Speaker 1: By Billy Cunningham to Great America, and welcome this Monday
Speaker 1: afternoon at the Triestay, getting ready for better weather after
Speaker 1: terrible weather and supposed to be down to zero in
Speaker 1: a day or two. But this week and according to
Speaker 1: Tony Bender in his forecast, good friend of Tony Sands,
Speaker 1: Tony Bender, this weekend supposed to be like forty two
Speaker 1: degrees in rain, and we need it badly, need it
Speaker 1: real bad. But until then. Christopher Smitherman has been in
Speaker 1: public service in private work for about twenty five years.
Speaker 1: He's a father of a beautiful swimmer. He sent me
Speaker 1: a video of Camille swimming like she was a fish,
Speaker 1: so she might be an Olympic swimmer one day. But
Speaker 1: we want to talk about competency of government and so
Speaker 1: much more. DEI, which is DEI out to be dee?
Speaker 1: What's happening in California? And Christopher Smitherman, welcome again to
Speaker 1: the Bill Cunningham Show. Is a former vice mayor of
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. And when you look at what's
Speaker 1: happening with Mayor Karen Bass, the Fire Department, the Governor
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is a complete joke. Of course, I found
Speaker 1: out yesterday in one of the Face the Nation interviews
Speaker 1: that the head of FEMA says that those in LA
Speaker 1: right now are doing a great job, a great job.
Speaker 1: Great we need If that's a great job, I don't
Speaker 1: want to see a bad job. But they're doing a
Speaker 1: great job there, and everything's great, everything's good. So, as
Speaker 1: a public official of the past maybe of the future,
Speaker 1: what comes to your mind about the response and the
Speaker 1: preparation for this catastrophe in the city of Angels.
Speaker 2: Well, look, you know, Governor knew. Someone has had to
Speaker 2: have known, right, I'm being facetious that two parts of
Speaker 2: natural disasters that he had nothing to do with in
Speaker 2: California are earthquakes and fires. And so it just seems
Speaker 2: like the executive for the for the state of California
Speaker 2: has been accent and so this notion that you know,
Speaker 2: you need to clear brush, you need to have water,
Speaker 2: you need to have infrastructure water or fire hydrants that water,
Speaker 2: you have a fire, right And so what's been so
Speaker 2: interesting is all the pointing of fingers of him, like
Speaker 2: he's even trying to blame this on President elect Trump.
Speaker 2: That guy he's not even he's not even the president
Speaker 2: until the twentieth So that doesn't work. And so this
Speaker 2: notion that you have failed government with the mayor who
Speaker 2: as you know within Africa. But what was most interesting
Speaker 2: about is she she declared the state of an emergency
Speaker 2: and then left the country.
Speaker 1: Like who does that?
Speaker 2: And so elections, Willly Cunningham have consequences, and so what's
Speaker 2: going to be interesting is will they recall the government government,
Speaker 2: governor will they recall the mayor? And out in with
Speaker 2: this comment and turn it back to you as a
Speaker 2: as a financial planner, you know, and looking at property,
Speaker 2: meaning still most Americans have a lot of their wealth
Speaker 2: wrapped up in their homes and the ownership the equity
Speaker 2: in their homes. Most of those homes aren't covered by insurance.
Speaker 2: And so the reality of rebuilding it and understanding that
Speaker 2: so many people lost everything not only did they lose
Speaker 2: all of their personal memories, but they also lost all
Speaker 2: of their equity in those properties. That this is going
Speaker 2: to be incredibly interesting. And I can't even get my
Speaker 2: head wrapped around the side of the number of homes
Speaker 2: and structures, whether they're whether they're they're schools, whether they
Speaker 2: are private homes. How big is that space and what
Speaker 2: does that recovery look like under a new administration. So
Speaker 2: this is going to This is a devastating thing, and
Speaker 2: I think Governor k Newsom should be recalled and by
Speaker 2: the way, we should learn from this that, you know,
Speaker 2: having this kind of uh is one of the reasons
Speaker 2: I love John Cranley as the mayor. He was a
Speaker 2: blue dog Democrat. He was a working mayor, was willing
Speaker 2: to take tough positions, unlike Mayor pure Ball. The question
Speaker 2: right now is if we had a flood, right we
Speaker 2: always know we got the Ohio River. Every while there's
Speaker 2: a flood. We just got a big snow, and I
Speaker 2: would say that they get an f not because of
Speaker 2: the men in women that were doing the work, is
Speaker 2: because this mayor, Mayor Purval had all our side streets
Speaker 2: really not plowed. It's why a lot of the schools
Speaker 2: could not open. Because anybody listening to me who lives
Speaker 2: in the fifty two neighborhoods knows that our private streets
Speaker 2: weren't plowed, even though some of the public. So you know, again,
Speaker 2: elections have consequences, and oftentimes citizens don't wake up until
Speaker 2: they have a tragedy, like we're looking in California.
Speaker 1: Christopher, I'm looking in the headline from the New York Times,
Speaker 1: so if it's the New York Times, it must be accurate.
Speaker 1: It's under a date of January the twelfth of this year,
Speaker 1: and the headline is before taking office, LA's mayor said
Speaker 1: she would not go abroad, and this came out because
Speaker 1: she frequently took trips when she was in the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives for twenty some years. She would travel to
Speaker 1: Africa to Cuba on a regular basis. And the story
Speaker 1: points out that you indicated to us, mayor that you
Speaker 1: would not travel abroad. What change. She didn't answer the
Speaker 1: question whatsoever. She had been to Cuba. She loved the
Speaker 1: Cuba paradise, so the way al Castro and Rayoul ran Cuba.
Speaker 1: She went there seventeen times and never came back to
Speaker 1: criticize anything about the way Cuba was run. She also
Speaker 1: has gone to Africa at least twenty seven times, and
Speaker 1: she traveled to Ghana, and God blessed Ghana. It might
Speaker 1: be a good place to be. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: she declares an emergency because here comes to Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 1: Guess what it is tender dry, and it's worse than
Speaker 1: tender dry because for two consecutive rainy seasons. They had
Speaker 1: too much rain, which meant the foliage grew up even
Speaker 1: more than normal, so there was more. And then six
Speaker 1: months of drought meant it was completely dry. And La
Speaker 1: is a grassland and it's a desert. So when you
Speaker 1: live in a desert, and you live in a grassland,
Speaker 1: and you have high foliage, and you have high winds
Speaker 1: up to one hundred miles an hour, and a spark
Speaker 1: could set off a complete disaster. The last thing to
Speaker 1: do is get on a plane and fly from Los
Speaker 1: Angeles to Ghana, which is summer in Africa, while the
Speaker 1: crisis is ongoing. She comes back, doesn't answer questions, doesn't
Speaker 1: know what she's doing. So I would point out that the
Speaker 1: headline is before taking off as LA's mayor said she
Speaker 1: will not travel abroad. She said, quote, I may go
Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. Or Sacramento, San Francisco, or New York,
Speaker 1: all in relationship to LA. I wonder why the grypta
Speaker 1: the trip to Ghana was relatable to Los Angeles, And
Speaker 1: I have no idea. But she's in Ghana and all
Speaker 1: health's breaking loose, and now you got me all pissed off.
Speaker 1: She went to the inauguration of President Claudia shinbaumb But
Speaker 1: she justified that, she said, because after all, that's our neighbor.
Speaker 1: She also went to France three times for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four Olympic Games in Paris. This is her travel itinerary.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, what the hell's going on? Will she
Speaker 1: be held to account? My answers, no, what do you
Speaker 1: say about that? If anything? And by the way, this
Speaker 1: is one of the most predicted disasters in the history
Speaker 1: of mankind. We know when the High River was flooding,
Speaker 1: like what was it, ninety ninety five, ninety seven, something
Speaker 1: like that. Here comes the river ninety six, it's rising.
Speaker 1: What do we do, Well, we had a mayor in charge.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this, is gonna do that. We have
Speaker 1: this pre preposition Nothing was preposisioned. There was no water
Speaker 1: in the reservoirs. The governor, Gavin Newsen, blew up three
Speaker 1: dams because it hurt the smeltfishes spawning. I've never seen
Speaker 1: a smeltfish spawn. I'm not sure what the hell that is.
Speaker 1: But it got rid of all their pools of water.
Speaker 1: He could and then said, everything's dry. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it's Trump's fault. Now there's a question in there somewhere,
Speaker 1: can you answer it?
Speaker 2: Well, just look at what happened in Florida. You know
Speaker 2: we had hurricanes there, but you had a governor who
Speaker 2: understood about how to rally the troops, how to build confidence,
Speaker 2: that most importantly, how to make sure that the people
Speaker 2: that you know that he loves you know when you're
Speaker 2: governing that you take care of it. Let me just
Speaker 2: make make a point here, is that when you are
Speaker 2: a president, a governor, a mayor, or a county commissioner,
Speaker 2: those are executive positions, right. It's not like the legislature
Speaker 2: can high you're doing policy. You have to be have
Speaker 2: some type of business understanding because you are running something.
Speaker 2: What it just shows is that the mayor, no matter
Speaker 2: her race, no matter her gender, she's incompetent, just like
Speaker 2: the governor of California. So when you are when you're
Speaker 2: just a pretty boy and you're just out there, da
Speaker 2: da da da da, and you're running around and you
Speaker 2: can hide behind a lot of talk, a lot of
Speaker 2: wordsmithing kinds of things like the like the vice president
Speaker 2: meaning Vice President Harris who just ran. My point is
Speaker 2: that you when you're trying to run for these executive
Speaker 2: positions and you get them and you have a crisis
Speaker 2: like this, it uncovers you're incompetent. This is somebody that
Speaker 2: probably has never run a business, has no understanding of
Speaker 2: a budget, right and now now California is figuring it out.
Speaker 2: But they're figuring it out with all of their homes
Speaker 2: being burned to the ground. Yes, she will not be
Speaker 2: re elected. She will not be re elected. And Governor
Speaker 2: Newsom will never ever be the president of the United
Speaker 2: States of America. This is this is the end of
Speaker 2: his political career. I have no way we're going to
Speaker 2: allow him. There's no way we're going to allow him
Speaker 2: to be the executive of a trillion trillion trillion dollar
Speaker 2: budget when he can't even run California. There's no way
Speaker 2: he'll set the entire country on fire with these kind
Speaker 2: of environmental extremes. You and I understand that we can recycle,
Speaker 2: but there's no way. And we're going to think about
Speaker 2: a fish over the people that were governing where literally
Speaker 2: the reservoirs are just empty and your fire hydrants aren't
Speaker 2: even working.
Speaker 1: You know, Christopher guy.
Speaker 2: They have one guy who on Willie They had one
Speaker 2: guy who created a contraction, who was literally using his
Speaker 2: pool to put out water put out fires that were
Speaker 2: happening around his house. Right he literally took a plump
Speaker 2: and was like, man, I got to I gotta fight
Speaker 2: the fire myself. That's when you know the government has
Speaker 2: failed you.
Speaker 1: Well, Christopher, when you think about the mayor declaring an
Speaker 1: emergency then flying about seven thousand miles away to Ghana,
Speaker 1: and think about Gavin Newsom, the governor California. He's noted
Speaker 1: for eating out in a fancy of French restaurant during
Speaker 1: the height of the COVID lockdown, but he was the
Speaker 1: governor and he didn't have a mask on. He was
Speaker 1: yucking it up with bottles of wine, eating fancy food
Speaker 1: and drinking fancy wine when many in California couldn't do
Speaker 1: a damn thing. That's Gavin Newsom. But the big issue here,
Speaker 1: I think many is DEI, which is de The entire
Speaker 1: government in the state of California Special Los Angeles are
Speaker 1: dedicated to DEI principles and the fire chief, shall we say,
Speaker 1: is a member of the gay rights community. Her deputy
Speaker 1: chief is a black lesbian and they promote and they
Speaker 1: hire not based upon merit, not based upon qualifications, but
Speaker 1: based upon race and gender. So when they say diversity,
Speaker 1: it's not diversity. It's excluding an entire race of people.
Speaker 1: So you change the object of the discrimination from a
Speaker 1: black person to a white person, then you call that diversity.
Speaker 1: Do you think this will cause some to think, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, we can't be hiring and firing and promoting
Speaker 1: based upon skin color or sexual orientation. Shouldn't merit and
Speaker 1: competency playing in this maybe one time, just a little bit,
Speaker 1: the answer might be no, and you're hopeful that maybe
Speaker 1: the voters will come to their senses. I doubt it
Speaker 1: because I look at Chicago. When Lori Lighthead was up there,
Speaker 1: destroyed Chicago. So what do they do? They elect put
Speaker 1: in power a more radical leftists guy named Brandon Johnson
Speaker 1: who's now the mayor of Chicago. He's got an approval
Speaker 1: rating of seventeen percent, So likely they'll maybe shift the
Speaker 1: chairs around a little bit. I have no hope that
Speaker 1: California is going to do anything but keep doing what
Speaker 1: they're doing. And lastly, I'll say this, your family goes
Speaker 1: deep into the groundwater of Cincinnati. I don't think I
Speaker 1: reference this to you in the past. But you know
Speaker 1: the People's judge. Penny was in christ Hospital for four
Speaker 1: days with a broken pelvis, and there was a little
Speaker 1: room at the end of that floor. I walked into
Speaker 1: the room and it was dedicated to your father, doctor Smitherman,
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at that. I'm going, hey, I know
Speaker 1: that guy's son, Smitherman. Smitherman. There's a room at Christ's
Speaker 1: Hospital with your daddy's name on it. And so no
Speaker 1: one can say when Smitherman was hired to represent the
Speaker 1: American people, you didn't know what you were doing. No
Speaker 1: one could say that fairly. In fact, you knew what
Speaker 1: you were doing. And your family's been in this community
Speaker 1: for decades doing great work, and so DEI doesn't apply
Speaker 1: when you when you walked around as vice mayor of
Speaker 1: the city council, was there any suspicion that you were
Speaker 1: there because of your skin color or was it simply
Speaker 1: your confidence? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 2: I remember John Cranley, who was a friend of mine
Speaker 2: and I thought served as a great mayor because he
Speaker 2: was willing to take tough positions. And actually, on a
Speaker 2: snow day you could find John Cranley on a truck.
