9-10-26 Bill Cunningham Show

Willie breaks down youth crime in Cincinnati and at UC with attorney Steve Goodin. Also Wes Martin explains why the US is involved in Iran. Finally Christy Edwards reflects on the murder of Charlie Kirk on the anniversary of his death.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Philly Cunningham, the great American.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to Sturdy Staff Team in the Tri-State. Of course,
the Reds baseball thing got off today. Back out in
Milwaukee Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And the Dodgers come here
for four big games next week. Last night they were
baseball non-competitive.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
It was a 14-1.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I think the Reds scored half a safety.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Not sure how that happened, but I think Della Cruz
hit one into the Outside of Chavez Ravine.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
So we'll see what happens with Reds baseball. And they
have three in Milwaukee. And then they come back home.
And they go against the Dodgers and the Cubs. And
the 76 Reds are going to be reformed. And they'll
play them a couple times. And let's see what happens.
But until then, coming up later, we'll be an expert
on Iran and Iraq. There's a country song by Alan
Jackson in which he says, most Americans can't spell Iran

(00:52):
or Iraq. But somehow, once again, we are entwined with
the hate in the Middle East. Jonah, you and I now.
Steve Gooden, former council member, also an eminent attorney. Before
we talk about all the problems at Clifton, there was
a country song by the great Alan Jackson, since retired,
about Americans can't spell Iran or Iraq. I think we

(01:12):
can spell it. You and I can spell it. But
can you justify what the Trumpster has been doing the
past six months? And if we simply leave with the Muslims,
the Arabs, to simply begin killing themselves, which they've done
for centuries, and they don't have us to kill anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, I think that's about right. I mean, look, I mean,
I don't get this one. You know, I mean, look,
I try to give the president every bit of the doubt.
But this is one where we have passed on Iran
and invading Iran and fighting with them many, many, many times.
There's like about 90 million people there. It's roughly the
size of two Texas's. It's not like Iraq, where we

(01:50):
went into a very weak military and a very centralized
government and knocked it off. And I think this idea
that these youth in Iran are going to rise up
and support us, which is always part of it, I mean,
that's a myth, too. I mean, I know they've got
some pretty girls there who want to wear blue jeans
and stuff, and that's great. But every time they rise
up and protest, they get killed. And that's what we're

(02:11):
dealing with there. They have straight-ahore moves and the ability
to really, really impact not just oil but our fertilizers
and all kinds of things that we need and buy here. So,
you know, it's a terrible thing. So I hope they
got a plan. I hope there's something they know that
we don't know that probably is. But in the short term,

(02:31):
the idea that they were just going to bomb them
into surrendering, which is what Lindsey Graham kind of said
in his last interview before he died, that's never worked.
They're too big. There's too many of them, and they're
too dug in.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
And we're not going to land troops and take Tehran
like we bagged it. We're not going to do that
because politically that would be suicide. And so what we
have to do is bomb them back to the Stone
Age and say we want to come home. And whatever happens, happens.
And that's what should happen, but it won't happen. And
let's talk about what's happening now in city council. You
have many years spent there in council. And now when

(03:07):
Clifton business owners say to me and Tony Bender, my producer,
we're losing our asses. This is not the way to
conduct business. Why can't the police do their job, arrest
the wrongdoers, lock them up, have judges that would sentence
these armed thugs to prison and open up the businesses?
Am I missing something here?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, you're not. I mean, it's just the chickens are
finally coming home to roost in a part of the city,
which has always been very sympathetic to the Democratic council members.
When you're having people in Clifton, whether it be up
at UC or in the Clifton Gaslight, where you're hearing
complaints from businesses, too, when you're hearing those leftists saying
that this has gone too far... It's really, really, really

(03:50):
gone too far. I mean, we've had a horrific opening
week or two weeks at UC. It's the biggest freshman
class they've ever brought in. I mean, you know, Pinto,
the president up there, has these grand plans to make
UC as big as OSU. They're on their way. They're
building new housing. Just what they haven't corrected for is
the fact that we have a woefully understaffed police department,

(04:13):
and we have the neighborhoods that Clifton abuts still have
rampant drug dealing violence, young kids running around with guns,
and they have no plan, no safety plan, no nothing,
and we have a complete lack of police officers to
actually do the kind of proactive policing that will be
required to kind of deal with it. So what they're
doing is they're shutting down whole streets. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
You can't come here.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
The problem is, yeah, you just, so, so it is one,
it is a solution. I'll give them credit for that.
It is one, it is a response and it's not
wholly irrational. The problem are you have all these mom
and pop businesses that are along those areas, particularly streets
like Calhoun, uh, that are dependent upon, upon the student
business and who, uh, you know, don't do a lot

(04:58):
in the summer. And here they come back and, you know, August, September,
ready to, uh, serve their fast food and draft beer
and all the things that they do to make a
living there, and they literally have their streets shut down.
I've been seeing on social media some of these places
have to close down by 9, 10 o'clock, and anyone
in those student businesses will tell you you do your
majority of your business late at night. So it's been brutal.

(05:22):
So they're caught in the middle of this as well.
The cynical part of me was to say, congrats, guys,
you voted for this. People have been telling you this
for years. But it really is just the chickens coming
home to roost. And it's unfortunate that it's happening there
in Clifton. And I never thought I'd see a day
where there would be petitions from parents to the president

(05:44):
of the university and city council telling them, we need
more police on the ground here. We are worried about
our kids. Particularly, you know, these freshmen who are coming
in 18, 19 years old and really are just kind
of sitting ducks for this bad stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, the other thing, I had Ken Cobra on yesterday,
the head of the FOP. These coppers are working 60
to 80 hours a week each. And when an officer
goes to work, it takes about an hour to suit up.
You got to put all the stuff on. It takes
about an hour to take the suits off and then
they calm down a little bit. And they're working 60
to 80 hours a week. All of them are making
north of $ 100, 000 a year, some $ 150, 000 a year being

(06:20):
a cop. And that's good. But at some point, you say,
I got my mental and my physical health to worry about.
We need 300 to 500 more cops hired immediately. They
have a recruit class going. You have to bring in
50 to 70 new cops every year just to break
even with those retiring on the other side. which they're
not bringing in 50 to 70 a year. So the

(06:41):
thin blue line is cracking. It's breaking. And they cannot
keep doing this. The sheriff's department is also overwhelmed. They
mainly have patrol duties in the townships, et cetera. So
you don't see the black shirts in Clifton. You always
see only CPD. And there's no sense on city council.
Scotty Johnson, he is a lucid moment every now and then.

(07:04):
And he said, well, we're going to have a big
powwow yesterday. And he said, now let's wait a little
bit longer until I guess UC's got some more home games.
Basketball is about to start and the businesses are dying.
We're telling the world that the police and city council
can't handle a couple hundred thugs with guns. Instead of
arresting them, Bill Belichick would say, Steve Gooden, three words,

(07:25):
do your job. Just do your job. Arrest the wrongdoers.
Find out who they are. Take them off the streets
and pray to God in room A. You have a
judge down there like Judge Dinkelhocker who's going to give
them a high bond for having guns and lock them up.
What's wrong with that approach?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, nothing, and God bless Judge Dinkelhocker, but we know
it's even worse than that. I mean, one of the
things that kind of broke out on social media this
week is someone leaked from the 2020 Auburn building, which
is the juvenile jail, which is where a lot of
these folks should be held. Someone leaked a list of
charges that the judges have said, do not hold these kids,

(08:05):
do not even give them a bond, just send them home.
So there's like a no bond list and it includes
some pretty nasty stuff. A lot of misdemeanors, possession of
criminal tools, you know, people who might be on the,
you know, involved in a burglary, things of that nature.
So one of that, that juvenile jail is a huge
source of frustration for the police officers. King Cobra will

(08:26):
tell you that, you know, the prosecutors will tell you
that when they're allowed to. It is a truly catch-and-release
type situation. There's no consequence for these young offenders. They're
back on the street literally within a matter of hours.
They're literally just, you know, sign a piece of paper
and say, hey, we won't do anything bad until our
court case is heard. And they're right back on the street.
So it's not even just the setting of low bonds.

(08:49):
It is that in the juvenile court system, they're not
holding anybody. They're being told, you know, often bonds aren't
an issue in juvenile court either you hold them or
you don't. They are being given, the magistrates are being
given explicit directions not to hold the majority of kids
on the majority of offenses. And you can see that
on the street too. And I mean, look, in terms
of police staffing, we have the same, we have actually

(09:11):
fewer police than we had in 2005. And in 2005,
we had roughly 20,000 fewer people living in the city. Plus,
now we have all these extra students, all these new attractions,
you know, with the ballpark and the new ballparks and TQL, stadium,
all this stuff. So it's just common sense that we
need at least 300 more police officers, maybe more. but

(09:35):
in a more robust relationship with the Sheriff's Department. But
none of that's happening because that's not a politically popular
thing to say to the city. These guys in the
mayor and the council members are kowtowing to a very
small group of people in the city who are very progressive,
very anti-law enforcement. They got Iris Rowley working right there
in City Hall, harassing police officers while being paid by

(09:59):
the city. It's a huge morale issue. So you add
Iris Rowley plus staffing, you know, plus the juvenile court policies,
and who wants to be a cop? No, sir. None.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, Judge Carrie Bloom, a uber leftist, she's a member
of the Democratic Socialists of America. She's in charge of
juvenile court, and she does not think kids... use the
word kids, 17-year-olds who commit serious crimes should be held accountable.
And that's her philosophy. And she's running for re-election. And
I'll bet you a hot, fun Sunday or a three-way
at Skyline there in Clifton that she's going to easily

(10:32):
win because the Democratic voter will march up to the
polling places and poll the blue ticket. And you're like
a city voter, including been on city council. What's the
sense of the Democratic voter in the city when there's
mayhem When there's rioting, when there's bars downtown OTR that
have to have 20 police units out in front, when

(10:55):
UC and Pill Hill should be the shining city on
the hill for us, all the investments by Christ Hospital
and UC and Good Samaritan, et cetera, they're all there,
thousands and thousands, along with, I guess, about 45,000 students
at UC. And the voters seemingly don't care. Can you
tell me why?

