WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.800 By Billy Cunningham. The great American workings glorious appen in. 2 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:11.880 The tri State. A little bit frosty, a little bit cold. 3 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:15.039 I think winter is coming slowly, but nonetheless get ready 4 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:17.039 for that and so much more. And of course once 5 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:20.079 again the Bengals play Sunday against the Brown He's like 6 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:21.640 two and eight the last ten games. 7 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:22.280 Not too good. 8 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.800 But we'll see what happens this Sunday actually starts about 9 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:28.839 nine am with pregame shows, etc. But Jonan, you and 10 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.799 I now is the great Brendan Call cu Ll Brendan Call, 11 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.679 who was the chief of staff, the Haldeman and the Erlickman, 12 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.679 friend David Axelrod to Charlie Lucan for so many years. 13 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:42.039 Now he's with the Chamber the last ten or fifteen years. 14 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.079 And first of all, Brendan Call, do you miss the 15 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.320 good old days with you and Lucan controlled things with 16 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:48.159 then on grip or are you're happy to be in 17 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:49.039 your plushy job? 18 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:50.079 Which would you prefer. 19 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:52.719 I've got a great job. I get to work with 20 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:55.280 my good friends at City Hall, and Charlie is still 21 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.719 a very good friend, and we remnants about the good 22 00:00:58.719 --> 00:00:59.719 old days A lot. 23 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.479 In other words, you don't answer the question the question, 24 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.319 which is good, but nonetheless, if you thought about a 25 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:11.159 bloodless coup. Segment suggested yesterday that you and Charlie get 26 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.640 a tank, maybe from Butler County, and take over eight 27 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:14.480 to one Plump Street. 28 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.480 This or a chance we're getting ready for. 29 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:19.599 We're getting ready for Blink right now, which is I 30 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:21.120 think what we're going to talk about. And I got 31 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:22.640 a golf cart. Do you think I could? Do you 32 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:24.560 think I could take over a city hall with a 33 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:26.000 golf cart? Or do you think I need to be 34 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:27.280 more heavily armed? 35 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:28.640 More heavily armed? 36 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:31.280 I talked to side leasey still as the Navy and 37 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.120 the Air Force ready to go, but we got major problems. 38 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.719 We'll leave that off to the side. Blink, as I 39 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.319 understand it, correctly helped me. 40 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:43.719 Melissa Powers may weigh in and open up the jail cells. 41 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:46.680 Charmaine McGuffey will be there making sure everyone is tied 42 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:48.760 to the wall, beaten to death if they don't go 43 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:50.480 with you where you want to go. But we have 44 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:52.840 nothing but issues at eight to one Plump Street. I 45 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:54.000 like the good old days. 46 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:57.879 Street. I got to give him great credit because we're 47 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.400 working really closely with the city right now to reduce 48 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:05.040 blank blank, which is an absolutely spectacular event for this 49 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.759 community and the city. My good friend Mayor Puir Ball, 50 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.719 the city manager Surel Long have done an unbelievable job 51 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:17.960 supporting this both financially and with the great police and 52 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.000 fire departments of the City of Cincinnati. This event, there's 53 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.560 nothing like this in the country, and people are coming 54 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.199 from all over the world to see this event. And 55 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.680 it is really great that Cincinnati and Newport and Covington 56 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.000 have this free public art event that inspires people and 57 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.360 brings them downtown phenomenal. 58 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.919 Well, I think it's great. I don't understand it. I 59 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.560 was there one time. I saw these projections of light 60 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.879 on the sides of buildings and like mainly women walking 61 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.479 around taking photographs going ooh and ah. My good friend 62 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.000 Sean Donovan has a flower pod out in front of 63 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.159 his brickstone and they're on court straight, but he puts 64 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.159 flowers in there and women stand next to it with 65 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.319 pictures taken. I don't understand it, but I don't. I 66 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.560 don't understand a lot of things. As I understand. 