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their Christmas trees down like the day after Christmas. Everybody seems to think that the twelve days of Christmas lead up to Christmas Day, but in actuality, the way it's supposed to be in the Christian calendar and Catholic calendar is that the first day of Christmas is Christmas Day and then runs until the twelfth Night, which is on the fifth, and then the Epiphany on the sixth. So anyway, tenth day of Christmas. Now news at the top of the hour. I was going to start off with some

other stuff, but I've got to address this. They say that they're taking down social media posts that try to link the two attacks, the Las Vegas and New Orleans together, and it's how do they know. During the the news they were saying that, yes, they were in the same army base, but there's no indication that they knew each other. There's no indication that even though they were in Afghanistan together, that they knew each other. Yet the attack, both attacks

happened on the same day. They rented the vehicles through the same app, a little known app. It's not like through Hertz or Avis or any of the other ones as turo thing. And to not say that there might be a connection. What harm is it for people to speculate on social media because God knows, we're not going to get the information and we're not going to get the truth from the FBI. We're not going to get

the information that we want. They told us. We watched the press conference in New Orleans and we had Senator Kennedy say that, well, there's certain things that I know that I can't talk about, and I understand that while the investigation is ongoing, I shouldn't be talking about these things. But once the investigation is over, I will be able to or they will be able to tell you everything. And if it's not everything, there will be what slow

hell or hell fresh hell to pay? Are we supposed to believe that, I mean, just because a senator and we've seen that, you know, when they have these hearings, when we have these testimony that the FBI director or the Homeland Security director, there will be all pompous and you know, defend the administration and lie and say that you know what is being said up on the day, as is false, that you don't know what you're talking about. We've seen Anthony Fauci push back on Rand Paul because

they don't call it gain of function. He calls it something else, But it winds up being the same. And so we know doctor Fauci has lied, We know that my Orcus has lied, we know that Christopher Ray has lied. And there's been no prosecution of any of these people in terms of commit contempt of Congress lying before Congress. Yet if you say something wrong to the FBI, they'll rest you and anybody that was everywhere within one hundred yards of the Capitol. They've got their pictures and they've

tracked them down. They've hauled thousands of people off to jail. And yet you have an attack, two attacks on the same day, and we're not supposed to speculate that they're somehow connected. Do they know everything? Do they You know, they've dug into their profiles, they've dug into who they are, where they've lived. They've raided the one guy's a trailer and looked through his stuff. But how do we know

that what they're doing is accurate. Do we have all the information from that Las Vegas shooter years ago where hundreds of you know, they're shooting from the tower during what was at New Year's Eve and at the music festival and shooting up a bunch of people. Do we know what, why, when, where? How why that happened, how that was able to be pulled off? Who this guy actually was and how he slipped through the cracks. Was this something that was a gun bust or a gun

by gone wrong? Who knows? And when you're not getting the information from the people, when you're not getting the details, Hell, we still don't even have when was the last press conference on the attempted Butler assassination? Is anybody anybody in the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream meeting? And you know, I called Fox News to task on this as well. Where are they asking questions? Where are the investigative reporters there? It's fro I mean, I love Fox News because you know,

basically it's the only conservative news at night. You're certainly not going to tune into CNN. You're not going to tune into MSNBC or any of the other alphabet crap that's out there. But if you watch Fox News beginning it once they have the Five, and then they have the the Nightly Report, and then once they get into Laura Ingram, and then they get into Jesse Waters, and then they get into Hannity and then get into Gottfeld, you have seen the same clip, the same topics for

at least four times. You've seen the same stories. Now Jesse Waters handles things a little bit differently, but there's still a lot of the same content. And I've had the TV on at night, and there's certain ones that I watch and then certain ones that I don't watch, or you know, once I start repeating and my wife will say sometimes how can you By the time eleven o'clock rolls around, she'll say, how can you listen to this?

Over and over and over again. It's almost like you're waiting for that one additional kernel of information that you didn't have before. And the same clips, the same video, all right on down the line, and yet none of the investigative reporters, I mean, they'll do the investigation on the southern border, they'll do the investigation on Trende Oragua, they'll do the Aurora they'll talk about some of these other things, but it's almost like they go after the

low hanging fruit. Nobody is digging into and asking the question every day, trying to ambush the FBI director or any of these people and try to get a statement

on what happened with you. We had a candidate that was almost had his head blown off, and the nonsense that we heard from the Secret Service, the FBI and everybody involved in this was so stupid, and the way the cover up has been instead of, you know, they washed the roof down within what eight twelve hours, they kept you know, the site cleared, or was doing their investigation, but what do we know? What do we know how this guy was radicalized, how he was able to do this?

And then we have Ryan Ruth that goes to within a couple months, is what three hundred yards away from being able to take a pot shot at Trump on a golf course, hiding in a place where they always know that the paparazzi hangs out and takes pictures, and nobody secured that area, and it just so happened that a Secret Service agent was walking the course and happened to see the barrel of the gun hanging out and

then approaches the guy and what was the report? He was within five six feet of the guy, fired five times and missed. Wow, doesn't that give you a lot of confidence? And we still don't have any answers. We don't have any answers as far as the Afghanistan pull out, We don't have any answers. As far as anything going on in this administration, we don't have any. We've been told that there's no connection between Hunter Biden and his father, that his father knew nothing, and Joe Biden says, I

knew nothing about his business dealings. And yet just in the last week, all of a sudden, we start seeing pictures that the National Archives finally decides that they're going to drop on the American people and and shows them with Hunter Biden with his business associates, and Joe with the people that he's trying to do business with in China and all these different other countries. This, this slow drip of breaking news or or information, is just abhorrent.

And when you don't in the vacuum of accurate information, do we have all the details about the spy balloons? We do we know all about that? Do we now find out that they knew right from the start when that blue was launched. And I would like to believe that these guys are smart enough that they're tracking this balloon who is trying to certain weather balloon mind you, that is just happens to be not just off course

and just gliding, no, but zigzagging around. It just happens to go over some of our more sensitive and secret installations around the country and then goes out to see it and get shot down. And then they recovered and say, well, we looked at the data on board, and there's no information that would be sufficient. We don't think that the Chinese gathered any secret information. Now, it would be one thing if they told us that, yeah, we wanted to see the capabilities of this, we wanted to track it,

we wanted to jam the frequency. We know that it didn't get any information because we were blocking it. And yet we were getting all this information by reversing it and downloading and got into their system and reverse engineering and learned their seat Chritz. We we find out that

the Treasury Department was hacked recently, and just unbelievable. I'm going to pick this up on coming up phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs The talk station.

hunter Biden laptop to me? Doesn't it that all of a sudden that they tell you what their version or that their lies are actually the truth? And if you have any questions with that, if you raise any concerns, they're going to shoot you down and take you down.

This has got to end. If this administration does nothing when they come into office, that every one of these the Google executives, the Facebook, the Instagram, all of these people that have been squashing freedom of speech need to be hauled before Congress run through the wringer and their companies either need to start losing their licenses or they need to be run out of business. The fact that you open a company, and now I understand, you sign

up for Facebook and basically you are their product. They want to gather as much information about you as they want to and so that they can sell that information. And for that we get the luxury, if you will, of being able to post pictures of our family picture, all the happy memories and the stuff that we're doing. But god, I mean back in twenty sixteen, to me, that was probably the highlight or the heyday of Facebook,

because people would come onto my Facebook page. They would say some of the most outrageous stuff and we'd get into arguments, which was probably a little bit of a waste of time until you know, I'd make a comment and they would, you know, with their insults and they're cursing me and telling me everything, you know what you know, who my mother was and all this sort of thing. So but it was a free flow of information. And when people would get on my page, they'd say, why

do you even let this person on your page? Why do you let them comment? Why don't you unfriend them or block them? And I said, because we need to know what these people are thinking. We need to know who they are and then just shoot their arguments down. But to run from them and to just speak to the choir, to preach to the choir, that's no fun.

