By Billy Cunning in The Great American Joanan, you and I now is Shari
Pololo of the Power of Five? And Shari, welcome again to the Bill
Cunning m Show. And Shari, how are you Wellye? I'm doing living
the American Dream. I watched your report a couple of nights ago about human
trafficking and that kind of stuff. Before we get there, what is the
Power of Five doing for Monday? We have historical events transpiring. There are
birds flying upside down out of the windows. I talked to Governor Mike DeWine's
going to join me on Monday. He said, there's unusual mating patterns of
animals developing as I speak. We've had earthquakes on the East Coast. We've
had floods. I guess tomorrow the Higho rivers out of his banks. We
have numerous tornadoes. We have the earthquake also hit Taipei, Taiwan, triggering
tsunamis. We have solar eclipses, we have a solar flag. We have
massive pandemics. We have blasted Monroe, Ohio. The Holy Land israels under
attack. Are these the end of times foretold by John? Is this the
rapture and if so, how will you cover it? Okay, first of
all, you know I can't answer that question this the end of time.
I certainly hope not, because I have lots of plans here in the coming
years. Yeah, you were referring to the wild weather, though it really
has been crazy this week. Of course, we saw the tornadoes getting three
concerns here around Greater Cincinnati, many other tornadoes throughout Kentucky and Indiana on Tuesday.
I have to tell you, listening to our meteorologists were worried about those
tornadoes. There was the possibility that it really could have been similar to what
we saw fifty years ago, I mean eerily on Wednesdays to the day after
the tornadoes came through our area and the severe storms. That was a fifty
year anniversary of the deadly tornadoes from Zenia where more than thirty people were killed.
And then, of course what you're referring to what we saw in Taiwan,
and then just this morning in New York and New Jersey with the four
point eight earthquake that hit there. Thankfully, it doesn't look like anyone was
hurt, but there certainly was a lot of furniture and floors shaking. People
could still feel the aftershocks later today. But I think we're just looking forward
to what we're going to see on Monday. And if you've seen any of
those are graphics, or you've been watching our news at all, you've seen
that we pretty much have every team member, every reporter and anchor in that
day stationed all over Greeter, Cincinnati where we can see complete totality. Mike
and I are going to be in the studio, but Kevin Robinson's going to
be in the field. All of our meteorologists, many of our anchors and
reporters of course, are going to be spread out, many of them in
the Hamilton area and all of those areas where you will see a total I'm
looking forward to it. I think it's going to be very cool, although
again I'll you working, so I'll probably be watching it on television. You're
laughing and snickering. What if Israel's wiped off the face of the earth by
the forces of evil. Put that together with the solar flares, the solar
eclips, the hurricanes, the tornadoes, the floods, the earthquakes, the
tsunamis. Do you see revelation? Do you see the end? Of times.
If Israel loses this war and is nuked out of existence, then what
happens. I think we're in trouble. We haven't got it, we haven't
got the eclipse yet. I'm just telling you, I don't know. I
can't even wrap my mind about what is happening in the Middle East, and
sadly we have seen it for you know, decades and decades of my lifetime,
and now what's going on in Israel. You know, I certainly hope
that that's not the case. You know, you just, you know,
always are so hopeful that maybe there can be some common ground and that there
finally can be some peace to the people over there. I don't laugh at
all or or take it lightly what's going on over there, or what's going
on between Ukraine and Russia. I think we have so many people we forget
because it feels like for most of us a world away. But there are
people living right now in our community who have friends and family members over there
who have or they've lost loved ones, and so, you know, you
certainly hope that that it's not the end of time. That it has sadly
been going on forever. It feels like and you just hope that eventually there
can be some sort of peace. Well, let's go to page two,
which is your report on human trafficking. We think it happens on the Southern
border. I've had on guests like like Ali Bradley from News Nation, who
talks about hundreds of thousands of girls and young women brutally raped repeatedly. We
talk about one hundred thousand Americans killed on the through the Southern border, fentanyl
and heroin addiction, and some of this is washing upon the shores of the
tries. That explained what happened a couple of nights ago at the Freedom at
the Freedom Center. So we okay. Our former reporter, Meredith Studs,
she's out of the news business now, which I hate to even say,
because she was just such a darn good reporter. And you'll see it if
you watch this documentary, you'll see how good she is. For more than
a year she followed sex trafficking. So there is a bit of a difference.
You know, human trafficking victims are on that other end of the spectrum
willing you're talking about it with the immigration issue, where people are forced into
the sex industry against their own will. Maybe it's through force, fraud,
even collersion. And then there is that gray area. There's that middle area
where there's the line of you know, there's that line between chorice and force,
where there's willing prostitution and human trafficking. Though it's really sort of people
will tell you, experts will say it's really indistinguishable. So this focus this
documentary is called Breaking Chains, Surviving Sex Trafficking and the Power of Second Chances.
