Speaker 1: Back on the Big one seven hundred WLW. It's twelve
Speaker 1: o eight on this Friday afternoon. I'm Dan Carroll in
Speaker 1: four the great American Bill cunning Always glad to be
Speaker 1: here in for Bill cunning I'm always glad to be
Speaker 1: here behind this microphone no matter what time of the
Speaker 1: day or night it is. But when I'm sitting in
Speaker 1: for Bill Cunningham, it's a little something special and just
Speaker 1: to be part of this great radio station is as
Speaker 1: a special thing as well. Joining me now is another
Speaker 1: a very special individual from ESPN fifteen thirty and a
Speaker 1: guy who always answers the bell whenever I ask him
Speaker 1: to be on. It's the one and only Moegor and Mo.
Speaker 1: How are you today?
Speaker 2: I'm good? Dan? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? I'm good. Are you going to be traveling
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas when when you see starts the Crown Tournament?
Speaker 2: I will not be in laws. I would love to go,
Speaker 2: but I will not be making the trip to the
Speaker 2: first ever college basketball Crown Not.
Speaker 1: Have you learned anything about that particular tournament?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be interesting though the way
Speaker 2: it unfolds, and obviously from a Cincinnati perspective, but you know,
Speaker 2: the tournament's going to start fifteen days after selection Sunday.
Speaker 2: The NCAA tournament will have its entire first four rounds
Speaker 2: play out before the College Basketball Crown begins and the
Speaker 2: transfer portal opens up on Monday. And so I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be really interesting to see how this
Speaker 2: tournament works from the standpoint of teams putting our schools
Speaker 2: putting teams on the floor, and maybe being shorthanded players
Speaker 2: opting out. You know, we see this all the time
Speaker 2: in bowl games in college football, and I suspect the
Speaker 2: Bearcats when they played the Paul on April first. My
Speaker 2: suspicion is that some players who are on the team
Speaker 2: this year will not be on the floor for the
Speaker 2: Bearcats in Las Veguess. But there is money at stake here.
Speaker 2: The rumor is that there's three hundred thousand dollars to
Speaker 2: be split among players on the winning team. So you know,
Speaker 2: there's obviously a little bit of a financial inducement. We'll
Speaker 2: see if that can tell some players who ordinarily might
Speaker 2: opt out to go ahead and decide to play.
Speaker 1: Three hundred grand to be split amongst the winning team.
Speaker 1: If you would have told me ten or fifteen years
Speaker 1: ago that something like that was going to happen, I
Speaker 1: would have never believed it. It is absolutely amazing at
Speaker 1: times that we are living.
Speaker 4: In right now.
Speaker 2: It is and it's taking a lot of people, both
Speaker 2: inside and outside the sport a lot of time to
Speaker 2: get to get used to this era. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: actually think nil is why a lot of players chose
Speaker 2: to play in bowl games. My argument for years in
Speaker 2: college football was if you want players to play in
Speaker 2: bowl games, give them appearances. I think we are headed
Speaker 2: more and more down that road with each passing year,
Speaker 2: into a large degree with each passing day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we talk specifically about Xavier tonight, I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this the other day, about how much buzz
Speaker 1: I feel like there is around Xavier being in the
Speaker 1: tournament this year, and I was thinking to myself, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember you certainly are. I think
Speaker 1: most people listening to us are old enough to remember
Speaker 1: a time when being in the NCAA Tournament was par
Speaker 1: for the course. It was not unusual to have Xavier
Speaker 1: U see maybe NKU and you know, and by extension,
Speaker 1: the people are the teams that people care out about
Speaker 1: around here Dayton, Ohio State, Kentucky, Louisville, Indiana, teams like that.
Speaker 1: Every year, year in and year out. It seemed like
Speaker 1: all those teams were in the tournament. But now that
Speaker 1: we have Xavier is really the only local teamic. You know,
Speaker 1: Louisville was one and done, Kentucky's in. But there's so
Speaker 1: many teams that seem like it was normal for them
Speaker 1: to be in the tournament every year are not in
Speaker 1: the tournament, and it seems like that is becoming the norm,
Speaker 1: and making the tournament is the exception. Do you see
Speaker 1: that as just a cyclical thing or is this sort
Speaker 1: of the new normal we're living in when it comes
Speaker 1: to local teams making the Big Dance.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you have to answer that sort of
Speaker 2: on a school by school basis, but I mean, you're right.
Speaker 2: For a few decades, it felt like, you know, every
Speaker 2: March Cincinnati, Xavier, Kentucky, Indiana, Louisville for most of that time,
Speaker 2: Ohio State oftentimes Dayton in the nineties at least to
Speaker 2: Miami pretty much every other year. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 2: would get all those schools in the Big Dance, and
Speaker 2: you know, even from a Xavier perspective, this is just
Speaker 2: their second n Tournaments in twenty eighteen, obviously the second
Speaker 2: and three years with Sean Miller. They made the Sweet
Speaker 2: sixteen two years ago. Cincinnati is going into a very, very,
Speaker 2: very important year for Wes Miller where it has been
Speaker 2: six years without the Bearcats making the NCAA tournament. You
Speaker 2: think about like Bob Huggins took him fourteen consecutive years,
Speaker 2: Mick Cronin took that nine consecutive years. No matter who
Speaker 2: they had on their team, no matter what you thought
Speaker 2: about the direction of the program, they were in the
Speaker 2: tournament every single year for the better part of three decades. Obviously,
Speaker 2: that hasn't been the case now in a while. I
Speaker 2: think you look at certain programs. You know, Indiana's going
Speaker 2: through a coaching change right now. Kentucky, I'm a huge
Speaker 2: Mark Pope fan. They've obviously been mainstays in the tournament.
Speaker 2: But let's be honest, it's been a few years since
Speaker 2: you've talked about Kentucky on a national level in terms
Speaker 2: of getting the final fours. You know, Kentucky hasn't made
Speaker 2: a Final four now in ten years. Can Mark Pope
Speaker 2: change that this season? Can he change it anytime in
Speaker 2: the short term? But You're right, you do think of
Speaker 2: those years where it felt like every March you knew
Speaker 2: there were going to be four or five schools from
Speaker 2: this area in the Big Dance, and recently that hasn't
Speaker 2: been the case so much.
Speaker 1: You talked to Sean Miller on a regular basis, and
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question that he is extremely
Speaker 1: gratified to be in the tournament this year, especially, I
Speaker 1: think more so for for some of the players that
Speaker 1: he's had in the program for this amount of time.
Speaker 1: And he talked about, how, you know, several of these
Speaker 1: guys are going to end their career in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1: He was very happy about that. And you know, I
Speaker 1: look at Xavier and we look at the game that
Speaker 1: they had last night, and that game, to me, looked
Speaker 1: like both versions of the Xavier team that we saw
Speaker 1: earlier this year. In that first half, nothing was going
Speaker 1: their way. They weren't gtting the calls, there was early
Speaker 1: foul trouble, there was all this stuff going on, and
Speaker 1: you know, they're down by eleven late in the first
Speaker 1: half and wound up being down by eight in the
Speaker 1: first half, and you're thinking, man, this is not going
Speaker 1: good at all, but then in the second half, I
Speaker 1: think we saw the Xavier team that we've seen the
Speaker 1: latter part of the season where they were able to
Speaker 1: run off four or five six wins in a row.
Speaker 1: So it do you have any feel for how they're
Speaker 1: going to show up tonight?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's a really interesting game because I
Speaker 2: think what Xavier itsels at, which is playing at a
Speaker 2: fast pace, playing a high scoring game. I think this
Speaker 2: can be that sort of game. I think Illinois from
Speaker 2: a defensive perspective, is going to have its hands full
Speaker 2: with a jager team. You know, Marcus Foster was the
Speaker 2: guy who kind of lit it up for him in
Speaker 2: the game the other night against Texas, but they've got
Speaker 2: a lot of scoring options. We've seen what Ryan Conwell
Speaker 2: can do. You know, he was awesome in the Big
Speaker 2: East Tournament against Marquette. Zach Fremantle down the stretch over
Speaker 2: the final five to six seven games of the season
Speaker 2: might have been the best player in the Big East.
Speaker 2: I think where Xavier's going to have its hands full
Speaker 2: is number one rebounding. Illinois is the best offensive rebounding
Speaker 2: team in the Big Ten. They're not a good outside
Speaker 2: shooting team, but they get a lot of their own misses.
Speaker 2: Xavier's going to have to contend with that. And I
Speaker 2: think the other thing is Illinois is really good at
Speaker 2: getting to the free throw line, number two in the
Speaker 2: Big Ten in free throw attempts, and so the game
Speaker 2: the other night, I actually felt like Xavier was in
Speaker 2: a pretty good place at halftime. They were down by eight,
Speaker 2: but they had a lot of foul trouble they had
Speaker 2: to contend with in the first half, and yet they
Speaker 2: still remained in striking distance. How's the game called tonight?
Speaker 2: Is Illinois going to be able to take advantage of
Speaker 2: its ability to constantly get to the free throw line.
Speaker 2: If the answer is yes, Musketeers are going to have
Speaker 2: their hands full. But it's not a great defensive team, Illinois.
Speaker 2: It's not a team that's going to turn you over
Speaker 2: a bunch, And so I think Xavier should score. The
Speaker 2: big questions I have are about Xavier's defense putting Illinois
Speaker 2: the free throw line, and then the fighting a line
Speaker 2: on on the offensive glass. They are great at grabbing
Speaker 2: a ball off the rim of the backboard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think he talked about Zach Freemantle and
Speaker 1: every telecast you watch every every pregame show, every analysis
Speaker 1: of Xavier sort of starting ends and starts with Zach Fremantle.
Speaker 1: And it seems that, you know, six years, this guy's got,
Speaker 1: he's got wearing a Xavier uniform. It seems like he's
Speaker 1: up to the task. Though, it seems like he's gotten
Speaker 1: to that level where you know him happen to put
Speaker 1: that team on his back from time to time is
Speaker 1: not too much to ask for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a lot of individual players who have
Speaker 2: stepped up as the season is unfolded at precisely the
Speaker 2: right time. And you know, I think one of the
Speaker 2: keyston Xavier's team. You talk about Zack Fremantle, you're gonna
Speaker 2: hear the name Dalen Swain a lot tonight. The final
Speaker 2: ten minutes of the game on Thursday, I'm sorry, on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Sean Miller put him on Trey Johnson, who's an NBA
Speaker 2: lottery pick, and I think over those final ten minutes,
Speaker 2: I think Trey Johnson scored just one time. He to
Speaker 2: me is a key tonight because of what he can
Speaker 2: do on the defensive end. But you're right, and not
Speaker 2: only it is how Zach Fremantle has played tear down
Speaker 2: the stretch for the Musketeers this season. That's taking advantage
Speaker 2: of him getting his first shot at the NCAA Tournament
Speaker 2: because he wasn't healthy two years ago. He is healthy now.
Speaker 2: Sean Miller has talked about this pretty extensively, how happy
Speaker 2: he is for a guy like Zack who has been
Speaker 2: you know, in this era, for someone to be a
Speaker 2: part of one program for their entire career for a
Speaker 2: six year stretch is kind of the exception and no
Speaker 2: longer the rule, and Zach and the Musketeers are being
Speaker 2: rewarded for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they've got if they win tonight, they've got
Speaker 1: most likely Kentucky on the other side of the bracket.
Speaker 1: I don't get a sense that that Sean Miller is
Speaker 1: going to allow these guys to be looking ahead at all.
Speaker 1: That there's no way this team is even close to
Speaker 1: being good enough to not paying attention to what's right
Speaker 1: in front of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's the NCAA Tournament. It's one and done,
Speaker 2: and so you cannot look ahead. That said, I think
Speaker 2: the Kentucky game, if Xavier is lucky enough to win
Speaker 2: tonight and if Kentucky beats Troy, I think Xavier has
Speaker 2: a very good chance to go to the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 2: because as good of a job as Mark Pope has
Speaker 2: done with the Wildcats this year, they're not a great
Speaker 2: defensive team, and they've got all sorts of health issues.
