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now by Billy Cunningham to Grant America. Welcome, Welcome this Tuesday afternoon to
the tri state Red Spaceball kicks off about five forty tonight and in Town of
the Metropolitans for three and of course I'm off on Thursday because of Red Spaceball,
but trying to get back on track and more. But another issue that
has percolated, and I have texted it with my good friend Chris Smitherman several
times about this issue that over the past couple of years, the city of
Cincinnati has received literally hundreds of millions of dollars in so called pandemic relief from
Republicans and Democrats in order to be the bridge over the troubled waters. And
Chris Smitherman sent me a column about how the money was spent or how it
wasn't spent, what it means for the pension and more. And Chris Smitherman,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham shown. Chris, can you lay out
for the American people this Tuesday afternoon exactly about how much money in freebees were
sent to the city of Cincinnati because of the Trump slash Biden pandemic relief and
then what it means for the pension system, if anything. So about how
much money was spent within round dollars sent un I'm gonna say, probably in
if I can remember, I'm recalling it, in the hundreds of millions,
just a check in the mail, check in the mail deck in the mail,
check in the mail. The pension plan, Willie, is the most
important issue that the city is facing. It's not a sexy issue, but
it is percular. It is perculating. As you indicated in two thousand and
four and two thousand and five when I was elected. As you know,
I'm a financial planner, I looked at the pension directly, and at that
time the unfunded liability was eighty million. That has grown to eight hundred million.
So fifteen years ago it was eighty million, now it's almost a billion,
eight hundred million dollars. That's correct. We are the only city in
the state of Ohio who manages a retirement system. Most cities have Purrs as
an example. And so what has been happening is many councils, many mayors,
democratic controlled council's. Democratic mayors have been balancing the city budget by underfunding
the retirement so as the market performed, instead of them putting in the required
contribution, they would put less money in if the market performed. When the
market did not perform, like last year he had the bond market and the
equity markets underperformed, the city would not put extra money in. So they
were hitting it on both sides. When John Curry was elected, one of
the things I asked him to do. I said, listen, I'll support
you, but you've got to put time and energy in saving the pension.
And one of the big things that he did and I agreed with, was
coming up with a required contribution, which is sixteen point two five of our
payroll that must go into the pension no matter what. That was a good
step in the right direction. The problem is that as this market underperforms and
we send out ten million dollars a month around about number two hour retirees,
which are about four thousand of them, we are not able to keep up
with the seven point five percent, which I call an aggressive target for the
pension to get every year compounded, and so every time we missed that percentage,
which we did last year, it dramatically impacts that unfunded liability. The
people who are responsible for this bill are the taxpayers of Cincinnati, because we
are responsible for the unfunded liability. We have about three hundred and forty six
million dollars that comes in from taxpayers and we've got an eight hundred million dollars
unfunded liability. So at some point the taxpayers are going to look at this
because our taxes are going to have to go higher. So employees themselves who
are who are depending on this check. We've made a said that we were
going to give them these dollars over after they gave us thirty five years,
and their beneficiaries. Because some of these employees they've passed away, they have
a reduced benefit to their spouses, and now they're on the hook for any
changes that the city must make. This is what infensed me build when they
start talking about the streetcar and saying that they were going to use dollars to
operate a streetcar while underfunding the pension. So this is important because what the
streetcar supporters used to tell us is they would confuse the public by saying,
oh, Smillerman is talking about capital dollars. It has nothing to do with
the operation of the city. I would always come back and say, you've
got to operate a people, You've got to turn the lights on. So
we're spending five million dollars a year to operate the streetcar for people who do
not write it, when we should be putting that five million as an example
force our Censinari retirement system. This is a huge issue because eventually debt rating
agencies are going to hone in on this they're going to start downgrading our debt
number one. As this market doesn't perform this year, two consecutive years,
maybe three years, maybe we go into a recession, a full blown recession.
The reality is we're not going to get that seven point five percent target.
And I'm sharing with you right now this is something with no exaggeration,
bill that could put the city into bankruptcy. This has nothing to do with
the police department because they have a separate retirement, and it has nothing to
do with fire. It's asked me, our asked me workers and our coworkers,
which make up every other employee except police and fire. Can you tell
me why the city of Cincinnati low many decades ago? God, somehow in
a the pension business. How is that possible? Well, the city our
forefathers, just like they talked about the three hundred miles of railroads that we
own that you know, many people now are advocating that we sell, which
I am absolutely again that they thought that we would do a better job taking
care of our employees, meaning we we employ them. They give us thirty
to thirty five years of our life. We say we're going to take care
of you, and we did not want that to be a state obligation.
That essentially was their philosophy. What they did not anticipate were counsels. And
I have to say this because their politics involved over fifty years of democratically controlled
counsels in a mayor's office that said, we are willing to balance this budget
on the backs of the employees. And so this is when it gets tricky,
because if we were if we were responsible, and we were making the
contributions to the CRS system, we wouldn't have the problem. This is what
insenses me about asking me workers they keep voting for Democrats while the Democrats underfund
their most important obligations, their own retirement. No sense of saying, Okay,
the chickens are going to come home to roost, and eighty million dollars
deficit is bad, and eight hundred million dollar deficit is crippling, And there's
no sense on this council that they're going to say things like, you know
what we gotta put we gotta start putting in large amounts of money from this
freebee money. I would assume some of the freebee money should have been spent
on shoring up the pension system, and that wasn't done because that's not very
sexy. What is sexy, however, is opening up a new community center
or they can't even open up the swimming pools in two weeks, don't have
enough lifeguards, so the city is living on borrowed time. Can a city
can file bankruptcy? Correct? Absolutely a city can file bankruptcy. And guess
what. Our police department some fifteen to twenty years ago saw that their pension
was being underfunded, sued the city successfully in the city had to issue pension
bonds and put in about forty four million dollars into the police pension. So
the answer your question is yes, the city can file bankruptcy. Look at
what's happening in the state of Illinois in Chicago with the citizens of Cincinnati don't
understand it. We aren't far behind them, meaning we are the only city
in the state of Ohio who has this crisis, and as they continue to
just not deal with it, kind of just look away from it, we're
going to continue to have the problems that we're experiencing. We have an election
though in November, and so citizens who are listening to this interview you can
do something about it. One is only vote for people who are going to
solve the big problem, which is the pension. If you are an employee
that lives in the City of Cincinnati, if you're a retiree that lives in
the City of Cincinnati, why would you vote for someone who's underfunding your retirement
for you and your spouse. That doesn't make any sense to me. And
so citizens and citizen need to know how to vote. They should never vote
for nine people for city council. It's up to nine, and you just
want to vote for a majority. Five of those members of council that are
running, meaning not those who are currently serving. Necessarily five strong, fiscally
conservative council members need to be elected in November, so they put their pen
and paper and solve this major issue. I don't want to come back on
here, Bill some ten years from now. I tell you, I told
you so. What I want to do is have elected officials who say,
I'm going to be responsible. I'm gonna write this ship right now. We're
going to issue whatever debt, not ninety four million dollars, which is what
they did to build the street car. Not we're going to talk about building
the second phase of the street car to go up to the University of Cincinnati.
We need to solve our pension problem so that citizens taxes and our corporate
partners have as sureties that their taxes won't go out of control. Christopher Smiller,
I want to deal with one other collateral matter, and because you're a
creature of the city of Cincinnati, you're in your family, your mom and
dad, number of kids, you've been there, you live in the city,
you work in the city, you're you're there. And one of the
issues that continue to percolate is the functionality of the public school system. Your
kids mainly went to public schools. I can recall at Walnut he had some
kids graduate a great education, and when the test results come back, it
appears that the great majority of schools in the city of Cincinnati are not functioning
at grade level, not even close. In fact, it's getting worse.
Other than the city finances, which you claim are heading towards bankruptcy, is
there a bankruptcy of type of public education at schools, especially those outside of
Walnut that is also not being addressed because now you have a brand new superintendent
seemingly being attacked by the by the teachers and by others. Who work for
the school system that don't like the new superintendent. And so I'm looking at
this situation and if city gets as the city gets in difficult waters, it's
bad for the entire region. What is the functionality of a quality education and
the City of Cincinnati public school system, especially those outside of Walnut. So
first three of my four children, it might have had five children, but
three of my four boys graduated from Walnut, as you know, and one
graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts. My daughter is in Catholic
schools. She goes to Seaton High School, which I'm very proud of.