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, yeah, I think I can. I talk to these people.
I live amongst the leftists, okay? And when they will
deem to talk to me after they call me a
fascist and so forth, and once we get past that,
you know, what they say is the same thing. Yeah,
what they say is the same thing every time, which
is they agree 100% that the city's doing a terrible

(11:35):
job on all these things. You know, they're critical of
folks like Carrie Bloom. They're critical of the mayor in
small settings. But then when they go to the polls,
they're going to go out. They don't vote for local elections.
They're going because they're fired up about Donald Trump. They're
fired up about Amy Acton, whatever it is. And they
get that blue slate and they vote right down it.

(11:58):
And they I had one of my neighbors told me
once that she was always afraid to vote accidentally for
someone who might support Donald Trump in some way or
be on the other side. She was afraid. So that's
why she didn't veer off the slate at all. So,
I mean, that's what happens to slate voting. It's very disciplined.
But then you do have people in the Democratic Party.

(12:20):
who feel that people like you and I are wrongfully
attacking people like Judge Carrie Bloom. They think that to
be asking these questions and to be calling out this stuff,
that that's unfair somehow. Really, hey, what about the kids?
Why do you want to give these kids records? What
about the children? The dead children don't matter. But the children,

(12:41):
you know, the other children are there. And they're right.
A lot of these kids are coming from horrible situations.
That's true. But just letting them go and do more
crime doesn't help them or anyone else.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Lastly, Steve Gooden, there's now a movement on city council
to extend the streetcar, which I thought, you know, it
began 10 years ago, almost this day. And city council
members are talking about extending the streetcar uphill hill out
Mount Auburn into UC, maybe take it south, go into Covington, Newport,
loop around Independence, maybe go a little south of Frankfurt,
come back up through Louisville and bring it back up

(13:10):
into Cincinnati, then into Columbus. And I'm thinking, number one,
the inquiry did this big study that seemed to indicate
the promises of the streetcar have not been met. By
the way, it's free. We spent almost $ 180 million on
the streetcar.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
It's free.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
And no one paid for that except $ 180 million. And
it's all free to ride. And it goes in areas,
according to the experts, that people don't want to go.
And it goes from Finley Market basically downtown to the
banks and back. That's about it. And it's kind of
like an amusement ride. Joe Dieters at the time said
it would be a homeless encampment. Many parts of the
day it is. And they'll be like Veloraptors waiting for

(13:45):
the tourists to come by. Yes, that's true, too. And
so can you address whether or not Tony Bender wants
to know if all that money from the so-called railroad
can be used for the streetcar? And would they do it?
Because we can't get potholes fixed. We can't get the
Western Hills Viaduct fixed with that money. But we want
to spend the money on streetcars that don't work. You
know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, the streetcar was, number one, was a total disgrace.
I was one of the people out there saying, like,
of all the needs that we had in the city
at the time, then and now, nearly $ 200 million on
a streetcar is absurd. I mean, it is an amenity.
It is a street. It is true. It isn't like
an amusement park ride. It is an amusement park ride.

(14:25):
It's like the old monorail at Kings Island. You know,
like kids used to get on.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
And it's just something, it's a feel-good thing. It doesn't
get any, it's not public transit, it's just absurd. But
the idea that they might try to somehow raid that
railroad trust for that, I mean, that's a very predictable thing.
I predict that there's already people trying to, lawyers trying
to carve up to see whether or not that counts as, quote,
existing infrastructure, which is what they're, you know, when everyone,

(14:53):
when people voted for that railroad thing, I did not,
but when people who did vote for it, you know,
they sold it to the citizens saying, We're going to
repair existing infrastructure, which we all thought existing infrastructure meant potholes.
Now existing infrastructure, it seems like, can mean anything. And
the streetcar, I guess, is infrastructure. So get ready for
some of your tax dollars, or an effort anyway, to

(15:15):
be made to spend some of your hard-earned tax dollars
and the sale of that railroad on expanding this boondoggle.
It remains a boondoggle. It has never made a dollar.
It is subsidized by charities now, largely, and trusts. It
is a money loser. It is just a goofy thing.
But there are people who look at it with like
an almost religious fervor that it is somehow and believe

(15:35):
it has elevated our city in some way. And I
don't know what they're smoking, but it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
No printing on the side of those cigarettes. All I
can say is city council. And if you keep getting
elected by wide margins, I think this time you have
to have pure of all. the great director of Eftabistan,
got 80 percent of the vote. So if you're Eftabistan
and you got 80 percent of the vote, you're thinking,
I'm doing exactly what the people want me to do.
I'll give them more of the same. And that's sad.

(16:01):
But Steve Gooden, we got to run. And I was
going to ask you briefly, can you give me a
minute on where you were on 9-11-01? And how did
you find out about the 846 murders taking place at
the World Trade Center?

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I remember it very distinctly. I was a young prosecutor
doing a bind over case in front of Judge Sylvia
Hendon when her bailiff walked in and said, hey, there's
something happened here. We need to take a break. And
we all went back into her chambers and turned on
her television and watched it right there. And it was
an absolutely chilling moment. I remember it with joy. we

(16:37):
remember it just like it was yesterday. And I remember we,
we wrapped up our business and, and went home and
just sat in front of the television for the whole
day and tried to understand it. I remember my wife
at the time being, uh, uh, eight months pregnant with our,
my first child, our first child. And just thinking, you know, what, what,
what is this world going to be? And I was
a reservist at the time. So I also figured my,

(16:58):
my life was about to change and it sure did.
So I was gone about two years. Steve Gooden.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Thank you very much. We'll talk again on that, but, uh,
It's unfortunate you weren't elected to council. The people of
Cincinnati get what they deserve, and they certainly have.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Well, they're getting it. They're getting it good and hard.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
I kind of like that kind of talk. But, Steve Gooden,
thank you very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Take care.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Let's continue with more. You get the government they deserve
on NewsRadio 700 WLW. Hit the music, Dave Keaton.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Hit the music.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'll get back to the commercials as soon as I can.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
We have.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
A situation where almost everyone knows where they were when
you were first notified about 9-11.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (17:41):
It's one of those events locked in time. Everyone I
speak to can say, well, I was doing this or
I was doing that. Steve Gooden said he was in
Sylvia Hendon's courtroom and bailiff came in and said, judge,
you have to come watch this. And the lawyers proceeded
to her chambers and watched what was going on. And
here on that Tuesday morning, we basically went to long
form ABC news coverage for two or three days. We

(18:03):
didn't get back to normal several days later because it
was thought that America was under attack. In fact, we
assume there were more than four airliners up that had
been hijacked. And over the period of time, we assumed
that similar events would take place on a regular basis.
But fortunately, on the home front, it has continued with

(18:24):
murders and assassinations and blowing things up, but not to
the extent of 9-11. Previous to 9-11, we went through
a long period of time of relative peace. In fact,
we had a peace dividend in the late 1990s, and
we were at, after the Vietnam War had ended, which
was like 1975 or 76, went through about a 20-year period,

(18:47):
in which there were squabbles here and there, attacks by
Muslim terrorists here and there. According to Wikipedia, there's at
least 500,000 people that have died because of Islamic terrorism
in the past 30 years. Half a million people, that's
a lot. But the great majority, of course, are Muslims themselves.
I believe that if we leave the Middle East completely,

(19:08):
the Arab slash Muslim will simply resume killing each other.
It's endemic to who they are. I have a guest
coming up after one o'clock, Colonel Wesley Martin, who was
largely in charge of Afghanistan. And the goal was, believe
it or not, to make Afghanistan a participatory functioning democracy, Afghanistan.

(19:30):
And they had no history of it whatsoever. There was
no industry. Women and girls are brutalized constantly. Domestic violence, rape,
mutilation of girls, selling of girls. Typically in Afghanistan, a
father will sell his daughter when she gets to be
12 or 13 years old to the highest bidder. I
think that's called sexism. slavery, but liberals don't recognize it

(19:52):
as such. And certainly in Africa, in the Muslim countries
in Africa, there's no economic development of any type going on.
And again, the fathers will sell their daughters for profit.
So the idea that we could go to Afghanistan or
Iraq and create like a middle-class environment that'll look like
Mason or Independence, Kentucky. It was a good goal. We

(20:14):
had the A team in charge between Bush and Cheney
and Powell and Rumsfeld. We had the A team involved
about the Middle East because of what happened with Persian
Gulf War I relative to Kuwait. We had the experts
in charge. And good Lord, did they blow it. It
was awful. But with the best of intentions, they were wrong.

