January 1, 2026 • 28 mins
Its New Years Day but Steve is in and he chats with Gary Sullivan and ways to clean up the home after the holidays. Mason Leath from ABC recaps the demise of the penny and the words of the year. Bill Cunningham with his recap of the top stories of the year.
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Speaker 7 (02:29):
Hey, good morning, It's eight ten on seven hundred WLW
Steve Hawkins and for Tom Burnhaman every week at this
time on Thursdays, we get talked to Gary Sullivan And
New Year's Day.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Is no different? Is it? Happy New Year? Did you
make it up till midnight or four am?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Or I made it to Gary's midnight there, which is
about ten thirty.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
There you go. I like that.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Well, we get Gary Sullivan at home on the weekends
nine o'clock on Saturday Sunday fifty five.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Care.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
See, it's it's time to clean up from our New
Year's Eve party and make room for all those Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Do I have the heaviest job in the world. No,
you probably do New Year's Day doing a four hour show,
but trying to inspire people to let's clean up on
New Year's Day.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, ain't gonna happen. But I got some good ideas
with those. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I guess the number one thing, Steve is you
know we got all the gifts we got all the stuff,
and we got shortage of space in our homes. That's
a big trend right now. True, not having shortage, but
trying to find out where to put all this stuff.
And of course the first thing we got to do
is start looking up and around and where can I
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store stuff? Now, some people like to throw things away,
some people like to donate things. Some people like to
ignore things. I don't know where you fall into that category,
but the bottom line is, eventually you kind of start
running room if you live in a house long enough.
So I don't know, we can we can start in
the garage. That's probably a really good place. I don't
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know about your garage. I can still drive my cars
in mine.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I can too.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I did the storage above the garage door, so when
it comes up the garage is so good.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I've got storage up there. You're so good.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
One of the first things I put is look up.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, that's what I say, look up there.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But yeah, because you know, like bikes, they take up
an awful lot of room.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And putting in those little jay hooks not into the drywall,
but into the studs behind the drywall, and hang those
bikes upside down. You're like me, and you got a
lot of bikes in there, and they're not kids bikes,
they're your bikes. You're probably not going to use them
all that often. You're gonna use them, but you don't
have to trip over them every day of the year.
So look up, and there's even racks.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
There's rails.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't know if you've seen these, where you can
put the rails on the ceiling of the garage. Again
away from depends on how your door is set up.
In your door open or set up, did you put
the rails? And then they got these plastic containers that
just slide right into those rails. I like that, which
is really nice because a lot of people, as we
take down decorations, either outside or inside, one of the
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places that people store stuff and I'm here to tell
you and not the best place.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
In the world to store is in the attic.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Really yeah. For number one is that attic, even when
it's ventilated, gets hotter than it is outside because it's
an enclosed area. Even with the vents. If it's ninety
degrees outside, that attic well ventilated still might be one
hundred and ten hundred and twenty degrees and those wires
on those lights and things, they're not designed to do that.
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And the second thing is, you know anybody it's fallen
through their ceiling, Yeah, did that thirty years. Everybody's got
a story.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I will not.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I have not because I don't store things.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
In the attic. But that happens too.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
People get up there, they get a you know, a
little not real focus to what they're doing. They're trying
to pick up the box and move this, and they
step between the joyce and boom, you know, you're coming
through the drywall. So there's a couple of really good
reasons not to store stuff in the attic. There you go,
And how do you store your paint cans?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, I'm was just gonna say, you've got paint cans
on our list here. I've got some in the basement,
but some we moved from the garage at the end
of summertime.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
What do we do with use paint cans?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, in some cases find out if you even have
that color in your house anymore. Because I went through
this about a year and a half ago, and I
don't know, I think I had something like thirty eight
paint cans and I had colors that were long gone,
and so I started checking how much paint was in
each can. And sometimes if there's you know, three or
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four inches and it's a latex paint, you can put
kitty litter in there, keep the lid open, it'll solidify
and you can actually put it in the landfill. But
if you got a half a gallon of it, or
even a full gallon, I had a couple of those,
there's places that take those. Matthew twenty five ministries habitat
for many restores. I know, Matthew twenty five, they actually
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have it and ship it overseas.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Really.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, and it's only latex paints. If it's oil based paints,
usually your county or city will have you know, drop
off for hazardous materials and that's how you get rid
of the oil bases. But the latex you can solidify
or donate and goes for a good cause.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Wow, we did this also, I like that it's on
your list here. Store things under the bed and beds
under flat containers, drawers, boxes.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yes, yes, And that's a great area.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You know I was talking about looking up you can
look down to and underneath the bed. In a lot
of cases, that's just a big voided area. I've you know,
we have all kinds of plastic containers. A lot of
people have. But even if you go and you have
an old dresser that's not being used, maybe it's stored
on the other side of the basement, you can actually
take the drawers out. Think about that really, and then
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put the clothing in or whatever you're saving, and slide
the whole drawer underneath the bed.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It works beautifully.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I've even seen people put on little casters on the
corners so it rolls in and out. You can turn
the under part of your bed into a chest of drawers.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Yeah, and you also like incorporating shelving in our homes.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well yeah, yeah, you know. The worst thing in doing
a basement I was talking about an attic and the
worst thing and doing a basement store things in cardboard
and even wood shelving that absorbs moisture. Basements are usually
damp moisture and organic material can cause mold. Really, metal
racking is readily available. I would use the metal racking
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more than I would use wood shelving, and I certainly
wouldn't store things in cardboard.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It kind of just.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Draws that moisture and Again, if you get a little
more and mildew growth, you kind of start having some
unhealthy air in your home. So again looking at the cube,
looking up, you can go all the way up to
the joist and store some things.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And that's a good way to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But first we got to go through the three piles.
