4-29-24 Bill Cunningham Show

And say a prayer for the Archbishop Dennis Snur who finds himself in difficult situations in the local hospital. He asks me to pass along to some that he needs your prayers. Tony Benner is going to start saying the Rosary. I'm not sure Tony Benner knows what the rosary is, but he tells me he's going to start saying win for the archbishop who's sick. But until then,

of course, speaking about sick. David Young is the Warren County Commissioner, and just for the purposes of this great telephone call, we're going to put him in charge of Hamilton County in the City of Cincinnati. We texted earlier this morning and he said, Hey, by the way, what's the main topic? And I said, Commission Chaos, Bengals Lease, future Commissions, ignored police, standing down, campus riots, and more. And you say, oh, great, David Young, Commissioner of Warren County, welcome to

the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all the chaos, let's deal with the Futures Commission, in which the City of Cincinnati got together the mothers and the fathers, the mamas and the papas of Cincinnati, the CEO of Parcter and Gamble, Procter and God and more. These are the experts. They

put a few community leaders in there just to say we did. And they came up with a slew of recommendations, including selling the water plant, selling golf courses, selling it all, taking the retirement system in the City of Cincinnati, give it to pr S, plus all these other about raising taxes more for garbage pickup, et cetera. Just give me an overview if afterb puival, your good friend would get ahold of you and Saint David Young. Warren County is out of debt, out of hawk, you live within your

means. It's a great place to live. The schools are functioning, the police have powers in Warren County. What two or three pieces of information would you pass on afterbt puival to improve the city of Cincinnati. Afternoon, Willie how was actually in a meeting with them with the esteem mayor last week. Nice enough guy, I like the mayor. But yeah, they've got a tough, tough job down there. And and honestly, I'm actually reading you know when you told me, uh, you know, hours and hours ago

what the topics were doing today. I've spent minutes and minutes researching these different topics, and I think I've come up with somewhat of a solution. Oh. I don't know if you know this, but I'm sitting up. I'm sitting up. I've got a pen and paper. Go give me to me. You could write this one down, all right. Government, Government should live what's in its means, and there's an end within means. Okay. Number two, government can't do everything for all residents and do all for all.

Okay, I got that written down. Now tell me in a concrete way the Futures Commission, and if you've got Ampta a pair of all whispering in his ear, tell me the top two or three practical things that must be done. Number One, that their spending is out of whack. And this is what happens in governments. That a lot of times governments. One

of the little secrets of governments is people. A lot of times. When I first took office, like twenty years ago, to work in the public sector, and you know, you knew this from way back when in the prosecutor's officer what have you, that government employees generally made less than private sector employees. But there was a couple of advantages of being a government employee for making less money than the private sector. Number one, generally you had better

job security. You know, government generally doesn't fire you or lay you off like private sectors do. And then number two was the retirement plan. Yep, the retirement plan that government employees have is off the hook. Back in my investment days, I used to manage a bunch of four on one K

plans for different employers around town. And it's not even close how good government pensions because most people do four on one cage now where you put a discretionary amount of money in and it grows based on stock market or what have you, and then at the end, hopefully you have more than a million bucks. And that system works when you do that stuff for a very long period

of time. You put a little bit of money in, you invest it, you invest in America and generally not generally, it does work over thirty forty year periods of time. However, what doesn't work necessarily is a defined benefit plan where based on how much money you work earn, we the employer,

are going to promise to pay you a percentage of your salary. That was always based on these guarantees, and we know one thing with the economy is guarantees don't happen very much, especially when you're based on these high rates of returns and these ten percent interest rates and things like that. So Cincinnati found itself in a situation. What I learned was their pension plan is way, way, way upside down. They owe I forget it, tens of

millions. It's not one hundred million dollars of unfunded pension liability, and that has to be there. So there was suggestions in this features reportable, you know, turn that over to the state's pension board. Right, they don't want it because it's so upside down. Four hundred million is the number that's been reported in the enquire that the City of Cincinnati is upside down four hundred million dollars and the easy solution is to sell the golf courses or sell the

Cincinnati water works. Get more than four hundred million dollars, pay that off and the state will accept. Well, the state pers I know the members of the board, they want nothing to do with the City of Cincinnati accepting them into the state pension plan because they don't trust the ability of the City of Cincinnati to make any payments of any type. And they don't want to

sell the water, and they don't want to sell the golf courses. They had to sell, I guess the railroad because of the great deal for one point six billion dollars to Norfolk Southern, and that did happen. However, the city, and when you talk to council members who give interviews, they say one thing they're not going to do is sell the water and sell the golf courses. They're not going to do that. In fact, for that to happen, the voters have got to step up and agree to do that,

and they won't do it. So they got five thousand retired employees and about another five thousand coming and a four hundred million dollar hole. The only way to do it is to sell an asset, to try to get them to go to PERS, which prs will not accept. And so assuming none of that happens, assuming pers will not accept them into the state system, and assuming the city will not sell, what happens sell the assets? What happens. Right to fully fund its pension obligations, the city needs to contribute

sixty million a year until twenty forty five. It paid about forty two million dollars in the current fiscal year, so it's upside down eighteen million dollars per year. Yeah, and the total comes to three hundred and ninety million dollars to plug that hole. So that's not going away. So as bad as the city's budget is right now, it's actually much worse because it's eighteen million dollars unfunded pension liability in there too, so out of their one point six

billion dollar budget, Willie, it's it's not a good situation. And I think this goes to what you and I have talked about for a long period of time. Government and people always ask, well, how is one county in such a great financial shape? You know, people say we're the best, not just the state, maybe the nation. It's a very easy answer. When you live within your means, you don't promise everything to everyone. Taxpayer money is not like going into the candy store. It's easy to really

quote unquote buy votes. You start handing out money. What do you think they're doing in Washington right now with ending student debt. They're buying votes one hundred and seventy five billion dollars to four and a half million people. They're trying to buy votes with money we don't have because he is messed up and as jacked up as the City of Cincinnati financial structure is. You know what's worse, Willie, the federal government. How about one trillion dollars of new

money is barred every one hundred days. So let's put that issue to the side. You're telling me they got a little bit of a problem here, like four hundred million, and it grows every year, and by twenty years from now, it's going to be a billion dollars. They won't deal with that because it is too painful. Number two, I want to get you on in the Bengals. Lease. We all love the Bengals, want them

to stay. The window is open. And when I talk to your friend Alisha Reese, she tells me that other cities like Kansas City with the Chiefs, in Chicago with the Bears, the NFL and the owners of the club are putting in hundreds of millions of dollars, in fact, billions of dollars to build new stadiums, to refurbish their president stadiums. When the issue was on the ballot in Kansas City, it went't down hard like a cold butt on a hot July afternoon. You had Patrick Mahomes, you had Kelsey,

everybody talking about Taylor Swift, singing songs about it. The voters had a chance vote and it was fifty eight percent. Not no, fifty eight percent. Hell no, we're not contributing hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to the Hunt family, who are worth about twelve billion dollars. So you got the Bengals lease coming up, and we all went to Bengals to stay. I think they are going to stay, but the county says, no,

Moss, we can't afford it. Solve the Bengals lease. David Young, I would look at something a little bit outside of the box and try to be creative. There is something called new community authorities, which under Ohio law says in a particular district that one district that's clearly defined has certain abilities, including certain taxation aspects. That with something like this, I would look at doing some sort of a user fee, that is, it's an increase to

the sales tax in a specific district. Because again, it is a hard sell to people. I'm not a sports fan, I'm not this you know, why would I pay for this. So this is a kind of a backdoor way of user fees that users. You know, it's like a gas tax. You know who maintains the highways, well, people that drive on it unless you're in the electric vehicle, and now all of a sudden, you're not paying a gas tax, which is you know, a systemic problem

long term. But with the Bengals lease, I would look at doing something creative with trying to get there's so many people that go to that district and we all know keeping the Bengals in town is a big deal. That's one of the reasons we were so involved with keeping the tennis tournament in town because there's an impression and a perception that Greater Cincinnati, Warren County, City of

Mason they're major league towns. And when major league sporting teams or events start leaving you, that sends a message to the marketplace of well, maybe they don't have it going on there, Maybe my free market capital investment for a tennis tournament or owning an NFL franchise should maybe go somewhere else. And then all of a sudden, those employers that in a competitive world or saying where do I want to expand or place my new secondary corporate headquarters, or an

international company looking to come to the US and go into the Midwest. Where am I going to invest my hard earned capital? We wait a second. If the perception is this was a major league city and now people are starting to flee, not just a little bit, but maybe even in droves, Man, do I want to invest there? So you're talking about a user

fee from the river, maybe the Central Parkway. Of course, you got Saint Francis Serah with hundreds of homeless degenerates fornicating and copulating and pooping and peeing in public. That's a different issue. We'll get that's issue number three. Put that off to the side. So you're saying a special user's fee from the river may up up to Central Parkway. So for those who specifically benefit from that, much like Sycamore Township was so wise to tax people like Tony

