7-21-25 Bill Cunningham Show

Billy cunning him the great America, welcome to this Monday afternoon in the tri State, and may not ragin for a couple hours, which is a good thing. But hot weather's coming later this week. And I've invited Moe in to talk about the Reds and the Bengals because right now it appears both sports teams are at the crucible. They're at the top. Are they going to slide down one way or slide down the other? As Moe knows,

You know what I started doing this first of all, it's nice to see you in person. Yeah, in person, it's good to see you. I thought you were mad at me or something. I haven't seen you in like Tony, I had to be seen and viewed. I understand. When I started doing this, they said when you interview people one question at a time. So you have violated that. But that's okay. You're far more accomplished broadcaster than I. Let's talk about reasons to be optimistic about the rest.

Knda Laria. They spent forty five million. What they get out of him?

Nothing? So here's the reason for pessimism. Would be that I need one more optimistic. Okay, one more optimistic. They have Elie de la Cruz and they have Terry Francona. Uh, and you're right, Terry Francona's track record of the second half of the season has been terrific. Okay. Reasons for pessimism Number one, you mentioned the schedule toughest in the sport in the second half going out of the All

Talk about what happened with the Rocks.

They lost that game on Friday, which was maddening, came back and won the next two. They have found a way. They haven't gotten swept in a series this year, which if you don't get swept in a series, you're not going to lose more than a couple in a row. They've done a good job of that. Again, the most encouraging thing this weekend Matt McClain got on base. If that becomes a theme in the second half, this offense has the capability to be better in the second half

How many wins will the Reds have this year? You will be held to account October the first.

Well I said on opening day? I said to you right before opening day, I thought the Reds were gonna win eighty three games. Right now they're on a pace to win eighty four. I still will stick to that. I think the starting pitching is good enough to keep them in it. The offense as currently constructed is not good enough to get them over the hump. Now, what do we all want to know July thirty? First, do they make a trade nine games between now and then? So they look like buyers to me? Two and a

And the Reds spent sixty five million dollars on Martinez in Candelaria, Candelaria, I think it's a yankee. Sixty five million collectively, that's like real money.

Yeah, you know the Martinez thing. They get beat up, but Nick Martinez has done a nice job here. It's not acceptable. Acceptable if you look at the overall cost of their starting rotation though cheap, it's very cheap. So you're a little bit you trade, do I trade Hunter Green?

Toney Bender says, trade Hunter Green?

That's absurd. That's what I said. They've got to get Hunter Green healthy. Jeff Brantley talked about this on on one of the broadcasts this weekend, Like, Hudder went healthy is terrific, But we're getting tired of saying Hunter went healthy. He hasn't gotten through a full big league season without going on the injured list, and there seems to be no real concrete idea of when he might be on a.

Big league young guy, he's like, what twenty six?

Yeah, but I mean like, this is big year number four, This is you know, he was an All Star last year and when he is on the mound, he's electric. But he's just not on the mound all that much.

Let's move on here, Let's move on to the Bengals, and you have a big show coming up.

When is it moment? Tony and training Camp Show and forget Starting Wednesday morning, ten am on ESPN fifteen thirty, Tony Pike and I broadcasting from Bengals training.

Bringing desmon Ritter. Can he be a co host?

That would be nice? Yeah, I love got.

Nothing news a thirsting quarterback.

Right Well, I mean he's gonna get reps in practice. You know, Dez is a guy. He's the most accomplished quarterback in UC history. It obviously didn't work out for him in Atlanta as the starting quarterback, but if he is your third option, you could do worse. Now, Let's be honest. If anybody besides Joe Burrow is playing significant snaps for the Bengals, that's a problem. But from a fan perspective, I root for des Ritter, and to me, it'd be cool if he could hold down employment for

Not that un WNBA All Star Game?

A little bit of it? Yeah, I didn't.

Now let's talk about Shamar Stewart. What's happening with Hendrickson?

I need to know.

I want listen to the so called experts. I think you know more about sports than they do. By the way, know more about the Bengals. But they got Joe Burrow once again, going nine to eight. Maybe make the playoffs at ten.

Maybe not.

They're saying, what if he gets hurt, then there'll be a total collapse. Who called it a TC and golf? A total collapse? When when the wheels come off, yeah, you're not moving much. First of all, before we get into the particulars, this is mo over underwins for the Bengalleys.

I think they're going to go eleven and six. That's what I said. I think eleven and six right here. So, as bad as last year was awful, they went nine to eight. Now got to apply some contacts down the stretch. They were playing teams with bad quarterbacks. They feasted on them. I will say what I said a year ago at this time, and I was dead wrong on But I'll be right this year. Joe Burrow plays a full season, the Bengals are not going to miss the postseason. Now

Right?

I mean you could apply that to a lot of teams. I do think it's fair to wonder how much better will the offensive line be this year. I'm actually a little more bullish on that unit than others because I think they have a very good young right tackle, equality left tackle, and a center who's going to be better because he doesn't have to clean up as many messes because of the guard played to his left and to his right. So I'll say there are two more wins

Mallins fencing, Joe Burrow stuff in New York City? What do you think about that?

Not a big fan of that, but the track record is what happens Week one every year they lose? What happens Week two every year they lose. You've got to win your first two because weeks three through seven five consecutive games against teams that made the postseason last year. So they've reformatted training camp, they've made a bigger priority playing guys in the preseason. Does that pay off Week one when they go to Cleveland, which two years ago

Joe Burrow's record the first two games in IT one and nine or one in eleven or something.

So I think he has one win in the first two weeks. It's not good, that's my point. That's not good. Look, he's not coming off an injury. He's not right now, knock on wood, dealing with an injury.

He's got a stuff back from Guadalmala.

