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be released, at least those not redacted. We've got that going on, and more so, joining you nine now is the great Leland Vitter. The main character, the main host on News Nation is Leland Vitter. I'm promoting you and Leland welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And I like to think this is a great year for Leland Vitter. Number one, you have a new bride and number two a best selling book. So what do you think about this year from a personal perspective?

the best is helping so many people. You know, we say Born Lucky is hope for every parent of a kid having a hard time, and that has proven out by the hundreds of letters that I have gotten from families not just of kids with autism, but ADHD, anxiety, difficulties with bullying, all sorts of different things who said that Born Lucky really gives.

going to be the policeman. Well before he was kind of a Putts and allowed to happen because you can't win in Minnesota, I'm told by talk show hosts of Minneapolis unless you have the support of the Somali community who vote in block So there might be about ninety five thousand Somalis, there's about forty thousand that vote, and if you begin the election forty thousand to zero against

your opponent, that's the way to get elected. In fact, they pander so much that the mayor, guy named Fry in Minneapolis has begun to learn Somali so that he can speak to Somalis in Somali. That's the pandering. And you use the term suicidal empathy, and I see that almost everywhere in the SNAP program, et cetera. And I'm thinking, somehow will Minnesota's buy the idea that Tim Waltz is

really serious about cracking down on fry. That might be I've seen reporting with you between one and three billion dollars, which in Minnesota is a huge amount of money, and the FEDS paid for a chunk of that too, and

it must be stopped. And if not, and you talk about g had And I watched your interview the other night with Debbie Wasserman Schultz Schultz, she's a Florida congresswoman, and you asked her a good question, which is, you know, a congressman, she's leader of the Democratic Party, how much of a threat in America? How big of a threat is jihad? We see it happening out all over the world, that this Christmas marks and Mars and Europe shutting down.

That I guess Paris is not going to have a New Year's Eve celebration this year because of the threat of terrorism, not from Catholics, I might add the threat of terrorism from Islamist And she had a startling answer that Donald Trump is going to damage America more than Islamic terrorist. And you were stunned and you push back. Can you imagine if that's the minds of the Democratic Party,

she's one of the leaders. You would never work with someone who's worse than an Islamic terrorist that killed innocent people in Australia, your comments, you.

as a large one. There's a large branch of Islam that is extremely violent, treating Jews and Catholics and Christians and Americans like mice and cockroaches. There's another branch of that tree where the word Islam is peace, wanting to live with others. Have you noticed that American Muslims living in peaceful conditions with families and work and businesses are not speaking up. There's no leader of Islam like there's a pope, like a pope and a cardinal or whatever.

And have you seen circumstances or Islamic leaders speak up and say that's not us. Have you seen that?

how this deal works. And if we allow that to happen, you are going to have the same thing here that you have in Sydney, Australia, where there are large parts of the city that have turned into little Damascus, no different than places in the United Kingdom that feel much more like you know, Islamabad than they do, like Birmingham, and where Islamic values are effectively viewed as replacing Western law.

And that is a extraordinarily dangerous thing because of what again, separate any individual Muslim of whom I have friends and of whom I think many are wonderful people, from the values of Islam, from Mohammedism. And there's a big difference. And I think we are finally now starting to be able to have an honest conversation about whether or not Islam is compatible with Western values, and the answer really is that in let that no one of them is going to have to adapt, and that is a real problem.

deserve and the times that concerns me greatly. Now secondly, I mentioned this earlier at three o'clock Eastern time today, In about three hours, they're going to release the Epstein files. Man, I share with you one thought of mine on that matter. Please, I'm watching. It was either you or it might have

been I might have been a CNN. It's been about four or five months, and they had on one of the US attorneys from the Southern District of New York who in seventeen, eighteen and nineteen thoroughly investigated the Epstein matter because they assumed, like I assume, like I assume you assume. I can't assume what you assume, but I assume.

