WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.000 Back on the Big One seven hundred WLW twelve O. Wait, 2 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:14.720 Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham. And you know, some 3 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:17.399 days you never know how things are going to unfold. 4 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:20.320 I'm preparing for the show today and I saw the 5 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.760 news headline shortly before I headed into the station and Dave, 6 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:43.759 my reaction was this hit it It's unbelievable. You know, 7 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.039 we knew there was something going on because they summoned 8 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.479 all the reporters to the Big Mac Bridge today and 9 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.119 the headline is this four seventy one southbound. All the 10 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.399 lanes of the Big Mac Bridge are going to reopen 11 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:01.200 on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday Sunday. Like Cash d Amberg he 12 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:03.759 used to say at the bargain Barn, come on up Sunday. 13 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.560 We've got a great deal for you. The main man, 14 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:10.000 you know, the guy Chuck Ingram. Have you been catching 15 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.760 all kinds of hell on this absolutely because of seventy one? 16 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:15.200 Was it was my fault? 17 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:17.480 I mean yeah, look, I mean how many years he 18 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:20.439 been doing traffic in this town? This is I'm over 19 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:24.040 twenty twenty. I've got about ten or eleven years on 20 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.480 my double door. So you know we're talking about thirty 21 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.359 plus years of traffic reporting between the two of us, Yeah, 22 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.719 I have. I have never seen a story like this. Look, 23 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.239 there's times when traffic stories get a lot of attention, 24 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.120 get a lot of press, but this one on four 25 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.560 seventy one because it affects so many people. I mean 26 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:47.120 when you talk about they did stories about when the 27 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.519 steel beams were being manufactured, when they were getting shipped, 28 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.040 when they were being put in place, schedules for the 29 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.000 concrete purse, this, that and the other thing. I've never 30 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.040 seen this kind of coverage on a traffic story ever. 31 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:00.799 No, I would agree with you. 32 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.760 Even so, just going back the four to five years whatever, 33 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.879 it's over four years now with the fire on the 34 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.080 Branch Spence, with the truck fire on the Brand Spence, 35 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:13.840 the most recent disaster we had have happened traffic wise, 36 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.199 you didn't have this kind of coverage and different things 37 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.360 to play. Almost the play by play, although it seemed 38 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:22.639 to take an offul long time to start to get 39 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:24.719 some help for those folks that had to go across 40 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:29.520 the bridge. Once the play the different things started happening, 41 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:34.599 It's like unfolded pretty quickly. Yeah, what so, tell me 42 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.639 what kind of what kind of reaction you've been getting 43 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.800 for these last several months while this thing has been closed, 44 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.080 because it has been an absolute nightmare, not so much 45 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.639 in the morning, but especially in the afternoon. No, afternoon 46 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:48.800 has really been taking a hit. And that was the 47 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.080 That's the thing I would get all the time with 48 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.639 the texts and people I didn't even know had my 49 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:54.439 phone number. 50 00:02:54.639 --> 00:03:01.039 When is this going to open? Its three o'clock in 51 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:04.319 the morning. Who else calling me? Yeah? Exactly this. 52 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.199 Even even though texts, you know, you don't have an 53 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:12.319 emotion to it, I could read right through the words. 54 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.759 It's like, just say, oh my god, when is this? 55 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.360 When is this? I said, yeah, you know, I kept 56 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:21.639 playing along. I said, well, I kind almost guaranteed before 57 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.400 opening day that this is going to you know, this 58 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.199 is kind of because the originally said mid March, but 59 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.800 to have this almost the full mont. 60 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.439 You gotta think opening day was was a day they 61 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:34.639 had circled on the calendar that they had to get 62 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:34.960 it done. 63 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:36.039 Oh yeah before that. 64 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:40.000 So we we knew today and because there were obviously 65 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:41.879 you know, with the way we do news here at 66 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.639 seven hundred wlw uh, we knew there was going to 67 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.680 be some sort of announcement some sort of update got 68 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:50.280 reporters coming out to the bridge today. So we knew 69 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.879 there was going to be something happening. We didn't know 70 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.400 it was going to be this. No, no, Ill, What 71 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:58.400 was your reaction when you saw when you saw this 72 00:03:58.479 --> 00:03:59.080 piece of news. 73 00:03:59.159 --> 00:03:59.680 I love it. 74 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.240 They were going to O dot was going to send 75 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.759 out a Valentine state card and say the highways are 76 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:07.759 for driving, go ahead and do it, you know kind 77 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:08.960 of thing by next weekend. 