3-4-24 Bill Cunningham Show

Bill cunning In the Great American. Coming up later were the Congressman Warren Davidson about the budget deficits and all the things happening in Washington, in the fact, the Republicans keep continuing resolutions as far as I can see, never dealing with issues. But about ten o'clock this morning, a couple hours ago, the US Supreme Court ruled nine Zip nine Zip to Colorado or Michigan or Maine, the secretaries of States, etc. Cannot keep a presidential candidate off the

ballot under section three of the Siver of the fourteenth Amendment. And it's up to the Congress to set the rules, not up to individual state elections officers. Jonaan you and I now, is Frank LaRose a second cousin of Buddy L. Rosa. He's a great American. Frank LaRose, I wanted to get You've only had a couple hours to review this thing. But I don't know if your staff and you have read the opinion at But as the chief

election officer, what do you think about? Even the extreme liberals on the US Supreme Court said the Colorado, Michigan, and Maine can not do what they wanted to do. Your reaction, Well, this is a victory for the American people. It's a victory for common sense. This has been a desperate attempt from the beginning by the radical left to try to keep the man they most fear off the ballot. I'll tell you what we did in Ohio. Not only did I respond that, over my dead body, would they

do that in the Buckeye State? And we made it very clear, but we also I organized a group of Republican Secretaries of State. We presented an amicust brief making it clear that we have this radical idea that only the voters should get to decide who their party's nominee is, and then they should be the ones that get to decide who their president is. That man will be Donald J. Trump in twenty twenty five, and I look forward to joining

him and making America great again. Would it even pass your mom? Would you even think about, Well, you may oppose Joe Biden, you may have opposed Kamala Harris, you may not like the policies of Joe Biden. Would you even consider, as the chief elections officer in state of Ohio to say, you know what I think Joe Biden engaged in insurrection or giving aiden comfort to the enemy by doing what he did in Iran, I rock Afghanistan, et cetera. That I'm frank LeRose and I'm striking the name of Joe

Biden from Ohio's ballot. Did that even pass your mind? Pass you pass your mind at all? You know why it didn't, Willy, Because I believe in keeping my word and my oath of office is a solid obligation to execute the laws faithfully as written. I disagree with all of those things that Biden has done, and I think he's been a terrible president, and that's why we're going to defeat him this November. But using the powers of my office, abusing the powers of my office to try to keep him off the

ballot never cross my mind. Secondly, there are states like Pennsylvania and Michigan in which the secretaries of state in those states do not have complete control of elections, like in Ohio and Florida. For example, in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania voters in each county elect a chief Elections officer, and that man or woman and makes fundamental decisions about where are the dropboxes, who's on the ballot, who's not on the ballot. How long are the polls open that they

make all these decisions that should be statewide or federally. When you get together with the other forty nine secretaries of state, do you think about having a more uniform way of determining the ballot procedures which determine the outcome? Have you thought how much luckier we are to be in Ohio or Florida or Kentucky that has functional balloting. But you told me a few months ago that in Pennsylvania, each county kind of sets its own rules. How's that possible? Well,

it's foolish. And not only have I thought about it, I've acted on it. I worked with a group of Republican US congressmen to help get a bill written called the ASAC. It's got over two hundred sponsors in the US House. It'll pass the House, but it'll die as long as Chuck Schumer is in charge in the US Senate. That's why it's crucial that I beat Sharon Brown this November and go to the Senate as in a election integrity

expert, who's actually going to be able to get the ASAC done. What it would do is really take Ohio's best practices and encourage other states to do it. We are the gold standard. We take dead people off the voter rules, we check IDs. We don't send out absentee ballots unless people request them. We restrict the use of dropboxes. We have statewide standards for these things. That's something we actually absolutely need to export to the other forty nine

states. Lastly, on this issue, Mary Garland, the Attorney General of this great country, he said yesterday Sunday in a commemoration of the Democrats who beat up civil rights workers called Bloody Sunday on the Pettis Bridge, that ID laws are fundamentally racist. The implication is that black folks and brown folks can't figure out how to get a driver's license or get an ID. And he said he will work to sue any state that requires an ID. Now we're

in a state that requires an ID. I'm not sure in Kentucky you have to have an ID. I believe you do. Out in Ohio, you got to show up with an ID, their driver's license, a passport. There's all kinds of things to get an ID, including state issue ID. I asked you, Frank LeRose is making a vote to prove who they are is that fundamentally racist? Absolutely not. In fact, the AG's words are insulting to people that actually risked their lives to bring about the great changes that

happened in the civil rights movement. By the way, Republicans that were leading the charge on that. And you know, it's like the boy who Cried Wolf. When people like Garland claim that something as simple as proving your identity is racist, pretty soon nothing is racist. We need to be clear when something is actually racist and call it out so that we can fight it. Photo ID is not and infect it's something that the best majority of Ohio and

support. Well, you're the Secretary of State, and I can think this is a great ruling. And to me as an American, when you have the three extreme liberals including Kaitanyi Jackson ruling with Clarence Thomas and with Sam Elee and with Roberts and with Kavanaugh and with Gorset, you have the three liberals joining with the Republicans, I think the message is can we be less partisan? There are things that bind us together as Americans irrespective of D or R

type politics. And I thought it was a good thing that the liberals said we can't have this but that's not the approach of the radical left in many parts of our country that simply want to sue the guy, indict the guy, I strike his name from the ballot. And I was somewhat heartened by the idea that even liberals have figured out some of the stuff that holds us together is more important than simply politics. Is that your read also absolutely we

believe that the people are the ultimate authority. The only permission that you have to govern as a secretary of State or a US senator, as a president comes from the people, and that can only happen when they have the option

of choosing who their nominee for president's going to be. I think these justices knew that even though the partisan side of them wanted to try to keep Trump off the ballot, that they would have ended up on the wrong side of history, and that would have been a cloud over the rest of their careers. And I would have hoped that if Ruth Gater Ginsburg had lived, and she said back in twenty sixteen that she did not want Donald Trump to be

the president, and that's Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I thought that was a terrible act for a impartial justice to say, but a lot of what was ruled on today was fundamentally the same kind of issue that Ruth Bader Ginsburg said should be overturned, should be overruled. So I hope this quiets down the partisanship by some in Michigan and Colorado and Maine and about fourteen other states that had

bills and proposals to strike his name from the ballot. I can only think of if the vote was five to four, possibly the partisanship would increase instead of decrease. But with a nine zip ruling that you can't do that strike Donald Trump's name from the ballot, maybe that'll hold some water. Now let's

turn the page to page two, which a little bit of politics. You're running against the corse of Burnt Marino and Matt Dolan to take the place of to run against Shared Brown, which is the Bernie Sanders of the of the state of Ohio. Is Shared Brown very liberal? There's a commercial running in

which you appear to be endorsing far left wing liberal positions. And I would note that Richard K. Jones, the Sheriff of Butler County, not exactly a liberal kind of a guy, has endorsed you over the other two, which to me speaks a lot. How do you respond to that video clip that has you endorsing certain left wing causes, Well, it's desperation by Bernie Moreno's team. He's trying to sell Ohioans a lemon, and they're not buying it. They want a real, proven conservative. That's who I am.

Now. I don't have the millions of dollars of personal wealth to spend that he's spending, But what I do have is the trust of Ohioans. They know that I am a family values conservative who has fought for life, fought for gun rights. Bernie Moreno has a very shifty record on these things. He has changed his views just in recent years. He was for gun control, he was for funding planned parenthood, and now who claims that he's a

conservative. Ohioans aren't buying it. They don't trust him, and his campaign is getting desperate and just plain old making things up about me. There are many times I'll receive a letter to sign something. I do videos three or four a week. Someone gets hold of me and say, can you congratulate this group? Can you congratulate this married couple after thirty years of marriage? Can you do this? Can you do that? Can you sign this a

note? Can you sign an autograph? And I think you were offering congratulations to a group on their anniversary, and you don't endorse the goals of the group, but this is a kindly thing you did in your mind that's metastasized into this issue. Am I offering that? Yeah, that's it. Listen. As the Ohio Secretary of State, I'm the Secretary of State for all people, including those that I agree with and those that I disagree with.

Groups ask us to celebrate their anniversary. I thought that was an innocuous enough thing to do, even though I don't agree with that group. I was just telling them happy anniversary. My record is clear on this. I have fought the radical trans agenda in Ohio. I've been the one helping lead the charge to get the Governor's Veto overridden to make sure that in Ohio we know we protect children against the madness of transition surgery for minor children. This is

clear in ohioan's know it. As far as what you would have done in the Senate if you were there, and in fact, if you were sitting in the Senate seat and a proposal came up that would would do what the Border Protection Bill sought to do, which was to allow five thousand new illegal

immigrants into the country every day. Goes this Border Protection Act. I'm watching the nightly news last night, and once again it was bipartisan Republicans and Democrats all came together, and what they did was have a very reasonable approach to the southern border to spend tens of billions of dollars we don't have. How would you have voted on that bill if it allowed five thousand illegal immigrants per day, about two million per year to come into the country. That's the

fairness of that bill. How would you have voted I would have voted no only because hell no is not an option. I would have definitely voted no on that because it doesn't actually do what it claims to do. You know, the Democrats, when they name a bill something, it probably does the opposite, kind of like the Inflation Reduction Act wasn't actually designed to reduce inflation, but offer government subsidies for green energy. Same thing with this so called

Border security bill. What it was really meant to be is a fig leaf for people like Shared Brown, so that when I'm running against him on the campaign trail this summer and fall. He can say, well, I voted for the border security bill. We know what it really was. It was really allowing five thousand a day to enter the country illegally. The acceptable number

is zero. It was massive funding for sanctuary cities. I told you the story about when I was on Army reserve duty in Denver last summer and the mayor of Denver was complaining about people seeking sanctuary in his same ctuary city. Right, this is the hypocrisy of the left. That was a bad bill. It's really an example of what's wrong with Washington. It is. And

secondly, on the budget deficit, which isn't a very sexy idea. Every one hundred days America borrows brand new one trillion dollars to fund the federal government. Every one hundred days, one trillion dollars. Every day we borrow six billion dollars, one third of which pays interest on the national debt. If you take Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest on the national debt, and funding the military, that's about eighty percent of the federal budget eighty percent.

