Speaker 1: Billy hunting up the Great America. Welcome victorious Hot Monday
Speaker 1: Halfnion The Price Reds Baseball kicks off about five forty
Speaker 1: tonight in Miami. The big issue is, well Mike Brown
Speaker 1: back down at Jamar Chase. Mike Brown is used to
Speaker 1: backing down to everybody, right, beginning with Jim Brown and
Speaker 1: Frank Ryan. He's always backing down to players, right, not exactly.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Of course, Saturday, the Bengals play
Speaker 1: Tampa right here, little preseason action. We'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: But more important things are happening, for example, other than
Speaker 1: the stock market meltdown, and that is that it appears
Speaker 1: that marijuana will be sold legally to everyone, including Tony Bender,
Speaker 1: sometime beginning Tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday. Kentucky it's maybe flooding
Speaker 1: into Ohio to buy the ganji. And we have that
Speaker 1: issue percolating. Plus Andy Basher may be selected later today
Speaker 1: or tomorrow, which everyone encourages in Kentucky to become the
Speaker 1: next so called vice president because he gets some the
Speaker 1: hell out of Kentucky. That's a different issue too, So
Speaker 1: Rob Sanders, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham show. And
Speaker 1: first of all, before we talk about Pott marijuana, Ganji
Speaker 1: the weed, Well, Mike Brown backed down to Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: and say, I'll give you the money, show me the money.
Speaker 1: Even though Jamar Chase says at least two more years,
Speaker 1: give me a fall report. Before we talk about marijuana,
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase doesn't play. I may start smoking pot myself.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Willie?
Speaker 3: I think this is a big difference, a big difference
Speaker 3: from this situation in T Higgins. You know, T Higgins
Speaker 3: was looking at he was talking about sitting down, and
Speaker 3: he was looking at passing up a twenty million dollar
Speaker 3: pay day. I think Jamar Chase is probably only making
Speaker 3: about a million bucks this year on his regular deal,
Speaker 3: So who knows, he might actually be taking a year
Speaker 3: off because it'd probably be better off for him, he'd
Speaker 3: be in a better financial situation to make sure he
Speaker 3: doesn't get hurt this year. I mean, we're talking about
Speaker 3: a guy that already sat out a season, if I'm
Speaker 3: not mistaken, during the whole COVID shenanigans. He didn't feel
Speaker 3: like playing football during COVID, so he might not feel
Speaker 3: like playing football for a million When even t Higgins
Speaker 3: is getting paid twenty million in a year, so who knows.
Speaker 3: I'm not very encouraged about the chances of Mike Brown
Speaker 3: backing down or Jamar Chase paying for about the same
Speaker 3: amount of money they pay Tony Bender to produce a
Speaker 3: radio show he makes about trya not a good way
Speaker 3: to start the year.
Speaker 1: Willing well Mo tells me allegedly about a week ago,
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase got three point nine million dollars.
Speaker 2: Which was his roster bonus.
Speaker 1: He's due to make one million dollars this entire year,
Speaker 1: when t Higgins is making twenty two and a half million.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson of the Vikes is running man An LSU's
Speaker 1: making thirty five million. And so you got Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: just got about four million put in his lap, and
Speaker 1: he's going to make one million dollars A pittance you
Speaker 1: pay tax on that, you make really six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And he's thinking, look, I'm in a position next year
Speaker 1: I'll be more powerful. But the problem is the year
Speaker 1: he sits out will not count. So if he sits out,
Speaker 1: that means he's still two more years after that to
Speaker 1: get to a free agency, in which case he's three
Speaker 1: years down the road. I'll give you a scenario before
Speaker 1: we talk about marijuana.
Speaker 2: How about a.
Speaker 1: Deal that begins in the third year from now. Tell
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, Okay, I tell you what. You're pretty valuable,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrows two and in my ears saying we got
Speaker 1: to get number one in the lineup. How about starting
Speaker 1: the contract three years from now and then we'll pay
Speaker 1: you I don't know, one hundred and twenty five million
Speaker 1: dollars with seventy million guaranteed, But it starts three years
Speaker 1: from now for four years. That gets you to the
Speaker 1: age of thirty thirty one, in which case you're done anyway.
Speaker 1: How about that scenario.