Remember trash donate.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Mind there you go. I like this perfect time of year,
perfect weather.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Can't go outside, myst So maybe New Year's resolutions are
what to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's even warm enough today to get in the garage.
Oh huh, you can put your motor bed, run the
gas out of that bad boy, clean up the shovels.
If you're looking for something to do, and I'm going
to guess around four o'clock, wall all be looking for
something to do. Absolutely, hey, this on your list.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Here. Keep your manuals. Tell me about that. Well, you know,
whenever you have.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I just went through a couple of refrigerator repairs and
an oven repair, and we have our manuals pretty organized
and there's a lot of really good information in there
about just trubble shooting, what the problem is now. So
I encourage people to keep them. But there's other things
you need to know too if you start having a
problem with a refrigerator or something. A lot of times
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there's a QR code on, especially in the newer ones,
on the inside part of the door. It'll have the
serial number of the model number. And you shoot that
QR code and your manuals there. Oh, how cool was that?
That's pretty cool? I did know that. That is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So you know you can keep your manuals.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I think it's a great resource and something everybody should
hang on to. So but look for that QR code.
You may have one, and then you're kind of set.
To be honest with.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
You, one more thing here, walk around the house that
leads at least one time each season tell me, well.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You gotta have you gotta have your New Year's resolutions, right, Yeah,
So walk around that house and see what doesn't look right.
I guarantee you you'll find something like a downspout that
doesn't line up with the underground drain, or the gutters
tilted forward, or there's a crack going up through the
bricks it or paints peeling. If it doesn't look right,
it isn't right, and start putting a plan together to
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get it fixed. And speaking of and do that every season.
I guarantee you will find something. And if you want
to keep on doing resolutions for New Year's how about
read the directions absolutely a lot of times on the calls,
a lot of times that answers. Right on the label
of the paint, How cold can it be when I
paint the labeled?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
All right?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Gary Sullivan at Helm with Gary Sullivan, Saturday Sunday mornings
on fifty five. Care see, thanks for talking to us
on New Year's Day.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You're quite welcome, Steve.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You have a great year, all right, you too.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
All Right, it's coming up now eight nineteen seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And here's what I think.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Everything's been cleaned up on all that stuff going on,
yes or nothing I can see, all right, So road's
pretty clean. The weather looking like this, cloudy, it's going
to be cold the next few days. Cloudy tonight, cloudy Tomorrow,
cloudy Friday night, cloudy Saturday. Oh look it says mostly
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Speaker 4 (12:26):
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As long as they're rippled, this is the Bloomberg money
Minute on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
This is a Bloomberg money minute. When someone buys a
million dollars of shares in a company, the market notices
when it's that company's own CEO. The market gets excited,
based in part on the idea that if the boss
is that competent, investors should be two shares of Nike
arising more than four percent today after CEO Elliott Hill
disclosed that he has purchased more than sixteen thousand company
(12:57):
shares worth roughly a million dollars. The Santa Claus rally
the period of Wall Street gains that usually close out
an old year and usher in a new one. Is
it really happening this time around? The main indexes are
on pace to finish twenty twenty five with four straight losses.
Right now, the Dow, NAZAC and S and P five
hundred each are losing about a third of a percent,
Although for the year. A different story, a twenty twenty
(13:20):
five that witnessed a dramatic downworth swing this spring than
a recovery this summer. In fall is set to close
with strong gains for stocks, with the SMP set to
lock in a seventeen percent annual advance. Andrew rote Bloomberg
Radio seven hundred.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
WLW, looking back on twenty twenty five, I thought we
talked to Mason Lee there, ABC News digital reporter in
New York.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Hey, good morning, how are you. I'm doing wonderful, How
are you good? Good?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
A lot of things happened in twenty twenty five. This
one's kind of surprising. Trump got rid of all the pennies,
so they stopped making them. But do I understand America's
smallest coins brought in some big bucks in the last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
You are absolutely right, So, as you know, kind of
one of the biggest developments I guess you know in
the financial space for America is that we are leaving
the penny behind this year. And so pennies from the
final minted run of the coin sold for almost seventeen
million dollars at an auction, which is pretty incredible.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I mean, you said This isn't one penny, this is several.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
So in total, the Mint auctioned off two hundred and
thirty two sets of three pennies each, and so the
two hundred and thirty two sets is an ode to
the two hundred and thirty two years that the penny
has been minted in America, been seventeen ninety three. And
each set of three pennies that was sold off, each
of the lots, which is what they're called by the auctioneer,
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had a twenty twenty five penny from the Philadelphia Mint,
a twenty twenty five penny from the Denver Mint, and
then one special limited twenty four care gold penny also
made in the Philadelphia Mint.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Wow. And what was the amount that they received? Did
you say?