He's got a stuff back from Guatemala. So if he gets through training camp healthy, there's no reason to think the Bengals shouldn't win their first two games, and if they don't, then it's another season of trying to play catch up. Why did the Bengals miss the postseason last year because they started oh to three. Why do the Bengals have to go on the road to Kansas City in twenty twenty two because they started oh to two The slow starts catch up to him in some way,

Maybe you win a game or two in the first two weeks. How about to take the.

Field against the Browns on September seventh and win that football game.

If they lose in Cleveland, which is h which is likely, they're going to be a dog in Cleveland.

Well then that tells me that that they have again failed to use training camp to prepare to hit the ground running week one, and it's going to tell me, in all likelihood, the Bengals really haven't fixed their defense.

Can you name one starter for Xavier University in basketball.

At the moment? Not many?

No, how about UC? About Jizsel Gisel James is back for year three? Is he going to fizzle jizzl or not?

I hope he doesn't fizzle. He's Gigsel Skyline Chili Crosstown shootouts at Xavier this year. That's bad for you, say, you see hasn't won there since December eighth, two thousand and one.

Last I'm a coach did not get to the playoffs at all in his first four years to.

The NCAA Tournament in n C double one, McK cronin did not, and he succeeded. He did, right, So two thousand and seven, eight, nine, ten, Mick didn't make it. But and then twenty eleven, with a fair amount of heat on him, he got hold. Did he get to the tournament? He won a game in the NCAA Tournament. So I have always a last year's UC basketball team to the twenty ten team where there were a lot

Let's go but there what w NBA All Star Game?

Paige Beckers is my favorite player. If you haven't watched Paige Beckers play to your national champion all that stuff. Yes, and took a picture with my daughter when they played Xavier and she's skinny too, and.

She is.

Something that's all well and good. I let's go off topic. Yeah, the Bengals have to fix their defense and they really haven't overhauled the personnel. So the question is, with a lot of the same guys and with the Shamar Stewart and Trey Hedgertsie being what they are, can l Golden take what is basically last year's unit?

Never coached the NFL?

Has he he's coaching the NFL? He hasn't been a defensive court DC. Can he in the second all those guys come back, all those players in the secondary, they didn't add to it. Can he get more out of those guys this year than lou A Romo could last year?

Who's the national champion in baseball in CAA?

Uh, it's lsu.

Who's the national champion in basketball?

Beat Houston this year?

Florida Florida, who's the national champion in football, Ohio State, who won the twenty eighteen Ohio basketball title the Deer Park.

Very good, let's continue. I don't know if I got the College World Series thing right.

I know, I'm not sure either. I watched it. They won, they won two games.

Coastal Carolina. Coastal Carolina played. I want to say, I.

Think it's LSU. I think it's LSU. Paul Skeins didn't pitch for him, did he?

No? No, he pitches for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who would probably lose a game head to head against LSU if they they played. No quest, Yeah, LSU beat the Coastal Paul Skins.

Was there with my old girlfriend Olivia Dunn.

Is that correct? Livy Dunn was I think there? Yeah, well, Mo, thanks for your involvement in this. You know s C Cincinnati got a big win too.

With about Messi? What about I know, I know, I know the Utah, but what about Messi?

Messi got a front row seat for a vander.

And he left Evanda Hollafield and then Messi leaves and doesn't shake hands.

Yeah, poor sport. You know that's what you expect now, why Cincinnati's cooking right now?

Man?

My wife says, I look like Ronaldo. Do you see any symbolo? I see those similarities. I haven't been on your show in like two months, so I haven't had a chance to invite you to a Reds game this year. Right field with us three two one night a week from tomorrow. Let me think of three dollar beers.

Two dollars hot dogs, one dollar ice cream. Let me think about it. Hey, and it's cashless, so you can't you know, I only carry fifties and one hundreds, so maybe.

I got right there his fifties and eighty. We'll see you out there on seven hundred WLW. Billy Cunningham hit the music, Dave Keaton hit the music, back at it again. We never stop, We simply continue unabated. Coming up later will be Scott Powell about what's happening little below the surface. And because the mainstream media doesn't report on these facts, because it's an inconvenient truth, I will, which is the efforts of some and the Trump administration to play by

Anyway.

They made it up in order to invalidate and to pin down Donald Trump for the first two years or more of his presidency. And that was in violation of numerous criminal statutes. Numerous criminal statues were violated. It was a seditious conspiracy to invalidate your vote in twenty sixteen.

So we'll see what happens now down the road.

It's going to be a special prosecutor will be appointed at some point to coordinate all this information, and much of it's already in a bow ready to be delivered to the Department of Justice. They can't prosecute it themselves, they'll get special counsel involved headquarter ordered in Florida. Florida has jurisdiction because part of the conspiracy resulted in Florida being used as the situs of an illegal raid in the Donald Trump's home at mar A Lago by the

So we'll see what happens.

And the eighteen US Code twenty three eighty four seditious conspiracy involves an agreement between two or more people to overthrow, put down, or destroy the government of the United States by force, or to oppose its authority, or to hinder or delay the execution of any US law. It fits perfectly of the treasonous misbehavior beginning with the head of the snake, Barack Hussein Obama and others who carried out this seditious conspiracy to invalidate the elections of twenty sixteen,

Well, first of all, I remind everybody this is you know, we're still in the aftermath of July fourth, and we think of that as the great celebration of America as the freest nation in the world.

But I make the case that if.

We don't have justice, we will not have freedom. And we have seen our freedom eroded and it's tied directly to the loss of justice. So restoration of justice is absolutely critical, and you know, it can start really with everyone needs to understand that history is important and that everything.

Gets affected by the past.

So when laws are not enforced and there's injustice, that breeds more violation of law and more injustice. So for instance, you know, we could trace back our problems happening now to things that have happened years ago. I mean when we go back, let's say, you know, to take Hillary Clinton, for instance, who refuse to comply with the State Department protocol in refusing to conduct all business on secure government

Can you picture it?