Speaker 2: You could find him on a garbage truck. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was a guy that was a working mayor. But
Speaker 2: I'll say this. I remember a meeting that we were
Speaker 2: discussing with Procter and Gamble the taxation of stock options.
Speaker 2: And so John Cranley, mayor John Craanley had communicated to
Speaker 2: Procter and Gamble with their accountants that this guy actually
Speaker 2: understands so matters, so be prepared, and they weren't. And
Speaker 2: so he looked at me over the meeting and he
Speaker 2: looked at him and he says, I'm serious with you,
Speaker 2: that this guy understands exact face and a stop officer.
Speaker 2: But here here's my point to you. Here's my point
Speaker 2: to you that that that Newsome is is governoring newsm
Speaker 2: is a white man, right clearly. So the reality of
Speaker 2: it is what what I hear you saying, and I
Speaker 2: think anybody understands this is that no matter what the
Speaker 2: race is, no matter what the gender is, and no
Speaker 2: matter what the sexual orientation is, people have to know
Speaker 2: what they're doing in these positions. Period Number two I
Speaker 2: will say to you is that people like Condolas the Rights,
Speaker 2: who I have tremendous respect for right, her intelligence, the
Speaker 2: way she carried herself, how she served our country. Colon Powell,
Speaker 2: we can go through an entire list, being Carson, people
Speaker 2: who have served our country. But here's what I will
Speaker 2: say say to you is that we know that no
Speaker 2: matter what your race is, your gender, there are competent
Speaker 2: people who can serve in those capacities. What you are
Speaker 2: saying here is no matter the race, no matter the gender,
Speaker 2: and no matter the sexual orientation, we must elect competent
Speaker 2: people in these positions. And what is happening in California
Speaker 2: is just underscoring that that we have an incompetent governor
Speaker 2: who is white and a white male. We have an
Speaker 2: incompetent mayor who's an African American female. And it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter to you and I. At the end of the day,
Speaker 2: when your damn house is on fire and everything you
Speaker 2: have is burning to the ground, you don't care. You
Speaker 2: want a fire truck showing up to put out the fire.
Speaker 2: And guess what California has been has been unable to
Speaker 2: deliver those kinds of basic services. And I'm going to
Speaker 2: speak to Cincinnati because we have a mayorial race coming up,
Speaker 2: and we have a council. When will we wake up
Speaker 2: and make sure that we're electing competent people in those positions.
Speaker 2: We need a working mayor down there every day trying
Speaker 2: to solve big problems, not one that's sitting around trying
Speaker 2: to look good. Who who's giving these great, big speeches
Speaker 2: in the sky. We are one step away. We are
Speaker 2: one step away from California. It's not a fire, it's
Speaker 2: a flood. It's not a fire. It's the whole Cincinnati
Speaker 2: retirement system going under and sending the City of Cincinnati
Speaker 2: into bankruptcy. One day, we're gonna have to face that
Speaker 2: Cincinnati retirement system. We're gonna have to and the taxpayers
Speaker 2: are going to have to face it. But we don't
Speaker 2: have a mayor who really understands it. Our mayor is
Speaker 2: looking for the next gig. Here out in with this
Speaker 2: with mayor pure ball. You and I know that if
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris had won, he'd be gone, Oh, he's
Speaker 2: looking for the next game. We've got to elect a
Speaker 2: mayor who wants to be the damn mayor. That's what
Speaker 2: they get up every day and say, I want to
Speaker 2: make my city better and I'm willing to do what
Speaker 2: it takes to do it. Mayor Purval is looking for
Speaker 2: his next gig, and as soon as he gets it,
Speaker 2: he's gone.
Speaker 1: Well, lastly, I would say, the deputy chief, who is
Speaker 1: a black, a gay person and female LA was asking
Speaker 1: a news conference. This was a person very slight, well,
Speaker 1: what happens if someone's got to pick up one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five pound mail out of a burning building
Speaker 1: and walk them down the ladder. And the deputy chief said, well,
Speaker 1: that guy shouldn't have put himself in that place in
Speaker 1: the first place. And I'm going to wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I don't know what, and hire somebody. I don't care
Speaker 1: if I have a fire. I want someone to I
Speaker 1: don't care if they're black, white, or polka dot. I
Speaker 1: want harry as men or Harry ass women that can
Speaker 1: do the job irrespective of their gender or their race.
Speaker 1: And we don't have that in American society. There's forms
Speaker 1: of discrimination now being practiced against a different race than
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party used to violate, which were black folks
Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty years. Now it's flipped the
Speaker 1: entire different direction. But Christopher, we got to run. Always
Speaker 1: good to hear from you, But will.
Speaker 2: It be Before we get off, let me say two
Speaker 2: things to you. Okay, Number one, you were stuck on
Speaker 2: your own roof. Yes, and I'm sure you wanted.
Speaker 4: A firefightre Yes, get you off in commercials. Your commercials
Speaker 4: are hilarious. They have made limitade out of Limit's brother.
Speaker 2: So when you were calling in that nine one one call,
Speaker 2: you wanted somebody who was going who was going to
Speaker 2: take care of number one? Number two again as a
Speaker 2: as a licensed financial planner who understands property and casually.
Speaker 2: That is going to be the big story about rebuilding California,
Speaker 2: Meaning you're going to see predators out there taking advantage
Speaker 2: of families, middle class and wealthy families who cannot afford
Speaker 2: to rebuild because they didn't have fire insurance because this governor,
Speaker 2: the mayor, the entire administration failed him. That is what
Speaker 2: the real tragedy is the rebuild of that. And they're
Speaker 2: going to be thanking God. Remember I told you this
Speaker 2: that President Trump was elected, because you're going to have
Speaker 2: somebody with a business sense that's going to be able
Speaker 2: to say this is how we fix it.
Speaker 1: Well, when when the shmeltfish is spawning, I care a
Speaker 1: lot more about people's lives and their property that I
Speaker 1: care about a smelt fish fish that I may put
Speaker 1: on a piece of toast. But Christopher Smitherman, thanks again
Speaker 1: for coming on the Bill Cunningham show. You're you're an
Speaker 1: island of sanity and a sea of intranquility. But Christopher,
Speaker 1: thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Brother, God bless America. Let's continue with more. When I
Speaker 1: was on the roof, I didn't care who came, but
Speaker 1: just get me off the damn roof. I don't want
Speaker 1: to DEI hire showing up saying I'm sorry, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't help you at all. But I was hard
Speaker 1: for the right reason. Give me somebody else. Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? This is Cunningham. I need help. On seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW HI Billy Cunningham, the Great America. A little
Speaker 1: bit of relief from the weather we're having this weekend,
Speaker 1: supposed to be in the forties and rain, which is
Speaker 1: badly needed. Until then, we have to go through Tuesday
Speaker 1: and Wednesday with temperatures near zero. We'll see what happens
Speaker 1: down the road. If somebody talks about global warming again,
Speaker 1: I may kick them between the legs or in the butt.
Speaker 1: I could use global warming right now one point five
Speaker 1: degrees celsius has gone up maybe in the last forty years,
Speaker 1: and we obsess over things like global warming and climate
Speaker 1: change things in that character. I'm against pollution, but I
Speaker 1: do not think human beings can profoundly affect the climate
Speaker 1: of this great world of ours by maybe driving an
Speaker 1: ev or by doing other having a different garbage bind
Speaker 1: for plastic I don't get it, but nonetheless the most
Speaker 1: of the American people agree with me. I'm watching this
Speaker 1: morning CNN's Harry Enton had a poll from Gallup about
Speaker 1: whether the American people are greatly or mainly concerned about
Speaker 1: global warming, and more than half the American people said no.
Speaker 1: In fact, the number's gone down the last ten years
Speaker 1: instead of up. Because when you listen to talk radio,
Speaker 1: as you do here, hopefully you understand from the experts,
Speaker 1: from scientists that we have the same number of hurricanes
Speaker 1: today as we had sixty seventy eighty years ago, same numbers,
Speaker 1: same veracity. The difference too many people are living out
Speaker 1: the shoreline, too much development where hurricanes used to peter
Speaker 1: out a little bit. But now, of course, the media
Speaker 1: goes crazy when the grasslands and desert areas have fires.
Speaker 1: Head on a guest last night that talked about this
Speaker 1: that LA is built on grasslands and desert. Largely Southern
Speaker 1: California is a desert with grasslands, and these fires, especially
Speaker 1: it's so called Santa Anita winds are part of Mother
Speaker 1: Nature's plan to clean up some of the underbrush and
Speaker 1: away we go. And the reason is so bad now
Speaker 1: is because so many people are built so close to
Speaker 1: the ocean and a grassland and a sandy soil, which allows,
Speaker 1: especially in certain circumstances, for large fires. The last two years,
Speaker 1: there's been an abundance of rain in southern California and
Speaker 1: that caused the foliage to grow up higher, higher and higher.
Speaker 1: The last six months there's been a little or no rain,
Speaker 1: which means it was dried out. So there you have
Speaker 1: extra full and you have dry conditions. Then you have
Speaker 1: completely incompetent administration in LA, much like in Cincinnati or
Speaker 1: New York City or Chicago, by liberal Democrats who care
Speaker 1: more about DEI than they care about filling up the reservoirs.
Speaker 1: At this point, it appears that there was sufficient water available,
Speaker 1: but the government of Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass would
Speaker 1: not allow it because of the spawning schmeltfish and also
Speaker 1: the salmon runs. So he took down three or four
Speaker 1: dams in order to make it more easy for fish
Speaker 1: to spawn at the expense of human lives and literally
Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of dollars that they expect you and
Speaker 1: I to spend. When I speak to those in the
Speaker 1: insurance industry, they tell me that insurance companies are not
Speaker 1: a bottomist pit of money. That all State and State
Speaker 1: Farm and several others, Chubb Fireman's Fund have all dropped
Speaker 1: out of southern California because they can't stand the losses.
Speaker 1: No business can. They're talking about a loss here of
Speaker 1: half a billion dollars I'm sorry, half a trillion dollars,
Speaker 1: which amounts to five hundred billion dollars in losses. And
Speaker 1: insurance companies can't charge premiums high enough to break even.
Speaker 1: And it's because that it is difficult to operate in
Speaker 1: that climate because there weren't fire facilities available. Because Karen Bass,
Speaker 1: the mayor, was in Ghana again in Africa, that there
Speaker 1: was no one in leadership positions, and I watched MSNBC
Speaker 1: this morning so you don't have to, and they pointed
Speaker 1: out that several Republicans from the congressional delegation in California
Speaker 1: were not present either. They were in Washington with Congress
Speaker 1: going on. Well, it's not the job of a GOP
Speaker 1: congressman in California to handle the fire problems in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles or San Francisco. It's the job of the mayor
Speaker 1: and the fire department. They're in charge of that. So
Speaker 1: to make the equivocation between Republicans in Washington and then
Speaker 1: the mayor of Los Angeles and Ghana is indicative of
Speaker 1: what the media does. They twist and turned the coverage
Speaker 1: to make Democrats look as fruitful as possible and make
Speaker 1: Republicans look like gargoyles. That's what the media does. I
Speaker 1: would note that the New York Times I held up
Speaker 1: this coltumn last night. Hold it up to the microphone
Speaker 1: right now, New York Times. This must be right under
Speaker 1: date of January the twelfth, which would have been yesterday.
Speaker 1: It put up at six fifty am headline. Before taking office,
Speaker 1: LA's mayor said she would not go abroad. Mayor Karen
Speaker 1: Bass of LA has been criticized for being out of
Speaker 1: the country when the wildfires broke out three years ago.
Speaker 1: She promised an interview with The New York Times she
Speaker 1: would not travel if she was elected at the mayor
Speaker 1: of LA. The reason that came up is she was
Speaker 1: number one on the list of congress persons traveling the most.
Speaker 1: She used her position on the Foreign Relations Committee to
Speaker 1: travel all over the world, especially to Africa, to Europe,
Speaker 1: South America. Every month she had a trip somewhere she
Speaker 1: left on taxpayer at taxpayer's expense, of course, And so
Speaker 1: the question arose in LA when she ran for office
Speaker 1: three years ago, are you going to stay in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1: She said absolutely. She says she would not travel abroad,
Speaker 1: which she's now done repeatedly once she took office, including
Speaker 1: issuing a declaration of an emergency. Then she gets on
Speaker 1: a plane and flies from LA to Ghana, a country
Speaker 1: in Africa that's got to be what seven eight thousand
Speaker 1: miles away. So she wasn't present when the Santa Anita
Speaker 1: winds and sparks flew and all hell broke Loues and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't note that that. And the legal immigrant from
Speaker 1: Mexico has been arrested for setting several fires there in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. He walked around with a blow torch he's homeless,
Speaker 1: he's in Hispanic, he's from Mexico, and he's illegal, and
Speaker 1: he's walking around streets with a blow torch in his hand.
Speaker 1: There were several citizens and apprehended him before the cops arrived.