Bender living working in this special tax district in Kenwood. But if you live in Sycamore Township, work in Sycamore Township, of course you don't pay the tax, which is a very important aspect of this. But nonetheless, tax those who don't have a vote, and then they will collect the money benefit Sycamore Township, and a way we go. Let's go to issue number three,

which is the more the easy one to solve. We've taken care of the Futures Commission, We've taken care of the pension system, we've taken care of the Bengals lease. Now we've got a bigger problem, which is Cincinnati Public schools, which is an F. The state have testing and there's an F, there's a G, and an H. They're down to H at this point. Before they get to an F, they're below F. Seventy five percent of black boys don't attend. They're chronically absent. You have massive

lawlessness in which kids are running rampant on the banks, going nuts. You have beatings taking place on Fountain Square and also in Government Square. You have bus routes in which individuals put their life in their hand getting on a bus. They might have your head treated like a soccer ball kicked around. Then you go to juvenile court. Nothing happens there, you get released. You can be literally a murderer and get out of juvenile court without much punishment.

So, having solved these other two important problems, let's get David Young. Initial number three, chronically absenteeism, no education about twenty five thousand dollars per kid per year. You graduate with a certificate but not a diploma, What would you do with the school system go? A very wise person once told me that if you do I believe three very simple things, you have like

a ninety chance of doing well in life. Let me ride this. Number one, don't get arrested in other worse nor do not become a criminal. That's number one, Tony Bender, write that down. Don't be a criminal, okay. Number two. Number two, graduate from high school, which may not be worth anything, but you can say, look, I graduated, m u's I got my I got a high school discipline, showed discipline

that you showed up. Number three, don't have kids out of wedlock, because what happens then is we're re being what we sewed because that model, which was actually your statistics, which you're the wise guy, wise man that actually told me this was those three things contribute to you know, ninety something percent success rate. So what's happened is people have not followed that the last couple of decades, and now all of a sudden, the kids that I

feel for those kids I have a heart for those kids. They don't know any better. No one's told them no. Most of the time, single parent household, where all of a sudden, people are not paying them attention. And the number one thing is they don't have any discipline, Willy. No one's telling them no, there's no ramifications for actions. Oh, you're allowed to do this because you've been blanked. You know throughout your life you have red hair, you have this, or you have some problem that makes

you special, and therefore you don't have to comply with rules. So now we're seeing it on the college campuses, Willy. So you have eighteen nineteen year olds that are going spitting in cops spaces, saying let's kill this entire ethnic group or what have you, And all of a sudden they get in the cops space, and all of a sudden, the cop is picking them up, them throwing them to the ground, and they're like, oh,

my goodness, I can't believe they've ever done this. Of course, that's what the police are going to do if you do that to them, or at least back when you and I were growing up, that would be a normal Friday night if I if I mess around with the wrong Blue ash Or Montgomery cop and said the wrong thing. I was going to be on the hood of their car, and I guess what, I wasn't going to do

that again. So we have issues resolved at this point. There's a movement of foot to take the homeless, which should be mentally ill, drug addicted, reconstitute Longview State Mental Hospital. Put them in a facility until they can quit pooping in public and quit dealing with drugs and fornicating. For five dollars, put them a long View State Mental Hospital they used to be have five hundred beds there. We have a functional court system that holds people accountable.

And if we do those simple things, people won't be move into Warren County because right now people go to Boone County, Warren County, getting County, Butler County, they go to Lawrensburg. Get the hell out. We can't take it anymore. So if you do those three simple things, take care of the city when it comes to their financial mismanagement, take care of the Bengals, lease and then tell kids, don't be a criminal, graduate from high school, don't have kids out of wedlock, and by the way,

work do those things. It's simple David Young, if available, will you come and conduct a course in Hamilton County in the City of Cincinnati to tell have to have parival and others there is a better way, Willie. I mean, I would be happy to hold a masterclass on government efficiency and how to do things. But honestly, I don't think anybody south of Fieldsrtle would ever attend. They have their own way of doing things. And that's one

of the problems with today's world, Willy. Once you placate and play up to a certain constitution Tucy that you believe got you into office, and they're the only people that can keep you into office, then all of a sudden, you're not going to do anything, which is what your both to office really is. That you're going to do what's best in all loss of the constitution of the State of Ohio. You're going to do what's best for the

people you represent. But a lot of times our politicians don't necessarily do that. They do what's best for getting them reelected, and they don't make the hard choices that sometimes go against the constituencies that voted them in. Because we're in a representative democracy, we represent the people. It's not a straight democracy, Willie. We don't vote on every issue, so they elect people to represent you. I tell you what, David Young, you're available. I

talked to Rob Sanders, he's available. I talked to Jesse Brewer, He's available a master class. I will contact city Council and the Hamlin County Commission to say if they will listen. David Young, once again, thank you for coming on the Old Cunningham Show. May God bless you and God bless America. David Young, thank you very much. Please God bless you, William, God bless Warren County, Hell and blessing everybody. Right now, let's continue with more if a line becomes available. Five one, three,

seven, four, nine, seven thousand. Regen. The podres tonight from San Diego starting about six oh five with Lance on news radio seven hundred WLW. It's the Marketers Report Today. Capital One's Chief brand Officer, Mark Mintry weighs in on building loyalty with the year after year, decade after decade.

But continue to move on. We never stop. We simply continue. And at one seven today will be Steve Molloy, who's an expert on the energy and the environment con I'm going to talk to you about Biden's latest regulations that would kill the automobile industry in America. The car business would be done and having no impact on the environment whatsoever, which, by the way, is fabulous. It's great, it's good. Look around you, pretty good stuff

going on. The EPA cannot disband because there's too much money involved. But if you look around, life's pretty good. Environment is great, and it gets better all the time. But nonetheless, after one o'clock today will be junk science dot com. The reality I'm looking holding in my hands. A report from Bloomberg headline Ford loses one point three billion dollars in electric cars and

the first ninety days of twenty twenty four. Let that sink. In the first ninety days of twenty twenty four, Ford Motor Company lost one point three billion dollars. The look at the first couple sentences in the story. Ford Motor Company reported a whopping one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars loss on each electric vehicle sold during the first three months of twenty twenty four. I amassing a one point three billion dollar loss. If you take go deeper into the

story, this is what the government's requiring. Ford g and many others to do, they require you to jump into an all electric vehicle. How about this one company officials are estimating that their EV division will lose a grand total of five billion dollars this year, having lost five billion dollars last year. So over a twenty four month period, Ford Motor Company, which one all

in on EV's, has lost at least ten billion dollars. Now you may think that it doesn't affect me, less than one percent of the American people haven't an electric vehicle. Generally, the rich and famous get it supported by middle class Americans like you because of all the givebacks and the incentives, et cetera. But no, no o contrere monfreyer you pay for it. Ford Motor Company, GM, Honda, whatever it might be, a Range Rover, et cetera. Are all publicly traded companies, and if they were only

in the EV business, they'd be out of business. But Ford Motor Company, like many others, have got the grossly increase the price of gas powered cars that you buy to make up the differential. So that means, according to this article, that every new car purchase has at least an additional ten thousand dollars and so called uncollected taxes that you pay because the government, especially Joe Biden, the last four years, has required that manufacturers only sell or

allow you to purchase an electric vehicle. That doesn't take into account the five to ten thousand dollars you have to upgrade your own personal electric in your home to charge the damn thing up. So if you keep losing ten billion dollars as a relatively large company, Ford Motor Company every couple of years, you'll

be out of business. So the hope and the goal in November is for Biden slash Kamala Harris the president and waiting to issue new rules, regulations and government subsidies to give the companies like Ford Motor Company and make up billions of

dollars in losses. And of course, right as I speak, eighty miles from the southern border in Mexico, the Chinese government is putting together the largest electric vehicle plant in the world, being it's going to take two to three years to build the damn thing in order to crash the price of electric vehicles inside the United States, supported by the communist Chinese government, so that they will put out of work the auto workers, which is why seventy five percent

