10-13-25 Bill Cunningham Show

Willie breaks down the weekend in Cincinnati sports, and the loss of a Cincinnati icon. Also Bill O'Reilly breaks down President Trump's Middle East peace plan. Finally Council candidate Linda Matthews explains why a leadership change is needed at city hall.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Bill cunning in the Great American. Of course, yesterday in
Green Bay was not a complete disaster of me moral
victory at shorts. And Thursday night the Steelers are in town.
That could begin the renaissance of your Cincinnati Bengals. I
see a flickering candle in the darkness. His name is
Joe Flacco. Somehow in the second half, great things happened
which no one anticipated, especially at halftime. And Moeger, can

(00:30):
I share with you the stats in the first half
as opposed to the stats in the second half and
see if you can see a difference. Okay, in the
first half with the Bengals they scored zero points. In
the second half they scored eighteen. Do you see that
as an improvement?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes, So that means in the next half they play,
they'll score thirty six.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Now you're thinking like the Great American. As far as
yards gained, in the first half, they had sixty five
yards and the second half they had two hundred and three.
Do you see an improvement there?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I sure do. Willie. By the way, it's scary when
you say that. I'm starting to think.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Like you now. Number three, in the first half they
had four one, two, three four first downs I think
three were on penalties. Anyway, they had four first downs
and the second half they had sixteen. Now that's an improvement. Now,
time of possession in the first half that they had
eight minutes and sixteen seconds of possession out of thirty

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and the second half they had nineteen and dominated possession
in the second half. So they had eighteen points to zero,
two hundred and three yards to sixty five, sixteen first
downs to four, and time of possession nineteen minutes to
eight minutes. Do you see an improvement there across the board?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I do, Willie. Yes, you're painting a very rosy picture
for this team.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's what I'm doing. Is it justified? Do you think
that Joe Flacco and I think Micah Parsons had no sacks,
no individual tackles, helped on maybe two or three, completely irrelevant.
And Orlando Brown wasn't so much of a swinging door,
allowed one or two, but that's about it for him.
That's not bad. So what hope do you have Thursday night?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I looked at this game as one the Bengals were
probably not going to win. Vegas told you as much.
They were fourteen and a half point underdogs, they were
using a quarterback who showed up on Tuesday night, They're
playing a team coming off of bye, and they don't
have a great defense. So I looked at this game
as basically a preseason game for Joe Flacco. Start to

(02:40):
get on the same page with your wide receivers. They
were not in the first half, felt like they were
in the second half. Expand the playbook as the game
goes on. So like they did that in the second half,
And so I viewed the Green Bay game as one
where they could plant the seeds for success moving forward.
And now they've got a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

(03:01):
And quite frankly, if Pittsburgh is not going to run
away and high in the AFC North, it's going to
be because the Bengals beat them on Thursday. And so
I think, suddenly we have an interesting.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Game, right.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Is there an added degree of comfort that Joe Flacco
will have with a few more practices, i'lbeit on a
short week playing at home against Pittsburgh. Can they expand
upon some of the things they did in the second half,
And I'm hopeful that they can, and if they can,
and if they can get a victory in that game
on Thursday, which they're five and a half point underdogs.

(03:32):
Then you have the quote mini buy no game this weekend. Sen,
You'll host the New York Jets. That's a winnable game. Sen,
You'll host the Chicago Bears. That's a winnable game. And
you could start to talk about the Bengals at least
staying afloat between now in mid December, when hopefully Joe
Burrow comes back, I still wonder, I still worry about
Joe Flacco's immobility. I still don't think this defense is

(03:55):
good enough to get stops when the game demands they do,
and yesterday was proof of that. There were a number
of times where it felt like if they could just
get a stop, they've got a shot here, and time
and again they could not. That's been a team all
season long. But if you were looking for nothing more
than improved quarterback play from what they were getting, I

(04:16):
think they got that yesterday. And I think in that regard,
as much as I am not into moral victories by
any stretch of the imagination, I do think there are
some things they can build upon moving forward.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Well, there's hope because Aaron Rodgers doesn't look good. And
let's face it, the surprise of this year has been
the Baltimore Ravens. I think they're one in four and
one in five. They stink, they're terrible, they're lousy. This
division is eminently winnable, and I I it's going to
I'm going to make a prediction now that I may
be held to account for later, But the Bengals will
beat the Steelers on Thursday. Here Joe Flacco will leave

(04:50):
them to glory. Then they're going to beat the Jets,
and then they're likely to beat the Chicago Bears. And
at that point they're going to be four and four
or five and four, in which case they're set for greatness.
And then they get to a bye week and they're
ready to go. And doctors have tell told me that
the great number nine, Joe Burrow, is going to be
back the first week or two of December. So we
need some help just for the next six weeks or so.

(05:13):
And this, you know, the Bengals do not do well
against the Steelers at all, but the Steelers aren't very
good and the Browns things, so I have hope. And
one thing I'd like to bring up is what happened?
How do they handle Michael Parsons so well? What happened?
I thought he was going to cause damage and wreckage
in the backfield. It didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
They had a good game plan for him. I would
stop short of saying that the offensive line played great,
but I thought Joe Flacco for the most part, looked
comfortable behind it. I like the Bengals had a good
plan for Michael Parsons. I think the one thing that
would make this easier would be if they could run
the football at all. And that's that's just, frankly, not
going to be so much the case. But you go

(05:54):
from Michaeh Parsons on Sunday to now DJ watt On
on Thursday and a Pittsburgh defense that has experienced and
hard hitting and is going to be a challenge. But
you know, I think there's a glimmer of sunshine, as
hard as that might be to believe for a team
that has lost four consecutive games. The AFC top to

(06:17):
bottom is not very good. She talked about the Baltimore
Ravens to a mess right now. The Kansas City Chiefs
are starting to play really, really well, but are just
three and three, there's a playoff spot to be had.
Again if they lose to Pittsburgh, which I don't think
would surprise anybody. So then the maskts really really difficult

(06:37):
in the margin for error shrinks. But again, if you
were looking at that game yesterday to the same lens
I was, which is okay, you're probably not going to win.
So you basically use it as a preseason game for
Joe Flacco to get comfortable, to get on the same
page with his wideouts, to learn the offense in an
actual game environment. I think that happened, and I think

(06:59):
there are some things they can build on. I don't
think the Steelers are great. They did take care of
business at home yesterday against the Cleveland Browns, but I
don't think anybody's used that team right now as like
le shitimate Super Bowl contenders. Aaron Rodgers has played well
through a couple of touchdown passes yesterday, DK Metcalf had
a big game, and so you know, I mean, he's

(07:21):
Aaron Rodgers, but he's not Aaron Rodgers search to twenty nineteen.
He's not the Aaron Rodgers who was winning MVP awards,
And so yeah, I think there is a ray of
hope for this team going into Thursday night.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
If things go awry and right now with the two
and four, if they lose Thursday night they're two and five,
then you got the weak part of the schedule coming
up Jets and the Bears. Who knows about that? Are
there going to be calls for Zach Taylor's departure if
this thing goes awry. Does he have excuses or does
he not have excuse? I don't think he's real popular

(07:54):
among the faithful right now. But is this a Zach
Taylor kind of a situation. You have to be careful.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
At the end of the day, coaches are judged on
their wins and losses. Do they get team to the postseason?
Do they contend for championships? And I think any coach
who doesn't make the playoffs for a third consecutive year
is going to have folks wondering should his seat be hot.
I don't think Zach Taylor gets excuses. I think he
gets some slack. You know, he's had to make it

(08:24):
up as he's gone along this year with Joe Flacco
and with Jake Browning before him. To me, I think
the true test is going to be if this thing
unravels to the point that the locker room fractures, that
singers are being pointed that the effort is being compromised. Look,
the team itself, top to bottom, isn't great. I think

(08:45):
if there's one thing the last four weeks I've told
us is they're way to reliant on Joe Burrow to
elevate everybody else. I put that a lot more on
Duke Tobin than I do Zach Taylor. I think with Zach,
what I have not really seen over the course of
six plus years is a team that has ever quit
on him. I've never gotten the sense that the culture

(09:05):
has fallen apart. So I think if this spirals out
of control, and it may begin to if they lose
on Thursday, then I think you start to wonder about
the coach losing the team, the coach losing the locker room.
For me, the biggest issues with Zach are I'm not
convinced that he should be calling plays, and that's not me. Look,
I think that the lamest thing that fans do sometimes

(09:28):
is talk about play calling, because none of us have
any idea what goes into calling a play. But I
do think that there have been Even when the Bengals
have been at their best, when Joe Burrow has been healthy,
there have been these lulls in the production of the
offense that I've always wondered, you know what, a different
way of operating on the sideline, with a different voice
in the headset, would a different play caller get rid

(09:50):
of some of those lulls until this team maximizes its
offensive potential. I will always wonder would Zach Taylor be
better off and would the team be her off if
he wasn't calling plays and instead was managing the game,
was you know, handling the all the different things and
all the different decisions that a head coach has in

(10:11):
front of him, and obviously has input in the offensive
game plan, but.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Isn't the guy calling plays.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think it would be interesting to see what would
happen if they would make a change doing that. Zach
Taylor said last week that's not going to happen. I
think it is completely fair to wonder if this thing unravels,
what's that going to mean for him? But I don't
know that there's a track record of that happening for
us to assume that it will.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Let's change gears a little bit. I first met, by
the way, Jim Kelly Junior, as you know, died this
morning after a long fight with cancer. You see a
football color analyst. I met his father, and I was
a boy. As you know, Jim Kelly Senior began his
career as a football coach and administrator at Deer Park
High School, and I met him as a boy. I

(10:56):
did not know his son at that point. And Jim
Kelly Junior has been connected to U SEE football as
a color analyst since at least nineteen eighty eight. He's
been connected to UC since the early nineteen seventies when
I was operations manager. I want to meet with Jim
Kelly as I did with Xavier analysts, to see what

(11:17):
the direction is and do this or do that. As
soon as he told me that he went to Saint
Xavior Grade School as a Golden Bear and played sports there,
and then I made the connection quickly with his dad
from Deer Park High School. I said, we're going to
continue with you as long as you can do the job,
and he did it quite well until very recently. What
are your memories of Jim Kelly Junior and what he

(11:39):
meant to UC football athletics.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Synonymous with the school, synonymous with the program, and you
know that goes back. Jim was a ball boy. You know,
you think back to Jim Kelly Senior started as a
player at UC in nineteen forty seven, was a coach,
was an administrator all the way up until nineteen ninety four,
and so Jim Kelly Junior's relationship with the schools started

