Speaker 1: Right back on the Big One, seven HUNDREDLW twelve O
Speaker 1: nine Dan Carroll in for the great American Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 1: And it looks like we have survived another Snowmageddon. I
Speaker 1: am told that people like Brian Comb's, people like Chuck Ingram.
Speaker 1: That's a couple of savvy, savvy veterans right there who
Speaker 1: have driven in all kinds of conditions. And they even
Speaker 1: got caught up in the teeth hair. And I that
Speaker 1: was all over the roads this morning as people were
Speaker 1: trying to get to wherever they were going. And I
Speaker 1: asked Chuck Ingram this morning, I said, what about the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. We know about seventy one the cut
Speaker 1: in the hill. We had some tractor trailers that were
Speaker 1: jackknifed on the cut in the hill, causing massive backups
Speaker 1: on I seventy one, I said, but what about the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. He said, By all accounts, it looks
Speaker 1: like things went pretty well in the city of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: which is kind of nice. So I'm giving props to
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. Not one hundred percent sure that
Speaker 1: they went about it in the right manner, but it
Speaker 1: looks like, at least for now, they've escaped the worst
Speaker 1: of the worst. Joining me now is the man who
Speaker 1: would have been mayor of the City of Cincinnati if
Speaker 1: only he would have got another fifty six or fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent of the vote, And that is Corey Bowman.
Speaker 1: And Corey Bowman welcome the seven hundred WLW just got
Speaker 1: edged out by about fifty seven percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: It was pretty close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just about by the hair of my chinny chinshin
Speaker 2: right there. Well, first of all, thank you so much,
Speaker 2: Dan for having me to all your listeners. I hope
Speaker 2: you guys had an amazing Thanksgiving and you're enjoying the
Speaker 2: beginning of the Christmas season here.
Speaker 1: Well. Absolutely, I hope you and your family had a
Speaker 1: great Thanksgiving. And I know Christmas is a big deal
Speaker 1: for you, but is it Is it almost better having
Speaker 1: been beaten in a thoroughly convincing way rather than having
Speaker 1: maybe lost by by one or two points. Now that
Speaker 1: you look back on it and have has a little
Speaker 1: time to digest this, well.
Speaker 2: I mean, so this is actually one of my first
Speaker 2: I think this is my first interview since the election.
Speaker 3: You know, it was really this family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I just want to personally say
Speaker 2: thank you to every single person that not only voted
Speaker 2: for us, but anybody that knocked on a door for us,
Speaker 2: put a flyer out, shared a post for us, because really,
Speaker 2: you know, at the beginning of it, this is our
Speaker 2: first political race. You know, we're fairly new into everything
Speaker 2: that we were doing, and we all I wanted to
Speaker 2: set out to do is run the best race that
Speaker 2: we could, to expose the issues, to start the conversation,
Speaker 2: and ultimately, you know, give the city a chance to
Speaker 2: see where we are politically on these local levels as well,
Speaker 2: because we were the first Republican candidate in sixteen years,
Speaker 2: and you know what you're seeing through the results. You know,
Speaker 2: if you look past the last five years, specifically in
Speaker 2: the one hundred and ninety one precincts of Cincinnati, whether
Speaker 2: it be with you know, the previous Congress races, whether
Speaker 2: it be with the Senate races, whether be even with
Speaker 2: the presidential races, you know, our percentages basically lined up
Speaker 2: with that, which is where about seventy five twenty five
Speaker 2: or you know, seventy eight twenty two or eighty twenty
Speaker 2: city when it comes to the party lines, And I
Speaker 2: think that from a local level, that's something that we
Speaker 2: really had to expose and see, hey, where are we
Speaker 2: at and what do we need to focus on for
Speaker 2: the future.
Speaker 1: So hopefully the race that you ran, which I thought
Speaker 1: you I mean, look for a guy at first time
Speaker 1: out that I know a lot of people are are
Speaker 1: criticizing the way you ran the race. But from my perspective,
Speaker 1: I thought you did a great job. I thought every
Speaker 1: time that I had you on this station, every time
Speaker 1: I heard you on the either being interviewed by another
Speaker 1: host or fifty five with Brian Thomas, when I saw
Speaker 1: you on TV, when I saw you during the debates,
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought the arguments you made, the positions
Speaker 1: that you presented were for those who would pay attention
Speaker 1: to it, were solid positions, they were grounded in reality.
Speaker 1: You obviously didn't and Purvoll made a I know during
Speaker 1: one of the debates have to have the mayor made
Speaker 1: a point to criticize you for not having all the information,
Speaker 1: but obviously you don't have all the information that he's
Speaker 1: privy to. But I thought, for the most part, I
Speaker 1: thought you ran You ran a campaign, and I thought
Speaker 1: your positions were reasonable and they were completely acceptable alternatives
Speaker 1: to what the policies are that we have now in
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate those words, you know, for us, you know,
Speaker 2: it's very hard in this political climate. And you know,
Speaker 2: obviously with to my brothers, which I'm not ashamed of.
Speaker 2: You know, my brother is the vice President of the
Speaker 2: United States, and that's something I'm extremely proud of to
Speaker 2: see what he's able to accomplish. But one thing that
Speaker 2: we tried to drive home as much as we could
Speaker 2: is that we have to run these city elections on
Speaker 2: city issue. You know, you mentioned at the start of
Speaker 2: the program the snow removement. You know, I have a
Speaker 2: coffee shop, and our coffee shop last year there was
Speaker 2: a week straight where customers couldn't come into our shop
Speaker 2: because the snowplile removal. Well this this morning, the snow
Speaker 2: file wasn't on our street, but it was only two
Speaker 2: to four inches in the downtown area and enough cars
Speaker 2: are driving by it to where people can get in.
Speaker 2: But I will say this, I want to give you know,
Speaker 2: the City of Cincinnati and credit where credits do, whether
Speaker 2: it be with the mayor or the city manager. As
Speaker 2: far as this first you know, major hit which you
Speaker 2: know two to four inches, I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: a major hit. But you know, I've watched Central Parkway,
Speaker 2: I've watched Lynn Street, I've watched all the streets at
Speaker 2: our main roads. And even last night, it was about
Speaker 2: probably one a m. Two am, right outside my door
Speaker 2: there was a snow truck. You could tell that they
Speaker 2: were ready. They were being proactive, and that's what we
Speaker 2: need from city government. We don't need people that copy
Speaker 2: and paste national politics. We need people that are going
Speaker 2: to be proactive when it comes to the city issues, crime, infrastructure,
Speaker 2: the budget being spent properly and obviously with the service
Speaker 2: is like plantation snowflower grouple.
