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Kip Kiefer, I am not Richard Dixon or Valerie Vining, but I am very pleased to be filling in for the second consecutive morning as they enjoy an extended Christmas week, deservedly so. The one guy that doesn't get that opportunity is Steve West, who is back in studio again this morning.
As we covered yesterday, Steve does this every morning, and I salute him valiantly with an enthusiastic salute because this time of morning, not my best, but I'm going to try to make the best of it. In fact, I'm actually even in Las Vegas still.
after we wrap up the show this morning and do a couple other things around here. Big opportunity to come out and have our Vegas Christmas. It's not what you think. It wasn't drunken shows and slot machines and
Cruising the Las Vegas Strip. The setting here in my Las Vegas is very suburban. My son living out in a community outside of Vegas called Inspirata, which is growing. There are a number of those kind of communities here. Summerland is the biggest one, which has really boomed. It is a tremendously
I guess you could say filled with all kinds of retail businesses, great places to go, entertainment, outlet malls, every retailer, restaurant, everything you could ever think of. Summerlin is a boom town. We spent the day on Tuesday.
over in Summerland. My four-year-old grandson, who is really the centerpiece, of course, of all of the activity here for all of our extended family, the only little guy we've got. And he's got center stage.
He spends a very active time out here on Christmas just whirling around and with showing tremendous exuberance and excitement. You kind of recapture that whole wonderment and whimsical nature of the magic of Christmas when you've got a little person that's really into it and enjoying it. And too many years in our family, we didn't have that. The first
child to come along in many, many years. And King Kiefer has been front and center in all of our celebrations. And we've enjoyed every minute of having the opportunity to watch him in action because this guy had the whole stage to himself.
and it was an unbelievable fun to watch him in action. I hope a lot of you had that same experience. I talked yesterday as we filled in for Richard and Valerie about the kind of
Lack of a lot of familiar things in life as it evolves, and especially in the fast moving times that we live in, how things societally and socially and every other way you can name it, are always evolving, are always changing. There's a lot of things that get completely overhauled, things that are forgotten traditions that are abandoned as new things come up and become the norm.
But one thing that I really get a lot of reassurance from Christmas is the basic formula is still the same. And that continuity is something that I find very soothing and kind of reassuring that the whole Christmas ritual, particularly when you got a kid around, and we've got a second one on the way. So King better enjoy his top billing status because
little sister in the midst. And when she comes, the first female Kiefer child born since really 1961 in our family, we've just had this long run of boys. So it's going to be interesting to see how that interaction takes place. She'll be almost eight months old next Christmas. Probably won't have too much awareness of what's going on, but there'll be there'll be another
major principle in the Kiefer mix for Christmas. Just enjoy that. Love, again, the continuity, the festive nature of the day. It's something I think that everybody needs psychologically.
Those of you that don't have kids around right now. I hope you still had the opportunity to enjoy family and fellowship. I think it's absolutely astounding and very disappointing that after the results of the election on November 5th, there are certain things that you need to put aside in terms of quality of life and
your thankfulness for being able to be a citizen and a person that's been born in the greatest country in the world ever conceived the United States of America. And it was very disheartening to hear
psychologists and hardcore leftists come on. There was one particularly quoted female psychologist from Yale who was defiantly telling people the month leading up to Christmas. If your relatives or your friends voted to hurt you in this election and
that has basically without saying voted for Donald Trump or voted for Republican candidates. But what she was saying was if that has happened, you don't need to feel any obligation to spend any of this time in the holiday season with those people who voted against you and what and your best interest, which I found to be appalling and disappointing
There's nothing more important than family. At the end of the day, that's the real structure, that's the real reinforcement we all have in our lives, and we need to celebrate that and celebrate those people, even if you're not exactly the same, even if you have differences of opinion,
etc. It's important that you put all that aside and have this day of fellowship and family which I think is really important every year. For me I find it extremely renewing. I do get
I told you yesterday who also does a lot of work with us on our Birmingham programming cases, the executive editor of the sports department for the Las Vegas Sun newspaper here, Greenspan Media Company, which does a lot of publications, magazines, broadcasts, and cases been in Vegas now 11 years, pretty much since he came out of the University of Kansas.
