Speaker 1: All right, now, Billy cunning in the Great American will
Speaker 1: work on this Friday afternoon the Tri State, and the
Speaker 1: weather's a bit efnie. Tomorrow supposed to have a lot
Speaker 1: of rain and all hells to break loose Saturday night,
Speaker 1: end of Sunday with grain storms and snow and ice
Speaker 1: and so much more. Stay tuned for more. Ain't love Graham.
Speaker 1: This is Valentine's Day. I can think of nothing better
Speaker 1: than having Rob Sanders on this Friday afternoon in the
Speaker 1: Tri State. And Rob, first of all, Happy Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: to you and yours.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 3: Willie?
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me on Happy Friday, Happy Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4: It is appropriate because I love being on your show.
Speaker 1: Ain't love grand Now three or four issues are percolating
Speaker 1: off the air.
Speaker 2: You told me the story.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about ice attainment, which is happening
Speaker 1: all over northern Kentucky with Boone County jail numbers are
Speaker 1: really high. We have to talk about Mitch McConnell. I'm
Speaker 1: promoting you, Colonel Sanders, to be the next Senator from
Speaker 1: this great state of Kentucky, who's now in a wheelchair,
Speaker 1: not capable of moving much less thank you. But until
Speaker 1: then you told me the story of another Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: who found their way to northern Kentucky. Unfortunately, he was
Speaker 1: shot in the headshot in the face, got eighty years
Speaker 1: in prison. Give the American people a full report.
Speaker 4: Well, there was a fellow by the name of Mark
Speaker 4: West who was over in Chevy at which my understanding
Speaker 4: is over on the west side of Cincinnati somewhere maybe
Speaker 4: the west side of Hamilton County, but anyway, I've never
Speaker 4: been to Chevy, I don't think, but he stole a
Speaker 4: car from a gas station over there. A fellow that
Speaker 4: was leaving his night shift job at a local White Castle.
Speaker 4: Sorry I couldn't think of the restaurant name. Leaving a
Speaker 4: local white Castle that was open twenty four hours in
Speaker 4: the morning. When he got off work, stopped at the
Speaker 4: gas station, got ali Carr, left his cell phone in
Speaker 4: the car, went inside, and when he came back out,
Speaker 4: the car was gone. That cell phone's important because after
Speaker 4: reporting his car stolen to the Chevy police, the victim
Speaker 4: of this car theft and his girlfriend got a ride
Speaker 4: from a neighbor and they followed an app on that
Speaker 4: phone called LIGHTE three sixty and followed that car all
Speaker 4: around town, all over downtown Cincinnati, eventually across the bridge
Speaker 4: the one that I want to build a wall on,
Speaker 4: but across the Brent Spence Bridge, and followed him up
Speaker 4: by seventy five to Fort Mitchell where the car had exited,
Speaker 4: and imparked me into the gas pumps at the Fort
Speaker 4: Mitchell Kroger. And they followed the dot on their light
Speaker 4: three sixty app into the Kroger parking lot, saw the car.
Speaker 4: Wish they had called the Fort Mitchell police them let
Speaker 4: Chief Rob Nator and all the professionals in Fort Mitchell
Speaker 4: go apprehend their car for him, But they took it
Speaker 4: upon themselves to go try and reclaim their stolen property.
Speaker 4: Each the mail and the female snuck up to the car,
Speaker 4: one on each side, and as the male tried to
Speaker 4: climb in the driver's seat, the female started shouting into
Speaker 4: the driver to give her a car back on this
Speaker 4: Mark West character Willie, instead of getting out and giving
Speaker 4: up the car he had stolen, he tried to drive away,
Speaker 4: and he's dragging this lady's boyfriend by the passenger side door,
Speaker 4: and she pulled out her lawfule own handgun and shot
Speaker 4: him in order to stop him and disable him from
Speaker 4: driving away, dragging her boyfriend possibly to his death. The
Speaker 4: boyfriend was thrown from the vehicle. Fortunately he sustained a
Speaker 4: head injury, but it was holding minor knocked him out.
Speaker 4: Might have a little CTE, but no permanent damage hopefully.
Speaker 4: When he woke back up, they had found that this
Speaker 4: Mark West character had driven the car across the parking
Speaker 4: lot after crashing the car into a propane tank sales
Speaker 4: beIN or where they're selling a propane tanks, and I
Speaker 4: wonder you didn't blow himself up, and then drove across
Speaker 4: the parking lot and crashed into the pickup truck, a
Speaker 4: park pickup truck that was owned by a retired Marine
Speaker 4: Corps colonel. Fortunately the colonel was inside doing some grocery
Speaker 4: shopping wasn't injured when he struck that pickup truck, but
Speaker 4: he did total the colonel's pickup truck. So we prosecuted
Speaker 4: mister West for receiving stolen property. We prosecuted him for
Speaker 4: criminal mischief for the damage he did both to the
Speaker 4: victim's car and the pickup truck he crashed into, and
Speaker 4: we prosecuted him from wanting in dangement for dragging one
Speaker 4: of the victims with the car as he drove across
Speaker 4: the parking lot. After the jury took only twenty minutes
Speaker 4: to find him guilty of all those offenses, which for
Speaker 4: the most part were entirely captured on the Kroger store
Speaker 4: security cameras, the jury got to hear about its criminal history.
Speaker 4: Willie and this character had ten prior felony convictions, none
Speaker 4: of them out of Kenton County, but ten por felony
Speaker 4: convictions in seven prior cases. So the same jury also
Speaker 4: found him guilty of being a persistent felony offender in
Speaker 4: the first degree, and when it came time to sentence him,
Speaker 4: they recommended twenty years on the wanton dangement, twenty years
Speaker 4: on the receiving stolen property, in ten years for each
Speaker 4: criminal mischief, all consecuted for a total of sixty years.
Speaker 4: Now keep in mind when this victim shot mister West
Speaker 4: as he was driving away dragging her boyfriend with the car.
Speaker 4: She shot him right in the face, the heck of
Speaker 4: a shot. And thank god she didn't shoot her own
Speaker 4: boyfriend because he was in the passenger seat right next
Speaker 4: to mister West. But nevertheless, she hit her target. Shot
Speaker 4: him right in the face. The bullet lodged in his jaw.
Speaker 4: He had to be taken to medical treatment at University
Speaker 4: Hospital and he was eventually arrested on a warrant by
Speaker 4: the Fort Mitchell Police because we had the extra died
Speaker 4: him back here, as we do whenever somebody gets charged
Speaker 4: after they've been taken over to the University Hospital. But
Speaker 4: Chief Ropinator was one of the first police officers on
Speaker 4: the scene actually put the cups on Mark West himself.
Speaker 4: We had a couple officers, Tim Pang Galil and Corey
Speaker 4: Warner testified for US at trial, along with Detective Jess
Speaker 4: Hamblin who led the investigation. Heck of a job by
Speaker 4: all parties, but we were very happy with the outcome.
Speaker 4: Anytime we have repeat criminals wreaking havoc on our Fort
Speaker 4: Mitchell Kroger where I think probably at least half the
Speaker 4: jury shop there, half the Kenton County shops at the
Speaker 4: Fort Mitchell Kroger, nobody wants to see this kind of
Speaker 4: craziness going on, and we certainly don't want car thieves
Speaker 4: from Chevy getting the idea that they should drive their
Speaker 4: stolen cars over to Fort Mitchell and read this kind
Speaker 4: of chaos on a nice town like Fort Mitchell, and
Speaker 4: of course a very safe Kenton County, Willie. So that
Speaker 4: was my last week. Fun time, good trial, good outcome,
Speaker 4: and here we are.
Speaker 1: Mark West is now looking at when he gets sixty
Speaker 1: years in jail. I assume he's also ugly, gets shot
Speaker 1: in the face by one of the victims.
Speaker 2: He's ugly and a lot of pain.
Speaker 1: Sixty years in prison, persistent fellon in Kentucky, sixty years
Speaker 1: means what? How many years is sixty years actual prison time?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, because these are all defelonies Kentucky, I guess I
Speaker 4: don't know what the theory behind this law is, Willy,
Speaker 4: but Kentucky law caps de felonies even for persistent felons,
Speaker 4: in twenty years. So even though the jury said sixty,
Speaker 4: he'll only get a twenty year sentence for the Department
Speaker 4: of Corrections will only make him serve twenty of those
Speaker 4: sixty years. Of course, he's stilling titled a good time
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, so it'll probably be even shorter
Speaker 4: as long as he behaves himself. I don't know what
Speaker 4: the theory behind that is, except that maybe the legislature's
Speaker 4: thinking no matter how many class defelonies. We only want
Speaker 4: to pay to house this criminal for twenty years and
Speaker 4: then we'll kick him back out. But mister west is
Speaker 4: been't just shy of forty years old, So hopefully he'll
Speaker 4: be in there past criminal menopause and we won't have
Speaker 4: to worry about him committing any more crimes. When he
Speaker 4: gets back out. Hopefully he'll be too old. Maybe he'll
Speaker 4: remember getting shot in the jaw and think better of it.
Speaker 4: I don't know either way. Or maybe he'll just stay
Speaker 4: over in Chevy It that would be fine by me too, Chevy.
Speaker 1: It's real close to the Dent, the Dent drive in
Speaker 1: movie theater where Rocky Borman spends a lot of time
Speaker 1: when he was a younger man at the Dent drive
Speaker 1: in movie theater. But what percentage of the criminals like
Speaker 1: this when not the small stuff, the big time stuff
Speaker 1: comes out of Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Is a.
Speaker 1: How much time do we import in northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Well, fortunately, Willie, it's not as much as you might think,
Speaker 4: because although there's a lot more crime going on on
Speaker 4: the north side of the river, that river for the
Speaker 4: purposes of crossing it, whether it be criminals or non criminals,
Speaker 4: you know, I only cross it when I have read
Speaker 4: or Bengals tickets for the most part. Every once in
Speaker 4: a while, might eat it at Jeff Ruby's restaurant. But
Speaker 4: for the most part, I don't cross the river, and
Speaker 4: I think most of the criminals fortunately do the same thing.
Speaker 4: So I'd say relatively low percentage, maybe twenty percent, could
Speaker 4: be a lot higher. You know, I see the news,
Speaker 4: see all the shootings and all the murders, and all
Speaker 4: the horrific violent crimes they got going on on the
Speaker 4: north side of the river. Certainly we don't want any
Speaker 4: of that over here. So you know, the sooner we
Speaker 4: get that wall Bill Willie, we can cut it down
Speaker 4: even more, because I do think that a much greater
Speaker 4: proportion of our violent crime is either from the north
Speaker 4: side of the river, or at least has ties to
Speaker 4: or started on the north side of the rivers. You know,
Speaker 4: ongoing disputes or feuds between criminals or gang members or
Speaker 4: drug dealers, anything like that, and next thing you know,
Speaker 4: they end up over here for one reas or another,
Speaker 4: either fighting with one another or renting out airbnbs to
Speaker 4: throw parties or hotel rooms one of the fine establishments
Speaker 4: down along our riverfront because lord knows, all the criminals
Speaker 4: and dope smokers in Ohio love to drive over to
Speaker 4: Kentucky so they have a great view of downtown Cincinnati
Speaker 4: when they smoke their weed, which by the way, is
Speaker 4: still illegal in Kentucky. You're not allowed to smoke any weed,
Speaker 4: even medical weed. But that's a whole another story. Nevertheless,
Speaker 4: they like to come over here a lot. But you know,
Speaker 4: if we could get that wall built, we'd probably cut
Speaker 4: our violent crime rate maybe and half.
Speaker 1: On a different issue with the of course, the senior
Speaker 1: senator from Kentucky is Mitch McConnell. He's voting against many
Speaker 1: of the Trump nominees. Kentucky voted about plus thirty percent,
Speaker 1: like sixty five thirty five for Donald Trump. You have
Speaker 1: a US senator's kind of off the reservation. And how
Speaker 1: popular right now is Mitch McConnell in the Bluegrass.
Speaker 4: Not very popular with the Republican Party. I don't think,
Speaker 4: I know that the Republican majority that we have in Kentucky,
Speaker 4: as he mentioned, voted very heavily in favorite President Trump.
Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people just see this
Speaker 4: as an obvious indication that Senator McConnell is in all
Speaker 4: likelihood not running for office again because he's going to
Speaker 4: have a really tough time explaining these votes if he
Speaker 4: were to file for reelection. So I can only imagine
Speaker 4: this is his swan song. This is his way of,
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe pulling a Matt Bevin and poking
Speaker 4: the voters in the eye on the way out the
Speaker 4: door in his own way. I don't know. I really
Speaker 4: hate to see it because Senator McConnell's had a long
Speaker 4: and distinguished career. He's done a lot of great things
Speaker 4: over the time. He's really built up the Republican Party.
Speaker 4: Of course, he served as Senate Majority Leader longer than
Speaker 4: anybody else in the history of the United States. So
Speaker 4: he's definitely got a career to be applauded. But I
Speaker 4: think there's a lot of people that are ready for
Speaker 4: his exit stage right.
Speaker 1: A lot of commentary about ice. You've been at the
Speaker 1: forefront as far as encouraging the federal officials to avoid
Speaker 1: Northern Kentucky of criminals. Have you noticed a downtick and
Speaker 1: uptick or whatever in ICE activity. The Boone County Jail
Speaker 1: is one of two local jails. The other Butler county
Speaker 1: that houses dozens of illegals. As a frontline prosecutor, have
Speaker 1: you noticed any difference of the Trump policy in northern Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Well, I do.
