Speaker 1: By Billy Cunningham. The great American is, you may know,
Speaker 1: all health breaking loose, and for those who have a
Speaker 1: little bit of a weaker backbone, it may be quivering
Speaker 1: a bit about the election by Donald Trump, but yours
Speaker 1: truly is not. He's been saying this for years. He's
Speaker 1: implementing his own plan, and Vietnam is now going to
Speaker 1: dance to the Trump tuned I think Mexico will. Eventually
Speaker 1: all these countries will come around because we can't keep
Speaker 1: living like this in which our products are flowing not
Speaker 1: into other countries, but their products are coming into America.
Speaker 1: Of course, Kenneth Roposa is a great American. He's a
Speaker 1: seasoned business and foreign airfares reporter with more than twenty
Speaker 1: years experience stationed abroad as a reporter with the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, etc. Been all over the world, knows where
Speaker 1: the bodies are buried. And ken joining us now is
Speaker 1: the same Kenneth Roposa, reporter and columnists for the Coalition
Speaker 1: for a Prosperous America. And Kenneth, welcome again to the
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show. So this Liberation Day was Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: since then all hell's breaking loose in the media. You
Speaker 1: can't watch it without hating what's going on, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, talk to the American people about the tariff policy.
Speaker 1: Say during the four years of Joe Biden, what Donald
Speaker 1: Trump promised and what's the impact is going to be.
Speaker 1: Tell us where things were before Trump took office.
Speaker 2: Okay, so before Trump took office. Let's go back to
Speaker 2: the early days. The origin story in twenty seventeen, right,
Speaker 2: that's when Trump put tafts on China, and the same
Speaker 2: guy said the same thing, the sky is falling. China's
Speaker 2: our biggest trading partner. It's going to be a disaster.
Speaker 2: They're going to risk, they're going to retaliate, they're going
Speaker 2: to kill American farmers. They're all going to go out
Speaker 2: of business. All all the story, the sky is always falling.
Speaker 2: None of that happened. Of course, farmers did get in
Speaker 2: trouble because Brazil China did put sort of a sanction
Speaker 2: on imports of American soybeans, which is the number one
Speaker 2: import for China. For the UYS says Goods, and then
Speaker 2: a few years then the uys's going had to subsidize them.
Speaker 2: A few years later, maybe two years later, China was
Speaker 2: back to buying American soybeans at record levels, you know.
Speaker 2: So that's what happened. Then then Trump leaves office and
Speaker 2: Biden comes in. Biden kept the China tariffs in place.
Speaker 2: In addition, last May, he increased tariffs on Chinese cars evs.
Speaker 2: In particular, he increased tariffs on Chinese semi semiconductors and
Speaker 2: Chinese solar from mainland China. So Biden kept the same
Speaker 2: policy as Trump, despite the fact that we keep hearing
Speaker 2: the media now and how it's how horrible it is.
Speaker 2: Of course, I understand that now this is a global thing, right,
Speaker 2: So now they're saying, yeah, but China was one thing.
Speaker 2: Now we have now we're tariffing the world. So that's
Speaker 2: that's that's the second part of the discussion. And I
Speaker 2: can get into that if you.
Speaker 1: Want, Okay, So, as far as are the tariffs tariffs
Speaker 1: have been employed by other nations on a regular base,
Speaker 1: is to keep our products out of Canada, out of Mexico,
Speaker 1: and out of China because those countries don't want our
Speaker 1: products there. They want to protect their own farmers, manufacturers,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And is the number about a trillion dollars
Speaker 1: a year trade deficit with the world that America is
Speaker 1: not open to these other markets, but their products come
Speaker 1: into do we lose about a trillion dollars a year
Speaker 1: in trade deficits at this point.
Speaker 2: You're close. It's a record breaking one point two trillion
Speaker 2: dollars now, and let me explain why that is.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: Some people will say, well, if Trump is so concerned
Speaker 2: about the trade deficit and wants to make things in
Speaker 2: the United States and manufactures domestically, the China traffs didn't
Speaker 2: work right. Well, the reason for that is because Chinese
Speaker 2: multinationals and Western multinationals that outsourced to China decided that
Speaker 2: they were going to make things in they were going
Speaker 2: to ship from Vietnam instead. And Southeast Asia are trade
Speaker 2: deficit with Vietnam, which is a poor country. Their currency
Speaker 2: is worth the price of a seashell at a gift
Speaker 2: shop in Cape card in the summertime, does not import
Speaker 2: a lot of the US goods. So our trade deficit,
Speaker 2: which with Vietnam is now our fourth largest. It's one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty two billion dollars. Only China, the EU
Speaker 2: in Mexico has a greater trade depth surplus with the
Speaker 2: United States, so our deficit you know, I'm meaning you know,
Speaker 2: they have a surplus. We have a deficit. Vietnam is
Speaker 2: our fourth largest, so the China. So why why did
Speaker 2: our deficit rise despite these tariffs with China? Is because
Speaker 2: the multinationals that were sourcing from China they decided to
Speaker 2: source instead from Mexico and from Southeast Asia. So that's why,
Speaker 2: that's why the deficit rose during the tariff years on China.
Speaker 2: And now Trump is saying, well, We're going to hit
Speaker 2: the whole the whole world now and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Now, why is the market used the term it's it's
Speaker 1: almost in correction territory at this point, I think one
Speaker 1: or two of the markets as we speak, the Dow
Speaker 1: appears to be down in the range of about fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars almost every day since since Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday.
Speaker 1: Is going to be bad. How come the markets is
Speaker 1: reacting so negatively.
Speaker 2: Well, the market always reacts negatively to these news on
Speaker 2: global trade disruption, right, right, And so of course you
Speaker 2: have I'm not going to really cry that a bunch
Speaker 2: of European and Japanese institutional fund managers are selling out
Speaker 2: and cashing in on all time highs, or that even
Speaker 2: American companies and investors are cashing out on all time
Speaker 2: highs and sitting in cash, or maybe they're buying let's
Speaker 2: look at this, maybe they're buying American treasury bonds and
Speaker 2: putting it in there instead, so treasury bond yields will decline,
Speaker 2: so interest rates will fall and the US government can
Speaker 2: refinance its debt at a lower rate. Debt now is
Speaker 2: what do we keep hearing? It's nine hundred billion dollars
Speaker 2: I think a year in interest payments alone, So you know,
Speaker 2: we have a big problem in this country. Trump also
Speaker 2: wants to use tariffs to raise revenue, so you could
Speaker 2: pay down the fiscal deficit. That's one option. Another thing
Speaker 2: would be to raise revenue to afford the permanency of
Speaker 2: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which Trump signed his
Speaker 2: first term and expires next year. So you know, these
Speaker 2: these are these are all the reasons for the tariff. Now,
Speaker 2: if you want, there's two ways to look at tariffs.
Speaker 2: Right now, So what ad Trump announce on Liberation Day?
Speaker 2: So he announced the famous reciprocal tariff? Right, So, then
Speaker 2: you've got countries that have high rates of forty percent
Speaker 2: and some countries that have lower rates of ten. So
Speaker 2: from what I understand is that the reciprocal rate is
Speaker 2: based on whatever the trade deficit is with that country,
Speaker 2: and maybe also calculating something like non tariff barriers, and
Speaker 2: I want to get to insider baseball on what those are.
Speaker 2: Those reciprocal rates can be negotiable. So if you look
Speaker 2: at Vietnam at forty eight percent or whatever it is,
Speaker 2: that might be negotiated lower. Okay, but there's wanna be.
Speaker 3: A floor on that.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a floor. It's not gonna so
Speaker 2: you keep and I think the floor is ten percent
Speaker 2: because if you read the memo that yeah, they read
Speaker 2: the memo from the White House, this is gonna They
Speaker 2: call it an ad valorum tax of ten and then
Speaker 2: on top of that is an ad valorum reciprocal rate. Okay,
Speaker 2: So Trump cannot So you're hearing a lot of countries now,
Speaker 2: So we're gonna go to zero.
Speaker 4: You know, we're gonna we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Put zero tariffs. That's a de facto free trade deal
Speaker 2: that cannot happen. The United States is not gonna say,
Speaker 2: oh great, Argentina went to zero, so we're gonna go
Speaker 2: to zero. That's a de fact though free trade deal.
Speaker 2: Congress will and should get involved in something like that obviously,
Speaker 2: because that involves labor and environmental rules, and that's that's
Speaker 2: a whole of the ball game. That's that's not how
Speaker 2: it works. Congress has to be involved when it comes
Speaker 2: to free trade agreements. And so you're not gonna go
Speaker 2: zero to zero. And Trump cannot signal to the business
Speaker 2: community that he wants to invest in the United States
Speaker 2: like we saw a Hyundai do a week or two
Speaker 2: ago now with record breaking twenty one billion investment. You
Speaker 2: can't signal to the market in business community that we
Speaker 2: want to invest we want to make it attractive to
Speaker 2: invest in the United States manufacturing, we want to invest
Speaker 2: in medical manufacturing. And then on the other hand, say
Speaker 2: here's what we're going to do. We're going to provide
Speaker 2: some protection through tariffs. Oh guess what tariffs are coming off?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: You know you and I are not going to invest
Speaker 2: in that market because there's no stability, there's no surety.
Speaker 2: So he has to keep at least the ten percent
Speaker 2: tariff that will not come off that as non negotiable.
Speaker 2: What is going to be negotiable will be the reciprocal
Speaker 2: tariff rates. We might see them coming down over time,
Speaker 2: you know so, but he has to be firm on
Speaker 2: the tariff. That tariff has to has to be signal
Speaker 2: to the market in this community that if a country
Speaker 2: wants to go to zero, that's irrelevant. We're not going
Speaker 2: to zero. We're going We're going to ten.
Speaker 1: Now, one thing the media won't cover is the amount
Speaker 1: of new investment in the country. I watch everything that
Speaker 1: I can, including your friends in MSNBC. I watch that
Speaker 1: so you don't have to. And I'm hearing now that
Speaker 1: this is a this is an historical mistake. That you
Speaker 1: have individuals like Jim Kramer and others saying he's going
Speaker 1: to crash the economy. But on the other hand, when
Speaker 1: I watch other news outlets. You got Apple, you got
Speaker 1: a list of dozens of companies that have promised to
Speaker 1: insource all these manufacturing processes that in the past what
Speaker 1: was made in Mexico, especially communists read China. I kind
Speaker 1: of love the Canadians, but they've taken advantage of us
Speaker 1: for a long time. Two million American cars are made
Speaker 1: in Canada and shipped into here. Canada's maybe a different issue.
Speaker 1: There are friends but in China's case, they're making large
Speaker 1: numbers of electric evs in Mexico to the flood the
Speaker 1: market when the next time the Democrats take over and
Speaker 1: so do you buy into the fact that long term
Speaker 1: this is great for the economy, but there may be
Speaker 1: some short term pain.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, I agree with that. The United States, the
Speaker 2: stock market, and the US consumer right, okay, and US
Speaker 2: political system in general thinks short term. Yes. At the
Speaker 2: same time, we always talk about our number one rival.
Speaker 2: Our number one rival isn't the French and the Germans.
Speaker 2: We don't even care about those guys anymore. Our number
Speaker 2: one rival other than you know, there are friends. Our
Speaker 2: number one rival economically speaking and politically speaking and in
Speaker 2: a geopolitical sense is China. China doesn't worry about what
Speaker 2: they're what the Shanghai Stock Exchange looks looks like right now.
Speaker 2: They don't worry about, you know, the fact that their
Speaker 2: biggest EV company you know, is in the red. They
Speaker 2: care about that. They care about the long term. They're saying,
Speaker 2: when you think what you brought up EV's they're saying,
Speaker 2: if the Western world, the biggest consumers in the world
Speaker 2: outside of China, is going to go EV. Well, I
Speaker 2: want to play in that market. I have a right.
Speaker 2: China has a right to have an auto industry. For
Speaker 2: praying out loud, do you know what I mean? The
Speaker 2: Koreans view, the Japanese do the Chinese certainly have a
Speaker 2: right to have one. And they're saying, if the West
Speaker 2: is going to go EV's, then that's what I'm going
Speaker 2: to put all of my money. I'm going to put
Speaker 2: all of my chips in the EV market. And so
Speaker 2: they have done that, and they have done it successfully.
Speaker 2: I will tell you the other day I was on
Speaker 2: a BBC program and during the commercial break, there was
Speaker 2: a commercial for a BYD which is a Chinese EV company.
Speaker 2: It was a commercial for their SUV. I don't know
Speaker 2: which model, but you know see those in the United States,
Speaker 2: you do see them in Europe in the UK. And
Speaker 2: yet at the same time you hear the Europeans constantly
Speaker 2: crying about their auto industry struggling because of all these
Speaker 2: cars coming in from coming in from China. Well, okay, well,
Speaker 2: I mean they can do something about it, or you know,
Speaker 2: or they or they can't. Then BMW and Mercedes and
Speaker 2: Volkslaga would just have to compete with Chinese evs, which
Speaker 2: is what the Western world wants to run on, especially
Speaker 2: in Europe, coming in by the trainload, and that's that's
Speaker 2: their prerogative, but that's not obviously what we want to
Speaker 2: do here in the United States.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Joe Biden wasn't Joe Biden. He was mentally incompetent.
Speaker 1: We now know that from the books that have been written.