(12:06):
when he was a little kid as a ball boy.
Jim is one of the great high school football players
in Cincinnati history. A terrific player at Moler, part of
teams in the early seventies led by Jerry Falf where
you know, Jim ended up having the kind of career
for the Crusaders that has put him in Mohler's Hall
of Fame. You see, when he left, you know, that

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was not a program that threw the ball a bunch.
But when Jim graduated from the University of Cincinnati in
nineteen seventy five, he was the school's fourth all time
leading receiver, and so he was a terrific high school
and college football player. Went to training camp with the
Chicago Bears, spent a year as a graduate assistant at UCEE,
but most of us know him obviously from his work

(12:47):
in the broadcast booth, and I've had a chance to
be in that booth for the last twenty four years,
and it's been it's been awesome. It's been awesome to
work with somebody who was so knowledgeable but equally as passionate.
I don't know, Willy, anybody who cared more about the Bearcats.
And when I say care about the Bearcats, I mean
care about you know, did they win or lose, But

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care about the young men that he got a chance
to know, and care about the program, care about the coaches,
and that came through every broadcast, including the three that
we were fortunate enough to be with him for before
he stepped aside last month. You know, those last three
games he did the first three games in this season.
The voice was a little bit weaker, but the analysis

(13:31):
was just as sharp, and the enthusiasm for the program
was there. But you know, in our business, Willy, there
are not many people that if you ask about them,
you hear no negative words. And I've never heard anybody
say a negative thing about Jim Kelly. He was a guy.
And I put this on social media. You know, twenty

(13:53):
four years of spending time with Jim, dozens and dozens
of road trips. Invariably the conversation would drift toward Jim's family,
his wife, his four boys, his grandkids, the kind of
family man that you said, you know what, I want
to be like that. And so the football part of
this is important, and the broadcasting part of this is significant,

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and that's why we all know who Jim is. But personally,
for me, I just think of an amazing family man
and somebody whose company I'm going to miss, and somebody
who you know, again, as a UC fan is more
synonymous with that football program, maybe more synonymous with that

(14:37):
athletic department than I think any Bearcat ever.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Think about eighty years connected with a Kelly family. His
father started with the Bearcats in nineteen forty seven, So
between nineteen forty seven and today, the Kellys have been
instrumental in promoting UC athletics. Speaking positively, I don't know
how many football and basketball coach have gone through since
nineteen forty seven. I would say there's probably dozens and

(15:03):
dozens and dozens, and of all those who dealt with
senior or junior, not one person could say anything negative
about either. One of them, and every institution needed someone
like Jim Kelly Senior and Jim Kelly Junior to represent
their university. The Hall of Fame is named after his dad,
and Jim Kelly Junior will be missed. With his band,
he enjoyed the rock and roll a little bit, but

(15:25):
mainly he was a good husband, a good father. He
was a good man and his passing today will be
felt by everyone that knew him. All right, Moe, thanks
for coming on a little bit of sadness there with
the passing of Jim Kelly Junior. But the beat goes on.
The old man Rivers just keeps on rolling, and many
of us get on a boat and we go downstream
a little bit, then we get off and someone else

(15:45):
gets on. But I'm not sure anyone in the history
of US athletics will have the same connection to that
great university more than Jim Kelly Senior and Jim Kelly Junior.
And may rest in peace today at the age of
seventy two. And he used those seventy two years in
a positive way that lit up the live for many
he came in touch with. And he will be missed,
and may his memory be a be a solace for

(16:08):
those who are hurting this morning. His memory is so positive.
And once again, Moeger, thanks for coming on the Bill
Cunningham Show. And that's ruin Homa a winner for you.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
See.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Who do they play next? By the way, who's usual
football play next? If anyone?

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Well, the Bear catchle have won five consecutive games, are
going to be at Oklahoma State on Saturday night at
eight o'clock. And it is my sincere wish that they
get a whim for number seven because I know he's
going to be looking down and and we're going.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
To miss him.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Mann miss him a lot.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Oklahoma States thinks I think Gundy got fired, didn't he.
I don't know if they won a game. I don't know.
I don't know if they want a game. Have they
won a game this year? And still water? I don't think.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, they're zero and three of the Big twelve. They've
lost those three games by an average of more than
twenty two points. Earlier this season they lost by sixty
six O Oregon, Oh uh oh. Mike Gundy was let
go a few weeks ago Cincinnati on the road. Is
I look this morning a twenty and a half point
favorite with really needless to say most they've ever been

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favored in as Big twelve members. So yes, this is
a game the Bearcatch should win. And if they do,
then I think it gets fun because we'll talk about
some of the more difficult teams they have on their schedule.
But I think we're going to talk about them being
a factor in what feels like a wide open Pick
twelve raks be a.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Big twelve championship. Mo, what do you think?

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Time me up, Willie.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
I'd be all about that. Well, Hi, Mo, the beat
goes on, and thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
We'll talk later about Jim Kelly Junior. Also the services
that are plane, etc. But Moe, have a great afternoon.
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Okay, Willie, thank you.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Let's continue. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred. All right,
Dave Keaton, hit the music Monday afternoon, the Tri State
Walk Together in time, you and I. Big things happening
all over the world and important stuff happening. I would
give a little bit of credit on this to Hillary Clinton.

(18:15):
Not much do I do that, but she's issued numerous
missives and given a couple of interviews in which she
gives complete credit to Donald Trump and it's incredible. And
actually even Kamala Harris has commended Trump for the peace plan.
A few of the Democrats have, but of course not

(18:36):
Steve Roberts of ABC News this morning with Tom brennaman
the Great Brenneman, acting as if this was some diversion
from the problems at home. Why can't you give it up?
And say, who said nine months into this it'd be
peace in the Middle East? Nobody. And by the way,
it's not permanent. I can't imagine having gone through now.

(18:57):
Stage one is not quite completed. One also involved the
giving back of twenty eight deceased hostages, and that hasn't
happened by a noon today, which would have been noon
their time. Right now, it's about seven thirty eight in
the evening there, and they hamas released so far for

(19:19):
the twenty it expected remains of dead hostages. They're saying
they cannot be located, which might be the case. I
don't know, maybe they're obliterated, but they're in violation of
part one, Phase one of the agreement. The rest of
that has been has been met. And it's sad that

(19:39):
I am sure that some point soon that we're going
to find out that Joe Biden and Anton and Blincoln
the Secretary of State are mainly responsible for all this.
Of course it's a lie, but who's gonna who's going
to actually report lies when the tu and the truth
doesn't work very well. So we'll see what happens. But
you know, Phase one involved ceasefire and the IDF pullback

(20:00):
that happened, Amas releasing all the living twenty hostages. The
video of this is incredible. That's happened. Israel releases two
hundred and fifty prisoners. That is ongoing, and they may
be somewhat recalcitrant in releasing up to two thousand prisoners,
many of whom are the worst of the worst mass
murderers serving life sentences in Israel with possibility of parole

(20:22):
because Hamas has not returned the bodies of dead hostages.
So we'll see how that happens. Border crossing is open.
Eight is pouring into the Gaza. That's phase one. Phase
two is it gets a little more difficult. Do I
think the road's going to be smooth and slick?

Speaker 3 (20:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Do I think any president in the first nine months
of his term could have accomplished with Donald Trump has accomplished.
Absolutely not nobody even close could do this. I'm gonna
share with you some of the attendees of the meeting,
looking to my left and right. It's ongoing as I speak.
Phase two involves rebuilding Gaza. How long would that take?
How about disarming Hamas? How long would that take? They

(21:01):
haven't changed their charter. Their goal is to kill Jews
and Christians everywhere in the world. In fact, yesterday Sunday morning,
they came out of their holes in tunnels wearing their
Hamas garb, brandishing their AK forty sevens, shooting in the air,
saying we won, we won, which of course is a lie.
But nonetheless they went and killed many Palestinians who they

(21:24):
believed were consulting with Israel into America. I wonder if
the college campuses are going to erupt in protest when
Palestinians are being killed by Hamas. No, these are useful
idiots used by the radical left to destabilize our country.
But they couldn't care less the so called protesters about
who's killing who. It's only to hurt America, to hurt

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Donald Trump and destabilize America. Also, in Phase two, there'll
be a permanent ceasefire. Also a role of an international
security force and a Palestinian statehood that's on phase two.
Phase three gets more difficult, but it's an effort. We're trying.
And one good thing is that VP jd Vance said

(22:08):
that no American boots soldiers will be on the ground
in Gaza. And also he had like a minute segue
with George Sloppinopolis yesterday and Dave Keayton, if that's ready.
This is our vice president and I'm honored to have
him living in our community at times, playing golf by
the way at Kenmic Country Club. And nonetheless, this was

(22:29):
a minute or so back and forth with George slapp Anopolis.
Dave Caayton hit it.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
So I'm actually not sure what the precise question is.
Did he accept fifty thousand dollars? Honestly, George, I don't
know the answer to that question. What I do know
is that he didn't violate a crime.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
So you don't what was caught on the tape. You're
saying right now, you don't know whether or not he
kept that money.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
I don't know what tape you're referring to, George. I
saw media reports that Tom Holman accepted a bribe. There's
no evidence of that. Here's George, why fewer and fewer
people watch your program and why you're losing credibility because
you're talking for now five minutes with the Vice President
of the United States about this story regarding Tom Holme
and a story that I've read about, but I don't

(23:14):
even know the video that you're talking about. Meanwhile, low
income women can't get food because the Democrats and Chuck
Schumer have shut down the government. Right now, we're trying
to figure out how to pay our troops because Chuck
Schumer has shut down the government. You were focused on
a bogus story. You're insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a guy
who has done nothing wrong instead of focusing on the

(23:35):
fact that our country is struggling because our government's shut down.
Let's talk about the real issues, George. I think the
American people would benefit much more from that than from
you going down some weird left wing rabbit hole where
the facts clearly show that Tom Holman didn't engage in
any criminal wrongdoing.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
It's not a weird left wing rabbit hole. I didn't
insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Holman accepted fifty
thousand dollars, as was heard on an audio tape recorded
by the FBI in September twenty twenty four. And you
did not answer the question thank you for your time
this morning.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
So at that point VP Vance tried to answer another
try to jump in, and ABC News cut them off.
So that's enough. We've had enough. So ABC News, the
home of the view ABC News the home of Jimmy Kimmel,
ABC News to the home of George Slappinopolis, ABC News
the home of Roberts in the Morning with Tom Brenneman,

(24:30):
has a viewpoint that's not news, it's commentary. And I'm
entitled in my opinion. You're entitled to your opinion. But
news ought to beat news and not commentary masquerading his news.
And so when the American people at this point say
who's responsible for the government shutdown? Garbage in, garbage out,
the garbage given him by the mainstream media, educates and

