WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:08.960 My Billy Cunning into Great America. 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.080 Welcome this Friday afternoon, after another glorious parade in festivities 3 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:16.239 involving Reds opening Day and doing it since about eighteen 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.960 sixty nine and doing it for quite a while. Of course, 5 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:21.000 the game did not turn out as we anticipated. Six 6 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:24.239 to four was a loss. But nonetheless, Brian Hamrica, when 7 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:26.399 I was at the Holy Grail yesterday, for it seemed 8 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.920 like five minutes, but it was like three hours. 9 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.160 Channel five was everywhere, and. 10 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.439 I'm looking at you going nuts on the parade route 11 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:35.759 with all the festivities going on. And of course you 12 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.640 have some perspective having been a professional comedian. I like 13 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:40.920 to think of myself as a funny man myself and 14 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.000 traveling tether and fro. But when I met Michael Waltrip 15 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.000 for the first time, he said, man, I knew this 16 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:46.600 thing was big. 17 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:47.960 I had no idea it was like this. 18 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:51.560 In fact, if you take the NBA, the NFL, Major 19 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:55.320 League Baseball, college basketball, college football, take them all together, 20 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:59.119 there's not one city in America, maybe the world, that 21 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.560 is an opening day for their team like we do 22 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:02.520 in Cincinnati. 23 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:03.719 It's unpresident. 24 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.000 And I told you this off the air, and you said, really, 25 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.799 and my life is a great American. I've never seen 26 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.280 the Philly Market parade, never been in it, of course 27 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:13.000 because I'm working doing other stuff. 28 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.079 But tell me your remembrances of yesterday. Let's not talk 29 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:16.719 about the game. 30 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:22.599 Well, it's a yeah, no, it's an unbelievable spectacle here 31 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:23.159 in the city. 32 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.359 I always start the thing. Every year. They come to me. 33 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:28.959 I'm up at Flint Finley Market and they come to 34 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.640 me as we start the parade, And every year I 35 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.640 say the same thing. I always say. If it's New 36 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:36.959 Year's Eve, you want to be in New York. If 37 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.120 it's Mardi Gras, you want to be in New Orleans. 38 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:41.680 But if it's Opening Day, you have to be in 39 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.640 Cincinnati because that is the city of Opening Day. This 40 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:50.640 city does it like nobody else. We talked to a 41 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:56.040 couple who came here from Oregon and they came all 42 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:58.920 the way to Cincinnati to see Opening Day. 43 00:01:59.000 --> 00:01:59.599 They said they. 44 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:03.120 Were in any I can't remember which one last year 45 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.000 and they said they were completely disappointed. They said it 46 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.560 was like another game, and that's not what we do 47 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:09.319 around here. 48 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:09.919 You know. 49 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.240 We have this, uh, this parade that I call a 50 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:18.800 strand of Cincinnati DNA that runs from Finley Market to 51 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:19.680 Fountain Square. 52 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.199 It's just unlike what anybody else. 53 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:26.080 Does, you know it is It is just uh, you know, 54 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:29.560 it's just an incredible celebration and it's not you know, 55 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.479 just baseball. I mean that's the theme of it, but 56 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.520 it's really kind of you know, having gone to these 57 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:40.840 now for almost thirty years, Uh, it's it's it's like 58 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:45.280 spring is here, baseball is here, and it's sort of. 59 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:49.919 Like we're renewing our commitment in the city and and 60 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:53.560 it's like, yeah, we might not like something that that 61 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.199 the mayor does, or we might not like something that 62 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:57.840 the County Commission does. 63 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:01.400 Or we we might be have or whatever, but we're 64 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:06.319 all together in this thing. And it's almost like, you know, 65 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.919 Fourth of July waving the flag. That's when we waved 66 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.759 the Cincinnati flag and everybody comes together and they're just 67 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:13.960 glad they're part of the city. 68 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:17.039 And Brian Hemrick that there's no color, there's no race, 69 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:21.879 there's no gender, there's no class. I see little children, 70 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.000 I see old guys, I see those that have been 71 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.400 there thirty to forty years having not been to one, 72 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:31.719 which is unbelievable because I'm working before it. But nonetheless, 73 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.560 going back in memory banks thirty or thirty five, forty 74 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.479 years ago, was it that big in the nineteen nineties. 