WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:09.119 My Billy Cunningham, the great American. On this floor is 2 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:12.560 tunesday afternoon in the frist state rain counting later we're 3 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:15.160 told we could use summer course and rain in two 4 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:17.920 three days, and of course later on we're going to 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.519 celebrate in the central of College. 6 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:21.559 This is Stuntional Awareness Day. 7 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:23.600 We have an expert coming on in fentanyl, things of 8 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:26.399 that problems and things of those issues. One hundred thousand 9 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.800 Americans or more killed every year by fentanyl because the 10 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:33.399 Chinese government's hooked up with Mexican drug cartels and they're 11 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:35.640 selling this stuff all over the place. Is something different 12 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:39.079 than what it is, But until that takes place. Chris Smitherman, 13 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:41.320 former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Welcome to 14 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:42.320 the Bill Cunningham Show. 15 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:43.600 Christopher, how are you. 16 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:45.719 I'm doing good. 17 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:46.479 It's good. 18 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:48.479 It's really good to hear your vote, your voice. 19 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:48.759 Bil. 20 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.880 There's so much going on the one hundred days, the 21 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:55.280 first hundred days of the presidency, and more comes out 22 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.200 of the White House in one hundred days that we 23 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.799 saw in the White House and in four years out 24 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:02.920 of our President Biden. 25 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:06.799 So you know, there's so much going on. But politics 26 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:11.879 are local, yep, and people still forget that. And Cincinnati 27 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.280 is right now in the process. Bill of picking the 28 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.599 next mayor of the City of Cincinnati can't be more important. 29 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.319 We have a strong mayor system. There are three people 30 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:25.560 running for mayor. I'm supporting Corey Bowman, who is running 31 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:28.319 for mayor. But the top two vote getters out of 32 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:31.680 the three. Next Tuesday when the polls crolls come out 33 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.480 and run for mayor. And I went over and voted 34 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.439 yesterday and it was a ghost town. 35 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:40.920 Turnout. Turnout is going to be eighteen percent. But before 36 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:42.799 we talk about the mayor, iland to talk about something else. 37 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.000 We discussed off the air how blessed the city of 38 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:48.959 Cincinnati is. But with the Ohio River, we have more 39 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.439 water flown by us every day we couldn't use in 40 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.280 a thousand lifetimes. And I've said to the powers that 41 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:57.560 be many times. We have one hundred thousand miles of 42 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.439 pipelines going thither and fro all over the country. How 43 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.280 about taking pipelines and diverting the Ohio River water to 44 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:06.359 where it's needed. I know that makes too much sense, 45 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.439 but we have pipelines going from here to the Gulf 46 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.800 of America. We have pipelines from here to the Atlantic, 47 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:14.800 here to the Pacific up north. And I've said to 48 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:17.520 numerous politicians. I keep saying it, why don't we have 49 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:20.360 two or three large six foot pipelines from the Ohio River, 50 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.120 maybe in Cairo, Illinois, And when the water is just 51 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:26.639 flowing past us at a high rate of speed, take 52 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.759 that water, store it and out west or down south. 53 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:31.439 And you told me off the air that if you 54 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:35.199 live in Texas or California, and like Tony Benner has 55 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.639 a ranch somewhere near a Maillo and he cannot save 56 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.479 the water off his roof when it's raining to put 57 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:44.759 in barrels. That's like a fine you get in trouble. 58 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:48.400 It's wrong. So explain to me how, on one hand, 59 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.439 we have trillions of gallons of water flowing by us 60 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:55.479 into the Mississippi out into the Gulf, supposedly rising the 61 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:57.319 oceans in such a way that Florida is going to 62 00:02:57.319 --> 00:02:59.319 be inundated, which I don't believe. And so we could 63 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:03.800 divert that wall places like Texas, Arizona, Utah, California. And 64 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.360 why doesn't that happen. It's a simple idea. Why don't 65 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:08.560 we do that? Politicians can't give me an answer. 