4-28-23 Bill Cunningham Show

So much going on with Jerry Springer. Plus I got a hold of I got a hold of Rob Sanders a couple of days ago. He was in a trial about a mom who spent stimulus checks on drugs, found guilty and sons odi death. Stimulus checks are taking care of the drug dealers, putting money in their pockets. That's another story before we go any further, Rob Sanders, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Rob, you might be too young to recall the Halcyon days if Jerry Springer when he began in the

early nineteen seventies, which was an incredible story. May I tell you how I first met Jerry Springer. Willie, thanks for having me back on. It's a pleasure, Happy Friday. Please laid on me. Because I'm old enough to remember Jerry Springer, I really don't remember his political career. That's before certainly before my time in politics. My earliest memories of Jerry Springer are

of him as the Channel five news anchor. And I knew he had been mayor of Cincinnati before that, and I knew he had gotten busted paying a hooker with the check. But no, late on me. Tell me your earliest memory. And believe me, Jerry would love these discussions. He loved a good laugh in a smile. He was a gentle caress amounted guy. It's March or April of nineteen sixty eight. I'm a young college student at Xavier and I'm marching on the planes of Xavier in my army uniform, Lieutenant

William Cunningham in Rozzie. I got my hat on, I'm in uniform, my brasso, my buttons down, and I'm carrying my M one rifle. There was a platoon under the leadership of Colonel Dooley and Major Tesmer at Xavier. So we're marching on the planes of Xavier in our army uniform with my little tag on with the M one and my right hand, and we're I'm going HP too, Hipto, and I'm the leader of the plato. If the Vietcong hit Victory Parkway, Cunningham would be called out to save the college

campus. Off to the left was a small group of radical students with long hair. We thought they were students talking about Vote nineteen in the Vietnam War. We kind of stopped and began to interact with them. One of those protesters was Jerry Springer. So I'm in my Rodson uniform with my m one and we're arguing the good or the bad of the Vietnam War. By the way, Jerry Springer was right about the Vietnam War, but in nineteen sixty

eight that wasn't the case. And so I met him at Xavier as he's trying to register people to vote on Vote nineteen and lower the voting age twenty one to nineteen, arguing about Vietnam War. Jump ahead to nineteen seventy seven, after the Hooker incident, and I go into the mayor's office to see him again about running for political office. By that point, I'd gone through Xavier University of Tillia Law School. Back home in Cincinnati, he gave me

advice on politics. In nineteen seventy three, Jerry Springer, recently married, found himself in a brothel or some situation in northern Kentucky as a young man. He would have been about twenty nine years old at the time, and he thought he had and I've asked Jerry about then, and he thought he had cash in his back right pocket. Didn't have cash, but for some reason he had his check book with him, he pulls out and pays, supposedly, I guess it's admitted now a hooker with a check now is that?

Was that a crime in nineteen seventy three in Covington, Kentucky to pay a hooker with a check if it took her out to dinner, bought her a nice, nice steak, and then buy some flowers and they have sex. That's one thing you can't pay with a check. Is that correct? That is correct? And that would be prostitution now that back in the seventies, I'm not sure that much of anything was illegal in Covington and Newport back in the seventy No, it certainly would be prostitution now, So all your

listeners to get the wrong idea. But you know, I guess Jerry was in between a rock and a hard place there because he's either going to pay for sex, which makes it prostitution, or he's gonna walk out without paying, which would be theft of services. So it sounds like either way he was in trouble. Well, he was in trouble when the rock Rood Republican prosecutor Simon L. Lee got word from a cop in northern Kentucky what had

happened, and that no crime took place in hamlet A County. If there was a crime, it was in northern Kentucky, So hamlet A County had no jurisdiction at all. There was no crime committed. But side Lee saw an opportunity to take down the Democratic Party future, which was Jerry Springer. So he calls John Socco Weathy, you might recall, was the chair of the Democratic Party, and said I got your boy. I got him. And so Weathy calls Springer and says, look, did you pay a hooker

with a check for sex? And Jerry admitted to it. He did it, and so Socco and him went round the round. How stupid is that? But heavy had no crime committed, no charge was ever filed. Springer voluntarily steps down from city council. Within a year or two is the mayor Cincinnati. So the hooker? Is that the reason Jerry Springer politically ever existed? Oh? I think it was a springboard for his career. I mean, I can't imagine how he pulled that off. But he went from nobody

ever heard of this guy. So he pays a hooker with a check to he's marri Cincinnati somehow Parley is that into becoming the anchor at Channel five News. This is my earliest memories of him. The big deal for me. The only time I ever met Jerry Springer was in between the six pm and the eleven PM broadcast. Once in a while, he and Norma Rashid would come over and have cheese Coney's at the Skyline Chili on Third Street in Covington, And as a special treat when I was a kid growing up in Covington,

once in a while, my parents would take us to Skyline. We thought we had met the world's biggest celebrities when Jerry and Norma were having cheese cone. He's super nice people. He's always super nice guy, both of them. Enorma is still kicking it. Norma is still wonderful, and I'm thinking, how in the world is that possible. And by the way, the check cleared. It was never a case where it bounced. Tony Bender said it bounced up and down Vine Street. It never bounced. It was

cleared and there was no crime ever committed in Hamlet and County. There was no jurisdiction. But Jerry was so embarrassed. From Channel five to National Network TV, He's created a whole new genre of television, these talk shows that still exist today. You know this half talk show, half staged fist fight. You know the hillbilly brawl thing going on there, the whole notion of who is the father of this child? All that TV stuff, that,

all that craziness all started with Jerry Springer. It's amazing. He's probably got Stile East to think for Jerry becoming a multimillionaire. And we've hit on guests like Peter Bronson wrote the book about what was happening in northern Kentucky in the nineteen seventies. We're talking about the mob, talk about massive prostitution operations, talk about casino gambling, talk about blackjack being played at Beverly Hills. Who

burned down Beverly Hills. Many have said to it was the mob because the showings wouldn't sell out, and all that massive lawlessness out of Northington, Ducky publicly known by all the officials, Your predace esters entitle knew all about it. But the big story was a check to a hooker. That was the big story, and not what was happening upstairs, what was happening at Beverly Hills. Unbelievable that Jerry Springer came through that and he was the one that

took the hit. But taking the hit launched a political entertainment career which has never been equaled. When was the last person who became the Mayor's Cincinnati which like a full time job, who became the main anchor at Channel five, took down Nick Clooney in the ratings, and then after nine or ten years of that, launched a brand new kind of radio, new kind of television trash talk shows. Jerry Springer did all that. It all began with a

hooker. Yeah, it's amazing. I don't see John Cranley doing that. I certainly don't see Aftab doing that. No, I don't know. Maybe Mark Mallory, but then again, everybody's already seen that horrible first Mitchy throughout, so I don't know if he's going to be able to pull it off.

Jerry Springer certainly seems to be one of a kind. All right, Let's move on the story that out of northern Kentucky, first person in Kent County to be convicted of murder for exposing their child defentanel explained about this mom who spent the stimulus money on drugs, found guilty and her son's od death. Please explain, Jerry Jr. Willie, Jerry Willie will anyway you go to Terry spring around the brain now, Willie Willie. We hit Back in

March at twenty twenty one, the high profile case hit the news. This is back in the middle of the pandemic, when all the stimulus checks were first going out and getting cashed, and Lauren Baker took her stimulus check and instead of investing it in her family or her house or anything that would have been a more appropriate use of the stimulus check, she took her twelve hundred dollars, drove over to Cincinnati and bought a remarkably large bag of fentnel,

an incredibly deadly drug, brought it back to Ludlow, Kentucky, shared a little bit with one of the ladies that gave her a ride over to Cincinnati, shared a little bit with her baby's daddy, who she was living with at the time, and then she used some of it herself, used probably a good amount of it herself, but still had plenty left. Two days later, when she had admitted to police later on that she took a shot of fentnyl. She then laid down for a nap with her two year old

son, Jackson. The only problem is Jackson did not pass out and go to sleep like his mother didn't. When she awoke, Jackson was unconscious in her lap, with the contents of her purse, including her bag of fentnyl, strewn all across her bed. Now, I responded down there at Ludlow police request. I interviewed Lauren Baker with Detective Jason Compton from the Ludlow Police

Department. She admitted to pretty much everything, although she claimed that she had packed her fentnyl back up, put it in her purse and put it on the back of her bed and tied it to the bed post. And you know, the bottom line was Willie, whether she was telling the truth about that or whether she passed out with fentnyl right there in her lap, it really didn't matter because the bottom line was her two year old son got into it and he was dead because of it. So we took this case to

trial. There were no plea offers for her between buying fentnyl with a stimulus check and not keeping a two year old boy safe from it. That was going to be something that I was never going to plea bargain. I wanted to see what the jury would do. I asked the jury to put her in prison for life. The jury found her guilty of murder and sentenced her to thirty three years in prison, twenty eight for the murder of Jackson and

five for importing the fentnyl. They also convicted her of trafficking in that fentnyl. However, they ran that time concurrent to the murder sentence. So it was a sad but historic day in Kenton County. And despite the fact that the jury didn't give her the life sentence I asked for number one. I appreciate their guilty verdict on the murder because I think that sends a strong message. They did not give her the minimum sentence. I think that sends a

strong message. And it's really a tough job for a jury to do to convict a mother of murder for killing her own child, when obviously it was a tragic situation. She was horribly, horribly negligent to the point of being guilty of murder, but there was no doubt she didn't love her son,

so it was said story all the way around. But the Jerry did a fabulous job, and I think this sends an incredibly strong message to any other fentanyl users out there that you better not have this stuff around your kids. If you're gonna do fentyl, if you're going to ruin your body with that drug, that's you know, that's not good. But it's certainly not as big of a deal as if you don't keep your kids safe from it.