Speaker 1: But somebody around Joe Biden signed an auto pen and
Speaker 1: put tariffs on. We do not want the auto industry
Speaker 1: in this country to collapse, as this steel industry has collapsed.
Speaker 1: And so even Joe Biden chief of staff understood that
Speaker 1: the Chinese cannot build large plants in Mexico and flood
Speaker 1: the market with cheap evs and raise the price. Once
Speaker 1: we have destroyed auto plants and no more Forward and
Speaker 1: no more Salonis. Chrysler right now is a fe on
Speaker 1: entity and you have I'm a Chevy kind of a guy.
Speaker 1: But is Europe wondering what are we going to do?
Speaker 1: Because they are permitting into their country millions of Chinese
Speaker 1: evs to collapse domestic production and check up the price
Speaker 1: and put them out of business. The Chinese will say,
Speaker 1: Kenneth riposa. If it takes one thousand years, that's okay.
Speaker 1: We've never had an enemy in this country like communists
Speaker 1: Red China that are an economic power and building a
Speaker 1: military power. USSR Russia had missile technology. They were never
Speaker 1: economically a competitor of ours. We're in a death struggle,
Speaker 1: I think with the communist Red Chinese.
Speaker 2: Do you agree, well, absolutely, and if you want to
Speaker 2: get rid of the political side, you can make it
Speaker 2: very rational to to to people. So forget about all
Speaker 2: they're going to we're going to go to war with China.
Speaker 2: Forget all that sort of emotional argument. But what about this.
Speaker 2: China is a big economic power, obviously, but they're saying
Speaker 2: this still doing the same thing that the Americans have
Speaker 2: done for years. They're saying, see this country, see these
Speaker 2: countries in our neighborhood, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, maybe even
Speaker 2: Japan and South Korea. We're going to be Chinese corporate
Speaker 2: brands are going to be the ones that are sold
Speaker 2: here now. So in the future it's not going to
Speaker 2: be Microsoft Word or Amazon Cloud. That doesn't exist in
Speaker 2: China per se, but that's.
Speaker 6: Not going to be a market in Asia either. And
Speaker 6: then when the Chinese big you know, big bird there.
Speaker 6: I think it's called the Komak, right, the Beijing, the
Speaker 6: Boeing and Airbus competitor. Once that airplane starts becoming you know,
Speaker 6: more trustworthy, it's not just the Chinese that are going
Speaker 6: to buy that for transnational flights and you know, large
Speaker 6: regional flights. It's going to be the Vietnamese and maybe
Speaker 6: even the South Koreans that buy it. And that's going
Speaker 6: to eat into Boeing and Airbus, which own that market
Speaker 6: for decades. So this is an economic.
Speaker 2: Power that rivals no one other than the United States.
Speaker 2: But let me explain you one thing about about the
Speaker 2: tariff party, because this is what this is what we
Speaker 2: keep hearing all day long on the news that all
Speaker 2: the importers, of course, all the importers at Walmart and Target, right,
Speaker 2: they don't tell you that the big the big multinationals, right,
Speaker 2: they're going to pretend that can and you know, you
Speaker 2: and I have a widget factory and we have to
Speaker 2: import all the chemicals to make our widget, and now
Speaker 2: we can't, and so we're going to go out of business.
Speaker 2: Those are the guys that are going to Target, right,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna have us on TV and we're gonna
Speaker 2: sit there and cry. And I was a Trump supporter,
Speaker 2: and you know it's going to be a big, big service.
Speaker 2: But here's something that they don't tell you. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of companies out there, by the thousands, who
Speaker 2: have invested millions of dollars over the years, including recently,
Speaker 2: in factories. And if that factory can, let's say, make
Speaker 2: one hundred widgets a day, maybe it's only making fifty
Speaker 2: widgets a day or sixty. And the reason they're doing
Speaker 2: that after spending all that money on equipment, most of
Speaker 2: that equipment, by the way, imported from Europe or China
Speaker 2: or Japan, because we don't make those large capital goods
Speaker 2: equipments that much. They are laying people off and they're
Speaker 2: not producing it full capacity because of import penetration. Auto
Speaker 2: workers do this, said, this is why they're at Liberation Data.
Speaker 2: The United Auto Workers were there. Hey, we've got we've
Speaker 2: got factories that are idle. We're not making cars. So
Speaker 2: when you say, you know the importers are going to suffer,
Speaker 2: what about these guys I just described who have been
Speaker 2: suffering for decades and have gone on a business or
Speaker 2: have been laid off, you know, and in some parts
Speaker 2: of the country where treatments, drug treatment centers have opened up,
Speaker 2: you know instead, you know, so no one's ever really
Speaker 2: cried for these guys, and those are the guys now
Speaker 2: who you know. GM doesn't have to and GM doesn't
Speaker 2: have to build a new factory to make cars. They
Speaker 2: already have the factories in Indiana that instead of making
Speaker 2: let's say, four hundred thousand cars a year, they only
Speaker 2: make two hundred thousand because that same model is firing
Speaker 2: on all eight cylinders in Mexico factories.
Speaker 1: And when that changes, these factories can go to one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. It sounds to me, Kenneth Proposa, as if
Speaker 1: we're almost in an economic death struggle that we must win,
Speaker 1: and our attitude can't be what's the market on Friday,
Speaker 1: what's the market on Monday? How's it opening? It's got
Speaker 1: to be the long view, which Americans have difficulty doing.
Speaker 1: But the Chinese says, if it takes a thousand years, well, Kenneth,
Speaker 1: we got to run articles everywhere. Happy Liberation Day, America,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Riposa, and with a Coalition for Prosperous America, once again,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on The Bill Cunningham Show and Kenneth,
Speaker 1: You've I got to steal backbone you do. I hope
Speaker 1: the American people also do. Kenneth once again, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you Kenneth, Thank you,
Speaker 1: God bless you all. Let's continue. The line becomes available
Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, four nine, seven thousand and a pound,
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Speaker 1: Dave Keaton, hit the music. There's nothing more constant in
Speaker 1: life than change. And this morning Mike McConnell bit a
Speaker 1: fond farewell to the millions and millions of fans he's
Speaker 1: had over the years, over the decades. Been here at
Speaker 1: this station for about thirty six thirty seven years all
Speaker 1: told in radio, fifty years for Mike McConnell. Started with
Speaker 1: Eddie Fingers in nineteen seventy five and a small Dayton
Speaker 1: radio station. Works his way to the top and beyond,
Speaker 1: and I wish him well. Fortunate. We're very fortunate to
Speaker 1: have Tom Brennhanman available and ready to go. And that's
Speaker 1: a big name in this market. Marty Brennan's name opened
Speaker 1: the door, but Tom Brenneman marched in proudly and established
Speaker 1: his own identity. He's going to start with us at
Speaker 1: five am on Monday. And you may recall right after
Speaker 1: he got out of Ohio University with Ken Brew, he
Speaker 1: worked here in sports during morning sports interviewed I think
Speaker 1: by nim Mack at the time, and he did sports reporting,
Speaker 1: got the Channel five. The rest is history as a
Speaker 1: fabulous broadcasting career, and he wants to come home, and
Speaker 1: he is home. Lives in the Merrymount area. Family's here
Speaker 1: see him around town quite a bit. Is a great
Speaker 1: feel for cruelty to animals and the SPCA. He raises
Speaker 1: a lot of money for them, plus other worthy causes.
Speaker 1: So it seems like when one steps down, another one
Speaker 1: steps up. When Gary Burbank left, guess what Eddie Fingers
Speaker 1: and the Rock and also Tracy Jones, And when Jim
Speaker 1: Scott went away, guess what, Here comes Mike McConnell. When
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell leaves, we got Tom Brenneman. So not bad.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many more superstars we have in
Speaker 1: the bullpen. I know there's a few. And when my
Speaker 1: time comes, I hope I can go out with the
Speaker 1: same class the Mike McConnell did. He was in production
Speaker 1: that that means voicing commercials in nineteen eighty four nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five and Randy Michael's and Alan Gardner had recreated
Speaker 1: talk radio in this market and Randy also ran the station,
Speaker 1: acquired about four hundred stations of the process. So every
Speaker 1: now and then he couldn't do the show, and Mike
Speaker 1: McConnell stepped in and did the show along with Pat
Speaker 1: Barry for a while than by himself. And she always
Speaker 1: said the rest is history. And he told me last
Speaker 1: night in our telephone call that I related this morning
Speaker 1: on the air that really what's what he wants to
Speaker 1: do is that he wants to travel. As Jim Scott
Speaker 1: when he left here he wanted not to get up
Speaker 1: at three o'clock in the morning anymore. But Mike McConnell
Speaker 1: wants to go to Australia and New Zealand, wants to
Speaker 1: walk on the Great Wall of China, wants to spend
Speaker 1: time in Europe. Nothing wrong with that, fortunately or unfortunately yours. Truly,
Speaker 1: you have had enough traveling. I can't take it anymore. And
Speaker 1: my last trip, my last trip of my life away
Speaker 1: from Cincinnati, would be at the Whaling Wall in Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: at the Mount of Olives and going in the Masada
Speaker 1: and south of Israel up against the fence with Gaza,
Speaker 1: which I did about it almost two years ago. I
Speaker 1: can't believe it's May May of twenty three. And I
Speaker 1: like what I'm doing right now. And I've said many
Speaker 1: times in my life, I do not want to chase
Speaker 1: what I already have, which is peace and the good
Speaker 1: friends and good family and things of that character. And
Speaker 1: I am where I want to be. I am what
Speaker 1: I am. That's all that I am at some point
Speaker 1: at all end, which it does for everyone great and small.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless I've been blessed to walk with giants like
Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy, like Dale Somers the Truck and Bozo and
Speaker 1: Gary Burbank and Doc Wolf and Mike McConnell and Jim Scott.
Speaker 1: Walking with giants. I don't think any radio station the
Speaker 1: history of the world has the pedigree of this one
Speaker 1: that started more than one hundred years ago. And Hunterdon,
Speaker 1: I guess now we're a one hundred three years old
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two, one hundred and three years old. And
Speaker 1: I guess the future is probably know. We have more
Speaker 1: listeners now than we've ever had, and that's a good
Speaker 1: thing because we've bought all the competition. Possibly, but it's
Speaker 1: a good thing. If you want to listen to what's
Speaker 1: happening in the world, If you want to know right
Speaker 1: now there's a market sell off going on. If you
Speaker 1: want to know right now from Brian Brian Combs or
Speaker 1: Jock Crumbley, what's happening with the flood happening a little
Speaker 1: in Great Miami and the Ohio River. If you want
Speaker 1: to speak and get on the set with me and
Speaker 1: let's talk only talk radio provides that I said in
Speaker 1: many times, in many places that talk radio will fail
Speaker 1: if and when people fail to communicate with each other.
Speaker 1: And I look at folks in the twenties and thirties.
Speaker 1: A lot of times they don't communicate with each other.
Speaker 1: They have these handheld devices instead of a direct communication.
Speaker 1: But I'm proud to be here. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go anywhere else. I just signed a four year contract extension.
Speaker 1: Of course, in contracts they don't mean much. They can
Speaker 1: pay me out and say goodbye. And if that's the case,
Speaker 1: so be it. But I'm the last, last standing, and
Speaker 1: God willing, and the creek doesn't rise, I'll be here
Speaker 1: for at least the next few years. That's all I
Speaker 1: can ask now. Secondly, I had a guest on, just
Speaker 1: had Ken Riposa on talking about tariffs. If you would
Speaker 1: think by watching the mainstream media, you know, garbage in,
Speaker 1: garbage out. If all you hear are the headlines and
Speaker 1: read and watch, you think America is about to enter
Speaker 1: a great depression, which it is not. Somehow, some way
Speaker 1: we're going to get through. This is going to be okay.
Speaker 1: The communist red Chinese say, if it takes a thousand years,
Speaker 1: we're going to win. And our attitude is, if it
Speaker 1: takes a weekend and we don't succeed, let's dump out
Speaker 1: some of the headlines that's causing panic and selling. Quote
Speaker 1: tariffs send Wall Street tumbling toward worst day in many years,
Speaker 1: New York Times. How about this one world leaders blast
Speaker 1: Trump tariffs. That's from ABC News. From the Washington Post headline,
Speaker 1: the false things Trump said about tariffs during his announcement
Speaker 1: about CNN, you can't watch CNN or MSNBC because you'd
Speaker 1: have to think the world is ending headline on the
Speaker 1: Chiron it's Donald Trump versus the world and the world
Speaker 1: will win, or the San Francisco Chronicle. Policies like Trump's
Speaker 1: gave us a great depression, and so I think we
Speaker 1: recognize and I think Donald Trump ran on this issue.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he did of leveling the playing field
Speaker 1: with the so called partners America has. You don't have
Speaker 1: a partner that rips you off on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: what you might want to do is fire some of
Speaker 1: the partners. And there's no question that the trade imbalance
Speaker 1: between America and the world is accelerating, nazccelerating. One point
Speaker 1: two trillion dollars a year is the accumulated trade deficit
Speaker 1: between America and the world. About half of that is
Speaker 1: communist red China. They make their products, ship them here.
