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Speaker 1: All right, Billy Cunningham, the great American. Of course, Reds baseball kicks off for six more exciting games. Got three in Atlanta, then I think three in Toronto or somewhere. The Blue Jays and the Braves. And then we'll see what happens the next year. Of course, Bengals continue to lead the central, I'm sorry, the northern division of the AFC with a 2-0 record playing in Pittsburgh. But more important stuff's going on if you drive for a living, if you drive for recreation purposes. As you know, you may have noticed that the gasoline prices are rising, especially diesel. And right now in Ohio, there's almost $ 6 a gallon. And there's been a movement by some in order to eliminate for about a 90-day period the gas tax. And there's been some reporting on that. Vivek Ramaswamy and GOP leaders unveil immediate gas tax relief plan to Ohioans. And joining you now is the man in charge of Columbus. At this point is Matt Huffman, former president of the Senate. Now he's the Speaker of the House. His name is mentioned liberally in this press release. And Matt Huffman, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, as we sit here this afternoon, can you tell me where the discussions are relative to eliminating the gas tax for about 90 days?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Bill, for having me on. So we have.
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Speaker 3: I think several Republicans, Adam Byrd, for example, and Ty Matthews had a bill to reduce it 50% earlier this year. We've talked about this. I think many of us thought, well, after Labor Day, perhaps things will change. It's gotten a lot worse. It has changed. And, you know, of course, the war in Iran, Russia is no longer exporting oil because of their war with Ukraine. And I think we have decided collectively with the folks, and hopefully the House will decide collectively also, that Ohioans deserve and need relief from this thing of the gas tax. We're going to do this in a way to make sure that the payment for road construction and repair and maintenance will continue. We have other funds that can do that, including funds currently, and if necessary, the rainy day fund. But all of those things, we want to make sure road construction continues, but we'll be able to knock 38.5 cents off. off a regular and 48 and a half cents off diesel if.
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Speaker 2: We can pass this.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to call the House back in session next Wednesday in working with Senate President McCauley. I believe he intends to do that either Wednesday or Thursday, also next week, so that we can get this done.
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Speaker 1: Matt Huffman, we've had on the governor before. In fact, I played earlier a cut from Governor Mike DeWine, who said this was a bad idea because it's going to drain the highway fund in the state of Ohio, which means we're going to have more potholes And bridges will not be built. And as a consequence, the governor up to this point, as we sit here on Tuesday afternoon, up to this point has said he's against it. So can you do that? Have you talked to the governor? Are you two on the same page? Is the governor going to fight you on this or not?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think when he said that, that was six months ago. Things were different six months ago. That's one. Two, the main issue that he raises about not having fun, bottles, all of that business, that.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't be true under this proposal.
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Speaker 3: As to your other questions, I talked to the governor yesterday about something completely different.
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Speaker 2: I talked to him on.
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Speaker 3: A fairly regular basis, but I haven't called him up and said, what do you think of this plan or anything like that? Of course, we're going to talk about it, but this is something where the legislature has to act. I think that folks need relief. They need it now, not maybe sometime in the future.
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Speaker 1: Well, Mr. Speaker, if this happens, I think most people, 99 percent, would be in favor of it. If the governor down the road vetoes this, do you have the votes to override the veto?
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know the answer to that. You know, we.
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Speaker 3: Have 65 Republicans, and I think most Republicans are going to show up and vote to do this. One of the nuances, of course, in the House is for this to become immediately effective, it would have to have an emergency clause, which requires 66 votes in the House or two-thirds. But some Democrats are going to have to vote for this for it to be immediately effective. I think they will. I think most people realize that this is a real problem. If Governor DeWine decides he wants to veto something that 66 or more members of the House and 22 or more members of the Senate are in favor of, trying to keep that from happening is a bit of a fool's errand, in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: So politically, this would put Democrats in the horns of a dilemma. One, they could vote with you to eliminate the gas tax, which is significant money per gallon, or they could oppose that, keeping gas taxes high. Let me guess. I mean, I would have to think that even Democrats would want to give put politics to the side. Is it good for Ohioans to pay less money for gasoline? And that's the issue. And if Democrats want to play politics. I'm with you. I would imagine several, especially Democrats in tough districts, are going to vote with you, with the Republicans, to even override the governor's veto. But in a sense, with or without the governor's veto, you've still got to get two-thirds of the House, two-thirds of the Senate. So in a sense, what Governor DeWine wants is kind of irrelevant, isn't it? For an emergency, you need two-thirds anyway, which is what it costs to override a governor's veto. Is that correct?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, actually only needs 60 votes to override the governor's veto. But the emergency clause, again, adds those extra six votes on there under the Constitution. Look, this is not a radical proposal here. We're talking about a 90-day delay, or not delay. People are not going to have to pay the tax. when that 90 days is gone. And we're talking about replacing the funds for repair and maintenance. That's not a radical proposal by any stretch. I think anybody who says, well, I'm just not gonna vote or, and by the way, Bill, a lot of folks decide conveniently they couldn't be there that day or they're there that day and they sprint down the hall so they can avoid the consequences of their vote. I'll tell you when you're Speaker of the House, you don't get any of those luxuries, by the way. And so I have a hard time believing anybody would vote for this, whether it's a politics thing or it's a public policy thing. And I hope that Governor DeWine would see the same point.
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Speaker 1: Speaker Huffman, when would it become effective? Many laws, if it's an emergency, let's say we're sitting here in two weeks. It's around October the 3rd, October the 4th, October the 5th. Hump did he do? House and the Senate have done it. You got two-thirds or more. When would it become effective?
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Speaker 3: My intention is to have the House session on next Wednesday. Again, Senator McCauley controls the Senate. The Senate president controls what the Senate does. But in talking with him and shaping this, we've talked about both meeting together on Wednesday, passing it again as an emergency meeting. And instead of the 90-day period typically required by the Constitution, if passed as an emergency with a two-thirds vote, it becomes effective immediately upon the governor's signature. He must act within 10 days of the passage of the legislature. If he does it on October 1st, then that's when it would happen, if we get the votes, which I hope that we do get the votes next week. And if he does that, if he kind of thinks about it for a while and does it on October 10th, well, then it would be effective on October 10th. But again, what we're contemplating here is for 90 days.
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Speaker 1: Would it be immediate relief? So when I'm paying $ 4. 29 a gallon and those with diesel.
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Speaker 1: Are paying approximately $ 7 a gallon. What if the oil companies say, ah, we're just going to pocket the difference and make it a profit? In other words, what guarantee is there that Shell Oil and that BP is actually going to take off about 40 to 50 cents a gallon?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, a couple of things.
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Speaker 3: So your 428 would become 390. And of course, the diesel is 10 cents more than the ordinary gas. I think people say this, but I think it bears in mind that oil companies will sell gasoline at the highest price they can possibly get people to buy it. And people get mad about whatever the price is, but eventually... people.
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Speaker 2: Will change their behavior.
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Speaker 3: People will say, hey, I'm going to carpool. I'm only going to make one trip to the mall today. I'm only going to do whatever it is. And in the midterm, people will buy a different car or their carpool more or whatever to save. In the long term, they won't live 14 miles from where they work. They'll decide, hey, I'm going to move. I can't afford to pay five or six bucks a gallon if it.
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Speaker 2: Gets to that.
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Speaker 3: This should provide immediate relief. And I think what we'll have, and again, we have a free market. We've got a lot of places you can buy gasoline. And if one guy across the street is doing $ 4. 28 and this guy is saying, I'm not charging the tax over here.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to put it back on you. Mine's $ 3. 90.
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Speaker 3: Everybody go to the guy who's $ 0.
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Speaker 2: 38 cheaper. That's what I would say.
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Speaker 1: And a certain U.S. senator, a friend of both of us, has told me the president trump is seriously considering suspending the federal gas tax which is another 20 to 30 cents so put these two things together it's uh for diesel it's almost a dollar a gallon and uh that that's yeah yeah Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean, people should know, of course, the states can't suspend the federal gas tax. But I think that's that's another additional thing. And I think that that it's all part of a, you know, again, these problems are created by the couple international situations we call them. And also, I think it's there's a longer term effect about not drilling for oil and which we're catching up with. I think that's not as big a deal as what's happening in Russia and Iran, of course, right now. But, you know, again, people are going to start making decisions based on what they can afford to do. I had somebody send me a thing that said, hey, I drive my daughter down to dance class three days a week from Columbus to Dayton. And instead of doing that, we're getting a hotel room because hotels are cheaper. Well, that's what people are going to start doing. They're going to stay in the hotel instead of driving back and forth. Of course, what that also means is the price of hotel rooms are going to go up because there'll be more demand. But you also, there's all these other decisions people make.
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Speaker 5: You know what?
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to drive back.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to stay at my sister's house overnight because of the price of gas.
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Speaker 2: Those are the short-term decisions.
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Speaker 3: And that's what drives down the price of any product or service is the market acting. But the market doesn't act quickly enough for many people. That's why suspending this gas tax for 90 days is a good idea.
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Speaker 2: I think.
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Speaker 1: Speaker Huffman is kind of rich in a political party that votes against the Keystone Pipeline. that votes against fracking, that votes against other pipelines, that votes against the refinery capacity, that votes against the clean coal, that votes against nuclear power plants. It's kind of rich that political party now say, hey, wait a minute. Price of gasoline is going up. Well, it's partially going up because of your policies. And when I look at a state like California, they have seven refineries and Gavin Newsom has shut down two more refineries. They're down to five. And in California, they're paying ten dollars a gallon for diesel. It's kind of rich that liberal Democrats who brought about this crisis as the predicate now stand by. Boy, look at this. This is unbelievable. The gas taxes, the price of gas is going up. Yeah, it's going up because of your policies. Can you smell what I'm cooking? Now you got me a little bit pissed off. The Democrats are the ones that have caused this crisis in the first place. Layer on top of that, the righteous war in Iran. And on top of that, the fact that the economy is pretty strong, despite the protestations of my executive producer, Tony Bender. But the political party that caused this shortage is now complaining about it. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I can't come on, as you know, come on your show without talking about how great the city of Lima is. And we've got the world's largest or longest operating refinery here in Lima, Ohio. The Synovus Refinery has been in operation since John Rockefeller built it in 1885. There's a pipeline that goes directly from the northern sands.
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Speaker 2: In northern Alberta. I got to visit it this summer. Tremendous complex.
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Speaker 3: And it goes from there to Lima, Ohio. And through the years, there have been a whole number of people protesting. And frankly, this creation of the climate crisis and we have to stop burning carbon fuels. which I think has largely been debunked now. And that was being done by people who were making money off of building windmills and solar panels. We're reaping the benefit or the detriment of that, and we're catching up. Now, the problem is what we should have been doing is building more refineries or building out capacity in refineries in.
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Speaker 2: Places like Lima.
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Speaker 3: We've had people opposed to drilling on public lands where the state of Ohio could make a lot of money. That was held up over the last several years. made it difficult to get permits in eastern Ohio to drill for oil and gas. We talked to the producers who are not big oil companies. This isn't Shell and places like that. There are a lot of small operators, family operators in eastern Ohio.
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Speaker 2: Who've been doing this for years.
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Speaker 3: And people, of course, are making money leasing out their property for drilling. Talk to them about the trouble that they've had with the environmental lobby and a whole number of other people just getting to these products. Now, You know, it's not all because of one place. I think people aren't talking about the fact that Russia is no longer exporting oil onto the international market, which because that's how they're funding, of course, their government and a lot of their war machine. But they're running out of oil for what they're doing with Ukraine. So that's driven up the price of oil, too. You know, what happened with Venezuela over the last 15 years, that's caused an increase. President Trump's taken action, and that's going to begin to solve it. But again, those are long-term solutions. And again, people can control their destiny somewhat with their individual decisions. What the legislature in the state of Ohio can do is help people in the short term with this gas tax suspension.
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Speaker 1: Let's leave it at that. We have the cleanest air and the cleanest water in America for the last 150 years. I'm against pollution, but I'm also in favor of energy production. And the two things should not be at each other's throats. And when Democrats make a fortune from windmills and solar panels, that's driving the so-called green agenda. It is not keeping the air clean, which it is already. But Speaker of the House Matt Huffman, look forward to more discussions, hopefully within the next two weeks. price of gasoline goes down precipitously and let freedom ring. Matt Huffman of the great county of Allen County, Lima, the home of the Kewpie Burgers. Thanks again for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Matt, you're a great American.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, Bill.
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Speaker 1: God bless America. Let's continue with more. There it is. Layer up all the difficulties. That's why gasoline is high as it is. At least some political party is going to fight to lower it. And the other political party is worried about windmills. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham, 700 WLW. All right, Dave Keaton, hit the music, hit the music. Not very good music, by the way, but hit the music. Let's set up the rest of today's big show, plus my research behind the scenes. Number one, Brad Wenstrup will be here at 106 today to talk about what's happening in Iran and why it's critically important. I remarked to him off the air that there was a book written by my all-time hero president as a kid. That was John F. Kennedy Jr., elected in 1960, as you know, and every Catholic home had a picture of the Pope, John XXIII, and also John F. Kennedy before he was murdered in Dealey Plaza by Lee Harvey Oswald. He wrote a book in the late 1950s, allegedly written by Ted Sorensen, but that's a different story. The title of the book was Profiles in Courage. These were political characters throughout history that took some hits politically, but long-term made the right decision. And that's Donald Trump. You may not want to hear this if you're Greg Lansman or a Democrat, but every Democrat since 1979 has said that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. And they say that because everyone knows in the world they would use it. Unlike other nations with nuclear weapons that may be outlaws, like North Korea or Pakistan, or India, let's face it, no one fears one of the other nuclear powers like Israel, France, or England, or Germany to launch nuclear weapons. Iran is different. The Revolutionary Guard in charge of Iran are very similar to Al-Qaeda, or Al-Shabaab, or Boko Haram, or the Taliban, or Hezbollah, Hamas, whatever branch out of that horrible tree of Islamic terrorism Right at the top, the thickest one, of course, would be Iran. Because the Revolutionary Guard believes that the way they get to heaven is to kill large numbers of people in a brutal way, including their own people. 100,000 have been murdered in the past year by the regime in Tehran. During the Irani-Iraqi War, there was over a million Muslims that were murdered and killed using weapons of mass destruction, which was mustard gas, etc. This is not a typical outlaw republic, for example, like North Korea. These guys are real, and when the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, in Switzerland says they are preparing to launch nuclear weapons, they have nuclear-grade material, some 900 pounds of it, they can now marry to a missile and go down in a blaze of glory, which is their goal. It is a death cult. They don't care about life. They care about how you die and who you murder to get to heaven. How about that for a religion? Democrats have said it can't happen. Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, the derelict have all said the same thing. We finally have a president that has made the calculation that it may cost me political popularity. It may cost my party seats in the midterms. But I have to leave the country in better shape than I found it. That is a profile in courage. It would have been easy for Trump to kick the can down the road, maybe to give the Iranian leadership, representatives of al-Qaeda, another billion dollars or so, give it back to them, which is what Barack Hussein Obama did, and Joe Biden sent billions of dollars to Iran. for reasons completely unclear to me. To have this president stand up and say, you know what? This may not be popular right now, but long-term, we cannot have nuclear proliferation in the hands of Al-Qaeda-type individuals, which is the RG, the Revolutionary Guard in Tehran, who said they would use it. Death to Israel, but death to America. They would use it. So you think we've got problems now with gasoline at maybe $ 4.
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Speaker 5: 29 a gallon?
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Speaker 1: Imagine a nuclear war involving Israel, Iran, and America. We would be plunged into a new dark age. And I'm proud to have a president who says what he means and means what he says and is doing, is acting differently than Democrats would do in the same position. He doesn't fund terrorism, Donald Trump. He defeats it.
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Speaker 6: Democrats.
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Speaker 1: give the terrorists billions of dollars to fund terrorism all around the world, including on October the 7th of this year, which will be the third anniversary. According to German newspapers, there are stashes of large weapons all over Europe to be used by Islamic terrorists to kill French and English and Germans in commemoration of the murder of 2,000 Jews on October the 7th, 2023. And you could line up the number of terrorist attacks sponsored by Iran against America going back almost now 48 years. It's unbelievable. And so to confront this ideology, it must be done. The leadership of the Islamic terrorists in America say, not bullets, but ballots. They freely say in their mosques that.
