WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:08.599 By Billy cunning in the Great America. 2 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:11.759 Of course, the chief law enforcement official, believe it or not, 3 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.359 in Hamleton County is the county corner doctor Lastmi Somarco. 4 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:18.440 By statute, she controls the county with an iron grip 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.559 in many ways. She's also in charge the coroner's office 6 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:23.879 and also the crime lab in Hamleton County, which is 7 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:26.960 around the region the go to place when there's difficult 8 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.079 cases in Ohio, Kentucky or Indiana. And one thing I've 9 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.159 noticed spoke with her off the air about the number 10 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.119 of dog attacks is increasing, and also the fact that 11 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.079 thirteen year olds are walking around killing people with guns 12 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:41.119 and Ohio law does not allow for a criminal referral 13 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:44.520 to adult court til you're at least fourteen. And doctor Samarco, 14 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:46.920 welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, 15 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.159 I was involved in a fundraise for a fundraiser for 16 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.679 little girl at the Hard Rock Cafe who was brutalized 17 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:56.799 by a couple of pit bulls. Cops showed up, had 18 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.600 to put the pit bulls down, and the cops testified 19 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.320 that the it's bounced off the pit bull's head like 20 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.719 it was a ricochet. At a hell of a time. 21 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.519 Have you noticed an uptick of attacks of the so 22 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.840 called massive pit bulls and what can what can be 23 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:13.359 done to guard against it? 24 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:13.920 If anything? 25 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:20.359 Well, well, Willie, honestly, is there anything we can do 26 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:23.280 to guard against it? I mean, I think that the 27 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:29.280 Ohio laws have changed and they seem more intent on 28 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:36.040 protecting the pit bulls and their owners and the victims. 29 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.000 We have noticed, you know, the number of fatal attacks. 30 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:44.040 Maybe you don't hear about them as much until you 31 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:48.640 know a tragic the death of this little this little 32 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:55.359 girl a few weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, and you know, 33 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.439 and then everybody is horrified, and then it brings it 34 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:02.719 to everybody's attention. But you know, I'll just tell you 35 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.879 one story. My mom, my mom, this past summer in July, 36 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:13.400 I believe or July or August, was attacked by a pitbull. 37 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.560 She was just walking along the sidewalk and a woman 38 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.840 walked out of her apartment. She had a pitbull mastiff 39 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:24.039 mix on a leash, and for whatever reason, the dog 40 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:27.159 decided to launch itself on my mom. And you know, 41 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.319 this dog was one hundred and ten pounds, my mom's 42 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:34.400 one hundred and ten pounds, and this dog launched itself 43 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.960 on my mom and Bitter in the forearm with really 44 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:42.000 deep puncture wounds, and then Bitter on the hip. And 45 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:47.879 they took my mom to the emergency room and you know, 46 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:50.280 had she had to get all of those washed out, 47 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.120 and you know, when I got there, she had been 48 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:59.000 bleeding all over the floor and she needed four series 49 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:03.360 of rabies odds after that, and you know, law enforcement 50 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:07.840 was called and he said, yeah, I'm really sorry, Doc, 51 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.879 but all we can really do is fite this woman. 52 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.199 But there's nothing else we can do. And I said, well, 53 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:18.479 that's preposterous. You can't quarantine the dog. I mean, don't 54 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:21.120 shouldn't we be testing the dog for rabies? I think 55 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.479 it's ridiculous that, you know, my elderly mother has to 56 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.319 go through four series of rabies shots and yet the 57 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.400 dog owner gets just a citation and goes back to 58 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:32.680 doing whatever she's doing. 59 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.120 And you know, doctor Samarco, if a human being had 60 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.879 done that to your mother by some means or method, 61 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.840 no matter, by hands, by a knife, by a mission, whatever, 62 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.759 if a human being had caused the same injuries to 63 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.000 your mother as that dog had caused, all hell would 64 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:52.520 break loose to the human being, but we treat dogs better. 65 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:53.080 Than human beings. 66 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.039 A little girl in Roselawn, what a beautiful little girl was, 67 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.599 and you were involved in the odd top suit was 68 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:01.800 really horrible, awful. 