67 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:01.199 If you go to hang out with me, I'll drive 68 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:04.199 you around it's going to be awesome. Here's what you guys. 69 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.919 You have an unbelievable listening audience, and I bet a 70 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.120 lot of them are going to be down here for 71 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.680 Blink and I want to tell them three things that 72 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:12.639 I think they should absolutely see. Do you want me 73 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:13.000 to do that? 74 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.080 Let me write that time? I got one? What's number one? 75 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:16.039 Write this time? 76 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:19.240 Number one? Do not miss music Hall. Many people remember 77 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.680 Luminosity from ten years ago. We are going to relte 78 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.159 music Hall for the first time since Luminosity. Four different 79 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.639 artists who are local with sound. It's going to be 80 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.280 absolutely magic. You can't It's a can't miss part of Blink. 81 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.199 Number one is music number number two. What's number two? 82 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.759 Yep, number two. I'm going to give you four. I lied. 83 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.800 Number two is at the corner of sixth and Walnut. 84 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:48.319 There is an awesome mural of Neil Armstrong, perhaps but 85 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.840 one of the greatest Americans. No clue, I agree. 86 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:56.599 And five hundred years from now, forget about the Taps, 87 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.280 forget about Pete Rose, forget about Joe Burrow. The only 88 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.439 name known from the century will be Neil Armstrong. That's 89 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:03.400 the only name known. 90 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.199 In Neil Armstrong's mural on the back of the fifth 91 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.840 third building. Another general sponsor. We're going to light the 92 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:13.479 Neil Armstrong mural. It includes sound that has him talking 93 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.560 to you know, mission control, talking to Richard Nixon. It 94 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:19.560 gives me goosebumps every time I see it. It's going 95 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:20.959 to not it's gonna not your socks. 96 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.279 Off number one music call number number two, sixth and Walnut, 97 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:25.920 Neil Armstrong number. 98 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:30.199 Three, yep, number three. I think kids and families are 99 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:34.279 going to absolutely love the Newport on the Levee mural. 100 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:35.040 Uh. 101 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.839 It features dinosaurs and animals. My good friends, it's the 102 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:43.240 Cincinni Museum Center helping us produce it. It's it's total magic. 103 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:45.879 If you've got kids and your coming down, check out 104 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:49.120 the Newport area. The ovation development Newport on the Levee 105 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.360 is where that mural is, and it's really phenomenal. 106 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:54.079 Got that down. I watched number four, the four Bag 107 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.519 of four Bager go. 108 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:01.160 Up to Finley Market area at sixteen six Race Street. 109 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.279 Now it's a little further up, but it's in the 110 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.000 heart of over the Rhine. There is a mural, a 111 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.639 brand new mural. Part of the cool thing about Blink 112 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.839 is that we fifteen new murals from all over the world. 113 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.040 Artists come here to paint on walls. We now have 114 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:16.720 one of the largest collections of public art murals in 115 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:20.120 the world. Two artists from the Netherlands I met yesterday 116 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.240 painted an image of a payphone on this building. It 117 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.199 is huge. It looks like it's coming out of the 118 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:28.120 building and it will. It's it's so cool. It's just 119 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.000 so cool, and you'll be up in your friendly market 120 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:31.399 and there's a lot to do up there. 121 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:33.360 So you're saying a picture of a payphone. 122 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:37.519 I can't describe it to you, Bill, but it is 123 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.279 it's it is a okay, the entire side of a building, 124 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.120 and it's magic. It's so cool. 125 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.879 I could tell my grandkids about that and they would say, Poppy, 126 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:48.920 what is that? 127 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:51.120 I know, but that's why I think. That's why. I 128 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.639 think that's why people are gonna love seeing it. It's 129 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:55.680 it's gonna be great down here, you know. I would 130 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.399 tell people all four nights, you come back multiple times, 131 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.160 make sure you see Newport and Covington. That great partners 132 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:05.560 that meet nky you know, helps this happen. Thank you 133 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:07.639 police and fire officials who are down here making sure 134 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.879 everyth's safe because it's you know, it's one of the 135 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.120 best weekends to be downtown or in Newport and Covington. 