Gary Jeff Walker on Sunday 7/6/2025

Yeah, it's another special Sunday Nights nightcap, well.

Not quite a night cap. It's a little early for most of you.

For that.

I'm always ready, Gary Jeff Walker with you just a few minutes after seven o'clock on this Sunday evening, the July sixth, on the home of the Reds, Bad News. Reds louse the series in Philadelphia, a master performance by Zach Wheeler, and you guys have broken that down for the last couple of hours, So won't dwell on the Reds loss. But still they are the only team in the major leagues that has not been swept in a

And I say that.

Because, as you may have noted in the news, the Red, White, and Blue Ash end of celebration marred by out of controlled teenagers who apparently were raised by wolves with no parental supervision, shooting off fireworks claiming that they were gun shots and the like. Of course, in Cincinnati in the past week, we had a ten year old child shot and killed. Because of the continuing violence in this city. And a Newport the celebration there on Thursday night, not

There was a line out the door.

The streets of Ripley are clogged with traffic from all of the tri State. After local media outlets publicize the fact that there was a million dollar draw this past week that was not one.

Somebody is going to win a lot of money next Wednesday night.

If you're there, you get it all minus the irs, and there's a cut I guess for the organization that runs it. And then if you're not there and you have a ticket and it's drawn and you have the Queen of Hearts, it will be worth half of what that jackpot is minus all those other things I mentioned. And we played music and we had a great time.

Again.

Location, location, location, And why can't everywhere, including Cincinnati or Newport or Blue Ash be as tranquil and as well mannered as places like Ripley, Ohio or Patriot, Indiana. I don't have the answer, but I'm just curious. I got some sad news to so I'm gonna save that till later because someone that is well beloved in northern Kentucky passed away today and I've not spoken to the family, so I don't know how much I can say but

Gary, Jeff, how are you.

It's great to have you on.

Man. I've talked to you before in the year. I know that you've spoken with Willie on several occasions, and I appreciate your insight and your acumen on the challenges and the problems that you may face if you do business, say in Cincinnati, for example, since that is your experience, So tell me.

What you can about.

Sure why you think that Cincinnati could be a far finer place than it is.

Absolutely?

Yeah, you know, thanks for having me on. I appreciate the opportunity. But yeah, I I you know so. I'm a demolition and excavation contractor, very small business, been in business for twenty five years as of this year, so I've defied the odds despite UH having to deal with organizations like the City of Cincinnati government.

Just recently.

You know, I had I had employees years ago, and I've just taken someone on in the last six months.

So basically I'm a two man operation.

So I'm about I'm about as small as you can get, no doubt.

And in the City of Cincinnati has an SBE program, which is a small business Enterprise. Now, I was a City of Cincinnati registered small business enterprise when I was in my twenties, when I was just transitioning out of the landscape business and into the demolition and excavation business. Right and to qualify as an SPE, I mean, they really do a deep dive into you, and you really

So it's well, well, it would seem it would seem then that they have an overall worth of more than seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars spread, wouldn't it.

Huh, clearly and easily, And obviously it's it's it's just how well can you play the game. I don't have the time, the resources, and you know, resources being a lawyer,

So I have a very good relationship with.

Some building inspectors, and the building in spectors called me and said, hey, why aren't you bidding on all this city work. You know we're tearing down over one hundred houses a year. I said, because I'm not an spe And I was like, well, what's that got.

To do with anything?

I said, all of your demo contracts have to be an sbe They're like, oh, I think we can get around that because there's not that many people bidding on them.

Just put some bids in on them.

So I go out.

I waste a lot of time traveling all across the city, look at about fifteen properties, put in these bids.

Lo and behold.

You can watch through the procurement process on online where the bids come in at and I'm low bitter on several of them. I get a note back from purchasing even though I'm the low bidder, even though I'm a two man operation, I can't have these contracts. They're going to go to a higher bidder. The taxpayers are are going to pay a higher amount to raise these buildings and refurbish these properties just because of this simple red tape.

