The Night Cap with Gary Jeff Walker -- 1/13/24

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Just before we get into Ladies' Night on the night cap. It's a Monday night, and that means we've got a little room here for the wild man himself, sports for the out of sorts, and he's a little bit whanked off again, which doesn't surprise anybody that is known or listened to wild Man Walker over the last thirty or so years. Wild Man, what is the what is the b in your bonnet? What is really burning you up right now?

Well, now let's start with the positive. The NFL playoff games first there going Yeah, over the.

Weekend, all the games, you know, all the games were good, but I mean the best game, the best game of the weekend was last night.

Oh I Washington, Washington.

And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers twenty three twenty Washington winning their first playoff game in some twenty years. And I thought, if you were watching the game, Gary Jeff, it sounded like there was more Washington fans there than Buccaneer fans.

They were making a lot of well and it was the one game all weekend where the game was really in doubt all the way.

True, it was close.

We had some blowouts this weekend, didn't Yeah.

We knew that.

You go ahead.

Well, let's see go ahead, thirty two to twelve Texans and Chargers.

That was a big yarner. The only good thing out of that game was Joe Mixing. Great to see him rush for over a one hundred plus yards and touchdown. Then you had you had the joke of the game of the week, the Bills and the Broncos thirty one seven.

That that was everybody would rather see the Bengals and Bills. But I digress.

And then he had the Eagles and the Packers that was like twenty two to ten. And then you had the Ravens and the Steelers, and that really was That game was over really in the first half that the Steeler did try to make a comeback end up being twenty eight to fourteen.

You know a lot of those games too.

We look at those games and Gary Jeff, but the reason those teams won they had a balanced passing and running game. And the running game in the playoffs that can make the difference. You've got a running game, you could possibly get to the Super Bowl.

Oh yeah, no question about that. But I thought and right now as we speak, the Vikings are taking on the Rams in Arizona because of the wildfires in LA. So we'll see how that all turns out, and that that's the final piece to figure out who's playing where next week. But I'm looking at the second round. This is where I think the playoffs really get tight.

This is where separates the men from the boys.

You will see some very intensely close games I'm predicting in round two and and we'll find out if the Chiefs layoff hurt them. I mean, they're they're not going up against the Baltimore Ravens, but the Ravens just look unbelievably tough and they have really the latter half of the season. They look like a team to beat. And to see the Bills. You know what is it, Ravens and Bills next weekend?

Yeah, Ravens and the Bills in Buffalo.

Yes, I mean that that may determine who wins the super Bowl. You know, totally discounting the NFC, but I'm serious. You want to talk about strength against strength, and I think the Ravens are just a little bit stronger than Buffalo. And it's hard to say that because you've got on both teams, you've got MVP candidate quarterbacks, you've got a running game. You've got a defense on both sides for

I don't know about that, because I really like the Detroit Lions. I really do.

And I hate to say this, the ruin the rant on the Commander's Parade, but they're there. They're run, They're run towards UH And the playoffs is going to end next week in Detroit. I mean, you talk about a place that's going to be fired up to go into. I want to go back to the Buffalo Ravens game. Home Field advantage means a lot in the playoffs, and that's one thing that the Bills have. The Ravens are gonna have to fight through that.

I doubt if they have very few Ravens fans in Buffalo, if they even they dared even to enter that place. But that might be the best game next weekend. But the Lions they're waiting, they've been waiting for this. They learned their less than last year. You know, you know a lot of teams have to lose one. Who's a tough game to you know, get back on the path that Dan Campbell is not going to screw things up up there in Detroit.

They they'll take care of Washington.

Do you think that the Texans are going to mount a good challenge to Kansas City and week in next week's games.

No going to Kansas City. No, no, not no.

It might be close in the first half, but in the end that the Chiefs will win that game.

The Chiefs will win that game.

So you said you were upset about the Orange Bowl. What upset you about the Orange Bowl? O?

You said you have a case of the asks the arms Still I'm still steaming there.

I mean love.

I'd love the Notre Dame one because They're gonna play Ohio State and I'll be cheering so hard for the Irish to knock off Ohio State.

To win the National championship.

But following the game, following the game, garay jef, I don't interrupt me here. But following the game, ESPN reporter that dupus bimbo Molly McGrath maybe she maybe, maybe she had orders to ask this question, but she asked Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman, or what are your thoughts of being the first black head coach to play.

In a National championship game? And Marcus Freeman did the great thing.

He took you pause for about five seconds and then said, really, you know this, this has nothing to do and I'm glad we're here and he coached it would want to play. Why are they going to bring up race? What is the ESPN's thing about bringing up race every week?

The hell every time McGrath.

If by McGrath had any scruples or any integrity, she would have said no, I'm not asking that question.

But she went to keep her job. And if you watch that interview, she kept looking at her.

Phone while he was talking, so they were either sending her messages.

But that has no place in football. That is no place anywhere in sports. Bringing up something stupid in the Audit is stupid by that woman.

Number one.

She has no integrity. And ESPNT what are their ratings? Sucks so bad?

Well does somebody? As you mentioned, we're feeding her questions? What is the deal? Where? Why do you even belong interviewing coaches or players If you can't ask your own questions, if you've got to be fed them through an IFB or through your phone, you know what I mean. They don't trust her to ask her own questions. They don't trust her to ask the pertinent questions, but they entrust her with a phone so she can see the woke

Is bush that's really bush league that you can't ask your own questions. Like I said, integrity to go along with that, she has none, And I hope I run into her somewhere down the line.

All you got to look is, look is what they did with Sage Steel when she disagreed with men playing in women's sports and they let her go. They fired her because over this, And this is ESPN as a culture, Disney as a culture is so woke at the corporate top, that's all they cint They concentrate on the things that divide us instead of the things that unite us. In sports are supposed to unite us, not separate us into race groups or gender groups or any other groups. We're

It's a part of our earth day life, you know.

And to bring in something from the outside and bring that kind of crap up and kind of supposed to be a release from me every day, you know, the burdens of the work, work, world, whatever, and to bring that up, I has no business whatsoever. I was so steemed if I have been Elvis out of shot a hole in the TV.

It might wild Man, it might have been a valid question in nineteen sixty four or sixty five. We're talking about sixty years on. You don't need to separate us by skin pigmentation. And the left do it over and over and over again in ESPN is one of the leading symptoms of that disease as a media entity, and they do it all the time.

Yeaman, you're right. His answer was class all the way.

His answer was perfect, Jenny. I think I think that any coach should be excited, white, black, or any other coach would be excited to be in this position. And he's he's right.