(20:36):
And you might recall on September 10th, the big issue
was public education. In fact, Bush 43 beat Al Gore
in the year 2000 because he promised no child will
be left behind, the soft bigotry of low expectations for
black kids, and that he was in a school classroom

(20:58):
when he was notified by Andy Card, his chief of staff,
that we're under attack. So the whole world changed from
one type to another, much like COVID-19. In March of 2020,
the world changed. And as far as the war itself,
it's been going on ever since. In fact, since Islamic
terrorism arose in the 1970s, beginning with Yashar Arafat and

(21:21):
then Khomeini, it's never stopped. They constantly are killing individuals
because their reading of their holy book tells them that
the Quran, that you have to kill the infidel, got
to rape the women, behead the men, sell the children
into slavery. That's what it is. And I wish I

(21:42):
could wave my hand. Don't you wish you could change that?
And say to the millions and millions of people brutalized
in the Middle East under Islam, that somehow you could say, well,
there's a better way of doing things. So we went
to Afghanistan in the high ranges and almost got close
to killing Osama bin Laden, got close. And then we
got some of the local tribes to take down the

(22:03):
capital of Afghanistan. And after that, we were in charge.
Things were going pretty good. The Bagram Air Force Base
was fully operational. Then Joe Biden came into office saying,
we've got to pull out of Afghanistan. There's a right
way to pull out and a wrong way. He picked
the wrong way. You can still recall the circumstances of

(22:23):
13 brave troops that were killed at Heaven's Gate and
also thousands of others wounded because of suicide bombers. And
that country completely... went backwards in time to about the
8th century where it is right now. It's awful. In Iraq,
we had the best of intentions. Between the two countries,

(22:43):
7,000 troops were killed, about 50,000 wounded. And also, you
had $ 2 trillion spent for what? Iraq is now worse
off than it was before. And Afghanistan is as bad
as it ever was, and we spent all the money
with the best of intentions and got nowhere whatsoever. What
has continued is Iran.

(23:04):
Is committed to obtaining numerous nuclear weapons in order to
nuke Israel and then nuke us. War is hell. Sometimes,
as Americans, we have to man up. It's a harsh
world out there. But just because the pre-911 years were
a relatively peaceful period does not mean that peace exists.

(23:27):
It's the natural state of mankind.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
It isn't.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Remember what MacArthur said, only the dead have seen the
end of war. They declared war on us and we
never accepted it. Now, finally, we have a president that
accepted it. And one of the great 9-11 stories, and
I have a guest coming on tomorrow at noon, who
was blown out of the South Tower of the World
Trade Center, police officer. He was literally blown out of

(23:51):
a broken window. He went through the window and survived.
Because as the building was coming down, there was such
a suction that the suction blew him out of the
second floor stairwell. You talk about American heroism, helping people
out of burning buildings and counterattacking the terrorists on United
93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, sacrificing their lives and saving thousands

(24:14):
of others. That's the story of Shanksville, United 93. It
also taught us not 11 were not exempt from history.
We may want peace. The American people want peace. We
have sent soldiers over oceans for a long period of
time to bring peace Americana, Pax Americana to the world.
And we keep trying to do that. As I sit

(24:35):
here this afternoon on this glorious Thursday afternoon, it appears
we're tired of this. We're simply tired of the accoutrements,
the fallout when you go to war with Iran, that
diesel is going to be 575 a gallon. By the way,
I filled up yesterday at a UDF And it was
$ 3. 49 a gallon. Might go up again. I don't know.

(24:57):
Small price to pay not to have an EMP attack
over Iowa, which as long as the same regime is
in charge in Iran, they're going to get a nuclear
weapon unless they're stopped. And they must be stopped. We're
not exempt from history. The war against evil, Islamic terrorism
is evil, will never end. We've always been in on it.

(25:18):
It's almost as if Hitler died. had lost World War
II but stayed in charge of Nazi Germany. I don't
think we would allow that. And the reality of 9-11
taught us that we have enemies. We have to fight them.
We have to defeat them. And that war is never
going to end. Grow up, lock, load, and let's not lose.
That's my attitude. I'm in the one-third that says a

(25:39):
little bit of pain for long-term great gain to end
terrorism in the Middle East, all of which has visited
upon us. They've killed American sailors. They've killed American educators.
They have individuals, adherents in America at Fort Hood, Texas,
that killed American soldiers. Every chance they get, they kill
us because their holy book tells them they exist by killing,

(26:03):
by beheading men, raping girls and women, and selling the
children into slavery. That's what it is. And it hadn't
changed one bit. I'm proud of my country. I'm a
great American. When America is at war, the only resolution
is to win the damn war. and not to leave
forces of evil in charge to come back and do
more harm to us later on. There's no question, in

(26:24):
my mind, I think there's no question in your mind,
that left to their own devices, which is what the
liberal Democrats, the socialists, the communists, and Islamic extremists want
us to do, left to their own devices with their
nuclear technology in Iran, with their missile capability, the first
chance they get to launch a nuke toward New York City,

(26:46):
they'll do it. And they will kill you. They'll kill
your family. And this is an ideology that must be defeated,
can never be counseled with. Let's continue with more. Coming
up after 1 o'clock today is American hero Colonel Wesley
Martin to talk about what's happening now in Iran. Of course,
he has great experience there. He was in Iraq for

(27:08):
long periods of time and also Afghanistan. How did we
get here? How did we get out? And why is
this war so unpopular? It's because of the price of
gasoline and the price of everything else. One of my
favorite joints is right in front of us here, which
is First Watch. The people are great. The service is good.
The people's judge and I had a little breakfast a
couple days ago there. It was like $ 60- some.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
$ 60 for a couple eggs and a little bit of pancakes.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
$ 60. The cost of this war is minimal compared to
the actual reward we will get when we win. As
long as we stick with it, we will win. So
after 1 o'clock today will be Colonel Wesley Martin. After
2 o'clock is one of the close associates of Charlie Kirk,
who was murdered one year ago today. We're going to

(27:58):
talk to Christy Edwards, has a book out, Charlie Kirk
and His Own Words. And Christy Edwards will be able
to talk about the impact of Charlie Kirk's murder a
year ago today in Utah. So let's continue. Billy Cunningham,
The Great American, with you every day. Stay the course.
America will win when we're united and have resolve. We

(28:19):
will win. Bill Cunningham, NewsRadio 700, WLW. I'm Billy Cunningham,
The Great American. I've had him on one or two
other times. A great guest is Colonel Wesley Martin during
his combat tours. He was the senior anti-terrorism force protection

(28:40):
officer for all coalition forces in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
He's been in the military for many years, now retired,
has pieces at Newsmax and elsewhere. And Colonel Wesley Martin,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all,
where were you on 9-11-01, about 8-46 a.m. in the
morning Eastern time?

Speaker 6 (28:59):
I was in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I had two responsibilities
at that time. I was a senior battalion commander in
the Army Reserve. I retired active duty because of the
war on terrorism. But in addition to being the senior
commander in the Army Reserve in New Mexico, I was
also the chief of protective force operations at Department of

(29:20):
Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. So I was pulling double duty
going into and as a result of 9-11.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
As far as the impact in your life, what impact
did 9-11 have on the life of Wesley Martin?

Speaker 6 (29:36):
What happened is I first heard about the first hour
being hit when I was walking out the door. My
wife said to me, a plane has gone into the tower.
And I thought, well, look, Odea banned planes from flying
in New York City.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
That's weird.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
So I went to the Reserve Center because we had
an in-brief. for an inspection that we were receiving from
group headquarters. So I'm sitting there taking the end brief,
and the head civilian comes to me and says, Wes,
you've got to come take a.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Look at this.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
It was when the second plane had hit, and then
I realized, no, this was not an accident. So I
immediately left the reserve because I knew I had to
get to the base quickly because I was in charge
of a 150-man guard force protecting the nuclear weapons laboratory.
And fortunately, it was inside. the Kirtland Air Force Base,

(30:29):
so we automatically had one good perimeter, and we worked
closely with the Air Force Security Police. But then it became,
my main focus became Sandia National Lab security at that
moment in time. After we got everything stabilized at Sandia,
then I started hitting all my reserve units and telling
them what was going on. And then I knew, and

(30:52):
I remember saying to one of my friends, and she
reminded me of it later, I told her, I'm getting
into this fight And then I was able to go
back on active duty and have a series of tours.
I went on to serve in the Pentagon, three tours,
doing inspections of bases all around the United States and

(31:14):
all the way actually to Korea and Hawaii, making sure
they were ready. Then I ended up being deployed to Iraq,
where I became the senior anti-terrorism officer. went back to
the Pentagon where I worked as a crisis action team chief,
one of the four team chiefs on that round-the-clock command
center that we have. Then I went back to Iraq

(31:36):
to work detention operations, cleaning up the Abu Ghraib mess.
Then I went back to the Pentagon where I headed
up information operations and then went to Korea to head up.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Their information operations.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
So 9-11 seriously impacted my life. And also on the
second half of my second tour, I walked into my
boss's office, Jack Gardner, and he had his head down
on his hands. And he says, I need you to
go take command of Camp Ashraf because we have a
lot of problems up there. And I had fixed the

(32:12):
operations section. And I predicted he was going to send
me up there about a week prior because I was
able to get a full night's sleep because the section
was now fixed. Sure enough, so up at Camp Ashraf,
I ended up working with the Iranian Moshe Hadin and
got to know them real well. And I work with
them up to and including this day.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
The course 9-11 caused our activities first in Afghanistan and
then in Iraq and neighboring countries.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Here we are with hindsight is 2020. In fact, hindsight
is 2010. And I look at what happened in Afghanistan.
You have great experience there. And I think of the Mujahideen.
I think about Taliban. There was a story in one
of the morning talk shows recently about the status of
girls and women in Afghanistan. It's as brutal as brutal
can ever be for the millions of girls and women.

