Speaker 1: My Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome to this
Speaker 1: glory is great Friday afternoon in a tries day, Red
Speaker 1: Space kicks off about seven to forty. Tonight they win
Speaker 1: the night they're back to five hundred, which is the goal.
Speaker 1: Get the five hundred and then May take care of itself.
Speaker 1: As you may know, this has been one season in
Speaker 1: the past ten on May the first, the Reds had
Speaker 1: a winning record. Let's drive toward May first and see
Speaker 1: what happens. But more importantly, big news conference about an
Speaker 1: hour ago with Tracy Schwegman at the banks and many others.
Speaker 1: The police were there, the business owners were there. It
Speaker 1: was a big conclave and Tracy Schwegman, welcome again to
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, Tracy, what
Speaker 1: is the deal? What was agreed upon to improve the
Speaker 1: security at the banks because of all the shootings that
Speaker 1: have been down there, it's been bad for business. I
Speaker 1: talked to more and Jim Moooring quite often, not a
Speaker 1: good situation. The Reds were not happy. So what do
Speaker 1: we do as in response to some of the violence
Speaker 1: at the banks?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Bill, thanks for having me. You know,
Speaker 2: one of the things that we've always tried to do
Speaker 2: down here at the Banks is be a good partner
Speaker 2: and hopefully a partner.
Speaker 3: With some solutions.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that we've been talking about
Speaker 2: for almost two years now, and really in the last
Speaker 2: year and a half, it's really been something we've been
Speaker 2: focused heavily on is how do we improve the environment
Speaker 2: for that twenty one and up crowd. The reality is
Speaker 2: after ten pm down here, particularly in the pedestrian plaza,
Speaker 2: the offerings are only geared towards those that are twenty
Speaker 2: one and up. And so how do we make certain
Speaker 2: that that is a fun, safe, vibrant area for those
Speaker 2: that are twenty one and up? And so we spend
Speaker 2: a lot of time looking at other entertainment districts around
Speaker 2: town and around the country, and how do you stands
Speaker 2: up something like a twenty one and up environment, what's
Speaker 2: the right time to do it, what are the right
Speaker 2: days over week, and most importantly, you know, do we
Speaker 2: have stakeholder support and how do we fund it? So
Speaker 2: that took some time, quite frankly, to get us to
Speaker 2: this point, and we were grateful that we have the
Speaker 2: support of the city and with the Mayor's office of
Speaker 2: city Manager's office is a police department, so well as
Speaker 2: our large stakeholders like the Reds and all the businesses,
Speaker 2: to do something like this starting our towns to start
Speaker 2: at May first and ideally on a weekend when the
Speaker 2: Reds were not in town. So that put us back
Speaker 2: to this weekend April twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: So tell me what the plan is. When I see
Speaker 1: the most recent to armed robbery was bad for business,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine if you're one of the businesses down
Speaker 1: there that's publicized, it's a big deal, a lot of
Speaker 1: meetings being held. What is the plan? Tony Bender loves
Speaker 1: going down there at ten or eleven o'clock at night,
Speaker 1: loves going to the banks and prowling around. What is
Speaker 1: the plan starting? I guess I guess starting tonight.
Speaker 2: Sure, starting the siving. What folks will encounter is on
Speaker 2: both ends of the pedestrian plaza you will see some
Speaker 2: bike racks. They have banners on them that talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, the new rules and measures for Friday and
Speaker 2: Saturday evenings from ten pm to two am. It'll be
Speaker 2: a collection point. If you want to enter part that
Speaker 2: plaza area, you're going to have to come through a
Speaker 2: central check in point. There will be private security there
Speaker 2: that will be looking at your photo ID to make
Speaker 2: certain you are in fact twenty one years old. And
Speaker 2: if you meet the requirements, you can come on in.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'll still have to get check at the
Speaker 2: individual establishment that you might be wanting to enter. But
Speaker 2: if you are twenty one and you don't want to
Speaker 2: enter an establishment and just want to be in the plaza,
Speaker 2: you can certainly do that. But the hope is that
Speaker 2: it will continue to foster a positive fun environment for
Speaker 2: those that are of a certain age after a certain
Speaker 2: point in time in the evening.
Speaker 1: So Tracy's swagman of the bank. So what is the
Speaker 1: problem with somebody would tap on your shoulder and say, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm unaware of all the violence happening at the banks.
Speaker 1: Tell me what is what? Why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: What is the underlying problem?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Want to we want to make it a well. We
Speaker 2: want to encourage folks to still come down here. We
Speaker 2: want them to feel like they're coming to an environment
Speaker 2: that has some controls, that have some safety components associated
Speaker 2: with it. And this is something actually we've done as
Speaker 2: a private stakeholder cany Not only this initiative, but other
Speaker 2: initiatives that we've done and put in place over the
Speaker 2: last couple of years. We've added cameras, we've added enhanced lighting.
Speaker 2: We have worked at the police to look at a
Speaker 2: lot of our plantings in the planters and lower the
Speaker 2: profile so there's some clear sight lines from one end
Speaker 2: to the other. There's a lot of different measures that
Speaker 2: we've put in place as a private community to try
Speaker 2: and help foster a safe environment. You know, we can't
Speaker 2: solve all the problems down here, and a lot of
Speaker 2: them are quite frankly beyond our scope and beyond anything
Speaker 2: that we can quite frankly control. But we certainly want
Speaker 2: to do our part to provide the best customer environment
Speaker 2: we possibly can. And we think that this is a
Speaker 2: good and valuable step, and we're grateful to you know,
Speaker 2: the city and the CPD for granting us special permission
Speaker 2: to do these things in the public plaza on Friday
Speaker 2: and Saturday evenings.
Speaker 1: You know, a little Bertie told me that it cost
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars to do this on two nights
Speaker 1: a week with four hours. Is that number about correct?
Speaker 1: And who pays for it?
Speaker 3: That's about right?
Speaker 2: This initiative will cost us about a quarter of a
Speaker 2: million dollars to do over the next six months. It's
Speaker 2: all yeah, it's all privately funded.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's it's funded by what we affectionately call down here
Speaker 2: are are AHOA, our private stakeholders. You know, it's not
Speaker 2: just the retailers that are that are paying into it,
Speaker 2: but it's also you know, the apartments, it's it's the hotel,
Speaker 2: it's all of those private property earners in between the
Speaker 2: two stadiums that believe this is an important measure to
Speaker 2: put in place, uh and should add some value to
Speaker 2: the safety and security of the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: For those who may not know what happens on a
Speaker 1: warm Friday or Saturday night without this door district being
Speaker 1: bicycle racked off, what is happening there? For those who.
Speaker 2: Don't know, well, I think you know what we've found
Speaker 2: over the last handful of years is you know, it's
Speaker 2: a fun place to be. It's an attractive fund environment,
Speaker 2: and that means it attracts folks that are not twenty
Speaker 2: one years old as well. We see a lot of
Speaker 2: use down here, young kids, really young kids, uh, you know, teenagers,
Speaker 2: pre teenagers, and while you know, you know, we we
Speaker 2: welcome those folks during the daytime. The reality is at
Speaker 2: a certain point in the evening, the activities down here
Speaker 2: are geared towards twenty one and up, and it's just
Speaker 2: not it's not a place to play and hang out.
Speaker 2: And I think it's I think that's part of the
Speaker 2: reason why you've even seen the city put in place
Speaker 2: some special measures to try and give those kids someplace
Speaker 2: positive to go spend their evenings rather than hanging out
Speaker 2: in a city environment that's really not geared for them.
Speaker 1: I think last week I had on Ken cove, or
Speaker 1: sergeant with the CPD, head of the union. He said,
Speaker 1: there's one hundreds some evenings, thousands of kids smoking pot
Speaker 1: looking for the next person to rob. Is that a
Speaker 1: fair description, Well, Kim would.
Speaker 2: Probably know better than I am from a law enforcement standpoint,
Speaker 2: that's that's for sure. But it's certainly, you know, activity
Speaker 2: that we would discourage. You know, certainly up today's you
Speaker 2: you don't want to see kids engaging in that, and
Speaker 2: we certainly don't want to provide an environment that fosters
Speaker 2: that behavior. You know, we want to make certain that
Speaker 2: you know, that's not happening in our neighborhood and hopefully,
Speaker 2: you know, with the other measures perhaps that the city
Speaker 2: has put in place with pools being open and rec
Speaker 2: at night and some other things, that those folks will
Speaker 2: find a more productive environment to have fun and engage
Speaker 2: in more age appropriate activities.
Speaker 1: And the kids doing this are not exactly customers anyway,
Speaker 1: there are sixteen fourteen. It's not going to hurt business
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 4: Is it.
Speaker 2: It's not, and we actually hope it'll improve business. And
Speaker 2: we're grateful that, you know, our business owners are on
Speaker 2: page with that, our private property owners, you know, the
Speaker 2: apartments in the hotel, and frankly, our large venues you know,
Speaker 2: like the Reds and the Bengals are are in supportive
Speaker 2: of this initiative as well. They have been great vocal
Speaker 2: supporters and strategic partners and thinking about how to put
Speaker 2: something like this in place.
Speaker 1: You're also involved with a heritage bank center. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a decrepit structure, been there about forty some years,
Speaker 1: and the powers that be have determined that that may
Speaker 1: may not be the best place for the indoor arena.
Speaker 1: Jeff Birding, your friend t Q WEL and FC wants
Speaker 1: to move that arena over by music hall across the street.
Speaker 1: Would that be a problem from your perspective?
