The Night Cap with Gary Jeff Walker -- 5/26/25

Good evening and welcome to a Memorial Day nightcap on seven hundred WLW Gary Jeff Walker. Words are cheap, and the cheap words we use or choose to try and do justice, to try and honor those who've given the ultimate sacrifice for us can never do them justice. It can't bring them back, and it can't really really give

You good?

Oh, it's fantastic. You know what a Memorial Day weekend?

Oh?

I have a trivia question for you. Memorial Day Weekend M d W. They're the three letters of which airport m that's a great question, md w.

W Memorial Day Weekend m MEW.

Three letter code. Somebody's probably flying through there right now. It's a big one. It's it's next to O R D. Oh here it's midway in Chicago. Yes, that's it.

How about that Memorial Day weekend about a week ago? And they're like, somebody wrote Memorial Day Weekend and they just wrote MDW And I went midway and then they were talking about Memorial Day weekend.

I said, I got to use that on the air a lot. That's food phenomenal.

I don't know the designations, and I'm surprised you do, because most of your travel is on the ground in your car. You go everywhere, and and you've been everywhere seemingly.

Now I want to ask.

I'm going to tell you, well before you say that, I did a trip just two weeks ago, and I drove twenty seven hundred miles and my Flashmobile got forty nine point five miles to the gallon in the first nine hundred miles. It's a it's all gas power. Because it's I don't want to say the name of the car I call a Flashmobile. I'll tell you what. It's a palindrome. Right now, we're on a palindrome date. You

Forward and backwards is the same name. So you probably know what it is.

Well there you go, all right, So, but forty nine miles to the gallon, that's amazing, amazing.

Pretty amazed.

And these and the tires that are on there almost have almost one hundred thousand miles on them.

Where was that proported at eighty thousand? Do you remember where the cheapest gas was flash on your trip Tennessee?

It's always Tennessee always gives me some pretty cheap gas. And so that's why I usually like driving the South. The South always gives me better deals than over three dollars.

I'll tell you what it is. Part of it is is the taxes. I mean you, just as the states that have less state gasoline taxes, you're going to find cheaper gas low and behold, well, isn't that a surprise? And my parents are still alive. God bless them, and God bless me for still. I'm so grateful. They live in Hendersonville, Tennessee, which is just outside of Nashville. I'm sure you're familiar where Hendersonville is. Sure up on the side, yeah,

And seventy five seventy one to sixty five, we.

Yep seventy five seventy one to sixty five and go south, go straight through Louisville. Used to go the Gene Freighter of Jean Jean Snyder Parkway.

But a lot of times they want you to take the water the Watertown Waterson, Waterson Express, Waterson. That's the one.

But but I'm telling you what driving driving straight through Louisville is actually closer. It's it's a lot cheaper and there's not as many You drive an extra twenty minutes on the Gene Snyder to get down to sixty five. Anyway, when we go there, gases always, no matter what time of year, twenty to thirty cents cheaper a gallon in Middle Tennessee than it is up here.

So I would agree.

You have you stopped it one of the the disco bathrooms up there in northern Kentucky.

Yet I did it, and my gosh, was that fun. It is so cool.

So for if you're in the Cincinnati area in northern Kentucky that look up disco bathroom.

You go in, you hit a button and says don't hit this button.

You hit the button and all the lights go out and the disco ball starts spinning around the bathroom.

It's in men and women.

I heard it's in the women too, but it'll spin around and it'll do the whole disco and it'll start playing Beg's it's.

So cool in your area. Have you been to BUCkies yet?

Oh?

Yeah, I tried to go to, especially after I went.

In Texas because I went to when I told the first one out right near Austin. So I had gone to that one. I said, Man, it should be putting these everywhere. So as soon as they built the one in Alabama, which are now four, and so I keep on going to all the ones that are out of the state. So whether or not it's south of U on I seventy five or the one on sixty five, is Smith's over there.

Smith Grow Smith Smiths Grove. That's where that's where World WIF found. Can I stop on our trips homes to see Mom and Dad? We stop at the BUCkies now there at Smith exit thirty eight, and it was all.

In Green Cave City, right in between the two.

Yeah, it's It's Smith's Grove is right there on the way to Bowling Green and it is. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen at a store gas stage, the way they move traffic and people in and out of those things.

And the tip is don't go in the first entrance. There's a lot of times two entrances there should be. It's so big, and never pick the first and everybody wants to pull in the first. One tip for you when you're driving, there's going to be a second entrance. Go past those people. Look for the back way in. It always works.

Now you live in the DC area or Virginia, is that right?

I live in between Philadelphia and Baltimore.

I'm in that here, Okay.

So a lot of people in the summertime, and we're here in summer vacation season. That's that's why you're on the show to talk about some cool places to go in the summertime. A lot of people go north because the weather's nicer. I mean, it's if you're gonna go to like, if you're gonna go to Maine. For me, the only time to go would be summertime, wouldn't you agree?

That is definitely a thing that I do is that if somebody will go out, well at the universe, it is just open back on Thursday. You going, I said, well, no, I'll wait till it gets colder to go to Florida. So I'm going to do as many things in the north. These things are open, especially now for Memorial Day as you get into the Labor Day, and then a lot of these places are up and beyond that as well.

So I will head on up there.

If you remember when Forrest Gump was running across the country and he said he runs the Pacific Ocean. When he turns around and runs to the east, he runs right in that same area.