69 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:02.800 Absolutely. 70 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:05.919 You know, I don't think I say this all the time, 71 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:08.280 and I really mean it, and I don't think people understand. 72 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:10.800 But you know, what you see on TV and movies 73 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.560 is nothing compared to what we see in real life unfortunately, 74 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.759 especially with this poor little girl and what happened to 75 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.000 her is just horrific. 76 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.000 Well, and you know, whenever we discuss this topic, not 77 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:25.680 you and me, but whenever I bring it up, there's 78 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.519 a large, pitfull, massive colony of human beings who get 79 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.839 angry at discussing it. And politics keeps dogs like that 80 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:39.240 from being treated as if they're human beings doing similar 81 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.240 misbehaviors because politics is behind the idea that you have 82 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.639 a one bite rule, that is, you can bite severely 83 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.399 without killing somebody, maybe taking off an arm or hand 84 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.040 or for a series of shots, and it's. 85 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:52.680 Like no big deal. 86 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.199 But the politics of it is on one side because 87 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.959 in a sense, normal people aren't organized, but the pitfull 88 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.199 community is terribly maybe not terrible, they're organized to make 89 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.079 sure laws do not come into effect. And pit bulls 90 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:10.879 are great, great pets until they're not. A massive is 91 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.000 a great pet until the first bite happens. These are 92 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:18.839 animals that are configured to cause serious injuries to others. 93 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.560 And we don't have the laws to protect ourselves from this. 94 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.959 That little girl, and it happens regularly with dog bites 95 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.000 all over urban and rural areas. I'm thinking about Michael 96 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.720 Vick and then we're bet betting on him and we 97 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:34.920 don't have the law sufficient to protect. 98 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.199 And and another I'm glad you brought that up. 99 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:43.519 I often say doctor Somarco, that uh that er, docs, nurses, 100 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:49.319 emergency room personnel, you have police, fire, going to scenes 101 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.240 of horrible incidents. And you sent me a text about 102 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:54.600 two or three months ago said, don't forget what we 103 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.040 have to deal with. Well, what is it in your 104 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.600 soul that says to doctor Somarco, who could do any 105 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.759 kind of medical practice in the world and make maybe 106 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:06.439 five times the money that what you have to look 107 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.319 at and deal with PTSD. I'm thinking to look at 108 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:12.279 the body of that little girl. What was he three 109 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.879 or four years old? From Rose Lawn? Half equal you 110 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.439 can unsee that, So what what do there There's. 111 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:24.839 A lot of unfortunately, you know, I must say that 112 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:29.560 there are a lot of people in my office who 113 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.079 you know, we we've talked about it. We've said that, 114 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:38.079 you know, there's real ptsd UH involved with what what 115 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.560 they do. And you know, we try and do what 116 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.720 we can to get comfort dogs in and you know, 117 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:48.560 get them employee assistance. But but there are things that 118 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:52.600 you can't unseen. And I think that's the real that's 119 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:56.279 a real part of first responders and and what they see. 120 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:58.519 And it's not just our team, but you know, it's 121 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:04.639 law enforcement, it's fire and ems, and there are some 122 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.040 horrors that stay with you. I mean I remember the 123 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.160 very first in my first two weeks of office, we 124 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:17.360 had three baby deaths, and I literally told the people 125 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.879 of my office, I don't think I can do this job. 126 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:20.120 You know. 127 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:21.759 We had a three months old or four months old 128 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.519 and a two year old who was so badly beaten 129 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:32.000 and abused, and he was the cutest little guy, and 130 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:33.879 I didn't know if I could do it. And I 131 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:36.720 can still remember his blue eyes and his little blonde 132 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.560 here and his little feet and you know, all the 133 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:43.920 bruises on him and all the horrible things that happened 134 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.839 to him, and they stay with you. But I think 135 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:51.079 for most of us that are in this business, we 136 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:55.120 