Dixon & Vining Hour 1 (012825)
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January 28, 2025
TLDR: Left-leaning individuals express concern over a fake ICE truck incident in North Carolina; references to texts are implied but unspecified.

In the latest episode of the Dixon & Vining Hour, the hosts tackle a range of current events, from politics and sports to societal issues, while engaging listeners with humor and insightful commentary. Recorded on a foggy morning, the show begins with a light-hearted banter about the excitement of football season and transitions into significant topics that dominate today’s headlines.
Key Highlights
Hazardous Driving Conditions
- The hosts detail the hazardous driving conditions in Alabama due to thick fog, emphasizing safety on the roads and advising listeners to use fog lights responsibly.
- They note specific traffic incidents, such as an overturned vehicle on I-65, indicating how weather can affect daily commutes.
Political Landscape
Donald Trump's Ongoing Influence
- The discussion shifts to former President Donald Trump’s recent activities and the left's ongoing fixation on his presidency.
- The hosts argue about the significance of Trump’s golf outings, comparing them to past presidents’ time away from the White House, particularly contrasting with President Biden’s frequent vacations.
Judicial Concerns and January 6th Trials
- They raise concerns about the perceived politicization of the judicial system, specifically regarding the January 6th defendants and how their cases have been managed by judges and prosecutors.
- The hosts express frustration over what they perceive as overreach in the court system, calling for a fairer application of justice regardless of political affiliation.
Immigration and Social Commentary
The Fake ICE Truck Incident
- A controversial prank involving a fake ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) truck in North Carolina sparked anxiety within the Hispanic community, leading to discussions about perceptions of law enforcement among illegal immigrants.
- The hosts provide a thick critique of the status quo, suggesting that illegal immigrants should return to their native countries and pursue legal pathways to re-enter the U.S.
Societal Impact of Immigration
- The conversation touches on larger societal impacts, including labor dynamics, suggesting illegal immigration has displaced American workers from traditional jobs like farming and construction.
- Dixon and Vining emphasize the historical context, reminding audiences that many tasks once filled by American workers are now predominantly done by immigrants, leading to conversations about wage levels and employment standards.
Economic and Policy Discussions
Trump's Recent Policy Changes
- The episode highlights recent resolutions signed by Trump that aim to reverse COVID mandates, restore military standards, and enhance national defense systems.
- Key points include the restoration of service members discharged under vaccine mandates and a proposal for an Iron Dome-like missile defense system for the U.S.
Takeaways and Insights
- Fog Safety: Prioritize caution while driving in foggy conditions, and ensure to use appropriate vehicle lighting.
- Political Activism: Stay informed about political happenings and understand the inconsistencies often presented in public discourse regarding presidential actions and judicial fairness.
- Immigration Understanding: Recognize that societal views on immigration are polarized, calling for deeper discussions about legal processes and the impacts on local communities.
Conclusion
The Dixon & Vining Hour presents a blend of humor and urgent societal issues that resonate significantly with their audience. The engaging exchange about weather, politics, and social issues encapsulates the essence of a program that aims to inform while entertaining listeners throughout their morning.
This summary captures key discussions from the episode, maintaining focus on the political, societal, and economic themes addressed by the hosts. It serves as an informative guide for listeners and non-listeners alike to gain insights into current affairs and local concerns.
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Good morning, everyone. It is 6.04 on an extremely foggy day. It is hazardous driving this morning. It is Tuesday, January 28, 2025. We welcome you in. It's Dixon and Vining. Talk 99.5, talk99.5.com. Dixon to the north, Valerie to the south, west kind of to that. Where are you, Steve?
I was either going to hit the person in front of me or the person behind me was going to hit me. I was like, please let me see taillights before I get like right on top of them. That would be good.
Right. It's bad when you are driving the exact same route day after day and you're not sure exactly where you are as you're traveling. So we've got a big problem on I a 65 South close and overturned vehicle near highway 31 just past the Shelby County Airport. I don't know if that's fog related or not.
But if that is the start of this morning, we're going to have some problems on the roadways, because again, I left the house. I'm not far from the Cajabah River, so that's not unusual to leave the house and go down the driveway and out of the neighborhood and down the road, and you cross the bridge where the water is, and then down the road I get on the interstate, and then it all clears up. Well, it didn't clear up.