That lighthouse that you see.

I went to it last year to be able to go see it, and that's right near the Francis Perkins National Monument, which is one of the new ones. So that's a good reason to go to Maine a'l gonquit. There's just I just I went all the way to the top of Maine, and a lot of people don't go that far past Bangalore.

But when you go up into the very northern parts of.

Man, it's like going up in the northern minute snowda and I see minue snowda.

It's not snow up there. Right now. You're usually good.

Right now, Glacier National Park, you always have to wait till closer to fourth of July till they can open the going to the Sun road and you and again you just can't go there and drive over. You have to make sure you go online and get your timed entry to get over top of But going to the Sun Road, there's the I'm Go'll tell you about a great road, the Bear Tooth.

If you've never done the Bear Tooth.

It's between Yellowstone National Park and Montana and between there and Billings and look for the bear Tooth. Everybody had told me, they said you got to drive this road. So I was driving in Montana and I dropped down to the Yellowstone National Park around Mamos Springs, came out the northeast side of the Lamar Valley where all the bison aar and it's just I got out of there. You see the bear Tooth. It's a mountain that looks

Look that one up. You know what I used to love when we were kids.

We lived in the suburban Chicago area, not too far from MDW by the way. In Memorial Day weekend, yeah, Memorial Day weekend, we used to go to the Wisconsin Dell's and my parents would take us on a camping trip and they had one of those Coleman pop up campers, and you know, we'd find a campground there in either Baraboo or Portage, Wisconsin. What can you tell me about that area? Is it still a great destination for people.

But you between those cities if you want water parks, if you want especially Big Sheep one of the great amusement parks with the coasters.

They started it out.

I remember when I was living in Indiana back in the nineties and I went over the head one and all of a sudden it became a huge park. But just the pictures that you can get taken in that area, whether or not you want the giant horse, I mean Rome, It'll looks like you're the Coliseum. They have just all these co replatives they got. Remember the Sinclair Dinosaur, a dinosaur that must be about twenty feet tall. It's on the southeast side. As soon as the Eggs of nine

And Paul Paul bunyons for Breakfast with Babe the Blue Ox.

Are you familiar with that.

I've never been in there, but I know that if you go up in the north you get a lot.

Of those statues.

There'll be so many Paul Bunions in the Blue Ox and you'll just see those everywhere. It's such a big part of It's a great place because if you're living.

Even in the Midwest, had on up to the up of Michigan.

That's one of my favorites.

But when I travel, I'm always looking for the high pressure system. So the way I love traveling is I say I'm going to take off for a week, and.

They'll say where you go, and I say, well, I don't know. Let's see where the weather takes me.

And I look for the high pressure system because I know all my pictures and I'm going to get some pretty good blue sky weather. And then I find places to stay along the way and I get good weather. So you go where the weather's going to be good. That's where I really try. I try to think about a week and a half off and say, all right, where's the high.

Pressure right now? Oh, on this day, it'll be this this.

Okay, if I hit here, I might be able to go here, and I change my plans during the entire trip. Not for everybody, but it is so much fun because you don't know your destination. It sounds like a blast. You look for dairy bars with good mill bars, is what you're telling.

Yeah, that's a very good thing.

And you know when you started, you talked about you played Holiday Road from the movie Vacation. And if you've never seen the family Truckster, they have one that's set up and it's down in Trinidad, not on the island.

Trinidad is in Colorado.

It's I twenty five, very southern Colorado, almost at the New Mexico border, and they actually put Edna on top, so it is it's a great photo op and that's part of the road that they were really driving.

When they went out to Pagosa Springs.

And you can see a lot of the things along the way from the movie Vacation.

It's note I really enjoy that it's not exactly a summer destination. He would know it's a better weather in summer. My birthtown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. I think we may have talked about this before. It's in Henry County, Iowa, and they're in the southeast corner of the state, right

Well, there you go.

Well, Burlington, the town right next to you as well. They have a place called the Phelps House. And if you can find the Pelps House, they have the Snake Alley. So if you're very familiar with a road that would just like Lombard Street in San Francisco. It's just like it, and it's next to the Felps House and it's right there, and he goes directly down almost towards the Mississippi River. But look for Snake Alley if you're in Burlington, not too far away from Gary Jeff's place of Mount Pleasant,

So imagine the people of Leclaire, Iowa.

They take a boat and they take the rope all the way across the Illinois and the Port Byron. People on each side are pulling on the rope, trying to pull each other into the Mississippi River every years.

Real story.

I gotta find out when that is, because the next time I make a trip to Iowa, maybe this summer will make a trip up to Leclair and Port Byron, Port Byron and wats the I don't know if I'm I don't know if I'm going to get involved. I'd like to see it though. You know, speaking of the speaking of the Mississippi River, there are so many cool destinations and and it's you know, a day and a half's drive from here, more than likely unless you're a

Now you can ride each side and they both are marked with paddle wheels. So if you get the Mississippi River, whether or not you're on the east side or west side, you'll see the paddle wheel trail and you can follow along the river. One of my favorites. If you can go up to northern Minnesota, you actually can see the start of the Mississippi River. So you want to go up to brain the brain Er Bamidgie area. So if you're in Bamidgie here, I'll get the map out. I'm a point at for.

You as well. There's park rapids well as soon.

