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sounded so good. Great back to
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right center field. I think you
got it. He did. Oh my

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goodness, Nick Martini, have an
opening day, A free run shot it.

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It is seven to nothing. Rend
my over. They better order out

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some more firework, Nick Martini,
Mohager, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham

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showing. Not on for a day
or two or three or four. Give

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me your three or four highlights?
Can I give you more or less a

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highlight right now? You could do
whatever you want at your show. Good

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point. We got Jim Scott,
which I thought was fabulous. Of course

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neither of us could be there,
but the photos from his wife Donna,

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and what happened I thought was unbelievable. It was fabulous. Secondly, when

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you have Moller High Schools Barry Larkin
on the mic, and you have Moller

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High Schools David Bell in the dugout, and you have Moller High Schools Bruce

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Souter on the mound, I'm thinking
in baseball history. You know history more

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than anyone else. Is it conceivable
possible that that would ever happen again in

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any stadium anywhere in America that three
high school grads from the same high school

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was still in that kind of work. To me, that would have been

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impossible. My guess is that's never
happened. I don't know that for sure,

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but if it's happened before, it
hasn't happened often. Let's talk about

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on field stuff everything. If we
could have scripted it out starting at six

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o'clock in the morning, we would
have done that. What impressed you about

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the activities on the field itself?
That indicates this team is ready for glory,

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especially when you think the National League
Central this year is about the worst

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it's ever been. Milwaukee gets rid
of all their pitchers. Saint Louis thinks

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they're good, but they're not.
Pittsburgh gonna be Pittsburg. Guess between the

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Cubs and the Reds am I wrong? Uh? I think it's gonna be

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a four team race. I'm still
not discounting Milwaukee. I still wonder what

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Vegas sees in Saint Louis that the
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with major injuries to start the season. The Reds have a chance. And

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I know the headline is Nick Martini, which is an awesome sluss. Look,

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this team's starting pitching has to be
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It's got to give the Reds more
in terms of quantity. Now, you'll

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get that if you're getting quality.
Yesterday, Frankie Montass gave the Reds both.

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He was pitch efficient. I got
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played maybe five or six weeks from
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the game. He threw just eighty
one pitches. That is not a good

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Washington lineup by any stretch of the
imagination. But the Reds have put a

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lot on Frankie Montass, a guy
who pitched in one game last year,

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basically missed the entire season like everybody
else. He's trying to re establish his

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health. If he does that,
he's got a chance to be a top

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end starting pitcher. If the Reds
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rotation has a chance of being better. If the rotation is better, this

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team's got a chance to win.
That to me, yesterday, Frankie Montas

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looking as good as he did,
not walking anybody. The red starting staff

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gave up more walks than any in
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as a whole with a paganan suitor
no walks yesterday. That's such a big,

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big, big factor with this starting
staff being able to go deeper into

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game. So to me, the
big takeaway as we apply it to the

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rest of the season was the Red's
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They need to pitch like that twenty
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Why didn't Hunter Green or Graham?
I would think that the hammers of this

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mound are not going to be Montas. I would think it'd be Green and

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Graham Ashcraft. Why didn't one of
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thought, I mean, this guy
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the third innings last season, and
he only threw eighty one pitches and the

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good old days you have to get
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But it is the opening day.
But does that say something about the starting

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staff? Then Hunter and Graham were
not picked h I think it says something

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about David Bell's willingness to make this
a meritocracy, to borrow word that Scott

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Sloane used yesterday. You have to
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starting pitcher. Hunter Green didn't earn
it. Look, Frankie Montas didn't have

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a good year last year because he
didn't pitch. But he's the one guy

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on the staff who has a track
record of reliability. He's the one guy

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on the staff that has gotten through
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If he is the pitcher he was
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No? But is he a good, reliable, middle of the rotation

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guy. Yes. The way that
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step forward, if Graham Ashcraft takes
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takes a major step forward. But
look, there's there's something ceremonial about being

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the opening day's that's a big deal. That's something you have to earn.

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Hunter Green, I think it's fair
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grandfathered into that just because he did
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the fact that David Bell said,
we're gonna give it to the guy who's

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been better this spring. We're gonna
give it to the guy who has a

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better track record. And you know
what, maybe things will be different a

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year from now. Maybe this will
give a little bit of a motivational boost

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to Hunter Green or Graham Ashcraft or
somebody else. But I like what David

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Bell did and and you know,
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is a year from now. We'll
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who pitches Game one. But in
terms of let's let's not let somebody do

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something just because they did it last
year. Let's make these guys earn it.

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Frankie Montas I think earned it,
deserved it, and he certainly justified

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the decision to make him the opening
day started with how he pitched yesterday.

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Some said that Jonathan India had a
chip on his shoulder because it was obvious

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they wanted to trade him. They
did not get enough in return to trade

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Jonathan India. Thank god that never
happened, because nobody could have saw what

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was going to happen with all the
injuries we've had. But the Dela Cruz

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factor, what he does to a
game, just get on bass any which

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way you can get on bass.
There has not been a more exciting Reds

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player in my lifetime, which goes
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comes up, I listen and I
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Is he the most exciting Reds player
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hasn't been anybody who when they come
to the plate generates the sort of buzz

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you know, the opening day crowd, right, it's a social crowd.

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Call it what it is. Right, But when the PA announcer, when

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Joziahughson announces that Elie del Lacruz is
coming to the plate, everybody stops what

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they're doing to watch. There's nobody
else there's I mean, I watched Joey

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Vado for seventeen years. That never
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And I love Joey Vado. It
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was important, right, I think
Ellie Dela Cruz. You know, on

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our radio station ESPN fifteen thirty,
we do a gambling segment and I said,

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I think one of the easiest plays
is Eli Dela Cruz to lead the

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National League and stolen bases at plus
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buy that Bill, that's a good
investment. The question is not about excitement

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or electricity or about talent, it's
can he make the adjustments that the league

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made to him late last season.
Now, he did strike out twice yesterday,

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but he also drew a walk,
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a couple of times, he stole
third base. There is an excitement level

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that you know goes above and beyond
his actual performance. Can the performance match

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the excitement and yesterday might give you
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And as far as McLain and Marte
and Friedol, that's like, I don't

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know, thirty forty percent of the
Reds lineup gone and you think can they

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overcome that? And the most upset
to me is Matt McLain, who maybe

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the most popular Reds ball player,
and to have a freak injury take place

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to him and talk about the capsule
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It looks to be three to four
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Very disappointing. And TJ. Friedel
broken wrist, Ali Joe Burrow who knows

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Marty stupid, idiotic. Yeah,
he's not going to play in the postseason

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if there is one and this season
had the reason to start off on the

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downtick, but it didn't do.
So can you give us hope relative to

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Freedo, Marty and McLain give us
hope? Well, I think the most

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maddening one is obviously Marte right,
because injuries are gonna happen, right.

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Baseball Players get hurt playing baseball.
You have to account for injuries, which

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is why you build depth. What
you shouldn't have to account for is a

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guy breaking the rule and having to
miss half the season, and as you

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mentioned, if the Reds are in
the playoffs, he won't be eligible to

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participate. That is, if you're
Nick Crawl and David Bell, maddening because

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you understand you're gonna have to account
for injuries over the course of the season.

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Unfortunately, the Reds have had a
bunch even before the season has started.

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What you shouldn't have to account for
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stupid and selfish. Matt McClain,
I think is the one guy of all

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of the younger players who made their
debuts last year. I think he's the

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one guy that you could sort of
wrap your brain around with what his numbers

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are most likely to look like.
I think he was their best player last

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year. I think he was their
most complete player last year. He's really

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hard to replace, but look,
you could do a lot worse than Okay,

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we lose our best player. The
guy who's gonna fill his shoes is

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a dude who three years ago was
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a guy who a year ago we
were talking about as being one of the

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foundational pieces of this franchise. And
yeah, they were open to trading Jonathan

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India, but they didn't, and
so things have kind of come full circle

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for him. He has every reason
to be motivated to sort of show people,

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hey, look I never should have
been displaced. I still should be

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a big part of this franchise moving
forward. So you know, I would

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love Matt McClain back. I think
Jonathan India is a reasonable replacement. What

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I wonder about is defensively, look
Will Benson and I like his beat.

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I don't know that he is a
center fielder. TJ. Friedl is a

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center fielder, and so I do
worry about that from a defensive perspective,

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because I don't think this team is
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you just took away a guy who
covers a lot of ground, who is

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a pretty good defensive center fielder in
TJ. Friedl. There has been some

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encouraging news about him. You know, the original estimate was he would miss

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six to eight weeks. Now it
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six than eight, which is a
good thing. But we talked all off

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season Bill about, well, the
Reds are deep. They got a deep

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roster, a lot of depth.
Okay, Well, is that something we

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say or is that something we mean? And if you mean it, then

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you think this team can be okay
and survive without having some of the guys

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they're gonna play without. I think
the troubling thing about injuries is Opening Day

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is when you're supposed to be at
your healthiest, because you know you're going

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to go through this during the season. You know guys are going to miss

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time, and so you just wonder, what is the cumulative effect a month

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from now, how many more guys
are hurt? And then you add to

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the growing total to what they already
have McLain Marte, maybe still Freedle,

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et cetera. That's frustrating. They're
not as deep as they were but again,

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if you spent all off season talking
about their depth, then I think

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you think they can survive some of
the things they've had to deal with over

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the last few weeks. No one
does Opening eight better than the Reds.

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I looked at some of the other
opening days around the country, a lot

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of empty stadiums and few people.
It's unbelievable. The Finland Market parade.

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A key part of that was Jim
Scott. What that was like. Donna

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sent me and sent you a whole
bunch of photos of Jim Scott. I'm

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so happy for Jim and for loyal
listeners of this radio station. They got

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to say, in a sense,
thank you, Jim Scott. You never

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know if it's goodbye, because that
one lady who's a hero in Westchester has

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had als for twenty years and she's
still it's a less than a five percent

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chance. So I can't predict the
future. But if that is a send

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off for Jim Scott, it was
fabulous. He's missed Opening Day. You

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know, you've known him a long
time, longer than I and I've known

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him for twenty six years. I
can't think of anybody who loves Opening Day

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more, you know, I mean, you know, all those years when

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the Reds would win Opening Day,
when the game was earlier in the day,

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we would start broadcasting at five a
m. From somewhere, Like,

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Jim was always excited to do his
job, but Opening Day just brought out

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the best in him. He loved
the parade, and so for him to

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get that chance yesterday, for it
to go as well as it did.

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Let's be honest, there was a
part of a lot of us who are

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worried, Okay, is this going
to be okay? Is this going to

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work out? Is Jim going to
be all right? And by all accounts,

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he had a great day, a
great experience, got a chance to

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bask in the adoration of people who
love him, who appreciate him, who

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listen to him, whose lives have
been touched by him. And so I

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don't know what the future holds.
He obviously is dealing with some very significant

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challenges. If yesterday was goodbye,
then what a great farewell. I hope

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it wasn't more than anything. I'm
glad he got a great experience because I

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can't think of anybody who deserves it
more. I'm launching a couple of nights

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ago, the three to zip loss. They were down the Red Sox and

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the Yankees. And there's Pokey Rees
at second base for the Red Sox and

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he is a World Series ring great
guy. Dimitri Young hilarious, shows up

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with multicolored hair at some point.
Don't understand it, but those are characters,

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and you're questioning of Pokey Rees,
and Dimitri Young was beautiful. Tell

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the American people who may not have
heard it yesterday, Dimitri Young some stats.