Speaker 1: So Corey Bowman, I want to get back to the
Speaker 1: snow issue in just a second, but I was thinking
Speaker 1: about something. A week or so ago. I was asked
Speaker 1: by a caller on my on my nighttime show, and
Speaker 1: the caller said, how much help did Corey Bowman get
Speaker 1: from the local Republican Party? And I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that answer is. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I will ask him that when I get a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to him. But from my perspective, it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like you got that much help. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's true. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: help you wanted. I don't know how much help the
Speaker 1: Republican Party was able to give to you. So when
Speaker 1: I ask you that question, how much help were you
Speaker 1: able to get from the local Republican establishment, what is
Speaker 1: the answer that question?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this, you know, based on the results
Speaker 2: and based on maybe how people perceive it. You know,
Speaker 2: you can probably make your own assumptions. But from my perspective,
Speaker 2: Chairman Wrussell Mock, even Chairman Alyx from the state level,
Speaker 2: every time I reached out for any type of advice,
Speaker 2: any type of help, any type of event that we
Speaker 2: were holding, they were encouraging, they helped, they they were
Speaker 2: able to guide us in a lot of ways. And
Speaker 2: I think that, you know, one thing I did notice,
Speaker 2: the biggest thing I've noticed when it comes to if
Speaker 2: you want to focus on party, and you want to
Speaker 2: focus on let's say, the Republican Party the Hamilton County,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of different opinions, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of different backgrounds, and I think the thing that
Speaker 2: we need to focus on is, no matter who's at
Speaker 2: the top, if we can't unify together to be able
Speaker 2: to have organization, to be able to volunteer and to
Speaker 2: do the work properly, not based on all these very
Speaker 2: specific opinions, but based on a collaborative approach that, hey,
Speaker 2: we need to have conservative values back in Hamilton County,
Speaker 2: back in the city. That's where we're going to see
Speaker 2: the most done. And I think that's the work that's
Speaker 2: ahead of us because the Republican Party, you know, when
Speaker 2: they saw President Trump get in in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: we're seeing this right now that a lot of them
Speaker 2: just sit at home and don't want to get involved
Speaker 2: in these off year elections. We're seeing it right now today.
Speaker 2: There's a special election in Tennessee for Republicans seat that
Speaker 2: could very well flip Democrat if voters don't turn out.
Speaker 2: Because in these off yr elections, the organization and the
Speaker 2: structure and the unity of the other side in these
Speaker 2: cities are a lot better. And I think that's what
Speaker 2: we need to focus on. As far as help from
Speaker 2: the party goes. There wasn't one time where I felt
Speaker 2: like the Hampton County GOP wasn't on our side, the
Speaker 2: state GOP wasn't on our side. And I will say
Speaker 2: this too There's even people that are on the other
Speaker 2: side that are mad that the party even got involved
Speaker 2: at all because they're saying, hey, you're wasting money in
Speaker 2: the city election. We need to focus on other elections.
Speaker 2: And I think that mindset that you always need to
Speaker 2: put up a fight no matter what. You always got
Speaker 2: to be able to stand on your ground, no matter what,
Speaker 2: no matter how impossible it is. And I can say
Speaker 2: that Chairman Mok and even Chairman Alex and people on
Speaker 2: the GOP that they stood with us and they took
Speaker 2: a chance on us with this election.
Speaker 1: Well good because I look at this and I think
Speaker 1: it's a worthy effort. We haven't had a Republican mayor
Speaker 1: in the city of Cincinnati since nineteen seventy one, and
Speaker 1: changing things up and trying something different I think would
Speaker 1: not be a bad idea. What about local media do
Speaker 1: you think do you feel like you've got a fair
Speaker 1: shake from local media?
Speaker 2: Well, I will say this. I'm not going to call
Speaker 2: anyboy specific, but there were certain there were certain reporters
Speaker 2: and certain you know outlets that in the last three
Speaker 2: weeks I just basically, you know, refused to kind of
Speaker 2: respond to anything because over the course of the year
Speaker 2: I had responded to questions and then realized they were
Speaker 2: going to write whatever they wanted, no matter what they net.
Speaker 2: There was some any misquotes, or so many times where
Speaker 2: even if I didn't say something, they would spin it
Speaker 2: however way they want. I think that's something that we
Speaker 2: got to really look at when it comes to these
Speaker 2: city media outlets. You know, for me, there was some
Speaker 2: that were extremely fair, you know, the news organizations, the
Speaker 2: local channels. There was many people within each one of
Speaker 2: those outlets that were able to give us a fair share.
Speaker 2: But ultimately, you know, the overall mentality in perception of
Speaker 2: the city is dictated by a lot of these media outlets,
Speaker 2: and I think that we need to kind of focus
Speaker 2: back on the facts and not based on biased opinions.
Speaker 1: You mentioned earlier that you are the brother of JD.
Speaker 1: Vance and I think that was how you got introduced
Speaker 1: to the city of Cincinnati. Look, here's the guy who's running.
Speaker 1: Who's Corey Bowman. He's the brother of J. D Evans,
Speaker 1: Jada Evans. You know, it may encourage you to get
Speaker 1: in the race. Even though he knew it was a
Speaker 1: huge uphill climb. I think you knew it was a
Speaker 1: huge uphill climb, and it seems to me that fairly
Speaker 1: or unfairly, and I would believe unfairly, the Democrats centered
Speaker 1: a lot of their campaign or the re election campaign
Speaker 1: of a f tab pervol around that. In that a
Speaker 1: lot of what I heard during the course of this
Speaker 1: campaign was, oh, here's Corey Bowman, he's They wanted to
Speaker 1: tie you to the Trump administration. They wanted to try
Speaker 1: to tie you to JD. Vans and Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: say this is the way Trump is going to get
Speaker 1: Mega into the city of Cincinnati. And they knew that
Speaker 1: hardcore Democrat voters who are opposed to Trump, opposed to
Speaker 1: anything Mega, would respond to that. As you saw that
Speaker 1: strategy play out, do you feel like that was an
Speaker 1: effective part of the strategy that really took the focus
Speaker 1: off of the issues that you wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: and instead you had to combat this notion that you
Speaker 1: were the trojan horse to bring me into the city
Speaker 1: of cincident.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, for me, you know, whenever you look
Speaker 2: at all the questions, yes, that was always going to
Speaker 2: be the headline of everything of you know, Vice President J. D.
Speaker 2: Vance's brother. And you could tell probably about halfway through
Speaker 2: the year, I realized, oh, that's that's the main strategy,
Speaker 2: because they were sending out mailers that was basically saying
Speaker 2: MAGA was coming in.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't just me.
Speaker 2: You know, you had names on the ballot, like great
Speaker 2: names like Christopher Smithman, Is Keating, Steve Gooden and a
Speaker 2: lot of them. When you look at them from a
Speaker 2: politics standpoint, they're fairly moderate or they're just more common sense.
