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Joe Strecker is running the big board in the command center over there, and a lot of stuff I want to get to. My buddy Jim Serger is going to be here today, that'll be about seven thirty, and we'll talk some Christmas stuff with him, talk about his latest book and what kind of year he's had, a couple other conversation items I want to get to him with.

And then my buddy Andrew Pappas will be here and that'll be in the eight o'clock hour, and Jody, we have Papas you know Papas likes that walk up music. It's got us. There's a song by Romeo Void that he likes then. I can't think the name of it, but it's very off the beaten path. I would say, does he when he comes on this show, does he demand walk up music? Adele learious? That's perfect love, I love it. That is that for that guy? That is

absolutely perfect. Here's some good news. Some guy in New Jersey has stepped forward to claim the Mega Millions jackpot from nine months ago. That jackpot was worth one point one two billion dollars, fifth highest in the in the history of the game, and this player was in New Jersey. Choosing to remain anonymous, will take home five hundred and thirty seven and a half million. This says before state and federal taxes. I think they mean after state and

federal taxes. But nine months jackpot was the first one in twenty twenty four. Claim nine months after it was one March twenty sixth, and there were thirty one consecutive Mega Million drawings without a winner before that ticket was sold, and it was purchased in Neptune Township, New Jersey. I have never I've been to New Jersey. I've not been to Neptune Township. I don't think.

In New Jersey, where the jackpot was one, lottery sales are a contributing factor to retirement funds of public servants. The people who could benefit from an unclaimed ticket are teachers, police officers, firefighters, and other public employees. The lottery said the Mega Million's jackpot reached an estimated nine hundred and forty four million ahead of the Christmas Eve, So there's a drawing tonight for the Mega Millions nine hundred and

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

start your day. What else? What else? What else? Ram Paul is out with his Joe. What's the chance we can get ram Paul on the show today? He's zero? I thought you had his personal cell number, Yeah, Joe, ram Paul. I want to pick it up at five am. But no, ram Paul. Every year he comes out with his festivus list wasteful government spending Joe, how much money? If you had to guess how much money has the federal government wasted this year or this past year? According

to rand Paul, Well, it's not day. He says ten trillion. It's not tenrally, and it is, but it is over a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars for things like let's see, this is just a partial list ghost towns on the government dime. The federal government spent ten billion dollars ten billion with a B ten billion dollars on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing almost entirely empty buildings, office buildings, and that right there is one of the main targets of the dogs.

That's why I am so looking forward to when the DOGE gets started, right the Department of Government Efficiency d OGE. That's for Vake ramaswami Elon Musk And they are promising to have a website where everything they do is going to be transparent. It's all going to be out there. I think they're even going to have a podcast and they're going to talk about what the where they are

looking to spend less money. It is a great concept, and this is one of the places where they're going to start, and they are going to tell federal employees to get back to work. You've got to come back to the office. I think the studies are out there that there are some people who can be productive while they are working at home, but by and large, productivity falls off when you have a majority of your employees working at home. I am not throwing shade on anyone

who works from home. I know a lot of people who do. If it was me, I don't think I don't I and I say this because I know that I don't think I am cut out to work from home. If maybe once in a while, but by and large, I think I'm the kind of person my type of personality. I need to come into the office. I need to come into the studio. I could broadcast from home if I wanted to. I choose not to. I choose to come to the station. It's just the way I'm wired.

But I think this whole idea that you have ninety four or ninety six percent of federal employees who all went home to work during the Wuhan. That's over now, folks, that is over, and it's time to come back to the office. And Joe Biden, the despicable Joe Biden. I'm going to get into some of the horror stories that have come out about Joe Biden and the death sentences that he commuted yesterday. It is these people that he is cutting slack to and giving last minute commutations to.

They literally are some of the worst of the absolute worst of horrific individuals. But getting back to the DOGE, this is one of the places where v Vaik and

Elon Musk have said they are going to start. You can walk around Washington, DC, and there's one one empty office building after another, and in the area surrounding DC, and the leases continue, and the maintenance continues, and the heating and cooling continues, and everything else that goes on with running and managing a building continues and no one is using it. So it's time for federal employees to

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

if well, that's just the cost of doing business. That's you know, not that big of that, that's not even a rounding air none. The mindset on wasting ten billion dollars. That has to change. And I think that is what is going to be the biggest accomplishment, and I hope that is one of the most important accomplishments that happens with the Department of government efficiency is to change that mindset.

And I was talking to Sharon Coolidge yesterday and she was reflecting on her ten years of covering City Hall and one of the stories that that she wrote about that she that jump out as her as a major story that she covered was the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District and that had a price tag of six hundred When was it six? And hold on, let me let me flip this over here. I've still got the I still got the copy here from yesterday, but I think it

was six hundred and eighty nine million. And of course I can't find it when I want to find it. But it's a it's a number. It's a number like that, and that is a number that. Yeah, six hundred and eighty million, that's a number that that is a huge number here in Cincinnati. And so, and I was talking to her, I said, you know, when you have that kind of money that's changing hands, there's a lot of people that want to get their fingers in that pie.

And that's where that's where the trouble starts. And that was a story I suggested that there's still a lot more to that story than ever met the eye. And and I believe she was in agreement with me. We got to get to a break here, but I'm going to continue on with the Festivist report from Senator Ram Paul. And if you want to jump on board five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred, do you know the numbers to call? It's Dan Carroll and for Brian Thomas on this Christmas Eve.

And Joe told me he might roll out a little bit of Christmas music today, so we'll see what happens on fifty five KRC the talk station. Here's a nine first warning, whether forecast not, is cold this morning. It's going to be cloudy today in a mild day ahead with a higher forty five. Maybe some sprinkles here and there.

But the list I am talking about right now is rand Paul and the festivist list, and I love how he co opted that from Seinfeld because what is festivus if you're a Seinfeld fan. Festivus is the airing of grievances, and so ran Paul has been airing his grievances for I don't know. This has got to be what ten or fifteen years in a row he's done this now. But it's great for people like me because it gives

us something to talk about. Let's see, so we talked about the ten billion that the government is spending to lease, furnish and maintain empty office buildings. Here's another one. A Florida man stole eight million dollars in COVID nineteen relief fund Someone could write a book on all the money that was wasted during the Wuhan. And we talked to Brad Webster about that a couple of weeks ago, and his report gets into all of that too, just the way they shovel money out the door with literally no

oversight at all. And then I remember when those stories were first popping up, I would talk about him, and then the kicker those stories was there was in a lot of them, there was no effort made to get that money back. This one's a little bit different, though. Patrick Parker Walsh of Florida, businessman turned pandemic plunderer, made headlines for what he did. Stole nearly eight million dollars in federal COVID nineteen relief funds to buy Sweetheart Island

a private paradise of his own. The bold act of fraud which led to his sentencing to sixty six months in federal prison. Joe has Joe Biden pardoned this guy for stealing nonviolent crime. Got to give these people a second chance sixty six months in federal prison. So at least this guy did sometime. Court documents illustrate the brazen acts of deceit sixteen fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program.

