the Democratic Party. You care to mention
1:11:55
Speaker 2: those again.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, I was responding to this gentleman that he
1:12:00
Speaker 11: was the first person that got up and spoke, and
1:12:02
Speaker 11: he was a black man.
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Speaker 7: He was complaining about the.
1:12:08
Speaker 11: Uh inequities and of black Americans, and they spoke a
1:12:12
Speaker 11: little bit about slavery, and I just I just simply
1:12:16
Speaker 11: responded to him. I told him the history of the
1:12:18
Speaker 11: Democratic Party that they were, they started the klu Klux Klan,
1:12:22
Speaker 11: they were the majority slave owners of blacks in America.
1:12:28
Speaker 7: They were Jim Crow.
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Speaker 11: So if you want to if you want to stand
1:12:31
Speaker 11: up here and complain about the inequities of blacks, you
1:12:34
Speaker 11: should uh point your finger at the Democratic Party. So
1:12:38
Speaker 11: I was just pointing that out because a lot of
1:12:40
Speaker 11: people don't even know that the Democratic Party started the
1:12:44
Speaker 11: klu Klux Klan and they they enact Jim Jim Crow
1:12:47
Speaker 11: laws in the South, and that they were the primary
1:12:50
Speaker 11: slave owners. So anytime someone anytime someone says that, I
1:12:56
Speaker 11: want to tell him the history of the Democratic Party
1:12:59
Speaker 11: and let them know that that's where that came from.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And that is the thing that struck me
1:13:05
Speaker 2: because I have been saying that for a number of years,
1:13:08
Speaker 2: twenty years now, or better that pointing out what the
1:13:12
Speaker 2: Democratic Party has done as far as blacks are concerned,
1:13:15
Speaker 2: and quite honestly, what they're doing as far as illegal
1:13:18
Speaker 2: immigrants right now. It's funny to me when you hear
1:13:21
Speaker 2: about people saying, well, we've got to stand up for
1:13:23
Speaker 2: these immigrant rights and so on, and then they followed
1:13:28
Speaker 2: up with, well, who's gonna cut my lawn, who's going
1:13:31
Speaker 2: to pick our crops, who's going to do this out
1:13:33
Speaker 2: or the other thing. So what they're the Democrats are
1:13:36
Speaker 2: trying to do is to basically create a new slave
1:13:40
Speaker 2: class because apparently, well not apparently the first one didn't
1:13:45
Speaker 2: work out for him, and we rebelled against that and
1:13:48
Speaker 2: fought a civil war over that, and yet they are
1:13:50
Speaker 2: still trying to have an underclass that they can basically
1:13:55
Speaker 2: keep their foot on the back of their necks. And
1:13:58
Speaker 2: so anyway, I found that very and surprise surprise, because
1:14:03
Speaker 2: being traveling and going around, we communicated and I sent
1:14:06
Speaker 2: you the article of how that story was reported, and surprise, surprise,
1:14:12
Speaker 2: your comments weren't even mentioned.
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Speaker 11: Surprise, Yeah, well it I did read that article that
1:14:19
Speaker 11: you sent me, and that anytime you get a person
1:14:24
Speaker 11: that's a liberal or leans left. They'll they'll just deflect
1:14:30
Speaker 11: or deny it. That part of uh, that part of
1:14:33
Speaker 11: history in our country. They never want to talk and
1:14:38
Speaker 11: they just deflect and deny. Even my parents are Democrats
1:14:42
Speaker 11: and they don't, uh, they don't ever want to talk
1:14:45
Speaker 11: about it.
1:14:46
Speaker 7: It leads to like tension in our families.
1:14:50
Speaker 11: So they will always deflect and deny that part of
1:14:53
Speaker 11: American history.
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Speaker 2: It's it's amazing how when you speak the truth, when
1:14:58
Speaker 2: you talk about facts, how people are offended by that.
1:15:03
Speaker 2: And that creates a problem. And I think mainly because
1:15:08
Speaker 2: one of the problems is is that you now have
1:15:11
Speaker 2: changed something that they've believed their entire lives. Going back
1:15:16
Speaker 2: to when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR collapsed,
1:15:20
Speaker 2: there were people who were in their seventies that had
1:15:22
Speaker 2: known nothing else but the USSR. So the USSR telling
1:15:26
Speaker 2: them that the reason their economy was failing or the
1:15:29
Speaker 2: crops didn't come in, it was the US doing something
1:15:33
Speaker 2: with the weather and creating that, or there was always
1:15:36
Speaker 2: some excuse while there was crop failure. And what it
1:15:39
Speaker 2: was was that communism is a failed system and will
1:15:42
Speaker 2: never work. And so all of a sudden, the Iron
1:15:47
Speaker 2: Curtain fell and these people were like, I've been lied
1:15:50
Speaker 2: to for seven years, seventy years, what do I do?
1:15:53
Speaker 2: And I think as you talk about with family members
1:15:56
Speaker 2: and stuff, they've had this belief system for so long.
1:15:59
Speaker 2: When you try to shatter that, that shatters basically their
1:16:02
Speaker 2: entire existence.
1:16:05
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's true.
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Speaker 11: It's it's it's it's what's known as cognitive dissonance.
1:16:10
Speaker 7: Yes, that that is what that is.
1:16:14
Speaker 11: What happens to people's mind when they can't when their
1:16:20
Speaker 11: believe when their beliefs don't match up with with what
1:16:23
Speaker 11: they what they think and know.
1:16:26
Speaker 7: So it's called cognitive dissonance.
1:16:28
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Now one of the things you mentioned is
1:16:31
Speaker 2: that in your business you travel around so well, First
1:16:35
Speaker 2: of all, I guess when you're traveling around, what are
1:16:39
Speaker 2: you hearing on the ground as far as individual people?
1:16:43
Speaker 4: Uh?
1:16:44
Speaker 2: Where you know, because obviously you know at the rallies
1:16:47
Speaker 2: you're going to see like minded people. But as you're traveling,
1:16:50
Speaker 2: you're going to run into all kinds of different people, uh,
1:16:53
Speaker 2: at rest areas, at a different you know, where you're
1:16:57
Speaker 2: staying or whatever. What are you seeing as far as
1:17:02
Speaker 2: the people out there and the grassroots support or non support,
1:17:06
Speaker 2: what's going on?
1:17:09
Speaker 7: Well? It's when I first hearded doing this.
1:17:12
Speaker 11: Back in twenty eighteen, Uh, there was a lot of
1:17:17
Speaker 11: pushback against Trump and and MAGA, the MAGA movement and
1:17:24
Speaker 11: the Republican Party. There's a lot of pushback. People, you know,
1:17:30
Speaker 11: they would say, they would call me all. I've been
1:17:32
Speaker 11: called every name in the book. I've been called the
1:17:34
Speaker 11: white supremacists. I've been called the N word. But this
1:17:37
Speaker 11: is back then, twenty eighteen, twenty twenty. But now now
1:17:42
Speaker 11: the you know, a ship has occurred because you know
1:17:46
Speaker 11: Trump uh won twenty sixteen. He did win twenty twenty,
1:17:51
Speaker 11: but it was stolen. But and he won twenty twenty four.
1:17:53
Speaker 11: So now there's not there's much less pushback. There's much
1:17:59
Speaker 11: more acceptance of Trump and his agenda now. But back
1:18:05
Speaker 11: then there was pushback. But it's less pushback now. But
1:18:08
Speaker 11: I've been called every name in the book out there.
1:18:11
Speaker 11: I've had chewing tobacco spit tossed at me, So I
1:18:17
Speaker 11: mean it nothing violent. I've had I've had a couple
1:18:23
Speaker 11: Karen's come up and snatch T shirts off the table
1:18:26
Speaker 11: at a lady in New York City, snatched a Trump
1:18:28
Speaker 11: Trump flag and ran down the block.
1:18:32
Speaker 7: But I chased her and got it back.
1:18:34
Speaker 11: But but it was it was early pushback and then
1:18:37
Speaker 11: it's it's it's it's has subsided.
1:18:40
Speaker 2: Now, oh, that's very interesting. I'm kind of surprised by that.
1:18:43
Speaker 2: I would have thought that the terminology would have come
1:18:45
Speaker 2: to you're a fascist, that you're a Hitler or something,
1:18:49
Speaker 2: a Hitler supporter or something along those lines. We need
1:18:52
Speaker 2: to pick this up. We got to take a quick
1:18:54
Speaker 2: break here. Can you hang with us for another segment? Sure, okay,
1:18:58
Speaker 2: appreciate it. My guest is Guy Harper, owner Patriot Shop,
1:19:02
Speaker 2: a guy that I met people who may not remember this,
1:19:06
Speaker 2: but back at that town hall meeting back in August.
1:19:10
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC,
1:19:13
Speaker 2: the Talk Station seven twenty in the morning. Kevin Gordon
1:19:21
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC, the Talk Station.