65, 459. It is really, really thick and y'all be careful out there. Absolutely. If you have fog lights, put them in play. Don't forget, brights do nothing. They just reflect the light right back at you. It's a weird sections on green springs that I drove through where it was like driving out of the fog. Like there was a wall there. I kid you not. It's like the fog just ended and you drive out and I'm like, it's perfectly clear here. This is weird and I could see ahead
where the wall was again. And I'm like, and I'm going to drive right back into it there. But it was, we were in a zone that I was like, this is like the twilight zone. This is so strange. And boom, drive right back into it. We're right back in the pea soup. I have no idea what atmospheric condition is going on or what kind of juju is taking place in that area. But yeah, you got to be extra, extra careful today, kids. There's a lot going on. Needless to say, ever since Donald Trump took the reins.
It's been one thing after another after another after another. We can't start to keep up. Stay on top of this stuff. Here's the thing. This guy is he's running 90 to nothing. He starts early in the morning about when we do. And this guy in Dural yesterday and then jumps on a plane is headed back to DC and continues to sign things and is still working through the night and you wake up the next morning going, Oh my gosh. I mean, it's like the energizer bunny. It's incredible.
Yeah, it really is. By the way, Lib's trying desperately to find talking points here. They're still very upset about the fact that 77 million people voted for Donald Trump and then he won every swing state. They just can't believe it.
So now they're saying, well, he's played golf two days in a row. My God, that cost us a million dollars every time he plays golf. That is, that is cost to God. And I'm thinking, you know what, you guys did not care every time Joe Biden went to Delaware. And he went there every weekend. The man was technically on vacation for 40% of his presidency. That's not an exaggeration. It's not monarchy. It's not a joke. It's not joking.
40% of his presidency was spent somewhere other than the White House on some kind of vacation. Now, technically, I've always said, look, the president's the president matter where he is. Yes, it's going to cost people, you know, we're going to have to spend money for secret service protection and for housing the secret service people and so on and so forth when they go to these places.
I didn't really, you know, I mean, I wasn't happy about Biden sleeping on the beach during a lot of his presidency, but I'm like, you know, this is, this is part of the job. This is, this is what comes with it. This is the guy who got elected. This is the way he's going to run his presidency. Maybe we can get him out of there, you know, when this term is over.
So stop whining about this liberal stop day. Oh, I can't believe he's paying guys again. You didn't care how much Obama played golf. You didn't care how much Joe Biden spent time in Delaware, sleep it on the beach and apparently pawing through sensitive documents in his Corvette garage. And here's the thing, you know, Donald Trump, once again, getting it done, all these orders, all the things we wanted, what's happening at the Southern border, the economy is coming, all of these things, getting the military right again.
He's working as heiny off. If he wants to go play around a golf to decompress, go do it. Well, yesterday. That makes you better the next day, as soon as you're off the golf course. He had house Republicans with him yesterday, and they were basically having a caucus, a meeting on the golf course as they were going from hole to hole. They were talking about what kind of legislation they were going to get underway. Now, he'd already gone and met with senators. He did that when he was in Washington. So now he's meeting with these house members, the ones who are movers and shakers.
And stuff is getting done on the Gulf Coast. I mean, the man negotiated a ceasefire between the second and third hole a couple of weeks ago. He wasn't even president yet. So I think we can all calm down about this. You lost, get used to the idea. They're having real trouble getting used to the idea.
Oh, thank you. Yeah, they're losing their mind. Very difficult time getting used to the idea and getting used to the fact that somehow he got inaugurated. I can't believe it. After all the stories about how there's stuff going on behind the scenes and this isn't going to happen. And then, oh, the whining and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth over the January 6th pardons. Man, I'm reading some stories about some of these January 6s that were prosecuted that will curl your teeth
When you hear about these guys who walked through open barricades, walked through a door that was either being held open by the Capitol police or was just open, it was just there, it was just open, wandered around inside the Capitol building for eight minutes, came back out.
because they were on video because they were part of the group that went in there. They were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by a prosecutor who over prosecuted everybody and by a judge who did whatever the prosecutor wanted. In fact, if you look over some of the paperwork of these January 6th defendants, you'll find that every single request made by the prosecution was granted by the judge.