Our Cincinnati public schools are failing, period. And most Americans who have children
select where they live based on the school that they go to. And so
when you have a Walnut, a School for Creative Performing Arts, a Clark
Monastori, you know you have a very small number of high schools wherein say,
hey, I want to take my kid here, and I'm gonna put
the education, their education in the future of that school into my kid's life,
meaning you and you and I know. The way to get to a
middle class status is what is to get a good education, not have a
child, not have a child early in life. These basic steps get you
to that place where where you can move into the middle class. So this
is really huge. Our Cincinnati public schools need major reforms period. We have
to have a school board that cares more about the kids than they do about
the staff. And now let me also share with you, is that my
wife a public school teacher, My mother retired from Cincinnati public schools. Four
of my five children went to Cincinnati public schools, and I am a graduate
of Cincinnati Public schools. So I am the best person to have a conversation
with about Cincinnati public schools because I'm vested in it and to tell you for
me to be on your radio show telling you there are major reforms needed in
our cent Ni public schools, they are failing. Many of the schools are
failing, and they're failing our kids. And we have a school board at
times that spend more time talking about Donald Trump than they do about the business
that they're in. And that's the problem. If you have a school board
that will talk about a street car and whether you should build a street car,
then they do about what they're there for, which is making sure that
they educate thirty seven thousand approximately kids, and seventy percent of those are African
American kids. And they're feeling our babies every single day by being distracted on
things that they shouldn't even be talking about. It's a weapon of mass distraction.
And I'm watching one of the Cambell shows last night. I don't agree
with him politically a lot. That is President Barack wrus saying Obama who said
in twenty o eight, that's the best reparation reparation program, it's a good
quality public education for black kids. And he said that's how to repair the
damage is caused by discrimination and by slavery is to have a good public school
system that starts a young boy or a young girl off with the right attributes
of life. And I can't think of any any school that any large urban
area that is a good public school system. And people should be outraged and
they're not. President Barack Obama and our former first Lady Michelle Obama clearly have
it right here. Period. Let me say that I will challenge the school
board right now for vocational education. Yes, so I don't want to I
don't want to talk about the issue without giving you at least one solution Our
Cincinnati Public school Board continues to fail us by not executing vocational education in our
schools. They are afraid to bring in Corporate America because they say they don't
have the education. They have thirty years of experience, but we them to
get some certification to teach a class. They're going to have to realize that
we need our bricklayers, we need our carpenters, we need our iron workers,
We need men and women who build things teaching vocational education in our school
system. We need our barbers in their teaching people how to be a barber,
how to be a hairdresser, how to do nails. I don't care
what the vocation is our suit. Our school system has to understand that a
majority of their children aren't going to college. And that's okay because an iron
worker makes six figures, right, an electrician makes six figures and they don't
have all that student loan debt. Our school board continues to fill our children
by not doing something they easily can do, and that is roll out a
very aggressive vocational education for our thirty seven thousand kids that are in Cincinnati Public
schools. Failing, I see difficulties ahead. But Chris Smitherman once again,
thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Sound the alarm, and
it's up to leadership presently to fix the big problem with the pension but also
the big problem of lack of equality education. Chris Smitherman, once again,
thank you for coming on the Bill County. Yes, go ahead, Chris.
People can follow me. They can follow me on this pension issue at
both Smitherman or my or my Facebook page. And to my son Caleb who
is in the military, who you know, serving our country Air Force.
It is his twenty first birthday today. Happy birthday, Caleb Smitherman, twenty
one years old. Brother, you remember when you were twenty one? Barrel
one years old. Barrel bring our country. Thank you, Caleb. I'm
gonna make Caleb Smitherman the Bill Cunningham Citizen of the Day. Thank you for
your service. And Chris Smitherman, thank you, thank you. Let's continue
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first time in decades, there's a better of you drive. I Billy Cunningham,
the Great American and coming up after one o'clock today it is Don Dixon
for some reason has been in office like twenty years, Butler County Commissioner,
and I've not heard from him, but I put a call in to him
because had a breakfast with him about a year or two ago with Richard K.
Jones, and he put out a miss of a message about a little
known center called the Tax Commissioner of the State of Ohio. And I said,
well, Don, what's it about? And the actual collecting real estate
taxes is something the tax commissioner begins, but posting the value of property and
so this isn't a very sexy topic, but it's going to cost all of
us a bunch of money because the tax commissioner sets the value of real estate.
Now you may know, in the past year, the value of real
estate, especially residential real estate, is skyrocketed. It'd be great if someone
could sell their home then live in status and not buy some other joint because
as a consequence, you have prices going up twenty thirty and you can take
advantage of that and not have to live in some other place. But thus
not the way most of us live. So it is somewhat understated to say
that when the Tax Commissioner of the State of Ohio, beginning with twenty twenty
four property tax bills that go out in February, have ordered and across the
board forty percent increase in the values of real estate residentially. The lowest of
each county is about twenty one percent and the highest is forty two percent,
with Butler County leading the way with forty two percent increases. So I know
lawmakers like Cindy Abrahams and Jennie Schmidt and others are on their way to wash
on the way to Columbus, Ohio now to confront the idea that wait a
minute, even though the real estate may have gone up somewhat in value,
it's an unrealized profit. I've lived in the same home for about twenty one
years. I would imagine you live in a house or an apartment been there
for a long time. An apartment dwell is to pay the real estate taxes
indirectly in the form of rent, because the amount of rent that you pay
is directly tied to the amount of real estate taxes paid by the owner of
the building. So if you live in a home, you can look forward
to a twenty to forty percent increase of the real estate taxes you'll pay starting
in February next year. And the values are being set now as I speak,
and she is going to use the values of real estate based upon what
houses could sell for last year, which which is and was a huge number.
So I know Summer saying, I wait a minute, let's not do
that. What we need to do is average it out over three years,
which does still be a huge tax increase. Of his average out over three
years, the number is still going to be unbelievable. So Don Dixon will
be here after two o'clock to talk about that. Then after two o'clock today
will be Moegger on what's going to happen on Thursday when the NFL schedule is
released. There's some speculation nationally that the Bengals have to play at the Chiefs
at some point with the schedule. And I would think Bengals that the Chiefs
would be at sexy Thursday night debut of the twenty twenty three football season.
But maybe the Philadelphia Eagles might have something to say about that. But nonetheless,
so Mode's going to break that down. Plus, the Reds are back
in town. They had a less than a stellar season less last year,
and of course this year things haven't been the best. I think they've won
fourteen games so far, so they got to get it on and start doing
better. But secondly, the national media is a flutter with the idea of
what's going to happen this afternoon when Joe Biden sits down with congressional leaders two
from the House and two from the Senate. Does anyone think and that this
was something that was pointed out during Bill Clinton's era, who was very bright,
but of course, of course I didn't care much for his policies.
But nonetheless, you're sitting in the Oval office, and for one hour you'll
deal with what's happening on the southern border. For the next hour, you'll
deal with the North Korean sending missiles over the top of Japan. Then in
the next hour you got to deal with Iran sending drones to kill American soldiers
in a rock. And then the next hour you have a phone call from
McCrone saying they struck a deal with China to have a special trade relationship with
China on the so called Silk Road, and America's out of the mix.
Then you're going to call from El Salvador with the leader from El Salvador taking
saying, how come you're enticing our young males to leave our country, destroying
the future of this land of ours El Salvador. So every hour on the
hour, throughout the day, and it doesn't stop at ten pm at night.
The president is the top of the pyramid of a four million person federal
government that has the armed forces, all the military alliances, You have all
the corporate all the bureaucrats, etc. Working strong, and so you need
a president who is supple and bright and intelligent and knows personally the issues in
and out, so he's not taken advantage of. Now this president Joe Biden,
is being taken advantage of. By that, I mean the following that
there's about three thousand key positions in the executive branch of government, three thousand
important jobs, and they're filled generally within the first six months of a new
administration. And if you have direction from the top, the administrative state,
which is the fourth branch of government, is going to operate in ways and
concert with what the president demands. When you have a president who, shall
we say, is cognitively impaired, a president I couldn't solve Rubik's cube,
a president who cannot play checkers or chess, a president that is losing his
mind because of age, he said, two brand aneurisms. And worse,
we have a president that shows up for work sometime around ten am and puts
a lit on things by three or four PM, who spends most of his
time in Delaware. You have an administrative state completely out of control. That
means that the bureaucrats, the Marxist, the leftist, the liberals in charge
of the administrative state are deciding for themselves what to do and what not to
do. I'm looking to my left here at CNN. The so called federal
government government Department of Energy wants to crack down on people using gas drills.
