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<v Speaker 1>Today, my Billy Cunningham, the Great America.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome this Friday afternoon, after another glorious parade in festivities

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<v Speaker 2>involving Reds Opening Day and doing it since about eighteen

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<v Speaker 2>sixty nine.

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<v Speaker 1>And doing it for quite a while.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, the game did not turn out as who anticipated,

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<v Speaker 2>six to four.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a loss.

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<v Speaker 2>But nonetheless, Brian Hamrica, when I was at the Holy

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<v Speaker 2>Grail yesterday, for it seemed like five minutes, but it

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<v Speaker 2>was like three hours. Channel five was everywhere, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>looking at you going nuts on the parade route with

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<v Speaker 2>all the festivities going on. And of course you have

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<v Speaker 2>some perspective having been a professional comedian. I like to

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<v Speaker 2>think of myself as a funny man myself and traveling

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<v Speaker 2>tether and fro. But when I met Michael Waltrip for

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<v Speaker 2>the first time, he said, man, I knew this thing

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<v Speaker 2>was big.

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<v Speaker 1>I had no idea it was like this.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, if you take the NBA, the NFL, Major

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<v Speaker 2>League baseball, college basketball, college football, take them all together,

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<v Speaker 2>there's not one city in America, maybe the world, that

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<v Speaker 2>is an opening for their team like we do in Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 2>It's unpresident. And I told you this off the air

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<v Speaker 2>and you said, really, and my life is a great American.

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<v Speaker 2>I've never seen the Philly Market parade, never been in it,

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<v Speaker 2>of course because I'm working doing other stuff. But tell

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<v Speaker 2>me your remembrances of yesterday. Let's not talk about the game.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, it's a yeah, no, it's an unbelievable spectacle here

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<v Speaker 3>in the city. I always start the thing. Every year.

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<v Speaker 3>They come to me. I'm up at Flint Finley Market

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<v Speaker 3>and they come to me as we start the parade,

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<v Speaker 3>And every year I say the same thing. I always say.

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<v Speaker 3>If it's New Year's Eve, you want to be in

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<v Speaker 3>New York. If it's Mardi Gras, you want to be

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<v Speaker 3>in New Orleans. But if it's Opening Day, you have

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<v Speaker 3>to be in Cincinnati, because that is the city of

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<v Speaker 3>Opening Day. This city does it like nobody else. We

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<v Speaker 3>talked to a couple who came here from Oregon and

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<v Speaker 3>they came all the way to Cincinnati to see Opening Day.

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<v Speaker 3>They said they were in a city I can't remember

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<v Speaker 3>which one last year and they said they were completely disappointed.

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<v Speaker 3>They said it was like another game, and that's not

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<v Speaker 3>what we do around here. You know, we have this, uh,

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<v Speaker 3>this parade that I call a strand of Cincinnati DNA

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<v Speaker 3>that runs from Finilely Market to Fountain Square. It's just

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<v Speaker 3>unlike what anybody else does, you know it is. It

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<v Speaker 3>is just uh, you know, it's just an incredible celebration

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<v Speaker 3>and it's not you know, just baseball. I mean that's

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<v Speaker 3>the theme of it, but it's really kind of you know,

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<v Speaker 3>having gone to these now for almost thirty years, Uh,

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<v Speaker 3>it's it's like spring is here, baseball is here, and

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<v Speaker 3>it's sort of like we're renewing our commitment in the

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<v Speaker 3>city and and it's like, yeah, we might not like

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<v Speaker 3>something that that the mayor does, or we might not

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<v Speaker 3>like something that the County Commission does, or we we

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<v Speaker 3>might be have or whatever, but we're all together in

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<v Speaker 3>this thing. And it's almost like, you know, Fourth of

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<v Speaker 3>July waving the flag. That's when we waved the Cincinnati

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<v Speaker 3>flag and everybody comes together and they're just glad they're

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<v Speaker 3>part of the city.

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<v Speaker 2>And I Brian Hemrick that there's no color, there's no race,

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<v Speaker 2>there's no gender, there's no class. I see little children,

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<v Speaker 2>I see old guys. I see those that have been

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<v Speaker 2>there thirty to forty years, having not been to one,

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<v Speaker 2>which is unbelievable because I'm working before it. But nonetheless,

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<v Speaker 2>going back in memory banks thirty or thirty five, forty

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<v Speaker 2>years ago, was it that big in the nineteen nineties.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, I think everybody's always had a sense.

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<v Speaker 3>But we get these years like when we have really

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<v Speaker 3>nice weather and you'll have like even more people come out,

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<v Speaker 3>and I think then that just kind of like amps

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<v Speaker 3>up this whole you know, sort of atmosphere, and then

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<v Speaker 3>people go, we got to go next year, and then

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<v Speaker 3>everybody would so up, you know when it's the night.

