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Did als, and many many years
ago, I think it's been ten or

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fifteen years, someone put together the
greatest radio personalities of all time in the

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Try State and there was a consensus
that number one was Jim Scott. He

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is and he retired in twenty seventeen
the greatest of all time, having spent

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almost fifty years in radio, and
I think about thirty five years here.

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I can recall in nineteen sixty eight
going back and forth to Xavier, and

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I was listening to Jim Scott almost
every morning on SAI and Jim Scott,

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welcome to your radio station, and
welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And

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Jim, first of all, I
left him. We spoke off the year

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briefly about the fact that that I
love you and men don't say that enough

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to each other. And the standards
that you said in broadcasting are unbridled.

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That you're the greatest radio personality of
all time. And I guess the first

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question why did Jim Scott go public
with this last night on Facebook? Well,

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it had to do with an opportunity
really in that there's going to be

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a walk Tony benders aware of these
walks, There's going to be a walk

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to defeat Als on Sunday, September
seventeen. That Wentwoods Park, and I'll

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give you the website for people to
learn alone, to learn a little bit

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more about it. One of the
things about this stupid disease, stupid,

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nasty use a lot of terms I
can't use in the radio, but for

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a lot of people, it affects
your voice, which really irritates me.

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As you would understand. And so
you can tell the difference of my voice

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right now. It's I lost some
of the range and that sounds gravelly.

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But other than that, I can
still walk. I'm using a cane now.

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It's just smart. I mean,
I've already fallen down a few times,

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so this reduces the chance of falling. And so I'm looking forward to

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this walk and just get it over
with. As far as you know,

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you have something like this happen,
you start to share it with family and

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then some close friends and and then
I knew about a week or so ago

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Willie. We both love golf.
Yes, I've played it since I was

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a kid, but I've completely lost
my left side. My hand. My

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left leg works, thank goodness,
but my hand on my arm, it

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just hangs down, so to continue
to play golf, I had to go

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one armed. So God bless the
men from Elder they've got don't edit this,

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but they've got a league they called
the Sons of Pitches, like a

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pitching wedge. They play once a
week on Wednesday morning. And so I've

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been playing with them a little bit
last year and quite a bit almost every

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week this year. I just love
it, and they're just great guys,

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and they really helped me out,
and it's fun to keep playing. And

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so about a week or so ago, I shared it with them. I

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thought, I played gold with all
twenty four members of this group. You

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know, they helped me out.
It's obvious I've got an issue. So

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I explained it to them and I
thought, let's just get it out there

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and tied in with promoting the walk. Ye And as I understand it,

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Jim Scott, this is a diagnosis
of exclusion. By that, I mean

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there's not like a test to take
a blood test or whatever. And they

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say, okay, you identified that
this is a diagnosis of exclusion. When

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did you first start having symptoms and
what were your concerns at that point.

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Has it been a few months as
it been a year, when did it's

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been a couple of years. In
the fall of twenty twenty, I was

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playing golf and I just realized that
it seemed to be losing some strength on

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the left side. If you were
right hand to Godfrey, we get our

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power from that pool on the left
side, you know. And so I

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went to a mused for a friend
of ours, doctor Kariakas, and I

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said, can you recommend somebody?
So I finally got an appointment with a

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neurologist to you see, doctor Jonathan
Smith. And that was in March of

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two thousand and twenty one, and
I wasn't really having any major problems at

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that point. And ironically, Bill, he was on a first twenty twenty

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one, and it was April Full's
Day and it was opening day for the

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Reds. So I participated in the
Filling Market opening day parade. And then

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I had already seen him a week
before and he did a bunch of testing,

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and so then he said, well, Jim, I'm sorry to tell

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you, but I think you have
als. And I thought to myself,

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you gotta be kidney. It's opening
day, it's April first. You're telling

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me I've got a disease named after
a ball player and struck me as bizarre.

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So that was a funny edge to
all of this. You just have

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to look through that fielder of humor. And he said, well, I'm

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sorry to tell you that I'm going
to refer you to another doctor. Here's

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a name. If you ever meet
this man, God bless him. His

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name is doctor Robert Neil, and
he's the ALS expert around here. Is

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there a medication I can recall?
I know Shari Paalolo has done a lot

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of reporting on ALS and we've come
a long way, I would imagine.

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But when you talk to doctor Neil
and others, what did they say is

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the medical journey you're going to be
on? Oh it's well. First of

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all, I thought encouraged when he
said first he said, I don't know,

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maybe it is, maybe it isn't. So we did tests and three

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months later, well actually a year
later, in the spring of two twenty

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two, I was officially diagnosed with
it. So he did say, it's

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really coming on pretty slow for you, Jim. So he said, that's

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good news. He said, I
expect you to be around a long time.