Speaker 1: He's been arrested. There's a great suspicion that individuals wishing
Speaker 1: our country hard have set these fires in four or
Speaker 1: five different locations. Easy to do when the city is overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: When Karen Bass, the mayor, has cut the fire budget
Speaker 1: by sixteen million dollars, When Gavin Newsom, the governor, the
Speaker 1: poofy hair, fancy boy from Sacramento, has cut fire protections
Speaker 1: by over one hundred million dollars in the last two years.
Speaker 1: They spend money on everything, but what they should spend
Speaker 1: money on. I know there's a centiment that you and
Speaker 1: I might have, we might have this. Well, it's Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: it's California. And how can you feel sorry for people
Speaker 1: who get what they deserve and get what they voted for.
Speaker 1: Californians vote for this, they vote for DEI, they vote
Speaker 1: for funding homeless encampments, proliferating to the tune of seventy
Speaker 1: five thousand people, seventy five thousand. They vote for individuals
Speaker 1: who think abortion is a sacrament. They vote for individuals
Speaker 1: who want to defund the police and defund there our department.
Speaker 1: They vote for this. They vote for individuals who believe
Speaker 1: DEI is not discrimination against a different race of people
Speaker 1: than the Democrats normally racially discriminate against. For more than
Speaker 1: one hundred years, the Democratic Party brought in slaves, owned
Speaker 1: the slaves, beat the slaves, raped the slaves. Then the Democrats,
Speaker 1: against the whims and wishes, gave up slavery. But then
Speaker 1: they enacted Jim Crow laws all over the South. The
Speaker 1: Democrats did that. Lynching black men and black women and
Speaker 1: raping black women all over the South was part of
Speaker 1: the efforts of the ku Klux Klan, who were all Democrats.
Speaker 1: And so when the discrimination stopped in the nineteen sixties
Speaker 1: and seventies largely, and now we have a lot of
Speaker 1: mythical racism going on, it's the Democratic Party that wants
Speaker 1: to flip and stop discriminating against black folks and now
Speaker 1: discriminate against white people. Deide diversity, equity and inclusion. Who's
Speaker 1: not included? A large race of people are not included.
Speaker 1: And how's that diversity in equity. How's it diversity When
Speaker 1: a large group of people are banned because of the
Speaker 1: color of their skin, that is not diversity. It's the
Speaker 1: opposite of diversity. So for those who say, you know,
Speaker 1: they voted for these individuals, let them stew in their
Speaker 1: own juices. I have empathy for that. I have empathy
Speaker 1: for that idea. But sadly they get the government they deserve.
Speaker 1: And if you live in California and you find yourself
Speaker 1: repeatedly voting for people like Kamala Harris and Karen Bass
Speaker 1: and Gavin Newsom, and then you vote again and again
Speaker 1: and again for individuals like Maxine Waters, you have the
Speaker 1: government you deserve. And sadly that, sadly, the majority of
Speaker 1: people in California have been swept along too long by
Speaker 1: a decadent, garbage pale of lies of the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: of leftism and actions certainly have consequences. These are the
Speaker 1: consequences not having enough water to put out fires, not
Speaker 1: having the right competent people in charge. And I mentioned
Speaker 1: this with Christopher Smitherman. Let's face it, there's much incompetence
Speaker 1: in America today. Mayor of LaToya contrel I had a
Speaker 1: guest on from New Orleans about ten days ago when
Speaker 1: the terrorist attack took place. She's completely incompetent, but she
Speaker 1: was selected because of her race, because of her color.
Speaker 1: Then you have Kamala Harris. Joe Biden said, I'm going
Speaker 1: to pick a black woman to be the president vice president.
Speaker 1: It was either going to be Kamala Harris or Karen Bass.
Speaker 1: Choose between those two. But then you also have circumstances
Speaker 1: like white males such as Jacob Frye, the mayor of Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: basically let the mobs burn down police stations in a
Speaker 1: thousand businesses in Minneapolis, and that guy's white. If people
Speaker 1: like Evin Newsom, the governor of California, who's complete fullet
Speaker 1: and incompetent, who was recalled but the voters kept him
Speaker 1: in power, and he's white and male, you have people
Speaker 1: like I know Mike Johnston, who's the mayor of Denver.
Speaker 1: He's a complete clown. He's white, and he's male, and
Speaker 1: he's married. This guy's a leftist. The one thing they
Speaker 1: all have in common, from LaToya Cantrell to Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: to Jacob Frye to Karen Bass, to Mike Johnston to
Speaker 1: Brendan Johnson to Gavin Newsom to have to have pirival
Speaker 1: and on all the rest. They all believe in liberal
Speaker 1: Democratic policies. Now we have to get out of this somehow.
Speaker 1: We have to say that this isn't working. What major
Speaker 1: American city is being run exceedingly well by liberal Democrats,
Speaker 1: That the school system is functional in fact kids attended,
Speaker 1: and that kids graduate able to read and write at
Speaker 1: the twelfth grade level. What major American city doesn't have
Speaker 1: a crime problem occasioned by it to fund the police
Speaker 1: by the Democratic Party. Look at the lack of job creation,
Speaker 1: the expenses of government, the increased taxes, the bureaucracy. Had
Speaker 1: a guest on last night this said, it takes five
Speaker 1: years to get a building permit to build a new home.
Speaker 1: There's all these studies they have to be done. You
Speaker 1: get into bureaucracy, it takes five years to do anything.
Speaker 1: Who wants to live in that environment. It's not about race,
Speaker 1: it's not about gender, it's not about sex, it's not
Speaker 1: about being gay. What's about is incompetence. We've had many
Speaker 1: individuals like Richard Grennell, who's a gay male who does
Speaker 1: a great job in foreign service. You have Colon Powell.
Speaker 1: You have Ben Carson, you have the recently departed Herman Kane.
Speaker 1: You have Jesse Lee Peterson, you have Christopher Smitherman, you
Speaker 1: have Ken Blackwell. All kinds of persons of color are
Speaker 1: competent mentally and can get the job done. But if
Speaker 1: you live in an area like Los Angeles or the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati or Chicago or Columbus, to be elected,
Speaker 1: you must be a Democrat. You must adhere to a
Speaker 1: certain set of principles, and if you fail to do so,
Speaker 1: guess what, you can't be elected. So some who say
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for Los Angeles, they get what they deserve.
Speaker 1: The great majority of people do not deserve this. And
Speaker 1: in fact, the County of Los Angeles is the same
Speaker 1: number of people, and it basically as the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1: That's the county of Los Angeles about ten to eleven million,
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles is poorly run. To give you another example, quickly,
Speaker 1: Florida has about a million more residents than the state
Speaker 1: of New York. But the state budget in New York
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent greater than the state budget in Florida,
Speaker 1: and there's no income tax in Florida. There's no capital
Speaker 1: gain capital gains tax in Florida. There's no estate tax
Speaker 1: in Florida. But Florida runs the state much more diverse
Speaker 1: than New York State at half the expense and delivers
Speaker 1: more goods and services. Does anybody understand this? So how
Speaker 1: can you keep doing the same thing anticipating a different
Speaker 1: result work? So Karen Bess obviously was selected because of
Speaker 1: her race and her sexual predilections. She wasn't selected for competency.
Speaker 1: She was selected because she fit a racial category. That
Speaker 1: is race discrimination by itself practiced by the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: for the last two hundred and fifty years. That's what
Speaker 1: Democrats do. So let's continue with more. Coming up next
Speaker 1: is Jason Barrett. As you may know, there's the Bible
Speaker 1: of talk radio within the industry, it's called the Barrett
Speaker 1: Media and yours truly was selected as the best radio
Speaker 1: talk show hosts during mid days in America, and this
Speaker 1: station was selected as the best talk radio station in America.
Speaker 1: So I want to get Jason Barrett on to talk
Speaker 1: about why that selection took place. But more importantly, I
Speaker 1: hate patting myself on the back. As you know, we
Speaker 1: have to find out what is happening in talk radio,
Speaker 1: What is not happening in talk radio, and what is
Speaker 1: the future of talk radio that is next? Keep hope
Speaker 1: alive because all we have his hope. Bill Cunningham, the
Speaker 1: Great American with you every day you're home with the
Speaker 1: Bearcats and the Muskies. Use radio seven hundred WLW Bill Cunningham,
Speaker 1: the Great American. Of course, Jason Barrett of Barrett Media
Speaker 1: is the official trade magazine of talk radio and also
Speaker 1: sports talking so much more. And I said to Jason
Speaker 1: off there, I think it's important to have a local
Speaker 1: radio talk show host doing the best they can under
Speaker 1: many times difficult circumstances, but to have a national perspective
Speaker 1: it is also critically important because what it does is
Speaker 1: give you the ideas of what is working or not
Speaker 1: working in other parts of this great country of ours,
Speaker 1: so we can implement them or not implement them locally.
Speaker 1: And also, Jason Barrett has written a great column the
Speaker 1: Three Real Concerns for the Radio industry, specifically talk radio,
Speaker 1: and Jason Barrett welcome, I think for the first time
Speaker 1: to the Bill Cunningham Show. Jason, how are you.
Speaker 5: It's a pleasure to be here. Bill, thanks for the invite.
Speaker 1: Before we talk about the award which you've given me
Speaker 1: in this great radio station of ours. I want to
Speaker 1: get into the broader issue about talk radio in general.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a little bit of history. In
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, when I began here, we were told
Speaker 1: for the first four years, don't talk about politics, don't
Speaker 1: talk about sex, don't talk about too many things that
Speaker 1: would cause an equal time request in Washington. In other words,
Speaker 1: stay away from controversy, don't talk about politics, don't talk
Speaker 1: about religion, don't talk about sex. So what I did
Speaker 1: the first three or four years as an attorney was
Speaker 1: to ask the lawyer. I did talk about urology and
Speaker 1: the prostate. Your prostate, what you can do with it.
Speaker 1: I did car repair, I did turn interior design, how
Speaker 1: to make your house better. Then in nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 1: because o Ronald Reagan, everything changed, which was okay, now
Speaker 1: we can talk about politics of free flow. It's called
Speaker 1: the First Amendment, which wasn't practiced a long time. Then
Speaker 1: we went through the second ideation, which was the commandos
Speaker 1: of talk radio. And I can recall I was on
Speaker 1: a night at the time that Arada Rivera had a
Speaker 1: talk show in Chicago, and he organized six or seven
Speaker 1: of the so called best talk radio host and I
Speaker 1: was one of them in the nineteen nineties, and we
Speaker 1: talked about the commandos of the airwaves, to break through,
Speaker 1: to be almost like Penthouse or Playboy, to stretch the
Speaker 1: margins of what can be done and can't be done.
Speaker 1: Then that continued until nine to eleven, and after twenty
Speaker 1: oh one, guess what happened. Now we got to get serious.
Speaker 1: We're under attack. We went through the third ideation and
Speaker 1: now we're in the fourth with digital and with podcasts
Speaker 1: and et cetera. So when you wrote the column, which
Speaker 1: is the three real concerns for the talk radio industry
Speaker 1: lay out to the American people, if for the millions
Speaker 1: and millions of listeners I have, but also for those
Speaker 1: of us in the business, what do you see from
Speaker 1: AFAR as some of the big problems in talk radio?
Speaker 5: If any, Well, Bill, I think it starts with what
Speaker 5: you just touched on. Is first things First, you have
Speaker 5: to understand everything goes in cycles. There's going to be change.
Speaker 5: You know, you just touched on the three you've experienced
Speaker 5: that brought us to the current stage, and so change
Speaker 5: is inevitable. Obviously, when you look at the present state
Speaker 5: of the industry. We're in that time and age where
Speaker 5: it's becoming a digital revolution. It already is here, but
Speaker 5: it's only going to grow in further and importance in
Speaker 5: the future, especially as the dashboard inside of the vehicle
Speaker 5: changes and you know, the way you watch television changes.
Speaker 5: And so to me, the three key things that I
Speaker 5: see going on that I think are problematic for our
Speaker 5: business are Number one, we don't market our product and
Speaker 5: our people at all. I mean, think about how many
Speaker 5: media outlets today thrive off of advertising, and we tell
Speaker 5: clients it's important to buy an ad to grow your business.
Speaker 5: By the way, don't ask us to do that. Yes,
Speaker 5: we're not going to do that. So to me, marketing
Speaker 5: your product is vital for our industry, and that's the
Speaker 5: only way, especially in this cluttered environment with you have
Speaker 5: millions of podcasts. Now, how do you know what to
Speaker 5: even find? It goes back to the old principle you
Speaker 5: need to market, right, So that's number one. The second
Speaker 5: part and this is, you know a challenge on anyone
Speaker 5: who runs a brand is finding new voices and emerging talent.
Speaker 5: The same way, you've got that opportunity in nineteen eighty
Speaker 5: three to start out yep and blaze a trail and
Speaker 5: become who you've become. But you know, we have stations
Speaker 5: that are twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
Speaker 5: We've got websites, podcasts, YouTube channels, and there are so
Speaker 5: many outlets that don't even put new voices yeah on
Speaker 5: these And it goes back to like the people who
Speaker 5: run the stations, I feel for the programmer because they're challenged.
Speaker 5: They're told, hey, we don't have resources for that. And
Speaker 5: I look at that and I say, well, if you
Speaker 5: don't have resources to invest in your future, what do
Speaker 5: you expect your future to look like? Because eventually you're
Speaker 5: going to decide one day, you know what, I've had
Speaker 5: a good run. It's time for someone else to take
Speaker 5: the baton. But who are given the baton two?
Speaker 1: If there's nobody coming? Correct? Correct?
Speaker 5: So those two things, marketing and finding new talent are critical.