As you are here and you can actually go to the very start of the Misissippi River. You can walk through it because's only about a foot deep once it starts, so it's one of the coolest things that you can see up there in the midge and then make your way down until it gets to the Twin Cities gets wire and wider as you know. So that's one of my favorites to definitely see along the Mississippi.

I love that, you know what.

Another great one is Mud Island in Memphis. If you get the Memphis you walk over the bridge, you just get on the Mud Island. That's where they have the giant Memphis sign kind of like in Cincinnati, you know the Queens City right there, a big li says Memphis

Well we've had some flooding earlier in the year. Right now, we're still dealing with the aftermath of the terrible, deadly tornadoes that took place near London, Kentucky that claim me, yeah, twenty one lives and you know they're by the way, quick, quick chance for me to just once again plug Matthew twenty five Ministries, which is located here in Cincinnati and Blue Ash and they have drops all over the place.

Just south of Lexington.

So I tell you what, Flash, If you'll hold on a second, I want to do one more quick segment with you. We're talking summer vacations and we're talking with the ultimate road warrior, Flash Phelps of sixties Gold. And it's Memorial Day, so you know, let the vacations begin. You're back the segment number two with the one and only Flash Phelps, who is a serious XM personality on

How many counties has it been?

Now?

How many counties in the United States? And how many do you lack on your list?

Flash?

I lacked less than or about two hundred right now.

Hold on.

Actually, it's kind of cold because I have this running count that goes on my list, and so I'm going to try to find out what the exact total is for you, all right. So it's amazing because I keep on trying to hit more and it just takes a while. Okay, here's my running total out of thirty one hundred and forty four counties in the United States, I've been in twenty nine hundred and thirty two. There's only two hundred

And every state including Hawaii. Although he did not drive to Hawaii. You have to fly Island Island.

There's five counties there, and they don't make it easy. The great trips to take, and they it's hard to get there. Now it's kala Waho County. That's the smallest county in the entire United States. Very tough to get there after we had the pandemic because that's if you know the story about that's where it's called Hanson's disease. Yes, and that's the that's the Kala Papa Peninsula and that's the whole county. And to be able to get down there,

So you can go to Kalauaho County on Hawaii.

It's on Molokai is where that is another place that you can't get you by car on purpose is Alcatraz Island and there has been talk of them renovating that and turning it back into a prison. What is the museum like at Alcatraz? You've been there that I have?

I did that only because every time I would look over it, I said, Highland going to go. So it's on my way down to American Samoa, and I said, okay, seven San Francisco to be able to go. And I wasn't able to get the first boat, but my I highly recommend trying to get the first or second boat because what happens is you can stay on the island as long as you want. So once you get there,

And then they won't tell.

You a story about why he's there, but I looked it up and he had a book to be able to read, so you walk all the way up this hill. You have to walk all the way up and you get up to the museum and you start in where they had the showers. That's your very first part where you start. And they gave you headphones to put on, so it was a self guide to tour. You'd walk around, they would tell you that's what this is, that's what this is, and you go through and you everybody wants

The side of the building.

And then they said, hey, everybody thinks we'll go to San Francisco. It's closer to go to San Francisco on the south side. They decided they were going to try to make their way north to Angel Island. Nobody knows what ended up happening, but that it's beautiful to walk that island and go out into the playground and walk and just listen to the story.

But you can see how the walls are crowded.

I don't even know how they would put that back together to make it a prison, but it is such a great tourist attraction.

Do it.

Make sure it's just one of those things you go see sometime, because that was one of my favorite tours, all right.

A very popular destination for people in this area in the summertime, or you know, as long as the weather's good, as long as they you know, have a high pressure front. Is is put In Bay, Oh Yes, and yeah, I've.

Been three three times. I took the high speed ferry twice to go over put In Bay. So if you're not familiar with it, the Ohio Islands on the north part of Ohio, right off of Sandusky, there's Port Clinton and you can then lead from there the high speed Well you can't take your car that way, but you can get over there very quick. It'll take you right into downtown put In Bay. If you take your car over, you're gonna go over. And that was fun. I did that too, and I drove around the island, but I

I had a really good time.

That's the only one into the Kelly Island and all the different ones. But put in Bay, I had a fantastic time. You can walk a lot of that island as well.

It's a home home to the world's the world's biggest bar, the world's longest bar.

Did you go to the war?

All right, it's right in downtown on that little square and you can walk in and you can see that.

Yeah, there's there's some really cool things.

And if you know down at Key West they have the pylon that says how far you are from Cuba, Well they have one there that says how far you are from the Canada or which is only a couple of miles.

Our cell phones now, listen, when we went, our cell phones connected to Rogers told yeah, our cell phones told us that we were now in Canada when we were on the boat.

And I'm going, We're not in Canada.

We're in the United States.

No, we were in Canada for a brief time. Thank god.

There were no customs agents or guards there right exactly. Now, tell me about cool places in Pennsylvania. I want to know, because I am a huge and it's this sounds like I'm a relic from another age, which I probably am becoming very quickly a huge fan of the late great American actor Jimmy Stewart. Tell me about India, Indiana, Pennsylvania and the Jimmy Stewart Museum, And have you been there?