Speaker 2: You know, they're willing to work on both sides of
Speaker 2: the aisle to get stuff done for the city. But
Speaker 2: it didn't matter who was going to be on the ballot.
Speaker 2: They were always going to frame it is that anybody
Speaker 2: that wasn't on the nine endorsed candidates of the City
Speaker 2: Council and the mayor account or the mayor candidate whoever
Speaker 2: wasn't a part of that endorsed ticket was obviously MAGA.
Speaker 4: And they're here.
Speaker 2: To take your benefits. They're here to take this and
Speaker 2: that was a huge strategy that they had in the city.
Speaker 2: You know, you look at somebody like Liz Keating, or
Speaker 2: you look at somebody like Lakeda Cole, who's not even
Speaker 2: a part of any of those conservative movements. She's served in.
Speaker 2: I believe bond Hill for years and these people that
Speaker 2: have the name and recognition, that have the history with
Speaker 2: the city. I believe that the closest that they got
Speaker 2: to the lowest city council you know person, was ten
Speaker 2: thousand votes. So then you see that it wasn't necessarily Yeah,
Speaker 2: me and my who my brother is might have added
Speaker 2: to that, but they were going to spend that no
Speaker 2: matter what, because it's all about us versus them, not
Speaker 2: about city politics and actually doing what's right for the city.
Speaker 2: And we have to hold people accountable in city government
Speaker 2: for city issues.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Corey Bowman, we've got to run. But
Speaker 1: I know you've got the church, You've got the coffee shop,
Speaker 1: you've got the family. You've got plenty of stuff going
Speaker 1: on to keep you busy in the next election cycle.
Speaker 1: Do we see Corey Bowman coming back again for another
Speaker 1: run at the mayor's office.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this with all honesty. My main focus
Speaker 2: right now is just spending time with the kids, focusing
Speaker 2: on We just had a Thanksgiving outreach for our church.
Speaker 2: We're about to do a Christmas outreach and a bunch
Speaker 2: of other those stuff like that. In the West End
Speaker 2: working with schools and stuff. That's our main focus right now.
Speaker 2: But the vision for our lives, I've said this since
Speaker 2: the beginning, is to impact the lives of Cincinnati and
Speaker 2: whatever is going to help the region, whatever is going
Speaker 2: to help in that way, and we feel a peace
Speaker 2: of God behind it. There's not a lot that we
Speaker 2: won't consider. It's more so just in the timing of
Speaker 2: the Lord and making sure that we make those decisions
Speaker 2: when the time is right.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Corey Bowman, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the time today. I texted you after the results were
Speaker 1: in that I looked at what you did and I
Speaker 1: give you great credit for what you did, and you
Speaker 1: are the man in the arena and to me you
Speaker 1: will always be that. And whenever you want to have
Speaker 1: something you want to talk about, my airwaves or your airwaves,
Speaker 1: and I thank you for what you did. And anytime
Speaker 1: you want to come on the radio and get something
Speaker 1: off of your chest, please give me a call and
Speaker 1: reach out to me and I'll be more than happy
Speaker 1: to have you on. But Corey Bowman, all the best
Speaker 1: to you and your family, and I hope you have
Speaker 1: a great Christmas and a great New Year. And I
Speaker 1: hope we get a chance to talking again before.
Speaker 2: To absolutely thank you Dan for having me to you
Speaker 2: and your listeners.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Corey Bowman, the man who
Speaker 1: would have been mayor if only fifty seven percent more
Speaker 1: of those who turned out and look, voter turnout was
Speaker 1: what twenty seven twenty eight percent. That is an absolute
Speaker 1: shame and that is an absolute disgrace for the city
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati to only have twenty seven or twenty eight
Speaker 1: percent of the voters bother to go out and have
Speaker 1: their voices heard. Twelve twenty five, Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham,
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. Back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: Twelve thirty nine, Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham. Dave
Speaker 1: Keaton is running the big board in the seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW command center. We call him the Broadcast Sheriff. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
Speaker 1: eight hundred. The Big one phone lines are open. How
Speaker 1: was your drive in today? How was your drive in
Speaker 1: this morning? Because the early on it was not good.
Speaker 1: It was tough sledding out there early on. And I
Speaker 1: was up about five this morning, a little after five,
Speaker 1: and I'm checking the traffic condition because my wife has
Speaker 1: got to get out early, she's got to go to work.
Speaker 1: So I'm out there digging out the car, clearing off
Speaker 1: the driveway, doing all that stuff, and I'm watching. I
Speaker 1: turn on channel nineteen and I see Stefano DPA Trantonio
Speaker 1: and he's talking about Jackknife tractor trailers on I seventy
Speaker 1: one coming up to ken Wood Cutt in the hill
Speaker 1: and so that was not good. That was that was
Speaker 1: rough right there. And I knew that the city of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati had their snowplow tracker on. And by the way,
Speaker 1: before I continue on to this, I want to say
Speaker 1: thanks to Corey Bowman. I did not know that was
Speaker 1: his first interview post election. Corey Bowman. I refer to
Speaker 1: him as the man in the Arena because when when
Speaker 1: I think of him and I think of what he
Speaker 1: tried to do, I know that it was a huge,
Speaker 1: a huge undertaking with with little probability of success, that
Speaker 1: he put his name out there, he put his neck
Speaker 1: out there, put his his name and his reputation on
Speaker 1: the line to try and become the mayor of the
Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati. And so I texted him after the
Speaker 1: election was over and I said, you are the man
Speaker 1: in the arena, because I'm reminded when I think of him,
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of the speech at Theodore Roosevelt delivered in
Speaker 1: Paris on April twenty third of nineteen ten, and he
Speaker 1: spoke these words, It is not the critic who counts,
Speaker 1: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
Speaker 1: or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
Speaker 1: The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
Speaker 1: the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat
Speaker 1: and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up
Speaker 1: short again and again, because there is no effort without
Speaker 1: error and shortcoming. But who does actually strive to do
Speaker 1: the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who
Speaker 1: spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best
Speaker 1: knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who,
Speaker 1: at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
Speaker 1: so that his place shall never be with those cold
Speaker 1: and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. And
Speaker 1: those are the words of Theodore Roosevelt. And when I
Speaker 1: think of Corey Bowman, I think of those words and
Speaker 1: I think of that great speech the Man in the Arena,
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to get that in there. But
Speaker 1: I got up this morning and so I turned on
Speaker 1: five nine, twelve nineteen. I'm watching these young reporters and
Speaker 1: reporter ats drive around. And it's something that I used
Speaker 1: to do back in the day, because when it snows
Speaker 1: like it was this morning, you don't fly the helicopter.
