9-9-26 Bill Cunningham Show

Willie talks with FOP President Ken Kober about the 25h anniversary of 9/11. Also Sherry Few explains how the media have joined side with left and why it might affect the 9/11 ceremonies. Finally Austin Elmore joins Willie to discuss a busy week in Cincinnati sports.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hi, Billy Cunningham, The Great American. Welcome this Wednesday afternoon
to Tri-State, September 9th, getting ready for September 11th, which
is a 25th year commemoration of the terrorist attack on
our nation.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
9-11-01 is a date that will live in infamy. Coming
up later will be Sherry Few, who's going to talk
about the memorial there in New York City and what's
happening with the toxic air and what that means down
the road. But until then, Ken Cobra is the head
of the FOP. Also, Ken Cobra monitors, I'm sure, Reds
baseball kicking off tonight after six o'clock in L.A. And

(00:40):
the Reds have lost 10 games in a row in
Chavez Ravine. Got two more to go. We'll see what
happens down the road. But nonetheless, Ken Cobra, welcome again
to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Ken, are you following
Reds baseball? Are you watching the games and listening from
the left coast until about two o'clock in the morning?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I am.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'm a fan regardless of what their record says. So, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
They're in last place, but what the heck. You know, Ken,
all we have in life is hope. And I see
these stories that the Castellanians are going to sell the Reds.
And I see these stories that they now offered Dela
Cruz $ 700 million over about 12 years. Just pick the
number of years. $ 700 million. And assuming there's baseball next year,
which might be a bad assumption if there isn't, then

(01:20):
he has one more year here, which would be 2028.
And then after the 29 season, he's gone. Here's one
little kicker before we talk about police matters. He signed
a contract about six, seven years ago when he was
18 and a half years old, where he received $ 350, 000
from this company in Miami, $ 350, 000, which to an 18

(01:41):
and a half year old, that's all the money in
the world. But the exchange was that he had to
give this group 8% of his future earnings. So if
he signs a $ 700 million deal, my simple Deer Park
math tells me that's about $ 56 million he's got to
pay to this other group. Plus, he's making $ 800, 000 this year,
which means he's paying that group $ 64, 000. That's one hell

(02:04):
of a deal. So we hope Della Cruz understands what's
going on. Let's talk about police matters. Number one, the
last several days, you, as the head of the FOP,
Thousand Men and Women Strong, have been detailed to Clifton.
I've had four to five business owners send me nasty
emails saying, what are they doing? They're killing my business.
I've had students text me and saying, this isn't a

(02:28):
college life. In order to have shots fired and to
have police all around the campus as I'm trying to
go to English class, I have to walk over some barricades.
Then you have the parents that are very unhappy with
what's going on. First of all, tell the American people
why that is necessary. And secondly, how long will it last?

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Well, I know right now it's temporary. I was actually
in UC's campus Saturday for a football game. Had a
great time.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
There were no problems.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, there was a lot of police presence, which you
would think people would make them feel safer. Because like
I said, I certainly didn't have any problems there.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Actually, as I drove up to the campus, the streets
were open. But I get it.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Right now, it's a matter of we have got to
figure out how to get this violence under control. And unfortunately,
if the courts aren't going to help then the police
are going to have to do something just to try
to make it a safer environment, which is what they're doing.
I understand the frustration of businesses.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
I don't blame them. But we've got to find a
solution to this.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, one of the things I try to avoid is
high crime areas. I just don't think I need to
be shot at this point in my life. If you're
a business owner, a parent, or a student, is there
a reasonable fear that the UC campus is dangerous?

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Well, yeah, I mean, I think any time you're anywhere,
I mean, the city of Cincinnati has known that it
can be violent. I could tell you that especially when
there's large-scale events, especially when there's large-scale events, you see
that there's typically not a lot of problems. Riverfest went
off pretty much without a hitch this weekend. Like I said,
the UC games, I've been a season ticket holder there

(04:08):
for a couple of years, and I've never felt unsafe
being there. But then again, at two o'clock in the morning,
if you're leaving a party, you're a college kid and
you may have drank a little bit too much. Yeah,
there is certainly a propensity that you may become a victim.
It's a situation that you put yourself in. Unfortunately, that
can dictate whether that happens or not.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
You said a magical word, which was judges. There are
some judges like Judge Silverstein in municipal court that do
not permit police officers to sit in the jury box
waiting for their case to be called. And we can
talk about why that's necessary. But how much of a
problem in Cincinnati, Hamilton County are liberal judges, which we've
not had that problem to the last 10 years or so.

(04:50):
It used to be, if you committed a serious crime,
you got serious time. It used to be that if
you committed a crime as a juvenile, that's like murder, rape, robbery,
that kind of stuff. And you're 16, 17 years old,
you're bound over. That doesn't happen anymore. And so when
you say judges to what are you referring?

Speaker 4 (05:08):
No judges that are soft on crime.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
And unfortunately, somehow, in this county, law and order, public
safety has become a partisan issue.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Not really sure how.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
25 years ago, when I first started in this job,
it didn't matter what judge you.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Went in front of.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
You didn't even know as a young policeman who a
Republican or a Democrat judge was, it didn't matter. Because
if you went in front of them and the person
that was there was found guilty, they were held accountable.
That was just the reality of it. Now, and to
your point, now here we are in 2026 and it's like,
you got maybe a 50-50 chance of having a judge

(05:46):
that's going to support law and order at the courthouse.
And that's something that's extremely frustrating. It's extremely frustrating, not
only for officers, but for victims. Why am I going
to report a crime if I know that the likelihood.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Of this person actually being held accountable is very little?
That becomes a challenge.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's a point some of my so-called experts say is
that the crime is up, but reporting a crime is down.
And many times if you figure out, My car's been
broken into several times in Mount Adams or Mount Auburn
or any other communities in the Tri-State, including Northern Kentucky.
It's an insurance matter. And there was one night in
Mount Adams, I think it were 50 cars that were

(06:22):
broken into. And there was a, because of a flock camera,
there was a license plate of someone pulling away. But
all those individuals, those were 50 crimes. And I'm told
that hardly any of them reported it. Because after all,
they said it's an insurance matter. I'm not going to
do it. And so- But when I was a younger attorney,
let's say if you were in front of a Judge Fellerhoff,

(06:43):
a Judge Black, if you're in front of Judge Niehaus
or Judge Bettman, if you're in front of Judge Donilon,
all Democrats, by the way, they did not sentence significantly
different than the so-called Republican judges. And it was not partisan.
That is, if you did a serious thing, you're going away.
And now the assumption is if you do a serious thing,

(07:04):
you're not going away. In fact, you're going to be
in some diversion program or not convicted at all. And
you see it in room A, which is where people
go when they're first arrested. It used to be there
was 200 people in room A. Room A is where
you go the night after you're arrested and you're in handcuffs.
The judge sets a bond. Have you noticed a lack
of attendance of criminals in room A because they're not

(07:26):
getting arrested?

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Sure, absolutely. I mean, that's a difficult thing.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Where did we become a society where someone who breaks
into your car and steals things from you, and that
is a theft. When did that become that this is
just an insurance matter? That to me is insane. That
is nothing but justifying that the existence of low-level crimes
and at some point society saying, you know what? We
can live with cars getting broken into. Well, I'm not

(07:53):
okay with it. And as I just saw yesterday, I
guess the– guy that tried to rob Hollywood Casino out
in Dearborn County, got sentenced to 52 years in prison.
If that doesn't send a message to criminals, don't commit
crime in.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Dearborn County, I don't know what does.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, you can commit the same crime at the Hard
Rock Cafe, and you probably would be in a diversion program. Indiana,
I practice around the tri-state. Indiana is terrible when it
comes to criminal defense attorneys. Covington is terrible when it
comes to criminal defense attorneys. In fact, it's hard to appear.
You want to get your case in Hamilton County. That

(08:30):
was not that when you started as a cop 25,
30 years ago, was not the case. You wanted to
maneuver your case out of Claremont County, which is tough
and get that to Hamilton County. And just the opposite
is true right now, right?

Speaker 6 (08:43):
Yeah, without a doubt.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
It's like everybody, they were like, hey, we're fine committing
crime in Hamilton County because we know that the judges
are going to be really soft on us if they're
going to do anything at all. So I'm not going
to go to Claremont County, Warren County.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm not going to go to Dearborn County, Boone or Campbell.
I'm not going to those.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Places because I know I'm going to get locked up
and they're going to keep me. And that's what does
drive crime in this county. That's what's– I don't understand
how they've not been able to figure this out. But
it continues to happen. And to your point, we'll see
what happens. There's a lot of judges' races in November.
There are a lot of law and order judges. that

(09:20):
either are on the.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Bench or want to get on the bench, and we'll
see what the voters say.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Judge Leah Dinkalocker is one who will sentence criminals to jail.
And in juvenile court, Judge Bloom, Carrie Bloom, is one
that will not send criminals to jail. And she's more
important in a sense because she's the presiding judge in
juvenile court, Hamilton County. All the juvenile cases are under
her auspices. Unlike in common police court or municipal court,

(09:45):
there's 14 or 16 judges that could be chopped up
one way or another. Let's go back 25 years when
you were a younger cop. What was your reaction to
about nine, 8 43 AM in the morning on nine
11 Oh one, where was Ken Cobra at that point?

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Ironically, I was on central parkway with a van of
city employees.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
We were going to help.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
There was a homicide that just occurred and they believe
the body was in a wooded area up in like
the Carthage Rose lawn area.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Uh, and we.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Get a phone call, Hey, um, the body's been found,
you guys are good, and we're driving back, and a
buddy of mine calls me, worked downtown at the time,
and is like, hey, do you see what's going on?
And we made it back to the police academy, which
is on Longworth Hall at the time, made it back
to there just in time to see the second plane
hit a tower, and it was just, it was a
memory that I'll never, never be able to forget, much,

(10:39):
much like many other people having to endure what has
come after that. It's Just it's a somber time and
it's a memory most of us don't want to remember,
but you can't ever get it out of your head.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
About 500 police officers and first responders were murdered. 25
years later, this is somewhat political. 25 years later, the
mayor of New York City is Mamdani. He signs a
proclamation and he passes the pen to someone who represented
Al-Qaeda terrorists. So we go from 9-11, New York City,

(11:12):
we're under attack, it's war, and we're going to have
our recompense, to 25 years later, New Yorkers elect an
Islamic extremist to be their mayor. Does that say something
about the journey that America has undertaken the past 25 years?

