Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas 12/26/24

have an opinion. I'm not afraid to use it. Seven o'clock, we've got Chris Fickensure. He is the owner of Cookie Jar Bakery. We'll talk about his ninety seven year old business a Newport, Kentucky institution. At seven thirty five, we're going to be talking to Charlie Coach Coleman. Now he is a former county commissioner in Campbell County and was one of the last I guess conservative voices on Campbell County commission And now it's as as I refer to it,

the people's Republic of Campbell County. He is, if you may may not know, he's a coach at Bellevue High School for a number of years, retired from them. Was doing that Northern Kentucky sports Legends on gosh, what was it, I think it was before time Warner, whichever iteration that was. And now he's in the process of writing a book about Northern Kentucky Legends. It's about to be published, so we'll talk about that a little bit. Also at the

eight o'clock we're gonna be talking to Matt Donaho. He is the owner president of Madewell Restoration. I met this gentleman at our Christmas party on December the fourth, and we got to talking. It seems we know a lot of the same people. Young man owner of this company, made Well Restoration, and we were talking about this project that they did back in November for a World War

Two veteran, and we'll talk about that. I just it was just if it's one of those things that when you talk about companies and people giving back and people doing the right thing this time of the well, actually any time of the year, it's always a good thing. And I thought, you know, what people need to hear about this story and know about this company, and so we'll go on from there. Now as far as the news of the day, I hope you all had a very good, happy and merry Christmas and looking forward to

the festivities for the new year. I know that there's a lot of people in the hospitality industry that worked over the holidays and so they get those celebrations get pushed off to the next day or even the weekend. In my situation, we've got our son that lives up in Toledo and our granddaughter. She's got a birthday coming up on January the third, so kind of do something a little closer to that. So they're coming down this weekend and we're gonna be doing a little bit of

the Christmas there. We got kids, our other our daughter lives in the Netherlands, and so we did a little facetiming yesterday, so kind of a quiet, quiet, I guess, quiet time around the household yesterday watching a lot of different movies. Got caught up on some of the movies I've been putting off this time of year. I mean, if you've got Christmas, you've got to watch. It's a wonderful life. You got to watch the Christmas Story. You

got to at least watch that one time. Binge, what I know they've run that to twenty four to seven. It's a wonderful life was I guess you know they well they've run it a couple of times that I've seen, but we recorded it back in the first part of the Christmas season. Got to watch that. It was a

really good, nice relaxing day. Did a little show prep yesterday and got all ready for today, and so I'm looking forward to spending some time with you this morning, taking your phone calls and talking about the issues of the day. Looking at some of the headlines as I do. Well, you got to check the headlines when we first come in in the morning because you never know what is going to be transpiring overnight. You don't know what crazy

stuff is going on. But I was surprised to see now usually around the Christmas period that there is always some sort of oh, a terrorist act. Now that you had that car that rammed into that Christmas what they call them Christmas markets over in Europe, and they're still trying to figure out what's going on with that. Obviously it was done on purpose, so an act of terrorism, but I didn't see anything here in the United States

that would qualify for that. We had some football games yesterday and there is and I got admit, I was busy doing other things and I didn't watch the games, but there is an awful lot of blowback on Beyonce and Mariah Carey for their performances yesterday. Now I've never well, except for all I want for Christmas is you Mariah Carey. You know, I've never really been a big fan, but I'm not. You know, It's not like I don't like her or anything. It's just that I think she's overrated.

I will say that. But the headline that caught my attention was, I guess she was the lead into looking at the video, she was the lead into the Pittsburgh Steelers Kansas City Chiefs game, kind of along the lines of what they do, you know, on Thursday night and Sunday night football, where they do the intro to that, and so they did this with her, and I saw the headline and I thought, oh, well, I'm going to look at this for myself. I'm going to make sure

that I'm not just jumping on the bandwagon. I'm not going to base on what other people are saying. And the best description of it was she phoned it in. You could tell she was lip syncing. It wasn't any

kind of a live act. It was basically her mouth and the words and doing all the the you know, they had all the different scenes from the times that Pittsburgh and the Chiefs have played, and back and forth in between some of the I guess highlights of some of the past games or highlights of their the different things that the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Kansas City Chiefs have done. And it was kind of like, why waste

our time? You know, if you're not going to put any effort into it, if you're not gonna make any effort, why should we even pay any attention to it? And then apparently there was a halftime show by Beyonce, which I watched getting ready for today, and I'm like, what the hell was the point of that? I you know, I am so tired of all the pyrotechnics and all the dancers and all the stuff, the distractions in the back.

Remember the good old days when it was just about the music, when it was about the artist performing the song, and then you could actually see what they were doing. But it's all covered up now between the lip syncing, I don't know. I couldn't really tell whether she was lip syncing or I was looking out on my phone. And it's just it's all unnecessary, it's just all fluff. It's just I want to when I go to IF, I IF, and when I go to a concert, I want to watch the band. I want to watch them

sing the songs that I like. I don't want all the other distractions. I don't want all the other stuff. And I don't want people sitting next to me singing the words. If I want to go and hear them sing, I will follow them home. I'm here to hear the artist, not somebody else singing. But you know, that's just me.

By the way, the phone numbers seven five one three, seven four nine fifty, five hundred 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. And I just it's just I don't know these these artists and what they try to do and how they try to make everybody. It's like, you know, and when you listen to some of these songs on the radio, anymore. It's like, well, what's the difference between

this song and somebody else. It's almost like you cannot hear the other people singing, You can't hear the words, you can't hear you know, they all sound alike. It's just annoying to me. And I know that's why I spend too much time, or a lot of time listening

to talk radio. Because again, if you're talking about as I've mentioned several times before, if you're talking about reality television, it doesn't get any more real than what we've experienced over the last actually at least twenty four months or better, well, going even back to twenty fifteen when Donald Trump came

down that escalator. You talk about the real world experiences and all the carping back and forth and all the accusations and all the lies, all the hoaxes, everything that has gone on, that is better than any reality television show that I think I've ever seen or even heard of. And so when you break down what happens in your real life, that is far more interesting and far more exciting than anything that they could produce on the television.

And it's just a I don't know, maybe it's just me maybe I'm just crazy, but you know, we know that already having a little bit difficulties with our computers this morning. I hope not missing any calls right now, but yeah, we'll get it together here during the break or thereabouts. The phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty 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 KR see the talk stage five nineteen in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station. You know, I cannot wait till January the twentieth. I I have been looking forward to the US for a long time.