136 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.240 You know, I encourage people to try and ride a 137 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.160 bus down here because you know, parking, you got to 138 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:20.120 park and everything. But it's we've got it all worked out. 139 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:21.800 So if you go to our website at blink Cincinnati 140 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:23.360 dot com, all the informations there. 141 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.319 Let's deal with facts. I don't want to deal with 142 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.439 hyperbole and depictions of payphones. I understand that two million 143 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.720 people are going to come, which is if you take 144 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:37.439 the Taste and october Fest together, they're half a blink. 145 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:38.720 Is that true? 146 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.199 Yeah, you know, it's really difficult to do crowd estimates, 147 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.040 so we work with police and fire about this, and 148 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.199 we know we count people, you know, if they're here 149 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.920 multiple nights. But we we have an enormous crowd. It is, 150 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.040 you know, in the past, definitely more than a million people. 151 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:59.839 We will release official estimates after the event, but I 152 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.879 think what's most important is just the economic impact from it. 153 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.439 I was talking to a friend of mine who owns 154 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:08.480 The Pony, which is a bar up on Main Street, 155 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.639 Great Wings, Great Beast Sandwich, and he said, this is 156 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:13.959 like the best weekend for them. They just they love it. 157 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.600 And that's true for the guy to own not I 158 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:19.759 mean this is this is a small business boost in 159 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:21.360 the arms. So if you're down here, you're running a 160 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.720 restaurant or bar or an art gallery, this is this 161 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.240 is the hottest weekend. Your hotels are full. I saw 162 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:29.800 one hotel had a room. It was probably the last 163 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:32.279 room left. It was fifteen hundred dollars a night, which 164 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:36.279 is bonkers but awesome. And you know that's great. That's 165 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:37.920 awesome for the economy in the city. 166 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:38.680 No question. 167 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.600 So at It starts tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I think 168 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.839 Sunday too. It'sday night to Sunday night. 169 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.120 Just ro tip. Sunday Sunday is a great night to 170 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.439 come because you're going to be My pro tip for 171 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:53.319 your listening on it, Sunday is a really great night 172 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:53.959 to be down here. 173 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.560 All right now, As far as admission, Tony Bender's cheap. 174 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.839 He's from Boone County. It's kind of a rural kind 175 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:02.920 of a guy's got chickens, rose, carrots and peas. He's 176 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.519 a farmer. Why should someone from the hinterland, from the 177 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:10.519 outreaches of Boone County or Butler County or Wilmington come 178 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:11.000 to Blink. 179 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.399 Well, people are coming from all over the world. I 180 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.560 think the guy the family who's in Butler County who 181 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.839 will make a trip downtown is gonna if they haven't 182 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:27.160 been in a while, they'll rediscover how fortunate we are 183 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.279 to have this urban core with so much to do, 184 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:35.639 so many great restaurants, buildings that are you know, architecturally beautiful. 185 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:37.480 I mean, this is a great city. We are very 186 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:42.519 lucky to live in Cincinnati, Ohio. Not every downtown urban 187 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:45.600 core across the country has fared as well as Cincinnati has. 188 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:49.000 We have, you know, thousands of people living down here 189 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.360 in apartments. There's four apartments within a block of where 190 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:55.519 I'm sitting right now that are turning into residences. It's 191 00:08:55.559 --> 00:09:00.679 the greatest collection of art and culture probably in the Midwest. Uh, 192 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:02.639 You've got stadiums down here, so people come down here 193 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:04.200 for that, but to be able to walk around and 194 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.559 be Fountain Square and you can ride the street car 195 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:10.919 for free all weekend and see much of Blink. We're 196 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.000 so lucky to live in a place where whether you 197 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:17.360 live in Butler County or Boone County at night to 198 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.399 come down here and experience this economy in our city. 199 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.879 This is this is great, it's great for for us. 200 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:25.759 Why doesn't it exist somewhere else? 201 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.559 Because I watched this interview on Channel nineties too, this 202 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:30.159 couple from the Netherlands who come here. 203 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:31.519 I'm thinking, what are you? What are you kidding me? 204 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:31.919 Yeah? 205 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.639 So I'm thinking, why can you explain? I don't get blank. 