Well, and you know this is this is not uncommon again in these I think one of the great things. And I haven't picked apart every piece of the so called big beautiful bill which I see bad things and good things in it that just passed that President Trump signed on Friday, But one of the key components is deregulation, and we need to look at that in a broader sense all across the country if we want good people to be doing good work without all of these with

Absolutely.

I mean, I work with a lot of realtors who will bring me a person and say, hey, you know, we're looking at this building on Eastern Avenue. We want to we want to tear this building down and we want to build this facility for our business. And I'll look at it and I'll and i'll, you know, give

It is a pure bureaucratic money, Brett, and we know it. You know it, and listen. I'm sorry, I wish we had more time, but I'm running up against the news. But man, I am so glad you were on tonight to talk about this because I know you're not the only person dealing with it, obviously. And all I can say in closing, Brett is when you look at the red tape and the bureaucracy and just the literal inequality

It's disgusting.

You know, the President promised to help and Karen Bass and the government there in Los Angeles is standing in the way of progress. The progressives are standing in the way of progress once again, Brett, thank you so much for your time and it was great to see you on on Friday. You all right up next, one of my all time favorites, the fur Ball, joins us on a special Sunday Night Almost Nightcap on seven hundred WLW.

Good evening. It's great on a Sunday, easny to wrap up a holiday weekend. And I got to ask you a question. First of all, hope you had a great Fourth of July weekend. I gotta believe. Also, I'm not that smart, but I think July bought this passed. And there's those shooting fireworks in my neighborhood. Why does it stop? One of those guys? No, look, look, I'm not a gruffy old guy, and stop that.

Really tell me, Andy, when when you have a Fourth of July that falls on a Friday, that makes it a fourth of July weekend, and and the weekend is not over yet. As long as they're not shooting fireworks at you. Are they shooting fireworks at you?

No?

No, the guy I bought it my windows up, they not. I can't even look windows up for fourth series. Oh yeah, I did. I got to run this by you, all right, because you you were the man of intelligence.

I mean, you will give me the answer, right, I'll try.

This thing on the fourth of July. Is not the fireworks. I mean, fireworks are great. I love fireworks, But it's the Nathan's famous hot dog gaining context. Oh my god, Champions, Joey George Testna, he was the guy the Fendi Champions. He won it. He consumed like seventy and a half hot dogs in ten minutes. His rector was seventy six back of twenty twenty one.

Here's the question.

Yeah, no, what you're saying, hold on, but before before where you get to your question about Joey Chestnut. His record is seventy six, So he's lost a few miles off of his fastball, hasn't he.

Well, he was wrong. I mean, I think it's the most disgusting event in the world because I watched them ready to stick my singer down my throat, puke. They're shoving hot those down they would water and buns. But I just want to see why they do it, who's doing it, and whatever it may be. But the question I have for you and you'll have the answer, is hot talk eating a sport? No, it's on the pull letter network? Is it considered a sport?

Well, understand that the four letters in ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, and some people consider that entertainment. So no, no, no it is. It is not a sport. It is, well, I say, a disgusting spectacle.

Right, it's an event.

But you know, a sport to me has to have competition versus perhaps time and requires training, which he does.

Well, Okay, all of those components go into hot dog eating. There's no doubt about it.

Right, Okay, But the big question is this is Joey Chest and would.

You consider him an athlete? Is he an athlete? And I looked that up too.

An athlete is a person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical exercises, right, also participating in organized competitions. All right, They typically possess physical strength, speed, agility, and stamina and maybe professional or amateur. So again, I would have to say Joey Chestnut would be considered an athlete.

Right, So you're saying that hot dog eating competitions are in fact sports number one and are in fact, by definition that people who participate in them are athletes.

That's what you're telling me.