Speaker 8 (15:09):
So? They received almost seventeen million dollars, which equates to
about round seventy two thousand dollars for each of the
two hundred and thirty two sets, and the final set,
lot two hundred and thirty two sold for eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
And according to this is Staxbauers Galleries in California.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Is that who bought them? Exactly? So Stacksbauers galleries.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
They're the auctioneer who sold them off to you know,
private people or companies that bought these points, and they're
kind of known as the top coin auctioneer sellers in
the country.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Right, we're talking to Mason Leath, ABC News digital reporter.
Things that happened in twenty twenty five, Let's get to Uh,
it's messy, it's meaningless, and it's everywhere.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
The Marion Webster twenty twenty five word of the Year was.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
What so Well.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
According to Merriam Webster, they have crowned their twenty twenty
five word of the Year as the word slop. Do
you have any idea what slop could mean in the
context of twenty twenty five?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No, slop slop right exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Merriam Webster defines it as quote digital content of low
quality that's produced in huge quantities, usually by artificial intelligence
end quote. So you can think anything from fake news
that looks real, junkie AI written books or Instagram post
you know, bizarre suspicious looking ads, pointless work reports floating
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around on the internet, anything of that nature. It's the
stuff that's just everywhere that you love to complain about.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And it's called slop exactly.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Slop actually is not a new word as we know.
It actually dates back to the year seventeen hundred when
it first meant soft mud. In eighteen hundreds, it became
to mean food waste and eventually became slang for rubbish,
you know, something of little or no value. And now
it's involved in twenty twenty five. To me, you know,
digital rubbish.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Yeah, my grandfather used to go out and you'd always say,
I'm gonna go out and slop the hogs or the pigs.
So that's what I thought about it. I thought about
feeding the pigs when I heard this. Hey, Mason Leith,
ABC News digital reporter in New York, thanks so much
for reviewing twenty twenty five and reminiscent with us.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Thank you so much for having me in. Cheers to
another amazing year.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Absolutely all right, it's eight forty three. Bill Cunningham is
going to join me next. He is going to break
down all of his favorite and news stories of twenty
twenty five. We will find out with Willie what's going on?
Did you see this from Food and Wine dot Com.
They've got a new survey that reveals the number one
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city Americans want to visit just for food, and I'm
surprised that this is number one. Philadelphia Cheese Steaks is
where people want to go. Twenty seven percent of the
respondent's named the cheesy sliced beef sandwich has their ultimate
domestic food.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Are you serious? I get this one New York City.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
They want to go there and get a slice of
New York style pizza. And interestingly enough, younger Americans would
take a food focus trip more than older Americans Gen
zers forty four percent, millennial thirty one percent would take
a food vacation. Gen xers twenty one percent, Baby boomers
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eleven percent never thought about really going for a food vacation.
But number three was Kansas City for barbecue, Chicago Deep
Dish Pizza for Central Texas style, barbecue style in Texas.
There what else was on the list? Gumbo in Louisiana,
biscuits and gravy Southeastern US, lobster roll in Maine and California,
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in and out burger.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
How about that? All right? I agree with some of those,
not all of them.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
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Speaker 4 (19:04):
Looking like this gonna be cloudy.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
The next few days thirty three today, thirty seven, Tomorrow Saturday,
it's gonna be thirty five Sunday, though mostly cloudy. For
the last Bengals game, it should be mostly cloudy to sunny.
I should say thirty nine degrees and check this out.
Predicted high's next week as of right now, Monday fifty two,
Tuesday fifty seven, Wednesday fifty four. So it's gonna happen, people.
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It's gonna get warmer. Right it's still twenty five around
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Speaker 4 (19:38):
Willie joins me. Next, I'm going to fix that leaky showerhead.
Each year we make New Year's resolutions in hopes of
bettering ourselves. I'm gonna listen to the Big One NonStop.
Good luck with yours.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I'm gonna lose one hundred and fifty useless pounds by
dumping my loser boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
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Speaker 7 (20:07):
We got you, seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. It is New
Year's It is time to remember twenty twenty five, and
the only person that could do at any justice is
our own Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Happy New Year, Willie.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Hawk Man. I'm so a little hungover from last night,
even though I don't drink, watch a lot of football
games and things of that character, and all I'm ready
to do is talk talk. All I do is talk
hawk Man is not that important?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
There you go, well, I would talk about twenty twenty five.
Let's start first. Trump began his second term. Your thoughts
on that this past year.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
I often said to your executive producer DuJour Danny boy
Gleason that many times, as Americans, we do not deserve
to live in the era of Trump. Things are so good,
and things are so great, and America is so strong
that we don't deserve to be alive in this era.
I don't want to overestimate it too much, but can
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you imagine the road and not take it? What if
we were sitting here beginning twenty twenty six in the
White House would be Kamala Harris backed up by Tim Walls.
So whenever I think, okay, you know, Trump says a
few things, I may not like the words that he
says at times. But the policies are unbelievable, unbelievable, and
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I am blessed to be a great American.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Good somebody else got a second term.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Closer to home, the mayor of Cincinnati have to have
privall your thoughts on that.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
We are cursed. All I can say is this that
if we live in a time with a mayor cannot
pay his car note, it's no joke. You got to
pay your note. When we have a mayor that's having
cars repossessed, that's not a good look. Would you agree?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I would agree?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
And secondly, and secondly, the city manager has found bankruptcy.