So if you need to know the Kent for Families and Services, get help, call your relatives, have them take your kids, send them to a babysitter. I don't know, do something with them, but just keep them safe from these drugs because if not, the Jerry's in Kenton County will convict them a murder and they'll send them to prison for decades. In this case, mom Lauren Baker was thirty five years old, her baby son Jackson Vote, was only two, and explained to the American people Rob Sanders. Obviously

this was not an intentional death. She did not intend to kill the child. Like some mothers her fathers may bash the kid in the head, shoot the baby. In this case, it was indirect. The American taxpayer worked hard paid taxes, sent the money to Washington. Then the American taxpayers supplied the money to Lauren Baker to buy fentonel from communist read China, which is killing over one hundred and twenty five thousand Americans every year. No big deal

there, of course. And Lauren Baker, even though she did not intend to kill her child, she did with ten times the lethal dose in his body. How come it's explained to the American people, why is it a murder when she did not specifically intend the death. Well, in Kentucky we have one statue called murder, but that statue has two subsections, and the first subsection is intentional murder, which is, of course, like you just

articulated Willias, when you intentionally kill someone. However, we have a second subsection of the murder statute in Kentucky that is commonly referred to as wanton murder. Wanton murder is when someone wantonly engages in conduct which causes the death of another person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life and to

be wanton conduct. That means that somebody knew that conduct could cause someone's death, and that they engaged in that conduct anyway, and that no reasonable person would do such a thing. And that's basically what the jury said. That it was not reasonable for Lauren Baker to bring fentyl into a house where her two year old son was and to keep it in such a manner that even if she thought that she was packaging it up and hiding it in her purse,

that that wasn't good enough. That she needed to go extra steps to protect her children, and her failure to do so with such a gross deviation from what a reasonable person and would do that it rose to the level of want and conduct. And then having this drug this dangerous around a two year

old child was a circumstance manifesting extreme indifference to the value human life. Yeah, a lot of legally, is a lot of legal speaking there, but the bottom line is this is akin to the same kind of prosecutions we have when drunk drivers, you know, get on the interstate going the wrong way and crash into somebody head on. You know, that's pretty common, and not just Kentucky but all states that that person would be prosecuted for the crime

of murder, even though drunk drivers never get in their car thinking I'm gonna go kill somebody. That action is so egregious that society has said that that conduct rises to the same level is intentionally killing someone. So it's murder either way, no matter how you get there, whether it's intentional or whether it's

wanting under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value human life. According to the public defender, he claims that she was getting drug methodone clinic help from an opioid use toss order, but she also had quote mom had a system for storing her fentanyl, and she took substantial precautions to keep both voids out of her children's reach, according to the public defender, and that was not the case that she had more than one child. When you say children, she

had more multiple children. She had three, Willie Now, the older two children were not the biological children of the fellow that she was living with, who was the biological father of Jackson, who was the two year old who died. The older two children had gone to live with their grandmother, Lauren Baker's mom. She was struggling with both her addiction. She was actually pregnant at the time all this happened, and also had some medical issues going on.

So she had so many problems, not the least of which was her opiate addiction, her substance used disorder, which we never disputed, the fact that she had a substance he used disorder. That was probably the most obvious thing about the entire case was that this woman had been addicted to drugs for over a decade. But you know, that's where I say it didn't matter.

The bottom line was whether you bought the defense argument that she was going there, she was taking substantial steps to try and keep this fentel away from

her child, even if you believe that it just wasn't enough. Nevertheless, the more likely scenario, the one that was probably what happened, was that she shot up with fentonel and passed out before she put it away, and then her two year old child got into this bag of white powder, and by the time he was done with it, it was all over the comforter, all over the bed, and along with the breast of the contents of her purse. Now, maybe ask why would a two year old child want

to get into a bag of white powder? Why would the child take that to play with, especially if it really was wrapped up and put away like the defense attorney claimed, Well, the answer is obvious. It's learned behavior. That's what he saw his mother play with all these times. She was always getting it out of her purse and getting it out and using it. And so he was just doing what he had seen his mother do when she

was unconscious and not there to play with him. Two year olds are rambunctious, They get into everything, and unfortunately he was just mimicking what he had seen his mother do. He got into her drugs and it cost him his life. Rob Sanders, thank you. But thirty three years is just the beginning, and hopefully she will spend years in prison and then many years maternity in hell for what she's done. But Rob Sanders got to go, but

may you continue to have a great Friday afternoon. Rob Sanders, thank you very much. Thank you, Willie. Let's hope that this sends a strong message in a lesson to all the other drug users out there so we never

have to do that again. Thank you, Rob, thank you. Oh, let's continue with more your reaction five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WW the podcast Founding Son John Quincy's America examines the legacy of the sixth US president, who spent his final decades battling the slave accracy, featuring the rant American Red Spaceball

kicks off about six forty tonight. There are critters animals living in the walls of Oakland A Stadium, according to New York Yankees, So I would ask that Tommy and Jeff be very careful about what they do, what they open, what they don't open. I understand now the A's will be in Las Vegas as soon as next year, but certainly in two years they're gone. Can't take it anymore. See, you would not want to be you. It's the way things are, the way things ought to be. A couple

of a bookkeeping matters. Of course, we're going to have a couple of one or two guests later on about the life and times of one Jerry Springer. And if you think about it, the odds of Jerry Springer happening, especially in Cincinnati, is almost impossible. He was born in London. His

parents survived the Holocaust, most of his family did not. We're talking about being born in nineteen forty three, and so born there a young Jewish boy with dutiful Jewish parents who taught him the right way to be a great American. Moved to New York City when he was about four years old and went

to school, did his things in New York, became politically active. Met some Democratic activists who said, you want to work on the Bobby Kennedy for President campaign, and Jerry Springer said absolutely, Well, we need you to go to Ohio. How about Cincinnati? He said, Cinny, What Cincinnati? So he came here in nineteen sixty eight to register a lot of younger voters to put on the ballot. The issue of vote nineteen, which was the voting age was twenty one. To make it to nineteen. Of course,

now it's eighteen and Democrats want to make it sixteen. But that's a different story. I pray you met him on the Xavier campus and the winner maybe February or March of nineteen sixty eight, when all hell was breaking loose I was marching around him. Rozzie Army uniform, met a long hair. Jerry Springer looked goofy. Had a brief discussion with him about the Vietnam War. By the way, Jerry was right about the Vietnam War, but nonetheless

that's a different issue. And the rush, shall we say, his history. And the next year he announced he was running against a guy named Donald Clancy, who was a twenty thirty year Republican stalwart. He was a small guy and it's probably about five foot seven, So Jerry came up with a little Irish doll about six inches high he'd pull out of his pocket during campaign

stops to make fun of Donald Clancy. He ran on the West side of Cincinnati, which was heavily Republican, and received forty five percent of the vote. He then announced he's going to run for city council. He failed in November of nineteen seventy and seventy one is home and run for council. A recent emigrated Cincinnati when it was heavily Republican. The mayor was the last Republican mayor, Willis Grattison. And he finished. He finished in the money.

