April 6, 2026 • 50 mins
Willie talks with WLWT's Brian Hamrick about city leadership's unwillingness to take questions on any of the public safety incidents recently in Cincinnati. Also reaction to President Trump's news conference.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Billy Cunningham, the Great America will welcome this Monday after
him in the tri States. So much going on, so
little time. We had the President coming up, Donald J.
Trump at one o'clock today on a news conference and
talk about what's happening in Iran and also related issues.
The city of Cincinnati has major difficulties. As you may know,
the inquiry ran a long story in which the income
tax revenues of the city are way down off by
(00:28):
like thirty percent. You may know if you work or
live in the city, you pay about one point eight percent.
That money's not coming in because jobs are bleeding all
over the place. And also we had the riotous conditions
after Red's opening day. And so Brian Hambrick of the
Power of fives that it might be good to get
a comment from the mayor about what is happening with
our city, especially when it appears to be in difficult waters.
(00:50):
I know the business owners I speak to are filled
with trepidation, and you don't want trepidation. Brian Hamrick, Welcome
again to the Bill Cunningham Show. First of all, Brian,
talk about the circumstances in which you, as a reporter
wanted to get the comments from the mayor. This a
few days ago when he was raising the transgender flag.
He had time for the transgender flag, but not for
Red's opening day. But that's a different story and relate
(01:13):
to the American people. What happened When you try to
track down the mayor, have to have pierrival to make
a comment on something.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Thanks agetting us un Am. Yes, well, we you know,
there's a lot of things going on. You know, we
have the concerns of the budget the police had been in.
They're talking about maybe a five percent cut there, the
fire departments talking about a five percent cut. You know,
these are kind of major issues for the city. We
(01:41):
had all the stuff that went down with opening day
the mayor, which I mean, you know, people take time
off whatever, but he wasn't here whenever that all happened,
and so we hadn't seen him. We hadn't had a
comment from the.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Mayor about all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What he thought, ou how did the police do? Did
he think there need to be changes anything any of that.
We didn't talked to him about the five percent proposal
of Kottai. You know, how do they come about that?
I wanted to ask him about you know this money
that comes in from the railroad, I know it's specifically allocated.
Is there a way that you know, maybe general fun
(02:17):
money could be diverted because there is this extra money
now coming into infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
From the railroad money.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know, all these things are issues, and you know
it's not something I want to talk to him about necessarily,
or the station. I mean, but we're representing the people.
The people of Cincinnati have these questions. They pay me
to go ask the mayor these questions. And it shouldn't
make somebody mad or upset or you know, they shouldn't
(02:46):
you would think, you know, I was telling another council member,
this should be when the mayor sees me, really any
of my constituents, they should come through me and say, look, great,
this is a great opportunity for me to get you know,
my message out and come over and talk and say, hey, look,
I'm glad you asked about this, but this is that's
(03:07):
not what happens. So we're down at this raising a
flag for this transgender flag to and it was a
it was an event, but we hadn't caught up the
mayor and had they had no time. It's between his
schedule when he got back to talk to us. So
we're like, well, we'll get him at this event. So
(03:27):
they do the event. They had certain speakers come up
and they they spoke and said, wow, this was an
important event, and the mayor and some council people were
there told their opinion why they you know, was an
important event. And then as they went to raise the
flag just before this event's.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Not over yet.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
The key crowning moment of the event is they're going
to raise this flag the city hall and so and so.
So I noticed the city manager quickly they're on the
steps and we're kind of down off the steps there
in front on the city hall, shooting this thing. And
I'm only there just to get a comment from the
(04:05):
mayor about these other things, you know, you know, we're
we're gonna show what happened and why they were there
and all. But my specific mission is to talk to
the to the mayor. And so I'm like, well, you know,
I don't want to be disruptive and you know, start
yelling questions during this event that they've put up and
(04:25):
these folks were all here to see, so I'm gonna
wait till he's done. Well, I see the SENNI manager
run up the steps real quick, and I'm like, that
doesn't look good. I mean, it's not over the events,
not of the people you say you are here to support.
Just saw you leave their flag raising. And then I'm like, well,
the mayor's surely not going to run out.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He goes look over here at.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
The flat orsing the flight starts to go up, and man,
he goes up those steps so fast, and I see it,
so I'm kind of ready for it, but I'm not
in real good position. But I'm like Rocky Bob Bowack
one up the stairs trying to catch him and he
goes in. I finally get him at the top of
the stair and he goes, I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Got a meeting.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I gotta get in.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The wind. And so did you trust he was going first?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
He was going first, you know, And they I guess
they saw me standing out there because they know if
I don't, you know, if I don't get an opportunity,
I'll just turn the camera on and walk the side
of them going in or wherever they're going to start
asking them questions.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And that doesn't look real good.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And uh, but you know, maybe the mayor I'm sure
he was. He was busy. I'm sure he had another
meeting or something. But what is more important than getting
your message out to the people of your city. And
this was a prime opportunity. I mean, it would have
taken me three minutes gets to get you know, a
few quick comments. It's like, all right, a mayor, what
(05:53):
do you think about you know, opening day, we had
all this these events down there and the police. What
was your perspective on the police. What what is your
idea about how we're going to make up this money
on this? You know, we're asking maybe to look at
five percent, you know, five percent cons I mean, some
simple basic things.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know, I got it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The mayor is busy. I'm sure he had a lot
of stuff to do, but this is you know, they
talk continuously. Almost every one of these meetings I go to.
Is transparent. I've seen Welder's mask had more transparency. There's
no transparency coming out of there, and and it filters
(06:36):
down through and I'm telling you it's it's to their
own benefit. And you know, like Jen Michelle Curney, she
was there, she was glad to talk to She's the
vice mayor, she's not the mayor. You know, and we
got some comments from her, and she got her perspective
out there and we were able to use some of that.
I appreciated her talking to me, But but nobody had
(06:58):
heard from the mayor on this stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Isn't it consistent? Go back in time just a little?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Even to the people who were there for the event,
thought Wow, if I was there and let's say it
was something let's just put it like, if it was
a veterans event, if the mayor was there for the
flag racing the veterans and he and he took off
before the event was over, I would think the people
there would think, wait, that's kind of disrespectful. I just didn't,
(07:24):
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know, maybe they already knew that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I was happy, yes, yes, but whatever, I just you know,
I just didn't. To me, watching from the outside, I
just thought, wow, I thought he would have stayed to.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The end of the event, right, Henrick on that issue.
Kevin Aldridge of The inquir He's the Kevin Aldridge runs
the inquir and he wrote a column about two or
three months ago about the incapability of the mayor to
address the issue of his own personal financial difficulties because
(07:58):
the repo man visited the mayor, I guess his home
or at city Hall and hooked up the car because
he didn't make his payments. The repo man, you got
to pay the note otherwise. The repo man sesa, and
this is a problem because we had other city council
members four or five years ago that didn't have money,
and so they took bribes in order to uh you know,
(08:18):
uh the jeff Pastors and others took took the money
and ran. And that's a problem. So we have the
mayor who's having his car repossessed. And Kevin Alders of
the inquiry said he's got to answer for that. He's
got to say why did that happen? And just thought, well,
we made a mistake. You don't get your car repossessed
when you miss a payment or two or three. When
your names have to have peer of all. Your name's
(08:40):
not exactly Bill Smith, you know where I have to
have pure of all is So Kevin Aldridge makes the
point of the inquiry, he owes an explanation to the
people of Cincinnati as to what cal happened. That you're
not taking care of your personal finances and that's a problem.
He ca he handles this city like he handles his
personal money, which is repossession. And so you're saying the
(09:01):
same thing. Kevin Audrey says at the end, choir, you
know what, we got a problem he's got to answer,
and when asked about it, he doesn't answer any questions
because the answers are bad for him. Now, before the
transgender flag at the top of the pole, you got
the city manager and the mayor sprinting away from the event,
and I'm thinking, you know that's so the problem isn't
(09:24):
a simple one, but the mayor ought to sit down
with legitimate media outlets and answer questions number one about
the repossession of his car and how did that happen?
How many months are a year behind? Were you notified delinquent?
Every car repossession I speak to when I practiced law,
I did some bankruptcies. They go through months and months
and months. The last thing you want to do is
(09:44):
repossess a car. And so if your name is af
teb Pirival, they're going to get a hold of you
and say you owe four months or the payments? Where's
the money? Before they hook up the car. He doesn't
answer the question. He leaves the event, because it's embarrassing
when the city was national news again and the mayor
once again, and everybody goes on vacation, but you don't
(10:04):
go on vacation during the music festival, during the taste,
during Red's opening day, you don't go on vacation. And
the mayor answers no questions and it's not held to account. Plus,
you brought this up off there to me, and I
brought it up last week. The city's getting like fifty
eight million dollars a year for capital expenditures, which is
out of the regular budget. Therefore, they have more money
(10:26):
than other cities have to spend because they don't have them.
They're getting the money. They got one hundred and ten
million dollars in the account right now, Amy Murray says.
And they can't spend the money because they're incompetent. They can't.
They can't spend money because they don't have it, and
when they have it, they don't spend it. Can you
smell when I'm cooking?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, you know, I mean I worked in a PR
department one time years ago when I was getting my
master's at the University of Oklahoma, and it was apparent
to me at that time that it was very dysfunctional
and they had the same as They wouldn't talk about anything.
There are all kinds of issues that had come up,
(11:04):
and some of them were difficult issues.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
But they would duck and hide.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And I remember they looked at me like I had
three heads. When I told them, I said, look, people,
not everybody's gonna agree with us. I said, but and
I'm the lowest guy. Yeah, I'm a grad student there.
You know, I've got a full time job, but I'm
a grad student. I'm the lowest founder. But I don't
have enough sense to, you know, not tell.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Them what they need to hear. But they needed to
hear it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And I said, look, we're reasonable people, we make reasonable decisions.
We do the best we can. All we need to
do is just tell people why we did it. You know,
I said, because you're not going.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
To please everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Nobody's going to be pleased with this. I mean, but
there are certain people that will look at it and go, well,
that's the reason they did it. I understand why they
did it, but you have to get that message out there.
You have to tell people why you did something. There
may be a perfectly logical explanation to some of these things,
but we don't get them. We're not hearing that, and
(12:08):
that's really the thing that is more damaging, I think
than anything. You know, you know what, and it trickles down.
We're getting the same thing out of the police department.