I get as you may know I do. America struck a network on our sister station, and over the period of the last few years, you look at certain trends as far as what's going on in the energy sector, because again energy effects gas diesel affects the trucking community as well. It affects us in terms of our commute. It affects us at all. The energy prices. If you look at your electric bill, you look at the companies. I mean, isn't there isn't a business that isn't subject

to energy price increases. Right here at the station, we've got all the all the lights into the station here, so we've got the electricity there, the electricity that powers some of these manufacturing facilities and keeping lights on there. I don't care if you're a doctor, a lawyer, or a hospital. All of it is based on energy. That's

one common dominated throughout the economy. So when the energy prices go up, and when you have an administration like we have as far as the Biden administration that has jumped full uh full on headlong into unproven technology, this green news steal as I call it, as far as wind. So I'm not opposed to those, but if you're going to have those, make it so that it's feasible that it is available, that it is on a basis of

where you can use it on an ongoing basis. Don't have a situation where you know what we're what they're experiencing in Europe right now, it's eased up a little bit there over the last couple of weeks, but you had this blast of weather there where it was beginning to be a much colder than anticipated winter, and it really I mean, shoot, we didn't even winter began this pass that we go, well, this past Saturday on the twenty first, at four something like twenty one in the morning,

and so we are now officially into winter officially, but if you go back in the Greater Insane Northern Kentucky area, we've had snow flurries, and we've did have I don't think we've really I know, we haven't had any accumulation on the sidewalks. They haven't had to go out and scrape that off from my neighbors and make sure that they're safe. But over in Europe they've had the same thing.

They've had a very large cold spell. And along with that, with the fact that they have gone feet first, headlong into this green technology, they've closed a lot of their coal burning power plants, they've started ratcheting back on nuclear energy, and they've started being more dependent upon windmills and solar

panels and getting natural gas from Russia. And so when this cold spell came through, the wind wasn't blowing, so the electricity that was available wasn't there, and they had to rely on some of their sources, their backup sources for that. We've seen certain instances where with the solar panels where they are not at certain temperatures, not as efficient as they should be, and so you're not getting

the bang for your buck there. And so we've got this all in the favor of this green technology, all in the favor of saving the planet. And as I've mentioned several times before in this probably you've heard this before, where if you look at the environmental movement, it has nothing to do with saving the planet. It has nothing to do with preserving things. As a matter of fact,

it has more to do with control. Where you work, how you work, where you live, how you live, how you cook your food, what food you can eat, how far you can drive with these e and everything is all about control. And that has more to do with communism socialism than it does with a free capital and capitalism society. And so I just mashed the two together. Environmentalism has become the new communism. So I just call

it climunism. And because of this climunism that has affected so much of the stuff of what we do as opposed to making sure that what is available and that we that of what is being converted or what is being used is ready for prime time. You don't go jumping into something. You don't eliminate a market, You don't eliminate an entire technology or do away with it, or what they call in terms of this demand destruction, where you eliminate a particular segment in favor of something else.

And I'll explain a lot about that when we come up coming up, because this whole demand destruction that we keep hearing about is a term that I had not really heard much about until about a year or so ago when they started talking about demand destruction with internal combustion engines, demand destruction as far as coal fire plants and all of the movement towards this green news Steel 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 Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the talk station five point twenty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station. As we try to continue to fix our little computer problems here. I believe that the the phone lines are working, so I'll give those phone numbers out rather than teasing you

with something that doesn't work. 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 on that AT and T wireless phone. So, UH, give us a call here and see what's on your mind. Now again, looking forward to January the twentieth, Uh, I am seeing an awful lot of good. I'm seeing a lot of things that are giving me hope in terms of what is going to transpire.

I think that this administration this time around, he knows the ins and out. He knows I think pretty much, who he can trust, who he can't trust, and UH as he attempts to get the UH the economy back on track, as attempts to get everything going again. It's interesting to see some of the comments from the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. It seems as though that they even though that they have been proven wrong time and time and time again, that somehow they think

that people are listening to them. And when you look at the ratings for MSNBC, CNN and realize that their viewers, that they've lost almost fifty percent or more of their viewers, they still haven't gotten it. They still haven't gotten the idea. They still haven't gotten the clue, the fact that whatever they've been regurgitating to the American public, the American public isn't buying it, that they're not paying attention to them anymore.

And when you think about what Donald Trump has managed to do since as far as being president and being in the spotlight on you know, NonStop, pretty much since twenty fifteen, is the fact of how many people he has basically embarrassed and pushed off to the side, not the least of which at this point, you know, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, all these people are irrelevant the media. We talk about this, I talk

about the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. They are no longer relevant. You talked about ninety five percent of the coverage of this this man has been negative, and still they were not able to break through and break him down. You go to the law fair and everything you know, it's all the stuff that we have seen for the last nine years. It's just incredible and

it's going to be interesting to see what transpires. And of course, you know with these with all these pardons that are coming out from the world, Oh my god, I'll tell you. Well, let's go to the phones real quick. Let's talk to Linda Linda fifty five care see. Uh well, I guess happy day after Christmas. I hope your Christmas went well. Welcome to the program. Thanks for calling.

And all I can say is whatever Trump does, he's going to have a hard, hard, hard time doing it. And the American people really have got to stand up and be on these phones with the senators and representatives. I know that that's real important. I learned that in the tea party. You've got to get those slips down there so that they have a stack of them so they say, oh, this is important to the people anyway. And I just called to say happy New Year.

And if they get fifteen to twenty five forty phone calls from people, that gets their attention and all this port that we've been seeing and ran Paul God bless them with his festive US report. It is just incredible. If you want to talk about the efficiency as a government, start with that. Start with is that the Office of Management and Budget that every year comes out with some of the wasteful spending and they do their own report.

Let's start with those areas. Now that's not going to get us the two trillion dollars, but it's going to be a start.

empty offices. They need to get back to work and they need to be there and be able to and there needs to be something in terms of how productive they are actually being because when you see some of these stories about the what was it a couple of years, four or five years ago that they looked at the Justice Department lawyers and something like ninety five percent of their day was spent looking at porn. Absolutely, I mean,

it's just unbelievable. And there's no you know, I question here at the station if I happen to tap on something that there's a couple of those what is it the Sun his paper out of the UK. Sometimes there's some kind of risky risk a pictures on that I you know, I keep trying to stay to the stories instead of some of those pictures that going along with it. Figuring out that somebody's going to look at that and say, hey, Kevin,

what the hell you looking at here? And it's just and yet nobody's checking their uh, their search engines or search history and all that. It's just insanity.

station five forty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk station phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five hundred 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. You know, when I look at some of these newscasts and I start seeing some of the stuff that's being said by the left, it

amazes well, it's laughable anymore. We had what was the big flap last week that uh Elon Muss is the president and they're trying to go Trump into getting upset and trying to poke him a little bit. Yet we've had and we saw the Wall Street Journal report last week that came out that this administration has been checked out within the first couple of months of being sworn

into office. The reason he was hidden in the basement in twenty twenty was that he couldn't go on the campaign trail, that he didn't have the mental faculties to do that. They talk about Jill Biden being out on the campaign trail more than him, and yet this was hidden from the people. And you have all of these spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, and I call

them that for a reason. All they do is get the talking points from the DNC or from the podium or whoever, and then because they are liberal themselves, they are going to prop up their guy or their person, and they are going to run with whatever the dialogue that's given to them to regurgitate to us. They're not doing any of this independent analysis. And I have to laugh now when I hear some of these people coming out and saying, gosh, I wish that I had spoken

up sooner. Well, right there, that person should immediately be fired because they are not a independent news analyst. At that point, they are not a reporter. They didn't do their job, and why do you think they're going to do their job going forward? When you look at the amount of lies that were told to us about you know, Joe Scarborough, you saw, I'm sure the rant that he did.