really try and keep our part of the world a 137 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.800 little bit safer and try and prevent those kind of 138 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:03.120 horrible things from happening to other human beings. But I 139 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:06.240 can tell you that when we get children in the office, 140 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:10.319 there's there's definitely a palpable pall in the atmosphere in 141 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.160 the office, and it's everywhere. It's not just in the 142 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.399 Morgan or in the investigators section, but it's all over. 143 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.920 Everybody knows about it, and I think it brings to 144 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:23.519 four how important it is for everybody in the office 145 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.399 to do their jobs as well as they can. From 146 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:30.319 the crime lab, you know, the tray sevenance, firearms, drugs, toxicology, 147 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.919 DNA sections to you know, everybody in the morgue and 148 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.360 the investigative staff that go out there. And I don't 149 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:44.399 think anybody is or questions what they do when something 150 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:48.120 like that happens. And you're right, I think that the 151 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:51.200 PTSD does get to you. Sometimes there are people that 152 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:54.080 have left the office or left the roles that they've 153 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.279 played and switched to different roles in the office that 154 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.279 you know give you less exposure. So last year we 155 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:07.000 lost one of our own to suicide, and that was 156 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:12.000 really hard for everybody in the office. And you know, 157 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:16.919 it led to some shifts and positions and changes and things. Again, 158 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:20.559 like you said, it's really hard to unsee when you 159 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.039 have to respond to the home of one of your own. 160 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:24.840 It's really hard. 161 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.440 Why do you do it? Because you've been out in 162 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:30.360 there for three terms? Stay statue has you the chief 163 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.840 law enforcement official in Hamlety County. Each corner is so, 164 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.200 why is doctor Lastivismarco great family? 165 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:37.840 Why do you do it? 166 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.919 Why do you keep You just ran for reelection. I 167 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:42.639 think nobody ran against her, But look in your heart 168 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:43.799 and tell me why you do it. 169 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.679 Yeah, honestly, it's going to sound corny, and there are 170 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.120 going to be people out there and say whatever, you know, 171 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:53.320 there's got to be something else. But it really is 172 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.039 about trying to keep my little corner of the world 173 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.679 a little bit safer. And I feel like I'm in 174 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.879 a position where I can try and help make that 175 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.679 happen and be impactful on other people to try and 176 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.960 do the same. And you know, as the first Indian 177 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:16.399 American elected in Hamilton County. I feel like I have 178 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.000 a responsibility to my community to show that it's important 179 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:24.320 for us to play a role in the society. I mean, 180 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:29.159 most Indian Americans are professionals, and people see us as 181 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:33.320 doctors and engineers, and I don't think they see us 182 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:36.279 as giving a whole lot back to the community. And 183 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:39.240 I think for I was born in India and came 184 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:40.960 here when I was a little kid, but you know, 185 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.679 for the first generation, second generation now, I think it's 186 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.120 important to see that, and you see that there are 187 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.000 more Indian Americans in politics now, I mean everybody from 188 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.960 Vivia Ramaswami to all of our local candidates that are 189 00:10:55.960 --> 00:11:00.639 front So I think it is having an impact and 190 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.279 it should be about what we all do to make 191 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.639 all of our lives a little bit better, and especially 192 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:08.399 for the next. 193 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.600 Generation, well, no question. 194 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:14.200 And also we've had a rash of thirteen year olds 195 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.799 being murderer or state law doesn't cover them to be 196 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.720 tried as adults. And you see the end result of crime, 197 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.919 and I'm told repeatedly by certain politicians that the crime 198 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.200 rate is way down. When I watch NBC, ABC, CBS, 199 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:32.320 local media, the stories they could cover crime all. 200 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:33.080 Day, every day. 201 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.639 You know, some of us have a sense, but doctor Somarco, 202 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.000 you have the reality of the results of criminal activity. 