That's why I wish people would call in hear some of my front of meies, some of the people that don't like what I have to say, people who disagree with it, I say, and try to get and get on the air. They'll we moved to the top of the list. I love to have an open debate with people about certain things. And yet when it comes to and thank god that Elon Musk bought Twitter and then cleaned house there and allowed the free flow of information back,

free speech, but on this suppressing. You know, when you go to your Facebook page, I mean, you are you have given up something and what have we gotten in return? We basically have gotten nothing in return. We haven't gotten the ability to go on. I mean what you're allowed a certain number of friends. You're allowed to post certain things that they let you post, and then if they don't like what you say, well then they lower the algorithm so it only goes out to a few people.

I've got very good friends that I've known for over twelve almost fourteen years now that I used to see their stuff all the time. They used to see my stuff all the time. I used to get numerous responses on stuff. Now, granted, you throw up a picture of puppies or any of that sort of stuff, which I don't do. But something that's lighthearted, you'll get all kinds of hits. But you put up anything that's slightly controversial or bring up a topic that they don't want to hear,

then all of a sudden, no comments whatsoever. And my wife is a frequent user of Instagram, and she will sometimes put something out like, you know, my granddaughter or granddaughter did this, or we did this, and put an exclamation part a point, as you'll get a notification that says, be a kind when you're talking, and make sure that you're not offending people, and make sure that you're not challenging people. Be nice. What the hell is that? And

it's just now they're taking it a step further. I mean, if Facebook isn't cleaned up, and if Facebook isn't, I mean when they start editing, they have now taken themselves to the point of being a newspaper or a news outlet. Because you can't go on the Inquirer's website and say anything you want. They will censor it, and they will do because that's their domain. Facebook was set up with certain tax exemptions that they could have a free flow

of information. Now, obviously you can't post terror hearistic threats, and you can't be a danger. But talking about certain things, even if it's conspiracy theories or whatever, that should that shouldn't be censored. And the fact that they've voided their contract and their status with the federal government, they should be fined for that or run out of business even And of course if that happens, then oh it'll be

the conservatives going after Facebook or whatever. Well, you know, if you violate the law, if you set up something and you say this is how we're going to do it, this is what we're going to do, and then you don't do it, you face the consequences, plain and simple. Phone numbers five, one, three, seven four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five

point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Bron Thomas fifty five k s Detalk Station, UK station five point thirty In the morning Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five k see the talk station. Some local headlines were covering for you this morning. CINCINNTI police are investigating after a man was shot in a car in West Price Hill on Thursday night. Please said it happened near the apartment complex on Gurley Road around

ten forty five pm. Investigators said the victim was a black man in his thirties and was taken the University Cincinnati Medical Center in critical condition. Police said he died a short time later. Officers said they are searching for multiple suspects who drove from the shooting scene. Investigators searched with police canine units and check security cameras in the area. Multiple guns were recovered from inside the vehicle from which the victim was in which the victim was shot. So

some sad situation there. Some family is going to be grieving and their lives are going to be ruined. Retired Sharonville officer arrested in prostitution bus set to be in court. Blue Ash Police said they are conducting an undercover operator. Said they were conducting an undercover operation round three pm on December fourth, the holiday in express on Creek Road.

Shoonover was arrested as a result of the investigation. Retired Sharonville Police lieutenant who has been arrested in Blue Ass during an undercover operation, is set to appear in court on Thursday. Officers arrest of fifty eight year old Keith Schunover for soliciting prostitution in December of twenty twenty four. According to the press release from blue Ash Police, Blash Police said they were conducted and repeating what they were saying at the beginning of the story. Blue Ass Police

Chief Scott Noel. Noel said the undercover operation wasn't specifically aimed at apprehending Shoonover. They didn't realize who he was until he was arrested. Once his name popped up, we all knew it because I'm I mean, we're a neighboring police agency. I've personally known Keith for almost thirty years. Video from the Blue Ash police interrogation at Shoonover, obtained by WCPO, showed Shoonover's reaction to the situation. I hate that I put you on this spot, Shenover told officers.

It was a terrible situation. And like I said, I've been a cop for thirty six years. Sad, sad, sad. Let's see tri State. Amazon driver accused of stealing over forty packages and selling them. Amazon driver is accused of stealing over forty packages from Springdale Fulfillment Center and selling

the items on Facebook Marketplace. Didn't we have a situation about a week ago where there was an Amazon driver that I guess got frustrated with the amount of packages that he had to deliver, dumped about forty of them in the woods and didn't deliver them. And I don't know. I don't know, because I know those things are tracked and they know that they're on a particular truck. I don't know how he was able to convince them that

what they somehow got stolen off his truck. But anyway, and Amazon drivers, and let you see, Springdale police said in an affidavit. And an Amazon Lost Prevention specialist contacted then report an employee theft. She told police that she had received information about items near delivered never delivered on a route associated with driver like l Jodd Khan. While investigating, she found a video of Con driving to the fulfillment center on Strategic Partway, grabbing the cart with the packages,

and leaving Amazon employees. Tracking program showed Con went directly to his home in Florence. You know, the nice thing about these things is that you the criminals sometimes are not very bright. The woman who reported to the police said she found Con selling items on Facebook marketplace the match the items stolen package. Cod is accused of stealing forty four packages a total of three two hundred and sixty five dollars. He was charged on December thirty first

theft without consent? I is that really a term? Isn't theft by a very definition? Isn't that without consent? Why do you? I'm confused. I guess. I guess I'm gonna have to have some legal mind call in here and straighten it out. Threft? What is it? Threft by by non consent? Non consensual theft? I don't get it anyway.

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talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phones. The more and more we learn about these two attacks on New Year's Day, the one in New Orleans and then the one at Trump Tower. And oh, by the way, the

one at Trump Tower. Oh, there's no connection to the fact that it was in front of Trump Tower and that it happened to be a tesla that was blown up. All just mere coincidence. And we're being told that it was just a mere coincidence that both perpetrators rented vehicles from the same app, a very little known app that a lot of people in the news meter as I was hearing them discuss it. They even they didn't even know it existed, that they both were at the same

army base. But you know, according to the experts or according to the investigators, they never met. They didn't know each other. They started to Afghanistan together and they didn't know each other. They never met over there, and yet on the same day they launch an attack on American

soil because they were radicalized. Now, the fact that we are in this information vacuum, the fact that we are hearing little more bits and pieces about these people, that they're digging into their social media accounts more so than what they've done as far as the two attempted assassinations on Donald Trump and some of the other attacks on conservatives, we don't know half the information about them that we know about these people. But by god, they've got the

license plate, they've got the driver's license. They knew who these people are. And I often wonder if these people aren't well, aren't known to them already either as maybe comp financial informants that have gone off the rails, or that they've been on their radar screen and they oh, they just happened to slip through the cracks. You know, when you look at this you know, when you go back to the Obama administration with Fast and Furious, they thought that they were going to pull one over on

the bad guys down in Mexico. They were going to send these guns down there that were traceable and that they would be able to be found, that they could trace where the guns were going, and then bust the people that were trafficking in the guns. Well, that all went to hell, and I'm handbasket because I guess they disabled the tracking devices or they went around and then we hear okay, now fast forward to this New Orleans attack.

You have a situation where they do the press conference and the person up there says, now, this is they're trying to tell us that, you know, New Orleans is used to having big crowds. I mean, after all, they have Marty Graw and then they have the Sugar Bowl down there, and then they have different football games and

big events, so they're used to handling crowds. Well, apparently not so much because if you look at the video of this truck that pulled up and then turned right right and they you know, when they're blocking off the street,

he turned right and then sped down the street. The cop that was there, and of course we learned that the bullards were down, those hydraulic things that pop up to prevent people from going in certain areas, that they were all being under construction because of the super Bowl in February, because New Orleans is hosting the super Bowl, and so they were making sure that those were working in time for the super Bowl. But not from Marti Graus, Okay,

you know that's too much. And then you noticed that and this this hit me just unbelievable that you had this cop car that wasn't even blocking the entire street, wasn't positioned in a way that obviously this guy could drive around and then speed down the street. And then when you see the video, you see this cop get out and like looking around, like what the hell just happen? Completely surprised. Now, this is not the kind of security that you have when you think that there might be

a terroristic threat. I mean, I live I mentioned this before. I live near Nku, and there are times when there is a concert there, or there's a graduation, or there's a major there's a basketball event and it's on. I have to pass by there in order to go to Kroger and get groceries and stuff, and it's annoying sometimes when they're directing traffic because they don't know what the hell they're doing. They allow way too many cars to

go through. You sit there and there's you know, one, one thousand and one, one thousand and two, It might be about thirty seconds before the next car comes through. Make them wait, let us go, if you know what I mean. But when I drive up there, they will have like a cop car sort of blocking the street so that you can't go down this particular street that leads to their stadium there or the campus. Yet that is the same type of security that they had in

New Orleans. Now, the threat assessment for somebody to cause some ill or some problem at an NKU graduation or an NKU the threat level at an NKU graduation or a basketball game or a concert is sure as hell way below. What is there for Marti Gras when you know there's a big crowd there and it's a ripe target.