Speaker 5: But then I think the third part, and this is
Speaker 5: something that the radio bosses hate to hear because not
Speaker 5: every one of them are good at this is can
Speaker 5: you even identify what a hit is and what great
Speaker 5: talent is? Like Bill, I listen to a lot of
Speaker 5: radio because I consult brands, I write stories. I've got
Speaker 5: a team of mine that work on coverage every day
Speaker 5: and look for the shows like yours that get recognized
Speaker 5: as the best in the business at what they do.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of shows that are not in
Speaker 5: that category, and they occupy airtime and they're solid. They're fine.
Speaker 5: You know, if you want to just listen to something
Speaker 5: that's comfort food, that's fine. But the days of the impactful,
Speaker 5: the Rush Limb Boss to Howard Sterns, the Mic and
Speaker 5: the Mad Dogs, if you're in the sports world, those
Speaker 5: are appointment level shows. And today I think it's just
Speaker 5: become there's too much of this in the industry where
Speaker 5: people are looking at well, we just got to keep
Speaker 5: the brand intact. We just have to fill the time
Speaker 5: slot and reduce the expense rather than find the next
Speaker 5: blazing you know, radio hosts who's going to create create
Speaker 5: impact for years to come. And so a lot of
Speaker 5: those future stars are building themselves into digital world.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: You look across whether it's The Daily Wire, Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 5: Officer Tatum, there are a lot of new voices that
Speaker 5: are just building their brands digitally, and so I look
Speaker 5: at that and I go, well, if you want this
Speaker 5: industry to thrive in ten to twenty years, you've better
Speaker 5: be sinking money into the future voices that are going
Speaker 5: to carry it forward.
Speaker 1: You know, Jason, what you brought up to. Third thing,
Speaker 1: the boss's id. Many of the bosses are shall we say,
Speaker 1: sales talent that have risen at the top, and they're
Speaker 1: in charge of sales. And when I started n ten
Speaker 1: eighty three, I'm sure I was terrible the first couple
Speaker 1: of years, but I was given time to develop. I
Speaker 1: spent many years as a practicing attorney representing criminals. That's
Speaker 1: how I got to talk radio, representing three individuals charged
Speaker 1: with murdering police officers, and they asked me, how can
Speaker 1: a nice young guy like you represent just despicable human beings.
Speaker 1: I was given time to develop, and a year or
Speaker 1: two later I became pretty good. And when you have
Speaker 1: talent identification being done by salesmen, that's not a good thing. Secondly,
Speaker 1: you talk about the new voices, there's no money being
Speaker 1: developed in the market product. I think we sell advertising,
Speaker 1: goods and services, et cetera, and we're quite successful in it,
Speaker 1: but we should promote ourselves in the same market in
Speaker 1: which we want our swimming pools and our cars and
Speaker 1: our insurance, financial consulting, et cetera. Want We want that
Speaker 1: to be part of it too, So we don't market,
Speaker 1: we don't have new voices. When individuals like myself and
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell and so many people here, Rocky Boyman Eddie
Speaker 1: move on. Guess what, there's no one coming up. There's
Speaker 1: no minor league. We used to have minor leagues. You
Speaker 1: might have three hundred talk radio stations in the Midwest.
Speaker 1: Now we probably have five or six. So the minor
Speaker 1: leagues develop new talent that doesn't exist, and we have
Speaker 1: to advertise our own product in our own market because
Speaker 1: it works. Secondly, we need new voices. And thirdly, we
Speaker 1: need individuals, maybe like a Tony Bender, who can identify
Speaker 1: new talent that can be developed. And if we don't
Speaker 1: do those three things, we're in trouble, and I don't
Speaker 1: think we can be. As long as the talent is there,
Speaker 1: the marketing is there, and we can identify new ways
Speaker 1: of getting the spoken word out, whether it's a podcast
Speaker 1: or whatever, it's a spoken word. And as long as
Speaker 1: human beings have existed, going back fifty thousand years, there's
Speaker 1: always been a spoken word. Whether it's whether it's in
Speaker 1: a cave or it's in a tunnel, it's in a hole,
Speaker 1: it's in a tree, We've always spoke to each other
Speaker 1: about what's coming. And that's the rule of talk. Ready
Speaker 1: to be coaching, to be interesting, to be provocative. And
Speaker 1: if we don't do that, this industry is in trouble
Speaker 1: well together.
Speaker 5: Always chalk it up to this bill. I've always run
Speaker 5: by the adage of people like to hear people talk
Speaker 5: with and about other people, and so you need interesting
Speaker 5: people who can do that right, who can form a
Speaker 5: connection with a listener, who could interview interesting people who have,
Speaker 5: you know, unique perspectives on the world in front of us.
Speaker 5: And so, you know, in the in the years past,
Speaker 5: we would look out to, as you noted, you know,
Speaker 5: the smaller markets. Go find this guy in the middle
Speaker 5: of the country, in a small city, bring him into
Speaker 5: a larger market. He'll be thrilled to finally get a
Speaker 5: bigger stage to perform on. Today, people just build their
Speaker 5: own identities with podcasts and YouTube and they can make
Speaker 5: enough money doing that that they don't need to go
Speaker 5: to Middle America and relocate and so in the past
Speaker 5: it'd be like, well, wouldn't you be privileged to work
Speaker 5: at our radio station and look at this great opportunity.
Speaker 5: And today they go, wait, you want to pay me
Speaker 5: what I already make independently. I don't leave my house,
Speaker 5: I create my own content. I don't have a boss.
Speaker 5: So unless you're going to change my life from a
Speaker 5: financial standpoint, that makes so much sense to get rid
Speaker 5: of this. Why do that? And so if you do
Speaker 5: have people who are young who are coming into your
Speaker 5: place of business, you should want to get them around
Speaker 5: as much as possible and show them what they can
Speaker 5: create here, because look, you got in the business just
Speaker 5: as I did, and you probably the minute you started
Speaker 5: doing was like, Wow, this.
Speaker 1: Is really cool. I love what I do.
Speaker 5: And that's our superpower as an industry is when you
Speaker 5: bring people into the fold with a brand like an LW,
Speaker 5: they go, wow, look at the bigness of this radio station.
Speaker 5: I could be part of this. But you can't do
Speaker 5: that if you don't bring them into the fold and
Speaker 5: give them a shot. And the first part you touched on,
Speaker 5: you know, listen, it's okay if some people in management
Speaker 5: come from a sale side. I do think you need
Speaker 5: to understand how to make money as well as grow
Speaker 5: an audience. But what I've found happening a lot, especially
Speaker 5: the last decade since I started consulting and building my brand,
Speaker 5: is that there's become too much reliance on the sales
Speaker 5: side and not enough on programming. And I've made this
Speaker 5: comment a number of times to client, says, if the
Speaker 5: radio industry controlled film, we would tell Steven Spielberg how
Speaker 5: to write movies. And you can't do that. You've got
Speaker 5: to let Stephen Spielberg pick the actors, pick the setting
Speaker 5: that he shoots in, because that guy knows how to
Speaker 5: create a hit movie that makes money. And so we
Speaker 5: just need more Steven Spielberg's in the industry and salespeople
Speaker 5: who are smart enough to say, listen, if he's really
Speaker 5: good at identifying talent and creating hit content, he's going
Speaker 5: to help me make a lot of money, right, you know.
Speaker 5: And so to me it just goes you know, these
Speaker 5: are not revolutionary ideas. It's just that I think sometimes
Speaker 5: we take our eye off the ball and get so
Speaker 5: focused on this week, this day, this month, that we're
Speaker 5: not thinking about two years, three years in the same
Speaker 5: way you were given time to develop. Great talent, take
Speaker 5: time to develop. You know, it takes you two years
Speaker 5: to connect with an audience and really start to become
Speaker 5: a you know, a trusted friend on the air. And
Speaker 5: so if anything, I just think we've got to get
Speaker 5: back to our roots and really understand that. Like unlike
Speaker 5: the year's past where you were compared to other radio
Speaker 5: the future is going to be do you do audio
Speaker 5: better than television? Do you do audio better than print?
Speaker 1: Bill?
Speaker 5: Go look at the New York Times on YouTube. They
Speaker 5: do better video and have more of a following than
Speaker 5: TV stations, yet people would call them a newspaper. So
Speaker 5: you know, when you get into the world of competing
Speaker 5: with Spotify, Apple, Amazon and every other news operation from
Speaker 5: television to print, and they're doing audio as well as you, well,
Speaker 5: then what makes you unique and important in a decade
Speaker 5: You've got to continue to invest in your product and
Speaker 5: your people.
Speaker 1: Someone, starting here in the beginning, I would say to
Speaker 1: number one, be an interesting person, Be well read, know
Speaker 1: how the world operates, Be a little bit of a
Speaker 1: a storian, a little bit of political scientists, be a
Speaker 1: little bit of a geologist, be a little bit of
Speaker 1: an urban planner. In other words, have some experiences in life.
Speaker 1: Number two, you have to you have to build your brand.
Speaker 1: And by that I mean we had a living legend
Speaker 1: here named Jim Scott who would have business cards printed up.
Speaker 1: When you got off the air at nine or ten
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. He would walk around restaurants at
Speaker 1: lunch time, hand out his cards, meet people like he
Speaker 1: was running for office, and he would say, Okay, listen
Speaker 1: to me tomorrow morning. What's your name again, I'll mention it.
Speaker 1: And what I did in the beginning was take every
Speaker 1: speaking arrangement that I could get. Every engagement that got
Speaker 1: a hold of me, if they wanted a pep rally,
Speaker 1: someone to cheer them up for a football or basketball game,
Speaker 1: or speak to some other group, I was always available
Speaker 1: to go speak to build my brand. And then when
Speaker 1: events took place in Cincinnati, whether it's the reds of
Speaker 1: the Bengals, or a flood or a political upheaval or
Speaker 1: some other disaster, those individuals knew kind of they kind
Speaker 1: of know Bill Cunningham, the kind of my nickname is Willy,
Speaker 1: Get a hold of Willy, and then I would call them.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, I would have high school coaches on
Speaker 1: the air with me in order to talk about their
Speaker 1: big game the next night, Friday night, and then they
Speaker 1: would invite me to the pep rally and I would
Speaker 1: cheer them up and get them to win the game
Speaker 1: or lose the game. Now what I do is invite
Speaker 1: in the state champions So if you want a state
Speaker 1: championship boys or girls basketball, football, hockey, whatever it might be, soccer,
Speaker 1: I'll bring in the coach along with three or four
Speaker 1: star players. Now what would happen is the entire school
Speaker 1: would be listening. They wanted to know why Muller High
Speaker 1: School won the state basketball toler or why Beachwood High
Speaker 1: School and Northern Kentucky did well. And I had the
Speaker 1: coach on and then I build the brand, and then
Speaker 1: I try to be interesting. I try to be well read.
Speaker 1: I try to be a good interviewer. I try to
Speaker 1: connect with the community and touch everyone within one hundred
Speaker 1: miles of Cincinnati. And after forty one years, I've been
Speaker 1: somewhat successful at doing that because I worked at it.
Speaker 1: You just can't show up in the morning and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: what have we got today? The night before I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about today, what am I going to do that this
Speaker 1: afternoon on Monday. Oh, I got what's the angle? Go online,
Speaker 1: find out what's going on. I read the Inquirer. Print
Speaker 1: media is largely collapsed, it doesn't exist much anymore, but
Speaker 1: there's something there. Local television does a okay job reporting
Speaker 1: the news. I go there, I look at other sources.
Speaker 1: Then I connect with people to inform my audience and
Speaker 1: to entertain them, and never forget the entertainment aspect. Many
Speaker 1: times I'd listen to Rush Limbaugh and laugh, and you've
Speaker 1: got to be informative, and you've got to be entertaining.
Speaker 1: You've got to be connected to the community. They have
Speaker 1: to know who you are. When something happens, they want
Speaker 1: to turn and see what Willy has to say about it.
Speaker 1: Jason Barrett of Barrett Media, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, Bill, what you just touched on is the
Speaker 5: importance of the marketing aspect of what we've touched on,
Speaker 5: in addition to the content. Right to me, it always
Speaker 5: comes back to you've got to have great content when
Speaker 5: you step into that studio from the microphone on right, Yes,
Speaker 5: but you also have to build relationships with your guests,
Speaker 5: with your advertisers, with your audience. And so you're in
Speaker 5: the Bill cunning And business. WLW survives and thrives based
Speaker 5: on the fact that you are a really good content
Speaker 5: creator who knows how to connect with people. And so
Speaker 5: the more people that come to your party every day,
Speaker 5: the better it is for wlw's business, the better it
Speaker 5: is for the Bill Cunningham business. And so what you're
Speaker 5: touching on is something that every host in America should
Speaker 5: be doing. They should be marketing themselves. I don't you know,
Speaker 5: today we have the advantage that we didn't when we
Speaker 5: were coming up in the industry, where we didn't have
Speaker 5: social platforms, we didn't have video the way we did today.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was thrilled that I didn't have to
Speaker 5: cut real to real tape when I started, right, So,
Speaker 5: so things have definitely changed. There's more opportunity than ever
Speaker 5: to market. You know, it still goes back to shaking hands,
Speaker 5: building friends. You know, the same way you talked about
Speaker 5: connecting with the high school coaches is the same thing
Speaker 5: you have to do when you're working with an advertiser
Speaker 5: to make sure that they support the station and your
Speaker 5: show going forward. And so all of these things are
Speaker 5: easily doable if people prioritize their business and care about it.
Speaker 5: And it can't just be the talent, though, Bill, because
Speaker 5: you're going to do your part to try to make
Speaker 5: sure your show performs. But the radio station has to
Speaker 5: do their show their part two. And I'm not just
Speaker 5: saying WLW. Every radio station has to do their part
Speaker 5: to let their local market know, hey, we have a
Speaker 5: great product, Hey we have great talent, and this is
Speaker 5: a place you should spend your time because if you
Speaker 5: do that, eventually people spend time and that becomes important
Speaker 5: and appealing to a lot of people who want to
Speaker 5: spend money.