66 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.120 So let me first share with you that Cincinnati, most 67 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.120 people don't realize this, we have the best water system 68 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.000 in the world. And that's not an exaggeration. So people 69 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:20.800 come from all over the world to figure out how 70 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.599 Cincinnati cleaned its water. And we provide water in the 71 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:28.840 Cincinnati to places like Blue Ash, places like Redding, places 72 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:32.199 like Madeira, and so our water no matter where you 73 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.120 live out in the region, bill in the even in 74 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:40.039 the Great Kinwood Country Club, we provide the water from 75 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.879 the city of Cincinnati out there, even though it's a 76 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.280 place that I can't even afford. But the reality of 77 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.800 it is, we have great water here. And what I 78 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:51.879 really see, and I'll try to answer your question, but 79 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.639 what I see here is out in the future, really, 80 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.680 people are going to start making decisions about where they 81 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:02.479 can get clean water where there aren't droughts. We can't 82 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:06.159 see it now, but but water is like gold. And 83 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:09.240 so there's so many places that are experiencing droughts where 84 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.840 they tell you how many hours you can have your 85 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:15.159 water on to water your lawn, or how long you 86 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.920 can how many times you can wash your clothes, or 87 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:20.439 any of those kinds of things. We never deal with 88 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.319 it because it's so plentiful that you don't have a 89 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:26.519 system that allows us to clean it. I'm sharing with Willy, 90 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:29.879 I wouldn't. I wouldn't put a pipeline in and start 91 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.839 pushing our water out somewhere else because I think that 92 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.319 those communities ultimately are gonna be coming our way and 93 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:39.560 they're gonna help us populate. They're gonna build big, beautiful 94 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.399 mansions out in the Kinwood area. We're gonna be able 95 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.120 to collect revenue from all of that because people ultimately 96 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.959 will be making decisions around where they can get basic 97 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:49.959 services like water. 98 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.120 You know, whenever I talk to state leaders, they tell 99 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.040 me between Lake Erie and the Ohio River, we have 100 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.879 more water. We couldn't use it in a million lifetimes. 101 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.720 That's a differents Let's talk about too other issues. You 102 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:04.519 bring up the mayor's race. I'm watching Michelle Obama's podcast 103 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:09.000 because you don't have to, and she's sitting there on 104 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:12.720 the most recent podcast decrying the racism of Donald Trump 105 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.560 because she he is deporting persons of color and that 106 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.360 racism is rampant. And then you got Governor pritz Or, 107 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:21.360 the governor of Illinois, comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. 108 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:23.639 Whenever you go to Adolf Hitler, you lose the argument. 109 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.519 Right there be goes no character in human history ever 110 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:29.360 caused the wreckage that Adolf Hitler calls. And so she 111 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:33.360 made the point that because of all the immigrants, not 112 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:37.800 illegal immigrants, being deported without due process, that somehow Donald 113 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.279 Trump is a racist. Now, if the three point one 114 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.879 million immigrants I said, three point one million deported by 115 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.560 the Deporter in Chief, Barack Husein Obama, each had a hearing, 116 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.079 we wouldn't get to the first one hundred thousand of 117 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:56.279 those three point one million. Up to this point, Donald 118 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.959 Trump is deported twenty six thousand as compared to three 119 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.120 point one million over eight years. Now, in the first 120 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.639 four years, Trump deported one point one million. He wasn't 121 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.079 even close to what Barack Hussain Obama was doing. And 122 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:13.040 so it's a nice tactic to use because it raises 123 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.079 the racism flag and many saluted constantly whenever it raised 124 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:20.040 by an Obama. And secondly, it's a great fundraiser. In 125 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.560 other words, it motivates people to believe as if due 126 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.720 process rights must be given to illegals who come into 127 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.399 this country illegally, who commit crime here. If hearings are provided, 128 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:32.439 lawyers and courtrooms are provided, we will never get to 129 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.160 one tenth of that number over eight years. And so 130 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.720 Michelle Obama is raising the R flag. It's racism when 131 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.240 her husband deported three point one million without due process. 132 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:45.920 And secondly, it's being used as a fundraiser by the 133 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.000 ACLU and others to raise money to keep their jobs. 134 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:50.360 Can you smell when I'm cooking? 