Speaker 1: So I would get into the storm tracker vehicle and
Speaker 1: we had the cameras in the cars, and you're driving around,
Speaker 1: you're looking at roads, you're reporting what the roads were like.
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how many times I heard
Speaker 1: this morning. And if this gets under your skin the
Speaker 1: way it does mine, I want to hear about I
Speaker 1: hear these reporters tell me, Hey, if you can stay home,
Speaker 1: then stay home. If you don't need to be out
Speaker 1: on the roads, then don't be out on the roads.
Speaker 1: Take it slow, got to be careful out there. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, Look, if you're a reporter and you
Speaker 1: said that you rely on I call those crutches. You
Speaker 1: gotta do you really, you gotta be better than that.
Speaker 1: I know when I was reporting on snow conditions and
Speaker 1: I was driving out there. I would tell people to
Speaker 1: decide for themselves. I would talk about the conditions of
Speaker 1: the roads that we saw, and I would tell people
Speaker 1: what was going on. Hey, the snowplows are out here,
Speaker 1: the roads are being treated. If you have to get somewhere,
Speaker 1: you can probably get there. And the one thing I
Speaker 1: would tell people is you know what kind of driver
Speaker 1: you are when it comes to driving in the snow.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to honestly evaluate yourself and
Speaker 1: your own level of skill behind the wheel. And that's
Speaker 1: not to say that it's good or bad or anything else,
Speaker 1: but not everyone has the same skill set, the same
Speaker 1: skill level when it comes to driving a car. Myself,
Speaker 1: I think I'm a pretty good driver behind the wheel.
Speaker 1: I've been driving in snow for a long time. I
Speaker 1: can handle a lot of stuff. I don't have a
Speaker 1: four wheel drive. If I had a four wheel drive
Speaker 1: vehicle and forget it, game over, I don't have one
Speaker 1: right now, but I feel like I can handle it
Speaker 1: and the stuff that was out there this morning. Do
Speaker 1: I feel like I can drive in it? Yes?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can't. You have to evaluate yourself in an
Speaker 1: honest way on days like today, and I don't need
Speaker 1: young twenty something year old reporters telling me that I
Speaker 1: should stay home or stay away from the snowplows and
Speaker 1: the crews that are working the roads. Really, I don't
Speaker 1: need that. I know there's a lot of reporters say that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen it for years and years and
Speaker 1: years myself. I like to think that when I was
Speaker 1: doing that, when it was my turn to be out
Speaker 1: there on the side of the highway, I never said
Speaker 1: those words because I knew it bothered me and I
Speaker 1: figured it bothered other people. So I challenged myself to
Speaker 1: present that information in a different sort of way, and
Speaker 1: hopefully I feel like I did that. So how was
Speaker 1: your drive this morning? Five one, three, seven, four nine,
Speaker 1: seven thousand, one eight hundred the big one. The other
Speaker 1: thing I did is I knew the city of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: but what did we have? And I think it was
Speaker 1: right before the election. We had the city come out,
Speaker 1: the mayor was there, the city manager was there, other
Speaker 1: individuals from the City of Cincinnati. And look, by all accounts,
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati did a pretty good job today
Speaker 1: of getting things cleared. But I went to the website
Speaker 1: because I knew that the snow tracker was going to
Speaker 1: be up and running. I knew that this was high
Speaker 1: technology and mother nature were coming together, and according to
Speaker 1: the city, high technology was going to win the day.
Speaker 1: And so I go to the City of Cincinnati website
Speaker 1: and I go to the snowplow tracker, and I see this.
Speaker 1: I see the snowplow tracker is only active during full
Speaker 1: winter response operations, when DPS crews are working in twelve
Speaker 1: hour day and night shifts to cover the entire city.
Speaker 1: During smaller and more localized events, the tracker may not
Speaker 1: be turned on. And so I scrolled down where the
Speaker 1: tracker is supposed to be, and I've got a giant
Speaker 1: black square and I'm looking at it right now. Public
Speaker 1: viewer is temporarily under heavy server load and is unavailable. Well,
Speaker 1: what goold is high technology if it's unavailable? And we
Speaker 1: had the city manager and we had the mayor talking
Speaker 1: about hey, And of course this was after the failure
Speaker 1: of a snow event. I believe it was ten or
Speaker 1: eleven inches last year in January. Absolute failure, abject failure
Speaker 1: when it comes to getting the snow off the roads.
Speaker 1: One of the very basics that you're supposed to do
Speaker 1: if you are a city, if you're a city government,
Speaker 1: if you run the city, you've got to be able
Speaker 1: to clear the roads. And so we have this giant
Speaker 1: press conference. Hey look at this, we've got iPads and
Speaker 1: all the trucks. Now, to my way of thinking, I
Speaker 1: don't know how good an iPad is when it comes
Speaker 1: to clearing snow. It seems to me it would be
Speaker 1: very inefficient trying to use an iPad to clear a scop.
Speaker 1: My wife has an iPad. I don't have one, but
Speaker 1: I don't know how much snow you can scrape away
Speaker 1: with an iPad. An iPad is good for getting on
Speaker 1: the internet, playing some games, reading a book, stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to clearing snow, I'm not really
Speaker 1: sure or how good that is. I would much rather
Speaker 1: have seen some brand new giant salt trucks and snowplows
Speaker 1: rolled out there, maybe fifteen or twenty of them, big
Speaker 1: ones with big blades on them. Hey, look at what
Speaker 1: we have. We came up short. We knew we had
Speaker 1: an aging fleet. We knew that a lot of these
Speaker 1: trucks were out of service, about twenty percent of them.
Speaker 1: When the snow comes next time, trucks are going to
Speaker 1: be in service, trucks are going to be working, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have plows on the road. And then in the
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati, you've got a lot of situations where
Speaker 1: you have residential streets, whether the streets aren't all that
Speaker 1: wide and people who live there don't have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to park in driveways, or if they have multiple cars,
Speaker 1: maybe they can't get one car in a driveway and
Speaker 1: the other car has to be on the street. I
Speaker 1: would have liked to see some smaller vehicles, maybe some
Speaker 1: pickup trucks, maybe a few gaters with snowplows on them,
Speaker 1: maybe ten or fifteen pickup trucks with smaller plows able
Speaker 1: to get through tighter areas, to plow those streets in
Speaker 1: smaller areas. And then people who really know the city
Speaker 1: like the back of their hand. This is a tough
Speaker 1: city when it comes to understanding the streets, when knowing
Speaker 1: the hills, knowing what needs priority. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: factors that go into it. By all accounts, today the
Speaker 1: city did a pretty good job. But this notion that
Speaker 1: you've got iPads and all the trucks, we've got cameras
Speaker 1: all over the place, that somehow that is going to
Speaker 1: be the answer when it comes to clearing the streets. Look,
Speaker 1: when it comes to clearing snow, you need equipment, you
Speaker 1: need hardware, you need people who know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: If it was me, that's that's where I would have
Speaker 1: put my priorities, and I would have made it a priority.