You know, if you can't handle this fu this is the best And this was a month before he actually within two or three weeks before he exited the stage. As far as open up the door for Kamala Harris, this is the best version of Joe Biden ever, all the lies about he runs rings around people that he is the sharpest one in the room, all of these lies. None of these people, from the person in karreem Jean Pierre, to anybody in the cabinet, there shouldn't be any of

these people anywhere connected with our government ever. Again, they have done away with their fiduciary responsibility to the American people. There should have been that twenty fifth amendment that people get together and say that the president is incompetent. And then you know, not that I wanted Kamala Harris to be president. I think that would have been an even bigger disaster. But again, it's the law, it's the way things are supposed to be done, and we have to

ask the question. We need to find out who has been making these decisions. I believe that has been Barack Obama pulling the strings. I believe it's people like Susan Rice and some of these other people in the administration. The look at the close advisors, the senior advisors to the president. Do you think that any of these things that the executive orders that he signed, that he was competent enough to sign those, And I think most of

those could be overturned. I think if you you know, based on the Wall Street Journal report, everything has been a fraud about this presidency, and if the president isn't the one in charge, then anything that has happened as a result of so called the president saying certain things or signing pieces of legislation. You know, if you've got an elderly person that is found to be dementia ridden and they try to sign a contract, that's an all

and void. So everything that he is done, everything he's done for the last four years, should be null and void. And we go back to what it was at the end of the Trump administration. So again, uh five to one to three phone a little bit late for a break. I'm doing it once again. Five one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred 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 krs the talk station, five fifty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station. You know, I do not think the people, and it takes some thinking about this because you know, when you look back when he came down the escalator in August twenty fifteen and from that point on, how many attacks there's been on this person. There have been attacks on his integrity, attacks on whether or not he's telling the truth.

You go through the whole thing about the Russia hoax, the Ukraine hoax, the phone call hoax, all of these things that have been thrown at him, these fake indictments, these fake dragging him into court with that Egene Carroll and the defamation lawsuit. Every one of these is going to be overturned by the Supreme Court, and everything is going to find that there was nothing done and that there should never have been these cases should have never

been brought. And then when you look at all of the talking about these other people, these other news networks, and all of the lies that they have spilled over the last nine years, it's all by the way, you've got a guy that has destroyed what they call legacy media. They are no longer relevant at all. It showed how irrelevant they were by the results of the election. It is proven by the amount of viewership and listeners that all the liberal outlets have lost over the period of

time since the election. It's indicative of the fact that they're talking about spinning off MSNBC the time, is looking to sell CNN. At one time, CNN was the crown jewel of news, that it was the go to outlet to get the news. How far they have fallen. And then Trump has proven Hillary Clinton to be a fraud, Kamala Harris a fraud, Biden a fraud, Obama a fraud. And look what happened during the campaign. Two point five

billion dollars that was wasted. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that these rich people from the Democratic side wasted that money on her campaign, but were lied to buy the campaign, buy the DNC that hey, we've got this in the bag. It almost reminds me of Vietnam. Of the people in the cabinet. De Lynn and Johnson's people were telling us, hey, you know, we're just a month away from victory. Here, we've got this in the bag. We're going to win, all to to find out that

it was all a lie. Now, if you're a donor, do you want to give to a bunch of people that are going to be lying to you? And then we see what a fraud Oprah Winfrey was, when we see what a fraud Bruce Springsteen was, the fact that these people get on stage and it appears is that they are endorsing Kamala Harris, and then we come to find out how much money they were paid. Why does Al Sharpton will have a job. He did an interview and was paid five hundred thousand dollars to do that interview.

Do you think that that was a fair and balanced interview? Do you think that the people that watched that got the truth, that got hard hitting questions and then even coming onto the view, the disastrous question was to be anything that you could do that would have been different. Uh, I can't think of anything. I even the view. Why are they still on the air, all the lies that they have told. If you can't depend on certain outlets to give it to you straight, to give you the

accurate information, they have no business being in business. Coming up, we got the top of the hour. We'll be discussing a whole bunch of things that we want to get to. I'm Kevin Gordon Inver. I'll give you the phone numbers five one to three, seven four, nine, fifty five one eight hundred eight two three two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gorton in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs the talk station.

The first day of Christmas begins on Christmas Day and runs up to what they can all the Twelfth Night, which is the night before the Epiphany, which is January the sixth. And so the fact that we're not out of the Christmas season yet everybody kind of I know some people that like the day after Christmas. There are people that are taking down their Christmas decorations already, and

it really kind of rushes the season now. I know that, you know, you have the Thanksgiving and then once after Thanksgiving begins or ends, then you have the Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and all of the sales that go on you see year after year. How I mean, it's almost like after Labor Day now they start putting out some

of the Christmas decorations. They don't even get to get through the or the Halloween festivities or the Halloween season before they start putting stuff in the stores for these Christmas sales, trying to boost as much of the Christmas sales as they can. Because businesses, most retail establishments don't

start turning a profit until the month of December. That's why they called it Black Friday because it's from that point on where the companies start turning a profit and start making money for their year end, and so they try to extend that out. Plus, this year we had what five less shopping days because Thanksgiving was so late in the year, and so that cut down the holiday season. It created a little bit of problem. As far as people trying to buy gifts online. I can tell you

that I have not. I mean here in the Gordon household, we do not. We have been doing more and more online, but we have kind of not one of the how should I say we're not We weren't quick to jump on the bandwagon there because a lot of the stuff that we buy, it's almost like you want to look at it, feel it, examine it, because it's just a

different way of buying. And we've gotten more and more into the online shopping over the last I would say five years or so, and this year in particular, the amount of frustration that we experienced as far as getting stuff on time, delivered, when promised, and then once you get the merchandise itself, that it doesn't live up to the expectations. We've gone to the extent of I have tried to buy a pair of shoes, a particular pair of shoes. I think this is now the fifth time

