Speaker 1: My Bill cunning in the Great America. Welcome this great
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon the tri State. Terrible weather's coming tomorrow evening
Speaker 1: and Thursday. Stay tuned tomorrow on that's predicted we may
Speaker 1: have seven to eight inches of rain, which is not good,
Speaker 1: especially in the hollows of Kentucky, in large parts of
Speaker 1: Ohio and also Reds Baseball kicks off tonight about five
Speaker 1: point forty with Della Cruz and the torpedo bat. The
Speaker 1: torpedo bat means they're going to change the weight of
Speaker 1: the bat, take it from the tip and put it
Speaker 1: with a ball hits the bat about six to eight
Speaker 1: inches of a spot, and he's hitting home runs like crazy,
Speaker 1: as is the New York Yankees. So I thought I
Speaker 1: would have on the Attorney General, we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: legalities of torpedo bats. But on second hand, maybe David
Speaker 1: Yos knows nothing about torpedo bats but knows about the
Speaker 1: Safe Act. First of all, David Yos, Ohio Attorney General,
Speaker 1: you know anything about the torpedo bat?
Speaker 2: No, but they sound like they ought to be illegal.
Speaker 2: Like black guns. That looks scary. Yeah, ghost guns, you
Speaker 2: should have them.
Speaker 1: And you would have thought by this time in American history.
Speaker 1: You know, baseball started professionally here in eighteen sixty nine,
Speaker 1: which is which is a while ago, almost one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty years. And what it means is you think
Speaker 1: of a typical wooden baseball bat, and the weight distribution
Speaker 1: at the end of the bat is moved about three
Speaker 1: inches down, creating kind of a bulge, almost like a
Speaker 1: snake eating a porcupine. And there's a bulge right there
Speaker 1: where the rubber hits the road, where the ball hits
Speaker 1: the bat, which causes more mass to hit the object,
Speaker 1: which means it goes further. So last night Della Cruz
Speaker 1: had seven RBI and also two home runs and a
Speaker 1: double almost hit for the cycle. But it ought to
Speaker 1: be illegal. But I'm shocked that people haven't figured this
Speaker 1: out before. Let's talk about something more germane to you,
Speaker 1: as the Attorney general. You have a great column up
Speaker 1: on the National Review which I read constantly, and the
Speaker 1: headline is a bad game. You claim a bad game
Speaker 1: of legal twister won't block Ohio's Safe Act. The first sentence,
Speaker 1: the State of Pella court twisted itself into knots to
Speaker 1: prevent the state's law restricting medicalized gendor transition for miners
Speaker 1: and you say. In the nineteen sixties, Milton Bradley created
Speaker 1: a twister game, marketing It is the game that ties
Speaker 1: you up in knots. It's a large plastic matt adorned
Speaker 1: with multi colored circles, and the spinner told each consecutive
Speaker 1: game or where the place is or arm or foot.
Speaker 1: First of all, explain what the legislature did. Then explain
Speaker 1: what the governor did. Then explain what the legislator did
Speaker 1: in reaction to that. Then explain what the appellate court did.
Speaker 1: Then explain where we are today. It's the floor is
Speaker 1: your mister Attorney General will explain it all.
Speaker 2: We'll try to make it quick. The General Assembly passed
Speaker 2: a common sense law. I kind of can't even believe
Speaker 2: we had. It's like passing the law that says you're
Speaker 2: going to need to breathe. Everybody has to breathe. The
Speaker 2: law said no, no, men and boys and girls, sports
Speaker 2: and uh. Doctors aren't allowed to come in and use chemicals, drugs,
Speaker 2: puberty blockers, or surgery to permanently change somebody's gender.
Speaker 1: Why is that an issue? I mean, I'm sitting here,
Speaker 1: I'm getting older. Man, He says, run out older, We're older.
Speaker 1: Why is that even a thing? Why why would anyone
Speaker 1: contend it? We ought to do this? Well, wait, this
Speaker 1: is something good. Explain to me. How how did we
Speaker 1: get here?
Speaker 2: Well, actually, there's a group of progressive doctors who kind
Speaker 2: of bullied everybody into something called war Path. It's a
Speaker 2: series of medical procedures that are supported by the transgender movement.
Speaker 2: And look, it's a free country bill. If you suddenly
Speaker 2: decide that you want to be a girl and walk
Speaker 2: on the wild side, I got nothing to say to
Speaker 2: you except I'm gonna pray for you. But go ahead.
Speaker 2: You're an adult. You get to do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: But what we're talking about kids, they are protected on
Speaker 2: all kinds of things because they're judgment's not there yet.
Speaker 2: So they passed this law. Governor Dwine, in his wisdom,
Speaker 2: vetoed thing. I went in and said he thought it
Speaker 2: was unconstitutional. I went back and said, naw, I don't
Speaker 2: think it is. And I'm the guy who has to
Speaker 2: go to court. I'll defend it. Please override his veto
Speaker 2: and they did. And we wanted a trial court. We
Speaker 2: had a five day trial, and you and I had
Speaker 2: a chance to talk about it last summer, A little
Speaker 2: bit real proud of my team, and they did a
Speaker 2: great job, brought home to win. This has been the
Speaker 2: law now for seven months in Ohio, eight months in Ohio,
Speaker 2: and just here in the last couple of weeks, the
Speaker 2: group of judges arned the appeal out of the trial
Speaker 2: and they found a brand new, novel, never thought of
Speaker 2: application to the Healthcare Freedom Amendment and said it's unconstitutional
Speaker 2: under the Ohio Constitution. Now, Bill, you're old enough to
Speaker 2: remember Obamacare And when it came in and we had
Speaker 2: something called the Healthcare Freedom Amendment here in Ohio and
Speaker 2: we all voted for it, and it basically said the
Speaker 2: government's not allowed to tell you what you can or
Speaker 2: can't do when you're buying health care and health insurance.
Speaker 2: It was designed to stop John Kasik from being able
Speaker 2: to do Obamacare here in Ohio like Mitt Romney did
Speaker 2: Romneycare in Massachusetts. Well, this Court of Appeals said, well,
Speaker 2: that must mean that the legislature is not allowed to
Speaker 2: control the practice of medicine as regards to these children
Speaker 2: on irreversible medical procedures. That's not what anybody thought of
Speaker 2: was at the time. Everybody thought it was to block Obamacare,
Speaker 2: and even the people that opposed.
Speaker 3: Has said, well, it's not very good. It's not going
Speaker 3: to work to block Obamacare. That's a bad idea. Well
Speaker 3: it passed anyway.
Speaker 2: But nobody thought that the state of Ohio was giving
Speaker 2: up the right to regulate the practice of medicine. What
Speaker 2: we're going to do here leeches and blood letting. Now
Speaker 2: we can go back to frontal lobotomies because you know
Speaker 2: some doctor or some parenting that that will help with
Speaker 2: the ADHD. Come on, nobody thought that. And so we're
Speaker 2: taking this to the Supreme Court, where I am confident
Speaker 2: that legal logic, sanity, and common sense are going to prevail.
Speaker 1: So as we sit here this Tuesday afternoon that you
Speaker 1: say in your column in the National Review, quote last Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Estate Court joined the fund when the Ohio Tenth District
Speaker 1: Court of Appeals held at Ohio's law designed to protect
Speaker 1: miners from often irreversible chemical gender transition violates the Ohio Constitution.
Speaker 1: It's right in the Ohio Constitution about gender chemical transitions
Speaker 1: and sexual mutilations. They found it was in there, and
Speaker 1: so now you've got to go to the Supremes in
Speaker 1: Columbus to have them say, I don't know what I
Speaker 1: don't know, have them say that gender transitioning for children
Speaker 1: is not in the Constitution, but the argument is that
Speaker 1: it's against the US Constitution also, And at this point
Speaker 1: I have no idea where in the hell we are.
Speaker 1: I do know this Children's Hospital in Cincinnati and the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Clinic are among the best medical facilities in the world.
Speaker 1: But left to their own druthers, each of them would
Speaker 1: participate and gender transitioning of minors of children. Am I
Speaker 1: correct about that?
Speaker 2: Well? I don't want to speak for either of them,
Speaker 2: but there are certainly people within those institutions who have
Speaker 2: advocated for exactly that position. And honestly, the rest of
Speaker 2: the world medical opinion is not matching that Europe started
Speaker 2: down this road earlier than we did here in the
Speaker 2: United States, and they're pulling back. They're going, Wow, this
Speaker 2: isn't such a good idea. Think about teenagers for a second.
Speaker 2: Think about it. There's a woman named Chloe Cole, and
Speaker 2: I brought her in to testify at our trial. And
Speaker 2: when she was going through her awkward teenage years, she
Speaker 2: thought she wanted to be a boy, and so she
Speaker 2: went through these puberty blockers and the therapy and surgery
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, modified her body.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: By the time she hit twenty years old, she had
Speaker 2: grown up, grown out of it, and she didn't want
Speaker 2: to be a boy. She wanted to be a wife
Speaker 2: and to be a mom and have kids. But because
Speaker 2: the law did not protect her at that time and place,
Speaker 2: and these docs were convinced that they knew better, and
Speaker 2: because her parents were worried about her and followed the
Speaker 2: doctor's advice, she is a permanent monument to the idea
Speaker 2: that kids shouldn't be allowed to make permanent decisions in
Speaker 2: their teenage years.
Speaker 1: You know, mister Attorney General David Yost, about ten years ago,
Speaker 1: I had on a couple that had had a son
Speaker 1: who at that point was like twelve or thirteen that
Speaker 1: wanted to be a girl. And the argument was, well,
Speaker 1: my son played with dolls, was a barbie fan, wanted
Speaker 1: to wear dresses, et cetera. And so this couple advice
Speaker 1: from the experts at children's hospital, and they began a
Speaker 1: procedure in a process to transition that child. What do
Speaker 1: you say to a family, Let's say you're a loving
Speaker 1: mother and a father and your child tells you at
Speaker 1: the age of twelve or thirteen or fourteen, I'm in
Speaker 1: my soul, my heart is in the wrong body. I
Speaker 1: want to switch. They go to the family doctor, and
Speaker 1: the family doctor says, yep, this child is transgender. You'd
Speaker 1: rather have a living daughter rather than a dead son.
Speaker 1: And unless you allow this to happen, suicide is going
Speaker 1: to occur. Then the doctor refers them to a big
Speaker 1: city hospital and the experts down there say, yep, this
Speaker 1: child is going to be cutting themselves and they're going
Speaker 1: to be a kidder and they're going to commit suicide
Speaker 1: unless you agree to this. And so the culture says
Speaker 1: do it. The family doctor says do it. The experts
Speaker 1: at the Cleveland clinics say do it. And then you're
Speaker 1: told that if you don't do it, you're a bad parent.
Speaker 1: If you're in California, the state will come in and
Speaker 1: take the child away from you if you don't allow
Speaker 1: it to take place. Fortunately, Ohio, in the Ina, Kentucky's
Speaker 1: not there yet. Do you have any what's the argument
Speaker 1: of a system where the medical community says this must happen,
Speaker 1: it's medically required. The family says, we want this to happen,
Speaker 1: and devil's advocate, who the hell are you, David used
Speaker 1: to tell that family.
Speaker 2: No, well, I'm nobody, but the elected representatives of we
Speaker 2: the people happen to represent the sovereign interests of Ohioans
Speaker 2: and are empowered by all those Ohioans to pass laws,
Speaker 2: including protecting children and including standing against the group think
Speaker 2: that we're seeing right now. Again, other places in the
Speaker 2: world don't agree with that. And furthermore, the shibboleth, the
Speaker 2: the false assertion that kids are more likely to commit
Speaker 2: suicide if they don't have gender transition treatment, is simply
Speaker 2: not borne out by the facts. We had testimony to
Speaker 2: that effect at our trial from our own experts. So
Speaker 2: this is very highly controversial. Acting to protect children is
Speaker 2: an entirely appropriate thing for the state to do by law.
Speaker 2: And you know, you start off by ask you what
Speaker 2: do I say to those parents? I say, I love
Speaker 2: my kids too. I know you love your kids. And
Speaker 2: this is really hard, and you're worried, maybe you're scared
Speaker 2: to death, and you'll do anything, but you can't abdicate
Speaker 2: to the group think of something that simply not supported
Speaker 2: by the evidence. This is it's just something that that
Speaker 2: kids ought to be protected from.
Speaker 1: In fact, the government tells parents who want to do
Speaker 1: certain things with their children. Government tells parents all the time,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. That's wrong, and it's very limited.
Speaker 1: But for Jehovah witnesses that consider blood transfusions to be
Speaker 1: the work of the devil, well blood transfusions should happen.
Speaker 1: There are other parents who say, my kid doesn't need
Speaker 1: cancer treatment because we're going to pray. And I believe
Speaker 1: in prayer. I'm practicing Roman Catholic, but prayer with medical science.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the juvenile quarter step in and say, well, your
Speaker 1: kid needs medical care, which is cancer treatment. And I
Speaker 1: would point out that the American Medical Association, of a
Speaker 1: lengthy study, had one hundred and seven thousand who had transitioned,
Speaker 1: and the psychiatric difficulties did not lessen upon the transition.
Speaker 1: They were aggravated by the transition. It got worse later
Speaker 1: on in life, it did not get better. The underlying
Speaker 1: problem was the psychiatric disorder that was not treated by transgenderism.
