WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:11.359 Back on the Big One seven hundred WLW twelve O eight. Dan Carroll in 2 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:15.759 for Bill Cunningham, the Great American and enjoying some more time off as it'd 3 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:19.160 be nice if we could all do that, wouldn't it. But Bill Cunningham, 4 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:23.600 I wasn't here last week, not here today, and you've got me 5 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.280 until three o'clock this afternoon. And what do we have going on today? 6 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:30.640 In a half an hour from now, I'll be talking with my buddy John 7 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:35.520 Mills, He's a retired colonel from the US military. We're gonna be talking 8 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.439 about what's happening with the military right now. He is getting ready to go 9 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:44.799 to Taiwan, and we'll get an update on and probably that's something I haven't 10 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:49.320 been following as close as I should have been following. But we'll get an 11 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.479 update on what he is, what he is seeing there. I mean, 12 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:56.960 this guy has served in five different eras. He served during the Cold War, 13 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:03.000 he worked for President, he's a senior fellow at the Senator for the 14 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:07.480 Center for Security Policy. He's done international affairs for the Department of Defense. 15 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:12.239 So this guy is on top of all of that. And so we'll break 16 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:18.079 that down with him as we continue. Also, my buddy Daniel Turner will 17 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.560 be here at one o'clock after the news at a well, you know, 18 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.879 one o five, one o six somewhere in there. And Daniel Turner is 19 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.200 always a great guest of this show. Uh. He wrote it. He 20 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:34.200 wrote a really a good piece that was in the Federalist talking about and there's 21 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.560 so much talk these days, you know, with the environmental crowd, that 22 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.680 we have to get rid of fossil fuels, we have to get rid of 23 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:48.879 the petroleum industry. And he wrote a great column talking about his dad, 24 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.599 who passed away earlier this year, and how this was going to be the 25 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:59.719 first holiday season that he had without his father. And he talked about the 26 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:06.959 day dignity of human life and how petro chemicals make that possible. And you 27 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:07.879 may be saying, well, Dan, what do you mean by that? 28 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:15.080 How do petro chemicals make human dignity in my life any better? And he 29 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:21.319 talked about when his father was in the in the hospital, and he talked 30 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:27.080 about everything from the the needle that went into his arm, the ports that 31 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:34.319 he had, the tubing that was connected to his body, the IV bags 32 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.400 that were being used, uh, at every machine. He talked about every 33 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:46.120 corner of that room in the hospital, including the medications that his father was 34 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:54.439 using, were derived from petro chemicals, the petroleum industry. And so when 35 00:02:54.520 --> 00:03:01.639 you have these these organizations and these groups, and then in this administration talking 36 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:07.680 about how we need to end fossil fuels, these are the kind of things 37 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:14.520 that never get thought through. You can have all the solar power and all 38 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.520 the wind power in the world, and you are not going to be able 39 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:23.039 to replace these items that frankly, make all of our lives better. And 40 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:27.240 you look at all the medical advancements that have been made. And I don't 41 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:31.599 spend a lot of time behind this microphone talking about medical stuff, but when 42 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:37.000 you look at all the medical advancements that have come in the last fifteen to 43 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:43.280 twenty fifty years, a lot of them are derived, if not almost all 44 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:52.319 of them are derived by way of some sort of petrochemical and could not exist 45 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:59.639 but for the petroleum industry. I'm talking about oil. So he makes a 46 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:01.800 great on that. And then the other part I want to ask him about 47 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:08.840 is I'm seeing a couple of things right now involving the Biden administration, and 48 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:15.279 one is that the United States is now producing oil at a rate that I 49 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:19.680 don't think we've ever seen before. So I'm going to ask him about that, 50 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:28.920 because Joe Biden did so much to to reduce the production of oil in 51 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:32.160 the United States, but despite those efforts, we are somehow producing more oil 52 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:38.639 than we have ever seen. And then, finally, at two o'clock this 53 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:43.279 afternoon, two of five, the new president of the Cincinnati FOP. His 54 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:48.079 name is Kenkober. This guy has had a long history with the Cincinnati Police 55 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:54.079 Department. As we know, Dan Hill is a regular guest on this show. 56 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:59.480 Many of the talk show hosts on this radio station thankfully leaned on Dan 57 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.040 Hills. He was a great spokesperson for the FOP, and the fop's really 58 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:09.160 had a good run of advocates in that position and people who aren't afraid to 59 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:14.199 come on this radio station and come on TV and UH and say the things 60 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:18.920 that need to be said in support of Cincinnati police officers. And I have 61 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:24.399 I have texted with Ken Kober a little bit, I have not spoken to 62 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:29.040 him, so this will be my first chance to get a chance to speak 63 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.319 directly with Ken Kober, and I am certainly looking forward to that. At 64 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:36.079 two five this afternoon, So if you are of a mind, I certainly 65 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.600 hope you can hang around for all of that this afternoon. And Bill Seg 66 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:44.160 Dennison is in the building, and I hope to do a stooge report, 67 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.160 and if you want to weigh in five one, three, seven, four, 68 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.519 nine, seven hundred, the big one. Those are the numbers to 69 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.360 call. Say hello to Drew Wester Heidi when you call in, because he 70 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.199 is the main man that is making things happen in the control room right now, 71 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.279 and without guys like him, we would not be on the air. 72 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.759 So a happy New Year everyone. I hope you had a great New Year 73 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:11.199 celebration or whatever you did on New Year's I hope it was fantastic. I 74 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:15.720 hope you had a great Christmas and a great Honukkah. And now we are 75 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.959 off into twenty twenty four. Today was actually the first time I wrote down. 76 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:25.240 I've got a notebook here and I always keep some notes during the show, 77 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.160 and I put the date on there, and today it was the first 78 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.079 day I actually wrote those numbers down. Was to zero two four. So 79 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:36.399 we had a great time, went to some good celebrations over the weekend, 80 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:44.839 visited with friends, went to a nice New Year's Eve party, Big does 81 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.079 there. Got to sit at the VIP table. That was very fun. 82 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:55.639 Saw the band Marsha Brady and the place was rocking, people were dancing, 83 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.319 and that was my New Year's heat pretty much. So you want to tell 84 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:01.160 me about yours again? Five three, seven, nine, seven thousand, 85 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.079 one eight hundred the big one. I one thing I'm not going to do 86 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:09.879 today is talk about the bank. Well, when when Seg gets here for 87 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.519 the Suge Report, I'm sure we'll talk about what's happening with the Bengals. 88 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:19.959 But what a letdown, What a disappointment. And when Joe Burrow went down 89 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:29.879 to my way of thinking, the general tenor of that was, well, 90 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:34.399 we've lost our quarterback. The season is pretty much over, nothing to play 91 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:40.120 for anymore. And I didn't buy that. I told the people, and 92 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:44.199 I said it on this radio station. How about you step up. How 93 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.639 about the guys that are still playing ball, go in there with the attitude 94 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:55.399 that we can get the job done. And then won a couple of games, 95 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:01.360 very thrilling game against the Minnesota Vikings, and then followed that up with 96 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:07.560 a complete turd against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I don't know as I look 97 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:16.759 at that game against Kansas City, and I know I think Lance was talking 98 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:22.839 a little bit about this on his Twitter feed that kicking that field goal in 99 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:28.480 the third quarter would not have made that much of a difference, and I 100 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:35.039 just tend to disagree with that. I think when you're on the road in 101 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:41.600 a hostile environment, you have an excellent chance. No field goal is one 102 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:46.080 hundred percent. But with money Mac, and you're aware on the nine yard 103 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:52.279 line or wherever they were inside the ten, close to the ten, that's 104 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.480 pretty much money in the bank. For money Mac making a field goal, 105 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:01.679 I think that completely changes the tone and tenor of that game. But instead 106 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:09.559 that was a dramatic shift, a dramatic swing in the momentum, and Kansas 107 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.200 City was able to capitalize on it. So that's the way I saw it. 108 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:16.399 So if you want to give me your take on that, I'll listen 109 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.320 to it, but I'm not gonna I'm just I'm not here for Bengals analysis 110 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:26.559 today. Normally, on a day if they would have won, I would 111 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:30.240 have tried to had mo Erger in here, maybe Austin Elmore, maybe Tony 112 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.159 Pike, someone come in and sit with me. And break down of what 113 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:39.440 should have been a great Bengals victory, and then talk about how game or 114 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.679 big the game is coming up with the Cleveland Browns. But now all that 115 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:50.840 is gone, and my way of thinking, the Cleveland Browns game for me 116 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:56.080 holds about as much excitement as a meaningless preseason game. I don't think the 117 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.240 Browns really have anything to play for there. They've they've clinched their playoff spot. 118 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.120 I don't think the Bengals really have anything. I would like to see 119 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.679 Aj mcchaerrern get some snaps. I've always been a big fan of that guy. 120 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.879 But after Sunday, I'll probably watch the Bengals and Browns on Sunday, 121 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:20.519 even though it's not really gonna make any difference at all, But I will 122 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:26.399 probably watch that game on Sunday, and then I'll pretty much be done with 123 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.480 the NFL. And so, as I was telling my friends at the New 124 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:35.159 Year's Eve party we were at, our Sundays are about to become a lot 125 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.480 more productive because we won't be wasting time watching football. Let's go to Brett. 126 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.440 Who is Let that say Brett is in Mason Brett. You're on seven 127 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.559 hundred WLW how's it going good? How are you doing today? All right? 128 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.440 Brett, Hey, I just wanted to elaborate a little bit of what 129 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.279 you talked about as far as the petrochemicals and the pharmaceutical companies. Yeah, 130 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.639 to give you a little history, Rocketfeller, when he first started out in 131 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:07.440 the oil industry, he tried everything he could to destroy every other small oil 132 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.799 company, either buy them, take them over, destroy them, put them 133 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.799 out of business, whatever, to take over the entire industry. Well after 134 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:20.159 he did that, as you know, de termined Anti Trust Act. They 135 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.120 the government came in and made him break it up into I think forty companies 136 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.080 or so. Well, after that, he vowed to bankrupt the United States. 137 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.679 He vowed to do what he could to get eaten for that. And 138 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:39.360 what he did was he started he found out and realized that the petrochemicals that 139 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.600 you know, he was now you know, in control of, so to 140 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:46.639 speak, was being used, we're being able to be used in modern medicine. 141 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.840 Now, modern medicine came about because of these because of this man made 142 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:54.919 medicines from petrochemicals. Before it was all you know, they grinded stuff up, 143 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.720 the farmac's right, mixed things, you know, made these different remedies 144 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.080 or whatever. Well, once he did that, then he took a guy 145 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:07.120 I think his name was Fleckle Spleckner, and he put him in charge of 146 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.679 finding out what they were doing in the schools. And what he did was 147 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:16.120 he altered the way the educational system in the medical schools were what they were 148 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:20.720 being taught by giving them tons of money. And then that's how all the 149 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.840 prescriptions and the modern medicine and the pharmaceutical companies rose was because of Rocketfeller. 