Speaker 1: Let's get some new vehicles in here, Let's get some
Speaker 1: more plows, Let's get people who know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, eight hundred, The big one.
Speaker 1: How is your drive in this morning, jeff In, jeffy
Speaker 1: 're in Xenia. How are things up in Xenia this morning?
Speaker 5: Well, we got about six inches overall, and actually the
Speaker 5: roads were done very well. I mean I'm cruising on
Speaker 5: the roads right now and they're nice and clean and
Speaker 5: nice and salted, and actually they're very passable. I just
Speaker 5: wanted to make a couple of points, you know, getting
Speaker 5: back to your reporters. You know, if you've lived in
Speaker 5: Ohio for any amount of time, snow is not that
Speaker 5: unusual here. And it seems to be that, you know,
Speaker 5: everybody forgets that we do get snow basically between December
Speaker 5: and sometimes March.
Speaker 1: That's a fact.
Speaker 5: And sometimes it's it's deep. Sometimes it's not. But it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, snow mageddon. You know, if we get more
Speaker 5: than two or three inches.
Speaker 1: It's snowmageddon.
Speaker 5: And it amazes me that these people think that, you know,
Speaker 5: it's a brand new that it's never happened before, because
Speaker 5: most of the people out here, you know, it's okay,
Speaker 5: it's another day. To take a little slower, maybe take
Speaker 5: a little bit more time, but there's.
Speaker 3: No big deal.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, it's it is the largely when
Speaker 1: events like this happen, it is the news directors who
Speaker 1: make that call. The news directors say we're going on
Speaker 1: their early, we're going to have extra people in, we're
Speaker 1: going to have people on the streets, and a lot
Speaker 1: of times the news directors, at least during my time
Speaker 1: in the television business, the news directors were not from
Speaker 1: around here, so they didn't they had different perceptions of
Speaker 1: what snow coverage ought to be. But God forbid that
Speaker 1: you decide that this snow event is not all that important.
Speaker 1: And look, I think this morning I think the snow
Speaker 1: that came down in the over nine hours, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the morning shows they should have had the crews
Speaker 1: out there they should have had. But God forbid. If
Speaker 1: you're a news director and you decide maybe it's not
Speaker 1: all that important, and you're the news director, it's a
Speaker 1: channel twelve, and then the boss looks at channel five,
Speaker 1: looks at Channel nine, looks at Channel nineteen. Hey, they've
Speaker 1: got all this going on. Why don't we have this
Speaker 1: going on? Guess what that news director was gonna be
Speaker 1: looking for another job recent So you.
Speaker 5: Gotta, you gotta, you definitely have to anticipate this stuff
Speaker 5: because it's uh. I mean sometimes I would say the
Speaker 5: weather people are fairly accurate, but not.
Speaker 1: Always the best.
Speaker 5: And I was really surprised because I was expected it
Speaker 5: to come in about seven o'clock last night, and I
Speaker 5: went to bed about eleven and it still hadn't really
Speaker 5: started snowing.
Speaker 6: And I woke up this morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was about four inches. So it did a
Speaker 5: pretty good job overnight. And you get a dump like that,
Speaker 5: which is unusual for Ohio to a point. I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, you get a couple of inches, but or
Speaker 5: four or five inches. It does make a difference in banks.
Speaker 5: The road's a lot less travelable, But you know that's
Speaker 5: people just need to relax you know it's.
Speaker 4: No big deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, Jeff, as a grown adult, do you need
Speaker 1: a young television news reporter telling you to take it
Speaker 1: slow and maybe allow for some extra time and maybe
Speaker 1: bundle up as you go outside. Do you need a
Speaker 1: news reporter to tell you that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I don't, and I get I get. I get fairly
Speaker 5: upset too. Is when they make sure you know when
Speaker 5: they're doing the report, and make sure you put your
Speaker 5: jacket on, make sure you have your gloves and hat.
Speaker 1: Put your head and gloves. Jeff, thanks for the call, man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Say saved the great show. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go. Let's go to Melanie of Cincinnati and Melanie,
Speaker 1: you're on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 7: Well, Hi there, good afternoon everyone.
Speaker 1: H'm Melanie.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 7: The first thing I want to do is say thank
Speaker 7: you to all the men and women who help clear
Speaker 7: the streets. Thank you so much for.
Speaker 3: Your good work.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's a good thought.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And secondly, I wanted to offer a tip. I
Speaker 7: still live in northern Michigan and my husband refused to
Speaker 7: drive me everywhere, even though I was from Cincinnati and
Speaker 7: didn't have any snow driving skills. So what he had
Speaker 7: me do was late at night when stores would close,
Speaker 7: like Walmart. He would take me to a parking lot
Speaker 7: where there were no cars around and give me an
Speaker 7: opportunity to feel what it feels like to slide out
Speaker 7: and know how to come back into that. So I'm
Speaker 7: offering that tip to anyone who's new to driving in
Speaker 7: the snow, be prepared for next time in practice if
Speaker 7: you can.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's a good point. That is actually something
Speaker 1: that I used to do when I was a young driver.
Speaker 1: I would go and then and it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: different it's a different animal now because the vast majority
Speaker 1: of cars have front wheel drive, or they have or
Speaker 1: they have all wheel drive, but the vast majority of
Speaker 1: cars a front wheel drive. And so when I was
Speaker 1: younger and I was learning how to drive, the cars
Speaker 1: were rear reel drive, and those cars to hand, when
Speaker 1: they drive from the rear wheels, they drive a lot
Speaker 1: differently than they do with a front wheel drive. So
Speaker 1: that is I think that is a good point and
Speaker 1: something that you should take the time to learn if
Speaker 1: you haven't had the opportunity to learn that yet. So Melanie,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good tip. Thank you all right, there
Speaker 1: you go, Melanie from Cincinnati, and good advice right there,
Speaker 1: even though she said she was driving around in Michigan.
Speaker 1: So appreciate those calls coming up after the news. We
Speaker 1: got to get a break in here and get the
Speaker 1: news at the top of the hour and then coming up,
Speaker 1: I've got Tim Graham, who is the executive editor of
Speaker 1: NewsBusters and he also does the NewsBusters podcast. The White
Speaker 1: House has done something that I have not seen a
Speaker 1: White House do before, and my way of thinking, this
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest moves ever that a White
Speaker 1: House has done. I'll tell you about that and we'll
Speaker 1: talk to Tim Graham about it as we roll on.