And Tony Bender assumed that there's all these important guys from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, does this name the person Wechner, etc. That had sex with teenage girls inappropriately. There's no inappropriate sex with the teenage girl, and I assume that even sitting here, I guess that's the case. However, may I use the term? For eighteen months to two years? The US Attorney Southern District of New York perceived as the best law enforcement agency in

the country by themselves, they said. This US attorney who worked on those cases said, of course, I can't speak about grand jury matters, but he said that everyone that could be criminally indicted in this, and that entire Epstein matter was, which was Jeffrey Epstein and Glainne Maxwell. So I'm watching this and the interviewer said, would you say that again? Everyone? He said, everyone who criminally is liable

in our opinion probable cause has been indicted. And if that's the case, Leland vinter are we going to learn it? And this will be kept alive for a long time

because it politically benefits some. Is it possible that the men whose photos ninety five thousand photos released, all these famous famous guys, that none of them engaged in sex with teenage girls or in a situation where a young woman was sexually traffic Because if that was the case, one of the members of that office was James Comy's daughter, the one who hated Trump. They wanted to get him, They wanted to get everybody involved. Is it possible, There's no there, there is that possible.

They have gotten the past, and I think the best journalist on this is a woman named Tara Palmery, and she has pointed out that in the depositions of these alleged victims that there have been other names that have been mentioned, and there have been other names that have been mentioned as men who had sex with them.

term to describe what's happening in America. But Leland, give my best to Rachel and all your family, and may God bless you. God bless America, and to you and yours Leland, Merry Christmas, Thank you, Bill, God bless you. Let's continue with more and that could be the case. And of course the women. There have been dozens and dozens of class action lawsuits, tens of millions of dollars paid out to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein from insurance companies, banks,

and brokerage firms. And I'm saying, well, they were paid financially for the injuries inflicted upon them, and that's a good thing. So let's continue with more news. Next your Home of the Bengals News Radio seven hundred ought by Billy Cunningham Dave Keaton hit the music That's All good. I followed this thing in Rhode Island in Massachusetts, as I like to do anyway, and it was amazing. Who kind of broke the deal, broke the case wide open.

It was a homeless guy named John who lived in the basement of the building where his two students were murdered in cold blood. So I read about John, I'm thinking, how in the hell is John involved in it? He was the second photo of the guy walking around with bushy eyebrows, and I thought, Okay, how's John involved in

this case? And the answer is the police thought that that guy, whoever that guy was named John by the way, might have seen the murderer and might have seen the vehicle in which he pulled away from the scene in and so the homeless guy, first name is John, as a graduate of Brown University, appears to be about thirty five years old. He's homeless, he's drug addicted, and he lives in the basement of the building where the murderer entered. Who was here, by the way, on the kindness of

our hearts as a diverse city visa recipient. That's another issue. We'll talk talk about that later. The homeless guy told police when he stepped forward, you might recall the authorities. The DEI authorities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts put out a photo of this guy, the witness, so to speak, saying if you know this person, or if you are

this person, please come forward. So he walked up yesterday afternoon to two police officers in Providence and said, I think that's me, and the cops looked at him and said, that's you. So they took him into headquarters and the homeless guy, John, a proud graduate of Brown University, told the police that he sleeps in the basement of Holly Hall, which is the building in which the murders took place.

And he told them earlier in the day, just before the shooting, he said, he saw someone that looks suspicious in the basement area of that building where he was sleeping. And so John, the homeless guy, you talk about how unusual things that her in life. All the FBI, the CIA, the Marshall Service, all the police, state police, it was a homeless guy that broke the case. And he told them that he approached the subject because he didn't fit in. He looked a little bit unusual, wasn't a student, so

to speak. And he said, I saw him walk toward his car unlock it with a key fob, and uh, the murderer noticed a homeless guy, fortunately didn't kill him, and he got into the key fob and at that point, he said, he told the police. He told the police, I want you to look for a gray Nissan with

Florida plates, probably a rental. Aren't too many Florida plates and Rhode Island, by the way, except for rental cards, and went on to say, I think he might have been involved because he used a key fob to open the car. He looks a little suspicious to me. And when I kind of followed him out, he kind of walked away a little more quickly. He unlocked the car, and he said, I found an odd that when he circled the block in the car, that's when I saw

the Florida plates. That started to unravel the entire case for the homeless guy named John who broke this thing wide open. So two things come to mind. The FBI had posted a fifty thousand dollars reward for information leading to the arrest and or apprehension of the murderer who was here. Sh I was saying, a green card, and he's going to get the fifty thousand dollars. Hope he uses it well, I might say. And he also the police were asking the question, why are you living in

the basement? He said, I have nowhere to live, and I can walk into cafeterias and get fed. And it was cold, and normally I live outside, but Rhode Island that time of the year is cold. In fact, the next day it snowed like hell. So talk about the twist and turns such as the guard of Abraham Lincoln outside of his private box at the Fort Theater just happened to leave to get a beer next door. Or Lee Harvey Oswald, the mother in law he was living with.