And by the way, in ESPN, by the way, drop the ball because Marcus Freeman is Asian, He's.

Not black, he's Asian. Well, then they see it characteristics and obviously you fit into some group and must check some box, wild man, just like they just like they tried to sell us that Kamala Harris was black when she was Jamaican an Indian not either. Uh so.

Eight day you get out? Did you see her at the funeral for Jimmy Carter?

Being totally ignored, Being totally ignored, by everybody else and just sitting there in the chairs, steaming, going, I can't wait to get out of here.

Put these cameras on me.

Yeah, And she looked behind us, old Trump and Obama cracking jokes.

That look on her face. It looks good kill all that was pless.

It was indeed, it was indeed, all right, wild man, Let's ask uh, Let's ask you about the Bengals going forward. Lou Anaerumo and that whole coaching block is gone. Zach Taylor's still there. This is Zach Taylor's year. Either they get it together. Either they I think if they Bengals don't start the season three and oh Zach is gone, what do you think do you think they'll pull the trigger that quickly?

That's a valid question there, because Zach Taylor's record is stinks, stinks to begin the season. The last three four years they've they've started out, they've started out terrible. Zach Taylor is on the hot seat, I believe, because he's claiming this was his decision to get rid of the defensive coaches.

And he got rid of two more yesterday.

If you're if you're not aware of that, So they got rid of two more coaches Mark Duffener and Louis Chophi who had been around there for so long.

Uh, just I think just be taking a paycheck. So they've cleaned their they've cleaned house. I don't know who they're going to bring in.

I have no idea. Uh, it's up to Zach Taylor to decide what he wants.

It's a good job to have considering, especially if the Bengals have the brains to re sign t Higgins and hopefully keeping Joseki around, because there's the way to get around them. There's a way to get around the salary capain Jerry Jeff Let's not forol anybody the other teams do it.

And Mike Brown I hate to bring this up.

He's not getting any younger, so somebody needs to get to him to say, Mike, you know, we'd love to get your Super Bowl championship, but you got to loosen the purse strings. And what are the Bengals worths? Nine billion dollars something like that. They've got the money, they've got the money.

Well, wisely, just signing players and spending the money doesn't always get it done. I E. Dallas, Jerry Jones right, got plenty of money, spreads it around, but it doesn't equal w's well.

Speaking of Dallas Cowboys, Mike McCarthy couldn't have come to the agreement.

On a contract. So now the job's open.

And couldn't we see because he has made comments about it, the one, the only Deon Sanders going there to be the head coach.

Oh, man, I don't know if Neon Dion has has the chops yet. I mean, just a few years of college coaching. Yeah, he's been successful. He's obviously a Dallas Cowboy through and through. And you know, speaking of Homer choices for coaches, how about Mike Vrabel going back to New England Patriots.

This is I thought that was a great I was a great move by the Patriots.

He's he just got to entered into the their their Ring of Honor, their personal Patriots Hall of Fame. He's part of their Super Bowl runs. And I think this is what held him back the whole time at Tennessee, because he wasn't as committed to that job as he will be the Patriots job, I believe.

Oh, he's well respected to around the NFL. And the Patriots didn't waste any didn't waste any time back to back to Dion real quick, that's a that's a you know, if he decided to take that job, that is such a huge step because now you're dealing with multimillion dollar athletes, not college kids. And I've heard Dion say time and time again that he loves it in Colorado. So you know, let's let's uh, we'll play. We'll play the game of waiting to see what they what's going to go on down.

In the Big d. Anything else on your radar as we exit this Monday night, I got a couple of minutes left the wild Man. You have a soapbox, please use it to preach.

Oh well, opening days not that far away, and Spring training is like like less than thirty days away for the Reds. Report in the lovely Goodyear, Arizona.

Out the Good Year.

No, I've never been out to good Year.

It's in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing to do, there's no night life whatsoever. I'm still pissed that the Bengals, i mean, the Reds love Sarasota.

They should be in Sarasota, Florida. They really should.

It's hard for the average Reds fan to go out to good Year Arizona cost them an arm in a leg, and you're first born if you want to go out to Good Year Arizona to take in his Red spring training games when you can just drove down to Sarasota. I'm still mad that the reg left Sarasota. They didn't want to vote on the stadium. It's set vacant for a year. Then the city fathers go oh oh.

Or tourist money. We don't have any tourists money. So what do they do. They go out and build a new stadium, and the Baltimore Oriols jump in there and take and take that stadium where the Reds should still be in Sarazota. But I never mind. I'm still mad about that. I've been out the Good Year three different times.

Oh so you have you have been though?

Yeah?

Oh yeah.

I went out there on the Company Dime into the first year that they were there, and then I went out on another year with my son for his twenty first birthday because we went to Vegas. Then we went the Goodyear, and then I went out on another time on the WEBN Dime where we did a road trip in the car across the cross country. So I've been out there three different three three four times. Yeah, I've been out there four times. I was right there.

I there before COVID hit though, before COVID hit Yeah.

So I got to ask you. Who was in the car with you on the trip out to Goodyear, Arizona from WEBN. Who did you share that ride with? Wild Man?

It was just me and my son. We were blogging and doing reports all out there.

Just me and my son.

Yeah, I thought, and his brand new and his brand new Mustang.

I thought maybe you had dolphin or Eddy fingers in the trunk.

I wouldn't go anywhere with dolphin. Are you kidding that? He's too That's too big time. He wouldn't do it. No, that is too big time.

All right? Uh well, wild Man as always interesting conversation.

Uh well, she should be in Sarrizota. Dammit.

We'll see who wins the Vikings Rams game, which is being played right now as we speak, and get that final matchup for next week's round of playoffs in the National Football League. And I'm I hate to be great. I hate to tell you this because I know it's going to infuriate you, but I think a week from tonight, Notre Dame will be losing to Ohio State. I'm sorry, based on what, based on the eye test, based on what.

Because they said Texas should have beat him.

That stupid play.

Call by the Texas coach.

The second down in golds run and play. They called, my god, the guy was ten yards behind him.

The only, the only reason, the only reason Notre Dame one was the stupid past in the down the middle.

Well they had to throw the ball anyway at that time.

It was a stupid pass that Notre Dame intercepted, and then they went and scored the winning field goals.

So I'm taking.

I'm taking.

I'm taking the Irish. I'm taking the Irish.

Maybe maybe maybe a week from tomorrow, on the twenty first, we'll compare notes.