And I tell you why I brought this up. I'm leading up to something, of course, Hope, because he's dominated this event. He's one of seventeen times.

He's the goat of cram and hot dogs and down your going ing.

Here's the deal.

If in fact he's the goat, I think they should build a statue with him in front of Nathan's Famous hot Dogs and Coney Allen because they build statues for everybody else. Lebron James is going to get his statue when he retires the Big Old Oscar Robertson as a statue.

Michael Jordan has a statue which he deserves in front of the United Center in Chicago.

Yeah, Joey Chess is dominated hot dog eating. They have a statue for him in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, in front of Nathan's Famous on surf Avenue.

There there is no question that Joey Chestnut is the king wiener eater of all time. There's no one, there's no one who surpasses his ability to slide things down his throat like that.

I'm so happy you agree with me, now, so now.

But it's not a sport, and he's not an athlete, Andy, he's a freak.

You know what they they people people come, Andy.

People used to go to carnivals and circuses to watch people they called geeks bite the head off chickens, and so that was entertaining and people paid to see it. But was it a sport? Were they athletes?

You're right?

Well, I mean were they.

Was there a was there a chicken head biting competition where like one geek would try to best the other by.

Eighteen the other day to slip the dial? And a pillow tossing event pillow pillow fighting? I think it was called all right, So that's on this.

Were they were? They were they hot? Were their hot babes pillow fighting?

No guys, what guy, no, no, no, hold on?

Hold on.

June is over, Pride month is over. You can't have guys pillow fighting because the next thing. You know you're going to have pillow biting competitions.

Probably will, But I'm glad you brought the female aspect of things because I want to run this by Okay, I had a very big discussion with my buddy Bucky Brooks. We did a show on Sunday mornings.

Yeah, Fox Sports.

Radio or vocally on thirteen sixty or serious.

I already I need I need to do it again.

I need, I really need that my own ego.

But here's the thing.

Okay, you see people, specifically guys walking around with jerseys with players' names on the back, and eventually you go to a Bengals game, you see some women with a borrow jersey whatever, Jamar Chase jersey. How big I said, it's the buckie. This is double standing. You will not catch me as much. I enjoy the w n b A, and they have a complete isch right now. I mean, there's nothing else going on.

It's old w n b A.

There's no other sport's really going on right now. You know, baseball, but the w n b A has But.

Baseball Baseball is incredibly more popular than the w n b A.

Even with Caitlin popularity.

I'm not talking. I'm talking about because I enjoy watching it. I would never be caught dead in the w n B a jersey with a player's name on the backus. I think that's a little creepy. You know, guy fifty plus of age, we're in a girl's name on the back. But as sooner as a double stated when it could do it, men can't do it.

I tend to agree with you as a man of a certain age, I'm not going to be wearing. As much as I love Caitlin Clark and love to watch her and thinks she has been just the best thing to ever happen to women's sports. No, not just because I'm in Iowa, from Iowa, It's because I appreciate excellence, and she has achieved some excellence and some notoriety in her first two seasons in the w NBA that are unsurpassed in that league's history. And she has brought that

You know what, Kaylen Clock's salary is with the Indiana Fever.

It's not enough for what she's done for the league. It's not enough from what she's done in the league.

Yeah, well, she's making millions with endorsements. Are sure she's making as a salary from the Indiana Fever, she makes seventy eight thousand.

And you know why she's making millions from endorsements because there are fifty year old men walking around with Caitlyn Clark jerseys on.

Their backs, right.

And it's absolutely ridiculous. No, no, so ridiculous.

What Her teammate, Sophie Cunningham was the only one that came out of the woodwork to defend her when Caitlyn was pushed around by the girl and the Connecticut Sun.

You know, thug.

That girl's a thug. I don't even I don't know her name, but I don't want to mention her name because she's a thug and she has no business having any kind of recognition at all.

She's just another game.

The question where was her teammate Alayah Boston standing up in sanhangas defender?

