The Bill Cunningham Show -- 10/15 26

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Speaker 1: On our website, Deposit. That's Deposit. Enter it now. Hi, Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Welcome to this somewhat stormy Thursday afternoon in the Tri-State. And of course, the Bengals are off on Sunday. Back out of the week from Sunday in Baltimore. We'll see what happens there. Another big event is Ohio State's playing Indiana. When you say O-H, I say N-O. I'm taking the Hoosiers to beat up on the Buckeyes. Jack Windsor's favorite team. But until then, Jack Windsor, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Jack, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Willie, I'm super fantastic. Always honored to be here with you. Thank you for choosing me. Buckeyes by 14 in Bloomington on Saturday. Take it to the bank.
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Speaker 1: I'll make you a bet of a hot fudge Sunday from graders. I'm taking the Hoosiers, and I think they get three and a half. I'll take four points in the Hoosiers. What do you think?
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Speaker 2: Let's do it, man. I buy. If you're right, you buy. If I'm right, listen, the thing that makes me nervous, I'll say this and then I'll shut up, is they're so well-coached. They're so well-coached. Down the stretch, sometimes in big games, Ryan Day has struggled. Kickers have struggled. And on the road at Indiana, a well-coached team. If it comes down to late fourth quarter heroics, I hope that Ohio State has it buttoned up because Indiana's well-coached and they'll be ready to go.
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Speaker 1: Signetti, if he was coaching Ohio State, things would be different. Let's talk politics. I'm on your website, theohiopressnetwork.com. Let me give you a little antidote. You know, I travel the highways and the byways constantly. Here in Hamilton County, in the so-called Republican areas, I see nothing but Amy Acton signs. I'm sure well-meaning, well-educated white females think, okay, she looks something like me. I better vote for her. I see few signs for Vivek Ramaswamy. If you travel Blue Ash, Montgomery, Madeira, Sycamore Township, Indian Hill, pop-up signs constantly about Amy Acton. And I don't see a lot of retribution. I don't see a lot of attribution to Vivek Ramaswamy. I see one of your polls from the Suffolk organization that has Amy Acton beating Vivek Ramaswamy 50 to 42, like an eight-point swing. And I'm thinking it's impossible that someone as incompetent as A.A., Amy Acton, could actually win When she won't answer questions, won't do interviews, has no policy positions, and appears to be drunk regularly, slurring her words in interviews, which she doesn't give. So just give me a view from 30,000 feet. You're there in Columbus. You're in this site. Just kind of tell me that I'm wrong in thinking that we'd be so stupid to put her in the governor's seat when she's incompetent. has drug problems, has drinking problems, has domestic violence problems, and won't take interviews and won't allow media types like you or me to actually attend her events and record what she's saying. She says stupid things all the time. You know what I'm saying? Give it to me from 30,000 feet. 30,000 feet, Bill.
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Speaker 2: Ohio's a red state. Trump won by 11, but that was two years ago. And Amy Acton could still be our next governor. That is true. And the math behind it that sometimes people get uncomfortable talking about is the polls. Let's talk about the polls. You mentioned the polls. Traditionally, I went back, I looked at 2018, Cordray DeWine, 2022, Ryan and Vance, 2024, Brown and Moreno. Each of those times late in the fall, polls would skew for the left, toward the left, by six to nine points. So when we see a poll that has Acton up eight or nine, Sherrod up six, in my mind, I automatically kind of discount that. Well, even if you do that, let's just say that's the case because there's a coefficient poll that came out, too, by the way, that has Vivek up about a point, Husted up one or two points. And I think that's the reality. So when you look at the polls and you look at some of the analysis, digging into early vote, special election data, Democrats are running six to nine points ahead of their 2024 performance nationally. So what that means is, Willie, we're neck and neck. And as much as people want to, you know, rest on their laurels the last few weeks here down the stretch, if Republicans do not get out and vote. Right. then we could have a democrat governor we could have sherrod brown back on capitol hill serving in the u.s senate.
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Speaker 1: Well you know if david pepper was running for governor or uh denise treehouse is running for governor uh both are competent even though they're democrats uh they're competent people um david pepper has a doctor of laws from yale he's written novels and books he's been on city council been on hamlet county commission i know david pepper He's a good guy. Nothing wrong with him. I think in this climate, he might blow away Vivek Ramaswamy because the guy's competent. But when you have a candidate for governor that won't do sufficient interviews, won't take questions, and you have a circumstance where all these 911 calls were made on her, plus on your website, talk about her employees around her when she controlled the High Department of Health. These are inside people. employees that are giving interviews who were supporters of Amy Acton described to the American people what her own employees are saying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Washington Examiner ran this story about a month ago, Willie. And in fact, I talked with one of the people who asked to remain anonymous. I talked to that person in person because I wanted to get a taste for myself, right? You hear these stories and you go, well, wait a minute. Is this true? When outlets use anonymous sources, sometimes fair-minded people go, I just don't think that's true. I talked to a couple of them, actually. And the feedback that I got was even before COVID-19, She was a train wreck. She often missed meetings. And when things were extremely stressful, she was extremely irritable. And what you read in that Washington Examiner story, there were times that she's hiding in the bathroom crying or laying on the floor in the fetal position because she just couldn't handle the stress. And I think that that is pretty damning. But let's go back to what you said. You go, well, if that's the case and people are reading that, how is she potentially going to be the next governor? Well, number one, there's the midterm pendulum, right? Whatever the White House party is, generally it swings the other way during the midterm. So you have that. Let's look at the playbook. She's running the Spanberger Virginia 2025 race playbook. put her out there as a moderate, but also couple that with like Joe Biden running from the basement. And she's not making statements that are really pinning to her things that she would do or wouldn't do. Instead, she has David Pepper, her emotional support monkey and attack dog out there on social media, talking about how bad Vivek is and really kind of taking the leadership role in this campaign. And when you put all of that together, you go, okay, she's running from the basement and She's positioning herself as a moderate. And she's really taking the thing that I think makes Vivek Ramaswamy special, which is that he is a super achiever. They're pointing to that and going, that's bad. He's a billionaire. Billionaires are bad. Because when there's a billionaire, that means it's a zero-sum game, right? That's what they tell you. He got a lot, which means you didn't get any. And right now, with people, probably the people who have toxic empathy, that might be working.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was doing a debate on NewsNation, a cable news channel, with Tim Ryan, the former U.S. congressman who lost to J.D. Vance for the Senate. And he made the comment, which I pushed back on, that he has a private plane. And I said, well now, Congressman Ryan, how many Americans are employed by those who make private planes, like in Iowa and Nebraska? The answer is 10,000 Americans. Middle-class Americans work hard. to make private planes for people who can fly them. And how many middle-class Americans support that industry? The answer is thousands and thousands. The other thing is data centers. I thought data centers is something evil when it's something good. And so they slap and slam data centers and say, we can't have data centers. Like in Pike County, it's a survival mechanism. There's going to be thousands of workers done correctly. It's a great thing. Data centers will pay their own way. They have community agreements as far as paying lots of property taxes. And, in fact, in Pike County, for a couple years after it's up and running, there will be no utility bills paid by the residents of Pike County once it's open and running. It's going to put to work 6,000 middle-class workers making $ 100, 000 a year or more. So the facts don't matter. Just say data center, data center, data center. And all of a sudden, my eye is supposed to glaze over. And lastly, I'm glad you brought this up. Mike DeWine. I called him last night. He didn't take my call. And he sent me a text saying he's going to call me this afternoon. I said, okay. I told him in the message, I said, Mike, I call him Mike. I said, Mike, I see your face in the ads with Amy Acton. You're standing next to Amy Acton. And I said, that's BS because you've endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy. And I said in my voicemail to Mike, I said, why don't you come out and go with Vivek and travel around to send the message you don't support Amy Acton? Because Amy Acton thinks, being the, quote, moderate that she isn't, that she has Mike DeWine in her corner. And that's BS. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 2: You know that. I know that. But people who aren't in the weeds and this stuff every day like you and me, Willie, they don't know that. They see the ad and then they go back, right, and go, well, yeah, they were on the same team. And by the way, Mike DeWine, shame on him. He made two massive mistakes in this camp. Number one, he said the buck stops with me. Well, listen, Governor, if you're listening, I know you listen to Willie. Please listen to me. I read the Ohio revised code as it applied back in 2020. And the buck didn't stop with you. The only person who had the authority to sign those orders was Amy Acton. And I can go to your website right now, Governor, in the order to postpone the election and the order to shut down the state of Ohio. Those are signed by Amy Acton. So it's cool to say that the buck stops with you, but it did not stop with you. That's number one. And then number two, if you remember, he called out Vivek Ramaswamy and Rob McCulley for running an ad that said just that, that Amy Acton shut down the state. She did. And so here you have a governor that's making it a hell of a lot harder for the Republican candidate, which happens to be in his own party, to win this race. So, you know, Governor DeWine does not have some of the stink off of him regarding this.
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Speaker 1: If things go right, I'll take credit. And things went wrong. Things went terribly wrong. And the only time the Amy Acton name has ever surfaced is in a relationship to COVID. And that was such an unmitigated disaster for months and months and months and months. You would think that stink would be on her. And I'm going to call for Governor Mike DeWine because this might be a one or two point race to come out and speak loud and proud about the fact that there were times the governor would get a hold of Amy Acton. She was unreachable. They had get togethers at two o'clock. They couldn't find her. Where is she? And she was in a fetal position in her office. And I'm thinking, why doesn't Governor Mike DeWine say the facts and the truth about Amy Acton's misleadership during COVID-19? And he watched it. He knew about it. Her employees knew about it. And the media doesn't know about it. And these stupid, educated white females in the suburbs with these silly-ass signs in their yard is going to deliver the state of Ohio into the hands of Amy Acton. And she won't be able to do the job. She'll be in a fetal position. She'll start drinking even more. Now we've got more trouble. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 2: Oh, think about that, Willie. She served less than 100 days in that role. We are still picking up the mess in education, in small business, in trust as it relates to public health. And there are some really bad things here. Number one, if you remember, Lake County, Ohio, Ashland County, Ohio, Judges in both of those communities came out and said she overstepped. She didn't have the power that she thought she had by statute, and she was capricious and arbitrary, and she wrecked things. They said that, so there's your judiciary. The legislative branch, if you remember, took the power away and said you can't issue an emergency here. And have it go on ad infinitum. You have to check in with us now. So both the judiciary and the legislative branches said you ought not do that. And then let's go back. Look at the policies that they chose to implement. Look at what they could have done. They used a wrecking ball instead of a surgical scalpel and they wrecked things. And so if Governor DeWine, again, Governor, if you're listening, let it go. Your legacy is not more important than the future of this state. You screwed up with Amy Acton, you listened to her, and now you're covering for her. Be a man, step up, let the future of this state count more than what you think your grandkids and their grandkids are going to think about you. That's what this comes down to.
