6-18-24 Bill Cunningham Show

My Billy cunning Him the Great America. Much going on here in River City. Red Spacebark kicks off about five forty tonight, and just then Olivia Dunn is not going to throw out the first pitch Nors or a boyfriend pitching, which is a good thing, thank God. And Elie de la Cruz needs to know how to take a lead and get back to first base. Where's

Gordon Veterino when we need him? Too many guys getting picked off? And I understand also centerfielder might be heard again, Friedel has a hamstring problem and more. But until then, Dave Young, the Commission Warren County, David Young, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And David Young, how are you? I am doing great today and Eli, you're talking a little baseball. I would be remiss if I didn't lead off today's segment by congratulating

our Warren County. Mason comments on bringing home the state Division one baseball championship. That's a big deal, Willie. Yeah, man, about a week ago, the first title in eighty eight years. The manager, the coach told me that eighty eight years ago, before any of us were born. I think that Mason schools were created, and there was a pull or a

request of the student body what nickname should we take? And the nickname came back the Mason Towers, in honor of our tower springing up there in the southern part of Warren County, the Tower of Powell Crosley, and the Board of Education overturned the decision of the student body to call your team the Mason Towers, to call them the Mason Commets, which is relatable to celestial matters but not specific to the tower. And thank god they did that, because

in a few years there won't be a tower. It's going to be all digital. The tower will come down and it won't be that'll be like in one hundredth year. But it's the first year they won. We had the manager in last week along with the star players, and they're great kids. And this one kid's going to be a doctor. And I asked them, okay, you're going to be a doctor. What is the humors, what is the owner, what is the radius? How many bones is there in

the ankle? What about the brand? How many chambers in the heart? And that kid answered every question. I thought, this is brilliant. Let's go onto something Germaine. Secondly, I noticed that the Futures Commission, with your good front after pureval, is seemingly going to reject everything the fathers and mothers said to do to make this city viable. They're about to go through a financial crisis because they spent all the money that came through Washington, so

called PPE PPE and PPPP money, It's all gone. The Futures Commission cost two million dollars to put it all together, the ease of the Grand Pooh Boss, the CBC, the CEO of Procter and Gamble, et cetera. And only one million came from the taxpayers. And they made many recommendations, which is, regionalize the water system, write more tickets, turned two parks over to the county, lease lunk An Airport, get rid of that, and sell its golf courses. And the city says, well, I don't

think we can do that, plus raise the earnings tax. And it's because they're living way beyond their means, caring about things they don't shouldn't care about. Now, if David Young of Barren County was in charge of the Futures Commission, more importantly, in charge of the city, what would you do if anything. Well. Number one, I think the good Lord that I'm in Warren County where the electorate actually listens and is okay with responsible government.

Essentially, this comes down to the voters. Really that when the voters are trying to vote in representatives that will give them benefits without production, the whole system starts to collapse. And on a micro level, that's what we're seeing in America's large cities. The population is voting in representatives that want them to receive stuff government payments, subsidies, what have you from other taxpayers without production, and that system leads to distress. It is not sustainable. So that's

exactly what's going on in downtown Cincinnati right now. And again, I like the mayor a level lot of folks in downtown Cincinnati. I wish them well. It is incredibly important for the urban core to be successful, for the surrounding areas you know, Claremont County, Butler County and Warren County to be successful. We need a vibrant, healthy downtown. And my fear is with the fiscal priorities that they've had going on and not fixing potholes, not doing

the regular stuff of government. They're embarked on all of these other programs, basically trying to buy votes to get people to vote for them. That's not healthy, Willy. And it's not that they don't have a revenue problem in downtown Cincinnati. They got a spending problem. Well, they don't want to correct it. And some wise men once said, that is not the idiocy of the office holders that concern me greatly. They come and go. It's

a judgment of the voters who put them there in the first place. And if the voters remain the same and they keep electing individuals like this, we get to terrible results. For example, in the city of Cincinnati, we had four members of council to hard time Daddy locked up on federal charges, and I think maybe one or two are still in federal prison and one or

two about to report whatever. But the voters, having watched this meltdown of a legal activity by city council, put nine members in charge more liberal than the ones that went to federal prison. And so it is not the fact that Pg. Sittenfeld and all the rest to Maya, Dinard and Pastor went to federal prison. The fact of the matter is this, the voters who put them there continue to vote for the policies that calls the city's collapse,

which will occur if you don't follow the Futures Commission. And the first thing that will happen will we get rid of law enforcement, which brings up a great point. I'm watching these commercials from your good friend, Senator Shared Brown, the liberal Democrat to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and he's running these commercials where he's accepting the pen from Donald Trump. He works, that's with Donald Trump. He works with the Republicans across the aisle.

And Bernie Marino built business as he sold cars, which I think is an evil for a capitalist to succeed. Do you find it somewhat amazing the Senator Shared Brown is running now to the right of Bernie Marino claiming he works with Donald Trump. Isn't that amazing? I will say this about Senator Brown. He is a great politician. He goes, he works hard, he's out there trying to engage, and he can market himself. Now, the question is what he's selling. Is that fact base in reality? And all the

research I've done on the good Senator, it's not fact base. Willie. I mean, he was right there post George Floyd's stuff. I mean, you got to see the stuff that he was touting. This Cleveland prosecutor that literally was like the King of defund the police in Ohio, no cash bomb, bails, all that type of stuff. Shared Brown's out there espousing his

virtue and how we have to get this guy elected. So that's totally different than what Shared Brown's trying to pretay himself in a state that is solidly Republican now and he's trying to say, Hey, I'm the working man's guy. Well, you're a working man's guy. You know what's killing us, literally

killing our nation economically is inflation. Really and right at the forefoot of this inflation that you and I have talked about, and God bless you for literally having me on you know, more than a year ago when when the Federal Reserve was talking about transitory inflation, and I was jumping up and down and the sand this is a transitory I own employment companies, you know in the past, I understand wage inflation. Once these wages go up, they're not

coming back down. And that's what you were seeing was was this, Oh, the rate of inflation has fallen it's not nine percent anymore, but that doesn't mean prices are going down. Prices are still up nearly twenty percent over

time. And so Shared Brown was right in the middle of voting for every one of those ridiculous spending packages, including the American Rescue Act that happened in March of twenty twenty one, which is when inflation and you and I have talked about it, when Joe Biden, and this is what drives me. Google Absolute Google. Everybody has opinions, and on your show, I actually

try to deal in facts. So I'm trying to get the American public some factual context in an economic perspective of what these politicians, which undoubtedly I'm one of them to some degree. I like to call myself a politician, light I don't really actually campaign for anything that somehow just remained in office for twenty years. But so I'm kind of a politician, but I'm more of a logitarian. I like looking at the facts, Willy, and the facts are

when Joe Biden raises his right hand. In January of twenty twenty one, inflation was at one point four percent, then it was a one point six percent. Then in March of twenty twenty one, shared Brown and the rest of the Democratic Caucus unilaterally passed the American Rescue at one point nine trillion dollars, poured a fuel on a fire that had been pent up during the panda in it. The economy was already coming out. Lockdowns had ended a long

time before that, Willy. The economy was recovering, and the Democrats unilaterally poured one point nine trillion dollars of additional government, spending two thousand dollars per citizen. They were buying votes, Willie. And what happened all of a sudden, that money flooded into the system. Inflation jumped fifty percent in one month, went up to two point six percent in March of twenty one.

By the end of twenty one, inflation was seven percent, and then when Putin invaded Ukraine in February of twenty two, it was seven and a half percent. But here's what gets me, Willie. They're still saying the same crap the President is saying. And Laoe Brainerd, the head of the Council of Economic Advisors for the White House, literally on six seven, I'm watching CNBC being an economics guy. All day. I'm watching CNBC, which talks

about money. On June seventh, she's being interviewed and literally talked about the price of oil West Texas Intermediate WTI went up because of Putin invading Ukraine. And I'm like, uh, I'm not a commodities trader, but I understand a little bit about the market. So I went back and actually pulled up the chart on WTI crude. Really, in January of twenty one, when Joe Biden took office, WTI was fifty nine dollars and sixteen cents a barrel,

fifty nine to sixteen. In January of twenty twenty two, WTI was one hundred dollars and twenty eight cents. From fifty nine dollars to one hundred February of twenty twenty two, Putin invades Ukraine. But literally, the head of the Economic Council at the White House, Tedday, is saying that it's because of Putin invading Ukraine that we all are paying more at the pump. That is just an outright lie, And I hate using the word lie.