150 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:28.600 Just to give you a little bit of history on that. Well, I 151 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.440 mean, Rockefeller was a rich guy, and and you know, I think 152 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.840 when when people get to that sort of level, I think there's a there's 153 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:43.120 an element of genius that is mixed in there. Uh. Most of the 154 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:48.399 millionaires that I have known in my life, aside from a couple who just 155 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.879 ran into dumb luck, were pretty much geniuses. The way they could they 156 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:54.600 could look at a situation, the way they could figure things out, the 157 00:12:54.639 --> 00:13:00.799 way they could get from point A to point B. And I so I 158 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.440 when you know, when I look at a guy like Rockefeller, especially the 159 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.679 when and the way he did things, I think there's a. There's an 160 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.600 element of genius there, you're right. And you know he also he's the 161 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:16.039 one that established our educational system. I think it was the any A or 162 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:20.600 something like that. So that's also why our educational system is set up because 163 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.799 of Rockefeller. And what I mean by that is that as you know, 164 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:26.879 as you know, we're really not educated on a lot of different things, 165 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:33.000 right, like a lot of basic things. Yeah you know, I mean, 166 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.399 I mean, why are going to understand it gets how to balance the 167 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:37.879 checkbook or how to you know, how to do different things of that nature, 168 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.679 because because they want these kids in debt as soon as they get out 169 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.080 of school, they want them to become a debt slave like all the rest 170 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.399 of us. Right, So he also infiltrated the educational system in the United 171 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.919 States and helped suck that up as well. Well look at it, look 172 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.320 at your Look at your average kid working in a fast food place right now, 173 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:01.080 They if the if the computer or the cash register takes a dump, 174 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.600 they can't figure out how to make change. Uh. And I was gonna 175 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.279 say for a five dollar bill, but now it's a twenty dollar bill. 176 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.080 When if you get somebody, they can't figure out how to make change for 177 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.559 a twenty dollar bill and they just look, you know, but they know 178 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:20.399 their proper pronoun usage. So so those things are what's important, I guess, 179 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:22.320 And you know the thing is in and on top of that, I 180 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.200 just alnory they have no coping skills anymore. On they when they can't figure 181 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.639 out how to give change, they start to have a meltdown, you know 182 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:33.320 what I mean, absolutely, you know, So I just want to let 183 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:37.480 you know that give you a little idea. That evil genius I'm gonna i'll 184 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.559 call it evil genius that you you know that that basically brought about our modern 185 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:46.279 medicine. Well that's the thing. Everyone who is listening to us right now 186 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:52.120 has been a beneficiary of of that that enterprise. Whether you like petrochemicals or 187 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.559 not, they are intertwined with your life in ways you can't even imagine. 188 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.440 And to sit there and say we need to do away with big oil and 189 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:07.919 and UH and the and the chemical companies and and uh in fossil fuels is 190 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.200 just unbelievably short sighted. Brett, thank you very much for the call. 191 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:13.399 Thank you. All right, there you go, Bretton Mason, Let's hit 192 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.120 a cell phone and this is John and John. You're on seven hundred WLW 193 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.720 Dan. How are you doing good? John? Thanks for the call. 194 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.679 What's up? Happy to you? You're Jan sure, happy to do You're 195 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.200 tow, sir. I will tell you that if it wasn't for the petrochemical 196 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:35.480 industry, we would be one sorry state of humanity. Uh. The petrochemical 197 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:43.279 industry not only do they help create medicines. Everything you look at in a 198 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:50.279 hospital, anything that is that is manufactured is probably made from petrochemicals when you 199 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.720 go to a hospital. Sure, most things in your house are manufactured by 200 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.399 petrochemicals. But you know the dirty secret is is that you know, the 201 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:04.039 left hates big oil. They hate big oil, right because there's this illusion 202 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:10.799 that there's this this climate change is going to be the death of all of 203 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:15.440 us. But let's be honest, if it wasn't for petrochemicals. Number one, 204 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:21.480 our food would not be Our food production would be reduced by god knows 205 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:26.399 what percent because without petrochemical we don't have the fertilizers we need, We don't 206 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:32.000 have the plastic we need that makes our fruit, our food and vegetables last 207 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:37.919 longer. So we are really just kind of just stamming ourselves in the heart 208 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.519 because of this climate change thing. Well, yea, it was there. 209 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.559 I mean, it's and it's like a religion. And I always say, 210 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:48.600 they want to sacrifice the greatest economy the world's ever seen, and they want 211 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:53.639 to do it on the altar of the green agenda. But it is and 212 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.960 so stupid. And when I look at these people who are out protesting, 213 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.720 I look, you know, they've all got the north faced jackets on, 214 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:04.960 or they've got very expensive shoes, and there's not a one one that doesn't 215 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.839 have a cell phone. And none of that stuff would exist. It would 216 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:14.240 not exist, It would not be possible were it not for big oil. 217 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:18.160 And where do they think the paint comes for the signs that they make, 218 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:23.000 Where do they think that stuff comes from. It's the makeup they have on, 219 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.279 the things in their hair, the clothing on their backs. I mean, 220 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:32.880 it's every single item that you can possibly think of is dependent upon oil. 221 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.480 And to sit there and say we need to get rid of it is 222 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.000 just one of the foolest, the most foolish things that I can possibly think 223 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:41.880 of. John, we got we got to run. But thank you very 224 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.720 much for the call. Happy New Year. All right, there you go, 225 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.440 John on a cell phone. Good call there after the news here at 226 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.119 the bottom of the hour, John Mills, retired Colonel the United States Military 227 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.279 is going to be here and we will talk military items and more as we 228 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.200 roll on. Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham on seven hundred w L It's twelve 229 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:06.759 thirty eight January, second second day of the brand new year. Dan Carroll 230 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.759 in for Bill Cunningham, and thank you very much for listening. I am 231 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:18.279 always it was always my honor in my just it's a great thing to sit 232 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.200 in for Bill Cunningham and be able to talk to one of the greatest audiences 233 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.680 in all of talk radio. And the great American will be back, just 234 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:33.000 don't know exactly when, but we carry on and one of the I've had 235 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.759 a chance to talk to this guy once before, and when it comes to 236 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.599 national security, when it comes to the United States Military, I don't think 237 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:47.839 there really are any issues that are more important to that. And my next 238 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.039 guest is a guy who can address all that and more. It is retired 239 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.599 Colonel John Mills. And John Mills, Happy New Year to you, sir, 240 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.480 and thanks for taking the time to come back to the show. And 241 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:04.000 how are you today, Big Dan, Happy New Year. I'm doing great. 242 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.920 Thank you so much. You know, the last time I talked, 243 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:12.759 it says you're a retired colonel. What branch of the military. You are? 244 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:18.880 Army? United States are army Army. But you know you're now required 245 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:23.119 to become what's called joint qualified with it's called JPM the education level. So 246 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:29.599 you really lose your service color because you know, once you hit five lieutenant 247 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:33.000 colonel or really by six that can make generals, you have to become joint 248 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:38.640 qualified. So I am proudly purple on this. I can speak all services 249 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:45.279 well. I love that, you know, I really there are so many 250 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.559 things I wanted to talk with you today, and I don't know where to 251 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.440 start. I'm looking at your substack, and you've been writing a lot lately 252 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:56.319 about China, and then I see this. I see that while our president 253 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:03.200 was enjoying the sunshine and the be over Christmas and New Year's, the president 254 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.519 of China was busy and he was making a New Year's address, and Jijing 255 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:17.720 King said these words that surely China would surely be reunified with Taiwan during his 256 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:22.759 New Year's address. When you hear those words come out of the mouth of 257 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:29.839 the president the leadership of China. What does that say to you? Buckle 258 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:34.119 up and get ready. Yeah, that was a very strong statement. It 259 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:41.000 was It was because usually they kind of approached this topic of Taiwan. They 260 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.759 still kind of approach that was pretty direct. And when he was in San 261 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:52.640 Francisco enjoying the freshly clean streets of San Francisco, you know, he told 262 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:59.440 Biden pretty clear what was going to happen. And when a totalitarian says something 263 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:04.480 like that, they mean it and get ready. So we just, unfortunately 264 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:11.359 have an administration that just seems to be blissfully ignorant, perhaps bought out, 265 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:14.640 bought off. I mean, I think we have strong evidence that, if 266 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:18.759 nothing else, Hunter and the Big Guy were bought off. But I mean, 267 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:22.319 this is lady and jentlemy get ready. I'm leaving on Saturday to cover 268 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:26.200 the elections in Taiwan, so on the thirteenth, So this is a big 269 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:30.279 deal. Get ready to Chinese is going to try to throw the elections, 270 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.519 and what they're going to throw at Taiwan is going to be a leading indicator 271 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:38.240 of what's going to happen in America. In the summer in the fall as 272 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:44.480 we go to November twenty four. So, ladies and gentlemen, this Taiwan 273 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.039 is not Ukraine in any way, shape or form. Taiwan is on the 274 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:52.640 front line of freedom for everybody in the world, and we need to make 275 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:57.599 sure they get everything they need to defend themselves, and we need to be 276 00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:03.319 there for them. It's US law, and it would be nice we followed 277 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.400 law on these matters. So so when when Biden and g met in in 278 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.839 San Francisco and that and that was a spectacle that was amazing to behold, 279 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:17.559 the way we rolled out the red carpet for this guy. Biden correct me 280 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:21.359 if I'm wrong. He immediately responded with, from a position of strength, 281 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.440 a reminder of what the United States interests are in that part of the world, 282 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.079 and and and maybe why it may be ill advised for him to speak 283 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.759 in such a manner. That's the response that we got from the President of 284 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:41.079 the United States, is it not. I think we got several messages. 285 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:47.759 I think the Biden administration is very and I'm just taking politics out of this 286 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:52.599 and trying to be just objective there and honest they are. They are very 287 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:57.759 confused on the topic of Taiwan, they still look at you know, some 288 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:03.359 let's just presume those who are not bought off or corrupt or ideologically wacko and 289 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:11.640 left leaning anyway, and admired China, they still they're looking at China through 290 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:15.240 the Kissinger lens where they feel, hey, you know, they'll they'll adapt, 291 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:19.519 they'll develop, and they'll be great partners in the world. That is, 292 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:23.400 at this point in time. If somebody still has if their job is 293 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:29.359 national security, international affairs, and they still have view of China and we're 294 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:33.960 taking out the corruption and bought off and ideological crazy aspect, they need to 295 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:40.200 be removed from office because that is it's patently absurd at this point in time. 296 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:44.559 So when you see the President of China talking like this, and then 297 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:48.319 at the same time, we look at our southern border and we see the 298 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:59.359 relatively large spike in Chinese national of military age men that are crossing illegally into 299 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.160 the Uni States from our southern border, do you attend to look at those 300 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:07.799 things and connect the dots in any sort of way. Yeah. Absolutely, 301 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:12.240 through an intentional willful they are sending fighting age males. And I just was 302 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:18.359 in Panama with a vander Steele and Michael John saw it personally. This is 303 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:23.279 an invasion. They are now providing command control, oversight of the cartels of 304 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:30.839 functional production in northern Mexico and distribution into America, including muscling in on air 305 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:36.759 quote legal cannabis operations, which I think is absolute fraud and canard anyway, 306 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:41.119 But these are high cash operations. They're coming in, mustling in. There's 307 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:47.799 Domini reports California, Ohio, Maine, Oklahoma of Chinese nationals mustling in and 308 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:51.720 taking over these operations. Well, they are high cash operation. You can't 309 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:56.720 bank the money because of federal laws on cannabis. And so now you've got 310 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:59.200 all this cash sitting around, and what do they do. They mustle in, 311 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:02.480 They skim it. What do they skim it for? This is their 312 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:06.400 way to pay for influence operations in America. If you thought the summer of 313 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:11.440 twenty twenty was chaotic with Antifa, just get ready. All those antifers, 314 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.799 you know, they're the same folks. There's a lot of there's a lot 315 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:17.960 of research on this. Andy No, I'll cite him for one. The 316 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:23.759 Antifers are the same people who are transgender advocate protesters, and the same people 317 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:30.079 who are Palestinian protesters? And guess who's they're charging two fifty a night. 318 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:37.640 That's that's been documented very well. Where do you get this cash cannabis operations? 319 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:42.160 It's it's a self looking ice cream cone. We're talking with a retired 320 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:48.000 Army colonel John Mills. And and John Mills, you wrote on your substack 321 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:53.519 about and authorized you some military force to deal with this situation at the border. 