(24:51):
informs large numbers of Americans that Donald Trump somehow responsible
for the shutdown when he's not. Won't I won't bore
you with the detail of a clean cr continuing resolution.
This was the same thing Democrats voted on yes in
March and seventeen times in the past six years they
voted yes on clean crs. All this CR is going

(25:13):
to do government shutdown is to continue current government spending
at its current levels. Now, you and I may disagree
with the levels of government spending, but all the CR
does is to continue the current Biden budget. That's all
it does. But Democrats don't want you to know that.
They want to lie to you garbage in, garbage out,
So you somehow blame Donald Trump for the shutdown when

(25:34):
nothing could be further from the truth. And I would
point out, you know, the physical year end of September thirtieth,
and then of course the Trumpster's budget is not an
effect yet, but nonetheless we don't know the results of it.
But in the year that begins September thirtieth of last
year December September thirtieth of this year, the US government
spent an additional three hundred billion dollars then was spent

(25:58):
the year before that, And according to Trump's budget going forward,
we're going to borrow another two trillion dollars the next year. Anyway,
so government spending continues to be out of control. With
all due respect, Elon Musk and all of his efforts
to change the arc of government spending, it doesn't appear
any of it's worked, because government spending continues at current

(26:20):
levels or more. What happened to DOGE you know, Department
of Governmental Accountability? What happened? I don't know. But to
have the Democrats claim that this is about food for
hungry people when their policies keep that from occurring is
beyond me. And many commentators on ABC can admit the reality,

(26:43):
which is by voting against the cr that Democrats want
to plunge America into an economic crisis for which Donald
Trump will be charged with it'll be politically on his watch.
Even though it takes sixty votes in the Senate, which
would include seven Democrat, to say let's continue present government spending.

(27:03):
Is that difficult to do? It is not difficult when
the Democrats in the White House, when Donald Trump was
in the White House, all health breaks loose because we
want to continue also funding medical care for our lego
aliens through Medicaid. That is a fact. It is real,
to the tune of something in the range and one
year of fifty eight to seventy five billion dollars of

(27:24):
our money is spent in the past twelve months, providing
free medical care to those from different countries in the
world who are not US citizens. And those are the facts.
So to get back to reality, what Trumps accomplished here
is unprecedented. It could not happen. And the two key

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elements was the fact that Donald Trump and Israel, mainly
Donald Trump took out Iran as a military power and
took away their ability to have nuclear weapons because of
the B two bomber raids. Unbelievable. The day after he
gave Iran a deadline and it didn't respond, he took
them out, took them down. Now the Iran government, which

(28:06):
funds terrorism all over the world, is on its back.
And secondly, this is the only president we've ever had
to look bb Netin Yahu in the eye and say
to him, you will do this because Netin Yahu wants
Gaza to be a suburb of Israel, and Trump looked
him in the eye and said, no, that's not going
to happen. What is going to happen is that the

(28:29):
Israelis will be on the line and Gaza will be
patrolled only by other Arab Muslim states. It's up to them.
Do you want your son or daughter to be killed
somewhere in Gaza. Absolutely not. But he's gotten so many
to step forward, including the UAE, including Aman, including India,

(28:50):
including Norwey and Norway, Canada, Pakistan, Hungary, Armenia, Greece, Spain,
the Italians, the Egyptians, the Turks, the Jordan's, the Kuwaitis, Beyran,
Palestinian President, Indonesia President, French president. They're all there looking
at the at the there's twenty seven world leaders behind

(29:13):
President Trump, and he's given them all orders what to do.
And he's telling the Arab Muslims police it yourself. You
send soldiers, You send troops in the Gaza, and we'll
monitor what's going on. And American soldiers too, and a
strong will be in Israel, which is one hell of
a fine place to be, by the way, And it's
up to the Arabs to police their own And because

(29:34):
the evil of Iran's been taken down by Israel and
by the United States, the other Arab golf nations understand
and know that they don't have something coming at them
from Iran anymore. Iran is in deep trouble economically, they're
running out of water. They can't generate power, and they're
in deep trouble, and the Aman and those religious leaders

(29:55):
and Tehran are buckling down on their own people, killing
so many, and so it's some one of them is
going to get some lead poisoning and then we'll go
some other direction. But this is a monumental accomplishment by
Donald Trump, and he has an easier time dealing with
Hamas than he does the Democratic leaders in the Congress,

(30:17):
Chuck Schumer and Rakeem Jeffries, because they want his destruction,
as did Helmas. But Trump was able to take out
the funders of terror, take out the suppliers of all
the armaments. And with the Democrats, if the media in
this country accurately reported what's going on, it'd be eighty
five point fifteen to follow the Democrats. But the media

(30:40):
doesn't do that because they're in the pockets of the
Democratic Party. Whether it's The View or Jimmy Kimmel or
Steve Roberts, whoever it is, they spouse the company line.
And that's quite sad. What an accomplishment. It's really unbelievable.
And yesterday morning I was on the air with you
last night from ten to one. That is killing the

(31:01):
Palestinians who's something more or less sympathized with Israel, they thought,
and just summarily executed them. And hopefully that is stopping
right now. I hope it stops. And if it doesn't stop,
American soldiers, according to J. D Vance and I trust him,
are not on the hook for this deal. It'll be
up mainly the Turks and the Egyptians are going to
patrol Gaza to make sure that Gaza remains a Palestinian

(31:26):
territory and not a suburb of Israel, which is what
Netinna who wants He said repeatedly that he wants Gaza
to become part of in a sense of Israel, and
Trump looked him in the eye and said no. And
it's stuck. And right now Egyptian President President Ceci is
talking about how great a leader that Donald Trump is.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Greg Lansman said that, or

(31:50):
if Hakeem Jeffrey said that, or if Brandon Johnson in
Chicago or Kim Bass in New York and La said
that this is wonderful. What Donald Trump is doing is wonderful.
Just accept it of what's happening. Imagine Chicago or Cincinnati
looking as safe right now as Washington d C. Muriel Bowser,

(32:11):
the mayor of DC, is saying, this is wonderful, we
got our city back. It takes men and women with
vision to say that Cincinnati was as violent as hell
in the top ten of violence, more shootings and more
death over the weekend. Well, you don't have to live
like this. You can live differently. Coming up later, By
the way, Bill O'Reilly, their rally factor in his new book,

(32:34):
is out and we're gonna deal with Bill O'Reilly about
one oh five today and then later on as Lynda
Matthews of the Avondale Community Council, she's going to tell
you and me, I think that African Americans and Cincinnati
are not going to vote for af to have pure
of all. They can't be bought off, they can't be
paid for what has he done for you? Are you
better off today than you were four years ago? And

(32:55):
you want four more years of this where police are demoralized,
where judges are said and convicted, and those who commit
serious crime free on probation. You want a situation where
the fire department, the firefighters, and the cops have issued
grave warnings against four more years of after pureval. You

(33:15):
want more connected communities like in Hyde Park? Is that
what you want? I don't think so so, Lynda Matthews
will address yourself to those issues and more of This
is a time of great celebration now. Is the path
going to be smooth? Might there be no difficulties to
lie ahead? Is Hamas going to put down their weapons
and leave? I don't think so that Hamas. The five

(33:36):
to six thousand that remain have been given free passage.
Part of this deal is that when you come out
of your holes and your bunkers and you lay down
your AK forty seven, you'll be given a free passage
to anywhere that will take you in. Certain countries like
Egypt and Lebanon and Jordan said they will accept many

(33:56):
of the Hamas fighters. I'm not sure how they'll be welcomed.
It might be killed once they get there. But part
of this deal is that AMAS fighters, the murderers, the kidnappers,
the rapist are not going to be held accountable. They're
going to be given a free pass. In fact, ones
that have been apprehended by Israel are being released. That's
part of the deal. It's one hundred to one. Israel
values life so much that they consider one hundred Palestinians

(34:21):
to be worth one Jew. It's one hundred to one,
and many of these are the worst of the worst.
So less you and I continue great day of celebration.
You better tell the news media operation what a great
day this is, and let's celebrate it for what it is.
Peace in the Middle East at this point. Are there
problems ahead, Absolutely, absolutely difficulties. But the blood that will

(34:44):
be shed now in Gaza will not be American blood
and likely not be Jewish blood. It'll be Arab fighting
other Arabs, Muslims against Muslims. And the college campuses have
quieted down for a while. They're well funded by foreign
groups in order to detate, alize our universities, destabilize our country,
and they've been somewhat successful at this point. Let's continue

(35:07):
twelve fifty five Home of Youer REGs and Bengals. By
the way, Bill O'Reilly, it's almost on the hold, ready
to go, Bill O'Reilly, new book out. And also we're
going to talk about what's happening now with the Trumpster,
and also the a Rally Factor is on the Bill
Cunningham Show. Seven hundred WLW Bill Cunningham, the Great Americans.

(35:32):
Always my honor to have on every now and then.
Bill O'Reilly. He's done more in broadcast media than anyone
perhaps in the history of the world, because he's spent
fifty years either at ABC or CBS. He also has,
of course, for sixteen or seventeen years, the top rated
cable show. He's probably the most consequential on the largest
selling nonfiction author in the history of the world this

(35:53):
side of the Bible, and the new book is out.
But I also want to mention that Bill O'Reilly and
Stephen A. Smith are going to be at the Kennedy
Center on Wednesday night, hosted by Chris Cuomo News Nation
to talk about I guess the current events and what's
going on and Bill o'rally once again. Welcome to the
Bill Cunningham Show. And Bill, first of all, I would
be remiss if I didn't get from you some of

(36:15):
the evil in the world was Hesblahamas, etc. A twelve
of the worst of the worst. Don't want to get
your take on what's happening as we speak in the
Middle East, and also the incapability of the mainstream media
actually give President Trump any credit? Where does this rank
if you would write a book on this subject, maybe
in two or three years when things shake out, what
does your crystal ball say is going to happen?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Well, I think that the President has accomplished a great
feat and obviously not easy to deal with these terrorists
and get the twenty surviving hostages out in the twenty
six bodies as well, So that's in stone. The importance

(36:57):
of it is that it will extend in you the
Chinese negotiations which are coming up, and maybe even to
Putin as the Arabs coalesce around the Trump administration. So
that's very important for the world. So the Arabs had
kind of shifted from being anti American to pro American,

(37:18):
and obviously they control the energy center on the planet.
So a lot of these things that are people say, well,
that's a good thing, but they don't know the ramifications
going forward. So on the cover of my book Confronting
the Evil, which broke number one on the New York
Times List built twentieth time that's happened is the Iyatola Holmioni.