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Sure it does.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
I wish we could go back to September 12, 2001,
when this country, regardless of political affiliations, regardless of anything,
We had Americans. We had everybody that was rooting for
this country. They were rooting for each other as we
were trying to figure out how to navigate through this tragedy.
And 25 years later, this is what we have, people

(11:51):
that are saying that the United States deserved this attack.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
It is insane.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
And these are people that they're trying to get elected
to represent people in the United States.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
It's absolutely crazy that something like this is even occurring.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
One other related issue, I noticed the mayor gave a
comment the other day about whether or not the killing
of Ryan Hinton was justified. To go back in time
a little bit, this began the process that resulted in
the murder of a deputy sheriff. Larry Henderson was murdered
by the father of Ryan Hinton, and the mayor, Eftab Piroval,
said he wasn't going to comment on whether it was

(12:26):
a justified shooting or not. The shooting's been cleared by
Connie Pillage, the county prosecutor. She said it was a
good a good shooting because he had a reasonable fear
of losing his life. So the unidentified police officer in
Cincinnati killed Ryan Hinton. They were only involved in stealing cars.
One of them came out of Edgewood, Kentucky. And I
know at that point, the county prosecutor in Kenton County,

(12:49):
Rob Sanders has a holder on one of the three
individuals who stole the car to make sure he didn't
come out of Kenton County. In fact, that individual was
hurt on a, you know, there's a big sign in
the Kenton County jail that says you're being recorded. He,
He gave a telephone call to a neighbor, a friend
of his in Hamilton County from Kenton County, and he
recorded a saying, Kenton County doesn't play. Kenton County doesn't play.

(13:12):
It was under a high bond. And the other ones
in Hamilton County, the other two boys, shall we say,
got little or no punishment. What is the feeling of
police when it's going to take months and months and
months for the mayor and the city manager to clear
the officer in Cincinnati who shot Ryan Hinton because of
Ryan Hinton's behavior?

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, it's frustrating.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
I mean, you can go to work every day, put
your life on the line, make the right decisions, and
still there is a fear of being politically prosecuted. That's
just the reality of this. That did not occur in
this case, thankfully. But, I mean, can you imagine the
weight on these officers' shoulders where they wait for months
to find out, am I going to get charged criminally?

(13:54):
How am I going to make sure that my family's fed?
How am I going to make sure that my kids
have a parent that's going to be there? Those are
things that weigh on officers, and it weighs on officers
to this day. Every day I get phone calls from
officers going, man, I am so tired of confronting these
juveniles because they're reckless. I would rather face an adult
with a firearm before a juvenile with a firearm because

(14:15):
I know that it is likely going to go bad
with these juveniles.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
And Ryan Hinton was in possession of a gun, and
he was, what, 17 years old, stealing, heisting cars all
over the tri-state. And a split-second decision had to be
made by that cop. And when you have a juvenile
with a gun, emotions are running high, testosterone is pumping,
he wants to extricate himself from the scene, and he

(14:41):
looks and sees a cop to his left. It would
take a half a second for him to have that
weapon out, which was in his hand at some point
because it was dropped and he picked it up again,
to kill that officer or to maim him for life.
Either way, and the officer made a split-second decision. And
I hate to inform you of this, but Connie Pillich
is the county prosecutor. If in the next election she

(15:02):
loses in the primary to someone more liberal than her,
it is not unusual for that county prosecutor, the new one,
to go back and say, we're going to prosecute that cop,
Ryan Hinton, because that event has no statute of limitations.
So for that cop, it doesn't end, does it?

Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, no, it doesn't end. I mean, these officers could
be retired. And when does it end? That is a fear.
I know it has not come to fruition.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
And, you know, Connie Pillich has indicated that she's not
going back and she's not looking at the stuff we're
moving forward. But to your point, that doesn't mean that
the next prosecutor that comes in decides.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
You know, maybe we're going to do this after all.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
Right.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
No statute.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, it does become difficult to be a police officer
in 2026.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
About a minute remaining. Ken Cobra, head of the FOP.
Is there a sense that the thin blue line is
cracking down? Because you have massive amount of overtime, double time.
You're down about 500 cops. They got millions of dollars
for BS. They don't have money for law enforcement. You're
on the line every day. Is there a cop the
thin blue line has cracks in it?

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, these officers are strong as they've ever been. They're
getting tired. Don't get me wrong. But they understand that
there's a mission that has to be upheld. And that's
to go to work every day, make this city as
safe as it can, regardless of what is politically motivated,
what is not politically motivated. They know that they have

(16:27):
a job to do. They go out and they do
it every day. And we've seen it. We saw it
all summer.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Every event.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Every event that we had this summer, hundreds of officers working.
Riverfest was a perfect example. The FOP went down and
fed more than 200 cops, firefighters, federal.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Agents that were there and they were ready to do a.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
Job, regardless of the fact that they're tired. You know,
it's 85 degrees outside. The end of summer is near,
but they have 500,000, 600,000 people that they've got to
go out and protect so they can enjoy themselves. And
that's what these police officers do, not only in Cincinnati,
but in Hamilton County, around Ohio, around the United States.
They do it every day because that's the oath that
they swore, and they're going to continue to do it.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ken Cobra, good luck. You need about 300, 400 more cops.
Hopefully the city will prioritize. And next time you see
your good friend Iris Rowley, tell her I said hello.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
I will do my best. Absolutely. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Thank you, Ken Kober, head of the FOP. Let's continue
with more news this next on your home of the
Reds and the Bengals. News Radio 700, WLW. All right,
Dave Keaton, hit the music, hit the music. After one
o'clock today will be a woman, Sherry Few, who has
some thoughts on what has America become. She's optimistic. I

(17:36):
like to think I'm optimistic because to be pessimistic gets
you nowhere. But like 25 years ago, It was September
the 9th. It was on a weekend. September 10th, as
you might recall, was a Monday, beautiful Monday all across
the world. September the 11th, 01, was a beautiful Tuesday. And,

(18:00):
of course, I was on the air with you that
afternoon at noon. What happened was something that was the
most largest, most devious and successful attack by a foreign
power on U.S. soil since the British burned down the
White House. and the Capitol in the War of 1812.
It's been a while. And at that point, you and I, everyone, Democrats,

(18:22):
everyone was united with the idea that we're one American people.
United we stand. Also, we will never forget. Well, 25
years later, the citizens of the city where the attack
took place, killing about 3,000 Americans, elected an Islamic extremist
to be their leader in New York City, the mayor. So, yes,

(18:44):
we did forget. And, yes, we're not united. And so
my guest after 1 o'clock will address herself to that. Plus,
on Friday, we have special programming. In fact, on Friday
at noon, I have a survivor who was a police officer,
NYPD sergeant, that, of course, when these events transpired, what

(19:04):
do you do? He ran toward the buildings. The first
was hit. And about 45 minutes later, the second was hit.
He runs into the South Tower building. In uniform, he's
a cop. Gets to about the second or third level,
and he hears a rumbling in his mind. He thought,
is this an earthquake? It wasn't an earthquake. It was
the building falling down on top of him. And I

(19:27):
asked him in previous interviews he's conducted about two years ago,
did you know that the buildings could collapse? And he said,
like pancake. No, no one even thought like that. About
343 firefighters were killed, including about 150 cops. Obviously, my
guest on Friday at noon didn't die. What happened is

(19:48):
he felt the tremor. of the building, the shaking of
the building. It was dark in the stairwells at this point,
and he's looking around him. The next thing he knows,
he's blown out of the building through a window opening.
There was no window in it at that point. He
was blown because of the force of the downward thrust.
He was thrown out of the building. onto a pile

(20:12):
about 50 yards away from the building. And he was
unconscious for a period of time. He wasn't sure. He
was filled with dirt and dust and grime and filth.
His eyes were completely caked. He couldn't see. He tried
to get his eyes clear, had one glint of one eye,

(20:32):
and it was complete darkness. And he thought he was dead.
And those who have gone through death and came back
Know that feeling. Fortunately, I don't know about you. I
haven't had it yet. And he laid there for a
while waiting for the guardian angel or to see he
helped Jesus. And he's lying there. He didn't know how

(20:53):
many minutes went by. He thought he was unconscious, complete blackness,
complete silence. If you're in that situation, what do you think? Well,
you think you're dead. Well, he wasn't dead. Several minutes
go by. He wasn't sure how long. He saw a
light in the distance. So at this point, he's thinking, well,

(21:14):
I am dead. Let's see if I can get up.
Maybe Jesus Christ will transport me to him. Because he
gave his life for his friends and family, people he
didn't even know, strangers, on 9-11. So he began stumbling
in the rubble. And he said the heat was unbearable.
There was fires everywhere. He was worried he was going

(21:34):
to go to hell. And he stumbled, mumbled. He barely
could see. He's yelling. It was complete silent. He heard
someone else say, walk toward the light. So at this point,
he's thinking, okay, it's Jesus Christ. He's walking toward the light.
It wasn't Jesus Christ. It was an N-uniform fellow NYPD officer.

(21:56):
And so he said, I kind of collapsed to one knee.
I guess I wasn't dead. I wasn't in heaven. And
the officer kind of picked him up and helped him
get out of the environs of the South Tower. He
went into a building. He wasn't sure what building he
went into, and he laid on the floor between consciousness

(22:17):
and unconsciousness. He next recalls waking up in an emergency
room with nurses cutting off his clothes. And at this point,
his eyes are clear. He's looking up, and he said,
where am I? He was in New York Presbyterian Hospital,
and he was alive. And he said, I'm stunned that

(22:38):
I'm alive. Thought he was dead. That's my guest at
noon on September the 11th. He said in a book
he wrote several years ago, how has the world changed?
It would have been inconceivable that radical Islamists could take
over New York City. Completely out of the realm of reference.

(23:01):
25 years later, that a guy named Zohan Mamdani died.
is elected, popularly elected mayor of New York City. A
couple of days ago, he's signing some proclamation declaring something
on 9-11-26, 25th anniversary. He gives the pen to an
attorney who's a radical Islamist himself who works on behalf

(23:23):
of Al-Qaeda. He gave him the pen two days ago
to keep as a keepsake. And each of them kind
of winked, thinking, okay, we won. Radical Islamist won New
York City. the financial capital of the world. And now
a radical Islamist is in charge of New York City.
And in the state of Michigan, Dr. Abdul is running

(23:47):
even in the polls with Mike Rogers. He's another radical
Islamist without question. Last couple of days to the primary,
he campaigned with Hassan Piker, who thinks white middle class
should be murdered, who thinks we deserve 9-11, who believes
that Hamas It's a great organization, and Hezbollah needs to

(24:07):
be supported. Those are the people supporting Dr. Abdul. There's
about 40 other offices around the country of the DSA,
Democratic Socialists of America, with Islamic extremism in their midst
that are virulently anti-Semitic. They hate the Jews. And that's
the heart and soul of today's Democrat Party, that you

(24:29):
can't be elected in a primary, very difficult, if you
don't ascribe to certain values, that America deserved it, that
the southern border should be kept wide open, that we
need another 20 to 30 million illegal third world men
to come into this country, that somehow what's happening in
the Islamic world is all the fault of Israel, the

(24:50):
only participatory democracy. You can be a Jew, a Christian,
or a Muslim, or agnostic, an atheist in Jerusalem, or
in Tel Aviv, and get along famously. About 25% of
the Knesset in Israel are Muslims. The call to prayer
happens every day inside Israel within the Muslim community. I've

(25:15):
watched it myself, it's there. And it's a Western style
participatory democracy in which people vote. There was for generations
or hundreds of years Christians and Jews all over Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan.

