WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:10.359 Good Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome this Friday 2 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:13.000 afternoon of the Tristate and more. Bengals of course play 3 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.839 Monday Night against the Dallas Cowboys. But until then, as 4 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:19.640 you may know, Linda Hansen as an author and a podcaster. 5 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.920 She's the founder and president of Prosperity one oh one. 6 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:26.960 She's written repeatedly on the issue of from woke to 7 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:29.800 what and going back in time just a little bit. Historically, 8 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:33.840 it used to be employers were equal opportunity. Signs are 9 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.719 up everywhere, were equal opportunity. Merit counts. Come and apply 10 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.000 your race, your color, your sexual orientation, your gender means nothing. 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.359 It's about things such as merit, are you good or not? 12 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:48.920 Equal opportunity. Then, for many, many years you went through 13 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.920 affirmative action, which is we're going to specifically hire individuals 14 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.200 not based necessarily upon merit, but kind of tip the 15 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.439 scales toward those who have been underserved in the employment arena. Now, 16 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:04.799 wokeism is rampant, and that is also collapsing from woke 17 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.519 to what. Joining you and I now is Linda Hanson 18 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.280 and Lenda Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show and lending 19 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.400 Can you first, tell of the American people what is 20 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.319 the definition of woke? And from woke to what what 21 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:20.799 is woke? Before we talk about John Deere and Walmart 22 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.280 the federal government, what is the so called definition of 23 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:27.840 woke because right now wokeism maybe on the rocks. Please 24 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:29.400 explain that to the American people. 25 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:33.280 Well, thank you so much for allowing me to be 26 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:37.920 on the program. Thank you for the invitation. Woke carries 27 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:42.159 many definitions. I think several people describe it differently. But 28 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:46.560 I would say that wokism is you know, socialism, and 29 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:52.480 it is identity politics. It is really creating division among 30 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:56.239 people and judging people not by the content of their 31 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.040 character or by their merit that you were talking about, 32 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.760 but by the color their skin, or by their gender 33 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:07.040 or you know why people are chosen because of the 34 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.599 oligarchs or the elites decide that they should be what 35 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:16.439 Gism takes away of freedom, and it takes away individuality, 36 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.319 and it divides people, and it's something that we need 37 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.080 to get out of our society if we're going to 38 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.560 keep America free for future generations. 39 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.520 Then I'll be based upon Meret, explain what happened this 40 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:36.520 the idea of hiring and firing. DEI diversity, and DEI 41 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:40.240 is incorporated into the body politic. It's really into the groundwater. 42 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:44.840 And DEI exists in large ways in corporate America and 43 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.520 the universities and colleges and government, et cetera. And as 44 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:53.240 far as DEI, how deep into the body politic? For 45 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.639 those marching Marxists who come out of college, how deep 46 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:00.759 is that into their soul? Into their cellular structure. DEI 47 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.360 has been pounded into the minds of children, now young adults, 48 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:07.120 and now and the thirties and forties, they dominate companies, 49 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:11.240 dominate universities. Explain how deep into the body politic DEI 50 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:13.599 has been within universities, et cetera. 51 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:19.199 Oh, it is very very deep. Think about what's happened 52 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.960 in public education over the last several generations. Right, this 53 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:27.599 has just been permeated into our public education, into our universities. 54 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.400 And that is why I feel so called to do 55 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:35.479 what I do, which is helping employers to educate employees 56 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.759 about policy issues that affect their jobs. But it's not 57 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.479 just about policy issues. It's about you know, first, what 58 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:47.080 is prosperity. Prosperity isn't money, it's human flourishing and freedom. 59 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.759 Why do we have the opportunity for that here in America? 60 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.680 You know, it seems like in our public education systems 61 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.680 and in our universities, they've been taught to hate America. 