Speaker 1: This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon Vulvaable.
Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning in on this Tuesday morning, the first
Speaker 2: show of December for America's Struck a network who says
Speaker 2: nothing good happens after midnight. I hope everybody had a
Speaker 2: fantastic Thanksgiving. We couldn't have had a better Thanksgiving in
Speaker 2: the Gordon household if we tried. There were a couple
Speaker 2: wrinkles along the way, but all in all, it just it.
Speaker 2: You know when you go into something and you think
Speaker 2: it's going to be a problem and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, everything just kind of comes together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been I mentioned this last week.
Speaker 2: It's been several years since we've hosted our Thanksgiving meal
Speaker 2: with our family.
Speaker 1: Our son, who's a chef.
Speaker 2: A few years ago we pre play Endemic, decided that
Speaker 2: he wanted to start doing it. When they moved back
Speaker 2: from a facility he was managing a restaurant banquet facility
Speaker 2: at a university and they came back to the area
Speaker 2: they had been here. They moved over there, then came
Speaker 2: back and wanted to start hosting Thanksgiving because they had
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger house. They had a bigger dining room,
Speaker 2: and plus they had some family friends of theirs that
Speaker 2: they wanted to have over as well, so we beg
Speaker 2: we kind of acquiesced to them having Thanksgiving. Now, there's
Speaker 2: been a couple of years when about three years ago
Speaker 2: they moved up to the Northwest and because I was
Speaker 2: filling in for one of the shows, we couldn't get
Speaker 2: up there, so we had a little Thanksgiving ourselves, and
Speaker 2: so it's been kind of weird that we haven't really
Speaker 2: hosted anything. But this year, with him being up in
Speaker 2: the northwest Port part of Ohio, his daughter who is
Speaker 2: still living down here, had to work at three o'clock.
Speaker 2: I mean this I think last week, and so they
Speaker 2: decided to come down here and then have Thanksgiving at noon,
Speaker 2: which normally we in the past have always had it
Speaker 2: around five o'clock in the afternoon, so that kind of
Speaker 2: moved up the timetable and everything. So we decided to
Speaker 2: just go ahead and have it here. And we had
Speaker 2: it all planned out. I mean we began weeks before
Speaker 2: kind of saying, okay, here's what we need to buy here,
Speaker 2: made the list of all the ingredients and stuff that
Speaker 2: we're going to purchase, and then kind of set out
Speaker 2: a timetable of when we start on, like well dethawing. Well,
Speaker 2: we didn't have to defaw the turkey because we actually
Speaker 2: got a fresh turkey, an organic turkey this year, which
Speaker 2: by the way, was seventy cents a pound less than
Speaker 2: what we paid last year, which was kind of phenomenal.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so we go ahead and order that and
Speaker 2: then we didn't have to thaw it out, so we
Speaker 2: didn't to add that to the timetable. We got some
Speaker 2: of the stuff done over the weekend, desserts and some
Speaker 2: of the things that we would normally have to you know,
Speaker 2: has to sit around for a little while to firm up,
Speaker 2: and the flavors gel and all that sort of stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 2: so everything was working real fine, and so we had
Speaker 2: planned on Wednesday. I had filled in on the morning
Speaker 2: show for our sister station. I've got home at around
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock that Wednesday, eleven o'clock in the morning that Wednesday,
Speaker 2: and we started saying, okay, we're going to get all
Speaker 2: this stuff done. And originally we were thought thinking of
Speaker 2: doing the turkey the night before, then wrapping it up
Speaker 2: and then just heating it and up the next morning,
Speaker 2: and I kind of came I kind of thought, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to try that because it might get dry.
Speaker 1: And we've never over.
Speaker 2: The last thirty five years that we've done Thanksgiving, we've
Speaker 2: never had a dry turkey, and I want to break
Speaker 2: that string. So I figured, all right, Well, by the
Speaker 2: time I finish atn that Thanksgiving morning and get home,
Speaker 2: get a couple hours of sleep, maybe throw the turkey in,
Speaker 2: you know, get all the stuffing and everything into it
Speaker 2: by about starting about six o'clock in the morning, get
Speaker 2: it in and start roasting it around seven o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning, because it takes about four four and a
Speaker 2: half hours.
Speaker 1: So I figured, okay, no problem.
Speaker 2: So Wednesday afternoon, we're getting everything prepared and everything and
Speaker 2: lo and behold, wouldn't you know that throw a monkey
Speaker 2: wrench into it and we wind up we have a
Speaker 2: toilet that decided that it was going to can you
Speaker 2: say crap out?
Speaker 1: Now? Well it stopped working.