Speaker 1: With great conversation. And once again, I want to thank you,
Speaker 1: but I guess I was selected as the best talk
Speaker 1: show host in America Middays, and I'm very thankful of
Speaker 1: that you picked this radio station, or shall we say
Speaker 1: those in the industry pick this radio station as the
Speaker 1: best talk radio station in America. And Jason Barrett, Barrett Media,
Speaker 1: the official trade magazine of talk radio, thanks for coming
Speaker 1: on the Bill Cunningham Show. And we speak the same language.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that you and I are both out there.
Speaker 1: But like Tony Bender, and programming that can identify talent
Speaker 1: and help us out and maybe we'll do it again
Speaker 1: and about a year to see where talk radio is
Speaker 1: at that point. But Jason Barrett, thank you and for
Speaker 1: what you've done for the industry, and thank you for
Speaker 1: that designation of yours truly in this station. And Jason,
Speaker 1: may you continue to have a great day. And God
Speaker 1: bless you.
Speaker 5: My pleasure, Bill continued success to you and the crew.
Speaker 1: God bless America. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham News
Speaker 1: Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 6: In Gonzales, looking to send Washington into the divisional round.
Speaker 1: Step good, kick, it is.
Speaker 7: The Cordiac commanders are the clutch commanders. Day do it again,
Speaker 7: We'll see you.
Speaker 1: It's a troit Gonzales ticks the talk It Hello, Hello, quiet,
Speaker 1: and I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 6: Guy in Gonzales looking to send Washington into the divisional round.
Speaker 6: Step good, bold kicher.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 7: Commanders are the clutch commanders. Don't do it again, We'll
Speaker 7: see you. It's a troit Ta Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Kick said the talk It kicks, unbelievable. Who is that guy?
Speaker 1: Do you know who that guy is?
Speaker 8: That's the Commander's radio network. Kind of sounded a little
Speaker 8: bit like Dan Horden a little bit like maybe, uh,
Speaker 8: what about Paul Keels. He's still doing Ohio State football?
Speaker 1: Yes he is. I'm watching the game. Of course, first
Speaker 1: down on the one, Zach Taylor play was called, which
Speaker 1: is second and two. He throws it out to the
Speaker 1: left six yard loss. Zach Taylor would have called that play.
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Probably?
Speaker 8: Yeah, But it's first down on the one and you well,
Speaker 8: you can't get through the why don't you go the
Speaker 8: one way?
Speaker 1: And then sweeping a white He had a wide open
Speaker 1: area cut of the hill. I would have said four times,
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak. But you're not going to give it to
Speaker 1: somebody and get No, you're not going to get the
Speaker 1: push push either. Against Ohio State, they're nine and a
Speaker 1: half point favorites against Rocky Boyman's bunch a week from
Speaker 1: to night. What does Rocky say about that one? I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll wait and see if they come in
Speaker 1: at two thirty. If he's got does they have the
Speaker 1: guts to come in? He's got the guts. If not,
Speaker 1: I think I State should hammer. Oh no, we'll see. Well,
Speaker 1: nine and a half's a lot of points, for sure.
Speaker 1: A Notre Dame hasn't lost since Northern Illinois in September,
Speaker 1: and this is almost February. See what happened? College football
Speaker 1: never ends all next year. He goes to sixteen. Now
Speaker 1: what they'll until March? And like the NBA and Late
Speaker 1: Martin to spring camp. It'spenking of Soccer FC is now reporting,
Speaker 1: So I guess winning camp is on? And then where's Acosta?
Speaker 1: Where's Lucho? What does he say? I don't know, they
Speaker 1: don't know where he's at. Does he want money? Did
Speaker 1: he go back? Is he gonna go play for a
Speaker 1: home Argentina? Does he want money? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 8: I guess he's under a deal. Deal, so get there. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they're they're reporting already. Their first match is like a
Speaker 8: week from Friday or something. Well that's not don't they
Speaker 8: play until December?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: There's no off season, no no for nothing, thanks, No
Speaker 1: offseason in college football, no off season hardly in baseball, basketball,
Speaker 1: you're playing all night long. Hockey you're playing until you know,
Speaker 1: almost training camp and seg Today is frank zy Bell's
Speaker 1: eighty ninth birthday. Today Frank Zi Bell a Sarah Poles
Speaker 1: and Spas. He may not be eighty nine. He looks
Speaker 1: a lot younger than that though.
Speaker 8: I think he's about forty nine, No, forty it's like
Speaker 8: he's holding his age.
Speaker 1: Well, you know. Also, Willy we Hit.
Speaker 8: We say happy birthday also to one of of our
Speaker 8: own today, who isn't the illustrious engineer extraordinary.
Speaker 1: Mike T and T Mills. Thank god, he's the Nike
Speaker 1: Mills birthday and and broadcasting legend in the tri State.
Speaker 1: Bob Bron Nope, Rob Bron, Nope, Governor Bron, You're no
Speaker 1: you did who he's just got sworn in as the
Speaker 1: governor of Indiana.
Speaker 8: No, no, you were, you were, You're going You've gone cold?
Speaker 8: You were hot? A couple of pix ago. He's on
Speaker 8: Channel twelve. Twelve stands for news right. Nick Clooney ninety
Speaker 8: one years young today, ninety one lived a long, lappy
Speaker 8: birthday Nick Clooney segment, Did it all right?
Speaker 1: News talk show? Everything? Yeah, ran for office, got hammered
Speaker 1: as I got hammered too. We share something in common
Speaker 1: that I was hammered twice. We just talked to Joe Dieters.
Speaker 1: Shall I say Justice Justice Joe? Yeah, we can't call
Speaker 1: him Justice Joe anymore because judge if that just got
Speaker 1: to arrest us. Well, he said he was in Kenwood
Speaker 1: almost came by. Well why not, he said, he's above us.
Speaker 8: He's oh, oh, pardon me. I mean, well, you were
Speaker 8: there at the coronation, right. It took a Dare Park
Speaker 8: kid to swear in as Santax Boy. That's all I
Speaker 8: can say without me that sant X Boy had no
Speaker 8: shot picked him up after he lost to John. You
Speaker 8: tak you're you're taking credit for everything justice Joe has
Speaker 8: done on his austrious career.
Speaker 1: He tapped me on the shoulder nineteen eighty five at
Speaker 1: the Board of Elections, Yeah, and said can I get
Speaker 1: on there? I said, aren't you? Are you the guy
Speaker 1: that lost to John Waxmunsky. He said, oh, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: Joe Deaters. I said, no, you can't get on there.
Speaker 1: Go win something. And forty years later you lost to
Speaker 1: Helen Fix the fixes in, get the fixed out, both
Speaker 1: of them. Man Voto Cunningham. How that modo go? It
Speaker 1: was pretty good by probably at the time. But the
Speaker 1: next year I ran from Adare City Council with a
Speaker 1: guy named Doug Oppenheimer, and my motto was a chicken
Speaker 1: in every pot. That was a democratic thing. Wasn't you
Speaker 1: long I you were a democratic one. I was a
Speaker 1: democratic proud demo maybe one again. Now you're in your
Speaker 1: come back to your senses. I'm coming back the other direction.
Speaker 1: And after that I'll go I'm not sure I'll be
Speaker 1: a Democrat. But you never know. Segment. You never know.
Speaker 1: By the way, Chris Smitherman should run for mayor on
Speaker 1: the Charter I ticket in Cincinnati. What's the deal with
Speaker 1: our mayor? The mustache and that new hairdo and the glasses.
Speaker 1: He's losing it.
Speaker 8: Oh and also Willie we thank God, thank God today
Speaker 8: for the girders that has shown up on the I
Speaker 8: four seventy one bridge.
Speaker 1: It surprised me. We're not there doing the show live
Speaker 1: and hearing them hammer the hammer the girders in. Mike
Speaker 1: Dwaine told me the bridge would be operational by the
Speaker 1: middle of February. That's about five weeks from now. It's possible.
Speaker 8: Well, they got to the bran Spence DoD in forty
Speaker 8: five days right when that blew up. That was a
Speaker 8: little different. We got to get these girders seven girders. Segment,
Speaker 8: not girdles, but girders.
Speaker 1: Well, heave the student reporters.
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Speaker 8: Heating at Koolie five one three five three one sixty
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Speaker 8: few days because that temperature is plummeting zero much like
Speaker 8: the stock market.
Speaker 1: But this weekend brain and forty degrees, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: we need. Then you know what you ought to do.
Speaker 1: You got a car, call Frank's eyebell. You might be
Speaker 1: able to get a pool by the get a pull
Speaker 1: if you called today, you'll swim this year.
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Speaker 8: Matt Uberfluss, the former Chicago Bears coach, is involved in
Speaker 8: the search now for the Bengals new defensive core ordinator.
Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy. Out in the Big D that's Dallas to
Speaker 8: you and me, the Cowboys head coach. They will have
Speaker 8: a new one. The two sides could not agree on
Speaker 8: a new contract. The leading candidate for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Job is eon Dion Sanders.
Speaker 8: College basketball, Auburn is the new number one team in
Speaker 8: the nation in this week's Associated Press poll. The AP
Speaker 8: Iowa State is second, Duke third, Kentucky eighth, Perdue is seventeenth.
Speaker 1: What about Xavier? About Sean Miller? They've got a win
Speaker 1: at Paul Saturday, Wes Miller, and now it's Miller time.
Speaker 1: Wes Miller.
Speaker 8: They were booing it with three minutes to go Saturday
Speaker 8: against Kansas.
Speaker 1: Not good. So Auburn's the new number one, Cincinnati thirty fifth?
Speaker 1: What number? Which Miller is better, Wes or Seawan? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You can get the latest on the Xavier Musketeers tonight
Speaker 1: Sean Miller Show at seven on fifty five k see
Speaker 1: the home of Brian Thomas and also the home of
Speaker 1: Tony Bender and Scott Reinhardt. By the way, segment, we
Speaker 1: were selected as the best talk radio station in America,
Speaker 1: my part media, we get another award? Yes, how about
Speaker 1: saying behind you all those other awards? Just line them up?
Speaker 1: Does anybody care? Don't get me? Have you heard any
Speaker 1: have you heard anything, don't get me started.
Speaker 8: College football one week from tonight, national championship on the
Speaker 8: line in the atl What about Rocky?
Speaker 1: What about Rockey?
Speaker 8: Ohio State Buckeyes? What about Rocky against the fighting Irish
Speaker 8: of Notre Dame. Can you give me Paul Keele's number?
Speaker 8: I think so, let me have his number. I want
Speaker 8: to call Paul Keels good things set up? Soccer news
Speaker 8: FC Cincinnati's signing midfield midfielder Brian Anuga today to a
Speaker 8: contract through twenty twenty five. He made he just got
Speaker 8: done playing with Nashville SC What about getting on Maybe
Speaker 8: I'm outo Acosta? How about Arch Sleister? Talking about Ohio State?
Speaker 8: Is he locked up again? Cincinnati's Peyton Sterns and Katie mcmalley.
Speaker 8: I like her first round matches coming up later tonight
Speaker 8: Cincinnata time in the Australian.
Speaker 1: Open, playing tennis in Australia. Yeah, kick off the season.
Speaker 1: That's good, I guess, yeah, don't know. But second then
Speaker 1: they'll be here for John Barrett's Cincinnati Open. Cincinnati opened August.
Speaker 1: In August, but when We're selected is the best talk
Speaker 1: radio station in America by the Bible of Talk Radio
Speaker 1: shouldn't that be a big deal? I would say so, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're number one? What Sloan?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 1: Eddie and Trace or Eddie and Rock excuse me?
Speaker 7: Four?
Speaker 1: Scott Ryan Hart's the best program director in America. Not bad.
Speaker 1: It's like the Big Red Machine with Sparky Anderson and
Speaker 1: four studs and also some pretty good other players. Referring
Speaker 1: to you and Brian Combs, don't forget them? Well, you
Speaker 1: think could I be Ken Griffy Senior?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: George Foster? I think you're George Concepcion. A big argument
Speaker 1: is two, Okay, who's a better shortstop? Barry Larkin or
Speaker 1: Davy Concepts? I think they were great in their and
Speaker 1: their and their time. Barry ninety five m VP, MVP right,
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, National Hall of Fame, right conceptsy On
Speaker 1: no MVP Hall of Fame. I think he should be right.
Speaker 1: He was three or four in the best shortstops of
Speaker 1: his era. Yeah, I think so. Segment is added in sports.
Speaker 1: I think so, Yes, humble and quietly proud, would you agree?
Speaker 1: Always now segment on this weekend? Things are going to
Speaker 1: get better. I'm told by the city plow manager. You
Speaker 1: know there's plows out there plowing that these these speed
Speaker 1: bumps all over Cincinnati have made it damn near impossible
Speaker 1: to clear roads because the the plows keep getting stuck
Speaker 1: on the speed bumps. They don't enforce traffic laws anymore
Speaker 1: in the city because it's politically incorrect it so they
Speaker 1: put down.
Speaker 8: Look at the look at your latest red light. When
Speaker 8: you go there, I always wait five seconds turns greenand
Speaker 8: make sure exactly because the mayornism doesn't want traffic laws
Speaker 8: in force.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, anybody then one homeless law town doesn't
Speaker 1: either done one of my force.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: So therefore the obstacles the bumps, and shall always say
Speaker 1: in the road the speed bumps catch on the front
Speaker 1: and they break it, and so the stupidity of city
Speaker 1: government stops unbridled. So I don't know what to tell you. Well,
Speaker 1: probably some streets are probably have never been touched since
Speaker 1: in a week. Is anyone out of Mount Adams yet?
