The Night Cap -- 2-24-25

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As promised, another conversation with our friend Savanna Maddix, representative of sixty first District in the state of Kentucky in the commonwealth's legislator and legislature, and they have been of course on and off in session looking at laws, drafting bills and hopefully not passing too much nonsense with a super majority of supposedly right thinking conservative Republicans who manned the House and the Senate in Kentucky in sometimes star

So in the past we have had the ability to provide additional relief aid whenever we've had floods and tornadoes as a result of a healthy budget Reserve Trust fund. It's another word for a rainy day fund, and we've been having some rainy days in eastern Kentucky, so it's not a budget year. But at the same time, legislators are talking about what some of those relief efforts might look like. So far, all they've done is add an

What is an NTI day. It's been so long since I was in school, I don't remember those.

Yeah, So the NTI day is a non traditional instruction where essentially you take a tablet home or have a tablet and you complete school. And that that may take on various permutations, but it's remote work one way or the other, whether it's a packet or whether it's online or so forth, so on, And we've been seeing a lot of that for snow days, but also for illness and I believe there was a windy day that they

And we saw, we saw how ineffective ntis were during COVID in the school lockdowns. I don't think we need more of that, do you no?

And I will say this as far as the learning gap that ensued as a result from the schools being shut down. And you know, teachers don't want this either. They I've talked with several teachers about this, and they would prefer that the students be in the classroom as well. It can't be easy to try to teach virtually. I know whenever I do interviews virtually, it doesn't feel like

Well, I can make.

Last, Savannah, I can attest that I would much rather have you in the studio. I love having people in the studio because you make that eye contact and you feel like you're really really connecting and it makes the conversation better. I do a lot of phone interviews, so I've had to learn to overcome all of that. But after several hundred hours, maybe I might be able to get a pass on that particular end I wanted to talk.

Absolutely well. We passed constitutional carryback in twenty nineteen that enabled Kentuckians to be able to exercise at a second amendment rights without having asked government for permission or pay recurrent fees. But we said it at twenty one at that time because that is the best we can get.

Elsewhere on the Second Amendment in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Savannah Maddox I had earlier on the show. I will actually have later on the show a guy named Dan Was who is so famous for his Good Gun, Bad Guy book series, and he's an outspoken advocate for our Second Amendment rights. And we'll be talking a little bit about red flag laws and how they violate not only the Second, the fourth, but the fourteenth amendments of our Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. And can

It violates due process, Like you said, in addition to violating our constitutional rights, not just limited to the Second im it violates due process in that it presumes guilt where innocence should be. We have that presumption of innocence as well enshrined in our legal system, so it is highly problematic.

Well, not that you have a crystal ball, none of us do. But we already know that Mitch McConnell will not be running for another term in the Senate. Thank god, we get a break from Mitch. And I say that as a Republican voter, But we know that's happening, and we know that there's going to be a governor's race

Well, I don't have a crystal ball, but I do foresee an ugly Senate race. I think it's already gotten ugly, and we don't even know what that slate of candidates is going to fully look like yet. But as far as anyone who's looking at a higher office, we need to restore the appropriate role of government. We need to get back to the Constitution. We need to defend the principles of liberty and limited government, free market's, all of that kind of thing.

And I have not.

Seen a preponderance of that type of messaging out there at the higher levels. I mean outside of my good friend's Congressman Thomas Massey. I mean, he's been beating the drum on those issues for years and years. But I think overall Kentuckians need to look for people who are authentic Republicans, not folks who are just going to go along to get along and say whatever, that kind of that Mitch McConnell line of thinking that it's time to be done with that.

I think Thomas Massey would make an excellent governor of the state of Kentucky. I really believe that. I think you'd make a great governor, Savannah. I know that there was a time when you you know where I am that possibility, and it just it's a money thing. And this is the thing you and I talked about before, Savannah, the major impact of money and money, not ideas, not grassroots support, but money, a lot of it coming from outside the state in many cases, which really always disturbs me.

My eyes have been open to that reality contemplating a statewide because you know, as you know, Congress and Massy was supportive of me and very helpful, and I had a lot of outside support because you have to have that.

What's amazing to me, too, is a short attention span of voters, of all of us. I mean, it was said in some scientific study that the average human being has the attention span of a goldfish, which is maybe three or four seconds about things. But we really don't remember things we need to remember. And I said this when Andy was running for a second term. I said, don't you guys remember the COVID lockdowns. Don't you remember

So we have to make it a core function. It has to be part of the fabric of the ideology that no matter what happens, whether it's COVID or you know, any other or for example, like think about nine to eleven, how horrific that was. But look at the knee jerk reaction, the Patriot Act, the Real Idea Act, some of those things that happen as a result of using a circumstance

Well as far as the gag reflex goes. The government at federal level, state level have done quite a few things that made me want to throw up a little bit in my mouth. So not to be gross, but is there any other thing I know they've talked about what we lowered the state income tax to three and a half percent. Has that happened yet or is that on the table to happen? What's going on with that? Yeah?

Yeah, so we lowered the income tax another half of a percent, it seems kind of anemic given that we have also not me, but the legislature has applied new service taxes that you know are in conjunction with that minimal tax cut, So you know, moving forward, it's good to move away from a production based tax to consumption. But if we need to eliminate the income tax period, we also need to look at the property tax on motor vehicles. People are tired of paying for a card

Could you do something about eliminating the fees on my spec trium Bill.

Born, I'll tell you what.

Every month it's a different it's a different price, and you go, well, you know, it's taxes and fees. We can't do anything about that. I'm gonna have to take a fine comb and a microscope to figure it out all out. But or just cut the cut the cable completely, which is, believe me, becoming more and more of a possibility. But I mean those those kind of fees, like you said, the other taxes and fees. People don't understand that, even if you're not having it extracted at the point of

It is, and a fee is a tax whenever it's administered by the government. I think that that's important because like in agriculture, for example, we have all of these fees. So you want to sell eggs, you want to do this, You want to process your own poultry, you want to sell jams, jealous, you pay these feeds, and when all these feeds add up, and you know, frankly, a lot of the regulations that exist are for no other purpos and to collect those feeds. So that's problematic as well.

Thank you so much, and thank you for your time tonight. Savannah. It's always good to talk to you. It's nice to know that somebody with a sound mind is like watching the rest of the henhouse and watching for the foxes who are trying to steal our money at every turn. Savannah Maddox from the sixty first District in the House of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Tonight. Thank you, Savannah, thank you,

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And this Monday evening, we're talking now to executive director of the Climate Science Coalition, author of many, many books on sustainable energy, and the latest, of course, the Coming Green Breakdown or Green Breakdown becoming Green Energy Collapse. Well, I forget the subtitles, but I know it's Green Breakdown, and it's a fantastic book. It takes you through how all of these things that are supposedly sustainable energy and the things that the energy of the future is not

How you doing, Steve, Hi, Gary, Jeff, but good to join you again. Yeah, I'm doing great.

Yeah you said, you just returned from a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii and they're still They're still in those places sold on the bill of goods that we have to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we have to stop using fossil fuels, and wind and solar is the only way to go. How are they doing in those countries and do they still have the mandates in place in Australia New Zealand that now President Trump has taken out of the American Energy Policy.

Yeah, they do have mandates in place. The beautiful places. We're in New Zealand and North Island, New Zealand. We're in Sydney. One thing I noticed though, is that it's terrible to get anywhere with cars out there. New Zealand has almost no express US ways and so you're driving on these two lane roads past schools and stop lights and everything else, trying to get somewhere, and then Sydney, Australia is loaded with traffic. Everywhere, the traffic is terrible.