And instead of having the dump trucks pulled up like they do for the New York Marathon or that they have for the big event and making sure that there is no way in hell because you've got this huge dump truck there that's filled with sand, and that you can't push it out of the way, that it is almost on you taking up the entrance to the street, as well as even on the sidewalk, that there's no way a vehicle could get pass that. And yet they don't have the same security down there in New Orleans.

And then the person admitting or saying during the press conference that well, we had all the necessary security options in place, and they just went around him. They defeated him. He defeated him. One guy, one guy was able to beat the entire New Orleans Police Department, whatever Louisiana State Police or Louisiana Bureau of Investigation was able to bypass all of that and create this carnage. Unbelievable. And no, I do not think that these two I'm not believing

that these two aren't related somehow. Five one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless from Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the talk station on New Year and the new President promises may promises kept.

start off the show talking about some other things. And when I heard the newscast that they were actually pulling down any social media accounts or social media comments about the two of these two terrorist attacks being connected, I just really piqued my interests and is infuriating after all that has been done, after all that we have witnessed over the last well, shoot, let's go back to twenty twenty, last four or five years, and we can go back

even further than that on some of these things. When you look at how many times we've been lied to, We were lied to during the pandemic, we were lied to about where I mean, they denied up until just what a year ago that it was not even a year ago that it actually was a lab leak, and they tried to tell us all this time that it was some wet market even though they learned and Ran Paul in one of the Senate hearings pointed out the fact that the gain of function that was going on

which would have caused this virus was done at the Wuhan lab and that it, oh, that had nothing to do with it. It actually came out of the Wuhan wet market, Okay. And then all of the stuff that we were put through, as far as as far as COVID, as far as how contagious it was this six feet distancing all of that. Lie Lie, Lie, Lie Lie. And then we see the Hunter Biden laptop. The security officials CIA officials say that, you know, fifty one of them

signed a letter. And you know what's interesting, if you go online and you do the PolitiFact or you do the fact checking on that and you put in there what the is, they'll say that it needs context, that it that no, they didn't say that it was a Russian disinformation. That is dumbfounding because everybody will say that the news reports was that it was Russian disinformation, but they never specifically said that you need to take the

letter in context with everything in this said. So even the politifacts or the fact checkers are lying to us. And when you go through and look at all the stuff that's been told to us about Butler Pennsylvania, about Ryan Ruth, about the attempted assassination on the golf course, and everything we shoot. We've been told for the last four years that Joe Biden's the sharpest ball in the sharpest knife in the door, the brightest ball in the box,

just on and on and on and on. There are so many people that should be never trust, should never be trusted again, and never ever ever be associated with any type of a governmental agency. Go pick some of this up. On the other side of the break, I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five krs The Talk Station.

And I've talked at this at nauseum, and quite honestly, sometimes I even get tired of repeating the same things over and over and over again, the fact that we have been lied to so many times. And oh, by the way, if you've checked my Facebook page, like I said, every as I've said, every time I come on the air, I post on Facebook who my guests are and give you a quick rundown of that. At six point thirty we're gonna be talking to Dave Hatter, since I suppose

since ANAI cybersecurity expert. And then at seven o'clock we're gonna be talking about to Nick Noele. He has authored a book and we're going to be talking about that, so stay tuned. But this all the lies that we've been told. I mean, we've got this right. I don't even know where to begin. You've got this Ryan Ruth who vagrant. He doesn't have two Nichols to rub together, but he's able to travel.

That would be all well and good, and that would be a great narrative if, in fact, once in a while they were actually successful, that they were actually pulled one over on the bad guys found some sort of a deep seated conspiracy within the federal government or these people connected with this particular intelligence agency out of Iran or something along those lines. I mean, I understand. I mean, but you know, when you look at all, right, you've

got Hamas, You've got Hesbelah. They have the leaders of Hamas and Hesbela. The top what four or five people now from Hamas have been taken out, the top two or three from Hesbola have been taken out. They even Israel was able to actually take out the head of Hamas in Tehran, Iran and an apart heartment where he was staying because he was there for the inauguration of the new Iranian president. They have results. We don't know

how they did it. They don't indicate how all the inner workings and how long they had been planning this and all the individual details. But we know what the results were, that a bad guy was taken out.

necessary people? You know, instead of being out looking for the different terrorists groups that are there, instead of looking for the three hundred and twenty five, three hundred and fifty three hundred and twenty five thousand children that have come across the border on a company that we have no idea where they are. We don't know how many of have been sex trafficked. We don't know how many of them are in sweatshops, We don't know how many have been murdered. Up to this point, we don't know

anything about them. And yet all we hear from people like alexandri A Cassio Cortes is that if these border security is done and these people are arrested, she is worried about child separation separate separating children from their parents. How horrific is that? Well, what about the three hundred and twenty five thousand that have been separated from their parents? Are you not concerned about them? You're not concerned about the three hundred the millions of children that have been

separated from their parents in an abortion clinic. You're not about the number of people that have been separated from their loved ones because of immigrants and illegal immsigrants murdering their children. You're not concerned about that. The FBI, they have launched investigation into people. Now get this, Okay, people so radical, so devious, that they would attend a Latin Mass. I mean, my god, can you get any more threatening than somebody that wants to go to a traditional Catholic Mass?

My god, I mean, why are these people even walking the earth with as devious as they could possibly be. You attend a school board meeting and you get a little loud because your child is being indoctrinated and you've learned this because of the pandemic where your kids were at home and you actually got to see the lessons Bland that they've been hiding from you all this time, and you speak up at a meeting and now will

send you are on a terror watch list. Tulci Gabbard is on a terror watch list where she gets on a plane and there's got to be like four or five air marshals watching her all the way through the airport. And to this day, you've got people on the view. You've got certain Democrats that are calling her a Russian asset, a decorated veteran, still a member of the National Guard, and a former congresswoman, and she is a domestic terrorist.

And you got compare that to Hunter Biden and the secrets that he probably transferred, the influence that he peddled with all these business contacts that he had, And you're going after parents, You're going after people like Tulci Gab. You're so busy investigating. Oh, yes, we need to weed out all of the faith loving, god loving and possible

conservatives in the military service. We need to weed them out and get rid of them, because by God, we can't have somebody in the military that loves the country, can we. So we have these people being investigated, weed it out and so on. We have people being kicked out of the military because they won't take the jab. We have all of these investigations going on. Of course, they're not going to be able to find these terrorists

we've got. Biden in twenty twenty three at some commencement addressed saying the biggest threat to America, well besides the existential threat of climate change, but on this particular day, the existential threat was white supremacists. I mean, what the fifteen or so that are that that are running around the hills play an army and stuff. Those are the guys we're supposed to fear. And yet we're letting these

assassins run free. We're letting these people fall through the cracks, the neighbors that have told the FBI or the groups that you should be on the lookout for this particular person because he's kind of a whack job. No, no, no, we don't want to pay attention to them. We want to we want to investigate the domestic terrorists at these

school board meetings. And a memo from the Justice Department, Merrick Garlands saying so, and then we have for the last year two years during the campaign that Donald Trump wants to is a Nazi, Donald Trump wants to be Hitler,

Donald Trump is Mussolini, Donald Trump is Stalin. Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy, and Republicans are, by the way, and when you break down the word existential, I mean that just you know, that may not but what you're talking about at that point is the threat to the existence of So they are saying that somebody is a threat to the existence of democracy by them

campaigning and buy what they are saying. So of course that's good to go ahead and prosecute them, take them up on trumped up charges, and try to ruin them financially, and then when that didn't work, you assass try to assassinate him and these are the people that we are supposed to believe that they're doing these proper investigations. And then all of a sudden, once the election was over,

Oh never mind. General Millie was on a panel. Oh, everything's gonna be fine, don't worry about it, even though before he was saying two weeks before say that this man poses the biggest threat that the country has ever seen.