1:19:25
Speaker 2: My guest is Guy Harper. He is owner of Patriot Shop,
1:19:29
Speaker 2: and he sells Trump merchandise and travels around the country
1:19:32
Speaker 2: to various Trump rallies in certain events. And so I
1:19:38
Speaker 2: met him at the town hall meeting that was held
1:19:41
Speaker 2: by Christopher Smitherman and Vivek Ramaswami. Shortly after two weeks
1:19:46
Speaker 2: after that violent street fight or actually near riot, actually
1:19:51
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati, and there was a town hall meeting set
1:19:55
Speaker 2: up to discuss this and to try to find some
1:19:58
Speaker 2: sort of a pathway to healing, or to try to
1:20:02
Speaker 2: get sides together, or to try to find out ways
1:20:05
Speaker 2: of combating this. And I met Guy at this event
1:20:09
Speaker 2: and again had some very poignant things to say and
1:20:13
Speaker 2: was not even quoted in the following story. And people
1:20:18
Speaker 2: may say, Kevin, you're relitigating something that happened several months ago.
1:20:21
Speaker 2: But this is key because what we're getting from the
1:20:24
Speaker 2: spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. And this needs
1:20:27
Speaker 2: to be a lesson that anybody that's ever been interviewed
1:20:30
Speaker 2: by somebody from the press, they are always shocked by
1:20:34
Speaker 2: what the story is written and the comments that they made,
1:20:37
Speaker 2: because they only take pieces of that. And in some cases,
1:20:41
Speaker 2: it's not the news that we get, it's the news
1:20:44
Speaker 2: that's left out. And that's why I wanted to have
1:20:46
Speaker 2: Guy Harper on here and again because Guy, you go
1:20:49
Speaker 2: around to these different places, you travel around the country,
1:20:53
Speaker 2: and so you kind of have your finger on the
1:20:55
Speaker 2: pulse better than a lot of people as far as
1:20:57
Speaker 2: what's going on out there. So again, thank you for
1:21:00
Speaker 2: being with us this morning.
1:21:02
Speaker 7: Thank you, sir for having me happy to do it.
1:21:05
Speaker 2: Now, I guess, Wenna quickly, what what got you into
1:21:08
Speaker 2: this in the first place, or what what what made
1:21:10
Speaker 2: you decide to do this?
1:21:13
Speaker 7: Well?
1:21:14
Speaker 11: I learned the the apparel business of screen printing business
1:21:18
Speaker 11: as a side hustle when I when I was in college.
1:21:21
Speaker 11: Actually we started at Ohio State football game, selling T
1:21:25
Speaker 11: shirts there and then I I went back to school,
1:21:30
Speaker 11: got married, had a family, and my ex wife left
1:21:32
Speaker 11: me and I was working as a as an accountant
1:21:35
Speaker 11: and in the Richmond, Virginia area.
1:21:39
Speaker 12: And.
1:21:41
Speaker 11: After she left me, I you know, it was a
1:21:44
Speaker 11: very hectic time for me. Uh So, I I just
1:21:48
Speaker 11: I just was not I didn't want to do accounting
1:21:50
Speaker 11: work anymore.
1:21:51
Speaker 7: So I called my friend.
1:21:52
Speaker 11: Who who kept He started with us back in college,
1:21:55
Speaker 11: but he he kept at it for like and he
1:21:57
Speaker 11: kept doing it, so he was very experiencing successful for
1:22:00
Speaker 11: the last thirty years.
1:22:01
Speaker 7: I called him and he told me to meet him
1:22:04
Speaker 7: in d C. And we did.
1:22:06
Speaker 11: The that year, the Washington Capitalist won the NHL Stanley Cup.
1:22:11
Speaker 7: So he told me to meet him there and I did.
1:22:13
Speaker 11: The I worked the Stanley Cup pray for him, and
1:22:16
Speaker 11: then after that he him and I worked out a
1:22:19
Speaker 11: consignment deal for his truck merch I was working for
1:22:23
Speaker 11: him under him for a year, and after that year
1:22:26
Speaker 11: I did so well I bought him out of all
1:22:28
Speaker 11: of his Trump merchandise, and I've been going.
1:22:32
Speaker 7: I started my own company after that.
1:22:34
Speaker 2: That is a fantastic story. And even more, he would
1:22:38
Speaker 2: hire her on the same way. Like I am a
1:22:41
Speaker 2: recovering accountant myself, having spent thirty years in the accounting business.
1:22:47
Speaker 2: Did you grow up in Ohio? You mentioned Ohio state
1:22:50
Speaker 2: that you went to.
1:22:51
Speaker 11: The Yeah, I grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, suburb
1:22:55
Speaker 11: of Cleveland, Eastside suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.
1:22:57
Speaker 2: And a recovering accountant yourself. That's a yes, great, but
1:23:04
Speaker 2: I get and again, you know, traveling around, are you
1:23:07
Speaker 2: seeing still the momentum, are you still seeing the grassroots
1:23:13
Speaker 2: movement support and kind of pushing out the negativity from
1:23:19
Speaker 2: as I call them, the spoon fed regurgitators, And are
1:23:22
Speaker 2: you still you know, enthusiastic about what you're seeing as
1:23:25
Speaker 2: far as the country is concerned.
1:23:30
Speaker 7: Well, well, you know, people or people know that well,
1:23:35
Speaker 7: right back up.
1:23:36
Speaker 11: A lot of people on the left don't know that
1:23:38
Speaker 11: they're being spoon fed by the mainstream media.
1:23:41
Speaker 7: Most people on the right do. So a lot of
1:23:46
Speaker 7: people on the left still don't know most most people
1:23:48
Speaker 7: on the right do.
1:23:49
Speaker 11: But the enthusiasm has uh, it's it's tapered off. Is
1:23:54
Speaker 11: tapered off with the especially with the Trump Marjorie Taylor
1:23:59
Speaker 11: Green Thomas see Epstein files saga that has split the.
1:24:06
Speaker 7: MAGA base and splintered the Mega base.
1:24:08
Speaker 11: People people, a lot of people you know, are just
1:24:12
Speaker 11: very They're just arguing about it.
1:24:16
Speaker 7: That's what I see on social media. And it's tapered off.
1:24:20
Speaker 11: Although after the Charlie Kirk assassination, we sold a lot
1:24:26
Speaker 11: of the Freedom the Freedom shirts and Freedom hoodies and
1:24:29
Speaker 11: hats and stuff like that. And so I'm traveling around
1:24:32
Speaker 11: during Turning Point events as well. So the vek Ramaswami
1:24:36
Speaker 11: will be at the University of Cincinnati on December first
1:24:39
Speaker 11: at a Turning Point action event on December first at
1:24:42
Speaker 11: University of Cincinnati. I will be there then. I think
1:24:44
Speaker 11: the next one is December third at Miami. I believe
1:24:48
Speaker 11: it's Miami, Miami of Ohio, but I have to double
1:24:51
Speaker 11: check that. So EV's gonna be December first, University of
1:24:54
Speaker 11: Cincinnati December third, and Miami. It's a Turning Point action event,
1:24:58
Speaker 11: So I'll be at both of those events.
1:25:00
Speaker 2: Exactly. Fantastic, and I would say that if anybody's going
1:25:04
Speaker 2: to that event, make it a point to go to
1:25:06
Speaker 2: that event so you can meet Guy Harper, because he
1:25:09
Speaker 2: is a great guy and I love what you're doing
1:25:13
Speaker 2: as far as going around and traveling around and selling
1:25:16
Speaker 2: this Trump merchandise. By the way, for people, if they
1:25:20
Speaker 2: want to get in contact with you or your company,
1:25:22
Speaker 2: they can go.
1:25:23
Speaker 11: To www dot Patriot Shop dot today.
1:25:30
Speaker 7: That's Patriot Shop dot today. That's our website.
1:25:33
Speaker 2: Yes, it's not the p it is Patriot Shop again
1:25:38
Speaker 2: today dot today. Okay, any phone number you want to
1:25:42
Speaker 2: give out or or just having them our website.
1:25:46
Speaker 11: Yeah, they could just go to the website, okay, and
1:25:48
Speaker 11: they could if they want to send me a message,
1:25:50
Speaker 11: they can message me on the website.
1:25:52
Speaker 2: Well, guy, all the best to you. I hope nothing
1:25:55
Speaker 2: but success for you. Be safe out there on the road,
1:25:58
Speaker 2: you know, again, traveling around it's always you know, sometimes
1:26:03
Speaker 2: can be very difficult and especially in certain areas. Just
1:26:07
Speaker 2: travel safe, and be safe. I appreciate your time. I
1:26:11
Speaker 2: appreciate you being with us this morning. And we've got
1:26:13
Speaker 2: any big, big plans for Thanksgiving or.
1:26:16
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'm headed to DC to meet my family there.
1:26:20
Speaker 2: Very good again, travel safe, my friend, and hopefully it
1:26:24
Speaker 2: can catch you on the first or the third, depending
1:26:27
Speaker 2: upon which rally I can make it to again, Guy Harper,
1:26:30
Speaker 2: owner Patriot Shop. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
1:26:34
Speaker 2: fifty five KRC, the Talk station seven thirty one in
1:26:51
Speaker 2: the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five
1:26:53
Speaker 2: kr SE the Talk Stations, A littlettle roadhouse blues there
1:26:56
Speaker 2: for the traveling guy Harper out there on the highways
1:27:00
Speaker 2: with his Trump merch and just a very interesting guy,
1:27:03
Speaker 2: a very fascinating guy. I was great meeting him months ago,
1:27:07
Speaker 2: and I been wanting to have him on ever since.