It is taxling and those two are in charge of
the money. So I don't think in the real world
either one would function. Somehow the city will putter along.
But how are we looking? Not good? Not good?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Not good.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
We're talking to Bill Cunningham reminiscing about twenty twenty five
up sad news last year, Charlie Kirk assassination.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
How did you handle it on your show? And your
thoughts on that?
Speaker 9 (22:25):
To me? Serious a little bit, you know, it's hard
for me to be serious starting the new year. But
they have murdered the messenger. But the message lives. About
a week ago Erica had the big get together year end,
what was a little before Christmas. There were like eight
thousand devotees. And many have said that this thing cannot continue.
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But I have hope that there's a God in heaven above,
and I'm sure there is that Charlie Kirk is in
his hands right now. And the Lord said on September
the tenth of last year, that welcomed welcome home, my
good and royal servant. And Eric, I tell you it
was just it was a punch in the gut. And
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I know the bullets are going one way.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Trump was shot once and shot about to be assassinated
a second time, and looks to me like the bullets
are going one way, and I wish the bullets from
every angle would simply.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Stop, Amen, Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Last year we lost Pope Francis, but we got the
new American.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Pope, all hail Leo. And the odds of him being
the Pope, we were told was like non non existent
because it would give too much power to one country,
which is America, which is I think always a good idea.
But the idea was that, look, we have the President
Trump who's not reticent, shall we say, dominating the world stage.
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Many call the Trump star the president of the world.
And now on top of that you layer an American Pope,
which is never even close to happening before. And even
though his policies may not be liked by a lot
of conservative Catholics, to have an American pope fills me
with emotions. I have a hard time expressing well.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Bill Cunningham's with us remembering what happened in twenty twenty five. Bill,
if you would have asked me the last few years,
when we were talking on New Year's Day, I would
have bet millions that I would never ever say this.
But Pete Rose is no longer on Baseball's permanent ineligibility list.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
He had to die to make that happen, and I
know that Donald Trump had a lot to do with it.
You know, both Pete Rose and Donald Trump are in
the World Wrestling Federation Hall of Fame, the WWE Hall
of Fame, as Pete Rose in it and Donald Trump.
So in a sense, Pete Rose is in the better
hall of fame already, the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame.
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And one of the best events I've ever seen is
when Big John stud Pile drived Pete Rose upside down
into the mat, and then he was stunned. And it
took Donald Trump to give him mouth to mouth, mouth
the mouth in order to get Pete Rose to live again.
So will Pete Rose get in the Hall of Fame
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supposedly in twenty twenty eight the next veteran's ballot. I
doubt it. Does he deserve to be in the Hall
of Fame? Absolutely? Absolutely absolutely?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Were you stunned that they took him off the permanent
ineligibility list?
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Well, that's a kick in the teeth. You got to
be dead to have Baseball to do what's right? Are
you kidding me? You got to be dead in order
for Baseball and Manford to do what's right. And Pete
Rose of course got that done. He called Manfred and said,
you got to get this done. And I look forward
to the day that Pete will also have his conviction,
(26:10):
shall we say, for tax evasion overturned, which that should
happen also, But I say, long lived Pete Rose. The
Great fourteen, the Great fourteen Pete Rose, Kenny Anderson, and
Oscar Robertson, not bad. There's that number again, fourteen.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Speaking of Pete Rose, of the Cincinnati Reds, Red's making
the playoffs this past year, what do you see going
forward in twenty twenty six for your beloved Cincinnati red Legs.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Oh ask you this hawk man. Are the Reds a
year better or a year older? I think they're a
year better. They get to the playoffs and they get
stunned by the Dodgers in three straight, but they got there,
and they got there because of sweeping the Cubs at
home and then going up to Milwaukee two out of three.
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So if they play like that, they those seven games
the Reds and those seven games went six and one,
which is not bad. And so I always am hopeful.
I say, keep hope alive. Keep hope alive in twenty
twenty six, Uh, Willie?
Speaker 4 (27:17):
One more question about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
The Cincinnati Bengals turf toe injury season faltered. Your final
thoughts on our beloved Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
I think of the toe, I think of the calf.
I think of the knee. I think of the wrists
from the wrist to the knee to the calf to
the toe, from the toe to the calf to the
knee to the wrist sounds like a song. If we
can keep if we can keep Joey Burrow, shall we
say vertical and not horizontal? Is going to be a
good year. So I predict write this down, hawk Man,
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Write it down. Twenty twenty six, Write it down. The
Reds win the World Series, oh my, the Bengals win
the Super Bowl and Xavier marxistic glory and win their
third national title in the nit how about that.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I've got it on tape and I wrote it down,
so I'm not gonna forget any of that.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Will isllylujah, Hawkman, mellelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Thanks for joining us on New Year's Day, and it's
time for twenty twenty six and Bill Cunningham show another
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Speaker 7 (02:29):
Hey, good morning, It's eight ten on seven hundred WLW
Steve Hawkins and for Tom Burnhaman every week at this
time on Thursdays, we get talked to Gary Sullivan And
New Year's Day.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Is no different? Is it? Happy New Year? Did you
make it up till midnight or four am?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Or I made it to Gary's midnight there, which is
about ten thirty.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
There you go. I like that.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Well, we get Gary Sullivan at home on the weekends
nine o'clock on Saturday Sunday fifty five.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Care.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
See, it's it's time to clean up from our New
Year's Eve party and make room for all those Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Do I have the heaviest job in the world. No,
you probably do New Year's Day doing a four hour show,
but trying to inspire people to let's clean up on
New Year's Day.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, ain't gonna happen. But I got some good ideas
with those. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I guess the number one thing, Steve is you
know we got all the gifts we got all the stuff,
and we got shortage of space in our homes. That's
a big trend right now. True, not having shortage, but
trying to find out where to put all this stuff.