Well, it's a huge city in the US.

Yeah, it is a big city, five million people. So we love our cars in the US, and we don't know how good we have it. We can drive anywhere and get quick anywhere in the country quickly, whereas in these other nations, you know, they just haven't done that. So we have a tremendous benefit.

But yeah, the.

Folks in New Zealand and Australia, though, we are not real happy with President Trump. They think he's really a terrible guy and the press is terrible, and but I think he's going to have a tremendous impact on getting our energy situation straightened around.

Oh well, I mean that's one of the reasons that I voted for him. A lot of people voted for President Trump for a myriad of reasons, just a reversal of course of the last four years before that and maybe longer, of nonsensical mandates and dictates that we're supposed to save the planet because of flawed data and just

You said.

In his first month in office, the president dropped a bomb on green energy and climate policy. Can can you take off some of his actions here in this first month in office.

Yeah, it's really been huge in one month. So one of the first big ones is he did in executive order on offshore wind licenses. If you're going to put up a wind turbine, the federal government owns a land from three miles out to two hundred miles out off our coast, and you have to have a lease to put up a wind turbine. Well, he has stopped all of those one of his executive orders. He also asked a Secretary of Interior, Doug Burgham, to review all the

They are. They are causing damage to the road, maybe more like an eighteen wheeler, and yet they don't pay any road tax to maintain that infrastructure. That's just crazy, that's right.

So not only they're going to eliminate and he's got to get this through Congress, but they're working on it eliminate the seventy five hundred dollars tax credit, but they also want to put one thousand dollars tax on an EV's sale for road taxes. So those things, if they get through, are going to have a tremendous impact. The third is the funding for renewables. We have about eighty billion dollars a year going on the Inflation Reduction Act for wind, solar and green hydrogen and carbon diox i

Yeah. I love the fact that you're not getting subsidized to buy a car that you we were going to be forced to buy. And again, the reason, one of the reasons I voted for Resident Trump was because of his promise of this new energy policy for America going forward and out of the Paris Climate Accords, out of the cop stuff, just completely unleashing American energy. And we've got so many natural resources, as the President has said over and over again, underneath our feet, liquid gold, in

Yeah, and so they go ahead.

No, that's all I had at that particular point.

So big climate changes as well. He's basically taking climate departments out of his administration, out of the EPA, out

Well.

Another reason, a lot of people said that the Biden presidency was President Obama's third term because that was his big push when he took office in January of nine, and the EPA reflected that every president gets to at least present his policy and the things he campaigned on, and then hopefully they follow through with it. This president so far is batting a thousand on following through of the things he promised on the campaign trail.

Now, yeah, absolutely, the.

Funding for renewables, the Inflation Reduction Act, and you were talking about all these Green New Deal policies and moneies that were set aside, not just in the Department of Energy, but throughout the federal government. And that is all going away either by presidential executive order or Elon Musk and his gang of doze who keep on finding ways that we've been taken to the cleaners by the bureaucracy for the last I don't know, one hundred years.

Probably well, they they've stopped the flow of it and they're being challenged in court, and there's also efforts to remove a lot of that in Congress. We'll see how that goes. I think they're trying to get it all into this big budget proposal that they're trying to work out. But you know, we had a lot of people that are opposing that. There were just eighty ent of these the other day, that including a whole bunch of oil companies, including the American Petroleum Institute, who said we need all

Did you ever hear.

Anything so crazy? But anyway, you know, all these firms want these big subsidies. We'll see what Trump does with this, and hopefully he will shut these down as well.

I'll tell you what. We'll talk about some of the breakdown that's already occurring with bankruptcies and such. In just a moment after a break Steve Gorham on the night Cap, the Green breakdown. It's happening right before our eyes, and really it's been spurred on by President Trump, but it was going to occur whether he was in office or not. We'll talk about that and more in just a moment on seven hundred WLW.

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It comes to energy in America and the Trump era executive director of the Climate Science Coalition, author of Green breakdown and much much more. Steve Gorum here on the show, and I wanted to ask you sent me some details about another you know, green company so called going belly up. Nicola, the electric truck manufacturer, just filed for bankruptcy last week. Are there are there more of these? Do you see on the horizon coming up? Steve?

Yeah, there are a lot of these firms are dependent on federal money. Yeah, Nicola was when it went public five years ago, it was belled a thirty billion dollars and now it's a penny stock. It has dropped all the way to nothing. They were trying to do hydrogen trucks as well as electric trucks. They've only got four hundred on the road last year, and they're just losing

Well.

I'm trying to think of the company that went bankrupt a few years ago and made all of the news. That was only six hundred millillion.

You're talking about Solendra.

Solendra, thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was a big loan, six hundred million dollars down the drain. Well, this is is six point six billion dollars to Rivian. Rivian has never made a profit. Last year they lost about four hundred million on four hundred million in sales. I mean, it's just uh, and there are more of these companies that are going another one of these EP charging companies EV charging companies. There's not a single one in the world that has ever

Well, you talk about all these addicts who insisted that this had to happen to reverse or turn around climate change and the crisis we were all facing based on their flawed data and models that we're always wrong. But this would have happened eventually with or without Trump, because it's the old adage, it's the economy stupid. They never make money, and we who are consumers wind up paying a lot more for less efficient energy. Is that true or not?

I think it is, And that's what I talk about in Green Breakdown, which is a complete discussion of the proposed transition to net zero energy that talks about power plants and home appliances. You know, they wanted to get rid of the gas appliances, electric vehicles, heavy industry, heavy transportation, of the energy crisis in Europe over the last few years, and points out that zero is more than a reach,

Well, there's so much money and so much effort and so much I don't know, emotion that's been poured into this over the last twenty twenty five years. Basic predicated on the lie that CO two was turning our planet into an inhospitable place, and that we were going to all die and the Earth was going to be barren because of this climate catastrophe that was looming. And yet the Earth is greening at a rate that we haven't

Yeah, you mentioned some of the predictions. They are amazing. There were predictions that we wouldn't have any ice in the Arctic in the summer, that those are all false. The United Nations predicted we'd have fifty million climate refugees. By twenty ten, while they revived that was in their website, they took that out of the website. We had a guy by the name of doctor David Viner in the United Kingdom said that children just aren't going to know what snow is, you know. So, how did that work

You know.

That's one of the problems is that we have such a short attention span as a population that you know, the next big headline and we're like a what Russia Limbo used to call it the drive by media because most people when it comes to getting their news and information, there are a lot more platforms now, and there's a lot more choice, which is a good thing, but it's so of the moment, like what's the news now, and then fifteen minutes later you forgot what the news now was,

Yeah, climate is complex too. It's difficult for people to understand, and a lot of what they're reading the press. Probably if you read any article, it's got wrong things in it about the climate. But this is all going to crunch. We may go into a period of a couple of decades of cooling. It has been warming, but it's very possible it could change. Very difficult to predict what's going on in the future.

But over overall, Steve Gorm, the warming that has been predicted and the warming that's actually happened, it's very minuscule. The warming that's happened over the last hundred two hundred years, isn't it.