And I mentioned this. You know, look, you could go
like New York Chicago. They have pr people that would
come down and this will cost you a few hundred
(12:28):
thousand dollars to get this advice. But this would have
been my advice. And I'm actually seriously thinking about doing
this because here's the kind of advice that a lot
of municipalities and a lot just us, but a lot
of them need just kind of so they went down.
Had I been the chief or been advising the chief, now,
you know, like they're like, why would we listen to you?
(12:49):
But imagine this, this this take on what happens rather
than what we got. Because what we got was, look,
we did the best we could. We had some issues
and you know, we made some arrest and we're going
to prosecute those. And the mayor put out a statement saying,
just a statement, he said, it's an outrage and we're
going to prosecute to the full.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That's what we got.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Imagine had we had, Hey, there's a guy down there,
a captain that's that's running and they that area down
by the banks. This guy's really good. As named Schofield.
He gave us a kind of a rundown of what
they were going.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To do the day before.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He was direct, he was matter of fact, he had
all the facts, he knew what he was doing. I'd
have probably got that guy to go out and do it,
you know, depends on who's But antonia is just trickling
down because they're saying no, you know, I think there
may be a filter saying you can't say this or
you can't say that. But what they should have said
was this chief or somebody he appointed, should have said, look,
(13:48):
come out in front of everybody as soon as possible
and said, what you saw here was maybe one of
the finest jobs of policing in the history of this
the Apartment, if not in recent memory.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
We had officers.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
As we told you yesterday, we were going to have
Swat Team CRDT. We were going to have extra officers.
We were going to place them strategically where they needed
to be. We told you yesterday. We were going to
have drones, we were going to have the real time
cameras under surveillance. Everything was going to be watched. We
were going to respond at a moment's notice.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
To any problem.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And you know what happened, That's exactly what we did. Well, Chief,
we saw that video of people getting routy, that's exactly right.
And because our officers were right there, right where they
were strategically placed where they needed to be, that became nothing.
We tossed water on that fire like smoky Bear, and
it became nothing. Had we not been there, it would
(14:46):
have been a disaster. More people are thrown in deal
at Octoberfest in this event, no shooting, no injuries, no
major injuries during the whole thing. Yes, we know a
young girl was the packed up at up their liberty.
We're working to crack down the individuals responsible for that.
(15:06):
We've got three or four detectives on that trying to
figure out exactly what's going on there. But overall, this
is what happened. It was an outstanding job of policing.
That would have been my advice, you know, for the folks,
and that in the message. We didn't get that message.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I want to share with you one sentence from the
story written by Scott Wortman of the inquiry by the way,
two thirds of the city's money come from the income
tax is this is this one sentence that Wartman talked
about the failure of the city to collect the money.
Because right now there's a huge red flag of flying
and the city is in financial straits. In fact, the
(15:43):
B word has been raised by some, which is bankruptcy.
And that is at this point a year ago, the
city income tax collections are down about thirty four percent. Unbelievable.
They get two thirds of their money, and the thirty
four percent down year over year, and so far this
year they're down twenty eight percent the first what three months,
and so instead of a five percent cut, there might
(16:04):
be a ten percent cut. And what city Council dot
now does is keep spending money. They spend eight million
dollars for the criminals after the George Floyd riots, eight
million dollars for the symphony to make the tuba player happy.
We've got millions more going out in settlements to the
Chief of Police and to the fire chief. And that
somewhere down the road. The lawyer from Dayton branding is
(16:27):
going to collect a lot of money for his client,
millions of dollars. The last thing to do when you're
a whole is to keep digging, And so city council
keeps handing out money. Now they got a budget problem
and they're thinking what do we do Now? The income
taxes two thirds of what they collect and that's down
about thirty percent. And so to me, the cuts could
get more severe down the road. Well, we got to run,
(16:48):
Brian Hemrick, get on your gym shoes, give me your
final comment about the mayor and the way the city's run.
We had about thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, you know, literally, I think they would do better
just to tell people what's going on. That that's really
the bottom line for me. They just need to let
people know what it is, what their thoughts are. You know,
the crime for egment, it's up, it's down, it's up,
it's down, but the perception and and it to handle
the perception. And it's not just a one time when
(17:15):
we came out and now we addressed that. Now we're done.
This needs to be done on a pretty much a date. Look,
they could take some advice from the commander in chief there.
I mean they're telling him, okay, you know, even his
inside guys is saying, okay, maybe too much communication, Yeah,
too much, you know, too much, but it is but
it is communication, and it's and it's constant.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And you know where at any given moment where he.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Stands on on the issues at that particular moment, you know, so, uh,
there needs to be maybe a balance there, but there
needs to be more of that. There needs to be
more people saying, look, here's why we did this, here's
why we did that. You know, it's the press. The
legitimate press. Isn't somebody to run from. That's somebody to
go and say, hey, look, this is an opera opunity
(18:00):
every time, an opportunity to just get our message out. Yeah,
you will face some hard questions, right, Okay, you can
answer that thing for a good reason.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well we got to run. But Brian Hamrick, I hope
it changes. By putting a spotlight on it, maybe somebody
in city Hall will get to the mayor hold a
no holds barre news conference in which the city that
the real legitimate media can ask questions about the repossession
of his cars, the financial status of the city. If
you can't handle your own finances. Why do you handle
the city finances? They're handled about the same way. We
(18:32):
got to run. Good luck through your stories. Say afternoon,
Brian Hamrick. You're a great American and thanks for coming
on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Thank you, Brian, Thanks again, mister Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
God bless America. There's the best there is. How about
answering questions? Novel suggestion News Radio seven hundred WW I'm
Michael David Keaton. Hit the music, please, I'm looking at
something else, Stave Keaton, hit the music. Big things happening
after one o'clock today the President will be here. We're
(19:03):
going to carry his news conference live whenever it takes off.
Normally it's several minutes late. Whenever it happens, it will
happen because we want to know what that went on
with the rescue of that airman. And secondly, what is
happening with the so called peace proposal from Iran, which
says we're getting our butt kicked big time, so give
us forty five days to rearm and then we'll keep talking.
(19:24):
I don't think Trump's going to fall for that. When
whatsoever would you agree it simply is not possible when
you're winning a war as badly as America is winning
the war that the opponent, the enemy would want to say,
you know what, can we stop this for a little
while and maybe we can do something different start talking.
And they've been talking for so long they can't talk anymore.
(19:44):
So we'll see after one o'clock what happens with that. Secondly,
when I talked to Brian Hamrick and others, and I
talked to previous mayors of our city and previous council
members in our city, Democrat and Republican, each to a
person will tell you off the record is the worst
mayor and the worst city council Cincinnati has ever had,
because they don't deal with the real facts. They don't
(20:06):
manage the money. They spend money ridiculously, frivolously, and then
when it comes time to pay the bills, they blame
someone else for their own inadequacies. And one thing is
to raise taxes to solve the problem. After Appierival wants
to raise the taxes. However, city council members don't want
to do it because they understand that maybe they should
tighten their belt a little bit and spend the money
(20:28):
that they already have without increasing taxes again. And secondly,
to increase taxes, they can't do it without the approval
of the residents of the City of Cincinnati. And the
last time they went to the city to have a
tax increase, it was voted down like two thirds percent,
two thirds to one third, So that wasn't going to
happen anyway. And I want to thank Scott Wortman of
the inquir for doing a lot of the legwork on
(20:50):
this issue about the businesses. Here's one sentence from his
story about the financial straits the city is in the city.
The city businesses appear to be making less money based
on the tax money the city gets quarterly from business
net profits. The net profits tax revenue dipped thirty five
(21:10):
percent year over year from August to October twenty twenty five,
and the first six months of the fiscal year, net
profit tax revenues are down twenty eight percent, so there's
less money coming in. The net profits tax accounts for
about seventeen percent of the budget, which, by the way,
two thirds of the city budget is the total income
(21:31):
tax revenue, which is the city by far largest sources
of revenue, so they're taking in a lot less money
millions of dollars less money. They're spending millions more on
ridiculous crap, such as eight point two million to pay
off the riders from the George Floyd Riots. Another eight
million dollars for a band, which is the orchestra the
(21:54):
Symphony at Riverbend eight million. That's sixteen million. Throw on
top of that the money they want to pay to
Rye Hinton, the estate of Ryan Hinton. Put on top
of that the lawsuits that are pending, and any one
point the city will have about fifty lawsuits against it,
and the most dangerous ones, the ones involving chief Fire
Chief Washington and Police Chief Fiji. Those numbers could each
(22:17):
of them could be between three and five million dollars.
Add on top of that, Alex Stravinsky, add on Doug
Brannon last week he was this so called white guy
hit his head treated like a soccer ball, and then
the city insisted that the white guy be charged with
a crime, and that did happen. The white guy was
charged with a crime, and the judge and everyone dismissed
the cases because there was no probable costs. Put all
(22:38):
those things together, they could easily get up to twenty
million dollars or more that city's going to spend, and
so the last thing you do when you're in a
hole is quit digging. Another positive aspect ought to be
the capital budget, which was the roads, the bridges, repaving
the streets, maybe a new firehouse there. I think there's
five or seven of the city that needed badly new
(22:59):
police headquarters that's moving. And there's one hundred and fifteen
million dollars in cash sitting off to the side from
the interest on the railroad that was sold for one
point six million dollars. That one hundred and ten hundred
and twenty million dollars. In fact, every week more than
a million dollars comes into the city from those funds,
(23:21):
which no other city in the Midwest has off to
the side sitting there that the voters agreed to sell.
And then you might you might recall a f tab
purevoll saying during the campaign, we have dozens of shovel
ready projects ready to go, that they've been approved. Put
the shovel and ground, let's do it. Here we are
two and a half years later, there's no shovels in
(23:42):
the ground, and according to the city manager, they need
more time spent on how to spend one hundred and
twelve million dollars sitting there doing nothing and every week
another million dollars comes in. The city puts it off
to the side. They're handcuffed into spending the money. But
almost every city has a large item and their regular
budget for capital expenditures, except that line item for the
(24:06):
city is zero because the money's coming from the railroad sale,
So that's additional money that the city ought to have
that most cities would spend on capital projects. And by
the way, the potholes are ubiquitous. Many streets need to
be repaved. I'm told the fire department needs construction of
(24:27):
new firehouses right now, and the police agency there's four now.
The subdistricts need help now. But there's no mechanism in
place to spend one and ten million dollars. So when
the city has money, they're not competent enough to spend it.
