Best time of the year, and joining you and I now is Brian Tom.
And I want to set the record state. May I set the records
straight, Brian Tome, with your permission, William, you can always set
the records straight. Yes, ah, good yours truly made comments yesterday that
I misspoke every now and then every few years I have to correct the record
on something, and I made a reference that Brian Tome supported State Issue one,
which is of course the abortion thing. And in context, what I
meant to say it didn't come out the right way, was that the archbishop
and other religious leaders like Brian Tom tried to lead the flock to vote no
on State Issue one and without great success. And the larger point was that
if observant Christians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Seeks and others actually voted
in large numbers, the result would have been different. And I made the
comment that there was polling to indicate that about forty percent of Catholics was going
to vote yes on abortion. About forty percent and probably thirty five percent or
so of other Christians would do the same thing. To set the record straight,
So let you, out of your own mouth, say whether or not
you voted yes or no, and state Issue one diametrically opposed to Issue one
was was dinametricly posed and diametricy posed. My person who's been adopted and my
mother chose life for me, very very thankful for that. So no,
you and I are aligned on that. And to actually give you credit and
to actually criticize me for a moment, I personally was not very voiciferous with
Crossroads in terms of, you know, weighing in personally on this issue,
I think that's a fair statement about me. I was pretty silent on the
issue. And there were reasons I was pretty silent on the issue, and
we can get themother if you want. Yeah, But the only thing,
the only thing I was like critical of No, I never supported Issue one,
would never support support anything that takes a child's life. It's in a
mother's wound. Well, the archbishop put out a recorded statement and every mass
I went to for the last two months had a reference to please please support
the lives of unborn, healthy babies wanting to live. And the archbishop had
a statement, a ten minute recorded statement that he played, and some of
the priests caught some flak for that because they were some say it was politicizing.
Did you, as the leader of Crossroads specifically, not get into the
issue because you did not want to alienate a chunk of Crossroads who felt differently
than you. Well, I think there's a couple of reasons why I chose
not to. Let me defend the bishop for a moment and just empathize with
him and really anybody America. We're a country that does not want to be
led. Everyone wants to do whatever they want to do. No one really
wants to be pushed on anything. We all just want affirmation for where we
are. And so what you're seeing in any church anybody people people really don't
listen to their leaders unless it's what they want to do anyway, So that's
kind of the thing that's happening there. I didn't really get into it because
I've not seen abortion legislation move the needle on people's hearts. I've just not
I've not seen it, and I believed, and I could be wrong on
this, and I'm happy to be wrong on this. I've believed that really
speaking to this is not going to change the heart issue and was not going
to ultimately even change the number of abortions that took place. They make an
abortion more difficult to have, but wasn't going to change that. And the
way people are right now, they're no, they're not open to like ideas.
Everything has split down the middle is just a Republican thing or Democrat thing.
They don't even hear the So they're the huge part of our church that
would have only heard like, oh so, Brian Tolm's just a straight line
Republican now. And I just chose to say, if you're going to misunderstand
me, I'm going to have you misunderstand me for what I say about Jesus,
not what I say about a voting issue. Well, the way are
wrong. Can you be an observant Christian attending all the services acrossroads, giving
sufficient funds, donating your time and talents, and still support abortion on demand?
Can you do both? I think you can do both, but I
would still think that you were wrong to support abortion on demand. Yeah,
I think you can do both. And I think they're people who in their
heart they're not seeing a problem with that. So yeah, I think it
can happen, but I just don't. I don't think it should happen.
Are they wrong? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yes, they're wrong all
right. Now on the issue of state issue too, which was marijuana,
the politicians are beating around the bushes again trying to change that. The American
people voted in wide margins to allow marijuana to be served much like liquor.
Treat it like liquor, with control commission, all that kind of stuff.
How did Brian Tone vote on state issue too about legalizing marijuana. I am
not up for legalize marijuana. I uh, yeah, no, no,
I'm not going to demonize somebody who choose on the gummy bears. I choose
on a gummy bear. But it's war. When I've been in when I've
been in another in another state, me, I do, yeah, I
do. Yeah. Well, you know when I talked to somebody about this
recently and I said, and I said, you know what, everything I
vote for, it loses. Like I vote, I don't like issue one
that passes. I don't like recreational marijuana that way passes. And I think
giving money to zews and the library is a good thing that didn't pass.
Like what do we have again, zews and libraries? I don't understand.
But I when someone pushed on me about the gumming bears. I said,
okay, fair enough. I'm not bummed out of about anybody having gummy bears.
No, I could care less about that. But what I see in
my place is I just see a lot of people bill who are not equipped
with the temptations of smoking marijuana. It's not a net positive in many,
many people's life, just like gambling and having casinos is not a net positive
in many, many people's life. And so that's why I say, no,
it's all a good idea. Well, right now, we have casinos,
we have gambling, we have marijuana soon to be everywhere. We also
have, of course, abortion on demand in the state of Ohio, and
shrine in the constitution. It's almost like a scene from Bedford Falls with Jimmy
Stewart, you know, when you stumble down at the on Christmas Eve and
all hell was breaking loose. What's next, prostitution. I can't imagine prostitution
being legalized and having red light districts in Cincinnati, But I could not imagine
that abortion would pass by wide margins. I could not have imagined casino gambling
and sports betting is happening everywhere. I see college kids on their phones betting
five and ten and twenty dollars on parlays that have no chance of paying off.
And now we're going to treat marijuana much like alcohol, which will be
everywhere. Prostitution is next. Do you draw the line of prostitution or not.
Prostitution will absolutely be legalized, Bill, no question about it. It's
just a matter of it's just a matter of time. They're going to be
in two years, it gonna be ten years. Is to remember this is
not a political crisis. This is a spiritual crisis. This is not a
crisis of people not voting the right way. This shows the crisis of the
condition of people's hearts. And that's the work. We've got to be engaged
with what's going on in people's lives. Because every social indicator I see,
Bill, they're all negative. Suicide is up, mental illness is up.
Men For us, men, you and I, for the first time in
history, our life expectancy has gone down. We're not well. Loneliness and
everything has us by the throat. And that makes me have great empathy for
the average American citizen, and I want to help them, regardless of how
they're voting. We're damaged on the issue of Israel, and I saw the
YouTube video that I've monitored that and watched it a couple times before I went
there. In May, I saw you in the church, the Holy Sepulcher.
I saw all that are you shocked? On college campuses last night there
was a showing of the video put together by IDF of the barbarians behavior,
the outrages that happened on October the seventh. I've been offered, I talked
to Hannity. I've been offered to sit there and watch it. And I
guess at some point I'm going to consent to see babies being beheaded and women
being raped, and men being burned alive. At some point, maybe I
ten. Schindler's list was something I walked out on about three quarters into it.
I couldn't take it anymore. I kind of know what I'm going to
see. But last night there was almost a ride in Los Angeles as some
Jewish individuals played the actual video of what happened on October the seventh, and
out in front were Palestinians. On u SE college campuses Ohio State, especially
in the large urban areas, there's a large presence of Hamas supporters who are
marching around and being Jewish as difficult. You will be killed. You'll be
found that. There were women Jews on a University of Pennsylvania campus that had
bullhorns in their face whenever they left their dorm room. If you wear a
Yamica, you're likely to get crowned in the head by a baseball bat.
Are you shocked to what's happening Not with Hamas, they're killers, they're murderers,
Not with Hesbela. Are you shocked to what's happening inside of America in
the Hamas chapters on college campuses. I'm deeply disappointed. I am not shocked
at all. There has been a very steady, persistent rollback of the average
American being for Israel. And part of it is because the Israel government hasn't
acted justly in many situations, and a lot of it, a lot of
it. It's just as Americans were rebellious, and so our parents believe that.
I don't believe that. And we're always rooting for the underdog. So
it looks like the Palestinians are the underdogs. Want to root for them.
The Palestinians are not the underdog. Here I tell people, I've been overder
Israel fifteen times, okay, fifteen times. I've never met a Muslim in
Israel. I didn't like good folks and they for the most part, they
get along really really well. But understand, every single country that borders Israel,
every single one has gone on the record in the last several years,
in the last couple decades that they want to wipe out Israel. Everyone has
done that. None of them have ever retracted that. How do you think
that would make us feel? As America of Canada and Mexico went on the
record and said America needs to go down and we need to wipe it out
from river to ocean. Right, I'll tell you what they Israel has been
getting oppressed and they've been reacting, sometimes over over reacting, but it's kind
of from a place of understandable fear and paranoia because people have been out to
get them. And then we see, now we've seen. I have a
friend who's in the Special Forces for Israel. Israel, he's one of the
guides that we use, and he was the first responder, one of the
first responders to clean up bodies that were killed by the Hamas raid and to
see he said to see children beheaded and bullets through parents' heads. We're on
the wall is a picture of a smiling, happy family, and they intentionally
did it right there in their home beneath that picture. That's an awful,
awful job. That's what Hamas is. That's what they've been doing for a
long long time. And so how we and our twisted understanding of being enlightened
and righteous can possibly ordain that and possibly say, well, it's both sides.
