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the wildcard. And tonight Hunter Green, who I think, according to David Young of Warren County, Hunter Green may be related to Hunter Biden. The two have the same first name. I'm not sure that's accurate, but I want to check in with David Young on the tennis tournament. So much more, plus the wards of Jason Williams yesterday that talked about following Jimmy Haslin to leave downtown Cleveland and go south

into the suburbs and build a big deal. And is that possible for one of the six or seven outlying counties, maybe in Boone County, Tony Bender and a bunch of investments get together and build a stadium for the tune of two to three billion dollars and then there'll be a big return on that in about thirty five years. But until then, Dave Young, welcome again to the Bill cunning Him Show, the tennis tournament, the Bengals moving and more.

Have you seen evidence of Hunter Green pitching tonight related somehow to Hunter Biden? Is that possible, Willie?

Hunter Biden to get the ambassadorship. It looks a little Have you noticed that once you go into politics, if you're Nancy Pelosi or if you're Mitch McConnell, even though you make one hundred and sixty two thousand dollars a year, which seems like a lot of money, but you live in two places, you pay taxes. Taxes in Washington, DC are confiscatory, that somehow there's a direct correlation between the number of years you're in politics making a little no

money and your net worth. Is there any truth to Warren County being the same way that you've gone into politics, And of course you were a rich guy before you went in you're a rich guy now. But have you noticed in Washington, d C. That the longer you're in politics, the more money you make and you build homes along the Atlantic Ocean? Have you noticed that?

to do a certain job. Then, miraculously, four or eight years later, you go from being worth you know, a few hundred thousand dollars, maybe a couple of million bucks, and you're worth thirty million, wow, or in some cases one hundred million as a president when frugal work community organized. I don't maybe, but you know, hey, maybe they made a million bucks on a book. But man's that's an unbelievably good return on your investment advisor.

be very frugal with her money. And of course Joe Biden, he's buying houses along the Atlantic coastline. He never made more than one hundred and sixty two thousand, Tili became the president making four hundred thousand. He must be very frugal. He's buying multi million dollar mansions on the coastline. That's not bad. I mean, you got to save your money. Let's talk about something more Germane really, yeah, we got you a hard stop.

Alcatraz Is? How was yesterday? How will this afternoon be? How about tomorrow? When should I attend? If at all?

the people that were there on passes and things. There was I don't know ten thousand people around that stadium to watch a charity match with Agacy, Roddick and Eisner. And it was literally unbelievable, Willie. I was sarr yesterday. Bands playing literally they they've transformed this fan area where it used to be just so hot in the asphalt and it was terrible. They put this fan centric philosophical approach to everything out there. They've made it into like

a garden. There are these massive trees. I don't even there where the you get landscaping trees this big. I mean it's all shaded out there now. It is so much better. There was two different bands playing, and it's like there was activity and it's great tennis to watch. But there was just a lot of stuff going on that was fun. All the restaurants, bars everywhere. I mean, it was just a heck of a lot of fun and people were clearly having fun yesterday at the Sensei Open in Warren County.

is about one and a half billion. They're going to give him two hundred and fifty acres. He's going to develop it all. He's going to be the landlord for hundreds of apartment's, going to be the landlord for strip centers, going to have condo projects and swimming pools and dancing girls and dancing bears. And that's going to be twenty five miles south of Cleveland, which is a good idea. The closer you get to Cleveland, the more your nostrils begin to flare and you smell stuff. You get out

of Cleveland things a little bit better. And so he made the point in the inquir that the odds of the Bengals leaving Cincinnati downtown Cincinnati out to Warren County or Claremont County or Boone County, despite the heavy investment of Tony Bender and Boone County around the airport, is almost non existent. Now your names come up because you're the grand economic emperors area of Warren County that kept

the tennis tournament. You expand that King's Island all Hell's break and lose great place to live from your general overlook, what are the odds of the Bengals using Warren County as reached to stay in Cincinnati and get a better deal from Alisha Reese also known as Elisha Bridges because she loves the nightlife. What are the odds.

talking about. And I have to a little bit say that maybe other people that know what they were talking about when I said it was going to stay and we had a really good shot, maybe I was right. But anyway, I digress. So I'm not living in the past. I'm not happy today, William. I'm moving forward. Tennis is

being played around the corner. It's awesome when you talk about the Bengals, which I'm a huge fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cincinnati Reds obviously, and those are national sports assets, even though our tennis tournament is international, but those are national sports assets that are so critically important for the region. My prayer is that the Brown family in Hamilton County, which I believe owns the stadium,

work out a deal and that that stadium is upgraded. Now, if you ask in general, has there been a trend in the NFL by very rich owners saying I want to control more of the pie, and as a matter of fact, I want to make the pie outside over here, and I basically own the whole pie, and I'm going

to leave the taxpayers out of it. There has been a trend of doing that, and there's actually a really strong economic case for that happening, simply because when you think about it, I mean Jerry Jones, super rich guy. I've been to at and T Stadium, every thing around there. There was really nothing there, and then all of a sudden, they started building up an entertainment complex with hotels, bars, restaurants all around the stadium, knowing that's a destination location.

