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Here we go, a brand new hour of Dixon and Vining, but Dixon and Vining. They're Christmas holiday and deservedly so. Folks like Steve West and Valerie Vining and Richard Dixon, who report for work bright and early every morning, five days a week, are heroic figures in my mind. I don't think I was really cut out for a regular schedule of morning shows.
to have the opportunity to visit with you early risers on this Friday morning. We're celebrating so many things this week. The Christmas season, which if you're just joining us in this hour, I hope everybody's celebration was
I'm out here in Las Vegas at my sons and getting to see the excitement. This is kind of the peak period, I guess, these next couple of years for my four-year-old grandson. He was really just completely in his element and it's really awesome.
some of the experiences we had. My youngest son, Clayton, who also lives in Birmingham, who's out here, of course, also for the festivities. Clayton, every year since King's been around, has snuck off right in the middle of the proceedings on Christmas Eve, and gone and changed into a full-fledged Santa suit.
and slips out the door and goes into the backyard and he's got some jingle bells that he rings and King hears them and says I think I hear Santa and runs out to the window and King in the shadows barely visible and to see a little boy jumping up and down saying Santa's in my backyard Santa's in my yard and he opened the door and and said Santa come on in and
Like his hero, Clay is a huge gaming guy. He's over. He's 31 years old now, but he's still a big kid at heart, but he does such a great Santa. I think his voice sounds a lot like Clay Kiefer instead of Santa, but King, even at four years old.
in the magic of Christmas that he doesn't even notice that played, who's basically his hero and idol is not around, but Santa is. He's not seeing them in the same room in the course of his lifetime, but his excitement is what Christmas is all about. And that's the story I'd like to relate to you and props to my great son, Clay Kiefer,
My older son, of course, case is a media guy. He is involved in all kinds of programs, including our programs in Birmingham the morning after and the starting lineup. He does a lot.
covers the Raiders every day at their headquarters and travels to all the road games, always in the press box at NFL stadiums every Sunday has a great gig covering sports. And we talked about how Las Vegas has just boomed in terms of being a mega sports capital in America with all kinds of.
So Case is Living the Dream. Clay is more of a behind the scenes guy who has been specializing in really making everything happen. Technically, he is just a Renaissance guy that can do anything as interested in everything. But just to see him play that role every year and just completely thrill
a little boy that we all love dearly who is just a just a unbelievable fire plug of personality and it's going to be just great watching him get a little bit older and start to you know round into into a school age form
It was really a wonderful weekend and it was so life-sustaining and so enriching to be a part of, so I just wanted to share that with you and hope that you all had similar experiences and if you don't have little kids around, maybe that'll be coming again into your life because a long void for us of no little kids
It has been completely transformed and it makes Christmas so much more whimsical and magical and wonderful. So just a great time out here heading back to Birmingham today. Got a lot going on including all of our shows on the weekend. We'll be on Jock's 94-5 tomorrow morning at 8 a.m.
Uh, because we preview all the big games coming up in college football on Kip and Terry game day. My wonderful partner who I mentioned, uh, uh, you know, I love dearly and she's so valued. Uh, Terry Quiyan and I have been doing programming on jocks for a number of years and game time gets you ready for action. And on Sunday morning is the more
gives you the chance to respond to everything you see on the field. Of course, Alabama will be in action this week. Not on the weekend. They play on Monday down in Tampa in the rely quest ball, which for years was called the Outback Bowl. I guess, uh, blooming onions and steak sales fell off to the point where they're not sponsoring the bowl game anymore.
But it's a great New Year's Day game and it's being played, of course, a little early this year because of the playoff schedule now taking the center stage on New Year's Day. But Alabama will play another traditional powerhouse, the defending national champion Michigan, and it's a rematch of the Alabama Michigan
team college football playoff that was played in the Rose Bowl where Michigan overcame the tide in overtime to win that game. So a little bit of a chance for revenge. Michigan had a rough season only finished seven and five this year. The departure of the cheater Jim Harbaugh.
their head coach who went back to the NFL to avoid any kind of penalties from the NCAA for the cheating scandal that Michigan was involved in last year, but they still won the championship. It's still an under investigation. I love that.
