1-2-24 The Bill Cunningham Show

Back on the Big One seven hundred WLW twelve O eight. Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham, the Great American and enjoying some more time off as it'd be nice if we could all do that, wouldn't it. But Bill Cunningham, I wasn't here last week, not here today, and you've got me until three o'clock this afternoon. And what do we have going on today? In a half an hour from now, I'll be talking with my buddy John Mills, He's a retired colonel from the US military. We're gonna be talking

about what's happening with the military right now. He is getting ready to go to Taiwan, and we'll get an update on and probably that's something I haven't been following as close as I should have been following. But we'll get an update on what he is, what he is seeing there. I mean, this guy has served in five different eras. He served during the Cold War, he worked for President, he's a senior fellow at the Senator for the

Center for Security Policy. He's done international affairs for the Department of Defense. So this guy is on top of all of that. And so we'll break that down with him as we continue. Also, my buddy Daniel Turner will be here at one o'clock after the news at a well, you know, one o five, one o six somewhere in there. And Daniel Turner is

always a great guest of this show. Uh. He wrote it. He wrote a really a good piece that was in the Federalist talking about and there's so much talk these days, you know, with the environmental crowd, that we have to get rid of fossil fuels, we have to get rid of the petroleum industry. And he wrote a great column talking about his dad, who passed away earlier this year, and how this was going to be the first holiday season that he had without his father. And he talked about the

day dignity of human life and how petro chemicals make that possible. And you may be saying, well, Dan, what do you mean by that? How do petro chemicals make human dignity in my life any better? And he talked about when his father was in the in the hospital, and he talked about everything from the the needle that went into his arm, the ports that he had, the tubing that was connected to his body, the IV bags

that were being used, uh, at every machine. He talked about every corner of that room in the hospital, including the medications that his father was using, were derived from petro chemicals, the petroleum industry. And so when you have these these organizations and these groups, and then in this administration talking about how we need to end fossil fuels, these are the kind of things

that never get thought through. You can have all the solar power and all the wind power in the world, and you are not going to be able to replace these items that frankly, make all of our lives better. And

you look at all the medical advancements that have been made. And I don't spend a lot of time behind this microphone talking about medical stuff, but when you look at all the medical advancements that have come in the last fifteen to twenty fifty years, a lot of them are derived, if not almost all of them are derived by way of some sort of petrochemical and could not exist but for the petroleum industry. I'm talking about oil. So he makes a

great on that. And then the other part I want to ask him about is I'm seeing a couple of things right now involving the Biden administration, and one is that the United States is now producing oil at a rate that I don't think we've ever seen before. So I'm going to ask him about that, because Joe Biden did so much to to reduce the production of oil in the United States, but despite those efforts, we are somehow producing more oil than we have ever seen. And then, finally, at two o'clock this

afternoon, two of five, the new president of the Cincinnati FOP. His name is Kenkober. This guy has had a long history with the Cincinnati Police Department. As we know, Dan Hill is a regular guest on this show. Many of the talk show hosts on this radio station thankfully leaned on Dan Hills. He was a great spokesperson for the FOP, and the fop's really had a good run of advocates in that position and people who aren't afraid to come on this radio station and come on TV and UH and say the things

that need to be said in support of Cincinnati police officers. And I have I have texted with Ken Kober a little bit, I have not spoken to him, so this will be my first chance to get a chance to speak directly with Ken Kober, and I am certainly looking forward to that. At two five this afternoon, So if you are of a mind, I certainly

hope you can hang around for all of that this afternoon. And Bill Seg Dennison is in the building, and I hope to do a stooge report, and if you want to weigh in five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven hundred, the big one. Those are the numbers to call. Say hello to Drew Wester Heidi when you call in, because he is the main man that is making things happen in the control room right now, and without guys like him, we would not be on the air.

So a happy New Year everyone. I hope you had a great New Year celebration or whatever you did on New Year's I hope it was fantastic. I hope you had a great Christmas and a great Honukkah. And now we are off into twenty twenty four. Today was actually the first time I wrote down. I've got a notebook here and I always keep some notes during the show, and I put the date on there, and today it was the first

day I actually wrote those numbers down. Was to zero two four. So we had a great time, went to some good celebrations over the weekend, visited with friends, went to a nice New Year's Eve party, Big does there. Got to sit at the VIP table. That was very fun. Saw the band Marsha Brady and the place was rocking, people were dancing, and that was my New Year's heat pretty much. So you want to tell me about yours again? Five three, seven, nine, seven thousand,

one eight hundred the big one. I one thing I'm not going to do today is talk about the bank. Well, when when Seg gets here for the Suge Report, I'm sure we'll talk about what's happening with the Bengals. But what a letdown, What a disappointment. And when Joe Burrow went down to my way of thinking, the general tenor of that was, well, we've lost our quarterback. The season is pretty much over, nothing to play for anymore. And I didn't buy that. I told the people, and

I said it on this radio station. How about you step up. How about the guys that are still playing ball, go in there with the attitude

that we can get the job done. And then won a couple of games, very thrilling game against the Minnesota Vikings, and then followed that up with a complete turd against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I don't know as I look at that game against Kansas City, and I know I think Lance was talking a little bit about this on his Twitter feed that kicking that field goal in the third quarter would not have made that much of a difference, and I

just tend to disagree with that. I think when you're on the road in a hostile environment, you have an excellent chance. No field goal is one hundred percent. But with money Mac, and you're aware on the nine yard line or wherever they were inside the ten, close to the ten, that's pretty much money in the bank. For money Mac making a field goal, I think that completely changes the tone and tenor of that game. But instead that was a dramatic shift, a dramatic swing in the momentum, and Kansas

City was able to capitalize on it. So that's the way I saw it. So if you want to give me your take on that, I'll listen to it, but I'm not gonna I'm just I'm not here for Bengals analysis today. Normally, on a day if they would have won, I would have tried to had mo Erger in here, maybe Austin Elmore, maybe Tony Pike, someone come in and sit with me. And break down of what should have been a great Bengals victory, and then talk about how game or

big the game is coming up with the Cleveland Browns. But now all that is gone, and my way of thinking, the Cleveland Browns game for me holds about as much excitement as a meaningless preseason game. I don't think the Browns really have anything to play for there. They've they've clinched their playoff spot. I don't think the Bengals really have anything. I would like to see Aj mcchaerrern get some snaps. I've always been a big fan of that guy.

But after Sunday, I'll probably watch the Bengals and Browns on Sunday, even though it's not really gonna make any difference at all, But I will probably watch that game on Sunday, and then I'll pretty much be done with the NFL. And so, as I was telling my friends at the New Year's Eve party we were at, our Sundays are about to become a lot more productive because we won't be wasting time watching football. Let's go to Brett. Who is Let that say Brett is in Mason Brett. You're on seven

hundred WLW how's it going good? How are you doing today? All right? Brett, Hey, I just wanted to elaborate a little bit of what you talked about as far as the petrochemicals and the pharmaceutical companies. Yeah, to give you a little history, Rocketfeller, when he first started out in the oil industry, he tried everything he could to destroy every other small oil company, either buy them, take them over, destroy them, put them

out of business, whatever, to take over the entire industry. Well after he did that, as you know, de termined Anti Trust Act. They the government came in and made him break it up into I think forty companies or so. Well, after that, he vowed to bankrupt the United States.

He vowed to do what he could to get eaten for that. And what he did was he started he found out and realized that the petrochemicals that you know, he was now you know, in control of, so to speak, was being used, we're being able to be used in modern medicine. Now, modern medicine came about because of these because of this man made medicines from petrochemicals. Before it was all you know, they grinded stuff up, the farmac's right, mixed things, you know, made these different remedies

or whatever. Well, once he did that, then he took a guy I think his name was Fleckle Spleckner, and he put him in charge of finding out what they were doing in the schools. And what he did was he altered the way the educational system in the medical schools were what they were being taught by giving them tons of money. And then that's how all the prescriptions and the modern medicine and the pharmaceutical companies rose was because of Rocketfeller.