It doesn't have to be downtown. And so he built all of those things around there on his dime, knowing he was going to make that investment back by utilizing his one big asset. So there is a model to

do that. However, the pieces are not in place, in my humble opinion, for that to happen in Cincinnati, simply because you know, I hate talking about other people's financial situations, but I don't know that from reports that would the Bengals ownership group have the desire to go and spend presumably billions of dollars on creating their own entertainment and complex. Maybe they do, and good for them. Again, I don't know other people's financial certaincy sences other than what reported

in the public domain. But you know, we do know that owners of other teams are worth multiple billions of dollars and them spending a billion or two billion here or there on something that they project getting their money back in a very short return on their investment. That happens, and it happens more and more, which is good for the taxpayers because the taxpayers do get a benefit from

these sports stadiums. If it's a good deal, Willy, it's got to be a good deal put together by business people where both sides went, the taxpayers and the people that have risked their own free market capital and gone and invested millions and sometimes billions of dollars in these sports teams. It's got to be a mutually beneficial deal.

that he wears. The odds him saying at the age of ninety, you know what, boys and girls, it's time for us to strike out to buy two hundred acres of land in the middle of nowhere and to build an entertainment complex and strip malls and apartment buildings over the next five to ten years. I don't think that fits Mike Brown's model. I'm not sure. I'm not sure it fits.

It has to be a mutually beneficial relationship. And what we did with the tennis tournament was think there's a seventy five million dollars a year current economic impact to the region, and next year it's going to be close to one hundred and fifty million dollars, two hundred thousand people coming this year, four hundred thousand people attending next year, and as you said, close to seventy percent of those

don't live here. And if you're Hamilton County, Claremont County, Butler County, Warren County, those people that live away from here, and I've talked to a lot of them from Chicago or New York or wherever. When they come here. Number One, they have money. They have discretionary money to come and watch this sporting event for a week at a time or two weeks at a time. They come, they stay at our hotels, they eat at our restaurants, they shop

in our stores. They generate economic activity, and they pay a sales tax, and they pay workers. The companies that pay the workers pay an income tax if they live in a city. So that's what's generating this return to

the taxpayers. And the study has been done that it looks like in the breakdown, just to refresh your memory, on one hundred and thirty million dollars that was invested in this tournament, fifty million from the state, fifty million essentially minus five million that was really in a sales tax incentive, So forty five million from Warren County and thirty five million from the City of Mason. That is

the deal. Warren County. We're projecting to get that entire return of forty five million dollars like ten years based on the sales tax revenue that's coming in from this tournament. This was a good deal for the taxpayers. Now you flip it to a much larger scale. You know, forty fifty million dollars is a heck of a lot of money in Warren County. We've never done anything like that, but we've never had a global sports asset that was

about to leave before. So we decided to step up to the plate and come up with a plan, and it was accepted by the billionaire who did risk his hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to invest his free market capital here and wanted to partner with us and stay here. So there was an economic incentive for him to partner with us. But in terms of billions of dollars from the taxpayers of Warren County, no, absolutely not.

But you glean from him the idea that the comments by some and sports radio about the Bengals moving in the suburbs is not going to work. Plus in the background, I've read the previous columns about the financial situation of the stadium. It is the most generous lease ever awarded to an NFL franchise according to the so called experts. Once again, the Bengals had the taxpayers in Hamblin the

county and the city over a barrel. Because number one, there might be an idea of moving the franchise like the Cleveland Browns are doing about twenty five miles south and own everything. That's not the standard that Mike Brown has used the guy's worth about three billion dollars. But

there was a problem. According to the in caircurding the stories that many many years ago, when the grandfather of football died, Paul Brown, the legendary Paul Brown, the franchise went to Mike Brown, and then it went to John Sawyer and one of the heirs of Procter and Gamble. Then it went back to Mike Brown and the irs. I thought something was a scance. Was that transfer to

defeat estate taxes? And Mike Brown took the irs to court and Mike Brown won in court saying no, it was it was an arms length transaction with John Sawyer, A P and g Air and it wasn't. It was for fair market value, and that of course angered the irs. But Mike Brown took down the irs. You know, father time is undefeated, untied, unscored on and so Mike Brown is about ninety years old now, and there'll be another

transfer in his estate. I would assume that Katie and the other members of the family, Paul H. Brown, et cetera. Then the irs will where it's ugly head again and saying okay, we won forty percent of the sale. So