135 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.439 So first, let me say that President Barack Obama was 136 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.759 right about his deportation policy. People are coming into our 137 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:05.240 country illegally. Jumping the line I support legal immigration, I 138 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.120 would predict that you support legal immigration. So it's important 139 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.800 to define that because we're talking about people who have 140 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.800 come into our country illegally. The current president is focused 141 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.160 on criminals. President Barack Obama was very broad in his deportation. 142 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:24.800 It wasn't focused in on a gang members for example, 143 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.120 a rape and pillage. 144 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:30.720 Everybody wants correct, correct. 145 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.680 So his public policy, Yeah, his public policy was very 146 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:37.079 very broad, and he was you know, you know, I 147 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:38.920 heard recently there was a case where there was a 148 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:43.639 family that was separated, meaning President Barack Obama would separate families. 149 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.439 He would absolutely deport and he was an aggressive deporter. 150 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.519 And guess what, I wasn't against it because people were 151 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.360 coming into our country illegally. I don't know whether the 152 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:56.759 first lady doesn't understand or didn't know her own husband's 153 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.000 public policy, So I'm not going to speak to that, 154 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.000 but what I will take. What I will tell you 155 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.240 is that the work that our current president is doing 156 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.680 is saving lives because you see the people that he's 157 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.279 reporting is so serious. These are people that are literally 158 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:14.720 praying on Americans and praying on children, and praying on 159 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:18.680 women just out walking or jogging or on a playground. 160 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.800 So this is the right thing to do. And I 161 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.800 hope that our courts, which these activist federal justices, which 162 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.399 I know that your wife would weigh in on this. Hey, listen, 163 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.519 should not be injecting themselves in what the executive branch 164 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:36.600 is doing currently. Like they didn't do when President Obama 165 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.120 was the president, they shouldn't be doing it now when 166 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:42.720 President Trump is a president. We've got to bring law 167 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.879 in order in our community, particularly as it relates I 168 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.840 don't even want to call them guests. Let me just 169 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:54.200 get ten seconds on this to say, Louisiana Senator Kennedy. 170 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:57.879 I love his analogy. This week he said, listen, I 171 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.320 locked my doors for a reason. It's not because I 172 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:03.919 don't like my neighbors. I like my neighbors. I lock 173 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.120 my door so that I can protect my family right. 174 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.559 And so the point of it is, we're not saying 175 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:12.559 we're having a secure border. There is no country if 176 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:14.840 you don't have a secure border. It's not saying we 177 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:18.120 don't want people to come into our country lawfully. We're 178 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.600 saying we don't want them to come in illegally. The 179 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.200 last thing I'll say is African Americans and Latinos being 180 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.120 told who are looking at this issue will say the 181 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.120 same thing. That's why President Barack Obama could do what 182 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.279 he was doing, because so many African Americans said, listen, 183 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.039 I want you to deport people who will come into 184 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.799 our country illegally. And we understood the dread Scott case, 185 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:42.519 which is now going to the Supreme Court related to 186 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:46.639 birth citizenship off a slave who is so smart, who 187 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:50.879 traveled to Saint Louis. Republican lawyers fought for him to say, 188 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.440 guess what, you have the right to be free. Anybody 189 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.320 listening to this should understand the dread scot case and 190 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:00.440 what is actually happening before the Supreme Court, probably in 191 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:01.360 the next few weeks. 192 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:03.960 Well, I thought it was remarkable. And now all the 193 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.480 Democratic parties in favor of Venezuela and gang members who 194 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.440 commit rapes and robberies. Every now and then, you might 195 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:14.039 have a mother deported illegally who's here illegally, and she's 196 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.639 given the option of taking her children with her or not. 197 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.519 She knew having the babies here would be an anchor baby. 198 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.039 All of them, by the way, are on public assistance 199 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.440 of one type or another, and that when you're found out, 200 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:26.480 that's part of the risk of committing a criminal act, 201 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.919 which is breaking into the country illegally, you may be 202 