1-8-24 Bill Cunningham Show

And winning record nine and eight, for the first time ever that all the teams in a Division one had a winning record with the Bengals and only went not in the playoffs. If somebody had said two or three months ago that the Bengals three teams we are going to get to the playoffs out of the Northern Division of the AFC, and the Bengals will not be one of them, nobody would have believed it. But it happened. Pitchers and Catchers report

in about four or five weeks. But until then, Governor Mike DeWine the House Bill sixty eight, he vetoed it a few days back. I spoke to some of the leadership of the House earlier this morning and I was told they're going to try to override it on Wednesday. And Governor Mike DeWine, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show of this glorious Monday afternoon in the tri State. And we heard your explanation and your reasons for issuing the veto, and

it appears, according to some that it's going to be overridden. Would you view that if the Republicans you're guys and your women, and the House and Senate override your veto When you have the Lieutenant Governor against you on this, the Attorney General is against you, the auditor is against you, the Treasurer is against you, the Secretary of State is against you. The House and

the Senate Republicans are against you. You stand alone, like a tenfold beacon in the night, and you see something that all these other Republicans don't see. What do you see that all those other Republicans don't see? Well, first of all, Billy, let's let's talk about what this is not about. What any kind of disagreement is not about. I issue in order on Friday, no surgery for minors. I think that's where the House and sent are. That's certainly where I am. And you know that's not been an

issue the I think it's not been an issue. Uh, you know, I'm not you know, in favor of having men who transitioned to a woman play sports and that you know, so we're not there's no dispute about that. But you but you vetoed that, you vetoed that part of that bill correct. Well, bill, what they did is they took two bills and they put them together. And so look here, here's what the dispute comes down to, you know, our our party stands for UH prontal rights.

We stand for families. We believe that UH families should make decisions and not government whenever, whenever possible. And so what I did bill really during during the Christmas holidays, and and you know, this bill came to me, I had ten days to sign it or not sign it. Uh. You know, I spent a lot of time uh talking to medical experts, but more importantly, I talk to families. You know. I talked to moms and dads, uh, you know, just just people like you who you

know, have been faced with this UH situation in their family. And I came down to the conclusion that we're better off letting parents make this decision. And and and so you know, as I, as I said at the time when I vetoed it, if I were to sign this bill, we would be saying that the that the state of Ohio, the government knows better than parents, the people who have raised this child, the people who love this child the most, the people who've agonized with this child as the child

has gone through some some difficult times. UH government knows better. And it seems to me that's not a Republican position. That's not a conservative position. Uh. And but more important than that, it's just not the right it's not the right position. I mean, I had Bill, I've had people

who I've had, you know, sit down with me. I had a couple, uh, came over to our house over the Christmas break, invited them over just to kind of hear their story, and you know, they looked me in the eye and they basically said, and I had other couples do the same thing. My child would not be alive today but for the fact that they were able to get care at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. They were able to get care at Columbus Children's Hospital and work with professionals and made,

you know, a decision. The most important thing in all this, it's it's clear to me, is mental health care. And you know, two thirds, two thirds of families who get this mental health care and the child gets the mental health care do not go forward with with with anything in regard to transgender They kind of figure out that it's something else and they get the mental health care that they need. So it's a relatively small number of people. But for those people who get down to it, after months and

months of going through this, and they've got the advice of doctors. But more importantly, they know in their heart, you know, what they think is right. They make that decision. Why should the government be telling them, no, we know more than you do about your your child. Governor, Since ask me a question, I'll give you an answer, which is government tells parents all kinds of things that they can't do with their children.

In fact, masking, there were many parents that didn't want their kids masked up. A government said, parents don't know best. Maybe there's parents that want to give their kid sixteen year old marijuana. Well, government knows best. You can't do that. Maybe some parents don't want to put their kid in a child safety seat, Well government knows best. Parents, you can't raise your kid that way. Well let me let me tell you. Let

me tell you the difference. Let me tell you the difference. I don't know any I can't think of any cage where we have a situation where the doctor that is working with the child, or the hospital that is working with the doctor and the child, the child and the parents all want to do one thing, and the government comes in and tells the doctors no know tells the child know and tells the parents know. All the examples you've given are

good examples. Bill. Yes, we do make decisions when we say parents can't do things, and you know that obviously are in the and not in the interests of the child. But this is an eric where there is a disagreement, and you've got good people on both sides of the of this issue, and you know the people who are going to vote to override if they do that, I'm voted for this bill. They're good people. They you

know, they think they're doing what's best for the for the child. But it just seems to me that I can't as governor, and I couldn't go ahead and say, look, government knows best. When we line up and you've got the doctor saying one thing, that parents saying the same thing, the child's saying the other thing, and now this time the government comes in and says, oh, no, you're all wrong, you're all wrong, and we're right. Government's right, even though the people who are voting on

don't know the child. Uh So, look, but good people on both sides, I get it. Reasonable people can disagree about this. I did what I did because I thought it was right. We have a system of government where the legislature can override my veto. It's in the Constitution, and I'm sure that there are you know, people who will cast their votes this week or later on, will do what they think is right. Are you politic and are you making calls to legislators, either directly or indirectly, encouraging

them not to override your veto. The only thing I've done bill, I talked to some legislators. I wanted to make sure everybody understood what we did on Friday, and what we did on Friday is really, in some sense, do some things to protect people that wasn't even in the bill. And the part that was in the bill that is consistent is no surgery that was in the bill. I issued an executive board of My order went into effect right away. Any legislation takes takes a while before it goes into effect,

as you know. So now today i'm the state a while because in my order there's no surgeries can be allowed on a minor second, we issued in order. Everybody who's looked at this says, well, we don't have enough data. We issued an order that said from our health department, if you're a doctor, if you're a hospital, you're going to have to start reporting this stuff. You know, we report abortions, we report flu report you

know this and that, and there's no reason we can't report that. No one's names reported, you know, none of this, but the data is. So we did that and I wanted to make sure people understood that. And the third thing we did is issued in order. And this has to do with adults. The bill only has to do children. This has to

do with adults. That struck me as I look more and more at this and listen, listen that the most important thing, whether it's an adult that's going through this or a child, is you've got to have the mental health care up on front, and it's got to be first, and it's gonna be lengthy, it's got to be comprehensive and before anybody even thinks about making any other kind of decision. What we have now with with adults before we

issued our order is there's no there's no real requirement of psychiatric care. Uh. And so what we didn't want is these pop up clinics who want to make money, starting in different places around Ohio and just you know, writing writing prescriptions. That is not good and it's not the best certainly not the best practice. And again I don't know anybody that really disagrees with without either,

but it's not not into the law. So in answer to your question, my conversations with legislators, if I've had any, I have had it with some. Uh has simply been here's what we did on Friday, Here's why we did it. We think this, we think this works. And Governor, assuming the legislature overrides your veto, which is according to one of the leaders there, that they're confident they're going to do it, would you view that this is a rejection of one of the major policies of Mike DeWine.

You don't veto too many bills and you stand alone. Is this a rejection of Mike DeWine's policy? If if the veto is overridden, No, I stand. Look, I stand with families, and that's why the veto. But one of the things that I think sometimes is missed. And I know the uh, God love them, the news media, you know,

life's controversy, because that's that's interesting, right. The area is if you look at the areas that are the central to what Mike de Wine is doing, what our team is doing, what I think the state needs to do. There's big, like three or four big areas. In each one of these areas, the legislature has stood with us. UH. Economic development is number one. UH Number number two is education, a particularly emphasis on what we now call the science of reading. We're rolling that out in every school

in the state of Ohio. Legislature backed me one hundred hundred percent sent on that. Mental health, making sure that we build a mental health system in the state that we've never had before. The legislature has given us strengthly an unprecedent amount of money, and we've rolled this out with a lot of help going into the local communities. We're out there yet, but the legislature has backed us on that as well. And getting back to the other I started

with, which which is the whole area of economic development. You know, one of the things we asked the legislature to do is we know that there are sites in Ohio, and sites not not just in you know the three c's, but in other parts of Ohio, sort of the other Ohio that

sometimes gets ignored. We know there are good job sites there, and we ask for specifically for money to be able to help these communities develop these sites so that when a company comes in and says, hey, Governor, we need a site and it needs to be this big da da da da da da, and we can say, yep, we've got a site and it's ready for you. And so all those things, Bill, those are the core of what we do every single day. This is a bill that came

along that has got a lot of publicity. I understand it. I studied it hard, made I made a decision. It affects a relatively small number of people in the state. Again, I think I'm with the parents, and I think I'm with parents making this decision. I think it's the conservative point of view. I think it's the high way to do it. Obviously, we have people on the other side who disagree they override me, and if they do, they do. That's part of our system. You know,

your decision here is awfully unpopular, especially among conservatives. And when your own lieutenant governor says I disagree with the governor and he wants to be your replacement, has that created a rift between you and your lieutenant governor. No, Look, Bill, if you find too, if you can find two people to agree about, absolutely everything. Uh, you know something's wrong.

