2-27-24 Bill Cunningham Show

Welcome to this glorious Tuesday afternoon the tri State. And of course, allegedly there's bad weather coming. We'll see how accurate the weather man are. In about an hour or so, we have Governor Mike Dwaine will be here to give us a State of Ohio address about what's right, what's wrong? Do public schools really have about six billion dollars in extra money? Should there be a state income tax? And what about marijuana regulation, et cetera and more.

But until then, Melissa Powers, of course is Hamiley County Prosecutor. And Melissa Powers, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, before we talk about Marymont High School, what's happening there? I noticed that you were personally in court, which the prosecutor only shows up for important cases because you got one hundred and twenty five staff members doing this stuff.

But you were in court yesterday about the Coleraine High School kid fifteen years old who allegedly punched a sixty year old female teacher in the head, causing profound injuries and also attacked another fifteen year old And can you tell the American people, first of all, what were the fact of this that happened on

her about the first week in January. With all these things happening, maybe many times people forget about the facts what actually happened the first week in January at Coleraine High School involving this fifteen year old, there was a sixty year old teacher who her career has been in teaching attacked viciously by a student and she was repeatedly punched in the head so many times that her the skull cap had to be removed in order to allow the swelling of the brain, and

she was in the hospital for an extended period of time, many weeks. At one point she could not eat on her own, she had a feeding tube, she had a breathing tube. She couldn't breathe on her own. Neurologically, she was not responding. We were concerned whether she was going to

pull through, and luckily she has. She cannot walk without assistance. She's in now at rehab trying to regain all of her motor skills, and I would imagine there's going to be a traumatic brain injury as a result of the beating that this young man with his own bare hands almos killed his teacher and luckily she survived this attack and it was completely unprovoked for no reason whatsoever.

According to Defense counsel, Defense Council indicates Clyde Bennett that he had taken some sort of vape cartreach and inhaled it containing some ugly substance that caused him to act this out. Of course, you and I know that if you're drunk or you're on drugs, that didn't give you an excuse to do whatever it is you want to do. You're not responsible anymore as long as it was voluntary. But there was a lot of testing done on this so called vape

cartridge. What was the result of that. Well, first of all, you're absolutely right, it's no defense that he was under the influence of any type of chemical or alcohol. But in this matter, they did not test the pen because that's really irrelevant. It's what was in his system at the time of the attack, I believe, And so basically the toxicology report came back trace amounts the THHC and his blood and the thhd metabolite, very very

minor amount. We're not even sure if that was ingested on that day that morning. Most likely there might have been some on that day, but in his urine. It was present, which means there was some past use at some point, and then the serum is probably what happened that day. But I mean, we're talking point zero zero two megagrams per leader and his blood of THHC and point zero zero nine, so very very minor amount. So this had absolutely no impact whatsoever on his behavior. He cannot use this to

mitigate his his violence and rage that he inflicted on his teacher. So if this was if this fifteen year old was in a car or a sixteen year old was driving and he was pulled over and had a point zero zero two metabolites relative to the serum prognostication, this would not even result with a DUI because this was a very low trace amount that should have had no impact in his judgment. You're absolutely right, or on his motor skills, his judgment,

his motor skills, he had absolutely zero impact. And as far as Clyde Bennett, he's saying he wants an independent test being done, is out ongoing now and what's going to happen next in this case? He made that request in front of the judge, and the judge to grant him the opportunity to have an independent test. But you can test this five ten times by I don't care how many different independent testers you know, a forensic scientist,

they'll all come up with the same result. We're confident in this result. The Hamilton County Crime Lab up at the Coroner's office, Robert TODP. Miller, he's probably the most premier expert in this area in the entire state. So we do not doubt the results of his analysis here whatsoever. And we believe that even if it's tested, you know, you can tell, as long as we've got sample and keep testing it, it will come up with

the same result. Nothing, it will be different. They also did a screen for you know, a general drug screen to see if there's any other drugs, and no drugs were detected. The only thing in his system in his blood urine was a marijuana metabolite which is a THHD. Yeah, and so as a prosecutor, you would like to try him as an adult. And can you explain because you spent I think ten to twelve years as a juvenile court judge binding over criminals to adult court and now you're the prosecutor.

There's probably no person ever in the position of Hamley County and its history. That has more knowledge about juvenile court and prosecuting the Melissa powers. Because you've had your feet in both kingdoms, Can you explain why you want to bind this thing over to adult court for this fifteen year old. Well, first, let me just give you a correction. It was six years over in

juvenile court, but sixteen total. As a judge that in juvenile court, there's a process it's called a bind over hearing, in which there is a statute that's followed by the judge and the attorneys will argue whether or not there's different factors in favor of bindover and there's different factors against bindover. One of the main questions there will be a psychological evaluation. They do a deep dive into their social history, family history, criminal history. There's an entire picture

that is presented. Is that by a psychologist. Probation does a report as well if there's been any prior history. My understanding is cold did not have

any prior criminal history whatsoever. The charges are so serious that this is a case that would also be that charges themselves is considered as a factor and the process and been part of the analysis that the judge will be doing as to whether or not the child should be facing penalties in the adult system, or whether or not juvenile system can handle and appropriately punish as well as rehabilitate the

child in the juvenile system. So he's turning sixteen, that gives us five years in the juvenile system, and whether or not that's enough time to rehabilitate the child but also give the appropriate punishment, and that may be, but the evaluation is basically as the child physically, emotionally and psychologically mature enough to be able to handle the adults and the penalties and sanctions if convicted in the

adult system, that's ultimately the question. And in this case, as you know, he almost killed this teacher, and a teacher should be held at a high I think at a very high regard. They're helping our children, and they're in the future of our of our you know, of our population and our citizens in our community. But also the main thing is how severe this beating was. The extent of the injuries that her life has changed for

the rest of our lives and that's a long time impact. And so the first part that will be presented to the judge, and it's all within the judges discretion, was a crime committed and whether or not he was identified as the person that committed the crime. So that's the probable cause hearing. And then the second piece is whether he's amenable to rehabilitation within the juvenile system. And then that's where they looked at the psychological and do the deep dive into

his background. So this wasn't like one punch. Maybe it was a no, it was multiple, multiple he had time to reflect upon his fist is smashing into this six year old woman's face in her head, and he's watching the results. And he continued to beat her after it was obvious she was unconscious and terrible condition, defenseless, she was dissenseless and she could not do anything. Yes, he kept beating her in the head over and over, and thankful he stopped. I'm not sure. I don't know enough at this

point as to what happened. If somebody intervened to make him stop, or he stopped on his own. I don't know that information yet. All right, So when's the next hearing on this fifteen year old of Coraine High School. I don't have any time. I mean, I think it's in April. They wanted. They requested longer time the defense did so that they could to the independent evaluation of the of the of his blood and urine. And

you're going to keep trying to get him over now. Clyde Bennett, who's a pretty good criminal defense attorney, says that this was his first time he's blaming this this vape situation. And I think probably the marijuana was in his system before he vaped or whatever, and as a consequence, he's only a child, he should stay in the system. But on the other hand, when you commit almost the murder, this is close to an attempt at murder.

Felonius assault a terrible and you had time to reflect upon what you're doing as you're beating this woman on the on the floor, you had time to reflect. You think that because of the nature of the fish bousness of this attack, this is beyond someone stealing potato chips from Walmart. This is a serious situation and you want to trade it seriously. Absolutely, that's exactly right. Though, I mean, this could have been a murder case. Luckily

it's not. That the injuries are so severe and like I said, her life has been forever changed, and the level of the rage and the viciousness makes him a dangerous person. Obviously, we want to see the entire analysis

also as when it's completed. I mean, maybe we have a different position after we see more that at this point at this point and the investigation is still ongoing as well, that at this point in time, I believe that the appropriate place for the penalties to keep the public protected would be in the adult system. So if you would do this to a sixty year old defenseless woman, one can only imagine if this rage continues, that he would inflict

it upon us and he's going to kill the next person. And I'm with you one thousand percent on this one. It's sad and I do you have a hope? I could say, in the good old days, this kid was going to be tried as an adult because he committed an adult crime. Are you confident this is going to be bound over? I don't have everything in front of me, and it's hard for me to make that judgment at this point, only because we still have the whole psychological analysis that has to

be done. And then a background into is you know, going a deep dive into a social history, family history, you know, so, but at this point in time where we are right now, I believe, based on the severity of the crime, he should be in the adult system to face the is a punishment in the adult system to protect the public. All right, let's talk about Marymount High School. There was an order about a week ago by Colorado Springs officials that put this twenty two or twenty three year

old under a protective order that he can't own a gun. And there's some thinking that because he's autistic. I spoke to some Marrymont parents and I spoke to two of them. One of them said, absolutely, I don't want my daughter on a list to be killed and raped. This kid needs to be treated like an adult. Otherwise, some other parents are saying, well, autism is a serious condition. It just towards someone's view of reality. Of course, Elon Musk is autistic. He's done pretty well with that disorder.