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Speaker 1: Jack Winsor, OhioPressNetwork.com in Columbus. Can you tell the American people that three or four jobs that we know Amy Acton has held the past five or six years and failed at each of them miserably. I know facts shouldn't matter. You know, facts should change someone's opinion, but opinions, opinions in the mind of a liberal doesn't, doesn't change their facts. So can you tell, tell the American people what she's done say the last 10 years? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I think she came from the Columbus foundation and then went to the director position, Ohio department of health and, When things got hot in the kitchen there, you remember she wanted to be taken off center stage. So Governor DeWine, in the middle of a hiring freeze, put her into a newly created position for about $ 230, 000 a year as his medical director. So there's the third position. She left that position and then went to like something five, some six. some nonprofit organization and then onto another nonprofit organization. And then if you remember in 22, she was going to run for the Senate. She flirted with that one on Sesame street that didn't manifest. And then she apparently now is in private practice, but the address goes back to her home. So I don't know if she's practicing medicine, but I don't know. I lost count there. There's what three, four, five different positions there. And let me just boil it down by saying this. One of the individuals I talked to who still works at the Ohio Department of Health that worked with her when she was there said, oh, I've seen her resume. She job hops about every two years. So here's a woman who, when she was the director of the Department of Health, couldn't take the heat in the kitchen, had to leave in less than 100 days. And she wants you to give her a commitment to be the governor of the state of Ohio for four years. When you look at her track record, not only is she unqualified, she's a job hopper. And so, you know, I think the next fair question is, if she gets elected, how soon is it before David Pepper is the governor of the state of Ohio?
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Speaker 1: Well, she also had a stint of Planned Parenthood where the business was killing unborn babies. I mean, the liberals tell me that babies in the womb are not babies, but men who wear women's clothing is a woman. try to square that circle uh... and and mike the line god bless him gave her a golden parachute of two hundred thirty thousand dollars to get her out of the office as the health director, and she did nothing. She advised the governor. I'd like to know what advice she gave the governor for $ 230, 000 a year. It was a way of getting her out the door to shut her up. Now she resurfaces as the governor, and without doing interviews and barring the media, and the assassination attempt, again, was a joke, and that thing died quickly because it didn't play politically. Well, you know, Jack Windsor often say we get the government we deserve. When I see Blue Ash Montgomery, Madeira filled with Amy Acton signs, These are useful idiots that are voting based upon sex and gender, not based upon competency and reality. And if we get Amy Acton, of course, David Pepper is going to run things completely, and away we go. Can you give me one minute on the Senate race? John Husted, of course, data centers are great things when locally controlled. I want local control. Give me your view on Brown and Husted.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Brown has one of the most durable brands in Ohio politics right up there with Governor Mike DeWine. John Husted is a guy who still in some circles has stink on him from COVID. And that is probably dragging him down a little bit. But at the end of the day, if Republicans turn out and vote, then I think Husted can win this race by a couple of points. But to the point of data centers. Go out. I mean, if somebody listening has Claude or Grok or heck, even go to Google AI and type in any give me press releases or comments that Sherrod Brown made on data centers before 2026. The only thing you're really going to find is in 2015, he celebrated a data center in Ohio. And I remind people he was in the U.S. Senate the whole time. If they were so bad, why didn't he speak out? If they were so bad, why didn't he put forth legislation? Because he didn't get a rip. He cares now. because it's an issue that he thinks he can use to separate himself from John Husted. There is campaign Sherrod and there is D.C.
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Speaker 1: Sherrod.
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Speaker 2: And D.C. Sherrod votes with the Democrat Party 97 percent of the time. That should scare the hell out of Ohioans when they recognize that the Democrat Socialists of America run the Democrat Party. So if you put Sherrod Brown back in office, then you tell me the difference between Abdul Syed and Sherrod Brown. There isn't one because they're going to vote the same way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. He was for data centers before he was against it. And that's Sherrod Brown. I mean, and it's ridiculous. All right, well, let's see what happens in about less than two. People are voting now. We have about, what, two and a half weeks to go, and we'll see what happens. And once again, Jack Windsor, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And I'll tell those stupid female suburbanites, get those Amy Acton signs out of the damn yard because you're a clown, you're a fool, and you're being used. Because you're stupid. I shouldn't say that, but you're stupid. Well, I'm stupid, too, just about different things. I'm real stupid.
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Speaker 2: Hey, look, every movement takes useful idiots, and there are some useful idiots. Touche.
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Speaker 1: But thank you, Willie. It's always an honor to be here. God bless America. Thank you, Jack Windsor. TheOhioPressNetwork.com, all the stuff's there. I don't want to insult anybody, but you're stupid. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW. Revise and extend some of my remarks I had with Jack Windsor. Number one, we're all stupid just about different things. The academic disciplines are a few that I mastered, whether it was at Deer Park High School where I got a great education or Xavier or University of Toledo Law School. I know a lot about some things and a little bit about a lot of other things. And I would think you're in the same category. I would think trying to live your life well, pay off student loan debt, try to meet a hot chick or a good-looking guy. Mortgage payments are coming up. You want to refinance. I ought to call McKinley Mortgage. That's a different issue. And at some point, I want to put Paul Luck on and talk about it. mortgage rates rates is kind of a a guess but nonetheless i digress and uh yes uh i think i know a lot about politics from a conservative perspective And I have worked with and for, in my life, many Democrats. You're listening to someone who was in the Attorney General's office under Anthony J. Celebrezzi for eight years. May I say he was a Democrat? I worked with Governor Dick Celeste, a Democrat. How about Democrat William J. Brown, a Democrat?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: There are good Democrats everywhere. In fact, if David Pepper from Cincinnati, David Pepper, just add Pepper, would run for governor... I could say freely he's got a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale. He's run businesses. He's written novels. He was on city council. He was a county commissioner. He knows where the bodies are buried, knows how government works. Okay, that's a legitimate candidate for governor. If Denise Treehouse would run, I know her daddy Don quite well. And the Democratic Party with Sokka Oethi, Denise Treehouse is competent. She knows how to run government issues. She's smart. If she were run for governor, I would say, you know what? Let's talk about the policies, prescriptions for each of the parties. So there's all kinds of good Democrats who could run for governor. Amy Acton is not one of them. Her initials, for God's sakes, are AA, and that's for a reason. Within the campaign... Many people have leaked out the idea that we can't approach her, we work for her, doesn't know what she's doing, and she drinks too much. And so if she becomes the governor, you know, past is prologue. It's going to run the state of Ohio just as she's run most of her life where her family doesn't talk to her, her daughter and granddaughter don't talk to mom and grandma. They don't get along at all. Multiple calls to the police from her family to come get her. And the media kind of rounds that corner a little bit because the media wants to get Vivek Ramaswamy. So when I say that you're stupid to put an Amy Acton sign in your yard supporting her, you are stupid. But damn it, I'm stupid too about all kinds of things. There might be someone in the outback of Australia saying, who's very bright, very intelligent, but doesn't have a knowledge base. I kind of amuse at those who say, let's do an IQ test and we're going to see what you know. Knowledge is one thing. Intelligence is another. So many people are quite bright, quite intelligent, but they have little bit of knowledge and there's knowledgeable people that aren't very, aren't too bright. I work with them all the time here. So when I see Amy Acton signs, I often I'm somewhat bemused to say, do you know who Amy Acton is? Governor Mike DeWine. And his picture is in all the Amy Acton ads. As if Mike DeWine is endorsing Amy Acton, which he is not. I have a call in to him. I'll see if he'll come on next few days. Talk about the use of his name and likeness to the benefit of Amy Acton. She spent about 90 to 100 days as the health director. She did such a horrible job, so disliked and unavailable, that Mike DeWine had a conversation with her and said, you have to step down. Can't do it anymore. And to kind of quiet her down, he gave her a golden parachute of $ 235, 000, I think of taxpayer money, as a medical advisor to the governor, just to get her out of office, go away, and I'm going to pay you to be quiet. It worked. And then she had two or three jobs the last five or six years, including killing healthy babies at Planned Parenthood. Just one of her gigs was with one or two other foundations. And then she's supposedly as a practicing physician with no patients and no office. So it's a fraud. It's a hoax that the Democratic Party in the state of Ohio is playing on you and the fact you would accept it. It's kind of wrong. I know you're busy, but think about it. Vivek Ramaswamy started in Springfield Township and made his way, spent grade school in Princeton, Princeton grade school, then went to St. X, middle-class guy, got to work, made his fortune, fame, and he lives the life of a billionaire, and God bless him, he earned the money. And you've seen the ads about all these Alzheimer patients saying, dementia patients benefiting from his work. And he's decided after making all the money he can make to use his talents for the state of Ohio. The guy's employed tens of thousands of people. And to be a billionaire, I think is a compliment, not a criticism, especially when it's earned. 75% of rich people earn it themselves. They didn't inherit it. They earned it. And that's the American way of life. So when I compare these two, if Vivek Ramaswamy is running against David Pepper or Vivek Ramaswamy is running against Denise Treehouse, I would say, well, let's talk about policy. And Denise Treehouse and David Pepper could talk about policy all day. What Vivek did yesterday in Columbus was brilliant. There was some form of business leaders and somebody asked a question about real estate taxes. and the taxes being paid and how they're being paid and what percentage are being paid. He went through a 20, 25 minute diatribe into the, into the bowels of real estate taxes and millage rates and explain why his plan for the future of Ohio or lower your real estate taxes, especially if you're an elderly American, there's no way Amy Acton understands any of this stuff. Doesn't know what it is. Has no clue. She did an interview with VXU that she was slurring her words because she was drinking too much. And that's the person you want to be in charge of the state of Ohio? And by the way, I'm glad you brought that up. What does Ohio currently rank? How are we compared to Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia, the states around? Well, damn it. We're number one in the country when it comes to business formation and jobs. I said number one in the country, according to CNBC, the place to start or own a business is the state of Ohio. So these darn Republicans... Are doing something right? Number one in the country? I would think so. Michigan, by the way, is 47th. Is that something you should consider? I would hope. Can you take the best and make it better? Absolutely. So at some point soon, before the election, I'm going to get on Governor Mike DeWine to talk about Amy Acton's performance in office and why she had to leave because she couldn't do the job. Then was paid $ 235, 000, a golden parachute, to advise the governor on medical matters, none of which happened. Then she took two or three other jobs and failed at each. Now she's running. Last year she couldn't spell governor. Now she might become one. You got to be kidding me. Come on. Shake up a little bit. Think about this. So we'll see what happens in, what, two and a half weeks, I'm told, by politicos. that the early turnout favors the Democrats by about five percentage points. Those are real votes, early voting and mail-in balloting. They don't run the ballots, though, through. They process them, open the envelopes, but don't run them through until the polls close. I think it's 730 on Election Day. And so the early returns favor the Democrats a little bit, not a lot. It's going to take Republicans who live in rural Ohio, the 80 counties that not surrounding the eight blue islands, to come out in force and say, we're not going to live like this. We're not going to do this. You're going to take a little time. And possibly the Democrats peaked a bit too early to hide their candidate. She decided to run a campaign like Joe Biden did in 2020 from her basement. Selden comes out. One of the most ridiculous things, when she makes a public appearance, her staff informs those present, do not record what she's saying. Each time she gets recorded, she looks more stupid than the last time. So how about having a governor and she's appearing infrequently and her staff tells assembled dozens of people, don't record what she's saying.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 1: So just think about that. Secondly, I'm glad you brought that up. One of the cries of the radical left is Medicare for all. Medicare for all. Medicaid, Medicare. Medicare for all. In fact, the Democrat Party is organized around a couple principles, which is impeach Trump, investigate his family, indict his family, and then Medicare for all.