As far below the models? Yeah, the models are predictingly much higher warming. We've had one degree of a one degree celsius at warming in one hundred and forty years since we've had thermometers, very gentle and actually it's been good for the planet. I mean, if you look at all the numbers, people do better in warm temperatures. We get more deaths in the winter, we get more people get sick in the winter, more COVID nineteen cases in

The climate situation is one of those issues that President Trump has focused on of the many issues he's focused on in his first month or so. But it is another one where people want the choice of what kind of energy they want to use. They don't want to be told that they have to use this or that. And that's in poll after poll after polled, by a large majority, people think that you should have your own decision to make on whether you use gas, natural, gas electric.

Yes, we are the there's talk of all these data center using up to twenty percent of our electrical supply within a decade, and states like Virginia and Texas just don't know how to get there, and so they want to build nuclear plants which take a long long time. We have a lot of gas plants that are being built about two hundred and in planning or construction right now. That's going to be the big winner, even though it doesn't get the press and wind and solar just really

Tough toenails, Tommy, Steve Gorham, thank you very much. The book is the Green Braak Down, his latest in a series of fantastic, thoughtful and actual scientific results in data when it comes to climate and renewable energy. Steve Goran, thank you very much for your time tonight.

Thank you your Jeff.

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Drunk nightcap on seven hundred WLW. Garret Jeff, I'm next excited about this. A guy who was on President Reagan's National Security Council in White House staff. He's got a new book coming out in just about three weeks March eighteenth, called inside the Reagan White House and to talk about that and to talk about what's going on now, especially with the Russian Ukraine War and the current negotiations that are going on in the back and forth with Donald

Jerry Jeff, Thanks for having me on. I'm great, I'm great at it good.

You know.

I'm an Ohio boy.

I'm really born and grew up in Campton on the north side of the state, so a little bit, a little bit outside the radio broadcast of BILW.

But it's great to be back home, so to speak.

We listen, We're on on a Monday night, and if it's clear, I believe it is that signals booming right into Canton. Anybody you want to see, anybody you want to shout out to, I'll.

Say, how did my my mom still live in the family home in Canton?

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Ninety seven years old?

So good God, bless God, bless her. That's excellent, that's awesome. So I got to ask you first without giving away too much of the book. Inside the Reagan White House, it was. It was a different time, but we're seeing some parallels today with the reason that Ronald Reagan was elected and the reason Donald Trump was elected, although the men have definite different styles. I got to tell you, my wife and I absolutely adored the Reagan movie with

I think it's very evocative. He's fundamentally a genial guy.

He tried to.

Manage to connect people by being approachable and friendly. So that's a very powerful you know, let a smile be your umbrella, and it's a very powerful way of building relationships. But yet he had a vision, he had a goal, he had a purpose. He wasn't there just to be everybody's friend. He was there to help take the country ahead and how to tackle some big problems that we're in front of us. And you're right, there are some parallels with today.

Well, yeah, I mean you believe that the US has to and no one has talked about abandoning Ukraine at all, but we have seen so much money go there for as dubious things like you know, paying the pension of government employees Ukraine and all of that under the guise of helping them fight off Vladimir Putin and the Russians. Ronald Reagan had a certain alliance building kind of strategy

Yeah.

I well, first, Russia is the aggressive Russia invaded Ukraine. So whatever problems would have with Ukraine or whatever problems we're going to have with other European countries building there is there's one country to precipitated all that, and that is Vladimir Putin. And the other troubling element of this for US, Gary, Jeff is the countries that are back. And I think you've made some comments about our coalition.

So to speak.

To look at Moscow's calls, is Vladimir's coalition. He's got China financing it as his largest trading partner. He's got North Korean troops in the field exactly in combat, and he's got Iran surplying drones. So we've got this sort of access of evil if you will, in there, fight

Bad for the US.

Yeah, well China is now. We heard today that China is coming to the negotiations table along with Russia and the US for some kind of solution. Now the war you would agree, anyone would agree that the war has to end, and it has to end soon. This has gone on for three years. There's no reason for it to continue with all of the death and destruction.

Yeah, but there's only one reason there's a war, and that's platim repute invaded. You wanted to end. But there's one easy way to stop it. Ways just to have him, have him stop the war. So Ukraine is, Ukraine is fighting a defensive board. They made one incursion near Curse. They you know, threw a punch into Russia their curse, but they're basically the war is almost one hundred percent on Ukraine. Ukraine cities being bombed, Ukraine civilians being bombed,

Well, I mean, outside of him just saying, you know, I was kidding, We're going to withdraw all the troops and we're not going to attack anymore. How do we get that? How do we get him to stop?

No, that's a fair point because now Putin's painted himself into a corner. He's invested so much of his country's treasure and he's got like a million casualties out of this thing, more Russians killed any time since World War Two under Peutin. So he's done enormous damage to Russia. Now he can't just say, well, I made a mistake. He's got to be able to say to his people, well, we did this and we got something out of it.

But he picked a fight and he's.

Gotten a bloody nose out of this, and now he's trying to salve but some kind of dignity or some kind of moderate success out of this so he can save his neck with his own people.

As my view, well, he took over Crimea back when Barack Obama was president and took took the attack to Akraine, Ukraine and invaded Ukraine. Will president Bible was president, right, we don't we don't have either one of those obstacles and how to peace because they're both out of office, thank god.

Right, But wouldn't it be but Gary Jeff, wouldn't it just be crazy irony if Donald Trump said, hey, Obama was right, he grabs putin grabs Ukraine and Obama shrugged his shouldersays, well, I guess I can't do anything about it.

Wouldn't that be crazy if.

Trump says basically the same thing, Well, Vladimir, you got it. You went and smashed and grabbed and got something, and I guess there's nothing I can.

Do about it.

Well, they're large.

I would my advice to President Trump is, don't minimic Obama. I don't think Obama handled this well. Don't replicate that guy. Try to find some way to raise the cost for Putin to have him think more about peace.

President Trump is the ultimate negotiation negotiator, wrote The Art of the Deal. Has practiced that to some great success when he has people who aren't trying to stab him in the back every time he turns around, which happened during the first administration. And I think that there has to be some kind of Putin has to get something

Know he began the war, he already had Crimea, and he had some provinces in Eastern Ukraine who already had grab some stuff and put in his pocket. Yeah, you're done by so to say, boy, we need to reward aggression. Look, I think that I think we need to be very very careful. You know, I've spent a lot of my life here, Jeff, working on China issues. I told a friend, our goal, our goal as Americans is six months after however it's solved. However, peace does come, we hope soon.

A bloody nose.

We want them to take that home with them and not develop an appetite for say, boy putin. You know, he had a rough go. But he really got something out of this. Let's go see if we can do it again. That would be a weakened position for the United States.

All right, Well, I mean, how do you think things have changed, though, geopolitically and militarily since the Cold War when you were in the Reagan White House.

Well, you know, we left the Cold War with a high degree of cohesion among the West, the democratic countries of Europe and Japan and Australia.

Other there were treaty allies and like minded nations, and there was a sense of mission and a sense of purpose. Now that faded considerably over the subsequent decades, in part because there was no immediate threat, but because the Soviet Union did dissolve and a good chunk of the Warsaw Pac nations Poland joined the NATO.

East Germany became.

Part of West Germany. So a good part of what had been pillars of my Oscow strength faded away or moved away. So Europe's own commitments of defense and security dropped dramatically. And this is a point President Trump has made, these guys aren't paying their own way, which I think is a fair criticism. I still think we don't want pune to have a victory, but as a fair critics say Europe needs a heavy up on security if it wants to be taken seriously.