Speaker 1: We buy their products, goods and services. They have walls
Speaker 1: to keep our products from going to Canada or to
Speaker 1: Mexico or to China. Right now, there's two million cars
Speaker 1: made in Canada and there's no reason those cars can't
Speaker 1: be made here. And right now, Claudia Shinbaum, the president
Speaker 1: of Mexico, wants to strike a deal. In fact, you
Speaker 1: may know she was not included in these terrorfs shall
Speaker 1: I say Mexico was not? And it's because I believe
Speaker 1: that they're playing ball when it comes to immigration, which
Speaker 1: is an absolute incredible catastrophe that Joe Biden thrust it
Speaker 1: upon this country. Shall I say his staff thrust at
Speaker 1: it upon us. Joe Biden wouldn't competent. Now, the law
Speaker 1: of unintended consequences are clear that somehow Americans have got
Speaker 1: to have the patients to accept the things that cannot
Speaker 1: be changed. And I believe in my heart that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump knows he's on the right path, and as a consequence,
Speaker 1: he's on the right path. That means we have to
Speaker 1: have a little bit of patience just how things work
Speaker 1: out and the next three e six to nine months,
Speaker 1: we need the patience to accept that the fact that
Speaker 1: we elected this guy with a large margin in order
Speaker 1: to enact the policies that are now being enacted. As
Speaker 1: a consequence, there may be some minor difficulties along the way,
Speaker 1: but the fact of the matter is in the long
Speaker 1: run will be successful. America does not live in the
Speaker 1: long run. We live in the short run, and so
Speaker 1: it's going to take some time for this to work out,
Speaker 1: and many times Americans don't have the time. Several good
Speaker 1: things happening, and Ken Riposo mentioned it, and I mentioned
Speaker 1: it to you that Hyundai is going to make a
Speaker 1: one point five billion dollar investment in America. I see
Speaker 1: a headline from General Motors, who makes the great Silverado
Speaker 1: pickup truck, and they're saying here according to a press
Speaker 1: release here it is the major automaker. General Motors is
Speaker 1: adding several hundred temporary workers to maximize production at their
Speaker 1: light duty truck station in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The company
Speaker 1: told Fox Business this morning, quote, we continuously update and
Speaker 1: revised production schedules as part of our standard process of
Speaker 1: evaluating and aligning to manage vehicle inventory. This General Motors
Speaker 1: and Jim Banks Indiana Republican Center said today's announcement from
Speaker 1: General Motors, there's great news for Hoosiers. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: twenty four hours ago. President Trump's plan is already delivering
Speaker 1: for working families in Indiana in a big way. Plus,
Speaker 1: it looks as if there was an additional three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand jobs created in the month of March.
Speaker 1: You have Ford, how about this announcement Ford Motor company
Speaker 1: on Thursday, which is yesterday, announced that it would allow
Speaker 1: allow you car shoppers to buy its twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: to twenty five vehicles, including gas and electric and high
Speaker 1: powered at discount of prices. The automaker said. Hyundai is
Speaker 1: going to build that large plant in South Carolina, and Honda,
Speaker 1: which had planned to build its Civic hybrid Honda in Mexico,
Speaker 1: now says they're going to build it in America because
Speaker 1: of the twenty five to forty percent tariff. So if
Speaker 1: a vehicle costs twenty thousand dollars, a twenty five percent
Speaker 1: tariff would make that vehicle twenty five thousand dollars unless
Speaker 1: it's made in America. So it's working already, slowly but surely. Slowly,
Speaker 1: but surely it's working. That is that manufacturing companies, especially
Speaker 1: car companies, which is the key to a company country's
Speaker 1: economic success, are relocating in America. And if that continues,
Speaker 1: guess what it's going to be. These factories cannot be
Speaker 1: built in the next six months to a year, may
Speaker 1: take two years to build them. But you can see
Speaker 1: a lack of capacity is now being filled by General Motors,
Speaker 1: by and by Ford in order to ramp up production
Speaker 1: inside of America to save the consumer more money. And
Speaker 1: as my last guest said, essentially Europe is in serious,
Speaker 1: serious trouble. They have allowed the Japanese electrical EV I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: the Chinese EV makers to cause large numbers of products
Speaker 1: to enter their country at the expense of their own workers.
Speaker 1: Europe is a dying continent. It doesn't have a religious
Speaker 1: space anymore. Ethics, values, and morals are gone. They're being
Speaker 1: invaded by tens of millions of Muslims and Arabs, completely
Speaker 1: different attitudes about democracy. And now they've shut down the
Speaker 1: tariff walls. They lowered them, and right now it appears
Speaker 1: that China is flooding the European markets large numbers of
Speaker 1: evs at low prices to drive out of business European
Speaker 1: manufacturers and then once that has happened, jack up the
Speaker 1: price and trashed the European economy, which is in trouble anyway.
Speaker 1: In America, we were on the wrong path. Tariffs were used,
Speaker 1: by the way, by Joe Biden against China. There's all
Speaker 1: these clips floating around of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: talking about how great tariffs are to protect American jobs.
Speaker 1: You have Bernie Sanders saying the same thing that when
Speaker 1: a Democrat was in office, the media stood down and
Speaker 1: let the tariffs take place against China or elsewhere. It
Speaker 1: was a good idea, but now that Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: done it, it's an awful idea. The same parties that
Speaker 1: want in Biden do not tariffs are now demanding that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump get rid of the tariffs, many of which
Speaker 1: Joe Biden started or shall I say his staff began it,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, Joe Biden couldn't have found his
Speaker 1: flabby white butt with both hands the last two years
Speaker 1: of his presidency. That's the name of that tune. And
Speaker 1: do you have the guts and determination to stick with
Speaker 1: a policy that long term is going to be great
Speaker 1: benefits for the country. I watched Jim Cramer this morning
Speaker 1: and he was going off on Donald Trump as if
Speaker 1: we don't have this issue solved by Monday or Tuesday,
Speaker 1: guess what, Monday or Tuesday we got to stop. What
Speaker 1: we're doing. Is that the correct economic policy to have.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. But we live in an instant society with
Speaker 1: instant gratification. That is, if you got a headache, take
Speaker 1: a pill, got a diet, problem, take a shot, instant gratification,
Speaker 1: don't communicate with each other. And the other thing happening
Speaker 1: is that Americans don't the patients to accept the idea
Speaker 1: that economically we're we're at a crucial point in our
Speaker 1: history where either we have to bring back to America
Speaker 1: large factories and other companies that one oversees, and secondly,
Speaker 1: we must defend the American worker, and you do that
Speaker 1: by the judicious use of tariffs. And at this point,
Speaker 1: I think the ten percent tariff is going to be permanent,
Speaker 1: and it should be because America is fighting now for
Speaker 1: its economic existence and Shawn has come after us in
Speaker 1: many different ways. One is through the fentanyl crisis, in
Speaker 1: which they're killing one hundred thousand Americans every year, which
Speaker 1: is awful, and they continue to accelerate that. Secondly, they're
Speaker 1: flooding the market with cheap products to be purchased by
Speaker 1: US at Camar and other locations, made by Chinese hands,
Speaker 1: not American hands. And Thirdly, our educational institutions are miserably
Speaker 1: failing and properly telling the children of the future where
Speaker 1: America came from and how great we could be and
Speaker 1: should be. So I'm proud to have this president. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to change my attitudes toward him. It would
Speaker 1: take a lot. And at this point we have to
Speaker 1: stay the course. And Americans today generally are not built
Speaker 1: to stay the course. We're built to collapse. When Jim
Speaker 1: Kramer this morning said something must happen by Monday or Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday, the Chinese will tell you if it
Speaker 1: takes a thousand years, we will win. And Jim Kramer,
Speaker 1: seeing me see says by Monday or Tuesday, this all
Speaker 1: must be reversed. Really, do you buy into this garbage in,
Speaker 1: garbage out? When you see the alarmist headlines of the
Speaker 1: mainstream media, who wouldn't like Donald Trump at all? If
Speaker 1: he cured cancer, the mainstream media would say that's not enough.
Speaker 1: They're bought and paid for at this point, and all
Speaker 1: I can say is that I trust in Trump. When
Speaker 1: I have my Canadian friends get a hold of me
Speaker 1: and you're trying to crash the Canadian economy, I tell
Speaker 1: them back, no, not the Canadian economy. We're helping the
Speaker 1: American economy. Canada has got to do what's best for
Speaker 1: the Canadians and America, and must do what's best for
Speaker 1: the American people, and we've got one president for the
Speaker 1: first time in a long time that will do it
Speaker 1: and stay the course because it's the right one. I
Speaker 1: let's continue with more. After one o'clock today, we have
Speaker 1: a representative of Miam University to talk about the deal
Speaker 1: deal in which they've struck a deal which needs some explanation,
Speaker 1: and it will be given to us that Miam University
Speaker 1: is now the official university of the Cincinnati Bengals, joining
Speaker 1: one of the NFL's most exciting franchises as his educational partner.
Speaker 1: What in the heck does that mean? And later on
Speaker 1: after two o'clock we'll be Natasha Zuvez to talk about
Speaker 1: an incredible story, a little bit human interest story about
Speaker 1: a young man, nineteen year old, depressed, unhappy, that jumped
Speaker 1: off the Golden Gate Bridge, which is two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty three feet off the cold waters of the Pacific,
Speaker 1: splashed at seventy five miles an hour, and he lived
Speaker 1: because of aquatic life that saved him. That's some time
Speaker 1: after at two o'clock today. According to this press release,
Speaker 1: the officially university of the Bengals is Miami. The students
Speaker 1: who have an exclusive opportunity to be involved with the
Speaker 1: Bengals through internships, job shadowing, on campus, speakers, and so
Speaker 1: many more. And we're gonna get more information about this
Speaker 1: from one of their executives sometime after one o'clock today,
Speaker 1: and then we continue to follow the weather and the
Speaker 1: stock market, and the High River may get as high
Speaker 1: as fifty six feet according to John Crumbley. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens down the road. But it is time to
Speaker 1: be courageous and brave and don't be a coward to
Speaker 1: stand up for your country. So much of left wing
Speaker 1: media want America to fail, and I want America to
Speaker 1: be successful. Twelve fifty five Home of your Reds possibly
Speaker 1: scoring a run tonight on news radio seven hundred ww
Speaker 1: My Billy Cunningham, the Great American min University. It's just
Speaker 1: struck a deal with our Cincinnati Bengals, and that is
Speaker 1: to have various aspects. The official university of the Bengals
Speaker 1: will be Miami Accord. According to Gregory Crawford, who's the
Speaker 1: Miami president, said, this partnership is an excellent way to
Speaker 1: honor the legacy of Paul Brown, a legacy that has
Speaker 1: you noted at the Bengals in Miami University for many years,
Speaker 1: joining us in the studio as Vice President Andy dura Jaya,
Speaker 1: who's one of the characters, one of the personalities involved
Speaker 1: in this set up this deal. And mister vice President,
Speaker 1: welcome for the first time to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: And may I call you Andy.
Speaker 3: Andy's fine. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Tell me how the deal came together, because I always
Speaker 1: knew that the Brown family had a connection with Miami.
Speaker 1: But explain how the connection started and what it actually involves.
Speaker 7: Well, the connection started a long, long time ago with
Speaker 7: Paul Brown beg in nineteen thirty, graduate of Miami University,
Speaker 7: soeen thirty, nineteen thirty, So we can say that this
Speaker 7: deal has been in the works for about one hundred years.
Speaker 7: But the exciting thing about it was right now, we're
Speaker 7: going through a new strategic plan and one of the
Speaker 7: big focuses for us at the university is how do
Speaker 7: we better engage with the city of Cincinnati, How do
Speaker 7: we better gage with our urban core. How do we
Speaker 7: make sure that we show that Miami is committed to
Speaker 7: southwest Ohio in the amazing are happening here. One of
Speaker 7: the things people don't know is, but our largest alumni
Speaker 7: bas is right here in southwest Ohio. And so when
Speaker 7: you think about those institutions across Cincinnati that really make
Speaker 7: us who we are, what better one than the Bengals.
Speaker 7: So when we knew that the Bengals were looking for
Speaker 7: an educational partner, we said, well, the best institution in
Speaker 7: Cincinnati is Miami University, and that's.
Speaker 1: Your opinion.
Speaker 7: And I stand by that one. But bringing us together,
Speaker 7: we thought it just made sense. There were so many synergies.
Speaker 7: When you think about the Cradle of Coaches and the
Speaker 7: amazing coaches that have been here, we think about the
Speaker 7: Brown family legacy. It was just an opportunity for us
Speaker 7: to really expand what we're doing and really reinforce our
Speaker 7: commitment to the city.
Speaker 1: So it was this, did the Brown family come to
Speaker 1: you or Miami went to them? Because I knew the
Speaker 1: Cradle coach is a big deal. They have a couple
Speaker 1: of new members every five or six years, someone else
Speaker 1: goes in, which is fabulous, including that lousy coach of
Speaker 1: the of the of the Rams. I didn't like to
Speaker 1: see that. After the Super Bowl. Nonetheless, was it Bengal
Speaker 1: to you or did Miami go to the Bengals.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit of both.
Speaker 7: President Crawford has been going out and doing a lot
Speaker 7: of outreach with everyone, and so one of the things
Speaker 7: we found out is of the Bengals, we're looking to
Speaker 7: engage and partner with an educational institution. And so once
Speaker 7: we heard that, we had put the full court press
Speaker 7: on to make sure we could go down and start
Speaker 7: the engagement and early sell wy Miami was the best.