Speaker 2: There's just a little floatation device in there, flow mass
Speaker 2: at whatever they call it there. Anyway, the float when
Speaker 2: it's supposed to rise and then it cuts off the water. Well,
Speaker 2: it cut off the water before it was actually filled
Speaker 2: and it take maybe about five minutes for the toilet
Speaker 2: of the tank to fill. So figured, okay, that's going
Speaker 2: to get a little bit of use on Thanksgiving, so
Speaker 2: I better go get I better replace that. And I thought, okay,
Speaker 2: according to the instructions and everything, it's only going to
Speaker 2: take about thirty minutes. I figured, well, since I'm not
Speaker 2: really you know, I'm not a pro at this, I
Speaker 2: don't do it every day, so I figured, okay, it's
Speaker 2: going to take about an hour. So we began starting
Speaker 2: to do this thing with the with the toilet, with
Speaker 2: the back of the toilet, the tank and everything, and
Speaker 2: lo and behold, I have to take and I have
Speaker 2: to remove this cabinet that's around the toilet in order
Speaker 2: to get to it, in order to get everything disassembled
Speaker 2: out of the tank, and so I had to unattach
Speaker 2: this thing from the wall, move it over, and so
Speaker 2: then I get into the thing and find out, of course,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously you're going to be missing a piece
Speaker 2: or or something's going to break, and so then you
Speaker 2: have to run up to the store and get that.
Speaker 2: So this half hour project wound up being about four
Speaker 2: hours long by the time I got the cabinet off,
Speaker 2: got everything repaired, then reattached the cabinet and got it going.
Speaker 2: So I kind of pushed this back a little bit.
Speaker 2: So I figured, all right, my wife is busy getting
Speaker 2: the desserts and everything ready Wednesday night, and so I figured, okay,
Speaker 2: no problem. When I get back from ATM doing the show,
Speaker 2: I figured, well, just a couple hours of chopping, you know.
Speaker 2: Put it aside. I had all the broth made the
Speaker 2: night before, with the neck and cleaning the turkey, so
Speaker 2: I had that already before I even did the show,
Speaker 2: and so I figured, not a problem.
Speaker 1: I'll just come home, do.
Speaker 2: The chopping of the all the stuff for the stuffing,
Speaker 2: get that all ready to go, go to bed for
Speaker 2: a couple hours and get up and so anyway, that
Speaker 2: a couple hours of chopping wound up taking me about
Speaker 2: two and a half hours, so anyway, not much sleep.
Speaker 2: But then we got I got up at six o'clock
Speaker 2: and got everything ready, put some coffee on, and then
Speaker 2: started stuffing. And from start to finish, by the time
Speaker 2: you saw tay the onions, the celery and that, and
Speaker 2: then put it in with the bread cubes and then
Speaker 2: add the seasoning and all that sort of stuff and
Speaker 2: then stuff the turkey. I figured that I've written my
Speaker 2: notes down over the years and said, oh, that's going
Speaker 2: to take you about an hour, And it took us
Speaker 2: exactly an hour. So we got the turkey in at
Speaker 2: seven thirty in the morning, and so I figured, all right, well,
Speaker 2: going to be here to about eleven o'clock thereabout, so
Speaker 2: I'll sneak in a couple hour and naf And so,
Speaker 2: as it turns out, everything just went fantastic. Our son
Speaker 2: got here about an out, well about an hour before,
Speaker 2: about eleven ten forty five or so, and because a
Speaker 2: chef being a chef, he kind of had well, he
Speaker 2: knows how to kind of time everything in terms of
Speaker 2: putting the cast roles in, heating up the potato, getting
Speaker 2: the gravy ready, carving the turkey, all that sort of
Speaker 2: stuff once it comes out, and so you know, he
Speaker 2: kind of came in kind of pulled everything together and
Speaker 2: all the time, and which was a tremendous help, and
Speaker 2: just it's kind of interesting watching somebody that has done
Speaker 2: this and knows how to do these things doing it.
Speaker 2: And so everything turned out fantastic. It was probably the
Speaker 2: best turkey we have had in as long as I
Speaker 2: can remember everything. I mean, it was it was juicy,
Speaker 2: it was just tender. It was fantastic. All the juices
Speaker 2: into the stuffing were just fantastic, all the sides and everything,
Speaker 2: and it was just it was one of the best
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving dinners we've.
Speaker 1: Had in memory.
Speaker 2: And you know, normally the advantage of hosting a Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: dinner is that you have lots of leftovers, and it's
Speaker 2: kind of like one of those things where you don't
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of a good thing and a
Speaker 2: bad thing, because I guess, I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people that apparently don't once they get stuffed with
Speaker 2: turkey and stuff, they're not interested in leftovers, and you
Speaker 2: always kind of wonder, well, if nobody's taking any leftovers,
Speaker 2: do they really enjoy the meal?
Speaker 1: But then by the same token, they come.
Speaker 2: Back year after year and rave about wanting to be there,
Speaker 2: and then you see them fill their plates up and
Speaker 2: gobble down everything, so you know, they kind of appreciate
Speaker 2: it a little bit. But this year it was interesting
Speaker 2: because our the granddaughter lives down here that had to
Speaker 2: work at three, she asked if she could have some leftovers,
Speaker 2: and so we put up some containers, and then our other,
Speaker 2: the next in line, granddaughter, who is a freshman in college.