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.240 held to account for that. And she elected to take 203 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:34.399 her kids with her back to Venezuela, which I fully understand, 204 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:38.720 instead of leaving those American citizens here. Now, secondly, I 205 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:41.000 want to get you know, Michelle Obama is at the 206 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:45.840 hallmark of maximizing her own identity and money and power, 207 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:48.279 and she said during this podcast, I don't have to 208 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.960 deal with much of this. I have a four car 209 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:54.559 caravan wherever I go, and they hold the stop lights 210 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.200 for me. So I'm Michelle Obama. I don't have to 211 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.200 deal with it. I got caravans whenever I go. But 212 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.480 I'm not the typical black woman that has to live 213 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:05.759 under Donald Trump. She kind of concluded by saying, racism 214 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.200 is at the heart of what Donald Trump is doing. 215 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.200 By her definition, her husband was the biggest racist in 216 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:16.679 American history. Secondly, kids downtown, Jim Moooring, Tracy Swagman and 217 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:19.960 others have this plan, and I think it's going to work, 218 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.679 except on maybe Tuesday night and Wednesday night. Last weekend 219 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.279 wasn't much of a real test. The weather was terrible 220 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:27.399 and the Reds weren't in town, so there wasn't much 221 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:29.759 going on at the banks. Anyway, what do you see 222 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:33.559 as a father of I believe five great kids that 223 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.799 you and Pam raised so well in Avondale, that is lacking. 224 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:41.639 That causes large numbers of youth in their fourteen, fifteen, 225 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.399 sixteenth year of life to go downtown, sit on the 226 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.759 river bank, smoke marijuana, et cetera. We had Ken Kober 227 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:51.600 the police department said that they look around smoke pot 228 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.120 and look for another victim. That's not a good look 229 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:55.240 for the city of Cincinnati. 230 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:59.159 Well, currently we just have a week mayor in mayor 231 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:02.799 of pure Va opinion, and we have a council, in 232 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.200 my opinion, that has taken their eye off the ball, 233 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.039 just like we've seen in many of our quote sanctuary 234 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:13.080 cities across the country. So here's the reality. Parents need 235 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.480 to know where their kids are willing. And you can't 236 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.240 have twelve, thirteen and fourteen year olds downtown breaking curfew 237 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.840 and then tell your police department. You tie their hands 238 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.639 and you say, I don't want you to go up 239 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:26.919 and ask any question. I don't want you to talk 240 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.000 to them. I don't want you to do proactive police people, 241 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:34.039 and our police department understands that. Unfortunately, because they have 242 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.399 this week mayor who won't support them on a Monday 243 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:40.440 morning when they have some type of interaction that doesn't 244 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.240 go the best, that they know that that city Hall 245 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.720 and that mayor will throw them under the bus. At 246 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.600 the heart of it, our electeds aren't backing our Cincinnati 247 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.000 to police department. And again is why I'm supporting Corey 248 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:56.120 Bowman and trying to get him out of the primary 249 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:59.440 next Tuesday when the polls close. The point that I'm 250 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:01.840 trying to make is if parent this is a parent 251 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.360 issue willing, and we have a counsel that won't go 252 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.559 down and be heavy handed. Meaning if you don't know 253 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.120 where your thirteen year old child is and it's two 254 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.440 o'clock in the morning, I say, that's a major problem. 255 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.720 It never happened in my household with my father. Never 256 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:20.120 happened in my household with my mother. And let me 257 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.360 tell you, if anybody called me, called that house teacher 258 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.759 or police officer or anybody, my dad would either say, 259 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.159 let them have it, don't come back here. I'm not 260 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.039 coming to get you. That was always the rule in 261 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.919 our house, which nobody had to experience. That are number two. 262 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.679 My parents always supported. The teachers are the faculty in 263 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.399 our public schools. Our public schools, many of them are failing. 264 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:43.600 We've got to own up to that. And part of 265 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.399 it willing is the discipline. Meaning our teachers are phenomenal. 