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and this glorious Monday Afternoon with dri date sort Sega's football kicks off got the
three h five this afternoon. A lot of pregame coverage stuff going on.
The game was still a little bit relevant because there's still a three or four
percent chance of the Bengals getting into the playoffs. We'll see what happens there,
but until then, public safety is going to be a gigantic issue when
it comes to next year's elections, and almost every May. I use the
term urban county in America as a Liberal Democrat as the prosecutor many installed by
George Soros and his alcoholytes, because serious money can be spent to elect generally
positions that are simply about law enforcement, not about politics. And something's occurring
more or less a little bit under the cover in the coverage of the Hamley
County Prosecutor's office by the National Public Radio and the Columbia Journalism Investigation, whatever
that is, and a person up on what's coming your way is our current
and great County Prosecutor Melissa Powers been in office about a year or so and
been in law enforcement for thirty years. And Prosecutor Melissa Powers, welcome to
the Bill Cunningham Show. And it's been given to me a letter that you're
sending to the national public radio about what's happening and can you tell the American
people this Monday afternoon what is happening to our prosecutor's office. Well, thank
you Bill for having me on the show today. Yes, we're very concerned
about the tactics that are being used by the Columbia School of Journalism, who
is being funded by Arnold Ventures. Arnold Ventures, they were openly involved in
trying to achieve bail reform in Ohio using progressive policies to basically release criminals.
My predecessor, Joe Dieters, pushed back very hard and the and it got
a uh uh on the ballot about bail reform that judges and made it a
constitutional amendment to the Ohio Constitution that public safety must be considered when setting bond.
Prior to that that that was not the case. That triggered and put
basically a target on this office back as well as Joe Deeters personally, and
Arnold Ventures, which is basically a very wealthy former and Ron Ezech. He's
a billionaire who is spending tons and tons of money to reform and uh,
I only know if that's the right word to use, but to change our
criminal justice system not for the better. It's basically anti law enforcement against the
society, and this is something that we fight back. This office has been
fighting back. Arnold Ventures is just like George Soros with that type of dark
money that's being spent outside money, and they're bringing it into our county and
I'm fighting against that. And as far as yeah, yeah, going back
in time a little bit, the timing of this was interesting. As I
understand it, public records request of your office started in June of twenty twenty
two. That coincided with a push to prioritize public safety and setting cash bails.
And going back a little before that, the High Supreme Court had ruled
at one point that judges, this is when the court was under more liberal
hands, did not have to consider public safety when setting a bond. And
well, one of the complaints I hear all the time from victims and from
cops is that we arrest really serious wrongdoers, many times with guns and rapes
and robberies and burglaries, and they quickly get out of ail on bond because
the judges weren't considering public safety. And so Joe Dieters with many others put
it on the ballot in Ohio that public safety must be considered when putting a
bond on a criminal case, and it passed overwhelmingly. But there's forces and
parts of American criminal justice that doesn't want criminals locked up. In fact,
I watched the other day in the Congress there's a movement of foot to like
eliminate jails, completely eliminate law enforcement. And so can you address the issue
of how this started in June of twenty twenty two and it's going to metastasize
in November of twenty twenty four. How did this all begin? But this
started Arnold Venture started heavily investing and putting to push back and to basically go
after our office and Joe Deeters, because simultaneously with that decision how they hire
Supreme Court is when this office wanted to make sure public sa safety was part
of any decision in setting bail. So on that pushback on this bail reform.
And again I put that in quotations because I don't see anything reformed about
it. It ultimately would killed debth bill and then constitutionally is now an amendment
that public safety must be and it was passed by our voters. This dark
outside money that's coming in from this John Arnold, who started this Arnold Ventures,
which is very similar and maybe even worse than George Soris, is very
upset that their baire reform efforts in Ohio basically were killed and taken down by
this Hamilton County prosecutor's office. So since then he invested and gave money to
the Columbia Journalism School to conduct an investigative journalism into prosecutorial misconduct of this office.
Now there are, obviously there's going to be times that a court of
appeals will rule that there's comments made in closing argument which is not evidence,
and a judge, a chrial judge will tell a jury it's not evidence.
And it's a constant shifting standard. And today we don't even know exactly what
it is. It's not until you know, a prosecutor in trial today may
not know what that answer, what that may be defined as that it is
being decided by a very liberal Court of Appeals here in Hamilton County. But
you don't know ahead of time, so sometimes you know, for example,
prosecute it's basically comments made in closing argument. It can be a comment such
as simple as using the term wolf and sheaf's clothing. This was used in
a serial rape a child pedophile who was a predator, which you used to
be able to call them predators. Now you can't call them predators. It
was used in reference to the grooming that was being done to these children in
that case, and later it was never objected to. It's considered harmless there,
and it's not objected to by the seasoned trial defense attorneys who were in
the Court Rose cases all the time, but by a Court of Appeals panel
of judges who've never tried a single case that are very and they are making
the decision what is considered to be prosecutorial misconduct. That's why we never know
exactly what it is. What I can say is not a single prosecutor in
this office has been found or on any any investigation for being unethical, and
they're trying to conflate that in this piece. But what I'm most upset about
and what angers me and what initiated this. We've been complying, and we've
been transparent with their twenty or more public records requests. And I'm saying thousands
and thousands of documents have been sent to this Columbia School of Journalism, to
this reporter that call her a reporter, I think she's still a grad student.
Is trying to say that prosecutorium misconduct obviously is much more serious. That
it's unethical behavior. It is not just harmless air or simple air that's being
called out. So that's what's happening now and the and we don't know exactly
when the article is coming out or what's being said in the article yet,
but what we do know is that they're chasing down every former employee that worked
in the prosecutor's office, from disgruntled if they were fired or not. They're
chasing down and attack and asking any any prosecutor that worked in the office that
may no longer be here. They're family members, their children, of their
family, you know, of the of the prosecutor, and not one prosecutor
who works and has dedicated their life to public service where they could have made
a lot more money in the private sector that have dedicated their life to serving
the public and they're being attacked. This is just wrong, absolutely wrong,
and I and I hope that the people realize and understand when this hit piece
comes out that this this scumbag Arnold Ventures who put this in as using their
dark money to change our community, our county, and our society because either
they hate America or they hate law enforcement. I don't know what their agenda
is exactly, but they don't like it, and they want to make significant,
radical changes in our community. Needs to push back on it, needs
to push back on people that are trying to change how Cincinnati, how we
live, and what our values are. Well, you know, we get
the government we deserve. In this Arnold Venture situation, it appears to have
an axe to grind. It appears that if you give millions and millions of
dollars to a Columbia school of journalism and use that name and seek to get
one piece of information that can be exploded into significance to change law enforcement in
this county, they'll do it. I can recall the good old days I
tried twenty five murder cases and have a prosecutor used the term of wolf in
sheep's clothing communication to the jury, the idea that a person who appeared in
one authoritative position would take on another persona with the goal of sexual efyees or
brutalizing children. That was considered not prosecutorial misconduct. That was considered accurately defining
the defendant, but anymore proscutorial misconduct sounds bad on paper, but it could
be something as innocuous as referring to the defendant as a predator, which you
can't do anymore, or a wolf in chep's clothing, which I guess you
can't do anymore. You don't know what the violation is until one to three
years later it gets before an appellate court. And if the appellate court has
the same political philosophy as city council in Cincinnati, they're going to find prosecutorial
misconduct quite often because that's what they do, and then these individuals will be
let loose upon the population. Melissa Powers, do you feel there's a greater
agenda than simply eliminating you in office? Is there a greater agenda when it
comes to taking over? Kim Fox and George Gason and Larry Krasnik and other
prosecutors around the country. They have a different and philosophy to decriminalize crime.
