11-5-25 Bill Cunningham Show

Willie breaks down last night's election with Ohio GOP Chairman Alex Triantafilou, Gabe Guidarlini of Turning Point Action, and Mayor Mitch Rhodus of Fairfield.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
By Billy cunning Him the Great America. Welcome this day
after the day many of the puns are saying, this
is an awful day for the Republican Party. Oh contrere monfrere.
A lot of positive things happen to media will not
report when these democratic areas vote. And Trump is such
a city character in the democratic areas, You're going to
have some distortions. And don't get too high, don't get

(00:27):
too low. Jonan, you and I Ali is Alex trying
to feel the chair of the Ohio Republican Party who's
pouring over the numbers as I speak. And Alex t
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, Alex,
give me the overall view, the good stuff, the bad stuff,
and everything in between. What happened to the Republican Party yesterday?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
If anything, Billy, you know, it's always good to be
with you, you know, Bill. I'm just a little bit
of quick history on June fifteenth, nineteen ninety excuse me,
two thousand and fifteen. June fifteenth, twenty and fifteen, you
know what day that was, Billy. That's the day Donald J.
Trump came down that golden escalator and emerged into the

(01:04):
universe to declare the make America Great Again movement, and
since that day, Bill Cunningham, the media, the pundits, the
professional political class have tried to tear him down this
idea that last night was some kind of a blue
wave because the Democrats won in western Virginia, a reliably

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blue state. The Democrats won in New Jersey, which is
adjacent to next to very liberal New York. New Jersey,
reliably blue. The last three cycles have been blue and
then shocking they won a mayor's race in New York
City and won a big proposition in California. And the
fact that the press is trying to spin a blue

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wave out of what is an ordinary, regular old election
where Republicans are there, Democrats are there. We lost areas
where sometimes we lose. Look, that doesn't mean we're satisfied.
I'm a Republican leader, Bill, I want to win every
single race from white House down to local to the
local courthouse. And that's it's always our mission. But this
media spin today has me on my high horses. You

(02:11):
can tell you know what they've been trying to do
since Donald Trump emerged from that escalator and June of
twenty and fifteen is tear him down. You're seeing more
of that today. We really have to fight another day.
Donald Trump won seven Swing states last year, he won
the popular vote. He's doing great things for the country,
and you know, one local series of elections isn't going

(02:31):
to change that momentum.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, you know, I referenced you to Viveke Ramaswami, one
of the Alkhalites of alex t from Santax High School,
likely the next governor of Ohio. He said about nine
and a half ago, quote, we got our asses handed
to us from Veke Ramaswami.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Is the Veke wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know, Vivek has a different perspective on this, and
that's perfectly fine. I love him. We endorsed him. He's
our candidate. You know, if Aveke wants to win every
last vote in every corner of Ohio, and I appreciate that.
What I want to do is keep our momentum going.
And I believe there's a momentum because of Donald Trump's policies.
They're working. He sealed the southern border. Billy, we keep
forgetting about that. The press doesn't talk about it. He

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just keeps solving problems and that's going to keep going.
So look, I know what Viake wants to win in
New York and New Jersey. I just think those are
tough places to win for us. And look, here's what
I know about the Vake. He's going to win Ohio
because of the very momentum that we are building, and
half in this state. He's the endorsed Republican, So God
bless of Ake ramaswami Hi.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I also would say that there were two Democrats who
won in Anderson Township, there was a Democrat that won
in Blue Ash. Of course, there were some successes in
Sycamore Township where I live because of Tom Weedman, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Pretty good stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
But overall, wouldn't you say that the city of Cincinnati
politically is lost.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, a city of Cincinnati is a disaster for Republicans,
but more it's a disaster for the people who live here.
I mean, you're going to see people leaving this city.
I'm afraid you've already seen a lot of that happen.
I think prime in public safety is not a political issue.
It's a reality for Republicans and Democrats alike. And if
this is if you know, if the current administration sees
this as some kind of a mandate of their policies,

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then this city is not going to be as livable
as it could and should be. What I hope is
that the mayor of this fine city that I still
call home half the time, that the mayor of this
city says, you know, now I don't have to placate
my base anymore. I can staff the police at the
appropriate levels. We can get tough on prime. We can
make sure the judges do their job, which is to
make sure we really identify the dangerous people and lock

(04:33):
them up. That's the solution, the crime problem. Solution is
not all that hard, Bill, And so you know that's
kind of where it is. I hope that that's the lesson. Now, again,
you pointed out some Democrat defeats. There are some Republican wins.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Last night.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Paul Raine Township had.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
A tough race.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
We won two trustee races there. Green Township remains a
reliably read community. You know, we won some races last night.
It's not to say that it wasn't the best night
for the Republicans. Know, and Bill, Look, if I'm being honest,
and I'm going to always be honest, with you. It's
a pendulum. The pendulum is going to swing a little bit.
It's cyclical in politics. But you know, I'm a cheerleader
for Republicans. I think our principles are the ones that
are going to save the country, and they already are.

(05:09):
Donald Trump first and foremost has done the things that
we wanted to do in in terms of creating and
keeping a country by stealing the border. So you know,
we're going to keep fighting. And look, this penulum is
going to swing a little bit, but our job is
to make sure it doesn't. You know, that the cyclical
nature of this doesn't wipe us out.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's not going to do that.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
I did some interviews last night.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
One was in Atlantic City, New Jersey, one of my
stations there, and I listened to the byplay back and
forth before I got on the air there in Atlantic City,
New Jersey, and they pointed out that in the last
four years, three hundred thousand Republicans have left New Jersey.
So when Mikey Cheryl wins the governorship and there's three
hundred thousand less people to vote for Jack, should a

(05:50):
RAMI if I'm saying that correctly, there's sure undred thousand
less Republicans to vote for the Republican candidate.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's a problem.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
The same thing in the City of Cincinnati, and may
I say, Am County. There's so many less individuals the
vote that are Republican because people are leaving the city
and they're leaving the county. And I guess I fear
that the Hamlin County is ten years behind Cay Hooger
County and Franklin County. In fact, it's damn near impossible
to win a race in Kyhogar County or Franklin County
because of the universities. Also because the so called Republicans

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are moving out to the suburbs. And here the suburbs
are Boon County and the suburbs are Warren County, so
that should make them stronger. So when I talk to
Warren County Republicans a couple hours ago, they told me
that they're welcoming more refugees from Hamlin County and the
City of Cincinnati. People are moving out, and they're voting
with their feet to leave. And about a relative to Fiji,

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if the city voter believes that the city's on the
right course with law and order, the city's on the
right course with shots fired. The city's on the right
course with firing the police chief for little or no
reasons in paying out millions of dollars in settlement. Let
them stew in their own juices. What do you say
about that?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, Fanda described as an accurate one bill, and that
is you do have this slight out of Hamilton County.
As you know, I spent years as a chairman down
there in Cincinnati, and I will tell you that we
saw that phenomenon year and in, year out, and it's
unfortunate because Republicans do leave a failing place. They want
safer streets, they want better schools. I'll tell you who

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else had a banner night. I texted this morning with
the chairman in Warren County. I know your friend, Commissioner
Dave Young, and my friend too. You have him on,
Have him on and tell you what happened in Warren
County last night. Republicans swept every crucial race in Warren
County that they cared about local, racist, township trustee races.
You go over to Butler County, they defeated a big,
gigantic levy. Well, look, I love Hamilton County. I will

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always love Hamilton County. But if you ower taxes, you
want safer streets, better schools, better services out of your government,
you're gonna leave Hamilton County. So what that's meant is
that the big seas Cincinnati, Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Colus has become more blue.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's kind of what's going on. And we know that
phenomenon exists. But Bill, I got to make the point
we as Republicans cannot and should not walk away.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
We should continue to fight.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I give great credit to the county chairman in Hamilton
County for fielding a candate for mayor. Okay, it was years.
I will admit I did not feel the cannet for
mayor of Cincinnati because I knew what a tough situation
he had. But you know, Corey Bowman excited a lot
of Republicans and people had a choice in Hamilton County. Yes,
we came up short, but I got to tell you,
in Corey Bowman, you haven't heard the last of him.

(08:26):
And this is how you build the you know, this
is how you build people up to serve. So look,
I mean, I'm not trying to completely spit you on this,
but I will tell you that there are some silver
linings even in these blue counties.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, Warren County, this is not well reported. When I
go to Warren County or Clinton County, I go to
Adams County, they tell me they have no media coverage.
Whatever happens in those counties, there's no one covering it.
Therefore it doesn't happen in a sense. But the media
and our town will not cover the fact that Warren
County is deep red and Warren County you can't find
a Democrat with a sarch horn. And last night in

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Warren County, every Republican won every office.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Correct, That's correct. And I'll tell you again, Billy, this
is not terribly sexy or interesting to your listeners. But
the Ohio Republican Party played, and roughly that they played
helped by you know, engaging our services with over one
hundred and forty races. We won an overwhelming number of
races all across this county, in small burghs and townships

(09:21):
and everything else. And Bill, in Green Township we had
wonderful services, strong believe, great grip and Kallis Tony Rolo,
Tracy Winkler, good solid red conservatives. Green Township's a great
place to live. You're not gonna hear that in the press.
You're gonna hear about blue wave this and city this. Well,
let me tell you Green Township is a great place

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to live because of Republicans. So as Republicans, even in
these blue counties, we can feel a little to moralized
today about what happened at the city, but we still
have a role to play in these suburban communities to
win races. And that's what we saw last night and
a lot of these suburban communities across Ohio.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Let's talk about Attorney j candidate j Jones in Virginia.
This was despicable by the voters. Do the voters get
it wrong? Absolutely? J Jones two years ago. This wasn't
something he put out in social media ten years ago
or fifteen years ago. Two years ago, when Jay Jones
was an assembly member in the Commonwealth of Virginia, he

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put out text hoping that his political opponent's children die
in the arms of their mothers. He also said vile
and disgusting things about other Republicans. And this guy, supposedly
in the polling was losing to the incumbent Republican ag
by a wide margin. He actually won. J Jones, who
called for horrible violence against against his political opponents. This

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is in the Trump era where Trump was shot once
and tried to be shot twice. This is in the
and the Charlie Kirk era where your blood's pouring out
on the stage. This is a terrible event. While this
is going on. J Jones, it's the chief law Enfurce
Hoorsement Officer and the Commonwealth of Virginia when he urged
the murder of his political opponents two years ago when

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he was an assemblyman. What do you think about that one?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think this period of American history is a dark
one for the Democrats and I can't did the voters
get it wrong? You're exactly right, they got it wrong.
We're at a period now where sub level of violence
and death is an acceptable response to speech and to
be deadly serious for me, And it is deadly serious
for me. This is very, very concerning for the country.