Speaker 2: You're going to hear the name Lamont Butler a lot
Speaker 2: in since he hurt his shoulder. He hasn't been the same,
Speaker 2: and that Kentucky team, from a defensive perspective, which isn't
Speaker 2: great to begin with, hasn't been close to the same.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think it's a matter of looking
Speaker 2: ahead as much as it is if you're Xavier and
Speaker 2: you can win tonight. That Kentucky team is formidable, but
Speaker 2: hardly unbeatable, and I don't think it's beyond the realm
Speaker 2: of possibility that we're talking about the Monkies in the
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen next week. But in order for that to happen,
Speaker 2: they have to take care of business against a an
Speaker 2: Illinois team that was very much hot and cold this year,
Speaker 2: but down the stretch played very very well.
Speaker 1: After what we've seen with the play in games and
Speaker 1: then this first round yesterday, is there an argument to
Speaker 1: be made that the SEC probably didn't really need to
Speaker 1: have fourteen teams in the tournament, well maybe.
Speaker 2: But I guess I would argue who should have gotten
Speaker 2: it instead? You know, Texas was one of the last
Speaker 2: four in. Texas certainly acquitted itself well in that game
Speaker 2: against Xavier. Obviously, the Mustardeers came back and won. But
Speaker 2: a story in college basketball this year, The biggest story
Speaker 2: in college basketball this year was that the dominant of
Speaker 2: the SEC, where the top of that conference was so good.
Speaker 2: And you know, you can make an argument, well, maybe
Speaker 2: Texas shouldn't have been in, but then who you know,
Speaker 2: A lot focus, a lot of folks focused on West
Speaker 2: Virginia getting snubbed and being on the outside looking in,
Speaker 2: But they lost their Big twelve tournament game against a
Speaker 2: team that won three games all season in the league,
Speaker 2: And so I can make the same argument that West
Speaker 2: Virginia didn't deserve to be in the SEC. This season
Speaker 2: was awesome. I don't really use one off games in
Speaker 2: the NCAA Tournament as a referendum on any league. And
Speaker 2: if you want to say the SEC shouldn't have gotten
Speaker 2: as many teams in, I have yet to hear a
Speaker 2: compelling case for a team that was excluded why they
Speaker 2: should have been included in the field of sixty eight.
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. Sounds good to me. Where where
Speaker 1: does a guy like Moeger enjoy these games on TV?
Speaker 1: You're posting up at uh uh, one of our great sponsors,
Speaker 1: post it.
Speaker 2: Up at the Holy Grail, my home away from home
Speaker 2: in March.
Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, you gotta love it. How does how do
Speaker 1: you prepare yourself for the Opening Day parade? And I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say filling the shoes of Jim Scott,
Speaker 1: but taking that same position that used to be held
Speaker 1: by our beloved Jim Scott.
Speaker 2: Well, in terms of filling jim shoes, which are impossible
Speaker 2: to fill, my only role was has been to basically
Speaker 2: be what Jim was, which was the spokesperson for the event.
Speaker 2: Obviously on Opening Day, I've got multiple broadcasts to be
Speaker 2: a part of, so i can't participate in the parade.
Speaker 2: But nobody, nobody loved Opening Day, and nobody loved the
Speaker 2: parade more than Jim Scott. And you know this is
Speaker 2: going to be the first one without him since nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty eight. It was awesome last year that you know,
Speaker 2: well Jim was was dealing with and fighting als, he
Speaker 2: still got a chance to be a part in it.
Speaker 2: Was obviously not able to walk, but he was still
Speaker 2: able to smile and wave and connect with people and
Speaker 2: you know, essentially say goodbye to the city. So it's
Speaker 2: it's for me at least, and I think for a
Speaker 2: lot of it's going to be very strange having Opening
Speaker 2: Day with Jim Scott not a part of it. And
Speaker 2: as awesome of an event as the Friendly Market Opening
Speaker 2: Day parade is, and it is terrific, Uh, it's it's
Speaker 2: not the same without Jim. And I think I speak
Speaker 2: for everybody and saying I badly wish that he was
Speaker 2: going to be here and be a part of it
Speaker 2: on on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Well, and I just want to I just want to
Speaker 1: tell you publicly that the way you have remembered Jim Scott,
Speaker 1: the way you've honored him, and the way you've paid
Speaker 1: tribute to him and his life and times and what
Speaker 1: he's meant to you over the years has been has
Speaker 1: been a beautiful thing to listen to and to to
Speaker 1: behold in in those parts that we were able to.
Speaker 1: So I just want to I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for that and and uh and commend you for the
Speaker 1: way that that you've gone about and done that. I
Speaker 1: think it's uh, it's really probably one the best things
Speaker 1: about being associated with Jim Scott and with you and
Speaker 1: all the people around here at iHeartMedia, that that that's
Speaker 1: happened and you've just done a beautiful job representing him
Speaker 1: and what he's meant to this community.
Speaker 2: Well, that's very kind of you to say that is
Speaker 2: the only time anybody will put my name in the
Speaker 2: same sentence as Jim Scott. But you know, for for
Speaker 2: a lot of us, man, for a lot of us
Speaker 2: who you know, kind of broke in during a certain
Speaker 2: period of time. You know, Jim took care of us,
Speaker 2: as you know, twenty year old kid when I started
Speaker 2: working with him and didn't know anything, and one might
Speaker 2: argue I still don't know anything, but God knows, he
Speaker 2: tried to teach me a lot and really had a
Speaker 2: lot of influence in our business on on so many
Speaker 2: of us. And obviously that influence, you know, really was
Speaker 2: exerted all throughout the city. But for those of us
Speaker 2: who had a chance to work with him, those are
Speaker 2: who had a chance to have a personal relationship with him,
Speaker 2: and a few people in my life as influential as
Speaker 2: him and I you know we all miss him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'll miss him a little bit more on opening day.
Speaker 1: All right, are you on fifteen thirty this afternoon?
Speaker 2: I am at the Holy Grail this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Okay, so go there and get a selfie with mo.
Speaker 1: Are you available for photographs?
Speaker 2: We'll negotiate what it.
Speaker 1: Will cost, but yes, there you go. You got thrown
Speaker 1: an il deal going on. Moegg, you're the best. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the time, brother, I appreciate it. Great talking to you.
Speaker 1: We'll do it again before too long. And the one
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Speaker 1: Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham on seven hundred WW.
Speaker 1: All right back on the Big One, seven hundred W
Speaker 1: l W. Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham as we
Speaker 1: roll on till three o'clock this afternoon. I was thinking
Speaker 1: the other day and looking at what's going on around us,
Speaker 1: and you've got leftists and those who hate Donald Trump
Speaker 1: just going crazy in this country. Of course, the everything
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, everything Tesla is under attack. You've got swatting
Speaker 1: situations going on. You've got all kinds of liberals performing
Speaker 1: different various meltdowns on social media and all the rest
Speaker 1: of it, and I thought to myself, you know, these
Speaker 1: people are complaining so much about their rights being infringed
Speaker 1: and all the terrible things that are happening under Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: It made me think about some of the things that
Speaker 1: I saw during the campaign, and so I reached out
Speaker 1: to Rachel Seatach over at Cincinnati Right to Life and
Speaker 1: she said, you know what, I can't make it on Friday,
Speaker 1: but my executive director, Laura's Treatment can, And so Laura's Treatment,
Speaker 1: the executive director of Cincinnati Right to Life, is my
Speaker 1: guest today on seven hundred WLW. And Laura, it's great
Speaker 1: to have you on the show. How are you today.
Speaker 4: I'm doing really well on this beautiful sunny Cincinnati Friday,
Speaker 4: basketball madness going on, and we're just too really well
Speaker 4: at Cincinnati Right to Life.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you taking time out from your basketball
Speaker 1: watching to join us on the show this afternoon. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this. I remember during the campaign that
Speaker 1: you had all kind of women who said they were
Speaker 1: going to move out of the country, who dressed up
Speaker 1: in costumes like The Handmaid's Tale, which I don't get
Speaker 1: the reference. I've never watched that show. They were talking
Speaker 1: about how their reproductive rights were going to be taken
Speaker 1: away if Donald Trump got into pro you know, got
Speaker 1: into the Oval office, that there were going to be
Speaker 1: camps and registrations and all these horrible things happening to
Speaker 1: women all across our country. And so I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you, as someone who may have their their finger
Speaker 1: on the pulse of this, have you seen any of
Speaker 1: these detention centers? Have you seen any registers created? You know,
Speaker 1: we're women who are pregnant have to go and register
Speaker 1: their pregnancy with the federal government. And have you noticed
Speaker 1: any rights that are being taken away from women by
Speaker 1: this current administration? Noticed any of that? No?
Speaker 4: I hope Dan, you and I both know that the
Speaker 4: LESS always uses extreme inflammatory language and propositions when they're
Speaker 4: trying to make their really ridiculous pro death points, and
Speaker 4: especially they use inflammatory language when they're trying to be
Speaker 4: able to continue to execute preborn children in mothers' wombs
Speaker 4: and sell them the why that abortion is healthcare. So
Speaker 4: it was all theatrics, but you have to remember, Dan, also,
Speaker 4: our organization does exist protect life from womb to tomb.
Speaker 4: So we would be happy if abortion ended federally and
Speaker 4: at the state level, of course, but we certainly are
Speaker 4: not advocating for women to be punished. And Handmaid's Tale,
Speaker 4: I don't watch that show either, so I never get
Speaker 4: the reference when women are they're using that, yes as well,
Speaker 4: but you know, you do have to remember that Cincinnati
Speaker 4: Rights to Life was founded. You're in Cincinnati. We were
Speaker 4: the foundational prol like organization in the world. A lot
Speaker 4: of people forget that that in nineteen seventy three, in March,
Speaker 4: just two months after Roe became in our constitution the
Speaker 4: right for a woman to execute her unborn, her preborn
Speaker 4: son or daughter. That doctor Wilkie was a prophet for
Speaker 4: our times and founded Cincinnati Right to Life, and then
Speaker 4: it inspired all the organizations around the world. He founded
Speaker 4: Ohio Right to Life, National Right to Life. So, of
Speaker 4: course we carry on his legacy. And you and I
Speaker 4: both know that Donald Trump has done some really great
Speaker 4: things since he got in office just not even quite
Speaker 4: two months ago. But we want even more done for
Speaker 4: the unborn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know we when I, of course I
Speaker 1: was a little bit tongue in cheek about all these
Speaker 1: terrible things that were supposed to happen to women, but
Speaker 1: it makes the point though, that they use these absurd
Speaker 1: arguments to further their cause, and this is nothing new
Speaker 1: for those on the left. This is nothing new for
Speaker 1: those who support the pro abortion position. But it must
Speaker 1: make your job that much more difficult because you have
Speaker 1: to counter. You have to or at least you have
Speaker 1: to spend time countering these arguments that are completely false
Speaker 1: and just made up out a whole cloth.