And of course the first thing we got to do
is start looking up and around and where can I
(03:45):
store stuff? Now, some people like to throw things away,
some people like to donate things. Some people like to
ignore things. I don't know where you fall into that category,
but the bottom line is, eventually you kind of start
running room if you live in a house long enough.
So I don't know, we can we can start in
the garage. That's probably a really good place. I don't
(04:07):
know about your garage. I can still drive my cars
in mine.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I can too.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I did the storage above the garage door, so when
it comes up the garage is so good.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I've got storage up there. You're so good.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
One of the first things I put is look up.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, that's what I say, look up there.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But yeah, because you know, like bikes, they take up
an awful lot of room.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And putting in those little jay hooks not into the drywall,
but into the studs behind the drywall, and hang those
bikes upside down. You're like me, and you got a
lot of bikes in there, and they're not kids bikes,
they're your bikes. You're probably not going to use them
all that often. You're gonna use them, but you don't
have to trip over them every day of the year.
So look up, and there's even racks.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
There's rails.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't know if you've seen these, where you can
put the rails on the ceiling of the garage. Again
away from depends on how your door is set up.
In your door open or set up, did you put
the rails? And then they got these plastic containers that
just slide right into those rails. I like that, which
is really nice because a lot of people, as we
take down decorations, either outside or inside, one of the
(05:13):
places that people store stuff and I'm here to tell
you and not the best place.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
In the world to store is in the attic.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Really yeah. For number one is that attic, even when
it's ventilated, gets hotter than it is outside because it's
an enclosed area. Even with the vents. If it's ninety
degrees outside, that attic well ventilated still might be one
hundred and ten hundred and twenty degrees and those wires
on those lights and things, they're not designed to do that.
(05:43):
And the second thing is, you know anybody it's fallen
through their ceiling, Yeah, did that thirty years. Everybody's got
a story.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I will not.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I have not because I don't store things.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
In the attic. But that happens too.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
People get up there, they get a you know, a
little not real focus to what they're doing. They're trying
to pick up the box and move this, and they
step between the joyce and boom, you know, you're coming
through the drywall. So there's a couple of really good
reasons not to store stuff in the attic. There you go,
And how do you store your paint cans?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, I'm was just gonna say, you've got paint cans
on our list here. I've got some in the basement,
but some we moved from the garage at the end
of summertime.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
What do we do with use paint cans?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Well, in some cases find out if you even have
that color in your house anymore. Because I went through
this about a year and a half ago, and I
don't know, I think I had something like thirty eight
paint cans and I had colors that were long gone,
and so I started checking how much paint was in
each can. And sometimes if there's you know, three or
(06:51):
four inches and it's a latex paint, you can put
kitty litter in there, keep the lid open, it'll solidify
and you can actually put it in the landfill. But
if you got a half a gallon of it, or
even a full gallon, I had a couple of those,
there's places that take those. Matthew twenty five ministries habitat
for many restores. I know, Matthew twenty five, they actually
(07:16):
have it and ship it overseas.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Really.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, and it's only latex paints. If it's oil based paints,
usually your county or city will have you know, drop
off for hazardous materials and that's how you get rid
of the oil bases. But the latex you can solidify
or donate and goes for a good cause.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Wow, we did this also, I like that it's on
your list here. Store things under the bed and beds
under flat containers, drawers, boxes.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yes, yes, And that's a great area.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You know I was talking about looking up you can
look down to and underneath the bed. In a lot
of cases, that's just a big voided area. I've you know,
we have all kinds of plastic containers. A lot of
people have. But even if you go and you have
an old dresser that's not being used, maybe it's stored
on the other side of the basement, you can actually
take the drawers out. Think about that really, and then
(08:11):
put the clothing in or whatever you're saving, and slide
the whole drawer underneath the bed.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It works beautifully.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I've even seen people put on little casters on the
corners so it rolls in and out. You can turn
the under part of your bed into a chest of drawers.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Yeah, and you also like incorporating shelving in our homes.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well yeah, yeah, you know. The worst thing in doing
a basement I was talking about an attic and the
worst thing and doing a basement store things in cardboard
and even wood shelving that absorbs moisture. Basements are usually
damp moisture and organic material can cause mold. Really, metal
racking is readily available. I would use the metal racking
(08:52):
more than I would use wood shelving, and I certainly
wouldn't store things in cardboard.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It kind of just.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Draws that moisture and Again, if you get a little
more and mildew growth, you kind of start having some
unhealthy air in your home. So again looking at the cube,
looking up, you can go all the way up to
the joist and store some things.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And that's a good way to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But first we got to go through the three piles.