But nonetheless, what is the status of the Merrymont case now? And may you, may you, can you answer the question why is Colorado officials not arresting the twenty two year old? Well, let me begin first with Colorado. In Colorado, the investigation is still ongoing. We have the demand's

computer, his gaming system, and his cell phone. In the meantime, while they're still doing the forensic dive into that information, because if I said, the investigations on going and you know that kind of that takes time to break in and find things that were deleted and to see exactly get a full picture of what was going on on that man's end. In the meantime, they did the right thing, which is prevent him from being able to purchase

any type of firearm. So we know that he's on that list and so he'll be flagged and keep the public safe from what we've seen, you know, in the preliminary stages of the investigation in marymant and this is basically through what we have here and some of the communications through the students done and they have not I don't have the results yet of his gaming system, his computer, all of that was seized in a search warrant, so that is being

looked into and you know, to be able to uncover if anybody else involved, exactly what they were talking about, what they were planning. So that's that's what's happening now. So it's still we don't have a full picture the young man that's the student here in Marymott. I don't know if we don't know his psychological evaluation yet. We haven't received that yet. The defense is

only asked for competency. I believe that he'll be found competent. The competency is just basically, does he understand, you know, what's going on in court, the purpose of a judge, what the defense does, what the prosecutor does, what a meaning of a not guilty plea, a guilty plea, et cetera. I think he'll be fine on that from what we can tell just in his his communications on his phone that we've received and shared. I think, you know, most of that was shared with the media.

He should be able to. I think he'll be found competent. The defense is just making sure they're covering all their bases, so it slows the process down a bit. As far as being in the courtroom on the investigation side, this is every day they're still working on it and pursuing it. We're getting updates, you know, photos are being pulled off, et cetera,

and looking at what's happening there. As far as should be tried as an adult or not, again, the seriousness is so frightening that my concern is always first is to make sure are we protecting the public, and so file for the bind over is preserving our opportunity that we can pursue. That is again, as investigation goes on, excuse me, or psychological evaluation may change our minds that this is not appropriate, then we may take that off the

table. But as of now, and as of what I believe that what I know now, the appropriate place and form for this case to be heard is in the adults, where adult sanction, adult court, where adult sections can be imposed. At your news conference, you spoke about the eight kids list raping some of the female students. Also, he practiced shooting at a range, and I can't imagine he had to do some action further into the conspiracy. Other than fanciful, some think this was simply a fourteen year old

and some family sea land, no relationship to reality. But when you take pen to paper, right list down of people you're going to kill, the staff you're going to kill. You have the text messages back and forth with this twenty two year old in Colorado, and further into the conspiracy, then he goes to a shooting range to fire weapons. I think this is a normal guy. I think shooting at the range for a fourteen year old who's autistic is a further act of the conspiracy. What part did the shooting at

the range play in your decision? Well, as you said it was, we're considering that as one of the overt acts and further intoid the conspiracy to actually commit the crime. We have more information that I'm not disclosing at this point, but that you have the gist of it, and that can justify

as charging them under how we charge them with the conspiracy. It's amazing you have fourteen and fifteen year olds almost ordering a teacher in classrooms, and then you have a fourteen year old at Marymont High School who wants to kill his classmates and rape a girl. To female students and shooting at ranges. Yeah, Juvenile court is not what it used to be. Melissa Powers, thank you, keep doing what you're doing. God bless you, and we'll check

in with you later on as more events transpired. Melissa Powers, thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Though, let's continue with more. As I said, the Governor's coming up a little bit later in today's Big Show. But fourteen and fifteen year olds beating teachers half to death in classrooms and then preparing to buy guns to shoot up Marymont High School. Those are fourteen and fifteen year olds. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham News

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in the prosecutor's office. Now she's back as the appointed soon to be elected county prosecutor in November. If people know what they're doing, and if you don't know what we're doing, the country's a mess, goes voters asked for it. Think about this city council went through the last four or five years, a circumstance where the majority you runder criminal investigation result in three either going to federal prison or having served their sentence, and another one who violated certain

other laws and rules and regulations. But all were under a criminal investigation by the FBI and by the State of Ohio and other sources because of the misbehavior they engaged in. Now you would think that if you had numerous members of city council going to federal prison, that the voters of Cincinnati might say, you know what, we're on the wrong track here, man. We keep voting the same way anticipating different results, and that's the definition of insanity.

We can't continue to do this. We better put someone like Liz Keating back on city council because she's been there for a few years. She gets if she plays well with others. She's the one non Democrat in the room. The Charter eight party is completely collapsed, so they're all liberal Democrats. Now, you would think that would make some sense of voters who say, you know what, we got to change direction here, man, this isn't working.

Look at what's happening in the city of Cincinnati, and we don't like it. Brian Combs had it this morning. This year in the city, that's going to be about four to five hundred people shot and eighty to ninety murdered. And that doesn't take into account all of the other offences, the mass beatings downtown, breaking into cars, things of that character that's continuing anyway. So you would think voters would say, in the city of Cincinnati,

we got to change direction because what we're doing is not working. Cincinnati public schools, the public school system in Cincinnati is terrible. There's about five thousand every day that'll even show up chronically absent. About seventy percent of black boys are chronically absent from school. That's a problem. So you would think the voters might say, you know what, I think we're on the wrong track here. We might try to elect somebody different to the school board. Now,

the problem may not be the school board. The problem is the collapse of the American family. What are the odds of a out in an urban area being born into a family that's intact on the day he was born, and the day he or she graduates from high school eighteen years later, the same family's intact. That odds are less than one percent. It doesn't happen.

It's rare when you have parent teacher conferences, the parents don't show up, and the teachers are getting the crap beat out of them in school and the F bomb is dropped on a regular basis and there's little or no education happening because there's no consequence. If there's a consequence, well it might change someone's behavior. But when I've asked those in CPS, including the superintendent ironet

or right, is something called social promotion is what's occurring. So you don't have to master the materials to move on to the next grade level because it doesn't make any difference. You may not be able to read and write as a freshman or sophomore, but guess what, You're still going to be advanced to the next year because there's social promotion. Unless the parent or guardian agrees with the teacher in the school to hold someone back, which doesn't happen at

all, little or no homeworks being conducted. All it is is expensive daycare. So, and that's true in every urban district in the United States of America that there's little or no education happening. How much education is happening in Detroit public schools or Washington DC, or Los Angeles County public schools? Are you kidding me? None of it's going on. It doesn't occur. And

the voters are in charge of the school board. So you would think the voters might say, now, wait a minute, that this is terrible. We have teachers being beaten up in classes, we have students dropping f bombs to teachers. The standardized testing is awful. We've not succeeded at this for decades. The voters might say, you know what, we got to change. We're going to have different votes because we want different results. It doesn't

happen. Classic cases. The city of Chicago Lori Lightfoot by any fair measurement, was a terrible mayor awful, didn't support the police, gave out huge raises to the teachers' unions. Downtown was decimated. Parts of Chicago looked like Bay Root. So what happened? They had a choice between two Democrats, a more or less moderate Democrat and a left wing radical Democrat named Brandon Johnson.

By a wide margin, the voters of Chicago gave it all to Brandon Johnson, the community organizer, and now he's running Chicago completely into the ground, and the voters are saying, we can't take it anymore. We can't go to the parks, we can't walk on the sidewalks. There's no public education occurring. The police department is decimated, there's a little or no job creation. We're in terrible condition. You want to bet whether the voters in

Chicago are going to vote to keep Brandon Johnson as the mayor? Very likely. Why would anyone knowingly vote for politicians who embrace policies that cause great harm? I don't know. You got me in about a month from now, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg is going to put on trial for two months Donald Trump, because well, he's the leader of the opposition party in Washington,

DC wants it done. There's a coordination of prosecution between Fanny Willis and Atlanta Alvin Bragg in New York City, Jack Smith and Washington, d C. And Brock who's sainted, Obama's alcoholtes all over the place, all want to get Trump bankrupt him and send him to jail for the rest of his life. Is that the attitude Alvin Bragg has about those who treat cops heads

like soccer balls. Absolutely not. He doesn't prosecute crime unless it's comming up by Donald Trump, in which case he throws the book at Donald Trump. The murder of the nursing student in Atlanta was awful. As I related to you yesterday. Ibera, the illegal alien from Venezuela, was in New York City for about a year and a half and he was a one man crime

wave in New York City. Jose Antonio Obara committed numerous offenses in New York City, all of which he was charged with and all of which got out on bond which has signed your name O ar bond and then he skipped, resulting in what well lots of warrants for his arrest, but the bench warnes

were never issued. They don't issue capias as in New York City if you don't show up for a criminal activity or trial, It's okay, nothing happens unless you're Donald Trump, in which case they throw the book at you. So he ends up going into Georgia, hooks up with his brothers, and commits numerous other crimes in and around Athens, Georgia. In Atlanta. Of course, he was not arrested for two of them, but for two he won. I was arrested, no bond was set, got out, didn't

appear in court, no warrants issued for his arrest. But what they do do in Atlanta is go after Donald Trump. Now Fanny Willis is going to go after Donald Trump because of this fake elector scheme and other crap. Throw up against the wall. See what sticks. So if you're in New York City, or if you're in Atlanta and commit serious crime, there's no punishment