Yeah, so I went over. They have the statue. Actually isn't in front of the museum, it's right in front of the courthouse, which is right next door. So you get your Jimmy Stewart picture and then you head next door into the museum. So if you are a big fan of Jimmy Stort, you'd want to be there in Indiana. But I'm going to give you another cool thing because you don't have to go there. On February of the second honks a Tawny Pennsylvania year round. That's just right

That's for the railroad.

The Altuna Curve not only the name of their baseball team, but it's a real curve for the train line and you can stand there and the train will curve around you if you stand there and know when the trains are coming by. That the Kinzu Bridge up in the very northern parts, up in the Alleghany National Forest. And I was lucky enough because there's a Woodstock mural. So if you're into the sixties and you love Woodstock, they

I'm posting it.

Well, you obviously are pH a m o us.

It's so funny they label it on Google Maps is historical site?

Right?

How did my how did my mural become a historical site? But then I don't know who.

Labels these things, but I was honored to be able to When I got that message, they said, if you don't like it, we'll get rid of it and paint over.

I said no, no, I said no, I got come see it.

Speaking of Google Maps, speaking of Google Maps and you traveling and using those flash phelps. Have you been to the Gulf of America since it was renamed? And I wonder if it's any different than the Gulf of Mexico.

I didn't see any difference. I went out.

I didn't even see a sign that said but I heard in some places you could find the sign, but I did.

I drove around it.

You know what I did.

I just went down to Florida back in February.

So as soon as I went out, I went to cedar Key, so you're right on the golf and there was a lot of hurricane damage in the area, but that was beautiful and I drove all the way frond Us nineteen. You go up through the Swanee River and you can see where Swannee River is, and then you loop around Apple at Chicola. So you always hear about these places in September and August, especially when it's the hurricane season. But if you loop all around, you can

And that's right before you would get to Panama City.

But that's a fun photo op the half and half Eastern and Central time giant chair.

What would you recommend in Upstate New York besides Niagara Fords.

I the Adirondack Park.

Definitely, the Lake Placid area.

Anytime you can go and do that and uh oh gosh, and the island to Heart Island. Look up Heart Island and this is in the one thousand a thousand Islands areas, so you get to go north of Watertown and as soon as you get up there, you're your Kingston, Ontario. So the northeast side of Lake Ontario thousand Islands. Look for Heart Island and you can take a phoat of onto that island and just check out the mansion that is on that island. It was I've got some of

Absolutely, I have a suggestion for you if you've never been to Waldo, Ohio.

I've only been see.

I haven't been to Waldo, Ohio, but I did go to Waldo, Arkansas.

So I do have a picture at Waldo, Arkansas. Since there's a couple of them. I wonder how many cities there are in America with the name Waldo.

And that's one nice thing. Would I have a list of all of them? I can usually look them all up? And that's how I play. I played this game City of the Day, and then I al always have to find out how many cities have a certain name, And then I can find out quickly by looking up so w A L d oh, how many Waldo's are there? And then I see it and go, okay, here's your answer. Alabama, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Minnesota,

Well, you know, here here's another question. How many places in the country are named Utopia. We have one in Ohio in Claremont County. And I was telling my wife. He said, you know, we're nowhere right now, because that's the true meaning of utopia.

Yes, Oh, go ahead. Where is it? Where's Utopia?

It's right between It's right at the edge of Clearmont County going into Brown County on Highway fifty two in Ohio, right along the river.

Is that right? Okay, here's your answer.

Florida, Illinois, Kansas, New York, Alhio, the one you mentioned, Texas and New South Wales Australia have places named utopia.

So there's your answer for.

The translation that the translation is exactly nowhere. And of course, there was an old joke about about the town of Climax, and apparently apparently you have to in one state to get to Climax. You have got them. You've got to first go through intercourse to get to climb.

Here in Pennsylvania, you're in Lancaster area.

Yeah, and there's yes, and there's blue Ball as well right next.

To that as well. Well. We have that is so true. We have a we have a sugar tit in Kentucky. We do. Absolutely.

It is just amazing some of the names of the places that you find, and that's what makes it fun when you go around and the photo ops. Please get all these photo ops you can get when you see these places.

That's what you that's something that you chronicle very well. I've seen some of the photos that you've taken on the website and yeah, you follow.

Flash OLPs, Bunty Farm all with phs.

You can see and go back and look at all these different pictures I've taken to show America. And you say, well, I'm going to North Dakota. We'll go to my North Dakota photo the folder and you can see a lot of pictures. Or I have a really cool video I did and it's of all fifty states. I went to all fifty I did it decided in one year, so I made a video.

It's about twelve minutes, but.

Every picture is labeled from every state and if you look up, it's called all fifty at fifty flash Phelps and it's on you can just search that watch that video and just keep on hitting pause and look at all the different places that I labeled with it. Just by nine hundred photos of America. What's the weirdest town name you can think of that you've seen? Oh, the weirdest town name I like Center of the Universe. That's a good one. That's there in Ohio. There's some really

Okay, that's all right, Okay.

We just said we were going to get together and talk about traveling, and I didn't.

What did you? What do you most?

What's the hardest part of traveling to all these places? Because I know that you have a ball doing it, and I know it's something that's a passion of yours and has been for many, many years, But there's got to be something that just frustrates you to no end and you go, God, was it really worth it?

Yeah?

Sometimes it's the price, and then by the time you get there and it's like, oh my god, sorry, how much is this gonna cost for me?

Number onse it the cast. I'm glad. I get forty.

Five plus miles down when I'm doing these drives, so that really helps me out.