Speaker 4: Willie actually had our new ICE contact, which I can
Speaker 4: tell you for the last four years, I have had
Speaker 4: no ICE contact whatsoever. Wouldn't know how to get a
Speaker 4: hold of ICE if I had to, But we now
Speaker 4: have an ICE contact that made himself known to me,
Speaker 4: came over, introduced and met with me. I don't know
Speaker 4: that I want to say his name on the air
Speaker 4: because I don't think there might be some security issues there.
Speaker 4: But he's a great officer and really great to work with.
Speaker 4: You'd never guess that he was a federal law enforcement
Speaker 4: officer looking at him, I will say that much. But
Speaker 4: he is a very good guy and he's been great
Speaker 4: to work with. He's very responsible on email. I know that.
Speaker 4: In the last time, or I guess this was last
Speaker 4: week when we met. Last Monday, we had nine undocumented
Speaker 4: criminals in our Kenton County detention center that we're only
Speaker 4: in there because they had broken the law, and in
Speaker 4: some cases broken the law multiple times because some of
Speaker 4: them had been out on bond and then jump bail,
Speaker 4: not shown up to corp, made us go hunt him down,
Speaker 4: find him again, lock him back up. And now the
Speaker 4: Trump administration is starting to deport those criminals. Well, they say, yeah,
Speaker 4: I've seen an uptick. Now, I couldn't tell you one
Speaker 4: instance in Kent County. I'm not saying there hasn't been,
Speaker 4: but I couldn't tell you one instance I'm aware of
Speaker 4: of anyone other than a criminal someone that's sitting in
Speaker 4: one of our jails that is being deported. But I
Speaker 4: do know that ICE there's been a pleasure to work with,
Speaker 4: and they're putting holders on all the illegal immigrant criminals
Speaker 4: that we've got sitting in our detentions our Boon County
Speaker 4: or Campbell County. They're slapping ICE holders on them. So
Speaker 4: when we're done with them, after we prosecute them and
Speaker 4: convict them, we'll send them back to wherever they came from,
Speaker 4: and they can commit their crimes down there, because I
Speaker 4: know the taxpayers around northern Kentucky certainly don't want their
Speaker 4: crime here. And what they also don't want is to
Speaker 4: have to house them for a long time. Now if
Speaker 4: they rape somebody, murder somebody, molest a child, but we'll
Speaker 4: lock them up for a good long time and when
Speaker 4: they get out then they can be deported. But a
Speaker 4: lot of it is drunk drivers, drunk drivers that seem
Speaker 4: to be crashing in the cars, people with fake or
Speaker 4: fraudulent identification cards and drivers licenses. Nobody's driving around with
Speaker 4: insurance if they are here in this country illegally because
Speaker 4: they can't get their cars titled, so they can't get
Speaker 4: insurance on their car. So if they drive drunk and
Speaker 4: crash into your car, that means you have to turn
Speaker 4: it into your insurance company. Your insurance policy payments go up,
Speaker 4: costs you and your family more money. That's more money
Speaker 4: out of your pocket will and there's no way to
Speaker 4: recoup it. Those are the people that we're seeing deported
Speaker 4: on an a much more expedited basis than I've ever
Speaker 4: seen before in any stage of my career. And it's
Speaker 4: a welcome change.
Speaker 1: And how about this from ICE officials. The one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen arrested and detained by Ice in the Boone
Speaker 1: County jail hundred and thirteen in January doesn't look much
Speaker 1: different than the arrest in previous years, But seventy seven
Speaker 1: percent of the one hundred and thirteen happened after January
Speaker 1: the twentieth, So in like ten days, eleven days in
Speaker 1: a month of January, you had almost one hundred people
Speaker 1: detained in on the Kentucky as being here illegally with
Speaker 1: criminal records, who otherwise would not have been detained. So
Speaker 1: elections have consequences.
Speaker 4: That's right. And you know, like I said, we've got
Speaker 4: nine that we're in our detention center that now have
Speaker 4: holders on them. And at the time of my meeting,
Speaker 4: and that was two weeks ago, for the most part,
Speaker 4: it was not this past Monday, but the Monday of
Speaker 4: the week before when we had this meeting with ICE,
Speaker 4: and there were nine. At that time, we probably had
Speaker 4: five or six more illegals arrested in that time. Every
Speaker 4: one of those we send the email of the ICE
Speaker 4: letting him know, hey, this guy broke this law. He's
Speaker 4: being prosecuted, he's in our detention center, and they are
Speaker 4: quick to respond by slapping a holder on him so
Speaker 4: that when they get convicted, once they've served their time,
Speaker 4: whether that time is one year or one hundred years,
Speaker 4: ICE will be there ready to load them up on
Speaker 4: a plane and ship them back to wherever they should be.
Speaker 4: In the first place.
Speaker 1: And lastly, Joshua Baker driving at a high rate of
Speaker 1: speed on January twenty seventh. Police believed him to be
Speaker 1: a suspect who assaulted a woman during a home invasion.
Speaker 1: They found out that Joshua Baker, who wedged himself under
Speaker 1: the Brenchpnce Bridge, wasn't the person the police were looking for.
Speaker 1: Does that cause a wrinkle in the prosecution of Joshua Baker, No.
Speaker 4: Actually, Willie, I think there's been a little bit of
Speaker 4: confusion there with the medium. There were two subjects that
Speaker 4: were won in the home invasion robbery. One was josh
Speaker 4: Baker and then there was this other guy, and the
Speaker 4: police thought the other guy was driving the car that
Speaker 4: turned out to be Josh Baker, the one he crashed
Speaker 4: out on the bridge and jumped off the side out
Speaker 4: of the bridge onto the steel beams and crawled underneath
Speaker 4: the bridge. Became what we referred to as our bridge
Speaker 4: trow a case. But Josh Baker was just as much
Speaker 4: wanted to the home invasion robbery as this other fellow
Speaker 4: by the name of James Haney. Both of them have
Speaker 4: now been arrested. They caught James Haney a few days later,
Speaker 4: both of them have been arrested, both of them have
Speaker 4: been bound over the Kenton County Grand Jury. That this
Speaker 4: happened this week, Josh Baker, we're finding out so many
Speaker 4: crimes that he's being charged with so fast. It's hard
Speaker 4: to keep up with Willie. But he's facing life in
Speaker 4: prison on two different cases here in Kenton County, another
Speaker 4: one I believe in Boone County, and I think Campbell
Speaker 4: County might be looking at him for something over there
Speaker 4: as well. Needless to say, he's exactly where he needs
Speaker 4: to be, and that's in our Kenton County Detention Center
Speaker 4: rather than wreaking any more havoc on our lovely Kenton
Speaker 4: County and lovely Northern Kentucky for that matter, because he
Speaker 4: was doing it all over Boone, Kenton and Campbell Counties.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you have some bad ombres. Well, let's continue
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what. Rob's happy. Valentine's Day has
Speaker 1: been great, and picking up from Northern Kentucky my home
Speaker 1: community is great. What I do ICE is getting their
Speaker 1: job done. There's less marijuana, I think being used because
Speaker 1: you now have something similar to medical marijuana.
Speaker 2: And more to come later.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the entire Tri State's going to
Speaker 1: be stoned in one thing or another. But Rob Sanders,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show this
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: And Rob, you're a great American. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thanks Willie, it's been a pleasure to be on. Give
Speaker 4: my best to the People's Judge. I'm sure you guys
Speaker 4: have something super romantic scheduled tonight, and who knows, maybe
Speaker 4: I'll catch you out at one of our find one
Speaker 4: the Kentucky eateies on that romantic dinner.
Speaker 1: Ain't love grand Rob Sanders, thank you very much. Coming
Speaker 1: up later is the first interview with Jim Tressel, the
Speaker 1: new Lieutenant governor the vice president of the state of Ohio,
Speaker 1: and we're going to find out why Governor Mike Dwine,
Speaker 1: who was with us yesterday is picked Jim Tressel and
Speaker 1: what it means for the Tri State, the nation of
Speaker 1: the world. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred wlw AH,
Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the Great American, of course, last night and
Speaker 1: not Saturday, and maybe much longer than that. And That'sasha
Speaker 1: Zubez of News Nation is blowing the lid off a
Speaker 1: truly dirty secret in the Area fifty one. Now, I've
Speaker 1: seen some of the movies what's going on in Area
Speaker 1: fifty one? It's not good, But there's another aspect of it.
Speaker 1: Air Force veterans, air Force personnel, patriots who guard the
Speaker 1: very first death bomber with an Area fifty one all
Speaker 1: have come away with something other than concerns such as
Speaker 1: tumors and cancers. And first of all, Natasha Zuvez of
Speaker 1: News Nation, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Natasha,
Speaker 1: but kind of before we get started to the cancers,
Speaker 1: you when you did all this research on Air Force
Speaker 1: veterans like David Crete and Randy Groves and so many others,
Speaker 1: did they relate to you what actually is inside Area
Speaker 1: fifty one in New Mexico. I've seen the movies. What's
Speaker 1: in there? Did they tell you? Did they give you
Speaker 1: any insight?
Speaker 5: They still can't talk about ninety nine percent of the
Speaker 5: work they did out there on the range. I mean,
Speaker 5: they are keeping their promise to their government, even if
Speaker 5: their government they feel is renegging on their end of
Speaker 5: the bargain. And you know, the one mission they can
Speaker 5: disclose is guarding the F one seventeen Nighthawk America's first
Speaker 5: stealth bomber, as you said, and you know Dave Crete,
Speaker 5: one of these main veterans, said the late Senator John
Speaker 5: McCain said something he will never forget about their service.
Speaker 5: He says, he came up to me and he said,
Speaker 5: your unit ended the Cold War. So if you need
Speaker 5: any indication of the kind of work they were engaged
Speaker 5: in out there on the range, I mean that says
Speaker 5: a lot.
Speaker 1: Explain what is the F one seventeen Nighthawk. What is
Speaker 1: that piece of military equipment? Explain that to the American people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the Lockheed F one seventeen Nighthawk single
Speaker 5: seat subsonic twin engine self attack aircraft. And they basically
Speaker 5: described this as this incredible piece of technology that we
Speaker 5: had and the USSR didn't. It was incredibly important at
Speaker 5: that time, and also build the Iceberg. In terms of
Speaker 5: what they were engaged in out there, because you know,
Speaker 5: I met with this group of Air Force sets. They
Speaker 5: were tasked with this top secret work out on this range.
Speaker 5: This was in the eighties and nineties. This range encompasses
Speaker 5: Area fifty one, and they were hand picked for this work.
Speaker 5: They were plucked from their training programs. They were in
Speaker 5: their late teens and early twenties. It was so classified.
Speaker 5: They couldn't tell their wives what they did. They couldn't
Speaker 5: even tell them the weather, right, Bill, But many of
Speaker 5: these veterans, as you said, are coming down now with
Speaker 5: severe health issues, with tumors, with deadly cancers. And this
Speaker 5: is the crux of the issue. Their work was so
Speaker 5: top secret. The DoD still refuses to acknowledge their service
Speaker 5: on the range, and that that say, as a result,
Speaker 5: they're not able to receive the benefits and the care
Speaker 5: that they need. Bill. More than four hundred have died
Speaker 5: so far, the average age of sixty five years old.
Speaker 1: What kind of tumors, what kind of cancer should they have?
Speaker 1: Are they consistent or inconsistent with each other? I can
Speaker 1: only imagine hundreds of Air Force veterans the government left
Speaker 1: him on their own.
Speaker 2: What kind of tumors are we talking about? In cancers?
Speaker 5: You know, it's really interesting. For a lot of them.
Speaker 5: It started as lipomas, which are these fatty, benign tumors.
Speaker 5: And all of this came to light during a barbecue
Speaker 5: of all things, Bill. It was in twenty sixteen. It
Speaker 5: was in Dave Creek's backyard. It was a beautiful October
Speaker 5: day in Las Vegas, and this was supposed to be
Speaker 5: an opportunity for these Air Force buddies to reminisce they
Speaker 5: were apart for three decades. And then it was Randy
Speaker 5: Groves who you mentioned as well. He suddenly, you know,
Speaker 5: clutched his side, clutched his back, and brought up the
Speaker 5: subject of tumors. He said, I have this big lump
Speaker 5: on my back. Does anyone have something like this? And
Speaker 5: Dave says it stopped him in his tracks because he
Speaker 5: had more than twenty lipomas on his body, ranging from
Speaker 5: his forehead, he had it on his arms, his torso,
Speaker 5: and he had won the size of a grapefruit that
Speaker 5: he had to get cut out of his back. And
Speaker 5: so out of you know, the eight men that were
Speaker 5: sitting in a circle at that barbecue, six of them said,
Speaker 5: I've had tumors. The seventh said, I don't have a tumor,
Speaker 5: but my son was born with one. And for Mike Nemsick,
Speaker 5: another one of these, that it started with lipomas around
Speaker 5: his eye in his thirties. The cancers started as well,
Speaker 5: four abouts with cancer, salivary, colon, thyroid. The list goes on.
Speaker 5: We also met with a DoD contractor who worked alongside
Speaker 5: these men. And you know, he's had eighty percent of
Speaker 5: his tongue cut out, his vocal cords, removed, his teeth.