Just picture Hillary Clinton and her people hammering and destroying thirteen cell phones and communication devices. But that's what happened. So federal law, and it specifically eighteen USC Code fifteen nineteen, prohibits the destruction or falsification of rect records with the intent to obstruct justice, with penalties up to twenty years in prison and substantial finds. Was there any fine for Hillary Clinton?

Well, in fact, I can recall in July or August, Comy held this big news conference in which he conceded admitted that she willingly knowingly violated federal law. But after all, I'm not going to prosecute her. No reasonable prosecutor whatever bring an indictment against her. He wasn't the prosecutor. He was the cop, the FBI, and he's just saying this woman committed hundreds of serious criminal statute violations. Each caring up to twenty years in jail. But it's Hillary Clinton.

It, didn't they.

Yeah, isn't it interesting that this Jim Comy that you're describing his action in July of twenty sixteen, less than six months later, he is, you know, he's cooperating with Obama conspiring to subvert you know, the presidency of Donald Trump, who had just been elected in November. These people, you know, these these people are criminals. Jim Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan,

Scott Powell. Let's talk about the meeting on December the eighth, because by then the outcome of the election of twenty sixteen was known.

It was a.

Shock to the political system, especially in Washington. They live in that bubble that somehow Donald Trump won. And so what happened is describe what happened at the December eighth, twenty sixteen meeting headquartered in the White House, conducted the orchestrator. The conductor was Barack Husain Obama, the sitting president, with Comy and Brennan and Clapper and Susan Rice, Andrew McCay. Sally h described what happened at that meeting.

Well, we could go back a day earlier to December seventh, twenty sixteen, after the election, as you point out, and there were talking points were prepared for.

D and I.

James Clapper, that's the Director of National Intelligence, stating, quote, foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter.

The US presidential election. That was acknowledged.

On December ninth, President President Obama's White House gathered top National Security councils, principles people you've already named, James Clapper, John Brannan, Susan Rice, John carry Letter, Rinch, Andrew mccabon, others to discuss Russia.

So what they decided to do was, we're going to, you know, we're.

Going to get Trump by tying Russia around his neck, even though there was no evidence that, you know, that the Russians really colluded or affected the election of twenty sixteen, but they wanted to. They saw that as the avenue that they could have a successful subversion and coup d'eta against Donald Trump.

And so they proceeded, and we all know what happened.

There was the Muller hearings that went on for what almost two years years. There were two impeachments that were unrelated to Russia. But still the whole campaign was to destroy a president who was duly elected by the people. This is the highest crime against Americans, highest crime against our constitution. The constitution provides for the people choosing their government.

What a novel concept.

Common sense of the people is oftentimes better than the elites.

So go back a little further. In this summer and fall of twenty sixteen, the DNI the intelligence community found no evidence. In fact, they stated in writing that the Russians were not trying to influence the election, that the so called Steele dossier was made up by Clintonistas in order to counterbalance the behavior of Hillary Clinton was known by these characters call me and Brennan, and Rice and Andrew mccab et cetera. They knew that there was no

That's right, And of course the first piece of flesh they got one was none other than General Michael Flynn, who they got, you know, probably about two weeks into the administration of Donald Trump. They ran a campaign, you know, a bait and switch, you know, questioning that they set up, They set up Flynn, and then it was leaked.

You know. Then it was suggested that Flynn would.

Be a liability and Trump should should get ready wonderful. Actually, actually Flynn would have been the greatest asset that Trump had because he knew where all the bodies were buried. He was the you know, he had been the Director of National Intelligence under Obama, and he you know, he was very good. I mean in terms of the world of intelligence, he was probably one of the very best.

And so they did not let the will of the American people be heard. And then this continues to metastasized

They absolutely did, and you know, polls were taken that had that story not been blackballed, had the Hunter Biden laptop story just been allowed, you know, to be reported on and not discredited, that that would have made the difference.

The election would have gone to Donald Trump.

But well, I mean, compare this to the Epstein scandal. Compare this to a birthday greeting from Trump to Epstein a quarter of a century ago, that this is telling the American electorate, our elections are fraudulent. We will decide for you who's going to be the next president, and if you decide the wrong way, we're going to ruin they before he gets into office. Then time down the first two years, then continue it all the way through to today about attacking him. Scott Powet, you couldn't make

Well, he shouldn't be above the law. Well, but he has been above the law.

All these people that you've described have been above.

The law for years.

And it is time that we restore justice in high places. It's time that people go to jail. Actually, because one of our penalties for violating the law that deters would be other you know, people that are tempted or inclined to abuse their position and power to say, well, gee, I don't want to go to jail. Maybe I shouldn't do that. I mean, that is one of the key roles of law enforcement is to deter other would be

Well.

The director Telsea Gebett was on Friday evening on a Fox show and she said there's striking findings from declassified information claiming to showcase, showcase overwhelming evidence that an Obama era cabal led the groundwork for what would be years long Trump Russian collusion probe after the twenty sixteen elections, that the participants in the Holy Cabal knew were lies. And now she's saying there's many whistleblowers fearing criminal indictments

The other thing.

The other big story is the mental incompetence of Joe Biden that they installed in office who was mentally incompetent and couldn't be the president, so they had everyone around him was conducting a presidency without the guy installed by the intelligence community in the Washington Post in sixty minutes, they tried their damnedness. They got Biden installed, and they did their best to get it's Harris installed and it didn't work this time.

But look at the consequences of the Biden administration.

Oh my god.