Speaker 3: Partner for them.
Speaker 1: Why not.
Speaker 3: You see, we're.
Speaker 7: Talking about excellence and we want to talk about the
Speaker 7: best institution of the area, and so, you know, I
Speaker 7: think it speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: All let's speak in the practical ay. Let's say September comes,
Speaker 1: the Bengals have their first game and I'm sure who
Speaker 1: they play get on the streets. What specific connection does
Speaker 1: it mean between Miami and the Bengals.
Speaker 3: Well, the biggest thing is about opportunities for our students.
Speaker 7: You know, one of the things we are encouraged is
Speaker 7: how we can promote experiential learning and so opportunities for
Speaker 7: our students to go out and learn why they're getting
Speaker 7: the education. And so as part of this partnership, students
Speaker 7: are gonna have a chance to take advantage of internships
Speaker 7: co ops. They're going to have an opportunity to go
Speaker 7: out and do job shotting with Bengals officials and employees.
Speaker 7: But they're also gonna have an opportunity to bring the
Speaker 7: Bengals to Oxford so they can come in and hold
Speaker 7: lectures and talk to our students and really give them
Speaker 7: an opportunity to understand what like what it's like to
Speaker 7: be in the NFL, working for a premier institution of
Speaker 7: premier organization and really build those connections. Another big piece
Speaker 7: about it, it helps us advertise who we are and the
Speaker 7: amazing things that we're doing in the stadium. And so
Speaker 7: I don't know if you were listening last year, but
Speaker 7: there was an announcement where they said someone's quart a
Speaker 7: touchdown at Miami University Field. Now it's not Miami University
Speaker 7: feel it's paid course stadium, but that show you that
Speaker 7: are advertising was there and even the folks broadcasting the
Speaker 7: game recognize it. So we're excited about that because we
Speaker 7: hope to see more opportunities for the advertising and to
Speaker 7: expand and more folks who know about the great things
Speaker 7: we're doing.
Speaker 1: What about those who might say, you know, universities should
Speaker 1: be so good they don't need to advertise, don't need
Speaker 1: to get to the market. I say, Coca Cola is
Speaker 1: a great product, why do they have to advertise? So
Speaker 1: why does Joseph Chevrolet need to advertise It's already a
Speaker 1: great product. How would you respond to those who say
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to advertise?
Speaker 7: Well, I think when you look at where hied Chation
Speaker 7: is right now, we have to make sure that we're
Speaker 7: going out and engaging with all the partners. Gone on
Speaker 7: the days where we can just sit and rest on
Speaker 7: our laurels. I mean, Miami still is an excell institution.
Speaker 7: Recent data shows we are in the top ten for
Speaker 7: Fortune five hundred, Fortune five one hundred CEOs here in
Speaker 7: the United States. We have the number six ch leadership
Speaker 7: program in the entire world. So we're doing amazing things,
Speaker 7: but we have to make sure we're still going out
Speaker 7: to actively engage. We've got to make sure we're targeting
Speaker 7: those populations. I mean, right now, we're dealing with the
Speaker 7: fact where folks are questioning the value of higher education.
Speaker 7: They're questioning the value of college, and so we've got
Speaker 7: to make sure that we're going out and being in
Speaker 7: those communities to make sure they know a Miami degree
Speaker 7: is a great investment. It's still the strongest ROI in
Speaker 7: the state. And when you think about the economic impact
Speaker 7: that we're having. We got recent data that shows right
Speaker 7: now Miami and Lums have a three point one billion
Speaker 7: dollar economic impact in the state. And so that's something
Speaker 7: we've got to tell people. We've got to tell that story.
Speaker 7: So the advertising is important because it helps us tell
Speaker 7: our story and keep our story out in the forefront
Speaker 7: of people's minds.
Speaker 1: I mean, sitting here a long time dealing with the
Speaker 1: issues of education, very long time, maybe too long. And nonetheless,
Speaker 1: there's a perception that you don't need to go to college.
Speaker 1: In fact, there's a push Gott Sloan and others talk
Speaker 1: about the college of hard knocks get in one of
Speaker 1: the trades, which is great. And when I need my
Speaker 1: roof to be fixed, I want to go to a
Speaker 1: Continental roof and plumbing, I want to call Bob Jones
Speaker 1: elect I want to call it Craftsman Electric or whatever.
Speaker 1: So whatever it is. Argue the point that there are
Speaker 1: some kids that maybe should not go to college, but
Speaker 1: the great majority should, and so what's the differential of
Speaker 1: a parent, it's a college education worth it today as
Speaker 1: opposed to twenty five years ago.
Speaker 7: So I would unequivalently say a college education is still
Speaker 7: worth it. And so you know what I base it
Speaker 7: on is the return on investment. You know, right now
Speaker 7: there's a big push for trades, and I think there's
Speaker 7: definitely a need. We understand that we need to upscale,
Speaker 7: and we need to rescale our country because we need
Speaker 7: to make sure that we can serve all the needs.
Speaker 7: But you think about our talent pipeline, think about the
Speaker 7: industries that we're investing in. When you think about manufacturing,
Speaker 7: when you think about engineering, we think about air mobility
Speaker 7: in different areas, these are highly technical fields that need
Speaker 7: individuals highly technical skills. Yes, and so in order for
Speaker 7: us to be the country that we are to continue
Speaker 7: to thrive, we need to be able to build all
Speaker 7: and fill all areas of the talent pipeline. And so
Speaker 7: we need our trades, but we also need our higher
Speaker 7: level educated individuals to help do that work as well.
Speaker 7: I need it all, we need it out, We need
Speaker 7: our folks in healthcare. And so you know what, people
Speaker 7: we'll say we're questioning the value high education. I say
Speaker 7: to myself, and I think about think about the industries
Speaker 7: we're looking to attract. When those industries are looking to
Speaker 7: relocate to a location, the first thing they're looking for
Speaker 7: is what is the talent pipeline. We want to make
Speaker 7: sure Cincinnati, Ohio is the state where they come and say,
Speaker 7: we can get all of our talent pipeline needs right there.
Speaker 7: And so we're going to need folks at different educational
Speaker 7: levels to get there. And so I think one of
Speaker 7: the challenges we have is we've been pitted again in
Speaker 7: either or, and I think it's more and instead of
Speaker 7: an either or, because if we all work and we
Speaker 7: build up all these different pipelines, we just make our
Speaker 7: state even better.
Speaker 1: As far as making a decision now here, we are
Speaker 1: in March and April, and I'm thinking, Okay, school starts
Speaker 1: in about four or five months. How's the enrollment at Miami?
Speaker 1: How many, what percent apply, they get admitted, financial aid,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7: So enrollment is looking really really good at Miami. We
Speaker 7: continue to see increases year over year. What I've heard
Speaker 7: recently in conversations is that this most soon to be
Speaker 7: incoming class will be large than the last. And we're
Speaker 7: run up against the situation where can we even house
Speaker 7: all the students. So that's a good problem to have.
Speaker 7: That's exciting to hear about that as well. You know,
Speaker 7: when you think about things about the quality of our class,
Speaker 7: one of the things that has been a consistent theme
Speaker 7: is the quality of the students.
Speaker 3: Every year gets better.
Speaker 7: I can't remember the most recent data, but I think
Speaker 7: our average GPA of our incoming class is about three
Speaker 7: point eighty five. And so when you think about that,
Speaker 7: these are the best of the best, the cream of
Speaker 7: the crop, and so that's really really exciting.
Speaker 3: So they continue to do well.
Speaker 7: You know, when you think about things like selectivity, we
Speaker 7: continue to see great numbers. I mean our nursing program
Speaker 7: as an example, is the most selective program at Miami University,
Speaker 7: where we're getting almost four thousand applications for one hundred
Speaker 7: and fifty slots, and so.
Speaker 1: You can't outsource nursing.
Speaker 3: Well, we can't outsource nursing four thousand.
Speaker 1: You have how many spots about one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: slots and you get four thousand apply.
Speaker 7: Applications and so but that's just an example of the
Speaker 7: reputation of Miami. The great work we're doing and how
Speaker 7: we're bringing those folks in, so you know, we are
Speaker 7: trending in the right direction.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: The other thing that's exciting is we just announced the
Speaker 7: beginning of a new strategic plan, Miami Thrive. We're looking
Speaker 7: how we really position the institution for the future UH
Speaker 7: and making sure that we cannot only serve the students
Speaker 7: of today udnes up tomorrow, and so we're excited about that.
Speaker 7: A lot of great things coming out of that park,
Speaker 7: that strategic plan as well, and so things are really
Speaker 7: really good in Miami right now.
Speaker 1: As far as what's coming out of high school, I
Speaker 1: read constantly how especially urban districts are under stressed, under pressure,
Speaker 1: and I look at what happened in Doan's Community High School.
Speaker 1: You're in Butler County, but I was sad for the kids. Definitely,
Speaker 1: so many fall from grace. All of us aren't three
Speaker 1: point nine GPAs I was a two point two at
Speaker 1: Deer Park High School. It took me a while to
Speaker 1: kind of get in the right direction, and so I
Speaker 1: have empathy for those who are late starters twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: maybe a thirty year old that says, you know what,
Speaker 1: I want to go back, and what do you say
Speaker 1: to a kid in an urban area of Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus,
Speaker 1: Lexington that their eyes aren't looking in the right direction
Speaker 1: and they get out of high school and they start
Speaker 1: doing a few things they shouldn't be doing. And I
Speaker 1: want to make sure that our higher educational institution, especially
Speaker 1: in Ohio, look after children and kids that's you know,
Speaker 1: on the wrong track, they need help, remedial work. What
Speaker 1: does Miami have not for the three point nine from
Speaker 1: Zaytan from Saint X. What about the kid from Dones
Speaker 1: Community School or aChn or U's what about Hamilton City
Speaker 1: of Hamilton schools? How do those kids fit in the future.
Speaker 7: So, you know, I love that you asked that question,
Speaker 7: because what I would say is we have something for everyone.
Speaker 7: You know, I'll use Hamilton City as an example, and
Speaker 7: so they're one of our closest partners. A couple of
Speaker 7: years we started a program with Hamilton City call our
Speaker 7: Early College Academy, and the idea is that we were
Speaker 7: taking these low income students, these first generation students, these
Speaker 7: students that didn't meet your traditional college profile, and giving
Speaker 7: them a chance to start taking courses at Miami.
Speaker 3: While they were in high school.
Speaker 7: The amazing thing about that is when you see the
Speaker 7: success of those students are blown away. Just in a
Speaker 7: couple of weeks, I get to shake their hands as
Speaker 7: they walk across the stage, graduating with an associate's degree
Speaker 7: at the same time they graduated high school. But also
Speaker 7: they've done this at no cost. And so when you
Speaker 7: start to think about pathways and pipelines to higher education,
Speaker 7: it's got multiple different start points, and we recognize that
Speaker 7: different students are going to be in different places.
Speaker 3: Our goal is to.
Speaker 7: Make sure we can meet where you are on your journey,
Speaker 7: and so programs like that. You know, when you think
Speaker 7: about some of the things we're doing in the workforce space, again,
Speaker 7: some of our adult learners, people who maybe had some college,
Speaker 7: no degree or never did it, said it wasn't for them.
Speaker 7: We're developing programs so they can start and really move forward,
Speaker 7: so they can get that career uptick or they can
Speaker 7: upskill themselves. And so Miami is extremely committed to make
Speaker 7: sure that we are not just you know, this is
Speaker 7: not a knock on st X, but our three eight
Speaker 7: st X kids. We're looking to say, who are doing communities,
Speaker 7: kids who are at Deer Park High School. You know
Speaker 7: Deer Park for sure. I actually coached a little league
Speaker 7: football and we played at Deer Park, and I told
Speaker 7: all of them, they want to come to Miami.
Speaker 1: Harry Yagey Field right there. Consecrated term we did. We're
Speaker 1: kind of an elite ast kind of a guy. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Deer Park, I'm thinking about Dones, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about Hamilton City Schools. Those kids, you made it
Speaker 1: to the top of the ladder. How about bending over
Speaker 1: and pulling somebody up.
Speaker 7: We're doing that and those are our closest partners. And
Speaker 7: so it's really exciting about that. I will tell you
Speaker 7: a story because you mentioned that. So if you know
Speaker 7: about New Miami School District and so New Miami very
Speaker 7: low income school, you're shocking the Hamilton area. We looked
Speaker 7: at some of their college going rates. It was numbers
Speaker 7: that you couldn't imagine. We started a program of New
Speaker 7: Miami just three years ago and right now they're graduating class.
Speaker 7: We've increased their college going rate by forty percent. And
Speaker 7: that's what I mean about.
Speaker 1: Miami, which is not good, which is which the perception
Speaker 1: of some, which is perception of some.
Speaker 7: But we think they're great partners and they're doing great things.
Speaker 7: But we'll also so as their students are excelling. So
Speaker 7: we're excited about that. So when you talk about pulling
Speaker 7: people up, we're fully committed to that. We've been doing it,
Speaker 7: we want to continue to do it. We're excited because again,
Speaker 7: one of the things we know when you talk about
Speaker 7: the success of Miami a lumps is that once you
Speaker 7: graduate from Miami, you are a Miami alum and all
Speaker 7: the benefits that come with and we want to get
Speaker 7: more folks into that pipeline so they can take advantage
Speaker 7: of it as well.