Speaker 1: The trans end or hormone screwed somebody up even more.
Speaker 1: In fact, there were more mental problems later on than
Speaker 1: there were having done nothing. And so lastly, David Yos,
Speaker 1: Attorney General. As we sit here this a Tuesday afternoon,
Speaker 1: what is the law in the state of Ohio as
Speaker 1: we speak right now it's about twelve twenty pm on
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. The Capella Courts have ruled that it's unconstitutional.
Speaker 1: What is the status right now?
Speaker 2: Well, it's technical, but the Safe Act is still a
Speaker 2: law of the land. They have not issued their mandate,
Speaker 2: which is a technical word to say you've got to
Speaker 2: follow the decision. And so we've asked for a stay.
Speaker 2: If that's denied at the Appellate Court, will go to
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court and ask for a stay. And I
Speaker 2: think we have a good argument to get it. But
Speaker 2: as of today, it's still the law of the land
Speaker 2: as we're talking here on Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 1: And lastly, you get involved in that federally. It happens
Speaker 1: all the time. We had a local Common Police Court judge.
Speaker 1: There's fourteen Ohio Common Police Court judges in Hamilton County.
Speaker 1: Around the state. There's got to be I don't know,
Speaker 1: three or four hundred. This state court judge in Hamilton
Speaker 1: County issued a statewide ban about two years ago on
Speaker 1: an abortion procedure or whatever, and what is your feeling
Speaker 1: about local common police court judges issuing statewide bans when
Speaker 1: their jurisdiction is one county.
Speaker 2: Well, there's two questions here, and you've identified the first.
Speaker 2: A judge in one county shouldn't be able to restrain
Speaker 2: the you have a statewide injunction. They're not a state official.
Speaker 2: They are elected in a county. And it's the same
Speaker 2: with the what we see right now with the leftist
Speaker 2: judges and some of the courts that are interfering with
Speaker 2: the president's Article two powers. They're issuing swin junctions instead
Speaker 2: of limiting them to the parties that are involved. Uh,
Speaker 2: And that's that's actually the better practice. I think we'll
Speaker 2: see some United States Supreme Court action on this in
Speaker 2: the months ahead. And I don't think you want me
Speaker 2: to get into the second one.
Speaker 1: No, that's much. Yeah, we are, but David Yost, Attorney General,
Speaker 1: keep fighting because you represent the people of Ohio.
Speaker 2: We will.
Speaker 1: And I kind of think what the I kind of
Speaker 1: know if this was on the ballot, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: which way this would go. But nonetheless, to find something
Speaker 1: in the constitution not present except by shuffling around a
Speaker 1: few of the words and letters to come up with
Speaker 1: transgender rights to me is unbelievable, but it's where we
Speaker 1: are today. But David Yost once again, thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, mister ag
Speaker 1: going to be with you, God bless you. I leis
Speaker 1: continue with more coming up later will be Burrough Love
Speaker 1: of the Inquir the editor about certain issues. And also
Speaker 1: later on is more on the torpedo bat of Dela
Speaker 1: Cruz and who's going to be the new morning team
Speaker 1: starting on Monday. We could have announcement the next two
Speaker 1: or three days or sooner. All the News Radio seven
Speaker 1: hundred WULW Michailly Cunningham, the Great American. Coming up at
Speaker 1: one o'clock today will be the editor of the Inquiry,
Speaker 1: Burrow Love to talk about spending your money on a
Speaker 1: new Heritage Bank arena and whether it should be wearing
Speaker 1: the present location or maybe by TQL. Jeff Birding would
Speaker 1: like it to be at TQL, and Tracy Schwegman of
Speaker 1: the Woman who Rules the Banks with an iron grip,
Speaker 1: along with Jim Moooring at the Banks of the Holy Grail,
Speaker 1: will like to be where it is now so we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens down the road. But here's the rub
Speaker 1: before I get to the issues of the day, including
Speaker 1: what's going to happen on Monday at five am. Here's
Speaker 1: the rub that the construction where it is presently located
Speaker 1: is very very difficult. It's tight, and does it work.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it does or not. But over
Speaker 1: by TQL there's plenty of free several acres of free
Speaker 1: land that could be built much less expensively. But whoever
Speaker 1: pays for the band generally calls the tune, and so
Speaker 1: Tracy Schwegman, who's the lady in charge of the banks,
Speaker 1: been a friend of mine. She's a good lady, and
Speaker 1: of course Jim Mooring of Holy Grail. They have to
Speaker 1: rely upon the sales tax to get it done. You
Speaker 1: might recall in nineteen ninety six we voted for a
Speaker 1: half of percent sales tax, generating we thought sufficient money.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be insufficient money, and now those
Speaker 1: involved would like to use some of that money from
Speaker 1: the sales tax in order to build the Heritage Bank
Speaker 1: arena and keep it going. We did not sunset the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six sales tax at all. It goes in
Speaker 1: perpetuity it turned out to be completely insufficient because sales
Speaker 1: in Hamilton County because the Amazon, etc. Might be going
Speaker 1: down not up, about the same population. And so if
Speaker 1: it's next to TQL with Jeff Birding lender and the
Speaker 1: billionaires who own the FC franchise would like it to
Speaker 1: be there obviously, and they're willing going to put up
Speaker 1: more money than someone on the banks. You have the
Speaker 1: billionaires put up five hundred million for a new arena
Speaker 1: twenty thousand seats, state of the art arena, along with
Speaker 1: maybe the Cyclones to some other team plus going on.
Speaker 1: It may work. So the powers that be down the
Speaker 1: road to make that decision. I do say this that
Speaker 1: my good friend and yours, Alisha Reese, wants you to
Speaker 1: vote for this, yay or nay. The other two, Dinise
Speaker 1: Treehouse and Stephanie Doumas, say no, we don't have to
Speaker 1: go to get your vote to do this. They want
Speaker 1: to rule and Alsia Reese wants to vote. If it
Speaker 1: goes to a vote, that's a non starter because the
Speaker 1: Bengals and Reds do not want it to go to
Speaker 1: a vote. If it goes to a vote, in some
Speaker 1: way to continue or change that, guess what you're going
Speaker 1: to vote no because you think billionaires don't need my help.
Speaker 1: That's a problem. So we'll see what happens down the road,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that with Barrel Love after one
Speaker 1: o'clock today from the Inquirir. Secondly, as you know, I
Speaker 1: was on early and often the Trump vandwigen, especially in
Speaker 1: this election cycle. When I saw what was happening in
Speaker 1: the White House and with America, it was despicable what
Speaker 1: the presidency of Joe Biden was like the presidency of
Speaker 1: Lance Armstrong. It was a fake. It was a fraud.
Speaker 1: It didn't work and went on for a long time,
Speaker 1: and he finally backed out because even those around him
Speaker 1: knew he couldn't win. But secondly, his entire presidency was
Speaker 1: a fake, a fraud, and had no relevance to our
Speaker 1: lives because he wasn't the president. Now the reporting's coming
Speaker 1: out what about six months after the election, in which
Speaker 1: it appears that doctor Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and
Speaker 1: White House staff members were the president. We didn't vote
Speaker 1: for any of them. They attended all the meetings, all
Speaker 1: the national security meetings. Hunter Biden a crack addict, Doctor
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and White House staff made all the decisions
Speaker 1: because the president was mentally absent, he could not perform,
Speaker 1: and the media participated in the cover up greatly by
Speaker 1: not reporting on it. You can only imagine if a
Speaker 1: Republican president had the lack of mental acuity of Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: what would have happened. So now the reporting's coming out
Speaker 1: how bad it was inside the White House, and that
Speaker 1: the auto pen was being used because the President at
Speaker 1: one point could not sign his name. That's how bad
Speaker 1: it was. Talk about a national security problem. There it is,
Speaker 1: and so we'll see down the road how this happens.
Speaker 1: This is percolating now because the President Donald Trump, thank
Speaker 1: god he's in office, has floated at the trial balloon
Speaker 1: of serving a third term. And I'll say this that
Speaker 1: the twenty second Amendment and the interactions with the troth
Speaker 1: Amendment means that that cannot happen. The term elected is
Speaker 1: used in the twenty second Amendment. You can't be elected
Speaker 1: the service president for more than two terms. And he's
Speaker 1: been elected twice then not elected in twenty twenty, and
Speaker 1: he wants to run again. Father Time is undefeated on tied,
Speaker 1: unscored on right now, President is pushing eighty years old.
Speaker 1: Next summer, Donald Trump, believe it or not, we'll be
Speaker 1: eighty years old. By the time he leaves office. He'll
Speaker 1: be eighty three years old by the time he would
Speaker 1: serve another term, he would leave office and be eighty
Speaker 1: seven years old. And one thing I've noticed is that
Speaker 1: to be truly successful, as you've heard me say many
Speaker 1: times in many guys, is for this movement of the
Speaker 1: Trump supporters to be real. It can't last four years.
Speaker 1: If the last four years we go back to Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom or Governor Pritzer or Kamala Harris, a God knows who,
Speaker 1: back and forth, back and forth, the changes will not
Speaker 1: be institutionalized. In Doze nor on the southern border. There'll
Speaker 1: be a sense let's make up for the last four
Speaker 1: years by spending more money which is hurling America toward bankruptcy,
Speaker 1: or let's open up the southern border again. The crime
Speaker 1: and viciousness all over our country, the Democrats have become
Speaker 1: very violent. And so if we don't institution this to
Speaker 1: let it go forward for another eight to twelve years
Speaker 1: after this term of President Trump, that we're back to
Speaker 1: where we were when the Biden presidency took over and
Speaker 1: he was permitted to run from his basement. But they
Speaker 1: get out the vote effort paid for by Jeff by
Speaker 1: the owners of Amazon et cetera and Facebook, and as
Speaker 1: a consequence, so we didn't have a real election in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I still have a doubt about the outcome
Speaker 1: of that thing. How in the world did Joe Biden
Speaker 1: get eighty one million votes when the most Barack Hussein
Speaker 1: Obama ever got was sixty eight million. Was Biden that
Speaker 1: much stronger of a candidate than Barack Obama? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. So I have severe doubts about the outcome
Speaker 1: of that election. But what this means is is that
Speaker 1: it undermines the idea that the Mega principles must be
Speaker 1: applied for a long period of time through different people,
Speaker 1: through different means. You can't have an eighty some year
Speaker 1: old president wanting to hang on to power when you're
Speaker 1: sitting there with JD. Vance, who he's now forty years old,
Speaker 1: who believes in these principles, who's got an attractive young
Speaker 1: usha wife and these kids in the White House, and
Speaker 1: you have to support JD Vance to be your successor
Speaker 1: you can't say I'm going to fight like a warrior
Speaker 1: poe to stay in office. The principles are what matters most,
Speaker 1: not the personality. And so there's things about Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: personality I do not find particularly attractive, including the name
Speaker 1: calling and getting distracted on things that really don't matter,
Speaker 1: things that matter. Charles Crodhammer wrote a book called Things
Speaker 1: that Matter. What a great book that was one of
Speaker 1: my conservative heroes. And also what it does is diminishes greatly. Jd.
Speaker 1: Vance makes them a little Putian and makes them small
Speaker 1: in comparison, when in reality, this president, the greatest president
Speaker 1: of my lifetime, needs to understand that the principles he
Speaker 1: relies upon to get elected can be carried forward by
Speaker 1: others other than him. That is, jd. Vance, move forward.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. There's several US senators who would be
Speaker 1: excellent too, move forward with the principles. And the personality
Speaker 1: is one thing, the principal is quite another. So for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to say to JD Vance, only I can
Speaker 1: do this, and you can't follow the principles I've set out, man,
Speaker 1: that's wrong. And this twenty second Amendment stops it in
Speaker 1: its tracks. You got to be elected twice. Now I
Speaker 1: know about angle shots. I've read the materials out of
Speaker 1: the twelfth and the twenty second Amendment. The war is elected,
Speaker 1: not serving as president. So that means, according to the Trumpsters,
Speaker 1: that JD. Vance at the convention and the summer of
Speaker 1: what twenty twenty eight, the summer of twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: could be the nominee of the Republican Party. Then he
Speaker 1: selects as his vice president Donald Trump. And then assuming
Speaker 1: and my gosh, this looks impossible that JD. Vance would
Speaker 1: be elected as the president under a promise he'll step
Speaker 1: down on day one and give the presidency back to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He wouldn't have been elected president, he would
Speaker 1: be elected vice president. Therefore, it goes around the twenty
Speaker 1: second Amendment, and the twelth Amendment plays into this because
Speaker 1: the troth Amendment says only a person eligible, eligible to
Speaker 1: become the president can serve as vice president. So you
Speaker 1: can't have like a twenty a twenty five year old
Speaker 1: serving as vice president because you've got to be thirty five.
Speaker 1: You can't have someone born outside the country to be
Speaker 1: a vice president because you have to be a native
Speaker 1: born America. You have to be born in this country naturalized.