And then there was a story the other day about a bunch of Hollywood celebrities that cashed in on the old PPP program millions of dollars, and I think Oprah might have been one of them. Want to go back and look that up. But the PPP program, featuring fictitious employees and companies, fabricated out of thin air the documents outline of staggering eleven million, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars and requested PPP loan funds, of which he managed

to obtain almost five million. Unsatisfied with one illicit endeavor, he he delved into economic injury disaster loans and raked in almost another three million dollars with little oversight or accountability to the COVID nineteen relief program represented an opportunity to plunder that only Blackbeard could have imagined. Walsh's case is just one of a trove of government oversight failures where the swindlers of pandemic relief programs ran ramp at.

Many of them were from Russia or other places overseas. According to an analysis by the Associated Press, individuals engage in fraudulent activities potentially stole over two hundred eighty billion two hundred eighty billion dollars from COVID nineteen relief funding, with an additional one hundred and twenty three billion being

squaderned or misused. The losses account for approximately ten percent of the four point two trillion dollars the government allocated thus far for COVID nineteen relief four point two trillion dollars. And so when you look at that number and you say, well, we only lost two hundred eighty billion of it, it's a fraud. That kind of stuff has got to stop. And this four point two trillion did not need to

be spent. Maybe some of it, I think you can make a legitimate case, but four point two trillion dollars and just let it go out the door like that. The one thing that the report by Ran Paul doesn't indicate is if this guy made restitution at all. Still eight million dollars did he pay any of it back, but at least they've got a little tiny island in Florida for collateral on that. Not sure it's worth eight million dollars. Maybe it is, Maybe I'm wrong, but there's

a picture of it. Doesn't look like you can It doesn't look like there's a lot of room to put anything on it. Five point twenty five Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. I'm fifty five KRC detalk sticks. Happy holidays from Woodhall, known for over seventy one years. D nine first one forecast not as cold today, We'll have a high of forty five, mostly cloudy tonight, some rain as possible as well the overnight low thirty six. Here's the Christmas Day forecast, scattered rain and Christmas Day high of

forty eight. Then some showers continue on into Thursday, when it will be mostly cloudy and we'll see a high of fifty six. So some mild weather happening out there. It is hold on one, well, it's forty eight at fifty five KRC detalk stations. Merry Christmas Eve. At Christmas Eve, Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas. Continuing to go down the list of the Festivist report, from Ram Paul put this out yesterday. Let's see, how about twelve million dollars for

a pick a ball complex? Any pickaball players in the crowd. I guess you can make a very nice pickleball complex for twelve million dollars. This was in Las Vegas, and I can't, Joe, it's hard to imagine that Las Vegas couldn't cough up twelve million dollars for a pick a ball complex, isn't it? Twelve million dollars? Las Vegas is like, look, we don't have it. We just can't find that in

the budget anywhere. And so the federal government coughed up twelve million dollars for a pickle ball Congratulations, that's great. The Department of Energy, this is a great number right here, spent fifteen and a half billion. So you thought ten billion, four empty federal government buildings was a lot. No, fifteen and a half billion dollars to do? What to push Americans towards electric vehicles that they don't want? Electric vehicle

owners report to have nearly eighty percent more problems. I don't if you want to own an electric car, police by all means own an electric car. They should if companies want to make electric cars and people want to buy them. That's the American way. But the government should not be forcing these things down our throat, and the subsidies of American taxpayer dollars for people who make, sell, or buy electric vehicles should not exist to my way

of thinking. That's just plain and simple right there. Let this market develop on its own at its own pace. And I'm sure I just read we're in California. Gavin Newsome wants to go full speed ahead with the idea of having all vehicles or what it's like, ninety or ninety five percent of vehicles that are sold by the year twenty I believe it's twenty twenty thirty five that they won't be any gasoline powered cars being sold in the state of California. And there's still people who think

this is a great idea. But electric vehicle owners report they have nearly eighty percent more problems than owners of gas powered vehicles, facing issues like unreliable performance, difficulty finding a charging station, ev battery is struggling in the cold, and we see those videos every year. It's freezing cold outside, it's twenty below people trying to go out there and start their cars. They go little sign that lights up, it's too cold. It's too cold to charge your battery.

It's too cold to start the car. So what would be nice in the case like that, that you have a good old ice engine. They call them ice engines. Now internal combustion engines. Got one of those standing by to get you where you need to go. Let's see long charging times. These are one of the issues that electric vehicle owners have, higher maintenance costs, limited driving range. Despite the growing list of headaches for EV owners, the Biden administration is eager to waste your hard earned dollars

on unpopular trend, the unpopular transition. Americans have spoken, and they overwhelmingly prefer reliable gas powered vehicles. Vehicle manufacturers are feeling the sting of producing vehicles that consumers don't want, losing money on every EV car they build. Ford had a loss of one point three billion dollars in its EV division in the first quarter alone. Lucid Motors reported losses of two hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars per

car sold. Let's see. Rivian reported losses of one point four or five billion dollars in the same period. These are huge numbers, and I don't think they have numbers for Tesla in here. But the Biden administration is determined to throw twelve billion dollars at automakers to push EV production forward. It's as if they think throwing taxpayer dollars at the problem will magically make us forget that Americans

still prefer gas powered car. Of the twelve billion, ten billion dollars will come from the Energy Department, and an additional two billion will come from the Inflation Reduction Act, So there's that wonderful piece of legislation again. The Energy Department will also make three and a half billion dollars available to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for evs and the US grid, despite the fact that most battery materials

are imported from abroad. Can you say China? So Trump is looking at all this and there's going to be some serious changes, at least we hope there's going to be some serious changes in the way this country deals with electric vehicles, because these electric vehicles are not the answer to saving the planet or changing the climate or making the weather better for anyone. And this kind of this kind of waste, fifteen and a half billion dollars on just from the Department of Energy to try and

shove electric vehicles down our throats. Unbelievable, And the list goes on, and so do I. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas on fifty five krc the talks Days V nine first warning weather forecast not as cold today, It'll be cloudy, will have a high of forty five. Clouds continue tonight and maybe a little bit of rain during the during the night time or overnight hours. The other night low thirty six. Heading into Christmas Day, some scattered rain showers.