So I love that the vehicle does that, and I'm getting so many miles doing that.

The car almost says four hundred thousand miles on it and it's a twenty eighteen.

I got it in August of twenty eighteen.

I average about sixty miles a year, so and that's that's the good part about it. I just it's the time sometimes where you'll go, man, I got to get this place, but they're going to close at a certain time. And then sometimes you miss certain places due to how long it'll take you to get there, or backed up trackic there's certain things. But other than that, I just that's why I like winging it, because if you do wing it, you'll go, well, I'll just do that next trip.

And what I do this is a really cool thing. I have a map of the entire.

Us on my phone, and then what I do is if I find some somebody will say, oh, did you know that there's utopia Ohio. Oh, let me go find it, and I put a pin on my map. So then when I'm close to the area, I start looking at the pins.

What did I mark?

And some of them I've forgotten, and I'll go, oh, I forgot that was there. Let me go over to that place right now. Always keep pins in your map, or keep.

This up, pay for map right here. I got my right here, So I make sure I do it.

I mark things and circle it and a lot of people just want to do it on their computers now.

But I like having the physical math flash Phelps. I loved having you again tonight as a guest. Thank you so much.

We're out of time, but say save travels and thank you thanks for the help.

All right, you got it, all right? Have you travels here for the Memorial Day weekend?

All right, seven hundred WLW Memorial Day celebrate.

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 Amendment rights codified and guaranteed in the Constitution as a right and inalienable right 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 on there'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 so the Second Ament 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 uh, 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, 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 their big event, and so I speak at a lot of these big un rights 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

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.

All right now.

There is a push and we had Savannah Maddis on earlier tonight who's a Kentucky legislator in the state House, and she is pushing for constitutional carry 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 Kentucky. Hopefully prayer

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 risk 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 everybody safe.

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 are threatening him and that you have guns, and they can come out and confiscate your guns without any hearing or anything. And then you've got to go after the fact to prove your innocent, which is a violation of your rights

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 know, no do process and then illegal teachers, search and seizure. So yeah, so it's it's terrible. And then what's the Democrats really They would love to have a

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.

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Is there anything you know that's cropped up that makes you go, well, somebody's got to stop that. What's going on in your home state of New York?

Well, New York recently took not too long ago, took the firearm 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 Hocheld 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 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 I'm glad that you're fighting a good fight every day out.

Well, I think it's the most important one because with that out 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 gun bad Guy 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 hunderd WLW favorite people on the telephone to spend a little bit of time with us on this special holiday nightcap, Gary Jeff with Peter Bronson for this half hour on seven hundred WLW PTE been a long time. I'm glad that you made time for us on this

I guess I am.

But in that do people still grasp the significance of this holiday, Peter or this remembrance.

That's a great question. I think less and less.

I think that our generation, yours and mine, are the last generation that grew up with the greatest generation as our parents. And we know these stories because many of them were shared with us by uncles and fathers and maybe grandfathers who served in the first the Great War of World War One. But this was the family tales and folk history that was passed on to us that gave us such a great appreciation of what was accomplished

I think a lot of your focus probably was reaffirmed when you were the years you worked with the Honor Flight here in the Tri State.

Oh yeah, absolutely. The first thing I thought of when you brought up this question was the Honor Flight books that I worked on with Cheryl pop and Honor Flight Try State, Because well, I went along on the Honor flights. We collected stories from local veterans, many of whom I are well known in our community, and many others who were never known that well in our community, but who had unbelievable stories to tell about their service in World

Well, thanks to you.

I have the books, and you're right, and there were passages as I was reading them the tears just started to well up in my eyes. Yeah, and I was like, Okay, I really want to read on here, but I need to like get myself together because everything's out of focus for a second. It was just that gripping and that impactful for me, not being you know, anyone who had a direct connection except my freedom to World War Two and the veterans that you were taking to Washington, d c.

I agree.

I think that there's there has been a problem, and it started really with our generation when we had the draft resistance. As a young nineteen year old who was eighteen, nineteen year old, who was under threat of being drafted, I was certainly a.

Part of that.

I resisted the draft, not in the way that I refused to go, but I was fortunate to get a high lottery number, but a lot of my friends and a lot of my age group, in our generation, we were the break that it stopped being willing in many cases, not across the board, because so many of our generation also served with honor, but there were so many of us who who really refused and wouldn't go, and that really signaled it a real change, a cultural change in

Right, And I'm just a little bit younger than you, and I'm even further removed from that feeling of, you know, service, like it's my obligation as a citizen to do this. Vietnam was over by the time I was eighteen, and out of high school in nineteen seventy nine, they weren't

Well, you know the point that you may a point I thought was very interesting, which is that that the Vietnam generation, the men who did serve with Gallar and Vietnam were really the most unfortunate because they were denied that feeling of appreciation, the celebration of the returning hero.

The pete I had.

I had a Vietnam vet tell me once many years ago, he said, don't ever say thank you for your service, just say welcome home.

Ed.

Yeah, And every time I encounter.

A Vietnam Vet, that's that's how I greet them when I meet them, is welcome home. And they seem to really appreciate that because they.