(37:45):
He's on the cover with Putin, with Mao Zetongue and
with Hitler and there are eleven other mysteryants inside the book.
I put the Iyatola on because he's responsible for Amas.
I mean, he's dead now, but the guy took over
from him. They fund an arm among us, and they
continue to cause death and destruction all throughout the world.

(38:12):
And this is the evil that we're talking about. So
I think that Trump, who many in the American press
believe is evil. Yeah, I think he is effectively neutralizing
the real evil forces in a way that obviously Biden
could never have done.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
You know, Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, you have Vladimir Putin,
you have many others, Mausey Tongue. But the one of
these evil doers that actually use God as the reason
for his evil, does Itota come in In a sense,
the scale of his evil doesn't even approach what Hitler
did or malse Tongue has done. But as far as

(38:52):
using God as a reason for evil, the eye Tota
believes that God demands him to brutally kill large numbers
of non believers, as he described as Christians and Jews
or and his viewer cockroaches and mice and bugs. Is
I totally kind of standing alone? Because he says God's
telling me to do this.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, most of these people. When Nathan Bedford Forrest died,
he was the founder of the Ku Kluks Klanic Confederate
general who massacred Union troops. I mean, the guy is
off the chart evil. When he died, he said, on
his death dead to his family, I know God understood

(39:34):
what I did. Yeah. The I Telamoni, as well as
most human beings, believes what he wants to believe, and
so he wanted to believe that all Jews should die,
just like Hitler want to believe that all should Jews
should die. This is, of course a psychiatric disorder. Doesn't

(39:56):
mean these guys don't know what they're doing. They know,
but people don't think that way. But the evil that
I write about in this book could have been contained
on every one. Maybe not Jengis Khan with the horsemen
in Mongolia, that that would have been hard to do.

(40:16):
But every other evil that we write about could have
been stopped if good people had confronted it. But they
did not. They looked away or they signed on, which
is fairly shocking.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, including the collective evil you have. The evils include
Genghis Khan Caligula, the Roman emperor, Henry the Eighth, the evil,
the slave trader, Stalin Hitler, Mao, the Ayatola Komane, the
Mexican drug cartells. As far as a body count doesn't,
Mao and Stalin stand alone at the top of that list.

(40:53):
As far as killing tens of millions of people.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Now is number one mass murderer whoever lived. And it
was his own people he was killing, which is just
and where we describe it. He was starving them to
death because he wanted a whole different society. And oh
my god, it was Stalin hard to tell because there
was no reportage in Russia, but you know there were

(41:19):
no rights and then if sal you dead, you were dead,
just like Putin. Once you're dead, you did. In fact,
Stalin is Putin's idol, it's his mentor, it's who he
wants to be. If you can imagine this, Hitler the
same bracket. Human life meant nothing to them. But in

(41:39):
our society, Bill, we're saying arrives and evil in America,
and no doubt about it. In the criminal justice system,
particularly when in many cities the hierarchy does not want
to punish criminals any longer. And will allow them to
go out and commit violent crime at the violent crime
after viol in crime. That's evil. And so I get

(42:04):
real personal about this stuff in the book.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
As far as what's happening in major cities, to me,
one cannot of imagined a worse form of government and
than happening today in Chicago and Portland and Los Angeles,
the evil being perpetrated there. But it's not covered by
the media as that way at all. In fact, most
of the media coverage is understanding against Donald Trump, who's
simply trying to save the folks in those major American cities.

(42:30):
Our magnificent cities have been destroyed by the policies of
the liberal Democratic Socialist Party. And some say, well, why
don't the people of Chicago or la or Portland, Memphis
arise themselves and throw off their governments? So what do
you say about leaving them alone? Because the people themselves
may want to have individuals like Karen Bass or like

(42:51):
Brandon Johnson, they kind of went them in charge, and
it's not up to us to save them. It's up
to the people of Chicago to save themselves. What would
Bill to Rally say about that one?

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Well, I don't want dead bodies. That's what I would say.
And just the fact that you vote for somebody who
is going to create mayhem and foster evil doesn't mean
that I, if I have the power, like the president
of the United States, should stand aside and let it happen.

(43:25):
It's a more noble cause, Bill, if you you know,
I combine reporting with history, the real noble people like
Ibraham Lincoln and George Washington, these people Lincoln could have
said easily, you know, and like all the ten presidents
before him, We'll let the slavery thing go, you know,

(43:46):
let it's in Mississippi. Doesn't deal with us. But the
noble people want to put an end to this kind
of violence and this kind of danger. And I think
Trump falls into that category. But his weakness is he
doesn't fully explain the why about what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
He has a sense as to what to do that's right,
but his rhetoric often divides among those who don't fully
understand what's happening in our major cities. You have Vladimir
Putin on the list. I have a fear down the
road when Putin, who's a rat, is cornered as far
as using a theater type nuke of one type or
another to change everything. According to most reporting, Russia's in

(44:37):
serious trouble going down the tubes, along with maybe Iran
has a terrible water shortage, can't keep the can't keep
the lights on, and in Russia it looks like believe
it or not, I think at this point most are saying,
you knowe Ukraine has a standoff or they might be
actually winning. Do you fear one of the evil doers
in your book Confronting Evil Vladimir Putin would do something

(44:58):
completely in character to kill millions of Ukrainians to save
his own hide.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
He killed his own people. There are already a million
casualties in Russia because there's stupid war. He doesn't care
about human life at all. The odds are that Putin
is not going to be in a position to use
the nuclear weapon. Would he? Yes, I believe he would.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
So.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
I was a Yankee stady of my nine to eleven
with President Trump. You may have seen some of that
news coverage, yep. And the President invited me. He wanted
to talk about Putin and Charlie Kirk and a few
of the things. And I handed him a copy of
my book, which was only out two days on nine
to eleven, and I said, look, I know you're busy,

(45:42):
mister president, but boy, you got to read this putin
chapter because he's not the same guy who was when
you were president first time around. He has deteriorated, which
always happens. If you embrace evil, you get worse. There's
no rehab. And so I hand him the book and
then the the event unfolded. Well about twenty four hours later,

(46:02):
I got a text from him and said, whoa, And
I said, yeah, I mean, this is a whole new
thing you're dealing with here. But I think the president
and his people have a fairly good geopolitical strategy right now.
But again, got to be very disciplined because it's an
ultra dangerous world right now.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Bill O'Reilly. You say in your book Confronting Evil that
the concept of evil is universal, ancient, and ever present today.
The Biblical Book of Genesis defines that when Cain kills
his brother Abel out of jealousy, as long as human
beings have walked, evil has been close by. You have
a character Genghis Khan, which I vaguely understand what he

(46:43):
kind of did. Can you put more and meat on
the bones of what Genghis Khan did and why he's
in your book Confronting Evil Genghis.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Khan, Well, Jengis Khan conquered more territory than any human
being in the history of civilization this day. What he
did resonates in this world that every one of the
miscreants I have and Confronting Evil Bill is relevant to today.

(47:10):
That was the cutpoint. If they aren't relevant to today
and put them in the book. So Jenga's Khan Mongolia backwater.
He develops this type of warfare where the Mongols rode
on horseback, and that was the first time that happened.
The Romans marched, they didn't use horses widely. Khan then

(47:36):
went from the Pacific shore of China all in hungry,
slaughtering everybody, conquering all the territory. The Chinese people were
so devastated by the Mongols that they built the Great
Wall of China. And when I was there in May,
I went up to see that is. It is an

(47:59):
incredible site that they could build this thing that high
up in these mountains. But what Jengis Khan did to
the Chinese people made them suspicious of foreigners. Forever, and
the Chinese people have never had one day of freedom

(48:20):
in the entire existence of China because the people are
so afraid psychologically that they always gave power to dictators,
and that is why you have that communist hierarchy. Now
he goes all the way back to Jengas Khan and

(48:41):
that mindset.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Do you fear. I see naval movements that they Jijii
Ping is encircling Japan, is encircling parts of the Philippines.
Of course, Taiwan is the crown jewel, which they don't
need at all. They should be a trading partner. But
somehow they want to lash out. If you would write
a book in five years, how's that going to work out?
With China, which is immortal enemy. They have malware and

(49:06):
our communication systems and our banking systems, and our water
systems and our communication systems. I fear unlike the Soviet Union,
that was a military power, it was not an economic power.
China is different. What are the goals do you think
of Jijiu Peng when he's going to go after Taiwan
and he says it, and how would that break the
world at that point?

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Well, I watch Taiwan but they can't destroy their economy.
And that's the strength that the United States holds over them.
So yeah, one point five billion people in China, second
to India, you be about to eat. There's no four
to one case. No, you can't run around with your

(49:48):
AMEX card. No, Okay, you'd be about to eat. And
in order for the government, who runs everything, to make
sure they eat, the government has to export Chinese products
to America. Okay, France ain't gonna cut it. They need

(50:10):
our markets. If they don't have our markets, if there's
a war or it's an economic uh, boycotts or whatever
it may be, then they got trouble.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
I did not want to leave this.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
People can't eat, then they can't control them.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
And Jizo Pink could have suffered from lead poisoning.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Let's I'm much more optimistic about Trump making a deal
with China than Putin. Well, but if the United States
does make a deal with China, that'll put an enormous
amount of pressure on Putin.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
It looks like Trump can make a deal with a
mass he can make a deal with China, can't make
a deal with the King. Jeffreyes that's a different story
to tell. Us about Colligo Colliguilla, Am I saying that correctly?
And tell me about that wrong?