And so what Merit has did is for more than a year she followed
women in Cincinnati who got into prostitution or sex trafficking, either because maybe it
was abuse that came from an abuse of childhood. Some of them are on
many of them are underage. Maybe it's because of drug abuse, or it's
because of force, because somebody in their lives. John A. Temp is
forcing them to do it. And she talks with these women, some of
them on camera, some of them who wanted their identities hidden, and she
took us through the process of why they do it. Many of them will,
you know, we'll talk about that it's for drugs that they had been
addicted. But then she also is taking us through the other side. We
have a local judge who is part of a she launched something called Change Court.
Her name is Judge Heather Russell. Change Court essentially gives women a second
chance that if they go through this per it's for two years, they can
stay on track, they can be held accountable, they can stay clean,
that their records, their misdemeanor records, will be wiped clean. She also
talks with the Attorney General for Ohio, Dave Yost, and how he sees
is still oftentimes prostitutes are part of the criminal system. Right, they go
through the court, they do jail time, But Attorney General Davios says,
look, we know that we've got to knock out the pimps and the johns.
Those guys are the predators that oftentimes the women are just victims of the
beers. So it takes you through this really gritty part of Cincinnati, a
hidden part of Cincinnati or greater Cincinnati, and beyond. What a lot of
people don't realize is that Ohio is in the top ten or excuse me,
Ohio is in the top five states across the country for human trafficking, more
sex trafficking. And what these women told Meredith was every day men are coming
to Cincinnati most of the time. The hottest time is five thirty am to
six am in the morning before they go to work. Businessmen looking for sex.
Why. I mean, I don't get that men, and I think
the women. I've represented dozens and dozens of prostitutes, and to a woman,
they are victims. They're not perpetrators. But we treat prostitutes as if
they're the perpetrators. They're the criminals when they're the victim. The movie Pretty
Women about thirty years ago, Richard Gear and Julia Roberts, that is not
prostitution. It's funny that you bring that up, Willie. I don't know
if you've seen the documentary, but Attorney General used used that. He said
the worst thing for prostitution was the movie Pretty Women Are Pretty Women. I
love that movie. It's one of my top favorite rom coms. But he
said it glorifies it. It glamorizes it most out all. I mean,
yes, there are certainly different levels of prostitution, but the majority, the
vast majority, are not beautiful women who find their true love, who are
rich men who are looking to save them. That's just not the reality.
The truth of it is, so many of these women, and they talk
to these victims, talk to us about it that they become too Sometimes they
have sex with these men and then they beat them up and take their money.
You know that they'd make these promises to these women and then they end
up abusing them. It is really such a cycle of violence, and the
women who make it through this change court, who make it to the other
side, truly are the brave and lucky ones to escape it. What you
don't see in this documentary and what we actually found out this week through some
of the victim's advocates is one of the women who Meretith talked to undercover.
You see her in this video. You can tell she's a drug diar atic.
She's very very thin, she has marked all over her arms. She
died before this documentary was ever completed. She died for Christmas, and she
had been on our streets for forty years. So it is sadly such a
cycle of violence, and too often these women don't escape. But what I
really loved about this documentary is, first of all, it's gritty, it's
raw, it's real. But then you see the people, the politicians,
the local judge who they really are trying to make change. So often.
You know, people want to say, oh, you know, these politicians,
but these judges, these police officers, they're just trying to get elected
and so on and so forth. But I would argue that I think the
majority of them are people like Attorney General Yost and this judge who really do
want to see good you know, they really want to be able to make
a difference. But their job is to put the bad guys behind bars or
to find them and lock them up. So it's a really powerful documentary.
It's about twenty minutes. You can find it on our streaming app. It's
called very Local. It's free for you to download either on your cell phone,
your team, your tablet. It's a great documentary and very Local to
Really I love this app. You can find so many cool documentaries, mini
documentaries, but then also local news. When we discussed this yesterday, you
mentioned you asked me what time does these events take place in CD hotels or
in the back of a car, And I would say, well, I
guess it would be noon or seven o'clock. But you're talking about six thirty
am in the morning, before a businessman goes to work, who probably has
a wife and three kids living in Mason, and he wants to have a
quickie with some drug addict female who, by the way, you know,
I hate to say this, not the most attractive woman you're gonna find.
Normally, they have profound problems. Six thirty in the morning, set it
up and away you go. And the women are not financially benefiting from this.