Didn't know that's a great, great way to show your appreciation. Many of the stories in the Honor flight books from the Vietnam veterans shared their total shock and dismay at what happened when they got back and how they were greeted and mistreated. In many cases, such as when they were demobilized and they came back and landed in the States, they were told to remove their uniforms and don't leave the base in a uniform because you'll be spit on

We'll take a quick break and come back more with Peter Bronson on Memorial Day evening on the Nightcap. I wanted to know what projects you're working on, if any, right now, because we always talk about your books and Chili Dog Press, and there's been so much good stuff, good material that you've generated the last gosh, the last decade that you know, people hear you on the air, and whether it's with me or with somebody else, they

Pete.

I'm working on about four different books for clients authors. Some are people that when their books come out, you're going to know who they are and you're going to be very excited about getting their books. Others are people who just always had a dream about writing a children's book or whatever, a biography or a mystery novel or adventure.

I told somebody and they actually heard an interview that I did with you when Promised Land came out. They got the book, they said, man, this thing is a page turner. It's a barn burner. It's great. I couldn't put it down. Of course, he's a voracious reader too. But people love it, people always tell me. And of course the last one was the man who saved Cincinnati.

Correct, The last one was promised before that was man who saved Cincinnati. Right, So we went from Civil War and then we kind of went back farther in time to the Revolutionary War of the first people who came to Cincinnati.

They're great books.

There really are phenomenal books, Pete and thank You.

I just kind of fun is hearing from people who read them and they have questions or they'll share stories, for example, with Promised Lam the latest one. I've heard from a lot of people who had ancestors whose families were among those first one hundred or so people who dared to come here when this was extremely dangerous. But that's really exciting to hear those stories.

Peter Bronson is a believing Christian, believing in Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, the Lord and Savior.

Of Pete and me too. I am.

I am with Peter in that, And this is something I struggle with all the time as a talk show host doing you know, current events, topics, and many of them political. Is that what I what I have had to keep in mind as I become more and more aware of my spiritual self, is that I get worked up about stuff sometimes that I shouldn't be worked up about at all and get exercised over things that in the ultimate scheme of things, in the eternal scheme of things, don't matter a hill of beans.

How do you how do you fight that?

And how do you get back to center yourself so you don't think that every political war is one you need to be fighting, and every argument is not one you need to be having. Personally, I just am curious for my own edification.

Well, first, I think it helps for all of us to be aware that what you described, this constant feeling of anxiety that people get about the they have to stay in tune with the latest cable news and know exactly what's going on at all times, because every cable show has a little breaking news across the bottom. Alert, Alert, Alert, And this is be aware. This is the business model of our media today. It is no longer simply to inform you or give you an opportunity to know what's

Time or downtime.

Don't let the phone or the TV or the radio keep you on the edge of your seat, because it's not a healthy place to be. On the other hand, that said, I would say the most important thing is remember who is in control, and that the good guys win in the end because God is on his throne and he is in control, not me. A lot of these things that you were talking about and we've been describing in the news, they are so far beyond our control.

Be made known to God. And the peace of God that surpasses.

All understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ.

Amen. Wow, that is such a promise.

That's that's a perfect that's a perfect way to end this. I mean, I'm glad. Oh, I'm glad you had scripture ready. This is wonderful. It's just what I need, just what I needed. Peter, great, Thank you so much. God, God bless you and keep you and we will talk soon, all right, and bless.

You too, Gary, Jeff, and have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.

I think I'm enjoying one right now. I appreciate it. It's the nightcap and we're not done yet. So even though this is a somber Reverend holiday for America, even to call it a holiday seems a little bit not quite right, but a grateful Memorial Day. I couldn't think of a better way to conclude tonight's special Memorial Day nightcap than with a conversation with my old friend Andy Furman.

Plus he was oddly available.

So I'm grateful not only for those who give the ultimate sacrifice, Andy, but that you are almost always available to me. And I don't know what that says about you exactly, but I know you're my friend and you do anything for me, including be on my radio show. So thank you so much. I am grateful to you, Andy Furman.

I'm only a phone call away. You make it sound like you know.

Nothing else going on in my life, but that's okay. I appreciate a happy Memorial Day to you. When yours you know you say it's a summer day. I think it's a happy day because they created freedom for everybody. But again, as a ninety nine percent of the people who celebrate this holiday are happy for a three day weekend. They grill out and they just shoot a fireworks. That's what they think the holiday is. It needs to be

Holiday is all about.

You know what, you know, you know what the schools they be out anyway.

What's odd to me, Andy, is that people always say, in this day and time that this is the most divided our nation has ever been. And I think about the half million people who died in the Civil War. No, I think it's been more divided than this. And certainly this is not numero uno on the times in which the United States of America has been divided. We were two different countries for a few short years at one point and had to be mended back together, I wouldn't

Well, I think the people that say that they're very foolish and uneducated because they.

Don't know the history of America. Number one.

I think most of the people are saying that are the ones that are doing the dividing. Yeah, that's all.

They talk about it, so they try and create this false division. I walk right every day in this land like you do. Do you see people at war with each other on your daily walk? I mean, and I'm in different environments and you know, I'm in that bar three four days a week, and I see people of all skin colors, all kinds of different persuasions as far even sexual orientation, and they all get along. I don't know where this talk of being divided comes from. I think you hit the nail on the head.

I usually to kind of assume in a little bit under term divided, I think more opinionated. And I'll tell you why. I say that, because I think social media has created that. Social media has provided an outlet for people to basically say and spew what they want, what they don't want, you know. And I talk about sports as well. And there was a story just the other day.