322 00:25:53.599 --> 00:26:00.799 Is this something you're in favor of? Are we absolutelyosition now where we 323 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:07.559 can actually make such an operation happen and be effective with it. Yeah. 324 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:14.359 For having actually participated in events like this, and then great detail in planning 325 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:18.319 and implementation. I know what I'm talking about on this stuff. And there's 326 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:22.920 been a number of Congressman Mike Waltz from Florida has always been on the right 327 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:27.400 side of history on so many topics. Several others have said, look, 328 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:33.640 we CenTra all is killing ten thousand Americans a month. In twenty twenty two, 329 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:41.359 it killed seventy thousand. Okay, that's more than forty years of combat 330 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.200 in the entire Vietnam War and the War on Terror put together of American service 331 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:51.759 losses. This is insanity. This is war. If ten thousand dead a 332 00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:56.440 month is not compelling, people must be using air quote legal cannabis and dissolving 333 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.960 their minds. I mean this is this is war. So we need to 334 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.880 make firstly Congress to authorize you some military force. That means we can start 335 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:10.319 to deploy our advance forced people to start sizing up the situation. We put 336 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:15.000 one Jay Dams that's a guided bomb. We've put one Jay Dams on the 337 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:21.960 next Chinese slash cartel meeting to make a dramatic teaching point in life lesson. 338 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.200 Believe me, all the Chinese special operators in Mexico, Panama and inside the 339 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:29.799 US are going to run for the closest airport to get out of here. 340 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:33.279 You know, you also recently wrote about what's happening in the Red Sea, 341 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:38.680 and you talked about the disruptions of commercial traffic that's happening there. The United 342 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:45.960 States Navy has been busy shooting down drones and attacks on our naval vessels that 343 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.799 are in that part of the world. We've had multiple attacks on US installations 344 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:56.759 throughout the Middle East. Do you see the response from this administration as being 345 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:02.599 appropriate for the kind of its act that uh that our military men and women 346 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:10.680 have been coming under in the world. Uh No, that their term is 347 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:18.359 proportionality. Austin and all the Biden folks who love to use that term proportionality, 348 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:25.279 let me translate, proportionality means more Americans and innocent people are going to 349 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:32.359 die because you can't deal with hamas hezblah, hoodies, a ransom all whatever 350 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.599 with proportionality. You you crush them, you crush them. These are these 351 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:42.880 every one of those groups, uh is a designated terrorist terriorist group. Why 352 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.240 in the world are we using the term proportionality because they don't care how many 353 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.519 people they lose on their side unless it hurts. And so you know, 354 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:57.519 we schwacked three boats out of four with US Navy helicopter's. Good job on 355 00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:02.640 those flight crews. Good job to the Eisenhower and the carrier. I think 356 00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:07.200 it's carrier wearing three. Great job, guys and girls. But we need 357 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:12.880 to go after their bases and this insanity. There's already an Iranian intelligence ship 358 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:18.519 in the Red Sea and now they're sending a small corvette. First thing we 359 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.680 should do the nanosecond we had detect any emissions of any kind from either of 360 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:27.319 those two craft. We vaporize them, and that because they're helping in their 361 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:32.519 targeting. So what in the world are we allowing these two vessels in the 362 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:37.839 Red Sea for They're doing nothing but bad things. Nanosecond they transmit anything, 363 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:44.599 vaporize them well. And then I continue to see these delays that are happening 364 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.319 with through the commercial shipping lanes that are there, and I wonder to myself, 365 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:53.119 why aren't we assuring safe passage for these vessels, And it seems to 366 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:57.920 me that we're just simply sitting there and we're letting the terrorists get the upper 367 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:04.440 hand. Yeah, well, clearly nobody fears the US Navy anymore. The 368 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.759 Hoodies are doing whatever they want to do. Is now the Simalis have been 369 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:12.920 resurrected, they seized the ship. The Hoodies still have one of the first 370 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:18.200 ships, the Galaxy Leader, I think it was they have. They seized 371 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:22.039 those ships and crews. They're hostages and the US. Yeah, the US 372 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:27.079 Navy is doing its best, but we're frankly, the Middle East is consuming 373 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:34.240 almost all of our four deployed naval assets. This shows an extremely understrength, 374 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:38.480 overstretched US Navy. The US Navy, like I said, I'm purple guy, 375 00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:42.640 we shift our resources and our focus to the primary effort. The primary 376 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:48.079 effort now around the world is Navy and Air Force. They are We're giving 377 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:52.200 him massive funding increases, but you know, we just can't seem to build 378 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:59.920 more ships or more aircraft at any reasonable rate. So I mean, well 379 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.720 than that, everything's going great. He's going great. And then when you 380 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.200 talked about the response, that we did have it, and then the men 381 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.920 and women who are on the front line there performed magnificently, as they tend 382 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.720 to do. But when I look at those who are coming up, and 383 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.880 I look at those that are in our say, our Naval academy right now, 384 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:25.480 and I read articles about how they're spending time learning about gender and sexuality 385 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:33.279 and pronoun us, it's an intersectionality and all this other, to my way 386 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.000 of thinking, nonsense that has nothing to do with learning how to be a 387 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.319 United States military officer. And the same thing is going on at West Point, 388 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:47.359 the same thing is going on at the Air Force Academy. We spend 389 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:52.039 all this time worrying about this kind of stuff, and I have great concern 390 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.559 for the next generation of leadership that is coming up and preparing to take their 391 00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:04.480 place in the United States Military. Yeah, we have a fire in the 392 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:09.920 main engine room on this topic. They can't the geniuses that are due to 393 00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:15.039 a civilian led organization. That's that's laws, not uniform let it's civilian lads. 394 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:23.519 So the current administration, uh, clearly is either by just gross ignorance 395 00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:30.160 or intentionality, attempting to destroy the incredible United States Military. And they can't. 396 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:34.720 They commended, they're they're all, they're all diz there now with the 397 00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:39.079 horrible, horrible recruiting and retention rates, and yet they come up with the 398 00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:45.599 flimsiest of bizarre reasons. You know, Oh, people are concerned, Oh, 399 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.000 people are concerned about climate change. You know this and that, and 400 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.960 well you know it's hostility towards transgending. Just all this absolute psycho gibberish. 401 00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:58.960 Listen, when I joined the military, I joined I wanted to be an 402 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:02.680 American. I wanted to help defeat the Soviets. I wanted to be part 403 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:08.279 of an American victory here and and I want Audi grew up on Autie Murphy, 404 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:12.799 you know, the most decorated soldier of World War Two. I didn't 405 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:16.759 join because of some psychobabble. Uh, And that's look and then they can't 406 00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:22.119 figure out, Wow, our recruiting is and retention is way down and what 407 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:27.160 is uh except for the Army. Uh what does she she do? She 408 00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:30.279 goes, well, we can't meet our recruiting intention goals. Therefore I'm going 409 00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:38.920 to cut US Army Special Operations. Please please show me the rigor analytical rigor 410 00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:45.559 behind that logic and decision. That is absolutely insanity. So this is this 411 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:50.400 is what we're dealing with. Is it going? The most effective part of 412 00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:54.160 the United States Army is Army Special Operations? So you know, Navy and 413 00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:58.640 Air Force need resources. Is she wants to cut anything in the Army, 414 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:04.039 she needs the handover two to four brigades of engineers, military police, and 415 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.800 air defenders so they can become Air Force and Navy units to build up the 416 00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:14.840 basing infrastructure in the Western Pacific and defend it. And that's a Verre's listen, 417 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.480 they are the main effort in the Western Pacific. They need engineers, 418 00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:22.039 they need air defenders, they need military police. Just hand over the units. 419 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:25.039 Then you can, you know, you can reduce the army size and 420 00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:30.639 contribute to the joint fight. That's absolutely logical and reasonable. Now their response 421 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.400 is let's cut Army special operations. Probably the singular most important thing the Army 422 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:40.320 can do in the Western Pacific, it's provide Army special operations. And yeah, 423 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:47.000 please show me the analytical rigor behind this well and decision, Colonel, 424 00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:52.199 Colonel John Mills. We've got red flags popping up all over the place. 425 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:57.000 I was doing a show between Christmas and New Year's and one of the callers 426 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:01.039 said, can you ever talk about anything positive? Is there a positive note 427 00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:08.199 that you can leave us with this afternoon? Our incredible constitution for republic is 428 00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:15.000 worth daging everyone. We got ninety days to jump into action to ensure you 429 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:20.599 have election integrity right where you live. And we can do this. We 430 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.920 need to go shoulder to shoulder, back to back. We need to ladies 431 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:28.679 and gentle put our shoulder to the wheel here and make things happen. Because 432 00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:31.159 most places locking about the next ninety days, they're going to start locking down 433 00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:37.360 all of their election rules for November twenty twenty four. So get involved, 434 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.159 to get involved, and I think we can do this. We've come on, 435 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.679 we can do this. This is America. We're worth the most incredible 436 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:51.199 form of governance ever created. And as Winston Churchill said America has the worst 437 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.679 form of governance except for all the others. Colonel John Mills, the book 438 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:00.199 is the War against the Deep State. You're a frequent writer on substack, 439 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:06.000 and thank you very much for your time this afternoon. And let's talk again 440 00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:08.239 when you get back from Taiwan. I would love to hear a report from 441 00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:12.119 the ground over there. But a happy new Year to you, sir, 442 00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.760 and all the best in twenty twenty four. And I do look forward to 443 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:20.280 our chance to talk again. Yeah, Dan, It's always an honor. 444 00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:25.440 Onward to a victory for our incredible constitutional republic. All right, Colonel John 445 00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:30.880 Mills retired from the United States Army, And I'll tell you what you want 446 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.880 to update on what's happening around the world and with our military. You just 447 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:38.599 got it right there. Twelve twenty six, Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham on 448 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:49.960 seven hundred. It is twelve fifty six, actually seven hundred WLW, seven 449 00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:55.920 hundred WLW. It is eleven minutes after one o'clock on this Tuesday, the 450 00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:59.440 second day of the new year, a twenty twenty four. A lot of 451 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:01.400 people going back to work today, a lot of people going back to school, 452 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:07.000 vacation time is over except for the great American Bill Cunningham, who was 453 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.880 enjoying some more time off. So it is my distinct pleasure to be able 454 00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:14.079 to sit in for Bill Cunningham. It is also my distinct pleasure as always 455 00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:17.199 to welcome in my next guest, one of the one of my all time 456 00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:21.159 favorite guests. And this is the first time we've had a chance to talk 457 00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:23.559 in twenty twenty four and Daniel Turner, Happy New Year to you, and 458 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:28.239 how are you today? Oh, I am thrilled to start off the new 459 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.880 year being on with the radio with you. Dan. Thanks, well, 460 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:32.719 that's that. Yeah. I caught you on Fox News the other day. 461 00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:37.760 You were talking with Rachel Campos Duffy, and you were talking about a column 462 00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:44.559 that you wrote in It appeared in The Federalist. And just allow me to 463 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:50.199 read one brief passage from this column, and you wrote a beautiful piece about 464 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:52.639 your father passing away and how this is your first holiday season without him, 465 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:57.400 and you wrote this, I always carry a handkerchief because my dad did. 466 00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.840 But most people prefer disposable tissue. When fossil fuels are gone, those tissues 467 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:07.079 are gone. Disposable diapers are gone, yoga mats and plastic water bottles are 468 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:12.920 gone. Do climate change activists the river moms know that? Do you think 469 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:17.440 Starbucks can survive without fossil fuels? What about that salad from Whole Foods and 470 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:22.360 a plastic container, or even the plastic packaging for meat and produce, cologne, 471 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:28.840 deodorant, perfume, bathroom cleanser, swiffer pads, paper towels. Sure 472 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:31.559 that mom may think disposable products are bad for the earth, but a lack 473 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:37.840 of hygiene is far worse for her and her family. And I love writing 474 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:45.920 like that because it puts into a practical sense how intertwined our lives are with 475 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:54.199 big oil, with petrochemicals, and the massive amount of benefit that we as 476 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:59.960 human beings, not just here in the United States but all over the world 477 00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:07.159 enjoy because we have the petrochemical industry. Yeah, and it's a different perspective. 478 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:09.480 First of all, thank you for reading that. I'm honored that you 479 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:15.360 would do so. It's a different perspective we have of humanity and the world 480 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:21.800 than the left does, and it's why it's almost impossible to think there is 481 00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:25.440 such a thing as common ground. I see the fossil fuel industry and the 482 00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:31.760 quite literally millions of products that have come from fossil fuels as great benefits. 