Always say, people spend the facts do this, but these are economic numbers. You can't argue these numbers. One hundred percent that's a fact. Anybody can fact check me. Numbers don't lie. In another about a month ago, Joe Biden tried to be interviewed by Aaron Burnett of CNN, and he just blatantly said when I took office, inflation was nine percent, and he

was not fact checked by her at all. She should have had the chart right there saying well, mister President, we have your own numbers from your own Department of Economics, and it wasn't nine percent. It was one point four percent and was that way for about a year until the Rescue Act took place, in which case we jumped about two trillion dollars into the market.

Many more dollars chasing fewer products means guess what prices are going up, and they don't take responsibility for it. But since he took office, inflation's gone up twenty percent and it's not abating because that money is going to take a few more years come out of the market now. Thirdly, or lastly, David Young, Warren County Commissioner, I noticed this more in the news that Procter and god Procter and Gamble is moving many more jobs to Mason in Warren

County. Why well, it's much like what we tried to do with the tennis tournament, working with the city of Mason, which is just an outstanding city. It's got it going on. The free market dictates where private capital goes, Willie, and the free market is saying Warren County, and in this case particularly, the city of Mason is a really good place to invest

your money. You get a return on that investment. So we are thrilled that our friends at Procter and Gamble are creating and moving jobs here to the city of Mason. It's great for them. It's a beautiful campus. They have this research hub right there, so it's very efficient for all those folks

to be together. And so there's an economic justification for doing this. And again I'm not going to rip on you either were leaving or hey, were this much better, But there was an economic case of why the free market chose to move all of these jobs to us in the city of Mason and

Warren County. And I would think the actual workers Procter and Gamble when they look at working downtown Cincinnati, in which crime is rampant, the city shuts down after dark unless there's a Reds game or a Bengals game or an FC game. It's expensive to park. Trying to get lunch if you want to leave and walk back in is almost impossible. But if you're at Mason, you don't mind parking your car on the lot. You don't mind the worrid

is going to be broken into when you get there. Some teenagers are not going to put a gun upside your head and said hey, give me your keys. That's not going to happen. And I would think the taxes are much lower, and that's why companies in capital want to go to low cost markets. That's the way the game is played. Would you consider after Purevol's going to be part of some gathering in July to give me the Celtic of the Year award along with the Chief Justice going to be there, and I'm

honored to get the award. But if if I would ask him, would you want to have lunch with David Young of Orren County? Do you think I have to Piraval would do it? I would. I would enjoy lunch with the mayor. I've actually been in a meeting with him a few weeks ago, and personable guy, good looking and absolutely absolutely not as good looking as you Willie. But I mean he's you know, he's got it going

on. But he's a sharp guy. But I think again, the policies of what's going on that literally we were talking about economic development stuff, and it's priorities of economic development how you get there are different for other folks. And when you want to attract companies to come to your town, you probably don't hit him up side the head with things like economic uh inclusions from the standpoint of pay equities and things like that. That's probably not the first thing

that they want to hear. It is what concerns you. It's we want the free market to work, and we want the free market to work out all of those things. And we again we want a fare system, but the free market is really what determines all that stuff. And so again, I respect downtown Cincinnati. I wish I want it to be vibrant. I

wanted to have a great urban core. But again, every time I go down there and to my friend's place at E and O down on the banks, or if I go to Ruby's, it's man, I'm looking over my shoulder. I just am. And then when I see literally the street takeovers of people taking license plates off of their motorcycles and whipping around and doing donuts and all this stuff. Man, that's just not safe, and that's not the impression you want to do while there's police literally standing over there watching,

but they've been instructed to do. What WILLI nothing? Well, what if that happened in front of the Golden Lamb and downtown Lebanon. Let's say a bunch of donuts were being done, or I've seen it repeatedly, motorcycles take off the plates and roll around town as if you own the joint, kind of like some nineteen fifties movie with Marlon Brando. What would happen in Warren County if that crew showed up there? Again, I like to deal in

facts, and that's not a hypothetical. That type of stuff has happened, and a lot of folks from all over the tri State come to a place that attracts a lot of tourism, which is King's Island. We've had some nonsense that have gone on there and there has been a heavy police response and people have found out we do require bond in Warren County. We are going to take you to jail. We're going to jail you act up and break

the law. Something's going to happen to you. We want you to come here, tom enjoy, hang out, do all the stuff you're going to do. We want you here, but we want you here acting in a lawful manner. And if you break the law, stuff's going to happen to you. Willie. I'm going to have a pow wow, which when I have to have purevoll Rob Sanders and Davey Young and invite to have to pirival to join us maybe at first watching Kenwood. What do you think I'll buy?

Let's continue to sound like a Republican now, David Young of Orren County, thank you very much for your advice and counsel. God bless you, Willie, God bless America. Bill cunning into great American. My comments are next and more. It's your Home of the Reds five point forty tonight in Pitt on News Radio seven hundred WLW. Upgrade her diamond ring this summer with no money down and zero interest for five years. Hi, It's David Cooper

from Genesis Diamonds. Five years, zero percent interest financing. All right, Dave hit the music. Another great day to being an American. Great to have on individuals that run governments that seemingly succeed, and to compare it to governments that do not succeed. Of course, Cincinnati government is not unique.

I think it's hard pressed to find one liberal, progressive city operating well with peace and security and job creation and good school and good parks and low real estate taxes, low insurance cost, easy access to the medical system, good public education. I don't know in America in a blue city in a blue state or a blue city in the red state that exists anywhere. So Cincinnati

is not unique. Cincinnati is in line with the other blue cities in which they're overwhelmed spending money on things they shouldn't spend money on, and not spending money on things they must spend money on. I think David Jung is saying that if he was the mayor of Cincinnati, he would find a way to find enough money somewhere to hire hundred two hundred more cops and to tell the cops operate within the law. But I went the law enforced pull people over

for speeding a bunch of other issues. Please and don't use speed bumps on middle of roads, because cops will not do their job because they're told not to do their job. And the man in charge of this largely is Scotti Johnson, who was almost slowly this morning. And Scottie Johnson is a good man. I've known him for a long time. We haven't spoke to him in a few years. But Scottie Johnson has few and few less lucid moments because he's captured with the radical left to stay in power. He wants to

get reelected. So we don't need all this DEI crap. What we need is more cops, more firefighters. Better pay one hundred thousand dollars per cop to join every cop out have started over one hundred grand, and if you've been in the force a while, you should make more money. And that's

not the case. There's a sense that police cannot do their job. When I had on Ken Kober the other day of the FOP, he freely admitted there are districts in which the commanders say, stand down, don't pull individuals over for speeding or stopping past the stop bar, or reckless driving, because it's not worth it. And that begins the unraveling of civilization. And one other thing before I talk about the issues that I wanted to get to today,

but I ran in this story out of California. You may know that Ohio is getting close to legalizing marijuana. We voted for this about eight nine months ago, and the promises made have not been promises kept. The Republicans and Columbus have no Democrats to fight with, so they fight with fellow Republicans, much like in Cincinnati. If Democrats on the County Commission don't have a Republican to fight, they fight among themselves. And that's what's happening in Columbus.

But there's a voice in the wilderness crying out saying, you know, about seven years ago, the state of California approved legalized marijuana, and the promises then were about a billion dollars a year in tax revenue coming a Sacramento and also the promise of tens of thousands of high paying, good jobs and the marijuana business sounds good on paper. Here we are about seven years later,

and the legalized marijuana market in California has collapsed. The legal drug revenues have fallen consistently every year, and the reason is the cartels have moved into the state of California. Mexican and Chinese drug cartels dominate I said dominate the marijuana market in California, and revenues and right now and marijuana are down to about one hundred million dollars a year, which is a drop in the bucket. The market in California is over two billion dollars a year, but all

that money goes to the drug cartels. The legal drug business is collapsing. The state is spending a fortune fighting marijuana as it tries to tax it. Governor Newsom, who's a clown, promised to close the budget deficit of one hundred million dollars with drug revenue is not materialized. The state seized in two raids earlier this year three hundred million dollars worth of illegal pot, which is a drop in the bucket. And what's happened is that law enforcement has become

demoralized or in fewer cops in California. Would you be a cop in California? No, because you're not paid properly. You're disincentivized. They got rid of immunity, so cops that they do something wrong can be sued and they ever get to buy a house for the rest of the rest of their lives. Cartels and the gangs dominate the pot business. Open borders have allowed them to bring in massive numbers of laborers to do the work. One estimate is

there's about four thousand pot grow operations as I speak in California. So when the state of California shuts down one or two, there's dozens more popping up. From California to Maine, there's large open areas and limited law enforcement resources. They've been overrun by illegal drug operations. More closely, we now closely resemble Latin America from sea to Shining Sea. The cartels are raking in billions

in billillions of dollars every year, undercutting the legal marijuana business. A few years ago, and it happens every year Chinese people and Mexicans are killed and their bodies are found tortured and dead because they wouldn't work long enough or hard enough in the illegal drug operations. This is awful. So the so called cartel set their sites on Oklahoma when the state's voters approved a ballot measure legalizing

the cultivation sale of marijuana for medicinal purposes. They're now opening up completely. Now the triads, which are the Mexican and the El Salvador and the Chinese cartels own their own compounds. It's ring by fences, surveillance cameras, and guards with guns and machine guns. With three thousand illegal grow operations in the state of Oklahoma, which by the way, is a red state, and not only marijuana. They traffic and everything from heroin to fent and to gambling

to prostitution, making lots of money. So legalizing marijuana provided them with a profitable and semi legal market that gives them a base to expand their operations and in many other illegal activities. So give you one example. Med Men was a public stock began seven years ago in California. It was the legal drug business. And when they first opened, they were calling themselves the Apple of

Weed. Well, their evaluation has fallen from three billion to bankruptcy. And because the Southern wide open Southern border means there's an inexhaustible supply of workers who'll be worked to death in these pot operations all over the country. So what's keeping Ohio from having the same experience? And when I talked to the powers that be in Columbus, they say, we don't know. I don't know.