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<v Speaker 3>But then we get a really one, really rainy, crappy

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<v Speaker 3>year and everybody go, ahh, I don't know. That wasn't

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<v Speaker 3>like as nice as it was a couple of years ago.

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<v Speaker 3>But this one was a great one. Last year was

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<v Speaker 3>a really good one. The weather was great. It was sunny,

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<v Speaker 3>a little bit cool, but it was it was nice,

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<v Speaker 3>and so you know, everybody was able to be out there.

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<v Speaker 3>We saw we'd see these families that were just like

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<v Speaker 3>intent on carrying on this tradition, you know, so they

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<v Speaker 3>came when they were a kid, and now they're bringing

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<v Speaker 3>their little kid. I talked to a grandmother who had

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<v Speaker 3>her tiny little grandson in her arms, sit right on

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<v Speaker 3>the front brow, you know. So yeah, I mean you

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<v Speaker 3>see that we went one year. They had decided, like

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<v Speaker 3>I was supposed to be covering something else, and at

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<v Speaker 3>the last minute they're like, no, no, we need to

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<v Speaker 3>go down to and to turn you know, turn a story.

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<v Speaker 3>On opening day, I'm like, it's all almost over, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>and they said, no, run down there really quick and

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<v Speaker 3>get something. So I run down with my photographer and

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<v Speaker 3>we get down there and there's like I don't know

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<v Speaker 3>ten floats left, but there's this old fella sitting there

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<v Speaker 3>and he's like a mouns in the whole thing. He's

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<v Speaker 3>sitting there. Now there goes out there. Know that's Marty

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<v Speaker 3>made Man that down Marty Brennaman Hays as great as

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<v Speaker 3>ant and he just he was talking like on his own,

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<v Speaker 3>like like he was, you know, had a radio show

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<v Speaker 3>or something. And we're like, let's mike that guy up

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<v Speaker 3>and we might him up. And it turned out to

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<v Speaker 3>be a really good story, uh with this guy, And

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<v Speaker 3>so yeah, that's what uh, but that's what it's about.

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<v Speaker 3>You know. You get down there and you get all

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<v Speaker 3>this uh, all these people in that atmosphere, and uh yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I think people just a lot of people just go

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, sit in one spot and it's like

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<v Speaker 3>a conveyor belt of entertainment. It just goes by, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>one after another after another, and you see everybody, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, Anthony Munnos, I saw David Schultzer down there,

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<v Speaker 3>Heper Frinch was there, you know, just all the Cincinnati names.

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<v Speaker 3>Of course, Marty was there, the baseball players, and you

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<v Speaker 3>see former baseball players, current baseball players that are there.

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<v Speaker 3>Tyler Stevenson was there, and Brady Singer was there, and

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, uh, you know, so you just you know

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<v Speaker 3>who was there. Darryl Pace. Now I don't have to

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<v Speaker 3>think back for a name. Daryl pa He is the

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<v Speaker 3>greatest archer to ever walked the face of the earth.

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<v Speaker 3>This guy, and he's from Cincinnati, won like two gold medals,

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<v Speaker 3>won seven World champions was was named the greatest athlete

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<v Speaker 3>of the century, and and he was there. Warren was there.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, unbelievable. All the people that you see, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>Well, it's only getting I say, this is only getting

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<v Speaker 2>bigger and better. It can't get any bigger and it

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<v Speaker 2>can't get any better. Oh I can't imagine. Tony Bender

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<v Speaker 2>told me that his police forces told him there was

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<v Speaker 2>a million people.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, no, wait a minute, a million people. There's

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<v Speaker 1>one point six million to live in the metro.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think there was a million people there, but

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<v Speaker 2>look at the thirty seven thousand in my ballparked the

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<v Speaker 2>Great American. That was a drop in the bucket to

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<v Speaker 2>the people that were there. Yeah, maybe there were five

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<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, we asked the chief day before yesterday, just

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<v Speaker 3>before the day before the parade, and we said, hey,

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<v Speaker 3>how many people? What are your estimates? And and she said,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I don't know, but she said it would

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<v Speaker 3>not surprise me if we got a million people. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>so that's a lot. You know. I kept saying hundreds

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<v Speaker 3>of thousands because it would be it seemed like a lot,

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<v Speaker 3>But you know, a million people maybe, well, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Other Major League came Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. The White Sox just

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<v Speaker 2>picked the team Saint Louis. They have an opening day

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<v Speaker 2>and they have little attendance because the weather is bad

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<v Speaker 2>and so yeah, people.

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<v Speaker 1>Won't show up.