62 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:00.560 They've been taught to hate anybody who's French, you know, 63 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.919 hate the white male, hate anybody who says, you know, 64 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:08.039 transgender men can have babies or can't have babies, or 65 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.479 you know, I mean, they're just taught to divide by 66 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.840 skin color everything. But I'm saying, look at what America is. 67 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:21.079 We have this absolutely beautiful treasure in our constitution which 68 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:25.519 protects our god given rights. Government doesn't give us our rights, 69 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:27.600 it protects us. And that's one thing we need to 70 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.079 re educate these young people about. And I say young 71 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.759 because even you know, twenty thirties forties in the workplace 72 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.959 don't understand this. So we need to do that. Then 73 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.720 we need to help them understand the basic economics of prosperity, 74 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.120 which is, you know, a business is what drives the economy. 75 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:50.600 It isn't government. It's business that drives the economy and 76 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:55.480 provides opportunity for people to grow and create wealth, and 77 00:04:56.040 --> 00:05:01.279 expand and innovate and that is really important. Then how 78 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:04.720 do you protect that that's becoming informed, involved, and impactful 79 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.759 is a basic citizenship. So I'm saying we need to 80 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.199 replace this wolf training in the workplace with training that 81 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.319 brings back basic understanding of our American system of government 82 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:20.800 and basic understanding of how to protect your own prosperity 83 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:23.879 or your opportunity to flourish and be free. 84 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.360 You know, one of the worst examples of DEI diversity 85 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:30.839 equity and inclusion would be Disney. I played a year 86 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.560 or two ago the Disney training and Disney characters. It 87 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.759 used to be the wonderful World of Disney. It was 88 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:40.319 Tinkerbalty and all. It was these characters, and suddenly wokeism 89 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:45.160 and DEI invaded, Disney invaded, John Dare invaded. At the 90 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:48.240 Ford Motor Company, I see a story about the University 91 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:51.240 of Michigan is trying to get rid of DEI and 92 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.600 changing it completely. What damage has been done to corporate 93 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:58.360 America who embraces the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion, 94 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.560 which is another form of this crimination. What damage has 95 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.480 happened to corporate America? 96 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:07.959 Oh, I think incredible damage to corporate America. We have 97 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.079 well one, they've lost the trust of American people who 98 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:15.480 have common sense, okay, and then two we see a 99 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:21.560 decrease in the performance levels. You know, people should not 100 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:26.720 be picked to be airline pilots or doctors or nurses 101 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:29.959 or dentists or you know, school teachers based on the 102 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:35.439 color of their skin or their declared gender. They should 103 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:39.680 be chosen for those roles based on their merit, based 104 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.360 on their capability to do the job. And as we 105 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:47.160 have watched problems with air traffic control, we have watched 106 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.920 so many issues in not only corporate America, but in 107 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:55.920 our government sector. We've seen the inefficiency in government. So 108 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.680 all these people come up through these you know, universities 109 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.720 and sayings, and they go into leadership positions in the 110 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:07.720 government and in corporations and they're clueless. They're absolutely clueless 111 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:10.600 about what really makes the economy work and why our 112 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.800 nation is so amazing and so worthy of our work 113 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:21.720 to protect our founding documents or system of government, and 114 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:26.439 it just ends up being chaos. Now, thankfully, I think 115 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.240 people are waking up to this, so we can go 116 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:32.920 from wok to awake. We can go from wok to awake. 117 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.199 They're waking up to it, but we can't just take 118 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:41.720 something out. It's like I tell customers, or I mean companies, 119 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.480 please call me, contact me, go to prosperity one on 120 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:48.560 one dot com. I want to help you replace any 121 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:53.720 of that DEI training with a simple course on basic 122 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.959 American civics and economics, like how does policy affect your paycheck? 123 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:02.399 Never telling someone how to, never telling someone what to think, 124 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:06.480 helping them understand what types of things they need to 125 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:10.720 consider when they go to vote. You know, I have 126 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:14.879 done workshops since. One of my favorite stories is one 127 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:18.600 time I was doing a workshop in a business and 128 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:23.040 I was talking to union route drivers who didn't want 129 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:24.560 to be there. It was five thirty in the morning, 130 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.079 it was work, and they didn't want to be there, 131 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.399 and especially one was rather intimidating to me. So I said, 132 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:32.679 asilum prayer. I said, Lord, I want that one right, 133 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.240 And as the presentation went on, his body language open up. 134 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.720 Then at the end he said, so let me get 135 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.399 this straight right. Those policies up there make it hard 136 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.159 for Jim over here to pay my paycheck and my benefits. 