I'll tell you what. The biggest threat to this country is the scandal that we have had for the last four years, outlined by the Wall Street Journal, the cover up of Joe Biden's dementia, how he was incapable of staying awake in meetings, that they were spoon spoon feeding stuff to him, they were controlling him with his inner circle, and not allowing him to have cabinet meetings, not letting him have very long meetings whatsoever, and the meetings all

had to be short, and that they were covering for him. So who's been in charge? Talk about an existential threat to democracy, talk about treasonous acts, talking about people in the cabinet that saw this and didn't speak up and didn't push for the twenty fifth Amendment to pull him out of office. Not that I wanted to see Kamala Harris as president, but still, this guy was not in charge.

Who has been pulling the strings, who has been in charge, who has been making the decision, Because I guarantee you it's not somebody who was elected, and it's not somebody who was put in there by the people. It was somebody put in there by someone, whether or whoever it was. That to me is the biggest scandal, and that is

something that needs to be investigated. And any in my opinion, any executive orders, any of the commutations, any of the commutations or the pardons, should be eliminated, those should be set back, those should be set aside. Because if you've got an aging person and you put and they're not capable of knowing what's going on, and you put a document in front of them and have them sign it,

it's an all on void. So any of the stuff that this person dementia ridden has been pointed out should be a dollin void, unless he wants to go undergo a cognitive test and then they can determine based on that probably how far back this dementia started. Phone numbers five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred one eight hundred day two three talk one eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound,

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I mean the mere I mean, we know that the two served on the same base, were deployed in Afghanistan at the same time, so and they supposedly they didn't know each other, but somewhere along the line both of them were radicalized. And maybe the connection is to who radicalized them might be part of the connection.

stadium and so forth. I suspectors had another radicalized person in the background in New Orleans who just happened to arrange for the barrier not to be there, and then gives this strange narrative that, well, the new barriers just didn't get here on time.

and what's not being repaired. So I'm not sure that there needs to be any nefarious thing involved in that. Just pick up a newspaper or so.

that's fifty maybe sometime within the next hundred years. Dave Hatter's coming up at the part of the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five kre see the talk.

encourage people go see for themselves. For any app, especially if it has a Chinese Communist Party source, check out the privacy. Well, that's a very strong warning sign, I think, Kevin, and you may see a theme in some of these articles I sent you. You know, the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Republic of China. They're not our friends. They're

increasingly adversarial with us. And when you basically have an application on a device in your pocket that has acts to virtually every piece of information about you, again, don't take my word for it. Go look at the Apple privacy label in the Apple Store and see what data TikTok collects. And then think that goes back to China, to a company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party where they passed the law. I want to remind folks in

the Hill did a piece on this. They passed actually a couple of different laws that require companies in China to turn any government any data the government wants. So you have a device in your pocket, it can listen to you, It knows where you are, it knows who you talk to, it knows what you talk about. All of that data going to China. And that's bad enough. But then when you get into the propaganda and the

persuasion aspects of it. Forbes did a piece on this heating feature TikTok has where it can essentially are they that people controlling it can make amplify some stories and suppress others. That gets us back to the propaganda aspects of this, And again I encourage.

through these networks can be captured and subverted. So you know, this TikTok article is basically saying, again Washington Times, people should read it for themselves. Here's I'm reading directly from it, the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Liberation Army. If you, TikTok is one of several strategic tools for political influence operations and military support acquitting to open source intelligence recently

made public. So when people say, well, how is tik talk worse than Facebook or Google or fill in the blank, my answer as well, because it's controlled by a Chinese company. China has laws that require them to turn your data over, and even worse, now from released writings, we see that they intend to use the propaganda component. They intend to use TikTok as an influence tool to amplify their narratives and suppress Western narratives.

come off of that. You know, I'm i while I'm generally not for this sort of thing, i am absolutely for banning TikTok because of the propaganda nature and the fact that it's essentially spyware in your pocket or the biggest adversary we have on the planet.

the drill or get my guest, Dave, cybersecurity expert. We've got a few other things to talk out, and I've got one for you, my friend. Hopefully we can talk about that. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five krs the talk station First Warning Weather Forecast WIN our advisory until ten am. I'm gonna have some white snow until about eight am. Low in the thirties. Uh, let me see. The high today is going to be

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about eighteen states have passed some sort of law. I like to, I like to, you know, give my friends a little grief over in Ohio because for once, Kentucky actually did something useful ahead of Ohio.

as a consumer, are ultimately the one that suffers. Even if that company goes out of business, the downstream effects of your data being leaked or stolen can linger for years, if not decades, as bad guys use that data to either impersonate you and get credit or whatever in your name, or in many cases, because there's now so much data about us thanks to apps like TikTok and companies like Facebook out there, that it makes it much easier for them to fish you and create much more realistic emails,

much more realistic voicemails, much more realistic texts because they have information about you from these leaks and breaches that make them appear to be legitimate when they claim to be your bank or your insurance company or whatever sort of guys, they're using National Public Data.

but like you see, we're the ones that suffer. You know, if you're a company and you get breached, and say, even if you are catastrophically impacted and you go out of business, you and I and everyone else listening to the show this morning are the ones that suffer from this data being out there. We need to get serious about this, just like we do all aspects of cybersecurity.

In my opinion, there should be some sort of privacy law that creates rules where you are required to protect this consumer information and creates teeth when you don't.

is proposed. It's a bipartisan piece of legislation introduced by a Democrat and the Senate and a Republican in the House.

You really should want to ensure that companies who are increasingly collecting your data in all forms, in every conceivable way are incentivized and penalized, incentivized to did the right thing in penalized when they don't.

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bad or nefarious. What I am saying is you have to understand their business model versus a company like Apple or Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft collects your data. Yes Apple collects your data, but their business model is different. They are not in the business of selling your data. Now I'm not saying that that will never happen, but generally speaking, they're making hardware and software products they sell to you,

and that's where they make their money. So when you look at these data oriented companies and this Google thing that that article points out, they want to collect as much data back to as possible and one of the things they've realized and by the way, there's a lawsuit with the Department of Justice where they would potentially have to divest their web browser Chrome. So Chrome is a tool. It's a web browser, just like Safaris a web browser

for Apple, or Edges the web browser for Microsoft. And for a long time, Chrome was collecting enormous amounts of data about you with cookies and that sort of thing, whether you're using Google platforms or not. If Google has to dive ast Chrome, and because more and more people are starting to get wise to privacy and blocking cookies and that kind of thing, they would potentially lose a

lot of data. They also know that more and more people are using their phones, they're consuming content through smart TVs and streaming and that sort of thing where you're not using a Chrome browser and they're not collecting that data.

So they're looking at other techniques, as that article plants help in one in particular called fingerprinting, And what they're talking about in that article is basically they're moving away from cookies and traditional ways of tracking online to fingerprinting, which is more difficult to know when it's being done,

it's more difficult to block. And the idea with this fingerprinting concept is they'd be able to track you across multiple, if not all, devices, so they would not only collect more data about you, but have a more complete picture of what you're doing, because it's worth more money to them, right. The more data they have, the more they know about you, the more they can use that information to persuade you.

The more, they can use that information as you know, fuel to get other companies to buy it and spend lots of money with them, whether it's selling you ads or selling that data to them for whatever they want to do with it.

But part of the question, part of the answer your question rather Kevin, is you know, to think about privacy and choose privacy oriented platforms and to avoid these avoid platforms from companies that want to attract you like this, and then when possible, using these privacy oriented platforms and tools, you know, use them to limit the flow of information to these companies and just avoid their properties altogether.