(25:35):
It was considered acceptable to be a Christian in Saudi
Arabia until about a half a century ago when Muslim
extremists took over and started beheading and killing men, women,
and children if you were not Muslim. Right now in Nigeria,
and I wish the Pope would focus on this one,
Pope Leo XIV, in Nigeria, Videos available show that Christian

(26:01):
men are beheaded regularly and that Christian girls and women
and nuns are brutally raped until they're dead and children
are sold into sexual slavery. Happens all the time in
Muslim countries and we act as if that's no big deal.
And it should be a big deal to Americans who
protest the so-called Jews and what they do in Israel,

(26:24):
welcoming Muslims inside their country. as opposed to what happens
to Jews and Christians and all the other Muslim countries.
It's thoroughly despicable. And 25 years later, we will never forget,
united we stand, a radical Islamic Ugandan is now the
mayor of New York City. And he's been asked by

(26:45):
all the participants of 9-11, do not come down here
on Friday morning. Don't do that. But Mamdani said, of course,
I'm doing it anyway. So how far have we come?
A great distance. We had in America, in Cincinnati, in
Hamilton County, in northern Kentucky, the Democrats and the Republicans
played football between the 30-yard lines. And there were liberal

(27:08):
Democrats on the left. There were highly conservative Republicans on
the right. It was moderate to conservative and moderate to liberal.
On the left side, that's all gone. That doesn't exist anymore.
Democratic socialists want to destroy the country because they are socialists.
And they've hooked up with radical extremists, the Islamists, along

(27:32):
with communists, along with typical liberal Democrats. That is the
Democratic Party today. In fact, Aftab Pureval, the mayor of Cincinnati,
has associations with groups outside of America, in Europe and Asia,
that are Islamists and are radical, who want to kill Americans.
And they do. And that guy's elected the mayor of

(27:53):
our city. And when it should be, someone like Scotty
Johnson or Lemon Kearney or P.G. Sittenfeld should be the mayor.
But we're not built that way anymore. Millions and millions
are spent on ridiculous ventures by city council. As Ken
Kober just pointed out, they need 300 to 400 more cops.

(28:13):
Each cop now makes, with all the overtime, about $ 100, 000
a year. And when I speak to cops in the suburbs,
they may make $ 60, 000 or $ 70, 000, but they do not
want to put up with What's going on in the
city of Cincinnati, even though you make $ 30, 000 more a year,
you can't put up with the fact that you're looking
over your shoulder constantly to be shot or brutalized by

(28:34):
generally a teenage thug with a gun. They just don't
want to deal with it. Recently, I spoke to some
cops in Evendale and Sharonville and said, I wouldn't go
down there on a bet. I want nothing to do
with it because of the way the city.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
Is being run.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
And one last thing, I brought this up with Ken Coburn.
You know, murder does not have a statute of limitations.
And right now, the mayor will not say that the
officer who shot and killed a fleeing felon named Ryan Hinton,
who was in possession of a gun that he picked
up within a split second, could have pointed it toward

(29:09):
a cop and killed him or disabled him, is or
not guilty of murder of Ryan Hinton. That began the
process that resulted in his father murdering Deputy Sheriff Larry Henderson.
when he was showing the video. Which, by the way,
Joe Dieters had a policy for years of not showing

(29:29):
the video to family members until the emotions subsided a
little bit. But the current administration of the city of
Cincinnati wanted the video out immediately so Cheryl Long, the
city manager the mayor said okay show the family the
video instead of waiting a month or two so suddenly
the father of Ryan Hinton sees the video gets in
his car lines up finds a cop in uniform sadly

(29:53):
it was deputy sheriff Larry Henderson and murdered him in
cold blood at the UC campus And now that cop,
the cop who shot Ryan Hinton, has a little bit
of guilt feeling, well, I did what I had to do,
and I'm glad I did it to save my life
and the life of my fellow officers. But that began
a series of events that resulted in the murder of

(30:13):
Deputy Sheriff Larry Henderson. And Connie Pillich, the county prosecutor, said, well,
that's a good shoot. We're not going to prosecute. Well,
the next prosecutor, the rumors are, in 2028, that Connie
Pillich is not liberal enough. There's going to be a
Black Lives Matter type will take over the prosecutor's office
and reopen the case of Ryan Hinton, much like, shall

(30:36):
we say, a judge and the prosecutor freed a condemned
murderer from death row with an OR bond. That's Elwood Jones.
Going back 30 years, they wanted to find justice for
everyone except the murdered victim. And so even though time
has passed, it's been about a year now, But there's

(30:57):
fear on that police officer's side that if a different
prosecutor gets involved, there's no statute of limitations. I'm going
to be charged with murder maybe two or five years
from now. There's no statute. And that's a problem. And
guess what? It's not going to get better. Cincinnati's lost
about 40 percent of its population and the costs continue

(31:17):
to rise. They don't spend on law enforcement. Plus, at
least half the judges in Hamilton County believe in reparations
and social justice and reparative justice who don't think criminals
belong in jail, including Carrie Bloom, the juvenile court judge
who believes that black males should not be locked up.
She has said that the pain inflicted by society upon

(31:39):
that wayward black teenage male is much worse than the
pain he caused his victims, which is why on a
rape case, she'll put the rapist back on the street.
assuming the rapist will write an apology to the victim.
That's Carrie Bloom Justice. And she's on the ballot come November.
And I'm confident, sure, she's going to be reelected because

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she'll have a D next to her name. D for dumb.
Let's continue with more. Coming up next is Sherry Few
of United States Parents Involved in Education. How come from
9-11 until today, the country's now in a place where
the Democratic Party has embraced anti-Semitism and Jew hatred, along
with radical Islamists. What happened? Never forget. We will never surrender.

(32:25):
Looks like parts of our country have surrendered. So let's
continue with more. Plus, Reds baseball kicks off tonight. After
6 o'clock, the Reds try to salvage one game of three.
Chavez Ravine, they've lost now 10 in a row in
Los Angeles. 1255, home of your Reds, NewsRadio 700, WLW. Hi,

(32:49):
Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Many times we reflect upon
the horrors of 9-11-01 and what it meant for our country.
And all of us know where we were when we
first saw the plane go into the first tower, then
the second tower, then it collapsed, and the feeling of
unity we all had. And I kind of wish, in
a sense, September 12th could be revisited by many in
our country to act as if maybe we're all one people,

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one under one God. That's not the case. And so
many are involved trying to change the, discussions from the
far left wing of politics to something more or less
in the middle. One of those individuals is Sherry Few.
She's with USPIE, which is United States Parents Involved in Education.
She has a column up. The headline is, From 9-11

(33:34):
Unity to Open Support for Jihad, Where Did It All Begin?
And Sherry Few, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
And first of all, answer the question, what happened to
America the past 25 years When we were attacked, we
were united. Now we're in a war with the same philosophy,
and it's not supported by like 70% of the American people.

(33:56):
But what happened to the education system? What happened to
the culture? What happened to our media? Why has America
changed so much?

Speaker 7 (34:04):
Well, I think the answer lies squarely at the feet
of our government schools. Over the last 25 years, they
have ramped up the indoctrination that's happening, the ideological twist
from the left. and it falls squarely at their feet. And,
you know, for years they've been teaching radical ideologies. They've

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been embedded in the classrooms, the critical Marxist theories, anti-American propaganda,
and a steady erosion of American founding principles. Today, some students,
often influenced by their academic narratives, can't tell the difference
between you know, legitimate political debate and support for a
terrorist organization. We see it in K-12 as well as

(34:48):
the college campuses.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yes, and you fight this every day.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
There was a school district in California that refuses to
acknowledge in their teaching materials that we were attacked. In fact,
it looks as if it was a continuation of war
that we somehow began, America began somehow, and the 9-11
attacks were simply a battle and a long war in
which we're the bad guys. And you say that we've
lost a strong sense of patriotism and respect for our

(35:15):
fellow Americans since 9-11. Our fellow citizens were heroes that day,
rushing into danger to protect others, not running from it.
We're now a divided nation, many of the attacks being
made by prominent politicians and activists. Government schools are indoctrinating
kids with materials that criticize America while touting sexual depravity,
failed ideas like collectivism, and the false religion of climate hysteria.

(35:38):
And this Smithsonian Institution has come under shock. According to
the Democrats, attack, because they have a view of America.
This is the Smithsonian, which should be talking about going
to the moon, curing forms of cancer, fighting totalitarianism all
over the world, the victories against Nazis and against communists,
the great things America has done. But go through the

(35:59):
Smithsonian Institution. All I see is slavery and women being
subjugated under a male boot. The whole philosophy has changed.
And you say the anniversary of 9-11 affords Americans an
opportunity to remake this nation once again. And I sense
that's not going to happen. I sense that the government

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schools are so lost, indoctrinating children, that I always like
to have hope. But does Sherry Pugh have hope that
that can be turned around?

Speaker 6 (36:32):
Well, I do have hope.

Speaker 7 (36:33):
I have hope because we see signs of it from
time to time. There was an article I read just
this morning about the Texas Board of Education, and the
Texas Board of Education fought to have particular terms included
in their social studies curriculum. You know, the Council on
American Islamic Relations has been fighting our portrayal, the true

(36:58):
portrayal of 9-11, you know, for the last decade or more.
And so they're trying to influence school boards and curriculum
to rephrase how, you know, what actually happened. But Texas
stood up, Texas Board of Education, they included the term
radical Islam as having been the motivation for September 11th

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instead of, you know, just blaming it squarely on Al Qaeda.
It is the radical Islam philosophy that has influenced and
motivated that which was the worst attack on America's soil
ever in history. And it is shameful, absolutely shameful, that
they aren't teaching the truth about this. Another thing that

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the Texas board included, which is also very telling, as
far as having something positive to reflect on, is they're
studying the early roots under Muhammad of Islam and slavery
and how women were treated. Children need to learn and
understand that that is the basic basis of the Islamic religion,

(38:05):
that history. They need to understand all of that and
do critical thinking and make decisions.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
On their own.

Speaker 7 (38:11):
But they need to know the truth. You know, it's
just the anti-Semitism that is so rampant. it's shameful, again,
you know, that the Holocaust happened and we're trying to
whitewash that and now 9-11. And, you know, the slogan
that was adopted was never forget. Well, we need to
do more than never forget. We need to attack this

(38:33):
head on and refuse to accept the government schools with
our tax dollars indoctrinating children against our country, because that
is literally what is happening. And it happened in such
a short period of time, Bill, just a 25 year period.
We went from, as you described, a country very united.
We were united against a clear enemy, and that enemy

(38:56):
was terrorism. And so we understood that clearly. We had
God bless America on all the marquees and the schools
and businesses. American flags were flying everywhere. And we need
to return to that. And the only way we're going
to be able to return to that is to end
this indoctrination in government schools with our tax dollars.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Now, one thing that occurred the other day is the
American Bar Association, as you know, I'm an attorney, and
for the last 30 to 40 years, they've had rules
and regulations demanding that law schools and law firms... commit
acts of racial discrimination against individuals. And by that, I
mean DEI. And the ABA and the AMA, the American

(39:39):
Medical Association, has been screaming, hollering, and shouting, opposing Donald Trump,
who says, now, wait a Under federal law, it's got
to stop. You can't judge people because of the color
of their skin. You have independent indicia as to who's
had good test scores and who didn't. You have indicia

(40:00):
about what their graded point was. But the American Bar
Association and the American Medical Association is rampant with policies
and procedures that say racism must be employed when you
hire somebody. That's called DEI. And they're kicking and screaming,
fighting that. And you brought up a great point about
women and girls. You're a woman. You're a lady. You're

(40:22):
a female. I can tell. And the way that women
and girls are treated in most of the Muslim world, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt,
or genital mutilation of girls is an art form, that
the way that women and girls are treated in most
of the Muslim countries is thoroughly despicable. Is any of

(40:43):
that taught and teached in the public school system as
to how the radical Islam treat women and girls like you?