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Then you turned to Pokey Rees and
said, do you have a sense

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of humor? Some stats on Dimitri
Young and Pokey Rees. Yeah. So,

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Dmitri Young is one of four players
who has three home runs in an

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opening day game. He did it
with the Tigers in two thousand and five.

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One of the other four is Toughy
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brought that up because it's always fun
to talk with these guys about their opening

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day memories. We did it with
Sean Casey, who was traded to the

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Reds right before opening Day in ninety
eight. And so you know, bring

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up Dimitri Young, Oh, five
three homers. Only a handful of players

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have done that. And then you
know Pokey Reese's first opening day, he

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made four errors, and that he's
a defensive specialist. That guy could scrape.

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That guy was fabulous. You're saying
he had four errors on Reds opening

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day, Red's opening day nineteen ninety
eight against the Padres, And he only

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played seven innings in the game,
which is the remarkable thing, Right,

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he didn't play the full nine,
but he had four errors, and so

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and look, he went on.
He was a terrific defensive player. But

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his opening day in ninety eight,
I think it was his first opening day,

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might not have been, but anyway, he had four errors, and

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so, you know, I was
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You know, you ever know how
people are going to act, right

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like it's one of the sure one
of the worst days of his professional career.

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Is it something he doesn't want to
joke about, something he doesn't find

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funny, or with the passage of
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successful big league career, is it
something he can laugh about. Fortunately,

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it was something he was very willing
to not just laugh about, but talk

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about and talked about how you know, I mean, he grew from that

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and how tough it was in real
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learned from. So I could have
gone the other way, and you know,

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maybe he would have punched me in
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but it was he got a kick
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folks at the Holy Grail and people
listening got a kick out of it,

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and he obviously should be. I
did bring up the fact that in ninety

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nine, as the Reds were making
their push toward the postseason, which they

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obviously didn't qualify for, he hit
a walk off home run on a Sunday

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afternoon, and he remembered the pitcher's
name, Ricky Batalico. So it wasn't

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just bad. I didn't just bring
up his worst moment as a Red.

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I brought up one of his best, which I guess. Maybe maybe that

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put me back in his good graces. I don't know, but it was

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fun. He's got a World Series
ring from the ball. Yeah, look

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at it. He should have worn
that, say, Moe, take a

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look at my ring. Thing,
take a look at this. And lastly,

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Alabama last night in basketball, I've
caught some flack from some near to

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Wells tin Horns and the Kentucky Radio
Network kind of stuff. We talked about

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Kentucky basketball yesterday with Marty Brenahan and
Kentucky courses out early. I think they're

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one and four and opening round games. They haven't won anything in a long

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time. With cal but North Carolina, he had particular pride the Tar Heels

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were gonna beat Alabama roll tide.
Guess what, Marty didn't happen. It

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did not that Alabama team can really
score. They can really score. Now

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they have all sorts of defensive deficiencies. But they held Carolina to thirty nine

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percent shooting, which you know that
in itself is a victory. But when

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you're a team like Alabama that just
doesn't defend well at all, and you

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hold a team as good as Carolina
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that's that's terrific and you're gonna win
the ball game if you do that.

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Alabama did. They survived Carolina being
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I think the Tar Hills had twenty
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that is a really talented Alabama team, and that is a guy in Natos

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who I think is one of the
best coaches in college basketball. And so

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was I surprised that the Crimson Tide
beat the Tar Heels. Yes, but

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am I shocked having watched them play
offense all season long? No, I

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am surprised because they were down.
Was it six eight and a half time?

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Yeah, And I just I didn't
feel like Alabama could get stops in

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the second half. They got enough
of them. Marty Brenneman's having a bad

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afternoon today. But Alabama, Clemson, Connecticut, those three look pretty good.

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Well, Mo, thank you for
what you've done, and thank you

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for the interviews. They're fabulous.
You've forgotten more about sports than Tony Bender

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knows. And once again, thank
you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

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Are you are you going to come
to a game this year? You

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know That's what Karen Forgas asked me. And yes, if they're winning.

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I think last year they open up
like three and ten or three and twelve

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or something. I had a heart. If they start winning and the weather's

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nice, I'm coming to a game. Really yeah, Now, like come

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to a game, like come to
a come to a game and you're gonna

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be up in one of those boxes
hanging out with high society or out there

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in right field with me and the
common folk. Let me think about it.

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At some point I'll make a decision. Yeah, we'll be holding our

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breath. Thank you, Moe.
No, the Business Day special on April

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eleventh, that bumps you from the
air, and I'm taking off to go

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to it. It's my opening day, so we'll have a ticket for you.

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I'll tell you what. If the
weather's nice, I may come and

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sit for an inning or two.
We'll see. We'll see, all right,

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Moe. Thank you. Okay,
let's continue. Bill Cunningham seven hundred

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WLW celebrate and say that Ashley's Anniversary
sale by Billy cunning into great American picking

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up the pieces of what happened yesterday
and beyond. Many have said is the

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greatest the Reds opening day in history, and I can't disagree with that whatsoever.

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And I also would say the crowds
involved are certainly well north of one

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hundred thousand. Other than Octoberfest and
the taste of Cincinnati, I don't think

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there's a gathering of eagles like that
anytime in Cincinnati. It was great,

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it was fabulous, the weather worked. Jim Scott was his heart was warmed.

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I exchanged text this morning with his
wife, Donna. Could not be

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more pleased with what happened the game
itself. You had a local boy,

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shall we say, on the mound
suitor, and then you had a local

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guy managing the team, David Bell, and then on the mic was Barry

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Larkin. All from the same high
school. And as Moe said, I

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don't think in baseball history that's ever
happened. I can't imagine from the same

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high school. Different eras, but
the same high school. And it was

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just a one wonderful day. In
fact, the reds one, which is

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most important, eight to two.
But as Moe said, the pitching staff

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will see what happens with the Hunter
Green Graham Ashcraft, will see what happened,

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see what happens with Lodolo, going
to go to a rehab, start,

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start a couple of games, I
guess in Louisville or somewhere, and

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just start to finish the game itself. I mentioned to Karen Forgas and a

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telephone call that the game was like
two hours and fifteen minutes and it was

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eight to two. So whatever rules
they're doing, if you go past three

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hours, it's a problem. I
think about thirty minutes have been taken off

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the game, which is a wonderful. I want to relate two local issues.

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One sometime last year, a young
couple came up to me and her

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name is Alison Collins and his name
is Michael Laushey and they live in the

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Miamisburg area, up near Dayton,
and they talked to their dating et cetera.

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And I asked him at that time, Michael, are you going to

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marry that girl? And he said
I think so, and she said he

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better. And so they come back
a year later and Tony Bender hands me

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this the pleasure of your company is
requested for the wedding celebration of Alison Collins

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and Michael Lauschee Friday, July the
twelfth, twenty twenty four, half past

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five o'clock in the evening, and
I won't give the location, but it's

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in the Miamisburg area. Reception to
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I said, look, after you
get married, start having babies. Have

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two, three, four five,
break the trend. It's interesting to make

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a lot of money, but the
most important thing in life is family life.

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So I'm not sure I'm going to
attend the wedding. But Alison Collins

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and Michael Lauschee, congratulations and thank
you, and living long and happy life

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together. The difficulties, the problems, the ups, the downs, the

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desire to leave, the desire to
love is all there. Every human activity

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is experienced when one has children.
It's just it's scary and it's also great

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at the same time. And live
your life to the fullest. So congratulations

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to Michael and Alison. I'm not
sure sure I'll be there, but I

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have this in my calendar, so
to speak. I doubt I'll be there,

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but we'll see what happens. And
secondly, Aaron Cahill as operating a

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parking company and I pulled in to
park my car yesterday and he had on

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his Apple phone seven hundred WLW and
he listened, and I wanted to pay

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double. I think he accepted double. I want to always pay more than

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the going rate of thirty bucks.
But Aaron Cahill and Jeff Feldhause, thanks

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for listening. Good friends of Mark
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Secondly, or thirdly or fourthly,
to my left is more random attacks

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on women in New York City,
not sexual so to speak, but combative

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attacks in which a large number of
women simply walking around Manhattan are targeted.

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By individuals who simply want to punch
them in the face, causing serious bodily

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injury, broken teeth, the orbital
bones, stitches, et cetera. It

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used to be a game in New
York City, was a knockout game,

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and with someone would would record an
individual hitting a man to such an extent

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that they would go down and not
get up and put that on TikTok or

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somewhere else. That still happens,
and people are still being pushed onto the

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tracks of the subway and killed by
mentally disturbed individuals who belong in Bellevue Mental

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Hospital. But nonetheless, nonetheless,
if you're a woman, a woman walking

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around in New York City, you
have to be careful as some dudes going

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to walk up behind you or simply
almost past you then and then punch you

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right in the face. It's happened
dozens of times. It's not well publicized,

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but that's what's happening in New York
City. And something else is happening

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in New York City. That is
this last night. I was able to

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see this morning on YouTube the presentation
at Radio City Music Hall, which is

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a fabulous facility, and at that
point last night was a fundraiser for Joe

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Biden. It looks like a wax
character in some museum can barely talk.

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And when it began, the three
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Barack Hussein Obama, and Bill Clinton, who is Jeffrey Epstein's favorite president.

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Whatever happened to that investigation? By
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the stage. They were down below
in an elevator came up, and of

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course the crowd went nuts. This
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so to speak. Biden as a
grassroots campaign, he put out a tweet,

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not him, but someone on his
staff put out a tweet that said

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the following, Hey, folks,
Barack, Bill and I will be in

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New York City soon. We're a
couple hours away from hitting the stage at

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our grassroots fundraiser and New York City
grassroots. Well. To get into the

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fundraiser, the base level entry was
one hundred thousand dollars and it would cost

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somewhere between two fifteen and five hundred
thousand to take a picture with the guests

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of honor, so to get in
was one hundred thousand dollars. There was

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also a concert Stephen Colbert, who's
a real clown was there, and also

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some of the talent Lizo, et
cetera. The normal suspect showed up.

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The optics could not have been worse. The Democratic Party used to be the

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party of plumbers and truck drivers,
construction workers, waiters and waitresses, every

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slaps with third under their fingernails,
that got up every day and went to

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work. That's not the case anymore. It's an elitist party in which they

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called the grassroots a one hundred thousand
dollars per person fundraiser. Allegedly they raised

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about thirty five million dollars with the
fundraiser. And I thought at some point,

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because of the reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, that the appearance of Bill Clinton

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might be curtailed. But was I
wrong? Be used and abused to raise

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money from the grassroots. By the
way, if you're a working stuff,

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a woman or a man that works
as a family, do you think the

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Democratic Party looks after your concerns?
Of course not the academics to Hollywood,

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left, late night evening talk show
hosts, etc. People like Matt Jones

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in the state of Kentucky, for
example, love grassroots fundraisers were a cost

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one hundred thousand dollars to attend,
and so the optics can have been worse

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because as that was going on,
Donald John Trump attended the wake in the

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funeral of police officer Jonathan Diller,
who was murdered in cold blood by a

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career criminal named Guy Rivera. And
of course his immigration status is irrelevant and

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immaterial. The cops could not have
been more outraged to the fact that this

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character and his buddy were actually free. Looking at the reports on Rivera,

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he'd previously had been arrested by NYPD
twenty one times. Have you been arrested

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once? How about twenty one times? He's only thirty one years old,

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including nine times for felonies. He
was released from prison in September of twenty

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twenty one, having served nearly five
years as a convicted drug dealer of heroin

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and fentanyl that killed numerous people.
Previously, he served three years in state

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prison in connection to a twenty eleven
felonious assault. So it of his thirty

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one years on this planet thirteen as
an adult. He spent at least eight

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of those thirteen years in state prison. But then he constantly was arrested.