He won. Within two years, he was writing checks to a hooker in northern Kentucky. You heard Rob Sanders talk about it. By the way, the check was good and it just gotten married and shouldn't have done what he did. And he was a young man twenty nine years old and admitted to it, held a news conference, said what and he said, I'm resigning. So he resigned from city council. Then within about three or four months,

and now so I'm running for city council. I want the people to determine whether I should be on council or not within the next two years he's elected. The mayor of the city are selected. At that point, you didn't elect the mayor. They generally gave it to the top vote getter, and in nineteen seventy seven, Jerry Springer was the top vote getter, so they split the mayor's two year term between him and Bobby Stern, between the

Democrats and the Charter Rights. And after doing that for three or four more years, in nineteen eighty two, Jarry runs for Ohio governor and the Democrat primary finish his third out of the money. Decides because of Tony Kernan a Channel five. He's hired to be the main anchor on the news desk, having had no television television experience none, and he'll hooks up with Norma Rashid and they take down Nick Clooney and within the next eighteen months their number one

the most to watch the news in the tri State. Norma Rashid who's still kicking it, and Jerry Springer the couple, and it worked. A few years later they thought about going after Phil Donahue. The carriage fees were getting too much, and so they thought, okay, let's get Richard Dominick, who was a legendary producer, and do the Jerry Springer Show, which began in Cincinnati. So he was doing the evening and the six o'clock while also

doing the television talk which was a thinking man's filled onto You. After about a year and a half or two years of that, they were terrible in

the rays. By this point they moved to Chicago to try to improve the audience mix, and Jerry was serious in every turn about meeting the challenge that filled Onto You and Sally Jesse Raphael Richard dominic who was my early producer of my television show, one on a walk with Jerry Springer and said, Jerry, look, we've been canceled, but they gave us three months to finish out the year. Why don't we change and flipped the show completely. Let's

do trash television. Let's bring on hookers, you know, something about them and strippers and men that have sex with their pets. Whatever it takes, we have nothing to lose since we're canceled anyway, They canceled the show, but gave it an extension for three months to keep the people employed. Within three months he found the formula. He and Richard Dominick dominated the ratings in the nineteen nineties. In fact, Jerry Springer and many major markets was beating

Oprah Winfrey in her prime. That's what the American people wanted. He assisted me frequently when it came to television, and I assisted him a little bit when it came to radio. For many years he was down the hallway about twenty feet away from me doing Air America with other liberals like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman. So he was doing the same time I was here. He's twenty feet away. We talk. Go on his show, he'd come on

mine. Away we go. Then, when the idea came to do a television talk show, originally in Chicago, ended up in New York, Jerry was extremely helpful to myself and the Sean Compton the Launch Dot Show, which kept it going for five years, and at the end of those five years, frankly, I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't physically keep doing the schedule. So Jerry Springer came into my life in nineteen sixty eight, was interspersed throughout, and at the end it was someone that set the standard in

three areas of life. If one person, one time would become a mayor of a city that they adopted. If one person, one time, having no news experience, would become the dominant news anchor of an NBC affiliate's just one time. If one person could create a form of television circus art. But Jerry Springer did all three, which was unbelievable that he did that. And when he received his diagnosis of cancer, and you heard Brian Hamrick yesterday

say it was pankarate cancer, which is a bad one. He also had Huntington's, he knew his time was up. I've spoken of several of my friends around the country in New York and Chicago. It has thought at this point that he did a lap around various parts of the country, knowing it wasn't going to live much longer, to kind of say goodbye without saying that. He did not want to have a pity party, and if people come up to him and say, you know of cancer serious and I know it's

not going he didn't want that. He came to Cincinnati to do the side Lease roast because it was his way of saying goodbye to the people of Cincinnati and the Simon Lease, who also is now shall we say, of advanced age and so a special person. There's a heaven above and I believe that Jerry Springer is in it because of the way he lived his life. Humble

personally, he was quiet, very supportive, fun to be around. There's no one who enacted with Jerry Springer at the end, who or during the middle of his life, who said, my god, that guy's mean, that guy's not like he is. What you saw on TV was the same person in private. And whether it was Pat Barry who's passed on, or the Galvins, Jean and Jerry, those uh Tim Burke, he interacted with

closely. He was well respected and well loved. And when a person and dies who's seventy nine years old is not a shock, but nonetheless, those of us who knew him, those of us who relied upon him, his passing is something we must note now. Two or three other small items, and that is that I received this note indirectly from Dennis Jansen, another living legend of Channel twelve and nine, and he's on my Mount Rushmore along with ken Brew, who was with Jerry Springer. Ken Brew and Dennis Jansen and

George Vogel and John Popovich. For many years, I've been aware that Dennis Jansen has a brother in law whose name is Bill Cunningham. And you know that can be a cross and it can be a benefit at times. So this person, his first name is Vincent. I won't give out his last name. He's a private person, but if he's listening, he knows who I'm talking about. Vincent last name begins with an R. And he sent this message to Bill Cunningham thinking it was me, Bill Cunningham, but he

sent it to Dennis Jansen's brother in law, who's Bill Cunningham. He goes on to say the following, If this is in fact, Willie, I want to thank you for making a difference in my life since nineteen eighty seven. You've been a soundtrack in my family's life for thirty six of my sixty years. Your words and philosophies and ideas rewrote the hard Drive. Between my years, I've lived a great life and a good life. I have a

wonderful marriage of thirty four years. I have great kids with moral and conservative values, been relatively successful in business. As Napoleon Hill once said, our lives will be the sum total of the five people we spend the most time with. You, sir, are one of those five. If this is how the wrong Bill Cunningham, simply keep this long text and tell your friends that you made a difference. So this has passed on to me and Vincent,

You've made my day and you've made my weekend. I'd like to think I've had some minimal impact over the last and now it's forty years on the radio right here with you, and God willing, I'll have one or two more. But to have someone listen to me since nineteen eighty seven and calls it the background of the soundtrack of his life, and that he's listened to me and maybe adjusted his behavior slightly as a result, fills me with emotions I have a hard time expressing. So Vincent, thank you very much.

Let's continue, and I'll miss Jerry Springer and his family will and at some point there'll be a celebration of life, and I talked to Sean Compton, one of his closer friends. Maybe in Chicago. I'm not sure where it's going to be, but I hope the family allows it to occur because the passing of this man whose political philosophies could not be more different than my own,

but his character and advice has been important in my life. And I think of the smiles and the laughter he provided to all Americans over the past thirty plus years. He called his show stupid, it was a circus. It wasn't the sum total of America. But I also remarked him a few years ago, I think it was twenty fifteen or sixteen, when we debated

on Hannity or the o'rilly Factor about Donald Trump. I said to Jerry Springer that most of your guests, and I would think many of your viewers are Trump supporters, because those are the individuals who tended to vote for Donald Trump, hard working Americans who looked past as peccadillos, who looked past his so called Gene Carroll moments and said, despite the fact he's a terribly flawed man, damn it, Donald Trump had some damn good ideas in the country was

much better off during those four years than during the past two and a half years. And one can only imagine when the Democrats themselves are now saying, there's a headline on this and Fox News about those closest to Biden worry about

him conducting the presidency. We got a problem. And so he announced the other day on video, which was recut numerous times, his desire to seek reelection, I would imagine back in the basement, and the media allowed him to conduct his campaign in the basement where they never, ever, ever, ever would have allowed any Republican to do such things, having not campaigned for the presidency. He wasn't Donald Trump, and that was good enough for the

Democrats and for the media. They're one in the same. At the news conference a couple of days ago on the south lawn of the White House, Joe Biden had to have cheat cards, little flip cards with the names of the people four or five who was introducing, including his own Secretary of State, Antonin Blincoln and also Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense. He couldn't look at them and come up with their name. The Secretary of State.

He also had on these cards, these cheat sheets, the name of the person and the media to call on, and the question the media person was going to ask him, and the cards also had the answers on the card. You can only imagine if Donald Trump had done something similar to that that his mental powers have so diminished that a Republican president could not identify his own secretary of State looking at him. What the media would have done him with that one, Oh my god, it'd be the end of the world.