Speaker 1: Dan Carolyn for Bill Cunningham on this snowy Monday in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati on seven hundred w LW.
Speaker 6: Seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: It is one o eight. This is at the end
Speaker 1: of the last break. I said it was a snowy Monday.
Speaker 1: It's not Monday. Today's Tuesday. So it's Dan Carolyn for
Speaker 1: the Great American Bill Cunningham. Today is Tuesday, snowy Tuesday,
Speaker 1: And well that was my fault, so I just wanted
Speaker 1: to correct that when I get back out here. In
Speaker 1: any case, it is my great pleasure to welcome in
Speaker 1: Tim Graham from NewsBusters dot org and Tim Graham always
Speaker 1: great to have you on. Tim Graham is the executive
Speaker 1: editor of NewsBusters, also hosts of the NewsBusters podcast and
Speaker 1: Tim Graham great to have you back on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: How are you today? We're good, rainy as heck, but
Speaker 1: it's fine, rainy as heck. We had snow this morning.
Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about the NewsBusters podcast. I
Speaker 1: have not had a chance to listen to this yet,
Speaker 1: but what do you guys talk about on the NewsBusters podcast?
Speaker 1: And where can people find it if they want to
Speaker 1: find it? Oh, it's all over Apple, Spotify, it's now
Speaker 1: a video product, it's on YouTube and Rumble. But we
Speaker 1: started in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: This is another way to talk about what we're finding
Speaker 3: on the website about media bias and the media business.
Speaker 3: And so yes, now under our new leadership with David
Speaker 3: Boseli's like, let's put this thing on video. So now
Speaker 3: I have to worry about not only did it make sense,
Speaker 3: but it is there something in my teeth?
Speaker 1: Those are the hazards of being on camera, my friend.
Speaker 1: I think the White House has done something here that
Speaker 1: is long overdue. And this is a white House dot
Speaker 1: of slash media bias. And so I look at this
Speaker 1: and now the White House. Are they taking a page
Speaker 1: out of the Newsbuster's playbook or his NewsBusters helping out here?
Speaker 1: But the White House is putting out their own website
Speaker 1: now where they go and they've got their offender of
Speaker 1: the week and they put all the misleading and biased
Speaker 1: news coverage out there on their own website, which I
Speaker 1: think is just a fabulous idea if you had a
Speaker 1: chance to look at this.
Speaker 3: Yet. Yes, I wrote it up the other day for NewsBusters.
Speaker 3: It's it's you know, we're not actively involved with it
Speaker 3: in that they're emailing, that's at asking for huh, what
Speaker 3: do you got? But certainly they put out an email
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks go about the worst bias of
Speaker 3: ABC News and there were nine NewsBusters links in the
Speaker 3: email out of fifteen, so we know they're reading it obviously. Look,
Speaker 3: this is where the Republican Party is today. You can't
Speaker 3: get anything done without pointing out the tremendous, massive obstacle
Speaker 3: we have in a news media that really feels dedicated
Speaker 3: to the idea of enabling the Democrats daily. You know,
Speaker 3: they'll try to pretend, oh, we're all about accountability. In fact, no,
Speaker 3: you're about narratives and making sure your side wins. And
Speaker 3: that's kind of the game, is to try to tell you,
Speaker 3: here's what they're covering, here's what they're overcovering, here's what
Speaker 3: they're omitting.
Speaker 5: Like we're not going to cover.
Speaker 3: The Somalian massive social services fraud in Minnesota because we
Speaker 3: don't like migrant crime. That's not our thing. That's a magazine.
Speaker 1: So Tim Graham on the on the the White House website.
Speaker 1: When it comes to news bias, first of all, let
Speaker 1: me go back to Caroline Levitt. When when you look
Speaker 1: at Caroline Levitt, she she is absolutely she continues, in
Speaker 1: to my way of thinking, a great line of press
Speaker 1: secretaries when you look at the Trump administration, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: the uh. And now she's the governor of Arkansas. And
Speaker 1: of course her names escapes me when I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I thought she was absolutely terrific,
Speaker 1: and I mean it. You know, Caroline Levitt continues to
Speaker 1: have these mic drop moments when she is confronting the
Speaker 1: media on different stories that they produced and she had
Speaker 1: won yesterday where the New York Times put out a
Speaker 1: story and and they're continuing this narrative that they're trying
Speaker 1: to further right now about Trump is aging in office,
Speaker 1: he's falling asleep, can't keep up the schedules, too tough
Speaker 1: for him. And she absolutely had a mic drop moment
Speaker 1: when she came to shutting that down. And I just
Speaker 1: think Caroline Levitt is terrific in that position.
Speaker 3: Imagine trying to compare her to Karine Jean Pierre, you know,
Speaker 3: and and she's thirty yet, I mean, she's also remarkably young.
Speaker 3: But this is what you need in the Republican press secretary.
Speaker 3: They have to come in knowing that they're going to battle,
Speaker 3: because the White House Press Corps when a Republican is
Speaker 3: president is a shark tank, and the White House Press
Speaker 3: Corps when a Democrat is president is like mister Rogers
Speaker 3: neighborhood or you know, find your newer alternative, paw Patrol.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I don't watch any of these
Speaker 3: kiddie shows anymore. My kid thirty five. But remember under Biden,
Speaker 3: it was like, well, we'll tell you the question we're
Speaker 3: going to ask in advance so you can make a
Speaker 3: note card with my picture for the for President Senile.
Speaker 1: You know, it is absolutely amazing how when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Biden administration, the press doesn't know anything about
Speaker 1: the corruption. They don't know anything about the connections to
Speaker 1: Ukraine or Russia or China. They don't know anything about
Speaker 1: what the DOJ is doing. They don't know anything about
Speaker 1: what Jack Smith is doing. They don't know anything about that.
Speaker 1: But yet when it comes to this administration, and it
Speaker 1: was amazing to me in the last twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: how so much of the media has become experts on
Speaker 1: what is a war crime and what is not. So
Speaker 1: you've got this situation where we're blowing boats out of
Speaker 1: the water that are trying to bring drugs into the
Speaker 1: United States from Venezuela or wherever they're coming from. And
Speaker 1: there may have been a second strike on a boat
Speaker 1: that didn't get completely destroyed, or maybe some people survived
Speaker 1: or whatever. And now the media is expert on this
Speaker 1: subject so much. I mean, they know, Tim Graham, what
Speaker 1: a war crime is and what a war crime is.
Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing to you how the national media in
Speaker 1: this country is simply able to flip that switch and
Speaker 1: have expertise on so many matters when it comes to
Speaker 1: covering this administration, well.