The women don't go on shopping sprees and fancy joints. After acts are
committed, they move on to the next John. It's terrible. It's degrading
all it is. It is very degrading. Willy, You're exactly right.
And look, you know you say not attractive. I don't even think that's
the thing that you know, you're even thinking when you watch these momutes that
so many of them are sick. And when I say sick, I mean
they have either mental illness, they have drug addictions, alcohol abuse, so
they are doing it to feed their addiction. And you're exactly right. I
mean you asked earlier, who's doing this. I think that's the sad reality.
And if you see some of the footage from the busts that Attorney General
yost In, our local law enforcement officers have been a part of last year
alone, they arrested more than one hundred and sixty Johns across Ohio. The
small part of Operation Buyers remorse. And when you see these men, they
could be your neighbor, they could be your coworker, you know. So
for whatever reason, either that it's not they're unhappy in their marriage, they
don't consider this cheating. For whatever reason, they're a bit of the sex.
They're out there and they're looking for these women to fill their unhealthy need
right their addiction. Well, I had on I Guess yesterday from Newsmax about
girls that are This girl was fourteen years old, her mother trafficked her to
get drugs. She ends up in a basement somewhere in New York City with
thirty men a day having sex with her six days a week. That's one
hundred and eighty two hundred times a week. And it is disgusting, it
is awful. And if these Johns did not exist, human trafficking of that
type would not happen. And you're saying it's happening in Sharonville, it's happening
in Covington. Described the local connection because we think about those things happening in
Texas Mexico, New York. It's happening in Sharonville, it's happening in Westchester.
Just yesterday we were with Sheriff Jones of Butler County as they busted and
went in with a warrant massage parlor. So that's a different element of it.
It's the same thing, but it's a different element where people go in
presumably for a massage at some of these places, but instead of getting other
services, if you will. And the sheriff went in there with a warrant
yesterday. Again, this isn't less Chesterwook most people would consider a rather a
fluent community in the suburb of Cincinnati. So I think it's happening all over
at different levels. You know, the women we talked to in the women
we feature to the women who are out there on literally the street corners of
downtown Cincinnati, Counselton, over the Ryan Avondale, all of those, you
know, cities surrounding downtown, the downtown area. But it's happening in the
suburbs as well, And it's just really it is really eye opening when you
look at it from this different perspective. And then there are so many people
who are advocates who are just trying to help these women. There are groups
of women who go out with food and toilet trees to say, you know,
hey, do you need something to eat? We're not going to charge
you. Do you need some deodor? Do you need to take a shower.
There's an organization called Weightless Anchor in Cincinnati where every day the women who
are living on the streets and who are prostituting themselves to fulfill their addiction or
to survive, they're able to go in there and get a shower and get
a clean set of clothes. And these are this is an organization that is
asking no questions. They are just there to help these women if they need
it. You know, I think it's just easy as an outsider to look
at this issue and say it's never going to happen to me, or it's
not happening in my community. And when you look at this documentary, it
opens your eyes to say, wow, it's happening right around me. As
I'm driving to work. You know, I drive every day through downtown and
around the city, and it's hard to believe that this is happening right down
the hill in Mount Auburn from you. Know where I work every day,
all right, sure work in the American people see the documentary where is it
specifically? So again, it's called Breaking Chain, Surviving Sex Trafficking and the
Power of Second Champion. It's on our very Local apps. All you have
to do is download very Local. It is free and again you can find
it on your cell phone, your TV, tablet, whatever you use to
stream information. Suie, thank you, and I've looked at it. It's
disgusting having been in the business for a while of representing hookers. They're all
drug addicts, they're all physically abused. I've not had Julia Roberts yet show
up. And the men are the criminals and the women are the victims.
And I'm glad that Judge Heather Russell and others are saying, let's treat these
prostitutes not as perpetrators but rather victims of someone else. And that's the reality.
Suri Palula, once again, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Consider John, Consider the rapture, consider revelations. If Israel is wiped
off the the earth, those will be the end of times. And right
now Iran is supposedly preparing some reaction to killing an Iranian general in Lebanon,
and uh, with all these other events taking place, the rapture could be
at hand. Willy, it's great talking with you. Thanks for giving me
a call. I help you have a great weekend. And I hope we're
talking for many, many more years to come. Me too. I hope
SI. I hope so. I hope so. But I don't know.
We'll see what SCHERI give my best to Mike and all, Kay, Robin,
all the folks at five. I will will, I text you leader,
I love you. God bless America. Let's continue with more. And
it's good stuff, it's informative and uh hopefully the authorities will one consider women
who are doing these kinds of things as the victims of something else. Let's
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