Speaker 1: How many start I reached statistics and I don't know
Speaker 1: about Miami, but it takes about five to six years
Speaker 1: to graduate. It's expensive. Give me at Miami the how
Speaker 1: long does it take to graduate and what are the expenses?
Speaker 3: So I'll tell you this.
Speaker 7: We are actually one of the top ten in the
Speaker 7: country for graduate four year graduation rate and so you know,
Speaker 7: one of the challenges we do with right now is
Speaker 7: when you look at higher education at four year stitutions,
Speaker 7: they evaluate graduation rate by six years, and so most
Speaker 7: of the college degree programs almost all have a four
Speaker 7: year pathway. And so we are still committed to that.
Speaker 7: Our students are still graduating in four years, and so
Speaker 7: that's the exciting piece because you don't have those sunk
Speaker 7: opportunity costs. You're not paying for additional semesters, you're not
Speaker 7: taking out more loans or a different student financial aid.
Speaker 7: When you get there, we get you through and we
Speaker 7: get you to your career. So we're really excited about that.
Speaker 7: And so our numbers show that we continue to do
Speaker 7: extremely well for your graduation in retention rate and all
Speaker 7: those different student success metrics that really lead to excellence
Speaker 7: and higher education.
Speaker 1: So, if you want to spend the money, how much
Speaker 1: is it a year to go to Miami if you're.
Speaker 3: On our regional campuses.
Speaker 7: I think our current salary, our current tuition right now
Speaker 7: is about seven thousand. On our Oxford campus, I think
Speaker 7: the current tuition is about sixteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Is that semester a year year? So you can go
Speaker 1: to community college Miami for about seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: You can go to the regional campuses which offer four
Speaker 7: year degrees, so not community college, but actually the four
Speaker 7: year degrees seven thousand years, seven thousand, live at home, work,
Speaker 7: do whatever, everything whatever are the kids so I were.
Speaker 7: I don't worry about guys like you. I worry about
Speaker 7: kids that take a while to get things some moving.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: I will tell you when I came to Miami, I
Speaker 7: came as the regional dean, So I was over the
Speaker 7: campus that served those kids you're talking about. And we've
Speaker 7: seen amazing numbers from them, amazing progress, and we're fully
Speaker 7: committed to them. Some of our biggest investments we're making
Speaker 7: coming around how we can support those populations and get
Speaker 7: them into the workforce as well.
Speaker 1: Lastly, what about this stuff a DEI big issue politically?
Speaker 1: Your friends, your Republicans, the Mike Dewines, some of the
Speaker 1: leaders at the House in the Senate have cracked down
Speaker 1: on universities of using race as a motivating factor or
Speaker 1: a determination factor. And so the argument by some is
Speaker 1: that great universities are changing and from DEI to something else,
Speaker 1: we'll call it something something else. I love helping out,
Speaker 1: but not based upon race. There's more poor white kids
Speaker 1: in America than poor black kids, and so help people
Speaker 1: that are poor is what I'd be all about. How
Speaker 1: does Miami handle the DEI fights going on in Columbus.
Speaker 7: In Washington, I think what Miami does is we just
Speaker 7: stay true to our mission of saying, hey, if you
Speaker 7: get to Miami, we're gonna hear supports you, whatever you
Speaker 7: look like, whatever your background is. I mean, one of
Speaker 7: the things we know about the data at Miami, if
Speaker 7: you look at our demographics, we don't have any huge
Speaker 7: shifts versus one population another. We still have been very
Speaker 7: consistent who we are. We make sure once the students
Speaker 7: on our campus, we're supporting them, and so you know,
Speaker 7: we want to make sure that we always compliant with
Speaker 7: the laws. We want to make sure that anything we're
Speaker 7: doing is not outside of that. We also want to
Speaker 7: make sure that we are supportive of all the students
Speaker 7: that come to our campus. And so you know, we
Speaker 7: don't use race as a contributing factor, but we do
Speaker 7: want to build community for whoever the student is because
Speaker 7: one of the things we know is if a student
Speaker 7: has a good experience, they're going to be the best
Speaker 7: advertising for someone coming at building that pipeline and continue
Speaker 7: to make Miami the great institution that it is.
Speaker 1: Well, lastly, what happened with Miami and the n T
Speaker 1: Because I'm told by Jen Motley and others that Miami
Speaker 1: beat Kent Kent. It's Kent, right, it Kent, yes, not
Speaker 1: Kent State anymore. You beat them three times, but the
Speaker 1: powers that be said Miami wasn't good enough to get
Speaker 1: to the knit, but the team you beat three times
Speaker 1: was good enough. Your reaction, well.
Speaker 7: They didn't do that good in the tournament, so obviously
Speaker 7: they made them. Like Travis Steele, I like coach Neel
Speaker 7: is doing a great job. I think he is going
Speaker 7: to lead us in a great direction, and we're really
Speaker 7: excited about the future of the basketball team.
Speaker 1: You have any questions for me about sports, politics, world capitals,
Speaker 1: maybe a difficult mathematical formulation, something about Miami or.
Speaker 7: You know, history. I can help you with no, but
Speaker 7: I do want to thank you for having me here.
Speaker 7: I'm excited about the show a lot.
Speaker 1: I like to do with the little things off beat.
Speaker 1: Oka say, hey, when I saw this story about the
Speaker 1: Bengals hooking up with Miami, I said, what's that about?
Speaker 1: And essentially it's about getting the Miami message out, but
Speaker 1: also maybe shadowing Joe Burrow getting with Jamar Chase.
Speaker 3: Well, my kids would love it, like a shadow Joe Burrow.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I don't know if it's in
Speaker 7: the card for me, but it would be really exciting
Speaker 7: and I'd actually raise my hand for that one as well.
Speaker 1: So the Cradle of Coaches, well, you have one more
Speaker 1: entry some point in the future, the present head coach
Speaker 1: of Miami University. And what about that.
Speaker 7: I think Coach Martin has done a phenomenal job recently
Speaker 7: he became the winningest coach in Miami history.
Speaker 3: So really excited about that.
Speaker 7: And I think we'd like him to be with us
Speaker 7: and for a long long time. And so I think
Speaker 7: he definitely is going to be a worthy inductive that
Speaker 7: created the coaches at some point in the future. At
Speaker 7: some point in the future.
Speaker 1: So if you want to apply to Miami, you could
Speaker 1: be a seg man and go to Miami satellite campuses,
Speaker 1: go off somewhere, get some remedial English, kind of get
Speaker 1: your skills up, and then away you go for for
Speaker 1: the elite from Saint Axent, for the kids from Doones.
Speaker 1: You're saying, Miami is the place to get, Miami is
Speaker 1: the place to be. What's the website if people want
Speaker 1: to get ahold of you?
Speaker 7: If you go to www. Miami h dot eed U
Speaker 7: and we have all the information.
Speaker 1: There, Jaya, is that correct? Ja A, Andy, you're the
Speaker 1: vice president. You're kind of like the Mike Pinch. You're
Speaker 1: kind of like the JD Vance of Miami, something like that.
Speaker 1: A thanks for coming. I wanted to highlight this because
Speaker 1: it is a good success success story, and I wish
Speaker 1: you nothing but the best, except when you play Xavier and.
Speaker 3: Some Thank you. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1: One twenty five home of your Bengals and Reds when
Speaker 1: they score a run tonight on news ready seven WLW.
Speaker 5: And now waiting higher top the stands here at cross
Speaker 5: the field, ready to give you a.
Speaker 8: Last look at the last baseball.
Speaker 1: Activity of nineteen forty.
Speaker 5: Here in the home of the new.
Speaker 8: World Champions of Baseball is five Elson ticket, Rob.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, red ball fans.
Speaker 8: Jeelet has brought you the whole package, right from the
Speaker 8: very first.
Speaker 5: Pitch the first game of this World Series here at
Speaker 5: Cincinnati seven days ago, right now to the dressing rooms
Speaker 5: of the new World's Champions, the Cincinnata Reds, and to
Speaker 5: the losers.
Speaker 8: The Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that.
Speaker 5: You fans, baseball fans appreciated the things they said just
Speaker 5: as much as I did listening through the earphones here
Speaker 5: high up in our mutual boot. And so ends Jellett's
Speaker 5: broadcast of the nineteen forty Hello, Hello, quiet, I'm Scots.
Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting bone segment. Here's the big question, if you're prepared, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been since nineteen sixty since the major league team
Speaker 1: has lost three games in a row consecutive scores of
Speaker 1: one zip, one zip, one zip. Correct. If the Reds
Speaker 1: lose tonight, one zip again, well that's set the old
Speaker 1: time record of ineptitude, I would say, so, yes, that'll
Speaker 1: be it. Yeah, you know the Philadelphias, they at least
Speaker 1: they made the record books. Who was president, by the
Speaker 1: way in nineteen sixty when Gene mock led the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Phillies to nothing nineteen sixty would be Dwight Eisenhower. You're
Speaker 1: not as stupid as people think. So the South Dearborn
Speaker 1: middle school students in the room gave me that answer,
Speaker 1: gave me the answer. Yeah, how about this question? What's
Speaker 1: the square root of eighty one nine?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: You're asking Oh, I thought you were asking them. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that, but I didn't know you knew that.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what it is. Who's this? Eighty
Speaker 1: One's not a NASCAR number, So don't ask me who's
Speaker 1: the Attorney General of the United States of America, Pam Bondi.
Speaker 1: The kids are giving you all the answers, Yes they are.
Speaker 1: They're very, very smart out there in Indiana. You're telling you,
Speaker 1: Harry Mchun is smarter than you think. Yep, all right,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Sake will He the stooge reporters of proud Service.
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Speaker 1: Market during lent and season for their lunch today. Willie
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Speaker 1: beautiful downtown Milford, the home of the Eagles, Learsprime dot Com,
Speaker 1: Lears Prime always cut above and those Red Legs Willy,
Speaker 1: they have nine hits over their last twenty six innings.
Speaker 1: The Reds have gone nine for eighty six with a
Speaker 1: putrid one to four batting average, runners in scoring position
Speaker 1: zero zero zero. Niclodolo pitched into the seventh inning and
Speaker 1: yet another great pitching effort wasted. That's four in a row,
Speaker 1: now unbelievable. They'll tryad it tonight with Nick Martinez six
Speaker 1: to ten, Sports Talk seven to ten, Hardell Carriers Inside Pitch,
Speaker 1: then the Kelsey Chevrolet Xtra Inning Show after the game.
Speaker 1: The Bearcats season came to an end last night. Willie
Speaker 1: in the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Crown Tourney. They
Speaker 1: fall to UCF eighty eight to eighty. You see look terrible,
Speaker 1: well defensive wise, I guess the late ten to nothing
Speaker 1: run in the last two minutes. You see again forgot
Speaker 1: to play a defense. So the Bearcats end up nineteen
Speaker 1: and sixteen. Good and now it's a portal time to
Speaker 1: see who goes and stays for Wes Miller. What about
Speaker 1: Fizzle James is a jizzl a Fizzle Jizzle? I don't know, Fizzle,
Speaker 1: what's he gonna?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 1: They're twin brothers. What about the Hoosiers? What about the Hoosiers?
Speaker 1: The Ohio State got a seven footer out of Stanford,
Speaker 1: I believe a few minutes ago the portal what about
Speaker 1: seven foot better do it? Matt McClain turned down from
Speaker 1: the reds an extension flurry? Can you comment on that
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Please continue. NCAA update brought to you by a c
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Speaker 1: He's running a special women's final four today, willie Texas
Speaker 1: and South Carolina and then Yukon battles Ucla on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports thirteen sixty. Who'd you liking that matchup? I'll go
Speaker 1: with South Carolina and Yukon. I bet you hot fut Sunday.
Speaker 1: I will take by the way Yukon. But in the
Speaker 1: other matchup, didn't Yukon play Ucla?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then South Carolina plays Texas As. I just said
Speaker 1: I'll take the long Horns and I'll give you the
Speaker 1: game Cocks. Final four for the men tomorrow openers Florida
Speaker 1: and Auburn, Gators and War Eagle. I like the War Eagle.
Speaker 1: What do you say? I might go with the Gators?
Speaker 1: All right? Done?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: I'll bet you'll hot fut Sunday? Houston and Duke. I
Speaker 1: like Duke. I'll go with the Cougars. What if Duke
Speaker 1: could keep that team together for three more years? How
Speaker 1: good would they be? They'll get a lot of rings.
Speaker 1: It'd be impregnable. The NIT Championship last night went to
Speaker 1: Chattanooga beating UC Irvine eighty five eighty four. Guy hit
Speaker 1: a jumper with eleven seconds ago in ot to win it.
Speaker 1: And Lacody east Grad Bash Wheeland is a member of
Speaker 1: the Chattanooga NIT champions. He scored nine points in the
Speaker 1: game last night. What's his name, Bash Wheeland? I changed
Speaker 1: my name if I could. Let's see. Also last night,
Speaker 1: back to baseball, l Cody east Grad, the Hayden singer
Speaker 1: got his first Major League hit for the New York Mets.
Speaker 1: It was a double in their game last night. So
Speaker 1: congratulations that young man. MLS Socks and MLS tomorrow night
Speaker 1: Williams Soccer FC Cincinnati hosting New England seven o'clock, fifteen thirty.