We talked about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy starting the government accountability. I wish the NCAA was a government agency because the first thing they need to close down and clean out and eliminate is the NCAA, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which is basically just a giant clearinghouse.
to accomplish nothing, and the sport of college football now pretty much completely out of control with all of the compensation issues, the Supreme Court ruling against the NCAA's lawsuit, which every lawyer in the country knew they were going to do. The Supreme Court voted that players should be compensated
because that's the American capitalist system, nine to nothing. When's the last time you saw a Supreme Court verdict that was nine to nothing? And yet the NCAA fought that opportunity for young men and women in college athletics to be compensated for their talents and to be able to market their name, image and license
All like this, I should say, all the way to the upper court, the highest court in the land spent millions of dollars on lawyers instead of accepting the inevitable and crafting a program that makes sense for everybody that's not.
Now, people say that college sports is the professional sports model. No, it's not the money. Yes, the organization. No, when you enter into an agreement with a professional team, you sign a contract. Here's I'm going to be your employee. You're going to get the best that I have to offer. I'm going to comply with all
Going to pay me you don't become a free agent until and be able to jump ship and go somewhere else until that contract expires or the team releases you or trades you in college football you are a free agent Every 365 days of the year they come and go as they please they transfer at will which is their right to do of course you can go to any any
educational institution at where you qualify and can be admitted, but this is just a Wild West
It's just completely traumatic upheaval. That's my favorite word today. I keep saying it in so many things in government and in now college football. And I didn't intend to get off on a sports tangent, but it's just so indicative of something that now the new commissioner of the NCAA is the former
Because they're so inept at that organization, they can't craft anything that works for the universities or the players or the fans that spend millions of dollars supporting college athletics. So now they have their hat in their hand with their new political director of the NCAA Charlie Baker
going to Washington begging for the Congress to get involved. And we've talked about how an app Congress is with their 87% disapproval, but they're asking Congress to draft
a bill to fix their own enterprise, which is college sports, and it's just ridiculous to go to the government for help when it needs to be the commissioners and the leagues, and they just need to invite the NCAA.
which is a dinosaur that needs to go away to exit stage left. We've talked about the implosion of big hotels here in Las Vegas to make room for new progress. Well, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the NCAA headquarters, and OK, we'll let everybody evacuate the building before we do it. But it needs to be brought to the ground. And we need to move on. The conferences need to take charge of their own product.
which is the college athletics and get this nanny state ridiculous outdated concept of an organization out of the freakin way uh... charlie baker testified in front congress last week it was absolutely disastrous because the the question of allowing
trans men, uh, who are identifying as women to participate in women's sports, which has led to injury and humiliation for a lot of women who prepared all their lives for those competitions to allow that to be happening. And his answers were so bad, uh, that it led John Kennedy, the Senator from Louisiana to say, you know what, we all need to pitch in and
go to Amazon and order you a spine so you will have the ability to provide some leadership instead of being such a puppet of no activity leading your organization. He got absolutely barbecued and deservedly so.
We're up against a break. We'll have more as we talk about what's coming in Washington in this coming year, inauguration day now, just about 20 some odd days away. It's going to be amazing, folks. And we will see what happens when Donald Trump returns to Washington and hits the ground running.
Well, I don't know if we're really engaging in a slow ride this morning, but it has been a fun ride as we continue here during our number three of the Dixon Vining Show Kip Kiefer. If you're just tuning in, filling in on this Friday and glad to be here. Steve West in charge of the show in the studio. I'm coming to you this morning from Las Vegas, Nevada, been out here for Christmas festivities, heading back to Birmingham this afternoon here. The weather's a little tumultuous.