Frank Lavin, I appreciate your time, and we will do this again before March eighteenth, because I'm interested to talk more about the book that's coming out Inside the Reagan White House. You were there and it's a it's a wonderful glimpse into the presidency that began my participation in American elections. My first my first eligible election was nineteen eighty and I voted for Ronald Reagan. I was great that, greatly loved that.

That's a great story, Jerry Jeff, thanks for having me out.

That's a fabulous story.

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As I like to say, his pappy was a pistol. He's a son of a gun, the author of.

The Good Gun, Bad Guy series of books, and a spokesperson for your and my and his second at rights codified and guaranteed in the Constitution as a right and inalienable rights given to us by our creator, the.

One, the only Dan was, who was traveling somewhere in Florida. Dan, how are you?

Hey?

Good Garry Jeff, thanks for having me on the show. And I've been referred to as a son of something, but not a son of a gun. It's usually another word. So thank you, thank you for that.

Well, you're you're quite welcome. So what are you doing in Florida. You're running guns?

Well, I did.

No no gun running. Today. I did an event for fell the second Element of Freedom Freedom Rally, Okay, and that was in that was in Summerfield, Summerfield, yep. And now we're so I spoke at that event. We did, I did a book signing, and now we're headed to Tampa and we're going to try to hopefully get a nice day on the beach. I don't know, it seems like it's still going to be kind of cold here in Florida, but just vacationing now for the next few days.

Just to make us jealous, sunning on the beach. All right, Well, Dan, you just attended the Second Amendment rally that you were talking about speaking there, and you go to a lot of these around the country. It's it's it's kind of escapes my memory. Has there ever been a mass shooting at a rally like that of Second Amendment gun loving, god fearing Americans. I don't. I don't think they're you know once, No.

No one of the things that I say, because I, like I said, I speak at all the big events.

Like the Goals event.

Second Amendment Foundation has their big event and so I speak at a lot of these big unrights events, and I sometimes will get on stage and say, welcome to the safest place.

In the in the country, because that's exactly what it is. With all those gun owners there, you are actually in the safest place because a mass shooting or anything like that will will never happen.

And if, if anything, if anybody had.

The the the uh you know, the the I don't know, I don't know what you call it, the golf to do it, they would be stopped rather quickly.

Yeah, no, no, no, no doubt.

I mean you you may, you may pop off one round, but then you've got about one hundred guns pointed right at you, making sure that the threat is vanquished.

Uh.

Well, and Robert Robert Highland said it, he said, you know what was his uh what was his quote? An armed society is a polite society. Sure, and that's really true.

Right now, there is a push and we had Savannah Maddics on earlier tonight, who's a Kentucky legislator in the state House, and she is pushing for constitutional carrie for eighteen year olds in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and also against the red flag laws that continue to circulate through the legislators around the country in different states, depending on where you're at, that gets a lot of traction In

Well, they're probably twenty some state eighteen nineteen twenty state something like that who have these red flag laws.

What they're called what they're called Extreme Risks Protection Orders, So they name them that because they want you to think that, you know, if you're under if you're under extreme risk by these dangerous gun owners, and the protection orders there to help keep you safe. You know, the politicians want to make sure that everybody that they're keeping

And sometimes they can be anonymous.

Accusations, where you know, somebody can deem you a threat.

To society and cops let judge and sign off cops and come in and take your guns and figure it out later.

Yeah, they don't.

They don't have to. They don't. They don't have to prove or provide any evidence that you are a threat to anyone. Just as hearsay. If you've got a neighbor who doesn't particularly like the way you mow your lawn and he knows you've got guns, he could report you in these states that you were threatening him and that you have guns, and they could come out and confiscate

Yeah.

Yeah, it's not only a violation of your Second Amendment, it's a violation of your Fourth Amendment and your fourteenth Amendment. You don't do for this, and then illegal teachers, so yeah, so it's terrible.

And then what's the.

Democrats really they would love to have a national red flag law. We've managed to keep him, keep him at bay for now, but they would love to have a national red flag law. And serialization and registration of all player arms, which is what they use. The ghost guns scare to try to do, try to scare everybody into

Are there any new laws that you and your your folks think are especially heinous that have come on the books this year around the country. Have you been looking at the new gun laws, because there are I know a guy who puts out an annual book every January and list the new gun laws in every state. I don't know why we need more gun laws, but apparently some legislators think we do. Is there anything you know that's cropped up. That makes you go, well, somebody's got

Well, New York recently took not too long ago, took the flarearmed background check from the federal government, which is where it was protected, your information was protected from being put on a gun registry. Well, New York State Kathy Hopel decided that she wanted to take that background check in house to the state Police department, where there's no controls over what they do with that list of gun owners. So we can only assume that she is collecting creating

Well, freedom is not free, and uh, we must maintain our liberty dan at all costs. And the Second Amendment of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights is a big part of that liberty. It's a big part of why this country even exists. And uh, I'm glad that you're fighting a good fight every day getting the word out.

Well, I mean it's the most important one because without our guns, we don't have anything. We don't have any freedoms, and that's the only thing that keeps these keeps these tyrants under control. And they we have to remind them who they work for. And our Second Amendment was designed to specifically do that.

Absolutely, it ain't about deer hunting, but that's a nice byproduct for a lot of people. Thank you so much, good Gunbadguy dot com. Check him out there and on YouTube, loaded mic podcasts, and the other things that Dan is maybe coming to a city near you, which that rally will be the safest place you can be in that city. I guarantee it. Thank you, Dan, take care, Thanks Thanks Bob, you got it. It's the nightcap and we're rolling. Let's keep it going. Seven hundred WLW.

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I'm doing wonderful, happy to be free.

Yeah. How long were you in the in the January sixth stir gulag whatever.

You want to call it, fourteen eighteen days, oh my goodness, from March fifth, twenty twenty one, until inauguration night.

Well, it certainly was a welcome sight for you to see President Trump take the inauguration into office as our forty seventh president, knowing full well that his heart and his brain were with you guys all the way. Let's go back to what got you in so much trouble? Shane. Wait till your father gets on. You don't know how much trouble you're in. Uh what what was your What? What did you do on January sixth? That was so incredibly heinous? Shane?

I gotta know, Well, probably the one thing is I broke a window and people are like, why did you break a window?

And why did I had a tomahawk on me?

And so people are always like, well, why would you It was a people peaceful process, Why would you carry tomahawk? And I would take people back? They had rallies before January the sixth, and people had been stabbed and jumped and robbed, and the people that were organizing this event said be prepared because they expect Antifa and blm UH members to be infiltrating the crowd dressed as Trump supporters, So protect yourself.

So that's why everybody came.

Somewhat with pepper spray or the dow rod is a flagstick or whatever. That's why I had tomahawks.

Was something happened, was your into Shane Jenkins to overthrow the federal government, to take over Congress? Was What was the goal? What was the thing that you hoped to accomplish by protesting the twenty twenty election in Washington, d C.

On January sixth, Well, my goal was just to exercise my First Amendment right and to protest. But the thing that I wanted is I had a lot of questions about the twenty twenty elections. Still have a lot of questions about the twenty twenty elections.

I wanted, yeah, I want.