Legalizations say that government needs to lower the high taxes on legal pot and the business model could be turned around without a single penny in new taxes. And so law enforcement in Ohio when this happens, I guess, which were now on the end of the year, has got to be incentivized quickly to jump on the illegal operations that will flow into Ohio. And by the way, there's truckloads of pot grown in Oklahoma, Maine, in California that can

be driven all over the country. So we may say, okay, let's say legal marijuana is going to create hundreds of millions of dollars lots of high paying jobs. But the car tells because the southern border is wide open, have an inexhaustible supply of workers who will come in and they work themselves to death. And literally tens of thousands of illegal pot growing operations all over the country. And also drug legalization has increased homelessness and drug abuse. It's boosted

legal migration, organized crime. It's kind of like during the Great Depression when alcohol was largely illegal, that the that the mob got into a bathtub gym and made a fortune. So somehow the incentive must be for law enforcement. Halivestate, highway patrol, ET cetera. Has got to get on it and stop this from occurring. Knowing that truckloads a pot can be driven into this state from all over the country from these other operators, how do we stop

it. It's up to the power brokers to lower the tax on legal marijuana to undercut the illegal market. If you don't do that, everyone right now using pot for recreational purposes in the state of Ohio has the connection to a drug dealer. And if marijuana is one hundred dollars an ounce and they can buy it for forty dollars announce illegally, it's going to happen. Much of the pot may be laced with fentanyl that's illegal, and away we go.

That's where we are fore warned, is forearmed. Secondly, it is infuriating to have, for example, sixty eight convicted rapist leave the country on bond, come back into the country, then rape more. There's five hundred and

twelve known terrorists on the terror watch list admitted in the country. Fifty thousand Chinese men of military agents enter the country in the past six months, and yesterday there were about twelve thousand illegals registered into the country at the entry points and when you work out on a monthly basis how many illegals come into this country, it means that each on duty border patrol agent is responsible for seven

thousand illegals per person. Does that system work? It is in complete collapse, and we watch the results all over America, which the rapes and the robberies last not a fourteen year old girl was raped by a legal migrant from Nicaragua that was at least his third rape, the first one or two. He got released from liberal federal judges like Carry Bloom and juvenile court here, and he left the country, came back in, admitted back in and raped

a fourteen year old girl. And then you all know about the Maryland case of Rachel Murran Moran who's got five kids raped and then murdered. And the leeged killer of this person has killed repeatedly in Central America. But this person, Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, was admitted back into our country three times. Because the border patrol is overwhelmed and it's not getting any better. Border needs

to be shut down, the fence needs to be built. We got to get control, and it would help all the illegal operations happening in this country, which is complete utter meltdown. Let's continue with more. I know there's some discussion the mainstream media and others that somehow crime is down historic lows. I saw it last night on the CBS Evening News that according to a CBS Evening News crime is out of fifty year low because of Joe Biden fifty year

low. The FBI says fifty year low. Do you believe that? Have another guest on coming up in about fifteen minutes about the reality of crime in America today. Just the thought of having tens of thousands of illegal marijuana operations worked by Mexicans, Chinese men work to death and then undercutting the legal market,

and instead of government getting tax revenues, government has additional expenses. And if history is a teacher of the future, when Ohio finally decides, okay, we're gonna have recreational marijuana, if the Republicans ever get off their ass and Columbus and do it, what guarantees are there that the revenues and this will flow to stake governm and not to the Mexican drug cartels. The answer is very unlikely. Something's something's got to be changed. You can't anticipate different

results doing the same thing. And lastly, one of the great leaders of our community, I had a discussion with her this morning, indicates to me that you know, over time, in three or four years, no matter what else happens, Trump will age out and Biden will be gone. I hope Biden's gone November the fifth. A new crop of leaders must emerge, like JD. Vance, Maybe like Governor Ynkein of Virginia. Maybe, uh,

just pick one that we anticipate, Marco Rubio. A generational shift needs to take place between the presidential candidates and Nancy Pelosi's eighty three and Chuck Schumer, who's seventy seven. Something must be different to move the country forward, which I pray to God. Trump selects a younger VP, like a JD. Vance who's thirty nine years old, and please give us twelve years of a Republican conservative rule in this country. We are a republic, as you

know, not a democracy. Just look at the constitution. We are a republic and that's somehow that will save the nation. To continue with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the president means. What's happening on the Southern border will

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divide in the Maria between the criminals and the politicians. When I watch the morning shows, I'm always learning that the crime rate is way down, which I think is a canard. It's not way down. I think crime is

up, but the arrest and prosecution and sentencing is way down. But nonetheless, Josh Crawford is a nationally renowned criminal justice expert, and he has a column in The Hill that says there's a crime divide between Americans and politicians and voters are watching, including fund to play, including defund the police, et cetera. And for the first time, I think, Josh Crawford, welcome

to the Bill Cunningham Show. And can you tell the American people your column specifically talking about the crime divide between Americans and politicians and the voters are watching. Please explain to the American people. Well, thank you for having me and what the piece is essentially about is that there is this disconnect between the average American and our political class on the issue of crime right now. That's

what folks are seeing on them is what you articulated. They're seeing things like drive by shootings and carjackings on the rise, they're seeing smash and grab robberies on the rise. And what we're hearing from politicians time and time again is that they need not worry about that crime is down. You know, don't worry about what your lying eyes are showing you. And what's interesting is the

broad depth or the broad width with which voters are caring about this. That Republican primary voters care about this issue quite significantly, and Black Americans care about this issue quite significantly. So it's not necessarily partisan among the voters, but it does seem to be among the politicians. I find it amazing that when you're trying to sell something that cannot be bought by the voters or by the

by average Americans, you keep doing it nonetheless. And it is an article of faith among the left in this country that crime is way down, that

FBI statistics indicate that crime is down. I've had on John Lott and many others that actually reference the fact that about thirty percent of cities do not report crime to the FBI database, and that you we have many judges, including here in Cincinnati, that if it's a juvenile under the age of eighteen, they put them on the diversion dock, and in which case there's no conviction,

there's no sentencing at all. And police are demoralized. Have had on head of the FOP, etc. The cops are demoralized, and cops are feeling as if why arrest somebody when nothing happens anyway, and I might put myself at risk and I'll be fired and sued for the rest of my life. And I don't have a limited immunity, so I can't ever buy a

house or a car, so I might as well not do anything. And so in reality, Joshua Crawford, what is the reality about crime in America today, especially when we have maybe seven or eight million additional people here, young males that come here without work skills, so to speak, and they have don't have a lot to do. So what is the reality of crime in America today? What is your perspective? Yeah, so there are two

major national sources of crime data. One is the one you reference those FBI numbers that are collections of official statistics from police departments, and that's a voluntary program, and there were some changes made a number of years ago, and participation in that FBI program is even less than it used to be, and so those numbers are the official statistics. They sometimes don't match up with the departmental statistics of major cities and are a bit less reliable today than they have

been in the past because of that non participation. The other major nationwide set of crime statisticts comes from something that's called the National Crime Victimization Survey, and what that is is a survey of Americans that ask various questions about crime victimization. And so because of that second set of data, we've known for a long time that Americans don't really report property crime. That essentially, unless your

car is stolen, most property crime goes unreported to law enforcement. What has emerged in the last year or so, though, is that Americans are not reporting pretty dramatic levels of violent crime as well, serious assaults, robberies, those kinds of things. And so the official statistics or the arrest statistics or the statistics given law enforcement show some declines in those areas, but there's pretty good reason to believe that a lot of those declines are the result of not

reporting crime as opposed to crime actually being down. And why aren't citizens reporting crimes? I would think, if your car gets broken into two or three times, you don't call the police anymore. If things get stolen from your store and you walk out under one thousand dollars, you don't call the police anymore. But I would think that if you're assaulted, if you're beaten, if a burglary, if you're sexually assaulted, you want to call the police.