Speaker 5: He will never eat nor speak again. And Bill, he
Speaker 5: says he's lucky because so many of the other men
Speaker 5: and women he served with out there, he said, are dead.
Speaker 5: He was like, at least I'm alive. At least I'm alive.
Speaker 1: So I guess the question is did the F one
Speaker 1: seventeen Nighthawk Research and Development cause it? Or was it
Speaker 1: caused by alien spacecraft did?
Speaker 5: We don't know exactly what caused it, but we do
Speaker 5: know there's a lot of radiation out there. And in fact,
Speaker 5: what we're unearthing is this nineteen seventy five environmental report
Speaker 5: showing the government new there was nuclear contamination out there,
Speaker 5: depleted geranium, beryllium, and plutonium, and it was present and
Speaker 5: acknowledged by the government before the men and women were
Speaker 5: sent by the government to the range. But the report
Speaker 5: said that discontinuing the work done would be against the
Speaker 5: national interest. That's the direct quote. And you know, pomp
Speaker 5: Braswell is another one of these vets. You may recognize
Speaker 5: his name because he's a pro golfer and a Harlem
Speaker 5: Globe draughter. But before that he served on the Range.
Speaker 5: He's now battling Thiray cancer and he says, our government
Speaker 5: knew this area was contaminated and knowing that, they will
Speaker 5: fully put us there. That's pandem ount to a death
Speaker 5: sentence bill.
Speaker 1: What's the status as we sit here on Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day, by the way, what is the status
Speaker 1: of the range now?
Speaker 2: February fourteenth?
Speaker 5: It is still active. They still send people there, and
Speaker 5: it's that's very disturbing to these veterans. There have been
Speaker 5: decontamination efforts, but you know, they they worry, they worry
Speaker 5: about the men and women who continue to be stationed
Speaker 5: up there, especially because they say so much of this
Speaker 5: is in the dust and if anyone knows anything about
Speaker 5: this area, when the wind blows, the dust moves with it.
Speaker 5: So I mean, it is definitely a large area of concern.
Speaker 5: We reached out to the Department of Defensive Course for answers.
Speaker 5: We asked them about the nineteen seventy five reports that
Speaker 5: show that they knew before they sent the people there.
Speaker 5: We asked them, you know, why And this is interesting,
Speaker 5: Bill Dooe, Department of Energy workers who worked alongside these
Speaker 5: men and women for shorter stretches of time are receiving
Speaker 5: coverage and compensation, but the veterans have not because they're classified.
Speaker 5: The DODS just said they wouldn't comment. They referred us
Speaker 5: to the Air Force, and the Air Force said, we
Speaker 5: don't have any information available for that time frame. So
Speaker 5: we went to Veterans Affairs finally, and the VA told
Speaker 5: us there's no presumptive exposure for these vets. They'll need
Speaker 5: to be assessed on a case by case basis. But
Speaker 5: you know, these vets say that is difficul if not impossible,
Speaker 5: because they're classified, their data is masked. They're really in
Speaker 5: a bind.
Speaker 2: Here, Natasha.
Speaker 1: Maybe the arguments available fifty years ago they didn't know
Speaker 1: about the risk, therefore they couldn't warn against the risk.
Speaker 1: It's fair to say today they know the risks that
Speaker 1: it was also an area in which nuclear bombs were
Speaker 1: set off in the late nineteen forties and fifties that
Speaker 1: test various things. It's a contaminated site. And so right
Speaker 1: now are the men and women serving in an area
Speaker 1: fifty one in New Mexico. Now, do they know the
Speaker 1: risk they're taking by serving there.
Speaker 5: I can't speak to that. I don't know the answer
Speaker 5: to that, but I know these current veterans are worried
Speaker 5: about the work that continues despite decontamination efforts. And there
Speaker 5: are also so many ripple effects to this bill. You know,
Speaker 5: these men were so stoic when speaking about their own battles.
Speaker 5: You know, even the man with eighty percent of its
Speaker 5: tongue cut out, even the man who survived four bouts
Speaker 5: of cancer. And most of them say they would serve again.
Speaker 5: They are so passionate about the work they did. They
Speaker 5: say it was so important.
Speaker 6: They know.
Speaker 5: But the moment in each interview where these men broke
Speaker 5: down was speaking about their children, was speaking about their
Speaker 5: wives who experienced repeated miscarriages while they were out there
Speaker 5: on the base, children who were born with birth effects
Speaker 5: and tumors of their own. And one daughter we spoke with.
Speaker 5: Her name is Jennifer Page. She says the contamination, in
Speaker 5: her words, took out her whole family because her grandfather,
Speaker 5: her father, and her mother all died too young after
Speaker 5: working on the range. And she says it was as
Speaker 5: she held her mother's hand in hospice. Her body cavity
Speaker 5: was just shopped through, was filled with cancer that the
Speaker 5: mother told her. I have a collection of documents and
Speaker 5: photographs that I work to get declassified. I know that
Speaker 5: I was exposed. I know we will need this one
Speaker 5: day for proof. And NewsNation for the first time is
Speaker 5: publishing those images for the public to look at. So
Speaker 5: that right now is on newsnationnow dot com. You can
Speaker 5: find all this reporting on our YouTube page as well.
Speaker 5: I really encourage you to take a look at it.
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 1: And it happened last night, happening today, happening tomorrow. And
Speaker 1: this is the highest calling of a journalist for Natasha
Speaker 1: Zuvez's of the world and others to say, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we need to cut the bloat out of the federal government.
Speaker 1: But this is not blowt These are American patriots, men
Speaker 1: and women who literally put their life on the line,
Speaker 1: and now the same government they served once to deny
Speaker 1: them benefits as they suffer and die with cancers. Calls
Speaker 1: by their service. Natasha, once again, you're fabulous or the
Speaker 1: best of what you do. It's on NewsNation dot com.
Speaker 1: Check it out. And all I can say is keep
Speaker 1: going and next time you have some investigative report of
Speaker 1: this kind of quality. I hope you think about the
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show and come on.
Speaker 5: I'll bring it to you.
Speaker 7: Bill.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you letting your viewers know about it. And
Speaker 5: this is the moment. If this upsets you, tell your friends,
Speaker 5: tell your family, give them the story. And it sounds
Speaker 5: canned to call your representatives, because these veterans think legislation
Speaker 5: going forward and buy artisan legislation may be their only hope.
Speaker 5: They're worried the DoD and their words is waiting them out,
Speaker 5: just waiting for them to die. And even since I
Speaker 5: did this interview, more than sixty veterans have passed away.
Speaker 5: It's a really important bill.
Speaker 1: In horrible ways during their service. Natasha, thank you very much, Zuvez,
Speaker 1: You're a great American, and once again, thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. This is not an
Speaker 1: area of the federal government that needs to be cut
Speaker 1: that these individuals need to be saved as much as
Speaker 1: we can. And Natasha, once again, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bill, Oh God bless you.
Speaker 2: Let's continue with more.
Speaker 1: Not much of a positive story on Valentine's Day itself,
Speaker 1: but this is a love story. Think about the men
Speaker 1: and women, the spouses, the boyfriends, the girlfriends, the children
Speaker 1: who have suffered because of their service to this nation.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more. By the way, after one o'clock today,
Speaker 1: we'll be the new lieutenant governor.
Speaker 2: Of the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1: Jim Tressel is going to join you and I after
Speaker 1: one o'clock at show them of the Reds News Radio
Speaker 1: seven hundred. Welw you I had the music Dave. A
Speaker 1: lot of great things happening. Valentine's Day five coming up.
Speaker 1: After one o'clock today, we'll be Jim Trussell. Would you
Speaker 1: just say he was somewhat not considered a candidate for
Speaker 1: the lieutenant governor's position would be an understatement.
Speaker 2: Nobody saw this one coming.
Speaker 1: And when you and I heard yesterday from Mike DeWine
Speaker 1: himself about why he did it, I want to get
Speaker 1: the other reaction, and that is his coach Jim Tressel
Speaker 1: available is does he know the job, does he know
Speaker 1: the issues?
Speaker 2: Is he going to run for governor?
Speaker 1: Is he going to put together an exploratory committee in
Speaker 1: the next ninety days and seek to fight David Yost,
Speaker 1: Attorney General and Vike Ramaswami for the governor's position. Does
Speaker 1: he have a so called Potomac fever? Does he want
Speaker 1: to get into politics and stay there? And what is
Speaker 1: Jim Trussell, the football coach know about state government? So
Speaker 1: those are all I think? Are those legitimate concerns as
Speaker 1: an Ohioan? Yes, And I think most likely Mike DeWine
Speaker 1: would have no success coaching a football team. And I've
Speaker 1: heard some politicos tell me that Jim Trussell has no ability,
Speaker 1: no sense of becoming lieutenant governor.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: I think number one, by objective indicators, Jim Trussell has
Speaker 1: been a good person, a good man. He ran Youngstown
Speaker 1: State University, the home of the Frozen Penguins for about
Speaker 1: ten years, great administrative experience at Ohio State, and I
Speaker 1: won a national title at one point, so he's in
Speaker 1: like Flint. I think his record against against Michigan might
Speaker 1: have been like eight and one or nine and two
Speaker 1: or something. He beat Michigan on a regular basis, which
Speaker 1: was a good thing, unlike Ryan Day. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to put him through the wringer in about ten minutes
Speaker 1: to ask how did it happen? Why did it happen
Speaker 1: things in that character? What do you know about the
Speaker 1: state educational funding? Says to him, what about the new
Speaker 1: marijuana bill working this way through the House in the Senate?
Speaker 1: And what's your view on the Intel chip facility, which
Speaker 1: may be a little bit of jeopardy because of Intel's
Speaker 1: not having an easy go right now? And so what
Speaker 1: is the level of knowledge he has about the operation
Speaker 1: of state government as opposed to coaching a football team?
Speaker 1: And is it right for me to ask those questions?
Speaker 2: I think so? Should he be prepared? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: But on another front, I just got a text from
Speaker 1: a friend of mine on this Area fifty one and
Speaker 1: Tex says, I would hope and think that Pete Hegseth
Speaker 1: JD and Trump would be open to reviewing the plight
Speaker 1: of these Area fifty one veterans. And at some point
Speaker 1: I know the Trumpster said he's going to make public
Speaker 1: what's that Area fifty one? Or do we have aliens
Speaker 1: floating in vats of polidamide? What's happening on Area fifty one?
Speaker 1: And when that area is being probed by Natasha's Zuvez
Speaker 1: and others, what's there? The veterans who are serving are
Speaker 1: mandated not to discuss it with anyone, including their own wives.
Speaker 1: I would think the answer would be this, there's nothing
Speaker 1: there other than what should be there. And Area fifty
Speaker 1: one is in scientific lore is one of the landing
Speaker 1: sites of aliens. So I don't believe that. But you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't disbelieve it. But whatever's going on there,
Speaker 1: one thing is certain. When Natasha Zuvez of News Nation
Speaker 1: talked about four hundred Air Force personnel with various odd cancers,
Speaker 1: obviously what's happening there, in the dust, in the water,
Speaker 1: in the food, whatever it might be, is causing these
Speaker 1: terrible conditions, and I would hope at some point that.
Speaker 2: Would be reviewed.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of getting rid of the waste, fraud,
Speaker 1: and abuse in the federal government.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, yours truly was once a federal
Speaker 1: employee myself. I worked as a federal law clerk to
Speaker 1: Don Jay Young in the Northern District of Ohio, writing
Speaker 1: opinions on summary judgment and Rule twelve B six matters,
Speaker 1: and I was on the federal system. The great majority
Speaker 1: of those I deal with, some have met their maker
Speaker 1: at this point, do a great job. Social Security at
Speaker 1: least the one in Roselawn and the one around Upreating
Speaker 1: Road there in Sharonville is a pretty damn good office,
Speaker 1: and so they have good people running it. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean there's lots of fat, waste, fraud and abuse
Speaker 1: to take care of. And I went to Trump so
Speaker 1: to go after it, and he's doing that, especially that
Speaker 1: limestone mine somewhere in Pennsylvania two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: feet below ground, in which old federal records are scored
Speaker 1: and stored there. And what's happening is that when you retire,
Speaker 1: I guess you go through a mine, am I any
Speaker 1: and literal limestone mine in Pennsylvania to get the paperwork right,
Speaker 1: which is truly unbelievable. So yes, But when I hear
Speaker 1: the story about these Air Force veterans not taking risk
Speaker 1: they knew about the government knew in the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: five era that radiation was ubiquitous in the area fifty one.
Speaker 1: As a consequence, you got to be careful and not warning.
Speaker 1: And even today we're told by Natasha Zuvez and others
Speaker 1: at the same conditions exist today that those serving do
Speaker 1: not necessarily know the risks they're taking by serving this
Speaker 1: great nation. The saddest part is having cancers and the
Speaker 1: suffering thereof women and men and children being born with
Speaker 1: exotic cancers that should not happen. If one wants to
Speaker 1: take a known risk and do it, so be it.
Speaker 1: But it should be disclosed completely as to what's going on.
Speaker 1: And more so, let's continue if the line becomes available.
Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand. Happy Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day to all. May you continue to have a great day.
Speaker 1: Getting ready for terrible weather tomorrow. Later on I have
Speaker 1: Steve Rawley coming up about two to four inches of
Speaker 1: rain tomorrow, plus brutal cold temperatures and possibly the High
Speaker 1: River getting past flood stage and more. One o'clock Home
Speaker 1: of your Red's News Radio, seven hundred WULW, Cincinnati. Billy Cunningham.