(11:31):
I mean, there used to be a few things we
all agreed on Bill, and one of them was that
violence doesn't solve our political problems. Republican, Democrat, left, right,
everything in between, we all agreed. We have a great
American conversation and a debate, but now there are certain
Democrats who obviously they they slaughtered poor Charlie Kirk, father
of babies and a great husband and a young man
with full life ahead of him. They tried to kill

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Donald Trump. So there's a real left wing violence problem,
and that they advocate for violence. I don't know where
that ends. I hope, as Republicans were the adults in
the room to continue to tell Americans that we solve
our problems by dialogue. But the end of such a
construct bill in America where violence solved political problems is

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not an end that we want to see in this country.
And you know, as Republicans, we have been talking about
peace and lowering the temperature. What happened there is deeply concerning,
and Democrats ought to be calling that out as much
as Republicans because they can play a role to get
a factor where we solve our disputes, you know, in
arguments on the floor of the Senate and the House,
or in the state legislature at city Hall, not by

(12:37):
killing one another. So yeah, I'm concerned. And now they
voters got it totally wrong there.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
And NBC News has a poll out that says thirty
three percent of Democrats consider political violence to be acceptable
in some circumstances. I want the American to be able
to reflect on that. Thirty three percent of Democrats believe
that violence against your political opponents are justified in some circumstance. Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
It's unbelievable. And then look you see in Ohio an
example of great orators and people who know how to
deliver a message. Okay, and that is the big Ramaswami
is one of the great communicators in American politics.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
JD.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Vance a great communicator, someone who can espouse our ideas.
The Democrats have some I don't like what they say,
but some of them do. Let's continue to have these debates.
And that number that you just quoted is should be
deeply disturbing to everyone, especially to Democrats. That is not
a path forward for their party to be advocating violence
in this great country. Frankly, we have enough violence, Billy,

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on the mean streets of our big cities governed by Democrats.
We don't need any additional violence between you know, political
warring factions. That's a formula for disaster.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Now it's considered acceptable.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
And lastly, what about Mom Donnie, he's a communist he's
a socialist. He free busses, he has free public education,
free babysitting services. Once they increase taxes, my friends show
on hand and he tells me that six hundred thousand
New Yorkers have left New York City and he's one
of them. And we got a problem. And much like
in Cincinnati to a smaller scale, when government fails, people

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have the option to move. But when the Democratic Party
puts a communist in charge of the financial capital of
the world, what.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Does that say, Well, it's the best thing to happen
to Florida is going to be the flood of businesses,
in the flood of people to the warmer climate, and
in the better environment of Florida. It also will be
to the benefit of Ohio under the vaik Ramaswami. What's
going to happen in New York, the financial capital really
of the world, is that this mont Dahmi doesn't moderate,

(14:37):
you know, sort of moderate his positions on this and
begin to understand the power of American capitalism. It could
destroy one of our great cities. And I pray that
doesn't happen. I hope this young man has got some
sense about him. Ultimately, and can moderate and understand that
this democratic socialist garbage that he's inputing isn't the answer.
It's bad news, though, Bill. What happened there is very

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bad news for New York. I'm afraid, really build A
concern really is that more people die. And I don't
like that hyperbole typically, but if you go soft on prime,
you have no bond, don't you know, you don't have
pops patrolling the streets. Violence skyrockets, so literally, you're going
to have more mayhem and violence than people dying. And
that's a reality for New York. If they have a

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mayor who decides that crime shouldn't be punished but rather
treated in some capacity, and we shouldn't lock up bad guys,
that's what That's my main fear is that more people,
more Americans, more New Yorkers, frankly, pay a violent price
for this. That's the concern.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Lastly, what is this election of yesterday, Alex t the
chair of the Ohio Republican Party, What does it mean
for twenty twenty six? The Democrats are dancing on the
grave of Donald Trump, some hopefully literally, many figuratively.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
What does it mean?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
There's a wave building and this is the beginning or
with a wave dissipate and all of a sudden life
will be good.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
What does it mean?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Look, I'm fired up, you can tell today. I hope
I'm fired up about twenty twenty six. I'm ready to
take it to these guys. Look at Ohio Ed Brown.
If you ever get him on your show, Bill, I
hope you will ask him what about zoron? Mom DOMMI okay,
mom Dommy is the new faith for the Democratic Party.
Jared Brown has to answer that question in Ohio? Is
he for him? He didn't endorse him, He's been hiding

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under his death. Same thing with Tim Ryan and Amy
Acton and these other people that won to run. So for
us in twenty six, we're ready to take this debate
to the American people. Ohio is a good red state,
sometimes a swing state. So what does it mean for us?
We've got to continue to fight. Look, I know the
pendulum swings. We as Republicans cannot let up. We cannot
be demoralized because the Democrats won a bunch of blue

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states last night. That's what it means to us. We're
going to keep fighting, Bill, We're not going to stop.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
God bless America. Alex Trantefield, good luck with all your
studies this say afternoon. To find out what happened, how
to take advantage of it. The Republican Party must arise
like a mighty tsunami and wash across the lands, picking
up the political remains of socialists and communists wh would
seek to seize power. Alex Joantefielu, thanks for coming on
the Bill Cunningham Show. Good luck to you. God bless you,

(17:01):
and God bless America.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
Thank you, Alex, Thank you, Billy, God bless you.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Let's continue with more. There's the resolution of this matter
by the Chair of the Higher Republican Party, Bill Cunningham,
News Radio seven hundred WW. I love Tarvin Plumbing, and
I love Plumb tight, and I love Tom Brenneman. I
sider beating, blooded and unbowed, because when Democrats win in
New York City or Virginia, or when Democrats went in

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California or New Jersey, it's not a big deal. In fact,
I mentioned I may have mentioned this to Alex try
Tifeelu that I did some interviews on the East Coast
last night, and during one of the interviews it was
pointed out to me that some three hundred thousand Republican
New Jersey residents have fled the state in the past
four years, so the electorate has changed. According to demographic experts,

(17:48):
amily the county has lost about twenty five thousand Republicans
in the past four or five years. Likely lose more
head for these results fleeing to states like Florida. Seven
years ago, the Democratic Party in Florida had a three
hundred thousand vote plus margin. Now they have a one
point three million dollar negative margin. So you and I

(18:09):
know that when cities fail, when blue states fail, that
the most of the residents had the ability to move
and go somewhere else. Many don't want to because of
family structure, or jobs or whatever. So you may want
to stay, but there's a chunk of Americans who have
now left Cincinnati and have now left Hamilton County. In
the twenty twenty four election, when Blue Ash, the city

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of Blue Ash, Anderson Township, Montgomery all vote for and
Madeira all vote for Harris and not Donald Trump, you
know that's a Democratic area. Growing up, you could rely
upon Madeira, Montgomery, Blue Ash, Sycamore Township, Anderson Township to
be rock ribbed a Republican is not the case anymore,

(18:52):
just the opposite. In fact, it's because of educated white
women who live in those areas. There's a ten point
margin plus toward Democrats of white women in the country.
And I would think it's best exhibited in Blue Ash,
Montgomery and Madeira. I think Indian Hill Kamala Harris got
forty seven percent of the voting an Indian Hill, for

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God's sakes. So it's a situation where that the appeals
to send Donald Trump a message is rather strong and
the Republican base did not come out. I have a
guest on in about thirty minutes, Gabe Guiderini. Guiderini is
a student of the University of Dayton and he's with
the Turning Point USA chapter to talk about what this

(19:35):
means for shall I say, young folks, college kids eighteen
and twenty five years old. And I thought that maybe
this would be the election to determine whether or not
Cincinnati would return to normalcy or not. And the answer
is not. Most upsetting to me is Judge Josh Berkowitz.

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He's the presiding judge of amNY County Municipal Court. He
ran against an oppo who's never been a judge, never
been a magistrate. In fact, she's a clerk in the
Clerk of Court's office through a hat in the ring
thinking Josh Berkowitz, who's everyone admires Democrat and a Republican
is the best there is Hamley County Municipal Court and
Judge Josh Berkerwitz lost easily. A good chunk of his

(20:17):
district is Anderson Township, which used to be Republican now
as Democrat. Two Republican trustees lost in Anderson Township and
Josh Burkerwitz lost and Judge Senderman lost closely, but she's
still on Common Police Court, so we'll see what happens there.
Why I think Donald Trump is toxic among Democrats and

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when Republicans don't vote and appropriate numbers and the Democrats do,
then the Democrats will win. Plus there was a course
Shenanigans happening, which always happens. By the way, it always
goes one way when mistakes are made, they're always toward
one way and not the other way. In at Chester County, Pennsylvania,
there was a few things on the statewide ballot there.
One was to keep three liberal Supreme Court justice is

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the retention and they all won, but seventy five thousand
voters in Chester County, Pennsylvania did not vote. Young woman
posted a video that when viral as she explained the problem.
Anyone who's a registered independent or third party voter in
the county and showed up with the polls yesterday was
told their name is not on the polls. She said, Okay,
let me do a provisional ballot. I know I should

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be on and they weren't available. So about seventy five
thousand independent voters in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which voted for
Donald Trump sixty three percent, suddenly they were off the
voter rolls. And of course late at night, some of
the names and numbers are changed. And so there's a
lots of Shenanigans continuing to happen among democratic areas because

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no one's going to prosecute. I do not believe that
is the case. In fact, I know that's not the case.
In Amliny County, Erry Poland who's the Hamlin County director
Board of Elections runs a tight ship. Democrats and Republicans
agree it's the best so to deal with reality. The
country in an off year election is going to have
a grievance mentality against Donald Trump and come out in

(22:07):
large numbers. That was kind of ridiculous last night that
the mayor of our city have to have pirival spent
some of his time talking about Donald Trump. Ma'am, Donnie,
the mayor to be in New York City sent a
chunk of his time talking about Donald Trump. New York
City's got a three billion dollar deficit, and it's going
to get increase. You can't give out all this free
stuff and anticipate no one's paying for it. Of course,

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they're going to pay for it. They're going to pay
for it directly or indirectly. The one point two percent
one point two percent of New York City residents pay
about fifty percent of the bills. A chunk of them
are going to leave. So far in New York City's
lost three hundred thousand residents who left. New Jersey's lost
in the range of one hundred and fifty to two

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hundred thousand residents have left New Jersey, and about twenty
five or thirty thousand have left the City of Cincinnatis.
Of the list, Keetings and the Chris Smithermans don't have
a base upon which to rely plus the Blue Democratic
ticket is the golden one that gets you elected. A
nice young man named Ryan James won the ninth seed
on council only because he's on the golden ticket, the