So while I fully understand how beneficial it might be for me to be hands free, like let's say I'm working on my car and I want to watch a YouTube video and I could somehow talk to my glasses and it could show them to me. I fully get how cool. That could be hands free using both hands. I don't get my computer or tablet dirty. But at the same time, unless there's a clear way for you to know that you are talking to someone who is recording you, that's a real major problem in my mind.

That's like something right out of orwell, you know, nineteen eighty four was, you know, like forty years off. So I'm not a fan of them, unless and until this might require some regulation. There would have to be some kind of light or something on them that tells you, Hey, this person over here with these glasses.

Democrat run system of public education. Frederick Douglas wrote at the US Founding, the richest, most powerfully leads in the country were the slave plantation owners who founded the Democratic Party.

her own scientific related business. She taught science for a year in a Cincinnati public school, mostly black high school.

write reports. But she said that in the same high school they had all the All the students were congratulated whenever they had any kind of athletic achievement, but they were never congratulated for academic achievements.

schools in the inner city. We see that, how they how they try to well they and even more insidious, I believe, is when they started doing the affirmative action and the DEEI where you getting a student to go to a ivy League school without having the preparation for that and then them fail, and then what that does to their psyche because their high school education wasn't to the extent that to bring them up to the academic

standards of going to an IVY lead school. And so you are bringing you are are setting somebody up for failure.

And when I look and you see that even in the all the universities that the single biggest class, well classes are in the first year remedial English, math and history or what's the other one, math and well anyway, they're a yeah, there are there are, you know, remedial classes, which means that they've graduated from high school and aren't up to the standards of the school, whether it be Northern Kentucky University, the university, you know, even some of

the trade schools. And and this is sad. And yet we've got the and I you know, I'm sure there's a lot of good teachers in the teachers' unions and and there's a lot of good teachers out there, but by and large, they are they are doing no service to their their students and preparing them for the future.

There was a story years ago that Disney did this. They told their employees that you know you're going to be a trained your replacement, and if you don't comply, then you're not going to get your severance package, and so they had to train the employees to take their jobs,

which was for less pay. We see this and sometimes in where you've seen some of these age discrimination lawsuits where somebody who has been doing a job and they bring in somebody that's twenty thirty years younger than them at less pay to do the same job and push the other people out. So this is not just you know, African Americans and people that aren't qualified or available to

do the job. We've got companies that are ignoring the people that can do the job in favor of cheaper labor and abusing the system.

back in back in the nineteen fifties, you know. JFK followed that up, following Eisenhower and Martin Luther King Junior said the same thing. We need to treat people equally. And as Martin Luther King said, we need to value people based on the content of their character, not on the color of their skin. And we just we need to we need to follow what these amount have told us many many years ago. But nobody seems to pay attention and it's time that we start paying attention now.

see what their kids were learning. Hopefully this will be enough to spur them on to keep in touch with what their kids are learning and make sure that these curriculums are changed because we're raising an entire group of citizens that aren't qualified for the technology that they're going to be seeing over the coming years to do the job on day one. And that is something that definitely has to change.

They explain why they should, they should endorse him, and the reason he didn't is because he said, Hey, I know what you want. You want more immigrants coming in here, and I want more people, more Americans to be hired for jobs. And this is pretty strange. I mean, it might be pretty strange to some people to know that the JD. Vance's wife is of Indian descent. Both her parents. Yeah, we're from India.

We're talking about all this stuff, these protests, and we're actually talking about this terrorist attack in both Las Vegas and New Orleans, and we had I saw some of these demonstrations that were in the streets in New York yesterday, And one of the clips I saw was somebody all dressed up in the Palestinian Oh gosh, what is that? The thing Kaifa or Kifa whatever, the thing is the headdress that they put on with the scarf and the symbol those people. I saw somebody screaming, go back to Europe.

In our streets, we've got Palestinian pro hamas, in my opinion, terrorists protesting because we support Israel. Now, where are the cameras, Where are the facial recognition of that? Where are these people? Why are these ringleaders not being rounded up, looked at, investigated to see what their ties are. Yet, if you go to a school board meeting and you raise your voice because your kid is being indoctrinated, then all of

a sudden you're a domestic terrorist. The biggest threat in this country, according to Joe Biden, was not you know, communism, was not red, it was not Jijingping and communist China. It wasn't anything else other than white supremacists. That they were the biggest threat other than Donald Trump to democracy. And yet you've got these people that are actually celebrating the murder of twelve hundred and thereabouts of Israelis on October seventh, and you've got the hostages that are still

being held. There are what still eight American hostages? Where has been the outcry from any And I criticize Fox on this as well. What are they saying? Why are they still showing the same story and the same clips show after show after show after show. Do some independent thought, get to another subject, talk about another issue other than just you know, the same thing over and over and over again, have a little bit of originality. Where is

anybody caring about these hostages? Why isn't anybody talking about that? Why isn't their pressure on the government to do this? Now they're saying, oh, yeah, we're working through diplomatic efforts, so on. Well, you know what needs to be done is of course that Donald Trump has said those hostages better be released or they're all hell will be paid. There will be hell to be paid. And those are the kinds of things. That's the kind of rheter that is necessary in order to end this. You put the

fear of God in your enemies. You don't have you know, if they fear you, you don't have to fight them. And that is one of the things that has been missing from this administration, among other things, leadership to begin with, and maybe some people in charge of the government that

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in court yesterday. Officers arrest fifty eight year old Keith Schuenover for soliciting for soliciting prostitution December twenty twenty four. Blue Ash Police said they were conducting an undercover operation at around three pm on December fourth at the Holiday In Express on Creek Road. Shoonover was arrested as a result of the investigation, Blue Ash Police Chief Scott Noel. Noel said the undercover operation wasn't specifically aimed at apprehending Shoonover.

They didn't realize who he was until he was arrested. Quote once his name popped up, we all knew it because, I mean, we are a neighboring police agency, said Noel. I've personally known Keith for almost thirty years. The video of the Blue Police interrogation is Shoonover, obtained by WCPO, showed Shoonover's reaction to the situation. I hate that I put you in this spot, Shoonover told officers it was terrible situation. And like I said, I've been a cop

for thirty six years. And they go into details on the police report four years his record. Police report that the woman identified him as a man who just in her room. Woman showed officers a text exchange between them where Shoonover agreed to meet her for half an hour

for two hundred dollars. You know, I believe that this particular, at least Blue Ash, There's been a couple of hotels and hotels up there that have been the subject of police things over the last couple of years, and you would think that people would know better, that they would have a better understanding of what's going and especially a retired police officer for crying out loud knowing that these

sting operations happen. When you are doing something via text, when you're doing something online, you don't know if the person on the other end is actually who they say they are, and if you're going to meet them, chances are it may not be who you think they are and it may be a sting operation. So I gesz, I gotta wonder. Police are in me see man dead after a Price Heal shooting. Police are investigating after a man was shot in the car and West Price Hill

on Thursday night. Police said it happen near the apartment complex on Gurley Road around ten forty five pm. Investigators said the victim was a black man in his thirties, taking the University Hospital the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in critical condition. Police said he died a short time later. Officers said they searching for multiple suspects who drove from the shooting scene. Investigators searched police canine units and check

security cams in the area. Multiple guns were recovered from inside the vehicle of the victim. So tragic story there. Tri State Amazon driver accused of stealing over forty packages and selling those items online. Amazon driver is accused of stealing over forty packages from spring Dale Fulfillment Center and selling the items on Facebook marketplace. The individual's name is

el Godi kha As. Springdale Police said the affidavit that Amazon lost prevention specialists contacted them to port and employee theft. While investigating, she found video of cod driving to the fulfillment center on Strategic Parkway Parkway, grabbing the cart with the packages, and leaving. Amazon's employee tracking program showed Kyle went directly to his home in Florence. Woman also reported police that she found costs selling items on Facebook marketplace.

