Billy Cunningham, Welcome to eclipse Monday afternoon. The big event takes place about
three h nine, really begins about one fifty fifty two for about two and
a half hours partial eclipse. Really the eclipse also is from the west to
the south to the east. Even Florida has about a seventy five percent eclipse.
And all hell's breaking loose, cats and dogs are living any other Maybe
turtles are fornicating. I saw that on Fox nineteen this morning. There's large
numbers of turtles and the zoos that are getting on top of each other.
I don't know what's going on. Plus we have birds flying upside down reports
but in a serious way. We have Governor Mike DeWine with us this Monday
afternoon somewhere near Indian Lake. Is the scene you should make with your little
one and Governor Mike Dwine welcome again in the Bill Cunningham Show. And can
you talk about the state government reaction to what's happening. We had a report
from Tony Bender that essentially you have the National Guard on hold. Can you
tell the American people what's happening of all? I think you should sing for
your listeners. Indian Lake, because you and I are old enough to remember
when Indian Lake came out and the song we're talking about, Yes, yeah,
Tony, can you sing it? Indian Lake is the scene you should
make with your little one. That's about the only part of it I know.
But Tony Bender is a DJ type kind of a guy. He could
probably find it for you. Well, you know, maybe you could.
You could play it sometimes. We're going to play it this afternoon if you're
there. What about the National Guard? What are the concerns you have from
a governmental angle about people acting up, traffic, et cetera. So Bill
looked at what happened in other states when they've had total clips over you know,
the last few years, and just tons of people rolled into those communities,
and the biggest concern was just traffic. Uh. And so we had
the National Guard. They were actually doing you're training over the weekend. Uh.
And so that was that was good. But they were ready to hold
over till today. But we made a decision, frankly, to let them
go back to their normal lives, uh and not not uh, you know,
stay assembled, because we don't think we're going to have a huge problem
today. The biggest problem probably is going to come after you know, it's
over, and then people all want to go back home wherever they're, where
they've come from. And the good thing is they've been coming in here.
You know, over the last three four days. All our camp sites,
uh, every state park is full as far as camp sites, people camping
out, all of them that are within the you know, within the the
the area where that is that is going. So bottom line, everything looked
good this morning. I had a briefing couple hours ago, and uh,
it looks good. We're fan. I are at Indian Lake. Her sister
has a house up here, and beautiful day, very very clear. And
what we did is we came up north. You know, we lived out
in Cedarville. We came up north to get right into the actual you know,
the pathway, so we could see a longer time of totality. But
the state state's doing well. I continue to get reports. But you know,
everyone looks pretty good today at this point. Here we are Monday afternoon,
and of course the eclipse at least here's about three oh nine or three
ten. You're about one hundred miles north of Cincinnati. But what would be
a triggering event? You have the General and the National Guard. On hold,
are we talking about M sixteen's and tanks or are we talking about traffic?
Well, it's all traffic. Look, look, there's two there's two
concerns that people should have today. One is you know, in traffic,
and then people you know, pull over when the thing is starting and pull
someplace where they get rear ended, you know, something crazy on the roads,
and we worry about that. We worry about when people when it's fall
over and then everybody's okay, last time, you know, to go back
home, and we think there's a lot of a lot of traffic. Then
the other thing you worry about, of course, is people looking at the
sun and without you know, these these special glasses and you know sunglasses don't
work. These things are you know, multiple times stronger than sunglasses. So
those are two big things. I think people should just enjoy today, have
a good time. This is something that uh, you know, it's not
going to occur in Ohio probably you're in my lifetime Bill. It's that the
latter part of the century when happens again. And you know, we were
talking the other day, I think the last time this was was an wasn't
eight eighteen o six something like that. And the story was that the Cumps
and his brother who was called the Prophet, knew about this because they,
you know, they'd been talking to settlers and it was known at that time
when it was coming, and they kind of predicted it, and that,
you know, to show their show their power. At least that's one of
the story. I'm not sure how is it possible to come and the profit
they would know about the total eclipse of the sun. Well, they were
talking to settlers. I mean, they had a lot. What we forget
is there's a tremendous interaction going on with the settlers at that at that time.