Speaker 1: Is that functional? Can you get out unless you got skis?
Speaker 1: Can't get out? And on the side, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a law that you have to clear out your sidewalk
Speaker 1: of snow. Are you aware of that? I have no,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Really, I'm gonna send it in
Speaker 1: every in every little at every town around here, or
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, the city of Cincinnati, not in the state
Speaker 1: of Ohio. Wowbody as a law that says you have
Speaker 1: to clear your sidewalk, try to walk on. I went
Speaker 1: to zips Hamburgers the other day. Okay? How good is
Speaker 1: zips the best? Okay? And you could not walk on
Speaker 1: the streets going to and fro Mount Lookout Square because
Speaker 1: no one is cleaned off their own sidewalks. It's a law.
Speaker 1: You can be cited for that segment. I don't want
Speaker 1: you to get them out there and do it. Get
Speaker 1: them out there and do it. But the city is
Speaker 1: so run incompetently that it doesn't do the basic things
Speaker 1: like clear the streets and quit putting speed bumps in
Speaker 1: the mattle in the middle of Madison Road, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, that when the snow plow comes through, guess what, kaboom,
Speaker 1: it's thousands of dollars worth of damage. You don't know
Speaker 1: where it is right well? You ah, So you think
Speaker 1: you think your things are easy in middle Tucky, they're not. Okay, segment,
Speaker 1: Get me out of the stood's report, please, Willy and
Speaker 1: utter of a beautiful day here in the tri State,
Speaker 1: and watch out, those temperatures are fallen. We leave you
Speaker 1: with the immortal words of the Stood Report. Build that wall,
Speaker 1: Build that whall. How about several illegal aliens in law
Speaker 1: La have been arrested with blow torches in their hands
Speaker 1: setting fires, and two of them are legal immigrants from
Speaker 1: Mexico and they're setting fires using a blow torch? Can
Speaker 1: you explain this to me? Plus, terrorism reigns supreme, and
Speaker 1: I don't know that those poor folks are They're wiped out,
Speaker 1: wiped out. It's gonna take years to come back from that.
Speaker 1: According to one insurance expert I watched on TV, seventy
Speaker 1: percent don't have fire insurance because it's too expensive. One
Speaker 1: woman said in a somewhat modest home, who was two
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars, looked like your house cap.
Speaker 1: God said that it cost me twelve hundred dollars four
Speaker 1: years ago for fire. Twelve hundred bucks. Yeah, now it's
Speaker 1: twenty two thousand a year, And she said, now it's
Speaker 1: gonna And no, I didn't do it. Now I wish
Speaker 1: I had. Would you spend twenty two thousand dollars a year?
Speaker 1: Live it out there? Yeah? Probably so if you can,
Speaker 1: you have to pay it. But what if you can't
Speaker 1: afford it, Well, then I guess you go to a bank.
Speaker 1: As you go to a bank borrow the money, you
Speaker 1: borrow money to have an insurance premium. With the fires
Speaker 1: out there, heck yeah, okay, that's it's incredible out there.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. They've lost fifteen thousand homes. Strecific Palisades is gone.
Speaker 1: How about nine public schools have been burned to the ground,
Speaker 1: nine public schools, stopping centers, strip malls, playgrounds, banks, restaurants gone.
Speaker 1: Not just like flooded. We got to get right, got
Speaker 1: to get there. No structure gone nothing, no electricity, no power.
Speaker 1: You got looting out there? What are they looting? Mass
Speaker 1: wisted metal? Or they go through it and see if
Speaker 1: somebody is as safe and they kind of get it open.
Speaker 1: Most people have a safe or something, and most of
Speaker 1: those arrested, the looters and legal immigrants. That's what I figured.
Speaker 8: Look at that segment obliterating and then the smoke. But
Speaker 8: the smoke from all this, how's that going to affect
Speaker 8: people years down the road?
Speaker 1: You want to talk about iron fighters, You want to
Speaker 1: hear about irony Allegedly, Gavin Newsom, who's a clown, is
Speaker 1: concerned about the environment. His policies have done what to
Speaker 1: the environment? Obliterated it? Right, So those who seek to
Speaker 1: use laws to change the environment for the better and
Speaker 1: act laws that destroy the environment.
Speaker 8: Then there's a bunch of dopes out there running the drones,
Speaker 8: I guess for their own enjoyment or something hitting the planes.
Speaker 8: What happens if one of those planes go down death?
Speaker 8: I mean, come on, man, look at that right there.
Speaker 8: Critical threat through Wednesday. Unbelievable. I'm glad I live in
Speaker 8: With all the problems we have here, I want to
Speaker 8: stay right here.
Speaker 1: Amen to that. Let's continue Bill Cunningham the segment number
Speaker 1: one in the country right here on news radio seven
Speaker 1: hundred w L Do you know I would look to
Speaker 1: my left, Fox News and sing and are both reporting
Speaker 1: that hamas expected to release thirty three hostages in first
Speaker 1: phase of emerging cease file ceasefire deal. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the timing of that release. Allegedly, it's going to be
Speaker 1: very very soon. Much like when Jimmy Carter was leaving
Speaker 1: the president, seeing Ronald Reagan was taken over, the first
Speaker 1: thing Iran did was try to curry favor with the
Speaker 1: incoming president, Ronald Reagan by releasing hostages. It's happening again.
Speaker 1: As far as weather's today, tomorrow, the next day, we're
Speaker 1: not sure, but AMAS has agreed to release thirty three
Speaker 1: hostages in first phase of emerging cease fire deal. More
Speaker 1: to come. Allegedly there's about one hundred and two, but
Speaker 1: there's been some reporting that more than half have died
Speaker 1: or were killed in custody by Hamas, which is a
Speaker 1: religious organization acting under the auspices of the religious leaders
Speaker 1: of Iran, killing innocent men, women, and children. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens at that moment. Plus, as I speak,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is delivering his foreign policy legacy addressed to
Speaker 1: the Department of State. He's telling everyone in the Department
Speaker 1: of State what a great job he did as the
Speaker 1: commander in chief slash architect of the foreign policy. We have,
Speaker 1: in effect now handing over to Donald Trump a literal
Speaker 1: dumpster fire. The fires are everywhere, and right now as
Speaker 1: I look, strong winds threatened to undo the progress his
Speaker 1: crew's battle La blazes all over Hell's half Acre, and
Speaker 1: it is thought that it's going to be a year's
Speaker 1: if not a decade or more before the area resolves
Speaker 1: itself and it can recover, but maybe longer than that
Speaker 1: because of the insurance crisis. There's a little bit of
Speaker 1: an insurance bump here in the Tri State, which is
Speaker 1: why I deal with Alvin Rohrer. Put the roar back
Speaker 1: in your insurance, because he will do his best to
Speaker 1: hold down pricing and do a market you around the
Speaker 1: world to get you the best deal imaginable on your insurance.
Speaker 1: But that's a different story. If you're in Florida, especially California,
Speaker 1: the insurance businesses are dumping out. One report had seventy
Speaker 1: percent of the structures destroyed were not covered for fire
Speaker 1: calamities because the last few years it's been hard to
Speaker 1: do business in the state of California, if not impossible,
Speaker 1: and no matter how big the insurance company is, they
Speaker 1: cannot continue to do business losing every money with every
Speaker 1: policy they write. Doesn't work that way. So, as Joe
Speaker 1: Biden this afternoon now begins to celebrate his policy successes,
Speaker 1: especially foreign policy, I thought it might be wise to
Speaker 1: kind of review where we were four years ago. As
Speaker 1: you know that the Donald Trump Trump forty five left
Speaker 1: office and he gave to Biden. A very strong economy
Speaker 1: in the United States was in great shape energy wise.
Speaker 1: In fact, you've noticed that the pump right now prices
Speaker 1: are going down because of the Trump effect. There was
Speaker 1: also a secure border, and there was large parts of
Speaker 1: the southern border left to the side to be put
Speaker 1: up over the next six months. One of the first
Speaker 1: things Joe Biden did was take that order and tear
Speaker 1: it up and put in new orders to do not
Speaker 1: put up any more offenses, keep the fences down. Then
Speaker 1: also recently issued an order to sell it which was
Speaker 1: lying fallow in the ground. But at this point that's
Speaker 1: been reversed. So when Trump left office in January of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the country was strong. We had American
Speaker 1: energy independence who were selling energy all over the world.
Speaker 1: We had a relatively secure border, and more to follow,
Speaker 1: had a robust military, peace was abroad, and economic prosperity
Speaker 1: at home. You might recall that there were no American
Speaker 1: soldiers the last eighteen months killed in Afghanistan, and it
Speaker 1: was because Trump spoke directly to the leadership of the
Speaker 1: Taliban and told the Taliban where they were during the
Speaker 1: telephone call and said if one more American soldier is killed,
Speaker 1: I'm coming after you and your family. The Taliban wanted
Speaker 1: to live, so they stopped killing American soldiers. There was
Speaker 1: prosperity at home and prosperity abroad. In addition to that,
Speaker 1: you may recall that the unemployment rate was as low
Speaker 1: as it had been in forty years. That inflation was
Speaker 1: non existent. It was like one and a half two percent.
Speaker 1: That more heage interest rates were below three percent, sometimes
Speaker 1: two and a half percent. Inflation was very low. The
Speaker 1: country was quickly recovering from the depths of the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 1: In January of twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden took office,
Speaker 1: all he had to do was maintain the status quo
Speaker 1: and make it better. Often say, take the best and
Speaker 1: make it better and find a way to stay together.
Speaker 1: That's all he had to do. But Joe Biden, being
Speaker 1: a left wing liberal Democrat, completely in the hands of
Speaker 1: people like George Soros, said, We're not doing that stuff anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want to secure border, I don't want American prosperity.
Speaker 1: I don't want a strong, proud military not at war.
Speaker 1: What I want is the democratic way of doing thing.
Speaker 1: Which is chaos everywhere. He could have continued the successful
Speaker 1: Biden policies, he decided to engage in reckless federal deficit spending,
Speaker 1: increasing the debt in four years by eight point six
Speaker 1: trillion dollars to thirty six point five trillion dollars. The
Speaker 1: biggest spender proportionally in American history bar none, and to
Speaker 1: do that he had to borrow a whole bunch of money.
Speaker 1: When he started borrowing the money on the ten year
Speaker 1: note in order to finance all the Democratic Party giveaways.
Speaker 1: What happened to interest rates were they won up when
Speaker 1: there was less money available and more desire. Forth, the
Speaker 1: price went up. He's the biggest spender in American history,
Speaker 1: and this massive spending led to rapidly increasing inflation in
Speaker 1: the federal reserves. Decision to start raising interest rates, we
Speaker 1: got to raise rates. Consequently, mortgage rates of skyrocketed, leading
Speaker 1: to a crisis in the real estate industry and keeping
Speaker 1: millions of Americans from realizing the dream of home ownership.
Speaker 1: This was a specific policy of Joe Biden, and in
Speaker 1: the insurance businesses. One can only imagine when, if at all,
Speaker 1: California will ever recover from this, because most of the
Speaker 1: homes are not insured, and most of the wealth family
Speaker 1: has is in their private home. It's gone. In fact,
Speaker 1: not just their house is gone, but all their memories,
Speaker 1: everything in their home is pulverized. It's incredible. And as
Speaker 1: inflation soared at home up to nine percent under Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: By the way, when he took office, it was one
Speaker 1: point eight percent. His policies after a year and a
Speaker 1: half got up to nine percent. And the current household
Speaker 1: debt for Americans increased by one hundred and forty seven
Speaker 1: billion dollars in the third quarter. Listen to that. The
Speaker 1: household debt for Americans increased by one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: seven billion in the third quarter through a staggering seventeen
Speaker 1: point nine trillion dollars in American household debt, which includes
Speaker 1: about one point one seven trillion in credit card balances,
Speaker 1: so Americans were forced to charge more to pay their bills. Additionally,
Speaker 1: Americans were unable to save money in their savings account,
Speaker 1: which would have had the impact of doing what bring
Speaker 1: down the interest rates. And during his presidency, Joe Biden
Speaker 1: credit a catastrophe at home and abroad. Now American people
Speaker 1: view him extremely unfavorably. Right now, he's going to leave
Speaker 1: office as the most unpopular, the worst president in modern
Speaker 1: American history. He's beating Jimmy Carter at this point. It's
Speaker 1: a lousy record, it's pitiful. It'd be logical for Biden
Speaker 1: to assume to end his pathetic presidency on a high note. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: he's going in the opposite direction. Just in the last
Speaker 1: couple of months, he took two hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: acres off the shores of America out of available oil
Speaker 1: and gas reserves. He also is announced two more national
Speaker 1: monuments in California, preventing federal drilling on about forty thousand
Speaker 1: more acres. He pardoned fifteen hundred people going out the door,
Speaker 1: including his own son, for various drugs and other charges,
Speaker 1: including the trafficking of a teenage girls for his personal benefit.
Speaker 1: This is what Joe Biden's going to talk about. I
Speaker 1: guess he's talking now at two of five pm to
Speaker 1: my left, and it's pretty sad. And just in the
Speaker 1: Middle East, Just in the Middle East, when Trump engineered
Speaker 1: an historic peace deal called the Abraham Accords, they were
Speaker 1: building on Joe Biden could have built on that success,
Speaker 1: but Biden didn't want to do that. He play caated
Speaker 1: and awarded the radical rulers of Iran with gifts of
Speaker 1: over six billion dollars in direct money to Iran and
Speaker 1: also made them gave them more favored nation trade status
Speaker 1: and also released to them about seven hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in additional money's held in American banks. And right now,
Speaker 1: Iran used that money to do what to increase the
Speaker 1: military aspects of a HESBLA and a moss and the
Speaker 1: Huthist and more. Iran used that money to put the
Speaker 1: Middle East on fire when it was shall we say,
Speaker 1: subdued under Donald Trump the Abraham Accords, that Iran was
Speaker 1: being controlled. And now there's real fears that Iran somehow
Speaker 1: is going to get a nuclear weapon. One of the
Speaker 1: first things they would do is use it against Israel
Speaker 1: and then the world would basically end as we know it.