where he got his journalism degree. He's a top-notch writer. He's kind of living the dream here in Vegas. Having seen, since he arrived, the advent of Vegas becoming not only the
boomtown that it is because so many people have relocated here and as mentioned there's too many people with the perception that this is all glitz and glamour and the bright neon lights of the Las Vegas strip the fabulous hotels the major themed resorts all of the things to see and do from an entertainment standpoint this place is unmatched however you just get a little bit outside that
that zone of downtown Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip the downtown of course Fremont Street all of the original casinos and a lot of the places that got this town underway way back in the early parts of the 1900s because this is one of the few places that legalized gambling existed and the visionaries mostly
Organized crime visionaries like Benjamin Siegel Envision what this thing could be and I don't think in their wildest dreams They ever could have come up with the conception of what Las Vegas is now, but cases come at a great time He came out and got involved with the newspaper basically on an internal level and has built in a very short amount of time a fantastic career for himself and
as Las Vegas, as it grows, has become a major draw now for major league teams, but professional teams. Of course, the first at one of those was the Vegas Golden Knights expansion team in the National Hockey League. That team has already won a Stanley Cup in its sixth year of existence. It's a extremely popular sport. The arena is built right behind the New York, New York Hotel.
the MGM Park Hotel right off the Vegas Strip. The T-Mobile Arena is fabulous. The Golden Knights games are an entertainment overload. It is very Vegas
ritzy themed but the hockey team is really good that started the whole thing uh now they of course the Oakland Raiders moved here a couple years ago the Las Vegas Raiders play here uh so cases beginning in sports in Vegas correlated with
the development of a lot of major league sports here the WNBA has a franchise the Las Vegas aces that won a couple of championships in a row for Las Vegas and now the old Tropicana Hotel at the other end of the strip has been brought to the ground and a brand new domed stadium is under construction in Las Vegas right on the strip
that will be hosting the Oakland A's who are going to move. That's the Oakland Raiders first. Now the Oakland A's they will be in Vegas beginning with the 2028 baseball season and of course in baseball in a town where the summertime temperatures can
regularly being triple digits you had to have a dome stadium and that's exactly what they're going to have on the vega strip it is getting more and more big time out here every day if you're a sports fan of course along with that as I mentioned there are booming communities that are sprouting up everywhere
the perception again that this is some kind of 24-7 sin city. There are probably still pockets of that that you can find if that's what you seek. But so much of Aegis now is just these developing communities like Inspirata where case lives, Henderson, Nevada, which is the bordering town which is
completely developed and these are only 15 or 20 minutes out of town in the suburbs and in these communities you pretty much have the same feel as you have in Hoover in Birmingham as as you have in Trussville or all the surrounding areas of the Birmingham area
It is suburbs and it's got all the amenities that we're used to in life in cities around the country. So when you think of Vegas, don't just focus on the Las Vegas strip and all the 24-7 action.
And it is that, and it's phenomenal. But at this stage, a lot of trips here, I don't even get to the strip. I'm out in the burbs, I guess you could say. We did have Christmas dinner on the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday or Wednesday night, and it was great. We went to a Brazilian steakhouse, as a matter of fact.
and had a wonderful time and just being surrounded by all of that excitement and all that history is a fantastic experience every year. So that sets the stage. I'm heading back to.
getting back looks like your weather's a little rocky and topsy turvy right now but looking forward to getting back for the weekend and get resettled at the homestead and catching up on a lot of things that are going on a big week coming up before new years we talked about yesterday it's
on a Tuesday night, New Year's Eve and a Wednesday for sports and football. There's a lot going on there. Of course, midweek, just like Christmas this past week, those midweek
occasions are really different because it basically turns the whole week into a celebration and that's a pretty cool aspect of America. We've got a lot to talk about today of what's coming up as this New Year's approaches. We will catch you up on a couple of things we touched on yesterday and get into a whole lot of other subject matter. We're going to be less formulaic today. We're just going to kind of jump around
I'm going to bring your attention to some things that that have caught my eye over the last couple of weeks and are exciting me about the upcoming twenty twenty five year in this great country. We are in for a lot of transition. I think a lot of catching up getting back to the program that we need to be on
for this country to grow, develop, and become the country once again that we all aspire to be a part of. After all, as I kept mentioning yesterday, don't forget, you're not a observer, you're a participant. You are part of this whole experiment, this audacious, wonderful thing called America.
of the people, by the people, for the people. It's me, it's you, it's all of us, it's our government, it's our country, and it's time to get it back on track. Kip Kiefer with you for Richard and Valerie on this Friday morning. I had to think about what day it was. We will be right back on Talk 99.5. Stay right where you are. A whole lot to do this morning. Glad you're on board.
We are back on this Friday morning. It is the second day after Christmas 2024. Kip Kiefer reporting from Las Vegas heading back to Birmingham this afternoon, looking forward to getting back in the swing of things and getting 2025 underway. It's right around the corner.