of the auto workers are supporting Donald Trump because they want to keep their jobs. The leadership doesn't want it that way, that feign character. He didn't want that. But the actual auto workers know what's going on and they're supporting the Trumpster. If you look around, the environment is wonderful. It's the best it's been in at least one hundred years. Hell, you can eat fish out of the Ohio River, for God's there's no haze anymore. In

the basin of Cincinnati, between Covington and Clifton, there's no haze. And we have a wonderful environment right now and it's getting better all the time. All those water vapor of plumes coming out of power plants are able to be able to be breathed in directly. Whenever the ABC NBC Sibas says a story about pollution, they have these large flumes of water vapor coming out of the

chimneys which are inert It's good for the environment and CO two emissions. Point zero four percent of the atmosphere on Earth is carbon dioxide point zero four, which is a minuscule amount, and carbon dioxide causes plants to grow more if the winter is a week shorter in the summer, or springs a week longer. Hell, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. So the truth will set us free. Don't hear this information almost anywhere else. Doesn't

fit the media diatribe. Also headline of New York Post Joe Biden's latest regulations will crass the electric grid on Thursday of last week, about five days ago, annow It's new climate change regulations is if we can change the climate put in place through the EPA, that will shut down all cold powered power plants in the next ten years because they can't follow the rules. The rule claimed carbon dioxide is a pollutant, which it is not. When you expel air,

it's called CO two. That is carbon dioxide. It is given. It is what causes human breaths to be expelled from the lungs, and plants eat, and plants turn this along with oxygen into like fertilizer for plants and corn and all the rest. How about this and the studied commissioned by the California Public Utilities Commission Grid Analytics Company forecast at California alone will have to spend at least fifty billion dollars by twenty thirty five to distribute grid upgrades to meet

us ambitious EV targets. It's being done by academics and average Americans like you and I will pay the price unless we change political course and the EPA rule will put out of business coal fired power plants, so that means we're going to have nuclear which, by the way, we can't build one of those either, natural gas wind, which kills billions of birds and living mammals every year, the windmills killing natural natural regulators throughout the economy, and also in

the oceans for example, that kills whales and tuna. We're in a massive kill of birds and aquatic life to pursue something that will not meet whatever the goal. Right now, we've reached it. We have the cleanest air we've had. In fact, this report indicates that every three years we have ten percent greater need for electricity because the devices, the thirty million illegals coming into this country plus AI, we need ten percent more electricity every three years,

and we produce every three years ten percent less electricity. Can you smell when I'm cooking? We have greater electrical demand than ever before in American history, and it's increasing. At the same time, the government wants to create some other crisis and chaos because we have less electricity production. Have you seen your

electric bill recently? That's going to skyrocket? In fact, that one hearing Senator John Kennedy, my favorite senator, along with Rand Paul from Louisiana, as these experts that assuming we spend by we we mean the world spends something in the range of fifty trillion dollars over the next fifteen years between now and twenty forty, I said, fifty trillion dollars. Will any of that change whatsoever? The air quality and CO two emissions? The answer is, we

don't know. We hope it does, but we don't know. Because the Earth regulates itself. There have been times when the Arctic has been a jungle and times when the Equator was under one hundred sheet of ice and snow. The world regulates itself. We can't stop it. We have climate change is called the four seasons, and nothing we can do to stop winter or summer.

It happens. We have the cleanest air, the cleanest water that we've had in the tri State in one hundred years, and it's getting cleaner all the time because new chemical processes are developed to make the emissions from power plants be nothing but water vapor. That's what it is, and that's okay. We need more CO two. So I have a guest coming up in fifteen minutes to talk about that and so much more us. It's good to hear

from Dave Young the Commission of Warren County. Does anyone seriously think that city government will make tough choices and tough decisions for the long term financial health of the City of Cincinnati. The answer is not no. The answer is hell no, There'll be no tough decisions made. In fact, every member of council, not one member of council, has stepped forward and said, you

know what, the Future's Commission makes a lot of sense. We need to start selling off assets in order to hold accountable long term the pension expenses. We need to do that. Not one of the nine, much less after have pirivoal who's from central casting when it comes to the mayor of a large

American city, So none of that's going to happen. I think it's great that the CEO of Proctor and God and many other step forward and said I'll spend hundreds of hours put together the report, hoping it has some measurable impact, but as you know, it will not. And lastly, your ured Brian Combs talk about all the car breaking so I think he said in the Blue Ash area there was like eighty five and in the Madisonville area every weekend

there's twenty to thirty. In fact, many people now don't even recall in any car break ins because nothing happens, and if someone is arrested, you end up in juvenile court or elsewhere. The charges are dismissed quickly as they come in one door, they're dismissed, go out the other. There's four girls who beat the crap out of some adult on a metro bus, treated her head like a soccer ball, was released before the paperwork was done by

the cops. And so those who are beaten saying, you know what, it's not worth the dow nine one one anymore, that polease show up or don't show up and nothing happens. Why report a car breaking? Which I love the argument of the radical left. You know crime is down, well, crime is up, but reporting a crime is down. That was the

big difference. Coming up after two o'clock today, I have John Lott, who was a Deputy Attorney General under Donald Trump, to talk about the statistics and why the reporting of crime is way down but crime itself is way up. Well, let's continue. We never stop. We simply continue, and if a line becomes available, which it never does five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand. As you may know, the

Archbishop Dennis Snour is in the hospital. He's in a serious condition and he requests prayers of those who kind of have a pipeline in the Almady to help our archbishop overcome as difficulties. So we have that coming up. Plus we're going to celebrate later on the one hundredth birthday of Margaret Giuliani has a big party coming up. She's been listening to me, she says, for over

forty years. Forty years, so I hate to lose any listeners. But Margaret Giuliani has led a good life, and her one hundredth birthday celebration will be on May fifth. She was born May fifth, nineteen twenty four, and she's living through her one hundredth birthday, which is truly unbelievable but wonderful. Let's continue with more protect yourself to make it an American society. Simple call him Willie. Rules number one, graduate of high school, number two,

don't be a criminal number three, work number four. Don't have kids out of wedlock. Form a family structure. It's all it takes. You do that. Over ninety percent of kids that do that. Young adults have what might be described as a successful life. A trom of the Reds News Radio seven hundred wwwel for oh my Goodness, what account the lord home rud for Elly daily, The Rigs play the pod Rats tonight at eight forty on seven hundred W l JELGI and seven hundred W l jeugis live stream of the

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wants EVS. Steve malloy is the senior INSTA E and E Institute legal fellow and former Trump EPA member, available to discuss the new power plant ruling, a power grab by the Biden administration which is taking offline in the next five years all the coal fired power plants, in which case electricity is going to

skyrocket plus. According to research, every three years we need ten percent more electric to fuel this great economy, and every three years we have ten percent less electric, which you know is what happened to prices, the rules of supply and demand. But Steve molloy, welcome again to the bill. Cunningham Show, And first of all, can you tell the American people what is the new power plant ruling by the Biden EPA to mandate costly technologians shutting down

power plants. What is it? Well, so this is a continuation of the Obama era war on coal, and Obama successfully, or you know, shut down fifty percent of the US coal industry, and Biden is aiming to shut down the other fifty percent by twenty thirty nine. And he's going to try to do that by mandating that. You know, he's not technically forcing coal plants to shut down. What he's saying is that if you want to have a coal plant operating after twenty thirty nine, you need to be capturing

all your emissions and storing them someplace. Now, the problem with this is that it's unconstitutional and illegal at the same time than that, so while you know, arguably Congress has empowered EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, that's just arguably not for sure it has, only it has not authorized EPA too essentially shut down coal plants, which is what the Biden rule does.