They want to crack down on people who want to use the leaf blowers.
You can't cook out anymore, Barbecuing is going to be out the door.
You have all these bureaucrats saying you can't do these things anymore because we don't
think they should be done. If that truly represented the viewpoints of the President,
it wouldn't happen in the first place. The chiefestaff and the President would
say, the Department of Interior, if somebody wants to grill out, let
him grill out. You know, well, we're not going to stop him.
Joe Biden would asked the question walking away from a podium, said no,
he likes to grill out. But the administrative state is completely out of
control. No one's in charge of the Department of Justice, and nobody's in
charge of the FBI because the president is not mentally capable. It is a
meant to believe that Joe Biden is actually running the presidency. He's not running
the presidency. He's to them to the administrative state. Biden is cognitively impaired.
You can't set up a meeting with him to get direction. And it's
a feature of the administrative state, completely out of control. So in this
mix, if you listen to me a few days ago, you heard my
die tribe about the fact that Joe Biden is not going to be the nominee
of the Democrat Party in a year and a half from now, simply not
going to happen. I'm old enough to remember a time in March of nineteen
sixty eight when Lyndon Baines Johnson, at the height of the Vietnam War with
New Hampshire had taken place, and he beat Jean McCarthy. But nonetheless,
it was also a time when Robert F. Kennedy Senior said I'm getting into
I'm getting into the race, and I'm gonna run against Lyndon Baines Johnson.
It was a shock. I think the date was March thirty first, in
which he said, you know what, I will not seek nor will I
accept the nomination of my party for another term as you're president. He decided
he was done that mentally, emotionally, he was done. He couldn't do
it anymore, and he stepped down. It was a shock. At some
point, probably around December or January, doctor Joe Biden or others are going
to go to Joe Biden and say, mister President, you cannot do the
job and you've got to step down. He's not set up a campaign office.
He's not raising money for the twenty twenty four race. He announced in
a video with many different cuts of one type or another, that he was
going to be He's gonna run for reelection. Guess what, He's not going
to run for reelection. In fact, he can't run for reelection. He's
one hair sniff away from completely stepping aside. He's one tumbled down the steps
of Air Force one. He's one brain freeze away from actually not being able
to function whatsoever. But the media continues to cover up for him. Goes
they've perceived the option as Donald Trump. So write it down. Today's State
May nine, twenty twenty three, The Great American says that Joe Biden will
not be the nominee of the Democrat Party for reelection, but when he steps
down as a candidate, he will not step down from the presidency. He
knows how unpopular the VP is. Kamala Harris. So that means that he's
going to stay in office and play out the string until Gavin Newsom most likely
or other Democrats step up Bernie Sanders and says I will pick up the banner
and run forward. Right now, there's a stealth campaign being conducted by Gavin
Newsom, the governor of California, who has told the insiders, I want
to run. He's got a campaign in Abstenia, but does not want to
run as long as Joe Biden pretends as if he's functioning, and the fact
that he won't talk to the media is a clear indication does not have the
mental acuity he's hoping. The Democrats are hoping that Ump is the nominee of
the Republican Party sometime in July, which now believe in or not only a
couple of months away. The prosecutor in Fulton County, Fanny Wallace, is
going to uh indict Donald Trump for a multitude of offenses, and at some
point between now in September, Jack Smith, the Democrat appointed by Joe Biden
and Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, is going to issue indictments against Donald
Trump based upon January sixth, and also based upon what happened on Marlatto,
the Mara Lago raids. He's going to get indicted and they're gonna hold an
abstantia all the trials until after the November twenty four election, And so we're
gonna have the nominee of the Republican Party is likely to be Donald Trump,
who's raising fifteen to twenty million dollars a month in contributions under multiple indictments from
city states and from the FEDS. That's what's going to happen. It's going
to occur, and the best thing he can do is stay in office.
Stay in office so that he can use that as a fundraiser. Were blused
to live in interesting times, but I hope you understand I wish times were
less so interesting. How about this. Ninety six percent of Republicans say that
Donald Trump doesn't have the mental acuity to serve an office. But most importantly,
seventy percent of independence say that Donald Trump is cognitively impaired. So that
number, as he continues to falter mentally, will continue to get worse and
worse and worse and not better. So I don't know. We need leadership
now more than any other time in American history. I've always thought that America
was God's representative on Earth. When tough times happened, we had a Washington
at Jefferson went to Lincoln, had a Teddy Roosevelt, we had a Ronald
Reagan. We had FDR during the war. It allows you job during the
depression, but the World War Two did a great job. America is God's
representative on Earth, and so I hope and the next year and a half
something happens that would allow a more functioning federal government to take place. This
afternoon, you're going to see and read and hear all about the debt talks.
Each side's going to posture themselves at the end of the day. I
listened to Scott Sloan this morning and his experts. There's going to be an
extension of the debt limit to something like thirty two to thirty three trillion dollars.
Schedule will be forty trillion dollars by the end of this decade. Forty
trillion dollars. And it's going to happen, and there's nothing to stop it
other than your vote's coming this November more likely than next November. But read
it. Donald Trump's going to be the nominee of the Republican Party. The
Democrats have indicted him repeatedly, keep leaking negative information about him, but to
hold no resolution, no trial until after the next election. So it's out
there hanging against him. And then secondly, the Democrats at some point will
come to Joe Biden, much like those three Republicans marched up the steps of
the White House in August of nineteen seventy four to tell then President Richard Nixon
your gig is up. At some point, at some point he will announce
I will not seek nor will I accept the nomination of my party for another
term as your president. Let's continue with more. Don Dixon is next to
talk about the efforts to state government to raise your taxes by forty percent,
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that I'm bad of the bold, bad of the bold, bad of the
bold by Billy Cunningham, the Great American And of course, uh, working
Americans care a whole bunch about tax increases, how much money they're spending,
and some of the worst situations as property taxes. As far as what people
pay, it's not based upon income, not based upon economic activity. It's
based upon, uh, based upon the perceived value of your real estate.
Don Dixon has been a Butler County commission for many, many years, if
not decades. Who runs in the circle of Sheriff Richard K. Jones,
Mike Mosier and others. In other words, she's a good guy. And
I don't know how Don Dixon, you and I've been around this long,
having never talked on the air before. But I have a text here from
a concerned citizen and Don Dixon, Butler County Commissioner, the state tax Commissioner
is proposing tax hikes, for example, in Butler County of forty two percent,
Claremont County forty three percent, Montgovernment County thirty seven percent, which is
a whole bunch. First of all, Don, welcome to the Bill Cunningham
Show. And can you tell the American people what is the role of the
state tax commissioner? Her job as Patricia Harris, what is she supposed to
do? Well, Willie, She's charged with coming up with a fair evaluation
of your property so they can love you the property tax. And she basically
is an appoint appointed position and she ass she's not elected and you can't the
voters can replace her, but she's appointed by the governor. And she's just,
uh, she's not going to move off of her appraisal of she wants
to just use last year's appraisal, which we say, that's a crazy number
because you know, those people were paying one hundred thousand dollars fifty thousand dollars
vote. We're asking prices. You know, COVID was there no supply,
And she's supposed to consider some of that economic impact of those prices because they're
not going to stay up there. No, but look, are you kidding
me? Does she have the power? For example, the property tax bill
ISA should be based upon a rolling number of average. I know many people
last year we're offering stupid prices. And maybe that's her method. Patricia Harris,
who's an appointee, may want to use that because those are the highest
prices in history. But she required to use one year or can she use
three or four or five years to get a rolling average? Well, according
to according to her to Mike Moser, who's probably one of the smartest guys
I know and read beside you of being an attorney, but he says that
she can. She can use it. It's her discretion. So she said,
as we sent her a letter and said, hey, you know,
consider these others come to talk to us, tell us how you get these
numbers, and tell us how what you're taking into consideration. And she basically
said, look, I had to file the high revised Code and you know,
it is what it is, and have a good day. Pretty much,
maybe she's appointed and doesn't have to respond to the will of the people,
and we're talking to then about hundreds of millions of dollars out of the
pockets of real estate owners in the state of Ohio. This applies from Hamilton
County to Cuyahoga County to Lucas County, through Summit County and Shabaa County.