Speaker 4: Many times, you're absolutely right, it does take time, but
Speaker 4: that's why we exist, and we have to remember the
Speaker 4: biggest lie of all that abortion is not healthcare. No
Speaker 4: woman grows up saying, oh, I want to get pregnant
Speaker 4: and then execute my preborn child and not give my
Speaker 4: child life. And so we do spend time. But that's
Speaker 4: part of the battle, you know. This is a battle
Speaker 4: between good and evil. It's the soul of our nation,
Speaker 4: it's the future of our nation. This country is ridiculously
Speaker 4: killing too many preborn children. Obviously, every abortion to us
Speaker 4: is horrible, wrong for any reason. But to be able
Speaker 4: to use birth control as a system with abortion, it's
Speaker 4: just ridiculous that that's what many many women do, and
Speaker 4: it's tragic. Dan, I'm not sure if you realize, but
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Rights to Life. Since the loss of Issue one
Speaker 4: with the election in twenty twenty three, we have deployed
Speaker 4: full time sidewalk advocates in front of the Planned Parenthood
Speaker 4: on Auburn Avenue in Cincinnati, and we are counting six
Speaker 4: hundred cars or more weekly entering the Planned Parenthood in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: It's a bloodbath, it's disgusting, and it's an operation that
Speaker 4: we have now become an abortion mecca site in Cincinnati
Speaker 4: with the southernmost abortion facility. And none of this has
Speaker 4: anything to do with Donald Trump and him getting elected
Speaker 4: for us, obviously, this goes back to twenty three when
Speaker 4: we lost our Issue Live and our hope with Donald
Speaker 4: Trump getting elected is that he will defund Planned Parenthood
Speaker 4: and we're looking for that, we're praying for that, we're
Speaker 4: working for that, and in the meantime, until something like
Speaker 4: that happens, we're out on the sidewalk to assist women
Speaker 4: and tell them the truth. No woman is smiling entering
Speaker 4: Planned Parenthood. They're all miserable, they're sad, and we are
Speaker 4: providing them the truth that there's a pregnancy center down
Speaker 4: the street or maybe in their local neighborhood. There's three
Speaker 4: pregnancy tests and options and help in this community just
Speaker 4: at a high rate that really really is one of
Speaker 4: the highest rate of pregnancy help in the country. So
Speaker 4: that's what we're doing to counter these lies and these statements.
Speaker 4: And I also Dan had really big news to share
Speaker 4: with the community as well. We knew that our work
Speaker 4: at Cincinnati Right to Life had to change and had
Speaker 4: to improve and had to increase when abortion became a
Speaker 4: shrine in Ohio's constitution. People need to realize that right
Speaker 4: now in Ohio, abortion is available on demand through late
Speaker 4: term pregnancy for women. And we decided the only place
Speaker 4: that we could meet this head on because chipping away
Speaker 4: at this law at the Statehouse and then obviously with
Speaker 4: the federal government, and then we can reach women on
Speaker 4: the sidewalk, our offices needed to be in close proximity
Speaker 4: to Planned Parenthood. We've been located in North College Hill
Speaker 4: since the early eighties in a building that doctor Wilkie
Speaker 4: and his beloved wife Barb purchased for the organization, and
Speaker 4: we decided to move and we have moved to Auburn
Speaker 4: Avenue right down the street from Planned Parenthood. We moved
Speaker 4: ten days ago.
Speaker 1: So you are literally in the belly of the beast,
Speaker 1: so to speak.
Speaker 4: It's an enormous way. And we have a view of
Speaker 4: Planned Parenthood from our offices, so we can see what's
Speaker 4: going on. And as the blood path means the blood
Speaker 4: bath takes place there, we have to remember that it's
Speaker 4: only because of the cooperation of multiple organizations to coordinate
Speaker 4: the cleanup of the mess of dismember children that are
Speaker 4: happening here on Auburn Avenue. You know, we see dan
Speaker 4: we see industrial drain clogging trucks enter Planned Parenthood, we
Speaker 4: see industrial cleaners, we see a medical waste operations leave
Speaker 4: with massive red cartons of human remains that they label
Speaker 4: as medical waste that they drive to Indiana to incinerate.
Speaker 4: And when you have that many abortions per week in Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: the Queen City, and this beautiful neighborhood several blocks from
Speaker 4: where a president of the United States was born, there
Speaker 4: is something wrong with our culture and our society, and
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Right to Life is here to speak truth, speak love,
Speaker 4: and offer options of help and hope. That abortion is
Speaker 4: below women and it is not healthcare. It is the
Speaker 4: taking of an innocent life, and it's wrong and it's
Speaker 4: terrible and it's harming our country in a massive way.
Speaker 1: You know, isn't it interesting how we always hear the
Speaker 1: argument that you know, those of us Liam, they they
Speaker 1: always want to point to people like me and you
Speaker 1: who argue the particular side that we argue that we're
Speaker 1: the Neanderthals. We're the ones that you know that that
Speaker 1: are not I guess you know, with the current times,
Speaker 1: and they're the ones that are always talking about how
Speaker 1: they're the ones on the side of science. You know,
Speaker 1: they're the ones who are on the side of truth.
Speaker 1: But yet, strangely, when it comes to this issue, when
Speaker 1: it comes to abortion, there's there's no mention of science,
Speaker 1: there's no mention of the medical advances. There's you know,
Speaker 1: they don't want to they don't want to deal with
Speaker 1: any of the medical realities that we have in the
Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty five. So it's a it's always
Speaker 1: about choice and freedom of this and freedom of that,
Speaker 1: and bodily autonomy and all the rest of it. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to and you know, the most obvious
Speaker 1: example is that you know, when it comes to cracking
Speaker 1: down on everyone during the Wuhan virus that you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't mind you know, taking advantage in having other
Speaker 1: people tell you, you know, that you had to have
Speaker 1: a vaccine, that you had to you know, put a
Speaker 1: mask on, you had to do all these things with
Speaker 1: your body. They didn't mind telling you then, But when
Speaker 1: it comes to this argument, they sort of put all
Speaker 1: they conveniently put those arguments aside.
Speaker 4: You are absolutely correct, and we know that science tells
Speaker 4: us that life begins at fertilization. There was a study
Speaker 4: out of the University of Chicago where they pulled scientists
Speaker 4: and physicians when does life begin? And ninety percent and
Speaker 4: these were agnostic, apist non believers, and they all said
Speaker 4: life begins at conception, and that is that's from scientists.
Speaker 4: So you're right, why don't they follow the science when
Speaker 4: it comes to life? And you know, we know that
Speaker 4: the culture has gone and really unfortunate direction. I guess
Speaker 4: really the past fifty years beginning with you know, the
Speaker 4: sexual revolution, and women are just still buying into this
Speaker 4: lie that somehow having the right to dismember, poison, or
Speaker 4: suffocate your own son or daughter is freedom. And the
Speaker 4: tragic mess that happens after that with women with post
Speaker 4: traumatic stress disorder, grief and fertility all the side effects
Speaker 4: and relationship problems that come from choosing that and being
Speaker 4: sold that lie. You know, we have to remember that
Speaker 4: over sixty percent of women that have been pulled after
Speaker 4: they've had an abortion say that they were coerced into
Speaker 4: an abortion. If they had had the help, the love,
Speaker 4: the truth, and the support, they would have chosen differently.
Speaker 4: So and we see that Dan on the sidewalk as
Speaker 4: our sidewalk advocates stand and witness car after car after
Speaker 4: car go in there, one hundred and twenty five cars
Speaker 4: a day. Dan at the Planned Parenthood on Auburn Avenue,
Speaker 4: fifty percent from out of state. The biggest state we
Speaker 4: see is Kentucky, and then we see a lot of
Speaker 4: Indiana and Tennessee. So these states are not abortion free.
Speaker 4: Bluegrass babies are still being executed, but tragically it's on
Speaker 4: buckeye soil, not on bluegrass soil.
Speaker 5: Sows.
Speaker 4: Your babies are.
Speaker 1: Still being executed. It's absolutely it's beyond tragic. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's really a word to describe it.
Speaker 1: But the alternative is just how many blocks did you
Speaker 1: There's a couple of blocks away from my plant, two.
Speaker 4: Blocks away, I have two blocks.
Speaker 2: I have a view.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have a view of Planned Parenthood, uh inside
Speaker 4: my office building. And we are here so we can
Speaker 4: spend more time and we can witness all the tragedy
Speaker 4: and be here at support, and we continue to advocate
Speaker 4: to our lawmakers and to our community that until we
Speaker 4: all stand more locked and arms, this tragedy is going
Speaker 4: to continue to take place in Ohio. But Dan, we
Speaker 4: have great news out of Manhattan, the largest flagship planned
Speaker 4: parenthood in America, where Margaret Sanger herself began her great,
Speaker 4: just horrible, horrible industry of selling the lie of abortion
Speaker 4: to women. The Manhattan Planned Parenthood is closed.
Speaker 1: It's done.
Speaker 4: They're not dismembering or decapitating unborn children there anymore. Thank
Speaker 4: God for that, and thank God for that. And if
Speaker 4: in liberal New York they can shut down that depth center,
Speaker 4: we can do it here in Ohio. We can do
Speaker 4: it here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Lauren Streetman, let me ask you this, if a woman
Speaker 1: who is it doesn't matter how far along her pregnancy
Speaker 1: she is, if she is of a mind to go
Speaker 1: to Planned Parenthood and have an abortion, if that woman
Speaker 1: would by chance stop by your facility first before she
Speaker 1: goes to Planned Parenthood and she walks in there and
Speaker 1: she's obviously pregnant. You know, she doesn't feel like she
Speaker 1: has any other eyes. What is that woman going to
Speaker 1: experience when she walks in to the Cincinnati Right for
Speaker 1: Life office if she if a woman goes in in
Speaker 1: that condition and is struggling with making.
Speaker 4: That decision, well, first she's going to experience love. She's
Speaker 4: going to see her smiles and our joy and our congratulations,
Speaker 4: and then we're going to listen to her because she
Speaker 4: probably does have real concerns. Women's concerns are oftentimes are
Speaker 4: valid while they're upset, but it's always a great idea
Speaker 4: to have a baby. I've been helping women for eighteen years.
Speaker 4: I've met women living out of cars and in really
Speaker 4: difficult situations, and when they choose life, somehow they're empowered.
Speaker 4: That's where that comes from. It does not come from death.
Speaker 4: Empowerment doesn't We're not set up fully as a pregnancy center.
Speaker 4: But the great news is a block less than a
Speaker 4: block from us is this brand new, beautiful women's care
Speaker 4: center right here on Auburn Avenue.
Speaker 2: So then we will.
Speaker 4: Continue our friendship with her by walking her over in
Speaker 4: person and innering her to our wonderful neighbors, and she
Speaker 4: will get a free pregnancy test, free ultrasound, and they
Speaker 4: will take over from there with her and help her
Speaker 4: build the life that she needs to be able to
Speaker 4: choose life and choose it abundantly and support her with
Speaker 4: everything car seats, cribs, diapers, parenting classes, oftentimes women you know,
Speaker 4: they might be seeking job, new housing. They have all
Speaker 4: the resources to direct women so that they're able to
Speaker 4: have a wonderful pregnancy and then be able to give
Speaker 4: birth and support her even for years, years upon years
Speaker 4: after that. It's a lie that we only care about women,
Speaker 4: only care about the baby, I mean when she's pregnant.
Speaker 4: That's just not true. I still have real strong relationships
Speaker 4: with women that I met fifteen years ago and help
Speaker 4: them into a life choice. Some of their children are
Speaker 4: now in high school. So that's one of the big
Speaker 4: wives of the abortion industry that that's the only thing
Speaker 4: we care about. But this new pregnancy center across the
Speaker 4: street from us is here, and we're just really closing
Speaker 4: in on Planned Parenthood and their death operation and the
Speaker 4: darkness and the lies that they sell women. And Cincinnati
Speaker 4: can do better than this. People should come here. For
Speaker 4: King's Island, the Zoo, Reds Games are beautiful city. They
Speaker 4: should not be coming to Cincinnati to execute their son
Speaker 4: or daughter through an abortion decision.
Speaker 1: Well, Laura Streetman seven hundred WLW has a huge signal.
Speaker 1: There may be someone who's driving up from Kentucky or
Speaker 1: Tennessee or driving through Indiana right now, headed to Cincinnati
Speaker 1: for this very purpose. And someone may be listening to
Speaker 1: our conversation right now. And if you are headed to
Speaker 1: the Planned Parenthood on Auburn Avenue, just go a couple
Speaker 1: of blocks down the street, stop in. That's say hello
Speaker 1: right at Cincinnati Right for Life and you're on your
Speaker 1: underno obligation, there's and just say, at least let someone
Speaker 1: hear your story and you may have a different outcome.
Speaker 1: And you know, a year, two years, ten years from now,
Speaker 1: someone may thank us. But Laura's treatment we got to run.