(23:12):
Blue Democratic card, So Liz Keating and Chris Smitherman had
no chance. In fact, I think Liz Keating was out
of the running by about thirteen thousand votes, not even close.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
So the city has gone.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
A deeper shade of blue, as had Blue Ash for
like twenty some years. Lee Zerwonka was one hell of
a councilman for like twenty years in Blue Ash, and
he lost to a nobody because the nobody, the guy's
I think last name was friend, was endorsed by the
Democratic Party of Blue Ash that now controls Blue Ash

(23:45):
and a nobody seventy two year old guy it's been
to one or two council meetings in his life, being
a twenty one year veteran Milwonkee in Blue Ash. Also,
there were two trustees in Anderson Township that lost, but
once put the right spin on things by saying Green Township,
Tony Rosiello, etc.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Did well.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
There were little pockets of okay behavior, but the citizens
get what we deserve. So in the city of Cincinnati,
this was the election defunding the police, judges, letting criminals
out on low or no bonds, open air drug use,
gun play in the streets. The citizens, the voters of
Cincinnati says, we like that, give us more. And I've

(24:27):
heard some of my cynical friends say, well, you know what,
they're all Democrats shooting other Democrats. I said, well, I
care about those Democrats. I don't want to get shot.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
I know now.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
And then I go to Peppin Dolores. I'm not going
back to peppin Dolores. It's too dangerous. I know Peppin
Dolors and now I was having some financial problems too.
Is owners are suing each other according to the inquir
I think Peppin Dolores is a fine restaurant, but you
can't be in a fine restaurant area when bullets are
flying through your window.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
That's a negative.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
So if the voters don't want to improve their own lives,
why should you? And I care about ten twelve percent.
Some of my listeners live in the city of Cincinnati.
So if they don't care to improve their own community
by having diversity when it comes to political opinions. Let
them still in their own juices. Many have said so,
the murder of Patrick Herringer, the hundreds of kids that
have been shot, the tens of thousands of bullets flying around,

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a terrible school system.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
And I listened this morning.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
The superintendent was almost sloany, and I think she appears
to be a darling woman doing her best under impossible circumstances.
But when people like Liz Keating and Chris Smitherman can't
get a sniff to go back on council, it's a problem.
That doesn't mean, you know, popularity is this doesn't mean
you're right, and being right doesn't mean you're popular. I
think those of us who express opinions like this, I'm

(25:43):
right and they're wrong, but they're popular. Cincinnati is now
no different than Chicago or Saint Louis or Memphis, or
Republicans or anything other than non Democrats can't get elected,
which is why the Cleveland Browns are moving out of
the downtown core. They're going to move to southern, southern
Kihok County. And it's not good. It's bad, perhaps worse

(26:05):
in Cincinnati. There's going to be higher taxes to pay
for all these programs of the mayor that don't work.
There's gonna be higher crime. We're gonna have judges on
the bench now that we're not sentenced criminals to jail.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
The schools are gonna get worse.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Government services, a campaign is run by the mayor to
talk about collecting the snow, they're gonna get worse. And
there's going to be a drop in available housing units
and additional expenses. Affordable housing doesn't mean spending four to
five thousand dollars a month in rent. And there's going
to be a brain drain from the city of Cincinnati,
similar to what's happening New York City and what's happening

(26:40):
in New Jersey. People are simply leaving. And one of
the shocking things was not just the election in Virginia
of a guy named Jay Jones who wanted to put
bullets in the head of his political opponent and watch
his political opponents children dye in their mother's arms. Jay Jones,
he tweeted those things out two years ago, is now

(27:02):
the chief enforcement officer in the state of Virginia, and
he's fantasizing about the murder of Republicans with bullets in
their head. So as a Republican most of the time,
as a great American, or if you're a business owner,
if you're a restaurant owner, if you work, if you're
delivering food one of the delivery services, you're a hard worker.

(27:24):
Maybe you're a good teacher or a loving parent, or
a patriotic American to fly the American flag. The place
to be is not New York City or Los Angeles
or Cincinnati. It's in the suburbs. Some of my cynical
friends say, just let Cincinnati burn and we can watch
with binoculars and go ooh and ah as the city
goes right down the crap or get some popcorn. Don't

(27:46):
put me in that category. The city is worth saving,
but the citizens have got to work somehow to save themselves.
The first thing to say if a person has a difficulty,
the first thing to say if a person has a
problem is number one.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
You got to save yourself. You know, when you're in a.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Plane, when the flight at tenants say, if something happens,
put your mask on yourself first, then help others. And
that's the case. The city must save itself. And the
city doesn't mean that doesn't seem to care. In fact,
they're talking about more of the same, So there'll be
more shootings, more killings, more open air drug use, more graffeity,

(28:24):
more homelessness, higher cost because that's what people voted for.
And one of the other sicker aspects is what happened
in New York City. New York City has the largest
Jewish community outside of Israel.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
It's about eight hundred thousand.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
They just elected a man who openly celebrates wars of
genocide launched against Jews, refuses to criticize what happened in
October the seventh. And there's another group that he put
together called Jews for Racial and Economic Justice posted videos
in which four rabbis encouraged fellow Jews to vote for
Ma'mdani that he possesses the acaim to make housing affordable.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
No, he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Housing is collapsing literally in New York City. I have
a story from New York Times that federal authorities have
taken over the housing Authority in New York City because
it is so poorly run. It's unbelievable. Every socialist in
history has failed, and he will be no different. But
to bring about your own demise by encouraging the election

(29:22):
of a mayor when he supports Hamas who wants to
kill Jews, is particularly despicable. So you know, I often say,
we get what we deserve. And right now the city
of Cincinnati has gone hard left, like it's not in
its entire history. I had hopes and thoughts that one
or two dissonant voices, diversified voices would get on council,

(29:45):
especially Smitherman or list Keating, and it simply was not
to be because their name were not on the blue
Golden ticket to election. Ryan James might be a nice guy,
but he has no clue what he's doing. He's the
newest council member, and I'm always suspicions of mail and
vout mail in balloting and voting and how that goes.
So what can be done? Well, do you give up

(30:06):
not this great American? Do you say, Okay, we lost
a popularity contest, therefore my principles don't apply anymore. Boy,
I don't think so. I don't think so. So I
want to have hope. Three principles of Charlie Kirk where
God family in America? Do those principles still apply? If
you want, If you listen to Mom Donnie yelling for

(30:29):
forty five minutes last night. You heard none of those
principles whatsoever. It's about what e purbus unum. From many,
there's one, From one, there's many, And New York City's
become a hodgepodge of those that remain when functioning Americans
have left. And if you're a police officer in the
city of Cincinnati, the message was sent to you that

(30:50):
your cares and concerns will not be those of the
mayor and the city manager. That the police and the
firefighters are demoralized, thinking, okay, it's going to get worse,
not better. When the police union issued a vote of
no confidence against have to have Peer of All, the
idea was maybe that would have some measurable impact when
law enforcement says this guy's not doing the job. Not
only did the voter say you're wrong. Instead of getting

(31:12):
eighty two percent of the vote, Pure of All got
seventy eight percent of the vote, So I guess it
was worth four points, but no more than that. And
still only twenty five percent of the elector had voted
twenty five percent. And in Congress, the President had a
little powwow this morning with the Republicans. Two weeks ago
they put up a stand alone mission, stand alone, we
got to pay air traffic controllers in TSA. And I

(31:34):
watched this morning. Air traffic controllers were on the CNBC
squawk box and they're braking right now. They said, within
a week or two, the air traffic system in this
country will be irretrievally broken. And so two weeks ago,
the Republicans put up a standalone bill, stand by itself,
pay air traffic controllers slash TSA.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
The Democrats did, No, don't pay them. So they put
up a stand alone bill on SNAP and foodstand the
EBT cards. Just do that and that alone. Democrats said, no,
we want hungry, we want planes falling out of the
sky because it's more chaos, and that fits the election,
which was yesterday. Then they put up a standalone measure,

(32:13):
let's pay the military.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
What happened.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
John Thune from South Dakota put it up, stand alone,
just by itself. Democrats know, Democrats do not want to
pay SNAP benefits. Democrats don't want to pay the military,
and Democrats don't want to pay TSA air traffic controllers
stand alone measures, just pay them, and Democrats said, no,
we need chaos. In order to win at the ballot box.
Was some perceived they did win at the ballot box.

(32:38):
Now what will happen, Well, it's not good in the
city of Cincinnati. There will be more crime, more open
air drug use, more debaucherous misbehavior, more Patrick herringers, There'll
be more kids are going to be shot, There'll be
more murders than twenty thousand shots will become thirty thousand shots.
And business owners like Pepin Dolores and others, a fine

(32:59):
restaurant is in trouble and they know it. The owners
are suing each other, according to the inquiry because of
all the capitol calls. That means we need money to
keep the business operating. That's all bad. So we get
the government we deserve and away we go. Let's continue
with more. Stay tuned. If you want to hear from
a young man who is energized by this is Gabe Guderini.

(33:20):
He's the Dayton Turning Point, USA Field Representative University of
Dayton will be here, the flyers and hopefully, hopefully America
will wake up before it's too late, and it is
getting late. When Jews and Rabbis in New York City
urge that a Muslim fanatic who supports a moss becomes
the mayor. We got problems When the chief law enforcement

(33:45):
official in the state of Virginia wants to put two
bullets in the head of his political opponent and watch
the opponent's children die in their mother's arms. We got problems,
be goes. Being right doesn't mean you're popular, and being
popular doesn't mean you're necessarily right.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Twelve fifty five.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Home of Era Bengals is Radio seven hundred WW by
Billy Cunning him the Great American. Of course, the murder,
the assassination of Charlie Kirk has shaken the nation to
some extent, maybe not as much as all of us
would like, because it appears that about one third of

(34:23):
the American people consider that to be a good thing,
believe it or not. In fact, there's a new an
NBC News poll that one third of self identified Democrats
one third say political violence is sometimes necessary against some
political opponents.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
That's one third.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
That's tens of millions of people who kind of think
political violence might be acceptable. Jonan You and I Now
is Gabe Guiderini. He is the field representative for Turning
Point USA here in Ohio, and Gabe, Welcome to the
Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, before we got
onto the politics of the day, can you tell me
the impact and the effect that the murder I call

(34:59):
him the same Paul in the twenty first century Charlie
Kirk had on the movement as at this point about
six weeks out.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Well, it's just been and thank you for having me on.
It's just spending an incredible, you know, moment for the
whole team. It's been a really tough two months for
the whole team. And really what we've been trying to
do ever since what happened on September tenth is to

(35:29):
try to ignite something in people from what Charlie started,
to help his memory live on. And that's what I
believe we're going to be working to do, especially in
the run up to twenty twenty six, and especially after
what happened last night, especially for young people like myself.
It was hugely impactful what happened. It was it was

(35:51):
a huge wake up call, and I think that there
needs to be more of a message translated to more
young people and more people of all age groups about
what happened and about what this means for the country
because we saw what happened last night with Jay Jones,
who fantasized about murdering a Republican lawmaker and his children.