Speaker 1: See what else is going on? Always say happy anniversary
Speaker 1: today to at WKRC Local twelve seventy six years young
Speaker 1: today broadcasting television. Aren't you here for the sign off
Speaker 1: of Mike McConnell was here this morning Willie for Mike McConnell.
Speaker 1: Fifty years in broadcasting came to an end at nine
Speaker 1: o'clock this morning, and Mike's going to enjoy a happy retirement.
Speaker 1: You know how much money Matt McClain turned down, and
Speaker 1: he was hurt all last year, didn't play correct. They
Speaker 1: wanted to extend him and he did not entertain the extension.
Speaker 1: Can you comment on that please? Oh, well, if you
Speaker 1: don't play I mean well, I don't know, I mean
Speaker 1: how much? How much he turned down? Well, this article
Speaker 1: doesn't really skip numbers. They're talking about the outfielder nine years,
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five million. The speculation is they
Speaker 1: dangled one hundred million dollars in front of Matt McClain
Speaker 1: on a seven year contract extension, and Maut McClain said
Speaker 1: no to one hundred million dollars. Segment, would you say
Speaker 1: no to one hundred million? No, I'd sign it. I
Speaker 1: cut my finger and sign it in blood. You don't
Speaker 1: have any ink. Let me cut my finger. And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking I don't think anybody in this room would do
Speaker 1: it if they want you guys turned down one hundred million. Yes,
Speaker 1: they all said yes, huh, thank you, no, thank you?
Speaker 1: Can you say back home and in the end? Can
Speaker 1: anyone sing around any of the choir? Any and you
Speaker 1: can sing? Well, come on over here to the microphone.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what you can you? What song can you sing?
Speaker 1: What about back home and in the end or something
Speaker 1: like that? You sing like gospel? That's good? What's your name? Andrew?
Speaker 1: You want to sing a couple of stanzas of gospel music?
Speaker 1: She has the lyrics over there? Carry me cue the teacher?
Speaker 1: You got like an It doesn't work. They're talking to
Speaker 1: each other. He gave me, they gave me, They get
Speaker 1: rid of right, He's good. Now one more thing segment.
Speaker 1: I said to you with Elie dela Cruise? Did I
Speaker 1: not that they're going to offer m a hundred million dollars?
Speaker 1: And what happened?
Speaker 3: They did?
Speaker 1: And what happened? He signed Elie dela Cruise? I think no, Oh,
Speaker 1: he didn't know. Well, Matt McLean was signed either.
Speaker 3: What's going well?
Speaker 1: I mean, what if you were offered one hundred mil?
Speaker 1: What would you do? I just told you I'd signed
Speaker 1: it with anything, no question about it. Right to me, pen,
Speaker 1: I'd say, I don't know what to say or do
Speaker 1: it's not good. You would turn down a hundred millions? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I cannot be bought for that kind of money. Segment,
Speaker 1: I'd be boy, what about it? What are you going
Speaker 1: to hold out from more? Out for more dough ray
Speaker 1: in than me? Well, what happens to McClean gets hurt again? Well,
Speaker 1: what if he gets hurt and has no value? Just
Speaker 1: said one hundred million dollars? What would you do? Well,
Speaker 1: they've already what, they've already extended Hunter Green right right?
Speaker 1: What about they haven't done anything with Lodolo? No? No,
Speaker 1: what about Andrew Abbott? No with Hams this year yet?
Speaker 1: Matt McClain an Abbot pitch is Sunday and Louisville. He
Speaker 1: turned down an extension, Matt McClain, and then he got
Speaker 1: Ellie Day La Cruz. They gonna pay for everything, a
Speaker 1: billion dollars the Ridge gonna pay, yes versus what the
Speaker 1: Bengels did. Yes, dollar Cruz could sign for the Bengals
Speaker 1: for a billion dollars? Couldn't he and play football and baseball?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Wasn't it any more? Wide receivers on anymore? It only
Speaker 1: got one football just a few flight segment? Is that
Speaker 1: in sports?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: We want to thank again Carrie McCown for bringing in
Speaker 1: the south dearborn middle school eighth graders. She has to
Speaker 1: get out of here now because the crik is rising.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out here soon. Pa Hell's gonna break
Speaker 1: this great You gotta get across the bridge. Only get
Speaker 1: across the bridge. Reports too late segment, Get me out
Speaker 1: of the Steward's report? Will he and houtter of a
Speaker 1: rainy day here in the tri State. We leave you
Speaker 1: with the immortal words of the stew Report.
Speaker 5: And now waiting high top the stands, here it cross
Speaker 5: the field, ready to give you a last look at
Speaker 5: the last baseball activity of nineteen forty here in the
Speaker 5: home of the new World Champions.
Speaker 8: Of Baseball, Hit five.
Speaker 3: Up and take it back?
Speaker 1: Will that ever happened in your lifetime, my lifetime, or
Speaker 1: the lifetime of these brilliant eighth graders? When will it happen? Segment? Well,
Speaker 1: you know who that was. That was Marty Brenneman nineteen forty.
Speaker 1: That was a young Marty Brenham has an aged a bit.
Speaker 1: It looks he's a good friend of Red Barber's too.
Speaker 1: But Marty started here I think in nineteen thirty nine.
Speaker 1: That's correct, and that's forty. And then they didn't go
Speaker 1: back till sixty one with Jim O'Toole right, then went
Speaker 1: back in seventy seventy two, finally got a right in
Speaker 1: seventy five, seventy six, and ninety. Well we see another
Speaker 1: World Series victory segment before our days when this earth
Speaker 1: they're done, and his Super Bowl and the Xavier Musketary
Speaker 1: is winning the national title NCAA.
Speaker 5: Mister Cosley, owner of the Cincinnati Balla here he is.
Speaker 8: I can hardly talk.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3: I'm so.
Speaker 9: This whole thing and so delighted with the ball club,
Speaker 9: and they wanted the hard way, but they did a
Speaker 9: swell job, thank you very.
Speaker 5: Much with the cosway. I can tell by the way
Speaker 5: you hold my hand on the microphone at you.
Speaker 1: I've never heard his voice of you. Powell Crossley, the
Speaker 1: founder right here of the Big One nineteen forty started
Speaker 1: this station in nineteen twenty two from College Hill.
Speaker 3: YEP.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable, Andy mckz segment, Thank you very much. Let's continue
Speaker 1: with more on News Radio seven hundred WLW. All right,
Speaker 1: I may not have heard his voices before, but the
Speaker 1: voice of Palell Crossley. He is the creator of really
Speaker 1: Radio and this station and to hear his voice in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty is really one of those things. And Dave
Speaker 1: Abbott is the main creator of that, along with Matt Reeves,
Speaker 1: who saved so many things lost to history. Now, secondly,
Speaker 1: coming up after two o'clock today, I have Natasha Zuvez
Speaker 1: will be here from News Nation. Normally it's all talk
Speaker 1: about the tariffs, about Trump, about politics, about TDA, etc.
Speaker 1: But she's doing a story on her podcast about a
Speaker 1: nineteen year old young man who was shall we say,
Speaker 1: committing suicide. His goal was to jump off the Golden
Speaker 1: Gate Bridge, which he did, and as far as his survival,
Speaker 1: the story is truly an unbelievable story of salvation and
Speaker 1: perhaps the hand of God Almighty that saved this young
Speaker 1: man's life. But until then, I note, with interest to
Speaker 1: the story, I'm running the inquiry right now written by
Speaker 1: Gordon witten Meyer about the Reds being aggressive to sign
Speaker 1: their major stars, that being Dela Cruz and Matt McClain
Speaker 1: for example. And of course the problem difficulty with Dela
Speaker 1: Cruz is that he is represented by Scott Borris, who's
Speaker 1: extremely difficult. But when word got out, according to this article,
Speaker 1: in the inquiry from Gordon Wittenmeyer, that McClain had switched
Speaker 1: agents and fired Scott Boris, the Reds saw an opportunity
Speaker 1: to tie down Matt McClain for a long period of time.
Speaker 1: Because Scott Boris has said repeatedly that Dela Cruz may
Speaker 1: be America's first one billion dollar baseball player. He will
Speaker 1: be here through the twenty twenty nine season, so it's
Speaker 1: a ways off. But nonetheless, the fact that he fired
Speaker 1: Scott Boris and switched agents was a good sign about
Speaker 1: maybe dealing with Matt McClain. And he said that the
Speaker 1: new agent is Greg Gensky, and Varner Sports are now
Speaker 1: hailing the business relationships for Matt McClain. And so the
Speaker 1: Reds general manager approached the agent for Matt McClain saying,
Speaker 1: would you be interested in a contract extension? And I
Speaker 1: was told by a little birdie a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: that the Reds wanted to sign Dela Cruz and McClain
Speaker 1: to long term deals in the six to eight year
Speaker 1: range or longer, based upon the economics of the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And according to this story, Matt McClain said on Thursday yesterday.
Speaker 1: Quote it was a short conversation. It just did not
Speaker 1: line up quote unquote, but McClain did say he's opened
Speaker 1: to discussions about an extension. A handful of Reds players
Speaker 1: were approached last year for a two year extension, namely
Speaker 1: Jose Trevino and a couple others, and they said yes.
Speaker 1: But general manager Brad Mehta said that they've approached their
Speaker 1: stars to sign extensions without success. As you know, many
Speaker 1: of the Major league teams have signed players like Jackson
Speaker 1: Merrill or Red Sox rookie Christian Campbell signed an eight year,
Speaker 1: sixty million dollar contract a rookie eight year sixty million
Speaker 1: which was about seven and a half million a year.
Speaker 1: In Arizona State Veterans second baseman Kettel Marte signed seven years,
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen million. So the Reds are extremely
Speaker 1: I've been trying to sign these players, especially the key
Speaker 1: to the Red Light success like Hunter Green, but at
Speaker 1: this point they don't want to sign. And so if
Speaker 1: somebody would dangle with that kind of money in front
Speaker 1: of you or I, having not played last year at all,
Speaker 1: Matt McClain, I'd be very open to a discussion that
Speaker 1: would buy out five, six or seven years. But that's
Speaker 1: not the way baseball is configure today. So let's continue
Speaker 1: with more if the line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: seven thousand, and Dave tells me, Dave Keaton tells me,
Speaker 1: we have one or two more cuts of Pal Crosley
Speaker 1: in his own words from nineteen forty when the Reds
Speaker 1: beat the Tigers in the World Series. They lost to
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine to the Yankees. Do not go back
Speaker 1: to sixty one, do not win it until seventy five.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more two o'clock flooding in the market,
Speaker 1: all on news Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, Bill Cunningham,
Speaker 1: the great American, of course, his nation as the source.
Speaker 1: I use pot often for objective news and coverages of
Speaker 1: one type or another. And Natasha Zuvez is one of
Speaker 1: their great reporters. She's a broadcaster. She's also three times
Speaker 1: won Emmy Awards for independent journalism and things of that character,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And of course many issues are percolating, including
Speaker 1: what's happening with the tariffs, and what's happening with trent
Speaker 1: To Ragua, TDA, et cetera. But in addition to that,
Speaker 1: Natasha has a new podcast out called Truth of the Matter,
Speaker 1: and there's a fantastic story posted relative to a Golden
Speaker 1: gate Bridge suicide that resulted in the attempted suicide not occurring,
Speaker 1: and Natasha Zuvez once again, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: Natasha tell us the story because I know San Francisco's
Speaker 1: Golden gate Bridge is this side of just so many suicides,
Speaker 1: persons that have lost any reason to live. So tell
Speaker 1: the American people about this, about this person that jumped
Speaker 1: off the bridge and survived.
Speaker 4: Bill. It's an incredible story. It's great to be on
Speaker 4: with you again, and it's posted right now. As you
Speaker 4: said on the podcast, The Truth of the Matter. This
Speaker 4: is a man by the name of Kevin Him and
Speaker 4: he was nineteen years old when he said at the
Speaker 4: time he thought he was his family's greatest burden. He
Speaker 4: thought he was youth. Of course, nothing could have been
Speaker 4: further from the truth.
Speaker 3: He was so loved.
Speaker 4: But he headed to the Golden gate Bridge like far
Speaker 4: too many others, with the intention to die by suicide
Speaker 4: that day. And he says, you know, his dad could
Speaker 4: sense something was wrong that morning, but he hit it all.
Speaker 4: He told his daughter he was fine, and you know,
Speaker 4: his dad dropped him off at City College in San Francisco,
Speaker 4: and Kevin says he remembers thinking, as my dad drove
Speaker 4: away us, the last time I'll ever see someone I love,
Speaker 4: and that's the last time anybody I love will ever
Speaker 4: see me. But he truly thought the world and his
Speaker 4: family would be better off without him. He made a
Speaker 4: pact with himself, bill which Kevin says he's now an
Speaker 4: advocate who has helped thousands and thousands of people who
Speaker 4: grapple with mental health issues. He says he made a
Speaker 4: pact like people often do who are making these kinds
Speaker 4: of plans, and he said, if one person says, are
Speaker 4: you okay? Is something wrong? Or can I help you?