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Speaker 3: Dr.
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Speaker 1: Abdul, Medicare for all, Medicare for all. I don't want facts to get in the way of someone's opinion. You know, facts can change my opinion. But opinions of leftists are seldom concerned with the facts. The state of California. In 2018, Gavin Newsom was elected the governor, and he ran on a platform of getting real about Medicare for All in California. 2018. He promised in 2018 to implement a single-payer health care system because Medicare for All, they were going to become the laboratory of democracy. in California. The founding of this country, a constitutional republic. At that point, there were 13, but 50 laboratories of democracy. Let the states try things, and then it can be implemented all across the country. So what happened? What happened to the promise eight years ago, Gavin Newsom, Medicare for all, we're going to pay for it. No one's going to pay deductibles. No one's going to pay premiums. The state's going to pay and everything's going to be great. Well, in 2022, after four years, after two years of studying the issue of Medicare for all, something called the California Nonpartisan Legislative Analysis Office said that in 2022, if we implement the system, The system will cost about, just in the state of California, $ 552 billion a year. And that number, and Gavin Newsom, well, he knew it, but he wanted to lie to get elected. Lie to get elected. Obviously, that year he submitted a state budget, a whole state budget, on all departments in the state of California, all the employees, all the contributions to Medicare, Medicaid, everything, the state budget in California alone. for that year was 350 billion. Medicare for all by itself would cost $ 200 billion more than the state spends on everything. That quietly, shall we say, died a rightful death because it doesn't work. So the Heritage Foundation has run the numbers on Medicare for all in America. Right now we spend $ 1 trillion, write that down, Drew, $ 1 trillion on Medicare. We spend $ 1 trillion on Medicaid for the poor, disabled, and for illegal aliens, and about $ 2. 5 trillion on Social Security. So that's a little more than 50% of the state budget. Heritage says that if we have Medicare for all, we currently spend $ 1 trillion on Medicare, $ 1 trillion on Medicaid, $ 2. 5 trillion on Social Security. The every year that one trillion for Medicare would be twelve trillion dollars a year. Now, the entire federal budget is seven. Does twelve go into seven? I don't think it does. In other words, it's a pipe dream that we can't afford. And don't tell me what you're thinking if you're a liberal Democrat. Well, let's make the billionaires pay. Make them all pay. If you would confiscate the wealth of every billionaire in the country. We're talking billions, including the evil Elon Musk, who at one point had a value of $ 1 trillion. It's now down to $ 600 billion. That's a different issue. If you confiscate all their wealth in one time, it would run the Medicare system for about nine weeks. The other 43 weeks would be covered by borrowing more money. So the goal of Medicare for all would hasten the bankruptcy of this country, crash the dollar, and leave us into a Great Depression from which we cannot exit. Is that what you want? Medicare for all, Medicare for all. Nobody pays. California tried it and said, wait a minute, we can't afford this. So that's where we are. Now let's continue. But I don't want to call people names. I don't do that. I'm stupid. You're stupid. All stupid about different things in life. And the idea that you could take the most unqualified person, at least in the past 150 years, to run for the governor's position, AA, where she belongs, Amy Acton, instead of a successful business owner from Cincinnati who is a despicable thing on your part. If you have an Amy Acton sign in your yard, go out now and throw it in the garbage. There's good Democrats running for office, but she surely is not one of them. Unqualified would be a kind word. And I would hope at some point, between now and election day, in about two and a half weeks, the governor, Mike DeWine, comes out and makes more public his support for Vivek Ramaswamy and a call on Amy Acton For the job she did not do as a health director, the job she did not do heading two foundations, the job she did not do well at Planned Parenthood, killing unborn babies. By the way, a baby in the womb is not a baby. But a man dressing like a woman is a woman. Can you explain that one to me? I hope not. So let's take a short break. And we'll see what happens down the road. We'll get the government we deserve. About one last point. I'm glad you brought that up. Currently in the National Health Service of Great Britain, there is 8 million individual patients waiting to see a doctor for treatment in England in the month of October so far. 8 million. They can't see a doctor. Hip replacements, knee replacements, checkups, vaccines. You can't see a doctor in England. Takes about, quoting this story out of London, takes about 12 weeks to see a doctor. And the UK spends well above the averages in America on health care with terrible results because you can't see a doctor. Too many people. You can't put 10 pounds of nails in a five pound bag. It doesn't work. We have the best health care system in the world right here. But the Democrats, liberals, the Islamists want to destroy it. And the Medicare for all is a scam. It's a lie. And Dr. Abdul knows it. And the great American just said it. Let's continue. Don't get me started on this. If a line becomes available, which it never does, 513-749-7000 or pound 700, the new AT & T. After one o'clock today, we'll be someone here from the Heritage Foundation and more about Islamists and what they plan for this country. Later on, as an expert on the budget, if we spend, if we have 10 times the spending, I said 10 times the spending on Medicare and What would that do to the system? What do you think? Can't afford it. Don't have the money. Confiscate the wealth of all the billionaires. It would run the system for nine weeks. By the way, each year we got an additional 43 weeks after that to run the system. Would it work? Absolutely not. Do the smart people inside know? They know it's not going to work. They want to lie to you in order to trick you to believing something is untrue to get power than to rule for a thousand years. Bill Cunningham, News Radio 700, WLW. Well, let's continue. Bill Cunningham, the great American. Of course, all across America, there's radical Islamists that are running for office as I speak. And you think it can't happen. If somebody had told me 25 years ago in New York City that a radical Islamist who believes in the efforts of Hamas and Hezbollah actually would become the mayor of New York City, that would be impossible. I remember the signs, never forget, never forget. Well, we have forgotten. And now Dr. Abdul, who's not a doctor, is running for the Senate seat in Michigan. And most of the polls have him winning over Mike Rogers because about 98% of the 250,000 registered Muslims are going to vote for him. And as a consequence, to get the rest of the vote, Mike Rogers got to get about 56% of the vote to overcome that kind of balloting. 98% are going to vote for Dr.
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Speaker 5: Abdul.
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Speaker 1: And sadly, America is going to go through what France is going through now in about 10 years if the lines continue, because the goals of radical Islam is not consistent with Western democracies. Joining you and I now is Simon Hankinson. He's with the Heritage Foundation. And Simon, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, can you tell the American people if Europe's approach to Islamophobia is a warning to the American people as the riots in France continue?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think there's a couple warnings. One is that if you bring people in faster than you can assimilate them, then you're going to see these ethnic block votes.
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Speaker 7: We've seen it just.
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Speaker 6: In London where a member of parliament was elected in London, my hometown. by essentially an ethnic constituency. We've seen it in Minnesota, where Ilhan Omar was elected with an overwhelming support from the Somali community. In Sweden recently, a number of MPs elected with the support of the Somali community. And back home, they tend to vote along Klan lines, tribal lines. If they bring that to the United States, it really does undermine democracy, where you ought to be voting based on issues.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's not the case in Minnesota completely. What's happening in Minnesota is totally ridiculous. So the point is, from the election experts, they will tell you that most elections are decided between the 40 and the 40-yard line. It's like someone might win by two, three, four percentage points. But when you have blocked voting to begin with, and I'm told in Dearborn, Michigan, as I speak, that the absentee voting is filled with Muslim names, et cetera, because there's a tremendous effort by the left-wing groups in America to make sure that the 250,000 registered voters in Michigan who are Muslim are all voting, make sure they all vote for one way, which is Dr. Abdul, and that they want him to get elected. So Mike Rogers then has a hell of a problem getting a large chunk of the remaining vote. And on top of that, the traditional black female Democratic vote in Detroit, which tends to go toward Democrats, although I've had on a minister or two from Detroit this says, you know, Islam does not represent African-American interests very well. In fact, Muslims were the main category of persons who were using slaves from Africa and continued for centuries and still continues today. And so to overcome that thing is a problem. And from 30,000 feet, Do you think the average voter today has a opaque memory of what happened 25 years ago? Because the average American, Simon, is about 31 years old. And so when you and I talk about 9-11, it's kind of fresh in my mind because I lived and went through it. But the average American doesn't remember that because it happened so long ago, correct?
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Speaker 7: Correct.
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Speaker 6: Unfortunately, you're exactly right. I mean, all of us who lived through it, anyone who visited New York City before the Twin Towers were taken down by terrorists remembers what that skyline looks like.
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Speaker 7: It was iconic.
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Speaker 6: It's in every movie ever shot in New York City between 1972 and 2001. But unfortunately, today, a lot of kids are growing up, first of all, they're not taught history adequately in schools. I think only about 11% of high schoolers last time they did the national report were proficient in US history. Think about that, almost 90% didn't.
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Speaker 7: Know basic US history.
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Speaker 6: And on 9-11 in particular, there's been a real effort to memory hole it because it's embarrassing to people. They worry that it's going to encourage Islamophobia. And so there are no movies about 9-11. There's literally one that I found that actually talks about the events of the day.
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Speaker 7: There were no TV series.
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Speaker 6: There's one miniseries was shown one time in the Never Again in 2006. And it's like a taboo subject. And now you have a lot of young people believing in conspiracy theories that the U.S. was behind it or Israel, and they don't understand who did it and why.
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Speaker 1: One of the incredible things for me as an observer and a radio talk show host is that the radical Islam faith is inconsistent, not compatible with Western values. Having spent time in Israel, I saw in Jerusalem mosques, synagogues, and churches. I saw the gay pride flag flying in Jerusalem. I spent time in the West Bank, which is 98% Muslim. And when I went there just before October 7th, it was safe and secure and sane. Israel is the only participatory democracy in the Middle East. You can be gay. You can be straight. You can be a Muslim. You can be a Jew. You can be a Catholic. You can be an atheist. You can be an agnostic. It's okay. You function. You go outside that little piece of dirt called Israel. For example, in Egypt right now, 95% of the young girls are sexually mutilated by their mothers and aunties. 80% of Egyptians believe that if you leave the Muslim faith, you should be beheaded. 82% of Muslims in Egypt believe that homosexuals should be stoned to death. And so that viewpoint is all through the Middle East. There used to be Christians and Jews in Jordan and And in Saudi Arabia, there were Christians and Jews. It was all over the place until the Muslims took over. And once they took over, they beheaded, killed, raped, and robbed. And that's the history of that part of the world. And so when I look at the lack of history being taught, can you imagine Simon being a Jew in Cairo, Egypt? Are you being, I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, maybe in Baghdad? How long would we survive?
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Speaker 6: Well, sadly, you're right that the Christian communities in the Middle East and in Muslim majority countries are dying out. The Jewish communities pretty much have died out because they are afraid. They're afraid that if it's not the government persecuting them, it's going to be their neighbors. In Pakistan, whenever a Christian is accused of blasphemy or mutilating a Quran or whatever, even if there's no basis to it, at all, they can end up getting killed just by a lynch mob. The Coptic Christian community in Egypt is disappearing, and Christians are not really able to worship freely in the Gulf States and the Middle East. They can't build a church and have church bells ring out and do all the things that they do to celebrate, whereas the opposite is true. And you're seeing Muslims in Europe and in the United States and Canada able to live, to express themselves as they should more and more freely.