Okay, yeah, yeah, we'll definitely compare notes.

All right, we went, Thank you, buddy wild Man Walker on the night Cap. Ladies Night begins next with Miss Savannah Maddics.

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Hear any noise, ain't the boys. It's Ladies' night for the next hour and a half. When the Nightcap a little cool in the gang never hurt anybody. In fact, President Trump could use this instead of YMCA. Maybe do the same dance Gary, Jeff and welcoming in this next guest, the first of our trio of smart, strong women on the Nightcap tonight is Representative from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She is a state representative, there has been and she proudly represents.

Is it the.

Sixty first district?

It is?

Yes, see, I remembered Savannah Maddox is joining us once again. I've always enjoyed our conversation Savannah and tonight, especially it's the first Monday night of the new year with new shows and to have you on it just it makes my day and my night.

So thanks.

It is an absolute privilege to be on with you.

It's great to have you back though, and happy New Year.

Number one, thank you you as well.

So and the new year means a new legislative session in Frankfort. It has begun and there's all kinds of craziness already being brought up, and not just by Democrats, to talk about some of that. Let's go ahead, Savannah, what have you seen so far in this early legislative session? What do you know? What's what bills are going to be talked about? What are you concerned about? What are you in favor of that? All of that stuff as we begin the new session.

So far, the.

Recurren theme that I am seeing is that legislators are filing more bills to lower taxes, adjust taxes, things of that nature. The only vote that we have taken so far, the only substantive vote other than rules and convening in things of that nature, is to lower the income tax rate from four percent to three point five percent. So

But.

Ruled out of order. Who ruled it out of order?

The Speaker of the House ruled it out of order. So but the good news is this, when we come back, I think that we're going to see similar efforts over in the state.

Senate to do just that.

Wow, and the Speaker of the House happens to be a Republican.

Correct, Yes, Yes, what is the speaker's name?

I'm just curious, Speaker Born, what's that speaker David Osborne?

Oh, speaker David Osborne. I think it's important that the voter know who the speaker is is ruling an amendment to eliminate the income tax in Kentucky is out of order. No, that is all good news though, as far as reducing taxes or adjusting taxes, so it makes it a little bit more palatable for the taxpayer to live and work

So the way that the thirty day session works is that we go in for just one week and then we take this pretty substantial break before part two obsessions. So there have only been four legislative days and in that first week, you know, it's kind of a honeymoon period of session, if you will. And so much as a lot of that nanny state garbage really starts to come when we get back. I mean, we have the normal bills that Democrats have filed that are, you know,

Well, I think it's one thing to tell people what you know, the scientific facts about what's harmful you, harmful for you, or what is good for you. It's quite another thing to legislate that. And that's what you're talking about with the nanny state stuff, Savannah. And I got to think that there's still a very strong tobacco lobby in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and those people absolutely would

Absolutely, and that is why the shield is covered. That many legislators chose last session to vote on this bill

Doubt about it. Talking to Savannah Mannics on Ladies' Night at least until eleven o'clock on the Nightcap, I mean, ladies can listen. After eleven o'clock. Our guests just won't be women. So Savannah, if you will sit tight, we'll come back and talk about some more stuff, and you know, including the marijuana initiatives in Kentucky as we get into the twenty twenty five legislative session in the Commonwealth where

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That's the thing. The implementation of this program has been nebulous at best, and I have received a multitude of complaints from people who filed for a license and paid a fee, and there have been and you know, to be clear, I have not been intimately involved with that process, because once it leaves the legislatures in it becomes an administrative function. You know, some might use the word bureaucratic function.

Well, shouldn't it be a community standards issue instead of a state issue anyway? Should in towns and communities decide with the people who live there decide whether they're going to allow this or not. I mean, it's kind of like the states and federal law, where you know, the

Sure, well, And it's funny. One of the bigger conundrums of my time serving an office is that in Frankfort's local control that they will often say local control's best until it isn't, meaning that they pretty well decide.

They'll use the.

Argument of local control when they don't want to take action on something and don't want to take that hard vote, but any other time they are perfectly willing to march in and take control from counties on issues that certainly

Somebody told me, and they're an individual rights kind of person, you know, sovereign kind of individual person, and they told me that the real ID, they cannot keep you from getting on a plane. Yeah, I think they told me you got like three strikes and then they'll crack down on it. But supposedly, what may first twenty twenty five, you can't hop on a plane in Kentucky unless you've got this real ID. Let's talk about that and talk

It is utterly ridiculous. And it goes back to a knee jerk reaction all the way twenty years ago in two thousand and five, after nine to eleven, where the federal government decided that they needed to clamp down on, you know, law abiding citizens and make us jump through all these hoops. But it took twenty years to get all of the states on board, and there were many holdouts. Kentucky with the holdout for a long time under governor by then he held out and held out and finally relented.

So what they did they took.

That out from under the circuit clerks because they tried a pilot program of issuing these real IDs, and in excuse me, Fayette and Woodford Counties, that pilot program purportedly was unsuccessful.

So they took it out.

From under them, and they created these regional offices, and that out in eastern Kentucky, for example, folks were having to drive three hours just to renew their driver's license, and you know, in some of the rural counties, they're having to drive pretty far. I mean, I'm fortunate that I've got Burlington and Independence not too far away, you know,

Yeah, well, that's again, that's quite a hoop to jump through for if you don't have a passport already. You have to provide the same kind of information basically that you have to provide for a real ID. I just find it, say it's a great invasion of my privacy personally, but that's me also generally, I agree. January first, just twelve days ago, you have to complete a vision test to get a driver's license in Kentucky. Now, Savannah, mind you. I will tell tell you that I see people every

That's one of the big problems with that I have with that bill. I actually voted no on that. I agree with you, people need to see when they get behind the wheel.

But if you.

Look at these statistics from the National Highway Foundation, I didn't say that right, I didn't give you the right accident racornym for that. But long story short, if you look at that data is not even listed among the top causes of motor vehicle accidents National Highway Safety. There, I got it anyhow, it's not even listed. So the idea though, of implementing that at a time whenever we're

Well, and you should be able to pay attention if I see somebody else and I will probably on my way home tonight holding up their phone while they're driving down the interstate and switching lanes. There have been times, Savannah, I wanted to pull them right over and make a citizens to rest. But thank you so much for being part of our little Ladies Night here, and thank you so much. I hope it will have many more chances to talk in the new year.

Absolutely, thanks so much.