That's number one, Number two the Clean Air Act, under which you know, Biden's trying to regulate these power plants generally requires well always requires that the technology be commercially available, tested, and commercial available. And of course the carbon captures, sequestration technology and storage technology is not available commercially. It doesn't really exist anywhere. I think there's only one coal plant in the world

where some of this works. They've tried to do this before in the US. It has failed. So he's trying to shut down coal plants with you by requiring technology that doesn't exist. It's crazy. Well, if Trump loses in if your man Trump and you worked with him, if he loses in November, and the polling right now is really good, however, the polling goes up and down like mountains and peaks and valleys. Who knows what's going

to happen in the next five and a half to six months. So give this crew another four years on top of that with President Kamala Harris in charge, because no one believes that Joe Biden mentally can even complete the next term. If he's reelected, he might complete six months through a year, and they're going to twenty fifth amendment him out of the Oval office. Then you get more radical and more stupid people involved, like Kamala Harris, and then

they do more things. And right now, can you describe to the American people how clean America's air is presently because of technology and the fact that natural gas has been a godsend on pollutants. Can you tell the American people, because I have a sense we have the cleanest air in my lifetime, and it's getting cleaner all the time. Explain why this is a solution in search of a problem. Well, our air has never really been a public health

problem. Our air has always been safe to breathe, and now it's even cleaner than it was. I mean, since we started cracking down on air quality in the nineteen seventies, our air is essentially pristine. It is pristine. I mean, we're at a point where EPA is regulating invisible carbon dioxide, invisible colorless otis is plant food. So that's what we're regulating now because everything else is clean. Even coal plants are cleans Hardly anything that comes out

of those smokestacks. When you see the white stuff coming out, that's just water vapor and it's not a pollution. So every you know, fossil fuel burning in America. If you do it in a modern coal plant, a modern gas plant, a modern car, hardly anything comes out of the smoke stash of tailpipes. It's perfectly fine. Our air is fine. No one is harmed by anything that's in the air. You know, last year when we had all that Canadian wildfire smoke in New York City and people call it

the air apocalypse, The air was orange terrible. Yeah, it was not a public health problem, not at all, not at all all, but the media used it to advance there. Every time you talk about the EPA, I see these large smoke stacks all over the country, belching forth. I assume arsenic laced clouds of death in reality. In reality it's called water vapor. Yeah, it's You can stick yourself on top of one of those pipes and breathe them in. You'll live to be eighty seven years old.

Explain to the American people, these college campuses are erupting whatever they're The day is in between Starbuck runs and scheduling your next manny and your next petty. Some of these college kids, girls, especially, which are about two thirds of the protesters, they think carbon dioxide CO two is like arsenic because you're an ex Can you tell these college kids what is CO two carbon dioxide? How big of a problem is it? Well, carbon dioxide is plant food.

Without CO two, plants would die and we would die. It's colorless, it's odorless, it's not pollution. To call pollution is crazy, man. It just goes to show you how clean our air is. We call this colors otis necessary plant food pollution? Today there was a Reuter's fact check where they said, yes, it's true, they fact check C two is true that it's plant food, but it's still bad because of global warming.

I mean, these people are crazy. And so all these kids, of course believe the wrong thing because they've been brainwashed in the last twenty years, you know, ever since Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth came out. These poor kids that have been just ideologically abused with this notion that carbon dioxide is killing us. In fact, without it, you know, we're dead. Well,

what percent? I watched Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. No one's better than Senator Kennedy talk to these national experts on the environment, and they had four of them lined up from that They were from Columbia, they were from UCLA all over the place. About what percent of the atmosphere is presently comprised of CO two that we're seeking to avoid. Uh. The answers were like five percent, fifty seventy percent. What is the reality for one hundred seven percent?

So it's point point zero zero point zero four point zero four. And in the world's history that's gone up and down. Uh. We used to have alligators in the North Pole, the equator was was filled with ice at one point. This goes up and down. Correct, It's the nature of things, absolutely. And the thing is, it's not just these idiot college kids and their professors that don't know. You know, the Gena McCarthy,

who was Obama's EPA chief and Biden's climate advisor. She testified in Congress once the Texas Congressman Joe Barden asked her how much CO two was there in the atmosphere. She didn't know, and she was in charge of regulating all this stuff. So the ignorance in the climate movement is deep. It's fact free. In other words, don't worry about the facts. We'ding. We're funding

this to the tune of trillions of dollars. And the answer given by the environmental wackos is that it'll cost fifty trillion dollars over the next twenty five years, fifty trillion dollars to scour America clean of all CO two emissions, and having done that, will at lower CO two in the atmosphere. And the answer coming back to scientists, we don't know, no, wo it won't.

Well. Yeah, look, America is an ever you know, even if you bind into the climate hoax that emissions cause warming, America is an ever shrinking piece of that pie. American emissions now are probably around ten percent and shrieking. You know, China, India, Indonesia, Africa, all these other countries are coming online. You know, they want to increase their standard of living, which requires more CO two emissions because nothing we do doesn't

require fossil fuels. I mean, we have a fossil fuel based society. You can't build a windmill, a nuclear power plant, a solar panel, an ev any of that stuff. You can't maintain them without fossil fuels. Everything depends on fossil fuels. And these kids don't get it. You were on with Dagan McDowell and Sean Duffy on Fox Business A few weeks ago, and you talked about molloy talks about Biden's electric truck rule. Now, we all know that Joe Biden was a truck driver, an eighteen wheel truck driver

who would have chicken fried steak somewhere up and down the super slabs. Well, no, Also, he was raised by a Puerto Rican family in a black church, and he was taught by an Indigenous woman in a wheelchair. We all know that's true. But can you explain Biden's electric truck rule? What is that? Well, so Biden wants to mandate that a certain percentage of electric trucks sold by twenty thirty are electric. You know, some diesel

trucks have to Instead of diesel, we're going to have electric. And of course this is crazy because you know, a diesel eighteen wheeler can drive two thousand miles on a tank of gas. An EV truck, which they don't even really exist yet, most can go about one hundred and seventy miles before you have to spend you know, eight hours charging it. You know,

another problem would be where are you going to charge it? You know, two and a half years ago, Biden got seven and a half million dollars to build EV chargers seven and a half billion, two and a half years ago, they've built thirty eight chargers. How many okay, thirty eight out

of five hundred thousand, they've built thirty eight. And yeah, and for these trucks, these trucks will require if we were to, if the rule were effective today and we were going to, you know, sit with the Biden timetable, we'd have to build fifteen thousand chargers a month between now and twenty thirty. Okay, So this is not going to happen. And then and then, of course, my favorite part is this whole rule would only uh, you know, at best, it would reduce emissions by about a

billion tons, which you know, sounds a lot. Sounds might sound like a lot if you don't know anything, like you don't know how much twos in the atmosphere. But it's it's a vanishing, vanishingly small part of global missions annual basis are the Chinese and the Russians and the Indians and the Pakistanis are they following any of the rules put out by the Biden administration, because

that's where the pollution is. Are they following any of these rules? You know, they've accepted themselves from all these climate treaties, you know, starting with the Kyoto Protocol, there was an exception for developing countries, you know, all these all these places in Russia, China, India, Indonesia, after they're all developing countries, so they don't have to cut their emissions, and the fact they're not because they're not crazy, especially China. You know,

China is the world's biggest emitter, burns the most coal. Its goal is to be the low and global superpower by twenty forty nine. Joe Biden's goal is to help China. Well, he's getting paid by China, so he's paying back. Then, lastly, about a minute remaining. If you're in California, I live in Ohio. I love Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana.

We have normal people generally in charge of government. But if you're in California and every three years the need for electricity goes up about ten percent and the available resources go down ten percent, what's going to happen to you telege bills, Well, they won't be able to charge you because you're going to have blackouts, right, But when you do have like is going to be very expensive what's going on in California and the UK and Europe really should be

an object lesson for all of us. I mean, right now, you know, we are dismantling our grid. We're shutting down coal and gas plants and replacing them with wind and solar, which are unreliable, more expensive. They're weakening our grid every but all the you know, adults in the grid industry realized we are weakening our grid. But nobody can do anything because you

know, the Greens have such political power. They are just you know, they have a death grip on our country, and you've got to vote against them. One of the great websites on this subject matter is junkscience dot com. I'm looking at it now, junkscience dot com. Steve malloy is in charge of energy and education. The truth will set you free. Why kill

millions and birds and fish every year? Because if wind mills all over the fruited plain, and also what's happening off the east coast with windmills in the middle of the ocean, killing tune is killing dolphins, killing whales. It's unbelievable. Kill kill birds, kill fish, pay more money, and you have no change whatsoever with pollution. Steve mlloy, once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Steve mlloy, you're a great

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He's making kind of sense. Now, what's the matter with He's making more sense than any other US senator. That's true, John Fetterman. He begins to debay by saying thank you for coming, goodbye, and he gets elected. And this guy maybe the stroke had a good effect on him as far as politics. Columbia University, Willie, were watching it now and the clear you clear the encampment within about twenty minutes are face suspension. There's some derel

like pounding a drum, and women are taking their tops off. They're not too good looking either. They're ugly, ugly. A lot of them need lift. Don't even know where Gaza is or what MS is something you do hummus, I mean hummus much? Yeah, I mean hummus, I don't know. I mean well, a lot of them are making Starbucks runs, scheduling their manny's and their petties, and half of Marty, half of her paid by your good friend George Sores to show up. Who wants to buy

this radio station and shut me down? I'll say, before we go any further, Yeah, a couple issues. I want to make a woman a couple cedizens of the day, of course, Sally Rosiello. Sally Rosiello, first Lady of Green Township. She is the uh may I say, the first Lady of Green Township. Correct is celebrating a birthday today. I think she's thirty nine years old and holding. But she's put up with so much

crap from Tony Rosiella over the years. I'm going to make her the Bill Cunningham Citizen of the Day good Enough, which is April to twenty ninth today, also known as the first Lady of the Green Township listens every day. Sally, you have a place in heaven already prepared for you. Tony Rosiella is going to be in purgatory burning at about eighteen hundred degrees for a while, Charred and I bring him up from purgatory to heaven to be with you.