(33:05):
And that we thought we could make Afghanistan like a
suburb of Chicago. We can make it as I live
in Cincinnati, maybe make it look like Kenwood or make
it look like Westchester. These people really want to be
like moms and dads with homes and women have rights
and they work and care about their Afghan flag. Why
did that thing turn out to be such a disaster,
especially for the women and girls?

Speaker 6 (33:27):
What happened, and I was working with a man, you
may recall, Colonel David Hackworth, and I wrote an article
at that time when we were looking at going into Afghanistan.
And through historical research, I realized taking Afghanistan is never
the issue. Holding Afghanistan is the issue. Only one leader

(33:49):
ever took Afghanistan and held it, and that was Alexander
the Great. The British tried, the Russians tried, the Americans tried,
and holding it never succeeded. What Alexander did, something the
rest of us didn't do, is he worked with the
tribal chiefs. He empowered them, and he was able to

(34:09):
form coalitions. We didn't, and it's not.
So much a reflection of us as warriors. It's a
reflection of failure to understand the people in the Middle East.
And I point this out all the time, is the
Middle East in the 1300s, they were more advanced than

(34:31):
the West in science and medicine, architecture. They had it.
The West was going through a very dark time. But
then the West went through a combination of things. It
went through religious reformation. It went through the Age of Exploration.
It went through the Great Awakening. It went through the

(34:53):
Age of Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution. Later, it went through
women's rights. And it also, in the 1960s, we went
through civil rights. fixing what we tried to fix in
the 1860s with the Civil War. So not only was

(35:15):
the United States affected, but so was South America, Central America, Canada,
and Europe, and they moved into democracy. The Middle East
didn't do that. And after the fall of the Ottoman Empire,
France and Britain goes in and they divide the Middle
East into straight-line borders, adding to the confusion. And Iran

(35:36):
was actually the one country, Persia, moving into becoming Iran,
that was actually advancing forward in democracy. But unfortunately, British Petroleum,
after the end of World War II, realized Mosaddegh, the
prime minister, was going to federalize petroleum export because the

(35:56):
Brits were basically paying them pennies on the dollar. He said, no,
this isn't going to work. So they went to Harry
Truman to try to get his help to overthrow Mosaddegh.
the Iranian government, and Harry Truman threw him out of
his office. He said, the United States has never done this,
and it never will do this. Well, the Brits waited
until after Harry Truman was out of office, and then

(36:19):
they went to Eisenhower in 1953, right after he was inaugurated,
and re-presented the argument saying Mosaddegh was going over towards
the Stalin, going over towards the Communists. Well, Eisenhower believed it.
And through the CIA and MI6, they overthrew the democratic

(36:41):
Iranian government. And then they put this brutal Shah back
in power. And he stays there with his secret police,
the SAVAK, bringing terror down on the Iranian people. 1979, finally,
Jimmy Carter pulls the rug out from under him. But
he doesn't have a backup plan. But the Iranian people
try to go to... their democracy again with bonnie sada

(37:06):
lead the democratic movement but by then ayatollah comedy had
come back into the country and used uh... the students
at the university to russian-american embassy and create fever throughout
the country and he was able to come sees complete
control and that's where you get this bureaucracy that runs

(37:27):
until this day yell at death to israel death to
the united states uh... So as a result, that's what
we're facing today.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Colonel Wesley Martin, American people, I'm in the one third
that say this is a great venture. It's a good
idea to destroy Iran. I said to you off the air,
it may make sense to bomb the crap out of them,
tell Israel, do what you got to do, and then
simply leave and let the Arabs and the Muslims start
killing each other again. If we're not there to kill us,
they're going to kill each other. If Colonel Wesley Martin

(38:00):
was in fact right now, Donald Trump, What would you
do with the military venture right now in Iran, which
the American people have had a belly full?

Speaker 6 (38:10):
It's what I'm working on right now. It's working with
the Iranian people themselves, working with the resistance. There are
organized resistance in Iran. And I've criticized Donald Trump for
going into this conflict without following the Weinberger-Powell doctrine. Kasper Weinberger,
when he was Reagan's Secretary of Defense... Colin Powell, his protege,

(38:33):
who later became chairman of the Joint Chiefs, they set
up a doctrine that first, before you go in, you've
got to make sure you have to go in. You've
got to make sure you've exercised all diplomatic means. With Iran,
all diplomatic means were gone. This is a terrorist country,

(38:53):
a terrorist regime, I should say. But they also should
have done a cost-risk analysis. They should have devised a
course of actions They should have devised an end state.
They should have devised an exit strategy. They should have
had international support and national support. Instead, they just went in.
Trump claimed, oh, we weren't there to change the regime. Well,

(39:19):
if that was the case, then why did they take
out Harmony and his top people in the first strike?
And he says now, well, we don't want them to
have a nuclear weapon. The only way that country will
not pursue a nuclear weapon is the change of the regime.
And I was also saying at the very beginning, do

(39:40):
not underestimate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC. These
people are 125,000 strong. And I once made the analogy
that in Vietnam we had one Lieutenant Kelly from the
My Lai Massacre. The IRGC has 125,000 Lieutenant Kellys. They
will kill the Iranian people without remorse, as they did

(40:04):
in January when the people rose up in mass protests
across the country. And they went out into the streets
with machine guns. By their own estimates, they killed well
over 30,000. Amnesty International puts the number up to around 80,000.
And this is what has taken over the Iranian country.

(40:27):
Five days before, and I checked this through multiple sources,
the resistance did attack Khamenei's compound five days before Netanyahu
took it out. They attacked it with 250 people. The compound,
guard force, is 5,000 strong. Now, not all of them
are on duty at the same time. But think about this.

(40:50):
250 people attacking the compound, guarded by 5,000. That is
the same exact numbers that George Custer had when he
went into the southern Cheyenne, or actually the northern Cheyenne,
and the Sioux encampment. And the results were pretty much
the same. And I scolded the resistance. What were you thinking?

(41:10):
They said it was a morale booster. A morale booster
to get 100 people killed and another 150 had to evacuate. No,
there's better ways to do this. At the end of
the month, and this gets to your question, at the
end of the month, I'm sitting down with the resistance leadership,
and we're going to go through a way ahead plan.

(41:32):
Last winter, I developed three documents. One was how to
bring the Iranian people in power right now who have
committed crimes to trial. And I went back to the
Nuremberg trials, and I studied it extensively. And I developed
a document. Then a former FBI director, who was also
a federal judge and a prosecutor for 7th District of

(41:53):
New York, he went through it in great detail. And
so did a former U.S. Attorney General with those other
same credentials. Then we gave it to the resistance, and
they started putting it to use. The second document I
did was analyzing who I call Baby Palafi. Sharapov's son, Razum.

(42:15):
He says, you let me in the country, I'll straighten
everything out, give me complete power for six months. I
read his 168-page plan in the two chapters. I'm looking
at it, and I said, this reads like Adolf Hitler's
Naval Enact of 1933. No, this is not going to work.

(42:35):
Then the third document I did was an after-action review
of those protests. And as I was wrapping it up,
and the Attorney General and the FBI Director were looking
at it, then that's when Netanyahu and Trump hit. So
now what we're going to do is follow up on
that AAR. We're having a meeting in D.C. Again, we're

(42:57):
going to have very senior people, former senior people, in
that meeting as well. The FBI Director, U.S. Senator, coming
in from Scotland, is going to be a former member
of the European Union Parliament. And we're going to go through...
everything the way they need to do it and do
it wisely so that they can present themselves to President

(43:19):
Trump as a viable alternative, and they can be the
ground forces. The way to take Iran, you always have
to occupy in order to have complete defeat.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Well, we've got the.

Speaker 6 (43:31):
Forces on the ground inside Iran right now. It's the
Iranian people.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
And they're ready.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
So you're saying arm the Iranian people.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Now, we have about a minute remaining, Colonel Wesley Martin.
The American people have not heard these comments before this.
They are tired of their gasoline prices and their food expenses.
I went to a breakfast place the other day, get
some scrambled eggs and some toast and coffee.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
It was like $ 72.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
And that's what the American people are focused on. And
so about a minute remaining, make a pitch to the
American people that this is worthwhile and something that must
be done.

Speaker 6 (44:03):
The Iranian people are very good people. They should not
be confused with with the theocracy that's ruling them and
terrorizing them. Back the Iranian people, and you'll get stability,
not only in Iran. There will be no nuclear weapon.
There will also be peace throughout the Middle East, and
there will be no more terrorism against the rest of

(44:24):
the world.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
And we need that. I mean, I'm in the one-third
that say we started it. Unfortunately, we've got to see
our way through. This is not Afghanistan. This is not Iraq.
This is not Vietnam or Korea. This is a fight
that we can win because most of the other countries
want them gone. Also, including MBS in Saudi Arabia said
a couple of days ago, now you realize what we've
been dealing with. We got to run. We'll do it again.

(44:47):
Colonel Wesley Martin, I'd love to have you on because
you know where the bodies are buried. You lay out
a plan and the American people got to hear you.
Maybe you should be the president. And I think, I think,
trust me, I'd rather, well, $ 5, 000 each is what I'm
going to get in the mail, I guess, after the election.
So we'll see how far that goes. But Colonel Wesley Martin,
you're a great American, and thanks for coming on the

(45:07):
Bill Cunningham Show. And I urge the American people, go
to Newsmax and other locations to get more of your writings.
And Wesley Martin, God bless you. Thank you, Colonel. God
bless you.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Let's continue with more. Are you willing to see this
thing to its logical conclusion maybe in a year or two?

Speaker 3 (45:23):
What?

Speaker 1 (45:24):
That's the problem right there. Bill Cunningham, Newsradio 700, WLW.
Windows my whole.