Speaker 3: As long as he got the guaranteed money, will he
Speaker 3: be a fool not to take it? Because you know,
Speaker 3: money's money, whether it's now or three years from now,
Speaker 3: He's getting paid enough to get by. I think maybe
Speaker 3: they ought to have you negotiating that deal. But you
Speaker 3: know another thing that the Bengals need to think about
Speaker 3: is the money's getting so crazy these days. It's going
Speaker 3: up exponentially every year. Yeah, how much more money is
Speaker 3: it going to cost the Bengals if they wait another
Speaker 3: year to sign Jamar Chase. You know what, the top
Speaker 3: end receivers are making. His jump to probably ten million
Speaker 3: dollars a year in the last two or three years.
Speaker 3: If they wait a year, it could cost them. You know,
Speaker 3: he might be getting paid thirty five or forty million
Speaker 3: a year the way they're going. Look at what Jordan
Speaker 3: loves making. I realize he's a quarterback, not a wide receiver,
Speaker 3: but he just reset the market. Joe Burrow is probably
Speaker 3: kicking himself thinking, you know, I've been to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: I've been to the AFC Championship twice. I should be
Speaker 3: making more than Jordan Love. This guy's only started what
Speaker 3: eighteen games something like that, right, and he's the highest
Speaker 3: paid quarterback in the NFL. So another year of not
Speaker 3: paying Jamar Chase. I mean, we could be looking back saying, hell,
Speaker 3: the Bengals could have got him for a bargain if
Speaker 3: they'd have signed him back in August to twenty four. Instead,
Speaker 3: they waited a year, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: he's getting forty million a year instead of thirty million
Speaker 3: a year.
Speaker 1: I may get to hold a Troy Blackburn and tell
Speaker 1: him that you and I are willing to participate on
Speaker 1: either side of this case, each of us taking a
Speaker 1: fee and get paid. But let's talk about something in
Speaker 1: your domain, which is marri jajuana. I guess tomorrow is
Speaker 1: going to be legal recreational pots sold all over southwest Ohio.
Speaker 1: To calm down the road. I take CBD myself quite often.
Speaker 1: I think it helps with my back pain. I think
Speaker 1: it helps sleeping. But that's a different issue. But when
Speaker 1: there's tons of marijuana being sold across the river and
Speaker 1: Kentuckians are flooding in from Boone, Kenton and Campbell County,
Speaker 1: they need the putt, they need to smoke, they need
Speaker 1: to get high, and they need the ganji. They'll be
Speaker 1: like Cheach and Chong and Covington. They need that drug
Speaker 1: badly and they're going to buy in Ohio. What does
Speaker 1: that mean to Boone, Kenton and Campbell County if anything?
Speaker 3: Well, the biggest thing people need to remember Willie before
Speaker 3: they go all Cheach and Chong on northern Kentucky is
Speaker 3: that while it might be legal in Ohio, it's still
Speaker 3: illegal in Kentucky. So just because you buy it legally
Speaker 3: doesn't mean you legally possess it when you cross the
Speaker 3: river and come back into Kentucky. Now, that's probably gonna
Speaker 3: get your car searched. It's probably gonna get you a
Speaker 3: minimum a citation to court. It might get you arrested,
Speaker 3: you might have to spend the night in the kent
Speaker 3: County whoscal But what's more important for people to remember
Speaker 3: is that you can't have marijuana with a gun in Kentucky.
Speaker 3: If you have marijuana and a gun, that's a felony.
Speaker 3: Then you become my problem. Then the price of poker
Speaker 3: goes up. You're definitely getting arrested. You're definitely going to jail.
Speaker 3: You'll be lucky if you can bond yourself out because
Speaker 3: we got decent judges over here that don't let everybody
Speaker 3: out of jail for no reason like they do in Ohio.
Speaker 3: You know, the bottom line is if you're gonna go
Speaker 3: over to Ohio and partake in your recreational marijuana, you
Speaker 3: treat it just like you do alcohol. Get a designated driver,
Speaker 3: don't be driving stoned over here in Kentucky coming back home.
Speaker 3: Don't bring your drugs back to Kentucky because it's still
Speaker 3: illegal over here. And like I said, don't mix your
Speaker 3: drugs and a gun because then you're not a misdemeanor anymore.
Speaker 3: Now you're a felony. You become my problem. Get a
Speaker 3: designated driver, taken an uber and go over to Ohio,
Speaker 3: poke up, smoke up, whatever they like to do over there.
Speaker 3: You know, have your fun, but don't drive back high,
Speaker 3: and don't bring your drugs back. Consume all your wacky
Speaker 3: it's a backy on the north side of the river,
Speaker 3: and we'll be just fine when you come back over here.