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Speaker 1: We can't defeat America with bullets. We will defeat her with ballots and babies. That's what they're telling you. Listen to what they're saying. And large parts of America is now controlled by Islamic extremists like in Dearborn, Michigan and New York City. And Dr. Abdul, who's not a doctor in Michigan, is leading all the polls to become a U.S. senator, for God's sakes. Not bullets. Make it ballots. And to his credit, James Carville and Rahm Emanuel understand the dangers of the democratic socialists of America in union with Islamic extremism. Now you got issues. And so when you vote in about six weeks, consider the possibility of large chunks of America controlled by Islamic terrorists and extremists as Dearborn, Michigan is today. It's not happening at some point in the future. They talk about ballots and babies. The average Muslim woman gives birth to about four babies in her life. The average American woman gives birth to about 1.2. Go ahead, 20 years. What does America look like? It looks like Europe. So this evil must be confronted. And there's large branches of Islam, like the mosque in Westchester, that is not on that branch. How many terrorist acts have been committed by the Muslims inside greater Cincinnati? The answer is zero. Zero. Much like Catholics and Lutherans and Protestants and Methodists of every description, Amish. There's different branches of Christianity. But in America... the great majority of the mosques here are not radical. But there is a minority of mosques and imams in this country who demand that the call to prayer start at six o'clock in the morning. You'll be in an airport with a foot washing basin. There's the other branch of Islam that says, we got to take over the world, which by the way, they've done in large chunks of mother planet. You might recall, as I do, In 1801, 1802, 1803, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the marine hymn. And the shores of Tripoli refers to Muslim extremists in northern Africa, in Tripoli, Libya, seizing and enslaving Americans on ships. By the way, I'm proud to say America and Western Europe stopped slavery while the rest of the world practice it for a thousand years before we came on board and continues to practice it today. That Americans stopped slavery with the English and the rest of the Arab world continues it through today. There's more slaves alive today than ever before, mainly captured by Arab Muslim societies. So those are the facts. And so for those who say, well, this is a war of choice. No, it's not. They declared war on America as long ago as 1801 when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House. And it continued. So Brad Wenstrup, in about 15 minutes, will talk about that. I wish my president was a bit more linguistically great to make the connection between the shores of Tripoli to 1979, the Ayatollah, to the hundreds of acts of terrorism committed by Muslims inside of America, and the 100,000 acts of terrorism committed by Muslim extremists in the past 50 years, killing hundreds of thousands, mainly other Muslims, right? And so that's the connection I think Brad Winstrup will make at that point. I would also add a little bit on the flap going on with Robert Kraft, who likes those... Asian massages, for example. And I would say to him and Macklemore, shut up and sing, number one. I'm not here to listen to you sprout your political viewpoints, which, by the way, I don't know much about Macklemore, or I don't know much about sharing the sharing character. But nonetheless, if they start talking politics, I might say, shut up and sing. But nonetheless, in America today, if a black person owned a venue in which he refused to allow races to appear, he'd be applauded. If a woman owned a venue in which she refused to allow some male misogynist to perform, she would be hailed a hero by the media. If a Muslim owned a venue in which he refused to allow a Jew to perform or sing, there'd be rallies to support him. But when a Jew, Robert Kraft, owns a venue in Boston, in which he refuses to allow an anti-Semite to perform in his stadium, he's an evil human being silencing free speech.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: I don't think so. You see, promoters and venue owners and headliners are not government agencies or public officials. These entities have private contracts and insurance and stadium leases and hundreds of thousands of ticket holders who paid for a concert not to attend unwittingly a political rally. So after this McLemore character used his platform to spout forth lies and hatred about Jews and It's completely proper for a Jew to say, not in my house. Do it somewhere else. Certainly have lots of access to do it somewhere else. Which brings me on to CNN and MSNOW. They're crying crocodile tears. You know, they've been banned from the White House grounds because of their coverage, which, by the way, is awful. It's terrible. There's no independent journalism taking place whatsoever at CNN or MSNOW. None, zero, zilch, nada. It doesn't happen. Give you some recent examples about this, about CNN, that CNN, Politico, et cetera, lied about Biden's dementia. They lied about COVID, right? COVID-19. They lied about January the 6th. CNN lied about Russian collusion delusions of one type or another. They lied repeatedly about Trump being a rapist, never declared so by anyone. CNN lied about Hunter Biden's laptop. They lied about the 2020 election. They lied about border security, you know, the most secure border in American history. They lied about mostly peaceful riots. The George Floyd riots, you know, were mostly peaceful. CNN went on with their lies about Charlottesville, about a lab leak. Remember, it was a bat in some cave. They lied about Trump being a dictator, and they spew hatred and racism every day. And I'm going to get upset about them being denied a press access to the White House? I don't think so. They're not legitimate. They're not a real media source. They're a left-wing hit job now acquired by Paramount, and they may be out of business soon. So, you know, free press means a lot to me. I spout my opinions, too. I don't think I'm banned from anywhere, but I have difficulty getting Democrats on, and that's not censorship. I understand that Greg Lansman has agreed to come on with me. That's great. We've asked Amy Acton several times to sit down with me for one hour interview, and she has said no. In fact, she said no to almost everyone. I want to get Amy Acton in that seat, and let me ask her questions. She has plenty of time to answer when I invite someone as a guest today. In my house, I treat them like a guest. I'll probe them a little bit to talk about inconsistencies, but it's hard for me to get Democrats to come here. Is that press censorship? I don't think so. They have a right to conduct their own campaigns and form public opinion. But to call CNN independent, fair and balanced would be ridiculous. It's not true. In fact, last night I watched Caitlin Collins have some Trump administration officials on with her from the U.N., The ban is from the White House grounds. No one has a right to a media pass to the White House. Yours truly included. And let's continue. By the way, lastly, I had a great guest on yesterday, Dr. Bill Barrett and John Barrett. And the website is Cincinnati Cancer Advisors. It is independent. It is free to you. It's a second opinion. So if you have cancer, someone in your family, I've gotten hundreds of texts about this. Cincinnati Cancer Advisors is where you go to get a second opinion. No matter what your cancer is, they'll give you a second opinion at no cost to you. It may take a few days. Within 24 hours, they'll get back to you, fill out a form, and then they consult the greatest experts in the world in exactly the cancer that you have for a result to make sure that your doctor is following the best medical advice from John Hopkins, from the James, from MD Anderson, et cetera. So the website is Cincinnati Cancer Advisors, and it's free of charge to you to get a second opinion, which all great doctors do. Whenever I deal with Dr. Dean Kariakis at the Christ Hospital, he's often given second opinions, and if he gives a diagnosis, he wants to get another doc, maybe from the James or maybe from Cleveland Clinic, to confirm his evaluations. It's got a team of doctors down there, but they don't have all the answers. Most of them, yes. So getting a second opinion is critical. It begins if you have cancer with Cincinnati Cancer Advisors. If it's a heart issue, it's the Christ Hospital. And check out Debbie Hayes is the CEO there. And Dean Kariakis runs the best heart clinic in America. Access to all the other ones to make sure you're getting the best treatment here in Cincinnati. Can you smell what I'm cooking? Stay tuned for Brad Wenstrom. 1256, home of your Reds, playing tonight in Atlanta. And the Bengals. Here's Radio 700.
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Speaker 2: WLW.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Of course, we're a few days removed from September the 11th. And right now the president is in the U.N. meeting a lot of powwows going on. And CNN and MSNOW has a serious case of the goo-goo. Because they can't cover the president as much as they would like, which, by the way, I think is a great idea. I think the less we see of Donald Trump many times, the better. And it doesn't bother me one bit. And I don't need to get information from CNN or MSNOW anyway. It's not objective. It's not fair. It's not independent. It's their opinion from a left-side perspective. But even more importantly, right now, the Iranian war is on the front burner. And the president is going to have meetings in the next couple of days, maybe also with the leader of Iran. which is a terrorist group. The Revolutionary Guard are terrorists, not unlike al-Shabaab or al-Qaeda or ISIS. That mentality has been in control of Iran for the past, what, 47 years or so. And a man with perspective on this is Congressman Dr. Brad Winstrup, retired as a full bird colonel in the U.S. Army, spent many years in Iraq during that war and has perspective. And I would note that he gave a talk on September the 11th, which even Bill Seitz, has been critical of the president said he's right on this one i often say that sometimes as president you got to do what's right even though it may not be popular and take the hit for it and brad wenster welcome again to the bill cunningham show so give me your uh synopsis of what you discussed on september the 11th and how it's germane to the un meetings today.
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Speaker 5: Yeah you know a lot of things were going through my mind of course especially having served in iraq But I joined the military in 1998, and I did that before 9-11, right?
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Speaker 6: So there were things that I looked at.
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Speaker 5: And one of the things I pointed out is, you know, today is not a celebration.
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Speaker 6: It's a remembrance. But it's also a history lesson.
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Speaker 5: It should be a history lesson because we have so many people serving today to try and keep us safe that weren't alive during that time.
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Speaker 6: But I said, as people are.
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Speaker 5: Commemorating this day, they're thinking about where I was. I remember where I was when this happened. And I said, I remember where I was in 1979. I remember being in my college dormitory and watching the news every night on my little black and white TV, seeing the Iranians take Americans hostage in the embassy.
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Speaker 6: And that, to me, was just the beginning.
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Speaker 5: This is when it all really started, not on 9-11-2001. And one of the things that I began to research was all the things that happened, not just research, but remember, I should say. You know, our attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and then the Marine barracks there, and the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland. And they hit the World Trade Center for the first time in New York in 1993. But they hit the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. And then most people will still remember the USS Cole being hit. And then we get to 9-11, and it's the World Trade Center, the Pentagon.
00:35:39
Speaker 6: The flight over Pennsylvania.
00:35:41
Speaker 5: And one of the things that struck me as I look back on what President Bush had to say at that time, he said, we will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest. And quite frankly, that's what we were still doing. And he said, we're going to pursue the nations that house terrorists. And so to me, the war on terror didn't begin on 9-11-2001.
00:36:06
Speaker 6: It began before that.
00:36:07
Speaker 5: It doesn't end.
00:36:08
Speaker 1: It didn't end on 9-11 this year.
00:36:11
Speaker 5: You know, it's still going on. It's the same group of people. It's the same mentality that we were fighting. And we're seeing people that have been killed by people that have a disdain for freedom, people that have a complete disrespect for human rights, complete disrespect for women, complete disrespect for human life itself with a willingness to kill their own people, gun them down in their streets. And this is really where we are today. And I give President Trump credit because this is a nation in Iran that is basically a terrorist organization that wants to get a nuclear weapon. And they want to get a nuclear weapon because they want to kill other people.
00:36:52
Speaker 6: They want to kill Americans. They want to kill Jews.
00:36:56
Speaker 5: They want to be the leader in the world and have everyone try and go along with their ideology, which doesn't jive with the majority of the rest of the world. Look, we've seen in the Middle East the Abraham Accords and things.
00:37:08
Speaker 6: Like that come about.
00:37:10
Speaker 5: And that was in the first Trump administration. There is opportunity to bring peace around this world. But as long as these people are in charge in Iran, and as long as they have the wherewithal that they have, there's going to be a problem. And we see that they don't adhere to treaties. You know, terrorist groups don't adhere to treaties. And neither does Iran, which is labeled a sovereign nation. And I don't even know why they're allowed to be in the U.N.
00:37:34
Speaker 1: You know, Brad Winship, every Democrat... beginning in 1979 and maybe before, said that Iran is controlled by absolute terrorists similar to Al-Qaeda or Al-Shabaab or ISIS. And every president has said they can never get a nuclear weapon. The IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, has said repeatedly that when you enrich uranium over 25%, the only use for that would be to develop nuclear weapons. There's no doubt, no question, that the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, are enriching uranium up to 85% to 90% in secret mountain locations, and that's what international agencies are saying. And I wish the president would make a more clear connection between what happened in 1979 or what happened in 1801. You might recall the Marine Corps anthem, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. And that was 1801, Thomas Jefferson sent the US Navy and the Marines to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. The Muslims there were destroying Mediterranean shipping. And what they were doing was it took two or three years to clean that up. This has been going on for about 1,500 years. And now that the Revolutionary Guard has the same goals as al-Qaeda— I would ask the American people, do you want al-Qaeda or ISIS or al-Shabaab or a Taliban to have a nuclear weapon in a delivery system? I think the answer 90% would be not just no, hell no. Al-Qaeda cannot have a nuclear weapon. Is Iran's leadership today fundamentally different than al-Qaeda?
00:39:23
Speaker 5: No, it's really not, especially with the IRGC. And they seem to really be in charge.
00:39:29
Speaker 6: You know they may have these.
00:39:30
Speaker 5: So-called elected officials and diplomats and ministers of this and that and we've had meetings and they talk but it really doesn't matter what they come back with because the IRGC is the ones that are controlling everything and they are they are the most strict amongst the idea idea ideologues if you will You know, I found something, Bill, I just happened to find it after the attack with Hamas in Israel on October 7th, three years ago. I found an old newspaper, came out of the back of a frame, and there was an AP story there. And it was a story about the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force, leaving Gaza. They were leaving Gaza to leave that for the people that were there. And they were getting out, and on their way out, they were being pelted by kids. Kids that were throwing rocks at them, et cetera, et cetera. And the gist of the article was the Israeli soldiers were saying, why are they doing this?
00:40:24
Speaker 6: We're leaving. I don't understand.
00:40:26
Speaker 5: And what the kids were yelling as they were doing this, they were yelling, we don't want peace.
00:40:31
Speaker 6: This was 1994.
00:40:31
Speaker 5: And this is exactly right. They do not want peace. Those kids are the commanders today. They're the commanders of these extensions of the Iranian regime and what they are doing in funding terror around Iran.
00:40:47
Speaker 6: Around the Middle.
00:40:47
Speaker 5: East especially, but they'll gladly do it anywhere in the world if it meets their mission of killing Americans, killing Jews, and trying to control the region. And so now we do have, fortunately, a portion of the region that has.
00:41:00
Speaker 6: Become peaceful after thousands of years, if you.
00:41:02
Speaker 5: Will, and are ready to make it a different world. But we're stuck with Iran at this point. And this is why I think the president is right, the first one to do something about it. And, you know, I think with the Obama administration, it was more like, hey, you know, I don't like what you're doing.
00:41:17
Speaker 6: You know, we're going to speak out against you. Let's make a deal.
00:41:20
Speaker 5: And it almost seemed like he was just saying, whatever you do, just do it after I'm no longer president.
00:41:25
Speaker 7: Right.
00:41:26
Speaker 5: And but this president is doing something about it. Like I said, you can disagree with them a lot of things. And even Democrats, they should be saying, yes, it's about time we do something. You're always going to argue, was it done right? And did we do things as best we could? And I think there's been a lot of things really good. If you look at last year, when our combination with the Israelis just did so much damage to them in many ways, at least brought them to the table, which has never really happened before. But I think the sanctions and breaking their economy is something that's going to have to do. I feel sorry for the good Iranian people that really want freedom and don't want to live under this regime. They're going to have to struggle for a while. And I kind of say that to the American people, too. If you really take a look at all the damage and the suffering that has taken place, including to Americans over the last 47 years, then we should all be standing together, just like World War II, and say, we've got to come together.
00:42:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're enduring high prices, and.
00:42:27
Speaker 5: I feel sorry for people that do live day to day, high prices, especially on gas. But at the end of the day, we can't be beholden to these terrorists and this terrorist regime that is somehow considered a sovereign nation.
00:42:40
Speaker 1: You know, Brad Winstrup, President John F. Kennedy received a Pulitzer Award for a book, which I read two or three times, called Profiles in Courage. And what Profiles in Courage dealt with was political leadership who did what was right and not what was popular. And I can't think of a more clear example recently of a president with a profile in courage that may tank his own party, may tank his own approval rating, The Congress in six weeks may go the wrong direction. You might have AOC taken over. But as a consequence of this, by the time Trump gets done, the profile encourages doing what is right and not what is popular. And Democrats, I listened to them this morning, all of them, Coons, et cetera, Schumer, going after Donald Trump with hooks and claws because of the war of choice. The war of choice. Well, this is not a war of choice because they're the ones who declared the war on us and we're responding. You went over a short list of the terrorist acts, either funded directly or indirectly by Iran, killing well over a million Muslims. The Iranian-Iraqi war by itself, when they teed it up for 10 years, it cost more than 1 million Muslim lives. There's about 57 nations on this earth that are fundamentally Muslim that used to be all Christian. For a long time, Egypt and Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, were all Christian nations. When Islam took hold, they obliterated the churches. They murdered the Christians, much like happening in Nigeria right now, where 100,000 Catholic nuns and Christians have been beheaded by Boko Haram, another offshoot of radical Islam. And the Pope, by the way, ought to get involved with Nigeria and talk about what's happening there. But nonetheless— It's not being discussed. But is this a profile and courage of Donald Trump to do what is right for the nation and for the world, even though the Democrats' hooks and claws are taking him apart?
00:44:35
Speaker 6: Well, I think it is.
00:44:36
Speaker 5: And the thing is, America has become complacent in so many ways because since 9-11, I think it's fair to say that we've had many great Americans, you know, many great Americans.
00:44:47
Speaker 6: That will go into harm's way. To try and save lives.
00:44:50
Speaker 5: I mean, you can start with New York police and fire on 9-11, but let's go to the service members and people that have served all around the world.
00:44:58
Speaker 1: Including you. Including you.
00:45:01
Speaker 6: Thank you.
00:45:02
Speaker 5: Thwarting terrorist attacks. And, you know, you can just talk about it. And there's so many great people. You know, Todd Beamer, who, you know, led the group to take down that flight to save lives, you know, as it was heading towards Washington, D.C. Or somebody like Pat Tillman passing up a big NFL contract.
00:45:18
Speaker 6: To go and serve.
00:45:20
Speaker 5: And I could go on and on with people that I know.
00:45:22
Speaker 6: And have given their lives and many that just saved a lot of lives in the process.
00:45:27
Speaker 5: And we became complacent because we haven't had an attack like 9-11 again. And so people think everything's right with the world, but it's not because they will continue. And if they can get the ultimate weapon right now in a nuclear weapon.
00:45:41
Speaker 2: They will use it.
00:45:42
Speaker 6: And that goes for bioweapons too.
00:45:44
Speaker 5: They'll take whatever they can get to kill as many people as they can. And it's a real sickness and it's a stain on the world. And it's a stain on the history of the world, as a matter of fact. But it's something that's being dealt with by this president. And he is right to say they can't get nukes and we need to put an end to this.
00:46:03
Speaker 1: You know, Brad Winstrip, I read press out of Europe. And October the 7th in Europe and in America, we're bracing for huge terrorist attacks again. We've had many terror attacks, not to the level. of a 9-11 with like Major Hassan and Texas killing. We've had numerous examples of Islamic extremists killing Americans. About 98% of the terrorism in the world is Islamic terrorism all over the world, including mainly in Muslim countries. But on October the 7th, there was a German court that found there were dozens of weapons depots stashed all over Europe to attack Europe on October the 7th. I would anticipate October 7th is gonna be a rallying cry, which was the date October 7th, 2023, when a couple thousand Jews were slaughtered in Southern Israel at the music festival. But there's no other religion, I don't think Catholics have weapons depots all over the Muslim world ready to attack. I don't think there's any example of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children killed by Presbyterians or the Methodists or the Buddhists or by the Catholics. It doesn't happen. The Amish are not going to attack anyone. But in the Muslim world, as an article of faith, you must kill the infidel. And when you have little children that are six, seven, eight, nine years old, or running around Gaza with the headband of Hamas, when Israel left in 2005 and said, okay, it's all yours. We've had enough. Go ahead. The first thing the Gazans did was elect Hamas to be their representatives. And when the attacks were launched on October the 7th and the response, Israel did everything in its power to make sure that civilians were not killed. In fact, I'll give you a Holocaust and genocide in Poland today. Between 1938 and 1945, 98% of Jews were murdered in Poland. Right now in Gaza, 98.5% of the population is still alive. Those that are dead are mainly those killing Jews. And so things are bass-ackwards. And I'm proud we have a president to confront monstrous evil. And this won't end if Iran falls somehow. The ideology of children wearing Hamas banners with AK-47s at the age of nine years old to kill people, that won't change. It's almost like an ongoing cancer. Every now and then it erupts and it must be tapped down. This has been going on for 1,500 years. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, Muslim extremism have killed innocent men, women, and children for 1,500 years. You know what I'm saying?
00:48:48
Speaker 5: I know exactly what you're saying because, you know, we've seen it. We have seen it. And it's a fact. And this is what they grow up thinking is the right thing to do.
00:48:57
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:48:57
Speaker 6: And the world doesn't need it.
00:48:59
Speaker 8: No.
00:48:59
Speaker 5: You know, people should be praising this president for finally doing something. And especially when I look at Europe and you talked about that. You know how the Islamic communities have grown so much in European countries. And like you said, they were formerly Christian, which is which is peace loving you know that's really what we are about as christians and and in the other religions that you mentioned it's about peace but that's not that's not the case here when you are given the tenant that you're doing the right thing by killing others it's a problem Yep.
00:49:34
Speaker 1: We got to run, but, uh, I've heard many imams talk about not by bullets in America, but by ballots and by the deliver by babies. They talk about no bullets here. It's going to be ballots and babies. We're going to take over America and it's happening in Europe as I speak. And they're done. We got to run Brad Wenstrom. Great speech. And thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. And again, thank you for your service to this great nation.
00:49:57
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thanks Bill.
00:49:59
Speaker 1: God bless you. Let's continue with more Brad Wenstrom. And, uh, We're doomed to repeat history unless we understand what we're confronting. And when the Democrats use these issues to attack Donald Trump, when he's the first president to stand up and say, not on my watch, I'm going to pass on a more functional world than I found, but Trump should be complimented and not criticized. Remember, not by bullets, but by ballots. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW.
00:50:27
Speaker 2: Quiet.
00:50:27
Speaker 8: You're very disrespectful in front of this young man.
00:50:31
Speaker 7: Okay?
00:50:33
Speaker 1: Don't you find her disrespectful? He understands. Quiet.
00:50:37
Speaker 2: Who are you with?
00:50:38
Speaker 4: I'm with Dana.
00:50:41
Speaker 1: Fake news. You're fake news. You're a loud, boisterous person. You're fake news.
00:50:46
Speaker 7: Be quiet.
00:50:47
Speaker 1: Be quiet. Be quiet. You're a fake reporter, and you report fake news.
00:50:53
Speaker 6: Go ahead.
00:51:01
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question.
00:51:08
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:51:09
Speaker 1: Let's say the great American got a hold of the press secretary, whoever it might be now. Okay. Carolyn Lovett's left.
00:51:15
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:51:15
Speaker 1: And said, I'd like to come to the White House and I want to cover the president for 700 WLW and I heart media. Maybe I could get a press pass for a day or two. What if they said, OK, we got 400 other media outlets, 400 covering the White House? I hope that I hope they get paid well. And they do. And the CNN, which is a lying left wing hit organization, have some unbridled constitutional right to cover this president.
00:51:45
Speaker 6: No.
00:51:45
Speaker 1: Inside the White House. Well, they're complaining. I mean, you know.
00:51:49
Speaker 4: I've had a press pass for the Reds since 1979.
