I feel the counting in the Great American Welcome to floor. It's two day
appen in to try to day Red Spaceball wonderful last night on the cusp of
glory starts again tonight about five forty. Joe Burrow is not limping. There's
no sleeve on his calf. Where's Mike DeWine? The governor knows all about
calves because he raised many in Greene County. But nonetheless, there was big
news yesterday about these about these personal aerial vehicles all of us are going to
be in and it's wonderful to watch. I don't know how it's going to
happen. Let's go to the source, Mike DeWine. Governor, Mike DeWine,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show, and Governor, with your permission,
many here have walk up music, much like Red's baseball players getting ready
to hit. Yes, I know mine is bad. Bad to the bone
is big Joe Deeters. Now just as Joe has power load set to explode
TNT pretty good stuff. And would you like me to have some walk up
music for Governor Mike DeWine, Billy, I would, I would really like
it, and I hope it's futuristic but also plays back a little bit to
the past. So come up with something here, Tony Bender, you've been
working on this hit the walk up music for Governor Mike DeWine Me George Jetson
a KA Mike is by now a Kay Pat don't know a name here,
we'll call her Judy Jay aka fran H. I feel I want to dance
now. You gotta tell a little bit of a story of what happened yesterday
in Miami Valley. Are we gonna have jets and type vehicles flying around Ohio?
Yes, and we're gonna have them flying all over the country, in
the in the world because this California company, we've been working with them to
come to Ohio. They're gonna come to Ohio. We had a great setting
yesterday, a beautiful day. We were on the lawn of the home that
was designed by by the Wright brothers UH in oak in Oakwood, UH in
Montgomery County, and he and Joe Bann Who's who's the CEO UH And we've
gotten fran I've certainly gotten to know, and the hotel Governor's gotten to know.
And maybe the announcement yesterday they're going to be building a manufacturing facility.
Uh. They will employ two thousand people. Well they'll do it near they'll
do it near the airport. Uh, and they will produce The goal is
five hundred of these air taxis and they will have one pilot and they will
have four four passengers. And the idea is to you know, this is
a place to cut down on Uh. You know, if you live in
la or you live in someplace where the congestion is horrible and you want to
go across town, you will be able to go on this kind of a
uh. You know this this thing that goes up in the air. It
will go two hundred miles an hour once it goes straight out. It goes
straight up and then then it will go straight out. So it is it
is the future. We're really happy to give them. It's sort of similar
to what uh the importance of getting Intel, because I think for people to
see that Ohio is about is really about the future. And you know,
Fran looked up the whole jetson thing and found that it was like I think
nineteen sixty two, Now Billy you were alive then, yes, obably yes,
as a little kid, remember that song, right, I vaguely.
Uh, we spoke last night. You told me that The Jetsons was like
you and frans favorite TV show. I was shocked to find out it was
on, but for one year, that's impot. I can see you and
France sitting on a couch in Greene County watching The Jetsons on a magnavox.
I can see it right now. Well, let's let's let's see Billy.
We were fifteen, so I didn't have my license yet, so we were
not quite dating yet, but we had one day before then we went bowling,
went bowling it in seventh grade. Yes, bowling, we went.
We went, We went bowling, bowling. But this thing is absolutely phenomenal
and it's it is all electric. So the CEO was telling Fran and me
and John yesterday. He said, well, what's the noise? He said,
there's no noise. It's just a little hush. Yeah, there's It's
not like a helicopter. It doesn't make that helicopter bank. It doesn't make
that noise. It's a kind of a hush. When's it gonna Actually,
I can see maybe and and and congestion go from Dayton to Cincinnati, for
example, or maybe down to Frankfurt and it's like I've seen the video.
It's look, it's all electric. He's got these little propellers on it.
You go in, sit down, and away you go. And when will
it be operational? They're gonna start producing these they think in uh twenty twenty
five, so it's not that far off. They're gonna start construction, you
know, pretty quickly. It was interesting at seven am yesterday morning, they
put up a place where you could go if you wanted a job there,
and they've already already as of the time we made the announcement, which is
I think was ten o'clock, they are had hundreds of people who had applied
applied for jobs. So it's you know, one of the things that that
we did. And people asked, well, how do you end up you
know, how's the company like that end up getting here? And there's a
lot of reasons. I think that the synergy was right Passion Air Force Base
with US military. Uh what is going on to Springfield Air Base Airport in
regard to drones, the work that's going on there. Uh, these things
were all very important. They think they you know, they know, Ohio,
it's a great manufacturing state. But the final thing I think was a
question how happy are our employees going to be living in Ohio? And so
Fran and I literally got a bus, uh, got us and we had
him go over. We met him, met him the CEO and his top
people. Uh. We met him over in Yellow Springs eight breakfast at the
absolutely magnificent hotel there and in Yellow Springs U and then gotten the bus and
you know, we kept talking about, you know, where he was asking
of where where our people live, the quality of life. So anyway,
and at that point it wasn't clear whether it was going to Springfield or Clark
County, or whether it's going to Montgomery County or Green County or exactly where
it was going. But we just kind of took him around to some of
our favorite places. We showed him Glen Hellen a thousand acres uh there.