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. We think that the best place for
Speaker 2: a new modern arena is the Banks. The existing footprint
Speaker 2: is the perfect place for it. A new modern arena
Speaker 2: with eighteen to twenty thousand seats and modern amenities does
Speaker 2: sit at the Banks. In fact, it's probably the most
Speaker 2: cost effective location, and studies have shown that cost studies
Speaker 2: have shown that it's actually the most cost effective location
Speaker 2: by simply the fact that you've got a lot of
Speaker 2: the public infrastructure already in place. You've got the transit center,
Speaker 2: you've got the interstate exits. You've got the existing sewer
Speaker 2: systems and electrical grids and all those things that support
Speaker 2: large venues like that already in place, so you don't
Speaker 2: have to recreate that someplace else. The Bank's handles. It's
Speaker 2: not uncommon to have these three of these venues happen
Speaker 2: at the same time, and we managed to flow people
Speaker 2: in and out of this environment without much trouble. So
Speaker 2: we've truly and firmly believed that on the Merits, the
Speaker 2: existing location of the Heritage Bank Center is the best
Speaker 2: location for a new modern arena. That I think everybody
Speaker 2: has now reached the point of believing that can be
Speaker 2: a valuable contributor to the city's economic future. You know,
Speaker 2: a new, new, new modern arena has great economic benefits,
Speaker 2: and I think that's an exciting place to be from
Speaker 2: a conversation standpoint. That there's that acknowledgment, we just you know,
Speaker 2: we will continue to advocate that the Banks is the
Speaker 2: best location.
Speaker 1: For it, Tracy, why is it important for it to
Speaker 1: be there as opposed to maybe off the city core?
Speaker 1: And secondly, I wanted to address the issue of how
Speaker 1: unique the Banks are between the Bengals and the Black
Speaker 1: Music Hall of Fame, and throw on top of that
Speaker 1: all the Banks projects in the Heritage Bank, the Great
Speaker 1: American Ballpark. That's it's an incredible area and many cities
Speaker 1: don't have that. And we can't let that fall down
Speaker 1: because of a few hundred kids that don't know how
Speaker 1: to behave It's got to be. How unique is the
Speaker 1: Banks in Toto.
Speaker 2: It's incredibly unique. You know a lot of people don't
Speaker 2: get the folks from thirty years ago enough credit and
Speaker 2: actually envisioning this and putting it into place. I mean,
Speaker 2: they contemplated the floodplain you know, we just encountered flooding
Speaker 2: and all of these businesses were open and just fine.
Speaker 2: You know, they built this thing out of the floodplane.
Speaker 2: They were quite they quite forced quite the foresight and
Speaker 2: building it the way they did. You know, they Trenchport
Speaker 2: Washington away. They put in the transit Center. This was
Speaker 2: built as an entertainment district. It was designed to do
Speaker 2: exactly what it does. And I will tell you what
Speaker 2: I hear most frequently from folks that come in town
Speaker 2: supporting me the out of town team, whether you know,
Speaker 2: if the Reds are playing the Pirates or the Bengals
Speaker 2: are playing the Bills. Out of town folks love the Banks.
Speaker 2: They are astounded at what we have down here, and
Speaker 2: they can't wait to come back. Folks love to come
Speaker 2: here from out of town because of what the Banks
Speaker 2: offers them. It's like it's a walkable downtown that they
Speaker 2: can they can go from the stadium to a bar
Speaker 2: or a restaurant and it's all right here at their footsteps.
Speaker 2: It's a fun, walkable environment, and folks are are They
Speaker 2: love coming here and and sometimes we don't appreciate that,
Speaker 2: you know, being local and and just it's part of
Speaker 2: our daily lives. But you really do gain some appreciation
Speaker 2: for it when you hear out of town ors sing
Speaker 2: the praises of the banks.
Speaker 1: Tracy Schwegman of the Banks. Lastly, it's tonight ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: Someone's not paying attention to radio television. They're going to
Speaker 1: run into what tonight at ten o'clock They're going.
Speaker 2: To run into bike cracks with signs on them reminding
Speaker 2: folks that this is now a twenty one and up environment.
Speaker 2: From ten pm to two am, they're going to run
Speaker 2: into security, private security. They'll be checking their IDs, and
Speaker 2: we hope folks remember to bring their IDs. And we
Speaker 2: look forward to welcome you folks to a fun, fun
Speaker 2: environment down here at the Banks twenty one and up
Speaker 2: ten pm to two am.
Speaker 1: Tracy Swegman of the Banks, thanks again for coming on
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. May God bless you and God
Speaker 1: bless America. Thank you, Tracy, Thanks Bill, much appreciated. All right,
Speaker 1: let's continue, and one might ask, I know that Thigi
Speaker 1: has talked about this. I spoke to the Chief of police.
Speaker 1: She's gonna to come on with me on Monday, and
Speaker 1: she said, where are the parents are? Ware they how
Speaker 1: do you have numerous hundreds of kids running around Shmail
Speaker 1: Park and the banks on a summer's night without much
Speaker 1: going on? And I would note off the air. She
Speaker 1: told me this is only Friday and Saturday and so
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's going to be,
Speaker 1: shall we say, no idea required in the door district,
Speaker 1: in front of in front of a great American ballpark,
Speaker 1: in front of the Holy Grail. It's going to be
Speaker 1: the way things have been recently. And there's a police
Speaker 1: station right there, right in the middle, and there's cops
Speaker 1: right there in uniform. CPD and Hamley County Sheriffs are there,
Speaker 1: and these crimes are taking place despite that fact. So
Speaker 1: that's put that in your computer and see what happens.
Speaker 1: But the billions of dollars in investments in that area
Speaker 1: cannot be fritted away because of the behavior of a
Speaker 1: few children. Let's continue with more if a line becomes
Speaker 1: available five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand. Coming
Speaker 1: up later will be Leland Vidder of News Nation. I'm
Speaker 1: watching a couple of nights ago, and he spoke about
Speaker 1: the fact that he has autism, that he's autistic. He
Speaker 1: could have knocked me over with a feather, And I said,
Speaker 1: he's got a book out of it to talk about
Speaker 1: it called Born Lucky. And I want to talk about
Speaker 1: Leland Viddert, who spent time on CNN and also Fox News.
Speaker 1: And he's only forty two years old and he was
Speaker 1: diagnosed when he was four or five years older with
Speaker 1: autism and his journey is unbelievable. So if you know
Speaker 1: a parent or a loved one that has this spectrum disorder,
Speaker 1: pay attention. After one o'clock today, Leland Viddert will be here.
Speaker 1: That's term of the Reds. By the way, teeing off
Speaker 1: tonight about seven forty in Denver. The Reds are one
Speaker 1: game below five hundred. They win two out of three
Speaker 1: or sweep Colorado when they should because that team stinks.
Speaker 1: They won a total of four games this year, which
Speaker 1: is not good. So let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham
Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred WLW HI Billy Cunningham, the Great
Speaker 1: American Reds Baseball kicks off about seven forty to night,
Speaker 1: first pitch and Colorado, Denver about eight forty tonight. Denver stinks,
Speaker 1: Colorado stinks, and many things, but especially baseball so let's
Speaker 1: see if the Reds can make some hey there, the
Speaker 1: one game under five hundred. They have the goal by
Speaker 1: May first of winning at least half their games. It's
Speaker 1: happened once in the past ten years with the Reds
Speaker 1: on May first heat of winning record, and with the
Speaker 1: schedule coming up, it would behoove them to sweep the
Speaker 1: Rocks out there or at least one two out of
Speaker 1: three to get to five hundred or beyond. Then we
Speaker 1: continue and never stop. We simply continue more coverage of
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, and that'll be with segment at one
Speaker 1: thirty and two thirty. But until then, I'm watching a
Speaker 1: few nights ago Leland Viddert, who's all with me once
Speaker 1: or twice a month from Fox News in now at
Speaker 1: News Nation Monday through Friday at nine pm, and Leland
Speaker 1: Viddert has been everywhere in the world covering the big stories.
Speaker 1: He said on the air Wednesday night that he is
Speaker 1: he is autistic, that he was diagnosed with auto at
Speaker 1: a very young age. So he goes on and on
Speaker 1: and on about how autism affected his life, the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly, how he got over the problems,
Speaker 1: the symptoms, the difficulties which happens. And I would note
Speaker 1: that right now it's one out of every thirty one
Speaker 1: babies are born with autism, one in thirty one. It
Speaker 1: used to be one out of a thousand and many
Speaker 1: many decades ago it was one out of one thousand.
Speaker 1: It was quite rare. Now it's almost common. It's incredible
Speaker 1: that we have this circumstance happening one in thirty one,
Speaker 1: and those are the ones that have been properly diagnosed.
Speaker 1: It could be more than that, and something is causing it.
Speaker 1: I think one is a lack of reporting decades ago,
Speaker 1: and many parents felt maybe personally ashamed or embarrassed by
Speaker 1: the fact that their child, their baby wasn't growing up,
Speaker 1: shall I say normally whatever that means. And so it's
Speaker 1: possibly more diagnosis. But the other issue could be the
Speaker 1: vaccines that you can't talk about if you bring up vaccines,
Speaker 1: as RFK Junior has done, vaccine denier, in which case
Speaker 1: you don't get a public form. In fact, you're diminished
Speaker 1: and thrown out of the boat. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: you have red dye too, and all these breakfast cereals
Speaker 1: and other m and ms, etc. All used certain petroleum
Speaker 1: based dyes to change the color and make it look
Speaker 1: more physically attractive. It could be something of that character.
Speaker 1: It could be ecological, could be genetic, could be racial
Speaker 1: because boys are four times more likely to have autism
Speaker 1: than girls.
Speaker 4: Don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think you contract autism like you contract measles.