00:51:52
Speaker 2: Okay?
00:51:53
Speaker 4: And, I mean, I can't walk into Nick Kroll's office and say, Hey, Nick, or like, Nick Kroll. Terry Francona, you're having a meeting. I want to have a meeting. You're having a coach's meeting.
00:52:04
Speaker 1: Hey, I want to go in there. So it's limited. You can go here. You can't go there.
00:52:07
Speaker 7: Exactly.
00:52:07
Speaker 1: You can't go in and eat with the players. And don't you give me a media pass to the Reds?
00:52:11
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:52:11
Speaker 1: How many times have I been down there this year? About four.
00:52:14
Speaker 8: One. One.
00:52:15
Speaker 1: Now, if I said, you know what? I want to go into more of the meetings in the Reds organization. What would they say to me? Or sit in with the Reds when they eat. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:52:25
Speaker 8: No.
00:52:26
Speaker 1: So why is CNN entitled? To cover it when there's 400 media outlets in the White House.
00:52:31
Speaker 7: 400.
00:52:32
Speaker 1: And by the way, when CNN and Barack Hussein Obama were acting so largely, you might recall that James Rosen, the Fox correspondent, was wrongfully wiretapped by the Department of Justice to find out the sources of information from the Obama White House given to James Rosen. Did the media care about Fox News barred from certain meetings and a Fox News reporter was wiretapped wrongfully by the FBI? Did CNN stand up and say, no, wait a minute, you can't do that? No.
00:53:02
Speaker 7: Why?
00:53:04
Speaker 1: This is a joke. Caitlin Collins ought to get about her life's work. And it's not objectively covering the president. 96% of the stories on CNN is negative about the president. 50-50 on the same period of time with Barack Hussein Obama.
00:53:19
Speaker 7: 72% positive.
00:53:22
Speaker 1: I guess they want to get in a meeting today with Zelensky. They want to get in a meeting with Zelensky. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to yell and scream. Come on in. Come on in, boys.
00:53:28
Speaker 3: Come on in.
00:53:28
Speaker 1: This segment, this is ridiculous.
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00:54:47
Speaker 1: As the Bengals are atop. The AFC North. How about that?
00:54:51
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
00:54:52
Speaker 1: Thank you. Monday Night Football. No contest.
00:54:54
Speaker 4: Rams route the Giants 28-6. Jackson Dart, though, quarterback of the Giants, sprained MCL. Not considered long-term or season-ending.
00:55:06
Speaker 1: How long quarterbacks are going down quickly. What about Orlando Brown? Can he get the job done and protect QB1? They better get Munoz.
00:55:18
Speaker 4: They better get Munoz, Walter, Kaczorski, Blados, and Montoya on Sunday because T.J.
00:55:25
Speaker 1: Watt's going to go, hopefully, not crazy. And in 2011's segment, you might recall that Barack Hussein Obama told the Boston Herald flat out that its pool access in the White House would depend upon, quote, fairly, unquote, covering President Obama. San Francisco Chronicle caught protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser, and they put it out on tape, and the Obama administration pulled the credentials of San Francisco Chronicle. A long history. Not different. CNN, MSNL, they're not objective news organizations. They forget that. I'm sorry. College football.
00:56:02
Speaker 4: Bearcats opened a Big 12 play Saturday night at the Nip against K-State.
00:56:08
Speaker 2: More tonight.
00:56:09
Speaker 1: Scott Satterfield's show live.
00:56:11
Speaker 4: Reginald Montgomery in at 8.05 on ESPN 1530.
00:56:14
Speaker 1: Will Tom Gregory be there? I would say so. Go ahead.
00:56:17
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00:56:35
Speaker 1: But then?
00:56:35
Speaker 4: Kelsey Chevrolet extra inning show after the game. Now, high school golf.
00:56:42
Speaker 1: What about Wayne Carucci?
00:56:44
Speaker 4: The high school girls golfers from Southwest Ohio has begun postseason sectional tournaments.
00:56:51
Speaker 1: Let's see.
00:56:51
Speaker 4: This is girl golfers. Division I Sycamore, Lakota East, Walnut Hills, Anderson, Ursuline Academy, Seton, Mason, Wyoming, Baden, Lebanon, Springboro, and Kings are qualified.
00:57:04
Speaker 1: What about Roger Bacon? In Division II, Madera. Fenwick, Marymount, and CHCA. Frank Zybel is giving Madeira 10 dozen brand-new tireless golf balls. That's good. Holiday swim in the spring. Frank Zybel is giving golf balls to Madeira and Kenji Matsuda.
00:57:25
Speaker 4: Good luck to all those high school girls teams around the area. Bring home the trophy. We've got to get some of the players in here.
00:57:32
Speaker 1: Maybe I could challenge them on the friendly confines of the Kenwood Country Club. If they win, they're in. They're in if they have to win the state title. Tell Roger Bacon High School and Wayne Carucci to get in here. They've got to win state. Okay. Tell them that. Okay. I think you just did. I can give you example after example. Under Obama, Obama worked assiduously to manage the coverage of his White House, barring media outlets from covering him inside the White House, and the media applauded it. So that's good. When Trump does the same stuff, guess what? It's a constitutional violation.
00:58:08
Speaker 5: Right.
00:58:09
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
00:58:10
Speaker 5: Right.
00:58:10
Speaker 4: And they'll spend thousands of dollars on lawyers and lawsuits and everything else.
00:58:14
Speaker 1: That's good.
00:58:14
Speaker 8: That's good.
00:58:15
Speaker 1: That's true. That's good. Nothing wrong with that.
00:58:17
Speaker 7: That's true.
00:58:17
Speaker 1: You got a point there. But how about what's good for the goose? You know what the gander is? The goose and the gander? I know about the goose, but what is the gander? Isn't that in Canada? I think it's a female goose, but I'm not sure.
00:58:30
Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
00:58:30
Speaker 2: I don't know.
00:58:31
Speaker 1: I've never been with a female goose. Have you? Not on purpose. I try to avoid the geese. The goose... What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Let me ask my girl here. Are you ready?
00:58:43
Speaker 4: He walked into the United Nations. The first thing he says, what are you doing here?
00:58:47
Speaker 1: To what? Caitlin Collins? Yeah.
00:58:49
Speaker 2: Greatest.
00:58:50
Speaker 1: The best.
00:58:51
Speaker 4: And the first lady standing right next to him.
00:58:54
Speaker 1: MS Now.
00:58:55
Speaker 4: They got about as many people listening to Politico.
00:58:59
Speaker 5: Joke.
00:58:59
Speaker 1: I'm trying to ask my girl what is a gander. I got to start all over again now, segment.
00:59:03
Speaker 8: Sorry.
00:59:04
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
00:59:06
Speaker 1: What is a gander? what is a gander i don't know if that thing there it is a goose a goose is a bird of several waterfowl species of the family whatever this group comprises she doesn't know either What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If that phone doesn't know, then we're in trouble. We're in trouble. What about AI? We need it. We need more data centers. Yeah. Because you want to be able to operate these damn things.
00:59:38
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:59:38
Speaker 1: You want to have laptops. You want to have like thousands of jobs. But you need community engagement with community agreements. By that I mean. The community in which they're located must have a guarantee in writing about what's going to happen, including no immunity from civil prosecution if they don't keep the agreement. You know what I'm saying? I know what you're saying. And put them in non-residential areas. Do that. And have agreements as to how much money is going to be contributed to the local community. And know your role and shut your mouth. Yeah. Trump says the judge will probably rule in media's favor. I'm sure of that. He'll lose. He'll lose that lawsuit because most of the judges are liberals, too. That's why he'll lose it. I say, get me out of this dude's report. After two o'clock today, we have a guest of incredible proportions. But I can't say who it is yet. But I'll give you a hint. Is it the U.N.
01:00:33
Speaker 2: Right now?
01:00:34
Speaker 1: It's how great the American economy is and how wrong you are to criticize this great economy. Because if this was happening under a Democrat, it'd be happy days here again. Happening under Trump, guess what? It's a problem.
01:00:49
Speaker 4: Willie, in honor of the cool weather here around the tri-state, we leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.
01:00:58
Speaker 1: I'm reclaiming my time, Mr.
01:00:59
Speaker 7: General.
01:00:59
Speaker 1: My time is limited. I have time.
01:01:02
Speaker 2: So what the.
01:01:02
Speaker 1: Reclaiming my time. Yeah, I'm answering your question. So you gotta let him answer. Reclaiming my time.
01:01:07
Speaker 2: Reclaiming my time, sir.
01:01:09
Speaker 1: That's the party that wants to control your life right there.
01:01:12
Speaker 8: Great.
01:01:13
Speaker 1: I like to reclaim my time with you sometimes. Same here. Let's continue with more. Line becomes available, 513-749-7000. Many say that talk radio today is the way, the truth, and the light. It lets you know what's happening. You can't rely upon the mainstream media, which are left-wing bigots. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW. All right, Billy Cunningham, the great American. You know, the American economy is often a tale of two cities, the city shining in the hill or we're in the tank, one or the other. And objectively, and I watched my friend Joe Kernan on Swackbox and CNBC talking about all the great things happening. The last time there was a jobs report, the U.S. economy added about 162,000 jobs in August. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%. Private employers added about 127,000 jobs, including 16,000 manufacturing jobs. Take also into account the build-out of certain data centers. The state of Texas needs 265,000 new workers in the next three years to be trained. Inflation remains a little too high, but it's half of what it was under Joe Biden. I guess the only issue is the price of gasoline, which has germinated about 70% of the American economy. And that's being worked on by Donald Trump and many others. Jonah, you and I now is a man with perspective on this. It is Mark Manilla. He has his own show on financialissues.org, a nationally syndicated radio and TV program over 500 stations across America. And Mark Manilla, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. So tell me, first of all, my producer tells me the economy is terrible. Prices are too high. Gasoline is up to $ 5 and $ 6 a gallon in some liberal states in Ohio. It's about $ 4. 29 a gallon. And he's telling me the economy's pretty bad, but then I tell him it's pretty good. Why is there that disconnect between reality and fantasy? What is the difference? How can that happen, right, Bill? It's really easy.
01:03:27
Speaker 8: We're being gaslighted over and over and over again. I'm not telling people they're wrong by saying bananas went up or nuts are up or something like that. But when you look at the overall economy, it's actually incredibly good. You started off by talking about inflation was up a little bit. Yeah, it is up above what the Federal Reserve wanted it to be after they inflated it over the years by pumping just billions and trillions of dollars into the economy to chase the same amount of goods.
01:03:59
Speaker 6: But here's the.
01:04:01
Speaker 8: Bottom line on this. The reality is our inflation rate is below the average for the last 50 years.
01:04:09
Speaker 2: Think about that.
01:04:10
Speaker 8: 3.72, I think, is the average for the last 50 50 years, and we're below that. We're below the average, but they want it to be down to two. So the world's ending, the sky's falling, our hair's on fire, right? At least that's what we're being told. On top of that, we're being told that our The inflation is causing such an affordability crisis that nobody can eat. There's people in the streets who are going to lose our houses.
01:04:39
Speaker 1: You'd never be able to buy a house.
01:04:41
Speaker 8: Well, quite frankly, again, that's just wrong. When we look at what's going on with the with. With the average income, did you know the median household income increased by 2.6% in 2025, reaching $ 87, 460? That's the highest inflation-adjusted income level since 1967. We are doing okay.
01:05:08
Speaker 2: As an economy, as a nation.
01:05:11
Speaker 8: I think you and I, Bill, talked about the concept of expectation creep, where we have some young... Young, new workers in the workforce who just got out of college and they want to buy the four-bedroom, three-car garage on three acres that their mom and dad worked 35 years for. And they're saying, we can't afford that.
01:05:33
Speaker 6: So the world is ending.
01:05:34
Speaker 8: Because we can't afford coming out of college and living like our parents that took them 35 years to get there. I know. Yeah, so they've been lied to is what it comes down to for so long, and they've been told they can't afford anything, and they start believing it. Well, it's just not true. I mean, yeah, some things are, but 16 out of the 18 months now, we've had real wage increase in America.
01:06:04
Speaker 1: And a couple other factors is that the poverty rate, which announced last month, the U.S. government keeps stats on this, is the lowest it's been in 18 years. The employment rate of African Americans, Hispanics, is back to where it was 10 years ago after four years of Joe Biden. Every objective indicator, we've lined them up, is great. The issue is the price of gasoline, and I'm willing to bet you a hot fudge Sunday in the next 90 days, that's going to come down significantly, too. And so why is it these are the worst of times? And I think it's because, thank God, CNN's been kicked out of the White House for a while. It's all negative news about the economy. I'll give you some other factors, Mark Manella, and the Four years of Joe Biden, inflation went up 21% in those years. in those four years, and Trump's taken it in 18 months, and maybe assuming two years of his second term, let's say it's 4% or 5%. That means inflation's gone up 25%, but over 80% of that was due to Joe Biden's money spending difficulties. And so now we're in an economy where we have millions of open jobs. I had an economist from CNBC that told me there's 5 million jobs in America right now that cannot be filled. And there's about eight million American adults that aren't working by choice. And so we have.
01:07:26
Speaker 5: And those.
01:07:27
Speaker 1: Yes, go ahead.
01:07:28
Speaker 2: Those are six figure jobs.
01:07:30
Speaker 8: Those are jobs paying one hundred thousand plus jobs.
01:07:34
Speaker 2: Think about not.
01:07:35
Speaker 1: All of them, but a lot of them are.
01:07:37
Speaker 8: They're electricians or plumbers or carpenters or they're. They don't need four years of $ 200, 000 debt to going to college to do.
01:07:49
Speaker 1: You can go and learn on the job.
01:07:51
Speaker 2: These are incredible jobs that are out there.
01:07:53
Speaker 8: And then they say AI is going to destroy the world.
01:07:58
Speaker 1: Guess what? It's not.
01:07:59
Speaker 8: It's creating more jobs than ever before. People have to know how to program. People say, well, It killed the software industry. No, it didn't.
01:08:07
Speaker 2: We're seeing that.
01:08:08
Speaker 8: Software is coming back in the market.
01:08:10
Speaker 2: People just overreacted.
01:08:12
Speaker 1: You know what AI is? It's software.
01:08:14
Speaker 8: Guess who has to control that?
01:08:16
Speaker 2: Write that.
01:08:17
Speaker 8: Come up with the ways to utilize it. Software people, writers. And you don't even have to go to college to become a software engineer, actually.
01:08:28
Speaker 2: I mean, to get that degree like that, sure.
01:08:30
Speaker 8: But The better programmers that I know never went to college. They came out of high school just being big nerds and loved the program, and then.
01:08:40
Speaker 2: They jumped into it, you know?
01:08:42
Speaker 1: And I know a little bit about AI.
01:08:44
Speaker 8: My son's like the head of AI at one of the major banks of the world.
01:08:48
Speaker 2: He's head of AI on fraud there.
01:08:50
Speaker 1: And I know what it is.
01:08:52
Speaker 8: And when everybody started saying software is going to go out, we're going to lose all our programmers because it can write software.
01:08:58
Speaker 2: Guess what? When it writes it.
01:08:59
Speaker 8: you need somebody to connect it and then somebody to fix it.
01:09:02
Speaker 1: And to be able to do that, you have to understand software.
01:09:06
Speaker 2: So no, we're not losing jobs here.
01:09:08
Speaker 6: There's so much exciting stuff.
01:09:10
Speaker 8: Did you know, have you heard the K-shaped economy that they're touting?
01:09:15
Speaker 1: I've heard that, yes.
01:09:16
Speaker 8: Explain, explain.
01:09:16
Speaker 1: Guess what?
01:09:18
Speaker 8: We are at the lowest poverty level. More people have moved out of poverty than ever before. We have the lowest number of people in poverty than ever before.
01:09:28
Speaker 2: Poverty is not growing. And also, guess what?
01:09:30
Speaker 8: Middle income, lower income people, there's less lower income people than ever before because they moved up to middle income and higher. There's less middle income because they moved up to higher. So effectively, what we're seeing in our economy is the whole economy has been lifted up, not just the.
01:09:48
Speaker 2: Rich, not just the poor.
01:09:50
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe the top one or three percent grew a little faster than everybody else.
01:09:55
Speaker 2: But poverty went down.
01:09:58
Speaker 8: That's incredible that nobody's reporting that.
01:10:02
Speaker 1: And Mark Minow, another aspect is the energy revolution. When Trump took office, Venezuela was controlled by an idiot named Nicolas Maduro. And now because of the deal with Greenland, in which everyone laughed and snickered at Donald Trump about Greenland, but now we have a permanent base and use to their exotic materials and minerals in Greenland. Venezuela, which was selling its oil to Russia and to China, is now might become an American state at some point. And now we have access to the greatest energy reserves in the world with Venezuela, along with America. So we don't need the Straits of Hormuz or the Red Sea. And even though we're involved in that, I think Iran is a State sponsor of terror. I would ask you, Mark Manella, would you if you had the ability to take away a nuclear weapon from Al Qaeda, would you do it? The Revolutionary Guard in Iran is no different than Al Qaeda, except they've killed more people. They have the same ideology as Boko Haram. And the Taliban and ISIS, the IRGC wants to murder and kill their own people. They think there's some 12th imam about to arise in a cave. And the more they kill and maim innocent men, women, and children, the better they're going to be in heaven with those virgins. We finally have a president, a profile in courage. that is telling the American people it may take a short political hit, but guess what? This is good for the world. Imagine the world after Donald Trump with Venezuelan America controlling the flow of oil and natural gas, building more pipelines, building more data centers properly with community involvement and engagement. I'm thinking, happy days are here again, but I watch the mainstream media, and I'm thinking I'm about to die in five years. I'm going to be nuked either by an AI, the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, you know, about the Terminator. I'm going to die. I'm going to be killed. Things are terrible. Trump's at 29% when he should be at 89%. Can you smell what I'm cooking?
01:12:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
01:12:09
Speaker 1: And I love it.
01:12:11
Speaker 8: And you just keep preaching it, brother, because I'm a strong believer in God.
01:12:15
Speaker 2: I'm a strong believer in Jesus Christ.
01:12:17
Speaker 8: And you know what I've seen is that when people start focusing on the bigger picture, when they stop listening to the talking heads and start looking at the facts and compare them. For example, I did an op-ed recently that got published and i think it was american thinker or maybe it was town hall but it got published and it was all about peak oil and the end of the world and the way it's being preached to us did you know i went back and looked at peak oil and its effect on our economy over the last 50 years and looked at how many times uh how many times we hit peak oil above 100 adjusted for inflation Guess what? They're saying it like this is something new.
01:12:57
Speaker 1: Did you know like one out of every three.
01:13:00
Speaker 8: Trading days in oil, we hit above $ 100 in today's dollars? And the sky didn't fall, and people didn't end up in the street losing their houses, and their cars didn't burst into flames.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: Everything went fine.
01:13:15
Speaker 8: In fact, I forget what the four-year period was. But for four years, it was above peak oil of $ 102. The economy grew. The stock market grew. Everything grew stronger during that time. So the world didn't end because oil went over $ 100. Guess what? It would end if terrorists got a nuclear bomb.
01:13:38
Speaker 2: It would end if they had a missile.
01:13:40
Speaker 8: You know, so all this all this scare is just because it's midterm elections and one party wants the other party to lose.
01:13:48
Speaker 2: And they're they're doing everything.
01:13:50
Speaker 8: They can to create another crisis. Oh, what's a new crisis, Bill?
01:13:54
Speaker 1: That didn't work.
01:13:55
Speaker 2: The peak oil didn't work because, you.
01:13:57
Speaker 8: Know, like op eds like I wrote that they were all wrong. So now they're going to A.I. is going to take.
01:14:02
Speaker 2: Over the world and kill us all.