When they don't have money, they spend more. In fact,
(24:49):
the top leadership of the city treats the taxpayer as
they handle their own personal finances. Most of the top
leadership of the city either as tax liens and bankruptcy
or as a victim of the repo man. Those are
the three leaders of the city of Cincinnati. You look around, going,
what in the hell's going on? They treat the city
(25:10):
like they treat their personal finances. So someone I had
Charlie Lucan on. You might recall the great Charlie Lucan
about a month ago he said, what should have happened
and can still happen? Now? It's got something similar to
a three c DC. Put it off to the side.
Have the city fathers and mothers get together like a
board of the wise men, to develop, and their only
(25:32):
goal is to prioritize capital budgets and to spend the
money sitting there ready to go, because right now it's
under the ausposition of a sharel long who has no
clue what she's doing. She's clueless, doesn't know. How do
you pick someone like that to run the city of Cincinnati,
who has no track record of doing so and has
called personal bankruptcy and she's in charge of the city finances.
(25:57):
Normally you would have a blue ribbon panel set to
the side. Ready, the money's there, and your only job
is prioritize the projects, get them approved, show the ready projects,
and get them done. Democrats love the term shovel ready projects.
Obama used it and Purevoll uses it, and both of
them were lies. And when they said they were lies
(26:19):
to trick you into voting for something, acting as if
the shovel's ready to be put in the ground alway
needs the money. Well, the money's been there. And so
when you look at the destruction financially of the City
of Cincinnati, which is ongoing, the person day to day
in charge is share along the city manager, who just
got a glowing employee evaluation by the mayor and by
(26:43):
city council. Hell, she couldn't do a better job, they said.
If this is a good job, I don't want to
see a bad one. Because, as you know, there's about
eight hundred million dollar deficit in the city pension system,
which is another completely different item. The city has its
own pension system that the pers will not take on
(27:04):
because it is upside down with so many dollars. So
the city workers other than police and fire, when they retire,
they've been promised a pension from the City of Cincinnati,
which is grossly underfunded to the tune of almost a
billion dollars. And that is an ongoing liability out there too.
At some point when you look at the City of Cincinnati,
(27:26):
the B word bankruptcy is going to percolate because they
can't handle their own obligations. The fire department is grossly understaffed,
as is the police department. The city police won four
or five years without a recruit class. Every year fifty
cops retire or a move out or quit or whatever.
(27:47):
That means every year you need fifty Over those four
or five years, that's two to three hundred cops short.
And now every year there's more police getting out because
they can't take it anymore. The way the city conducts
the police department, they can't take it anymore. So the
city is teetering, according to Scott Wortman of the Inquiry
on the Edges of financial catastrophe, because there's less money
(28:10):
coming in and they're spending more money. The liabilities continue
to increase, and they can't raid at this point their
railroad money. They'll try to find a way. By the way,
the city's general fund does get interest from that one
hundred and fifteen million dollars, which is only only about
four to five million dollars a year. They got to
spend the money, which should create jobs. Make the city
(28:31):
more liveable. But the city is not competent to spend
the money they have, and when they don't have money,
they spend it anyway, like on the symphony and on
settlement on ridiculous cases. The city would have sixteen million
dollars right now if it's said on the George Floyd
Riot case that they settled about three months ago for
eight point two million dollars to fund Alfonsko, Hartstein and
(28:54):
Aclu type attorneys. And they give these rioters anywhere between
twenty and fifty thousand dollars each who were arrested, and
they should not, they should get no money. They should
have said to put twelve in the box. Let a
jury in Cincinnati with the jurors drawn from southern Ohio,
from Brown County, Adams County, Claremont County, Warren County, to
tell the city residents, yes, we're going to pay you
(29:16):
all that money. They could have delayed that, but twelve
in the box. Secondly, they didn't have to spend eight
million dollars out of the city money now for the symphony.
That's sixteen million sitting right there that would help in
these budgetary times. They are completely incompetent, have no idea
what they're doing, and they won't answer questions. I'm still
(29:37):
waiting for Kevin Aldridge's comments in the inquiry. The mayor
has got to answer about his personal financial condition because
politicians that are corrupt often dip their hand in the
till when financially they're in trouble. Think about Jeff Pastor
and think about Tamaya Denard. Both of them went to
(29:57):
prison because they were in over their head financial And
how does the mayor have cars repossessed and not answer
any questions about it could have become economically or financially compromise. Absolutely,
And if a person cannot manage their own finances, why
manage someone else's just a thought. So we'll see what
(30:19):
happens down the road. But will something change? I doubt it.
The city cannot spend quickly enough one hundred and ten
to one hundred and twenty million dollars presently sitting in
the railroad fund because they don't comfident enough to spend
the money. When the mayor said two and a half
years ago we had dozens of shovel ready projects ready
(30:39):
to go, and that was a bald face unmitigated lie.
And when he said it, he knew it. So if
the city manager can't do the job, get her the
hell out of there. The problem is you can't fire her.
She's just got a great recommendation with a good job
she's doing last month. That means that she gets fired.
Got to pay her three to five million dollars to
go away. When you're in a hole, quit digging. And
(31:02):
all city council does is keep digging. Let's continue with more.
We've scheduled the president's news conference. We're going to play
for you live right after one o'clock today and then
we'll play it by year later on. Plus. The Reds
Baseball kicks off tonight in Miami, Foreign Miami, then back home.
The Reds are six and three, incapable of hitting the
baseball with runners in the scoring position. They're the worst
(31:23):
team in baseball, but they have one of the best
records six and three because of their pitching without their
prime pitchers Green and Lodolo. So this is a bright
time to be a Reds. Van their home next weekend
with the Angels in town and more. Twelve fifty four.
Home are your Reds and home of the City of
Cincinnati acting like Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles, which are
(31:44):
democratically run cities. You know, liberal democrats are a great
coursework in college and universities, but in practice it doesn't work,
does it. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WLW my
(32:05):
more news coming up at the bottom. And by the way,
there are two major takeaways from this news conference. They
toured the force with John Ratcliffe for the CIA and
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War and also General raising Kine
Dan Kane is that in the beginning, because of a
leak from somebody in the Department of War and or
the State Department, the world was notified that America was
(32:27):
looking for a down pilot, that is, the backseater. His
call signaled as Dude forty four, bravo. And that was
something that should not have gotten out at all, But
somebody in the Defense Department or State Department leaked that
information to one news media outlet and went around the world,
which put his life at stake because at that point
Iran thought the one person that was in that plane
(32:49):
that failed, the F fifteen Eagle, was already in US custody.
They did not know there was a second pilot that
the US was looking for, so that person going to
have serious difficulties down the road. And secondly, the eight
pm deadline tomorrow night. You know, many times deadlines serve
to focus many people on the issues at hand. Will
have to be that the uranium materials that not sixty
(33:12):
percent converted uranium materials must be given up. And so
the President continues to hold a tour to force in
the White House talking about the deal. And we're going
to have more on this for Matt Reese and many others.
But number one, what a successful, incredible mission. It took
two hundred men put at risk to save the life
of one. And that's the medical ethos that dominates the
(33:33):
military today, which hasn't always been the case. And at
this point, the next one to two days might be
extremely consequential. So we'll have all the coverage right here.
Two thirty Home of your Reds playing this afternoon, this
evening in Miami for four games and back home over
the weekend. Two thirty Bill Cunningham News Radio, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
They'd become rich.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Hell byet and I'm broadcasting, well you and I monitor
they tore the force of the President, raising Caine, Hexeth,
John Ratcliffe and a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
How about the idea that there was a concern that
because of the signals given by used the term dude
forty four bravo the back Seater, it could have been
a false flag operation. They thought, well, could they have
him and giving a signal he's forced to do it?
Or secondly, are they trying to lure us in to
kill everyone coming in? And it wasn't because he used
(34:42):
language it says that God is great. But then they
spoke to some of the friends of the Backseater saying, no,
that that guy says God is great quite often. They said, okay,
that's him. So that's he picked up his head and
a satellite picked it up from space and said, it's
like in the Rocky Mountains right there. He's right there,
right there, And they had that signal get him like
that movie with Gene Hackman, right I thing it was
(35:03):
called Beyond the Gates or something that out tumble of
down Airman in Bosnia.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, when they had all that going on over there
and a guy and a guy made it through.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It just barely. It's amazing the technology and uh, I
think many are rooting for failure because it might help
Donald Trump. It might help help their interests out of
Trump's interest. Incredible American ingenuity. Willy and the military are
the greatest. Get us into the Studge Report with your permission,
will he the Stooge reporters a proud service of your
local Tamestar Heating and air conditioning dealers. Tamestar quality you.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Could feel in beautiful Southeastern Indiana called Joe Eckstein at
Eckstein Heating and COOLi aet eight one, two, nine, three, two,
twenty twenty six spots of course, will you thank you?
Roxy The Reds Update. The Reds complete that three game sueitep.
They get out the brooms in Texas between behind the
Ellie Da Cruz and also Chase Burns in the bullpen
(35:58):
comes through with no On, no Ashcraft, and nobody else nothing.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
They get the job done.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Brooke Burke closed it out his first Big League save
against his former mates.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Brooke Burke.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Reds are now off of a six and three start
and matches their best start since two thousand and one.
They're tied with Pittsburgh for second behind Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
How the Brewers are seven and two.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Road trip continues tonight, first to four up against those
Marlins in Miami, Bud Burks. Marlins aren't bad six and three.
They lead the NL East early on. They beat the
Yankees yesterday, probably getting into Miami early this morning. They
had at three and a half hour rain delay yesterday
in New York SO five forty Sports Talk Arnold Carriers
(36:47):
Inside Pitch and then Kelsey Chevrolet ext Raading Show after
the game. Brandon Williamson, We'll go up against Jansen Junk
in the opener.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I want to see us Chunk.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
College Basketball NCAA Tourney update brought to you by a
c R Gun Eyed Pools and Spas call Today swim
this year. Of course, us U c l A wins
the women's championship last night. Men's Championship tonight at Indy Yukon, Michigan,
seven o'clock, Fox Sports thirteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Going with the Huskies. I'm going with him too, because
in the Big Eastman Savior Bengals update brought to you
by Good Spirits, Winding Tobacco and Party Town thirteen locations
in Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Rocky like this one. Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love
visiting with the Bengals today.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Really, yep, all you need is love segment, that's true.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Back to college basketball, Willie Miami RedHawks forward and former
TAFT star Ian Elmer is entering the transfer portal. And
of course those those doors open tomorrow and last for
a few days, and that's when everybody's gonna You're gonna
need a roster to figure out who's who travel.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Steel because he is successful, his team will leave him
for the dough of the ray and the well. Brent
Byers has left, Trey Perry the local to East star
On and now Ian Elmer is the junior forward is
entering the portal. So if you fail, you stay and
get paid a little. If you succeed, you go and
get paid a lot. Would you leave here for double,
(38:16):
a triple the money segment? Wouldn't you stay here because
of the love.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Of the game.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
You don't. You don't care about the money. You care
about us. Is that true? True? It is? Yeah, I'd
go in a heartbeat. If somebody offered you three times,
I go with you with me a package deal. Yeah,
kind of like the new head coach players to be
named Calhoun. He comes there and he's taking care of
his oc. The DC all coming from right from his
(38:44):
old Utah state state bringing up here, and they're all
going to double their money too. The portal opens tomorrow, Willy,
so nobody will be anywhere the money will be flowing.