I wanted Mike Fans to send it back to the states, any states that had questions or that the questionable videos that showed suspect things at best being released I wanted them to send those electors back to the States from January sixth, to give them about a ten day period to do conduct an investigation. And if it came back and they said Donald Trump lost and this may have looked this way, but this is what really happened, and

Well, and there's two reasons that they have fought back so hard, they being the establishment and mostly Democrats, but others have fought back so hard against the January sixth protests and against people who say the outcome was fraudulent in twenty twenty. The first reason is what you just stated, if people lose faith in the integrity of our elections, then we devolve into total chaos. The second reason that they would do it, I'm just conjecturing here is because

Where are you from, Shane, I'm from Texas, And you know that's the concerning party. You mentioned that one state, and these were very fine margins. You're talking about like ten thousand votes, yes, So which could I mean, it's not that's in votes that I mean states that cast millions of votes, and it's ten thousand one way or the other. That I mean, I think you've got to look at that because that could swing the election either way.

So I talked to another young lady who also was arrested and sat in jail for months after January sixth, and she also broke a window, which according to the laws on the books, is a misdemeanor, and I don't think comes with any jail time like in Washington, d C. I bet there are a lot of people who break windows committing burglary or other associated crimes, and I bet they're not in prison if they get caught for breaking the window for four years or fourteen hundred how many

Right?

Yeah, so they did charge me that I didn't get to the rest of the parts is of it. I did have assaults on on alleged federal officers. But here's the deal. I've watched people be brutalized. Then I went to inspect. That's why I broke the windows. Lots of people get beat and I was like, if they're getting the crap beat out of them, why don't we just go in this window, like the window can be replaced.

So after I hit the window.

The crowd was like, no, no, we don't do that. So I was like, Okay, well what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go up to the front line where I saw these people getting hurt after that, and went up there. Before I even got up to the front line, I was pepper sprayed four times. So I turned my back on the officers and started working my way through the crowd backwards, And when I finally got up to the police line, I was struck by a commander Backshaw on the top of the head with an

Of her being.

And so after that happened, I went out of the tunnel. I couldn't see her breathe. And then somebody got on a loud speaker on a megaphone and said, my dad just texted me. His name was Ryan Nichols, also January sixth er. He said, my dad just texted me and they shot an unarmed protester inside the Capitol. And when they told me that, I yeah, I actually bad it.

Micah, And how much of that did you? Did you serve every bit of that or how much did you serve?

I served forty six and a half months.

Now, that's too that's too long, it's too long.

Fourteen and eighteen days of a long, long stretch. And in those days in the DC jail, they denied us because we we were vaccine hesitant as well. I would say they were trying to make us get the vaccine, and they we wouldn't get it, And so they denied his visitation with our family for two years, They denied his haircuts for two years, and they also deny religious.

Services for two years.

And those are all basic human rights as well as under the constitutions, they're supposed to be.

Yeah, they're able to do those they're constitutional rights, and they're guaranteed by God and supposed to be backed up by the given to us by God, guaranteed by the government. And you lost that guarantee. So you know what, that's a third that's a third leg of something that sows

Absolutely, now, you know.

And what's weird is my so I showed up about an hour later than I guess all those things transpired, they were fired, so because we had we had access to sixteen thousand hours in the DC jail of all this footage, and I, you know, I was late to the Lower West Terrace. And but what is weird is what eye witnessed matches up perfectly with everybody that was there.

Early.

The police were provoking launching munitions into the crowd, shooting pepper ball like paintball style munitions that people They were shooting like the thirty millimeter grenade launched like flash bangs, tear gas into a crowd that was taking no direct action against the officers. As a matter of fact, they were launching them over the front of the crowd into the back of the crowd, which then causes the people in the back to push forward, which then pushes the

A DC police officer.

And so on down the lad It was the same story, just a different person, different police officers.

Do you believe Shane, that there were there were FBI and undercover federal agents in that crowd provoking the crowd and stirring things up.

Oh absolutely, I would love to see. I believe there were some agents and they were probably more passive in the crowd. But who I believe was in the crowd was these cooperative informants. They are cooperative individuals that are professional assets for the FBI, or I would call professional

That was a carefully orchestrated si op by Nancy Pelosi and the left who wanted to permanently demonize Donald Trump

All right, I don't know what you would call that, Darrel dy or I don't know what you would call that, but yeah, it seems treatments.

So I mean, Shane, if there had been ten thousand National Guard this, you wouldn't have had a chance to break a window that day, right, No, absolutely.

Not no, And we would have been we would have been loving on those people, shaking their hands, so thank you for serving.

And all those things.

It was not I totally did not expect that to happen at the Capitol. What I saw at the Ellipse was praying and singing and dancing and people smiling, and it was like a church spiritual concert atmosphere, and it was one of the most beautiful experiences I'd ever seen. And then to come to the Capitol and just see something completely.

Different.

Had I used my right thinking, I'd be like, this is a trap. You know, my buddy Rob Morris Lego Man calls it. January sixth was a lobster trap, and it was. It was.

It was set up to not.

Only it cooled any desire to go to DC to protest or to do anything like that from the right after that point, because it was people were like, I can't.

I'm not willing to lose everything. I'm not willing to get canceled, I'm not willing to go to jail.

And so that served their purpose.

Well, there you go. A sad chapter. Uh that hopefully is closed for you and everybody else who had to experience a political prison in America. It's just it's just amazing that that that ain't even happened. And and you know what else is ironic to me or not ironic, it's it's sympathy simpatico. Was what happened to the election. We had a fake election and then we had a fake insurrection and it was all orchestrated by the same people.

That's right.

Well, I'll tell you what what the devilment to use to destroy us? God is going to use it for his glory. And I feel like am we got to serve in a capacity and help get President Trump elected for the second and for the third time, really I believe. But and so a lot of positive things have come of this. Not to mention no one where we started the foundation, we're going to work on justice reform and set in the January sixth, Men's Lives is back on track.

Yeah, tell me about the organization again.

Yeah. So we're working went to two prong attack. One of them for the you know right now, is trying to help January six guys get their lives back. We're going to be working on credit reprayer. We're working on a program called Operation Memory Maker, where we're going to be funding a three to five day vacation with husband and wife and children and whatever their familial situation is.

So we want to we want.

To reach back and help these people who are going to be your neighbors and my neighbors, and whose kids are going to be going to school with our kids, and we want them to be the best they can be. And we think we need to fundamentally rethink the prison system, especially the Federal BOP, because what I saw, I saw multiple people die in there, and I saw an insane amount of drug abuse and overdoses and all kinds of stuff like that, and I saw very little focus.

On bettering the men and investing in those men.

And trying to have an environment that's conducive for them to get vocational training or college education or anything like that. From what I saw, the first step back was a joke, and the courses that the guys are taking or it's it's really a joke, and I feel like it's set up to be a money scam. And so we gotta we got to promote an environment that is peaceful, and we got to get the gangs under control in there, and we've got to get the drug and all that stuff out of there.

And so so to have a huge.

Fight for that.

How to how do people? How do people find out more? Maybe help Shane?

Is there a website or yes, sir, if you go to Stand in the Gap Dot Foundation that Stand in the Gap Dot Foundation, you can go and you can see what we're doing. You can see the team that we've assembled, see the programs if you want to donate, we would love that that will help us fight the fight. And there's we have heard there's something like Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro are passionate about this prison reform

I know that doesn't sound like it was ever great, but all right, Shane Jenkins, thank you so much. I'm glad you're out, and I'm glad you're doing the work and focusing on what you're focusing on because you could be a very better person and I don't hear that in your voice. Thank you so much, sir for everything.

Yes, sir, thank you for having me.

God bless you.