78 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.479 Yeah. I didn't think it would happen this weekend at all. 79 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:12.520 And that's just wonderful. 80 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.800 It's going to be open before before Valentine's that's right, 81 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.319 So what you amazing? You can take your love over 82 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.800 to Newport and all the restaurants that have been suffering 83 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.759 in things because of this bridge being closed and celebrate there. 84 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:29.279 You'll be able to celebrate Valentine's there. You know, you 85 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.439 still live in Mount Washington in Anderson Township. Okay, I 86 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.199 live in well then we both live in Anderson Township. 87 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:39.279 But I mean that's the thing, this thing with this 88 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:43.079 bridge being closed. There's been a couple of times and 89 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:47.040 thankfully I've I've met I've managed to avoid it. But 90 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.800 that the three or four times they got I got 91 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:52.560 caught up in that afternoon traffic trying to get back 92 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.720 to Anderson Township. I mean, I've never seen a situation 93 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.399 because because there's so many people who go to the 94 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.040 east side on four seventy one, I've never seen a 95 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.279 situation that reaches so far. And I'm talking about all 96 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:07.360 the way into Anderson Township, all the way up Beachmunt Avenue, 97 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:09.839 all the way out Route thirty two, and it just 98 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:13.319 it screws up everything. I've never seen anything like it. No, 99 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:16.920 it really, it really truly did, taking away that one 100 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.319 element out of everything. It's just like when you got 101 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.040 to make the adjustments to your travel and it was 102 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.040 just like, well, wait a minute, can't handle another twenty 103 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:30.279 thousand some point or whatever the number exactly was daily. Yeah, 104 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:31.920 you know, to have to make a difference like that, 105 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.800 It's like everything was jammed at that point. What did 106 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:37.279 we do before the big mac Bridge open? Wasn't that amazing? 107 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.879 I can't remember. I can't remember either. I'm just goin 108 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.160 to I don't know. I forget when it opened, but 109 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.399 I think I was driving by then. But yeah, because 110 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.519 I remember it taking forth. I mean Columbia Parkway. But 111 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:50.959 it could because I grew up on the east side 112 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.800 and whenever we went downtown, it was always Columbia Parkway. 113 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.680 That was really the only the best way to go 114 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:58.759 was the way to go right. Yeah, and then when 115 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.079 four seventy one open, it was like, oh my god, 116 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.120 we can get downtown in eleven minutes. Right, it's crazy. 117 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:07.439 You cut your traff and h trip in half. Yeah, right, 118 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:10.079 and then coming back the other way. But I mean, 119 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.959 but this is this is and that's why I played 120 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.839 the Hallelujah chorus because it's good. How rare is it though, 121 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:24.120 especially when it comes to construction projects, because you know, 122 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:25.920 we see it on seventy five and it's not like, 123 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.000 you know, seventy five, okay, you're down a lane or 124 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 they're going to reconfigure. There's something's going to happen. But 125 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.360 usually there's there's at least some trickle of traffic that 126 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.160 can get through there. But when you've got you know, 127 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.439 access and crossing a river, that it's a whole different 128 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.279 ball game. And it's basically other than the one near 129 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:50.519 keell Ogun and on the east side, that's the that's 130 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.959 the biggie for seventy one was the biggie of coming 131 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.399 into town, so you didn't have to get into more 132 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.399 northern Kentucky traffic for seventy five. Yeah, in southbound as well, 133 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.360 so it's like, no, take it away, and now we 134 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.279 know what it feels like. All right, So if only 135 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:07.959 you would have known this at you know, six o'clock 136 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:08.399 this morning. 