Speaker 7 (40:52):
Well, as I was saying, Texas Board of Education just
passed some standards for their curriculum that are going to
include some of that. So there's your hope on the horizon. So,
you know, of course, Texas is a very red state
and probably majority Republican on that state board of education.
But there is hope for that. And you're right. It's

(41:12):
this DEI is. systemically across the board in all of
our institutions. It's not just in the government schools. And
it is going to take some time.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
To root out.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
But it is that worldview, which is based on a
Marxist critical theory philosophy that views the world through the
lens of oppressed and oppressor. And so children are taught
that Palestinians are oppressed and Jews are the oppressor. And
so that's why we've seen such a rise of anti-Semitic
behavior in In New York City alone, there were 250

(41:47):
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incidents just in a three-year period. And
that was a report from the United Jewish Teachers Association.
So it's a really despicable turn of events. DEI is
deeply rooted in our country, in all of our institutions,
but never so much as it is in our country.

(42:09):
you know, our education institutions, especially higher ed, where, you know,
it really started critical race theory really started in law school.
So it's interesting that you've made that connection.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
The ABA has taught that you could not be hired
to a law school position in most of the nation's
elite or average law schools. If you were a white male,
you had a little or no opportunity of being hired.
And hopefully it'll take a long time. And they're playing
out the clock. They assume that in 28, that Kamala

(42:41):
Harris is going to be the president. And as a consequence,
all this will change again. So they want to play
stall ball until 28 and then continue to practice race discrimination.
On the issue of Mamdani, to my way of thinking, Sherry,
a few of USPIE, US parents involved in education, there's
no more clearer example of the fall of this great country.

(43:04):
than the fact that New Yorkers, having been subjected to
9-11 and the aftermath, probably there's not a family in
New York City not affected directly or indirectly by the
terrorist attack on 9-11. They elect Mamdani to be their mayor.
He got 49.9% of the vote. He's the mayor of
New York City. He gives the pen-signed proclamation to an

(43:27):
attorney representing Islamic terrorists. And so there's no more clear
example And he has a viewpoint. He is a Ugandan
who got U.S. citizenship about eight years ago. And everything's free,
free medical care, free babysitters, free schools, free groceries, none
of which is going to work because someone pays for everything.
What's your view of New Yorkers most profoundly affected by

(43:49):
9-11 electing Mamdani to be their mayor?

Speaker 7 (43:54):
Well, it's a travesty, but I have heard there's a
lot of pushback from people who live in New York
City as far as him attending the 9-11 memorial this week.
So I was really pleased to hear and surprised, quite frankly,
from the very left-leaning New York City. But there is
a faction that has risen up against him, and there

(44:17):
is a Republican congressman who has a law— or a
bill that's pending that would require the truth about 9-11
to be taught in all America's government schools. So there
is even hope for New York and New York City.
I think it's a sign, though, that the Democrat Socialists
of America, the fact that Madami was elected, they have

(44:41):
had a huge influence also in K-12 education. They have
recently partnered with the National Black Lives Matter at School Movement,
which promoting the Palestine Solidarity Working Group. And the title
of it is Learning Toward Liberation, Rooting Our Pedagogy of
Palestine and Humanity and Justice. So, you know, this is

(45:03):
the Democrat Socialists of America have infected every level of
the K-12 schools. And this is what we're up against, Bill.
It's really a bad situation, but there is hope. We're
fighting it. And I appreciate you having me on today, Bill.
so that we can highlight this and expose what's happening
in the government schools.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
We have about a minute remaining. When you take liberal
Democrats and mix them up with Democratic Socialists of America,
mix them up with communists, and then mix them up
with Islamic terrorists, Islamic extremism, you have a toxic mix
that at some point, I hope there's not a big
explosion somewhere, because we can't go on like this. Dr.

(45:43):
Abdul is leading many of the polls to be a U.S.
senator from Michigan over Mike Rogers, and Dr. Abdul runs
around with Hassan Piker, who wants to kill the, quote,
white middle class and who thinks America deserved 9-11. Well,
that's where we are. And for those needing more information,
Sherry Pugh, what is your website, if any?

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Our website is USPIE, that's USPIE.org, and they can find
the weekly podcast there, Unmasking Government Schools, to learn more.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Sherry Few, thank you very much for coming on the
Bill Cunningham Show. We'll do it again. Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (46:20):
Thank you, Bill.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Thank you, Sherry. And one last element to add is
that the voucher system allows many parents to elect to
leave the government public schools. And I know in the
state of Ohio, they're about $ 88, 500 a year, which is
a voucher goes with the kid into a Catholic school
or a charter school. When the public schools fail so miserably,

(46:42):
we can't have more misery. And many states, like 19
to 20 states currently, also have something called the voucher
system that allows those who are not being miseducated or
not educated at all because of the chaos and the
politics and the so-called government slash public schools. And many
parents are saying, we don't have to live like this.
So what they do is take their kids out of

(47:03):
failing public schools and put them either in private schools
or Catholic schools where the kids have a chance to
have a quality education. So let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham,
News Radio 700, WLW. Quit eating McChickens. McChickens, really?

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Can't eat those things.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Hello?

Speaker 8 (47:26):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Quiet, numbskulls, I'm broadcasting. Go for it, you bonehead!

Speaker 5 (47:32):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
I'd say we have legal and restaurant royalty in the house.
Randy freaking us here. I said to you off the air,
what is a lawyer doing in the sports bar business?
I want to ask you that question. Isn't that a stupid?

Speaker 6 (47:43):
Who would do that?

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Who would do that, Randy? Who would do that?

Speaker 6 (47:46):
It's unfreaking believable.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
It's unfreaking.

Speaker 6 (47:48):
I don't know why, Willie.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
You bought the city.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Why?

Speaker 2 (47:50):
You know.

Speaker 9 (47:51):
Why?

Speaker 6 (47:51):
I say, why not, Willie? Why not?

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Philosophical. But tell the story of me and you in
50 West. Explain to the segment what happened.

Speaker 10 (47:59):
About four months ago, Willie, I called you up from
50 West. I can still picture myself. I told you
I was going to buy the city view, thinking about
buying the city view.

Speaker 6 (48:08):
And you just said, do it. And that's what put
me over the edge.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Do it.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
And my wife. has taken your number off my phone.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
I knew the problems. I think I know the problems.
I know the difficulties, but it's a life's work. You've
wanted to buy the City View for how long?

Speaker 10 (48:26):
Oh, probably 10 or 15 years. I tried in 2020.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
20.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
It's too high, too much.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
I'm glad you didn't do it in 2020. That wasn't
a good year.

Speaker 10 (48:35):
Well, Willie, I'm sorry that the City View kind of
preempted my visit today because I was coming on for
the community fund.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
That's it.

Speaker 10 (48:41):
To compliment Jack O'Flynn. They set a record this year,
over $ 2 million in sales, and split the pot for
the first time ever.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
At the Reds games.

Speaker 10 (48:51):
And instead of drawing a winner after the Dodgers series
this week, we are going to roll the jackpot into
the Cubs series. and draw a winner for our jackpot
at the final home game. So it's going to be
over $ 100, 000.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
And half the money goes to the Reds community fund. Yes.
Explain on that. Seg doesn't know. He doesn't sit with
the common folks like I do. So explain what happens
at a Reds game.

Speaker 10 (49:14):
Reds game, there's split-the-pot ticket sellers walking around the stadium.
There's a couple kiosks available. There's a main split-the-pot office.
It's been just tremendous this year. Also, next week, they're
going to have a raffle. So people buy their split-the-pot tickets,
and there's going to be raffles and early bird prizes
drawn every day leading up to the final jackpot. And

(49:38):
they're going to win autographs from favorite Reds, such as
Ellie De La Cruz, Sal Stewart, and even Joey Votto.
So there's going to be kind of a raffle going
on the entire week.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
And your life's work is now not just the City
View Tavern, it's the Reds Community Fund.

Speaker 10 (49:52):
Oh, the Community Fund is the greatest. It serves thousands
of kids in our local community. It's so important to
our community. They do great educational programs out there, mentoring,
teaching leadership skills.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
We've got great kids.

Speaker 10 (50:07):
They're held to higher standards in their schools to be
participants in the RBI program. It's just a great organization.
And Charlie Frank, who runs it, deserves all the credit
in the world. Jack O'Flynn deserves all the credit in
the world for the split the pot. Matthew Wagner, his predecessor,
they're just doing a great job.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
How much money goes to the community fund? Half the
pot goes to people like the segment. Each game you
can win some serious money. Then the other half goes
to the community fund.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
How much? Well, it's 50-50. It's a 50-50 raffle.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
What will be raised this year about?

Speaker 10 (50:40):
So when they do, they raised about a million dollars
so far, over a million, and that's a huge part
of our budget.

Speaker 6 (50:47):
It's a small organization, Willie, as you can imagine.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Like the City View Tavern.

Speaker 6 (50:51):
Oh, yeah, a little bit bigger than the City View Tavern, but.
It's a small organization.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Why the hell did you buy the City View Tavern?
You're a lawyer, but you've retired, right? You told me
to do it. I told you to do it because
I figured you would answer me. I said do it.

Speaker 10 (51:05):
I've been going there for 50 years. It's just iconic.
It's got the best view in the city. You guys
just sampled some Big Ted Deluxe's in here.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Delicious.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
That's why you're on the air. You brought us some cheeseburgers.

Speaker 6 (51:16):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
It's a Big Ted Deluxe. Ted Kluszewski, number 18.

Speaker 6 (51:19):
We can always... why you guys with some good food.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
No time tell the segment about charlie manson now let's
say charlie manson is connected to the city view tavern
this isn't a good thing to advertise by the way
correct nonetheless charlie manson and then tell the seg the story.

Speaker 10 (51:36):
Well the the lore at city view tavern is he
used to live down the street on oregon street you
know he was born in cincinnati ohio and he used
to wander in there he loved his tequila willie and
one night and i think 1968 he had jumped or
fell off the deck out there.

Speaker 6 (51:53):
And Ted Leggeman, who owned the tavern at the time,
said no more tequila.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
For Charlie Manson. And then he moved to where? L.A.

Speaker 7 (52:01):
L.A.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Segment.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
It's unfortunate that he did not.

Speaker 9 (52:03):
Sharon Tate.

Speaker 6 (52:04):
Thank you. It's too bad he wasn't in the hospital
after that fall or jump.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Charlie Manson.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
Unfortunately, he then went to L.A. and formed his cult.
But we're bringing tequila back, Willie.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
You're going to have tequila.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
58 years has been long enough.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Charlie Manson tequila.