Speaker 4: I was going to tell them everything and beg them
Speaker 4: to help me. And so he took the bus he
Speaker 4: withdrew from his classes, took the bus openly crying on
Speaker 4: the way to the bridge. Nineteen year old kid. He
Speaker 4: spends forty minutes on the bridge, tears streaming down his face,
Speaker 4: and then one person finally approaches him, a tourist, he says,
Speaker 4: with curly blonde hair. She smiles at him, and says,
Speaker 4: will you take my picture? He takes her photo and
Speaker 4: catapults off the bridge, and that's just where the story
Speaker 4: begins built because he's overcome with overwhelming regrets the moment
Speaker 4: he does this. He follows two hundred and twenty three
Speaker 4: feet likely hits the water at seventy five miles an hour.
Speaker 4: It's like hitting concrete going in a car, a three
Speaker 4: to four second fall. And as he's falling, all he's
Speaker 4: thinking is what have I just done? I don't want
Speaker 4: to die, God, please save me. And he hits the
Speaker 4: water and Bill what happens next? Even for me, someone
Speaker 4: who's been in the business a while and done some
Speaker 4: grizzly investigations, I couldn't believe it until we found the proof.
Speaker 1: What is well? First of all, before we get to
Speaker 1: the prove, Natasha, give us a little bit of the
Speaker 1: social history of Kevin Hines nineteen years old. So many
Speaker 1: young Americans today appear to be lost, hard to get work,
Speaker 1: hard to find work, difficult to go to college, live
Speaker 1: in their parents' basement, live in their parents' house, difficult era. Well,
Speaker 1: what led him to the point of jumping off the
Speaker 1: Golden Gate Bridge?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he suffered from mental health issues for sure. But
Speaker 4: you know, he talked about something today which I think
Speaker 4: is so important, which is he said, we are so
Speaker 4: disconnected from one another. You know, he was a young
Speaker 4: kid when this happened. Everybody is on their phones now,
Speaker 4: and this happened even before smartphones took over. But he
Speaker 4: was like, we need to just look up at one
Speaker 4: another these days. I mean you could. You could be
Speaker 4: on a bus going all the way to the Golden
Speaker 4: Gate Bridge year old and I've keep photos of him
Speaker 4: at that time. Bill. He looks like a kid, he
Speaker 4: looks like a little boy and openly crying, and not
Speaker 4: a single person would look up from their phone these
Speaker 4: days and notice that anything is going on. We need
Speaker 4: the social network, the community. The fabric is broken. And
Speaker 4: you are right, we are in a situation today. We're
Speaker 4: increasing and the mental health has never been worse among
Speaker 4: our young people. They are sucked into their phones early.
Speaker 4: There are so many social issues, you know, the microplastics
Speaker 4: in their brain. Honestly, the list goes on. It's a
Speaker 4: hard time to be a young person in this country.
Speaker 4: And we all should be worried about the mental health
Speaker 4: of our children.
Speaker 1: No question. And I can't tell you how many stories
Speaker 1: they hear about parents and their children that go to college,
Speaker 1: they drop out. They go to college, they get out,
Speaker 1: they can't find jobs commensurate what they perceived to be
Speaker 1: their skills. And we have fentanyl, we have marijuana uses
Speaker 1: you biquit as. So many young men, especially are on
Speaker 1: their phone for porn. They live in some fantasy world
Speaker 1: without developing relationships with girls and women. They also have
Speaker 1: gambling problems. You can bet on the next play, you
Speaker 1: can bet on ping pong in Ecuador. I saw this
Speaker 1: one story. You can bet on ping pong in Ecuador,
Speaker 1: who's going to win the next point? And you live
Speaker 1: in some fantasy land and it's completely unaddressed. We don't
Speaker 1: have a system to help mental health, especially young men
Speaker 1: and young women and girls. And when you say that
Speaker 1: when he was falling, he had consciousness, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what have I done? It relates back to me when
Speaker 1: I had a distant family member who sadly committed a suicide,
Speaker 1: shot himself in the head, and then his significant other
Speaker 1: wasn't his wife. His significant other looked in his eyes
Speaker 1: and he would he could hear him almost say what
Speaker 1: have I done? And he did this to punish her.
Speaker 1: And he's dying and he wants to live the same
Speaker 1: thing as Kevin hines. All right, so he's falling seventy
Speaker 1: five miles an hour, it's two hundred and twenty two
Speaker 1: story building? Is what he into the cold, throlling waters
Speaker 1: of the Pacific Ocean. What happened as he was falling?
Speaker 1: What happened is he hit?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Wow, what a poignant story. Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 4: You know, what is incredible about him is how many
Speaker 4: people do not survive an attempt like this, especially jumping
Speaker 4: off of the Golden gate Bridge. How many of them?
Speaker 4: Bill had thoughts like this, overwhelming regret. I don't want
Speaker 4: to die, God, please save me. What have I done?
Speaker 4: And Kevin is actually able to tell us this tale.
Speaker 4: But he hits the water. His back is broken, He's
Speaker 4: an excruciating pain. He starts to sink because he's wearing
Speaker 4: heavy boots, a heavy jacket. He says, three miracles saved
Speaker 4: him that day. We go into all three of them.
Speaker 4: They're extraordinary. On the podcast, I'm going to tell you
Speaker 4: about just one of them today for time. He says,
Speaker 4: something below him start circling in the water and nudging
Speaker 4: him upwards. Because he was thinking wow, and finally it
Speaker 4: supported him like a table under the water for a minute.
Speaker 4: I stayed with him until the coast guard got there.
Speaker 4: What when I first heard this tale? I met Kevin
Speaker 4: as a journalist in San Francisco eight years ago. Actually
Speaker 4: was the first time I met him. I was like,
Speaker 4: we need proof. Now we found it. There was a
Speaker 4: man who was on the bridge that day who watched
Speaker 4: this happen. And you know, Kevin expresses regret today for
Speaker 4: all of the people's hee traumatized who were on the
Speaker 4: bridge that day who watched this kid vault over the
Speaker 4: railing and fall into the water. A man who was
Speaker 4: standing on the bridge, he was in another state now
Speaker 4: confirmed to me that he watched what happened and saw
Speaker 4: a sea lion save Kevin in the water. And then
Speaker 4: I spoke to the coast guard and they said a
Speaker 4: separate individual came to the station later that day and
Speaker 4: logged an account inquiring after the young man they saw
Speaker 4: jump off the bridge, saying, the most extraordinary thing happened
Speaker 4: as sea lion circled this boy and stayed with him
Speaker 4: and wouldn't let him sink. And finally I found and
Speaker 4: spoke with the coast Guard officer who pulled him from
Speaker 4: the water that day, an incredible man by the name
Speaker 4: of Marcus Butler, and in his four years serving as
Speaker 4: a US Coast Guard at Station Golden Gate, out there,
Speaker 4: he pulled fifty seven bodies from the water bill and
Speaker 4: just one live man. You can imagine. As soon as
Speaker 4: I said, do you remember Kevin, he said, yeah, he's
Speaker 4: the only man I pulled live from the water. And
Speaker 4: he said that what many people don't realize is that
Speaker 4: people often do not die on impacts when they fall
Speaker 4: off the bridge because it's an agonizing way to go.
Speaker 4: And he has not been able to shake these body
Speaker 4: recovery missions. He still has nightmares about it. He said,
Speaker 4: it's the stuff from horror movies that you see out
Speaker 4: there on water. But he says he arrived, he was
Speaker 4: like he's swimming, he's swimming, and the lights which went off.
Speaker 4: In his mind, he's not a body with free This
Speaker 4: is a rescue that was a miracle. And he says
Speaker 4: that animals were always scared off by the sound the
Speaker 4: boat's make, so he didn't see the sea lion by
Speaker 4: the time he'd pulled right alongside this boy. But he
Speaker 4: said it makes total sense to me because I remember thinking,
Speaker 4: how on earth is this? Is this young man lying
Speaker 4: on the surface of the water like a table. He's
Speaker 4: wearing long sleeves, close pants, heavy boots. He can't swim
Speaker 4: through stuff like that, He's injured. Why is he lying
Speaker 4: like this? Why is he lying perfectly still on the
Speaker 4: surface of the water and waiting for me to get there.
Speaker 4: That is Kevin Hines's story, at least part of it,
Speaker 4: the rest of it. As I said, on the Truth
Speaker 4: of the Matter, he says us the gifts to be
Speaker 4: here every day, and he still lives with these chronic
Speaker 4: thoughts that dog him. It's not over. There has been
Speaker 4: no cure. He says, he will never die by suicide today,
Speaker 4: and he has dedicated his whole life to sharing his story.
Speaker 4: So let others know. It's overwhelming regrets on the other side,
Speaker 4: and help is available. People can as I know you
Speaker 4: definitely want to get out there, text to call nine
Speaker 4: eight eight. Help is always available.
Speaker 1: Tholf, All right, so this story's incredible, it's unbelievable, But
Speaker 1: your credibility as a journalist is unimpeachable. So you're saying,
Speaker 1: Natasha Zuvez of Truth of the matter. Also News Nation
Speaker 1: that a sea lion bob underneath them to hold his
Speaker 1: body up below the Golden Gate bridge before help arrived.
Speaker 1: That's what actually occurred.
Speaker 4: That's what actually occurred. According to two separate witnesses who
Speaker 4: saw it that day. They believe in animal likely a
Speaker 4: sea lion. It is possible that it was a dolphin
Speaker 4: because I also go to a Marina expert and from
Speaker 4: that far up she says, they look identical. But two
Speaker 4: separate people said of sea circled him, stayed with him,
Speaker 4: held him a lost, held him like a table under
Speaker 4: the water for minutes until the coast guard got there.
Speaker 4: He would not have survived without it.
Speaker 1: Uh. One might ask how is he doing his relationship
Speaker 1: with his family, relationship with his dad? Did the underlying
Speaker 1: problems that caused this attempt at suicide? Have they been solved?
Speaker 1: Are they better? Are they definitely is getting help?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: How did think?
Speaker 4: That's a good question. Yeah, it's that's a good question.
Speaker 4: And this is so important, Bill. No, the underlying problems
Speaker 4: have not been solved, and that's important. He will live
Speaker 4: with mental health struggles for the rest of his life,
Speaker 4: but he is determined to live with them. And I
Speaker 4: think that's really important because so many of us, and
Speaker 4: far too many of our youth struggle. The issue is
Speaker 4: not the struggle that he is resourced now and he
Speaker 4: knows what to do. His relationship with his father has
Speaker 4: completely bloomed after this. In the podcast, he doesn'tee an
Speaker 4: incredible account that his father, his father, his strong dad
Speaker 4: who rarely shows emotion, break down and cry in the
Speaker 4: hospital as he approached his bed after this attempt, and
Speaker 4: Kevin says he never could have seen the life that
Speaker 4: was waiting for him, his dad being the best man
Speaker 4: at his wedding, the incredible speech that he gave. He
Speaker 4: has met the love of his life, who is his
Speaker 4: biggest support, and now they go all around the country.
Speaker 4: They are asked to speak to large groups both law enforcement, government,
Speaker 4: you know, senators, congressman as well as young people to
Speaker 4: share the story and share this account. This struggle will
Speaker 4: never be over for him, but he says he will
Speaker 4: never die by suicide.
Speaker 1: Well, and the story that I had years ago of
Speaker 1: this guy who shot himself in the head to punish
Speaker 1: his significant other for X and then he's dying and
Speaker 1: is looking as I was, what have I done? I
Speaker 1: love you I'm sorry, and so he had the time,
Speaker 1: and I guess Kevin Hines had the time. They live,
Speaker 1: one live, one didn't live. But that is some aspect
Speaker 1: of suicide which is so final that just before consciousness
Speaker 1: is lost that many times the individual who's committing suicide
Speaker 1: is very sorry they did it. So you're saying, in
Speaker 1: Kevin Hines's case, as his body is falling and flailing
Speaker 1: from two hundred and twenty three feet a twenty two
Speaker 1: story building and he hits slack, hitting water is like
Speaker 1: hitting concrete, And in those moments of consciousness, he had
Speaker 1: such regret a three.
Speaker 4: Or four second and it's feared in his brain the
Speaker 4: most cogent of thoughts, What have I done? I don't
Speaker 4: want to die, God, please save me. And he hits
Speaker 4: the water. It's incredible that he's able, almost from the
Speaker 4: other side, to be able to tell us that so
Speaker 4: many people cannot Natasha.
Speaker 1: Is this a religious moment? Is this proof of God's
Speaker 1: existence or simply evidence thereof or simply a serendipitous event
Speaker 1: where a passing sea lion decided to save somebody?
Speaker 4: What is it? Who can answer that question? I can
Speaker 4: tell you this episode just went live yesterday and all
Speaker 4: of the comments say God sent that sea lion, and
Speaker 4: who am I to disabuse anyone of that notion? I
Speaker 4: believe it all right.
Speaker 1: More of the stories at Truth of the Matter of
Speaker 1: the podcast, Natasha and Zuvez, we had planned to talk
Speaker 1: about all the big issues today, about the tariffs and
Speaker 1: about more illegals committing acts of Mayhem, and the fact
Speaker 1: that TDA is split into two groups. But when we
Speaker 1: started down this path doesn't give us enough time to
Speaker 1: deal with the other ones. But I guess I wish
Speaker 1: Kevin Hines, I do. I wish Kevin Hines and his family. Well,
Speaker 1: he's one in a million, one in several thousand. No
Speaker 1: human being can survive the fall he did for a
Speaker 1: particular reason. Hopefully his life will be led differently.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Have you, maybe in five or ten years check with
Speaker 1: him and see how's he doing. What has he done
Speaker 1: with the time given to him.