1:27:10
Speaker 2: We talked to the phones we go by the way
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Speaker 2: seven five one three, seven eight two three talk pound
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Speaker 2: five fifty AT and T wireless phone. Let's go to
1:27:21
Speaker 2: the phone soon. Do we want to go up first here? Danny,
1:27:27
Speaker 2: Let's go with Brian. Brian. I think Brian was on
1:27:29
Speaker 2: the It was at the top of the hour and
1:27:32
Speaker 2: called back, I certainly appreciate it, Brian. How are you
1:27:34
Speaker 2: this morning? Thanks for calling.
1:27:35
Speaker 10: I'm doing well.
1:27:37
Speaker 8: How are you?
1:27:37
Speaker 2: I am doing great, fantastic behind the microphone. It doesn't
1:27:42
Speaker 2: get any better than that for me.
1:27:45
Speaker 10: Okay, Well, I remember listening to you, oh gosh, back
1:27:48
Speaker 10: during the first Trump uh run, and you seem really
1:27:51
Speaker 10: jazzed about the Mike Pence. In retrospect, are you a
1:27:55
Speaker 10: bit disappointed?
1:27:56
Speaker 7: Now?
1:27:57
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Absolutely. Not only am I disappointed with Mike Pence
1:28:01
Speaker 2: the way he turned out, but I'm also disappointed with
1:28:03
Speaker 2: Mike Congressman in Northern Kentucky Thomas Massey. Now, Mike Pence
1:28:08
Speaker 2: I met when I was I was doing a radio
1:28:10
Speaker 2: show in Richmond, Indiana at the time, and he was
1:28:13
Speaker 2: the congressman at the time, and I got to meet him,
1:28:16
Speaker 2: and I really thought the stuff that he was talking about,
1:28:19
Speaker 2: the conservative stuff that he was talking about, I thought
1:28:22
Speaker 2: was absolutely fantastic. When he was chosen as a VP,
1:28:25
Speaker 2: I thought, man, this is this is great. Somewhere along
1:28:29
Speaker 2: the line, I don't know what happened. I don't know,
1:28:32
Speaker 2: you know, he left Congress, he became the governor of Indiana,
1:28:35
Speaker 2: and then you know, got on the Trump ticket and
1:28:38
Speaker 2: was at least originally very enthusiastic. I don't know what
1:28:42
Speaker 2: happened to him. I've never really heard what he's talked about,
1:28:45
Speaker 2: but him going off the rails in the twenty twenty election,
1:28:49
Speaker 2: I thought was kind of how should I say, disingenuous,
1:28:56
Speaker 2: not recognizing what actually happened, and the fact that he
1:29:01
Speaker 2: has been so outspoken against Trump since then has been
1:29:05
Speaker 2: a very big disappointment to me. And I can't believe
1:29:09
Speaker 2: that it's the same guy that I knew back in
1:29:11
Speaker 2: two thousand and three when I first met him. Yeah.
1:29:15
Speaker 10: Interesting, what about the Massy I don't you know, you
1:29:18
Speaker 10: seem to interact with these people more than I do.
1:29:20
Speaker 10: So what is it? I mean, what is it that
1:29:22
Speaker 10: that kind of rubbs your wrong way with Massy?
1:29:24
Speaker 2: Well, well, I just you know, the one thing about me, Brian,
1:29:31
Speaker 2: is that nobody ever walks away from a conversation with
1:29:34
Speaker 2: me and says, gee, I don't know how he feels
1:29:36
Speaker 2: about this subject. I had Thomas Massey and I have
1:29:41
Speaker 2: I will go into this in a little while. Because
1:29:43
Speaker 2: of my street credit. I got some serious street cred
1:29:46
Speaker 2: with Thomas Massey, but in a nutshell, been a big
1:29:50
Speaker 2: supporter of his, had been a big supporter of his.
1:29:53
Speaker 2: I had him on the program the Wednesday before that
1:29:56
Speaker 2: January sixth confirmation of the electoral results. He had been
1:30:00
Speaker 2: on the He had been wavering, he had made commitment
1:30:03
Speaker 2: one way or the other. I asked him, what are
1:30:05
Speaker 2: you thinking of doing as far as this confirmation? Are
1:30:08
Speaker 2: you going to object to it? And he goes, I'm
1:30:10
Speaker 2: kind of on the fence. I don't know which way
1:30:11
Speaker 2: I'm going to go, but I think I'm going to
1:30:13
Speaker 2: vote to confirm. And I said why. I said, because basically,
1:30:17
Speaker 2: what you're doing is you're discounting and you're tossing out
1:30:20
Speaker 2: the votes of all the people from Kentucky. You are
1:30:23
Speaker 2: basically disenfranchising this. And he goes, hey, no, your votes,
1:30:27
Speaker 2: our votes are going to be counted because it's part
1:30:29
Speaker 2: of the electoral process. And I pointed out to him,
1:30:32
Speaker 2: and you know, he's a constitutionalist. He says that he
1:30:35
Speaker 2: follows the Constitution. According to the Constitution, the results or
1:30:39
Speaker 2: the election in a state is supposed to be done
1:30:42
Speaker 2: and regulated by the state legislature. In Pennsylvania, it was
1:30:46
Speaker 2: regulated and formulated by judges, so it was unconstitutional election
1:30:53
Speaker 2: that year and those votes should have been challenged at
1:30:58
Speaker 2: least to pres present a challenge. We argued back and forth.
1:31:02
Speaker 2: He said, I don't think that you know that this
1:31:05
Speaker 2: is a process, aware that this should be stopped, or
1:31:08
Speaker 2: something along those lines. And I said, I said, Thomas,
1:31:11
Speaker 2: I cannot believe that our founding fathers, who came up
1:31:14
Speaker 2: with this constitution, with the two you know, with House
1:31:19
Speaker 2: in the Senate, you know, the three branches of government,
1:31:22
Speaker 2: the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary, would come up
1:31:27
Speaker 2: with something and say, okay, when it comes to confirm
1:31:29
Speaker 2: these electors that it's just a rubber stamp. Well, if
1:31:34
Speaker 2: it's that, then why have the hearing, why have the
1:31:37
Speaker 2: vote in the Congress in the first place. It's an
1:31:40
Speaker 2: opportunity to object to this, he said. At that time,
1:31:43
Speaker 2: you gave me a lot to think about, and I
1:31:46
Speaker 2: still haven't made my decision. That Sunday he came out
1:31:49
Speaker 2: with a letter saying that he was going to vote
1:31:51
Speaker 2: to confirm. He signed this letter with five other people,
1:31:54
Speaker 2: one who had just been sworn in that night, and
1:31:58
Speaker 2: four other no name congres Risman, just to make a
1:32:01
Speaker 2: point to be contrary, I think, to probably get back
1:32:04
Speaker 2: at Trump for Trump trashing him back during the bailout
1:32:11
Speaker 2: bill that was before Congress months ago. But they did
1:32:14
Speaker 2: campaign together. They shared webs or you know, they shared
1:32:17
Speaker 2: endorsements and so on. I don't know why he turned
1:32:20
Speaker 2: on Trump that day and why they didn't at least
1:32:23
Speaker 2: postpone or at least hold up some roadblocks and put
1:32:27
Speaker 2: the spotlight on what happened in these various states. I
1:32:30
Speaker 2: think he quite honestly, I think he betrayed the people
1:32:33
Speaker 2: of Kentucky by just rubber stamping this confirmation process. So
1:32:39
Speaker 2: that's where my rub with Thomas Massey has come. Plus
1:32:43
Speaker 2: there's and I've gone a little bit over time up
1:32:46
Speaker 2: against a break here, but some of the other votes
1:32:50
Speaker 2: that he's taken in Congress and now kind of smack
1:32:53
Speaker 2: very close to being very anti Semitic, and that's an
1:32:56
Speaker 2: area that I really have a problem with in terms
1:32:58
Speaker 2: of people in Congress. Again, that's that's my take on it.
1:33:03
Speaker 10: All right, Thank you very much, all right, bro, Thanks
1:33:05
Speaker 10: you all right.
1:33:06
Speaker 2: Take care. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
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Speaker 2: fifty on that AT and T phone. Let's go back
1:33:49
Speaker 2: to the phones and speak with Steve. Steve, Happy, Thanksgiving, Eve,
1:33:53
Speaker 2: welcome to the program. Thanks for calling banks.
1:33:56
Speaker 7: Thanks same same to you.
1:33:58
Speaker 12: I feel like you're my brother from another mother, and you.
1:34:02
Speaker 2: Know there's a lot of that going on these days. Steve,
1:34:05
Speaker 2: let me tell you you okay, exactly, okay.
1:34:09
Speaker 9: Anyway, we are.
1:34:11
Speaker 12: We are very aligned on a lot of things. But
1:34:13
Speaker 12: I wanted to see have you heard of ibu Gang.
1:34:17
Speaker 12: It's spelled ib o.
1:34:19
Speaker 9: G A I n E.