Where was Kelsey Mitchell?

Kelsey Mitchell paid high school basketball person in high school she's a teammate of her in Indiana. None of them stepped up except for Sophie Cunningham, a first year player, and here's the deal his but Sophie got some heat the other day. They asked Sophie about the potential, you know, expansion in the WNBA. They were expanding the Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia and Detroit and Cleveland had franchises back in

And I agree.

Oh man, did she get heat? Did the Chamber of Commerce from Detroit put something on X saying, you know what, let me tell you something. She's one thousand percent correct.

Those cities are hell holes.

The hellholes they really are.

Move over to Miami.

And if I'm a player, I'd rather go to Miami. You know, if you had the opportunity to move to Detroit, would you go? And I said this earlier today on radio. The only two good things, well three things came out of Detroit. They were really good, you know what they were the Temptations, the four Tops and Stevie Wonder. That's the only thing that ever came out here.

Baby, you betcha. I'm all over Motown, Andy. I love it me too.

That's it, And I don't have to go to the try to enjoy it. I can listen to the radio.

Yeah.

Well, I mean there are people I know who would differ with your opinion of Detroit.

Now.

The areas outside of Detroit are really really nice. No, ye, get to places like that. No, no, no way, I'm not going to Detroit for any reason. In Nashville, Nashville is my old hometown. I would love to see Nashville get more juice than they're already getting right now. It is one of the hottest series in the country.

So yeah, But here's the deal, buddy, my buddy, Bucky Brooks, in part of set a very smart thing. He says, if you go to Miami or Nashville, there's too many distractions, too many things going on, and they might not be able to draw a crowd. Admitting Detroit, there's nothing else going on on Cleveland, So basically, they'll go watch the w NBA. They'll have people going to the game.

Twenty years ago, didn't I counted that.

Andy, twenty years ago? Did you ever think that Nashville be drawing sixteen to eighteen thousand people on home games for professional hockey.

No, they do.

I never thought hockey would be successful under the Mason Dixon line. You know, it's a northern sport. I never thought there would be even Miami, you know, not.

Enough, not enough Canadians there.

Well, you could be right about that.

I don't know. Well, they go down there in the winter time, you know, the snowbirds, they go down in the winter time.

No people from Ohio and Michigan go down there in the winter time.

The Canadians from New York.

Well, no, no Canadians. Canadians come here because this is like a sauna compared to what they're dealing with.

You might be right about that. You might be right about that.

Yeah, I had a question for you, and it relates to something that just happened to me, and it's happened numerous times over the years. On the off chance I go into a fast food restaurant, and I don't go into fast food restaurants very often because I like to eat actual, good, healthy food. And I went into this restaurant just to get a little something to tide me over until I get home. We're having We're having ribs

In the studio.

So I'm behind this woman and she's she's a seasoned citizen like you and I are. She's up there, but she's sitting there talking and she's the only one in line except for me behind her, going looking at the clock, going, you know, I need to get up to the studio. I need to get up to the studio. I know exactly what I want. She doesn't know what she wants.

You're a thousand percent correctly. And this and this story, I have to lean towards the sign of the young lady because I.

Actual lady, what happened tonight?

Okay, you talk about ribs.

I was going to move for ribs.

And one of the favorite takeout places that I go to is called Walk and Roll in Independence, Kentucky. I go down there, pick it up, bring it home, all right, And I usually keep their menu in one of my drawers in the house.

And of the destroy whatever, I went.

To the destroyer today, I pulled it out. I called it in right, and like I drove over the Walk and Roll and the lady says, what are you talking about?

And they know me there?

I said, well, I said, we wanted to see seven. We don't have a c seven of the men. I called a different Chinese restaurant.

I called the wrong one.

Really, so I went to Walk and Roll.

They were great.

They took my order right there. I waited, and then I looked at myself phone. I saw the num that I had called it to because I said to the women that will Walk and Roll, I said, I called you, and I said, but the number doesn't look the same that's.