So unless you can touch those sacred cows, we're in trouble. How would you what would you do to fundamentally change the arc of bankruptcy and default in this country? Every one hundred days we borrow an additional one trillion dollars. What would Frank LeRose do to stop that? A thirty four trillion dollar national debt is generational thing. It's us saying we're going to live beyond our means and we're going to expect our children and grandchildren to pay for it.

It's no way to govern the world's most exceptional nation. And this is why we can't have corporate elites that go along get along, folks like mister Marno or mister Dolan go to Washington, that are just going to continue kicking the can down the road. I have been leading on a balanced budget amendment for years. I did that resolution in our state Senate and said, we absolutely have to pass a balanced budget amendment. It means tough choices about the spending

spree that it seems like Republican and Democrat elites agree on. It seems like the people in Washington all agree on spending more of your money. Those will be tough choices. We have to be willing to do that so that we can put our country back on track. And by the way, Willie, we don't have a revenue problem, as a component of GDP revenue is at nearly an all time high. We have a spending problem, and it's going to take people of courage like an Army Green Beret to get that fixed.

Lastly, there's about one hundred and twenty billion dollars of brand new spending which would fund Ukraine, Israel, southern border, et cetera, sanctuary cities. We get a boatload of money, et cetera. The way to stop spending more money is to stop spending more money. Would you vote? Would you have voted no on that the one hundred and ten billion dollars. These should be considered as separate issues. Right There are things that if we don't fix

them, are going to cost us more money in the long term. We absolutely need to stand with Israel. This is one where I've really been differentiated from my opponent, mister Marino, who said he doesn't support sending more money to Israel, which is ridiculous. We have to stand with the State of

Israel, but these should be considered as separate issues. We must invest in the border because the cost of not doing that is astronomically high when you consider the government benefits that the Biden administration wants to give to illegal So we have to be smart about how we spend money. We have to invest where there's a return on investment. Well, Franklerosa, thank you very much. Endorsed by Richard K. Jones, the very far left liberal sheriff of Butler County.

I think the sheriff knows what he's doing. Franklerose, once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show relating your ideas on the Supreme Court and more. But thank you very much. Thanks Willie. Let's continue with more if a line becomes available. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand coming up next, we've scheduled the guests.

Who was at Hollywood Casino when it was robbed over the weekend? It was like Ocean's eleven, twelve and thirteen came to Lawrenceburg on news radio seven hundred WLW Mean, Wiley, Mean Change and forest. A beautiful woman stands next to a beanstalk. I'm waiting for Jack. He had these magic beans through this stupid bean stock and climbed it. Does he know there's a giant up there. I doubt it. Then what are you doing? They're listening to

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Honey flavor the daytime coughing, aching, stuffy had fever. Honeylicious Power through your day medicine, use the director, keep out of reach your children. Over the weekend, we had our own Ocean fourteen event at Lawrenceburg and Hollywood Casino. I thought maybe Brad Pitt or George Clooney were involved. They were going to loot the casino. Nobody would know about it. All of a sudden, this guy'd walk out with a million dollars and nobody would say what

the hell happened. And but we have a patron, Jeff, I'll just use his first name. He was there at Hollywood and Jeff, Welcome to the bill Cunningham show, And can you describe the scene a Hollywood casino over the weekend when and there was a looting of the casino that wasn't quite successful. Yeah. Sure. So my wife and I and another couple we walked into the casino or our goal was to watch the menus, that's the only

reason we went. And I stopped at the ATM and the other three went up to the bar area and I finally caught up to them and I looked at the beer line. That was too long. So I told my if I was going to go, you know, find another place to buy a beard. And so I was walking. I don't know if you're familiar with

the casino. I've been there once one time. So if you're looking at the stage, I was on the right side of the stage, so there's like a stairwall that goes down into the bottom floor and I was walking on the outside of that towards to the cashier area. And as I was walking, there was a security guard and like one of those yellow fluorescent jackets, Yeah, crawl on the floor towards me. And I looked at him and

he's going I'm looking at him, and he goes we're getting robbed. There's a guy with a gun, and I'm like looking around and I could look over at the cashier. I could see, you know, people over there. And then I hurried up and went back to my wife and the other

cup on it go, man, there's something going down. And as soon as I said that, somebody goes there's a gun and I look over and everybody in the stage area waiting for the band literally hit the ground, which is the first time I've ever been around like that ever before in my life. The girls started getting really upset, you know, being a dumb guy, you know, we're looking to see what's going on even more, and

people started going into the bathroom and hiding behind poles and everything. And then they finally turned the sirens on. And at this point, you're, what the hell is this guy guards crowling on the floor. You got sirens going off, and you're looking around saying, all I want to do is have a beer for us. It made no sense. I mean, it was seven o'clock. I mean, it took somebody to be very aggressive to do that at seven. I mean it was odd and just in It's Indiana.

It's not like it's Miami, so that was interesting. So we went out the back. Everybody went out the back door. We did walk by a gentleman that fell. I think that they sent an ambulance for him later. And we went up on the in the back. They got the wall banked because of the river to keep the water from coming in, so we literally went to the top of the bank. We walked down the bank and we could see the parking garage from there, and everybody had to walk down the

hill to get to the to the parking garage. We get to the parking gridge or get into our car, and we were stuck in our car probably for about forty minutes because they were not letting anybody leave. I think there was a rumor that the person had a hostage. That's the other thing that we learned is when something like this happens, the rumors fly with everybody. You know, we probably heard about three or four different stories about what was

going on. Did you see the perpetrator at all? So we could see somebody on the other side of the you know, the cashiers get the bars and everything in the front. We could see somebody on the other side inside the cashier. So we're assuming that that was him. We couldn't figure out how somebody would a get into the place with a gun and be how they would get into the to the cashier area. Well, I no shots were fired, correct, there was no shots fired. We didn't hear anything,

and that's what they were reporting. We didn't hear anything at all on the shots fired. How stupid here? How stupid is that? How stupid is it to think that somebody where a gun could walk in a Hollywood casino in Lawrenceburg in Theiana, go into the cage and like loot the place of a million dollars in cash and walk out the front door. All uh, Brad Pitt and George Plooney, that would be impossible? Is that fair to say? Although it is crazy? I mean, I mean, a why would

anybody want to rob at casino? You would think I would probably want to be one of the second most secure places behind the bank. We couldn't figure it out. We're dumbfounded. All right, now you're in your car for forty five minutes. What happened next? When did the all clear sound? I've seen some of the video. It looks like it looks like a complete catastrophe in the parking garages. Yeah. Yeah, we came out. The Greendale police car was there, and then we waited and then all of a

sudden, the traffic started moving. And when we got down to the exit of the parking garage, that's when we've seen everything else. We've seen a lot of different emergency vehicles, you know, fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances. And then the one of the fire guys told us that, you know, to take this road, which took us behind the casino to get us to fifty because they said it was going to be shut down for

hours up front, we didn't know why. And then we did that and by the time we went around, they were letting cars out of the out of the area. Anyway, Did you have a good night at that? Yeah? I did. You want to why why? The only thing I lost was my five ninety nine ATM transaction together and that I came out. Okay, you came out, Okay, you surved. Yeah, I survived. It was good. It was good. We Yeah, we missed out at a good time with casino. I know they lost a lot of money

that night because the amount of people that were leaving. There's a lot of people leaving. Indiana is serious about crime. Unlike Hambleton County. They're serious about crime. This guy is going to spend the rest of his life in Indiana State Prison. I guarantee you. Because they're serious in about crime in Indiana, you don't want to rob Hollywood Casino. Of course hard rock. Hard rock might be a different story because you're an amiling count Hollywood Casino.

They take this thing extremely seriously, extremely so, so you're in touch with everything. Did you hear how much he got away with? I did not. He got out of the facility, correct, he was found somewhere in the woods or something. Chaos he got out. It was, I tell you what, it was chaotic and the girls were crying. We did find out that girls and guys think about things differently. You know, my wife was thinking about the kids and everything else, and I was trying to get

closer to the guy to see what was actually happening. So you know, we're two different For you, I I'm never going to live again. You got to the security guard on his knees. I'm not making that up. I'm not making And you're looking at this guy crawling at you and the carpet he's in charge, the securities on his knees. He was a nice guy, A nice guy told us what was going on. Wonderful what that's amazing.

According to media accounts, he got out of the casino and how he got out, I I can't conceive of him getting I guess in the chaotic everyone was going every which direction and the security guards are on their knees. So it's like he could have he could have got out right, he could have gone with the crowd and simply left. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean he could have blended in well. But kay, I didn't hear

the other Remember we heard we heard it there two. We heard that there was a woman involved too, But apparently I don't know if that's true or not. Since he only kept the one person, they'll beat him about the face and head until he confesses. In Lawrenceburg, they don't mess around, all right. Well, Jeff, you're going back to Hollywood Casino. Oh, I'll be back. I'll be back. I don't know when, but I'll be back. When the security guards go on go on their knees,

you know it's time to exit the facility, exactly. Hi, Jeff, thank you very much for your live updated report. Thank you, hey, thank you, Billye, thank you all. Let's continue with more if you have information on this seven four nine, seven thousand. But according to media accounts, he made it out of there somehow and they found him and he's in jail and he's not leaving anytime soon. News Radio seven hundred WLW.

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hard to find luxury time pieces here at Genesis Diamonds. Hi, this is the three BG Cincinnati Continue whenever stop, we simply continue. After two o'clock today will be the US Representative Warren Davidson to talk about why the cr was approved by the House on Friday. We have another spending deadline coming up on March the eighth, we'll see what happens by getting back to the Hollywood Casino. The perpetrator allegedly is Daniel Adam Birdseye. Birdseye thirty nine years old

of Cincinnati. He was arrested by Indiana Gaming Commission officials with the cooperation of Boone County. Now you may think, how's that possible. Well, Boone County has certain technologies that Dearborn County did not have, mainly a drone. There were at least six different police agencies that responded quickly, including Kentucky. Boone County Kentucky Sheriff's Office came in with a drone that was extremely helpful. The suspect, Birdseye, of course, from Cincinnati, fled into an oxbow

area east of the casino. It's kind of like the river bottoms, kind of a rough terrain. It was night, so it was very helpful with the drone, and of course they also dispatched a canine to track down the suspect and he was located and Mike Galley is the general manager of Hollywood Casino.