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His partner in crime, who was
the driver of the car they were casing

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a T Mobile store to rob they
were parked in a bus stop, had

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previously been arrested by NYPD fourteen times. All kinds of events had taken place.

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They were sitting in a UH and
a bus stop prohibited parking, and

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they were they were casing a T
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when Diller and his partner asked the
two suspects to move the vehicle from the

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bus stop. That's all they wanted
to do. But they knock on the

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window and the cops look in to
Rivera and Jones Rivera. The murderer is

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sitting in the passenger seat, and
the officer approached from that angle, tapped

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his finger on the on the window
and said you got to move on.

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Instead of moving on, the UH, Rivera had in his right hand between

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his legs a nine millimeter and he
shot the police officer Diller, about a

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half an inch below his vest.
He died. Over the next hour or

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two, and Diller and his partner
asked the two suspects to move their vehicle

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from a bus stop and UH.
At one point they the passenger side window

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rolled down and Diller ordered the passenger
Rivera to show his hands. Rivera pointed

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a gun at point blank range and
shot him specifically below the vest. So

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while the uh the Hollywood elite were
being wine dined and pocket lined at Radio

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City Music Hall one hundred thousand dollars
tickets up to five hundred thousand for a

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photo as a grassroots event for the
Democratic Party of Ours grassroots, Donald Trump

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was at a police officer's funeral,
and even David Axelrod, the apologists for

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Obama and Biden, said the opposite. The optics looked terrible as Biden was

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raising thirty five million dollars with other
Democrats, and quote Biden does a fancy

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New York City fundraiser in the midst
of chaotic left wing street protests looks like

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a limousine liberal. This is David
Axelrod plus the breakdown of law and order,

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and Trump intends the wake of a
slain police officer on Long Island.

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The optics are terrible. The only
thing the Democrats care about nationally, and

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there are many many good Democrats locally, by the way, many many many

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good Democrats, But New York City
Democrats they care about threats to democracy.

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And they exhibit that concern for a
threat to democracy by barring Ballid access to

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Robert F. Kennedy Junior and making
sure that Donald Trump, the leader of

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the opposition party, is either locked
up or bankrupt. That's the goal.

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Go after him. The way to
end democracy is to behave like New York

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City democrats behave. The way to
keep the democracy alive is to let people

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run for office freely without a fear
of criminal indictment by democrats like Fanny Willis.

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That's the threat to democracy. And
there's more to life than abortion.

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January sixth, Orange Man Bad.
Those are the issues abortion killing as many

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healthy unborn babies as possible January sixth, January sixth. Then also Orangeman Orangeman

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00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:08.279
bad Orangeman bad, And that's all. That's all we're getting from the mainstream

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media. They want to take Trump, take all his money away, take

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his time, put him in court. And the New York City porn star

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00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:19.480
case is going to is a criminal
case. Of course, it's going to

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take six to eight weeks, which
means he's off the campaign trail and drain

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all of his energy and resources and
then get a conviction and twenty percent of

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independent voters say they won't vote for
the Donald if he's convicted of a felony.

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It doesn't count if you're in New
York City. So they will prosecute

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Donald Trump and put him in jail, But not this guy rivera character who

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murdered in cold blood a police officer. Plus, I want to thank the

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numerous cops and firefighters who came up
to me yesterday at the Holy Grail and

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thanked me, and oh, I
thank you. I thank them. Had

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a cop from Cincinnati and went from
Green Township. And all I can say

449
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is thank you for putting your life
and at risk and of whatever, because

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you are serving as the thin blue
line between democracy and anarchy, and the

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Democratic Party of our parents fails to
exist, it doesn't exist anymore. Well,

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let's continue with more coming up next
as a gentleman who has written a

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book called Charlie Hustle, and he's
Keith O. Brian's going to be here

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to talk about his book about Pete
Rose, some startling revelations. And then

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after two o'clock today will be Scott
Powell. And Scott Powell is a frequent

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guest on My Son and Night shows. He considers, and I believe it

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to be true, objective proof that
the Christ Jesus was in fact alive and

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00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:46.160
historical character, and there's irrefutable evidence
now of his resurrection from the dead three

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00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:51.079
days later. And if that occurred, he is the Christ, he is

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00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:55.440
God Almighty that I'll be after two
o'clock today, Let's continue. Whenever stop,

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00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:00.960
we simply continue. Twelve fifty five
and Matt Jones of Kentucky is a

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clown. On news radio seven hundred
WLW, Mike Allen, lets you plead

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00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:12.079
your case tomorrow morning at nine on
seven hundred WLW. Join us for our

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00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.839
twenty twenty four iHeartRadio Music Awards live
from the Joldie Peter in Hollywood, Till

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00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.559
Cunningham, the Great American picking up
the pieces of the greatest Reds Opening Day.

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00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:22.839
Ever, I'm not sure how we
can ever repeat that. It's the

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00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:28.400
weather, the Jim's Goot situation,
which was fabulous, the game itself,

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and although Keith O'Brien, my guest
here, is a sant X guy,

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I don't know the last time there
was a color analyst from Muller High School

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talking about manager David Bell from Muller
High School with Bruce Souter on the mound

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00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.359
finishing the game from Muller High School. That has never happened before. I

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say that will never happen again anywhere
in life. But until then, Charlie

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Hustle is the name of the book. It is the defenditive story of Pete

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Rose's rise and fall. The Wall
Street Journal said, quote, I'm not

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sure there's ever been a book it
does a better job of sketching out Pete

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Rose than Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hussele and
Keith O'Brien, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham

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Show. Off the air. You
told me you're a saanex guy, graduated

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in nineteen ninety one, but you
have vivid memories of Pete Rose. First

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of all, why did you think
another book had to be written about Pete

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Rose? Well, thanks for having
me, Bill, great to be back

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00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:28.880
with you. You know, I
feel like all too often people have looked

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at Pete's story through the prism of
baseball, and I want to be clear,

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there's a lot of baseball in my
book. But what I wanted to

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do here was look at him as
a man. You know, this is

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the story of an ordinary man.
From an ordinary working class neighborhood on the

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West Side, a man of ordinary
talents who is never the best player on

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his own youth baseball teams, who
climbs and scrapes and claws his way to

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the top of the mountain, and
then, mostly through his own own poor

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choices, poor decisions, and addictions, loses it. All that is,

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you know, more than just a
baseball story. You know, that's honestly,

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Bill, in my opinion, it's
it's a Greek tragedy that just happened

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to play out in and around a
baseball field. And you know, I

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felt if I could get access to
Rose, if I could get access to

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the people who were in his inner
circle, and if I could tell that

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story from the inside, that could
be a powerful and compelling tale. And

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through my research here on Charlie Hustle, you know, I have you know,

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found things that have you know,
never been written about before. And

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you, in the format of this
you interviewed, have one hundred and fifty

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hours of interviews with the people who
Pete best, twenty seven hours of interviews

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with Pete Rose himself until he stopped
it. If somebody when Pete Rose was

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thirteen fourteen years old playing little league
baseball. He didn't have much of an

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arm. It wasn't very fast,
had no power. If somebody would say

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when he was fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen in Western Hill's bold Face parking,

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00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:10.079
see that guy right over, that
little guy right there, he's going to

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be the greatest baseball hitter of all
time, Nobody would have believed it.

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So talk about your access to Pete
and how things went south at one point,

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then I want to get into many
specifics. Yeah, So you know,

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I, as you said, I
interviewed anyone I could who would crossed

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through you know, his orbit in
the nineteen sixties, seventies, and eighties,

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and of course I wanted to interview
Pete, And you know, I

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figured that would be a challenge because
Pete has never spoken before for a book

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that he did not have editorial control
over, you know, But you know

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Pete's you know, I think recognized
what I was trying to do, and

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he certainly appreciated, you know,
my my Cincinnati roots. And he did

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grant me twenty seven hours of recorded
interviews in person and on the phone,

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and we didn't have a falling out. Bill, I don't know what happened.

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But I was pushing him, you
know, I was pushing him into

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the you know, the dark corners
of his life. And I don't mean

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that in a nefarious way. I
just mean that, you know, I

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feel that if Pete's you know,
can can reveal more about why he did

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these things, people might understand it
better. And and I think maybe that

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I just pushed Pete a little too
much. But I agree with you though

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about what you said about you know, if you'd seen him on the West

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00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:35.880
side of nineteen forties and fifties,
nobody would have picked him out as the

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player. Nobody, Nobody you in
access to Pete Rose in late twenty twenty

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one able to conduct all those hours
of interviews, and were Red's ownership talk

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about nineteen seventy five, seventy six. That's the hallmark of Red's baseball up

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to this point. I hope the
glory days lie ahead. But nonetheless,

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fifty years ago talk about Red's ownership
and managers, et cetera concerned about Pete

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Rose's gambling. Then. Yeah,
So one thing I wanted to do with

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this book was go back and remind
readers why we ever cared about Pete Rose

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in the first place. You know, in the last thirty five years,

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as Pete has made poor decisions,
he's sort of become a caricature of himself.

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And I think baseball fans and even
Cincinnatians have forgotten why we ever cared

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in the first place. So to
go back and to chart that rise,

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and of course, you know,
he's at the peak of that rise,

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right Bill nineteen seventy five, seventy
six. But even while this is happening,

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there are already concerns about his behavior
off the field, his behavior specifically

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with gamblers, but also you know, with the mistresses in his life.

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And you know, based on my
reporting, by the mid nineteen seventies,

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those things were open secrets in the
Reds clubhouse and even in the Reds ownership

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box. And based on my reporting
in nineteen seventy eight, right around the

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time that Pete began his forty four
game hit streak, a hit streak that

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we haven't seen the likes of,
by the way, since nineteen seventy eight,

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there was some kind of intervention in
the office of Red's president Dick Wagner.

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Major League Baseball sent a representative who
was the head of security for Major

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League Baseball at that time, and
the discussion that day in Dick Wagner's office

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was about gambling and gambling debts.
And you know this, of course is

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you know, eleven years before Pete's
problems his addiction, frankly will will make

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you know, national headlines in nineteen
seventy eight. Whatever happens that day in

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Dick Wagner's office makes no headlines at
all. As far as the Reds wanting

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to cut ties with Pete Rose,
was his off field behavior? I guess

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the numerous affairs and cheating on his
wife, et cetera wasn't They're real focus

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on it. I think a lot
of baseball players and a lot of people

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on radio, TV and authors of
books do exactly the same thing. But

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the issue was did Pete's gambling and
seventy eight have something to do with the

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Reds deciding to let him go?
Yeah, let's remember what's happened in nineteen

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seventy eight. The longtime general manager
Bob Hausem has stepped down. Bob Hausem

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loved Pete Rose and who was taken
over as the president of the Reds,

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but Houseum's deputy all these years Dick
Wagner, and you know, Dick Wagner

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had a puritanical streak to him,
He had sort of a militant streak to

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him. And Dick Wagner had never
really been fond of Pete Rose. You

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00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:53.719
know, Pete was not Dick Wagner's
favorite flavor of ice cream. And so

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these two guys, you know,
don't get along already, but absolutely based

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on my reporting, you know,
you know, Wagner is concerned, he's

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concerned about Pete's behavior off the field, and you know, by the end

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of that year, you know,
he makes the Rose no real offer.

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You know, this is the first
time Pete Rose is going to be an

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unrestricted free agent. You know,
he's going to go test the market.