Cose accused of Stephen stealing these forty four packages worth three two hundred and sixty five dollars. He was charged on December thirty first. Tri State psychologists on possible reasons behind deadly Let's see, that's another story that they're getting into. Let's see what else we got here. Residents upset over sea of trash outside Milford apartment complex. Outside the Oakwood Apartments, a sea of trash overflows the dumpsters into the parking

lot outside. It's embarrassing, says Chelsea Miller, a resident of the complex. I hate coming home from work and having to look at it. Miller has lived in the complex and Milford for seven years. She said the pilot trash has been there since February. Since February, almost a year. Property managers weren't on site Wednesday when WCPO was there. We wanted to ask if they knew about the pilot

trash and were being done about it. I mean, the residents of the facility should be raising hell, they should be talking to the apartment complex owners and getting it taken care of. That is just absolutely ridiculous. Now. I know living in a condo complex that from time to time the folks that abuse our dumpsters and overfill those and put stuff in there that they're not supposed to. The condo board does try to crack down on that

and try to keep that to a minimum. But I'll tell you, you know, when you're living among people, you really realize how irresponsible, how just not only irresponsible, but inconsiderate of others. The box generally says, you know, specifically, break down the boxes. But I guess that's too much for people to comprehend and do, so that's why some of these are overflowing. But and since February, that's ridiculous.

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of my songs. It's one of the songs I've used to listen to on and on and on. It's always great to hear some of these that you haven't heard for a long time. Anyway. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR See the talk station. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five one, eight hundred eight two three talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound,

five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Some stories that are percolating under the actually what people are talking about, which are going to rear their ugly heads later on in the month or coming up. And I thought, you know, we've talked a little bit, or we talk a lot about the terrorist attack down in New Orleans and then

Las Vegas. I've been talking about that and some other things, which, again, the overall arching situation here is that we as the American people, have been lied to, and we have caught our elected officials lying to us so many times that when they tell us something at press conferences, we don't believe them. And then they get upset with us when we go online and indicate what our thoughts are or some of the conspiracy theories or trying to connect the dots,

they don't like that. They want to take those posts down. Freedom of information, you know, buyer beware if you don't you know, if you see something, you know the old thing. Can you remember when the internet first started, people would make the joke about, well, if it's on the Internet, it's got to be true. Well, we know that's not true. So if you see something that appears that it may

even be legit, check it out yourself. Don't rely I mean, if you're not going to rely on what the people are going to tell you the press conference, don't rely on whoever is posting on their particular account until you trust that source. I mean, there's darn few people that when I get a posting or read a post or get a text from them, that I immediately react and want to share it immediately. I usually check them out. So I had to caution everybody to do the same.

But one of the stories that is coming up, and we got a dock worker's potential strike on the East coast. You may recall back on October II, right before a month before the election, the dock workers on the East coast went on strike. Now the dock workers on the West coast went well, they had a partial shutdown. They were doing a work, a slowdown, and that's when you started seeing all those container ships out in the bay and back out in the ocean. At one time there

was something like sixty that were waiting there to be unloaded. Well, Texas started saying, hey we've got a port. South Carolina said hey we've got a port. Virginia said hey we've got a port. New York, New Jersey hey, we've got a port.

Those have started to level out now, but back in October, of course, Now all of a sudden this year you have the contract for the East coast dock workers, and they're a little bit more militant, if you will, than what the West Coast were, and they're complaining and they want to have the same salary as the West Coast, even though on the East Coast in some of these locations the cost of living certainly isn't as much as it is in the Port of Los Angeles, the Port

of Long Beach, the Port of up in Portland, or in Washington along the West coast there. So that's a sticking point. But the big sticking point is is they want in the contract. They don't want any automation at the ports because of fear of losing jobs. So I guess these people all go to work on horses and

ride buggage buggies and carriages. They probably don't carry cell phones with them because that's technology and the current contract says and they want that even rolled back the negotiations that they had before that allowed a certain amount of automation,

they want that pulled back. Now there are studies from over in Europe where they have gone more automated than here in the United States, and what they found is that they put through they can be more efficient, they can have a higher volume, and actually leads to hiring more employees. So these dock workers on the East Coast are being a little bit short sighted.

Now they have not been back to the negotiating table. The dock workers have avoided the contract negotiations. They have refused to come to the table because again they are insisting on no automation at all or very little, and that's a sticking point. Now they are scheduled to meet on January the seventh, and they are set to go on strike. I think it's when the heck are they supposed to go on strike. I think it's right around the eighteenth or something around those lines, like right before

on the fifteenth or so, right before the inauguration. And this is something that up until then, January fifteenth is their deadline. This is something that the Biden administration needs to get on top of and make sure that this doesn't happen, because this not only affects, you know, the ports there, but also affects the supply chain. And the last thing we need after the pandemic, and what we've been experiencing over the last couple of years is supply

chain interruptions. This is a form of uh necessary fulfillment as far as our economy is concerned, and to a certain extent national defense. So we'll see how this goes. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty one, eight hundred eight two three talk one, eight hundred eight two three eight two, five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five k see the talk station.

ocean carriers and terminal operators. We get this, a sixty two percent wage increase over six years. Over six years. Now, my math tells me that that's about a six percent increase year over year over year. Now, some of that may be front loaded, the raises are less afterwards, you know, maybe six ten percent now ten percent next year, and

then falling off. I don't know all the individual details, but this affects fifteen different ports from as far north as Boston to as far south as Tampa, Florida, So all up and down the East Coast and into the Gulf Coast is where these ports are. And of course talking about ports not only in Houston, Mobile, Alabama, and then all the way up the East coast. So this could really throw a wrench into the economy if this

strike were to happen. And when they were talking about this back in October, they were talking about what these dock workers were making, and they said that based on their current contract and what they were making, it is very easy for these dock workers to make almost a base pay of around one hundred thousand dollars to a top end with overtime and such, to almost two hundred thousand dollars a year. Now sixty two percent pay increase on top of that. Now that is not going to

be absorbed by the ports. I mean, that is going to be added to the products that come into those ports that get added to the goods that go on to our shelves eventually, So we are going to be picking the tab up for this. And when you're talking about trying to tame inflation, the Federal Reserve keeps saying that they're concerned about inflation, trying to get that down

to two percent. But when you're giving and when you look at the last year, you had the United Autoworkers that went on strike, they got a hefty pay raise, ups got a health hefty pay raise, the railroad workers got a hefty pay raise, the dock workers on the West Coast got a healthy pay raise. I'm still looking for ours, and I'm sure a lot of people around were and a lot of people listening they're looking for a hefty pay raise. They would like a ten or

fifteen percent pay raise to key pace. I mean, look at the number of people out there that are still living paycheck to paycheck, and things are not getting better. Even with inflation coming down a bit, the month is

still longer than the paycheck. People are putting more money on their credit cards, and we've got a story about the number of defaults that the defaults on credit cards are increasing, which means that which tells you that people have put too much and they can't afford the payments. They're falling behind. We've seen this as far as the economy, and when we talk in terms of inflation, inflation, when you hear the number is not just a one off,

it's not okay. The inflation this month was point two percent, and on an annualized basis it was two point four percent or whatever. And then back in June of twenty twenty two, when inflation got up as high for that period of nine point one percent, that's just not a shot up and then comes back down to zero. That

is baked into the mix at that point. So the following month, if you're at nine point one percent and then you come in at ae point two percent, then that gets added on top of that nine point one And so that's why you're looking at a lot of these prices when you're looking at the cost of things from four years ago to today, where you see these price discrepancies, and especially this comes true, I mean when you start seeing the individual price increases on a day,

on a weekly basis at the grocery store. Obviously, have you seen the price of eggs going up forty five percent when you look at some of the other things going up twenty one, twenty two percent that's been eased in over the period of time. And yes, when you look back on your purchases, yes it stands out. But some of these big ticket items that you only pay maybe something like every four years or buy every four years, or an appliance, you see these prices darn near double

over the last four years. And it is absolutely sticker shocked. And so when you're talking about these increasing wages and then you're talking about are still high energy prices, something's got to give. Those energy prices come down. We can get back to a level of energy independence and start being energy dominant in this country, which will certainly help

reduce that inflation. But we're also going to have to, you know, with raising wages, you're going to have to start doing an awful lot of productivity and a lot more sales so companies can afford this, and so people can afford what they're paying out there. Coming up top of the hour, we'll get into some other stuff, especially some of the with the cold spell, what that's doing to gas prices, and what kind of forward thinking what

we're going to be seeing in the coming months. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five k see the talk station.