Speaker 1: You have to be a citizen. You can't be can't
Speaker 1: be an alien the one time, you can't have other things.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 1: I know what the president does is throw out these
Speaker 1: firecrackers in the fire to distract the media, let them
Speaker 1: run down different paths when there's a brick. Well, but
Speaker 1: I hope he understands he cares about the country as
Speaker 1: much as you or I about the country. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is a true American hero. It's wonderful and for the
Speaker 1: country to succeed, the principles, the mega principles of restrained government,
Speaker 1: low taxes, shut down southern border, leed it in this
Speaker 1: country only those who are legally allowed to attend a
Speaker 1: strong military America first. Those are principles, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: principles that anyone can carry forward. Now, this is a
Speaker 1: unique character. Maybe I think he's the most unique person
Speaker 1: ever to serve in the presidency. Look at his history
Speaker 1: and what the Democrats almost did to him, put him
Speaker 1: through a living hell when they didn't have to, and
Speaker 1: they did it for political reasons, never held to account
Speaker 1: of might add yet that he's got to understand that
Speaker 1: at the end of this term he'll be eighty three
Speaker 1: years old, and the principles upon which he was elected,
Speaker 1: can can be carried forward by JD. Vance and by
Speaker 1: undermining JD. Van he underminds the ability to win the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight election, which is so far off I
Speaker 1: can't even think about that. So there you got it.
Speaker 1: I would hope he would calm that down a little
Speaker 1: bit and talk about JD. Vance and he's the future.
Speaker 1: He will carry forward. Like Ronald Reagan gave the presidency
Speaker 1: to Bush forty one, and Bush was a terrible campaigner,
Speaker 1: but when the president, Reagan said he's my guy, the
Speaker 1: country was in good shape. Happy days of your hair again.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it going. I don't know what the country's
Speaker 1: going to look like in the summer of twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Do you have no idea? If things are going well,
Speaker 1: if the policies have worked, which I think they will,
Speaker 1: if America is at peace, if more manufacturing jobs are here,
Speaker 1: and we've gotten rid of waste, fraud and abuse from
Speaker 1: the government, this is going to be a sense of
Speaker 1: you know what, let's keep it going with JD. Vance.
Speaker 1: But if Donald Trump pushes this thing to become the
Speaker 1: vice president under JD Vance and then take over on
Speaker 1: day one, that dog's not going to hunt. That plane's
Speaker 1: not going to fly because the American people are going
Speaker 1: to say no. And then Mega goes down in flames,
Speaker 1: and guess what. The country falls into a dark abyss
Speaker 1: from which we may not exit.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Secondly, another thing, Canada becoming the fifty first state? Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Another one of those I helped firecrackers
Speaker 1: in the fire that amount to nothing because we don't
Speaker 1: want Canada to be the fifty first state. Right. They
Speaker 1: would have fifty six electoral votes, a couple more than
Speaker 1: California fifty six electoral votes, and the odds of a
Speaker 1: Republican winning Canada are about the same odds of a
Speaker 1: Republican winning California. The last one to do so was
Speaker 1: Bush forty one and Reagan won it, but that's been
Speaker 1: thirty some years. Canada is more liberal than California. So
Speaker 1: if California's submit to the statehood, which can't happen, I'll
Speaker 1: explain why they have fifty six electoral votes. They would
Speaker 1: have about net forty votes in the House of Representatives
Speaker 1: and two US Senators, so the Senate flips to the Democrats.
Speaker 1: The House of Representatives with an additional net forty more
Speaker 1: Democrats will control that for the rest of the century.
Speaker 1: And then the worst issue is fifty six electoral votes.
Speaker 1: A Democrat can can lose the presidency about like thirty
Speaker 1: five or forty votes, but add fifty six to the total.
Speaker 1: For the rest of the century, a Republican will not
Speaker 1: win the White House. We don't want that. And secondly,
Speaker 1: it can't happen. I've looked at what happens. What has
Speaker 1: to occur for a territory or for a nation of
Speaker 1: country to become a state. Number one first thing is
Speaker 1: that state of territory you must hold a plub site.
Speaker 1: They have to have a vote. Do you want to
Speaker 1: join the United States of America? Can you conceive of
Speaker 1: a circumstance in the next ten years or so where
Speaker 1: the state in the nation of Canada's to vote to
Speaker 1: join the United States. That's not going to happen. Now.
Speaker 1: If that happens, then the Congress issues enabling legislation about
Speaker 1: court systems and about a state constitution, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: Then if so, if the Canadians themselves say I want
Speaker 1: to be an American, which will never happen. Secondly, then
Speaker 1: the Congress, six months after all these events take place,
Speaker 1: they have a vote, and in the Congress it takes
Speaker 1: two thirds of the House and two thirds of the
Speaker 1: Senate to vote to accept them. That will never happen.
Speaker 1: So this is a fanciful idea that does nothing but
Speaker 1: anger Canadians and make it more difficult to struck a
Speaker 1: deal with them on tariffs. So I hope somehow this
Speaker 1: is wrong. I hope that Donald Trump sees things the
Speaker 1: rest of us do not. That's certainly possible. He's the
Speaker 1: smartest guy politically that's ever existed. To go through what
Speaker 1: he went through, then to win the popular vote, win
Speaker 1: the electoral College by about forty votes, to do what
Speaker 1: he did is unbelievable. And the direction he's taken the
Speaker 1: country is ninety five percent I agree with. But Canada
Speaker 1: becoming a fifty first state will never happen. And Donald
Speaker 1: Trump serving a third elected term will never happen unless
Speaker 1: there's a constitutional amendment passed that allows it to occur,
Speaker 1: which is two thirds of the House, two thirds of
Speaker 1: the Senate, and three fourths of the states got a
Speaker 1: vote to give Trump a third term under the I
Speaker 1: guess it'd be the twenty eighth Amendment. We have twenty
Speaker 1: seven right now, that won't happen. I like to deal
Speaker 1: in the land of reality and not fanciful ideas that
Speaker 1: are untethered to reality. Canada becoming a fifty first state
Speaker 1: will never happen, and Trump being elected to a third
Speaker 1: term will never happen. God knows, we got enough real
Speaker 1: problems to deal with. Let's continue, and I would note
Speaker 1: that the March numbers are now out from legal contacts
Speaker 1: on the southern border. In the month of March there
Speaker 1: were seven five hundred and the month of March, which
Speaker 1: was half the daily total in March of last year,
Speaker 1: when Biden was still in the White House, we were
Speaker 1: invaded by individuals in unconstitutional, illegal ways permitted by the
Speaker 1: federal government because Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and didn't
Speaker 1: know what he was doing. Think about where we are
Speaker 1: today compared to that, it's been a complete change. Let's
Speaker 1: continue and once again we're gonna have more announcements about
Speaker 1: the Morning Show. Mike McConnell I listened this morning to
Speaker 1: him and John Phillips. My mind was flooded with memories
Speaker 1: of John Phillips and Randy Michaels and Alan Gardner and
Speaker 1: Bill Gable and Bob Trumpey and Andy Furman and Chris
Speaker 1: Collinsworth and the Truck and Bozo and so many others,
Speaker 1: and Mike and Gary and Doc Wolf and me and
Speaker 1: away we go. And there's nothing more constant in life
Speaker 1: than change. We should spend about ten percent of our
Speaker 1: time remembering yesterday, about seventy percent of our time living today,
Speaker 1: and about twenty percent planning for tomorrow. So we got
Speaker 1: a plan for what's going to happen on Monday. And
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell's had one hell of a run. Fifty years
Speaker 1: in radio all told, and about forty thirty five thirty
Speaker 1: eight years right here at the Big One, the home
Speaker 1: of your Reds. And by the way, last night's game,
Speaker 1: that's what makes radio so exciting. To have the torpedo
Speaker 1: bat picked up by Dela Cruz for the first time
Speaker 1: and have that kind of a game, and for the
Speaker 1: Reds to win fourteen to three only because the Rangers
Speaker 1: kicked a field goal at the end. Three points three
Speaker 1: runs is unbelievable. Five point forty tonight to get started,
Speaker 1: all A News Radio seven hundred WULW. Bill Cunningham, the
Speaker 1: great American, of course, Tonight, Reds Baseball kicks off about
Speaker 1: five forty with the torpedo Bat and Dela Cruz is
Speaker 1: at the forefront hitting a massive home runs a seven
Speaker 1: RBI and also almost sit for the cycle again last
Speaker 1: night with two home runs and the Red Legs beat
Speaker 1: up on the Rangers fourteen to three, which means the
Speaker 1: Rangers I think kicked a field goal late. And that's
Speaker 1: about it. The Reds are impregnable. Joanan you and I
Speaker 1: now is the editor of The Inquir Burrow Love and Burrow,
Speaker 1: welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all,
Speaker 1: before we talk about the half a cent stadium tas
Speaker 1: not nearly as sexy as the torpedo bat. Can you
Speaker 1: write a column in the Inquire about the torpedo bat
Speaker 1: and the impact that's going to have on the Reds.
Speaker 6: I don't think I'm going to write a column, but
Speaker 6: we probably have about three torpedo bats stories in the
Speaker 6: works already, in addition to the one we had after
Speaker 6: last night's game. You know, we're wondering our high school
Speaker 6: player is going to all of a sudden show up
Speaker 6: with these things like this could be a this could.
Speaker 2: Be an interesting time to be a baseball fan, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I played the game through xavior and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and I guess no one had thought for one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years about taking some of the weight and
Speaker 1: size of the wouldn't bat and move it down three
Speaker 1: or four inches from the end to make it look
Speaker 1: like a bowling pin, and put the mass where the
Speaker 1: ball hits the bat actually where it matters. Hit one
Speaker 1: off the handle, off the end, nothing happens. But if
Speaker 1: you take the sixty eight inches where the action takes
Speaker 1: place and make that little more hefty number one, it
Speaker 1: helps with foul tips, which means instead of missing the
Speaker 1: pitch by sixteenth of an inch, you might foul tip
Speaker 1: it stay at the plate. And secondly, the ball goes further.
Speaker 1: And baseball, as you may know, is a very old sport,
Speaker 1: going back to eighteen sixty nine. But I would hope
Speaker 1: the guy that designed this thing, this physicist, whoever he
Speaker 1: is associated with the Yankees, is making money off the deal.
Speaker 1: And if you think it works, it works. If you
Speaker 1: don't think it doesn't work, it does. But isn't this
Speaker 1: also though, bad for Reds pitching, because the Reds are
Speaker 1: gonna have to pitch against it.
Speaker 6: I know it's well, yeah, I mean it's going to
Speaker 6: be the equalizer. But I just go back to the
Speaker 6: late great Pete Rose. There was this great video of
Speaker 6: him giving tips to kids on how the bat. And
Speaker 6: I remember because I was a kid and I was
Speaker 6: a little leaguer and we didn't have custom bats like
Speaker 6: the kids do today. The coach brought this duffel bag
Speaker 6: and dumped it out, and you picked the best one
Speaker 6: that wasn't cracked or whatever.
Speaker 2: But he would talk.
Speaker 6: About, you know, if they're pitching you in, you want
Speaker 6: the fat part of the bat to hit the ball.
Speaker 6: Step back. If they're pitching you outside, step forward. So
Speaker 6: I don't understand it. Like I the objective has always
Speaker 6: been to put the fat part of the bat on
Speaker 6: the ball.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, anyway, why it hasn't happened, I know,
Speaker 1: Well all of us know very little because baseball doesn't know.
Speaker 1: It took up about one hundred and sixty years and
Speaker 1: figure that out. But I don't understand it. But if
Speaker 1: it works, it works. Now let's talk about a column.
Speaker 1: You having the inquir you're the editor. If tax money
Speaker 1: is in play, taxpayers need to know who's behind the
Speaker 1: arena push We passed this levee in nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: and it was a half a cent increase in perpetuity
Speaker 1: to build and maintain two stadiums, the Great American Ballpark,
Speaker 1: I think after me at least in my mind, and
Speaker 1: also paid Course Stadium. And suddenly there's entities in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: that want to expand that to the Heritage Bank Center.
Speaker 1: Tell me what's going on with that, because and once
Speaker 1: again we're talking about some serious money.
Speaker 2: Serious money.
Speaker 6: Well you said entities, and that's what's at the you
Speaker 6: know the gist of my column. So a group came
Speaker 6: out called the Hamilton County Growth Alliance and have pitched
Speaker 6: this idea that some of the sales tax money that was,
Speaker 6: as you mentioned, passed by voters in ninety six to
Speaker 6: fund the two stadiums that we enjoy right now should
Speaker 6: be used to also fund a brand new arena. There's
Speaker 6: a guy well known in political circles named Jake and
Speaker 6: Kid who's the head of this alliance. He's a lobbyist,
Speaker 6: a political consultant. He ran John Cranley's campaign and I
Speaker 6: believe worked as his chief of staff. So he's the
Speaker 6: director of this alliance. The question is who's behind it,
Speaker 6: who started it, who's funding it? That's the big question,
Speaker 6: and he won't say. So I was beating up my
Speaker 6: reporters when we first did this story. I was like,
Speaker 6: you guys got to find out, you know, who's paying
Speaker 6: for this? Where's the money? Follow the money? And he's
Speaker 6: not saying. And he doesn't really have to say because
Speaker 6: the Hamlet Gunty Growth Alliance is a five oh one
Speaker 6: C four, which is different than a C three in
Speaker 6: that they don't have to disclose who their donors are.
Speaker 6: So that's the big question, like, who's behind it? Who
Speaker 6: is behind this initiative to use some of that sales
Speaker 6: tax money to build a new arena?
Speaker 1: Would that be? Is it legal? In other words, I'd
Speaker 1: have to read the bottle language from some thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: But that is specifically limited to baseball and football or
Speaker 1: did it include this other arena?