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Speaker 7: So it's a one-way street.
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Speaker 1: I had on a minister from Dearborn a couple months ago that talked about the fact that there's a lawsuit filed now, which I think will be successful. That Dearborn, Michigan, which was a great American city where the auto industry was, uh, almost created by Henry Ford, uh, has been taken over completely by Muslims. And the idea that the Muslim, uh, symbols would be all over the streets, that Muslim holidays are celebrated, but not Christmas, not Easter, uh, nothing about the Jewish faith. I would note that, uh, In large parts of Michigan right now, there's no practice of fair distribution of religious symbols anywhere. In fact, those of us who speak honestly about what is the plan, we're called Islamophobic. You've got to shut up about this. When Dr. Abdul has asked questions about Assan Piker, who has called blood should run in the streets of America, which is Jewish blood and American blood, that Israel should be obliterated. Hassan Piker, and he's very popular among the young. When those kinds of things are said in the presence of Dr. Abdul, when he's asked about it on various shows, how come you've said these things in the past, Dr.
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Speaker 2: Abdul?
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Speaker 1: And now he gets angry, and the person asking the question is accused of Islamophobia. And so you can't talk about it. And also, one other thing, I've read some studies about what the plan would be, and I hear constantly from from those in mosques, not by bullets, but by ballots and babies. We will take over America, which is the ripest apple on the tree. That's what's happening. And it's happened in New York City. It's happened in Dearborn, Michigan. 250 other Islamist-controlled parts of America. And that's what's coming next. And one last thing, Simon Hankinson. I'm a practicing Roman Catholic. Can you imagine in the Vatican, in Vatican City, and the Pope just had a surgery about his lung. What if in the Vatican they were beheading Jews and Muslims? What if in the Vatican they told churches all over the world to become depositories of weapons and guns and bullets in order to kill the infidel? Do you think the media might cover the Pope a little differently? Because that's the case in the Middle East right now. The Middle East is telling individuals in the Middle East that the most dangerous place to be is outside of a mosque after Friday prayers. The people come out of there filled with hatred. Can you imagine if the Vatican had the same principles applied to it as what happens in Mecca? You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and it is a double standard.
00:46:34
Speaker 6: And look, the Christian church went through its periods of, you know, persecuting people for unbelief, the Spanish Inquisition, and so on. But 500 years or 1,000 years back in our history, and we've really evolved a long way towards freedom of religion and freedom of expression.
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Speaker 7: And there are elements of the Muslim world, you know.
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Speaker 6: There are fanatical elements that do not accept the separation of church and state ever under any circumstances. And they will do everything they can to ensure that the state conforms to their code and not the other way around, which is a real problem for secular countries and countries that celebrate religious freedom like the United States.
00:47:12
Speaker 2: And Western Europe.
00:47:13
Speaker 1: Simon Hankinson of the Heritage Foundation, about 500 years ago, Christianity went through the Reformation. in which it was determined that we can't be on this course burning the witches and things of that character. We can't do that kind of stuff. We can't get rid of those of a different faith and kill them and burn them alive. We went through that. Why hasn't Islam gone through that system of saying we can't live like this? You can't take America, which is on its way right now, and the Democratic Party has embraced this religion of radical Islam with Dr. Abdul and others Can you look back from 30,000 feet and tell me why Islam has not gone through a similar reformation?
00:47:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a very complicated question that's way beyond my scholarly abilities.
00:48:02
Speaker 7: But it's an important one.
00:48:03
Speaker 6: I've heard it raised by many intellectuals, including Muslim intellectuals, to say we really need to go through our version of a reformation. Now, you've seen micro versions of it. Turkey, for example, Kemal Ataturk, after the Ottoman Empire collapsed, remade Turkey into a secular republic. Women were not veiled and they were not separated from men. And they stressed the secular state coming ahead of religion. But under their new president, Erdogan, they've gone back in the other direction. And now Turkey is becoming more and more a fundamentalist Islamic state. So the reformation hasn't happened yet. I sincerely hope it does for the future of the world's Muslims. But we haven't seen it.
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Speaker 1: And Simon, lastly, one of the things that amazes me is college co-eds, especially young, educated white females, who scream and shout from the river to the sea, which means kill all the Jews. And the first persons to be obliterated under the Islamic regime would be those who will not wear the hijab, who will not wear the burqa, and who will not comply with the dictates of the most recent imam who might stand up and say what must be done. Do you find it amazing that educated white females are calling for the obliteration of the Jews from the river to the sea and that somehow in college campuses to be Jewish is to be afraid? You find that amazing that educated females don't get it?
00:49:33
Speaker 7: I find it sad, but I don't find it amazing.
00:49:35
Speaker 6: In my book, The Ten Little Commandments You Must Not Obey, I wrote about the rot in our higher educational institutions. This is what they're getting taught. They're getting taught that the world is divided into oppressors and oppressed, and that the Palestinians are oppressed, and that the Jews are oppressors, despite the obvious historical irony there.
00:49:52
Speaker 7: And so, no, I'm not surprised, but I am saddened.
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Speaker 1: Well, if we continue in this route, it's not going to end well. I don't know how it ends, but At some point in the near future, there's going to be a Democratic president, maybe Gavin Newsom. There's going to be someone in the House like Hakeem Jeffries, someone in the Senate like maybe AOC, and get rid of the filibuster and get ready. You can bring in four or five states, which would change the electoral ballot forever. You could legalize 25 million illegals to vote immediately and make them citizens by congressional acts signed by the president. And Ronald Reagan said about 40 years ago that America is only one generation away from losing our freedoms. And in today's a faster world, it's not one generation. It might be one election away from losing our freedoms because when the Congress passes laws and every democratic senatorial candidate getting ready for the election in a couple of weeks is saying we need to expand the U S Supreme court from nine to 13 or 26 and appoint another 10 justices, just like Kentucky Jackson. And they're going to roll constitutional all kinds of things that Congress does. And that's how close you are to losing this country. Well, Simon Hankinson, by the way, what was the name of that book? I'm going to get that. What was the name of your book?
00:51:03
Speaker 7: It's called The Ten Woke Commandments You Must Not Obey.
00:51:07
Speaker 1: Well, can you give me, we have a minute remaining. Give me one or two of the Ten Commandments I Must Not Obey. What are they?
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Speaker 6: You shall be woke to imaginary oppression. You shall have no borders. You shall have no nation. You shall not know what is a woman. You shall not know what is a man.
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Speaker 1: Well, those are pretty good because, you know, right now, I think I know what a woman is. I think I know what a man is. But obscuring the sex differences mean that we're all, it's all one nation, one world. You know, we're all under the auspices of the Europeans, which has lost their way. And America cannot become Europe. With Simon Hankinson of the Heritage Foundation, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Simon, you're a great American. Let's continue to sound the alarm and let people decide for themselves what course we want to take. Simon Hankinson, thank you very much.
00:51:56
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on.
00:51:57
Speaker 1: And God bless America. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW. Hello, hello, hello, hello.
00:52:10
Speaker 5: Quiet, numbskulls.
00:52:10
Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting. Go for it, you bonehead.
00:52:15
Speaker 5: All right, guys.
00:52:15
Speaker 1: Can you hit that again, Drew, just for the record? Hit it again. Hit it again. MLS soccer.
00:52:20
Speaker 8: New England defeats FC Cincinnati last night 3-2 as New England clinches a playoff spot with that victory. seg what the hell's going on here i had just got done eating a oreo lemon cookie or just kind of you know that i bought at kroger oreo lemon what the hell's that an oreo lemon cookie oh they're delicious i bet try them don't sound good to me yeah they're great you have like a no i had two two large about three or four minutes before i went on and it was like Kind of embarrassing.
00:52:50
Speaker 2: So what?
00:52:50
Speaker 1: Segment, we have high school girls golf royalty right here. I can't go over all that. Katie, come up to the microphone, the coach here. Katie Coffin was taught how to play golf by Kenji. Now, Katie, kind of describe what these girls did in the state tournament. One of them, individually, 71-67, but I'm told she skipped two or three holes. She didn't play them all. Did she play all 18? She played all 18. At Firestone? At Firestone.
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Speaker 3: Basio, of course.
00:53:16
Speaker 1: Explain what happened with this girls' team. They are unbelievable. Undefeated, untied, unscored on.
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Speaker 3: Yep, yep.
00:53:21
Speaker 9: Undefeated season.
00:53:22
Speaker 1: We went into state, and we did our best. We played well. We played sometimes.
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Speaker 9: Not so well, but we did what we could do, what we did, and we came in fourth as a team.
00:53:34
Speaker 1: It was pretty close, though.
00:53:36
Speaker 2: Second, third, fourth place.
00:53:37
Speaker 1: Any controversial rulings? Let me ask you. I always like to ask the girls. Girls, step up to the mic. I'm going to ask you a few questions. You know, Kenji's here, the superintendent. And often, I like to test the knowledge of the girls or boys who win a state title. They had to give you the test like Cassie gave you yesterday. Cassie gave me the test, and I didn't do well.
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Speaker 2: No, you didn't.
00:53:56
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this, girls. What is the square root of 36?
00:54:01
Speaker 3: All right.
00:54:01
Speaker 1: What are the three branches of the federal government? There's three branches. What are they? Executive and judicial. Not bad, Kenji. Not bad. They just studied that. How about that? Can you name three of the original 13 colonies? Three of the original 13. New England. New England? No. Come on up here. Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania. That's pretty good right there. There you go. Pretty good. That's not bad, can't you? That's not bad. That's not bad. Who's the governor of the state of Ohio?
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Speaker 7: Biden.
00:54:35
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Who's the vice president of the United States?
00:54:38
Speaker 6: Biden.
00:54:41
Speaker 1: Kenji, you're doing a good job here with the girls. Now, talk about Ellie Hartone. Ellie, come up to the mic here. Now, coach, explain what happened with Ellie. She did something that is really unbelievable for a young girl from Madeira.
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Speaker 9: Well, she came in prepared. She shot a 68 on the first day, which was two under.
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Speaker 7: A firestone.
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Speaker 5: A firestone.
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Speaker 3: Really? Yep.
00:55:04
Speaker 7: She did?
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Speaker 4: Yep. 68.
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Speaker 1: Two under. Two under. How about this second day? Blew up to an 84?
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Speaker 9: No.
00:55:13
Speaker 1: She was 71.
00:55:14
Speaker 9: She was one over the second day. So she came in at a minus one for the tournament.
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Speaker 1: 139. She won the state title. She won the state title. She brought it home.
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Speaker 8: And Willie, her title makes her the 10th greater Cincinnati girl to win an individual state championship and the first in Sycamore's Eva Beckerill in 2024.
00:55:38
Speaker 1: Eva Longoria. She became an actress. Yeah, her too.
00:55:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So, and now Kenji's here winning the state individual title. You ought to get a ring. Would you agree? I agree, yeah. Kenji? It's coming. It's coming. Now, also, you know, I've noted myself at times of being able to play golf myself. No, we wouldn't. I have no idea. Are you aware of that?