Whatever county you're in, you're going to get a huge property tax increase.
And where does the money go? Don Dixon? Where does the money go
when you pay your property taxes? When I think in property taxes, I
often think of the schools. I think in Hamilton County we have about ten
to twelve of these special levees. Where does the money go that if it
goes up forty and I have all the counties here, the lowest counties twenty
two percent. The high counties are like Claremont County at forty three percent.
And assuming they stick, where does all these extra millions of dollars go?
Well, Willie, most of it, I'm just geting around number of seventy
percent of it goes to schools and the rest of it goes to different levees,
you like and mar dd Adult Senior Care. All these road levees,
everybody, all these townships to put on levees simply because you know, simply
because when the state made the cuts two three or four years ago, and
it look government fund, which is what all those little entities rain out of
their operations, they didn't have any money. So they had to go to
they had to go to the ballot with these special levies. And you know,
it's just, uh, it's not it's not a good situation. You
know, it's just not. And uh, it's gonna put We've got seniors.
We've got seniors here of fixed income. What are they going to do?
Tax increase? That's yeah, yeah, they can handle that different.
They're on Social Security, Don Dixon. As far as those who rent,
and I like to say, if you're a renter, and I was a
renter at one point in my life when I was a Xavier at living eleven
o five day and the Avenue apartment number seven penny and I'm starting life together,
I didn't care a whole lot about property taxes, but I paid rent.
And when you pay rent, that also means the landlord is going to
increase all the rents because the cost of property taxes built in to the rent
payment. Correct, you're exactly right, You're exactly right, Willie. That's
you know, that's that's that's a big part of the problem. You know,
it's just that it just goes on the rent. It goes on the
rent. Check. Now, for example, we have given away over twenty
around twenty five million dollars in the last two years for rental assistance through all
this COVID and all this all these other things going on. It was sent
from the federal government. So it's about twenty five million dollars. So can
you imagine what you know, what all that's going to mean. I mean,
if if it takes that to live before this tacks, what the hell
is it going to be afterwards? You know, Don Dixon I speak to
like Richard K. Jones and normal people. I know, the stock marker
right now is still pretty high compared to historical models. I know things are
going good for the top one or two or three or five percent, But
there's a soft underbelly of this great country of ours who live in Claremite County,
Boone County, Hamilton County, who are working stiffs who kind of live
paycheck to paycheck or government check to government check, and they can't afford to
forty percent real estate tax increase mandated by bureaucrat. So I would ask you,
as a county commissioner in Butler County, what can we do? What
can you do to stop it? If anything? Well, well, you
are there's some legislation as we've been we've been trying to give to our centers
or sender Lange and just went to the wall on this force in Columbus and
he's, you know, he's he's working on some legislative changes. But that's
you know, that's that's a year or two out, you know, kind
you get get that implemented in law. But what we can do is get
her, Patricia Harris, to modify what she considers in her appraisals. And
you don't we know what appraisal is. Well, it's not just what it
pays, it's you know, it's it's based on a number of different factors.
And you know, she just taking a sales price. She has the
ability to fix that. And furthermore, the governor has the ability, I
think, to have a conversation with her because he appoints her. So I
think that that's the immediate that's the immediate process when we're working on right now,
try and get get some relief on this so before it goes into effect
next year. So if she has her way and it goes into effect,
when would the actual forty percent increase across the board of real estate taxes?
When would that actually be paid beginning next year? Beginning next year, be
doing February. Yeah, yeah, bills will go out in January. I
think, wow. So yeah, you're gonna They're gonna get it next year.
So that's why we're trying to get it. You know, she's saying,
Look, we haven't made up our mind exactly. First it was like
it was thirty nine, then I went to forty two, and now you
know, somewhere around the forty forty two number. And but they won't make
that decision until it get later in a year because you don't have enough time
to do an about it. You know that by time the times she says
it, it goes on the bill. You got it. It's that too
late, game over and if you can't pay it, it goes into foreclosure
and away you go and none properties. You know, to take last year
as an example of reality as a mistake, why is that a what happened
in Butler County last year when somebody wanted to sell their house. What happened,
wasn't there multiple bidders and all that kind of stuff, Oh, Willie,
they were they would take they would have an old They would say,
we're having an open house today at three to five, and we're gonna review
offers at six, and they'll have in the house, might be listed for
four hundred thousand, they'll have multiple offers, I mean maybe ten or fifteen,
and probably or more of those offers, or for a lot more than
the asking price. And that was. That was because of the COVID the
shortage. You know, you can't get supplies, some of just basically price
galaging on some of the suppliers. But you know that's the way it worked,
and so that's that's not that was. That was once in a million
years, as you'd come together with a two percent interest, right right,
Yeah, that's all screwed up. Well, the fact the matter is is
going to put a lot of people back on the streets. It's going to
hurt a lot of people. And the government doesn't I'll ask it. You're
like a government official, do you need forty percent more revenue to operate?
Butler County, Bill, we don't need that at all. Look, we
have no general fund debt in Butler County, we have a triple A bond
rating, we have a lot of sales taxes State of Ohio, and probably
I'm heading towards a couple million of dollars in reserves. No, we don't
need it. This is unbelievable. This is so the government. There are
some governments. I would think the City of Cincinnati in Hamlety County would like
to have a few hundred million more dollars. But when I talked to in
Warren County, in Claremont County, in Butler County, they don't need it
because they're not in debt. But Hamilton County tends to be in debt.
I think Hamleton County probably could use the money. Well, that's true,
that's true, Willie. I mean there are you know, there are some
It would be good for some governmental entities to get it, but I can
guarantee it won't be good for the taxpayers at this point. You know,
Mike Dwine always says his ears open. As far as I don't know if
it's legal for Mike DeWine to order Patricia Harris at the Tax Division to do
certain things. But are the legislators getting together. I know I spoke to
Jennie Schmidt earlier today and there's some emergency meeting going on because here we are
the middle of May, and this thing's got to be stopped soon because get
the property tax bills together, I think happens in the fall. Then they
go out and people, a lot of people can't afford it. What can
be done? As far as your lawmakers there in Butler County, what are
they doing today and tomorrow? Well, I can't tell you that. Our
senator and state reps, which I had a meeting with all of them at
one time, and they are on it, willing, they are on it.
George Lange, the Senator. Lange said, look, we might not
win this, but we're sure as hell going down fighting. So you know,
our prosecutor was there, Mike Moser, you know, the sheriff is
all you know, he's all fired up over it. So you know,
we just have to we just have to try and convince through through whatever whatever
channels we have to get. Get Mike the wine to to step in here
and help us out. I mean, he's a good guy, but when
it gets it, when it gets up into Columbus. When it gets in
that getting that money machine, who the hell those houses going to turn out?