I mean, when we have this kind of fraudulent law breaking, what's the result. The result is we had open borders, twenty million immigrants came into our country. We have chaos in our cities as a result, largely as a result of this invasion. You know, our country was invaded by illegal immigrants in huge numbers. It can be as it might be as large as twenty million immigrants came in under the Biden years. And Biden wasn't a legitimate president. So we can see how all this is orchestrated to

Scott Powell, what a what a novel concept that the people vote and those in power accept the outcome of elections and then don't work in order to thwart the will of the people by causing the indictments and the trials of all the people around Donald Trump try to and then they installed in office Joe Biden, and they knew was mentally incompetent and did their best to get Harris in the presidency. We have to run, Scott Powell. All your stuff is out. I pick up all your

You're a great American. Thank you very much. Thank you, Bill, God bless you all. Let's continue to more.

I guess if Obama's indicted, what's going to be the bond? And uh, you see above the law, Bill Cunningham on seven hundred w l W.

Everybody should play by the same rules from main Street to Wall Street to Washington.

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Hello, piet and I'm spoke. I'm broadcasting everybody should play by the same rules from main Street to Wall Street to Washington.

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So you're saying segment of Barack who's saint Obama concocted a scheme to steal the presidency from Donald Trump unsuccessfully, then lie repeatedly about intelligence should not apply to Obama as well as a Trump.

Yes or no, I have no idea. You know what I'm talking about? You, I have no idea.

We have a state visitor here, Panatowski. Sek couldn't say your name out of you?

I can too. You know what's what's his last name? Potowski? Is that pretty good? That's pretty good? OK? Thank you?

You're in a state visitor? Play tennis? Thank goodness, Thank guy. Every try to pronounce a female tennis name. Tell me about Maller High School. You're the player of the year, not just in football, but in baseball, Gatorade, Gatorade National Player of the Year, whatever. Yeah, you're better than Barry Larkin ever was at Maller High School?

Is that correct? I go that far?

All right?

Now?

Tell me in football? Good friend of mine, Wally Sweeney and Charlie and Griffin good friends of mine. I played golf with him all the time. Griffin hits the ball like crazy. Tells me that last year's Maller team in baseball was the best in a long time. How good was Mauler High school last year in baseball, it.

Was a special group of guys because I think I think there was a lot of people on the bench that were committed to go play in college, which is like.

You couldn't make the starting line up, you're going to go play for Alabama.

Yeah, you don't see it a lot.

So it was a special group of guys, and uh, there was like a team camaraderie just because we played two years together with that same group. So it didn't come out the way we wanted it, but it was like, you're gonna see a lot of these guys on TV.

For a while, and those are the ones sitting on the bench, Like Segment sat on the bench most of his time in high school. So there was a chance for someone who couldn't crack their starting a line up with Muller, that's gonna be playing for the Detroit Tigers.

You could.

Yeah, there's a bunch of different scenarios that he could go through. There's there's division one kids sitting on the bench. So let's how you know you had a really good lineup, and it's baseball.

Anything can happen.

The Reds beat the Reds over the weekend beat up on the Mets, and the Mets have the best home record in baseball and it beat him twice. Not bad, now in football. What happened in football football, it was.

Just a combination of you know, good defensive scheme by them and offense didn't really execute the way we wanted to. And I think nine out of ten times we probably beat them. And you know, they got us that day and they played really good. We had to play a D minus game and they had to play an A plus game, and that's exactly what happened.

And you know, they came out on top.

And I guess all all I can do is put my head down and look forward to this season.

One of the worst things that happens, you told me off the air, is after the championship loss, the microphones are in your face. What do you really want to say? Know your role? Shut your mouth. I want to leave, but you can't do that.

Yeah, I think you have to hold a certain like there's something that you want to push out there, and you want to look a certain way, so you so you act a certain way. But at the same time, you're you're hurting inside and all you want to do is is kind of go home and be by yourself and not really talk to anybody. But it's part of it, and it's how sports are. You have to go do

No one in sports has ever won the player of the year in football and baseball. That's unprecedented. If you thought about basketball at all, maybe taking up field hockey, maybe tennis or golf. Can you be the player of the year in all sports?

If the USA pickleball team needs an extra guy like, wait a minute, I'm in on the pickle ball really competitive, really really gotten good at it.

So now we're talking.

Now, Now, Matt Ponatowski, we're now talking because about five years ago, have you ever heard of a guy named Rocky Boyman? It sounds familiar, Never heard of him though, right, not really he went to st X.

You don't you don't suit the bowl camp, So I don't. I don't like him. Then if he went to st.

X bingo right there, segment's playing pickleball? Does it look like a pick a ball athlete to you?

Anybody can play pickleball?

Right, obviously, So he got a hold with flat Stanley.

I saw Stanley over the weekend. Willie ninety six and rocking and rolling says he wants maybe one more match with.

You, ninety year old Stanley and seg Man took me and Rocky Boyman to the cleaner, brushed him and pickleball.

Oh was a pathetic in.

Fact, that nine one one call.

It was like you playing deer Park? Have you ever heard of deer Park?

I have not.

I guess it's close to here. What did you apply to? Wait?

Did you apply and get turned down to Deer Park High School?

Is at it?

No?

I was?

I was muller all the way. Didn't didn't sign up to go to deer Park. Changing the subject.

But we had a matchup and nine to one one was called because there was an assault and battery committee mashed And then I'm looking for a pickleball partner to go after you and flat Stanley who's ninety six years old. And I don't play pickle ball, but I played rocketball most of my life. It's about the same thing, I thought, but it isn't. Oh, if I get the invite, I'm ready to go. Segment. I'll tell you what. I got

If we did not recognize the fact that there was a major pickle ball battle that took place in Middletown today, major, I mean major. You On one side was Bill Seg Dennison along with mister pickleball of Middletown, eighty four year old Stanleyvulkens, and their competition, two guys who fashioned themselves as athletes, Bill the Mouth Cunningham, Bill What the former Notre Dame star and NFL star Rocky Boyman ex of

Here's the two to zero pitch's foul off Cunningham Law phone.

They sent them back to Cincinnati like a couple of whimpering ninnies and all hail Seg Dennison and Stanley Vulcans two to one pitch shooting.

That's ball three.