137 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.199 At five o'clock this morning, Oh, wouldn't that have been? 138 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:10.360 Na? 139 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:12.319 I know you would have I would have looked like 140 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.920 a yeah, yeah. 141 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.240 But then the I running part is is that they 142 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.439 literally they are on the bridge and they're having this 143 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:27.120 press conference and releasing the information. The other to talk 144 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.199 about it opening up on Sunday actually came out a 145 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.319 little bit earlier this morning. And then we have police 146 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.199 activity on seventy five, which is going on right now 147 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.639 at Dixie. That's slowing five Dixie. 148 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:40.759 Yeah, that's in northern Kentucky and it's backing traffic into 149 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.879 downtown and the northbound lanes are slow from Erlanger. 150 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.120 You've got that going on. And then on seventy one 151 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.879 a little bit further near Glencoe after the split, Yeah, 152 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:54.040 there's a truck fire that shut shuts that down. That's 153 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:56.759 going on right now southbound lane too. Yeah, Oh my god. 154 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:59.480 So it's like all the traffic guds go, oh, you've 155 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.920 got this nice thing going on for four seventy one 156 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.079 and good news there, hold my beer. 157 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.360 It has a way of balance and itself out, doesn't it. Yes, 158 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:11.240 it is absolutely amazing. All right, Well, Chuck, I'll tell 159 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:13.120 you what, man. I appreciate you coming in and spend 160 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.879 a little time today, and uh, it's always great to 161 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:16.519 see you, my friend. 162 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:17.600 It's good to see you too. 163 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.120 It's nice to be able to talk about something positive 164 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:20.680 for a change. 165 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.240 That is the best news we've heard all day, you know, 166 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.360 sec say it with ease, four. 167 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.759 Seventy one And now I'm just gonna kind of keep track. 168 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.240 I don't know the next time i'll be driving over 169 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.399 four to seventy one that way, but hopefully it'll be 170 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.480 before too long. There you go, All right, Chuck, thank 171 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.320 you very much. You'll be able to do it come Sunday. Yeah, Dave, 172 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.000 can we hear that? Can we hear the music one 173 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:42.799 more time? And you know, we we opened the segment 174 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:46.200 with little Hollelujah, and I think it's as only fitting 175 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.200 that we close the segment as well. And Matt Reese 176 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.360 went out there today and maybe we'll talk with him 177 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:54.519 a little bit later on. But uh, I think I 178 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.240 think the music is fitting as we close out this segment. 179 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:02.080 Chuck Ingram, thank you very much thinking in and enjoy 180 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:05.120 your drive and annoy the Kentucky over the Big Man 181 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.919 the way it was meant to be opening early. I mean, 182 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:14.639 that's government man. That never happens with government. Miracles do happen. 183 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.320 Trump is in office and four to seventy one is open. Yeah, 184 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:21.519 that's the reason it's opening early. 185 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.320 Of course. I'm seven HUNDREDW. 186 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.519 I back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW twelve 187 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:40.519 twenty two, Dan Carol for Bill Cunningham, and the news 188 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.240 is huge today that the Big Mac Bridge will be 189 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:48.080 opened by Sunday, Sunday evening, according to Mike Shell at 190 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.399 Fox nineteen so reporters were some of there today. Matt Reeves. 191 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.639 I just talked to Matt Reeves. He is still taking 192 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.039 the tour of the bridge. He's got some photos. I 193 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.159 think those have been posted on the social media of 194 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.720 seven hundred WLW, so you can see that. Might talk 195 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:05.519 to about Matt Rees and his experience a little bit 196 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:07.679 later on, but that's the thing. You know, you get 197 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.759 called out to an event like this, and every once 198 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.440 in a while it happens because you pretty much as 199 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.240 a reporter, you pretty much have an idea of what 200 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.440 the news is going to be before you get there. 