unless you're Donald Trump. Then you get the book thrown at you. They want to bankrupt Donald Trump and put him in prison for the rest of his life, but not people like Abara and others, illegal aliens who commit numerous crimes. And Alvin Bragg never saw a criminal he didn't like, including a New York I saw the story out of the Washington Post, but three months

ago there was a sixteen year old kid who was breaking into cars. He pulled a gun out and shot three Washington DC pulled out PO officers in uniform on duty. Fortunately it was a bad aim and all three officers recovered. But to be shot in the arm of the leg is not a pleasant experience. That kid now was kept in juvenile court, and he's due to be released sometime this summer, having served less than six months in jail for shooting

three police officers. But in Washington, d C. If you're Donald Trump, they throw the book at you. We're going to appoint teams of prosecutors to bring you down. Are any citizens in New York, Washington, d C. Or Atlanta profoundly affected if Donald Trump is walking the streets as opposed to all these thousands of criminals who make life unbearable? Of course not so. Why do voters knowingly put in power politicians who embrace policies that cause great

harm? I have no idea. Every now and then I vote for a Democrat. Mostly I vote for Republicans because at least they say they're for a limited government and lower taxes unless government but doesn't work out that way. Joe Biden has allowed millions and millions of completely unvetted immigrants with an array of criminal, social, psychiatric, and health problems enter the country, causing untold disruption

in every city in which they've arrived in threats of terrorism. Instead of deporting these people, who, by the way, violate federal law simply by coming here illegally, what does Biden do gives them free rent at the Roosevelt Hotel, free food, free cell phones, free credit cards, debit cards with one thousand dollars a month put on, free medical care, and free childcare.

So the same guy Biden that destroyed our energy independence, caused runaway inflation by dumping two trillion dollars into the market that wasn't needed, undermine our military readiness all around the world, and was in charge of the Afghan pullout, is now allowing literally millions and millions of felonies to be committed by individuals who should not be here in the first place, and he's incentivizing more to come by paying them. When you pay for bad behavior, you get more of

it. When you tax good behavior, you get less of it. And now he's using the legal system against Donald Trump not to deny him due process to confiscate his money, confiscate his buildings, and to impose a lengthy jail sentence so he spends the rest of his life in jail. The guy's seventy seven years old and he's probably got ten or fifteen years to live, and

he's looking at three hundred years in jail. The law is now being used to punish people you don't like politically, much like a third world banana republic. I would that the people of New York City got to be fed up with all this, the mounting crime and the defecation, the homelessness, the

drug used, but probably not. They voted for Allan Alvin Bragg and likely would vote for him again in twenty six when he's up for reelection, and I would anticipate that in Atlanta, Fanny Willis is a hero now because she committed perjury on the witness chair. She played the race card and the gender card. Likely will do quite well. And you know, I catch flak for this every election season. I tell Americans, if you don't know what the issues are, if you don't know who the candidates are, you don't

know what positions they say they stand for soon to be changed. I'm sure, stay home and don't vote. If you're a dumb ass, don't vote. Does that make sense to anyone? The media tells people get out and vote. Today's election day, Get out, who knows? Just go vote? It is stupid, absurd If you do not know exactly what to vote for, who to vote for, and why stay home? Don't vote? Because it turns the votes in the knowledgeable Americans in the sawdust, it means

nothing. It's unbelievable. When it comes to politics, many of us have a rather underinformed viewpoint these They see themselves as compassionate people who want to help the disadvantage. And if you're white, you've been told that the white patriarchy, white privilege oppresses blacks and other minorities. As a result, you may feel guilty about your own success. Especially suburbanite females feel guilty. But when it comes to immigration and open door policies apply, that hurts the country.

Will this cause more and more Americans to say, you know what, I can't take it anymore. That's it, I'm done. I'm going some other direction. Orange man bad the Orange man say about the UN? What do the Orange man say about putin? How about looking around and thinking, what are the policies that we have such difficulties caused by the party in power, and are we going to vote to change that. Cincinnati, the city of Cincinnati and Hamlety County is in trouble. And it's in trouble because it's one

party rule. There was an opportunity with Liz Keating in November for the city of Cincinnati to have one person not in the cabal of left wing socialist Democrats, and she was rejected summarily. And she's a good woman. Why I have no idea. I think if you don't take the time to study the issues and the candidates, and you don't know what's going on, do not

go vote because you're a dumbass. The most patriotic thing you can do is stay home on election day rather than vote on the basis of whims or emotions or political affiliation, because you're playing Russian Roulette with the history of this country. So, as I began, if Melissa Powers is not re elected and this county completely goes woke, there will be no watch dog and no one

to turn to. When the Hamilton County area looks like the city of Cincinnati, take a short break the line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand and uh. Looking to my left Chuck Schumer screaming and hollering about Republicans. We have a two trillion dollar annual deficit. We owe thirty four trillion dollars soon to be forty trillion dollars. We can't afford it. The credit cards are maxed out. We can't take it

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baby. I'm gonna tall you hot half that I'm bad of the bowl, Bad of the Bowl, Bad of the Bowl. Ri Bully Cunningham, the Great America and the governor of this state is the governor of Mike DeWine and Mike Dwine, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show and Mike how doing. First of all is get right to I know your busy got something going on in a few minutes here, But nonetheless, two or three issues are percolating.

Are you ready for my probing questions? Yeah? But first of all, this theme song of yours, you've had it for like fifty years or something. Yeah. If you think it's time for something more upbeat than Bad to the Bone, just think about that. Well serious, I get the press line here, you know that. Come on? Well yeah, well your theme your walk up music is the Jetsons. Yeah, I mean,

I'm kind of thinking of the jets comes from a nineteen sixties show. Yeah, many people you know, we're of that generation, many or not. But nonetheless, we were supposedly having these flying taxis about sixty years ago. And now are we going to have flying taxis? What's happening with that? Your California companies just coming to Okiles and build those flying taxis near the Dayton Airport. That's that's about the future. Excited. I have to see it

to believe it. So as I understand it, It's gonna hover like a helicopter, go up and then just take off and you can you can reserve it much like like an uber drive like a bat. Like, Yeah, it's gonna go straight up and that's gonna go like a bat out of hell. I mean, it's just gonna be really, uh a great thing. And it is. It is about the future. And I love it that the California Company decided that Ohio is a great place to make a aviation vehicle

of the future. Much you love that. I love it because that's one of my first questions. Is New York seemingly is bleeding companies, California is bleeding companies and that Donald Trump factor in New York is causing you know, you got the ag you spent eight years as our age. Latitia James is doing a victory lap about all the money every day that Trump loses one hundred

and twelve thousand dollars more, and she's like poking the bear. And have you made efforts from like California, maybe specifically New York and other Blue states to say, come to Ohio. The tax rates are extremely low, plenty of good water flat because of the glacier that came down. What efforts are you going to go to New York, et cetera, maybe Michigan after Whitmer

and you're gonna help Ohio? And so what's being done there? Well, bill if you remember during the Bengals Super Bowl when we went out there, we had several billboards out there inviting people in California basically, if you're sick of high taxes and if you're sick of a very very high cost of living

and the whole bunch of traffic, come to Ohio. And you know, we're getting a lot of companies that are literally coming off off the West coast, So I'm coming off the east coast, and it was noteworthy I think that the Governor of Pennsylvania in his State of the State speech referenced Ohio and basically said said, it is not a direct quay, but hey, we're tired of losing to Ohio. We got to go after this. We've got to get these jobs to come to Pennsylvania. So literally called Ohio out.

Yeah, in the State of the state. So look, we're not going to get every every company that wants to move or every company is going to start up, but we're sure getting more than our fair share, and we're going to continue continue to do that. This population in Ohio, dwin Lingers are going up because at one point we we're losing. Have we stabilized going the other direction or no, Yeah, we're going up. You know, Bill, for most of my life, for fifty sixteen sixty years, our

population has been relatively stable. And you know, we're we're moving forward and we're starting to see our population go up more. It's not going up as fast as you know, I might like, but it's it's it certainly is going up. And you know, it's just a great place to do business, great great place to live, great place to raise a family. You know, more and more people recognizing that. A couple of days ago,