Humiliating would not be a strong enough word to describe how bad a whipping they put on those boys.

Is that when you run out of the parking lot, just get the car. It certainly is goodbye.

Well matter obviously, I'm looking for a partner because Rocky Boyman camp I was the star of the team. Now I don't play pick a ball. Well, you're dumping a super Bowl champion. Yes, I want that kid right there. Wow, because Rocky Boyman get in the second set. I think we lost the first or like eleven to two.

But the whole thing was you were humiliated and just beaten down.

Do you know what Now you're gonna play? I mean your baseball and football and maybe golf. I got a matchup. You're gonna be my partner against two other guys. We're gonna kick their ass up around their ear lobes. But yes, can you play? What's your handicap? Oh?

I'm not that good. I can make some good shots. I'm not like a serious like keep my score. I didn't know I was unfamiliar with your I didn't know it was Well.

They call him Scottie over at Kenwood Country Club. I have my Scheffler shot in my tiger Woods one iron. Then I drilled down the middle of two fifty. But nonetheless, let's talk about pickleball is a chance. Now, talk about recruitment in college. Everybody recruited you. Alabama roll Tiede, Nick Saban might have called you even you have though he's not the coach he called you. And of course Oregon the Ducks. You didn't want to be at Darkansas Andrew Bennette all one?

Did you?

Why did you decide to go to Kentucky and not the other schools that wanted you so badly?

Yeah?

I think it came down to the people for me and uh, where I was gonna go and three or four years later become a better person.

Uh you don't want to do that? Wait, kid, this doesn't sound right at all. With the money and the chicks.

Right.

That comes with it? Right?

I think I think the SEC program or a Big ten program you're gonna get.

It's gonna be all.

You know, high level, and it's it's high level pretty much everywhere you go when you get to that level. But uh, it's what separates it, and what separated it from.

Me was the people.

And uh just want to be looked at as not just an athlete, but a good human being. So yeah, I think the athlete part of it's going to be great. And I'll give you some advice in life, they'll get it right.

Let's say someone says to Matt Ponitowski, you need to get to Augusta, Maine. You know where main is. It's way up there. But you can't ask directions, you can't take Google Maps, you have no communication device. Begin your trip out of Cincinnati mull Or High School and get to Augusta, Maine. Just run into it. What are the odds you're running into Augusta, Maine?

Not great?

What if you have a plan to go to Augusta, Maine.

What if you're there?

Fuel it up. You got the Google Maps, you got your phone talking to you, Take it left, take it right. You're gonna end up in Augusta, Maine. So have a goal in life. Sometimes it is diverted one way, or you can snap an ankle or something hit you in the head with a truth. Crap happens in life all the time. But if you begin life with a plan how to get somewhere, the odds of you making there are much greater than having no plan.

Now.

Secondly, I sit here every afternoon for the last forty three years before you were born. Correct, Oh, yeah, before your father was born. And I've listened to all the excuses for failure in life. The excuses are manifold. If you do three things in life, you're ready for this.

I'm ready.

Graduate from high school. Can you do that easy? Can you work or go to school easy? Three? Not commit crime easier? And number four, don't have kids and babies till you get married. If you do those four things, you don't need a government program. You don't need hip hop classes, you don't need Sunday night basketball, you don't need finger painting, you don't need rec centers. You need to those four things, you'll be successful. Can you smell when I'm cooking?

Oh, I'm smelling it.

Years from now. If I would have you on and I'm in my fifty third year in broadcasting, what will Matt Ponatowski be doing ten years from now, I'll be the next of the on sanders seg Man. Give me some sports and make it fast.

Will he?

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I'm like Dion was fast.

He'd be in the bedroom, turn off the lights and be in bed before it was dark. How fast is that?

Almost as fast as me? Please continue?

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What did Mike Brown say?

He did say that looks like they're working to get a deal done for Trey Hendrickson Shamar Stewart. Maybe a different story apparently.

Oh. I think it's interesting and I like to see what the NFL does with that.

The National Football League, says Ian Rappaport says that the Bengals have sent at least one fresh offer to Hendrickson over the past few days. What about Shamar Stewart the defense of end, Well, it's another story. Like I said, they're all excited about their signing of a Barrick, former Bearcat quarterback, an NFL quarterback, Desmond Ritter.

He could play quarterback right now for the Bengals.

Correct. Oh, of course, I mean if they hit me up. Please continue. Let's see.

It looks like Dax Hill is going to be okay for the start of training camp. So is bj Hill good to go? Tom Bolden, formerly a cole Rain, now the king head football coach out at Lakota West, receiving Paul Brown Coach of the Year award.

You don't feel good about Lakatta Western baseball, do you?

We'll see him next year? Please continue.

Let's see, will ye after taking two or three against those Mets at City Field, the Reds are now into in Washington, d C. To take on the Nationals. Brady Singer up against Jake the Snake, Irwin.

Could you play shortstop now for the Reds and put Dela Cruz in center?

I don't know. About that one.

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Let's see wille Soccer FC Cincinnati back atop the Eastern Conference with that one nil win at Salt Lake on Saturday. The orange of Blue is also a top the standings for the supporter Shield.

Oh, hopefully we get that back.

But next up for FCC is Saturday night at Miami CF and a return match v Messi Matt Ponatoska.

If you thought about playing soccer, maybe going to FCC the Reds and the Bengals all simultaneously, now would that be something?

It would But my soccer days are over. Please continue.

Scotty Scheffler wins the Open Championship Willie at seventeen under par by four shots over Harris English. Second major of the year. He's got three legs now of the career Grand Slam. Howout he cannot be stopped. Can you play golf as well as Scotti Scheffler? I wish please continue? Big ten let's see the USA Today Big ten Football

Did you get a good education? Mauler?

Oh great?

What's the score? Root of eighty one nine?

Please continue you and let's see Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana are five and six.