Speaker 2: We didn't know that, but she pulls out this thermal
Speaker 2: bag that has all these containers and it she goes,
Speaker 2: I want to get some leftovers take back to me
Speaker 2: because I can have them, you know, maybe in the
Speaker 2: in the dormitory and whatever, because I really love the
Speaker 2: meal I want to have. I want to have the leftovers.
Speaker 2: So she had all of her containers. And then by
Speaker 2: the time we got everything packed up and everything, we're
Speaker 2: looking around at what was left over, you know, for us,
Speaker 2: because you know, God, I love one of the best
Speaker 2: things about the Thanksgiving are the turkey sandwiches the next
Speaker 2: few days or even a week afterwards, and we really
Speaker 2: had not that much leftover. But all in all, it
Speaker 2: was fantastic. I don't think we could have had a
Speaker 2: better Thanksgiving. Everything turned out fantastic, even with the little
Speaker 2: wrinkle of the of the toilet the day before throwing
Speaker 2: the schedule off. It's one of those things that you think,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is going to be a disaster,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden everything starts falling into
Speaker 2: place and everything turned out right. And I know We're
Speaker 2: going to be talking about this and thinking about this
Speaker 2: that day for a number of years.
Speaker 1: Coming up.
Speaker 2: The Christmas season has finally begun for me. I'm Kevin Gordon,
Speaker 2: America's Trucking Network, seven hundred W l W. I'm Kevin Gordon,
Speaker 2: America's struck In Network, seven hundred W LW.
Speaker 1: And of course, before I get into.
Speaker 2: You know, the Christmas season officially starting, kind of finishing
Speaker 2: up my thoughts as I was thinking about it during
Speaker 2: the break about Thanksgiving and everything, you know, not only
Speaker 2: that we have the the you know, the the meal
Speaker 2: and everything turned out fantastic. Then of course that night
Speaker 2: watching the Bengals, you know, it was one of those
Speaker 2: things where the Bengals were playing and I'm thinking, oh god,
Speaker 2: you know, am I gonna be able to you know,
Speaker 2: is it going to give me in? You know, you
Speaker 2: got to pull for the home team, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's always been one of these things where it's like
Speaker 2: you get all these expectations and then they disappoint. But
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you that that that game was absolutely fantastic. Also,
Speaker 2: our granddaughter who came with the thermal back and she
Speaker 2: was all prepared with her various containers because she wanted
Speaker 2: to take leftovers home with her. This is the same
Speaker 2: girl that about two three years ago we asked her
Speaker 2: for her her Christmas list, and she runs upstairs and
Speaker 2: she comes back down with it, and she's got this
Speaker 2: thing on a list, and it was on this little
Speaker 2: narrow piece of paper, and this list was as tall
Speaker 2: as she is. We were just by her precision of
Speaker 2: making sure how she, you know, had everything.
Speaker 1: Listed out and all this sort of stuff well over
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 2: We asked her, by the way, we forgot to ask you,
Speaker 2: you know, your list for Thanksgiving. So she sends us
Speaker 2: a link to her spreadsheet now for her Christmas gifts.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you she is quite a character. It was,
Speaker 2: oh my goodness, a great weekend. Fantastic weekend, and just
Speaker 2: communications back and forth and then a little character.
Speaker 1: It was just fantastic.
Speaker 2: By the way, I mentioned earlier that Christmas season has
Speaker 2: finally started for me. You know most people, you know,
Speaker 2: some people, the Christmas season begins right after Halloween. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you you know, obviously, if you go into some
Speaker 2: of the big box stores, I noticed that they were
Speaker 2: starting to put out their Christmas decorations off to the
Speaker 2: side in one corner before they started infiltrating the rest
Speaker 2: of the store, you know, because they were competing with
Speaker 2: Halloween decorations and so on. But I started seeing some
Speaker 2: of the Christmas decorations back in Geez even September, first
Speaker 2: part of October, and then of course one's Halloween was over.
Speaker 2: The store was completely flooded. The candy aisles and all
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff we're taking care of. For some
Speaker 2: people it's, you know, the beginning of December. Some people
Speaker 2: it doesn't start until the first snowfall in December, which
Speaker 2: you know, depending upon where you live, that's not going
Speaker 2: to happen real soon. And for some people it's you know,
Speaker 2: the Christmas season begins the day after Thanksgiving. Well for me,
Speaker 2: it is it's a Christmas season until I see the
Speaker 2: Corona built beer commercial and it's just one of those
Speaker 2: things that it pops up every year and it's and
Speaker 2: it okay, it's now Christmas season. I can begin the
Speaker 2: Christmas season. I'm a I'm not a you know, I
Speaker 2: don't drink Corona beer. I'm not really fond of it,
Speaker 2: but just seeing that commercial every year, and by the way,
Speaker 2: for the last thirty five years, and I got some
Speaker 2: interesting facts about this.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this last year a little bit. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember this.