Speaker 1: Many believe today you were born with autism. Then it
Speaker 1: exhibits and shows itself as developmental continues, and the spectrum
Speaker 1: is quite wide and broad. Obviously, Elon Musk has autism,
Speaker 1: and Elon's not doing too bad, excepting the views of Democrats,
Speaker 1: and Leland Viiddtert announced a couple of nights ago that
Speaker 1: he has autism. He has a book out he's going
Speaker 1: to discuss it, which I think is must read because
Speaker 1: his recovery, if that to write word from autism has
Speaker 1: been unbelievable. That's coming up after one o'clock today, But
Speaker 1: until then we had the second. A second judge has
Speaker 1: been arrested on the bench for committing illegal acts while
Speaker 1: a judge, and this judge, her name is Milwaukee County
Speaker 1: Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan, was arrested Friday morning, which
Speaker 1: is today, after she allegedly harbored illegal aliens in her
Speaker 1: jury room. At the center of this as an illegal
Speaker 1: alien who was appearing before Judge Dugan. She got word
Speaker 1: from the court personnel that ICE agents had set up
Speaker 1: shop outside the courthouse to arrest this illegal who was
Speaker 1: wanted on serious felony charges including selling a methan fhetamine, heroin,
Speaker 1: and murder. And she was appearing in her courtroom and
Speaker 1: the powers that be notified her that the ICE is
Speaker 1: waiting outside. So what she did, Allegedly she's been on
Speaker 1: the bench about ten years and she after a while
Speaker 1: the ICE agents outside, the illegal was not coming out,
Speaker 1: so some stayed outside, someone inside and they found an
Speaker 1: illegal in the judge's jury room, hiding in the bathroom
Speaker 1: of the jury room. US Martial Service determined, they made
Speaker 1: calls to Milwaukee, then to Washington, decided what to do.
Speaker 1: Because you had a sitting common place court judge in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee hiding in illegal knowingly in her own jury room.
Speaker 1: All the powers that be decided that well, she committed,
Speaker 1: she committed seemingly a felony, so let's arrest her, which
Speaker 1: they did this morning about ten am. And Dugan is
Speaker 1: one of several judges who've been accused of harboring illegal
Speaker 1: aliens over the past several years. You might recall a
Speaker 1: few days ago before her arrest, a former judge in
Speaker 1: New Mexico is all so arrested for the alleged crime
Speaker 1: of harboring fugitives from justice and obstruction of justice, and
Speaker 1: she appears Dugan appears to be the first active judge
Speaker 1: to face consequences for their behavior. By the way that
Speaker 1: both these judges are left wing democratic judges who do
Speaker 1: not believe that the law applies to them because they
Speaker 1: have a black robe on. They found out that it's
Speaker 1: not the case anymore. They're not above the law. They
Speaker 1: don't have the right to use their power to break it,
Speaker 1: and if they step out of line, they deserve to
Speaker 1: be arrested in charge like anyone else. I get at
Speaker 1: one thousand percent. Now, these stories likely will not get
Speaker 1: much big national play because these are liberal Democrats harboring
Speaker 1: illegal fugitives. In the case of New Mexico, they had
Speaker 1: two illegals harboring. Harboring these illegals, they knew they were illegal,
Speaker 1: that both Venezuela and gang members Trenda Arragua, and they
Speaker 1: were staying with the judge and the judge's a wife,
Speaker 1: and they were sleeping on the property, and they were
Speaker 1: providing necessary services I would assume gardening or preparing meals
Speaker 1: or whatever. And so the judge was using the illegals
Speaker 1: to save some money, knowing they were illegal. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what world am I living in here? If judges don't
Speaker 1: follow the law? Might one might ask, why do you?
Speaker 1: Of course, we only hear about Donald Trump not following
Speaker 1: the law, not listening to judges, not paying attention. We
Speaker 1: don't hear that when Democrats do exactly the same thing
Speaker 1: and worse. For example, in twenty twenty, Senate Majority Leader
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer spoke to an angry throng of pro abortion
Speaker 1: protesters outside the doors of the US Supreme Court. There
Speaker 1: was about three months between the time there was an
Speaker 1: illegal leak from the Supreme Court they were about to
Speaker 1: overturn Roe versus Wade in the so called Dobb's decision,
Speaker 1: until the decision was announced in June, and during those
Speaker 1: three months there was massive illegal protest all over the country.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's illegal to try to influence
Speaker 1: judge through concerted activity. So when I saw on video
Speaker 1: hundreds or thousands of illegal protesters marching in front of
Speaker 1: the homes of judges. I knew that was illegal. You
Speaker 1: can't do that. But Chuck Schumer took it a bit further,
Speaker 1: yelling at the top of his lungs in front of
Speaker 1: a volative crowd that the justice's views on abortion would
Speaker 1: cause them to quote reap the whirlwind and the two
Speaker 1: would not know what hit them. Now. That was the
Speaker 1: Democratic leader of the United States Senate at the time.
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer. Did that show respect for the law? Did
Speaker 1: that show respect for Supreme Court decisions? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And in the months thereafter, there was an attempt to
Speaker 1: murder Brett Kavanaugh in his home by a Democratic activists
Speaker 1: who came there from Chicago, and he spent time case
Speaker 1: in the place. He had guns on him and knives.
Speaker 1: His original goal was simply to kill Brett Kavanaugh, hearkening
Speaker 1: the call of the Democrats to kill judges. Much like today,
Speaker 1: over half the liberal Democrats believe that Donald Trump should
Speaker 1: be assassinated. But nonetheless they caught the guy in town
Speaker 1: and he was sentenced a few days ago to seven
Speaker 1: years in prison. And he went there at the behest
Speaker 1: of Democratic leadership, and in fact the Democrats, showing their
Speaker 1: disrespect for the law, organized the massive conspiracies involving several
Speaker 1: including Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor, along with Leticia James,
Speaker 1: and along with the Alvin Bragg and of course of
Speaker 1: Fanny Willis. They all got together with the idea of
Speaker 1: prosecuting Donald Trump to keep him from assuming the assuming
Speaker 1: the White House should he be elected. And the Georgia
Speaker 1: prosecutor case Fanny Willison has removed from the Trump case
Speaker 1: and fine it is now under further criminal investigation. Herself.
Speaker 1: New York Prosecutor Leticia James is now facing possible felony
Speaker 1: charges for falsification of documents and loan fraud, including a
Speaker 1: mortgage that she lied on, and Jack Smith reportedly accepted
Speaker 1: the federal prosecutor one hundred and forty thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: free legal services. Put all that together, so how much
Speaker 1: respect did these Democrats show for judges in the law.
Speaker 1: They used the legal system for political purposes and put
Speaker 1: to the side of the whole issue of the federal
Speaker 1: immigration law that prohibits the illegal entry into our country
Speaker 1: and residing within those not at the proper sites. To
Speaker 1: make the proper paperwork that Joe Biden deliberately violated the
Speaker 1: law by allowing somewhere between twelve to fifteen million illegals
Speaker 1: to cross the border. Thousands had criminal records, that was
Speaker 1: all illegal. Did that show respect by the Democrats for
Speaker 1: the legal system. I don't think so. When it came
Speaker 1: to the student loan debacle, you might recall that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden kept issuing order after order saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: don't have to pay back your student loans. And when
Speaker 1: asked whether or not he should comply with Supreme Court
Speaker 1: rules on the thing that is, you can't do that,
Speaker 1: the answer was no, He's going to ignore the n
Speaker 1: I State Supreme Court. And he did ignore the Uni
Speaker 1: States Supreme Court and simply did not enforce the order
Speaker 1: that he started collecting student loan that had to be
Speaker 1: paid back. He said, no way, I don't have to
Speaker 1: do it, not going to do it, and he didn't
Speaker 1: do it. So at this point, when the Democrats complained
Speaker 1: loud and proud about the rule of law or Trump
Speaker 1: being a dictator, I say, contrere, monfrere. The quote from
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's student loans after he lost before the United
Speaker 1: States Supreme Court was this quote the Supreme Court blocked it,
Speaker 1: but that didn't stop me, quote unquote. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: if US Supreme Court actually issues a final, non appealable
Speaker 1: order to do something, and Donald Trump would say, quote
Speaker 1: Supreme Court blocked it, but that didn't stop me, quote unquote. Well,
Speaker 1: at no point was Biden called a threat to democracy.
Speaker 1: At no point was Joe Biden called a dictator, despite
Speaker 1: the fact that he lost before the US Supreme Court
Speaker 1: and said I'm going to I'm gonna move on. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pay attention to that. Nothing about dictator
Speaker 1: or rule of law when it came to Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was there. And for all the years that local, state
Speaker 1: and federal prosecutors warped the law to try to newter
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and get away with it, they didn't. There
Speaker 1: were ninety three weaponized indictments against our president by democratic
Speaker 1: activists masquerading as prosecutors, and then judges masquerading is independent
Speaker 1: and jurors supposedly of his peers. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So I've added up to hear with Democrats talking about
Speaker 1: the rule of law and democracy when they ignore it completely.
Speaker 1: I left to the side that George Floyd Riots one
Speaker 1: hundred American cities burned, and Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: would open the windows of the Governor's mansion so his
Speaker 1: wife could smell the burn fires. She called that the
Speaker 1: aroma of freedom. As businesses burned down all over Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: Was that following the law? I don't think. So let's
Speaker 1: continue with more, as you know when ever stop, we
Speaker 1: simply continue. After one o'clock today, in about ten minutes,
Speaker 1: I'm going to put a call into Leland Vinter of
Speaker 1: News Nation announcing a few nights ago that he has autism,
Speaker 1: and he was diagnosed when he was like five or
Speaker 1: six years old, and what he went through to get
Speaker 1: to where he is today. And every young mother, young father,
Speaker 1: this is something you're going to confront whether or not
Speaker 1: your child has autism. One in thirty one has it
Speaker 1: a diagnosed more than that undiagnosed, I'm sure, and that
Speaker 1: boys are four times more likely to get it than girls.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more if a line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: seven thousand. So much for the rule of law. It's
Speaker 1: a political motive, a slogan employed by the left to
Speaker 1: masquerade the effects of their own decisions. Only used against Republicans.