137 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:48.639 Why do I want to vote for people who support 138 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.159 those policies to which I wanted to jump up and down. 139 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:54.759 But that's what we need to do. And so I 140 00:08:54.840 --> 00:09:00.320 tell employers, please, do not be afraid. Employers have been 141 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:06.320 fearmongered into silence, and I say, don't be afraid. Speak 142 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:10.240 truth to your employees about what actually makes a difference 143 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.080 in the bottom line of your business, what actually makes 144 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.759 a difference so that you can pay their paychecks, you 145 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.120 can pay a bonus at the end of the year. 146 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.639 Let them know and communicate and when better communication is 147 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.039 in the workplace, that encourages loyalty, engagement, retention. I mean 148 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.039 that increases the bottom line right there. So not only 149 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:34.759 do we have people who understand how policy affects their paychecks, 150 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.960 but then they have a renewed awareness of the blessings 151 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.440 and responsibilities of living in a free society. 152 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.000 And Linda Hansen, with Trump's election, that certainly is in 153 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:46.240 the forefront. The other day, the US Supreme Court had 154 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.320 oral arguments on the issue of transgender rights. 155 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:50.759 And I'm watching this. 156 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.440 Panel discussion involving Jordan Peterson, and I love that guy. 157 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.759 And the liberals said, you have to treat someone as 158 00:09:59.799 --> 00:10:02.440 a self identify So he said, if I look at 159 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.879 a person who appears to be a woman, I have 160 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.519 to first ask what are your preferred pronouns? 161 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:09.759 Instead of saying, can you do a job. 162 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.639 And he made the point that gender or shall I say, sex, 163 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:19.759 is determined at conception and then revealed at birth. And 164 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.080 at that point, whether it's xx or x Y at 165 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:28.159 the moment of conception, that particular unborn little baby as 166 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:33.240 igoat that sex is determined at conception and then revealed 167 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:36.039 at birth. It's immutable. You can't change it. I may 168 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:39.440 want to become a Filipino, but I can't become a Filipino. 169 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.639 I'm a white male. And he made the point. 170 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.759 And he's talking to his panel and this one transgender 171 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.200 person who works in an ambulance services for a big 172 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:51.840 city hospital, and he asked this person who was transgender 173 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.559 him or herself, and said, what if you come up 174 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.480 to an accident scene and there's a person there in 175 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.919 the backseat and great bodily discomfort who. 176 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:02.480 Says, I'm having a baby. 177 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:04.960 And so you get into the back seat and you 178 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:07.519 do the things that necessary to reveal that part of 179 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:10.159 the body that delivers a baby, and you look down 180 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.240 and you see a penis and this person is telling 181 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.919 you I'm having a baby. And you look down and say, well, 182 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:21.879 you can't have a baby, and that that that that's 183 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.159 that firefighter slash ambulance worker was shocked with the fact 184 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.759 that you may look at somebody and who identifies differently 185 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.600 than what they are, but they're not different from what 186 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:37.399 they are the moment of conception. Your sex is not 187 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.120 assigned by some as sign or it is what it 188 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:44.039 is xx or x y, and at birth it is revealed. 189 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:47.519 So was it illustrative to say, if a person claims 190 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.320 to be female and I'm delivering a baby and that 191 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:56.720 person as a penis, are they a woman? Well? 192 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:59.440 You know, the interesting thing is that ambulance driver by 193 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:01.879 saying no, you can't have a baby, you have a penis, 194 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:06.440 might actually in our whole culture, which is hopefully changing now. 195 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:10.120 But you know, they might have been slapped with the lawsuits. 196 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:10.320 Right. 197 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.799 I mean, it's the most crazy thing. But you can't 198 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.440 get milk from a bowl, you can't get eggs from 199 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.320 a rooster, So I mean, this is just common sense. 