Speaker 6: It was specifically for a new stadium for the Reds,
Speaker 6: the new stadium for the Bengals.
Speaker 1: So how does Heritage Bank Arena come into this deal?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 6: Well, this group funded a survey and what they would
Speaker 6: like to do is eventually get this in front of voters.
Speaker 6: I think because their survey said that. I think they
Speaker 6: surveyed four hundred people and asked, how do you prioritize
Speaker 6: the need, you know, for a new arena versus upgrades
Speaker 6: for the two existing stadiums, and I think it was
Speaker 6: sixty seven percent said, you know, we prioritize, we think
Speaker 6: a new arena should be.
Speaker 2: On the list ahead of now. Again the survey, Yeah,
Speaker 2: four hundred people. I don't know.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm not questioning the survey, but I want
Speaker 6: to know who paid for the survey because I made
Speaker 6: the point of my column.
Speaker 2: I can go online.
Speaker 6: I enjoy a glass of bourbon every now and then,
Speaker 6: and I can go online and find studies that say,
Speaker 6: you know, a glass bourbon a day, or drinking bourbon
Speaker 6: and moderation is good for your health. Those are also
Speaker 6: published by distilleries. So that's so, you know, I think
Speaker 6: it's relevant, is the point I'm trying to make. And
Speaker 6: even though it's a five oh one C four and
Speaker 6: they're not legally obligated to disclose their donors, I think
Speaker 6: if they're suggesting that the sales tax which we all
Speaker 6: pay be used for an arena, that they should they
Speaker 6: shouldn't hide behind the fible one C. Four I'm all
Speaker 6: about transparency. That's you know, as editor, they inquire, we
Speaker 6: fight for people's right to know, and I think this
Speaker 6: is pretty relevant.
Speaker 1: I would think the Banks is behind it. I think
Speaker 1: Jim Mooring is a good man. I think Tracy is
Speaker 1: behind it. I think those involved in the Banks were
Speaker 1: likely to be there. And now I'm told by other
Speaker 1: entities in town, and I'm sure you're were of this,
Speaker 1: that TQL and the soccer franchise would love to have
Speaker 1: that arena right next to them. In fact, you know
Speaker 1: that they've done their studies. Indicator should be off river
Speaker 1: and should be over there, largely privately financed, and whoever
Speaker 1: pays for the band calls the tune. And so whether
Speaker 1: it's one place or the other, it's the final piece
Speaker 1: of downtown development with the Duke counter Ju Center doing
Speaker 1: what it's doing and the renaissance of downtown. Yes, we
Speaker 1: need an arena where you can bring in these acts.
Speaker 1: But have you also heard the TQL stadium and the
Speaker 1: owners of the of the soccer franchise FC would love
Speaker 1: to have that arena next to them.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's an intriguing part of this story
Speaker 6: in terms of you know who is actually behind the
Speaker 6: Hamlety Ground County Growth Alliance. Because you know you mentioned
Speaker 6: our good friend Jim Morning. I call him the Mayor
Speaker 6: of the Banks, the proprietor of the Holy Grail. I
Speaker 6: think he and other businesses in the Banks would definitely
Speaker 6: advocate for a new arena in the current area so
Speaker 6: that you have year round entertainment when you know, the
Speaker 6: Bengals only have what eight home games and then you
Speaker 6: know the baseball season runs in the warm months. That
Speaker 6: having a state of the art arena possibly bringing in
Speaker 6: you know, we we lost out to Indianapolis for the
Speaker 6: NCUBA basketball tournament. He wanted to go see the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 6: You were, you know, driving west on seventy four. So
Speaker 6: there's all kinds of possibilities if we have a state
Speaker 6: of the art arena. But yes, the master plan for
Speaker 6: the development around TQL Stadium North on the west end
Speaker 6: includes you know, residential other entertainment facilities, and you could
Speaker 6: make an argument that that would be a nice feather
Speaker 6: in the cap for everybody that's concerned with FC Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: So interestingly, I asked Jake and Kate, I said, so
Speaker 6: you won't say who they are, can you give me
Speaker 6: an idea of how what.
Speaker 2: Kind of support you have. Is it twenty business leads,
Speaker 2: is it ten or is it one.
Speaker 6: I'm not in a position to say that, so I
Speaker 6: think and this is just me, Now, this is just me.
Speaker 6: I think that if it was a large group of
Speaker 6: business leaders, he would have no problem saying that if
Speaker 6: it's one, If it's it's one person with deep pockets,
Speaker 6: then he's less likely to say, you know that that
Speaker 6: it's it's a small group or it's one group. So
Speaker 6: that might indicate it could be people who are concerned
Speaker 6: with all the development around TQL Stadium.
Speaker 2: But that's just me, that's just me.
Speaker 1: You know, the big boys in town. Tracy Schwegman, et cetera.
Speaker 1: She wants it down on the banks, and once and
Speaker 1: again if Karl Linder and that group Megan Whitman, et cetera,
Speaker 1: want to pay over half the price it's going to
Speaker 1: be next to the t QL Stadium. But one thing
Speaker 1: you said concerns me, and that is that the people
Speaker 1: may have to vote on this if there's if this
Speaker 1: issue gets to the ballot in Hamilton County about sales
Speaker 1: tax increases for this or that that that dog won't
Speaker 1: hunt My example is at Kansas City Chiefs about a
Speaker 1: year or two ago, they wanted to build a brand
Speaker 1: new stadium and this is and this is at the
Speaker 1: highlights of Patrick Mahomes, et cetera.
Speaker 6: And it was like said, no, yeah, after they won
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl, they went to voters thinking this is
Speaker 6: going to be, you know, an easy one to pass.
Speaker 2: It's just a it's just a totally.
Speaker 6: Different economy right now in terms of where we were
Speaker 6: twenty five years ago and where we are now. These
Speaker 6: stadium developments, and this is where the Hamlin County Commission,
Speaker 6: I think, especially Lisa Reese is, you know, that's her position,
Speaker 6: like we're not going to shoulder this, you know, pay
Speaker 6: ninety seven or ninety four percent of the cost of
Speaker 6: these renovations as they work on the lease agreements that
Speaker 6: the team is going to have to come forward and
Speaker 6: or the NFL and or other municipalities, because the Bengals
Speaker 6: are a driver and an economic driver, not just for
Speaker 6: Hamlin County, but you know, the whole region. And so yes,
Speaker 6: I think that's the last thing that Bengals would want
Speaker 6: if it goes before the voters. No, we kind of
Speaker 6: we kind of know where the voters are.
Speaker 1: Right now that they're billionaires. Mike Brown, according to Forbes,
Speaker 1: is worth about six billion dollars, and the owners of
Speaker 1: the Reds are worth billions of dollars, and God blessed
Speaker 1: Karl Linder and his family and Meg Whitman, they're worth
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. So to go to the Tony Bender
Speaker 1: types of live in Green Township and say we want
Speaker 1: you to pay taxes at Macy's so that these stadium
Speaker 1: owners can make more money, there's a good chance that
Speaker 1: dog won't hunt.
Speaker 6: I mean, I agree with you, like I said, it's
Speaker 6: it's you know, whether you whether you believe these studies
Speaker 6: are not.
Speaker 2: Paul Round Stadium now pay Corp Stadium has the you know,
Speaker 2: the the.
Speaker 6: Infamous reputation of being one of the worst stadium deals
Speaker 6: in terms of dis ever. Yeah, in terms of the
Speaker 6: impact on governments and taxpayers is right, and and so
Speaker 6: you know that's not going to happen again, and it's
Speaker 6: not to your point, it's not happening anywhere in the
Speaker 6: country right now.
Speaker 2: Private money needs to be.
Speaker 6: Raised and and so yeah, So it's it's an interesting
Speaker 6: thought twist in the saga of what are we going
Speaker 6: to do with our existing stadiums to bring up the
Speaker 6: idea that the sales tax should be used also to
Speaker 6: fund a new arena.
Speaker 2: So you know, so and which gets back to you.
Speaker 6: Know, I, and I made it clear like my my
Speaker 6: role as edited to inquire, you know, I play it
Speaker 6: straight down the middle. We have to do everything we
Speaker 6: can to be objective and balanced, and so, you know,
Speaker 6: I personally think it's a great idea. We should figure
Speaker 6: out how to to come up with a new arena.
Speaker 6: But I'm not going to get into the political debate
Speaker 6: about it. I will stand up for the taxpayer's right
Speaker 6: to know. You know, somebody is suggesting that these tax
Speaker 6: dollars get used in that way, I would hope that
Speaker 6: they would do it transparently so we can have, you know,
Speaker 6: the proper debate about it and not hide behind a
Speaker 6: five O one C four.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's where I sit.
Speaker 1: Well, at the end of the day, if TQL with
Speaker 1: the lenders and the whitman's and billionaires want to put
Speaker 1: up half the money and on the banks, God bless him.
Speaker 1: At Jim Mooring and Tracy Schwegman, they don't have an
Speaker 1: extra five hundred million dollars sitting around. Someone's got to
Speaker 1: pay for it. I haven't asked the Reds this, but
Speaker 1: I would imagine they would not mind having Heritage Bank
Speaker 1: Arena go away to give them more space for their
Speaker 1: for their for their ballpark. I would imagine that's the case.
Speaker 1: And but anyway, let's see what happens down the road.
Speaker 1: And uh, of course, uh when uh, when you have
Speaker 1: Jay kin Ko, I know him. He's a great political consultant.
Speaker 1: The reason is at C four, so he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to disclose. So when the inquiry asked, by the way,
Speaker 1: who who, who's paying for this thing, he's not going
Speaker 1: to close it. At least Jeff Birding is upfront saying
Speaker 1: we want it, We're going to want to put it there,
Speaker 1: and they're willing to participate. I'm willing to bet on
Speaker 1: those who want to put up money into the deal,
Speaker 1: of supposed to those who don't. And I know that
Speaker 1: Dreehouse and dou Massa both said that this doesn't have
Speaker 1: to go before the voters, and they're right that the
Speaker 1: half a cent increase nineteen ninety six does not have
Speaker 1: to go before the voters because they know the outcome.
Speaker 1: And so you know when when Reese says, you know what,
Speaker 1: we want to vote on this thing. Those other two
Speaker 1: are going to say no, and then where are we?
Speaker 2: That is a good question.
Speaker 6: I think that's you know, that's this whole, that's a
Speaker 6: this is already complicated enough. Yeah, so this is, like
Speaker 6: I said, this is adding another dimension. So yeah, it'll
Speaker 6: be interesting for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, we got to run. But once again, Burrow Love,
Speaker 1: editor of the Inquire, thanks for coming on the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham show. Get my best to the best city hall
Speaker 1: reporter ever. And you're losing a good one there. And
Speaker 1: she's going to go work for the Prosecutor's office. But
Speaker 1: always love working with her over the years. And I
Speaker 1: saw her the.
Speaker 6: Other I was hoping that was a big April Fool's
Speaker 6: Day joke, but it's not. Yes, Jerry Coolidge has left
Speaker 6: us to go work for Connie Pillach.
Speaker 2: We're excited for her though, all r very excited for her.
Speaker 1: Burl Love, thank you very much, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Bill.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more. One thing you don't want to
Speaker 1: do is let the tax bearers decide how to spend
Speaker 1: their money. You don't want to do that because you
Speaker 1: know what that's going to be and maybe billionaires should
Speaker 1: pay for their own playpens. Of course, that's my opinion.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more Bill Cunningham. Should I do the
Speaker 1: Morning Show starting on Monday News Radio seven hundred WULW the.
Speaker 5: One one, Oh my goodness, that is out of here,
Speaker 5: up off the batter's eye and center field. Second home
Speaker 5: run of the night for Ellie Dayla Cruise, my lord.
Speaker 7: Fourteen to nothing seven RBIs tonight for Ellie da Cruz. Wow,
Speaker 7: have a night. The ball was destroyed?
Speaker 2: Oh goodness, hell, hello, quiet.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm broadcasting god segment. You'll be ready for
Speaker 1: tonight's action. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 1: Well, he look and make it two in a row
Speaker 1: over those Ranger boys. What about the bat? What about
Speaker 1: the bat? What about the bat? Bring it on, torpedoes.
Speaker 1: Let's go, well, do you believe that? I don't believe that.
Speaker 1: Do you believe that? Yeah? You do believe it? Oh look,
Speaker 1: I mean he almost hit the p O W M
Speaker 1: I A s c out center field last night? And
Speaker 1: second about it? And I we have a major announcement to
Speaker 1: make about possible changes here at the Big One. Is
Speaker 1: that correct? I know Wayne Caruci's in charge of the
Speaker 1: new program director, et cetera. He's gonna make a series
Speaker 1: there taking over some serious changes. We're moving to Sharonville,
Speaker 1: apparently to Sharonville and I but are you willing to
Speaker 1: pick up the end of the gateway building. I've you
Speaker 1: picking up a new shift. Are you available?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna be driving a truck. I think from
Speaker 1: here to driving a truck back and forth. You like
Speaker 1: getting up at three o'clock in the morning. What's the
Speaker 1: next question? Well, yes or no? Will you do the
Speaker 1: morning shift with me? If that's the way it developed?
Speaker 1: Five hour a five hour Stooge report. Yes, yes, it's
Speaker 1: only four but who's kind of whatever? Give me some sports?