So hopefully we'll be able to get in without a lot of incident and delay because I'm anxious to get back to Birmingham and get 2025 off to a fast start inspired by our new president elect who is in complete
acceleration mode to make sure that the first 100 days of his term this time is going to be better than the last time. What we ran into last time was Donald Trump and he admitted it in some rallies that he conducted in the election this 2024 season.
said repeatedly that he learned so many lessons from his first in in Washington and one of those was the importance of having the right people in the right spots because decisions he made really crippled his first presidency and one of the main
decisions that he made involved a very familiar character to alabamaans who are listening and that was the long time alabama senator jeff sessions that appointment of jeff sessions to his quote dream job
unquote Jeff's dream job of being the Attorney General of the United States was the first domino that really set the Trump presidency into a constant four-year battle of playing defense against all kinds of ridiculous allegations of all kinds of weaponization. Trump has said in these rallies that he had no idea.
that he would be blindsided like that. Instead of having people in government rally around him and be on his team, they worked against him from day one. And it goes back to the whole, what I called the Washington
conglomerate, whatever you want to call it, fierce powerful bureaucracy as the MSNBC guy called it. But it's an organism. And when something invades an organism, they immediately, the organism immediately protects the nucleus. That's why you get all these congressional hearings
and all of these staged events to point fingers at each other and at elements that they fear are going to upset the apple cart of the greatest growth enterprise ever conceived the United States federal government. And you see all of this drama and all of these hearings and all of this talk
that it went on for four years in the house investigating Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family, but nothing has ever been resolved because they send things for referral over to the Department of Justice. It's being controlled by an executive branch that can completely suppress any activity there. So all of this activity, all of these television
depictions of hearings and all of the things you hear in news headlines all the time are just staged events to keep you engaged and convinced that there is a process happening, but there's never resolution, there's never punishment. It always just kind of ends and fades away, but when the next shiny object comes along and it's really kind of a disturbing
thing in government that that's one of the reasons that people are disillusioned. It really needs to get to a point where things change in Washington and I'm so hopeful that maybe after so many years almost
40 or 50 years of government continuing to evolve into this self-protection mode where the greatest gig on earth has got to be preserved and expanded and it's just such a bloated, ridiculous system. I told you in the previous hour that the assurance that a government shutdown would still allow the people that are most important for the government
to the essential people in government in charge of your safety and security and all of the other important functions of government the essential employees would continue in their activities and be compensated which
that language beg the question for me, well, what about the other people, the vast majority of government employees who obviously, by your definition there, are not essential? Do we need non-essential people? Does your business employ non-essential people in your organizations? It really asks the question,
And certainly we are at a time with Trump coming in with big scrutiny, with this Department of Government efficiency, looking at things. We're going to talk more about Doge in the next half hour, but non-essential employees in government.
Uh, bloated and costing you millions of dollars that you're paying for. I think it's time for a change. We'll talk more about that on the other side on talk 99 five Dixon and finding Kip Kiefer filling in on this Friday morning. I got to hear this intro.
Steve West's thrilling me with some radar love this morning. That is completely unexpected. Coming out of left field, one of the great driving songs of all time. If you had a, and your younger days or even if you're in your second younger phase, if you've got a fast car and are on a trip, radar love is the ultimate song. So Steve West, you have made my day with that selection.
I'm happy to do it. Yeah. Are you a... Wasn't that band called like Golden Earring or something bizarre like that? Yeah, Golden Earring indeed. I'm proud of myself. I haven't developed a terrible dimension yet if I could come up with that because I believe you could safely say that Golden Earring were one hit wonders but Radar Love was a masterpiece. Actually there were two hit wonders. They had this in a song in the 80s called Twilight Zone.
Oh, nice, nice. Well, I am absolutely thrilled that you have pulled that up because that gives me the, I can't wait to get back to my home theater in Birmingham with my good sound system and seek out radar love, which I haven't heard in years. I heard the first few notes of the intro and was like, this is awesome. So that is the best driving song ever.
and I used to do a lot of driving back and forth between Memphis and Birmingham back in the day and all over the place as a matter of fact. So great memories there. Appreciate that. We are talking about a lot of different
for Dixon and Vining, Richard and Valerie in the first name essence. They do such a great job every morning here along with Steve on 99.5. It's always an honor this time of year to get a chance to fill in because as I mentioned in the earlier parts of the show several hours ago, as we're well into it now, I always found the listeners of this radio station
to be so engaging and so informed and always a pleasure to come on board and fill in whenever called upon. We are continuing to talk about the transformation that's getting ready to happen in Washington. And the organism that is DC, the Tier 4 denied deep state is in full fledged panic mode.