266 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.480 I don't want to beat up school teachers. My wife 267 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:52.360 was a school teacher. They're in these classrooms with four 268 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.759 or five kids that when they try to get them out. 269 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.360 I'm even when they assault a teacher, knock her teeth out, 270 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:59.759 knock her down, throw a computer at one of our 271 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:03.720 men teachers. The system will not even remove the kids 272 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.919 from the school. They then end up downtown at two 273 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:09.600 or three o'clock in the morning. And our police officers, 274 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.799 no matter where they are, whether it's Madeira, Reading or downtown, 275 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.840 they are not dead. They're not uncles, they're not cousins. 276 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.919 They're cops. And we need to allow our cops to 277 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.000 do their jobs. But we've got to have a city 278 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.000 hall in Cincinnati, or in Dayton, or in Cleveland, whoever's 279 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.639 listening to it is anywhere across the country. You've got 280 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:29.200 to have local officials that are willing to back up 281 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.279 their law enforcement, and we just don't have it. 282 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.559 I know it's a small thing, but it offends me 283 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.440 a bit when I go around Washington Park, and my 284 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.600 family's roots go deep into the soil of Washington Park, 285 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:44.000 and I watch numerous people smoking marijuana publicly with children 286 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:45.960 running in and out of the fountains in the summertime. 287 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:48.159 And I've walked up to a cop there two or 288 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.360 three times in uniform. I said, how come you're not 289 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:53.799 enforcing the marijuana laws. He said, We're told not to 290 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:57.799 do it. And it's a little thing, but it's hard 291 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.840 to go to any public event, including angles outside the 292 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.080 game of the Reds outside the game before the event 293 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:08.679 takes place without smelling marijuana everywhere, and it sends the 294 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.639 message that if we don't enforce the little laws, maybe 295 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.000 the big ones will take care of themselves. And these 296 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:16.840 kids that do this, number one, they're underage. Number two, 297 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:21.399 that's a curfew violation. And number three, they have no fathers, 298 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:23.559 no mothers, no one who cares about them. And I 299 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.159 care deeply about kids from dysfunctional families because you had 300 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:29.639 a functional family. I did not have so much of 301 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.720 a functional family growing up, but I lived in a 302 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.159 culture around Saint Savior's at Deer Park where there was 303 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.320 people looking out for other kids. And I think it's 304 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:41.360 a sadness, it's a sickness. We need strong law enforcement. 305 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.320 We don't have it. Well, we got to run once 306 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:45.279 again up against the clock. You know how that works 307 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.159 in radio. And once again, Chris. 308 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.919 Thank you for having thanks for having me on. People 309 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:55.000 can follow me at vote Smitherman on social media on 310 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.480 X and again as smart. I was just talking to 311 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.759 a guy down here at Jim and Jack and sit 312 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:03.840 them over to the Board of Election and say that 313 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.120 this person was from Saylor Park. Please go and cash 314 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.120 or vote for Corey Bowman. He's got to come out 315 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:12.480 of that primary. And I appreciate the opportunity to say 316 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:13.320 that on your airways. 317 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:16.440 Will you say all Christopher Smitherman, stay strong. We'll see 318 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:19.039 what occurs. Let's continue with more. And once again, when 319 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:21.799 you let the small things go by, like speeding tickets 320 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:24.960 and they put up speed bumps, no big deal, Smoking 321 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.200 marijuana in public, no big deal. Suddenly there's a sense 322 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:31.600 of lawlessness that manifests itself in horrible ways. Let's continue 323 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.360 with more. After one o'clock today, we've scheduled a guest 324 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:38.480 on fentanyl Death Incorporated. And once again, many weeks ago, 325 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.720 I had on the family of Jackquell. Do it for Jack, 326 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.039 go to the website, check it out, and we had 327 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.279 Brad winsterp here with a mother and father and they 328 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.519 did a great job explaining how their son, a Muller 329 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.159 grad Jack Quell I met his end and using fentanyl 330 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:55.919 unbeknownst to him. And today's today we commemorate in a 331 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.120 sense the fentanyl death calls by all kinds of issues, 332 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:01.639 but be care full about what you take from friends 333 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:04.440 and family as to where it came from. Let's continue 334 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:10.839 with more Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WULWI Billy. 335 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:11.880 Cunningham, the Great America. 