What about the times Israel yadi? Yet Israel has not gone over a
border and beheaded and shot people. They've not. Israel has had some overreaches
and trying to protect themselves, but they have never ever done acts of aggression
and terrorism. That Jess was trying to send a message that it doesn't happen.
It doesn't. And I saw, And I like to interview people whenever
I go somewhere. I like to go in the common schleps that I think
I represent well and talk to them about their daily lives. And when I
was in Bethlehem and on the West Bank talking to the shopkeepers and people on
the street, et cetera, that there was not love for the Jew,
But I tell you what they were living in peace and they were working.
Twenty thousand a day came across the border fences and what happened there is unspeakable.
Another point I find disconcerting is that the religious leaders of Iran and around
the Middle East are preaching the murder, the death, the destruction of Israel
from the river to the sea. Palestine will be free, which means that
as religious leaders, they're calling for the murder of the infidel and the killing
of Jews. And about the most violent time of the week is after prayers
on Friday, when generally the men come out of come out of the mosques,
that's when it's violent. As a religious leader yourself, I know you
don't accept the designation as the cardinal or the archbishop of Crossroads. Nonetheless,
can you imagine a circumstance where as a religious leader you would call for the
rape, the murder and the beheading of some other races children because of the
hatred coming out of the pulpit right there in many Muslims. What is your
thoughts on that? Yeah, No, that first of all, the number
of moms that call for that is in the vast, vast minority. Uh,
that that's not a normal thing for for the Muslim faith, nor for
nor for m moms. But yes, there is a very very small percentage
of it. And uh and Christendom. You we've got our faults in Christianity.
You and I know, William, We've got our share of hypocrites.
You and I have our share of hypocrisy. Nobody's perfect. When you and
I have believed things and done things we both regret. But this is a
form of action and violence you don't see in the faith of Christianity. You
just don't. Yeah, it's because it's our faith is founded on love your
neighbor as yourself, even if you disagree with them, and even if they're
an idiot, you know, love your neighbors yourself. So I think this
is one of the ways that are that our our faith shines. And I
also think back to your thing of Palestine, Uh, Bill is Yeah,
I've been you and I have been in Bethlehem, which is under Palestinian rule,
which means there's a wall around it, but it's still israel territory.
And Israel has put that wall around it because there is a small percent,
a small percent of people who are in that region who have hostile and violent
desires against the nation visual so many or most levelhead of Palestinians who live within
Bethlehem understand this and they're like, yeah, this sucks, this is awful,
And I kind of get it. I kind of get it because Israel
knows there's an element here that if they get out, it's going to be
very, very difficult to us. So this is not an easy situation,
it's all but one thing is very easy. Fact to your thing built.
Yes, absolutely. Why in the world is there a faction of America that
is defending in any way, shape or form Hummas, that's trying to somehow
say that this speaks to some moral issue in Israel. No, no,
no, they came over. They kill people in cold blood, hard stop,
period, hard stop. Why is this hard to understand? Well,
I think it's a failure of public and private education. I think it's a
failure of the educational system, of failure of our culture, which is debased.
It's a failure of things in America that the laws cannot affect, which
is the hearts of men and women. I just think it's it's an outrage
to see it. It didn't create it, but it exposed a feeling toward
the jew which I thought was always out there, but I didn't think I
would see it inside the United States of America. All right, well we
got to run, Brian, Tom you set the record straight, and it's
always good to get a report from you as the archbishop of Crossroads. And
I thought it was a pope Crossroad. Well, i'm gonna demote you.
I'm gonna make you an archbishop. All right, sounds good, my friend.
All right, Brian, thank you very much. Let's continue with more
to set the record straight. He said no on one, and he said
I didn't didn't want that to happen. On two, he said no,
and he was right in a sense because yes happened, and yes happened.
But he was right and wrong. I think on the zoo and on the
library, those both passed. And whenever the Thane Maynard says I'm gonna let
the animals go if you don't vote yes. That encouraged me to vote yes.
I don't want some line or tiger to prowl around Clifton. Let's continue
with more news is next coming up later will be Mike Dartis and scheduled Governor
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rooms of carpet clean man like them a lot makes a whole bunch of sense.
But once again, the so called Christian community, the Protestants, the
Catholics, and all the rest observing Jews the Muslims feel strongly about this.
But nonetheless, abortion now is such a dividing issue that when I try to
talk to these power brokers ahead of time, tell them what I'm going to
ask him, I'm going to I told Mike Dowaine, I'm going to ask
you about whether votes matter. That is, when we well aired up and
down, left and right issues one and two well aired, and the people
clearly without equivocation. It wasn't fifty one forty nine let's wait till the absentee
ballots come in. It was overwhelming in the great state of Ohio that represents
America. More than any other state. That when the state of Ohio went
through what we went through for the past several months, and the state issue
won, which is, let's face this, abortion on demand through birth,
that that's what it is. Because the planned parenthood doctor can find health problems
with any woman financial, emotional, physical, or otherwise justify a late term
abortion. And when that was well aired in every possible manner and means,
and it was clear that most Ohioans disagreed with me and many others that to
me, it's over. I know the activists don't like to hear that,
because they make money, they have buildings, they have mortgages to pay off.
They want to keep the issue alive. But in reality, there's another
way of fighting abortion other than through government action, such as giving money to
pregnancy centers east and West to help women that are in trouble to either find
adoptive services or to provide diapers, or whatever it might be. To show
a woman a sonogram and say, hey, this is your baby. Should
we kill your baby? I don't think. I don't understand it. Many
times in my life I don't understand how somebody can think differently than me.
But the older I get maybe the wiser I become on that issue. It's
time to go back into the hearts and homes of individual women that need help
and one way or another, and to provide that assistance to them, to
encourage them not to kill their unborn, healthy baby. That's the goal,
and sadly, a good chunk of the American people living in Ohio, in
Kansas, in Kentucky and Michigan, in every state it's tried, feels completely
differently than me. To me, it's a human life from the moment of
conception through natural death. That's it. It's a life. It's a human
life. It's not a callous it's not a tumor, not a cyst,
not a combination of cells. That is a human being. And the far
left, the Democrats see no value in that at all. It's not a
human being. It's simply a symbiotic organism latched onto a woman's body that she
voluntarily put there, and now it doesn't want to pursue it and go through
it. Okay, Well, at some point, when you' knocked in the
head a few times, you say, you know what, I'm not going
to change my position one iota, but to have the government the law reflect
my beliefs is now forked. It's over for the next few years until something
else changes. Something might change. If this same vote was held ten years
ago, the result would have been different, I think. But right now
it's clear a great majority of Ohioans one abortion on demand through birth, and
I think that's offensive to use a light term. To me, it's disgusting,
But you don't agree, and so we move on and help the women
in those difficulties. So I'm going to pin Mike the Wine to the wall
and after two o'clock to say, you know what, I'm not going to
encourage it whatever it is. Same thing with marijuana. You heard me say
repeatedly. I voted yes on issue too, and to me, government then
has to pay attention to what we do. I voted no on one,
I voted yes on two, so I was I guess half right. So
it's time to have government implement the will of the people of Ohio. Does
that make sense to you? Government should implement the will of the people of
the state of Ohio. So when I get with Mike the Wine after two
o'clock, I'm going to press them on it, yes, and to overturn
the constitutional amendment, which has never happened, is a big deal. Got
to go, go, go, get about eight hundred thousand signatures, of
which a little over half are valid, and then to spend fifty to one
hundred million dollars and let's go through it again. Let's go through all this
again. Are you kidding me? No, done it. It's over with.
And when it comes to issue, to implement the will of the people,
good or bad, right or wrong, see how it works out.