75 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:43.719 Yeah, you know, I think everybody's always had a sense. 76 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.439 But we get these years like when we have really 77 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.120 nice weather and you'll have like even more people come out, 78 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.439 and I think then that just kind of like amps 79 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.719 up this whole you know, sort of atmosphere, and then 80 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:00.319 people go, we got to go next year. And then 81 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.560 everybody was so up, you know when it's night. But 82 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.400 then we get a really one, really rainy, crappy year 83 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.039 and everybody go, ah, I don't know, that wasn't like 84 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:10.800 as nice as it was a couple of years ago. 85 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:14.000 But this one was a great one. Last year was 86 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.639 a really good one. The weather was great. It was sunny, 87 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:21.920 a little bit cool, but it was it was nice, 88 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:24.839 and so you know, everybody was able to be out there. 89 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.839 We saw we see these families that were just like 90 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:32.120 intent on carrying on this tradition, you know, so they 91 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:34.920 came when they were a kid, and now they're bringing 92 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:38.560 their little kid. I talked to a grandmother who had 93 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:41.120 her tiny little grandson in her arms. 94 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:44.199 Sit right on the front row, you know. So yeah, 95 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:47.600 I mean you see that we went one year. 96 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.439 They had decided I was supposed to be covering something else, 97 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.600 and at the last minute they're like, no, no, we 98 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:57.800 need to go down to and to turn you know, 99 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:58.560 turn a story. 100 00:04:58.560 --> 00:04:59.240 On opening day. 101 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:02.800 I'm like, it's all almost over, you know, and they said, no, 102 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.720 run down there really quick and get something. So I 103 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:08.920 run down with my photographer and we get down there 104 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.199 and there's like I don't know ten floats left, but 105 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.639 there's this old fella sitting there and he's like an 106 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.560 ounce and the whole thing he's in there. Now there 107 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:19.519 goes out there. 108 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:21.319 Know that's Marty Madam and. 109 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:25.000 That dow Marty Brennaman Hays as great as announcer lift 110 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.319 and he just he was talking like on his own, 111 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.360 like like he was, you know, had a radio show 112 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.199 or something. And we're like, let's make that guy up, 113 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:35.759 and we might him up. And it turned out to 114 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:39.240 be a really good story, uh with this guy, And 115 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.600 so yeah, that's what uh. 116 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:42.439 But that's what it's about. 117 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:42.720 You know. 118 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:44.279 You get down there and you get all. 119 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:50.000 This uh all these people in that atmosphere and uh yeah, 120 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:51.959 I think people just a lot of people just go 121 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:54.079 and you know, sit in one spot and it's like 122 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:57.199 a conveyor belt of entertainment. It just goes by, you know, 123 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.160 one after another after another, and you see everybody you know, 124 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.839 you know Anthony Munos, I saw David Schultzer down there, 125 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:10.040 Heper Frinch was there, you know, just all the Cincinnati names. 126 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:14.839 Of course, Marty was there. The baseball players you see 127 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:19.040 former baseball players, current baseball players that are there. 128 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:23.040 Tyler Stevenson was there, and Rady Singer was there. 129 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.040 And I mean, uh, you know, so you just you 130 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.120 know who was there. Darryl Pace. Now I don't have 131 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:34.199 to think back for a name. Daryl Page. He is 132 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.680 the greatest archer who ever walked. 133 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:38.800 The face of the earth. 134 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.720 This guy, and he's from Cincinnati, won like two gold medals, 135 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:48.759 won seven World champions was was named the greatest athlete 136 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:52.160 of the century, and and he was there. 