that I bought that pair. Had to return it, and of course they have now some of this restocking fee that they want to charge you for shipping bringing it back. So I wind up taking it back to the individual stores themselves. But when they tell you that, you know, a size is a certain size, and they say, if your normal size is such that it either runs big or runs small, so do size up, size down, that

doesn't work. My wife has sent had to send back two coats because they told her that the size was wrong. You know that the size if you're in this particular size, you want to size up because these run small. Not the case, and so I have shoot, I can remember being a kid, and even to this day, people cannot Well, it's very difficult to buy clothes for me because whatever size I am, you know, the waist size, length, size, end zeame that it depends on the brand, it depends

on the manufacture. In some cases, within the manufacture itself, there are difference in sizing. And usually if I'm going to buy it pants, I go to the store, I buy you know, I get about three or four pairs of them, take them into the fitting room, and it's amazing. Some of them are like a quarter of an inch or a half an inch too long in the end scene. Some of them are a little that the waistband isn't

isn't quite as wide, and it's and it's tighter. It's a tighter fit, and when you hold them up and you hold them side by side, you notice that there is a difference in the size. So having to try on the clothes, having to try on the shoes. Generally I can get by with with shirts. I don't have much of a problem in that way, but when I do see certain items that I think will fit, sometimes

they don't. And it's been a very frustrating season this year as far as online buying online purchases, as well as the frustration with when they say a certain item will be available and then how soon you can get it. That is, you know, overnight or they say next day shipping or two three days extends sometimes almost into a week. And there's been some stores where we went to buy something it was available, it wasn't available in the store.

They said that the closest place there wasn't any available in Columbus. There wasn't anything available anywhere in the Cincinnati area. The only place that had anything in stock was up in Dayton. So we went ahead and ordered this item, these actually three items online and we go back and

check the account. The next day, order processing, next day, order processing, the day after that, order processing to the point where and it was going to be something that was going to be available or delivered within three days. And so we even at we actually went to the part of buying the item and paying for a wrap express shipping that would have gotten there overnight or not

quite overnight, but two days. And so I kept seeing order processing, order processing, and after seven days they canceled the order because they said they were out of stock. Now, that is a crappy way of running a business. That

is a crappy method of running a business. And quite honestly, if that is the way this e marketing is going to do, and I don't if you're if it's not convenient, if it's not going to get to you on time, if you're not going to be satisfied with that item, then my wife was saying, she says, you know what, I've almost had it with this e shopping to the point where I'm going to start at least well, there's three or four vendors right now that we won't buy

online from. We will actually go to the store. And depending upon what you're buying, I don't care if it's uh so, you know some of these decorative soap dispensers or anything that has any kind of a painting on it. Go to the store sometime and look at that item, and look at each one of the items. Now, in a lot of instances, I don't know if there's some sort of a process or if it's part a handmade

or hand painted or something. But the difference between one product versus another, and you see where something is not as shiny, something is a different color, something is the shine isn't the same, or the painting isn't the same. It's just incredible. And if you pay attention to these things, and if you're picky that way, then you look. You got to go and actually look at the autem because so many times you get that homet go, who the

hell would put this in a box? And to the extent of I've well, one of the pairs of shoes that I bought. I opened the box and it looked like somebody had worn them all and they were they were scuffed up. So it's this online shopping. If they you know, of course, they're gonna blame the supply chain and they're gonna supply and complain about this, that and

the other thing. But it basically boils down to the quality control within the organizations themselves, and if they don't get their act together, they're gonna have some serious problems. Phone numbers seven four nine, Dick, we'll get to you right after the break. Phone number seven four nine, five one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred 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 along with Danny Gleeson. Fifty five krs The talk station six nineteen in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr see the talk station. Let's go to Bobby, Bobby, fifty five kr. See uh, thanks for calling. I hope you had a merry Christmas and so far towards a happy New Year. How are you this morning? Cavin.

is concerned. I think that when you look at these past four years, you know, the left is going to whine if there's any investigations, and I think there needs to be a whole slew of investigations because if the Wall Street Journal report last week was accurate and that they showed signs of dementia at two months into his presidency and they didn't institute the twenty fifth Amendment, folks,

we have a constitutional crisis on our hand. We have a group of people who basically hajacked the presidency, started hiding information from him, insulated him, and were making decisions and they weren't elected. And so you talk about a threat to democracy. That is what we've been experiencing for the last four years.

any type of power they think they can get. And coming up to January sixth on the certification, how they change to the security and everything around the Capitol, it always makes me wonder Capital Police and the place of the deep excuse me, DC, they're uncle have control anymore, Uh huh, secret services.

it's stuff that they're already doing. I don't care if it's the Russian hoax. They were the ones with the Russian hoax. You look at how many of these Seriously, how many of these democrats have SA GUIVERA T shirts in their closets. There isn't a democrat out there that doesn't love communism or doesn't have some affiliation with or a soft spot in their heart for communism. Well, is putin more of a capitalist? Is he more of a of a democratic leader? Or is he a communist dictator?

So who's cozying up to? Who there?

paid informants, paid gang members. I would love to know how many of the people there, and I would love to see the pictures of the people that were prosecuted versus the pictures of the people that were actually doing the destruction. And I guarantee you that there's an awful lot of people from Antifa that were part of that crowd that were stirring things up and not the actual Trump people.

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secure that there's no assassination attempts, making sure that there's no interference from any type of outside attack. I mean, there is still as far as we're aware that there are still these threats of attacks from by Iran on the life of the president. And so the security detail that you would hire wouldn't necessarily have the security clearance to tap in to all those resources of the federal government.

And you would hope that there would be people within the federal government that if there is any of these plans, any of this attempted crap that's going to go that people are thinking about going on, you would think that somebody would have the spine and realize the oath of office that they took and say we're not doing this and rap people out.

been removed from office under the twenty fifth Amendment been in. Well, that's a story.

Uh uh. But all of a sudden, this is okay and people aren't outraged by this.