It'll be a warm Christmas with a high forty eight. Showers continue Christmas night into Thursday, and it'll be mostly cloudy on Thursday and a high of fifty six.

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

Festivus Report. How about the Disinformation Index? The Department of State wasted three hundred and thirty thousand dollars to fund the censorship of non liberal and conservative media. How about that spending our tax dollars to keep our voices down. That is just fantastic. The influencer effect hit foreign policy. The Department of State squandered four million dollars eight hundred and forty thousand on influencers. The Department of State State

spending four million dollars on influencers. Why on earth will they be doing that? Influencers in other countries? And I gotta find the details on that one. And got I've got two different lists here. One is the one was put out by Bright Barton and the other is the actual report itself. I just don't understand. Let's see the Department of State, by a man, State Department wasted a lot of money this year, spent three million dollars on

girl centered climate action. Girl centered climate action in Brazil. That is fantastic. Let's see Department of State spent two point one one million dollars for border security not in the United States but in Paraguay. Two point one million dollars for Paraguay and border security. That is just fantastic. This is the one that's getting a lot of headlines. Health and Human Services spent nearly a half million dollars

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

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

studies and grants really using your tax dollars. One of the studies examining cocaine took place in New York University and why you got four hundred and nineteen thousand dollars to investigate whether rats placed in positive environments would be more likely to abstain from cocaine than rats and negative and isolating environments. Here's my question, what is a positive environment for a rat? The last time I was in New York City, I saw lots of rats down there

in the subway system. Is that a positive environment? Don't rats choose to live where there's water leaking, where there's where there's garbage, where there's filth. They seem to like those sorts of environments. Is that a positive environment for a rat? Researchers placed rats in small compartments injected them with cocaine to create a positive association with that location.

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

social environments. That is, that's fantastic. So you're going to put a rat in a box, cut them off from all the other rats, and only offer him cocaine, and you're surprised that he keeps going back for the cocaine brilliant, but it was only four hundred nineteen grand and Doge can't get here soon enough. Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRCV talkstations. iHeartRadio is your number one app for the holidays.

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Let's see, let's see word some more tax dollars getting wasted. How about magic? The federal government spent seven million dollars on various magical projects thanks to the visionary minds at the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the University of North Carolina, we can reveal the mystifying podcast Magic in the United States. Listen to this, Joe, this

will be of interest to you. For the astonishing price of three hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars, you can enjoy the sixth episode season, A deep dive into Magic. Joe producing a podcast? Six episodes of a podcast? Is there any need, to your way of thinking, to spend three hundred eighty eight thousand dollars just tracker, just tracker does it? Does a little work podcasting, and no three hundred eighty eight thousand dollars to produce six podcasts. I don't think so.

That is just beautiful. The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the American Museum of the Moving Image to update its exhibition on the Magic Lantern Show and Nickelodeon's That's that is fantastic. The National Science Foundation awarded ninety four grand to the study of the Magic School Bus. The Magic School Bus. Wasn't that a cartoon back back in the day on PBS. Yeah, and someone needed ninety four grand to study that that offering.

How about six million, two hundred ninety three thousand from the Department of Defense on a Magic City Discovery Center whatever the hell that is. But the DoD saw fit to spend over six million dollars on it. Absolutely unbelievable, And people say, you know what, there's really not that much room to cut. I beg to differ, And the festivest list lays it all out there. It is five fifty five and thank you so much for listening on this New Year's not New Year's but Christmas Eve, New

Year's Eve. That'll be a different story. On fifty five KRCV talk stations.

Brian Thomas. Today. If you missed the first hour, we spent the whole hour talking about the Festivus list put out by Senator Ran Paul detailing how our government has wasted over a trillion dollars a trill with a T with a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars in wasted government money and just the most things that you couldn't even imagine that we're spending on money on ridicululess, ridiculous, ridiculous.

We'll get back to that in a little bit, but there's other stuff I need to talk about this morning, and one was there is it was about this time yesterday morning that the White House came out and told us that Joe Biden was commuting death sentences of federal prisoners on death row. Thirty seven federal death row convicts are going to be saved because of Joe Biden's humanity towards man and in this instance, And this doesn't happen all that often. But I have to give some credit

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

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

for the Internet connection. I can get an Internet connection on the computer in front of me and even on my laptop over here, then we can have TV in this room. I'm just saying that would be my Christmas wish for this year for the fifty five KRC studio. Be fantastic. But it was about this time yesterday when we found out that Joe Biden was letting all these killers go. And of course, look, I mean this guy,

Joe Biden, he is he is unwavering on this. I mean, he's got deep feelings about well, you know, what's right, and you know, you just can't the federal government just can't go around killing people. No, Joe Biden knows what's best because of his you know, deep abiding faith in what's right and what's wrong. But the thing is he didn't always feel that way. And again credit to CNN for pointing that out, and they rolled out some video of Joe Biden the devout Catholic that he is talking

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

I certainly didn't in that one. But are our friend over at front Page mag Daniel Greenfield, did a little research on some of the individuals that Joe Biden has seen fit to allow to live the rest of their life on the taxpayer dime. And maybe one day, I know it says life without parole, but we all know that there are exceptions to that rule too. Maybe one day these people will walk for you again. We can

only hope. The recommendation of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Biden has stepped in to save death row inmates from the death penalty, commuting their sentences. He commuted the sentences of monsters like Jorge Avila Torres, who raped and murdered nine year old Crystal Tobias and eight year old Laura Hobbs while they were riding their bikes on Mother's Day. He also commuted the sentence of Cobanni Savage, the drug kingpin

responsible for one of the worst crimes in Philadelphia. After running what prosecutors described as perhaps the most violent drug gain gang ever seen in the city, Savage murdered twelve people, including firebombing a family of six. The family Savage firebombed in two thousand and four belonged to Eugene Coleman, his former confident turned FBI informant. In retaliation, Savage killed Coleman's mother, plus his cousin, his infant son, and three other children.