Held hostage in Russia food.

While she plays now for the Atlanta Dream And she was interviewed at halftime and in the middle of the interview, in the middle she walked away from the interviewer. And this is on CBS Sports, not the network, but CBS Sports Network, and she walked away from the interviewer and she turned the face at halftime to the referee, the official and said get it f and right on live TV.

Then you about to the interview.

So I'll say, I scratched.

My head and say why. And you know, to me, I'm not apprude.

And I've heard those turns before I heard the F bomb. And I tell you what, I would not be surprised that even if college professors are using it in lecture hole right now on this day and age, politicians have used it in speeches. So I'm not that a shame to say that. I've heard it or, as I say,

I'm not going to watch step further.

The kid help the the kid on the Indiana paces who had the chokes sign Halliburton the other day, Tyre's Halliburton after the Knicks lost that game in game two, put his hand around his neck and get the choke sign. And the next did choke. First of all, he couldn't even be creative enough to do a thing on his own.

He copied it from Reggie Millie years ago. But he did that, and again I look.

At it and I laugh. I find it somewhat humorous. But again, there's gonna be high school kids. You're gonna go to a high school basketball game and see a high school kid putting his hand around his throat when a team that he plays chokes and loses the game. I don't think it's a It's a good showing, that's all I'm saying. I don't think it's good, and maybe maybe I'm wrong, Maybe the commissioner of the NBA and WNBA need to step in and do something about it.

Really well, you know what, there's lots of situations where if you make a gun symbol with your fingers, or you act like you're slashing someone's throats, it's called out and sometimes those people are put on the carpet where they show.

Would be J. D.

Morant from the Memphis Grizzlies. He's been fined several times with the gun make a three point shot and he takes his thinger ound and emulates a gun and he's ben find several times.

There's a fine line between freedom of speech, which we all enjoy, which says the government cannot limit or put us in jail for what we say, and then those things that truly do insight violence and as you say, influence people who are watching in a negative way to where they think that is acceptable in a civil society.

So that, you know what, you're a very interesting point.

You talk about that big umbrellas a freedom of speech which people kind of hide and use.

You know, all freedom of.

Speech I could do.

Well, Yeah, there is freedom.

Of speech, Thank goodness, in our country because of the people who fought for it. However, when you work for an organization, when you're part of a a of a of corporation, you have to apply by the rules of the corporation. Absolutely, best player in the National Basketball Association, you have to follow some rules. I mean, if you have a franchise in McDonald's, all right, and you think that it might be better served if you own this franchise and serve your hamburgers on a bagel rather than

And that's it.

That's why McDonald's has been so successful because their uniformity. People know what they're going to get when they go there, and that's why they continue to go there.

And that's why McDonald's business.

When you go to McDonald's, you're going to see the people behind the counter wearing those McDonald's uniforms with the McDonald's logo. You're not going to see a guy wearing a shirt that says if you want it.

No, No, you will not, absolutely, you know. And it's the same thing when you talk about freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not threatening Jewish students in a university. It is not keeping them from getting to the library or their dorm or making them feel viola because of violence.

Act violence.

Violence is not freedom of speech and it shouldn't be tolerated in this country in any regard because of any political affiliation. And yet some of these college campus presidents and some of some people who are you know, insisting on these movements and these radical movements that you know, they point the finger in spotlight one group that they don't like for political reasons, and they use violence against

Okay, I want to talk about Okay, and this is great, but I want to lighten it up a little bit and talk about sports because I do that because I feel absolutely I'm not that smart anyway, but I'm a little smarter in the sports arena than anything else. And I will say this, first of all, there's a lot of history on Memorial Day.

What the history is?

They say, the saying is that the team in baseball, major League Baseball's in the first place a Memorial Day is going to independence, all right. So that's an old wives tale in baseball. Okay, that's number one. Number two, I want to throw this out, and well the other.

No, statistically, how often does that hold out that's the team?

I don't know.

I mean, that's a good, good question. I will check on that next time you not chat. However, since nineteen forty seven, believe it or not, the National Basketball Association has always played a game on Christmas Day, all right.

Number one, you know.

People in non NFL cities still watch the NFL. People in non NBA cities tend not to watch the NBA. For example, we live in Cincinnati. You turn on the eleven o'clock or ten o'clock news for that matter, and watch the sports. They'll never get of an NBA score because no one cares. We don't have an NBA franchise. If you live in Salt Lake City, Utah, for example, they'll probably give NFL scores for various reasons, in particular.

Probably gambling, whatever it may be. But in the NFL is national. NBA's regional. Okay.

So the commission of the NBA came out the other day Adam Silver and said competition is good, this is okay. When he was quizzed about the NFL and I was going through on Christmas Day.

First of all, he's full of you.

Know, competition is good, but it's not good for him because they basically squeezed the NBA out of Christmas Day. Yet I'm an NBA fan. I love the NBA. I always wanted to see a franchise here in Cincinnati, and it's not going to happen. However, I wrote a letter yesterday to Adam Silver suggesting an idea. I want to run it by you because you're the man of reason.

All right.

The National Hockey League has done a lot this year. They really have to have that Final four thing with foreign countries playing.

That was great.

They planned Christmas Day outdoors, which is unbelievable. They've done a lot of things to promote the sport, and the NHL is really thriving.

Really believe they are.