But as long as it's Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they get away with political murder and the media couldn't care less. So let's continue. Coming up in about ten minutes or so, we'll be Scott Powell of the Hoover Institute, also one of the guests. I bring them on about once a month

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for many sources. When it came out a couple of days ago, I had to get a hold of them to talk about the headline, and the column talks about the failure of America at so many levels, no longer conspiracy theory, time for action, government, betrayal of the Constitution. And Scott Powell, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Scott, how are you? Bill? I'm great and it's great to be with you in your

audience this morning. Again, I saw your column talks about obvious failures not being addressed, and when the President's reading off Q cards in order to introduce

his secretary of State, his secretary Defense. When the president is given the questions and the answers ahead of time at a news conference with the South Korean president in the White House a few days ago, I can only imagine if Ronald Reagan, or if George Bush, or if Donald Trump had the answers to the questions from the media and a free flowing news conference, what would

have happened. He did not know that Anton and B. Lincoln was the Secretary of State, didn't know Lloyd Austin was his Secretary Defense, so cutting through many things that we've done, and your column talks about the Hunter Biden laptop, in which millions of dollars have flowed into the coffers of the Biden family, universal vaccines only prevented for COVID nineteen, the southern border is secure by the way, and the climate scare, and the need for a green

new deal, in the fact that tanks, American tanks Abrahams A one a's are going to be operated by batteries and stop somewhere. We're in deep trouble. But just give me an overview of how did America here we are? Here we are at the end of April of twenty twenty three. Here we are, and we're talking about a president who's mentally deficient and cannot identify his own secretary of state. How much trouble are we in? We're in extraordinarily

deep trouble. And the and the reason that we're in deep trouble is because we we allowed a fraudental election to pass. We didn't rigorously pursue what happened in the twenty twenty election. We we have a false president, we have an installed president. There is let's start out with common sense, common sense. Let's take a let's take take a stroll backwards in time to the year twenty twenty, leading up to the election, months before. Joe Biden is

nowhere to be seen. He's in his basement. He's not a he's not a particularly popular guy. He's not a great senator, he's not a good leader. He's not presidential material, even for anyone that remembers his past. Only all he had going for him was that he was in the Senate forever and that he had named recognition. That was it. Meanwhile, Donald Trump

is out on the stump. He can't go anywhere without thirty five or forty thousand people lining up to fill stadiums, to fill the wherever he spoke with, you know, standing room only, and crowds in the parking lot. They even put up big screens for people who couldn't get into his venues. This is who Donald Trump was. You know, America was in trouble and and Donald Trump arrived. He fixed the problems to a large extent, in

spite of opposition. And you don't mean you mean to tell me that that Joe Biden who campaigned and his baby who didn't campaign could could defeat a popular man like Donald Trump who solved problems. So that's common sense. Now, the second level of common sense is on the night of November third, we're

all sitting watching election returns. I'm on the East coast as you are, Eastern time, and it was about ten forty five, I think or eleven where the announcements came over that they were going to be shutting down the vote count, and so we changed channels to see what's going on on the other channels, and we found that all the channels were reporting that that they were going to stopping the vote count and this state or that state, and pretty

soon we realized, in short order, we realized they're they're stopping the vote count in all these different states. All the key swing states stopped their vote count. This has never happened in human history and American electoral history before.

And there's a reason why it hasn't happened because each state manages its own elections independently, So for states to cooperate and shutting down the vote at the same time should have raised people's consciousness, Hey, there's something going on here. There's some kind of reco operation where states are cooperating with each other to stop the vote count because Donald Trump is winning. He's winning everywhere. I tell you, Scott Powell, you have a powerful sentence in your most recent column

that says the following. When we connect the dots, we can see that the manipulation of public opinion and the creation of narratives is directed at undermining traditional American institutions, such as law enforcement, which is to find the police the family. There is no family, there's no woman, there's no man. Churches in which support for churches have collapsed, schools that are shut down. Watched Randy Whitegartner a few days ago talking in the Congress about the coordination that

they had with the CDC and other carriers. They're carriers of civility, tradition, and continuity, none of that. There's not one part of the American institution currently which is loved and supported by the federal government. And then you also say that war has been declared on average Americans to the Biden administrations Southern border policies resulting in unpresidented illegal entries including criminals, terrorists, human child sex

and drug trafficking cartels, and the southern border is secure. There's no question. According to Joe Biden, the southern border is secure. Is even CNN is recently discovered you know, maybe it's not secure. Look at what's happening. Play the video, and so I talked to others. Can you imagine Biden gets reelected, of course in twenty twenty four, he steps down in a year or two and Kamala Harris is the president. Now where are we?

We don't have families, don't have faith. We have a military that, according to the Secretary of Energy says it's going to be battery operated. We're gonna have two thousand, We're gonna have several ton tanks operated on batteries that'll be stuck in the mud somewhere everywhere I look. I say, what happened in my country? And Scott Powell it happened over a two and a

half year process. Now, secondly, you have a list of other things in your column, which I think is fabulous, about what the hell is happening in this country today, which is truly unbelievable. Let me quickly go over the two or three main columns that the ideas you're putting forth today to the American people, and number one, blocking the hunter Biden laptop. It is clear from Representative Congressman Comber that millions and millions of dollars have flowed into

the Biden family from Ukraine, from Russia, and from China. It is clear that the US Department of Treasury says the number is well north of twelve million dollars of cash flowing into the Bidens in a big stories stories Well, Bill, it's much bigger than that. I mean, no one has disputed Peter Schweitzer's numbers on receipt of funds from China. That's thirty one million has come out of China to the Biden family. That's unbelievable. And that that

doesn't take an account Ukraine or Russia. I mean three million came from Russia. I mean, this is let's let's again, let's take a walk back in time. It's the nineteen fifties and sixties. Let's just say, would it be possible that this could happen in America? No, that that an that a candidate for the presidency who had received lots of money from foreign powers

hostile foreign countries could be a candidate, let alone become president. No, it would be impossible because the FBI used to be doing its job, and it would have racked this sort of thing and it would have been exposed. But now the FBI is going after moms and pops who are protesting at school boards. The FBI is going after people who are challenging fraudulent elections, vote fraud. Every single major private citizens who have gone and challenged the vote and

have had any following. In other words, they've had the hootspa and the funding to really come up with data. The challenge is the legitimacy of the twenty twenty election. They have all been visited by indicted anybody or indicted or jailed by the FBI. And what are they What loss did they break? It's the right of the citizens to monitor the voting time I checked right it

of course it is. Can you imagine if the Trump family had stars suspicious activity reports of the US Department of Treasury receiving thirty one million dollars to about fifteen members of the Trump family and it's unrefuted. There's the cash. It's been known for more than three years by the FBI, and not one major media outlet, whether it's New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC,

have done any stories on it at all. It doesn't exist. If you go into the streets and talk about stars reports in the Biden family receiving thirty one million dollars, eyes glaze over because unless you listen to conservative media, you have no idea that that actually happened. And to me, that's the reason you have an impeachment clause in the US Constitution. Why isn't a

hunter Biden serving a hard time right now? Eddie serving hard time from what he did to teenage prostitutes or for snorting crack cocaine or stealing money from Barisima and Ukraine, the most correct country in Europe? Why isn't for three years they're negotiating a deal three years in the into it to make sure Joe Biden it's not part of this, which of course he is. He's the reason it exists. It's unbelievable. I'm reading the story now out of Fox News.

Headline is Oregon Democrats propose Right to Rest Act decriminalizing public camping as homeless crisis surges. That means that if you if someone camps in your home or camps on the sidewalk, or criminalize your business, there's not a damn thing you can do, because you have the right to be on public sidewalks in front of businesses to shut them down. And that's going to pass an Oregon. And secondly, Scott poun now you got me all fired up. The

stand of Ellinois, starting May first, has this card. If you're an illegal alien. One hundred and fifty thousand have signed up so far. You get free medical care at someone else's expense, of course, bringing in large numbers of immigrants into the medical system that is already near collapse. We're gonna have millions of people with these little cards that give them free healthcare paid for by you and me. Why isn't that a big deal? Well, of

course it's a big deal. And let's again, let's again connect the dots, so we have them. We have a determined adversary that really wants to rule the world. That is that country is China, and China, uh, it really doesn't want to go to war with the United States. Certainly invading America, they'd run into a lot of guns, right because people are

well armed in America. So wouldn't it make more sense for them to maneuver in such a way that they could get their guy into power, and that and that they could take over the justice system to a large extent through George Soros uh and so we we would basically be able to implode America on itself without firing a shot. And that is what has been happening. Think about it. The Biden administration has taken a wrecking ball to all that was left.

I mean we were. It was started with Obama. Then we had a respite with Trump, but he took this wrecking ball to everything we still believed as good in America. Our families, as you say, build traditions of marriage, gender, our children, school, the church, go on order, the economy, meritocracy, values of hard work, fair competition, our constitution. Nothing has been spared from the Democrat Party's wrecking ball. Americans,

we have to wake up. Lastly, how about the Chinese government putting up police departments run by the Chinese government, one in New York City. There's dozens and dozens all over the country doing surveillance on Chinese citizens and Taiwanese citizens and major markets, including in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Texas, California, New York City, to monitor, to kill, to punish, the torture, Chinese and Taiwanese in America that aren't acting correctly and then going

after their relatives in communist read China or Taiwan. The Chinese government has set up its own police departments inside of America. Isn't that a big deal? It's a huge deal, and it's like, well, what the heck? And I'm thinking, of course Joe Biden, who can't read a teleprompter, those around him manipulate the presidency now and the militarize government agencies to attack individual Americans faith and family and schools and jobs, to destroy the middle class.

Who can afford a car that's seventy thousand dollars all electric that is worthless in five or six years? Who can afford to send your kid to major schools? Would you send your kid to the Los Angeles public unified school system? Would you send your kid to a Harlem public school? Would you send your kid to Chicago public schools? Or Cleveland or Cincinnati? I don't think so.