336 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.319 Let's set up the rest of today's sneak show after 337 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.599 one o'clock today will be doctor Robert de Marbret. Today 338 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:23.279 is National Fentanyl Awareness Day, National Fentanyl Awareness Day, and 339 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:25.359 I want to talk to doctor Marbat about where this 340 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.559 thing came from, how it occurred. I've read some things 341 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:31.599 at the Wall Street Journal that once the crackdown took 342 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:36.039 place of the farmer industry, that somehow that caused a 343 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:40.119 rise and of fueling, shall we say, fentanyl paid for 344 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:44.480 by the communist red Chinese and an agreement in concert 345 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.880 with Mexican drug cartels, and the two of them together 346 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.079 have imported tons of fentanyl into the United States of 347 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.839 America which now are capable of being made inside of 348 00:17:55.880 --> 00:18:00.400 our nation with the right chemical pharmaceutical precursors ahead of time. 349 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:04.119 So we're going to get an update from doctor Robert Marbat. 350 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.759 He's got a documentary out and a few weeks ago 351 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:11.279 ahead on Brad Weinstrip and the parents of Jack Quill, 352 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:14.799 who was a Muller High School graduate who found himself 353 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.599 taking some recreational cocaine on the East Coast, and it 354 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:21.279 was laced with a fentanyl and he didn't make it. 355 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:21.720 He died. 356 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.680 And so every year about one hundred thousand or more 357 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:30.200 Americans are killed. The Mexican drug cartels the last three 358 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.960 months have had difficulty getting the product in the country 359 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.319 because of Donald Trump, And so now the cost of 360 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:42.079 a pill containing fentanyl has gone from like one dollar 361 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:44.680 to seventeen dollars, which is a good thing when you 362 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.279 think about it, but that means they're making even more money. 363 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:49.839 So we'll see what happens. But we have a report 364 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:53.039 coming after one o'clock on that and more. Plus I'm 365 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.640 holding a note here put out by the Cincinnati Bengals. 366 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.880 The Bengals appreciate Hamley County support in passing today's Memoran 367 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.319 of Understanding, which is a step toward preserving pay Court 368 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.119 Stadium as an asset for the community and the downtown. 369 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.839 The Bengals primary object has been to keep operating successfully 370 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:13.000 in pay Corpse Stadium. In today's MoU keeps paid Corpse 371 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:15.359 Stadium in good shape for fans and tending events, and 372 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.039 continues the effort to build a world class riverfront in 373 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:21.160 the community. Many good things have happened over the past 374 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.480 twenty five years. Team is glad to continue working with 375 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.720 Hamilton County. The vote was two to one. Alisa Reese 376 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:28.559 said no, she wanted to see more. The other two 377 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:32.920 voted yes. So this is still contingent, shall we say, 378 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:35.400 on a deal being struck at this point, this is 379 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:39.240 a memorandum of understanding. The devil might be in the details, 380 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.519 but the goal is to have this money one hundred 381 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.119 and eighty seven million dollars spent, two thirds from the Bengals, 382 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.680 one third from the county, and then use that as 383 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.440 a hook in order to get the state of Ohio 384 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:52.799 to step up, which might be a bridge too far. 385 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:55.440 The more and more I speak to my friends, the 386 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.519 power brokers in Columbus, the more and more Republicans are 387 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:01.519 telling me that bill millionaire club owners should not get 388 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:04.319 a lot of money from the public, especially from the 389 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.079 general Revenue Fund. So we'll see what happens down the road. 390 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:10.599 And I would say this, I was with you thirty 391 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:15.240 years ago when this sales tax thing was passed, and 392 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.920 over the last thirty years, we're not in some economic 393 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.680 crisis in Hamilton County that thirty years has gone by. 394 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.480 We're still standing, still surviving, having the worst least deal 395 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:29.720 in the world, where the taxpayer picked up ninety five percent, 396 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:32.279 the Bengals picked up five percent, And it looks to 397 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.319 me as if they're willing to pick up a large 398 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:40.319 chunk of the remodeling of pay Course Stadium. So did 399 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:43.759 we survive the last thirty years with the Bengals stadium deal? 400 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.599 Did we make it from nineteen ninety five until now? 401 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.759