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<v Speaker 2>But this weekend it's gonna be The Yankee says, it's like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>well it was full and the Yankees of course, but

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<v Speaker 2>mainly it's not like it's not like a million and

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<v Speaker 2>a half million people come to little Cincinnati, Ohio, and

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<v Speaker 2>they have people from Oregon, the home of the Ducks

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<v Speaker 2>and the Beavers, fly to Cincinnati and say I want

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<v Speaker 2>to be part of the Findly Market Parade. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's like it's like the EBN fireworks, you know, Western

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<v Speaker 2>and Southern fireworks. It's one of those events that Cincinnati

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<v Speaker 2>we're so blessed and so unique. Something Marty Brennaman said

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<v Speaker 2>during our broadcast yesterday said, don't put too much on

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<v Speaker 2>Terry Francona.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm looking at him. Maybe you pump somebody up

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<v Speaker 1>to tear him down.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm watching listening to Sports Talk on fifteen thirty

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<v Speaker 2>this morning and also the National guys, and they're talking

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<v Speaker 2>about Terry Francona ripped off his mask and it was

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<v Speaker 2>David Bell, and I'm thinking, this guy's got two World

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<v Speaker 2>Series rings, he's one, uh, he's one, he's one, three pennants,

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<v Speaker 2>he's uh, the number one manager.

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<v Speaker 1>And already people are jumping off the bad Way game

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<v Speaker 1>one game and they're saying, we're done.

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<v Speaker 3>It's it's it's like, ah, this season is over. Yeah, well,

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<v Speaker 3>I think we got a lot of baseball. You know.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm expecting, uh, really good things out of this team,

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<v Speaker 3>you know. Uh, and they had a great, you know

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<v Speaker 3>first half. I mean their starting pitcher really did really

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<v Speaker 3>well getting through that. Yeah, and I think, uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>I think there's a lot of lights. So we'll see

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<v Speaker 3>what happens. You know. I'm I'm never one to you know, jumped.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm always kind of pessimistic, you know, to begin with west,

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<v Speaker 3>but I certainly wouldn't judge it on one game. No.

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<v Speaker 2>No, In fact, how about this fact, this fact from

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<v Speaker 2>Lance mcallis, so he's kind of a nerd when it

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<v Speaker 2>comes to this. The last eleven Red's opening days, and

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<v Speaker 2>if you take the games the last eleven seasons on

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<v Speaker 2>May first of each year, the Reds have had one

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<v Speaker 2>winning record in the last eleven years as of May first.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, that's so, it's all.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, it's kind of incumbent to get off to

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<v Speaker 2>a good start, which it's kind of important that to

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<v Speaker 2>get off to good goes. You don't want to be

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<v Speaker 2>behind the thirty games into the season after May first,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe thirty five. You don't want to be like you know,

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<v Speaker 2>ten and twenty. You don't want to be there. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's where the Reds have been. And it was anticipated

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<v Speaker 2>that Terry fan Conne would bring a new attitude. Then

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<v Speaker 2>he brings this great Britain guy, this bread out of

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<v Speaker 2>the ball, Bann Gerow, and he just coughs it up terribly.

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<v Speaker 2>Couldn't have made a worse decision. I would have brought

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<v Speaker 2>in Sam Mall, brought an Ashcraft. How the Reds have

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<v Speaker 2>a reliever who played for the Giants last year. Bring

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<v Speaker 2>that guy in instead of this Dureau character.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's his call.

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<v Speaker 2>But I would encourage you, Brian Hamrick, to keep hope alive.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I'm saying, Keep hope alive.

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<v Speaker 3>I think I think I'm gonna wait and see, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>somewhere around July or August, we'll have a better idea.

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<v Speaker 3>You know. I mean, there's so many games it's it's unbelievable,

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<v Speaker 3>like they all mean something. And you know, because when

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<v Speaker 3>you get toward the end of the year, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>and you're like two games out of first place, You're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>I wish we would have won that, you know, one

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<v Speaker 3>that we dropped. That was you know, we should have won.

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<v Speaker 3>But but there's so many games that anyone you know,

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<v Speaker 2>Now, one thing you've covered on playing and on the

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<v Speaker 2>Catholic priest Jeffrey Drew, and he certainly he went back

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<v Speaker 2>into court, and uh, there's a special place in hell

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<v Speaker 2>for priests and religious who engage in four sex with boys.

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<v Speaker 2>A special place in hell's got to be for them.

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<v Speaker 2>But explain your coverage of the reverend Jeffrey Drew and

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<v Speaker 2>his alarming behavior and what happened with a Connie Village

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<v Speaker 3>Well, he got he you know, he got a sentenced

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<v Speaker 3>and you know they found this out after a long

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<v Speaker 3>you know, a long investigation, a lot of complaints over

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<v Speaker 3>the years. Uh, they finally you know, make the arrest,

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<v Speaker 3>they get the conviction. He's serving his time and he'll

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<v Speaker 3>get out. You know, he's going to get out. But

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<v Speaker 3>the latest thing is that he that he did not

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<v Speaker 3>want to register as a sex offender when he did

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<v Speaker 3>get out and so like all sex offenders have to register.