Speaker 7 (45:30):
Career and everybody that that we have in that locker room,
all the coaches we have. Things are going to change
year to year, but our window's always open. Hello.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Hello. Hello.

Speaker 8 (45:46):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Quiet, numbskulls.

Speaker 9 (45:48):
I'm broadcasting. Go for it, you bonehead.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Chris, last night I'm watching Seattle and New England. I
tried to call you. I think you were asleep. What's
the woman's name? Rossini, something like that?

Speaker 3 (46:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Mike Frable?

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
Looked like he was kind of tired at the end
of the game along with the quarterback. Three interceptions. How
about this? New England has to fly from Seattle to
New England overnight after the game. The Reds, a three-and-a-half-hour
flight from L.A.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
To Milwaukee overnight.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
The Dodgers, at a four-and-a-half-hour flight out of L.A., they're
playing tomorrow night in Miami.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
And how about football? What about the Rams and the
49ers are going to Australia? Why is there a game
in Australia?

Speaker 4 (46:36):
And the 49ers have been there like for a week.
The Rams showed up yesterday. What time is it in Australia?
They're playing tonight and getting right back on the plane
and flying back to L.A.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Hold on. Like a normal NFL weekend. Let's find out
what time it is in Sydney, Australia. You ready? What
time is it in Sydney, Australia right now?

Speaker 4 (47:01):
In Sydney, Australia, it's 3.42 a.m. So it's quarter to four.
Quarter to four.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
I'd be driving to work. So when they play a
game tonight in four hours, is that like daybreak? Well, no,
it's 10.30 over there, their time. Don't they play at
7.30 Eastern time?

Speaker 4 (47:17):
7.30 or 8 tonight, yes. That's all screwed up then.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
I know.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
Where in the hell are they? The Rams and 49ers
will be messed up for months. It's a 22-hour flight.
And I think the National Football League will say, you
know what, down under, that's it.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
London's one thing. London, okay. But not Australia.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
No.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Bunch of dingbats. Are they called dingbats?

Speaker 5 (47:37):
Dingos?

Speaker 4 (47:38):
A lot of saltwater crocodiles down there.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
I don't mess with those boys. Eastern brown snakes. Those
are bad ones, too. Thank you. So right now it's
quarter to 4 a.m.

Speaker 6 (47:46):
Right.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
So if they play, are you telling me they play
like in five or six hours from now?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Their time. If it's quarter to 4 a.m. their time,
that means it's 10 a.m. their time, right? Yeah. But
it would be 8 o'clock here. Because it's like the
next day there, right? It's Saturday there, right? I think
they're across the international date line. I don't know what
to say. I don't either. They're going to be all

(48:14):
screwed up. Thank you. If you live in L.A., you're
screwed up anyway. And how about Boomer Esiason? Hear what
he said about the Super Bowl. If you stay in
California as a pro athlete for like two weeks, you
have to pay a percentage of your entire salary for
the year to play a game in Los Angeles if
you stay for more than six days. So for the

(48:35):
Super Bowl, they stay there like 10 days, 12 days?

Speaker 3 (48:37):
At least.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
So that means if you make Joe Burrow money, $ 40- something million,
you've got to pay 12% of that to the state
of California, which means what? $ 5 million. $ 5 million. And
Boomer Sison said, until that changes, no more games in California.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
Because they got you hooked. Not just a weekend, like
one week. It's the entire year's salary.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
That's why your friend, Sean Hannity, got out of New
York City and won't go back. They're saying, you can
go to Miami and broadcast, but if you have a
home in Long Island, you're going to pay. Well, you
did that, right, when you were doing the TV show?
I was in it. Don't tell anybody about that.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
You're trying to live it down. I was in a
hotel room. I didn't own property.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
If you own property in New York City, you've got
to pay tax whether or not you.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Live in New York City. I'm going, what?

Speaker 8 (49:28):
What?

Speaker 3 (49:29):
No wonder.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
So right now it's like quarter to 4 a.m. Six
hours from now, it's quarter to 10 a.m. They're going
to play like 9 or 10 a.m., right? Their time.
It's supposed to be 10.30 their time. And it's on Netflix.
We can't see it, right? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
It says here it's on Netflix. Oh, well, I can't
see it either.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
That means I've got to get the rock over to
get Netflix. I pay for $ 39 a month, and I
don't know how to get the damn thing on my TV.
I bet you Penny does. She does. She watches all
these stupid series. I can't stand it.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
I like news.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Give me Breitbart. Give me Fox getting a little liberal.
But they did a Maria Bartiromo. It wasn't good.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
I like to watch things that I use like food
in my mind to talk. And Netflix, they got a
bunch of series.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
On, right?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
I don't know. I never watched it.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
I'd like to get Netflix for that Formula One show.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
I'm getting my wife down to get Netflix on so
I can watch NFL games. But there's only one or
two a year on Netflix.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Or Peacock.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I got Peacock, too, for some reason. Okay, but you
can't get it. I can't get it.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Penny likes it. I don't like it. I want to
watch Breitbart. Do you guys fight over the TV?

Speaker 1 (50:43):
No, we're in different sections of the house.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Oh, okay. Weird.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
She lives back there. I live over here. She says
she can't stand what I want to watch. I'm always
channel surfing. Penny likes to watch the show for two
to three hours. He's crazy.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
I'm changing channels like crazy. She's in the master, and
she's watching. I can't say master.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Primary. I don't want to offend anybody.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
Pardon me.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
And she likes to watch her shows.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Hallmark.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Hallmark's a big one. She watches Hallmark. I don't know
what the hell that is. It's a greeting card. They
have Christmas shows on. So you watch them? The Hallmark channel.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
You watch that? No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
I just checked the promos. Good friends of mine, women
like Chris Roddy, et cetera, and Michelle Snyder, they love Hallmark.
What the hell is that? What is it?

Speaker 4 (51:24):
It's all about movies about falling in love and love and,
you know, this type of thing. Now on Lifetime Network,
you get the ones where everybody cheats on each other
then shoots them.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Really?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
But I don't watch that either. All these women watch
these love stuff. What about sex? That's what I'm after. Well,
they have that too. They got that too. I'll start
watching Hallmark.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Surprise me.

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(52:23):
that's New Zealand, I guess.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Is that Auckland?

Speaker 6 (52:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
It's now 5.42 a.m. In Cincinnati, it's 1.47. But in Melbourne, Australia,
it's 3.42 a.m.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Well, they're getting ready to play football. How's that? Yeah,
it's Friday there, too. So, when they come back.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
So, they'll come back... It'll be Thursday. Saturday here. It'll
be Thursday.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Or Thursday.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
It'll be Thursday because.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
I think it'll be next week. It'll be Saturday there
and then Friday here. Then if we go back, you'll be.
They'll live the same day twice. And then Wednesday. Goes
from Friday, Monday, Wednesday. They don't know where the hell
they are. Willie, Reds update.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
The Dodgers pounded the Reds last night 14-1.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
But it wasn't that close.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
Rhett Lowder, seven runs and three in the third innings,
but number 44 homered in his fifth straight game. That's
a nice individual. I want the team to win. Reds
off today. They open up a series against Milwaukee tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Good luck.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Where they haven't won since... They got the Dodgers coming back.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
They got the Dodgers and the Brewers next week here.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
No, the Cubs. Oh, the Cubs.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Can't wait.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
The action here on 700 WLW.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Let's see.
Let's see. It's Midwest playoffs tonight. Dayton's at home against
the Great Lakes. Nobody cares.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
The Loons lead it there. We got a lot of listeners.
You know what time it is in Milwaukee? I could
care less.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
1248.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Yeah, they're in central time. He's got his head in
a toilet telling me what time it is in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
What the hell?

Speaker 4 (53:50):
It's the world clock here. Bengals update brought to you
by Midwestern Plumbing and my good friend Chris Wilson. Get
committed to guaranteed customer satisfaction.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
You know what time it is in L.A.? 11. 1049 a.m.
If somebody's going to ask, that's what time it is, okay? Yeah, okay.
Bengals open the season, of course, Sunday.

Speaker 9 (54:11):
Bengals!

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Preview of tonight. Lance and Rocky in the Roundtable Show.
Here we go, here we go.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
Presented by Cincinnati Tax Resolution, powered by Toff Sheldon. Live
from Longnecks at Hebron at 6.05 here on 700 WLW.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Rocky picked Tampa Bay to beat the Bengals. Rocky picked.
What's he know? Very little, but he picked them to
beat the. You and I have wins, by the way.
He's got them to lose. And all year, he's got
them at 12 and 5. You got them 15 and 2.
I got them 14 and 3. I heard that this morning, Tom,
making fun of you.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
Whatever happens on those three, I would be very happy
if they end up at one of those three.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
I'll take any of it.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
All right.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Last year, were they 6-9 or something?