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Welcome back to the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW. Garry, Jeff and I've been waiting for this conversation. I had to actually I don't know what happened. Then you were going to have her last week and had to put it off. But it is a conversation that needs to be had whenever it can be had, as germane to America, to its children, to its parents, to its citizens, to its future. And that is all of the money that has been spent on DEI by the government in education.

I'm so happy to be here.

So yeah, this push that you're talking about that's happening to our children, I mean, I don't even know where to begin when you're talking about the DEI and the pornography and the transgender ideology, teaching children to hate themselves at every level. Hate yourself if you're white, hate yourself if you're black, because you're being oppressed, and also hate

And how does the American, average American fight it.

Well, I feel like we are.

We have turned a corner a little bit just in the last six months to a year because of people like you, and because you know, groups like yours are getting the message out and people are understanding and they're shocked to find out. I'm not a parent, so I don't have any little boy or little girl coming to me and go, Danny, this is what they're teaching us in school. But I know that it's going on, and

So they have this little piece of their missions of their Mission States statement where they talk about, you know, upholding civil rights.

So what you know, this whole DEI.

Thing, a lot of it is saying that people are, you know, their rights are in jeopardy, which is an absolute lie. Every American citizen has every right that they could possibly want or need on the you know, to live for one hundred years and in the pursuit of happiness, and so it's a lie right there. So now the Department of Justice has these departments within them which is all about DEI and try, and you know, state sanctioned discrimination, which is all it really is.

And so you know, they.

Take their lies and then they're yous twisting that civil rights angle to make it seem like children's rights are being violated and they need to teach them about it. And that's the only line that can be drawn to why the DOJ would be doing this. If they got rid of their crazy DEI department, they would have no connection to this whatsoever.

It's very disturbing.

Well, I would I would think as a parent, as a loving parent, you would want your children to have reinforce values that you teach in them the home, that would tell them to be proud and strong and not ashamed and weak. And that's as you mentioned, that's what DEI and CRT teaches, is that because you are white, or because you are black, or because you came from this ethnicity or this family or that family, that you

It's all about.

Dividing us and driving us apart. And most importantly and most sadly, it's about poisoning the future of a culture. It's about poisoning the next generation to tell them that the way you were born that doesn't matter, that can that can be changed. That's fluid, which is scientifically and spiritually a lie, as you mentioned.

And it's just science fiction, is what it is.

Yes, it's total science fiction. Or because you have white pigmented skin, somehow you are responsible. You yourself as an individual, are responsible for the hardships and the oppression of others. Again, total lies, totally done to drive wedges between people. When this country was built on individual rights and individual freedoms and and not not this group think and not these divisive kind of poly that have been pushed.

How do we combat all that?

Well, first, this is you know, one of the things that I'm trying to do is spread awareness about what's happening to our children. And people are in either in denial that it's happening, or they will say it maybe happening in a blue state somewhere, but that's certainly not happening here, which is absolute nonsense. Or they'll say something like, well, I don't have kids, so it's not my problem.

So, you know, even if it is happening, And to all of.

That, I say, first of all, this is happening in red states and blue states, in all fifty states actually, so it is legal to show pornography to children in schools and libraries in close to forty.

States right now.

But even in the states, which is a mind blowing statement that I can't believe is true, but it is.

And then there's you know, even in the states where it's not legal, it's still.

Happening because no one is stopping is coming out and stopping it.

No prosecute or sheriffs are.

Stopping it because they don't want to be called bigots and transphobes and racists, because they'll put pornography under you know, they'll wrap it in some you know, gender identity story and if you if you protest the pornography part of it, it's just that you're a transphobed. That's what they'll call you. So this is happening at such a rate and in

And look at each other through racial lens.

Only all of that in five, ten, fifteen years, these kids are going to grow up to be a bunch of defunct, mentally twisted adults who cannot get through life because of the trauma that they have been inflicted that's been inflicted upon them.

So if we think we have a mental health crisis in our country.

Now, just wait, just wait.

Oh my gosh. And Elena Barbera, this current Department of Justice, this current Attorney General, Merrick Garland has famously, during his term in that position, called parents domestic terrorists because they were protesting at school boards in places like Loudon County, Virginia against this nonsense. And that's all it is. It's just nonsense that we're talking about the DEI and the CRT. And also, I think more traumatic is this porn that's

Hey, hey man, well again, because in most cases there is it's legal. They are criminally exempted. They're exempted from any criminal prosecution. What these statutes are called are obscenity exemption statutes, which means that you can show this to a child and it doesn't matter how hard the pornography is, it doesn't matter how young the child is. If you can say, well, this is part of part of our lesson today and it's part of his education. But there's

Look at the people who were saying that pedophiles. It's a mean word.

It's mean to call them pedophiles, so we have to just call them minor attracted persons, you know. So to try to normalize everything, to try to normalize talking to children about sex. Now, you know, we're starting in tihood and pre k talking to children about their gender and how do they feel. Do they feel like a boy, do they feel like a girl, talking to them about

I'm sorry to be so direct, but that's the truth.

And now, all of a sudden, we have to embrace these people and let them have their voice.

This is coming down from the White House.

The teachers' unions, the American Library Association, the Human Rights Campaign, Plant Parenthood, and Seeks, and they all have influence in schools in all fifty states, and they all pressure teachers, even the ones that don't want to do it, to push this stuff because they hold their jobs over their heads and the rest of them they're in on it and they love it, and I can't figure it out.

Teachers' unions are, in my opinion, one of the most evil factors in education today. And that's not saying anything bad about teachers. That's not saying anything bad about public education. It's just a matter of fact. Look at the things that teachers' unions, as you just brought up, support and push among their members. And it all starts at the

I absolutely think that there. Well, their focus isn't on education anymore. They're constantly just popping in new curriculums that cost ten of millions of dollars just enrich their friends. And I can only imagine if we could follow the money, people would be getting kickbacks. Their focus again, the DOE spent a billion dollars during the Biden administration on DEI programs, which include everything about racism, MELGUMBTQ and all that. Their

Far down on the list of priorities.

And it shows only forty percent of American public school students can read at or above grade level.

That's sixty that can't.

Yeah, well, Joe Joe Biden said for eight hours a day, they're our kids, didn't he say that? That's an exact quote from from the current sitting president who sounds like him, Thank goodness, is only going to be in office another week and and I have I have great hope. I mean, the machine is so large, but I have great hope that Pam Bondy as Attorney General head of the DOJ, puts an end to this, ceases it immediately upon being

So my film is about the sexualization of children in American public schools.

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And you can see it for free at American groomorfilm dot.