And so so the goal is to have a rolling average of three years
so that you don't I would imagine prices right now are going down, I
would think, but they are, Bill, I don't know. They can't
stay up there. Yeah, they are heading down, uh somewhat. And
but it's gonna be a it's gonna be a general trend down because nobody wants
to quit charging that much. Yea, quit making that much. But here,
here's what legislators need to do a couple of things. They need to
cap that. They need to cap that increase somehow that it can't you know,
it can't go over so many percentage five percent a year or two or
two percents over with us over three years or something that This is crazy,
just absolutely crazy. Why do you think Don Dixon, Butler County Commissioner,
this issue has not gotten into the media. It's not a sexy issue,
and media doesn't want to cover things that aren't really sexy and exciting and gets
clicks. But this is fundamental. Why do you think this is happening below
the radar? Bill? It's you know, I think people have become they've
just become numb to this whole process. Look, you got you've got people
voting on these levees that the taxpayers going to have to pay that some of
these levees only had a six percent not this year, but it was fifteen
percent I think this year in Butler County. But I've seen special elections in
this where they had tax levies on. We're three or four percent of the
voters only voted. There has to be some kind of structure put on this
to stop this from happening. And you know, the legislator and needs legislatives
people are I tell you, our people are working to get some changes,
but right now our main goal is to get this. So they consider the
last three years and help us a little bit, and even that would be
a big increase because one of those three years, some real estate properties went
up ten to twenty thirty percent. The problem is you can sell your house
or a big number, but then you got to buy another house, and
that's a big number. Well, some of our some of ours went up
in Butler County last year twenty four percent. So even if you took the
forty two and you got in. You got a cut in two that's still
twenty twenty percent, So that's forty five percent in two years. So you're
going to get a bunch of money either way. If it goes up twenty
percent, you're going Butler County. It's going to get a bunch of money
you don't need because you have no debt. But if it goes up forty
percent, that's even worse, and that'll be locked in for the next few
years. You'll pay it every year going forward. Yeah, they're great,
they're great to raise it, never to lower it. But built two years
ago. Two years ago we we gave back to the taxpayers. Are inside
millage completely. It costs US twenty some million dollars. But that's the first
time real estate taxes has ever been cut in Butler County. But like you
said, it's not a sexy topic. No nobody wants to you know,
nobody wants to gets interested in it. But the effect of it, from
the seniors to the people who are barely making it is just in the renters,
is just devastating. Well, what we have to do is contact our
lawmakers and when you're a permission, when I get off the air, at
three o'clock, I'll I'll call Mike Dwine for whatever it's worth and get his
perspective. Willie, that'd be the best thing we could one of the best
things we can get going. And we just have to get that out,
get that moving, all right, Don Dixon, You're you're about the best
there is. How many years have you been the commissioner? Twenty fo Willie
twenty two? Probably something like that. You're gonna stick around, You're gonna
stick around for a while. Well, I want to hang in here with
the shaff from the prosecutor. You know, that's the that's the two guys
that you know, that's the two guys really that I helps keep us together.
So yeah, I'm staying for a while. Don Dixon, appreciate what
you're doing. Thank you. I'll do my small part. But average citizens
cannot put up with a forty percent I look at this list, forty two
percent tax increase in Claremont County. Hamlet and County is about thirty six percent.
Claremon and the other counties are between thirty and forty two percent. Butler
County is particularly hard hit. But I'll make a call and see what I
can do. And let's all we can do is ring the bell. Hopefully
the lawmakers answer it, because people cannot at this point pay these kind of
numbers unless you're rich and famous, and only a few of us are,
and you and I are not. So Don Dixon, you're a great American
once again, and thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank
you, Don, Thanks, Bill, appreciate it. Oh God bless you.
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NFL schedule. Some of the highlights. They're gonna have a Black Friday game
for the first time ever. After the Thanksgiving Day of games. Teams can
be on Thursday Night at least twice in a season. Say that again,
teams can be on Thursday Night football twice. Now, when will we know
if the Bengal Christmas and the Chiefs Christmas starts on Christmas falls on a holiday.
Reports are the National Football League will have three games on Christmas Day.
That sacrilegious kind of like Thanksgiving Day. You know what I'm gonna be in
about ten days. I'll be in the Holy Land at the whaling wall.
What should I say about you? Segment season schedule will feature fourteen playoff rematches,
Willie, what are they? Conference championship games like the Bengals and Chiefs
are gonna meet again, Divisional games like the Bengals and Bills. Maybe the
Bills will come here and they'll whip him. Well, we wish what's his
name the best tomorrow because he's back, He's he gonna play. I guess
he's gonna play again with the Bills. But and then also tonight back to
the Reds. It's park in the park number one. Three hundred dogs will
be with their human handlers at the game tonight. Three hundred dogs, three
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meet today, Willie and baseball, I've recently spoke to the Xavier baseball team.
Yeah, because as you know, in nineteen seventy, Jerry Green and
I were the co captains and the Xavior baseball team and went to Notre Dame
and kicked the crap out of Bob Arnson, who pits for the finding hours
in South Bend. He had no chance. We won three games my senior
year, and that was one of the three Really, you know, Wow,
people are still talking about that. Wow, It'll never happen again.
Was new Rockney managing that team? I felt like new era Parsigian and I
spoke to the Xavier baseball team O'Connor, I kind of felt like that,
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They're not even gonna use the pool. They just want to feel like they're
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No, you can do the show at your house. We can drink
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You know, Frank, right now, I got enough problems from peanut coladas.
I'm not gonna touch a peanut colada. But uh segment, and you
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All right, Frank, you're the best. Thank you very much, thank
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listen to that guy. I want to go swimming. Now, swimming?
Now? Have nine kids? Can you see them? With the with the
I a wave tide of wave pools. Wow, that sounds like Coney Island.
I know that sounds pretty good. Well, I might do that at
Middletown. Now, please container, let's see what else I'm not. Are
you a swimmer? I don't. I'm not. No. I'd let you
know what I do. I go to if I wet, to someplace,
one of those lazy rivers where you just get in the big giant inner tube
and just float down. That's what I do. That's what I do.
But you knows some things I can't do in life. I don't swim because
I almost drowned when I was a kid. You don't go up on roofs,
well I did once. If that happens again, that was enough.
Let me know if that happens again, goes, come call the Funny Farm,
put me in, put me in a long view, because if I
get on another roof, I'm done. Well. Ye. Let's see also
the ECHL hockey Game three of the Central Division Finals tomorrow night. By the
way, frank Sybelle is hilarious. Yes he is. Good Man Toledo hosting
the Cyclones of Walleye up two games to none, so I must win with
a wave pool. I like to see you maybe hanging ten, hanging ten.
Let's see soccer tomorrow night at TQL Stadium in the West End, round
to thirty two and the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Tomorrow night is New York
City FC takes on our unbeaten at home in first place FC Cincinnati Orange and
Blue. When did they play? Match time tomorrow night is seven pm.
Are you going? You know? I might do that tomorrow Rush Open Cup
at some action, some controversy. FC Cincinnati is uh tearing things up in
the MLS. Will he? Are they still in first place? Yes?
Yeah? Jeff burning back from Saudi Arabia six and oh at home. But
I don't think he h he hasn't. I guess he's back. But I
guess Messi is uh. Messi was suspended from his Paris team, and I
guess he's gonna go to Saudi Arabia here pretty soon, But I don't know
how much money is he gonna make. What about Mbope and Bope how to
come here? Or Renault? Well maybe he's gonna make four hundred million a
season, two hundred million more than Ronaldo. What about Naymar? He's gonna
give up his contract? He asked, Gee, what about that? Well,
if he does that, then, uh, then the FC Cincinnati can
go get another player. Well, Messi's available. Yes, he has got
a match of four hundred million. Though I fit in well with the orange
and blue. He looked good in orange and blue. That's kind of the
cost of the entire franchise in the stadium in the city to call it Messi
City, Messi Messi Cincinnati, and we'll see what happens. But Xavier,
you see a big matchup baseball baseball tonight? Did you did? And your
illustrious career as a co captain? Did the Cats and the Musketeers play in
baseball at Crosley Field? Really, hanklover Milk here you see. Yes,
Wow, how about that. I didn't know that. You know, the
baseball coach of UC at the time was also an official score with your Cincinnati
Reds, the great Glen Sample. Yes, he was the manager. He
came over to me and said, Willie, I wish I would have recruited
you, And I said, no question about it. We got beat fourteen
to one. But playing at Crossley Field was a big deal. O kidding?
Sixty nine and by seventy they open up Riverfront, what like in June
thirtieth, nineteen seventy. Yeah, I'd graduate and went on to Miami,
Florida to become a golf pro. That's another story that did not last at
all. At King's Bay Yacht and Country Club. After six months of picking
up balls at four o'clock in the morning and serving as a pen where people
took shots of me, I said, Penny, I'm gonna go to law
school. Enough of this and the rest is history. Would you have a
flag hanging over your head or something? Literally? Yes, I'd stand out
there two hundred yards and people try to hit me, and some say I
got hit and head one too many times, like Hue, It's like that.
What's the thing that duncan booth at the carnival. Did that once,
not doing again? Have you ever been in the dunking booth? I think
I did that once too. Yeah, it was good. I did it
once and I stood out on again on a green Yeah, standing there and
people tried to hit you. I had a flake stick in my hand.
Yeah, and it was some event in Miami. If this wasn't like every
day, No, it just way. I was good there with a pen
trying to hit me. Believe a lot of people like to hit me right
now. So all I can say is I felt like I was you know,
I was an object. And after a while I said, Penny,
I'm done being quote an assistant pro making a dollar forty an hour. I'm
going to law school and the rest is history. Being segment Get me out
of the Stet's Report. Coming up next is Moe Egger with what's happening tonight?