And I'm going to tell you a little bit about in this next time coming up after the bottom of the hour break. I'm going to kind of flash us back just eight years to this exact same time in 2016 and talk about the difference between Donald Trump administration.
the country, and Donald Trump, president number 47, eight years later, returning to the White House with the inauguration scheduled, of course, on January 20th. Express some thoughts yesterday about that date and gave you a little history on how that works.
It's amazing because it seems like the 76 days between the election and the beginning of the administration is an awful long time. And you wonder, you know, kind of conceptually why it's that way. But I pointed that yesterday if you caught the show that it used to be a lot worse. Inauguration day, the
the founders in the late 17, in the mid 1790s actually. Once the Constitution was hammered out and approved, that date was set for March the 4th. So the election first week of November, the inauguration March the 4th, that was a long more period of time.
It's too long because especially after the country has issued such an overwhelming mandate that we need to reverse course get rid of this whole transformation of America that was first introduced with the election of Barack Obama in 2008. And Obama's skilled politician, a very brilliant orator, you know, an inspiring leader, but his vision for America
kept kind of under wraps a little bit. It was a bit of a stealth thing. He kept talking about the reinvigoration of the country and again, and called it what it was a transformation. They wanted to take the country in a lot different direction because there's this kind of elitist movement
that uh... emanates basically from ivy league educated individuals uh... you know uh... such as barack obama who believe that they had a better vision for how things should be in the country and uh... that a lot of the founding principles and history of this nation were shameful and needed to be uh... grovel that and and and and and sought forgiveness from
So we got off to that kind of a start and it's continued with this renovation of the Biden term, which was the de facto third term of Barack Obama. Well, that's over now. We are going to reverse course course correction with Donald Trump. I'll tell you how it's different now than it was then when we come back from the bottom of the hour break. Kip Kiefer in for Richard and Valerie. We are just starting this joy ride on this Friday morning on a
the Dickson and Vining program. Steve West producing we will be back to keep it going right after this. Kip Kiefer sitting in this morning here on Talk99.5 glad to have you on board whatever year up to this morning or if you're up period I'm I commend you as I've already started off the show by talking about this is really not my time of day.
I'm not like a guy who sleeps still noon, but you know, 83845 if I can get away with it is a lot more practical schedule and actually broadcasting today from out in Las Vegas. If you're just joining us out here for Christmas heading back to Birmingham this afternoon and we'll resume my regular programming schedule on the weekend and it's such a dysfunctional week with the holidays in the middle of the week.
It's kind of hard to believe we're on the verge of a weekend already now, but of course we are and we'll be coming to you on the sister station here at Cumulus Birmingham on Talk 99.5. Other station are one of their other two stations, Jock's 94.5 tomorrow morning, eight o'clock.
Kip and Terry Game Time are weekly Saturday morning college football themed show as we get a chance to look ahead to the college football playoffs coming up this week. Those games will be, once again, dysfunctionally on a midweek situation.
one of those games Boise State and Penn State will be played in the Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix on Tuesday night and on Wednesday all day long three big playoff games beginning with Texas playing in Atlanta against Arizona State.
in the Chick-fil-A bowl then in the afternoon the granddaddy of them all from Pasadena the Rose Bowl serves as the quarter-final game between the Oregon Ducks number one in the country and the Ohio State Buckeyes who we saw just completely dismantled Tennessee from the SEC last week and the nightcap on Wednesday of this week
is the sugar bowl in new Orleans the Georgia Bulldogs and Notre Dame as a very young man way way back in the early nineteen eighties and i mean a very young man uh... not even a man i don't think uh... certainly maturity wise i wasn't but we were there in new Orleans on that night
or actually was an afternoon on New Year's Day when Herschel Walker and the Georgia Bulldogs beat Notre Dame and gave Vince Dooley and the UGA their only national championship of the Dooley era. They beat Notre Dame so it's kind of a repeat of history hopefully. This is not for all the marbles in the championship. It's for the opportunity to advance but there will be
and older Georgia and SEC fans remembering those games in those days. So that's all coming up this week. We're on Saturday mornings also on ABC 33 40 television 10 30 tune in tomorrow as we will be in studio with our preview of everything happening in college football.
with the starting lineup. It's Tony Curry, who joined us briefly yesterday here on this program. Tony, the longtime iconic broadcaster in Birmingham now with his own radio network, the TKR network, which he started off just playing Classic Rock, which is what a lot of people know Tony as of course, but he was also a longtime host on Jocks with Jay Barker and Al Del Greco for many years with their morning show.
Tony is now the proprietor of Tony Curry radio and has evolved his format into a lot of very interesting podcasts and programs and you can check out my podcast on that network.