Coleman was in prison at the time, and the ages of those he killed were Kadja ten, Marcella twelve, a family friend, Sean Rodriguez fifteen. Killing kids with Savage especialty. The thirty four year old man, a drug kingpin serving thirty years in federal prison for drug trafficking in Philadelphia, was caught on tape vowing to kill young children of witnesses who testified against him at his trial in two

thousand and five. The kids got to pay for making my kids cry, he said, according to a copy of the indictment, I want to smack one of their four year old sons in the head with a bat straight up. I have dreams about killing their kids, killing their kids,

cutting their heads off. Authorities alleged Savage ordered a blaze in October of two thousand and four to the North Philadelphia home of cocaine traffic returned informant Eugene Coleman killed Recoleman's mother, Toddler's son, is aunt, niece, and three children. Prosecutors say two of Savage's fellow gang members set the fire. He joked afterward that barbecue sauce should be poured on the victims, according to the indictment. Savage also threatened to

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

kill everyone you love, Savage told the witness. According to the indictment, he said he said he's got a daughter, my own way, or let me say, yep, he's got a daughter down my way. I'm gonna blow her little head off. She like five. So that's uh, that's the guy, one of the guys that Joe Biden saw fit to commute the sentence of no, we can't and we can't have the death penalty for a guy like that, because you know Joe Biden, he just he just knows better,

just knows better. And it looks the others that he that he cuts slack to yesterday, they're no better than this dude either. Six fifteen, got to get to a break. Damn Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the talk station. Then first warning forecast not as cold today, It's going to be cloudy, mile to high forty five. Mostly cloudy tonight, the overnight low thirty six. Heading into Christmas Day, some scattered rain. It'll be on the warm side of high

of forty eight. Then showers continue tonight.

possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration is imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate motivated mass murder. Boy, I'll tell you what the the nuance there. You don't get that just anywhere, because you know, Joe knows hate, and we certainly can't have that in this country. We can't have terrorism either, And Joe Biden is really on top of that. Make no mistake. He says, I condemn these murders. Grieve

for the victims of their despicable acts. Oh he grieves, Yes he does. And not only does he grieve, he is reaching out to the families of those murder victims, and he is grieving with them. You can be assured of that. He aches for the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss. But guided by there's a big butt there. That's a big that's a big old button. Oh, these families have suffered these horrible things. Joe Biden's got

a big old button there. Guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice President and now President, I'm more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. Now let the state level death penalty that that one's okay, federal level now can't have it in good conscience. I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.

And so therefore Joe Biden is cutting slack to murderers rapists, and one of those he cuts like too is Ricardo an Says Junior and Daniel Troya Florida judge sentenced those two men too death in two thousand and nine after finding them guilty of murdering a family of four on the highway. According to NBC News, Jose Escobedo, the father of Louis Julian four, Lewis Damian three, and the husband of Yessica Escobado, was involved in a drug ring with

these two Troya and Sans. Yessica Escobedo was shot eleven times while cradling her two boys and trying to protect them. The two toddlers were shot a total of ten times, and Jose was shot five times alongside his family and found dead on the side of the highway. The outlet reported, I must confess I have no confidence that mister Troya would not do this again if the opportunity he presented itself.

The judge who sentenced. The men said at the time, adding the Troya is enormously dangerous with no regard for taking a human life. Thomas Morocco Hager sentenced to death in two thousand and seven. He was found guilty of stabbing nineteen year old Barbara White. According to The Washington Times, White was found bound, gagged and stabbed eighty two times in the bathtub of her apartment eighty two times. Her one year old daughter is the one who made the

discovery of the body. The one year old was not physically harmed during the murder, but upon finding her mom, left bloodstained footprints around the apartment, according to The Washington Times. Imagine that, Let's see Biden committed the sentence of Thomas Sanders, sentenced to death after he kidnapped and killed a twelve year old and murdered her. In twenty ten, Sanders began dating Sullen Roberts, and the pair took Robert's twelve year old daughter on a road trip that eventually led to

their murders. While on the road, Sanders took the mother and daughter to an Arizona desert, where he shot Sullen Roberts in the head and forced Lexis Roberts back in the car. Sanders then shot Lexus Robert four times, cut her throat, and left her body in the woods. And these are the type of people that Joe Biden says, we cannot let these people suffer the death penalty. Terrible crimes, terrible, just terrible. But got to let them live on the

taxpayerdim for the rest of their natural life. Doesn't feel the same way about babies in the womb, though. It's amazing. It's amazing how I mean, the mind of this guy, the way it works, it's something to be cold. I mean, really, we are fortunate to have him. They're in the office. We said to see him go on January twentieth, six, twenty six on fifty five KRCV talk stations The Truth and Nothing. But this is the Sean Hannity Morning Minute.

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have the story. I talked a lot about this yesterday, the story that came out with the the Wall Street Journal talking about how almost from day one of his administration, actually one of the reports I read talked about it was actually before the administration started, how they were covering up for this guy, making excuses, keeping keeping people at arms length, putting up a wall between him and his

cabinet members. And Beth Bregel at The Federalist read about this yesterday and was moved to write a really what I think is a moving column. And Beth writes that Joe Biden and his handlers wanting you to believe that he use life just a few days before Christmas actually has Two days before Christmas, the White House announced through an online written statement that all but three people on federal death Row will have their sentences commuted from a

death sentence to life without possibility of parole. Biden is on a high profile virtue signaling role. Last week, Biden had a phone call with Pope Francis to discuss efforts to advance peace around the world during the holiday season.

The White House handlers wrote in a statement conspicuously leaving out the christ based name of the holiday Christmas, President thanked the Pope for has continued advocacy to alleviate global suffering, including his work to advance human rights and protect religious freedoms. Biden also graciously accepted his holiness Pope francis invitation to visit the Vatican next month. But we know Biden doesn't care about human rights and has worked to a spanned

abortion access. Just last month, in the White House, he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Nation's the nation's highest civilian honor, to Cecil Richards, former President of

Parenthood Federation of America. During her period of leadership two thousand and six twenty eighteen, more than thirteen point three million unborn babies were killed in the United States as the federal has previously reported Richard's earned five hundred thousand dollars a year and facilitated more deaths than there were in the Holocaust. Killing voiceless, innocent babies doesn't stir Biden's conscience,

but killing killers does make no mistake. I condemned these murders, grieved for the victims of their despicable acts, and eight for their families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss, reads Biden's online statement. According to the statement, the decision to commute these death sentences was guided by his conscience. More convinced than ever we must stop the use of

the death penalty at the federal level. The statement came from the White House, currently decorative with sparkling Christmas trees, traditionally used to celebrate the birth of Christ. But in today's American culture, the unborn Jesus we anticipate in advent, would be at risk of death by abortion, and his story would never be told. Biden's administration is committed to saving killers and killing saviors because in so many ways, all children are saviors to the people who love them.