137 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:59.519 Warren was there. I mean, unbelievable. All the people that 138 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:00.920 you see, you know down there. 139 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.360 Well, it's only getting I say, this is only getting 140 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.920 bigger and better. It can't get any bigger and it 141 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.319 can't get any better. Oh I can't imagine. Tony Bender 142 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.040 told me that his police forces told him there was 143 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.360 a million people. I said, now, wait a minute, a 144 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:17.279 million people. There's one point six million to live in 145 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.079 the metro. I don't think there was a million people there, 146 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.959 but look at the thirty seven thousand in my ballparked 147 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.360 the Great American. That was a drop in the bucket 148 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.519 to the people that were there. Yeah, maybe there were 149 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:29.920 five hundred thousand. I don't know. 150 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.959 You know, we asked the chief day before yesterday, just 151 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:38.079 before the day before the parade, and we said, hey, 152 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:43.000 how many people? What are your estimates? And and she said, 153 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:47.279 you know, I don't know, but she said it would 154 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:48.560 not surprise. 155 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.000 Me if we got a million people. You know, so 156 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:51.240 that's a lot. You know. 157 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.480 I kept saying hundreds of thousands because it would be 158 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.319 it seemed like a lot, but you know, a million 159 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:58.680 people maybe. 160 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:02.319 Well, you know, other Major League came Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. 161 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.160 The White Sox just picked the team Saint Louis. 162 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:07.680 They have an opening day and they have little attendance 163 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.519 because the weather is bad and so you people won't 164 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.839 show up. But this weekend it's gonna be The Yankee 165 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:15.240 says it's like, hey, well it was full. And the 166 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.000 Yankees of course, but mainly it's not like it's not 167 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.000 like a million and a half million people come to 168 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:23.439 little Cincinnati, Ohio, and they have people from Oregon, the 169 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:27.399 home of the Ducks and the Beavers, fly to Cincinnati 170 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:29.319 and say I want to be part of the Finly 171 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:33.000 Market parade. I mean, it's like it's like the EBN fireworks, 172 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.120 you know, Western and Southern fireworks. It's one of those 173 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.679 events that Cincinnati we're so blessed and so unique. Something 174 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:44.679 Marty Brenneman said during our broadcast yesterday said, don't put 175 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.840 too much on Terry Francona. And I'm looking at him. 176 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.679 Maybe you pump somebody up to tear him down. So 177 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.399 I'm watching listening to Sports Talk on fifteen thirty this 178 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.600 morning and also the National guys, and they're talking about 179 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:00.919 Terry Francona ripped off his mask and it was David Bell, 180 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:06.519 and I'm thinking, I said, this guy's got two World 181 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:11.279 Series rings. He's one. Uh, he's one, he's one. Three Pennance, 182 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.559 he's uh the number one manager. And already people are 183 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.279 jumping off the bad Way game one game and they're 184 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:19.200 saying we're done. 185 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:23.799 It's it's it's like, ah, this season is over. Yeah, well, 186 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.120 I think we got a lot of baseball, and you know, 187 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:30.759 I'm expecting, uh, really good things out of this team, 188 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:31.039 you know. 189 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:32.559 Uh, and they had. 190 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.639 A great, you know first half. I mean their starting 191 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:35.759 pitcher really did. 192 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:37.320 Really well getting through that. 193 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:41.879 Yeah, and I think, uh, you know, I think there's 194 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:42.639 a lot of lights. 195 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:44.039 So we'll see what happens. 196 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:44.279 You know. 197 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:46.720 I'm I'm never one to you know, jumped. I'm always 198 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:48.559 kind of pessimistic, you. 199 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:51.759 Know, to begin with any west. But I certainly wouldn't 200 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:52.840 judge it on one game. 201 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:53.200 No. 202 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.039 No, In fact, how about this fact, this fact from 203 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:57.919 Lance Mcaller, So he's kind of a nerd when it 204 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:02.399 comes to this. The last eleven Red's opening days, and 205 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:05.200 if you take the games the last eleven seasons on 206 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.120 May first of each year, the Reds have had one 207 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:12.159 winning record in the last eleven years as of May first. 