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Regular was the reason the world I'm an empire dissolved
and most pompul nation on earth by far, just like
the United States is now. And the reason that Rome
fell was because of the people the Roman citizen basically
abdicating all responsibility for doing good and embracing the evil

(51:20):
that Caligula and Nero and others championed. I mean, when
you're murdering people in the colisseum and grewsome ways and
people are cheering for that murder, you got a problem.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
We could spend all day with you confronting evil. I
hope you got several more left. And you've been doing
media for about fifty years with great success. The number
one seller of nonfiction books in the world is Bill O'Reilly.
And once again, Bill O'Reilly, thanks for coming on the
Bill Cunningham Show. And Bill, you're a great American to
keep doing what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Thanks for having me. Bill. We'll talk soon.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
God bless you. Thank you very much. I let's continue
with more characters, and I think among the nastiest characters
are Vladimir Putin, right now and of course the eye
Tola who spawned Amas and Hezbla Boca haram Isis and
all the rest. And it was all done in the
name of God. That God wanted this to happen. So
let's continue with more news coming up your home of
the Reds and Bengals News Radio seven hundred WLW. Yes, odds,

(52:20):
he's done it sots down.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
That's down, touchdown, touchdown.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Oh hello, yet I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
You know I segment one of our own Jim Kelly. Yes,
his father began, as you know what you see in
nineteen forty seven. Yes, so between nineteen forty seven and
twenty twenty five, my dear Park Matt tells me that's
about seventy eight years, okay, that the Kelly family has
been intertwined greatly with the University of Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
In fact, Jim Kelly Senior got his chops and began
at Park High School, as you know, in the late
nineteen fifties. He was a football coach and athletic director.
Jim Kelly Senior and Jim Kelly Junior, Yes, went to
Saint Savior Grade School across the street from Deer Park,
the home of Gordon Veterino. How about that one. So
the Cunningham and Kelly's deep deep roots in athleticism into

(53:20):
tri state. But he died this morning at the age
of seventy two, which I think is quite young. Played
for Jim Kelly Junior. Willie the UC Hall of Famer,
played for the Bearcats from nineteen seventy two to seventy five,
and then served as a color analyst for Cincinnati's Bearcat's
Foot radio broadcast for thirty five years. It's a long
time sake. He grew up around He was a ball

(53:42):
boy in the nineteen sixties seeing with his dad and
played the wide receiver. And wow, you're talking about I
mean the Kelly family is UC all the way him
Bill Malva Hill. That's about it, amen, seventy two years old.
And on top of it, Ulah Lah he was like
a He had the band segment ever see Oola la pla.
I never heard him sing, will he? But I heard

(54:04):
about him his often work the drums behind ooh lah
Law and Jim Kelly Junior. Well, I would drive him too.
He would drive him too. Right there. All his name
will never be forgotten. He loved the long and fruitful
life segment, Amen and his light shines brightly at Clifton
and maybe on Saturday night when their favored to be

(54:25):
the Oklahoma State I think in Stillwater? Is that correct?
Mike Gundy is gone as the coach. That means the
bearcatch should rop for glory and for them the judgment
seat of God which is already viewed favor. Maybe maybe
there'll be Big twelve champs in honor of Jim Kelly Junior.
I wouldn't bet on that one segment. They got Oklahoma State,

(54:45):
Baylor and then Utah. Get control of yourself? Could be
like the Bengals running the table? What will he the
stood reporters of proud service, every local tame Star heating
in their conditioning dealers Tamestar quality you could feel in
beautiful Southeastern Indiana called Joe Exstein at Xstein Heating and
Coolding an eight one, two nine, three, two twenty six.

(55:06):
But let's see will e the Bengals dropped to two
and four and folded the Packers in Green Bay. This
Bengals update brought you by Good Spirits at Party Town
thirteen convenient locations in Northern Kentucky. Yeah, I share with
you some questions. You should have no difficulty answering. Go ahead,

(55:26):
you want you want the injury report for Thursday. Let's
go oh no, what is it? Well, Trey Hendrickson, with
a back injury, left the game yesterday. Apparently he's avoided
a long term injury. But all the all the the
all prosa villain ability availability for Thursday is day to day.
Mike is sicky with a pectoral You know where that is,

(55:48):
don't you? Right over there? I think it's your booby. Uh,
he is out for a while. How long? I don't know.
He's out for a while. According to head coach Zach Taylor,
now when you use the name ben Hurr is alc
a pronoun you ben her is herr or him? What
is no Judah? Ben her was the Charlton Heston. What's
his preferred pronouns her h u r her or him

(56:12):
ben him or ben her? Because I saw the Jews
in that movie. They've been fighting the Egyptian now for
three thousand years. Well it's stopped today. Don't tell ABC
News that. For God's sake, your guy, our guy, the Trumpster.
Now he's got to do is get Ukin and Ukraine
and Russia the world would be at peace. Say we
know what, we won't know what to do. That's what
an ABC News says. How come you haven't solved the

(56:34):
Ukrainian problem? Got any free time? Give him a break.
He's in Israel overnight, he's there this morning, and now
he's in Egypt. Now he's got to come back here
and face the shutdown in the dumb Democrats. You can
do easier with Hamas than the Chinese with the Democrats. Yeah, well,
why did he do the same thing to the Democrats
and deal with them like he does a Hamas? Let

(56:56):
me ask you some questions. Are you ready any more
injuries yet?

Speaker 2 (57:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (57:00):
But I guess there's all. We also got to talk
about your good friend James James Franklin ousted at Penn State.
But go ahead, you got a forty nine million dollar
parting gift and we're going to break it down in seconds.
Go ahead, really, yes, Now, in the first half, the
Bengals had no points. In the second half, they scored eighteen.

(57:20):
Is that good or bad? Bad? If they if they
would have had the best, if they would have switched
halves and had a good first half the last game
and a first half of this game, they would have
probably been four and two. Now yards total in the
first half was sixty six, the second half two hundred
and three. Right, Well, they woke up and the first
half they had four first downs, three on penalties. Right,

(57:43):
the second half they had sixteen first downs. Well that
they got with it and the and the first can't
have a slow start against anybody. They have eight minutes
of possession in the first half. Yeah, nineteen minutes in
the second half. Do you see an improvement there? Do
you see the improvement under one Joe Flacco? And apparently

(58:05):
Mike Tollin said today he is outraged that the Cleveland
Browns traded Joe Flacco here to Cincinnati. He says, somebody
in Cleveland is stupid. Ain't that the truth? That's a
and he's talking about their front office a firm grass
to the obvious. Oh, just saying, just saying. Let's see
the five and one Bearcats willie in honor of Jim

(58:26):
Kelly Junior. They're tied for the lead in the Big twelve.
What they're ranked twenty fourth this week in Oklahoma State
the Cowboys or next, I don't know who's in the
Big twelve is Oklahoma in the Big twelve. No, they're
in the SEC. How what about Texas Tech, They're in
the Big twelve. That's a problem right there. Penn State
fired head coach James Franklin yesterday. He gets the second

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biggest buyout in college football history at forty nine million dollars.
Why they give him that deal? Good agent, have some
competition with he will school. He will make twenty thousand
dollars a day from Penn State for the next six years.
Per week, he's going to make one hundred and fifty
six thousand dollars per month, month per month, six hundred

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and sixty market to do nothing, market the beast and
like it. Why would they give him a contract when
they're competing with no one? So he's getting forty nine
million dollars, second only to Jimbo's Texas A and M. Yeah,
he's got it's seventy two million for him. How about
Luke Fickele at Wisconsin. I think he's up in the forties.

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They gas him, which is probably not too far away
after the Ohio State mand Right, thank you, there goes.
Luke Fikele may come back here and watch him at
the You know, we don't want him back. We don't
want him back. Baseball, Willie. It's Game two of the
ALCS tonight with Seattle in Toronto. The National League Championship
Series begins tonight at eight Dodgers and Brewers in Milwaukee.

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What do you have when your four teams playing? You
want none of them win. I don't want any of
knowing that's true with the Dodgers to win. I don't
want the Milwaukee to win. Despite Tom Brenneman, who's a
fan of the brew Crew, I couldn't care less. College
basketball preseason AP Top twenty five. Here we go. You
see Purdue one, Houston two, Florida three, Miami, Yukon four,

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Saint John's five, Michigan seven, Indiana Wildcats nine, uk Pat Kelsey.
The Cardinals are eleventh. Ohio State is thirtieth. You see her.
They're not in it. In the Southeastern Conference media poll,
what about it? Big Blue Nation is not happy what happened.

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They're picking the defending champion NCAA champions, Florida Gators to
win the SEC. Kentucky is second. I'd picked them too.
There is probably a riot going on right now in Lexington,
but in Florida, who knows who's coming back and who's
not coming back. I don't want to tell you there
you go right there, that's out it in sports, I
think so segment you have any hope, there's a flickering

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candle and the darkness of space. I heard you say
in the hallway a few minutes ago that you had hope.
I have hope for the Bengal.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Until you do it, especially when you haven't done it
for a long time, there's doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
And by the way, that's normal. It's natural, like a
married man talking about sex. Nonetheless, right now, the Bengals
are two and four. If they win Thursday, three and four, right,
then a week from Thursday, well they got the Jets E. E.
T S JTS four and four, then at home against
the Bears, the Bears five and four. Your comments on

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that one, that happens and everybody will be happy. On
the other hand, I bet that Joe Burrow, then we'll
be back by Thanksgiving. Joe Frederick will be happy. But
on the other hand, if the Steelers win on Thursday
and two and four becomes two and five, no, we
got issues. I wonder if he's got a Franklin James
Franklin type golden parachute. You know, that's a very good

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one about the NFL. Come the way, they just had
the Knesset up. There were two people in the Kanesse
that were protesting the speech of Donald Trump. They quickly
hurry them out and get out, get out, get out,
And Trump said, look, Gordon ramsayed both of them. They said,
these are like democrats in Washington. Get out. You sure
one guy wasn't named Shermer and the other guy was

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named maybe maybe yeah, maybe? Uh snuck on the air
Force one. How about that plane ride overnight of Israel
flying into Israel and endo Egypt. Isn't this unsafe a
little bit? You have? Well, he's got rid of everybody,
so I mean, who else is gonna shoot at us?