And he and I agree on ninety nine percent of what we do. Uh. This is a uh something that is impactful very much for the people who who it impacts, which is why I've drawn the line and said, you know, not with not with my my my signature will will just become law. Uh. But again on the on the things that affect most people, education, job training, our career tech centers, making sure that they get the resources they need to continue to expand scholarships for our kids going to college,

economic development, all of these things. Lutaig Bever and I are in agreement, and Frank of the Legislature and I are an agreement. Let me go over two or three quick matters. Uh. Marijuana status. I had Birdie Whisper in my ear. That pay Course stadium yesterday had a marijuana smoking section much like cigarette smoking section. You can legally smoke marijuana, you just can't buy it. You can grow it in your home right now, but

that takes three to four months to actually do it. Things are completely confusing. I'm going to have on Rob Sanders later on about the difficulties in Kenton County, which is not your concern. I imagine about Ohio's marijuana laws. As we sait here this Monday afternoon, can you give me an update on marijuana status in the state of Ohias. Yes, the legislature's coming back and

you know, houses coming back this week to vote on this override. You know, I like for them to stick around and work on this marijuana situation. Look, Bill, I was not in favor of legal marijuana to stay. I mean, it's a stupid idea, but it passed, and so I, you know, respect the will of people. Fifty seven percent of people voted in favor of this, but I don't think the people who vote in favor of it voted want of a situation that we have now, which

is what the law mandates. Unless we change it. We need to. We frankly need to change it. We have a situation today where you can use marijuana in the state of Ohio, you can grow marijuana, but you can't buy it legally in the state of the model, nor can you buy the seeds to grow. This makes no sense. And what's happening is you're starting to see a black market appear in Ohio where people think they can buy it legally, but there's no place they can legally sell it, and we

have no quality control. We have a black market developing. You go in, somebody goes and buys marijuana in this black market. They have no idea if it's got pesticides in it, they have no idea what the THHC level is, They have no idea if it has some other drug in there. And it's just a not a good situation. So the legislature can change that. We need help on and doing that. And the Senate did pass a

bill. I'd like for the House to pass a bill. It may not be the same as the Senate. That's fine, we can do all those things worked out. But what we'd like to be able to do is sell marijuana through the stores now that are selling it for the medical marijuana and again eliminate this this black market, and at least people would know that what they're buying is in fact they you know, not adulterated in some way. The other thing I'm asking the legislation to do. We got a real problem.

You can go out today in Ohio and buy buy a hemp product. Many gas stations have it, and the real problem is that kids can buy it and it's a loophole in the federal law, it's a loophole in the state law, and it's hallucinogenic, and it's just, you know, I can't close this loophole without the legislature taking action. And I just you know, I know Senator Huffman, Steve Huffman is working on a He and I talked a few days ago. He tells me he's working on a separate bill.

So I'd like it done either by a separate bill or if they want to do it and throw it into the marijuana fix, then they can do that. I don't really care. I just need to get it on my desk so I can sign it. We can start enforcing law that says you cannot sell this to a twelve year old. That's just absurd situation that we have today. But I have to have help from the legislature on this. Lastly, we have about minute remaining New York, California, parts of Illinois now

have mask mandates. Do you see Governor Mike DeWine having any more mask mandates with COVID the flu a viral infection. Are mask mandates coming to Ohio? No, absolutely not. I don't see that at all. Look, Bill what again, this is all voluntary, but if you look at the data of people that are we're still losing people from COVID. We lose people from the flu. I mean, so we just encourage field get your flu shot, uh and and get get the most updated COVID shot and if you want

to reduce the chances of you dying or having long COVID. And I think people are really cheerful of long COVID. They don't die, but they end up of this thing that ends. You know, the data is abundantly clear that getting that you know, new shot of COVID that you can get many many places in Ohio. There's no there's no backup on it. You can get that is really the best advice. And that's what people, you know, I would suggest they do based on the best medical science. But we're

not going to compel anybody to do it. And we're not going to compel anybody we're mask either. All right, Governor Mike Dwine, thank you. You're a tenfold beacon in the night. You stand alone against the Republican Party, and each side has good intentions, and each side look the same problem and come out with different solutions. Mike Dwaine. We got o. Governor Mike DeWine, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show as my first GID. Happy New Year, Yes, we got the year started off,

yeah, tot off of the bill. Thank you, thank you. Spring training is coming, it's coming a month, It's here, it's here. Governor Mike Dwine, thank you very much. Thank you. Let's continue with more your reaction five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand. The governor stands alone against the Republican Party on news radio seven hundred WLW currents issued by Sutton Bank and Celtic Bank. Members of d I C. Terms and conditions apply. Are you time, Billy Cunningham to Great America?

Let's continue, and of course you're going to get my comments on the governor's actions here, which I disagree with vehemently. Also coming up later after one o'clock today is the Great Sean Hannity. We're going to talk about his moving out of New York City establishing a residence in Florida, Why it happened, How is it happening, What's going to happen the rest this year? Incredible stuff. After two o'clock today will be the Great Rob Sanders of Kenton

County. He's going to talk about the murder of Kiri Kira Lane, mother a twenty five year old mother of two kids, by allegedly through Mary O. Paine, had some sort of custody or other disagreement and just he pulls out a handgun and murders the mother of his children in front of them. And I would imagine the children are of tender years and this guy was a career criminal and they spent his life thirty eight years, spent at least half

of it with felony convictions, and he was out. But this time he's finally went too far and the mother of his children, at least some of his children, is dead and the family, I'm sure is devastated. That's after two o'clock today with Rob Sanders. Let's get into my interview with Mike DeWine. Governor. Mike DeWine stood alone against conservatism and against the Republican Party top to bottom, who did not want him to veto this bill. The

goal was to give children an opportunity to be a child. Do you have a teenage boy or a teenage girl the opportunity of being a teenage boy or teenage girl. Something like forty percent of teenage females have one level of mental difficulties or another that may relate to seeing an expert. Everyone has problems. You got problems, I got problems. Dave Keaton's got problems. DJ Hodge has problems. Mental issue are everywhere. Every family's affected by it in one

sense or another. I had an uncle who spent years at Longview State Mental Hospital, and so I get it. And mental health is largely ignored. It's as serious an issue as any kind of physical health. But mental health is tendant until recently to be treated differently than having a broken leg or having a pancreatic caad answer and to anyone that's experienced mental difficulty or having family members

and mental hospitals, it is awful. And it's particularly bad when you have a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year old going through all the things teenagers must go through today with the TikTok generation, feeling as if they're trapped in the wrong body. What's happened the last ten years is that culturally, those feelings of transgender rights are being expanded and highlighted, and it's quite unusual now for a teenage boy or girl not to feel as if some societal pressure

to act out and some sexual fantasy of one type or another. And so when Mike, when Governor Mike DeWine says, well, he doesn't want to get between a patient, which is the teenager and a mom or a dad in the hospital system. What he's essentially saying is that is a chemical castration is okay, because when you go through HRT hormonal replacement therapy and all the drugs involved in that, you begin to have more difficulties, not less.

In fact, many times in life I was told this in law school that someone may walk in as a client and they don't have a sign around their neck that says this is a due process problem, or this is a Fourth Amendment search and seizure problem, or this is about the rule in Shelley's case. You listen to what the problem is and then your legal training allows you to slot the difficulty into the right arena so you can properly address the issue.

So, if the twelve, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen year old is having mental difficulties, it may present itself as a transgenderal hormona replacement theory, but it may not be at all. There may be something else going on, and the system wants to provide medical and physical services because of the amount of money involved, and the parents believe. Many of the parents today are in their thirties and forties, and they grew up in a system where all

of us believe that LGBTQ individuals should be treated equally with everyone else. I don't want any benefit or cost to someone who's a gay person to be made as if they're not part of our society. Of course they are, and as an American, I don't want any benefit and I want no cost to be LGBTQ plus that's whatever it live your life as an adult. But society and government tells parents all the time what they can and can't do with their

own children. How many times did I have friends and family members and you did too, who did not want to wear a mask that children, especially in grade school, were not at risk of catching and having a bad consequence from COVID nineteen. In fact, I had read somewhere than in the state of Ohio there wasn't one may I use the term healthy child who died of COVID nineteen. But in spite of that, in parents saying I don't want my kid to be wearing a mask. The medical community said wear a mask,