Everywhere I looks good. Powell, my god, are we in trouble when foreign powers who want to destroy us set up their own government inside major cities to torture, beat and kill American citizens living in those cities. It's it's unbelievable, and it's not covered adequately by the media. They still going after Trump. Unbelievable. No, no, well it's because the media is controlled. It's controlled controlled by the by our enemies, really, and they

do it indirectly. It's not as though it's always a direct control. But now there is so much corruption amongst our elite that they recognize that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to that corrupt system that's ever walked the earth, you know, the earth in recent times, because he has the quality of character. You know, in World War Two, we all applauded General Patton for bringing a war in Europe to a to a very quick end. And Patton, as you know, everyone saw him as a son of a bitch.

I mean, he was one tough guy. I mean he even demeans some of the soldiers when they were showing weakness or cowardice. He won, but we applauded him. Yes, we are now in a more serious war than World War tour. It's a war on our own continent, and we need a Patent like figure who has the courage and the determination and the persistence and the resilience to bring this war to a positive end, and we've got to.

We cannot allow this corruption to take our country. God Powell, we have Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and for many years Nancy Pelosi. Those are the warriors we sent out to meet America's enemies. Scott Powell got to run once again, rediscovering America dot Com book and video no longer conspiracy. Scott Polo, Stanford's Hoover Institute. Thanks again for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. We're sounding the alarm back. It's up to the American

people to properly respond. Scott Powell, thank you very much. Thank you, Bill Wow. Let's continue. Listen up. Bill Cunningham, the Great American Live with you every day at your home of the Reds, playing tonight in Oakland on seven hundred w Altima the podcast. Let's talk about myths, Baby retell stories from Greek and Roman mythology, from gods and goddesses to heroes. So we made mention of this during our open tonight, and I said

we would provide greater details as we went along. We are here not in the regular visitors television booth tonight three, and I know I came here and went to the booth and people grabbed me, almost tackled me, and pushed

me into this booth. So when we came here last September, we were told the tale of the Ring Central Coliseum Possible who apparently makes a home there's ball four and Giromazon makes a home in the visitors TV booth, and in fact that that's the booth that we normally are in, and only our core camera guys left there. So the Angels played here at the beginning of the

season. They were the first team in and Wayne red Dazzo, our friend, is now the television voice of the Angels, and he told us that in the opening game of the season, the possum who apparently lives somewhere in the wall behind that Visitor's TV booth, made an appearance during the game in their booth. Was it like nibblin anim or it was just you know, crawling around like like accounting its own possum business, walking across the counter. I mean, he wasn't, you know, trying to horn in on the

broadcast. He was just doing his possum things. Anyway, So they say traps for this possum, but he's proved elusive. And now the A's had been on the road. They were on the East coast. They came from Baltimore where they played yesterday. So nobody's been in that booth for a few days. And that's the way to need to and Kaprileon really digging a hole

for himself. Two walks in two and oh so when when our tech people walked into the booth, because it takes a lot to set up a booth for a broadcast, especially a road broadcast, because you know, our equipment isn't in there, and they have to put everything together, the audio and the video and everything. So they walk in the booth and immediately were met by the stench of the possum having you know, done his business in the

booth. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, So apparently the booth reaked so badly of possum leavings that an executive decision was made to move us to this booth, which is somewhat smaller and has you know a few impediments, like there's a pole right in front of me. See see there's a pole right here. Yeah, see no pole there, no pole there, there you see there, So you have to choose between possom and Pole, and I chose Pole. Okay, Hello, hello, quiet, and I'm broadcasting.

Gods have special visitors, and I wonder what Brantley considers such things. And also, mister Thrall, I don't know, Willie, who knows what Oakland brings. I mean, they're gonna have about what two thousand people in the joint if they're lucky. And if they're lucky, and it stinks they should have moved to Vegas about ten years ago. Viva Las Vegas. Well, things be a bit better in Vegas. Things One thing, the Reds better Nut went better Nut, lose the next three games or it's an embarrassment

the lose of that team. Correct, they're nine and twenty. They're like, they're like one of just a handful I think one or two teams that have lost twenty twenty games and twenty games in a month. Of course the Reds did that last year. Well, right now one of the ten and fifteen is that, Yeah, the Reds are ten and fifteen. Yes, after sweeping the Ranges at the stench of possum poop. Can you imagine if it's Marty Martin Ali, the possums walking across the booth, right in front

of Joe, right in front of Marty. I think that Joe would go up the steps and Marty would have went jumping out of the booth. That would have been hilarious, That's for sure. What Marty would have cut the mic off? And what what the what is the possum's name? Ali is? I don't know Ali the possum. I don't know who knows? I don't know. I don't understand how major League Baseball? What is it?

What do you think? Cind the stands where the fans all, oh, they had rats, Yeah, probably got more critters and people say, give me some rats are probably big as me. Willie the Stude reporters a product service every local tem Star heating and air conditioning dealers tem Star quality who can feel in Cincinnati called Schmid Heating and Cooling five one three five three one sixty nine hundred sports. Willie the Bengals, of course picking a big Miles Murphy

last night the defensive van data Clemson, what about twenty eight big? Here we go. In the twenty twenty three NFL draft, Cincinnati Bengals select Miles Murphy defensive n Clemson compare. Did you watch the commissioner last night? He was big at the beginning, he says, come on, and then I mean they just every time he went out there. You know, why are they booing a guy that's making fifty six million dollars a season? He's there? Did Jane Skinner I sink in? I don't know, because he's getting

fired too. Like Don Lemon, They're all fired. Everyone gets fired. That's the first defensive line of the Bengals that drafted Willie in the first round of the draft since two thousand and one. Justin Smith Adam Missouri, remember him? B U st fust? What about what happened to Michael Mayer of Cubca. He didn't get picked, Neither did Will Levis And apparently mister Levice sat there all night long from and Kada City and uh, he says, I'm not coming back tonight. If I get picked, I get picked,

let me know. But Michael Mayer is still on the board. Wasn't that Levi? He supposed to get picked on number four? Will what's his crime? That's what he's saying. What was his crime? That's what he was saying. Yeah, he sat there, He sat there all night long, all night, and he was supposed to be picked number Well, there was rumors yesterday he was gonna go number one, but then you know all that draft mess, and then all of a sudden they said he's gonna go to

Indianapolis number four. Well, the Colts said, uh, we're taking Anthony Richardson out of Florida Na ba ba nah. And then will Levis the next pick. There goes the next pick. There goes White with his girlfriend and his mother. And you know what that means too, don't you? Green wet us? The salvation binges a little because every pick goes by, the

money goes out the wallet, there goes the girlfriend. So round two tonight, rounds two and three, Willie. And how about this, over the past few at five years, the Bengals have gotten some pretty good talent on day number two at the draft. Let me hear him. Jesse Bates good, Sam Hubbard good, Jermaine Pratt good, t Higgins great, Logan Wilson good. Not bad. Right, they're not bad for day two of the draft. How about the FBI is being ordered by Joe Biden only by EV's

electric vehicles and the tanks are gonna be battery operated. Within seven years, American tanks in the field, fighting and dying for our country will be battery operated like a toy. On Thanksgiving, more gonna say, what are they buying them? From the name of God? Are we doing to the children? The best Bengals coverage will he starts tonight at six oh five with the one and Only Austin E and Joe Walter Bad Tom Smith Brewing on Madison Road.

You like that place with the TLG Peterbilt Draft Show presented by Encore Technologies and Five Iron Golf and Emory Federal Credit Union. How about Chinese Police. It's a great day fan. Alan Cutler is coming back along with possibly Marty Brennaman. Let's see the Bengals have the sixtieth and the ninety second pick they're gonna take. I don't know, well, they they've got a pretty good They got pretty good if you get Bates, Hubbard, Pratt, Higgins and

Wilson on day two, not bad. Who gets credit for that? Is that? The lovely Elizabeth or Joe? I know that is uh, mister Duke Tobin and the What about Katie and the Greatest Group of scouts the Bengals have ever assembled, or they just recently worked for the Bengals where they in the past ten years. Well, I mean they make picks and you know

it's all up to the player he makes it or not. They can only do so much, all right, Quarterback Lamar Jackson, that messes all over a long and that you know they got they got the Aaron Rodgers thing done prior to that, after going through that soap opera and then this one with the Young and the Restless with Lamar Jackson, he's staying with the Ravens. Five year, two hundred sixty mill. I don't like that, so I thought he was going elsewhere, but I don't like nah babah. He said

play me or trade me, and then he said trade me. Now all of a sudden he's back. You know, the center the Bengals in their division between Cleveland supposedly a pretty good quarterback. Ye, Pittsburgh is always going to be Pittsburgh. And then when they stink, they went half their games correct and then Baltimore Ravens put the raven never more the north of the a FC. Not bad, You're you're in. And then the Ravens got Oldell

Beckham. I think he's over the hill. Red's update. Reds kickoff at six game West Coast road trip tonight with the first of three of the A's in Oakland. They're five and twenty one. The A's are two and ten at home Louis Sessa. Better get with it or he'll go to Louisville.