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So as an attorney, could I
retain you in case it turned out

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to be bum advice. Yes you
can. We'll do something as far as

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as far as the your lovely wife, Donna, howis many times when we

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guys have difficulties, we want to
keep it secret, don't tell people.

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We want to ignore it, don't
want to go to the doctor. And

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I would imagine Donna has been a
living saint. She has been for many

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years, and accepting that's true,
that's true. Yeah, she's a great

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wife, and she's certainly is a
person that helps me the most from the

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beginning when I wake up in the
morning until I finally go to bed.

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Yeah, it's wonderful. And she
had some mixed feelings about it, but

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I said, you know, I
think it's time enough people know. Back

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to that bit about the golf guys
all the week is so ago, I

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shared with them, I've got it, and I thought, I'm starting to

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talk quite a few people here,
so why don't we get it out?

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And when I became aware of this
walk, which I intend to be part

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of, I thought, it's obvious. You know, we were in broadcasting.

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You think about marketing, and hey, you can sell something. Well,

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I'm a pretty good salesman. I
can certainly sell the benefits of this

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walk, which is which is the
seventeenth Jim Scott Sunday, two weeks from

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this coming Sunday, I think in
Boone County it might be Saturday, the

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Saturday of the sixteenth, but we're
going to put that on the website.

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And Jim Scott, what message do
you want to give to the hundreds of

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thousands of people in the Try State
that woke up with you every morning just

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by happenstance. About a week or
so ago, on YouTube, I saw

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this video of Jim Scott signing off, you know, I think it was

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twenty seventeen. Yeah, it's I
go to YouTube, but there's a sign

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off video of Jim Scott about a
week ago. And I saw it and

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I replayed a couple of times.
Looked at us and that's great. That's

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the way. That's the way to
do it. It's been about six years.

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You've been dealing with these issues of
als for about three years now.

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But what message would you like to
give to the hundreds of thousands of people

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that you woke up with every morning
and got them to work, Get up,

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get to work. What message you
want to give to the listeners people.

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I think I already know this.
But life is a challenge, and

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we get challenges every day, and
I guess of you them as opportunities.

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I used to when I would meet
people, Bill, I would say,

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please listen to me on the radio. Now I look for people that need

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an audience. So I start up
conversations with anybody and everybody, and you

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talk to somebody and just listen.
Then you talk about sparking joy, and

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that's pretty easy to do. Understand
the concept. So I'm not to be

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out of I can't hear of the
term unrealistic about this. I mean,

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I know what I got, and
I know it's changing my voices. I

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can still be understood. I think
yes, and especially a person to person,

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so you don't give up. I
mean a lot of people have issues

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in their life and you still give
up and and you share it. I

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think, I know I'm going to
go out of support. Thank you for

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calling me, and it was about
time he told me. I love you

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willing well. Going back a long
time, I can recall in nineteen eighty

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four when you were at your first
day of work was at ninety four point

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one. I think and Randy Michaels
and Bobby Lawrence had purchased or bought ninety

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four point one, and instead of
you working there, you were the missing

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link and the missing piece to I
think the greatest radio station in this country.

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When you were plugged into the morning
slot for the next thirty five years,

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that lineup was like the big red
machine as far as radio was concerned.

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And you were the anchor because you
were the guy that I would listened

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to, taught me radio by your
example. And I can't think of all

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the thousands and thousands of people that
have been benefited by Jim Scott's involvement in

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so many charities and Salvation Army to
all the rest. And I know that

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everyone here wishes you the best.
You're a living legend. Anything that we

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can do to help you, we're
going to do. And once again,

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Jim Scott, I love you,
and you will not walk alone in this

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journey. Thank you well. I
keep up the good of radio. You

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haven't missed a beat. I hear
McConnell in the morning. I slept in

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a little bit this morning and I
missed it. I got a note from

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a friend that said, my kids
are nice things to say, so I

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appreciate that. Well, any anything
I can help you with, Willy,

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let me know. I'll let you
know. But all the love you gave

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is going to be returned. Thank
you. I think you're right. I

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appreciate it. Okay, So Sunday, September seventeen, I think around nine

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thirty people get together and then we
walk a couple of miles and then I'll

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go get a beer someplace. Jim
Scott, thank you, and and I

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wish you and yours nothing but the
best. You're You're courageous, and you're

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the definition of a great radio talk
show host. And thank you this afternoon

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for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Jim, Thank you,

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Willie Go Rags. Yeah, they're
gonna win win a double dip tomorrow.

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Thank you, Jim. Okay,
your reaction. Jim Scott is going

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public with the fact that he has
Luke Garry's disease, and all those that

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he's helped for the past fifty years, I think we'll come out to help

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him. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven
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the city. We're all windbags and
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Eddie and Rocky. They serve up the

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