Just to give you a little bit of history on that. Well, I mean, Rockefeller was a rich guy, and and you know, I think when when people get to that sort of level, I think there's a there's an element of genius that is mixed in there. Uh. Most of the millionaires that I have known in my life, aside from a couple who just

ran into dumb luck, were pretty much geniuses. The way they could they could look at a situation, the way they could figure things out, the way they could get from point A to point B. And I so I when you know, when I look at a guy like Rockefeller, especially the when and the way he did things, I think there's a. There's an element of genius there, you're right. And you know he also he's the one that established our educational system. I think it was the any A or

something like that. So that's also why our educational system is set up because of Rockefeller. And what I mean by that is that as you know, as you know, we're really not educated on a lot of different things,

right, like a lot of basic things. Yeah you know, I mean, I mean, why are going to understand it gets how to balance the checkbook or how to you know, how to do different things of that nature, because because they want these kids in debt as soon as they get out of school, they want them to become a debt slave like all the rest of us. Right, So he also infiltrated the educational system in the United

States and helped suck that up as well. Well look at it, look at your Look at your average kid working in a fast food place right now, They if the if the computer or the cash register takes a dump, they can't figure out how to make change. Uh. And I was gonna say for a five dollar bill, but now it's a twenty dollar bill. When if you get somebody, they can't figure out how to make change for a twenty dollar bill and they just look, you know, but they know

their proper pronoun usage. So so those things are what's important, I guess, And you know the thing is in and on top of that, I just alnory they have no coping skills anymore. On they when they can't figure out how to give change, they start to have a meltdown, you know what I mean, absolutely, you know, So I just want to let you know that give you a little idea. That evil genius I'm gonna i'll call it evil genius that you you know that that basically brought about our modern

medicine. Well that's the thing. Everyone who is listening to us right now has been a beneficiary of of that that enterprise. Whether you like petrochemicals or not, they are intertwined with your life in ways you can't even imagine. And to sit there and say we need to do away with big oil and and UH and the and the chemical companies and and uh in fossil fuels is just unbelievably short sighted. Brett, thank you very much for the call.

Thank you. All right, there you go, Bretton Mason, Let's hit a cell phone and this is John and John. You're on seven hundred WLW Dan. How are you doing good? John? Thanks for the call. What's up? Happy to you? You're Jan sure, happy to do You're tow, sir. I will tell you that if it wasn't for the petrochemical industry, we would be one sorry state of humanity. Uh. The petrochemical

industry not only do they help create medicines. Everything you look at in a hospital, anything that is that is manufactured is probably made from petrochemicals when you go to a hospital. Sure, most things in your house are manufactured by petrochemicals. But you know the dirty secret is is that you know, the left hates big oil. They hate big oil, right because there's this illusion that there's this this climate change is going to be the death of all of

us. But let's be honest, if it wasn't for petrochemicals. Number one, our food would not be Our food production would be reduced by god knows what percent because without petrochemical we don't have the fertilizers we need, We don't have the plastic we need that makes our fruit, our food and vegetables last longer. So we are really just kind of just stamming ourselves in the heart because of this climate change thing. Well, yea, it was there.

I mean, it's and it's like a religion. And I always say, they want to sacrifice the greatest economy the world's ever seen, and they want to do it on the altar of the green agenda. But it is and so stupid. And when I look at these people who are out protesting, I look, you know, they've all got the north faced jackets on, or they've got very expensive shoes, and there's not a one one that doesn't

have a cell phone. And none of that stuff would exist. It would not exist, It would not be possible were it not for big oil. And where do they think the paint comes for the signs that they make, Where do they think that stuff comes from. It's the makeup they have on, the things in their hair, the clothing on their backs. I mean, it's every single item that you can possibly think of is dependent upon oil.

And to sit there and say we need to get rid of it is just one of the foolest, the most foolish things that I can possibly think of. John, we got we got to run. But thank you very much for the call. Happy New Year. All right, there you go, John on a cell phone. Good call there after the news here at the bottom of the hour, John Mills, retired Colonel the United States Military is going to be here and we will talk military items and more as we

roll on. Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham on seven hundred w L It's twelve thirty eight January, second second day of the brand new year. Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham, and thank you very much for listening. I am always it was always my honor in my just it's a great thing to sit in for Bill Cunningham and be able to talk to one of the greatest audiences

in all of talk radio. And the great American will be back, just don't know exactly when, but we carry on and one of the I've had a chance to talk to this guy once before, and when it comes to national security, when it comes to the United States Military, I don't think there really are any issues that are more important to that. And my next guest is a guy who can address all that and more. It is retired Colonel John Mills. And John Mills, Happy New Year to you, sir,

and thanks for taking the time to come back to the show. And how are you today, Big Dan, Happy New Year. I'm doing great. Thank you so much. You know, the last time I talked, it says you're a retired colonel. What branch of the military. You are? Army? United States are army Army. But you know you're now required

to become what's called joint qualified with it's called JPM the education level. So you really lose your service color because you know, once you hit five lieutenant colonel or really by six that can make generals, you have to become joint qualified. So I am proudly purple on this. I can speak all services well. I love that, you know, I really there are so many things I wanted to talk with you today, and I don't know where to

start. I'm looking at your substack, and you've been writing a lot lately about China, and then I see this. I see that while our president was enjoying the sunshine and the be over Christmas and New Year's, the president of China was busy and he was making a New Year's address, and Jijing King said these words that surely China would surely be reunified with Taiwan during his New Year's address. When you hear those words come out of the mouth of

the president the leadership of China. What does that say to you? Buckle up and get ready. Yeah, that was a very strong statement. It was It was because usually they kind of approached this topic of Taiwan. They still kind of approach that was pretty direct. And when he was in San Francisco enjoying the freshly clean streets of San Francisco, you know, he told Biden pretty clear what was going to happen. And when a totalitarian says something

like that, they mean it and get ready. So we just, unfortunately have an administration that just seems to be blissfully ignorant, perhaps bought out, bought off. I mean, I think we have strong evidence that, if nothing else, Hunter and the Big Guy were bought off. But I mean, this is lady and jentlemy get ready. I'm leaving on Saturday to cover the elections in Taiwan, so on the thirteenth, So this is a big

deal. Get ready to Chinese is going to try to throw the elections, and what they're going to throw at Taiwan is going to be a leading indicator of what's going to happen in America. In the summer in the fall as we go to November twenty four. So, ladies and gentlemen, this Taiwan is not Ukraine in any way, shape or form. Taiwan is on the front line of freedom for everybody in the world, and we need to make sure they get everything they need to defend themselves, and we need to be

there for them. It's US law, and it would be nice we followed law on these matters. So so when when Biden and g met in in San Francisco and that and that was a spectacle that was amazing to behold, the way we rolled out the red carpet for this guy. Biden correct me if I'm wrong. He immediately responded with, from a position of strength, a reminder of what the United States interests are in that part of the world, and and and maybe why it may be ill advised for him to speak

in such a manner. That's the response that we got from the President of the United States, is it not. I think we got several messages. I think the Biden administration is very and I'm just taking politics out of this

and trying to be just objective there and honest they are. They are very confused on the topic of Taiwan, they still look at you know, some let's just presume those who are not bought off or corrupt or ideologically wacko and left leaning anyway, and admired China, they still they're looking at China through the Kissinger lens where they feel, hey, you know, they'll they'll adapt, they'll develop, and they'll be great partners in the world. That is,

at this point in time. If somebody still has if their job is national security, international affairs, and they still have view of China and we're taking out the corruption and bought off and ideological crazy aspect, they need to be removed from office because that is it's patently absurd at this point in time.

So when you see the President of China talking like this, and then at the same time, we look at our southern border and we see the relatively large spike in Chinese national of military age men that are crossing illegally into the Uni States from our southern border, do you attend to look at those things and connect the dots in any sort of way. Yeah. Absolutely, through an intentional willful they are sending fighting age males. And I just was

in Panama with a vander Steele and Michael John saw it personally. This is an invasion. They are now providing command control, oversight of the cartels of functional production in northern Mexico and distribution into America, including muscling in on air quote legal cannabis operations, which I think is absolute fraud and canard anyway,

But these are high cash operations. They're coming in, mustling in. There's Domini reports California, Ohio, Maine, Oklahoma of Chinese nationals mustling in and taking over these operations. Well, they are high cash operation. You can't bank the money because of federal laws on cannabis. And so now you've got all this cash sitting around, and what do they do. They mustle in, They skim it. What do they skim it for? This is their

way to pay for influence operations in America. If you thought the summer of twenty twenty was chaotic with Antifa, just get ready. All those antifers, you know, they're the same folks. There's a lot of there's a lot of research on this. Andy No, I'll cite him for one. The Antifers are the same people who are transgender advocate protesters, and the same people who are Palestinian protesters? And guess who's they're charging two fifty a night.

That's that's been documented very well. Where do you get this cash cannabis operations? It's it's a self looking ice cream cone. We're talking with a retired Army colonel John Mills. And and John Mills, you wrote on your substack about and authorized you some military force to deal with this situation at the border. Is this something you're in favor of? Are we absolutelyosition now where we can actually make such an operation happen and be effective with it. Yeah.