He'll be opposed by Kyle Mueller tonight eight forty with the RNL Carriers inside pitch and then after the game ECHL Hockey Game four, the first round of the Kelly Cup playoff series between our beloved Cyclones and Fort Wayne puck drop at seven thirty since he up there too games to one drop the puck. Now it's a battle Tomorrow night at the top two teams in the mL MLS East, our beloved FC Cincinnati Orange and Blue at the New England Revolution, both team

six two and one seven o'clock ESPN fifteen thirty. Then Tennis News OH single session tickets for the twenty twenty three Western and Southern Open, presented by John Barrett. We'll go on sale this Monday, May first, starting at ten am. All tickets may be purchased at online at Wsopen dot Com. There you go, segment. I'll say this, yes, but what would you do In addition to having no air conditioning here at the Death Star, we have no AC. I call temp star quality you can feel right now.

I'm getting old of Andy Buker. Immediately. We've not sooner. Hopefully we paid the bill. If a possible thought they fixed it. No, it didn't fix. Nothing's fixed here. Okay. If you would have a possum or a raccoon or a rat come out of the wall and walk across your desk, do an a possum thing? What would you do? I think we're too high up here, willy to get any any of those critters up this way. I don't know what I'm saying. They like for warm areas,

they'll come out here. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. If we see one, we'll take a picture of it and put it on Twitter and Facebook, send it to Andy Buker. Help help. We need AC. We need it now. It's a new concept air conditioning. We can't get it right. Tame star quality, you can feel. That's who we need to call a tame star and charge. Yeah. Segment is said and by the way. Uh. The Enquirers noted the passing of Chris Flanagan, who was the principle, as you know Madaria Elementary.

I know I saw that willy very sad news there, that guy. I guess he was a beloved by all the kids at Madera. Yeah, good guy. And of course he's got a family of four led by Jack Flanagan, who's a great American. The boys like twenty one years old, the other three are much younger. And he passed away unexpectedly on Monday, about four or five days ago. And there's going to be a Crossroads church in Oakley on Sunday of visitation which will be packed between two and six and then

out to Good Shepherd on Monday ten am for a Catholic Mass. And a shock when a fifty year old man in good health dies unexpectedly. And we wish the planning and family living in Madera, mother, father, family of four and the principle of Madera Elementary has met as maker. And we could say nothing but the best about Chris Flanagan. I've known the family for about twenty years and Danielle the wife, and the kids, Jack Flanagan and the

girls are all Great Americans. Segment get me out of the Stuge Reports, and we may have a recitation of a promo done involving the great American along with the first voice you may hear will be my own, and then Jerry Springer, and then Steve Wilcos and then Maury Povich, the four Horsemen of TV talk of the Apocalypse. The next stuge that'll be available, So get ready for that segment, Get me out of the Stuge Report, William.

On this day we say happy birthday, number fifty nine today, nineteen ninety World Series Champion in Baseball Hall of Famer himself number eleven, the Pride of Silverton, Barry Larkin. How old is Barry fifty nine? It looks no older than fifty eight. I was just about ready to say that. And Shirley, his mother is still with us. And Shirley, you are a great American. And Byron can still fill it up on the court. He can still I guess he can still shoot, right, I will say so.

And also we a happy birthday Willie, a former one one of our own, who said, Jeff Hendy Henderson, Jeff Henderson has a birthday today, Hendy, He's got to be in his seventies or eighties at least pretty old. We leave you with the immortal words of the student triport. We have a thousand billionaires in America. Know the average tax rate day pay eight e I g. Eight percent eight percent? Got to learn how to spell. Someone's got to get him a cheat sheet. I mean, I bet

you he must be great at economics segment. Thank you, You're welcome. Coming up next is a job creator about what the Obiden what the ob Biden Obiden administration is doing. It's Obama and Biden what they're doing to jobs and people like you on news Radio seven hundred w oltim the Pettio It bet Tom Smith's brewing is open eighteen craft Fear tests a fresh new cut him in You and House Fate seltic results of political failures by disincentivizing job creation and encouraging more

social and governmental dependency. Whether it's the student loan forgiveness program, whether it's free medical care, whether it's free Obama phones, whatever, the freedom are taken away from each of us. It's because someone should be able to support

themselves and not rely upon government for important parts of their life. So Alfredo Ortiz is with the Job of Creators Network, and it was originally founded in twenty ten and the goal is to encourage especially small and medium sized businesses to begin. All the great companies began as a small little business with an idea and then it flourished. And I think the American dream is lost to so many. Alfredo Ortis or the Job Creators Network, Welcome, I think for

the first time to the Bill Cunningham Show. And I've read a lot of your stuff here, Alfredo. I want to tell the American people first of all, is the Biden administration. Dude, they had the same attitudes to job creation as we saw during the four years of Donald Trump, oh Biden administration. It's completely completely reversed. Trust me, um, and thank you Bill for having me on your show. UM. Uh, it's quite an

honor. But yes, no, it's been completely different. Um. And especially I had to tell you the uh you know, when it comes to small business, the attitude towards small business is completely the opposite within Donald Trump. Um. And uh you know they've been taking it on the chin from

the first day of this administration. UM, and especially with Biden inflation, the way it's been uh you know, he crows a lot about how, you know, things are looking a lot better, and uh, you know, how inflation is coming down, and but you know it's it's it's not. And in reality, when you look over the past two years from beginning

to end, inflation is actually a fifteen percent. And so you know, we took a big billboard out in Times Square this week that called out the twenty four consecutive weeks of real wage losses for the American worker because inflation, of course, it's ten to fifteen percent a year, but the media and the government hides that fact because they don't count energy, they don't count food, they count things that don't matter to most Americans. What is driving inflation

in this country? Alfredo? And when Trump the Trump's are left office, it was about one point nine percent. Now it's anywhere between ten and fifteen percent. What is driving inflation which is destroying job creation and also its unspoken tax and all Americans? What is causing it to take place? Yeah?

Well, yeah, and in fact it was it was just actually under one and a half percent actually when Biden took office, and you know, the big reason was, quite frankly, his first day in office, the decision to really attack our domestic energy production. That pretty much started everything that,

frankly, we are seeing today over these past two years. The root cause of that, you can draw it all the way down to that first dreadful day that he made that decision, and quite frankly, even the war that we are seeing in Ukraine, that really was caused by a lot of global instability that he caused in the energy production, especially when it comes to our domestic energy production. Remember, we were net exporters of energy under the Trump

administration, and now we're net importers. I mean, this is ridiculous, but that really has destabilized the entire global market, which really has led to a lot of it to our inflation woes that we're feeling today. You'd have to look at it this way, that whatever product I'm in a studio, I have a desk, I have monetary sigh of plastic items all over me. I have paper products, I have pens. Everything that we have as an oil component in it, directly or indirectly. Everything that we consume comes

to the marketplace based upon an energy component. And so when the cost of natural gas, oil, gasoline, diesel goes up, that is built into the cost of everything that we use, which is a driver of inflation. And secondly, what also is built in to that are taxes that have gone up. Because everyone, no company, no corporation, no business pays any tax, it has passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices. So when you're raised taxes on any business, that is built into the

cost of the product that you pay. And secondly, every item that we have has an energy component which is going up. So when Joe Biden frequently says, look at the mess America was in in January and February of twenty twenty one, look at the mess we were in economically, what is your reaction? Bluely false? What you know? The myths and false truth that this administration as president of leaves is unbelievable. I mean, they truly should

probably receive an award for Best Fiction story because that's all it is. And you know, the way to manipulate in gas light the American public, it really is shameful. For example, he gets up there and he crows about look, man, the consumer spending more money. Man, right, I mean, this is great, They're doing great. It was like, hey, Joe, they're spending more money, but they're getting less goods and services.

That's called inflation. They're spending more getting left. Get it, No, he doesn't get it because now now his drug addic's son is passing information on to the president. And I'm watching a day or two ago there was some children's event in the White House and it was asked questions by seven and

eight year old kids that he didn't understand and couldn't answer. I'm watching him with a South Korean ambassador about four or five days ago, and what he did there was have a cheat sheet card in front of him with the picture of the reporter asking a question, the question the reporter would ask, and a provided answer by his staff. What does that say about the mental acuity

of the president? Yeah? Horrible, absolutely horrible. I don't think I've ever seen you know that that actually ever happened, you know, But this media, let's let's let president get away with it. And actually, quite frankly, it's complicit in it. And by the way, I was very excited to see on Bring your Kid Day to work that Biden, that Hunter

Biden was right next to the President. Well can you imagine if Alfredo Ortiz had received thirty one million dollars from Chinese and Ukrainian and Russian assets that were deposited and your accounts and your family accounts over a several year period, thirty one million dollars. And that that money the FBI knew about three years ago, and they're still deciding how to investigate it, where to investigate it. What do we got here? Would the FBI treat any other citizen like that?