Babies change everything they come, whether parents are ready or not. In all sorts of complicated ways before marriage, before graduation, in a car on the way to the hospital in a lowly starlet manger far from home. Pregnancy and birth are the start of the story that will include hardships and the most incredible reward. Having children changes everything, changes you. Even the most flawed parents can't have hope their children will do better. Biden's Christmas reward for death row murderers

does nothing for the victims or the inmates. It will hopefully be the last time this vapid president squanders an opportunity to move the nation in a more loving direction. Rather than protecting the agents of death, Biden could have led an effort to change our culture into one that recognizes the humanity of the unborn. He could have developed policies that encourage women in complicated pregnancies to allow their babies to live. Instead, Biden and his handlers leave a

dark legacy that celebrates evil. Six point thirty five Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas fifty five KRCV talk station.

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and these these criminals almost like he did. Remember when he was talking about the cocaine dealers and how if you have you could have something to say, he holds up a quarter and he talks about if you have something the size of this quarter. And this is when crack cocaine was first coming on to the scene, and he was talking about how bad crack cocaine was and how terrible it was, and people who were using the crack cocaine and people who were dealing the crack cocaine

and making it possible. And and that was probably right around the same time that his son was indulging in all of these things. So the guy's a total kypocrite. I may maybe he'll stand before Saint Peter and say, look, I was on the right side, because he's been on all sides of just about every issue that you can possibly think of. And the question, the question now is who's making these decisions for him. We've asked this question for how long now? Who is running the country and

we know for certain that it's not Joe Biden. Well, that's what I was gonna say.

it comes to hate crimes. When it comes to, you know, some of these other killers, that we have to have nuance there and say that these killers are worthy of the death penalty. But these other ones who you know, the cut the heads off of children, who kill parents in front of their children, who rape and murder and slit the throats of young kids, those people don't deserve the death penalty. How do you how do you even approach that sort of nuance.

from pursuing their agenda. And they know all that we're going to hear all this talk about oh how classy the Bidens are and the peaceful transfer of power, and boy, there's going to be you know, and you know, west Side, Jim, you know it's coming when it comes time for Biden to leave the White House, there's going to be all this nostalgia and oh my god, this long political career coming to an end. Brilliant, this brilliant that you know, this country's going to miss Joe Biden. What a bunch

of crap. This guy. It deserves to go down quite possibly the worst president this country's ever had.

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sounds great. I even have Vinyl record. Vinyl Records making a comeback. Will you walk into the store and you can see whole sections now where they sell where they sell vinyl records. Another study on coffee got to be having some coffee this morning. International study published in Cancer has found that drinking more than four cups of coffee a day forget too, it's up to four now. If you do that, you may reduce the risk of some

head and nick cancer by seventeen percent. The research analyzed data from number two twenty five thousand individuals across fourteen studies, provides the strongest evidence yet of coffee's potential for cancer fighting properties. While there has been prior research on coffee and tea consumption and reduce risk of cancer, the study highlights their varying effects on different subsites of head and neck cancer, including the observation that even a decaffeinated coffee

had some positive impact. So there you go, another study showing the positive impacts of coffee. Are there any studies out there? I think years ago there were some studies out there that we're talking about coffee and the negative impacts, and then of course studies like this come along and show the positive impacts. I think this is the first one I've seen this talking about four cups a day, though, and when you're in this business, four cups a day

just doesn't sound like that much I've got. I've got my thermist full of coffee. There's at least almost I love this thermist. It's an old one, but it holds almost an entire coffee pot. Jo. Do you make coffee

at home? Do you use the the A lot of people use the what is that the curerig now where you make up the one cup at a time, And uh, I to my way of thinking, when you when you use the krig and you put the pod in there and then you press the button, you get one cup of coffee, and you still have to fill up the reservoir in the back. And then when after your you know what what two or three or four cups, the reservoir gets and you got to fill it up again. I say, it just seems like too much work to me.

Uh yeah, we know, we we ustill. We still have the old fashioned for it for as long as I'm able to. And then the coffee makers don't last as long as they used to. But we've got a coffee maker at home. My wife and I have had four I know, gosh, five or six years now, that's a long time. Your mom still has a percolator. I saw one of those at a party the other day. The coffee is bubbling up in the middle. My parents used

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

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

examining witnesses. So the House Ethics Committee can gather all this evidence they want and then what their report said didn't say he was guilty of it. They said they found a lot of evidence that supports these allegations against Matt Gates. So they gathered evidence that Matt Gates of Florida paid multiple women for sex, including a seventeen year old high school junior, used illegal drugs like cocaine and ecstasy,

and obstructed efforts by Congress to investigate his conduct. In other words, it sounds like he does everything that your average Democrat does. According to a draft of its findings that just The News obtained, whether they got it before the official release, but it all came out yesterday, here's

what they said. The committee determined there is a there is substantial evidence that Representative Gates violated House rules and other standards of conduct, prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress. The draft report also said it did not find evidence the Gates had engaged in sex trafficking, as some had alleged that would. I guess that would be really bad

if he engaged in sex trafficking. That to me sounds sounds like crossing a line there. And wasn't that what the media was running wild with for a while there, talking about, oh, well, Gates was, you know, pimping girls out and running these sex rings and all this other stuff. But they said they did not find evidence in that, and Gates himself put out a statement a few days ago talking about how, you know, he has not always been the most upstanding person that in his younger days.

And I don't know how old Gates is. I guess I could look that up, Joe, Can you look that up and tell me how old Gates is right now? I think he's maybe what mid forties, late forties something like that, maybe early to mid forties, I don't know, but this was he's forty two, early forties, so he was in his younger days. Yeah, he admitted that he was out running around living the single life, partying, hooking up I guess, you know, with different apps and stuff

like that. He said. He admitted that he paid money to some women that he liked. I don't know what there's a there. I know I looked at the report yesterday and there's a chart in there of some of the money that he paid out to some of these women. But again, there was no cross examination of these women who gave their testimony to the committee. Let's see. Let's see.