But to hear any politicians say, you know what, we're We're not going
to implement the will of the people. A politician told me last night in
a telephone call that I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of
the State of Ohio and of the United States. Well, the Constitution now
has a provision that provides abortion for any reason up through birth. Now it
is Mike DeWine's job and every person who took their oath to implement the will
of the people of the State of Ohio that I found I find disgusting and
reprehensible. But if I was the governor, I would implement the will of
the people of Ohio, even if I disagreed with it or resign. That's
the other option. If if Mike Dowaine can say I can't do this,
I can't implement it. In that case, resign. Let someone else get
that position and implement the will of the people of Ohio on marijuana, whatever
it might be. Because it was overwhelming, something came to mind about how
divided we are. By the way, after one o'clock today, we have
Mike Dartiss of the Power of five. He's got stories tonight on Melissa Powers,
the new relatively new prosecutor, and he's gonna tell us at a little
bit about the story. It's going to air at six tonight and eleven on
Channel five or five stands for news. Mike Dartis is coming up in about
fifteen minutes. And I found the quote of one Abraham Lincoln, which he
expressed in eighteen sixty four, a few minutes before he was murdered by Confederate
sympathizer. This is what he said, quote, if we are losing it
is because we are losing our soul, our sense of purpose as a society.
He went on to say, as Abraham Lincoln is apt to do,
America is not finished yet unless we die by suicide. Abraham said the following,
no foreign nation can ever take a step on the Blue Ridge Mountains,
or take a drink from the Ohio River, or visit the Shenandoah Valley,
and a contest of a thousand years, unless we let them do it,
a free nation will live forever, while it would die by suicide. Quote
unquote, do you have a sense that we're dying by suicide? That is,
no foreign nation will send soldiers to step foot on the Blue Ridge Mountains
or take a drink from the Ohio River. That will not happen. But
if we become so angry at each other and so divided and so a city
can our relations, that America will commit suicide. And the last few elections,
it began with Senator Ted Kennedy borking Judge Borki nomine by Ronald Reagan,
has gotten worse ever since then, when the Trumpster going back in time,
when Bush forty three was elected, he was selected, not elected. The
Democrats never accepted Bush as the president. And then in twenty sixteen, when
the Donald wins Farren Square, there were twenty eight to thirty Democrats that refused
to attend his inaugural saying his presidency is illegitimate, from Bill Clinton, Hillary
Clinton, Jimmy Carter, whatever, every Democrat said, he's not the president.
We ignore him. Is that a threat to democracy? You're damn right,
it's a threat to democracy. And so now that Biden was elected from
his basement, with all the ballot stuffing that took place, many Republicans said,
he's not valid. You know, Joe Biden was pumped up by illegal
methods to win the presidency because Trump was so effective. What's going to happen
next year. There's a chunk of Republicans thirty to forty percent that want nothing
to do with Donald Trump. Now there's a chunk of Democrats about sixty to
seventy percent that want nothing to do with Joe Biden. We're going to have
probably a contest between Trump and Biden. But you've heard me say repeatedly and
write it down, Joe Biden will not be the nominee of the Democrat Party
next year. Someone else will arise. But we're so disgusted with politics and
now we don't accept the outcome of elections. What we say. It's wrong
when I hear any Republicans say, well, you know, the people voted
for Issue one. But we may get together another constitutional member or pass legislation
around the edges that will seek to change Issue one, and then that's upheld
as constitutional or unconstitutional. Here we go again, or well, marijuana.
You know, my position is marijuana is wrong, and so we have to
change that. To hell with that. The people have decided those issues.
So for the first seeable future, whether it's two years, four years,
six years, or eight years, let it go. Don't raise money promising
things as a politician you can't deliver. All right, let's continue, And
about after one o'clock today we have Mike Dartis of the Power of five about
what's happening in the mean streets of Cincinnati, but also more importantly his stories
tonight at six and eleven on Missy Powers. And after two o'clock today we've
scheduled an interview with Governor Mike DeWine. He held one about an hour or
so ago. We have little excerpts of it. I'm gonna I'm gonna pin
him to the wall about accepting the will of the American people and not seek
to change it. You can seek to change it, but constitutional amendments take
forever and uh, as far as the hippie letters goes, we voted for
it. Now enact the will of the people. Don't try to pretend as
if as the grand potentate, you know more than citizens know about how to
conduct their own affairs. That's the name of that tune. Remember the words
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How does the Republican Party move forward a state issue one and two?
Because Republicans tend to be on the wrong side of both issues, but nonetheless,
the governor's going to speak. You might recall yesterday Speaker of the House
Stevens was here with Eddie and Jason. There seems to be some desire by
the Republicans to go back at the abortion issue with another constitutional amendment god or
secondly, marijuana. People voted by a wider margin than even abortion, and
some Republicans from Busyrus and Ada kind of want to change that, and I
think that would be a serious mistake. But nonetheless, a little birdie whisper
to my ear that Channel five, Mike Dartist, the Power of five is
going to do a report tonight at six and eleven on a prosecutor's office and
Missy Powers. It's a big issue and Mike Dartists, welcome again to the
Bill Cunningham Show. And Mike, how are you? Bill? I'm great,
and I really appreciate that you decided to put me on ahead of the
governor. Well we'll see what happens. And I know you're like an independent
news type person, but I can't imagine the people of Ohio voting in large
margins on issues that were well exposed and well aired and suddenly the politicians say,
you know what, the people of Ohio on that abortion thing, let's
go back in another year and cut around the edges of maybe parental consent or
maybe something else, or well, let's go back to Mayorana And after all
the people were wrong to vote that in, so let's let's change that.
Just as an American, how would you respond to that, well, I
mean, obviously, if you look at the polls all across the nation,
in every single state that it's come up for a vote, it's fallen the
same way, you know, fifty fifty eight, sixty percent something like that
in most states, in some states even a bigger margin. Even the governor
himself, of course, a couple of weeks ago, kind of flip flopped
a little bit on his stance, saying that his new stance falls more in
line with what a lot of people think in the state of Ohio. But
yeah, the voters have spoken, and that's the whole idea. But yeah,
it's a tough issue, obviously to jump into. But I would think
that if you have a divisive situation to begin with, and we're talking about
division and politics and we want to bring people closer together, I doubt,
you know, this kind of thing is going to do that. I doubt
it very much. In fact, I'm certain it will not. Let's talk
about the law enforcement in the city of Cincinnati. You're doing a report tonight
at least twice on Melissa Powers, the county prosecutor, and she's running for
reelection. It's going to be a tough election for her because of what happened
on Tuesday. When I see people like Liz Keating not getting a sniff as
far as staying on council, causes me concerned the directions of things in Hamleton
County. But tell us about your story tonight. What can we expect?
Well, first of all, I mean, she's been in public service for
thirty one years, seventeen years as a judge. Here she is in her
early sixties, and a year ago she was going to retire. I mean,
she doesn't have to work again. And all of a sudden that Joe
Dieters leaves for a different position. Obviously he's not justice leaders and he's on
the state Supreme Court in Ohio, and they approach her and it's their dream
job. So she says, you know what, I'm putting retirement off.
Now, she's telling me if she does get elected, and I know you
mentioned some of the challenges she does continue to get elected, she wants to
do this till she's seventy because she's passionate about this job. And she says,
you know, she thinks it's the kind of job that can't fall into
the wrong hands. And I think it was fun talking with her because you
see her in these news conferences and she's tough on crime and she's pretty matter
of fact and doesn't show a whole lot of emotion. Well, I got
a chance to sit down with her, and I learned that she likes to
make her grandmother's favorite sauce. She likes to cook, she likes to do
art, she likes to be with her grandkids. So it's a little bit
of both. At six o'clock, we're going to talk about some tough issues
but also get to know her a little bit. And then eleven o'clock we're
going to talk more about the crime issue and what Melissa Powers feels is her
strategy to try to curb it. Here in Greater Cincinnati. Almost every night
you deal with crime in one sense or no. Not eleven year old boy
that was shot down Friday, Curtis Fuller was out. There's no better street
reporter than Curtis Fuller. And you might want to throw in Brian Hamrick and
John London. I think those three are about the best there are. Probably
the three of them been around for about one hundred years and all the time.
The intentions are great to makeshift memorials the expressions of sorrow when eleven year
old boys gunned down simply you're walking on a sidewalk with four or five of
his buddies. It's happening constantly, repeatedly, and the great majority of these
crimes are black on black, which means it needs to be solved like any
other crime. The great majority of these events involve a black person, but
the great majority of black folks want nothing to do with crime. When I
speak to black judges, they tell me, man, I'm embarrassed by what
I see every day coming before me, and I say, don't be embarrassed.
Ninety five percent or more of black folks want nothing to do with any
of this. It's a small subset in the black community in almost every urban
area committing disproportion of crime, but also disproportionately are the victims. I can't
imagine being a mother or a father trying to raise kids in and around TQL
Stadium when shots are being fired. I think carters with someone had a mother
who said enough is enough. I can't take it. They have a routine.