01:14:05
Speaker 1: Look at it this way, Mark.
01:14:06
Speaker 2: The average person, yeah.
01:14:07
Speaker 1: You and I have been around a long time. I can recall Paul Ehrlich. wrote books and novels in the 1970s about the fact that we don't have sufficient farming for the population that then existed, which was four and a half billion. Now it's seven billion. He made millions of dollars telling you we're going to starve to death. You might recall oil. We're going to run out of oil by 1990. There will be no oil left. We mined all the coal. We're going to die of that. You might recall Y2K 2000. When that happens, guess what? we won't be able to make a telephone call. Al Gore said by 2025, Florida would be under 10 feet of water and the Arctic and the Antarctic would be beach spots. And I'm thinking every now and then, and now I'm told we're going to have a climate crisis, the so-called common... carbon crisis in which we're all going to fry to death because in the summertime it's 90 degrees now we're all going to die and average temperatures have gone up 1.9 degrees fahrenheit over the past 30 years and that 1.9 percent is going to kill us all And I look upon crisis upon crisis. Now, the next five years, the Terminator is going to run around and kill all human beings, and we're.
01:15:22
Speaker 6: All going to die.
01:15:23
Speaker 1: When will people understand this is all a bunch of bovine scatology? You know what I'm saying? Can you smell what I'm cooking?
01:15:32
Speaker 2: And I don't like that smell.
01:15:33
Speaker 1: No.
01:15:35
Speaker 8: Bill, people are waking up.
01:15:37
Speaker 6: I hope.
01:15:38
Speaker 2: I have faith in our country.
01:15:39
Speaker 8: You know, this country, I believe, was formed by Christians based on the Bible. You know what happens is all the laws we have were based on biblical principles. And when we follow those laws, things happen in a really wonderful way. I'm not saying this administration are all Christians or God-fearing or anything, but they're doing the right things. They've been setting the foundations to lower the debt.
01:16:03
Speaker 2: That's going to happen soon.
01:16:04
Speaker 8: We're going to start seeing a pullback in the deficit and in the debt. I believe they've got things in place now. After this election, we're going to start seeing a reduction in debt. We're going to maintain the dollar as the trading currency of the world, and we're going to see an incredible growth in our economy like we've never seen before.
01:16:23
Speaker 1: Well, we got to run Mark Manella. Look at this. Can you imagine if in 2020, 2024, if Tim Walz and Kamala Harris had won the presidency and vice presidency and they promised to continue the policies of Joe Biden with 21 percent inflation? with flooding the market with trillions of dollars unfunded by productivity, to take care of all the green energy needs in this society that we don't need. I'm against pollution, but I'm in favor of making sure that we have available gasoline and diesel to fuel this great economy. Imagine the road not taken if Kamala Harris was sitting in the White House giving billions of dollars to Iran to develop more nuclear weapons. Where would we be then with the policies of Joe Biden for eight years? We're done. Twenty five million more people across the southern border. Mark Manella, we're done. Thank God. Thank Jesus Christ for what happened. Can you smell what I'm cooking? Absolutely.
01:17:25
Speaker 8: All right.
01:17:26
Speaker 1: We got to run. But Mark Manella, I like the agenda. You give me hope. And don't watch the news. Just look at your own life. And is it better or worse? And it's much better than it would have been. And we're about to have the renaissance of the Reagan era replay itself with Donald Trump as long as we stay the course. Mark, give me 30 seconds. Do you agree?
01:17:46
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:17:47
Speaker 1: And count your blessings.
01:17:48
Speaker 8: If you just look at the data and don't look at the way they bend it, just look at the reality. We live better than anybody's ever lived in the history of the world. Our impoverished live better than most of the rich people in the rest of the world. Praise God for America. Let's get behind it.
01:18:09
Speaker 2: Let's rejoice.
01:18:10
Speaker 8: Let's count our blessings and let's all celebrate the USA.
01:18:14
Speaker 1: God bless America. Our poor in this country are overweight. They're not hungry. They weigh too much. They've got to get to work. All right, we've got to run. Mark Manella up against the clock. God bless you, and God bless America. Mark Manella, thank you very much. Let's continue.
01:18:32
Speaker 2: God bless.
01:18:33
Speaker 1: Financialissues.org. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW.
01:18:38
Speaker 7: Director, why during the Kavanaugh hearings, I let people talk and talk because it takes longer to shut them up than it does to let them talk.
01:18:49
Speaker 1: Now, you go ahead and say what you wanted to say.
01:18:51
Speaker 7: I don't have much to say.
01:18:53
Speaker 2: This guy called me a thug.
01:18:54
Speaker 6: It's kind of ironic.
01:18:55
Speaker 2: He's running for president of the United States. He just got his 22nd ad campaign.
01:18:59
Speaker 5: Next.
01:19:04
Speaker 6: Hello, hello, hello.
01:19:07
Speaker 2: Quiet, numbskulls.
01:19:08
Speaker 5: I'm broadcasting.
01:19:09
Speaker 1: Go for it, you bonehead.
01:19:12
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
01:19:13
Speaker 1: You know, Rock, a certain baseball analyst sent me a list of the six worst hitters in baseball this season.
01:19:21
Speaker 5: Okay.
01:19:22
Speaker 1: Productivity. Number one, top of the list is Key Brian Hayes.
01:19:25
Speaker 6: I was just about to say that.
01:19:27
Speaker 1: Number two, he hit 145, hit five home runs. A total of three RBI outside the five that he drove himself in. And $ 30 million. $ 30 million. Not a bad gig. $ 30 million. Number two is Jordan Beck. Never heard of him.
01:19:42
Speaker 8: No.
01:19:42
Speaker 1: From Colorado. But three, four, five, and six. The worst hitters in all of baseball. How many hitters are there? Like, I don't know, 900? Yeah. About 25, 30 a team. So Keith Brian Hayes is the worst? The worst. Number three on the list is TJ Friedel. He's DFA'd. Number four worst hitter is Edwin Arroyo. Arroyo, yeah. He's terrible. Number five is Jose Blayman on Rio Trevino, related to Lee, I would assume. Steinbergs! And number six is Noval Marte. So the five of the top six are Hayes, Friedel, Arroyo, Trevino, and Marte. What do they all have in common? They were all traded here and got here by Nick Kroll. And probably most of them will be here again. There's the list. Send me that list.
01:20:27
Speaker 7: Unbelievable.
01:20:28
Speaker 1: This is five of the six worst hitters in baseball, and Nick Kroll got four of the five to come here at high money. Does that make sense or not? How's that possible? How's that possible? I keep saying in life, how's that possible? But I'm thinking, well, and he's got a vote of confidence, right? You're forgetting rules one and two. What are they?
01:20:48
Speaker 6: I forgot.
01:20:51
Speaker 1: Number one, nobody cares. Number two, it doesn't matter.
01:20:54
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:20:55
Speaker 1: Can we have that written like at Notre Dame? I'm going to put that up somewhere. Remember Notre Dame that you had to play like a champion? Today. Can we put that over the door? Nobody cares. Can you get that up?
01:21:05
Speaker 8: Right there.
01:21:05
Speaker 1: I'm going to work on that. We just jump up every day and hit it? When you complain about the number of commercials... Look at the wall. When you complain about lack of productivity, look at a wall. Complain about hosts getting out late, look at a wall. Complain about the equipment not working, look at the wall. And it gives you the answers. It's all right there. Can you give it all up? See, I'm much more relaxed now that I live by that.
01:21:27
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:21:28
Speaker 1: We have no windows in the studio, no way to communicate with producers. Would you look at the wall, please? What does it say? It doesn't matter, and no one cares.
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01:21:59
Speaker 1: Let's see, Willie.
01:22:00
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01:22:15
Speaker 9: A week and a half of 75?
01:22:19
Speaker 1: Look at the wall. What does it say?
01:22:20
Speaker 5: I know.
01:22:21
Speaker 7: You're right.
01:22:22
Speaker 4: Reds and Braves tonight in the first of three of the ATL. Coverage 6-10. Sports Talk, R & L Carriers, Inside Pitch, and Kelsey Chevrolet Extra Inning Show.
01:22:31
Speaker 1: After the game. Let's see, what else? Rock, how about this one? Bearcats. How about this one?
01:22:37
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:22:37
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about many issues. Your friend and mine, John F. Kennedy, wrote a book about profiles and courage. How politicians did what was right for the country.
01:22:47
Speaker 9: Let's do the right thing instead of the popular thing. At the cost of.
01:22:50
Speaker 1: Their political career. Is Donald Trump a profile encouraged? Go after Iran. I think so. He's sacrificing a lot for the good of the whole world.
01:22:59
Speaker 9: Sacrificing possibly his legacy, according to a lot. We got a Republican Stratus on at 5 o'clock talking about his lowest poll numbers ever. And, you know, despite, you know, a good economy, despite border shutdown, deportations.
01:23:17
Speaker 1: Highest. Highest employment and lowest unemployment. Growing wages. And by the way, in the last 50 years, inflation is 3.8%. So in the last 50 years, Trump's inflation rate is much lower than the 50-year average. And it's a quarter. Combined 21%. And right now Trump is about 4.7%. So of the 25% increase, 21 of the 25 is Biden. Do we have the ability to endure anymore in this country?
01:23:46
Speaker 5: No.
01:23:47
Speaker 1: To just put off our own pain for the greater good? No. Down the line?
01:23:51
Speaker 2: No.
01:23:52
Speaker 1: Or do we only care about instant gratification?
01:23:54
Speaker 8: Correct.
01:23:55
Speaker 1: You got that right. And the other thing.
01:23:57
Speaker 2: That's sad.
01:23:57
Speaker 1: Which political party, Keystone Pipeline, no oil drilling, get rid of all nuclear power plants? And by the way, carbon neutral. What political party said get rid of coal? Which political party said get rid of the oil tankers? Which political party says use windmills and maybe solar panels? Was that the Democrat or?
01:24:18
Speaker 2: Yes.
01:24:19
Speaker 6: Okay.
01:24:20
Speaker 1: Now, did that have some impact on where we are, do you think? Probably. How about Venezuela helping us with oil? Is that good or bad? See, again, instant gratification.
01:24:28
Speaker 9: The Venezuela deal is going to be a monster, but it's going to take about a year for it to matriculate.
01:24:33
Speaker 1: Greenland, another one. Exotic metals. Is that good or bad? It's good. And we've got bases there to stop Putin's expansion. Is that good or bad? That's a good thing. These are all good things. How about the lowest black unemployment rate in American history?
01:24:47
Speaker 9: The only thing people care about is I've got to pay another 20 cents a gallon.
01:24:51
Speaker 1: I get it. It's not great. I don't like it either. I don't like it, but it's short-term pain for long-term profiling. Donald Trump is like John F. Kennedy.
01:25:02
Speaker 4: College football Bearcats open Big 12 play this Saturday night at the Nip. They will take on the Wildcats of Kansas State. More tonight on the Scott Satterfield Show live from the Ridge of Montgomery Inn at 8.05.
01:25:15
Speaker 1: Break that down, Rock. ESPN 1530. The Wildcats, break it down. Good quarterback, right? They do.
01:25:21
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:25:22
Speaker 2: That's his name.
01:25:22
Speaker 1: He's got the blonde hair. He's a bull threat guy.
01:25:25
Speaker 2: He's good.
01:25:26
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, is that his name? No, that's not him. He got hurt last night. I was watching that game. But it's an MCL.
01:25:31
Speaker 9: Did you know the MCL? I know this because I studied pre-med. The MCL is the only ligament in your knee that can heal itself. The other ones must be reconstructed. Did you know that segment?
01:25:42
Speaker 4: Unbelievable, Andy Mack. I bet you Tim Kremchick didn't even know that. Let's call him and find out.
01:25:48
Speaker 1: Call him up. I'm pretty sure he knows that. Bengals Update brought to you by Midwestern Plumbing. See, you're talking again. I'm trying to call Tim Kremchick and you're talking. Hold on a minute. Let me talk to my girl. This is a radio show. Call Tim Kremchick. Pardon me.
01:26:01
Speaker 4: He's probably on the golf course or sending money to Moeller.
01:26:06
Speaker 1: You don't believe me. Are you checking up on me here? Yeah, I'm checking on you. Well, we haven't called him lately.
01:26:10
Speaker 2: We haven't called him.
01:26:11
Speaker 1: In like five years. We haven't called Kremchick. You know this usually doesn't work out well when you... Yeah, that's true. Call people on here. Well, no, he's usually like in the middle of something. He says, hold on. He's normally in somebody's shoulder or hip when I call him.
01:26:22
Speaker 2: Thank you.
01:26:24
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean that in some sexual way either. Tim Kremchick, give me a call quickly. Thanks. Please continue.
01:26:33
Speaker 8: Oh.
01:26:34
Speaker 4: Bengals update, Willie, brought to you by Midwestern Plumbing. My good friend Chris Wilson. Bengal players are usually Tuesday off. Those AFC North leaders are on the road Sunday in Pittsburgh. Still a three-and-a-half point favorite.
01:26:47
Speaker 1: Break it down, Rock. Against a steel curtain. How many offense?
01:26:50
Speaker 9: Bengals have looked real good. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers have not looked good. They scored, what, one touchdown this year?
01:26:55
Speaker 1: Offensively, one. Defensively, one.
01:26:57
Speaker 8: 23-39 for 187.
01:26:58
Speaker 1: Two fumbles, took four sacks. Can't seem to find DK Metcalf. Who's more likely to end the game in one piece, Aaron Rodgers or QB1? I'm going to go with Burrow. He's been hit. Offense is going to heat up. Don't worry. At some point. Right now, QB1 says we're pretty average, and they are. Last night's game was boring with the Rams. God, the Rams looked good. Aaron Donald. It took him traveling eight times to look average. He said, we're done going to Australia. Leave that for the dingbacks and the wingbats. I'm not sure what they are. Just leave them to them. And the kangaroos. We don't want it. Oh, earlier, weren't you asking what a goose and a gander is?
01:27:39
Speaker 7: Yes.
01:27:40
Speaker 1: A gander is a male goose, is it not?
01:27:42
Speaker 9: I didn't look this up, but it's like, so you're like, what's good for the woman is good for the dog.
01:27:47
Speaker 1: Why didn't you know? What are you, like the late Steve Irwin on animals or something?
01:27:51
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
01:27:53
Speaker 1: I got a text here from Chip Hart.
01:27:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:27:55
Speaker 1: Gander is the male. Goose is the female. See, what did I just say? I think you said that, didn't you? I did. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. What's good for the woman is good for the man. Must be an echo in here. Has the criminal justice system become feminized?
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Speaker 8: Yes.
01:28:11
Speaker 1: Look at the Lindsay Clancy case. Feminized. Feelings. How did it make you feel?
01:28:15
Speaker 7: Murder?
01:28:15
Speaker 8: No, no.
01:28:16
Speaker 9: And more about less of the act and more about what that means for the root further cause.
01:28:22
Speaker 3: A murderer.
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Speaker 1: Of pushing women, because women are so oppressed. Did you know that? I know. They can't work. They don't get any jobs. They got nothing. Most people employed are female. There's no Ohio judges that are women. No prosecutors. none on city council, nowhere, right? How about county commissioners? All male? County prosecutor? County coroner? County recorder? County auditor? I'm just saying, you know... But women feel... I feel it.
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Speaker 9: They feel like it wasn't about Lindsay Clancy and that we need to draw a hard line that murder is not acceptable.
01:28:55
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn what your excuse is. We've got to send a message. Postpartum depression. We're going to hold back the advancement if we agree to this. Periods. I live my life with periods, menopause, and postpartum depression. Don't you? Say that again. I'm just saying. If I identify as someone that's blind and I have sight, do you have to treat me as if I'm blind? You know I can see. According to the rules that have been laid out. So a guy that identifies as a woman, I have to treat him as a woman.
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Speaker 9: But if you went into a doctor and said, you know, I'm not blind, but I feel blind.
01:29:26
Speaker 1: Can you remove my eyes? Would they do that surgery?
01:29:28
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:29:29
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all about feelings and, you know. How did we get here? Feminized. We've been feminized. Talk to your wife about that. She'll tell you. I know. Women are oppressed. I know. It's a terrible situation. I tell you, boobies are undefeated, untied, unscored on. That's what it comes down to. That's what I'm telling you. Men are willing to fight for a lot until it comes to that one sweet, sweetness. Undefeated, untied, unscored on. Undefeated. They will relent. And men have nothing like that. They will relent. Nothing. We don't have it. What's on the big show?
01:29:59
Speaker 7: Are we in trouble?
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Speaker 1: Yes, we're in trouble. I'm thinking women are oppressed and everywhere I look, women are in charge. I'm thinking, how am I oppressed? Maybe I want to identify as a woman and just treat me as such. Why don't you just quit fighting it and do that? Accept it. You've got to play into my delusion, okay?
01:30:16
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:30:17
Speaker 1: I'm blind, okay? Get me a white stick and get me a seeing-eye dog, okay?
01:30:23
Speaker 6: Please.
01:30:24
Speaker 1: What's on the big show, Rock? Eddie's out today. He needs some time off. He did have a colonoscopy last week.
01:30:32
Speaker 2: It went well.
01:30:33
Speaker 1: They took a picture of his insides. Got a text here from Aaron. Looks pretty good. My friend Aaron, who by the way is blind, if they can remove somebody's eyes, give them to me. Give me a transplant. I'd like to see. Aaron, God bless you. The guy works 40 hours a week and he's blind. And he says, no problem.
01:30:52
Speaker 2: Amen.
01:30:52
Speaker 1: No problem. That's a great man. So, Eddie had a colonoscopy. Still recovering? What'd they stick up there? Maybe it was barbed wire. I asked Deb about that. It's been a long time. Never mind. Jason's in. We're going to kick off the show with a little Reds discussion. What went wrong? What went wrong? How about those stats right there? Maybe that's it. We don't score. How about this? The Reds. Had the least run scored in the National League. So you're saying you've got to score a lot of runs to win. Yeah, you've got to score some. They're last.
01:31:25
Speaker 4: And 19-33 against the Central Division. That doesn't help either.
01:31:29
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
01:31:31
Speaker 2: 19-33.
01:31:32
Speaker 4: And they dropped in attendance. I think Lance had it on his ex-account. I forget what it was.
01:31:37
Speaker 1: A few hundred thousand less.
01:31:39
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:31:40
Speaker 1: You may not know it, Rock, but the guy in charge of picking players... They've not done a good job recently. Would you agree?
01:31:46
Speaker 9: Keep Hope alive because the Bengals finally got it right.
01:31:50
Speaker 1: Maybe draft some women. They went against past ways. Draft women. How about that? Let them play. Do it. Feminize. The whole world is feminized and they're victims. There's no crying in baseball.
01:32:03
Speaker 2: None.
01:32:03
Speaker 1: None. You can't cry. Women are more mad at Sidney Sweeney proposing....
01:32:08
Speaker 9: Doing something that's as old as time. A hot woman posing to make men want to buy that product.
01:32:14
Speaker 1: As old as time. They're more mad at her than they are at Lindsay Clancy. When Serena Williams posed nude on the cover of Sports Illustrated. All of them did. Did anyone care? They're the body's issue. I looked at that. I looked at that. I looked at that. Did you look at that?
01:32:29
Speaker 5: No.
01:32:30
Speaker 1: Give me out of the stage report, please. Well, they did not have a cool day here at the Tri-State. And go Reds.
01:32:37
Speaker 4: We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooges Report.
01:32:42
Speaker 3: We will bring championship baseball to Cincinnati.
01:32:45
Speaker 1: 700 WLW.