It's the death of the mid major because when the
mid major does well, the players are right. When they
don't do well, they stay correct paid more. In fact,
(39:04):
Xavier is in a bad situation as a UCE. I
guess Calhoun's gonna have to rebuild a.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Roster correct sam as xavior, much like much like Richard
Patino had to do this year.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
How much money does Calhoun have? And I'm told you's
got twelve million dollars. I'm sure you see has about
that much. Jeff Waller Kentucky had what twenty two million
and didn't do much.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
No one guy, one guy scored twenty points the entire season,
and I think was paid a million one point one million.
One guy on Kentucky twenty points all season long.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I would say that's the end of that. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I think he's going to be headed to Bellerman or something.
What do you uh, what wonder what you would be
worth today with countless money if you were if you
were still playing it still firing him up at Deer
Partians Million with it with nothing but string music. What
do you attribute to success of the Reds too? Because
they have the worst hitting record in baseball? Right? They
(40:05):
have the worst hitting men in scoring position in baseball.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Yep, And they're I think they've I think they what
they're close to like the worst, one of the worst
teams of all the total runs scored this year worst.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, and they're six and three.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
But they're six and zero in games decided by two
runs or less, which they stunk last year. These are
the games only that they're winning, and they're coming back
to win, much like over the weekend, you know, Opening
Day weekend when they won against the Red Sox. The
Red Sox are two and seven and the Giants are
two and seven. They may gas their manager by the end.
(40:39):
It only been there about two weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Well, they don't mess around in Boston. How about this?
North Carolina is going to hire Michael Malone next men's
basketball coach. He spent two decades his dead with the NBA, Right, Yeah,
and Herrett's a Tar Hills team that's in turmoil. Is
that fair to say? Correct? Winning his coach in Denver history, Mike,
you know he's an NBA hey guy.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Yeah, but he can coach. I think Marty's going to
be there, nil chief.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
They're gonna get him to play by play. He was
here alone, won at all with the Denver Nuggets ball.
He's got a NBA championship ring now he wants won.
Good luck to it. Is Marty going back to North Carolina?
Is that what your sources tell you? I don't think so.
He might do play by play?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Is that it? No?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I don't think so. He told me he would do
it if Michael Jordan could be his color analyst. Now
is that possible?
Speaker 5 (41:25):
And I think Michael might be a little busy on
his Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Nascar.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
I'll be every Friday, Saturday and Sunday and maybe Monday.
I'm off. It's could he analyze it? Maybe not? I'm
sure they would agree. Well, it's like we're in Turmo. Everyone, look,
I see nothing but issues. Would you agree?
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Is he going to attack Iran tomorrow night or whether
they're going to do eight o'clock and now you know
what's going to break loose.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
They'll have no bridges. Imagine the tri State without bridges.
How would you get here? You couldn't get it from Miltonkey. No,
his bridge is everywhere. Yeah little Miami, great Miami, right licking,
can't get Imagine no water, water purification, Anderson Ferry be packed,
Imagine no electricity. We'd have to get it.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
We had to get we'd have to get an aircraft
carrier and here just to take the cars over from
one side to the other, or or pontoon bridges like
the army.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Has been done before, saying that was done during the
Civil War. Here the Democrats acted up in the South.
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, we got issues and
I don't know, and the media is calling it a
war crime already, and there it wore. And then what
about the the dust up Geno Rima, how about that?
And day wow?
Speaker 5 (42:38):
That was actually I say this, there was no winners
in that it all. If they wanted to go at it,
go back in the go back.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
In the hallway. I'll say this Geno was wrong, correct,
he should have he should have accepted defeat, shook her hands.
So good luck in the future and get the hell out.
And then U c l A just ran over it
last night. Maybe maybe the game Cocks left it all
in the court, had nothing left to give. Probably so
in one of any good games in that tournament at all,
(43:05):
there was a right South Carolina and U c l A. Now,
I wonder if Mick cron is gonna could have come
to the new head coach of the women's team and
you that coach right now?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Gino apologized but did not use the name Don Staley
in the apology. He said he apologized to the coaches.
Were the coaches. That's out, Carolina, Let's get over it.
And the medium made it a racial issue quickly, of course,
of course, of course, but I don't I don't look
at race, looking at the anger.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Just you know, you can't do that kind of stuff.
You're out in public like that, just right and go
just right. It takes the standing there for three minutes,
and she never never came to the mid court before
the game. But then there's video of her doing it
and doing it right. He gotta hug He got a hug.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
She hugged him. See can you hug a man? Can
would you hug a man by the way.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I huh.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
I hugged hugs Jack craw Crumbley on Friday, I hugged him,
so did I. I hugged Jack Crumbley.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
He's a he's lavishing probably right now with a cigar
and a and a cold beer, sitting out in the
back of his Palatialisstate Toddy, I missed you looking over
the Ohio River.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
I saw this guy. I said, you used to be
Jeff Henderson. He said, I still am Jeff hender he
is I said.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
Bran Shokes was there, Brent Shoot he used to be
somebody too, and news and Brent Bridge at Doherty the
news authority was there. She used to be Bridget. Rachel
was here, Rachel, they all were here. I got out quickly.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
He didn't have the judge Ali. The judge Ali didn't
show up. She didn't come.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
Yeah, probably sending somebody out there. What about she doesn't
anybody in jail. And Jacobs and then artemis Is headed.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
To the moon. Had on last night, had on Dean
Riguez talking about it. The more miles than anyone's ever
put on their card before he got and they break
the Apollo thirteen distance right on the dark side of
the moon now and they're coming back around. They get
mileage for that, Yes they do. They'll be flying all
(45:07):
five of them get mileage. They'll be flying free on
delta for a long time. They break all the mileage records.
And you do that, go all the way to the morning.
I would, now, yeah, I would. I say to hell
with him? What about? What if?
Speaker 5 (45:20):
What if you with a modern day Neil Armstrong? And
he said, Willie, we want you to be the first
man on.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
I do like to send me to Mars. I know that,
but I have a doubt whether right there, like Jackie Gleason,
did you see Matt Damon the Martian. Yes, we've done
that already, right well, he got stuck there and then
he got on the whip, got the whip deal and
they found them.
Speaker 5 (45:42):
They get there, they'll build a highway. I guarantee you
they'll build a highway to Mars faster than they will
the Brent Spence Bridge, you know that, the other.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Bridge, Cincinnati, no bridge. You've got the money, we don't.
People falling them. You can't never see him again. Sem
We're in trouble. Give me the Stude's report. I'm looking
at the red schedule. I'm excited this weekend they come back,
they got the Angels are here.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Well, and Mike Trout might not play. He's got a
contusion in his left hand. He got hit, got hit
by a pitch yesterday against Seattle.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
That's too bad. And then the Giants come. They stink.
Are they getting ready to fire the new manager of
the Giants after?
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I think?
Speaker 5 (46:20):
I think they're two and seven? They can't score runs.
Willie McCovey when you need Where's Orlando Sipaida when you
need him? With the Giants and Bob Bridley the.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Reds of a friendly schedule the rest of this month.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Too, except at the end when they face the Detroit Tigers.
And that's when Terik Skouble could be coming to town.
But you know what, let him bring it on for
the little Red machine.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
So uh, they have four in Miami, then three and
the Angels and three with the Giants and go on
the road for seven. We'll see what happened. But the
early return segment are very good. Would you agree? Yes?
All right, we'll go back on more news at the
top and bottom. And the president is flying high. He
took the risk. Could you see Kamala Harris doing this
as president. No, No, how about Joe Biden. No, he wouldn't.
(47:14):
He don't even know what day it is. Rock Hussein
Obama would give more money to the Iranians, hoping they
don't develop a nuclear weapon. We'll give you a ransom note.
Give you a ransom note segment. Give me out of
the Stuge Report. The Reds baseball kicks off. What about
five forty tonight something like that. Correct, give me out
of the Suge Report, please, Willie and Hotter of the
Red Legs in America. We leave you with the immortal
(47:35):
words of the Stood Report. One Armstrong. I think there's
twelve men that walked on the moon, four three or
(47:56):
four remain alive. Right, And Neil Armstrong would not cash
in a nickel on his alleged fame. In fact, the
story is told. You know, he taught engineering and the
president of UC went to Neil Armstrong. We worked there
for like two and a half years, and they said
to Neil, we would like to honor you by naming
(48:19):
the Department of Engineering after Neil, after you, the Neil
Armstrong Department of Engineering. He immediately said to the president,
don't do that. I don't want that because I don't
want to have anyone look at me as somehow better
than the three of my friends Gus Grissom, etcetera, who
were killed in the Gemini Capsule on a test situation.
(48:42):
And I won't do that. The story is also told
there was a barber in Levian in Ohio who cut
Neil Armstrong's hair. Unbeknownst to Neil Armstrong, this barber, who
must go nameless, kept his hair and put them in
baggies and after a while, tried to sell them on
(49:03):
the internet. Neil Armstrong went back to the Moon and
said I dare got lawyers involved and had all the
hair returned to Neil Armstrong. He want no commendation, he
wanted no special treatment. Correct didn't like to do interviews.
I can attest it.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
You saw him a few times that Derrek Kroeger, right,
and I met him in Seattle with Denise.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
But did he say he's a normal just he's a
guy exactly. He didn't want to sign checks either, because
his signature he didn't want anybody to take it correct benefit.
He said, the heroes are the ones who died so
I could do what I did. Those are the heroes.
Should be a lot of thinking these days like he did.
A lot of heroes and to me, Donald Trump, to me,
(49:47):
you may disagree, segment. To me, as a hero, he's
he's doing what is right, but not necessarily what is popular.