He said, we can't talk about the specifics, but were incredibly thankful of numerous team members and law enforcement who made this arrest quickly and the chaos caused by the reports of an arm robbery man with a gun and with the security guards in Hollywood Casino crawling on the carpeted floor. I can only imagine there was complete and utter chaos. I've seen some of the video. Chaos is what was going on because no one knew what was happening. At this

point. There's not a second person known as I speak, but meetings are being held right now among all the police agencies to track this down. There's numerous videos of mister Bird's Eye doing what he did, and so they're pretty certain they got the right guy. And in the confusion, he made his way out of the out of the cage with I would assume some money, but that's an assumption on my part, not reported by Hollywood Casino, which by the way, is a fine facility in Dearborn County. But Daniel Adam

Bird's Eye is thirty nine years old. To hold up a casino, you better have the wherewithal of a Brad Pitt and a George Clooney and have experts involved. You can't walk in with a gun to a casino, and I think it is damn near impossible to walk into a casino with a gun anyway, because always they have the metal detectors as you go through. But nonetheless, somehow it got in, and mister Bird's Eye thought it might be a good idea to pull the gun get in the cage. He somehow got in

the back. According to Jeff, I just said on as a patron, and the rest is history. The chaos was everywhere, so we'll see what happens we continue to follow that story. I can't recall of a casino being being robbed at this point in our last ten to fifteen, maybe twenty years. They're almost impossible to rob. I think a bank, I know Jeff talked about stealing money from a bank would be easy compared to walking into a casino with a gun. At least with a bank, all the tellers,

et cetera kind of know what to do. Put the exploding pack of dye in and away you go. If you're that's stupid and criminal. But to hold up a casino, you better have an army of Brad Pitt types to get it done. And this course was not the case. I wonder if Daniel Adam Bird'seye thirty nine years Old of Cincinnati is mentally ill or drunk on

drugs or whatever. Because no one could concoct a scheme where you would walk into a casino with a gun, go behind the cage, steal, put in a sack of millions of dollars and then walk out and no one's gonna know. To me, that wasn't much of a plan. So we'll see what happens later today. Derepoint County Sheriff Shane mckenrey. We have a call into him to see if he can come on, but at this point he's

rather tight lipped till they decide how to prosecute. And of course the prosecution will take place in Dearborn County, which can be extremely difficult, difficult on individuals who use guns to commit crime. Unlike Hamilton County and Indiana takes itself seriously when it comes to these kinds of events, and I think a message will be sent. Secondly, we have coming up after one o'clock today, the Great mo Egger. After two o'clock has Warren Davidson, and we've tentatively

scheduled an interview with Jim Scott and his wife sometime tomorrow. We're going to see how that thing breaks out. But I spoke to Donna, his wife, Jim Scott's wife, Donna Scott, and we're going to try to arrange a time to to have an interview, mainly with her, but also Jim. A note with interest at the Neil Lucan, who runs who runs the parade, remarked about a week ago with the mayor, Aftab Pierival, that it was the intent of Jim Scott to appear as the honorary Grand Marshal.

And I'm told by his Donna, his wife, that that's the plan at this point. Of course, the Red's opening day is March twenty eighth, It's three weeks plus away. We'll see what happens. Jim Scott's going to make every effort that he can to make it occur. They have a special car, which is an older vintage Pontiac. And I understand Jim Scott maybe listening as I speak, and I want to convey to Jim Scott, the living legend, all the kind salutations and respect that all of us in this

business that this signal has for Jim Scott. In fact, everybody in radio has great respect for Jim Scott and it's impossible for one to determine the number of agencies and the number of good deeds Jim Scott has done over the years, from the Salvation Army to the polio to heart disease to the Freestore Food Bank, whatever it is, Jim Scott was always available to lend the weight

of his personality and so called fame to assist charities. He began life as a boy with polio and now he's ending life with als, which is a tough road to hoe. And what happened in the meantime has been fabulous. Forty seven years in radio, and thirty one of the forty seven years was right here. In fact, Jim Scott was so valuable in nineteen eighty four

that Randy Michaels, the legendary radio broadcaster and owner. Randy Michaels bought an entire station that had Jim Scott's contracts so he could move Jim Scott to seven hundred WLW. So you know, each of us have two things in common. Each of us have the day that we're born, and each of us have the day that we die. And what we do in the meantime is what we will be remembered for and no one led a more productive life with

the skill set given to him than Jim Scott. Led for forty seven years in total radio, including thirty one years right here as our morning man, and he left on April third, fifteen. So, believe it or not, it's been about nine years since Jim Scott left radio, and Mike McConnell was handed at the baton and ran forward for the last nine years. Mike McConnell began here about nineteen eighty four nineteen eighty five, had a bit of a segue a WGN radio in Chicago for three or four years, then came

back to be our morning man. And there's no no one better at what he does right now than Mike McConnell. So we want to honor Jim Scott and do what he wants to have done, and he would like to have his story told by his wife, Donna, and we're going to make that effort to do it tomorrow. So I'll let you know later tomorrow what's going to happen with the living legend Jim Scott, and how we can honor him for the contributions he's made so freely over the past forty seven years in radio

in thirty one years here. In nineteen sixty eight, I was going back and forth to Xavier just before I got married, and I listened to Jim Scott every morning on SAI and I got up about eight thirty eight thirty. It was in the car by nine. Classes started at ten a little bit earlier, and I would listen to Jim Scott coming to and fro on WSAI, along with Dusty Rhoades and Dave Ryan Hart and Ron Britton, et cetera. And I met him later that year, nineteen sixty eight, at some

outing somewhere. He was there. I walked up and said, hey, Jim, I listened to you every day and he said thank you. And what's your name? I said, Bill Cunningham. He said what do you want to do and I said, well, I'm in laws, I'm in college. I want to get to law school. Eventually. He said, hope you'll be a good lawyer. And I said, Jim, I hoped to be a good lawyer. And then from sixty eight to nineteen eighty four,

when Jim Scott came here, I started. In the summer of nineteen eighty three, I was one of the first to welcome Jim Scott to seven hundred WLW. He was so valuable at Randy Michael spot an entire group of radio stations, so you can have the contract to Jim Scott. He was the missing link, the missing piece of that line up with Jim Scott and Mike McConnell and Gary Burbank and Bob Trump. He slash Chris Collinsworth, slash Andy Furman and then me at night. That did I think so well between

the mid eighties and the late nineteen nineties. And he's walking a tough road right now. His mind is as clear as a bell, but his body is not working at all. And hope to honor him tomorrow a little bit, and I pray to God Almighty that he will permit Jim Scott to do well enough so in the Reds Opening Day parade on Thursday, March the twenty

eighth, he'll be able to be in the back of a convertible. I hope the weather's going to be as good as it is today and not on Wednesday is going to have some bad weather here, But nonetheless we hope the weather on March twenty eighth is as good as it is today, so Jim Scott, the living legend, can be properly honored, and he's so blessed

to have his wife, Donna at his side. You know what it's like to be a caregiver if you have to go through that, wives or husbands who care for their loved ones who are passing away slowly, and that's always the case with als. But we hope to have an interview with Donna, his wife, and Jim Scott tomorrow about the same time, but that is to be determined. After one o'clock today is the Great Moagger one o'clock Homie you Reds News Radio seven hundred WULWU, Cincinnati News Traffic and Weather. News

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little time. Yes, Reds, March Madness and more. Plus Caitlin Clark. I'm watching a clip of her in her first game, the first shot she made against Northern Iowa at Iowa, and there's nobody in the stands. I looked at this and there was nobody there. Four years later, seventeen thousand packs arenas. Is she gonna We had the same impact that maybe Larry Bird and Magic Johnson had with the w NBA, as far as making it so popular that Indiana, which I assume she'll be drafted by the Inanna.

What's their name of their team is the Fever the Favor? Is there going to be a fever all over the country because of Caitlyn Clark. Well, it's it's good for the league, right You're taking the biggest star in college basketball men or women, and you're putting her in a league that needs a star, but a league that is also growing. It's more mainstream than it's

ever been. And you're also putting her in a sort of a basketball crazy state that I think is going to appreciate and be thrilled to enjoy what she brings to the table. I think it's going to be fascinating to see how she does, and I think it's going to be fascinating to see how many people who have watched her and made her appointment viewing as a college basketball player follow her to the WNBA. But it's women's basketball has been ascending now for

quite a while. Caitlyn Clark specifically has accelerated that ascent, and now to take it to the next level is nothing but good for the WNBA. Absolutely, and Indiana is only about three four hundred miles from Iowa. I can see their games might be sold out. I'm told by a friend of mine in Indiana that they are selling out season tickets like bats out of hell on

Easter Sunday morning, that they had no attendance. Now they're going to have attendance, and she's going to be a big thing, assuming down the road she succeeds. On the other hand, yeah, if she gets to Indiana and she doesn't, and that's a different story. But nonetheless, up to this point, it's been fabulous, no doubt. There's a long list of high profile college basketball players on the men's side who got to the NBA and

didn't work out. So I don't think we would hold it against her, or we shouldn't at least hold it against her to a larger degree than we do the men if she does fall flat on her face. But I don't know how you watch her and assume that that's going to happen. I actually watch games, I've actually watched her play basketball. I have not watched a woman's game. I don't know. Appointment, Yes, I wanted to see

her. Last game started a little afternoon yesterday and they beat Ohio State, who is perceived to be one of the second or third best teams in the country after South Carolina. Yeah, am I stupid to be following women's women's and WNBA and college basketball? Watch whatever makes you happy. It made me happy to watch. I never thought I would get to a point, or we would get to a point. I remember the National Championship game, which

was broadcast on ABC on a Sunday last year. The Reds had played like a one forty game, and we stream out of the ballpark after the game, go to the Holy Grail for a postgame beverage, and everybody is watching the women's National Championship game. And it's not just on in the background, it's people are focused in on it. And so I think there are more

people paying attention to women's college basketball following the women's game that have. You know, look, I mean the maybe the coolest story in the sport. That's not Caitlin clarkas South Carolina just went through a season completely undefeated. Paige Beckers, who you know two years ago, three years ago, that's the biggest star in the sport, is still playing college basketball for a top ten Yukon team and chat to me, is as much fun to watch as Caitlin