Speaker 1: All right, Billy Cunningham, the great American. Of course, Reds baseball kicks off for six more exciting games. Got three in Atlanta, then I think three in Toronto or somewhere. The Blue Jays and the Braves. And then we'll see what happens the next year. Of course, Bengals continue to lead the central, I'm sorry, the northern division of the AFC with a 2-0 record playing in Pittsburgh. But more important stuff's going on if you drive for a living, if you drive for recreation purposes. As you know, you may have noticed that the gasoline prices are rising, especially diesel. And right now in Ohio, there's almost $ 6 a gallon. And there's been a movement by some in order to eliminate for about a 90-day period the gas tax. And there's been some reporting on that. Vivek Ramaswamy and GOP leaders unveil immediate gas tax relief plan to Ohioans. And joining you now is the man in charge of Columbus. At this point is Matt Huffman, former president of the Senate. Now he's the Speaker of the House. His name is mentioned liberally in this press release. And Matt Huffman, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, as we sit here this afternoon, can you tell me where the discussions are relative to eliminating the gas tax for about 90 days?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Bill, for having me on. So we have.
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Speaker 3: I think several Republicans, Adam Byrd, for example, and Ty Matthews had a bill to reduce it 50% earlier this year. We've talked about this. I think many of us thought, well, after Labor Day, perhaps things will change. It's gotten a lot worse. It has changed. And, you know, of course, the war in Iran, Russia is no longer exporting oil because of their war with Ukraine. And I think we have decided collectively with the folks, and hopefully the House will decide collectively also, that Ohioans deserve and need relief from this thing of the gas tax. We're going to do this in a way to make sure that the payment for road construction and repair and maintenance will continue. We have other funds that can do that, including funds currently, and if necessary, the rainy day fund. But all of those things, we want to make sure road construction continues, but we'll be able to knock 38.5 cents off. off a regular and 48 and a half cents off diesel if.
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Speaker 2: We can pass this.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to call the House back in session next Wednesday in working with Senate President McCauley. I believe he intends to do that either Wednesday or Thursday, also next week, so that we can get this done.
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Speaker 1: Matt Huffman, we've had on the governor before. In fact, I played earlier a cut from Governor Mike DeWine, who said this was a bad idea because it's going to drain the highway fund in the state of Ohio, which means we're going to have more potholes And bridges will not be built. And as a consequence, the governor up to this point, as we sit here on Tuesday afternoon, up to this point has said he's against it. So can you do that? Have you talked to the governor? Are you two on the same page? Is the governor going to fight you on this or not?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think when he said that, that was six months ago. Things were different six months ago. That's one. Two, the main issue that he raises about not having fun, bottles, all of that business, that.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't be true under this proposal.
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Speaker 3: As to your other questions, I talked to the governor yesterday about something completely different.
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Speaker 2: I talked to him on.
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Speaker 3: A fairly regular basis, but I haven't called him up and said, what do you think of this plan or anything like that? Of course, we're going to talk about it, but this is something where the legislature has to act. I think that folks need relief. They need it now, not maybe sometime in the future.
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Speaker 1: Well, Mr. Speaker, if this happens, I think most people, 99 percent, would be in favor of it. If the governor down the road vetoes this, do you have the votes to override the veto?
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know the answer to that. You know, we.
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Speaker 3: Have 65 Republicans, and I think most Republicans are going to show up and vote to do this. One of the nuances, of course, in the House is for this to become immediately effective, it would have to have an emergency clause, which requires 66 votes in the House or two-thirds. But some Democrats are going to have to vote for this for it to be immediately effective. I think they will. I think most people realize that this is a real problem. If Governor DeWine decides he wants to veto something that 66 or more members of the House and 22 or more members of the Senate are in favor of, trying to keep that from happening is a bit of a fool's errand, in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: So politically, this would put Democrats in the horns of a dilemma. One, they could vote with you to eliminate the gas tax, which is significant money per gallon, or they could oppose that, keeping gas taxes high. Let me guess. I mean, I would have to think that even Democrats would want to give put politics to the side. Is it good for Ohioans to pay less money for gasoline? And that's the issue. And if Democrats want to play politics. I'm with you. I would imagine several, especially Democrats in tough districts, are going to vote with you, with the Republicans, to even override the governor's veto. But in a sense, with or without the governor's veto, you've still got to get two-thirds of the House, two-thirds of the Senate. So in a sense, what Governor DeWine wants is kind of irrelevant, isn't it? For an emergency, you need two-thirds anyway, which is what it costs to override a governor's veto. Is that correct?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, actually only needs 60 votes to override the governor's veto. But the emergency clause, again, adds those extra six votes on there under the Constitution. Look, this is not a radical proposal here. We're talking about a 90-day delay, or not delay. People are not going to have to pay the tax. when that 90 days is gone. And we're talking about replacing the funds for repair and maintenance. That's not a radical proposal by any stretch. I think anybody who says, well, I'm just not gonna vote or, and by the way, Bill, a lot of folks decide conveniently they couldn't be there that day or they're there that day and they sprint down the hall so they can avoid the consequences of their vote. I'll tell you when you're Speaker of the House, you don't get any of those luxuries, by the way. And so I have a hard time believing anybody would vote for this, whether it's a politics thing or it's a public policy thing. And I hope that Governor DeWine would see the same point.
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Speaker 1: Speaker Huffman, when would it become effective? Many laws, if it's an emergency, let's say we're sitting here in two weeks. It's around October the 3rd, October the 4th, October the 5th. Hump did he do? House and the Senate have done it. You got two-thirds or more. When would it become effective?
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Speaker 3: My intention is to have the House session on next Wednesday. Again, Senator McCauley controls the Senate. The Senate president controls what the Senate does. But in talking with him and shaping this, we've talked about both meeting together on Wednesday, passing it again as an emergency meeting. And instead of the 90-day period typically required by the Constitution, if passed as an emergency with a two-thirds vote, it becomes effective immediately upon the governor's signature. He must act within 10 days of the passage of the legislature. If he does it on October 1st, then that's when it would happen, if we get the votes, which I hope that we do get the votes next week. And if he does that, if he kind of thinks about it for a while and does it on October 10th, well, then it would be effective on October 10th. But again, what we're contemplating here is for 90 days.
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Speaker 1: Would it be immediate relief? So when I'm paying $ 4. 29 a gallon and those with diesel.
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Speaker 1: Are paying approximately $ 7 a gallon. What if the oil companies say, ah, we're just going to pocket the difference and make it a profit? In other words, what guarantee is there that Shell Oil and that BP is actually going to take off about 40 to 50 cents a gallon?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, a couple of things.
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Speaker 3: So your 428 would become 390. And of course, the diesel is 10 cents more than the ordinary gas. I think people say this, but I think it bears in mind that oil companies will sell gasoline at the highest price they can possibly get people to buy it. And people get mad about whatever the price is, but eventually... people.
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Speaker 2: Will change their behavior.
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Speaker 3: People will say, hey, I'm going to carpool. I'm only going to make one trip to the mall today. I'm only going to do whatever it is. And in the midterm, people will buy a different car or their carpool more or whatever to save. In the long term, they won't live 14 miles from where they work. They'll decide, hey, I'm going to move. I can't afford to pay five or six bucks a gallon if it.
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Speaker 2: Gets to that.
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Speaker 3: This should provide immediate relief. And I think what we'll have, and again, we have a free market. We've got a lot of places you can buy gasoline. And if one guy across the street is doing $ 4. 28 and this guy is saying, I'm not charging the tax over here.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to put it back on you. Mine's $ 3. 90.
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Speaker 3: Everybody go to the guy who's $ 0.
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Speaker 2: 38 cheaper. That's what I would say.
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Speaker 1: And a certain U.S. senator, a friend of both of us, has told me the president trump is seriously considering suspending the federal gas tax which is another 20 to 30 cents so put these two things together it's uh for diesel it's almost a dollar a gallon and uh that that's yeah yeah Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean, people should know, of course, the states can't suspend the federal gas tax. But I think that's that's another additional thing. And I think that that it's all part of a, you know, again, these problems are created by the couple international situations we call them. And also, I think it's there's a longer term effect about not drilling for oil and which we're catching up with. I think that's not as big a deal as what's happening in Russia and Iran, of course, right now. But, you know, again, people are going to start making decisions based on what they can afford to do. I had somebody send me a thing that said, hey, I drive my daughter down to dance class three days a week from Columbus to Dayton. And instead of doing that, we're getting a hotel room because hotels are cheaper. Well, that's what people are going to start doing. They're going to stay in the hotel instead of driving back and forth. Of course, what that also means is the price of hotel rooms are going to go up because there'll be more demand. But you also, there's all these other decisions people make.
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Speaker 5: You know what?
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to drive back.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to stay at my sister's house overnight because of the price of gas.
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Speaker 2: Those are the short-term decisions.
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Speaker 3: And that's what drives down the price of any product or service is the market acting. But the market doesn't act quickly enough for many people. That's why suspending this gas tax for 90 days is a good idea.
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Speaker 2: I think.
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Speaker 1: Speaker Huffman is kind of rich in a political party that votes against the Keystone Pipeline. that votes against fracking, that votes against other pipelines, that votes against the refinery capacity, that votes against the clean coal, that votes against nuclear power plants. It's kind of rich that political party now say, hey, wait a minute. Price of gasoline is going up. Well, it's partially going up because of your policies. And when I look at a state like California, they have seven refineries and Gavin Newsom has shut down two more refineries. They're down to five. And in California, they're paying ten dollars a gallon for diesel. It's kind of rich that liberal Democrats who brought about this crisis as the predicate now stand by. Boy, look at this. This is unbelievable. The gas taxes, the price of gas is going up. Yeah, it's going up because of your policies. Can you smell what I'm cooking? Now you got me a little bit pissed off. The Democrats are the ones that have caused this crisis in the first place. Layer on top of that, the righteous war in Iran. And on top of that, the fact that the economy is pretty strong, despite the protestations of my executive producer, Tony Bender. But the political party that caused this shortage is now complaining about it. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I can't come on, as you know, come on your show without talking about how great the city of Lima is. And we've got the world's largest or longest operating refinery here in Lima, Ohio. The Synovus Refinery has been in operation since John Rockefeller built it in 1885. There's a pipeline that goes directly from the northern sands.
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Speaker 2: In northern Alberta. I got to visit it this summer. Tremendous complex.
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Speaker 3: And it goes from there to Lima, Ohio. And through the years, there have been a whole number of people protesting. And frankly, this creation of the climate crisis and we have to stop burning carbon fuels. which I think has largely been debunked now. And that was being done by people who were making money off of building windmills and solar panels. We're reaping the benefit or the detriment of that, and we're catching up. Now, the problem is what we should have been doing is building more refineries or building out capacity in refineries in.
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Speaker 2: Places like Lima.
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Speaker 3: We've had people opposed to drilling on public lands where the state of Ohio could make a lot of money. That was held up over the last several years. made it difficult to get permits in eastern Ohio to drill for oil and gas. We talked to the producers who are not big oil companies. This isn't Shell and places like that. There are a lot of small operators, family operators in eastern Ohio.
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Speaker 2: Who've been doing this for years.
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Speaker 3: And people, of course, are making money leasing out their property for drilling. Talk to them about the trouble that they've had with the environmental lobby and a whole number of other people just getting to these products. Now, You know, it's not all because of one place. I think people aren't talking about the fact that Russia is no longer exporting oil onto the international market, which because that's how they're funding, of course, their government and a lot of their war machine. But they're running out of oil for what they're doing with Ukraine. So that's driven up the price of oil, too. You know, what happened with Venezuela over the last 15 years, that's caused an increase. President Trump's taken action, and that's going to begin to solve it. But again, those are long-term solutions. And again, people can control their destiny somewhat with their individual decisions. What the legislature in the state of Ohio can do is help people in the short term with this gas tax suspension.
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Speaker 1: Let's leave it at that. We have the cleanest air and the cleanest water in America for the last 150 years. I'm against pollution, but I'm also in favor of energy production. And the two things should not be at each other's throats. And when Democrats make a fortune from windmills and solar panels, that's driving the so-called green agenda. It is not keeping the air clean, which it is already. But Speaker of the House Matt Huffman, look forward to more discussions, hopefully within the next two weeks. price of gasoline goes down precipitously and let freedom ring. Matt Huffman of the great county of Allen County, Lima, the home of the Kewpie Burgers. Thanks again for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Matt, you're a great American.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, Bill.
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Speaker 1: God bless America. Let's continue with more. There it is. Layer up all the difficulties. That's why gasoline is high as it is. At least some political party is going to fight to lower it. And the other political party is worried about windmills. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham, 700 WLW. All right, Dave Keaton, hit the music, hit the music. Not very good music, by the way, but hit the music. Let's set up the rest of today's big show, plus my research behind the scenes. Number one, Brad Wenstrup will be here at 106 today to talk about what's happening in Iran and why it's critically important. I remarked to him off the air that there was a book written by my all-time hero president as a kid. That was John F. Kennedy Jr., elected in 1960, as you know, and every Catholic home had a picture of the Pope, John XXIII, and also John F. Kennedy before he was murdered in Dealey Plaza by Lee Harvey Oswald. He wrote a book in the late 1950s, allegedly written by Ted Sorensen, but that's a different story. The title of the book was Profiles in Courage. These were political characters throughout history that took some hits politically, but long-term made the right decision. And that's Donald Trump. You may not want to hear this if you're Greg Lansman or a Democrat, but every Democrat since 1979 has said that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. And they say that because everyone knows in the world they would use it. Unlike other nations with nuclear weapons that may be outlaws, like North Korea or Pakistan, or India, let's face it, no one fears one of the other nuclear powers like Israel, France, or England, or Germany to launch nuclear weapons. Iran is different. The Revolutionary Guard in charge of Iran are very similar to Al-Qaeda, or Al-Shabaab, or Boko Haram, or the Taliban, or Hezbollah, Hamas, whatever branch out of that horrible tree of Islamic terrorism Right at the top, the thickest one, of course, would be Iran. Because the Revolutionary Guard believes that the way they get to heaven is to kill large numbers of people in a brutal way, including their own people. 100,000 have been murdered in the past year by the regime in Tehran. During the Irani-Iraqi War, there was over a million Muslims that were murdered and killed using weapons of mass destruction, which was mustard gas, etc. This is not a typical outlaw republic, for example, like North Korea. These guys are real, and when the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, in Switzerland says they are preparing to launch nuclear weapons, they have nuclear-grade material, some 900 pounds of it, they can now marry to a missile and go down in a blaze of glory, which is their goal. It is a death cult. They don't care about life. They care about how you die and who you murder to get to heaven. How about that for a religion? Democrats have said it can't happen. Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, the derelict have all said the same thing. We finally have a president that has made the calculation that it may cost me political popularity. It may cost my party seats in the midterms. But I have to leave the country in better shape than I found it. That is a profile in courage. It would have been easy for Trump to kick the can down the road, maybe to give the Iranian leadership, representatives of al-Qaeda, another billion dollars or so, give it back to them, which is what Barack Hussein Obama did, and Joe Biden sent billions of dollars to Iran. for reasons completely unclear to me. To have this president stand up and say, you know what? This may not be popular right now, but long-term, we cannot have nuclear proliferation in the hands of Al-Qaeda-type individuals, which is the RG, the Revolutionary Guard in Tehran, who said they would use it. Death to Israel, but death to America. They would use it. So you think we've got problems now with gasoline at maybe $ 4.
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Speaker 5: 29 a gallon?
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Speaker 1: Imagine a nuclear war involving Israel, Iran, and America. We would be plunged into a new dark age. And I'm proud to have a president who says what he means and means what he says and is doing, is acting differently than Democrats would do in the same position. He doesn't fund terrorism, Donald Trump. He defeats it.
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Speaker 6: Democrats.
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Speaker 1: give the terrorists billions of dollars to fund terrorism all around the world, including on October the 7th of this year, which will be the third anniversary. According to German newspapers, there are stashes of large weapons all over Europe to be used by Islamic terrorists to kill French and English and Germans in commemoration of the murder of 2,000 Jews on October the 7th, 2023. And you could line up the number of terrorist attacks sponsored by Iran against America going back almost now 48 years. It's unbelievable. And so to confront this ideology, it must be done. The leadership of the Islamic terrorists in America say, not bullets, but ballots. They freely say in their mosques that.
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Speaker 1: We can't defeat America with bullets. We will defeat her with ballots and babies. That's what they're telling you. Listen to what they're saying. And large parts of America is now controlled by Islamic extremists like in Dearborn, Michigan and New York City. And Dr. Abdul, who's not a doctor in Michigan, is leading all the polls to become a U.S. senator, for God's sakes. Not bullets. Make it ballots. And to his credit, James Carville and Rahm Emanuel understand the dangers of the democratic socialists of America in union with Islamic extremism. Now you got issues. And so when you vote in about six weeks, consider the possibility of large chunks of America controlled by Islamic terrorists and extremists as Dearborn, Michigan is today. It's not happening at some point in the future. They talk about ballots and babies. The average Muslim woman gives birth to about four babies in her life. The average American woman gives birth to about 1.2. Go ahead, 20 years. What does America look like? It looks like Europe. So this evil must be confronted. And there's large branches of Islam, like the mosque in Westchester, that is not on that branch. How many terrorist acts have been committed by the Muslims inside greater Cincinnati? The answer is zero. Zero. Much like Catholics and Lutherans and Protestants and Methodists of every description, Amish. There's different branches of Christianity. But in America... the great majority of the mosques here are not radical. But there is a minority of mosques and imams in this country who demand that the call to prayer start at six o'clock in the morning. You'll be in an airport with a foot washing basin. There's the other branch of Islam that says, we got to take over the world, which by the way, they've done in large chunks of mother planet. You might recall, as I do, In 1801, 1802, 1803, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the marine hymn. And the shores of Tripoli refers to Muslim extremists in northern Africa, in Tripoli, Libya, seizing and enslaving Americans on ships. By the way, I'm proud to say America and Western Europe stopped slavery while the rest of the world practice it for a thousand years before we came on board and continues to practice it today. That Americans stopped slavery with the English and the rest of the Arab world continues it through today. There's more slaves alive today than ever before, mainly captured by Arab Muslim societies. So those are the facts. And so for those who say, well, this is a war of choice. No, it's not. They declared war on America as long ago as 1801 when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House. And it continued. So Brad Wenstrup, in about 15 minutes, will talk about that. I wish my president was a bit more linguistically great to make the connection between the shores of Tripoli to 1979, the Ayatollah, to the hundreds of acts of terrorism committed by Muslims inside of America, and the 100,000 acts of terrorism committed by Muslim extremists in the past 50 years, killing hundreds of thousands, mainly other Muslims, right? And so that's the connection I think Brad Winstrup will make at that point. I would also add a little bit on the flap going on with Robert Kraft, who likes those... Asian massages, for example. And I would say to him and Macklemore, shut up and sing, number one. I'm not here to listen to you sprout your political viewpoints, which, by the way, I don't know much about Macklemore, or I don't know much about sharing the sharing character. But nonetheless, if they start talking politics, I might say, shut up and sing. But nonetheless, in America today, if a black person owned a venue in which he refused to allow races to appear, he'd be applauded. If a woman owned a venue in which she refused to allow some male misogynist to perform, she would be hailed a hero by the media. If a Muslim owned a venue in which he refused to allow a Jew to perform or sing, there'd be rallies to support him. But when a Jew, Robert Kraft, owns a venue in Boston, in which he refuses to allow an anti-Semite to perform in his stadium, he's an evil human being silencing free speech.
00:27:11
Speaker 2: What?