On your menu.

And I saw, my goodness, I called the wrong Chinese restaurant.

So I called the other one.

Your orders ready, I said, I'll be there in ten minutes. So I had to get two dinners.

Andy.

This woman knew exactly no, well, she knew exactly where she was. She was at Arby's. There's a big sign and a hat out front, they sir.

I think is excusable. Anybody could do that, right.

You made a mistake.

If you made a mistake that a lot of seniors make, Andy, And maybe there's wait a.

Minute, anybody could make that mistake.

Maybe maybe maybe you know your wife, Wendy should think about taking away your keys, here we go.

She Actually the bottom line is so I got both orders and go over to her own house.

Andy, thanks for your time tonight. Interesting discussion as always, and I hope there are many many more to come before they put you in a l I'll be listening.

What happened to the attorney that does this show? Well, you threw him out?

Was what the deal?

He took his job though.

Mike Allen Junior took a night off, I have no idea. I like him too, but I'd rather have me do it because I'm making some money. Get off my phone. Steve Gorham from the Climate Science Coalition coming up after News at eight in Mike Allen Junior's usual slot on a Sunday night, it's Gary Jeff Walker in a special Sunday night cap. Just to tap past eight on this

How are you hi, Gary, Jeff doing great? Hope you had a great Fourth of July weekend.

I hope you did too.

I had just a remarkable Fourth of July weekend because I stayed away from big cities for the most part and got out in the country, out in the real country where the real Americans live. Yes, the eastern half of the United States has seen a big heat wave in the last month or so, and to which for many people claiming that this is because of human greenhouse gas emissions. What's your answer to that, Steve Gorham?

What do we know? Yeah, we had a lot of headlines.

We had the estimated one hundred and sixty million people in the Midwest, the South, and the east Coast experienced temperatures that approached one hundred degrees fahrenheit, So it's pretty hot. And you know, whenever we get the first heat waited the summer, we have all these groups talking about.

Man made global warming always.

CNN said, quote heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change. NPR said this was due to a quote burning of coal, oil and gas, and Time stated that heat waves now occurred three times as often in the United States as they did in the nineteen sixties.

What's the truth, Yeah, the.

Historical records don't really support that alarm. I like to point people to a National Shounic and Atmospheric Administration NOAH website called State Extremes, and they have the high temperature record and the low temperature record for each state, the rainfall,

Out of fifty, almost half.

But you know, when they write these articles, nobody ever looks back and looks at the data.

No, Well, the United Nations has said that we are in an era of global boiling.

We did.

Our world temperature is really rising the way we're led to be.

Well, they've been rising, they've been rising gently. Estimates are that about the one point two degrees celsius since eighteen eighty, one hundred and forty years ago, or about two degrees fahrenheit over one hundred and forty years.

So we're we're not quite to two twelve fahrenheit or one hundred degrees celsius, are we No, we're.

Not by the way.

Eighteen eighty is significant because that was really when we hear the first thermometers going to effect. But prior to eighteen eighty, they used things called temperature proxies, things like tree rings and oxygen isotopes and ice cores, that sort of thing, and they can go and these proxies move like temperature, and you know, they're chemical changes that move

Warmer than today.

Noah, you mentioned it earlier. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicting an above average hurricane season which just began. Are hurricanes? Are hurricanes? In fact, Steve Gorham getting stronger and more frequent. We hear that all well or not.

And by the way, you know that the Noah predicts an above average every year.

They always do that.

But if you look at their data right out of the Noah site and you plot the hurricanes that have come ashore the hurricane landfalls by decade, you find that the number of hurricanes has actually been slightly declining. Now we used to get about fifteen to twenty per decade in the nineteen hundreds, and now they're running somewhat less. The line has been trending down, so the hurricanes we have coming ashore has actually fallen over the last one

Are now worldwide.