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Speaker 4: No.
00:56:02
Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: No.
00:56:03
Speaker 1: Now, next week, are you on or off next week? Next week's going to be 71 degrees and sunny. What are you doing Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday of next week?
00:56:13
Speaker 2: Well, one of those days I'm going to play you in a match and I'm going to win, and then the other two I'm going to practice for it.
00:56:18
Speaker 1: Wait a minute now.
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Speaker 3: Whoa.
00:56:20
Speaker 1: You think a nice young teenage girl like you can beat me at Kenwood Country Club? Yes. That's a done deal. That's a done deal.
00:56:28
Speaker 4: I know.
00:56:29
Speaker 1: Here's the bet.
00:56:30
Speaker 9: We're all betting on Ellie.
00:56:31
Speaker 1: We're all betting.
00:56:33
Speaker 3: Here we go.
00:56:33
Speaker 1: Just another hot fudge Sunday.
00:56:35
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:56:35
Speaker 1: Hot fudge at Grader's. Mono a mono. Man to girl. Match play. If you wanted to, we'll play the ladies' tees to make it better. No, that's okay. Whoa.
00:56:48
Speaker 2: That's okay.
00:56:49
Speaker 1: Hello. Remember 68 at Firestone, big boy. You want to play the men's tees? All right, hot foot Sunny for all the team, and if I beat her, which is certainly the probability, then you can buy me and my family diamonds from Genesis Diamonds, something like that. Is that fair, Kenji? You're not going to win, Willie, so it's good.
00:57:11
Speaker 3: We're good.
00:57:12
Speaker 1: All right, we'll set it up through Kenji. You'll come and provide marshalling services?
00:57:16
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely.
00:57:17
Speaker 1: I'll talk to Tony Talusiak. We'll get permission of my club of excellence to do this. I got to say, Willie, though, this is an amazing group of girls. They're very good at golf, but they're even better people. They're better at life. Emma, Paige, Megan, Maggie. Katie, give all the names of these fine young Americans.
00:57:34
Speaker 9: Okay, I've got Maggie Myers, a senior, and Megan Schwally is also a senior. And Ellie Hartung is a junior. Paige Gronkowski is a junior. Emma Combs is a junior. And then we also have Brinkley Graves, who isn't here, who is a junior.
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Speaker 1: She's probably in dummy hall or something. Didn't do well in classes, and Kenji locked her up. Is that correct? Yep. She's getting checked out. She's getting juiced up. She's getting juiced up as I speak. Say, give these girls some sports. They need sports.
00:58:01
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00:58:18
Speaker 1: All the great men of mine at Kenwood will watch you go down hard. You got no shot, no hope, nothing. You understand what I'm saying? You forgot to mention Jimmy Golick. Jimmy Golick is there all the time, too. I'm taking a lot of money off him. Please continue, segment.
00:58:31
Speaker 8: Willie, game three of the American League Championship Series is ongoing right now in Cleveland.
00:58:37
Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
00:58:37
Speaker 1: And the Guardians are up 1-0 headed to the third inning. Do you girls pay attention to baseball at all?
00:58:43
Speaker 2: No.
00:58:43
Speaker 1: Sure, no. Okay, please go ahead. National League Championship Series tonight, Willie, could end. What is it?
00:58:49
Speaker 8: The Brewers up three games to nil, playing the Dodgers again in Los Angeles. Milwaukee one victory away from the World Series for the first time in 44 years.
00:59:01
Speaker 1: Sounds like the Reds. Let's see.
00:59:03
Speaker 8: College basketball, it was tonight. Xavier's on the road in Tennessee. Bengals update. Bengals got... the bye. Brought to you by Midwestern Plumbing. Good friend Chris Wilson. What about Chris Wilson?
00:59:14
Speaker 1: Need plumbing? Call him immediately.
00:59:16
Speaker 3: Amen.
00:59:16
Speaker 1: I know Kenji Matsuda needs plumbing. He'll be there before you hang up the phone. Last time he was called, his truck was pulling down the driveway before the phone call was completed. That guy's fast. That's the experience you can trust. Let me ask a few more questions. Now, Ellie, I'm going to ask you a question. Let's say you're in a sand trap. My good friend Dean Gregory's in the sand trap. And I'm up on the green side, and I see all the sand come up, but the ball didn't come up. I walk over. The ball has moved about two inches. And then I step away. I said, try it again, Dino. He goes through the gyrations. And he hits the ball again. And the ball doesn't come up, and the sand comes up. But I go back to the trap. There's no ball. I said, Dino, where in the hell is the ball? He didn't know. We got a shovel out. He drove the ball deeper into the sand trap, six inches below the sand. We found the ball. What's the ruling on that according to Far Hills and the USGA? I think you'd have to take it on playable. One-stroke penalty? No embedded ball rule. There's no embedded ball rule in the sand trap segment. Well, you shouldn't do that anymore. I'm going to ask you another question. Let's say you're chipping greenside. and your coach is watching you, and you double hit the ball, much like T.C. Chen did at the 1978 U.S.
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Speaker 3: Open.
01:00:28
Speaker 1: You might recall that. And so you're chipping, you hit the chip, and then your club hits the ball twice. What's the ruling on that, coach? What do you say? I think it's two shots. It is not. They changed the rule four months ago. It is not. You better check that out. Double hits. Check that out. We don't do double hits, Willie. You don't have to worry about that. Ask her what her 150 club is. What's the new ruling? Ask her what her 150 club is. The ruling is if you didn't intend to doing it, who hits the ball twice? Nobody. It counts as one stroke and you play the ball as it lies. What happens if you accidentally hit your ball? while you're taking a practice swing. Let's say you're on number one at Kendale and you take a practice swing and accidentally hit the ball. What's the ruling on that?
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Speaker 2: I have no idea.
01:01:12
Speaker 1: You replace the ball with no penalty.
01:01:14
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:01:14
Speaker 1: You know that. Okay. Let me ask you some more rules of golf. Are you ready for this?
01:01:19
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
01:01:20
Speaker 1: Let's say you hit the ball near a burrowing animal hole. You see a little mole hole that's about three inches across and your ball is close to the burrowing animal hole. And it obstructs your shot. Do you get free relief from a burrowing animal hole? I don't think so, but I want to say yes. Yes, you do get free relief because it wasn't a planned hazard. It's one of those natural things. What happens if you hit the ball and the ball stays in the tree? And you can see the ball, but you can't identify the ball. Start climbing. 15 feet in the air.
01:01:51
Speaker 4: I think if you can't identify it, you have to re-hit it from where you lost.
01:01:54
Speaker 1: I think she's right about that. Willie, you've got the state champ here, and you're asking about animal burrowing holes. You better ask for golf lessons. Golf lessons? I don't know. That's one right there. Right there. How many clubs are in a legal club's number of clubs in a bag? I think you can only have 14. 14 clubs. There's that number again. Ask her what her 150 club is. What do you hit from 150? If you have a level lie, and there's plates 150. We have agronometers. You've got the lasers out there. And I hit like a 700. From 150, what do you hit? A six or a five or a four? What do you hit? Probably an eight.
01:02:29
Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa.
01:02:31
Speaker 1: You really think she can beat a man like me? It'll be in the middle of the green, Willie. How many greens did you hit in regulation generally? 14. And it was 68 or 67, if I remember.
01:02:41
Speaker 7: 68.
01:02:43
Speaker 1: Is that your best round ever?
01:02:44
Speaker 4: No.
01:02:45
Speaker 1: I shot a 63 last year. Does she play every hole? You shot a 60 at Reeves?
01:02:51
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:02:51
Speaker 1: Segment your reaction. I would think good luck to you. Good luck. Good luck to you, not her. Let me ask a few more questions. Are you ready for academics? Name the first three presidents of the United States. George Washington. Number two?
01:03:09
Speaker 5: John Adams.
01:03:12
Speaker 1: John Adams. And number three?
01:03:13
Speaker 2: Jefferson.
01:03:14
Speaker 1: Jefferson, that's correct. That's not bad. Who did America fight in World War II?
01:03:21
Speaker 3: No.
01:03:22
Speaker 1: Angie, there we go.
01:03:24
Speaker 3: Germany.
01:03:25
Speaker 1: Germany, that's it. That's good, not bad. Well, girls, I'm going to call Tony Toulousiac that runs Kenwood with an iron grip, including Jimmy Gulick. We're going to set it up either Wednesday or Thursday. Are you available? Do you have classes or anything? Yeah, I have school. We'll play at 3 o'clock. The entire school could show up and be the gallery. We'll play at 3 o'clock. We need to put this on TV. It'll be after school. I'm on there until 3. So we'll play at 3.15 if you got the guts. Do you have the guts? I think so. And let me ask you, are you going to wear that hat? I always wear my golf hat, yeah. Wait till you see that deal. I look a little goofy out there.
01:04:04
Speaker 2: A little?
01:04:05
Speaker 3: It's okay.
01:04:06
Speaker 1: That's okay?
01:04:06
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:04:07
Speaker 1: Do you beat boys all the time in golf? She does? So she's pretty good.
01:04:14
Speaker 5: Yes.
01:04:14
Speaker 1: Well, girls, I'll work through Kenji, your agent. I'm only going to buy about eight hot fudge sundaes if I lose. And if I win, maybe my wife will get a 14-carat diamond from Genesis Diamond, something like that. You agree?
01:04:28
Speaker 3: Sure.
01:04:29
Speaker 1: Kenji, how confident are you this teenage girl can beat the voice of the comedy? Penny doesn't need any jewelry. She's got all she needs. I can't afford any more Louies. You know what a Louie is? Blue baton. That's it. These girls are from Madeira.
01:04:44
Speaker 4: Right?
01:04:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:04:45
Speaker 1: All right. Well, ladies, thank you. Segment, get me out. But once it ends, you're going to really play me. Yeah. If I can, I will. Ever played Kenview Golf Course? Maybe once a long time ago. So you don't know the rips in the valleys and where to hit the ball, where not to hit the ball? No, not really. He's got the grass individually numbered. How many have you? You do that. I'm going to have Jim Gulick. He'll be writing with me, giving me advice. You know Jeannie and Jim Gulick? You ever hear of them?
01:05:15
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
01:05:16
Speaker 5: You know them?
01:05:17
Speaker 2: Yes.
01:05:18
Speaker 1: We'll see about that. Segment, get me out of the studio. Kenji, thanks for bringing the girls in.
01:05:22
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:05:22
Speaker 1: This thing will continue next week. If I win, everyone will know. If I lose, everyone will know. Believe me. Believe me. Everybody's going to know. Willie, in honor of Ron's Roost, who brought our lunch today. And Katie Kaufman.
01:05:38
Speaker 8: When 65 years in business, 5740222 and Pam bringing our lunch today.
01:05:44
Speaker 1: She's a plus one handicap. Clucking good. Are you really a plus one? Yeah.
01:05:49
Speaker 8: At Ron's Roost right here on 700 WLW.