The mother in law, she told Lee Harvey ols, you got to get them. You have to work. And so a friend to his I don't know how friends said that the Texas Cool Book Depository is hiring try there. So they hired his two facilities, one in fort Worth, one in Dallas, and he was assigned to work in fort Worth, but a week before they had a pregnant and see as someone on leaving, somebody else quit, so the foreman and fort Worth transferred him to Dallas, Texas

School Book Depository. The rest is history. Despite all the thousands of man hours, all the money spent, it was a homeless guy named John who broke the case wide open. Likely is going to get the fifty thousand dollars. Now, on another matter, I looked into this a little bit. How do you get one of these diversity visas to come into the country, and how are these people selected? And last night I spoke to a friendly FBI agent who explained it to me a little bit how you

get these things. But essentially you go into some lottery system and in response to that, the if your number comes up, you get entry into the United States of America for reasons unclear to anyone. When this came out, the Christy Noan put out the following message. The Brown University shooter, Plaudio Manuel Nevez Valenti entered the through the Diversity Lottery Immigrant Visa program dv ones they're called in

twenty seventeen and was granted a green card. He'd been here before the murderer in like two thousand, two thousand and one, and he went through it. He might have it's unclear at this point where he spent the intervening fifteen years between two thousand and three and twenty and seventeen, other than the fact he's a Portuguese citizen. But we have this system in which you can apply in your home country. There's a quota system for Portugal and if

your number comes up, guess what you got? The golden ticket coming to America, and Christy Noom went on to say that this heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country. Amen. And this happened during the first year of the Trumpet administration. And I'm sure those involved in the Trumpet administration had no idea about the diversity green card system. Well, now, because of the generosity that we have for others, by the way, generosity is going

to kill us at some point. Because of that, that mister of Valente was permitted an entry in the US and the rest is history. That particular program now has been stopped, it's been delayed, and analyze how does this stuff happen? Why does it occur? But a homeless guy named John solved the Brown University case and many are asking, including the parents of students at Brown University. By the way, they recruited me to play basketball there, but that's another story.

How did they not know that the homeless are living and university facilities and walking around. And by the way, John has some drug problems and mental health difficulties and in and around the students. And John, I don't know how he gets some money. I'm sure he's on a disability program. But university may want to look into that, just to see what the hell's going on around this place.

Be more follow up. I mentioned this to Leland Vedder and others that I kind of suspect this could be a Ted Kazinski situation where this guy who was brilliant Valente, brilliant physicist, was in Portugal seemingly ran into the MIT professor twenty seven years ago when they were students together together at a university in Portugal, and he might have known obviously he knew the guy and targeted him, and then he picked a building on campus at Brown University

to kill. Why he picked Brown University, no one knows, No one knows, don't know, But he picked the physics building. So the connection is a failed physics student attacking and killing, shooting eleven people two or dead because they were in a physics class, and then he sought out a physics professor to kill an MIT that he may have known twenty six years earlier. Over the few weeks, will learn more.

That's what we know at this point. But a homeless guy broke the case for the FBI, and now he's likely to get to get the fifty thousand dollars reward. We will move on to the next situation. Secondly, with leland Vinter, he brought up the idea. And by the way, leland Vinter, I've only met him twice, talked to him quite often as a good man, a good guy, spent four years in the Middle East, a long time in

the Middle East covering Middle Easian stories. And when he says that we got a problem and it could ruin Western civilization, he is absolutely correct, because the great majority of Muslims in this country, there's about five million, have nothing to do with jihadism, have nothing to do with extremism, have nothing to do with killing men, women and children. The list of Islamic attacks in America and throughout the

world are incredible. One estimate is at least a half a million have been killed by islam make extremism in this century, and the great majority killed, by the way, are fellow Muslims. They kill you. For example, in the Gaza, you might recall there were thousands of Gazans protesting against Hamas as their so called representative that they elected democratically to represent them. Having watched it for a while, they want them out of it completely. And so when these

protests started, the Hamas. The Hamas murderers took the leadership out of the peace movement in Gaza, hung them up by their feet, beat them to death in a public square, and shot them and bled them out like pigs on the ground. The message was sent, if you oppose us, you're an apostate, you will be murdered. And so the

peace movement in Gaza didn't get off the ground. As Leland Viddert said that if he and I were in London, and if Leland Vindert said the things he said about Muslims in London, he would be and put in jail for up to seven years because of his opinions. You can't get elected in Minneapolis, Minnesota unless you're endorsed by the Somalis who are largely ripping off and looting the US treasury. They rewarded our generosity with theft, and we're