Speaker 1: Now this is instructive. So if you're like Yosemite, Sam,
Speaker 1: and you have guns and they're on your person or
Speaker 1: in your car, Let's say you're in the back seat
Speaker 1: of a car and you got you three point fifty
Speaker 1: seven and one pocket and a Sigsier on the other
Speaker 1: and you're in the backseat of the car. You're not driving,
Speaker 1: but you also have in your pocket a little bit
Speaker 1: of a wacky weed.
Speaker 2: Is that a felony?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's felony in Kentucky anytime you possess a firearm
Speaker 3: and further into that possession of that marijuana and all
Speaker 3: the police have to do. So why do you have
Speaker 3: these guns on you? And you say, well, obviously to
Speaker 3: defend myself. Well, now, it's in furtherance of your possession
Speaker 3: of that drugs. It doesn't just have to be marijuana,
Speaker 3: can be any kind of drug. You know. This is
Speaker 3: a law that is intended to I guess, intended to
Speaker 3: bump the drug dealers who not only deal drugs but
Speaker 3: do it in do it while they're armed. Punish those
Speaker 3: more heavily. So the law applies not just to drug
Speaker 3: dealers but drug possessors. The punishment doubles in Kentucky if
Speaker 3: you commit the crime while you are armed with the firearms.
Speaker 3: So it's very important that people remember that because we've
Speaker 3: talked about before, Willie. For some reason, everybody likes to
Speaker 3: smoke their weed they purchased in Ohio. Up till now
Speaker 3: it's been medical weed that they were purchasing in Ohio.
Speaker 3: But they like to smoke their medical weed on riverside
Speaker 3: driving Covington. And they don't bother to leave their guns
Speaker 3: in Ohio when they come over to here to I
Speaker 3: guess toke up and enjoy the view. So I can't
Speaker 3: tell you how many arrests Covington police have made of
Speaker 3: people smoking dope while they're armed with the gun on
Speaker 3: riverside drive in the nearby streets where they can see
Speaker 3: our wonderful view of downtown Cincinnati. But what they don't
Speaker 3: realize is that they've just got themselves arrested for a felony.
Speaker 3: So the bottom line is, don't combine your drugs with
Speaker 3: your guns. Your drugs are still illegal in Kentucky. We're
Speaker 3: headed down that road, it looks like, but we're not
Speaker 3: there yet, and it probably won't ever be legal to
Speaker 3: have marijuana and a gun together. So it's something they
Speaker 3: should get in the habit of not doing now if
Speaker 3: you don't want to be a resident of our detention center.
Speaker 1: I know in northern Kentucky now has medical marijuana. What
Speaker 1: if someone is a medical marijuana card and they're legally
Speaker 1: possessing marijuana and they have a gun done?
Speaker 3: What, Well, we don't have it yet will Medical marijuana
Speaker 3: doesn't kick into effect in Kentucky until January first to
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, But even when it does, there are
Speaker 3: all sorts of different rules about how you once consume
Speaker 3: your medical marijuana. In fact, the vast majority of folks
Speaker 3: that have a legitimate need for medical marijuana will be
Speaker 3: consuming it in a fashion like you say you do
Speaker 3: with the THCHC instead of CBD. But it'll be in
Speaker 3: an ointment or a pill or a soov or some
Speaker 3: kind of gel cap, something along those lines. It won't
Speaker 3: be legal. You cannot smoke weed. Even after medical marijuana
Speaker 3: starts January one and twenty twenty five, you still can't
Speaker 3: smoke your weed in Kentucky. I guess the only reason
Speaker 3: you could have the plant material is I guess baking
Speaker 3: brownies or something like that. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 3: know why anybody would have plant marijuana if they're not
Speaker 3: allowed to smoke it. But nevertheless, even if you have
Speaker 3: medical marijuana, you can't have it with a gun. The
Speaker 3: law has not changed in terms of possessing your marijuana.
Speaker 3: In your plant marijuana has to be at least two
Speaker 3: steps removed from the driver of any vehicle, so that
Speaker 3: means probably in the trunk. So that would be a
Speaker 3: different scenario than what we're experiencing here. That's not the
Speaker 3: same as people having weed in their pocket or people
Speaker 3: smoking weed on riverside drive when they have it in
Speaker 3: the trunk. That's a whole different story as opposed to
Speaker 3: where the gun is. I gun separate from the weed,
Speaker 3: no problem. If the gun is with the weed problem,
Speaker 3: and that's what people are going to have to remember.