I sent you an article out of Coal Rain Middle School. As you're probably aren't monitoring Coal Rain Middle School, but there were several students there that were hospitalized and justin cannabis infused gummy bears, and I understand that that is a And when I talk to educators, they say, hey, they look like candy, they look like children's things, and they're passed around summer Lace with fentanyl, summer Lace with THC. Cole Rain Middle School had ambulances showing up,

kids were kids were hallucinating, et cetera. And here we sit almost in March, and you Republicans, not you, but the Republicans in the House have refused to move on the will of the voters five months ago. What's the status of that as we approach March? First, Well, first of all, thank you for sending that to me. I put our team on that to look at that, and we're still that's still under investigation,

as you know, and trying to get all the facts. Like you know, one of the things that you know, we are very concerned about is more kids showing up at the emergency room and these gummy these gummy bears or these gummies, they're not all bears. I guess they're gummies. You know, can can be have the marijuana in it, and you know, if

an adult ate one, it probably wouldn't have a whole huge effect. But the problem is that you know, someone gets hold of them, a kid particularly, and they eat more than eat more than one, or they're you know it's a kid, they're wait as low, or they're you know, they're a first grader or a second grader, and it's just a it's a real, real problem. We got a couple of things that the legislature,

as you say, really needs needs to do. One is this Delta eight, Delta nine, Delta ten, which is a hemp product, but it is hallucinogenic and it's sold for that very specific purpose and you can buy it unfortunately in gas some gas stations today, uh and we're seeing, you know, fifteen year olds go in, sometimes twelve year olds go again and buy

it. I mean we have, for example, ahead of a public safety Andy Wilson, I asked him to go check this out, and you know, in Springfield, he sent his fifteen year old Nason to uh, well, I guess there's his nephew to go in went right into the store and bought it. So you know, in many places they don't check, they're not checking IDs. They're selling this product. It's legal to sell it. We need to close that loophole and the law it's it's a it's a big

loophole. It was a loophole in farallel loopool and state law. I do not have the power a pharmacy board, the medical board, nobody has the power to ban this stuff. And only the legislature can do it. So we need, you know, really need for them to do it. How about joll Bone and get Stevens in there and beat him about the facing the head governor, tell him this is what I want. I'm the governor. You're not. The Senate passed at the paper passed it. What in the

hell is to hold up four months later? Well, I just you know, Bill, I'm not I can't really answer that. I mean, this is something the legislature has to do. You're right. The you know, the Senate did pass a basically a marijuana bill, which would have allowed us to start selling marijuana through are places that are already licensed to sell a medical

and we easily done that. Now that again, that may sound strange for someone who was not in favor of the bill, and I'm still not, but the people passed it, and they passed it with about fifty seven percent of the vote. We have to, I think, follow the will of the people, but we also have to do it in a rational and reasonable way, and that's what this bill would have done. And so again the Senate passed it. We would like for the House to pass it, and

you know, we can move on the big concern we have. You know, it passed. Everybody thinks it's legal. Yeah, but you can't legally buy it yet it a lot and that just creates a you know, a bigger black market, and a black market is not good because people are buying the product and there's no guarantee that it's not been you know, what it's laced with, what it's got in it. They don't know that the purity, they don't know how potent stuff is. All of those things are controlled.

Once you go into a controlled sale of marijuana, and there's you know, you know that it's not been grown and sprayed with pesticides and mean, all these things are guaranteed when you buy it. But that system is not set up yet, and we need, frankly, the legislature to pass legislation that allows us to set this up much faster than the current law allows us to do so. Again, these are two big areas that we really need

some help from the state legislature. Thanks for city sanctuary states. I'm looking to my left right now, Mayor Adams is holding another town hall meeting explaining what's going on with They've had about one hundred and twenty five thousand legal immigrants come. They've had about thirty thousand kids show up at school, many without any of their vaccinations. Ohio is not a sanctuary state, but that we have several cities like Cincinnati that are sanctuary cities. And in fact, I

saw this video from the border. A border patrol agent sent me there's a large group of Ethiopians illegally entering the country. They're going to be shipped to Cincinnati because of Catholic charities and or the Salvation Army that provide the government contracts

to the house clothe and feed these individuals. Is there anything at the state level you can do to dissuade individuals, whether they're the Salvation Army, which is a great organization, or Catholic Charities, which is a great organization. But they're being paid by the federal government big bucks to relocate it legals into Ohio. Anything you can do to stop that, Well, first of all, we're not a sanctuary state, and the idea of sanctuary cities I think

is absurd. You know, I guess what they're saying. I'm never quite sure what they mean by a sanctuary city, but I guess it means that they won't cooperate with the federal authorities, which again goes against everything that I believe in as far as local law enforcement. Uh. And you know, we should be cooperating with federal officials no matter what, you know, what

the criminal investigation is or what whether it's an immigration issue. Let me point out the build one thing, and that is that there are a lot of people who are coming to Ahile and they're not being relocated. They're just literally, you know, we've got this situation at the border where they're basically and you our listeners have heard this a million times. Basically it's kind of an

absurd situation. They get on us soil, then they turn lineup to turn themselves in and then they climb asylum, which basically means, you know, they have a legitimate fear of going back to their to their country that they came from. They're basically then you know, they give some indication of where they're going to move move to, uh, and then they're given a date which is I don't know, six eight years in advance to show up.

You know, that's that system that doesn't work right because what they do is they my only point is they disappear into the into the community, and so they may end up any anywhere. And you know, one of the things that frankly we're concerned with is when people come in to a community UH and you know they don't they don't speak English and they and they can't uh maybe maybe don't know how to drive, but yet you know, they get they

get a license to drive. So these are things that you know, it is very legitimate or local agencies to try to help them speak English, because again it's it's not helpful to anybody. If they can't speak English. It means they don't report crime, they don't can't communicate, you know, creates problems with the kids going to school. I mean, so what we do with in one we're here, I think is, you know, we try

to make it work. The problem is down on the border, and that's all the federal government, right, and you know the system that exists today just is goofy. I mean, it makes no You couldn't make a system up any goofier than what we have today on the border. I mean, I imagine this. You tell somebody, Okay, show up in you know, five years, six years, seven years or whatever it is the time they got this massive backlaw, and you know, you've got to fix the

backlaw. You got to get more more of these judges who hear these things, and the current system just is well. Lastly, let me ask you this question. Looking at my right here at the Wall Street Journal's got a story about Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, has put in roads into Donald Trump to work out their differences. The primary in Ohio is, like I think, on March the nineteenth, got three candidates running for the

Senate. You've endorsed none of them. Let the people decide. Do you see yourself endorsing Donald Trump at some point? First of all, I'm a big fan of Mitch McConnell. I worked with Mitch for twelve years in the US Senate. He's a guy that you know, knows how to get stuff stuff done. The Supreme Court that we have today, we owe connell a lot. We certainly President Trump a lot for nominating them. But he but mcconnald's the one that got them to the Senate, held up one of the

one of the previous administration's candidates. So anyway, miss has done I think a very very very good job. My focus, uh is going to be after this this primary, Uh, do everything I can to help our Senate nominee. I think we've got three good candidates who are running. I notice on TV everybody's beating everybody up. I'm that great sort of goes with the game. I understand that. But but the next morning after the primary, you know, we need to get behind uh. You know whoever that whoever

the nominee is of the Republican Party. And I'm going to my my political focus, Uh this year certainly is going to be uh, you know, primarily on on that. I'm not up myself. I'm not running. But would you accept it if Trump? If Donald Trump called you and said, Mike DeWine, I want you to be my vice president. Would you accept that, Billy, I'm not interested in that. I'm uh, I'm interested in serving your governor of state. We got plenty to do here. Uh.

We've been focusing, you know, getting kids to read. And you didn't say no. You didn't say no reading. No, I'm not no, I'm not going to interest. I'm not interested. No. All right, I don't think he's calling anyway, Billy, I think you were completely different people. Would you agree, Well, I just don't think he's calling. I'm not interested. I love being a governor. It's you know,

we got a lot of work to do in the next few years. All right, Governor, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show live here in Cincinnati, and you'll be at Red's opening day I think in about a month, is that correctly? Well? Spring training, listening to listen to all the games yesterday with my son Brian, and as we were we were coming home and it's it's good to have baseball back on the radio. Mike Dowan. Governor, Mike Dewan, thank you very much for coming on the

Bill Cunningham Show and change that theme song, will you please? Well, can you give me a recommendation? I mean what I got? Uh? That's my favorite song is George store Good's Bad to the Bone. I mean, I kind of like my back pages. Also, that's a pretty good song. I could update it maybe with a tailor swift song, shake it off. I think something. I think something by Tricia Year would would be just really good. She's saying something Tricia Year would. I like her TV

show and the Food Network. I like her. Well, I don't know about that. I don't think i've seen that. I like to listen to it, Tricia. I'm gonna see what I can do, all right, Yeah, seriously, this is it's gone on decades. It's too long. All right. I'm going to talk to the powers that be. We're going to change my theme song. Governor. Thank you. All right, thank you, Governor, Mike, thank you. We'll send them off the proper

way right here. His favorite song is That Jetson's George Jetson hit the music. Mike Dwine loves this, going to text to it from Frank zie Bell don't change it, also known as Mike Dwine also known as Patrick the Line, also known as I don't know. Sharon Kennedy, also known as Friend. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham seven hundred WLW. Hey, Drew Scott here, and I'm Jonathan Scott reminding you that life's better with the home

policy from American Family Insurance. They can help you get Jim here, he said, And I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right. He said, the better angel, he said, we must address the council and adjust the better angels of our nature. And we do, and we do well to remember what else he said. He said, we're not enemies, but we're friends. It's the middle in the part of the Civil War said we're not enemies, that we're friend We must not be enemies, folks.