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You know, it's somebody called me that once on the internet when I was doing about two and a half years, but my son randomly asked me to sit with him for a video on a new YouTube channel he was starting. And I had never been on the internet before other than, you know, just a normal person with a Facebook account

Well, the truth shall set us all free. The truth should never get you in trouble. And I again, I'm just giving you this, this little bit of edification going forward. I think things are turning around. Keep up the good work, and thanks for spending some time with us tonight.

Thank you so much for having me again.

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I'm great, how are you doing?

Fantastic? Now I'm serious. I had Savannah Maddox, who is a fantastic representative in the state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky where I live on at nine point thirty, and then I just finished with Elena and now you. So it is. It is the trifecta of really smart women on this show, which would astound most people who know me.

So it's great to have you.

I love it.

So you are hopeful as I am hopeful for so many things with the incoming Trump administration. Of course, this week is the beginning of a confirmation week, and we hope it goes quickly for President Trump's nominees. In place is like the Department of Defense in all the major cabinet positions, but they're beginning this week with the grilling of Pete Hegseth and Doug Bergham the former governor of North Dakota, who is going to be a part of

Well, I want all your listeners to first of all realize that, well we all know January twentieth can't get here fast enough, but the work is just beginning. The work isn't over because we won in November. The work is just beginning. And as you said, it's a busy week this week with all of the appointments and the hearings.

Well, and you mentioned you're hopeful that President Trump sticks to his guns and is true to his word and saying he will get down to the bottom as best he can of the origin of these drones, where they're coming from, why they are there, and who was behind them. And I think every American wants to know these things, especially after the just enormous amount of sightings in New Jersey. And I'm thinking to myself, got New Jersey?

What right?

What what do they want with New Jersey? Uh? You know, I just kept flashing back to War the Worlds by H. G. Wells, where the the the aliens, the space aliens invaded New Jersey of all places first. So I was just like going back in my mind. You know what's funny, Lee, is all all of us who have pointed out these incongruities and the lack of truth and transparency on so many issues for years, yes, that our government has covered up.

True, right, but covered up, I mean covered.

Up by the legacy mainstream media. And now, as we know, Mark Zuckerberg saying, yeah, they pressured us to not let certain things out on Facebook on Meta go ahead, please, well.

The Biden administration has escalated the orision of the public trust in our national security, not only by his mental absence and lack of strength, but by his lack of transparency with this drone situation, and deservedly he's faced criticism for lack of transparency over these drones, now reaching into the hundreds across America, many of those here in North Texas.

No, and just in the same way that I don't believe Hamas would have attacked Israel on October seventh of twenty twenty three.

Agree.

And this incursion, you know, it's the incursions by Putin into Eastern Europe. First, it was crimea happened under which president, not President Trump, President Obama. The incursion into Ukraine happened not under President Trump. Putin never would have tried that under Trump, but it happened under Joe Biden. Weakness always breeds this kind of aggression out of our enemies every time.

Right.

Peace through strength. Peace through strength. It's three simple words. It means the world. It means the difference between peace or wars. It means the difference between America and Americans getting attacked. It also means the difference between Americans being expected to accept and be fine with drones flying thirty feet over their house simply unacceptable.

So I mean, any any kind of description of this drone that your neighbor caught on video, what it looked like.

So as you know, yeah, when you're looking in the air, things always look smaller, you know, than they are. It looks to be in the video, it looked to be a four feet wide, fairly square, maybe a little rectangle, but more square. I mean, this isn't a kid's toy, you know, this was a pretty massive aircraft. And you know, I've talked to several people about my right to privacy Americans rights to privacy. Constitutional originalists argue there is no

Amen, I tell you what, that's a great place for us to break. Lee, We'll come back. Lee walms Gance is with us to talk about the state of the nation and to talk about hopefully where we're going in about a week's time, at least turning around this big ship we call the United States of America. It's the Nightcap and it continues in mere moments on seven hundred WLW.

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We'll see founding board member, executive director of Patriot Mobile Action, and someone who just had a drone hovering over her house in North Texas.

Who is it?

What were they doing? And why were they inviting her? Invading her home? Those are the questions. Speaking of invasions, Hopefully another invasion is about to end. The mass invasion of foreign criminal trust passers on American soil known as illegal immigrants, and the open border, no border welcome policy the Biden administration has had seemingly is about to end.

But is it too little, too lately, that's the question.

Well, we have certainly been invaded, and this is going to take a lot of work to write the ship. You know here in Texas. The official numbers, and now you need to understand when I give you these numbers, this does not include the god away, so it's probably ten times this the official numbers, more million people have verified across over border during the Biden administry.

More than how many million?

Eleven million is what's verified.

And just across the Texas border, you're not including you're not including California or Arizona.

Now, and what people hear all these big numbers all the time. And by the way, that's not including the god Aways. You know that it's at least four times probably ten times that. But eleven million, that's a number larger than the population in forty of our states. In Texas is only like what little over thirty one million people. That's a third of our state. This is a lot of illegal immigrants, and they are criminals simply by the fact that when they crossed our border illegally, they broke

Well, if the god aways are estimated to be four times as many as the official number, that's yeah, that's like more than ten percent of the population that was here before.

Because should be very alone. People should be very like.

I saw a report the other daily by someone else, and I can't remember, I can't put my finger on who it was at this point, but they were talking about one thousand, one thousand man terror network that is ready to strike at any time. And this is the reason that this is. This is one of the reasons this is so important, not to mention the terror of the fentanyl that's been brought across the border illegally, which

So your viewers need to see Line in the Sand. It's a fairly new documentary by James O'Keefe, and it is alarming. They go into a lot of these areas and are filming what's really happening, what taxpayers are really paying for. They go to New York, they disguise themselves as an illegal immigrant. They're handed everything they need. They interview the police officers there. The police officers just say, hey, you voted for this, and they are just so beat down.

Texas taxpayers thir thirteen thirteen billion, just in Texas thirteen billion.

This report is from March eighth, twenty twenty three. Texas taxpayers are paying nearly thirteen point four billion dollars a year, and that includes they're housing, their their education, indigent medical care. And that doesn't even include all of their medical care because federal law requires Texas public hospitals to treat anyone

So not only are these migrants who enter the country illegally and by the way, I think we'd be remiss if we did not mention all of the NGOs and so called charity networks that are working with the criminal coyote gangs to bring these people in, or the corrupt governments, the corrupt failed governments in places like Venezuela who opened up their prisons and pushed the criminals across our border with a nod and a wink.