Kip Kiefer need to know which we cut just about every Monday and it airs all that next week. Also Tony and I do a show together called Kiefer and Curry that is always a blast to do because we never know we alternate each week with the subject matter and we used to be kind of prepared but found it was a lot more impromptu and interesting if we didn't get the other guy up to
throw out the subject and see where it goes and a lot of times it goes in some very informative and entertaining directions so but he's got a wide variety of different programs different people from the music world which Tony of course was a huge part of
He's got his longtime show with Dr. Josh Claypal. They used to be on here on Tuck99.5 on Saturdays. Now they're on his podcast network. So we got all kinds of programming. And then our long time, our backbone staple program comes your way on Sunday mornings on jocks, 94 5FM with
The morning after Kip Kiefer, Terry Quillian, my longtime partner, she is absolutely remarkable. Greatest football fan, a beautiful, amazing accomplished woman who loves SEC football. Yes, guys, there is a dream girl like that out there. And you can visit with her every Saturday and Sunday along with me on Game Time on Saturday.
and the morning after on sunday so there's the shameless plugs uh... just needed to run those down we also appear on a lot of podcasts around the country and that do a lot of subject matter terry of course so worked in two presidential administrations the uh... george w bush administration and the first on a trump go around uh... she was a advanced specialist which means uh... the people that go in about a week before the president
travels and goes to all the various places that presidents go for events and ceremonies and honors and speeches, but they go.
prepared so every step of a president's visit somewhere is pretty much choreographed and organized and they work in close conjunction with the secret service so obviously with the problems this year and to complete breakdowns
of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania and later in Palm Beach, Florida. Terry has had a lot to say and a lot of great observations on what went wrong because that's the life she lived for a long time. Just a remarkable person and I'm so blessed to be partnered with her on football and news and politics with all of her background.
I want to take you back. Let's, let's take ourselves back eight years to December 4th, 2016. I was, as I admitted, not an early riser. That was just the first week of December. I remember my cell phone ringing bedside about, and I
You sleepily rallied myself to look and see who is calling me. My goodness, it's 552 in the morning. It's still kind of burned in my brain. I answered the phone because I saw that it was a Las Vegas area code.
so you know my my my first concern of course is something's going on with my son but I realized right away that it was not anything about from my son or anybody that knew him it was my former boss
Phil Ruffin, who is one of the most successful businessmen in the country, owns just real estate everywhere, is involved in the hotel business. He has the largest provider of warehouse equipment and hand trucks and that carts and that kind of thing. It was one of his core businesses in Wichita. He relocated here to Las Vegas a number of years ago when he bought the old frontier hotel.
that was famous on the Vegas trip for many years. That has since been leveled and filled, sold that piece of land to Donald Trump, ironically, who has been a longtime friend and business associate of his. I met Trump here in Vegas
probably around 2015 when I was out here working for Phil to get some businesses organized in the gaming business here in Nevada. So it's a long time associate. They are very close. In fact, Phil's wife
was very good friends with Melania. They were both models back in the day and and he is actually responsible for the soon to be again First Lady because his future fiance introduced Donald Trump to Melania way back when and when Phil got married for his second marriage to the to the friend of Melania's
They had the ceremony at Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump was best man. He hosted the event. So they're very tight. And on this day, on December 4th of 2016, I got a call from Phil Ruffin at 5.50 in the morning. Now he's in vain.
350 in the morning out here because at 88 years old and of course then he was only right at 80 only. He's 88 now but his schedule hasn't changed. He's in the office at 4 a.m. at the Treasure Island which he now owns on the Las Vegas Strip. He's in there early. He doesn't work like 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
I think he's out of there by 11 or 12 in the afternoon most days. But he was calling me at 5.50 in the morning. And once I figured out who it was, I kind of jumped up and got my attention up to date as quickly as I could. He was asking me some gaming related questions, some new technologies, some projects that he was thinking about and wanting to know if I would be
available for an advisory role which I always make myself available to Phil because I appreciate the opportunity to have worked for him and had one of the best stretches of my career in terms of all the opportunities I had in all the doors that that opened for me based in Kansas working for Phil's gaming empire.
But the long and short of the story was at the end of the conversation, this was just one month removed from the election. And I don't talk to Phil all that often. So I couldn't let him get away without saying, Phil, I guess your boys heading to Washington soon. And he says, yeah, you know, I was just talking to Donald yesterday. And he was begging me to come to New York.
Now, remember, this is on December 3rd when Trump was having this conversation with Phil Ruffin in 2016. He had been elected on, I think it was November 7th that year. Anyway, to get to the point, Phil was being asked by Donald Trump to come to New York, sit at Trump Towers and help him interview and vet candidates for his cabinet.
and start to talk about personnel and how they were going to staff all the various people don't realize when you become president, you've got a lot of decisions to make of who to put in charge of one of so many different agencies, bureaus departments.