Speaker 1: That that is the and I haven't talked about Afghanistan yet.
Speaker 1: In Afghanistan, it was a peaceful time when Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was in office, and he also very peaceful. What he
Speaker 1: did was provide schools for girls and women in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: They started having their human dignity and their human rights
Speaker 1: restored under Donald Trump. Under Joe Biden talk about human
Speaker 1: rights girls and women in Afghanistan, they were obliterated. Biden
Speaker 1: elevated woke generals and woke admirals and considered DEI policies
Speaker 1: in the military, resulting in a severe recruitment crisis. Every
Speaker 1: month ten thousand American men and women do not volunteer
Speaker 1: to go to the military because they don't do not
Speaker 1: hold it in high regard, and Biden projected American weakness
Speaker 1: after the withdrawal from Afghanistan that left thirteen American military
Speaker 1: personnel dead and the Taliban a deadly terrorist group in
Speaker 1: control of the country with billions of dollars of our
Speaker 1: military equipment that they used in parades. Just the Afghanistan
Speaker 1: by itself was an unmitigated Biden disaster, would you agree.
Speaker 1: They celebrated the collapse of the regime put in by
Speaker 1: the Americans to govern Taliban using our military hardware and
Speaker 1: pray to that down the city streets and Kabo Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: And the weakness also told the Russians go ahead invade
Speaker 1: Ukraine and this led to three years that deadly war
Speaker 1: with two million dead in and around Ukraine. Because of
Speaker 1: what Joe Biden has done his presidency makes Jimmy Carter's
Speaker 1: look like it was good. For God's sakes. This is awful,
Speaker 1: It's terrible, and all began under a lie, perpetuated by
Speaker 1: a lie, which is he's mentally capable to do the job.
Speaker 1: The New York Times has now reported that in the
Speaker 1: early days of the Biden administration in the in the
Speaker 1: spring of twenty twenty one, it was known by his
Speaker 1: staff and by others this guy was not mentally equipped
Speaker 1: to do the job. He didn't have the mental ability.
Speaker 1: He was failing mentally and has gotten worse the past
Speaker 1: four years. And who covered it up? Democrats covered it up.
Speaker 1: The liberal media covered it up, NBC, ABC, CBS and
Speaker 1: PBS covered it up. The Washington Post, New York Times
Speaker 1: covered it up because it didn't fit their purpose of
Speaker 1: promoting Democrats and hurting Republicans. It is really unbelievable. With
Speaker 1: this lack of mental ability has been the president, causing
Speaker 1: many to ask, by the way, who is the president
Speaker 1: who's making all these decisions for judge ships, for foreign policy,
Speaker 1: Who's making decisions on taking out of the public domain
Speaker 1: the ability to drive for natural gas and oil off
Speaker 1: the nation's coast. Who's making the decisions about destroying ann
Speaker 1: war and all the pipelines. Joe Biden is not capable
Speaker 1: of reading or making a decision. Hell, he thinks that
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris still could beat Donald Trump for the presidency,
Speaker 1: could beat him. She ran and she lost. He's not
Speaker 1: even sure who ran in the last election. And he's
Speaker 1: the president. He's left us massively in debt, disrespected around
Speaker 1: the world, a wide open southern border, a currency to
Speaker 1: this being trashed, and a debt that is now thirty
Speaker 1: seven trillion dollars, leaving Americans approximately eighteen trillion dollars in
Speaker 1: personal debt collectively all around the country. And to make
Speaker 1: things even worse, last Friday, the Biden administration, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, issued an eighteen month extension of TPS Temporary
Speaker 1: protective status for about a million persons seeking asylum from Ukraine,
Speaker 1: El Salvador, Sudan, or Venezuela. This is an attempt to,
Speaker 1: shall we say, Biden proof the Donald Trump administration and
Speaker 1: its ability to deport non citizens from this country. You
Speaker 1: might recall in Springfield, Ohio, something like twenty thousand Haitians
Speaker 1: for granted TPS status. And in Lachland, Ohio, near Wyoming, Ohio,
Speaker 1: there's thousands of more Tanians wondering the streets what's going
Speaker 1: to happen next. Well, Biden just made it very difficult
Speaker 1: to deport them because he giving them a twenty four
Speaker 1: month extension on the TPS status. That is a small inkling,
Speaker 1: according to Matt Reees, of what Joe Biden and others
Speaker 1: have done in this country. So to compliment him and
Speaker 1: to award him with anything is despicable. I consider Joe
Speaker 1: Biden to be a disgraceful man, hateful and angry, who
Speaker 1: has committed numerous sexual acts against family members and others
Speaker 1: for which you would never held account I cannot underestimate
Speaker 1: the loathsome presidency that has been left behind and given
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. It's a nightmare that we will courageously
Speaker 1: try to forget. But we can't because we got one
Speaker 1: more week to go. And as jade Van said yesterday,
Speaker 1: there's a dumpster fire underway literally and figuratively all over
Speaker 1: this world because of the policies of Joe Biden. And
Speaker 1: these are the same policies in effect in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and Chicago and New York City and Washington, Memphis, and
Speaker 1: Cincinnati were liberal Democrats have theories about the way things
Speaker 1: should be, but instead the reality is that there's not
Speaker 1: a major American city with functioning public schools, a fully
Speaker 1: funded police and fire department jobs proliferating through out in
Speaker 1: places where people want to live. My own art town
Speaker 1: right here in Cincinnati nineteen seventy had about a half
Speaker 1: million residents. We've lost forty percent of the residents. And
Speaker 1: let's face it, no one would send their kid to
Speaker 1: public schools in Cincinnati if you're the option to do
Speaker 1: something different because to the policies of liberal Democrats, at
Speaker 1: some point they should be held to account. Many feel
Speaker 1: sorry for the people of Los Angeles, California, what they're
Speaker 1: spending on DEI and homelessness and drug use and illegal
Speaker 1: alien aliens and more, sanctuary city and a sanctuary state.
Speaker 1: One couldnot imagine a worse circumstance unless it would be
Speaker 1: in Chicago, New York City, where writers on the subway
Speaker 1: are set on fire, raped and robbed in public. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But the media will not cover objectively anything about Joe
Speaker 1: Biden or any Democrat. But I just did How does picture?
Speaker 1: How does that picture. Look to you, how does this
Speaker 1: sound about the status of this country. It's truly unbelievable
Speaker 1: what he's done to the nation, domestically on the border
Speaker 1: with the budget and around the world as the nation's
Speaker 1: enemies take full advantage of his mental decline, fully available
Speaker 1: for all to see. If you had eyes to see
Speaker 1: and ears to hear, you knew what was going on,
Speaker 1: but you're encouraged not to talk because it might help
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who now will take the oath office in
Speaker 1: seven days. Let's continue with more if a line becomes
Speaker 1: available five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand or
Speaker 1: pounds seven hundredth and new ad and t. We're worst off,
Speaker 1: We're more in debt, We're more at each other's throats.
Speaker 1: There's more crime, illegal activity, more drugs, more illegal aliens
Speaker 1: pouring into the country, setting Los Angeles on fire. And
Speaker 1: Ukraine continues to be a thorn in our side and
Speaker 1: has killed a couple million people. And now Israel itself
Speaker 1: may come under attack from the Iranians if they don't
Speaker 1: act first. That is the policy left to us by
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris two twenty six HOMEI Your
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Speaker 6: In gonzoals looking to send Washington into the divisional round.
Speaker 6: Step good, hold down, kicking.
Speaker 7: It is the Cordiac commanders are the clutch commanders.
Speaker 1: They do it again.
Speaker 7: We'll see you at de Troit. Gonzales Tick said the
Speaker 7: talk it ticks.
Speaker 1: Hello yet, And I'm broadcasting, so Rock, I'm studying last
Speaker 1: night's game right here, I'm on the air. I'm looking
Speaker 1: right there. The kick look wide right, Donk, and this one, Donk.
Speaker 1: Dennis had a joint out that commanders. That guy went
Speaker 1: nuts in the.
Speaker 9: Same way our mother or Notre Dame pushed that field
Speaker 9: goal from gonna go right.
Speaker 1: Looked like it might have gone right, but Jesus' mother
Speaker 1: just came at was a Notre Dame fan said, you're good.
Speaker 3: Hold got its way and the kick is Smitch jitter
Speaker 3: with seven second left GMC the horish lead.
Speaker 1: So maybe she's also a commander's fan. Don't know about that.
Speaker 1: But the in Detroit is gonna be tough. That's real
Speaker 1: tough duty right there. With that is tough. You got
Speaker 1: Bills or Ravens. He got game? What a game? Lamar
Speaker 1: and Alan, I'm afraid to say because Scott sloanapythe put
Speaker 1: a table over my head. I think Baltimore. What do
Speaker 1: you say, Rock, I'm gonna say the Bills. That's kind
Speaker 1: of the game. That's the game. But you know, so,
Speaker 1: is the MVP vote already done?
Speaker 9: No? The Pro Bowl all pro voting is Lamar Jackson
Speaker 9: got I think thirty Allen eighteen, Bro.
Speaker 1: But I mean they're the m v P. No, I
Speaker 1: don't they don't. They haven't, They haven't, media hasn't voted yet,
Speaker 1: or whoever it should suspend it until after this game.
Speaker 1: Then give the award whoever wins this game winner, take
Speaker 1: all that's it on the table like you do in
Speaker 1: the casinos, all right in the middle, with your heels
Speaker 1: on the table, and just push.
Speaker 2: It all in.
Speaker 8: What about Philadelphia and maybe the Rams of the Vikes?
Speaker 8: Who takes it tonight? Do you like ro Phoenix?
Speaker 9: And do you like tonight in Phoenix? I like the
Speaker 9: Rams the time I get want the Viking. Both my sons,
Speaker 9: for some strange reason, are Vikings fans.
Speaker 1: I like the uniforms. And you know what that means.
Speaker 9: My middle son is a He's a Justin. You will
Speaker 9: what you never know what? He's a Justin Jefferson fan.
Speaker 9: My oldest son is a JJ McCarthy fan, even though
Speaker 9: he's not can't play currently the court man, I get
Speaker 9: the job back from the Vikings. Well, if the Vikings
Speaker 9: win this game, now what now the Vikings they franchised
Speaker 9: Sam Darnold and five years two or they let him
Speaker 9: go and he becomes the highest prize free agent on
Speaker 9: the market. Because this is a very weak quarterback tra
Speaker 9: Afri coming out of college. It's McCarthy any good?
Speaker 7: Do we know?
Speaker 1: It looks good on paper? But who knows? He looked
Speaker 1: good in the very few preseason action you have. You
Speaker 1: never know, You never know, You don't know.
Speaker 2: Did he go with.
Speaker 9: The potential or the proven entity Donald? But I think
Speaker 9: that this, this will make their decision easy because if
Speaker 9: he I thank Donald as a career is underachieved. He's
Speaker 9: kind of hasn't really shown up in big games. Now,
Speaker 9: I guess with the coach with the Vikings and things
Speaker 9: have worked out a lot better. But then he had
Speaker 9: the bad game against the Tryings not so can he
Speaker 9: show up in a big game?
Speaker 1: Since McCarthy any good is what I want to know.
Speaker 1: I think he is thinking to.
Speaker 8: Do the Steelers keep Mike Tomlin. Yes, yes, okay, I
Speaker 8: don't know, because what do you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I mean guy had had had a
Speaker 1: losing season in what fifty five years or something since
Speaker 1: he's been there. Maybe yeah, never, maybe more. How about
Speaker 1: this one first down on the one yard line, it's
Speaker 1: Texas against the Ohio State bucket. Do you do four
Speaker 1: quarterback sneaks or push touch pushes or do you may
Speaker 1: be on the second play, throw it out to the left,
Speaker 1: let the guy run eight yards deep, get tackled. That
Speaker 1: plays a tipped Let me defend.
Speaker 2: Times.
Speaker 9: And I always think about this when fans and the
Speaker 9: Super Bowl trans over react about a decision or a
Speaker 9: play call. Is it safe to say that Steve Sarkejian
Speaker 9: watched more film of Ohio State than you, or you
Speaker 9: or me or any fan out there ever? You think
Speaker 9: he probably had a good idea. Boy, over the evidence
Speaker 9: of the entire season. I've watched every game Ohio State
Speaker 9: versus every defense, every third and short every fourth. That
Speaker 9: is probably man let's strength of their defense is that interior.
Speaker 9: So I have I have evidence that running up the
Speaker 9: middle and doing a quarterback sneak prop doesn't work. The
Speaker 9: evidence shows it doesn't work. So I'm not going to
Speaker 9: be stupid and do you try to do the same thing.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna try to shoot to the outside. Did it work,
Speaker 9: It didn't work.
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 9: I'm just saying that probably you know, I'm gonna give
Speaker 9: him the benefit of out. I'm not saying it was
Speaker 9: a great call. I'm just saying he went with the
Speaker 9: evidence that he research.
Speaker 1: You hear the comments from the Ohio State back the
Speaker 1: cornerbacks who said we knew they were in this alignment.
Speaker 1: They were going to pitch it left, and the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna shoot the crease, and they watched and
Speaker 1: watched and said, it's that alignment. We can tell he's
Speaker 1: going to be a pitch left, and they shot the crease.