1:34:23
Speaker 2: I think I've heard No, I know. I got to
1:34:26
Speaker 2: say honestly, no, I've heard it, but I don't know
1:34:29
Speaker 2: anything about it.
1:34:31
Speaker 12: The fact that people don't know about it, I find
1:34:34
Speaker 12: to be quite disturbing.
1:34:36
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I'm disturbing you this morning.
1:34:41
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, no, no, it's not very except for people
1:34:46
Speaker 12: I've talked to.
1:34:48
Speaker 10: And there are two.
1:34:51
Speaker 12: Premiere podcast you've heard of Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan twenty
1:34:58
Speaker 12: two fifty one was about a year ago, and that
1:35:01
Speaker 12: was an awesome podcast. It's like three hours long, so
1:35:04
Speaker 12: it's not a it's not a quick listen, but it's
1:35:07
Speaker 12: it'll draw you in.
1:35:08
Speaker 7: And then also THEO Vaughn.
1:35:10
Speaker 12: Which prior to Trump I never heard of Theos. He
1:35:16
Speaker 12: has an episode five ninety six. Now Theo's is like
1:35:20
Speaker 12: two hours long. In the last section of that, the
1:35:23
Speaker 12: last thirty forty minutes, it's pretty damning for our fascist
1:35:27
Speaker 12: In Frankfurt, Andy fired a gentleman by the name of
1:35:31
Speaker 12: Brian Hubbard who was the executive death director of the
1:35:35
Speaker 12: American IBU Gang and Initiatives. I BEI Gang is a
1:35:40
Speaker 12: Schedule one drug. It's not an arcotic, it's not a psychedelic.
1:35:45
Speaker 9: However, if you give it.
1:35:47
Speaker 12: And you don't replace magnesium, you can go into serious
1:35:51
Speaker 12: fatal arrhythmias torsades to the point however, once they learned how
1:35:56
Speaker 12: to handle that, if you have a if you replace
1:35:59
Speaker 12: magnies and you have a crash cart at hand, it
1:36:02
Speaker 12: can safely be administered.
1:36:05
Speaker 2: Well, that seems to be pretty scary in terms of
1:36:08
Speaker 2: if you have to have something on hand when you're
1:36:11
Speaker 2: taking a particular drug. What is this drug supposed to do?
1:36:16
Speaker 9: Okay, it is.
1:36:17
Speaker 12: It is is God's medicine. It comes from Western Africa.
1:36:21
Speaker 12: It has been shown to treat PTSD, serious drug addictions,
1:36:32
Speaker 12: things like even SSRIs and other things, a lot of
1:36:35
Speaker 12: things that are fatal if not treat it. I worked
1:36:39
Speaker 12: thirty seven years at Saint Luke's Saint Elizabeth, and I
1:36:44
Speaker 12: watched how many lives destroyed by drug addiction, alcohol addiction,
1:36:50
Speaker 12: all these other things. It can if it can reverse
1:36:54
Speaker 12: those things. I mean with your connections, I don't know
1:36:58
Speaker 12: if you're I hope you're back on BEFO before the
1:37:01
Speaker 12: new year again. If you can reach out to Marcus Latrell.
1:37:04
Speaker 12: Have you ever heard of him?
1:37:05
Speaker 4: Oh?
1:37:05
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, American sniper.
1:37:09
Speaker 12: He's a Navy Seal, American hero. He is part of
1:37:13
Speaker 12: the Americans for Ibucuine initiative, which is brand new.
1:37:16
Speaker 7: Their website.
1:37:17
Speaker 12: Last time I looked at it was brand new and
1:37:19
Speaker 12: it didn't have a whole lot on there. I didn't
1:37:21
Speaker 12: have a link ahead. If you go to Americans for Ibucane.
1:37:25
Speaker 12: It'll bring you to a link that will take you
1:37:27
Speaker 12: right to the Joe Rogan episode.
1:37:29
Speaker 2: All right, well, Steve, I will dig into this and
1:37:32
Speaker 2: I will get more knowledgeable about this, and next time
1:37:36
Speaker 2: I'm on maybe we can chat again.
1:37:40
Speaker 12: Hopefully, So hopefully, hopefully I'll get to talk to you again.
1:37:43
Speaker 12: And actually i'd like to buy you and Tara lunch
1:37:45
Speaker 12: if you'd be willing. I've never shook your hand before.
1:37:47
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Well, we can maybe contact through Facebook
1:37:52
Speaker 2: or some other connections and so on along those lines.
1:37:55
Speaker 2: But anyway, appreciate the phone call. Hope you have a
1:37:57
Speaker 2: very good Thanksgiving. Phone numbers five months, seven hundred eight
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Speaker 2: five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, The
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Speaker 2: Talk State, seven fifty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon
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Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, The Talk Station.
1:38:31
Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite songs, Danny. I appreciate that.
1:38:35
Speaker 2: Of course we can't play the can't play the chorus
1:38:38
Speaker 2: of that. We had to hit the dump button on
1:38:41
Speaker 2: that anyway, we I'm gonna I want to talk to
1:38:44
Speaker 2: you real quickly here on the phone. Bob Wederer, great friend.
1:38:50
Speaker 2: UH known him for a couple of years, several years
1:38:52
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, and uh, the person who
1:38:55
Speaker 2: does the Wish Tree Foundation, Bob, Welcome to the program, morning, Kevin.
1:39:02
Speaker 8: How are you very good?
1:39:03
Speaker 2: How are you good?
1:39:06
Speaker 4: Good?
1:39:07
Speaker 9: Well, we're in the season. All the tree should be
1:39:10
Speaker 9: up hopefully. Okay, some may still meet a tree they
1:39:13
Speaker 9: can call.
1:39:14
Speaker 2: When did you When did you start putting those up?
1:39:19
Speaker 9: Well? Some people started first November, okay, but a lot
1:39:22
Speaker 9: of them are waiting until after Thanksgiving the tradition.
1:39:25
Speaker 2: Okay. So for people that may not be familiar with us,
1:39:29
Speaker 2: which there may be, tell us about the program.
1:39:33
Speaker 9: Well, the programs in this forty first year, and it
1:39:39
Speaker 9: started at Beachmont Mall with one tree for alder Crests
1:39:43
Speaker 9: and now it's grown to little over three hundred trees
1:39:46
Speaker 9: and it's all schools. The orphan eage is and there's nursing.
1:39:54
Speaker 2: Homes excellent, excellent, And the Wish Tree is the trees
1:40:01
Speaker 2: that are there. There is what on the tree.
1:40:05
Speaker 9: There's tags, uh huh. And for thirty years, Jim Scott
1:40:11
Speaker 9: was the spokesperson. Then Steg Dennison came along when Jim retired,
1:40:16
Speaker 9: and then Brian came along about five six years ago.
1:40:20
Speaker 9: So that's how it runs. And basically, you pull a
1:40:24
Speaker 9: tag off the tree, go buy a gift, either delivered
1:40:28
Speaker 9: by Amazon or one of those are you send it
1:40:32
Speaker 9: are you can bring it back to the location you
1:40:34
Speaker 9: got it and we'll pick it up and make sure
1:40:36
Speaker 9: it gets delivered.
1:40:38
Speaker 2: I think we have a tree at the go Ahead.
1:40:42
Speaker 9: The Purple People Bridge has a tree. Oh fantastic, and
1:40:45
Speaker 9: I've already refilled it last Sunday. Last Saturday we put
1:40:50
Speaker 9: another one hundred and fifty ornaments because it was that
1:40:53
Speaker 9: low already.
1:40:54
Speaker 2: Now curious, this just popped in my head of the
1:40:58
Speaker 2: tags that are on there, do you track them in
1:41:02
Speaker 2: terms of okay, they're gone from the tree and we
1:41:05
Speaker 2: got a gift back from that, or do you know?
1:41:09
Speaker 9: You just I don't know anymore. It used to be
1:41:12
Speaker 9: when we used to pick up everything, we could track everything,
1:41:15
Speaker 9: but now it's there's so many people, there's so many
1:41:20
Speaker 9: people who use Amazon and use all those delivery services
1:41:24
Speaker 9: UPS's and all. We can't track any Okay, I don't
1:41:27
Speaker 9: want to tell how much they have.
1:41:29
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't I don't want to put ideas into
1:41:33
Speaker 2: miscreants minds, but it would seem to me that some
1:41:37
Speaker 2: people could actually go and just grab those things and
1:41:39
Speaker 2: do nothing with the tags. Hopefully the people that are
1:41:42
Speaker 2: taking the tags are actually buying a gift and participating
1:41:46
Speaker 2: in the program.
1:41:49
Speaker 9: So well, we do get some that call me in
1:41:52
Speaker 9: January February says I just found them on my dining
1:41:55
Speaker 9: room table. They go buy it. You know, there's morning Christmas.
1:41:59
Speaker 9: So they go buy the gift and they call us
1:42:01
Speaker 9: and we go pick it up because you know, some
1:42:04
Speaker 9: of the stuff turns out they have to use for
1:42:08
Speaker 9: the children's are the senior's birthday, or they're having a
1:42:11
Speaker 9: bad day, or they do something nice, so they do
1:42:14
Speaker 9: use some of the gifts that way.