And I've been around. I know, I don't look at I've been around a long while. And uh, I mean it's Sincerety we've gotten politics has gotten too bitter. Hello, quiet, and I'm I'm broadcasting. God. Got a request here from Governor Mike Dwine to change my walk up music. He doesn't like bad to the bone. The girl in this town, he says, Tricia, missus Garth, we got to go back. Come on and listen to the music. Just listen, listen Tricia singing from the

top and wonder what's up there for me? Every girl in this town's hat a Friday night. It ended in tears and the yellow porch line. What thinking it was love? But it was justice seventeen lust lust. I don't know about this. I don't either till we all love down bring Cybel just text, nothing against the nothing against the governor. But this stinks. He said, he loves this. He loo. Frank Cybel says he loves his music. Hit the music. Where's the hook line? Where's the hook?

Yeah, where's the hook? Like, get to it? Every girl in this town. I've never heard of this song. You never heard of this. If you change this, I'm not coming back. I like Battle the Bone, Thank you, George Thargo. I mean, now what we break it? That's Steve Austin. There we go now now now we're back at it. Yeah, I'll break before I'm through singing. People will revolt if

you change your views. They would, Christian Year would. I don't know, nothing against the governor, but I mean, what about Taylor Swift shake it off or shake it on? Something like that. No, then you end up looking like Travis Kelsey. So I go the other day, as you know, on I think it was Saturday, to Ron's Roost. Correct. I'm sitting there out front, and fortunately we got there about noon. Didn't have to wait long for a table, right, And Olga comes out

and gives me a tour of the kitchen. I say to Olga, who's ninety six years old, correct, been in the business since she was for eighty years. I said, I like to see your POS system. I want to see dry storage. I want to see the bear cake system. I want to see the VNCE and I want to see the employee bathroom. She let's go. Is this a prelude to maybe Willie's Ron's Roots? Anyway? You got one down that you had one down the street, didn't you, correct? Yeah? And the issue I saw was that number one it

was clean. Well, I like to go into the employee's bathroom. Uh huh. And if that's clean, it tells me that's it. And you could have eaten off the floor of the employee's bathroom. And Augas says, we clean it twice a day. About that twice a day. And then I saw the appointed sale of the POS system. I saw the events. I saw the Saratoga Chips. I saw the dry storage, I saw the beer kegs and the refrigerator. I saw the frozen walk in had a ten

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a candle? Also? WILLI? We want to thank Lears Prime Market Thes during Letton season here for every Friday through Lenton season through March twenty second. Now they got the hot and crispy fish sandwiches homemade tartar sauce voted at east Side's Best fish Sandwich's unbelievable. There Andy Mack Full Catering Service Deluxe Deli located in beautiful downtown Milford Lears dot com. I have a text here from Dan Carroll. Uh oh okay, Seriously, Mike DeWine is talking to a two

time National Marconi Award winner and telling him to change his theme music? Is he trying to improve? He's as clueless as Joe Biden. Wow, that's some Dan Carroll. Okay, Well, let's see the Reds. Will he beat the Cubs today? Frankie Montass on the mound for the Red Legs coverage of two thirty five Arnel Carriers Inside Pitch on Fox Sports thirteen sixty and yesterday the Red Legs suffered their first loss, but then one, so they went

there now three and one in the Cactus League second place. Yesterday, Willie, they were shut out by the Mariners led by Luis Castillo, to nothing in two hours and four minutes. That's a baseballs I think Seattle wanted to beat the traffic. And who was pitching for Seattle one, Luis Castillo? Please continue. The Reds avoided being no hit in an exhibition game for the first time since they were no hit by the Dayton Veterans on July seventeenth,

nineteen ten. Who was president of nineteen ten? That was Woodrow Wilson. Nope, he was elected as you know in nineteen twelve. I it was close. Who was fine? Oh Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt. No, that was not the guy that speaks softly. And who was the guy that didn't know was him? But as you know, he did not run in nineteen o eight. Who he has a house right here? Oh William Howard task

I didn't go right there. He couldn't fit a bat time. Yeah, he invented the seventh inning stretch that right him because he was fat so, but anyway, what were you saying about nineteen ten that the Reds avoid being no hit in an exhibition game yesterday for the first time since they were no hit by the Dayton Veterans. And this is actually real July seventeenth, nineteen ten. It was an exhibition game in July. What it says? I want to check that out. Let's see, you're gonna not get bad information

on my listeners. Uh the Let's see plenty of college basketball tonight. It is uh UC Bearcats and number one Houston six thirty Big Game Davidson a number twenty one Dayton sixteenth rate A, Kentucky at Old and Mississippi State, the Cats and the Dogs. About Miami RedHawks at Bowling Green, About Za Xavier plays tomorrow night against DePaul And apparently I passed the last night during the Sean Miller Show, he went he went off on his team. I'll uh Rick

Patino correct saying that some of the guys don't deserve to play anymore. Well, then don't play them. We'll see what happens. You know, when I have those difficulties with my teams back in the good old days, right, I gave him great speeches before each game and during breaks. You know what impact it had on those eighth graders. None. Let's see Finley. Former Reds, Willia, Dimitri Young and Pokey Reese are going to be the

grand marshals for the upcoming Finlay Market Opening Day parade in thirty days. And by the way, I asked, Jim Scott will be the honorary grand Marshal. We wish him that old Jim Scott. I wish him the best. He made his living speaking and is Neil Lucan pointed out, now Jim Scott cannot speak Bengals Update, Willy. They hired three new assistants today, So now Zach Taylor has twenty three assistant coaches, more than the president has in

his cabinet, twenty three. Jordan salkin, what do they do as an offensive assistant? Ronnie Riguya is a defensive assistant, comes over from Notre Dame. The Homer Rocky Boyman Ben Jacobs special team's assistant was with the Panthers and Commanders. I forgot to bring in the left center right game to give to Rocky, so tomorrow I had it out, didn't put in my pocket.

Great, but I'll bring it in tomorrows segment with your permission. Sure a shocker last night in soccer and the Conka caf W Gold Cup Series, Mexico beat the United States to nil. You know Jim Scott's marched in the Family Market Parade for more than fifty years. About that. In nineteen sixty eight, as you'll recall, I was traveling back and forth between my home on Wicklow Avenue and Dylan Vale to Xavier Campus in the mornings. And who did

I listen to every morning? The one and only Jim Scott thirteen sixty I listened to Jim Scott EHL hockey. Today, Willie, they played a matinee and Circle City the Indie Fuel down the Cyclones four to one. Well, it's a shocker when the American women's soccer team I take it without Megano correct loses to Mexico, which was perceived to be not much of an opponent.

Plus, we have sad news in the world of wrestling. Ollie Anderson, good friend to Kid Chris, pivotal figure in professional wrestling, has passed away at eighty one. He was a founding member of the Four Horsemen along with Rick Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully, Blanchard, and JJ Dillon, who got a text here from Robert Jones. Robert Jones plumbing good friends. We need quality plumbers. Get trained. Now, Sega, would you're to be

an electrician? My whole family's in the plumbing business. Believe me, it's the plumbing business is going to be there in years and decades to come. I would say, so, great point not going anywhere. Everyone's looking for employees and supposedly yep, there's eighty thousand Americans out of work, but they wouldn't work if you kicked him in the ass twice. Also, Willie, you know the nia L deals for for college players today, cars, houses, in et cetera. The first ni I n I L private jet deal

has been made. What Heisman Trophy candidate Old Miss quarterback Jackson Dart has sent has signed an ni L deal today with Nicholas Air. The endorsement will provide mister Dart dark hours of any plane he wants in the Nicholas Air fleet of jets for travel, training, and et cetera. N I L now the quarterbacks have private air travel. I guess he's gonna go not gonna go with the team on the private jet. I got a text here from Cash Trucy

telling me use this as my theme song. You know whose theme song this is? Steve Austin right soon told you see me walking up to this. I can see you doing that, but I can't see you crushing two beer cans and then drinking him at the same time. I don't like beer Allsted three sixteen says, I just whipped your ass. Think, thank you? Is there anything? But what? What? What? Why? Did why? What came up with this? Uh? Change in music? He's got the Jetsons theme song, which is my my dad, George, you got

my son el Roy. You mean like every time the governor comes to the press conference, they play that they played Jetson music. He's thinking my song is dated? Well, what about his song that's from the nineteen sixties? Thank you? He's to watch that as a kid, George Jetson, he's bringing in these air tax daughter was hot, though, I like Jane without named Jane. Now I was wife Judy Judy. Jane wasn't bad looking either. People aren't named Jane and Judy anymore. And when they had it was

a dog's name it. Yeah, we'll tell your man. After a planet. Maybe astro l Roy Elroy would have to be a clown. You liked her in that little skirt, didn't you. Astronots that's also known as missus DeLine and he thinks my song is datus. I don't know. This thing's about fifty years old. What are the odds of Donald Trump calling Mike the Wine and saying be my vice president? Cool? Then you got it made? They got If that, then then the show in your show moves to