Government said wear a mask. Many large private employers said wear a mask. And so if some parent would have said I got parental rights and I don't want my kid to wear a mask, the kid couldn't go to school, had to stay home, had to be homeschooled. When it comes to all kinds of rights, privileges, immunities, and opportunities, government will always

tell a parent what they can and can't do with their own child. Now, the road is broad and it's wide, but government says, well, if you're a kid needs a blood transfusion and you're a Jehovah witness, we'll take it to court and overrule what the parent wants. Certain kids have to be in a child restrained seat for a long period of time. You may think, as if you know what, I don't want my kid in a child restraint seat. Well, government says you will do that whether you want

to or not. Government all the time interferes with parental rights and keeps doing it. And when it comes to when it comes to the treatment, the child doesn't a teenage boy or girl doesn't walk in saying I'm transgender. There could be a multitude of different issues mentally affecting the child, and it's expressed through wanting to change one gender. Is there a big difference between something similar

to chemical castration as opposed to surgical temptation. Chemical castration occurs when you take drugs, many of which are approved by the FDA that changes the person that you are, and you go from male to female or female to male in a sense, awaiting surgery after you're eighteen years old. Now, is that a decision that a sixteen year old girl should make, with all the difficulties going on, with all the TikTok generation, with all the YouTube videos,

with the encouragement of the culture to act out your sexual fantasies. It is, do you want a fifteen or sixteen year old making a life altering decision with the help and cooperation of a parent and a doctor. I think not. I think society's got to say, in that particular circumstance, wait until you're eighteen, Because you go through puberty one time in your life, you can't go through puberty again when you're twenty five, twenty six, or twenty

seven. And if when you get to be eighteen years old and you've been chemically castrated because of HRTs, the hormonal replacement therapy, the next step is to have a surgical intervention cosmetically to make the outside feel like the inside. And I don't think a teenage boy girl is equipped to make that decision. And by permitting on one hand, chemical castration, but on the other hand,

not permitting surgical intervention is a distinction without much of a difference. The child who's having these difficulties won't have the problem solved by going through hormonal replacement therapy. It doesn't mean Okay, now I'm in great shape. Something else pops up. It is masquerading as desiring to change one's gender. But there's

other difficulties equally at work that need to be addressed. And as Mike DeWine just said, and he told me off the air, there's about one thousand or fifteen hundred children in the entire state of Ohio and the various hospital programs one to two thousand completely and the great majority who begin chemical castration and hormonal replacement therapy have then developed other major problems psychologically and otherwise. You can imagine

how much bullying happens in school today. If someone who appears to be a male shows up wearing a dress or vice versa, then you got a whole different group a category of problems. One thing he did do on Friday was say that Planned Parenthood and others cannot have drive through treatment for gender reassignment surgery. As you may know, about sixty percent pharmaceutical abortions are taking place today. So the old standard are having a big brick building in Mount Auburn and

having large numbers of individuals. Individuals, mothers show up to kill their unborn child. Unborn baby that is dissipating because of the ability now to take two pharmaceutical drugs and have the abortion at home. And as a consequence, Planned Parenthood and other facilities are looking at other ways and making a lot of money. And abortion is a good business for Planned Parenthood, and so they want

to replace that with surgical reassignment and hormone or replacement therapies of adults. So, if you're twenty twenty five years old and you feel as if you want to change your gender as an American, you're an adult, it's your back, your ball, and your ass. Do what you want. To do if you're an adult. But there's certain parameters around any surgical and medical procedure which exists today. That government has a role. Because government very in conservative.

I would say, have at it. You're on your own. We want to protect you. You're like eighteen, but after that you're completely on your own. So there has to be rules in place. According to Governor Mike DeWine, So these facilities that take on these drive by drive through HRTs have parameters, indoch chronologists and other psychological services available to a person who is twenty five or thirty five or forty five and once to completely change one's gender.

So, as I said to Governor de Wine, he stands alone. Senator Steve Huffman, the Speaker of the House, the great majority of Republicans, hardly any Democrats, the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of State, the treasurer, the auditor, the Attorney General, David Yost, and Senator Vance all stand against Mike DeWine. And they look at this and say, wait a minute. Government has a role in protecting children when parents and the children

make some bad decisions with life altering consequences. Is there a big difference between taking the hormones which has been a lightened to chemical castration, and then have real castration to take place over the age of eighteen because it changes who you are and the natural processes of working through difficulties and problems. How many tomboys growing up as little girls had idiations that I want to be a boy. How many boys put on makeup and walk around in their mother's sh clothing and

some of their shoes. Yes, that happens. But to say to to say to that family that at the age of fifteen or sixteen, this pre this teenager is going to make a life altering decision which will resonate for the next twenty or thirty years. I think the state has a role in saying, you know what, wait until you're eighteen. Then you're an adult. You may do what you want to do. Let's continue with more coming up

after one o'clock. Today is Sean Hannity like to do shows with him every three or four times a year, and one oh five today will be the first, and then later on at two of five. Today is the killing of Kira Lane with two kids at the hands of Mario Payne in Covington, with Rob Sanders and Moore plus back to the student's report at one thirty and two thirty. All the exit interviews are taking place with the Bengals and more. Bill Cunningham, the Great American, with you every day at your home

of the Reds News Radio seven hundred WULW. The Basement Doctor of Cincinnati is the all Things Basementy Company. A correct settling foundation will only get wordle days ago, the Great Sean Hannity announced through his multitudes of fans and friends that he'd decided to forst sake Long Island, forget for sake Manhattan, and the head to the sunny beaches of Florida where he's got to. I'm sure a good set up with so many helping him doing what he must be done.

And Sean Hannity, all I can say is, do you feel like Julius Caesar or do you feel like John Spewart is out in apology? Because I watched last and I watched a couple of nights ago, and you had John Stewart begging you to stay eight years ago. Can you tell the American people why Sean Hannity left his birthplace? Yeah? Bill? First of all, Bill Cunningham, Happy New Year, God bless you, God bless America. It's great to check out with you for the new year, because we need

a full report. America is hanging by a thread and were counting on you to pulls across the finish line. The great people of Ohio, we need them. We trust that they're going to go in the right direction. My prediction, Bill Cunningham, we may have an election won by as a little as two hundred thousand votes in six separate states. Who knows what's going to happen. Anyone that says they know is full of it. With that said, yes, I pulled the trigger. I've been threatening to do this for

a long time, and you know, for all the obvious reasons. It's funny because yesterday U Haul came out with their migration statistics and they're the same now the last three years, and people are leaving California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and New Jersey and they're going to states Texas and Florida again one and two, followed by the Carolinas and Tennessee. And people are voting with their feet and they're saying they've had enough of high taxes, they've

had enough burdens and regulation. They've had had it with, you know, their rights beedter pressed. They've had it with bad schools, high crime rates, this defund dismantled, no bail laws. It's insane. It's like New York City. It's become like a free frawl. I don't know the last time you've been there. I've been in New York City with you at a time when you can pretty much safely walk the streets. It's not the case anymore. If you can't do it, if you needed a guest. I

was sixteen seventeen blocks away from twenty ninth and sixth. I walked straight up. Maybe at seven thirty quarter late we would do the show. Maybe Jerry Springer dearly departed. I don't agree with his politics, but he was a good guy. The Great Debates, he was a great guy. I remember we had the big debate. Yeah, he's wonderful. You know. It just doesn't think right. And then to walk down back twenty blocks on sixth Avenue at ten o'clock at night, no problem. I felt as warm as

in my mother's arms. So policies caused it, and policies can solve it. But I would think to get me out of Deer Park, to get me out of Cincinnati, to get me to live in another state. I mean, that's got to be. It was more difficult or more easy than you thought to finally become a refugee in Florida, you know, Unlike you, I was, like, you know, a traveling radio journeyman. And

you know, for example, I live. I grew up in Long Island, but I was gone for sixteen years, five years in Rhode Island, five years in California, two years in Punchville, Alabama, four years Atlanta, Georgia. And then in nineteen ninety six, I got the call from Roger L's. They were putting on a brand new channel called the Fox News

Channel. I'm now in my twenty eighth year, Bill Cunningham, if you would have made that bet twenty eight years ago that I'd be the lone survivor in primetime cable and the longest running primetime cable news host in the history of cable news, that would have been a horrible bet, sir. Why why do you say There's many are called, but few have been chosen. We got to get onto the issues gay and Kamala Harrison. But many are called.

Many are. But if you have been chosen, what is it about you that has made a connection for almost thirty years and almost forty years in radio? What is the connection that you have to regular God fearing Americans that others maybe don't you know? Actually you're you gave me the answer in your question God fearing Americans. You know, I have said this my entire career.

Nobody believes me when I say it. I've learned and I've watched so many people come and go way more talented, more funny, smarter than I am. You know, incredible intellectual knowledge and degrees. But yet you know a lot of people seem to have this self destruct button. It's not healthy to be famous. I say it all the time, and I think two things have kept me grounded. Number one, my very strong belief in God,

and it is real. And number two, you know the fact that I was twelve years old washing dishes and thirteen of cook and did all ten years in the restaurant business and ten years in construction. That was real work, and it kept me grounded. And you know, I get on my knees every day and I thank God for what I consider an undeserved life. Billy Cunningham, You and I people like us, we have been blessed beyond

what we deserve. It's that simple to me. Whenever I get around, You're and your clan, your sisters keep you in line too, and sweet baby, keep you in line. And I'm always reminded of great Roman generals coming back from gaul and there'd be a slave in the in the Charriot saying oh yes, but famous fleeting, and boy is that the truth. And so when you have a good family structure, you got ciss, but you

got sisters, you got your in laws, you got your group. It kind of My sister just tried to call while we were talking, and you know, sweet Baby James is standing, you know, five feet away from me. Billy Cunningham says, hello, you're a great American boat Huntingham. This. Do you consider what you do to be work? I mean, if I didn't get paid to do what I do, I probably still do

it. Anyway. One day when they take this microphone and rip it away from me or take away that camera, uh, I probably are gonna drive around in the car and start doing a talk show host for myself. And I'll do the host and I'll be the caller and then they're gonna want to put me away in a funny farm somewhere, probably deservedly so. But on a serious note, you know, we have been through how many election cycles together? How many years did we go out and campaign in Ohio and Florida

and Pennsylvania and done dozens a lot. I loved it. But Sean Hannity, this election, I think we when we when we text. If Trump is reelected, there's going to be total chaos, more indictments, more lawsuits, more media coverage. On the other hand, his policies work. But on the other hand, if the interchangeable drill bit takes over in November, it could be Biden. I doubt it. It could be Michelle, it could be god knows who, Kevin knew some did that great debate a couple

of weeks ago. Then we're gonna have chaos. By the way I did that, I did that on purpose. I'm not sure Joe's going to be the guy. And under the reason that I first did the interview with Gavin, followed up by the debate with Governor DeSantis, Who's you know, a great governor. I'm glad to have finally a governor that I like. I will tell you. I was warning people you've got to look beyond Joe Biden and what and know what's out there now. Gavin didn't answer my questions.