1:42:16
Speaker 2: Oh, very good, very good. All right, well, Bob, we're
1:42:20
Speaker 2: up against clock here. I certainly appreciate calling in and
1:42:23
Speaker 2: uh all the best. Oh, if people want to be
1:42:26
Speaker 2: in contact or.
1:42:29
Speaker 9: The website, the website the wish tree dot com. But
1:42:35
Speaker 9: they can also call the hotline five one three eight
1:42:39
Speaker 9: five two five.
1:42:42
Speaker 2: Okay, once again, that hotline.
1:42:45
Speaker 9: Is five one three eight five two one eight nine five.
1:42:53
Speaker 2: Eight nine five. All right, thank you very much. We'll
1:42:57
Speaker 2: be in touch and uh, I'll be talking to you soon, all.
1:43:00
Speaker 9: Right, real quick. Yes, spaghetti dinner is December twentieth in
1:43:07
Speaker 9: Sanna will be at that. And now it's at the
1:43:09
Speaker 9: United Methodist Church on cloth and that's for lighting of
1:43:13
Speaker 9: the tower.
1:43:13
Speaker 2: Okay, the Washington tell you there. All right, yeah, all right, Bob,
1:43:18
Speaker 2: thank you so much for calling in. Certainly appreciate it.
1:43:22
Speaker 2: Coming up top the hour, I guess since somebody well
1:43:26
Speaker 2: call her earlier it kind of stoke this. I want
1:43:29
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit about Thomas Massey and some
1:43:33
Speaker 2: of the problems I have with his stance on things
1:43:36
Speaker 2: and kind of give you reasons for that. So coming
1:43:40
Speaker 2: up we'll be talking a little bit about that in
1:43:42
Speaker 2: the next hour five one three, seven, four nine fifty
1:43:44
Speaker 2: five eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred
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Speaker 2: eighty two three eight two five five pound five point
1:43:50
Speaker 2: fifty at and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for
1:43:53
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas fifty five K see the talk station.
1:43:56
Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
1:44:00
Speaker 1: fifty five KOs the talk station.
1:44:08
Speaker 2: Right seven minutes after eight o'clock on this Thanksgiving Eve Day.
1:44:21
Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning in. Phone numbers five one, three, seven,
1:44:25
Speaker 2: four nine fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred two three
1:44:27
Speaker 2: talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five
1:44:30
Speaker 2: five pound five point fifty on that AT and T
1:44:32
Speaker 2: wireless phone holding through the break. We want to talk
1:44:36
Speaker 2: to John here real quick, John fifty five K see
1:44:38
Speaker 2: how are you this morning?
1:44:41
Speaker 4: Oh?
1:44:41
Speaker 9: How how?
1:44:42
Speaker 4: How?
1:44:42
Speaker 2: How there you go? Absolutely so?
1:44:48
Speaker 4: Yeah. The last time I called, when I hung up,
1:44:51
Speaker 4: I heard you say, well, who'd that guy play with?
1:44:55
Speaker 4: I was calling about what a third world country reading
1:44:59
Speaker 4: roads turned into? And I was fighting music. Anyway. I
1:45:08
Speaker 4: played with Joe Duskins. They're Joe Duskins. Uh, Albert Washington's
1:45:20
Speaker 4: Big d Thompson's I played with their all the all
1:45:25
Speaker 4: the major but everybody from Chess Records in Cincinnati, fantastic.
1:45:30
Speaker 4: They called me the wheat boy when I first started
1:45:33
Speaker 4: playing drums in the black community. In a way, they.
1:45:35
Speaker 5: Called me the weak boy because they used to say,
1:45:40
Speaker 5: he's not quite white yet, and he's not quite black.
1:45:43
Speaker 4: That's our weak boy.
1:45:46
Speaker 2: And how did you how'd you wind up hooking up
1:45:48
Speaker 2: with these folks?
1:45:51
Speaker 4: Uh? There was a little club on Reading Road called
1:45:53
Speaker 4: the Harmony Club, and it was the greatest hole in
1:45:56
Speaker 4: the wall club of all time. Like to report to
1:46:02
Speaker 4: the point where but those days are all gone. Let's
1:46:05
Speaker 4: ast forward. You can forget those days. There's not They're
1:46:08
Speaker 4: not ever coming back, and the politics have destroyed those
1:46:13
Speaker 4: But the reason why I called in is also I
1:46:16
Speaker 4: wanted to uh. On Friday, Brian Thomas was talking about
1:46:20
Speaker 4: Somalians and the Somalian invasion and everything. Yes, and I
1:46:25
Speaker 4: had a great Somalian invasion when I lived here. Here's
1:46:28
Speaker 4: your old legal alien story. It's in my novel Million
1:46:32
Speaker 4: Dollar Hands. When I lived in Chicago. So I'm not
1:46:35
Speaker 4: late for a gig. Just moved to Chicago. I'm on Kadzie. Okay,
1:46:39
Speaker 4: so payti. I'm on Kadzie. And they said, don't take
1:46:43
Speaker 4: the purple cab, they're always trouble. Well I was running late,
1:46:46
Speaker 4: so I jumped in a purple cab. Anyway, Well it's
1:46:49
Speaker 4: the Themalian cab driver with music. It's smelled like a
1:46:54
Speaker 4: garbage truck. I'm not even kidding. I'm like, you can't
1:46:56
Speaker 4: even believe this, But so I get to I get
1:46:59
Speaker 4: your Kadzy was playing at the El Gatto and I
1:47:01
Speaker 4: get at the cat, I get at the El Gatto,
1:47:04
Speaker 4: and I just throw the money on the seat because
1:47:06
Speaker 4: I'm in a hurry to get out and he's got
1:47:08
Speaker 4: music so out and he jumps out like I didn't
1:47:11
Speaker 4: pay him. I said, it's on the seat if you
1:47:12
Speaker 4: were paying attention. And when I looked up there I
1:47:14
Speaker 4: saw a crack pipe on the seat.
1:47:16
Speaker 2: Oh no, man, this is no joke.
1:47:19
Speaker 4: This is a very serious story, and that's what people
1:47:22
Speaker 4: need to understand and do when it comes to So
1:47:25
Speaker 4: I said, I paid you, it's on the seat, and
1:47:27
Speaker 4: he still doesn't believe me, and he's speaking in whatever
1:47:30
Speaker 4: language they speak it and the guy grabbed my shirt.
1:47:34
Speaker 4: He grabbed me like like he physically grabbed me, and
1:47:38
Speaker 4: I punched him and knocked him out cold. Well, of course,
1:47:43
Speaker 4: there were, of course, there were some due goodie left
1:47:46
Speaker 4: wing college kids who saw me punch the guy and
1:47:49
Speaker 4: knocked him out after he grabbed me, after he grabbed me,
1:47:51
Speaker 4: after he grabbed me and threatened me. And then I
1:47:55
Speaker 4: went into the club and the lady says, you better
1:47:58
Speaker 4: go hide because when the police come there and arrest you,
1:48:01
Speaker 4: and I'm like, arrest me. He attacked me first, it's
1:48:04
Speaker 4: a clear case cut as self defense. He's like, I
1:48:07
Speaker 4: saw it. I didn't believe it. I wanted to believe
1:48:10
Speaker 4: in the police and all.
1:48:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, how long ago was that?
1:48:15
Speaker 4: This was like about six years ago? No, no, no
1:48:18
Speaker 4: longer than that, like probably over ten. But anyway, I said,
1:48:21
Speaker 4: the police came, they did arrest me. But instead of
1:48:25
Speaker 4: like just rolling over and everything, I said, you know what,
1:48:28
Speaker 4: I want a jury trial. So I went to court.
1:48:33
Speaker 4: I got a lawyer. I actually got a public defender.
1:48:35
Speaker 4: I took a jury trial. And the guy came to
1:48:40
Speaker 4: court and because we had to sit there all afternoon
1:48:43
Speaker 4: and wait, the cab driver started cussing out the judge
1:48:49
Speaker 4: because he didn't think he should be there all day.
1:48:51
Speaker 5: Do you see the entitlement that the scum have that
1:48:58
Speaker 5: these people think they or he started touching up the
1:49:02
Speaker 5: judge and the judge said, miss.
1:49:04
Speaker 4: The judge said, I would have done the same thing.
1:49:07
Speaker 2: Get out of here exactly. So well, is a very
1:49:12
Speaker 2: good point. Yeah, we need to we need to make
1:49:14
Speaker 2: sure that we vet the people that come into this country.
1:49:18
Speaker 2: There shouldn't be this open door policy just flow of
1:49:22
Speaker 2: a fly, you know, fly open the doors and let
1:49:25
Speaker 2: anybody come in, people need to be vetted, they need
1:49:28
Speaker 2: to go to a process, and they need to assimilate
1:49:32
Speaker 2: into this country. They should not be able to turn
1:49:34
Speaker 2: this country into the country that they came from that
1:49:38
Speaker 2: they claimed they were free fleeing from as refugees and
1:49:42
Speaker 2: seeking asylum in this country. It's not an invasion to
1:49:45
Speaker 2: turn this into their country. It's for them to assimilate
1:49:49
Speaker 2: into ours. And I think that's an extremely important point.