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That's right. It's the great Terry Cashman talking baseball. That's right, with Willie Mickey and the Duke and more and more and more ever since. Flash Phelps joins us the host of Serius XM sixties Gold in the Mornings, and again a guy who's been to all fifty states, all but a few hundred counties in the entire country. And I know he's a huge baseball fan. Flash you are you are a guest for this first hour on the All

Do you have a that was Yeah, that was actually here in joke Astigley on and the and he's getting ready to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday. So I'm I'll be on my way to Cooperstown so later in the week, and he wants to see me.

Inductor is very cool.

In the mail, I get a thing from the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York. You are quarterly invited to be here thanks to Jokestigli and his wife Jen, and they invited me, so I'll be out there. This is coming Saturday for broadcast because he started with Cleveland and then he went to Boston all over forty years. So it's just really amazing. And here's how let me can I tell you how we met? This is actually really cool. Sure so so stickly on the Voice of

Also who's also in the Baseball Hall of Fame and the four Frick Wing of Broadcasters. So let me first tell you that story.

I'm on the air and I get a call and I see a five to one three area code, so I know it's the Cincinnati area. And he's said, flash, it's Marty Brenneman. And now at this point I didn't know who he was right away, and I go, okay, hey, Marty, what are you doing? He goes, I'm driving up I seventy five to go to see the Dayton Dragons. I'm talking up there. I said, wow, what do you do? He said, I'm with the Reds. I said, what do you do with the Reds? He said, I'm the voice?

They just left this weekend. Is oh? So that was it.

So now I get this message from our MLB channel and they said, flash, do you know who joke Astiglio is.

I said, you mean the Red Sox is the voice of the Red Sox. They said, yeah.

All he wants to do is not talk baseball. When he calls in, he just wants to talk about your travels.

He listens to you and then goes out and does the games. So he said, can I just let you two talk?

So when he came down to play in Baltimore, he came down to d C, took the train and hung out with me because he wanted to meet me. And then I brought him back to Camden Yards. He said, come on back and be in the in the booth with me. So I went to the booth with him a number of times. Come to Fenway, let's meet here, let's and so I started meeting him in all these different places because he's just a big fan and I'll listen during the day. And then I was there friendly

Oh that is fantastic. I love the fact that you're a baseball fan. But he did. He didn't want to talk about baseball. He wanted to talk about your travels or much like me. I mean, yeah, tonight, tonight we're talking baseball a little bit because of your travels around the country. How many ballparks have you been to? Flash, you're ready for this? All right, there's thirty MLB stadiums. I've been to all thirty of them. There are two hundred and six MiLB stadiums for a total, and MLB

Two hundred and thirty three? I'm only missing three.

How do you say MiLB? What is MiLB for the uninitiated?

Okay, that's the minor leagues underneath so underneath the red so you would have all the different whether or not you're talking about Louisville and all the way down, so all the different ones that because what happens, they're independent, so and including your Florence Yawls, so that's independent. Though I've been to the stadium, I've been to almost all the independent ones as well. But see MLB had so many teams that they could have under it, and then

So it's built on the South Carolina side.

So those three stadiums would then complete the two hundred and thirty six stadiums.

So I've seen some credit. I go all over. I just love.

Seeing all these stadiums. And you know how I got into it because my dad, my dad. Now you've heard of the sav Bananas. Yes, okay, my dad played at that stadium. It's called Grayson Stadium. So when my dad, this is how my mom and dad met. So my dad from Baltimore and he goes to World War Two. Once he gets back, he gets into baseball and he starts playing under the Philadelphia Athletics in nineteen fifty and

Known as the my dad did, yeah, so the Indians.

So this is Will Phelps and so as he's playing there, he is playing in Tampa and he's at the hotel and he sees the telephone operator and that becomes my mom.

So that's where they met.

Then they married on the diamond, they right there at home Plate. They got married at home Plate on July fifth, nineteen fifty and it took him sixteen more years just to even have me after that.

Was going to say, so he played. Yeah, it took a little while.

So I should have probably been born in the early fifties and then really have played all.

These songs originally. But that's that's where it all started.

And so growing up he was all about He wasn't about the Colts or because you know, we had them here in Baltimore at that time. He was all about the Orioles. It was just all baseball. Everything was baseball, and he was so into it. And then I played for a while, but then I realized he got me into a radio station locally, and I said, oh my gosh, I love radio.

More than a ball and these are like you just do whatever you love. It's better to get paid for whatever you love doing. And that's how I got into radio because he gave me thumbs up, even though I think he would have rather had me play baseball. I agree, do what you love, and you there's a chance that you will never work a day in your life. Really now are what it was? Yeah? Are the Orioles your favorite team? Do you have a favorite Major League tea?

Yeah?

Yeah, I see, I grew up here, and then I got into radio and going all over the place. But I was always in some of the smaller markets, so I was not in major league cities, but I was close enough to others. I stayed as an Orioles fan even when I was in the US. Virgin Islands was ninety seven, great year for the Orioles, and then but I was there in eighty three. I was there in seventy nine when they lost in Game six in the World Series of the Pirates, and then they lost it

As you know, it's not an easy thing to even get to a World so well it's been it's been since it's been since nineteen ninety that the Reds have won a World Series. And that was the way. That was the wired to wire team that led from the beginning of the season to the end and then swept the A's in the World Series in nineteen ninety. So Flash, we're trying to Flash Phelps, a serious XM radio who's joining us tonight to talk about his baseball travels around

I don't know if you know this, but they kept that giant scoreboard.

That looks like a guitar.

Did you know they have that on the south side of Nashville. You can still get your photo with that. But uh, I mean, I like the sounds, but I do like the way they built this new stadium on the north side. It's an area that needed to be redone and I just think both stadiums were just fantastic in the Nashville area. Did you know Knoxville's getting a new stadium for the Tennessee smoking No, Yeah, that's being built right now.

So as soon as they start.

Building them, I want to go and like Field of Dreams oh Man out in Iowa, you go to Dyersville and you just I mean, even though it's not a stadium, you go there and you just relive baseball and walk into the corn good time of the year.

Nashville's fun.

Since we're in the state of Tennessee.

Real briefly, I can tell you something about the old Ingles Stadium in Chattanooga that you may know. Let me tell you something you do not know. You probably okay, yeah, tell me. I was working in Chattanooga on the radio and we had a celebrity softball team for the radio station. We are in close proximity proximity to Fort Payne, Alabama, where the group Alabama's from, and they had a celebrity softball team too, the band did Alabama, Randy Owens and all those guys. Yeah, and so at the time this

Loved the group Alabama as well. And you know what country radio is, how I started in radio. My first on air job was playing country, but I wanted to be on KZ one O six. I got the chance to be up at WOKI in Knoxville for one night before they said no.

That was a quick audition, Yeah it was.

I did five hours on the air and they said no, No, I was. I was. I was on the wings of rock and roll as they call it for three and a half years in the early eighties, my first big radio job away from home.

Well, see, my mom grew up there. My mom grew up right there in Chattanooga. That was her whole area as well. Yeah, so that was I love going over into that area because even you know, what I need to do is go back. My grandparents are buried there. I never got a chance to meet them. Oh they passed before I was even born. But I now know where they are thanks to my uncle. He's actually giving me some info. So Chattanooga, I love it so outs.