Speaker 1: The Great America, of course announced it made a few
Speaker 1: days back to Evan and Mike Dwine. Let's picked the
Speaker 1: new lieutenant governor. And when we spoke with the governor,
Speaker 1: he kind of indicated he was thinking outside the box
Speaker 1: a little bit. But Jim Tressel is a name well
Speaker 1: known in the Buckeye State. She spent many years as
Speaker 1: a football coach at Youngstown State hit some moderate success
Speaker 1: in Ohio State won the national title, and thereafter he
Speaker 1: went back to Youngstown State and served as president there
Speaker 1: for about ten years. And now he's the new lieutenant
Speaker 1: governor in Ohio and first of all, Lieutenant Governor, Jim Trussell,
Speaker 1: can you tell the American people how the process began
Speaker 1: that Mike DeWine asked you to serve as the lieutenant governor?
Speaker 1: Kind of walked us through what happened, because this pick
Speaker 1: is somewhat out of the box.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, But first I would be remiss if I didn't say,
Speaker 6: it's an honor to be on with the great American
Speaker 6: and on this Abraham Lincoln time, you know, one of
Speaker 6: the greatest Americans as well. But I have to tell you,
Speaker 6: I know part of your viewing, listening audience is up
Speaker 6: near where my dad grew up and today would be
Speaker 6: his one hundredth birthday. And about that, I always thought
Speaker 6: my dad was a great American. He grew up in Aid,
Speaker 6: Ohio and went to Ohio State. Paul Brown recruited him
Speaker 6: there and then, like all those great Americans, decided to
Speaker 6: enlist in the war. Efforts went over and served so
Speaker 6: that we can have this free country we live in.
Speaker 6: So it's in honor to be with the great American
Speaker 6: on this great American Day. And the process that occurred
Speaker 6: started February first, actually, maybe the day before that. The
Speaker 6: governor said he was going to be in my neighborhood.
Speaker 6: I had just gotten done with two days of Baldwin
Speaker 6: Wallace University board meetings and he said he was going
Speaker 6: to be in the neighborhood and could he stop by,
Speaker 6: And of course, the governor says, he's going to stop by, absolutely,
Speaker 6: and he was going to be with fran and I
Speaker 6: think they're going to a basketball game with grandkids or something.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 6: He stopped by, and he sat down and kind of
Speaker 6: looked me in the eye, and I could tell this
Speaker 6: wasn't a social call, and he said, I've really been
Speaker 6: given this a lot of thought. I've been thinking about
Speaker 6: what we need and what I need and so forth.
Speaker 6: And he said, you know what, I'd like you to
Speaker 6: consider the lieutenant governor position. And then we talked for
Speaker 6: ninety minutes or so, and I had a chance to
Speaker 6: visit with my wife, who Ellen said, you know, it
Speaker 6: sounds like God's got more work for you to do,
Speaker 6: and you love trying to help people, and you're a workaholic.
Speaker 6: Why don't you go do it?
Speaker 1: So here we are, Jim Trust before that conversation, did
Speaker 1: you have any idea, any hope, any inkling you were
Speaker 1: to get into politics, not just politics, but you're going
Speaker 1: to be the lieutenant governor state of Ohio? Was that
Speaker 1: even on the hell horizon before that meeting?
Speaker 6: No? No, you know, I've always felt like I've been
Speaker 6: in public service because I've been trying to serve students,
Speaker 6: serve university, serve communities, and so, you know, at every
Speaker 6: turn I try, I had to find ways where I
Speaker 6: can add value and serve.
Speaker 4: You know. Never was it.
Speaker 6: The idea that I thought I would serve in government.
Speaker 6: But you know, what do they say if you think
Speaker 6: you have plans, God's up there laughing, you know, And
Speaker 6: I think that was the case.
Speaker 1: As far as I asked Mike DeWine this question and
Speaker 1: other political as I talked to Ali Strutzefiele, who, as
Speaker 1: you know, is the chair of the Republican Party, does
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Trussel have any desire to run for governor
Speaker 1: next year?
Speaker 6: You know, you'd be surprised that this is the first
Speaker 6: time someone asked me this, No, I'm just kidding. This
Speaker 6: is the probably the hundredth time. And you know what's funny.
Speaker 6: What's funny is when I got my first real job
Speaker 6: of my life. I'd been a paper boy and I
Speaker 6: you know, grass and all that, but my first real
Speaker 6: job was as a graduate assistant teacher and coach at
Speaker 6: the University of Akron and I had to meet the
Speaker 6: athletic director to get the final approval. And I walked
Speaker 6: in and he told me not to sit down, and
Speaker 6: he said, I only have one piece of advice. If
Speaker 6: you want to reach your potential, if you want to
Speaker 6: have success here and in life, keep your mind and
Speaker 6: your rear end in the same place. And he didn't
Speaker 6: say rear end, by the way, And then he told
Speaker 6: me to leave. And as I walked out, I said,
Speaker 6: for the rest of my life, I'm going to do
Speaker 6: all I can do to keep my mind and my
Speaker 6: rear end in the same place. So the answer is
Speaker 6: my mind and my rear end just like they were
Speaker 6: at Youngstown State when I was coaching there. I wasn't
Speaker 6: dreaming about going to Ohio State. When I was at
Speaker 6: Ohio State coaching there, I wasn't dreaming about being a
Speaker 6: president someday, and I certainly haven't been dreaming about being
Speaker 6: a lieutenant governor or a governor. But I can promise
Speaker 6: you this, I'll keep my mind in my rear end,
Speaker 6: in the place that I am, and that hopefully I
Speaker 6: can add value. And just like all the other chapters
Speaker 6: of my life, when I turned to the next chapter,
Speaker 6: a lot of times it's the unknown.
Speaker 1: So you're not foreclosing the possibility of you putting together
Speaker 1: an exploratory committee in the next few months and running
Speaker 1: for governor. I hear the answer is you don't know.
Speaker 1: But you're not saying no. You're not saying yes. You're
Speaker 1: saying you don't know. You know what I'm saying. You're
Speaker 1: not saying yes, You're not saying no, You're saying I
Speaker 1: don't know. So by saying you don't know, it's not
Speaker 1: a no or a yes. So is the answer yes
Speaker 1: or no? Or is it I don't know?
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you the answers. I don't even know
Speaker 6: what an exploratory committee is. You mean we're going to
Speaker 6: go sale somewhere and find an island, and then yes,
Speaker 6: I don't know what an Exploratory committee is. But you
Speaker 6: know it's funny. I remember when I got the Youngstown
Speaker 6: State as the coach and they said, you know, I
Speaker 6: had been at Ohio State as an assistant, and they said,
Speaker 6: is your goal to get to a house state as
Speaker 6: the head coach someday? I said, I don't know, but
Speaker 6: I'll tell you this. If I'm not very good at
Speaker 6: Youngstown State, that's I'm not gonna have to worry about
Speaker 6: that anyway. So I'm going to try to get as
Speaker 6: good as I can at what I'm doing, and I
Speaker 6: don't know what the future holds.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you how would you respond to some
Speaker 1: in the state of Ohio there's about twelve million of
Speaker 1: us here that would say, what does Jim Trussell know
Speaker 1: about politics? What does Jim Trussell know about lieutenant governor?
Speaker 1: What does Jim Trussell know about public policy? What does
Speaker 1: he know about the budget? What does he know about
Speaker 1: the marijuana reform laws?
Speaker 2: What does he know.
Speaker 1: About sales tax or the equalization formula of public education?
Speaker 1: So how do you respond to those who say Jim
Speaker 1: Trussell doesn't know anything about what he's doing.
Speaker 2: How would you respond to that?
Speaker 6: Well, I would start with the first one you had.
Speaker 6: You said, what do you know about politics? I guess
Speaker 6: I don't look at this as politics. I look at
Speaker 6: this as serving and trying to keep in mind the
Speaker 6: needs of every ohioan of every conversation. And then you
Speaker 6: rattled off a bunch of the things. And it's been fun.
Speaker 6: I was just sitting in on a on an ed
Speaker 6: board meeting, which I learned as editorial board. You know,
Speaker 6: I hadn't done those and and I listened to the
Speaker 6: governor talk about the school funding. I listened to him
Speaker 6: talk about the marijuana situation, and the and the tax
Speaker 6: for the potential help for stadium in the state, and
Speaker 6: on and on and on and so I'm not an
Speaker 6: expert really on anything. I never was. I'm a good listener.
Speaker 6: I'm a good learner. I've had the ability to connect
Speaker 6: people together and try to work hard together. I think
Speaker 6: the expertise that the governor hopes I can bring is
Speaker 6: the expertise in education and workforce as it pertains to
Speaker 6: the outcomes. To me, the number one outcome this state
Speaker 6: needs is we better increase our workforce to meet the opportunities.
Speaker 6: That are great leaders on both sides of the Isle
Speaker 6: and Jobs Ohio and everyone else have brought to us
Speaker 6: in the form of whether it's Intel or Andreil or
Speaker 6: keeping Sherlin Williams in Cleveland. Though the things going on
Speaker 6: in Cincinnati and the Dayton Coalition, we've been brought some
Speaker 6: unbelievable opportunities. My hope is that I can contribute toward
Speaker 6: us making sure we can execute on those. And that
Speaker 6: begins with education and building a workforce. And that's where
Speaker 6: I fairly certain he's going to ask me to spend
Speaker 6: a lot of time. I've already spent a lot of
Speaker 6: time with JP Massif and Jobs Ohio. Over the years,
Speaker 6: We've got our region up in Youngstown that I worked with,
Speaker 6: the Lake to River region. I've worked with the team Neil,
Speaker 6: I've worked with the central office there. I've tried to
Speaker 6: talk about how do we integrate all the way down
Speaker 6: into the early years of making young people aware of
Speaker 6: the advanced manufacturing that's happening the AI, all the different things,
Speaker 6: because we've got an amazing opportunity. We have an amazing
Speaker 6: opportunity in Ohio. We've got Ohio River, We've got Lake Erie,
Speaker 6: we've got natural gas, we've got all these new companies.
Speaker 6: We're in a location that is within five hundred miles
Speaker 6: of I don't know how many million people. Now, my
Speaker 6: biggest thrill as a coach who's going to try to
Speaker 6: win the Big Ten or the national championship, my biggest
Speaker 6: thrill now is to see if we can go and
Speaker 6: create that workforce that will allow us to be winners
Speaker 6: in these opportunities.
Speaker 1: Well, since you're now the Lieutenant governor, there's a bill
Speaker 1: coming through the General Assembly that would fundamentally change the
Speaker 1: marijuana money distribution from the townships and the cities all
Speaker 1: into the state fund. There are many township officials I
Speaker 1: know quite unhappy with that. I expressed this to Governor
Speaker 1: Mike Dwain. A lot of city leaders are unhappy. There
Speaker 1: was a law passed by the voters and now the
Speaker 1: legislature wants to change it. They want to increase by
Speaker 1: fifty to one hundred percent the tax on marijuana. The
Speaker 1: bill took three hundred and twenty five million dollars out
Speaker 1: of the pockets of drug dealers and put it in
Speaker 1: the sales column of the state of Ohio. And now
Speaker 1: many in the industry are saying the state of o
Speaker 1: High is going to kill the golden goose by increasing
Speaker 1: the price in marijuana so much that individuals that use marijuana.
Speaker 1: Of course I'm not one of them. I assume you're
Speaker 1: not one of them. They're going to go back to
Speaker 1: the dark market. There's going to be more people, more
Speaker 1: money a hand a drug deal. And so do you
Speaker 1: have an established position yet on the marijuana reform bill
Speaker 1: coming through the legislature?
Speaker 6: You know, I don't. In fact, the first time I
Speaker 6: heard an in depth conversation.
Speaker 3: About it was earlier today.
Speaker 6: One of the things that I've grown to learn here
Speaker 6: in the first few days of being in this opportunity
Speaker 6: is I got a lot of reading to do. I've
Speaker 6: got a lot of learning to do.
Speaker 2: Learning, and.
Speaker 6: Oh, I've got to listen. I've got to learn, and
Speaker 6: I've got to make sure that I understand. And then
Speaker 6: people love anecdotes and they love data. I just want
Speaker 6: to make sure that the data is verifiable, that the
Speaker 6: anecdotes are that makes sense, they're not just you know,
Speaker 6: one offs. And but uh, it seemed to me listening
Speaker 6: to the editorial board questions to the governor, that there'll
Speaker 6: be some good conversation about this.
Speaker 1: Have Are you a registered Republican for the last decade
Speaker 1: or so. Have you been a registered Republican.
Speaker 6: As far as I know? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: And did you vote for Mike de Wine each time?
Speaker 4: I believe so?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean each time for governor? Did I vote
Speaker 6: at more than one time? You have a number for
Speaker 6: going great American. I'm one hundred years old, I vote.
Speaker 6: I might have voted for Mike Dwine seventeen times for
Speaker 6: all I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's one in seventeen.
Speaker 1: All right, we got to run with Jim Tressel, new
Speaker 1: Lieutenant governor of high Let's keep the lines of communication open.
Speaker 2: I love the idea you say.
Speaker 1: Essentially, you got two ears and you got one mouth,
Speaker 1: and so you have a learning curve. But you're bright
Speaker 1: and you're gonna you're gonna learn and you're gonna get on.