201 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:20.120 Not this time. 202 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.720 This day got there and the news came out that 203 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:26.200 they are ready to rock and roll on Sunday on 204 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.519 the Big Mac Bridge. And that is absolutely huge. So 205 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:33.840 this is the final weekday that we will have evening 206 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:38.799 traffic backups because of four to seventy one southbound being 207 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:42.360 shut down. So that is a reason to celebrate, and 208 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.120 that news is going to be percolating all day long 209 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:50.480 elsewhere today. And I reached out to Richard Jones, who 210 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:52.759 I was trying to get him to join me here 211 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.960 on seven hundred WLW today. I saw this story posted 212 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:02.279 on WCPO a little early this morning, and this is 213 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:06.240 a story about a sign out front of the Butler 214 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:10.240 County Sheriff's office. And there is a sign that reads 215 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:14.120 this illegal aliens here, and it's got an arrow pointing 216 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:19.120 towards the Sheriff's office, which is, to my way of thinking, 217 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:25.039 a public service. If you're an illegal alien and you 218 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.120 are ready to call it quits or you're ready to 219 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.200 come clean. Then there's a sign right there with an 220 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:34.320 arrow on it, and it tells you where to go 221 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:37.759 if you're in Butler County. But that's not good enough 222 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:41.120 for some people in Butler County because there is a 223 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:46.399 petition out there. Surprisingly, I might add, signed by sixteen 224 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.320 hundred people. How do you find sixteen hundred people in 225 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.600 Butler County who are opposed to a sign that reads 226 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.720 illegal aliens here out front of the Butler County Sheriff's 227 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:05.600 office and they don't like it a bit. Apparently this 228 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.360 sign went up in two thousand and four and now 229 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:13.519 they wanted they want to take him down. Let's see 230 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:17.039 what I do with that. Here's here's the petition, and 231 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.720 this is on change dot org. So if you want 232 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.440 to sign a petition by all means, go ahead. Actually 233 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:27.639 they're up to eighteen thousand signatures. Now eighteen thousand people, 234 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.679 I'm sorry, not eighteen thousand, eighteen hundred, eighteen hundred signing 235 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.759 this petition in Butler County. And here's what they write. 236 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.639 They write, this is what the issue is. Our community 237 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.279 is one built on love, understanding, and respect for the 238 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:49.000 dignity of all persons. We take pride in the inclusive 239 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:52.200 nature of our community, one that does not discriminate, but 240 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:57.159 embraces all its citizens. However, a symbol of discord, division, 241 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.240 and prejudice persists in our community. The despair uraging illegal 242 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:08.159 aliens here sign displayed at the Butler County Jail. How 243 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:12.200 is that sign disparaging? How is it prejudice? How is 244 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:17.360 it showing a symbol of discord? If you're in this 245 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:22.600 country illegally and you are from not from the United States, 246 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:26.960 you're an alien. You're in the country illegally, you're here, 247 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.720 you're an illegal alien. And that term was good enough 248 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:34.080 for Bill Clinton, It was good enough for Barack Hussein Obama, 249 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:36.279 it was good enough for George W. 250 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:37.600 Bush. 251 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.879 But somehow, you know, people that write petitions like this, 252 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:46.080 have decided that the term illegal alien is no longer 253 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.679 you know, no longer acceptable, they write. In the United States, 254 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:55.080 immigrants make up thirteen point seven percent of our population, 255 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:00.960 according to Peer research from twenty nineteen. These are our neighbors, 256 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.759 our friends, our co workers, and indeed our family members. 257 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.039 They enrich our community with. 258 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:10.440 Cultural diversity, adding to the fabric of our society. Yet 259 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:14.919 signs like these say have to only dehumanize alienates and 260 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:20.919 belittle their contributions. Well, no, it doesn't, because you want 261 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.200 to confuse the terms. You want to confuse the term 262 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:33.240 illegal alien illegal with immigration legal immigration. The immigrants who 263 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:38.440 come to this country are worthy of our respect because 264 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.759 they are the ones who do it legally, who do 265 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.240 it the right way. They are the ones who enrich 266 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.080 our community. They are the ones who add to the 267 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:53.000 fabric of our society. They are the ones who make 268 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:58.279 America better, who pay taxes, who work hard, who raise families, 269 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:04.759 who start businesses. And I am friends with many of 270 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:10.720 these people. But if you're here illegally, you don't contribute 271 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:15.919 to any of that. Chances are and you can do. 272 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.360 You know, you've got the research on what immigrants do, 273 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:24.600 but what about illegals? What do you illegals do? The 274 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.720 research shows that the majority of those who are here 275 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:32.960 illegally are living in big cities and sucking up government resources. 