at a tipping point. Give you some more facts and figures. Egyptians, the last poll was taken in twenty thirteen, because it's dangerous to take a poll anywhere in Egypt if you get the wrong result. How about this, ninety percent of Egyptians. This is not Amos terrorists, but Egyptians say that if a Muslim leaves the faith and converts to some other religion or simply becomes an atheist, ninety percent believed that

that Muslim should be killed. Forthwith that, ninety five percent believed that Sharia law should be imposed in Egypt, in fact, in the United States of America, in which Sharia determine

the outcome of any dispute of any type. Ninety five percent of the girls in Egypt are sexually mutilated today when they have their first period or before that, the mother and the aunties get together and a ritual and sexually conduct some sort of klitterectomy that sexually mutilates girls in Egypt and girls at the ages of seven, eight, nine, and ten. Muhammad himself had at wives that were seven

eight years old. That the girls who do not consent to being sold or being conveyed to an older man a temporary wife, shall we say, by their fathers, could have acid thrown in their face. So we're dealing with a little bit something different than American values, would you agree? And so it's being incorporated into the United States. It can't happen here. I know it can't happen here. Who was just elected the mayor of New York City. Which

political party dominates the state of Minnesota. Oh, you got your answers, plus fifty one Muslims, we're elected to political office. Inside of America, great majority of whom believe in globalizing the into fada, such as in Australia, globalize the Intafada. What it can't happen here, absolutely fool it can Now. We do, have, of course, the First Amendment. We do have freedom of speech, but what good is it if the fear of speaking is so great you lose your

life for your job. So when Leland Vindert says, don't let this happen in America, he knows exactly what he's talking about. So let's continue with more. By the way, this is my last show of the year twenty twenty five. We'll talk further about the future later and we'll see what happens down the road. And coming up after one o'clock, I'm gonna call Steve Gorm. We've had some conversions when it comes to climatology, you know, garbage in, garbage out.

The great majority of young folks believe the climate is about to wither away and die because they've been told that for years, and we have a guest on and give you some facts. I think Bill Gates have seen the light. He's seen the Promised Land, and he's flipped. And hopefully American can save itself. But morally and ethically we're in trouble, great trouble. The average American female produces one point six babies per female, and that female must

produce two point one to stay even with population. We're in a falling population situation. Not as bad as Japan, which is zero point eight per female, not as bad as other Western European countries that are one point four. But the average Muslim female has five children. And we are a democracy within a republic after all. Put that

in your pipe and smoke it for the future. I't's continue with more bline becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, twelve fifty five Home of Your Bengals News Radio seven hundred wut of you build?

Things can't get any worse. Every now and then I see the green sprouts of an April day with the truth bursting forward about the green energy movement. What it's cost us is literally trillions of dollars resulting in nothing. I think Shakespeare said sound and fury signifying nothing, and all the times of al Gore, etc. Is now crashing.

And of course Steve Gorm is one of the apostles of a not agreeing demand made climate change to a significant extent, and his new book Out has been out for a while, is knocking him to green breakdown the coming renewable energy failure which is happening, but the Democrats are not giving up. Steve Gorm once again, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, Steve, Merry Christmas and happy New Year.

talk about several issues. Bill Gates, for example, has now seen the lights, seeing the promised Land, and he's kind of rejected the idea of climate catastrophes, and that's made the liberals quite unhappy. They're going after Bill Gates hard about net zero, etc. Explain the conversion to the American people about Bill Gates.

emissions goals. And then he also concluded with quote, our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions, who live in the world's poorest countries.

on the company line. And therefore the liberals et cetera. No, you have to hold one definitive opinion in order to get paid, and the liberals after money like anyone else. And one thing you point out is that during winter it gets a little cold at times. And Cincinnati's had some record snowfall in December. And here we are winter. We're at the doorstep of winter. And this every time it's hot or cold, windy, or still dry or wet,

it's always climate change. It's pounded into your head. Is America experience saying a severe cold winter right now, which is so unusual, and these temperatures are due, of course, the human cause climate change is that bs.

But that's that's what many of the people say. And the idea that that warm weather in the Arctic is causing polar vortexas, that's it's just you know, we used to call these coal snaps, and now they're polar and fortexas made up.