down the road. That's a factor out in the distance, but in reality, Warren County is not scaled, nor any other county would be scaled in the tri State to step up to a billion and a half dollars of support directly and indirectly to move the Bengals to the suburbs, that means the Bengals need to stay downtown to the odds and moving to some other city. In this world, it's very slight. There's all kind of rules and regulations that would keep the Brown family from moving, the Blackburn

family moving the Bengals somewhere else. They obviously could sell to Toronto or Mexico City and probably make five billion dollars a billion here and a billionaire suddenly got a

lot of money to talk about. And so over the next year or two, father time, undefeated, untied, unscored on, there'll be something happening with the Bengals, and I pray to God they stay right here in Cincinnati, because it looks as if for the next five to ten years, as Brian Combs knows, there's going to be one hell of a Bengals run, and maybe there'll be a Super

Bowl brought because of Joe Burrow. So we'll see what happens down the road, but here for a minimum of the next six years, they're exercise their option next year or soon to five more years. That's six years. That gets this to around twenty thirty, and by then some

of these things might become clear. What happens. I think in retrospect has been a tremendous positive to have the Bengals in Cincinnati compared to what We're a major league town, but we're so small and we punch well above our weight, much like in the Olympics when men beat up women. That's a different story I may talk about. But to have the things happening in our town, such as this week the Cincinnati Open and then next week is going

to be two weeks. Seventy percent who come here come from out of the Try States, so they spend money like drunken sailors on shore leave that support jobs and economic base, et cetera. And the Moneys will be given back. But no county in the Try State other than Hamilton County has the power and the prestige and the money to do things to keep the Bengals here. And the fact that Bengals put in one hundred and fifty million dollars of their own money to upgrade parts of the

stadium when they didn't have to. It is an indication that Katie Blackburn Brown and Troy and Paul H. Brown, et cetera, the family is connected to keeping the keeping the Bengals in Cincinnati. And then there may be some adjustments of one type or another to pay off any possible estate tax. But that's down the road, not for you and I to concern ourselves with. It's just the reality of the way sports franchises are and the values

are skyrocketing one direction, and that's up. So to have the Bengals here, to have the Reds here, to have UC football basketball, to have Xavier basketball, Dayton, to have Wright State, to have Miami all around us. You know, when I give a little talk, which I do infrequently these days, but I still do it. If you want the best college football program in history, according to Sports Illustrated,

it's the Ohio State Buckeyes. And if you want the best college basketball program in history, that would be the University of Kentucky Wildcats. And if you love auto racing, there's something called the Indianapolis five hundred that's not bad. And if you like any of the arts, which I do not like ballet and symphony and opera and all that kind of stuff, we have here, right here in Cincinnati.

If you like soccer because of Jeff Birding and Carl Linder the third, guess what, we have Major League Soccer right here. If you like street festivals, they're every weekend everywhere. If you like the best taste of Cincinnati, it's right here Memorial Day weekend. If you like Octoberfest, the largest

outside of Germany, it's right here. And if you like a good college, a good university, you got NKU Schari Paolo One, you got Xavier Hrywin, you got uc Tony Pike went there, you got Miami, you got Wright State, you got Mount Saint Joe, you have Thomas Moore. You have all that right here. And if you like good high schools, guess what between Highlands and Scott Tackett at Beechwood and Cuvekath and you go to Muller High School.

Of course, deer Park as a fabulous high school led by Jay Phillips and the GCL even sand Nex doesn't do a bad job, and the Elder and Roger Bacon guess what you wanted some high school? How about East Central? Not bad? If you like Harrison Tony Moss JTM, you know, not bad. That's pretty good stuff. And we have all those things because, as I say to many Americans, and

ocean is comprised of many waves, many many waves. There's large waves, medium waves, and small waves, and there's ripples, and there's tsunamis.

I think of three c DC, unbelievable stuff. They're large waves, big waves, tsunami waves that make the ocean what it is. There's medium waves. It's those who may belong to private country clubs or private groups of one type or another that participate in this great economy. There's small waves. Then there's ripples. I can think of My dear mother departed about fifteen years ago when my father deserted us when I was about twelve years old and left my mom

with four young kids, incapable of supporting herself. She was a small ripple in the economic engine that drives this great country. She worked in married hotshops for twenty years and the Kenwin Mall. The first employee they hired and the last one that left and turn out the lights was Mary Ellen Cunningham. She was a small ripple, but damage. She lived her good life in great ways and participated in the economy and contribute it to the greatness of

our land. Absolutely contributed. When I think of my rumpty garbage man, I love that guy. He's got three kids. I help him out when I can, leaving small little things for him, little gifts, you know, no big deal, But it's my way of saying thank you for participating in the economy, doing a tough job. When I see a server at Montgomery Inn, when I see someone at one of the great facilities in northern Kentucky, you're in