Speaker 1: We got Roger Bacon, faithful, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: Roger Bacon, the home of Jerry Derger, Bron Besevich and
Speaker 1: Buddy Lorosa segment. Give me some sports first? Will he
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Colst Stacy Heating their solutions five one, three, three, six,
Speaker 1: seven h e A T sport. Those Reds routed the
Speaker 1: Rangers last night, will He fourteen to three, breaking out
Speaker 1: of their offensive slump. Li Da La Cruz number forty
Speaker 1: four to two, homer single, double, career high seven are
Speaker 1: be eyes with a torpedo bat? What about the rebout
Speaker 1: to two and two? What about the bat? It's legal?
Speaker 1: Are you sure?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I had the Attorney general on who said it may
Speaker 1: not be legal. There might be an investigation though, David
Speaker 1: jo said, investigate what about the torpedogation? Who the torpedo
Speaker 1: bat about?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: What's illegal? What's the state of Ohio going to do
Speaker 1: about the torpedo bat? Not a damn thing? Thank you,
Speaker 1: Brady Singer, brilliant last night Willie and his Red's debut
Speaker 1: seven scoreless innings, fanning eight, walking to and allowing one hit.
Speaker 1: You know the story at Brady Singer. There's the story segment.
Speaker 1: Can you read the headline? Yeah? Oh yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: I saw this on I've seen this before where he
Speaker 1: paid off his parents debt for Christmas. Yes, when he
Speaker 1: was a first round pick in the MLB draft of
Speaker 1: his parents like fell apart of course. Yeah. Speaking of
Speaker 1: falling apart segment, Roger Bacon High School was not falling apart.
Speaker 1: This story about Dones. Is that said correctly? Is the Dones?
Speaker 1: Is that it like Pills high School? You know the
Speaker 1: how to pronounce the name, don't? All right? We have
Speaker 1: Roger Bacon Royalty here. There's another story of high schools
Speaker 1: that are succeeding. And Tim tom Burke is here in
Speaker 1: Brandon Spath to talk about what's happening Roger Bacon. First
Speaker 1: of all, success or failure. I can recall the good
Speaker 1: old days at Roger Bacon and that it was in
Speaker 1: a tough section of Saint Bernard. There's no good section
Speaker 1: in Saint Bernard, would you agree? It's always a tough,
Speaker 1: hard working section. And Roger Bacon is going up and
Speaker 1: going down, not going down. Why is that? Why is
Speaker 1: Roger Bacon making it? And shall we say Doanes and
Speaker 1: others or not? What's the story?
Speaker 5: Willie?
Speaker 8: Our culture at Roger Bacon is very, very unique. We
Speaker 8: have five hundred and something the verse kids and they
Speaker 8: they learned, they learn the values of themselves and others,
Speaker 8: and they treat themselves and others differently. So we're we
Speaker 8: really believe that the interest in Roger Bacon, which is
Speaker 8: very strong right now, it's because of the culture and
Speaker 8: because of our Franciscan carrots.
Speaker 1: And Tom Burke I asked you off there, how many
Speaker 1: religions you're still there? Segment is thinking about becoming a
Speaker 1: Friar at some point because his body fits the mold.
Speaker 8: We are very, very fortunate to have five Franciscans still
Speaker 8: on staff at Roger Banks.
Speaker 1: Sandals and brown outfits absolutely every day.
Speaker 8: Well, the one in our office walks around in shorts,
Speaker 8: but he puts his habit on.
Speaker 1: At times too. He's out of the habit. He's out
Speaker 1: of the habit. So you're here today because there's rich
Speaker 1: and powerful forces of Roger Bacon like Vinnie aka Wayne
Speaker 1: Cruci and others that want to raise, like how much
Speaker 1: money to build a new wing?
Speaker 8: Looking to raise ten million dollars eight million of it
Speaker 8: will be going to it towards our construction of an
Speaker 8: atrium that a trium will howls all of our administrative
Speaker 8: office spaces a chapel kind of an out or reception
Speaker 8: area in a conference room, and it allows us to
Speaker 8: reclaim space in our building to build five new classrooms
Speaker 8: and allow us to expand.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about enrollment, because Catholic school enrollment generally has difficulty,
Speaker 1: but not at Roger Bacon. How many do you have now?
Speaker 1: How many did you turn down? And how much will
Speaker 1: the need be met by this new construction? Willie?
Speaker 8: We have about five hundred and forty kids at Roger
Speaker 8: Bacon right now. This past year we had about three
Speaker 8: hundred and ninety applications for one hundred and forty spots.
Speaker 8: In addition, over the summer, we had over one hundred
Speaker 8: and ninety applications for people to transfer into Roger Bacon
Speaker 8: from other private and public high schools.
Speaker 1: They wanted to come to Roger.
Speaker 8: They wanted to come to Roger Bacon, and we were
Speaker 8: able to take seven seven seven how many out of
Speaker 8: one hundred and ninety five?
Speaker 1: Man, you would not be one of the seven? No way?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Why is?
Speaker 8: We're a very very good value. Our education and academics
Speaker 8: is good. But again, when kids come to Roger Bacon,
Speaker 8: the first thing that they're told is you hear value.
Speaker 8: It doesn't make a difference where you come from, what
Speaker 8: color you are, what your parents do, what you drive.
Speaker 1: You have value.
Speaker 8: And then we reinforce that throughout their period of time
Speaker 8: at Roger Bacon and they grow, they develop, they become confident,
Speaker 8: in themselves and they become good, great Americans.
Speaker 1: What are other high schools doing wrong?
Speaker 8: I don't think other high schools are doing things wrong.
Speaker 8: We're just doing something very very different.
Speaker 1: And Mother's milk of creation and Brandon Spaith expind you're
Speaker 1: in charge of development. You shake down all the Roger
Speaker 1: Bacon faithful, including Buddy Lrose, etc. That's correct. What is
Speaker 1: your role of Roger Bacon?
Speaker 4: If anything, I'm our director of advancement, or as I
Speaker 4: so put it, I'm a professional beggar essentially.
Speaker 1: Beg for a living. Yeah, I thank you guys out
Speaker 1: in the Interstate Highway now and then.
Speaker 9: Well, hopefully we reached this goal, then we won't have
Speaker 9: to beg any.
Speaker 1: No more begging. And so the goal is how much
Speaker 1: ten million, and you collected about sixty percent of it.
Speaker 4: The overall goal is ten million dollars, eight million for
Speaker 4: the atrium, two million to endow student opportunities. We have
Speaker 4: just reached six million dollars, so we're sixty percent of
Speaker 4: the way there.
Speaker 9: I'm very happy of that is.
Speaker 1: A dioceinsan schoolers that stand alone kind of like you
Speaker 1: know where Franciscans School.
Speaker 8: We're owned by the Franciscans the Province of right, we're not.
Speaker 8: We we try to follow some of the things that
Speaker 8: the archdiocese does, but we're actually owned by the Province
Speaker 8: of our Lady of Guadalupe.
Speaker 1: All right and so and Catholic School. Is it is
Speaker 1: a constant issue to keep raising money for one thing
Speaker 1: or another. Is how difficult is your job in this environment?
Speaker 1: Many people the stock markets go down, people say it's
Speaker 1: bad economic times, Wayne Crutch, he tells me it's the
Speaker 1: best of all times. Depends what you How difficult is
Speaker 1: it raised that money?
Speaker 9: I mean, nothing's easy.
Speaker 4: But we have extremely generous alumni in supporting base. So
Speaker 4: we've met over this process. We've been fundraising for about
Speaker 4: a year. We've met some truly remarkable people for this campaign. Again,
Speaker 4: this campaign as we head into our hundredth anniversary in
Speaker 4: twenty seven to twenty eight, it kind of celebrates that
Speaker 4: first one hundred years but also lays the foundation for
Speaker 4: the next one hundred years.
Speaker 1: Are you optimistic?
Speaker 9: Optimistic? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Please continue with sports. Well, it looks like the game too.
Speaker 1: It tonight that the Reds and Rangers they will have
Speaker 1: Nathan Valdi up against Carson Spires. Coverage begins at five
Speaker 1: point forty Sports Talk Arnell Carriers, Inside Pitch, then the
Speaker 1: Kelsey Chevrolet Extra Inning Show after the game. Andrew Abbott,
Speaker 1: what will start a rehab assignment tonight of at least
Speaker 1: a couple of starts tonight? Game one for him with
Speaker 1: the Louisville Bats. Don't need him?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we do need them, I would think, so,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Pitching's been pretty good this year. Of course,
Speaker 1: they traded Stuart Fairchild yesterday to the Braves. That's because
Speaker 1: outfielder at jer Rickson, Profar of the Braves, has been
Speaker 1: suspended eighty games by Baseball for violating the league's peed Police.
Speaker 1: A little bit of juicing going on segment correct. Don't
Speaker 1: like that first round of the Crown Tournament in Vegas
Speaker 1: Bearcats and Blue Demons today at two point thirty on
Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty, Tom Burke, you know anything about this
Speaker 1: Crown Tournament Las Vegas.
Speaker 8: I know nothing about the Crown Tournament, man, I'm not interested.
Speaker 1: Please continue that. Of course, at three o'clock at the
Speaker 1: Centas Center, it all happens. It's amazing how that both
Speaker 1: of these gold take the time. Why would Xavier set
Speaker 1: this major announcement at the tip off of the UC
Speaker 1: game is that it is that serendipitous. Wayne Cruchi knows.
Speaker 1: But right now, if Rich Betino said, I'm sorry, media,
Speaker 1: I got to go back into the locker room and
Speaker 1: meet my guys. Who would he go meet? Uh, probably
Speaker 1: be in an empty room. Nobody saving. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of teams I got Indiana doesn't have any plays
Speaker 1: our team. No, what do you do? I mean, how
Speaker 1: many is going to be under Bearcats after the day? None?
Speaker 1: If they could be, they're all gone. Yeah, hopefully rich
Speaker 1: Potato brings some I think. Don't you think you would
Speaker 1: like to be growing up in this day and age
Speaker 1: versus yes, the uh yes, the no money b C.
Speaker 1: But when you grew up and went from house, would
Speaker 1: you be worth fifteen dollars? I got fifteen dollars of
Speaker 1: my basketball laundry money. Yes, fifteen dollars. Now it's a
Speaker 1: million dollars. Let's just start.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you if you're coming here out
Speaker 1: of high school, is the as the league score in
Speaker 1: the city, I'd be rich, right, I'd be rich now
Speaker 1: like you are now broke. I've got nothing. A segment
Speaker 1: Please continue with sports and making a fool of yourself. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see what else? Will he NCAA tournament update brought
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Speaker 1: Today Swim this year called Frankie's Running. A special women's
Speaker 1: final four is all set for Friday night in Tampa.
Speaker 1: Who's in the final four? Texas and South Carolina, Okay,
Speaker 1: Ucla and Yukon. It's Yukon's twenty fourth final four. How
Speaker 1: much of the girls paid to play? Do you think?
Speaker 1: I think a lot? A lot. National semifinals among the
Speaker 1: men are Saturday in San Antonio, Gators and War Eagle.
Speaker 1: Then the Cougars take on the Blue Devils. Brandon, who
Speaker 1: do you like in that matchup? You like Duke.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to go with the Florida because That's
Speaker 4: who I picked in my bracket and I'm in the
Speaker 4: group with my wife, and I would really like to
Speaker 4: be the.
Speaker 1: Winner of the house action to that? NFL meetings, will
Speaker 1: he continue on? What about the tush push? It's been
Speaker 1: tabled for a future reference. In other words, table you're
Speaker 1: at don't well? I don't think they got enough votes,
Speaker 1: so they tabled table for a future meeting. By the way, Brandon,
Speaker 1: does the tush push happen in high school?
Speaker 9: Not yet, not that I've seen it. I mean it works,
Speaker 9: I think it work.
Speaker 8: It works, It definitely works. But I don't think it's
Speaker 8: in high school yet. Do you schedule Deer Park High
Speaker 8: School for anything? We do not have schedule to your
Speaker 8: park segment. Please continue.
Speaker 1: The National Football League will still have a triple header
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day? Really right, Christmas Day triple Christmas Day
Speaker 1: triple header. W don't know who's playing yet? Maybe no, hopefully.
Speaker 1: The Chain Gang looks like it's going away. Say that again.
Speaker 1: The chain Gang, I'm not talking about, you know, years
Speaker 1: ago in Jason prison like, but Sony's Hawkeye technology is
Speaker 1: going to be used as the primary method for measuring
Speaker 1: the line beginning in twenty twenty five. I don't know
Speaker 1: how they're going to do this. The chain Gang is gone, Well,
Speaker 1: the chain Gang is going to remain as a backup
Speaker 1: just in case, because they don't want any unemployment in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Tom Burke, what do you think about that? Well,
Speaker 1: maybe they could move to the high school games. These
Speaker 1: guys are always looking for people, right, We're always looking
Speaker 1: for people, So that would help us sou use hawkeye
Speaker 1: from the satellites segment. Please continue. It's all I got
Speaker 1: once again, Brandon spaith. If someone's listening that has a
Speaker 1: few extra bucks, is their website that I can direct
Speaker 1: them toward if anywhere, absolutely.
Speaker 4: Go to www Dot Rogerbacon dot org. A lot of
Speaker 4: information there on there. The campaign is called we Are
Speaker 4: the Good Soil Capital Campaign. On that website you can
Speaker 4: find anybody you need to talk to.