Speaker 2: But anyway, this ad pops up and it's been going
Speaker 2: and they said that it will be going on about
Speaker 2: eighty It'll run about eighty thousand times during all kinds
Speaker 2: of sporting events over the next up until Christmas. This
Speaker 2: commercial first air in nineteen ninety and remains one of
Speaker 2: the longest running commercials ever Let Me See when it
Speaker 2: first let me see. According to let Me See Corona Beer,
Speaker 2: they call it the o Tan and palm ad ad
Speaker 2: pops up every year without fail, without virtually any updates.
Speaker 2: It's simple, it's calming, and it'll play approximately eighty thousand
Speaker 2: times during every sporting event for the late oct November
Speaker 2: and into Christmas or into New Year's Day. Now, this
Speaker 2: has this Florida feel to it. It kind of has that,
Speaker 2: you know, vibe of its being down in Florida, and
Speaker 2: you kind of get that impression. But then they pointed
Speaker 2: out in their fun facts about this that with the
Speaker 2: exception of the mountain range off in the distance, which
Speaker 2: Florida just doesn't have these mountain ranges. And so I'm
Speaker 2: apparently well I never noticed that before. But this commercial
Speaker 2: was filmed in Mexico, which is the hub and you
Speaker 2: know the vibe of Corona beer. Although Corona O Tan
Speaker 2: and Palm Christmas commercial looks very Floridian, with the exception
Speaker 2: of the small cameo of the mountain or cliff in
Speaker 2: the background, it was filmed in Acamal, Mexico. Acamol is
Speaker 2: a beach front town that relies heavily on tourism. Is
Speaker 2: about two hour car ride south of Cankun. Now, if
Speaker 2: you look at the map and drawing a trace, it's
Speaker 2: basically a diagonal line directly from the tip of Florida
Speaker 2: down to the Yucatan Peninsula. And a YouTube commercial or
Speaker 2: story it was ten years ago to celebrate the thirty
Speaker 2: fifth anniversary of the iconic commercial. The creator, Mike Rogers
Speaker 2: said that he had to shoot and wanted to shoot
Speaker 2: in Mexico because it was the heart of the brand.
Speaker 2: Roger said he's been to Acamel on a family vacation,
Speaker 2: so you know what it was like. Location was incredibly important,
Speaker 2: Rogers said in the Corona video interview. We wanted the
Speaker 2: cabana to set out right over the ocean, and we
Speaker 2: wanted it there to be a palm tree that was
Speaker 2: the perfect shape, so we started looking for a place
Speaker 2: and had the perfect tree. Commercial is thirty five years
Speaker 2: old as of this year. It's hard to believe that
Speaker 2: that commercial is that old, and it hasn't lost this luster.
Speaker 1: It's still one of those things that just captures that feeling.
Speaker 2: Yead originally ran in nineteen ninety, almost a decade after
Speaker 2: Ellie or before led Christmas lights came up, so that
Speaker 2: soft glow that you see with those lights are the
Speaker 2: incandescent light bulbs, which makes it even more co The
Speaker 2: cost of the commercial was fifty thousand dollars to make
Speaker 2: at the time, or approximately fifty two packs of twenty
Speaker 2: four Corona Extra bottles. Even better because there was no
Speaker 2: actors and the company doesn't have to pay royalties or
Speaker 2: residuals for any of the characters involved. Commercial may not
Speaker 2: have been shot in Florida, but the crew's experience shooting
Speaker 2: the commercial screams Florida. What you don't see in the commercial,
Speaker 2: according to Mike Rogers, is that where they set up
Speaker 2: the camera angles and of course they're going through and
Speaker 2: they look at the site and they try to figure
Speaker 2: out okay, what's the best angle. What just so happened
Speaker 2: that the place where they were going to shoot happened
Speaker 2: to be occupied by alligators, So they had to hire
Speaker 2: some wranglers to get the alligators out of the area
Speaker 2: so they could set up the shop shot rather and
Speaker 2: they promise the camera people, all right, just go ahead
Speaker 2: and get it set up and then you can escape,
Speaker 2: because the camera people were extremely nervous about this, and
Speaker 2: so they went ahead and got the wranglers to get
Speaker 2: all the alligators out of the way and then they.
Speaker 1: Shot the commercial.
Speaker 2: But just amazing when you go behind the scenes in
Speaker 2: terms of this particular commercial, how much time effort and
Speaker 2: not necessarily money, but where to set up the shot,
Speaker 2: where they should do the location, and just getting it
Speaker 2: running and the fact that this commercial has run for
Speaker 2: thirty five years now is just absolutely phenomenal. And they've
Speaker 2: mentioned that they've tried to change the commercial, they try
Speaker 2: to update the commercial or maybe go in a different direction.
Speaker 2: But every year they look at that and they see
Speaker 2: some of the storyboards that come up and they say,
Speaker 2: you know what, we just can't beat it. And so again,
Speaker 2: for me, the Christmas season has begun because with the
Speaker 2: football games over the weekend, I saw that pop up,
Speaker 2: I think it was Saturday afternoon for the first time,
Speaker 2: and I said, all right, the Christmas season has finally
Speaker 2: begun coming up. We've got a little Christmas present possibly
Speaker 2: in the way. Well, I'll just have to tease you
Speaker 2: on that. We've got a possible Christmas gift coming up
Speaker 2: from the present. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network, seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: Here's your trucking forecast for the Try State and the
Speaker 3: rest of the country. In the Try State, a winch
Speaker 3: of weather advisory and effected till ten o'clock Tuesday morning. Overnight,
Speaker 3: we'll see snow two to four inches of accumulation possible
Speaker 3: to low down to twenty eight. Chance of early snow Tuesday,
Speaker 3: otherwise mostly Claudie. A high of thirty four mostly Sunday.