01:05:59
Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the great American. Of course, Dr. Abdul, who's not a doctor in Michigan and many others, Bernie Sanders, etc. Demands Medicare for all. Medicaid for all. More Social Security benefits for all. They also demand, just off to the side, free education for all. Free housing for all. Open up the southern borders. Bring in everyone who wants to come to this country for everyone around the world. And there's no cost whatsoever. In fact, it's going to enhance the American economy if we have 30 to 50 million more individuals from dysfunctional third world countries to come here to tell us how to run our government. concerns me greatly. And if you listen to me the last several years, you know, the, the debt is the one, uh, unspoken arrow, uh, directed at the heart of the American economy. And the debt goes on no matter if you're a Republican or Democrat, this is not a partisan topic. It shouldn't be. In fact, the Democrats want to spend on more things and different things. And the Republicans, they want to spend more in different things. The, uh, fiscal just ended a couple of weeks ago, September 30th. And at this point, uh, In the month of July, for example, we, the American people, borrowed a little over $ 500 billion in one month. The total number of the fiscal just ended. More bills are coming in. We borrowed an additional $ 2. 1 trillion on top of the pile of debt. So right now it's about $ 40, $ 41 trillion. And in the next fiscal year, we're just starting it, we're going to borrow, guess what? Another $ 2 trillion or more. And in the last year of Trump's term, we're going to borrow at least another $ 2 trillion. And then if a Democrat's elected in 2028, Katie, bar the door. And what does all that mean? Joining you and I now is Mark Manilla. He's with financialissues.org. He's somewhat heard on 500 radio and TV stations around America. He wrote a column entitled, The Greatest Long-Term Threat to America's Economy is the National Debt. And once again, Mark Manilla, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Mark, first of all, I want to give you a couple of numbers to see if I have this relatively correct. Are you ready for a question from the great American?
01:08:06
Speaker 5: Well, let's do it, even though those numbers you gave already are depressing enough.
01:08:10
Speaker 1: Well, let's get more depressed because Dr. Abdul and there's a large movement in the Democratic Party to have Medicare for all. And I've run some brief numbers. It looks as if we spend presently about $ 1 trillion on Medicare. We spend about $ 1 trillion on Medicaid, and we spend about $ 2. 5 trillion on Social Security. My simple Deer Park math tells me that's around $ 4 trillion out of $ 7 trillion, which is about, what, 58% of the total, on Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, all of which are in deep financial trouble. And according to some of the estimates, if we go with Medicare for all, which could happen if the Democrats control everything, those numbers will skyrocket, unsupported by productivity. Are my numbers correct? And what do you think about the future of this world if America has a Great Depression?
01:09:06
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're lining it out pretty good. The future of the world is in America's hands. We are the last bastion.
01:09:16
Speaker 4: Of true freedom, not free product, but true individual freedom. If we go down, if our country goes down, the world goes down. It'll turn into a World War III as all the oppressors try to take over as much as much land and as many countries as possible.
01:09:36
Speaker 5: We can't let that happen. We were formed and we were formed by God. I believe his hand was on the founding of this country to.
01:09:44
Speaker 4: Keep freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of individual rights.
01:09:50
Speaker 5: With all of us. We can't let this happen.
01:09:53
Speaker 4: I don't believe the national debt is just the biggest.
01:09:58
Speaker 5: Problem Concern for our economy.
01:10:01
Speaker 4: I believe it is for our country because if our economy goes down, our country goes down.
01:10:06
Speaker 5: It is a terrible thing to think about.
01:10:08
Speaker 4: If our national debt being, what, $ 40. 3 trillion and climbing and deficit of over $ 2 trillion a year, if this continues, what's going to happen is we will lose. The dollar will lose its standing as a reserve currency of the world.
01:10:24
Speaker 5: When that happens, nobody's going to want to buy our bonds.
01:10:28
Speaker 4: Right now, even, we're seeing countries pulling back from buying our bonds as reserve bonds. So as that's happening, it's forcing the interest rates out. A lot of people are wondering why are treasuries.
01:10:38
Speaker 5: At 5 percent?
01:10:39
Speaker 4: How about because a lot of countries aren't buying as much of our treasuries as before and they're looking back towards gold again to be the reserve and to protect them because America has gotten loose and crazy with the debt.
01:10:53
Speaker 5: It's very scary. It's the number one concern I have for this country, and we need to get under control.
01:10:59
Speaker 4: Getting it under control means getting our Congress under control. Our Congress has a responsibility. Their job is to put together budgets, put together the annual spending for our country, and they have yet to do so.
01:11:15
Speaker 5: They just keep doing.
01:11:16
Speaker 4: Over and over, just saying, well, we're going to borrow more and borrow more.
01:11:20
Speaker 1: You know what?
01:11:21
Speaker 5: How about this?
01:11:22
Speaker 4: If their job is to be in control of spending, when we have a deficit, I think we should have some sort of law saying we don't pay the senators and the congressmen until we have a balanced budget. That way, we know we'll get a balanced budget in day two because they want to be paid.
01:11:40
Speaker 1: You know, Mark Manella, the Democratic approach to this is ignore it, spend more money, and that will grow the economy through government welfare programs. The Republican approach, Donald Trump's been asked this question, and I'm one of the 30%. I'm a Trumper. I'm not the part of the 70%. I'm part of the 30% that love his policies and ignore what he says. I love the policies that he has. He tells me that in about 10, we can grow the economy out of this to a balanced budget. And I'm looking at some numbers. Numbers aren't Democrat or Republican. It's called math. And he thinks in the next 10 to 12 years, We're going to double the economy. We have a GDP now of about $ 31 trillion. So he says, okay, we're going to double the economy to $ 60 trillion over the next 10 years, which means every year there's got to be real GDP growth, I don't know, in the 6% to 7% range, which has hardly ever happened before in American history. And right now it's about a 2% growth. And so the Republicans say, Keep spending money. Spend an additional half a trillion dollars on the military. And the Democrats say we want to spend more money on social welfare programs because that's how they get votes. And so when, and Mark Manilla, I'll give you the nightmare scenario. At some point in the future, a Democratic president like an AOC or a Gavin Newsom is going to have a Democratic House controlled by Akeem Jeffries and a Democratic Senate controlled by AOC if she's not the president. She'll be the senator from the state of New York. And they're going to get rid of the filibuster quickly and then pass laws, rules and regulations without a filibuster and completely control this country, admitting three to five new states like Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, all of which are going to vote Democratic. And then flood across the southern border 20 to 40 million illegals whose labor we do not need. And they're going to quickly, by law, make them U.S. citizens and required to vote. And all of them are going to vote for the Democrat. We lose the country. Is that to you the nightmare scenario? Am I missing something here? No, you're not.
01:13:55
Speaker 5: What is missing is this.
01:13:57
Speaker 4: We have to realize, I think a lot of people keep, especially mainstream media, even the right-leaning media, they refuse to call it what it is.
01:14:05
Speaker 5: We have traitors in the Congress. We have traitors in the House. We have traitors. Traitors, that's with a T, not with a D.
01:14:13
Speaker 4: Traders, people who want to destroy our world because they want us to be part of the one world order and all come.
01:14:19
Speaker 5: Underneath the thumb of communism and socialism.
01:14:22
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:14:22
Speaker 4: Let's start calling it what it is. We have traitors in our government. We need to get rid of them. And we can blame all sorts of people and all sorts of things.
01:14:32
Speaker 5: But Bill, It's the voters' problem.
01:14:34
Speaker 4: If you vote in communists, if you vote in socialists, if you vote in anti-God, anti-family people, guess what you're going to get? You're going to get a country that's going to be destroyed from the inside, the enemy within.
01:14:47
Speaker 5: We need to stop this.
01:14:49
Speaker 4: And then we need to hold our House of Representatives accounted. We need to make those representatives get that balanced budget in place on time. And if not, they need to pay for it. I wasn't kidding about stopping their pay.
01:15:03
Speaker 5: I think we should stop everything. I think we need to get harsh with them.
01:15:08
Speaker 4: If I was running a company and they did what this government's doing, I would be firing people left and right.
01:15:15
Speaker 5: I've ran several companies and I've had to do that.
01:15:18
Speaker 4: When people get out of control, when they start their own agenda, instead of following the agenda of the American people.
01:15:24
Speaker 5: It's time to get rid of them.
01:15:26
Speaker 4: You said it wasn't political at the beginning where you were saying the deficit. Well, it is because first of all, let's go after the Republicans. They say they're fiscally responsible as part of their platform. Fool, it's just a lie. They have not been fiscally responsible. We need to hold their pants to the fire. We need to make them do what they're saying they're going to do. And if they don't, we need to get rid of them. And we need to all join arms and fight this because this is our country.
01:15:57
Speaker 5: It's not theirs.
01:15:58
Speaker 2: It's ours.
01:15:59
Speaker 5: We need to make this happen. We need to stop the deficit spending. And people are saying, well, we can't do that. We can't grow it out. The economy, you can't. just increase the economy.
01:16:10
Speaker 4: All that does is create a ratio where instead of being 101% of the gross domestic production, we're now 98% or 88%.
01:16:19
Speaker 5: That doesn't reduce the amount of interest.
01:16:22
Speaker 4: Over a trillion dollars a year we're paying in interest, which means a trillion dollars out of your or my pocket that's just going to interest-only. If I did that, I'd go bankrupt very quickly.
01:16:34
Speaker 5: Guess what?
01:16:34
Speaker 4: We're going to go bankrupt if we keep that, no matter what the GDP is. Yeah, it can help because a larger economy, a stronger GDP could.
01:16:45
Speaker 5: help with creating more revenues.
01:16:47
Speaker 4: But if those revenues are soaked up by the interest expense, then it means nothing.
01:16:54
Speaker 5: We need to stop this bill. Good news, though. Good news is we can.
01:16:59
Speaker 1: Give me good news.
01:16:59
Speaker 5: Very quickly.
01:17:00
Speaker 1: I need good news. Give me some good news. Give me news. If we can vote in, you don't believe me, do you? I don't think it's possible. Well, I'll give you some other factoids. If you go from 1789... The first day of the first term of George Washington, all the way through January 20th of 2001, when Bush barely beat Al Gore, we think, and became the president. So that's a long period of time. Would you agree? That's 200 and some years that America went through wars, depression, feast, and famine. We went through World War I, World War II, went through the Korean War, went through the Civil War. We grew, we expanded, we contracted. That entire time frame from George Washington's first day to Bill Clinton's last day, the accumulated national debt with all those activities was $ 4. 5 trillion. In the eight years of Bush 43, he doubled the national debt. In the eight years of Barack Hussein Obama, he doubled the national debt. If you take the first four years of Donald Trump, he added $ 7 trillion to the national debt. If you take the four years of Joe Biden, he added $ 7 trillion to the national debt. And here the second term of the fiscal conservative Republican Donald Trump, he's going to add $ 8 trillion to the national debt. So when I'm filled with hope, my heart, my soul given by God Almighty is filled with hope. It pours over. However, happy days are here again when the Democrats take over. The spending will be ubiquitous. And if Donald Trump, God hope, completes his next two years, he's going to borrow the next two years. another $ 4 trillion. And then when J.D. Vance takes over, and I hope in 2029, he's going to keep spending at the rate of $ 2 trillion a year. And at some point, there'll be a debt crisis that America cannot back away from. And the Democrats say repudiate the debt. Let's talk about that for a moment. You're a financial expert. My producer, Tony Bender, says, well, what we got to do then is just say we're going to we're going to repudiate the debt. We're not going to pay it anymore. What happens if that occurs?