Every single request made by the defense was denied by the judge. Every single one of them. And in many cases, the prosecutor would say, well, you're on it. We think this guy should get six months. And the judge would say, you know what? Ten months. Boom. What? When was the last time a judge actually over-sentenced more than the prosecutor? It happened again and again and again and again with people whose major crime was trespassing, a misdemeanor,
that they elevated to this new level. Yes, you know, I'm looking at the J6 part and so I'm going the county didn't go far enough. No, and this is once again politicizing our judicial system that has to be cleaned up. That has to be fixed. We can't go through this again. And I don't just, I don't mean just for conservatives and for Republicans. This shouldn't be happening even if it were happening to Democrats.
and it wouldn't happen, but it's just absolutely insane that we are seeing this with judges. And Juan Marchana is number one on the list. I mean, it really is bad. Our judges are not supposed to be judges in this manner. They're supposed to be following the rule of law.
and proceeding in a courtroom with everything that they know and trying to apply the law equally how it's supposed to be. And they're not doing that. And yeah, I've seen that about the J-6ers as well. And it's crazy what's going on. And I'm glad that Donald Trump pardoned every single one of them. It was time.
If you can't be unbiased, you have no business being a judge. And interestingly, you had a couple of judges who, well, the main judge in the January 6th case was like, well, I'm not sure I'm willing to allow these people. And when they started writing the release orders because of the pardon, they got very political.
in these orders. They were all like, this is a miscarriage of justice and this is, it's not your place to do that. It's not your place to do that. Your place is to implement the order that was put in by President Trump. You never wrote any sort of political, no judge wrote anything political about any pardon that was ordered by Joe Biden. It's crazy. So you just look at him go, you know what, you're not qualified for this job at this point. And, you know,
They're not just there. There are some in Jefferson County, as we know, who are just hell bent on letting murderers and rapists go free. They're just absolutely intent on like we just don't know these poor people. They're so put upon by society. The guy's been arrested 12 times.
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That happened a little earlier this morning and it's going to be a problem very foggy out there this morning. That's another issue and we'll be talking about it throughout the day to keep updated. When that opens, we'll tell you that too. Let me put in a quick plug for this as well because it's happened already three times so far this morning. People, we cannot click on your links on the text line.
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Well, President Trump did speak at Duralt, Florida yesterday in front of GOP leaders. Really, a lot of things that he did once he got on, headed back to D.C. once that was over with. He was busy the entire evening. And here's what he did. He signed it some more resolutions, signed some more resolutions, I should say, reinstate service members discharged under COVID-19 back
mandate that's good to know. So those guys, if they want to be reinstated, they can. With back pay. Yeah, with back pay. I love that. The other thing was restore America's fighting force. Now, this will eliminate race and sex-based discrimination. This is a lot of the DEI stuff. No individual or group with the armed forces should be preferred or disadvantaged on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, color, or creed.
Those are the things that were done under America's fighting force restoring that. So good to see that. Three, build an Iron Dome. Similar to what Israel has. The missile defense shield. Now here's what's going to happen. He's signed this and this will give 60 days for Pete Hegset to put together a plan.
and present it to them about what you would need to do. I say you don't need to reinvent the wheel. You pretty much look at what Israel has done because we've seen that when they've been attacked, and most recently, so build the dome, find out exactly what they did. We might have to make it a lot larger because our country is a little bit different than the size of Israel. Oh, there's no question, but I have to wonder about this one a little bit because
You know, Israel has a specific threat. They know that Iran's going to lob some missiles at him. Lebanon's going to lob some missiles at him. Maybe Syria, maybe Jordan. You know, these are like their next door neighbors. An Iron Dome would protect us from missiles from what Canada, a Mexico, you know, because anything else that comes in is going to be an ICBM, basically an intercontinental ballistic missile from Russia or China or something of that nature. Or you get some sub or some ship off the coast somewhere. Yeah, lob one up.