Speaker 1: Great having you on this afternoon. Congratulations on the new office.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a huge uphill battle for you
Speaker 1: and everyone associated with Right to Life, but keep up
Speaker 1: the great work and all the best to you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. There's nothing we'd rather be doing. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Dan all right, Lauras Streatman, the executive director of Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Right to Life. It is twelve to fifty five on
Speaker 1: the Home of the Reds, seven hundred WLW, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: It's one o eight on this Friday afternoon. Dan Carroll
Speaker 1: in for the great American Bill Cunningham. Always glad to
Speaker 1: be here, and glad you are here as well. Always
Speaker 1: glad to welcome in. This guest is a he's an academic,
Speaker 1: he's an entrepreneur, just a really smart guy historian. His
Speaker 1: latest book is Rediscovering America, a number one bestseller. And
Speaker 1: Scott Powell of the Discovery Institute, it is great to
Speaker 1: have you back again on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: Well, Dan, it's an honor to be with you.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Donald Trump put out his executive order that begins
Speaker 1: the process of dismantling the Department of Education. And so
Speaker 1: this country is on the verge of a major debate
Speaker 1: about this, and I guess we've been sort of having
Speaker 1: an ongoing debate about this. But some of the things
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump talked about was math and reading scores
Speaker 1: for thirteen year old thirteen year olds at the lowest
Speaker 1: level in decades, six and ten fourth graders nearly three
Speaker 1: quarters of eighth graders are not proficient in math, seven
Speaker 1: and ten fourth and eighth graders are not proficient in reading.
Speaker 1: Standardized test scores have remained flat for decades. The United
Speaker 1: States student ranked twenty eight out of thirty seven OECD
Speaker 1: members in math. And we've spent more than three trillion
Speaker 1: dollars Scott Powell on education in this country. So I
Speaker 1: think this is a move on behalf of Trump that
Speaker 1: addresses a couple of of the biggest problems that we
Speaker 1: have in this country. And you've spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time recently writing about the debt that we're in. But
Speaker 1: the other problem, the other major problem that we have
Speaker 1: is just the absolutely abysmal state of public education in
Speaker 1: the United States of America.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Really, the public schools have been weaponized really against
Speaker 3: good citizenship, against love and patriotism for our country, against
Speaker 3: almost all good things. To be honest with you, we
Speaker 3: drove God out of this, you know, out of the culture.
Speaker 3: We drove God out of the schools in nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 3: taking prayer out of school. But let's put this issue
Speaker 3: in a big context, a simple, big context for the audience.
Speaker 3: Prior to the Department of Education being established in nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy nine by Jimmy Carter. The debate to establish it
Speaker 3: started in seventy seven, but it wasn't finally voted on
Speaker 3: and approved until seventy nine. But prior to that, the
Speaker 3: American school system public school system ranked in the top
Speaker 3: six of all so called OECD countries, you know, the
Speaker 3: Advanced industrialized countries. Our schools were top ranked. But once
Speaker 3: the Department of Education came in, what happened to our schools?
Speaker 3: They progressively declined in their performance. This is just this
Speaker 3: isn't even debatable. This is what happened, and to a
Speaker 3: point where now we're really at the bottom of the heap.
Speaker 3: So why did that happen? Well, it happened because this
Speaker 3: is what government typically does. Government is really not accountable
Speaker 3: to anyone. For the most our government agencies in particular,
Speaker 3: nobody is elected. The legislators are elected, but the legislators
Speaker 3: have defer a lot of these responsibilities to agencies, and
Speaker 3: there's no accountability and there's politicization that goes on in
Speaker 3: these bureaucracies. So before we had a Department of Education,
Speaker 3: schools were performing well because there was accountability schools were
Speaker 3: the you know, in the domain of the states and
Speaker 3: the localities, and there wasn't interference by any authorities above
Speaker 3: the state and the localities there, and there was more
Speaker 3: accountability and better performance. So I think returning to the
Speaker 3: way that it was is a very very rational and
Speaker 3: appropriate path to take. And that means we're turning people
Speaker 3: out of jobs in the Department of Education, but that's
Speaker 3: that's the way life is. You failed to deliver for
Speaker 3: the American people, and so you no longer have a job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and when you talk about such big
Speaker 1: dollar amounts, and when you have you know, tens of
Speaker 1: billions of dollars and hundreds of billions of dollars every
Speaker 1: year that is going to be changing hands, there is
Speaker 1: no shortage of people who are going to do anything
Speaker 1: and everything they can to get their hands and get
Speaker 1: on that money and get their fingers in that pie.
Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of it is is
Speaker 1: that the priorities get mixed up. You know, how often
Speaker 1: do we see you know, Randy Weingardner on TV and
Speaker 1: she's the head of the National Teachers Union, and she's
Speaker 1: having an absolute meltdown because of the I really don't
Speaker 1: think she's melting down over anything more than her gravy
Speaker 1: train being brought to an end. With with with the
Speaker 1: flow of this money being not really stopped, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be directed away from her and those that
Speaker 1: she represents. I think she sees future is at least
Speaker 1: the easy future that she thought she had swirling down
Speaker 1: the drain, and she cannot abide that. So she's going
Speaker 1: to pull out all the stops to try and make
Speaker 1: sure that something like this doesn't happen. And how can
Speaker 1: anyone argue in a legitimate sense that it is not
Speaker 1: time to take a look and try and do something
Speaker 1: different than what we've been doing since nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 3: Right, particularly when we had such great schools prior to
Speaker 3: seventy nine. What's the difference in pre seventy nine and
Speaker 3: post seventy nine. It's the Department of Education that's the
Speaker 3: key variable that makes the difference. And so I think
Speaker 3: it's you know, it's just simply warranted, you know, to
Speaker 3: save federal dollars, but really to save the children. You know,
Speaker 3: we need to have children that go through our public
Speaker 3: school system and have an appreciation for our country and
Speaker 3: understand the rights and the responsibility of citizenship and can
Speaker 3: perform you know, in math, you know, in communication, and
Speaker 3: in every other discipline. They can communicate at a at
Speaker 3: a at a bear at a minimal level by the
Speaker 3: time they've graduated from high school. And you know that's
Speaker 3: not been happening. Our schools have really have really betrayed
Speaker 3: the young people of America, our public schools.
Speaker 1: Have and you know they and we hear so many
Speaker 1: of the arguments about well this We've got all these
Speaker 1: student loans, and we've got all these special needs kids,
Speaker 1: and we got all this kind of stuff. And of
Speaker 1: course Trump doesn't think about them. Trump doesn't want to,
Speaker 1: doesn't want to have anything to do with them. He
Speaker 1: simply wants to. And I saw the Democrats in Ohio
Speaker 1: put out its wheet last night because Mike the Wine,
Speaker 1: the governor of Ohio, and there was a number of
Speaker 1: other governors there who were there when Trump signed the
Speaker 1: executive order. They're using the same old, the same old,
Speaker 1: tired argument is that, well, Mike the Wine was there
Speaker 1: to cheer this on because he wants to get that
Speaker 1: money and give tax breaks to billionaires. I mean, they
Speaker 1: really are is the left and the democrats in this
Speaker 1: country so bereft of ideas that they have to apply
Speaker 1: that argument to this situation, when to my way of thinking,
Speaker 1: nothing could be further from the truth.
Speaker 3: To answer your question, yes, they are ideas.
Speaker 1: Of the interview have a great day. But it's it's
Speaker 1: but it's said, and we hear and we hear these
Speaker 1: arguments all the time. But I was reading the piece
Speaker 1: that that you that you wrote recently. It's it's on
Speaker 1: town hall dot com, and I'm sure a bunch of
Speaker 1: other different outlets, and and you mean you talk about
Speaker 1: all these different agencies and the growth of government starting
Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty one with USA I D and then
Speaker 1: you got Medicare, Medicaid in sixty five, HUD in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty five, the EPA in nineteen seventy. I was unaware
Speaker 1: that the Department of Energy didn't start until nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1: But I remember reading an article in all places of
Speaker 1: Time magazine back in the early eighties, and they were
Speaker 1: talking about back when there used to be some actual
Speaker 1: journalism that would happen, and they were talking about the
Speaker 1: Department of Energy, and I was just it was one
Speaker 1: of my early awakenings to the way money is spent
Speaker 1: in this company.
Speaker 6: Why.
Speaker 1: I just saw the unbelievable dollar amounts that the Department
Speaker 1: Energy was shipping out for all these different projects, and
Speaker 1: I was thinking, my god, I mean, this cannot go on.
Speaker 1: And you've been writing about this a lot lately, but
Speaker 1: the financial situation that this country is in now cannot
Speaker 1: be sustained. And yeah, and at least I think we're
Speaker 1: trying to take steps to at least have a different
Speaker 1: way of looking at our financial situation. But the Left
Speaker 1: can't even abide that. No, they can't.
Speaker 3: They can't. Look these are these are are this is
Speaker 3: an ideological cult. Huh. You know, I think one of
Speaker 3: your competitors, Michael Savage, uh just referred to this to
Speaker 3: the to liberal liberalism as.
Speaker 1: A mental disorder.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh and in some ways that it really is. It
Speaker 3: prevents them from being able to think rationally. Uh. You know.
Speaker 3: The beauty of uh, you know, privatization, if you will,
Speaker 3: is that the marketplace has a way of raising up
Speaker 3: quality and cutting the price of that. Uh. It's and
Speaker 3: government can never do that. There is no accountability in government.
Speaker 3: There's no market mechanism that says, well, you know, this
Speaker 3: is failing. Therefore, if we should shut it down. In
Speaker 3: the private sector, that's what happens. The private sector is
Speaker 3: very creative and not all new ideas and new products
Speaker 3: u uh get launched and are successful. Well, we don't
Speaker 3: keep manufacturing or pushing a product that's not successful. You
Speaker 3: shut it down and you move on to the next thing.
Speaker 3: Government never does that. It creates these uh, these departments,
Speaker 3: these agencies, and they take on a life of their
Speaker 3: own even though they're dysfunctional. We don't need a department
Speaker 3: of energy now that you open that can of worms, dan,
Speaker 3: because the private sector takes care of that. You know,
Speaker 3: when there's a when there's a need for energy, then
Speaker 3: all the people in the energy industry can think, well,
Speaker 3: how can we meet that need? Well, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: and we have different sources. If we really allowed the
Speaker 3: market to direct energy production, we would not have wind
Speaker 3: and solar, we'd have we we would have more nuclear power,
Speaker 3: and we would have more natural gas, uh, more natural
Speaker 3: gas than than than the hydrocarbon that's known as oil
Speaker 3: and diesel. Those are not really that for energy and
Speaker 3: uh uh a coal. Now, we can burn coal cheaply,
Speaker 3: uh I mean cleanly, I should say at a fairly
Speaker 3: reasonable price. So the market, which see, the market sorts
Speaker 3: all of that out. We don't we don't have to
Speaker 3: have a central to allocate resources.
Speaker 1: And we've got and we've gone so far down that
Speaker 1: road that it is uh that there's so many people
Speaker 1: that are so ingrained into that way of thinking that
Speaker 1: the you know, this this what whatever sector of the
Speaker 1: economy or whatever sector of society that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: that this sort of thing has to be under the
Speaker 1: purview of the federal government. And and and you know,
Speaker 1: I was watching Donald Trump give Laura ingram Ator the
Speaker 1: the Oval Office and the changes he's made to the
Speaker 1: Oval Office since he's been in there, and he's got
Speaker 1: a copy of the Declaration of Independence hanging up on
Speaker 1: the wall. And when you know, and and when you
Speaker 1: go back to then that's another thing that you talk about,
Speaker 1: is going back to the founding of the country. And
Speaker 1: you know, government with federal government was supposed to be
Speaker 1: something far and distant away and and and something that
Speaker 1: wasn't a major player in the everyday lives of the
Speaker 1: American people. But that that's, you know, especially under this
Speaker 1: last administration, that's what it has become. You know, you
Speaker 1: got to get up every morning and turn your eyes
Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. To see what the latest edict
Speaker 1: is from the federal government and getting to my way
Speaker 1: of thinking, getting away from that. The further we can
Speaker 1: get away from that, the better off we're going to be.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, America became the greatest military and economic
Speaker 3: power in the world in just about one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty years from the ratification of the Constitution. That's like
Speaker 3: a stock cart going from zero to sixty and two seconds.