Gavin Newsom, and they say they're done. They're pulling out a billion dollars of investments, leaving tens of thousands of jobs. And it's predicted that the cost of a gallon of unleaded gas in California by summertime will be six dollars a gallon. And so when I read that, I just filled up my Chevy Blazer and it was two dollars and nineteen cents in Ohio and it goes up between

two nineteen and two seventy. But in Chevron's case, Californians are going to spend six dollars for a gallon of gas because of the policies, not because of the climate. Well Californians ever figure it out.

who urged a ban on data center construction. What's going on is astonishing. The big guys Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon are spending two hundred to eighty billion dollars this year to build data centers, and that's more than the g the gross domestic product of more than one hundred nations.

America into a new dark age, maybe literally. So talk tell the American people about these nuclear power plants that are being put together that are different than Three Mile Island. It's different than Chernobyl and today here we are and that could be the answer. And the cleanest energy imaginable is a nuclear power plant. Explain how things have changed the last fifty years when it comes to those technologies.

quadruple nuclear capacity by twenty fifty. We currently get eighteen percent of our electricity for nuclear in the US and he wants to boost that way up. And then, as you say, there are new technologies called small modular reactors. They're trying to be able to build reactors and factories put them on trucks and trains, ship them to the site and install them. And the goal here is to get the price way way down. So we'll see if

this happens. Is they still need cost breakthroughs. Nuclear still is very expensive, three or four times as expensive as gas takes can take a decade to put in a plant, which is very slow, But we may have a nuclear resurgence. We now have like twenty five companies in the US working on small modular reactors. So just another big change over the policies in the past.

cost of these things, they're overregulated. I spoke at a plastic pipe group a while back, and the guys said, if I ship pipe to a regular factory, because I have to have two pages of paperwork. If I ship it to a nuclear plant, I have to have an inch of paperwork. So we have big regulation issues, and those are things that have retarded nuclear around the world. But we now have many countries building small modular reactors

also and trying still experimental. All of this stuff is, but I have hopes that it's going to break through and we won't have to subsidize nuclear plants anymore.

I'm just exhibiting my social consciousness. But what's the stat on if you've had an EV the odds are buying another EV, which are expensive.

get better and better. But the idea that we should force everybody to drive evs to to stop to make the storms less severe, that's your silly stuff.

and turning it into fuel. He actually got prosecuted. This is not something you're supposed to do. But this mad, mad, mad world of climatism, that's where we are. And the great reads for people.

God bless them. By the way, there's twenty women that are raped and Providence, Rhode Island and the cases are unsolved. Twenty women. I can't tell you half the rapes in Ohio, Kentucky and in are not solved. There's ten thousand women raped every year in America. Half the cases are unsolved. Are those women's lives important? Compare that to the coverage of this. It's like and they want to blame Trump, of course everything, but he's not involved. But they can't.

They can't take it. They can eve What some different answer are you in the Epstein files? No one other thing. I'm glad you brought it up headline. Major cities cancel New Year's celebrations because of Islamic terror threats. What that's called globalizing the Intifada right about New Year's Rock and Eve with the We're still going Dick Clark's dead, isn't he?

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He won championships in the Exfinity Truck Series. He also spent countless hours before the government got involved in with the citizens of North Carolina and their recovery from Hurricane Helene, flying multiple times to the area with the supplies, and Biffel won the first ever truck race, the first event ever held at Kentucky Speedway in the June of two thousand, so unfair. Amen. Good guy too. We had him on the show a few times and he was wonderful. The

fifth I don't know. As they're going down, his wife sends a text to her mother. We are in trouble and they all die in a fireball. You never know when you're gonna be called home segment. You better be ready to meet the Almighty. That's all I can tell you. That's true, Willie, your name better not be in the Epstein files, it's not. What about Sarah Elise, have no idea? What can you tell me about her? To care less? What about Rachel Elliott? No showed up yesterday. I know

Rachel back as our holiday gift. Yes, she may come on more. Queen of country music radio. Country music's the best format in the world. You know that, and I know that I segment give me out of the Stude's Report coming up after two o'clock will be my final comments of twenty twenty five. I hope I have a few more to make in twenty twenty six. Willie and Honor of a cold day here at the Tri State than warm over the weekend, as the weather can't figure

itself out. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stewd Report.