1:49:52
Speaker 2: So anyway, I appreciate the phone call I got talking
1:49:55
Speaker 2: about this in the previous segment, and I want to
1:49:58
Speaker 2: kind of set the stage here before we have to
1:50:01
Speaker 2: step out for a quick break. Thomas Massey over the
1:50:04
Speaker 2: last couple of years in particular, has been kind of
1:50:09
Speaker 2: a well, I'll just flat out say it been a
1:50:11
Speaker 2: very much disappointment to me as far as where he
1:50:15
Speaker 2: stands in what he is doing. Now. I want to
1:50:18
Speaker 2: set the stage here, Okay.
1:50:21
Speaker 7: I have.
1:50:22
Speaker 2: What I feel is a tremendous amount of street cred
1:50:25
Speaker 2: as far as Thomas Massey is concerned. When Thomas Massey
1:50:29
Speaker 2: first came on the scene in twenty twelve, we had
1:50:32
Speaker 2: a business organization we had formed in northern Kentucky to
1:50:36
Speaker 2: fight with some of these tax increases and so on.
1:50:39
Speaker 2: And as this business community, our business group, we had
1:50:43
Speaker 2: at one time one hundred and forty five members, one
1:50:45
Speaker 2: of the fastest growing groups in the area. We held
1:50:49
Speaker 2: a debate, if you will, because there was a special
1:50:56
Speaker 2: election in twenty twelve when Jeff Davis left office. He
1:50:59
Speaker 2: resided early, so there was a election to fill out
1:51:04
Speaker 2: or to finish out his term and then start the
1:51:07
Speaker 2: new term. So there were I think two Democrats and
1:51:12
Speaker 2: if my memory serves me correct, about five Republicans that
1:51:15
Speaker 2: were going for this. We held the debate. It was
1:51:18
Speaker 2: the largest debate in attendance, and Thomas Massey was introduced.
1:51:23
Speaker 2: Based on what he had to say, a lot of
1:51:26
Speaker 2: us started supporting him. I supported him in twenty twelve.
1:51:29
Speaker 2: I went out in twenty fourteen sixteen. As a matter
1:51:32
Speaker 2: of fact, I was the MC for his election night
1:51:36
Speaker 2: coverage of the night that Trump got elected. Now I
1:51:40
Speaker 2: have posted on Facebook a friend of mine who would
1:51:44
Speaker 2: these if you see him out in the county or
1:51:46
Speaker 2: at least in Campbell County anyway. They're a four and
1:51:49
Speaker 2: four foot by eight foot sheet of well chloroplast that
1:51:55
Speaker 2: you hang or that you put on posts and go
1:51:58
Speaker 2: around the county and hang up. There are these fence
1:52:01
Speaker 2: posts that you have to pound in the ground tie
1:52:04
Speaker 2: it to that. Over the year, in any one of
1:52:07
Speaker 2: the campaigns, he and I were responsible for putting up
1:52:10
Speaker 2: every Massy sign, every four x eight sign in Campbell
1:52:15
Speaker 2: County as well as some in Kenton County and Boone County.
1:52:19
Speaker 2: We put up almost more than fifty signs every campaign.
1:52:24
Speaker 2: As I said, I hosted his I was the MC
1:52:27
Speaker 2: for his twenty sixteen election. I coverage and then again
1:52:32
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, and so I have been. I had
1:52:35
Speaker 2: been and have been a big supporter of Thomas Massey
1:52:39
Speaker 2: for as long as he's been in Congress. But something
1:52:41
Speaker 2: I don't know has switched with him. I started having
1:52:46
Speaker 2: problems with him, as I described in the one of
1:52:49
Speaker 2: the previous segments back in twenty twenty, the Wednesday before
1:52:54
Speaker 2: the January sixth confirmation of the electoral votes, I had
1:52:59
Speaker 2: him on this program. As a matter of fact, I
1:53:02
Speaker 2: am the one that introduced Thomas Massey to the fifty
1:53:06
Speaker 2: five KRC audience. I had him on this program the
1:53:11
Speaker 2: first time. I also had ran Paul on this program
1:53:14
Speaker 2: or on this morning show the first time so introduced
1:53:18
Speaker 2: him both of them to this audience, as well as
1:53:21
Speaker 2: Matt Bevan, the eventual governor. So I had Thomas Massey
1:53:25
Speaker 2: and introduced him, and so I've been a big supporter
1:53:28
Speaker 2: of his. But I had him on that Wednesday before
1:53:30
Speaker 2: the January sixth confirmation and I asked him, I said,
1:53:34
Speaker 2: you've been out there, you've been saying that you're not
1:53:36
Speaker 2: sure which way you're going to go as far as
1:53:38
Speaker 2: this concern. Where are you leaning? And he says, well,
1:53:41
Speaker 2: I'm kind of leaning towards confirmation. And I said, why
1:53:45
Speaker 2: is that? Because basically what you'll be doing is disenfranchising
1:53:50
Speaker 2: all the voters of Kentucky that voted and had supported
1:53:54
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. And he said, well, I don't agree with
1:53:57
Speaker 2: that because the electors are still going to be counted.
1:54:02
Speaker 2: And I said, but they're going to be disenfranchised and
1:54:05
Speaker 2: overtaken because Pennsylvania had an illegal election in twenty twenty.
1:54:11
Speaker 2: The constitution and Thomas Massey claims to be this constitutionalist,
1:54:15
Speaker 2: he stands up for the Constitution and so on, but
1:54:18
Speaker 2: the election in Pennsylvania was an invalid election in twenty twenty.
1:54:23
Speaker 2: The election is supposed to be controlled and the rules
1:54:26
Speaker 2: supposed to be established by the state legislature. Well, during COVID,
1:54:31
Speaker 2: they were out a judge, a group of judges decided
1:54:34
Speaker 2: how that election was going to be conducted. It was illegal.
1:54:37
Speaker 2: Those votes should have at least been challenged, and instead
1:54:40
Speaker 2: of challenging those Thomas Massey, well, when I talked to
1:54:44
Speaker 2: him on that Wednesday, we talked about back and forth
1:54:48
Speaker 2: and we went back and I'll finish this up coming up,
1:54:51
Speaker 2: but kind of set in the stage for what I'm
1:54:54
Speaker 2: talking about Thomas Massey here. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine,
1:54:57
Speaker 2: fifty one, eight hundred eighty two three A two, five,
1:55:00
Speaker 2: five pound, five fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin
1:55:03
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the
1:55:06
Speaker 2: talk station A twenty three in the morning. Kevin Gordon
1:55:19
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk station.
1:55:22
Speaker 2: Kind of setting the stage here because some of the
1:55:25
Speaker 2: things I was we were talking in the previous segment
1:55:28
Speaker 2: or last hour, I guess about Thomas Massey and where
1:55:32
Speaker 2: I stand on that and been having some issues. Now
1:55:36
Speaker 2: I set the stage for how I participated in his campaign,
1:55:40
Speaker 2: how number of signs that he that a friend of mine,
1:55:43
Speaker 2: and I hung for him and put out there because
1:55:46
Speaker 2: each one of these signs takes about, oh maybe about
1:55:49
Speaker 2: eight ten minutes to do, and then you drive to
1:55:52
Speaker 2: another location, bring them out, pound the fence posted into
1:55:55
Speaker 2: the ground, wire them up, and then go on from there.
1:55:58
Speaker 2: I posted face, I put post pictures on Facebook when
1:56:01
Speaker 2: we did these the different locations, and talked about it.
1:56:04
Speaker 2: I just for a joke, I posted a couple of
1:56:07
Speaker 2: times the gloves that I wore out that had the
1:56:10
Speaker 2: holes in them, A pair of shoes that going up
1:56:13
Speaker 2: and down the sides of these hills in Kentucky and
1:56:15
Speaker 2: trying to get the best location on top of the
1:56:17
Speaker 2: hill or whatever, blew out a couple of pairs of
1:56:20
Speaker 2: shoes along the way. And so you know, I did
1:56:22
Speaker 2: have some blood, sweat and tears into his campaign. But
1:56:25
Speaker 2: as I said January sixth, coming up to that vote
1:56:28
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, the fact that I had him on
1:56:30
Speaker 2: this program or on the program at the time, and
1:56:33
Speaker 2: we talked about where he stood, and he was talking
1:56:36
Speaker 2: about leaning towards confirming that vote, and I said, you know,
1:56:39
Speaker 2: from a constitutional standpoint, they are basically disenfranchising if Pennsylvania
1:56:45
Speaker 2: voters or those electors are confirmed through an illegal election,
1:56:50
Speaker 2: then that will basically disenfranchise the people of Kentucky. At
1:56:54
Speaker 2: the end of our conversation, going through the entire interview,
1:56:57
Speaker 2: he said, you've given me a lot to think about.
1:57:01
Speaker 2: That was on a Wednesday, So something happened between Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
1:57:06
Speaker 2: and then Sunday night. He comes out with this letter
1:57:09
Speaker 2: where he says he's going to vote to confirm these electors.
1:57:12
Speaker 2: And the people that signed that letter with him, somebody
1:57:16
Speaker 2: had just been sworn into Congress that day, and there
1:57:19
Speaker 2: were four other people on that list that had only
1:57:22
Speaker 2: been in Congress for maybe one term, maybe two terms tops.