So that's right. Camden Yards is your baseball home now when you're at home, which you never are since you're traveling all the time. And the Oriols your favorite team. Is there anything else that really stands out on the East Coast? As far as as baseball fields, as stadiums go, that you really love to go there the it's not that you hate the rest, but what do you really like to go When you're traveling and you're visiting a baseball stadium on the East Coast, what's your favorite?

Well, see a lot of them are the m i ILB, save the minor league. I love trying to find all the minor league ones, which I've done. But they just built a brand new one right here in Hagarstown, Maryland. So if you're coming in on I seventy, you always go through Hagar'stown and they have a new one they just built in downtown and they just renamed them the Flying box Cars, and they built it all around these buildings. They had to take out the buildings and put it

Did you realize that?

So you'll always notice home plate is always southwest corner or the right in the south.

That's exactly where they put them.

So it's kind of tough where Sometimes they'll put them in cities and they want to have that opening in the outfield to the skyline, but sometimes they just don't have that area on the southwest side. Automore they did, and having Camden Yards, let's get that view towards the skyline. With Cincinnati you get a chance for it as well, though the uh you get that more of that opening towards the Ohio River right there.

Yes, exactly that shot.

But so they put that home plate if you notice, in Cincinnati more in the northwest corner. As long as you put it on the west side of the stadium, it doesn't affect those batting during those evening games when usually they're at seven or eight o'clock or like six o'clock and.

Nine, So that's why they do that.

But yeah, you guys got a beautiful view out of the Ohio River and the and to be able to see that purple bridge down the road.

Yeah, the purple people bridge so, yeah, that's the one. I like Newport so word, Yeah, that's right. I work in Newport and live just about I live about a mile and a half away from the stadium there on the Riverfront. I remember the Riverfront, the Riverfront Stadium that used to host both the Reds and the Bengals at one point. Uh right, and was there? Yeah, And and I gotta tell you, I just love Great American Ballpark

It looked like it looked like like a stadium.

It looked like exactly a bush. Yes it did. But Great American Ballpark, and I know you've been there, is so different. The great thing about Great American Ballpark to me as a fan going is that you can be anywhere in the stadium and you don't have an obstructed view of the field. I mean, the site lines are unbelievable. Yeah, isn't it.

Amazing how they can build that, Unlike in the past where you had to, oh, you might be behind a post right here in the old stadiums and you have a bad view. But now it's like, how do they architecturally build them where everybody can see you and these people are hanging above you and all that way. It's amazing what they do building them board the views that we get today.

I tell you what, Flash Phelps, Let's sit and do another another segment, if you don't mind. We've only made it to just about a third of the country in the ballparks. This is like when we were so we were on the last time and I was going through all the states and get you give me one thing. And we had got about I don't know, maybe twenty five states. Then the time was over. So if you will be indulgent of me, we will take a break and come back more with Flash Phelps on his travels

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We're talking about baseball parks and stadiums across America with the one the Only Flash Phelps from SiriusXM. He is our guest once again on his travels around the country and he has been literally, well, if not everywhere, very close. So in the last half hour football Stadium. Right in the last half hour, we talked about Camden Yards, we talked about the Orioles and being at Fenway Park in Boston a little bit. We didn't get to Yankee Stadium.

To the other one, because I at the end. The terrible thing is where people put things in your mind going oh it's the Bronx, and you sit there and go, oh my gosh, should I even go well, and then all of a sudden you go and you go, hey, this is a great place. So that it's like me going to Coney Island and I love going there right now, so don't let anybody put something.

Bad into your mind.

And it is just such a really incredible area with their monument park, but the way they built it just up the street. I like the views from there as well. So yeah, another great stadium. I don't have anything, you know, incredible.

To say about it.

I've been to Steinbrunner as well, if you've ever been down to Steinbrunner Field, which is down in Tampa. So where they because I've been to all the spring training stadiums as well. So I've done all the spring training. And by the way, if you drive around in Phoenix, you can in about seven hours you can drive from every stadium. You can't do that in Florida. Seven hours. You can go to every stadium in Arizona.

Well, you know for Reds fans, since they're in Goodyear now for spring training. Yeah, they moved from Florida. And the only thing is it's problem more problematic to be in Cincinnati and go to Arizona for spring training baseball

It was up until about twenty ten, twenty eleven they made the move of Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks used to play down in Tucson, so they were the furthest away and they decided, let's build Salt River Field, so they built that over on the east side. So if you're familiar with the Loop one oh one, so you have Cincinnati and Cleveland out on that side. Then you have where the Phoenix Raceway is, that's right next

So they're usually the furthest away because as.

You know, the Atlanta Braves they left the Disney World area and they moved down to Northport, which Northport is right there next to North of Port Myers right there, so there almost everybody's near each other.

Flash As a kid, I grew up in Chicago for we were there in the West side of Chicago for about six years, and my dad did my dad did take us once to the old Comiskey Park, which wasn't a really bad part of Chicago. I mean, it's still the South Side is not exactly exemplary of somebody you want to take a family to necessarily, But as you mentioned earlier, see for yourself. Don't listen to the warnings

I always love it because do you remember there used to be the McDonald's across the street. I remember because I was watching the movie The Blues Brothers. Yes, this is prior to me going so in nineteen eighty and that dan Ackroyd says to John Belushi, what address did you give him? And he gives them the address right there on Addison and dan Ackroyd sits back and goes, that's wriggly Field.

You gave him a wriggly Field, do you remember that? And the cops showed up and there at Wrigley Field and they're like, oh my gosh.

But so when I got to Chicago, the first time I won was nineteen eighty three, and this was the year. I'm pretty sure the All Star Game was a COMISKI that year as well. And so here it is the summer and I get a chance to go over and I see Wrigley Field for the very first time. So and then years later I was doing a tour with the Sally Radio and I made a stop there as well.

I got a picture right in front. I went back.

Last time I went back was about five six years ago. But just a fantastic you know what, I love that whole area. When we talk about Wriggleyville, it's just it's the experience when they can put these baseball stadiums and have a field.

It's the same thing with Cincinnati.

You have places to walk around, you have all the restaurants right there on the riverfront, and the same thing with Chicago, you have other places to go besides walking around seeing that Harry Kerry statue were and seeing all the statues all the way around.

But that's one thing. I love how classic it is.

So that's one of the things that you like and go, gosh, I hope they never build another stadium, even though what's going to happen now that.

It's over one hundred years old. Same thing with Fenway.

But I don't think that we'll ever, probably in our lifetime, see them build another stadium because I think there would be an uprising if they ever got.

Rid of it. Wasn't they Oh yeah, I mean they are doing work constantly to bolster the current structure, to make sure that they can preserve that history and that tradition in those places because it means so much to the locals and uh to baseball purists in general. Saint Louis Bush Stadium, the new one, what do you think, Oh, the new I love the new one.

I like the way that they had built that in there as well, and that they had to build it over top of the other one. And when you're walking down and you have everything in there in.

The dotted line. So you'll go over to the Jack Buck statue and when you see his bust, you'll see right there there's the dotted line. This used to be where the field was.

So it shows you how they had to build one inside the the same thing with Shay Stadium and with City Field where they had to overlap them because of the area, and they couldn't finish one until they had the other one done.

So I do like Bush because I enjoy going over there.

And by the way, I was talking about Donora on my show Donora, Pennsylvania, which happens to be the home of stam Usual stam Usual. Also Ken Griffy Senior and Ken Griffy Junior are all from Donora, Pennsylvania. Together, those three have it more MLB home runs over a thousand then came from any other city. All three were born in Donor, Pa, just south of Pittsburgh.