For having actually participated in events like this, and then great detail in planning and implementation. I know what I'm talking about on this stuff. And there's been a number of Congressman Mike Waltz from Florida has always been on the right side of history on so many topics. Several others have said, look, we CenTra all is killing ten thousand Americans a month. In twenty twenty two,

it killed seventy thousand. Okay, that's more than forty years of combat in the entire Vietnam War and the War on Terror put together of American service losses. This is insanity. This is war. If ten thousand dead a month is not compelling, people must be using air quote legal cannabis and dissolving their minds. I mean this is this is war. So we need to make firstly Congress to authorize you some military force. That means we can start

to deploy our advance forced people to start sizing up the situation. We put one Jay Dams that's a guided bomb. We've put one Jay Dams on the next Chinese slash cartel meeting to make a dramatic teaching point in life lesson. Believe me, all the Chinese special operators in Mexico, Panama and inside the US are going to run for the closest airport to get out of here. You know, you also recently wrote about what's happening in the Red Sea,

and you talked about the disruptions of commercial traffic that's happening there. The United States Navy has been busy shooting down drones and attacks on our naval vessels that are in that part of the world. We've had multiple attacks on US installations throughout the Middle East. Do you see the response from this administration as being appropriate for the kind of its act that uh that our military men and women have been coming under in the world. Uh No, that their term is

proportionality. Austin and all the Biden folks who love to use that term proportionality, let me translate, proportionality means more Americans and innocent people are going to die because you can't deal with hamas hezblah, hoodies, a ransom all whatever with proportionality. You you crush them, you crush them. These are these every one of those groups, uh is a designated terrorist terriorist group. Why in the world are we using the term proportionality because they don't care how many

people they lose on their side unless it hurts. And so you know, we schwacked three boats out of four with US Navy helicopter's. Good job on those flight crews. Good job to the Eisenhower and the carrier. I think it's carrier wearing three. Great job, guys and girls. But we need to go after their bases and this insanity. There's already an Iranian intelligence ship

in the Red Sea and now they're sending a small corvette. First thing we should do the nanosecond we had detect any emissions of any kind from either of those two craft. We vaporize them, and that because they're helping in their targeting. So what in the world are we allowing these two vessels in the Red Sea for They're doing nothing but bad things. Nanosecond they transmit anything,

vaporize them well. And then I continue to see these delays that are happening with through the commercial shipping lanes that are there, and I wonder to myself, why aren't we assuring safe passage for these vessels, And it seems to me that we're just simply sitting there and we're letting the terrorists get the upper hand. Yeah, well, clearly nobody fears the US Navy anymore. The Hoodies are doing whatever they want to do. Is now the Simalis have been

resurrected, they seized the ship. The Hoodies still have one of the first ships, the Galaxy Leader, I think it was they have. They seized those ships and crews. They're hostages and the US. Yeah, the US Navy is doing its best, but we're frankly, the Middle East is consuming almost all of our four deployed naval assets. This shows an extremely understrength, overstretched US Navy. The US Navy, like I said, I'm purple guy, we shift our resources and our focus to the primary effort. The primary

effort now around the world is Navy and Air Force. They are We're giving him massive funding increases, but you know, we just can't seem to build more ships or more aircraft at any reasonable rate. So I mean, well than that, everything's going great. He's going great. And then when you talked about the response, that we did have it, and then the men and women who are on the front line there performed magnificently, as they tend

to do. But when I look at those who are coming up, and I look at those that are in our say, our Naval academy right now, and I read articles about how they're spending time learning about gender and sexuality and pronoun us, it's an intersectionality and all this other, to my way of thinking, nonsense that has nothing to do with learning how to be a United States military officer. And the same thing is going on at West Point,

the same thing is going on at the Air Force Academy. We spend all this time worrying about this kind of stuff, and I have great concern for the next generation of leadership that is coming up and preparing to take their place in the United States Military. Yeah, we have a fire in the main engine room on this topic. They can't the geniuses that are due to a civilian led organization. That's that's laws, not uniform let it's civilian lads.

So the current administration, uh, clearly is either by just gross ignorance or intentionality, attempting to destroy the incredible United States Military. And they can't. They commended, they're they're all, they're all diz there now with the horrible, horrible recruiting and retention rates, and yet they come up with the flimsiest of bizarre reasons. You know, Oh, people are concerned, Oh, people are concerned about climate change. You know this and that, and

well you know it's hostility towards transgending. Just all this absolute psycho gibberish. Listen, when I joined the military, I joined I wanted to be an American. I wanted to help defeat the Soviets. I wanted to be part of an American victory here and and I want Audi grew up on Autie Murphy, you know, the most decorated soldier of World War Two. I didn't

join because of some psychobabble. Uh, And that's look and then they can't figure out, Wow, our recruiting is and retention is way down and what is uh except for the Army. Uh what does she she do? She goes, well, we can't meet our recruiting intention goals. Therefore I'm going to cut US Army Special Operations. Please please show me the rigor analytical rigor behind that logic and decision. That is absolutely insanity. So this is this

is what we're dealing with. Is it going? The most effective part of the United States Army is Army Special Operations? So you know, Navy and Air Force need resources. Is she wants to cut anything in the Army, she needs the handover two to four brigades of engineers, military police, and air defenders so they can become Air Force and Navy units to build up the basing infrastructure in the Western Pacific and defend it. And that's a Verre's listen,

they are the main effort in the Western Pacific. They need engineers, they need air defenders, they need military police. Just hand over the units. Then you can, you know, you can reduce the army size and contribute to the joint fight. That's absolutely logical and reasonable. Now their response is let's cut Army special operations. Probably the singular most important thing the Army

can do in the Western Pacific, it's provide Army special operations. And yeah, please show me the analytical rigor behind this well and decision, Colonel, Colonel John Mills. We've got red flags popping up all over the place. I was doing a show between Christmas and New Year's and one of the callers said, can you ever talk about anything positive? Is there a positive note that you can leave us with this afternoon? Our incredible constitution for republic is

worth daging everyone. We got ninety days to jump into action to ensure you have election integrity right where you live. And we can do this. We need to go shoulder to shoulder, back to back. We need to ladies and gentle put our shoulder to the wheel here and make things happen. Because most places locking about the next ninety days, they're going to start locking down all of their election rules for November twenty twenty four. So get involved,

to get involved, and I think we can do this. We've come on, we can do this. This is America. We're worth the most incredible form of governance ever created. And as Winston Churchill said America has the worst form of governance except for all the others. Colonel John Mills, the book is the War against the Deep State. You're a frequent writer on substack, and thank you very much for your time this afternoon. And let's talk again when you get back from Taiwan. I would love to hear a report from

the ground over there. But a happy new Year to you, sir, and all the best in twenty twenty four. And I do look forward to our chance to talk again. Yeah, Dan, It's always an honor. Onward to a victory for our incredible constitutional republic. All right, Colonel John Mills retired from the United States Army, And I'll tell you what you want to update on what's happening around the world and with our military. You just got it right there. Twelve twenty six, Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham on

seven hundred. It is twelve fifty six, actually seven hundred WLW, seven hundred WLW. It is eleven minutes after one o'clock on this Tuesday, the second day of the new year, a twenty twenty four. A lot of people going back to work today, a lot of people going back to school, vacation time is over except for the great American Bill Cunningham, who was

enjoying some more time off. So it is my distinct pleasure to be able to sit in for Bill Cunningham. It is also my distinct pleasure as always to welcome in my next guest, one of the one of my all time favorite guests. And this is the first time we've had a chance to talk in twenty twenty four and Daniel Turner, Happy New Year to you, and how are you today? Oh, I am thrilled to start off the new year being on with the radio with you. Dan. Thanks, well,

that's that. Yeah. I caught you on Fox News the other day. You were talking with Rachel Campos Duffy, and you were talking about a column that you wrote in It appeared in The Federalist. And just allow me to read one brief passage from this column, and you wrote a beautiful piece about your father passing away and how this is your first holiday season without him, and you wrote this, I always carry a handkerchief because my dad did.

But most people prefer disposable tissue. When fossil fuels are gone, those tissues are gone. Disposable diapers are gone, yoga mats and plastic water bottles are gone. Do climate change activists the river moms know that? Do you think Starbucks can survive without fossil fuels? What about that salad from Whole Foods and a plastic container, or even the plastic packaging for meat and produce, cologne,

deodorant, perfume, bathroom cleanser, swiffer pads, paper towels. Sure that mom may think disposable products are bad for the earth, but a lack of hygiene is far worse for her and her family. And I love writing like that because it puts into a practical sense how intertwined our lives are with big oil, with petrochemicals, and the massive amount of benefit that we as human beings, not just here in the United States but all over the world

enjoy because we have the petrochemical industry. Yeah, and it's a different perspective. First of all, thank you for reading that. I'm honored that you would do so. It's a different perspective we have of humanity and the world than the left does, and it's why it's almost impossible to think there is such a thing as common ground. I see the fossil fuel industry and the quite literally millions of products that have come from fossil fuels as great benefits.

I see them all as good and wonderful, and proof of that is the way we live our lives. The left sees them as this terrible thing that needs to be eradicated. Of course, not in their personal life. They're not giving up the slightest fossil fuel creature comfort, but they see them as something negative, and as proof of that, they have to talk hyperbolically about

this apocalypse which has never seemed to come right. I mean, we're fifteen years beyond al Gore's end of time, where we're fifty years behind Paul Orleck's end of time. So they keep talking about the end of humanity because of fossil fuels, and I don't quite see it that way. I think that suburban mom I had in mind, and I hate picking on the suburban what they call a Karen now right, because it's an easy touch, touching bag.