Same thing is going on over in Europe. Although we are probably in a much better situation energy wise to handle that because of our stockpiles, because of our assets are liquid gold, and because of the natural gas that we do here in the United States, far different situation over in Europe. They are experiencing the same type of cold that we are here. Now, There's was a story a couple of weeks ago when I covered that on

the on this program. A dunk called flueta, a dunkled fluta as they refer to it, which is a situation where over there in Europe they have gone so much into this green energy windmills and solar that it's not keeping that it's not sustainable because in the winter months, when it's cold and you need that electric Jennifer generation it the wind doesn't blow. And so they are hurting

over there and having to import more natural gas. Now one of the crazy things that a lot of people don't talk about, and and I'm I you know, this is just one as I've learned about, this boggles my mind. Up until January, the first gas liquid natural gas was flowing from ruck into the European Union and through other areas aroundabout ways getting into Europe. At one point, before Russia invaded Ukraine, forty percent of the natural gas going

into Germany and the European Union was from Russia. And you may recall back in twenty seventeen, Donald Trump before the UN was warning that the dependence on Russia was not the way to go, that you're going to be held hostage by them. And very famous thing that where you saw you can see it on YouTube where the German delegation are just laughing their butts off, like you know, who is this crazy? You didn't know what the hell he's talking about. And then of course Russia invades Ukraine.

Then Russia says, oh, well, if you're going to buy gas from US, you have to pay in rubles because that's the only thing we'll accept. Well, then those supplies cut down, and so Germany was left of having to scramble around to where they could get natural gas from other countries Norway, the United States and so on. This has now gone down to something in the neighborhood of fifteen percent of their needs. And the crazy thing here is is that this natural gas pipeline has crossed and

gone through Ukraine. Now let that sink in for a moment. You've got a company or you've got a country Russia that invage Ukraine because of the Biden energy policy of cutting production, stops selling at leases, and we start buying

and importing more money or more oil from Opek. And so the price of oil goes up from where it was during the Trump administration around fifty dollars a barrel, up over seventy dollars a barrel, and at the height of once the invasion took place, got up to as high as a dollar or one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel, and so these OPEC countries were making money hand over fist, and nobody drills for oil cheaper, cleaner, and more energy efficiently than here in the United States.

And so we can drill for oil and make money at fifty sixty dollars a barrel over there. They need that price up. As a matter of fact, Saudi Arabia wants it up around ninety dollars a barrel, and they keep pushing for that. So with this added revenue to Iran, And because they're supposed to be sanctions that weren't enforced. There were supposed to be sanctions on Russia after they invaded Ukraine, those weren't That didn't have any teeth to them.

So they're making all this money and rather than well, let's back up at the beginning of the Biden administration, they started making money. And it was in twenty twenty two when Russia invaded Ukraine because they had boatloads of money. They were making a lot of money from their energy, and they said, gee, wiz, what can we do with all this money? You know, rather than oh, let's do something for our people and make our people's lives miserable

better because they're living miserable existence. Now, no, no, let's go invade a country. Let's go invade our neighbor. Iran got all kinds of money, one hundred billion dollars plus all those palettes of cash from the Obama administration, and then we got left of the restrictions on the cash that was being held because of Iran's terrorist threats around the around the world. So they were flushed with cash, and rather than doing something for their people, they said,

what can we do with this money? Oh, I see, Let's go fund Hesbalah to the north of Israel and let them fire rockets into Israel. We can have the Houtis in Yemen and we can have them fire rockets into Israel, and we can have them clog up the shipping channels there to be held hostage. And especially after the Palestinians attacked Israel on October seventh, they ramped up the attacks on tankers going.

pipeline continued to go through Ukraine. Now, how crazy is that, this pipeline that's pumping this natural gas to the European Union, who should have been making sure that Russia never invaded Ukraine in the first place and should have put sanctions on them, is sending money to Russia which funds their military effort. And this pipeline acrosses Ukraine. So Ukraine didn't

do didn't sabotage the pipeline. They do control the one end of it and control the flow, so they do get a fee every during the year for the gas that flows through there. But how ridiculous is this. You're at war with somebody and rather than taking out their major asset, which funds the war machine that's killing your people, you let it flow and then you get a cut

of the action. How serious is this over there? And then with this, with this ongoing problem over there, they're having the cold winter and they're scrambling around now and heating oil prices there the folks in the European Union are paying fifty percent more than what they were last year just to heat their homes, and of course that's going to be affecting their businesses, going to be affecting their economy, and we're going to be looking at all

kinds of problems with the European Union, and they are not bouncing back as well as they were. In fact, there was a story last week that showed that our economy appeared to have grown, and of course this is preliminary numbers two point eight percent, whereas the European Union was around one point two percent. So as bad as things are here, they're not as bad as the European Union. And the German economy apparently looks like their GDP for

this year is going to be flat. If that's not going to create problems over there in the European Union. For the governments that are in place and with the people over there struggling and suffering, this is going to be a problem over there, and this is going to be part of the headlines going into twenty twenty five. It'll be interesting to see what happens with these governments. Recalls or or you know, no confidence votes and getting

new governments in there. It's gonna all be interesting. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five, hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five, five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Ken, You're up next, fifty five Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR. See the talk station. So crossing a palm with eight eighteen in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,

fifty five KR, See the talk station. You know, each time of day has its unique characteristics, and right now is one of the what I find is very unique characteristics. I want to I was looking out the window here and the sun when it starts coming up. There is a period of time when it just starts coming up over the horizon, and it's just any building that's like two or three stories high, they start getting the sun first, and the ground is still dark, but the upper parts

of the building are all lit up. It's always a cool sight. So I just thought i'd throw that out there. Sometimes when I'm out on the deck in the morning and I look out and look over to see the city of Cincinnati and the sun comes up and it's just the buildings in Cincinnati that are lit up. The area is all kind of in a dusk, but it's kind of like this what almost looks like the Shining City on the hill. So anyway, let's get to the phones.

Let's talk to Ken. Ken fifty five, Casee, how are you this morning?

They've been through that before with the previous speaker and he saw how that just just drug out for days on end. And there's no reason for that. Because we have a new president, we have a new Congress. So hopefully some people in the Thomas Massey's district can maybe talk to him and maybe get him to at least.

he has a voice for constitute utional issues. He is a voice for libertarian thought and a very good congressman for the fourth District of Kentucky. But where I started having problems with him, and I've said this to his people, so this is no surprise to him, was back on January sixth of twenty twenty one, when he had said that he was neutral, He wasn't. He didn't know which way he was going to go on the confirmation or

the certification of the vote. And the day before that Sunday before he comes out with this letter saying that he is going to not he's going to agree with the certification going forward. Yet we had had a conversation on that previous Wednesday, talking about that Pennsylvania, their election was illegal because it was controlled by the judges and not by the citizens the legislature the way it was supposed to be. So at least stall things to get that sorted out, or at least recognize that for the

American people. But instead what they did is they just ramrotted this thing through. And I refuse to believe that our founding fathers would not have set up a situation where the checks and balances were I mean, if you're going to have an automatic certification, why meet in the first place, why not just you know, say okay, here's what it is, go boom. But instead there is a process where you're supposed to negotiate these things or talk

about them, or raise objections. Now in this instance, going to this just to say that I don't agree with Mike Johnson, that he doesn't support him, that he's going to vote against him, and all that. That's fine. You can dislike the person, but look at what's at stake here. You want to get the ball rolling. You want to start, you know, start running right from the all the legislation that needs to be passed, and to gumb those works up with a fight over who's going to be speaker.

I think is misplaced, right, And from.

an excuse. And my position has been no past you know, get Mike Johnson back in and then pass an annual budget as they are supposed to do, and Nuke Gingrich was the last person I think really and Bill Clinton, I think that's the last time an annual budget has been passed other than that when John Bayner was there, they started doing these continuing resolutions and they never pass a budget. So he says that that is the big problem. So that problem can be solved if he just gets on board, has a.