Speaker 3: Keep it on the North side. Smoke all your dope
Speaker 3: in Ohio. Let the Buckeyes smell all that nonsense. We
Speaker 3: don't need that in Kentucky, even after we have medical
Speaker 3: marijuana approved.
Speaker 1: Well, I was at Washington Park about a week ago
Speaker 1: and there was marijuana everywhere smoking, and the police don't care.
Speaker 1: The CPD is told not to arrest or sign anyone
Speaker 1: smoke pot. Washington Park is where my great great great
Speaker 1: grandfather named Old Conny used to dig up bodies in
Speaker 1: order to make a living, So I have a little
Speaker 1: dark history there. But let me ask you this. Let's
Speaker 1: say you got a medical marijuana card in Ohio and
Speaker 1: you legally can possess marijuana in Ohio. What if you
Speaker 1: walk across the Suspension bridge, you go to Riverside Drive
Speaker 1: and you got a medical marijuana card in Ohio. Can
Speaker 1: you smoke weed in Covington with a medical marijuana card
Speaker 1: from Ohio?
Speaker 3: No, Willie, no you can. It's still illegal in Kentucky.
Speaker 3: And unlike the North Side of the River, we back
Speaker 3: our police over here. We like it when they're proactive.
Speaker 3: We like them when they go ask people, hey, what
Speaker 3: are you doing, Why are you acting suspicious? What business
Speaker 3: do you have in this part of town? That sort
Speaker 3: of thing. It keeps our crime rate down. Makes Kenton
Speaker 3: County and all of northern Kentucky the best place to live, work,
Speaker 3: and raise a family of any place in the greater
Speaker 3: Cincinnati area. And a big reason to that is how
Speaker 3: proactive our police are. So we don't discourage and we
Speaker 3: don't discourage our police from enforcing the law like do
Speaker 3: on the north side of the river. We back them up.
Speaker 3: We know that they know that we support them, and
Speaker 3: that's why we have a better quality of life. In
Speaker 3: my opinion, Willie, It's why we can go on our
Speaker 3: parks and not have to smell cheech and Song style
Speaker 3: smoke just billowing around our parks. We can enforce the
Speaker 3: law on this side of the river.
Speaker 1: Well, if you have time, google William Cunningham Resurrectionist. My
Speaker 1: great great great grandfather was a mortician who conducted funerals
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, and he would bury the bodies at Washington
Speaker 1: Park and then three days later he would, like a resurrectionist,
Speaker 1: he would dig them up, rifle through their pockets, and
Speaker 1: then take the bodies and put them in horse drawn
Speaker 1: carriages and transport them to the Medical College of Ohio
Speaker 1: where they've been used for medical research. Everyone has a
Speaker 1: part of their family they're not proud of. And William
Speaker 1: Cunningham the resurrectionist is someone I'm not particularly proud about.
Speaker 2: But he made a living doing that. That's all I
Speaker 2: can say.
Speaker 3: A fairly resurrectionist is code for grave Robert than Willie.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know they buried people in Washington Park,
Speaker 3: but that's good to know, yet another reason I won't
Speaker 3: be hanging out in Washington Park.
Speaker 2: Check it out.
Speaker 1: Nevertheless, check it out William Cunningham resurrection As the Inquiry
Speaker 1: did a long story on him.
Speaker 2: He made quite a living.
Speaker 1: And there was one night he's in his buggy with
Speaker 1: a corpse and he got his arm around the corpse,
Speaker 1: which the corpse kind of falling apart, and one of
Speaker 1: the constables at this point picked up old Cunney cun
Speaker 1: n y, and they arrested him, and he got out
Speaker 1: three days later and continued the trade.
Speaker 2: He traded in human flesh.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not real proud of that part of my family,
Speaker 1: shall we say my other family. John Patrick Graham was
Speaker 1: the mayor of Ellesmere. I'm more proud of that family
Speaker 1: than old Cunny, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Well, we know you trace your roots back to Norman, Kentucky,
Speaker 3: specifically to kent County, Willie. We're very proud to have
Speaker 3: you as one of our former residents, one with family
Speaker 3: roots here. And we're still waiting for you to come
Speaker 3: on back over here by that big condo in the
Speaker 3: sky down there along the riverfront that you've been eye
Speaker 3: on all these years. But we'd love to have you
Speaker 3: on this side of the river where there is no
Speaker 3: marijuana smoke to disrupt your dinner as you sit outside
Speaker 3: and enjoy nice meal at one of our fabulous restaurants.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: I know people. Judge likes northern Kentucky, Willie. She's a
Speaker 3: big fan of Covington and all the restaurants down there.