Remember trash donate.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Mind there you go. I like this perfect time of year,
perfect weather.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Can't go outside, myst So maybe New Year's resolutions are
what to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's even warm enough today to get in the garage.
Oh huh, you can put your motor bed, run the
gas out of that bad boy, clean up the shovels.
If you're looking for something to do, and I'm going
to guess around four o'clock, wall all be looking for
something to do. Absolutely, hey, this on your list.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Here. Keep your manuals. Tell me about that. Well, you know,
whenever you have.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I just went through a couple of refrigerator repairs and
an oven repair, and we have our manuals pretty organized
and there's a lot of really good information in there
about just trubble shooting, what the problem is now. So
I encourage people to keep them. But there's other things
you need to know too if you start having a
problem with a refrigerator or something. A lot of times
(10:11):
there's a QR code on, especially in the newer ones,
on the inside part of the door. It'll have the
serial number of the model number. And you shoot that
QR code and your manuals there. Oh, how cool was that?
That's pretty cool? I did know that. That is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So you know you can keep your manuals.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I think it's a great resource and something everybody should
hang on to. So but look for that QR code.
You may have one, and then you're kind of set.
To be honest with.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
You, one more thing here, walk around the house that
leads at least one time each season tell me, well.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You gotta have you gotta have your New Year's resolutions, right, Yeah,
So walk around that house and see what doesn't look right.
I guarantee you you'll find something like a downspout that
doesn't line up with the underground drain, or the gutters
tilted forward, or there's a crack going up through the
bricks it or paints peeling. If it doesn't look right,
it isn't right, and start putting a plan together to
(11:08):
get it fixed. And speaking of and do that every season.
I guarantee you will find something. And if you want
to keep on doing resolutions for New Year's how about
read the directions absolutely a lot of times on the calls,
a lot of times that answers. Right on the label
of the paint, How cold can it be when I
paint the labeled?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
All right?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Gary Sullivan at Helm with Gary Sullivan, Saturday Sunday mornings
on fifty five. Care see, thanks for talking to us
on New Year's Day.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You're quite welcome, Steve.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You have a great year, all right, you too.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
All Right, it's coming up now eight nineteen seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And here's what I think.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Everything's been cleaned up on all that stuff going on,
yes or nothing I can see, all right, So road's
pretty clean. The weather looking like this, cloudy, it's going
to be cold the next few days. Cloudy tonight, cloudy Tomorrow,
cloudy Friday night, cloudy Saturday. Oh look it says mostly
cloudy Sunday for the Bengals game today thirty three, Tomorrow
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thirty seven, Saturday thirty five, but cloudy. It will be
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of good News twenty five now and it feels like sixteen.
At news Radio seven hundred WLW, the Bengals Who Day
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Speaker 4 (12:26):
As a founding partner of iheartwomen's sports network.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
As long as they're rippled, this is the Bloomberg money
Minute on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
This is a Bloomberg money minute. When someone buys a
million dollars of shares in a company, the market notices
when it's that company's own CEO. The market gets excited,
based in part on the idea that if the boss
is that competent, investors should be two shares of Nike
arising more than four percent today after CEO Elliott Hill
disclosed that he has purchased more than sixteen thousand company
(12:57):
shares worth roughly a million dollars. The Santa Claus rally
the period of Wall Street gains that usually close out
an old year and usher in a new one. Is
it really happening this time around? The main indexes are
on pace to finish twenty twenty five with four straight losses.
Right now, the Dow, NAZAC and S and P five
hundred each are losing about a third of a percent,
Although for the year. A different story, a twenty twenty
(13:20):
five that witnessed a dramatic downworth swing this spring than
a recovery this summer. In fall is set to close
with strong gains for stocks, with the SMP set to
lock in a seventeen percent annual advance. Andrew rote Bloomberg
Radio seven hundred.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
WLW, looking back on twenty twenty five, I thought we
talked to Mason Lee there, ABC News digital reporter in
New York.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Hey, good morning, how are you. I'm doing wonderful, How
are you good? Good?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
A lot of things happened in twenty twenty five. This
one's kind of surprising. Trump got rid of all the pennies,
so they stopped making them. But do I understand America's
smallest coins brought in some big bucks in the last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
You are absolutely right, So, as you know, kind of
one of the biggest developments I guess you know in
the financial space for America is that we are leaving
the penny behind this year. And so pennies from the
final minted run of the coin sold for almost seventeen
million dollars at an auction, which is pretty incredible.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I mean, you said This isn't one penny, this is several.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
So in total, the Mint auctioned off two hundred and
thirty two sets of three pennies each, and so the
two hundred and thirty two sets is an ode to
the two hundred and thirty two years that the penny
has been minted in America, been seventeen ninety three. And
each set of three pennies that was sold off, each
of the lots, which is what they're called by the auctioneer,
(14:52):
had a twenty twenty five penny from the Philadelphia Mint,
a twenty twenty five penny from the Denver Mint, and
then one special limited twenty four care gold penny also
made in the Philadelphia Mint.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Wow. And what was the amount that they received? Did
you say?