Speaker 1: But uh, thanks for coming on to Bill Cunningham show.
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Jim Trestle of Ohio State and Young Sound State.
Speaker 1: Let's do it again in the next few months.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, you're a great American.
Speaker 1: And God bless Abraham Line and God bless Jim Trussell. Jim,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. All righty, goodbye, Let's continue with
Speaker 1: more the line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 1: seven thousand. Bill Cunningham Live with you every day. You're
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Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham. They've hit the music, you know the arguments available.
Speaker 1: He's not a political Jim Trussell doesn't know politics.
Speaker 2: He knows football.
Speaker 1: And therefore, why wouldn't the governor pick someone in politics.
Speaker 1: I would assume there's ninety nine members of the General
Speaker 1: Assembly and thirty three in the State Senate, to say
Speaker 1: nothing of the other offices around the know all about politics,
Speaker 1: that would have taken the gig as lieutenant governor. But
Speaker 1: on the other hand, don't you and I agree that
Speaker 1: the country's in a political mess right now because too
Speaker 1: many people get into politics and they stay there ten fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty thirty forty years in politics, and they never move
Speaker 1: and they leave politics rich when they've made little or
Speaker 1: no money along the way. And so I find it
Speaker 1: refreshing and required that those not involved in politics get
Speaker 1: involved in political offices. They come to the position horizontally
Speaker 1: instead of vertically, and Jim Tressel was coming completely horizontally,
Speaker 1: having never been in politics before. So I could quiz
Speaker 1: him on other issues, and after a day or two
Speaker 1: in office, likely we know little or nothing about it.
Speaker 1: But the guy's bright, he's religious kind of a guy.
Speaker 1: He's going to study. He wants to know what the
Speaker 1: game plan is, and he's got to call the plays
Speaker 1: at some point. But as lieutenant governor, he's underneath the
Speaker 1: wings of Mike DeWine. That's been in politics now for
Speaker 1: more than a half a century. And Mike DeWine knows
Speaker 1: exactly where all the bodies are buried all over the state.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. When I asked Mike privately
Speaker 1: and he didn't, I asked him the same question publicly,
Speaker 1: so I'm not making something public he wanted to keep private.
Speaker 1: He wanted someone who could take over from him to
Speaker 1: serve out the rest of his term if he couldn't
Speaker 1: make it. The next thing I said to Mike was
Speaker 1: are you sick? Are you okay? He said no, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: And the other thing, the race for governor next year
Speaker 1: is going to be extremely contentious. David Yos has been
Speaker 1: the AG for about six years. Before that, he was
Speaker 1: in state government. Before that, he was a county prosecutor.
Speaker 1: He walks in the shoes of Joe Dieters. He's an
Speaker 1: aggressive conservative prosecutor and he wants to be the next governor,
Speaker 1: as does Viveke Ramaswami, who called me about ten days
Speaker 1: ago and want to get him on some point in
Speaker 1: the next week or two. And so Jim Trussell, if
Speaker 1: he ran for governor, would be in the major leagues
Speaker 1: of David Yost versus Viveke Rama Swami. Bavey can fund
Speaker 1: his own campaign, he's a rock star, and Dave jos
Speaker 1: is about a solid citizen, solid as an officeholder as
Speaker 1: you can find. So I'm not sure there's room for
Speaker 1: Jim Trussell if he wanted to do it, he would
Speaker 1: have profound difficulty in getting that done because he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the ability to fund the campaign on his own,
Speaker 1: which Viveke can do, doesn't have the ability to raise
Speaker 1: a lot of money, which David Yost can do. And
Speaker 1: so in about fourteen months from now, we're going to
Speaker 1: have a big decision to make whether to go there
Speaker 1: out of Vivek Ramaswami or David Yost. I'd be shocked,
Speaker 1: as Mike Dwine told me, if he wants to run
Speaker 1: for governor, he could run for governor. Now, if he
Speaker 1: runs for governor, he's likely to have the support of
Speaker 1: Mike DeWine. That's another factor to put in the put
Speaker 1: in the computer. So we'll see what occurs. Let's continue
Speaker 1: with more news in the Stoatsure next at your home
Speaker 1: of the Reds News Radio seven hundred WULW, Cincinnati.
Speaker 8: Hap Valentine's Day to you and all the groove if
Speaker 8: don't get things that you do. Happy Valentine's Day to you,
Speaker 8: who and all those lovely things that you do, y'all
Speaker 8: singer would be Happy valentines to Day to you, Come
Speaker 8: on you and all the rid lit things that you do.
Speaker 8: Happy Balanesday? Who had all the lovely things that you do?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 8: Happy Valentine's Day, Bob.
Speaker 1: Oh, Hello, quiet spokes, I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 2: Segment. Ain't love brand. Happy Valentine's Day to you.
Speaker 9: Amen to that. Willie, thanks to you. And Bootsy Collins
Speaker 9: right there with a special.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 9: He's a treasure, he sang, he sang, he sang the
Speaker 9: Valentine's Day songs. We thank Bootsy for his musical excellence
Speaker 9: as usual.
Speaker 2: And Patsy's wonderful too. But say man.
Speaker 1: Lots going on in sports? Anyone hurt with the Reds anymore?
Speaker 1: It's only been about five days. How are we looking?
Speaker 1: Will he the.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Roxy.
Speaker 9: We also want to thank Lear's Prime Market Willie for
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Speaker 9: beautiful downtown Milford Learsprime dot Com. Let's see more workouts today, Willie.
Speaker 9: As far as I know, no one got hurt today.
Speaker 9: Let's see the Cactus League opener against the Great Cleveland
Speaker 9: India at Cleveland Guardians. Excuse me, a week from tomorrow,
Speaker 9: they start playing tomorrow.
Speaker 1: A week from tomorrow, baby.
Speaker 2: How about this?
Speaker 1: Thank you? I think Parry Larkin may do it in Spanish,
Speaker 1: but former Reds Jonathan India traded to KC. Not the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: but the Royals right for a starting pitcher said the
Speaker 1: Reds need fire in their ass quote unquote, taking an
Speaker 1: indirect shot at David Bell, who did not provide fire
Speaker 1: in the ass but the twenty twenty four Reds segment
Speaker 1: your reaction, that's that's what you do every day on
Speaker 1: the radio. I got fire in my ask, no question
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 9: Bengals update brought to you by Good spear As Winding
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Speaker 9: Bengals defensive coordinator Al Golden has won the twenty twenty
Speaker 9: four Broyles Award, given to college football's top assistant coach. Golden,
Speaker 9: of course, led the Irish defense this year, allowing just
Speaker 9: fifteen points a game. If he can do that in
Speaker 9: the NFL Bangle, thank you. Let's see twenty twenty six.
Speaker 9: Cooper High School quarterback Cam O'Hara has committed today to
Speaker 9: play his college ball at Western Kentucky College Basketball tonight
Speaker 9: NKU and Green Bay at six thirty ESPN fifteen thirty
Speaker 9: Wright State in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: How about this?
Speaker 9: Willie Mick Crodin right up the road from us in
Speaker 9: Bloomington taking on Indiana tonight.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 1: And also Jonathan Indian says the Reds need discipline segment
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Did you see a lack of discipline,
Speaker 1: and you do see no fire in the red ass.
Speaker 2: What did you.
Speaker 1: See that man? That is unbelievable. Thank you. I didn't
Speaker 1: see too much either anything. Willy, of course, India was
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one Rookie of the Year. Right, he said,
Speaker 1: we needed a clubhouse leader out of the night, right
Speaker 1: out of the University of Florida.
Speaker 7: But you got to.
Speaker 1: Comment on that segment. We needed leadership, we need they
Speaker 1: didn't have one. We have no discipline. The front office
Speaker 1: didn't get them one. Should have brought in, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: where's Greg Vaughan just as a guest, you know? And forcer?
Speaker 1: What about Kevin Mitchell? Should have brought in, should have
Speaker 1: brought in number seven, no question about that, because we
Speaker 1: have some rising stars and Hunter Green and Elie de
Speaker 1: la Cruz and right now, I think Tito said there's
Speaker 1: only two positions that are nailed down, which is shortstop
Speaker 1: and catcher. The other six or seven are up for grabs.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: In fact, you can't name the first basement, the second basement,
Speaker 1: the third baseman. You can't name the left field, you
Speaker 1: can't name the centerfielder, you can't name the right fielder.
Speaker 2: Segment can you.
Speaker 9: Well, not right now, no, because they're they're just in
Speaker 9: camp and you know it's just started.
Speaker 2: Maybe you should know.
Speaker 9: I probably the guy that knows is Terry Francota, and
Speaker 9: he's the one that counts.
Speaker 2: Well, he'll bring this well.
Speaker 1: Last year the Reds were seventy seven and eighty five,
Speaker 1: and according to Moegar, the over under this year seventy
Speaker 1: eight and a half.
Speaker 2: Do you say over or under seventy eight and a half?
Speaker 1: Seg Man we over city over year before they went
Speaker 1: won eighty two and eighty. But this is the best
Speaker 1: team the Rets have had since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: I think, how about this?
Speaker 9: Well, the college baseball has started already, opening day to day.
Speaker 9: The Xavier Musketeers are at number seven, Oregon State, Cincinnati
Speaker 9: Bearcats at number eleven, Duke and NKU is taking on
Speaker 9: East Tennessee State. So college baseball is underway with Ted
Speaker 9: McKay at cold.
Speaker 1: Today, rainy tomorrow, winter weather back on Sunday and Monday segment.
Speaker 9: Get ready for that tomorrow college basketball double header here
Speaker 9: on seven hundred WALLW noon. Xavier and DePaul that at
Speaker 9: three thirty, Bearcats at number ten Iowa State.
Speaker 1: They need to beat them. Need to beat the Cyclones badly.
Speaker 1: They've won three in a row. There's a hope, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a pulse, much like Xavier beating Providence.
Speaker 2: There's a little bit of hope, but not much.
Speaker 1: We could have a March free madness in the Tristate
Speaker 1: area segment.
Speaker 9: Please continue Kentucky and Texas tomorrow night. Also Miami goes
Speaker 9: for win number twenty of the year up against Western Michigan.
Speaker 9: The Duke Cane Dukes face the Dayton Flyers. Also Willy
Speaker 9: FC Cincinnati has acquired Danish winger Lucas Engel on loan
Speaker 9: from Middlesbrough FC of the English Football League, so he
Speaker 9: joins the Orange and Blue at Vander is working out
Speaker 9: with the team as we speak in Florida, so he's
Speaker 9: the newest edition in that blockbuster deal. He is apparently
Speaker 9: one of the top five players in the MLS and
Speaker 9: byway Willie, one week from tomorrow, what FC Cincinnati open
Speaker 9: opens their season against the New York Red Bulls.
Speaker 1: I think a week from tomorrow here is going to
Speaker 1: be cold and the well Diggers behind might be play
Speaker 1: somewhere else.
Speaker 9: Also, because of a threat of rain, the start time
Speaker 9: for Sunday's Daytona five hundred has been moved up to
Speaker 9: one thirty PM. And it's one hundred days until the
Speaker 9: running of the Indianapolis five hundred.
Speaker 1: Of course, Reds Baseball kicks off six weeks from yesterday.
Speaker 1: Segment correct, I'm getting my speech together already. Let's go
Speaker 1: to see what happens. But I have more hope for
Speaker 1: this club than I had since twenty thirteen when the
Speaker 1: Reds got to the playoffs and lost the playing game
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, you might recall, and I look forward to
Speaker 1: the time since nineteen ninety five has been what thirty
Speaker 1: years since the Reds one A series which is the
Speaker 1: work and the postseason which is the worst record in
Speaker 1: all of professional sports. And that's got the end segment
Speaker 1: this year, beginning with my speech.
Speaker 2: Then for glory, please continue.
Speaker 9: High school basketball tomorrow Willie and Indiana Girls Region also
Speaker 9: got twenty four and oh Greensburg against Washington East Central
Speaker 9: and Bloomington South at Oldenburg Academy and South Dekatur hockey.
Speaker 9: Let's see tonight the Cyclones, excuse me, the Cyclones are
Speaker 9: at Fort Wayne.
Speaker 6: UH.
Speaker 9: The USA will play Canada tomorrow night in the four
Speaker 9: nations face off tourney.
Speaker 2: They'd be finning like six to one. Are you aware
Speaker 2: of that?
Speaker 1: That is correct? I was just about ready to say
Speaker 1: that you're putting the biscuits in the in the in
Speaker 1: the net. American Finland didn't do it well.
Speaker 9: They got and then the USA and Canada and the
Speaker 9: superpowers of hockey meet tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: I monitor everything simultaneously. What about Acosta? When will Acosta
Speaker 1: come back to TQL and play against FC?
Speaker 2: When will that happen?
Speaker 1: That's about two or three months down the road. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it won't be so Acosta.
Speaker 9: You know, I think they got I think they got
Speaker 9: better with Evander coming over from the Portland Timbers, and
Speaker 9: like I said, they rate him as one of the
Speaker 9: top five in the m LS, besides behind Messy and
Speaker 9: a few other ones.
Speaker 1: All right, segment, we have the Chin coming up Steve
Speaker 1: Raleigh about the weather in Mattie's House. Segment, Get me
Speaker 1: out of the Stuege Report, please. After two o'clock today
Speaker 1: is Curtis holc and the constitutional crisis we're in every
Speaker 1: day the Trump's in office, there's another crisis segment, Get
Speaker 1: me out of the Stuege Report.