What would Tom Weedman do? Take up for Ohio State? He's blaming He's blaming Ohio State for figure Anything's Ryan Days behind this and it's all a bunch of bs. Let's continue with more one fifty two Home of Year Bengals News Radio seven hundred w O me as You Mino and Radio we'll take off two weeks from at the beginning. Now is the nature of the business, which

is a good business, and it's great enjoy it. I'm going to spend some time in the Southern Command, and I want to thank iHeartMedia for creating in Collier County a broadcast center, one of the top notch facilities in the world, so I can be with you quite often in January February March. You know, Father Time is undefeated, unto unscored on that the grim Reaper comes for us all we're not sure the moment of our deaths. We're not sure as many times whether we're prepared for it

or not. And I reflect back upon in one sense Mike McConnell, then in another sense, Greg Biffle. Greg Biffle and his family by every objective measurement, Greg Biffle was a great American married, had a couple of kids, and they're flying off to Sarasota then on to the Bahamas for Christmas celebration for a week or ten days. Greg Biffle one of the great NASCAR stars of all time.

I'm sure the kids and he were excited as could be taking off in their plane and away they go out of a North Carolina airport and at that point the engine either failed or something catastrophic occurred. There was sufficient time for Greg Biffle's wife to send a quick text to her mother saying things are not good, and so within a few seconds, all of them are dead. Little children, husband, wife, some other friends of the bid for family. They're dead. And you don't know when that

moment's going to come for you or for me. When I was with Mike McConnell for his farewell appearance with us just after Red's opening day, or I spent my time with Jim Scott and his facility there in Hyde Park and on that Jim Scott front. I want to thank you so much. The thousands and thousands of emails that you sent to me that I printed off and gave to Jim and his wife filled the last days of Jim's life with joy, as if he had done something which he had quite good. He gave him himself

freely to every charitable cause that money could buy. But at the end of his broadcast career, which is like I think it was about ten twelve years ago before Mike McConnell took over, he thought he wanted to spend time with more time with friends and faith and things of that character. I asked him a year or two after he'd retired from radio whether he missed it. He said absolutely. The only thing I didn't miss was getting up at three forty five am in the morning driving

in from Lawrenceburg, especially on cold, wintry mornings. I didn't miss that at all. So I asked Mike McConnell, when's a good time for a radio man to retire and walk away. He told me months in advance he was going to do it after Red's opening day, and I asked him during our Christmas spectacular on Christmas morning if you wanted to do it then, and he said no. He said, I've told the powers that be here that I would like to step aside when on my own

terms and not make a big deal of it. That's Mike McConnell's character, and simply to announce it within a week or two and then let it happen. Of course, we knew here for months Mike McConnell was leaving, and so it leaves you with a sense of what's next. At what point is enough enough? As an father time is undefeated untied on, scored on, and I want to spend more time with friends and family, and I want to spend more time doing the things I want to

do in my life. The problem is, and this is a problem, the things in my life that I want to do at this point in my life are right here. This is what I enjoy doing. I wish I didn't. I wish I wish I could walk away and say, you know what I've done all that I can do, good and bad. I think mainly good. What do you think? And had this heart to heart with Scott Reinhart and Stefan and with Tony Benner and Joe Frederick a few months ago, and they said, you want to stay? Do

you want to go? And I told them, you know what, I want to stay. Great, let's sign a three year contract. Going back in time a little bit, I said years ago that I wanted to stay here until twenty twenty two, which would be the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of this station by Pal Crosley. I said one hundred years and of the station, and I would have been here for forty of the one hundred years, which ain't bad. And so ahead of time of twenty twenty two. Reinhardt said,

you can't go. Do you like doing what you do? And I said, I love what I'm doing. I'd miss it like crazy. He said, well, stay for three more years until you know whatever you want to do. We'll sign another contract until twenty twenty five and expires December thirty first of twenty twenty five. And I said, twenty twenty five, December thirty first, that's a long way off. And that date is now here. It's about twelve days away, and about six months ago. I know it was hot.

Scott Reinhardt. Tony Bender, general manager at that time, DJ Hodge called me in and said, look on tracks up. What do you want to do? And I said, let me talk to Penny. Let me go and go home talk to her. Came back bout a week later, and number one thing. She said, of course, Billy sit. Only my mother and my wife ever called me Billy. And she said, Billy, what do you want to do? And I said, well, damn it, I love what I'm doing.

I kind of wish I didn't, so I could live off the fatted calf and play a little more golf and run around. But she said, if you got up a Monday morning here in Cincinnati, and you did not go to the radio and get ready about ten o'clock in the morning, on what would you do? And I said, I'd have no idea. I'd go nuts. So I talked to shall I say, older Americans and ask them what they like, and the great majority. When I talked to John Barrett and those, He's a little younger than me.