Speaker 3: How America, you know, grew so rapidly and was so successful.
Speaker 3: And it was successful because of two things. Because are
Speaker 3: because are are. We had a sparsely grounded culture, and
Speaker 3: we had a constitution that whose primary function was to
Speaker 3: protect the unalienable rights of people to be free and
Speaker 3: creative and not encumbered with too much government. And our
Speaker 3: culture was spiritually grounded. It was shaped by Christianity. And
Speaker 3: you know, America was not founded as Christian nation. But
Speaker 3: the written record of the Constitutional Convention reveals that the
Speaker 3: founders recorded debates, discussions, writings, citations were inspired and guided
Speaker 3: by the Bible more than any other source. Most people
Speaker 3: they don't understand that, but those are the facts. And additionally,
Speaker 3: the founder's top three most cited political philosophers leading up
Speaker 3: to that convention, that is, the Constitutional Convention, were none
Speaker 3: other than Monasque, who is a Christian who advocated for
Speaker 3: the separation of powers because of the tendency of corrupt
Speaker 3: If you check one department against another, you'll have less corruption.
Speaker 3: Very brilliant Blackstone who was a devout Christian, in a
Speaker 3: law who is a devout Christian. And each of these,
Speaker 3: you know, these were remarkable people, and it all implies
Speaker 3: that there's a you know, that there's a recognition of
Speaker 3: the need for government to be checked and the need
Speaker 3: for government to empower the people, because that's what Christianity does.
Speaker 3: You know. The Reformation, you know, fundamentally change the direction
Speaker 3: of Christianity to the empowerment of the people. I think
Speaker 3: it was, you know, as Martin Luther called it, the
Speaker 3: priesthood of all believers. In other words, we don't need
Speaker 3: a church hierarchy to have a relationship with God. Everybody
Speaker 3: can have a relationship We've got and when they do,
Speaker 3: they're more honest, they're more productive, they're more responsible, and
Speaker 3: it's it's just a it's just a wonderful thing. That
Speaker 3: we have. You know that we have basically driven out
Speaker 3: of our culture. We need to revive that. We need
Speaker 3: a spiritual revival. We need a cultural revival, and we
Speaker 3: need accountability. And if we were to break it down
Speaker 3: to three terms, because it's Doge, it's cultural revival, and
Speaker 3: it's spiritual revival, one are those things. Number one, it's accountability.
Speaker 3: Number number two, culture revival is it's all about beauty,
Speaker 3: you know, accountability beauty. And third, the spiritual revival, it's
Speaker 3: all about love. That's that's a that's a pretty good
Speaker 3: that's a pretty good three, you know, three legs to
Speaker 3: the stool, accountability, beauty, and love and we can make
Speaker 3: America great again.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Scott Powell as always, it is uh
Speaker 1: is so great to have you on and the time
Speaker 1: always flies by.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: If people want to find out more about you, Discovery
Speaker 1: dot org, the Discovery Institute, and I know you've got
Speaker 1: another interview coming up. But Scott Powell, as always, I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for the time today. Great heaven, y'all. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a pleasure and I always look forward.
Speaker 3: To Dan for all you do. You do what you
Speaker 3: do noble service. Well, you know in educating people.
Speaker 1: I tell you you're very caul.
Speaker 3: So all all the listeners need to talk to their
Speaker 3: friends to bring more listeners to you, to your to
Speaker 3: your shows, Dan, because obviously you know it's not an
Speaker 3: easy business. And the more listeners you have, the more
Speaker 3: advertising revenues come in to support you and make you
Speaker 3: even better.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I do it because I love doing it
Speaker 1: and I love talking to people like you.
Speaker 3: And then you don't make a lot of money at
Speaker 3: what you do.
Speaker 1: You got that right, brother, Scott Powell, you're the best.
Speaker 1: We'll do it again before too long, my friends. Okay,
Speaker 1: real good, All right, there you go, Scott Powell Discovery Institute.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. It's Dan carrollin for Bill Cunningham
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 7: I was a Deer Park High School, which honestly is
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Speaker 1: Maybe I should have her come here and negotiate a
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Speaker 1: you need a sidekick where in Indiana. Well, I didn't say, uh,
Speaker 1: I can said said on her. I'm just trying to
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Speaker 1: What the Falcons got some work to do? The Falcons
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Speaker 7: Lewisville thirty eight AC and nineteen at Aiken usual areas
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Speaker 1: That's tomorrow night, correct. I think I'm going hockey tonight.
Speaker 1: Beloved Cyclones are at the Indie Fuel. Clones are home
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Sunday against Kalamazoo. It's a lot of sports.
Speaker 1: Eg awesome. What I'm here for?
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers today, offensive Lineman, free
Speaker 7: agent Lucas get a contract, dropping off some cookies or what?
Speaker 7: Getting a contract? Got to find some place to play?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna Is he gonna be wearing a Steelers
Speaker 1: uniform next year? I have no idea. That's why he's there.
Speaker 7: Let's see Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman talked today
Speaker 7: about the UH bronze sculpture that's gonna be unveiled outside
Speaker 7: Great American Ballpark in September.
Speaker 1: How cool is that?
Speaker 7: Unbelievable that I talked to him today that that's that's
Speaker 7: the tops the Hall of Fame, everything else, the statue,
Speaker 7: the end of the great career.
Speaker 1: Well, let's hear a cut.
Speaker 7: Jose Jose Travino three year, eleven million dollar deal yesterday.
Speaker 7: Graham Ashcraft is going to go to the bullpen start
Speaker 7: the season, Andrew Habit's going to start the year on
Speaker 7: the I L And your good friend Carson Spires is
Speaker 7: now the fifth man in the starting rotation and all
Speaker 7: from one and only Tito Francona.
Speaker 1: What about what.
Speaker 8: Question comes from Lauren in del Hyde? Is it true
Speaker 8: that Bill Seg Dennison writes all of your material and
Speaker 8: is secretly the reason that your career has been so successful.
Speaker 9: The secret is out. He doesn't write all my material,
Speaker 9: but he writes every single bit of Bill Cunningham's material.
Speaker 5: And he is the reason why Cunningham is a star,
Speaker 5: not me.
Speaker 1: Howard Lauren know that?
Speaker 9: She doesn't know it because she thinks he's been the
Speaker 9: power behind whatever success I've had, and she is missing
Speaker 9: for him because he's been the power behind Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 8: Would there be a chance that he could be the
Speaker 8: power behind two people?
Speaker 9: No, he could be two people, but I'm not one
Speaker 9: of them. Actually there are two. It's Bill Cunningham and
Speaker 9: p doc. H what's the p doc that? Thank you
Speaker 9: very much? That's that's the nickname for Paul Doherty. And
Speaker 9: I'd be embarrassed. I would be embarrassed if I were
Speaker 9: Paul Doherty to allow that radio station to refer to
Speaker 9: him and promos as p DOC.
Speaker 8: That's kind of like puff daddy or thank you, thank you,
Speaker 8: whatever he wants to call himself.
Speaker 5: It's the weakest nickname I've ever heard.
Speaker 8: So Seg doesn't write yours, but he does, right, He writes.
Speaker 5: P doc and for Bill cunning the greatest American.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is a fraud. How about that? How about that?
Speaker 1: When when do you have time to write Bill Cunningham stuff? Never? Well,
Speaker 1: that's not what Marty Brennan said, comes out of his brain.
Speaker 1: If Marty Brennan said it, it must be true. Got
Speaker 1: writers cramp, and you were and you were putting stuff
Speaker 1: out for for Paul Doherty, Yeah, pe doc, p doc Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: by sitting on the probably sitting on the porch of
Speaker 1: the cabin, listening to us with a cigar, puffing on
Speaker 1: a cigar this afternoon, probably contemplating the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 7: That's correct, Probably wishing he was their covenant. But what
Speaker 7: what what is? What is a statue of Marty Brenneman
Speaker 7: behind He's gonna be He's gonna be sitting and sitting
Speaker 7: at a desk booth. Ye and uh, and there's going
Speaker 7: to be there a few other things gonna be there.
Speaker 1: Yes, have you seen a rendering? He's asked you. I said,
Speaker 1: what what's this? Yeah?
Speaker 7: He said, oh yeah, I'm gonna be sitting behind a
Speaker 7: table like the radio booth, and just you know, a
Speaker 7: few other things here and there. Tom Tashia is working
Speaker 7: feverously on the sculpture as we speak.
Speaker 1: That that that is so I just think that is
Speaker 1: so cool.
Speaker 7: That he's gonna be He's gonna be uh off to
Speaker 7: the Uh. He's gonna be there with uh uh. If
Speaker 7: you walk in the Great American Ballpark, Pete Rose, Joe
Speaker 7: Dusols right there and to the left of that, and
Speaker 7: a little foyer by the administration building, that's where Marty's
Speaker 7: statue is gonna be.
Speaker 1: That's where he's gonna be right there. Well, you got
Speaker 1: don't don't have Johnny bench out there too.
Speaker 7: No, Johnny bench is is right outside the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7: And then Joe Morgan is right there. So he'll be
Speaker 7: right there with Joe, Pete, Marty and uh and the
Speaker 7: old left hander.
Speaker 1: It don't get any better than that, does it? Amen
Speaker 1: to that? What? What is that that that day when
Speaker 1: that ceremony happens, is is Brennan even going to be
Speaker 1: able to speak? Because he's gonna be He's going to
Speaker 1: be crying. I doubt it.
Speaker 7: He said today that his wife Amanda cried more than
Speaker 7: he did, and he cries a lot, he says, you know,
Speaker 7: so probably watching that money go out the window all
Speaker 7: the time, that's by why he's crying so I don't know,
Speaker 7: but wonderful. It's a wonderful tribute he got. He got
Speaker 7: totally surprised. They called they called him, I guess a
Speaker 7: week ago or so and said, hey, can you come
Speaker 7: down and talk about your memories of opening Day? And
Speaker 7: I guess they sat him in a TV booth or
Speaker 7: something studio down there, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 7: I think Rick Walls of the Hall of Fame gave
Speaker 7: him the news I'm bout say, we're gonna put a
Speaker 7: statue up, and he just.
Speaker 1: Like he just yeah, that is fantastic.
Speaker 7: As he always says, he was struck dumb and that
Speaker 7: doesn't happen too often with the famer.
Speaker 1: That that, uh, that entrance way to Great American Ballpark
Speaker 1: is gonna be jam packed that day, like like we
Speaker 1: have never seen.
Speaker 7: Well, it was jam packed when with Morgan, it was
Speaker 7: jam packed when Rose, I mean, I mean they were
Speaker 7: out on the street.
Speaker 1: Well it's gonna it's gonna be it's gonna be double
Speaker 1: or triple then yep. So there's gonna be people on
Speaker 1: on Third Street correct out there out there trying to
Speaker 1: watch yep. So where are you going to be that day?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I'll be right there, probably
Speaker 1: right near it in the crowd. But you talk, you
Speaker 1: talked to Marty Brennman today. How how come when we
Speaker 1: don't hear any sound bites? Did you record it? Secret?
Speaker 1: It's secret secret? How can it be a secret if
Speaker 1: you just told if you just told me, it's a secret.
Speaker 1: It's a tease, that's what it's called it. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: do that all the time around here. Okay, when will
Speaker 1: Bessie when he died? When might we hear some comments?
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll say it. It's all up to
Speaker 1: the powers that be.
Speaker 7: I just get the stuff and then I just handed
Speaker 7: over to them.
Speaker 1: Well you should be making that decision. That's high above
Speaker 1: my pay grade, Dan Carroll. You should bring it in
Speaker 1: here in the sports report.
