WEBVTT - 11-5-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.760 This is America's Truck and Network with Kevin Gordon. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.560 Welcome aboard, Thanks for tuning in on this Wednesday morning 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.720 America's Truck and Network, the show that is the exception 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.920 to the rule that nothing good happens after midnight. By 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.240 the way, this came up the other day, my wife 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.440 and I were talking. We were watching a couple of shows, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.440 and you know, at the beginning of the show, the 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.400 host will say something like, We've got a really great 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.800 show for you today and all this, and I'm thinking, well, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.360 what was yesterday's show or you know, was that you know, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.280 kind of a whole home show. At least you'll never 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.680 hear that on this program, because after all, it just 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.440 goes without saying, we're getting all This is kind of 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.160 one of the most confusing weeks I've seen as far 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.040 as news cycle, as far as what's going on in 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.040 the trucking industry, what we're hearing, what we're seeing, what's 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:13.600 going on. We're hearing reports that for months now. I mean, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.240 you had all this conversation and I've had conversations with 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.280 you folks at the American at the Mid America Trucking 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:27.080 Show about over capacity, the driver shortage, and back and 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.479 forth that way, and a lot of people for years 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.000 have been saying there is no such thing as a 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:39.600 driver shortage. The key is having qualified drivers, having people 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:44.600 that follow the rules, and we've seen that as a 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.720 result of that, there have been things put in place 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:57.080 because the scenario, or the political line, or what everybody's 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:03.480 been pointing at with this driver shortage is that this force. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.880 When you have a shortage of something and you try 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.320 to fix it, you have to do certain things in 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.240 order to fix it. And what one of the things 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:18.679 was is what's led to the illegals, the lack of training, 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.600 the significant training of people out on the highway, illegals 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.720 with expired visas actually on the road. Lack of enforcing 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.320 the English language proficiency. Now what we're seeing with the 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:37.400 enforcement of that and the revocation of those CDLs, all 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.519 of a sudden, everybody is talking about that. Oh well, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:48.000 now we know the overcapacity is shrinking and that could 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.960 be a problem as well. Well, it's either one or 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.840 the other. Either you have too many drivers or you 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.959 don't have enough drivers. And if you don't have enough 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:03.320 drive let's back up a second. Okay, let's use some 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.720 common sense here, all right, if there's a lack of 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.840 if there was a lack of shortage or a lack 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.000 of drivers and a driver shortage, that would mean that 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:18.799 there's not enough drivers to drive the trucks because of 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.480 the volume that there is in the industry, and that 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.080 shelves would be empty. Certain things aren't getting delivered. Stuff 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.400 is backing up on either the docks coming in from 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.520 the imports or at warehouses, or orders are not being 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.920 filled because there's nobody on the road. We haven't heard 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:43.720 any of that. There has been plenty with the exception 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.320 of the pandemic obviously, when a lot of businesses were 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.840 shut down, factories were closed, and of course nothing was moving. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.680 That which was moving, the only way that it was 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.480 moving was by the trucking industry and the heroes that 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.000 you all, we're out there all of a sudden, once 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.040 the pandemic was over, it's just back to normal. It's 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.280 just like, oh, you know, they're just truck drivers, you know, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.320 not very important. It's just the truck drivers. And so 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.000 now the focus is on when we've seen when there 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.080 are bad drivers out there and those lead to accidents, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.720 and people dig into that and say that, well, these 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.400 people were unqualified, they shouldn't have been there in the 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.200 first place. Then all of a sudden, the focus goes 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.760 on that, and then start people start talking about what 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.800 we need trained truck drivers out there and people that 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.240 are adequately schooled and capacity tests, which you guys have 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.599 been screaming for for years, but now we're starting to 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:48.720 hear that the capacity is shrinking, when in fact we're 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.800 talking about whether or not. Again, we're not talking about 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.440 anybody saying that stuff isn't getting delivered. There aren't you know, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.839 this stuff is stacking up the warehouse. So we've got 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.920 that dynamic going on. We got some numbers yesterday on 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:09.880 us manufacturing, and on the one hand, the people that 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.440 write the report are saying one thing, and the people 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:19.120 that are interpreting the report are saying another. We're hearing 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:24.440 stuff about companies starting to lay people off, and I 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:30.080 find it interesting that when and the companies we mentioned yesterday, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.839 