Speaker 9: Willie and honor of rain. On the way, we leave
Speaker 9: you with the immortal words of the stew Report. This
Speaker 9: is Bubba. Well, Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.
Speaker 2: Stay to you segment.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Chin Steve Raleigh, next to your
Speaker 1: home of the Reds News Radio seven hundred w LW,
Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the Great America, And of course coming up
Speaker 1: next weekend is in Maddie's House fundraiser honoring George Foster
Speaker 1: and the memory of Pete Rose. But in till then,
Speaker 1: lot's going on this weekend and weather Steve Raleigh, welcome
Speaker 1: again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Steve first of all,
Speaker 1: tell us, so it looks like rain tomorrows Sunday could be.
Speaker 1: If he give the American people a full report on
Speaker 1: the weather.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to do it for you.
Speaker 7: As we look at it going into Saturday, boy, it
Speaker 7: looks kind of ugly. We're talking about a floodwatch already
Speaker 7: out for really the entire Try State.
Speaker 3: And on bottom.
Speaker 7: Line is we're going to see about two to four
Speaker 7: inches of rain. I would imagine we're going to see
Speaker 7: at least some minor flooding showing up around here. The
Speaker 7: other aspect is as of next week check this out.
Speaker 7: River Forecast Center says that the Ohio will go up
Speaker 7: to fifty point eight feet, so it's about a foot
Speaker 7: shy of flood stage. So Saturday certainly looks ugly, the
Speaker 7: heaviest rain coming in at night. And if that wasn't
Speaker 7: bad enough, on Sunday we'll end up getting whacked with
Speaker 7: some really cold Arctic air. So it's going to flip
Speaker 7: it over to snow and I think an inch or two.
Speaker 3: Is probable for Sunday. And oh that's right.
Speaker 7: The third strike in year out is into next week,
Speaker 7: temperatures are going to average fifteen to twenty degrees below average.
Speaker 7: We're going to see teen single digits in the morning
Speaker 7: and then temperatures only in the mid twenties during the day.
Speaker 3: Other than that, really not much going on.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully this is Winner's last gasp as we head
Speaker 1: toward March first. But the other big thing happening at
Speaker 1: the end of next week is Maddie's house fundraiser to
Speaker 1: honor George Foster in the memory of Pete Rose. So
Speaker 1: first of all, give us a capsule of your daughter
Speaker 1: and what happened with Matty, and then we'll move on
Speaker 1: to how people can be involved.
Speaker 7: Well, six years ago, Bill, my daughter faced a lot
Speaker 7: of mental health issues and consequently then also addiction, and
Speaker 7: unfortunately she took her life on January seventeenth, six years ago.
Speaker 7: And from that moment on, the family got together and
Speaker 7: some wonderful folks have been, of course surrounding us with
Speaker 7: their love and help, and we put together the organization
Speaker 7: called Mattie's House. Mattie's House helps young adults who are
Speaker 7: struggling with mental health or addiction issues and we provide
Speaker 7: all types of services. We have a beautiful eight thousand
Speaker 7: square foot home on two acres in a pond out
Speaker 7: where Paul Crosley's places. A lot of folks know Pinecroft
Speaker 7: and it's right across the pathway from that. We've been
Speaker 7: in operation for about a year and we're seeing upwards
Speaker 7: of a thousand young adults.
Speaker 3: A month and that's what we're doing, and.
Speaker 7: Going into next week we're going to try and raise.
Speaker 2: Some money a thousand, one thousand a month.
Speaker 1: Now before Mattie's House, did they fall through the crack
Speaker 1: somewhere before you know where to go.
Speaker 7: This is a safe space. The idea is is to
Speaker 7: have another safe space in life. So you can come
Speaker 7: to Mattie's house and just hang out. You can come
Speaker 7: to Mattie's house and bake cupcakes. You can come to
Speaker 7: Maddie's house and do game night, or come to movie night,
Speaker 7: or during the nice weather, you know, play pickleball or basketball,
Speaker 7: or just sit by the lake. It's a place to
Speaker 7: be safe and loved and also just to know that
Speaker 7: people care about you. And the biggest thing we do
Speaker 7: is we create community. My daughter never had this. She
Speaker 7: had nowhere to go. It was actually her idea to say,
Speaker 7: I wish there was somewhere to go, and there wasn't
Speaker 7: at the time, but there is now.
Speaker 3: So yes, our.
Speaker 7: Explosion in people, young adults showing up has been because
Speaker 7: the need.
Speaker 3: Is so great.
Speaker 1: So if you're a child, if you're a person in crisis,
Speaker 1: if you're a mom or dad. Some of the worst things,
Speaker 1: the worst stories I hear, is when moms and dads
Speaker 1: love their daughters and sons who fall into the addictive
Speaker 1: world or mental health whatever, bring them back into the home.
Speaker 1: The home is tryingsh they can't leave, stay there. There's
Speaker 1: nowhere to go. Mattie's house is a respite all the tickets.
Speaker 3: Well, there's no question about it. Bill.
Speaker 7: Bottom line is we know we have uh saved some lives.
Speaker 7: There have been some young adults who have been in crisis,
Speaker 7: and thankfully Mattie's House has been there with the folks
Speaker 7: that work there, are young adults, are volunteers.
Speaker 3: We believe it's made a difference in the community.
Speaker 2: Sure, it has no question.
Speaker 1: Once again, tickets are available in m H stands for
Speaker 1: Mattie's House m H since the C I N C
Speaker 1: Y dot org. For more information phone numbers three four
Speaker 1: seven Mattie m A D I O R. But all
Speaker 1: the informations on the website. The events are taking place
Speaker 1: the next Friday night at Music Hall MH since dot org.
Speaker 1: Steve Riley, once again, thanks again coming on the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham show. Hope the weather's not as bad as you indicate,
Speaker 1: but the March first is coming. The reds pitchers and
Speaker 1: catchers are throwing the ball in the Arizona. I hope
Speaker 1: springs on the horizon. Do you see this as as
Speaker 1: winner's last gasp?
Speaker 7: If not, we're gonna take a wooden steak and hammer
Speaker 7: it into Mother Nature much like a vampire.
Speaker 3: She's roaming around winter far too long.
Speaker 1: See Roley, You're a great American. Once again, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve, Thank you Bill.
Speaker 3: I couldn't thank you enough.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 7: Ill.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more news is next and after two
Speaker 1: o'clock today will be Curtis Houck a media research center
Speaker 1: about what the media does to twist and turn the
Speaker 1: minds of average Americans against what is right in this country.
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WULWU, Cincinnati by Billy Cunningham,
Speaker 1: the Great American. Of course, the Media Research Center, also
Speaker 1: NewsBusters dot Org PARTNREOP covers the mainstream media garbage in
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Speaker 1: in which they chronicle daily, hourly, every minute with the
Speaker 1: American people see, read, and hear through the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: And Curtis Houck managing editor of a NewsBusters. Welcome again
Speaker 1: to the Bill Cunningham Show. One thing I noticed going
Speaker 1: on now whenever there's an air traffic control incident, and
Speaker 1: Sadley has been several recently, that number one, it's Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's fault. And you have a colleague here involving NBC
Speaker 1: News who is a critical of Trump's attempt to overhaul
Speaker 1: the outdated air traffic control system. And on the Today Show,
Speaker 1: correspondent Ryan Nobles ripped for quotes suggesting the aviation system
Speaker 1: is outdated without providing examples to which you know it is.
Speaker 1: So how does the media say one thing about air
Speaker 1: traffic controllers that may contribute to airplane crashes, et cetera.
Speaker 1: On one hand, but on the other hand, we know
Speaker 1: it's an outdated system because the American people are getting
Speaker 1: the correct information.
Speaker 2: Explain that to the American people.
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, Bill, I mean, I think without evidence is
Speaker 10: like the liberal media's favorite catchphrase. You feel like, you know,
Speaker 10: they love saying that. They love saying that to describe
Speaker 10: anything alleged about anything by anyone they don't like, regardless
Speaker 10: of whether it's.
Speaker 4: True or not.
Speaker 10: It's the new your racist or your sexist. They use
Speaker 10: this as an attempt to shut down discussion of you know,
Speaker 10: whatever they want to talk about. In this case, it's
Speaker 10: air traffic control. The other thing that's really been in
Speaker 10: the news is doge Friday morning, is CNN have this
Speaker 10: insane chiron saying Trump Musk alleged massive fraud in government
Speaker 10: without solid proof. It's the same sort of thing they
Speaker 10: do this on issue after issue, where you know, they'll
Speaker 10: say that, oh, there's not there's not fraud. You know,
Speaker 10: there's not fraud in government.
Speaker 8: No is just fine.
Speaker 10: Uh, just forget about just forget about the fact that
Speaker 10: you know, people have been saying this for decades NAKA
Speaker 10: the union for their traffic controllers have been saying, uh,
Speaker 10: something needs to change. Forget about all that stuff. There's
Speaker 10: no evidence. It's amazing to see though, how you know,
Speaker 10: I mean, we knew this to be true already, but
Speaker 10: the left has gone, you know, from claiming to stand
Speaker 10: up for the little guy and working people, average Americans
Speaker 10: to providing aid and comfort to the government. That's really
Speaker 10: what this is.
Speaker 4: Oh, the poor federal workers, Oh.
Speaker 10: My gosh, this is this is just awful. They're just
Speaker 10: you know, these people are glorified college professors with tenure.
Speaker 10: That's really what we've been dealing with. Yes, people go
Speaker 10: in there for jobs, security and government, but at the
Speaker 10: same time, the idea that they've never been, you know,
Speaker 10: exposed to or have to deal with uncertain job environments,
Speaker 10: which literally the rest of the ninety nine percent of
Speaker 10: the country has to deal with, is just rich.
Speaker 1: You know what, one of the great things at NewsBusters
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Speaker 1: have to retire through a limestone mine. Some were underground
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it is ridiculous. I mean, there was a question
Speaker 10: at the White House Press briefing this past week, Caroline
Speaker 10: Levitt somebody from CBS Jennifer Jacobs, who said, you know,
Speaker 10: are these things that you're pointing out and el Musk
Speaker 10: is talking about, are these really actually examples of waste,
Speaker 10: fraud and abuse or these just you don't like? And
Speaker 10: Caroline was kind of shocked, but she had a great answer.
Speaker 10: She then completely flipped out. She just calmly said, well,
Speaker 10: if you want to stand up here and defense some
Speaker 10: of these things as worthwhile uses of the taxpayer dime,
Speaker 10: be my guest, because it's not gonna work. It's not
Speaker 10: gonna go well for you. You know, the government, even under
Speaker 10: the most lean circumstances, people support things like airtraffic controllers, people,
Speaker 10: the military paying our you know, veterans, providing them great care.
Speaker 10: But when it comes to these other things, Department of
Speaker 10: Education CFPB usaid, you know, there's this suck thinking that,
Speaker 10: oh no, it's just money for kids to have school lunches,
Speaker 10: or the CFPB is like the only thing standing in
Speaker 10: the way protecting people from fraud. And it's like, what, like,
Speaker 10: I mean, yes, we had like things were created, certain
Speaker 10: ages were created after the scandal of that scandal, but
Speaker 10: it's like America was the wild wild West until like
Speaker 10: the age of Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter before.
Speaker 3: That is just insane.
Speaker 1: Curtis Hoch, you have a great column up about the
Speaker 1: CBS Evening News used to be the gold standard. I
Speaker 1: can think of the days everyone in the CBS Evening
Speaker 1: News with Walter Cronkite. This is wonderful and unbeknownst to
Speaker 1: many people, Laura O'Donnell, who was the anchor for the
Speaker 1: last few years, had terrible ratings. Nobody watched, so they
Speaker 1: decided to go with a dual anchor system of John
Speaker 1: Dickerson and Maurice du Bois. They're up there telling us
Speaker 1: every day about the CBS Evening News, and they're comparing
Speaker 1: the Ukraine peace deal, which may or may not occur.
Speaker 1: I hope it does, to the nineteen thirty eight Adolf
Speaker 1: Hitler appeasement that somehow CBS nub says, if there's peace
Speaker 1: in the Ukraine, it's similar to Chamberlain coming back with
Speaker 1: peace in our times, comparing the fight with Russia and
Speaker 1: Ukraine to Nazi Germany.
Speaker 2: Explain that one for.
Speaker 10: Us, Wow, this one is insane. You know, I'm a
Speaker 10: very pro Ukraine person, a lot of our guys in
Speaker 10: the office are, and it kind of leaves us out
Speaker 10: of step with a lot of folks on the right.
Speaker 10: But even this story last night got me like driving
Speaker 10: up a wall or jorgeven Ea bit the bullet and
Speaker 10: wrote it up for us. But you know, they proposed
Speaker 10: no alternatives. They just simply convetched and belliated about all
Speaker 10: the things that Donald Trump is doing or proposing in
Speaker 10: terms of Ukraine. To simply say that the war has
Speaker 10: to end. They're saying, oh, he's appeasing and giving in
Speaker 10: to Putin. They proposed no alternatives. And this is the
Speaker 10: things the liberal media bill. They love to complain and
Speaker 10: complain and complain about Republicans. Ill I don't like this.
Speaker 3: They're not getting nick up.
Speaker 10: But they offer no alternatives in terms of like, okay,
Speaker 10: so what do you think you guys should do instead?
Speaker 4: And their guys have.