He took the chance and he succeeded, and he should
get the benefits. Bengo men, thank you. I'll continue with
more two fifty four Home of Your Reds Off Tonight,
Kicking it off tonight about five forty in Miami, A
(50:07):
News Radio seven hundred WAUTIW
Billy Cunningham, the Great America will welcome this Monday after
him in the tri States. So much going on, so
little time. We had the President coming up, Donald J.
Trump at one o'clock today on a news conference and
talk about what's happening in Iran and also related issues.
The city of Cincinnati has major difficulties. As you may know,
the inquiry ran a long story in which the income
tax revenues of the city are way down off by
(00:28):
like thirty percent. You may know if you work or
live in the city, you pay about one point eight percent.
That money's not coming in because jobs are bleeding all
over the place. And also we had the riotous conditions
after Red's opening day. And so Brian Hambrick of the
Power of fives that it might be good to get
a comment from the mayor about what is happening with
our city, especially when it appears to be in difficult waters.
(00:50):
I know the business owners I speak to are filled
with trepidation, and you don't want trepidation. Brian Hamrick, Welcome
again to the Bill Cunningham Show. First of all, Brian,
talk about the circumstances in which you, as a reporter
wanted to get the comments from the mayor. This a
few days ago when he was raising the transgender flag.
He had time for the transgender flag, but not for
Red's opening day. But that's a different story and relate
(01:13):
to the American people. What happened When you try to
track down the mayor, have to have pierrival to make
a comment on something.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Thanks agetting us un Am. Yes, well, we you know,
there's a lot of things going on. You know, we
have the concerns of the budget the police had been in.
They're talking about maybe a five percent cut there, the
fire departments talking about a five percent cut. You know,
these are kind of major issues for the city. We
(01:41):
had all the stuff that went down with opening day
the mayor, which I mean, you know, people take time
off whatever, but he wasn't here whenever that all happened,
and so we hadn't seen him. We hadn't had a
comment from the.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Mayor about all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What he thought, ou how did the police do? Did
he think there need to be changes anything any of that.
We didn't talked to him about the five percent proposal
of Kottai. You know, how do they come about that?
I wanted to ask him about you know this money
that comes in from the railroad, I know it's specifically allocated.
Is there a way that you know, maybe general fun
(02:17):
money could be diverted because there is this extra money
now coming into infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
From the railroad money.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know, all these things are issues, and you know
it's not something I want to talk to him about necessarily,
or the station. I mean, but we're representing the people.
The people of Cincinnati have these questions. They pay me
to go ask the mayor these questions. And it shouldn't
make somebody mad or upset or you know, they shouldn't
(02:46):
you would think, you know, I was telling another council member,
this should be when the mayor sees me, really any
of my constituents, they should come through me and say, look, great,
this is a great opportunity for me to get you know,
my message out and come over and talk and say, hey, look,
I'm glad you asked about this, but this is that's
(03:07):
not what happens. So we're down at this raising a
flag for this transgender flag to and it was a
it was an event, but we hadn't caught up the
mayor and had they had no time. It's between his
schedule when he got back to talk to us. So
we're like, well, we'll get him at this event. So
(03:27):
they do the event. They had certain speakers come up
and they they spoke and said, wow, this was an
important event, and the mayor and some council people were
there told their opinion why they you know, was an
important event. And then as they went to raise the
flag just before this event's.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Not over yet.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
The key crowning moment of the event is they're going
to raise this flag the city hall and so and so.
So I noticed the city manager quickly they're on the
steps and we're kind of down off the steps there
in front on the city hall, shooting this thing. And
I'm only there just to get a comment from the
(04:05):
mayor about these other things, you know, you know, we're
we're gonna show what happened and why they were there
and all. But my specific mission is to talk to
the to the mayor. And so I'm like, well, you know,
I don't want to be disruptive and you know, start
yelling questions during this event that they've put up and
(04:25):
these folks were all here to see, so I'm gonna
wait till he's done. Well, I see the SENNI manager
run up the steps real quick, and I'm like, that
doesn't look good. I mean, it's not over the events,
not of the people you say you are here to support.
Just saw you leave their flag raising. And then I'm like, well,
the mayor's surely not going to run out.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He goes look over here at.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
The flat orsing the flight starts to go up, and man,
he goes up those steps so fast, and I see it,
so I'm kind of ready for it, but I'm not
in real good position. But I'm like Rocky Bob Bowack
one up the stairs trying to catch him and he
goes in. I finally get him at the top of
the stair and he goes, I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Got a meeting.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I gotta get in.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The wind. And so did you trust he was going first?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
He was going first, you know, And they I guess
they saw me standing out there because they know if
I don't, you know, if I don't get an opportunity,
I'll just turn the camera on and walk the side
of them going in or wherever they're going to start
asking them questions.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And that doesn't look real good.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And uh, but you know, maybe the mayor I'm sure
he was. He was busy. I'm sure he had another
meeting or something. But what is more important than getting
your message out to the people of your city. And
this was a prime opportunity. I mean, it would have
taken me three minutes gets to get you know, a
few quick comments. It's like, all right, a mayor, what
(05:53):
do you think about you know, opening day, we had
all this these events down there and the police. What
was your perspective on the police. What what is your
idea about how we're going to make up this money
on this? You know, we're asking maybe to look at
five percent, you know, five percent cons I mean, some
simple basic things.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know, I got it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The mayor is busy. I'm sure he had a lot
of stuff to do, but this is you know, they
talk continuously. Almost every one of these meetings I go to.
Is transparent. I've seen Welder's mask had more transparency. There's
no transparency coming out of there, and and it filters
(06:36):
down through and I'm telling you it's it's to their
own benefit. And you know, like Jen Michelle Curney, she
was there, she was glad to talk to She's the
vice mayor, she's not the mayor. You know, and we
got some comments from her, and she got her perspective
out there and we were able to use some of that.
I appreciated her talking to me, But but nobody had
(06:58):
heard from the mayor on this stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Isn't it consistent? Go back in time just a little?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Even to the people who were there for the event,
thought Wow, if I was there and let's say it
was something let's just put it like, if it was
a veterans event, if the mayor was there for the
flag racing the veterans and he and he took off
before the event was over, I would think the people
there would think, wait, that's kind of disrespectful. I just didn't,
(07:24):
you know.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know, maybe they already knew that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I was happy, yes, yes, but whatever, I just you know,
I just didn't. To me, watching from the outside, I
just thought, wow, I thought he would have stayed to.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The end of the event, right, Henrick on that issue.
Kevin Aldridge of The inquir He's the Kevin Aldridge runs
the inquir and he wrote a column about two or
three months ago about the incapability of the mayor to
address the issue of his own personal financial difficulties because
(07:58):
the repo man visited the mayor, I guess his home
or at city Hall and hooked up the car because
he didn't make his payments. The repo man, you got
to pay the note otherwise. The repo man sesa, and
this is a problem because we had other city council
members four or five years ago that didn't have money,
and so they took bribes in order to uh you know,
(08:18):
uh the jeff Pastors and others took took the money
and ran. And that's a problem. So we have the
mayor who's having his car repossessed. And Kevin Alders of
the inquiry said he's got to answer for that. He's
got to say why did that happen? And just thought, well,
we made a mistake. You don't get your car repossessed
when you miss a payment or two or three. When
your names have to have peer of all. Your name's
(08:40):
not exactly Bill Smith, you know where I have to
have pure of all is So Kevin Aldridge makes the
point of the inquiry, he owes an explanation to the
people of Cincinnati as to what cal happened. That you're
not taking care of your personal finances and that's a problem.
He ca he handles this city like he handles his
personal money, which is repossession. And so you're saying the
(09:01):
same thing. Kevin Audrey says at the end, choir, you
know what, we got a problem he's got to answer,
and when asked about it, he doesn't answer any questions
because the answers are bad for him. Now, before the
transgender flag at the top of the pole, you got
the city manager and the mayor sprinting away from the event,
and I'm thinking, you know that's so the problem isn't
(09:24):
a simple one, but the mayor ought to sit down
with legitimate media outlets and answer questions number one about
the repossession of his car and how did that happen?
How many months are a year behind? Were you notified delinquent?
Every car repossession I speak to when I practiced law,
I did some bankruptcies. They go through months and months
and months. The last thing you want to do is
(09:44):
repossess a car. And so if your name is af
teb Pirival, they're going to get a hold of you
and say you owe four months or the payments? Where's
the money? Before they hook up the car. He doesn't
answer the question. He leaves the event, because it's embarrassing
when the city was national news again and the mayor
once again, and everybody goes on vacation, but you don't
(10:04):
go on vacation during the music festival, during the taste,
during Red's opening day, you don't go on vacation. And
the mayor answers no questions and it's not held to account. Plus,
you brought this up off there to me, and I
brought it up last week. The city's getting like fifty
eight million dollars a year for capital expenditures, which is
out of the regular budget. Therefore, they have more money
(10:26):
than other cities have to spend because they don't have them.
They're getting the money. They got one hundred and ten
million dollars in the account right now, Amy Murray says.
And they can't spend the money because they're incompetent. They can't.
They can't spend money because they don't have it, and
when they have it, they don't spend it. Can you
smell when I'm cooking?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, you know, I mean I worked in a PR
department one time years ago when I was getting my
master's at the University of Oklahoma, and it was apparent
to me at that time that it was very dysfunctional
and they had the same as They wouldn't talk about anything.
There are all kinds of issues that had come up,
(11:04):
and some of them were difficult issues.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
But they would duck and hide.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And I remember they looked at me like I had
three heads. When I told them, I said, look, people,
not everybody's gonna agree with us. I said, but and
I'm the lowest guy. Yeah, I'm a grad student there.
You know, I've got a full time job, but I'm
a grad student. I'm the lowest founder. But I don't
have enough sense to, you know, not tell.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Them what they need to hear. But they needed to
hear it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And I said, look, we're reasonable people, we make reasonable decisions.
We do the best we can. All we need to
do is just tell people why we did it. You know,
I said, because you're not going.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
To please everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Nobody's going to be pleased with this. I mean, but
there are certain people that will look at it and go, well,
that's the reason they did it. I understand why they
did it, but you have to get that message out there.
You have to tell people why you did something. There
may be a perfectly logical explanation to some of these things,
but we don't get them. We're not hearing that, and
(12:08):
that's really the thing that is more damaging, I think
than anything. You know, you know what, and it trickles down.
We're getting the same thing out of the police department.
And I mentioned this. You know, look, you could go
like New York Chicago. They have pr people that would
come down and this will cost you a few hundred
(12:28):
thousand dollars to get this advice. But this would have
been my advice. And I'm actually seriously thinking about doing
this because here's the kind of advice that a lot
of municipalities and a lot just us, but a lot
of them need just kind of so they went down.