Washington, to the office. That's right. I don't know. I mean, I'm going to stay at a shock. If that happens, we'd have a story. Sorry, Willie, do you think he didn't say no? You mean my governor Dwine didn't say jo Wine did not say no? So who else? Tim Scott, the guy from South Carolina's in Byron Donald's from southwest Florida. Yeah, so, I don't know. But Mike Dwine would be perfect, would you agree? Can you see those who then Housted would

take over those guy? Correct? He would roll with an iron grip? Then who would be the governor? That lady doctor they got rid of? What was her name? Amy, Amy Acton? Ammy Acton? I don't think so. They offered me the lieutenant governorship. If that happens, I could go to Columbus and be the vice president of Ohio. Wow, you would. Joe Dieters could get a room together. I don't know about that. Justice Joe, Justice, Joe, Justice Joe, and you and Columbus

six guns. I would turn over. He's like Clint Easton in minutes. I'm like Steve Austin Stone cold set. You know what, Just leave your music like it is. Well, some people are going if you change that music, they have a revolt. How about me using Taylor Swift songs like shake It Off or shake It on? With that that doesn't really fit, doesn't help now, you and heard just don't come from different eras and different I used to dater though Fort Travis Kelsey. That's a different start. I

shouldn't get that on the air. No, you shouldn't. All right, say, give me out of the students' apartment. We have a European coming up next to You're gonna survey the American political scene of what's gone wrong. Willie, we say today two citizens of the day. Let me hear him. Bengals Senior defensive assistant Mark Duffner I like that guy who is now entering his fiftieth year in coaching, Wow, and his twenty is attending his twenty

eight straight NFL combine. He knows where the bodies are buried. Mark Mark Duffner is one of our citizens of the day. And then one of your golfing buddies, which one Dean Gregory. He's the best. Thirty fifth anniversary of the Montgomery In Boathouse. Really, yes, Chuck KUBICKI built that thirty five years ago February twenty seventh, and it opened under the leadership of Dean the Dream Gregory. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stood Report.

They got to play us. They got to play us. Who the hell's that? It's Coach Duffner. They gotta play us, right, they gotta play us. That's right. Now, Let's continue. We never stop. We simply continue at some some of the reds and the man seeking a new theme song. According to the Governor Scott Sloan, who may become the Lieutenant Governor slash Vice President of the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump, Trump will call the wine and say join me, do you think,

Michael say yes? This madness has got to stop Bingo. On seven hundred WLW, the hit true crime podcast Paper Ghosts is back, Bill cunning In the Great American As I travel the highways and the byways of this great country of ours, and I speak to those that are concerned about the future, almost always I heard the same thing. We are in trouble. Something is

amiss, something is wrong. Things are out of control in the southern border with governmental spending, the lack of parental control, that kids are running schools. That's almost like a blackboard jungle. It's tough every aspect of American society. Homelessness, drug addiction, alcoholism, poop on the sidewalks, you're in everywhere. It's not the shining city on the Hill described by Ronald Reagan. We've always thought Americans were exceptional, and America is the shining city on the

hill. When Barack Hussein Obama was elected president, he questioned Americans exceptionalism. He said, well, people in Sweden think they're exceptional, and people in Gaza think they're exceptional. Well, I always thought we're the ones that actually that are right about that. But a new book out by Anders Edwardson questions whether or not quote the radical betrayal, how liberals and neo cons are wrecking

American exceptionalism. And that's why I think the election in November is extremely important. And once again the Anders Edwardson, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show and tell the American people Andrews, as far as the reason you put the book together, the radical aspects of the left and the neocons, et cetera, why is America off track? First, thank you Bill for having me on. And they used to put things in perspective as the listener probably already I

figured out of my clear Boston accent. I'm not an inborn American. I'm actually coming from Sweden that you mentioned, so I have a good perspective on

socialism and welfare state and all that. And two, just to give you a very short synopsis on my book, it's the deef is in the subtitle how liberals and neoconservatives our wrecking American exceptionalism because these two groups, and we could discuss each group for hours, but each group the left mainly the liberals mainly through the federal welfare state, and radical so called neoconservatives on the right through their warfare state, the war in Iraq has costed us double both enormous

amounts of money. The Great lbda's Great Society alone almost explains the whole national debt of thirty four trillion dollars. But they have also costed us something more

that you can't put the value money value on. And that's that since they have both sides have used American exceptionalist sounding rhetoric to sell their policies, they glue, as I call it, of American exceptionalism that for two hundred plus years has hold this great nation together, has lost much of its coasts, its gluinoess, so to speak, because people have heard it so much,

so long that they hardly believe anything anymore. Anderson, let me jump in there real fast, because I'm glad you put neocons along with liberals, because you have a great chapter on the federal welfare state of the nineteen sixties. LBJ et cetera, and out ripped America apart and told families the fathers have to leave the home. But the Iraqi war, and we had the A team and twenty oh one, twenty oh two, twenty oh three, we had Dick Cheney, we had George Bush one and two we had Donald Rumsfeldt,

we had Colon Powell to go to war with Iraq. Here we are twenty years later, and it was an unmitigated disaster from every way, beginning with weapons of mass destruction that did not exist. It cost thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, and now Iran completely controls Iraq.

And we got that so wrong. It cost trillions of dollars the Iraqi war throw on top of that, Afghanistan awful so internationally, America's neocons, the Dick Cheney's and the Rumsfels, the Colon Powells, George Bush one and two has cost Americans trillions of dollars and thousands of lives that cannot be replaced. The Taliban are still in charge of Afghani stand and Iran dominates Iraq right now. They have Hesbla Hamas, they have the Hooties, etc. Which

is their outpost of terrorism. And it all began with the decision by Bush forty three to get in there and eliminate the weapons of mass destruction that did not exist. On top of that, domestically, you have massive domestic spending. When Biden took office about three years ago, America was coming out of

the pandemic. The GDP was increasing, but all of a sudden, Democrats being democrats, they had to throw into the mix about two extra trillion dollars that had rampant inflation, etc. And you also have a section here about a super ideology supported by all Americans. Do you still believe today that Americans here we are in February March of twenty twenty four, that somehow schools are teaching American exceptionalism or is an America can sorrow about the schools with the teachers

because garbage in, garbage out. I was taught America is exceptional. Now we're being taught something different. What role does public education play in this indoctrination. Oh, it's one of the main main culprits for the destruction or the erosion of the exceptionalist mindset in this country. America is still exceptional in many ways, but much less so than it was one hundred years ago, because the taxes has gone up, the regulations have multiplied, and the federal government

is much more powerful today than just a few decades ago. So the original exceptionalism put in place by the founding fathers is all life support. But America, I still, thank God, much better over all than most countries, so all countries in Europe when it comes to personal liberties and business climate and stuff like that, and a general optimism. But absolutely the public school system, if they teach something today, as I understand it, they teach that

America is exceptionally bad. Yea, And I mean this is like this is like I mean, Stalin and Breshna and the guys over in Moscow don't have dreamt about a better fifth column during the Cold War than having I don't know how many teachers we have in this country were probably a couple of millions, having a couple of million of anti American effect. With adiens spewing out anti Americanism Monday through Friday to small kids. We believe everything the teacher tells them.

It's horrible, you know. Every day. I went to a public school called deer Park, and I went to Catholic education and then went to public education in deer Park High School. We began every day with a pledge of allegiance. We had special holidays as there were federal holidays. We wrote papers about how exceptional George Washington was, or Abraham Lincoln, how great.

The fourth of July is Labor Day, celebrating working men and women. And so when you say exceptionally bad, and then I look at the academic results objectively of student achievement in high school, and twenty twenty four, twenty twenty three compared to nineteen eighty three, much less nineteen sixty three, we're teaching

less and doctrinating more. And that when conservatives and some others parents point out the school should not be teaching these multicultural ideas and transgender rights and transitioning, that we're called the bigots for calling out those who have put that in the schools, when in reality ones who are not pursuing academic interest but rather political goals, and we're the ones pointing it out, such as there should not

be porn in public libraries accessible to grade school kids. Now that's called book banning instead of swaying. But we can't have porn in the libraries and a grade school, elementary school, And then we're called we want to ban books because we don't want to show genitelia to a seven year old girl. And suddenly we're the ones being being accepted by this. And so when you say,

exceptionally bad anders, Can you give us any hope? Is there any sense in February March of twenty twenty four we're going to be better in the next three to five years. I say the answer is no. I think it's getting worse. We've not hit the bottom yet. I'm a little bit more up to be good and I'm optimistic for one specific reason, if nothing else, the good American people, the salt of the earth people out in

small cities and towns and villages across this great country. I would say that if if we had one hundred percent participation in the elections, these people who are in command of policy and schools and stuff today wouldn't even get thirty five percent. It's probably closer to twenty five percent. Because it's an alien ideology to what America was set up to be and was for a very very long time. And when you talk to normal people in the streets in the stores,

they are just rolling their eyes. But unfortunately almost half doesn't go and vote, and even in presidential elections. So we are ruled by a minority influential and small minority based in the big cities and community community college campuses and stuff. Across the country. Well, the American people itself is the home. I'm I'm glad you're optimistic, because I sit here and I like to think things are going to be. I look at our magnificent cities New York