But not in the streets of Washington DC, in suburbs, gated communities, high-rise luxury at condominiums, all surrounding Washington, because that's where most of the government employees are working from these days, if they are working at all. But you are still, with your tax dollars, paying so many of these people, almost 90,000 of them. And as I mentioned right before the break,
They said, don't worry, if the government shuts down, the essential employees will still be utilized, still be working, still be compensated. Well, does that make all the rest of them non-essential? That's the question I've been posing. And think about it, if the essential employees will keep the government going and do all the things that government needs to provide,
What do the rest of them provide except for sitting around in their pajama pants watching Netflix and collecting a check from Uncle Sam which actually comes from you and me and everybody in America toiling sweating working paying taxes so
With that being the prelude to talking about Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswami, two unbelievably successful, relatively young, particularly in Ramaswami's case, entrepreneurs who have run
myriad of businesses and made millions and even billions in Elon Musk's case of dollars have gotten behind this movement because they are absolutely appalled. Musk was so up in arms about what he was seeing with being an illegal immigrant to this country. Elon Musk was born in South Africa and his family lived in Canada before immigrating to the United States.
And Elon Musk has really embraced the whole concept of America. I was honored this year two different times in replying to an Elon Musk post. He reposted my comments, which that was pretty high praise when the most successful guy in the country and probably the richest man in the world reposts one of your thoughts. But it was almost always on
his thoughts because he became obsessed with the process because he's a process kind of a guy. He became obsessed in the process that the founding fathers in this country and the conception of America, how it came to be and what it was intended to be and how we had gotten so far away from it. He was absolutely appalled
to see the way that the government was weaponized, particularly in the 2020 election, leading up to the Biden versus Trump showdown, how that any kind of thought off the reservation in terms of Trump's fitness for office and any questions of Biden's complete non-fitness for office
were suppressed and censored and to the point where when the Hunter Biden laptop fell into the hands of a computer repair service and he never came back to pick that up and the guy
In fixing the computer came across a lot of data and a lot of postings that were frankly staggering of the nefarious activities that the Biden crime family, which basically was emanating from Joe Biden serving 50 plus years in Washington in various capacities. And he had worked his way up.
through just being there for all that time and the people of Delaware continuing to send him back for term after term first in the house and then in the Senate Joe Biden had reached a influential level despite not being the brightest bulb on the tree let's say Joe Biden who gates the former long time
intelligence operative also ran the CIA a lot of the the the national intelligence uh... and different uh... aspects of government for both republican and democrat administrations uh... robert gates once said in his book that joe biden in his entire career in washington this is before he was president uh... gates that joe biden he was vice president for obama at the time the book was written
has not been correct about a single foreign policy matter in the entirety of his political career. So this is a guy that even in Washington was kind of derided as being less than really
on top of his game even in his prime whenever that was. So when Joe Biden emerged as the big candidate for office in 2020 to take down Donald Trump because they had Bernie Sanders leading the pack and
the democrats rightly uh... figured out that you know bernie's gonna be a little bit too much for the american people to digest by calling himself a democrat socialist uh... that was probably not a direction that the country was going to willingly go so they draft good old
Mr. Joe average by his own depiction and he is all of a sudden chosen to be the guy to run against Trump with a complete fraudulent reinvention
to get that opportunity Biden was willing to do just about anything and one of them was accept and adopt the policies written by the guy who was leading the pack Bernie Sanders who they thought was unelectable but Biden adopted in the campaign all of his uh... ridiculous
economic policies which were far far left and really impractical and were going to be tremendously costly to the American taxpayer was going to increase the massive deficits that we have in the trillions of dollars and was going to create runaway inflation. I mean you could see all this coming once again like dominoes all stacked in a row and yet it happened that way.
where biden was willing to take on any platform as long as he was the front man in the presidential race and basically he was became the de facto third term for barack obama now obama had passed biden over recognizing his limitations for the far more cunning and and
and treacherous Hillary Clinton in 2016 and that blew up in his face so his first third term that he thought was going to be executed through Hillary Clinton did not come to pass and so this time
Joe Biden was the choice because he knew Joe Biden was totally controllable. He knew about his complete cognizant decline. He knew he was going to be the ideal guy that they could paint as good old Scranton Joe down the middle centrist. We're going to reunite the country, all of that nonsense that was used in that campaign to win that election.