Had I been the chief or been advising the chief, now,
you know, like they're like, why would we listen to you?
(12:49):
But imagine this, this this take on what happens rather
than what we got. Because what we got was, look,
we did the best we could. We had some issues
and you know, we made some arrest and we're going
to prosecute those. And the mayor put out a statement saying,
just a statement, he said, it's an outrage and we're
going to prosecute to the full.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That's what we got.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Imagine had we had, Hey, there's a guy down there,
a captain that's that's running and they that area down
by the banks. This guy's really good. As named Schofield.
He gave us a kind of a rundown of what
they were going.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To do the day before.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He was direct, he was matter of fact, he had
all the facts, he knew what he was doing. I'd
have probably got that guy to go out and do it,
you know, depends on who's But antonia is just trickling
down because they're saying no, you know, I think there
may be a filter saying you can't say this or
you can't say that. But what they should have said
was this chief or somebody he appointed, should have said, look,
(13:48):
come out in front of everybody as soon as possible
and said, what you saw here was maybe one of
the finest jobs of policing in the history of this
the Apartment, if not in recent memory.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
We had officers.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
As we told you yesterday, we were going to have
Swat Team CRDT. We were going to have extra officers.
We were going to place them strategically where they needed
to be. We told you yesterday. We were going to
have drones, we were going to have the real time
cameras under surveillance. Everything was going to be watched. We
were going to respond at a moment's notice.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
To any problem.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And you know what happened, That's exactly what we did. Well, Chief,
we saw that video of people getting routy, that's exactly right.
And because our officers were right there, right where they
were strategically placed where they needed to be, that became nothing.
We tossed water on that fire like smoky Bear, and
it became nothing. Had we not been there, it would
(14:46):
have been a disaster. More people are thrown in deal
at Octoberfest in this event, no shooting, no injuries, no
major injuries during the whole thing. Yes, we know a
young girl was the packed up at up their liberty.
We're working to crack down the individuals responsible for that.
(15:06):
We've got three or four detectives on that trying to
figure out exactly what's going on there. But overall, this
is what happened. It was an outstanding job of policing.
That would have been my advice, you know, for the folks,
and that in the message. We didn't get that message.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I want to share with you one sentence from the
story written by Scott Wortman of the inquiry by the way,
two thirds of the city's money come from the income
tax is this is this one sentence that Wartman talked
about the failure of the city to collect the money.
Because right now there's a huge red flag of flying
and the city is in financial straits. In fact, the
(15:43):
B word has been raised by some, which is bankruptcy.
And that is at this point a year ago, the
city income tax collections are down about thirty four percent. Unbelievable.
They get two thirds of their money, and the thirty
four percent down year over year, and so far this
year they're down twenty eight percent the first what three months,
and so instead of a five percent cut, there might
(16:04):
be a ten percent cut. And what city Council dot
now does is keep spending money. They spend eight million
dollars for the criminals after the George Floyd riots, eight
million dollars for the symphony to make the tuba player happy.
We've got millions more going out in settlements to the
Chief of Police and to the fire chief. And that
somewhere down the road. The lawyer from Dayton branding is
(16:27):
going to collect a lot of money for his client,
millions of dollars. The last thing to do when you're
a whole is to keep digging, And so city council
keeps handing out money. Now they got a budget problem
and they're thinking what do we do Now? The income
taxes two thirds of what they collect and that's down
about thirty percent. And so to me, the cuts could
get more severe down the road. Well, we got to run,
(16:48):
Brian Hemrick, get on your gym shoes, give me your
final comment about the mayor and the way the city's run.
We had about thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, you know, literally, I think they would do better
just to tell people what's going on. That that's really
the bottom line for me. They just need to let
people know what it is, what their thoughts are. You know,
the crime for egment, it's up, it's down, it's up,
it's down, but the perception and and it to handle
the perception. And it's not just a one time when
(17:15):
we came out and now we addressed that. Now we're done.
This needs to be done on a pretty much a date. Look,
they could take some advice from the commander in chief there.
I mean they're telling him, okay, you know, even his
inside guys is saying, okay, maybe too much communication, Yeah,
too much, you know, too much, but it is but
it is communication, and it's and it's constant.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And you know where at any given moment where he.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Stands on on the issues at that particular moment, you know, so, uh,
there needs to be maybe a balance there, but there
needs to be more of that. There needs to be
more people saying, look, here's why we did this, here's
why we did that. You know, it's the press. The
legitimate press. Isn't somebody to run from. That's somebody to
go and say, hey, look, this is an opera opunity
(18:00):
every time, an opportunity to just get our message out. Yeah,
you will face some hard questions, right, Okay, you can
answer that thing for a good reason.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well we got to run. But Brian Hamrick, I hope
it changes. By putting a spotlight on it, maybe somebody
in city Hall will get to the mayor hold a
no holds barre news conference in which the city that
the real legitimate media can ask questions about the repossession
of his cars, the financial status of the city. If
you can't handle your own finances. Why do you handle
the city finances? They're handled about the same way. We
(18:32):
got to run. Good luck through your stories. Say afternoon,
Brian Hamrick. You're a great American and thanks for coming
on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Thank you, Brian, Thanks again, mister Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
God bless America. There's the best there is. How about
answering questions? Novel suggestion News Radio seven hundred WW I'm
Michael David Keaton. Hit the music, please, I'm looking at
something else, Stave Keaton, hit the music. Big things happening
after one o'clock today the President will be here. We're
(19:03):
going to carry his news conference live whenever it takes off.
Normally it's several minutes late. Whenever it happens, it will
happen because we want to know what that went on
with the rescue of that airman. And secondly, what is
happening with the so called peace proposal from Iran, which
says we're getting our butt kicked big time, so give
us forty five days to rearm and then we'll keep talking.
(19:24):
I don't think Trump's going to fall for that. When
whatsoever would you agree it simply is not possible when
you're winning a war as badly as America is winning
the war that the opponent, the enemy would want to say,
you know what, can we stop this for a little
while and maybe we can do something different start talking.
And they've been talking for so long they can't talk anymore.
(19:44):
So we'll see after one o'clock what happens with that. Secondly,
when I talked to Brian Hamrick and others, and I
talked to previous mayors of our city and previous council
members in our city, Democrat and Republican, each to a
person will tell you off the record is the worst
mayor and the worst city council Cincinnati has ever had,
because they don't deal with the real facts. They don't
(20:06):
manage the money. They spend money ridiculously, frivolously, and then
when it comes time to pay the bills, they blame
someone else for their own inadequacies. And one thing is
to raise taxes to solve the problem. After Appierival wants
to raise the taxes. However, city council members don't want
to do it because they understand that maybe they should
tighten their belt a little bit and spend the money
(20:28):
that they already have without increasing taxes again. And secondly,
to increase taxes, they can't do it without the approval
of the residents of the City of Cincinnati. And the
last time they went to the city to have a
tax increase, it was voted down like two thirds percent,
two thirds to one third, So that wasn't going to
happen anyway. And I want to thank Scott Wortman of
the inquir for doing a lot of the legwork on
(20:50):
this issue about the businesses. Here's one sentence from his
story about the financial straits the city is in the city.
The city businesses appear to be making less money based
on the tax money the city gets quarterly from business
net profits. The net profits tax revenue dipped thirty five
(21:10):
percent year over year from August to October twenty twenty five,
and the first six months of the fiscal year, net
profit tax revenues are down twenty eight percent, so there's
less money coming in. The net profits tax accounts for
about seventeen percent of the budget, which, by the way,
two thirds of the city budget is the total income
(21:31):
tax revenue, which is the city by far largest sources
of revenue, so they're taking in a lot less money
millions of dollars less money. They're spending millions more on
ridiculous crap, such as eight point two million to pay
off the riders from the George Floyd Riots. Another eight
million dollars for a band, which is the orchestra the
(21:54):
Symphony at Riverbend eight million. That's sixteen million. Throw on
top of that the money they want to pay to
Rye Hinton, the estate of Ryan Hinton. Put on top
of that the lawsuits that are pending, and any one
point the city will have about fifty lawsuits against it,
and the most dangerous ones, the ones involving chief Fire
Chief Washington and Police Chief Fiji. Those numbers could each
(22:17):
of them could be between three and five million dollars.
Add on top of that, Alex Stravinsky, add on Doug
Brannon last week he was this so called white guy
hit his head treated like a soccer ball, and then
the city insisted that the white guy be charged with
a crime, and that did happen. The white guy was
charged with a crime, and the judge and everyone dismissed
the cases because there was no probable costs. Put all
(22:38):
those things together, they could easily get up to twenty
million dollars or more that city's going to spend, and
so the last thing you do when you're in a
hole is quit digging. Another positive aspect ought to be
the capital budget, which was the roads, the bridges, repaving
the streets, maybe a new firehouse there. I think there's
five or seven of the city that needed badly new
(22:59):
police headquarters that's moving. And there's one hundred and fifteen
million dollars in cash sitting off to the side from
the interest on the railroad that was sold for one
point six million dollars. That one hundred and ten hundred
and twenty million dollars. In fact, every week more than
a million dollars comes into the city from those funds,
(23:21):
which no other city in the Midwest has off to
the side sitting there that the voters agreed to sell.
And then you might you might recall a f tab
purevoll saying during the campaign, we have dozens of shovel
ready projects ready to go, that they've been approved. Put
the shovel and ground, let's do it. Here we are
two and a half years later, there's no shovels in
(23:42):
the ground, and according to the city manager, they need
more time spent on how to spend one hundred and
twelve million dollars sitting there doing nothing and every week
another million dollars comes in. The city puts it off
to the side. They're handcuffed into spending the money. But
almost every city has a large item and their regular
budget for capital expenditures, except that line item for the
(24:06):
city is zero because the money's coming from the railroad sale,
So that's additional money that the city ought to have
that most cities would spend on capital projects. And by
the way, the potholes are ubiquitous. Many streets need to
be repaved. I'm told the fire department needs construction of
(24:27):
new firehouses right now, and the police agency there's four now.
The subdistricts need help now. But there's no mechanism in
place to spend one and ten million dollars. So when
the city has money, they're not competent enough to spend it.
When they don't have money, they spend more. In fact,
(24:49):
the top leadership of the city treats the taxpayer as
they handle their own personal finances. Most of the top
leadership of the city either as tax liens and bankruptcy
or as a victim of the repo man. Those are
the three leaders of the city of Cincinnati. You look around, going,
what in the hell's going on? They treat the city
(25:10):
like they treat their personal finances. So someone I had
Charlie Lucan on. You might recall the great Charlie Lucan
about a month ago he said, what should have happened
and can still happen? Now? It's got something similar to
a three c DC. Put it off to the side.