483 00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:36.920 I see them all as good and wonderful, and proof of that is the 484 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:42.039 way we live our lives. The left sees them as this terrible thing that 485 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.440 needs to be eradicated. Of course, not in their personal life. They're 486 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:49.679 not giving up the slightest fossil fuel creature comfort, but they see them as 487 00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:54.159 something negative, and as proof of that, they have to talk hyperbolically about 488 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:59.679 this apocalypse which has never seemed to come right. I mean, we're fifteen 489 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:05.960 years beyond al Gore's end of time, where we're fifty years behind Paul Orleck's 490 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.760 end of time. So they keep talking about the end of humanity because of 491 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:14.199 fossil fuels, and I don't quite see it that way. I think that 492 00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:17.199 suburban mom I had in mind, and I hate picking on the suburban what 493 00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:21.320 they call a Karen now right, because it's an easy touch, touching bag. 494 00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:24.280 But I think of that individual, and I see them when I go 495 00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:28.440 to the grocery store, when I leave my farm the one time week I 496 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:32.119 have to get off the fire. And I don't know if they're aware of 497 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:37.719 how dependent. They're comfort, and they're what they take for granted in the 498 00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:44.800 simplest terms, until you're ready to bring home a raw chicken in cloth and 499 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:52.039 then hand wash that cloth without you know, dawn or or bleach or any 500 00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.199 fossil fuel product. Until you're willing to do that, you need to shut 501 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:59.960 up about climate change because you like taking home your chicken in a plastic container, 502 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.280 wrapped in plastic in a plastic bag, throwing all of it away because 503 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:08.079 you're worried about germs. You just extrapolate that to the millions of things we 504 00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:13.800 do all day, from our plastic toothbrushes to charging our phones at night. 505 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:16.400 No American is ready to give up the fossil fuel lifestyle, So why do 506 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:21.960 we even pretend that they're going to? Yeah, but see, it takes 507 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:28.599 someone like you to write a column like this, and we have such lazy 508 00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:32.280 reporting when it comes to the national media in this country and frankly the media 509 00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:37.679 around the world. It's great to sit there and pairt these headlines that we 510 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.400 are at a tipping point, that the Earth is going to end in X 511 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:46.719 number of years, that John Carey says, the elimination of fossil fuels is 512 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:52.599 on the way, and we have this administration that is backing that when they 513 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:55.280 say they want to come after your dishwasher, and they want to come after 514 00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:00.760 your gas stove, and they want to come after very appliances in your homes 515 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:06.639 and things like that. It's just that it should be the job of the 516 00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:12.119 media to look at these things objectively and say, what if that were to 517 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.199 really happen, what are the consequences of that? And sure, it's great 518 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:20.960 to go out and protest and shake your fist and then talk about the big, 519 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:22.800 bad, big oil, but no one ever stops to think about the 520 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:27.239 real life consequences of it. And you put it all right there in the 521 00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.280 piece that you wrote, Well, thank you. And you know they talk 522 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:36.280 about transitioning away from fossil fuels and going to wind and solar and eass and 523 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.599 one all of those products are actually made from fossil fuels. Are your argument's 524 00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:44.400 dead right there? But even if we were to accept even getting rid of 525 00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:49.199 that inconvenient fact, let's look at the other problem. Fossil fuels are so 526 00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:54.119 much more than electricity generation. Wind and solar make electricity very very expensive, 527 00:42:54.159 --> 00:43:00.440 electricity, intermittent electricity, right weather dependent electricity, crappy electricity. But that's 528 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:05.719 all they do if they make electricity. But fossil fuels make an awful lot 529 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:08.400 more. I was talking about the last couple of days with Dad, when 530 00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:12.800 I was with him in the hospital, and I take my work with me 531 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.159 everywhere I go. A lot of dedicated folks do. I'm not special in 532 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:17.840 that sense. But as I was sitting there in the hospital with him, 533 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:21.400 and I saw, you know, the needle in his arm, and you 534 00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:25.119 realize that the fine fine point of that needle, and how many of us 535 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:30.280 have had blood work drawn. Right, that fine fine needle is forged in 536 00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:34.280 coal, and the tube connected to that needle is one hundred percent made from 537 00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:38.519 oil, and the chemicals in that tube trying to keep Dad alive are one 538 00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:45.920 hundred percent made from natural gas. And there's nothing dignified about allowing people to 539 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:52.199 suffer in illness. There's nothing dignified about allowing the elements to take its toll, 540 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:54.679 telling people to freeze to death, or to die of complete heat, 541 00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:58.960 or to let their food go bad. Right, So, fossil fuels, 542 00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:00.920 Yes, it's convenient. And I just made fun of the suburban mom. 543 00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:05.599 I'm sorry, but on a much greater level than that. And why I 544 00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:07.760 go back to my original point that we have a different worldview than the left. 545 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:14.840 There's dignity in that life. There's a dignity that fossil fuels grants us 546 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:19.000 that we don't have to succumb to the elements. We don't have to succumb 547 00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:24.599 to the indignity of illness, and even death is a more dignified because of 548 00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:30.400 these amazing products that brilliant people figured out. I can take oil and do 549 00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:34.199 X, Y and Z and turn it into this and look at the quality 550 00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:37.320 of life it's given people. And anyone who's been to a hospital that works 551 00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:39.960 in that industry knows exactly what I'm talking about. And there's no plan for 552 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:43.960 that. Dan. That's what gets under my skin, and I could curse 553 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.960 if I weren't on the radio. That's what gets under my skin. Is 554 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:50.760 there's what if we get rid of fossil fuels, as John Carrey says, 555 00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:53.920 when we phase out fossil fuels, where are we getting our IV tubes? 556 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.719 Where are we getting our needles? Where are we getting our bedpants? How 557 00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:01.199 many nurses walk into the room boom, they hand sanitize, they put on 558 00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:06.280 a pair of gloves, they walk out gloves in the garbage hand sanitizer again, 559 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.199 thousands of times a day, all oil. All of that is made 560 00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:13.599 from oil. What's the plan for that? Do we just go back to 561 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:17.280 the pre industrial or do we go back to leeches? Do we go back 562 00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:21.719 to the pre industrial era? What do we go back to bleeding? I 563 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:24.519 don't what's the what's the plant? Well, that's the thing for people like 564 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:30.840 John carry who who enjoy far more creature comforts than you and I would ever 565 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:37.559 enjoy in our life. And and he has benefited mightily from items that are 566 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:44.000 produced the courtesy of fossil fuels and the petrochemical industry. It would he would 567 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:49.079 eagerly, i'm sure, want to carve out set asides and loopholes for things 568 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.360 that he enjoys. But for everyone else, well, you know, sorry 569 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.760 about your luck. I'm John Kerry and I'm special, and and you have 570 00:45:55.840 --> 00:46:00.840 to you know again, rules for thee but not for me. The left 571 00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:06.440 tells you, oh, please, please go ahead. When the left tells 572 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:07.840 you that, you know, well, we'll of course need a little bit 573 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:12.440 of oil for those products, right, But that's not how that's not how 574 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:16.480 it works. Because those products will become so cost prohibitive. The world worldwide, 575 00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:21.760 we produce around forty million barrels of oil a day. And because of 576 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.599 those forty million barrels a day that the world produces, those plastic gloves are 577 00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:30.440 pennies and you can afford to throw them away and reuse them. But you 578 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:32.440 know, like it as to any other industry, because of the amount of 579 00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:37.960 wheat we produce. You're a little brand muffin that you really love that's a 580 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.880 dollar seventy five or two seventy five, you can afford it because there's so 581 00:46:42.039 --> 00:46:45.559 much wheat. You can afford a luxury item. But if we say we're 582 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:47.400 getting rid of all the wheat only the brand muffins, well that brand muffin 583 00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:51.159 is not going to cost to seventy five. It's suddenly going to go up 584 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.679 to, you know, eighty five dollars. And that is just the way 585 00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:57.480 supplying demand works. So when they tell us, well, yeah, we'll 586 00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.480 have a little bit of oil, not at that price point. And what 587 00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:05.039 that means is that the John Kerrys of the world can afford these products because 588 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.440 they have billions of dollars. But you and I we're not going to be 589 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:13.960 able to afford, you know, liquid detergent, and those little pods that 590 00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:16.599 the millennials are eating, the tie pods that are very convenient for the rest 591 00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:21.559 of us who know not to actually put them in our mouths. But those 592 00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:24.800 are only affordable because oil is affordable. If we make oil unaffordable, all 593 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:29.320 those prices are going to go through the roof a thousand times what we pay 594 00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.360 now. Yeah. You and I talked during the beginning of the Biden administration, 595 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:37.239 and one of the first things he did was issue executive orders that were 596 00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:44.039 really aimed at crippling the oil production and capabilities in the United States of America. 597 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:49.320 And in the month of December, I'm looking at a piece from NPR 598 00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:54.119 right now talking about how in December, US oil production hit an all time 599 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:59.800 high. Daniel Turner, how do you reconcile these two things that we haven't 600 00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:07.159 administration that has held bent on seeing what after is supposed to come after fossil 601 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:09.679 fuels and big oil. But yet we have oil production in this country reaching 602 00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:13.760 an all time high. Yeah. And there's a couple of things in that 603 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:16.480 number, and the administration loves to tout it, and there's some truth into 604 00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:22.760 it. You know, our production numbers are getting back to normal. If 605 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:27.440 they were as great as the miniiclation administration claims, we wouldn't see prices at 606 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.639 the point that they are at right. We would see prices back at forty 607 00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:34.119 five fifty dollars a barrel, and they're not on this administration. And for 608 00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.679 the American people right now, is that the oil that's coming out of the 609 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:44.000 ground now is probably five to seven years planned. So the oil that's coming 610 00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.159 online right now was drilled at the very beginning of the Trump administration. That's 611 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:51.559 how long it takes to get that oil. And yes, the drilling maybe 612 00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:54.119 only takes a couple of months, but to actually the extraction and to get 613 00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:58.960 it to market. My point being, this is an industry that you can 614 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:00.960 shut down on it down time, but when you want to start it up 615 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:07.159 again, it's years in the process. It's years of permitting and permissions and 616 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:14.960 legal loopholes and moving personnel and drilling and extraction. And so you know, 617 00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.559 if we just had had permission from the government to continue as we were doing 618 00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:23.639 during the Trump administration, they were predicting eighteen nineteen million barrels a day. 619 00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:30.440 So we're resting on our laurels of thirteen. But why should we be happy 620 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:34.760 with that, especially considering how expensive things still are right now? And things 621 00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:39.280 are very expensive. So what you're saying is the production that we're seeing now 622 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:45.920 is a result of the momentum that was began. I guess what back in 623 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:51.239 twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, exactly twenty seventeen, as soon 624 00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:53.480 as President Trump was inaugurated. You know, if you're going to spend twenty 625 00:49:53.519 --> 00:49:59.000 five million dollars to drill a well, you're going to make sure all your 626 00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:00.159 ducts are in a row, and you're going to make sure you don't have 627 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:05.159 an EPA that's going to sue you, and a Department of Interior that's going 628 00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:07.239 to sue you, and a DJ that's going to suit you, and whatever 629 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:12.119 climate justice is now, because if you can't get all of your other permits, 630 00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:15.800 they'll get you with climate justice and they just accuse you of environmental racism 631 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.159 and that will stop you. So you know, drilling is not something that 632 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:22.039 you do pretty easily. You have to put a lot of a lot of 633 00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:27.920 capital into it. And so yeah, that exploded in twenty seventeen because people 634 00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:32.199 saw a friendly administration, those days are gone. Haven't continued to invest. 635 00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:37.400 That makes sense to me. Normally, when I read the Wall Street Journal, 636 00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:43.920 I read pieces that are pretty level headed and pretty comprehensive. The headline 637 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:46.159 I read in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend said, meet in America's 638 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:51.480 newest oil trader extraordinaire, Joe Biden. And the piece goes on to talk 639 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:57.760 about how he's refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a price around seventy five dollars 640 00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.960 a barrel for oil. And then I go back to twenty twenty and I 641 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:07.800 look at what happened then when Donald Trump wanted to top off the Strategic Petroleum 642 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:14.199 Reserve at a price between eighteen dollars a barrel and negative thirty seven dollars per 643 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.559 barrel, and Chuck Schumer in the Democrats in Congress shut that down, saying 644 00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:22.880 it was going to be a windfall for the oil companies at eighteen dollars a 645 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:27.039 barrel or less. And now we're talking about seventy five dollars a barrel, 646 00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:30.280 and the Wall Street Journal is out there calling this a great deal for the 647 00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.719 American tax bear. Yeah, and this is government math in a nutshell, 648 00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:38.960 right, This is where government numbers never seem to add up. Yes, 649 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:43.480 they're saying that, look, Biden sold oil at ninety five and now he's 650 00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:46.639 repurchasing it at seventy five, so they're calling that a twenty dollars profit. 