I mean, yes, we call them the human trafficking industrial complex. America has created this human trafficking industry by this open borders policy. And if you want to know what the kindest thing that you can do to these women and children and yes, some men, but mainly women and children who are being brutalized by the sex trafficking and human trafficking, is you close the border and you closed down that human trafficking industrial complex that we have opened at the border.

Amen, Lee Walmscance, with just a couple of minutes left, talk to me about China land, because this is something else that I don't think is on a lot of people's radar.

Well, it surprises a lot of people in the Texas House of Representatives that we've not already banned China owning land in the state of Texas, but our Speaker of the House two sessions ago sent the House home instead of holding hearings on the law that would have banned China, run North Korea, and Russia from owning land in Texas. But instead of having that vote, he decided to send everyone home, so there wasn't a hearing. So therefore what

In Washington, d C.

Maybe things will turn around when we don't have a president in office who's owned by the communist Chinese Party.

Maybe let's prayer.

That's our prayer. That's our prayer. As I said January twentieth, can't get.

Here fast enough, Lee wamsgance, give me, give me a place where people can check out more of your information.

So we have several entities. One is a political Action Committee, which is a separate legal entity Patriot Mobile Action dot com and they can do the contact there and reach me there. We also, you know, I work for Patriot Mobile. That's my day job. That's a job I get paid for, and that's Patriotmobile dot Com.

All right, fantastic, thank you, thank you again for your time, and let's do it again soon.

Okay, thanks so much.

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Good evening, Monday, the thirteenth of January twenty twenty five, one week before some semblance of sanity returns to our federal Let's see if it filters down and trickles down to the rest of the country. From there, to talk about America and can we reverse the decline? I guess is the question? Is an editor and journalist written for The Spectator, American Conservative, National Review, Washington Examiner, you name it.

How are you thank you for having me? I think I wrote for the Washington Post once, but I don't brag about that anymore.

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Yeah, that was a long time ago. You know, It's got a lot worse, but Yeah, it's good to be on your show.

All right, man. Great to have you. And let's go ahead and talk about the elephant on the TV screen at least for the last week or so, because it's been a week since the wildfires first broke out, after the high wind warnings, after the mayor of Los Angeles' trip to Ghana. Oddly she was going for a presidential inauguration in Ghana, but she won't be at Donald Trump's

Yeah, I was here in Alexandria one time and we saw firefighters. A fire truck go by, and the firefighters got out and started checking one of the hydrants. So it's something that in most places happens routinely. The fire hydrants when dry, there's a reservoir and the Pacific Palisades that held you know, tons and tons, gallons and gallons of water that was also dry for reasons unknown. And this kind of thing happens in California all the time, I mean just about every year. That last year was

So this was a problem.

You know, she was saying, there's the mismanagement here. We've lost our money, like we need help or we're going to be in a crisis, and they never got that help. And yeah, it's just it's a perfect storm of weather factors, right, you had these incredibly strong winds and incredibly dry situation there in California. But it's also I think a perfect storm of government and competence.

Oh, it's total incompetence. There's no question about that playing a role, Matt, And I'll tell you. The other thing is that did you see the DEI, chief officer of the LAFD, when opposed the question can you pull an adult man out of a fire? And she said, basically to the extent of to paraphrase, well, if I have to pull him out of the fire, he's obviously in the wrong place. And I was like, is there a right place to be in the middle of a wildfire?

I don't think so.

You're in the wrong place because I am not confident and qualified to do my job.

Or they'll or their they're a grand piece of advice to people who are out there is spray water on your roof to prevent it from catching fire, which I think is like, we just had a big snowstorm here in Virginia. I think it is like me on the ground with table stops trying to to stop the snow from coming, just kind of.

Spooning it up onto the roof exactly.

Get a slingshot and a ball of salt, put it on your roof. That'll keep the snow off.

Yeah, and you know already. I saw a CNN headline yesterday which was covering for a California of course and saying no amount of preparation in water could have prevented these fires. And that may be true that you know, we were gonna have to do some investigating here. It may very well be that this is just such an unbelievable act of nature that if they had all the water in the world, they couldn't have stopped it from

Yeah, jeez, that's why they that's why they bring in the shoppers and the and the big planes with all the water to drop it. Because water does help. And it's not about could have prevented these wildfires, Matt. It's about fighting the fires once they erupt and they were they were they were like a uh a one one armed paper hanger, you know, because of their resources being limited. What could have prevented the wildfires has been a problem

Yeah, you nailed it. But you can't. You can't do anything like that anymore in California. You can't clear away the brush, you can't practice proper forestry. You can't. I mean, just to jump ahead here a little bit. You can't rebuild buildings after they've burned down because of you know, problems with the different government commissions out there. You know,

Maybe maybe not allocate thirty five billion dollars for a high speed choo choo that never gets built and is going to cost one hundred and thirty five billion if it ever does, because of the time that it's taken and inflation and all the rest. Someone suggested that Gavin Newsom spent the money that should have been spent on forestry and water diversion on his hair jel instead of actually taking care of his job. As governor to serve and protect the people who elected him and pay his salary.

Well, look, those COVID lunches that the French laundry are not going to pay for themselves. I mean, they have to come from somewhere, And this was it. We know by the way that the money that was supposed to go to the fire department was re routed by Karen

Well, she, I mean, she's a Marxist, and there's nothing good that comes of Marxism in a country like America. There's nothing good that comes of Marxism in any country. And I thought we had a democracy or republic and not a Marxist totalitarian regime in charge. But it sure seemed like it from the top down for a while, especially the last four years. We're talking to Matt Purple on the Nightcap more on America's decline from the top when we return after this quick break on seven hundred WLW.

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Top snapshots from America's crisis and glimmers of hope. There's some humor in this book. I have not had the chance to read it yet, but I look forward to after tonight's conversation with Matt Purple and we continue that conversation. Decline from the top, A fish rots from the head down, And that's the basic gist of this, isn't it. Matt.

Uh, Yeah, that's a That's definitely a major theory in the book. What I'm referring to with that, you know, from the top, is that I grew up in the nineteen nineties and there was a sense then that America was really the number one nation in the world. I mean, the Cold War was over, Berlin Wall had come down, we were the only superpower left, and we had this almost metaphysical sense of ourselves, like we can do anything we set our minds to because we're Americans.

You know.