The report lays out the sort of details of Gates's alegedra ledged drug fueled partying with young women, based on interviews with those women and eyewitnesses, but save some of its harsish criticism for the former Florida Republican's refusal to cooperate completely with the years long ethics inquiry. Why would you? Why would you cooperate with such a thing? It's it's standard. I mean again, I go back to brad Winstrop and

to my way of thinking. It's a little bit different when you're looking at a government agency that has a responsibility to preserve documents. It has responsibility to document what it does because it's all it's all taxpayer funded research, it's all taxpayer funded activity, it's taxpayer funded work product, and those things must be preserved. Those at that evidence

should not be destroyed. And when you when I talked to brad Winstrip, he talked about how documents were not forthcoming from various government agencies, how they kept things, did everything they could to keep things hidden. So when we're talking about Matt Gates and what appears to have been mostly private behavior, I didn't read all of the report yesterday, but I really didn't see how all this private behavior that he was gauging. And even though it was it

may have been poor behavior. I don't know that he was doing on this, any of this on the on his public on the public dime. So and maybe maybe he was, I don't know if if if he was,

I didn't get to that part in the report. The draft report A legends that he refused to comply with a subpoena demanding an interview be sent only only partial demanding an interview and sent only partial written answers, he intentionally withheld information about his trip with women to the Bahamas and the fact that he took a prohibited, free private plane ride back. Oh my god, Matt Gates flew on a private plane, Joe. Can you imagine such a thing that a lawmaker in Congress would fly to the

Bahamas on a private plane. Oh my god.

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

of the United States. And it is beyond it is just beyond the height of hypocrisy for some of these, especially Democrat representatives and members of Congress, to criticize and condemn Matt Gates when the likelihood is very possible that they have done if not the exact same thing, far worse, far worse. And Matt Gates says he even said one time that he would go back to Congress expose every single one of members of Congress who have taken advantage of the slush fund that's up there to pay people

off for these sexual harassment claims. And you know what I'm talking about, how many millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to to settle these claims, to make them go away. And you know, they've got carte blanche to carry on as they see fit. So I'm certainly hoping that a lot of these people tread carefully. And I don't know how much of what kind of legs this

report is going to have. Yes, it's uh, I mean, it's it's sallacious, all the stuff that's in there, talking about hooking up with multiple women and you know, paying for the partying and paying for drug sex and rock and rolls and so like, it's like a weekend at the Clinton's. So the Matt Gates report is out there, it's there for everyone to read. He's defending himself saying, you know, he didn't do some of the worst stuff. He's owning some of it. Then yeah, I had some

poor behavior, but uh, not all of it. And it goes on and on and on. I mean they, I mean, they've got a lot of evidence that he did this stuff. But in the long run, it doesn't really matter. The drugs and all that stuff, that that stuff should not happen. But for these people, of these members of Congress to try and point the finger of blaming him for partying with young women, doing some drugs, flying on a private jet somewhere, No, that doesn't hold water with me, and

I suspect most of you either. Five point three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred if you want to get on board, those aren't the numbers to call on this Christmas Eve. Dan Carol for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCV talk station, the New d nine First Warning weather forecast not as cold today, It's going to be mild, the cloudy, a high of forty five, some showers possible tonight on this Christmas Eve night heading into Christmas Day, the overnight

low only thirty six. Santa has no snow for his slay. How will he deliver the giddies? How will he deliver the presence? I used to worry about that when I was a kid. Christmas Day scattered rain shower is going to be warm a high of forty eight, and the showers continue overnight intwo Thursday, when it will be mostly cloudy in a high a fifty six forty four At fifty five KRCV talk.

sixty six. He was the the mayor of Fort Worth before becoming Before getting elected to Congress, it turns out that she has been missing from Washington for six months.

Six months, hasn't cast a vote in DC. Her absence had generated great concern in her district, which is the Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area, and apparently her staff and her son had been running cover for her as she was absent from Congress for six months, and finally a reporter at the Dalex Express got a tip and found her living at a memory care facility eighty one years old. Apparently they put her in there after she'd been found

wandering through the neighborhood lost and confused. But how do you go, Joe, how do how can you be absent six months? And and no one, no one notices, no one says anything. Only in Congress. But uh yeah, that's a that's a very strange story. That's uh kay Granger. It I mean, I mean, she seems like she's a Republican,

seems like a good woman. I don't know that much about her, but the notion that and especially with when you look at the slim majorities that the Republicans had in the House, trying to uh hold off the nuttiness and the nonsense of the Democrats. Her son told The New York Post that, uh he said that the whole thing was a load of bs. That she moved into a condo and an independent living community because she was

getting bored and lonely at her Fort Worth apartment. The sources close to Granger, including her son, her current spokesperson another source familiar, have denied to the Post that she's living in a memory care unit. But that's where they found her. So this is a woman that obviously needs help, and it shouldn't have I just don't think that six

months should have elapsed where she is. She's not at the office, not going to committee meetings, not showing up for votes before someone does something and finds out what the heck is going on. Just a little human decency. So we'll see how that story plays out. But got to wish her all the best. Tough time for her and her family, But six months and no one says anything.

We got to get to a break. And then after the break, my buddy Jim Serger is going to be here talk about his latest book and talk about the season, and we'll we'll just have a nice conversation. So I'm looking forward to that. As we roll on till nine o'clock this morning, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCD Talk Station D nine first morning weather forecast. It is going to be mild today, cloudy, a high of forty five, maybe a few rain showers moving in tonight

the other night low thirty six. Christmas Day will be cloudy, maybe some scattered rain, a high of forty eight. Rain showers continue from Christmas Day into Thursday, where it's going to be overcast and cloudy a high of fifty six.

I mean, he's done so much in life and now he's living the dream, writing books and all the rest of it. Had him on when his book Jump came out, I believe that was in the summertime, and now his latest book is nine to eleven, A Time to Always Remember, Bond of Firefighters. And Jim Serger, it's great to talk to you. Merry Christmas and welcome to fifty five KRC. How are you doing this morning?

You've got a lot of great books, but this one. It seems to me anyway that this one's got to be taking a special place for you.

or a sister. They're there. They took off. Some of them didn't even ask for permission to go. They detected or called their chief and said I'm headed up. So it was a very heartfelt book. A lot of personal stories I made it in there, just heartwarming, gut wrenching. It's a horrific day. But the silver lining is America was united and united. And that's that's what the book about, is the American spirit, how powerful it is when a crisis happens. We're there to help each other out.