651 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:51.639 But where was that originally that oil originally purchased, you know, if it 652 00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:54.559 averaged around fifty five. Okay, so we bought it at sixty five, 653 00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.000 we sold it at ninety five, that's forty. But now we're buying it 654 00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.480 at seventy five. We're still the whole thirty five dollars a barrel. Right, 655 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:07.119 there's no profit the government made. This didn't start from zero. But 656 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:09.679 this is where Koreine Jean Pierre and they just lie to us, and they 657 00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:14.119 treat us like children. And do you know, it's like it's like that 658 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:16.159 in law everyone has who's always broken. He's like, you know what, 659 00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:20.840 these were a great deal? This car, you know it's normally forty grand. 660 00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:22.880 I only got it at thirty. I saved ten thousand. It's like, 661 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:27.079 no, that's not how it works. You still spend thirty grand. 662 00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:30.519 And that's how the government treats us. They treat us like a bunch of 663 00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:34.599 dumb children. And the sad thing is, going back to your great point 664 00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:37.880 earlier, Dan, the sad thing is this is where the media should step 665 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:38.800 up and say, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a second, 666 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:43.519 Koreem, how is this a great deal for the American taxpayers? But they 667 00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:47.760 don't. They just write it because they're dutiful little lapdogs. They're stenographers, 668 00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:52.920 as many people call them, and they write what the administration wants them to 669 00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:57.480 write, and then they try to find another way to call us crazy extremists 670 00:52:57.480 --> 00:52:59.920 and say we're the danger to the world. And that's the thing it's say. 671 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:01.960 Had to see the Wall Street Journal going along with that as well. 672 00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:05.840 But Daniel Turner, we got to run. The website is Power of the 673 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:08.679 Future. I encourage everyone to go online. The title of the piece is 674 00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:14.199 we can't let fossil fuels die because they keep us alive. Daniel Turner our 675 00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:16.480 first conversation in twenty twenty four. I hope we have many more. But 676 00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:20.519 happy new year to you. Thank you for your time as always, and 677 00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:22.920 I certainly hope we get a chance to talk again. So it's gonna be 678 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.440 a crazy year, Dan, I'm looking forward to it with you, all 679 00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:29.320 right, Daniel Turner A power of the future, Thank you very much. 680 00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:36.039 One twenty seven now on seven hundred WLW from the post, has it stripped 681 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:42.119 from behind? Trey Hendrickson knocked it away from Patrick Mahomes and the Bengals recover 682 00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:46.159 at the twenty four yard line. Trey Hendrickson will get credit for a strip 683 00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:52.280 sack there, his seventeenth sack of the year as he knocked the ball free 684 00:53:52.599 --> 00:54:08.159 from Patrick Mahomes and Sam Hubbard recovered buiet. I'm broadcasting so sag as I 685 00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:15.800 recall that was a pretty good moment in that game against the Chiefs on what 686 00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:21.280 do the scoreboards say when it was triple zeros one A whole lot the can 687 00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:23.480 go a whole lot to jump up and down. That's correct. You got 688 00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.880 to take you got to take the points. Yes, you know, when 689 00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:31.320 you got the ball in the third quarter, you've you've got to lead. 690 00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:35.719 You've got to add to that lead. I know you wanted to get a 691 00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:38.719 touchdown there. I know you want to make a statement. I know you 692 00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:44.480 want to say that we're gonna jam it down your throat and go on to 693 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:49.280 victory. But you got to take the points. You got to take the 694 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.320 points. Hey, I agree there, Dan, Carol, And anytime you 695 00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:55.440 get points it's good. It is good, though, And I think that 696 00:54:55.599 --> 00:55:01.280 it's three seven two one whatever, and I you know it was it going 697 00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:05.559 to make a difference in the game. I don't know. But does it 698 00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:10.079 keep that huge momentum swing from taking place? I think it does. And 699 00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:14.639 how big of a deal is that you had all the momentum in the first 700 00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:17.320 half they just forgot to play in the second. So are we the home 701 00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:21.639 of the best Bengals covered still? Or are we now the home of the 702 00:55:21.639 --> 00:55:25.559 reds all love to management. I don't know what's way above my pay from 703 00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:30.360 that memo hasn't come out. That's way above my pay grade, my boy, 704 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:34.880 it says here, sig the Bengals still want to play. You don't 705 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.280 want to play hard on Sunday against the Brownies. I don't know what they 706 00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:43.360 did yesterday. But this is official, the first Stuarte Report of the twenty 707 00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:46.559 twenty four season. And it's all brought to you by your local tame Star 708 00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:53.239 heating and air conditioning dealers. Tamestar quality of convealence in Western Hills called Derby 709 00:55:53.320 --> 00:56:00.400 Heating Cooling at five one three, five, four, forty nine or go 710 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:05.360 to Durbin Heating and Cooling dot com. So does that mean Tim Starr has 711 00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:08.360 signed up for another year of the Stooge reports? Of correct? That is 712 00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:14.320 fantastic. Bengals get better. Bengals get ready for that season finale against those 713 00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:17.800 Browns this Sunday, More to night on Bengals, Line Lance and Lap six 714 00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:22.840 oh five right here on seven hundred WLW College football. The National Championship Game 715 00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:29.719 all set next Monday in Houston. Washington Huskies and Michigan Wolverines on ESPN fifteen 716 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.440 thirty. Wolverines are an early four and a half point favorite. Do you 717 00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:37.280 watch those games? Last night? Watched watch the Michigan Alabama game. A 718 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:40.400 pretty good game, Amen that both of them were both of them were dido. 719 00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:45.519 They were very good. Texas and Washington game come down to the last 720 00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:50.320 minute pretty much a guy batted the ball away in the end zone and the 721 00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:55.119 Husky survive. College basketball tonight, mind me Redhawk's mac opener against They're going 722 00:56:55.199 --> 00:57:00.039 to host a Western Michigan number one perdue at Maryland. The latest on Norse 723 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:07.000 Basketball tonight, NK you Coaches Show six oh five ESPN fifteen thirty. Doesn't 724 00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:10.079 Xavier play tomorrow nights correct at Villanova? At Villanova? What time does that 725 00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:15.119 game tip off? It starts at eight o'clock here on seven hundred. W 726 00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:19.480 Well do beautiful. So there you go. Now we can all turn our 727 00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:23.840 attention to college basketball. I guess. So, so see what happens, 728 00:57:23.920 --> 00:57:28.000 Dan Held, No, I mean, are you do you even want to 729 00:57:28.039 --> 00:57:31.119 watch the NFL playoffs now? Oh? Yeah, of course, yeah, 730 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:37.840 got to. It'll be very it'll be very interesting to see after Sunday what 731 00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:43.719 happens, who stays, who goes, who, you know, whatever, 732 00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:46.400 because it looks like they are going to pick anywhere between that. It all 733 00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:50.960 depends on if they win or lose Sunday, and this team wins and that 734 00:57:51.079 --> 00:57:54.039 team ties and that team stays home, they could, I guess, wind 735 00:57:54.119 --> 00:57:59.760 up with what the thirteenth. They could pick from thirteenth to sixteenth in the 736 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.159 FL draft. Oh that's what I do. I do this on I go 737 00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:07.760 on. I turned the radio on and I hear Scott Sloan talking with James 738 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:12.239 Rapine and they're talking about draft pick this, draft pick that, And I'm 739 00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:15.639 like, really, are we talking about the draft already? When? When 740 00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:19.679 does the draft even happen years ago in April? It happens in April. 741 00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.320 Yeah, well this is years is January. Yeah, so we got to 742 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:27.639 go through January right, February right, and March right, and part of 743 00:58:27.679 --> 00:58:31.440 April right. Hearing all about the draft? Correct. Heck, we used 744 00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:35.880 to talk about the when when the Bengals really stunk, used to talk about 745 00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:39.679 their draft at the bye week? Do they ever have the number one, 746 00:58:39.800 --> 00:58:44.159 two or three pick? I thought those days were behind us. That's well 747 00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:47.519 not now. Not a few in the past couple of years. You know, 748 00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:51.079 they didn't have to worry about their draft until like a couple of days 749 00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:53.920 ahead a time. Yeah, now it's like now you gotta Now you're out 750 00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:58.119 and that's the next big thing. We still got a whole were still got 751 00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:00.719 a whole month and a half, a playoff, you got free agency in 752 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:02.760 there, you got everything. So you got you got action going on all 753 00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:07.519 the time in the National Football League. It doesn't end call or say I'm 754 00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:13.159 too negative, though, I need to more be more positive. That'd be 755 00:59:13.239 --> 00:59:16.639 nice. Do you have anything Do you have anything positive to add sick? 756 00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:21.920 I don't think I've got nothing else. How about the cyclones? How they 757 00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:23.960 doing. Uh, they're doing okay. I think uh, I think. 758 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:31.760 I believe they play fighting in Kalamazoo and then home against home against Toledo. 759 00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:36.239 They've been playing Toledo like every other game. I don't know what's going on. 760 00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:39.320 They're in the same division, but it's it's like the Bengals and the 761 00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:44.039 Steelers and Browns. Every other game is like against either one of them. 762 00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.920 It's like the Reds and the Pirates, correct, the Reds and the Cardinals. 763 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:51.119 The Reds are in Pittsburgh one weekend, they're home against the Pirates the 764 00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:54.239 next. It's crazy. So but that's what you do, Dan Carroll, 765 00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:59.679 when you get eliminated from playoff contention. The next big thing, I guess 766 00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:04.639 is free agency and this and that, and then they look toward the April 767 01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:08.400 NFL Draft. Well. AJ McCarran takes some snaps on Sunday. I don't 768 01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:10.480 know. I would love it. I would like to see that. I 769 01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:15.599 don't know, we'll see. I don't know why not. I have no 770 01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:21.400 idea. You know, it'll be interesting to see who the Browns sit get 771 01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:25.559 ready for the playoff game. If Joe Flacco doesn't you know, they also 772 01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:30.760 got to think an ex Bengal on their they just signed him at Jeff driscoll. 773 01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:32.840 I think he used to be here for a couple of years ago. 774 01:00:34.119 --> 01:00:38.119 Well, next Sunday, they're this coming Sunday. They out every time the 775 01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:42.480 Bengals have a fourth down, they ought to go for it, go for 776 01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:45.840 the first down, just for practice. Well, yeah, let's practice that. 777 01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:50.119 They ought to go for a two point conversion every time they score. 778 01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:53.920 They ought to try and kick a seventy yard field goal. They ought to 779 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:58.920 let Aj mccaren play. I want to see half back passes all over the 780 01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:04.199 place. I want to see double and triple and quadruple reverses. I want 781 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.800 to see that that Sunday is the day they bring up Did they give you 782 01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:12.079 the game plan already? I'm telling you Sunday is the day to bring out 783 01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:16.400 all that crazy stuff, get it all, get it all over Bengles confidential 784 01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:20.559 players only. Is that the game plan I have? I have my sources, 785 01:01:20.679 --> 01:01:22.079 okay, just let me you know, just let me say that, 786 01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:25.280 all right, I have my sources, Okay, but that's what I want 787 01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:30.920 to see on Sunday and bring out all the craziest stuff. You can double 788 01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:37.519 reverse everything, do it all. Maybe maybe Jake Browning catch a touchdown pass? 789 01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:42.880 How about them somebody else? Maybe from Joe Mixon having one of the 790 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:46.000 linemen, I have one of the linemen. What about the sensey hat man 791 01:01:46.119 --> 01:01:50.840 Ted Carriss have one of the linemen? Down paths like Anthony Moodia wear number 792 01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:54.599 seventy eight for the day and Joe, I'm just saying, hold on, 793 01:01:55.599 --> 01:01:59.960 and the only time you go in is when you report eligible and then you 794 01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:02.400 catch a pass in like Anthony Munos used to that. Well, just leave 795 01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:07.920 seven touchdown pass athlete Anthony Munos is seventy eight. Where it is? You 796 01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:15.719 don't give at anybody's number seventy reporting eligible unless unless like Shoey o'tani with Joe 797 01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:20.960 Kelly had number seventeen for the Dodgers. What did he do he wanted that 798 01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:24.559 number? Yeah, but got Joe Kelly's wife a new porter of horse. 799 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:30.800 So if anybody wants to wear seventy eight, you got to buy missus missus 800 01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:36.039 Muno's a new car. How about there you go? How about the former 801 01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:42.199 UC Coaches Bowl over the weekend? Oh you mean uh uh Luke Fickel Versus 802 01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:45.679 Kelly never watched it? You didn't want. I didn't get didn't get into 803 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:47.639 too many of the bowl games. I watched the I watched all the ones 804 01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:52.119 that Rocky Boyman was doing well. He did the Liberty Bowl. He did 805 01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:55.760 the Liberty Bowl, he did the Frisco Bowl, he did uh, he 806 01:02:55.800 --> 01:03:00.119 did three of them. I want. I watched the rock On team some 807 01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:04.239 of them. I mean, you know, I was hoping the Sun Bowl. 808 01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:07.599 It was snow like it used to it and like it always does in 809 01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:12.480 El Paso, Texas. The pop Tart Bowl was a little goofy with the 810 01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:15.840 pop tart and then they then they ate, then they ate the thing afterwards. 