Speaker 1: And then that Jack Sawyer becomes an instant. How about
Speaker 1: that buck eye legend? He will Yeah, he's he's set.
Speaker 1: I'll never pay for another meal and he is set.
Speaker 1: That was a great play, great young man. You see
Speaker 1: an NFL or can he make it at the pitch? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's a linebacker probably top three rounds kind of pick.
Speaker 1: I was saying, how about that playing Buck Eye? Your
Speaker 1: that's it? That's it. That's it. I can't recall another.
Speaker 9: The things are gonna be remembered. Punching that guy and
Speaker 9: Jack Sawyer, Jack.
Speaker 1: Former taking it back. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I was shocked in a maze that. Now it also
Speaker 1: comes down to players.
Speaker 9: Not every defense has Caleb Downs who can fly up
Speaker 9: like that and run support.
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw that pitch toss around, I'm gonna and
Speaker 1: he went there almost when the ball was highed. He
Speaker 1: ran to that point.
Speaker 9: I said before the season that may be the best
Speaker 9: transfer portal signing in college footbak So.
Speaker 1: I watched him at Alabama and he is good. It's
Speaker 1: really good. He's Minka fitzpatrick ish segment. Give me some
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Speaker 1: the new governor of Indiana. I think so Sheldon Bron
Speaker 1: really that Rob Bron and Bob Braun, right, Yeah, Sat Braun.
Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy out out and the big D in Dallas's
Speaker 8: boys head coach and two sides couldn't agree on the
Speaker 8: length of a contract.
Speaker 1: So he's out leading candidate Dion. That's a circus, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Any buddies with with Jerry Jones, He's not going on.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has a lot of buddies. Does he make
Speaker 1: him the head coach of his team?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is that a good idea? I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Colorados? Is he welcome? Can he go
Speaker 1: back to Colorado? I don't think the sun's gone. I
Speaker 1: think Bill Belichick might have made his choice too soon.
Speaker 9: I'm sure he did his due diligence and found out
Speaker 9: that even if that job he's going to vacant, he's
Speaker 9: not going to hire me. He went to North Carolina
Speaker 9: because that was his only option.
Speaker 8: Former Bears head coach Matt Eberflus, Yeah, he was involved
Speaker 8: in the Bengal searchs as a New Day defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: How about that? Now he's a good defensive coordinator.
Speaker 9: He was with the Colts in what twenty eight team
Speaker 9: to twenty twenty one, a top ten run defense and
Speaker 9: top ten and takeaways.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. That's what they
Speaker 1: bring back. Mike Zimmer, everyone likes to bring everybody back.
Speaker 1: He still lives in in the Independence Kentucky. Zimmer has
Speaker 1: the place there, lives there. So I don't know this.
Speaker 1: Tractors from back to attractor. I love Batavia, I love
Speaker 1: those those guys. I'm just saying, what's the name of
Speaker 1: this guy? Flues? Yeah, Iberflus, can you spell it?
Speaker 9: And he has some head coaching experience, albeit he didn't
Speaker 9: perform well as his head coach, so maybe that there's
Speaker 9: something valuable.
Speaker 1: There for Zach get McCarthy, then where's he go? No,
Speaker 1: they screwed up by not hiring Vrabel. And you see
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick sitting in the living room of a seventeen
Speaker 1: year old talking about the glories of the target Belichick
Speaker 1: with a seven.
Speaker 9: But here, here's the deal, guys. These coaches no longer
Speaker 9: have to go into the living room, are these these kids?
Speaker 1: Because it's good. It's not a it's not a pitch anymore.
Speaker 1: It's not Hey, let me tell you about our facilities.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you.
Speaker 9: It's how much you're gonna pay me. Brett Bilama, good
Speaker 9: book check book head coach of Illinois. He did not
Speaker 9: visit of all his recruits for this recruiting cycle. He
Speaker 9: did not stand in the living room of one of them,
Speaker 9: because he said, it's this pointless.
Speaker 1: All they want to know is the number, and I
Speaker 1: can do that. I can call them and tell him
Speaker 1: what the number is, so I don't need to recruit him.
Speaker 1: I need to sell them. It's a pretty hard black
Speaker 1: or white deal that RedHawks now have. Some Belichick don't
Speaker 1: have to do anything. It's Scott Farmer writing some big
Speaker 1: checks in Miami segment. I don't know. They're getting players up.
Speaker 1: Chuck Martin's getting players like crazy.
Speaker 9: They got the Kwan Finn who was at Toledo two
Speaker 9: years ago. He was the MAC Player of the Year
Speaker 9: in twenty twenty three. He went to Baylor this past year.
Speaker 9: I don't know the situation. If they only played three games.
Speaker 9: I don't know if he just didn't make it or
Speaker 9: if he got hurt.
Speaker 1: But he's a good player. Well now he's playing for Miami.
Speaker 1: How much money wy that quarterback get in Miami? All
Speaker 1: of it a million? Imice sor you're getting a million
Speaker 1: about Gisel? Gisel's getting six hundred and fifty thousand for
Speaker 1: not playing for the Bear Cuts. Is that accurate?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. That's what someone knowledgeable close to me said.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Freemantle four hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 1: We're talking some syrup. We're talking money and where where's
Speaker 1: the r O? I though, you need to return on
Speaker 1: investments number one and Gisel's not returning on the investment,
Speaker 1: which you agree, Greed, It's like, man, your reaction.
Speaker 8: Also, Willie, one week from tonight the game there it
Speaker 8: is Rock Ohio State, Notre Dame, all of the action.
Speaker 1: You'll be right here on seven hundred WLW. What's your
Speaker 1: coones on the line? Rock a chance on movie down there?
Speaker 1: What what adress? Your former they bringing back X stars
Speaker 1: of the Irish.
Speaker 9: Talks about the Irish Irish cast. You're just just a
Speaker 9: white Irish tuned into my broadcast where I just.
Speaker 1: The pebbles are gonna be recruited. He's gonna come with
Speaker 1: you with the absolutely not no, absolutely not, you're taking
Speaker 1: the pebbles. No what me myself and I to work trips,
Speaker 1: saying I thought the three I thought the three kids
Speaker 1: would be recruited by Marcus Freeman We're gonna work on
Speaker 1: that as well. But I'm just saying they will be
Speaker 1: recruited by Deer Park High School right now in Jim Stall,
Speaker 1: the new superintendent little nil money for the park.
Speaker 2: You like that?
Speaker 1: I do you like that a lot? Where are the
Speaker 1: kids going?
Speaker 2: Do you know? Yet?
Speaker 1: Can't say and say it depends how much money for
Speaker 1: the nil nil.
Speaker 9: N I l is coming to high school? By the way,
Speaker 9: it exists in other Why do you think you think
Speaker 9: Chris Henry's kid who was at what was it with throw?
Speaker 9: You think he went for a senior year and went
Speaker 9: out to California? Of course, yes, yeah, sure, I know better,
Speaker 9: I know it happen.
Speaker 1: Saying a better education. Now, here's one thing that came
Speaker 1: up over the week, and I see it in the
Speaker 1: literature that the SEC paid its players all the time,
Speaker 1: directly or indirectly, lots of money. Yes, Now the Big
Speaker 1: Ten and all the rest now caught up to the
Speaker 1: SEC and the above table as opposed to the under table.
Speaker 1: There's not been an SEC champion in the last two seasons.
Speaker 1: No one's not even been in the finals. That means
Speaker 1: the Big Ten and others, Notre Dame included, have seen
Speaker 1: the ways of the SEC. Now they can do it legally,
Speaker 1: and the SEC did it illegally. Your comments go.
Speaker 9: Well, it's say it's spreading out the talent, which it
Speaker 9: depends on what side you're on, if it's a good
Speaker 9: thing or not.
Speaker 1: The days of those dominant twenty twenty one twenty twenty.
Speaker 9: Two Georgia teams, I had, like, you know, eleven guys
Speaker 9: drafted off of defense kind of stuff. That's not going
Speaker 9: to happen anymore because no one's the What made the
Speaker 9: SEC and the top teams, the Alabama's and the Georgias
Speaker 9: of the world, what made them the best is their depth. Okay,
Speaker 9: over the course of a fourteen game season and somebody's
Speaker 9: gonna get hurt, well, they would bring in a guy
Speaker 9: off the bench that would be a starter on any
Speaker 9: other team. Well, now that kid that's the seventh or
Speaker 9: eighth lineman or sixth or seventh or eighth lineman on
Speaker 9: the team, he's not gonna sit there and be the backup.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go somewhere and play. So you don't have
Speaker 1: the depth.
Speaker 9: I think it's remarkable Notre Dame's depth, and they had
Speaker 9: so many injuries and are still playing in the National
Speaker 9: title game.
Speaker 1: That Georgia quarterback. He just went to Miami, right the girlfriend.
Speaker 1: His girlfriend plays basketball there. The Vender Twins left the
Speaker 1: Dogs and went to the Canes.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's not I'm not a huge I got a
Speaker 9: text from a g S. It shows you he's probably
Speaker 9: he's gonna make more money in college than you would have.
Speaker 1: It in Caitlin Clark to the w n b A.
Speaker 1: She was making two two and a half million year
Speaker 1: in Iowa. Her salary there was four hundred and some
Speaker 1: thousand and then in the NBA. But now she can
Speaker 1: still make the money. And if she stayed at iowash
Speaker 1: she would have all the shoe deals anyway, plus two
Speaker 1: million dollars, all the rings, all the had, all women everything.
Speaker 1: I got a texture from a g SL star Ward.
Speaker 1: I want to mention the school that says g SL
Speaker 1: already pays big money. Is that true? Here's the trust me.
Speaker 1: I know all about that, and I know the school
Speaker 1: that does it the most. That's out. I can't say,
Speaker 1: I can't say, I won't say. I can't say elder
Speaker 1: can't say look behind you, say elders looking at you
Speaker 1: right now? You can't say Muller can't say st x X.
Speaker 1: How about Hamilton Baden? What? Yeah, yeah, how about the
Speaker 1: Home of the Ramp It says Sycamore. So so GSL
Speaker 1: is already paying money? Is that correct? It's pleading the
Speaker 1: fifth and drinking one at the same time. All right?
Speaker 1: Should we broadcast live from the girders? What's that?
Speaker 8: You got to do your show from the No the
Speaker 8: big deal? That was a big news today. Rock the
Speaker 8: Girders won four seventy one bridge and show up.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you know I'm trying to sell Eddie on
Speaker 9: her remote down there that look, yeah yeah, why not
Speaker 9: from Talk the Iron Workers.
Speaker 1: A little bit six o'clock tonight, Tanya or Rook will
Speaker 1: be at the girder. She'll be on top of it,
Speaker 1: on top of the gird the girder. Yes, she'll be
Speaker 1: on top That's what she says. Right here, Sick, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about a girdle. I'm talking about a girder.
Speaker 1: Were you rather is you gonna walk it like a
Speaker 1: tight rope a girdle? Or come on, get your justice?
Speaker 1: Joe's white. I'm sorry, show some respect. I'm sorry. I'll
Speaker 1: have to watch chan when I had to checks produced
Speaker 1: By the way, six o'clock, did I She'll be on
Speaker 1: the girder wearing a girdle. A girdle on a girder?
Speaker 1: Can you say that quickly? Five times? Tyler Rourke at
Speaker 1: six will be on the girder wearing a girdle. Right there,
Speaker 1: there's the text. All right, what's on the Big Show?
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 9: I've talk to Jason Williams right out of the gate.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna talk to Jim Moriant four talk about what's
Speaker 9: going off the banks and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor is.
Speaker 9: Mike Bloud on four thirty five. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 9: the Roger Bacon stag coming up. He's gonna unveil who
Speaker 9: the big guest is gonna be.
Speaker 1: N I l Roger Bacon. I didn't mention that name.
Speaker 1: Can say, I'm Wayne Carrucci. Is he providing big money
Speaker 1: to the girls soccer team? That's the Roger Bacon? Where
Speaker 1: are your son's going to school? Can't say Saint X,
Speaker 1: can't say your park. I can't say, are you sure
Speaker 1: deer Park, dear Park, deer Park. I don't know. Infatuated
Speaker 1: with Joe Biden on the TV right now, walking around.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you by the hand, live right here
Speaker 1: from the girder, the girdle girder. I'm live at six
Speaker 1: o'clock the Supreme Court. Justice. Now, calm down. I saw
Speaker 1: her at the investiture. She don't need she does not
Speaker 1: need a girdle. I'll say that, olock. Maybe a little spanks,
Speaker 1: but no girdle. You know what I'm saying. You know
Speaker 1: what spanks is? Hell? Yeah, me too. Oh well, it's
Speaker 1: getting hot in here, segment. Give me getting hot in here?
Speaker 1: We're not in Save all your clothes segment. Get me
Speaker 1: out of the stage report, please, well you. On this
Speaker 1: beautiful Monday, January thirteenth, we say happy birthday to one
Speaker 1: of our own. Who is it, Mike the King Mills
Speaker 1: Engineering bordin there like happy birthday to Nick Clooney ninety
Speaker 1: one years young? Today there was somebody else won there?
Speaker 1: I forget who it was. Might have been Brian Clone.
Speaker 1: Oh and if it's your birthday today, happy birthday. If
Speaker 1: it isn't, to hell with you. We leave you with
Speaker 1: the immortal words of the stew report. Patriotic is active
Speaker 1: for the disagree with the President. Didn't bother me. George Bush,
Speaker 1: what a clown he was forty three, was a lousy,
Speaker 1: terrible president. Would you agree? Agreed? Agreed segment. Thank you, Yes, sir, Rocky.
Speaker 1: Good luck with the spanks and the girdles and the girls.
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