Right. And the subs are able to do that. But wow, we are 600 times the size of Israel. We are going to have to come up with an Iron Dome plan that is a whole lot bigger than theirs. Well, that's what I mean. Pete's got his work cut out for him in the next 60 days.
transgender in the military no longer. That was another one. Freeze on all federal funding, including grants. That was also done. And then the proclamation National Day of Remembrance for the liberation of Auschwitz. So all of those things. And again, what is this? Day seven? This will be the seventh whole day. Yesterday was the, I guess, the seventh full day. Yeah. Oh boy. So we're running and gunning. And here we go.
Keep up, everyone. I know it's difficult. I can't keep up. I'm just trying to follow what the guy's doing. I can't even do what he's doing. I can't follow it. I can't. I hear about it and I get tired. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Hey, more than a dozen officials on Jack Smith's team were sent packing yesterday. Get your cardboard boxing. Get out.
Smith and his team prosecuted, of course, Donald Trump and the acting Attorney General James McHenry said that those individuals could not be trusted in implementing the president's agenda. Trump is ending the weaponization of government of government and this. The DOJ reassigned more than a dozen officials to a sanctuary city task force. Smith led the bogus investigation into Trump's classified documents case and was the one responsible for investigating Trump following the 2020 election.
Trump pleaded not guilty in both of those cases. That Smith charged him in. So glad to see this. You know, once again, we are cleaning out house is what we're doing right now. Good bye. You know, here's a sign that Jack Smith's cases were paper thin. He tried very hard to try them in public.
He was always like, Hey, look at all this evidence. So just like, what are you doing? I'm showing people the evidence. You can't do that. You have to stop doing that. Well, I think we should now bring that evidence back. You can't just release evidence into the public. We haven't had the cases yet. Calm down, you know, but the fact that he just kept trying to get that into the public's eyes and then he worked so hard to get his reports of the public. That's pretty obvious to me. This guy didn't think much of his own case now.
He just wanted to basically tar Donald Trump. And again, the goal originally was we got to keep him from being elected president. He failed and now it's time to pay the pipe.
Sure is. And they are paying the piper is right. President Donald Trump issued an order for public health officials to stop working with the World Health Organization immediately. Once again, this was why while he was speaking at the rally yesterday in front of the GOP leaders, Trump said the U.S. was paying $500 million a year to the who or the World Health Organization. I was going to say, and China was in a Roger Daldria racking up here.
And China was paying $39 million. Trump issued an executive order last week to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Trump was pretty mad when the World Health Organization provided bad COVID guidance during the pandemic. And man, was it ever bad? So yeah, I think this is a smart move back out of this. Save $500 million. Oh, I like that.
I think that $500 million would be better served by having our own people go out and do the research in some of these areas, because we couldn't trust what the WHO was saying. For instance, and people forget this, during COVID, the WHO was one of the main purveyors of, it wasn't a lab leak. It was not a lab leak. It's like, how do you know that? Well, we just know. We know it came from what? Okay, we'd like to see some evidence. Well, we don't have any evidence, but we know it wasn't a lab leak. You're like,
Somehow you're dancing to the tune that China plays, yet we're paying you so much more than they are. We'd like some real answers here. A lot of the guidance that the WHO gave during COVID was wrong. They were 100% on board with the six-foot rule, with the masks, with the vaccinations. We now know that all of that was either useless or actually to some degree harmful.
You know, so I look at the WHO and I go, you've lost all credibility. Why should we pay you $500 million to get more bad advice from you? Exactly. And I think that's what Donald Trump is saying as well. Let's put our own group together, actual doctors, actual researchers who are going to be honest and non-political and they're going to go out and they're going to find out about monkeypox and they're going to, oh, I'm sorry, mpox. We can't say the word monkey anymore. Somehow that's racist. What? I don't know.
I don't know. You know, find out about the bird flu and how it's spreading and where it's going and what the chances are of it leaping to humans. Let's have our own people handling this because the WHO has proven themselves to be completely unreliable. And I think that's where Donald Trump is going with this. We're going to spend the money. We're not going to spend it with the
Well, too. And also those connections with Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization. Oh, yeah. And again, not getting clarity and not getting answers and the run around and that it came from a wet market lab. No, no, you're not. Completely. None of this. So I'm glad to see him do that.