Clark She's obviously not as prolific a score. She's coming off significant knee surgery. But you know, twenty five years ago, these things weren't happening. You know, I remember when Rebecca Lobo and Yukon became a national story. Right, well, the games weren't televised. You had to work hard to see him. We didn't know a lot about Rebecca Lobo, and they were

dominating people because there were no other stars. Now there are other stars, there's other great teams, and people are paying attention, which I think is cool. Does Ay Harry ass Man like Tony Bender if to turn in his male man card if he wants to watch the girls play basketball? Tony Bender doesn't want to do that, Okay, well then he doesn't have to. H If you like women's basketball, watch women's basketball. If you don't like

women's basketball, don't watch women's basketball. I mean, just like what you like. And if you don't like what I like, that's fine too. When it comes to college each male basketball today, there used to be teams you would follow three or four years. You see had players Pete Michael and Kenyon Martin and Steve Logan. You watch them as freshman sophomore, junior. That's done. In fact, men's college hoops right now. I love the teams that you had three or four years to Kentucky's, the UC's, the

Dukes in the North Carolina watching and now that's done. No good great college male player is going to play four years anywhere because the riches are way beyond the ability. So that could fill the niche you can watch a player and develop over four well, yes, but I would also say that the nil available to college basketball players has I think incentivized them to stick around. Zach Edy was the player of the Year in college basketball last season back with Purdue.

This season, Oscar Sheebwey was the national player of the Year at the University of Kentucky and came back because look, if you're going to be a top ten lottery pick, you're going to job to the next level. But there are a lot of players for whom, especially in areas where people really care about college basketball, where you go, Okay, I can take my shot and maybe go in the second round of the NBA Draft and have to make a team, or I can cash in on who I am as a

college basketball player and make money that way. And so I think in that regard, it's actually really good for the sport and IL. I think nils great for the sport as a general rule. But you're gonna have more players who it makes more financial sense for them to stay in college, and then you're gonna have more players who establish themselves as stars in college and don't jump immediately to the next level. That can only be good for college basketball.

I monitor everything all the time. You got Joey Vado out there. I'm listening to some of the sports talk over the weekend. Can't Joey Vado be a Red again? Every bat he gets is one taken away from one of the Reds burgeoning stars Joey Vado, assuming he doesn't pick up, how about an assistant hitting coach? How about him and the dugout? How about him

in the locker room. I don't think a forty year old I think hit like two hundred last year coming off that shoulder difficulties, etc. Going to take at bats away from some other and Carson or so one of the other players, whoever's going to play first base? Do you agree that Joey Vada should not be signed as a player, but should be signed as an assistant coach of some type. Well, if he has an interest in that capacity, sure, I mean, first of all, the reigning National League Say

Young Award winner is still out there and Blake Snell. So if he doesn't have a team, to me, it's far from surprising that Joe Evado doesn't have a team. We all love Joe Evado. At the end of the day, what he is is forty years old. Over his last one hundred and fifty six games, he's batted two oh six. Last year's agains. Last year against right hands he hit won ninety six. He plays first base and frankly not well, and he's been hurt a bunch. What about that

profile? What about that profile would suggest that it's a shock that he doesn't have a job as an active player. Now, if if you're clinging to the idea that you're going to get the Joe Evado of old, that's based on what because we have decades of evidence that would sugge. By the time he hit forty, you're pretty much done. Like on radio, you're done at sixty five or seventy and in twenty twenty one, or if you're like

me, you were done at like twenty six, that's true. Uh. In twenty twenty one, Joey came off the injured list and hit a bunch of home runs. That's awesome. That's the part of his game that's not likely to age well at all. So forget the name, forget what he's accomplished, forget what you think about his possible Hall of Fame candidacy. Go to Baseball Reference dot com. Look at those numbers and ask yourself, is it a shock that the guy who put up these numbers isn't available now?

If he were to say, Look, I want to come back and mentor players, I want to come back, and I want to do some broadcasting, and I want to do some consulting and advising and get on the field and spring training and work with guys. Well, there's not a team in the sport that couldn't benefit from that, but the Reds. The Reds have the history. The Reds have the history. Sure, And so now it's

how interested is he in the role? I don't know. Look, he's still telling people he wants to play, and I can certainly respect the fact that he thinks he can play. And there's a big part of me that wants to see him get a chance somewhere to prove people that he can play. As a Reds fan, I'm not willing to give him that chance here because the idea of this season should be to go win the World Series, and to do that, you're putting the best twenty six guys on your roster.

I don't think Joey Vado on the current iteration of the Reds would be considered one of the best twenty six players. Second Ly, Trevor Bauer is still out there. It's unbelievable to think about this, but in the history of the Reds, they've had one Young Award winner. Trevor Bauer has been completely vindicated, not as personal peccadillos as far as consensual sex with women, but rather the fact that the woman who began all this and the other woman

lied repeatedly about Trevor Bauer. Would the Reds make a mistake in signing Trevor Bauer. I don't know a lot about the situations that Trevor Bauer found himself in. I want to know more from Trevor about the situations he found himself in before I would be comfortable adding him to my team and bringing the attention that would come with it. Uh, that's not a no. I just

Trevor has been in a lot of situations that I have questions about. I can't get to the bottom of them unless he starts talking about them from a peer pitching perspective. He hasn't pitched in a big league game since twenty twenty one. That's not insignificant. I certainly believe that there are a few people as competitive or as devoted to keeping themselves in shape as Trevor. But I want to know from him, why have you repeatedly found yourself in these situations

where multiple women have accused you of doing some things that are unbecoming. He may have ultimately a very valid answer, and one that would make me comfortable with adding him to my team. But until I hear from him, I'm not putting a contract in front of him. And his lawyers have told don't speak about it because of defamation. Some woman could say, well, he

lied about me in this press conference with the Reds. Therefore, I'm going to assume him again for defamation of my character, whatever character she had. Yeah, and I don't know he's going to say, I'm not going to talk about it anymore. Because I'm told not to. Now where are we? Well, that's a Trevor Bauer problem. If I'm Nick Crawl or Phil Castelini or Bob Castelini, I'm concerned about my club. I'm concerned about what

this is going to do to the makeup of my club. I'm concerned about what this is going to do. I think the pr pushback would be pretty minimal. But before I added him to my organization, I would have questions private discussion. Is tell me he had a little situation here that didn't metastasize, but he had two and Southern Cow that did matestaicize in these ugly charges. And according to many, he's allows the teammate, whether the Dodgers or

the Reds. A lot of some people loved him, other people hated him. In the clubhouse, the clubhouse of the Dodgers didn't want them. Well, look, all I know is this, when he was here, he want to sign Young Award and when he got terrific in the postseason. And if I'm that and no baggage, who doesn't want that? I need to know more about the baggage. I need to know why. And look, I think his I think unfortunately his stance is about the way the sport has

run. The commissioner. I don't think that's helped him. No, I think his willingness to be overly honest, I frankly don't think that's helped him. But again, like all I care about is the performance. But before I bring you into perform, you got to answer some questions. And the crop the current Cropper Reds players had no most of them had nothing to do

with Trevor Bauer didn't know much about him. The young players, they weren't here three four years ago, and they didn't know how great it was that game, the pitching against the Braves in the playoffs, it was awesome. And in the month of September, the shortened season, he put the team on his back. I mean he pitched him into the playoffs. I think aside from Tyler Stevenson and Jonathan India, I'm not sure there's anybody on the

current roster who was here back then. So but but again, I as somebody who I've read a lot about Trevor Bauer, and every time I read about him, I have more questions. Well, then you got to answer some questions before I put a contract in front of you. I'm not sure Bob Castellaney wants to do it. He's old school. I'm not sure he wants to deal with it. I can understand why. All right, Moe, thank you very much, Thank you. Good We haven't talked about you

see, and Xavier not in the big show. It's maybe it's season's not over. Is it a trend? Well, look, you see hasn't played in the NCAA tournament since twenty nineteen, and Xavier's played in one NCAA tournament since twenty eighteen, So it's a trend. Unfortunately, it's becoming the norm that selection Sunday comes and neither school's name appears on the screen. But both teams have two regular season games remaining. Both won this weekend, Yes,

and both can maybe do some damage in their respective conference tournaments. And Zager beat UC again in the NIT No, no, this is yes, Xavier, you talk about a trend? Xavier beat you see again? Yes, again and again and again. Thank you. Why do you have to bring that up again and again and again? Thank you? O. All right, Bill, let's continue with more seven hundred WLW. A good day starts with a good morning. Here's Wanda She's not what you'd call a morning person.