1:57:27
Speaker 2: He was a senior ranking person. If he felt so
1:57:29
Speaker 2: strongly about it, if he wanted to stick it to Trump,
1:57:32
Speaker 2: he could have voted present on that instead of making
1:57:35
Speaker 2: a big fuss about I'm going to vote and I'm
1:57:38
Speaker 2: going to confirm these electors. So, in my opinion, when
1:57:41
Speaker 2: he says he's standing up for the constitution, in my opinion,
1:57:44
Speaker 2: he voided that back in twenty twenty, and then since
1:57:47
Speaker 2: then there have been several votes where he has basically
1:57:51
Speaker 2: voted standing up, as he says, for the constitution, freedom
1:57:54
Speaker 2: of speech or whatever, voting with the squad, one of
1:57:58
Speaker 2: only seventeen members to vot with the squad on this
1:58:01
Speaker 2: BDS movement to where anti Israel, and you can make
1:58:06
Speaker 2: the argument that a lot of his votes recently or
1:58:09
Speaker 2: over the last few years have been anti Semitic. And
1:58:12
Speaker 2: then probably the icing on the cake for me has
1:58:15
Speaker 2: come with his making these headlines having to do with
1:58:21
Speaker 2: the Epstein files. Now I'm not believe me. I am
1:58:26
Speaker 2: not defending the not releasing the Epstein files. I mean
1:58:30
Speaker 2: it was talked about on the campaign trail. I think
1:58:33
Speaker 2: they should have been released. I think it should have
1:58:35
Speaker 2: been done in a better fashion. But he treated it
1:58:39
Speaker 2: as though that Trump was hiding something about his past
1:58:43
Speaker 2: or was protecting certain people. I don't know, but you
1:58:48
Speaker 2: figure that these Epstein files were in the possession of
1:58:51
Speaker 2: the Democrats for four years during the Biden administration. If
1:58:56
Speaker 2: there was any and they threw the book, they threw
1:58:59
Speaker 2: everything they could at Trump to try to destroy him.
1:59:02
Speaker 2: If there was a scintilla of any information in that
1:59:05
Speaker 2: that could have been adversely pointed towards Trump, they would
1:59:09
Speaker 2: have released it. But for Thomas Massey to make the
1:59:12
Speaker 2: comment about what's he hiding. Oh well, you know he's
1:59:16
Speaker 2: now granted. The victims need to have some compensation. The
1:59:21
Speaker 2: victims need to be heard and that and whoever falls
1:59:24
Speaker 2: by the wayside as a result of these Epstein files
1:59:27
Speaker 2: and who's named in that, Yes, they need to face
1:59:30
Speaker 2: the consequences. But to blame Trump for this when you
1:59:33
Speaker 2: had four previous years of no mention whatsoever and no push.
1:59:39
Speaker 2: All of a sudden the Democrats are pushing for the
1:59:42
Speaker 2: release of the Epstein file, and Thomas Massey joins with them. Sorry, Thomas,
1:59:47
Speaker 2: you're on the wrong side of history on this. My friend,
1:59:50
Speaker 2: well my former I don't know if you're even a
1:59:52
Speaker 2: friend anymore. But anyway, that's my two cents worth. And
1:59:54
Speaker 2: as I said, you will never walk away from a
1:59:57
Speaker 2: conversation with me and say, God gosh, I don't know
2:00:00
Speaker 2: where Kevin stands on that particular issue. Phone numbers seven five, one, three,
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Speaker 2: seven four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two,
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Speaker 2: five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five krc DE
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Speaker 2: talk station eight thirty actually coming up on A thirty
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Speaker 2: four in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
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Speaker 2: fifty five krs the talk station. Yes time has come
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Speaker 2: today for local headlines and covering some local headlines for
2:00:41
Speaker 2: you this morning. Since Any plans to move its daytime
2:00:44
Speaker 2: winter shelter, raising concerns for some emergency shelter was previous
2:00:50
Speaker 2: at the the over the Rhine Recreation Center. However, the
2:00:54
Speaker 2: setting the city has said that that building is still
2:00:57
Speaker 2: under is now currently under renovation. They has partnered with
2:01:01
Speaker 2: the Saint Francis Sarraf Ministries and announced that the Extreme
2:01:04
Speaker 2: Weather Center will be located at a Saint Anthony Center
2:01:09
Speaker 2: on Republic Street. Activation of the shelter will be decided
2:01:13
Speaker 2: by city Manager Cheryl Long when the sustained daily temperatures
2:01:17
Speaker 2: are forecast to be below fifteen degrees fahrenheit. So that's
2:01:20
Speaker 2: very important for people to know where this shelter will
2:01:23
Speaker 2: be located, and the fact that it has been moved
2:01:26
Speaker 2: for so people that are depending upon that shelter know
2:01:29
Speaker 2: where they can go on the when those daytime temperatures
2:01:33
Speaker 2: plummet around fifteen degrees. So anyway, phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 2: fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three Talk
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Speaker 2: one eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound,
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Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
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Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the Talk
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Speaker 2: State eight thirty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in
2:02:02
Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC. The talk station's phone
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Speaker 2: numbers five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, five hundred one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: two three eight two, five five pound, five point fifty
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. We may be getting an
2:02:19
Speaker 2: early Christmas present, according to the News. Scott Bessen, Treasury Secretary,
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Speaker 2: said on Tuesday he expects Donald Trump to make a
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Speaker 2: decision on the new Federal Reserve chair by the holidays season,
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Speaker 2: which would be good news. Honestly, I think it would
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Speaker 2: be good news for the markets. I think it would
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Speaker 2: be good news for the optimism of people we have
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Speaker 2: been seeing over the last several up and down roller
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Speaker 2: coaster in terms of consumer sentiment, and honest to God,
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Speaker 2: I think the consumer sentiment is is uh well not
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Speaker 2: honest in my opinion, is being being push by the
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Speaker 2: spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. I can't tell
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Speaker 2: you the number of times over the last several months
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Speaker 2: that I've picked up a story regarding the economy and
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Speaker 2: seen the headline and then go to read the story
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Speaker 2: and find out that, wait a minute, where did they
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Speaker 2: come up with that headline? It has nothing to do
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Speaker 2: with what they report. You know, the headline doesn't match
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Speaker 2: the story. And if you know, then you get to
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Speaker 2: the bottom of the and sometimes it's the last paragraph
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Speaker 2: that completely negates the entire story. And one of the
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Speaker 2: things that I've been saying for several months now is
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Speaker 2: that when Donald Trump started talking about wanting to fire
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Speaker 2: Jerome Powell and then got the push back from the
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Speaker 2: press and all this sort of stuff, somebody had floated
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Speaker 2: the idea. I thought it was a great idea. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if it was Scott Bessen or somebody, but
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Speaker 2: this was probably I would say back in maybe as
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Speaker 2: early as March, that what Trump should do because Jerome
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Speaker 2: Powell's is up in May of next year, and so
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Speaker 2: what would be interesting is for him to choose who
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Speaker 2: his successor would be, have him confirmed, and then that
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Speaker 2: person will be in place. So what you'd basically have
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Speaker 2: is kind of a duel, not necessarily an actual FED.
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Speaker 2: You'll have the FED Chairman of lyon, Jerry Powell, as
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Speaker 2: I refer to him, but you would have somebody in
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Speaker 2: the wings who could be in a position of talking
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Speaker 2: about what the FED is doing, what they would do
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Speaker 2: if they were in that position, and basically be a
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Speaker 2: good critic of what's going or a supporter of what
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Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve is doing. I think the Federal Reserve
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Speaker 2: is completely wrong as far as what they're doing as
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Speaker 2: far as interest rates are concerned. And I go back
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Speaker 2: to the fact that you know, all last year, going
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Speaker 2: into twenty twenty four, all during the campaign, all we
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Speaker 2: heard from Jerome Powell is we gotta tame inflation. We
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Speaker 2: gotta get inflation down. Inflation needs to be down around
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Speaker 2: two percent. And then all of a sudden in August,
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Speaker 2: even though the job's report was reported in January where
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Speaker 2: it said that the BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
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Speaker 2: had overestimated the number of jobs created in the previous
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Speaker 2: year by something in the neighborhood. I think the number
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Speaker 2: was eight hundred and eighteen thousand jobs or something along
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Speaker 2: those lines, and that number was originally reported in January,
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Speaker 2: but the final number and all that sort of stuff,
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Speaker 2: and the final report didn't come out till August. And
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Speaker 2: in August that report came out, it seemed like everybody
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Speaker 2: was all of a sudden surprised that this was done.
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Speaker 2: And that so the previous year that every time they said, well,
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Speaker 2: X number of jobs were created, X number of jobs
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Speaker 2: were created. Look, we're setting records as far as new
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Speaker 2: jobs created, when in fact they were off by somewhere
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Speaker 2: between three quarters and a well around eight hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: jobs that they had over reported. So that was a
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Speaker 2: black guy. And then Jerome Powison, well, the job market
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Speaker 2: must be a weakening and our dual mandate was to
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Speaker 2: reduce inflation and to make sure that the job market
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Speaker 2: is strong. Well, they cut interest rates six weeks in
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Speaker 2: the middle of September of a month and a half
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Speaker 2: before the election half a percentage point in my opinion,
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Speaker 2: a political move to try to get Kamala Harris elected.