I think I heard you say this last night. There's a routine when
shots are fired what to do, And most neighborhoods don't have a routine where
moms and dads get with their kids and say, now, look, when
shots are fired, this is what you have to do. And that only
happens in certain areas, and it happens because of a lack of fatherhood,
lack of education, whatever it might be. But it's awful. So yesterday
I think it was you. I think it was you and Shari had this
is what you do when you hear twenty shots being fired. Isn't that a
said commentary on a child's life and what they have to go through as the
victims of this. It is, and you're talking about one of our reporters,
Rachel Hersheimer, actually not to got in touch with one of the kids
who was shot in the West Dedset eleven year old eleven year old boy died.
Five others were shot for them kids. She spoke with a fifteen year
old and off camera, the fifteen year old's mother said, you know,
when things start to escalate outside and we hear tension and we hear we hear
a fight, you know, we get the kids right inside. So it's
something that they seemingly deal with almost like weekly or every other week. And
I was really struck by this young man's interview last night. He's only fifteen
years old, and he was so matter of fact about it, as if
you know, you're used to seeing that all the time in that neighborhood.
But back to what you were talking about, I'm going to focus less on
race and more on the fact that you know, these are a lot of
times repeat offenders. And that's one thing that Melissa Powers talked about in the
interview tonight. She said, when you get life, that means life.
It doesn't mean twenty years. When you get a sentence that ten years,
you do that ten years. She doesn't believe in, you know, being
soft on crime, and a lot of times, she says, the judges
decide that they don't follow the letter of the law and they decide to to
take things into their own hands. She says, it's you know, if
you want to do that, you take it to the voters, you take
it to the legislature. You don't make that decision by yourself. But if
you look at some of the numbers, these are people, a lot of
these criminals, and some of them are young. So they get back out
of the streets and that's why older criminals are now hiring the younger criminals because
they know that they're not going to spend a lot of time behind bars.
But the sad truth is a lot of these crimes are being committed over and
over and over by the same groups of people. And Melissa Powers believes if
you prosecute those people and put them behind bars and you're tougher on crime,
that that could alleviate some of the problem. But yeah, it is frustrating.
You see the same five or six religious leaders, community leaders, and
God bless them, I mean for being out there. They're there a lot
of times before the police are there. But nothing changes and nothing is changing,
And I don't know what the answer is, but we definitely need to
figure something out. One of your compatriots at Fox nineteen did a story about
a year ago and what shot spotter, which is a wonderful service. It
can also discriminate between a backfire of a vehicle and also a gunshot. It
can also tell you the caliber of the shot being fired. There was something
in the range of thirty thousand shots fired in the city of Cincinnati. Thirty
thousand. I'm not talking about Hamlet County. I'm talking about the city of
Cincinnati. There'll be about four hundred people wounded. This year is going to
be eighty to ninety killed, and every year it's about the same, and
so it is more dangerous. Cincinnati has a higher homicide rate than El Salvador.
Cincinnati has a higher homicide rate in shots people getting wounded than the city
of Chicago. And it's amazing that more people are not hurt, because thirty
thousand shots fired is going to have a negative impact in someone's life. And
I don't know to cover other than another shooting probably tonight six and eleven,
there'll be other shots fired somewhere, and you've got to cover it, and
you want to try to change it a little bit, but in reality,
every year it doesn't change, and a lot of it has to do we
have a juvenile court. We have one juvenile court judge out of the two
of them who doesn't want to bind people over, doesn't want to put them
in adult court, and doesn't want to lock them up. And these aren't
kids with snapshots, and these aren't kids on TikTok. These are violent criminals.
And it's a very very small percentage and a very very small number that
has disproportioned an impact and until you lock them up and throw away the key,
it's not going to change. And so it is said, from your
perspective, you have children, you and SHUREI have kids, and to watch
what they go through. Can you imagine with your own children saying, look,
the shots are going to be fired. We're gonna have thirty thousand shots
fired, thirty thousand shots fired in the city of Cincinnati courting a shot spotter,
and this is what to do when the shots are being fired. This
is what you have to do. That doesn't happen in Mason, that doesn't
happen in Independence, it doesn't happen. It's only in a few zip codes
in the city of Cincinnati. And race is not a factor. Most of
the black folks I know practice law, and they're in the dentistry, they're
experts in whatever line of work. It is a small subset that go to
CPS and don't attend class. I had on iron Out or Wright the about
a month ago, and their absentee rate, chronic absentee rate is forty nine
percent, forty nine percent, and she said that if you talk about black
mails, it's about seventy percent are chronically absent. So when and I asked,
well, does anyone flunk? The answer is no. In other words,
if you don't attend class and you don't pass any of the tests,
what happens in the fifth grade, the sixth grade, you simply are socially
promoted having accomplished nothing. So by the time you get to your teenage years,
there's little hope that one has in order to function in the society that
we know about that we work in, and working in that society or people
like Curtis Fuller and people like Judged hyrone Yates, the society that we operate
in does have a place for someone who's functionally illiterate without job skills, then
as a criminal record. So, Mike Dartist, I ask you, what
do we do well? It's funny you mentioned Curtis Fuller because he had a
victims advocate on in the story he did last night. He talked about fourteen
years of age is a key age. You know, by the age of
fourteen, if you haven't righted the ship with a lot of these kids,
kids who have been impacted by violence in their community, kids who are now
involved in violence in their community, if you haven't righted a ship. By
the age of fourteen, you might have lost that child forever into the justice
system. And unfortunately, the weapon of choice has changed over the years.
As we know, back in the day, it was fist fighting out in
the side a lot when you had a problem with another kid or another group
of kids. Then it's into knives and knives, and then it switched into
you know, single shot guns, and now it's these automatic weapons. And
you mentioned all these shots fired around our great city of Cincinnati, you know,
twice in the last several months, and not just the other night when
twenty two shots were fired in two seconds at a group of kids in the
West End. Wasn't that long ago, a handful of months ago, where
somebody drove up in the middle of the day in OTR after school let out
and fired another twenty shots and people were hit and and a lot of this
is an initiation. Sometimes it's hey, you want to be with the tough
group, you want to be with this group, or you want to be
with this gang, then this is what you gotta do. You got to
drive by and show that you have the guts to do this, and they
go and they do it. So what do you do. And it's just
it's alarming because as a parent when you're talking to your kids, you don't
have the answers. Because the way America is right now and it's so divided,
nothing gets done. If you put one hundred people, one hundred adults
in a room, just one hundred adults, and you gave them a problem
to solve, I know they could get the problem solved. But then you
take it to Washington and you take the same one hundred people and you give
them a title as US Senator or a US Congressman, they don't get the
job done because, no matter what they really feel, they answer it another
way. Because people are worried about getting reelected. They're not worried about especially
in Congress where it's two year terms. You got two year terms. One
year in you're already looking to get reelected and you're just taking money from certain
lobbyists and you're just doing what you're supposed to do to get reelected. And
it is really sad and I don't have the answer. And that's why you
know, you have somebody like Melissa Powers. That's a big job. One
of the biggest jobs in this whole area is you got to decide, you
know, you got to get criminals off the streets and you got to try
to clean things up. And it's not an easy task, that's for sure.
No, Well, tonight at six and eleven, you'll learn more about
Melissa Powers and when the Democrats settle on their opponent. I had on the
head of the Democratic Party yesterday, Gwenn McFarlane, and they haven't settled yet
who they're going to have. I'm sure she's going to get an opponent,
and let's see what their philosophies of law enforcement are. There is like one
Republican prosecutor and the top large fifty cities in America, there's one, and
that's Melissa Powers. There's no other Republicans. Of course, with Liz Keating
now leaving, there's no Republicans on any city councils in the eight largest cities
in this country. So it's all one direction. And so whoever's responsible,
you know, as their bat, their ball and their ass and the Democrats
have to come up with some solution or else. Continue to have funerals,
continue to have burials. And that's what it comes down to, which is
sad when little boys cannot play baseball, football, basketball in the streets because
they have a procedure when shots are fired, you have to act in a
certain way, and that's not normal. I'd love that interview that Rachel had
with that woman who said, by the time a boy or girl is fourteen,
especially a boy, they're kind of set for the next few years in
their life. And we're told also that the front lobe of a man's brain
doesn't develop till they're about twenty five years old. I think that is certainly
true. Meant many guys, I know, maybe until thirty or thirty five
until they develop, so they're making lifetime and adult decisions with a childish mind.