by Rob Sanders, and I think about no tax on tips. Absolutely, those people are never going to make a large amount of money. They struggle. A ten dollar bill, a twenty dollars bill means a lot to them. And to have the government chase down individuals that are receiving tips, whether a uber driver or maybe a Lyft driver or some other connected to the service economy, and you get paid in cash tips, that's kind of like money you work

for that make a difference. And the reason we have so many of these these credit card machines these days in which you put down your tips is the government encourages businesses to have tipped employees to use that so they can prove whether you're cheating the government out of one hundred dollars or one thousand dollars in two thousand dollars. Well, at the same time, Joe Biden, for example, and Kamala Harris go into office poor and they come out of

office millionaires. Joe Biden never made more than one hundred and forty two thousand dollars a year, and then until he became the president and he's the acting president. Now he's no clue what's going on. He's making four hundred thousand, yet he's got enough money to buy multiple homes along the Atlantic Oshan, I look at Nancy Pelosi, who went into Congress worth little or nothing, now worth three hundred

million dollars. How's that possible? I look up Mitch McConnell, who never made more than one hundred and seventy two thousand dollars a year in the Senate. That guy's worth tens of millions of dollars. How's it possible? The great politicians who set the rules don't play by those It comes to others, and they use their positions of power

and influence to greatly benefit themselves at our expense. But the government will hire eighty seven thousand IRS agents to go after tipped employees to make sure you're doing your part. And now Donald Trump found an issue he found exciting and write and correct. Guess what. Let's not have tax on tips. Let's not have tax on social security benefits. The great majority of Americans on Social Security aren't rich

and famous. The great majority pinch their dollars and make sure they have a good life and pass on something to their kids. Well, on one hand, you have large multinational corporations and politicians and high tech giants contributing five hundred million dollars to the Democratic Party to quote get out the vote and then they're protected by the lawmakers. Wink wink, nod nod, don't audit that guy, don't go after this woman because they're donating five hundred million dollars

to the Democratic Party. But then the irs are go after a tipped employee. Are you kids me? That's the way the game's played. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. And I compliment Americans that work no matter what status in life in which you find yourself. Being a truck driver is a damn hard job. Scrutinize CDLs more excessive training and independent truck drivers have one hell of a time making ends meet. Goes to the cost of petrol because of the cost of a fuel.

It's difficult, it's hard. So if you work at anything, I like to encourage young Americans to be prepared for the future. Remember yesterday, but live today and enjoy what you're doing. So when I look at someone like Hunter Biden, who needed money for his drug habits and his girlfriends and his hookers to go out and sell art for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars art put together by Hunter Biden, and then the person that did that is

a democratic favorite person getting an ambassadorship. Are you kidding me? That's the way the game is played. The rich get richer. But I want to maintain a vibrant, happy, go lucky, functioning middle class of teachers and bricklayers like Bob the bricklayer, working, hard, working, smart. I want to have electricians and plumbers. I want craft Electric to succeed. I want Crashman Electric to do great stuff. I like this small little ripples in life which ultimately

can produce larger waves and maybe even a tsunami. Because when the lenders began about seventy years ago, they would pick up milk and amelia and transport it early in the morning to Norwood to sell milk United Dairy Farmers. That little simple idea formed itself into a giant corporation. That's where we are. And I had some things prepared in front of me. I haven't gotten to them. I get on a tangent, but it kind of fires me up.

But when I see that Kamala Harris, who's favored from San Francisco, is now taking up the banner of no tax on tips, where the hell did that come from? Came from? Donald Trump? How about no tax on Social Security. Where did that come from? Came from Donald Trump? The butchers, the bakers, the candlestick makers. Is what make this economy works. Not the rich and famous. Without all of us pulling in the same direction, we're in trouble. I got all this stuff in front of me, I got on a tangent.

I'm sorry. That's the way I feel about this great country. That's worth's fighting for, it's worth saving, and we can have Californian values of San Francisco, a failed city state being used as a template to come to Lawrenceburg, or come to Columbus, or come to Green Township, or come to Minnesota. You picked Governor Tim Wallace. I watched this grandmother who's sixty two years old that was shut down, had her little coffee shop shut down by the governor.

When she reopened against the governor's orders, she was locked up and served sixty days in jail and miss Christmas because Governor Waltz would keep open the strip clubs and the liquor stores, but not mom and pop businesses that he destroyed. Now he wants to move up the ladder and become the vice president and possibly the president of the United States. Are you kidding me?