What's the capital of the state of Pennsylvania Harrisburg? Correct? Very good, not bad? Pretty good education. He doesn't know what deer Park is though, Say he asked me, where's deer Park? I said, you gotta be kidding me.

Not great with geography, obviously.

All right, Matt, thanks for coming in. Why were you here, by the way, why are you here?

I was with John John and friends on his little on the radio.

Now you're in the major leagues. Oh, of course that's.

Screw it up, Matt. We'll talk later. I gotta get I'm gonna get to Griffin. We're gonna play you me and you being my partner in pickleball or golf?

Correct? Both?

God bless America. Segment give me out of the student's report. Please Willie and honor of the Moeler Crusaders, said the two times two times Gatorade Football and Baseball player of the Year. I'm gonna repeat it this year too, his senior year and kick Cole Raine's ass around their ear lobes.

We leave you with the immortal words of the Steward Report.

What's your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What crimes you commit? What discoveries will you make? None? I don't know.

Let's not get political. Met Congratulations on a life well led. You're great in sports and that would be great in life.

Thank you. I really appreciate it. God bless America.

Coming up next to from the House of Representatives, Adam Bird Bird is the word about the voting Columbus all the news radio seven hundred WLW.

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About two or three weeks ago, the governor vetoed some of the measures of public education here in the state of Ohio. And I think one of the vetos was over turned the others. Not a man with his finger on the pulse of what's happening in New Richmond, the home of the Lions, and also Columbus is state Representative Adam and Noam Bird. Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. As we sit here at two twelve pm Eastern time. What happened this morning? If anything?

Thank you, Bill. I am still in Columbus. We met at eleven am a special session called by the Speaker to consider a couple of property tax issues. You described them just a second ago at school funding issues. I think they're more properly described as as property taxes. And as you know, Bill, the property tax payer all over Ohio is crying out for help. And that's what this was about today, was to bring some property tax really to town homeowners.

And what happened goes media reporting, is that one of the three was overturned, the emergency levees. The other two not what was overturned.

There you go. So the one that was overturned was the part about no new replacement property taxes, no new emergency levees, no new substitute levees. And if you're going to put in an expense levee on the ballot, you cannot have carryover balance and access of one hundred percent of your expenses. So this is a you know, an effort. There's so many different property tax levees asks that are out there that that schools and townships and villages and

So if someone claims we have an emergency levee, the the eers emergency levees are out.

That's right, emergency. You cannot use an emergency levey anymore. You can't use a substitute levee anymore, you can't use a replacement levy. Now I would preface also that will it by reminding you that that has to go through both chambers, and since the budget bill always originates in the House, the House has to go first. We've overturned that today and so now the Senate will get together in the next couple of weeks and consider the same thing.

I would thank you and the House are not going to involve yourself in some furtive act. You would have to have an understanding that the Senate's going to follow the lead of the House.

Is that correct?

I think so yeah. And you know, everybody knows who their state senators are in southwestern Ohio, and I do believe they'll be considering it I think though, will side on. They will come down on the side of property tax payers and will decide to override the governor's veto. And you know, people crying out on this issue. There's more left to do, Willie. There is way more to do on property taxes, and we got to get to that

Well, the other thing is the Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the House that means you punted overriding videos in two other proposals that would allow county budget commissions to lower voter approve levies and secondly, change the formula known as the twenty mil floor, which guarantees a certain amount of moneys for districts. Did you punt on those other two issues?

We did, Willie, and so they're still on the table. We're still going to consider them in the future. But and you accurately described both of those vetos. One would give the County Budget Commission the authority to reduce unnecessary excessive property tax collection, and then the other one was changing the twenty millli floor calculation. We're still going to consider that but we wanted to get moving on this, and we could only get sixty two House Republicans in

I would assume therefore the other two did not come up because of the Speaker, Matt Huffman, who may come on with me tomorrow, didn't have the votes.

Is that fair to say?

I think it's fair to say. Or we want to have abundance of caution. We'll make sure that we've got them later on when we can get a couple of more House Republicans in Columbus, and we just an abundance

Did you pick this one in leadership because you knew you had the votes?

And this does not.

But on the other hand, Adam Bird of New Richmond, this doesn't reduce property taxes presently, but it may reduce it in the future. But by overriding this particular veto, it doesn't change present property taxes at all.

Is that is that accurate?

You got it though. It's not a big step, but it is a first step, and it's a first small buy at the apple, and there's more less to do. It does not reduce your property taxes yet, but it will change and perhaps keep them from increasing in the future. It doesn't mean that a political subdivision like a village, township, school, whatever, they can't ask for new moneys in the future, but we're limiting the types of levees that they can ask for and makes we want to be transparent. That's what

Why not do them all together in September. You're not going to meet again, I guess until after Labor Day one, not wait and do all three together.

Well, I think the plan on that, Lily is because a build does not become law until ninety days after it has the required signatures on it. And so you know, if we get this done, we've got it done today. If the Senate comes back and gets this done at the end of July or beginning of August, that the ninety day window would start August, September, October, and then that would give you November and December to make sure that it was in place for the January twenty six

If that happens, all hell breaks loose. So the goal I think, if Matt Huffman and others the governor included, is to try to slow down the momentum for the six hundred thousand signatures, because if that thing gets on the ballot, I guess it won't be on this November. Maybe in May or November of next year, all hell's going to break loose because the voters of Ohio will vote to eliminate the property tax. In which case you got a problem.

Well, I think your reading of the situation is dead on Willy. It didn't get the requisite signatures, didn't make it for the November twenty five ballot, but they've got another three hundred and sixty five days to collect signatures. There may be a wealthy benefactor at some point that chips in and tries to help with the signature collection to try to get it on the ballot in November

And that would be difficult. I've spoken to some township officials who currently don't have the power to enact an income tax, and one of the glories of living in a township, as you may know, is there's no township income tax. One of the reasons I moved to a township is because I wouldn't have to pay two percent income tax. The idea of residents in a township voting for the first time ever in Ohio to have an income tax would be an into fodder. That would be a problem.