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Speaker 2: And he claims that they're independent, they're not doing any
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Speaker 2: of this sort of stuff. And then the following week,
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Speaker 2: right after that interest rate cut came about, all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, they were talking about well, the job market
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Speaker 2: is actually relatively strong and it is showing a sustained
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Speaker 2: growth all this sort of stuff, So what was the
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Speaker 2: point of lowering the interest rate? And from that point on,
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Speaker 2: they've been talking about, oh, we've got a good inflation
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Speaker 2: rate down, inflation rate down. Yet when you look at
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Speaker 2: some of these inflation numbers are right around what they've
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Speaker 2: been talking about historically high historically in the range of
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Speaker 2: between two and a half percentage points to three percent.
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Speaker 2: And for them to insist that, well, we're not going
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Speaker 2: to do anything with interest rates until it gets down
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Speaker 2: below gets around two percent, is ludicrous because it hasn't
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Speaker 2: been there and you can and you can see this
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Speaker 2: because if you look at in October, when the Federal
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Speaker 2: Reserve or when the government makes their determination in terms
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Speaker 2: of what the cola, that cost of living allowance is
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Speaker 2: going to be on Social Security, those adjustments when they
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Speaker 2: make that determination, it's based on the inflation rate around
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Speaker 2: that period of time in October, and that's what they
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Speaker 2: determine the inflation rate. When they came up with the
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Speaker 2: inflation rate this time around at two point I think
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Speaker 2: it was what two point eight percent, the social Security
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Speaker 2: checks are going up next year, Well, it was two
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Speaker 2: point eight percent, and the comment at the time was
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Speaker 2: interest rates or the inflation rate has been around and
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Speaker 2: KOLA has been anywhere from around two point five to
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Speaker 2: two point eight percent over the last several years. So
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Speaker 2: that tells me that the inflation has been around two
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Speaker 2: point seven two point five thereabouts. The last time it
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Speaker 2: was down around two percent one point four somewhere in
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Speaker 2: that range was during the last Trump administration. Immediately when
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Speaker 2: the bidens took off, when Biden took office, that inflation
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Speaker 2: rate went up. Do you remember that. Back in June
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two, inflation hit nine point one percent.
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Speaker 2: And throughout the entire Biden administration, the inflation rate was
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Speaker 2: I think, on average around for the entire four years
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Speaker 2: was right around four and a half percent, between four
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Speaker 2: and a half percent and five. During the Trump administration,
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Speaker 2: there was only one quarter I believe that the inflation
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Speaker 2: rate went above two percent. So in terms of where
2:08:50
Speaker 2: the inflation rate is and where it's heading and what's
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Speaker 2: going on, if you look at and I'm going to
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Speaker 2: set the stage here because when we get back, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to tell you where some of this inflation is
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Speaker 2: coming from, and it ain't from tariffs, and it isn't
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Speaker 2: from some of the stuff that the spoon fed regurgitators
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Speaker 2: in the mainstream media would love you to believe. I'm
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs, The
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Speaker 2: Talk Station, eight fifty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in
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Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs, the Talk Station. Let's
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Speaker 2: go to the phones and talk to Ron. Ron fifty
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Speaker 2: five krs. Thanks for listening, Thanks for calling in.
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Speaker 13: Thank you so much for great Thank you so much
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Speaker 13: for filling in for Brian. I enjoy you guys very much,
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Speaker 13: very both.
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Speaker 7: My pleasure with it.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, with the topic on inflation, there's something I wanted
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Speaker 13: to bring up that really frustrates me no ending and
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Speaker 13: it's the unrealistic expectation the regurgitate media creates. You know,
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Speaker 13: what would happen if inflation went to zero? What would
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Speaker 13: happen to prices? And I think the regurgitate media makes
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Speaker 13: people think, oh, prices are going to come down. Well,
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Speaker 13: what does it mean when inflation is zero?
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Speaker 2: Well, there's no growth, right, and it.
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Speaker 13: Means that there's no increase in prices. Doesn't mean they're
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Speaker 13: necessarily going to go down. Now, some will go down,
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Speaker 13: some might still go up, right, But the expectation that
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Speaker 13: the media is creating for everybody is that, well, if
2:10:17
Speaker 13: we were succeeding in prices would go down, but that
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Speaker 13: would be deflation.
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Speaker 2: Well, there are certain areas ron where inflation or those
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Speaker 2: prices would come down. When you look at stuff like
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Speaker 2: certain commodities like eggs, you know you had that during
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Speaker 2: the bird flu. Then you have you know, drought situations
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Speaker 2: where grain goes up. Coffee prices go up because of
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Speaker 2: down in the shell. We don't produce coffee. I think
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Speaker 2: what one percent of our coffee comes from either what
2:10:46
Speaker 2: was it Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The rest is imported,
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Speaker 2: and so we're relying on that. So those areas will
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Speaker 2: go down, will go down and fluctuate. But in terms
2:10:55
Speaker 2: of you know a lot of the everyday type of things,
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Speaker 2: you know, clothing for instance, unless there is something that
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Speaker 2: drastically happens in terms of the manufacturing process those clothing,
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Speaker 2: that clothing is not going to go down. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: something along.
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Speaker 13: Those lines, and you know. So the main message is
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Speaker 13: that the Democrats have wrecked everything by having such high
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Speaker 13: inflation that made everything go up, and even if we
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Speaker 13: get inflation to zero, doesn't mean that everything's going to
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Speaker 13: go down, right, Like you said, some things can for
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Speaker 13: certain reasons, but a lot of things may not. And
2:11:26
Speaker 13: it's just that never gets talked about, at least not
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Speaker 13: that I can hear. No, and so much for the
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Speaker 13: opportunity to talk.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate it, Ron, thank you so much. I want
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Speaker 2: to touch on also the fact that you know, when
2:11:37
Speaker 2: you're looking at inflation, it's not you know, each inflation
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Speaker 2: month is not a one off. So when you go
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Speaker 2: back to June of twenty twenty two, when inflation went
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Speaker 2: up nine point one percent, the inflation doesn't drop back
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Speaker 2: down to zero going into the next month. The inflation
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Speaker 2: is on top of that nine point one percent. So
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Speaker 2: it's the well, what people talk about in terms of
2:12:07
Speaker 2: compound interest. If you're talking about a product that costs
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Speaker 2: a dollar today and then cost a dollar three tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: and then inflation goes up another three percent, it doesn't
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Speaker 2: that that number is not a dollar three, it's a
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Speaker 2: dollar six plus, and so that it's building on top
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Speaker 2: of that. I saw a report the other day, and
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Speaker 2: I don't know why they put this out, but they
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Speaker 2: had a report that they took a market basket of
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Speaker 2: goods from nineteen eighty one and they said, well, here's
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Speaker 2: what those prices were back in nineteen eighty one. They
2:12:45
Speaker 2: went through turkey, the dressing, and all canned beans and
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Speaker 2: so on, and they came up with a market basket
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Speaker 2: of you know, the turkey costs like seven dollars or
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Speaker 2: something like that at and the total was like fourteen
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Speaker 2: dollars for a Thanksgiving meal. Those same prices in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five, when they added them up, was forty six dollars.
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Speaker 2: And that's a two hundred and thirty eight percent increase.
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Speaker 2: But when you look at where our taxes are in
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Speaker 2: terms of the average amount of taxes per household, we're
2:13:24
Speaker 2: up like three hundred percent. The salary of congressmen and
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Speaker 2: senators are up two hundred and twenty five percent. So
2:13:33
Speaker 2: when you look at food prices and inflation being up
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Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty percent from back in nineteen eighty one,
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Speaker 2: well everything else has gone up as well. And when
2:13:44
Speaker 2: you look at what is going on as far as
2:13:46
Speaker 2: our inflation, let's not forget the contracts that were signed
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Speaker 2: by the railroad workers back of a year or so ago,
2:13:54
Speaker 2: their wage increases, ups wage increases. The UPS drivers out
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Speaker 2: there are making over one hundred and seventy thousand dollars
2:14:03
Speaker 2: a year when the UAW their contract came up for
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Speaker 2: negotiation and they got a huge almost ten percent increase
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Speaker 2: every year. That goes into the cost of manufacturing different products,
2:14:15
Speaker 2: and that's going to boost inflation. So if and I'm
2:14:18
Speaker 2: not begrudging people getting what they're paid or what they're due,
2:14:22
Speaker 2: but the fact is, let's not discount the fact that
2:14:25
Speaker 2: that's going to add to inflation, and let's be honest
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Speaker 2: about that. So again, that's my two cents worth. Oh
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, I can't say two cents worth anymore
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Speaker 2: because they've done away with a penny, which is a
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Speaker 2: very stupid idea in in my opinion. Well, folks, it's
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Speaker 2: been a lot of fun. Stay tuned for Glenn Beck
2:14:42
Speaker 2: coming up top of the R. I'm Kevin Gordon in
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Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC. They Talk station