Speaker 3: Being a White House reporter is difficult, just like being
Speaker 3: a White House Press secretary is difficult, because you have
Speaker 3: to be a generalist. You have to know a little
Speaker 3: bit about positively everything, or you're constantly boning up on
Speaker 3: these things. Well, this apparently came from a Washington Post
Speaker 3: story where they were claiming that somehow Pete Hegsas ordered
Speaker 3: them to kill the guys that were floating out in
Speaker 3: the water. Well, we don't know that. The New York
Speaker 3: Times now it's put on a story that basically suggests
Speaker 3: the Washington Post got it wrong. They didn't say it explicitly,
Speaker 3: but that's what the reporting suggests. So I think for them,
Speaker 3: the reason this is the big story of the day
Speaker 3: is because it just seems to tailor so nicely to
Speaker 3: Mark Kelly and Alyssa Slotkin and company saying illegal orders,
Speaker 3: illegal orders. They're like, Hey, maybe this could be it,
Speaker 3: and so they glom onto it. I wanted to disagree
Speaker 3: with you a little bit on the Jack Smith thing.
Speaker 3: You're right that they didn't investigate what Jack Smith was doing.
Speaker 3: What they did instead was like CNN took a camera
Speaker 3: crew and followed Jack Smith to getting a sandwich at
Speaker 3: subway because he's a normal Joe. You know, that's the
Speaker 3: kind of coverage we got. You know, he's doing the
Speaker 3: heroic work of taking Trump down.
Speaker 1: That's important. That's important for the people to know because,
Speaker 1: as we know, the only reason they do the interviews
Speaker 1: they do and the pieces they do is to further
Speaker 1: everyone's understanding and have deeper knowledge of what the important
Speaker 1: issues are. They you know, they're not doing it to
Speaker 1: get high fives from their colleagues, you know over at
Speaker 1: MSNBC or ABC or CBS, or from George Stephanoppli.
Speaker 3: This is an important point. And when you're a reporter
Speaker 3: in Washington, a lot of what you're writing is really
Speaker 3: trying to impress your journalist to colleagues, not just your bosses,
Speaker 3: but the other reporters in the room. So that's how
Speaker 3: you get a pack mentality because everybody's trying to ride
Speaker 3: the same narrative wagon. And that's why they really dislike
Speaker 3: Trump voter reporters in the press room because they're just like, oh,
Speaker 3: how objectionable it is that there are people in here
Speaker 3: who would rather flatter the present than question them, and
Speaker 3: it's like, well, what did you just do for four years?
Speaker 3: And so you know, obviously you look at this last briefing,
Speaker 3: Jackie Heinrich of Fox was asking tough question questions that
Speaker 3: any of the reporters in the room would have asked.
Speaker 3: And it is the job of reporters to try to
Speaker 3: hold all presidents accountable. I think that should be the goal.
Speaker 3: The problem, again, as I suggested, is that they they
Speaker 3: don't want to hold the Republicans accountable so much as
Speaker 3: they want to destroy them, and they don't hold Democrats accountable.
Speaker 3: They want to protect them. And that's that's the difference.
Speaker 3: That's what we find on a regular basis. And there's
Speaker 3: just sometimes where the news is so bad, like Biden
Speaker 3: trying to withdraw from Afghanistan, where we got about three
Speaker 3: or four days of the White House Press Corpt Going
Speaker 3: what did you think you were doing?
Speaker 4: It was that bad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's we were talking earlier about the White
Speaker 1: House and they've got their media Offender of the Week
Speaker 1: and their website up where they've got their their their
Speaker 1: Hall of shame, and you've got a piece up this
Speaker 1: morning talking about how the washing and posts and others
Speaker 1: are reacting to this notion that the White House would
Speaker 1: dare call out their journalistic ethics and there you know,
Speaker 1: and the and their strict guidelines and reporting standards when
Speaker 1: it comes to you know, ethical journalism, and it's a
Speaker 1: you know, I look at this and it's amazing to
Speaker 1: me that how these standards apply in so many instances.
Speaker 1: But when you have a report like the story we
Speaker 1: were just talking about, when when it comes to Pete
Speaker 1: Hegsef given this order, the report was based on all
Speaker 1: of what anonymous sources, people who would not go on
Speaker 1: the record, absolutely no way to corroborate this before this
Speaker 1: report got out. But yet those standards don't seem to
Speaker 1: apply when it comes to every single other major news
Speaker 1: outlet in this country jumping onto this story and getting
Speaker 1: it out there so everyone make sure that they know
Speaker 1: about it and they can hear about it. That the
Speaker 1: possibility that this it maministration was committing war crimes is
Speaker 1: the most important story, and it's been the lead story,
Speaker 1: you know, ever since yesterday morning, all through the day
Speaker 1: and all through the day today that this administration possibly
Speaker 1: committed war crimes. And that's the narrative they want to
Speaker 1: get out there, and in this case, journalistic ethics be damned.
Speaker 3: Well once again they picked stories based on how can
Speaker 3: we be relentlessly negative about Trump today? They picked the
Speaker 3: most negative angle they can find, and that's the one
Speaker 3: they golomb on too, and they glom onto it in
Speaker 3: a pack. But let's try to ask ourselves the question.
Speaker 3: You know, shortly after the withdrawal fiasco in Afghanistan, the
Speaker 3: Biden administration had a drone attack in Afghanistan. They ended
Speaker 3: up killing a father and its children, civilians. Was that
Speaker 3: a war crime? They weren't asking that question. That was
Speaker 3: a story that probably went away in twenty four to
Speaker 3: thirty six hours. You remember, under under President Obama, there
Speaker 3: was a pile of drone attacks. They were droning things
Speaker 3: all the time. They took out a guy named anwar All,
Speaker 3: a Lockey who was an American. Some of the conservative
Speaker 3: hosts here in town used to be like, Obama droned
Speaker 3: an American citizen. Well, he was also a terrorist influencer.
Speaker 3: But it's it's that whole idea of well, there is
Speaker 3: no such thing as a war crime if it's done
Speaker 3: by our guy, you know, I mean, that's the double
Speaker 3: standard and when they mess up. You know, there there's
Speaker 3: this clip going around X Today where John Kirby's on
Speaker 3: Morning Joe saying, well, no, we're not punishing anybody. Nobody's
Speaker 3: getting fired. Yeah, nobody's getting disciplined. And that's that's and
Speaker 3: and the story goes away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe he was the one. He was the one
Speaker 1: who it seemed when you listen to that clip, it
Speaker 1: seems as if he's the one who unilaterally made that call.
Speaker 1: And at that point the media is like, you know,
Speaker 1: hands off, it's good. That's good enough for me. No
Speaker 1: one's going to be disciplined. It's time to go on
Speaker 1: to the next thing. What about this this thing that
Speaker 1: Jim Acosta did earlier this week where he's proposing that
Speaker 1: liberal media boycott Trump events and not somehow Trump is
Speaker 1: going to be upset if ABC and CBS and NBC
Speaker 1: it doesn't show up to one of his press events.