Speaker 8 (15:09):
So? They received almost seventeen million dollars, which equates to
about round seventy two thousand dollars for each of the
two hundred and thirty two sets, and the final set,
lot two hundred and thirty two sold for eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
And according to this is Staxbauers Galleries in California.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Is that who bought them? Exactly? So Stacksbauers galleries.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
They're the auctioneer who sold them off to you know,
private people or companies that bought these points, and they're
kind of known as the top coin auctioneer sellers in
the country.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Right, we're talking to Mason Leath, ABC News digital reporter.
Things that happened in twenty twenty five, Let's get to Uh,
it's messy, it's meaningless, and it's everywhere.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
The Marion Webster twenty twenty five word of the Year was.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
What so Well.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
According to Merriam Webster, they have crowned their twenty twenty
five word of the Year as the word slop. Do
you have any idea what slop could mean in the
context of twenty twenty five?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No, slop slop right exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Merriam Webster defines it as quote digital content of low
quality that's produced in huge quantities, usually by artificial intelligence
end quote. So you can think anything from fake news
that looks real, junkie AI written books or Instagram post
you know, bizarre suspicious looking ads, pointless work reports floating
(16:36):
around on the internet, anything of that nature. It's the
stuff that's just everywhere that you love to complain about.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And it's called slop exactly.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Slop actually is not a new word as we know.
It actually dates back to the year seventeen hundred when
it first meant soft mud. In eighteen hundreds, it became
to mean food waste and eventually became slang for rubbish,
you know, something of little or no value. And now
it's involved in twenty twenty five. To me, you know,
digital rubbish.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Yeah, my grandfather used to go out and you'd always say,
I'm gonna go out and slop the hogs or the pigs.
So that's what I thought about it. I thought about
feeding the pigs when I heard this. Hey, Mason Leith,
ABC News digital reporter in New York, thanks so much
for reviewing twenty twenty five and reminiscent with us.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Thank you so much for having me in. Cheers to
another amazing year.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Absolutely all right, it's eight forty three. Bill Cunningham is
going to join me next. He is going to break
down all of his favorite and news stories of twenty
twenty five. We will find out with Willie what's going on?
Did you see this from Food and Wine dot Com.
They've got a new survey that reveals the number one
(17:45):
city Americans want to visit just for food, and I'm
surprised that this is number one. Philadelphia Cheese Steaks is
where people want to go. Twenty seven percent of the
respondent's named the cheesy sliced beef sandwich has their ultimate
domestic food.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Are you serious? I get this one New York City.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
They want to go there and get a slice of
New York style pizza. And interestingly enough, younger Americans would
take a food focus trip more than older Americans Gen
zers forty four percent, millennial thirty one percent would take
a food vacation. Gen xers twenty one percent, Baby boomers
(18:28):
eleven percent never thought about really going for a food vacation.
But number three was Kansas City for barbecue, Chicago Deep
Dish Pizza for Central Texas style, barbecue style in Texas.
There what else was on the list? Gumbo in Louisiana,
biscuits and gravy Southeastern US, lobster roll in Maine and California,
(18:54):
in and out burger.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
How about that? All right? I agree with some of those,
not all of them.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
It's eight forty five now und WLW the nine first
Warning Weather Forecast Center.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Looking like this gonna be cloudy.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
The next few days thirty three today, thirty seven, Tomorrow Saturday,
it's gonna be thirty five Sunday, though mostly cloudy. For
the last Bengals game, it should be mostly cloudy to sunny.
I should say thirty nine degrees and check this out.
Predicted high's next week as of right now, Monday fifty two,
Tuesday fifty seven, Wednesday fifty four. So it's gonna happen, people.
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It's gonna get warmer. Right it's still twenty five around
the Tri State, feels like sixteen at your severe weather
station News Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Willie joins me. Next, I'm going to fix that leaky showerhead.
Each year we make New Year's resolutions in hopes of
bettering ourselves. I'm gonna listen to the Big One NonStop.
Good luck with yours.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I'm gonna lose one hundred and fifty useless pounds by
dumping my loser boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Have a safe and happy New Year. From seven hundred WLW.
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We got you, seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. It is New
Year's It is time to remember twenty twenty five, and
the only person that could do at any justice is
our own Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Happy New Year, Willie.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Hawk Man. I'm so a little hungover from last night,
even though I don't drink, watch a lot of football
games and things of that character, and all I'm ready
to do is talk talk. All I do is talk
hawk Man is not that important?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
There you go, well, I would talk about twenty twenty five.
Let's start first. Trump began his second term. Your thoughts
on that this past year.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
I often said to your executive producer DuJour Danny boy
Gleason that many times, as Americans, we do not deserve
to live in the era of Trump. Things are so good,
and things are so great, and America is so strong
that we don't deserve to be alive in this era.
I don't want to overestimate it too much, but can
(21:06):
you imagine the road and not take it? What if
we were sitting here beginning twenty twenty six in the
White House would be Kamala Harris backed up by Tim Walls.
So whenever I think, okay, you know, Trump says a
few things, I may not like the words that he
says at times. But the policies are unbelievable, unbelievable, and
(21:28):
I am blessed to be a great American.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Good somebody else got a second term.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Closer to home, the mayor of Cincinnati have to have
privall your thoughts on that.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
We are cursed. All I can say is this that
if we live in a time with a mayor cannot
pay his car note, it's no joke. You got to
pay your note. When we have a mayor that's having
cars repossessed, that's not a good look. Would you agree?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I would agree?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
And secondly, and secondly, the city manager has found bankruptcy.