(36:12):
We saw what that meant for. You know, he didn't
face any consequences for it. So we have to message better.
We're going to continue to fight for what Charlie built,
and we're going to continue to try and live up
to his legacy.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Oh, Jay Jones. That just briefly, Jay Jones said things
like three people. I only have two bullets. I have
my political opponent, a guy named Gilbert. I got Adolf Hitler,
and I got Paul Pott. That means the Republican gets
two shots in the head, and that means Hitler and
Pole Pott must live. He also talked about watching his
political opponent's children die in their mother's arms. And most

(36:47):
of the pundits said about Jay Jones in Virginia, you
know what that guy's done. Not only did he win,
he won by four percentage points, and so political assassinations
are acceptable and rhetoric concerning them to a chunk of
the Democratic Party today and to me, of all the
results of Mom Donnie winning in New York City and

(37:08):
Mikey Cheryl winning in New Jersey. Those weren't shocks. But
when the chief law enforcement officer two years ago, when
he was in the General Assembly in Virginia talks about
murdering your political opponent and watching his children die in
their mother's arms as two kids, almost I mean, I
don't know what to say. Was that a shock to

(37:30):
you more than anything else?

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Yeah, it was a shock, And I didn't really realize
that we had come to this point until now. You know,
a lot of people have been talking about how radical
the left has become and how radicalized the Democratic Party
has become. We kind of saw it a lot after
September tenth, with the reaction that a lot of them had,

(37:55):
which was very vile to Charlie Kirk's assassination, but we
didn't really think that it would translate to votes Democratic Party.
And in many ways, it's really you know, it can
draw a lot of pessimism to the point where we
now recognize that in many cases the time for debate

(38:16):
has ended, and in many in many you know, in
many ways, what we're seeing right now is that they're
not looking to have a debate with us, They're not
looking to understand our position. They're focus on vitriol. They're
focused on vitriolic rhetoric, and they believe, and many of
them do believe, that Republicans already are an inherent threat

(38:39):
to their life and there's no reasoning with that. You
cannot talk about taxes and you know, all the actual
issues that Republicans campaign on to people with that type
of mentality, Republicans have to dig in. And this is
what Turning Point Action has been doing. I work for
Turning Point Action, which is the five one four electoral

(39:01):
wing of Turning Point. We're not focused on debating the left.
We're focused on beating them in elections and swamping the
ballot boxes with voters who are fed up with what's
going on with Democratic politicians across this country. And we're
just going to keep doing it, and we're going to
build up more to infrastructure so that we can get

(39:22):
more people out to vote. Republicans are just not enthused
to vote when Trump isn't on the ballot in the
same way that the Democrats are fixated on every single
person who has a Democrat label by their name. And
this is kind of the Republican parties. You know, we're
kind of honorable to a fault. Right Republicans they pick

(39:44):
and choose their candidates. They care a lot about the
quality of their candidates. Democrats will vote for any vile,
vitriolic person with a D by their name at the
ballot box. We have to make sure that our voters
know who's on the ballot, what's its stake every single
election cycle, and that takes turnout. And when Trump is

(40:04):
on a ballot, we have to build the infrastructure to
be able to get good people out to vote. That's
what we're focused on doing.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Gab Guinnerini. The turning point USA Field Rep. When someone
like Mom, Donnie and I don't know if you're up late,
but I'm kind of a newsgeek and I watched the
whole thing last night. He's yelling and screaming at large
numbers of New Yorkers in New York City attacking Donald
Trump from New York City. I watched our mayor have
to have peerival.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Much of his.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Speech was all about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is satan andcarnate.
He's the boogeyman. They run against him in the city
of Cincinnati. They run against Donald Trump. And the fact
that Donald Trump's half brother was on the ballot, meant
that Donald Trump was.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
On the ballot.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
And the only way we can win is a Republican
democracy is to have and informed electorate that understands past
the hype that the Republican Party stands with the three
things Early Kirk believed in above all else. Number one
is God Almighty. Number two is family, and number three
is America. Those are the three things. And you seldom

(41:08):
here about God, the family, and America when you have
liberal Democrats talking about the greatness of our country, Mom,
Donnie did not talk about God, did not talk about family,
did not talk about America except what people can suck
out of the system. And so when, for example, about
two weeks ago, the Senate Republicans put up a standalone
bill to get rid of the shutdown. Okay, you don't

(41:31):
want to continue a cr which is Biden spending, All right,
let's just put the work air traffic controllers in TSA.
Just that group. The Democrats said, no, keep the air
traffic controllers out of the skies. Number two. They put
on a standalone bill funding food stamps. Let's fund SNAP.
Democrats said no, We're not going to fund SNAP. And

(41:52):
then they put up a standalone bill, let's pay the military.
You would think Democrats would say in the Senate, Yeah,
we gotta pay the MILLI now the Democrats said no.
They're in the business of inflicting as much pain as
possible upon the American people, hoping the American people not
being informed. We'll blame Donald Trump when the Democrats vote
against funding the military.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Can you smell when I'm cooking?

Speaker 4 (42:16):
I can, indeed.

Speaker 6 (42:18):
And a big part of that is because historically the
Democrats have had more money than the Republicans, and the
Democrats are the ones being funded right now. You know,
this isn't the old days of the country Club GOP.
The Democrats are the party that were the financial drive.
The financial machine of the party is being driven by

(42:39):
our nation's richest billionaires and it's powering their financial machine.
It's keeping them going in a big way. And Republicans,
we may not have the financial advantage right now, but
what we do have is the advantage in that we
have more people who truly believe in what we say.
We have more people who are actual god fearing patriots

(43:01):
in this country who believe what we say and believe
in the ideals that made this country great and in
the ideals that Charlie Kirk believed. Then we just have
to tap into that. They don't have people. You know,
here in Ohio, for instance, like half the majority of
the counties in Ohio don't even have a functioning Democratic

(43:21):
party apparatus at the county level. Every county in Ohio
has a Republican party apparatus. We need to tap into
our manpower, and our manpower is not It doesn't need
a financial machine to drive it. It just needs passion
and enthusiasm and training. And that's what Turning Point Action
is trying to do. We need to make sure that

(43:42):
we can turn these people into soldiers for their neighborhoods
and help make sure that they're able to get their
neighbors out to vote and inform them about what's going on.
That takes building up a lot of infrastructure to make
sure that that happens.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
And gab a lot of work lies. The midterm is
going to be critical. If, for example, the House of
Representatives turned into the hands of a king Jefferies, there
goes to Trump agenda. It's over with. Here comes all
the impeachment bills. It will continue and God forbid if
they take the Senate also and they have the presidency,
then it's going to be Puerto Rico is going to

(44:18):
be a state, Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Is going to be a stake.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
They're going to have fourteen justices on the US Supreme Court.
The Democrats will get rid of the filibuster as soon
as they can, and it's a consequence. The country is
going to be completely different than it is today. But lastly,
I'll give you one another atlantidote. I got a call
from Turning Point USA person in Miami University close to you.
You're in Dayton, but this is in Butler County largely,

(44:41):
and they had five and six people coming to their
meetings about six months ago. Now they had five or
six hundred. Have you notice on college campus as a
yearning and desire here in Ohio to have a functioning
Turning Point USA and to turn these minds of mush
college kids into marching soldiers. Have you noticed the difference
and where the interest level.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
The interest level is suit of the roof. I mean,
ever since September tenth and what happened to Charlie Kirk,
young people are just fired up and they're seeing what's happening.
They're seeing the direction in which this is heading. And
even you know, here's the thing. Before September tenth, I
would say a majority of college students on my campus,

(45:23):
which is the University of Dayton, are you know, lean
to conservative. They lean towards the political right on the issues.
They were you know, they didn't like the Democrats. They
don't really like you know, Biden. They didn't really like
what was going on with Kamala Harris, but they were apathetic.
They were more focused about, you know, doing what college
students do. But ever since September tenth, what has happened

(45:47):
is these young people on our campuses have woken up
in a big way. They're starting to realize this is
where our country's headed. And I may be, you know,
these people may be in college now, they may be
you know, just doing the college things, you know, trying
to enjoy the experience. But they're realizing when they're out
of college, what's going to happen if the country is

(46:10):
on the track that it's on right now, if the
left is on the rhetorical track that they are right now,
and they're really concerned about it, and they're starting to
wake up in a big way. They're realizing we have
to do something about this now or else as soon
as we're out of college, we're not going to have
an enjoyable life to live, let alone our kids and grandkids.
So that's really what's driving it and the amount of

(46:34):
growth that turning point USA chapters across the state and
College Republican chapters. I'm chairman of the Ohio College Republican
Federation as well. We have twenty two chapters across the state.
What these campus organizations are seeing is rapid growth, and
it's really you know, the important thing is just to

(46:55):
not just get people in the room, but also to
activate those students to be able to make that difference
in their friend groups and their communities and their neighborhoods
at the ballot box. It's not just about bringing people
into a room, it's about equipping them with the tools
and knowledge necessary to be able to go out and
make that difference outside of the chapter.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Well, Gabe, that's what we're trying to do.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Jame gourney Reny, I got to get your website. But
it's about God, family and America and seldom on Democratic
Party functions, you see a lot of those activities, hopefully
in a Republican and if you capture some kid eighteen
or twenty three years old committed to the calls, more
likely to stick with it. Gabe, what is the what
is your website? If college kids are others listening around

(47:39):
the tri State would like to be in touch.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
For Turningpoint USA, which is our five o'h one C
three with the campus chapters. It's TPUSA dot com. I
work for Turningpoint Action, which is the electoral wing that
is tpaction dot com. And we work with the Republican Party.
We do the ballot chasing.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
And too good luck to you and full you think
it's over, it's gonna none. The Democrats are doing the
Macarina right now. And for a Democrat to win in
New York City or Virginia or New Jersey or California,
it's not startling and surprising that they wanted to moralize
people like you to think, Okay, you've lost, we won.
Know your role. Shut your mouth, Gabe, go back to
the books. Forget about the organizing college kids. Because the

(48:19):
days of God and family and faith are done. That's
the message that they want to give to you. And
I sense you have not received. You may have received
that message, but you push back against it.