And also, one hundred year old Margaret Giuliani turns one hundred years old on May the fifth, which I think is Sunday, isn't it correct? Sunday leave So Sunday, yeah, because Saturday's May fourth, the Kentucky Derby Day all day. And she was born on May the fifth, nineteen twenty four. Wow, Now who is president? Who took office? When the president died? He took office as the vice president, then ran in nineteen

twenty four and won a full year two. The president he took office from was an ohioan one of the worst, Warren Harding Bingo and his VP, the Kamala Harris of the nineteen twenties, took office, ran and then won, and his name was Calvin Coolidge. Jingo, you know, as stupid as people think. How about that? So congratulations to Margaret Giuliani. Happy birthday one Sally Rosiello, who's going to be in heaven above pulling Tony out

of purgatory built too much pasta for him segment. Give me some sports, will he? The Stuo reporters approach service of your local Tame Star Heating and air Conditioning dealers Tamestar quality you could feel at Southwest Ohio called better Choice Heating and cool to get five to one, three, eight six, eight thirty three, eighty eight spot a couple of housekeeping mounters segment. Vladimir Putin says has lost a half a million soldiers. Now Putin has lost not a put

has lost none. Half million German peasants were killed in Ukraine, along with three thousand tanks and five hundred aircraft plus your buddy Hunter Biden is suing Fox for defamation of character. Hunter Biden is a crack addict and a pervert, and he's suing you. Gotta have character to be for character. Yeah, oh that'll work, O, that'll go over big. Please continue. Let's see Red's update, Willy. Of course, it's Red's falling four to three.

Yesterday. They got down early, but they tried to come back and win it, but they didn't. So now they head west, further west than Arlington, Texas. First of three to night in San Diego Againsto's Padres nic Loodolo. We'll face off against Matt Waldron I like him and six oh five with Lance and sports Talk Arno carriers inside pitch at eight forty. San Diego was fourteen and seventeen and just swept over the weekend by the Phillies.

Of course a Bengals. The NFL Draft is over they will welcome in the rookie mini camp this weekend. And mister Ted Carris, the King of Cincy Hats, says that the offensive line is not going to be called Brown County with Orlando and Trent Brown. Now with the addition of six foot eight or nine A Marius Mims, Mims out of Georgia Mims. The mister Carris has

dubbed the offensive line the Cincinnati Skyline. You know, I kind of like that Mimes had some skyline and they they went to Carlo and Johnny's on Saturday night right over the weekend. The order steak and Chris Collinsworth steak, I don't know, but you know, and then how much steak could that guy

eat? What those guys? Yeah all, oh, let's see there was Orlando Brown, Trent Brown, Ted Harris, Mimes, and I think somebody else I'd like to don't get behind them in a buffet line am into that s How many three ways, four ways and five ways could those guys eat? Three? Four and five one hundred? How many cheese conies could Mims e? If you said don't eat for a day, you gotta eat, how many cheese conies could you eat? Me? Probably about three. He

can probably go over about thirty. Major League Baseball plans to address its uniform fiasco after changes this spring to the standard jersey and pants. Let's see the changes are going to be happening well at the latest beginning of next season. They're going to have larger lettering on the back of jerseys, which is good, remedying the mismatch to gray tops and bottoms, and addressing the new Nike jerseys propensity to collect sweat. Plus are also going to fix the pants that

you can see through. Of course, the ladies might love, you know, ladies go nuts half the time. CBS Sports is benching a couple of former New York quarterbacks in the NFL today. Don't say it. Boomer Asiasin and Phil Simms are out of the NFL Studio show and it's a makeover now. Matt Ryan and JJ Watt will join James Brown, Nate Burleson and coach Kawer Andy. I say they're getting too old segment. There's too many old

people in broadcasting. We've got young up the place. Do you agree, Well, Boomer's been there for twenty two years, had a good run. Yes, Number seven A good friend of Sandy Shick. Sandy Shick made Boomer and Chris what they are. Don't forget, will he? The countdown is on for the twenty six Flying Pig Marathon coming up this weekend. I talked to Iris Simpson Bush. She's coming on Thursday to talk about the Pig. Last year, nearly forty thousand took part in Pig events as it celebrated its

twenty fifth year. Say take a look at this with the Lawless Haitian. They're interviewing barbecue. I mean, if you're a reporter from CNN, would you walk around the compound of barbecue and port A Prince. You got to be kidding me. Look well out they got the that's their lead. There's the leader's barbecue. I mean, look at this crew, seg, how are we looking? I don't think it'd be too good in tourism these days. And port A Prince, you know, Mike de Wine and buying around

how to give him a call? He funded an orphanage and Porter Prince Haiti for decades, Mike Dwine. And there's the leader right there. We look at look at this. You got to be kidding me. It's lawless, no law West of the Peacoast. And by the way, I'm sure that's our fault somehow, America. Whose fault it is? I assume Trump right exactly, everything's his fault, Jesus. I don't know what to take. And by the way, the Archbishop Dennis Snur is in the hospital segment.

Well that's not good, but there for a week, and he wants some prayers from you. You better call upon Almighty to bless the archbishop who's not in good shape. Well, Dennis Snur, keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Then say a rosary or two. You know what a rosary is? Yes, you do, even though I'm Presbyterian. The Kentucky Derby will go on this Saturday at six fifty seven pm. And uh, let's see. Fierceness is the is? The out of the seventeenth post position is five

to two? What about calling to Mike Bataglia? What about Bob? I got a call. He's not there. He's suspended again. Yeah, Bob Baffort's not allowed there. With your permission, I'll call Mike Bataglia endlessly. The Jeff Ruby Stakes winner comes out of the fourteenth post position. Second in the Ruby was west Are Atoga at thirteen. It was like a chip and Sino. The Bettaglia Stakes winner will roll out of post position nine. Take a look at it. Stronghold of this barbecue. Characters in a palace in

porta prince chairs look like they've been there since nineteen forty seven? Where is Papa Doc when you need him? You know if Papa Doc and Baby Doc were Yeah, they were the dictators of Haiti. You're not nearly as stupid as people think. What can I say? Five hours inside? How about that? Spend five hours of that guy's stronghold. He comes out, he's not on a barbecue spit with an apple in his mouth. Thank you. I think I think that guy's medium. We're okay. The CNN reporter has

coyones the size of beach balls. But that deal, plus all those guys had mask on. So I mean forty seven walking around sniper rifles. I like that day you went to Rio. That's another He not calling in anymore. I've called him repeatedly and he's called me back somehow. Josey Rio has no watch. Can he get him over? We get him get a watch. I'll tell him like one thirty, Oh gay man, I'm nothing. He has no sense of like a time like one two thirty. He gets

along real well around here. Geez, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know, but at least the Bengals, would you. The door is open, the window is fully wide open for the Bengals now have a good two to three year run. They got they got very good uh grades on their draft. I didn't see anything below a C by the by the so called experts mimes. So I saw a minus. I saw an a s l B plus B minus. So, uh, you know what's Phil Simms and Boom we're gonna do? I got a text from Sandy Schick

who sends me a kiss plus a provocative photo. You know how women are today? They keep sending you stuff you want it to lete quickly. Women are very aggressive today, would you agree? Very aggressive? I don't know. I mean, you're the hunk of the group, so I don't know. Well, but Boom, I'm not in here. But Boomer was there in the ninety two years, and of course Boomer was here. I produced Boomer and Chris every Wednesday morning at six a m. Best Bengals coverage.

Correct. Now we're the only Bankers. We find he's he's still going to be on w f A n SO in New York, so all is not lost, right? And then what about Phil Simms. I don't know, d U n N done. I might might end up at NFL Network, minded up at ESPN, probably not. His time is coming gone, probably NBC. I made the comments to Scott Reinhart, take Mike McConnell, myself and Eddie Fingers. Yeah. And then I said, the segment will be here long after all the three of us are gone. Would you agree?