But I think of that individual, and I see them when I go to the grocery store, when I leave my farm the one time week I have to get off the fire. And I don't know if they're aware of how dependent. They're comfort, and they're what they take for granted in the simplest terms, until you're ready to bring home a raw chicken in cloth and then hand wash that cloth without you know, dawn or or bleach or any

fossil fuel product. Until you're willing to do that, you need to shut up about climate change because you like taking home your chicken in a plastic container, wrapped in plastic in a plastic bag, throwing all of it away because you're worried about germs. You just extrapolate that to the millions of things we do all day, from our plastic toothbrushes to charging our phones at night. No American is ready to give up the fossil fuel lifestyle, So why do

we even pretend that they're going to? Yeah, but see, it takes someone like you to write a column like this, and we have such lazy reporting when it comes to the national media in this country and frankly the media

around the world. It's great to sit there and pairt these headlines that we are at a tipping point, that the Earth is going to end in X number of years, that John Carey says, the elimination of fossil fuels is on the way, and we have this administration that is backing that when they say they want to come after your dishwasher, and they want to come after your gas stove, and they want to come after very appliances in your homes

and things like that. It's just that it should be the job of the media to look at these things objectively and say, what if that were to really happen, what are the consequences of that? And sure, it's great to go out and protest and shake your fist and then talk about the big, bad, big oil, but no one ever stops to think about the real life consequences of it. And you put it all right there in the

piece that you wrote, Well, thank you. And you know they talk about transitioning away from fossil fuels and going to wind and solar and eass and one all of those products are actually made from fossil fuels. Are your argument's dead right there? But even if we were to accept even getting rid of that inconvenient fact, let's look at the other problem. Fossil fuels are so much more than electricity generation. Wind and solar make electricity very very expensive,

electricity, intermittent electricity, right weather dependent electricity, crappy electricity. But that's all they do if they make electricity. But fossil fuels make an awful lot more. I was talking about the last couple of days with Dad, when I was with him in the hospital, and I take my work with me everywhere I go. A lot of dedicated folks do. I'm not special in

that sense. But as I was sitting there in the hospital with him, and I saw, you know, the needle in his arm, and you realize that the fine fine point of that needle, and how many of us have had blood work drawn. Right, that fine fine needle is forged in coal, and the tube connected to that needle is one hundred percent made from oil, and the chemicals in that tube trying to keep Dad alive are one hundred percent made from natural gas. And there's nothing dignified about allowing people to

suffer in illness. There's nothing dignified about allowing the elements to take its toll, telling people to freeze to death, or to die of complete heat, or to let their food go bad. Right, So, fossil fuels, Yes, it's convenient. And I just made fun of the suburban mom. I'm sorry, but on a much greater level than that. And why I go back to my original point that we have a different worldview than the left. There's dignity in that life. There's a dignity that fossil fuels grants us

that we don't have to succumb to the elements. We don't have to succumb to the indignity of illness, and even death is a more dignified because of these amazing products that brilliant people figured out. I can take oil and do X, Y and Z and turn it into this and look at the quality of life it's given people. And anyone who's been to a hospital that works in that industry knows exactly what I'm talking about. And there's no plan for that. Dan. That's what gets under my skin, and I could curse

if I weren't on the radio. That's what gets under my skin. Is there's what if we get rid of fossil fuels, as John Carrey says, when we phase out fossil fuels, where are we getting our IV tubes? Where are we getting our needles? Where are we getting our bedpants? How many nurses walk into the room boom, they hand sanitize, they put on a pair of gloves, they walk out gloves in the garbage hand sanitizer again, thousands of times a day, all oil. All of that is made

from oil. What's the plan for that? Do we just go back to the pre industrial or do we go back to leeches? Do we go back to the pre industrial era? What do we go back to bleeding? I don't what's the what's the plant? Well, that's the thing for people like John carry who who enjoy far more creature comforts than you and I would ever enjoy in our life. And and he has benefited mightily from items that are

produced the courtesy of fossil fuels and the petrochemical industry. It would he would eagerly, i'm sure, want to carve out set asides and loopholes for things that he enjoys. But for everyone else, well, you know, sorry about your luck. I'm John Kerry and I'm special, and and you have to you know again, rules for thee but not for me. The left

tells you, oh, please, please go ahead. When the left tells you that, you know, well, we'll of course need a little bit of oil for those products, right, But that's not how that's not how it works. Because those products will become so cost prohibitive. The world worldwide, we produce around forty million barrels of oil a day. And because of those forty million barrels a day that the world produces, those plastic gloves are

pennies and you can afford to throw them away and reuse them. But you know, like it as to any other industry, because of the amount of wheat we produce. You're a little brand muffin that you really love that's a dollar seventy five or two seventy five, you can afford it because there's so much wheat. You can afford a luxury item. But if we say we're getting rid of all the wheat only the brand muffins, well that brand muffin is not going to cost to seventy five. It's suddenly going to go up

to, you know, eighty five dollars. And that is just the way supplying demand works. So when they tell us, well, yeah, we'll have a little bit of oil, not at that price point. And what that means is that the John Kerrys of the world can afford these products because they have billions of dollars. But you and I we're not going to be able to afford, you know, liquid detergent, and those little pods that the millennials are eating, the tie pods that are very convenient for the rest

of us who know not to actually put them in our mouths. But those are only affordable because oil is affordable. If we make oil unaffordable, all those prices are going to go through the roof a thousand times what we pay now. Yeah. You and I talked during the beginning of the Biden administration, and one of the first things he did was issue executive orders that were really aimed at crippling the oil production and capabilities in the United States of America.

And in the month of December, I'm looking at a piece from NPR right now talking about how in December, US oil production hit an all time high. Daniel Turner, how do you reconcile these two things that we haven't administration that has held bent on seeing what after is supposed to come after fossil fuels and big oil. But yet we have oil production in this country reaching

an all time high. Yeah. And there's a couple of things in that number, and the administration loves to tout it, and there's some truth into it. You know, our production numbers are getting back to normal. If they were as great as the miniiclation administration claims, we wouldn't see prices at the point that they are at right. We would see prices back at forty

five fifty dollars a barrel, and they're not on this administration. And for the American people right now, is that the oil that's coming out of the ground now is probably five to seven years planned. So the oil that's coming online right now was drilled at the very beginning of the Trump administration. That's how long it takes to get that oil. And yes, the drilling maybe only takes a couple of months, but to actually the extraction and to get

it to market. My point being, this is an industry that you can shut down on it down time, but when you want to start it up again, it's years in the process. It's years of permitting and permissions and legal loopholes and moving personnel and drilling and extraction. And so you know, if we just had had permission from the government to continue as we were doing during the Trump administration, they were predicting eighteen nineteen million barrels a day.

So we're resting on our laurels of thirteen. But why should we be happy with that, especially considering how expensive things still are right now? And things are very expensive. So what you're saying is the production that we're seeing now is a result of the momentum that was began. I guess what back in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, exactly twenty seventeen, as soon

as President Trump was inaugurated. You know, if you're going to spend twenty five million dollars to drill a well, you're going to make sure all your ducts are in a row, and you're going to make sure you don't have an EPA that's going to sue you, and a Department of Interior that's going to sue you, and a DJ that's going to suit you, and whatever climate justice is now, because if you can't get all of your other permits,

they'll get you with climate justice and they just accuse you of environmental racism and that will stop you. So you know, drilling is not something that you do pretty easily. You have to put a lot of a lot of capital into it. And so yeah, that exploded in twenty seventeen because people saw a friendly administration, those days are gone. Haven't continued to invest. That makes sense to me. Normally, when I read the Wall Street Journal,

I read pieces that are pretty level headed and pretty comprehensive. The headline I read in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend said, meet in America's newest oil trader extraordinaire, Joe Biden. And the piece goes on to talk about how he's refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a price around seventy five dollars

a barrel for oil. And then I go back to twenty twenty and I look at what happened then when Donald Trump wanted to top off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a price between eighteen dollars a barrel and negative thirty seven dollars per barrel, and Chuck Schumer in the Democrats in Congress shut that down, saying it was going to be a windfall for the oil companies at eighteen dollars a

barrel or less. And now we're talking about seventy five dollars a barrel, and the Wall Street Journal is out there calling this a great deal for the American tax bear. Yeah, and this is government math in a nutshell, right, This is where government numbers never seem to add up. Yes, they're saying that, look, Biden sold oil at ninety five and now he's repurchasing it at seventy five, so they're calling that a twenty dollars profit.

But where was that originally that oil originally purchased, you know, if it averaged around fifty five. Okay, so we bought it at sixty five, we sold it at ninety five, that's forty. But now we're buying it at seventy five. We're still the whole thirty five dollars a barrel. Right, there's no profit the government made. This didn't start from zero. But this is where Koreine Jean Pierre and they just lie to us, and they treat us like children. And do you know, it's like it's like that

in law everyone has who's always broken. He's like, you know what, these were a great deal? This car, you know it's normally forty grand. I only got it at thirty. I saved ten thousand. It's like, no, that's not how it works. You still spend thirty grand. And that's how the government treats us. They treat us like a bunch of dumb children. And the sad thing is, going back to your great point earlier, Dan, the sad thing is this is where the media should step

up and say, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a second, Koreem, how is this a great deal for the American taxpayers? But they don't. They just write it because they're dutiful little lapdogs. They're stenographers, as many people call them, and they write what the administration wants them to write, and then they try to find another way to call us crazy extremists and say we're the danger to the world. And that's the thing it's say. Had to see the Wall Street Journal going along with that as well.