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today after more than fifty years in radio. His morning show was part of many of our morning routines. Not on Your Side reporter Zach Pitts was there for Scott's final sign off at seven hundred W. Well, WRI, it's time to talk to Detective Lisa Smith. If you grew up in Cincinnati, you've probably heard his voice. Jim Scott hosted wlw's morning show for decades, but today he's turning off the mic and turning off that alarm clock he's had

to set for two thirty am every week. I really am going to enjoy a little bit more sleep. By the time you get home, you don't have much energy to do other things. So I spend time with my wife exercise, and they'll have all that extra time when the new host takes over, Mike McConnell, who you will be talking with now in the future. This show has been Jim's baby for so long, you know it's initially it'll be I guess we'll kind of keep up the way things are for a while,

and then over time we'll kind of evolve it. Today, the final good Morning, in the final goodbye, ending his show symbolically to the tune of the Beatles Sergeant Pepper. They sing it twice. They're singing at the beginning and they're letting people know, here comes a show. And then the last cut in the album, it's called the reprise, and that's where they come in and they say, I hope you have enjoyed the show. I just wondered, how do we do? That's a nod of the head,

will do. Thank you, Thank you very much for listening. Zach Pitts nine on your side. Hello quiet, I'm Scots. I'm broadcasting full boned. I'll say about a week ago, Neil Luke and after a pure of all et cetera announced the Grand Marshals for the parade. The honorary Grand Marshal is Jim Scott. The correct Grand Marshalls are always former Reds players. Pokey Reese is going to be there. Metri Young hilarious. Pokey Reese has a

world series ring with the Boston Red Sox, you might recall. That's correct, And Jim Scott's the honorary Marshall. I spoke to his wife Donna this morning. We're going to schedule for tomorrow and interview with her and Jim Scott one o'clock tomorrow, and they spent thirty one years here and forty seven in

total radio. And Randy Michaels thought so much of him, Randy bought the radio station where Jim Scott was working to buy the contract so you could start here in April of nineteen eighty four, and he was here until April of twenty fifteen. I can't believe it's been nine years ninety either mean neither, but we don't honor those who have gone before. It is marked with a sign of faith sufficiently. But he is the honorary Grand Marshal of this year's

Finley Market Parade, which starts three weeks from Thursday. That's correct. We hope we have weather because Jim's going to be in a convertible and Donna tells me that he's going to use all the ability he can to actually be the Grand Marshal. And they got a nice old I think Pontiac convertible, nice for Jim Scott to ride in. I'll always think about him, will he as a guy that when he started on the old WSAI thirteen sixty, when he was one of the Kings over there two years years ago that he went

and knocked on people's doors saying, I'm Jim Scott. I'm working on thirteen sixty WSAI in the morning, playing the hits. Why don't you get me a listen? He went door to door like he was running for office or something. As a candidate, he had hundreds of cars. That's amazing to be. He go into restaurants and walk around the tables. Managers that come up to him and say, sir, what are you doing? Is I'm

Jim Scott, Oh, Jim Scott? U s A I? And he would hand cards to people say hey, listen tomorrow and a lot of people at this station. You need a lot of money. Yeah, you do that these days. If I get arrested, get arrested, Jam Scott. But as was announced several months back, he's developed als Luke Gerrigg's disease and that he's closer to the finished in the beginning. And we want to honor Jim Scott as the Findy Market Parade Honorary Marshall. Amen. So we're going

to schedule an interview tomorrow to see how it goes. I spoke to Donna, his wife this morning who says caregiver special people are caregivers that have a loved one that must be must be tended to in the last part of their life. We share two things in common, one as a birth and secondly as a death. And what you do in the meantime is up to you. And Jim Scott as a boy, contracted polio and in his last few

years als disease and Sega's simply not fair. Amen, Hey give me some sports, will he the stood reporters of Proud Service, every local Tame Star heating and air conditioning dealers, Thamestar Quality You cond Field in Cincinnati called the experts at Preferred Home Comfort five one, three, eight, nine to two h V A C spot. How about this? Uh huh, this is pretty good. Go ahead. I carried a Grippo's bag and my Saints Savior Golden Bears basketball Jim bag because of Jim Scott, took us to the Coyo

Championship finals and we won. And that's from Jeff Beckham. There you go is the brother of David Beckham, and Jeff is a great trucker in the Tri State. How about you go, Willie? How about that? That's pretty many thousands of people have that had that Grippo bag in the back pocket, all of them. Thank you and Jim Scott, he's listening. I'm told Jim Scott, thank you, and we'll be with you tomorrow and I'll

visit you tomorrow afternoon. SAG give me some sports well. The Reds update to Andrew Abbott starts today for those Reds as they meet the Oakland A's coverage two thirty five of the Arnel Carriers Inside Pitch on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. The Reds are back on seven hundred WLW Thursday night against the Cubs, twenty four days until opening Day. Nicolodolo, we'll see a specialist today for that left tibia. What kind of problem does he have? More tests on the

leg. He experienced soreness after a side bullpen session on Thursday. Fidolo is a young man, right, I don't know. He's got something's wrong with It's the bone in the leg and the outcome will likely determine whether he can be ready on time for the start of the season. Jonathan India is on track to be ready for opening Day coming off that foot injury. Matt McClain is back at workouts today, ramping up things, and after suffering that oblique

injury last week, we need him. He could be making his game debut in the Cactus League sometime this week, and Johnny Gomes what back with the Reds what as a guest as a Reds instructor for the week. Johnny gooms, I do he like my idea of Joey Vado, who doesn't appear to have shall we say, the ability to hit baseball as much anymore? But how about him as an assistant hitting coach in the locker room, in the

dugout? Any about that? He has takes away from the current talent, and they've got plenty of infielders and plenty of first basement right direct, Yes, I think so? And so would Vado accept a position as assistant hitting coach and being the dugout? Is he willing to do that? I would probably say yes. Let's find out, uniform, let's find out, let's

do a little broadcast call mister Castellini. Right now, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, speaking with ESPN's Ben Baby, projects a return to throwing during the Bengals OTAs coming up in May. Of course, Caitlin Clark became the all time leading scorer in college basketball history yesterday, breaking pistol Pete Maravich's fifty four year old record. Willie against Ohio State for the first time in my life, I had appointment television to watch a women's college basketball game, and I watched

most of that game. Beating Ohio State. Unbelievable. I've never Chigado for the WNBA what Bird and Magic did for the NBA. Correct. Let's see Zach Wheeler and the Phillies are an agreement on a three year, one hundred and twenty six million dollar contract extension. He was set to become a free agent in the fall thirteen and six last year. Pretty good Desmond Claude, who poured in thirty six points the other night against Georgetown. Hopefully you can

do that Wednesday against Butler and next Saturday. This Saturday against Marquette Big East Honor Roll. Speaking of Marquette, star guard Tyler Kohlik will miss the final two games of the regular season because of an oblique injury. So Kohlik is out again against Xavier this Saturday. Well, well, I don't want to wish anyone ill, but if they can beat Butler and then beat Marquette, then go to the Big East and win two games. There is Xavier in

the Big Show. Yes beat I would say, yes, beat Marquette and then go maybe beat Connecticut in the second round. It looks like they might. They might be playing to Paul in the first round, which they handled in pretty good to pay you know for two games this year and they stink markt what time they're going to play to? You know? I have no idea? Please continue. Marquez Warwick has been named NKU has been named the Horizon League All League First Team along with the Wright States Trey Calvin, Trey

Robinson of NKU. The Defensive Player of the Year, Randall Pettis the second is a member of the All Freshman Team. Houston remain's number one in this week's AP Joe KA College Basketball Poll. You can up to second, Produce third, Kentucky fifteenth, Dayton falls to twenty fifth, but they're still in.

How about Jason Kelsey of UC just about rated to mention that will least Super Bowl champion, seven time Pro Bowl center and former UC Bearcats standout Jason Kelcey emotional today after he announced his retirement after thirteen seasons all with the Philadelphia Eagles. He's a Hall of Famer, right, Yes, he's gonna get a gold jacket just like his brother. Maybe they'll go in at the same time one of these days, maybe Travis will go in as mister Taylor Swift?

What about that one? Or she wants a prenup. NFL free agency starts next week. One guy that was on probably many teams free agent lists was five time Pro Bowl receiver Mike Evans. But mister Evans and the Tampa Bay Bucks are in agreement today on a two year, fifty two million dollar deal thirty five MILLI guaranteed emans he's not going anywhere. Well, what about t Higgins? What can you tell me about him? Oh, he's getting

franchise tagged. Can they say the interesting term guaranteed bonus Layton contract with him? They got, they got a few weeks yet for that. Got to see what happened to shout the dough down there at pay Corp Stadium, dough at the Ray and the media. And what about Matt McClain, I know you talk about his latch or I mean obleak. Obleak should be back in workouts see why he started workouts today, could make his Cactus League debut sometime

this week. We'd like him to play this year like he played last year. Before he heard his oblique Well can you spell oblique? O B L L I q U E. I think that's it. But they need him badly. It's right over there where I'm pointing. I don't point there. Okay, what about Trevor Bauer. I have no idea. Probably who knows he's got he's He's in need of a team like Joey Vado many Thoughvo did say over the weekend one team gave him a contract to offer, but I

don't. I don't know he's at the Angels. I have no idea. I don't know so, but you're right. I mean, David Bell's got more. I don't know who has more assistant coaches now, Zach Taylor or David Bell. But why not put Vado in there? According to some, he's an expert when it comes to him. He knows how to hit. He said he talk Ben League MVP. Benson was was, yeah, he was out of baseball. To Joey Vado got a hold of bench. Correct. Probably a few of them like that. On the team got tips from