Where were where was the spine with these people? Where was the love of country That you don't have somebody in a diminished capacity that has to at certain times actually meet and speak with world leaders, that you would allow that to happen, and that these people that were pulling the strings, that were actually doing the decision making, that is unconstitution unconstitutional, and in fact a direct threat

to democracy. That every one of these people and everyone in the mainstream media that wasn't pointing this out, those spoon fed regurgitators, and the people that met him, the George Clooneys, the Obamas, everybody that ever had a meeting with him that are now saying, well, you know, it seemed like he was a little slow. Joe Scarborough, all these people, they should be all fired, run out of town,

nowhere near any type of position of power ever. Again, because that, my friend, was and is the existential threat to democracy that they have been accusing Donald Trump of over the last nine years. And again, this existential threat to democracy crap that they've talked about that is accusing somebody of being a threat to democracy. What is a bigger threat to democracy than to take a duly supposedly

elected leader. And we can go back and probably question all of that, because let's look at the this story for another day, but let's look at the how do we wind up having seven million people suddenly disappear from the twenty twenty election to the twenty twenty four election. Where do those people go? Because the vote totals are off by that number, And so you talk about an threat to the existence of democracy, We, my friends, have

been witnessing that for the last four years. Phone number seven four nine fifty five hundred 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 Fund. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR see the talk station six fifty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the

talk station. Hopefully we'll be able to get to some of this over the next couple hours, but we do have guests coming up and I'm sure well I've been hearing and seeing and listening to a lot of discussion. Is you know when we had that bill last week that it was at that fifteen hundred page monstrosity that was being pushed through and again because our government is not reacting to the will of the people, because they are not doing the spending bills the way they're supposed

to be doing the spending bills. The fact that they are delaying until the last gone minute, that before the government shut down, and then they try to cram all this stuff in there. You know, we have on an annual basis, Rand Paul does this Festivus Report and every year it's page after page after page. This year forty one page is long. As far as different waste fraud and abuse in the federal government, and you have the

Office of Management and Budget. I believe it's that August that or it's the ig Report, the Investigative Journal, Investigative General's Report talking about waste fraud, abute and there's different groups, watchdog groups within the federal government that list these things out. If you would follow those, that would be a very

good start. And then if you take into consideration the fact that for you cut for every dollar that you spend, you cut maybe a penny of spending or keep the adjustments that whatever adjustments to these programs that are being done, they aren't automatically renewed with a cost of living adjustment. For crying out loud, we don't get that as an American people, as far as any things that we get. You look at the Social Security checks and you look

at what's done there. The cost of living index or the cost of living that's used to determine that is just a joke. They wait till the latest possible time to make that adjustment, and then it has nothing related to what we're seeing as far as inflation throughout the year. But they pat themselves on the back and say, well, we've given this cost of living adjustment, and if you would just cut those down and say, okay, if you're in here for a cost of living adjustment, we want

to know what the basis of that is. What in these bills or what in this spending is actually part of subject to cost of living, and there is just so much And when we start hearing stuff about well, you know, you're going to be cutting entitlements, you're going to be cutting into Social Security, You're going to be cutting into a lot of these programs, and it's going to take away or it's going to reduce the payments going out to Medicare, Medicaid, and you're going to be

cutting benefits. Well, included in that budget are the office workers. Are the people that administer that. And if you're top heavy with that, and if you've got too many people on board and too many people that you're dealing with doing those programs, you've got waste, fraud, and abuse right there. So I fully believe that if the proper allowance is done, there will be more than two trillion dollars that can be cut out of this budget and people would be

surprised by that. So I'm looking forward to seeing what dose come up with. It'll be interesting what and what you should follow is who's squawking the loudest about what, because those are the programs, those are the things that are the first things that should be looked at because if they're yelling that loud and that long about certain items.

As I've said before, everything that we have seen being accused of over the last nine years with this president, President Trump, that has been accused of by the left, they themselves have been doing. And make no mistake about that. Every time they accuse something, look into what they have been doing themselves. Coming up, we've got Chris fickin Shure. He is the owner of Cookie Jar and very interesting story. I'm Kevin Gordon Merrick fifty five KRC the Talk.

so I haven't been able to partake. But my wife read this article or read the Facebook post that you're a great Facebook post by your daughter, and it intrigued me from the standpoint that here we've got and this is all the things that intrigues me. We've got family, we've got history, we've got food, and we've got some very unusual hours. Number one, family, it's a family run business, been around for ninety seven years. The history, you know, the ninety seven years. And food, I mean, how can

you go wrong there? And you're hours of operation being open at three o'clock in the morning and then until three o'clock in the afternoon. That is my kind of that is my kind of place because I'm a night out as you know, because I stopped by to talk to you.

there then. But right, yeah, so but yeah, it's uh, yeah, I've been down there for forty years working the night shift.

a car accident. I was eighteen, and I had no intention of being a baker me. My mother said, let's let's see what happens here, you know, or give this a couple of weeks and you'll go back to college and you know, life and you know, but it's been a great ride I have. I have no regrets, but it's just you know, just how it worked out.

it's a wonderful life. Or you're the local George Bailey, and I saw your Facebook post and I was like, oh, that's what he's been saying. So great minds think alike, and so.

Tommy that I inherited with the bakriesh. Yeah, it's it's it's a little parody there.

And there's so few and far of those now anyway, that it's tough to find someplace that's open twenty four to seven where if you're a night out go get a bite to eat.

to that in the morning. Another couple of people called it and said, yeah, you know, And what is interesting about businesses like this is that it's sometimes it's like certain things where you take them for granted and you kind of move away, you kind of get out of the pattern of going to that particular facility, and then all of a sudden, it takes somebody to remind you of that, and it's like, wait a minute, I enjoy

that I got to go back. I mean, this is this is something that I've been missing for the last few years or so.

we had so many great stories, so many people. You know, if I'm coming in there, you know a gentleman that's eighty something years old, he used to work down there, and he told his story online, and you know, so it was really my you know, my George Bailey moment where we you know, at the end of the movie they come in there and they show their love and appreciation.

Her grandfather was a baker, so I guess they didn't have much of a choice.

of take those for granted. They're usually you know, they don't have the notoriety, they don't have the familiarity with some of the more you know, the larger corporations or the institutions. And now every grocery store now has their own bakery, which is kind of questionable and their products, but the actual homemade products that a mom and pop

place actually has is just phenomenal. And you just don't get that touch, you don't get that greeting with the individual that owns the place, that feeling of family walking in that they appreciate the business as opposed to just another number, and so I just love the whole story. I'll tell you what. We got to take a quick break. Can you hang with us? I want to talk about I want to talk about brag about some of your

products as well. Get a lot of people know about that, and if you haven't been there, what they are missing. So I can attest to that. And I'm gonna have to burn those calories off coming up here very shortly.

Jar Bakery there in Newport, Kentucky. And I keep mispronouncing your name because I have a friend by a similar name, but ficking sure, I want to make sure that you got it. Yeah. Now, so you guys have been at that particular location for how many years now?

maybe be causing some of our health problems. So do your body a favor and go to some place that doesn't have the preservatives and that is well. I mean we've seen that with a lot of the health issues that we've been having in this country. Right now, I got to ask you this question before we get out, before I let you go. What is your best selling item that you that you have.