Well you know, okay, so yeah, people don't don't like income taxes, but they don't like property taxes either, Bill, and so you know, there's got to be a transition because there are some necessary services that your county provides, that your township provides, what's your villages to provide and inner cities, and so it would if left up to the local entity, the local voter can decide if they want those services or to what extent they want those services,

Well, the Farris tax is a sales tax. It's paid for by Kentuckians and Hoosiers as well as buck guys. We get the benefit of them using Hamilton Counties roads and bridges. They the sales tax plus. As an American, you decide whether to pay it or not. I decide it may be a difficulty to buy a car that you can get one in Covington as well as in Cincinnati. Of course you have to register it here. Maybe people

Yeah, I don't know if it's going to be that much or not. It would depend upon that local government how much they're spending, and it would depend on how much the local board, whether it's commissioner, city council, whatever, would decide to put on the ballot. But yeah, I mean, the sales tax is another stool legg in the stool, and other states are doing a lot more sales tax

It'd be difficult to pass in a township income taxes. That would be impossible. That would be a fool's Errand and so I would hope that the property taxes actually on the ballot, numerous organizations would come together and say this is the impact of your vote. All of us want to pay as low taxes as possible, but damn it. We need schools, we need police, we need fire, we need road repair, we need the basics of government. In Ohio, it's handled at a low cost compared to other states.

Absolutely, Bil, It's an honor to be with you again and again. We're what we did today trying to protect the rights and the values of property tax payers who we are hearing from, and great numbers, and yes, you make some great points. So we've got to make sure that we're funding government of all kinds. We want to have the services that we have and finding the fairest way to pay for those with all of the different people that would be benefited by that's where we've got

Stay wrap, Adam Bird, thanks for coming on this afternoon. God bless you, and God bless America.

Thank you, Thank you, Bill God. I'll just continue with more. There you, Gavin.

You know, it's one thing to live in the city of Madeira and to pay large, high property taxes for schools that are functional, sometimes in the top five in the state of Ohio. Madera's schools. All right, you pay a lot of money and you get a lot of result. To live in the city of Cincinnati and pay higher real estate taxes than in the city of Madeira and not be able to send your kids to the schools that you pay for because they're so bad, that's another issue.

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Well saying now that Buddy Obama may be indicted. We don't indict former presidents, do we? What's he gonna what's he gonna be indicted for?

The vision for change comes from first and foremost, it comes from me.

That's my job.

According to Tulk, be indicted because he's himself. We don't indict former presidents, do we?

I don't think so.

Well.

Nixon he went and done it.

Well.

How about Trump?

Yeah?

How about he gets a dieted every week for every day. Now, what a deal?

He organize a conspiracy to violate the laws of this country.

And I'm with the President of the United States to bring back the Washington Redskins, bring back the Cleveland Indians.

Take that. Wild Man?

Yeah, wow Man, Yeah yeah, get get tape. What do you what are your real feelings? Wild Man is gonna be here in a few days to confront you. I'm gonna be sick. I feel I feel like something. I feel like the Hong Kong flu is gonna get me coming in sometime next week. So get I'm not going to tell you the day. I know, I know you won't. He's your arch nemesis. I'm not gonna tell him.

I think I'm gonna take a vacation day that day.

But Mayor Donald's gonna come here with a great proclamation about me.

That's what. Who else? It's not going to proclamate against me? Is he?

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And let's see two days away from camp starts on Wednesday at ten am.

Don't be late, Dave, gimmy, give me a cut from Mike Brown and you can tell segment the excitement and his voice for the coming season. Bengals haven't made at least one fresh contract offer to Terrey Hendrickson. Nothing new to the communications you have.

You can talk to people anytime anywhere. Thank you.

Why does any talk to Stewart? Well, they are talking the language. It's the language. What's the anger?

The agent that wants the language in the Bengals say no, so what happens?

Agent says yes. Bengals say no, that's normal.

I don't know what happens I don't know what practice start Wednesday, Wednesday at ten am.

He better be there.

In the first two games of the season, going back six uh huh uh, the coach Zach Taylor has a record of one and eleven in those twelve games.

Well, I think one, you're going to see a lot more regular players playing in the preseason.

No, get hurt.

That's including number nine. They'll be hurt. And then I think they they they got to get off to a good start. Really they go off at zero and three, it's it's uh, one and eleven. I have no idea.

That's a that's the worst record in the history of the NFL.

And you got the best quarterback and the two best wide receivers in the whole league.

Go one and eleven segment. You may not know, but that's not good.

Also, Willy Tom Bolden Lakota West named today as the Paul Brown Coach of the Year. Between Lakota West and Moeller who won in football, Uh, Lakota West beat Moller right and I won in baseball.

To todayball, I think Mason beat him in baseball. Lakota West, they have the better team, goes to Matt Ponatowski, but they lose goes in those sports, doesn't certainly mean the best team doesn't always win in life.

Segment correct, you ought to know that Red's update Brady Singer against Jake Irwin Tonight is the Reds kick off a three game series in Washington. It was a shot maybe the uh, maybe the President will be there tonight with the Reds and Gnats.

If they were called the Nationals and or the Redskins, he would be there.

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You got the mister and missus Philly fanatic going at it. You got the Trump up and embracing Hillary. I believe they they both they both head south yeah, I bet what was the other one that was? Oh, Patrick Mahomes and a referee. He's holding it, he's clutching a referral, hugging a referee. These two people are making millions of dollars living the life. Right, go to a Coldplay concert right mark Boston in Boston. The guy looks up and said, hey, let's go, let's go over the cross cam.

Yeah, as the CEO has got his hands on her boobies and she's the HR director.

What can go wrong on? Who do you call? Then?