Joey. You know, you see like those like scenes from television shows or movies where like people are playing chess in a little park. I'd love to do that. I go to a park and go play chess with some people I love. Yeah, that'd be great. Maybe come here to the Great American Ballpark and maybe a Red's ambassador. I know David I would like to have him. But the problem is, Joey thinks he can still play baseball. Now, what do you say he's hitting on a ninety five against right

handers. I have no idea. Will Hey, I'm I'm not judging Joey Vado. Well what, I'm no baseball expert. How many guys can play first base and the Crawl all of them? Nick Krawl can do that. I think the better mister Castellini, is to say, you know what, Joey, when you are done playing, get you. They're going to put a statue up down there. How about Barry Lark? I want Barry Larkin

to get a statue. I hope I get one too. They'll probably have one of everybody because how many guys have done this in the history of the Reds. You're ready for this right, MVP nineteen ninety five, World Series Ring nineteen ninety and a Hall of Famer. Yeah, how many have done that? Not many of the statues up there? Correct, you got Bench, you have Rose, Perez and Robinson, but he didn't make it with

the Reds. Met it with the Orioles. Correct. And as far as being a hometown boy, Pete Rose and Barry Larkin, right, that's it. How about Barry Larkin's statue? Then a few years later a Joey Vodo statue, get Tom tushe ready to go, and that may be it. I don't know when's the next one. I don't know. I mean, I Marty doesn't he have one? I know, Joe Marty, I don't know. I don't know. I don't either. I don't know. But as far as players, you've got to go Barry Larkin right and down the

road Joey Voto when he's in Cooperstown. Correct, But I think Barry Larkin how to get a statue? Am I right or wrong? I agree with you. Let's see what happens. Yep. I'd say, get me out of the Studge report. But we're gonna between now and Red's opening day. We hope that Jim Scott can take it as the honorary Grand Marshal of the Findley Market Parade under the leadership of Neil Luken. Is he related to Charlie Lucan? I think those two guys are related. No, we'll have to

call Chazz and find out. I'll call you know. He's he's lobbying somewhere. He's lobbying. He needs a statue somewhere. He got to be a statue. Him out in front of eight of one Plump Street, that's for sure. Let me at Joey Vado statue and give me a Charlie Lucan statue, Now, wouldn't that be something? How about this? And Haiti, did you see this story? The gangs and the Port of Prince decided to assault the only penitentiary. Yeah, they've ripped the jail open and let all

the let all the criminals out run one thousand of them. Great and the army and the police were killed in the process. The gangs control Port of Prints say get me out in a huge report. Much how much do we send them more than they deserve? Warren Christensen is coming up. Christensen's coming up next segment. Please go ahead Willia and Hounnter of Kentucky firefighter Bryce Cardon. He was the hero that rescued the woman driver of that tractor trailer dangling

over that bridge above the Ohio River Friday in beautiful Louisville. And may God bless Jim Scott. Amen, we leave you with the immortal words of the Stood Report. Jim Scott, mister nice guy, mister oh sure, I'll help your charity. I'll go to the hospital and see your kid. You believe any of that crap. This guy is no more a liberal do gooder than than I am. This is a Ronald Reagan anti tree hugger. The only twelve step program he believes in is twelve beers to open and consume.

This guy has nothing but a skirt chasing stay up late at night, hard drinking. I'm gonna tell you, mister, Jim Scott, you know why we put you back on seven hundred WLW because I heard John Wink. That was nineteen eighty four. Randy Michaels Great, the founder of this radio station. He had rather that was tongue in cheek and prime tuted remarks circa nineteen eighty four. That'll be he bought ninety four point one so Jim Scott's contract

would be here. Then he spends the next year or two ripping on Jim Scott. Now, who would ever do that except Randy Michaels. You got a point there. Randy Michaels himself is a living legend, that's for sure. Let's continue with more Arren Davidson his next at your Home of the Reds

and the Home of Jim Scott, the living Legend. News Radio seven hundred WLD over you, George Driver's Sea, the waits at the Cincinnati Auto Expo, Billy Cunningham, the great American. Of course, Congressman Warren Davidson been in the House about seven or eight years. He's in positions of leadership. He went to West Point, served in the military, got a master's degree from Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana. Elected a congress about seven or eight

years, took over from John Bayner. He's a member of the Freedom Caucus, one of the leaders. And once again Congressman Warren Davidson. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And before we get into the substance of matters, once again, the Republicans in the House have kicked the can down the road. There's a great phrase of delaying this, implementing it like a CR and I know that is something that you are viscerally disapproving of, but nonetheless it

happens. Can you tell the American people why whenever one of these crs come up that mainly Republicans continue to agree with Democrats simply to kick the can down the road and worry about it later. Yeah. I always tell people be careful what you wish for. When you say I want more bipartisanship. The most bipartisan thing in Congress is spending more money than we have. That's how we're thirty four trillion in debt and ruin it about a trillion dollars every hundred

days. So that is not going well. And unfortunately, whenever you say CR, that's like the status quo is fine, Yeah, let's continue this course. The sad thing is is that the delay is also they can spend even more money. And you go back to last May, and at least we had a plan that said we were going to spend less money this year than we spent last year. But all the big spenders have drug it out and here we are still dragging it out, and also that they can load

it up with even more spending. It's a bad plan. Well, I watched a CNBC Squak Box with on Friday morning with Joe Kernan, who, as you know, from Cincinnati, and the United States national debt right now is thirty four point four trillion as of Wednesday. It is rising at a faster clip as it grows. It's now increasing by one trillion dollars every one hundred days. And before the recent uptick about eight months ago, it was

only thirty one trillion. Now it's thirty four point four and gold is now over twenty one hundred dollars an ounce, Bitcoin up to sixty eight thousand dollars, and the Congress debates how to spend more money. If you take historically from seventeen eighty eight, which was a long time ago, George Washington is the president until twenty oh one, when Bush forty three was elected, twenty oh one, period of what about one hundred and one and two hundred and

fourteen years long time. Think of what happened between seventeen eighty eight and two thousand and one. Everything happened in that timeframe. We had accumulated national debt and twenty oh one of about four trillion dollars, and so every every four hundred days we equal four trillion dollars, and that to me, of course, is unsustainable. Did you vote yes or no on the cr continuing, I voted no, absolutely no. And look this is look go back just

a year and a half ago. I mean this is this is almost a year and a half ago. That's how far it's been drug out. All of the Republicans voted no with me, because this was when Nancy Pelosi was the Speaker of the House, Chuck Schumer was the Senate majority of the leader, which he still is, and President Biden was president, which he still

is. And so this was their funding priorities. It was the number and the policy attachments to it so bankrupting our country financially and morally, and Republicans were at least united them to say this is a bad idea. I can't, for the life of me understand why one nanosecond passed October first, back in the fall, that we would have voted for anything other than changes.

And yet here we are half of our parties voting for it. About half isn't and nearly all the Democrats. I think one or two Democrats voted against it, and their main objection was we should be funding Ukraine. So we're not in a good state. It's sad to give this full report, but

it is not a good one. It's ugly. And at thirty four point four trillion every one hundred days, add another trillion, and the interest rates arising, they're not falling, certainly, forty trillion dollars of national debt is only about four years away, or less than four years away, forty trillion, and then after that fifty trillion, after that sixty trillion institutions and the Japanese, the Chinese, the Saudi Arabians are going to quit buying our debt,

and then we're going to have the most predictive financial crisis in American history. And Congressman, we can't stop it. When I look at when I go online and look at how the money is spent, thirteen percent is on defense, twenty one percent is on Social Security, twenty four percent is on Medicare Medicaid, ten percent is interest on the national debt, eight percent are

benefits for veterans and federal retirees. Add up those numbers, about eighty percent of the budget is almost untouchable because nobody wants to touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, spending, interests on the national debt. So we're almost powerless to stop it. Because even when I think the best president of my lifetime that's going back a while was Donald Trump. His administration added eight trillion dollars to the national debt. He had the excuse of the pandemic,

but not really. It wasn't offset. And even whether it's Republicans or Democrats, Congressman and the twenty four to twenty five years of this century, half the time Democrats are in charge, half the time Republicans are in charge, it made no difference. We keep spending and spending and spending. And what happens when those quit buying our debt stops doing it? The Federal Reserve has to print more money, or the Treasury he's got to issue more IOUs.

Either way, it's bad. How do you sell the idea that if this isn't addressed, America will be a banana republic by the year twenty thirty, Well, it isn't going well. I go back to twenty sixteen, when I was a first a candidate, one of my sayings was, don't bankrupt America, and we sure on a path to do it. And you know, don't bankrupt it financially, that's the math part. Math is real. And don't bankrupt it morally. That's all the terms and conditions. All this

stuff is loaded up with and it's crippling our economy. And people recognize that. People give such eloquent speeches about it. I go back to Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan when he was nominating. Heaven gave us famous a time for choosing speech, and they were worried about the debt in the sixties, and so the Republican Party, Reagan's famously in the eighties had a great quote. He said, you know, the closest thing to eternal life we'll see on

this earth as a government program. You know, they don't ever stop growing. And yet he, in spite of recognized that, presided over massive expansion of spending and overall the big growth of government. So recognizing the problem is the first step, but then actually doing something about it. You know, most I check all my colleagues, most every one of us has some version of we want a smaller, more accountable government. Every one of us as

Republicans anyway, everyone left of center once more government. That's part of the mindset. You'd think the solution to every problem is more government. But unfortunately, even though they say otherwise, a solid chunk of Republicans believe that this solution is more government as well. That's why we keep winding up with more government. We haven't had a Congress in memory where we had less government, so that's that's the problem. The only time we really got aggressive about winding

down the government we did was post World War Two. We had about the one hundred and twenty five percent debt to GDP ratio, so we had lots of debt, and our economy was, you know, smaller than the debt twenty five percent. The debt was twenty five percent bigger than the debt. We're closing in on one hundred and thirty percent of our debt to GDP right now, so we're more debt to GDP than we had after winning World War two. And at least after World War two they realized, you know,

we can't keep spending at wartime levels. We have to pay out in the debt. But the only quest for all all of the people left of center and a solid chunk of Republicans is more government. And look, one hundred, one hundred and thirty percent debt to GDP ratio is a big warning. Historically, there's fifty two countries in history that have gotten to that debt to GDP ratio, and so far, fifty one of them have defaulted. The only one that hasn't is America. Yet. No, we're not quite there

yet, so we're closing in on it. Japan has not defaulted yet, but they're above it right now and they're still surviving somehow. That's the only cases so far at Japan, and you might as well lump the United States there, because there is no plan to avert getting to one hundred and thirty percent debt to GP ratio. For the United States, it always ends in default fifty one out of fifty two times so far, and no one's even working on the land for default. So reality is when something can't continue,

it does eventually stop. Sometimes, like a fall from a skyscraper, it's the sudden deceleration that kills you right hit the ground and you stop. I don't know what it's going to take for the United States, to realize we can't keep spending at these levels, but we have to. And what happens people are already seeing it. Yes, you can print money, but it doesn't mean that you can buy the same amount of stuff. It causes inflation,