Sometimes it was violet. Sometimes they're fighting, but a lot of times
they're trading, trading things back and forth. You know. It does bring
up that in June, we're going to open uh and this is going to
be Joe Dieters as he's been he's been telling me about how important things this
is. We are opening a brand new state park, very very small estate
park between Zinga and Yellow Springs. It was it's called Old Town and Uh.
The Shawny Indians, it was their main encampment in the mid in the
mid seventeen seventies, and this is actually the place if you remember the store,
if you're for your folks down in Kentucky, this is where, uh,
the Shawnees want shoddy and just went down into their hunting ground down in
Kentucky and then captured Daniel Boom and brought him back to Old Town in what
is now Green County, helding for a long time. They must have got
along pretty well because he was a good hunter. They went out hunting trips
together. But then one day he heard that they were getting ready to attack
Boonsboro, and so he escaped and what back across jo Hio River cleared out
into there. They didn't catch him, and he warned the people at Boonsborough
they were ready for the attack. So all that history is going to be
kind of We're going to tell the story of the Shawnees, the Native Americans,
and we're going to do it in this new little state park that's right
on the place where the Shawnees were entamped and where their main main place was
for at least three three very very impactful years. Governor Mike DeWine, you
mean to tell me that Takumsa and a profit took Daniel Boone hostage and I
seventy five didn't exist at the time. Somehow there were just woods and rivers
and creeks everywhere and marched him from Kentucky up to one hundred miles north into
Ohio. And then he escaped and went back to Boonsboro and said, the
Indians are coming. Yes, that is through story that that one we know
is know is true. Wow, that great story. I never fascinating,
fascinating story. And this is just a great part of Ohile history that uh,
you know, we want to tell in this state park and the visitor
center there is almost almost completed, still be a place where people can go
and learn and you know, here here hear these stories and kind of learn
more about the Native Americans but also learn more about the European pioneers that were
coming and uh kind of how they how they interacted. Could you have imagined
when when you're running for office, what about six years ago, to become
the governor, that you would deal with massive pandemics, you would deal with
warring factions in the House and the Senate and Columbus. Now you're dealing with
the total eclipse of the sun. This is a song talking about like Carly
Simon style, the totally did you could you even imagine this would have happened?
Well on ad add to that a horrible, horrific train wreck in East
Palace. Tee No, no, I haven't no idea any of this,
but you know that's what governors do. You try to get ready for these
things, or or if you have no warning, you know, you try
to react. So yeah, it's it's part of the deal. It's unbelievable
for it kind of you're sitting at your desk and somebody knocks on your door
and say, hey, hey, governor, we've had a terrible train to
railmen and East Balestine, teeth, hair and eyes everywhere. Is going to
be years to clean that up. Oh governor. By the way, we
have a once in a lifetime pandemic. What do we do now, oh
governor? By the way, we got we have the reenactment of to Come
and the profit kidnapping Daniel Boone taking him into Ohio. And by the way,
there's a total eclipse of the sun that last happened in eighteen o six
during the Jefferson administration, and it won't happen again until twenty seventy nine.
And by the way, Governor, what else is going on? I mean,
well, the other thing we're going to sell it celebrate shortly the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States. And that's we've got preparations to
do that, and they're doing that all across the country. So exciting time.
Bill, never never do a moment. So lastly about the National Guard.
There's no anticipation of civil disobedience or civil disa no, no, no,
no, this is gonna be a happy day. People are going to
have a good time. I'm looking at the sky and don't see many clouds,
at least at Indian Lake. And you know, this part of Ohio
looks looks very very very clear, and we're going to have a chance to
see this. And for you and me, Billy, I hate to say
this, but this, this is it the only time we're going to have
a chance to say that. I had on an optometrist a couple of days
ago. I'm going to get another one on in about an hour. And
he says that when the total eclipse happens, which might be two to four
minutes, you can look at the sun at that moment only of the total
eclipse. Now, the problem is you put that message out and people may
anticipate a little bit ahead of time and drill holes in your in your eyeballs.