But you're saying that even in many blue cities and blue states, and in blue cities and red states, that individuals of assaults and robberies and armed robberies they're not calling the police either. Why a lot of it is that same demoralization that you spoke to earlier, that citizens feel that same lack of trust in the institutions of public safety, that the actors of those institutions feel.

That law enforcement feels like, oh, I can make this arrest, I can do this pursuit, but it's not going to go anywhere because I live in a jurisdiction with a progressive prosecutor who's going to dismiss the case, or we've got a judiciary that doesn't take these issues seriously, and these guys are going to be right back out on the street. The American people have

largely responded to that, and it's led to two things. It's led to an increase in self help justice, sort of vigilanteism, if you will. That has problems associated with it, But it also has the problem with people just not reporting crimes, and again, more serious crimes than we've typically seen it in the past. You see I read in your column in the Hill it says this crime, especially violent crime, saw its peak as an election issue in the mid nineteen nineties. I'll stop right there. In the mid

nineteen nineties. Bill Clinton ran a campaign in nineteen ninety six of hiring one hundred thousand more cups, and then Joe Biden headquartered the idea of under the leadership of the NAACP that crack cocaine needs to be treated equally with powdered cocaine, in fact, giving more penalties for crack cocaine. And so when I tell Democrats today, well in the mid nineteen nineties, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton wanted more cops and more incarceration, which impacted the black community more than

other communities. People look at me like I'm crazy, But there was a time when Bill Clinton wanted more money, one hundred thousand more cops. Many cities were given the money under a three year program than they had to fund it themselves. After that that, the Democratic Party stood for closed borders, and they also stood for the issue of more cops and treating crack cocaine worse than powder cocaine, and people their eyes glazed over. Was that successful?

Why did it happen? And why don't Democrats do it today? Yeah, you're actually starting to see what I refer to as sort of the law and order democrat re emerge at the local level. You've not seen them sort of break out in the national politics. These like Philadelphia and Houston, Texas and a few other places, you've seen basically the most law and order oriented Democrat mayor role candidate win mayoral primaries and then go on to win the general election

in these places. You are seeing in some of the bluest jurisdictions in the country. San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, law and order oriented prosecutors beat sort of Soros backed progressive prosecutor incumbents, and so you are seeing this re emerge some on the local level. You've not really seen it play in national politics yet. The national tone from the Democrats still is sort of

defund the police light, if you will. But at the local level, even in some of the most progressive jurisdictions in the country, because business associations are fed up, because residents in the neighborhood's most plagued by its violence are fed up, you're beginning to see that tonal shift back to some of what you saw in the nineteen nineties. I used to go to San Francisco as part of the ABA American Bar Association for meetings, and at that point,

you walked around a fisherman's wharf, you walked around downtown. It was gorgeous. There was some goofy road that was like a serpent's thank you go up and down that. And now Tony Bender and others made vacation in San Francisco and it comes back with video of all the downtown stores are shut down and there's a poop map where not to walk. There's lots of human poop,

and there're hyperdermic needles, and there's tents all over the place. And I look at a column, Joshua Crawford that you have up that says the following. According to analysis of data by former Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics Jeffrey Anderson said, total violent crime is up fifty eight percent in urban areas since twenty nineteen. If you remove simple assaults, serious violent crimes in America

is up seventy three percent since twenty nineteen. How do you prove a negative if there's not reporting being done, if citizens are demoralized and they don't want to report crime, and cops don't want to arrest anybody anymore, and judges release them constantly with no bond, how do you know? How do you know violent crime is up seventy three percent the last four years when you can't

prove a negative. So explain that to the American people. Yeah, So that comes from those National Crime Victimization Survey results, and so we compare those year over year. And that's what doctor Anderson did with regard to the most recent crime Victimization Survey results. And again we have known for a long time that those numbers and the Uniform Crime Report FBI numbers have always been different because

they ask different things, they seek different data. But what is pretty dramatic over the last several years is that in one the crime victimization surveys, you see dramatic increases in victimization, and then the official numbers you see pretty substantial declines in victimization. So there's a disconnect there between what Americans are saying is happening to them and what if statistic show, and so that's a problem.

A great liberal columnist for the New York Times wrote a peace taking the states of Washington, Oregon, in California, which is the Situs. It's the Jerusalem of progressivism. All their policies have been fully implemented. There's no Republicans to be located anywhere in those three states. The eastern half of Oregon wants to get out of Oregon join Idaho, which is almost impossible because the Congress right have to agree to that. But she made the point that we will

not continue to win elections even in Oregon or Portland. You point out that there were two district council members in deep blue Portland that lost their jobs, including the permissive prosecutor, that she's making the point to prove that liberalism and progressivism actually work. It must work in the state of Washington, Oregon, and California, and by any fair estimate, nobody believes that progressivism and liberalism is working in those three states. Was that a clarion call from someone on

the left that we have to do things different? I think so, you know, I think in some of the sort of left of center intellectual circles, you're seeing this call for moderation that sort of in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the left sort of most radical elements and its worst

ideas on public safety emerged victorious. And you saw a number of changes all around the country, but especially in the most progressive jurisdictions, the Portland Oregons, the Seattle, Washington's, the San Francisco California is, the Oakland Californias, those kinds of places, and they're the places that have been hit harder with the hardest with this. I mean, Seattle has continued to have deadliest

year after deadlist year over the last several years. Portland had substantial increases in homicides and other types of violence over the last several years, and you're seeing in those places, especially among prosecutors. You know, Seattle has a Republican city attorney right now that would have been unfathomable a number of years ago. Portland has thrown out it's progressive prosecutor in favor of a more traditional law and

order prosecutor. And so I think you're seeing voters who are who are again set up with this issue safety security, Public safety and public order are sort of the most foundational responsibility of government, and what you're seeing is these jurisdictions fail that responsibility in such a way that voters are rejecting the ideology. And Joshua Crawford lastly, I'm watching CNN the other night and a guy named Anton,

who's pretty good. I laugh at that guy, And he had a poll up that at this time four years ago, Biden was had eighty two percent of the black vote locked up. It turned out to be ninety one percent, and now it's down to like thirty five percent. Is a collapse of black voters supporting Joe Biden and the Democrats. And I guess there's a canard to lie out there that somehow black folks living in major cities and urban areas don't care about crime, but in reality they care about it the moment.

Do you think the collapse of black support for Joe Biden. Yeah, one of the maybe the main reason, is a lack of public safety in their community promised by liberal Democrats but destroyed, and black folks are finally figuring it out. I think that that's a major contributor. In the twenty twenty two election, where you saw crime have the most impact on voters of changing

voting patterns was in urban, majority minority communities. Now, these communities tended to send progressive Democrats back to Washington, d c. In those midterm elections, but you saw these shifts that in a statewide election would make a major difference in just like Philadelphia and Saint Louis and Detroit and so a lot of

these states that are in play in the twenty twenty four election. And so if those voting patterns hold like they were in twenty twenty two, you may see a shift among black voters in inner cities on the crime issue that benefits former President Trump or especially in the case of former Governor Larry Hogan's Senate race in Maryland. This seems to be a very particularly palpitable issue for voters in Maryland, in the Baltimore area. So those voters aren't buying what the Democrats

are selling that crime is way down historically, this is wonderful. They're looking around saying, no, wait a minute, Harry Anton, what are you talking about here? Crime is not down. I can't walk at night, I got my kids. Got drive by shooting Cincinnati, Ohio said repeated drive by shootings, and almost all the victims, almost all the victims are black, and most of the perpetrators are black. The face of crime in urban America is a young black male face. But the great majority of young black

males have nothing to do with crime. They're victimized by it. And I anticipate this could be a watershed election, but we'll see what happens. The black folks who are Republican voters from the eighteen sixties through the nineteen forties into the nineteen fifties, and even Richard Nixon I received something like forty eight percent of the black vote in nineteen sixty and still lost. But maybe black folks

have now not listened to what the media tell them to do. They look around their own life and say, we don't have to live like this, and maybe this will be the difference. But josh Crawford, once again, great, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And keep doing what you're doing and keep writing columns for the Hills Hill dot Com is pretty good stuff. Thanks for having me, Joshua Crawford. All right, that's the warning, and we'll see what happens. Bill cunning and the Great American

with you every day. You're home of the Reds. News Radio seven hundred WLW Attention golfers, Joy fifteen right now, can't do anything right? Oh hello, Byett, I'm Skos. I'm broadcasting segment and I listen to the game last night, Skims looks it looks like a young Nolan Ryan. Unbelievable Willie. I don't know one run ball over six innings. He's four and