Speaker 6 (48:28):
Correct, absolutely have. Their celebrations are going to be short lived.
We're going to come back with a vengeance.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
God willing, God bless America.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
All right, Gabe Guiderini, thanks for coming on the Bill
Cunningham Show the day after the election, and we'll talk later.
And God bless you, and God bless America, and God
bless the family of Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
God bless, God bless you all. Let's continue with more
and if a line ever becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine,
seven thousand, Bill Cunningham News Radio, seven hundred WW because.

Speaker 7 (48:58):
As we all know, elections matter and when folks vote,
they order what they want, and in this case, they
got what they asked for.

Speaker 8 (49:14):
Hello, I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
So you had something to say about Scott Sloan. Is
that I didn't I see something. She's going to run
again for president. Yes, she got about as much chance
as me. Please run again. But let's go on to
Scott Sloan and his pet below the water. That's true, Willie.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
I was.

Speaker 9 (49:37):
I was absolutely mystified today when when Scott Sloane called
you the al golden of elections because everybody you backed
yesterday went down hard hard.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Can I respond to that?

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Well?

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Go ahead? I mean it's it's a reflection of the Trumpster, right.
Can I respond to that?

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Go right ahead? What what is he? Can I respond
under that? Go ahead?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
My record of picking winners is pretty damn good, I
would say so.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
When you have an electorate in an urban area doesn't
care about schools, drug use, shootings on the city streets,
blood running against the curbs, you have violence running a muck.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
I love that word, a muck.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
And the Democratic voters in Cincinnati don't care. R Houston,
We've got a problem what you got. But one thing
I did say, the Deer Park Community School Levy was
critically important. It was like sixty to forty yes, because
it costs twenty dollars a month more in order to
keep There's only two buildings there. There's Amity, which is
the grade school. Then there's a high school junior and senior.

(50:41):
And now it's well funded the top ten school districts
in Hamlin the county, and the test scores are through
the roof, athletics are near the top. It's a walkable community.
The students pay attention. They walk on one side the
other side of the hallway during classes. It is a
great place to go, and I earn and I'm glad
that was the big one. Now, this other charge of

(51:03):
one Scott Sloan to compare me with Al Golden is
really not accurate, true, because I'm not going to get
fired anytime soon. No fact is Sloan he's never complimented
me for all the right things that I've done and endorsed.
I will not accept his non endorsement and the torpedoes
below the water line criticizing the Great American for my selections,

(51:27):
which turned out to be quite poor.

Speaker 9 (51:29):
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local Temestar heating and air conditioning dealers. Temestar quality you
can feel in Cincinnatikos Schmid Heating and Cooling five one
three five three one sixty nine hundred or what. And
I think it's supposed to have snow flurries or snow
showers on Monday, that's right, So you better call and

(51:50):
get the heat.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
To get torn Star right now with Andy Buker, it's
I got twenty six degrees.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Let's see, will he Red's Update.

Speaker 9 (51:57):
Get the latest on the Reds tonight and baseball on
the twenty twenty five debut of the Hot Stove League
Classic six oh five here on seven hundred WLW with
Tommy T and Jimmy D their special guests with he
Reds manager Terry Francona.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
I like that he's doing a great job with the team.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
We have to get right now.

Speaker 9 (52:17):
I think it's up for right yes, bed Online. According
to Lance bed Online, who he? I guess he bets
a lot. Free agency begins tomorrow in baseball, Kyle Schwarber
odds of getting Kyle Schwarber eight the Reds at five
to two. I mean, I mean like five to two,
or yeah, Mets three to one, or the Phillies Cubs

(52:41):
four to one. What about Yanks five to one? What
about the Phillies? They're not I didn't look. The Reds
not up They're not up there with the Reds pyroll
twenty million.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah, and he's probably gonna get forty million a year.
I don't know, is that right? Thirty gofund me. The
Reds have twelve players that are eligible for arbitration. I'll
tell you yes or no in each one Brady Singer yes,
Nick Lodolo yes, TJ. Friedele yes, Spencer Steer yes, Tyler

(53:15):
Stevenson yes, Gavin Lux yes.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Matt McClain, go to the next one.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Will Benson yes, Sam mal no, Graham Ashcraft, go to
the next one. I said, what about Matt McClain. I
just said, Matt McClean, But what do you say? I
don't know they're gonna pay either that or gonna He's
gonna make more than he ever did. Is he had
a good career. He could have signed for sixty million

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dollars for five years. Oops. Let's see, will the Bengals up?
They brought to you my goods.

Speaker 9 (53:50):
Oh wait a minute, we got the the Reds have
announcer spring training schedule. I guess they played the Indians
on Uh, let's see February twenty four of on a Saturday,
February twenty first, the Reds Cactus League schedule begins, uh,
Saturday afternoon against the Cleveland Guardians.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
You can't say Indians segment.

Speaker 9 (54:11):
Then they got a Then they got a home game
on Sunday versus the Mariners.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
What about the Indians? What about the marri plate they play?

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (54:20):
What about the Guardians. They only play the Guardians once once?
What twice?

Speaker 4 (54:26):
Three?

Speaker 9 (54:27):
No, this is in the spring. They also have a
home game on February fourth against Cuba. Eh, I guess
they're traveling. They're traveling around to they're they're they're coming here.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I wouldn't go to Cuba if how was the Reds.

Speaker 9 (54:43):
No, not with a Cuban missile crisis upon we got
the socialist Bengals are off now, will you till let's
see the bye week. They're off until Sunday, Bengals, So
let's see what else Ohio State number one team into
first rankings released by the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
What about UC?

Speaker 9 (55:04):
Indiana two, Texas A and M three, Notre Dame is ten,
Louisville fifteenth?

Speaker 3 (55:09):
What about UC?

Speaker 1 (55:10):
They're not in it? What about Shamar Stewarts from Texas
A and M from tam.

Speaker 9 (55:15):
Well, he's got about as much as many tackles as
I do. Here's the guy that Bengals out to look at.
Senior linebacker from the UC bearcatch Jake Golday Golden, he
leads the Big twelve with eighty tackles this season.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Go get him.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
I think that's more than the entire defense has had
so far.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Get him.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Shamar Stewart's on track to equal his production in college.

Speaker 9 (55:38):
Also high school sports, Congrats to Seaton, They're going to
play for the Division one state championship Saturday. Anthony Wayne
got By Anderson. What about Madeira, Baden's gonna play for
the state title Saturday? The Rams, Summit Country Days going
through a three peat, and the Amazons of Madeira go for.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
A state title Saturday. They had out Anchorage Fairbanks two
to one. Kenzi will bring them in if they win. Matsudo, correct,
ken Zy, We'll bring them in. And I think next
next week we're through the Mason Tennis. You told me
Wednesday it was the Mason Tennis.

Speaker 9 (56:13):
Ohio boys soccer semi finals tonight. Good luck to Saint X,
the home of Rocky Boyman, Kings Maje, Rams, Rams, Wyoming
and Summit Country Day.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
What about Lakota turning down to half a billion dollar school?
Levy dror Park passed those easily because of Chris Euster
and Peggy Boss and Jim Stall and Harry Yeagy. Yeah,
and all of a sudden, Lakota having a little half
a billion dollars, They got money problems out there, then
we all ought to be concerned. Half a billion for
a bunch of schools.

Speaker 9 (56:45):
Let's see Major League Soccer announcing the FC Cincinnata's Evander
named to the twenty twenty five MLS Best Eleven, recognizing
the top players at each position. He is a midfielder,
so he's on the special group along with Messi Messy

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and it's it's a winner go home Saturday.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
Will he?

Speaker 1 (57:10):
You know what happens o'clock? I got Jeff Burning on
Friday to talk about Columbus Crew v our beloved orange
and Blue. Twenty shots on goal in the second game
in Columbus won by Cincinnati, nineteen by the Crew and
four what in the net? We're talking team that's good.
Have one shot on goal? They got to get the

(57:31):
crew man. They got to I think the Crew might
have their number.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
I don't know. Have they beaten the Crew when it mattered?

Speaker 1 (57:39):
I don't think. So we're gonna check it out.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Are you remedy.

Speaker 9 (57:44):
Somebody's got to be a winner in this town, somebody, somebody,
and and FC Cincinnati's it because the Bearcats don't play Saturday.
They got a bye week and the Bengals have a
bye week at the same time.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Impossible.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Thank you, so really this this weekend is going to
be a little.

Speaker 9 (58:00):
Yeah, we got Bears basketball Friday. Everybody plays Friday. Xavier
plays Lemoyne, Lemoyne, Lamoyne like a Legionaire's disease.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
What is that? I think they're balley based out of
out East Lemoyne. I never heard of Lemoyne. But by
the way, I'd add a little bit of glory. Sean
Miller and his debut for the Texas Longhorn Meat by
the Dookies got drilled in the Dicky v Classic. My
good friend Jimmy Packer was another one that I love
that guy. But nonetheless, the uh, nobody at Xavier wishes

(58:34):
Sean Miller well any more than the faithful that you
see like Brian Kelly or Notre Dame doesn't care much
for Brian Kelly because of what he did to the
Fighting Irish. And now Brian Kelly is gone, and the
speculation is he's not going to get another job of
any note. He's he'll probably end up on TV like

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everybody else. He's not very good on TV. Well, not
like Tony Pike. I think Tony Pike's future is he's
still working here, by the way, Yes, I think his
future is in television. He's an attractive young man. I
like Tony Pike, me too, from Ready should have won
the Heisman that year. Sean Miller, What about Sean Miller?

Speaker 3 (59:12):
What about him?

Speaker 1 (59:13):
Is it Texas?

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Yeah? Good luck to him. Really.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
I do not wish him personal ill whatsoever, but I
hope he fails at basketball.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
That's my point.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
And see, there were many in Xavier who took a
risk on him to bring him back the Victory Parkway.
And when he left, he did not call the one
or two important people that caused his reclaiming from the
garbage jump of coaching after he had his problems in Arizona.
That's an outreach. Didn't call the one or two guys

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that made it possible for him to return. He simply
snuck out of town late at night, like the Colts
going to Indianapolis. And all I can say is I
wish him fine as a person, but as a coach.
I don't like the disloyalty that Brian Kelly and Sean
Miller showed to the faithful that UC Notre Dame and Xavior.

(01:00:05):
Do you agree, Yeah, you do agree, you do. Now,
coming up after two o'clock today, we scheduled Jungle Jim
and the mayor of Fairfield. How about that. That's pretty good.
They're going to be here because Joe Nusall's second home
was Fairfield. He was hamiled to Joe, but he lived
in Fairfield. So I want to support fair Jungle Jim,

(01:00:27):
so you can get anything there. I mean from A
to z Bnano's out. They say his name jungle Jo.
I call him Jungle Jim.