Speaker 7: Maybe so, I don't know. I'll check with the powers
Speaker 7: that be and see what they say.
Speaker 1: All right, but Aiken's playing for the Division III state
Speaker 1: title today? Is not looking good? Louisville and they're they're
Speaker 1: down or they're down big in the first Lewisville is
Speaker 1: up near Canton. Yeah, so wow, And pardon me for
Speaker 1: saying Louis Louisville, Louisville it's Louisville. Never heard of it.
Speaker 1: Now if they were in Kentucky had been not Louisville. Louisville. Right,
Speaker 1: you gotta say it. You got to say it's the
Speaker 1: way the Kentucky people say, go Falcons. Let's go.
Speaker 7: That's the only that's the only local boys team in it.
Speaker 7: Everybody else didn't.
Speaker 1: Make akens Akins our only hope this year, and then
Speaker 1: to get it done and then they win the state title.
Speaker 7: Got to get done in this state title here hanging
Speaker 7: out with Bill Cunningham in a couple of weeks. Winton
Speaker 7: Woods will be here next week along with Miami Hamilton
Speaker 7: state title in state basketball. Carlton Gray, Yes, they did?
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 7: And then Miami Hamilton won the uh, what was it?
Speaker 7: The US Collegiate Athletic Association National championship. They'll be here
Speaker 7: Tuesday two.
Speaker 1: In what sport? Basketball? So that's overall ready? Yeah, the Harriers?
Speaker 1: What about what about Claremont College? They won a national champion?
Speaker 1: You already had him in were they here? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: sure about that? Yes, sir? All right? Called to myself,
Speaker 1: you think Willie's going to do anything? Wow?
Speaker 7: You know you write all his materials? What to do
Speaker 7: he works the phone, he falls on the floor. He
Speaker 7: should be starting he saw to start drinking water at night.
Speaker 7: I don't know what's in that cup, but when he
Speaker 7: falls down, it's not good.
Speaker 1: Seg I'm reading an article right before you came in
Speaker 1: here today talking about black holes and that is that?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 7: Because is that Trump's fault? I don't blame in him
Speaker 7: or Elon Musk, but they're.
Speaker 1: Saying that these two astronomers discovered that our entire universe.
Speaker 1: Think about that, the entire universe, all the galaxies, all
Speaker 1: the stars, everything else, is actually inside a black hole
Speaker 1: that is in another universe. So you and I and
Speaker 1: everyone listening to us right now is in a black
Speaker 1: hole according to the calculations.
Speaker 7: Wow, wh whut are the people on the outside of
Speaker 7: this universe?
Speaker 1: Said, we got to appeal to them, but they said
Speaker 1: they think they're listing on the iHeartRadio app Maybe that,
Speaker 1: but nothing can escape a black hole. So there's so
Speaker 1: so we are, according to them, that we are living
Speaker 1: in our universe is inside a black hole that itself
Speaker 1: resides within a larger universe. How can we be inside
Speaker 1: a black hole?
Speaker 3: Say?
Speaker 1: Do you feel the walls closing in yeah, all the time.
Speaker 1: We got to get on this show. We've got to
Speaker 1: get Dean Riguez on here to figure this out. Call
Speaker 1: him up, get him on. Well, I've got I've got
Speaker 1: another guest on coming. All these all these federal judges
Speaker 1: are out there trying to tell Trump they're getting fired too.
Speaker 1: He can't you know, he can't do this, can't do that?
Speaker 1: Is he banning federal judges? Now? Getting rid of them?
Speaker 1: Maybe a few of them wouldn't be a bad thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean why would be Why do we even other
Speaker 1: to elect the president of the United States. We got
Speaker 1: a federal judges out there who are gonna sit there
Speaker 1: and try and tell him, you know, whether or not
Speaker 1: he can pick his nose, or whether in whether or
Speaker 1: not he can issue an executive order, whether or not
Speaker 1: he can close the border, whether or not he can
Speaker 1: send you know, illegal aliens back to where they came from.
Speaker 1: All these federal judges out there saying, up, can't do that.
Speaker 1: Do you know what to do? What I tell you
Speaker 1: to do? The main Man's got something better than anybody else.
Speaker 1: The button the red coke. Amen.
Speaker 7: That's pretty good now, I mean, instead of starting nuclear
Speaker 7: war or something like that, hit. You hit the big
Speaker 7: red button, and I'll be darned if it's not a
Speaker 7: diet coke.
Speaker 1: NASCAR doesn't even have that. I got a big red
Speaker 1: button right there. It spells d U m P. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. If it doesn't work, I have no idea.
Speaker 7: I mean, let me say, I mean, let me let
Speaker 7: me say a couple of words and see if it works.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, are you staying, I'll forget it all right,
Speaker 1: don't say it, don't say anything. No, I don't want
Speaker 1: you to get in trouble. True, But what you can
Speaker 1: say is you can get us out of the Stewge Report.
Speaker 1: How about that Dan in honor of a cold day?
Speaker 1: And we're like, what eight six days away from opening?
Speaker 1: Six days away, and March Madness is underway with Ted McKay.
Speaker 1: I wish spring training would last another month. We leave
Speaker 1: you with the immortal words of the Stewed Report.
Speaker 9: So it's going to be a sacrifice, it's going to
Speaker 9: be an error. And the Reds have their first two
Speaker 9: on here in the eleventh inning or the thirteenth inning,
Speaker 9: eleven thirteen, whatever.
Speaker 1: Long game, Yes, it's very long. You know when they
Speaker 1: put that statue of Marty up there. Yep. They ought
Speaker 1: to have a little box inside with all these recordings.
Speaker 1: Just play them on a loop, about about a forty
Speaker 1: five or fifty minute loop.
Speaker 7: A lot of people are talking about what kind of
Speaker 7: hair do is he gonna have? Is it the current
Speaker 7: one with hardly any hair, or is he gonna go
Speaker 7: with the poofy haired, fancy boy look in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 1: Well, there's already bobbleheads out there that that got the
Speaker 1: big hair right saying, well are they gonna do? I
Speaker 1: think he's got to go with the short hair if
Speaker 1: he has anything to say about it. I'm saying he's saying,
Speaker 1: let's go in as they go with the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: four look, I don't know, looking good. It's a little
Speaker 1: David seg We'll see you later on seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: tie back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW two nine.
Speaker 1: Dan Carroll in for the Great American Bill Cunningham. And
Speaker 1: there is a great debate that is happening in our
Speaker 1: country right now, and it has to do with federal
Speaker 1: judges and what they are really supposed to play. And
Speaker 1: they have inserted themselves into the administration of Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: as he tries to do things like a federal worker
Speaker 1: buy out, as he tries to do things like get
Speaker 1: rid of trans service or transgender service members out of
Speaker 1: the military, as he tries to do things like get
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants out of here on flights back to their
Speaker 1: home country, dismantling USAID, and a whole bunch of other things.
Speaker 1: But all these federal judges want to stand in his
Speaker 1: way simply because it simply disagrees with the way they
Speaker 1: think about things. Whenever I have questions like this, there's
Speaker 1: one place that I turn, and that's my buddy Tom King,
Speaker 1: who was a great constitutional lawyer and not the head
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party, but the Chief Council for the
Speaker 1: Republican Party and the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Tom King,
Speaker 1: it's great to have you again on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 6: Hey, Dan, it's an honor to be with you.
Speaker 1: How are you right?
Speaker 3: Uh? I.
Speaker 1: I look at the way Trump is dealing with all
Speaker 1: these rulings and that come out from all these various
Speaker 1: federal judges about this, that and the other thing, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to get up very upset about it
Speaker 1: at all. I think he feels as if he has
Speaker 1: the law on his side on just about every issue.
Speaker 1: And maybe there might be one or two that are questionable,
Speaker 1: but I think by and large, the the the rulings
Speaker 1: that these different federal judges have come up with, and
Speaker 1: you name the subject U are are when when they
Speaker 1: are subject to further scrutiny, are not going to withstand
Speaker 1: that scrutiny very well? What say you?
Speaker 6: I say that you are spot on, and you know
Speaker 6: you have to remember these federal judges, this is uh
Speaker 6: they You know a lot of people want to want
Speaker 6: the public to think that that there isn't any political
Speaker 6: bent to this stuff once you put a black robe on.
Speaker 6: But listen, the process to appoint these folks is is
Speaker 6: political as anything could get.
Speaker 1: And they have to be approved, of course, they have to.
Speaker 6: Be approved by the Senate, the US Senate in order
Speaker 6: to take these federal judges ships. Believe me, and I've
Speaker 6: been part of the process in serving on the Judicial
Speaker 6: Commission to recommend these candidates, and I got it. I
Speaker 6: got to tell you, it's as political as it can get.
Speaker 6: And I think the president is on firm legal ground.
Speaker 6: I'm proud that I've said this before. When you've had
Speaker 6: me on your show, and those things like the records
Speaker 6: case in mar Lago that you and I talked about
Speaker 6: quite a while ago. We predicted that that that would
Speaker 6: go away. Uh the appointment of the special counsel, we
Speaker 6: predicted was improperly done. And uh so I think I
Speaker 6: think likewise here, uh these these some of these judges
Speaker 6: have crossed the line. And the Constitution clearly provides for
Speaker 6: a separation of powers, things like that the national security
Speaker 6: and national defense are are exclusively the province of the
Speaker 6: of the President of the United States, and the courts
Speaker 6: should not be entangling themselves in these things. And and
Speaker 6: so I think the president will prevail.
Speaker 1: So you know, when I when I look at things
Speaker 1: like the ruling about Donald Trump wants to uh not
Speaker 1: have accommodations for transgenders in the United States military, and
Speaker 1: there's a judge on there talking about how all these
Speaker 1: things are medically necessary, and you know, Trump can't do that,
Speaker 1: And and I think to myself, you know what, what
Speaker 1: if there was you know what if there's a different
Speaker 1: administration in and they and they want to uh do
Speaker 1: all these things for transgenders, and and a federal judge
Speaker 1: says no, you can't do that, or you know, a
Speaker 1: federal judge says, you know, people with one leg ought
Speaker 1: to be able to be in combat positions. I mean,
Speaker 1: all these just name any sort of crazy scenario you
Speaker 1: might be able to think of. If these judges, and
Speaker 1: and most of them are lower level, the district judges
Speaker 1: on the you know, on the federal scale that are
Speaker 1: making these and some nationwide decisions, if if they just
Speaker 1: they can look at any particular policy under the way
Speaker 1: that these sort of things are being rolled out now
Speaker 1: and decide they don't like it, and and they can
Speaker 1: order or execute an order that that says, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to adhere to my way of looking at things.
Speaker 1: And why even have a chief executive if we're going
Speaker 1: to make it subservient to a handful of federal judges.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more with you.
Speaker 6: The I mean, if you substitute transgender and say, okay, so,
Speaker 6: so if it were something else other than transgender, and
Speaker 6: you mentioned it's someone without a leg or or or
Speaker 6: so let's say it's someone who's paralyzed in a wheelchair
Speaker 6: who wants to be an air traffic controller or wants
Speaker 6: to be wants to be something wants to be a
Speaker 6: pilot in the military, does does the millity. These are
Speaker 6: these are all things that that there is a unique circumstance.
Speaker 6: And then the president has the right and so does
Speaker 6: so does the military to describe the conditions necessary for
Speaker 6: people to perform these vital services. So these judges confuse
Speaker 6: you know, everyday living situations with with things like the
Speaker 6: military and and the national security and state secrets and
Speaker 6: things like that and and so uh. They are most
Speaker 6: of them district court judges, which is the lowest rung
Speaker 6: in the federal uh, federal level. And then above that,
Speaker 6: of course is the are the circuit courts and and
Speaker 6: then ultimately the US Supreme Court. So many of these
Speaker 6: issues may may ultimately make their way to the Supreme courts.