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<v Speaker 3>But I suppose the judge they can expunge ther record

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<v Speaker 3>if they want to. So I get the judge can

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<v Speaker 3>make that decision and say, no, you don't have to

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<v Speaker 3>register as a sex offender. Well that's what he wanted,

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<v Speaker 3>but apparently that was denied, and even the prosecutor was

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<v Speaker 3>against this. I mean, there are organizations that have come

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<v Speaker 3>together over this whole issue, with the priests and and

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<v Speaker 3>some of this kind of behavior. They were all against that,

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<v Speaker 3>you know. I think the only one in favor of it,

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<v Speaker 3>I think was this guy. I mean, because nobody wants

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<v Speaker 3>tell anybody, because I think a lot of people think,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, you might have served your time, but that

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<v Speaker 3>might not change you as a person. And so that's

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<v Speaker 3>the concern, and that's why they have these goals where

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<v Speaker 3>you still have to register. And and so he's going

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<v Speaker 3>to have to register, and he's not going to be

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<v Speaker 3>able to live somewhere and not let the people know,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, who he is.

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<v Speaker 1>No, he got a deal. He got seven years in jail,

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<v Speaker 1>he got out a little bit early.

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously he's got no previous record, but this guy had

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<v Speaker 2>committed seemingly dozens and dozens of serious rapes against Ultra

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<v Speaker 2>boys and others, and special place in hell for him.

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<v Speaker 2>But once again, Brian Hemrick, thanks for coming on the

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<v Speaker 2>Bill Cunningham Show. You're chasing on the story right now

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<v Speaker 2>about snowplows. You go from Father Drew to Red's opening

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<v Speaker 2>day to snowplows. Give me a minute or two on

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<v Speaker 2>the snowplows that the city doesn't have snowplows.

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<v Speaker 3>I you know, I never know what's gonna happen. It's

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<v Speaker 3>like spend the wheel. People ask me what I do.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, what do you do every day? I say, here,

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<v Speaker 3>here's what I do every day. I get up, I

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<v Speaker 3>put on my white jumpsuit with the stars and the

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<v Speaker 3>and the in the banner, and I crawl into the

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<v Speaker 3>cannon and then I wait for him to light the fuse.

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<v Speaker 3>There's a lot of screaming and yelling, and I just

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<v Speaker 3>hope to hit the net at the end of the day.

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<v Speaker 1>You have no idea, no idea, no idea, Yeah, no idea.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, today we're looking we're talking about that. So

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<v Speaker 3>they had the city had, uh, you know, I had

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<v Speaker 3>some leftover money from some leftover funds or some money

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<v Speaker 3>that they generated, and they're trying to figure out what

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<v Speaker 3>to do with it. There's certain things they can do,

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<v Speaker 3>the certain things they can't do with it. One of

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<v Speaker 3>the things they could do was buy snowplows, race snowplow

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<v Speaker 3>and and that's what they decided to do with this

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<v Speaker 3>money because uh, you know, as you recall, wasn't that

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<v Speaker 3>long ago that we had that day when there was

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<v Speaker 3>so much issue. But we've never heard the report back

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<v Speaker 3>of what these guys were gonna do with uh, because

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<v Speaker 3>you remember, they had all these problems. They they had

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<v Speaker 3>the GPS that didn't get put in the trucks properly

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<v Speaker 3>or they couldn't figure out how to work it. They

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<v Speaker 3>had snowplowd drivers who were using big books instead of

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<v Speaker 3>a GPS to know the route. There were a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of issues. They were supposed to get a report back.

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<v Speaker 3>Well we've never heard that, Repett.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't want the report.

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<v Speaker 3>Get this snow wow anyway, so they're going to be

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<v Speaker 3>able to use this. They got one more snow wow,

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<v Speaker 3>so we'll see, all right.

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<v Speaker 2>Brian hemry Good luck. And that's another great day yesterday.

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<v Speaker 2>And I always say brighter days lay ahead. Last year

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<v Speaker 2>they won the first game opening day, then had a

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<v Speaker 2>bad season, finished fourth, and this year they lost them.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe the opposite will take place, but.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe the opposite will happen, maybe the opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>Keep hope alive, Keep hope alive. Brian Hamrick, thank you

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<v Speaker 2>for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanks again, mister Cunningham.

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<v Speaker 2>God bless you. Brian Hamric, the best there is. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>continue with more. Your comments are next that you're home

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<v Speaker 2>of the Reds and keep hope alive. We have a

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<v Speaker 2>good manager, the team looks to be better. Don't jump

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<v Speaker 2>off the vandwagon yet. As Tony Bender encourages people to

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<v Speaker 2>do all on news radio seven hundred, WU all of

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<v Speaker 2>you