and we've got more details on that, and of course 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.520 it'll come up because there's a couple of other companies 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.120 that have been added to the list, and they're included 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.920 in what we talked about yesterday. When you look at 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.520 Amazon and ups, all right, they're talking about layoffs there, 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:52.920 and in Amazon's case, they're doing more automation. Well, that 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:58.520 isn't affected by tariffs. If you're moving goods and you're 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.800 moving supplies, you're moving packages from one end of the 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.719 country to the other, that isn't involved in tariffs. So 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:12.960 people trying to blame any layoffs as opposed with Amazon 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.280 having to do with tariffs or any of those pressures 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:23.120 there again is unwarranted. But we also saw with Amazon 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.839 a couple of years ago, weren't they at the forefront 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.159 of we are now boosting our employees. We have increased 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.560 their salaries from twelve dollars or whatever up to twenty 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.839 dollars an hour, and we're going to start paying for vacation, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.720 and we're going to we're gonna be having benefits and 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.960 all this sort of stuff. Well, now all of a 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:51.560 sudden they're laying people off. Did they not have the 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.200 business plan to look forward and say, gee whiz, if 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.680 we based on our volume based on the number of 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.400 packages that we are delivered, bring on a regular basis, 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.120 based on what we forecast the number of packages that 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.120 we're going to be doing, we need x number of employees. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.960 Did they not factor in the fact that if you 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.720 raise people's salary, that's going to cut into your profitability, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.280 which Amazon's not hurting as far as profit is concerned. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.880 But now all of a sudden, they're starting to lay 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.080 people off and they want to find some reason to 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.120 blame it, and they're trying to blame it on the 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.760 soft economy, or they're trying to blame it on tariffs, 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:37.240 or how about blaming it on yourselves by over promising 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:43.040 and underproducing in terms of what you're doing. UPS mentioning 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.840 that they were going to be laying off some of 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.000 their employees, that they were going to actually not laying 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.920 them off, because layoffs indicate that you're bringing them back, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.440 but firing and eliminating certain positions. Wasn't it just two 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.240 years ago that UPS signed that big contract with their 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.760 employees about a year and a half ago, I guess, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.239 and took their out they were Now the truck drivers 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.440 for UPS are making one hundred and seventy five thousand 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:16.160 dollars a year. Now. I'm not begrudging anybody getting what 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:21.000 they can, but if you're overpricing yourself out of a 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.440 out of a job and the benefit that that job 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:30.000 provides to that employer isn't enough to cover the cost. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.000 I mean, you've got to be able to produce a 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.200 certain number of items, and that certain number of items 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.839 has at retail has to then cover the cost of 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.559 keeping the lights on, of keeping the process moving, keeping 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.040 the trucks maintained, keeping the warehousing up and going, and 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.960 making sure that the renovations and maintenance that needs to 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.600 go on these facilities, and also pay your employees, and 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.640 so that in order to turn a profit, you have 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.560 to sell or you have to produce or deliver enough 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.760 package to cover all those expenses. And if you're going 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.200 to go out and raise your people's salary and under 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.440 this contract by ten percent every year for the next 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.640 six years, at some point in time you're looking at 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.760 that and your profitability isn't as much as it was. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.000 And now these people are being laid off and they 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.640 want to blame it on the economy. See, these are 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.480 the things that when you dig into the numbers, when 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.960 you understand the numbers and you remember what they've done 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.560 in the past that got them into this position, a 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.640 lot of their arguments that they're using just don't fly. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:42.360 I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network seven hundred WLW. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.800 I need this is the Braething reward on America's Trucking 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.200 Network on seven hundred WLW. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.680 There is a possibility that Britney Forrest takes our last 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.640 ride at a top field dranks. They are two weeks 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.880 from now at the In and Out Burger and HRI 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.360 Finals in Pomota, California. But regardless of what happens at 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.240 our home track, Force can walk away secure in the 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.680 knowledge that she's earned her place among Nitro Racing's all 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.199 time greats. Force won't win a third championship this season, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.240 but she doesn't need to. With her win in Las Vegas, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.720 she is now nineteen career victories and has passed Shirley 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.960 Muldowndy as the sports winning as female top fuel racer. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.120 Brian Barnhart and Kyle Sagan have left Arrow McLaren Racing 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.199 for Ray Hall Letterman Landing and Racing. 