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Customers at a shopping center in Durham, North Carolina were on edge after a fake ice truck was parked in the parking lot of an Hispanic serving grocery store compare foods as a prank.
Yeah. And the ice truck means ice isn't not the cubes you put in your glass, but ice is going to round you up and take you. Right. Fly you home. Uh huh. That's the claim. Those guys. Yeah. And so these people were all nervous and worried and the news, you know,
People from that area went out and interviewed a whole bunch of Hispanic folks. What are you? I think it's just wrong. I think it's wrong that they're doing this. They should not be doing this. It's no different than, you know, actually parking a vehicle, a law enforcement vehicle, I don't know, a trooper or whatever, and they put it there and they put a dummy in the car to slow you down. Yeah.
Well, maybe this is a little. This wasn't actually ice. You know, apparently this was a guy who was not with ice. We don't know who it was, by the way. I mean, it sounds like a radio station prank or something. Well, let me tell you what, you do that in radio. Now it is shooting fire. It could be. Not impossible. That's pranks aren't as easy to pull off anymore. Get away with that stuff. Right. But I will say, you know, if I go into a grocery store and there's a bunch of police officers in there,
I feel a little bit better. I don't get nervous. I like to shop here. Thank you very much. So here's my thought on the subject. If you're there and you see some form of law enforcement that makes you feel nervous, maybe you're doing something wrong. Maybe you're not supposed to be here. Maybe you're breaking the law. If you know you're not supposed to be here and you see the ice truck and you go like, oh boy, they might be rounding me up today.
Then a little soft deportation might be called for, okay? Now I say, well, hold on a second. These people aren't doing anything wrong. Well, them crossing the border and coming into the United States was illegal. And I still say, you know, look, you get down there, go back home wherever it may be, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua.
maybe Mexico. And then you begin the process to come back and do it legally. Obviously you love America. You want to be here. We want people like you here. We do. We're interested in that. Please do it the proper way. But you got to do it legally. We're interested in having 100% legal people. You know, they had, it was in Dallas, Texas. That a big rally the other day. Whole bunch of people in the streets blocking traffic. They were protesting the deportations and they were waving the Mexican flag.
And I looked at that and said, look, they're all in one place. Get the patty wagons. Seriously, if you're waving the Mexican flag on American soil. It's really not very smart. Go home. You obviously love Mexico more than you love the United States. Yeah, go there. Go back. Maybe fix your own country. Make Mexico great again. There you go. Yeah. Is that even possible?
It was great. Make Mexico grow up. All right. Sure. It was once, right? Under Zapata or somebody. Sure. I don't know. Whoever thought of this. I know. Yeah.
had a little bit of sense of humor there. Maybe this will make a difference, but can you imagine if you were an illegal alien in the country and you're in that grocery store and you see that truck? It's like everybody scatters in the store, out the back door, out the back door. Well, look, one of the positive things about the Trump presidency is it is making people
who are here illegally, a little nervous. And I want you to be a little nervous if you're here illegally. Who's going to pick the vegetables, Richard? Who's going to pick our crops? Who's going to wash the dishes at the grocery store? You sound exactly like slave owners during the Civil War. You sound exactly like that. You're like, oh my God, we're losing all our cheap labor. We can't do this.
That's a problem. Americans won't do that. No, Americans won't do the job for what they're paying the Mexicans or the Guatemalans or the Hondurans or the illegal immigrants in general. So that would mean you'd have to pay Americans more. You know who used to do those jobs? When I was a kid, before the 70s and the early 80s, when the floodgates opened and Mexicans began streaming in, you know who did those jobs? College kids, high school kids. That's who did those jobs.
I don't know what's going on with our college kids and high school kids today because they're not doing that. But maybe it's because there aren't any jobs for them to do because they're being taken up by illegal immigrants who are being paid under the table, which is a problem. That is huge. Yes. You know, interestingly,
I don't know if you know this or not. People love to hold up Denmark. Denmark's the happiest place in the world, and they get their minimum wage is much higher than ours, and they work 35 hours a week, and they get all kinds of occasion every year. I mean, they're just the happiest people on Earth. They also really have almost zero immigration into Denmark.