zero. Now he gave up six hits and fans seven. I thought he had more net the way he was, the way he was going, That's what I thought too, but not good well and then uh picked off at first Ali Da La Cruz picked off? What about Gordon Veterino could he get down there and teach the Reds how to run the bases and not get picked off. They're back Thursday against the Boston Red Sox. Carlstremsky and all the rest of them. Jim Rice come to town on Friday. Well, how

about Gordon Veterans Thursday? Down for Friday. They're on Thursday. Get the right get them down there and teach them how to run bases. Well. TJ. Friedel left the game last night and the sixth inning tightness in that right hamstring making a diving catch in center field, and then c e s is back in the news Christian and Carnassi on Strand was moved yesterday to the sixty day. I l I'll never play again. He's been out since May

seventh with that right hand fracture. That's the first. Don't you think that? Would he go by now? I get what? When was he out since? When? May seventh? I don't think so. What about McLean? What about Matt McClain. Matt McLean should be back. I think what they said August. What about Marte? What about Marte? Marte? Is his suspension is up next week? I think the Trump debate right on the twenty seventh. That's correct. Yes, he's going to celebrate the return with

a Trump Biden. I think he's the moderator. And then the Bengals update of course. Uh, the social media is gone nuts. Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson all on the French Riviera. On social media, there's pictures of Burrow playing somebody in chess on the French Riviera as we speak. You know that LSU team was pretty good, weren't they? Yeah? I would say so pretty good. Is he the greatest team of all time

in college? It's got to be one of them. You see like those like scenes from television shows or movies where like people are playing chess in their little park. I'd love to do that, like go to a park and go play chess with some people I loved. And what about my quest to Joe Burrow? Remember that question I asked him? Yeah? How did he answer it? Well, he's not gonna say nothing wrong about LSU, is he? I said? Could that team beat the previous year's team at Alabama

Roll Tide National Title? How about going back into fantasyland, have the LSU team play the best of the Alabama team from the previous year that went undefeated on Dinand scored on and they were the national champs. How about Alabama v

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It is hot out there, baby, what's the hotter? Olivia Dunn or the Day today's weather temp star, what's hotter? I don't know. Paul Skeans, I got the world by the uh by the hair right now? Get rid of the mustache. A little little corny, isn't it. I don't know. He looks like he looks like I don't know how good is he? Oh? He's like he was like he was like paint in the

corners, like Willie, like Rembrandt. I mean, the Reds were like going and then that one pitch he's got it starts here, goes over there and ends up down there. It's an ephis pitch with speed. And we also want to thank you DF. How about that our delicious molts and shakes today too. We said yesterday we wanted some UDF shows up. Yes they did, got it done. Congratulations to the Boston Celtics. They win their

record eighteenth the NBA Championshipship last night, downing Dallas FC. Cincinnati back in action in MLS play tomorrow night against the Philadelphia Union. Game five of the Stanley Cup Finals tonight, Florida hosting Edmonton. The Panthers lead at their three games to one. Some stupid individual last night said that Celtics are the best team in sports history in North America. The franchise you know, as far as and I'm thinking they got eighteen of them, I mean, won more

than the Lakers. Now, what about the Yankees? And I think they had twenty seven? Yeah, that's true. Does anyone remember the New York Yankees? I don't think so. Twenty seven. The University of Cincinnati Bearcat football program and Kerry Combs announcing two future non conference games today. The Bearcats will host Northwestern State September thirteenth in Western Carolina. Northwestern What Western State? What's that September as a school? North On September twenty thirteenth, twenty twenty

five, and the Western Carolina September of twenty twenty six. We also want to say happy wedding anniversary to carry Combs and his lovely wife. How many years? I think it's like fifty or sixty. Is he going back to Coleraine at some point? I don't think so. That team that went undefeated, untied, unscored on. Yeah, is the greatest high school football team in Cincinnati history. Well, that's the nicest thing you said about Home Range since I've known you. Now, now they can't win a game. What

was the quarterbacks name? Was it Goodman something like that? It wasn't Bird. The defensive line, Yeah, they had a good team back then. They beat Kenton McKinnon like fifty to twelve. And then the women's met is underway with Ted McKay Willie right out there at the in Mason at the Grizzly Course and they're middle ladies are playing. And then next week Mark Sheer and

Dale Donovan will be hosting the men's met at beautiful McAtee Wah. I played there Saturday under the leadership of U South and pro Ian Bell's did a He did a great job. I liked Ian quite a bit. Yeah, and uh, but the course is an excellent shape because of Mark Sheer. All right, abb Northwestern State or whatever, Louisiana, that's it, Mcatish Louisiana. I never heard of that. Vic the Demon is their mascot. Why would you see play them? One it's a win and two Northwestern Skate State

is getting a nice check. I'm getting a lesson soon from Ian Pratt's Ian Pratt's of Mcateewall. It's gonna help me with my chipping and by the way, putting. He might Ian might want to talk to h Rory McElroy about uh about a couple of short how they want hit now? Now the soul media people want Roy McElroy to dump their cat, his caddy. They're blaming the caddy for him. Caddy. Yeah, what's he doing for the Putts? Yeah? What did the caddy do? I don't know? And then

what about justin Timberlake drunk? Well, he's on a world tour. Does he anyone go see him anymore? I guess. I don't know. Was that New Kids on the Block or what what group was he in? I have no idea he was in. He was in the sink in sync in the sink? Yeah, I don't know about that. Would you go see if he was across the hallway? Would you go say hi to him? Yeah? I would. He's like an international musical superstar, like pit Bull. I like Pitbull, pit Bull. I like to talk to pitt Bull

because he owns that NASCAR team. He's in the crack side. Put him in the sink. So I don't know what to tell you about Justin Timberlake. A little bit of the firewater, got a little bit nuts, got pulled over. Here comes some music on Tuesday. Is this a big act? Is this like Taylor Swift? Like Beyonce? He was, It's like George Strait. All my exes live in Texas with one hundred and ten billion. I can't give my love away. I can't give I can't give it

once to get his sexy back, not to pass the intoxilizer first. He wants to get sexy back. I don't think I ever left either, especially when you and me sexy. My wife says, I look like Ronaldo Christiano. Ronaldo didn't got to look like Ronaldo. Hit the music. Let's sit back and relax. He drunk doing this or not? See you never know, never know. My producer, Dave didn't have It didn't happen on like Martha's vineyard or something, or somewhere. I don't know where it happened,

someplace out in the middle of nowhere or something. I think I'm not paying attention to it's life. I don't think he cares much about us, does he. I don't think so he's ever going to hold of you and say, hey, what's going on? Say he called last week bal Et, I call him so there he is. Fox News. New details emerge about the drunk driving arrest of justin Timberlake, of in the sink? Uh oh, now this is in sync here hold Over June eighteenth performed badly on the

test. Uh oh? Did he blow? Bloodshot eyes? Odor of alcohol? Where was it? Crime River? It was in sag Harbor, at the eastern edge of Long Island, sag Harbor, in the bag. I don't think he blew. Did he blow nothing here? Maybe you should have. I don't know. Forty three years old. Oh there we go, Oh we didn't. That's right. Heels is a wife I used to day Jessica Biel. Pretty good. Probably not happy, No, mama's not happy. He was touring Bel's filming in New York City. The better sister is

there's somewhat close. You can bail him out of prison. That's good about out. Got went out and got a snoopful like otis, sit back, this a little justin little timber light here ways justin singing Now I like a little George straight. All my exes live in Texas. One hundred and fifteen thousand people show up at Texas A and M Stadium, and might I add warm temperatures or rocking and rolling. I can't give it away. I'll speaking

of the day. Just stay hydrated out there and not me. I'm gonna go out this afternoon into a black top parking lot and put some kevlar on top of me and just tried to get warm. There you go. See how popular is this guy? This is my guy, George right now packing them in no matter where he goes one hundred and fifteenth. What if he

came here to bake for it? Would't that be something? Oh, hit the post, hit the post, living tea at Texas and plays I'm really love to the CNN's covering justin Timberland, but covered justin Timberlake, like uh sag Harbor, like uh Donald Trump and Hunter Biden. They're outside the courthouse sag Harbor, New York. He hangs his hat in Tennessee. His exes are in Texas. He's in Tennessee. It would be too in Texas and released without bail. How about that here's in court. Surprised me that it

surprised me they weren't live. Paul Luck wants to hear now that's a weird dude. That was the guy who worked to the funeral home who had the ashes. He would think guys were stealing them or stealing someone's ashes at the weird dude. The weird dude there, I said, no kidding, here it is. I had one martini, followed my friend' zone, bloodshot, glassy eye, strong ode of alcohol, sloats, float, speech, unsteady of foot, performed poorly, head of George. That's why I keep my