203 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.240 Do you think crime is down or are arrest down? 204 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:45.519 Which is it or both? 205 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:52.480 Is it arrests, is it convictions? Is it? I don't know. 206 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:56.320 I mean from our perspective. You know, we had twenty 207 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:00.919 five autopsies over the weekend, you know, between Friday and 208 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.080 this morning. I you know, granted a lot of those 209 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:10.919 were natural, but it doesn't feel like crime is down, 210 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.360 and certainly when it comes to youth violence, it certainly 211 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:20.360 doesn't feel like that to us. And I would have 212 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:23.639 to sit and really look at the statistics. I think 213 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:27.320 over the last ten years thirteen years I've been in office, 214 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.240 our homicide rate for Hamilton County has been pretty steady 215 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.320 and not significantly varied. I think it was about one 216 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.000 hundred and five last year, so am I first started, 217 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.159 it was around one hundred. So I don't think it's 218 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:42.639 really changed a whole lot. 219 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:44.480 I think. 220 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.799 Non death related crime has that increased. I think possibly. 221 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:52.919 I mean, we certainly have been talking about the South 222 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.919 American theft group that's been all over the news, and 223 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:01.679 you know, that isn't actually something new, and since the 224 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.440 visa waiver program went into place for Chili, and I 225 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.159 don't know if you're aware of that really, but in 226 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:12.919 twenty fourteen, the State Department put into place a visa 227 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.480 waiver program for Chili, and that's the only Latin American 228 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.840 country that has a visa waiver to the United States. 229 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.159 In other words, if you have a Chilean passport, you 230 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.399 can travel to the United States without a visa. And 231 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.879 you know that means that people can go back and 232 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:32.440 forth readily and freely. I understand it was set up 233 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.799 for trade, but this is this theft group has been 234 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.240 a problem for quite a few years, and I don't 235 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.039 understand why the State Department can't just shut it down 236 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.080 and you know, help law enforcement and trying to control 237 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:52.840 what's happening. But you know, certainly the non death related 238 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:56.039 crimes have increased, and I think that goes along with 239 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.679 some of the violent crime where deaths aren't involved has 240 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:03.279 also increase, at least from what I can tell. So yeah, 241 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.919 maybe we're making some headway in some ways, but I 242 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:10.200 think we really need to work on our young people 243 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:14.080 in the community, and I mean, we need to teach 244 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.279 him the value life. And I think that a lot 245 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.120 of the young people committing these crimes, they don't have 246 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.519 that sense of valuing life. And I don't know if 247 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.639 it's because, you know, people can blame COVID, people can 248 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:30.360 blame you know, video games and being disconnected, and you 249 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:32.799 can come up with a lot of things that might 250 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.440 have brought us here. But I don't hear a lot 251 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.200 of people talking about solutions. 252 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.960 No, in fact, they're well intended. I'm thinking about Reverend Mingo, 253 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.879 He's well intended. A lot of community meetings. Got to 254 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.000 do this, got to do those involved. They're not in 255 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.960 the meetings, they're outside the meetings. And it's a small 256 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.960 number and a small percentage. Joe Dieters always told me 257 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.399 that if he could take five hundred people out of 258 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:58.879 the community, we'd have a few, if any crimes ever committed. 259 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.559 Because it is a small number, doing a great number 260 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.440 and reach those they'll come. 261 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.279 To the meetings. There's no interest in being a part 262 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:08.320 of the solution. 263 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.000 No, they're not at the meeting and say, Okay, how 264 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.440 can I reform my life? How can I value education? 265 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:15.519 How can I get a job, how can I work? 266 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:19.200 How can I support my family. Well intended individuals like 267 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:22.559 Reverend Mingo or at these meetings, but those committing the crime. 268 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.480 The five hundred out of maybe eight hundred thousand residents 269 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:29.480 in Amlin County are not there. They're doing other stuff 270 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.159 and they couldn't care less, and you can't reach that group. 