What's happening on Thursday and more? Well, Willie and out her of
the Reds and Mets tonight and barking the park with three hundred dogs in the
house, taking your dog. They're all gone, Willie, me too.
We leave you with the immortal words of the stew Report. Well, the
object in any sport is to get better as the season goes along. I
don't care if you're playing tiddy weeks. You gotta figure out a way to
get a little bit better as the season moves along. Well, that's for
sure. You know. Every now and then Jeff Brantley had pearls of wisdom.
That sounded pretty good, And that sounded to me pretty good. The
Reds are fourteen and twenty, Willie and the metser I think seventeen and eighteen,
and after starting the season fourteen and seven, So they've hit the skids
here. Now. Cohen guy spent all the money, didn't do much good,
did it. He's got Verlander shares her and a bunch of money in
players. So you know I'm gonna predict right now the Reds are win two
of the next three. Do you agree? Sounds sound good to me?
The next three sounds good to me. Let's continue before they head to Miami
in Colorado next week, Miami and then Colorado. Correct about that? Eighty
five one day and probably snowing next Monday in Denver. It was hilarious.
Frank Sidebelle is hilarious. Would you agree, yes, good man, yes
segment. Thank you, yes, sir. Let's continue with more. Bill
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And moe first of all, the schedule. Imagine where we are now compared
to three years ago. When the schedule is coming out and the world ends.
We go to a great bar facility in Madisonville. Life is good.
We worry about whether the Bengals are going to be the opening act on a
Thursday night. We got Christmas Day itself. They're gonna play three game or
the Bengal is gonna be playing buff Can you imagine what's happened the past three
years. It's awesome. I mean, you know, it used to be
the schedule we'd find like you'd read about it in the paper the next day,
right like oh, the schedules out, and then you know, the
NFL network needed programming, so they would announce the schedule in Bengals fans often
we looked at it with dread. And now there's it's like the last mile
post I think you hit before. It's like all right, Now, give
me the season, give me training camp. You have free agency, you
have the draft, you have schedule release night, Lance and Tony and myself
and Solomon Wilcott's broadcasting three hour schedule release show from Bad Tom Smith on Thursday
Night. It's gonna be a blast. But it's it's fun to think about.
It's it's fun to try to guess what the NFL is going to do
with them. Number One, it's marketing and it's eyeballs. Wouldn't the Bengals
at Kansas City be a better matchup than Philadelphia at Kansas City? I don't
know, But look, the Chiefs have a lot of really good home games.
I think the Bengals and Chiefs is the best rivalry in the NFL.
But there's three things about this for me. One is that game is gonna
get a big number anyway, So you don't need Mahomes Versus Burrow to get
a big number. It's the first night of the season. Who doesn't watch
that game? So are you going to get a few more eyeballs if it's
Mahomes versus Burrow? Sure? Are you going to get so many more eyeballs
than you would if it was Hurts versus Mahomes, or Mahomes versus Allan,
or the Chiefs versus anybody else. So the need to create ratings on opening
night is not there because that first game already does well. So start with
that number. Two. The Bengals in Chiefs over the last two years have
played four great games. Those games have been played in December and January.
There's a reason why football teams are better in December and January. So to
me, I want that formula, a formula again where I could put those
two teams opposite each other when there's a lot on the line. It's clear
stakes. You sort of know what the storylines are, you know where the
boat both teams are in respect to other teams in their division or in respect
to each other. And then also the Bengals the objection, the object this
year is to be the one seed. They started slowly last year year they've
played unevenly in season openers under Zach Taylor. I want to hit the ground
running. I want to go fourteen and three. That means you can start
oh and two. If you go to Kansas City week one, it's tough.
So I want to lighter load early and there'll be a dog when you're
thinking about good. The NFL is probably the two of the three smallest markets
outside of Green Bay are Kansas City and Cincinnati. Yeah, but two of
the biggest stars stars are there. In fact, it's okay. In fact,
the NFL does it right. If you look at baseball or basketball.
I think Milwaukee was an outlier, but mainly they share revenues to a large
extent, but not in baseball. And now you got the Yankees in last
place. They look terrible with a three and a million dollars pay roll.
The Mets open up. I think they're like fourteen and seven at some point,
and now they're terrible. And I love Scherzer on the mound. That's
a good thing tonight. You want to face them, You want to face
them. Right now we're throwing Luke Weaver at him, though, who is
that? He's a guy that's holding down the spot that Andrew Abbott should occupying
in the starting rotation. You're right, though the NFL, Pittsburgh is not
a big market. Pittsburgh has a franchise that matters nationally. The Cincinnati Bengals,
in a small market, now have one of the biggest stars that one
of the biggest story's biggest attractions in the National Football League. You talk about
Kansas City, Jacksonville is on the Come with Trevor Lawrence, the Green Bay
Packers. I hear people talk about Aaron Rodgers in the New York media.
Aaron Rodgers has played for a national brand for his entire NFL career. There
is maybe no team in the league that is more scrutinized on a national basis,
perhaps outside of Dallas, than the Green Bay Packers. But you're right,
Look, Bengals in Chiefs is going to be thrown. It's not going
to be a one o'clock Sunday game, But I don't know that the NFL
needs it to be eight pm on the first Thursday of the season. You
think about Los Angeles, talk about New York and Chicago. The Bear stink,
the Jets got a shot, The Giants are terrible in the LA Rams
and the Chargers nobody. I mean, but you think about the growth of
the league from four to twenty sixteen, no team in LA. Let me
think about that. The league grew exponentially. Meanwhile, there was no team
in the second biggest market in the country during most of that time. The
Chicago Bears were no good. During a large stretch of that time, the
Giants and Jets weren't very good. So at this point, when the schedules
released, it's it's at six pm sharp piece, or we should go on
the air at six. The schedule comes out at eight. You got two
hours at bambling, so we'll spend two hours guessing what the schedule is going
to look like and then actually talking about the schedule once it comes out.
How many night games the Bengals used to have? None? Newstad one.
I'm thinking four or five. I'm I think without question, there's gonna be
four. The max you can be slotted in his five they had all If
you go back to last year, they were on Thursday night against Jacksonville,
they were Monday night against Buffalo, the game that obviously wasn't played, and
then their three division road games became night games. Now, the Pittsburgh game
got flexed out and it was a day game, but they were scheduled for
five night games, and I think are going to have something similar. But
also remember the Friday game the day after Thanksgiving. Three games on Thanksgiving.
Now, I don't think you're gonna put Bengals Chiefs on Thanksgiving or Christmas because
everybody's watching again anyway. But there are more of these sort of standalone primetime
ish opportunities. Also, not every team is guaranteed to be in primetime,
and teams can be scheduled for two Thursday games, which, aside from Dallas
and Detroit because those teams play in Thanksgiving, historically has not been the case.
So yeah, I'm guessing the Bengals are on primetime five times. And
I would say the Bengals are among the top five franchises and all of football
right now. If you had to rank them, I would think they're right
there. I think Kansas City, Yeah, the Eagles, sure, Dallas.
Look, look they were a Final four team last year. I think
if you were to talk about who's on the short list of teams that you
think, the way the teams are constructed right now can win the whole thing,
the Bengals are on that list. You might not think the list starts
with them, and that's fine. It might be Kansas City because they won
it last year, but they are clear cut Super Bowl contenders. I can't
say that about the Jets. I can't say that about the Baltimore Ravens can
say it about Kansas City. Feel like I can still say it about Buffalo.
They have to get their pass rush better. I feel like I could
say it about the Eagles. I'd put the forty nine ers in that conversation.
San Francisco is on Cincinnati schedule this year. I sort of believe we
could say that about the Chargers even though they haven't won a playoff game.
I know I could say it about the Bengals. Joe Burrow many thought by
the middle of May he would have signed a long term, guaranteed, bonus
laden contract. Hadn't happen yet. It may happen as we speak in about
an hour or two, may happen before Thursday night. I don't know.
Yeah, I would think the NFL wants no news whatsoever on Thursday and Friday
and Saturday, so you would think it would happened today, tomorrow or Monday
or two. Say, is there a snag? Have you heard about a
snag of any type? No? I think if you're Joe Burrow, you
want to see what Justin Herbert signs for. First in Los Angeles, so
two dominoes have fallen. First was Jalen Hurts. Second was Lamar Jackson.