01:19:17
Speaker 4: As soon as that happens, the first first time we default on paying on our debt.
01:19:23
Speaker 5: No more people are going to invest in our debt. When that happens, the dollar is going to be shunned.
01:19:32
Speaker 4: And the only way for us to keep growing would be to print more money. When we print more money, we create inflation. We become a third world nation and we destroy.
01:19:43
Speaker 5: Not only the dollar, but our economy.
01:19:45
Speaker 4: We go into a recession and then possibly a depression. It could be 10 to 20 years before we ever.
01:19:51
Speaker 5: Recover from something like that.
01:19:53
Speaker 4: That is not the answer. The answer is to get the spending under control. Even if we didn't reduce the debt right now, as long as we didn't continue to increase it, we could get this under control because in the near future, we could see the debt coming down as we reduce.
01:20:11
Speaker 5: The deficit spending. We could see.
01:20:14
Speaker 4: Some large amounts of money happening in the United States because of the growth of the economy, and that could help pay down the debt.
01:20:23
Speaker 5: We could see this really turn around. In five to 10 years, I believe we could be absolutely debt-free.
01:20:30
Speaker 4: If we had a Congress, if we had a Senate, and as long as we have a president who.
01:20:36
Speaker 5: Are willing to do the right things, not.
01:20:39
Speaker 4: The political things to keep them in office so they can Rob, steal, and just create fraud to take it all away.
01:20:49
Speaker 5: Did you know if we just got rid of the.
01:20:51
Speaker 4: Fraud and abuse in our government, we could have a balanced budget right now?
01:20:56
Speaker 1: Just got rid of.
01:20:57
Speaker 4: The fraud in Social Security and in Medicare.
01:21:01
Speaker 1: I had Dr. Oz on about two weeks ago. He talked about $ 500 billion in fraud in Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. And then there's massive fraud and defense spending. There's massive leaks all over the checkbook of the United States Treasury. I think we have a trillion dollars or more in fraud. And when Donald Trump and others try to stop that, the ads are running here in Ohio now about getting getting Ohioans off Medicaid, get Ohioans off Medicare. It's all the fraud taking care of that legitimate Americans. Get those. But let's face it. The Democrats run these stupid ads talking about a $ 500 billion cut to Medicare, Medicaid. It's because fraudulent individuals, many from Somalia, Mauritania and Haiti and elsewhere, are actually ripping off the Treasury. They figure out how to monetize all this. And when he tries to stop the fraud, it's called cutting Medicare and Medicaid. We can't have cuts to Medicaid. It's not just them, Bill.
01:21:57
Speaker 5: It's our medical system, the hospitals, everywhere. I went in for some surgery about three months ago. And you know what?
01:22:05
Speaker 4: They had 16 people come in the room, check in.
01:22:09
Speaker 5: Ask me a question and leave.
01:22:11
Speaker 4: You know, each of those people got paid by Medicare. What they've done is they figured out how to do all the billing, how to make the most money. None of them really cared how I was doing. I actually told one, I said, stop. I need to tell you these pills you have me on are keeping me unconscious. I don't want to be conscious. I need to be conscious.
01:22:29
Speaker 5: And they're saying, well, we're just trying to ease the pain. No, you're not.
01:22:32
Speaker 3: No, you're not.
01:22:32
Speaker 4: You're just trying to check in as often as possible to get the most money.
01:22:37
Speaker 1: The whole system.
01:22:38
Speaker 5: It's the greed in our society as well.
01:22:40
Speaker 1: Mark, you're making too much sense. You better stay out of politics. The website is financialissues.org, and we're a clarion call to the future, and hopefully someone in power is listening. Mark Manilla, financialissues.org. Once again, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and Mark, you're a great American. Thank you very much.
01:22:59
Speaker 5: God bless you, Bill. Thank you for having me.
01:23:01
Speaker 1: And God bless America. Let's continue. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW.
01:23:08
Speaker 3: One of my greatest memories, and this is not the area you're talking about, was after the game against Green Bay maybe 25 years ago. All of my grandchildren were very small, four or five years old. And I had a car full of them. We'd been up to watch Green Bay and Green Bay. It was so cold. And as we left the stadium, we won. As we left the stadium, we were in a long, big car. And I saw this lady headed toward the car. And she comes up beside the car running. She's so upset as a Green Bay fan. And she was pretty hefty. And she turns around and pulls it all down and just plants it right up.
01:23:55
Speaker 2: Against the window.
01:23:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:23:57
Speaker 3: And everybody inside was in horror and couldn't believe it. And then her skin stuck to the window. It was so cold. And when she pulled away, there was just a big print sitting there on.
01:24:11
Speaker 1: The side of the car. My word.
01:24:15
Speaker 3: There were about 10 or 11 of us in the car, and we can still see it today.
01:24:22
Speaker 1: Hello.
01:24:23
Speaker 7: Hello.
01:24:24
Speaker 3: Hello.
01:24:24
Speaker 7: Hello.
01:24:25
Speaker 1: Quiet numbskulls.
01:24:26
Speaker 3: I'm broadcasting.
01:24:27
Speaker 1: Go for it, you bonehead. That's Jerry Jones talking about someone's ass up in front of a frozen window. Who's this guy sitting next to? I'm back. Oh, you're back. Who'd you have last night?
01:24:40
Speaker 10: At Western Kentucky at Sam Houston State. It was not an offensive explosion. There was one touchdown scored in the whole stinking game, Seg.
01:24:48
Speaker 3: Wow.
01:24:49
Speaker 1: Well, who do you like? You're in a bad mood. You're in a bad mood. Did you drive or fly? How many to Atlanta?
01:24:55
Speaker 10: Got up this morning about four. Drove from Huntsville an hour to Houston. Got on a plane Houston to Atlanta. Layover Atlanta to Cincinnati. I went at the Cincinnati airport. Crushed three cheese conies and drove right here. Let's do the show.
01:25:12
Speaker 1: Let's go.
01:25:13
Speaker 3: Wow.
01:25:13
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's get it done right there. What do you like on Saturday, the big game? O-H-N-O at Hoosierland. Wait, the big game is Notre Dame at BYU. Nobody cares about that. Are you kidding me? The Mormons. Notre Dame is the number one team in the nation. I thought it was Kentucky and Oklahoma. I thought it was UC this week. Or UC and West Virginia. I don't know, but do you like Notre Dame or the Mormons? I like Notre Dame. But they get 10.5. This is their biggest test of the year. They don't play anybody. They play the Little Sisters of the Poor. They played Stanford last week. They stink. They won like 58-3.
01:25:43
Speaker 4: 58-3.
01:25:43
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is... I bet he's thinking about his life choices. They put the Frenchman in at the end.
01:25:49
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's not doing very well, Andrew Luck. I mean, that program may fold. That once-proud Stanford program may fold.
01:25:55
Speaker 1: Is it possible schools like... I thought Northwestern, but they're revitalized now. Some of these big-time college programs may go away. They may, unless they get one thing. And you know what that one thing is?
01:26:06
Speaker 5: Is it money?
01:26:07
Speaker 1: The green lettuce of salvation. What conference are they in now, do you know? Stanford, they're in the ACC. No, the ACC? Yeah.
01:26:16
Speaker 3: Clemson? Yeah.
01:26:18
Speaker 10: I don't get that. I'm pretty sure they're independent. It's just goofy right now. I know Cal is in the ACC. A bunch of eggheads anyway at Stanford.
01:26:25
Speaker 7: I agree.
01:26:25
Speaker 1: A bunch of smart people. But nevertheless, Notre Dame rolls BYU this weekend. That'll be big. It's in the land of the Mormons, you know. Then they only have one game left, which is Miami Hurricanes in South Bend. Other than that, they played the Little Sisters of the Poor. Alabama plays Tennessee? In Knoxville. Alabama looked good in a three-point loss to Georgia last week. Not bad. They looked good. Now, the big news is this state girls golf champion, Ellie Hartung. I challenged her at my golf course. Next Wednesday at 3.05. Why don't you play on a neutral course? No, I want to play. You play on a course you play on like 7,000 times.
01:27:03
Speaker 5: Are you crazy?
01:27:05
Speaker 10: You play, how many times, honestly, how many rounds of golf have you played on that course?
01:27:09
Speaker 5: Thousands. Thousands.
01:27:10
Speaker 3: Thousands.
01:27:10
Speaker 10: So you're going to bring these girls in to play on a course they have no experience with.
01:27:14
Speaker 3: None.
01:27:15
Speaker 1: He's played at grass. He's numbered. So he knows everything about that course. He knows every nook, every cranny, every lie, every fall. You know about Firestone?
01:27:24
Speaker 5: Firestone.
01:27:25
Speaker 1: Akron.
01:27:25
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:27:26
Speaker 1: Pros were there for years.
01:27:27
Speaker 8: 68 and a 71 to win the state individual championship.
01:27:35
Speaker 1: You may be in trouble.
01:27:36
Speaker 2: Thank you.
01:27:37
Speaker 1: She showed me her handicap, USGA from Far Hills. It's not like she don't have much of a handicap. She's knocking them dead. Plus, she's the other way. Plus, 1.6. She's the other way. She regularly shoots one to two under par. Right now, I'm up to a six. Now, here's the big question. Are you ready?
01:27:55
Speaker 3: Hit it.
01:27:56
Speaker 10: Are you going to be a man and play from the men's tees, or are you going to play equal and play from the women's tees?
01:28:00
Speaker 1: I believe in equal rights. Oh, here we go. We're playing for the same tees. You should be ashamed of yourself, my friend. She's a girl.
01:28:08
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:28:08
Speaker 1: The same tees.
01:28:09
Speaker 8: I think she even said she could play for the men's tees. Let's play for the men's tees.
01:28:13
Speaker 1: Are you serious? That's what she said. She looked me in the eye and said, men's tees. I said, okay, little girl, we'll play for the men's tees. Ellie Hartung, 68-70. To win the state. When is this going down? Wednesday, 3-0-5. I think Seg will be there as the on-course reporter. We're trying to get a television station. Can ESPN News? Can the Eddie and Rocky show do a remote or something? There you go. How about that?
01:28:39
Speaker 3: Could be.
01:28:39
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. We're going to play match play. Play the ball down everywhere. Same tees, same conditions. My golf course, Ken View at the friendly confines. Why don't you play on a neutral course?
01:28:51
Speaker 4: No.
01:28:51
Speaker 1: He's going to go to the confines. Are you crazy? Where would you want him to go? McAtee? We'll go to McAdess. Go to Camargo. Eddie plays, but... But Ken would.
01:29:01
Speaker 4: No.
01:29:02
Speaker 1: I bet you he could be blindfolded and play that course. Am I wrong? I've walked at thousands. Put a blindfold on you and you could hit on the green. You can't hit the ball in certain parts of the green there because it's automatic three-putt. I know where to hit the ball on every green. She has no idea where to hit the ball. Are you going to share that information? Absolutely not. Man up. I say man up. Man up, Ellie. Man up. Well, she will in a few days. Wednesday, 3 o'clock. And the superintendent of schools, Kenji, will be the captain. And I promise to buy the girls hot fudge sundaes. I didn't know.