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

love it. And I was in the Navy, and I have a lot of military friends, and I have friends that are firefighters, so I've seen the benefit of tunnel to towers firsthand. So why not give back.

looking for a way to give back. You know, to towers as a foundation for eleven hours a month all year round, correlates eleven to nine to eleven. So just some very very minute goes a long way us.

those as we continue on. Dan Carroll with Brian Thomas or for Brian Thomas with Jim Serger on fifty five KRC, the talk station Run a Business. Been my first wanting forecast. Not as cold today. It's going to be mild, under cloudy skies, a high today of forty five. It'll be cloudy with some possible rang showers tonight heading into Christmas Day, scattered rain likely. On Christmas Day it'll be warm with a high of forty eight, and then Thursday mostly cloudy, a high of fifty six fifty six.

and I love that about Christmas. So I thoroughly enjoy sending out Christmas cards. I think it's just absolutely a tradition we cannot lose. It's like a fruitcake. I get a fruitcake every year.

to cross that. I don't want to cross that threshold. I have not relied on artificial intelligence for anything that I do, although I suppose I could for show prep and other things like that getting ready for the radio. But to my way of thinking, it's like it's like coloring your hair. Right, if you've crossed that line one time where you've got to get rid of some of the gray, you know, whatever it is, you sort of never come back for that. What is it for you?

Do you would? When you're writing books and researching and doing things like that, Maybe you use it. Maybe I don't know, Maybe you use artificial intelligence, But what's it like for you dealing with those sorts of issues.

footnoted an article that was they found obsolete. So had Jim done the research himself, it would all been perfectly fine. So if that starts to happen, people are really really going to find out, Wow, this is not legit.

over to someone else's way of thinking. Who creates? Because I mean, to my way of thinking, that's really what it is. The the whatever that artificial intelligence is, is going to be a reflection somehow of the person that created it.

I think that their people will catch on very quickly that this is not one genuine from the source, because if the guy or the girl never spoke that way to begin with, all of a sudden, they're sending out these very very long, in depth, massive words. They're like, where'd you come.

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little Bob Seger, a little drummer boy. And you know, you know what I like about that is I can listen to that voice and I know right away it's Bob Seger. And you talk about authentic and the songs that Bob Seger wrote and the way he performed in concert, there was nothing fake about that guy at.

a winter wonderland. So when I think of Bob Seeger and a little drummer boy, I just think of all the positive memories and the traditions that my family has had, from going downtown to see Poke and Patter, to the ge electric train set downtown and getting your little cookies, to my mom and dad catching the nip they always needed a nip to drink downtown when we were walking. Yeah, all you know, all the Christmas little elves, of robotic

little elves downtown, just all those things. So when I hear Bob Seeger or just about any Christmas song, really dan, to be honest with you, I think of all the fun I had as growing up as a kid, and my wife and ies, you know, and my family. Last night, they all came over here and we were playing games all night. It was just a lot of fun. We had Christmas music in the background. And I'm a tough guy,

but my heart was opened last night. It was so much fun watching everybody laugh and the exchange a little bit of gifts.

young people. I know you and I have talked before, and I complained about how young people constantly had their nose and their cell phone, as if you know, the answer to life's problems were contained in there somehow, and and you know, everything was being compartmentalized, that there were no longer any more face to face conversation, and everything

human interaction was becoming so superficial. I really think, and maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I think I'm really starting to sense a shift, especially as when it comes to young people, of how they deal now with interpersonal relations. And it may sound silly, but one of the areas where I'm seeing it is over the years in this job and the jobs that

I've had, I've dealt a lot with professional athletes. And there was a time when I absolutely despise professional athletes because I knew, in my heart of hearts, they didn't care about the game, they didn't care about other people. All they cared about was that contract and making as much money as they possibly could. Now, the drive to make money and make as much money as you possibly

can is still there. But I think we have an entire generation of athletes now and young people who find themselves in these positions, and there's a humbleness to a lot of these individuals now knowing that they are truly are fortunate and just because they have exceeded their wildest dreams at a young age. They do not look down on other people and hold themselves above others simply because you know they're making You know they're making millions and

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

we appreciate that a lot more. And I'll give you a funny story. Dave Collins played for the Cincinnati Reds back in the late seventies, and he actually would come to my baseball practices here in Anderson Township. And I got a group team photo and there's Dave Collins in the photo. He used to come to a lot of our practice. Buddy Bell and Ronnie Oaster were the freshman basketball coaches at mid Neck for a few years. So that old tradition of still being involved in the community.

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

look up to them, they want to be them. So if you're five years old, ten years old and you're seeing Joe Burrow drive the Batmobile down the beach Mont Avenue.

a break, but who the heck cares? It's Christmas Eve, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk Stations.

for our podcast? And can you accomplish that?

And the the state, the Great State of Texas sued. I don't know if Ohio joined them in this suit and said, no, you're overstepping. I guess we had to something for those eighty thousand new I R S agents that were hired under another imbecile named Joe Biden.

million dollars. And God knows that with all the casinos in Las Vegas and everything that goes on out there, there's no way they can put their hands on twelve million dollars in Las Vegas to build a pickle ball court. So thank god they were able to rely on the federal government for that.

If we can get to the mindset where this kind of spending needs to stop, I think that's the first step into getting the fiscal house in order.

So you need to look at that, and the bigger stuff will then eventually take care of itself. I'm not saying ignore the bigger things. I'm looking forward to dos and and and and and hearing of all the waste and fraud at the federal government level. But you know when you see your local local township, end or park district and or uh school district spending money frivolously, that.

And then I think of the seniors or fixed income folks that you and I are quickly approaching that stage in our lives.

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

move on somewhere else. But please don't send us that that six or seven figure check. So when's the last time that happened? Think about that for a second and we'll can tinue on with Andrew pappis here on fifty five krc DE talk station.

and grants and other things like that. And so it you know, showing a little leadership in that area, saying that you know, we are going to take care of whatever the issue is ourselves, seems like it might be a good thing.

all these budget shutdowns that was coming up here that we were threatened with just sadly a week ago.

The only thing they had was the cocaine. So they preferred the cocaine. Imagine that.

this on fifty five KRC, the talk station. This is this simply money minute with Amy Wagon The nine first Warning weather forecast mild today, a high of forty five hundred, cloudy skies, some rain possible tonight the other night, low thirty six, scattered rain for Christmas Day and a higher forty eight then some showers continue from Christmas night into Thursday. Thursday, we'll have overcast skys in a high of fifty six.

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so many of these Democrats who are in charge. And I think of Kaffe Hochel, the governor, the governor of New York who on the same day, the same day as a woman was set on fire on the subway and the the alleged killer uh sat there and fanned the flames and then sat back on a bench and watched it, watched his work as this woman burned to death. The governor of New York puts out a post on social media talking about how great and safe the subway

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

a lot of local veterans. And I'd like to also mention locally here and Anderson at least the Yellow Ribbon Support Center run by Keith Mappin, who helps send packages overseas to soldiers. And and you know, it is the holidays we need to especially this time year with As I said, I'm not really in the holiday spirit as fully as I should be because I had to make a thirty minute connection in Atlanta yesterday and I think

they're still mopping up the carnage from that event. But I will say, let's focus on at least this next week charitable giving if you can, if you have the means. I realize that the economy has been, especially under Joe Biden, horrendous, but things are looking up. We have a new administration coming into office. Optimism is growing, and I think we're going to turn this chip around. And part of that can be reflected in your end of year taxeductible holiday giving.