But Daniel Turner, we got to run. The website is Power of the Future. I encourage everyone to go online. The title of the piece is we can't let fossil fuels die because they keep us alive. Daniel Turner our first conversation in twenty twenty four. I hope we have many more. But happy new year to you. Thank you for your time as always, and

I certainly hope we get a chance to talk again. So it's gonna be a crazy year, Dan, I'm looking forward to it with you, all right, Daniel Turner A power of the future, Thank you very much. One twenty seven now on seven hundred WLW from the post, has it stripped from behind? Trey Hendrickson knocked it away from Patrick Mahomes and the Bengals recover at the twenty four yard line. Trey Hendrickson will get credit for a strip sack there, his seventeenth sack of the year as he knocked the ball free

from Patrick Mahomes and Sam Hubbard recovered buiet. I'm broadcasting so sag as I recall that was a pretty good moment in that game against the Chiefs on what do the scoreboards say when it was triple zeros one A whole lot the can go a whole lot to jump up and down. That's correct. You got to take you got to take the points. Yes, you know, when you got the ball in the third quarter, you've you've got to lead. You've got to add to that lead. I know you wanted to get a

touchdown there. I know you want to make a statement. I know you want to say that we're gonna jam it down your throat and go on to victory. But you got to take the points. You got to take the points. Hey, I agree there, Dan, Carol, And anytime you get points it's good. It is good, though, And I think that it's three seven two one whatever, and I you know it was it going to make a difference in the game. I don't know. But does it

keep that huge momentum swing from taking place? I think it does. And how big of a deal is that you had all the momentum in the first half they just forgot to play in the second. So are we the home of the best Bengals covered still? Or are we now the home of the reds all love to management. I don't know what's way above my pay from that memo hasn't come out. That's way above my pay grade, my boy, it says here, sig the Bengals still want to play. You don't

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watch those games? Last night? Watched watch the Michigan Alabama game. A pretty good game, Amen that both of them were both of them were dido. They were very good. Texas and Washington game come down to the last minute pretty much a guy batted the ball away in the end zone and the Husky survive. College basketball tonight, mind me Redhawk's mac opener against They're going to host a Western Michigan number one perdue at Maryland. The latest on Norse

Basketball tonight, NK you Coaches Show six oh five ESPN fifteen thirty. Doesn't Xavier play tomorrow nights correct at Villanova? At Villanova? What time does that game tip off? It starts at eight o'clock here on seven hundred. W Well do beautiful. So there you go. Now we can all turn our attention to college basketball. I guess. So, so see what happens, Dan Held, No, I mean, are you do you even want to watch the NFL playoffs now? Oh? Yeah, of course, yeah,

got to. It'll be very it'll be very interesting to see after Sunday what happens, who stays, who goes, who, you know, whatever, because it looks like they are going to pick anywhere between that. It all depends on if they win or lose Sunday, and this team wins and that team ties and that team stays home, they could, I guess, wind up with what the thirteenth. They could pick from thirteenth to sixteenth in the FL draft. Oh that's what I do. I do this on I go

on. I turned the radio on and I hear Scott Sloan talking with James Rapine and they're talking about draft pick this, draft pick that, And I'm like, really, are we talking about the draft already? When? When does the draft even happen years ago in April? It happens in April. Yeah, well this is years is January. Yeah, so we got to go through January right, February right, and March right, and part of

April right. Hearing all about the draft? Correct. Heck, we used to talk about the when when the Bengals really stunk, used to talk about their draft at the bye week? Do they ever have the number one, two or three pick? I thought those days were behind us. That's well not now. Not a few in the past couple of years. You know, they didn't have to worry about their draft until like a couple of days ahead a time. Yeah, now it's like now you gotta Now you're out

and that's the next big thing. We still got a whole were still got a whole month and a half, a playoff, you got free agency in there, you got everything. So you got you got action going on all the time in the National Football League. It doesn't end call or say I'm too negative, though, I need to more be more positive. That'd be nice. Do you have anything Do you have anything positive to add sick? I don't think I've got nothing else. How about the cyclones? How they

doing. Uh, they're doing okay. I think uh, I think. I believe they play fighting in Kalamazoo and then home against home against Toledo. They've been playing Toledo like every other game. I don't know what's going on. They're in the same division, but it's it's like the Bengals and the Steelers and Browns. Every other game is like against either one of them. It's like the Reds and the Pirates, correct, the Reds and the Cardinals.

The Reds are in Pittsburgh one weekend, they're home against the Pirates the next. It's crazy. So but that's what you do, Dan Carroll, when you get eliminated from playoff contention. The next big thing, I guess is free agency and this and that, and then they look toward the April NFL Draft. Well. AJ McCarran takes some snaps on Sunday. I don't know. I would love it. I would like to see that. I don't know, we'll see. I don't know why not. I have no

idea. You know, it'll be interesting to see who the Browns sit get ready for the playoff game. If Joe Flacco doesn't you know, they also got to think an ex Bengal on their they just signed him at Jeff driscoll. I think he used to be here for a couple of years ago. Well, next Sunday, they're this coming Sunday. They out every time the Bengals have a fourth down, they ought to go for it, go for the first down, just for practice. Well, yeah, let's practice that.

They ought to go for a two point conversion every time they score. They ought to try and kick a seventy yard field goal. They ought to let Aj mccaren play. I want to see half back passes all over the place. I want to see double and triple and quadruple reverses. I want to see that that Sunday is the day they bring up Did they give you the game plan already? I'm telling you Sunday is the day to bring out all that crazy stuff, get it all, get it all over Bengles confidential

players only. Is that the game plan I have? I have my sources, okay, just let me you know, just let me say that, all right, I have my sources, Okay, but that's what I want to see on Sunday and bring out all the craziest stuff. You can double reverse everything, do it all. Maybe maybe Jake Browning catch a touchdown pass? How about them somebody else? Maybe from Joe Mixon having one of the linemen, I have one of the linemen. What about the sensey hat man

Ted Carriss have one of the linemen? Down paths like Anthony Moodia wear number seventy eight for the day and Joe, I'm just saying, hold on, and the only time you go in is when you report eligible and then you catch a pass in like Anthony Munos used to that. Well, just leave seven touchdown pass athlete Anthony Munos is seventy eight. Where it is? You don't give at anybody's number seventy reporting eligible unless unless like Shoey o'tani with Joe

Kelly had number seventeen for the Dodgers. What did he do he wanted that number? Yeah, but got Joe Kelly's wife a new porter of horse. So if anybody wants to wear seventy eight, you got to buy missus missus Muno's a new car. How about there you go? How about the former UC Coaches Bowl over the weekend? Oh you mean uh uh Luke Fickel Versus Kelly never watched it? You didn't want. I didn't get didn't get into too many of the bowl games. I watched the I watched all the ones

that Rocky Boyman was doing well. He did the Liberty Bowl. He did the Liberty Bowl, he did the Frisco Bowl, he did uh, he did three of them. I want. I watched the rock On team some of them. I mean, you know, I was hoping the Sun Bowl. It was snow like it used to it and like it always does in El Paso, Texas. The pop Tart Bowl was a little goofy with the pop tart and then they then they ate, then they ate the thing afterwards.

I don't think that was the real They had the trophy, they had the giant pop on top of it and the pop tarts on you know, and then the cheese At people try to get in. And now now I hear the cheese At people are trolling the pop Tart people. They're probably the same people gimmick, probably to sell merchandise. You got, you gotta sell the merch I don't know, you gotta sell it. Segg didn't didn't. I watched the Rose Bowl some I watched, uh watch, let's see watch

the well I watched a little bit of the Cotton Bowl. Very disappointed in the Ohio State University there, but they got smacked around a little bit, you know, fourteen to three. But half their guys didn't play though, did they. Well that was the problem. And then of course Georgia and

Florida State that was a mess. And that's the perfect example of what three quarters of the team of the Florida State Seminoles saying we're not playing and then you're playing, You're playing, you know, sophomores and juniors and freshmen, was horrific. Well that's what you're going to get. Horrific. That's what you're gonna get when these when these when these when these big name players are not going to play in these games anymore. I don't know. I don't

know if Rocky. I don't know if Rocky's going to be here in an hour. But if he's here, that's what I want to talk about. If if you're in college and you're getting n I L money and you're getting paid to be there, then when when it's time for bowl game time, you got to show up. Somebody said, I think when Willie, if whenever Willie gets back, I think They had a story a couple of weeks ago that there was one school that gave either the entire offensive line or every

player on the roster a new truck. Oh for god. In college. Yeah, so you know, you got you've got students walking to school and uh, you know, the big man on campus is at the Mercedes or a Bugatti or Maserati with his with the uh you know, he's parking next to the university president and a lot or basketball coach or football coach, and all these other ones are you know, they got student loans and all this stuff, and the football players are all driving brand new F one fifties.