Speaker 9 (54:55):
Whatever.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
They stunk. Also tonight, Willie, along next, Budweiser is going
to be along. They've got some Bengal tickets for Sunday.
Give them away tonight.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Give it away, segment. Like George Strait, just give it away.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
As you said, in Melbourne, Australia tonight, Willie, 7 on
ESPN 1530.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
You've got the 49ers and Rams.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
MLS soccer, Philadelphia routed FC Cincinnati last night 5-0.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Hammered them. And also, Willie, we've got sad news in hockey.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
What is it? Barry Melrose, the former Cincinnati Stinger NHL
player and coach, who became that beloved longtime hockey analyst
on ESPN, has passed away at age 70 due to
Parkinson's disease.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Mr.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Melrose wore number four for the Stingers for three seasons,
1976 to 1979. And if we have good data centers,
many diseases will be resolved because of data centers. And
if you want your phones to work, we need data
centers away from residential areas.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Having their own power source and creating thousands of jobs.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 4 (56:00):
I know what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
And don't forget tomorrow now, Willie.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
It's Eddie and Moe, 3 to 6, live at the
Holy Grail tomorrow with the 700 WLW Pella Windows and
Doors of Greater Cincinnati Football Frenzy Show. Getting you ready
for the Bengals game.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
On Sunday.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
Bearcats and everything.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Start drinking tomorrow afternoon, you'll be in the bag by Sunday.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Unless you're in Auckland, in which case it's already Friday there.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
So if you know what's going to happen tomorrow, why
not invest in the stock market right now? If you're
there now and it's Friday, you can invest in New
York Stock Exchange right now, knowing what's going to happen, right?

Speaker 4 (56:37):
I wonder if they're playing and somebody gets the final
score and they just replay the game tonight at 7,
can you bet on the game?

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Yes, absolutely. Just tell them. Pretend like you're stupid. It
should be easy.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
So you know the score, just bet it.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
Right.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
It's like it's out in sports.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Sure is.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Get me out of the Suits Report. Coming up after
2 o'clock is Christy Edwards. You don't even know what
time it is here. I'm thinking about Melbourne. What time
is it in the Bahamas? Got it right here.

Speaker 5 (57:05):
Right there.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Because they're on Atlantic time, right? It's 1.52 in the Bahamas.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
What time is it in Auckland?

Speaker 4 (57:16):
What time is it in Cape Verde?

Speaker 1 (57:19):
5.42 a.m. Just wake it up for breakfast. On Friday.
It's Friday. What about Cape Verde? I think it's still
Thursday there off the coast of Africa. I think so.
I think it's like 7.52 there. On Thursday, not Friday.
Go back and forth across the dateline. You'd be completely confused.

(57:40):
Give me out a student's report, please.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Well, in honor of a rainy day here in the tri-state...
We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Nobody knows what in the hell you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Chaz Lucas, a little wisdom from Chaz. Need him back badly.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
You're not kidding. On 700 WLW. I'm Billy Cunningham to
Great America.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
One year ago today... Charlie Kirk was murdered in front
of a crowd of about 3,000 people at Utah Valley University.
And one person that was very close to Charlie Kirk
the entire time, served a role of more or less
his big sister, was Christy Edwards. She has a highly
anticipated book coming out. It came out two days ago.

(58:33):
Charlie Kirk, in his own words, is going to be
a bestseller by doing that. And Christy Edwards, welcome, I think,
for the second time to the Bill Cunningham Show. And
first of all, much like... Terrible event. A year ago today,
I'm on the air. We're two hours ahead. So it's 2.15,
2.16 in the afternoon. And by 2.40, it hit the wires.

(58:55):
It hit Fox News and CNN. And I thought, Charlie Kirk,
that can't be true. Where were you when you learned
that Charlie Kirk had been murdered?

Speaker 5 (59:05):
Right in the spot I am now, my living room,
doing my work on my laptop, looked up. about 40
minutes from now. I was thinking it was maybe like
what happened with Trump. I was thinking, well, looking for
the shot. That's where I was looking for the shot.
I was in shock and horror. And I was thinking, OK,

(59:25):
maybe it was his shoulder, his chest. You know, I
wasn't quite sure. And I was just like, oh, please, please, please, please.
And then I, because it was mass hysteria right when
he went down. And then I was, I went right
to X because I know, I know on X, everything
gets uploaded live. And so I was hoping, hoping, and
my phone started ringing right away. And I, I immediately can't,

(59:47):
you know, didn't take any calls. And then I don't
know if you know how quickly that, that one video
was uploaded of this hill shot.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
I saw it.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
It was uploaded very quickly.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
So ugly.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
So ugly.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
Yeah, right. And you got to realize when I saw that,
I didn't know what I was seeing. And so when
I opened that, I saw the kill shot. I fell
to my knees and I screamed at God pretty loud.
And I've never done that in my life. It just
came out. And I was just in wailing because I
knew no one could survive what I had just seen.
And I knew he was gone. And I just was

(01:00:23):
horrified and screaming and crying because I just knew he's gone.
There's no way he was going to survive that. And
literally was just on the floor in my living room.
My dogs were coming up to me because I was
in hysteria. And it felt like me losing my son.
My son is just two years younger than him. And
then I immediately called my son because my son was

(01:00:44):
raised with Charlie. And I called him and he was
in a meeting and I just said, Charlie was shot. He,
he stepped out right away and he's like his arm.
And I was like, no, Drew, not his arm. And
then when he pulled up X, just like I knew
he was, he's literally just like I am. And he
saw the kill shot and he goes, I have to go.
And he left. And then he left work. He literally
took three days off work.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
The, uh, was there a, was there a sense Christie
Edwards that his life was in mortal danger? Was there
a sense you never have a sense this is going
to happen, but, He had security, but not like Secret
Service security.

Speaker 5 (01:01:18):
Well, look, when I was around, I met him at 22.
And when I was around about four years and everybody,
everywhere we went, every stop we had, every donor we had,
everyone was like, Charlie, you need security. Charlie, you need security.
And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like
he just blew it off for a while until to
the point where he couldn't blow it off anymore. And
so finally he hired private security. I did know that.

(01:01:41):
He never once lived one minute or one day that
I ever saw. I can't speak to the end of
his life because I wasn't around. I didn't go to
any rallies. I didn't go to any of those things.
That's just not my relationship with Charlie. And obviously, he
did get to a point where he had to have
a security detail. But Charlie didn't love his life in fear.
He just didn't. That's not how he lived. I think
he obviously knew he was a target and knew he

(01:02:03):
had to have security, but he didn't live his life
that way. I cannot speak to the end of his life.
I don't know what was going on then. I was
not privy to any of that. That's not the relationship
I had with him. So you'd have to ask other
people that. I do know one time when we were talking,
I would say it was about 2019, 2018. We were
waiting and Audi waiting for a plane. We didn't want

(01:02:25):
to get in the airport yet. And we were talking
and he did share with me on more than one
occasion that he did say that he thought he would
die young. He did mention that several times, but not
in a weird way, not in a scared way, not
in a prophetic way. He just said that he knew
he was going.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
To die young.

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
And I don't know why he said that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
What was your relationship?

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
I honestly don't know. I've thought about it. Well, look,
when we met, I was a lot, you got to
realize I'm a lot older.

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
I'm 49.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
So I, and he, I, like I said, I had
a son younger than him. So It became a maternal thing.
And I was also an elite matchmaker and a former
dating app person that I had a dating app. And
he was single at the time that I knew him.
My relationship tapered off with him right when he met Erica.
He literally called me on the second date with Erica

(01:03:11):
finally because I had been helping him with his singleness.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Good, good.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
If that helps at all. And I will take those
things with me to my grave. I will never disclose
anything that Charlie and I ever spoke on. And when
he met Erica, I'll never forget on a second date,
they were in Hawaii and he called me and he said,
check your phone. I looked at my phone. There was
two pictures that he sent me that I will never disclose.
And I said, wow. And he said, yeah. And he said,

(01:03:39):
I just wanted you to know I met the girl
I'm going to marry. And I said, oh, Charlie. I said,
I'm so happy for you. I got emotional because he
and I had been on quite a journey. And I'm
so happy for you. And he said, yeah, because I
just needed you to know. And I was like, Charlie,
she's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
She's stunning.

Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
And he said, yeah. He's like, I gotta go because
she's here. And I was like, okay, I'll talk to
you later. And so I was more of a personal confidant.
And he told me things that he couldn't talk to
anyone else about. And that was that. And then when
he met her, that was it. I tapered off with
him because he had found her.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
He found the woman.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
When you have secrets to tell a woman, you don't
tell me, you tell the girl you're gonna marry. And
so that was my time to taper off for him.
And I was thrilled for him.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
I mean, they were a darling couple and you could
tell the love.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
A couple of colleges. I want to get your reaction
to this. This headline, this is out of Nashville. University
of Tennessee condemns flyers appearing to celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Posters advertised on campus gathering, quote, we will celebrate the
first new year, a.k.a.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
After Kirk.

Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Celebrating his murder.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
And also UVU is closed because there were many that
wanted to protest that UVU would like celebrate his life
as opposed to his murder.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
You're aware of the vitriol about Charlie, your reaction.

Speaker 6 (01:05:04):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
Yeah, you should see the things that are being sent
to me online because I've been posting never before seen
footage of Charlie. And I've been posting pictures that have
never been. So you should see the things that are
being sent to me, literally reenactments of his assassination. And
I'm actually just ignoring them. Those people are irrelevant. They
don't matter to me.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
I don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
I know exactly how Charlie would handle it. He doesn't care.
And he never once acknowledged it. Those people, I feel
sorry for them. I pray for them. I genuinely pray
for them. The fact that that's something that they're choosing
to celebrate, it's like, okay, I'm sorry that your life
is so empty that that's something you feel the need

(01:05:42):
to celebrate. It's like, okay, we're actually celebrating someone's life
who changed the course of not only America, but the world.
I think I'll focus on what Charlie did in his
lifetime and the legacy that he has left behind, not
only for his family, but for Americans. He has started

(01:06:03):
a revival. He has started people who have gotten into politics,
youth that have changed their course of what they're doing
in life. I just wrote a book, the research, and
I'm not pushing the book at all. It doesn't matter.
I'm not taking proceeds, but But what my point is,
the people that wrote in testimonials from all over the
world about Charlie Kirk, you should hear the things of
what they had to say about Charlie, what Charlie meant
to their lives. People actually changed course of their careers,

(01:06:26):
their education, what they wanted to do with their lives
because of what Charlie Kirk meant to them. As far
as what these guys want to talk about the assassination anniversary,
go ahead. Knock yourself out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
I'm not going to jump in their water and swim
around with them at all.