Speaker 4: He's already done so much, And absolutely I will, Bill,
Speaker 4: thank you. I hope people check it out, the Truth
Speaker 4: of the Matter, And of course you know I'll see
Speaker 4: everyone on these nations for one weekend starting at seven Eastern. Bill.
Speaker 4: It's always a pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And for those who need help you hit
Speaker 1: nine eight eight. Explain how that came about, because that's
Speaker 1: why we have to hit area codes now. But nine
Speaker 1: eight eight, how how much time? How many lives?
Speaker 4: It's so important, I mean so yeah. Before it was
Speaker 4: a cumbersome process and you know, siloed by different areas.
Speaker 4: It's so simple now literally call or text nine eight
Speaker 4: eight from your phone. Help is always available Mental health
Speaker 4: and suicide lifeline. That is the message today. It is
Speaker 4: a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And Kevin him,
Speaker 4: you know, attests to that absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, Natasha, thank you very much, great work, and
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Natasha, Thank you Bill.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue with more Wow nine eight eight,
Speaker 1: help is always available. And in moments just before your
Speaker 1: eyes shut, men you commit suicide, have that look saying
Speaker 1: what have I done to myself? What I've done to
Speaker 1: my family? All right, let's continue, Bill Cunningham News Radio
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Speaker 5: always better to win. If we had to get beat,
Speaker 5: I'm glad to see to say that it was the
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Speaker 10: You know, I talked to you in the in the
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Speaker 10: Somebody just swings out of their shoes one time, it
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Speaker 1: Brown is worth four billion dollars. Your comments on that?
Speaker 10: Are they gonna move? They don't get the stadium deal
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Speaker 1: Did you hear Katie Blackburn yesterday kinda said that, you know,
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Speaker 3: Talking about it?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean you're heading over the bridge to get
Speaker 10: to work today, it's high. What do you when we're
Speaker 10: I mean one t get covered with water?
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 1: And it's gonna run, I know, more and more and more,
Speaker 1: and you can do a lot of those fis have
Speaker 1: houses right there on the river. Ohio River's gonna get
Speaker 1: the sixty feet. Imagine all this water and that's headed
Speaker 1: down to Mississippi totly moly andus was it seventy nine
Speaker 1: feet in nineteen ninety five and nineteen thirty six, Well,
Speaker 1: thirty seven flood was unbelievable. I think seventy nine feet.
Speaker 1: I mean all the downtown was under Rossy Field everything.
Speaker 1: It was up through Fifth Street, Downtown Cincin ninety through Fifth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a live action there. Don't want to get
Speaker 1: in the way of that water.
Speaker 10: How much did it have to rain? It's gonna rain.
Speaker 10: It's rained all day to day, all day tomorrow, all
Speaker 10: day Sunday. It's gonna get the sixty. How much did
Speaker 10: it have to rain to get the would you say
Speaker 10: it's eight you got it? You gotta go another twenty feet.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. And they didn't have locks and all
Speaker 1: that stuff back in the good old days, but they
Speaker 1: had them in the mid nineteen nineties and they got Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it got close to the all time right yep,
Speaker 1: snow melting. It's just in another week of this. Wou'd
Speaker 1: be at any feature not good, not good. We'd be
Speaker 1: able to fish outside the plaza outs. No one has
Speaker 1: to cut their grass this weekend. I doubt it's going
Speaker 1: you're not commenting on Matt McClain. What do you think
Speaker 1: turned down multi year multi Was there not enough money
Speaker 1: or does he not see a long term and looking
Speaker 1: at age one hundred million. Now, if he's any good,
Speaker 1: he's that's three or four hundred million he left on
Speaker 1: the table and he got rid of agent. Scott Borass,
Speaker 1: Marty's favorite roll. Then you know you gotta what are
Speaker 1: they going to do with Lodolo? What about Habit? What
Speaker 1: about e Eed or Ellie Da la Cruz? When coming
Speaker 1: one billion dollars? He's got to play here through twenty
Speaker 1: twenty nine. That's a while, but he's before they have
Speaker 1: to do anything. Well, he's the Reds have him. It's
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty nine. So but he goes in and
Speaker 1: then McLean. All of them make a lot of money.
Speaker 5: Rock.
Speaker 1: Do you think next year they'll do Ellie Well?
Speaker 10: Depends on the strike and should they not take a
Speaker 10: page from the Bengals book and get it done earlier
Speaker 10: rather than later.
Speaker 1: But Scott bass one agree he wants a billion dollar player.
Speaker 1: He wants Ellie to make a billion.
Speaker 10: That's the problem the Asians get involved in making about
Speaker 10: themselves instead of the player where they supposedly work for
Speaker 10: forty million dollars for Scott Borass, Marty Brenhaman's favorite right there, Yeah,
Speaker 10: Marney loves that guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 10: I see a lot of chaos. I love chaos. You're
Speaker 10: here in the right place. Look city, right, a country
Speaker 10: right now, Look at the market.
Speaker 1: More than two thousand segment is a day traders getting cold.
Speaker 1: The Reds could be facing Daila, Cruz and McLean like
Speaker 1: the Bengals faced Higgins and Chase one and five down
Speaker 1: the road, don't know. And then who's the third man
Speaker 1: into booth like Trey Hendrickson. Who's the third man to
Speaker 1: get the Red Lakes? They haven't sent and played yet,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty good. And then you got Hunter Green
Speaker 1: maybe in about more years. Once another extent, What about
Speaker 1: ce S can he plays.
Speaker 3: At the pan?
Speaker 1: All these guys, we haven't scored a running three other games?
Speaker 1: Guys got to pay these guys? What what I can't score?
Speaker 1: And how about the last ten series with the brew Crew?
Speaker 1: The Reds have lost eighty percent of the time. Walk
Speaker 1: from Paul Crowsley again that swell there were swell fellas.
Speaker 1: I gotta day just before two wins Cincinnata. Swell guys,
Speaker 1: Swell guys. I don't know what to tell you. At
Speaker 1: least the Reds are trying, Bengals are trying. Are the
Speaker 1: Bengals leaving? Is that what you're saying, Rock, No, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that at all. Crazy Mike Brown's worth six
Speaker 1: billion dollars. You just said, Well, he just made a
Speaker 1: franchise to work. You still got to He was four
Speaker 1: billions seven minutes ago, just made to seven billion.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, I think it would be a huge mistake
Speaker 10: if if the Bengals did that.
Speaker 1: He says that he loves the Bengals. You got to
Speaker 1: go to a town where like you're loved, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you go to some you know, big shot towns, yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't. Ain't gonna care about the Bengals through thick
Speaker 1: and thin. If one thing, Cincinnatians have proven they are
Speaker 1: with the Bengals through thick and thin. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of thin, not much thick, and they're still hanging in there.
Speaker 1: And you can't overlook that if you are a ownership member,
Speaker 1: that the Brown family is grossly benefited from the from
Speaker 1: the least agreement, they'll past thirty years, say that some
Speaker 1: benefits and right now it's up and they got to
Speaker 1: decide in the next couple of months, here by June thirtieth,
Speaker 1: they have to extend it for two years a year
Speaker 1: from then, so that's three years. And in the meantime
Speaker 1: the stadium keeps getting in worse shape. And I don't
Speaker 1: know the problem here between the commissioners and the Brown
Speaker 1: family is they don't trust each other. If one size
Speaker 1: says something, the other side doesn't trust him. Our government,
Speaker 1: we don't trust him. In Seguary right now it's down
Speaker 1: twenty one hundred points. The segment is ready to plunge
Speaker 1: out of the market and give up your four oh
Speaker 1: one k, which is now a three on one K. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the guy that ought to be the great
Speaker 1: emancipator between Hamilton County Commissioners me and the Bengals, Me
Speaker 1: about the magic man. You'll get the great American down there. Chance,
Speaker 1: lock the door, Chance and have at it. Chance, Lucan,
Speaker 1: Brendan call and Charlie Lucan, that's your hour. Well you
Speaker 1: could go with you and then either you're you're part
Speaker 1: of the triumphant down it's cracking a few heads. Katie
Speaker 1: and Denise street House.
Speaker 10: One of the Bengals call a Davy and go build
Speaker 10: a multiplex stadium.
Speaker 1: Situation in Warren County. According to certain individuals, the Brown
Speaker 1: family is not in the real estate development business. They're
Speaker 1: in the football business. Unlike Jimmy Haslim and wanted to
Speaker 1: go south, right, they don't want to have condos and
Speaker 1: apartments and strip centers and strip clubs. They don't want that. No,
Speaker 1: they want to They're in the football business. Stay in
Speaker 1: your lane, and they want to play football day. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But Katy Blackburn should not have
Speaker 1: said we're gonna move, and that essentially she's saying we're
Speaker 1: gonna move.
Speaker 10: What did what did Casolini get in trouble for saying
Speaker 10: a couple of years ago? Right, everyone lost her mind
Speaker 10: and Katy said the same thing.
Speaker 1: Some of segment's rich friends tell me, there's the Art
Speaker 1: Modell law that you have to first offer the franchise
Speaker 1: to locals or fair market value whatever that is.
Speaker 10: Is that what you and John Barrett get together, five
Speaker 10: billion dollars, five team.
Speaker 1: Get the Magic Man, Justice Joe, get Joe Dieters involved,
Speaker 1: get them all to have him sell off the in
Speaker 1: this tournament and all that take the money from that
Speaker 1: Bobby bangs, Let's go. I just solve a problem.
Speaker 8: Right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I talked to a commissioner yesterday,
Speaker 1: and they don't trust each other. If Katie says something,
Speaker 1: they don't believe and if they see something, the Brown
Speaker 1: family doesn't believe them. And I'm just as horrified about
Speaker 1: it as everybody else horrified. Could be the guy, what's
Speaker 1: on the Big You have two pair of glasses in
Speaker 1: front of you?
Speaker 3: What is I mean? You only one? Don't you?
Speaker 1: What is that there? Kid time, mister magoo? Somebody left
Speaker 1: these two pair here? And guess what? They're in my
Speaker 1: satchel right now? It saves me ten dollars ninety five
Speaker 1: cents of Walgreens. You're gonna need it because you're.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look good right now. You gotta hang in there.
Speaker 1: I think those other ones are McConnell's, are they They're
Speaker 1: staying here.
Speaker 3: He's left, he's gone.
Speaker 10: He's gone, taking all his stuff gone, but he left
Speaker 10: anything here.
Speaker 1: He'll be gone by five o'clock. DA works around here.
Speaker 1: If you can find George Bush introducing Marty Brenneman in
Speaker 1: the archives, What's on the Big Show today?
Speaker 10: Uh, normal Friday. We got skinny right out of the gate.
Speaker 10: We've got John Matee at three forty five. We got
Speaker 10: Dave Hatter at four, and we've got a good discussion
Speaker 10: topic at five o'clock. Movies that were either ruined or
Speaker 10: almost ruined by a bad character.
Speaker 1: Of all Animal elector that was actually a really good character.
Speaker 1: It was pretty good. I like that guy. I didn't
Speaker 1: like the buffalo. Bill Rivers name was. Here comes Matt Reese,
Speaker 1: who said race coming in with a three pages of weather.
Speaker 1: We got a Christis stock Market flood.
Speaker 10: Matt, take the one with all that rain on, take
Speaker 10: that back and bring the one in that says Sunshine revised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Andy four and Sonny of the Chin Yeah, and
Speaker 1: the Spinner and Jennifer catch Mark, all right, segment, give
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Speaker 1: auto the rain and stay dry out there all weekend?
Speaker 1: We leave you with the immortal words of the stud driport.
Speaker 3: See Highay patrol again next week.
Speaker 9: Until then, remember breakfast driving doesn't determine who's right, only
Speaker 9: who's left.
Speaker 3: This is Roderick Crawford saying, see you next week.
Speaker 1: I will see what happens to. Mark continues to tumble
Speaker 1: araka you questioning your resolve for Donald Trump at this moment, segment,
Speaker 1: what about you that fast? I will stand firm and
Speaker 1: Trump I trust, I trust the logic behind it. Will
Speaker 1: it work out? I don't know, but the logic is sound.
Speaker 1: But it's the same tariffs used by Biden. And I've
Speaker 1: seen the clips of Nancy Pelosi talking about tariffing China.
Speaker 1: I've seen the cuts of Bernie Sanders talking about tariffs
Speaker 1: against Mexico and Canada. But now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't he guess what? Yeah, that's terrible. That's an
Speaker 1: awful idea. I mean, just in theory.
Speaker 10: If you sold candles right, and you wanted to sell
Speaker 10: them in Indiana and they charge you two hundred percent.
Speaker 1: To do you say that, I'm going to screw here.
Speaker 1: We can't keep can't keep this up.
Speaker 3: You have to do something about.
Speaker 1: Segment says you can. Is that correct? I didn't say anything.
Speaker 10: How many Fords and Chevrolets do you see drive around
Speaker 10: in Japan?
Speaker 1: None?
Speaker 10: Korea, don't let them in Germany can't get there, none,
Speaker 10: can't get them.
Speaker 1: Can't get them, but their cars here. Absolutely, it's got
Speaker 1: to stop. By the way, the market's only down nineteen
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five points, right, now gained a little
Speaker 1: bit since we've been talking here, talking it up on
Speaker 1: news radio seven hundred WLW