I thought the statistics. I did a fact based debate, all right, here are the statistics on homelessness, here are the numbers of illegal immigrants. Here's what it's costing your estate. Here's your budget, here's this budget, here's crime statistics. And it was fact based, and frankly, the numbers in Florida are just infinitely better than those in California. And people said, well, that was unfair. I said, well, if you don't like

the numbers, change the policy. Don't blame the messenger. But I do think that there is a possibility that we're going to see at the Democratic National Committee of Convention, rather a possible, you know, swap out joke.

I could see any scenario where Joe would come out and say I'm not up to the I don't think I can run, and then the powers that be the apparatic would then make the choice for the Democratic Party, and I think Gavin's would be right up there, and Kamala Harris could be easily shut aside by someone like Michelle Obama, and that's going to be one hell of a

fight. We've had interesting elections in the past, Sean Hannity, and nothing is going to get us ready for what's happening now because they've throw and everything at Donald Trump and the kitchen sink and it's not worked at this point. Every assaultary tax amazing, Yes, yes, how are that? When you think about this this man, you know, it goes. It defies all conventional political gravity. We've been doing our jobs. I'm now in by what

thirty fourth year in radio. I think you've got me beat by a few years. And we've never seen anything like this, and I don't we're never going to see anything like it again in our lifetime. And yet every single indictment ends up with higher poll numbers, every arrayment higher poll numbers. Can you explain that, Billy Cunningham? But as I can't. People have figured

it out. They understand that Democrats, for example, can do exactly the same thing, in fact ten times the same thing, and it's put off to the side, it's under investigation. But the same treatment they gave Ronald Reagan Bush forty one, Bush forty three Trump before he got to office is consistent, but now it's metastasized. This Trump phenomenon is such that they have to make sure he can't stand for re election because everything they got control of

the checkbook, Sean Hannity. Right now the Democrats are writing the checks, and they don't want to stop writing the checks, and they want the southern border to be open. Imagine we texted on this. Imagine five years from now, we're completing the first Michelle Obama term or the first Avenuwsom term. Then it goes four more years. Say we got nine years more of exactly the same policies that Biden has on the southern border and on spending, and

on the cities and public education. What does America look like in nine years with the same policies. That would be unrecognizable. That would not be the country that we grew up in, a country that believed in freedom and liberty and capitalism and hard work being rewarded. All of those things would just disappear. Look, the greatest threat. Most people have not paid attention to what's going on at the southern border. By the way, this should be an

impeachable offense. Joe Biden swore an Oath uphold our constitution. That means enforcing the laws of the land. I'm all for immigration, I just want to I want a background check, I want a health check, and you know, I want a means test so we know people are not going to be a burden on there on the new country that they're entering. Other than that, Welcome to our country, go for it, Welcome to freedom. You know, we hope you make the best out of it, but we're not

doing that. Eight and a half million people, Billy Cunningham in three years, this guy is allowed unvetted people. Hundreds from Iran, hundreds from Syria, thousands from Egypt, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran the number one state sponsor of terror, their satellite Syria. You have thousands from Afghanistan, home of al Qaeda. You've got twelve thousand plus from Russia, our number two geopolitical foe, twenty six thousand from China. Billy Cunningham. That's a

lot of illegal immigrants. Why are these people traveling all across the globe to show up at our southern border. Is it because they want a better life for themselves and their family, or maybe some of them, maybe a tiny percentage, but enough of them have intentions to hurt our country and hurt the people of this great country. That's that's what scares me. Under Joe Biden, New York City has about eight point five million people in the ninety five

or percent or higher or great Americans. I went into that city in twenty eleven, thinking I was there once in my life, I said, this is going to be awful. When I left in twenty fifteen, on a regular basis, I said, boy, there are some great people that live in New York. But in the last three years, there's been about eight million illegals come into America, which is the size of New York City.

And that's only the beginning. I'm waiting for my yorkas I guess the impeachment thing is going to be filed at some point to say, you know, what is one hundred million? Is it fifty million, is two hundred million? What's the number we can allow in? It doesn't stop well, I mean, did you see him yesterday? Yesterday he blamed the environment, he blamed Trump, he blamed Abbot, he blamed you know, everything but himself.

Now, on the other hand, this is the same guy along with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden that repeatedly lied to all of us by saying that the border is closed and the border is secure. Stop lying. I hate being lied to. You know, if your kids, if my kids do something stupid, and you know my kids, I'm fine with that. I made a few dumb decisions when I was young. But if you plat out lie to me, then you're really going to be in trouble. I can't stand it. So yeah, and now they're going to sue Greg Abbott.

I had Abbot on TV last night, you know, pursuing him because he's doing their job and enforcing the law. But back to the institution now, if you or I or anybody you know in the great city of Cincinnati, the home of Skyline Chili, which, by the way, I can buy frozen spaghetti Skyline Chili in public right down here in Florida where I live my new home, and I've already had two sweet baby James, you can pull it out. I'll take a picture and send it to you. Billy Cunningham,

I stock up on Skyline chili and spaghetti. You'redicous. It's only and because I want to keep my weight down whatever. But anyway, long story, we can save this country. Sure, there's nobody that can tell you with any degree of certainty what's going to happen in November. I can tell you what's going to lead up to November. And what's what we're going to hear is Trump, Trump, Trump and how evil and dangerous he is. We're going to hear about January sixth, ad nauseum. We're going to hear

the about abortion day in and day out. And and the people of Ohio went out and voted, they made their decision. I think it happens to be politically. I'm not speaking morally where the country is. And I think Republicans need to take note of what the people of Ohio said on that referendum. And the last thing they're going to ever want to talk about is Joe's failed record, because he doesn't have a record of success. Find Sean Hannah said, to buckle up, Sean Hannity, you can add to that the

traditional playbook of Republicans are racist and sexist, and misogynistic and homophobic. You know the whole list of phobias. I don't have any phobias. I find racism repugnant. I find sexism repugnant. I believe God created every man, woman and child on this earth, Tilly Cunningham, and I believe it with all my heart. Sean Handedy to conclude, I would say this that if

we have the continuation of the Trump policies, America will flourished. If we continue with the present policies, America is finished, done over with and over my dead. You and I need to be like William of Wallace with our intestines pulled out, yelling the word freedom and and that you ask me why voters continue to want uh Trump back in office, because they figured it out as to what the Democrats have done to this country are not for the country.

As William Wallace said, as he knew he might be walking into a trap, I've got to try. We've got to try what we've been doing all these years. I want all those things I prayed to God for those things, you know, a family and children. And then he walked into what ultimately became his death. Bring down, Bring down long Shanks, Long shanks, must bring long long shanks. Looks like Joe Biden actually. Nonetheless, one of the greatest moments is when when his daughter in law whispers in

his ear that she's pregnant and the child is not from his son. Absolutely a. Sean Hendy, congratulations, thanks for coming on again, and let's keep the line. Blessing, No cunning and we need your voice this year. And God bless the people of Ohio, God bless the people in this country, and God bless America. My friend give my best is sweet baby. Thank you. All right, calculated big Dog Fender, we love him too. Bye. Big Dog's the best. He likes to bark. All

right, let's continue with more. Sean, thank you. No Cunningham with you every afternoon on news radio seven hundred WULW prescriptions required online consultation with him. John gut Vixon to his left, Charlie Jones motions out to the right, crowding drops back to throw. Jake now scans the field throw pot hore Yo s bosh for this second touchdown catch of the game, right in the middle of the end zone. He beat Hellossy head hauled it in hell hellos,

I'm broadcasting. Man. Here we are again. We stand. We're back about time. Where have you been? Where have I been? Where have you been? I'm sitting there. Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. Hey, you know what that that highlight right there, Bengals wide receiver andre Yoshi Vash became the first Princeton University football player with two touchdowns in the game in the National Football League since Dutch Hendrian did it in nineteen twenty four. Really, yeah, how about that? I say I have in fun

of me. Uh huh by Bob Nightingale. Now what back that? In the off season Reds. The Reds have gone about one hundred and six million dollars extra, which is more than the Cardinals, the Pirates, the Brewers, the Cubs almost combined. So the Reds are spending almost like the La Dodgers, who spent over a billion dollars. Will bring championship baseball to Cincinnati. He didn't say when correct, didn't say, maybe it'll Maybe it'll be

this year with these additions. In fact, the Reds are spending the same team's coming back and it's better. Right. I may give my speech together early at the end of March at the Holy Grail. I am so excited about this team. I'm just getting pumped up about it. He'll be with me again, of course. Well, what you gotta do is you gotta

narrow it down a little bit. Instead of starting in eighteen sixty nine, maybe roll to seventy five and seventy six or just kind of hit the tip of like when they won in nineteen nineteen, and like nineteen forty and then move on instead of worrying about, you know, eighty seven thousand years ago. But young folks need a historical perspective, Well, you can do that.