208 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:13.600 I said, that's so, it's all. 209 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:14.080 I said. 210 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.840 It's kind of incumbent to get off to a good start, 211 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:20.399 which it's kind of important that to get off to 212 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.279 good goes. You don't want to be behind the I know, 213 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.399 thirty games into the season after May first, maybe thirty 214 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:27.360 five you don't want to be like, you know, ten 215 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:29.000 and twenty, you don't want to be there. 216 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:30.480 But that's where the Reds have been. 217 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.559 And it was anticipated that Terry fran Cone would bring 218 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:35.960 a new attitude. Then he brings this great Britain guy, 219 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:37.840 this bread out of the ball, Bann Gerow, and he 220 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.960 just coughs it up terribly. Couldn't have made a worse decision. 221 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.519 I would have brought in Sam Mall, brought An Ashcraft. 222 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:45.440 How the Reds have a reliever who played for the 223 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.039 Giants last year. Bring that guy in instead of this 224 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.799 Dureau character. But it's his call. But I would encourage you, 225 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.320 Brian Hamrick, to keep hope alive. That's what I'm saying, 226 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:55.360 Keep hope alive. 227 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:58.960 I think I think I'm gonna wait and see, you know, 228 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.240 somewhere around July or August, we'll have a better idea, 229 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.799 you know. I mean, there's so many games, it's it's unbelievable, 230 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.120 like they all mean something. 231 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:10.320 And you know, because when you get. 232 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:12.039 Towards the end of the year, you know, and you're 233 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.679 like two games out of first place, You're like, oh, 234 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.279 I wish we would have won that, you know, one 235 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.360 that we dropped that was, you know, we should have won. 236 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:23.080 But but there's so many games that anyone you know, 237 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.200 you it's just like you've just got to have an 238 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.240 entire file of these things to see how good this 239 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:29.960 seems gonna be. 240 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.039 Now, one thing you've covered on playing on the second 241 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:38.240 page here you cover the incident of the Roman Catholic 242 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:44.080 priest Jeffrey Drew, and he certainly he went back into court, 243 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.559 and uh, there's a special place in hell for priests 244 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.759 and religious who engage in four sex with boys. A 245 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:53.720 special place in hell's got to be for them. But 246 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.559 explain your coverage of the reverend Jeffrey Drew and his 247 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:01.200 alarming behavior and what happened with a Connie the county prosecutor. 248 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:06.799 Well, he got he you know, he got a sentenced 249 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:09.360 and you know they found this out after a long 250 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.799 you know, a long investigation, a lot of complaints over 251 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.039 the years. Uh, they finally you know, make the arrest, 252 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.639 they get the conviction. He's serving his time and he'll 253 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:23.559 get out. You know, he's going to get out. But 254 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.480 the latest thing is that he that he did not. 255 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:28.639 Want to register as a sex offender when he. 256 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.799 Did get out, and so, uh, like all sex offenders 257 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.080 have to register, but I suppose the judge they can 258 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:38.200 expunge ther record if they want to. So I get 259 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:41.240 the judge can make that decision if they know you 260 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:43.240 don't have to register as a sex offender. 261 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:44.399 Well that's what he. 262 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:49.720 Wanted, but apparently that was denied, and even the prosecutor 263 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.879 was against this. I mean, there are organizations that have 264 00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:00.039 come together over this whole issue, with the priests and 265 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.679 and some of this kind of behavior. They were all 266 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.759 against that, you know. I think the only one in 267 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.919 favor of it, I think was this guy. I mean, 268 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:10.399 because nobody wants to have somebody who was thincted of 269 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.519 a crime like this no living in their neighborhood and 270 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:17.240 not have to tell anybody because I think a lot 271 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:21.080 of people think, you