Did als, and many many years ago, I think it's been ten or
fifteen years, someone put together the greatest radio personalities of all time in the
Try State and there was a consensus that number one was Jim Scott. He
is and he retired in twenty seventeen the greatest of all time, having spent
almost fifty years in radio, and I think about thirty five years here.
I can recall in nineteen sixty eight going back and forth to Xavier, and
I was listening to Jim Scott almost every morning on SAI and Jim Scott,
welcome to your radio station, and welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And
Jim, first of all, I left him. We spoke off the year
briefly about the fact that that I love you and men don't say that enough
to each other. And the standards that you said in broadcasting are unbridled.
That you're the greatest radio personality of all time. And I guess the first
question why did Jim Scott go public with this last night on Facebook? Well,
it had to do with an opportunity really in that there's going to be
a walk Tony benders aware of these walks, There's going to be a walk
to defeat Als on Sunday, September seventeen. That Wentwoods Park, and I'll
give you the website for people to learn alone, to learn a little bit
more about it. One of the things about this stupid disease, stupid,
nasty use a lot of terms I can't use in the radio, but for
a lot of people, it affects your voice, which really irritates me.
As you would understand. And so you can tell the difference of my voice
right now. It's I lost some of the range and that sounds gravelly.
But other than that, I can still walk. I'm using a cane now.
It's just smart. I mean, I've already fallen down a few times,
so this reduces the chance of falling. And so I'm looking forward to
this walk and just get it over with. As far as you know,
you have something like this happen, you start to share it with family and
then some close friends and and then I knew about a week or so ago
Willie. We both love golf. Yes, I've played it since I was
a kid, but I've completely lost my left side. My hand. My
left leg works, thank goodness, but my hand on my arm, it
just hangs down, so to continue to play golf, I had to go
one armed. So God bless the men from Elder they've got don't edit this,
but they've got a league they called the Sons of Pitches, like a
pitching wedge. They play once a week on Wednesday morning. And so I've
been playing with them a little bit last year and quite a bit almost every
week this year. I just love it, and they're just great guys,
and they really helped me out, and it's fun to keep playing. And
so about a week or so ago, I shared it with them. I
thought, I played gold with all twenty four members of this group. You
know, they helped me out. It's obvious I've got an issue. So
I explained it to them and I thought, let's just get it out there
and tied in with promoting the walk. Ye And as I understand it,
Jim Scott, this is a diagnosis of exclusion. By that, I mean
there's not like a test to take a blood test or whatever. And they
say, okay, you identified that this is a diagnosis of exclusion. When
did you first start having symptoms and what were your concerns at that point.
Has it been a few months as it been a year, when did it's
been a couple of years. In the fall of twenty twenty, I was
playing golf and I just realized that it seemed to be losing some strength on
the left side. If you were right hand to Godfrey, we get our
power from that pool on the left side, you know. And so I
went to a mused for a friend of ours, doctor Kariakas, and I
said, can you recommend somebody? So I finally got an appointment with a
neurologist to you see, doctor Jonathan Smith. And that was in March of
two thousand and twenty one, and I wasn't really having any major problems at
that point. And ironically, Bill, he was on a first twenty twenty
one, and it was April Full's Day and it was opening day for the
Reds. So I participated in the Filling Market opening day parade. And then
I had already seen him a week before and he did a bunch of testing,
and so then he said, well, Jim, I'm sorry to tell
you, but I think you have als. And I thought to myself,
you gotta be kidney. It's opening day, it's April first. You're telling
me I've got a disease named after a ball player and struck me as bizarre.
So that was a funny edge to all of this. You just have
to look through that fielder of humor. And he said, well, I'm
sorry to tell you that I'm going to refer you to another doctor. Here's
a name. If you ever meet this man, God bless him. His
name is doctor Robert Neil, and he's the ALS expert around here. Is
there a medication I can recall? I know Shari Paalolo has done a lot
of reporting on ALS and we've come a long way, I would imagine.
But when you talk to doctor Neil and others, what did they say is
the medical journey you're going to be on? Oh it's well. First of
all, I thought encouraged when he said first he said, I don't know,
maybe it is, maybe it isn't. So we did tests and three
months later, well actually a year later, in the spring of two twenty
two, I was officially diagnosed with it. So he did say, it's
really coming on pretty slow for you, Jim. So he said, that's
good news. He said, I expect you to be around a long time.