I hope so, because you're the healthiest, and you're the one. You're like uranium two thirty phone. Okay, you will be here forever. Talk talk to doctor Epley. Have you had all your tests done? I think so. I see docs all the time. And Monroe Monroe. Maybe you get your you get your back straighten out, then the game will be better. Correct. Well, doctor Bob Ernst is going to give me the needle, I said, Doc, I want no anesthetic go in raw when I

have worked done. I'd like the late Bozo did with his toes at the raw. I say to doctor Tara hardin the Dennis, I say, Tara, I want no nova kine. I want nothing, open my mouth, chisel away with Ted McKay, and I have no anesthetic with doctor Harden. I told doctor Bob Ernst the christ Hospital. When I get the needle, L five S one, no anesthetic, no headphones, no nothing. If you get that, we'll hear you screaming from up here from downtown. I'm

a man's man and a woman's man. That's all I can tell you. Remember when you get the feet done in Mount Adams, doctor jeff Fully, you were screaming like a like a no end. Is something wrong with you? He cut off half of my large toenail, no end, screaming and yellow like a cook. Doctor Flay, have at it, bring Abby Flay. Well. The worst was doctor Tara Harden when she drove one of my teeth and no anesthetic. That's your fault. Hen you get a cap.

You wanted to be mister tough. Well, I am a man's man and a woman's man, that's for sure. But so Boomer can now sleep in every Sunday and relax, and he can go to bed at instead of eight nine o'clock at night on a Sunday when CBS has those late games all the time. How did Ryan and Atlanta have a twenty eight to three lead over the Patriots three minutes to go in the third quarter? Right, and lost? What would you That's why he's on this NFL Today Show. What if

somebody had made you say you what segment? Yep, I will give you at this point, I'll give you the I'll give you the falcons and five and they're up twenty eight to three. Okay, what would you bet you're gonna give me the Falcons and five points? You would have put the mortgage, you would have put the it's over yep. So you might ask ran about how do you how do you lose a twenty I think the final score was like thirty four to twenty eight. Well, Patriots, like I said,

That's why he's on the NFL Today Show. Segment get me out of the Stude's report, please, Willie and of a hot day here in the tri stated even hotter in the studio? Do we have rain? We leave you with the immortal words of the student report. Yeah. I mean I could request that WLW provide me limousine service from my home to the studio every time I'm on the air. That doesn't mean I'm going to get it because it's not in my contract. Hit that again from ken Brew Hit that again?

Please? Yeah, I mean I could request the WLW provide me a limousine service from my home to the studio every time I'm on the air. That doesn't mean I'm going to get it because it's not my contract. Your comments, Brian Thomas has got that. Brian Thomas alema picks me up, delivers me here. What about you, Joe Morgan Honda on seven hundred WLW. Meanwhile, in the enchanted forest, look a young woman's shut up blabbermouth. Who are you hiding from the guards? But why I'm the Royal seamstress.

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This morning in one of the morning talk shows, there was a conservative to say, wait a minute, crime is rampant, and they were shouted down by George Stephanoppolis and others saying, you know what crime, look at the FBI statistics. Why do you keep saying? Why do you lie? And of course it's an article of faith among conservatives that possibly crime is up and

is not being adequately reported, or a restaurant taking place. And of course John Lott, who worked for years in the Trump Department of Justice, as a column in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago headline, the media say crime is going down. Don't believe it that the climb and report at crimes is a function of us reporting not less crimes. And the Gallup poll that John Lott references found the ninety two percent of Republicans and fifty eight

percent of Democrats thought crime was increasing. So the mainstream legacy media wants to convince you that things are safe unless you're Congressman Adam Shift that has all of us close tolen, or unless you're the mayor of Los Angeles, in which case you have a safe room in your house so when the burglars break in, you have somewhere to go. But John Lott, welcome again to the

Bill Cunningham showing can you tell the American people? John to answer the question, isn't it true that crime is down and that the alarmists are selling a lot to the American people? But I don't think the media understands, or at least if they do understand, they're not being honest about is that they're two different measures of crime. There's the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, which goes and relies on crimes reported to police, so that's not all crimes, just

the ones that report to police. And then there's the Nation Crime Victimization Data, which relies on surveying about two hundred and forty thousand people each year, and it's we've had this for about fifty years. And the reason why the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics does this is to try to get a handle on what percent of crimes are not reported to police. And what you find is that normally those numbers have gone together. It's just been

in the last few years that there's been a real divergence. I mean, I'll give you an example, and between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, while the FBI data showed a two percent drop in crimes reported to police, the National Crime Victimization Survey data showed that there was a forty two percent

increase in violent crime. And I think there's a couple reads several reasons for why this is the case, but there's one very simple reason, and that is we've known for a long time when a rest rates go down, when criminals are not caught and punished for committing crimes, people become less willing to go and report crimes to the police. And what we've seen over the last few years has been a stunning collapse in policing in the United States. I'll

give you a simple example. If you look at cities over a million in population in the five years before COVID, from twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen, they averaged a forty four percent of violent crimes resulted in arrests reported violent crimes resulted in arrests. By twenty twenty two, it was down to twenty percent. That's over a fifty percent drop in arrests for violent crimes in those cities. I mean, you've seen a drop across all cities that have occurred.

And you know, just to kind of emphasize this, if you look at arrests as percent of all crimes report and unreported, only about eight percent of violent crimes in those cities resulted in arrest and only one percent of property crimes results in arrest. And that that's arrest, that doesn't mean that they're charged. Many of those who are not who are arrested are not charged. Obviously, all those are who are charged aren't prosecuted, and not all those who

are prosecuted are convicted. And so you're talking about really small rates that criminals are caught and punished for different crimes. It's you know, you go and commit a property crime in these large cities, it's essentially a risk free action

on the part of criminals. And you know, we can go and talk about the what's caused this collapse in policing, but it's pretty clear there's been no because we've since the Department of Justice has been collecting this data, We've never seen such a complete and lital collapse in law enforcement in this country. I'm reading one of your parts of your Wall Street Journal column says the following.

In twenty twenty two, thirty one percent of police departments nationwide, including Los Angeles and New York, did not report crime data to the FBI. In addition, cities from Baltimore to Nashville. FBI is undercounting crimes and those jurisdictions reported. So when you have a thirty one percent police departments for political reasons don't want to report to the FBI, of course crime is down.

A little example in Cincinnati, we have a large number of homeless, mentally ill individuals in downtown Cincinnati who will punch, kick, and hit passers by. And when I talk to cops, one woman has been arrested seventy four times in the past four years, and they quit arresting her. They don't report it anymore. A customer may say that woman just stuck me with a pin or knocked me down, and the cops said, well, she's on

probation. And for twenty we're not doing anything. We have large numbers of kids after events downtown, two to three hundred who will organize on the Ohigh River, get into fights, shoot weapons at barges that pass on the High

River. Three or four cop cars go up, show up. Three or four hundred kids are committing crimes, go into restaurants, overturned tables to eat off the plates, and they're not reported because the mayor and Cincinnati, much like the mayor in every major city, doesn't want the cops to be proactive. Plus he's told the cops John Lott, don't pull people over for traffic offenses. So now we have a lot of these a lot of these humps and roadways to slow people down. But if cops don't pull people over,

cops are told not to arrest anybody. I would think crime might be down because they're reporting. The crime is up, But the reporting is down, And so I would ask you how come it's an article of faith among the left in this country that controls the legacy media to keep telling lies when they know the truth. Ye, well, I mean why they do it?