Ghostbusters the assistant HR director. Okay, that gives eight eight eight, whatever it is, it gives feminists a job.

You're an HR director.

I graduate from Harvard or Yale or somewhere, you're in women's studies, you become an HR director.

And of course the company has to be based here. She will sue all millions of dollars. Well, then he'll get divorced to it. And how much is that going to cost?

His wife? Indicates things aren't going well right now. I wouldn't think so should not touch me?

Maybe you know who might be involved in the litigation.

Joe Dieters, the Magic Man, does he Marlin shiverduck. Does he do those kind of absolutely enough money, He'll do about anything.

Okay, believe me, Joy that might go to the you might go to justice, Joe Dieters said, let me see the evidence.

Also will he congrats to all the TV folks and everybody that got all the Emmys over the weekend, and Kanyo Rourke got Kanye Rourke and also Tricia Misher, Mackie Ye got Faron Johnson.

Daron Johnson, She's good. Why don't we ever get an Emmy.

For this rady? You think we're out of it?

Thank you?

Just test figure that out? Just testing you think you're gonna put us? They put you on TV.

And understand, Andy Furman was there?

Is that correct? That is correct?

And the fur Ball was there asking the only good questions asked by anyone. Why didn't you ask the tough questions? I just didn't feel like it. You were slurping.

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Band and you say that for the history of mankind Right there, the wild Man will be here to harass you, oh boy, merciless slate next week. I want to be there for it. He's offerating the pick six booth. Yeah, yeah, unbelieving. I'll keep five and give you one. That's the pick six. You are you suggesting some improper handling? And no, it's real, it's reality. That's what that's called.

I go there once.

How how did the big bash at Sycamore Township go over? Did you in the first lady?

No, Penny loves the powdered donuts when she wears a black top. I know that, but we did not go this year because I've seen ac DC before. I didn't want to see him again.

Well, I mean, did you go to the festival though, and walk like walk around?

No?

I figure it was going to be muddy. Play golf at Kenric Country Love. I thought it was in the baton death March. Keep the carts on the path. Every ball I hit was one hundred and fifty yards left of the cart path. I put the bag on my back and start walking. I felt like a caddy again. Tino, I got hammered, We got hammered. Tough weekend. Huh, Mike, Let me guess. Would you lose fifteen bucks?

No?

Twenty eight? Oh wow? Well big deficit there.

And in the money segment when you look at somebody the eyes that I beat your ass, give me your money and in the money.

Okay, else, it's just the pride, pride knowing you.

But I kicked the ass Steve, Mike, Steve, Tina and I were partners in Mike Lane and played very well.

So I don't know. We got our ass kicked. Well, now you got Matt.

I's gonna play right, He said. He doesn't play golf and doesn't have clubs.

Though that guy can do anything.

He's the Gatorade Player of the Year in two sports. Right, he makes Barry Larkin look like a numb nut and he goes to malor. He's the player of the year in football and and baseball and he's a junior.

Thank you. I don't know.

Is he better in foot? I mean, he's better in both? Right, you can't he is? He can't both? Right, it's like being It's like dating twins. You have to choose one.

When'd you do that?

I take both? Oh that's a different issue. Oh okay, all I can tell you Matt Ponatowski is a good kid. Though, yes, yes, he is good kid.

He said.

He can't come back anymore. As coach called him, he said, leave him alone. He did the Studge report. Jeez, I said, let's get him on here before the mull Or High School finds out bingo which case that's it? Oh well, well you gotta you gotta make your own music and city. He was here, He was here for.

Kiss one oh seven act. We aren't that bad. They're they're worse. It's terrible. John John awful.

And then his mother worked with John John at another radio station, so you know it's Matt good.

They were out there tossing the football and you should have saw John John try to catch a football.

Ten thumbs, had no chance like him. All right, give me out of the studg's report. We got many issues, so little time, okay.

Willie and honor of a beautiful Monday with nice cool temperatures out there.

I think I'm having on tomorrow and liveing legend from the Boston, Massachusetts Bobby Or No, keep going, Uh, Tom Brady, No, Bill Belichick, Howie car what the And then next week Tom Brenneman, the Bill Belichick, Will the interview Jay Hudd be in the house, I'd say yes, I don't know. I said, I'm looking.

Forward to it.

He said, he's he's he is talking to coach Belichick himself.

Tom over the weekend once again with Steve Bartonman on the mic in Chicago. That guy's like disappeared, right, he's disappeared. He's handled it with more class than Cubs fans have. Oh, I mean that guy. He got the World Series ringing the year after the Yeah, that's true. And they wanted to honor him throughout the first pitch and he said no, well he's probably still the one of the ten most wanted and Shane and you got it. You got the World Series rings so well. But uh but Tom Brennman

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Lastly, the Red Lakes have played one hundred games as I speak, correct. They have played fifty at home and fifty on the road. Right, they're just beat it home. The best team in baseball home record is the Metropolitans, But coming up this month are games against Saint Louis.

Well, they got Tampa Bay this weekend, Yankee. Then the Dodgers gone to town, no problem there, and then after that h Brewers at some point. They never got to play the Brewers seven more times throughout the rest of the season. And the Cubs they haven't. They have not done with the You gotta.

Beat the Brewers, the Cubs. They can't beat the Brewers, the Cups, the Pirates of the Cardinals. Is that a problem? Yes, they beat the Yankees right, five out of six. Yeah, they beat up on h Boston they were one in three, but then New York Mets they're two and one. They played the good teams well and the bad teams poorly, and Pittsburgh stinks.

And everything.

They got one good player now and he doesn't hustle cruise and one good looking girlfriend talking about I call her live. Then go Paul Skeins yep, talking about having life by the Coyones. That's right there, baby, All right. Segment, thank you, yes sir, Let's see what happens down the road. Reds Baseball kicks off about five forty five to night and segment where is.

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