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There are lucrative offers out there from
Philadelphia, Atlanta, Kansas City, Pittsburgh.

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He's not going to get a lucrative
offer from Cincinnati because Dick Wagner doesn't

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want Pete Rose around anymore. They
made that decision to get rid of him.

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And then he goes to Philadelphia and
wins the National title again, he

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wins the World Series in Philadelphia.
Did his behavior of gambling continue in Philadelphia?

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And it was that an issue there. You know, it's clear that

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you know, Pete has routinely been
betting with bookies going all the way back

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to the nineteen seventies, you know, based on my interviews with Pete,

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in interviews I did with others,
you know, it begins on the West

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Side, you know, with a
with a man named Alfonse esselmon al Esslman,

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who was a well known bookie in
Cincinnati in the nineteen sixties and seventies.

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00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:20.760
Uh. And it does continue deep
into the eighties, you know,

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through the Phillies years, through even
his one brief year in Montreal, and

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and by nineteen eighty five, eighty
six, eighty seven, based on reporting

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00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:36.199
I did, interviews I did with
three different men who placed his bets on

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baseball, and and and including my
own review of a of a betting notebook

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00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:46.639
that one of these men kept,
Pete is betting a ton. And you

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00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:51.159
know, we all know now about
gambling. We can do it on our

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00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.079
phones. You know, everybody can
do it on their phones right now in

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00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:59.239
Ohio, you know. And and
even the every day better knows you can't

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00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:04.639
look at at the rack of baseball
games today and placed wagers on ten or

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00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.639
twelve games and hope that that's going
to go well for you. It's not

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going to go well for you,
and you know, unfortunately, by the

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mid nineteen eighties, that's what Pete
is doing, is he is placing bets

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on eight, ten, twelve games
a day. And this was at a

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time when any gambler didn't have access
to the information we have today. You

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00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:29.679
know, he he's placing bets on
games he knows very little about, and

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00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:34.719
he's losing a lot of money.
Bill. You know, at points in

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nineteen eighty six, based on my
reporting, the review of this notebook,

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00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:43.880
an interview with the man who kept
with this notebook, you know, Pete's

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00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:46.360
losing as much as thirty thousand dollars
a week. And that's at a time

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when he's only making a half million
dollars a year as the Reds Reds manager.

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So it's a lot of money.
Keith O'Brien, did he bet on

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00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:02.599
baseball while in uniform for the X
and the Phillies. This is under great

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00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:08.920
dispute, and Pete is adamant that
his betting on baseball begins in October nineteen

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00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:14.719
eighty six, during the playoffs that
year, the two months after his last

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at bat as a player. Based
on my reporting, the review of this

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00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:23.000
betting notebook and the interview and an
interview with the man who kept this notebook,

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00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:29.880
Pete's betting on baseball begins at a
minimum in early nineteen eighty six,

609
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:36.079
not long after opening day, and
it begins bill because Pete right now,

610
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:39.320
at this time in nineteen eighty six, betting on March madness, betting on

611
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:45.039
college basketball does poorly. He loses
a lot of money in March nineteen eighty

612
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:51.880
six betting on basketball, and coming
into that spring, it seems that his

613
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:57.199
choice to maybe crawl out of that
hole is to bet on baseball, to

614
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.440
bet on the one thing he knew
the most about. And this is thirty

615
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:04.559
thousand dollars a week net. So
if he was making fifty thousand dollars a

616
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:08.639
week, every dollar was going toward
betting on whatever he could bet on.

617
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:15.079
It's a disease. It's an illness, and Pete Rose never confronted it until

618
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:19.239
sometime in the nineteen nineties when he
wrote that book, and he wrote the

619
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.440
book to confess to it so that
he could make money off that. One

620
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:25.599
can only imagine Keith or Brian what
if Pete Rose had not done any of

621
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:30.119
that, he would be the most
honored baseball player in America today. He

622
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:35.360
would be throwing the first pitch of
Opening Day, He'd be doing whatever it

623
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:40.039
did. Can you speak about the
impact on Pete's family and friends? And

624
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.920
you know he was close with Marty
Brenneman, he was close with not so

625
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.039
close to Johnny Bench, when he
was close to Joe Morgan. Can you

626
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:52.559
talk about the impact his gambling head
on his family and friends. You know,

627
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:58.159
it's hurt a lot of people.
Bill. You know, his close

628
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:06.039
friends have worried about him over the
years, worried greatly. And his lies

629
00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:10.360
about about his bets on baseball lives
that he held onto for fifteen years.

630
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.760
You know, those hurt lots of
people. And it didn't just hurt baseball.

631
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:21.360
It didn't just hurt the memory of
Bargieamanti. It hurt his close friends.

632
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:24.880
When he wrote that book in two
thousand and four where he finally revealed

633
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:30.960
that he had been lying all these
years, even his closest friends didn't know

634
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:35.800
that he was about to change his
story. They were caught off guard by

635
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:39.320
the revelations in that book. And
you know, in the early nineteen nineties,

636
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:47.119
Bill, one man goes to prison
protecting Pete Rose. It was Tommy

637
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:52.599
Giosa. Tommy was one of Pete's
closest friends in the nineteen seventies and eighties.

638
00:46:53.000 --> 00:47:00.039
Tommy refuses to cooperate with Major League
Baseball when they come knocking in the

639
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.559
spring of nineteen eighty nine, and
because he's not going to cooperate, because

640
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:08.800
Tommy is not going to tell Baseball
what he knows, federal authorities pick him

641
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:15.880
up in April of that year and
he faces a litany of charges that,

642
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:19.800
unfortunately for Tommy, he chooses to
fight, and he ends up serving more

643
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.559
than two years in federal prisms.
So, yeah, pet lies hurt a

644
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:27.599
lot of people. And you know
you mentioned something before, Bill, you

645
00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:30.360
know, you know Pete has deserved, you know, all the criticism he's

646
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.960
received over the years for his lives, for his behavior. My book doesn't

647
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.480
defend that at all, But you're
right, you know, this, this

648
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:45.760
pattern is the behavior of an addict. And all of us probably have had

649
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:50.760
someone in our lives and our families
who has struggled with addictions, right,

650
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:53.239
and people who are addicted struggle to
admit the truth, all right, We

651
00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:57.159
got to run the name of the
book, as Charlie Hussel the Wall Street

652
00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:00.679
Journal says, that's the best one
written in the subject matter. You're going

653
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:02.199
to sign this book. Where will
you be over the weekend or whatever?

654
00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:07.039
Where will you be if anywhere?
I will be at Joseph Beth Books in

655
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.079
Rookwood on Tuesday next week April second, and I will be doing an event

656
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:15.880
with Dell High Historical Society the following
night on Wednesday, April third. All

657
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.039
right, Keith O'Brien, thank you
very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham

658
00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:21.519
Show. And good luck with the
book. We'll see what happens. And

659
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:24.360
once again, Keith, thank you
very much. Thank you Bill. Let's

660
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:30.079
continue with more the Pete Rose story. It never ends, by the way,

661
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:35.559
He's going to turn eighty three years
old in July eighty three years old

662
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:40.079
four fourteen forty one. He was
born. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundreds

663
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:44.079
that w you, l of you, Spring is here and prices are soaring

664
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:49.920
everywhere grocery three seventy seven, nineteen
call today swim this year that the parade

665
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:53.000
that they were having in Sesame,
and he was interviewing people about the reds

666
00:48:53.320 --> 00:49:00.679
and it was I've never heard of
human being Shannon allowed on the public airwaves

667
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:05.599
like him. He was screaming like
an old, deranged human being. He

668
00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:09.000
was interviewing the cowboy Jeff Brantley,
and I'm not I'm gonna take my head

669
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:13.199
set off, so it's I'm gonna
do his volume. But I don't want

670
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:16.280
to yell there, buddy. He'd
go, why did players get hurt so

671
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:21.960
much? Now? Jeff? And
he's screaming into the microphone, and he's

672
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.159
asking like old man questions would have
never watched. It was, I will

673
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:30.239
tell you, drew the most entertaining
thing. Imagine you took the oldest person

674
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:34.920
you know on Facebook and had them
just ask the questions that they would have

675
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:38.320
about sports that I kept thinking he's
gonna say something's gonna get him fired at

676
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:42.440
some point. I kept thinking that. But I did enjoy it because he

677
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:45.400
was yelling. I think because there
was so much noise, and anyone who

678
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:59.880
heard it would agree it was ridiculous. Hello, I'm broadcasting for your bone

679
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:07.480
now. This ridiculous individual who claims
that I yell in a loud fashion his

680
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:09.320
name Matt Jones. I can't hear
you. What did you say, Matt

681
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:14.360
Jones. Oh okay, who supposedly
is an attorney. But the best he

682
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:19.039
can do is work at six o'clock
on thirteen sixty ESPN. That's the best

683
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:22.199
he can do. Here we go, Here we go, Fox Sports.

684
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:25.000
I'm sorry, Fox Sports. I'm
with you. Listen here and not to

685
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:28.920
get with it. I'm just telling
the guy makes no sense at all?

686
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:31.760
Would you agree? Segment? I
can't hear you today, there's no sense.

687
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:37.360
It was too old man, too
loud down there at the He shouldn't

688
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:39.400
call Marty Brenneman names. It was
Marty, wasn't he talking about? I

689
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:45.280
think he was eighty seven million people
down there yesterday? Who's gonna hear us?

690
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.199
What if I talk like this?
And thank you? Yeah, you're

691
00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:52.320
not on you know, some FM
station. Please pay attention to my questions.

692
00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:57.000
And by the way, yeah,
that's a good are you doing?

693
00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:00.639
Ho's BDM doing these days? What's
that? You wanted to run come out

694
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:02.760
with towel out of come out.
You wanted to run him out of town.

695
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:07.760
But in one and four of the
last five games in the Hey cow,

696
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:09.679
we love town. Yeah, they
wanted to run him out of town.

697
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:14.079
Oh, Matt Jones does is licked
the butt of John Caliperi. How

698
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:16.360
does it taste? How it's a
case? How did it taste? Matt

699
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:21.079
hey Man, Matt, don't get
me started on that. We got hold

700
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:24.440
on before we get started. Yeah, Neil Lucan and the Fenley Market Parade?

701
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:29.159
Am I an old babbling idiot?
Is that what you say? Oh?

702
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:32.920
You're the wisest man and deserve brother. This Matt Jones character is licking

703
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.519
the butt of Caliperi. I want
to how of taste? But nonetheless,

704
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.400
let's talk about picking up the pieces
of what happened yesterday. Of course,

705
00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:45.920
you're the president, the CEO and
the chief bottle washer of the Fenley Market

706
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.760
Parade? How did it go to
yesterday? From your perspective? On a

707
00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:53.679
scale one to ten, one hundred? Better better than ever? I wonder

708
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:57.480
if cow's gonna have a parade in
Lexington? I want to cows gonna have

709
00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:00.800
a parade in Lexington? Anyway?
Go ahead, a guy tell me invited

710
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:02.159
him up here. Now get Matt
Jones up here. I'd like to see

711
00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:07.760
him. No one listens to his
ass anyway. Anyway, John, I'm

712
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:12.199
sorry, tell me about the parade
from your perspective, Why was the decision

713
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:16.400
made to invite Jim Scott to turn
out magnificently, the weather, of the

714
00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:22.599
crowds, the acceptance, give me
a full report. Well, when Jim

715
00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:27.320
got diagnosed with ALS this year a
rich best we had have. But he

716
00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:30.559
was gonna be the honor at Graham
Marshall, and he's had a lot of

717
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:32.840
ups and down since the first week
in December. We didn't know he was

718
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:36.960
gonna make it, be perfectly honest
with you, but he showed up.