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Along 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.440 with Barnhart, the Arrow McLaren team also lost Sagan, who 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.600 will act as rlll's pit stop manager. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.000 Need This is the racing reward on America's Trucking Network 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:00.960 on seven hundred WLW. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:07.000 Say Dennison reporting for a t and the stock market 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.360 goes up, you make money. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:14.200 I'm Kevin Board in America instruct a Network seven hundred WLW. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.560 Previous segment, We're talking about how businesses are starting to 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.280 react and we're starting to see a certain number of layoffs, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.120 and they're trying to blame it on one thing, when 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.160 in fact it probably has a result of something else. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.200 I'm also hearing a lot of people on certain shows 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:35.040 starting to talk about inflation, starting to talk about inflation. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.200 I mean, where were you people back in twenty twenty 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:45.679 one when Biden took office in twenty twenty one, because 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.520 he started shutting down production of US oil, starting to 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:55.400 not cancel the oil permitting and the sales of the leases, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:12:02.160 which by the way, were authorized and regulated and done 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:07.200 by ordered by Congress, and so the Administrative Office, the 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.840 executive branch, ignored the law and said, we're not going 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.559 to do this. And where was the constitutional crisis at 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.640 that point that when something was ordered and you're not 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.280 doing it and you're not following it, where is the 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.960 threat to democracy with that kind of talk. Okay, so 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.120 you start canceling oil leases, you know, stop drilling in 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.240 the in the golf and some of these just take 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.840 Alaska off the table, and gas prices and oil prices 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.520 went up dramatically. Gas prices went up almost a dollar 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.960 a gallon within the first year. Then in twenty twenty two, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:49.120 in February, Russia invaded Ukraine and gas went up another 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.360 dollar twenty five So between the two years, within a 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.160 two year period of time, gas had gone up almost 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.160 two dollars and fifty cents, two dollars and twenty five cents, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.240 to the point where in June of twenty twenty two, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.920 across the board, you know, the average gas across the 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:10.439 United States was over five dollars a gallon. Today that 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.360 number is three dollars and five cents. So we've gone 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.880 from almost over five dollars a gall was five dollars 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:23.400 and two cents on June the fourteenth of twenty twenty two, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.600 to the point now we're at three dollars and five 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.480 cents nationwide, So gas prices have come down a full 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.440 two dollars. Nobody's talking about that dramatic change, but nobody 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.320 was talking about how dramatically increased it was. And we 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.640 had inflation at nine point one percent in twenty twenty two. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.280 We had more inflation in twenty twenty three, and then 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.679 all of a sudden in twenty twenty four, and then 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.240 at the end of twenty twenty four and beginning of 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.920 twenty twenty five, and for the most of this year, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.960 we are hearing about prices going up. I started hearing. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.240 I mean, people were talking about, oh, you know, the 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.719 price of eggs. All right, well, let's look at the 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.000 price of eggs. That has nothing to do with taris, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.280 That has nothing to do with the economic policy of 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.680 the Trump administration. Has everything to do with the bird flu. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.679 And the bird flu if it's going in, it's killing 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.000 a flock. You know. I guess people, you know, you know, 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.640 the settled maybe maybe the chicken and eggs science hasn't 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.800 been settled. You know, if you don't have chickens, you're 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.520 not going to have eggs. So I guess the thing 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.400 is is you know what comes first, the chicken or 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.600 the egg. All right, So if there's a less supply 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.880 of eggs, of course the price is going to go up. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.760 Now that the flocks are coming back, those prices are 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.720 coming down, we start I'm hearing more and more people 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.360 talk about the price of beef. Well, if you've got 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.480 herds that are down in the in the range of 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.280 nineteen fifty one, when the size of the herds were 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.720 that for the population that we had at the time, 0:14:55.040 --> 0:15:00.360 and we pretty much doubled that doubled that pop population 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.640 in that period of time. And now all of a 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.440 sudden we have the same number of herds, and you 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.360 have drought in certain areas and you don't have enough count. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.680 Of course this price is going to go off. Where's 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.280 that have to do anything with a terrace? Then when 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.120 I start hearing people talking about certain things in terms 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.560 of well, you know, prices are going out of control, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.400 and the prices are high and all this sort of stuff. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:27.120 All right, Well, site examples. Let's look at each one 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:31.400 of these individual items, item by item. Instead of just 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:36.120 saying across the board. Now, maybe you know, maybe I'm 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:41.040 in a bubble here, maybe maybe I am not well. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.760 I know, I'm not the typical consumer. I'm not the 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.160 first one in line to get the latest and greatest 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.040 electronic item. I'm not the first one in line to 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:55.800 see the latest movie that was premiered. So I am 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.440 kind of a steady consumer. I know what I like. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.600 I know the things that I like to eat. I 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.720 know the food that I like to get. I know 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.840 the food that my wife and I we prefer, and 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.240 the food that we prepare here when we well at 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.880 the house. That what we buy. And so I am 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.600 focused on what we buy on a regular basis. Where 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.160 I buy my clothes, where I brought buy my shoes, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.920 all these kinds of things. And quite honestly, I am 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.960 not seeing the inflation that a lot of people are 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.160 talking about now. If you're talking about a refrigerator, if 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.720 you're talking about a stereo, if you're talking about some 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.040 of this other equipment, but if you've got you're not 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.360 out buying appliances every day. And every time I've ever 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.480 had to buy a refrigerator, I am I have sticker 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.920 shocked by it. Because if you've bought the refrigerator ten 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.760 years ago, and now you're back in the market buying 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.080 a refrigerator. It's going to be a shock. And so 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.800 when you see these items and people talk about that, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.159 is it stick or shocked from when they first purchased it. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.240 Now there has been increases in terms as a result 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.240 of terrorists having to do with items coming in from 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.280 Asia and so on. That's been affected in the in 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.800 the furniture, been affected in electronics and those types of things. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.520 But overall, when you look at the inflation, at least 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.160 the inflation that I'm seeing on what we're buying here 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.800 in this area. Now, if inflation is out of control, 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.439 one of the first things you start seeing is people 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.320 not spending, people holding back, and especially if it has 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.640 to do with some sort of a an item that's 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.360 not a necessity. You know, obviously, if it's a necessity, 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:44.879 you're gonna have to buy it, You're gonna have to 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.280 pay for it no matter what. But when you see 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.040 the luxury items, when you see things, you know, when 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.520 they talk about disposable income, what people spend their money 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.879 on at that point, then you look at those prices 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.600 and if those aren't to your satisfaction, you just don't 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.760 spend it. And what we saw at the end of 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.560 the pandemic you may recall, is that people had had 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:15.040 this pent up desire, this pent up anticipation, wanting to 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.680 get out and about. They had been stuck at home. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.960 They were buying stuff having it delivered to the house. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.040 They were spending money at the big box stores, improving 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.520 their homes, and so those prices went up. Remember, lumber 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.040 started going up. All the stuff that you would use 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.800 to renovate your house, all those prices came up. Why 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.600 because there were stimulus checks coming in. Some people were 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.360 still working, they were working from home, so they had 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.000 this additional income. The fact that they were going to 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.240 be stuck at home, they wanted to improve their living conditions, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.120 so they did some renovations around the house. But as 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.680 a result of that, you started seeing some of those 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.280 items creep up. Because when you've got more dollars going 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.920 after the same items, aren't raising those prices. I didn't 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.919 hear anybody complaining about They would say, oh wow, did 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.520 you see the price of lumber, and then move on. 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.399 It wasn't like they were fixating. Was my god, the 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.960 world is coming to an end because this piece of 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.640 water or this thing went up tremendously. Oh my god, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.399 what are we going to do? You know, it was 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.679 just oh okay, at the price went up, I'm going 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.080 to pay for it and move on. But now all 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.240 of a sudden, it seems people are fixated on certain things. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.720 We just had a couple of weeks ago talking about 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.760 Walmart that them recognizing what's going on, that they are 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.479 making sure that they are sourcing from different organizations, different 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.800 suppliers to get the lowest prices that they can. They 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.000 talked about that the Thanksgiving meal is going to be 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.520 well was it fourteen percent cheaper than it was last year, 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.960 and that they have done a deal with with Butterball 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.600 turkey to get that down in ninety seven cents a pound, 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:58.000 which is the lowest level since twenty nineteen. So the 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.119 areas and the people that are focused on this and 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.639 the people that are working on this are doing a 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.639 good job. When you see the EV prices, when you 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.160 see that a couple of years ago, when they put 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.120 in the tax credit of seven thousand dollars and then 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.160 overnight the EV manufacturers of the dealers raised the prices 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.760 of those vehicles by seven thousand dollars. I didn't hear 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.880 anybody screaming and yelling about that, I pointed out here 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.280 on the show. But when I see what people are 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.479 complaining about and ask them for specifics, they can't provide 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:36.720 any I'm Kevin Gordon, America's struck A Network seven hundred WLW. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:43.840 News Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:49.160 As votes are counted across the country, Democrats celebrating wins 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.240 in key races from coast to coasts with your twelve 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:58.000 thirty report, I'm Travis Laird breaking now in Virginia. Democrat 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.600 Abigail span Berger flipped the government office. In New Jersey, 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:06.360 Mikey Cheryl defeated Trump aligned Republican Jack Sattarelli. New York 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.960 City elected Democratic socialist Zoron Mamdanie Mayer, ending Andrew Cuomo's 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:15.200 attempted political comeback. In California, Prop fifty passed easily, eight 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.760 redistricting measure expected to shift five House seats to Democrats. 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.440 In twenty twenty six, President Trump blamed the government shutdown 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:26.360 for the losses and insisted, quote Trump wasn't on the ballot. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.480 Now, let's say a look lad the latest. 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.359 Trafficking the Training, Heating and Cooling Weather Center on news 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.680 radio seven hundred WLW. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.600 As we look ahead to our daybreak Wednesday, It's clear 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.760 and not as cold. Seven am. Temperature of forty seven 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.359 now rest of our Wednesday sunshine pleasant, a high a 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.560 sixty seven at night, fair skies, and we dropped to 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.480 thirty eight from your severe weather station. I'm nine first Warning, 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:58.000 Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawley, News Radio seven hundred WLW, Right 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:01.720 now forty five degrees sinnati here at home. Voters across 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.720 Greater Cincinnati decided a full slate of local races and 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:07.040 levees tonight. Mayor pure of all, of course, winning re 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:11.200 election all eight incumbents on Cincinnati City Council of one reelection, 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.440 joined by political Newcrumber newcomer Ryan James, a West End 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.400 residents and nonprofit advocate, who becomes the youngest black man 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:23.040 to ever be elected to council. Every winning candidate was 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.000 endorsed by the Democratic Party, including Vice Mayor jan Michelle 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:30.399 lemon Kearney Scotti, Johnson, Mika Owens, Mark Jeffries, Anna Albi, 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.920 Seth Walsh, Jennef Kramerding, and Evan Nolan. Former members Liz 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.880 Keating and Christopher Smitherman failed to regain their seats. Regionally, 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:43.360 voters rejected Lakota's half billion dollar facilities plan, but approved 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.760 oak Hill's bond issue to build two new schools Cincinnati 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.520 Public Schools ten year Levy renewal past and cole Rain 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.679 Township voters approved a police levee to add seven new officers. 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:55.920 Now let's do some sports. 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:01.960 Seven hundred w LW Sports Angles trading linebacker Logan Wilson 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.800 to the Cowboys for a seventh round pick red signing 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.400 right handed relief pitcher Keagan Thompson to a one year 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.679 deal the Ohio Bobcats defeating Miami twenty four to twenty 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.360 and in high school girls soccer State semi final action 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:16.520 in Ohio in Division one, seating over Pickerington North four 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.720 one D two Anthony Wayne shutting out Anderson one nil. 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.000 Baden with a one nil went over Hoban in D 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.680 three in Division four Summit Country Day six, Ottawa Glandorf two, 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.800 and in Division five Madera two, Fairbanks one. 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:31.879 Thank you as always, Lee Mallen. Your next update is 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:35.280 at one o'clock. Breaking news anytime I'm Travis Laird News 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:38.320 Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:43.280 From NBA Champion Stephen Curry comes shot ready, powerful, never 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.000 before seen. Look at the mindset that changed the game. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:47.800 I fell in love with the GC. 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.640 Here's your trucking forecast the Try State in the rest 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.360 of the country. In the Try State, overnight partly cloudy, 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.200 the low dropping forty seven sunny Wednesday, highs into the 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:05.399 upper sixties Thursday, sunny sky's continuing. It will be cooler, 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.240 a high of fifty eight, rain in a possible storm 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.680 in the afternoon. Friday, a high of sixty four. Nationally, 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:14.840 the Pacific Northwest and northern California is seen unsettled weather 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:17.760 with a threat for flash floody Wednesday and Thursday from 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:21.080 northern California to the Olympic Mountains. A clipper system moving 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.320 through the northeast Wednesday into Thursday, bringing a thread of storms, 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.080 strong winds and snow and higher elevations. The middle of 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:29.840 the country meanwhile, see mostly above average temperatures. 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.879 Seven hundred wl W im Kevin Gordon. This is America 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:37.520 is struck in network. By the way, if you miss 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.320 any of our shows or miss any of our previous segments, 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.520 hit up that iHeartRadio app brought to you by our 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:45.240 friends at rush Throuck Centers. 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