Bing. Go, that's not bad. But if you're getting paid, you got to show up, right. I mean you say, I heart media. It's a whole new world now, Dan, I mean paid by our heart. Meetia and you say you know what you see? You could say, you could say, are you going to be able to say? Bill Cunningham's not here today? And uh, you know we're we're not really in the in the in the postseason game I want to be in, So I'm just not going to show up for this one. The way it is these

days matters you don't do that. These players are gonna do it. They don't care. They're not gonna they're not gonna risk getting hurt. I don't care when they don't get in the middle. That's what they're that's what that's why they're not playing because they know the dough with the ray and the me is in the National Football League. Somebody's gonna draft him, somebody's gonna pay them. Some of these kids are probably making more in college and they'll ever

make in the NFL. Bing go. So that's that's that's the world today. Man, I'm sorry, you're getting paid. You got to show up. That's the world today. You're not gonna change it. Was the n C double A gonna step in. They didn't think. They didn't think that. They didn't think it through. The n C double A is a joke anymore, absolutely, and and they they're even more of a joke. When you have a ball season twenty years ago at school went on probation because you

bought a kid a hamburger. Now you're getting a million and a half dollars to play. Who was the dude that showed up in a calendar that was that was for charity and then then then he couldn't play anymore. It was kind of him a deer park. He didn't want him to play at Toledo. So I'm sorry, that's a bad memory. Yeah, I don't know what to type. I didn't mean to bring that up, but I don't know. So I mean that. But that's that's the way the world is.

I mean, players are going to say I'm not playing in these games, and they're not going to play, and the schools are going to say, okay, that's fine, so you get you get, you get bombarded like Florida State did. And I mean that was a that was an absolute mess. And Georgia, just Georgia could have gotten students out of the out of the crowd and probably and probably still be That game was not funny. I mean, you know, and and and the Bowl people are putting up

all this big money, they got sponsors and stuff. I mean, I turned it off, and when I kept flipping it back just to see if if they might have scored a hundred points on him. Is Rock could have come in with a swag bag from the Fiesta Bowl. I don't know. I wonder if he, I wonder if they get one. I don't know. I don't know. It'd be pretty cool. Usually the players get all kind of cool stuff. Well, I have to see, I don't know. All right, Bill, did you have a good Did you have a

good New Year's though? Everything went well. I went to bed early, never saw the never saw the ball drop. I had to work. Come in here with Steve Hawkins. What's the matter with you? It's a lot going on New Year's Day? What's the matter with you? Bangals? I'm just saying. So it sounded like World War three at midnight in my neighborhood. But you know, I thought I was. I thought I was overseas for about ten minutes, and they rang in the New Year in my heilhborhood.

So all right, se get us out of the Stewog's Report, if you would, please, Dan, Carol and everybody have a good uh start to the twenty twenty four year. We leave you with the immortal words of the stooge Report. That is one of the things that I fear in life. An aggressive pigeon. Mime's monkeys and aggressive pigeons. Dan Horg's got some issues, Dan horsemen talking to himself about fun facts, because that's dangerous seg I'm honored to have done the first Duge report of twenty twenty five. About

that. Dan Carroll will be back in a little bit. I'm going to make a note of this. It's the biggest day of my broadcast career, next to Chopper nine on seven hundred WLW. So this all got a bowel Nick East in a wide window at the door of the bound then book book, Sadie, this little can tell not wi. I was bad at the bowl, Bad of the bowl, Bad of the bowl. Seven hundred WLW.

Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham, Great American and joined some more time off as we kick off the new year here on January second, the second day of twenty twenty four, my first day on the radio this year. So glad to be here and glad you are listening as well. I am also glad to welcome in this guy that I have. We've texted a little bit, but have not really had a chance to speak to each other, and this is my first time speaking to the new president of the Cincinnati Fraternal

Order of Police, Ken Kober and Ken Cober. Welcome to seven hundred WLW. How are you today, sir, and happy new year? I'm doing great. Happy New Year. Thanks for having me so so, Ken Cober, you have been involved with the police department, the Cincinnati Police Department for a long time. Tell our listeners a little bit about your background and how you were able to work your way to such a lofty position. Sure,

so, I started out in two thousand actually as a civilian. I was a police cadet, went into the police academy in two thousand and two. I spent times in District five, District one fugitive Apprehension Squad. I worked at Police Knine for about eight years, went to a traffic unit for a little while, and most recently I was in the Central Business section before getting elected. But I've spent the last fourteen years I've spent with on the executive

board for the FOP. So no no stranger to being around here on the executive board. Yeah. Has that experience served you well? Do you think in your time leading up to becoming the president of the FOPS as far as being on I was gonna I could because when you were talking about that, being a cadet and then you spend a lot of time on the street. Do the the rank and file, the people who elect you in do they

do? They put a lot of appreciation behind both of that. You know, all the amount of time you spent on the street and the amount of time you spent in these leadership positions. Sure, you get to really know some of these folks, you know, when you're constantly at you know, whether it's an internal or CCA or you just you see them around representing folks

doing things for the FOP. I believe that there's there's a lot of folks around that that really believe in the sweat equity you put in your time, You've You've volunteered your time to want to become I'm a leader of the FOP, and I think they really do take notice and they're appreciative of it.

Yeah, you know, I don't have to tell you that you represent a long line of very strong advocates for Cincinnati police officers and a number of individuals who were not afraid to be outspoken and not afraid to stick their necks out a little bit on behalf of police officers, on behalf of the department, on behalf of what is right and decent and the best thing for the people of the city of Cincinnati. Do you plan to continue on in that tradition

or is Ken Cobra a different kind of Cincinnati Fop leader. Absolutely. I mean that's one of the great things that our contract affords is whoever the president is is on president's release and you're really not subject to some of the things that you know, a regular police officer would be subject to. So I could pretty much say what I want to say, say what I believe is

the truth, and there's no consequences for it. You know. Among that also is I'm towards the end of my career, so there's not a whole lot that they could really do to me that is really going to affect my

career at this point. Well, I know that that was one of the things that that Dan Hills had it seemed a constant battle with was the amount of time that he spent at the side of police officers who were going in front of the review boards, the various entities that review police actions and unfairly, I think at times either criticize or penalized police officers for things that happen

when they're in the field. Where do you stand on that issue? Well, actually, I'm meeting with the CCA, the interim CCA director next Monday. She actually reached out to me after the election, has of like to sit down and talk to you. I don't know where that conversation is going to go, but I do think that there is a lot of unnecessary time that police officers are being subjected to during their shift going to internal and CCA.

And I'm not saying that it's not always necessary, but when you have one hundred and sixty cops short right now, and there are complaints that are coming through that can easily be verified that did not happen via body camera, your surveillance cameras, this whole process I believe should be streamlined to try to

cut out some of the unnecessary nonsense that's going on. Yeah, when you look at the personalities that make up the citizens complain authority in terms of leadership and in terms of the individuals to populate that particular body, do you see a path forward where you can actually have a productive working relationship there. We haven't always had this extremely adversary relationship. A lot of it comes down to

who the director is. You know, we've had directors in the past that have been willing to work with the FOP and at least hear us out and hear our side of things before they would finalize a report. Now, most recently we haven't had that in a director, and you know that director is no longer here, and that's why I look forward to at least sitting down with the interim director and saying, listen, this is this is kind of how I see our relationship moving going forward. And if you're willing to at

least come to the table and listen to what we have to say. We may not always agree. I get that, but to be able to have a relationship where you can go listen, this is the side of things that we see, and you know, if we can have that open dialogue, then things may get better. And if not, you know, then I guess we'll have to deal with it another way. But that's that's you have to be seen because we don't have a permanent director yet, yam. So,

the CPA is an issue. Funding is always an issue, Recruitment is an issue. Working with the community, the spike in underage crime is an issue. What's what's the number one or two top things as far as ken Kober is concerned when it comes to becoming the leader of the FOP, Well, number one, and I think there's not a member in this lodge that will disagree with me. The number one thing is our contract that expires the end of April. We're going to begin working on that here very soon.