719
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:39.920
He was great and still was waving
and had his thumb up at the end

720
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:44.360
of the parade. So all day
for Jim, they treated him. It

721
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.679
looked like a presidential motor case where
they are bringing him down the street.

722
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:52.280
Cepeats at such a great job and
it just worked out well. I mean,

723
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:54.880
Jim said as she sent me a
text this morning and says, you

724
00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:59.039
and your brother and kellying them people
at Filly Margaret sure know how to put

725
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.159
on a parade, can't. It
doesn't get any better than that. I

726
00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:06.599
mean, I was so happy with
the people that made the ALS signs and

727
00:53:06.599 --> 00:53:12.039
showed her support for Jim. The
enthusiasm, I guess it all everything lined

728
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:14.639
up, and he would say that
the stars all lined up. I guess

729
00:53:14.639 --> 00:53:17.199
it was spring break for a lot
of kids. Right. The weather was

730
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:22.800
great and uh we got to estimate
the crowd at over one hundred and twenty

731
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:24.440
five thousand. Who to watch them? Wow? You know, other than

732
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:30.039
the october Fest and the taste,
it's the biggest gathering of Tri State residents

733
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:32.320
and history. And this year's event, it's gonna be hard to topic.

734
00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:36.880
But next year you must try.
Yeah, we're gonna give it our best

735
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:39.000
shot. And you know, for
you can say those other events are bigger,

736
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:42.719
and they are dag golong for two
and three days. This goes off

737
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.719
for a couple of hours. So
for a couple of hours stretch. It's

738
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.159
got to be the biggest event Cincinnati. And you've done it for what forty

739
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:53.000
five years or so? Yeah?
Ever since Ia baby, that was longer

740
00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:55.639
than forty five years. By the
way, what's the cost of hamburger?

741
00:53:55.639 --> 00:54:00.480
If I come down and get a
pound of ground chuck? What would it

742
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:05.360
cost born ninety nine? I tell
you, what isn't that something? Go

743
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:07.280
back three four or five years ago? What did a pound cost then?

744
00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:15.000
Maybe two ninety nine? That's almost
doubled. Yeah, things are getting actually

745
00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:19.159
that's a change the subject. But
meat pricing a really skyrocket here in the

746
00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:22.880
last couple of months. So it's
not good. Bial No, it's not

747
00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:27.039
good. Every schleps like segment live
and Die on food and gasoline and those

748
00:54:27.039 --> 00:54:30.079
are the items going up. But
uh, well, Neil Lincoln, you

749
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:31.199
you know me, I don't.
I don't like to be political, but

750
00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:36.960
this was clearly the best event,
the best opening day. And Barry Larkin

751
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:38.679
on the mic from Moller High School
had the manager of the Reds from Moller

752
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:42.920
High School, had the pitcher from
Moller High School. It was Moller High

753
00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:45.880
School everywhere. And that's why I
think some people look at Cincinnati is such

754
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:50.559
a large, small hometown. That's
where we live. And you and I

755
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:52.199
are very lucky to have been born
here, to live here, to spend

756
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:57.000
our lives here, and to die
here. And we're very fortunate. You

757
00:54:57.400 --> 00:55:01.519
know what, it really as Cincinnati's
Day. Nobody else in the you know,

758
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:06.159
in the whole country has an opening
day like we have. It's uh,

759
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:07.719
it's but you know, we can't
sit here and take the credit.

760
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:10.639
It's the people that come out and
the people that participate in the parade to

761
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:15.440
make it so great man. And
yeah, like I said, it's just

762
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:19.480
it's kind of works at a loss
for worse that you just you can't explain

763
00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:22.760
this phenomenon. It's now you fell
in love with this suffing and you show

764
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.159
up every day to sell hamburger at
your meeting market at Philly Market parade.

765
00:55:25.159 --> 00:55:28.400
It don't get no better than that. By the way, how much is

766
00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:30.480
at rough? It was a little
rough getting here this morning, but I

767
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:34.519
got here. What about a chicken
breast? What if I got a chicken

768
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:38.079
breast? How much would a breast
be? Bone was five ninety nine bone

769
00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:42.519
in three ninety nine Philly Market.
Everybody got to come down here and experience

770
00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:45.000
this place once or twice in their
life. What time Saturday? Maybe the

771
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:49.079
people's judgement, I will stop buying, buy some hamburger. What time you

772
00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:52.559
open on Saturday? Eight to six? There's there's probably one hundred and fifty

773
00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:55.960
people sitting outside right now our beer
guarden, eating lunch. This place is

774
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:00.440
just this. This place is a
totally different world down here. So couldn't

775
00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:02.400
have believed it from fifteen twenty years
ago. It was a bunch of drunks

776
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:08.039
and derelicts like Matt Jones and otherwise. Now it's a place for the great

777
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:14.440
American. That's just the workers.
Now, it's not the kind tale all

778
00:56:14.519 --> 00:56:16.599
right. Once again, Neil,
let's keep kicking it as long as we

779
00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:20.400
can. What do you think?
I think, so, Bill, I

780
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.360
think, like I said, I
want to, I want to. I

781
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:24.920
want to tell Jim. I know
he's listening. What a phenomenal job he

782
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:30.639
did yesterday. And it took every
ounce of strength he had to be here,

783
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:34.159
but he's plown and determined to make
it. And he is really what

784
00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:37.119
defines this parade. I mean,
fifty years of walking in this parade.

785
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:40.599
Did to ride yesterday, first time
he ever wrote. But man, oh

786
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:45.280
man was so great to see him. In fact, he said, if

787
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:47.800
if you see Marty and a man, have him come over and seeing he

788
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:51.559
came over and saw him, he
just lit up. He just is a

789
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:53.800
great guy and we just can't thank
him enough for everything he's done for us

790
00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:57.639
over the years. Well, Marty
gets up for all kinds of things right

791
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:01.519
now, He's always up. All
right, thank you very much, And

792
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:06.079
I'll stop in and see are you
there? Actually? You Neil Lucan the

793
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:09.519
second cousin of Charlie Lucan. Are
you actually there on Saturday. I'm there,

794
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:14.320
I'm here. I'm gonna you know
you know something about that, don't

795
00:57:14.360 --> 00:57:15.960
you. I do know it.
I know it. I'm lucky to have

796
00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:19.320
the gig I have, and you're
lucky to have the gig you have.

797
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.239
And I mean, somebody you got
to keep it on set, don't they.

798
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:24.000
I got two eyes, that's for
sure, two eyes to keep on

799
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:28.760
all right, Well, thank you. Uh, I'll be down on Saturday,

800
00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:30.599
and I want to pay full price. I know you want to give

801
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:34.679
me everything for nothing, but I
refuse to accept it. All right,

802
00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:38.599
you have a good night, and
uh brient sick man. That all really

803
00:57:38.599 --> 00:57:42.159
boo sales. He said, you've
got a little better appetite than you did.

804
00:57:42.880 --> 00:57:45.239
Amen to that, brother, that's
the truth, that's for sure.

805
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:46.639
When he starts ordering things, you
don't want to get behind him in a

806
00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:50.079
buffet line, that's for sure.
That's a problem. Get out of the

807
00:57:50.079 --> 00:57:52.159
way. Get out of the way. Take me out of the way.

808
00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:55.440
Don't get behind him in the line. A golden crops busting through the line.

809
00:57:55.480 --> 00:58:00.000
Baby, he's pulling a chair up
like like Corey Dillon pulling a chick.

810
00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:00.960
It was kind of it was kind
of like, hell, was it

811
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:06.920
the fance yesterday? Huh, that's
right, that's right, that he had

812
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:08.800
those ladle's get out of the way. He was eating out of the ladles,

813
00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:13.480
just picking up and shovel delicious food. All right, well, thanks,

814
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:15.480
Neil, will see tomorrow, Hey, Bill, what's your prediction on

815
00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:20.360
the Reds? Well, I say
eighty two and eighty. I'm saying ninety

816
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:22.840
one wins. I hope Ashcraft does
what we hope he does. We hope

817
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:27.519
Marte comes back, we hope TJ. Fiedel comes back earlier, and we

818
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.280
hope of course from Matt McLain.
I don't know about him. That's serious.

819
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.519
When you have a torn labram,
I don't know what the hell that

820
00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:37.280
is. But it's not good.
I'll tell you what the city's of this,

821
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:40.519
you know, the tap of the
top, the top off opening.

822
00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:45.679
They would have win. Was just
icing on the cakeble, so much fun

823
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:52.000
and so many people and light loong
Reds fans. Save me a pound of

824
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:54.480
ground chuck. All right, I'll
see you tomorrow, Bill, Neil,

825
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:58.599
thank you, I'll see it.
Sega is added in sports. Well,

826
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:01.519
hey, the student reporters are pro
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829
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Couch go. I'm making one other
statement. Go right ahead. Matt

830
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:22.400
Jones is a linguistic dumb ass.
Let's see the Reds win that opener yesterday

831
00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:25.800
over the Nationals eight to two.
Willie nobody got hurt, but oh no,

832
00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:31.239
no, but don't tell me.
Red's left handed reliever Sam Mall,

833
00:59:32.199 --> 00:59:36.800
who has been a sideline with a
shoulder issue, is now off to rehab

834
00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:40.360
assignment of Triple A Louisville to come
back. But never heard of National's third

835
00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:45.239
baseman Nick Senzel. He's hurt again, out three to four weeks with a

836
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:51.360
broken thumb, suffered when he was
fielding a ground ball in pregame warm ups.

837
00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:54.360
It's always maybe the God Almighty thought
that he was still with the Reds

838
00:59:54.760 --> 01:00:01.119
in the pregame warmups he breaks his
thumb correct fielding ground correct, we gotta

839
01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:04.760
go segment is out it in sports, yep, give me out of the

840
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:07.079
Studge report. Please, Matt Jones, You're an ass? Will are you?

841
01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:13.079
On this day in nineteen ninety one, I say Happy thirty second wedding

842
01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:16.920
anniversary to my lovely wife Denise Dennison. Aren't you involved in that? We

843
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:22.679
leave you with the immortal words of
the Stooge Report. We got to find

844
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:27.119
out who will knuckle up? Who
are the men, and who are the

845
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:29.639
guys that got to take a back
seat in the bus? Who's got to

846
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.280
move back? And maybe some other
guys got to take the bus. Matt

847
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:40.719
Jones uses tampons. Now let's continue
with more coming up next, we hope

848
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:49.840
it. Scott Powell about the reality
of Easter on News Radio seven hundreds.

849
01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:54.599
You join us for our twenty twenty
four iHeartRadio Music Awards. I'm a Cold

850
01:00:54.599 --> 01:01:09.760
Woman, Bluss and I'm Like a
Young Girl set the Bad of the Bold.

851
01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:16.840
Scott Powell is the author of Rediscovering
America. As a column at The

852
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:24.760
Federalist called Easter is the world's most
historically verified holiday. But for the resurrection

853
01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:30.920
of the Christ, the epistles the
Gospels would not have had their meaning today

854
01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:35.599
as it did before. He says, from the beginning of recorded history,

855
01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:38.559
people have turned to religion as a
way to find refuge and solace and meaning.