Speaker 8 (01:06:40):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Same thing with the Tucker Carlson's who were very close
to Charlie. And there's a part of the conservative movement
that are angry at and they want to use Charlie
for their own particular purposes. I think Tucker Carlson's gone
off the deep end along with Candace Owens. I think
the Jews did it. The Israelis killed him. His own

(01:07:01):
security team, Erica, was involved. I don't know how people
think like that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:05):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
Well, look, let's get one thing straight. First of all,
whoever you want to mention, Tucker, Megan, Candace, don't you
find it interesting? They sure did use Charlie when he
was beneficial to them. They sure did enjoy getting paid,
taking the paycheck off Charlie. They sure used his platform
when they needed him. Now that he's dead, they sure
have grifted millions off of his assassination. And now all

(01:07:29):
of a sudden, let it be very clear, you are
not conservatives. You are absolutely not conservatives. You do not
represent conservative values. You will no longer be invited to
anything that is conservative. The president has turned on you.
Conservative Americans have turned on you. So go play in
your own pool or as far as I'm concerned, get
out of America because you do not represent the values
that Charlie Kirk stood for.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Christy Edwards, as far as the movement, as far as
the movement dying with him there after ML King was murdered,
there was a sense the prophet of peace was dead
in Memphis and the movement's going to, We're a year later.
Is Charlie's legacy growing or dissipating?

Speaker 5 (01:08:10):
From what I can see, I think it's growing. I mean,
every person I've talked to, every organization I've talked with,
they're bigger and better than ever. His voice is huge.
louder than it was last year i mean i've never
seen anything so big so i i can't speak to
the future but i definitely think charlie kirk's legacy is
just going to be remembered every single year the week

(01:08:30):
of september 10th and uh he's not going anywhere the
youth isn't going anywhere and they're definitely know who to
thank it for and that was charlie.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Kirk well at this point i don't know what to
say because uh this is wrapped up now in the
25th anniversary of 9-11 And a lot of this is
going to be wrapped up. And for the future, it's
going to be the same thing. And a lot of
the energy and the remembrances of what happened September 10th

(01:08:58):
will be kind of blended into September.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
The 11th.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Maybe 3,000 were killed instead of one. And Charlie was
only 31 years old when he was murdered by Tyler Robinson.
And when the preliminary hearing took place, of course, I
know what happened, but according to the evidence and It's overwhelming.
I've tried 25 murder cases, and you can't have a better–
I use the term better murder case than when the

(01:09:22):
defendant confesses to several people his DNA is on the
rifle when he communicates in real time that I did it.
And now there are some who claim it was the Jews, Israelis.
I'm thinking, well, you live in some alternative universe. And
it just sickens me that people like that continue on
a profit or get clicks off the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
It's disgusting.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
Well, and these people, they need to do something else
with their lives. Go outside, put your feet in the grass.
You're not a lawyer. You're not law enforcement. It's really
frustrating to me. Pick up a book. That's one thing
I learned with Charlie Kirk. First of all, I'm an
avid reader, but when I traveled with him for years,
he read books and so do I. I'm very perplexed

(01:10:06):
how people have so much time to sit online and
play with their phones. Start reading, educate yourself. The people
who are, if you're an FBI agent, do your job.
If you're a lawyer, do your job. The one thing
that blows my mind about these people that are commenting online,
it's not your job and it's not your business. If
you want to go into law enforcement, great, go into
law enforcement. But whoever's going to try Tyler Robinson, they're

(01:10:28):
going to do that. End of subject. I don't get
where all these people think it's their business. And by
the way, Turning Point USA also has a board. Leave
them alone. Erica Kirk, it's his wife. Leave her alone.
Everyone needs to mind their own business. It absolutely blows
me away.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
It is frustrating, but as we said earlier, don't jump
into their water and have to drink and smell what
they're doing. What particular gifts did Charlie Kirk have that
were unique?

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
Well, first of all, he was autodidactic. I'm sure people
obviously figured that out. His IQ was over 170, which
was very humbling, I might add. Every time he spoke,
I was like, Charlie, slow down. Every time he was reading,
I was like, I haven't read those 10 books. Can
you please give me a quick lesson before we go
into this? um one thing he was an avid reader

(01:11:23):
but so that's one thing i put into my book
was every book he told me to read i put
into the book every all of his favorite scriptures i
put into the book all of the things he liked
to order it like in and out burger and all
uh you know starbucks his favorite order whatever it was
i put into the book all the favorite trivia pieces
i've put into the book just because i thought people
might want to know those things about him He was

(01:11:46):
a self learner. I can't remember four minutes. If we
had four minutes to spare, he would sit down, open
a book and read. He also liked to make a
lot of lists. I remember one time we were sitting
at a table before a flight. I think we had
nine minutes and he starts making this list. And so
I'm ignoring him and I'm on my phone and he
hands me the list and I go, what is this?
He goes, this is what you should do for the

(01:12:06):
next five years of your life.

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
And I just looked at him.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
I go, Charlie, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Let me play. This is a one-minute, it's a 58-second
clip last night on YouTube. And I kind of want
people to understand. Here's Charlie Kirk in his own way.
Here it is.

Speaker 11 (01:12:26):
And the enemies are wokeism or Marxism combining with Islamism
to go after what we call the American way of life.
And the American way of life is very simple. I
want to be able to get married, buy a home.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Have kids.

Speaker 11 (01:12:40):
Allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down.

Speaker 4 (01:12:43):
Send them to a good school.

Speaker 11 (01:12:44):
Have a low crime neighborhood. Not to have my kid
be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school.
While also not having them have to hear the Muslim
call to prayer five times a day.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
That's important.

Speaker 11 (01:13:06):
We want the American way of life.

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
Which is, by the way, Christendom.

Speaker 11 (01:13:11):
Christians, our sacrifice, our toil, our vision, the outgrowth of
the scriptures gave us Western civilization. And this is where
I think is a great rallying cry. Doesn't matter if
you're Hispanic. Doesn't matter if you're Asian. Doesn't matter if
you're black or white. Everybody, if you are Christian and
Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, these two threats
are combining forces to come after us. And it's time

(01:13:34):
that the church stands and rises up against it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
OK, that was a does that kind of explain Charlie
Kirk and a capsule right there?

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
Oh, absolutely. And if you listen to every single thing
he just said, it's what everyone else is afraid to
say right now.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
Oh, no question.

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
Those are the words. Yeah, every word Charlie just spoke
is not only the truth. It's the foundation of America.
It's exactly how America was created. And it's what we
base our freedom and our original rights on. But it's
everything we're being told that we're not allowed to say
right now. I mean, for God's sake, you can't even
go into the state of New York right now without
hearing the call to prayer.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
And so he's exactly, I mean, everything he just said
is exactly right. And we shouldn't be afraid to say it.
We need to be doubling down on it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
He's right. He's, you know, I could play these all,
all the day, all night, but, but Christy Edwards, the
book is on, uh, right now it's, it's everywhere. It's
released a couple of days ago and, uh, it is
entitled Christy Edwards, a close friend and trusted, confident. The
book is Charlie Kirk in his own words and it's everywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
And Christy Edwards, it is important to me. I'm not
taking $ 1 in profit. All proceeds are donated. That's very
important to me. I would never take a dollar off Charlie.
So all proceeds are donated.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Tell that to the critics. Not make a dollar off Charlie.

Speaker 5 (01:14:54):
Never have, never will.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Christy Edwards, you're a great American. Thanks for coming on
the Bill Cunningham show.

Speaker 6 (01:14:59):
Thank you, Bill.

Speaker 5 (01:14:59):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
God bless you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:01):
God bless you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Let's continue. Bill Cunningham, News Radio 700, WLW. This is
a movement.

Speaker 12 (01:15:07):
Of everyday people who are going to tell Mr. Ramaswamy
in no uncertain terms.

Speaker 9 (01:15:15):
We are telling this once and for all. You cannot
buy this state. You cannot buy Ohio. You can't buy us.
You can't buy us. You can't buy us. You can't
buy us in Ohio. That is the end of this.

Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
Today, I declare my candidacy to be the next governor
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
And then we're going to Washington, D.C.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
To take back the White House.

Speaker 6 (01:15:49):
What you just heard there is.

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
It really worked, didn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
What are her initials? AA. AA. That's where she is, AA.
Why does she scream when she's doing a speech?

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Dave, hit that again. Hit that. Imagine this for four years.
How about when she talks? How about talking? She's going
to scream. I don't think she's going to win. But,
I mean, what happens if she gives her speech at
the statehouse?

Speaker 9 (01:16:33):
This is a movement of everyday people.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
The bowel movement. That's what it is. How about AA?
Those are her initials.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
Oh, boy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Jim Beam is her running mate. I didn't know that.
Did you know that? And Johnny Walker.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Red.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Old granddad? Old granddad is making an appearance. What about
Maker's Mark? And the other woman was the candidate for
governor in the state of Kentucky. Jack Daniels? Who's that?

Speaker 11 (01:16:55):
Mrs.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Jack Daniels to you. Oh, okay. And then you got
Howard the Duck Dean. Whatever happened to him? And then
we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Seg, I don't know what to tell you. He didn't
make it past New Hampshire.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Did he?