The cream field. I've heard those referred to as biz marks, long John's or some other names you call those.

Thomas fifty five CAR see the talk station. If you paid attention to my Facebook page, you know that my guest right now is going to be Charlie Coach Coleman, a friend of mine. I'm proud to mention and uh give you a little bit of well, i'll tell you what. I'm going to let him tell his background and former coach at Bellevue High School. So Charlie, welcome to the program. Thanks for spending time with us this morning.

went up against. So making it to the final six years or six different times is a feed in and of itself. And then when I met you, we met back in twenty ten, twenty eleven during the well some things going on in Cambell County Fiscal Court and got to know you then, and then you became county commissioner there and probably the only conservative on that commission. Now we pretty much have the People's Republic of Campbell County

as I refer to it. But before that you were involved in the Northern Kentucky sports legends on it was the forerunner to what was it, not Spectrum but Time Warner? What was it before that?

about Northern Kentucky sports history. And I got to thinking of book's got to have a beginning and an ending, and if I could do a TV show, it could go on and on and on, and so for ten years I did the Northern Kentucky Sports Legend show on IC in six and that was the forerunner to my book that will become coming out shortly here in January.

My guest Charlie Coach Coleman, former head football coach at Bellevue High School, six trips to the state finals and as part of Inside Communications, did for ten years on Northern Kentucky sports alleges. And he has now put some

of that stuff together to write a book. And I do have to mention this about Charlie is that when he ran for office in Campbell County, somebody that wanted to put people above politics at the fundraiser and I helped him with his campaign, and it was amazing the number of former students, former athletes, former people that he coached that just absolutely came out of the woodwork doing nothing but talking about what a great guy he was, how much of an inspiration he was to them, and

how they how he influenced their lives. And for people that are ever involved in any kind of sport or any involved with people, realize that you may not know right off the bat or even ever how much you touch their lives, but by being involved in their lives. You have touched their lives considerably, so I just wanted

to mention that before we continue on. So, Charlie, the impetus for this was all the different shows that you did for Insight, and you have put this together and the book is going to be released within the next couple of weeks.

started writing this book. And I have featured fifty sports legends from the decade of the nineteen fifties, and I chose that because there's so many athletes and of course even in my book there are missions, but not on purpose of all the athletes. But if I could do them by decades, and hopefully can do one on the nineteen sixties, I can recognize a lot of the athletes. Of course, in the nineteen fifties it was mainly males. I do have one female. I wrote about Pat Scott,

who went to Saint Henry High School. And Pat, I think all your listeners will remember the movie A League of their Own about the women's professional baseball and she played for the Port Wayne Daisies. As a matter of fact, that yeah, the Barons of Crawford Museum in Davout Park has her uniform that she donated. But quite a story, and she said the movie was pretty accurate. Actually the girls were strict, very strict rules on how they they could be out and they were taught manners and so on.

But that was one of my favorites and I included her in that book as well as I was forty nine others.

to Cincinnati. Both were released by the Reds and Groundhoul then signed in the Negro League and played for the Chicago American Giants, And as he told it, he had a hit off Satchel Page and that was kind of the highlight of his career but a great story. Not his baseball card and he signed it for me.

you about that coming up. My guest again, Charlie Coach Coleman. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC, the Talk Station seven fifty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the Talk station, continuing our conversation with Charlie Coach Coleman, author of the upcoming book Northern Kentucky Sports Legends through the fifties, and of course there'll be subsequent books from the sixties, seventies and on. But thanks for having with us. Charlie is

certainly appreciate it. We left talking about lot now we left talking about Jim Bonning, which probably a very famous, not only a pretty famous, very famous person from the area. And I think somebody that a lot of people, I don't know, when somebody's in your own backyard, it's like you don't have the appreciation for him until you kind of step back and say, why look at this guy

compared to other people in the profession. And then of course his life after baseball and being a congressman eventually a senator as well.

far many years. And if he were playing today, he would be the premier player in Major League Baseball with those kind of statistics exactly, just a great player. Of course, he is a Hall of Fame, I'm well deserved, but a Northerland, Kentucky guy, and fucking mentioned at least two more. Larry Staverman, a guy goes under the radar. Newport Catholic

graduate All boys school, then it's Newport Catholic. But if someone would ask the trivia question, who was the very first first coach of the Indiana Pacers, and the answer would be Larry Staverman from right here in northern Kentucky. And not only was he the first coach, and the Pacers when the ADA then and when the ABA got started, they did something revolutionary to separate themselves from the NBA, and that was to incorporate the three point shot. Larry

Staverman was a driving force behind that. And of course now the three point shot is all the way down to the elementary school. A Northern k guy, Larry Staverman, was very instrumental in convincing the to the ADA to incorporate the three points.

to talk about him and a fantastic story there. Now we talked about earlier that you know, every year Rand Paul, Senator from my state state of Kentucky comes up with what's called the Festivus Report, and in that he outlines different areas of waste fraud and abuse in the federal

government with the government agencies. And it's it's funny this morning, when I was driving in there was this story that that I was looking at that I was I was playing a video and I had it off to the side, and right after this video that was playing, a video from Ronald Reagan came up when he was talking to

Johnny Carson. And it's amazing how much of the stuff that he was talking about waste fraud and abuse, some of the stupid government programs that we have and that have been part of the government are are still there today. He mentioned, and we've heard this before, that these different bureaucrats in Washington have never had, in some cases a real world experience. So many of them have never signed

the front end of a paycheck. They've only ever cashed those checks, and so realizing what it's like to be a business and to be in business, they have no clue. And the thing that struck me because I'm listening to this and Ronald Reagan was talking, and he said, you know what people don't realize is that, yeah, we have a tax bracket, we have a tax rate that we're

supposed to be paying. But even then, back in nineteen eighty when he became president, up until the time he left the presidency in nineteen eighty eight, he said, at that point, the effective tax rate was close to fifty percent. Now think about that, we have got to be way

higher than that now. And the way he talked about it was that, you know, when you have a government regulation that comes into play when a corporation has to hire somebody to comply with that, and then the added cost of putting whatever that item is into their product or to comply with those things that requires man hours and that has passed through to the consumer. This whole idea of people taking that they're talking about loopholes, that

they're talking about that corporations need to pay more taxes. Well, paying taxes is a cost of doing business, and corporations do not pay taxes. We pay those taxes because they pass those through onto us. And so when you take in terms of what is built into the cost of a particular product and then you add that up in terms of an additional tax on that item, then that's

where that fifty percent numbers comes up. And when you look at the various regulations that are involved, and it just kind of blew me away listening to somebody to talk about it says, you know that it requires somebody who it requires more knowledge to figure out the tax