and it's essentially a tax. So if you think about how much more expensive everything is in your household right now, imagine if that was because this was going to taxes to pay to the federal government. Because that's effectively what this is. It's a consequence of policy decisions made in Washington, DC overwhelmingly that you're dealing with this inflation. Well, each American personally owes about two hundred thousand dollars of they're part of the national debt, and it's getting worse

and worse. We defend the borders of the Ukraine, but don't defend our borders. And we had Kamala Harris the vice president, and that's the best, the best insurance policy Joe Biden has as his vice president. No one's calling for the twenty fifth amount because of what would happen unless she and Age and the Attorney General Mary Garland said in a Selma church this morning yesterday that guess what voter ID laws are racially discriminatory, that we cannot expect black folks

to get an ID to vote. That that has to do with all the illegal immigration going on right now, which is completely out of control. One of the things that really is such a lie that illegal immigrants don't commit more crimes than shall I say, Native Americans. Well, the fact of the matter is that the cities, the Blue Cities, and the Blue States do not ask anyone their immigration status when they're arrested. So therefore we don't know

how many illegal immigrants commit crime because we don't ask where they're from. And secondly, the Blue Cities and the Blue States have stopped reporting to the FBI crime statistics, and so we don't know out of New York, Washington, d C. Or Atlanta or Portland or LA or Chicago or Cincinnati, we don't know level of crime committed by illegals. Number One, we don't ask immigration status, which is are you legal, so we don't know who's committing

crime. Secondly, we don't send that data to the FBI because it looks too bad. I think about the murder, the terrible murder which is happening all over our country, to female joggers, Tither and fro whether it's it began with Kate Steinley in San Francisco about seven or eight years ago. Molly Tibbets in Iowa and Lake and Riley and Georgia, all killed by illegal immigrants

that shouldn't have been here, but we don't know their immigration status. We're told now that the killers of these three women are from foreign countries, many had been toporter committing crimes here. And the Congresses can't act on requiring cities and states to report immigration status because the Democrats in the Senate would filibuster, are not permitted to come up. We're in serious trouble. And on the

southern border. Can you make the argument, Congressman Warren Davidson as to why we protect the borders of Iran, Iraq, will protect the borders of South Korea, of Israel, of Ukraine, will protect the borders of NATO, but we don't protect American borders. Why? Yeah, there is no excuse for that. And you'll go back briefly to crime. Let's not forget accounting

methodologies and you know all the corrupt dishonesty going on there on reporting. But let's just say the right level of crime committed inside America by illegals is zero. Because the right level of illegals inside America is zero, there should be no crime committed by illegals because we shouldn't accept illegals coming in. And so the Senate Democrat plan was to create a floor of five thousand people. They could come in a day, so you get one point eight million people in

a year. And what's that designed to do. It's designed to jam up President Trump's forty seven the next term, so that he can't actually limit immigration and get it back closer to zero you know where it should. And when you look at the priorities, Look, we haven't funded our own government. The deadline was October first of twenty twenty three, that's the start of the fiscal year. We could have had a lowering level, and we could have

had Republican priorities. And the only reason we don't is because Republicans refuse to work together as a majority to implement a majority policy. We have to fight. Now, that doesn't mean that the Democrats in the Senate and Joe Biden are going to want to sign it, but they're certainly not going to sign it without a fight. And we can't even get into the fight. So

that's incredibly frustrating. And you know, people say back home, why do I say it that way, Well, because I want you to know that there are people in Congress like me, like you, that are frustrated and we expect to be able to fight. We call the votes. We don't have the votes, and I think that's great, because it's not great that we don't have the votes, but it's great that we get to vote,

because then the American people can see and they can send reinforcements. You can see who's more interested in funding foreign governments in foreign wars, and who's interested in funding our own country. And we should fund our country. Yeah, but we should fund it in a direction that cuts spending, that shrinks our government, that balances our budget eventually, and it secures our borders. It gives up the whole idea of citizenship. If you don't if you don't care

about citizenship, you're not a sovereign country. Now. Well, whenever Joe Biden reads the teleprompter or whenever the mainstream media talks about it, it's the Bipartisan Border Control Bill, The Bipartisan Border Control Bill sixty minutes BI parttersan border control bill that the Republican's Donald Trump's in fault because he told the Republicans, I guess like you in the House not to vote for it, because after

all, it's bipartisan. The bipartisan bill legalizes every day five thousand new illegal immigrants before Biden has to trigger something to stop it. Five thousand a day is almost two million more illegal before. It's a terrible bill. It makes no sense. There should be not one illegal immigrant entering this country every day. But the bipartisan bill says that five thousand of days brought in before Biden has to do anything, which is two million new every year. But the

media never points that out, do they. No, they don't. And look, let's say that that could get all the way through the Senate. That's not what passed the House. The House passed HR two. It's a strong border security bill. It does actually do a lot to address the problem. And what should happen Normally, when you have a bill that passes the House and a build that passes the Senate, they go to conference committee and

you try to reconcile the differences. Sometimes you can't reconcile them. That happens in a lot of cases. The Senate doesn't take up lots of bills that the House has passed. But we passed this bill on boarder security last May. So we've done everything we can to try to get them to take it. We've asked nicely, we've demanded. The thing that we haven't done, though, is delivered a bill that needs to pass the Senate and it's got HR two attached to it. The Senate tried to do this last week with

their amendment process. Republican senators were able to force some amendment votes and they got thirty two senators to vote to secure our border along with funding our country. So the cr that ultimately passed, there was a chance to pass one that secured the border, and thirty two senators voted to do it. One of our senators did, jd Vance voted to secure the border and thunder government and Senators shared Brown said no, thanks, let's not secure border. Stayman,

just thunder government. It's just stalemate. Status quo. Congressman Warren Davidson. I'm glad you're in the fight, but I have little hope that Donald Trump's going to get a fair trial in New York City. I have little hope that the arc of spending is going to be stopped. I have little r I have little hope that the southern border is going to become secure.

It wouldn't take a dollar of federal spending for Joe Biden isshiel a whole bunch of executive orders just used the template that Trump used, and he's not going to do that. And as long as the mainstream media keeps lying in the American people, they're never going to know the truth. Well, Congressman, we got to run. But I'm glad you're in the fight. I'm glad

you're on the right side of history. But we're going to have the most predictive national catastrophe we've ever had when the debt bubble burst and dollars are worthless and it will take a real barrel of dollars to buy a loaf of bread. That's where we're headed. And everyone says, yep, it's happening. Everyone from Wall Street to Main Street says, man, we got a problem. But the Democrats largely refuse to do anything because they don't want to.

They don't want to take responsibility for the def and deficits they've largely cost. Congressman Warren Davidson, once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. With your permission, we'll do it again. Thank you. Congressman Willie is always an honor. God bless you and your listeners. And don't give into despair for anybody listening. This country's worth fighting for and defending. So thank you for inspiring and soul. God bless you. Thank you very

much. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham on seven hundred WLW did you know that the tubs and showers installed most bathroom remodeler. Now that he's washed up as a football player, he's got to find something to do well, Chris, now that NBC lost the football games, maybe you can do your own show once in a while, at least for a short period of time before you joined Bob Trumpy at some little station in northern Kentucky that nobody can

hear. Tracy Jones, another washed up ex jock. We've seen more games from behind the scenes than Marty and Joel. Hey, Tracy, maybe you ought to think about being a travel agent. Heck, you've played in every city in North America. It's one thing when talent plays the fool. But Andy Furman is not playing. This guy has cost this company more than any other single individual. He called a sixteen year old girl a terrible name.

He got us in a lawsuit smoking a cigar. He cost Bob Huggins to lose key recruits and lost the Bengals when he had to call Mike Brown sperm lucky. Finally, how about that so called common man Bill Cunningham? How can this guy own four restaurants, drive free cars, take free vacations, hang out at the Kenwood Country Club and call himself the common man? This guy is so delusional. He actually thinks he's a good talk show host. He thinks he's a good attorney. He thinks he's a god named raw.

Hey Bill, I heard you on w C I M not bad. You think they have a full time opening for you there? Hello Piet and I'm broadcasting Roger. That's Randy Michaels, who owned the station. The program draft, right, this is the guy in charge, the Cracker, He's leader. Look, look, anybody listens to this program those it's hard to tell what's real and what's not real? Was he being sincere? Was he calling

people out? Yes? I love it? How about this story with Bob Trumpy when he was told by Randy Michael, you're gonna do school closings whether you like him or not. Trumpy, what happened? Uh, let's see Trump. He put him up against the and is about three feet off the ground, Willie, and he was his fear is at nine thousand dollars. Shoes were dangling off the wall and Trump just Trump just dropped him. And

guess who did school closings every day? You me, Bam? Can you see someone here picking up DJ Hodge hitting them against the wall using the I'm not doing school closing boom and DJ. That was Bob Trumpy. Things are a little different. It was different, good old days. It was a wild less back then. How about the legendary Gary Burbank and he's now cast on My God Bousies. I remember when it was just Gary and Doc and

they were number one. Now. Look, I mean, there's a guy who absolutely is lucky he got into radio when he did, because there's no way in hell he could have done that show if he'd have been born after the invention of Prozact. So what was the con Give us some context on the air, like, like what why is what is the reason behind this? All right? Randy Michaels wanted to change AM radio away from Moon River, away from playing the hot wax hits, away from being I'm a radio

man. Listen to what I have to say and I will give you exactly. He wanted to be fun, outrageous. What's gonna happen now? We now precisely, And so in eighty three he buys this station and it was losing money. It was eighth in the ratings. Only went up during Red Spaceball in the Bengals. Oh that we were in the crapper. He wanted to change this frequency to make it relevant to a thirty five year old man and woman, and he did it. But this was He'd walk around here

with his pants down. But we'd have parties. Remember a Union terminal. It was, oh, millions of dollars. We had the boat. We had programming dinners where we all got together. Macintosh's out there, the old Macintosh is a great place out on Galberthrown. But the Delta, well, I'm going to use the Delta Queen. We would we would go every so often, we go and anything he wanted at Macintosh's, Snake everything else. The place ended up in a but baked potato fight. We got thrown out

of there and never never came back. See, I haven't talked about this with Eddie. He always exalts the days when he would get free trips to London and do remotes and do all this and go to didn't you guys go to a would you guys go to the We went to Dominican Dominican or something. We went to I went to Maui, The d R went to UH went to Rome. We went to UH Grease and on condition you have an unlimited checking your account, spend all the money you want and have fun.