Speaker 6 (52:19):
It's kind of like Pete. The banishment of Pete's been
too long.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Well, he's dead now.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
He should have been. Why have a Hall of Fame
without the best hitter, some of the best pitchers, and
the best players in baseball can't get in the Hall
of Fame? Correct, Willie. The list is unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (52:34):
I cannot explain that, Willie.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
It's like, give me some sports. We've got the freak here.
We've got to eat the Big Ten.

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(53:01):
Let's send him to a Tempstar.

Speaker 6 (53:03):
I will call Tempstar.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Call Andy Buecher. Andy Buecher runs it.

Speaker 6 (53:06):
Andy Buecher is a good man.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
You need a new AC? Get a hold of Braun
or get one of the guys to come out and
do it. Sheldon Braun, I played golf with him. We
got new fans on our porch, but we might need
AC next summer. You might need it. Maybe not now.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
Maybe not now, but, but next year, a.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
New AC from temp star quality. You can feel Willie.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Let's see the reds.

Speaker 11 (53:27):
That loads to the Dodgers last night, three to two,
but the star was number 44, Ellie dealer Cruz. Uh,
he got it going in the, uh, belted a 444
foot home run, two runs shot in a third to
tie the game. Of course, longest home run in Dodger
stadium this year. Then on defense, um, Dane Meyer, I

(53:51):
think it was Teoscar Hernandez, hit a shot to center.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
Uh-oh.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Dane Myers missed the ball.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
Uh-oh.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Rolls all the way to the wall. J.J. Blede backs
him up.

Speaker 6 (54:03):
Here we go.

Speaker 11 (54:04):
Relay throw to Mr. Eli De La Cruz. De La
Cruz threw the runner out at home from mid-center field.
The put-out throw was 105.3 miles an hour. And the
guy was out at the plate.

Speaker 10 (54:23):
I'm surprised Ellie didn't just go into the Dodgers' dugout.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Surprise me, he didn't run after the guy to tag himself.

Speaker 6 (54:29):
Why are we waiting?

Speaker 2 (54:31):
According to Segment, the Castellanis are offering Dela Cruz now
$ 700 million over 13 years. I like that number. Would you?
Signed for 700 million.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
I think I would sign for 700 million, Willie.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
And L.A.

Speaker 9 (54:44):
Has taxes.

Speaker 6 (54:45):
Over 50 years.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Just give me the number. How about this? 8% of
his earnings go to the conglomerate that gave him $ 350, 000
when he was 18 years old. Not a loan, forgivable loan,
assuming they get 8% of future earnings. So that's 700 million, 8%,
my Deer Park math tells me. That's $ 56 million on
an investment of $ 350, 000.

Speaker 6 (55:10):
You know how Morris got into that business, Willie?

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Did he?

Speaker 10 (55:13):
Yes. I don't know if he's part of that conglomerate,
but he went into that.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
And Jose Rio is the DR's main guy, and he's
involved with Dela Cruz. And, you know, if you're 18
years old and you get $ 350, 000 in the Dominican, what
do you think? Where do I sign?

Speaker 6 (55:30):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
One out of 10 has got to pay off. One
out of 20. This one's going to pay off. But
I want Dela Cruz to stay here in Cincinnati. Don't you?

Speaker 6 (55:38):
I definitely do.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Would you sign for $ 700 million?

Speaker 6 (55:41):
I would sign for maybe $ 1 million. $ 1 million.

Speaker 8 (55:44):
$ 1 million.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
And the other thing is the taxes in L.A. compared
to here.

Speaker 11 (55:49):
It's got to be unbelievable, Andy Mack.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
12% city tax. Cincinnati's 2%. And the state tax there
is 15%. Here it's 2%.

Speaker 6 (55:58):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
So I don't know.

Speaker 6 (56:00):
It seems to me. He ought to sign.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
He ought to sign here quickly because you never know.
What's going to happen in life? Would you agree? You
don't know.

Speaker 6 (56:07):
You don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
You might own a sports bar one day. You never know.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
I say, why not?

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Some say, why? I say, why not?

Speaker 6 (56:13):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Some look at things the way they are and say, why?
I look at dreams that never happened and say, why not?

Speaker 6 (56:19):
And you told me, do it.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Do it.

Speaker 6 (56:21):
Push me over the edge, Willie.

Speaker 8 (56:22):
Do it.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
What do you have to lose but money? And you're
rich anyway, so what the hell? You got to do something.
You're getting old, you know?

Speaker 9 (56:30):
I am.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
You are.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
You got to be 60 years old at this point.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
At least.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Segment, please continue with sports. Well, the series wraps up
tonight in L.A.

Speaker 11 (56:37):
At 6-10 with Lance and sports talking and the R &
L Carriers inside pitch at 9-10. Minor League playoffs, game
two of the Midwest League playoffs tomorrow night in Dayton.
The Dragons down one game to none in that series
against Great Lakes.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Well, Castellini, sell the Reds. What do you say? Randy,
I say no. I say Phil wants to keep them.
According to Segment, there's reports that they're going to sell
the Reds for $ 2. 5 billion. Would you sell for $ 2. 5 billion?

Speaker 6 (57:07):
I would sell for $ 2. 5 billion, Willie.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Please continue.

Speaker 11 (57:11):
Frontier League playoffs. Game one tonight are the best of three.
In the Frontier League, Florence Yalls will go up against Washington.
The National Football League season kicks.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Off tonight, Willie.

Speaker 11 (57:22):
New England at Seattle, 8 o'clock ESPN 1530.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Then tomorrow night, Melbourne, Australia, on a cricket field, 49ers v.

Speaker 6 (57:34):
Rams.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
What would you do with LSU violating the rules of
the SEC? Tomorrow is the TRO hearing. What would you
do as the judge? Would you kick LSU out of
the SEC?

Speaker 6 (57:44):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Please continue, Sig.

Speaker 11 (57:46):
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Speaker 2 (57:54):
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Speaker 11 (58:03):
Get ready for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Baker Mayfield, 6-2
career-wise against Cincinnati.

Speaker 6 (58:11):
Really?

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Uh-oh.

Speaker 11 (58:13):
And the great 78 Anthony Munoz Sunday will be the
ruler of the jungle. Hmm.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Joe Burrow in.

Speaker 6 (58:21):
An exclusive interview.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Is he going to play for LSU?

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Who?

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
No.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
And talking with the great Jeff Hobson, Bengals.com. Huh? Jeff Hobson.

Speaker 11 (58:33):
He's going to stay here for the long haul, not
going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Until he changes his mind.

Speaker 11 (58:38):
Then he'll be going somewhere.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
But all these Cleveland Browns becoming LSU Tigers. Yes. During
the bye week, couldn't Joe Burrow go back to LSU
and play there for one game?

Speaker 10 (58:48):
Wouldn't that be something? At least they went to a
better program, Willie. You go from Cleveland Browns to LSU Tigers,
I think that's a promotion.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Could LSU with Joe Burrow beat the Cleveland Browns in
Death Valley? In that matchup, Seg, who do you like?

Speaker 11 (59:02):
I would go with the pros, Willie. What if you
had Jamar, Jefferson, and... You mean if those three guys
went back to LSU, I'm taking them?

Speaker 9 (59:10):
It.

Speaker 6 (59:10):
Go Tigers.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
And Death Valley. I'm taking Joe Burrow.

Speaker 6 (59:13):
Go Tigers.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Wouldn't that be something? I would love to be something.
I think LSU team, they're 24 years old. Most have
been married. Got a bunch of kids. Child support orders
against them already. They're really young adults, right? 24 years old.
Been married three times. Like Indiana, the Hoosiers last year. Signetti.
The average age was 23 years old. He had 26-year-olds playing.
And they were pretty good, right?

Speaker 10 (59:35):
That's a lot older than you were when you were
at Xavier patrolling shortstop at Xavier.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
He remembers that segment. Please continue. Soccer tonight, Willie. MLS action.
FC Cincinnati at Philadelphia Union.

Speaker 11 (59:45):
7 o'clock ESPN 1530.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Going back to football and college football.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
The mess.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
With Western Michigan and Michigan, the.

Speaker 11 (59:54):
NCAA now issuing a new guidance to establish a standard
timing protocol that ensures consistency in the administration of all
college football games in the wake of the controversy last Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Randy, why don't you sue somebody on this one?

Speaker 6 (01:00:12):
I'm thinking about it, Willie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
The Broncos won the game except on the scoreboard, and
they operated... By the way, someone took a stopwatch from
the time the ball was... Hyped into the hands of
the Underwood. Stopwatch. It was 11.5 seconds. Not nine. 11.5.
He threw the ball from the 40-yard line 62 yards.
You can't throw a football under three seconds from 62

(01:00:33):
yards away with an arc. Would you agree?

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
I agree. Have him call me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Sue somebody.

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
Have Western Michigan call me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
I'm ready. Have the trial at the City View. City View.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Get some of the derelicts there in the jury. Get
some of those guys. Some of them clowns from that,
what was it, the Clancy jury? Yeah. The one guy,
hopefully he didn't get ID'd. No one cared about the
father who came home to find his three babies murdered
by his wife. What about Patrick Clancy? Anyone care about him?
What about the three kids? They're dead. Yeah, but I mean,

(01:01:05):
you know, come on. Forget about them. They're dead. Official
time now for all college games.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
Here we go.

Speaker 11 (01:01:12):
Is the time displayed on the in-stadium game clock.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
What a novel suggestion. There you go. Michigan cheated.

Speaker 11 (01:01:19):
Yes, they did. And then, Willie, of course, this morning,
3.30 this morning, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Sure you were watching this. I was watching it, Sheldon.
Ben Sheldon takes down Carlos Alcaraz. Alcatraz. And a five-set
marathon tie break to advance at the U.S.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Open.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
3.33 this morning. I was watching. The match ended.

Speaker 6 (01:01:39):
Willie, did you ever play tennis?

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
No, I played a lot of racquetball and pickleball until
I met him and Flat Stanley. And Rocky Boyman and
I get drilled by a 90-year-old guy. It's embarrassing. Went
down like a... Like a cold butt on a hot
July afternoon.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
Bingo.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
By the way, Jelly Roll's taken up an advertisement with
Bud Light. Bud Light is now with Jelly Roll. Not
a good situation. Randy, thanks for coming in with the
Big Ted.

Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
How many days a week? Open Monday?

Speaker 10 (01:02:06):
Wednesday through Sunday, and I just want people at the
Dodgers Series and the Cubs Series, buy your Split the
Pot tickets.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
It helps a lot of youths in our community.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Charlie Frank's a good man.

Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
Charlie Frank is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Tell Charlie not to sell. Tell him to keep the
Reds in the hands of Castellini. Will you tell him that?

Speaker 10 (01:02:25):
I will tell him that, and we need Charlie Frank
to continue doing a great job with the Reds Community
Fund along with Jack O'Flynn.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
I wish they were as good off the field. I
wish the Reds were as good on the field as
off the field. Everything off the field with the Reds
are great. On the field is the only problem.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
Anybody in Ohio can buy split-the-pot tickets, even if they're
not at the ballpark.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
Where?

Speaker 7 (01:02:46):
Online.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Online segment.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Every home game, there's a winner, right?

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
Let's go. That jackpot's going to be huge a week
from Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Bigger than Montana. Segment. The freak is here. He's suing everybody.
Get me out of the Stooges report. Willie, in honor
of the City View Tavern and the Reds Community Fund.
And the Big Ted.