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
I think he won one state. It might have been
New Hampshire or Iowa. Oh, he won Iowa. He won one.
And then after that, right down the tubes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
Right, yeah. See ya.

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
Wouldn't want to be ya.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Along with the woman running for governor in Kentucky in AA,
Amy Atkin. I call her Dr. Amy Fauci. Every time
she talks, all she does is scream at you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:30):
I mean, why does she do that?

Speaker 6 (01:17:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
Just talk in a normal voice when you're making a speech.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
She's Luke.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Don't yell at people. What? She's Luke.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
That's Bob Hope. Bob Hope called in. What the?

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Give me the monitor.

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Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
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Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Sports!

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Thank you, Roxy. Must be napping. This is only a
minute long.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
Let's start in the great state of Ohio.

Speaker 8 (01:18:11):
This wine aunt, Amy Acton, to be the next governor,
she has this eloquent message for her Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy.

Speaker 12 (01:18:21):
This is a movement of everyday people who are going
to tell Mr.

Speaker 9 (01:18:26):
Ramaswamy.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
I got a movement.

Speaker 12 (01:18:28):
In no uncertain terms, we are telling this once and
for all.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Please.

Speaker 9 (01:18:32):
You cannot buy this state. You cannot buy Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Look at her sake.

Speaker 9 (01:18:39):
You can't buy Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
She's like screaming at people. What are you doing that for?

Speaker 11 (01:18:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
Who is she talking about buying Ohio? I don't know.
This is from Australia.

Speaker 8 (01:18:52):
What a sad attempt to start a chant.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
It did not work.

Speaker 8 (01:18:55):
And it sounds like she came to that campaign event
straight from happy hour. And she clearly suffers from delusions
of grandeur.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
Listen to this.

Speaker 9 (01:19:04):
Ohio, so goes the nation.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
This is it.

Speaker 9 (01:19:09):
We are ground zero.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
Ground zero. We're all down the valley.

Speaker 12 (01:19:13):
Columbia, I'm going all the.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Way down the valley.

Speaker 9 (01:19:15):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 12 (01:19:17):
I want you guys to know that I've never been
in a room in two and a half years where
people don't tear up while I'm talking.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Yeah, I've cried too.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 8 (01:19:26):
If I have to hear her speak for more than
30 seconds. Look, I'm not saying she's a drunk. I'm
just saying she sounds like she's a drunk.

Speaker 9 (01:19:35):
Hi, everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
How's everyone?

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
That sounds like she's Luke. A snootful.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
That's enough. Listen to that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
I'm done. I'm in a room.

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
You know what? He can't come back, can he? I'm
in a room and people cry all the time when
I talk.

Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
I can't wait for you to finish.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
Because their eardrums bust.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
For the Bengals. You can't buy Ohio. Lance and Rocky.
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Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
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Speaker 4 (01:20:28):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
Give away tonight, Willie. At Longnecks. Just add pepper. Just
add pepper.

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
National Football League tonight in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
Maybe it is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
Is it tonight or tomorrow? I have the world clock.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
49ers take on the Rams at 7 on Fox Sports 1360.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
Bob the plumber sent me the world clock. They're probably
having breakfast over there now, aren't they? It's early in
the morning.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
Reds update. Reds are off today.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
They kick off a weekend series against the Brewers in
Milwaukee tomorrow night where they never win.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
The action here on 700 WLW. Do you want to
hear the county prosecutor for 35 seconds talk about the case?

Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
Here you go.

Speaker 13 (01:21:13):
The information we've received is that the act in camp
requested individual stop recording shortly before this incident occurred. So
at this point, the only video we have is the defendant's.
And what's that showing certainly doesn't support filing felony charges.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
What does that video show?

Speaker 13 (01:21:32):
It shows him walking into the tent recording. And moving forward,
calling out her name and the state patrol, then her security,
I shouldn't say the state patrol, somebody in her security
comes forward. And then his phone is either dropped or tussled,
and that's all we have. There's never any close contact
with the governor, never gets near her. I'm sorry, candidate

(01:21:56):
for governor.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
You never- He never got near her. So all this
is like... It's a bunch of BS. He never got
near her. There was no assassination attempt. And they told
people not to tape. Yeah, and AA says don't tape.
Because whenever I talk, people make fun of me. So
this guy who came in after the announcement was made

(01:22:19):
with a video cam, he's walking forward with his phone,
hits a woman in front of him in a walker
that he didn't see.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
She falls. He falls. They jump on top of him.
Now news departments say it's an assassination attempt. The prosecutor says, no,
it wasn't. Does that get out? Does the truth ever
get out?

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
No. No.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Please continue.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
That's all I got.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
We've got to hear more about sports segment. And I
want to take Tom Brenneman to task. About what? I'm
listening to you two this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
He calls you the Sultan. That's right. I'm the sultan
of sports. He's making fun of you. No, that's not funny.
He's making fun of you. Chuck Ingram, we came up with,
is the titan of traffic. But you're the sultan of sports. Yeah,
a sultan. But then he asks you questions, and you
wouldn't answer the question. Then he accused you of having
no opinion and no mind at all. Well, how do

(01:23:12):
you think I've lasted here for 47 years?

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
I'm just saying hello he needs to show you more
respect okay he doesn't show you respect why don't you
come in i'm gonna come in here and tell him
that for some reason i woke up at seven o'clock
in the morning listening to you and tom he was
berating you every time you came in berating you i
don't like the berating going on that's all okay i'll
tell him but he's not here tomorrow he's going by
the way can you buy ohio well who is she

(01:23:39):
saying gonna buy ohio i don't know what you mean
like Is it Mondami or whatever that guy is in
New York?

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
She's a supporter of Mondami, by the way. I mean,
who is she saying that's going to buy Ohio? AA
supports Mondami.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
Mondami. Whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
She's AA. Who's going to buy Ohio? I don't understand that.
This woman is from Australia doing a newscast in Melbourne.
And she's talking about Ohio and Dr. Amy Acton. Looks
like she's coming up after a happy hour. She's half looped.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
Don't scream at people. Just do a speech. What happens
if the Trumpster sounded that way?

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
You know, yelling at, like yelling at, you know, I mean,
come on. When you have your teenage daughters calling 911
to come help her because your mom, AA, is in
the bag. Well, didn't she trip over some dog gate.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
At her house?

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
And she never... She couldn't complete. Like you don't see
it's there? And how about some of this other information?
When she was a health director, some of the employees
said they would find her in her office huddled in
a corner sucking her thumb when she was the health
director of Ohio. It was too much for her. And
she's Planned Parenthood. She quit that too. She's quit three
or four jobs. And she's a drunk. Not their own

(01:24:56):
being drunk. Most people I know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
Have been drunk.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
She'll probably get voted in then. It doesn't mean you
should be the governor. It means you should get help.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
When your own family's calling the police to come pick
up your mom.

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
Is that a problem? I would say so. And she's
the governor. What about Mike DeWine? Where's Mike DeWine when
you need him? Can't he run again?

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:25:18):
How about him running and then the Trumpster running again?

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
They don't get along too good. Oh, well, I'm just saying.
So it's going to be Vivek?

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
Vivek.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Vivek, whatever. Ramaswamy. Can you say Ramaswamy? No, I can't.
Can you say Tarantafilu?

Speaker 4 (01:25:32):
Because it sounds like, I just call him Alex T
when I get a hold of him.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Alex T. A-T, that's what I call him. Call her A-A.
She's attended a few meetings, I'm told. I guess so.
They named the group after her. A-A. Did you know that?
I didn't know that. Well, I guess you're famous for something.
She's on the sauce. Anyway, we'll see what happens. Say,
get me out of the studio. I can't take it anymore.
At least the Reds aren't going to lose today, correct?

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
They're in Milwaukee. They probably haven't landed yet from L.A.
They got Milwaukee for three, home for four with the Dodgers,
three with the Cubs. Then they go to Baltimore and
to Toronto. Well, no, at the end of the season,
they go Atlanta-Toronto.

Speaker 4 (01:26:12):
Atlanta, too, then.

Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
In Atlanta, right?

Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
They'll probably wrap the East up by then. The Dodgers'
magic number is six after last night's 14-1 wipeout can
you tell me why Hayes why is Hayes playing he
can't hit and he can't field and he can't throw
other than that he's fine he's the worst hitter in
baseball he cost him the game two games ago with

(01:26:37):
three unearned runs and he's a bad fielder can't throw
the ball accurately and he can't hit in fact this
season he has a total of three 1-2-3 RBIs isn't
that a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Slightly.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Get me out of here. I can't take it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
Willie, in honor of a rainy and nice day here
in a tri-state, we leave you with the immortal words
of the Stooge Report. At some point, this foolishness has
got to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
When the prosecutor says this is not an assassination attempt,
this is not a felony.

Speaker 3 (01:27:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
So what happens now? And none of the persons, quote, injured...
sought any medical treatment.

Speaker 3 (01:27:24):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
So is that an assassination attempt? I don't think so.
Are they going to release him? Within a month, they're
going to apologize, release him, and he's going to sue
for money. He ought to be in Cincinnati. We didn't
hand out millions of dollars like candy here.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
To fired employees. So how did the media run with
the facts when they were wrong? There's the prosecutor saying
this wasn't a felony.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
There was no assassination attempt. He never got close to her.
How is that a crime? That's above my pay grade.
But I'm going to call Tom Brenneman right now and
tell him to leave you alone. Don't make fun of you.
Let me do that, for God's sake.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
Okay. All right, good. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Let's continue.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
254.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Home of your Reds. Not losing today, I guarantee it.
On NewsRadio 700, WLW.