even though the election was also conducted in a COVID state of emergency, which opened the door to so much abuse and fraud. If anybody to this day believes that Joe Biden
legitimately got 81 million votes more than any presidential candidate in the history of our country. I've got some prime swamp land bordering the Everglades that I would really like to show you because that was the biggest
bunch of baloney ever that Joe Biden first was was going to be the leader of this country. Anytime somebody calls it the Biden administration, I cringe because Joe Biden is not crafting policy. Joe Biden doesn't really even have the cognizant ability to appreciate it. Remember when he was detected having a bunch of illegal
I mean, illegally having a bunch of classified documents in his possession in four different locations, including his garage. He was completely found to be in violation. He was never the president when he was taking these documents. Had to have been stuffing them in his pants or sneaking them out.
of viewing skiffs in the capital. So for a senator and even the vice president to have possession of any classified materials is a blatant violation. A president is allowed to have those documents and Trump was indicted on 36 counts in the in the law fair prosecution of him trying to take him down. Biden was found to be completely
by Robert Herr, a special prosecutor, in violation of having those documents, but Herr contended that he is a kindly old man with a bad memory and is not prosecutable under those circumstances.
But this kindly old man with the bad memory was the leader of the free world, the commander in chief of the United States. Good grief. That was an early indicator from an official source that Joe Biden did not have faculties to be in that job. And the fact that they hid that fact from the American people, although the American people paying attention like yours truly was calling from the tie as rooftop,
Every chance I got that this guy is not in charge of Jack squat in Washington. He's being told what to do. He's a puppet on strings. He's just glad to have the trappings of the office. And that fraud was so obvious to people that had their eyes open.
But now the Wall Street Journal has published this explosive report that Joe Biden was being shielded and covered for by all of his staffers. All these people are coming clean now. Good grief. We got to pay attention. We got to pull our head out of the sand.
for this to be a blockbuster revelation now of what was blatantly obvious and now even at the end of his term which needed to end right when the election was finished but he gets 76 more days to do more damage and be told to do more things like commute sentences of some of the worst offenders that we had in our prison system
uh... over two thousand commutations now of sentences including uh... people that murdered children uh... raped uh... people and killed them in these heinous incidents showing mercy for those people who didn't show mercy for eight nine and ten-year-olds uh... i mean come on it's ridiculous it's just strict leftist policy and joe biden is being put
Documents in front of him signed this, Joe, signed that it is not Biden doing this work in this dead stage of his presidency. He should be out of office. Waiting to January 20th in this circumstance is absolutely disastrous. And I shudder to think what might happen in the next three weeks as the exit strategy continues to try to make things as rocky for Donald Trump coming in as prepared as he is as possible.
Another break is time. We gotta do that. Let's get to it and come back and wrap up this hour and get ready for hour number four.
winding down another hour on Dixon and Vining Kip Kiefer with you on this Friday morning. We've been talking about a variety of subjects. I warned you at the very top, if anybody's still around from that six o'clock hour, that this was gonna be kind of a widespread hit and miss kind of deal. I've got a lot of different things on my mind today. So I know we've been kind of all over the place, but we're basically focusing on what's happening and what's going to happen.
in these next couple of weeks in this brand new Trump administration where he is so much better prepared this time than last time. I started to tell you about the disaster that was the Jeff Sessions decision. Jeff Sessions as a senator was the first guy to jump on the Trump bandwagon when everybody else was just laughing at his candidacy.
Again, I thought from day one that Trump was a very logical guy to pivot to in Washington because we needed to get away from politicians making decisions and running things because politicians make decisions based on what's good for politicians, not so much what's good for Americans and having a strictly a business
minded guy who was also very skilled in negotiation and deal making. He wrote the book Art of the Deal. I thought he was a good choice, but as he emerged as a serious candidate after being laughed at,
uh... initially as some kind of comic buffoon what he's a businessman he's that has no political experience which is probably the best thing he brought to the table because uh... the question i want to leave you within this hour into ponder
is simple. Why do we think a experienced politician is the best person to make decisions for your and my benefit and for the security of our country? A politician is basically a politician because they can't really do anything else. And there are a lot of people that have been successful that get into politics just for the power and control aspect, but
Just being a politician does not qualify you to be an expert on foreign policy or all of the other domestic issues.
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