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham with you every day a news radio seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW Bill cunning in the Great American almost every
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, nine o'clock News Nation. I tune into
Speaker 1: Leland Vidter and for the news of today, and also
Speaker 1: the tariffs and Trump talking so much more, and the
Speaker 1: Pope burial, all that kind of stuff. But nonetheless, the
Speaker 1: other night, I'm watching Leland Vidder. I've known for many,
Speaker 1: many years, fact at lunch with him once when I
Speaker 1: have more lunches with him, him and his family, and
Speaker 1: like me over with a feather, I'm watching Leland Vidder
Speaker 1: and he says he's autistic. He was diagnosed autistic some
Speaker 1: thirty five forty years ago, and he's only forty two
Speaker 1: years old. And I said, what joining you and I now?
Speaker 1: Is that same Leland Vitter? Leland, First of all, I
Speaker 1: don't know if the word congratulations is in order, because
Speaker 1: we're all some total of our experiences and our biology
Speaker 1: and all those kinds of things. But the story of
Speaker 1: you being diagnosed autistic when you were a little boy,
Speaker 1: and then what your what your father and what your
Speaker 1: family did for you is unbelievable story. You have a
Speaker 1: book coming out in September called Born Lucky several months away.
Speaker 1: But first of all, let's go back in time. Tell me,
Speaker 1: I have these beautiful pictures of you and your dad
Speaker 1: and et cetera. What were you? Were you young enough
Speaker 1: not to know the feelings you were having? How were
Speaker 1: you diagnosed with autism? Before we get on to the
Speaker 1: other issues.
Speaker 3: It was bill before they've diagnosed people sort of on
Speaker 3: the spectrum. So back then, the only kids who were
Speaker 3: diagnosed at the time with autism were what we would
Speaker 3: now call profoundly autistic, or anyone would see the child
Speaker 3: and instantly know that that was the situation. So I
Speaker 3: was diagnosed with what we now know as autism, and
Speaker 3: the I guess you'd call it symptoms or behaviors were
Speaker 3: very clear, sort of got wildly angry. He had completely
Speaker 3: unable to read social cues, unable to interact with kids.
Speaker 3: In the book, we tell the story of my dad
Speaker 3: coming to see me, and I think was fourth grade
Speaker 3: and I had been bullied so badly. He was coming
Speaker 3: to check on me at school and the pe teacher
Speaker 3: said that he could come see me. But I was
Speaker 3: down on this other field because the pe teacher had
Speaker 3: put me to play with the girls all day because
Speaker 3: I you know how badly I was bullied in the issues.
Speaker 3: I was having so lots of stories like that. But
Speaker 3: my dad decided that having a diagnosis there were a
Speaker 3: lot of different words for it back then, was not
Speaker 3: in my best interest because he was worried I would
Speaker 3: be defined for the rest of my life by that diagnosis.
Speaker 3: And while you can adapt the world to a kid,
Speaker 3: the real world doesn't adapt. So he spent the next
Speaker 3: eighteen years trying to teach me how to interact in
Speaker 3: the real world, and it's you're never cured. I still,
Speaker 3: you know, will always be this the way I am,
Speaker 3: but he's taught me how to adapt. So the story
Speaker 3: of Born Lucky is the idea and proof that no
Speaker 3: kid has to be defined by their diagnosis, and the
Speaker 3: hope for parents, whatever their kids struggling with ADHD, bullying,
Speaker 3: mental issues, physical issues, that there's real hope for parents
Speaker 3: that love and dedication can make such a difference because
Speaker 3: so many kids are diagnosed and they feel like there
Speaker 3: is no hope.
Speaker 1: I look at you and Elon Musk and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: too autistic individuals that have done famously well, uh, going
Speaker 1: back in time, were you perceptive enough when you were five, six,
Speaker 1: seven years old to know that you were different, that
Speaker 1: you had mental or behavioral problems or was that too
Speaker 1: young for.
Speaker 3: You totally at five or six?
Speaker 4: Know?
Speaker 3: As I got older, I mean, it was obvious that
Speaker 3: kids didn't want to play with me. It was obvious
Speaker 3: to me that kids ostracized me and bullied me. And
Speaker 3: as I got older, the bullying got worse. There were
Speaker 3: a lot of times that teachers were involved in the
Speaker 3: bullying and that kind of behavior. We tell those stories
Speaker 3: in the book and how my parents sort of dealt
Speaker 3: with that. But I think as I got older, I
Speaker 3: became self aware, but I didn't know what I was
Speaker 3: doing wrong. I didn't know why I didn't fit in.
Speaker 3: And a big part of the stories we tell is
Speaker 3: how Dad really coached me through that. And we tell
Speaker 3: a story about when I he would take me to
Speaker 3: dinners and if I talked too much, he would tap
Speaker 3: his watch and that was my signal to stop talking.
Speaker 3: And then afterwards we would post game, almost like a
Speaker 3: sports game. Okay, why did I tap my watch? What
Speaker 3: were you saying that was off rhythm? Why didn't you
Speaker 3: stop talking? Why did you tell that extra joke? Do
Speaker 3: you understand? You know that this person was trying to
Speaker 3: talk to someone else and you were monopolizing the conversation.
Speaker 3: Not to say that I don't monopolize conversations on television now,
Speaker 3: but it is it was a learned Every one of
Speaker 3: these were learned skills for me, and it was hard,
Speaker 3: very hard to learn. So and I'm obviously a big
Speaker 3: part of this is giving hope, and a big part
Speaker 3: of this just on a personal level, is saying thank
Speaker 3: you to my dad. He sacrificed so much, and to
Speaker 3: obviously give so many parents hope that their sacrifices are
Speaker 3: worth it. So Born luckybook dot com is the website
Speaker 3: and today only Barnes and Nobles having a sale pre sale,
Speaker 3: So if you go there to Barnes and Nobles website
Speaker 3: Born Lucky, you get twenty five percent off.
Speaker 1: That's one of the stories got to get out on
Speaker 1: parental guilt. And now that you're more than an adult,
Speaker 1: more than successful, have you had conversations about your parents
Speaker 1: about maybe the guilt they felt they did something wrong,
Speaker 1: whether it was red dye number two, whether it was vaccines,
Speaker 1: whether it was a pollution, did your parents have any
Speaker 1: sense of personal responsibility for this?
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting you asked that because at the time,
Speaker 3: it was thought that autism was caused by sort of
Speaker 3: having a cold, patrician mother. That was the original thoughts
Speaker 3: of cause, and that obviously wasn't the case. I had
Speaker 3: one of the most wonderful, caring, kind, gentle mothers you
Speaker 3: could possibly imagine.
Speaker 1: You met her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't look do I think? I think
Speaker 3: that my father would tell you, and again we tell
Speaker 3: this story. He probably had.
Speaker 2: Some issues when he was growing up.
Speaker 3: He famously was given the book How to Win Friends
Speaker 3: and Influence People, and it really helped him. He'd sort
Speaker 3: of learned from that book. I was far, far, far
Speaker 3: farther down the spectrum, for lack of a better term,
Speaker 3: than he was. So I think I don't know if
Speaker 3: there was guilt, but I think there was certainly a
Speaker 3: realization by him of what I was going through.
Speaker 1: And your father sold his business and became a twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven parent that allowed you to succeed famously
Speaker 1: when you do topics like this. I know rfk's in
Speaker 1: the crosshairs right now because of his previous comments on
Speaker 1: vaccines and all the red dyes that are put into candies,
Speaker 1: breakfast cereals. Environmental factor is you probably know more about
Speaker 1: the causes of this than anyone. If there is a cause,
Speaker 1: What does Leland Vitter say about the cause of your autism?
Speaker 3: I think Bill, the whole point is we don't know.
Speaker 3: In Jay Badcharia, who's now the doctor in head of NIH,
Speaker 3: he was the doctor who very famously said that we
Speaker 3: needed to end the COVID lockdouts. He who was hurting
Speaker 3: kids and was called a quack, is now saying that
Speaker 3: we not only need to find a cause, but he
Speaker 3: says it's been really important a couple of days ago,
Speaker 3: which is that for the past number of years, scientists
Speaker 3: have been quote afraid to ask the question. And that
Speaker 3: really stunned me and stuck with me. We should never
Speaker 3: be afraid to ask questions. The questions don't get us
Speaker 3: in trouble, the answers do. And finally, now we're willing
Speaker 3: to have a conversation about something that went from one
Speaker 3: in a thousand kids when I was a kid to
Speaker 3: one in thirty two now, and this should be the
Speaker 3: scientific question of our time. Why and maybe it is
Speaker 3: all prevalence now that we know more and are diagnosing earlier,
Speaker 3: and everything else was great, but we need to answer
Speaker 3: that question conclusively. And I think there's this argument going along, well,
Speaker 3: if you want to figure out the cause, then it
Speaker 3: must be that you know somehow people with autism are
Speaker 3: bad or wrong, or you're not being supportive. Look, I
Speaker 3: went through what I went through. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: people who go through far worse versions of autism, people
Speaker 3: you call profoundly autistic.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: That's not taking away from anything that someone's going through.
Speaker 3: But God, if I would do anything so that if
Speaker 3: my child or anybody's child didn't have to go through
Speaker 3: what I went through or worse, I don't know why
Speaker 3: we wouldn't want to do everything we can to find
Speaker 3: out the answers to these questions.
Speaker 1: Did you have you succeeded in life? I think you're
Speaker 1: only forty two years old, but you have succeeded. Did
Speaker 1: you succeed in life because of autism or in spite
Speaker 1: of it?