hand in Tennessee, tex One martini? Was it shaken and not stirred? Sixteen ounces? Must have had a martini? What a court and a half? Jeez, it was sicking loaded on one martini. A car rescue or something. I don't know. John Tapper, John Tapper come to the show. Looks like an issue to me. I don't know. Jessica Biel is not happy. Justin Sega is added in sports. Yeah, the Reds need to win, would you agree? I would say so. And then tomorrow

they play a twelve thirty five. They need to win that one. They're off on Thursday. Then the Red Sox come to town for the weekend and then Pittsburgh returns Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday next week. What about Paul Skien They will not see him, thank god. Skeen's pitches on Saturday. He used to go see Alvy A Lsu. I'm sure he does. I don't blame him there segment, give me out of the stoog's report. Please,

we have coming up next, Jason Isaac of the American Energy Institute. Did you know you have to move five hundred thousand pounds of dirt for enough energy to take care of one car battery in a Tesla? Five hundred thousand pounds. Yes, we're gonna get shoveling. You've been shoveling for a long time. Go ahead, Willie, in honor of another hot, hot, hot day here at a tri State and we leave stay cool out there and hydrated. No, we leave you with the immortal words of the stewed report.

No comments, Throb Butcher, He's gone and retired with the thanks of a grateful nation. Correct all on news radio seven hundred elder you iHeart radio music, my Billy cunning in the Great American of course, is a great push by this administration to spend serious money. We're not talking millions, We're not talking billions. We're talking trillions of dollars on behalf of the climate crusade. And right now, as you know, is hotter than the hinges of Hell.

That's another excuse to talk about climate change and all the glories of EV's and things of that character. And joining you and I now is Jason Isaac. He's the CEO of the American Energy Institute. And Jason Isaac, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, I've read your columns on this subject matter. Can you tell the American people the amount of public money generally we're spending on so called climate change evs and all related matters.

Oh my goodness, it's astronomical, you know, decimated to be fifty trillion dollars. But when you look at the EV it's fifty thousand dollars per EV sold. And that's just through twenty twenty one. The numbers are going to get higher through twenty two and twenty twenty three as we continue to subsidize them with more than just this tax credit of seventy five hundred dollars a vehicle.

People are paying more for used vehicles because of EV's, they're paying more for internal combustion engine gasoline and diesel cars new ones because those vehicles are subsidizing the cost to the tune again of nearly fifty thousand dollars per EV sold, So every EV that that we buy as Americans normally there's a large subsidy involved, which is a tax credit, not a deduction. You can actually a tax credit for it. But then on top of that or all the other

ancilia expenses. And Jason I mentioned this to you off the air, the University of Michigan is not exactly an enclave of conservatism, would you agree? Not exactly the wolverines. How about this a reason Thoty from Universus in Michigan to shed light on a critical challenge facing the global transition to electric vehicles, which is the inability of copper mining to keep pace with the growing demand.

Some trade publication Energy I'm sorry, Engineering and Technology reports that copper, which is a critical component in electricity generation, distribution of storage, is fundamental to a battery production, evs, etc. It's entitled Copper mining and Vehicle Electrification. It's revealed that the current rate of copper production is insufficient to meet the projected demand for the metal in the coming years. There's seven hundred and nine

operational copper minds in the world, few in America. Despite this huge output. They can't keep up with the so called demand. In fact, six new large copper minds must come online every year for the next twenty years, which is one hundred and twenty more copper minds on top of the seven hundred and nine. By the way, on nine is going down, not up.

You can't open a copper mind. And they go to all the United States of America it must be overseas, and they're saying, we're at our limit, we can't do it. Does anyone take into effect that when Michigan study highlights the fact that eve requires three to four times more copper than a gasoline powered car, does anyone said, Okay, if we're going to do this, these are the things we must do in addition to it. Does anyone take that into account? No, No, don't know. You look

at what's required to meet today's needs. If we were to go one hundred percent renewable, it would take a thousand years to mine the goods to meet today's requirements for this green New Deal, this political agenda, the energy transition. But Billy, you haven't heard about all the minds, the copper minds that are opening up around the United States everywhere they're everywhere. They're at electric vehicle charging stations because people are stealing the copper wires out of them because the

cost of copper is increasing astronomically. And guess what they are. At a good dense quantity that's already been mined and pulled out of the ground and refined, you can get pure copper. The thefts of these things are it's just laughable. Already in Los Angeles, over half of the charging stations don't work, and that number is getting worse because people are stealing the copper charging wires from eb stations. About two or three weeks ago, I watched Margaret Brennan

on Sunday Morning, Sunday Morning News I like to watch. I watch CBS, I watch Morning Joe. I read the New York Times so you don't have to. And there was a classic exchange between Margaret Brennan and Pete Buddha. Judge, can you explain that to the American people, Oh, mayor Pete? This is the guy that just thinks we're gonna have this force energy transition. This is the guy that drives up in SUV's and then jumps out on a bicycle and rides about a block and a half. That's probably all

he can stand. But you know, he's forcing this energy transition down our throats. They're raising the fuel economy requirements to fifty miles a gallon, which is essentially an electric vehicle mandate. Keep in mind, Ford's losing over one hundred thousand dollars per EV sold. Rate payers, taxpayers and other vehicle buyers are pitching in another fifty thousand dollars and the average cost is sixty thousand dollars,

so it's over two hundred thousand dollars in cost per EV. That's why the most of the people that are buying them, I think it's over eighty percent, are wealthy individuals. Most of them are third vehicles. This is an extra vehicle. They're just fancy golf carts that people use to virtue signal to drive to and from the grocery store. And that's about it. Jason, you talked, you're just one of that. Quickly you're saying, Ford, which is at difficulty, great difficulty, loses how much per EV.

It's now over one hundred thousand dollars per EV sold. Their profits last year would have been double had it not been for EV's over two billion dollars in losses and who's picking the up. The shareholders are also adding those subsidies in

there. That's something I haven't considered in our research. But when you've got these woke financial institutions like black Rock that are telling Ford they better embrace this energy transition or their compensation is going to be effected, They're going to be board members are going to be replaced, They're going to go down this path, and it's a complete detrimental the peoples whose pensions funds are investing in companies

like Ford. You know, this is firefighters, police officers, teachers, municipal and state government employees who are having their four to oh one ks and pensions invested in these companies that are and they're being weaponized against these countries unbeknownst to the investors that are depending on those of their retirement. But Jason Isaac, normally, if a company loses serious money over a period of many years, they stop bidding themselves in the head. In the early nineteen sixties,

they put together a product called the Ford Edsel. After two years of terrible sales, they finally said, we can't do that anymore. So if Ford keeps losing this kind of money, why do they keep doing it again? It's that pressure from those those financial institutions, the global financial institutions that are some of the largest shareholders. You just need to look no further than who are the top ten shareholders of the companies that are doing this down this path.

It's really dangerous and dumb, and it's quite deadly to certain investors. They're losing their pensions, their retirements. But look at those top shareholders and they're all part of it. Jim Jordan's committee out of Ohio just came out, you know, with this report talking about the collusion of these companies with their environmental, social and governance agenda, this ESG agenda. It's a great,

lengthy report that you know. I've worked in this area for the last two decades now pushing back against these woke financial institutions, and it's great that the light is getting shown on them because hopefully they'll just get back to fiduciary responsibility, return on investment. We produce things in this country more responsible than anywhere else in the world, and this energy transition is just trans pansitioning everything

to being made in China. A place that could care less about the environment or human rights. What percent of the batteries and evs are made in China? No, it's you know, one hundred percent. You look at ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of the graphine that's necessary for the batteries comes from China. So it's we are one hundred percent dependent on China for manufacturing

of electric vehicle batteries. A battery that for each car requires five hundred thousand pounds of earth to be moved to get the component components for that battery. Forty thousand kids in the Congo in Africa, between the ages of four and thirteen that are using their hands in small handheld tools to pull the cobalt out of the ground. Again, no care for environmental concerns, no care for human rights. And these things are being made with child and slave labor.