I don't think so. It doesn't fit. All the news that fits their bias they print. If it doesn't fit, they don't print it. Let's continue with more. Twelve fifty six Home of Your Reds tonight with Hunter Green? Are they about to go on a ten game stretch? All a news radio seven hundred. You will then believe this little lawful can tell that way that I was bad at them all Ahad of the Bowl Ad the bole,

Bill Cunningham, the great American. Of course, we have now the VP selection that Governor Waltz the Socialists to work with Kamala Harris to fundamentally changed the country, which was the mission that began in twenty oh seven and twenty eight.

And we try over the next several weeks to inform the American people as to the policies coming their way if Kamala Harris wins the presidency, and she will assume if she wins, along with the Socialists from Minnesota, I guess what this is what you want as an American. Giancarlo Connaparo is a senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation's me Center for Legal and Judicial Studies in gian Carlo,

Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And the first question is this in the past, and she's never refuted this that Kamala Harris believes in reparations based I imagined upon and when you look at her history, when I go through various sources, it appears at her family, her father's family in Jamaica owned African slaves. So it gets a bit complicated. How would it work, How would Kamala Harris's support for reparations work for Black Americans? Who pays it?

How much? And would it tear the American people apart.

from Africa and the West Indies. Her father is one of them. I mean, she is not a descendant of an American slave. Her father, she grew up here after the Civil Rights movement of nineteen sixty four.

just who qualifies anyway? And who decides who qualifies? Do you qualify if your family, you know, if you are only half black or one eighth maybe or one sixteenth or does the government need to start measuring the quanta of your blood like it used to do in the South during Jim Crow?

And what if you were a slave owner and not a slave, For example, the family of Kamala Harrison in Jamaica, she's not the How do you do I get five percent of whatever someone else gets? And as a slave owning family, does Kamala Harris have to pay or get paid?

the Supreme Court. So they practiced DEI and practice affirmative action, and then then dare you to even mention the fact that they do it, and it's your problem. But over the last fifty years, has an affirmative action and DEI been the essence of reparations?

The Democrat was the party of racial spoil system. That Democrats are the ones with Ku Klux Klan outfits in the nineteen twenties that marched up and down Washington DC avenues. It was the Democrats that did all this. But when I grew up, it was equal opportunity, give everyone an

equal opportunity. And from that Kamala Harris, I guess claims to be black at this point, has been elected as a city prosecutor, a county prosecutor, the attorney general of California, US Senator from California, Vice President of the United States, and if the polls are right, maybe the president. How hard has it been for her to succeed magnificently in her area of study, which is politics, despite or maybe

because of her color of skin. Explaining the American people the difference between equal opportunity as opposed to equity, those are different things.

most suburban areas. We have a situation now where it has been it's certainly the case among corporate America and elsewhere, colleges universities broadcasting that the color of your skin, your gender and your identity counts a whole bunch, because when we look at TV today, there are black faces and brown faces and gay faces everywhere we have equal opportunity, we have large numbers of individuals who have succeeded or not succeeded only because not because of the color of

their skin, but the content of their character. And that does a look around today, and I work with black folks and Hispanic folks and gay folks and lesbian folks. It's okay, it's fine. But when the outcome is not the same. Now democrats want to say, well, after all, there's all this insipid there's all this unspoken, there's all this institutional racism that I can't prove by individual acts,

but we all know it exists. So therefore, let's not only give equal opportunity, but when large numbers of individuals of color don't succeed by whatever means or method objective standards, let's make sure at the end of the day we divide up the pie and give them at the end of the day as much or more money than someone that went through the process and worked hard. When I look at the NBA, look at college football, look at

high school whatever it is. I see great successes all the time from persons of color, but the equal opportunity argument is done. Why in your view, gian Carlo, what was the turning point and what was the reason we got rid of equal opportunity now we want the same results. Did that happen to in your mind? Did that come at a moment or simply we evolved into this, you know, in.

they found that really comforting. There was a sense that the fact that nobody could ever actually behave and be color blind and free people well without regard to the coast and it gave them freedom. It absolved them of responsibility, right, So all they had to do is give a little money here, make the government solve some problems there, redistribute a little wealth here, and they could be good without actually being good. And that I think really explains it.

It has just taken over liberal intellectual elite types and they're they're the ones pushing me.

It makes them feel good about themselves. It makes them feel like they can solve thorny and complicated problems that don't beg for real easy solutions.

a story untold. By contrast, the number of people between eleven and twelve million slaves were taken from Africa and captured by African tribes and sold to Europeans and Arabs mainly, and we received about four percent of the total. About four percent came to America. The other ninety six percent were selt elsewhere. And the reason black survived in this country as slaves but not in South America is because despite the brutality of what happened in the southern plantations

controlled a course by democrats. They were treated much better than those who went into the Amazon fours to clear out the trees, etc. They were just slaughtered. America received four percent of the slaves from Africa who were captured by African tribesmen. Can we go back to Africa and ask reparations from them for selling four percent of the slaves to Americans who were Democrats? Is that possible?

to war to end it. We sent fleets across the nation, across the world to end it. We stamped it out around the whole We're here first and around the whole world. That's what's unique about America and slavery, not that it happened.

and Africa and Arab countries. The word slaves come from Slavs, which are the European people enslaved by the Muslim tribes because they were attractive with blonde hair, especially the women. But slavery continued. Americas stopped it, Britain stopped it, but the African tribes and South Americans and the Arabs continued it even through today. There's more slaves alive today than ever before in human history. Jan Carlo conna Paro of the Heritage Foundation, I think the truth will set us free.