But once again, Mike Dartists, love watching you and Shuri and give
my best to Kay Rob and all the folks at Channel five. I will
Willie, thanks so much. And you have so much power in this area,
and you know that let's keep having these conversations and hold some of these
public officials accountable so that we could get some things done. Please, all
right, Mike Dartists, thank you very much. All right, let's continue
with more coming up. In about forty five minutes, we schedule an interview
with Governor Mike Dwine about where we go forward with this stuff. But I
think it's critical to know the important people in your life to make big decisions,
and one of them in Handy County Prosecutor. With all due respect,
if you're one of fourteen municipal court judges, you have great power, But
when you're the county prosecutor, you have power over the entire county and what
direction law enforcement takes. And that's why learning more about Missy Powers tonight on
Channel five is important. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WLW, this Thanksgiving
Zeros is serving deals as sweet as pie of World War Three, and then
revive national pride in this country. I also want to close with one message
to the Democrat Party. End this farce that Joe Biden is going to be
your nominee. We know he's not even the president of the United States.
He's a puppet for the managerial class. So have the guts to step up
and be honest about who you're actually going to put up so we can have
an honest debate. Biden should step aside, end his candidacy now so we
can see whether it's Newsom or Michelle Obama or whoever else, Just tell us
the truth so we can have an honest Hello, Byett, I'm broadcasting saying
the odds to Joe Biden being the next president, about the same odds of
you becoming the next governor of Ohio, which could happen, I guess,
but I bet against it. You know, I didn't go for state reps.
So why not? Why didn't you go for the big House. There
was a whole bunch of Middletown you want marijuana minute? Then they wanted you
to run, know they? Why didn't you accept the will of the people
in every pot? Some vote for Bill? Pretty good stuff right there.
Maybe one of these days Ramaswami laid this smack it down right? Who's the
manager? What do you say? Hegerial? He's a puppet for the managerial
Christ is that for baseball? Or Joe Biden the premier league in soccer?
He's the Can I say titular? He's the titular? Be careful you say
that, the titular head of the Democratic Party. He's not the president.
I would want to be that either. No, but all those around him,
controlled by Barack Hussein Obama, they're the ones running the country telling Biden,
what to do and what not to do. Gotta be careful when you
say titeler. You know what I'm saying, Willie. You the Stoj reportas
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Roundtable Show six oh five Long Necks and hebron right here on seven hundred WLW
jamar Chase didn't practice yesterday with the back defensive ends. Sam Hubbard with an
ankle t Higgins hurt in the practice with a ham hamstring. Excuse me too,
trist Thank you. Houston listed twenty three players on their injury list yesterday.
Eleven did not practice. Uh oh, so you'd want to play some
football go to Houston, but not this week. High school action Willie and
Ohio Boys State soccer semi finals. Mowler rolled at twenty four to oh last
night, edging out Columbus Saint Charles one Nill in Division IE place of the
Crusaders, posting their twenty third shutout of the year. Will take on Cleveland
Saint Nasis Saturday for the state title four pm in the capital city of Columbus.
Will they be here on Monday if they win? Yes, talk to
Carl Barrett, Barrett at Cohen and Tom Gregory will bring him down on the
limits. I guess right there they're the closes. I guess Madera is closer.
Next to that is smaller, right, and then Deer Park the source
of all wisdom. Worthington Christian got by a Waynesville last night four nil in
the Division three state semifinals. Good luck to Summit Country Day and Cincinnati Country
Day. The girls teams there go for State finals tomorrow. Ohio High School
volleyball State semifinals Today in Division one it is mcnick up against Meadowbrook and Division
and that's Division three, Division one Mercy McCauley against Marlington coming up. Lebron
James is going to open up his own museum, of course in Akron.
Of course, Jay Phillips, who runs Deer Park Schools, wants a museum
to me, and I have some objects to give to him for the Willie
Museum in Deer Park. Now wouldn't that be something? Yeah? No,
who said no? He said no? No. President Obama, who is
Oh, that's Lebron says no, he doesn't. What in your musque serving
people uses egomaniac? What do you mean? Ego maniac? What is that?
More? Soccer, Willie FC Cincinnati will take on Philadelphia Union in the
upcoming Eastern Conference semi finals. They will start November twenty fifth or twenty sixth.
Really, yes, go go go got wrong with him? College basketball
Tonight, the NKU Norris are out west to take on the PAC twelve Washington
Huskies. What about Mitt Cronin the action at ten thirty on ESPN fifteen thirty,
we also say congratulations to lesal z Own and Cincinnati's best coach, Mick
Crodin really gets his one hundredth win the other night at UCLA when the Bruins
beat Saint Francis seventy five to forty four. Five years at UCLA, couldn't
coach In Clifton anymore, right, got rid of him five years at w
You get on the plane. Thank you. Five years at UCLA, Mick
Cronin. One hundred wins, thirty six losses. Not bad and that's big
time, would you agree? UCLA Basketball and the Cincinnati Bearcats got a couple
of big recruits yesterday. They're in action tomorrow night more tonight on the Wes
Miller Show. What about those two guys At eight oh five on the original
Montgomery End, what about those two guys. It's Queen City product Tyler McKinley
out of Waltedt Hills and Winton Woods. You refuse to answer my question.
Six nine power forward average seventeen points a game. The Bearcats also sign up
strong forward Tyler Betsy, who was rated the top player in the state of
Connecticut. Say take a look at CNN. Brothel Network's clients include politicians,
military officers, corporate execs, government contractors, and segment What does that mean?
Do you use high end prostitutes to satisfy your most perverted desires? No?
Where did that come from? CNN? Kid Chris is on that list?
Right there, CNN. I think Kid Chris is on that list high
end customers. Oh he's a high end customer? Are about you? What
can you tell me? I know? Where was that at where they fly
him in on private jets? Well, he so does he? I'm thinking,
well, I mean, how can these names never get out? Like
Jeffery Epstein, Lolita Highlight? Can you tell me nothing? Nothing? Have
you heard me nothing? It's been three to six years exactly. And whoever's
on those manifests supposedly dozens and dozens of top politicians, right secret service protected
individuals, and none of the names are ever known, went down there to
rock and roll into Bahamas right with you to pull and right there the high
end constitution trade of which you profit one way or another, according to CNN,
is all all the names are secret. Of course, Kid Chris is
involved in this. I can't say, oh you are? He is?
You heard my resignation he put together? Yeah, I heard that and Gary
Jeff put it together. That was AI at its best. I think the
norms have really changed in terms of what you can do to somebody against their
will. That's the truth. That's sure to Paula Corbyn Jones. Yeah,
little Kathleen Willie action. Yeah. And when I was in England, I
experimented with marijuana a time or two and I didn't like it and didn't inhale
and never try to again. Got to come to Ohio. I was going
to say, when does that start? Supposedly thirty days, supposedly December the
seventh, but I I got the governor. That's right, you got to
You got a state exclusive coming up here in about ten minutes. We're going
to find out what the main man. I gotta text him and remind him,
don't forget, don't hang me out to dry. Governor. I could
switch on a moment with the first lady on and he knows all about that
stuff. Well, not her, but the oh well put columns. What
the yeah, well he said he was gonna come on. Uh yeah,
there he is again. I'm afraid to call him because he's bigger than Montana,
right, he's probably yeah, it's probably sitting down at the Western Southern
right now getting looking at financially, clearly, you have completely made me.
I don't know how to thank you enough. It's about time he said something
he likes his About time he thanked us for something nothing. He lights his
Cuban cigars with one dollar bills, just lights alone. I call it and
l But your name was just announced by CNN. It's on the list of
high end client right, your name's on there too, flying your private Godsloan
Gary Jeff Walker. Don't forget about Eddie, Eddie Rocky, high end Lance.
I watched people like Lance. I like to know the names on Lola
Island. Let's go back just a little bit. Yeah, let's get those
guys. Yeah, where's that notebook and find it? Search warrant hunter Biden's
laptop. I don't know about that. The Trumpster right there, there's the
problem right there. I'm sure his Uh. They had the debate last night.
Did you watch any of it? No? I can't. I can't
watch it. What about the what about the Trumpsters? Was it knocked and
stacked at his event? Many empty seats? Really? Yes? But I
think people are getting disillusioned. Will just tell me who the nominees are eleven
and a half. Yea, yeay Hillary. Is that Gary Jeff messing you
with it again? On Ai? That's Ai again? I thought Ai was
Alan Iverson announcing my resignation and appointing Gary Jeff Walker. This is my successor,
entitle. I will give them the keys of the kingdom. See what
Gary Jeff does with him. And I'm going to I'm going to fly to
China with the new with those pandas going back home. And that's sad.