Somehow their dishes are getting washed. Somehow, whatever crops they have in Denmark are getting picked. Same is true of the Netherlands, same is true of Sweden, same is true of Norway, same is true of Belgium. How are they all doing that Richard? I don't know. They don't have any illegal Mexicans there and that work is somehow getting done. How odd.
Clearly it can be done. This idea that because this is the status quo and nothing should change it is ridiculous. But my favorite thing yesterday was the people who are trying to rewrite the story of what happened with Colombia.
Okay, we know what happened with Colombia. We sent two plain loads of prisoners there. They were military transports. They were full of illegal Colombians, bad guys who were arrested because they were bad guys, not just cross the border illegally, bad guys, bad guys who had committed crimes aside from that. And the president of Colombia trying to flex his muscles. Guys, a far-flung left.
Trust. Send them back to the US. We're not going to take them. We're not going to take them. We're not going to take them. You've got to stop. I do it now. And so Donald Trump said, OK, how about it? How about it? 25% here? How do you feel about 25? Because we'll go 50. We could go 50. Some people say we shouldn't go 50. I say 50 is where we're going to go. And you know, revoking visas, stopping travel to Colombia, stopping travel from Colombia, basically put the deadwood to him and said, here's everything that's going to happen. And suddenly it's like, well, how about we send the presidential plane?
Yeah, that's how quickly that turned. Well, that he went from we're not accepting these two planes to let me send one of our planes to pick them up. The leftist story now is, well, his problem was that they weren't being treated with dignity.
They were criminals. Right. We don't care. And here's the thing. We're going to send Colombians back to Columbia. You'll take them however we send them. If we send them on a train, you'll take them on a train. If we send them on a boat, you'll take them on a boat. If we send them with a goat, you'll take them with a goat. You will take them, Sam. I am. I don't care how they get there. They're going to there. You're going to take them back. And Donald Trump made that abundantly clear. And he goes like, okay, you want to send up your presidential plane. That'll save us gas money.
Yeah, that's when I was like, no, no, no, I tell you what, you send your plane to come get them. Right. Use your planes and use your money to come pick up your criminals. Knock yourself out. But you know, all of these sanctions that he put out there are on hold right now. Just going like, we're waiting to see if these planes are going to land and we expect you to take them back. And if you don't, then prove, here come the sanctions. We're going to go ahead and pile them on. It's just going to get worse. We could just put parachutes on them and let them jump out of the plane. Ooh, that'd be nice. I like that. Elegals falling from the sky.
That sounded like a shoot didn't open. It didn't. It wasn't this fire. Wow. And the backup reserve didn't work either. That's so sad. Wow. Oh, that's the risk you take. That's right. Hey, that might stop immigrants from coming into the country. We're going to fly you over your country and push you out of the plane. Hope your parachute works. We're going to send 40 of you back with 30 working parachute. That's right. This is Russian Roulette parachute. That works for you.
Lordy B. That's brutal. Is it wrong? That is just wrong. You're the one that was talking about him not working. I was just going off the thud. Your little sound effect display over there, Wes Harrison. I mean, who is the police academy guy? Winslow. Michael Winslow. Yeah. I'm working with Michael Winslow's sister over here.
A little more training, but I like where you're going. You're getting there. Come on, we are military guys. Jump out of planes. Why can't we do that? That way we would save from having a land. He just turned the plane around. Come back. Bring him right back. Grab another load. Do it again. Save a lot of trouble. I like it. Come on. Saving time and money.
Well, I don't know. The parachutes are kind of expensive. Yeah, they are. That's kind of pricey. I'm going to think of it. We'd have to say that we'll want to be like, land one plane to round them up. Do your Columbia. Do you send back our parachutes? Don't pack them. We'll take care of that ourselves. We don't trust you people. We could just do it with umbrellas.