811 01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:19.159 I don't think that was the real They had the trophy, they had 812 01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:23.760 the giant pop on top of it and the pop tarts on you know, 813 01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:28.159 and then the cheese At people try to get in. And now now I 814 01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:30.480 hear the cheese At people are trolling the pop Tart people. They're probably the 815 01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:37.519 same people gimmick, probably to sell merchandise. You got, you gotta sell 816 01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:39.840 the merch I don't know, you gotta sell it. Segg didn't didn't. 817 01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:45.360 I watched the Rose Bowl some I watched, uh watch, let's see watch 818 01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:49.760 the well I watched a little bit of the Cotton Bowl. Very disappointed in 819 01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:53.599 the Ohio State University there, but they got smacked around a little bit, 820 01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:57.880 you know, fourteen to three. But half their guys didn't play though, 821 01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:00.519 did they. Well that was the problem. And then of course Georgia and 822 01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:04.679 Florida State that was a mess. And that's the perfect example of what three 823 01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:10.280 quarters of the team of the Florida State Seminoles saying we're not playing and then 824 01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:14.559 you're playing, You're playing, you know, sophomores and juniors and freshmen, 825 01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:19.119 was horrific. Well that's what you're going to get. Horrific. That's what 826 01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:24.840 you're gonna get when these when these when these when these big name players are 827 01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:27.840 not going to play in these games anymore. I don't know. I don't 828 01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:29.960 know if Rocky. I don't know if Rocky's going to be here in an 829 01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:32.599 hour. But if he's here, that's what I want to talk about. 830 01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:39.000 If if you're in college and you're getting n I L money and you're getting 831 01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:45.039 paid to be there, then when when it's time for bowl game time, 832 01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:48.679 you got to show up. Somebody said, I think when Willie, if 833 01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:53.800 whenever Willie gets back, I think They had a story a couple of weeks 834 01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:59.920 ago that there was one school that gave either the entire offensive line or every 835 01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:05.119 player on the roster a new truck. Oh for god. In college. 836 01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:13.760 Yeah, so you know, you got you've got students walking to school and 837 01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:16.800 uh, you know, the big man on campus is at the Mercedes or 838 01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:23.559 a Bugatti or Maserati with his with the uh you know, he's parking next 839 01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:29.119 to the university president and a lot or basketball coach or football coach, and 840 01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:31.159 all these other ones are you know, they got student loans and all this 841 01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:34.960 stuff, and the football players are all driving brand new F one fifties. 842 01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:40.559 Bing. Go, that's not bad. But if you're getting paid, you 843 01:05:40.679 --> 01:05:45.480 got to show up, right. I mean you say, I heart media. 844 01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:46.960 It's a whole new world now, Dan, I mean paid by our 845 01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:49.719 heart. Meetia and you say you know what you see? You could say, 846 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:51.840 you could say, are you going to be able to say? Bill 847 01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:56.920 Cunningham's not here today? And uh, you know we're we're not really in 848 01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:00.280 the in the in the postseason game I want to be in, So I'm 849 01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:01.880 just not going to show up for this one. The way it is these 850 01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:05.599 days matters you don't do that. These players are gonna do it. They 851 01:06:05.639 --> 01:06:10.280 don't care. They're not gonna they're not gonna risk getting hurt. I don't 852 01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:14.079 care when they don't get in the middle. That's what they're that's what that's 853 01:06:14.079 --> 01:06:16.079 why they're not playing because they know the dough with the ray and the me 854 01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:20.559 is in the National Football League. Somebody's gonna draft him, somebody's gonna pay 855 01:06:20.599 --> 01:06:24.239 them. Some of these kids are probably making more in college and they'll ever 856 01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:28.199 make in the NFL. Bing go. So that's that's that's the world today. 857 01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:30.760 Man, I'm sorry, you're getting paid. You got to show up. 858 01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:32.800 That's the world today. You're not gonna change it. Was the n 859 01:06:32.840 --> 01:06:35.679 C double A gonna step in. They didn't think. They didn't think that. 860 01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:38.920 They didn't think it through. The n C double A is a joke 861 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:42.800 anymore, absolutely, and and they they're even more of a joke. When 862 01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:45.719 you have a ball season twenty years ago at school went on probation because you 863 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:50.320 bought a kid a hamburger. Now you're getting a million and a half dollars 864 01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:54.280 to play. Who was the dude that showed up in a calendar that was 865 01:06:54.559 --> 01:06:57.679 that was for charity and then then then he couldn't play anymore. It was 866 01:06:57.719 --> 01:07:01.360 kind of him a deer park. He didn't want him to play at Toledo. 867 01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:05.280 So I'm sorry, that's a bad memory. Yeah, I don't know 868 01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:08.760 what to type. I didn't mean to bring that up, but I don't 869 01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:11.199 know. So I mean that. But that's that's the way the world is. 870 01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:14.239 I mean, players are going to say I'm not playing in these games, 871 01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:16.039 and they're not going to play, and the schools are going to say, 872 01:07:16.039 --> 01:07:20.480 okay, that's fine, so you get you get, you get bombarded 873 01:07:20.559 --> 01:07:26.239 like Florida State did. And I mean that was a that was an absolute 874 01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:30.480 mess. And Georgia, just Georgia could have gotten students out of the out 875 01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:33.960 of the crowd and probably and probably still be That game was not funny. 876 01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:36.559 I mean, you know, and and and the Bowl people are putting up 877 01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:40.599 all this big money, they got sponsors and stuff. I mean, I 878 01:07:40.679 --> 01:07:44.119 turned it off, and when I kept flipping it back just to see if 879 01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:46.079 if they might have scored a hundred points on him. Is Rock could have 880 01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:49.440 come in with a swag bag from the Fiesta Bowl. I don't know. 881 01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:54.239 I wonder if he, I wonder if they get one. I don't know. 882 01:07:54.360 --> 01:07:56.880 I don't know. It'd be pretty cool. Usually the players get all 883 01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:59.280 kind of cool stuff. Well, I have to see, I don't know. 884 01:07:59.519 --> 01:08:00.360 All right, Bill, did you have a good Did you have a 885 01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:04.440 good New Year's though? Everything went well. I went to bed early, 886 01:08:04.599 --> 01:08:09.480 never saw the never saw the ball drop. I had to work. Come 887 01:08:09.519 --> 01:08:12.159 in here with Steve Hawkins. What's the matter with you? It's a lot 888 01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:15.520 going on New Year's Day? What's the matter with you? Bangals? I'm 889 01:08:15.560 --> 01:08:20.840 just saying. So it sounded like World War three at midnight in my neighborhood. 890 01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:25.920 But you know, I thought I was. I thought I was overseas 891 01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:29.479 for about ten minutes, and they rang in the New Year in my heilhborhood. 892 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.239 So all right, se get us out of the Stewog's Report, if 893 01:08:33.239 --> 01:08:36.640 you would, please, Dan, Carol and everybody have a good uh start 894 01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:41.520 to the twenty twenty four year. We leave you with the immortal words of 895 01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:45.279 the stooge Report. That is one of the things that I fear in life. 896 01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:53.920 An aggressive pigeon. Mime's monkeys and aggressive pigeons. Dan Horg's got some 897 01:08:53.960 --> 01:09:00.399 issues, Dan horsemen talking to himself about fun facts, because that's dangerous seg 898 01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:02.520 I'm honored to have done the first Duge report of twenty twenty five. About 899 01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:04.720 that. Dan Carroll will be back in a little bit. I'm going to 900 01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:08.279 make a note of this. It's the biggest day of my broadcast career, 901 01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:15.479 next to Chopper nine on seven hundred WLW. So this all got a bowel 902 01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:21.560 Nick East in a wide window at the door of the bound then book book, 903 01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:29.439 Sadie, this little can tell not wi. I was bad at the 904 01:09:29.479 --> 01:09:36.279 bowl, Bad of the bowl, Bad of the bowl. Seven hundred WLW. 905 01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:41.159 Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham, Great American and joined some more time 906 01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:44.800 off as we kick off the new year here on January second, the second 907 01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:49.199 day of twenty twenty four, my first day on the radio this year. 908 01:09:49.239 --> 01:09:53.680 So glad to be here and glad you are listening as well. I am 909 01:09:53.720 --> 01:09:58.039 also glad to welcome in this guy that I have. We've texted a little 910 01:09:58.039 --> 01:10:00.600 bit, but have not really had a chance to speak to each other, 911 01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:05.159 and this is my first time speaking to the new president of the Cincinnati Fraternal 912 01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:11.399 Order of Police, Ken Kober and Ken Cober. Welcome to seven hundred WLW. 913 01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:14.680 How are you today, sir, and happy new year? I'm doing 914 01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:16.920 great. Happy New Year. Thanks for having me so so, Ken Cober, 915 01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:21.600 you have been involved with the police department, the Cincinnati Police Department for 916 01:10:21.640 --> 01:10:28.000 a long time. Tell our listeners a little bit about your background and how 917 01:10:28.039 --> 01:10:32.680 you were able to work your way to such a lofty position. Sure, 918 01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:35.800 so, I started out in two thousand actually as a civilian. I was 919 01:10:35.800 --> 01:10:40.439 a police cadet, went into the police academy in two thousand and two. 920 01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:46.039 I spent times in District five, District one fugitive Apprehension Squad. I worked 921 01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:50.399 at Police Knine for about eight years, went to a traffic unit for a 922 01:10:50.399 --> 01:10:56.119 little while, and most recently I was in the Central Business section before getting 923 01:10:56.159 --> 01:11:00.079 elected. But I've spent the last fourteen years I've spent with on the executive 924 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:04.199 board for the FOP. So no no stranger to being around here on the 925 01:11:04.199 --> 01:11:09.680 executive board. Yeah. Has that experience served you well? Do you think 926 01:11:10.279 --> 01:11:15.000 in your time leading up to becoming the president of the FOPS as far as 927 01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:17.319 being on I was gonna I could because when you were talking about that, 928 01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:21.960 being a cadet and then you spend a lot of time on the street. 929 01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:29.119 Do the the rank and file, the people who elect you in do they 930 01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:31.920 do? They put a lot of appreciation behind both of that. You know, 931 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:34.520 all the amount of time you spent on the street and the amount of 932 01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:41.439 time you spent in these leadership positions. Sure, you get to really know 933 01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:44.399 some of these folks, you know, when you're constantly at you know, 934 01:11:44.439 --> 01:11:47.920 whether it's an internal or CCA or you just you see them around representing folks 935 01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:53.199 doing things for the FOP. I believe that there's there's a lot of folks 936 01:11:53.239 --> 01:11:57.039 around that that really believe in the sweat equity you put in your time, 937 01:11:57.079 --> 01:12:00.920 You've You've volunteered your time to want to become I'm a leader of the FOP, 938 01:12:00.079 --> 01:12:02.600 and I think they really do take notice and they're appreciative of it. 939 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:09.239 Yeah, you know, I don't have to tell you that you represent a 940 01:12:09.319 --> 01:12:15.279 long line of very strong advocates for Cincinnati police officers and a number of individuals 941 01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:23.439 who were not afraid to be outspoken and not afraid to stick their necks out 942 01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:28.640 a little bit on behalf of police officers, on behalf of the department, 943 01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:33.760 on behalf of what is right and decent and the best thing for the people 944 01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:38.479 of the city of Cincinnati. Do you plan to continue on in that tradition 945 01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:45.800 or is Ken Cobra a different kind of Cincinnati Fop leader. Absolutely. I 946 01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:49.239 mean that's one of the great things that our contract affords is whoever the president 947 01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:54.760 is is on president's release and you're really not subject to some of the things 948 01:12:54.800 --> 01:12:59.079 that you know, a regular police officer would be subject to. So I 949 01:12:59.079 --> 01:13:02.000 could pretty much say what I want to say, say what I believe is 950 01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:05.239 the truth, and there's no consequences for it. You know. Among that 951 01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:11.079 also is I'm towards the end of my career, so there's not a whole 952 01:13:11.119 --> 01:13:15.640 lot that they could really do to me that is really going to affect my 953 01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:17.800 career at this point. Well, I know that that was one of the 954 01:13:17.800 --> 01:13:25.199 things that that Dan Hills had it seemed a constant battle with was the amount 955 01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:30.000 of time that he spent at the side of police officers who were going in 956 01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:40.399 front of the review boards, the various entities that review police actions and unfairly, 957 01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:45.159 I think at times either criticize or penalized police officers for things that happen 958 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:50.399 when they're in the field. Where do you stand on that issue? Well, 959 01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:55.439 actually, I'm meeting with the CCA, the interim CCA director next Monday. 