City, I look at San Francisco. I look at Chicago, Portland, Austin, Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio, the magnificent cities that have been erected over the past two hundred years. They're systematically being destroyed by a left wing socialist ideology in which productive Americans are encouraged to leave, and unproductive Americans and

foreigners who are not here legally are encouraged to come. And so can America survive with twenty or thirty our largest cities that are ripe with crime and violence and dysfunctional school systems and no job creation and all the results of a left wing audiology. Can we survive of our major cities are collapsing. It's hard, of course, because cities are hubs of the business and intellectual development media universities. So what happens there has an enormous influence outside the rot and core

of the cities also, so to speak. But at the same time, the masses of people are still not living in these ten twelve hell holes. Sorry, my friend, it's so, and there is the hope. But it will be an uphill battle to turn this around, that's for sure. But if any people are destined to be able to turn this Western decline around, it's the American people. The Europeanians will definitely not do it. Well. Why not because you have great connections to Sweden. Why is the continent

to the Western democracies not the place to turn things around? Because of what reason? For the simple reason that if you think America is woke today, Europe is ten times worse. They are even further to the left. They are even more anti nationalist, pro multicultural uh and everything they have they have

copied the American walk left and take it to even further extremes. There is a small kind of reaction going on now with some right wing new right wing governance in like Italy and Sweden and Holland, but overall they are still much deeper in the hole than we are even and I would think Andrews the reason is the product of the education system, which is the leveling influence of the family life one might have. In Europe, they're like Harvard, Yale,

University of Chicago, Stanford, UCLA. They're producing marching socialist at an ever increasing number. And America has got to stop the march towards socialism. And at least there's a little bit of an effort in America because of talk radio and because of books like yours. It is freedom. Could you publish a book like this, Anders Edwardson and get it published, say in Germany or Holland or France, or Sweden or Denmark. Could you actually criticize the system

in Europe and get away with it. You can do it if you can find a publisher. But it's finding a publisher is prepared to do it that

is the problem. I before I moved over here in twenty eleven, I published a somewhat similar book about the modern Swedish history that was very critical, and I got it out through a right wing think tank and it created a lot of debate, but it was so far off the mainstream when it came to how Sweden became a rich country to start with and stuff that the debate came and went in a year or two, and today it's just back to the old thing that it was. The social democrats who built modern Sweden and

stuff when that's a pure lie. But that's a different story. But yes to us your question. You can publish it as long as it's not had any direct racist or hate speech in it. But it's to find a publisher. It was relatively easy here in America, yeah, but in Europe it would be a very hard old all right, Anders Edwardson. The name of

the book is Radical Betrayal how liberals and neacns are wrecking American exceptionalism. It takes a look at the history of exceptionalism and right now the schools in America are exceptionally bad and we have to change that. It all begins at the ballot box in November. If we see there's a problem and keep the same individuals in charge that cause the problems in the first place. We're going nowhere. But Andrews Edwardson welcome, Thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show,

and with your permission, we'll do it again. Thank you, Anders absolutely, thank you for having me. God blessurell Let's continue with more and if a line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, see public schools as the eleven influence of bad or good family life to produce marching capitalists and marching great Americans and not marching socials.

As Anders said many many years ago, communists said that America will fall from within, and the Great Abraham Lincoln said that no foreign power can put a step under the Blue Ridge Mountains or a cup water out of the Ohio River and take over this great country. And when America falls, it'll be from within. And that's what's happening. I fear. Let's continue with more.

Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WULW. Any jeweler can sell you an ordinary engagement rate, but only one jeweler here can offer you brands like to Corey of our group in Milwaukee, playing Marquette is just fundamentally unacceptable. They they were not ready to play, they did not play with great effort. And there's a couple guys that quite frankly, don't deserve to play anymore. It's just it's it's it's where it's at. Hello, Quiet, I'm broadcasting your

last night rock. Sean Miller went after his own players, Allah Rick Beatino, and who these players, who coaches these players, who motivates these players, who travels with these players, and Sean Miller says, I'm separating myself from my players. Put the cheese on the cracker, didn't you say that? Right there? The two guys that's putting the team on alert. At least they have to Paul coming up. He knows that the players read the

headlines, they read the columns, they listen to the sound bites. So they're all put on alert right now. But at the end of the day, he selected them, he's coaching them. It's his team, his team, Okay, And they played to Paul, then they played Butler, then they play Mark head here to end the season. Not good. So is there any hope? No hope. There's no hope because they have to win the tournament to get into the tournament. Are they going to March? They're

gonna have to play Thursday or Friday at noon. They have to play like four games in three days, correct, And if they against like Creighton, uh yukon Providence again probably yeah, a few of the otherwords. And the twenty seventeen Golden State Warriors got to beat them too. Yeah. So I don't like. I don't like chances at this point, not good chances at msg who's got a better chance. You see your Xavier going to make it

to the Big Show, neither neither. Well, you see us Houston tonight correct Houston tonight, then I'll believe I could inject much needed ho Wes Miller. Where they beat Houston tonight in Houston when they're number one team the nation. That's pretty tough. Speaking of you, The Reds lost yesterday after you jinxed them, Well I did, I was half right though. They came back. They played two games, two games and they won Wash. So

there's still three and one in first place. They're one game back behind the Dodgers in the Cactus League. Dodgers League. Dodgers are pretty good, pretty good, and they got a pretty nice payroll as well. It's a good thing the Reds aren't in the same division that Dodgers. Does Rocky know about this new nil deal? How about this rock hit me with it? You

know they got in deals for cars, homes, everything else. On the first the first nil private jet deal has been this Heisman candidate old miss quarterback Jackson dark Art Yeah, signs a deal with Nicholas Air. I guess it's some outfit in Mississippi. This endorsement provides dark hours of the entire fleet of jets whatever he wants from Nicholas Air for travel, training, et cetera,

et cetera. I would just love to sit in on one of these phone calls or meetings between a twenty year old, twenty one twenty two year old player and a head coach of a major university saying, coach, I really like your program, and I kind of like what's going on here. I've got a few friends and stuff, but the other school is going to offer me a plane, so, uh, what you got? I was nervous to talk to my college head coach about anything, let let alone demanding I

get money a plane or check. What about that state quarterback your name prior who got a tattoo, got a tattoo in exchange for some Rose Bowl tickets and he was that's what ran what's his name out of out of town Jim tattoo. Yeah, it's amazing. Now it's private air travel plus a million dollars? Is this good? Is this good for young people? I know, okay, I know money helps a lot of things, but is this good? No, it's bad. They do have rules. What are there

are the rules? No, there's no rules, that's the thing, and and everyone everyone is an agreement, I guess, maybe except the players, but all the coaches, all the administrators, all the the league and conference heads saying, look, we got to put some guardrails on this because this is out of control. But yet no one does anything. When you think of the school like Alabama in a poor state, Nick Saban looks at it going forward forward to see, Yeah, wouldn't want to be Florida. The

rich people at Notre Dame. I listen on YouTube last night. Notre Dame could be the odd man out that the Big Ten picks up among our other schools Clemson and Florida State, that SEC picks up two or three more, and the ACC completely collapses and Notre Dame's on the outside looking in. No, no, if Notre Dame wants to join the Big Ten or frankly the SEC, if they say, look we want to, that will happen. But Notre Dame as of right now doesn't want to because they have a lucrative

TV contract. But but that thing is up here, I believe next year, so they're probably negotiating that thing as we speak. And if it's not in the neighbor I think right now, it pays them like the NBC deal pays in like twenty six something a year, twenty six million, that's not in the neighborhood of fifty probably sixty. Then then that would be the real that would be Listen to me when I say this, that will be the only reason that Notre Dame will join the conference. The money is so much

of a disparagy. What about Stephen A. Smith, your buddy, that was last week's his comments about noted It doesn't matter, he doesn't matter. No, he's been irrelevant for a while. Really, you can say that about your brother at ESPN, that he's irrelevant and immaterial. Is that what you're saction? In my school? Is that what you're saying? Say it, Rock, say it. That's what I'm saying. Oh right, good,

we got them on record. Now say give me some sports. We leave the stude reporters of service of our local Teme Star Heating and air Conditioning dealers Tamestar quality. You can feel the Northern Kentucky Coity Weather Heating get their at eight five, nine, seventy eight, one forty eight, twenty two and the attorney for five wade Is divorce lawyer, saying I didn't see nothing. I don't know anything about Fanny Willis and Nathan Wade. I don't remember.

I can't recall my records. Don't go to the guns. Point i'm one is the prosecutors who are paid very well to be very good at their jobs. They want answers. The other gun point at them is the whole bureaucracy of Atlanta and Fanny Willis and all that things saying. Don't say the wrong thing, otherwise your career is over. I can't remember, Radley, I have a selective memory. I don't recall that. How I remember that.