And I wish everybody out there a very merry Christmas, a blessed holiday season, and a happy new year, including you. Dan Carroll You're doing a fantastic job filling in for Brian Thomas and all the other work that you do. I really appreciate you. Joe Strecker in the background, and everybody out there, well Andrew, wait wait, I might have it christ except the Flaviians I'm not really fond of.

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

fifty five hundred. As we head down the home stretch, Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas on fifty five krc V talk station Affordable imagey dead the nine first morning weather forecast not as cold today, cloudy skyes mile to high forty five, some rain possible tonight heading into Christmas morning. The overnight low thirty six looks like Christmas Day is going to have scattered rain showers and a high of forty eight. Thursday, mostly cloudy, a high fifty six forty two at fifty five krc V talk.

it's it's six point fifty this morning. They stopped all their flights, said they had some sort of technical issue, and those flights were supposed to resume at eight thirty this morning. So I'm gonna have to look that up and Joe looked at up and see if we know if those flights have resumed or not. But anyway, the top seven Christmas songs according to this and you can tell me if if you agree with ease night. But I'll go back down. Let me scroll down the list

here and get to number seven. Number seven is the Happy Christmas War Is Over song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. And if the airlines have not the American Airlines has not resumed flights yet. Oh okay, Joe doesn't like this one. And this is I you know what I should have sent you, Joe. This is my fault. I should have sent you this so you can roll a little bit of these songs so we can actually hear them. But this is John and Yoko and the Plastic O No Band, and I don't you know what.

I kind of like this song. It's probably not one of my favorites. I don't know if it's top seven, but if I hear it, I won't turn it off. I'll listen to it. So that is number seven. Number six, very traditional the Christmas song Merry Christmas to You by Nat King Cole, recorded in nineteen forty six. Yeah, this is you know Nat King Cole. They talk about the smooth, the velvety voice, and I listened to that and I think I was talking about this yesterday with Jason Williams,

and this is one of his favorite songs. And I just remark at the quality of that particular recording in nineteen forty six, and it sounds as good and crisp and clear as it did on the day that they made it. So I don't know. Maybe that's a little bit of a Christmas miracle there, but no, that is a that is a great song. Then we have Darlene Love nineteen sixty three Christmas Baby, Please Come Home, which is another it is that is a song that I like very much. I like her rendition of it, and

that is another song that I can do. That song that has wound up in the soundtrack of a lot of different movies, and I kind of like that one. Let's see what's the next one. Fairy Tale of New York by the Pogues and Christy McCall and I gotta tell you, off the top of my head, I cannot think of what that song sounds like. I don't have the ability to listen to it here in the studio.

But that's number four of the all time You would think that a song that ranks number four on the all time best list would be something that you've heard of before.

island inspired countless cover versions over the years. It didn't reach number one until twenty seventeen, following George Michael's passing. So there you go, and let's see. We got to get a break in here, and I'm gonna Joe, I'm gonna send this to you and you should be able to dial up number one while we're in the break here.

How about that. We'll try that and we will hear what is considered the number one best Christmas song, according at least to this list, and we'll have that after this on fifty five krs DE talk station in this D nine first one forecast a cloudy not as cold today, a high a forty five, forty five on the on the day before Christmas, cloudy tonight, some showers possible, the overnight low of thirty six, and then scattered rain as

possible tomorrow. On Christmas Day, we'll have a high near fifty and then some showers continue and a high on Thursday of fifty six.

and he agreed with me. I don't know if it was this song that brought her back, but Mariah Carey very talented singer, and I think she's living a good life now, so I'm happy for her this time. But that song is number one on the all time I'm not buying it. I'm not saying it's a bad song. And then Joe also agreed with me that this song that's at number four, fairy Tale of New York by the Pogues and Christy McCall, recorded in nineteen eighty eight, never heard of it. And I'm sorry to say, here's

some good news. Actually I've got I have two pieces of good news. As we get ready to close it out. We talked earlier about American Airlines. They had to stop more than one hundred flights this morning because of a quote technical issue, so American Airlines briefly grounded their flights. The actual of the groundstop was issued by the FAA just before six thirty this morning the Central time. So that issue has apparently been fixed, and American Airlines is

up and flying again. So if you are expecting someone or you are traveling on American Airlines, don't change your plans. There will likely be a delay that will ripple throughout the rest of the of the day, But American Airlines is flying again, So there's a little bit of a Christmas miracle right there, and we'll hope that that continues on for the rest of the day, all right, how about this for good news. According to WLWT, the Ohio Lottery says a classic lotto jackpot ticket has been sold

in Cincinnati. Listen to this, Joe, worth one point nine million dollars. One point nine million sold in Cincinnati. Joe, have you been on the west side lately? The ticket was purchased at the Ameristop food mart on Muddy Creek Road in Cincinnati. That's Western Hills, not just about a couple of blocks away off of Glenway Avenue. And if you have been there to the marathon station on Muddy Creek in Western Hills and you bought a lottery ticket there,

check out those tickets. Someone in Cincinnati has a ticket right now today worth one point nine million dollars. The classic of this was Classic Lotto. That's a game I never play, so I know I don't have to worry ab about it. But the numbers are one, two, nine, thirty three, thirty eight and thirty nine. So someone hit that Christmas Eve one point nine million. Congratulations to you. And if it's you, the next time I'm on the radio, pick up the phone and give me a call. I'd

love to hear that story. But that is going to be it for me. I got to get out of here. Thanks Joe for letting me sit in for Brian Thomas. Thanks to Brian Thomas, all the listeners of fifty five KRC, I certainly hope you have a great and blessed Christmas and a happy New Year and all the rest of it. I don't know when I'll get a chance to sit in this seat again, but someone will be here later

this week filling in for Brian Thomas. So once again I have nothing but thanks for everyone here at fifty five KRC and all the listeners of the Brian Thomas Show. It's such a great audience and my pleasure to be here and sit in this seat, so I can't thank you enough again. Merry Christmas everyone, and we'll see you next time here on fifty five KRC, the Talk station. Your voice, Thank you for taking McColl your country.