Speaker 2: It's a great question.
Speaker 3: I think it's personal for everyone, And up until I
Speaker 3: was twenty or twenty one, I never knew about this.
Speaker 3: Now my parents didn't tell anybody, including me. Oh so
Speaker 3: I think you'd have to say, in spite of now,
Speaker 3: are there probably things or I was succeeded by adapting
Speaker 3: you Whatever success I've enjoyed has been through my dad's
Speaker 3: teachings and and learning to probably learning to modify the
Speaker 3: behaviors that were off putting. And I guess there are some,
Speaker 3: you know, advantages to being able to focus or see
Speaker 3: the world differently or in some ways looking at things differently.
Speaker 3: If I've enjoyed those benefits, great, I'd be hard pressed
Speaker 3: to to really list them. But maybe that's part of
Speaker 3: having never, you know, never been told that this is
Speaker 3: what I was going through. And I think that, you know,
Speaker 3: that was a decision my parents made, and one that
Speaker 3: I think was important because I never not only did
Speaker 3: I never have any limitations placed on me, oh, because
Speaker 3: he's autistic. But the flip side is I never gave
Speaker 3: myself an excuse, and no excuses were given for me.
Speaker 3: You know, Oh, it's okay that my nickname was Lucky,
Speaker 3: hence the title of the book, Lucky to act this
Speaker 3: way or that way. There was never an excuse for it.
Speaker 3: It was never allowed or or understood because of my condition.
Speaker 1: Is autism something today that has treated with drugs, it's
Speaker 1: a behavioral If there's millions and millions of Americans dealing
Speaker 1: with this today, maybe tens of millions are dealing with
Speaker 1: it today, and they parents will do twenty million. Is
Speaker 1: it medicine or is it drugs? It's a behavioral modification?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: There's a lot, and it's a wide spectrum. And I
Speaker 3: do not profess in any way to be an expert. Now,
Speaker 3: this book is not a prescription. It's not a cure,
Speaker 3: it's not a how to, It's none of those things.
Speaker 3: This is my story And as far as people find
Speaker 3: it useful and take from it inspiration, hope, the story
Speaker 3: of love and dedication, wonderful.
Speaker 1: That's that's what.
Speaker 3: This is about.
Speaker 1: You know, I think of the road not taken, of
Speaker 1: the road taken. I can only imagine the millions of
Speaker 1: kids diagnosed with autism, suffering from it in one sense
Speaker 1: or another, that did not have a loving father and
Speaker 1: a great mother, did not have incredible support systems. And
Speaker 1: what happens to a young Leland Jones or a Leland
Speaker 1: Smith who lives in ames Iowa and they don't have
Speaker 1: a father that gives twenty four to seven sells his
Speaker 1: businesses with them. It's just a nurturing, loving parent. What
Speaker 1: happens to the kid named Leland Jones and Ames Iowa.
Speaker 3: I think it's a great question. And as I said,
Speaker 3: this isn't you know, this is no way of prescription.
Speaker 3: And I think I really acknowledge from the title on
Speaker 3: how lucky I have been. And I think when people
Speaker 3: read the book, they'll realize that could everyone quit their
Speaker 3: job and tell their businesses. And my dad didn't know.
Speaker 3: But the way he dealt with this and the dedication
Speaker 3: he provided, but also the way he dealt with it
Speaker 3: had a lot of positives and some of the things
Speaker 3: that were done were very different than how I shall
Speaker 3: say it's in vogue right now to handle these situations
Speaker 3: completely different.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty eight was almost the Dark Ages when it
Speaker 1: comes to the diagnosing of autism. It hasn't become something
Speaker 1: to the last ten or fifteen years. And now when
Speaker 1: you have numbers and one out of thirty one baby's born,
Speaker 1: it used to be one out of a thousand. Heck,
Speaker 1: maybe fifty years one hundred years ago was one out
Speaker 1: of ten thousand, because there was no diagnosis happening at all,
Speaker 1: and everyone is different, but to get help early speak
Speaker 1: to the issue of what do you still need help
Speaker 1: today at the age of forty two or did it
Speaker 1: stop at some point with you?
Speaker 3: Oh boy, Bill, you probably have to ask my fiance
Speaker 3: to she tell you I need help every hour.
Speaker 1: I know the feeling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think that goes away. And I
Speaker 3: don't think it has anything to do with autism. I
Speaker 3: think it's just a factive life for us men. This
Speaker 3: is I think a message to get across and I
Speaker 3: write this that this is not a broken arm. It
Speaker 3: doesn't feel and I think that's through so many things
Speaker 3: that kids go through in life, autism, a PhD, social anxiety,
Speaker 3: physical difficulties, other kinds of mental difficulties. So do I
Speaker 3: still need help?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Every day. Do I still catch myself being socially blind
Speaker 3: or having anger issues or any of those kinds of things. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: But I've learned to manage it. I've learned to control it.
Speaker 3: And I think a really important thing that my dad
Speaker 3: did was he never allowed my diagnosis that obviously he
Speaker 3: didn't talk about, to be an excuse. There was never
Speaker 3: a reason, and therefore that was a powerful thing. Now
Speaker 3: I didn't know what was happening, But it kind of
Speaker 3: forced me to behave in a certain way with certain expectations.
Speaker 3: Is that possible for everyone?
Speaker 4: No, But.
Speaker 3: I think now as I'm an adult, I see wisdom
Speaker 3: of it because I still catch myself in moments and
Speaker 3: I don't excuse myself for doing it. It's like, God, Lucky,
Speaker 3: why did you tell that joke? Or why didn't you
Speaker 3: give Bill Cunningham that putt? And as I think through
Speaker 3: things in social situations, it's still a discipline and a
Speaker 3: learned skill.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable story, and I'm glad you're telling it. You may become,
Speaker 1: in a sense, the face of autism going forward. I
Speaker 1: anticipate the book Born Lucky's going to be a smash
Speaker 1: best seller. I anticipate that when people hear about the
Speaker 1: journey of Leland Viddert, you went in Northwestern I think
Speaker 1: you went to the London School of Economics and throw
Speaker 1: on top without Elon Musk, who is one of the brightest,
Speaker 1: richest men in the world. Both with autism and for
Speaker 1: the parents getting a diagnosis this week that your child
Speaker 1: is autistic. It's almost a must read because it gives
Speaker 1: you a roadmap. It's not the end of the child's life.
Speaker 1: It's the beginning. And maybe in the good old days,
Speaker 1: like I had answered my pants Adhd, little billies has
Speaker 1: to get up and walk around. He can't sit down.
Speaker 1: He can answer all that stuff. I think I had, Adhd,
Speaker 1: or I had something, but at that point it was
Speaker 1: simply get over it. But today we can have much
Speaker 1: better results than you and Elon Musk are an example. Well,
Speaker 1: I mentioned to talk to you about the tariffs and
Speaker 1: about the Pope's funeral and about all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff and about the next Pope and the white smoke
Speaker 1: and the black smoke, and the one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: cardinals to be in the conclave and the movie Conclave.
Speaker 1: Didn't get to it. Maybe the next time. But Leland
Speaker 1: Vedder once again born Lucky book dot com, Barnes and
Speaker 1: No and for those listening now, twenty five percent off
Speaker 1: if you order it. It's almost like a mess. I
Speaker 1: think it's a must read for those parents that have
Speaker 1: these issues. And Leland Vitder, I will be watching Monday,
Speaker 1: Tuesday and Wednesday, and once again thank you for coming
Speaker 1: on the Bill Cunningham Show and on a different course
Speaker 1: than I thought, but I think it was very useful
Speaker 1: for the listeners and for me and you. And thank
Speaker 1: you Leland, thank you Bill, god blinin God bless America.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more. Leland Viddert knock me over with
Speaker 1: a feather two three nights ago, said I I have autism.
Speaker 1: I said, what? So let's move on. Bill Cunningham, the
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Speaker 5: In the twenty twenty five NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 5: select Chamar Stewart defensive ends Texas A and m.
Speaker 1: Oh, hello, hello, yet spoke, I'm broadcasting. So I spoke
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Speaker 1: yes that this past season Schamar Stewart had a total
Speaker 1: of one point five sacks and one was against Bowling Green.
Speaker 1: Does that count? I guess, so will he? I think
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Speaker 1: about an hour. Did the Bengals meet with him ahead
Speaker 1: of time before the draft? H? Well, I think Al
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Speaker 1: All I know is, according to the experts, is tackling problems.
Speaker 1: He is not a run he's not a run blockade.
Speaker 1: And thirdly, he doesn't rush the quarterback. Well because in
Speaker 1: the SEC in the SEC he had a total of
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Speaker 1: consecutive road losses. Their loan win away from Chorus Field
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay March twenty ninth, the first series of
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Speaker 1: here we go. Here we go, one step closer to
Speaker 1: bringing Major League Baseball to the Magic City from Tampa,
Speaker 1: I would imagine. Is that correct? One and a half
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Speaker 1: harbored two illegal immigrants to provide services in the home.
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Speaker 1: knew they were illegal, but they were judges. Therefore they
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Speaker 1: Ever we draw set for tomorrow night in Louisville, local
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Speaker 1: gonna they bring him in, Willie. They drafted him, and
Speaker 1: then what they'll do is I guess so they'll turn
Speaker 1: him over to big Al Golden and hey, Al Golden
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Speaker 1: drafted by the Green Bay Packers Al Golden? That I
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Speaker 1: but that was the Golden Richards that was picked. Well,
Speaker 1: I wasn't the same guy, No.