It's more about my pay grade. I mean, you can you probably are better at answering that all I can tell you is what the data shows, and that if you look at total crime reported unreported, it's exploded at the same time that crime reported crime according to the FBI numbers. And there's as you mentioned, there's several reasons for that. One is the fact that you have an unusually large number of cities of police departments in the last few years

that have stopped reporting their data. You know, the FBI goes and tries to estimate, but there are real questions about how well they estimate those things. And then the real puzzle is that there are police departments when they do report the data to the FBI, the FBI records it as a lower number than what they told the FBI the numbers were. And I've been trying to figure that out, but so far I've got no response from the FBI to

go and explain that. So you know, it's but I think a major thing is, Look, if you're the person that was reporting, you know, being hit or whatever by the homeless person that's there, and you tell the police that you've been attacked, and the police say, well, there's nothing we're going to do about it, what do you think happens the next time you get attacked, you probably don't bother trying to report it to the police. I mean, why go through the trouble of reporting it to the

police if the police aren't going to do anything. And so that's that's the other issue that's there and one of the reasons why you see this big gap between crimes report. As I mentioned, between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, while the FBI reported crime data saw a two percent drop in violent crime, at the same time, the National Crime Victimization data showed a forty two percent increase in total crime reported and unreported. That's a staggering Well,

so both can't be true. Both cannot be true. Well, no, they can be true. Both are true. Both are true because one is reported crime and the other way is reported plus unreported crime. Put them together. I'll tell you what's happening. And John Lott, you're an expert on this subject matter. Those of us who shall I say, live in the suburbs, live in rural areas, have some financial abilities. Twenty nine states have adopted constitutional carry laws. And I can't tell you how many times I

hear on the radio I'm not going downtown anymore. In Chicago. I'm not going down down to the loop. New York City. You got to be kidding me. I'm not going to ride the subway. Los Angeles held the mayor has held captive in her own home, and she has a safe room in her own home, so when burglars break in, she is somewhere to go. And the individuals who should benefit from good law enforcement largely left wing democratic cities that would never elect a Republican to anything. The folks in those

towns are the ones being hurt. So it's a law of unintended consequences. Those of us who can get out, like escape from New York with snake Plisken, we get out, But those stuck in those cities continue to vote for those individuals causing these problems. Now, you're a scientist in a sense

and a researcher. I find it amazing that every time you have something on the battot, like in Chicago with the new mayor after Lori Lightfoot disaster, they vote for someone more liberal than the person who calls the problems they complain about. And so do you see any hope. I guess this is a political question that those negatively affected by these policies will arise and say, you know what, we don't have to live like this, We don't have to

live like this. We can live better. But I don't see that happening, do you, right. Look, what I can say is if you look at these polls of people, what you find is that the people who are the least concerned about the crime are wealthy people who went to graduate school. They're not very concerned about the increases in violent crime. The people who are most concerned are basically all the other income groups, and all the other education groups, and all the races and all the sexes that are there.

But the ones who are most concerned tend to be the poorest and the people who are the least educated and minorities. They're the ones that see the crime firsthand. But you know, if you make over two hundred thousand dollars a year and you have a graduate school education, those people, as you say, can pretty much move to places to go and protect themselves and they don't

have to go and deal with these types of issues. And so you know, a lot these very liberal elites, and they are the ones who tend to be the most liberal. You know, they don't see it, So it's not a problem to them because they've been able to go and protect themselves from having to deal with these problems. You know, the Wall Street Journal is one of the great publications in the world, and your column is under

the date of April the twenty fourth. It's been out there for a few days, and you go through wrote line in verse statistics and facts and why crime reporting is down and crime itself is up. Have you been contacted after this article hit in the Wall Street Journal by so called legacy media to come on to talk about the reality of crime in America today? Or have you been largely ignored by the legacy media. I haven't heard anything from the legacy

media. I mean, I was just told earlier that George Stefanopolis this morning hit somebody on ABC News and the person was trying to argue with him about crime being up. And at least the way it was related to me is that Stephanoppolis basically said the guy was lying. You couldn't understand why he was lying that, and he referred to the FBI reporting data that's there, and so I kind of wish I'd been able to be on there just to kind of say, look, George, you can have reported crimes go down at

the same time the total crimes reported and unreported are going up. In fact, they're moving massively in opposite directions that are there. But no, I haven't been on I mean, I've been on a number of talk radio shows. I've been on some podcasts, and I'm going to be on Newsmax and stuff like that, but nothing not kind of the main outlets there. Lastly, FBI data shows that in twenty twenty two, only twelve percent of reported

property crimes and all sadies resulted in an arrest. So that is eighty eight percent of those who had property crimes committed against them resulted in no arrest, which means I'm tired of having my car broken into, my purse, stolen, pushed down to steal my cell phone. And after you report crime after crime after crime and nothing happens, you get in the business and not reporting crime. But you quietly get out of those areas as quickly as you can.

And you also say in your study here in a Wall Street journal, in cities of more than one million, only four point five percent of reported property crimes and twenty twenty two resulted in an actual arrest. So we're talking ninety five percent of the time, you simply accept it as a price of living in an area and you move on. And it's causing food deserts, it's causing insurance rates to skyrocket, it's causing businesses not to open, it's

causing employees not to be hired. And it's all because we can't handle the truth and see news CBS, NBC can't handle the truth. But it's out there, and I'll look forward to the day that the news media reports factual, accurate information upon which a person can later cast an inform ballot. But if those who know the most say, hey, you're lying about this, crime is way down, and they got their head stuck in the sand, they don't see reality. But once again, John Lott, you're the best

there is of this kind of stuff. And you're with, of course, a great group that you put together, the Crime Prevention Research Center, Senior Advisor Office of Justice Programs during the Trump administration. John Lott, once again, we continue to put the word out. The truth will set us all free, and right now we're enslaved. John Lott, once again, thank

you. You want to have a final comment please Yeah, Well, I mean I think people have some idea about how law enforcement is collapsed, but I'll tell you, until you actually look at the numbers, you just can't believe. I've never seen a period of time anything even remotely close to this since they've been collecting the data where you have such a huge drop and things like arrest rates. But people can find more on our website at crimeresearch dot

org. We have all the data there at crimeresearch dot org. Yep, the truth will set us free, but many enjoy being enslaved. John Lott, once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Get the message out. We'll ring the bell and see if somebody hears it. But John Lott, thank you very much, thank you for being here. Let's continue. That's reality. The politicians and news media types deal with reality or what they want life to be like. I think you know the answer,

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There's a lot of people talk to protests, but I don't believe living in a pup tent uh for hummus is really helpful. Hello, quiet and I'm broadcasting God. But is this is this? Is this the what Rocky listens to on the way to work. Shut out to base check us out congressional brother man. He was good, get his laptop figs. He wasn't gonna pigs real high, Hillary Bleach my hard driven to sue Fox News? Now I heard this one. He wasn't he messed with the hose but got high.

He wasn't going to but he got high. I got was he suing Fox newsmating the character course, what character. I'm not sure it works that way. Oh God, do you have any hope? This money was no hope for you. Here's the headline of Drudge Report that Matt Drudge has completely lost his way. Headline is Hunter sues Fox because the defamation of character, the girls, the drugs they come with, the territory. Yeah, yes, he said, can Trump showing favorite definition character? He's got no character

according to the mainstream media. But see Hunter sues him for character los He's lost my reputation. What pictures tell a thousand words. Everyone's seen those pics with the with the uh ladies of the night and the drugs and all that snort. You cannot see it cocaine with underage prostitutes. And that's just the beginning of the bribery out of China. Quick get money to his dad, quick talk about the draft, telling me mems eight thirty eight cheese conies or

something. This guy can eat what No, No, he went to they went to Carlo and Johnny on Johnny's on Saturday this weekend or something. He is a large individual. Yeah, can he play though, I don't know. We'll find out all this. You know, who won the draft? Who lost the draft. The Bengals did gray, they did bad. We'll know in about two years. I hate to say that they got action at the University of Texas, the long the home of the Longhorns. They got

the cops there now. Now, Texas is a freedom loving state except for Austin. So I don't know what's gonna go on there. They blue uh ponds, riot gear, baby, but they got to have feel some relevance to their life, and so they're out there protesting. Could they locate Gaza on a map? No, point to it. I'll give you a one thousand dollars. Yeah, point to the Gaza strip. Yeah, you think it's a strip joint summer downtown to downtown Austin. It's on the outside of

the town. And most of these protesters, you know, are females. They got nothing to do. Most of them needs a little bit of My favorite of the ones wearing masks outside so funny, what are you doing? Like like you don't know who they are? Hands up see you. But it's like a thing. It's like our parents protests in the Vietnam War. So we're out here sticking to the man too. But it's it's it's different.

And again, as someone who lived through the planes flying in the World Center, I would have thought I would have lost a lot of money saying, you want one day the kids on the Cousee campuses will be pro terrorists. I would have lost money on that. Yeah, I'd say that's not gonna happen. Guess what it's happening and kill the Jews at Columbia. Yes, what that's not gonna be on? Way will changes if you know the Jewish people who traditionally vote Democrat, if they change their ways, we can't

take it anymore. We don't have to live like this. And I look at they got a thousand cops. The kids are lining up wearing masks. I said, their parents don't know one. They got one banging on an empty water cooler thing. Go to class, you're spending night. What's what's ut? Austin costs out of state seventy And mainly it's females standing there with them. Most of them need ozembic. Would you agree then need a little

bit of diet lost drug. I feel like if I were a parent, and even though it was as all my kid, even it was a cause that I like, actually believed in and was righteous. I say, you know what, that's fine and dandy, but I'm paying for you to get an education here, all right, you were you've taken out loans, we've me and my mom, maybe we've supple minutes, but but you got to go to class. I gotta learn because you gotta get a job, because

it's pretty tough out there in today's job. And I'm going to be a protester. Out of stay is forty one thousand. You're gonna add another twenty to this other expense. It's sixty thousand bucks to go there. And they're out there with an umbrella because it's warm, and masks on. Look at those idiotic co eds with masks on and umbrellas saying hands up, don't shoot.