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Allegedly they have the US hoodies? What about the hoodies
hoodies Mediterranean? And they have on top of the buildings
they have shoulder fired missiles waiting for some object in
the sky to appear. They got shoulder fired missiles on
top of buildings, says looking at the sky. They have
drone technology to knock them out right, And you got
all the world leaders together, do you think maybe Hamas

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apparently is. Apparently Marty Brenham is on a trip in
the Mediterranean. That's probably the same. I don't know if
he was at the Kanessan or not the sorn there
if I save his place in the world is the Kanessan.
But those guys, it's for sure. You did you visit
there when you was in the Holy Lands? I did,
did you? Canessa is a It looks a little part

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in the middle, looks almost like the Commonwealth, the debating
headquarters in London. It's small, so it's it's nothing like
the capital, or it's nothing okay. Hell, they got Democrats
and Republicans over there too, different parties. Well, twenty of
the Kanesse are Muslims who live. Well, there's gay pride

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flags in downtown Jerusalem. I was a little surprised by that.
It's a little more conservative. And there was Catholic churches,
there were Syrian churches, there was Egyptian Coptics, there were
Jews that were Muslims of every sect. People, everybody's over there,
they're okay. It got along. Tel Aviv was wonderful. He
headed the King of David hotel that was that was wonderful.
Had a tour the CONDI first, lady, she rode a camel,

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she got on the back. There was a familiar voice
in the back of the crowd. There was was she
like letting Lawrence of Arabia. Some guy on a rider
truck comes out. He opens up the back door of
the truck. Here comes a huge camel and I'm looking
at this thing and he's out passing gas and like
he's blowing snot said it looks like the segment. So

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the guy comes over and this thing was huge. And
I heard this this Arab say, who went to ride?
Who went the right? Jeth row? Who wants the right
jet throw? I heard a familiar voice from the back
of the crowd. I'll do it, I said, what she
gets on the camel. I lift her up and she
got on the camel and the camel takes off. I'm
yelling at Mohammed, Mohammed, that's my wife. We're in the

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amount of olives. I said, go get her. Oh he'll
come back, I said, And she's going like this, rocking
and rolling on top of the camel. I'm going to go.
You've got thirty feet off the ground, right, Well you're high, yeah, right.
This thing was passing gas the entire time. I guess
you quick. When you gotta go, you gotta go. I

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guess Cordery and Campbell's I don't know. Say get me
out of the Studge Report. We have livings. You think
that thing ought to have a colonoscovy like you did.
I would not give him one. No use that hot
tub thing I used a hot tub. I give him
a can. And the stirrups say, give me out of
the stooge, give me out of the Stuge Report. Willy,
on this Monday, we leave you with the immortal words

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of the Stood Report. Outstanding, Jim Kelly, Rest in peace.
Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred w L. Bill Cunningham,

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the Great American. Of course, many of us are interested
in what happened in the city of Cincinnati. The great
majority of our listenership, and the triest he does not
live in the city. In fact, only about ten to
fifteen percent due of those who listen, because the rest
of us try to get out. I lived in Avenue
for a while and got out, and it should be
a great community. And what's happening in the city of

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Cincinnati is similar to what's happening in most other major
American cities, which is, the schools cannot be attended because
of all the violence and the lack of education. Secondly,
the police departments are demoralized. The judges do not put
criminals in jail. Probation officers are collapsing, brought down town,
and there's a sense of hopelessness that stalks the land
in the city of Cincinnati. Unless you watch the great

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debate with f Tab Pureval and Corey Bowman and what
you listen in the mayor, life couldn't be much better
than it is right now that we're incentivized the police
to do their job. We have new plans and new
ideas for connected communities. We have to build more affordable housing,
whatever the hell that is. And if you believe this
happy talk, I'll send you a bridge to sell your
bridge somewhere in Brooklyn. Joan you and I now is

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Lynda Matthews who is with the Avenue Community Council spending
these issues in the urban corps for a long long time.
And Lynda Matthews, once again, thanks for coming on the
Bill Cunningham Show this Monday afternoon. And first of all,
when you monitored the debate with Corey Bowman. Many issues
are brought up in involving Afteret, pureval, et cetera. What
did you take away from the great Debate?

Speaker 7 (01:07:17):
Well, what I took away is that Corey Bowman is
going to make a great mayor. We are sick and
pad of astad. He was condescending, he didn't stick to
the issues. People recognize it, they're filling it, and we're
going to get him out of there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
As far as affordable housing, can you tell me what
the heck that means. It's one of those great liberal phrases.
We're going to build more affordable housing. Last week I
saw this new development in Oakley and I thought, you know,
I wouldn't mind believe it or not, Penny and I
living in Oakley or maybe Hyde Park. Check it out.
I looked at the new housing in Oakley, these standalone

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structures one point three to one point seven million dollars.
I said, well, hell, that's affordable if your Carl Linder.
And then the other thing is I looked at the
affordable housing in Hyde Park with this new development. They're
going to come back with another plan after everyone gets elected, I imagine,
and the rents are forty five hundred dollars a month
for an apartment. Is that affordable housing? Linda Matthews, What

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am I missing?

Speaker 7 (01:08:19):
That is not affordable at all.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
It is just a total disgrace.

Speaker 7 (01:08:24):
You have families out here who are working two jobs
trying to paid twenty five hundred dollars for.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
A two bedroom apartment on.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
An apartment that four years ago was only six hundred dollars,
And it's a problem. Affordable is affordable if you look
up what the definition of it is. And right now
what's being built in our great city is not affordable housing.
It is for people who incomes that have very good incomes.
But for the average Cincinnatian, it's not affordable at all, you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Know, Linda Matthews. Like many American cities, there's the poor
and none, there's the rich in between. Like the middle
class cannot afford and Cincinnati to live in a house
and to pay the property taxes ever going up and
then have one or two kids to send or allows
these school system. Middle class Americans are leaving. And let's

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talk about crime and punishment. What is your sense of
the plan of the mayor to incentivize police to do
their job? What the hell does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
So there.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
I mean, you know, it's just so sad.

Speaker 7 (01:09:29):
Because at the beginning of this of may I was
calling for the and in all over the summer, I
was calling for the mayor to accept the services of
the governor, you know, and here we are, we went
through all this. I did an ad on it opt
A and the inquiry stated he needs to accept all

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the services only to get up there and patronize the
city in line and say.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
You're only going to take two days.

Speaker 7 (01:10:00):
How is that actually helping the city of Cincinnati stay safe.
It's arrogance and it's not something that the city is
going to accept because guess what, it affects the black
community more than anybody for you to come into our
communities and talk about all these little small initiatives that
you're talking about. But at the same time, people in

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our community are dying every day. And so it's just
it just has to stop, you know, it really has
to stop. And he has to go, and he really
needs to accept the services of the governor thirty days
every month, you know, we need it. And he still
hasn't done that. And I'm very disappointed in his leadership and.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
He needs to go.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Is there a connection between the black community and have
to have pureval many times, whether it was Mark Mallory
or other leaders who become the mayor. Just a sense
he's one of our guys. Is there a sension you're
on the Evanil Community Council. Is there a sense that
after Pureval is like one came out of the black community,

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understands the black community, works with the black community, cares
about the black community other than hiring Irish Rollie. Is
there a sense that he represents black interests in the
city of Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
He does not.

Speaker 7 (01:11:19):
I mean, he gets he only deals with those people
who are paid to play. Also, you know, so much
has happened in our community. You know, he's not addressed
any of those concerns. He's only listening to certain people.
He's not listening to all the people. And so I'm
very disappointed. You know, it's just horrible leadership and we

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need a.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Change, you know, getting back to the news conference about
a month ago. I spoke to Governor Mike de Wine
before and after, and he always wondered when he made
the offers in August to help out after the July
twenty third beat down involving Holly and others. I'm kind
of amazed the mayor doesn't want to accept this because
I'm doing this Eveland, Youngstown, Columbus, and Toledo and it

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is having a measurable impact because what it does is
free up city cops to do get a handful of warrants,
go out and arrest people who have warrants out for
their arrest. He gives cops the incentive to go pull
people over, and he said for traffic violations. And then
when he did accept it, he said, well, let's see
what happens. He came out two or three days later.
There were two shifts a month and it turned out

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to be zero. I spoke to Ken Cobra about a
week ago and Ken Cober said, there's no highway patrolman
anywhere in the city of Cincinnati. So thirty days became
two days, became no days, and it didn't happen. And
explain to me that you live in Avondale, You've been
there a long time. Have things gotten better or worse?
To pass four years under after to have pure.

Speaker 7 (01:12:46):
Vol it has gotten worse. You hear gunfire all the time,
crime everywhere, and people are getting tired, Taxpayers are getting.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
Tired of it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:57):
Right here in Avondale, we're getting tired of it. You know,
I'm proud of the liptok and no action. He hasn't
done anything but took pictures and stuff like that and
not done anything of any credibility in our communities.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
It's sad discuss what is connected communities. So the mayor
talked about at the Great Debate about connected communities and
somehow evanew is going to be connected to Hyde Park
and going to be connected to Oakley, going to be
connected to Sailor Park. Connected communities, all these buzzwords liberals
love to talk about, such as enabling the police, just
as diversity, equity and inclusion, such as connected communities. You know,

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what the hell connected communities is.

Speaker 7 (01:13:38):
Connected communities has been a true failure. You know if
you just look at High Park, you know you're coming
in and you're bulldozing down communities and you're not really
engaged in the community at all. You just come in
with your developers and you just do what you want
to do to these communities. High Park stood up against them,
and look what happened. They got eighteen thousand and people

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that sign petitions to stop the development. In High Park
and put it on the ballot, and I was right
there from the beginning of collecting those signatures to take
it in those petitions to the city clerk. And I
support the reminding this getting rid of connected communities because
it's not helping the communities at all.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Do you think the fire of those in Hyde Park, etc.
Is going to maintain through the election or did the
efforts of city council to curtail that huge development overpowering
Highe Park Square. Will that be forgotten by the voters?
That's what That's what our Home.

Speaker 7 (01:14:38):
High Park is organizing across every fifty two communities. They're
doing an excellent job and engaging everyone so that we
can come together and fight against development that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
We don't want in our communities.

Speaker 7 (01:14:54):
You know, you have to come to the community first
and talk with the community, get the ideas, not just
come in with their plans and bullet over over what
the community wants. So they're doing an excellent job. They're
organizing and they're not going anywhere, and I support them.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
What happens to the Lynda Matthews that these policies of
this mayor continue for the next four years. Where do
you see your future.

Speaker 7 (01:15:19):
I'm going to run for city council, hopefully they will
elect me, and I'm going to be a founding board
for our communities because we can do better. We have
great people that are running, like Corey Bowman, with Chris
Smithman and myself, who are going to hold these people accountable.
The taxpayers are tired of it. I am too. It
is time for change.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Would you ever give up on Avondale and see I
can't do this anymore? I can't believe. The policies is
too expensive, property textures are too high, the police are disincentivized.
We have so called connected communities that stink the city
of Cincinnati and Avondale is not what it was. Are
you going to continue to put up with this and
say you don't win on council? And many think you

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are going to win, But if things don't go the
right way, what are your plans in the future.

Speaker 7 (01:16:05):
I'm gonna stay right here in Avondale and I'm going
to fight to make sure that we have safe communities,
all fifty two communities. I'm gonna work with Hyde Park,
I'm gonna stay engaged, and I'm not going anywhere. I'm
going to fight until the end. I'm going to fight
because our children deserve it. We need safe communities because

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we know if we have safe communities, we have capital.
Safety equals capital. No one wants to come into a
city or community but that's not safe and invest their dollars.
So I'm gonna continue to fight for Cincinnati. I'm a
lifetime Cincinnati and Xavier grad Central State trustee, and I
believe in our city. I love our city, and we

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have great people who really have concerns about this our city,
and I'm gonna continue to fight.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Linda Matthews, I love that. What is your website if
any of people want to get in, Like Tony Bender,
even though he lives in Boone County, he cares deeply
about the city of Cincinnati.

Speaker 7 (01:17:05):
What is your website as Votlandomatthews dot com. Go on
there and look at all the issues that we're talking about,
all the great work that I have done in.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
The community all over the years and being an educator.