Do you think that's what's behind some of this. Absolutely, it's absolutely to
change our community, to change our country, to change our state. And
these billionaires are using this dark money, this or or whatever means necessary to
go after and to accomplish and they don't care who they destroy in the process
in order to accomplish their goal. So if you know, they go after
these good are are decent and decorated and dedicated public servants that have been serving
our community, that are great, that have done a great service. And
then to sit there and mislead the public that there's something this shame and bring
them shame to the family and or their family or to themselves or to their
career is just unethical as far as I'm concerned of what they're doing. It's
basically tabloid journalism. It's a gossip frag it's creating and spinning to plish their
agenda, and they don't care who they take out, whether it's true or
not. And you know, I think that's where the public and I think
you know us the former president uh, he brought out how all this fake
news and how bad these people are and and and what's how people lost faith
in journalism? And when you hand good media like we I believe our media
in our community here locally, they want to get the information out truthfully,
honestly. You know, they'll do hard hitting stories. But they don't.
They don't they're not unethical about going about the you know, their investigative journalism
for example. People have lost faith. It's and it's their professions being tainted
by people like this and by this arnold ventures in this Columbia school of journalism.
And also this one so far is that the child of a former employee,
uh, the so called journalist left a message uh to uh to the
girl to reach her five. It'll be worse for you if you don't cooperate.
Explain how it's improper. When this journalism school out of New York City,
I imagine paid millions of dollars to find dirt. What would go so
low as to call the children of former employees. Well, it's bullying,
it's intimidating, it's upsetting, it's in my opinion, is unethical. And
that's why I'm fighting back on this and sending this letter out to the Columbia
School of Journalism, to MPR, to the dean for them to conduct an
investigation into this person and the means and tactics that she's using in order to
try to achieve a story when there's really no story to write about to begin
with, and then get to can continue to harass family members, employees,
spouses, children, children should be off limits, I mean absolutely off limits.
And then you talk and then when you think about that shows also people
that go into serving the public. Why so many you know, good quality
people that it's not worth it. Why do you go in and sacrifice and
stay dedicated these kind of cases in the work that we do, particularly the
violent felonies, When you're dealing with victims and victims families, it is heart
wrenching. You are so one hundred percent involved. It becomes part of your
life. It can change your life. You know. You hear about the
first responders and how how it affects them emotionally that they end up with some
you know, secondary trauma. This is something this is not an easy job
to do. We are fighting to get quality people to stay and to work,
and then we've got these people from uh, these type of so called
journalists that are trying to basically smear and destroy this office because their agenda is,
like you said earlier, is to change the way our society operates,
change law enforcement, eliminate jails, which is almost I mean the craziest.
What are we doing to protect the public. If we do something like that,
I can tell you you know, crime goes up the ones that they
are hurting, and they don't I don't think, and maybe that's their their
purpose is to hurt them ast vulnerable because you're putting the violent criminals back into
the same communities that we're trying to protect and keep safe and making it less
dangerous. And it's the most vulnerable people, the people that are in the
urban communities, particularly if there's poverty is a part of it. The low
income families, the people that are working families that are just working to get
you good bye, to try to survive week to week. They're in these
communities where the most dangerous people are being returned to. Is that the right
thing? And then you look at the murder rate, I mean a juvenile
court. What's happening here in juvenile with our juvenile court, Juvenile crime is
up four hundred percent when it involves a firearm four hundred percent in one year.
Well, uh, the goal is to criminalize crime, get rid of
the jails, and they dictate to Black Lives matter, which is taken so
many black lives to proliferate. And maybe Hamilton County. I think Hamilton County
is going to make a stand next November and say not on my watch,
A check and balance system got to occur. And the letter's going out.
I have a copy of it right here, and Melissa Powers once again,
thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And fight like a warrior
poet because our little community, this little part of the world deserves law enforcement
and we have a good one right now. Melissa Powers once again, thank
you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Melissa, Thank
you, boll you have a great day. Thank you. I let's continue
and news is next. This letter will be available online. As to the
using the keywords of prosecutorial misconduct, in some closing argument, a prosecutor may
say something which is declared to be misconduct two three years later, and then
wrongdoers are set free. Does that make sense to you? I say not.
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never stop, We simply continue. The Bengals season continues denied in Jacksonville and
Peers. Bording to the experts, the Bengals have about a three or four
percent chance of getting into the plug offfs. It all begins tonight. Pittsburgh's
losing again, Cleveland stinks, Baltimore reigned supreme once again. Moeger, Welcome
to the Bill Cunningham Show and break down why the faithful tonight. Of course,
we encourage people to listen, but should also be involved tonight in that
big game with Jacksonville and Oh. I think when the season started, you
know, we were obviously looking forward to this matchup between two quarterbacks who had
played against each other in a national championship team not that long ago, and
Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence. We're obviously not going to get that. We're
going to get a Jacksonville team that well, you know, from their perspective.
You look at what happened with Kansas City last night. It right now
feels like they've got a pretty good chance to be the top overall seed.
Obviously, the Miami Dolphins are going to have something to say about that.
Pittsburgh Steelers, or I'm sorry, the Baltimore Ravens are going to have something
to say about that. I think tonight for me is about a couple of
different things. They have to figure out a way to keep Josh Allen who's
a defensive end from disrupting everything they're trying to do in the football game,
and they're going to have to come up with more creative ways to try to
move the football, which I thought the sobering thing about the Pittsburgh game was
Zach Taylor basically publicly admitted that he had no ideas that they were out of
creative ways to come up with in an effort to move the ball against the
Steelers, Joe Mixon carried it eight times. That's unacceptable. It's unacceptable to
have him carry it eight times and not give anybody else a chance out of
the backfield. I think we see some Chase brown tonight. Did Jake Browning
build upon what he did last week when he played like a guy making his
first NFL start who doesn't have an incredibly high ceiling. And I think it's
going to be interesting tonight. The Bengals again are going to play without Cam
Taylor britt how much do they account for his absence as well? Well?
The big run of the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, and you
pointed it out curbside in Los Angeles that they largely had a season without too
many injuries Mike Gosh made up for it this year. This is a shell
of the team that we discussed in August September, even with the calf injury.
I think it was like July to nineteen something like that, there was
a sense, Okay, that's going to be fine, and this entire season
appears to have been wasted with Joe Burrow. Is that too harsh a judgment
by Tony Bender and others? I think it's totally fair. Look, I
mean, you you only get so many You only Joe Burrow said last year
that the window is wide open as long as I'm here, and I agree
with that. I think the Bengals, as long as he is healthy,
which is obviously he's not right now, they're going to be relevant every single
season. But there are different levels of relevancy. There are different levels of
contention. The Bengals went into this season and I think for the first time
in my life, people were picking them to win the Super Bowl. Why
yes, Well, you know, first of all, it felt like a
culmination of everything that the franchise had done in twenty twenty one. In twenty
twenty two, it also felt like this was going to be the best roster
that Joe Burrow had played on. And I certainly think the Bengals have a
chance to be good next season. I certainly do subscribe to the belief that
as long as you have an a lister at quarterback, you've got a chance
to make some noise. But there's going to be some roster turnover. They
face some uncertainty at wide receivers. T Higgins going to be here next year?
Is Tyler Boyd going to be here next year? Got to start finding
some stuff out over these next couple of weeks about Charlie Jones and andre Yoshabavs,
What what's the composition of the running back room going to be? Is
this Jonah Williams last season in Cincinnati? How are things going to start to
unfold on the defensive side of the ball. And so, yeah, it
feels like a wasted season in that regard, right, Like you don't know
when you're going to have a roster the caliber of the one we thought the
Bengals had coming into the season. I think at the same time, you
look at how they played against Pittsburgh and you think about how the rest of
the season might unfold. I think what we might find out is the roster
wasn't quite as good as we suspected. I think that's that's fair. I
think we might arrive at the conclusion that the coaching staff wasn't as good as
we thought it was. Certainly in the at tomatter of the game against Pittsburgh
last week, a lot of questions about play call a lot of questions about
Zach Taylor and Brian Callahan. They can slow down those questions, or they
could start to provide different answers to those questions by pulling off an upset tonight.