But what are you going to do? He said, I'm gonna I love what I'm doing, man, I'm going to keep doing it. So if you're doing something in your life that you truly enjoy, irrespective of the so called money which comes and goes, and you want to keep doing it, and this station allows me to keep doing this, why wouldn't I keep doing it? And so about six

months ago, looked, looked here, look there. I signed a contract effective January first of twenty twenty six, and we've have a gentleman's agreement that if I told I told the station that if you don't want me here, if I'm doing something wrong, if I'm not satisfying the ratings and the revenues, then simply let me know and I'll leave. And the differential is this because of different platforming, because

of the podcast and because of streaming live. We have more listeners now in December of twenty twenty five than we've ever had. And the good old days that weren't that good, and there certainly were old. You didn't have other outlets. You simply had the broadcast and that's it. But today it's on demand. You can listen to pod cash, you can streaming. Our streaming is one hundred thousand a day,

pretty good number. And because of that, these other different ways of the spoken word being disseminated, it allows individuals with original content to succeed famously, which is not happening in television news at all. Within two or three years, we're going to have two, maybe three local broadcast news operations. And that's it. In every newspaper in America, including The Inquiry, they used to have three hundred and sixty five thousand subscribers.

I look online now they got about twenty two thousand, lost about ninety percent of their market. And the one that is not going down, in fact, is holding its own and going up is the spoken word. It's radio

because its original content. That's why it's succeeding. So I made the decision to continue on with your permission, assuming you listen, and assuming you convey your support of advertisers like I don't know, like Western Southern and Joseph Chevrolet, and I don't want to mention anymore Paul Luck, McKinley Mortgage, and about ten others accordinated to financial planning, and so I better quit mentioning names. I'm gonna forget a few.

I'm going to stay. And I told the station that I promise the Lord willing and some that could strike me at any moment, that I'll stay at least two years of the three years, and if I enjoyed after two years, I'll stay a third year then find someone to take my place. By that point, I would have been at this for about forty seven years, which seems like a lifetime, doesn't it, Yes, it does seems. I

can't believe it. One thing I did do. I have a great relationship with christ Hospital and doctor Dino Cariacus, who was an altar boy with Dean Gregory when they were children at a Catholic school. And I said, I see him once a year, and he ran me through all these tests, catscans, MRIs, blood work, urine work, fecal work, got it all. And he said, Willie, you have the body of a sixty one year old. If I take your numbers and put them up against sixty one year olds,

that's where you are. You're sixty one biologically, you're seventy eight chronologically. I said, I'd rather be that way than sixty one biologically and seventy eight diverse chronologically. I'd rather be where I am. So he said, are you and good? I see, I get up every morning, I sleep well, I eat properly, I exercise, and my mind. I don't think I've lost most of it. I think I have most of it. And so, but if something happens to me I'm unprovoked in some way, I'll move on with

the thanks of a grateful nation. But the reason I'm here is because of you and the grace that you have provided to me. For the last of forty three years, and God willing and the crik don't rise, I'm gonna do it for another couple of years, at a minimum, maybe three. I can't I've said this the last ten years. I can't conceive me working past the age of seventy. I can't conceive me working past the age of seventy five. I can't conceive me working another three years, But damn

it if I enjoy it. You seem to enjoy listening to me in different platforms. You seem to welcome to what I have to say, and I seem to provide something that otherwise is not heard. Give me an example. Skips out of Contestant is in the first floor of this building. I go down to. My routine is get here about ten fifteen, ten thirty, take one or two interviews, make sure they're right, put them through the machine that makes everything sounds great. Then I walk downstairs to SKIPS.

I get me a bowl of chili. And while I was down there at Skips, there was a guy whose name eludes me, who was up on a ladder and by the way, I don't like ladders, and he was fixing the pop machine. You know, this was wrong and that was wrong. And he looked at me and said, are you willing? I said, yeah, I am. He said, I want to thank you for providing to me years of entertainment and information I don't get anywhere else. And I said, I want to thank you because seemingly in

your forties or fifties. You're on a ladder, which I don't like, up in the air fixing a pepsi machine so people like me can get a pepsi. I said, thank you for what you do. He said, no, thank you. Come back up. A couple days later, they said, delivery guy at the front here to be let in. I let him in. Said to me, are you Bill Cunningham. Yes, I want to thank you. I said, well, I listen to you all the time when people in a restaurant, in line at the airport, on a plane, if I shop,

which I hardly ever do. The thing that sustains me now with you is the number of individuals who come up to me and thank me for what I provided in your life. And that is the wind beneath my wings that make me feel as if maybe I've done something productive. Often I say to Penny and my down moments, and God knows I have down I have blue moments. I say, I don't think I've accomplished much in my life at all, and she looks me and he says, yes, you have, and she rattles off two or three things