Speaker 9 (01:00:34):
He got that monorail out. We get that monorail all
the way around that out, A ride all the way
around two seven before.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
You want to ride on that with me? Wait to
go up there. I do that that there would be
like some scene from some cartoon, you and me up
there together. Yeah, say give me out of the student's report, please.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Willie and honor of a beautiful day here in the
tri State.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
But before you proceed, there were rumors yesterday that you
could not find your pulling place in Middle Tucky.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
We found it, the home of Colics, right next to
our house. You found it. You went looking for it
and it was next door. Yeah, now that is stupid.
This it was it's fifty days till Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
What about Red's pitchers and catchers?

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
Ho?

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
Ho one hundred and forty one days still opening? What
about Bengals in the draft? The three and six I'll
ask you a question before you continue. Let's say Joe
Burrow can come back. It's the middle of December and
the Bengals record is four and nine. Yeah, do you
let Joe Burrow play anymore? He's gonna he's gonna get
hurt again.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
I don't think it's the CAF. The Bengals will. Yeah,
he's gonna play. He's gonna play. Yeah, he's gonna.

Speaker 9 (01:01:39):
I'm gonna get ready for another, get ready for next year.
But I'll tell you one thing. I wish we had
the uh wish we had the picks that Jets are
gonna have.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
They got three first rounds next year, about three second's
their own.

Speaker 9 (01:01:51):
They got four all and then they got three first
round picks.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
They got them all and four In twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
South Gardner goes in the bottom of the top from
the Outhouse to the White House, You're not kidding, goes
to the Jets, to the to the Colts. Yep, not
bad a segment. Please continue, It's all I got. You
haven't got me out of this.

Speaker 9 (01:02:07):
We leave you with the immortal words of the Stood Report.

Speaker 10 (01:02:12):
At some point, the foolishness has got to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
When you're having him on again, talk to him about
once a week. Oh okay, it's just going to make
sure that communication is still there. What about the city? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
What about the future? Supreme Allied and commander.

Speaker 10 (01:02:29):
Deeply disappointed at where we are tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
He kind of wished the City of Cincinnati would use
his services more, the services and instill to use him more.
Don't you justice? Joe No No? Who Liz Keating the
Dwight D. Eisenhower of Butler County, Richard K. Jones Bingo,
who said he wants to take over the city and
rule it for ninety days to get it back in order.

(01:02:54):
Plus this morning I ran into my friend Dwight Tillery
and I told Dwight, the former mayor of Cincinnati, your
noted for one thing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
You know what it is?

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
He calls me, Yeah, we're down the hallway and says,
would you like to have James Brown on? I said
the broadcaster. He said, no, the Godfather. He brought me
Sole brother number one. He brought me James Brown on
news radio seven hundreds by Billy Cunningham, the great American.

(01:03:29):
Of course, Fairfield, Ohio is one of the great communities
in the Tri State. Run with an iron fist by
Mayor Mitch Rhotis. He had a special event a couple
of nights ago for Jim Montomineo, who's the owner of Jungles. Jim,
and first of all, Mayor Mitch Rhotis, welcome to the
Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, Mayor, what kind
of event was scheduled a couple of nights ago. How
did it go? Give me a full report?

Speaker 11 (01:03:52):
Hey, well, thank you for having us on the show.
It was a great event. We had about one hundred
and seventy five people there. We invited a lot of
jim friends from grade school up to college and they
came and roasted him, and we had plenty of material.
As you can imagine, he gives us plenty of material.
So it was a great night, a lot of fun.

(01:04:13):
And I don't know that he actually got embarrassed at all,
because these stories went on and on and on. So
I think the statute of limitations had expired on most
of them, So we're good.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
You know, before I talked to Jungles, Jim, can you
give me some perspective, Mayor, how does Fairfield, Ohio a
great community? Am I to ed the home at Joe
Nuxall and some of other great great stuff? How do
you view the difficulties in the city of Cincinnati as
far as the crime, the open air drug use as
a mayor of another smaller city, how do you reflect

(01:04:44):
upon that?

Speaker 11 (01:04:47):
Hey, you know, we're really blessed up here in Fairfield.
We don't have anything like that. You know, we enjoy
Jungle being a part of our organization, you know, the city.
Anywhere in the state I go, I mentioned Jungle gyms
and everybody brings it up. He's a major fixture in
our city and we love him having him here. He's
growing constantly. If you haven't been here, every time you come,

(01:05:11):
it's a new thing to see. I recently brought a
guy up from a I'm sorry from Chicago over the
weekend for the football game and bought him over here,
and it was two hours, and so I got to
be here another two more hours.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
So we love Jungle.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Unfortunately, the city of Fairfield.

Speaker 5 (01:05:27):
That we don't have any of those issues up here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
All right, let me talk to Jungle Jim Bottom Minio
and Jim, I've read some of your story about the
fruit stand.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Let's go back in the beginning. How did you begin before?

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
Before we do that, I want to go back to
the mayor. Okay, as I want to knock on wood.
He says, there's no crime over here. I'm superstitious. I'm
on knockout woods.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
I like to see how the politicians kurt the issues.

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
He went right around that he did.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
But you know, politicians very good on avoiding. It's it's
a dodge, it's a duck. It was very good at
ducking dodge and not answering the question. He's good about.

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
This was a beautiful They could talk for forty five
minutes and you could talk to.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Somebody to what he say.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
I don't know what good you're going to vote form you.
I'm gonna vote for him.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Now that's politics. I'm glad you're not in politics.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Let's go back to.

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Oh no, no, talk to me. Could do that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
I could talk for half and I bet you good.

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

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Let's talk about the history. Go back fifty some years,
because many young people are listening. Concerned about the future.
They don't know what's going to happen AI. You know,
a jungle gym store is not really governed much by AI.
So how did you have the vision? How did it begin?
Tell the story of Jungle Jim over them.

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
The greatest country.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
I started with absolutely positively nothing. I started a little shack.
I took showers outside. If the police, the city of Hamilton,
if they would have went by and they would have
saw Sudds going on the sidewalk and somebody taken a
shower outside, they probably would have locked me up, all right,

(01:07:00):
than a gas station. This is the land opportunity. These
young people take the damn field and play. Don't listen
all these people saying, don't play, don't play, you take
that damn field.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
So in the beginning, when you're telling me taking a
shower outside selling fruit, and I'm thinking, how, what do
you mean?

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
Go ahead?

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
No, what happened was every place I rented, all right?
I read it to use Carlo. Okay, it's a real
small little building. Most of it's blacked up because they're
selling carts. So in a small building there was two offices,
a bathroom and a little utility room. So we rented it,
me and my roommate from college. He took one bedroom.

(01:07:45):
I took the other. So we had a bathroom. So
you got to take a shower, Yeah, I mean you
got to take a bath. So I didn't know what
to do. So we went outside in the back and
we put two sheets apply with us, took the uh it,
took the little pipe, you know, a little copper tubing
with a little spray nozzle, and we took showers outside.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Hmmm, I hope you got to do what you have
to do, right, So how did it go from that
to jungle gyms in east Gate and Fairfield? Tell me
fifty years They had that big surprise party for you
a few nights ago.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Talk about slowly building the business.

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
Well, wait a minute, I go back to another shower.
I was over there at Marymont. Over there, right down
the street from that was a burger king that big
what was it, right down the main building for Burger Kings.
I wanted to fresh proper, okay, Chris, Yeah, I was
right down the street. I was right down the street.

(01:08:48):
But there we rented a gas station, the same thing.
Where do you take a shower? We took two of
the bathrooms. We took one bathroom, ripped out the toilet
and that's where we took showers. Lived in the gas
station for two years.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
And when you were living in the gas station, what
were you doing during the day.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
I was working, I was I was going down to
the bottoms where the you know, where the stadiums are,
pick up the produce. I'd put it in the truck,
I'd drive it, drive it to Fairfield, I'd sell it.
And then we had a little stand in Merrymont.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
We sold that Marrymont. And guess what happened the next.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Day at five in the morning, I went down, bought
the produce, sold the produce. Jack I guess what happened
the next day, went down to the bombits and you always,
you know, you always, you pay.

Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
A dollar, you want to sell.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
It for a dollar and a half, and you keep
on going. And here we are fifty years later.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
Well, so you're in a service station fifty years ago.
Now you have two locations, Eastgate and Fairfield. There had
to be wins and losses, problems, fright, whatever it might be,
over the past fifty years. Jim, was there some point
in your career that you thought, boy, this ain't gonna
make it. While you were going this ain't gonna work.

(01:09:56):
Was there any point the last ten or twenty years
you said I can't do this anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
Did you ever do that?

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
No, not not the last ten and twenty. When I
first started out the last three four years, I would
take everything, I'm telling you, all my business possessions. If
I took it, put it on a tree lawn and
put free on it and be still there the next day.

Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
So what I gave up, I was going to give
up a couple of times because every year the money
I made, i'd have to pay back just to open up,
because they would kick me off the location. I'd have
to go set up my shack someplace else. Until he
came to Fairfield.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Yeah, Fairfield was good. Fairfield.

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
That was another street.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Well when you came, Yeah, when you came to Fairfield
fifty years ago, describe Route four in Fairfield fit.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
What did it look like fifty years ago?

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
Oh? My god?

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
You know what across was Major Fisherbody, all right, a monster.
And I was right across the street from Fisherbody.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
Again.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
I had my little shack, all right, And I remember
one day I was spraying at Pea Green with a
spray gun because we had to open up for the summer,
you know. And I looked across the street and the
guy told fish your body the windows. Everybody was waving,
and I'm going, gee, this town is so friendly, you know.
So I started waving back, and the guy starts running
across the street to my dad. He said, hey, kid,

(01:11:17):
turn off that damn spray gun. We got green speckles
out our windows.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
I thought he was being friendly.

Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
That's your language, Jim, you're you're okay, Okay, I'm sorry
I thought I I thought I.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
Was on.

Speaker 5 (01:11:30):
Bill O'Riley.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
Wage go ahead, okay, I'm double take.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
I'm gonna clean it up right now, all right, clean
it up.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
If somebody had taken you from that point fifty years
ago to today, you would have that would have been impossible, correct, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
I mean, I just every day it's a challenge. Every
day I come here and I think to myself, what
can I do to satisfy I talk to us, What
can I do different?

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:12:01):
I'm still doing it right now. The only difference is
I don't walk that past anymore. No, what's the future
getting around the store.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
Yeah, yeah, right, Jim, Jungle Jim. What's the future like
in ten or twenty years from now? What do you
see happening in jungle Jungle gyms?