856
01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:45.159
Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, and most other religious

857
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:50.360
points to their own prophets and teachers. But among these world religions, only

858
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:54.320
Christianity has a founder who profess to
be the Messiah. And every other religious

859
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:59.159
founder in history came into the world
to live. The death of other religious

860
01:01:59.239 --> 01:02:02.440
leaders brought an antaclimatic end of their
lives and their work. But Christ came

861
01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:07.159
into the world to die, and
his sacrifice was the ultimate climax of his

862
01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:09.719
life, done for the benefit of
all mankind, opening the way to eternal

863
01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:15.480
life. And this was predicted a
thousand years before his birth. And why

864
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:22.519
did twelve apostles and disciples give up
their own life for a lie? Is

865
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:27.400
that possible? Scott Powell, Welcome
again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And

866
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:30.719
you know, practicing law, I
know I must have evidence. I must

867
01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:34.880
have proof. So for those non
believers and those who live a different kind

868
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:38.000
of a life, what evidence is
there that Christ even existed? Secondly,

869
01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:43.360
he was crucified and most importantly rose
to the dead. Talk to the American

870
01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:54.159
people, Well, there are really
three things that we have to know about

871
01:02:54.199 --> 01:03:01.079
ancient history in order to believe it. One is the eyewitness accounts. There

872
01:03:01.519 --> 01:03:06.800
the more the more eyewitness accounts of
an event, the more you can rely

873
01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:10.440
on it. Uh. Secondly,
in ancient times, it was an oral

874
01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:14.800
history for the most part, you
know, not not all things were written

875
01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:22.280
down, so you so the second
important thing is how much time elapsed between

876
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:28.519
the time of the event, the
eyewitness events, and the time that it

877
01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:35.039
was recorded in writing. Uh.
And and also how many people recorded it

878
01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:40.679
in writing. And then lastly,
because we're dealing with ancient history, UH,

879
01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:45.599
how many manuscripts survived? UH?
To that uh, you know,

880
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:52.519
to to the uh to the accounting
of history, how many manuscripts survived?

881
01:03:52.039 --> 01:04:00.840
And so what is amazing about about
Christ's life in the Bible is that there

882
01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:06.719
are about a thousand times more manuscripts
that preserve the deeds and teachings of Jesus

883
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:12.480
and the New Testament, about twenty
five thousand in all. Then there are

884
01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:17.559
preserving other classical ancient works of historic
figures who lived at about the same time.

885
01:04:17.639 --> 01:04:20.760
And we can think of you know, you can think of Alexander the

886
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:26.440
Great, You can think of great
writers, poets, like Virgil and Horace

887
01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:30.559
who lived right at the time of
Christ. You can pick anybody who lived

888
01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:35.719
around the time of Christ, and
you will find that the record of their

889
01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:45.320
lives is far more diminished, is
far less than we have, you know,

890
01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:50.079
than we have you know, recording
Jesus Christ. Where you have you

891
01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:56.119
know, you have the eyewitness accounts
took place through the Gospels. These were

892
01:04:56.159 --> 01:05:00.119
people who walked with Jesus, who
saw him, and they requ awarded the

893
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:06.280
facts within about a generation slightly more
than a generation of that time. And

894
01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:13.800
so that was the written record.
There is no other written records that came

895
01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:18.159
in such close proximity to the actual
events. So that's significant. And then,

896
01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:21.039
as they said, the last point, the third point is how many

897
01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:30.639
and how many manuscripts survive have survived. The more manuscripts you have, the

898
01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:33.960
more proof you have, the more
certainty you can have. And there are

899
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:40.440
twenty five thousand, approximately twenty five
thousand manuscripts, whereas the most recorded a

900
01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:45.760
person of ancient history who's famous as
Homer, and he wrote of course the

901
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:50.519
Eliad and his you know, his
Iliad and his life are backed by about

902
01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:56.360
eighteen hundred manuscripts. Now that's a
lot, but it's still less than one

903
01:05:56.480 --> 01:06:00.719
tenth the number of ancient manuscripts that
back the authenticity of the New Testament.

904
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.519
No, Scott Paler were going to
go back a thousand years, a thousand

905
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:10.760
years before zero, two thousand years
ago, go back a thousand years before

906
01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:15.800
that. There were those talking about
the Christ a thousand years before he was

907
01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:20.199
born, and they explained what would
happen a thousand years and that was a

908
01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:25.840
record a thousand years before. And
then the Bethlehem, the wise men,

909
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:30.840
the stars, etc. Explained how
many individuals and persons predicted as coming a

910
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:38.079
thousand years before he was born.
Well, there were about one hundred prophetic

911
01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:43.639
accounts from eighteen different prophets from the
Old Testament between the tenth and as you

912
01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:46.639
point out, built the tenth and
the fourth centuries, and they predicted.

913
01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:53.079
These accounts predicted the specifics of his
coming birth, the life, and the

914
01:06:53.079 --> 01:06:58.360
death. And hundreds of years later, the details of Christ's birth, life,

915
01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:02.199
betrayal, and death validated these prophecies
that came hundreds of years before.

916
01:07:02.280 --> 01:07:06.519
There's no one else in history that
had that happened to him. Not let's

917
01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:13.239
go to the crucifixion. Found one
and let me tell you why that's the

918
01:07:13.239 --> 01:07:17.000
most person First of all, in
one of the earliest prophecies a thousand years

919
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:21.039
before Christ, David, who became
the king, you know, who was

920
01:07:21.079 --> 01:07:26.400
a young hero who took down Goliath
and so forth. The same guy he

921
01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:31.320
prophetically wrote about the crucifixion of Christ, describing it. You can read it

922
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:38.519
in the Bible and the Old Testament, describing the the excruciating pain of being

923
01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:46.320
nailed to a tree, which is
crucifixion. Now, when he predicted this

924
01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:51.760
happening to Christ, crucifixion was unknown
in the world. No one had ever

925
01:07:51.840 --> 01:07:56.480
seen crucifixion. It had never been
used. It had not been, so

926
01:07:56.880 --> 01:08:00.559
to speak, discovered as a means
of execution. So how is it that

927
01:08:00.679 --> 01:08:04.840
David could be writing about something that
didn't exist. Well, because God was

928
01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:10.079
telling the story through David, and
God knows all things. He knows the

929
01:08:10.119 --> 01:08:15.559
past, the president in the future. So that's why it's just incredible that

930
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:21.640
we have all this evidence about the
life of Jesus Christ. And then of

931
01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:27.039
course there are other things too about
about his history. You know, I

932
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:29.319
mean, in a few days,
you know, we're at Easter, and

933
01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:34.800
the resurrection was central to God's providence
because it provided seeing his believing evidence of

934
01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:42.399
God bringing Jesus the Savior back from
being dead in a tomb to being alive

935
01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:46.600
resurrected. And I walked, I
walked in gethsemone. I walked in the

936
01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:51.279
tomb, I searched the Holy sepulcher
in May. And if this was a

937
01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:59.079
lie, Saint Peter the moments before
the crucifixion denied him three times. And

938
01:08:59.119 --> 01:09:00.800
Saint Peter was the God, he
was the leader, and so there was

939
01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:08.439
profound doubt among the apostles themselves whether
Jesus was the Christ, because Saint Peter

940
01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:12.840
denied him three times, and so
he said, I will come back within

941
01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:16.119
three days. And proof of that? What proof do you have, Scott

942
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:20.199
Powell? Because if this guy was
crucified in the way he was crucified,

943
01:09:20.279 --> 01:09:25.000
beaten to with an edge of his
life, nailed to a cross, a

944
01:09:25.720 --> 01:09:29.479
sword put into his side to bleed
him out, he was dead, over

945
01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:32.239
with gone, taking off the cross
as a hunk of meat. Only God

946
01:09:32.319 --> 01:09:38.359
himself three days later could arise that
person, and only those apostles that saw

947
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:41.880
him. What evidence is there?
Objective evidence in a court of law?

948
01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:46.439
Scott Powell that Jesus the Christ rose
from the dead three days later. Objective

949
01:09:46.479 --> 01:09:50.680
evidence, what is there? Well, again we go back to eyewitness accounts.

950
01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:57.720
Eyewitness accounts of the resurrection. Uh, not not any process of the

951
01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:02.359
tomb opening up and him coming out, but rather that the appearance of Jesus

952
01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:06.840
as a resurrected man. He had
been dead in the tomb, uh for

953
01:10:08.279 --> 01:10:14.159
three days and I mean he was
dead on the cross. That was confirmed

954
01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:16.960
and verified that he's dead, His
life is gone from him, he's put

955
01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:20.840
in the tomb, and normally the
decomposition starts to take place. In fact,

956
01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:26.560
that's why Mary, Mary and Martha
were going to the tomb to bring

957
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:31.319
spices to to sort of preserve and
and and maybe mitigate the smell or whatever.

958
01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:36.079
And it was and it was these
women who found the tomb was empty.

959
01:10:36.720 --> 01:10:42.960
Now, if you were going to
contrive a case to disprove, if

960
01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:45.960
you were going to fabricate a case
for this, uh, you would not

961
01:10:46.119 --> 01:10:55.640
have women as your first witnesses because
because because women had no credibility, you

962
01:10:55.680 --> 01:11:00.000
know, your best witnesses are men. So if someone was going to create

963
01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:03.720
this story, they would have written
it differently. But God had it written

964
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:09.199
the way he did, and so
it was that the first witnesses were women.

965
01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:17.239
But the resurrection lasted forty days,
and Jesus made at least ten separate

966
01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:25.920
appearances to his disciples between the resurrection
and his ultimate ascension into heaven, which

967
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:30.119
was a period of forty days.
And some of these appearances were to individual

968
01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:35.760
disciples, some were to several disciples, and there was one recorded incident that

969
01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:41.760
Christ appeared to five hundred people at
one time. The resurrected Jesus appeared.

970
01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:46.279
Now after this, it's particularly noteworthy
that there were no accounts of witnesses who

971
01:11:46.319 --> 01:11:53.319
came forth and disputed these appearances,
or nobody called it a hoax, as

972
01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:58.079
they would today. Of course,
not a single one ignore did we find

973
01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:03.079
any historical record of any witness accounts
that were contradictory. And Scott explained why

974
01:12:03.199 --> 01:12:09.279
a person would not give their life
up in a horrible way for a lie,

975
01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:14.560
And most of the apostles went on
throughout the world for decades after the

976
01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:18.119
resurrection. They would not have done
that for a lie. Who would voluntarily

977
01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:25.560
promote lies for decades go through a
horrible death themselves as an apostle unless it

978
01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:29.840
was real? Who would do that's
right, Well, no one would do

979
01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:36.800
it, of course not. You
know that that's another sort of evidentiary that

980
01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:43.800
you know, the apostles willingness to
die for their claims. Their claims being

981
01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:47.760
that the divinity of Jesus Christ was
the Son of God providing salvation to all

982
01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:55.239
who will believe it, has tremendous
evidential value, also confirming the truth of

983
01:12:55.279 --> 01:12:59.479
the resurrection, because what you pointed
out, Bill, no one will die

984
01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:03.720
for some thing that he invented or
or believed to have been false. They

985
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:10.000
were absolutely sure in their heart of
hearts, and so their testimony is very

986
01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:15.920
powerful to the truth, you know, of the resurrected Messiah, the resurrected

987
01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:21.199
Jesus. And this is what distinguishes
Christianity from all other religions. And think

988
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:25.479
about another. You know, I
think for some listeners who say, you

989
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:28.439
know, I've encountered people say,
well, you know, I know I

990
01:13:28.720 --> 01:13:30.920
need to get right with God.
But you know, I'm just not good

991
01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:32.880
enough. You know, I've got
to you know, You've got to give

992
01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:39.840
me time. I gotta improve my
act. But what is what is unique

993
01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:45.800
about Christianity, and rather inviting,
I might add, is that there's no

994
01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:50.880
entry requirement of imperatives, rules,
or rituals to join Christ's family. All

995
01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:58.039
other religions have formalities and works that
must be performed to qualify for those religions.