code than it does to make the money. And that is an upside down situation where you have all this effort, all these all going to work day in and day out, and then you wind up with a situation where then you have to pay somebody to figure out how to pay the taxes on the income that you've worked so hard for. So you pay somebody for the privilege, if

you will, of paying taxes. And when you listen to some of these bureaucrats, it all boils down to the fact that in their minds what they talk about loopholes, what they talk about as far as income is concerned, you can't think, you know, you and I we think in terms of our net pay being the money that we have left over after we've paid our taxes, and it's our take home pay once they've taken out social Security, Medicare, federal, state,

social security, state, city, county, all that, and then you see your net pay, well, in your mind, that's the money that's left over to do the things that you want to do. As far as these bureaucrats are concerned, this is the money that they, in their minds, that they let you keep because they think all the money that you make is theirs, that that should be part of what they fund the government with. And when they talk about these loopholes and they point out and they say, oh,

the loopholes they're there, well, who put them there? The loopholes, as they call them, were the were the legal tax deductions that they when they wrote the tax law, put in that tax system. And so if you take advantage of those laws that they put in there, they make it seem like you're doing something wrong by taking advantage of it. It's just it's an entirely totally screwed up concept as far as how these people look at things

and the way they go about governing. And then when you look at with these as we're seeing and hopefully in the coming administration, we get some of these things knocked out when you look at the EV mandate. Now, when I say EV mandates and that, they'll say, well,

there's no such thing as an EV mandate. Well, you know when you say that to a car manufacture that as far as your entire fleet of vehicles that if you have within those vehicles, you have to have a certain average amount of miles per gallon, and those standards are set so high that the only way that you can attain that would be to sell more EV's, and so the more EV's that you have to sell to

comply with that. No, it's not a direct mandate, but it might as well be, because in order to comply with those mileage standards, you have to sell more evs, and you have to sell something that the American public has pretty much said that we're not interested in and something that is not ready for prime time, which you're forcing things in that shouldn't be forced in. And I started seeing I mentioned this, Gosh, I think this is back in the first hour, this concept of demand destruction.

And when I first heard this being said about two years ago, I said, what the hell is demand destruction? And I started looking it up to find out what it was. And a little teaser here we'll talk about that coming up. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five

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on that AT and T wireless phone. Every year Ran Paul has been since he's been in the Senate, or at least as far as I can remember, has come up what he calls the Festivus Report, and each year he outlines some of the waste, some a lot of waste, fraud and abuse, and he starts off happy. Festivus already wrapping up. Feels like we blinked in history, dumped a year's worth a plot twist on us. Donald Trump dodged

two assassination attempts. Vice President Kamala Harris ousted President Biden from the presidential race last minute, only to fail spectacularly. The twenty twenty four Summer Olympics in Paris captured global attention with a brilliant display of break dancing from our friends in Australia. In November handed control of Congress to the Republicans. And yet amongst these seismic events, one issue remained unchanged, the ever mounting national debt. Now we keep

hearing people talk about the national debt. We keep hearing talking about how things are a waste front. I mean, when somebody lays out on a silver platter for you areas where you can cut spending, you would think that people would take note and do it. In this report, okay, According to Doze, the Department of Government efficiency that Elon

Musk and Vivek Ramaswami is heading up. It's an unofficial arm, but at least an advisory capacity that they are talking about wanting to cut about two trillion dollars out of our spending every year, or at least over the course of a couple of years, this year or whenever, you know, they can't. Now, justin Rand Paul's Festivus report alone, there is over one trillion dollars that is available right there

on a silver platter to be cut. And in his opening paragraphs he talks about at how this that we're spending four point five million every minute, seventy four thousand dollars every second. And when you start going through some of these things, now just I mean, this is just this is just off the top of the list here government waste things like ice skating, drag queens, twelve million dollar Las Vegas pickleball complex, a four point eight million

dollar on Ukrainian influencers. Now, this is not the weapons that are going on there. These are people who have blog pages, people who are influencers, whatever the heck that is. Because you look at some of these influencers and anybody

that would pay. You know, when you look at some of the so called influencers in this country and some of the stuff that they talk about, and the fact that they're influencing anybody, well, you know, they ought to start with themselves and influence their own lives, because some of the stuff coming out of their mouths is just absolute nonsense. But okay, we're paying four million, four point eight million dollars on Ukrainian influencers. What are they influencing.

I mean, we've got whatever lobbyists there are with the military industrial complex already lobbying Congress because they want more toys because we're not involved directly in any wars anywhere. And when you're building these these weapons and you have these toys at your disposal, you want to see if they work, you want to see how well they operate. And so you find a proxy war like the war in Ukraine or somewhere else, and you get lobbied and you sell these weapons to this country. Now, I'm not

downplaying the situation that you know, let's not fake. Let's not forget the fact that there should never have been an invasion of Ukraine in the first place. During the Obama administration, during that Oh, you know, mister Nobel Peace Prize, Russia invaded Crimea, or as Maxine Waters calls it, Korea. But they invaded Crimea and nobody pushed back. So if you're talking about Russian influence, when you're talking about kow towing to Vladimir Putin, wasn't that cow towing to him?

And then okay, none of this transpired. Well, that transpired back in twenty twelve, and then during the Trump administration, none of this transpired and went on, and then all of a sudden, Biden comes into office and in February of twenty twenty two, after amassing all these troops on the border, and if you're amassing troops on the border, it's probably a good idea or probably a little bit of a hint that they're planning on using those troops

that they will probably cross over the border and invade the country. So where was NATO Now it's not a member nation, but it's on their doorstep. Where's the UN Where were they? Where was this warning? Where was this

threat of retaliation if they crossed? Why did they not fear sanctions from this our government or the international community by invading a sovereign entity yet they did under a democratic administration, and so all the stuff Russian influence, Well, what about that Russian influence, the fact that Biden didn't do anything, and oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can tell me, talk to me, call me up here and tell me about all these sanctions that were put on Russia and it was all even that was a hoax

because they never instituted them. And we can talk about that. I'm Kevin Gordon. By the way. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five, hundred 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 KR. See the talk station eight thirty actually eight thirty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five

K see the talk station. What's Let me give you the phone numbers real quick eight five nine eight eight eight five Hello, five one three, seven four nine fifty five. I almost give you my phone number five one three, seven four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three Talk one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound five fifty AT and T wireless phone, Kevin Gordon and uh, I'm here, So let's go to the phones. You're there, I'm here. Let's get to it. Alan,

how are you this morning? Thanks for calling in.

of nonsense. But as far as the school shooting, no, I have not. I could dig into that a little bit, but I've not heard anything further from that. And the less you hear about something like that, the more you know it's bad news for the left.