And Jason Isaac I thought liberals cared about black kids more than anything else. Do they know that children buy large numbers hundreds every year die in copper and cobalt mines in Africa because liberals demand evs? Do they know what they're doing

to the children? Do they know that? They absolutely do? And you look at states like Arizona, which led it was one of the first states in the nation to pass a bill that any materials at the state buys, typically state vehicles or solar panels or any kind of battery storage, that they would have to certify that those materials were made without child and slave labor. Past their legislature on its way to becoming law, and their governor guess which

political party she's part of, vetoed the bill. Of course, she's a clown. I would note on Monday, Fisker, an EV startup in California, which was hotter than a firecracker, has filed bankruptcy. I would note that Tesla stock, once over six hundred dollars in share, is bouncing up against one hundred dollars in share. People are figuring it out that what we're doing is killing black kids in Africa and enriching China with these evs. Can

you discussed for a moment hybrids? Why didn't we go to hybrids? Toyota's gone to hybrids and not evs. How come we didn't go to hybrids instead of evs. Well, there's this illegal multiplier at the Federal Registry. Senator Rick Scott recently wrote a letter about this. It was signed on by several of his colleagues to the Department of Energy, to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, asking for explanations about why they're allowing this illegal multiplier that's supposed to

be for liquid fuel vehicles, alternative liquid fuel like maybe propane. They're supposed to get this credit, which I think is absurd and in of its mean it's the corporate average fuel economy credit, but they allow electric vehicles to qualify for this multiplier, and so a Tesla that may get it's rated at one hundred miles per gallon, multiply that time's six point sixty seven, and they're essentially getting credit per gallon of I think it comes out to just over five

hundred mile per gallon. And then Tesla sells those credits, and so there's this. They sell them to GM, they sell them to Ford, they sell them to other automobile manufacturers. In twenty twenty one, it was almost

two billion dollars in revenue for Tesla. Would they likely wouldn't have been profitable without selling these fake, arbitrary credits that the government created, and so that's increasing the cost for other automobile manufacturers, so they're saying, well, hey, if we build evs, then we're going to get those credits and we

can spread it out amongst our fleet. And this is how those corporate average fuel economy standards which they're trying to raise now to fifty miles a gallon, that's how it's it's costing people that buy gasoline engines and diesel engines cars more money per vehicle because they're subsidizing those evs. So this is why people aren't doing hybrids because there's just not this government market distorting policy to benefit hybrids.

But if the markets were free, almost everybody would be driving. We'd have hybrid electric truck right now calling freight across this country, getting high fuel economy, better standards, lower pollution. It would be great. But that's just not the way the government has distorted the market. What is better? Can you tell us, say you have a gasoline powered vehicle, a brand new one versus a brand new EV, which is more harmful to the environment the

new EV. I mean you're going to spend more money on maintenance costs, you're going to drive fewer miles. But when you look at the environmental impact you're going to replace the tires every seven to ten thousand miles. That tirewaar becomes particular matter, it's pollution. I'm not worried about the air in this country. We're world leader's environmental protection, but we certainly don't want it to get worse. In driving, evs could potentially make our air quality worse because

of that tirewaar that becomes particular matter. This pollution that in certain concentrations could be harmful to human health that we've been a world leader at reducing now could be coming back because of EV's and the tirewe You look at the environmental impact in places where they're mining the cobalt, the lithium, the rare earth elements and the critical minerals that go in evs. There are cancer villages in China where this stuff is being pulled out of the ground because they don't use the

standards that we do to produce things. How many pounds of earth must be moved for each EV sold? How many pounds it's five hundred thousand pounds of earth has to be moved to get the materials to make one electric vehicle battery. Lastly, there was a comment made by the Trumpster a few weeks ago, in which he was in Michigan, talked about a blood bath in the

auto industry as we speak in Mexico with no if any standards. Mexico under the Chinese leadership, China is building huge automobile factories in Mexico to produce evs and to undercut the market. Explain what happens to the auto workers and the tire manufacturers, and the car repair shops in America, and the harpening and the rubber and the ten and the metal, all of which goes into a vehicle. What happens when China is permitted to build large amounts of evs in

Mexico then ship them into this country under cutting prices. That's where Trump talked about the bloodbath. Explain what happens, Yeah, the bloodbath time. I love the firestorm that came up about that, because that's a term used in economics, and that's what's happened in Germany. Germany companies like bas A Chemical Company, they're moving their operations out of Germany, which is where they were started and where they're from, and they're citing high energy price because Germany politicians

have embraced the political of the inner transition net zero. That's completely the detriment of Germany. The largest BMW manufacturing facility is not in Germany, it's in South Carolina because they can get cheap, affordable, reliable energy there. So this is what's going to happen to the United States. It's going to start to de industrialize if we increase regulations and don't do anything to improve human health.

All we do is we export the jobs, and then we import the products, and we import the pollution from these companies that are controlled and owned by the Chinese Communist Party. So it would be incredibly detrimental to American workers if we continue to do this. We need to reshore all the manufacturing. We should make everything we need and want in this country because we do it

more responsible than anywhere on the planet. Now, if the liberals have their way, I can only imagine after November, if Joe Biden is re elected for about six months, Na Kamala Harris takes over for the next three and a half years, and she accelerates the same policies that she was part of in the first four years of Joe Biden's term. Think what America looks like then, Are we going to have electric battleships, electric eighteen wheel trucks?

Are we going to have electric tractors in Iowa? Are you kidding me? That's not possible. Yeah, don't forget the electric tanks flying the trans flag. You know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. The electric tanks? Are you kidding me? And they're serious about this, aren't they? Because they got some cause they wouldn't want to impose irrespective of the cost, the jobs and the environmental damage. The evs destroy the environment much more than

gasoline powered cars. What doesn't the media call them on this? I wish they would. But you've even got the large manufacturers of these that are embracing this. They're feeding the crocodiles, hoping they'll be the last one eaten. And that's one of the reasons why we've launched a trade organization representing American energy producers. I tell people at the American Energy is too. We don't feed

the crocodiles, We wear them. We support free markets and American energy and we're not going to be out there appeasing people with virtue signaling like decarbonization and net zero and energy transition in a low emission future. We live a high carbon lifestyle and the rest of the world you get to live a high carbon lifestyle too. And because of that high carbon lifestyle, we have economic prosperity

and environmental leadership. Those two things go hand in hand. Need these companies to quit virtue signaling to their customers into their investors and be proud of the products that they produce, and they should want to move all of that production back to the United States, Jason Isaac Lastly, what is your website American Energy Institute dot com. You're a great America. The truth will set us all free, Jason Isaac Man, thank you very much for coming on the

Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Jason, It's great to be on. Thanks for having me. God bless America. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WLW. Spring is here. Let craft is too damn hot for a penguin to be just walking around here. Oh hello, hello, buyet, I'm broadcasting you know Rock. I spoke to representatives of manager Gordon Veterino. Yes, he wants to go down there on Thursday and off day. Correct, correct and work on base running and getting back to

first and not getting tagged out Della cruise. Now that's a good idea. Is there someone else you know that can go down and talk to them about getting injured because freedo let. Yes, last night I was watching it and I texted you, and he hurts his hamstring. How do you do that? I know no, I know a thing or two about hamstrings, and they get injured from either a weakness or overuse. Now, baseball players damage are aren't overusing the like right now, that's a difference, sake, you're

carrying this place. That's a you know, we're out carrying like a wide receiver is running hundreds of yards a day at top speed twenty two to twenty three miles per a baseball player. So he's either not taking care of himself and not lifting and making sure him to all the body maintenance, or or something he's not used. I thought when he hit the ground, I thought it was either the the show. I thought it was the shoulder or the wrist. I thought, don't tell me. He came up, you know,

I thought it was maybe. I thought it was the shoulder. I thought, well, he's hurt everything else on his arm, he might as well hit the shoulder, neck. He can't stay on the field. It's a problem. Do you think that hurts viewership? Yeah? I feel like the average person watched lights and respects football because they're like, you know what, that guy's injured and he's going out there anyway. It's kind of expected. I don't know. Does the average person watch baseball? Ok? How

hurt all the time? Every game? Don't you play that right now? Look I hurt you are, Yeah, sitting here with you. It's just frustrating. I can't understand why there's and all the doctors and all the supplements and all this crazy all these things that are out there. How does this happen? He took like twenty steps caught the ball. He may be out for weeks, and he caught the ball and it was like I wanted to say, it was cold. Must have been ninety degrees. I don't know.