I've done. I often feel I've wasted my life. On the other hand. When that guy at the pop machine, or some delivery guy, or somebody at the airport or someone in a restaurant comes up to me and says thank you. She says, see, I told you, and so I don't know who's listening. They tell me something north of one hundred thousand all the platforms. But as the year ends, and I hope in two weeks to be back with you when the new year begins, I want

to thank you. Tom Brenneman said it in one of the interviews recently that he wishes our society had more grace and more forgiveness. I'm looking at a Philadelphia Flyer hockey broadcaster who thought the mic was off. He said something intemperate about a woman referencing a body part, and he was suspended for two days. You know what happened

to Tom Brenneman some off and remark. I often find it amazing that I've been able to stay here for the last forty three years, through the good and the bad. They're rough in the tumble, the ups and the downs, the deserts and the oceans of difficulties and problems. Beginning of nineteen eighty three, in the summer continuing now through towards the summer of I hope twenty twenty eight and if that works out, good, But as you celebrate the Christmas season, I would encourage you to spend more time

with friends and family. At the end of your life, if you have time to reflect upon what you've done, You're not going to talk about a car payment you skipped, or maybe a mortgage payment that you blew past, or maybe a home you didn't buy, or a stock you didn't buy. You're not going to complain about a flat tower. In I seventy one, almost everyone that I've spent time with as they as they died, and sadly, I've been with eight family members who have died, and one of

my best buddies of all time, Bruce Roddy. You see, when he had his difficulties with his heart, came out of nowhere and each one of them said, to help my wife, help my kids, do what you can, and I wish I could spend more time with them. And I think that's the key to life is to have grace, to have love for God above, to treat others as you would like to be treated, and you cannot give

forgiveness unless you receive it. If you want forgiveness for all the crap that you've done in your life, show the grace and love that you have, and forgive others who have wronged you. So we're going to take up that as if you want to listen to more of this Christmas Morning itself, the five heads of the family will get together. We're gonna have any Fingers in the rock and Tom Brenneman and Scott Sloan and myself We're going to talk about life and love, forgiveness and grace

and what makes this country work. And it's not acidic comments. It's not trying to catch somebody in some wrongful comment. Many times on my side of the fence, if you say something wrong or didn't hit the dump button quick enough, the wolves are out there to bite and to bark and to show how the great Man has fallen. But I will not give and receive grace unless I do both. I hope to receive it, but I want to give it. I want to try to help those around me live

better lives and give proper advice. But as I conclude twenty twenty five, look forward to at least two more years and the Lord Willing, maybe three. I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for being my friend, and I specially want to thank you for coming up to me and thanking me for what I've done. I feel as if, quite often I've not accomplished hardly anything in my life. And I had a conversation with that repair man down at Skipst Aleka Tessen. I said, maybe I'm wrong.

they need, the offensive lineman, defensive linemen, linebackers. They need to say, second crazy players, cornerbacks. I think they're punting in their their field goal kick. I think money back's find there got it back. They got quarterback and wide receiver, and I think I think tight ends hand running back. I think there were I think case Brown did a good job. You did good. How about the offensive line which is thirtieth in the league in officials A rookie.

That was a good pick. He was a good player. So you're defending Mike Brown at this point? Is that correct? I'm saying, are you defending him? Yes?

me check out out. I said, you've seen his book. Not good, He said, that guy, that guy's got problems. So he watches him get into a Nissan with a Florida plate. They put out his picture. That guy goes up to two cops yesterday morning. He said, I think I'm that guy, and they looked at it and said down the headquarters. They said he got in a white Knissan with a Florida plate which didn't fit in the Providence,

Rhode Island. He said, it's probably a rental car. They ran the plate, they got the name of the guy and the other plate. They then went to Massachusetts. They found the same car around the home of the dead physics professor. There they then run hotel, motel storage units and the guys and they got to picture of the guy when he ranted the car from the from the rental car place. They got the picture and his name. They run it through and he's got a storage unit

two miles away over there. They surround the place, he shoots, blows his The homeless guy.

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