I suspect by the end of the month, we'll have our wage team selected and we'll begin the process of doing research and eventually meeting with the city and you know, seeing how that works out. I think that the second closest thing is recruiting. I've told the chief before and she had asked what my opinion on wasn't And I believe that we should be helping, as the fop,

helping with recruiting. So we're in a bad position right now where if the city wants help with recruiting, we should be doing everything we can to help get new cops in here, because it's certainly affecting all the cops now. A lot of the issues that we're having are because of you know, lack of manpower, you know, whether it's being forced to work overtime, being forced to work off days, things like that will be relieved if we

get enough cops to want to take this job. So that's something that I look forward to helping them with yeah, you know, so much of what I see on social media, what I see on local media, what I see on national media there is it seems that I guess it goes in a cycle. It just seems like we're in a period now where police officers are not getting a lot of respect from certain segments of the population. I would

like to think that's going to change. How do you deal with that on a day to day basis when you're on the street, and how much of that is an issue for the men and women that you represent. It's a huge issue. I mean, just showing up on an and you're immediately being cussed out. People don't want to comply. You know, they're going to just say whatever it is they want to say because they believe that there are

no repercussions. And you're absolutely right. I mean, it is nothing but a product of some of our elected officials, you know, between locally, state, nationally, where they've been in boldened with this power that I don't have to listen to what the police say now. I do think that, like I said, it goes in cycles. I think that most of these

politicians are realizing that this was bad for everybody. Uh, and unfortunately, it's going to take some time, you know, for one, for cops to to actually see that politicians are willing to support them, because it's not just going to be a well, hey guys, we do support you. Now people aren't going to buy it. You know, these these elected officials are really going to have to prove with their actions that cops should buy into them being supported. And that's that's yet to be seen. Yeah, as

as a police department, it seems like you're you're an easy target. I was looking at the h at the U the interview you gave with city Beat, and they wanted they eventually got into uh, diversity and diversity in the police force and things like that. But uh, you know, an organization like city Beat, I would seriously doubt if they're going to criticize the lack

of diversity on Cincinnati City Council since it's made up of all Democrats. Now, not that I want to bring politics into the issue, but do you do you have time as a as the leader of the f OP to concern yourself with that or do you have to deal with real life issues as it relates to the men and women who put on the uniform of the Cincinnati Police Department every day. Yeah, I mean, I don't really concern myself with

it, just for the fact that I don't hire anybody. You know, I'll help I'll help them with recruit but as far as who they decide to hire, that's up to them. And the reality of the issue with diversity is the police department can only hire those that apply. So you have to be able to hire, you know, those that come before us, you know, are the ones that they go and they investigate through the background investigation

is all those things and find out who the qualified candidates are. And there's no surprise that we are not getting a very diverse pool of people that want to be police officers. Well, you're not really getting anybody currently that wants to be police officers. Now it's starting to back to getting more people. But you can't force somebody just because of a diverse background, you know, because of their ethnicity or otherwise. You can't just say, hey, I

really need you to be a SINCEI police officer. Either you want to be here to do this job and serve the community, or you don't want to do it. And I think it's a slippery slope to go, well, we're just going to hire some people because they look a certain kind of way. That's not going to be that's not going to end well for anybody.

Yeah, and you couple that with I've talked to a lot of retiring police officers who have told me privately that they tell their own kids, they tell members of their family, they tell young people in their neighborhood or people that they talk to that if you're thinking about being a cop, you might want to think about about doing something else because of how they've seen that that pendulum

swing in the time that they have been on. And so when you talk about those standards that that people have to meet in order to become a member of the police force in the time that you've been in, have those standards changed, and if they have changed, have they changed for the better or for the worse. I wouldn't necessarily say at this point that the standards have

changed, But I see what's going on in other departments. I see what's going on around the country where you know, other major cities are reading standards just to get people in the door. And that is the absolutely horrible idea we saw with the incident in Memphis. You know that five officers that get indicted, you know, and find out that three of the five were hired after the Memphis Police Department lowered their standards. That's something that just cannot happen

in Cincinnati. And I think anybody you ask that wears this uniform for the Cincinnet Police Department will tell you I would rather be short than you lower the standards, because it's only going to make anybody that wears this uniform look horrible when they lower standards and then somebody does something to get themselves indicted. God forbid they kill somebody on this job. It's horrible for everybody. They should

not be reducing standards. What they need to be doing is finding a way to make this a more attractive profession to join, and I think one of the ways that they do that certainly is having elected officials openly support police officers. Pretty simple. The other thing is make sure that you are paying them

the appropriate amount of money to attract him to want to come here. And the departments, there are departments around the country that are doing those things and they are finding that it is alleviating some of their problems with being short staffed. So it's just a matter of we'll see here come end of April. You know what side of the coin the City of Cincinnati wants to be on.

Yeah, Ken Kober is who we're talking with. He's the new leader of the FOP here in Cincinnati. We just got about a minute or so left. But I remember when James Craig came here and I had a chance to talk with him on the radio, and I asked him about the perception

of the Cincinnati Police Force outside of the city of Cincinnati. And as you know, he had had a long background in various cities across the country, and his perception was that the City of Cincinnati, the police force at least enjoyed an outstanding reputation across the country and by other departments across the country as having perhaps one of the finest, if not the finest, police force in the entire United States of America. And from your perspective, does the Cincinnati

Police Department still enjoy that perception from other police departments across the country. I believe it does. When you look at the whole totality of circumstances, the great work that these men and women do every single day, even with dealing with the civil unrests that we had in twenty twenty, having the absolute flat out disrespect that we've had, and we still go to work every single day

do the right thing serve this community. I've been around the country, you know, at different trainings, and I see some of the things that other

departments struggle with that we just aren't struggling with. And it's easy, especially for recently retired guys from this department, or even active guys that have been around for a while that have seen maybe sometimes you know, in our careers, we have had better days here, but it certainly doesn't compare to what goes on in other departments, and we are by far are one of the best, if not the best, in this country. Outstanding that is excellent.

Well, Ken Cober, I'll tell you what I don't need to tell you, that that you know that that people like me and other talk show hosts on this radio station, that we lean on the FOP a lot, especially the president of the FOP to come on this radio station and face the

music or you know, give us the real scoop on what's happening. And I certainly hope that this is the beginning of a long relationship between you and this radio station, and not just me, but all the talk show hosts on this station, and Ken Kober, I want to thank you for your time this afternoon, and I wish you the best of luck as you start this new chapter in your career and and circumstances are going to happen where we

are talking down the road, and I'm certainly looking forward to that. But a happy new year to you and continued success and we will definitely be talking again before too long. Well, happy to your thanks. I appreciate the opportunity to be happy to talk to you again. All right, Ken Kober, the new president of the FOP in Cincinnati, Thank you very much to twenty seven now on seven hundred WLW. So all wabbit. I thought that though I'll wabbit, hell, oh, hello, hello, buyet, I'm

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half point favorite. Why are they playing in Houston? I guess it's where they want the game. What's the big stadium in Houston, the home of the Texans. That's where the Texans play, right, NRG Energy or something, NRG Field, something like that. I don't know, because I was thinking about that the other day. I didn't know that the I guess. I guess it's fairly new. Probably wherever the big money is there dance, that's where they go, where the big money is. College basketball tonight Miami

Redhawk's mac opener hosting Western Michigan. Also number one Perdue at Maryland. Get the latest on Norris basketball Tonight, the NKU Coaches Show, Jim Kelchin Company six oh five on ESPN fifteen thirty, NHL Tonight, the Boston Brewins skate up north against Columbus, and that Blue Jackets action at six thirty on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. And who's going to come back to work first in the twenty twenty four year. That's a good question. Will it be Willie or

will it be Rocky? I thought Rocky was going to be here. I don't know. Maybe he might be recording an interview, or it might be Todd Killinger, one of our account executives, might be he might be having a big pregame meeting with Ed Fingers right now. You never know. Come on, what what are you going to talk about? You're gonna talk about the New Year and everything else, and they're going to have somebody on about

the Bengals and everything. You know, Come on now, Cunningham. Cunningham will be back in about a week or so, and then he'll talk about how he works three hundred and sixty five days a year. MS. Nice, it's a beautiful thing. How about how about Dave Portnoy bet a million bucks, won a million dollars betting on the Wolverines. Not bad. Never made a bet that big, No, no, believe it negative. That'd

be pretty cool, though. Yeah. I been a million dollars on Michigan to win, and then they they pulled it out, getting the game to overtime and then scoring and overtime. I don't know, I was I would have bet money that Alabama was going to score on that last play, and of course they ran it up the gut. The guy tripped over his own lineman and that was the end of the game, that's for sure, the end of the game. I thought Michigan was good. But man, that

that Korum and a few other guys that they got JJ McCarthy. Man, he can throw that ball. And they got a they got a good team. And but there's wild rumors around it. You know that Harball is gonna, you know, Bolt for the NFL coming up here. So I don't know who knows what's gonna happen. But where would he go in the NNL? Probably any anybody that wants him. Isn't he making enough money in Michigan? No, I don't think so. You make more money. You make

more money in the NFL. You make more money in the uh the college. If NFL owners want you, they'll pay you. Believe it. It's all about bags and bags of cash. Correct, correct the mundo? So se you got any more sports? Is it's a light day in sports right now, very late. That's gonna it's gonna get it's gonna get lighter. When the Bengals don't make it to the playoffs. I'll be in there about five about less than five minutes with Willie if he ever shows up again.