And with the Akamala Harris types, it is a political slogan untethered to reality and Gion Carlo once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And gian Carlo. That's a great first name. You're a great American. Jan Carlo, thank you. I'd rather have your name than Bill, but Jean Carlo, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And possibly we'll do it again. Thank you, sir, Thank you very.

eight thousand hot fudge cakes. So thank you Paul and Dirk's and Dirks sang a couple of songs while he was there.

You got to check out the The Stripe the Jungle map on Bengals dot com to see what color your section could be wearing for the game. So there's gonna be like a couple of sections in black, some of them in orange. So they you know they're gonna do it that way, eh, Yeah, unbelievable. And Mac also J J. McCarthy out of Michigan, is he hurt? Yes, Michigan and the Minnesota Vikings rookie quarterbacks is gonna undergo surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee.

He founded Queen City Sausage about sixty seventy years ago and worked like a dog all through his life and rich the lives of so many, put to work thousands of people making tons of Queen City Sausage, which is delicious, by the way, which is the best. And may Elmer Hensler rest in peace in the hands of God Almighty. Ninety four years young. He broke his hip about ten days ago and went to the hospital and when he got out had surgery. When he got out. He told

Sean Donovan, you know what, Sean, I'm done. And they go through two to three months of rehab and he said, Sean, I'm done. So what do you do? God bless you, Willy. I'll tell you what. Queen City Sausage is the best, you know, sir, they beat the best and serve the rest. And I'll tell you what. Queen City Sausage great product and elm may a great man. Elmer Hensler ninety four years old and was a mobile till the last year

or two of his life. Was in his little scooter and used to go to Jeff Ruby Steakhouse with Britney constantly. And great guy. And he'll be missed. We did Sausage Fest in Naples with Sean Donovan and Michelle Schneider and Elmer Hensler brought his entire crew down in Naples to serve Queen City Sausage. How about that? How about his number one customer is Kroger. So Elmer, wherever you are, thanks for your friendship and thanks for what you've done

for the people that try. Stay amen. Alright, say tonight the Reds might go on a long streak if they can win two more from the Cardinals. Oh boy, they are tied with the Cardinals. And then welcome in the Kansas City Royals. They're not very good, are they? Kind of yes, I'm sorry. And then the next week, next week, from this week from today, they'll be in Toronto. Blue Jays aren't very good. But Joey Vado is Joey Vodo

off the DL. He may be back with him. So this is the end of August and Joey Vado may finally play correct. And you wanted him to play for the Reds right sign one more year? Is what you said? I didn't see anything. Well I want to blame you anyway. Oh okay, but he's now a Blue Jay and he's still hurt. What's wrong with him? Ankle and back? Matt McClain didn't play last year, like the end of August or September. What was Matt McClain's injury last year? I

don't know't it didn't play? No, So this year he's ready to play. Right, dives for a ball at second base, throws out his shoulder, his left shoulder right surgery. He's out correct, getting ready to play. He then hurts a rib. Is that correct? How do you do that. I guess you'd turn the wrong way or do something. He's only twenty five years old. He had a stress reaction. What does that mean?

I don't know. Call crime check. We haven't called him in a while. Got more MRIs than RBIs, that's for sure. Stress. How do you get twenty five years old and have a stress reaction? How does Mims have a peck injury when he's twenty two? Don't ask me, Welly, I don't know everybody's heart. Are you hurt? Always?

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more and we have thousands on hold. I want to make one quick statement then we're going to move on, and that is that the great majority of the American people, believe it or not, do not understand or get involved with or study politics at all. Great majority of the American people don't vote, and those that do vote or committed one way or another, and they don't want to hear something to conflict with what their belief system is.

I'm a conservative Republican, I'm a libertarian. I tend to vote Republican, but now and then I'll vote for a good Democrat, absolutely, especially in law enforcement, like Charmaine McGuffey. Absolutely, she had her class yesterday in which she admitted a whole bunch of brand new CEOs correction officers. She works it. And I supported Democrats like Dusty Rhoades for many decades, if not years, And I also have voting for Democrat when it come to judges. I know most of the

judges personally, and damn it, there's lots of good democratic judges. So, but the majority of US don't know what's going on politically and don't pay the majority of American people do not listen to talk radio. They do not peruse the various websites that I do. They don't watch cable news and the great American right here. I watch Morning Joe on MSNBC, I watch CNN, I watch News Nation, I watch Newsmax. I spend I'm a news junkyard, love it, and I spend time with that. Yes, I do that.