Speaker 7 (01:17:19):
So go to that website. Votlandomatthews dot com and Botland,
the Matthews, Corey Bowman, and Chris Smithman. You know we're
in it to win.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
It.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
God bless you. Let's see what happens. You know, we
have the community we deserve. So the city of Cincinnati
deserves much better political leaders, something we have right now.
And you need a police force citizen centivized. You need
better community services such as fixing potholes. You need a
better attribution. When you call nine one one, you want
to make sure someone shows up. And at this point,

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the fire department is demoralized. The firefighters are against af
TAP peer of all, the police are against af TA
peer of all, and many other city workers are against
a to have pure of all. And I'm glad that
a citizen and the community council there in Avondale arose
like a mighty tsunami and said we don't have to
live like this anymore, and change changes what's required. And
once again, Linda Matthews, thanks for coming on the Bill

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Cunningham Show, and Linda have a great day. Thank you, Thanks,
thanks you. Bill. Let's continue with more, and of course
Bengals kick off Thursday night. Coverage starts about nine o'clock
in the morning on Thursday. But these are important matters
and hopefully the citizens of Cincinnati will realize what's been
done to them and not for them. Bill Cunningham, He's
Radio seven hundred WLW. That's the music. Dave Keaton, the

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excitement continues. A couple of thoughts came to my mind
listening to Lynda Matthews who spent her life in Cincinnati,
graduate here and Central State, etc. And came back came
back to evan able to live, and that is, you
don't have to live like this. And the analogy was
made by Bill O'Reilly about nine and a half ago
that I made the argument to Bill, which is an

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argument I don't fully accept the argument. But here it
is that those to live in the city of Cincinnati
and those who live in Chicago or Memphis, or Los
Angeles or Portland, it's up to those residents and citizens
living in those areas to change their political leadership is
not up to us. It's thought up to someone living
in Kenwood or Sycamore Township or Boone County to save

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the city of Cincinnati from these from the fools the
arrogance of its political leadership, and many of the leaders
of the Democrat Party or bought and paid for directly
or indirectly, so therefore they benefit greatly by having the
Democrats still in charge, which is trashing the city of Cincinnati,
ruining public education at high expenses. So the thought is,
you know what, who cares? I'm voting for Tom Weedman,

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I'm voting for conservative Republicans in the UH in Sycamore Township,
in Kenwood, That's what That's what I'm doing. And so
I have Do I have a dog in that fight?
I think in a sense I do. Analogy was made
that if Abraham went in eighteen sixty one said, look,
slavery's a democratic problem in the South. The Democrats are

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in charge, and so why go to war kill hundreds
of thousands of Americans to bring light to the heads
of racist Democrats in the South and own the slaves?
Why do we do that? Or one hundred years later,
why should the feeds care if the Democrats who can
control Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, why should we send

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troops to Arkansas, Alabama or Tennessee, whatever, because the Democrats
there don't care about civil rights for its black citizens
to go go to public schools. Well, why do we care?
Live your life change the way it is. But many
it took the principal to approach. You don't have to
live like this. And so if you live in the
city of Cincinnati with high crime, shots being fired, exorbitant

(01:20:51):
real estate Texas, you live in the city of Cincinnati
that has so called connected communities that stink. There's no
affordable housing either a millionaire or in section. And you
can't afford to live in the city of Cincinnati, and
you can't send your kid to the public schools. Why
should those of us who live outside care. It's up
to the citizens of Cincinnati to change his political leadership.
But don't let them divert from the failure of their

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policies and blame jd. Vance or Donald Trump or some
boogeyman behind a drape somewhere. Take responsibility and so, yes,
it'd be a good thing. But you don't have to
live like this. What do you have to lose? Look
at the status of your city. Big companies are moving out,
small companies aren't moving in. Restaurants are closing, massive lawlessness,

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open air drug use, homelessness, exorbitant cost, and the few
people in charge of the city say, let's keep it going.
We need four more years of this. When the firefighters
and the cops don't endorse. That gives you a clue.
They're on the ground every day. They know what's going on,
and they're saying, don't vote for the current political leadership,
and don't let them lie to you and gaslight you.

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Don't let that happen. And so, yes, I guess I
do care. Those who are forced to be in schools
that dysfunction, live in a community filled with drug abusers
and homelessness. Okay, go ahead and do it. Live in
a community that need speed bumps instead of police officers
who are demoralized. You voted for these clowns. You voted
for these fools who pay themselves large amounts of money

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and their friends. It's up to you to change it.
What happens if you don't change. Do we have to
come in like Donald Trump might want to do and
put National Guard in democratically controlled cities to bring law
and order? When it's up to the residents and voters
of the city of Cincinnati to change. If it don't change,
shall we come and save your bacon when you refuse
to help yourself. Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred ww yes.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Uds, he's done it.

Speaker 6 (01:22:44):
Such down sus down, touchdown, touchdown.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
Hello, biets, I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
Voted oh guy first of all rock many issues to
passing at Jim Kelly this morning at the age of
seventy two five cancer like a warrior poet for two years.
All of us lose to fight in the long run,
but nonetheless Jim Kelly will be sorely messed by everyone
at UC. Jim Kelly was one of the best.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
I know.

Speaker 8 (01:23:18):
His son actually very very well, Dave Kelly. He was
my spotter for my ESPN games for about three years.
What does the spotter, dude, he's the guy that he's
the extra set of eyes in the booth is and
he works. He's mainly my my play by play guy
at the time. Clay Mattviick he was his spotterer, but
he works with all of this and you know it's

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a hard job, but you know you're well looking.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
On the field. Who made the tackles at eighty nine
or was it eighty eight? I don't know. Spotter. His
job is a boom. He points to your boards, that's right.
He spots him and and.

Speaker 8 (01:23:49):
Dave Kelly is one of the very very best there
is out there, hands down in terms of being a spotter.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
But talked to his dad a bunch of times.

Speaker 8 (01:23:58):
It was always, I mean, such a sweetheart, part of
a guy, and he'll be soreing this best out there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
Nineteen forty seven, Jim Kelly Senior started at UC, and
after he went through UC, of course, he came to
Deer Park High School, where he was the athletic director
and the football coach before Tom Griswold. And that's where
I met him when I was playing basketball for Saint
Savior Grade School, which is where Jim Kelly Junior went
to grade school with the Nuns sister of Charity. So

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they've been connected to you see, since nineteen forty seven.
And my simple deer Park Matt tells me that's about
seventy eight years. That's a long time to be long.
Seventy eight seventy eight years, that guy statue. I get
a stat of them, both of them, father and son
and maybe grandson. But you have some statistics, you know,
unlike segment. You and I deal with facts. He deals

(01:24:45):
with that purble. And I'm making the comment that James Franklin,
the head coach of Penn State, got twenty thousand dollars
a week for the next six years forty nine million
Notaxine explain that.

Speaker 8 (01:24:57):
Well, it comes down to these these athletic directors, and
at some point folks just start pointing the finger at
them a little bit. I guess the argument is a
coach like Franklin at the time, he has the leverage
and he says, well, if Penn State, if you don't
give me this contractor or you don't give me this
contract extension, I'm gonna go here and you're gonna be
stuck with nothing. So it's you know, negotiations work when

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you have leverage.

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
I had leverage once in my life. Do you do
a few times you have it? What do you do?
Drive it home? Thank you? Mike mc.

Speaker 8 (01:25:30):
In Chicago, he's just sent it some flowers like once
a year or two.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
I'm gonna celebrate Mike McConnell.

Speaker 8 (01:25:35):
Much, but but the fact of the matter is, yeah,
he's a forty nine million dollar buyout right now. Currently
there have been seven FBS schools already that have fired
their coach. Okay, James Franklin, Mike Gundy, Sam Pittman from Arkansas,
Brent Pry from Virginia Tech, Jason Foster from UCLA, Trent
Dilfer from UAV just got fired, and Trent Brave from

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Morgan State.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
I believe that was today or yesterday.

Speaker 8 (01:26:00):
All those in total are topping one hundred million dollars
and buy out money. And if there's more coaches fire
that number, we'll just continue to go up.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
Obviously.

Speaker 8 (01:26:12):
And here here, yes, they're they're saying. I mean some
report I read today said it could be upwards of
two hundred by the end of the year. Two hundred
million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
Where does that come from?

Speaker 8 (01:26:23):
I think it shows you just how rich some people
connected with universities are that they can write these kind
of checks to just make something go away. Well, you'd
away to James Franklin the past three seasons, I'm going
the three seasons he won eleven and two, ten and three,
and thirteen and three and three and one two playoff

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games last year. Two weeks ago he was the number, yeah,
number two ranked team in the country.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Two weeks later, running all of a sudden became a
bad coach. I guess after about twelve years.

Speaker 8 (01:26:55):
Well, yeah, is the one thing working against him was
he won every game, well until this, until these last
couple of weeks, he.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
Won every game. He should have won.

Speaker 8 (01:27:04):
He never won that game where it's like, Ohio State's
got a better roster, better team, but he just goes
and sneaks one and gets it. He won every game
he should have to build and then he you know,
then they lost to Organ twice. Basically he lost that
game which they could have won. And then they went
to u c.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
L A.

Speaker 8 (01:27:22):
And you can't lose to a coach that doesn't know
how a headset works. If you've seen if you've seen that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
Clip, U c l A has no football team, and
they got they got hammered, right.

Speaker 8 (01:27:30):
And then night Hives, the guy who took over, admitted
after game he didn't know how to head how the
headset work. I don't know how to turn it on
or off, or how to pull the thing down was
talking to it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
You can't lose that situation, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:27:45):
But here's what's interesting to me, though, is every a
d I talked to and football person I.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
Talked to in college football says.

Speaker 8 (01:27:54):
You know, in the day and age of n I L,
universities don't want to fire their coach because now, I mean, look,
that's forty nine million dollars Penn State could have used
to buy players for the next six years.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Yes, and now all of a sudden that's gone. So
the trend that.

Speaker 8 (01:28:08):
People thought would happen was Okay, coaches will be a
little bit safer because you can't fire them because they
don't want to dip it in.

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
That's that has not happened directly, I can. The only
reason why I.

Speaker 8 (01:28:19):
Can tell you it goes back to what I said earlier,
and that is just shows you how rich some of
these people, some of these donors and folks connected whe
the university are that they can just do this over
and over and over millions of dollars a year.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
Boom, boom boom. I can't believe people are writing these
kind of checks at Penn State. Forty nine million. He's
paid out over his contract, so it could be six
six more years. How much does he make a week,
a month, a day? It said here what broke it up?
Break down? Break it down? It was one hundred. He's
gonna make twenty thousand dollars. Let's see why you got

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too many guys. Twenty It'll make twenty thousand dollars a
day from Penn State for the next six years. Per
week he rolls in one hundred and fifty six thousand
per month, six hundred and sixty. Not bad. That's not
bad for not doing something. You want me to tell
you the next coach is gonna be?