00:27:13
Speaker 1: I don't think so. You see, promoters and venue owners and headliners are not government agencies or public officials. These entities have private contracts and insurance and stadium leases and hundreds of thousands of ticket holders who paid for a concert not to attend unwittingly a political rally. So after this McLemore character used his platform to spout forth lies and hatred about Jews and It's completely proper for a Jew to say, not in my house. Do it somewhere else. Certainly have lots of access to do it somewhere else. Which brings me on to CNN and MSNOW. They're crying crocodile tears. You know, they've been banned from the White House grounds because of their coverage, which, by the way, is awful. It's terrible. There's no independent journalism taking place whatsoever at CNN or MSNOW. None, zero, zilch, nada. It doesn't happen. Give you some recent examples about this, about CNN, that CNN, Politico, et cetera, lied about Biden's dementia. They lied about COVID, right? COVID-19. They lied about January the 6th. CNN lied about Russian collusion delusions of one type or another. They lied repeatedly about Trump being a rapist, never declared so by anyone. CNN lied about Hunter Biden's laptop. They lied about the 2020 election. They lied about border security, you know, the most secure border in American history. They lied about mostly peaceful riots. The George Floyd riots, you know, were mostly peaceful. CNN went on with their lies about Charlottesville, about a lab leak. Remember, it was a bat in some cave. They lied about Trump being a dictator, and they spew hatred and racism every day. And I'm going to get upset about them being denied a press access to the White House? I don't think so. They're not legitimate. They're not a real media source. They're a left-wing hit job now acquired by Paramount, and they may be out of business soon. So, you know, free press means a lot to me. I spout my opinions, too. I don't think I'm banned from anywhere, but I have difficulty getting Democrats on, and that's not censorship. I understand that Greg Lansman has agreed to come on with me. That's great. We've asked Amy Acton several times to sit down with me for one hour interview, and she has said no. In fact, she said no to almost everyone. I want to get Amy Acton in that seat, and let me ask her questions. She has plenty of time to answer when I invite someone as a guest today. In my house, I treat them like a guest. I'll probe them a little bit to talk about inconsistencies, but it's hard for me to get Democrats to come here. Is that press censorship? I don't think so. They have a right to conduct their own campaigns and form public opinion. But to call CNN independent, fair and balanced would be ridiculous. It's not true. In fact, last night I watched Caitlin Collins have some Trump administration officials on with her from the U.N., The ban is from the White House grounds. No one has a right to a media pass to the White House. Yours truly included. And let's continue. By the way, lastly, I had a great guest on yesterday, Dr. Bill Barrett and John Barrett. And the website is Cincinnati Cancer Advisors. It is independent. It is free to you. It's a second opinion. So if you have cancer, someone in your family, I've gotten hundreds of texts about this. Cincinnati Cancer Advisors is where you go to get a second opinion. No matter what your cancer is, they'll give you a second opinion at no cost to you. It may take a few days. Within 24 hours, they'll get back to you, fill out a form, and then they consult the greatest experts in the world in exactly the cancer that you have for a result to make sure that your doctor is following the best medical advice from John Hopkins, from the James, from MD Anderson, et cetera. So the website is Cincinnati Cancer Advisors, and it's free of charge to you to get a second opinion, which all great doctors do. Whenever I deal with Dr. Dean Kariakis at the Christ Hospital, he's often given second opinions, and if he gives a diagnosis, he wants to get another doc, maybe from the James or maybe from Cleveland Clinic, to confirm his evaluations. It's got a team of doctors down there, but they don't have all the answers. Most of them, yes. So getting a second opinion is critical. It begins if you have cancer with Cincinnati Cancer Advisors. If it's a heart issue, it's the Christ Hospital. And check out Debbie Hayes is the CEO there. And Dean Kariakis runs the best heart clinic in America. Access to all the other ones to make sure you're getting the best treatment here in Cincinnati. Can you smell what I'm cooking? Stay tuned for Brad Wenstrom. 1256, home of your Reds, playing tonight in Atlanta. And the Bengals. Here's Radio 700.
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Speaker 2: WLW.
00:32:36
Speaker 1: Hi, Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Of course, we're a few days removed from September the 11th. And right now the president is in the U.N. meeting a lot of powwows going on. And CNN and MSNOW has a serious case of the goo-goo. Because they can't cover the president as much as they would like, which, by the way, I think is a great idea. I think the less we see of Donald Trump many times, the better. And it doesn't bother me one bit. And I don't need to get information from CNN or MSNOW anyway. It's not objective. It's not fair. It's not independent. It's their opinion from a left-side perspective. But even more importantly, right now, the Iranian war is on the front burner. And the president is going to have meetings in the next couple of days, maybe also with the leader of Iran. which is a terrorist group. The Revolutionary Guard are terrorists, not unlike al-Shabaab or al-Qaeda or ISIS. That mentality has been in control of Iran for the past, what, 47 years or so. And a man with perspective on this is Congressman Dr. Brad Winstrup, retired as a full bird colonel in the U.S. Army, spent many years in Iraq during that war and has perspective. And I would note that he gave a talk on September the 11th, which even Bill Seitz, has been critical of the president said he's right on this one i often say that sometimes as president you got to do what's right even though it may not be popular and take the hit for it and brad wenster welcome again to the bill cunningham show so give me your uh synopsis of what you discussed on september the 11th and how it's germane to the un meetings today.
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Speaker 5: Yeah you know a lot of things were going through my mind of course especially having served in iraq But I joined the military in 1998, and I did that before 9-11, right?
00:34:20
Speaker 6: So there were things that I looked at.
00:34:22
Speaker 5: And one of the things I pointed out is, you know, today is not a celebration.
00:34:25
Speaker 6: It's a remembrance. But it's also a history lesson.
00:34:28
Speaker 5: It should be a history lesson because we have so many people serving today to try and keep us safe that weren't alive during that time.
00:34:35
Speaker 6: But I said, as people are.
00:34:37
Speaker 5: Commemorating this day, they're thinking about where I was. I remember where I was when this happened. And I said, I remember where I was in 1979. I remember being in my college dormitory and watching the news every night on my little black and white TV, seeing the Iranians take Americans hostage in the embassy.
00:34:58
Speaker 6: And that, to me, was just the beginning.
00:35:00
Speaker 5: This is when it all really started, not on 9-11-2001. And one of the things that I began to research was all the things that happened, not just research, but remember, I should say. You know, our attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and then the Marine barracks there, and the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland. And they hit the World Trade Center for the first time in New York in 1993. But they hit the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. And then most people will still remember the USS Cole being hit. And then we get to 9-11, and it's the World Trade Center, the Pentagon.
00:35:39
Speaker 6: The flight over Pennsylvania.
00:35:41
Speaker 5: And one of the things that struck me as I look back on what President Bush had to say at that time, he said, we will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest. And quite frankly, that's what we were still doing. And he said, we're going to pursue the nations that house terrorists. And so to me, the war on terror didn't begin on 9-11-2001.
00:36:06
Speaker 6: It began before that.
00:36:07
Speaker 5: It doesn't end.
00:36:08
Speaker 1: It didn't end on 9-11 this year.
00:36:11
Speaker 5: You know, it's still going on. It's the same group of people. It's the same mentality that we were fighting. And we're seeing people that have been killed by people that have a disdain for freedom, people that have a complete disrespect for human rights, complete disrespect for women, complete disrespect for human life itself with a willingness to kill their own people, gun them down in their streets. And this is really where we are today. And I give President Trump credit because this is a nation in Iran that is basically a terrorist organization that wants to get a nuclear weapon. And they want to get a nuclear weapon because they want to kill other people.
00:36:52
Speaker 6: They want to kill Americans. They want to kill Jews.
00:36:56
Speaker 5: They want to be the leader in the world and have everyone try and go along with their ideology, which doesn't jive with the majority of the rest of the world. Look, we've seen in the Middle East the Abraham Accords and things.
00:37:08
Speaker 6: Like that come about.
00:37:10
Speaker 5: And that was in the first Trump administration. There is opportunity to bring peace around this world. But as long as these people are in charge in Iran, and as long as they have the wherewithal that they have, there's going to be a problem. And we see that they don't adhere to treaties. You know, terrorist groups don't adhere to treaties. And neither does Iran, which is labeled a sovereign nation. And I don't even know why they're allowed to be in the U.N.
00:37:34
Speaker 1: You know, Brad Winship, every Democrat... beginning in 1979 and maybe before, said that Iran is controlled by absolute terrorists similar to Al-Qaeda or Al-Shabaab or ISIS. And every president has said they can never get a nuclear weapon. The IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, has said repeatedly that when you enrich uranium over 25%, the only use for that would be to develop nuclear weapons. There's no doubt, no question, that the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, are enriching uranium up to 85% to 90% in secret mountain locations, and that's what international agencies are saying. And I wish the president would make a more clear connection between what happened in 1979 or what happened in 1801. You might recall the Marine Corps anthem, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. And that was 1801, Thomas Jefferson sent the US Navy and the Marines to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. The Muslims there were destroying Mediterranean shipping. And what they were doing was it took two or three years to clean that up. This has been going on for about 1,500 years. And now that the Revolutionary Guard has the same goals as al-Qaeda— I would ask the American people, do you want al-Qaeda or ISIS or al-Shabaab or a Taliban to have a nuclear weapon in a delivery system? I think the answer 90% would be not just no, hell no. Al-Qaeda cannot have a nuclear weapon. Is Iran's leadership today fundamentally different than al-Qaeda?
00:39:23
Speaker 5: No, it's really not, especially with the IRGC. And they seem to really be in charge.
00:39:29
Speaker 6: You know they may have these.
00:39:30
Speaker 5: So-called elected officials and diplomats and ministers of this and that and we've had meetings and they talk but it really doesn't matter what they come back with because the IRGC is the ones that are controlling everything and they are they are the most strict amongst the idea idea ideologues if you will You know, I found something, Bill, I just happened to find it after the attack with Hamas in Israel on October 7th, three years ago. I found an old newspaper, came out of the back of a frame, and there was an AP story there. And it was a story about the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force, leaving Gaza. They were leaving Gaza to leave that for the people that were there. And they were getting out, and on their way out, they were being pelted by kids. Kids that were throwing rocks at them, et cetera, et cetera. And the gist of the article was the Israeli soldiers were saying, why are they doing this?
00:40:24
Speaker 6: We're leaving. I don't understand.
00:40:26
Speaker 5: And what the kids were yelling as they were doing this, they were yelling, we don't want peace.
00:40:31
Speaker 6: This was 1994.
00:40:31
Speaker 5: And this is exactly right. They do not want peace. Those kids are the commanders today. They're the commanders of these extensions of the Iranian regime and what they are doing in funding terror around Iran.
00:40:47
Speaker 6: Around the Middle.
00:40:47
Speaker 5: East especially, but they'll gladly do it anywhere in the world if it meets their mission of killing Americans, killing Jews, and trying to control the region. And so now we do have, fortunately, a portion of the region that has.
00:41:00
Speaker 6: Become peaceful after thousands of years, if you.
00:41:02
Speaker 5: Will, and are ready to make it a different world. But we're stuck with Iran at this point. And this is why I think the president is right, the first one to do something about it. And, you know, I think with the Obama administration, it was more like, hey, you know, I don't like what you're doing.
00:41:17
Speaker 6: You know, we're going to speak out against you. Let's make a deal.
00:41:20
Speaker 5: And it almost seemed like he was just saying, whatever you do, just do it after I'm no longer president.
00:41:25
Speaker 7: Right.
00:41:26
Speaker 5: And but this president is doing something about it. Like I said, you can disagree with them a lot of things. And even Democrats, they should be saying, yes, it's about time we do something. You're always going to argue, was it done right? And did we do things as best we could? And I think there's been a lot of things really good. If you look at last year, when our combination with the Israelis just did so much damage to them in many ways, at least brought them to the table, which has never really happened before. But I think the sanctions and breaking their economy is something that's going to have to do. I feel sorry for the good Iranian people that really want freedom and don't want to live under this regime. They're going to have to struggle for a while. And I kind of say that to the American people, too. If you really take a look at all the damage and the suffering that has taken place, including to Americans over the last 47 years, then we should all be standing together, just like World War II, and say, we've got to come together.
00:42:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're enduring high prices, and.
00:42:27
Speaker 5: I feel sorry for people that do live day to day, high prices, especially on gas. But at the end of the day, we can't be beholden to these terrorists and this terrorist regime that is somehow considered a sovereign nation.
00:42:40
Speaker 1: You know, Brad Winstrup, President John F. Kennedy received a Pulitzer Award for a book, which I read two or three times, called Profiles in Courage. And what Profiles in Courage dealt with was political leadership who did what was right and not what was popular. And I can't think of a more clear example recently of a president with a profile in courage that may tank his own party, may tank his own approval rating, The Congress in six weeks may go the wrong direction. You might have AOC taken over. But as a consequence of this, by the time Trump gets done, the profile encourages doing what is right and not what is popular. And Democrats, I listened to them this morning, all of them, Coons, et cetera, Schumer, going after Donald Trump with hooks and claws because of the war of choice. The war of choice. Well, this is not a war of choice because they're the ones who declared the war on us and we're responding. You went over a short list of the terrorist acts, either funded directly or indirectly by Iran, killing well over a million Muslims. The Iranian-Iraqi war by itself, when they teed it up for 10 years, it cost more than 1 million Muslim lives. There's about 57 nations on this earth that are fundamentally Muslim that used to be all Christian. For a long time, Egypt and Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, were all Christian nations. When Islam took hold, they obliterated the churches. They murdered the Christians, much like happening in Nigeria right now, where 100,000 Catholic nuns and Christians have been beheaded by Boko Haram, another offshoot of radical Islam. And the Pope, by the way, ought to get involved with Nigeria and talk about what's happening there. But nonetheless— It's not being discussed. But is this a profile and courage of Donald Trump to do what is right for the nation and for the world, even though the Democrats' hooks and claws are taking him apart?
00:44:35
Speaker 6: Well, I think it is.
00:44:36
Speaker 5: And the thing is, America has become complacent in so many ways because since 9-11, I think it's fair to say that we've had many great Americans, you know, many great Americans.
00:44:47
Speaker 6: That will go into harm's way. To try and save lives.
00:44:50
Speaker 5: I mean, you can start with New York police and fire on 9-11, but let's go to the service members and people that have served all around the world.
00:44:58
Speaker 1: Including you. Including you.
00:45:01
Speaker 6: Thank you.
00:45:02
Speaker 5: Thwarting terrorist attacks. And, you know, you can just talk about it. And there's so many great people. You know, Todd Beamer, who, you know, led the group to take down that flight to save lives, you know, as it was heading towards Washington, D.C. Or somebody like Pat Tillman passing up a big NFL contract.
00:45:18
Speaker 6: To go and serve.
00:45:20
Speaker 5: And I could go on and on with people that I know.
00:45:22
Speaker 6: And have given their lives and many that just saved a lot of lives in the process.
00:45:27
Speaker 5: And we became complacent because we haven't had an attack like 9-11 again. And so people think everything's right with the world, but it's not because they will continue. And if they can get the ultimate weapon right now in a nuclear weapon.
00:45:41
Speaker 2: They will use it.
00:45:42
Speaker 6: And that goes for bioweapons too.
00:45:44
Speaker 5: They'll take whatever they can get to kill as many people as they can. And it's a real sickness and it's a stain on the world. And it's a stain on the history of the world, as a matter of fact. But it's something that's being dealt with by this president. And he is right to say they can't get nukes and we need to put an end to this.
00:46:03
Speaker 1: You know, Brad Winstrip, I read press out of Europe. And October the 7th in Europe and in America, we're bracing for huge terrorist attacks again. We've had many terror attacks, not to the level. of a 9-11 with like Major Hassan and Texas killing. We've had numerous examples of Islamic extremists killing Americans. About 98% of the terrorism in the world is Islamic terrorism all over the world, including mainly in Muslim countries. But on October the 7th, there was a German court that found there were dozens of weapons depots stashed all over Europe to attack Europe on October the 7th. I would anticipate October 7th is gonna be a rallying cry, which was the date October 7th, 2023, when a couple thousand Jews were slaughtered in Southern Israel at the music festival. But there's no other religion, I don't think Catholics have weapons depots all over the Muslim world ready to attack. I don't think there's any example of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children killed by Presbyterians or the Methodists or the Buddhists or by the Catholics. It doesn't happen. The Amish are not going to attack anyone. But in the Muslim world, as an article of faith, you must kill the infidel. And when you have little children that are six, seven, eight, nine years old, or running around Gaza with the headband of Hamas, when Israel left in 2005 and said, okay, it's all yours. We've had enough. Go ahead. The first thing the Gazans did was elect Hamas to be their representatives. And when the attacks were launched on October the 7th and the response, Israel did everything in its power to make sure that civilians were not killed. In fact, I'll give you a Holocaust and genocide in Poland today. Between 1938 and 1945, 98% of Jews were murdered in Poland. Right now in Gaza, 98.5% of the population is still alive. Those that are dead are mainly those killing Jews. And so things are bass-ackwards. And I'm proud we have a president to confront monstrous evil. And this won't end if Iran falls somehow. The ideology of children wearing Hamas banners with AK-47s at the age of nine years old to kill people, that won't change. It's almost like an ongoing cancer. Every now and then it erupts and it must be tapped down. This has been going on for 1,500 years. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, Muslim extremism have killed innocent men, women, and children for 1,500 years. You know what I'm saying?
00:48:48
Speaker 5: I know exactly what you're saying because, you know, we've seen it. We have seen it. And it's a fact. And this is what they grow up thinking is the right thing to do.
00:48:57
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:48:57
Speaker 6: And the world doesn't need it.
00:48:59
Speaker 8: No.
00:48:59
Speaker 5: You know, people should be praising this president for finally doing something. And especially when I look at Europe and you talked about that. You know how the Islamic communities have grown so much in European countries. And like you said, they were formerly Christian, which is which is peace loving you know that's really what we are about as christians and and in the other religions that you mentioned it's about peace but that's not that's not the case here when you are given the tenant that you're doing the right thing by killing others it's a problem Yep.
00:49:34
Speaker 1: We got to run, but, uh, I've heard many imams talk about not by bullets in America, but by ballots and by the deliver by babies. They talk about no bullets here. It's going to be ballots and babies. We're going to take over America and it's happening in Europe as I speak. And they're done. We got to run Brad Wenstrom. Great speech. And thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. And again, thank you for your service to this great nation.
00:49:57
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thanks Bill.
00:49:59
Speaker 1: God bless you. Let's continue with more Brad Wenstrom. And, uh, We're doomed to repeat history unless we understand what we're confronting. And when the Democrats use these issues to attack Donald Trump, when he's the first president to stand up and say, not on my watch, I'm going to pass on a more functional world than I found, but Trump should be complimented and not criticized. Remember, not by bullets, but by ballots. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW.
00:50:27
Speaker 2: Quiet.
00:50:27
Speaker 8: You're very disrespectful in front of this young man.
00:50:31
Speaker 7: Okay?
00:50:33
Speaker 1: Don't you find her disrespectful? He understands. Quiet.
00:50:37
Speaker 2: Who are you with?
00:50:38
Speaker 4: I'm with Dana.
00:50:41
Speaker 1: Fake news. You're fake news. You're a loud, boisterous person. You're fake news.
00:50:46
Speaker 7: Be quiet.
00:50:47
Speaker 1: Be quiet. Be quiet. You're a fake reporter, and you report fake news.
00:50:53
Speaker 6: Go ahead.
00:51:01
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question.
00:51:08
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:51:09
Speaker 1: Let's say the great American got a hold of the press secretary, whoever it might be now. Okay. Carolyn Lovett's left.
00:51:15
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:51:15
Speaker 1: And said, I'd like to come to the White House and I want to cover the president for 700 WLW and I heart media. Maybe I could get a press pass for a day or two. What if they said, OK, we got 400 other media outlets, 400 covering the White House? I hope that I hope they get paid well. And they do. And the CNN, which is a lying left wing hit organization, have some unbridled constitutional right to cover this president.
00:51:45
Speaker 6: No.
00:51:45
Speaker 1: Inside the White House. Well, they're complaining. I mean, you know.