I'll provide it. I'll provide the perspective. Will he the stood reporters of pro service, every local Tamestar heating and air conditioning dealers Tamestar quality you can feel in beautiful Milford home of one main gallery called Baker Heating at five one three, eight, three, one fifty one twenty four spots. Can I give you one more fact before you give the sponsorship? Go ahead? I already did it, But go ahead. The Reds have spent in the

off season more money. Yeah, and the following teams put together right Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Rays, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and the Texas Rangers. The Reds are free spending right now. Bob Castalani has opened up the checkbook. Yes he has an Hopefully it'll work out. Will he mixing these guys with the young dudes, with de la Cruz and Abbott and Williamson and also Clean and others and Candelaureo and the

rest of them. Well, I'm going to predict the Reds their marched for glory and for some God, I'm saying right now the Reds ready for glory. Will you wrap up the Bengals nine and eight Bengals season tonight, Lance and lapping company on Bengals line starting in six or five right here on seven

hundred WLW. One of the big press conferences today was quarterback Jack Joe Burrow, meeting the media for the first time since at risk surgery, said he should be ready to throw by OTAs the rehab is going very well until the next injury. Well hopefully not. The windows my whole career and everybody that that we have in that locker room, all the coaches we have. You know, things are going to change year to year, but our windows always

open, that's for sure. In the NFL news today, the Atlanta Well, the Atlanta Falcons last night at midnight fired head coach Arthur Smith. Washington and let go head coach Ron Rivera today. So and more are coming Michigan and Washington tonight for the National Championship in Houston, seven o'clock ESPN fifteen thirty. Who do you like in that matchup? If anyone, I'm going with the Huskies because I don't like that team up North. I'm taking Michigan.

I'm taking the Wolverine. I can't believe you want Washington. Do you want Washington? I'll take the Huskies. I'm told by Tom Weedman the home of Jake Browning, that there is a good likelihood that Ryan Day, Ohio state head football coach, is under investigation for spying on Maryland. You're ready your mine? I got there. I got this story right here, Ryan Day at the site Shut Up Maryland Tennis Tennis, one of the world's longest tenured

tournaments, is returning to his roots. After being played as John Barrett's Western The Southern Open since two thousand and two, the tournament is returning to its original name Willie in nineteen oh one, the Cincinnati Open. But Who's It? Presented by and the event and the event will be in Mason, the home of the transmitter for the next twenty five years. I have a call in to the great John Barrett Ramsey's the first. We're going to talk,

like either later today or tomorrow about how's it going. The tournament itself is staying a lot of construction going on. Right we go up and down Ho Chi Minh I seventy one trail. You see lots of work happening. And this is this is like having an All Star Game for fourteen consecutive days every year for the next quarter of a century. When you and I both retire together in glory in twenty five years. But Raphael Nadal is out of the

Australian Open. Not good and it's another torn hip muscle, not the one that kicked him out for like the almost last year. It's the other one now unbelievable. Andy Mack College Basketball. Purdue remains number one in this week's AP Pole presented by Joe Kay. Houston is up to second, Kentucky remains sixth. Texas comes to town tomorrow night. Will he to take on UC The Longhorns are twenty fifth, Cincinnati twenty ninth, and Dayton twenty sixth.

How about b Yu the other night, b Yu they forget they they went three for thirty four in the second half and three point land and couldn't do anything and the Bearcats upset him by eleven in BYU territory. Not good. The Mormons do not do well. Bill Belichick still under contracts open the changes. What does that mean? Belichick? Where's he going to coach next season? Segment? I have no idea, Willy Wherever he wonts, somebody will

pick him up. How about this golf news Tiger Woods parting ways today with Nike. Impossible Wood sign with Nike after turning pro at age twenty. He is witting with the Nike brand for twenty seven years and has made over five hundred million dollars with that company. Like Sean Hannity money. Yeah, so no more red red shirts, I guess on Sunday unless he goes with somebody

else. I don't know what's he gonna do. What they got out of the golf equipment business years and years ago, Nike is not much of a brand in golf at all. Oh okay, Well, so they want to focus on soccer, football, basketball, baseball, all right, Well, they quit making golf clubs and golf balls, so they're getting out of the golf business, that's why. And then also get the latest on the Xavier Musketeers who take on Yukon this week Sean Miller Show tonight at seven on fifty

five KARC, the home of Dale Donovan. When was the last time Xavier beat Hillanova in Philadelphia? Has that ever happened? I don't think it's ever happened. They were close at well, they had a couple of chances, right the Buzzer and the Desmond Claude missed a layup and then missed the missed a jumper that Byron Larket has made in his sleep for the last fifty years. He misses it right right in the middle of the lane, and Villanova come, you know, escapes with a wind. But now the Huskies are

next for our beloved Musketeers. You know, the Reds have always had the Cardinals beating up on him, the Bengals always had Pittsburgh Steelers beating up on him, right, and the Wildcats of Villanova constantly beat up on Xavior. All this has got the change segment. At some point we got the change. Oh, hopefully twenty twenty four will be a year of change. Willie, where did we hear that the last time. Change. Yeah, change,

change to come. Sam Cook got change is coming. How about how about Alisia Reese teeing it up with Stephanie Dumas being called out by Dumas And now I understand that now what ree, Well, they got some comments to make, back and forth, back and forth everywhere. See, it's all chaos. We have nothing but chaos everywhere. Look we'll see. That's why. That's why you need to be back on from now on, because I will it's been chaotic over the Christmas season in the new year, and now

things need to be calmed down. That's your back chaos. Correct. What what are they? What are those two mad about? I thought they were I thought they were buddies on the on the on the what is it? The commissioner deal? And uh what's her name? Was the the odd man looking out? No question? Well, you know every two years they elect one of their own, shall I say, be the President of the Commission. Doesn't do anything much other than just convening. That's all they are.

And so it's time again for Alicia Reese's term h to be the two years on the as the President of the Commission, and so her arch nemesis, Stephanie Dumas gave a little speech, did not vote for her, abstained, she abstained and would not put Alisha Reese in charge. And she said, among the following, we provide positive guidance. You lead by example if you're honest, transparent, humble, unselfish, collaborating, compassionate, you're a good

listener, and you respect the opinions of others. Don't be argumentative, and be a team player. When she said that, she said, I cannot vote for Alisha Reese. Well, unbelievable. Oh now we got to see what what I'm saying segment chaos. We have nothing that's sing and you're and they're gonna be talking with the Bengals right about some uh improvements and all this stuff. And you got chaos on the Hamilton County Commission. I have coming

up? What about three house? What she say she voted for Alisha Reese, but Stephanie Dumas said she can't do it. So it's it's one to one. So what Alisha Reese votes for herself? Correct? She got she voted for herself. She won two zip because Dumas said, nah, bab nah, I'm abstaining from voting. Now, how about this one segment? You know what you know, hold on, you know the guy. You know what we need right now to avoid all chaos for the next probably fifty

years. Charlie Lucan, Bingo, come in, run, take over the city, take over the county. Run everybody out of town. Nobody knows who the council people are anymore. You can't find the mayor with a search warrant around this town or nothing and anything else. But you know what, just you know, just have Lucan, Supreme Allied Commander. What a lame lot, that's what That's what you need right there, Supreme Allied Allied tri

State. The Supreme tri State Commander is Charlie Lucan and the vice president is Richard K. Jones. Wow, there you go, Sergeant at arms Bingo. Now segment. I spoke to Rob Sanders off the air a couple of hours ago. Now what now? What what's he? What's what's he upset about? Says that marijuana is being smoked at pay Corps stadium And I'm going, what what? According to Rob Sanders, right that pay Corps is providing a smoking section for marijuana users. And I'm saying I don't know what he's

talking about. I don't know what, but he's going to make that charge in about ten to fifteen minutes. You better pay attention. I did not know you could do that at You can't smoke marijuana now wherever you can smoke cigarettes? Right for maybe the Bengals provide fans a cigarette smoking area which is now being used by reck ray Lane's If the county allows pot smoking at my ballpark, the American Oh, they'd go crazy. No way segment, give

me out of the student's report. We have Rob Sanders standing by, ready to speak about murder, mayhem and marijuana on the three Ms Willie and Otter of everything we've been touch report say, I wish you the bank account of Republicans and the sex life of a democrat. Ing go right there. We will never apreame tri State commander. I call him Ike, call Charlie Lucan. Ike, we have a JABBRONI as the mayor and uh he cost us

the Super Bowl two years ago. Ike lucan Now, Ike call him Ike, get him a silver helmet and like with Patton, and that silver was his gun was like silver plated, wasn't pearl ham Yeah, pearl handle and get Richard Jago's worse for that, Cincinnati mayor know your role is shuts your mouth. Wow, that cost us right there. And now Taylor Swift's sexuality is being questioned by the New York Times. Does she like girls? I'm good? What? What? What? What else is there? What she

see? You need to come back and end all this? I shout return much like MacArthur all, I can say, you're gonna smoke a pipe and walk through the water. Maybe marijuana? What chaos? We have nothing but chaos, that's for sure. Segment. That's because you're back, loud, proud and sassy. Yeah, we on seven hundred WLW. Meanwhile, in the enchanted forest, snow White happily walks the path to a tiny cottage. Yeah, this angry queen is out to get me. So I hang out

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Medical Center offer breakthrough treatments that helen. Of the prequisites of power is to be on the first show of the year for the Great American if you're the most frequent guest, and for the first time ever, Rob Sanders led the Way with Ted McKay and Kenton County is the most frequent guest, and once again, Rob Sanders, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Rob, how are you? Willie? I'm doing fantastic in this new year.