Speaker 3: Wednesday highs in the upper thirties, partly Sunday. Thursday a
Speaker 3: high of thirty one Nationally. The first winter storm of
Speaker 3: the season, impacting the Midwest and lower Great Lakes. We'll
Speaker 3: be moving into the New England States and the interior
Speaker 3: mid Atlantic Tuesday with heavy snow and impactful icing. This
Speaker 3: is called temperatures will continue across much of the eastern
Speaker 3: and central US.
Speaker 2: Seven hundred WLW. I'm Kevin Gordon. This is America's truck
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Speaker 2: mark on your calendar that does Saturday the thirteenth will
Speaker 2: be the date that they do the laying of these wreaths.
Speaker 2: If you haven't signed up yet, if there's a local cemetery,
Speaker 2: actually what you do is you can go to their website,
Speaker 2: reescross America dot org and you can there is a
Speaker 2: place on there where you can find a cemetery close
Speaker 2: to you. You can sign up to participate and they
Speaker 2: will contact you tell you all the ins and outs
Speaker 2: and time to show up and so on. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of fun and there's a link on there where
Speaker 2: you can actually contribute or actually sponsor a wreath some
Speaker 2: and you can specifically specify what cemetery or what location
Speaker 2: you want that wreath, or you can just do an
Speaker 2: overall contribution and support number of wreaths only seventeen bucks
Speaker 2: a wreath, which is the same price as last year.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's coming up on the thirteenth, and well,
Speaker 2: I won't be able to participate this year because we'll
Speaker 2: be down in Nashville for the Rush Truck Centers Tech
Speaker 2: Rodeo event, which I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a lot of fun. And we'll
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about that the closer we
Speaker 1: get now.
Speaker 2: Also, November thirtieth mark the end the official end of
Speaker 2: the Atlantic hurricane season. And if the hurricane season seemed
Speaker 2: like it was a little calm.
Speaker 1: Compared to other years, well you're not wrong.
Speaker 2: What's interesting in this is that the fact that the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five hurricane season, which officially ended November thirtieth,
Speaker 2: was notable for its striking contrasts, wavering between periods of
Speaker 2: relative calm and bursts of intense activity generating very powerful storms. Overall,
Speaker 2: the season fell within the predicted ranges for named storms,
Speaker 2: hurricanes and major hurricanes. What was unusual is the fact,
Speaker 2: according to Neil Jacobs, PhD, under Secretary of Commerce for
Speaker 2: Oceans and Atmosphere at.
Speaker 1: Noah Administrator North.
Speaker 2: So let me see the hurricanes section, for the first
Speaker 2: time in a decade, not a single hurricane struck the
Speaker 2: US this season, and that was a much needed break. Still,
Speaker 2: a tropical storm caused damaged casualties in the Carolinas. Distinct
Speaker 2: distant hurricanes created rough ocean waters caused property damage along
Speaker 2: the East Coast, I believe along Cape Hatterason there in
Speaker 2: the outer Banks, there were I think twelve structures that were,
Speaker 2: you know, on the stilts, and the waves coming in
Speaker 2: dropped those, so there were twelve houses. But as far
Speaker 2: as lives are concerned, I don't remember seeing any casualties
Speaker 2: in terms of lives lost. But again, for the first
Speaker 2: time in decade, in a decade, a hurricane did not
Speaker 2: hit the continental the United States. And what's interesting is
Speaker 2: is that looking at these over the year, because again
Speaker 2: I pay attention to this simply because at the beginning
Speaker 2: of every hurricane season, all we hear from the climbiness
Speaker 2: is that this is going to be the worst hurricane
Speaker 2: season on record because of climate change, and you know,
Speaker 2: if we don't do something about that, we're all going
Speaker 2: to die and all this sort of stuff. Well we
Speaker 2: were all supposed to die about what seven years ago.
Speaker 2: That hasn't happened, by the way, just so you know
Speaker 2: we're still around.
Speaker 1: And all this. And it's such a line.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this what they call
Speaker 2: the Conference of Participants number thirty that was down there
Speaker 2: in Brazil. We reported that, how you know, just absolute
Speaker 2: hypocritical they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've.
Speaker 2: Got people from they had thousands of people attend this
Speaker 2: convention down there as to ways to stop climate change
Speaker 2: and so on, and to accommodate these people, to have
Speaker 2: a highway because this thing sits out on a peninsula,
Speaker 2: and rather than traveling to the peninsula, of course you've
Speaker 2: got to drive through, you've got to go to a
Speaker 2: private airport so that you can fly your private jets
Speaker 2: in there. And they constructed this three mile road paved
Speaker 2: to this resort, chopping down one hundred and ten thousand trees.