No? Absolutely not. I mean, can you imagine that this was reversed or somehow this was the Trump and the Trump family. I mean, it would all be, you know, basically behind bars right now, just based on this DOJ and the crooked nature of how they actually proceed on this stuff. It's it's just ridiculous in its two faith and it really has to stop. Give me your view from the job Creator's network about the Southern border,

which is about to get worse than about a week or two. Title of forty two restrictions will be taken off, which means there's millions and millions of human beings from all over the world anxious to flood the Southern border. What was the status of the Southern border in January of twenty twenty one, and what's going to be the status towards the old to the end of May

when Title forty two is taken away. He was given a bad hand, according to Joe Biden, that the border was in terrible condition in January of twenty twenty one. He's done a great job, he says, along with his Health and Human Services and Homeland Security expert Mayorcis. Compare and contrast to what was the status in January of twenty twenty one, and what is the

status now again? I mean it was, It's completely different. I mean the Trump at administration we really had I think order, you know, relative order, I should say, uh, because you know, you still had the illegal crossings, but the Border Patrol was at their job. They were getting to support I think from this president. You listen now to the Border Patrol, the president of the Border Patrol Union, and he's very explicit in terms of, you know, describing what's going on there and the number of

crossing, the millions really that we're flowing through. But you know, more, almost more importantly, more concerning for me than even the human aspect in terms of the flow from the South, it's the flow of the sentinel that really is impacting every single one of our communities. I mean, you know, across the states from west coast to east coast, we are seeing this sentinel crisis just completely infiltrate our communities or schools, and that has to stop.

I mean, overall, the human trafficking, the drug trafficking, the gun trafficking. I mean, with the poorest border, we are going to have these situations get worse and worse, and so we have to make sure that we control of the border. And quite frankly, what majorcas has done is just criminal, and you know, those calls for his resignation I think are are well founded. I also would point out that the state of Oregon, which is an awful difficulties in your group, as particularly focused on small

businesses medium sized businesses. State of Oregon Democrats propose Right to Rest Act decriminalizing pub with camping as homeless crisis surges, and the Oregon Right to Rest Act would allow homeless to sue homeowners and business owners for up to a thousand dollars if they're harassed. This with decriminalizing camping out in front of businesses, it would allow individuals to sue up to a thousand dollars if they're harassed or told

to relocate by business owners. And this means that the person experiencing a homelessness will be permitted to use public spaces, sidewalk, streets, and parks as the same manner as any other person without discrimination based upon their housing status.

As an advocate for business, what happens when large numbers of homeless, which means they're drug addicted, or they're mentally ill, or they're using too much alcohol fatonel, heroine, stay in front of your business in tents and now the state of Oregon says that if you seek to remove them or ask them to move or remove their stuff, you will be sued by them represented by the ACLU. What would that do to private business? Oh, it would

completely coapside. And we're seeing, we're hearing, you know, these calls from uh you know, these small business members you know from places like Los Angeles, from Portland. Uh, you know, because you see almost the same thing happening in Los Angeles where they want to be criminalized that just like they're doing in Portland. So it's killing these small businesses. And and the fact that they have no recourse, Uh, they're beside themselves. They don't

know what to do. Look, larger businesses, like when Elon Lusk had his company out in Los Angeles seem decided to relocate to Texas. That was great, right, he did the right decision. But guess what a lot

of these small businesses don't have the ability to actually do that. They're stuck where they are with their businesses that in many cases they have spent a lifetime creating, and literally in a matter of years, these you know, Democrat run cities are destroying their their their hopes and dreams and the American dream that they fought for and deserve. It's just been eaten away by all these ridiculous policies. What customer, what shopper is going to walk over homeless and open

needles and open source on individuals out in front of a business. No one's going to frequent it. And to give you even a worse example, Alfredo Ortiz about Brandon Johnson, the new mayor of Chicago. He ran on a campaign that Lori Lightfoot was not radical and liberal enough. He ran as the

advocate for the Chicago's teachers unions and was spent. Businesses are fleeing downtown Chicago on a regular basis, and a week or so ago, every weekend it occurs where hundreds of youth wild throughout the streets of downtown Chicago, destroying businesses and making sure customers don't actually want to go to Rush Street, want to

go downtown to the Loop because of what's happening. What happens to a community when the idea of Brandon Johnson, the new mayor of Chicago or the governor of Oregon, signs a bill that almost encourages and permits a list of activities, what does that do to the small businesses? It absolutely destroys the small businesses, destroys the city. I mean, look, I used to live up in the area in Chicago several several years ago. It was a beautiful

city. But I have to tell you right now, I mean, especially when I saw the footage of those hundreds of youth, you know, going down and destroying property and you know, attacking people and stuff like that, and basically the new mayor basically saying, oh, you know what, poor youth. I mean, poor youth, I mean, this is what's it has basically become Gotham out there. I mean, I have to tell you,

I have a trip schedule in May. I purposefully decided not to go to downtown Chicago and stay in the suburbs because I don't want to get hurt. I don't want to run into that. And so, you know, just like myself, I'm sure there are hundreds and hundreds of people, thousands of people that are deciding, Hey, you know what, I'm going to skip Chicago, I'm gonna skip Poland i'm gonna skip Los Angeles. I'm going to skip New York City. And these poor small businesses are all hurting because

of that. What does a police officer do? You want to be a cop, a man or a woman who's willing to lay their life on the line every minute of every day for the citizens of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Portland. And then they arrest someone in the revolving door of justice means that the criminal is out on bond before the paperwork is completed. And in Chicago there's no incentive, we're in New York to arrest anyone because the criminals

out to intimidate witnesses before the paperwork is done. And America's decline gets worse, and I don't know, can we lastly, can we turn it around, And basically we had it in twenty one kind of going in the right

direction. Biden takes over, does not know what he's doing. He appoints three thousand radical extremists, add up the agencies they're acting on their own, telling Americans the cost of gasolines going up, We're gonna have electric tanks in five or ten years, and the state of account California there will be no gasoline diesel buses in the next five or six years. And I'm asking you, Alfredo or Taste, what can an average American do to stop this?

What they could do in twenty twenty four is go and vote these ridiculous clowns out of office. I mean, that's the only thing we can do at this point. And we got to reverse these trends. I mean across every single uh you know, basically Democrat run city. I can't actually even think of one right now where all these issues aren't just running rampant right now, you know, crying drugs, I mean, you name it. It's completely

out of control. The only choice we have at this point if we want to reverse this and go back to some level of of you know, you know, A pleasure of where we can live on our daily lights is by voting these clowns out. That's the only thing we can do. And in Chicago they had a chance, and they vote for someone more liberal, more left than Laurie Lighthead. They put Brandon Johnson in charge. And that shows you. God helps those who help themselves. And if the citizens in Chicago

will not help themselves, may they stew in their own juices? We gotta run. And what is your website? If any, Alfredo ortis American people need more information? Where do they go? Yeah, that's right, thank you. It's a Job Creatorsnetwork dot com. Job Creatorsnetwork dot com. Or they can also go to join JCN dot com. A little easier to remember, join JCM dot com. Alfredo, thank you very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Good luck and God speed. Thank you, Thank

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segment in twenty eleven. I'm sitting in a booth, yeah, with Jerry Springer, Yes, Mori Povich, Steve Wilkos, Yeah, and you and I. We're doing a promo from my five year run and television talk. Okay, first voice you heard was, of course Jerry Springer. I said, what about using a stripper's poll? And Jerry said, you know that's kind of dangerous. You gotta be careful. Yeah, And then Steve Wilkos, you know it's kind of dangerous to talk about reveals. And then I

did Mori Povich about who's your daddy? That didn't work, That wouldn't work. It took ten takes at least for each of us to get our lines, because at each point a fly would land on Steve Wilkos's forehead, and Steve was basically bald. It was quite apparent. Take seven you got to catch the fly. Who never did catch the fly who kept landing somehow on Steve Wilkose's head. So give me some sports. Well, the student report.