Speaker 6: Some of them will get we weeded out in the
Speaker 6: circuit courts. But I think the president is really on
Speaker 6: strong ground and I think the American public supports him
Speaker 6: in this effort.
Speaker 1: Well, sure he's got he's got an overwhelming mandate. And
Speaker 1: it is do you see the possibility of any long
Speaker 1: term damage from these judges connect you know, conducting them
Speaker 1: elves their way. They are doing it. And you know,
Speaker 1: when when you look into some of the and there's
Speaker 1: been various outlets that have done deep dives into the
Speaker 1: political backgrounds of a lot of these judges. And many
Speaker 1: of these judges are compromised in so many different ways,
Speaker 1: whether it's through family members or donations that they have made,
Speaker 1: or they have direct contact. Part of their lives is
Speaker 1: directly contacted with the issue that they're making a ruling on.
Speaker 1: And we you know, this is another thing that you
Speaker 1: and I have talked about. You know, where is the
Speaker 1: the the responsibility for these judges to recuse themselves when
Speaker 1: they run up against something like this. I mean, have
Speaker 1: we just sort of you know, in the in the
Speaker 1: you know, the whole scope of jurisprudence, have we just
Speaker 1: sort of lost that that that ethic that if you
Speaker 1: have something that's going to create the appearance of a
Speaker 1: conflict of interest and you you recruise yourself, you step away,
Speaker 1: and you say, someone else is got to handle this
Speaker 1: because you know, I don't want to have that you
Speaker 1: have that appearance of impropriet.
Speaker 6: Well, there there is in fact a process in the
Speaker 6: federal system to address uh these these either either a
Speaker 6: parent or perceived conflicts of interest. The judges in the
Speaker 6: first instance, get to get to decide for themselves. However,
Speaker 6: there there certainly is an appeal process, and there's also
Speaker 6: a review process within the federal courts. So but but
Speaker 6: when you're when you're talking about President Trump, we've never
Speaker 6: seen anybody. First of all, as the President himself says,
Speaker 6: you know, nobody's nobody's been true more stuff than he
Speaker 6: has in the system. Uh, he's an expert on on
Speaker 6: conflicts of interest by judges, the judges in New York,
Speaker 6: uh in his criminal trial and and in the in
Speaker 6: the records case in New York, and and the and
Speaker 6: the Attorney General of New York, and the conflicts that
Speaker 6: were so apparent to the rest of the world where
Speaker 6: we're just horrendous. And so once again, you know, these
Speaker 6: everybody takes the puts on the rope and sits on
Speaker 6: a federal bench has some background or they wouldn't be there.
Speaker 6: And so when that background conflicts with with fair play,
Speaker 6: that's when they're supposed to recuse themselves. We have strong
Speaker 6: opinions about about some of these cases and then the
Speaker 6: interests of some of the courts. But there is a
Speaker 6: process and it should work, and ultimately it may The
Speaker 6: problem is exactly what you we are alluding to. The
Speaker 6: damage that's done there is the ability of these courts
Speaker 6: to interfere in the in the you know, in in
Speaker 6: everyday situations that are occurring right before them, and then
Speaker 6: the delay that it takes to get those things corrected
Speaker 6: in the court system. So those two hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: criminals that are that are sitting down in in in
Speaker 6: the Caribbean in jail or you know, they if some
Speaker 6: court directs them to be returned, h there will go
Speaker 6: be a process appeal that and get it up probably
Speaker 6: to the US Supreme Court. But there's no way that
Speaker 6: these guys should be interfering in in in the extradition
Speaker 6: of of or the elimination of criminals who entered the
Speaker 6: United States improperly and are our members of an organization. Uh,
Speaker 6: this is a wailing gang that's been declared to be
Speaker 6: an enemy of the United States.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: We would want the president to do that, and so
Speaker 6: somebody interfering with that, in my opinion, is on the wrong,
Speaker 6: wrong route.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it just seems to me that you know,
Speaker 1: there there's so many, so many items that come under
Speaker 1: the executive branch and then and when you talk about
Speaker 1: the executive branch, that power is vested in the president
Speaker 1: of the United States. So when you're talking about foreign
Speaker 1: policy or you're talking about the military, are you're talking
Speaker 1: about spending under you know, different organizations or different uh,
Speaker 1: you know, government entities that fall under the executive brandts.
Speaker 1: When you're talking about how much money they can spend,
Speaker 1: who can be in charge of it, and all the
Speaker 1: rest that you know, those are items that are under control.
Speaker 1: They were not interfering with anyone's civil rights and that
Speaker 1: if that that seems to me it would be another issue.
Speaker 1: But these these are all things that come under the
Speaker 1: executive and and they're just it's just is a delaying
Speaker 1: tactic because you know, these people on the left know
Speaker 1: that they have not succeeded in the arena of ideas.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 6: I don't believe that the Constitution or anybody else gave
Speaker 6: these judges the ability, for example, to order the president
Speaker 6: to continue to pay foreign aid to two nations whose
Speaker 6: interests are adverse to ours, or for UH cooked up
Speaker 6: programs that the Biden administration invented UH to fund these
Speaker 6: things in foreign foreign nations. In the President's State of
Speaker 6: the Union address, the identified a whole laundry list of
Speaker 6: these things, and I think most of us, you know,
Speaker 6: most of us have thought that there was a lot
Speaker 6: of stuff going on in DC, but I'm not sure
Speaker 6: that any of us knew the extent of which it
Speaker 6: was until Musk and and Doage got involved and ferreted
Speaker 6: out this stuff. So they've done the country a great service,
Speaker 6: and I applaud elon Musk and Doge for what they've done.
Speaker 6: The criticism coming from the left is, in my mind,
Speaker 6: is mind boggling, because what they're criticizing is the ferreting
Speaker 6: out of corruption and almost criminal actions on the part
Speaker 6: of these people who set this stuff up, and the
Speaker 6: programs that they're supporting are insane. I don't think you know,
Speaker 6: when the president says he wants to restore common sense
Speaker 6: to America, that's exactly what he's doing. And so for
Speaker 6: some judge to get involved and try to order the
Speaker 6: President of the United States to continue to make these
Speaker 6: phony payments to these nations is really improper.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you followed the Auto Penn
Speaker 1: story about Joe Biden. How big of a deal do
Speaker 1: you think that is? Depending on its documents were signed
Speaker 1: by the autopen and then I guess if you're going
Speaker 1: to dig further into this, uh, it seems to me
Speaker 1: that it bears worth looking into whether or not Joe
Speaker 1: Biden specifically authorized the use of the autopen on on
Speaker 1: the signing of some of these documents.
Speaker 6: I think the autopen deal is a big deal. I
Speaker 6: think that's a huge deal. You know these you get
Speaker 6: these if you write down to the White House. Sometimes
Speaker 6: you'll get if you if you're if they if your
Speaker 6: letter is a significant, important, et cetera, you'll get a
Speaker 6: personal signature back from the President. But a lot of
Speaker 6: times somebody will write and congratulate them on something and
Speaker 6: those kinds of things, and so they use the autopen
Speaker 6: on a lot of a lot of the letters coming
Speaker 6: out of there are auto penned. I don't think that
Speaker 6: it's possible to autopen a pardon.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: And and I think that that that once you get
Speaker 6: to the to the fact, to the fact that any
Speaker 6: of these things were autopen, I think that inlid to
Speaker 6: be honest with you, and then and then I do
Speaker 6: think that it's significant and it's important that we get
Speaker 6: to the bottom of who did this because if someone
Speaker 6: in the White House was auto penning a lot of
Speaker 6: other stuff, we ought to know about it. And maybe
Speaker 6: there are other things that are invalid as well. The President,
Speaker 6: President Biden, that didn't seem to know much about a
Speaker 6: lot of things at the end, and I suspect that
Speaker 6: he may not have known exactly who he was pardoning
Speaker 6: and in what and what proportion. Some of these were
Speaker 6: masked pardons of thousands of people. Yeah, and if those
Speaker 6: were auto penned, listen, they're they're invalid.
Speaker 1: You think those So you think some of those pardons
Speaker 1: could be invalid if if it turns out? How about that?
Speaker 6: I absolutely do. I I don't think there's any There
Speaker 6: is no authority for anyone to do that, to sign
Speaker 6: his name.
Speaker 1: There's no authority for somebody to push a.
Speaker 6: Button and get and have the Joe Biden's signature appear
Speaker 6: on a pardon that he didn't sign himself.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think there's any question about that.
Speaker 1: Wow, how about that? We got about a minute left.
Speaker 1: You're working on a case right now involving the governor
Speaker 1: there in Pennsylvania, and this guy's got some some problems
Speaker 1: with some missing emails, Governor Shapiro.
Speaker 6: Governor Shapiro is a lot in the news over here,
Speaker 6: and there are an awful lot of Republican women who
Speaker 6: are just outraged at what he's done. In the case
Speaker 6: that we're involved in, which is supported by the Thomas
Speaker 6: Moore Society. As you know, I'm part of that fine
Speaker 6: organization in Chicago and so on, behalf of a news
Speaker 6: outlet over here called Broad and Liberty. We've been able
Speaker 6: to establish in court that there are there are completely
Speaker 6: missing emails in the investigation into one of Shapiro's cabinet secretaries,
Speaker 6: for whom Shapiro paid two hundred and ninety five thousand
Speaker 6: dollars to settle sexual harassment.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and ninety five thousand taxpayer dollars. Right yes, sir,
Speaker 1: right out of the government. Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 6: That's it that this is about as bad as the
Speaker 6: Nixon missing missing gap in the tapes. It's these emails
Speaker 6: are gone, Tom King.
Speaker 1: The playbook never changes. It doesn't matter what group of
Speaker 1: Democrats you're talking about. The playbook is always the same.
Speaker 1: And it's it seems like it's always the taxpayers who
Speaker 1: have to to make good for their misdeeds. But Tom King.
Speaker 1: As always, it is great to have you on the time.
Speaker 1: Always flies right by whenever you're on. Keep up the
Speaker 1: great work, my friend, and we'll talk again before too long.
Speaker 1: Always appreciate it, sure will. Dan, thanks for having me
Speaker 1: all right. There you go, the great Tom King from
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania to twenty five Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 9: The whole Town's Baddie about Cincinnati.
Speaker 5: What a team? What a team?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: What a team?
Speaker 5: Hello, Piet and I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Segment. We've got high drama happening the arena arena right now.
Speaker 1: It is Aiken versus Louisville for the boys Division three championship.
Speaker 1: Aiken had a free throw with about eight seconds left
Speaker 1: to play. It didn't go down. Louisville got the ball
Speaker 1: on a possession arrow. Then they inbounded. Aiken fouled right away,
Speaker 1: so now there was about four seconds left. Louisville made
Speaker 1: the Louisville made the front end of a one to one,
Speaker 1: So it is now sixty three sixty one, one point
Speaker 1: nine left to play. A doesn't get any better. At
Speaker 1: Akins got one final shot, one final shot they're gonna need. Well,
Speaker 1: they only need a two pointer, but it's gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to heave it up right away. One point
Speaker 1: I think one point nine you got time for a catch.
Speaker 1: I don't think you have time for a dribble.
Speaker 7: But I think you gotta be a long pass like
Speaker 7: the other night with Alabama State.
Speaker 1: Long pass, and you gotta shoot it, and they got
Speaker 1: to drain it. So they've got one chance for glory.
Speaker 1: They're in a timeout right now, Aiken High School take
Speaker 1: them out. What's the nickname of Lewisville? You know, no
Speaker 1: idea Canton could care less. Looks like they got a
Speaker 1: lion or something on the graphic there. God bless them all. Right,
Speaker 1: here we go, Here we go. It can get ready
Speaker 1: to inbounds under their own bat or under the Lewisville basket.
Speaker 1: So they've got to go to the length of the
Speaker 1: floor here in one point nine seconds and get up
Speaker 1: a shot or else they will fall sixty one to
Speaker 1: sixty three. There's the inbound pass, dribble from half court,
Speaker 1: long shot off the top of the glass, and the
Speaker 1: ball Kreene's away and Aiken comes up short, falling to
Speaker 1: Lewisville in the Division III Championship. Sixty three sixty one.