Speaker 10: Had four years to figure this out and they have to.
Speaker 10: You know's that with the fact that you know, Pete
Speaker 10: Heiksa simply said, hey, guys, going back to how things
Speaker 10: were before, like Russian in vated Crimea in eastern Ukraine
Speaker 10: in twenty fourteen, probably not going to happen. Like this
Speaker 10: that was somehow some affront to humanity, and it's like
Speaker 10: it's called being realistic.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 1: Well, another posting at NewsBusters dot org involves ABC News.
Speaker 1: You may not know it, but the view every East
Speaker 1: every day eleven am Eastern time is a product of
Speaker 1: ABC News. Peter Jennings will be rolling over in his
Speaker 1: grave and Sunny Houston, among the most leftering, ridiculous so
Speaker 1: called journalists in the world, claims that Trump is acting
Speaker 1: the Department of Education to create a permanent underclass, that
Speaker 1: his goal in the billionaire is to have a permanent
Speaker 1: group of kids, escionally in urban areas they can't read
Speaker 1: and write.
Speaker 2: Well, what the hell's happening?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: As I speak, the permanent underclass? And they want to
Speaker 1: change in and empower the states to do a better job.
Speaker 1: But this article describes the status of public education today,
Speaker 1: which is the worst in the world. So if we
Speaker 1: try to fix it, then you want to create a
Speaker 1: permanent underclass.
Speaker 10: Yeah, hold on, Bill, I thought the left is I
Speaker 10: thought it's the left that's trying to create a permanent
Speaker 10: on your class by keeping illegal immigrants in this country.
Speaker 10: But okay, well that's just yeah, yeah, because that's kind
Speaker 10: of what they're doing. But who will pick the cotton?
Speaker 10: They sound like pre Civil War confederates out there, so
Speaker 10: for them to talk about a permanent end class is
Speaker 10: just rich with irony.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: President Trump is absolutely right that we spend poodles of
Speaker 10: cash year after a year in suburban, urban, rural school
Speaker 10: districts that are struggling, and things are exactly impro Things
Speaker 10: are not very good, and to put it mildly, so
Speaker 10: the solution maybe is not to throw more money at it,
Speaker 10: because that's really what the Department of Education has been
Speaker 10: in large parts. It has been redirecting money, giving out
Speaker 10: plots of money, and clearly things are not going well.
Speaker 3: We have a.
Speaker 10: Mental and psychological scourge in this country that is still
Speaker 10: revealing itself in the students who are still in school
Speaker 10: and going into adulthood who went through COVID in schools.
Speaker 10: My brother is a high school teacher, my dad is
Speaker 10: a SRO at another school back in Leicester, Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 10: they see this too, that certain age groups that we're
Speaker 10: going through, particularly already what would be challenging school years
Speaker 10: as they move up through school are just they just
Speaker 10: behave differently in a bad way compared to the other
Speaker 10: kids who who are younger and didn't work going through
Speaker 10: school during COVID, and I just think, you know, something
Speaker 10: has to change, and President Trump is saying, let's change it.
Speaker 10: But for CN to say that there's no solid proof
Speaker 10: or ABC to say there's a permanent underclass being created
Speaker 10: is just doom casting.
Speaker 1: And you know, Curtis Halkumn, NewsBusters dot Org, Managing editor.
Speaker 1: One thing I've noticed that when fourth grade testing occurs,
Speaker 1: that there's a large disparity between whether a fourth grader
Speaker 1: can read or not. You kind of learn to read
Speaker 1: and then you read to learn, and the longer you're
Speaker 1: in many of these public schools in the cities in
Speaker 1: the rural areas, by the eighth grade, it's going backwards.
Speaker 1: In other words, you would hope in the fourth grade
Speaker 1: there are many good governors. And in fact, George Bush
Speaker 1: forty three had this promise to read in the fourth
Speaker 1: grade requirement of doe. How did that work out? Not
Speaker 1: well at all. And so if you don't learn to read,
Speaker 1: you can't read to learn. And so the longer you're
Speaker 1: in school, the worse it gets. And so the solution
Speaker 1: is not to keep doing the same thing ninety two
Speaker 1: billion dollars a year spending Department of Education. Maybe take that,
Speaker 1: might take forty billions cent into the states and say
Speaker 1: you at the local level, determine what to do because
Speaker 1: we have failed. There's some ridiculous number one hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of DOE employees who spend ninety two billion dollars.
Speaker 1: And by the time these same kids in the fourth
Speaker 1: grade that they do poorly by the eighth grade is dismal.
Speaker 1: By the twelfth grade, you have diplomas that can't be
Speaker 1: read by a lot of the kids. In fact, eighty
Speaker 1: percent of eighty percent of eighth graders cannot read at
Speaker 1: the appropriate level. And if you don't learn to read,
Speaker 1: you can't read to learn. And instead of trying something different,
Speaker 1: they're attacking Donald Trump for saying education is a local matter.
Speaker 1: And I know you believe this curtis out, but I'll
Speaker 1: say it that it's up to parents. It's up to
Speaker 1: a good mom or a good dad. I had a
Speaker 1: great mom and a bad dad. But by the time
Speaker 1: I went to school as a first grader, I knew
Speaker 1: how to read. And by the time I was a
Speaker 1: fourth grader, I was reading to learn other stuff. So
Speaker 1: if you have terrible parents that don't get a four
Speaker 1: or five six year old ready for school, I say
Speaker 1: shut down the system and begin in the first grade.
Speaker 1: We're going to have a new sheriff in town, which means,
Speaker 1: guess what you're going to learn to read by the
Speaker 1: time you come to school. And if not, stop what
Speaker 1: we're doing, try something different, because the longer these kids
Speaker 1: are in school, the worse they get. Now that's the
Speaker 1: permanent underclass, would you agree.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: My brother teaches high school math, so it's a very
Speaker 10: similar issue. It's the other issue that's tested multiple times
Speaker 10: throughout a student's time in grade school, so he sees
Speaker 10: that as well. And my dad, actually, before he became
Speaker 10: an SRO, taught health and pe and middle school for
Speaker 10: twenty years and it was much the same thing, talking
Speaker 10: about parental involvement. I I can't tell you how many
Speaker 10: times still I heard my dad talk about that when
Speaker 10: he'd come home from school and he'd be sitting at
Speaker 10: the dinner table talking about issues involving parental involvement. That
Speaker 10: behavior stems from what's going on at home.
Speaker 4: Yet teachers can flies.
Speaker 10: My third grade teacher got me interested in politics and
Speaker 10: the presidency and that changed my life. But you also
Speaker 10: need parents, absolutely two to tango.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Lastly, one of my bugaboos the last twenty or thirty
Speaker 1: years is public broadcasting and that is five reasons to
Speaker 1: the funded. I've not heard much yet from the Trumpster
Speaker 1: about defunding public broadcasting, which is terrible, and if you
Speaker 1: want to support it, I love all these fundraising drives
Speaker 1: in which the Beg's are brought back to life and
Speaker 1: they perform for you in condition that you send in
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten dollars to get a CD for
Speaker 1: whatever the hell that is of the Beg's. But explain
Speaker 1: one or two reasons why public broadcasting needs to be
Speaker 1: defunded immediately, if not sooner.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean this is actually insane. I mean the
Speaker 10: one that we hear a lot about about NewsBusters and
Speaker 10: you talk about a lot is.
Speaker 7: Just a bias.
Speaker 10: Obviously, just on the issue of transgenderism. We looked at
Speaker 10: seven months of the PBS News Hour. They gave over
Speaker 10: ninety percent more airtime of airtime to the left view
Speaker 10: about transgenderism. And when it comes to money, yes, I'm
Speaker 10: totally with you. If you want to support this, you
Speaker 10: should in PBS has three hundred and forty five affiliates,
Speaker 10: which is insane when you consider ABC is two forty eight,
Speaker 10: CBS two fifty one, NBC two thirty five. On NPR
Speaker 10: there is one thousand and eighty five NPR affiliates, the
Speaker 10: same of New York alone had seventy three. That is insane,
Speaker 10: you know, the two belt. Lastly, the equipment they get
Speaker 10: the nicest equipment out there.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 10: And the idea that like, oh, if you shut down
Speaker 10: the four NPR, one of the four NPR affiliates or
Speaker 10: three of them in a small town, people are still
Speaker 10: gonna get their news. Is not going to be the
Speaker 10: end of the world.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to say about transgenderism on the other side,
Speaker 1: which is the damage cause long long term sexually mutilate
Speaker 1: teenage boys and girls to give them puberty blockers that
Speaker 1: changes them permanently. Britain did this long, extensive, twenty five
Speaker 1: year study that set over seventy percent of those who
Speaker 1: went through transgenderisms of one top hormones of surgery said
Speaker 1: in their thirties and forties, guess what we made A
Speaker 1: serious blunder, a serious mistake.
Speaker 2: There's loss to be said for that.
Speaker 1: We don't tell a fourteen year old that can drive
Speaker 1: a car, you can smoke a cigarette, you can't have
Speaker 1: a contract, you can't get married. But guess what, with
Speaker 1: the doctor's permission and the hospital's permission and the parents' permission,
Speaker 1: you can sexually mutilate a fourteen or fifteen year old.
Speaker 1: That's absurd. But to consider that PBS right now is
Speaker 1: funded to the tune of five hundred million dollars, to me,
Speaker 1: that's low hanging fruit. Because the other issue, Curtis Houke,
Speaker 1: is somewhat duplicitous. I get the same information from the
Speaker 1: New York Times, I get it from CBS, NBC, ABC,
Speaker 1: I get it everywhere. Liberalism is ubiquitous. And so it's
Speaker 1: not like giving us counterprogramming to the mainstream media. It
Speaker 1: is the mainstream media and we're paying for it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, WLW, your main station has, you know, is public airwaves, ABC, CBS, NBC.
Speaker 10: You can still get it with the old rabbit years. See,
Speaker 10: the idea that you somehow need another one that is
Speaker 10: funded by the taxpayers is ludicrous at this point.
Speaker 1: Curtis Hawk, once again, thank you for coming on The
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show, and Curtis You're a great American.
Speaker 10: You are a great American.
Speaker 4: Bill, talk again.
Speaker 2: Soon, God bless America.
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more and if a line becomes available,
Speaker 1: and you know the routine. But PBS get the same
Speaker 1: information through numerous media outlets. But why do we pay
Speaker 1: for it directly? Is beyond me? Bill Cunningham, seven hundreds WLW.
Speaker 4: We will bring Championship Baseball to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Quiet and I'm I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 3: Right God will he.
Speaker 1: Tech man, teg man, Willie? How are we looking well
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 7: Willy?
Speaker 9: The Reds are one week away from starting off of
Speaker 9: the Cactus League. Yeah, and uh, the FC Cincinnati looks
Speaker 9: like they're about a week away from starting their season.
Speaker 1: Also, we got Mick Cronin coming to town more or
Speaker 1: less Indiana.
Speaker 9: Your comments on that, Oh, the Bruins played tonight against
Speaker 9: the Hoosiers and the Hoosiers aren't playing too well, So
Speaker 9: I would I would say that, mister Cronin, if the
Speaker 9: Bruins play well, they're going to get a dub.
Speaker 1: Got to talk about the comments of Jonathan Jonathan what
Speaker 1: he talked about the Reds last year, talked about that
Speaker 1: in a moment segment.
Speaker 2: Get me into the Stooge report.
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Speaker 9: the Irish defense this past season to fifteen points a game.
Speaker 9: If he can do that in the NFL, put the
Speaker 9: ring on the finger of the Bengals.
Speaker 1: What about Jim truck So becoming the vice president slash
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor. I interviewed him about an hour or so ago,
Speaker 1: and I like the idea he comes horizontally, not vertically
Speaker 1: up from politics, but his learning curve might be a
Speaker 1: bit steep.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Richard K.
Speaker 1: Jones couldn't be the lieutenant governor, and maybe Trusten couldn't
Speaker 1: be the sheriff. But eventually Jim Trassell is there as
Speaker 1: kind of like a backup plan for Mike DeWine. Please
Speaker 1: continue segment.
Speaker 9: College basketball today Willy the NKU Norris Or at Green
Speaker 9: Bay at six thirty on the ESPN fifteen thirty, Wright
Speaker 9: State at Milwaukee, and as we said, UCLA takes on
Speaker 9: Indiana tomorrow. Double header here on seven hundred w WELW
Speaker 9: kicks off at noon from the Centas Center as a
Speaker 9: Xavier Place host to the Paul Blue Demons, and then
Speaker 9: at three point thirty, the Cincinnati Bearcats are up against
Speaker 9: Big twelve rival and number ten Iowa State.
Speaker 1: If they need to make an impact after winning three
Speaker 1: games in a row, they must beat the Cyclones in Iowa.
Speaker 2: Do you agree?
Speaker 9: But Clones haven't lost at home in like three years.
Speaker 1: One lost, Well, you're gonna lose at some point.
Speaker 9: The tep hope segment I will also tomorrow Kentucky and Texas.
Speaker 1: The Cats and the Horns go at it.
Speaker 9: Miami goes for win number twenty of the season versus
Speaker 9: Western Michigan, to cane up against the Dayton Flyers and
Speaker 9: number one Auburn versus number two Alabama World Tide.