Speaker 8: Well, the Roger Bacon's story right now is really spectacular,
Speaker 8: and we invite anybody to come down and see Roger
Speaker 8: Bacon or if you're interested. We serve underprivileged kids. We
Speaker 8: thirty three percent of our kids are under the poverty line,
Speaker 8: so we're providing them with opportunities.
Speaker 1: That they've never had.
Speaker 8: So do we invite anybody to come down and see
Speaker 8: our school, experience our kids, and I believe you will
Speaker 8: be very, very excited about what's funny.
Speaker 1: Years ago one this way right we.
Speaker 8: Were struggling to at a time about thirteen fourteen years ago,
Speaker 8: we had been our lowest enrollment. But we've made a
Speaker 8: remarkable comeback and uh, it's a great story right now
Speaker 8: and a lot.
Speaker 1: Of and we're community asset.
Speaker 8: Will we let our facilities be used by the Friars
Speaker 8: Club by uh village to start Bernard School Symphony has
Speaker 8: done the orchestras in our fine arts center, so we
Speaker 8: make it available.
Speaker 1: If we can help the community, we try to do that.
Speaker 1: And you have good football players now and then come out.
Speaker 1: We have good football players. We had a great volleyball
Speaker 1: team this year. Girls. Huh? Boys and girls? We have
Speaker 1: boys only boys? There's no girls. Are you sure on volleyball?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: And on the school is it all boys?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, we have boys and girls the girls something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He did great kid, great kids.
Speaker 9: Used to push When Corey Connor was in high school,
Speaker 9: he just.
Speaker 8: You just hit our volleyball team here. They won the
Speaker 8: state and they were good. They were really good.
Speaker 1: So if you're listening and want to apply, go to
Speaker 1: the website. If you have a few extra dollars, like
Speaker 1: rich guys like Wayne Carucci, the Great Bartosic and the
Speaker 1: Flying Dunas that they can step up. I call it
Speaker 1: Buddy l Rosa l Roses there for he's from Roger Bacon.
Speaker 1: How do you get out of high school? That guy's
Speaker 1: not too bright? I mean, have you thought about this.
Speaker 1: You must have taken the gesus.
Speaker 8: The pizza heat came up, had a lot of you
Speaker 8: know what, some of our most successful grads.
Speaker 1: Were not very bright. You're talking about Wayne. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about him. Did you go before you
Speaker 1: went to part you go to Roger Bacon. I couldn't
Speaker 1: get in. I didn't qualify Willie. You have heart issues.
Speaker 8: Doctor Tom Fogerty, he has probably one hundred and fifty
Speaker 8: patents related to the heart. You're probably alive because of
Speaker 8: some of his patents. Wonderful when you talk to the
Speaker 8: doctor Tom foger So Tom, when I was at Roger Bacon,
Speaker 8: I wasn't very smart. I wasn't a good student, and
Speaker 8: I wasn't a good kid. But he learned discipline, discipline,
Speaker 8: and he learned problem solving from the Franciscans.
Speaker 1: And loved it. Brandon once again. The website, what is
Speaker 1: the website of any.
Speaker 4: Roger Bacon dot org www dot Roger Bacon dot org.
Speaker 4: Campaign is called we Are the Good Soil and uh,
Speaker 4: all the information on there is what you need.
Speaker 9: I want to go. I want to make one point
Speaker 9: about Tom.
Speaker 1: Tom.
Speaker 4: Tom made a good point about what's different Roger Bacon.
Speaker 4: How nearly a third of our kids live at Povery Blow.
Speaker 4: They asked, why, why the success of Roger Bacon?
Speaker 9: What's going on? I dare you to come to our
Speaker 9: school and find those kids.
Speaker 3: Dare you?
Speaker 1: I challenge at some point maybe they can shoot free throws.
Speaker 1: I'll pick take on your best free throw shooter.
Speaker 8: And one last point, we challenged your part to a
Speaker 8: golf match next year.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, let's go. Well, we'll push you.
Speaker 8: On on the schedule and let's you can give me
Speaker 8: a song Keim Wood?
Speaker 5: Can't you?
Speaker 1: I probably could? Once again, gentlemen, good luck you're doing that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, Thank you so much. This guy's pretty good. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: not beating segment. Get me out of the stair. Morning man,
Speaker 1: New morning Man. We need somebody in the morning. Willie
Speaker 1: and Otter of the Roger Bacon spartans. We leave you
Speaker 1: with the immortal words of the Steward Report.
Speaker 2: All I stood to be with you, Bill, see you later.
Speaker 1: As Governor Dowan when was mad at me on news
Speaker 1: radio seven hundred WLW, I believe cunning him the great
Speaker 1: American coming up from bottom of this hour segment and
Speaker 1: I are going to discuss certain things about the direction
Speaker 1: of the morning show to be determined. And as you
Speaker 1: may know, Mike McConnell on my Mount Rushmore of great
Speaker 1: ones here at the Big One in the past fifty years,
Speaker 1: is retiring with the thanks of a greatful nation. Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to walk and work among giants Gary Burbank
Speaker 1: and Jim Scott and of course Mike McConnell and me.
Speaker 1: And I've said before and many times, it's good to
Speaker 1: remember the past, got to live today and plan for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But this is interesting to talk about all the things
Speaker 1: that went on before, but people don't. You can't change
Speaker 1: one iota, one breath of history, but you can change
Speaker 1: what's happening now, what's going on tomorrow. And this station
Speaker 1: now has more listeners than we've ever had, and it's
Speaker 1: because maybe it's because we got rid of all the competition.
Speaker 1: That's a different story. But we tend to stay in
Speaker 1: touch with you, a member of our great community, You
Speaker 1: and I together and provide a way of being your friend,
Speaker 1: your pal during lonely times and celebratory times and events
Speaker 1: that mark history, whether it's the Western Southern WEBN fireworks
Speaker 1: or Red's opening Day or the Cincinnati Open. There's so
Speaker 1: many great events happening. The Flying Pig Marathon, which started
Speaker 1: on a napkin in Bermuda with a guy named Bob Coughlin.
Speaker 1: But that point I was operating pay Corps and thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: can we make a marathon work in the city of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati with the hills, et cetera. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the rest is history. It's the best part of the
Speaker 1: greatest country in the world is to live in this
Speaker 1: part of the country because of the hills of Kentucky
Speaker 1: goes to the greatness of Ohio and Indiana. I sat
Speaker 1: in an event put together by Alvin Rohrer a week
Speaker 1: or two ago that as an example why things are
Speaker 1: so good here. Before I talked further about Roger Bacon
Speaker 1: High School. Is that a few years ago. Might have
Speaker 1: been at the turn of the century, twenty four years ago.
Speaker 1: I think it was after that. But Sports Illustrated others
Speaker 1: did a ranking of the top ten college football programs
Speaker 1: of all time, and number two number I'll go. Number
Speaker 1: three was University of Michigan. Number two was Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: and number one was the Ohio State University. So if
Speaker 1: you want to watch college football. In addition to UC
Speaker 1: or Miami, my gosh, you the greatest college football program
Speaker 1: in America, which means the world one hundred miles from here.
Speaker 1: Then Michigan and Arbor, the home of Tom Weedman, the
Speaker 1: weed Man, that's about two hundred and fifty miles from here,
Speaker 1: and South Bend's about one hundred and eighty miles from here.
Speaker 1: If you want to watch college football, there's no better
Speaker 1: place in America to watch it than right here. Then
Speaker 1: they did a report on the top college basketball programs
Speaker 1: in America. Well, the top the top three, the top
Speaker 1: three or number three was UCLA, Number two was North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Number one was Kentucky, which is ninety miles down the road.
Speaker 1: My good friend, the Smiths live in Louisville, Kenny Smith
Speaker 1: and die in. But they're great Kentucky fans. So if
Speaker 1: you want to watch great college basketball, participate in the program. Well,
Speaker 1: not only have you seen Xavier, UC's won two national titles,
Speaker 1: should have won the third, that's a different story. Xavier
Speaker 1: has won two National Invitation Tournament titles. The knit and
Speaker 1: it's a great school. Then you also have Mount Saint
Speaker 1: Joe and you have Thomas Moore, you got NKU, you
Speaker 1: got Wright State, you got Miami, you got you got
Speaker 1: them all. If you want to watch college basketball, damn it,
Speaker 1: you got a place in this part of the world.
Speaker 1: Let's go watch college basketball. The best is right here
Speaker 1: in the Queen City. And if you want to watch
Speaker 1: a baseball of one type or another in college baseball
Speaker 1: is largely gone south, But the Cincinnati Reds are America's
Speaker 1: oldest professional baseball franchise eighteen sixty nine. Been around a
Speaker 1: long time. Hopefully we'll be here a lot longer. Long time,
Speaker 1: what about one hundred and sixty seven years? Long time?
Speaker 1: And want to watch baseball, we got the Reds. Great
Speaker 1: softball leagues everywhere. Northern Kentucky has great baseball programs, COUV,
Speaker 1: kath and Beechwooden. If you want to watch baseball, we
Speaker 1: got the Reds. And if you want to watch professional football,
Speaker 1: guess what, well we got the Bengals. We've got Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: got t Higgins, got Jamar got Trey Henderson. We have
Speaker 1: a professional team right here in Cincinnati. You can watch it.
Speaker 1: If you enjoy water sports, whether the Ohio River, all
Speaker 1: the lakes and the hollers and the hamlets all over
Speaker 1: the Tristate. You can certainly enjoy water sports right here,
Speaker 1: and so to me, it's the best place in the
Speaker 1: world to live, which is why when I was given
Speaker 1: opportunities to go to larger markets, got real close one
Speaker 1: time and not too close others. I just couldn't pull
Speaker 1: the trigger. It was Mike McConnell and I. In twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: Randy Michaels and John Phillips had left and gone to
Speaker 1: WGN in Chicago, and he wanted to change gn's format
Speaker 1: wasn't very successful. He wanted to bring in Mike McConnell
Speaker 1: and Bill Cunningham from Cincinnati from nine am until three
Speaker 1: pm every day on WGN. And I don't blame Mike
Speaker 1: McConnell one bit for taking that opportunity and lighting up
Speaker 1: the city of Chicago. I was on my back deck,
Speaker 1: I was by myself, spent about an hour just standing there.
Speaker 1: Then I've sat, got up, walked around, and it was
Speaker 1: at yay or nay. Because Mike had already committed. I'd
Speaker 1: gone out to lunch with him at Trios here in Kenwood.
Speaker 1: Greg Pansera's fine outfit, and needless to say, the money
Speaker 1: was extremely high, and I looked around. I got in
Speaker 1: my car with Penny. I drove through Deer Park. I
Speaker 1: went into Great Gate of Heaven Cemetery to look at
Speaker 1: all my family, my mom, my family's at gate to
Speaker 1: Heaven Cemetery. I drove into Kentucky where I was born
Speaker 1: in Covington Saintes and I went by Xavier University, my
Speaker 1: time there with Jerry Green, so many others, Gordon Veterino.
Speaker 1: Growing up, I just couldn't buy. I just my mouth
Speaker 1: could say yes, but my body would not allow me
Speaker 1: to leave Cincinnati. I just I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: That I cost myself a couple million dollars. Yes, but uh,
Speaker 1: in life, I have found that you should you shouldn't
Speaker 1: seek what you have. By that, I I mean if
Speaker 1: you're happy, if you're fulfilled, if your family's in a
Speaker 1: certain place, and you have certain close relationships with him,
Speaker 1: friends and family here, associates here, long history here. Well,
Speaker 1: all I seek in life is joy and happiness and
Speaker 1: fulfillment and values in a vision. But damn it, I
Speaker 1: have it all right here and it doesn't begrudge. Mike
Speaker 1: one't bit for what he did. He made the right
Speaker 1: decision for him and his family, and after four or
Speaker 1: five years his contract was up and out of time.
Speaker 1: Jim Scott wanted to retire. I think it was like
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, maybe twenty fifteen, about ten years ago. I
Speaker 1: wanted to retire, and the powers that be here it
Speaker 1: was Chuck Frederick and Darryl Parks, secured Mike McConnell to
Speaker 1: come back. And here we are ten years later and
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell is leaving. And in this business, if you
Speaker 1: can leave voluntarily, if someone didn't kick you in the
Speaker 1: ash and throwry out the door, that's unusual. And Mike
Speaker 1: McConnell is leaving because he simply said, I'm getting old
Speaker 1: and I don't want to do it anymore. Well, that's
Speaker 1: a good reason. Gary Burbank said goodbye every now and
Speaker 1: then to go to YouTube and look at his goodbye
Speaker 1: or Jim Scott look at his goodbye, and it was
Speaker 1: handled the right way. Very rare in this business that
Speaker 1: you decide when you want to go. But Mike McConnell
Speaker 1: is deciding when he wants to go, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be on Friday, and we knew for the Christmas
Speaker 1: Morning Spectacular. We were here with Rocky and with Eddie
Speaker 1: and with Scott Sloan and I and I said to Mike,
Speaker 1: do you want to announce it on Christmas morning you're leaving?
Speaker 1: He said, no, I don't want that, he said, I
Speaker 1: don't want to spend the next four or five months
Speaker 1: thinking about people saying I'm sorry that you're going to go.