I don't remember that Fanny Willison exchanging saliva somewhere in a yellow ports light. No, I didn't. I don't know about that. I can't give you any The best answer is I don't remember. It is that I don't know. It's I can't recall, can't recall. How do you argue with that? Oh, I don't know. I like that kind of testimony. I don't know. Bill lawyers would teach people that I don't That's not how

I remember it. I don't give me some sports. Well, yeah, let's see the red legs are getting ready to be a battle of Cubs today in Cactus League action Frankie Montoss on the mound and the action on Fox Sports thirteen sixty after the game of the Hot Stove League. The Rents are off tomorrow and then they play the Dodgers Thursday night. The action right here on the Big One, I mean up there on Matt McClain's making progress. Could

start lights swinging maybe next week, light swinging the back right hopefully. He's one of my favorite players along with Abbott, So I would anticipate that you could have a situation where this could be a lingering injury, much like a hamstring correct hamstring can That's not the case. We have time right now. Let's got to got a month opening day a month from today, weeks from today. But opening day is on a Thursday, right, correct? Four

weeks from Thursday. Yeah, and we have the schedule. We've got the schedule right here. Are you prepared to you and Eddie ready to perform? Give it to me. I got the segment, let me find it. For the Bengals update, Bengals add three new assistants today, now twenty three in the house. The coach one from Jordan. Salkin comes over from the University of Oregon, is an offensive assistant. Ronnie Reguya defensive assistant, over from Notre Dame. He played college ball at Mount Saint Joe. How about

that? And then Ben Jacobs as a special team's assistant. Uh. He has coaching experience in the National Football League with the Panthers and Commanders. Got it right here twenty three. I like to bring some new blood in, get some new ideas around there. It's a good thing. Until nine o'clock. It's Mike McConnell on Red's opening day. Nine to eleven, it's sloany and mo It's kind of the weakest part of the day. We agree, and then eleven to one we start to build Eddie and the Rock. Yeah,

eleven to one, Holy Grail on election on the opening day. Then one to two is William seg I only get one hour, but from two to three forty you start your speech. Though maybe at the beginning of your hour. You know he's gonna start at nine am with Mike, and it

won't end because these things do not exist in a vacuum. He's going to name every Reds player from A to Z came for somebody asking you start start with a big red machine, you start nineteen seventy five, by like the nineteen hundreds, Let's just start nineteen seventy five, and then by maybe by the NQ you can get to like because by then the one two World Series correct in nineteen nineteen, which is somewhat maybe a little bit askewed with an

asterisk, not sure about shulish Joe Jackson. Then nineteen forty when they beat the Tigers on the Evil Word War two, g I Joe was ready to march and free the world, and the reds Room before that, before that the reds Marster glory. In nineteen nineteen, back from World War One, the dough Boys back from ver Done one and two, with slime and filth and dirt all over their bodies, they came back and said, let's play ball. All's quiet on the Western Front nineteen nineteen. What happened, shulis

Joe was that legitimate. I can't say, Sike don't know forty They lost in thirty nine, as you know with Ivyl Goodman, you might recall they lost to the Yankees. Remember ival, Remember noodles, hon Noodles, Han You forget noodles had a little problem there, but nineteen forty and one of the catchers was Heiny Grow. Heiny Grow showed us his heiney and Fanny got Frank McCormick, you got Schnauz, you got uh yeah, you got also

Holy and Nana Witz played left remember Holy on. But you're getting off track here again. Let's start with a big red machine released. Some of the listeners know that the names and experience them. And about Antonio, he played center field until you get that name on the back. What I want to know is are they going to get the uniform thing figured out where you can't have to see through, pay the translucent pants and go. I think they're

doing that kind of hanging out. They're doing that for the after the female audience. Exact Martin move. Ladies love that too, Ladies. Yeah, spending a little extra time on those websites. You'll see us men doing no. I don't know. I don't check that Senough like second running from first to third wild Man does. But all I can say is the women love to see naked men. I know that they dig the home run, absolutely, they dig the long the long boss. Well, that's true. That's

true. Give me some more sports that you're sitting there with the basketball. Tonight Willy number one Houston will play host our beloved bear Cats six thirty seven hundred WLW Davidson and Dayton Kentucky and Mississippi State, the Cats and the Dogs. Tonight Miami RedHawks at Bowling Green and Wisconsin takes on Indiana. Trying to make a cat bark. You cannot make a cat bark. Well, they scored what one hundred and seventeen points against Alabama. Who knows what they're gonna

do? Cats do not bark. Write that down and then FC Cincinnati back in action tomorrow night in the second round of the Conka Calf Championship champions Cup. And of course, last night Mexico beat the United States and the Women's Gold Cup two nil, major upset. Where's Megan Rippino when you need her? I hope she coaching or doing anything. Cares doun and done please he's God. Yeah, and take it to be just not a good ambassador or

spokesperson for the women's national team. Well, would you agree we think we're an exceptional country. She thinks America is exceptionally bad. But the whole premise of sports is being exceptional, and that's the goal. That's the essence of it is our team is more exceptional than yours is, and we're going to prove it right now. On the front of the jersey, says us A. Yes, you don't want to play, remember the name on the front as the more important. Get that through your head. I got that,

okay. But when you put USA on your shirt, you should say I represent the United States of America and I'm gonna play hard. We're an exceptional country. Nothing else, nothing else. I'll play not anymore. But she was rewarded like her faction of people have made her rich by having a hate America attitude. Question, there's a certain way looking. So the answer to the question is why she's doing because it works as a collective country said,

I don't care regards of politics. You're not going to spit on our country. Until that happens, we're gonna get more of this. Snots out last year with the forty nine ers. He was one in fifteen and they released him. Then he became a hero to the radical left because he knelt, he did what not? Have you seen the viewership numbers? It directly matches up with you know, with viewership dipping during when all the kneeling and stuff was going on, and now it's through the stratus here. When's the last

time you saw a player Neil three years ago? Maybe four through. It's all about the dough, the ray and the meat, green salad, the salvation. That's what it's all about. Yep. Speaking of the ad, man is back good. It's back from his birthday vacation. He went on a cruise and he plays some blackjack, hung out and now he's back, ready to return the ship somewhere. As he's back, he's back when I do the show with me here in a few minutes. I like Eddie.

Eddie Fingers is my kind of a guy. Happy he's back. Happy he's back. What else do you have scheduled? If anything, Let's see what you're you said the other day you like Donna Dee better? Did you hit the dump button? Hit it? See if it works. You have your girlfriend Tanya right out of gate three o'clock. I'm gonna have her on Friday, by the way, what our guests I know, but that's not going to be on the air, but she's going to come in. We're going

to talk about certain issues. And she said she wanted to do a little story on me, and I said, okay, wow, private story. I can't say. I can't say about that. At four o'clock, Joe, think about that. We have a thunderfold coming out of it and make it to the elevator. By the way. Four o'clock we have a guest on, John Stuart Hill. He's going to answer the question why is America

becoming less religious? That's another scene with the news coming out of all the local Catholic churches that are closing, and people are all bent out of shape. But what do you do? You want a mask? You know, society should encourage family formation, not punish it. And right now there are good things to happen if you don't we as you know, if you have kids, that's a strain on the environment. So to you should have no pets because they breathe more than humans. And if you have a dog,

you're not helping the environment because of the co Two. Of course, wildfires and volcanic eruptions, forget about them. They don't cause any problems in the atmosphere. It's your dog breathing dog. And in fact, you should skip a bread flatulence. Speaking of flatulence segment, give me out of the Stude's report. Please well, lee in honor of a rainy day coming up and win in the Reds getting another victory today? Easy. I'm predicting a Red's

victory today over the Dodgers. Oh they play the Cubs. Predict that too. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stood Report. If you don't think you have a problem in your community, you're probably wrong. Now, lastly, I had on the governor about an hour ago. This is how he started out his interview. Listen, before you say anything, you've got to change your introduction. Walk up. Music that bad to the bone is too dated. You know what? His favorite song is the theme song

of the Jetsons. And he says, my song is what the jes It's an iconic indro. I thank you. It'd be like the have a riot, you'd have a riot. But Mike thinks I got to update my act instead of the nineteen eighties for him. The last time Mike updated his act nineteen sixties. We're saving that one right there. Might want to use it. He might be the vice president of the United States. If Donald Trump calls you to be the VP. What do you say? Yeah? Who's

it going to be? Right now? Gun your head? Who's Trump's VP? Iron? Donald, Taulsie Gabbard? I like her a lot or AVEC. I think Tulsie because she's hot, and I think he like you. Think that's a good show. He likes women. He won't vote for a look at AOC. Why do people like her? She's hot? He's a waitress. Gonna go back to the barn. Thank you, sir. Seven hundred w l W you what are you from? Atlantic? In the news

today, some Republicans are turning their backs on Donald Trump. They endorsed him out of fear, but then did nothing else, even as Democrats are suing to remove mister Trump from the ballot. Guess who went all the way to the Supreme Court to keep President Trump on the ballot, Conservative Republican Larry Kidd. No other congressional candidate in the country came to President Trump's defense, only

Larry Kidd. I was really ticked off when Democrats removed President Trump from the ballot in Maine, in Colorado. That's why I was so glad Larry Kidd went to court to stop it. Yeah, it seems like the other guy's running for Congress just say they support Trump. The Larry Kidd went to court to help Trump elect the pro Trump Republican to Congress, the one who personally intervened to protect the Constitution and President Trump. You know, Larry Kidd,

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