Yep, and it begins tonight. And the other thing. Watching last
night's game between San Francisco and Philadelphia, the Bengals had a team that went
out to San Francisco with Joe Burrow, and of course one might add they
had some minor injury problems in San Francisco and dominated the forty nine ers.
And I'm thinking, I'm watching last night's game, where is the Bengals team
that dominated the forty nine ers in San Francisco. It was non competitive,
and then all of a sudden, they go to Philadelphia, proceeded to be
the best team in the NFC and just dominate Philadelphia in Philadelphia and the Bengals
dominated San Francisco. In San Francisco, How do you explain that one?
Well, I think the first thing that I would say is, let's talk
about who played that day. Joe Burrow played that day. Let's talk about
who didn't play that day. Deebo Samuel didn't play that yet that day.
Did you see what he did against Philadelphia? Yesterday? San Francisco didn't have
Trent Williams. He's probably the best left tackle in the league, and so
it wasn't a forty nine Ers team at full strength. That said, Joe
was terrific. I think if there was a game this season the made you
feel like, you know what, this team ceiling is really, really high.
It's that day in San Francisco. Joe Burrow was phenomenal. And the
defense, you know, we've talked a lot this year about they employed the
bend but don't break philosophy. It worked to a tee. They forced two
red zone turnovers. That was the day that you go okay, first of
all, it feels like the Bengals have caught the forty nine ers that precisely
the ryan right time. Secondly, with a healthy Joe Burrow, the sky's
the limits for this team. Unfortunately for the Bengals, they no longer have
Joe Burrow, and I think what you want to find out here is,
you know, are the Bengals too overly reliant on the quarterback spot? You
know? I look at San Francisco brock Perty's an MVP candidate. I don't
want to say the forty nine Ers. The quarterback position is interchangeable, but
it feels like no matter who plays back there, Dave got a chance to
compete. They're going to be okay because of the weaponry, because of the
coaching, because of how the offense works. And then you look at other
teams like the New England Patriots, who as a franchise have completely fallen apart
in the years after Tom Brady, or the Indianapolis Colts when Peyton Manning had
next fusion surgery. And again, any team loses an MVP caliber quarterback,
they're not going to be as good, but you should still be able to
function. Last week offensively, I didn't think the Bengals functioned. If we
see more of that tonight, Jacksonville's going to win and probably going to win
handily. Now. Secondly, I watch monitor all the shows and tonight last
night was all about Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama and how nfs you
got screwed, blue tattooed, and barbecued. Kirby Smart says, Look,
we're one of the four best games in the country, and obviously Georgia Georgia
Bulldogs are one of the four best teams in the country, I think,
but they didn't get there. If you're a long suffering Florida State fan,
what do you think in this afternoon? Yea that the season was a waste
of time, that the results of games don't matter. Mike Norvel, the
coach of Florida State, was I thought very appropriate in an articulate in how
he outlined the reason why this is a sham. Now, look, Alabama
was terrific beating at the time the top range Georgia team on Saturday. I
certainly do believe that given the makeup of the two teams, Alabama versus Michigan
as opposed to Florida State versus Michigan, has a chance to be a better
game. But are we looking for the best games or are we looking to
determine who the champion of the season is. If you're looking to do that,
then you have to count all the results across the entire season, not
just two weeks worth, and you have to side with results and not hypotheticals.
One of the arguments is, well, look, if Alabama played Georgia,
or I'm sorry, if Alabama played Florida State, they would be heavily
favored. That's fine. Alabama was underdogs against Georgia, they won the football
game. Oregon was favored against Washington on Friday night. Washington won the football
game. Certainly doesn't impact the college football playoff. The Miami RedHawks were underdogs
more than a touchdown underdogs in their game against Toledo for the back title with
a backup quarterback on Saturday, they won the football game. I think,
to me this comes down to a basic philosophical thing, or do you side
with hypotheticals or do you side with game results. The committee sided with hypotheticals.
That Georgia team without its starting quarterback went on the road and beat an
SEC team last week on Saturday, with a dominant defense, they beat a
Louisville team that the committee thought enough of to rank fourteenth going into that game.
In the ACC Championship, game. If this is solely about well,
who would win if these teams played, what's the point of having games.
What's the point of having regular seasons, what's the point of players playing on
senior Night, which Mike norvel to Florida coach Florida State coach brought up,
what's the point of any of it if we're just going to use speculation and
hypotheticals to determine who competes for a championship. I think this championship is college
football playoffs is fraudulent. I think whoever wins it this year, the championship
is tainted because you have a Power five school that did everything you could ask
a team to do. You can't ask them to win more games when you
only have thirteen. They did everything they were required to do, including win
games without their starting quarterback, and they don't get a chance to play for
a title. It's absolutely fraudulent. MO once again, we hope you see
arises. They're undefeated in basketball, we'll see about football sadderfield. So I
think a big question mark A see coming back next season as the UC head
coach. Not only coming back for next season, he's gonna have a press
conference tomorrow to talk about the players who have chosen to stay at the University
of Cincinnati, and so full speed ahead year or two of Scott's sadderfield and
he needs a quarterback bill. The good news is this, if you paid
attention to college football over the last twenty four hours, there are some guys
available. The problem is, we're gonna cost a lot of money, including
the Ohio's date. Quarterback available. But we're talking two million dollars to buy
a quarterback. Is that correct? Yeah? And I think we're gonna give
it to a point where that might be on the lower end of the spectrum.
Yes. You know. Matt Rule, the coach at Nebraska, said
this last week, and some people took it as a complaint. I took
it as Justini explaining a way of life. This is how it is.
You want high end talent in college football, somebody's gonna have to pay for
You want a high end quarterback in college football, somebody's gonna have to pay
a lot for it, All right, Moegor we'll see what happens tonight with
the Bengals a little bit. I think there are seven or eight point dog
Jacksonville National Spotlight ready to go playing hot a high level. Bengals right now
still have their chins pinned to their chest and all the things that might have
been this season have been lost. But we'll see what happens. Moegar.
Once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank him.
Oh always good to be with you. Willie, Thank you, and
God bless America. All right, let's continue with more news coming up at
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as we speak, there's a big conference underway in Dubai in which the rich
and famous have got together and they are five star hotels and their private golf
streams going to preach to the rest of us about how evil carbon use is
of fuels that make middle class lives livable. Steve molloy is his senior energy
and fellow and former Trump EPA team is available to discuss, of course,
all these energy matters. He also has a great website which deals with all
the mistakes of the climate lies of the past. And I spoke to Steve
briefly off the air and we talked about maybe we're making headway on the topic,
but some say maybe we're not. And Steven molloy, welcome again the
Bill Cunningham Show. Junk Science is a great website, So what would you
anticipate it is going to come out of This is a big powwow in Dubai
with mister Ketchup, John Kerry and these others elites that are going to tell
us how evil natural gas is. Well, Bill, thanks for having me.
It's always great to talk to you. Well, this is the twenty
eighth un climb, the conference called the COP twenty eight, and you know
since climate idiocy began in nineteen eighty eight, and since these cops have started
in nineteen ninety five, global emissions have increased fifty percent. Now that's okay
with me. I think emissions are good. But they don't. So they
get together to meet every year, and you know, a couple of times
they have signed treaties and they have promised to give money, but they've accomplished
negatives, not even zero, just you know, for their own agenda.
They've they've been negative in accomplishments. So this year, uh, you know,
the the the forest has I guess peaked out because the president of the
conference is the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. And if that's
not funny enough for you, he's been using you know, his presidency,
his his cop presidency to sell Abu Dhabi oil. Wonderful, wonderful. Follow
the money, Steve, follow the money. Yeah, no, it's it's
really great. I mean, I'm all for him selling more oil and gas.