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Speaker 1: And I put the money together. We got it all together,
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Speaker 1: me out of Studge Report, Christopher Righty's coming up next
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Speaker 1: tariffs and more segment, give me out of the students report,
Speaker 1: please Willie and Otter of the National Football League Draft,
Speaker 1: and we welcome in Shamar Stewart to the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Speaker 1: again to the Bill Cunningham Show. First of all, congratulations
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Speaker 4: Congratulations well, Bill, Congratulations to you. I hear you're in
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Speaker 4: And people are turning off the old media, right. They
Speaker 4: don't trust them anymore. They're coming to places like Newsmax
Speaker 4: and Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 1: Well, what's happening. I think the dinosaur media is dead.
Speaker 1: They died about eight nine years ago, and the burials
Speaker 1: taking place. And as a consequence, if you would watch
Speaker 1: only ABC, NBCCBSPBS, only read the New York Times Washington Post,
Speaker 1: the country's incomplete collapse. Nothing's going right. The economy's heading
Speaker 1: toward a recession, if not a depression. US military is
Speaker 1: completely demoralized, and we have now Gangbang members that are
Speaker 1: being adopted by the Radical Democratic Party. It's incredible. Let's
Speaker 1: talk number one about tariffs. The markets are extremely jittery
Speaker 1: because of what Trump has to do. Everyone I talked
Speaker 1: to says this had to be done. Explain the off
Speaker 1: ramps on the tariff disputes and how that's going to
Speaker 1: benefit the American people.
Speaker 4: Well, as you know, I've known the president for almost
Speaker 4: thirty years, so we talk a lot. I just spoke
Speaker 4: to him the other week and several times about tariffs.
Speaker 4: And you know, here's the thing you have to understand,
Speaker 4: He's really not for tariffs. He's for fair trade deals.
Speaker 4: He's for more jobs and more money coming into America.
Speaker 4: I think this is great, right. What he sees the
Speaker 4: tariff is his only weapon that he has to get
Speaker 4: these countries like China, the EU to stop their unfair
Speaker 4: trade deals. You go out on the street, you go
Speaker 4: out in Cincinnati, you go out in here, you won't
Speaker 4: find American cars the numbers. You see farm cars all
Speaker 4: over the place, but not in the numbers. You go
Speaker 4: into Europe, all you see are their cars. You don't
Speaker 4: see American cars. You don't see in China American cars.
Speaker 4: I've been to both, and so they're not buying our stuff,
Speaker 4: and there's tariffs if we try to trade our stuff there.
Speaker 4: And Trump says, what's this about? This is crazy, and
Speaker 4: he's overthrowing forty years of bad trade policy. I say,
Speaker 4: give him more time. Don't be nervous. He's got a
Speaker 4: great economic plan. He's going to bring the economy back
Speaker 4: and people can continue to invest in the stock market
Speaker 4: as I am and other things because Donald Trump's in charge.
Speaker 1: And this will end at some point, and whether it's
Speaker 1: a week, a month, or six months. Everyone says there
Speaker 1: there's an ending to this, which means that American products
Speaker 1: can be sold in Europe or China, and can be
Speaker 1: sold in South Korea, the Philippines can be sold in
Speaker 1: the EU. You seldom to see a Ford or a
Speaker 1: Chevy anywhere in Europe, and it's got to stop, and
Speaker 1: somebody had to do it. Instead of getting the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt from the media, they attack him mercilessly
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. And China now is telling the
Speaker 1: nations they deal with guess what if you deal with America,
Speaker 1: you can't deal with us. And that's even better for us. Correct,
Speaker 1: But we're the market. We're about twenty six percent of
Speaker 1: the world's GDP. About forty percent of consumer spending is
Speaker 1: right in America. And so is China not hearing what
Speaker 1: Trump is saying about tariffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, think about it. We're only five percent of the
Speaker 4: world population of forty percent under the spending. I mean,
Speaker 4: we are the global giant. But you know, Trump comes
Speaker 4: along and he's saying he's ending this bs, he wants
Speaker 4: to bring back jobs. He also was very scared. I
Speaker 4: can tell you he didn't make a big issue of it,
Speaker 4: but he was not happy. During COVID, China slow walked
Speaker 4: a lot of medical equipment and a lot of pharmaceuticals here.
Speaker 4: They made it very difficult. He knows it, and he
Speaker 4: doesn't trust them anymore. Supply chains. We need to have
Speaker 4: critical industries here in the United States. We need to
Speaker 4: have a car industry, because you can't have a military
Speaker 4: industry if you don't make cars. So he's definitely going
Speaker 4: to keep a car tariff here, which should be good
Speaker 4: for US car automakers, by the way, But I definitely,
Speaker 4: you know, he's got a very sensible approach. You know,
Speaker 4: when he ended his presidency bill, as you wouldcall, everything
Speaker 4: was a peace basically in the Middle East. There was
Speaker 4: no war in Russia. He even got the North Korean
Speaker 4: stopped their missile testing. I mean, who could have believed it?
Speaker 4: No one.
Speaker 1: And I look on the tariff front about Honda that
Speaker 1: was making their hybrid Civic in Mexico. They're now coming
Speaker 1: to Indiana and many foreign car makers are now going
Speaker 1: to come into America and build factories here. And that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen overnight. Here we are about the one hundred
Speaker 1: day mark of the Trump presidency. It may take one
Speaker 1: to three years for that to happen, but it's on
Speaker 1: the glide path to getting it done. And the communists
Speaker 1: red Chinese kill one hundred thousand Americans a year through fentanyl.
Speaker 1: They are thieves, crooks, and liars. I'm talking about the government,
Speaker 1: not the people of China. When it comes to intellectual
Speaker 1: property IP, that kind of stuff they steal. The idea
Speaker 1: is and they're an import nation. This is little known
Speaker 1: Christopher Ruddy that they get about eighty percent of their
Speaker 1: energy through imports and also many of their food stuffs
Speaker 1: through imports. They're extremely vulnerable right now, including the trillions
Speaker 1: of dollars of losses in their real estate markets and
Speaker 1: the fact that they're a communist country that kill Christians.
Speaker 1: That's little known. Wwigers a Muslim minority or in concentration camps,
Speaker 1: Catholics and Christians are obliterated, obliterated and slaughtered. There's no
Speaker 1: property rights in China. You can't be a Christopher Ruddy
Speaker 1: in China and live with with your with your thoughts
Speaker 1: on politics. And there's no sense of personal property. No
Speaker 1: one owns anything in China. The government come in and
Speaker 1: take it away. And I think we've found ourselves in
Speaker 1: a situation that were extremely vulnerable. This had to happen
Speaker 1: at some point. You also have a reference at Newsmax
Speaker 1: Christo Ruddy about there's a good chance that that car
Speaker 1: tariffs may never come off. Can you explain that to
Speaker 1: the American people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I was saying earlier Bill that you know,
Speaker 4: President Trump sees the car industry as very important for
Speaker 4: national security. If you don't have car, you can't build
Speaker 4: military vehicles, and you can't build tanks and other materials.
Speaker 4: So he believes that we need a car industry for
Speaker 4: national security. I think what we've seen is supply lines
Speaker 4: a very week that China wants to interrupt those supply lines.
Speaker 4: They can really cause a lot of damage to America
Speaker 4: if we ever get into a war. And you say
Speaker 4: that won't happen, well, they're threatening war. Chines has been
Speaker 4: threatening war pretty regularly these days over Taiwan, even over
Speaker 4: trade policy. They've HINTEREDID they've got a war with the
Speaker 4: United States, and so we need a car industry. And
Speaker 4: the President says, the only way you build up a
Speaker 4: car industry here is you have a ten percent twenty
Speaker 4: percent tariffon car. So you can still buy foreign cars,
Speaker 4: You're just going to pay more and you get American
Speaker 4: cars at a much better price, and so that's what
Speaker 4: he's planning on. I think it's a good idea. I
Speaker 4: think that you need to have a car industry. And
Speaker 4: in the old days, the politicians would think about that
Speaker 4: because there are patriots. But over time everybody just started
Speaker 4: doing deals. You know, these Chinese companies or industries would
Speaker 4: hire lobbyists in Washington, paid big money a former congressmen
Speaker 4: and senators, and then get whatever they wanted in Washington.
Speaker 4: And Trump's Trump's not a politician, so he's like, why
Speaker 4: are we doing these deals? And the media, you know,
Speaker 4: should be a plugging them. Instead they're trying to denigrate
Speaker 4: him and take him down.
Speaker 1: Of course, on Harvard, they sued the Trump administration a
Speaker 1: few days ago trying to get back the billions of
Speaker 1: dollars the taxpayer send to Harvard. I think it's some
Speaker 1: working schlip in a factory. I think it's someone selling
Speaker 1: through their car. I think about Americans, working, hard, working
Speaker 1: smart sending their tax dollars to Washington, and then Washington
Speaker 1: turns around and sends billions of dollars to Harvard that
Speaker 1: has a fifty three billion dollar endowment, which would like
Speaker 1: to savings account a couple of years ago, the US
Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruled that Harvard practices race discrimination, which is
Speaker 1: a terrible label to be put on someone. Harvard and
Speaker 1: their administration is extremely anti Semitic. Jews and Harvard are marginalized,
Speaker 1: treated like crap, can't get to classes, yelling and screaming.
Speaker 1: Same with Columbia. And so when I look at the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party Christopher Ruddy of Newsmacks decades ago in the South,
Speaker 1: they used discrimination against black folks. Couldn't go to school,
Speaker 1: couldn't go and lunch and nets, couldn't go in the restaurants,
Speaker 1: couldn't be an office, couldn't vote. The same Democratic Party
Speaker 1: half century later has now been found a vicious race
Speaker 1: discrimination against Asians and admissions by the United States Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: plus virulent, ugly anti semitism. Is that the way the
Speaker 1: mainstream media pictures this dispute between Harvard and Washington.