271 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:34.879 I don't think it takes you. 272 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:40.200 Know, as long as it's more lucrative to commit crimes, 273 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:42.919 I think you're going to have a hard time getting 274 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.559 people to buy into, you know, getting an education and 275 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.759 getting a decent job. You know, when I remember going 276 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.600 to a murder in Finley Market in the Findy Market 277 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:57.279 area one day, and it was a nineteen year old 278 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.799 and you know, he was faced down when we got there. 279 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.960 We rolled them over and he had you know, bulges 280 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.039 in his pockets and we pulled stuff out and it 281 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:13.159 was over twenty five dollars in cash. And no, you know, 282 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.240 he's nineteen, and you know what he was doing on 283 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:20.200 the street and it certainly wasn't doing a job. Maybe 284 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.879 maybe if selling drugs is a job, but you know, 285 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:29.840 he got caught in in crossfire between you know, one 286 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:33.480 gang versus another gang who are trying to maintain their territory. 287 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.440 So I don't know. I don't have a solution. Some 288 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:39.440 days it's very depressing, but we keep. 289 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:42.480 Doing what we're doing, Doctor Samarco, thank you. I know 290 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:44.440 I'm gonna get lots of text now from pit bull 291 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:47.080 owners telling me how ridiculous you and I are, but 292 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.240 that goes with the territory. Doctor Samarca, you're the best 293 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.519 of what you do. Promise me as long as I'm 294 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:54.279 on the radio, you'll be the county corner. 295 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.919 Oh my goodness, how long is that really? 296 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:59.399 Four more years? 297 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.000 Well guess what, I was just re elected, so I 298 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.640 guess you're in luck. Four more years. 299 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.519 We'll get you that d to Somarco, you're a great American. 300 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:11.279 Thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. 301 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:12.039 Thank you so much. 302 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:16.079 OK here bye and gentlemen. That's the best there is 303 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.880 right there, doctor lastmis Marco. Let's continue with more Bill 304 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.759 Cunningham News next that you're home with the Reds News 305 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:36.359 Radio seven hundred wwsy. 306 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.079 Bully Cunningham, the great American. 307 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:34.119 Of course, Reds Baseball kicks off right here about two 308 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:37.960 thirty five this afternoon. Redgs did a number on the Dodgers. 309 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.640 So see what happens today. They're all all the positive 310 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.079 information coming out of Arizona's really great. In fact, there 311 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:46.519 are some experts that have picked the Reds to win 312 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:50.319 the Central Division because let's face the Milwaukee has been down. 313 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.319 We'll see what happens. Cubs spend a lot of money, 314 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:54.680 but there's still the Cubs and the Cardinals are on 315 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.720 the downtick along with the Pirates, and the Reds remain 316 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:02.200 and Tito Francona, I think think is the missing ingredient, 317 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.720 much much like a loop Panella in nineteen ninety was 318 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:07.920 the missing ingredient to put the Reds over the top. 319 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:10.599 So we'll see what happens there after one o'clock today, 320 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:13.480 we have Curtis Hawk with you and I of NewsBusters 321 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.680 dot org. And what they have done at NewsBusters and 322 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:21.319 elsewhere is every day they record everything NBCABCCBS and PBS 323 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:25.079 and they relate to you what the media says to you, 324 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:28.000 what's going on. I've said to you in many times, 325 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.759 in many places, garbage in, garbage out. There's a chunk 326 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:34.599 of the American people who only received their mainstream media 327 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:40.920 news from NBCABCCBSPBS and newspapers, which are far left wing 328 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.480 radical in their origins, and nothing has changed. In fact, 329 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:48.799 he points out that over a thirteen day period, the 330 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:53.440 headline NBCABC, CBS Evening News did a total of less 331 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:58.440 than one hundred and five seconds on the savings of Doge. 332 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:01.240 That is, Doze is saving this country from itself. And 333 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:03.559 I just listen, it's still going on. As I look 334 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:06.599 to my left, the first cabinet meeting of the President 335 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:10.640 and Elon Musk is there talking about sending out notices. 