Have the city fathers and mothers get together like a
board of the wise men, to develop, and their only
(25:32):
goal is to prioritize capital budgets and to spend the
money sitting there ready to go, because right now it's
under the ausposition of a sharel long who has no
clue what she's doing. She's clueless, doesn't know. How do
you pick someone like that to run the city of Cincinnati,
who has no track record of doing so and has
called personal bankruptcy and she's in charge of the city finances.
(25:57):
Normally you would have a blue ribbon panel set to
the side. Ready, the money's there, and your only job
is prioritize the projects, get them approved, show the ready projects,
and get them done. Democrats love the term shovel ready projects.
Obama used it and Purevoll uses it, and both of
them were lies. And when they said they were lies
(26:19):
to trick you into voting for something, acting as if
the shovel's ready to be put in the ground alway
needs the money. Well, the money's been there. And so
when you look at the destruction financially of the City
of Cincinnati, which is ongoing, the person day to day
in charge is share along the city manager, who just
got a glowing employee evaluation by the mayor and by
(26:43):
city council. Hell, she couldn't do a better job, they said.
If this is a good job, I don't want to
see a bad one. Because, as you know, there's about
eight hundred million dollar deficit in the city pension system,
which is another completely different item. The city has its
own pension system that the pers will not take on
(27:04):
because it is upside down with so many dollars. So
the city workers other than police and fire, when they retire,
they've been promised a pension from the City of Cincinnati,
which is grossly underfunded to the tune of almost a
billion dollars. And that is an ongoing liability out there too.
At some point when you look at the City of Cincinnati,
(27:26):
the B word bankruptcy is going to percolate because they
can't handle their own obligations. The fire department is grossly understaffed,
as is the police department. The city police won four
or five years without a recruit class. Every year fifty
cops retire or a move out or quit or whatever.
(27:47):
That means every year you need fifty Over those four
or five years, that's two to three hundred cops short.
And now every year there's more police getting out because
they can't take it anymore. The way the city conducts
the police department, they can't take it anymore. So the
city is teetering, according to Scott Wortman of the Inquiry
on the Edges of financial catastrophe, because there's less money
(28:10):
coming in and they're spending more money. The liabilities continue
to increase, and they can't raid at this point their
railroad money. They'll try to find a way. By the way,
the city's general fund does get interest from that one
hundred and fifteen million dollars, which is only only about
four to five million dollars a year. They got to
spend the money, which should create jobs. Make the city
(28:31):
more liveable. But the city is not competent to spend
the money they have, and when they don't have money,
they spend it anyway, like on the symphony and on
settlement on ridiculous cases. The city would have sixteen million
dollars right now if it's said on the George Floyd
Riot case that they settled about three months ago for
eight point two million dollars to fund Alfonsko, Hartstein and
(28:54):
Aclu type attorneys. And they give these rioters anywhere between
twenty and fifty thousand dollars each who were arrested, and
they should not, they should get no money. They should
have said to put twelve in the box. Let a
jury in Cincinnati with the jurors drawn from southern Ohio,
from Brown County, Adams County, Claremont County, Warren County, to
tell the city residents, yes, we're going to pay you
(29:16):
all that money. They could have delayed that, but twelve
in the box. Secondly, they didn't have to spend eight
million dollars out of the city money now for the symphony.
That's sixteen million sitting right there that would help in
these budgetary times. They are completely incompetent, have no idea
what they're doing, and they won't answer questions. I'm still
(29:37):
waiting for Kevin Aldridge's comments in the inquiry. The mayor
has got to answer about his personal financial condition because
politicians that are corrupt often dip their hand in the
till when financially they're in trouble. Think about Jeff Pastor
and think about Tamaya Denard. Both of them went to
(29:57):
prison because they were in over their head financial And
how does the mayor have cars repossessed and not answer
any questions about it could have become economically or financially compromise. Absolutely,
And if a person cannot manage their own finances, why
manage someone else's just a thought. So we'll see what
(30:19):
happens down the road. But will something change? I doubt it.
The city cannot spend quickly enough one hundred and ten
to one hundred and twenty million dollars presently sitting in
the railroad fund because they don't comfident enough to spend
the money. When the mayor said two and a half
years ago we had dozens of shovel ready projects ready
(30:39):
to go, and that was a bald face unmitigated lie.
And when he said it, he knew it. So if
the city manager can't do the job, get her the
hell out of there. The problem is you can't fire her.
She's just got a great recommendation with a good job
she's doing last month. That means that she gets fired.
Got to pay her three to five million dollars to
go away. When you're in a hole, quit digging. And
(31:02):
all city council does is keep digging. Let's continue with more.
We've scheduled the president's news conference. We're going to play
for you live right after one o'clock today and then
we'll play it by year later on. Plus. The Reds
Baseball kicks off tonight in Miami, Foreign Miami, then back home.
The Reds are six and three, incapable of hitting the
baseball with runners in the scoring position. They're the worst
(31:23):
team in baseball, but they have one of the best
records six and three because of their pitching without their
prime pitchers Green and Lodolo. So this is a bright
time to be a Reds. Van their home next weekend
with the Angels in town and more. Twelve fifty four.
Home are your Reds and home of the City of
Cincinnati acting like Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles, which are
(31:44):
democratically run cities. You know, liberal democrats are a great
coursework in college and universities, but in practice it doesn't work,
does it. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WLW my
(32:05):
more news coming up at the bottom. And by the way,
there are two major takeaways from this news conference. They
toured the force with John Ratcliffe for the CIA and
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War and also General raising Kine
Dan Kane is that in the beginning, because of a
leak from somebody in the Department of War and or
the State Department, the world was notified that America was
(32:27):
looking for a down pilot, that is, the backseater. His
call signaled as Dude forty four, bravo. And that was
something that should not have gotten out at all, But
somebody in the Defense Department or State Department leaked that
information to one news media outlet and went around the world,
which put his life at stake because at that point
Iran thought the one person that was in that plane
(32:49):
that failed, the F fifteen Eagle, was already in US custody.
They did not know there was a second pilot that
the US was looking for, so that person going to
have serious difficulties down the road. And secondly, the eight
pm deadline tomorrow night. You know, many times deadlines serve
to focus many people on the issues at hand. Will
have to be that the uranium materials that not sixty
(33:12):
percent converted uranium materials must be given up. And so
the President continues to hold a tour to force in
the White House talking about the deal. And we're going
to have more on this for Matt Reese and many others.
But number one, what a successful, incredible mission. It took
two hundred men put at risk to save the life
of one. And that's the medical ethos that dominates the
(33:33):
military today, which hasn't always been the case. And at
this point, the next one to two days might be
extremely consequential. So we'll have all the coverage right here.
Two thirty Home of your Reds playing this afternoon, this
evening in Miami for four games and back home over
the weekend. Two thirty Bill Cunningham News Radio, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
They'd become rich.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Hell byet and I'm broadcasting, well you and I monitor
they tore the force of the President, raising Caine, Hexeth,
John Ratcliffe and a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
How about the idea that there was a concern that
because of the signals given by used the term dude
forty four bravo the back Seater, it could have been
a false flag operation. They thought, well, could they have
him and giving a signal he's forced to do it?
Or secondly, are they trying to lure us in to
kill everyone coming in? And it wasn't because he used
(34:42):
language it says that God is great. But then they
spoke to some of the friends of the Backseater saying, no,
that that guy says God is great quite often. They said, okay,
that's him. So that's he picked up his head and
a satellite picked it up from space and said, it's
like in the Rocky Mountains right there. He's right there,
right there, And they had that signal get him like
that movie with Gene Hackman, right I thing it was
(35:03):
called Beyond the Gates or something that out tumble of
down Airman in Bosnia.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, when they had all that going on over there
and a guy and a guy made it through.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It just barely. It's amazing the technology and uh, I
think many are rooting for failure because it might help
Donald Trump. It might help help their interests out of
Trump's interest. Incredible American ingenuity. Willy and the military are
the greatest. Get us into the Studge Report with your permission,
will he the Stooge reporters a proud service of your
local Tamestar Heating and air conditioning dealers. Tamestar quality you.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Could feel in beautiful Southeastern Indiana called Joe Eckstein at
Eckstein Heating and COOLi aet eight one, two, nine, three, two,
twenty twenty six spots of course, will you thank you?
Roxy The Reds Update. The Reds complete that three game sueitep.
They get out the brooms in Texas between behind the
Ellie Da Cruz and also Chase Burns in the bullpen
(35:58):
comes through with no On, no Ashcraft, and nobody else nothing.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
They get the job done.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Brooke Burke closed it out his first Big League save
against his former mates.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Brooke Burke.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Reds are now off of a six and three start
and matches their best start since two thousand and one.
They're tied with Pittsburgh for second behind Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
How the Brewers are seven and two.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Road trip continues tonight, first to four up against those
Marlins in Miami, Bud Burks. Marlins aren't bad six and three.
They lead the NL East early on. They beat the
Yankees yesterday, probably getting into Miami early this morning. They
had at three and a half hour rain delay yesterday
in New York SO five forty Sports Talk Arnold Carriers
(36:47):
Inside Pitch and then Kelsey Chevrolet ext Raading Show after
the game. Brandon Williamson, We'll go up against Jansen Junk
in the opener.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I want to see us Chunk.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
College Basketball NCAA Tourney update brought to you by a
c R Gun Eyed Pools and Spas call Today swim
this year. Of course, us U c l A wins
the women's championship last night. Men's Championship tonight at Indy Yukon, Michigan,
seven o'clock, Fox Sports thirteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Going with the Huskies. I'm going with him too, because
in the Big Eastman Savior Bengals update brought to you
by Good Spirits, Winding Tobacco and Party Town thirteen locations
in Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Rocky like this one. Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love
visiting with the Bengals today.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Really, yep, all you need is love segment, that's true.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Back to college basketball, Willie Miami RedHawks forward and former
TAFT star Ian Elmer is entering the transfer portal. And
of course those those doors open tomorrow and last for
a few days, and that's when everybody's gonna You're gonna
need a roster to figure out who's who travel.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Steel because he is successful, his team will leave him
for the dough of the ray and the well. Brent
Byers has left, Trey Perry the local to East star
On and now Ian Elmer is the junior forward is
entering the portal. So if you fail, you stay and
get paid a little. If you succeed, you go and
get paid a lot. Would you leave here for double,
(38:16):
a triple the money segment? Wouldn't you stay here because
of the love.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Of the game.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
You don't. You don't care about the money. You care
about us. Is that true? True? It is? Yeah, I'd
go in a heartbeat. If somebody offered you three times,
I go with you with me a package deal. Yeah,
kind of like the new head coach players to be
named Calhoun. He comes there and he's taking care of
his oc. The DC all coming from right from his
(38:44):
old Utah state state bringing up here, and they're all
going to double their money too. The portal opens tomorrow, Willy,
so nobody will be anywhere the money will be flowing.