Speaker 5 (01:12:19):
Well, I don't know. I hope it's still here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
If I can't take it, I really don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
You know what, I'll tell you something. I think you've
got to live for yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
I'm having a good time, whether it keeps on going
or not, if someone.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
Else has a good time with it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
It's all about business is so hard nowadays, you know,
I don't have we want to get into all that.
It's a huge challenge, tough. You need to love what
you do to hit it. You need it, you've gotta
love it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
Mayor, Mayor Mitch Rhotis, let me ask you this, what
is the economic impact of jungle gyms in Fairfield?

Speaker 11 (01:13:00):
Wow, it's pretty cool. You know there was a residual.
He has sales tax, he has seven hundred employees that
paper seven Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:13:15):
And and of course the residual that the people that
come here and shop they shop elsewhere in the city.
They go to restaurants, they go to other stores. Uh,
it's got to be huge for us, huge for us.
So you know we love Jungle, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
Yeah, and I know it was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
There was one event at the Oscar Events Center a
few years ago. I went there and met a young
politician named jd Vance who was being asked to go
to the Butler County Lincoln Day dinner. And that's where
I met jd Vance at the Oscar Event Center next
door there attached your facility, and he was nervous. He
said to me. He's written this book called Hillbilly Elergy.

(01:13:56):
He said, I'm a little bit nervous. Would you mind
instead of me giving a speech, would you mind sitting
next to me unless the two of us just go
back and forth on my book. Because you know I
don't give a lot of speeches, I said. Jadvansaid, that's
what you got to do. That goes better sometimes. Don't
prepare a forty five minute speech. How about I'll read
the book, I'll come up with some questions and answers.
And that was the last time I'll go to the

(01:14:17):
Oscar Event Center with him. I want to come back again.
Segment wants to know, Jim, what about that monorail? Is
it still operating?

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Yeah, it's still operating.

Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
You could go from we have a bourbon bar on
the other side of property.

Speaker 4 (01:14:30):
So big events so turned around and use it as.

Speaker 5 (01:14:33):
An after party before. So I'm like, they'll go sid
the Oscar, then they'll go to the bourbon thing. Hey,
you know you talk about Jad events. He was over
the other day, called up and he wanted to shop,
and he says, can I get in a little bit early?
I said, yeah, we're here five in the morning. Come on,
Zoe shopped.

Speaker 4 (01:14:49):
This and that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
My god, the cars out there and the Secret Service
and everything.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
It was loaded right.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:14:57):
The next day I'm supposed to meet it. People are
coming up to me in Saint Geez to what I
hear you got rated by ice? Got rded by Ice?
What do you say about ice? I yeah, JD was
just shopping. JD was shopping. You know, I say, I
saved the I saved the receipt. In about another twenty years,
I might sign.

Speaker 4 (01:15:17):
And release it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
Well you know what, the files they were released, right,
the files they won't leave.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
You got video of him shopping. You improve it. But
I often say, Jim got it, I got it all.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
Baby.

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
He gets to be president. That's my ticket.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Well, I hope he's done here many many, many times.
He loves his place. But you go there once, you
want to go ten times. Well, Mayor, we got a
run in Jungle. Jim Bonamineo. I hope you have fifty
more years of service. It is a unique business. You're
one of the stars of the tri State, starting as
in the service station. Now you got a multi million
dollar operation. It's tough today, but it's always been It's

(01:15:51):
never been easy, Jim. It's always been difficult.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
But it's not easy now.

Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
No, but this is a great country. You young people.
Take it. Oh, listen to all these people say you
can't do it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Yeah, because you did. And I say, if you can
do it, anybody can do it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:06):
If I could do it, anybody could do it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
All right, Mayor Rhodis, thank you, Jim Bonaminio, Jungle Jim's
thank you very.

Speaker 5 (01:16:12):
Much, Thank you, Thanks Will, thank le Buddy, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
God, blessurell. Let's continue with more a little bit colorful
in his language. Understand, Dave was able to catch two
and that's about it. But nonetheless he's one of those
characters reminds me like a Ted Gregory, or like a
like a Jeff Ruby, something that's kind of unique. It's
been around for fifty years. And I ran into Mayor
Rhotis and said, I'm doing this surprise fiftieth party for

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Jungle Jim on a Wednesday, and I couldn't make it.
But I said I can't make it. I'll tell you what.
He's one of those characters that wears so well. And
congratulations to his success and more. Let's continue and if
line becomes available five one, three, seven, four, nine, twenty
two Home of your Regin Bengals, Bearcats and Muskies. Here's
Radio seven hundred. Wow, all right, let's continue. And I

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don't know if you saw the interview yet of Jesse
Waters and Fox News with Erica Kirk, but it is
startling the bravery encourage of the widow this woman. And
she said to the authorities that she wanted to see
her husband's body for the last time, as I'm sure
many would have done in that circumstance. She has to
spend some time alone with his body. You can imagine

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the condition it was in an hour an hour and
a half after the murder. And she said that quote
Charlie had this smirk on his face that smirk that
smirked to me is that look of you thought you
could stop what I built. You thought you could end
this vision, this movement, this revival. You thought you could
do that by murdering me. You have my body, but
you don't have my soul. It's what she read the

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smirk as being. She also said in another interview that
at the moment of his murder, he was welcomed by
Jesus Christ as a good and faithful servant. Also, she
addressed the fact that after the murder, her daughter is
four years old and the son is still about two
years old. Of tender years, but almost every night she

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sleeps with her children to comfort them, and that her
daughter continues to ask, where's Daddy?

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Can I talk to him?

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
And Erica Kirk said, well, just look up to the
sky and start talking to him. You can hear him.
It's always good. And I told her daddy, Daddy is
in heaven with Jesus. She goes on to say, do
you think I could visit him now? And Mom would say, baby,
we'll all go there one day. We will all go
there one day. And since her husband's assassination, Kirk said

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she refused to live in fear. She told Jesse Waters
that I'm not afraid. Charlie wasn't afraid either. We never
lived in fear. If we did, we wouldn't get any anywhere,
get nothing done, quote unquote. When you look at the
recitation of this by Erica Kirk and what she went
through with a political assassination, assassination by someone on the

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opposite side of the political spectrum, it puts in perspective
the idea that a person in Virginia who is now
the Attorney General elect in the state of Virginia, Jones,
has said two years ago that he wants to put
two bullets in the head of his political opponent and

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watch his opponent's children die in their mother's arms.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
And when I read.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
The NBC News question, about one third of practicing Democrats
would said that in some circumstances political violence is acceptable.
It depends who the person is. So we having a
violent time and the violence. My attitude is the violence
must stop now. It cannot continue. But to have a

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woman as brave as Erica Kirk talk about seeing her
husband's dead body and with that little smirk on his face,
thinking you think you killed my movement? Not exactly you
have my body, you don't have my soul. Let's quit
talking about violence in political ways. Democrats do it quite often,
trying to put bullets in the heads of Republicans. Hopefully,

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in the future, Democrats won't vote for such candidates. Two
thirty Homie reads in Bengals News Radio seven hundred Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:20:16):
Good afternoon, Cincinnati. I have a proclamation from the desk
of the Mayor. Be it proclaimed. Whereas the Cincinnati Bengals
are headed to Burrowheads Stadium for their second.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
Consecutive AFC Championship game.

Speaker 7 (01:20:28):
Whereas that last year's game, the Bengals scored more points
than the Chiefs, resulting in a Bengals victory and a
Chief's loss.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Whereas Joseph Lee Burrow, who's three and.

Speaker 7 (01:20:38):
Er against Mahomes, has been asked by officials to take
a paternity test. It's confirming whether or not he's his father.
Whereas all season long, Cincinnati has been on a path
of destiny, fighting it out to overcome anyone who stands
between them and a Super Bowl win.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
And Whereas Kansas.

Speaker 7 (01:20:55):
City is named after its neighboring state, which is, you know,
just kind of weird. Now, Therefore, I have to have
pure ball mayor of the City of Cincinnati, do hereby
proclaim January twenty ninth, twenty twenty three, as they got
to play US Day in Cincinnati, thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:21:13):
Oh hello, hello, hello, buyet and I'm skokes, I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
You voted.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
God.

Speaker 6 (01:21:26):
Hey, I've got some wise words for that Cincinnati mayor.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
No, your role is shut your mouth, you Joe Brody,
that's our own. Jason Kelsey, the mayor is trying to
be and he got and he got voted in, he
got voted in, he got voted in landslide, Ryan slide.
And a comment like that, well we call it the
curse of the af tap the Fangles will never again

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go to the super Bowl or anywhere else. Would you
agree as long as he's the mayor, could they go
to the super Bowl this year? Those segments, soo, let
me ask you this now, could they Oh wait a minute,
he's going to be mayor for four years, four more years?

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
What's next? The President of the United States?

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
He wants to be US senator, governor and Secretary General
of the un lemon Kearney is the next mayor because
she's getting a little old. Hell, she's in her seventies,
I think, But she's the top vote getterer, and people
want you know what, you know what?

Speaker 9 (01:22:21):
And council didn't change nobody in one one one one.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
The eight incumbents. All incumbents were elected. The other Democrat
was selected also Chris Smitherman and Liz Keating. Liz Keating
got within ten thousand votes and Chris Smitherman got within
thirteen thousand votes.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
So let me guess they lost in New York City.

Speaker 9 (01:22:43):
They lost here, they whateverwhere else for New Jersey it's
all because towns.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Who's that blame? Who gets t Trump? Blue ash too?
Everywhere but Lakota, Lakota. They don't want to down hills
for a half a billion dollars. What about the owls?
Deer Park passes Levey because of Jimstall. No I had
a small part, but Jim Stall, Chris Houster, et cetera.
And the teacher's got it done. You know, teachers come

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to Deer Park. It's the Hotel California. Once she teach
at Deer Park, you go nowhere else?

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
Will he?

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
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Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
What about Taytay? What about Tay Tay? I don't have
an update.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Is she pregnant?

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
I have no idea. What about Jordan Hudson? What about her?
She's pregnant?

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
I know.

Speaker 9 (01:23:42):
Tommy Brenneman's got North Carolina this weekend. He'll see Cincinnati,
He'll see Bill Bellis.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
About the past, nothing about the future, Tommy, Tommy asked
the questions of Jordan.

Speaker 9 (01:23:53):
The Reds have announcer twenty twenty six spring training schedule.
They'll open up the Cactus League schedule, please Saturday twenty
first against those Guardians. They played Cuba on March fourth
ahead of the World Baseball Classic.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
Where do they play Cuba in Havana?

Speaker 4 (01:24:09):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
In Arizona?

Speaker 1 (01:24:10):
Good and two scrimmages count of won two scrimmages against
the Brewers at Milwaukee just days before opening day March
twenty third and twenty fourth. More to night on the
Hot Stove League, starting at six oh five. Right here
on seven hundred w weld you a special guest with
Tommy t and Jimmy d will be manager. Terry Francona

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up for National League Manager of the Year.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
Will he win? I think he will me too.