Speaker 4: Well, I would never think in the country I grew up,
Speaker 4: and the Jews would be in jeopardy of walking across
Speaker 4: the campus or wearing a Yamica. You could be harmed
Speaker 4: in the city of New York, in major cities Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: And it's now true. It's dangerous to be Jewish and
Speaker 4: you're threatened. And now institutions know that we know these
Speaker 4: bad things happen, right, But the idea that Columbia and
Speaker 4: Harvard are looking the other way at this anti Semitism,
Speaker 4: at threats of this is frightening. And I think it's
Speaker 4: the sign of you know, how woke the left has
Speaker 4: come and during the Bime years, you know, like we're
Speaker 4: seeing it with the deportations. These gang members are here
Speaker 4: and the Democrats are supporting the gang members who are
Speaker 4: closing their farm.
Speaker 1: I want to say with life beating human traffickers of
Speaker 1: MS thirteen that tattoos MS thirteen are the knuckles. That's
Speaker 1: the group the Democratic Party along with the race discriminators
Speaker 1: at Harvard, and they're laying down with those individuals. That's
Speaker 1: pretty sick.
Speaker 4: Well, you were talking about the media and how they
Speaker 4: lied in line, I came up with a new phrase.
Speaker 4: They lied and they died. You know, the media is
Speaker 4: the old media is dying, and they lied through their teeth.
Speaker 4: During the twenty election, ninety percent of the press reports
Speaker 4: about President Trump were negative. Eighty percent of the press
Speaker 4: reports on Harris were positive. That was in a study.
Speaker 4: These are people disconnected to America. They and I always
Speaker 4: to people like I think Newsmax. I'm probably the only
Speaker 4: CEO of a network that believes it's two genders, male
Speaker 4: and female. You going, no, you left, but you go
Speaker 4: into major now, ABC, CBS, are there two genders. I
Speaker 4: don't think they're gonna give you an answer if anything, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, and these are people untethered. I think there's
Speaker 4: a danger. You know. Sultanisan said this about the Soviet
Speaker 4: Union when the when the Soviets came in and untethered
Speaker 4: themselves to reality and the truth, then anything was possible,
Speaker 4: and we ended up with the Gulags. And that's what
Speaker 4: I'm fearful of hearing, like the left is so insane
Speaker 4: and the aocs and Bernie Sanders obviously seems a little
Speaker 4: saner than some of the others. I mean, And that's
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Speaker 1: Well, that's why you say media lied and media died. Exactly.
Speaker 1: I couldn't name the anchors except David Muir of the
Speaker 1: Nightly News, is anymore, Lester Holtz gone. CBS is in
Speaker 1: a major shake up, the layoffs happening, the Washington Post
Speaker 1: losing one hundred million dollars a year, et cetera. Lastly,
Speaker 1: about Iran, of course I hoped as an Iranian deal.
Speaker 1: Of course, I hope that the MoU laws that controlled
Speaker 1: Tehran and make miserable their own people come to reality
Speaker 1: and say, we can't have nuclear weapons and missiles to
Speaker 1: deliver them. Because given that opportunity, it is in their Quran,
Speaker 1: it's in their basic beliefs. They will kill Jews. The
Speaker 1: six million in Israel will be obliterated. And so, in
Speaker 1: a sense, I hope they come to reality and say,
Speaker 1: you know what, come into our facilities. Let Americans determine
Speaker 1: the European's determine where our centrifuges are we want. We're
Speaker 1: not going to do it ourselves who want the world
Speaker 1: to come in. We're done with this. We're not going
Speaker 1: to spend our money on arms and weapons to kill
Speaker 1: Jews and Christians all over the world, including American soldiers
Speaker 1: in Iraq and Syria. We're not going to do that anymore.
Speaker 1: We're going to change. If that happens, I'd be in
Speaker 1: a state of shock and disbelief. I think the game's
Speaker 1: going to be to buy some more time, to get
Speaker 1: more missile technology, to get it better, maybe bought from
Speaker 1: North Korea or by Russia, and to weaponize these missiles
Speaker 1: and obliterate Israel if necessary. Do you have any hope
Speaker 1: that these talks being conducted now will bear fruit, that
Speaker 1: Iran will see the light or must Iran be taken
Speaker 1: down militarily.
Speaker 4: I'm not very hopeful about Iran. I think it's a
Speaker 4: rogue nation. Look what it's been doing years. It got money,
Speaker 4: as President Trump said, it funded has blah the October
Speaker 4: seventh around singer Prince Roll over that murderous thing. It
Speaker 4: has ballad and then you have the hooties. Yeah, the Isis.
Speaker 4: You have all these groups that are always backed by
Speaker 4: the Iranians. I don't think you can really do a deal.
Speaker 4: You can't trust them. They've been working on this bomb
Speaker 4: for thirty years. They may even have some nuclear warheads
Speaker 4: by now, for all we know. I think it's a
Speaker 4: moment in time between President Trump and Benjamin Ntan Yahoo.
Speaker 4: Then we have an opportunity to take down the nuclear facilities.
Speaker 4: I think we should do it. I don't think we
Speaker 4: should delay it, and I think if we don't, you know,
Speaker 4: the audience have made clear Israel is not the main enemy.
Speaker 4: They have said repeatedly, the great Satan is the United States.
Speaker 4: I've always believed that they had a bomb and condetonated
Speaker 4: somewhere in the world, they would do it in the
Speaker 4: United States first, not in Israel. And I just think
Speaker 4: they've already proven there beyond redemption. And you have a
Speaker 4: mad dog, you put it down. I think we put
Speaker 4: it's time for putting it down.
Speaker 1: Not just Iran. It's Hezbla, Hamasa Hoodi's Boko Haram, El Qaeda, Taliban.
Speaker 1: They're all funded directly or indirectly. The head of the
Speaker 1: snake is Iran. Until Iran and I have empathy and
Speaker 1: sympathy for the Iranian people forced to live under their theocracy,
Speaker 1: which is a suicidal death cult that runs Iran right
Speaker 1: now and it can't continue. But once again, Christopher Ruddy,
Speaker 1: you're about the best there is. And I watch this
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Speaker 1: The truth will set us free. And Christopher Ruddy, thank
Speaker 1: you very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: And Christopher, you're a great American and keep preaching the
Speaker 1: truth of the president. Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll only say the truth has set us for you,
Speaker 4: it's already done it something.
Speaker 1: The truth has not set some other news organizations down
Speaker 1: to bankruptcy. But that's not the case. All right, Christopher,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I bless you, God, bless America.
Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, let's continue with more and if
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Speaker 5: In the twenty twenty five NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 5: select Jamar Stewart defensive ends, Texas A and M.
Speaker 1: Hello, Piet and I'm broadcasting, no I Rocky. Let's break
Speaker 1: it down good or break it down? Break it down
Speaker 1: according to segment, it's a bad pick. You can't sack,
Speaker 1: anybody doesn't tackle, anybody doesn't block the run. Very well,
Speaker 1: you give me a full report. Well, as me and.
Speaker 6: Last described last night, the theme of this draft for
Speaker 6: the Bengals is and it comes up over and over again.
Speaker 6: The Bengals have a lot of needs, especially on defense,
Speaker 6: and only six picks. So the luxury of a of
Speaker 6: a project player, a guy you got to develop and
Speaker 6: wait on, seems to be it should be on the
Speaker 6: back burner. We need a guy that can play right now.
Speaker 6: It's proven can play right now, and I love Shamar Stewart.
Speaker 6: I mean, the skills and the traits are absolutely off
Speaker 6: the chart. The question is the production. You know, you
Speaker 6: had one and a half sacks last year. The one
Speaker 6: full sack came against Bowling Green. So I mean, I
Speaker 6: think it's right the question. You can like the kid
Speaker 6: and like the player, and by all accounts I heard
Speaker 6: all the interviews he's I mean, look, I covered him
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 1: The coaches love him.
Speaker 6: I mean he is, He's built like a Greek god,
Speaker 6: he loves football, high character guy, high energy guy. It's
Speaker 6: just it's more I think of a question about the
Speaker 6: bengals continual ability to develop players. You know sedgriac obwayhe
Speaker 6: you know Miles Murphy, these top trait guys that were
Speaker 6: picked high in the draft. The Bengals weren't able to
Speaker 6: develop the way that you wanted. So that's why the
Speaker 6: question of the of the pick and Shamar Stewart.
Speaker 1: How about John Ross on paper looked pretty good, That's
Speaker 1: a That's another one.
Speaker 6: That's another one that for whatever reason, either he didn't
Speaker 6: develop or the team didn't develop him. You know, he
Speaker 6: bounced around the leaks. Maybe that was a more of
Speaker 6: a John Ross thing, but but some of these guys,
Speaker 6: it's just if you're the Eagles, right, You're the Eagles
Speaker 6: and you are absolutely loaded. I feel like you can
Speaker 6: you can take a flyer on a guy that's got
Speaker 6: tremendous rates, you know, because you got a you got
Speaker 6: a solid front all, you got a solid eleven on defense.
Speaker 1: The Bengals have many many holes.
Speaker 6: The one returning great player that other teams would probably
Speaker 6: want from this Bengals defense is Trey Henderson.
Speaker 1: That's probably about it.
Speaker 6: So you're you're counting on a bunch of new guys,
Speaker 6: and now one of your new guys is someone who's
Speaker 6: a developmental guy, a high super high ceiling guy, not
Speaker 6: necessarily a high floor guy.
Speaker 1: Now about in a second round to Night Rock?
Speaker 6: But could it be as a Rock a Roku Donovan
Speaker 6: as a Roku? I mean he's a defensive end. But
Speaker 6: I feel like now, especially with what the other teams
Speaker 6: in THENFC North did I mean what the the Steelers took, uh,
Speaker 6: the de Harmon kid, the defensive tackle. The Browns took
Speaker 6: Mason Graham, maybe the best defensive tackle. We need to
Speaker 6: help a guard. We got to block some of these
Speaker 6: interior defensive linemen. So I feel like that's that's the
Speaker 6: possibility to take Riviledge as a guy from a from
Speaker 6: Ohio state, Mike, he's a defensive end.