You know, the world needs more oil and gas. It's what we
run on. Nothing happens in our in our society without oil and gas and
coal. We need all these things. So bully for him. But you
know. Uh so, I'm not quite sure why he feels the need to
promote climate idiocy at the same time to pretend he's doing something to change the
weather or the climate or the environment or whatever. But it's not happening.
It's just it's all a force, you know. After the great debate on
Thursday night involving the governors of Florida and California, and there were so many
great points made by Sean Hannity in that great debate. Who's a good personal
friend. And one thing that came out of it is is that it appears
that maybe the thing is turning just a little bit. I look at Connecticut.
The governor of Connecticut, a guy named Lamont, who had the same
requirements of California that by twenty thirty six every vehicle must be electric. They're
changing that. I see that the Ford CEO has lost about four point one
billion dollars on electric vehicles. Everyone they sell cost about thirty one thousand dollars
of a loss. That even when the government bribes people to buy them,
people aren't buying them because he can't resell them, and that tow trucks can't
pick them up. There's no way of the power grid. I point out
in your article that you say the US is spending about seven point five billion
dollars to build tens of thousands of electrical vehicle chargers all over Hell's a f
acre and that's not working either. So explain how this whole, this whole
farce, this hoax of electric powered vehicles is falling apart. Well, so
this is electric vehicles are going to go down in textbooks as a classic case
of failed industrial you know, government industrial policies, failed central planning. The
government thought it could just order evs and it would work. And of course,
you know evs are more expensive, they're more inconvenient, you need a
whole different infrastructure than we have now. There's really no upside to them.
And you know, manufacturers have basically been blackmailed by the government into making these
things. And as you pointed out, you know last month Forward loss thirty
six thousand dollars on every V sold. Uh. And so yeah, the
only way even Tesla, the only way Tesla can even claim to make a
profit is well, number one because it's subsidies, but number two because a
lot of their production is in China. And to give you an idea of
how important that is to Tesla's bottom line. You know, the average UAW
worker, you know, four GM worker makes about, you know, in
the eighties eighty eighty thousand dollars or so. The average Tesla worker, most
of whom are in China, make less than half of that, you know,
on your order thirty six thousand dollars. So duh, no wonder Tesla
you know is doing better than for in a GM, but only because you
know, they're they're abusing Chinese workers. So uh. But but there's just
nothing, you know, consumers don't want these things. You know, wealthy
people might buy them as a second vehicle or sort of a you know,
virtue signaling piece or maybe some toy because you know, some of these really
hot evs can go from zero sixty and you know, like three seconds or
something like that. But it's just not a serious option for most people.
And of course they require incredible subsidies. You know, every EV soul makes
us more dependent on communist China, because every EV depends on communist China.
Just for example, the processed graphite that goes into every EV battery, one
hundred percent of that comes from Communist China. And that is not going to
change anytime soon. Well, what have been two or three major predictions of
the John Kerry crowd that have proven to be completely false? Oh well,
they predicted that the Arctic would be ice free in the summers by twenty thirteen.
You know, this year the hottest summer ever. You know, there's
plenty of ice, you know, millions of square kilometers of ice. No
problem they have. What have they predicted? They have? They have predicted
all their all their climate models have predicted much warmer temperatures than are occurring.
Boy, you know, they've predicted that there would be increases in wildfires and
hurricanes and all sorts of natural disasters. None of those have ever come through.
There's no trended natural disasters that correlates with either emissions or the slight warming
we've seen. So just everything that they've ever predicted has been a bust.
But you know they you know, the first thing they did was capture all
the institutions. They captured the media, they captured the government. They they're
funded by all these rent seekers. So the truth doesn't really matter anymore.
I mean, this is their agenda, and come hell or high water,
they're going to push it because they've captured everything that could possibly question it.
In fact, you have to follow the money in all scandals, and the
government doesn't fund studies through their university friends that demonstrate that if temperatures raised one
or two degrees over the next seventy years, that might be a positive thing.
It's not a negative, it's a positive. So when the government funds
something, you get more of it. When you tax it, you get
less of it. And there's no they've incorporated within the minds of our youths.
We say, for those between the ages of twenty and forty, that
climate crisis is real, that we're going to have much more hurricanes. By
the way, the hurricane season ended a couple of days ago, and we've
had I think zero or one hurricanes that struck the United States of America.
And wasn't that a non story this year? Yeah, the hurricanes have been
a non story in the US. And you know, we're at the point
where if there's a gust of wind someplace in the South Atlantic in the summer,
we count that as a storm. Well, you know, we made
names to it. Crazy. I want to hit the point that you mentioned
about the government paying for studies. You know the art of war. All
battles are won before they're fought. Well, with government funded science, all
science is determined before it's funded. So the government only gives money to people
who are going to produce the answers it wants. And that's what climate science
has been. There's been no honest evaluation of climate science funded by the government
ever. And in fact, now when you fund these studies, you get
lots of them. And right now the Democrats and these aren't the democrats of
history. These are the left wing Democrats have their friends in and out of
universities and other study groups that simply are paid garbage in, garbage out,
And that when you teach something for twenty years, people are apt to believe
it. And so the overcoming of the orientation and the indoctrination of kids through
college has got to be a goal of some to bring light and not so
much heat to the argument. I also see in one of your columns about
getting rid of flatulent animals that somehow the bovines, the cows, the pigs,
the sheep and the lambs and the chickens are an environmental disaster. In
fact, there the left is now saying, quit eating hamburgers and don't have
chicken because of what's required. And explain how I have to give up a
big mac. Explain that number nine. Explain why I can't eat hamburgers anymore
because cats have too much flatulence. I think John Carrey has too much flatulence.
That's a different story. But explain what the left wants to do to
their hamburgers. Well, so, the vegans have adopted the climate movement,
and the theory is that livestock produce when they belch and far, they produce
methane and methane and they claim is a greenhouse gas and warms the planet.
And of course, you know it's sort of a laboratory setting. Yes,
methane has greenhouse gas properties, but of course in the atmosphere, which is
a lot more complicated, it has absolutely no warming potential at all. Nonetheless,
stacks don't at her. They are using this to, you know,
push the anti meat agenda. And of course there are the rent seekers in
the you know, fake meat business, and they've all gotten together and are
pushing this anti meat agenda. Now, keep in mind al Gore has it
that he in fact is not giving up cheeseburgers. There's the line he has
drawn. Now, green meat is not something I find physically. You know,
you have to eat it with your eyes before you eat it with your
mouth, and then think about green processed meat. It's not something I'm attracted
to. Yeah no, And there are all these companies out there that are
trying to figure out how to feed us insects and feed pets insects. Nothing
ta cockroach. I've always said that, give me some cockroach, but some
ketchup on it. That's a big thing in California. And then you got
to eat insects and cockroaches. Yeah no, it's very crazy. Cockroach to
go it. I guess it's un And you wrote a book of years ago
called green Hell. Now environmentalists plan to control your life and what you can
do to stop them. One thing I've noticed is that supposedly in twenty twenty
six that we're going to have governors who are going to have kill switches on
cars. And another thing is the thermostats. So many thermostats today are smart
thermostats, and it's going to be like in the winter time, the highest
you can bring the temperature is sixty five and in the summertime, the low
as you can go seventy five and the government's goal is to kill your car,
control the heat inside your home, know your role, and shut your
mouth. There was a movie called Soiling Green years ago in which we processed
dead bodies in the meat and people didn't know they were eating your grandmother?