So as an attorney, could I retain you in case it turned out
to be bum advice. Yes you can. We'll do something as far as
as far as the your lovely wife, Donna, howis many times when we
guys have difficulties, we want to keep it secret, don't tell people.
We want to ignore it, don't want to go to the doctor. And
I would imagine Donna has been a living saint. She has been for many
years, and accepting that's true, that's true. Yeah, she's a great
wife, and she's certainly is a person that helps me the most from the
beginning when I wake up in the morning until I finally go to bed.
Yeah, it's wonderful. And she had some mixed feelings about it, but
I said, you know, I think it's time enough people know. Back
to that bit about the golf guys all the week is so ago, I
shared with them, I've got it, and I thought, I'm starting to
talk quite a few people here, so why don't we get it out?
And when I became aware of this walk, which I intend to be part
of, I thought, it's obvious. You know, we were in broadcasting.
You think about marketing, and hey, you can sell something. Well,
I'm a pretty good salesman. I can certainly sell the benefits of this
walk, which is which is the seventeenth Jim Scott Sunday, two weeks from
this coming Sunday, I think in Boone County it might be Saturday, the
Saturday of the sixteenth, but we're going to put that on the website.
And Jim Scott, what message do you want to give to the hundreds of
thousands of people in the Try State that woke up with you every morning just
by happenstance. About a week or so ago, on YouTube, I saw
this video of Jim Scott signing off, you know, I think it was
twenty seventeen. Yeah, it's I go to YouTube, but there's a sign
off video of Jim Scott about a week ago. And I saw it and
I replayed a couple of times. Looked at us and that's great. That's
the way. That's the way to do it. It's been about six years.
You've been dealing with these issues of als for about three years now.
But what message would you like to give to the hundreds of thousands of people
that you woke up with every morning and got them to work, Get up,
get to work. What message you want to give to the listeners people.
I think I already know this. But life is a challenge, and
we get challenges every day, and I guess of you them as opportunities.
I used to when I would meet people, Bill, I would say,
please listen to me on the radio. Now I look for people that need
an audience. So I start up conversations with anybody and everybody, and you
talk to somebody and just listen. Then you talk about sparking joy, and
that's pretty easy to do. Understand the concept. So I'm not to be
out of I can't hear of the term unrealistic about this. I mean,
I know what I got, and I know it's changing my voices. I
can still be understood. I think yes, and especially a person to person,
so you don't give up. I mean a lot of people have issues
in their life and you still give up and and you share it. I
think, I know I'm going to go out of support. Thank you for
calling me, and it was about time he told me. I love you
willing well. Going back a long time, I can recall in nineteen eighty
four when you were at your first day of work was at ninety four point
one. I think and Randy Michaels and Bobby Lawrence had purchased or bought ninety
four point one, and instead of you working there, you were the missing
link and the missing piece to I think the greatest radio station in this country.
When you were plugged into the morning slot for the next thirty five years,
that lineup was like the big red machine as far as radio was concerned.
And you were the anchor because you were the guy that I would listened
to, taught me radio by your example. And I can't think of all
the thousands and thousands of people that have been benefited by Jim Scott's involvement in
so many charities and Salvation Army to all the rest. And I know that
everyone here wishes you the best. You're a living legend. Anything that we
can do to help you, we're going to do. And once again,
Jim Scott, I love you, and you will not walk alone in this
journey. Thank you well. I keep up the good of radio. You
haven't missed a beat. I hear McConnell in the morning. I slept in
a little bit this morning and I missed it. I got a note from
a friend that said, my kids are nice things to say, so I
appreciate that. Well, any anything I can help you with, Willy,
let me know. I'll let you know. But all the love you gave
is going to be returned. Thank you. I think you're right. I
appreciate it. Okay, So Sunday, September seventeen, I think around nine
thirty people get together and then we walk a couple of miles and then I'll
go get a beer someplace. Jim Scott, thank you, and and I
wish you and yours nothing but the best. You're You're courageous, and you're
the definition of a great radio talk show host. And thank you this afternoon
for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Jim, Thank you,
Willie Go Rags. Yeah, they're gonna win win a double dip tomorrow.
Thank you, Jim. Okay, your reaction. Jim Scott is going
public with the fact that he has Luke Garry's disease, and all those that
he's helped for the past fifty years, I think we'll come out to help
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