Uh, Phil politely, or not maybe not politely, Phil's pretty abrupt. Phil declined and said, Donald, I can't come to New York. You're going to have to handle that on your own or get somebody else. I've got businesses to run. I can't, I can't come there. I can't do that. So he turned down the president elect, his good friend and did not participate. The reason I tell you that story is this time, look how different things are. That was a month after being elected.
This time, in anticipation of being elected, Trump already had his transition team up and running. They already had done all the legwork, even before the election on November 5th, to get organized and have a good idea who they were going to pursue in terms of all of these different spots. Because one thing Donald Trump learned from the first experience that you cannot
jump into that with anything but absolute ferocity and purpose because those first days are so critical. And when we come back, I'll tell you about some of the mistakes that are being made the first time and how this approach is going to work so much better for Trump.
instead of the 45th president because this time unlike last time Donald Trump knows exactly what he's in for and he has mobilized from even before day one to get up and ready for this challenge this time because it's all business this time it's not a wondrous journey into Washington
and the expectations he had last time and the things that end up blowing up in his face are not going to occur on his watch this time he's a fool me once shame on me fool me again in washington uh... you know that's shame on me the first one's shame on on them this time it would be shame on me fell rough and uh... it
Turning him down for vetting and interviewing Donald Trump has not made that mistake this time. He is up and running and ready to go. The first hundred days are going to be dizzying. I can't wait to see all of the excitement and turmoil and and daily
exasperating headlines. It's going to be glorious. So we'll look forward to that. Stay with us. We'll come back in just a moment. Set the stage for more of telling you what to expect as we embark on a brand new year, a brand new administration. And what I believe is a brand new day for our great country. We'll be right back.
welcome back everybody kept key for filling in for richard and valerie this morning on that dixon inviting glad to have you on board whatever you're got going on today whether you're having to commute in to provide some kind of services or needed
vocational skills hopefully most of you are in the leisure mode still today on this Christmas week with the midweek Christmas kind of lingers all the way to the weekend which is awesome it's actually my favorite time to have holidays because it's not just a day or so talked about yesterday on the program that when Christmas or New or 4th of July or a big holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday
It just kind of becomes a long weekend. A Tuesday or Wednesday, it is a week-long fiesta and it is something that really is enjoyable. We are just talking about a variety of subjects this morning. As always, I did never throw it out.
But if you have any thoughts this morning on this new administration or anything that's happening, you can always get in touch with us at 205-545-9950 if you've got thoughts this morning or any kind of end-year of thoughts as we fill in today for Richard and Valerie on this Friday.
be how different it's going to be from 2016, where the Trump team really did not know what to expect, had no real clue going into Washington who they could trust, who they could count on, who they could lean on, which turned out to be next to no one, because Washington is an organism unto itself. I've been preaching that on all of my programs.
on talk nine nine five our program we ran for three years the ride home which was on air here at ninety nine five from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen terry and i always uh... on that theme of talking about uh... it's you know people say well politics of silica let all work out i don't pay much attention uh... it was not silicon in this particular to out time because the uh...
really motivations of the other side. This was not Democrat Republican. This was big Washington government elites trying to craft a system completely different than our constitutional model, where once again, the power was going to be taken from you and me, the individual citizens who are by decree, the government, you and I are of the people by the people for the people
And these mostly Ivy League elitist, all these inspired thinkers that thought America's conception was evil and inequitable. All you've heard all the phrases. They were going to change everything and make us a completely different nation because they know better for you than you know for yourselves. They're smarter than us. They've got a degree from an Ivy League school.
You know this the silver spoon crowd who had access to things that you and I never dreamed of all of a sudden believed that they knew best and this country needed to be I don't have the
or see to make good decisions. Well, the American people finally had enough of that. And on November 5th this past year, emphatically indicated through their votes, which direction they wanted this country to go. And it's back on course to what our original founders foresaw. So a whole lot to pave the road there to get you ready for the second hour of the show. We're on all the way till 10 o'clock this morning.
And darn glad to be here. Kip Kiefer filling in for Richard and Valerie. We're going to get into the Washington establishment, what they've already done to indicate that they may know what's kind of coming, but they have no intention of going quietly. They're going to try to keep things status quo. I'll give you some real good examples of that when we come back at the top of the hour.
It's the Dixon and Vining Show on 99.5. We are glad to be in today with you after this time out. We'll tee it up and get ready for hour number two.
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