We stopped in in Clifton, uh, you know, looked at the Clifton
Gorge, beautiful, beautiful, and then then Clifton Mill and looked at the
Little Miami River. I told him, you know, the Little Miami River.
The headwater of the Little Miami River is not too far here. It
starts up here and comes down and they looked looked at that water and said
wow. I said, wow, yeah, but this is you know,
this is just one river we got there. We got plenty of water.
But but the quality of life, I think, Bill, you know something
that when people dig down into it and they see the cost of housing is
so much lower here it is in California or New York ors you know,
some of the coastal places, and it's just a great place to live.
I mean, what about air traffic controllers? Tony Bender wants to buy one
in Boone County. It takes some forty five minutes to come here from Boone
County. Are these going to be literally taxis? Are there air traffic controllers?
What are the rules of the road when you're a thousand feet in the
air. Yeah, they're working all of that out. I mean, you
know, that's very very important. As you know, and we're seeing the
course more and more, uh you know, not the same thing, but
we're seeing more and more the idea of drones dropping packages and look, it's
gotta be careful and it's gotta be regulated, but uh, you know,
I see these being used as a taxi. I think there's also possibility that
you know, some executives would actually buy one and getting you know, train
a pilot and uh have that pilot trained and uh, you know, take
them, take them around. I'm sure they're not gonna be too cheap.
But uh, you know, this company h is absolutely convinced, they've had
some big companies invest in them as well, that this is the future.
And you know, it's been sixty years since the Jeffsons, So this didn't
come overnight, no jets after you know, sixty years when Frey and I
were fifteen, and now we're looking at this coming, you know, sixty
years later. So it's I saw this NBC story out of New York,
which is terribly congested, to have these vehicles that land on the top of
buildings and go to Newark International Liberty, go to Philadelphia when Ohio State plays
Notre Dame, get ten of these things and begin somewhere and get to South
Bend in like fifteen twenty minutes after the game pick up, bring you back.
I can see lots of uses go to the Derby. It takes about
fifteen minutes to get there from Cincinnati. Why Cincinnati doesn't have the congestion problems
as other major cities have. But this thing has applications, and I'm glad
they picked Ohio. I'd rather live here than almost anywhere else. You can't
live in Los Angeles, for God's sakes. Well no, I mean,
you know, Bill, we were out there, you know for the Super
Bowl singles one out and some of our kids, and trying to move around
that city was just like it was unbelievable. How you know how long it
took to go a very short period. But look, this is good for
Ohio. I just left the the opening of the Farm Science Review, which
is in Madison County. It's a great, great events of all the new
things in agriculture. And one of the things I said this morning is when
Ohio has been as greatest, and I believe that this is truly our time
again right now. When we've been our greatest, it has been a combination
of agriculture, which is still the number one industry in the state of Ohio.
And when that was that was going strong, and when manufacturing was going
strong. You know, you have those two things that are are perculating and
or moving things are going well, and both of them are going well here
in Ohio. Oh and a couple three years who knows if you want to
go see the Browns beat up on the Bengals, just get to follow up
seventy one. I guess it would take less than an hour to get to
Cleveland from here and charge everybody five hundred bucks. Get on, it's a
taxi away you go. It's the way to happen. And Mike, we
have about a minute or two remaining. Did you think that those young couple
fifteen sixteen years old sitting on a couch in Greene County in sixty years would
be a two term United States Senator, a US Congressman, a prosecutor,
a governor. The most popular governor in the history of Ohio is Mike DeWine.
It's reelected. You are sixty percent because you're so in a sense non
political. Did you could you have thought the arc of your life? Uh?
No, And it's a good thing that brand didn't know that, because
I think she would have ran out the door. You know what do you
think? No? No, she would have stayed. The shyest girl in
our class, and she had to see the friend. You got have to
get up and give speeches. You're gonna have to go up and doing that
was cooking at your house, a fair with with kids. You're you're gonna
have Luke Bryan come to your event. Simple last week, gimp and we
got to get up and interview with Luke Bryan. And the year before she
was interviewing Dolly. I mean, you know, like I said, she
you know, the the the shyest girl in the class. So I'm glad
she didn't know it because Billy, that would not been good. Well,
Mike Dwine. She left the Jetsons, after the Wright Brothers, after John
Glenn, after Neil Armstrong. Here comes George Jetson. Tony Benner hit the
music for the Governor. Oh yeah, let's go. It's good. Here,
here they come. Here they are Mike DeWine at the helm Me Jorge
Jetson is by Heyk Patorn, j Judy Dawn, Jane Heyka Fran with the
cherry Pie. It's reality. That's all I can say. The future is
right now. The Jetsons have landed in Ohio. Unbelievable. Governor Mike DeWine,
thank you very much, all right, really could be with you,
thank you, thank you. You can't make it up. And the next
two years Mike DeWine's going to be at the helm of an electric not quite
a hellic copre, not quite a plane, faring people all over the state
of Ohio. I can't believe it. Your reaction five point three seven four
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