00:51:49
Speaker 4: I've had a press pass for the Reds since 1979.
00:51:52
Speaker 2: Okay?
00:51:53
Speaker 4: And, I mean, I can't walk into Nick Kroll's office and say, Hey, Nick, or like, Nick Kroll. Terry Francona, you're having a meeting. I want to have a meeting. You're having a coach's meeting.
00:52:04
Speaker 1: Hey, I want to go in there. So it's limited. You can go here. You can't go there.
00:52:07
Speaker 7: Exactly.
00:52:07
Speaker 1: You can't go in and eat with the players. And don't you give me a media pass to the Reds?
00:52:11
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:52:11
Speaker 1: How many times have I been down there this year? About four.
00:52:14
Speaker 8: One. One.
00:52:15
Speaker 1: Now, if I said, you know what? I want to go into more of the meetings in the Reds organization. What would they say to me? Or sit in with the Reds when they eat. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:52:25
Speaker 8: No.
00:52:26
Speaker 1: So why is CNN entitled? To cover it when there's 400 media outlets in the White House.
00:52:31
Speaker 7: 400.
00:52:32
Speaker 1: And by the way, when CNN and Barack Hussein Obama were acting so largely, you might recall that James Rosen, the Fox correspondent, was wrongfully wiretapped by the Department of Justice to find out the sources of information from the Obama White House given to James Rosen. Did the media care about Fox News barred from certain meetings and a Fox News reporter was wiretapped wrongfully by the FBI? Did CNN stand up and say, no, wait a minute, you can't do that? No.
00:53:02
Speaker 7: Why?
00:53:04
Speaker 1: This is a joke. Caitlin Collins ought to get about her life's work. And it's not objectively covering the president. 96% of the stories on CNN is negative about the president. 50-50 on the same period of time with Barack Hussein Obama.
00:53:19
Speaker 7: 72% positive.
00:53:22
Speaker 1: I guess they want to get in a meeting today with Zelensky. They want to get in a meeting with Zelensky. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to yell and scream. Come on in. Come on in, boys.
00:53:28
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00:54:47
Speaker 1: As the Bengals are atop. The AFC North. How about that?
00:54:51
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
00:54:52
Speaker 1: Thank you. Monday Night Football. No contest.
00:54:54
Speaker 4: Rams route the Giants 28-6. Jackson Dart, though, quarterback of the Giants, sprained MCL. Not considered long-term or season-ending.
00:55:06
Speaker 1: How long quarterbacks are going down quickly. What about Orlando Brown? Can he get the job done and protect QB1? They better get Munoz.
00:55:18
Speaker 4: They better get Munoz, Walter, Kaczorski, Blados, and Montoya on Sunday because T.J.
00:55:25
Speaker 1: Watt's going to go, hopefully, not crazy. And in 2011's segment, you might recall that Barack Hussein Obama told the Boston Herald flat out that its pool access in the White House would depend upon, quote, fairly, unquote, covering President Obama. San Francisco Chronicle caught protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser, and they put it out on tape, and the Obama administration pulled the credentials of San Francisco Chronicle. A long history. Not different. CNN, MSNL, they're not objective news organizations. They forget that. I'm sorry. College football.
00:56:02
Speaker 4: Bearcats opened a Big 12 play Saturday night at the Nip against K-State.
00:56:08
Speaker 2: More tonight.
00:56:09
Speaker 1: Scott Satterfield's show live.
00:56:11
Speaker 4: Reginald Montgomery in at 8.05 on ESPN 1530.
00:56:14
Speaker 1: Will Tom Gregory be there? I would say so. Go ahead.
00:56:17
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00:56:35
Speaker 1: But then?
00:56:35
Speaker 4: Kelsey Chevrolet extra inning show after the game. Now, high school golf.
00:56:42
Speaker 1: What about Wayne Carucci?
00:56:44
Speaker 4: The high school girls golfers from Southwest Ohio has begun postseason sectional tournaments.
00:56:51
Speaker 1: Let's see.
00:56:51
Speaker 4: This is girl golfers. Division I Sycamore, Lakota East, Walnut Hills, Anderson, Ursuline Academy, Seton, Mason, Wyoming, Baden, Lebanon, Springboro, and Kings are qualified.
00:57:04
Speaker 1: What about Roger Bacon? In Division II, Madera. Fenwick, Marymount, and CHCA. Frank Zybel is giving Madeira 10 dozen brand-new tireless golf balls. That's good. Holiday swim in the spring. Frank Zybel is giving golf balls to Madeira and Kenji Matsuda.
00:57:25
Speaker 4: Good luck to all those high school girls teams around the area. Bring home the trophy. We've got to get some of the players in here.
00:57:32
Speaker 1: Maybe I could challenge them on the friendly confines of the Kenwood Country Club. If they win, they're in. They're in if they have to win the state title. Tell Roger Bacon High School and Wayne Carucci to get in here. They've got to win state. Okay. Tell them that. Okay. I think you just did. I can give you example after example. Under Obama, Obama worked assiduously to manage the coverage of his White House, barring media outlets from covering him inside the White House, and the media applauded it. So that's good. When Trump does the same stuff, guess what? It's a constitutional violation.
00:58:08
Speaker 5: Right.
00:58:09
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
00:58:10
Speaker 5: Right.
00:58:10
Speaker 4: And they'll spend thousands of dollars on lawyers and lawsuits and everything else.
00:58:14
Speaker 1: That's good.
00:58:14
Speaker 8: That's good.
00:58:15
Speaker 1: That's true. That's good. Nothing wrong with that.
00:58:17
Speaker 7: That's true.
00:58:17
Speaker 1: You got a point there. But how about what's good for the goose? You know what the gander is? The goose and the gander? I know about the goose, but what is the gander? Isn't that in Canada? I think it's a female goose, but I'm not sure.
00:58:30
Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
00:58:30
Speaker 2: I don't know.
00:58:31
Speaker 1: I've never been with a female goose. Have you? Not on purpose. I try to avoid the geese. The goose... What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Let me ask my girl here. Are you ready?
00:58:43
Speaker 4: He walked into the United Nations. The first thing he says, what are you doing here?
00:58:47
Speaker 1: To what? Caitlin Collins? Yeah.
00:58:49
Speaker 2: Greatest.
00:58:50
Speaker 1: The best.
00:58:51
Speaker 4: And the first lady standing right next to him.
00:58:54
Speaker 1: MS Now.
00:58:55
Speaker 4: They got about as many people listening to Politico.
00:58:59
Speaker 5: Joke.
00:58:59
Speaker 1: I'm trying to ask my girl what is a gander. I got to start all over again now, segment.
00:59:03
Speaker 8: Sorry.
00:59:04
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
00:59:06
Speaker 1: What is a gander? what is a gander i don't know if that thing there it is a goose a goose is a bird of several waterfowl species of the family whatever this group comprises she doesn't know either What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If that phone doesn't know, then we're in trouble. We're in trouble. What about AI? We need it. We need more data centers. Yeah. Because you want to be able to operate these damn things.
00:59:38
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:59:38
Speaker 1: You want to have laptops. You want to have like thousands of jobs. But you need community engagement with community agreements. By that I mean. The community in which they're located must have a guarantee in writing about what's going to happen, including no immunity from civil prosecution if they don't keep the agreement. You know what I'm saying? I know what you're saying. And put them in non-residential areas. Do that. And have agreements as to how much money is going to be contributed to the local community. And know your role and shut your mouth. Yeah. Trump says the judge will probably rule in media's favor. I'm sure of that. He'll lose. He'll lose that lawsuit because most of the judges are liberals, too. That's why he'll lose it. I say, get me out of this dude's report. After two o'clock today, we have a guest of incredible proportions. But I can't say who it is yet. But I'll give you a hint. Is it the U.N.
01:00:33
Speaker 2: Right now?
01:00:34
Speaker 1: It's how great the American economy is and how wrong you are to criticize this great economy. Because if this was happening under a Democrat, it'd be happy days here again. Happening under Trump, guess what? It's a problem.
01:00:49
Speaker 4: Willie, in honor of the cool weather here around the tri-state, we leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.
01:00:58
Speaker 1: I'm reclaiming my time, Mr.
01:00:59
Speaker 7: General.
01:00:59
Speaker 1: My time is limited. I have time.
01:01:02
Speaker 2: So what the.
01:01:02
Speaker 1: Reclaiming my time. Yeah, I'm answering your question. So you gotta let him answer. Reclaiming my time.
01:01:07
Speaker 2: Reclaiming my time, sir.
01:01:09
Speaker 1: That's the party that wants to control your life right there.
01:01:12
Speaker 8: Great.
01:01:13
Speaker 1: I like to reclaim my time with you sometimes. Same here. Let's continue with more. Line becomes available, 513-749-7000. Many say that talk radio today is the way, the truth, and the light. It lets you know what's happening. You can't rely upon the mainstream media, which are left-wing bigots. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW. All right, Billy Cunningham, the great American. You know, the American economy is often a tale of two cities, the city shining in the hill or we're in the tank, one or the other. And objectively, and I watched my friend Joe Kernan on Swackbox and CNBC talking about all the great things happening. The last time there was a jobs report, the U.S. economy added about 162,000 jobs in August. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%. Private employers added about 127,000 jobs, including 16,000 manufacturing jobs. Take also into account the build-out of certain data centers. The state of Texas needs 265,000 new workers in the next three years to be trained. Inflation remains a little too high, but it's half of what it was under Joe Biden. I guess the only issue is the price of gasoline, which has germinated about 70% of the American economy. And that's being worked on by Donald Trump and many others. Jonah, you and I now is a man with perspective on this. It is Mark Manilla. He has his own show on financialissues.org, a nationally syndicated radio and TV program over 500 stations across America. And Mark Manilla, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. So tell me, first of all, my producer tells me the economy is terrible. Prices are too high. Gasoline is up to $ 5 and $ 6 a gallon in some liberal states in Ohio. It's about $ 4. 29 a gallon. And he's telling me the economy's pretty bad, but then I tell him it's pretty good. Why is there that disconnect between reality and fantasy? What is the difference? How can that happen, right, Bill? It's really easy.
01:03:27
Speaker 8: We're being gaslighted over and over and over again. I'm not telling people they're wrong by saying bananas went up or nuts are up or something like that. But when you look at the overall economy, it's actually incredibly good. You started off by talking about inflation was up a little bit. Yeah, it is up above what the Federal Reserve wanted it to be after they inflated it over the years by pumping just billions and trillions of dollars into the economy to chase the same amount of goods.
01:03:59
Speaker 6: But here's the.
01:04:01
Speaker 8: Bottom line on this. The reality is our inflation rate is below the average for the last 50 years.
01:04:09
Speaker 2: Think about that.
01:04:10
Speaker 8: 3.72, I think, is the average for the last 50 50 years, and we're below that. We're below the average, but they want it to be down to two. So the world's ending, the sky's falling, our hair's on fire, right? At least that's what we're being told. On top of that, we're being told that our The inflation is causing such an affordability crisis that nobody can eat. There's people in the streets who are going to lose our houses.
01:04:39
Speaker 1: You'd never be able to buy a house.
01:04:41
Speaker 8: Well, quite frankly, again, that's just wrong. When we look at what's going on with the with. With the average income, did you know the median household income increased by 2.6% in 2025, reaching $ 87, 460? That's the highest inflation-adjusted income level since 1967. We are doing okay.
01:05:08
Speaker 2: As an economy, as a nation.
01:05:11
Speaker 8: I think you and I, Bill, talked about the concept of expectation creep, where we have some young... Young, new workers in the workforce who just got out of college and they want to buy the four-bedroom, three-car garage on three acres that their mom and dad worked 35 years for. And they're saying, we can't afford that.
01:05:33
Speaker 6: So the world is ending.
01:05:34
Speaker 8: Because we can't afford coming out of college and living like our parents that took them 35 years to get there. I know. Yeah, so they've been lied to is what it comes down to for so long, and they've been told they can't afford anything, and they start believing it. Well, it's just not true. I mean, yeah, some things are, but 16 out of the 18 months now, we've had real wage increase in America.
01:06:04
Speaker 1: And a couple other factors is that the poverty rate, which announced last month, the U.S. government keeps stats on this, is the lowest it's been in 18 years. The employment rate of African Americans, Hispanics, is back to where it was 10 years ago after four years of Joe Biden. Every objective indicator, we've lined them up, is great. The issue is the price of gasoline, and I'm willing to bet you a hot fudge Sunday in the next 90 days, that's going to come down significantly, too. And so why is it these are the worst of times? And I think it's because, thank God, CNN's been kicked out of the White House for a while. It's all negative news about the economy. I'll give you some other factors, Mark Manella, and the Four years of Joe Biden, inflation went up 21% in those years. in those four years, and Trump's taken it in 18 months, and maybe assuming two years of his second term, let's say it's 4% or 5%. That means inflation's gone up 25%, but over 80% of that was due to Joe Biden's money spending difficulties. And so now we're in an economy where we have millions of open jobs. I had an economist from CNBC that told me there's 5 million jobs in America right now that cannot be filled. And there's about eight million American adults that aren't working by choice. And so we have.
01:07:26
Speaker 5: And those.
01:07:27
Speaker 1: Yes, go ahead.
01:07:28
Speaker 2: Those are six figure jobs.
01:07:30
Speaker 8: Those are jobs paying one hundred thousand plus jobs.
01:07:34
Speaker 2: Think about not.
01:07:35
Speaker 1: All of them, but a lot of them are.
01:07:37
Speaker 8: They're electricians or plumbers or carpenters or they're. They don't need four years of $ 200, 000 debt to going to college to do.
01:07:49
Speaker 1: You can go and learn on the job.
01:07:51
Speaker 2: These are incredible jobs that are out there.
01:07:53
Speaker 8: And then they say AI is going to destroy the world.
01:07:58
Speaker 1: Guess what? It's not.
01:07:59
Speaker 8: It's creating more jobs than ever before. People have to know how to program. People say, well, It killed the software industry. No, it didn't.
01:08:07
Speaker 2: We're seeing that.
01:08:08
Speaker 8: Software is coming back in the market.
01:08:10
Speaker 2: People just overreacted.
01:08:12
Speaker 1: You know what AI is? It's software.
01:08:14
Speaker 8: Guess who has to control that?
01:08:16
Speaker 2: Write that.
01:08:17
Speaker 8: Come up with the ways to utilize it. Software people, writers. And you don't even have to go to college to become a software engineer, actually.
01:08:28
Speaker 2: I mean, to get that degree like that, sure.
01:08:30
Speaker 8: But The better programmers that I know never went to college. They came out of high school just being big nerds and loved the program, and then.
01:08:40
Speaker 2: They jumped into it, you know?
01:08:42
Speaker 1: And I know a little bit about AI.
01:08:44
Speaker 8: My son's like the head of AI at one of the major banks of the world.
01:08:48
Speaker 2: He's head of AI on fraud there.
01:08:50
Speaker 1: And I know what it is.
01:08:52
Speaker 8: And when everybody started saying software is going to go out, we're going to lose all our programmers because it can write software.
01:08:58
Speaker 2: Guess what? When it writes it.
01:08:59
Speaker 8: you need somebody to connect it and then somebody to fix it.
01:09:02
Speaker 1: And to be able to do that, you have to understand software.
01:09:06
Speaker 2: So no, we're not losing jobs here.
01:09:08
Speaker 6: There's so much exciting stuff.
01:09:10
Speaker 8: Did you know, have you heard the K-shaped economy that they're touting?
01:09:15
Speaker 1: I've heard that, yes.
01:09:16
Speaker 8: Explain, explain.
01:09:16
Speaker 1: Guess what?
01:09:18
Speaker 8: We are at the lowest poverty level. More people have moved out of poverty than ever before. We have the lowest number of people in poverty than ever before.
01:09:28
Speaker 2: Poverty is not growing. And also, guess what?
01:09:30
Speaker 8: Middle income, lower income people, there's less lower income people than ever before because they moved up to middle income and higher. There's less middle income because they moved up to higher. So effectively, what we're seeing in our economy is the whole economy has been lifted up, not just the.
01:09:48
Speaker 2: Rich, not just the poor.
01:09:50
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe the top one or three percent grew a little faster than everybody else.
01:09:55
Speaker 2: But poverty went down.
01:09:58
Speaker 8: That's incredible that nobody's reporting that.
01:10:02
Speaker 1: And Mark Minow, another aspect is the energy revolution. When Trump took office, Venezuela was controlled by an idiot named Nicolas Maduro. And now because of the deal with Greenland, in which everyone laughed and snickered at Donald Trump about Greenland, but now we have a permanent base and use to their exotic materials and minerals in Greenland. Venezuela, which was selling its oil to Russia and to China, is now might become an American state at some point. And now we have access to the greatest energy reserves in the world with Venezuela, along with America. So we don't need the Straits of Hormuz or the Red Sea. And even though we're involved in that, I think Iran is a State sponsor of terror. I would ask you, Mark Manella, would you if you had the ability to take away a nuclear weapon from Al Qaeda, would you do it? The Revolutionary Guard in Iran is no different than Al Qaeda, except they've killed more people. They have the same ideology as Boko Haram. And the Taliban and ISIS, the IRGC wants to murder and kill their own people. They think there's some 12th imam about to arise in a cave. And the more they kill and maim innocent men, women, and children, the better they're going to be in heaven with those virgins. We finally have a president, a profile in courage. that is telling the American people it may take a short political hit, but guess what? This is good for the world. Imagine the world after Donald Trump with Venezuelan America controlling the flow of oil and natural gas, building more pipelines, building more data centers properly with community involvement and engagement. I'm thinking, happy days are here again, but I watch the mainstream media, and I'm thinking I'm about to die in five years. I'm going to be nuked either by an AI, the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, you know, about the Terminator. I'm going to die. I'm going to be killed. Things are terrible. Trump's at 29% when he should be at 89%. Can you smell what I'm cooking?
01:12:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
01:12:09
Speaker 1: And I love it.
01:12:11
Speaker 8: And you just keep preaching it, brother, because I'm a strong believer in God.
01:12:15
Speaker 2: I'm a strong believer in Jesus Christ.
01:12:17
Speaker 8: And you know what I've seen is that when people start focusing on the bigger picture, when they stop listening to the talking heads and start looking at the facts and compare them. For example, I did an op-ed recently that got published and i think it was american thinker or maybe it was town hall but it got published and it was all about peak oil and the end of the world and the way it's being preached to us did you know i went back and looked at peak oil and its effect on our economy over the last 50 years and looked at how many times uh how many times we hit peak oil above 100 adjusted for inflation Guess what? They're saying it like this is something new.
01:12:57
Speaker 1: Did you know like one out of every three.
01:13:00
Speaker 8: Trading days in oil, we hit above $ 100 in today's dollars? And the sky didn't fall, and people didn't end up in the street losing their houses, and their cars didn't burst into flames.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: Everything went fine.
01:13:15
Speaker 8: In fact, I forget what the four-year period was. But for four years, it was above peak oil of $ 102. The economy grew. The stock market grew. Everything grew stronger during that time. So the world didn't end because oil went over $ 100. Guess what? It would end if terrorists got a nuclear bomb.
01:13:38
Speaker 2: It would end if they had a missile.
01:13:40
Speaker 8: You know, so all this all this scare is just because it's midterm elections and one party wants the other party to lose.
01:13:48
Speaker 2: And they're they're doing everything.
01:13:50
Speaker 8: They can to create another crisis. Oh, what's a new crisis, Bill?
01:13:54
Speaker 1: That didn't work.
01:13:55
Speaker 2: The peak oil didn't work because, you.
01:13:57
Speaker 8: Know, like op eds like I wrote that they were all wrong. So now they're going to A.I. is going to take.
01:14:02
Speaker 2: Over the world and kill us all.
01:14:05
Speaker 1: Look at it this way, Mark.
01:14:06
Speaker 2: The average person, yeah.