Speaker 1: Now segment, you're ignoring the comments Jonathan India, Now, yes
Speaker 1: you are. You're ignoring him because they're unkind Please tell
Speaker 1: the American people. But the twenty twenty one Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Years said about the Reds. He said that the
Speaker 1: Reds need to they need a kick and then you
Speaker 1: know where will he. That's what they.
Speaker 9: Need and they you know, they needed they need some leadership,
Speaker 9: and obviously David Bell didn't do that. So that's why
Speaker 9: they got Terry Francota in there to write things up
Speaker 9: and get it going.
Speaker 1: The quote is quote that Tito hiring is used for
Speaker 1: the Reds.
Speaker 2: They need it.
Speaker 1: That they need discipline, they need five in their ass.
Speaker 1: So the last few years under David Bell, they didn't
Speaker 1: have discipline and their ass was not on fire. You're
Speaker 1: comment like this show, I'm on fire all the time
Speaker 1: tonight about this team.
Speaker 4: I'm just getting pumped up about it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Castellini. I'm excited over the last twelve years,
Speaker 1: since twenty thirteen. I think this is the rest ball
Speaker 1: best Reds ball club they've had since twenty thirteen. I
Speaker 1: would think so feel the same way, Sake, thank you.
Speaker 1: Do you feel the same way? Yes, get you? I
Speaker 1: do as I said the Reds. This town is ready
Speaker 1: to re up for something.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 1: Three or four years ago, the Bearcats are in the
Speaker 1: final four to win the national title. You had the
Speaker 1: Bengals that were in the Super Bowl, you had the
Speaker 1: Reds huntering along, and here we are in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: We need something to excite us. It's been thirty years
Speaker 1: since they won a playoff series. Has time to get
Speaker 1: it done and I have hope a segment. All we
Speaker 1: have is hope, hope, hope and more hope. Well, the
Speaker 1: hockey busy weekend for the Cyclones. There at Fort Wayne
Speaker 1: tonight in Bloomington Tomorrow at three o'clock. Mattinee face off
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Indie Fuel, USA and Canada tomorrow night
Speaker 1: and the Four Nations faceoff tournament. Because of a threat
Speaker 1: of rain in South Florida on Sunday, the start time
Speaker 1: for the DAYTONA five hundred has been moved up to
Speaker 1: one thirty PM and it's one hundred days. So the
Speaker 1: running of the Indianapolis five hundred tech Man, were you
Speaker 1: shocked when Jim Trussell was selected as the lieutenant governor?
Speaker 1: Were you shocked by that? Because I know I think
Speaker 1: Richard K. Jones was offered the job and he said no.
Speaker 1: Really were you shocked?
Speaker 4: Ye know that?
Speaker 9: Well, he wants to be the high sheriff. Will he
Speaker 9: didn't want to leave Butler County.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can.
Speaker 1: You know he almost ran for the Congress with Warren
Speaker 1: David a seat when Bayner left. Right now, I mean,
Speaker 1: trust was seventy two years old, never been in politics.
Speaker 1: And when I asked him are you registered to vote?
Speaker 1: He said I think I am. And I said are
Speaker 1: you a registered republic And he said I think so.
Speaker 1: I said, did you vote for Mike de Wine? He said, uh,
Speaker 1: I believe I did so. Uh. You know he's got
Speaker 1: a steep learning to curve. Would you agree, Uh? Yeah slightly?
Speaker 1: And then what do you think?
Speaker 9: I mean, you're the political analyst of the big One.
Speaker 9: I mean, uh, it'll make any difference what I think?
Speaker 9: What what do you think about the move? I'll say this,
Speaker 9: it is out of the box. It is something that
Speaker 9: no one saw coming. He could have anointed someone to
Speaker 9: more or less run against David Yost for governor and
Speaker 9: or to take Ramaswami, and that would have made it
Speaker 9: a three way, and no one likes a three way.
Speaker 9: So I would say provo except the skyline.
Speaker 1: And so I would say he made a decision to
Speaker 1: have a caretaker, someone who was there just in case.
Speaker 1: And when I asked Jim Trussell after one o'clock, are
Speaker 1: you going to form an exploratory committee to see if
Speaker 1: you're going to run for governor? He didn't know what
Speaker 1: exploratory committee was. So he's got a steep learning curve.
Speaker 1: But under Mike DeWine, he's got time to do it,
Speaker 1: and he's completely.
Speaker 2: Shall I say, uh, useless.
Speaker 1: If Mike Dwine serves the next two years, which he
Speaker 1: says he is, he's not going to get sick, he's
Speaker 1: not going to die, he's not going to keep doing
Speaker 1: his job. But if some tragedy strikes, then Jim trust
Speaker 1: was going to be the governor, and that all help
Speaker 1: breaks blues because then you have a sitting Governor. Crap's
Speaker 1: running against Babak Ramaswami and David Yost.
Speaker 2: Now you've got real issues. So I don't know what
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad he picked someone outside the box who's
Speaker 1: not in politics. Right because Mike the Wine's been there
Speaker 1: for half a century. He knows that the bodies are
Speaker 1: buried everywhere. Correct. So Tressel, I think, compared to the alternatives,
Speaker 1: was a good choice. I would tend to agree with
Speaker 1: that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2: Gimme some more.
Speaker 1: That's all I got. Oh, you got nothing else going on?
Speaker 3: Segment.
Speaker 1: Another issue is spark Landing. I'm glad you brought this up. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a case called Brandenburg versus Ohio.
Speaker 2: You might remember sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a group of so called Ku Klux
Speaker 1: Klan members to shout stupid racist slogans all over the
Speaker 1: place and it got to o higher than the US
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and they said, relative to the so called
Speaker 1: neo Nazis in and around Lincoln Heights, that you have
Speaker 1: the right to say and make a fool of yourself
Speaker 1: all you want, do, whatever you want to do, and
Speaker 1: it's legal. And what has to happen is a call
Speaker 1: for violence. So unless they called for violence against someone,
Speaker 1: whether it was Evendale or Lincoln Heights, they have the
Speaker 1: right to do what they did, and they did what
Speaker 1: they did. The only way to stop it would be
Speaker 1: to have a permit requirement with minimal requirements. And I'm
Speaker 1: interested to ask this question segment. You're ready for a question,
Speaker 1: go right ahead. It appears that they used a rental van.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who rented
Speaker 1: the van, right, where is the van from? Who are
Speaker 1: these guys, what are their intent So instead of hollering,
Speaker 1: shouting and screaming, how about doing some police work, find
Speaker 1: out where the band came from, who leased it, and
Speaker 1: what are their intentions? What they're doing. What they did
Speaker 1: at this point was completely legal. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Black Lives Matter on the radical left I
Speaker 1: want to tear things down, throw objects through the front
Speaker 1: window of the Justice Center and breaking the stores all
Speaker 1: over Cincinnati, or on the right neo Nazis, the First
Speaker 1: Amendment covers those activities unless there's a call for violence. Now,
Speaker 1: when Black Lives Matter riots and protests took place, there
Speaker 1: was a call for violence. In fact, violence took place
Speaker 1: a little bit in Cincinnati, but mainly all over the
Speaker 1: rest of the country. And so I'm against violence on
Speaker 1: the left and the right and the right. Right now,
Speaker 1: if some neo Nazis, so called neo Nazis self describe,
Speaker 1: want to run a van going to public property and
Speaker 1: unferrol swastikas, I don't like it.
Speaker 2: You don't like it, but damn it, it's legal.
Speaker 1: And the way to stop it is to investigate them
Speaker 1: a little bit, which you can through the license plate number,
Speaker 1: or secondly, have Evendale or Lincoln height little bit of
Speaker 1: a permit requirement, which means minimal requirements would be had
Speaker 1: on a permit. You can't you can't have permits for
Speaker 1: subject matter streaming, hollering and shouting. But as far as
Speaker 1: time manner in place, the answer would be, yes, you
Speaker 1: can do that. So what needs to happen. Number one,
Speaker 1: they have the right to do it. Number two, who
Speaker 1: are they? What are their intentions? And if they don't
Speaker 1: call for immediate violence, which I understand the Nazis did
Speaker 1: not do, they have the right to do what they did,
Speaker 1: just like Black Lives Matter have their rights to go
Speaker 1: into public square, public property and shout racial slogans, but
Speaker 1: when it crosses in the line of riots, then you
Speaker 1: don't have the right to do that. And so that's
Speaker 1: my take on it. Segment what is yours sounds pretty
Speaker 1: good to me. You can't disagree with me, then, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, what am I going to say?
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, find out I'm sure they're going
Speaker 9: to find out where that van was rented, yeah, and
Speaker 9: everything else. I'm sure the detectives are on it. And
Speaker 9: then all of a sudden, you know, they end up
Speaker 9: at that what the elementary school the other day in Lachland,
Speaker 9: I mean, what, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Well, if they were on public property not advocating violence
Speaker 1: against anybody, much like the right to practice your religion,
Speaker 1: freedom of speech is kind of important. And so if
Speaker 1: you want to go on public property and make a
Speaker 1: fool of yourself and not call for violence, that is
Speaker 1: protected free speech. I hate to find myself on the
Speaker 1: same side of the table as the ACLU, But when
Speaker 1: I look at Louis Sturkin and others, they give coach
Speaker 1: to the inquir saying, look, we don't like the subject
Speaker 1: matter content of what they're saying. But you can't pick
Speaker 1: and choose which constitutional rights will be upheld which will
Speaker 1: not be with held. Right and there's five rights in
Speaker 1: the First Amendment. The most important of these the freedom
Speaker 1: of speech. And they got the right to do it
Speaker 1: as long as they do not advocate for violence, imminent violence.
Speaker 1: And they did not, And I would add that Sheriff
Speaker 1: Charmaine McGuffey, our fine democratic sheriff of Hamlet the county,
Speaker 1: said there was not an advocation for violence. So the
Speaker 1: cops can stand by and watch, and that's it. Now
Speaker 1: if they advocate for violence, they can arrest them and
Speaker 1: then charge them criminally. But number one, what not happen
Speaker 1: is Evendale and Lincolnites out of past ordinances on time
Speaker 1: manner in place of protests, so they can know the
Speaker 1: identity of these people. Secondly, they then have to provide
Speaker 1: the space available for them to say whatever stupid things
Speaker 1: they want to say. And that's part of the deal
Speaker 1: of being a great American. I don't want to live
Speaker 1: in a country with the five freedoms in the First Amendment.
Speaker 2: There's only four. No, there's five, and all five in.
Speaker 1: The First Amendment are individual guarantees from the federal government.
Speaker 1: As to what our rights are, the freedom of speech, freedom, religion,
Speaker 1: freedom to press, freedom assembly, freedom to petition your government.
Speaker 1: And these nail Nazis, despite we hated, what they had
Speaker 1: to say was seeking to petition government. I says, I
Speaker 1: guess to do something. I'm not sure what it was,
Speaker 1: but whatever it was, they have the right to do it.
Speaker 1: And law enforcement has no duty, no right to arrest
Speaker 1: people exercising First Amendment freedoms on public property as long
Speaker 1: as violence is not advocated. And for someone to suggest
Speaker 1: these should be arrest because they unferral of the Gestapo
Speaker 1: symbols or the Nazi symbols, or Black Lives Matter and
Speaker 1: the radical left they've said they've done and a bunch
Speaker 1: whole bunch is really stupid things. And I want both
Speaker 1: extreme groups they have the ability to express themselves without
Speaker 1: advocating violence. Now, when I look at US congressman today,
Speaker 1: I hear congressmen like Congressman Garcia of Texas talk about
Speaker 1: taking weapons to the street. And that's a democratic US
Speaker 1: congressman opposing doggie, opposing he wants weapons in the street. Now,
Speaker 1: that's a lot closer to advocating violence than I think
Speaker 1: a congressman should.
Speaker 2: Don the Yeah, what is it? What do we do? Runs?
Speaker 1: And Johnny Crawford, Yes, I get it, but calm down
Speaker 1: a little bit. Put in requirements for time, place, and
Speaker 1: manner of protest, not controlling subject matter, and then find
Speaker 1: out who these people are.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on them, and away you go. And
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. Second, man, get me out
Speaker 1: of the Stew's report. Lots of stuff going on. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Eddie and the Rock are standing box.
Speaker 9: Will you, in honor of everybody, have a good weekend
Speaker 9: and happy Valentine's Day to one at all. And now
Speaker 9: watch out for the rain coming up tomorrow and Saturday
Speaker 9: and Sunday.
Speaker 1: We leave four inches.
Speaker 9: We leave you with the immortal words of the stew Report.
Speaker 1: See highway patrol again next week.
Speaker 6: Until then, remember, breakfast driving doesn't determine who's right, only
Speaker 6: who's left.
Speaker 1: This is Roderick Crawford saying, see you next week and
Speaker 1: seg the other argument available if you unferl these symbols
Speaker 1: on an overpass of I seventy five. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a different twist because drivers coming in
Speaker 1: and under I seventy five could look up and see it.
Speaker 1: That's another twist to the idea of you know what,
Speaker 1: that's a risk of advocating violence indirectly by causing maybe
Speaker 1: motorists to lose control of their car. That's true. Evendale,
Speaker 1: Lincoln Heights, get together time man or in place to
Speaker 1: protest no subject matter of control.
Speaker 2: And have them do what they're going to do.
Speaker 1: And maybe they can deny the opportunity to protest on
Speaker 1: the overpass and protest somewhere else or there's not a
Speaker 1: danger of vehicular traffic segment. Thank you till the cunning
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