Did you realize that's amazing? That was a very cool in Cincinnati. Being in Cincinnati, I should know where the Griffies came from originally, and.

The answer is Donraa on the Monoga Hilla River and stam Usual and this statue is you know, there's two of them that.

Are out there.

And I love that plaza with all the statues out front of the stadium. So I enjoy it. Because if you dude, like, it's like when you go to Pittsburgh, Hey, sit me in the upper deck so.

I get the view.

I want to be an upper deck on the leftfield, on the leftfield side, so I have a view of Pittsburgh. Same thing in Saint Louis where you go, We'll sit me down here on the right field side because I want the view of the arch. Sometimes I want to sit in a place where I get the view more than the game because it's like, oh, I love the experience of just this view.

Sure lots to see besides baseball when you go to these parks. So you're going to Cooperstown, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, later this week. Tell me about Cooperstown, New York. I've never been. Oh, it is so cool. So if you're ever in upstate New York, So you.

Got Buffalo out on the west and the next city's of Rochester, Syracuse, and then you come up to U to Carome right below Uticrome. This will be west of Albany. I just took you right across the New Jersey.

State through it.

Then you have Binghamton, which is on that northwest corner of Pennsylvania, a little northeast.

I eighty eight is.

What connects Binghamton up to Albanyady. And then right there in these hilly areas, and this happens to be the start of the Susquehanna River, which is really weird. I live on the Susquehanna River in Maryland. Now that river runs from Cooperstown and it goes all the way down through Pennsylvania, comes down through Harrisburg until it finally dumps out of the Chesapeake Bay, which is where I live right here at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on

I just did that. I just had this image of you in a rowboat growing backwards.

Up the river, and eventually, if I could do it, I would get to Cooper's down that it'll be a lot quicker in my four or five, five, six hours to drive up there.

But here's one thing.

I've never been to Cooperstown during the Baseball Hall of Fame weekend, so this is going to be the experience I'm used to driving in and then going.

Oh, this is really cool. I can drive around. I'll just park here. Now.

I have no idea what do you expect for this weekend. I just know that the induction ceremony for Joe's going to be on the north side, so I may have to go into a loop into Utica Rome and then come down from the top because our event is going to be on the north side, right there before the Susquehanna River.

But I love it though. Walk. You know what made me want to go.

To the Baseball Hall of Fame in the movie A League of their Own, A League of their Own, which is film not too far away from you out there in Huntingburg, Indiana and then Evansville.

They were the two stadiums that were used.

And then when they did the All for the women for the Baseball Hall of Fame, and I saw it in the movie, I said, I'm going to go find that park and I went to it, and they have a bigger section.

It's not the one that they used in the movie. That's not where it is now.

They did a big section now for the women, but that's another section.

But I found it right at the bottom of the escalators. So I love that place. It's fun to see Flash Phelps from Sirius XM as our guest. We're talking about baseball across the country and this Hall of Fame and also All Star Week in Major League Baseball. Just because our time is limited, let's do a couple of quick snapshots out on the West Coast since we haven't been there yet. Flash Candlestick Park. Tell me something about Candlestick Park. Well, it's not there now, I know. You go there.

It was very windy that was right there and then became three m But what a great view to look out, and because you almost see Oakland from there, it was a great view on the Bay side to be able to see Candlestick before they had built all the way up there with the Willie May statue in downtown.

But no, I like Candlestick. I stopped by twice. I've been there.

I was there twice and then finally it was sad to hear it was gone. You know what I was thinking about the earthquake nineteen eighty nine. Yes, Oakland, a San Francisco Giants are playing, and then that earthquake hits at Candlestick. So every time I would go back, I think of that. But yeah, I like the park, but I'm glad they now have this with the McCovey cove there where I can be in their kayak and try to get night field home run over the wall.

That's fun. Tell me about Seattle where the Mariners play. That was a good one.

I saw the Orioles play there with them because I moved out there in nineteen ninety nine, and so the summer of two thousand and I finally got a chance to go.

It's called t mobile now a safe go back when I went there.

Yeah, and it's just a very nice one because that's the one with the retractable roof. They can move that roof. And luckily I got a chance to have a game with a doll because it wasn't raining that it was amazing. It wasn't raining, and I was in western Washington, so that's always a great place. But yeah, I've had a good time because it's just like Cincinnati where you have your football stadium right next door, and it's right there on the south side of the buildings, and it's a

So yeah, I did enjoy that.

Tacoma their Triple A right down there. I went to go see a Tacoma Rainiers game when they played Saltlake Beeves.

So I tried to go see as many of these as I can.

If not, I definitely walk around all the outside of stadium and do as many photos as I can if I can't get in.

Yeah, you're big on that. I love the photo. I love that you put out Denver where the Rockies play.

Yeah, that is a fantastic place. In fact, just a little a couple of miles west of there, they did a replica to the stadium as well of corse Field, So if you want to see a little version of it, somebody was able to put it together as well, So look up the little version of Corsfield. But again, they built that in another neighborhood right there on the west side of downtown, northwest side of downtown. You got six flags right there as well, and it's just in a very nice area.

And that again being a mile high.

Being at the two hundred and eighty feet, it's amazing to watch how the balls do fly there.

I always like Denver, Denver.

I always wanted to work there, but I went to Colorado Springs and they never put me on the air, so I never got to work in Colorado. Dodger Stadium, Dodger Stadium, I went there and this was back and I had just started working here, so this is about two thousand and two three, And you know what amazed me. I got there early, so I could walk around even the perimeter of the parking lot because they had the views that looked over Echo Lake and you could look

And it was so cool because I saw.

George what's his name, George from the TV the Star, I can't think of his last name.

He was there.

He was he was, you know, the comedian George, George Lopez, George Lopez. He was there. So I got a chance to see George. Yeah, that was very cool.

And Tommy Lasorda was sitting right near him, and I had had Tommy Lasorda on my show. So George and Tommy Lasorda, I was excited just to see them.

Oh that's and you know who I didn't see?

It was Mary Hart and Mary Heart usually sits right behind home plate, but I didn't see her.

All right, So finally we're the home run Derby is taking place this evening as we're speaking, and where the All Star Game would be played a Globe Live field in Arlington, Texas. Tell me about that.

Yeah, now, right across the strait, if you're familiar with going into Arlington, very crowded, because that's where six Flags started. Why is it called six Flags because six Flags flew over Texas. Right next to there, they have the stadium where they used to play. Now they have soccer in there. They built the new baseball stadium directly across the street, and they built it to look like a warehouse. It was one of the weirdest things where they were building

It was the year.

It was right after they had opened it. So fantastic. And we'll look forward to Home Run Derby All Star Game and just see how it comes out. Hey, Gunnar Henderson with the Ohs, he's in the Home Run Derby.

Well, and we got to La Da La Cruz in the game tomorrow night and Hunter Green appear and.

Talk about some incredible people that are in this game. Yeah, well they call it the All Star Game for a reason.

Hey, these guys are good, and you know what they somebody just told me that there's never been over twenty one run score during a game of any All Star game.

So there's a lot of good defense in pitching. Yeah, no doubt about it. Well, you got the best in the game plan and yeah, and I got the best in the game of travel on my show again, and I thank you so much. I thank you profusely for making time to talk to us today, Flash Phelps. Keep humping the hits on Sirius XMS sixties Gold and keep on traveling because the stories are priceless and I really appreciate you sharing them with us tonight. All right, I