206 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:37.679 I walked around a couple of years ago, looked at 207 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:41.279 some holographic images on old buildings, and women are taking picture. 208 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.399 Who look at that? Look at that? Hey, look at that? 209 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.279 And I'm thinking. I kept saying, where in the hell's blank? 210 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.399 Where's blank? And blank is everywhere? What the hell is blank? 211 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:50.840 I mean, what are you talking about? Blank? 212 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:52.720 You want me to get super You don't make it 213 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.519 super corny with you, Like there's a spirit of blink too. 214 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.000 So you know people are down here, You're standing with 215 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.519 your friends and neighbors. I don't tell people, you know, Billy, 216 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:02.559 I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, moved here in nineteen 217 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:06.320 ninety five, and you you got to come down to 218 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.919 Fountain Square when the Reds won the World Series. Who's 219 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.840 a great, great moment in Cincinnati history. There have been 220 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:14.879 other moments with our sports teams. Going to the Super 221 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:16.960 Bowl was really awesome. But there's a whole generation of 222 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.559 people who are going to remember coming downtown and being 223 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:21.320 a part of blank and seeing the art and seeing 224 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.879 the buildings. That will be a lifelong memory for them. 225 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.840 Standing with their friends and neighbors. The guy from Boone 226 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:28.720 County is going to stand next to the person from 227 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.960 Butler County, and next to them will be somebody who 228 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.159 lives in over the Rhine, and they will feel this 229 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:36.320 great spirit that we have of living in Cincinnati, and 230 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.039 it's a pretty special thing. And you know, these people 231 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.759 come in from all over public art murals. To me, 232 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.320 that is as high form of an art as somebody 233 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.279 who paints on a piece of canvas. And you could 234 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:50.120 sit in your studio and paint a piece of canvas 235 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.360 and sell art for you know, twenty five thousand dollars 236 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.159 to some collector, or you could paint the same quality 237 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:57.960 art on the side of the building and over the 238 00:10:58.039 --> 00:10:59.679 Rhine and we all get to see it for the 239 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.480 next one hundred years. That's pretty lucky that we get 240 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:04.440 to have essentially a city that is an art gallery. 241 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:06.799 I said the other day that we're blessed to have 242 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.360 the town we live in compared to other towns our size. 243 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.360 But I said three c DC, the Reds, the Bengals, FC, 244 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:17.440 Proctor and god fitth Third Bank, that Joseph Automotive Group, 245 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.600 Western and Southern, John Barrett, the tennis tournament. We got 246 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:22.320 a little bit of a hockey going on, U C 247 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:27.399 Xavier NKU. You could take fifteen miles from downtown Cincinnati 248 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.279 and there's not a town anywhere in the country that 249 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:33.960 does the kinds of things Cincinnati does well. And one 250 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.799 of them was Blink, which I don't understand. We also 251 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.879 have music Hall with all the dancing and the orchestration 252 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.000 and the symphony and the ballet and all that kind 253 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.559 of crap, none of which I like it all. But nonetheless, 254 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:46.759 a lot of people aren't like me. You know what 255 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.440 I'm saying, Brandon, People of differentations, you know what I'm saying. 256 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:52.840 Many people think I'm not normal, Brandon, call are you normal? 257 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:59.360 You know, I think that's a debatable question. I would 258 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.320 probably say there people like you who say I'm not normal, 259 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.000 not normal. But that's the best part about this city 260 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.320 is that you know you might be the biggest Bengals fan. 261 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.200 And maybe art doesn't mean anything to you, but I 262 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.440 promise you if you walk around downtown, walk around, you're 263 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:14.120 gonna see something that catches your eye. 264 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:15.159 And it's funny thing. 