Speaker 2: One hundred and ten thousand trees in the middle of
Speaker 2: the rainforest. Now, aren't we told years ago that we've
Speaker 2: got to do something to preserve the Amazon jungles, that
Speaker 2: that is the lungs of the of the world, and
Speaker 2: that these people coming in and clearcutting this this.
Speaker 1: Is a this is a war, or this is a
Speaker 1: what was.
Speaker 2: An outlaw or should be outlawed, That this is a
Speaker 2: threat against mother nature herself, and this is an attack
Speaker 2: on mother nature. And yet for these climinus, and I
Speaker 2: call them climinus because if you look at what they're
Speaker 2: talking about, they have nothing to do with They're not
Speaker 2: concerned about saving the planet. It's all about control, and
Speaker 2: it's all about where you live, how you eat your home,
Speaker 2: how you cook your food, what food you can eat,
Speaker 2: when you can eat it, and so on, and it's
Speaker 2: all about control. So they have more in common with
Speaker 2: the communists than they do as far as a climatologists
Speaker 2: or a cologists and so on. So environmentalism to me
Speaker 2: has become the new communism. And so I just mashed
Speaker 2: the two together and call them climbinus. And so these
Speaker 2: guys attend this meeting, and I don't know if you
Speaker 2: saw some of the nonsense that came out. There's some
Speaker 2: sort of dance ritual that they did. They're doing a
Speaker 2: rap music to where they're talking about, you know, for
Speaker 2: the for you know, now they're gonna want you to
Speaker 2: they're trying to teach you how to breathe properly. So
Speaker 2: it's in through the nose, out through the mouth. And
Speaker 2: they started doing this and all these people were doing
Speaker 2: this dance to it, and it was just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And then in the middle of this, they had some
Speaker 2: fire at some one of their tents or something along
Speaker 2: those lines that they didn't prepare for. So there you
Speaker 2: got those pollutants in the air, plus the hundred and
Speaker 2: ten thousand trees that were destroyed. I mean, this just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: So anyway, at the beginning of the hurricane season, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have the worst hurricane season ever.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be all these name storms.
Speaker 2: Now in here they mentioned in the story, they say
Speaker 2: that it was right in line with everything that they predicted,
Speaker 2: the number of named storms. But since none of the
Speaker 2: storms hit the continental United States, a lot of these
Speaker 2: named storms were out in the middle of the Atlantic
Speaker 2: Ocean and never really went anywhere. They formed. They formed
Speaker 2: this great amount of you know, thrust and winds and
Speaker 2: all this sort of stuff and qualified as a hurricane,
Speaker 2: but dissipated before it did any damage or even went
Speaker 2: even towards land. So it's like, you know the old
Speaker 2: saying that if a tree falls in the middle of
Speaker 2: a forest and nobody's around to hear, it doesn't really
Speaker 2: make a sound. Well, if a hurricane is out in
Speaker 2: the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and churns up all
Speaker 2: this water, all these winds and everything and never makes landfall,
Speaker 2: did it really occur? I mean, you know, it's one
Speaker 2: of those things. And so they made it. You know,
Speaker 2: any little tropical storm that came up. They started naming
Speaker 2: these storms when they were just basically off the west,
Speaker 2: because all the stuff from these hurricanes, it begins from
Speaker 2: the west coast of Africa and then moves across the
Speaker 2: Atlantic Ocean and hits our eastern seaboard. So when these
Speaker 2: things are like one hundred miles off the coast of Africa,
Speaker 2: they were quick we got to name the storm. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, they were coming up with the name
Speaker 2: of the storm, and it was just it almost seemed
Speaker 2: like they were naming these storms just to prove themselves right.
Speaker 2: Atlantic Basin produced thirteen named storms winds of thirty nine
Speaker 2: miles per hour or greater. So I guess where I
Speaker 2: live in Wilder, Kentucky on top of the hill there,
Speaker 2: we must have tropical storms at least once a month
Speaker 2: because we're always getting wind gus up there about forty
Speaker 2: miles per hour. So anyway, Basin produced thirteen named storms
Speaker 2: winds of thirty nine miles or greater, of which five
Speaker 2: became hurricane winds of seventy four miles or greater, including
Speaker 2: four major hurricanes with winds reaching one hundred and eleven
Speaker 2: miles per hour, and average season as fourteen named storms,
Speaker 2: seven hurricanes, three major hurricanes.
Speaker 1: I guess a couple of them.
Speaker 2: Actually hit the category five, which is kind of interesting,
Speaker 2: but again no damage, according to Ken Graham, director of
Speaker 2: NAA's National Weather Service, he mentioned that while the CLI
Speaker 2: climatological peak of the hurricane season was quiet with no
Speaker 2: tropical activity, the season generated three five category five hurricanes,
Speaker 2: second most on record in a single season. Fortunately, short
Speaker 2: term weather patterns largely steered tropical systems away from the
Speaker 2: United States, and it was interesting. In one case, there
Speaker 2: was two hurricanes. I don't remember which ones. Let me
Speaker 2: see which ones. Oh yeah, Okay, Humberto was churning and
Speaker 2: then it collided. Let me see, Amelda collided with Humberto.