know, you might have served your time, 272 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.639 but that might not change you as a person. And 273 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.159 so that's the concern, and that's why they have these 274 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:32.240 goals where you still have to register. And and so 275 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:34.840 he's going to have to register, and he's not going 276 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.840 to be able to live somewhere and not let the 277 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.120 people know, you know, who he is. 278 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.840 Well, he got a deal. He got seven years in jail, 279 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.120 He got out a little bit early. Obviously he's got 280 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:49.000 no previous record, but this guy had committed seemingly dozens 281 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.639 and dozens of serious rapes against ultra boys and others, 282 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.000 and special place in hell for him. But once again, 283 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:58.879 Brian Hemrick, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. 284 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.679 You're chasing on the story right now about snowplows. You 285 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.799 go from Father Drew to Red's opening day to snowplows. 286 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.000 Give me a minute or two on the snowplows that 287 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:09.600 the city doesn't have snowplows. 288 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:13.240 I you know, I never know what's gonna happen. It's 289 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.360 like spend the wheel. People ask me what I do. 290 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:16.720 You know, what do you do every day? 291 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:18.320 I say, here, here's what I do every day. 292 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.919 I get up, I put on my white jumpsuit with 293 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.399 the stars and the and the in the banner, and 294 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:29.200 I crawl into the cannon and then I wait for 295 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:31.679 him to light the fuse. There's a lot of screaming 296 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:34.039 and yelling, and I just hope to hit the net 297 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.200 at the end. 298 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:35.480 Of the day. 299 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:39.279 Yeah, no idea, no idea, no idea, Yeah, no ideas. 300 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.120 Oh yeah, today we're looking we're talking about that. So 301 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.720 they had the city had Uh, I had some leftover 302 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:49.919 money from some leftover funds or some money that they generated, 303 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:51.919 and they're trying to figure out what to do with it. 304 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:53.759 There's certain things they can do, the certain things they 305 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:55.840 can't do with it. One of the things they could 306 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.240 do was buy snowplows, race snow plow and and that's 307 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:03.200 what they decided do with this money because uh, you know, 308 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.360 as you recall, wasn't that long ago that we had 309 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.639 that day when there was so much issue. But we've 310 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.639 never heard the report back of what these guys were 311 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:17.000 going to do with uh, because you remember they had 312 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:20.480 all these problems. They they had the GPS that didn't 313 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.039 get put in the trucks properly or they couldn't figure 314 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:25.720 out how to work it. They had snowplowd drivers who 315 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:30.720 were using big books instead of a GPS to know 316 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:31.360 the route. 317 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:33.480 There were a lot of issues. They were supposed to 318 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:35.240 get a report back. Well we've never. 319 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.080 Heard that report. They don't want the report. 320 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:39.759 Get this wow anyway, so they're going to be able 321 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:40.080 to use this. 322 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.080 They got one more snow so we'll see, all right, 323 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.000 Brian Hemry, good luck and that's another great day yesterday. 324 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:49.320 And I always say brighter days lay ahead. Last year 325 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:51.919 they won the first game opening day, then had a 326 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:54.919 bad season, finished fourth, and this year they lost. 327 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:56.600 And maybe the opposite will take place, but. 328 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.000 Maybe the opposite will happen, maybe the opposite. 329 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.320 Keep hope alive, Keep hope alive. Brian Hamrick, thank you 330 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:04.120 for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. 331 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:06.720 Thank again, mister Cunningham. 332 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.080 God bless you. Brian Hamrick, the best there is. Let's 333 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.679 continue with more. Your comments are next. That's you're home 334 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:15.000 of the Reds and keep hope alive. We have a 335 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.600 good manager, the team looks to be better. Don't jump 336 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:20.399 off the vandwagon yet, as Tony Bender encourages people to 337 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.320 do all on News Radio seven hundred, you all of. 338 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:29.039 You all right now. Several housekeeping matters. 