Let's see if we can do a Mary Poppins. That's right. That's right. You get the Mary Poppins treatment. And you're the music in the background. Practically perfected every way. Just a spoonful of sugar makes the illegal alien go down, back in the morning. Or splat anyway. I learned the hard way. Don't actually ask your girl this question. You're not going to like the answer. You're not going to like it. It's kind of like asking the question, do you really want to hurt me? Yeah.
like the answer either. Yeah. Answer this one's no answer to that one's yes. None of it turned out well for me. Six fifty dicks of the mining talk. Ninety nine five talk. Ninety nine five dot com. That back up on sixty five northbound. Southbound. Southbound. Okay. Southbound. Excuse me. The Shelby County airport. So it's below alabats.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's backed up past alabaster now, according to some of our textures. So it's a mess. I mean, it is stuffed dead, overturned car, pretty bad stuff going on there. The fog continues. Hopefully that will lift before long when the sun comes out because we got a high today of 58. Yes. And even warmer tomorrow. Hot diggity.
Well, let's give this guy a listen, because let me tell you what, we're talking about all kinds of solutions to problems you may have. The number one thing I think is this time of year, debt consolidation. I mean, we just got through Christmas, spending a lot of money in December. The bills come in in January and you're like, here I go in 2025. Chris Molesky, new beginnings mortgage solutions with us on the phone this morning too. Talk a little bit about how you guys can help our listeners with some of that debt consolidation.
No doubt about it. And as I've said before, and I hate to always feel like I'm repeating, but several of your listeners have realized, you know what, I'm tired of this and tired of this load of debt. What can I do about it? And get several scenarios that we kind of give people different options. Here's the best way. Do you need cash right now? Do we just need to pay off debt? You know, what is your situation? And so many people don't realize that once we go down that road, they don't realize the amount of equity they have in their home.
that has been sitting there and sitting there. And it's to be used. As I've said before, we looked at our house and our mortgage as an expense only. And it's not, it is a tool that you can utilize. That's why you bought the house in order to maybe help yourself financially where you might need it. And with it being in the beginning of 2025, why not go ahead and get the entire year set right with your finances? That paid off maybe money in your pocket,
and a whole new slate. And that's the part that I love the most, is to see people make that decision and then make it happen. Yeah, super cool website, Chris, that you guys have put together. I'm on it right now, and I'm looking at option one, two, and three, and it's either call or fill out some contact information. You guys make this process super, super simple. So for people that are listening right now and need a little help and you guys have that solution, let them know how they can reach out to you. Phones are open right now, ready to talk. 205-989-7171.
go to stay with them and I'm five dot com if you want to to that side and if you feel that information up today you'll get a t-shirt from Richard that says don't you want me baby that would be nice that was a lie the rest of it true Chris thank you so much appreciate everything he does new beginnings mortgage solutions let them help you today
All right, let's take a look at some of the texts that we have received here. Let's see. Jody says, you can say monkey because Trump is restoring free speech. I guess that's true. It always struck me as ridiculous that it's like, well, that's just racist to say monkey. I'm like, so in your mind, you're equating monkey to black person. Cause I ain't doing that. Like that's not me. That's you that's doing that. So if you think the term monkey is racist, that's all inside your head.
which is bad you you think weirdly in my opinion that's not really kosher uh... let's see amanda says just wanted to say uh... good morning and have a blessed day will thank you and we appreciate that uh... aric sure now the texas site decides to uh...
lock up on me. Let's see. Make sure you check the news to be sure you're in the right timeline after you exit the fog. That's what you feel like. Well, the sun is coming up. So I'm hoping you guys that are out on the roads right now that fog wasn't as bad as it was at five o'clock this morning or four o'clock this morning because it was awful, awful, awful, absolutely atrocious.
Clint says go to Mexico illegally and see how it works out for you. It doesn't. We had a Marine that crossed the border illegally was in Mexico for a brief period was detained by authorities. He had a firearm with him. He had been, I guess, hunting in Texas or something. And he didn't even know that he had
wandered across the border with his pickup truck, got taken into custody, and there had to be like serious negotiations. This was under Barack Obama, so you can imagine. The negotiations would have taken about five minutes under Trump. It would have been like, you won't believe what's going to come down on your heads. If you don't let this Marine go, things are going to be very ugly, very quickly.