200 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:20.600 And I think this is one of the things where 201 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.720 you know, they have tried so hard to divide people 202 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:29.759 and to brainwash people into compliance into this, and you know, 203 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:33.480 the American people aren't stupid. We may be ill informed 204 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:38.440 at times, we may be easily fearmongered sometimes, which we 205 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.360 have to get past. I tell people, God tells us 206 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.440 in the Bible three hundred and sixty five times, do 207 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.720 not fear. I'm with you. So it's like there's one 208 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.519 for every day. You know, we don't have to fear. 209 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:52.200 But here's the thing, this whole identifying as right. Okay, 210 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:57.039 So does that mean an able bodied athlete can identify 211 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:01.399 as disabled and then go compete in the Paralympics. 212 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:06.399 I mean where we're Yeah, yes, absolutely absolutely, that's talk 213 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:10.720 about the specifically, the Ford Motor Company explain and they've 214 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:12.879 caught so much flak. I see stories in the Wall 215 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.440 Street Journal. They're two hundred thousand employees backing away from 216 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.399 so called DEI explain the Ford Motor Company, the history 217 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.279 of the resolution, and then the blowback. 218 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.960 Well, you know, the blowback too has been incredible in 219 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:32.840 terms of people not wanting to abide by this. This 220 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:40.919 left is just transgender DEI crt everything. It's people are 221 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.679 fed up, and you know it isn't just Ford. But 222 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:48.639 you look just recently Walmart and I applaud Robbie Starbuck 223 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:51.919 If there's any listener out there who hasn't started following 224 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.960 Robbie or landing Starbuck about what they're doing to get 225 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.360 these companies to get rid of this ridiculous stuff in 226 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:05.120 the workplace, please do. Walmart just recently decided they're going 227 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:08.519 to take DEI out of their training programs, and they're 228 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:13.200 going to stop funding pride parades, and you know, John 229 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:17.399 Deere and Tractor Supply, these these you know, it's like, 230 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:19.840 did they forget that our customers are I mean, like 231 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:23.480 the farmers and people, Like seriously, you're telling me that 232 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.000 people in the Midwest who shop a trust or Supply 233 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.480 and drive a John Deere out on their farm are 234 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:29.320 going to like. 235 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.559 All this stuff. No, No, And. 236 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:36.080 We don't want drag shows for preschools, you know, we 237 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:38.519 don't want that, and we don't want these companies funding that. 238 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.399 And like what Robbie always says is, we don't have 239 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.960 to agree about everything, like they don't have to you know, 240 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.440 expouse every single belief that we have. We're just saying, 241 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.080 be neutral. Just be a company that sells products and 242 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:57.279 services and is neutral. And now, as I was saying before, 243 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:01.519 I would love to help companies pro something because what 244 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:06.320 I have, my online course, my resources and things are neutral. 245 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.000 It really is. It never tells someone who to vote for. 246 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:14.320 It isn't party or anything like that. It's basic understanding. 247 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.440 And that's what we need to do. We need to 248 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:22.120 help people understand the basics and be able to come 249 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.320 to their mindset themselves. You know, we can't tell them 250 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:28.320 how to think, or we can't tell them what to think. 251 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.919 We have to help them learn how to think and 252 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.120 not just take things in. We have a culture that 253 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.440 has just been spoon fed, and you know, and they 254 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.320 come up through I'd like to have your listeners to 255 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.639 sink with me. Let's flip the script. They come up 256 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:48.840 through grade school, high school, you know, college, they learn 257 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:52.600 how to hate America, they learn that capitalism is bad. 258 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.440 They learn all this and they learn to be entitled. 259 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.080 And then they go into the workplace and they're carrying 260 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.679 all these values. Like you said, how deep is it? 261 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:01.639 How deep? 262 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:02.559 It's very deep. 263 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.600 And they go into the workplace and they demand all this. 264 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:11.240 But they're just in privately held companies alone, there's like 265 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.600 sixty million employees, right, So what if a percentage of 266 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:20.840 them started to wake up and realize, wow, you know, 267 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.480 we really have a great system of governments here. Yeah, 268 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:26.600 we need businesses to be healthy so that we can 269 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.320 have freedom. We need businesses to be healthy. 