339 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:32.399 First of all, fabulous, unbelievable day until the top of 340 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.759 the ninth inning. And as I said with Tito Francona 341 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:39.279 a couple of days ago, that's the ninth inning, you're 342 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.000 up by one run and you're looking into the bullpen. 343 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.960 Alexis Diaz is not there. Of course, he wasn't very 344 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.159 good anyway, the second half of last season or in 345 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.600 spring training, he was pretty bad, and he brings in 346 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.799 someone who lights him up, and so keep hope alive. 347 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.720 It's a little bit early. Something Marty Brnahan said during 348 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:59.279 our time together was, don't put too much on Terry 349 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.159 francona show. After all, he's a jockey, but he needs 350 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.480 some horses. Well, yesterday Francona picked the wrong horse, and 351 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:09.480 at this point, hopefully that guy will be demoted. The 352 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:13.519 Reds had received from the San Francisco Giants a reliever 353 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:16.200 that was ready to go in the bullpen. He was 354 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.160 so amped up you couldn't stand it. Because his brother 355 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.519 pitched earlier in the game. That guy should have been 356 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:23.599 brought in. The hindsight is twenty twenty. Keep hope alive. 357 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:27.319 If you take off Terry Francona's face, there's not David 358 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:31.440 Bell beneath it. Relax. Last year the Reds won the 359 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.599 first game. You might recall, then Charlways had a bad 360 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.240 rest of the season. So I keep hope alive. The 361 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.279 team is better and most of the key players are 362 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:41.839 a year better, not a year older. 363 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:43.039 And away we go. 364 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.759 I want to welcome a new sponsor, especially Continental Roof Company, 365 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.599 and I met with Carlos Sanchez the owner. What a 366 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:54.759 great guy. He specializes in roof repairs commercial or residential, 367 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.519 and installations for homes and businesses. His website, by the way, 368 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:04.039 is very easy to remember. My Sinceyeruffor dot com, my 369 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.680 Sincy Ruffer dot com, Carlo Sanchez, I wish you the best. 370 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.640 What a great American Christian conservative guy. But he's wonderful. 371 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:14.799 And secondly, before we get to the issues, I also 372 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:18.640 want to acknowledge that the doge in the seven or eight, 373 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.759 working with the Elon Musk, did a big interview last 374 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:24.119 night with Brett Baer in which they sat there and 375 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:26.599 answered questions about what they have found so far in 376 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:31.039 the federal government. Beyond absurd comes to mind. Floppy dis 377 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.000 discs are being used by the FAA. We have complete 378 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.359 meltdown of computer systems. We spend one hundred billion dollars 379 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.160 a year in the federal government on licensing fees for 380 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:46.200 old systems and repairs that don't work. And so, my god, 381 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:50.319 do we need Elon Musk and the Musk muskabtes to 382 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.519 find the waste, fraud and abuse which everyone agrees is there, 383 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.880 but nobody can agree as out of correct it and 384 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.920 change it. I watched the General Accounting off. The GAO 385 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:04.240 is independent, been there for many years. That Congress put 386 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:08.039 it together to do audits and do reports without giving 387 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.400 plans of action. All they do is say, here's the problem. 388 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.160 GEO the director, he looks like a book nerd. He's 389 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:18.359 an accountant. I guess he's wonderful. Republicans Democrats both like him. 390 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:21.000 And last year again he came out with the report 391 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:25.160 that it appears that there's about five hundred billion dollars 392 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:28.440 a year and waste, fraud and abuse. And of that number, 393 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:32.400 about one hundred billion is from Social Security or the 394 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.960 wrong checks are going out, the wrong people are getting checks, 395 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:37.000 or not the right people aren't getting checks. But it's 396 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.400 a negative number. And so the fact of the matter 397 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:44.279 is we know that. But the Democrats don't want to 398 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:47.240 reform and improve government whatsoever because it's not of their 399 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.039 interest to do so. That's where they get most of 400 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:51.519 a lot of their votes, and they get a lot 401 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.240