Just go And I was like, are you kidding me? Now? Can't get cups, We can't get cuffs coffee, We don't have a vending machine. Right. Randy says, we're gonna blow this thing up and recreate it. And here Alan Gardner. It was in a candy bar and it was Mike McConnell. Mike McConnell. He was a long haired pot smoking f them lock and roll disc jockey. You know what's missing today the records. He sits around trying to be logical. He doesn't know how to scream or yell

or provoke controversy. I mean I replaced him once with Pat Berry, and don't think I won't do it again. That was it. And if you're not on the edge getting sued insulting people, you're not working here. Now. It's like, if something happens before, we got to be careful. I don't offend anybody. Offend everybody. Please offend everybody. So are their compliance trainings? Like we got to take all the damn time around here? What what? No? We had no computers, no nothing, nothing,

just to have fun, to be ridiculous. And I said, I got to get more about Matt Reese and David Wecker, oh, my paper guy and a liberal news guy. I guess that's redundant. What are they thinking about trying to be talk show hosts? I mean, David, until that post goes out of business in the next few weeks, why don't you go back and help Connie Yeager put together lista cat shows or Star Trek Adventures or something. And Matt Reee, all you do is suck up the politicians.

And if we work for you and your friend Tim Merra, those stadiums would be built by now. That was a small slice of this culture, this place for lanny years. It sounds like you walked around here on your toes a little bit. Uh, But you better do something weird and get sued. You better do any firm and bringing people to Uh. I'd walk into the studio after a cigar fest and it was I couldn't see the microphone. Here was smoke, cigars, strippers running around. You're not getting sued your

newspapers. Not Now, it's a complete opposite. We've got him Scott, mister nice guy, mister oh sure, I'll help your charity. I'll go to the hospital and see your kid. You believe any of that crap. This guy is no more a liberal do gooder than that I am. This is a Ronald Reagan anti tree hugger. The only twelve step program he believes in is as twelve beers to open and consume. This guy has nothing but

a skirt chasing, stay at a blatant stack, drink drinking. I'm gonna tell you, mister him, Scott, you know why we put you back on seven hundred WLW because I heard John Wink dinner time. That's our leader, that's the guy in charge. There's nowhere to go. You couldn't go to like the other PD, you couldn't go to the owner of the station. He was it, Randy Michaels was it? That? Was it?

Judge Jury executioner. I walk up to him in nineteen eighty four like an April and may have been here about a year, and I said, I like to know, Randy, if I have a future in radio, because I could run against Judge Craft for a common Police Court seat. I probably would lose, might win. I want you to tell me, Manda man I bought it. Am I going to be a radio He said, absolutely not. He said, you have no chance. You don't get it, You're not not never any career. No, you better take that, take

that position. Here we are, and here I am. Forty years years later. It was cut lady to pick seven hundred wl W the flagship into your station. Okay, communications, seriously, once again? So what change? What change from then to now? Not that we don't have our fun here. I would love us to be independent by ourselves doing what we like to do. But we're governed by a corporate structure with a thousand others. What happens a thousand stations run out of New York City in San Antonio.

And that's that's the way it is. And I don't blame the leadership of this station because if they don't do it, somebody else will. And so I get it. But the fun aspect, the ridiculous aspect, go out on the limb. Go you're so off the limb, jump in head first, Who cares if there's water in the pool, just jump in. That whole thing is gone and we've gone corporate. That's what we used to have our fun, though we have fun within certainly, I'll tell you, I

mean compared to the station. Like people at ESPN ask me all the time about my show and stuff, and I tell them they're like, what could never work? What are you talking about? Them? Like that actually does or it could get worse. But right now we're the best we can with the constraints. Though that exists. I agree. But Randy blew it up, recreated it, and the rest is history. And Jim Scott, the living legend seg you said it. He began life with Polio, end's life

with Louke Gerrick's. In the meantime, he did amazing. It's amazing, the greatest Morning Guy and it's said he's going out this way. He wants to live until the Red's opening day, be the Honorary Grand Marshal with Pokey Reese and Dimitri Young. Yeah, and he's being I got a text from Donna, his wife, and she said, please tell tell she's not being Shall we say private about this? That there's a guy coming over as we speak to fit him. How about this? So glad you reached out at

four pm? Today is a big day for Jim. A Jim Swartzman who grew up in reading is bringing his big ass nineteen sixty three Pontiac Parade convertible and the OTPT lady here are gonna size up Jim. Going to in and out of the convertible. This is Jim's last hurrah. It's important to our hearts and being that this goes well. We're doing all that we can and I'll say Donna, I'll do whatever I can to honor the living legend.

Amen. And so he's gonna be fitted at four o'clock in the convertible, and I hope he can make it the next three and a half weeks segment. Your reaction will he the stooge reporters approach service of your local temestar. He the air conditioning dealers tamestar quality. You could feel the Northern Kentucky call it any whether heat he get air at eight five nine seventy eight to one forty eight twenty two ft. Aaron Leightman was the guy Furball just text correct

who sued the station because of smoke. Andy Right allegedly blew smoke in his face and Aaron Lightman wanted to charge Andy Furman with assault, Oh my god, and battery. It's true, It's true, true, and what the court. I don't know what happened, but Bariny Myers, it is worth it. Go do it again. Jump in the pool head first, who cares if there's water in it? Jump in there, Go down those ski slopes without any poles. Just go head first in the dark and see what

happens. I'll cover your ass. I said, thank you, Randy. Amen segment your reaction. Willy Andrew Abbott starts today for the Reds as they take on those Oakland A's, and the action will come up on Fox Sports thirteen sixty and tomorrow at one o'clock. We hope to have on Donna Scott

and Jim Scott tomorrow at one. So that's that point the appointment listening right there, Joe Burrow about that rejects a return to throwing during the Bengals OTA's coming up in may as he thrown yet rock here is not he dished out. He dissed out some great soup yesterday, Downtown lost soup. Houses camp looks good, houses appendix looks good. How's his knee looks good? How about his wrist? Still got to dress on it, but he's doing okay.

What's next? Throwing? May nothing? You're being negative, I'm being positive. I'm being objective. That's kind of the same amount time to be negative. So good things happened anytime you get positive negative, I'm going negative. To get positive sounds like starting you're being a little randy or something. Amen, watch on the show today. So right out of get I heard you talking to someone at the casino. Attempted robbery thing pretty wild, right,

Ocean eleven, Ocean eleven. Uh, he made away with millions of dollars in an elaborate plan. I think it was a little more off the cuff. But we have a Jimmy Orwig. You know, he's uh he's in the band. The menus you know what the menus are? Yeah? There, all this was going on like there, he was there. So he's gonna give us a first hand account. I need what the hell was

going on? And then then we have a Christian schlopman of the since he film commission at four, gonna answer the question why are so many movies filled? And since filmed in Cincinnati? Amazing, right, Sylvester Stalloons here he was to Jeff Ruby, he got the he got the the of a punch, by the way, real quick. I want to give a shout out to a j who works at the the BP right there right the Joe's quick marks. Great guy. I go in there and get a drink most every

day. He listens. He always has the stooge report on. He's a great guy. Like heyj is the citizen. He's working, hard, working, smart, doing the best they can. How about it? Man? We need more? But why don't we recreate the beginnings of the station? Do you want to go? Will let's go, Oh boy, We'll be drawn into DJ's office right now from corporate Come see me. M was there the term woke back then? Was there? The tomb cancel culture. Was there that all this stuff, No, you know what it was. There

weren't many lawyers back then. Now there's like one ever you can I mean everywhere you turn. You know what Shakespeare said, First, let's kill all the lawyers number one, Billy Shakespeare first, before we do anything. Let's kill the lawyer John to Fitz Society. They go first, and the lawyers, the lawyers go first, and we sure the debt and onuns up. And we did now what we did in the mid nineteen eighties. Be off there we got Headlonzo for once. Then it's over segment your reaction, get

get us out of the Studge Report. Those are the Those are the shall we say the good time, will Lee and honor of a beautiful day here in the tri State. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stewed Report. One and one the count on Babe Ruth. Two outs. We're in the top half of the first inning in this dream matchup at Riverfront Stadium

between the twenty seven Yankees and the seventy six Cincinnati Reds. The one one pitch swung online drive right field base in Ken Griffy comes up with it on the hop as he returns of all of the infield, so Babe Ruth with a line drive two out single the right field off Nolan's won one pitch, and the Yankee first inning continues for first baseman Lou Garrett's ludary, what the mission? Turn the radio on here? That I think I just did,

didn't They? Good afternoon, everybody from River Frets Stadium in Cincinnati. A mythical matchup involving the nineteen sixty nine New York Mets, the amazing Mets that came from way down in the month of August to capture the National League Eastern Division championship, won the National League pennant, and went on to take the

World Series in amazing fashion against all the Memorials. Tonight they're going to be matched up against the nineteen seventy nine Western Division champion Cincinnati Reds, and it'll be Tom Severer of nineteen sixty nine against Tom Seaver of nineteen seventy nine, and we'll be back to take a look at the starting lineup in just a moment. Ai Those were when they were on Strike Rock during the week. They recreated beautifully under the tutelage of production director Lee Jilt years ago, nineteen

it was nineteen eighty one. They recreated games where the seventy six Rads gonna play the twenty seven Yankees. They had, they had the sounds, they had everything in it, and so bred they made it up. Made it up here on the weekends much different then on the weekends during the strike, they went to UH the minor leagues, they went to Indianapolis, and one year they went to Birmingham where Joe played, and he interviewed Michael Jordan sake,

I don't understand anything you just said. Okay, May Jim Scott lived long and prosper on News Radio seven hundreds WLW. Are you already feeling overwhelmed with your long list of places to clean in your home? Get your spring cleaning done. Now you're gonna enjoy the warm weather ahead of