270 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:31.679 Yeah, I tell. 271 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:35.919 You the industry itself, according to the Wall Street Journal, 272 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:39.840 it is about eight billion dollars of an industry around 273 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.559 the issue of DEI and transgender rights. And don't make 274 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.559 great forward products or great tractors. It's a corporate mission 275 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:50.919 is to change America to the left towards socialism. And 276 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:54.000 for someone to be part of an eight billion dollar 277 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.559 industry and have the lend the Hanson's of the world 278 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.919 saying we need to change that. You have one hell 279 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.840 of a fight ahead of you because at eight billion dollars, 280 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:04.480 they're going to fight like warrior posts to keep their money. 281 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.319 But once again, Lenda Hansen, what is your website? How 282 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:11.079 can people contact you? Especially employers and employees. These kids 283 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.160 have been indoctrinated, not educated, but indoctrinated with hatred of 284 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.000 the country. You don't see too many American flags flying 285 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.039 around the UCLA campus. And the difficulty is has taken 286 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.279 us about twenty years to get here and may take 287 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:25.440 twenty years to get out. 288 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.799 What is your website? If any so people can learn 289 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:28.440 more information. 290 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:33.440 My website is prosperitywe on one dot com. Please contact 291 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:36.359 me there, and you know, let's help flip the script. 292 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:40.440 I believe employers are the last front here. If employers 293 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.079 don't start re educating these twenty thirty forty euros in 294 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:48.519 the workplace, who will Lenda Hanson employers join with me? 295 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:51.400 Please because it's one hell of a fight. I see 296 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.119 signs online. Keep your hands off our DEI a lot 297 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.799 of money at stake. It's not about crucifying the United 298 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:03.000 States of America having equal opportunity based upon merit. And 299 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:05.359 Linda Hanson, you're a great American and thank you for 300 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:08.799 coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Linda, Well, 301 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:12.400 thank you, God bless America. Let's continue with more now 302 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.799 your comments at five, your comments at five, one, three, seven, four, nine, 303 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.559 seven thousand, Bill cunning in the Great American Live at 304 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.440 your home of the Cincinnati Bengals and more. News Radio 305 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:28.559 seven hundred WLW by Billy cunning into Great American. And 306 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:31.359 of course Monday night, it's going to be a big game. 307 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.400 Of course should have been bigger than Montana Dallas hosting 308 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:37.200 the Bengals. We'll see what happens. Beginning the season, each 309 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:39.000 had high hopes. Not so much anymore. 310 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:39.480 I think now. 311 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.279 According to Moeger, there's about a three percent chance to 312 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.599 the Bengals making the playoffs, which means they have to 313 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.759 win the rest of their games. Everyone else, especially Denver, 314 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.480 has to lose the rest of their games. It's possible, 315 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:53.480 but quite unlikely. We'll see what happens. After one o'clock today, 316 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:58.480 we'll be Sergeant FOP President Emeritus, Dan Hills will be here. 317 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:02.559 He's been around about thirty five years. And I think 318 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.519 the reason the city does not want to make public 319 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.920 what occurred may have to do with things like personal 320 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:14.680 municipal culpability. And the firefighters, I'm told, know exactly what happened, 321 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:17.960 and they're kind of beating around the bush a little 322 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:19.839 bit to get their ducks in a row before someone 323 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.480 steps forward and says, this is what occurred. Because what 324 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:25.559 occurred is going to give the City of Cincinnati a 325 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:32.279 black eye, causing Ohioans, Kentuckians, and Hoosiers unbelievable pain and 326 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.279 hardship because of the decisions of the City of Cincinnati 327 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:38.839 and it's so called homeless population. A person is not 328 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:40.440 homeless because they don't have a home. 329 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:42.400 Eh. 330 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:46.079 A person is homeless because they're mentally ill, or because 331 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:50.680 they have drug addiction problems or alcoholism profound. That's why 332 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.960 they're homeless. Homelessness is a symptom of something much greater, 333 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:59.240 which are probably three to five hundred individuals and the 334 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.279 city of Cincinnat that don't want to go to home 335 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:03.920 