I mean maybe maybe he'll just phone it in from Florida. Who knows, Hey, that's where Rocky is after a wild week of college football with him. I know, I guess Rocky is not going to show up till the Eddie rock I was hoping to see his his swag bag from the Liberty. That is Eddie coming in. I don't know. Maybe I had to do with you at Jason Williams again and you don't know it. Maybe it is I did. I did the Eddie and Rocky show four days in a row

last week. I'm just saying Florida and then and then this guy calls me up and says, can't you ever say anything positive? Oh? I think Tony benders outside the door. I think he's got something to tell you. Is he sticking his name? Three more hours? Dan? Can you can you help us out? Guy says, can't you ever say anything positive? Can you? Well? Yeah, I say positive things all the time. Okay, okay, just checking. I mean I was talking to uh, my bud, my, my buddy. Jim Serger wrote a book about going

to see van Halen. Then that was a very positive interview. Did you ever see van Halen a concert? No? What what concerts have you been to what's what's the biggest show you've ever seen? Rolling Stones here? Yeah, baby, I don't know what it was. It was a riverfront stadium. Yeah, I was there. It was uh and then Neil Diamond a couple of times. Uh. And then the monkeys at the Gardens. Oh, don't get any bigger than that, no doubt about it. I mean

the monkeys, they were huge back in the day. I couldn't hear I still can't here in one ear screaming and yelling like a bunch of maniacs in that place. I went with my cousins and I thought that was the end of the world. Now, you know, just the doors the doors opened and everybody just rushed right in. There's just one nuts. They went nuts to the monkeys. So that was it. At the Gardens, they have a lot of great memories of that place. A hockey barn of bedlam.

Heck yeah. And then I remember when Xavier used to play there. Yep, they had some They had some infamous crosstown shootouts there that remember the night we were there when uh Bob Huggins and uh Pete Yellen refused to shake hands after the game. He would have thought that uh uh, World War three was gonna the Civil War was going to start. Fans fans were yelling and screaming and fighting out in the parking lot and unbelievable. And look who's here

here? How about that mister College Bowl gave himself to side. So now he wins the bet. He shows up before Willie, he got he got you know what before coming, and you know what, let's give this guy credit. Will He can't say anything about Notre Dame anymore at the name, do you know what? Out of who was it? And the beaver in the sun Bowl Mercy six, that was a that was a you know what kicking. So but he'll come up with something like the girls lacrosse one or

something like that. Yeah, yeah, that type of thing. But should be that should be a new year's resolution for the Stooge Report going forward is that we don't play anymore that Notre Dame beat down stuff. I'm with that, put it away, put it in the vault, because the guy with the guy that has the name on this show, no way, he's beating me down over the years. And this guy's next in line must succeed. I get twice a day, he gets it only once. That's correct,

thank you. Going on record right now, it's saying he's going to come up with something to say about the you know what, well, I knew Notre Dame was going to win, and all I know what he's gonna say, but I'm gonna go on record now as saying I watched that game and it was like that was a you know what kicking And I said, Willie, you can't say anything about Notre Dame in that game. We did it with that starting quarterback. The whole deal next year is going to be big

Dan curl and I will say this too. Well. He also gave my son crap because my son is a Michigan fan. I don't know how that happened. By the way, it's not my fault, but Michigan yesterday. Who do you blame your wife? Yes? Oh? And happy birthday to your dad? Yeah, thank you. He had the man. He turned that seventy one yesterday on. He's a New Year's Day baby. Just look at looking at him. He could tear you in half. That's exactly right, thank you. He's like a mics like you. I love that,

just like you. That's why I'm on your side. But your son didn't win a million bucks betting on Michigan though, did he He didn't win them? No, there's no Betty in our house. But he was. He was a happy camper, you know, camper that part of that part of the Rockies rules. Yes, yes, yeah'll get you in trouble, Dan Carroll. So rock the president of Harvard resigned to a Claudine Gay because she had like sixty seven plagiarism charges. Come on, now, what if we

were to examine sentenced by sentence Rockies rules? Wh we find any plagiarism? Absolutely not. I wrote every word that damn straight. No ghostwriter, no nothing, I wrote it. Boom, that's not that's not good. You can't. You can't cut and paste when you're doing your doctoral thesis. Yeah, that's a pretty good life rule to follow, especially Yeah, if you're an academia should be maybe maybe the twelfth rule. Sake wild Man Walker's got

two books out, Maybe Rocky can do another one. Next book I know is gonna be a children's book. Please, that's what you're telling you? Lots of pictures. Yes, that's the best way to go. But I'm back. Eddie is back. How was Liver dynamic is back. I know it was me and Jason Williams last week. I didn't know, well, you were on the road because your your month started where uh Shrevell my last two weeks Shreveport, Louisiana for the first, Texas and Frisco and then uh

the Liberal Memphis. Yes, what's what's the swag bag like at the Independence? Do you get Eddie? We get none? What are the players get? I'm not sure. A bunch of T shirts and hats and all stuff, but nothing for the broadcasters. Now, some bulls do, some some don't. Nothing for the Remember the famous Idaho Potato Bowl gave us so much crap. You know what I did, say, I gave it. I gave it to my kids for Christmas gifts and said it was from me.

I didn't pay a nickel for it. That's a smart parenting tip right there, guys. All right, So if your dad's a big TV start, a broadcaster, that's what you're gonna get. Gay get nothing. Too bad you didn't get the pop tart bowl there, rock, because you would have. You would have been the dad of the year in your household. A bunch of pop tarts, that's right, what's it? What's in the swag bag at the pop tart pole? You bet it's thank you got a coupon

for a toaster. I haven't had a pop tart in forever. Way to go, by the way, cinnamon with butter on it, or you could have you got the cheese part had Jesus for Life, Jesus for life, Duke's Mayo, all the all the sponsors say, you want to win a Bowl game, rock, but maybe not that one because I saw what when they at least at least they didn't have like they had like a gatorade jug

of the mayonnaise. But the last year they had one. It was like a giant glass bottle and they covered this guy and it was, oh, but you know what, smart guy on TV. He had the French fries. He like wiped the French fries on the guy's arm and he ate him. It's pretty good, not bad not to get a bucket of mayonnaise dumped on their head. Well, when it's Duke Mayo and they're paying, you're doing the winning coach, get doused with the man buch money for that ball,

exactly the what they want. They can do whatever they get a little checked for that. If the coach does, but he's told you what you got to do, your team boom. Here's a proposal. I was talking about the last Duge report before you got here. If you're making nil money and you're getting paid, then you cannot opt out of a bowl game. You think that would be a part of the requirement. Now, it would just be the people whoever's offering the nil In this case, it's a lot

of these collectives. They should put that as a clause in there. Yeah, you accept the money, then you got to show up. I agree these players the Frisco ball that I called this was unbelievable. A player I'll name him Rashen Ali from Marshall, Okay, running back, one of the best players in a Sun belt. He plays the first half of the game. In other words, he's on a pitch clock, is what his coach said, or pitch count, whatever you want to say. In the second

half, they're behind by one touchdown, they're in the game. He had a sixty five yard touchdown first day and the rest of the half he just sat there. First of all, how do you do that to your teammates. Secondly, I know he's receiving nil. How do you half play either play or don't play and don't take the nil money. But what about Georgia Florida State? That was a mess. I mean until you know the coaches demand more, But the coaches won't demand more because they're skill air. Because

when I was in college, coaches that the coaches have the power. Right now, in the age of social media, the big players have the power because all it has to happen the players to do is this is my body and I don't think this is right for my future, and the coach will

get killed and will never get another recruit. So there's players in the in the Independence boy I did that enter the transfer portal and are are not playing in a ball game, but are allowing themselves the opportunity should they want to come back, to come back. So there's players that are that are in the transfer portal, that are playing in the game that may leave, and some that aren't playing that may come back. Explain that one to me,

Well, it's just like the NBA. The players are running the league now, that's it. Yeah, that's exactly what's happening now. The power the n C douable as is no good anymore. The university, the coaches, nothing, the players are telling. By the way, I heard a good idea. I wish I could take credit for it. But where they need to move these balls to the beginning of the year because no one's gonna opt out of the bowl games. If they're in the beginning of the year.

Okay, you still have Okay, it would it would count towards your record. It'd be a big deal. All the players would play in it. Just make it week zero and then they start their regular season on Week one. Make the bowl games in. All the sponsors are happy, fans are happy. You've got the top twelve and that's it. There you go, there you go. Root, what do you got coming up? Who you're picking? Rock Michigan as I have all year? They look good. I

agree, thought i'd ask. I do like Michael Pennix a lot. It's gonna be harder for me to root against him because he was my Heisman vote. But anyway, well, what are you having to should what is it? Oh? Yes we have we have Jayson Williams out of game. We got to talk a little bangs under the game was a few days ago. We talk about that future. There what what of how a fan should view this season. We'll get into that, and then we have the patent professor

at four o'clock. Apparently the patent has run out on Mickey Mouse. I saw that. So now, like all these horror movies that are trying to Nikki and so how can that happen? What's the story there? We're talking to him at four O'clockroy American kids, We're way late. We're way late. We gotta go get Caroline. The beautiful Day in the State, something like that. I want to say something. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report. Hell are you talking about? Say thank him?

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