I don't know what. And then what about Cees He's under East transferred into the sixty day. I l he's out with that hand front. He hadn't played since May seventh. He's strength coach, the strength coach. I'll get that team right. We go back to a little old school lifting and make sure we're doing body maintenance. And then also we're gonna drink beer and smoke cigarettes because I'm convinced that needs to happen to What about Matt mcgith waits,

He won't play the whole year, drink beer, smoked cigarette. He won't come back in August. Well, Marte coming back next week during the debate Right Debate Night, No doll. Velly Marte comes back. Lastly, big story in Fox News about Jerry Sandusky, who's now eighty years old. Yes, he's got twenty three more years he could be released. It was one hundred and three. He's now saying again, Nah, baba, nah, didn't do it. The forty five witnesses knew nothing. They all lied,

All forty five lied. And I'm telling the truth. No. When the news came out, if you remember how long ago that was when he had bought the house that were the backyard connected to the kindergarten or whatever, so you could watch the little that that that I was done right there? Nothing. Now can we talk about who is maybe the most who has ever living the best life in America? Right now? Oh? I thought you, I thought you were going to talk about me rock Sarah Leise, no

Paul skiing skins. By the way, did you know two years ago, three years ago, he was a pitcher for Air Force. That's right. So out of high school, both of his uncles went to the Naval Academy, so he wanted to go to the air Force. He wanted to fly F sixteen's goes to college. Grousberg hits six foot six, He's thrown one hundred miles per hour. Get sophomore year, because if you stayed past your sophomore year in the academy, you got to serve the five years. He

said. It broke his heart. He loved the Air Force, said, well, I got a transfer transfers l s U first round pick, thrown one hundred miles per hour, the best pitcher maybe in the National League or now, and dating the hottest thing on two wheels right now, seg Livey done, correct, He's got the world by the probably go. We going to start the All Star Game next month. When I die, I want to come back his Schmes without the mustache. Though you like the mustacher,

I don't care. But you're living in Pittsburgh. Though that's a problem. Have you been to Pittsburgh? He's not living like in the city of Pittsburgh. He's not living in the hood. He's living. He's going, I don't know right now, limousines, pretty ladies. If he pitched for the Red Layer, he'd be hurt. Something would happen. Why can't Bela Cruz get back to first? That's driving me nuts? Right? And where's he going? Where's he going? Down four to one? Where are you going?

The next guy up? HiT's a double? Right, he would have a run. I can't understand. I imagine if Marty was doing that game, that game, let him up, all up. We're not playing smart baseball base running is I mean, he's gonna score from first almost on a single, much less a double. But he scored from second the other night on him on a pick right, And he's third in the balloting for the All Star he'll make it and bet so he's probably like, what the hell

you want from me? I'm third and balloting All Star? Okay, so I'll get picked off, so I have an air in the field, so I hopefully they right. I don't know, I don't know. I'm upset. I'm I'm all upset about Jerry Sandusky. He's gonna have to own up

to sins and crimes. Otherwise he's gonna burn in hell for eternity. Well, heave the Stooge Reporters a proud service of your local Tame Star Heating and air conditioning dealers Thamestar quality you can feel in Cincinnati Hallway Homing Air and one eighty eight eight nine six h v A C give me some sports and now the Stooge Report is presented by a c R gun Eyed Pools and Spas. This week it's hot, hot, hot out there. Call here, pols and spas call today swim this year? Yeah, hit it. This is

one of stunt he's still doing it too. Have you seen him recently? I've seen him. How does this guy down? It's gotta be in the sixties, but he hit man, just keep doing it. It looks a little different now than it looks without Pompady, I need to have that hair. You need you need, you need a hair like him making millions off. The first lady would think, you think she thinks my hair looks terrible.

So now you just got a haircut, you know what? All right, you gotta go Kelly Samalas on her she says us all I could, I should color it? I said, color it. I don't care. You want to look like Jack Cromley, or I don't care Jack Cromley colors? Yeah, bright red. It was Matt Reese. Matt Reese. I didn't know that. Yeah, Gary, Jeff, Why did you color your hair as Lance does too? I am what I am? Whatever it is.

It is little dabble, do you. I don't want to encourage the ladies too much anyway, you know what I'm saying, because when you got

it's terrible. Let's see Nicolodolo and uh Bailey Falter tonight, game two of the series five forty Sports Talk RNL carriers Inside Pitch and the Kelsey Chevrolet Extra Inning Show after they gave Now. Major League Baseball has sent a memo out to farm directors today indicating the beginning June to twenty fifth, next week, all Triple A games will be using the Automated Ball Strike ABS Challenge System, what as opposed to the full abf ABS that they previously used for half the

week. Now that challenge system and the Challenge system challenges to calls on balls and strikes are made by the hitter or the catcher in real time with the umpire receiving an answer to that challenge via ear piece. So right now Triboy already has the automated tracks like they get. They're going to get the full thing. They're going to get the full full Monty prediction that's going to move and the move is another indication that the league is inching toward implementing the implementing

this challenge system at the major league level. It'll be there by twenty twenty six and everyone will freak out. And then after about a month of being in known like the pitch clock, everybody was just like the other thing. I was thinking, you one night to watching the game, remember the nets. They're gonna put the nets down the line. Oh my god, it's gonna disrupt the game. Knows Now, you go there, you don't even think about it, you don't talk about it. It's fine. Same.

Good luck to in the US Swim Trials. Good luck to tomorrow and Thursday to you see Bearcat senior Hunter Gubino. He will be competing in Indianapolis. Yeap. He goes in the two hundred meter backstroke tomorrow Thursday, the two hundred meter individual medley. What about Leah Thomas her too and also well he

too. Uh And the social media has gone cuckoo because over in the French Riviera there are pictures of Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase in France, along with Justin Jefferson and I don't know who Olivia done, but Burrow, My god, Burrow is seen playing yes in France. I think they're I think they're looking for a Formula one deal. So don't tell anybody. Two of those three guys have a lot of money. Yeah, mar Chase, but Joe

Burrow and Mar Chaser right man. You know you see like those like scenes from television shows or movies where like people are playing chess in the little park. I'd love to do that. I go to a park and go play chess with He's on a rehab, he's on top. That'd be great, Botto. He's on a rehab assignment for the Blue Jays in Florida. What happened to him? He's in. Don't hurt his ankle, he's hurt.

How do you get the curse? The curse goes with you. I think he signed there and then when late in spring training, I think that's when he heard his an got hurt, and he hurts your ankle and played. Since how about that hit a home run in spring training, rolled his ankle going into the out and he's out now for what three months with an ankle? You know what that's like, Matt Latos, Remember when the Rings run him that first day on the mound in spring training on the rubber, oh

or something or calf unbelievable, Andy Mack. In football, you have a reason or soccer running into each other. But baseball players, they simply try to get into the dugout and they're out for three months to get it. I can't get in the dugout. Well. Now, the thing is, they got rid of the Viking thing. Now, when the Reds hit a home run, they all run down the steps and in the underneath and the

dugout. Now I'm waiting God forbid that somebody miss steps or something, and all of a sudden, about three or four, I'm start tumbling down like bowling pins. Then half they jump up and down and run around and they come back. Really yeah, I kind of like the the horns and the helmet. I guess I guess that's old Ben that sold us yesterday's Yeah, But how do you get picked off first base when you're delocrat? How do you do that? Probably left hander? Right, I don't know. The

schemes can do it all man, I mean he can. I mean he was. He was painting the corners like Rembrandt last night. No chance, no, And then that one pitch he throws. There's no way. I'd like to see somebody at least foul that off. There's no way you can't hit it. When I die, I want to come back as a twenty two year old Paul Skins. Sign me up. How you doing? You're coming in this weekend? I'll pick I'll have you picked up. Thank you.

All your other gymnastic friends are for fine them all in. That would be terrible gymnasts frolicking around my mansion, sag. I would hate that. I'm not sure. Money, Yeah, guess what he will have money. He will have some serious Well you got it, you gotta you already got the mansion, got the mansion, but I mean you know you got the Robby replaced by public housing Mountain Harrison two and fifty more homes the Indiana and Indiana has it sense? Oh? Okay? And I what's on the big

show? Have no idea. I know Edie. Eddie's been there since nine o'clock. No, we actually have a pretty cool guest aga the name of Philip Gleaese. He might have seen this story out in the desert. There's like a bunch of people have gotten together and say, the country's gone to hell, we've all lost our collective mind. So let's kind of go back to our roots. And they found this like off grid, Like compounding is essentially what I want to do. I want to move off grid and be

away from all this stuff. Okay, so we got the guy who founded this community, Philip Gleese, and he's going to join us. And then of course at three thirty five, we have Tanya Rourke, your former girlfriend. I used to date her. Yes, so we'll see what happens. Thank you, Rock, Thank you. Paul Skins, the best unhittable, I mean twenty two. He think he had more than seven strikeouts last night

because he was dealing. I think the over runner was eight and a half and h I thought he had like fourteen strikeouts by the time he went. Luckily, they got a hit, go one. Then you get picked off. Where's Gordon Vetererino? When you need him segment, give me out of the students report. You got me all pissed off right now, will ye? Everybody stay cool out there with temp Star at ACR gun I Pools, and we leave you with the immortal words of the Stood Report. We will

bring championship baseball to Cincinnati. Now, Bob did not say the year, Bengo, he's been there about twenty years. He got another twenty years to go, and let's see what happens. All on News Radio seven hundred wlw our iHeartRadio Music Festival visited by Capital on coming back to Las Vegas