It is taxling and those two are in charge of
the money. So I don't think in the real world
either one would function. Somehow the city will putter along.
But how are we looking? Not good? Not good?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Not good.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
We're talking to Bill Cunningham reminiscing about twenty twenty five
up sad news last year, Charlie Kirk assassination.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
How did you handle it on your show? And your
thoughts on that?
Speaker 9 (22:25):
To me? Serious a little bit, you know, it's hard
for me to be serious starting the new year. But
they have murdered the messenger. But the message lives. About
a week ago Erica had the big get together year end,
what was a little before Christmas. There were like eight
thousand devotees. And many have said that this thing cannot continue.
(22:50):
But I have hope that there's a God in heaven above,
and I'm sure there is that Charlie Kirk is in
his hands right now. And the Lord said on September
the tenth of last year, that welcomed welcome home, my
good and royal servant. And Eric, I tell you it
was just it was a punch in the gut. And
(23:15):
I know the bullets are going one way.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Trump was shot once and shot about to be assassinated
a second time, and looks to me like the bullets
are going one way, and I wish the bullets from
every angle would simply.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Stop, Amen, Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Last year we lost Pope Francis, but we got the
new American.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Pope, all hail Leo. And the odds of him being
the Pope, we were told was like non non existent
because it would give too much power to one country,
which is America, which is I think always a good idea.
But the idea was that, look, we have the President
Trump who's not reticent, shall we say, dominating the world stage.
(24:02):
Many call the Trump star the president of the world.
And now on top of that you layer an American Pope,
which is never even close to happening before. And even
though his policies may not be liked by a lot
of conservative Catholics, to have an American pope fills me
with emotions. I have a hard time expressing well.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Bill Cunningham's with us remembering what happened in twenty twenty five. Bill,
if you would have asked me the last few years,
when we were talking on New Year's Day, I would
have bet millions that I would never ever say this.
But Pete Rose is no longer on Baseball's permanent ineligibility list.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
He had to die to make that happen, and I
know that Donald Trump had a lot to do with it.
You know, both Pete Rose and Donald Trump are in
the World Wrestling Federation Hall of Fame, the WWE Hall
of Fame, as Pete Rose in it and Donald Trump.
So in a sense, Pete Rose is in the better
hall of fame already, the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame.
(25:08):
And one of the best events I've ever seen is
when Big John stud Pile drived Pete Rose upside down
into the mat, and then he was stunned. And it
took Donald Trump to give him mouth to mouth, mouth
the mouth in order to get Pete Rose to live again.
So will Pete Rose get in the Hall of Fame
(25:29):
supposedly in twenty twenty eight the next veteran's ballot. I
doubt it. Does he deserve to be in the Hall
of Fame? Absolutely? Absolutely absolutely?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Were you stunned that they took him off the permanent
ineligibility list?
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Well, that's a kick in the teeth. You got to
be dead to have Baseball to do what's right? Are
you kidding me? You got to be dead in order
for Baseball and Manford to do what's right. And Pete
Rose of course got that done. He called Manfred and said,
you got to get this done. And I look forward
to the day that Pete will also have his conviction,
(26:10):
shall we say, for tax evasion overturned, which that should
happen also, But I say, long lived Pete Rose. The
Great fourteen, the Great fourteen Pete Rose, Kenny Anderson, and
Oscar Robertson, not bad. There's that number again, fourteen.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Speaking of Pete Rose, of the Cincinnati Reds, Red's making
the playoffs this past year, what do you see going
forward in twenty twenty six for your beloved Cincinnati red Legs.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Oh ask you this hawk man. Are the Reds a
year better or a year older? I think they're a
year better. They get to the playoffs and they get
stunned by the Dodgers in three straight, but they got there,
and they got there because of sweeping the Cubs at
home and then going up to Milwaukee two out of three.
(27:01):
So if they play like that, they those seven games
the Reds and those seven games went six and one,
which is not bad. And so I always am hopeful.
I say, keep hope alive. Keep hope alive in twenty
twenty six, Uh, Willie?
Speaker 4 (27:17):
One more question about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
The Cincinnati Bengals turf toe injury season faltered. Your final
thoughts on our beloved Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
I think of the toe, I think of the calf.
I think of the knee. I think of the wrists
from the wrist to the knee to the calf to
the toe, from the toe to the calf to the
knee to the wrist sounds like a song. If we
can keep if we can keep Joey Burrow, shall we
say vertical and not horizontal? Is going to be a
good year. So I predict write this down, hawk Man,
(27:52):
Write it down. Twenty twenty six, Write it down. The
Reds win the World Series, oh my, the Bengals win
the Super Bowl and Xavier marxistic glory and win their
third national title in the nit how about that.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I've got it on tape and I wrote it down,
so I'm not gonna forget any of that.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Will isllylujah, Hawkman, mellelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Thanks for joining us on New Year's Day, and it's
time for twenty twenty six and Bill Cunningham show another
year of stuff we need to hear in this town.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Bringing on Hawkman, bringing on
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