Is that where this has had it well? Right? So the government is
behind these kill switches in cars and also smart meters. Now smart meters have
been sold to people as a way you can monitor your electricity use and reduce
emissions. No, smart meters are a way for the government to shut down
your appliances when they want. You know, we have all these quote unquote
smart appliances and with smart meters, the government, through the utility, can
can shut them off whenever they want. With the kill switches, it's the
same thing. It's being sold to us as a means of, you know,
preventing drunk driving. Of course, who doesn't want to do that,
But of course you know the technology, I doubt they can ever have that
technology you actually make it work. But anyways, their goal is to get
that technology into cars so that you know, through the satellites, through just
the way you get your GPS information. They're going to kill your car whenever
they want. Now they don't want to drive, then you're not gonna be
able to start it. Is that real? In twenty twenty six, the
government can kill your car if you're driving too many miles, they'll say you
can't drive anymore. Tony Benner, You're done, you can't drive anymore?
Is that real? What do you mean? Of course it's in the legislation.
Thomas mann See from Kentucky tried to, you know, the last spending
bill, tried to insert an amendment to get the government out of that,
but of course you know it failed because you know, everybody in Congress is
all for the government, even Republicans, and so you know the government is
going to be funding research on how to install this technology in every car.
You can bet that it's going to be mandated in every car. And once
they can figure out, you know what Bill Cunningham, what car Bill Cunningham
is in, they're going to turn it off. I'm in a Chevy Blazer.
I guess they can turn me off anytime they want. How much longer?
You know, every you and I Steve Molloy are against pollution. I
don't like stinky air. I don't like unclean water. The country right now,
the water in the air is as clean as it's been for the last
one hundred years, and every year that goes by it gets more clean.
But that's not good enough, is it. No, Because it's not about
clean air. It's about control. You mentioned my book Green Hell. They
want to control every aspect of your life. They want to tell you what
to eat, what kind of electricity you can use, where you can live,
what you can drive, what you should invest in, what kind of
toilets you can have, what kind of water fiction, what kind of toilet
paper. I mean, there's just no aspect of your life that is too
personal for them to control. They you know, there are eight billion people
on the planet. They want less because you know, first off, totalitarians
can't control eight billion people, but they can control two billion people. And
that's where they want to go ultimately. Well, between all the abortion on
demand and also eating cockroaches and also maybe grandmother down the road Sarline Green Style,
I can see where we're headed. Steve Molloyd. I began this interview
with is their hope and I have a sense there's hope because of what the
Connecticut governor's doing because people aren't buying evs. Do you have any any hope
this can be turned around? I do. I think the wheels are falling
off the whole thing, with the electric cars, you know, leading the
way. I think that, you know, the longer we go by,
more time that passes and more of the climate hoax is exposed. Now there's
kind of a race here. We have to the hoax has to be exposed
in time for people to vote out the idiots who are trying to control us
with it. Well, that's the goal, hope. Can you imagine if
next November we have a Kamala Harris or a deranged mentally Joe Biden still in
power for four more years after that, isn't there a point of no return?
It may be time for revolution? Just say it, just saying,
because I know what Jefferson said about revolutions every now and then, but he
might have been so jump science dot com and I see all the books that
you've written, are the articles that you've written, and you were an advisor.
I have a great picture of you with APA Administer Scott Prude under the
Trump years and there was hope, and let's let's keep hope alive. That's
all we have. And once again, Steve molloy, Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year to you and yours. Let's keep it going. Merry Christmas to
you. Be careful Mary Christmas. So let's continue. News next. That's
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Let's be a realistic. We kind of circled this game on the calendar
tonight thinking okay, this is going to be the up and coming two great
quarterbacks times in LSU. Here we go. Suddenly the Bengals are more than
a ten point underdog. What the hell is going on? Obviously this one
hurts, but no, we'll come back stronger, I hope. So the
the Bengals are on Monday night road games will either three and twenty. They've
lost nine in a row. The last Monday night road game they won was
in Cleveland and nineteen ninety when the Reds won the World Championship nineteen ninety in
Cleveland. I say that again, the last, the last Monday night no
no, the last Monday night road win for the Bengals road in Cleveland and
nineteen ninety Bengals a little thirty three year wait, oh well you know you
might Well the Jaguars hadn't been on Monday night fotball since twenty eleven. Jeez
well, sega, how did it all go over? Can you? You're
one guy? Will you want is wrist? That ligament in the wrist?
Is? Uh? That's the downfall? And then, of course, you
know FC Cincinnati joined the list of uh you know close, but not the
you know close only happens in the horseshoes one Saturday night, the uh that
dude from the crew aheader if it goes if it goes another inch or two,
it's out of the it's it's off the post, but it goes inside
the post and in for the game winner. And the Columbus crew are playing
for the MLS cupans that are beloved orange and blue. At least they're consistent
with other teams professionals, like high school football is not doing so well either.
Well, the only the only one that won around here was East Central.
Your team, catch the dream, I got the helmet, I know
segment. Get me into the students report. By the way, we have
Senator Huffman coming up at two o seven. He's the guy that wants to
change so much of the marijuana lall that was passed. I'm sure you voted
Ford you're kind of a pothead. Yeah, two three weeks ago and now
we're gonna have change. And he's going to be here in about twenty minutes.
Centers te how fun to discuss it. Say, get me into the
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the AFC South at eight and three. The Bengals are ten point dogs,
but impossible. But Arizona upset Pittsburgh yesterday and an embarrassment for the for the
Black and Gold in Pittsburgh, and then Cleveland lost against the La Rams,
so they're there. Those two teams are seven and five. The Bengals win
tonight, they're only a game out of a playoff spot. Playoffs. Thank
you see it? What I believe it? Let's see what else? College
football national semi finals are all set. That's right, last be quiet.
The national semifinals in the bowl schedule is all set. January first. In
the Rose Bowl, it's that team up North taking on roll Tide of Alabama.
And the Sugar Bowl in Washington and Texas. Florida State at thirteen and
o Willie has been shut out of the big time. If you're Marvin Harrison
junior, do you play in the bowl game for High State anywhere? Well?
I know one guy's not going to be there, is Kyle McCord.
How about that? Kyle McCord today after three years, says, see you,
I'm not going to be He's in the transfer portal. So is Oklahoma
starting quarterback Dylan Gabriel. He's he's left that team. Lakota West a Gradi
Jai her Brown is one of three defensive backs they're leaving Ohio State like one
of ten semi finalists now for Indianna, mister football. If he doesn't win
that, there's a congressional investigation of waiting. Isn't there in the record of
the Bengals without Joe Burrow something like four and twenty? Correct? Not good?
Four and twenty? Well maybe tonight, you know, Jake the snake
Browning will shine. Well he will wait and see. So Zach Shula is
four and twenty without Joe Burrow, bingo and he was seen at a UFC
event with that wrist heavily rapped and look like in a cast or something.
Over the weekend, he wasn't punching too many guys. According to my orthopedic
surgeon friends, it's about three months in a cast yep, and then about
one to three months after that of rehab because the entire right arm will atrophy.
What now? What then? I guess he'll go vicious rehab willy and
get back to it. I guess you know. I'm sure he's I'm sure
he's doing some kind of exercise. We'll keep that shoulder and intact with the
with the upper arm and lower arm and everything else. So I'm sure he's
been part of the deal. You can't move your wrist or your hand,
well, he can move the rest of it. So what the heck?
Huh? I say, sports? I say Michigan number one for the first
time in twenty six seasons in the new Associated Press Football Poll. That means
the dog streak ends at twenty four weeks at number one. Washington is second,
Texas third, Florida State fourth, Alabama fifth, Georgia falls to sixth,
Ohio State seventh, and the home of our rocky boyman, Notre Dame
is fifteenth. And by the way, I have a text here from a
savant when it comes to sports, who says to me that Zach Shula is
actually four and twenty eight. Oh without Joe burt oie worse? Do we
think we were close? But maybe it'll be five and twenty eight after tonight?
Well he will Wait. Why not college basketball? Those U see Bearcats
rolled as seven and zero after dumping Florida Gulf Coast yesterday Cee J Frederick,
just like his uncle, nineteen points to help out the Bearcat attack, and
of course the next game for them, the Crosstown shootout Saturday the Xavier.