It's the death of the mid major because when the
mid major does well, the players are right. When they
don't do well, they stay correct paid more. In fact,
(39:04):
Xavier is in a bad situation as a UCE. I
guess Calhoun's gonna have to rebuild a.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Roster correct sam as xavior, much like much like Richard
Patino had to do this year.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
How much money does Calhoun have? And I'm told you's
got twelve million dollars. I'm sure you see has about
that much. Jeff Waller Kentucky had what twenty two million
and didn't do much.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
No one guy, one guy scored twenty points the entire season,
and I think was paid a million one point one million.
One guy on Kentucky twenty points all season long.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I would say that's the end of that. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I think he's going to be headed to Bellerman or something.
What do you uh, what wonder what you would be
worth today with countless money if you were if you
were still playing it still firing him up at Deer
Partians Million with it with nothing but string music. What
do you attribute to success of the Reds too? Because
they have the worst hitting record in baseball? Right? They
(40:05):
have the worst hitting men in scoring position in baseball.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Yep, And they're I think they've I think they what
they're close to like the worst, one of the worst
teams of all the total runs scored this year worst.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, and they're six and three.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
But they're six and zero in games decided by two
runs or less, which they stunk last year. These are
the games only that they're winning, and they're coming back
to win, much like over the weekend, you know, Opening
Day weekend when they won against the Red Sox. The
Red Sox are two and seven and the Giants are
two and seven. They may gas their manager by the end.
(40:39):
It only been there about two weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Well, they don't mess around in Boston. How about this?
North Carolina is going to hire Michael Malone next men's
basketball coach. He spent two decades his dead with the NBA, Right, Yeah,
and Herrett's a Tar Hills team that's in turmoil. Is
that fair to say? Correct? Winning his coach in Denver history, Mike,
you know he's an NBA hey guy.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Yeah, but he can coach. I think Marty's going to
be there, nil chief.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
They're gonna get him to play by play. He was
here alone, won at all with the Denver Nuggets ball.
He's got a NBA championship ring now he wants won.
Good luck to it. Is Marty going back to North Carolina?
Is that what your sources tell you? I don't think so.
He might do play by play?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Is that it? No?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I don't think so. He told me he would do
it if Michael Jordan could be his color analyst. Now
is that possible?
Speaker 5 (41:25):
And I think Michael might be a little busy on
his Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Nascar.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
I'll be every Friday, Saturday and Sunday and maybe Monday.
I'm off. It's could he analyze it? Maybe not? I'm
sure they would agree. Well, it's like we're in Turmo. Everyone, look,
I see nothing but issues. Would you agree?
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Is he going to attack Iran tomorrow night or whether
they're going to do eight o'clock and now you know
what's going to break loose.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
They'll have no bridges. Imagine the tri State without bridges.
How would you get here? You couldn't get it from Miltonkey. No,
his bridge is everywhere. Yeah little Miami, great Miami, right licking,
can't get Imagine no water, water purification, Anderson Ferry be packed,
Imagine no electricity. We'd have to get it.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
We had to get we'd have to get an aircraft
carrier and here just to take the cars over from
one side to the other, or or pontoon bridges like
the army.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Has been done before, saying that was done during the
Civil War. Here the Democrats acted up in the South.
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, we got issues and
I don't know, and the media is calling it a
war crime already, and there it wore. And then what
about the the dust up Geno Rima, how about that?
And day wow?
Speaker 5 (42:38):
That was actually I say this, there was no winners
in that it all. If they wanted to go at it,
go back in the go back.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
In the hallway. I'll say this Geno was wrong, correct,
he should have he should have accepted defeat, shook her hands.
So good luck in the future and get the hell out.
And then U c l A just ran over it
last night. Maybe maybe the game Cocks left it all
in the court, had nothing left to give. Probably so
in one of any good games in that tournament at all,
(43:05):
there was a right South Carolina and U c l A. Now,
I wonder if Mick cron is gonna could have come
to the new head coach of the women's team and
you that coach right now?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Gino apologized but did not use the name Don Staley
in the apology. He said he apologized to the coaches.
Were the coaches. That's out, Carolina, Let's get over it.
And the medium made it a racial issue quickly, of course,
of course, of course, but I don't I don't look
at race, looking at the anger.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Just you know, you can't do that kind of stuff.
You're out in public like that, just right and go
just right. It takes the standing there for three minutes,
and she never never came to the mid court before
the game. But then there's video of her doing it
and doing it right. He gotta hug He got a hug.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
She hugged him. See can you hug a man? Can
would you hug a man by the way.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I huh.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
I hugged hugs Jack craw Crumbley on Friday, I hugged him,
so did I. I hugged Jack Crumbley.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
He's a he's lavishing probably right now with a cigar
and a and a cold beer, sitting out in the
back of his Palatialisstate Toddy, I missed you looking over
the Ohio River.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
I saw this guy. I said, you used to be
Jeff Henderson. He said, I still am Jeff hender he
is I said.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
Bran Shokes was there, Brent Shoot he used to be
somebody too, and news and Brent Bridge at Doherty the
news authority was there. She used to be Bridget. Rachel
was here, Rachel, they all were here. I got out quickly.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
He didn't have the judge Ali. The judge Ali didn't
show up. She didn't come.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
Yeah, probably sending somebody out there. What about she doesn't
anybody in jail. And Jacobs and then artemis Is headed.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
To the moon. Had on last night, had on Dean
Riguez talking about it. The more miles than anyone's ever
put on their card before he got and they break
the Apollo thirteen distance right on the dark side of
the moon now and they're coming back around. They get
mileage for that, Yes they do. They'll be flying all
(45:07):
five of them get mileage. They'll be flying free on
delta for a long time. They break all the mileage records.
And you do that, go all the way to the morning.
I would, now, yeah, I would. I say to hell
with him? What about? What if?
Speaker 5 (45:20):
What if you with a modern day Neil Armstrong? And
he said, Willie, we want you to be the first
man on.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
I do like to send me to Mars. I know that,
but I have a doubt whether right there, like Jackie Gleason,
did you see Matt Damon the Martian. Yes, we've done
that already, right well, he got stuck there and then
he got on the whip, got the whip deal and
they found them.
Speaker 5 (45:42):
They get there, they'll build a highway. I guarantee you
they'll build a highway to Mars faster than they will
the Brent Spence Bridge, you know that, the other.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Bridge, Cincinnati, no bridge. You've got the money, we don't.
People falling them. You can't never see him again. Sem
We're in trouble. Give me the Stude's report. I'm looking
at the red schedule. I'm excited this weekend they come back,
they got the Angels are here.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Well, and Mike Trout might not play. He's got a
contusion in his left hand. He got hit, got hit
by a pitch yesterday against Seattle.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
That's too bad. And then the Giants come. They stink.
Are they getting ready to fire the new manager of
the Giants after?
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I think?
Speaker 5 (46:20):
I think they're two and seven? They can't score runs.
Willie McCovey when you need Where's Orlando Sipaida when you
need him? With the Giants and Bob Bridley the.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Reds of a friendly schedule the rest of this month.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Too, except at the end when they face the Detroit Tigers.
And that's when Terik Skouble could be coming to town.
But you know what, let him bring it on for
the little Red machine.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
So uh, they have four in Miami, then three and
the Angels and three with the Giants and go on
the road for seven. We'll see what happened. But the
early return segment are very good. Would you agree? Yes?
All right, we'll go back on more news at the
top and bottom. And the president is flying high. He
took the risk. Could you see Kamala Harris doing this
as president. No, No, how about Joe Biden. No, he wouldn't.
(47:14):
He don't even know what day it is. Rock Hussein
Obama would give more money to the Iranians, hoping they
don't develop a nuclear weapon. We'll give you a ransom note.
Give you a ransom note segment. Give me out of
the Stuge Report. The Reds baseball kicks off. What about
five forty tonight something like that. Correct, give me out
of the Suge Report, please, Willie and Hotter of the
Red Legs in America. We leave you with the immortal
(47:35):
words of the Stood Report. One Armstrong. I think there's
twelve men that walked on the moon, four three or
(47:56):
four remain alive. Right, And Neil Armstrong would not cash
in a nickel on his alleged fame. In fact, the
story is told. You know, he taught engineering and the
president of UC went to Neil Armstrong. We worked there
for like two and a half years, and they said
to Neil, we would like to honor you by naming
(48:19):
the Department of Engineering after Neil, after you, the Neil
Armstrong Department of Engineering. He immediately said to the president,
don't do that. I don't want that because I don't
want to have anyone look at me as somehow better
than the three of my friends Gus Grissom, etcetera, who
were killed in the Gemini Capsule on a test situation.
(48:42):
And I won't do that. The story is also told
there was a barber in Levian in Ohio who cut
Neil Armstrong's hair. Unbeknownst to Neil Armstrong, this barber, who
must go nameless, kept his hair and put them in
baggies and after a while, tried to sell them on
(49:03):
the internet. Neil Armstrong went back to the Moon and
said I dare got lawyers involved and had all the
hair returned to Neil Armstrong. He want no commendation, he
wanted no special treatment. Correct didn't like to do interviews.
I can attest it.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
You saw him a few times that Derrek Kroeger, right,
and I met him in Seattle with Denise.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
But did he say he's a normal just he's a
guy exactly. He didn't want to sign checks either, because
his signature he didn't want anybody to take it correct benefit.
He said, the heroes are the ones who died so
I could do what I did. Those are the heroes.
Should be a lot of thinking these days like he did.
A lot of heroes and to me, Donald Trump, to me,
(49:47):
you may disagree, segment. To me, as a hero, he's
he's doing what is right, but not necessarily what is popular.
He took the chance and he succeeded, and he should
get the benefits. Bengo men, thank you. I'll continue with
more two fifty four Home of Your Reds Off Tonight,
Kicking it off tonight about five forty in Miami, A
(50:07):
News Radio seven hundred WAUTIW
Bill Cunningham News
Popular Podcasts
Hey Jonas!
Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!