We lost time just because they're mad at us. Chinese ta get out on
the poor pandas, and now people won't be able to watch if changed now
and then, shouldn't they be happy with that? I don't know, but
I mean all the all the millions of people that have seen those pandas,
and they just eat bamboo and play all day long, kind of like me.
You eat kit kats and yeah, play all day long. What can
I say? Well, they better not remove h Tucker, Bbe Fritz and
uh then you're talking about action. That's a tough family right there, Amen,
big mouth. I don't even if you can't even, I don't know
how you move them. Only if they want to move. Thank you.
It's like the camel my wife wrote in them in Israel. If the kambelln't
want to move, forget it, You're not moving. So she got on
the back of that thing like Lawrence of Arabia. A guy named Mohammed shows
up, pulls out this huge camel from a rider truck rental and he says
a few things. I'm only catching a few words, uh huh. And
it came down to twenty bucks at a group of thirty and I say,
who wants to be the first to ride the camel in the back of the
pack. I heard a familiar voice. I'll do it up. Watch the
people's judge. I said, you got to be kidding me what I said,
here's twenty bucks to Muhammad, here's the twenty So then she kneels down
the camel, gets on the back, and gallops off toward getssemone and the
and the entrance to the Old City on the back of a camel. She
looked like he looked like Jennifer of Arabia. I'm just saying, I said,
go get her. So Muhammad goes chasing down the camel, and she
was riding it like Steve cauthorine on the backstretch of Belmont. I said,
you got to be kidding me. Get off the damn camel. I'm loving
this. I said, well, you're on your own, and you didn't.
You didn't even attempt to get all this, did't get home, and
said I told Mohammad, And I said, look, Mohammad, just stay
right here, all right, I'm not moving. Hold on to Leroy here.
I don't want Leroy bounding off towards the mount of Olives. Say get
me out of the stud's report. The governor is scheduled in ten minutes.
Will Hee and Hotter of an exclusive with the Governor de Wine coming up.
We leave you with the immortal words of the stood report. We're going to
South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New mex Dico. We're
going to California and Texas and New York, and we're going to South Dakota
and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington, d
C. To take back in the White House. That's Howard the duck Dean.
He didn't even get to Iowa, did he. He got as far
as Kamala Harris or New Hampshire segment. Thank you, Yes, sir,
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clean carpets from Zero's Carpet Governor Mike Dwine who rules the state with an iron
grip, and Governor Mike DeWine, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Governor, first of all, let's deal with state Issue number one with your
permission. The Billy Billy. Good to be back. I don't think I
have an iron grip, but it's always good to be back. And looking
for a win for the Bengals this weekend, that would be good. But
Issue one is one that I thought would go the other way despite the polling.
In the constitution, we now enshrine abortion rights from a moment of conception
through delivery. And first of all, what are your thoughts on that.
Secondly, do you support more efforts to put more amendments on the ballot or
should we live with this for a while? Well, Bill, first of
all, you know on your show, I expressed my opinion about Issue one.
We accept the results the voters, uh, decided to pass Issue one
and put that into the constitution. So I think that, you know,
we we accept the result of the voters. That's what we do in this
in this country. I think, uh, you know, some of the
things are going to be fought out frankly in court. I already saw that
some of the Democrat members of the General Assembly want to want to roll back,
uh you know, the laws and the laws that have been passed in
the past. Uh you know, rental consent required for an abortion. There's
some members of the General Assembly want to get rid of that. I think
that would obviously be a mistake. There are others who uh you know,
I suppose would want to get rid of the ban we have on partial birth
abortion. So I think that a lot of this bill is going to be
played out now in the courts as people try to uh you know, do
away with those the protections, and we'll have to see how the court's rule.
I think that I did a press conference on this this morning. Issue
won an issue too, and you know what I said to the news media
kind of repeat here, and that is that I think we just see.
I think we you know, people in a democracy, in a country like
ours, no issue is ever totally done. We just continue to look at
things. So I think people are going to have to see, how,
you know, living with abortion at any point, whether that is something that
people you know, accept or not. I think one of the things that
the pro side did, you know, they spent about thirty five million dollars.
A lot of money came from out of state. The governor of Illinois,
for example, put in half a million dollars. We had other out
of state money come in. So they outspent our side the No side about
three and a half to one. But the way they framed the issue,
I think is the way it was accepted by most voters. That is,
did you like the status quo or did you like what they were presenting?
And you know, while they denied that this was really abortion on demand,
abortion any place in the pregnancy, that is, that is really what it
is. And so it was that versus the status quo. And what I
think it was clear to me over the last year or so since Roe v.
Wade was overturning, is that the majority of Ohian's, the vast majority
of Olands, believe there should be an exception for rape and incests. And
so I think, you know, we had Peter people who voted yes because
they thought there should be an exception for rape and incests. So they had
choices, they picked one. But the truth is that most Ohioands, frankly,
are somewhere in the middle, and they didn't have that they didn't have
that option, whether you know, governor whether you like it or not.
I haven't seen your oath of office recently, but I'm sure somewhere in there
says you will support and defend the constitution of the State of Ohio. And
whether you like it or not, the State of Ohio constitution says abortion on
demand basically forever as far as the eye can see. And so will you
work to overturn that through another constitutional amendment or do you support it the way
it is? Look, Bill, you're you're absolutely right. Uh, I
you know, I will follow the will of the people of the state,
and we all, we hope follow the law. Uh. Is there a
time in the in some point in the future that people look at this and
decide, Hey, that's not really exactly what we want. Maybe we can
get something in the middle. Yeah. I think there's something that that may
come up at some point. But I think people have to have a chance
to see how this works set uh, settling. I don't think that,
you know, I don't think there's going to be a ballot issue back on
until people have had a chance at least to you know, see how this
works. That's kind of the way that our system should I hate it,
don't like it. Every fiber of my being says the human life begins at
the moment of conception through natural death. We can't convince our fellow citizens that
that's the way it ought to be. And whether I like it or not,
it's a bitter pill that I think. Unlike me, I'm a talk
show host. All I do is talk. You actually have to do something.
And when Governor DeWine sends the message let it ride for a while,
I think that's a powerful voice. Is that what you're saying. Well,
I don't know if I put it in that in that term bill, but
I do think, you know, we follow the law, and I think
that people have to have a chance to see how how how this works.
I don't think this reflects exactly where people are in the state. I think
most people are somewhere in between that they don't think that you should have an
abortion on demand at any point. But I think the majority clearly now do
believe that, uh, you know, abortion should be available at least for
a certain period a certain period of time during during the pregnancy. I think
it's it's again part of this we've always known is trying to win the hearts
and minds of people as well as the law. And you know, I
just want to give a public shout out to the pregnancy centers around the state.
There's well over one hundred of them. They're they're manned primarily by volunteers,
and their goal is to reach out to women who are in a pregnancy
and have been for whatever reason, have a difficult time and try to give
them the help and support that they need. So everybody who's out there doing
that and who can listen to us, you and me on the radio,
I just want to I want to thank them. You know they're doing They're
doing the Lord's work and we I'm very grateful for what they do every day.
Better pill for you to swallow. But it is what it is.
Issue too Whether I voted yes on Issue too because I thought, okay,
this is a start in the right direction. Well, the Governor of Ohio
work to implement meant the people's wishes on issue too, or where you work
to circumvent or change it. I think the people's will clearly bill on this
is that we have legal marijuana in the state of Ohio for adults, and
so I accept that part of the way issue too, And of course the
difference is, as you know, being the great lawyer that you are,
as well as the great American issue one was a constitutional amendment issue too,
is a law, and the legislature certainly has the opportunity to fine tune that.
One of the things that I talked about today was, you know,
how do we carry out the will of the people in getting marijuana legally out
for adults, but at the same time protect our kids. And so you
know, I'm in favor of the legislature doing everything they can in statute to
make sure that while the will of the people is carried out and we have
legal marijuana, that's done in a responsible and respectful way, and that we
protect our kids by respect protecting our kids, I mean, let's do what
we can do to reduce the number of kids who end up in the emergency
room because they ate a gummy bear or a cookie that had marijuana. Let's
do what we can to reduce the number of deaths on the highway because we
have marijuana impaired drivers. Let's do what we can do to keep marijuana away
from children who teenagers, whose minds are still developing whose brains are still developing,
because we know that the regular use of marijuana for that sixteen year old
or eighteen year old is a very grave danger to their IQ and can have
permanent effect. I think we also, Bill have to work to make sure
that people who don't want to be walking down town Cincinnati or downtown Dayton,
or or or Cedarville or wherever. Uh you don't don't have to smell marijuana.