Speaker 1: But what a comeback, What a comeback for the eighteen
Speaker 1: nineteen points.
Speaker 7: And at halftime and went back in the room between
Speaker 7: here and there, and all of a sudden, it's like
Speaker 7: a thirty eight to thirty four whatever it was, it's
Speaker 7: like a four point game. And I'm going, what the
Speaker 7: world did They must have I don't know, they must
Speaker 7: have put the cord on a on a swivel or something,
Speaker 7: but ake and they had their chances but just couldn't.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't get at the fall. The Louisville Leopards
Speaker 1: the Leopards, So now you know what Lewisville is, the
Speaker 1: Leopards regulations. Ak Now, what a game, What a game?
Speaker 1: What a game? And Aiken had a it was sixty
Speaker 1: two sixty one and Aiken had a free throw I
Speaker 1: guess the front end of a one and one to
Speaker 1: tie it up. And that free throw it bounced around
Speaker 1: like three or four times on the rim just didn't
Speaker 1: fall through. You know. I was and I was watching
Speaker 1: the playing games at U D Arena the other night,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking to myself, those rims at UD
Speaker 1: are pretty friendly because there was a lot of shots. Yep,
Speaker 1: during that Xavier game that seemed like they would bounce
Speaker 1: around and then find their way in and that one
Speaker 1: just just didn't go down for the Falcons and they
Speaker 1: come up a couple of points short.
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Speaker 7: it's Alabama ahead of Robert Morris seventy to sixty five.
Speaker 1: Oh HALFTIMEE Alabama's the number one seed?
Speaker 7: Aren't two? I think they were too the two seed.
Speaker 7: Iowa State leads Lipscomb at half forty to twenty four.
Speaker 1: Where is Lipscomb? I think it's in Tennessee.
Speaker 7: Xavier takes on Illinois tonight seven hundred ww's coverage nine
Speaker 7: fifteen Troy and the Kentucky Wildcats seven on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 1: You like tonight between the Muskies and the Illinois A
Speaker 1: LIONI no offense to Bob Trumpy, but go X. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's see Red's update.
Speaker 7: We got the Reds in White Sox today in split
Speaker 7: squad action. Another group will play Seattle, but the Reds
Speaker 7: and White Sox today. Seven out at WW coverage coming
Speaker 7: up about forty five minutes with the RNL carriers inside pitch.
Speaker 7: MLS soccer Atlanta United at FC Cincinnati tomorrow afternoon at
Speaker 7: TQL Stadium. The action at two ESPN fifteen thirty. Poster
Speaker 7: at five to two is the favorite thirteen horse field
Speaker 7: tomorrow for the seven hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars
Speaker 7: running of the Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfoy Park. Post
Speaker 7: time tomorrow night is six twenty five pm.
Speaker 1: Who's the favorite poster? Poster? And then another horse? Is
Speaker 1: that that's the name of the horse's poster? Correct?
Speaker 7: Another horses and one of the favorites is California Burrito.
Speaker 1: So this is a this is a there's a derby
Speaker 1: qualifying race.
Speaker 7: When Winter goes to runs for the Kentucky Derby, winner
Speaker 7: goes to the Derby.
Speaker 1: Correct that's a big deal. No kidding. Down there, down
Speaker 1: there at Turfway, they still got the synthetic turf down
Speaker 1: there that I don't know. I don't know have been
Speaker 1: there in a while. Well, let's go, let's go, let's
Speaker 1: go play some horses. You ever have any luck at that?
Speaker 1: No playing the horses. No, I've got I got a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine who loves the handicap. He's always got
Speaker 1: the racing for him. He's always calling me with hot tips.
Speaker 1: And I've been to I go to the track with them.
Speaker 1: You know how many You know how many times I've
Speaker 1: wanted the track with him? Zero zero? Yeah, not a dime.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's why I don't go.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't know what the heck's going on unless I
Speaker 7: had Mike Battaglia with me. That's the only the only
Speaker 7: reason I'd go to a racetrack if I had him.
Speaker 1: With me, and that was it.
Speaker 7: Buttagula, and he knows, he knows the horses, the horses,
Speaker 7: and the horses and the horses, that's it. He knows
Speaker 7: where every one of them came from and everything else.
Speaker 1: Jeff Pacarr is the only one I've ever known that
Speaker 1: won any money playing the horses. And then I got
Speaker 1: a buddy that works down there too, But I've never
Speaker 1: been I never be able to figure it out. Sech
Speaker 1: can't figure it out. Good luck to you all right?
Speaker 1: What else is going on? That's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 1: March Madness is underway. You got baseball, you've got soccer,
Speaker 1: you got horse racing, all all kinds of stuff happening. Oh,
Speaker 1: we got to mention n I t second round tomorrow
Speaker 1: eleven thirty am. The Dayton Flyers are on the road
Speaker 1: against Tennessee Chattanooga. Let's go the second round, So good
Speaker 1: luck to the Flyers. Scotty Scheffler has put out his
Speaker 1: menu for the Masters Club dinner. I saw, I saw
Speaker 1: that you did. Yeah, what do you think of it?
Speaker 1: Sounds pretty good to me. He's gonna he's gonna have
Speaker 1: shrimp this year. And let's see, he's got cheeseburgers, firecrapper,
Speaker 1: fire cracker, shrimp and beef steak.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see Papa Chef's meatball and ramvolie bites.
Speaker 7: These boys are gonna need some heartburn medicine after this one.
Speaker 1: The Men, you also include steak and fish, and there's
Speaker 1: also some chili, and then you've got a chocolate chip
Speaker 1: cookie skillet topped with vanilla bean ice cream for dessert.
Speaker 1: Did they have any of that's? Did they have any
Speaker 1: chocolate chip skillet down at the down a Great American
Speaker 1: Dolf Park today?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: No, nothing like that. No, no they did not. Did
Speaker 1: they have any Did they have any shrimp?
Speaker 2: Rimp?
Speaker 1: No shrimp, No shrimp? Great American Balls, I can see.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: The biggest everybody was talking about was the walking taco.
Speaker 7: The walking talk with Grippo Chips and Montgomery and Barbecue,
Speaker 7: and it was they said it was outstanding. So if
Speaker 7: they if the taco, they ran out. If the taco
Speaker 7: was walked looking around, I mean, you got to go
Speaker 7: catch it before you can eat it. House you just
Speaker 7: it's right there in like the bottom of the of
Speaker 7: the of the UH container for your potato chips. Everything's
Speaker 7: in there, and you just walk around and eat it.
Speaker 7: Why do you have to walk around? I don't know.
Speaker 7: All depends what you want to do.
Speaker 1: You can't you sit down and eat it. No, you
Speaker 1: gotta walk and eat it because the stuff walks with you.
Speaker 1: But but you're you're the one if you.
Speaker 7: If you don't eat the walking taco walking, it's gonna
Speaker 7: walk away from what it did?
Speaker 1: I mean, they get walk.
Speaker 7: The taco was walking and the people were standing there
Speaker 7: at the table and they look down and then walking
Speaker 7: taco was just walk.
Speaker 1: You walk away from walking away. Yeah, you got to
Speaker 1: catch it first.
Speaker 7: That's why you gotta walk with it. You put it
Speaker 7: down and you walk away, forget it.
Speaker 1: The taco is going to walk away. Somebody's got to
Speaker 1: get it. Just say it so walking. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the top goes walking around on the Great American Ballpark.
Speaker 7: Tip tip eight, about six of them, and the last
Speaker 7: one she had it, she sat it down. She turned
Speaker 7: to talk to somebody and the things started moving. You got,
Speaker 7: if the taco's gotta walk, you gotta walk with the taco.
Speaker 1: How about how about when they d out? How about
Speaker 1: when they have bark in the park night and he
Speaker 1: got with tacos walking all over the dogs and be
Speaker 1: going crazy. Don't ask me, I don't know. That'll be
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, I'm sure it would be sure. The
Speaker 1: Reds will love that. All right, seg have a great Friday.
Speaker 1: Same to you, Dan, and get us out of the
Speaker 1: Stoog's report.
Speaker 7: If you would please Dan, in honor of everybody having
Speaker 7: a good weekend, and good luck to exit everybody else
Speaker 7: that's playing.
Speaker 1: We leave you with the immortal words of the stewed report.
Speaker 1: Next week's highway patrol story is a very unusual one.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us until then. Remember it
Speaker 1: isn't the car.
Speaker 4: That kills, it's the driver.
Speaker 1: This is Roderick Crauwford saying, see you next week, See
Speaker 1: you next week, seg sir on seven hundred WLW. A
Speaker 1: right back on the big one, seven hundred WLW, Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll for Bill Cunningham. Just a few minutes to go
Speaker 1: here before the top of the hour. Then Rocky, you'll
Speaker 1: take it to Red's Baseball at three thirty. But I
Speaker 1: was on last night and I was talking about a
Speaker 1: piece that was written in a daily wire by a
Speaker 1: guy named Luke Rosiak. And if you get a chance
Speaker 1: to go there and look it up, the title of
Speaker 1: it is inside the now shuttered federal agency where employees
Speaker 1: live like reigning kings. And so this tells the story
Speaker 1: of a little federal agency called the Federal Mediation Consolation Services.
Speaker 1: And this is a federal agency that has a nine
Speaker 1: story office tower on K Street and DC sixty employees,
Speaker 1: many of them who actually worked from home prior to
Speaker 1: the pandemic. The managers there had luxury suites full bathrooms.
Speaker 1: One manager would often be in the shower when she
Speaker 1: was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge.
Speaker 1: The FMCS recorded its director as being on a year's
Speaker 1: long business trip to DC so he could have all
Speaker 1: his meals and living expenses covered by taxpayers simply for
Speaker 1: showing up. This agency has two hundred and thirty employees
Speaker 1: that exists to serve as a voluntary mediator between unions
Speaker 1: and businesses as an independent agency, and it is so
Speaker 1: small that it literally has no oversight. And the reporter
Speaker 1: on this, Luke Rosiac, did a deep dive into this
Speaker 1: fm CS ten years ago and he was talking about
Speaker 1: there's one official there who ordered champagne and two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars coasters for his office, purchased artwork that was painted
Speaker 1: by his wife. They talked about one employee said he
Speaker 1: said he's never seen anything like it. He says they
Speaker 1: spent two four hundred dollars to retouch a painting a
Speaker 1: portrait of someone who had briefly held the top job. There.
Speaker 1: There's one employee, a guy named Charles Burton, who retired
Speaker 1: from the FMCS. After he retired, he incorporated an LLC
Speaker 1: to which another FMCS employee paid eighty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: using his purchase card. When they say purchase card, they
Speaker 1: mean government credit card. Then this guy's business was listed
Speaker 1: as a call service center, even though the company had
Speaker 1: neither a website nor a working phone. And this article
Speaker 1: just goes on and on and on. Thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: on trinkets for employees, It had an in house gym,
Speaker 1: an ice machine that costs thirty eight hundred bucks. And again,
Speaker 1: when you talk about all these things, you know it's
Speaker 1: small potatoes. But we have to start getting into the
Speaker 1: mindset as a nation that this kind of stuff is
Speaker 1: not okay that a few thousand dollars here or a
Speaker 1: few million dollars there, or even a billion or so
Speaker 1: dollars over there, and the big scheme of things is
Speaker 1: not all that much. We we just got to start
Speaker 1: looking at that as what a waste it is, and
Speaker 1: we cut that out. Then eventually hopefully we can move
Speaker 1: on to the bigger stuff. But again it's on daily
Speaker 1: wire check it out and your jaw dropped to the
Speaker 1: floor just like behind it. Time for me to get
Speaker 1: out of here. Rocky is next with a little bit
Speaker 1: of a short show and then Reds Baseball coming up
Speaker 1: at three thirty here on the Home of the Red
Speaker 1: seven hundred ww