Cyclones, and he finds that the number of tropical storms has not been increasing. They've been looking since about nineteen seventy these satellites. The number hurricane caynes is about the same. It goes up and down, but hasn't really changed. Same thing with major hurricanes, so the data really doesn't show that we're getting either more storms or they're getting stronger.

Friday, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill. Does the passage and I know there was a lot of debate about this with contracts and construction that had already begun. Does it mean the end of renewable energy in the United States in your opinion.

Well, it's going to take a big chunk out of it. You know, we've been subsidizing wins since about nineteen ninety two with production tax credits, investment tax credits, outright grants, and also loans, and then under the Biden administration, the amount of subsidies went up by about a factor of five with the Inflation Reduction Act all the way up to one hundred billion dollars a year in subsidies for renewables and stretching out over ten years, that's more than

Well, yeah, and it's cheaper for them because and from the people who are buying the evs and the like, because the rest of the tax base is paying for it under a false narrative that fossil fuels are killing the planet.

What do you think will be the impact? And you know, this is the thing Steve.

Wonder of wonders, when Elon Musk read the one big, beautiful bill and saw this happening, that he was suddenly adversely against it. You know that he was in favor of, you know, whatever cutting and there are some large trillion dollar cuts in this bill, and he was ahead of Doge. But when he found out this seventy five hundred dollars EV subsidy was going to be eliminated. You think that may have turned Elon Musk against the president and against those who were who were voting for this.

I don't know if that was it or not. There's gonna be some big impacts with Tesla, no doubt. You know, he's been a great guy. He's probably been one of the greatest innovators in history with SpaceX and all the other things. Yeah, but this is going to hit Tesla pretty hard. Not only this seventy five hundred dollars which

So the way this hits Tesla is.

What you had to do in California before is you had to sell a certain percentage of electric vehicles or you had to buy these credits from other ed manufacturers, and Tesla got over a billion dollars a year in credits that they sold other companies and that may go away now as well. So it's not only the seventy five hundred dollars but also all these credits. Governor Newsom is now suing the federal government to try and get

Finally, Steve Gorum, isn't it true that in times of global cooling more people have suffered and died than in times of global so called global warming.

Isn't that a fact?

Well, I think that's true.

Yeah, we had a little ice age and we had a matter of fact, we had the Thames River fro solid. It hasn't done that more than one hundred years. And cold weather is worse for people. Our flu seasons are doing it during the cold months from October to March in the northern hemisphere and during the cold months in the southern hemisphere made to August, more people get sick in the winter. Almost every country shows that COVID more

The book is Green Breakdown, The Coming Green Breakdown, and it's still available. Steve Gorham is the author, also the executive director of the Climate Science of Coalition and our guest, and such a pleasure to have you as all with Steve.

Thank you for your time tonight.

Thank you Gary, Jeff.

You bet you eight nineteen and a quick PostScript of some sad news I received today and I'd like to talk about that with you, and in just a moment. I believe in eternal life, not in this world, in this life, but I do believe in eternal life. We all think at a certain point, many of the times when we're younger, that we are going to actually live forever.

He owned.

At one time it was Pasqually's Pizza in Fort Times, which is the location of where Fort Thomas Peat is now well. He also owned and operated a marathon carry out in Fort Thomas for decades and a restaurant bar in the same neighborhood. And he had tanning beds, and everybody in northern Kentucky who's been around Northern Kentucky for the last fifty years probably has a Charlie Kemplin story. Charlie had been ill recently. The last time I got to see him at the bar where I work was

And I found out that he passed today.

And the legacy of Charlie Kemplin is left in his three wonderful children, whom I've all had the privilege to me, and all the friends that he has left here who are waiting to see him again in the next life. But John and Lisa and Terry and Lisa's spouse Andy, and Terry's spouse Bob. I think John's married too. They are going to be left to pick up the pieces, as we all are when someone that we love passes on.

Have a good night,