Speaker 2: And so these two storms were out there in the
Speaker 2: ocean and they kind of collided with each other, dissipated,
Speaker 2: knocked each other off their course again away from landfall,
Speaker 2: which was kind of a unique pattern and a Unix
Speaker 2: system in the Atlantic Ocean. So anyway, the climatologists, the
Speaker 2: climbunists that we're telling us that we're going to have
Speaker 2: a horrible hurricane season. Once again, the so called experts
Speaker 2: were wrong. Coming up, I mentioned I was going to
Speaker 2: mention this in the previous in this particular segment, but
Speaker 2: the White House is talking about giving us a Christmas
Speaker 2: present by Christmas, a Christmas present issuer. I'm Kevin Gordon,
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Speaker 1: I mentioned this gift from the White House.
Speaker 2: Scott Besson, there's a very good chance that Trump will
Speaker 2: name a new FED chairman by Christmas. Treasury Secretary of
Speaker 2: Scott Besson said last week he expects President Donald Trump
Speaker 2: to make a decision on the new Federal Reserve chair
Speaker 2: by the holiday season. Trump has been a fierce FED
Speaker 2: critic and recently said he had loved to fire Powell
Speaker 2: and encourage Besson to work on the chair to get
Speaker 2: the Central Bank to lower interest rates. And I have
Speaker 2: been a critic well, actually I have been a critic
Speaker 2: of Jerome Powell even back during the Biden administration when
Speaker 2: I think they should have started raising you know, if
Speaker 2: they were trying, if their mandate is to rein in inflation,
Speaker 2: then they shouldn't have stood sat there for a year
Speaker 2: and a half and talked about.
Speaker 1: That the.
Speaker 2: Inflation was transitory, which in the definition means that it's temporary. Well,
Speaker 2: temporary doesn't mean a year and a half of rising
Speaker 2: of inflation with a peak of nine point one percent
Speaker 2: in June of twenty twenty four, twenty two. Rather so
Speaker 2: the fact that they were to raise interest rates at
Speaker 2: that time to slow down the economy, to hold back
Speaker 2: and rein in inflation wound up with inflation getting extremely
Speaker 2: out of control. So he didn't do a good job
Speaker 2: back then, and he's even admitted of looking back, they
Speaker 2: made a mistake.
Speaker 1: And yet now, instead of.
Speaker 2: Wanting to spur the economy, which everybody talks about interest rates,
Speaker 2: lower interest rates means more consumption. People have more money
Speaker 2: in their pocket, they go out and spend more, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, spurs the economy and increase his activity.
Speaker 2: Apparently he didn't read that part of the economics book.
Speaker 2: So the fact that, and I've been saying pretty much
Speaker 2: since the beginning of the year, I had heard this theory.
Speaker 1: I don't know who it was from. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was Kevin.
Speaker 2: O'Leary or whether it was Lou Dobbs or one of
Speaker 2: the folks on Fox Business, but I heard the theory.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was Scott Besten to raise the anyway, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter that possibly what the president should do, because
Speaker 2: it was kind of clear that, well, he can fire
Speaker 2: the FED chair for cause. But this moon federal regurgitators
Speaker 2: in the mainstream media would have a field day with that,
Speaker 2: and they started whining about the independence of the Federal Reserve,
Speaker 2: even though we know that the Federal Reserve is not independent.
Speaker 2: Otherwise they never would have lowered interest rates six weeks
Speaker 2: before the election in twenty twenty four to try to
Speaker 2: get Kamala over the finish line. But again that's a story.
Speaker 2: We've talked about that extensively on this program. So again
Speaker 2: I guess to avoid the firestorm, he didn't fire Joan Powell,
Speaker 2: saying that of course his term ends in May of
Speaker 2: next year. But the theory was floated that possibly what
Speaker 2: could happen is that he should appoint or announce who
Speaker 2: is FED chairman is going to be get that by
Speaker 2: the Congress and Senate because it has to be a
Speaker 2: confirmation process, and then that person would be the Federal
Speaker 2: chairman Federal Reserve Chairman in waiting. And so what they
Speaker 2: were talking about at the time was that if they
Speaker 2: did that, then it could be a situation where if
Speaker 2: something came up as far as the economy, he or
Speaker 2: she could weigh in on that and have their opinion
Speaker 2: hitting the networks and hit the news cycles, which it
Speaker 2: would possibly be in contrast with what the FED current
Speaker 2: FED Chairman, Lion Jerry Powell is doing. And so the
Speaker 2: fact that they were talking about that, I thought it
Speaker 2: was an excellent idea and should have been followed through.
Speaker 1: Now apparently.