But are you going to risk it all in that two minutes and take
off your glasses look at the sun? No? No, no, no,
I'm gonna I'm gonna have those things on. But the other thing is,
you know you're gonna see I guess, uh, it's going to get
pretty pretty dark. And uh, you were kind of kind of doing a
tease at the beginning there. But apparently one of the things that people are
interested in is getting reports of how animals act during that three or four minutes.
It's it's dark. I mean, it's like, oh, what's going
on? What are your what are the cows do out in the field?
They think it's time to come in, and you're kind of you're kind of
a farm boy. You grew up on farms. I mean, you were
probably a second cousin of Daniel Boone. What what a farm an? I
have a friend of mine, Michelle Schneider, you know her well, and
she has six horses and she wants to call in and talk about what her
horses are doing, And I thought, well, calling, I don't know,
well what is people are? The other thing people are doing. They're
going to see literally at zoos. What do these animals do? What did
the gorillas do during the four minutes? I don't know, but well we're
going to find out. All right, Governor, this this is I don't
want to tell you how you do your job, but you should have somebody
reporting live from the Cincinnati Zoo, Great Zoo. What are the gorillas doing?
What are the drastic Well, you know Joe Dieters killed Harambe. Harambe
is dead, so we don't know about Harambe. But uh uh, last
thing I want to ask you again, if called by President Donald Trump,
would you become a vice president. I don't think he's calling Billy. I
don't think that's happened. I don't think I've read the short list, and
I don't think they didn't say. Uh, let's call well, Mike DeWine.
You've been in the Congress, you've been in the Senate. Uh,
you've been lieutenant governor, you've been prosecutor, you're now the governor. Did
I miss anything? Uh? And so you seem to know where the bodies
are buried. If it's a broker convention and uh in Milwaukee, and and
they come to you, will you come out of the back and say here,
I am Governor Dowine, Vice President h I can count. And it
looks like Trump is over the numbers. I don't think you're gonna be a
broker convention. I think that he's clearly clearly nominated. Are you going to
it? Will you be there? Yeah? Yeah, we're doing an the
Governor Oways does excuse me. Governor Oways does a welcome uh for the for
the delegates and other people from Ohio. So we're gonna do that on the
Sunday night before uh it starts. There's also I think a Brewer's game that
day that I may they may go see. Yeah, the res are not
playing, but you know, I kind of like to see that ballpark.
But I'm trying to get you to say yes. If there's a knock on
the door, where you respond, there will be no knock. All right,
Governor, you're an Indian lake. It's wonderful. It's fabulous, most
beautiful Indian like Lemon Lake. As you remember. Now, hold on,
Governor, listen up, Tony Bender. You say we play it. Hit
it, Tony Bender. This is for you, Governor Mike Dwan. We're
not playing Jetson's anymore. We're playing Indian Lake. Here we go. You're
the I can see you and Fran right now, swaying. The air's fine,
spelling in the country. Countryside is pretty in Indian Lake. Hit the
post, Hit pretty, Hit the post. I gotta come before it's drained
off. Hey, hit it. Keep it in mind, Governor Mike Dwining.
Fran has found a place in the summer sun. That's gonna be the
total week clips, Governor Mike beautiful. I wish I had time to out,
Billy, if you had that Jetson thing ready to go, I'd fly
up there right now. If you had that. You should be an Indian
like this is the place to be if it's beautiful to government. Absolutely.
How many miles north of Cincinnati is about eighty or ninety. Yes, it's
the way. It takes us an hour to an hour and ten to get
up here. You go up about sixty eight the state, straight up sixty
eight. By the way, Billy was with the with the Indian Path before
else wil To comps that took hostage Daniel Boone. So all right, Governor
Mike dan thank you very much for kind of waylaying the fierce Tony Benner thought
that would be Shawnee, wouldn't you It was a Shawnee to come. Sorry,
all right, Governor Mike Dowan, thank you, Billy, thank you,
thank you all. Let's continue with more. Unbelievable. This is truly
unbelievable. The Shawnees kidnap and take hostis Daniel Boone from Boone County, take
him up one hundred miles north and then help shooting animals. Then he escapes
when he found out undercover that there was going to be an attack on Boonsboro
and down he went to warn his fellow Kentuckians. Unbelievable. Let's continue with
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