And the good news for the owners of the Bengals and the or the Bengals
and the Ravens and the Eagles and the Chargers is none of those deals look
like Deshaun Watsons. So once all right, there had to be another contract
that wasn't like Deshaun Watson's. That was Jalen Hurts. Well, Lamar Jackson
has been an MVP, so he gets a little bit more than Jalen Hurts.
Justin Herbert should be next a star quarterback Worlds of Potential. He's won
zero playoff games, Joe Burrows one five, So if I'm Joe Burrow,
I'm not making less money than a guy who was taking seventeen picks after me,
who I've won more than. So I'm guessing once there's a Herbert deal,
that a Burrow deal then happens pretty quickly thereafter. So it's about one
eighty five and one ninety million guaranteed, five year deal, two hundred and
sixty million dollars, sign your name, get going? Do you like that?
The average annual value of the Lamar deal I think was what fifty two
mill per So Joe's going to get more than that. Joe's taking his team
to the Super Bowl, Lamar hasn't. But then there's the mechanics of do
they get a Logan Wilson contract extension done? And do they get a T.
Higgins contract extension done before the great Number one? That's right, yes,
before Jamar Chase at the end of next season. But the Borough thing,
I think if we get to the start of camp and there's not a
deal done, that would be a little concerning. We're still ten eleven weeks
away. Let's turn the page to the Reds. Of course, you know
that I made a quiet bed of over sixty five and a half, which
I still you did too. Yes, it looks to me. I felt
better early on, but as long as you have those three hammers going.
But Lodolo has looked It looked not up to the standards of Hunter Green on
a Green and Ashcraft had terrible last outings, especially Graham. It was awful
anything. Because both those guys are horses. Lodolo tends to be a little
bit of a whip. It reminds me a little bit of Randy Johnson.
But the two guys are big guys and strong, and so do you have
hope. I have long term hope. What I hope happens is in the
coming days. The Reds had young talent and players who deserve to be here,
like Matt McLean, Christian and carnassion Strand going into last night, had
a slugging percentage of over eight hundred. Andrew Abbott has arguably been the best
pitcher in all of minor league baseball. Elladela Cruz is coming. He got
up to a slow start once he was able to play for Louisville. He
has since performed better. Matt McLean has been terrific. Those guys deserve to
be here. And if you're gonna tell me, while there's a log jam
there's too many guys, I would say that this team's record should be better.
There aren't too many guys. There's seven games under five hundred. They're
not contending for anything. Get the guys up here and let David Bell determine
who's gonna play where and when, and how to develop these guys and let
them get big league experience. But the good news is, Willie, if
you talk to people before the season who you know cover organizations and prospects and
farm systems, each of them were very encouraged about what the Reds would put
on the field and places like Louisville and Chattanooga and even lower And here we
are two months in almost two months in I guess, and the good things
that people thought were happening with the farm system have happened. Maha mcclan looks
like a big league caliber infielder. Well why not have pitched? What might
not have one of the stud pitchers down below come up and throw a couple
against a bad major league team? That makes sense. I would have Andrew
Abbot pitch, yes, Because if you want to say, well, he's
not a finished product, well, well he's thrown one hundred and fifty minor
league innings plus college. He's gonna turn twenty four years old June first.
He had a comparable amount of minor league innings under his belt, and Hunter
Green did when he was called up, more college innings obviously than any of
those guys. So I'd give him a shot. You have your three horses
are not finished products. That's okay. Let Andrew Abbott get some of the
growing pains behind him instead of running out there. The likes of Luke Weaver
and specifically Luis Sessa. And at this point, of course, the Reds
are not going to win the Division, of course, and they're not going
to get to the wildcard. But hopefully everyone says in two or three years,
the team's ready and let's go. I tell you what if you if
you kind of listen to what people who cover the Reds are saying about the
state of that system versus what people are saying in Saint Louis about the Cardinals.
Reds look like they're in better shape. We think about that, how
many times over the last twenty five thirty years have you been able to say
that. Never. There is a nice collection of young talent, and yeah,
we would like some of these guys to progress at a more rapid pace.
But I think we went into this season thinking that by twenty twenty five
this team might be able to contend. I still feel that way, and
it's Saint Louis Cardinals unbelievable. They had a great run last year, especially
with Albert doing what he did, and of course the retirement of Yadier Molina
is a positive. But I think in the future the Reds are a stock
that's going to be a lot more valuable than the Cardinals, and Cardinals are
disliked in this town but respected. The Steelers are disliked but respected. And
nonetheless, the Steelers are going down. And I think the Cardinals also,
I agree with you. I think I think the Reds have a nice stockpile
of really good, young, talented guys. Now again, you want to
see more moments from Jose Berrero. You would like to see more from Spencer
Steer. You would like to have some clarity that's going to happen long term
with Tyler Stevenson. Nick Senzell has had his moments, was the NL Player
of the Week two weeks ago. But I think the good news is it
looks like there's even better players than that on the horizon. I'd just like
to see him sooner rather than later. So you you're you're keeping hope alive
of course temporarily. Yes, go out on a limb. It's now Thursday,
eight o five pm. What happens Where are the Bengals relative to opening
weekend? I'm gonna say they open the week, open the season on the
road Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road again, and that way,
folks like me can go to Pittsburgh and see the Bearcats play pitt on Saturday.
The Steelers play the Bengals on Sunday. Where's Tony Pike? Him?
A man who owns that stadium? It's no longer called Hinesfield. What's it
called now? Accuser Stadium or something? Pike to Ben's best moment I've ever
been in attendance for us a sportsman, you see football? That was it?
Well for I positive since all right, thank you very much. All
right, Bill, let's continue with more news in the Stuge Reporter next at
your home of the Reds, kicking off about five forty tonight on news radio
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Stephen A. Smith. It is racist to talk about Mount Rushmore because of
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Indian graveyard. Rock, What are you looking forward to on Thursday? You're
standing there, you're talking, you're walking, you're doing everything. What's happening
on Thursday with the Bengal Sketcher. I don't know someone telling you what is
going what is happening, what's happening? Segment is getting released. It's got
to be anywhere. No one's told me anything real. You haven't heard anything,
Rock, You've heard nothing. Well apparently, Uh, there's gonna be
three games on Christmas Day because Christmas Day falls on Monday this year, and
there's gonna be a Black Friday game on Tuesday. So you're gonna come to
You're gonna have Thanksgiving three games, you know, Detroit, Dallas or whoever,
and then that that Black Friday, the next day you're gonna have a
game. So six games, that's twelve teams are gonna be playing on either
Thanksgiving or Christmas. The chances one of those are the Bengals, I'd say
two or three times. Yep, God did to play on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
And then teams can be on Thursday Night football apparently twice instead of just
once. God, if somebody's gonna be working be they're playing. The league
is very concerned about players safety right as you can see as I can tell
that, no question about that. Apparently. The season schedule, according to
the NFL experts, are gonna feature fourteen playoff rematches from last season, like
including a conference championship games with the Bengals and Chiefs and the divisional games Bengals
and Bills. NFL does a great job with that of getting the matchups that
they want to see. And small market Where in the world are the Bengals
in Kansas City throwing the Packers? Really some of the Marquis franchises have no
population based upon which but it's a national sport, it's the National Football League,
and all of a sudden, hell and the Bengals. The Chiefs built
upon the backs of two quarterbacks, two exceptional, very exception on the land,
Andy Reid, and maybe Zach Taylor not so much him yet not yet.
Zach Taylor hasn't gotten to the path and on a great Bengal? Have
they have? They given Joe Burrow the bag? Yet? What about the
bag? I mentioned this to mo Where is the bag of cash segment?
Where is the still being loaded up? They got dump trucks coming dropping.
I talked to our Once you see the armored cars encircling Pete or pay Cores
Stadium, that's when it happens. Open up. Here's the hundred dollar bills,
Joe. You imagine that? Have at it sent across the table from
a piece of paper and a pen that says you're going to get I don't
know. It would be between one hundred and ninety five and two hundred million,
guaranteed. Give me the bank routing number and your account number. Give
me about nine what is the interest on Let's just say one hundred million a
year, just in like a five five million a year if you don't touch
the principle and today you can get five percent pretty easy that's five million dollars
risk free, never touch it. Yeah, every year and then compounding interests.