Speaker 9 (01:24:39):
Pat Murphy, I mean the Brewers are good, but and
I mean Rob Thompson and Philadelphia had a great year
because of Schwarber and Harper and the pitchers.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
But fuy his way. As far as predictions, as far
as above or below expectations, the Phillies performed below expectations.
The Reds performed above expectations correct because the Phillies, you know,
they had Nastale champs. They were going to be World
Series all right. But the rest the meg of the
playoffs for that little Red engine, that that was a

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he above.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
He performed above expectations.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
Amen.

Speaker 9 (01:25:13):
FC Cincinnati's Evander has been named to the twenty twenty
five MLS Bets eleven squad.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Is he related to Vander Hollyfield.

Speaker 9 (01:25:20):
As the league recognizes the top players at each position.
Evander has produced an eighteen goals and fifteen assists so
far this season. Winner go Home Saturday, Game three, first
rout of the MLS Playoffs, TQL Stadium, the site, Columbus Crew,
the the Orange and Blue.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
Well I have Jeff Birning on Friday to talk about
to the faithful, because we need a professional team to
win something.

Speaker 9 (01:25:46):
Would you agree, yes badly. Let's see high school sports.
Let's see Seaton will play for the Division one soccer
title Saturday, home in the st Let's see Anthony Wayne
got by Anderson one, Nill Baden will go for a
state title Saturday. Summit Country Day looks for a three
peat Friday, and your Madera, Amazon's unbeatable go for a

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state title Saturday, edging out Fairbanks.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
They've won before, they can win again.

Speaker 9 (01:26:14):
Good luck tonight to the Ohio Boys State soccer semi finals.
The Saint X King's Baden, Let's see Wyoming, the home
of the Cowboys, and Summit Country Day are all going.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
For in the state semi finals. In soccer. I like
Sean Miller losing a Xavior. I do not wish him
well on the court. I wish him well off the court,
but on the court because of what he did the
Xavier that's a name that will live in infamy.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
But they lost by about what fifteen last night.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
To the Deduce and the Dicky v Classic and as
Xaviers and Action against Le Moyne tomorrow night. What about
UC It's a school out of Syracuse, New York.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
Could they get to the CFB? Who Bearcats?

Speaker 9 (01:26:59):
I don't know, they're not they're not in the rankings
but college football rankings. But they're number twenty five in
the nation. Well number one in your heart? How many
teams make it as a twe Ohio state number one
in the first rankings, Indiana two, Texas A and M three.
Those are the unbeatens. Rocky Boyman's fighting irish or tenth.

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The Louisville Cardinals are fifteenth.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
So see what happens?

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
I think if you see wins out and then goes
to the Big twelve championship game, they'll probably be in there.
Then then they're in right, and we got action? Remember
the glory days of the Final four? U see football playing?
Do they play Alabama role?

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
Ted?

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
I think?

Speaker 9 (01:27:42):
And the Bengals are in the Super Bowl. So much
action going on. We couldn't even.

Speaker 3 (01:27:46):
Cod that ever happen again.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
Well, the Bearcats be in the Final four CFB and
Bengals Bengals in the Super Bowl. No oh Laugham says, no,
what which one is saying? Number sixty three? Dave I
mean six. I think it was sixty. I'm sorry that
the people are a dress. Announcers said sixty three. They're

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always right. I'm just saying that's a problem. Would you agree?
We and so I don't know what we do from here,
but as a group, we got some problems. And I'm
looking at some of the thank you some of the
experts talk about where is Kyle Swarb gonna go? Might
add that Buster Olney does not have him and the

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top seven teams coming to the Reds.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Let me guess he's picking the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Number one place to come. I think it is number one,
he says, Philadelphia. He's staying number two. He says, the
Mets number three, the Cubs number four, go back to Chicago.
The Yanks are coming. Those are the four, of course,
number five or the Dodgers, I said, Dodgers. Don't they

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have Freeman first base? I think I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:29:01):
But you know, you know what, paying forty million to
be at DH why not? Well, so what's coming to Well?
What do you do with Otani? He doesn't play much
in the field, except like.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
To go to that baseball The owners meet starting I
think Monday someplace. I think they go to Vegas to
meet Monday, the GM's and all that stuff. I like
to walk in that room and say, gentlemen, how about
revenue sharing fellas? No, no, don't start throwing tomatoes at you.
How about how about Bryce Harper? How about some caps
on salaries?

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
Again?

Speaker 9 (01:29:32):
I guess the Chicago Cubs said they are not going
after Kyle Turner.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Or Tucker.

Speaker 9 (01:29:38):
Kyle Tucker, I mean he wants to He wants a
deal at least worth three hundred million.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
What thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
He didn't play the season, thank you. He wants at
least three hundred mil. The Dodgers are interested, aren't they?

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:29:54):
But you know what that investment of shoey Otani. Wow,
he's at seven hundred million and it's paid off because
they've got advertising and all that stuff and merchandise of
seven hundred plus million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
They're just they're just.

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
Bathing in cash bags of cash out in Los Angeles.
And Jay Billis has picked his top sixty eight teams
in March Madness. Neither Xavier nor you see what is
in the selection well.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Figures and not Miami, not n KU, where's Kentucky?

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
They're picked to finish twelfth be seated seed at the
third or three or four of twelve or I don't
know what to tell you, but it's gonna be a cry.
Has there ever been a time with Xavier and U
see repeatedly have not gone to the big show because
it's happening now?

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Yeah, it's happening.

Speaker 9 (01:30:44):
Well with this nil stuff and the changeovers in in rosters,
will you I mean, heck, you know, you know, I
mean you know probably these football coaches don't know half
the team anymore. Of course, they're paying out the big
dough Ray and the mee for both football and basket ball.
What are they playing paying out for like the women's
teams and all this stuff? How much is all this

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travel costing? Like when you Ohio State goes to Oregon,
Oregon comes to Maryland hundred grand?

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
I don't know, two hundred grand. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
It's money, though it is some serious dough, the ray
in the meat. It's curious money. But that's the way
it is today. More fans want to watch like Oregon
at home to play Indiana, which they never would have
done except correct for the big ten element.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
It would never have done that.

Speaker 9 (01:31:32):
And then look at the travel that you see has
to put up with. Now, Oh, Texas tech all over
they're going all over. Yeah yeah, get back at what
eight o'clock in the morning. I'm not sure there's student
athletes anymore. I have my doubts they're athletes, yes, student.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Now, how do you get the government to come back
into business? Well, right now, what's Willie's plan the Trumps
are going to do? You have the unions that support Democrats, say,
Democrats vote to open the government. You have shall we say,
the retirees getting government pensions, open up the government. You

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have the air traffic controllers and they said this morning
I watched CNBC. The head of the union said, we're
we begin with we're three thousand controllers short right now
and and a third of us or under such stress
that we're taking more more off time. If this isn't settled,
he said, by Sunday, they're going to shut down several

(01:32:31):
routes across the country. And then you have the TSA
not getting paid. And TSA says, wait a minute, I've
paid for a month. I've not been paid for a month.
You could probably go a month. How do they get
that paid back. What they do get paid back over
so many times. But if you missed the month, you

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might get paid it back in two to six weeks
from now because none of the checks are going out.
So what do the Republicans say. I tell you what,
Chuck schum Let's have a standalone bill by itself. Let's
vote to fund the air traffic controllers and tsay, you
know what, Chuck Schumer said, naw bah bahanah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
The next day, Okay, you don't want to fund those guys.
How about funding the military? You know what, Chuck Schumer said,
now bah baanah, don't fund the military. And then and
then John Thun of South DA Code has said, you
know what, let's fund snap benefits a stand.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Alone that's food.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
Food you know what, Chuck Schumer said, now bah baah correct?
And then what if the media covered this thing objectively?

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
It's truthful.

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
He's saying that Democrats are the crew not allowing the
government to open, but they just want to make the
president look bad, it's all and that how come and
they they've taken in the past. I saw something today
where it's like they're saying, we went with extensions like
past midnight of the deadline, and we've always come to
we always come to an agreement, working out this time.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
No now ba banana will now one guy.

Speaker 1 (01:33:59):
The election's over, right, So now there's enough chaos they've caused.
And now the media perceives Democrats of having won the election.
So now they're going to say, Okay, we'll get to
settle within the next week. They want to more pain
inflicted upon those who received government benefits and government workers.
I have numerous texta government workers telling me they were Democrats,

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but they can't take it anymore.

Speaker 9 (01:34:22):
No kidding, it's wrong. I was going to say, if
they do that, aren't those people voters? Yes, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
God, like you could go a month or two without income.
God like me's got to work like a dog every day.
You kidding, not really, segment, get me out of the
student's report, please.

Speaker 9 (01:34:37):
Well they had out of a beautiful day here in
the tri State and cold temperatures and snow showers coming.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
You better play golf today.

Speaker 9 (01:34:43):
We leave you with the immortal words of the stud report.

Speaker 10 (01:34:48):
At some point, the foolishness has got to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
Mike is right, But to stop that, the Democrats need
to win a certain US Senator crap told me that's Joe.
Chuck Schumer needs a win. Now. He can't be perceived
as backing down. So you have to come up with
something to make Chuck Schumer feel as if, Okay, I won.

Speaker 9 (01:35:11):
So this is a battle of wits, yes, between the
Trumpster at Big Chuck.

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
Big Chuck both live about a head.

Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
Well, we'll see what happens, won't we, Well, Joe right now,
and at some point this madness has got to stop.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
We're going to see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:35:24):
At some point it's got to be you know what,
I've gotten all I can get out of this thing.
We won Virginia one, New Jersey one, New York one. California.
We won Anderson Township, we won share, we won deer
Park one. The kids won in deer Park because of
Jim Stall. But nonetheless, he's got all he can get
out of us. So now it's time to say, okay,

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let's take the win. Come up with something, push it
off to the side, and say, whatever your objections are,
let's deal with him later. Let's open the government. And
Chuck Schumer, still at this afternoon, said no, won't open it.
And now the President says, well, get rid of the filibuster.
If you do that, next time the Democrats control the Senate,
we're gonna have fifty four states. They're gonna bring in

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Puerto Rico, Washington, d C, Fiji, and a bunch of
other places. Expand the US Supreme Court without the fellowbuster.
Now we've got serious, serious problems. So sec all I
can tell you is keep hope alive. I don't have
much faith, but I have lots of hope. Yeah, segment,
thank you. Let's continue with more coming up next to

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Eddie Fingers, the Living Legend and Radio Eddie Fingers and
also his sidekick.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
Do we know who's sidekick today? Maybe Jason Williams of
Pride of Marshall. Let's go with him on News Radio
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