It's a proud service of your local temp Star Heating interconditioning dealers. Temps are Quala. You could feeling Cincinnati called Sheldon Braun at Braun Heating at five one, three, three eight, five seventy seven sixty five. And you Sheldon Braun right here. We have no AC. That's a new thing called air conditioning, that's for sure. Were Last night Rock saw his good friend Roger Goodell booed mercilessly off the stage in Kansas City. But Miles Murphy at

a Clemson the home of the Tigers. Rock is now a Bengal with the twenty eight Big in the twenty twenty with Cincinnati Bengals select Miles Murphy, debts of Ben Clemson and about Michael Mayer, what happened to him? What about a rock? Oh? I think Look, he was a guy that no one thought he was going to be there at that point. He was one of probably the third rated edge rusher, and then of course Will Anderson and Tyree Wilson go before him, and he was there. Look, he's twenty

one years old. He's you know, he's still young in terms of being a football player, but he was productive for three years in college, big fast, human being. And look, here's the deal. The look, I want weapons and tight ends and running backs as much as everyone does. But this the defense has to get cheaper, Okay, because the offense all of a sudden here coming up in a couple of weeks, a couple of months, a couple of years with Burrow in Chase and maybe Higgins is going

to be very, very, very expensive. So you gotta get productivity on the cheap. Where can you get productivity on the cheap. You gotta get it in the draft on defense. So I think that was the theme of last night. Tell the Rock about the Kentucky quarterback. He's got a casey the gig? What about Will Levis? Pick after pick after pick after pick, and I guess Will's not gonna attempt the draft tonight. Well that's a

good idea. First of all, look, you feel for that guy because he's there, and of course the camera pans him after every pick, and every pick that team that might need a quarterback, they go right to him when there's his mom and the sister or the girlfriend, whoever it is. Um, I mean things I read this morning. First of all, I predicted this, I will love usly have twenty five interceptions in two years. Twenty five interceptions. I mean that that is not good. The productivity wasn't

there, you know, just missing guys. I don't know, it just wasn't a guy that you know, you would say, oh my god, this is who I want to leave my franchise. He has a lot of fatal falls to him. He also read I read the Day that teams are turned off by his attitude. I don't know if he saw this, seg, but you know he did all like these like selfies of him, like flexing in the mirror, and you know it's just like, you don't want

your quarterback to do that stuff. Okay, if you're a wide receiver, you know, a defensive back you can do that stuff, but you kind of want your quarterback to be a little bit above all that and kind of stoic and confident, not cocky, and you're eating he might be a little bit cocky, and I think a little bit more of himself than think then

he actually is. Well, there you go and rock. What happens if all America's Abraham's A one A one tanks all have battery operated within the next five years out of Allen County A and Leonard rush and talk about the tanks becoming evs and green. In fact, the Navy's secretary said, look, climate change is as important as winning wards. So they're gonna ships. So the ships are gonna be yeah that we are going to deal with climate change.

End end have zero emissions, net emissions by twenty fifty, by twenty twenty, make sure all our electricity is zero emissions. We're gonna be able to do these things. But we've got to move. We've got to move, and we've got to move the rest of the world, not just the United States and India while you're at it, and see how they got. He's got to move out. That's what he's got to do. Christmas morning,

battery operated tanks. We've lost our minds, seg please continue. The rock wins the way and I'm sure that battery operated tanks, cruiser, don't shoot at us. We gotta we gotta, we gotta charge hold it, hold it, don't shoot at us for a few minutes. We gotta recharge. Timeout. But maybe to call a timeout and a destroyer. God, are we in trouble? Climate change is the biggest ruse pulled on America ever in the history of the trillion, history of the of the of the whole

entire world trillion. I saw somebody talk about this or like, you know, the big cries all the ocean levels are rising the net and he's like, you think, all these people that own these beachfront properties, and all these realtors that own these properties on the on the water, on the ocean that are worth you know, millions and millions of dollars, wouldn't they be like scared stiff and like turn away and run and sell all those things they

thought that was actually gonna happen. No, last time I checked, all those beach front properties are going for tens tens of millions of dollars. They're not worried about it whatsoever. They're not worried about the insurance on any of that sort of stuff. They'd say it's gonna probably be there still. Well. Obama had speech fund property in Maui door. Biden's got two places along the Atlantic Ocean telling me the oceans are rising when they're buying property on the

oceans. Can't take it. I can't take it. I'm going crazy that you're already there. NFL Draft continues today rounds two and three, number sixty and ninety two for the Bengals Best Bengals Coverage six oh five live from Bad Tom Smith Brewing in Madisonville with the TLG Peter Belt Draft Show presented by Encore Technologies, Five Iron Golf, and Emory Federal Credit Union all here on seven hundred. Wwill Levi, you mean Will Levis? I call him Levi.

The last five years rock, They've done pretty good. I've got some talent on day two, last five years, Jesse Bates, Sam Hubbard, Te Higgins, Logan Wilson. They can pick out in the tent that the draft fell kind of interesting with some other people that were picked that no one thought was gonna be picked. At you know in the first round. So if you if you're in love with those tight ends, are still like four available

at Michael Mayer. You got Darnel Washington, you got Luke Musgrave, you got Tucker Crafts, so you can fill a tight end need in the second round. That the defensive backs, the corners, Joey Porter Junior is still out there, Keiley Ringo, the Turner kid from Michigan, the Philip's kid from Utah, so you know, as well as some offensive linemans. So there's still some if you're thinking of the Bengals needs and wants, I think

it's still a stock full. Now, maybe the Bengals got a trade up to get some of those guys if you want to get a one of those top cornerbacks that fell. But I think it's it's it's right for the taken. There, I say it's right for the takeing. The Bengals are about to march to the judgment seat of god Red's update and A's tonight in Oakland with the first of three in that beautiful ballpark, Beautiful with the Critters eight

forty with the RNL Carrier's inside pitch. Oakland is five and twenty one two and ten at home. What if you show up and the Reds better, The Reds better have six straight wins by Sunday, or that's it. I'll take three and three. They don't do well in the West Coast, No, I don't care well, I say well, no, I say three in Oakland, for sure, they can't lose to these guys. Well they got sorry animals in the walls. Thank you. Then you hear the story

about the uh every animals in your broadcast booth. The rock can't raccoons. Raccoons are possums, sawsom or scess. Greater details as we went along, we are you're not in the regular Visitors Television booth tonight. I know. I came here and went to the foods, and people grabbed me, almost tackled me. I care, and pushed me into this booth. So when we came here last September, we were told the tale of the Ring Central

Coliseum. Possible Possible, who apparently makes a home makes a home in the Visitors TV booth, And in fact that's the booth that that we normally are

in, and only our poor camera guys left there. So the angels played here at the beginning of the season, they bet the first team in and Wayne red Dazzo, our friend, is now the television voice of the Angels, and he told us that in the opening game of the season, the possum who apparently lives somewhere in the wall behind that visitor's TV booth, made

an appearance during the game in their booth. Wasn't it like nipplin animal or it was just you know, crawling around like like a tinding its own possum business. Thank your reaction. I don't know did rock did that ever happen? What's the worst? Will he broadcasting in the studio we are in right now where it's hotter than hell, there's no water, there's no coffee, there's no cups. Or would you choose, I mean, would you choose that? Or to be in a booth in the studio with a live raccoon

You gotta you gotta live stinky raccoon passing gas. You have brilliant iHeart media with no ac, no water, no vending machine. I'm going with iHeart. I'm gonna take the rock. I'm gonna take the raccoon in the take the raccoon too, studio. Okay, it's got a raccoon in here, and see how and see if anyone reacts that. Good luck to you. Thank god, we spend a billion dollars the worst Jeff Heart when you need him. Oh, it's fifty three minutes after the sixty seven thousand animals out

at his farm. Rock. What's on the big show with you? Off anything? Well, we got a Richard Skinner right out of the gate. Or talk a little bit of the draft, of course. Um. And we have John Mattos at three forty five. Um, we have you instead of Wednesdays with Willie. We're gods with Willie at five o'clock. Yes, and I would like to hear Willie at your request, Um, some some Jerry Springer stories. I lost one of the best, and we want to hear something. Yes, Well, I got a text here from Russ Jackson

saying there were rats in the broadcast center at the Plestra in Philadelphia. They had rats. Now, if it was rats, I draw the line. Don't like rats, but possums not bad. Raccoons not bad. No water, no vending like that monkey and that woman in that house. That's another one. Thank you. The monkey ate This guy's Jenner he did eight her face. Yeah wow. On second thought, I'll take ninety four degree temperatures, no, no water, nothing, no vending machine, machine, budget

cuts. I want a snicker. I tried to save it, but I couldn't rock. Thank you segment. Get me out of the stude reporters. We get ready for the rock will be an honor of everybody having a good weekend. Go Reds, Go Bengals, Go Cyclones. Tonight. We leave you with an FCC to FC Cincinnati tomorrow. Pretty good. We leave you with the immortal words of the stut report. The Adams County Sheriff came down

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