Well, I'm all upset about everything in life, including my Bengals. Here
we are, and I wonder if it's gonna be the shine is off the
blossom right now? Do you think there's gonna have to rebuild once again?
Next number Joe seemingly can't play football till May or June of next year.
We'll see what happens. Well, it's gonna be very interesting to see what
happens. So it's not good segment. It's not the AP College Basketball Top
twenty five. Now Arizona gets his turn. The Wildcats of Arizona number one
for the first time since January of twenty fourteen. Kansas is second, followed
by Houston, Purdue, and Yukon. Kentucky is sixteenth, twenty seventh of
the Ohio state, and the seven to zero Bearcats come in thirty fourth in
the nation undefeated, untied, unscored on at this point. Let's see longtime
Major League manager Jim Leland elected the Baseball's Hall of Fame last night, the
only person elected on the among the eight nominees on the contemporary Baseball era ballot.
Let's see former Reds manager Lou Panella was one vote shy of election.
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enough votes. He deserves it too, amen So. And then your good
friend Tiger Lt. Gray back in action. He wound up an even parr,
finishing eighteen out of twenty golfers at that special event yesterday in the Bahamas.
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back and sleeping yesterday. I asked all about four or five of them,
just not even close for Tiger Woods not the same. No, it's not.
So he'll never win another tournament, which is fine with me. In
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Of course, about a month ago, which issues one and two.
State Issue one was allowing abortion up through pregnancy, the termination of the pregnancy
at nine months, and of course State Issue two dealt with marijuana and making
it similarly to alcohol. One was a constitutional amendment that the lawmakers could not
effectuate. The second one, which was recreational pot is something subject to amendment.
Joining you and I now are State Senator Steve Huffman of District five,
which tends to be north of Dayton. He's also for thirty two years a
practicing physician, and he's been a corner so he those where the bodies are
buried. And Senator Huffman, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first
of all, can you make the argument that I hear some say in talk
radio that we voted on this thing. How come those Republicans want to change
it? Can you tell the American people why it is proper to change it,
in fact, why it was anticipated it would be changed. Yeah,
it was an initiated initiative, and so that it's in the revised Code,
so that gave us the opportunity and many of us in Columbus field that that
is why they chose that and not a constitutional amendment, so that we can
look at it at the taxation and the homegrown and other things like that to
what's best for the people in Ohio. So when I'm looking at these articles
and some of the materials you sent to me, one of the main things
would be to eliminate growing marijuana at home. That it appears the people wanted
to have home grow, I guess in a sense. But then I had
on the Great Bill Sites about a week or two ago, and he mentioned
that under the current law which was passed and to become effective December seventh,
which is Thursday, that there could be as many as seven thousand joints grown
at home, and that wasn't the intent. So can you address yourself to
what you're proposing relative to growing marijuana at home. You know, the bill
that we just introduced, or it was a sub bill in a House bill
that was introduced this morning is to eliminate all homegrown and we're gonna have a
great discussion on that and committee tomorrow and hopefully pass the bill out on Wednesday,
But that's something still up for discussion. But right now it looks like
the substitute bill has no homegrown because just as Bill sites, that Bill sites
a very very smart man. You know, seven thousand joints a year and
one household just seems to be a lot. I'm not sure that's for personal
use. I have my doubts. Plus, we don't I don't think we
allow bathroom gin anymore. I don't think I don't think you can have your
own intoxicans at home because purity, how much, what's the THC content?
Those issues come into play, and so growing. Does your crystal ball tell
you that the bill coming out of the Senate and the next day or two
will have no home grown in it at all. I can say that we're
going to look at that issue very hard in the next few days. I'm
not sure exactly how it's going to come out, and maybe we reduce it
to one plant in a certain area in a certain way. But you know,
some of the things that I you know in this bill that I'm sure
I'll stay in there is that you're not allowed to if you have a daycare
at your home, you would not be able to have a home grow there
because we don't want to want it around children. Right, Well, what
if what if a mom and a dad has four kids under the age of
eighteen, say they're of tender years. Under the law passed by the electorate,
couldn't they have up to seven thousand marijuana joints in their home with children
present? That is correct, And you know a lot of things that we're
trying to do in this substitute bill is protect the children to you know,
no no smoking and automobiles, no public smoking because you know you don't want
you know, one parent driving, one parent smoking, you've got two kids
in the back seat. You know that's not a proper It's not safe for
the children. And a lot of these things are going to protect the children.
You may be aware, of course you're up north of Dayton, but
when you walk around downtown Cincinnati on a summer's eve, you're often will smell
marijuana everywhere. And right now, that's it's been that case the last couple
of years because the mayor and the city Council have told the Police Division in
Cincinnati to not enforce that law. Now, that is ridiculous because you can
have cops picking and choosing which law is to uh to enforce and which ones
not to enforce. But practically the employer says, don't do it. And
so on one hand, you're going to have parts of Ohio in which people
may be cited for improper marijuana use. In other urban areas there won't be
any violation at all. And you know, is that fair? It doesn't
seem fair to me. But one thing that uh, you know, I'm
sure that we'll stay in here is about the employer. The employers in the
state of Ohio have to have the ability to have a drug free workplace and
to be able to decide if they want to drug test for marijuana or not
drug tests for marijuana to protect themselves and protect their fellow employees. What about
the tax rate, because we all know that if the if, the if
the dark market, the underground has a lot lower prices than legal marijuana,
that the market's not going to shift. Do you understand, is the Senate
understand you have to keep the legal rate of marijuana somewhat close to the illegal
rate so that users will use the llegal and not the illegal. You know,
I've dealt with the medical marijuana in that sense. Is and it's true
for they're about you know, forty fifty thousand people that have a medical marijuana
in the state of Ohio have never bought the product, and most likely is
because they're getting it cheaper on the streets. So we've addressed the taxation.
You know, the ten percent that was an initiative initiated ballot was low compared
to other states, and on our proposal today is it's up to fifteen percent
on gross sales, with also fifteen percent on the cultivators. Senator Huffman,
what happens to the to the medical marijuana those that have the cards and those
dispensaries dedicated to medical marijuana. Why would somebody want a medical marijuana card if
you can easily access recreational marijuana. Well, you know, and I've said
for a long time when this started, was many people will drop that because
they don't want to go to a physician to get the recommendation. They don't
want to go through the hassle to get to get the card. Because a
lot of what we're doing in the sub bill is streamlining the process. We
don't need two government marijuana commissions out there, one for medical one for recreational
we don't need culture two different set of cultivators or dispensaries. We're going to
you know, streamline the system so that each one participates in the other one.
And you're right, many people will go away from the medical program because
they can get it also in the recreational or adult use. I would note
that Fairfield and other communities want to pass the law quickly by Thursday declaring that
no one can sell marijuana. There'll be no dispensaries in their city. What
survives was so called home rule in cities and townships and villages or maybe counties
decide for itself to have no dispensaries at all. Yes, so I mean
part of the medical meri Wanta program. We had that with home rule,
that they can pass in ordinance that say we do not want dispensaries or cultivators
in their jurisdiction. And you know, I go back to the casinos,
because you know, twenty years ago, all we heard was if you have
a casino, all the drugs and prostitutes will be right outside your door.
Doesn't seem to have happened. It seems that they're legitimate businesses and they're well
regulated in all the drug add dealers are not going to be outside your medical
marijuana. But as the state, I think we should respect that and let
the local jurisdictions make their own decisions so we could have a circumstance whether the
entire county in a sense, could be a dry county, because that's the
way it is. Would you be comfortable if county wide, some county commissioners
said no dispensaries, no cultivation in our county. Are you comfortable with that?
I'm comfortable with that, but I'm not sure you can do it county
wide because the local control goes to the local city or the local township.