265 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.759 By the way, for a person who doesn't care about 266 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.519 the Bengals. No, they get swept up in the Super 267 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:23.720 Bowl spirit. And we're you know, you're right built Cincinnati, Ohio. 268 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:25.879 There's no other city that I can think of who 269 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:27.399 can put it all together like we can. 270 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.799 I lived in Toledo a long time in law school 271 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:32.679 and practice law there with Schnorf, Snorff and Schnorf, and 272 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.960 I watched the death of Toledo. It's really not come 273 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.399 back except for Ohio state and state government. Columbus doesn't 274 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:42.120 even exist. Dayton's got problems. And comparing us to Indianapolis 275 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.399 or Milwaukee or Kansas City, I'd live here in a 276 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:48.120 heartbeat because of large numbers of individuals that make this 277 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.840 city work. I take it the Barrett and fit Third 278 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:53.720 Bank and take three C D C unbelievable stuff being 279 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:57.360 done that doesn't happen anywhere else. Once again, what's the website? 280 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.360 People can go there look at blink maybe down looking 281 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.480 a stare at a wall somewhere on a holograph. 282 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:02.919 I don't know. 283 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.639 You can go from Newport to Covington to Findlay Market. 284 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:08.279 It's probably two or three miles walk. You can't take 285 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.679 it all in one night. What is the website? Tony 286 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.559 Founder wants to know he wants to bring the kids, 287 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.960 the chickens, he wants to bring the farm animals and 288 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:15.799 marching around. 289 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:17.519 What is the website? 290 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.240 Blink Cincinnati dot com. All of the information you need 291 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:25.639 is there, follow on social too. I hope to see 292 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:27.440 all of you down there this weekend. 293 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.840 And should new council members be picked upon qualifications or 294 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:31.960 purely upon race? 295 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:32.960 What do you say? 296 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.279 You know, Bill, I've been I've been reading about this. 297 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:45.159 I want to say, I know I wanted that wish wish. 298 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.879 Evan Nolan quite a lot of luck. I've gotten the 299 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:50.159 chance to work with him when he was at the 300 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:53.679 city and good man. He's a good city man, cares 301 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:55.360 a lot about the neighbor of Oakley, which is where 302 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.840 he and his family live. And like all of the 303 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:02.840 nine folks down there, I think you know, go ahead. 304 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:04.559 There are things that you could talk about no I 305 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.200 talk about on your program like you do. But that 306 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.519 group comes together to support the big things that matter, 307 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:16.759 whether it's three CDC, the convention Center, Blink, housing in 308 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.720 our community. And so I'm focused on, you know, working 309 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.320 positively with the folks who are down there. 310 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.440 You're staying out of politics until you seize power once again. 311 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:27.120 It'll be Axelrod and Obama is going to be calling 312 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.679 Lucan at some point ruling for a thousand years. 313 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.039 Golf cart the golf cart brigade. 314 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:34.679 We have an M fifty on top, just letting it rip, 315 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:37.919 all right once again, Brendan Call, thanks for coming on. 316 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:38.919 You're the head of the chamber. 317 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.759 You're in charge of all things happening, including the taste 318 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.679 in Octoberfest and Blinking so much more and get my 319 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:46.159 best to all the folks at Blink. 320 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:48.919 Well, thanks so much for having me on. 321 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.000 God bless Blink. Let's continue and Brendan Call, thank you 322 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.279 very much. You can't talk about politics. I often do 323 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.159 and I will. A person should be judged by the 324 00:14:57.559 --> 00:14:59.440 not the color of their skin, but the content of 325 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.279 their character. And someone out to tell Joe Mallory at 326 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.799 the NAACP that's the way it ought to be. You 327 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.759 can't be a civil Rights Group concerned about racism when 328 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:13.159 you practice it yourself. Let's continue with more Bill cunning 329 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.879 and the Great Americans speaking Truth to power on news 330 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:23.000 Radio seven hundred WLW. All right, Billy Cunningham, the Great American. 