What's happening already though, Governor, Well, I understand that let's let's
talk about the rights of uhu of other Ohioans. So, you know,
people want to smoke it in their in their house, that's fine. If
they want to go into a shop that that's where that's what people do.
Uh you know, that's that's fine. Let's let's defend their right. But
also let's don't infringe on other people's rights. So the implementation of it,
I think bill is important, but we we uh you know, while I
vote to know on both of those both issues on issue too, you know,
in reguard issue to I think we have to get implemented and do it
correctly and do it in a safe way. Well, one thing I find
objectionable. I find many things objectionable. Is so when you have Senator Huffman
or a Speaker of the House Stevens come on media and start talking about,
well, you know, uh, issue one, we got to get it
back on the ballot or issue too, We've got to we can actually repeal
the law if we want to, which I guess technically is allowed. It
would be disgusting to have the people go through what we just went through for
months and months and months and months and then come to a resolution at the
ballot box. Then they have politicians seek ways to overcome what the people said
they wanted. So, just philosophically, can you smell what I'm cooking?
Yeah, I can smell what you're cooking. Look, I think that we
have to respect what the people did. We also have to say this is
always subject to continuing public debate and for the people of the state to look
at what they've done, just like we look at laws bill that are passed
by the legislature and people have to decide, you know, they have to
buy them as long as they're laws, But then they have to also decide,
well do I like that law? And if they don't like it,
there's a process. There's a process to change it. So if people don't
like what the the voters did, at some point in the future, uh,
you know, they have the opportunity to to change that. But I
think the most important thing on Issue one particularly, uh is for people,
whether they voted yes or voted no, to follow this see how it works.
Uh see if the people who said that there would be no late term
abortions, uh see if that's actually true. See if partial birth abortion uh
is does not come back. You know, these are all things. There
are promises made during the campaign, and I think, uh, you know,
people voted, We accept that, but uh it's always a question of
uh, you know, did were the proponents telling the truth? Did it
turn out? Did the end of the story turn out like the prologue or
how they said the you know, the dust jackets said, then you have
to wait for a year or two for that to happen, right, you
have to wait some time. I don't know how long, but you certainly
have to wait bill to see it. And there's absolutely no that now.
Lastly, I I've done some interviews on the coast in which they said what
happened to Ohio? That Ohio has become California and New York when it comes
to marijuana and abortion. And I said, look, about a year and
a half ago, we had a governor run who was as identified with the
pro life movement as any governor in Ohio history, that won the race by
twenty percentage points, and by the way, still owes me at cherry pie.
But nonetheless that we elected five Republicans to high office. Republicans dominate the
US Supreme Court, at the highest Supreme Court, the Assembly House, in
the Senate, and so well, I said, it's not exactly right,
but Mike, you're the governor, the most popular one of all time by
the numbers, during a time we're partial birth, abortion in marijuana in a
sense have both been legalized. How does that make you feel? Well,
it's not good and it's not something that I signed up for, but look,
I'm the governor, and you know, we we voted and we had
a result, and at least for the time being, that's what the result
is. In fact. So no, it's not what I thought I was
going to do, and you know, it was not a happy election for
me. But hey, you know what my obligation is is you know,
let's take marijuana. My obligation is okay, the people said, yes,
we want it. My obligation, Bill is to make sure we do it
the right way, and we do it in a way that protects innocent children.
Do it in a way that you know, the advertising is not out
there there's aim directly at our young people. So you know, these are
things that I'm in this place at this time in history. And while I
may not like the big result, I have, I think an obligation to
try to make this thing work so that Ohioan's it works as smoothly as possible
and it works in a way that does not damage children. Governor lastly goes
into effect December the seventh, by the dictates of what we voted for.
It's December seventh, it's in effect. How do you do all this with
marijuana in the next twenty four days, Well, we're going to see what
the legislatures can do. We have you know, as you know, Bill,
I can propose things, and I have proposed to the legislature. I'm
going to meet with the Senate President in the Speaker on Monday. We've already
talked by phone. I think the goal should be to get this done,
because I think it's not particularly helpful to start down a pathway and the law
going to effect and then the law change. You know, Ideally, we
would get these things done prior to it going into effect, and then it
would be smooth. It would be a smooth transition and we would move.
That'd be great, you know. That's look, you can, That's what
our ideal is, and I think we should strive to do that, because
it's not particularly helpful to people, uh, you know, for them to
see the law going to effect and it'll be one thing and then uh,
you know, we see changes uh in the future. So if we can
do this and wrap this up in a short period of time, we'll at
least try. Will you lead and tell them, look, this was voted
on, it's a done deal. The people want marijuana. I have a
text here from a listener that says, Governor, could we tolerate a little
bit of slavery? Hell no, do not tell people to tolerate a little
bit or partial birth abortion. Well you know that's where I am, that's
where you are. Look, you tolerate no, no, no, but
look here, here, here, here, let's let's cut cut to the
quick uh partial birth abortion. The other side, the proponents of one said
we won't see that in Ohio. Mike the Wine, they said, Mike
to Wine, you're wrong, We're not going to see that. We had
other people who said, Mike to Wine, we're not going to see parental
consent go away. Just because this has past that I hear to day that
they're Democrats and the legislature who want to pass a bill that take that takes
away parental rights. Now that's isn't that a little disingenuous? Yes, these
are the same people that were were three days ago. We're telling us,
oh no, no, it won't happen that. No, no, to
Wane, you're crazy. Now now I'm watching members of the General Assembly Democrat
party who three days before we're telling us, oh no, no, it's
okay, we won't general rights will be respected. Now they're introducing bills to
take away pray all rights. What hypocrisy couldn't agree more? And I I'm
just this is a bitter pill for right to lifers to swallow and it is
not going down very well at all. Well, look, we have a
you know, if if if you're a believer, you believe that we have
an obligation to do what we think is right. And it doesn't mean we
always win, it doesn't mean we all succeed. We have an obligation to
do what we what we think is right, and you know we'll continue to
do that. And again, you know, bless those who are out there
and you know, pregnancy centers and people who are quietly doing volunteer work to
help moms and to help babies. Yep, Governor, thank you, and
thanks for setting the record straight. And I think the will of the people
need to implement it. And it seemed like the will of the people said
partial birth abortion doesn't happen. And secondly, parenta rights are not effected.
Let's see what happens that pat part of be thrown inside. But on marijuana,
I think the people have spoken. Hopefully you convinced fellow Republicans to enact
their will. Yeah, well let's let's let's let's in us sports note.
Uh, thank Julie Voto for almost two decades of forty great fun. My
dad loved watching him, my late mother in law love watching him. I
love watching him best my kids do. And uh, what a what a
great guy. And we're very U. You're sorry to see him leave,
but he gave us, you know, almost two decades, and we'll see
him. My plan on being there when he's inducted into the Hall of Fame
seventeen years, he'll be. He'll be in Cooperstown. He'll be. He'll
be in Cooperstown as soon as as he is eligible. And that's a great
thing. And yep, let's go Bengals this weekend, all right, Mike
Governor, thank you very much for coming this afternoon, Philly. Good to
be with you always, God pleasure, Thank you. Let's continue with more.
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four oh three, sheltonham Old or you got protest? Huh, yeah,
there was. There's about twenty I'd say twenty to twenty five pro Palestinian protesters
say Atleda, I say that three times fast Toledo. No, it was
about Yeah, it was about you know, two miles from campus. Oh
right, I'll tell you're avoiding the obvious. Uh, you're changing the subject.
Don't tell. Don't tell me you're going to talk about Saint X or
Notre Dame or nothing. They're done, Dunn done, Go ahead, But
I have made twelve twenty twenty three when the Bengals schedule came out and I
said, at that point, we'll review it halfway into it. We're about
halfway into it, five and three. There's nine games left. Right according
to Rocky, he has the Bengals beating the Browns. How that turnout?
They didn't get them? But what was yours? What did you say?