336 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:13.960 Is some two million federal employees. By the way, the 337 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.599 majority do good work, show up and do their job. 338 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.480 There's another chunk of federal workers who do not show 339 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.319 up and do not do their job. And he has 340 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:27.000 said that as many as half a million federal workers 341 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:29.680 have not responded to an email saying are you there 342 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.519 and tell us what you've done the past week or so. 343 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:35.880 Give us five things that you've done in your job. 344 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:39.119 And Elon Musk and the President made the point about 345 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.160 half an hour ago that maybe these workers don't exist, 346 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.640 maybe they're made up, Maybe it's a bot, because in 347 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.359 some agencies ninety five percent do not show up to 348 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:51.799 work anyway. And I don't blame them in a sense 349 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.160 because Joe Biden told them don't show up for work, 350 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:57.720 and before he left office about eight months ago, Joe 351 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:01.480 Biden extended their ability to work from home until the 352 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:05.640 year twenty twenty seven. It's like, well, you kind of 353 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.359 have to show up to do your job. Ask people 354 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:09.119 at iHeartMedia, you got to show up. You've got to 355 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:11.440 do your job. You got to be here. And so 356 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:16.480 what's happening is that there's a chunk of federal employees that, 357 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:21.839 according to Elon Musk, does not exist. That they're a bot. 358 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.839 They get a paycheck. Same thing with purveyors and suppliers 359 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:29.279 of government services. There are literally tens of millions of 360 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:33.240 businesses large and small who provide services to the federal government. 361 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.480 How many actually exist? How many are a ploy or 362 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.559 a plot to steal money from you? And this relates 363 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:42.799 to a big column which I'm going to share parts 364 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:45.400 of it with you now. I love the Wall Street Journal. 365 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:49.200 About eighty percent of the time, headline in the commentary 366 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:54.839 section is this America's future depends on doge. In other words, 367 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.400 if this can't be done now to cut back on 368 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:01.119 the growth of the federal government and the expenses thereof, 369 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.480 we're out of business. The two things that would destroy 370 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:08.400 this country are being attacked with alacrity by Donald Trump. 371 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.799 One is the southern border, and right now the crossings 372 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.880 are down ninety five percent. And because they're down ninety 373 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.680 five percent, EISK has configured to take the five percent 374 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:22.920 to get across the southern border and hold them into tens, 375 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:26.279 then send them back to their host country and give 376 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.119 them a report date for a hearing on refugee status 377 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:32.279 maybe three to five years from now. And when you 378 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:36.000 look at the various passes from the trilateral countries in 379 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:40.240 Central America, in New Mexico, the Mexican president has told 380 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.759 President Trump that she will stop it at the source. 381 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.839 And so when you stop on the southern border, those 382 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:51.799 individuals from Nicaraguay, l Salvador, Venezuela, Bogatade, Columbia, et cetera. 383 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:55.400 That's a huge part of the problem. And right now 384 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.400 it's down to a trickle from fifteen thousand a day 385 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:01.559 to one hundred and fifty day. Fifteen thousand to one 386 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.799 hundred and fifty that's a ninety nine percent reduction. And 387 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:07.440 those who do make it across, they can quickly say, Okay, 388 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.000 you're from where Okay, we're going to have a put 389 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:12.279 you into tention, and then we're going to ship you 390 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:14.359 back to your home country. And this is how to 391 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:17.440 apply to become a refugee in our country, which is 392 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:20.720 very limited the great majority who claim refugee status. By 393 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:25.119 the way, it doesn't work. And so America's future depends 394 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:27.279 on dose. You're thinking to myself, is that a bit 395 00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:29.519 Is that a bit extravagant? 396 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:30.240 The answer is no. 397 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:36.640 Countless presidents and countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone 398 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:42.599 with the intention of changing the system. These cabinet secretaries 399 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:46.400 and their deputies get nice pensions, They get huge, big, 400 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:50.640 well appointed offices, They have a nice portrait and social status. 401 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:54.759