You know they've kept me busy already. But as they say, you can't break Joe Dieter's record for the number of guest appearances on the Bill Cunningham Show if you don't start off as the first guest on the first day, or at least Willie's first day of the new year. So I know that you're kind of like a Catholic school in terms of the new year. You don't

start back until January eighth. But nevertheless, I'm honored to be on it, and I'm looking forward to breaking Joe's record, as I'm sure this year will be just something of records of all sorts that we'll have plenty of news to talk about. Given the way this year started off already, let's talk about the last few days. Of course. I love Latonia, I love Erlanger, I love that part of Kenton County. And I see that a character named Mario Paine is charged killing his twenty five year old baby mama,

a mother of two. I assume that both with him, who knows she's dead? Twenty five years old Mario Pain has been apprehended off the air. You told me you spent most of the weekend working on this matter, and the problems of Cincinnati are bleeding over much like a tsunami out of the Ohio River and in the banks of northern Kentucky. Tell us about the Mario Pain matter, well, Willie, this unfortunately is very sad domestic violence situation.

You know that's I don't care what you're astiction you're in, or how low your crime rate is, Domestic violence is something that unfortunately perpetrates just about all of American society, and this weekend, Kenton County was no different. Mario Paine's thirty eight years old. He's from Covington. He was in the middle of a custody exchange of his two children that he shares with Kiera Elaine.

They were at her house in Latonia, and I don't know exactly what precipitated the argument, but obviously they were not happy with one another, and he told her something to the effect of I've got something for you, when he pulled out a handgun and began firing at her while she was standing in the front door of her residence on thirty fourth Street. She was shot a number of times and died at the scene. Mister Payne ditched his phone, got

his kids out of the car, and took off from the scene. Covington police, however, made quick work of him, because he was arrested in the early morning hours today down in Louisville, Kentucky. And so we appreciate the assist from our friends at the Louisville Metro Police Department. But he is now behind bars, and he's going to be wishing maybe that he had taken matters into his own hand, because I anticipated he'll probably spend the rest of

his life in prison. At this rate, we don't look very kindly upon people that killed the mother of their children, much less do so right in front of her own children. They also discovered during the course of their investigation that he called a mother, a different mother of his children. Apparently mister

Payne has children with multiple women. He called a different child's mother and told her that he really effed up. Of course he didn't use f he used the word I can't say on your show on air, but told her that he really effed up and he's not going to be seeing her for a while. So I've been working with the Covington Police detectives have done a bang up job as usual. Covington's crime bureau is top notch, and we have made quick work of mister getting him into custody, and we'll have him in front

of the Kenton County Grand Jury in short order. According to your press release, Mario Drian Payne, thirty eight, at Covington, has charged with murder and possession illegally have a handgun as a convicted felon. So I would assume that mister Payne is not unknown to the system. He's been like a one man time waved the past twenty years of his life, explain what he did

before he murdered his baby mama. He's got prior felony convictions out of Boone and Kenton Counties for possession of cocaine, trafficking cocaine, and trafficking marijuana. So he, like you said, is no stranger to the criminal justice system. He was just barely out of the five year window of eligibility we'll look

back window to be a persistent felony offender. However, given the fact that he's facing a capital offense for murder and looking at twenty to fifty years or life in prison for the murder sentence alone, I don't know that that's necessarily

going to come into play. Accepted, the fact that he is a convicted felon in possession of a handgun just goes to show you why we take that crime so seriously, because convicted felons, people that shouldn't have handguns in the first place, are responsible for such a large volume, a large percentage of the crime we deal with. That's why we put felons in prison if they are caught with weapons. And I just wish that we had caught mister pain

before he used his illegal handgun on the mother of his two children. And the issue here is that I can't imagine being thirty eight years old several baby mamas. I don't know how many kids, may I use the old term out of wedlock. A career criminal when you're thirty eight years old and you've organized your life in such a way as to be that person, What did mister Payne do, like get up in the morning. I assume it didn't work, but I assume he had expenses and bills to be paid. I

would assume he had child support orders. I would assume he was still in an an illegal lifestyle, selling drugs, breaking into cars, breaking into homes, drug possession, marijuana, whatever it might be. Do you have any sense of the weeks months before Payne murdered Kiera Lane as to what he did for a living? Did he? You know, most of us get up today. It's Monday, Monday afternoon. We get up Monday morning, we go to work, we do something. What did mister Payne do on a

regular basis as a productive citizen in the last several months? What did he do well? The coming from police detectives, I know, looked into whether or not he was employed. They found out that to there, or at least as far as they can tell, he was not. Of course, the only employment history we are aware of is unlicensed nighttime pharmaceutical sales, what some other folks might refer to as drug dealing. That's all we know about

his record. His employment history is that's how he earned a living. So I would hate to speculate at this time, since it's possible jurors out there for the trial that he's going to have come up sometime this year, hopefully, but his track record certainly makes them send an off a lot like a

drug dealer. And so you have children, young children. I would assume if Lane, the mother is twenty five, I would assume a couple of kids with her of tender years, an entire another group of Americans lives are ruined without a father in the home, a mother is dead, I would assume the family is incomplete turmoil. Those two kids plus others go to foster care, go to orphanages. What happens to them to my knowledge right now, they are in the custody of family. They are very young children.

As you mentioned, or as you deduced from the situation, there were a number of family members that responded to the Covington Police Department shortly after this shooting them that were involved. I don't know which family member has taken them in, but I believe that the two children are with family of the deceased is

Lane at this time. Another disaster, a complete disaster. Well, on an unrelated matter, I see the state legislature in Frankfurt's Frankfurt's going to try to expand the conditions under Andy Basheer for medical marijuana, expanding it greatly. And Ohio is about, I think, to allow recreational marijuana. Is that a nightmare for law enforcement? When across the pond you have Ohio, which is going to be recreationally complete within the next three to six months. You

also have in Kentucky all these new conditions for medical marijuana. Is it true? I know Joe Dieters before he became Justice. Joe and Melissa Poters have said the same thing that they don't want to focus on recreational use of marijuana.

Do something else. Is that still the attitude in Kenton County? What message would you send to those using marijuana in Kenton County with all this happening all around you, Oh, Willie, I can't begin to tell you how many arrest citations I read on a daily basis, literally a daily basis, that start out with the car stank of marijuana, and so the officer searched it, and then they found something else, whether it's stolen goods, whether

it's guns in the possession of felon, whether it's cocaine and methamphetamine or heroin or fentanyl, all kinds of other illicit narcotics. Almost all of the arrests are citations involve cars that stink of marijuana. So number one, you certainly should not be riding around with it because if you are, it's still illegal in Kentucky. No matter what Andy Basheer says, he can offer all the pardons that he wants, which is really what he's done. He's not legalized

it. He's just told everyone that he will pardon them, but that doesn't change the fact that it is illegal to begin with. So the police can search your car if you're caught with it, but if they're doing anything else illegal, they're going to get in a heck of a lot more trouble than just the marijuana. You know, we don't get really excited about people with

the dimebag of marijuana personal use of marijuana. What we do get excited about is people committing other crimes while they are using that little bit of marijuana, which people driving under the influence of that marijuana, wrecking their cars, crashing into other innocent civilians that are just trying to go about this business. This is going to be such a zoo. Already is to an extent a zoo. Willie. You know, I tell you all the time, I don't

cross the river very often. I have not crossed the river for a Bengals game in a good long time this season, ever since Joe Burrow got hurt. But I found out from my father who was at the game this weekend that apparently they now have a marijuana smoking section somewhere in pay Corpse Stadium that you can go recreationally consume your marijuana. And it just makes me roll my eyes that, oh my gosh, here we go. It's already started.