But yeah, there was like days of negotiations and finally they allowed Armerine to come back. And that was an accidental crossing of the border. If you were to just go down there and try to set up camp and live there and send your kids to school there,
And that's not just Mexico. That goes for Italy. That goes for really any other country in the world, Germany, France, Spain, you know, multiple Asian countries, you know, any country that you would want to send your kids to school in any country you'd want to move to from out of the blue. I read a blog from a woman who went to Sweden, her husband is Swedish.
And even though she was not, I mean, she was married to a Swede, okay? I'm sorry, Switzerland. She was in Switzerland. Even though she was married to a Swiss man, she had to go through the longest, most tedious process to make herself legal in Switzerland.
And I was like, and yet here, we're just opening up the border and letting people in and hand them gift cards. Like, what the hell was there? Still, you know, could we one day really get the real reason that they allowed to open up the southern border and wave the white flag? It had to be more than, hey, we're going to get all these votes. We're going to make sure that these people, before we get to election time, can begin to vote.
This is what has happened to our country over these last four years of the southern border watching literally millions of people cross. Here's a phone, here's a gift card, there's a hotel in New York, let's put you up in that hotel. The schools, I mean think about everything that happened in Chicago and the amount of money that they spent. Just disastrous. And now it's going to take four years to undo what they did.
I was probably going to think longer than that. It's easier to let them in than it is to get them out. Absolutely. Interestingly, it cost them the election because the border security was number one or number two on most people's list. Economy and border were right up there, one and two. Even Democrats and the Hispanic vote went Trump's way because of the border. They were like, hey, we came here legally. We don't like these people coming and invading this country.
And you can't say, yeah, you can't say you blame them because it takes a long time and a process you have to go through. And they waited in line and they went through what they had to go through. And then they look at these images every night of all these people that are just pouring across and getting all, you know, again, freebies galore, come on in, no big deal.
It's a gift basket. What do you need? They're being handed a gift basket. They get the little champagne bottle of jelly beans. Jelly beans. They get a tiny stuffed bear, which is nice. They get a gift card to subaro. It's great. They get a little bit of everything. It's high class right there.
Ah, let's say Martin says they started invading the building trades over 25 years ago. There are now houses built with no American labor quality of the work has gone way downhill. Standards in the third world have now made it here. Hope you like a crooked wall with bad sheet rocking.
uh... i talked to a bricklayer once who told me this he said uh... a good bricklayer in the united states of america could command as much as forty forty two dollars an hour he said these were his words not mine and he said then these mexicans came in and they were offering basically the same job for fifteen dollars an hour they were willing to do the job for fifteen dollars an hour now the quality is not as good
But when you talk to a contractor and he's like, I can get a subcontractor, he'll do this for $15 an hour or I can pay someone else who's here legally three times as much, they're going to look at all that money as money that's going into their pocket because they're going to charge the same amount but they get to keep all that money that they didn't pay the Mexican brick layers and they basically put American brick layers out of business.
And that's just one of the many things that have fallen by the way. So now people say, well, but the cost of housing is going to go way up. If you, you know, if you get rid of all the illegal immigrants, good. Fine. If that's what it takes for the cost of housing to go up when it comes to manufacturing new houses, fine. The economy will grow with it because that money goes somewhere. It goes to American citizens.
They pay taxes. They pay into social security. They pay into Medicare. All of this is a contained unit in the United States of America. And I'll tell you one thing American citizens don't do, they don't send their hard-earned money to Mexico. And to their family members, right? Okay. Yes. And that's been going on for years and years and years. No question. No, not parachutes, says Eric. Let's do L.A.P.E.'s low altitude parachute extraction.
Oh, wow. Remember the triple X movie? The first one? Yeah. Remember it well. Oh, man. I like that one. I've been suggesting that the US government does a televised squid game-like show.
to call the illegal immigrant problem. I didn't watch Squid Games. I have no idea what it is. I don't know. It's Korean or something, isn't it? Japanese. I haven't watched it either, but I've kind of seen the previews. I think it's Japanese. None of us here watch Squid Games. It's just having a secret. Japanese not just completely different. Two different ones. One of them we went to war with, the other one we're going to. It's, you know,
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