And if they're on board and you can get something passed and something done, you got to work with the people on your team and to just gum up the works with so much at stake, I I don't understand it, and I I'm you know, that's my opinion. Let's just put it that way, you know, and as we know I have an opinion, I'm not afraid to use it. So I think the gamesmanship is one thing. Standing up for your principles is one thing. But you got to kind of sometimes say, you know, is is perfect? Is perfect?

The enemy of bad of good? And where do you go with this? So Ken, thanks very much for the for the phone call. Is certainly pushion always the voice of reason from Ken uh five one three seven four nine fifty one eight hundred eight two three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone, Jim, Bobby

and Jim, you guys are up next. I'm Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas fifty five K. See detalk statement nine first Warning forecast wonder Weather Advisory until ten a m. This mo morning. Light snow continuing as it looks like it's pretty much cleared up. Supposedly cleared up around eight some six spots out there possible should be careful high today at thirty low of eighteen. Tomorrow is still partly cloudy.

It's going to be a chili day high at twenty nine and a low of twenty right now thirty four degrees fifty five K. See DETAK station Chuck House.

their tail between their legs like they normally do. And oh, we got to agree with the Democrats, I mean negotiates some there for most of these Republicans and including the scum by just my current reptor, thank god has gone in a day or two Winstrip. He's got a new spine, but he only does what the party says. But we got Massy up there and actually stands for something. And if Johnson had done his job, we wouldn't have had

the problem. And then he showed his true colors by that resolution that which was what fifteen thousand pages or whatever it was.

the legislative process. You can get rid of the speaker any time you want, by a voice vote or a vote of no confidence, but continue to keep the ball rolling, in my opinion, and then deal with this later on. You haven't dealt with it to this point. Deal with it later. Don't get in the way of the certification, don't get in the way of the legislation that should take place, and if that legislation is hung up, then deal with it. So I have to agree to disagree

with you, Jim Oh Okay, let's go to Bobby. Bobby fifty five Carosee. How are you this morning?

He went ahead and did a Dignitary Protection division and that was by my ORCA. They don't want to talk about this, but they're prepared of what's going on coming.

send a shot across the back. But anyway, we'll see what happens. We'll see how long it goes, because it's don't be covering it on into the night. Phone numbers five, one three, Thank you very much, Bobby, certainly appreciate the phone call. Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty eight hundred A two three talk one eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,

fifty five krs the talk station. Eight thirty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station. It is going to be interesting to see how the speaker vote goes in the House today, to see what happens, how the machinations of all that go about. Uh, who is put up for speaker who is challenged, and uh, see how that all works out. But at this point, unless I've missed a couple of things, I don't see right now anybody that says that they're

going to be challenging Mike Johnson. Now I may be wrong, but there's been none of this, you know, where people are out there lobbying everybody and doing a little bit behind the scenes campaign. So I don't know.

be great. Now to a certain extent, that might not be one hundred percent great, but there would be an awful lot of constitutional bills that were passed, a couple of a lot of cost cutting that is done and holding people's feet to the fire. Yes, but you don't have that. You don't have four hundred and thirty five. You have a slim majority of what one because of either people being selected for cabinet positions or because of

illness or people not being able to attend. And so with that thin majority, you've got to do some compromises, and you've got to do some things that are awfully distasteful. And when you're you know, when they talk about the phrase of you know, one of the things you don't want to watch is legislation being formatted, because it's almost like watching sausage being made. A lot of that has to do, and there's a lot of truth to that.

The problem is is that when you only have a one seat majority, you've got the other opposition that are fighting you tooth and nail on everything and their content to sit back and watch you fail. And if that's what you want right off the bat, then we're not going to get much accomplished in this legislative session completely. So it'll be interesting to see how this turns out

today and what all goes on now. One of the things that and one of the things that we're seeing is that the Biden administration appears as though, I mean not that they haven't all during the four years that the administration has been Now, when I say Biden, I'm talking about whoever is running the country, because we know that it's not Biden. We know it is probably a group of advisors, or maybe one top advisor, a puppet of somebody else that is pulling the strings. But we're

seeing it seems a sabotage of the incoming administration. I remember back when Clinton left office and George W. Bush came into office and the al Gore election with the chads and the litigation that was done to try to garner votes or to find more votes in order to get al Gore elected. Well, I mean that was okay. I mean apparently as far as the Democrats were concerned.

That was okay back then, because it was the Democrats that were searching for more votes and making phone calls and saying, find me votes here, find me votes there. But when a Republican does that in Georgia in twenty twenty,

suddenly that's wrong and impeachable. So we had the contentious twenty twenty election, or a two thousand election when George W. Bush was elected, and so you wind up with in two thousand and one, the Congress that came in to office, and you had some contentious things going on at that point, and so that delayed some of the legislation that was going on, which I think, in my opinion, kind of led a little bit to nine to eleven because not all the security people were in place and confirmed to

get the ball rolling. Plus there was some sabotage going on. You remember that in the offices that every one of the keyboards, the W was pried off so that when they go in to use their keyboards, they couldn't use the computers because the W had been removed. Now I don't know if they could get around it or if they had to order new keyboards, but there was definite sabotage, certain equipment that was broken, certain equipment that was destroyed,

simply because of the incoming administration. Biden is doing the same thing with making sure that he tries to sell off part of the border wall. He is doing certain things in terms of executive orders as far as commuting the death sentences or of these death row inmates because the incoming administration, I want to prevent them from murdering people. Oh really great. And now we see Biden is expected to permanently ban some offshore drilling. We'll have that coming up.

I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five K see the talk station.

Keystone XL pipeline comes to mind. Now as he's going out the door, President President Yeah, Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult to revoke protections for sensitive marine areas during the final weeks of the White House. Now, this man is incompetent, this man is not all there. So any executive order I think ought to be ignored. Biden has set within

days to issue these exemptions. Now they're saying that, okay, Donald Trump can go ahead and revoke those, but unfortunately, unlike other executive actions, they can easily be undone. Biden's plan decoration is rooted in a seventy two year old law that gives the White House wide discretion to permanently protect US waters from oil and gas leasing without explicitly empowering presidents to revote those designations. Oh, maybe the law needs to be changed and we can do away with

that that way. Oh, I was going to take a phone call, but I guess she dropped off. So continuing on with this, Let's see. They did say, and they did point out that during his first administration there were a couple of things that he tried to revoke. As a matter of fact, Trump is expected to order a

reversal protection, but it's not clear he'll be successful. During his first term in office, Trump sought to revoke former President Barack Obama's order to protect more than one hundred and twenty five million acres in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, which was rejected by a federal district court in twenty nineteen. Seems like me, it seems like time to bring that back up and get it to the Supreme Court. Supporters for the nineteen fifty three Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act,

which governs out offshore oil and gas development. Note that Congress gave presidents wide discretion. Again, Congress abdicating their authority to the executive branch when they should have maintained this on their own. And possibly this should have been legislation that had to come about in order to set aside these lands instead of giving the broad brush or the broad scope to the president or the executive branch. However, if this is a nineteen fifty three Outer Continental Shelf

Lands Act, repeal it. Hopefully we can do that. Let's see if we can squeeze in a call before we get out of here. Let's talk to Rick, Rick fifty five cars, how are you this morning?

had charter flights direct from China to Mexico City. They chartered buses to the border, and all of them looked the same, and none of them spoke any English except to say the same thing. It's to me, it's like there's a Chinese invasion force here running around on an assassination squad. Then the FBI should go find those people and root them out and send them back first.

So yes, you bring up a great point, and this is part of the sabotage of this country that in the coming years, when we start seeing acts of terrorism that are going to happen on this on the on the in the continent, on the in the United States, we're going only have one administration to blame for that, and this Biden administration. It is going to go down in history as the absolute worst and even treason us in my opinion.

you know, Hey, we've got this special today. Come here. We got twenty five percent offer five dollars off or something along those lines. I mean, the listening devices are there and it's not just a coincidence. So Rick, thank you very much to certainly appreciate well, folks, that just about does it well. It does do it for us. It's been a blast, been a great time being in here this morning. Certainly appreciate the calls. Certainly appreciate being

here thanks to Joe Strecker, excellent bumper music. Folks, have a great weekend, and uh well, I'll see you the next time around. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs The Talk Station for.