But if the whole county wanted to do that, that's what. If they
don't, people don't like it, you should vote out those county commissioners.
And that's why we are system the way it is. When I had on
Senator, I'm sorry, when I had on Governor Mike Dwine, I don't
know, about four or five weeks ago, just I think it was the
day after it passed, he said, look, there's no need to run
to hurry or rush this thing. Others are saying December seventh is like a
drop down date. That's Thursday. It's in the law. Can you speak
of the what's going to change on December the seventh, assuming you and the
Senate and the House and the Governor can't get together in the next forty eight
hours to pass something, what's the status of this marijuana law come Friday morning.
Well, that's up for the legal people like yourself to finally look at
that. But what I'm told is that in there are some provisions that go
into effect thirty days after the election, which is on the seventh, and
that would be that cultivators would get so many dispensaries, and if you have
a dispensary, you get so many more of these, and also you're allowed
to start home going on the seventh. So that's why we have some urgency
on some things, and we also have some time on others because the Department
will can take up to a year to make the rules. So we're really
looking at the things that we really need to get done by the seventh,
but also going to get those other things done that we have a little more
time on. And you have a provision here about how to use the money,
and you talk about hundreds of millions of dollars. It seems like a
bullload of cash, and it is, but on a state budget of fifty
billion dollars, it's not really I mean it's significant, of course, but
it's not do or die. What is the new proposal you have for dividing
up the money coming in? That might be in the range of three to
five hundred million dollars, who knows what that number is, But what's your
idea about chopping up the profits enforcement fifteen marijuana, substance abuse in drug abuse,
and ten percent to the Safe Driver program, and then the rest goes
back to the general fund that we can distribute at any time for more law
enforcement or more substance abuse, whatever's needed at the time. Rather than put
it in code, we're going to let the General Assembly and the governor make
that decision every two years on what's best to use that money for. So
the idea is to walk before you run, to see let's put this where.
I think we're about the twenty third or twenty fourth state to approve recreational
marijuana. Some have had great success, some have not. In California,
the legal headshops as they're called, have little or no business because the market
is still a dark market, and so that would be a problem. But
maybe the home grow up rations in California might be different than Ohio. But
for those who want to grow marijuana beginning December seventh, would that be legal?
You would if we don't do anything. And the one thing about homegrown,
it's my understanding, is a very difficult plant to grow one that you
know, bugs and a few use pesticides on the plant. You don't want
to be smoking these toxic pesticides. And the other thing is is mold from
when you're drying it out. These mold spores get on there that can also
be toxic, that can be very dangerous to the individual that's using it.
And so really you want to you want to have a product if it's sold
under the auspices of the state of Ohio, that that is wholesome, as
used as intended and it doesn't have unintended fentanyl or something else or mold in
it. And that's the idea of prohibiting home growth, correct. I think
that's a bit big part of it is is that you know, we people
to have safe product. It's now that the initiative valid initiative passed, but
we want it to be safe for everybody, So the law we passed will
not be the law that takes effect. Well, that is what the Senate
is trying to do. I will Well, we'll see in a couple of
days how successful we are and if we can get to our fellows, members
of the General Assembly and the House to agree. That doesn't sound likely to
me. I'm used to having nothing happening in anywhere. I can't conceive of
all that happening in the next two days. But you're saying, Senator Huffman,
you're saying that's possible. I think. I think it's possible. I
think the hard work of Senator mccullay to get all these things together. We'll
listen to what people have to say on Tuesday and most likely come back with
the sub bill on on Wednesday, and you know, the plan of the
President is to pass it out and see what we'll see what the thoughts of
the House, and then if you've got to tweak it down the road,
you'll do that too. But that's to be determined. But unless something changes,
there could be thousands of Ohioans having homegrown marijuana in their basements come Thursday
and Friday. And at this point it would not be illegal. Well,
I'll tell you Willie, there are already thousands of people in the state of
Ohio already doing that, but it would just be a little a little more
legal. All right, Senator Huffman, thank you, and we'll see what
happens. But you're cautiously optimistic something can be done before Friday. Yes,
I am. I think on the leadership of the President and Senator McCauley and
others, I think we can get it done. All right, Senator,
thank you very much, thank you, take care, good done. Thank
you all. Let's continue with more and so what you passed, what you
voted for, is not what's going to happen. And then hopefully the Senate
the House. When he talks about the President, he means the president of
the Senate in Columbus, and all of them need to get on the same
page very quickly. Let's continue. Two twenty four home A your Bengals ten
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Pyot and I'm broadcasting all right, sege before we talk about what's happening
up north. I'm concerned with marijuana. I'm concerned also about Ken McCord.
Rocky, how is it Kent McCord. It's Kyle McCord. Ken McCord was
on Adam twe twelve. That's what I'm talking about. Adam twelve, Okay,
Kyle? One out of twelve, one out of twelve. How about
the star quarterback of you Live State Buck guys leaving I guess for a senior
year, Ryan Day? Why is that? I just told the rock about
it? He is shocked. I did not. I had not seen that.
I can't believe it. He's so he's what I won eleven and one
right in his loan season as he's playing for what a lot of people would
consider one of the greatest head coaches and offensive minds in general in college football.
Where's he gonna go? The Green letters Salvation tells me he was paid
enough money to stay. You State needs a quarterback. Yeah, bach Man's
right. If he's leaving for money on hands like you're why would you leave
again, one of the brightest offensive minds in college football and leave that someone
that could prepare you for the NFL and go to make I don't know if
that's the reason or not, but if it is money and he can get
a million more dollars here than the other place, I think that's a stupid
decision. And yes, Harrison Junior, he's thrown to somebody pretty good.
Yeah, can you imagine number eighteen is gonna wear the uniform again? And
a and another went on another Ohio State receiver number he's I think number four
on the roster. He's He also went to the portal today they had three
They had three orkin ship. Well, maybe it's worse there than we think.
Rock and Caleb Williams is not going to play more for USC. He's
done, So why would what is Marvin Harrison assuming let's go to the next
level, which of course he does. What does he have to prove in
Ohio State? Why would he want to play there anymore? Well, well,
now if he, I mean, I know he has another year of
eligibility, but he would be a certain top fifteen pick and your quarterbacks leave
him? Why would you go to a whole nother university and learn a new
Why would you do all that? He's got to be gone. I guess
Devin Brown's going to take over, and obviously McCord's not going to play in
the Cotton Bowl. I would I would not. I wouldn't believe it if
Marvin Harrison Junior doesn't go to the draft. By the way, I hate
the summe of year because I got three bowl games that I was just I
found out about yesterday, and I'm gonna have to go through like every day
leading up to the like hours before the game. Yep, gonna have to
learn who entered the portal, who's sitting out the game. I mean,
I did a Bowl game two years ago on the Star running back for UTSA
Sincere McCormick. Like an hour before the game, we find out he's not
got a whole package built, and the whole broadcast is built. We're gonna
highlight this hour before the game, says he's not playing, and then he
goes undrafted, which was even more ironic. Nice. So why would someone
stay in so called college, which to them is not college when it's a
stepping stone? What one percent make it to the NFL from from college football?
One percent make it and so but these kids are told by their agents,
by their parents, by their best buzz, look, don't play,
you might get hurt. Yeah, the last year's Hi Heisman Trophy winner Caleb
Williams not gonna play. I would assume Kyle McCord's not gonna play. I
would assume Marvin Harrison is not gonna play. Ohio State's not gonna play.
So we're gonna cite them a bowl game that they're gonna have. I mean,
it's Missouri and Missouri, it's a cotton Bowl. Nobody cares. But
I mean, if you're a college kid, wouldn't you be fight to get
more eligibility so you could stay in school and make money Because like you said,
I mean, only a fraction of those kids are going to go to
the NFL and make that kind of money. Some would probably make more money
in college than they ever would in the NFL. So why wouldn't you fight
for more eligibility to stay and make whatever it is fifty grand, one hundred
grand, five hundred grand meal, I don't know what it is, but
Cayley Brown, supposedly the quarterback, is making three and a half million dollars.