Speaker 11 (01:03:03):
We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooges report.

Speaker 8 (01:03:08):
What was his crime?

Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
What was his crime?

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Her crime was killing three babies in cold blood. Yeah,
and nobody remembers that. They just think she's a kook.
And Nolan Wells, the black kid in Mississippi, accidental drowning.
Can he get that through his thick skull? On News
Radio 700, WLW.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
All right, Billy Cunningham, the great American, joining us now
is Elmo, Austin Elmore, about what's happening in college sports
and also so much more.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Elmo, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. It's an
honor to be here, Willie. Thank you for having me.
Where were you at 9-11-01? You were a young fella.

Speaker 10 (01:03:45):
Where were you?

Speaker 9 (01:03:46):
Yeah, I was in Findlay, Ohio, and I was in school,
and my dad came and picked me up from school.
And he said, did your teachers tell you what happened today?
And I said, no, I have no idea what's going on.
And he proceeds to tell me what happened. And, uh,
I remember sitting on this ugly blue and yellow plaid

(01:04:10):
couch and watching the coverage the rest of the day.
I have this distinct memory of seeing the Fox news,
like thing at the bottoms, just twirl around over and
over again and seeing the buildings and It's one of
the earliest memories of my life. Cause I was only
six years old. And, uh, I remember that whole day
clear as day though.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Were you scared? I don't remember being scared.

Speaker 9 (01:04:32):
I don't remember exactly my emotions, but I remember like
the way my parents reacted was like, I knew something
was like seriously wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
What happened then at night? The next day, did you
go back to school? You had to be a first
grader or something in Finley. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:04:48):
That part. I don't know that, that part. I can't
really remember. I remember like George W. Bush throwing out
the pitch at the Yankees game and like some of
the like stuff around that. But that day I remember
very clearly the aftermath. I don't remember much.

Speaker 6 (01:05:04):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Uh, in my case, I'm, I'm watching as I always do.
I'm a news junkie. I'm watching, I think it was
CNN might've been Fox and they had a story about
this plane crashing into the world trade center. And the
first comment was, well, that's happened before you had the, uh,
Empire State Building had a plane run into it. And
I think, my gosh, how does a plane run into

(01:05:25):
the world? And the weather was perfect. 8.45 a.m., it
was perfect. Then the second plane hit, then the world changed.
After the first plane hit, I called the Jim Scott show,
and Mo Egger was the producer. And Mo picked up
the phone, and I said, Mo, are you watching TV?

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
He said, no.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
I said, watch TV. An airliner, off course, just ran
into the World Trade Center. He said, what? Then they
put it on, and the rest was history. And from
that point on, We were at war and away we go.

Speaker 9 (01:05:53):
There's a really good book called The Only Plane in
the Sky. And it's a collection of the, it's basically
an oral history of 9-11 from various perspectives. People that
were in the buildings, people who had family members die,
people who were at airports, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And there is a portion of that book where they
talk about the weather forecast that day and how there

(01:06:13):
were very specific atmospheric conditions that made the sky so
perfectly clear. that it was almost like glass on a
still lake. And it's amazing that such a horrible thing
happened with these rare atmospheric conditions. And you have this
juxtaposition of then what happened. And, you know, we all

(01:06:34):
know about the seeing the smoke from space and all
this other stuff, but you're right. It was one of
the most beautiful days in the history of planet earth
that turned dark very quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
And the world changed. Let's go to the comic pages
of life, college football. What's going to happen tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 9 (01:06:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
You tell me.

Speaker 9 (01:06:57):
You're the guy who knows more about what's going on
with these legal proceedings and stuff than me. But I
think as far as LSU is concerned, I think Lane
Kiffin put his tail between his legs. He decided, okay,
I'm going to lock my roster in with 105 guys.
and not include the two NFL guys. That happened yesterday.
I think that that was a pull, break glass in
case of emergency maneuver for the SEC because they're so mad,

(01:07:20):
and I think it worked. We'll see how it goes,
but I think it worked. I think they'll stay in
the SEC. LSU is too valuable to the SEC to
lose that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Line up the problems in college football because you live
and breathe it. Elmo, you're there every day. Give me
the three or four problems. You think NFL has got
problems playing in Australia. You think major league baseball has
got problems with Ellie. We've got a trend and $ 50, 000
and gave away 8% of future earnings. What are the
problems now in the fun game of life in college football?

Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
There's a lot of problems.

Speaker 9 (01:07:51):
I think the biggest one is that there is no
governing body who sets forth rules, who enforces rules, who
schedules teams. All the money is split up based off
TV networks and conferences here and conferences there. There's no
level playing fields. There's no salary cap. You can literally
do whatever you want. And if somebody tells you no,
you can just get a judge that agrees with you

(01:08:12):
and you can change the rule. I don't know what
the future holds. I think the best thing for college
football in the future would be to be similar to
an NFL model where you kind of merge everybody together.
You have divisions. You have conferences. You have, you know,
basically like the NFL does, but somebody's in charge that

(01:08:34):
can level the playing field because right now it's just
not equal.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
They're turning to Washington, D.C. and say, fix the problem.
They can't fix anything in Washington.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
I know.

Speaker 6 (01:08:45):
And they're leaning on those people.

Speaker 9 (01:08:47):
And honestly, I think that's what they're trying to accomplish
with the Save College Sports Act, which is like, can
somebody be in charge here? We'll do it if we
have to, which is a scary thought in and of itself.
But like, that's how bad things have gotten. But at
the same time, you look at this past weekend, stadiums
are packed. TV numbers are through the roof. College game
day is, is electric. Like it is this train wreck

(01:09:09):
that you can't keep your eyes off of. Like, you
know how everybody, you know, you see an accident on
the side of the road and And everybody slows down
to look. You can't help but look. That's what college
football is. And we can complain about it all we want.
We can be frustrated. But people watch the crap out
of college football.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Right now, LSU, even the politicians are now involved. Senator
John Kennedy, the governor, Landry's involved. And right now, there's
intense negotiations underway. to say we don't want to go
in front of the judge tomorrow afternoon and give a
judge the ability of doing something. We want to have
a deal. So LSU wants a deal, and they didn't
play the two Cleveland Browns. Maybe Joe Burrow's got a

(01:09:47):
year of eligibility left. He could go back to LSU.

Speaker 6 (01:09:50):
I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
Theoretically, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Yeah, you could.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
Joe Burrow.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
That'd be interesting.

Speaker 9 (01:09:54):
Yeah, on the Bengals' bye week, the LSU needs a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Hey, Joe, are you doing anything? Why don't you come
stay sharp? And so right now, we're in complete utter...
There's going to be an agreement of some type. You
can't let some outside body determine for you. There's about
4,000 judges in America. And LSU, I would imagine if
you're a Louisiana judge and LSU comes before you, guess what?
You're going to give them permission to play the two
Cleveland Browns players. But Lane Kiffin didn't do it. I

(01:10:20):
guess the AD said, the president said, of LSU said,
you can't do that. There's going to be a deal.
And maybe Lane Kiffin's got to sit down for a
couple of games. Some big fight.

Speaker 9 (01:10:29):
Well, I think, I think they looked around finally and said, okay,
I don't think this is worth it. And that's why
he decided I'm not going to bring these two guys
on the roster. And, That, I think, is ultimately a
good thing for college football because you can't just have
guys say, oh, I didn't make it in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:10:43):
I'm coming back to college.

Speaker 9 (01:10:45):
If you signed a deal, if you worked out, if
you got any sort of money whatsoever from a professional team,
you shouldn't be able to come back. And so in
this sense, it's a big win that LSU said, okay,
we're not going to do it because I think they're
scared because they need the SEC and the SEC needs them.
And they're looking around saying, okay, is this really worth it?
We just beat Clemson 51-10. We don't need those guys

(01:11:06):
on our team.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
And Clemson's pretty good. We thought they were pretty good.

Speaker 9 (01:11:10):
We thought, but Davo Sweeney is somebody who has refused
to change with the times of college football, and he's
got his face bashed in for the last couple of years. 51-10,
and the halftime speech, which I have, that Lane Kiffin
gave That's the other thing with college football. You have
halftime speeches getting leaked. You have games being stolen from
Western Michigan. You have horrible officiating, inconsistent officiating. You've got

(01:11:32):
Penn State all of a sudden wrapping their arms around
Joe Paterno again and putting him as a hero. There's
so much crap going on in college football. And here's
the other thing, too, that I don't think a lot
of people understand, is the college football playoff is a
separate entity from the NCAA. It's a separate entity from
the conferences. The college football playoff has its own rules. And,

(01:11:53):
you know, one of the like, for example, Western Michigan
appealed to the college football playoff to say, hey, we
don't want you to recognize this win for Michigan. We
want you to recognize that win for us, because if
it comes down to it, we win the MAAC championship.
We want to be in the college football playoff. Like
the college football playoff has more power than people think.
And they can say, hey, LSU, you violated the rules, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

(01:12:16):
We're not putting you in.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Really?

Speaker 9 (01:12:17):
They can do that. They have more power, and ultimately,
that's not technically an NCAA thing.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
That's money. And it's all money.

Speaker 9 (01:12:25):
How about Florida State can't get the lights on? On top, yeah,
you've got power outages. You've got weather delays. You've got
transformers blowing up. You don't have officials with working microphones,
no PA announcers. Replay doesn't work. Clocks are not synced up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
I love it.

Speaker 9 (01:12:39):
It's a complete disaster. It's a train wreck, but we
can't stop watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
There'll be an agreement tomorrow. Don't you agree? There's got
to be some deal.

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 9 (01:12:48):
There's too much at stake to screw it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:51):
Up over this.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Now, lastly, if you're Ella Delacruz, there's rumors in the marketplace,
according to Dave Keaton, that the Reds are going to
be sold. And it comes out of nowhere. I can't
conceive Phil Castellini. They're still making $ 10 to $ 20 million
a year anyway. So I can't conceive of them saying,
you know what? We're going to sell the team for
$ 2 or $ 3 billion. That doesn't happen. And no season

(01:13:15):
next year. Dela Cruz may not play again for the
Reds after this year because they've got to trade him
in the offseason before 29 starts because then you've got
no value, correct? And he signed away his rights, 8%
of future earnings, for $ 350, 000. And so now, according to
media accounts, guys like you, the Reds offered $ 500 million.

Speaker 6 (01:13:38):
Now it's $ 700 million.

Speaker 4 (01:13:38):
$ 700 million.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
You're telling me that the Reds offered Ellie $ 700 million. Yes,
13 years.

Speaker 11 (01:13:45):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
And he's thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Would you think about it? No, I'd probably just sign it.
Even if you've got to give 8% to the crew.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
Yeah, I don't care about that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
My good friend Jose Rio gave me some of these numbers.

Speaker 9 (01:13:59):
I mean, does Ellie get to the big leagues without
that crew helping him?

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
$ 350, 000 to somebody dirt poor.