Speaker 1: Those seg do we need another.
Speaker 4: One of those?
Speaker 1: What about Will Johnson?
Speaker 6: Will Johnson is some people had him as a a
Speaker 6: locked first round talent. He's there, Certainly he's a guy
Speaker 6: that could play tomorrow.
Speaker 1: What about Sanders to a nation's in a crisis because
Speaker 1: he didn't get picked? Can we just say something? Can
Speaker 1: we at least can can people that that you know,
Speaker 1: shoulder Sanders apologists?
Speaker 6: Can we at least admit that maybe some of his
Speaker 6: flamboyants is just a little much, and that maybe maybe
Speaker 6: he had a little bit to do with him dropping me.
Speaker 6: I mean, do you see his dressing room. He had
Speaker 6: legendary everywhere. He had this the biggest most obnoxious gold
Speaker 6: chain or diamond chain. And I've seen a lot of
Speaker 6: obnoxious diamond chains in my life in the NFL locker rooms.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? He had every hat and like that,
Speaker 1: that cabinet, Like, I guess he's gonna turn around and
Speaker 1: pick the one he got picked, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: and then all the dollar signs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can admit, can they surs Sanders apologies at
Speaker 6: least admit that maybe had some little thing of You know,
Speaker 6: you got to understand what an NFL GM and coach
Speaker 6: in front office wants. They want people that absolutely do
Speaker 6: nothing but eat, sleep, and breathe football in our in
Speaker 6: our in our humble and I assume he eats, he
Speaker 6: likes football. I know that part is there, but just
Speaker 6: the extra stuff. It's like that, don't you look at
Speaker 6: Cam wore He wore a normal first pick while the
Speaker 6: Titans wore a normal suit. Very humble guy said, yes, sir,
Speaker 6: no this or all that. I think that's what you
Speaker 6: want out of your quarterback. Now, your wide receivers, you
Speaker 6: want them bouncing off the walls with fifteen different color
Speaker 6: suits on. That's fine, But your quarterback, you want a
Speaker 6: guy that's kind of buttoned up, all right, And I
Speaker 6: just think that's a red flag to some teams for him.
Speaker 1: So who takes Shuar Sanders and Dion and bring this
Speaker 1: show to town? The circus comes to town if you
Speaker 1: take him? Who takes I.
Speaker 6: Mean the Cleveland Browns could take him, but I think
Speaker 6: they'll probably wait till next year.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 6: It's a loaded absolutely loaded draft. By the way, the
Speaker 6: trade that they made was potentially franchise defining picking up
Speaker 6: a couple extra picks in the first round. You know,
Speaker 6: I think that and still getting Mason Graham the best
Speaker 6: defensive tackling draft, that's.
Speaker 1: That's not good for Banks. There's still Browns though, still
Speaker 1: are and the Giants had a great draft too. But look,
Speaker 1: I mean again, I I Jamar Stewart. I love the kid.
Speaker 6: He's he's a fantastic a guy that any coach would
Speaker 6: want on their team and want and and enjoy coaching.
Speaker 1: It's just can can he.
Speaker 6: The production needs to be there, And a lot of
Speaker 6: people say, oh, well he was so close, he was
Speaker 6: so close.
Speaker 1: Well, that's like.
Speaker 6: Saying Ellie Daylor Crewe, boy, he hit that ball on
Speaker 6: the track, But if you just hit that ball millimeter
Speaker 6: a little.
Speaker 1: Bit higher, that ball would have won.
Speaker 6: Well, yes, you know, you could say that all day long,
Speaker 6: but at some point it comes down to getting the sack,
Speaker 6: catching the ball, throwing the touchdown pass. You got to
Speaker 6: have the production, and that's that's the question mark with him.
Speaker 6: Hopefully everybody's wrong about the guy comes in day one
Speaker 6: and is just amazing.
Speaker 1: Sag your reaction, give us some sports and make it fast.
Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 1: and three read tonight set for the NFL Draft. Coverage
Speaker 1: begins at six on ESPN fifteen thirty. They picked tonight
Speaker 1: starting at seven, and then as you know, rock rounds
Speaker 1: four through seven tomorrow starting at noon. And that's when
Speaker 1: the picks ramp it up a little bit.
Speaker 6: More and that can make or break a great draft.
Speaker 6: Look at the again, I keep ringing up for the Eagles,
Speaker 6: but damn what, they won the Super Bowl. They got
Speaker 6: a lot of picks that turn out to be starters
Speaker 6: later in the draft. They cultivated those guys. They selected
Speaker 6: them very very carefully, and then they stockpiled their team
Speaker 6: through the draft, and then when they had to boom,
Speaker 6: they go out and get Saquon Barkley and AJ Brown
Speaker 6: in the premier guys of the holes they needed, and
Speaker 6: you win the whole thing.
Speaker 1: The NFL. That's how you do it. That's how you
Speaker 1: do it. Segment NFL twenty twenty five schedule release dat
Speaker 1: is out rock We'll find out Wednesday, made the fourteenth,
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock, whether what the fangal schedule is and
Speaker 1: if they're gonna go international. There's that number again, forty team.
Speaker 1: That's the rumor they're going to international Espana, Spain.
Speaker 6: I don't know are they going to be sight seeing
Speaker 6: or the is the front office is gonna be sight
Speaker 6: seeing in uh in Madrid, Spain or in.
Speaker 1: I don't thinkco City. He doesn't leave in Hill very often.
Speaker 1: Read what's Alisha said? What do you ask to ask her?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know where you see her every morning?
Speaker 1: Something going on between you two know? There isn't believe me.
Speaker 1: The Reds and Rockies open a three game We that's
Speaker 1: all I need Denver tonight three game series. Uh, Sports
Speaker 1: Talk six O five and that man Lance and then
Speaker 1: the Arno carriers inside pitch at seven forty and then
Speaker 1: well there's no extra innings because the game starts at
Speaker 1: eight forty. It will be too late, Rocky. How close
Speaker 1: you to Shannon Sharp, good friend of yours? Hello, he lost?
Speaker 6: There's something to be said about as an older man.
Speaker 1: Did you go to say watch it now? Did he
Speaker 1: go to say?
Speaker 6: I can guarantee he did not. As much as you
Speaker 6: would love that. By the way, if that was the case,
Speaker 6: you would you would just I'd just bounce off the wall.
Speaker 1: I'd send you the story. Let's see the Rockies. Let's
Speaker 1: see the Rockies are terrible. They've got swept at a
Speaker 1: doubleheader yesterday. They are four and twenty on the season.
Speaker 1: Got a text here from a friend of mine. Uh
Speaker 1: to heck with the draft. Let's talk about the lease,
Speaker 1: the Bengals lease. Not talked about that enough? Frock. I
Speaker 1: guess Alsia Reese in a meeting yesterday or today criticized it. Huh,
Speaker 1: I guess Alisha Reese Channel other two, Channel nine where
Speaker 1: nine stands for news. Alicia, I love the night life.
Speaker 1: Got a boogie. She says the other two commissioners are
Speaker 1: on the wrong page, Denise and Stephanie Dumas. We got
Speaker 1: a sism a split on the commission A split can't
Speaker 1: which is worse than Ukraine and Russia? FC Cincinnati Home
Speaker 1: tomorrow A Kid's Day Sporting Kansas City and Town a
Speaker 1: TQL Stadium action at two on ESPN fifteen thirty. Shannon Sharp,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you had some connection to Santax High School,
Speaker 1: guarantee him. He doesn't. I think you sure? Yes, you're
Speaker 1: sure about that. Yeah, I'm sure about it. I'll see
Speaker 1: about it. Thank you. Say if anybody knows the rock?
Speaker 1: Would he say about? Where do you grow up?
Speaker 6: Chicago? Is there a sant extent Chicago? I'm sure that
Speaker 6: that's probably where. He wanted to look that up.
Speaker 1: Check it out. He's got problem. He went he went
Speaker 1: to Glenville High School in Georgia. Excuse me, you know
Speaker 1: the last guy and that next guy to have difficulty
Speaker 1: is going to be Kanye West. He's got that one.
Speaker 1: What's your name, yeah, Eva or something Younkson. Sorry, that's
Speaker 1: or she looks like in a hospital. I know that.
Speaker 1: What you say, how do you know her name? By
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's my job to know these things. Look information. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, that's the next guy to say there's a problem.
Speaker 1: Hen what about that guy? That Epstein guy? How come
Speaker 1: the list?
Speaker 4: The list?
Speaker 1: Where's the where's the list? Where's the list?
Speaker 3: Rock?
Speaker 6: Who's got the list? Sent Sharps and Sharp has the list?
Speaker 1: Bet your Biden stole it? And Kanye West has the list?
Speaker 1: And P Diddy's got about r Kelly? Get them all,
Speaker 1: Get them all, all of them, all of them, Sanax
Speaker 1: grants every one of them, including R Kelly. Alights Rock.
Speaker 1: What's on the Big show today besides R Kelly and
Speaker 1: Kanye and P Diddy? Kirk Kelly, you know he's heard
Speaker 1: of him in ten years. He went to He's in
Speaker 1: the Joy He did, he did, Yes, he did. You
Speaker 1: went to see what is the question? What is the question?
Speaker 4: The question? Question? I have no idea?
Speaker 1: Thanks Rock.
Speaker 6: We have Richard Skinner, Richard Skinner right out of gate,
Speaker 6: John Matter, he's at three Diddy, ask him about Kanye
Speaker 6: West segment.
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