I grew up with this very strong sense of patriotism as a result of that. And what made me curious about the subject is that nobody thinks that, or very few people think that way anymore. You know, everybody's much more pessimistic and gloomy, and the poles all bear this out. You know, people are much more nervous about the future. And so we had declined from the top. You know, we had, at least in our own minds anyway, our own perception we'd been on top. But we thought we

Well, you know, you know what's odd about this is it seems like a pretty secular thing because at the end of World War Two, we were, you know, we were the champions. We had beaten Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and brought the world back to a place where it could be safe and prosperous for a people again.

To me, It does, yeah, And I think there's eerie parallels, first of all, between the nineteen fifties and the nineteen nineties, and that they're both decades where there's a lot of confidence, a lot of prosperity, the country's moving forward, but it's also haunted by certain problems that are being swept under the rug, you know, like there's you can kind of tell that there's a time bomb that's going to go

You know, let's elect the.

Latest politician, you know, to come out of the conveyor belt, that that's going to cut it anymore. You know, they are Donald Trump is preaching a message of radical, disruptive change, and maybe people aren't entirely confident on his ability to deliver it. But they are that appeals much more to them than all right, let's just you know, switch from Hillary Clinton over to Kamala Harris.

I thought, how about this for an idea, Matt talking to Matt Purple. The idea is, instead of DOGE, you know, the Department of Government Efficiency, how about Donald Trump just contracting. And he's a construction guy, and you can't have construction sometimes without demolition. You just take a couple of huge

Man, I used to work on L Street and I no longer do, so I'm fine with, you know, that's not going to affect me personally in any way, So I'm totally fine with just just send it in and it's yeah, you know, the lobby This is a major theme in the book later on, is that the lobbyists

Yeah, there's no question about that. I just think it's a huge monster that's sitting on America's chest and keeping us in decline. Because this is one of you mentioned that there's some pretty funny stuff in the book. Can you tease us with a little bit of decline from the top and your observations that are you would consider to be humorous.

Well, I won't give away. I won't give away too many jokes in that book. I'll just kind of explain the rationale behind it, which and you know, your your your audience can judge whether it's actually funny or not. I'm not going to see any claims on that funny.

I'm also a bartender in the addition to being a talk show host, and I'll start to tell a joke to one of my customers and she'll goes, is this a joke? I said, Well, it all depends on whether you laugh or not. But go ahead.

You know I'm not I'm not the one who gets to make that determination. And the guys, the guys who say they're funny or the guys who never are funny, right, But but yeah, no, I So the reason why I took a lighter hearted tone is because I'm an optimistic person by nature, and it's not really it would not be my inclination to spend more than a year, you know, sifting through these various causes of our decline and writing

Sure that that's great again. I look forward to reading it. Decline from the Top by Matt Purple the subtitle Snapshots from America's Crisis and Glimmers of Hope. Do you see a lot of glimmers of hope?

Matt?

I do, yeah, you know, the I'm hopeful about the younger generation which grew up in this period of decline. I'm a millennial, believe it or not, I'm not actually really that young anymore. It's the gen Z that's coming up. They've known nothing except, you know, the events that have contributed to this decline. So I think they're they're very aware of it and hopefully want to do something about it.

Doubt about it. If it was if it was good, it wouldn't be news, you know. I always say that, you know, you can't, you know, because good usually happens in people's relationships and in neighborhoods. Good usually happens that that is the normal. When it's bad, it's news, and there's a whole lot of news lately. Matt, thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it.

Thank you great to talk to you on the way.

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Especially with doing concrete deck purse, we never do those in the winter months. We only do those during, you know, typically the warm weather months. So our contractor's Great Lix Construction, they've got a great plan in place and we hope that will work, that they can actually pour the concrete in these colder temperatures.

Fuller also reporting the two snowstars we got last week didn't effect scheduling, which is still set for a mid March completion target. Now the latest traffic and while they're together, no accidents to report. A couple of shoulders taking up on ice seventy one seventy five and looks like east to seventy five heading across the Ohio River, but no accidents to report.

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Crap on this Nightcap, on this Monday evening, on seven hundred WLW, I thought it would be edifying to revisit the commentary by the late great newsman Paul Harvey. You've probably heard this, maybe you've heard it one hundred times. I don't know, but just head of Pastor David Scarlett one more time. Notice the similarities between the time in which Paul Harvey was making these comments and what we've lived through just the last four years and still living

If I were the devil, If I were the devil, if I were the Prince of darkness, I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness, and I'd have a third of its real estate and four fifths of its population. But I wouldn't be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree the So I'd set about, however necessary to take over the United States.

I'd subvert the churches first.

I'd begin with a campaign of whispers, with the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you, as I whispered to Eve, do as you please. To the young, I would whisper that the Bible is a myth. I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what's bad is good, and what's good is square, and the old I would teach to pray after me our father, which aren't in Washington.

And then I'd get organized.

I'd educate authors in how to make the lowrid literature or exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I'd threatened TV with dirtier movies, and vice versa. I peddled narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction.

I'd tranquilize the rest with pills.

If I were the Devil, I'd soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed, and with promises of higher ratings, I'd have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the Devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions, just let those run wild until before you knew it. You'd have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors

What will you bet?

I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich.

I would caution.

Against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil, I just keep right on doing what he's doing. Paul Harvey.

Good Nay, Up next, A real life changing event certainly changed his life, and maybe his story might change yours. Pastor David Scarlett up next on the Nightcap.

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Around out Tonight's Nightcap. One of the things David is the author of All for His Glory, The Near death Experience of a Modern day job, Chairman and founder of His Glory Ministries, A Christian outreach former US Marine telecommunications exec whose life was dramatically changed in one fell swoop, and to welcome back the pastor and to have him tell his story real quickly, and then we'll get on to some other pressing issues. Pastor David Scarlett, how are you good?

Thank you for having me back.

It's a pleasure, No, it's great. The near death experience of the modern day job. I encourage anyone to get the book all for his glory, but tell me kind of a brief summation of what happened that radically transformed your life.

Well, I was a nine to one to one Christian, meaning that I would only call on to God when I was in trouble. I was a US Marine, and then I rose up the corporate ladder. I was the youngest director in the history of ATUT and his number one director had all the fame, fortune money at that particular time, but it was empty until on seven seven seven. You can't make this day up later in the book, so you'll see how that ties to my friend Ricky Skaggs.

On the earth.