Speaker 9 (01:14:05):
Yeah, I would have done that 10 times out of
10 if I was Ellie, and I would sign the
$ 700 million if I'm Ellie. That being said, he's about
to set a career high in average, OPS, slugging, home runs, RBI, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He's having the best season of his career. And so
the price is only going to go up. And if
I'm Ellie, I'm more apt to like, I don't know
what's going to happen with the labor negotiation. I don't

(01:14:27):
know if there's going to be a cap. I don't
know what they're going to try to do. Maybe now's
the time to get the deal done.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
That's my point.

Speaker 9 (01:14:33):
I think that's why the Reds would maybe look at
it and say the same thing. But I don't trust
anybody involved in making baseball decisions in that organization because
they have sucked my entire life.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
And I don't trust them to do anything that makes sense.

Speaker 6 (01:14:45):
I mean, hell. They keep playing Key Brian Hayes.

Speaker 7 (01:14:48):
Why?

Speaker 9 (01:14:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
$ 30 million.

Speaker 9 (01:14:50):
You got the last month of the season where you
get to play some of the best competition in baseball
and try to figure out, okay, let's see what we
have moving forward. But instead, we'll send Edwin Arroyo back
to AAA, throw Key Brian Hayes up here to go
0-3 with two strikeouts and two errors and cost you
a game against the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (01:15:05):
Why?

Speaker 9 (01:15:06):
Just because we don't want Edwin O'Rourke. Because the idiots
in that organization think that they can fix Key Brian Hayes,
as if they don't have eight years of proof that
the guy can't play in the big leagues.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
You take Candelaria, $ 45 million, Key Brian Hayes, $ 30 million,
$ 75 million, throw in about $ 70 million with Michael Moustakas,
you're up to $ 150 million for those three players.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
And I'm thinking, why?

Speaker 9 (01:15:28):
That's the part that bothers me. If you're Bob and Phil,
why do you trust this guy?

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
With your money. He keeps wasting your money.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Why do you trust Nick crawl with your money?

Speaker 9 (01:15:40):
If money is, if money is something that's so important
to you. And if that's the compass with which you
guide yourself in baseball, why do you trust this guy
to keep wasting your money?

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Why don't you go get somebody else? Find somebody.

Speaker 8 (01:15:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Got to run Elmo. Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:15:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Let's continue with more news radio, 700 WLW.

Speaker 8 (01:15:57):
And I promised Jessica that I wouldn't bring religion into this.

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
Oh boy.

Speaker 8 (01:16:04):
Um, But I felt I needed to just bring a
little bit and just mention it from the book of
Luke 24, 13. Three minutes and 56 seconds to go.

Speaker 4 (01:16:19):
Go cats.

Speaker 9 (01:16:22):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Hello. Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Hello. Quiet numbskulls, I'm broadcasting. Go for it, you bonehead.
All right, guys. Hi, Rock, you're here with important information.

Speaker 9 (01:16:34):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
Is it about Dela Cruz?

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Is it about the new expansion teams for Major League Baseball?

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Southeastern Conference. Southeastern Conference. All right. I'm getting warm. Wait
a minute. Well, obviously.

Speaker 12 (01:16:47):
Obviously, you know, what happened yesterday is the SEC is
threatening to vote to kick LSU out of the conference,
which I am right now here telling you that will
never happen.

Speaker 6 (01:16:58):
Will never happen.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
So they can break the rules with impunity.

Speaker 12 (01:17:02):
But I feel like what the SEC is doing is
there's so much gray area in college football now, right,
in terms of eligibility. And this guy says, you know, well,
you only play one year at JUCO and maybe, you know,
all this sort of thing. They're laying the hammer down
saying there's no gray area in this. You bring a
former or a professional player, a player who's out of
eligibility and a professional player who's been in a camp,

(01:17:25):
you know, it doesn't matter how long. I mean, the
one guy, the Zavian, he's– I mean, he didn't even
really even practice. He went to a camp.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
He was injured. He got paid like $ 190 in gas money.

Speaker 12 (01:17:36):
So, you know, Kiffin's like, is he really– did he
really play pro football?

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Not really.

Speaker 6 (01:17:41):
But I think the SEC is trying to get rid
of all the gray area.

Speaker 12 (01:17:44):
There's so much gray area in football right now.

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
But here's the deal. Here's a question for you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
Let me hear it.

Speaker 12 (01:17:50):
So, LSU has– they've made their roster, right? They're 105.
Those two former– you know, those two quote-unquote pro players
are not on it. SEC doesn't want it. But those
players have a.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
Lawsuit.

Speaker 12 (01:18:07):
So they are going to sue the living bejesus out
of somebody. And I can't believe it's going to be LSU.
Is it going to be the SEC? Because they're saying, look,
we've got a court order that says we can do this.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Randy Freaking said he'll represent them.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
So what happens then?

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Segment. Give me a ruling. I think the ruling will
be made at the City View Tavern.

Speaker 12 (01:18:26):
The precedent has been set in countless other times that
they make the case, you're declining my client.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
The right to work. Two players who couldn't make the Browns,
but they could make LSU. They signed some deal with
LSU thinking it was legit.

Speaker 12 (01:18:43):
But every other time, every other instance where there's been
a court order on the side of a player, that
player has won right the players like the mississippi court
a hundred percent of the time they've won they've won
and so when they win today or tomorrow a lawsuit
saying we're going to play for lsu what does lsu
then do could they pay him and not play him

(01:19:05):
I've heard that theory thrown out there. And look, just
pay them, put them on staff or something, just so
they're taken care of. LSU has more than enough money.
That's not the factor at all. And just kind of
let this go away. Because obviously, at the end of
the day, now they want money.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Why money? Why is it always money, Rob?

Speaker 6 (01:19:25):
It's always money.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Why is it money?

Speaker 6 (01:19:26):
It's the green lettuce of salvation.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Bags of cash. Bags of cash. In fact, I saw
Jim Harbaugh with bags of cash in the Michigan game.
with western michigan talking to the officials in between the
time taken between the one second and none that harbaugh
was there with cash what i.

Speaker 12 (01:19:44):
Don't think that happened by the way did you see
the ncaa just put out a statement saying that from
now on here going forward we're going to go with
the clock that's on the tv screen the one that
10 million people look at not the one the secret
one that like three people look at the secret so
they've essentially said we screwed up And that game, that
should not have happened.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Who won the game now? Tom Wiedemann says Michigan won easily.

Speaker 12 (01:20:05):
I think Western Michigan and the Mac are all of
a sudden not, you know, they're upset, obviously. And they're
saying we should be the winner of that game. Is
the NCAA going to declare.

Speaker 6 (01:20:15):
Them the winner?

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
How bad is it when Michigan Wolverine football is so low,
the fans storm the field when they beat Western Michigan?

Speaker 6 (01:20:23):
Oklahoma is going to put it on them.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
This week.

Speaker 6 (01:20:26):
They've got a real defense.

Speaker 12 (01:20:28):
And Michigan does not have a good quarterback or a
good offensive line.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Put it on them. Put it on them. Don't they
get fined for rushing the field in football as they
do in basketball? That's true. Michigan is so happy beating
Western Michigan, they lose their bowel. They just run on
the field and squat. They're so happy. I'm glad you
brought that up. Is that what Louisiana Tech's going to
do in his game Saturday? What if Tech beats your

(01:20:52):
friend Lane Kiffin? In Death Valley.

Speaker 6 (01:20:54):
I can't see it.

Speaker 12 (01:20:54):
Now, Louisiana Tech is a real team. I cover the
Sun Belt. Some people are picking them to win the
Sun Belt. So, yeah, they're a G6 team, but like
a good team. They put 80 points on Northwestern State.

Speaker 6 (01:21:05):
80 points? Again, Northwestern State, I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Big Ten school.

Speaker 6 (01:21:08):
How the hell do you know? No, not Northwestern. Northwestern State. Oh,
there's a little difference.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (01:21:13):
Anyway, they put 80 points on them, so there's something there.
It's not like they flopped around and won the game
by 30 points. They won by 80.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
So now it's time. Is Deer Park going to join
the GCL?

Speaker 12 (01:21:27):
That's a question for you. I want to step up
and put your money where your mouth is. Put your
money where your mouth is.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
Let's see it. Let's let it be decided on the field.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
On the field. 130 to 8. Deer Park's won their
first three games. Now, I've never heard of Calvary Christian
School in Bedavia. Have you heard of Calvary Christian? Isn't
that an all-girls school? Well, they're transgender.

Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
Okay, of course.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
And they had a problem running the ball against Deer Park.

Speaker 6 (01:21:52):
Yes, a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
But it's a transgender, Calvary transgender Christian school in Bedavia.
They beat them 48 to nothing.

Speaker 12 (01:21:58):
You're going to get a call from every one of
their alumni that's listening right now.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Other alumni.

Speaker 6 (01:22:02):
It wasn't me.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
It wasn't me.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
It was him.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
So you're saying it's possible.

Speaker 6 (01:22:06):
Anything is possible.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
One more thing before I turn to you. Well, you
got Redding then this week. We got Redding. Tony Pike's
going to battle. I gave you six and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:22:12):
I think.

Speaker 12 (01:22:13):
No, we took it straight up. I took Redding straight up.
Don't be adding points.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
In the 1960s and 70s, all-star college kids never played together,
beat Super Bowl champions, NFL. If you would take right
now LSU's team and add Joe Burrow, Jefferson, and Jamar
to that team, Would they beat the Cleveland Browns in
Death Valley?

Speaker 6 (01:22:37):
First of all, we do this every year. And you
say yes. I'm glad you bring it up again. And
I'm saying... Yeah, look.

Speaker 12 (01:22:43):
If you take literally one of the top five best
players in the NFL in Joe Burrow, and maybe one
of the other top ten best players in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:22:51):
Justin Jefferson... LSU, LSU, LSU.

Speaker 12 (01:22:55):
I think they would have a shot, but I still
don't think they would win.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Why? Because the college kids, they weren't even a team.
They were all-stars. Beat the Green Bay Packers. The difference
would be in the offensive line.

Speaker 12 (01:23:06):
I mean, again, as good as LSU's offensive line is,
I mean, you're talking pro players.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Would Deer Park beat St. X?

Speaker 6 (01:23:13):
Dexter Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
At St. X, would Deer Park win that game?

Speaker 5 (01:23:17):
No.

Speaker 11 (01:23:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
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Speaker 11 (01:23:32):
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Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
But then? And then Red Eye Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
Oh.

Speaker 11 (01:23:47):
It's so late. It's a 10 o'clock start.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
You know, Rock, the Reds have lost 10 straight games
since Chavez Ravine. But there's the Charlie Manson factor. Tell
him about Charlie Manson. From Cincinnati, right? Sitting in that
chair an hour ago was the freak, Randy Freaking, of
Freaking and Betts. He's unfreaking believable. He buys the City View.

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
And they have a little bit of a picture of
Charlie Manson in there, circa 1965, who lived on Oregon
Street in Mount Adams. The noted one, the mass murderer,
who's now died and died in prison. One night, he
loved to drink tequilas on the back deck of the
City View, Charlie Manson. He takes a dive off the
back of the City View deck down Baum Street and

(01:24:32):
doesn't kill himself, doesn't injure himself. He says, it's an
act from God that I wasn't hurt. So he says,
I'm moving out to L.A. to start my own clan.
So the City View restaurant launched Charlie Manson.