331 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.080 Let's set up the rest of today's big show. After 332 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.559 one o'clock today will be the sheriff, Charmaine McGuffey, who's 333 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.639 going to make a state visit here live about one 334 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:32.840 oh five today to talk about the race and more. 335 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.480 And I would say this about the sheriff's race. You've 336 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.960 take the prosecutor's office and that is Melissa Powers and 337 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.240 the Sheriff's office. That's probably most of what Hamilton County 338 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.360 has to deal with. In fact, the Sheriff's office spends 339 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.159 more money with about one thousand personnel than any other 340 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.240 apartment in Hamilton County. I don't know about you, but 341 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.679 I've been in the Sheriff's department once in the last 342 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.399 ten or fifteen years. I made a visit to hum 343 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.519 Jim Neil was the sheriff. I sat there a little 344 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:03.399 bit and left, and other than that, I do not 345 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.240 interact much with the Sheriff's department, thank god. So when 346 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.000 I don't have a lot of information on something. 347 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:10.600 What do I do? 348 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:13.679 How about talking with those who know best? Does that 349 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:17.320 make sense? So I attended a couple of three months 350 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:22.240 ago an event hosted by Sean Donovan at the Boat 351 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:26.399 House in downtown with Dean Gregory, and the guest speaker 352 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:31.879 was Sheriff Simon Lease. And Simon Lease is about ninety 353 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.679 years old. He's has some health problems of late, but 354 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:37.840 his mind is sharp as attacked and he's getting through 355 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:42.240 his difficulties of health. But his mind is completely intact, 356 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:46.600 as is his speaking abilities. So I sat there for 357 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.639 like ten or fifteen minutes and I watched Simon Lease 358 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:55.080 or right about the Sheriff's Department of Hamilton County needs 359 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:58.639 to continue under the leadership of Charmaine McGuffey, and I'm 360 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:03.000 going well. Lese hired Charmaine McGuffey and kept her employed, 361 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:06.279 as did he hired Jim Neal and kept him employed. 362 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.599 And looking at the two side, Lea says that Charmage 363 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.319 mcguffey's doing a great job as the sheriff of Hamilton 364 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:16.720 County and Charmage McGuffey needs to stay now. She is 365 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:20.279 a Democrat. You may know, and side Lease is a 366 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:23.960 Republican as you may know, and both of us, all 367 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:28.799 three of us care more about functionality than politics. Can 368 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:30.400 you do the job or can't you do the job? 369 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:33.880 And no one knows more about the Sheriff's Department of 370 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:35.880 Hamilton County than side Lease. 371 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:39.640 The side Lea's name and. 372 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.160 Impremature is all over the Sheriff's Department, Simon L. 373 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:43.519 Lease. 374 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.519 So for those cops on social media that may say, 375 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:50.400 why is Willie Cunningham supporting a Democrat, I'm not supporting 376 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.319 a Democrat. I'm supporting the better person for the office. 377 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.599 And the person that knows more than I know about 378 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.440 how the office functions and how it should function is 379 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.960 Simon Leese. Would you agree that he knows more about 380 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:08.759 that agency that he built up more than anyone in 381 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:12.000 the world. He knows about it along with his right 382 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:16.079 hand man for decades, with Sean Donovan, who was the 383 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:17.480 Chief Deputy of Hamleton County. 384 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:18.559 He's still called chief. 385 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:23.039 Those two guys represent law enforcement in the City of 386 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:27.279 Cincinnati Hamlety County. Would you agree? And when he spoke 387 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.960 so well about Charmaine McGuffey, how she began as a 388 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.960 private went to a corporal, went to a sergeant, went 389 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.039 to a lieutenant, went to a captain, went to a commander, 390 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:39.440 and now the sheriff. He said, no one is better 391 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:43.799 prepared to continue my legacy than Charmaine McGuffey. In fact, 392 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.400 she's been doing the job for the last four years 393 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.720 since she's doing a great job. So if you have 394 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.039 a doubt, not as a Republican or a Democrat, not 395 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.000 as a Catholic, a Jew, an atheist, at agnostic, not 396 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:56.960 as a woman or a male, whatever it might be. 397 00:18:57.759 --> 00:18:58.200 We care. 398 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:02.680 I care about law enforcement. And when Simon Lease and 399 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:07.240 Sean Donovan together say vote for Charmaine McGuffey, that kind 400 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:09.359 of does it for me. Because they live and die 401 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.000