Don't lie? Yeah, don't lie. You're gonna say. I know you're
gonna say that I picked the Browns. I know you're gonna say that I
picked the Bengals. Okay, second game, I took the Ravens to win,
and both of you took the Bengals to win. So I'm one up
and three. Well, we have the Bengals winning. All of us have
been winning Game three, Game four, Game five, the Cardinals. In
fact, we I have wins, but I have Sam Francisco beating the Bengals
and the Rockhead San Francisco beating the Bengals. But the segment had the Bengals
beating San Francisco. Yeah, and man, he also every game he's got
them all seventeen and he's got seven. I had twelve and five, you
have thirteen. I think my twelve and five is going to be a lot
closer than you're thirteen and four and is seventeen and oh? Is that correct?
Hell? I mean maybe I should be an analyst for Toledo Sea.
Go to Fancy's, go to Pacos, get some Garian hot dogs. Make
your head cut off too. Well, those Palestinians, did you confront them
with yours? I gave him your phone number. You gave him this guy.
Any time you go to Old Orchard right there, Shelton there, go
talk to that Yes, something, He's got plenty of contributions for you.
I just had on your good friend Mike Dewan. Okay, we have some
questions for you, but tell me what he said. First. I said,
when you took office, I don't have the I don't have the oath
in front of me, but I bet it said you will support and defend
the constitution of the State of Ohio. He said yes, And I said,
abortion from conception through birth is now the law of the land. What
are you going to do? He said, I'm going to implement. I'm
going to do what I can do to make that happen. However, he
said that your friends on the Democratic side said during the race that there would
be no partial birth abortion and parental consents not an issue. Now the Democrats
your friends in Columbus yesterday in acted try to enact legislation that would take out
of Ohio statute books the prohibition on birth or partial birth abortion and parnal consent
to get rid of it. A little bit of a problem there, so
that'll be the wrong courts in the bill, they're trying to go a little
step further, for a little bit more. They said, well, that's
not a partial birth. Abortion doesn't happen. That's already illegal by federal law.
But the federal law on this is done, so it's only the state
law of that matters. So now the court will decide that minor issue to
be tied up in court for a long time will be tied up. So
what do you think is gonna happen? Yeah, I mean, just on
you know, live in person to the next couple of years with abortion in
Ohio, it's gonna well, I anticipate because of pharmaceutical abortions and because of
abortion tourism that actual abortions in Ohio aren't gonna go up much at all,
because you can I mean, sixty percent of abortions are through the mail.
Okay, then then why Okay, I agree with you, that's my point.
So why did so many people fight tooth and nail and give up so
many other things that they possibly value to fight and die on the vine for
that issue when nothing is gonna damn chances all this segment's girlfriends. His name
was on the list of the high end rollers with these high class prostitutes the
money, get your jaloue. Josh, yeah, you're jealous. And so
if a woman today doesn't want to get pregnant, there's about ten thousand ways
not to get pregnant. But if you get you can order on your phone.
Yeah, and so whatever. But if you do get pregnant, you
got Planned B. What about Plan B? Well, I'm not sure if
I'm pregnant or not, take Plan B. And then if it comes back,
guess what, you got a baby growing in your womb. You can
go online and get the abortion pills delivered like candy. And that would would
not have been in violation of statement two days ago, today or tomorrow.
No, nothing, And so one might say, what are we fighting about
when in two years supposedly it'll be eighty percent through Why did so many people
and let me call what is mostly women just hook their wagon into that issue,
then if nothing is going to change, and thereby doing so, give
up their probably their standards on other issues. Well because they were told something
that how do we stop people from believing bull crat? Good luck with that.
I got another question for you before we get to the other question.
I'm watching the celebration on election night in Columbus on a TV station in Columbus.
There are tiers of joy, tiersas and champagne being popped because now we
can kill more unborn, healthy babies in the womb. Now is that something
you would celebrate? Say, boy, guess what, we got to kill
more babies. Therefore, let's have some champagne. Let society does not shun
those people anymore because they've been beaten over the head and say, well,
you got to accept everybody accept their opinion now, don't it should be shamed?
What is your question? Okay, here's my question. You and I
agreed upon yesterday that abortion or the you know, pro life cannot be a
major issue with the Republican Party moving forward. Correct. The wine said that
it needs to have time or to develop over the next year or two So
the question is, and now let's talk about the presidential race. Let's talk
about how that relates to the governor's race. Mike de Wine, as you
well know, is a very staunch pro life person, yet he was elected
overwhelmingly in the state of Ohio. So my question is this, how did
he how was he able to still be pro life but not allowed that issue
to be the centerpiece of his campaign, where so many others have been either
tricked or allowed pro life to be the centerpiece of their campaign and thus scuttling
their their potential. One main reason his Democratic opponent had little or no ability
to raise significant money to raise abortion as an issue, and so the governor
ran on about five or six different issues other than abortion, and that his
opponent did not make it a big issue because there wasn't enough money out there.
Son Donald Trump. Now Trump has found a way always to not less
an issue. Difine him, and I think he's gone both sides on that
issue forever. How many abortions has he paid for? I can't say.
I can't say. But then he appointed the three greatest justices in my lifetime,
and then so so he could say, look, I've already taken care
of the worry about the Southern boarding, about taxes and about Ukraine. So
many other candidates cost Daniel Cameron the election, no question, and Mike Dwine
did it the right way. And he's so good at political I mean,
if you were to pick, if you line up fifty governors, fifty men
that we know, and say which one's the governor of Ohio and put Mike
in the group, he'd be picked number fifty. Yeah. And that's not
even that it's not even like the job you do. But in terms of
political mastery of how to run, how to win, that guy right there,
I'd pay attention to him. Give me some reports because Rocky refuses to
consent to the idea. I know more about football than he does. I
got the selections right. Here were the student reporters, approp servers, every
local tenth star heating get air conditioning dealers, temeh star quality you can feel
in Cincinnati, called the experts at Preferred Home Comfort five, one, three,
eight, nine to two h v A C. Here's another one.
I picked the Ravens to win Thursday night, and you took the Bengals along
with the Spangles. Bengals Bengals. What if I win that game, you're
done, but you can't beat me because you're gonna do win another hot Fudge
Sunday. We haven't win from there on out, then, Yeah, we
got them both. I got case I got Casey. I think twelve and
five will be closer than than the thirteen and four. I think it's a
tough division. Five losses and I win and they have three already. But
I think you owe me at you go get that hot fudged Sunday tomorrow.
Their Rock say why did you give me some sports? And quit babbling over
there? Bengals and Texans Sunday preview the game tonight with the Rock and Lance.
Yeah, I can't wait? Uh? What the Roundtable show starting at
six oh five live from Long Necks and hebron right here on seven hundred WLW.
Does Lance behave himself when he's there? Is he? Except when he
starts doing theos late in the show and then it gets a little weird?
Yeah, it's it's not safe for kids. Is he wearing a Kaepernick jersey?
What's he wearing? His wife's wearing a Caepernick jersey? What are you
looking at her for? Let's see what are you talking about? High school
soccer tomorrow or Moler goes to twenty four and oh they beat Columbus Sat.
Charles last night. So the Crusaders twenty three shutouts on the year, meet
Cleveland Saint Ignacious Saturday for the state title at four. If they win,
that to the greatest soccer team of all time NKU Norris and at Washington against
the Huskies tonight out West ten thirty, ESPN fifteen thirty. Kind of text
here, it's a big day at Saint next it's uniform turning day for the
football on the soccer team. Is that possible? They didn't do crap anyway?
Of course he did. Uniform what's he gonna go buy? Are?
What's he gonna go buy one? I don't know. They're unused Mason this
weekend they got dirty at all? The uniform nice and clean, right those
boys? Nice? Crumpets and Champagne high school volleyball today in the state semi
finals. That make Nick Rockets, the home of Mark Sheer, defeat Meadowbrook
three nothing today, So the mcnick Rocks are in the state final. Coming
up Mercy McCully Mercy in the semi finals. Back to Bengals. T Higgins
not practicing with that hamstring today, Jamar Chase limited. That was minus six
and a half right now. But you picked the Bengals, and then I
picked the Ravens the Texans this week you also I picked it way ahead of
yourself. Not here. I'm sorry. Can you accept my apology like everyone
else does? No? Uh? Coach coach Mick Cronin, congratulations to him.
One hundredth win at U c l A earlier this week beating Saint Francis.
Couldn't coach anymore at Clifton right, No good? Yeah, five years
at U c l A. Cronin one hundred wins, thirty six losses,
wins. He plays golf with cream a doljahbar drinks Washington, Washington. That's
my favorite, boy as a pool house out back where it has some uc
LA devotays. I'm not going there now, Okay, have you been there
to the show? I'm not. I do not put myself in the occasion
of sin. I don't do that. See you anymore. But Rock,
thank you, thank you said, get me out of the stooge report.
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