The uh You might recall Jay Leno did those sidewalk interviews in which he would ask questions like what language they speak in Britain. The answer came back French or British, seldom English. Can you name the governor of California? Great majority of time people who know right now, Mike DeWine's been in office about six years. About half of Ohioans couldnot name the governor of Ohio. And the great majority of Ohioans cannot name their US Senator or US congressman.

They don't know. They spend their good lives in simple ways. They're so turned off by politics. They can't take it anymore. So I want to go to you, the American people. We have calls from Milford, the home of the Eagles, in Green Hills, and Loveland, and by the way, tomorrow I'm gonna have on the Attorney General David Yost, who calls to be indicted the city manager of Loveland on a child trafficking charge. Unbelievable, plus a call in Cincinnati. But when I did talk radio at night, it was

largely driven by telephone calls from people like you. And during the day the research indication you want to hear more expert guests. But every now and then I want to go back and listen to you because in your name I broadcast, because of our great advertisers, and because of my ratings. I'm here and I'm damn proud to be here, and I want to stay here with you as long as I can. It may only be a couple more years, because you know, father time is undefeated, untied,

unscored on. But when I wake up in the morning with a passion to come and speak with you, not to you or at you, but with you, and when it keeps me active politically to see what's going on, to give you information upon which you hopefully can cast an inform ballot that motivates me. Let's go to the calls. First. I have thousands on hold, and later on we have deb will be here about big brothers and big sisters.

But we have Pete and Milor the Home of the Eagles, and then Jerry and Kenwood, Pete and mel for the Home of the Eagles, and Bruce Little John. Give me a full report. Pete, what is your answer to my question if the election were held today, who would you vote for? If anyone?

twenty twelve. You can recall the excitement of Barack Obama running for the presidency and he turned out Democratic voters tither and fro suburban voters, and Donald Trump out ran outcast Obama by seven million votes and still lost easily. Now, how's that possible? When Joe Biden didn't campaign, had no excitement at all. Something went on that the court system could not resolve. And I'm not so sure it's not going to happen again. But on the other hand, what do we do? What do we do? Pete? Do we

sit here and just accept the inevitable? Do we fight like warrior poets for a country worthy to be what do you say?

of you. Here's my ID. I vote. It all began with thirty day to sixty day voting, in which democratic activists had time to pile in the batment, and then they create something like ballot harvesting. It used to be if Pete and Milford or Jerry and Kenwan wanted to vote,

you showed up and you voted in most states. Now you have ballot harvesting, So you're gonna have a director in a nursing home with one hundred people there, sent out one hundred ballots and one person collects all the ballots, probably fills out most of them, get them signed, and then they drop him in a dropbox. That is wrong, and the Republican Party was part of that. And allowing people to vote for thirty days put me in charge. It'd be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and then Tuesday you

got five days to vote, and that's it. We've got to change the idea that we don't have voter ID and that we don't have drop boxes, and that we don't have ballot harvesting. It's a person voting and I'll work to get back to that. But Democrats will never agree to that pete because the current system is benefiting them and not the nation.

should ask him about his Haiti dealing with trafficking. Well, you know, he's got hit an orphanage in Haiti, and at this point it's it's closed because they're killing people. But I do not base my friendships upon political equations. Otherwise it wouldn't be friends with people in our newsroom. Chris and Westchester. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Chris, go ahead, hello.

is the premise of the commercial. Okay. It starts out with a bunch of kids racing on these big wheels in the school yard, right and they're racing, and they're racing, and these two kids are and all of a sudden, it's down to the last two kids. And guess what they look like. One of the children are a pretty sweet, young looking African American girl, and the other boy is a white boy who's a little bit older. You can

tell he's got a few more years on her. And yet they're the two that are in at the end of the race, and they're racing and racing, and all of a sudden, the the the pretty young black girl wins the race, and everybody's happy for her and this and that, and you can see the face on the older white boy is and he's got this grumb like

twinty face, like Trump with me. And it's like, if you can't read the messaging in that right away, you're either blind or ignorant, or you shouldn't even think about being anywhere near a political arena because the as the

messaging is so blatant. I'm like, okay, so now we're using children to try I mean, we're getting to that point that you're so desperate that you actually have to push children now to try to get the message across to their parents that you know, I mean, I know it's just a shoe commercial, but that racing kind of well, it's just it's still too too convenient for them.