996
01:13:58.079 --> 01:14:00.600
And the religions that you named right
at the outset of the show bill

997
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:05.520
that would include Judaism, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Taoism, Islam. They're all

998
01:14:05.680 --> 01:14:12.720
works based religions and you've got to
perform in order to approach God. Christianity

999
01:14:12.800 --> 01:14:15.680
says, I accept you. Jesus
says, I accept you just as you

1000
01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:21.119
are your sinners and you need a
savior, and therefore I love you.

1001
01:14:21.239 --> 01:14:27.279
I accept you. Bring me into
your life and let me transform you.

1002
01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:31.880
At the crucifixion, John the Apostle
was there with Mary and Magdalene and Mother

1003
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:35.880
of God, et cetera, and
he assisted taking that bloody corpse off the

1004
01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:41.239
cross. Jesus likely was about five
foot six, weighed about one hundred and

1005
01:14:41.279 --> 01:14:45.479
thirty five pounds, emaciated, beaten
half to death, stabbed in his side,

1006
01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:49.880
crucified, and he wrapped assisted in
wrapping up Jesus body in the cloth.

1007
01:14:50.159 --> 01:14:56.119
So John knew that Jesus the Christ
was dead. He was there.

1008
01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:58.880
He watched it, he knew he
was dead, and three days later,

1009
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:02.880
when he arose in the dead,
he appeared with the apostles and even one.

1010
01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:08.880
At that point Thomas said, I
don't believe this crucifixion like that,

1011
01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:14.680
the bloodiest event. It didn't happen. But Christ showed Thomas in the room

1012
01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:17.039
with the other apostles. He said, put your hand into my wound,

1013
01:15:17.159 --> 01:15:19.840
look at me. And at that
point the twelve of them said, this

1014
01:15:20.039 --> 01:15:23.640
is the Christ, this is the
Son of God. And guess what.

1015
01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:28.039
We will now go forth and tell
the world what we saw. They would

1016
01:15:28.119 --> 01:15:32.039
not have died. All died horribly
except one, the eleven, including them

1017
01:15:32.039 --> 01:15:36.640
when it took the place of Judas, all died by stoning crucifixion, upside

1018
01:15:36.680 --> 01:15:41.960
down, boiled alive in oil.
No one, all of them, not

1019
01:15:42.079 --> 01:15:44.640
one of them, would have given
their life for a lie. But all

1020
01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:47.920
of them did. And to me
that strong proof. It is very strong

1021
01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:57.159
proof, very strong. Bill.
I'm amazed that you have this strong conviction

1022
01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.880
and your believe. I believe it
is blessed by you. Bill Cunningham.

1023
01:16:01.319 --> 01:16:04.039
Well, I'll tell you what we
have to do, Scott, Bill,

1024
01:16:04.079 --> 01:16:09.960
everybody he knows the truth Scott,
it's at the Federalist. I'm looking at

1025
01:16:09.960 --> 01:16:14.079
the column now. But rediscovering America. The greatest of holidays is Easter.

1026
01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:17.960
Proof that the Christ came here sacrifice, was killed, was murdered, and

1027
01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:20.680
arose from the dead. If he
did not arise from the dead, there

1028
01:16:20.680 --> 01:16:24.880
would not have been the Christ because
that was the event, the most important

1029
01:16:24.880 --> 01:16:28.680
event in human history was rising from
the dead. In the accounts are objective

1030
01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:31.239
and provable and the truth. Scott
Powell, we got to run. But

1031
01:16:31.279 --> 01:16:34.720
once again, you're a great American, Scott Powell, and thank you for

1032
01:16:34.760 --> 01:16:38.239
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
We'll do it again. Thanks good,

1033
01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:42.720
Thank you Bill. God bless you. There. You go, good Friday.

1034
01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:46.560
May you have a good Friday because
Easter is coming. On news radio

1035
01:16:46.600 --> 01:16:51.439
seven hundred WLW, twisted turned to
a cave and the base to base.

1036
01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:57.000
I've never heard of human being Shannon
allowed on the public airwaves like him.

1037
01:16:57.600 --> 01:17:01.840
He was screaming like an old drain
a human being. He was interviewing the

1038
01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:05.319
cowboy Jeff Brantley, and I'm not
I'm gonna take my head set off,

1039
01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:09.560
so it's I'm gonna do his volume. But I don't want to yell there,

1040
01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:13.880
buddy, he'd go, why did
players get hurt so much? Now?

1041
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:17.800
Jeff, and he's screaming into the
microphone, and he's asking like old

1042
01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:21.760
man questions should have never watched.
It was, I will tell you drew

1043
01:17:21.800 --> 01:17:27.319
the most entertaining thing. Imagine you
took the oldest person you know on Facebook

1044
01:17:28.119 --> 01:17:31.640
and had them just ask the questions
that they would have about sports that I

1045
01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:34.680
kept thinking, he's gonna say Something's
gonna get him fired at some point.

1046
01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:38.920
I kept thinking that. But I
did enjoy it because he was yelling.

1047
01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:42.920
I think because there was so much
noise, and anyone who heard it would

1048
01:17:42.920 --> 01:17:59.600
agree it was ridiculous. Hello,
I'm broadcasting, said you can't sound as

1049
01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:02.039
probably everyone all the time in each
circumstance, would you agree, We thank

1050
01:18:02.119 --> 01:18:06.119
for We thanked that gentleman for listening
yesterday. Matt Jones, he's want to

1051
01:18:06.159 --> 01:18:10.520
be from Kentucky, a Democrat by
the way, jog to the level of

1052
01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:14.800
his intelligence. But I do get
excitable at times. I would admit to

1053
01:18:14.840 --> 01:18:16.960
that. Well, it's opening day, Willie, and I mean you're there

1054
01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:21.399
with the masses, a very rare
public appearance, very great American, great

1055
01:18:21.439 --> 01:18:26.279
American. Thank you and all we
needed yesterday was the was the first lady

1056
01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:29.079
there, and it would have been
it would have been, and it would

1057
01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:30.800
have been crazy. I tried to
get her down there, but she did

1058
01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:33.319
not want to do it and didn't
want to do it. So I but

1059
01:18:33.439 --> 01:18:38.359
I always enjoy those who listened to
criticize the doer of great deeds, right

1060
01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:43.199
the muddy, bloody warrior in the
pit being criticized by someone in the stands.

1061
01:18:43.279 --> 01:18:46.439
Well, it was great to see
Justice Joe and Senator Portman. I

1062
01:18:46.439 --> 01:18:49.800
mean, how about how about that
Dynamic duo coming by and saying hello,

1063
01:18:49.960 --> 01:18:53.760
Warren David. They wanted to take
over the show. They didn't know where

1064
01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:57.359
you went. Well, I I
tape recorded something and I was in back

1065
01:18:57.399 --> 01:19:00.359
with some of the What I was
in was checking ticket times. Oh I'm

1066
01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:03.199
in the back on the line at
the Holy Grail. I'm checking it.

1067
01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:06.199
Sure the food's running backs rot.
I went the ticket times, just like

1068
01:19:06.560 --> 01:19:09.920
just like Willie's, just like the
good old days. I want to be

1069
01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:13.319
you know, make sure that ten
minutes or less is what I said.

1070
01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:16.239
Jim Mooring says, thank you the
great staff down there, everybody that showed

1071
01:19:16.279 --> 01:19:19.039
up. We had a great time
with expediting. But for those who can't

1072
01:19:19.039 --> 01:19:25.279
do the great deeds, you have
people like Matt Jones in Kentucky with cap

1073
01:19:25.319 --> 01:19:30.119
By the way, how did Kentucky
do in the tournament this year? How

1074
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:32.680
what they do next year? And
we'll see who they get. Pat Kelsey,

1075
01:19:32.720 --> 01:19:35.600
my good friend is at Louisville.
How about that? We'll take it.

1076
01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:40.880
I like he brings the cardinals.
Those are the sneakies. They got

1077
01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:45.079
to bring the Cardinals back, Willie, And believe me, they're somewhat low

1078
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:47.319
on the totem pull of life.
You're not kidding. Maybe I'll invite Matt

1079
01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:51.239
Jones to come here and meet the
great American. Well, hey, the

1080
01:19:51.359 --> 01:19:56.880
Stoode Reporters, approp Service, every
local Tame Star heating and air conditioning dealers,

1081
01:19:57.520 --> 01:20:00.119
tame Star quality. You can feel
the Northern Kentucky Gaul Johnson Heating and

1082
01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:08.119
Cooling eight five two eight five nine
four seven two sixty fifty one. Would

1083
01:20:08.119 --> 01:20:12.560
there have any chicken left by the
end of Easter at Ron's roost? Every

1084
01:20:12.640 --> 01:20:15.319
chicken is going to be gone?
Is that fair to say? I would?

1085
01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:16.760
Well, but they'll they'll still have
some. Don't worry, I have

1086
01:20:16.800 --> 01:20:20.600
some chicken Willy, I want to
say happy anniversary number thirty two to my

1087
01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:26.119
lovely wife Denise. What about you
married today with me? She put nineteen

1088
01:20:26.239 --> 01:20:29.239
ninety one. Yeah, thirty two
years she put up with you? Yep.

1089
01:20:29.479 --> 01:20:32.439
And then also do I sound like
a raging, raving lunatic? Yes?

1090
01:20:32.560 --> 01:20:35.880
Or no? Really want me answer
that? Go to the next item.

1091
01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:40.520
Also, Willie, we say good
luck and retirement. So one and

1092
01:20:40.560 --> 01:20:46.000
only NAPA Bob Bob Wilt a very
good advertiser here on the station. He's

1093
01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:54.039
he's retiring from NAPA, the home
of Ron Caps and Chase Elliott after forty

1094
01:20:54.159 --> 01:20:59.600
years at NAPA Auto Parts. Bob
all the best in retirement. Let me

1095
01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:03.319
see here. Frank Sybel says,
no, I'm not a raving lunatic.

1096
01:21:03.359 --> 01:21:06.399
I agree with Frank. By the
way, I have an invitation to a

1097
01:21:06.439 --> 01:21:12.119
wedding in Miamisburg. That's right.
Those two people came up and said they

1098
01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:15.520
took a picture what with you like
last year, and then they said they

1099
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:17.720
wanted you to go to their wedding. That would be hilarious if you show

1100
01:21:17.800 --> 01:21:21.079
up. I gotta go, I
said to Michael Woushey. He was with

1101
01:21:21.199 --> 01:21:24.800
this girl named Alison. A year
ago at the Holy Grail, I said,

1102
01:21:24.840 --> 01:21:30.560
look, marry that woman, have
children, work together for something worthwhile.

1103
01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:34.000
Jump into the pool. Do not
stay single simply living with her.

1104
01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:38.359
Make her your wife and make her
the mother of your children. And what

1105
01:21:38.479 --> 01:21:41.560
they do yesterday They come up to
me and give me an invitation of their

1106
01:21:41.600 --> 01:21:45.359
wedding. Guess I gotta go.
Well July the twelfth, I'm receiving an

1107
01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:51.760
award. I've been selected by half
Tad Pirival and Brian Redden as the Celtic

1108
01:21:51.880 --> 01:21:56.920
of the Year and a gabp.
I'm gonna get a shield and a sword,

1109
01:21:57.159 --> 01:21:59.640
which I may use against Matt Jones, by the way, but that's

1110
01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:02.560
I thought they'd do that at FC
Cincinnati to pull the sword out of the

1111
01:22:02.640 --> 01:22:05.119
rock. So I doubt I can
make it, but let's see what I

1112
01:22:05.159 --> 01:22:09.600
can do on July the twelfth,
and Allison and Michael, may you be

1113
01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:13.479
married at least fifty years and be
blessed with many children. Reds are off

1114
01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:17.000
today Willie. The series against those
Nationals resumed tomorrow afternoon with Kids Opening Day.