Speaker 12 (01:24:46):
Should they have, I think, is also the question, should
they have just let him kind of flop around and
possibly die of.

Speaker 6 (01:24:51):
His injuries down there?

Speaker 12 (01:24:53):
This is like the, should they have rescued baby Hitler
when the, remember the priest that rescued baby Hitler from
the icy pond kind of thing?

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
It's a similar question.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
Yes, should he?

Speaker 6 (01:25:03):
So you're saying Randy freaking started all this?

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Yes, Randy freaking started Charlie Manson in 1967. Or the
British soldier. He didn't own it then. That's beside the point, Sag.
He's still responsible.

Speaker 6 (01:25:15):
Still bears the.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Come on, Sag.

Speaker 5 (01:25:16):
Come on, Sag.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
And then in World War II, a British soldier named McMurphy.
shot Adolf Hitler in the leg or the shoulder and
ran up to him with a bayonet out to finish
him off. He looked in Adolf Hitler's eyes and there
was something in it saying, I'm not going to do this.
Calls over the British medic and nurses Adolf Hitler back

(01:25:38):
to health in 1918.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
Oops.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
And Hitler in the 1930s wanted to meet McMurphy and
thank him for saving his life.

Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
Oops.

Speaker 8 (01:25:49):
That's it.

Speaker 12 (01:25:50):
Butterfly effect, right? Just these little decisions that were made. Again,
the other one, you've read the one about the priest
that saved him as a young child from the icy pond.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
Why? And look at here. The Colin Kaepernick effect on Nike.
Nike's lost 90% of its value. And you know what
Michael Jordan said? Four words. Republicans buy sneakers, too. Yes.
So after hooking your wagon to Colin Kaepernick, they lose 90%
of their value, and now China has taken over Nike.

(01:26:18):
And now nobody's going to buy them.

Speaker 6 (01:26:20):
I'll say this about the NFL.

Speaker 12 (01:26:22):
Nothing has ever hurt their ratings, not rule changes or
this scandal, that scandal. The only thing that has ever
hurt the NFL's ratings was when Colin Kaepernick did the
kneeling thing.

Speaker 6 (01:26:33):
Ratings dropped. And when it stopped, guess what? It went
back up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
You can't argue it.

Speaker 6 (01:26:38):
It happened.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
The last year with the 49ers, Colin Kaepernick as a
starting QB was 1-15. And the 49ers said, we've got
to make a change here. Seg tells me that ESPN,
you can't talk ill about them. Just recently had the
10th year anniversary of Colin Kaepernick kneeling. As if that's
a big deal to Americans. This left-wing radical extremist. who

(01:27:01):
brought down companies, we're supposed to note the fact that
he knelt in protest, I guess, of America. Think of
the great things this country has done for the world.
They can't find any of them. But find Colin Kaepernick,
then you've got the definition of this country. You've got
me pissed off right now. Seg, please give me some
more sports. Well, the Frontier League playoff action tonight. It's

(01:27:21):
game one with the Washington Wild Things up against the
Florida Jolls.

Speaker 11 (01:27:25):
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Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
That's a good choice.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
And Baker Mayfield, 6-2 career-wise v. Cincinnati. What if Baker
Mayfield comes in with Tampa and kicks the crap out
of the Bengals? As, by the way, you predicted. I
have it right here in writing.

Speaker 9 (01:27:56):
I did.

Speaker 6 (01:27:57):
I did predict that.

Speaker 12 (01:27:58):
By the way, I left the record to show that
was before they made the move.

Speaker 6 (01:28:02):
For Dexter Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 6 (01:28:03):
I'm not making an excuse. I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
Don't make excuses. Stand tall and proud. And before the draft.

Speaker 6 (01:28:08):
Before the draft.

Speaker 12 (01:28:09):
But by the way, just Baker Mayfield Care, he just
signed a three-year, $ 165 million deal. And I'll take this
opportunity to share. I still remember when I was playing.
This was with the Titans. This was 2003. Peyton Manning
signed a 10-year, $ 100 million contract. And everybody around the
whole locker room was like, $ 100 million.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
That was for 10 years.

Speaker 12 (01:28:31):
Now Baker signs a $ 165 million.

Speaker 6 (01:28:34):
Deal for three. That's where we've come.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
It's no big deal. I'm telling Stefan all of us
need more money.

Speaker 6 (01:28:40):
I like him.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
I like Baker. I'm going to root against him, but
I'm just saying. I kind of like him. He's got panache.
Did you watch him on.

Speaker 12 (01:28:46):
The new quarterback thing on Netflix? You don't know how
to get Netflix. It's on my thing, but I can't
get it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
What do I have to do?

Speaker 6 (01:28:54):
There's no helping you. Go ahead, Seg.

Speaker 11 (01:28:56):
NFL season, the National Football League season kicks off tonight.
New England and Seattle, 8 o'clock ESPN, 1530. Then tomorrow
night from Melbourne, Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
Here we go. 49ers and Rams.

Speaker 9 (01:29:08):
Soccer.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
MLS tonight. FC Cincinnati at Philadelphia. You got it all.
7 o'clock Fox Sports, 1360.

Speaker 11 (01:29:15):
And also, Willie, this morning I was at Moeller High
School and taping the Big Mo podcast with Barrett and Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
That's going to be up, and you get some insight.
We need it. And to me, and the big one.

Speaker 6 (01:29:30):
What is your connection to Mueller?

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
They wanted me on the podcast. Probably paid to do something.

Speaker 6 (01:29:34):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
No, I just went there.

Speaker 6 (01:29:36):
You were with Barak Cohen?

Speaker 9 (01:29:37):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:29:38):
He's a good guy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
He's a good guy, but let's face it, Mueller's having
a terrible year in football. Am I right or wrong
about that, Rock?

Speaker 6 (01:29:45):
I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
They're going to be okay.

Speaker 6 (01:29:47):
They're going to be okay.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
They'll be kicked out of the GCL replaced by Deer Park. Now,
wouldn't that be something? That would be something. People are
moving right now. Well, you know what?

Speaker 11 (01:29:55):
If the SEC gets kicked out of the LSU, gets
kicked out of the SEC, why don't they join your league?

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
I could have my own league. I'd be the commissioner.
North Carolina is going to take the place of LSU.

Speaker 6 (01:30:06):
That's what you need is the power of running a league.
That's what your ego needs.

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Would North Carolina take the place of LSU?

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
No.

Speaker 12 (01:30:14):
It would be the Raging Cajuns of UL Lafayette.

Speaker 6 (01:30:19):
They would take their place.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
That's who you have.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
After this, right?

Speaker 12 (01:30:23):
So this is a Louisiana school that has a good
tradition of football.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Can I watch your call this weekend? Where will you be?

Speaker 6 (01:30:31):
I believe it will be on SEC Network somewhere. So, yeah.
You don't know how to get that either.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
You've got to come over. I pay $ 34. 95 a month
for Netflix. I've never watched one thing on it. And
I said, how do I get Netflix? I'm yelling at
my thing, Netflix, please, and nothing happens. Well, I tell
you what, when Rock comes over to put the wreath
up again. It's Christmas.

Speaker 11 (01:30:51):
And taking down the Picasso that you got hanging over
your fireplace, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
Hey, Rock.

Speaker 12 (01:30:59):
Here's a picture of Willie posing as David, the statue
of David.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
You don't have it?

Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
You guys, let me know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
The statue of David, he doesn't have anything on.

Speaker 4 (01:31:10):
Do you? You got.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Are you clothed or not?

Speaker 6 (01:31:14):
I can't say.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
My wife says I have the most attractive legs she's
ever seen. You want to see my legs rocking? No,
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:31:19):
Take it easy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
Take a look at them.

Speaker 6 (01:31:20):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Oh, wonderful. Look like out-of-bounds stakes. I got three shots yesterday.
I got vaccines out the wazoo.

Speaker 6 (01:31:28):
Why?

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
RSV.

Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
You get COVID?

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Flu.

Speaker 6 (01:31:34):
You can tell us.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
Don't tell us where the other shot went.

Speaker 6 (01:31:38):
It was right here.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
It was right there. He gave it to me right there.
That's what I wanted to see. He said, I had
five COVID shots. I said, you've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 6 (01:31:47):
You had five?

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
I had five. You didn't know that? I didn't know it.
I'm getting poked all the time. What are you, getting
one once a week? I had five. The last one
was in 2022. I said, are you serious? And Kariaka said, yeah,
here's your record.

Speaker 9 (01:32:01):
I said, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Who gave me five shots?

Speaker 6 (01:32:03):
You could do it all over again?

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
No, I wouldn't get any.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
None.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
I'd get zero.

Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
Zero.

Speaker 12 (01:32:07):
I'd go naked. Rockwood's on the big show. So right
out of the gate, we have Aaron Jacobson. He's a
morning show host at WDAE in Tampa. We're going to
talk about those bucks, talk about Baker Mayfield's contract, talk
about the game against the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
The best thing in Tampa is Mons Venus.

Speaker 6 (01:32:24):
You've been there.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
I've heard the stories. Center for the Performing Arts, I
call it.

Speaker 9 (01:32:29):
Let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
What the hell else we got here?

Speaker 6 (01:32:30):
Let's see.

Speaker 12 (01:32:31):
We've got a hiring expert on about how people are.
Using AI to do their job resumes and sending them
in so that these companies are getting just flooded so
they're not even looking at it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
You've got to show me AI and how that works.
You've got to show me that.

Speaker 6 (01:32:45):
You've got to learn. You've got to be up on
the times.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
I've got to be. Show me AI and that Netflix.

Speaker 6 (01:32:49):
That's one thing you've always done a great job of.
I stay up. You stay up on the current trends.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
First, I've got to get to Netflix.

Speaker 6 (01:32:53):
You've got a Twitter account many, many years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
And I still tweet. Yes.

Speaker 6 (01:32:57):
You never respond, though.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
I never respond. Not one time I will never respond.

Speaker 12 (01:33:01):
See, I usually don't either, but there's some times you
look at some guy and you.

Speaker 6 (01:33:06):
Just go, I can't stop.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
I like to squat right over his face.

Speaker 6 (01:33:09):
And then you're joining us at 5. All right, good.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
I need to talk about the college all-stars beating the
Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 6 (01:33:15):
What year is this again?

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
1967. And this was a team of all-stars from college
that had never played football together. They used to play
in Chicago all the time. Yeah, at Sulzer Field. And
they beat the Green Bay Packers, a team. What about that, Rock?

Speaker 6 (01:33:28):
Yeah, Rock.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Yeah, what about that?

Speaker 6 (01:33:29):
What about that, Rock?

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
Yeah, answer the question. Answer the question.

Speaker 6 (01:33:32):
It will never happen again.

Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
It happened four times in the 1960s. Then the NFL
quit playing because they were getting beat. Segment, get me
out of the student's report, please.

Speaker 11 (01:33:42):
Willie, in honor of Matt Reese returning to the newsroom
after his shoulder surgery today.

Speaker 2 (01:33:47):
How's he doing? He's doing fine.

Speaker 6 (01:33:48):
He's back.

Speaker 11 (01:33:49):
We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
That's Rob Butcher, isn't it?

Speaker 6 (01:33:56):
You're welcome. On 700 WLW.