Speaker 1: He wants to announce it, he said, near the end,
Speaker 1: which will be the first week in April, and just
Speaker 1: he wants to fade off into the sunset. He's earned
Speaker 1: the right to go out the way he wants to
Speaker 1: go out. But damn it, life continues. So sometime in
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes or so, there's going to be a
Speaker 1: statement had and we'll see what happens with that. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I've walked among giants in radio. I try to live
Speaker 1: up to what Gary and Jim and what Bob Trumpy
Speaker 1: and Chris Collinsworth and the Truck and Bozo have done.
Speaker 1: Mike McConnell and Jeff Henderson and better quit mentioning names.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave a few out joh Crumley and etc.
Speaker 1: I'm pleased to be here. I do not want to
Speaker 1: seek in life what I have and so God willing,
Speaker 1: I'll maybe change things up a little bit, but continue
Speaker 1: for a few more years. And lastly, when I when
Speaker 1: I look at people like Tom Burke and Brandon Spaith
Speaker 1: at Roger Bacon High School, and of course the great
Speaker 1: Wayne Carucci, it wasn't so long ago for those who
Speaker 1: have not been there. I when you go to an
Speaker 1: IC seventy five going south, look on your left, Saint
Speaker 1: Bernard's a little bit on the hill just before you
Speaker 1: get to go to Heaven Cemetery and Roger Bacon. Like
Speaker 1: other old it's in Saint Bernard, which is his own village,
Speaker 1: but more or less urban inner city. It's tough, it's hard,
Speaker 1: and I have great empathy for those kids at Dones
Speaker 1: Community High School shut out yesterday. And there were times
Speaker 1: in my life when I was told I couldn't go
Speaker 1: back to Muller High School because tuition was due. If
Speaker 1: fees were due, we couldn't afford it, had no money,
Speaker 1: had to go to Deer Park. I thought that was
Speaker 1: a failure. It turned out to be a great success.
Speaker 1: And I love Deer Park for taking me and time
Speaker 1: in my life that I needed help. And there's kids
Speaker 1: right now at Doanes Community High School that need help,
Speaker 1: and so Roger Bacon High School was in that category
Speaker 1: up until about ten years ago or so. During the
Speaker 1: glory days, it was for Sal and Roger Bacon an
Speaker 1: Elder and Saint X and that was it unless Sal
Speaker 1: came and Muller came and some other came, and it
Speaker 1: got difficult to pay teachers that don't have much of
Speaker 1: a pension system. A lot of the times the teachers
Speaker 1: are paid let's money and you got to work long hours.
Speaker 1: And enrollment was way down to under two hundred to
Speaker 1: Roger Bacon High School, which means they're out of business.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was prayer, maybe it was alumni like Wayne
Speaker 1: Carucci or others that say we can't let this happen.
Speaker 1: It's taken about ten years to get back to where
Speaker 1: they are now. The turning down kids who want to
Speaker 1: go there, and the great majority are kids that from
Speaker 1: working class environments that would never get into Saint X.
Speaker 1: And God blessed Saint X. They have fifteen hundred kids
Speaker 1: the best and the bride is go there. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure when I was in the eighth grade or freshmen,
Speaker 1: I could have qualified to go to Saint X. I
Speaker 1: know I qualified to go to Muller, and I wish
Speaker 1: I would have stayed there until I was told I couldn't,
Speaker 1: so I went to Deer Park and that was as
Speaker 1: to turnout, the best high school experience of my life
Speaker 1: was at Deer Park High School. But for that, I
Speaker 1: would not be where I am today. And there's some
Speaker 1: boy or girl at Roger Bacon right now who's trying
Speaker 1: to get in and can't get in. What did they admit?
Speaker 1: Seven of two hundred students and the last cycle and freshman, sophomore, junior, senior,
Speaker 1: they have about five hundred kids, boys and girls, largely
Speaker 1: from working class environments that have faith and value, and
Speaker 1: they're not well known, and they simply want to make
Speaker 1: their way in this difficult world in which we live.
Speaker 1: So I'm just heartened by the fact that people like
Speaker 1: Brandon Spaith and Tom Burke and Wayne Crucci and dozens
Speaker 1: of others. Buddyl Rosa helps tremendously as much as he
Speaker 1: can to help kids to get up on top of
Speaker 1: the ladder then bend over and pull somebody up behind you.
Speaker 1: And that's what's happening today at Roger Bacon High School.
Speaker 1: It's not happening in most of the high schools in
Speaker 1: the urban area, whether Achin or Woodward or Use whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. Every day is a new challenge. But
Speaker 1: in every one of those students that have failed and
Speaker 1: must go to Done Community High School and then they
Speaker 1: shut down, I don't know what becomes of those kids
Speaker 1: six months from now, a year from now, because they
Speaker 1: have behavioral difficulties, they have other circumstances that they couldn't
Speaker 1: make it at ache In High School. So they go
Speaker 1: to Doane and Doan shuts down. Now what do you do?
Speaker 1: My gosh, you can't start a bonfire, but you can't
Speaker 1: light a candle. And the best thing a man or
Speaker 1: a woman can do when you get to where you're
Speaker 1: going to reach back and pull somebody up behind you.
Speaker 1: I've tried to do that my whole life, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad that Wayne Carucci and others are doing that at
Speaker 1: Roger Bacon High School. And it's happening now at Maler
Speaker 1: High School. It happens at Deer Park High School, it
Speaker 1: happens at Sycamore, it happens at Beechwood. In which people
Speaker 1: involved in a community in a small way assist others
Speaker 1: to walk the path that a good person has walked,
Speaker 1: and I end up in prison or on drugs or
Speaker 1: part of some gang. And I just fear for those
Speaker 1: two or three hundred kids at Doan's Community High School.
Speaker 1: They're lost, they have no functional home. Most of them
Speaker 1: don't have a dad. It could give a crap that
Speaker 1: they live on the streets. There's a couple thousand kids
Speaker 1: at CPS that are homeless. They live in cars, on
Speaker 1: street corners, in abandoned buildings. And the richest, most powerful
Speaker 1: country in the world will spend lots of money on
Speaker 1: silly stuff, and money is not always the answer. I
Speaker 1: would assume that Tom Burke and Brandon Spaith and Roger
Speaker 1: Bacon teachers aren't making a bundle of dough. I would
Speaker 1: assume it's a calling and they're there to help. So
Speaker 1: once again, if you can help Roger Bacon dot com,
Speaker 1: go to the website, check it out. They want to
Speaker 1: build a larger facility because what they do works. Every
Speaker 1: child has innate value and sometime a little flame is
Speaker 1: lit and that's all a kid needs. When I walked
Speaker 1: into the steps at Deer Park High School as a
Speaker 1: incoming sophomore, didn't want to be there. I viewed Deer
Speaker 1: Park as where failures go. But there was a coach
Speaker 1: there named Tom Griswold who took me bumb my shoulder
Speaker 1: and said, hey, you look like you're lost, and I said,
Speaker 1: you have no idea took me into the front desk.
Speaker 1: I applied to go to Deer Park High School. Ended
Speaker 1: up in Dummy Hall about two months later because I
Speaker 1: was failing at Deer Park High School as a sophomore,
Speaker 1: and that same coach said to me, are you the
Speaker 1: guy in the eighth grade is Saint Savior that scored
Speaker 1: like twenty five points? I said, yeah, I play basketball.
Speaker 1: He said, if I get you out of dummy Hall
Speaker 1: because you're failing, would you agree to get your grades
Speaker 1: up and to play basketball at Deer Park? I said
Speaker 1: Coach grays Wald, Yes I will. And the rest is history.
Speaker 1: All it Texas for a man or a woman to
Speaker 1: give that little flame of hope and the soul of
Speaker 1: someone who needs it. Let's continue with more and if
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Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, the Great American. I'll tell you what. There's
Speaker 1: been speculation about our new morning show starting Monday, and
Speaker 1: i'll tell you right now. I've given a quite a
Speaker 1: bit of thought. Whether it's Jim Scott or Mike McConnell,
Speaker 1: the morning show needs en upgrade. The Great American. This
Speaker 1: coming money at five am. Get out of bell, let's
Speaker 1: get to work. Wake up with this guy. It was
Speaker 1: only a matter of time. Mornings are better with seven
Speaker 1: hundred w l W. Hello, quiet, I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 2: That was not.
Speaker 1: Supposed to run. By the way, say your reaction. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be here anyway. So you guys, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Rock What do you say?
Speaker 4: Some?
Speaker 1: Here are some other things too. Can you imagine a
Speaker 1: four what's Mike on five to nine? Normally we're gonna
Speaker 1: be on five to nine, a four hour stooge report
Speaker 1: plus Sunday night.
Speaker 2: He was listening.
Speaker 1: Imagine that four hour stooge report you would meet It'll
Speaker 1: never stop. Hey, we got Chuck Ingram though, but John
Speaker 1: Phillips called him this morning listen and Mike talk together.
Speaker 1: Phillips wants to do helicopter traffic again with me. That
Speaker 1: the best when I was young. Yeah, let's get Phillips
Speaker 1: up in the air. Would that be good? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: if he buys a helicopter, we're not going to buy one,
Speaker 1: are we.
Speaker 10: We have to take the station helicopter to Long next
Speaker 10: Every Thursday he does that one helicopter off the top
Speaker 10: of the building.
Speaker 1: They put gas in it. No, it's always a risk.
Speaker 1: Well what the hell? Yeah, I asked you went down
Speaker 1: and survived. Now rock if I make this move, twelve
Speaker 1: to three would be open?
Speaker 2: Are they smoking crack or something?
Speaker 1: Justice Joe perfect? He can do well. I mean, how
Speaker 1: many times does he up to see what happens? Thank you?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: What? How many times is he on the bench? I get?
Speaker 1: I mean you know the Supreme Court? How many times?
Speaker 1: How many times is he on the bench? He stays
Speaker 1: probably four mornings a month. Okay, so he misses him.
Speaker 1: We'll get the hawk man in. Do it remotely. He
Speaker 1: can do it. Yeah, you can do it right. He
Speaker 1: can do it right from his chambers. And I mean
Speaker 1: helicopter traffic anymore? Is that still a thing? Do you
Speaker 1: think Chuck Ingram all the way with Ted McKay. I
Speaker 1: get Chuck and a helicopter. Andy was in it when
Speaker 1: it crashed. To you survived two helicopter crashes, he did.
Speaker 10: Let me tell you my life, I will if given
Speaker 10: the opportunity, I will survive one helicopter crashed, second one,
Speaker 10: because I will never get in another one again the
Speaker 10: rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Bill Behar wanted me to go into the helicopter years
Speaker 1: ago when I first started, and I thought, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know about two weeks said, I said, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll do it in a couple of weeks. Well, right
Speaker 1: during that time, he goes down on Macateewah owned by
Speaker 1: now by Mark Sheer and Dale Donnohan. He he goes down,
Speaker 1: he goes down, he goes down on I don't know
Speaker 1: what green it was, and they and they crashed. Nancy
Speaker 1: McCormick didn't make it. No, that's true. It's dangerous rock.
Speaker 1: And he was up there. John Phillips was up for
Speaker 1: twenty four years, right. He had man crashed twice. The
Speaker 1: second time I two seventy five at past pro shops
Speaker 1: right up. It was in between the two what happened.
Speaker 1: Why it crash? The guy in the morning didn't gasp
Speaker 1: the thing up like he should have.
Speaker 10: Don't you check that sort of thing for you get
Speaker 10: up in a helicopter.
Speaker 1: You're making well, I guess, I guess you know you
Speaker 1: don't know. The first thing I would do is you
Speaker 1: don't assume fuel. You don't assume that anymore. Rock Sarah
Speaker 1: gage in there.
Speaker 10: That says, I imagine there's a gauge, Yes, as a
Speaker 10: gauge in the helicopter.
Speaker 1: He rolled over and uh crawled out the other side.
Speaker 1: The police sirens be okay, he said, yep. I said
Speaker 1: that was God's sassage too. I would say that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm done, done. I can't I make it through one.
Speaker 1: That's it. John Phillips not going up again twenty four years.
Speaker 1: He's going to come back and do helicopter traffic in
Speaker 1: the mornings with you, me and the seg Are you
Speaker 1: willing to get in the helicopter?
Speaker 10: So when when you guys are when you're doing mornings
Speaker 10: next week, you of course know what that means to
Speaker 10: the Eddie and Rocky show.
Speaker 1: I'm not party press, but you know, nothing's more constant
Speaker 1: in life than change. Well, you're coming back to twelve
Speaker 1: to three, right, a little different for us, but you're
Speaker 1: going to take a nap and then come back, right,
Speaker 1: that's what I heard. Can't say, can't say, give me
Speaker 1: some sports about the torpedo bat Well, heave the stude
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Speaker 1: the game. No Cees in the lineup last night at first,
Speaker 1: but hitting the hand yesterday's day to day not broken.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be Freedom, McLean, d L C. Lucks,
Speaker 1: Candelarios at first. Spinal will be a third Jake, The
Speaker 1: Snake will be in right, Big Big Done will be
Speaker 1: in left. Win Done. Yeah. I just saw him last night.
Speaker 1: He's with the mayor Casey. Yeah, well he's coming back
Speaker 1: just for tonight. The boys were raking last night runs.