1115
01:22:17.640 --> 01:22:24.880
Many pregame festivities begin at eleven fifteen
with the mascot parade. Game time

1116
01:22:24.960 --> 01:22:28.800
is at four to ten. The
action right here on seven hundred WLW more

1117
01:22:28.880 --> 01:22:32.960
NCAA sweet sixteen action tonight. What
about Pat kelsey seven o'clock on Fox Sports

1118
01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:36.680
thirteen sixty. Is that the station
that Matt Jones is on? Yes?

1119
01:22:38.079 --> 01:22:42.880
NKU star Trey Robinson, the Pride
to Hamilton, says he's going to return

1120
01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:46.439
one more year for the Norse.
Also, Pat Kelcey named yesterday as the

1121
01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:53.359
Louisville new head coach. We say
congrats to Purcell Marion's Jamar Moseley. He

1122
01:22:53.399 --> 01:22:58.079
has been named the Ohio Division two
Girls basketball coach of the Year. Mason's

1123
01:22:58.159 --> 01:23:01.399
Rob Matula, who has retired siring, but he is it named the Division

1124
01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:08.720
one Girls coach of the year.
Williamsburg's Dan McKibben is the Division three coach

1125
01:23:08.840 --> 01:23:12.880
of the year in basketball. How
about that Bengals off season workout dates.

1126
01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:16.800
The first day is April fifteenth,
so they bey get their taxes done OTAs

1127
01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:21.239
in May and June and in mandatory
mini camp June eleventh. Joe Burrow's red

1128
01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:26.560
teenth. Oh, the reports are
he's throwing. Who's risked is worse TJ.

1129
01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:30.600
Friedel or Joe Burrow? Probably TJ. Friedel? And what about Matt

1130
01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:34.520
McClain. What can you tell me
about Matt? Who's got to be He's

1131
01:23:34.600 --> 01:23:42.000
recovering from the laboram surgery and the
shoulder. Sam mal who's had a shoulder

1132
01:23:42.039 --> 01:23:45.680
impingement, the Reds reliever. He's
one of the eighty five guys that are

1133
01:23:45.680 --> 01:23:49.760
on the IL. M o ll
he is. He is off on a

1134
01:23:49.800 --> 01:23:55.640
rehab assignment. Tonight as a Triple
A Louisville begins their season. What about

1135
01:23:55.720 --> 01:24:00.439
Necklodolo and his tibia? He's still
on the IL. What about Margine?

1136
01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:05.680
What about Noel Marte? He suspended
eighty games? Now we look he's only

1137
01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:12.680
what one game into it? What
about Williamson? Oh, he's well,

1138
01:24:12.720 --> 01:24:16.560
he's still on the IL. Anybody
else? Nick Senzel's out three to four

1139
01:24:16.600 --> 01:24:21.079
weeks each broke his thumb yesterday fielding
a ground ball in pregame warm ups.

1140
01:24:21.439 --> 01:24:27.359
You can't make this up. He
comes to Cincinnati as a Washington National right

1141
01:24:27.520 --> 01:24:30.600
fielding a ground ball before the game
is on the DL. Also we say

1142
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:35.760
congratulations, will you the Dayton Dragons
director of media relations and broadcaster extraordinary,

1143
01:24:35.800 --> 01:24:39.319
Tom Nichols. Why don't you and
I go up there? He's going to

1144
01:24:39.359 --> 01:24:42.720
be inducted into the Dayton Baseball Hall
of Fame. Great, why didn't you

1145
01:24:42.760 --> 01:24:46.119
and I go to a Dragons game? Love to It's packed up there every

1146
01:24:46.119 --> 01:24:49.000
game. I'm told it sold out. Danna from Dayton invited me up a

1147
01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:51.439
few times. Well, I tell
you what I would do. I would

1148
01:24:51.439 --> 01:24:55.399
throw out the first pitch of a
game. I would go to Dayton.

1149
01:24:55.600 --> 01:25:00.479
I'm sure that right now that whoever
you have ever heard this in Dayton lolly

1150
01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:04.680
calling the Dragons or a Dragons executive
is listening on condition to a great American

1151
01:25:04.760 --> 01:25:08.079
up there. Now you catch it? You catch it, okay, and

1152
01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:13.680
you squat down and get up all
right? Well it might need help.

1153
01:25:14.439 --> 01:25:18.000
Uh MLS Soccer FC Cincinnati on the
road tomorrow night, up against Charlotte Charlotte

1154
01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:23.239
FC at seven. Who's gonna fill
their shifteen thirty? Who's gonna fill their

1155
01:25:23.279 --> 01:25:28.399
shoe segment? Who's gonna stand that
tall, who's gonna who's gonna join the

1156
01:25:28.439 --> 01:25:31.880
opry and the waalbash cannon ball that
was gonna get to the soul of heart

1157
01:25:31.920 --> 01:25:35.159
and me and you? Now there's
many singers who's gonna fill their shoe?

1158
01:25:35.159 --> 01:25:38.800
And how many are the stars?
That's right? And I'll tell you what.

1159
01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:42.600
That was the essence of my speech
yesterday before I was cut off at

1160
01:25:42.600 --> 01:25:45.560
the end and then crissendo was close. I was building up to a mighty

1161
01:25:45.600 --> 01:25:48.119
wave that would crash. Well you
know what that is. Look in the

1162
01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:53.479
eyes of those desperate Reds fans.
That was a tease to next year's speech.

1163
01:25:55.119 --> 01:25:58.119
I'm gonna started right now. I'm
just saying, See, those fans

1164
01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:00.439
will be back next year and they'll
hear the rest of it. They want

1165
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:03.079
to hear more, like Paul Harvey, the rest of the story. And

1166
01:26:03.159 --> 01:26:09.439
where the fans and the Holy Gram
were they paying attention Somewhere when they when

1167
01:26:09.479 --> 01:26:13.199
they taping the entire thing, couple
of people were they said, here it

1168
01:26:13.319 --> 01:26:15.119
comes, get it ready, here
it comes. Here's the crescendo. And

1169
01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:19.039
how many young three thirty eight k
we gotta go. How many young women

1170
01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:24.079
came up to me begging for a
pick with me? Uh, you got

1171
01:26:24.159 --> 01:26:27.119
more, You got more attention than
Marty. I don't want to say that

1172
01:26:27.239 --> 01:26:30.199
though he's the Hall of Famer,
because I'm gonna two or three holes of

1173
01:26:30.199 --> 01:26:32.239
fame. So what that right?
I mean? You know, what the

1174
01:26:32.319 --> 01:26:35.279
heck, what the hell? I
don't know, I don't either. I

1175
01:26:35.359 --> 01:26:39.319
wonder if Matt Jones is in any
hall of fame, unless they have one

1176
01:26:39.359 --> 01:26:43.479
for clowns for the Capitol k he'd
be in that hall of fame. That

1177
01:26:44.840 --> 01:26:46.720
How about Nick Martini? Though?
Will he plays in Korea? Right?

1178
01:26:46.920 --> 01:26:53.600
We're moving around. Unbelievable. Yesterday
two home runs five RBIs first read with

1179
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:58.880
multiple home runs on opening days since
Adam big Done done in two thousand and

1180
01:26:59.079 --> 01:27:04.520
seven, the third read since nineteen
o six with multiple home runs on opening

1181
01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:10.199
day? Who was president in nineteen
o six? Was that around World War

1182
01:27:10.319 --> 01:27:13.800
One? A little bit a little
before that one? Woodrow Wilson? Was

1183
01:27:13.880 --> 01:27:16.880
it? No? That was a
little later, nineteen o six, Grover

1184
01:27:17.039 --> 01:27:23.840
Cleveland, No, it's later,
or that I have give me a hint,

1185
01:27:24.920 --> 01:27:29.640
Well, that's the US grant was
already. That was now eighteen sixty

1186
01:27:29.720 --> 01:27:34.159
eight to eighteen seventy four. It
was a hint. Teddy Roosevelt, you

1187
01:27:34.279 --> 01:27:43.079
might recall in nineteen are nineteen twelve
you had a battle between President T.

1188
01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:47.159
R. Roosevelt ran on the Bull
Moose party and lost, William Howard tapped

1189
01:27:47.800 --> 01:27:53.359
ran as a Republican and lost.
And then you had Woodrow Wilson, get

1190
01:27:53.359 --> 01:27:57.520
elected as a Democrat. His homes
right down the street from hospital in it

1191
01:27:57.600 --> 01:28:02.640
I've been. That is the last
time that two former presidents or president presidents

1192
01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:06.640
teed up until now, assuming the
two of them make it to November when

1193
01:28:06.680 --> 01:28:10.199
it's going to be Trump v.
Biden. The last time that happened was

1194
01:28:10.439 --> 01:28:15.079
twenty twelve when Teddy Roosevelt teed it
up against William Howard Taft who was a

1195
01:28:15.159 --> 01:28:19.640
sitting president, and Woodrow Wilson would
become the president. So you talked about

1196
01:28:19.640 --> 01:28:24.399
that last night at the talking about
Olk City political mess. What was that?

1197
01:28:24.720 --> 01:28:28.279
I thought? Jeffrey Epstein identified Bill
Clinton as one of the women that

1198
01:28:28.439 --> 01:28:30.680
raped young girls, and he's one
of the heroes of the Democrat Party.

1199
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:35.159
Jeffrey Epstein, we had in New
York yesterday. He had Biden, Obama

1200
01:28:35.399 --> 01:28:41.119
and Clinton, and then Trump was
there, went to it. He went

1201
01:28:41.159 --> 01:28:44.520
to the police that week. He
cared about police, and Biden cared about

1202
01:28:44.600 --> 01:28:47.960
raising money. Two presidents not there, which two presidents segment alive were not

1203
01:28:48.119 --> 01:28:57.319
there, George Bush and Jimmy Carter. That's it right there. Jimmy Carter,

1204
01:28:57.560 --> 01:29:00.760
Well he's ninety nine. Well he
looks half dead, so well,

1205
01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:04.039
God bless him. Maybe I'll make
it to one hundred. Not sure we'll

1206
01:29:04.079 --> 01:29:08.800
see segment is I did in sports? Yep, Reds Baseball off tonight,

1207
01:29:09.479 --> 01:29:13.439
but then they get tomorrow afternoon,
Tomorrow afternoon, Willy, and then Sunday,

1208
01:29:13.520 --> 01:29:17.399
so will he In honor of Vietnam
Veterans Day, God bless those soldiers.

1209
01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:23.319
We leave you with the immortal words
of the Stood Report. You know

1210
01:29:23.439 --> 01:29:29.039
the president can't really ever control a
White House press conference? Yeah, I

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guess not. Well, Joe Biden
doesn't hold any press conferences because he can't

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enough to do that. You can't
somebody ask him a question. You don't

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know what to do. Have a
nice weekend, everybody, same to you,

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and Happy Easter, Good Friday,
Holy Saturday, Easter. Scott Powell,

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thanks for coming on. Scott Powell
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A lot of basketball on women's and
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