276 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.159 They're on welfare, they're on food stamps, they're getting free 277 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:44.120 medical care. They're supposedly living in the shadows, but yet 278 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.440 they're not in the shadows so much that the federal 279 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:50.759 government hasn't been able to find them and ladel all 280 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.039 kinds of government largess on them. Those days are coming 281 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:57.440 to an end. Read the stories about what's happening at 282 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:57.840 the border. 283 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:58.360 Right now. 284 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:03.039 The border has uventually I've been shut down. There are 285 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.279 Mexican troops ten thousand Mexican troops deployed to the border 286 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:10.600 right now. Pete Hegseth was down there the other day 287 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:13.759 talking to members of the National Guard who are standing 288 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:16.440 side by side by customs and Border Patrol, who are 289 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:22.360 standing side by side with Texas Texas Resources, and they 290 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:27.080 are shutting the border down. So I don't think Richard 291 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.320 Jones is going to be one that's going to cave 292 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:33.240 to a petition signed by eighteen hundred people, no matter 293 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:35.600 how many people sign it. It's going to take down 294 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.879 a sign that reads illegal aliens here. It is twelve 295 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:43.080 twenty nine. News is about thirty seconds away. We will 296 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.799 do that. On the other side of that, I'm going 297 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:49.879 to talk to my friend Cheryl Chumley of the Washington Times, 298 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:53.159 and we'll get her take on everything that is happening 299 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:56.399 in Trump Land, because that news is coming so fast 300 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:58.919 and furious. Here on the home of the Reds, seven 301 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:10.640 hundred wa I'm back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW. 302 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:14.000 It's Stan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham today, and it 303 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:17.440 has been absolutely amazing. Ever since January twenty if the 304 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:22.680 news out of Washington as it as it surrounds Donald 305 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.759 Trump has been coming out so fast and furious, it's 306 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.160 almost hard to keep up with it all. But here too, 307 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:32.079 I don't know if we'll talk about all actually it's 308 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.640 impossible to talk about all of it, but we'll talk 309 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.119 about as much of it as we can with Cheryl Chumley, 310 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:41.039 who is the online opinion editor at the Washington Times. 311 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.000 And Cheryl Chumley, it is great to have you back 312 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:44.359 on the show. How are you today? 313 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.960 I'm doing great, and it's so great to be with you. 314 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:48.720 Thank you. 315 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:48.880 You know. 316 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.559 I'm almost hoping that that things slow down a little 317 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.000 bit today, just to kind of catch up and digest 318 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:58.000 everything that's been coming out as far as Trump is concerned. 319 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:01.359 But I dial up the Washington Times today and I 320 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:04.720 see Trump calls for a balanced budget proposed as a 321 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:07.799 tax cut that's going to cost at least five trillion dollars. 322 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:11.279 It was I guess this happened earlier today? Is that 323 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.079 is that right, is is this the latest thing to 324 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:16.079 come out of the mind of Donald Trump? 325 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.920 Yeah, you know, I saw the same headlines, reading the 326 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:23.480 same stories as you, and I agree completely. It is 327 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.519 a fast and furious, you know, frenzy of motion that 328 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:29.720 has come forth from this White House and just a 329 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:32.519 blink of an eye, right, And this is the latest 330 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.400 And I think part of it is driven by the 331 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:39.519 savings that we're seeing Elon Musk discover in. 332 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.839 Many of his investigations. Right, will it goes hand in hand. 333 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:46.119 If Elon Musk can save us money and he finds 334 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.000 all this corruption and waste, then Donald Trump steps in 335 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.160 and turns around and says, well, why can't we pass 336 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.200 those savings along to the American citizen? 