960 01:13:56.199 --> 01:13:58.760 She actually reached out to me after the election, has of like to 961 01:13:58.760 --> 01:14:01.000 sit down and talk to you. I don't know where that conversation is going 962 01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:04.800 to go, but I do think that there is a lot of unnecessary time 963 01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:11.520 that police officers are being subjected to during their shift going to internal and CCA. 964 01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:15.359 And I'm not saying that it's not always necessary, but when you have 965 01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:18.960 one hundred and sixty cops short right now, and there are complaints that are 966 01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:25.119 coming through that can easily be verified that did not happen via body camera, 967 01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:30.600 your surveillance cameras, this whole process I believe should be streamlined to try to 968 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:34.199 cut out some of the unnecessary nonsense that's going on. Yeah, when you 969 01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:41.319 look at the personalities that make up the citizens complain authority in terms of leadership 970 01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:46.520 and in terms of the individuals to populate that particular body, do you see 971 01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:55.239 a path forward where you can actually have a productive working relationship there. We 972 01:14:55.319 --> 01:15:01.560 haven't always had this extremely adversary relationship. A lot of it comes down to 973 01:15:01.560 --> 01:15:04.600 who the director is. You know, we've had directors in the past that 974 01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:09.920 have been willing to work with the FOP and at least hear us out and 975 01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:14.800 hear our side of things before they would finalize a report. Now, most 976 01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:17.399 recently we haven't had that in a director, and you know that director is 977 01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:21.399 no longer here, and that's why I look forward to at least sitting down 978 01:15:21.399 --> 01:15:25.399 with the interim director and saying, listen, this is this is kind of 979 01:15:25.399 --> 01:15:29.039 how I see our relationship moving going forward. And if you're willing to at 980 01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:31.119 least come to the table and listen to what we have to say. We 981 01:15:31.159 --> 01:15:33.920 may not always agree. I get that, but to be able to have 982 01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:36.520 a relationship where you can go listen, this is the side of things that 983 01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:41.479 we see, and you know, if we can have that open dialogue, 984 01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:44.479 then things may get better. And if not, you know, then I 985 01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:46.479 guess we'll have to deal with it another way. But that's that's you have 986 01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:48.920 to be seen because we don't have a permanent director yet, yam. So, 987 01:15:49.279 --> 01:15:54.119 the CPA is an issue. Funding is always an issue, Recruitment is 988 01:15:54.159 --> 01:16:00.640 an issue. Working with the community, the spike in underage crime is an 989 01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:05.279 issue. What's what's the number one or two top things as far as ken 990 01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:13.119 Kober is concerned when it comes to becoming the leader of the FOP, Well, 991 01:16:13.199 --> 01:16:15.800 number one, and I think there's not a member in this lodge that 992 01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:20.119 will disagree with me. The number one thing is our contract that expires the 993 01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:25.199 end of April. We're going to begin working on that here very soon. 994 01:16:25.239 --> 01:16:29.079 I suspect by the end of the month, we'll have our wage team selected 995 01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:33.520 and we'll begin the process of doing research and eventually meeting with the city and 996 01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:41.600 you know, seeing how that works out. I think that the second closest 997 01:16:41.640 --> 01:16:45.600 thing is recruiting. I've told the chief before and she had asked what my 998 01:16:45.680 --> 01:16:49.520 opinion on wasn't And I believe that we should be helping, as the fop, 999 01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:54.800 helping with recruiting. So we're in a bad position right now where if 1000 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:58.479 the city wants help with recruiting, we should be doing everything we can to 1001 01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:02.000 help get new cops in here, because it's certainly affecting all the cops now. 1002 01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:05.079 A lot of the issues that we're having are because of you know, 1003 01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:09.159 lack of manpower, you know, whether it's being forced to work overtime, 1004 01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:12.840 being forced to work off days, things like that will be relieved if we 1005 01:17:12.920 --> 01:17:15.159 get enough cops to want to take this job. So that's something that I 1006 01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:18.159 look forward to helping them with yeah, you know, so much of what 1007 01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:24.359 I see on social media, what I see on local media, what I 1008 01:17:24.399 --> 01:17:30.159 see on national media there is it seems that I guess it goes in a 1009 01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:36.760 cycle. It just seems like we're in a period now where police officers are 1010 01:17:36.800 --> 01:17:44.000 not getting a lot of respect from certain segments of the population. I would 1011 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:46.920 like to think that's going to change. How do you deal with that on 1012 01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:50.800 a day to day basis when you're on the street, and how much of 1013 01:17:50.840 --> 01:17:57.239 that is an issue for the men and women that you represent. It's a 1014 01:17:57.319 --> 01:18:01.119 huge issue. I mean, just showing up on an and you're immediately being 1015 01:18:01.199 --> 01:18:04.199 cussed out. People don't want to comply. You know, they're going to 1016 01:18:04.279 --> 01:18:08.359 just say whatever it is they want to say because they believe that there are 1017 01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:12.319 no repercussions. And you're absolutely right. I mean, it is nothing but 1018 01:18:12.399 --> 01:18:16.039 a product of some of our elected officials, you know, between locally, 1019 01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:21.239 state, nationally, where they've been in boldened with this power that I don't 1020 01:18:21.279 --> 01:18:25.439 have to listen to what the police say now. I do think that, 1021 01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:29.119 like I said, it goes in cycles. I think that most of these 1022 01:18:29.279 --> 01:18:33.840 politicians are realizing that this was bad for everybody. Uh, and unfortunately, 1023 01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:38.359 it's going to take some time, you know, for one, for cops 1024 01:18:38.399 --> 01:18:43.920 to to actually see that politicians are willing to support them, because it's not 1025 01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:45.039 just going to be a well, hey guys, we do support you. 1026 01:18:45.119 --> 01:18:48.600 Now people aren't going to buy it. You know, these these elected officials 1027 01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:55.199 are really going to have to prove with their actions that cops should buy into 1028 01:18:55.239 --> 01:18:59.880 them being supported. And that's that's yet to be seen. Yeah, as 1029 01:19:00.079 --> 01:19:02.720 as a police department, it seems like you're you're an easy target. I 1030 01:19:02.760 --> 01:19:08.560 was looking at the h at the U the interview you gave with city Beat, 1031 01:19:09.119 --> 01:19:14.079 and they wanted they eventually got into uh, diversity and diversity in the 1032 01:19:14.079 --> 01:19:17.840 police force and things like that. But uh, you know, an organization 1033 01:19:18.039 --> 01:19:23.640 like city Beat, I would seriously doubt if they're going to criticize the lack 1034 01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:29.560 of diversity on Cincinnati City Council since it's made up of all Democrats. Now, 1035 01:19:29.439 --> 01:19:33.319 not that I want to bring politics into the issue, but do you 1036 01:19:33.359 --> 01:19:39.920 do you have time as a as the leader of the f OP to concern 1037 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:44.239 yourself with that or do you have to deal with real life issues as it 1038 01:19:44.279 --> 01:19:48.600 relates to the men and women who put on the uniform of the Cincinnati Police 1039 01:19:48.600 --> 01:19:54.000 Department every day. Yeah, I mean, I don't really concern myself with 1040 01:19:54.119 --> 01:19:57.600 it, just for the fact that I don't hire anybody. You know, 1041 01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:00.359 I'll help I'll help them with recruit but as far as who they decide to 1042 01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:04.439 hire, that's up to them. And the reality of the issue with diversity 1043 01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:11.800 is the police department can only hire those that apply. So you have to 1044 01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:15.239 be able to hire, you know, those that come before us, you 1045 01:20:15.279 --> 01:20:17.600 know, are the ones that they go and they investigate through the background investigation 1046 01:20:17.760 --> 01:20:21.760 is all those things and find out who the qualified candidates are. And there's 1047 01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:28.039 no surprise that we are not getting a very diverse pool of people that want 1048 01:20:28.039 --> 01:20:31.000 to be police officers. Well, you're not really getting anybody currently that wants 1049 01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:36.520 to be police officers. Now it's starting to back to getting more people. 1050 01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:42.920 But you can't force somebody just because of a diverse background, you know, 1051 01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:45.039 because of their ethnicity or otherwise. You can't just say, hey, I 1052 01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:47.800 really need you to be a SINCEI police officer. Either you want to be 1053 01:20:47.880 --> 01:20:51.239 here to do this job and serve the community, or you don't want to 1054 01:20:51.239 --> 01:20:55.079 do it. And I think it's a slippery slope to go, well, 1055 01:20:55.079 --> 01:20:57.960 we're just going to hire some people because they look a certain kind of way. 1056 01:20:58.319 --> 01:21:00.960 That's not going to be that's not going to end well for anybody. 1057 01:21:00.479 --> 01:21:05.399 Yeah, and you couple that with I've talked to a lot of retiring police 1058 01:21:05.399 --> 01:21:11.920 officers who have told me privately that they tell their own kids, they tell 1059 01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:15.479 members of their family, they tell young people in their neighborhood or people that 1060 01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:19.560 they talk to that if you're thinking about being a cop, you might want 1061 01:21:19.600 --> 01:21:26.319 to think about about doing something else because of how they've seen that that pendulum 1062 01:21:26.359 --> 01:21:29.840 swing in the time that they have been on. And so when you talk 1063 01:21:29.880 --> 01:21:33.960 about those standards that that people have to meet in order to become a member 1064 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:39.840 of the police force in the time that you've been in, have those standards 1065 01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:43.399 changed, and if they have changed, have they changed for the better or 1066 01:21:43.399 --> 01:21:49.520 for the worse. I wouldn't necessarily say at this point that the standards have 1067 01:21:49.680 --> 01:21:55.079 changed, But I see what's going on in other departments. I see what's 1068 01:21:55.119 --> 01:22:00.199 going on around the country where you know, other major cities are reading standards 1069 01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:04.720 just to get people in the door. And that is the absolutely horrible idea 1070 01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:09.720 we saw with the incident in Memphis. You know that five officers that get 1071 01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:13.640 indicted, you know, and find out that three of the five were hired 1072 01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:17.800 after the Memphis Police Department lowered their standards. That's something that just cannot happen 1073 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:23.079 in Cincinnati. And I think anybody you ask that wears this uniform for the 1074 01:22:23.079 --> 01:22:26.800 Cincinnet Police Department will tell you I would rather be short than you lower the 1075 01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:30.720 standards, because it's only going to make anybody that wears this uniform look horrible 1076 01:22:31.319 --> 01:22:35.439 when they lower standards and then somebody does something to get themselves indicted. God 1077 01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:40.800 forbid they kill somebody on this job. It's horrible for everybody. They should 1078 01:22:40.880 --> 01:22:45.000 not be reducing standards. What they need to be doing is finding a way 1079 01:22:45.039 --> 01:22:48.000 to make this a more attractive profession to join, and I think one of 1080 01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:54.560 the ways that they do that certainly is having elected officials openly support police officers. 1081 01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:58.920 Pretty simple. The other thing is make sure that you are paying them 1082 01:22:59.359 --> 01:23:02.600 the appropriate amount of money to attract him to want to come here. And 1083 01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:08.720 the departments, there are departments around the country that are doing those things and 1084 01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:14.000 they are finding that it is alleviating some of their problems with being short staffed. 1085 01:23:14.479 --> 01:23:17.039 So it's just a matter of we'll see here come end of April. 1086 01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:20.640 You know what side of the coin the City of Cincinnati wants to be on. 1087 01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:25.640 Yeah, Ken Kober is who we're talking with. He's the new leader 1088 01:23:25.640 --> 01:23:28.359 of the FOP here in Cincinnati. We just got about a minute or so 1089 01:23:28.439 --> 01:23:31.399 left. But I remember when James Craig came here and I had a chance 1090 01:23:31.399 --> 01:23:35.760 to talk with him on the radio, and I asked him about the perception 1091 01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:41.560 of the Cincinnati Police Force outside of the city of Cincinnati. And as you 1092 01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:45.159 know, he had had a long background in various cities across the country, 1093 01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:50.039 and his perception was that the City of Cincinnati, the police force at least 1094 01:23:50.520 --> 01:23:58.279 enjoyed an outstanding reputation across the country and by other departments across the country as 1095 01:23:59.239 --> 01:24:02.720 having perhaps one of the finest, if not the finest, police force in 1096 01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:09.840 the entire United States of America. And from your perspective, does the Cincinnati 1097 01:24:09.840 --> 01:24:16.800 Police Department still enjoy that perception from other police departments across the country. I 1098 01:24:16.840 --> 01:24:21.640 believe it does. When you look at the whole totality of circumstances, the 1099 01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:28.039 great work that these men and women do every single day, even with dealing 1100 01:24:28.079 --> 01:24:33.600 with the civil unrests that we had in twenty twenty, having the absolute flat 1101 01:24:33.640 --> 01:24:39.560 out disrespect that we've had, and we still go to work every single day 1102 01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:44.359 do the right thing serve this community. I've been around the country, you 1103 01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:47.319 know, at different trainings, and I see some of the things that other 1104 01:24:47.359 --> 01:24:51.880 departments struggle with that we just aren't struggling with. And it's easy, especially 1105 01:24:51.960 --> 01:24:57.399 for recently retired guys from this department, or even active guys that have been 1106 01:24:57.399 --> 01:25:00.960 around for a while that have seen maybe sometimes you know, in our careers, 1107 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:03.920 we have had better days here, but it certainly doesn't compare to what 1108 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:08.319 goes on in other departments, and we are by far are one of the 1109 01:25:08.359 --> 01:25:11.399 best, if not the best, in this country. Outstanding that is excellent. 1110 01:25:11.399 --> 01:25:14.079 Well, Ken Cober, I'll tell you what I don't need to tell 1111 01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:18.199 you, that that you know that that people like me and other talk show 1112 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:23.000 hosts on this radio station, that we lean on the FOP a lot, 1113 01:25:23.399 --> 01:25:27.760 especially the president of the FOP to come on this radio station and face the 1114 01:25:27.880 --> 01:25:32.079 music or you know, give us the real scoop on what's happening. And 1115 01:25:32.479 --> 01:25:36.319 I certainly hope that this is the beginning of a long relationship between you and 1116 01:25:36.359 --> 01:25:40.760 this radio station, and not just me, but all the talk show hosts 1117 01:25:40.760 --> 01:25:43.640 on this station, and Ken Kober, I want to thank you for your 1118 01:25:43.680 --> 01:25:46.760 time this afternoon, and I wish you the best of luck as you start 1119 01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:51.800 this new chapter in your career and and circumstances are going to happen where we 1120 01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:55.760 are talking down the road, and I'm certainly looking forward to that. But 1121 01:25:56.159 --> 01:26:00.159 a happy new year to you and continued success and we will definitely be talking 1122 01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:03.640 again before too long. Well, happy to your thanks. I appreciate the 1123 01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:09.079 opportunity to be happy to talk to you again. All right, Ken Kober, 1124 01:26:09.600 --> 01:26:13.079 the new president of the FOP in Cincinnati, Thank you very much to 1125 01:26:13.319 --> 01:26:21.239 twenty seven now on seven hundred WLW. So all wabbit. I thought that 1126 01:26:21.319 --> 01:26:30.079 though I'll wabbit, hell, oh, hello, hello, buyet, I'm 1127 01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:39.800 I'm broadcasting bond saga. Doesn't get any more classic than that, no doubt 1128 01:26:39.800 --> 01:26:47.680 about it. Marty brennanan greatest of all time. And the Cowboy and Cowboy, 1129 01:26:49.239 --> 01:26:53.720 I mean you were up there for a lot of that. Yes, 1130 01:26:54.920 --> 01:26:57.119 how much fun? How much fun is it to be in the boost with 1131 01:26:57.199 --> 01:27:00.680 those two? I was in their thirty six years with Marty and Joe and 1132 01:27:00.680 --> 01:27:06.399 then Jeff Brantley and company. So it was quite astonishing each and every night. 1133 01:27:06.640 --> 01:27:10.359 Every night, believe it, every night there's a story to tell, 1134 01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:15.119 no doubt about that. Fantastic That's that's for sure. That's for sure. 1135 01:27:15.279 --> 01:27:21.000 Great times, none better, none better, Dan Carroll, The Stooge Report 1136 01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:26.520 is the proud service of your local tame Star Heating and air Conditioning dealers, 1137 01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:30.000 Tamestar Quality. You can field in Cincinnati, col Schmid Heating at cool to 1138 01:27:30.039 --> 01:27:38.079 get five to one three five three one sixty nine hundred spot. Thank you. 1139 01:27:38.199 --> 01:27:41.239 Roxy. The Bengals have that the Bengal players have that day off. 1140 01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:45.800 They're getting the game plan ready to go for the season finale Sunday against those 1141 01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:49.760 playoff brown Cleveland Browns. Tough to say, how how weird is that the 1142 01:27:49.800 --> 01:27:56.960 Browns are headed to the playoffs and the Bengals are headed to Polukaville. They're 1143 01:27:57.000 --> 01:28:01.000 headed to the TV more to night on Bengals Line Lance and Lap six oh 1144 01:28:01.039 --> 01:28:06.880 five right here on seven hundred WLW College Football National Championship Game next Monday in 1145 01:28:06.920 --> 01:28:13.560 Houston, Washington Huskies and the Michigan Wolverines and Michigan's an early four and a 1146 01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:16.720 half point favorite. Why are they playing in Houston? I guess it's where 1147 01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:20.279 they want the game. What's the big stadium in Houston, the home of 1148 01:28:20.319 --> 01:28:27.000 the Texans. That's where the Texans play, right, NRG Energy or something, 1149 01:28:27.159 --> 01:28:30.039 NRG Field, something like that. I don't know, because I was 1150 01:28:30.039 --> 01:28:33.159 thinking about that the other day. I didn't know that the I guess. 