We're not even confining the recreational marijuana used to someone's home or residence. We're encouraging it apparently when they're out and about, as long as you're on the north side of the river. But everybody needs to know it's still illegal once you cross the river. So don't think that just because it's legal in Ohio or medicinal in Ohio, or whatever other excuse you used, you're only gonna

compound your troubles exponentially. As police starts searching through your vehicle or on your person, or in your backpack or wherever else you might keep whatever other things you don't want the police to see, they will find that if you are riding around consuming your Ohio marijuana in Kentucky. So you're saying that pay Course Stadium, which by the way, is a facility owned and operated by Hamilton County itself, Hamilton County, Inc. The County Commissioners that they have now

a section for the recreational use of marijuana inside pay Courtse Stadium. That's what I hear, WILLI, And it's you know again makes me roll my eyes because they have enough trouble with alcohol at NFL stadiums and people being drunker than they should be and dumber than they should be. And you know, I enjoy a nice Miller light. Well, I'm watching my Bengals play when I

do go to the games. But some of the folks there tend to overindulge just a tad, whether it's before they come in, you know, doing shots in the parking lot or whatever, or even if they're drinking some of those what I think, they're like fourteen dollars beers. Now that's a little expensive for me to be over indulging in. But nevertheless, some people get very excited about it. But now they're throwing marijuana on top of it. So we got a bunch of I assume drunk and high folks running around the

stadium getting in fights with one another. In fact, you know, I had on Governor Mike Dwain and others and head on prosecutors in Ohio. They tell me that right now as we speak this Monday afternoon, you can walk around and smoke marijuana. You can possess it, you just can't legally buy it. And the rules there are no rules. And I don't know if

somebody just morphs marijuana and suddenly it's in your between your fingers. But Pay Corpse Stadium, I think, I don't know if the founders of pay Corpse Stadium, pay Corps itself would enjoy this, But the idea of marijuana smoke all over the place. When you walk around Washington Park in this summertime, I imagine it's going to get may I use the term worse before it gets better, that the smell of marijuana will waffle across the Ohio River into Covington

pay Course Stadium. If in fact they have a smoking marijuana section, I would assume it's ordered by the county, because individuals can walk around the streets of Cincinnati smoking pot as I speak, until the rules at all change. You can be on a sidewalk in a public facility, and pay Course Stadium is a public facility owned by the public in a sense, and so to provide areas for marijuana use, I think the goal might be to keep people

from using marijuana while sitting at their seat. And so I don't know where we're headed. Did you think as a prosecutor you'd ever have to deal with these kinds of issues. No? No, And it's already getting complicated enough with Ohio doing it. Will it's so much for tax it and regulate it, right? Isn't that what everybody says when they start beating the drum for legalization is tax it and regulated. Whill Ohio has managed to legalize it without

taxing it or regulating it. In fact, there is no legal marijuana to be purchased, So that means everybody's buying this marijuana that's now legal, but they're buying it from an unlicensed salesperson. So every marijuana transaction that leads to marijuana and Ohio, if it's not from a licensed dispensary, which the vast majority are now not because those only handle medical marijuana. So all these folks doing it recreationally now are buying marijuana from an illegal drug dealer. It's just

so we're what encouraging illegal marijuana now. I don't know, I don't get it. I think they keep it on the north side of the river, but I know it won't. Because people don't understand geography, they don't seem to understand state lines. They still bring it on the south side of the river. They still smoke it down on riverside tribing Covington while they look at

all the pretty lights with a gun in their back pocket. And that gets you a felony right there, even if it's just one little joint that you have, if you have with a gun in Kentucky, that's a felony. Offense, Willy. So folks need to be a little more cautious, you know, especially once they start using it. They still need to be cautious. That wait a second. Once I cross that state line, you know, the price poker goes up, the rules change. Andy Basheer is not

going to pardon me before I go to the Kenton County Detention Center. And good luck if you get one. Once you get out, and it's twenty one and I see this whole area right with difficulties. It's the tax it regulated make money out of it. Now, no one's making any money out of it. It's really nelly being used, I guess in NFL football games, which I'd never heard of before. And you can use it anywhere.

You can smoke a cigarette, You can smoke pot. You can legally possess it and you can smoke it, but you can't buy it, so I don't know. And you can grow it in your home right now. If you want to start growing pot right now in your home, you can do that. Of course, it takes three to four months from seed to weed. Takes three to four months to get it done the right way. But we're in never never really have a bunch of marijuana farmers now out in Deer

Park, Willie? Is that? Is that what everybody's planting their crops in their backyard and Deer Park and Indian Hill and all the time places in north I guess Southern Ohio. Yeah, well, right now the weather is so bad you can't do it outside. But guess what inside your home you can grow all kind of marijuana and it's completely legal, and you can smoke it anywhere you can smoke a cigarette, completely legal. And I'm thinking, what

the hell's up with all this? But Rob Sanders, once again, let's have a year free of homicide, free of a woman getting killed on custody, the only one this year, Willy, it would be nice if we would have a year. I know that we did not get off to a good start, but it'd be nice if we only had one homicide this year, the one we've already had. Hopefully that's the way it goes. But

I'm not holding my breath anytime soon. On a different note, though, Willie, I gotta say, you know, can maybe you can answer a question for me? Do you just have a really good agent that negotiates all your time? I'm off all your vacation time or is iHeartMedia just very giving when it comes to vacation time, Because as much time as you've managed to take off over Christmas holidays, I got it. If it's an agent that's negotiating this contract, I gotta get a working from me. But I don't

know. Maybe it's just iHeart because you know, Rocky Boyman doesn't work on Thursdays and Friday during football season, so it seems like everybody gets a lot of off days. But how do I go about getting that into my contract? I will take your advice in questioning under advisement and have DJ Hodge and Scott Reinhard call you first thing in the morning. But I'm going to try to take some more time off in twenty twenty four. That's what I'm gonna

do. I don't know that you can take much more time off, Willie, And I mean, that's an awful How many off days did you get last year? It was a lot. I think we're pushing almost it's like being on sabbatical almost forty days. Very impressive. Well, maybe you can bring DJ to our and I'll just add him to the list of people that I am buying stakes for and he can join you and I and our lovely wives down at wallt stitching Post and maybe he can help set that up for

me. Let's get her Ja to talk to the Coma of Kentucky. Rob Sanders, you're a great American. Thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. God bless you and God bless the Commonwealth. Thanks Willie and many more. I'll talk to you soon, I'm sure. Thank you all right, Rob Sanders. Let's continue with more news next at your home of the Bengals, where I guess you can smoke pot inside pay Course Stadium. Who knew that on seven hundred WULW currents issued by Sutton Bank and Celtic Bank members

of the IC, trims and conditions apply. Are you hello, biet And I'm broadcasting Rocky. You know what today is? Rocky the King's birthday, rock eineteen thirty and I know that he would have had eighty nine wow, eighty nine eighty nine. He wasn't gonna make it. Is he still alive somewhere? I think watching I think he's at the at that Burger King in Minnesota someplace Alamazoo was where he's working on. Okay now, now tell a story real quick about you roteing a limo with him. Oh, I'll tell

you what. I'll tell you what. And I and Joe Espisito. I had nothing to do one summer, and I hitched bike out to La went to see a couple of music acts in the Hollywood Bowl. Got back in my Descoto with the car just fell apart on the Santa Monica Boulevard. Put out, got of the outskirts for Las Vegas, and a white limo pulled over. I'm hitchhiking to go to McCarran field. And opened the back door was Joe Esposito sitting there was the King of rock and roll, Elvis Presley.

Say man, what you doing? I said, King, I need a ride to McCarran field to say get in. What was on? What was playing was by Las Vegas my way with Frank Sinatra listening in the back. I spoke to Joe in this unbelievable story. Ever, Elvis, that's ten minute drive. Dropping off with garen Field, I call mom, Mom, I mean money. I got to come home. Traveler's aid. But the King, the King and I rode together. Travl Aid was in ninth

in eighteen ninety five. That's what That's a year it happened. You can't travelers? Was it? Travelers? Remember that one? No, No, I was just completely traveler, was like, you know, you could call somebody, they send you money. Secondly, I sent to you Rock a few weeks ago the great victory of Xavier football in the Sun Bowl, ready to beat up on UC and then later Notre Dame. And thirdly, did you know that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team lost to Duke by

twelve points in South Bend. They've won a toe will four games. Whatever happened to Mike Bray, I'll tell you what. Notre Dame stinks and facebook every sport. Here's what it was like. What about the Sun Bowl? What about this first ball? What about the Sun Bowl forty to three over the Beavers? Yeah, okay, we lick the Beavers good, all right, and it's gonna be a springboard in the next season. We got the quarterback, we got the right wide receivers, we got the power, we

got the money, we got it all. Secondly, Notre Dame basketball, we're a tournament team. Will he Okay, we don't much care about the regular season. We're just kind of trying to figure out some things, figure out what our weaknesses are, and come tournament time, that's when we turn it on. Well, what about the football team, what about the girls volleyball team? What about the men's golf team? On the tournament team?

And I vowed while you were gone, and I will vow and now on your first day back in twenty twenty four, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will make the college football playoffs this year. They will be one of the twelve teams in the playoff. Well, yes, that's no big deal. Then it expands. Remember going to the playoffs and Savior off their sun boll victory is not playing football anymore? Can Xavier win a basketball game away from home?