with shelters and have ordered their lives in such a 336 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:06.279 way that they have no assets or friends or family 337 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:08.240 members who can take them in, or if they have. 338 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.680 Those individuals they engage in behavior that makes their attendance 339 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:17.920 in someone else's home or some apartment building terrible for 340 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.480 the landowner or for the parent. Every now and then, 341 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.839 I have a mom or dad will call me and 342 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.200 say they have an adult child who's deeply mentally ill 343 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:32.319 or addicted to drugs. Alcohol are all three? And how 344 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:35.599 many times have you heard of a loving mother or 345 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:39.359 father that with an adult child in their twenties, thirties, 346 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:42.319 or forties that simply can't get off the bottle or 347 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:48.440 the syringe or paranoid schizophrenia with effective components and cannot 348 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.279 get the proper meds lead a more or less normal life. 349 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.519 It happens. Believe me, there are thousands of homeowners and 350 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:59.160 moms and dads, those who live in apartments, condos and 351 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.160 trailers in the dry estate, that have adult children that 352 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:06.160 cannot conform their behavior to the dictates of the law, 353 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:10.359 and they find themselves on the streets having been accepted 354 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.079 back into a home of a friend or family member repeatedly, repeatedly, 355 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.599 and they simply will then invite other druggies into the home, 356 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:20.640 or they break up the house, or they steal stuff 357 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:24.279 to get more drugs, and the parent or the brother 358 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:27.359 or the sister or their friend says, I can't take 359 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:31.599 this anymore, I'm done, get out, got to change the locks, whatever. 360 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:35.720 And then that person does not gravitate toward Green Township 361 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:40.920 or Villa Hills. That person gravitates toward downtown Covington or 362 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:44.799 downtown Newport. And having listened to Rob Sanders and others 363 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:50.279 in my home state of Kentucky, they're not too solicitous 364 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:53.079 of individuals living on the streets. They kind of move 365 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:55.799 them along, and the message is sent, you better get 366 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:59.079 to the city of Cincinnati. They'll handle things for you correctly. 367 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:04.240 And so whether it's from Covington or Newport. These individuals 368 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.640 will come to the City of Cincinnati because of services. 369 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.519 If you're homeless, it's a very nice place to be 370 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:14.160 from most of the year. Right now not so nice, 371 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.160 it's too cold. But because of the Ohio River, and 372 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.759 because of Fountain Square, and because of all the begging 373 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.640 taking place here, and because of the homeless shelters in 374 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:29.160 and around OTR, and because of the food pantries available, 375 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.319 because of all the great charities handing out clothing and food, 376 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:36.920 and Cincinnati Downtown is kind of the place to be 377 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.160 if you're homeless, and then you try to get yourself 378 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.279 straight and you can't, don't have a support system, then 379 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:45.359 you go back. Generally, there's plenty of beds available in 380 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:49.240 the homeless shelter, but there's about three to four hundred 381 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:51.839 that do not want to go there because they can't 382 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:55.880 live the lifestyle they want to live. There's certain basic 383 00:22:55.960 --> 00:23:00.119 rules you must follow, which is you can't smoke pot inside, 384 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.160 and you can't use drugs inside, and you can't turn 385 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.279 tricks inside, and you can't act like a full inside. 386 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:10.759 Otherwise you're kicked out. And it's terrible, it's awful, and 387 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.119 so then it's left to law enforcement left to officers 388 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:17.079 like Ken Kober and Dan Hills, etc. 389 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:18.160 To deal with this. 390 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:21.359 So when I get emails and texts from business owners 391 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:25.960 and OTR that tell me there's homeless, drug addicted individuals 392 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:29.799 high sleeping in their stoops beginning in their businesses in 393 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:34.079 the morning, that parks are overrun with needles, whether Stanbury 394 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:38.599 Park in Mount Washington or Washington Park and OTR, it 395 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:42.960 happens all the time. So the consequence is that businesses 396 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.240 are failing left and right all over OTR in downtown 397 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:50.519 because the city and the county and the state have 398 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:53.759 not dealt adequately with those who are mentally ill that 399 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:57.000 become homeless, those that have drug addiction problems and they 400 00:23:57.079 --> 00:23:59.960 don't want to get off drugs. Good friend of mine, 401 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.559