337 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:54.720 Absolutely? Amazing? 338 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:55.720 Is there? 339 00:18:55.839 --> 00:19:00.240 Can you think of anything that more encapsule, encapsulates and 340 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:04.559 is emblematic of what the swamp is than us? 341 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:06.160 Aid? Is? 342 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:09.799 Absolutely? I mean you talk about peeling back the onion. 343 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:13.200 Every time every layer of this gets that gets peeled 344 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:15.680 back is worse than the one before. And I don't 345 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:17.079 think we're done with it yet. 346 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:19.720 No, I think we're just hitting the surface. 347 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.559 And you know, to answer your question, is there anything 348 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:27.960 that is more emblematic of the corruption that goes forth 349 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:32.880 in the political world than US aid. Honestly, we don't 350 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.720 know yet, right because Elon Musk is just getting started. 351 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.039 Let's wait till he starts looking into some of the 352 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.880 other agencies. You know, we have a whole batch of 353 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.279 un funding that goes forth. I know Donald Trump has 354 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:47.359 pulled US out of some of those organizations, but there 355 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:51.039 is still a lot of funding taxpayer dollars that go 356 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:55.079 into the United Nations and disappear into all parts unknown. 357 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.279 So let's just give a couple more weeks and see 358 00:19:58.279 --> 00:19:59.079 what's revealed. 359 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:05.039 Yeah, when you see Democrats and you see leftists reacting 360 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:08.880 the way they are to what is going on with 361 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:11.279 DOJE and what's going on with Elon Musk and those 362 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.079 that are working for him, I think it really it's 363 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:17.680 an indicator of how close to the target we're really 364 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:20.559 getting here and how close I think we are to 365 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:23.519 exposing a lot of things that these people do not 366 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:24.200 want exposed. 367 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:29.880 Yeah, there really is no same reason or rationale that 368 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:36.079 the Democrats can provide for their utter freak out about 369 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:44.200 you know, what, honestly should be nonpartisan investigations to root 370 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:48.440 out waste and corruption This should unite America if nothing else. 371 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:53.680 And really, I do agree with many of these social 372 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.559 posts that you've seen saying that all those who are 373 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:02.160 protesting and opposing the investigations to government corruption and waste 374 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:06.039 tax dollars are going to be out of themselves as 375 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:09.640 part of the problem, guilty of wasting tax dollars. I 376 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:11.720 do think that there's some sense in that the ones 377 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:15.920 who are protesting and opposing chances are they're involved somehow. 378 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:19.640 Yeah, well, because it turns out that they that they've 379 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.519 been part of the gravy train. And I saw I 380 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:25.640 saw a headline today and then and here's the bad 381 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:28.279 thing about this is that there's so many headlines out there, 382 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:31.319 and it turns out that the things that are true 383 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:34.599 are absolutely shocking. And then I saw a headline today 384 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:38.480 that said Nancy Pelosi got over one hundred million dollars 385 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.200 from the USA. I d I have no idea if 386 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.599 that's true. I didn't have time to research it before 387 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:46.119 I came in. But this is this is how fast 388 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.480 and furious this is coming out of here, and then 389 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:53.119 they're really there hasn't been anything to counter this, to 390 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.440 say that this is false, to say that it's phony 391 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:57.799 to say that it's made up. All they can do 392 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:00.559 is complain about the messenger. Listen to what this is 393 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:04.400 what they were talking about on CNN about and how 394 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:06.599 they were attacking those who were over at Doaje Dave. 395 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:07.720 Let's hear cut number two. 396 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:10.319 Yeah, So this is a nineteen year old high school 397 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:15.880 graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls online, 398 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:17.519 so that would be one way that we could refer 399 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:21.160 to him. He is now working at Musk's behest inside 400 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:25.359 Doge and we looked into his background and so we found, 401 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.720