Speaker 2: He likes that.
Speaker 1: Well, we got to run, but to have minute remaining,
Speaker 1: What about your buddy Andy Basheer. Are you anxious to
Speaker 1: have him take the VP slote and get the hell
Speaker 1: out of Kentucky?
Speaker 2: Would that be good?
Speaker 3: Well, you know I would say yes, Willy, except that
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that the lieutenant governor we have would
Speaker 3: be much of a better choice in Kentucky. Right now,
Speaker 3: I don't know, at least in the little change of
Speaker 3: pace might be amusing. I think the vice president might
Speaker 3: pick Andy Basheer just to irritate me, because that's kind
Speaker 3: of luck. I have never good luck, Willy. But you
Speaker 3: know what's amusing, and what is starting to look like
Speaker 3: Andy Basheer might have a legitimate shot now, as ridiculous
Speaker 3: as that might sound, is that the Democrats are just infighting.
Speaker 3: I guess they skipped the whole nomination of a presidential candidates,
Speaker 3: so now they're taking out all their infighting on picking
Speaker 3: a vice presidential candidate. And all the Progressives and the
Speaker 3: moderate Democrats can't get along. They're fighting. They don't like
Speaker 3: Shapiro because he's Jewish. They don't like Mark Kelly for
Speaker 3: some reason. I mean, guy's an astronaut and a fighter pilot.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's wrong with him, but they don't
Speaker 3: like him either. So there, you know, Andy Basheer might
Speaker 3: be just plain white, toast boring enough that he'll fit
Speaker 3: the road, and nobody can find anything to object about
Speaker 3: him too, because there's nothing there, you know, it's an
Speaker 3: empty suit. But hey, come on down, because we haven't
Speaker 3: found a reason to object to him being the vice president.
Speaker 1: I just googled William Cunningham body snatcher. William Cunningham was
Speaker 1: a body snatcher who lived in Cincinnati. He was a
Speaker 1: professional and resurrectionist. Cunningham provided corpses to area physicians for research.
Speaker 1: It was known as old Cunny.
Speaker 3: That's a part of the gout an entrepreneur, will they
Speaker 3: not a criminal? An entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: He picked up bodies out of graves. After a few
Speaker 1: days they were falling apart.
Speaker 3: So well, you know what, it doesn't sound like he
Speaker 3: was pulling that Shenan against every here on this side
Speaker 3: of the river. So even years ago, one hundred years ago,
Speaker 3: Kentucky was still a safe place to live, work and
Speaker 3: raise a family.
Speaker 2: It didn't smoke pot either, I know that.
Speaker 3: But there you go.
Speaker 1: Just check out William Cunningham Grave Robert part of all
Speaker 1: parts of our family were not proud of. And this
Speaker 1: is my part. But I'm proud of my Ellesmere part.
Speaker 1: But Rob Sanders, once again, thank you for coming on
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham show. Keep hope alive and don't be
Speaker 1: cheaching Chong and Comington.
Speaker 3: Not a chance, Willie, thanks for having me on. It's
Speaker 3: been great. I can't wait. Just a couple more weeks
Speaker 3: and we'll be saying hohoda after every chance we have
Speaker 3: the chat. So looking forward to this Bengals season and
Speaker 3: joining you and Seg and Tony Bender and Rocky Boyman
Speaker 3: and everybody in the Phill Cunningham luxury box.
Speaker 2: It'll be there.
Speaker 1: Mike Brown will back down, write that down, Mike Brown
Speaker 1: will back down.
Speaker 3: Mike Brown, got it, got it okay. Bill Cunningham said
Speaker 3: it right here, August the fifth.
Speaker 2: Thank you an old cunny. Rob Sanders, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Take care, will We'll see you all.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more. There's always part. Here's the families.
Speaker 1: One is not proud of. When I read the stories
Speaker 1: about William Cunningham, it doesn't fill my heart with glee.
Speaker 1: But he was an entrepreneur living at difficult times, and
Speaker 1: he plied his trade around Washington Park. And now everyone
Speaker 1: is stoned to death and they'll pay attention. Let's continue
Speaker 1: with more. Bill Cunningham, Mike Brown back down on News
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