So I wrote to Adam Silver and say, here's what you got to do to come back the NFL on Christmas Day because I'm a big NBA fan. The cities of Miami, Los Angeles, and one other southern city which I can't remember right now. It was La or La Phoenix on Miami. They all have franchises on Christmas Day, you should.

Play the game outdoors. I think they could do it.

I think Miami on Christmas Day, Phoenix and La could be a climate good enough to have an outdoor game on Christmas Day, which would really somewhat combat the interest of the NFL on that day, but people would tune it in just for the curiosity factor. Really, Madam Silver writes me back, do.

You want my opinion on what you just said?

Please do it and you could make fun of it and say stupid.

No, No, I'm not gonna say it's stupid, because again, I'm all about inclusion, especially on this day. Andy on Memorial there. I'm about it uniting, not dividing. I say to that that the NFL will win regardless, the NFL will win over the NBA and the NHL, no matter what the NBA does on a particular day like Christmas Day,

I agree with everything you say.

The NFL will rule over the NBA until they're not playing games in the NFL, and then you know, maybe they get a few more eyeballs.

Right, and especially the NFL is going to dominate on Christmas, saying, no matter what the NBA does, that they could play naked, they still would dominate. And I'll tell you why Christmas is zooming into the playoffs situation. The playoffs teas will be shocking for playoffs, Oh absolutely around Christmas time. So that's bigger even than the regular NFL game. This is huge. So I'm telling you if the NBA players played naked that day, that the NFL would still outdrawing really well, I do it.

I think that would even further decrease the NBA's ratings if they played in the nude.

No, but I will say that if they played the game outdoors, I think if the ratings were two to one or three to one, maybe they could decrease it to two to one, maybe because out of curiosity, people would want to see what's going on, especially maybe if one NFL game is like a route you know, it's like, you know, really out of control, people will switch the dial and go back to the NBA.

Well unless they unless.

Unless they raise the hoop to like twelve feet or whatever. Then you have the added factor, like say golf on playing outdoors on Christmas Day, even in the southern climbs, you still have the possibility of wind or rain at complicate complicating the action a little bit, which might make it more interesting.

You know that three pointer.

Is not gonna be not gonna be very actors of the outside bringing.

Down probably cover the court with some sort of covering. However, how do you cover Well, maybe you can't cover the fans, because if they're in a regular stadium where they have like the facade coming over that cover the seating, they can probably work. They probably could some sort of a tent over the court in preparation for a rain. They probably could. But you know what, I promise you our party won't get get any feedback whatsoever.

But if I do, you'll be the first to know.

I'll let you know if adam civil rights, so close.

Me back, and I'll let you know if anybody cares after they listen to this.

So you have written.

You have written another op ed to the Cincinnati Inquirer, which again is something that sadly nobody pays attention to, but you do.

And what don't knock the Inquirer.

I still believe that there's a hearty soul of group of people that read the Inquirer. They love the newspapers, they love to they love to read even online or hold it becare's a lot of people who like to feel and touch a newspaper. I'm one of them, all right, So don't I'm not the young. I don't think anybody under the age of forty does. But I think a lot of people do still like to read a newspaper.

So as you're feeling your newspaper, what do you want to read when you open up the the op ed section to see if your letter's there?

What did you write about?

Andy Well?

I wrote about the situation of Cincinnati, which I love living here, and I love the fact that we have a lot of people that want to make the place better, make the city better, and their dreamers out there but you know what, before you dream, you know, let the dream come true and then talk about it. For example, I go back in history, because I've been here a while. I remember one a former I think it was a city council member, not going to mention names to embarrassed people.

That just blowharts. It's just open their mouth.

To maybe hear themselves talk, and nothing ever happens, so the Olympics never came. After that, we heard someone say they wanted to get a college football bowl game here and call it the Chili Bowl and maybe have skyline chili spots.

Not a bad idea.

We have the facilities where they could play it in. They probably could play it in pay Course Stadium. But again, keep the mouth shut and get it done and then make the major announcement. You know, I'm going to say something that a former football coach who used to roam the sidelines on the Cincinnati Bengals sidelines used to say, his name is Marvin Lewis. I see better than I hear, and I'll add to that, I see better than I hear and than I read okay, because now we're into

All right.

So you could call me a blowhard as well if you want to. But we had the investor, we had the guy who wanted to buy an NB eighteen here and move it to Cincinnati. But we couldn't because there was no place to play, right, So let's get back.

To this arena, all right. You got a committee here who wants.

To get an arena, a new arena, and all I hear about is like we wanted downtown, we wanted at the banks, we wanted with TQ wellers, we wanted in the suburbs. You know what, stop it. I don't want to hear arena anymore because you know why, because the individual and to a group of people or corporate entity that buys that arena, they're gonna decide where it goes. Because the who weather pays for it is going to decide where they want to put their arena. To stop

And don'ts and don't again, and don't again burden the taxpayers with building that arena where the city wants it. You're right, the people who are going to actually own the franchise are the ones that should decide. Andy. We got to end it there. I want to thank you for spending the last few minutes of Memorial Day with me.

Well, like you say, I have nothing else to do anyway.

Right, and it's been too cold to swim.

In your pool, all right, thank you?

All right, A grateful Memorial Day to you, my friend Andy Furman on the nightcap, as we conclude on this most hallowed of United States holidays.

Back in a moment to wrap up,