law enforcement officers lurking over top of him. And I'm like, well, if you've never been to a courtroom, do you remember seeing when Trump was on trial and he was sitting in that New York courtroom, the number of bailiffs and cops that were standing behind him like he was going to get up and do something disruptive or attack the judge or try to escape. I mean, give me a break. It's just you know, this young you know he's a

young man. Well you know he's a young man that you know pretty much we have on tape that killed somebody, So let's deal with that. So yeah, I have to look into that school shooting and see what's coming up.

and furnishing almost entirely empty office buildings. Now that's merely a matter of these buildings that are being least rented and so on. That the workers, the government workers, are not on the job. Most of the people that I'm hearing that are calling into this station are in their car. I am assuming they're commuting to the office. I'm assuming

that the pretty much. When I go to the hospital and I see doctors and nurses there, they're not working from home, although a lot of them would like to. I don't see many teachers working from home. I don't see construction workers working from home. I don't see police and fire and first responders working from home. You see a lot of the workers working from home. And why

are these federal government employees given a pass? Why aren't they told to come back to the office and if they're if and what we've seen in the past that it doesn't appear is that there's any type of a monitoring process of these workers to make sure that they're being productive and if they're not, and if they don't have those in place, Hey, how about installing some of those controls in the software program? Hey, I'm late for a break here. Let me get the phone numbers out

real quick. Five one three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred 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 KRC the talk station and Paul that he put out, I do have to take well, what should I say? Correct? One thing in here he talks about one of the on the surveys is when

bailouts go bus. United States Department of Transportation granted a failed trucking company seven hundred million pandemic Era a loan, talking about under the Cares Act four thousand and three loan program, Uncle Sam went on a spending spree handing out cash like monopoly money, seven hundred million dollars in

tax payer money to Yellow Corporation, which was a corporation. Now, one of the justifications behind that is that they were a big hauler for goods going into the various pxs and the government contracts as far as bringing food and supplies to our military basis. Plus it was a company that most of their employees were teamsters, so there was that pressure lobbying, et cetera. And the seven hundred million dollar loan was lent to them. Now, back in two

thousand and eight, they were teetering. They had acquired a bunch of businesses and sort of mismanaged those to a certain extent, but had been teetering on bankruptcy because of union contracts and whatnot. But they did file for bankruptcy. However, since they filed bankruptcy in August of twenty twenty three, I believe they sold the assets and those have been auctioned off and the government loan was actually paid back

with interest. So yes, that was money that maybe shouldn't have been I don't know, because when you've got a particular contractor that is responsible. We're bringing food supplies, medicines to your military basis, especially during COVID, you want to make sure that that's continuing. And with these different healthcare items that were being transported, you want to make sure

that those are provided as well. And yes, the company was mismanaged, it went out of business, but with the value of those assets, that loan has been paid back with interest. Let's go to the phones. Carol fifty five. Care see thanks for calling. Happy, well, actually happy Christmas or Merry Christmas, because we're still in the Christmas season and Happy New Year. How are you this morning?

One of the things I always like to do around the Christmas season, and one of the things I always look forward to reading and uh looking at the numbers, because as a recovering accountant, I enjoy these things. The PNC Bank comes out with their Christmas Price Index CPI, which mimics the Consumer Price Index, and it's a fun look at the all of the things that go into the Twelve Days of Christmas song, the partridge in the pear tree, the lords of Leaping, and all the components

of that song. And every year they sit down and they compile what it would cost if you would buy every one of these items one time throughout the season, or if you actually followed the song itself and so on. You know, the first day of Christmas you have the partridge in a par tree. Then the second day you purchase not only the partridge in the par tree, but the two turtle drugs, doves and a partridge in a

par tree. So you add that all up and throughout the index there's three hundred there are three hundred and sixty four actual gifts that would be purchased. And the way that this index actually mirrors what goes on in the economy because you have employee costs with the maids of milking at the farm industry. There, you have the entertainment industry with the pipers piping, drummer's drumming, lords of

lee dancing. Then you have the five gold rings, you have poultry prices built in there, and so you have a wide spectrum of the overall economy which pretty much in most years mirrors this CPI, the consumer price Index. Now this year in particular, if you were to buy all three hundred and sixty four gifts, which would mean, you know, every day that you'd purchase all those gifts that are sung about during that day, the total bill would come over for the first time crossed over two

hundred thousand dollars. It would cost you two hundred and nine thousand, two hundred and seventy two dollars for each one of those gifts. Now, if you were buying just the individual gifts themselves, the number of the twelve gifts just one time would be forty nine thousand, two hundred

and sixty three. But when you get into the components of this, it's interesting that you look at the way and the fact that this went up five point four percent increase this year in this survey versus what the national average for inflation at this current point is around two point seven two point eight. In that neck of

the woods, it is double or close to double. But this is kind of a fun example of depending upon what you buy in the economy, what food components, what hard goods, clothing, cars, and other things of even though the overall inflation rate maybe two point seven, what you're buying and what you're consuming may be well above that, like in the instance of this, So if you're buying these kinds of products, you are experiencing a five point four percent increase in what you're buying is and your

dollars are not going that far. Now, when we hear the Consumer Price Index two always here where they do the CPI, the Consumer Price index, and they say, well, we want to look at the core items because we want to take out those that are fluctuating too much, and we pull those out, and the consumer price the PNC Christmas Price Index does that as well, and so they take certain more volatile items, and it's a fun way of kind of learning about economics, a fun way

of maybe teaching your kids about something. And I will post this on Facebook. Usually I try to have one of their folks on to talk about this as a guest. But this being the day after Christmas and the way things are, I mean, I'm looking out in our office right now and it's kind of sparse. I think a lot of people took the week off, or at least take the rest of the week off, and so there's not a whole lot of people that are in and trying to get a hold of these folks and having

them on was a little difficult. But every year I look forward to seeing this, look forward to talking about it and the fact that they actually take the time to do this. It's whimsical, it's fun, it's instructional, it's educational and well, as I said, fun, which is probably pretty much the big criteria. But it's interesting reading, it's good stuff to talk about, good stuff to look at

and kind of looks at. How as far as items that are on the list, some items that didn't go up in price at all versus others that went up as high as sixteen percent and kind of give you an indication of how the overall economy. There are certain things that didn't go up very much this past year, but then there's a whole bunch of other things that went up tremendously. So fun exercise. Wish we had more time to talk about it, but we had a lot

of stuff to talk about today. Thanks to Charlie Coleman and Chris and Chris Fick and Sure with a hooky Jar for spending time with us this morning. Anyway, time for us to get out of here, have a great day and have a prosperous New York. I'll be back on the thirtieth and thirty first filling in for Brian, so have a great day. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas. Fifty five krc DE Talk station,