01:14:07
Speaker 1: You and I have been around a long time. I can recall Paul Ehrlich. wrote books and novels in the 1970s about the fact that we don't have sufficient farming for the population that then existed, which was four and a half billion. Now it's seven billion. He made millions of dollars telling you we're going to starve to death. You might recall oil. We're going to run out of oil by 1990. There will be no oil left. We mined all the coal. We're going to die of that. You might recall Y2K 2000. When that happens, guess what? we won't be able to make a telephone call. Al Gore said by 2025, Florida would be under 10 feet of water and the Arctic and the Antarctic would be beach spots. And I'm thinking every now and then, and now I'm told we're going to have a climate crisis, the so-called common... carbon crisis in which we're all going to fry to death because in the summertime it's 90 degrees now we're all going to die and average temperatures have gone up 1.9 degrees fahrenheit over the past 30 years and that 1.9 percent is going to kill us all And I look upon crisis upon crisis. Now, the next five years, the Terminator is going to run around and kill all human beings, and we're.
01:15:22
Speaker 6: All going to die.
01:15:23
Speaker 1: When will people understand this is all a bunch of bovine scatology? You know what I'm saying? Can you smell what I'm cooking?
01:15:32
Speaker 2: And I don't like that smell.
01:15:33
Speaker 1: No.
01:15:35
Speaker 8: Bill, people are waking up.
01:15:37
Speaker 6: I hope.
01:15:38
Speaker 2: I have faith in our country.
01:15:39
Speaker 8: You know, this country, I believe, was formed by Christians based on the Bible. You know what happens is all the laws we have were based on biblical principles. And when we follow those laws, things happen in a really wonderful way. I'm not saying this administration are all Christians or God-fearing or anything, but they're doing the right things. They've been setting the foundations to lower the debt.
01:16:03
Speaker 2: That's going to happen soon.
01:16:04
Speaker 8: We're going to start seeing a pullback in the deficit and in the debt. I believe they've got things in place now. After this election, we're going to start seeing a reduction in debt. We're going to maintain the dollar as the trading currency of the world, and we're going to see an incredible growth in our economy like we've never seen before.
01:16:23
Speaker 1: Well, we got to run Mark Manella. Look at this. Can you imagine if in 2020, 2024, if Tim Walz and Kamala Harris had won the presidency and vice presidency and they promised to continue the policies of Joe Biden with 21 percent inflation? with flooding the market with trillions of dollars unfunded by productivity, to take care of all the green energy needs in this society that we don't need. I'm against pollution, but I'm in favor of making sure that we have available gasoline and diesel to fuel this great economy. Imagine the road not taken if Kamala Harris was sitting in the White House giving billions of dollars to Iran to develop more nuclear weapons. Where would we be then with the policies of Joe Biden for eight years? We're done. Twenty five million more people across the southern border. Mark Manella, we're done. Thank God. Thank Jesus Christ for what happened. Can you smell what I'm cooking? Absolutely.
01:17:25
Speaker 8: All right.
01:17:26
Speaker 1: We got to run. But Mark Manella, I like the agenda. You give me hope. And don't watch the news. Just look at your own life. And is it better or worse? And it's much better than it would have been. And we're about to have the renaissance of the Reagan era replay itself with Donald Trump as long as we stay the course. Mark, give me 30 seconds. Do you agree?
01:17:46
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:17:47
Speaker 1: And count your blessings.
01:17:48
Speaker 8: If you just look at the data and don't look at the way they bend it, just look at the reality. We live better than anybody's ever lived in the history of the world. Our impoverished live better than most of the rich people in the rest of the world. Praise God for America. Let's get behind it.
01:18:09
Speaker 2: Let's rejoice.
01:18:10
Speaker 8: Let's count our blessings and let's all celebrate the USA.
01:18:14
Speaker 1: God bless America. Our poor in this country are overweight. They're not hungry. They weigh too much. They've got to get to work. All right, we've got to run. Mark Manella up against the clock. God bless you, and God bless America. Mark Manella, thank you very much. Let's continue.
01:18:32
Speaker 2: God bless.
01:18:33
Speaker 1: Financialissues.org. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW.
01:18:38
Speaker 7: Director, why during the Kavanaugh hearings, I let people talk and talk because it takes longer to shut them up than it does to let them talk.
01:18:49
Speaker 1: Now, you go ahead and say what you wanted to say.
01:18:51
Speaker 7: I don't have much to say.
01:18:53
Speaker 2: This guy called me a thug.
01:18:54
Speaker 6: It's kind of ironic.
01:18:55
Speaker 2: He's running for president of the United States. He just got his 22nd ad campaign.
01:18:59
Speaker 5: Next.
01:19:04
Speaker 6: Hello, hello, hello.
01:19:07
Speaker 2: Quiet, numbskulls.
01:19:08
Speaker 5: I'm broadcasting.
01:19:09
Speaker 1: Go for it, you bonehead.
01:19:12
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
01:19:13
Speaker 1: You know, Rock, a certain baseball analyst sent me a list of the six worst hitters in baseball this season.
01:19:21
Speaker 5: Okay.
01:19:22
Speaker 1: Productivity. Number one, top of the list is Key Brian Hayes.
01:19:25
Speaker 6: I was just about to say that.
01:19:27
Speaker 1: Number two, he hit 145, hit five home runs. A total of three RBI outside the five that he drove himself in. And $ 30 million. $ 30 million. Not a bad gig. $ 30 million. Number two is Jordan Beck. Never heard of him.
01:19:42
Speaker 8: No.
01:19:42
Speaker 1: From Colorado. But three, four, five, and six. The worst hitters in all of baseball. How many hitters are there? Like, I don't know, 900? Yeah. About 25, 30 a team. So Keith Brian Hayes is the worst? The worst. Number three on the list is TJ Friedel. He's DFA'd. Number four worst hitter is Edwin Arroyo. Arroyo, yeah. He's terrible. Number five is Jose Blayman on Rio Trevino, related to Lee, I would assume. Steinbergs! And number six is Noval Marte. So the five of the top six are Hayes, Friedel, Arroyo, Trevino, and Marte. What do they all have in common? They were all traded here and got here by Nick Kroll. And probably most of them will be here again. There's the list. Send me that list.
01:20:27
Speaker 7: Unbelievable.
01:20:28
Speaker 1: This is five of the six worst hitters in baseball, and Nick Kroll got four of the five to come here at high money. Does that make sense or not? How's that possible? How's that possible? I keep saying in life, how's that possible? But I'm thinking, well, and he's got a vote of confidence, right? You're forgetting rules one and two. What are they?
01:20:48
Speaker 6: I forgot.
01:20:51
Speaker 1: Number one, nobody cares. Number two, it doesn't matter.
01:20:54
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:20:55
Speaker 1: Can we have that written like at Notre Dame? I'm going to put that up somewhere. Remember Notre Dame that you had to play like a champion? Today. Can we put that over the door? Nobody cares. Can you get that up?
01:21:05
Speaker 8: Right there.
01:21:05
Speaker 1: I'm going to work on that. We just jump up every day and hit it? When you complain about the number of commercials... Look at the wall. When you complain about lack of productivity, look at a wall. Complain about hosts getting out late, look at a wall. Complain about the equipment not working, look at the wall. And it gives you the answers. It's all right there. Can you give it all up? See, I'm much more relaxed now that I live by that.
01:21:27
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:21:28
Speaker 1: We have no windows in the studio, no way to communicate with producers. Would you look at the wall, please? What does it say? It doesn't matter, and no one cares.
01:21:40
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01:21:51
Speaker 8: Sparks!
01:21:59
Speaker 1: Let's see, Willie.
01:22:00
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01:22:03
Speaker 1: Call today, swim next year. Frank is back. Frank is back. ACRGunitePools.Spas.com. Better get that pulling quick. It's starting to get cold. Better get it right now. How do we go from 95 to 65? How's that possible? Can we get like.
01:22:15
Speaker 9: A week and a half of 75?
01:22:19
Speaker 1: Look at the wall. What does it say?
01:22:20
Speaker 5: I know.
01:22:21
Speaker 7: You're right.
01:22:22
Speaker 4: Reds and Braves tonight in the first of three of the ATL. Coverage 6-10. Sports Talk, R & L Carriers, Inside Pitch, and Kelsey Chevrolet Extra Inning Show.
01:22:31
Speaker 1: After the game. Let's see, what else? Rock, how about this one? Bearcats. How about this one?
01:22:37
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:22:37
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about many issues. Your friend and mine, John F. Kennedy, wrote a book about profiles and courage. How politicians did what was right for the country.
01:22:47
Speaker 9: Let's do the right thing instead of the popular thing. At the cost of.
01:22:50
Speaker 1: Their political career. Is Donald Trump a profile encouraged? Go after Iran. I think so. He's sacrificing a lot for the good of the whole world.
01:22:59
Speaker 9: Sacrificing possibly his legacy, according to a lot. We got a Republican Stratus on at 5 o'clock talking about his lowest poll numbers ever. And, you know, despite, you know, a good economy, despite border shutdown, deportations.
01:23:17
Speaker 1: Highest. Highest employment and lowest unemployment. Growing wages. And by the way, in the last 50 years, inflation is 3.8%. So in the last 50 years, Trump's inflation rate is much lower than the 50-year average. And it's a quarter. Combined 21%. And right now Trump is about 4.7%. So of the 25% increase, 21 of the 25 is Biden. Do we have the ability to endure anymore in this country?
01:23:46
Speaker 5: No.
01:23:47
Speaker 1: To just put off our own pain for the greater good? No. Down the line?
01:23:51
Speaker 2: No.
01:23:52
Speaker 1: Or do we only care about instant gratification?
01:23:54
Speaker 8: Correct.
01:23:55
Speaker 1: You got that right. And the other thing.
01:23:57
Speaker 2: That's sad.
01:23:57
Speaker 1: Which political party, Keystone Pipeline, no oil drilling, get rid of all nuclear power plants? And by the way, carbon neutral. What political party said get rid of coal? Which political party said get rid of the oil tankers? Which political party says use windmills and maybe solar panels? Was that the Democrat or?
01:24:18
Speaker 2: Yes.
01:24:19
Speaker 6: Okay.
01:24:20
Speaker 1: Now, did that have some impact on where we are, do you think? Probably. How about Venezuela helping us with oil? Is that good or bad? See, again, instant gratification.
01:24:28
Speaker 9: The Venezuela deal is going to be a monster, but it's going to take about a year for it to matriculate.
01:24:33
Speaker 1: Greenland, another one. Exotic metals. Is that good or bad? It's good. And we've got bases there to stop Putin's expansion. Is that good or bad? That's a good thing. These are all good things. How about the lowest black unemployment rate in American history?
01:24:47
Speaker 9: The only thing people care about is I've got to pay another 20 cents a gallon.
01:24:51
Speaker 1: I get it. It's not great. I don't like it either. I don't like it, but it's short-term pain for long-term profiling. Donald Trump is like John F. Kennedy.
01:25:02
Speaker 4: College football Bearcats open Big 12 play this Saturday night at the Nip. They will take on the Wildcats of Kansas State. More tonight on the Scott Satterfield Show live from the Ridge of Montgomery Inn at 8.05.
01:25:15
Speaker 1: Break that down, Rock. ESPN 1530. The Wildcats, break it down. Good quarterback, right? They do.
01:25:21
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:25:22
Speaker 2: That's his name.
01:25:22
Speaker 1: He's got the blonde hair. He's a bull threat guy.
01:25:25
Speaker 2: He's good.
01:25:26
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart, is that his name? No, that's not him. He got hurt last night. I was watching that game. But it's an MCL.
01:25:31
Speaker 9: Did you know the MCL? I know this because I studied pre-med. The MCL is the only ligament in your knee that can heal itself. The other ones must be reconstructed. Did you know that segment?
01:25:42
Speaker 4: Unbelievable, Andy Mack. I bet you Tim Kremchick didn't even know that. Let's call him and find out.
01:25:48
Speaker 1: Call him up. I'm pretty sure he knows that. Bengals Update brought to you by Midwestern Plumbing. See, you're talking again. I'm trying to call Tim Kremchick and you're talking. Hold on a minute. Let me talk to my girl. This is a radio show. Call Tim Kremchick. Pardon me.
01:26:01
Speaker 4: He's probably on the golf course or sending money to Moeller.
01:26:06
Speaker 1: You don't believe me. Are you checking up on me here? Yeah, I'm checking on you. Well, we haven't called him lately.
01:26:10
Speaker 2: We haven't called him.
01:26:11
Speaker 1: In like five years. We haven't called Kremchick. You know this usually doesn't work out well when you... Yeah, that's true. Call people on here. Well, no, he's usually like in the middle of something. He says, hold on. He's normally in somebody's shoulder or hip when I call him.
01:26:22
Speaker 2: Thank you.
01:26:24
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean that in some sexual way either. Tim Kremchick, give me a call quickly. Thanks. Please continue.
01:26:33
Speaker 8: Oh.
01:26:34
Speaker 4: Bengals update, Willie, brought to you by Midwestern Plumbing. My good friend Chris Wilson. Bengal players are usually Tuesday off. Those AFC North leaders are on the road Sunday in Pittsburgh. Still a three-and-a-half point favorite.
01:26:47
Speaker 1: Break it down, Rock. Against a steel curtain. How many offense?
01:26:50
Speaker 9: Bengals have looked real good. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers have not looked good. They scored, what, one touchdown this year?
01:26:55
Speaker 1: Offensively, one. Defensively, one.
01:26:57
Speaker 8: 23-39 for 187.
01:26:58
Speaker 1: Two fumbles, took four sacks. Can't seem to find DK Metcalf. Who's more likely to end the game in one piece, Aaron Rodgers or QB1? I'm going to go with Burrow. He's been hit. Offense is going to heat up. Don't worry. At some point. Right now, QB1 says we're pretty average, and they are. Last night's game was boring with the Rams. God, the Rams looked good. Aaron Donald. It took him traveling eight times to look average. He said, we're done going to Australia. Leave that for the dingbacks and the wingbats. I'm not sure what they are. Just leave them to them. And the kangaroos. We don't want it. Oh, earlier, weren't you asking what a goose and a gander is?
01:27:39
Speaker 7: Yes.
01:27:40
Speaker 1: A gander is a male goose, is it not?
01:27:42
Speaker 9: I didn't look this up, but it's like, so you're like, what's good for the woman is good for the dog.
01:27:47
Speaker 1: Why didn't you know? What are you, like the late Steve Irwin on animals or something?
01:27:51
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
01:27:53
Speaker 1: I got a text here from Chip Hart.
01:27:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:27:55
Speaker 1: Gander is the male. Goose is the female. See, what did I just say? I think you said that, didn't you? I did. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. What's good for the woman is good for the man. Must be an echo in here. Has the criminal justice system become feminized?
01:28:11
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:28:11
Speaker 1: Look at the Lindsay Clancy case. Feminized. Feelings. How did it make you feel?
01:28:15
Speaker 7: Murder?
01:28:15
Speaker 8: No, no.
01:28:16
Speaker 9: And more about less of the act and more about what that means for the root further cause.
01:28:22
Speaker 3: A murderer.
01:28:23
Speaker 1: Of pushing women, because women are so oppressed. Did you know that? I know. They can't work. They don't get any jobs. They got nothing. Most people employed are female. There's no Ohio judges that are women. No prosecutors. none on city council, nowhere, right? How about county commissioners? All male? County prosecutor? County coroner? County recorder? County auditor? I'm just saying, you know... But women feel... I feel it.
01:28:49
Speaker 9: They feel like it wasn't about Lindsay Clancy and that we need to draw a hard line that murder is not acceptable.
01:28:55
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn what your excuse is. We've got to send a message. Postpartum depression. We're going to hold back the advancement if we agree to this. Periods. I live my life with periods, menopause, and postpartum depression. Don't you? Say that again. I'm just saying. If I identify as someone that's blind and I have sight, do you have to treat me as if I'm blind? You know I can see. According to the rules that have been laid out. So a guy that identifies as a woman, I have to treat him as a woman.
01:29:22
Speaker 9: But if you went into a doctor and said, you know, I'm not blind, but I feel blind.
01:29:26
Speaker 1: Can you remove my eyes? Would they do that surgery?
01:29:28
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:29:29
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all about feelings and, you know. How did we get here? Feminized. We've been feminized. Talk to your wife about that. She'll tell you. I know. Women are oppressed. I know. It's a terrible situation. I tell you, boobies are undefeated, untied, unscored on. That's what it comes down to. That's what I'm telling you. Men are willing to fight for a lot until it comes to that one sweet, sweetness. Undefeated, untied, unscored on. Undefeated. They will relent. And men have nothing like that. They will relent. Nothing. We don't have it. What's on the big show?
01:29:59
Speaker 7: Are we in trouble?
01:30:00
Speaker 1: Yes, we're in trouble. I'm thinking women are oppressed and everywhere I look, women are in charge. I'm thinking, how am I oppressed? Maybe I want to identify as a woman and just treat me as such. Why don't you just quit fighting it and do that? Accept it. You've got to play into my delusion, okay?
01:30:16
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:30:17
Speaker 1: I'm blind, okay? Get me a white stick and get me a seeing-eye dog, okay?
01:30:23
Speaker 6: Please.
01:30:24
Speaker 1: What's on the big show, Rock? Eddie's out today. He needs some time off. He did have a colonoscopy last week.
01:30:32
Speaker 2: It went well.
01:30:33
Speaker 1: They took a picture of his insides. Got a text here from Aaron. Looks pretty good. My friend Aaron, who by the way is blind, if they can remove somebody's eyes, give them to me. Give me a transplant. I'd like to see. Aaron, God bless you. The guy works 40 hours a week and he's blind. And he says, no problem.
01:30:52
Speaker 2: Amen.
01:30:52
Speaker 1: No problem. That's a great man. So, Eddie had a colonoscopy. Still recovering? What'd they stick up there? Maybe it was barbed wire. I asked Deb about that. It's been a long time. Never mind. Jason's in. We're going to kick off the show with a little Reds discussion. What went wrong? What went wrong? How about those stats right there? Maybe that's it. We don't score. How about this? The Reds. Had the least run scored in the National League. So you're saying you've got to score a lot of runs to win. Yeah, you've got to score some. They're last.
01:31:25
Speaker 4: And 19-33 against the Central Division. That doesn't help either.
01:31:29
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
01:31:31
Speaker 2: 19-33.
01:31:32
Speaker 4: And they dropped in attendance. I think Lance had it on his ex-account. I forget what it was.
01:31:37
Speaker 1: A few hundred thousand less.
01:31:39
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:31:40
Speaker 1: You may not know it, Rock, but the guy in charge of picking players... They've not done a good job recently. Would you agree?
01:31:46
Speaker 9: Keep Hope alive because the Bengals finally got it right.
01:31:50
Speaker 1: Maybe draft some women. They went against past ways. Draft women. How about that? Let them play. Do it. Feminize. The whole world is feminized and they're victims. There's no crying in baseball.
01:32:03
Speaker 2: None.
01:32:03
Speaker 1: None. You can't cry. Women are more mad at Sidney Sweeney proposing....
01:32:08
Speaker 9: Doing something that's as old as time. A hot woman posing to make men want to buy that product.
01:32:14
Speaker 1: As old as time. They're more mad at her than they are at Lindsay Clancy. When Serena Williams posed nude on the cover of Sports Illustrated. All of them did. Did anyone care? They're the body's issue. I looked at that. I looked at that. I looked at that. Did you look at that?
01:32:29
Speaker 5: No.
01:32:30
Speaker 1: Give me out of the stage report, please. Well, they did not have a cool day here at the Tri-State. And go Reds.
01:32:37
Speaker 4: We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooges Report.
01:32:42
Speaker 3: We will bring championship baseball to Cincinnati.
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