And then the Lord finally later told me these pictures showed Heaven and there's no sense. But my report card was empty. There was nothing I did for the Lord. In those pictures. I got about the skin of my teeth being a nine one one Christian. And if I wouldn't gone through a trial and tribulation with my wife, I probably I would not have been in habit. So even our worst things in the world are get us closer to being with the Lord, and that's what it's

What an amazing story. Thank you for sharing again with us. David Scarlett is our guest here on the night Cap and we continue. You had some guys, He had some thoughts about some of President Trump's global ambitions you could call them, or just common sense kind of reasons that Donald Trump is talking about Greenland and the Panama Canal and yes, why they are so important to America's security going forward, And I'd love to hear you talk about

Well, first, remember when President Trump talked about Greenland when his first was in office. Everybody thought he was crazy. Well he's not crazy. He's dead serious about this because of many reasons. One, we have military bases there. Two, we have a very top secret underground military base that most people don't know about, where the worst of the worst have to go to. You say, you think get mode times ten. But it's just strategic that if you had to say one word that say why do we

Yeah, it's just a hops given a jump east of Canada. And President Trump has talked about Canada too. I think that's more conjoling or trolling than anything else. What do you think about his comments about making Canada the fifty first state or the fifty first and fifty second state.

Well, I think he's half serious. There are some strategic advantages behind that. I don't think that would happen, but we shall see. I think that's one of the ways that he's kind of poking at Trudeau that Canadian people absolutely love President Trump. They don't like Trudeau. One bet, one of the potential next prime ministers of Canada will be here in Texas with me this week and we're going to have a long sit down to talk about that.

Well, and I think President Biden, also at the behest of the Communist Chinese Party, made a lot of moves in this country during his term, which is thankfully, prayerfully almost over to to enslave the American public and make it. But the problem was, we have a different constitution than the one they have in Canada, and we have a court system that wouldn't let Joe Biden do all the things that maybe his Chinese masters would want him to do.

Absolutely, it's strategic for many, many reasons. And there's only fifty six thousand people that live in Greenland, so it wouldn't be it would be a benefit to the people of Greenland. They want to I think there's a poll out over the weekend sixty or more of the people in Greenland would like to spin off and get away from Denmark. So it makes sense for both parties, right.

And you see Don Trump Junior's trip to Greenland where just landed in the middle and all these Greenlanders are there.

Going Yeah, Usa, USA.

They'd love to be a part of this revolution and be welcomed in to the United States as a territory or anything else. The Panama Canal was built largely by America and the United States dollars and workers and carved out this canal to bring shipping to a more modern standpoint instead of having to go around the horn of South America to get shipping done and commerce done. And

David, Yes, I think they. You know, President Trump has the art of the deal. He has said in both locations Greenland and also the Panama Canal that military options are on the table. And he's absolutely right because those are a national security interest in both Greenland more so in the Panama Canal for military purposes, but also economic purposes. If China really wanted to choke off the United States of America and our goods coming in. They would just

Well, I mean, you hope to think Jimmy Carter, as an avowed Christian, has gone to his glory now and it's with the Lord. But what do you think the legacy of Jimmy Carter is overall? When you think about stuff like the Panama Canal, when you think about the creation of the Federal Department of Education and the Department of Energy and all these things that occurred during Carter's administration, what do you think his final chapter will be here on Earth?

David, Well, between him and Biden will go down in history as the two where's president we've ever had, and it's not even close. You mentioned Iran as well, taking a pro Iran and make them the Ayatola, which is extravagant or extreme Islam that has caused problems for our partners in Israel's caused problems for the United States of America when we have hostages held hostage for four hundred and forty four days, all from Iran. Where look at Iran today, they are a menace on the face of

I didn't know Islam had a Messiah I thought Christianity was the only religion that actually has a true Messiah.

Well, they call it their Mahadi. It's the twelfth Mahadi that they'll believe that will come back in the prophet to lead them to Mohammad. And they truly believe by an attacking of a nuclear weapon would bring this twelfth Mahadi back.

Jeez.

Yeah, first it was the seventy Virgins, and now it's this Pastor Scarlett. I really appreciate your perspective, both as a marine and also as someone who has observed these events from a spiritual standpoint. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate your time tonight. Any anything that you want folks to know as we close out though in a couple of minutes, Well.

I just wanted everybody to know that to get a little bit bumpier just before the day the President Trump takes office, and then especially in the first couple of months, but breakthrough is coming. Lord's listen to the prayers. I think we're gonna have the greatest revival in the history of the world. We just got to get through these bumpy periods.

First Truscott and is there.

A website address for people to learn more about your ministry and your outreach.

Yes, you can go to hisglory dot m ME to get all of our twenty four to seven broadcasts. We have twenty four seven TV broadcast, Bible Studies, Church, everything right there. And then we have his glory Dot TV where we do movies like January sixth with Nick Serci. We've got three of them. We've got Capital Punishment, We've got War on Truth, and then we have a four part series and then we also are exclusive with Laura Logan. The rest of the story is on his Glory TV as well.

And prayerfully, I believe that come next Tuesday, perhaps or as soon as he's sworn in, President Trump will a free a lot of those, if not all, of the January sixth prisoners. Let's pray for that.

Yes, we're praying. We're praying for that.

All right, Pastor Scarlett, thank you so much, and have a blessed evening.

Thank you, God, bless you.

God, bless you. Pastor David Scarlett with us as we close out this night cap for a Monday. We'll be back tomorrow from nine to midnight, God allowing. And with that we close out with our national anthem to honor America. The Star Spangled banner playing on seven hundred WLW.

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It's made Monday to reopen I Force seventy one South with the midnight reports, I'm Lee Mawitt cranking now. The first three seven girders installed yesterday, well, the next four do to be installed in the next few days. According to ODOTS Kathleen Fuller, what's the next step after that?

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The steel girders arrive and are put in place. Kathleen Fuller with ODDS says it's a big step in repairing the southbound lanes and the Ifour seventy one bridge, which have been closed to traffic since November first.

Fire.

Fuller says the most crucial step to comes the pouring of the new concrete deck on that span, and doing it during the winter provides a challenge.

Never do those in the winter months. We only do those during typically the warm weather months. So our contractor's great Lex Construction, They've got a great plan in place that we hope that will work, that they can actually pour the concrete in these colder temperatures.

Old Dot's still on track for a reopening in mid March. I'm Sean Galviagher, News Radio seven hundred WLW.

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I'm on the way to our Tuesday morning. We're clouding up and we'll see a morning low of twelve our Tuesday, then some snow showers at midday, a dusting or a bit more, a high of twenty three at night, clearing out late, and a low down to four. From your severe Weather station, I'm nine First Warning Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawleigh, News Radio, seven hundred WLW.

Nothing on the radar.

It's currently twelve degrees, but it feels like six degrees more