Speaker 1: The Rangers kicked a field goal late, didn't they? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and make it eat and make it close. How about
Speaker 1: Brady Singer though getting he was dealing toss seven scoreless innings,
Speaker 1: striking out eight, walk two and allowing one hit to
Speaker 1: that lineup? Bingo. Have you seen the video of Lady
Speaker 1: Singer paying off his parents mortgage? Look at that? I
Speaker 1: heard about that. Fantastic, fantastic pay off your mortgage at
Speaker 1: some point, use that for sure. No rock, get up
Speaker 1: the little rocks, all the pebbles on the pebbles, the daddy,
Speaker 1: I'm paying off your mortgage, Daddy. Great first round to
Speaker 1: the Crown Tournament coming up in Vegas, Cincinnati, Barrick, Hats
Speaker 1: and De Paul coming up after three And at the
Speaker 1: same time, Richard Pettino is gonna be is going to
Speaker 1: be officially introduced as the new Musketeers had basketball coach
Speaker 1: three Thirty's got a meeting with the team. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be in a phone booth. You know what a phone
Speaker 1: booth is. Yes, there's no team, they're all gone.
Speaker 10: So he's agreed to become a coach of a team
Speaker 10: that he does not yet have, does not yet exist.
Speaker 1: Doesn't exist. Indiana. Who's good bad? It's bad. It's all bad.
Speaker 1: In fact, I've been told by some of your rich
Speaker 1: friends are asked for nil money, like a million dollars here,
Speaker 1: and they're thinking, you know what. I don't know these kids,
Speaker 1: but we're seeing it happen.
Speaker 10: The blue bloods that the big time programs are going
Speaker 10: to be in a position to be. Look, the top
Speaker 10: four teams the NCAA Tournament. Big time schools make money.
Speaker 10: The schools that everyone thought was going to be in
Speaker 10: the final four. Right, there's no upsets, there's no cinderellas,
Speaker 10: and they don't happen.
Speaker 1: No more number one sets all made. It was twenty
Speaker 1: oh seven in San Antonio. By the way, this is
Speaker 1: the next time. I'm watching this nineteen ninety two documentary
Speaker 1: on Duke basketball with that team Christian Leitner, and never
Speaker 1: happened again. And I'm thinking, never welcome that team costs.
Speaker 1: I think college kids, they're man, they're adults. What would
Speaker 1: that cost? What about the final four team with hugs.
Speaker 10: If on that team, even if they wanted to stay
Speaker 10: in college and not go to the NBA, they would
Speaker 10: get plucked off by another school that would pay them
Speaker 10: some exorbitant amount of money and say Why would I
Speaker 10: be the number three here? Where I can go be
Speaker 10: the number one there with no repercussions. Christian lingers nothing
Speaker 10: probably ten million dollars a year. We'll pay you twelve
Speaker 10: He'll go from Duke to North Carolina. That's like real
Speaker 10: money for some of these.
Speaker 1: From wouldn't he savior? Good use and its prime? And
Speaker 1: how bad is that? The donors are saying that, Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I don't know if I like this. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe the adults ought to get involved, saying it, you
Speaker 1: have to sign a contract, you're an adult. Everybody keeps
Speaker 1: saying that.
Speaker 10: Everyone agrees, every coach, every fan, everybody says somebody's got
Speaker 10: to do something, something has to be done. Well, who
Speaker 10: is somebody? And when are they going to do it?
Speaker 10: Because we just keep it. And the thing that I
Speaker 10: hear keeps holding everything up is the academic calendar. They can't. Yeah,
Speaker 10: that's the excuse. Given It's like, well, some schools are
Speaker 10: on trimesser. If you have the portal open, you catch that.
Speaker 10: The only way to do it is to allow I mean,
Speaker 10: you can't have kids join in spring ball. They have
Speaker 10: to join the fall. But no coach wants that. But
Speaker 10: if everybody has to play by those rules. It would
Speaker 10: it would make sense. And the kids don't want to
Speaker 10: sign a two year deal. If you have a good year,
Speaker 10: they make a lot more money, so they don't want to.
Speaker 10: So the n say you have to sign a two
Speaker 10: year contract. We've been there for two years. But is
Speaker 10: it reasonable? That's good for the sports that we all love.
Speaker 10: Isn't necessarily what maybe best for each individual player, And
Speaker 10: sometimes the decision me to be Okay, yeah, that might
Speaker 10: be better for you as a player. But for this
Speaker 10: great thing we call college sports and the continuation of
Speaker 10: it to.
Speaker 1: The degree it's being we're not going to do that.
Speaker 1: Here's how it's going to be. If this duke team
Speaker 1: could play together for three years, no, what about Houston?
Speaker 1: Pretty good that fact.
Speaker 10: It'd be great for the fans because they would every year. Boy,
Speaker 10: we got a great squad coming back. Well, now you
Speaker 10: have no idea. You have no idea.
Speaker 1: When Patino meets his team at four o'clock, who's in
Speaker 1: the meeting? Nobody? You don't have a team.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Now one player is committed to play for Xavier, somebody
Speaker 1: has to do something. Who is somebody? And when are
Speaker 1: they going to do it. Everyone agrees this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Every everybody, every athletic director, every school president, every fan
Speaker 1: says this is dumb. So why why don't they click?
Speaker 1: It was okay?
Speaker 10: Is there a way that we can put a few
Speaker 10: guardrails on this and still pay some players and still
Speaker 10: have some advantages here?
Speaker 1: Why does what happened? Well, what's funny at those at
Speaker 1: the Ncaattorney games that right there on the on the
Speaker 1: scorers table and all that stuff, they got the they
Speaker 1: got the two words student athletes. That's a joke online,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. How about Sean Miller Fox nineteen
Speaker 1: this two weeks as a behind the scenes of Savier basketball.
Speaker 1: The name of the documentary is all in. He's all out.
Speaker 1: I mean, are they gonna run it? They're running it now?
Speaker 1: I watch it all in? That is the ultimate eyes
Speaker 1: all out. He left. Didn't he have what he sought?
Speaker 1: Didn't he want?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 10: No, because he's saying year to year, I'm not going
Speaker 10: to be caught up in this mess of do we
Speaker 10: have enough money to pay the top players?
Speaker 2: The answer is no.
Speaker 10: We have a good amount of money, but we don't
Speaker 10: have the kind of money Texas does. So if I
Speaker 10: want to get the best player, and knowing that the
Speaker 10: Jimmy's and the Joe's are what wins games, He's gonna
Speaker 10: go there because they have fifteen million a year, right
Speaker 10: be sixteen, eighteen, twenty million to pay players and Xavier
Speaker 10: has what a million? Maybe had six or seven million.
Speaker 10: They got four times.
Speaker 1: Okay, but well it's less than half the pick them
Speaker 1: up out of the garbage dump of life. Sean Miller
Speaker 1: was done. His wife builds his five million dollar mansion.
Speaker 1: They moved in in December and Indian Hill. He's got
Speaker 1: the documentary All In allows the cameras behind the scenes
Speaker 1: for Xavier basketball, talking about ethics and values. Being at
Speaker 1: Xavier is more than.
Speaker 10: That's the part that's that's the part that's gross. Besides that,
Speaker 10: the cross do you fix? We're here now what? And
Speaker 10: that's what sold every player. You need to be all in.
Speaker 10: You need to buy all into this program and get
Speaker 10: it the way train. That's what they preached, but.
Speaker 1: They aren't until I'm paid more money, in which case
Speaker 1: I'm gone.
Speaker 10: And I'm fine with it because you know that's the
Speaker 10: way it goes. But you can't. You can't.
Speaker 1: I'm having the lip service of all that. Chris Mack
Speaker 1: very much wanted to come here and staid make the
Speaker 1: buy out ten million dollars. No one's going to pay that.
Speaker 1: I'll commit to six years. I want to go home.
Speaker 1: Santax kid once his boy to go to Santax. Chris
Speaker 1: Mack all time winning his coach in Xavier history. I
Speaker 1: want to go home and I will guarantee because of money,
Speaker 1: my buyout will be making twenty million dollars. Well, I
Speaker 1: will commit to Xavier for the next ten years. Why
Speaker 1: it happened, Say give me some sports also, Willie. Let's
Speaker 1: see Bristol Motor Speedway is going to host a course
Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball game in August. Yes with the
Speaker 1: Braves and the Reds. The speed That's Bristol Motor Speedway
Speaker 1: announced the day on October the fourteenth of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: They are going to turn the infield of the track
Speaker 1: into the Bass Pro Shops Bristol Old Bass Classic, a
Speaker 1: groundbreaking bass fishing tournament in the middle of the world's
Speaker 1: fastest half mile. Wait, wait, they're gonna They're gonna flood that.
Speaker 1: They're gonna It's a specially designed fishing area within the speedway,
Speaker 1: complete with temporary water feature.
Speaker 10: What they're gonna flood the infield and fill it and
Speaker 10: have people you got kidding me? Finally, can we get
Speaker 10: the a race going while the baseball game is taking place? Now,
Speaker 10: that would be something. The cars are going around the
Speaker 10: track and then baseball has been played.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, next thing in operational motor speedway
Speaker 1: is going to going to They're gonna host the Olympics
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. You might recall Ben Hurr. They flood at
Speaker 1: the coliseum in Rome and have boats. So this Bristol
Speaker 1: is gonna have a bass What about what about? Uh?
Speaker 1: What about heart? What about Sunday morning? What about him? Who?
Speaker 1: You know? Sunday morning bass fishing? My guy? I don't
Speaker 1: know who you're talking of out Well, isn't he gonna
Speaker 1: go dance? Bill dance?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Him, I get, I don't know. I guess he's gonna
Speaker 1: be he's the best. Well, they're gonna have play by play.
Speaker 1: Here comes a nine pound Yeah, yeah, they got on
Speaker 1: the ESPN. ESPN's got bass fishing on TV. They do.
Speaker 1: I think Fox Sports f S one has it. That'll
Speaker 1: be the damn thing I've ever seen. That's what rock
Speaker 1: will be doing that in about a year or two.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying along with uh the hatchet throwing in
Speaker 1: the corn hole and pro pickleball. Watch you guys won't
Speaker 1: be there, will you? No? No, I think I think
Speaker 1: enough to test that sport. What about Jip Park, you fool,
Speaker 1: Jip Part's probably gonna be involved in that.
Speaker 10: Can we get like a deer hunting competition in the
Speaker 10: middlefield to throw a couple of elk out there?
Speaker 1: Shoot him? Shoot him? What about in your backyard? Who's
Speaker 1: the guy from Madison County that's his running mate, Chip
Speaker 1: Part's running man. Who's that guy he loves? He's gonna
Speaker 1: down there, So you're gonna flood there, gonna flood flood
Speaker 1: certain parts of the of the infield at Bristol Motor
Speaker 1: Speed fast Boat.
Speaker 10: But they're gonna dig it out like lower like I'm
Speaker 10: not a will get it done.
Speaker 1: They put a baseball field in there. They they had
Speaker 1: football games one years ago. They played college football there.
Speaker 1: I don't under two years ago, but you would have
Speaker 1: the NASCAR race going on with the baseball game. Better
Speaker 1: be careful.
Speaker 10: If we can an infield and they have a bass
Speaker 10: tournament there, we can play baseball.
Speaker 1: One, and you have baseball game going and the Bass
Speaker 1: pro shop fishing thing on the other end of the track,
Speaker 1: and NASCAR, NASCAR and NASCAR into that. That's action. I
Speaker 1: don't get it all right, Rock, what's on the big show?
Speaker 1: But could be your last one for a while. True,
Speaker 1: this is actually good? Are rather the gate?
Speaker 10: With three o'clock we have Jeremy Rosenthal, a lawyer, going
Speaker 10: to talk about can Trump actually run for a third term?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: And then this is great?
Speaker 10: So four pm, you guys might have heard about this
Speaker 10: guy local legends. Name is Mason Paris, Champion wrestler at Lawrenceburg,
Speaker 10: champion wrestler at Michigan, the Olympics, Wade the Olympics. Well,
Speaker 10: he is now trying out to get drafted by an
Speaker 10: NFL team. He's working out with the line he's up
Speaker 10: at Michigan right now, Big guy. About Big Guy's six three,
Speaker 10: two seventy something runs like a four to seven jump
Speaker 10: thirty three and a half at this Michigan Pro day.
Speaker 1: The other day he's going to join it. I'll talk
Speaker 1: about his journey. Defensive lineman or.
Speaker 10: Tight end, fullback, defensive line do you want to tackle?
Speaker 1: Whatever they wanted to.
Speaker 2: Do he'll do it.
Speaker 1: You tackle him.
Speaker 10: He got a guy who's like the one of the
Speaker 10: best wrestlers in the country.
Speaker 1: Football football coaches like that. Bengals, Yeah, we need some
Speaker 1: interior lineman.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. Say give me out of the Stude's report. Change
Speaker 1: is gonna come, correct? Didn't somebody singing a song about
Speaker 1: that change? Sam Sam Cook? I was born by the
Speaker 1: river and little tent just like the river. I've been
Speaker 1: running ever since. Will you on this day we say
Speaker 1: happy heavenly birthday too. The one and only the weather authority,
Speaker 1: the private citizen, mister Tim Hendrick. I miss him, God
Speaker 1: blood sneak in and call with weather updates. He wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to. He was the private citizen segment. Give me
Speaker 1: out this two's report. We leave you with the immortal words.
Speaker 1: Will you have the stood report? Here we go, red legs,
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