Somebody told them did you see the video, the one that was flying on the internet where they're like if they asked the girl like why she's there, She's like, Oh, I came down from Columbia here to you know, whatever other university was in the Why and why you? And uh, I really don't know what I'm here in there? Why are we here? She has someone else from the river to the city. What river the Hudson, No but not not. But the best is Hunter biden Seu's fox for

defamation of character. We talk about the drafts something free Palestine. That's what they're saying. Who that's what that sign says? Can they identify Palestine by the ways? An idea simple And if Hamas would say, you know what, we're gonna protect a million Palestinians so to speak, that are right here. We surrender, put down our arms, idf come on in, we lost you one. We care about a million people starving to death. Those are our folks. Guess what we're gonna get you fed? Surrender? Is

that gonna happen? Negative? They want the civilians to die. That's been the plan for a long long time, decades and decades, and they don't understand what's going on. And if you know I went a war, you know there's a one way to go back. Hamas is lost. But however, at one officer just wants to use that billy club so bad he's starge. Can I back times? And one head wound up? Oh god, believe the stop is a crowd service of your local ten star heat. He

get air condising dealers ten star quality. You could feel in northern Kentucky, Go Johnson Heating and Cooling eight five nine four seven two sixty fifty one spot. I think they need some ten star in Texas and Columbia. Speaking of that, Hal Arenstein, a good friend of mine, criminal offense attorney is representing how old is he? Fourteen years old in front of a juvenile He was in juvie, now he's in adult court. What he was involved in

four killings. Fled guilty on Monday today to multiple charges. His name is mckeem Thomas. When he was fourteen, he committed a series of murders and armed robberies. He gets thirty one and thirty six years in jail. He's going to get out in his forties. And team has agreed to cooperate with whatever other and going front Kerry Bloom. Unfortunately not he's in adult court and Judge Gerring gave him thirty six years in jail for killing four people along with

a bunch of arm robberies. That is the right. There's the problem, thirty six years. He's gonna get out when he's you know, in his forties. He's gonna serve eighty percent of his second Your four people come patriots of his and a bunch of arm robbers breaking into it begins breaking into cars breaking in blue Ash, they've had eighty five. How do you have an eighty five car break that you know about? In Blue Ass? The steel guns and the are the other's none we can do well. They go on

house by house, street, street by street every night. There's no consequences. If you go down to go see Judge Kerry Bloom and Juvenile Court, they'll give you a book report. If a seventeen year old rapes a fourteen year old, you get a book report. Now there's a punishment right there. But the people vote for if she won handily in the radio, John Williams is the greatest people I know, great guy. But the great guy

had the wrong letter next to his name. So therefore let's give it to Harry Bloom, a social So the only consequence is for the neighbor unfortunately, is for that neighborhood to go completely into utter decay and collapse and be overturned. There's the kid mckem. That's how Eernstein and he gets thirty six years in jobes. Does he look concerned at all? No? No, please continue? Will you have the reds and Padres tonight, first of three in San Diego. It's beginning segment. Yeah, yeah, here we go.

Now we got accident cut in a long horned state, hauling him out by the ankles. Yeah, baby, how do you pick up that one? Fat woman? How do you even pick her up? For God's sake, who's that? Can't say that? Can't I can't say you can't say that? Oh zempig for a reason and handed out. The outrage begins. Everyone's got their cameras up, it's got the Hey you have the mask still you got the long horned maskcot running around? Where's Bebo when you need him?

Bebo r? You know what? That's exactly right, run Bevo in there. Those people are standing like that. That is toughness today. It's it's sticking your cell phone out and like that. I'm filming you. That's that goes for tough. Kill me, please don't kill me us. These folks couldn't look at look at that right there. Oh I love it. The students, who's going to make a Starbucks run? That's all they care about. I mean, extra a lote with froth. Extra. Your good friend

Willie Jason Kelsey is headed the ESPN. He needs an intervention. He meets he's going to be on the Monday night countdown. Shoot, what about Boomer getting stand up show? Boomer is out? Boomer at the NFL today, Get rid of the old people, freaking young students hanging around doing this for years, Big big makeover in the NFL today, Coach Coward, Nate burleson JB Days, Matt Ryan and Rocky Boyman. What yeah, he goes to the NFL today. What None of the families of this uh mckem thomas are

happy with the sentence. However, that's the best they could do thirty six years and they're glad there's some closure to the fact their loved one has been slaughtered by this mckem thomas, an honor student that US High School. Please continue? What about Phil Simms getting that gig? So I just said, it's too old, get him out of here. You a great rock. Too many old people. I'm not saying nothing that gig. He's up for

that. Stay quiet. I was going to say, any fingers started, So there, Jason Kells, anybody else get rid of like three people, and I'm bringing on one that Jason Kelly. He's going to do Monday night countdown. I hope the batteries run dry and all the co eds or maybe maybe he'll find his ring by them. And that though running around in a pink shirt, which I love this entitled rich fat white women. That's what we're dealing with here, privileged fat white women. He's protesting. Just go.

Don't you have to go to school? No? Oh my god, they're protesting one right there, and it has no idea where Gazza is. I get some skunk least you will vote? Though, well I hold I'm not, but about always here that they are. But then always every vote, every election, the stats come out, it's always like around twenty one. But earlier though rocket was the big one was these protesters are nothing.

The CNN reporter spent five hours with the with the one arbecue, but the leader of the Leader of the now guy walking around and he had like seven guys around him with a barbecue. If he was if he ran the University of Texas Austin, he ran that Organizam, what do you think what happened to these protesters? Barbecue with a sure and an apple in their mouth. Yeah. The biggest thing is head cops would move out of the way, and then they would move in and say, you know where you're all going.

I'd get barbecue, and the boys get from Porter Prince getting to Austin, in them all the way around the country, take them to Columbia everyone, and take them back, put them on a skewer with an apple in their mouth and go and just turn them every now and then. That's burbec. Just go to school. I can't take it anymore. Got job, Remember Tommy, that job by that clip parting shot to the UC faithful, get a job, get it job cries with that, oin't Tommy, Tommy?

If you allow me to quote one of my opponents many campaign ads, yes, they can all go to hell and get a job, far as I'm concerned, get barbecue right there at Austin a barbecue. It's all yours. Police would move out of the way and say we're putting no restrictions on whatever your plan is. Just try to wrap it up by six pm. Q one have at time begins hey hey ho ho, hey, hey ho. I don't know who's gotta go. Just fill in the blanks on the

girls are winning. Please arrest me, arrest me. Where's my starting viral on like they're locked in arms in unison. I can't take it anymore. Well, at least they're moving on. Here they go, there they go. We need more officers to hold this fat lady away. We need more. We got action, big action. You get a ham, I'll get the other hand, and away we go. Let's go. I'm just saying albo big then you know, zemp get them enrolled. That's the rosi Oald

crowd right there. Let me just do a punch. That was Now you can't hit a cop. I now that's got yellow hair. Zip ties arrest her too. She's lying down. Look at the size that belly makes. Segment looks like he said and refugee. Look look at how many different colored hair. Her hair looks like a highlighter. Please haul my fat ass away, please. This is great radio. By the way, this is TikTok. I was here talking about the draft. You want to talk about the

draft? No, no, I don't blame you. What's on the big show? How we actually will be talking about the draft at three o'clock. So the interest you were going to talk to James Rapine at three, you will also talk with lap get his breakdown at five o'clock, did he have a colo? And Johnny steaks. The big debate right now is did the Bengals draft for the present or for the future. A case could be made you the way, but down live, live for today, Let's get it

all and we got the window open for two or three more years. Baltimore's pretty damn good, and even Cleveland might be good. Well, I don't know what I'm saying. Cleveland, That's what I'm told by my friends in Cleveland. They tell me, tell me Deshaun Watson's ready to go. And I said, well, well I heard that for five years. Give me barbecue from Port of Prince and put it right there in Austin and say they're

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