01:29:38
Speaker 10: You were not really good at that either, buying hot fudge sundaes.
01:29:42
Speaker 1: If he wins, they have to buy a diamond ring for the first lady. From Rick and Phillips. Rick Fair stepped up. I think he ought to buy two of them. Buy two of them. How about that? Ric Flair. I love Ric Flair. I love the guy. If he was a woman, I'd kiss him on the face. Not Ric Flair. That's his name, Ric Flair? I like him, too. Just saying. I'm getting competitive already. I think you're starting to second guess this bet you made here. She tells me she carries it 250. I carry it now about 220.
01:30:12
Speaker 4: Oops.
01:30:15
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01:30:30
Speaker 10: No, I have not played a round of golf since my first son was born.
01:30:36
Speaker 1: So I said, if you're 150 on a level line, pinned in the middle of the green, what do you hit? She said eight or nine. I hit a six or a seven. That's what I said, Rock. I said, hmm, no advantage. College football, Rock, the playoff. Here we go. Is finalizing a deal to expand to 24 teams.
01:30:58
Speaker 5: No way, really?
01:30:59
Speaker 8: The new format would start in 2027. Pretty soon everybody's going to get in like in the state of Indiana. Are they going to get rid of the conference title games? Those need to go away.
01:31:09
Speaker 1: Don't know yet. But they won't.
01:31:11
Speaker 5: You know why?
01:31:11
Speaker 1: What's the answer to everything? Cash.
01:31:13
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:31:14
Speaker 1: Bags of cash. Is money relevant? Sometimes it's a leading factor in these decisions. Money is?
01:31:21
Speaker 5: Money, yeah.
01:31:22
Speaker 7: I didn't know that.
01:31:22
Speaker 8: College basketball exhibition play tonight. Xavier's up against the Tennessee Vols. Arizona's been picked to win the Big 12 in preseason coaches basketball poll. Houston is second with Kansas third. The Bearcats are in a tie with West Virginia for eighth.
01:31:40
Speaker 1: Not good. Thursday night football, Seattle and Denver at 730. Fox Sports, 1360. Who do you like in that matchup?
01:31:49
Speaker 3: Seahawks.
01:31:50
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Seg. How about baseball? How about this? If you take the payroll of Milwaukee and Tampa and add Cleveland, it's less than the payroll of the Dodgers. Now, if the Dodgers lose, does that mean you don't need a cap? on spending because bad, low-spending teams can win. If, on the other hand, the Dodgers come back and win four straight, does that mean you do need a ceiling because, after all, the best team always wins? So I think if the Dodgers don't win, the argument is from the players, look, we don't need a cap because the best team just lost to one of the worst teams spending-wise. Cleveland's 29th in spending. And the Reds and the Brewers, for example, are like 20. Cleveland is last.
01:32:31
Speaker 10: The fact is, besides the Dodgers, the majority of the teams that got in were quote-unquote smart markets.
01:32:37
Speaker 1: Small market teams with less payroll. Significant. So maybe the present system is okay. What about that, Rock?
01:32:44
Speaker 10: Well, that's interesting because of the negotiation that's going to happen. Because now they're not going to be able to, you know, they're going to try to go for a salary cap, but they're going to say, why should we do it? Because the small market teams can win.
01:32:56
Speaker 1: And the only reason LA is doing that is the owner is using that as a write-off against certain other assets. Walter, the guy, has, and he spent all his money to create losses so he can write off against gains. And most owners don't have that problem. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. By the way, I'm glad you brought that up. And you're always giving me crap about my Bengals picks. You didn't pick Frankie.
01:33:17
Speaker 10: But you also asked on that same sheet in the back of your notebook who was going to win the World Series.
01:33:21
Speaker 1: I said the Dodgers. Wait a minute. Okay. And I also said Notre Dame is a champion. You picked Oregon, who's terrible. You told me the most talent. You told me that. I did. They do, but I didn't tell you they were going to win. But I picked the Dodgers. Now, I am rooting against the Dodgers. I want the Brewers to win. Very much so. I want to see Milwaukee and Cleveland go at it. And nobody will care except those living in Milwaukee or Cleveland.
01:33:44
Speaker 5: Correct.
01:33:45
Speaker 1: You have said, Rock, the Dodgers. Who'd they have?
01:33:49
Speaker 3: Reds?
01:33:50
Speaker 1: No.
01:33:50
Speaker 4: Oh.
01:33:50
Speaker 1: To win the World Series.
01:33:52
Speaker 2: No.
01:33:52
Speaker 1: You took the Phillies, and I took the Brewers. Well, I actually hope you win, because I want the Brewers to win. But that's my bet. What's that say right there? See, Willie, what does that say? How about Seg? How about The Rock? I'm going to win. What do I win when I win? What do I win? I want a hot fudge sundae. I want a hot fudge sundae. If that girl beats me.
01:34:18
Speaker 8: If you eat another hot fudge sundae, you're going to be as fat as somebody else around here.
01:34:23
Speaker 1: Speak for yourself. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. MLS soccer.
01:34:26
Speaker 8: New England defeats FC Cincinnati last night 3-2 as New England clinches a playoff.
01:34:31
Speaker 1: Spot with that victory. Hey, I was nice. I said excuse me.
01:34:37
Speaker 5: We're live.
01:34:38
Speaker 1: I had not heard that. I kept going like a professional. You just let it go. Keep going. Everybody burps, right? Yeah. Everybody passes gas. That's what Jen Motley tells me. So you just got to make it happen. Am I right or wrong?
01:34:51
Speaker 2: You're right.
01:34:52
Speaker 1: Continue with sports. That's all I got.
01:34:54
Speaker 3: Rock. What?
01:34:55
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here. I've been told by more than one source that if Cignetti was coaching the Ohio State, they'd be better. And if Ryan Day was coaching Indiana, they'd be worse. Your comments.
01:35:08
Speaker 10: I'm not going to say anything bad about Ryan Day. He's one of the best coaches in the country. But Kurt Cegnelli, I feel like is on a different level. I mean, I've met the guy when he's at JMU. I did one of his games.
01:35:19
Speaker 1: He's a brilliant guy, but he just seems to– some guys just have it. I think he has it. And he's old. He's in his 60s, too. He's an old guy.
01:35:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:35:28
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Do you think they win or Ohio State win? I think Indiana's going to win. It's at Indiana, right? Yes. I had on a couple days ago Luke Brennahan. Luke doing the games for Indiana. And I asked him, who's a better broadcaster, Tom or Marty? He gave up about 30 seconds into the answer. I didn't get one. I don't know what the hell he was saying. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
01:35:50
Speaker 5: Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
01:35:51
Speaker 1: He said he's short in the fraternity. I said, don't invite some girls to the fraternity. No, you want to stay away from that deal. Does Notre Dame have fraternities? No, we don't, actually, for a very good reason. They have sororities. A lot of the women in Notre Dame are ugly, though, aren't they? Say give me some more sports. There are ugly women. A lot of ugly women in Notre Dame. Am I right or wrong about that? But the girls aren't going to Notre Dame. They're going to be.
01:36:12
Speaker 10: Doctors and physicists and stuff and not get a good college experience.
01:36:17
Speaker 1: Were you like the college hunk at Toledo or something?
01:36:19
Speaker 5: Yes, Toledo.
01:36:20
Speaker 1: I was. You probably were scared to death of looking at girls.
01:36:23
Speaker 4: St.
01:36:23
Speaker 1: Mary's has some pretty gross stuff. Are they close at this point?
01:36:27
Speaker 4: No.
01:36:28
Speaker 1: If you want to see great-looking women, go to Alabama, Roll Tide. How do you know? I date a lot of girls from Alabama. Most of them are cheerleaders. Have you ever been to a game at Ole Miss?
01:36:39
Speaker 4: No.
01:36:39
Speaker 1: Got to do that, too. Those girls don't go to Notre Dame, believe me.
01:36:43
Speaker 2: Too many A-cats.
01:36:43
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a game at LSU? Thick-thighed women at Notre Dame. Cowboy hats. Just saying. Is that it, Rock? What do you have coming up on the big show?
01:36:50
Speaker 5: Eddie's out.
01:36:51
Speaker 1: Eddie's out? Eddie's out today. Cassie Arsenault. Wait, that doesn't happen. Wait, Eddie's gone? Wait a minute, what?
01:36:57
Speaker 5: That's very rare.
01:36:57
Speaker 1: That's Cassie Arsenault.
01:36:59
Speaker 4: Right?
01:36:59
Speaker 1: Local 12 reporter. Channel 12. 12 stands for news. Cassie will be here. She came in yesterday and gave him like a... She stood up pretty good to him. He gave her like a, you know. Social media test.
01:37:12
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:37:12
Speaker 1: Some of these singers like this Carpenter. He had no idea. He had no idea. That was Karen Carpenter. There's some other Carpenter woman singing songs right now. Sabrina Carpenter. That's her right there. You would have known this. I know everything. I thought it was Karen Carpenter. She killed herself. She puked herself to death. Did a lot of drugs. A lot of drugs. Along with Richard. All right. Thank you, Rock.
01:37:29
Speaker 3: Thank you.
01:37:29
Speaker 1: What do you have on today? You have any idea?
01:37:31
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:37:31
Speaker 10: So right out of the gate, there's been some big moments in Cincinnati history. But maybe the biggest is upcoming. We have someone, a representative from the Cincinnati Zoo, going to give an update on Tessa.
01:37:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a giraffe.
01:37:43
Speaker 5: It's right.
01:37:44
Speaker 1: The pending birth of the baby giraffe. How does a mother give birth to a giraffe? Can you tell me that? I think it kind of comes... That takes some special... I'd say, honey, you're on your own with this thing. If I'm not, I'm going to ask the question. I think giraffes have like a 15-month gestation. Could you imagine being pregnant, Jen Molly, for 15 months?
01:38:01
Speaker 5: You've been pregnant?
01:38:01
Speaker 1: What about being pregnant? What's that like? Would you give birth to a giraffe or like a rhino? What the hell would you do? I'd say, what the hell is this? This is a big deal. This is the biggest thing since Fiona. Is a rhino born with a horn? When they're born with a big horn, that's coming out tough. Believe me. No, they don't have the horn on them. That comes later. You're an idiot. Don't you watch Animal Planet or nothing? National Geographic? I'm giving birth to a giraffe. Holy moly.
01:38:30
Speaker 10: We've got our fitness guest, PJ Street at 4, Jason Hoffman at 5, and I will be joining Lance for the roundtable show tonight at Longnecks Wilder, 6 to 9 p.m.
01:38:40
Speaker 1: You're running hard. You're running on empty. You're running on empty. There's a song someone ought to make about that, running on empty. Segment, get me out of the stoocher. We'll leave you on the honor of The Rock being back. Jen Motley, we need to give birth to a giraffe. I'd say, what the hell have you been doing?
01:38:55
Speaker 8: We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.
01:38:59
Speaker 1: MLS soccer.
01:39:00
Speaker 8: New England defeats FC Cincinnati last night 3-2 as New England clinches a playoff spot with that victory.
01:39:07
Speaker 2: 700 WLW.