I mean, it's it's unbelievable. I want that ten to go to
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Encanton, I'm gonna have to talk to
ass the pen that he signed the deal. But now, wait a minute,
Wait a minute. I just saw something on Twitter that the Chiefs are
going to make Patrick mahomes. They're gonna rework is deal. So he's the
highest paid guy. What Lamar Jackson. Millions of dollars are like irrelevant?
An extra million. These owners are so rich anymore. They've got so many
other businesses. That's why they can fire a coach, you know, one
year into a four year deal. Oh just whatever, We'll just sell some
stock. Well, we got it. We got time for mediocrity. We're
plowing forward with excellence. I want a tax question answered. I should call
Al Ricito immediately. This is the question. If you have a bonus and
you sign it in a state, in a township without income tax, such
as Sycamore Township or such as the state of State of Florida, state of
Texas, there is no state income tax, do you pay tax on that
money if you signed for the bonus and take the chat. Because having gotten
a signing bonus from the state of Texas, which does not have a state
income tax, I did not have to pay state income tax on the bonus.
So someone needs to get to Joe Burrow and say, look, if
there's one hundred million dollars its go sign with thirty team in Florida, Go
sign with a team in Texas. The Texans what they had use a quarterback
even though they drafted one. Then we got Trevor Simeon. I talked to
the power brokers in New York City. When you sign a deal, there's
thirty nine point six Federally, it's a twelve percent state, which gets up
to fifty one percent, and then there's a seven percent city New York Tech
gets up to fifty eight percent, and your agent fee is three percent.
That's sixty one percent, and throw in two and a half percent for the
metro tax. High Way journals pay a quote MTA tax, so you pay
about broke six to sixty five percent. He's broke. You pay up front
and I second, what now? Now, the good news is in the
NFL, you are paid, you know, each week from in the city
you play in. Right, So even if you're a member of the Bengals,
you play a game in Dallas, that check it will be state income
tax free. Well, so if you play for a few words, I
had to file ten income taxes every year, and some of your people do
that. Some of your peeps never did that stuff sake, so you have
So if you go to New York and play the Jets, Jets, Jets,
Jets, Jets, that means Joe Burrow is paying how much of the
city of New York. Correction we're talking about it is we're talking to some
money. Yeah, So you don't want to look down on schedule and see,
you know, look New York, Philadelphia, La, Chicago. Yes,
correct, I want to see California, New York for sure, Dallas,
Houston, Tampa Bay. But but that's a significant if you're a free
agent, that's and you're talking in the ranges of you know, hundreds of
millions of dollars. That is a significant, significant difference from just one state
over from the next. Why would somebody play in California or New York or
Illinois. Now you could argue why they want to play in California, because
of the connection to the film world, and they get these deals and Hollywood
and all that sort of stuff. But tell him that the incentive is a
playing in New York now Chicago. You got to live there sometimes be around.
It's terrible, that's awful, awful to live in New York. Do
you think Aaron Rodgers has got some kind of room like he had in Oregon
where he can just go in there and sit in a dark for three or
four days and contemplate a Wicca hut. Sit there in the dark, have
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What's on the big show with you and Eddie? If anything? Well,
we're talking to your girlfriend Tanya, rightwe ta? Tanya Rourke just called
me repeated Leah, it's too much. I can't return calls. I just
can't. I wish you're well, very good, all right, good question
I will. What are you gonna talk about with her? You have any
idea of District five? Closing about that? How about that was they're going
to the four districts now couldn't didn't find a home for District five, so
they just said the hell of it, and now we're gonna go to four.
Well, maybe I don't know that no one's gonna be fired, not
that there would be any way to fire, because the police force is already
undersestimated or better off than most cities. Most cities are decimated. At least
Cincinnati has a core group of you're eighteen years old right now? Would you
know there's nothing wrong? I know all of us are kind of eggheads here,
we all have college degrees, etc. But to become a butcher,
a baker, a candlestick maker, be a plumber, electrician head on Christ
Smithman earlier about CPS. How to go to a program where you don't teach
so much academics as you teach kids how to be an electrician or a plumber
or a drywaller, lay down concrete. Stuff like that makes a lot of
sense. But if they're not showing up, what do you doesn't matter?
What are you teach them? Yep? What you solve that? There's no
parent? Ho'm making them, you know, go to school? What do
you do with that? That's a problem. Twenty two thousand dollars per kid
per year? Twenty two thousand. What does Santex cost seventeen twenty five thousand
dollars more at CPS to go to Aiken. It's like, what do you
get when twenty five percent are chronically absent every day? Another five to seven
thousand have simply dropped out. Don't know where they are. Do you see
the stance? It's just signed a bill that's going to allow teachers to demand
that kids can give up their give up their cell phones during school. I
think it's a great idea. You have to you have to why and have
you ever done this? I mean, I, you know, speak to
a bunch of groups. There's nothing worse than looking out in a group of
thirty or one hundred people and you know twenty of them are like looking down.
It's the worst. I couldn't imagine being a teacher looking out a class
of thirty kids and twenty of them are looking down their phones. Can't allow
that. You can't do it. But at CPS, I'm told in many
school districts you can bring your phone and then it's on someone's lap and they
communicate and it ruins education, doesn't everything. So I don't know. Give
me the solution parenting, better parenting, that's a solution, will lead to
ninety five percent of the country's problems. Better parenting at least parents in the
home. Correct, it's not at it begins it, So we'll see what
happens. Plus, Red's baseball off at five forty tonight because Scherzers on the
mount. He thought he was going to be the salvation. He's getting old.
How about tomorrow night though, justin Verlander v. Hunter Green, pretty
good matchup there, it's a good one. How about that. I would
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the alleged rape of her bother Donald at some undetermined point thirty five years thirty
five years, thirty five years ago, and we'll see what happens. I
think he's Henny Jerry in New York's gonna bang to Donald and not treat him
well, but think he's not the most popular character. And hell you say
the hell you say? Oh, you're gonna go with the Trumpster on this
one, or I'll take Gene Carroll if you take the Trumpster for a hot
Fudson. Now it's in Manhattan, yea Manhatto. I'll take good. So
I want her. You're gonna have the Donald? Okay, fine, fine,
you got it? Because then there's another one tomorrow, he there's another
one. He'll he'll be indicted Georgia from now on. Yeah, he'll spend
his life in court Edin. Yeah, it won't stop until he's elected to
the presidency. Then it will continue for those four years. He can't only
serve four years, can't do another four from the day he's elected. He's
a lame duck, but he'll be a hell of a lame duck. What
be a lame duck? Quack quack quack, untethered, unstoppable the Trumpster.
I bet you he gets the deal done that you can get more more.
You know, he'll he'll rework the deal that you can take more than two
terms. You take two thirds of the House, two thirds of the Senate
plus three fourths of the states, two thirds of the Senate. Can't agree
that a warm summerday is better than us whether to walk out that door or
not? Yeah, only twelve When when are they having a big meeting with
the debt limit? With uh, no one cares about are you talking about
or whatever it is? I don't know, Well, that's the debt limit,
that's about. When is that today? About five or six minutes,
we're gonna find out what will be blamed. Of course they always are,
and it will be extended at some point that we some deal deal and then
they'll be if if spending goes up one percent every year, is that a
cut? No, media says, that's a cut, and that expires and
into the UH South the border thing retires it or on Thursday expires right May
eleventh, unbelievable. Andy Mack lined up, God, do we have troubles.
Believe me, we got troubles. Get it, Thank you, Rock,
Thank you segment, Thank you, You're welcome. Get me out of
the Studge Report, Getting ready for the Rock and Eddie? Where's Eddie?
Can't find in? What a search warrant? They're doing? Show prep says
about ten am. That's all he does is show prep. Eddie does nothing
but work like a dog. Segment, Get me out of the station,
Willie. On this Tuesday, it's National Golf Day. Really, Yes,
I'm gonna go to the golf course and do something. We leave you with
the immortal words of the Students Report. I'm talking about when people have a
problem, they've got your number, they knock on your door. Not only
you, but your spouses. Can't go to the grocery store of the gas
station. Can't show up with without well, what's v Can you fix my
such and such? What's a such and such? What is that you fix
my such and fix my such? I have no idea. He doesn't have
a such to fix Rock, Thank you very much. By the way,
there's a verdict to nij Carol versus The Donald's supposed to be announced about four
o'clock, so the Rock will have the verdict along with Eddie Fingers, who's
been in show prep since ten o'clock this morning. Two fifty four Home of
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