And I have the quote from one of them. Let me see if I got the quote here from the one boxer that had her nose broken by the male boxer. She said, I've spent my life trying to win a medal here in the in the Olympics, and I'm beaten by a man who says he's a woman who's hit harder than anyone I've ever dealt with. And so it begins in small ways with like Jim shoe commercials, and then it metastasizes into the Olympics. You go woke, you go broke, is what I say. Go woke, you go broke.

And why have a political message about tennis shoes for children? Why do that? Yeah?

to vote for liberal Democrats. Look at what's happening to your daughters and to your granddaughters. They mean to tell me that that's okay with you. The answer is no. And I know that when it comes to an issue like abortion, people ears are plugged and their eyes are have the blinders on. They don't want to talk about it. I went to a governmental website Health and Human Services.

They recommend that mothers, they call them people mothers, begin prenatal care between the sixth and the tenth week of pregnancy. Why would you begin pre natal care at maybe the sixth week of pregnancy if it's not a baby. One might ask the question, and you can't ask the question because you get the wrong answer and the right answer is damn it, that is a baby at six to ten weeks. You get pre natal care for a baby. You don't get pre natal care for a sister or

a tumor. It's a baby. Explain that one to me.

for your call. Wonderful. Let's take a short break and if the line ever becomes available, which she never does five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, with your permission, I do this because of you, and I do this because of my great advertisers who pay the bills that keeps me on the air listening and you watching, et cetera. And I'm going to do more over the objections of my producer. I'm going to Sean McMahon and Dave. I may take more telephone calls because that last call in

the first call were significant. So many Americans are turned off by the political system that they think is rigged, that they don't want to participate in a fraud. I'll say this to my friend in Milford, Ohio has a functioning voting system because of many, many secretaries of state in Ohio. We don't have ballot harvesting in Ohio. We don't have unattended drop boxes. In Ohio. We have voter idea, you got to prove who you are. Well, we don't

have We don't have Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. Are functional participate in a functioning democracy, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. Dammit, we have a functioning democracy. So vote two twenty six Home reds Tonight, Hunter, Green, not related to Hunter Biden on the Mound, Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WLW, go ahead. That's not what people are interested in.

Now that's normal right there. You know what I'm saying, seg I've seen you stiff a few bucks in a G string in my time. Do you recalls lost and talks here?

I bet you do. There's one get me out of the student's report.

their full potential. So we match kids in the community with a mentor a positive adult role model, just just somebody who can show them you know, you're somebody who cares about them that that doesn't have to and U and when you know, in our in our community based programs, Bill, when you become a big brother, you'll go and pick your little brother up from his house maybe on a Saturday afternoon and just go out and you know, you can run some errands, you can stop at a park,

you can take into the radio station just talk about you know, just talk about life and talk about school and what the potential is for the future and those sorts of things. And we also have a site based program, which is when I see my little sister, I go to her school in Newport and to see her once a week during lunch and three have programs like that as well. So we work really hard to make it

work for the volunteers. And I just hope people understand the difference that just showing up being consistent to a child, it means the world to them. The kids are facing some challenges or they you know, wouldn't be with us, but these are are really good kids whose parent or guardian realizes that you know, another person in their life can can make a huge difference.

like that happen. But but we like to start off with that because that really starts with a position of strength so that the kids don't kind of have a disappointment. But if you if you feel like you can do it for a year, and then what we find is that rarely do they end after a year. Once folks are doing it and get to know the kids and they just really stick with it, and it's it's just amazing to see the different and sit the snakes to

these kids. I've been with the agency for over sixteen years, and I am I love I love May because that's

when a lot of the kids graduate. And these are kids who's been in the program and a lot of them since I've been here, and you just can't believe the number of them that are the first in their families to graduate high school and then to come up with some post secondary education plan, whether it's college, the military, a job that they've got because they're big brother or sister kind of pointing them and help points them in a direction and then they just they just succeed And

it is amazing to watch this happen time after time, kid after kids and deb hash.

there's no requirement you continue. But I know from big Brothers big sisters that once you begin with a child, a boy or a girl that's seven, eight, nine, ten years old, you develop a relationship, you play golf or play pickleball, to do something else that becomes part of your life. And so what is the phone number if adults have some free time that they can.

and northern Kentucky. So we have we have kids waiting, you know.

had a little sister and I own. She was only with me in the site based program for one year and she was in first grade, and she moved away, and then she got back in touch with me when she was in high school, and I was on the phone with her and her mom, and she told me that I'm going to start to get too, But she told me that the things that I taught her in first grade, because she was really an angry, angry little girl,

and understandably so with her life experience. But she told me that every time she starts to get angry about something, she just takes a breath and thinks about how to best react. That has the best impact on her. And that was from first grade. And when she was in high school she called me to crying telling me that she couldn't wait to graduate from high school and go to nursing school.