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
Please tell me Crystal Ball as someone who knows these saying,
not no Jordans to know in that, but I think
it should be and will be Ryan Silverfield from Memphis.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
That's what I think it should really get.

Speaker 8 (01:29:22):
A fifty nine million dollars. One hell of a coach.
I've had them over the years, and he rolled up
the points. Yes, sir, they like to play football, and
he likes to run the ball. And during the season
he's dialed.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
In, dialed in. What about Nick Saban, He's staying on
game day and loving it? What about Bill Belichick? Is
he loving it?

Speaker 7 (01:29:39):
Though?

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
I don't know. I think he wants to jump in
and he wants to He's getting told though, in your
seventies you should quit working. Do you do you agree?
I mean anything wrong? Cincinnati the future Cincinnati? What did
you just say in the seventies you ought to quit?
Say give me some sports and make it fast. Know
what he just said? I I heard say, Did I

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say that? Yeah? I like to revise and extend my remarks.
See let mean right, do some math here? When were
you born nine, nineteen forty seven? There be careful around here.
They hear one or two things you never know. I
love I love Tony Pike. There you go, but not
that much will. The border is the proud service of
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Star quality you can feel in beautiful Milford. The home
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Heating at five one, three, eight, three, one fifty one
twenty four spots. Let's see, well you got the Bengals
line tonight at six oh five talking about the loss
yesterday to the Pack. The first NFL coaches out. Tennessee

(01:30:43):
Titans have fired head coach Brian Callahan after a one
and five start. Former Bengals defensive coordinators out after just
twenty three games with the Titans going four and nineteen
and just handed to me as eight whoa former Major
League Baseball player and coach, Sandy Alomar Senior, has passed

(01:31:03):
away at eighty one. He was an Indian, wasn't He
played for six different teams in his fifteen year Koreer,
Indian he's the father of Sandy Alomar junior Indian of
a six time All Star. Let me give you some facts.
I am right here. If here is in facts, I
want to ask you which is better first half of
the second half with your Bengals. In the first half
they had a total of zero points. In the second

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half they had eighteen points of Green Bay, which is better?
Second half?

Speaker 7 (01:31:29):
A right?

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
First half they had sixty five yards total offense. Second
half they had two hundred and three second half good.
In the first half they had four first downs, three
on penalty. In the second half they had sixteen first
downs second half correct. And lastly, in the first half
had eight minutes of possession and the second half they

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had nineteen minutes, which is better. Second half? Correct? Now,
why I want to know why? By Joe Flunko all happened?
Now you got what happened? The guy in town like
like two and a half he came in two and
a half days. Tell him about half of football. What
he did was a miracle in the second half.

Speaker 8 (01:32:10):
About the first time, did you hear Jamar Chase after
the game said he had because he won him sick?
Like on was that Friday or whatever it was. He
had a grand total of twelve reps of football with
Joe Flacco that week and he comes out in the
game gets ten receptions for.

Speaker 1 (01:32:24):
Whatever it was. It's amazing how he can just pluck
the ball. Even said that after the game, and t
Higgins can just pluck it out of the air where
they're at.

Speaker 8 (01:32:33):
Those mits miss and I guess apparently that touchdown catch
he had which something.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Let me tell me what that route is called? Because
I know football. I have not never just throw the
ball the best player.

Speaker 8 (01:32:50):
When the guy got a beard with him, the whole
the odd But Joel smart is he doesn't know all
the insounts to the offense.

Speaker 1 (01:32:56):
But he knows the number one, number one, number five,
number one, umber five, five one combined had fifteen catches.
Now that's smart. How many weeks too?

Speaker 8 (01:33:04):
A couple of weeks ago between the two of them
had like like five targets.

Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
Right now, they're throwing the ball. Can they win Thursday?
If they win Thursday night, they go to win games.
The best players win games. But they could be five
and four in three weeks. Yeah, they got three game
home stretch here, right.

Speaker 8 (01:33:19):
They could be if they're fine, told you before the
season with the healthy Joe Burrow that the bengalsill be
five and four to buy.

Speaker 1 (01:33:25):
Would you have taken it? Yes, I would have taken
it exactly. I would have tall, I said. Okay, now
let's talk about the defense. That's another issue. By the way,
where was Michael Parsons? Was he on leave of What
the hell happened to him? Guy's making almost three D?
What about that?

Speaker 8 (01:33:39):
Where was he did a good job? And what he
does he gets the ball out of his hand, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
And he's tall. According I talked to Dave Abbitt. He said,
a flunk, let's a flunk or flat back. He's six
foot six, six six. He's a big guy, big man.
He looks down on you. Yeah, say your reaction. Give
me some by the way, give me sports. Will you
quit being a fool over there and give me some sports.
Let's see baseball. Well. Thee American League Division Championship Series

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Game two coming up at five Seattle in Toronto, NLCS
tonight the opener l A and Milwaukee. Perdue is the
number one team in the preseason Associated Press AP College basketball.
Houston is second, Florida third, Kentucky is ninth. Losville eleventh.

(01:34:26):
Does anyone know who won the w NBA title? The
Vegas When one does it begin? They swell, I mean
last year, I mean this year the Las Vegas Aces
won at all? Name three players that play for the Aces?
Right now, go sank giving us some more sports. Let's
see NHL tonight, New Jersey and Columbus. It's a home

(01:34:47):
opener for the Jackets. Jackets. The Cyclones open their season
Saturday night downtown against Wheeling and wait, Cyclones got free
beer night or something? Right? I think it's three two one?
What's that? Three hot dogs, two beers are ninety dollars
hot dogs, two dollars beers and dollar ice cream rock?

(01:35:07):
Do you have any hope at all? Because I'm getting
reports that maybe Jordan Hudson and the Bill Belichick are
ready to cash out in North Carolina. You're telling me
yay or nay on that.

Speaker 8 (01:35:17):
Now the university is one of the Titans a joint
statement saying that they're happy with their coach.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
Now you know me what that mean? What does that mean?
He is the coach? The vote of confidence and anytime
they release that, I mean, when do I like the
hot what's Sunday from you. When do I get it?
You said, he going O. He said he wouldn't start
the season. I said he would. I think I paid
that off, didn't I? He did pay that one off.
I said that. I said they would, well, maybe go
to a Bolgi seven they would go to I said
they would in six games and possibly go to seventies.

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Get six? I got that six? Cat?

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
SI?

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
What about the cats though? What about the big twelve
at twenty fourth and the nation? How about that? You
didn't see that come in honor of Jim Kelly. Jim
Kelly junior and senior and Dave can't get an honor
all of the Kellies. Yes, but you getting back to reality.
I'm looking at this thing on Thursday night. Aaron Rodgers.
I still don't buy him as a forty forty one

(01:36:08):
year old quarterback, would you? These two guys are eighty
one years old and they're playing quarterback. You talk about
too old to play in the National Football eighty one
too old? Well, you're seventy seventy, so I'm still playing. Yeah,
I shot seventy four, began to shoot your agent golf.
Something's wrong. But do you have any hope other than
this is a flickering candy.

Speaker 8 (01:36:29):
Offense gives me some hope that the lack of defense,
and now with Trey Hendrickson possibly missing, I don't know,
I mean miss the second half of the game. But
the offense looked competent. But and it's very simple. He
got the ball to his playmakers paid a lot of
a billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
Get the ball to one or five, five or one,
Ray Lewis, get the ball to bear, five to one,
get the ball. The offense gives me hope. Defense, But
they didn't do bad against the pack did they really?
With love and great weather and well, yeah, I gee
what you're saying. They're one of the best teams in
the league. So it's hard to at home lambeau Field, elmos.

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It's just how it happened.

Speaker 8 (01:37:08):
The Bengals going that open up the third quarter, seventeen
play drive converted a third and four, and then the
fourth down play finds Tanner Hudson and you're like, okay,
ten to seven, not bad. And then the Packers get
the ball back and it was boom, boom, boom, touchdown
seventeen to seven. And then the Bengals get the ball
back again and get a field goal. It's seventeen to ten.

Speaker 1 (01:37:27):
Not bad. Packers get the ball again. Boom boom boom
boom boom boom boom twenty four ten. How about Money
Mack hitting deal and then they call t O t
O baby on a tier difference right there. I don't
know dooinked it in. That would have been well off
the cross cross sixty seven yard field goal. At some

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point he's going to kick a seventy yarder. That'll be
the mark he used to be like dempse what was
at sixty one? Sixty one? Now it's going to be
seventy yards and Money Mack has two feet. I'm seeing
I had half a fun half a foot maybe an advantage.
Maybe you have your foot cut off. I'm gonna mention this,
the money Mac cut off half your right there.

Speaker 8 (01:38:06):
There's a question, Moneymack, if you could be guaranteed to
get a NFL record long field goal, if you cut
half your foot off, would you do it?

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
I got to use my foot for other purposes, like
what kicking SEG's ass, and I want to full foot
on that, that's for sure. So Rock, what's on the
big show today? If anything, I don't know. You have
no idea. No Eddie is out, Jason, I don't know
where he is. He said, in London, London. I know
he's got.

Speaker 8 (01:38:34):
You can't be the third time he's gone to London.
I'm gonna start wondering about him. If he's going to
London three but he is out.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
I'm fired up to work alongside the great Jason Williams
wrote a column. I read the columnscust the Bengals right
out of discussing. If you got the guts, discuss it
with him, if you got the guts. I will how
Notre Dame do this weekend? Of course, if they.

Speaker 8 (01:38:53):
Went out in or something and Friday say give me
out on Stood's report, please them and Cole Rain got
beat again, give.

Speaker 1 (01:39:02):
Me out of the Studge report. Please, Even with the
you don't answer, what's the question? The question is get
me out of the students report. That's the question, Willy.
We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.
Twenty seconds left.

Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
One more step for desmin Ritter and the UC bearcat
is he takes the snap, He takes the knee, except
he pumps his fist, except that celebration begins at Notre
Dame stadium opportunity seized as the Bearcat send a message
to the college football world. Did you see that Cincinnati

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wins it twenty four to thirteen.

Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
Jim Kelly never had a better day.

Speaker 8 (01:39:48):
By the way, you missed the anniversary that it was
like last Monday, I think, and all these people text
me and tweeting about it, and I was like.

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
You didn't bring it up, did you. Of course not.
On seven hundred wlwa

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Do Doo