According to Dave Keaton a bolt right there? That thirty four and seven is the record of Xavier in Villanova And according to Dave Keaton, last year Xavier beat Villanova in Philadelphia. So it's a regular event anymore. All I can say is, oh, I know is did didn't they lose? A couple of days ago? Though? I have another question for you, Rocky to Villanova, which team in the National League Central? I'm looking this up. I mean they lost, They lost by one missed a couple of a

couple of close shots would have made blind fold. So what else? Did you look up the score of the Notre Dames women's bad minton team and we lost the Grambling or something? Ohio Wesleyan team lost to Ohio Wesleyan. Now, Rocky who spent more money in the offseason for free agents? Was it the Reds or the Yankees? The Yankees? Wrong? The Reds. The Reds one hundred and fifty right, one hundred and six million. The Yankees spent a total of zero. How about the Cubs? You know what,

they spent zero? Well for Cody Bellinger, though the Reds spent more money than the Cardinals, Load, Brewers, Cubs combined combined. Besalini is opening up the checkbook to bring glory in twenty twenty four to your Cincinnati Reds. Where I think you can smoke pot at the Great American Ballpark? Is that true? Well, you can't have payed pop smoking section. Yeah, along with smoking section you go in there at smoke pot. Yeah, there we

go, there we go. We'll be here about that one. Well, I'm just saying, just saying, just saying, Okay, can the Reds beat the Dodgers? Well, the Dodgers spend one billion on two players. Yeah, exactly one billion and a total of one point one billion all told. But they spent a little over a billion on two players. And uh, shall we say they're they're loaded for action, which means they're not going

to do a damn thing. The Reds are prepared for glory. Is prepared for glory, as are prepared for Notre Dame have a quarterback, Yes, Riley Leonard is a former duke quarterback. We had to open up the old check book game, like to talk about that way a little check book had to get Roley Leonard on campus. He's there, exceptional athlete, exceptional quarterback. It's going to lead us to the Promised Land. One of the twelve teams in the playoff boom, Well, what about Ohio State and Ryan Day?

My friends in Michigan, who I'm tonight to win, by the way, is under investigation according to Michigan because of snooping and spying on Marylands. I'm going up Tom weedman all the way. I'm picking Michigan by ten tonight. You heard well, Ryan Day, coach the Buckeyes later this year. Will it would it be ironic? Would there be outrage if Jim Harball continues to coach Michigan but is actually Ryan Day who gets suspended? Yes? Chaos, chaos, Wow, Capital City would be a crisis at chaos. At

least Notre Dame should know they have eleven players on defense. But that's a different issue. You pass. I never forget. I don't forget. I don't forget. That's for sure. Give me some sports the stood reporters of pro service, every local time Star Heating get air conditioning dealers, timeh Star quality you could feel in beautiful Western hills called Durvan Heating and cool to get one three, five, nine, eight eighty four forty nine or go to

Derban and Heating and Cooling dot com sport. Will you wrap up the Bengals season tonight? Lance and lappin company Bengals line started at six oh five right here on seven hundred w WELW. Joe Burrow met the media today first time since his wrist surgery. Said he's feeling good. Could be throwing by the OTA's Rocky. My sources tell me it's a serious injury. Nothing on no brace or nothing on the hand today Brocks the nine months, can he do

anything with the hand? You'd have to I'm leaving that one taken. I'm leaving that said. It's important. Gotta be one thing to have it, you gotta be able to do something with it. We move on. College football Michigan and Washington Tonight National Championship in Houston seven o'clock ESPN fifteen thirty, one of the world's longest tenured tournaments, returning to its roots after having been

played as John Barrett's Western and Southern Open since two thousand and two. I'm with Michigan the Attorney returned to its original name today in nineteen oh one, the Cincinnati Open, and the event will remain in Mason, the home of the transmitter, for the next twenty five years. For the rock, would the three of us be here in twenty five years? Where as an on this planet or on these airways? On the airway good point, no,

no, oh go hey. College football going back to the game tonight will eve the highest price paid on tick Pick Tonight, six seven thousand, seven hundred and eighteen dollars a seat. One person bought six of those tickets front row on the Washington side forty six thousand, three hundred and eight dollars for tickets tonight to the Big Game. You had to be a Republican. Segmental Ma, ask for this. Who was president in eighth teen ninety nine?

When the tennis tournament began in Cincinnati? I think at Coney Island? Who was president in eighteen ninety nine? That wasn't a taff was it? Nope? Uh McKinley, McKinley, that's correct, Wait it go. Rock was shot. You paid attention that day in history. They learned to stay next where they You want to get rid of it. They promised swamming off the port. I'm saying next. Oh, he is taking a sabbatical. Do you know what that means? It means they're like kind of busy right now.

It's like the sabbatico you've been on for the past three and a half weeks. A lot about sabbaticals. Yeah, the guy a break. Yeah, he's fighting for America. Maybe you're on blue. Maybe you're on blue? Are you running for president? Can't say I'm helping handity unload? Segment Continue with sports. Let's see what else will he Golf news, Tiger Woods parting ways with Nike. U signed with Nike after turning pro at age twenty. While with the Nike brand for twenty seven years, he made over five

hundred million dollars. That's boyman money right there, real deal right there. Arthur Smith out with the Falcons at midnight, Washington. Let go Ron Rivera Today. Who's next? Rock Bill Belichick? Where does he go to stay? Though? I mean he said they're going to force him to. They're going to force Craft to fire him. That's what he's gonna do. And then he's gonna go wherever he wants. I'm gonna pick. I don't think it'll be Washington Chargers. What about the Chargers? Now, he's not a

West coast guy. Atlanta or Washington, that's who it'll be. Well, we'll see what Washington is. Pretty is a is a pretty nice destination. And he got a rich owner, he got a lot of cap space. They got the I believe number two overall picks, So they'll probably get you out to get Drake may So. Boom boom boom, Bill Belichick head coach, Washington Commanders. Wow, we'll see what you here. First we found out if is it the horse or the jockey. We found out it's the

horse. It is Brady, it's not Belichick. Give me the horse, get a jockey. You got a great jockey and no horse. It means you're gonna lose. If you got a great horse and a bad jockey, that doesn't mean you're gonna win or lose. If you got a great horse and a great jockey, got Brady and Belichick, then you got six Super Bowls. Brady leaves and gets a seventh. It's the horse of the jockey. Is it the chicken or the egg? It is really the horse and

the chicken, not the egg, and not the jockey. You know what I'm saying. Saved you get on it. You can repeat that one more time. I lost you when you in the third Stanza. I've repeatedly about this is it the horse or is it the jockey? And he always says, it's the horse. And give me a good horse and an average jockey. You can win the race. But you've got a bad horse and a good jockey. You can show, but you can't. Players win games.

When you get the horse, and you get the jockey, and you get the trainer, and you get the right diet and you get the right butte. All of a sudden, you got Secretariat. So now we know when you get the horse, and you get the jockey, you get the trainer, you get the owner, you get the butte, you get the diet. That's when you get Secretariat without any of those pieces. Give me the horse. I can find a jockey, but you can't make a horse a great horse. You can make a jockey better. You can make a horse

a little bit better. But I now know it was Brady and not Belichick. You know what I'm saying. Sick, Yeah, I see, I know where you're getting. Crystal explained everything, and keep a bak Ramaswammi on the board. Rocky's trying to get him kicked off. Man, please continue. I don't have anything else after that. Willie, along with Stephanie Dumas and uh and release you Reese are teeing it up against each other, and Dumas and the County Commission had some nasty things to say about Alisha Reese.

Just move right, so I'm not voting for you all that. That's kind of petty, isn't. I mean, she's gonna win anyways. They were buddies symbolic well, I know maybe they're not buddies. I know Chance Lucan also known as Ike, should come back and rule the city in the county. That's what we need, the Supreme tri State Allied Command, benevolent dictator and Charlie Lucan to come back and not at all Lucan can do. Gerald Bradley would be Richard K. Jones. Can you see can you see Patton

Pearl handled? Pearl handled handguns and silver helmets for those two writing down Ice seven to take Dieters back. Joe Justice, Joe on the Prosecutor's office. He doesn't talk to anybody, but still no, he doesn't talk rocket. What's on the total crap? Thank you, Joe. What's on after three o'clock with the Bengals season got Jason Williams right at the gate at three. We have Jay Ratliffe at three point thirty talking about just that plane, the

airline plane off. That's one way I've put his saying. Another way I'm putting it is the whole freaking side of the airplane boom busted out. But you know what, only no one died in it. Somebody's cell phone went went flying out with the door. Yeah. On the ground still worked. Really, how about that? How come when my phone falls off this dish right here's about two and a half feet off the ground, it shattered that.

That's what they said today. They said, somebody's phone, the seat and everything, and the phone went out the door, out the out the door. They found the phone and it still worked. How about that? No one's sitting at No one's sitting at the window. No all, but I'm taking an eye I always take a window seat. Now I'm going to take an aisle seat at file. Get in the middle, two fat people

on either side, Yes, segment. Get me out of the stude report, Willie and out of the King's birthday today, born in nineteen thirty five on this state. And also happy birthday to Miami RedHawks head football coach Chuck Martin. Martin the bet also the one and only the greatest bat boy, one of the greatest bat boys the Reds have ever had, The one and only Teddy Kramer. I like that guy. We leave you with the immortal words of the stood Report. We owe these shouts to be self evident.

Oh matter, women were creative by go you know this? You know the thing? He can't beat that guy. He's got a problem. That's all I'm saying. If you can't beat that guy, all right, rock, good luck and we'll hold you to account. Leader for Notre Dame. Glad to be here, God Bless America. Billy Cunningham back, loud, proud and sassy Willy News Radio. Seven hundred elder prescriptions required online consultation with the

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