Williams, I mean usc, Yeah, yeah, where's he going to
go? Nowhere? He's going to own a franchise in the NFL? He
said, yeah, right about Dylan Gabriel, that old situation. But I
mean Bortland. I mean also with how he played this year in big games
and then how his dad's acted the media. Well, he's not going to
go to certain teams and he only wants to go to a team where he
can get a fraction of NFL ownership. That'll never happen. No, No,
that is the whole situation where the dad has hurt his draft profile.
Lastly, before we get to the student's report, formally, the four team
selected, Florida State is out. Is that fake outrage or real outrage by
Florida State, et cetera? Well, it's real outraged by them. They're
saying, look, we want thirteen to o. They won actually nineteen straight
games. They won their conference. They had two Power Five wins over LSU
and Florida. It's just unfortunate because what the committee did was they said,
Okay, we're gonna take some crap here. How are you going to take
less crap? Is it by leaving Florida State out or Alabama out? And
it said, well, we're not gonna face that flat with the Benemuth of
the SEC. So Florida State, sorry, it's you. And unfortunately,
I think at their quarterback Jordan Travis been healthy, they might have had the
argument, but it helped the committee. It gave them a lifeline because they
could just say, well, you know, it's part of the committee things
that we're supposed to consider of who's who's playing and who's not, who's coaching,
who's not. So the fact that he's not available that just signed their
their death certificate. It's sad. You like to think the games on the
field matter. Alabama I understand, and I would I mean from the eye
test I watched them, I would say they are obviously a great team.
But they also lost by ten points at home, okay to Texas. Are
we just supposed to forget about that? Are we just supposed to forget they
had a double digit loss at home? Oh, they're playing much better,
I know that, But then why play any games in September and October if
the only thing that matters is what how your team looks in November? Tell
me remember the question. I will answer the question when I ask you another
question to answer that question. What about the fourth and thirty one? Oh
my god? What roll tide? Roll Tide? And Albert had lost the
week before, I think by twenty to New Mexico State. Correct, the
lost by eighteen and they were like a twenty five point undred. So crazy,
Sarah Kill the head coach, get us into the studies report. Well,
the student reporters of service of her local Tame Star. He didn't get
air conditioning dealers Tame Star quality. You could feel in Cincinnati, Colwayoming Aaron
won eight eight, eight nine nine six h v A C spots Bengal roster
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he gonna go? You see? You see uh. Aj McCarron has been
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in what game they Cotton Bowl? Now, I mean, could I not
argue shouldn't Ohio State get get bumped out of that game? Now? Why
is a fan? When I watched that game of Kyle McCord and Marvin Harrison
Junior and about ten other guys are gonna play. Isn't there another more worthy
team? Cincinnati? Yeah? Throw them in there. Yeah pretty soon,
that's what it's going to be. Everybody like like Indiana and high school,
everybody look at look at the port, look at the messile at next year.
But they got twelve right, They're gonna be playing. They're gonna have
playoffs for three months. Here's a deal. No one liked the whole the
BCS system, no one liked, you know, voters deciding, But but
you could at least make the argument that on the final and then in the
final bowl game, the final competition of the year, there was like at
least four schools that could that would that we're fighting to be number one,
so you are going to get their best shot. Right now, there is
exactly two teams that could be number one, and that's it, Michigan and
Washington. Right, so I mean, you know so well they'll play the
playoffs. Yeah, I'm saying in the final game as well, right,
saying, okay, all right, but you could go into that final,
into that bowl weekend, like that January first day, and you know,
a couple of teams lose and this team wins all of a sudden they voted
number one. More chaos the BCS system. Back next year, there's going
to be the twelve teams, which means before in the first round three so
there's the total of seven game, seven bowl. Well, there'll be another
bowl next year except the Mac Bowl. I mean, why would like a
legitimatecy Ohio state, why would they next year go to any bowl. We'll
look at look at it, look at it. Now the only teams that
are going to be in these bowl games next year out of the Big Ten
and the SEC the ball game they're still around because surprisingly they get monster ratings.
And I know because I see the ratings because a lot of now,
especially how people gamble on him, these some obscure bull will get a better
rating than all of but maybe five college basketball games. Yeah, yeah,
so they're they're gonna put them on TV. But again, if you're the
Cotton bull boy, we we got Ohio State. They're gonna come plain and
then then you get this news. Are you not pissed? Well, Kyle
McCord, I don't get it. Maybe he's going to the Arena Football League.
I mean, Michigan broke the back of Ohio State football. Would you
agree? Yes, they're without their head coach. Yeah and no, no,
no, Well, and now now Ryan Days on the hot seat again.
I think his record against Michigan. Is there any indication that Ryan Day
didn't want him back? I don't. I can't imagine that'd be. Like
he's telling me off the air yesterday and his news conference, they were asking
him about like next year, and Kyle McCord, is he gonna come back
and he kind of him hauled around and you know this and that, you
know that like a coach does. He really didn't say, Hey, he's
my he's our guy, We're gonna stick with him. He just kind of
it was kind of vanilla way way it happened. So it was like,
hey, that's it. The board have a big question. Is to Alabama?
Okay? The log you know, because Jaylen mill Rose there, he
still has eligibility. Okay, is he gonna go to Is he gonna go
to University of Washington because Michael Pennix is gonna leave? Maybe he goes there,
plays for Washington under Kaylin de Boor he was a great offensive mind in
a great school. Maybe he goes there. Lincoln Riley at se maybe maybe
he goes there. But there was against Ohio State, right, but why
unbelievable Andy Mack. I don't get it. I don't either. I mean
look what look what Ryan Day in Ohio State did And I'm not like some
like ultra super Ohio State, but look what he did for Oh God,
who's the c J. Stroud? Yeah, playing in that system under that
coach. Look at that guy, how's flourishing right now? And you know
that answer the question. The answer is yes, there's something about at all
high. Maybe Ryan Day said it's time for you to go about your life's
work. Is it possible? Ryan Day fired Kyle McCorry if he didn't like
how you played against Michigan and said, we can never beat Michigan with Kyle
McCord. So see you what we want to be. I'll ask you another
big question in their prime? Better quarterback Peyton Manning or Joe Burrow? Peyton
Manning? Stop it, yeah, stop it. First of all, he
played two hundred and eight straight games. Yeah, never got hurt. Yeah.
I love Joe Burrow, but come on now, be realistic, realistic
Joe Burrow. And look, I love Joe Burrow, but I mean he's
gotta gotta stack together. You know how many with eighteen seasons Peyton May he
starts stacking him up. And let's answer that question. Revisit that question in
like ten years and then answer me different. But right now it's Peyton Manning.
How many Heisman Trophies did Peyton Manning win? How many m vps did
he win? Answer the question? How many did Joe Burrow win? Answer
the question? Answers five how many Super Bowls is Peyton manning one? How
many has he been to the core and he won two with two different teams.
What was his crime? Well, his crime was being a Bengal.
That's his crimes. Poor bengalized, Well, baby, will morning back,
maybe the night will they'll pull it, pull the round out of the hat
and win. That'd be wonderful. Everybody will be happy what this town needs.
And then we should like hold our own because you know, Lance mcalliser
and and seg said all along that this was a great roster, one the
top rosters in the NFL. He went without our quarterback. We should win
some games. That's what you said, right I did, Oh, I
think that we get the taed, get the tape, Lance did. I
didn't come on mass Lance, it's my god, that's my point. He's
a twit. Get me out of the stoods report, Please do well who
knows Willie and utter of Whoda nation? Tonight take it. We leave you
with the immortal words of the Stewod report. Well, Nino into the box,
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