Speaker 2: I mean, here we are in December, we've got the
Speaker 2: new FED chairman going to be done by May of
Speaker 2: next year. But if they announce who the fedchairman is
Speaker 2: going to be before Christmas, that should spur things in
Speaker 2: terms of the economy as far as people looking ahead
Speaker 2: and thinking, Okay, this guy knows what he's doing, or
Speaker 2: this guy has a track record and we can see
Speaker 2: good things coming in towards May thereabouts. So hopefully they
Speaker 2: will determine who that's going to be and come up
Speaker 2: with the names. Now, what they've been talking about is
Speaker 2: there's several names that have been floated.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find those. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, Beston has continuing to interview chair candidates.
Speaker 2: The slate of finalists he believed to include National Economic
Speaker 2: Council Director Kevin Hassett, former Governor Ken Walsh, Blackrock executive
Speaker 2: Rick Ryder, and current FED governors Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman.
Speaker 2: So doing the interviews of those, they may settle on
Speaker 2: somebody and announce that. Now a lot of people are
Speaker 2: saying that they believe that it's going to be Kevin Hassett,
Speaker 2: but of course that's what people are assuming or beenulating on.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some.
Speaker 2: Sort of odds in Las Vegas where people are putting
Speaker 2: odds on who the person will be, and maybe those
Speaker 2: surprises and come up with somebody completely different. But I
Speaker 2: sure like to see who that person is going to
Speaker 2: be and see what happens as far as that, because
Speaker 2: I think the markets would really appreciate knowing that there
Speaker 2: is going to be a steady hand instead of line.
Speaker 2: Jerry Powell involved as far as the as far as
Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve is concerned, well, we've saw some of that.
Speaker 2: We're beginning to see some of the results for Black
Speaker 2: Friday and the holiday weekend, the Thanksgiving weekend in terms
Speaker 2: of retail sales. That was interesting that they said that
Speaker 2: one of the things they tracked, consumers spent record amounts
Speaker 2: online on Black Friday. But it's less clear how traditional
Speaker 2: retail stores did on the official kickoff of the peak
Speaker 2: holiday shopping season, with one tracking company showing a slight
Speaker 2: increase in foot traffic and another showing a big drop.
Speaker 2: So again depending upon the tracking in information in terms
Speaker 2: of where they what, who was doing what, and depending
Speaker 2: upon what company or which agency does these an analyses,
Speaker 2: which one is going to be accurate. Now as far
Speaker 2: as what we're seeing as far as online sales, the
Speaker 2: online sales, they said, we see Adobe, which studies date
Speaker 2: the date called from over one trillion visits to US
Speaker 2: retail stores, reported that US e commerce sales reached a
Speaker 2: record eleven point eight billion dollars online for Black Friday,
Speaker 2: up nine point one percent year over year. That exceeded
Speaker 2: Adobe's forecast of eight point three percent e commerce for
Speaker 2: Black Friday. Between ten am and two pm on Black Friday,
Speaker 2: online shoppers spent twelve point five million dollars every minute.
Speaker 2: Twelve point five million do every minute. So they're talking
Speaker 2: about it being off to a strong start. AI driven
Speaker 2: traffic is up one eight hundred and five percent. I'm
Speaker 2: not so sure that I would trust AI driven, you know,
Speaker 2: pushing where you should buy and all that sort of
Speaker 2: stuff traffic teriffts that contributed to. Now they're saying that
Speaker 2: they're seeing some price increases, but again overall they're not
Speaker 2: seeing a major effect from that. What talking about customers
Speaker 2: or consumers shopping with surgical precision, they're being very specific
Speaker 2: as to where they're spending their money. And one of
Speaker 2: the things that I thought was very interesting is that
Speaker 2: gen zers are showing up in retail stores looking for deals.
Speaker 2: You would think that what we've been hearing from that generation,
Speaker 2: that a lot of their stuff would have been doing
Speaker 2: They would have been doing this online. And of course
Speaker 2: there are stories out and of course we don't know yet,
Speaker 2: but Cyber Monday could break spending records. Let's see, shoppers
Speaker 2: will spend fourteen point two billion dollars on that day.
Speaker 2: So all this talk of a weak economy, things aren't
Speaker 2: as strong as they should be.
Speaker 1: That people are worried about the economy.
Speaker 2: As I've been saying for months, I think it's one
Speaker 2: of those situations where you've had such a drum beat
Speaker 2: of negativity from the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream
Speaker 2: media trying to talk down the economy, trying to, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, manufacture or recession. And so they're at the
Speaker 2: point where they have put these ideas in people's head.
Speaker 2: Yet they're saying that, you know, my economy is pretty good,
Speaker 2: my job seems to be relatively safe, I feel good
Speaker 2: about my family situation.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm thinking in terms of the economy. But
Speaker 1: I'm so worried about my neighbors. I'm worried about other people.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about.
Speaker 2: What I'm hearing is far as these other people out
Speaker 2: there talking about the economy, and it's starting to drag
Speaker 2: people's optimism down. But the numbers are reflecting something far different. Well, folks,
Speaker 2: we are up against the clock here. Stay tuned for
Speaker 2: Red Eye Radio at top of the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon,
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