1151 01:28:33.199 --> 01:28:39.600 I guess it's fairly new. Probably wherever the big money is there dance, 1152 01:28:39.960 --> 01:28:43.439 that's where they go, where the big money is. College basketball tonight Miami 1153 01:28:43.479 --> 01:28:47.880 Redhawk's mac opener hosting Western Michigan. Also number one Perdue at Maryland. Get 1154 01:28:47.920 --> 01:28:53.279 the latest on Norris basketball Tonight, the NKU Coaches Show, Jim Kelchin Company 1155 01:28:53.760 --> 01:28:58.680 six oh five on ESPN fifteen thirty, NHL Tonight, the Boston Brewins skate 1156 01:28:58.760 --> 01:29:02.319 up north against Columbus, and that Blue Jackets action at six thirty on Fox 1157 01:29:02.359 --> 01:29:10.920 Sports thirteen sixty. And who's going to come back to work first in the 1158 01:29:11.039 --> 01:29:15.199 twenty twenty four year. That's a good question. Will it be Willie or 1159 01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:19.439 will it be Rocky? I thought Rocky was going to be here. I 1160 01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:24.039 don't know. Maybe he might be recording an interview, or it might be 1161 01:29:24.079 --> 01:29:27.880 Todd Killinger, one of our account executives, might be he might be having 1162 01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:32.520 a big pregame meeting with Ed Fingers right now. You never know. Come 1163 01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:35.439 on, what what are you going to talk about? You're gonna talk about 1164 01:29:35.439 --> 01:29:39.600 the New Year and everything else, and they're going to have somebody on about 1165 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:43.000 the Bengals and everything. You know, Come on now, Cunningham. Cunningham 1166 01:29:43.039 --> 01:29:45.840 will be back in about a week or so, and then he'll talk about 1167 01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:48.680 how he works three hundred and sixty five days a year. MS. Nice, 1168 01:29:49.319 --> 01:29:54.960 it's a beautiful thing. How about how about Dave Portnoy bet a million 1169 01:29:55.039 --> 01:30:00.640 bucks, won a million dollars betting on the Wolverines. Not bad. Never 1170 01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:06.279 made a bet that big, No, no, believe it negative. That'd 1171 01:30:06.319 --> 01:30:11.680 be pretty cool, though. Yeah. I been a million dollars on Michigan 1172 01:30:12.399 --> 01:30:15.840 to win, and then they they pulled it out, getting the game to 1173 01:30:15.880 --> 01:30:21.000 overtime and then scoring and overtime. I don't know, I was I would 1174 01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:26.079 have bet money that Alabama was going to score on that last play, and 1175 01:30:26.279 --> 01:30:28.720 of course they ran it up the gut. The guy tripped over his own 1176 01:30:28.760 --> 01:30:30.840 lineman and that was the end of the game, that's for sure, the 1177 01:30:30.960 --> 01:30:35.119 end of the game. I thought Michigan was good. But man, that 1178 01:30:35.279 --> 01:30:40.199 that Korum and a few other guys that they got JJ McCarthy. Man, 1179 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:43.399 he can throw that ball. And they got a they got a good team. 1180 01:30:43.439 --> 01:30:46.800 And but there's wild rumors around it. You know that Harball is gonna, 1181 01:30:47.159 --> 01:30:50.000 you know, Bolt for the NFL coming up here. So I don't 1182 01:30:50.000 --> 01:30:53.960 know who knows what's gonna happen. But where would he go in the NNL? 1183 01:30:54.119 --> 01:30:59.000 Probably any anybody that wants him. Isn't he making enough money in Michigan? 1184 01:30:59.159 --> 01:31:01.000 No, I don't think so. You make more money. You make 1185 01:31:01.079 --> 01:31:05.600 more money in the NFL. You make more money in the uh the college. 1186 01:31:06.079 --> 01:31:11.439 If NFL owners want you, they'll pay you. Believe it. It's 1187 01:31:11.479 --> 01:31:15.359 all about bags and bags of cash. Correct, correct the mundo? So 1188 01:31:15.479 --> 01:31:18.399 se you got any more sports? Is it's a light day in sports right 1189 01:31:18.399 --> 01:31:23.319 now, very late. That's gonna it's gonna get it's gonna get lighter. 1190 01:31:23.319 --> 01:31:26.359 When the Bengals don't make it to the playoffs. I'll be in there about 1191 01:31:26.399 --> 01:31:30.680 five about less than five minutes with Willie if he ever shows up again. 1192 01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:35.239 I mean maybe maybe he'll just phone it in from Florida. Who knows, 1193 01:31:35.560 --> 01:31:40.520 Hey, that's where Rocky is after a wild week of college football with him. 1194 01:31:40.600 --> 01:31:42.880 I know, I guess Rocky is not going to show up till the 1195 01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:45.840 Eddie rock I was hoping to see his his swag bag from the Liberty. 1196 01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:48.920 That is Eddie coming in. I don't know. Maybe I had to do 1197 01:31:49.039 --> 01:31:51.960 with you at Jason Williams again and you don't know it. Maybe it is 1198 01:31:53.039 --> 01:31:55.760 I did. I did the Eddie and Rocky show four days in a row 1199 01:31:55.840 --> 01:31:59.399 last week. I'm just saying Florida and then and then this guy calls me 1200 01:31:59.479 --> 01:32:02.199 up and says, can't you ever say anything positive? Oh? I think 1201 01:32:02.239 --> 01:32:05.079 Tony benders outside the door. I think he's got something to tell you. 1202 01:32:06.960 --> 01:32:11.319 Is he sticking his name? Three more hours? Dan? Can you can 1203 01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:14.920 you help us out? Guy says, can't you ever say anything positive? 1204 01:32:15.039 --> 01:32:17.720 Can you? Well? Yeah, I say positive things all the time. 1205 01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:21.479 Okay, okay, just checking. I mean I was talking to uh, 1206 01:32:21.880 --> 01:32:25.840 my bud, my, my buddy. Jim Serger wrote a book about going 1207 01:32:25.880 --> 01:32:32.039 to see van Halen. Then that was a very positive interview. Did you 1208 01:32:32.079 --> 01:32:36.319 ever see van Halen a concert? No? What what concerts have you been 1209 01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:43.000 to what's what's the biggest show you've ever seen? Rolling Stones here? Yeah, 1210 01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:46.479 baby, I don't know what it was. It was a riverfront stadium. 1211 01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:49.479 Yeah, I was there. It was uh and then Neil Diamond a 1212 01:32:49.520 --> 01:32:54.800 couple of times. Uh. And then the monkeys at the Gardens. Oh, 1213 01:32:54.800 --> 01:32:57.680 don't get any bigger than that, no doubt about it. I mean 1214 01:32:57.680 --> 01:33:00.359 the monkeys, they were huge back in the day. I couldn't hear I 1215 01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:05.920 still can't here in one ear screaming and yelling like a bunch of maniacs in 1216 01:33:05.920 --> 01:33:10.720 that place. I went with my cousins and I thought that was the end 1217 01:33:10.800 --> 01:33:14.239 of the world. Now, you know, just the doors the doors opened 1218 01:33:14.239 --> 01:33:16.880 and everybody just rushed right in. There's just one nuts. They went nuts 1219 01:33:16.880 --> 01:33:23.840 to the monkeys. So that was it. At the Gardens, they have 1220 01:33:23.840 --> 01:33:27.119 a lot of great memories of that place. A hockey barn of bedlam. 1221 01:33:27.479 --> 01:33:30.079 Heck yeah. And then I remember when Xavier used to play there. Yep, 1222 01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:35.399 they had some They had some infamous crosstown shootouts there that remember the night 1223 01:33:35.479 --> 01:33:41.479 we were there when uh Bob Huggins and uh Pete Yellen refused to shake hands 1224 01:33:41.520 --> 01:33:45.279 after the game. He would have thought that uh uh, World War three 1225 01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:47.960 was gonna the Civil War was going to start. Fans fans were yelling and 1226 01:33:48.000 --> 01:33:56.159 screaming and fighting out in the parking lot and unbelievable. And look who's here 1227 01:33:55.960 --> 01:34:00.199 here? How about that mister College Bowl gave himself to side. So now 1228 01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:04.520 he wins the bet. He shows up before Willie, he got he got 1229 01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:09.039 you know what before coming, and you know what, let's give this guy 1230 01:34:09.119 --> 01:34:14.319 credit. Will He can't say anything about Notre Dame anymore at the name, 1231 01:34:14.640 --> 01:34:17.840 do you know what? Out of who was it? And the beaver in 1232 01:34:17.880 --> 01:34:24.600 the sun Bowl Mercy six, that was a that was a you know what 1233 01:34:24.800 --> 01:34:30.560 kicking. So but he'll come up with something like the girls lacrosse one or 1234 01:34:30.600 --> 01:34:34.159 something like that. Yeah, yeah, that type of thing. But should 1235 01:34:34.239 --> 01:34:41.359 be that should be a new year's resolution for the Stooge Report going forward is 1236 01:34:41.359 --> 01:34:45.479 that we don't play anymore that Notre Dame beat down stuff. I'm with that, 1237 01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:50.479 put it away, put it in the vault, because the guy with 1238 01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:59.560 the guy that has the name on this show, no way, he's beating 1239 01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:05.199 me down over the years. And this guy's next in line must succeed. 1240 01:35:05.920 --> 01:35:11.800 I get twice a day, he gets it only once. That's correct, 1241 01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:16.520 thank you. Going on record right now, it's saying he's going to come 1242 01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:20.079 up with something to say about the you know what, well, I knew 1243 01:35:20.119 --> 01:35:24.000 Notre Dame was going to win, and all I know what he's gonna say, 1244 01:35:24.159 --> 01:35:27.680 but I'm gonna go on record now as saying I watched that game and 1245 01:35:27.720 --> 01:35:30.359 it was like that was a you know what kicking And I said, Willie, 1246 01:35:30.680 --> 01:35:33.439 you can't say anything about Notre Dame in that game. We did it 1247 01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:38.600 with that starting quarterback. The whole deal next year is going to be big 1248 01:35:38.720 --> 01:35:42.359 Dan curl and I will say this too. Well. He also gave my 1249 01:35:42.560 --> 01:35:45.960 son crap because my son is a Michigan fan. I don't know how that 1250 01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:49.319 happened. By the way, it's not my fault, but Michigan yesterday. 1251 01:35:49.439 --> 01:35:55.119 Who do you blame your wife? Yes? Oh? And happy birthday to 1252 01:35:55.159 --> 01:36:00.319 your dad? Yeah, thank you. He had the man. He turned 1253 01:36:00.359 --> 01:36:03.760 that seventy one yesterday on. He's a New Year's Day baby. Just look 1254 01:36:03.800 --> 01:36:06.920 at looking at him. He could tear you in half. That's exactly right, 1255 01:36:08.000 --> 01:36:11.279 thank you. He's like a mics like you. I love that, 1256 01:36:11.560 --> 01:36:14.479 just like you. That's why I'm on your side. But your son didn't 1257 01:36:14.479 --> 01:36:16.399 win a million bucks betting on Michigan though, did he He didn't win them? 1258 01:36:16.479 --> 01:36:18.920 No, there's no Betty in our house. But he was. He 1259 01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:23.439 was a happy camper, you know, camper that part of that part of 1260 01:36:23.399 --> 01:36:27.560 the Rockies rules. Yes, yes, yeah'll get you in trouble, Dan 1261 01:36:27.640 --> 01:36:34.079 Carroll. So rock the president of Harvard resigned to a Claudine Gay because she 1262 01:36:34.079 --> 01:36:40.600 had like sixty seven plagiarism charges. Come on, now, what if we 1263 01:36:40.600 --> 01:36:45.359 were to examine sentenced by sentence Rockies rules? Wh we find any plagiarism? 1264 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:50.239 Absolutely not. I wrote every word that damn straight. No ghostwriter, no 1265 01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:54.840 nothing, I wrote it. Boom, that's not that's not good. You 1266 01:36:54.880 --> 01:37:00.000 can't. You can't cut and paste when you're doing your doctoral thesis. Yeah, 1267 01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:02.039 that's a pretty good life rule to follow, especially Yeah, if you're 1268 01:37:02.079 --> 01:37:10.399 an academia should be maybe maybe the twelfth rule. Sake wild Man Walker's got 1269 01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:13.520 two books out, Maybe Rocky can do another one. Next book I know 1270 01:37:13.720 --> 01:37:16.479 is gonna be a children's book. Please, that's what you're telling you? 1271 01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:20.479 Lots of pictures. Yes, that's the best way to go. But I'm 1272 01:37:20.479 --> 01:37:25.840 back. Eddie is back. How was Liver dynamic is back. I know 1273 01:37:26.159 --> 01:37:29.520 it was me and Jason Williams last week. I didn't know, well, 1274 01:37:29.560 --> 01:37:34.239 you were on the road because your your month started where uh Shrevell my last 1275 01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:42.279 two weeks Shreveport, Louisiana for the first, Texas and Frisco and then uh 1276 01:37:42.399 --> 01:37:45.680 the Liberal Memphis. Yes, what's what's the swag bag like at the Independence? 1277 01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:49.239 Do you get Eddie? We get none? What are the players get? 1278 01:37:49.760 --> 01:37:54.199 I'm not sure. A bunch of T shirts and hats and all stuff, 1279 01:37:54.159 --> 01:37:57.960 but nothing for the broadcasters. Now, some bulls do, some some 1280 01:37:58.119 --> 01:38:01.039 don't. Nothing for the Remember the famous Idaho Potato Bowl gave us so much 1281 01:38:01.079 --> 01:38:02.720 crap. You know what I did, say, I gave it. I 1282 01:38:03.039 --> 01:38:05.600 gave it to my kids for Christmas gifts and said it was from me. 1283 01:38:05.920 --> 01:38:09.960 I didn't pay a nickel for it. That's a smart parenting tip right there, 1284 01:38:10.000 --> 01:38:13.159 guys. All right, So if your dad's a big TV start, 1285 01:38:13.159 --> 01:38:19.079 a broadcaster, that's what you're gonna get. Gay get nothing. Too bad 1286 01:38:19.119 --> 01:38:21.920 you didn't get the pop tart bowl there, rock, because you would have. 1287 01:38:23.000 --> 01:38:25.159 You would have been the dad of the year in your household. A 1288 01:38:25.159 --> 01:38:28.000 bunch of pop tarts, that's right, what's it? What's in the swag 1289 01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:34.840 bag at the pop tart pole? You bet it's thank you got a coupon 1290 01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:40.640 for a toaster. I haven't had a pop tart in forever. Way to 1291 01:38:40.680 --> 01:38:44.159 go, by the way, cinnamon with butter on it, or you could 1292 01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:48.840 have you got the cheese part had Jesus for Life, Jesus for life, 1293 01:38:49.399 --> 01:38:59.079 Duke's Mayo, all the all the sponsors say, you want to win a 1294 01:38:59.079 --> 01:39:02.279 Bowl game, rock, but maybe not that one because I saw what when 1295 01:39:02.319 --> 01:39:06.319 they at least at least they didn't have like they had like a gatorade jug 1296 01:39:06.760 --> 01:39:10.520 of the mayonnaise. But the last year they had one. It was like 1297 01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:15.520 a giant glass bottle and they covered this guy and it was, oh, 1298 01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:17.640 but you know what, smart guy on TV. He had the French fries. 1299 01:39:18.159 --> 01:39:21.720 He like wiped the French fries on the guy's arm and he ate him. 1300 01:39:21.760 --> 01:39:26.119 It's pretty good, not bad not to get a bucket of mayonnaise dumped 1301 01:39:26.159 --> 01:39:29.399 on their head. Well, when it's Duke Mayo and they're paying, you're 1302 01:39:29.479 --> 01:39:34.359 doing the winning coach, get doused with the man buch money for that ball, 1303 01:39:34.720 --> 01:39:41.119 exactly the what they want. They can do whatever they get a little 1304 01:39:41.159 --> 01:39:44.479 checked for that. If the coach does, but he's told you what you 1305 01:39:44.520 --> 01:39:47.479 got to do, your team boom. Here's a proposal. I was talking 1306 01:39:47.479 --> 01:39:54.560 about the last Duge report before you got here. If you're making nil money 1307 01:39:55.439 --> 01:39:59.119 and you're getting paid, then you cannot opt out of a bowl game. 1308 01:40:00.840 --> 01:40:02.119 You think that would be a part of the requirement. Now, it would 1309 01:40:02.199 --> 01:40:05.479 just be the people whoever's offering the nil In this case, it's a lot 1310 01:40:05.479 --> 01:40:09.920 of these collectives. They should put that as a clause in there. Yeah, 1311 01:40:10.359 --> 01:40:12.720 you accept the money, then you got to show up. I agree 1312 01:40:13.039 --> 01:40:17.199 these players the Frisco ball that I called this was unbelievable. A player I'll 1313 01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:21.199 name him Rashen Ali from Marshall, Okay, running back, one of the 1314 01:40:21.239 --> 01:40:26.520 best players in a Sun belt. He plays the first half of the game. 1315 01:40:26.880 --> 01:40:29.399 In other words, he's on a pitch clock, is what his coach 1316 01:40:29.439 --> 01:40:32.000 said, or pitch count, whatever you want to say. In the second 1317 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:35.079 half, they're behind by one touchdown, they're in the game. He had 1318 01:40:35.079 --> 01:40:39.439 a sixty five yard touchdown first day and the rest of the half he just 1319 01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:42.159 sat there. First of all, how do you do that to your teammates. 1320 01:40:42.199 --> 01:40:45.880 Secondly, I know he's receiving nil. How do you half play either 1321 01:40:45.960 --> 01:40:50.399 play or don't play and don't take the nil money. But what about Georgia 1322 01:40:50.479 --> 01:40:57.199 Florida State? That was a mess. I mean until you know the coaches 1323 01:40:57.239 --> 01:41:00.199 demand more, But the coaches won't demand more because they're skill air. Because 1324 01:41:00.199 --> 01:41:05.840 when I was in college, coaches that the coaches have the power. Right 1325 01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:09.800 now, in the age of social media, the big players have the power 1326 01:41:09.800 --> 01:41:12.640 because all it has to happen the players to do is this is my body 1327 01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:15.119 and I don't think this is right for my future, and the coach will 1328 01:41:15.119 --> 01:41:18.880 get killed and will never get another recruit. So there's players in the in 1329 01:41:18.920 --> 01:41:26.640 the Independence boy I did that enter the transfer portal and are are not playing 1330 01:41:26.680 --> 01:41:30.640 in a ball game, but are allowing themselves the opportunity should they want to 1331 01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:33.439 come back, to come back. So there's players that are that are in 1332 01:41:33.520 --> 01:41:36.920 the transfer portal, that are playing in the game that may leave, and 1333 01:41:38.000 --> 01:41:40.960 some that aren't playing that may come back. Explain that one to me, 1334 01:41:41.079 --> 01:41:44.680 Well, it's just like the NBA. The players are running the league now, 1335 01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:48.079 that's it. Yeah, that's exactly what's happening now. The power the 1336 01:41:48.520 --> 01:41:54.359 n C douable as is no good anymore. The university, the coaches, 1337 01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:59.319 nothing, the players are telling. By the way, I heard a good 1338 01:41:59.359 --> 01:42:00.439 idea. I wish I could take credit for it. But where they need 1339 01:42:00.479 --> 01:42:04.279 to move these balls to the beginning of the year because no one's gonna opt 1340 01:42:04.279 --> 01:42:06.439 out of the bowl games. If they're in the beginning of the year. 1341 01:42:06.439 --> 01:42:11.119 Okay, you still have Okay, it would it would count towards your record. 1342 01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:14.119 It'd be a big deal. All the players would play in it. 1343 01:42:14.199 --> 01:42:16.640 Just make it week zero and then they start their regular season on Week one. 1344 01:42:17.279 --> 01:42:19.840 Make the bowl games in. All the sponsors are happy, fans are 1345 01:42:19.840 --> 01:42:24.119 happy. You've got the top twelve and that's it. There you go, 1346 01:42:24.199 --> 01:42:26.880 there you go. Root, what do you got coming up? Who you're 1347 01:42:26.880 --> 01:42:32.119 picking? Rock Michigan as I have all year? They look good. I 1348 01:42:32.199 --> 01:42:35.079 agree, thought i'd ask. I do like Michael Pennix a lot. It's 1349 01:42:35.079 --> 01:42:38.720 gonna be harder for me to root against him because he was my Heisman vote. 1350 01:42:38.760 --> 01:42:41.439 But anyway, well, what are you having to should what is it? 1351 01:42:41.560 --> 01:42:44.439 Oh? Yes we have we have Jayson Williams out of game. We 1352 01:42:44.479 --> 01:42:45.640 got to talk a little bangs under the game was a few days ago. 1353 01:42:45.720 --> 01:42:50.039 We talk about that future. There what what of how a fan should view 1354 01:42:50.079 --> 01:42:55.239 this season. We'll get into that, and then we have the patent professor 1355 01:42:55.279 --> 01:42:59.560 at four o'clock. Apparently the patent has run out on Mickey Mouse. I 1356 01:42:59.600 --> 01:43:01.720 saw that. So now, like all these horror movies that are trying to 1357 01:43:02.800 --> 01:43:06.119 Nikki and so how can that happen? What's the story there? We're talking 1358 01:43:06.119 --> 01:43:11.399 to him at four O'clockroy American kids, We're way late. We're way late. 1359 01:43:11.439 --> 01:43:16.720 We gotta go get Caroline. The beautiful Day in the State, something 1360 01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:20.640 like that. I want to say something. We leave you with the immortal 1361 01:43:20.680 --> 01:43:26.680 words of the Stooge Report. Hell are you talking about? Say thank him? 1362 01:43:26.720 --> 01:43:28.479 I's seven hundred W l W