Speaker 1: That's that is that is such a great idea. Look,
Speaker 1: people like me, I'm sitting here, say do it. I'm
Speaker 1: saying do it. I would love to see the reaction
Speaker 1: of Trump or the White House when it comes to
Speaker 1: these organizations not showing up in boycott and boycott the
Speaker 1: whatever whatever news event that the White House is putting
Speaker 1: on that day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't that what they call a cell phone? You know,
Speaker 3: we should just all withdraw and not say anything. You know.
Speaker 3: The fact of the matter is Jim Acosta isn't in
Speaker 3: the White House Press Corps anymore. He has no skin
Speaker 3: in the game. He has no reason to say, gee,
Speaker 3: I think I should really be there so that CNN
Speaker 3: has a news story. But the most preposterous thing about
Speaker 3: that is Jim Acosta saying, oh, how rude President Trump
Speaker 3: is rude? Like Jim Acosta was never rude. Jim Acosta
Speaker 3: was never uncivil.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: Trump was trying to get him to shut up when
Speaker 3: he was like yelling like, you have to mean, cnnswer,
Speaker 3: I demand a question. And he blustered with the microphone
Speaker 3: for like five minutes, and the poor female presages trying
Speaker 3: to take the microphone away from him, and he's like,
Speaker 3: you know, and it's like, look, he's still the same person.
Speaker 3: He's a grand stander. He seems to always be looking
Speaker 3: at himself in the mirror, and the idea he would
Speaker 3: lecture anybody else about being rude is comical.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember when that event happened, and he tried to
Speaker 1: claim that he did not put a hand on that
Speaker 1: that White House and the White House aide who was
Speaker 1: trying to get to mic. And I've always wondered this, Tim,
Speaker 1: if Jim Acosta was sitting there waiting to get his
Speaker 1: question in and there was some other reporter who was
Speaker 1: essentially hogging the microphone as he did, and Trump had
Speaker 1: told that other reporter multiple times that's enough, put the
Speaker 1: mic down. Let somebody else have a chance. And he
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on. I remember this like
Speaker 1: it was yesterday. How would Jim Acosta have acted or
Speaker 1: reacted if someone else was taking up his time? Not
Speaker 1: very favorab yet I would imagine.
Speaker 3: I would imagine from being in the room for two
Speaker 3: years under Bush, I was a White House reporter for
Speaker 3: a little Christian magazine.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Tim, I have to apologize. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the clock. I am way way behind. I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have asked you that last question, but we have to
Speaker 1: we have to go. I gotta cut it off. But
Speaker 1: Tim Graham, uh NewsBusters dot Org. You guys do such
Speaker 1: great work there. Always appreciate the time, my friend. Keep
Speaker 1: up the great work. We'll be talking again before too long. Oh,
Speaker 1: all right, there you go. Tim Graham from NewsBusters and
Speaker 1: the broadcast Sheriff is really me in here. We got
Speaker 1: to get to a break. Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. You better send those refunds.
Speaker 3: Oh hello, hello, quiet, and I'm I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 1: I'm told those were the words? Are those the words
Speaker 1: of Joe Burrow for the last time Burrow played the Bills.
Speaker 1: I just heard a voice in my head saying that
Speaker 1: that's what, say, Dennison, What the heck was that we
Speaker 1: just listened to.
Speaker 4: That was Joe Burrow talking about something but Buffalo in
Speaker 4: this week?
Speaker 1: I think, don't they Well, I think I think the
Speaker 1: Bengals do play Buffalo this week, and Buffalo's pretty good.
Speaker 1: What about Trey Hendrickson, though, is what.
Speaker 4: That's That's a major mystery. Who knows?
Speaker 1: That's a it's a you know what, it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: The Bengals gave him a fourteen million dollar raise. It's
Speaker 1: a good thing he's earned. He's earning thirty million dollars
Speaker 1: this year. Because I'm telling you what, it's tough to
Speaker 1: sit out that many games if you're not pulling down
Speaker 1: that kind of jack, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And as a captain, you don't go to the one
Speaker 4: Road game a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they I think they really did a
Speaker 1: good job of getting him back in the fold, because
Speaker 1: my god, without Trey Hendrickson, you know what, where would
Speaker 1: the Bengals be. Now that's a good question, seg Dennison.
Speaker 4: Let's see here in Middletown, and Denise is here with
Speaker 4: me as we are a hunker down in Middletown. The
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Speaker 1: Fuck when it snows. Bill Dennison does not drive. And
Speaker 1: I knew you wouldn't be here today, but God bless.
Speaker 3: It, I was there.
Speaker 4: I take some stuff this morning for Tommy. I hope
Speaker 4: it ran. And because I knew the traffic reports this morning,
Speaker 4: we're going to go twenty five minutes long.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well.
Speaker 4: I was slipped. I slipped sliding around this morning as
Speaker 4: I left, spun out about two or three times even
Speaker 4: before it hit the highway and I said, this is
Speaker 4: not work and I'm going to live to see another day.
Speaker 1: How much snow did you guys get up in Middletown today, I.
Speaker 4: Think one of the TV states and certainly got like
Speaker 4: four and a half inches.
Speaker 1: Four and a half inches, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4: So it was I think a little bit more up
Speaker 4: here than down there, but it was, you know, I was.
Speaker 4: It was all over the place. But sex hopefully gets
Speaker 4: a little better over the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: Seg. The city of Cincinnati now has a website called
Speaker 1: the Snow Tracker, And so you can go to the
Speaker 1: website and you can look up where the snow plows are,
Speaker 1: you can look up where the streets, what streets have
Speaker 1: been treated, you can look up, you know, what the
Speaker 1: conditions are like out there on the city streets. So
Speaker 1: I got up this morning turned on the snow tracker
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking. And fortunately I didn't have to, you know,
Speaker 1: go up the hill on Vine Street up to UC
Speaker 1: or I didn't have to go up the hill to
Speaker 1: go up to Mount Adams, or I didn't have to
Speaker 1: go up the hill to go up to Finneytown or
Speaker 1: sat next High School. Fortunately, I didn't have to do
Speaker 1: those things this morning, but had I needed to go
Speaker 1: up those hills, I would have gone to the snow tracker,
Speaker 1: and you know what I would have seen this morning,
Speaker 1: a blank screen, absolutely absolutely nothing. So the snow tracker
Speaker 1: was snow tracker didn't work.
Speaker 4: They're individual, they're indivisible. Damn there they're but maybe they
Speaker 4: cleaned them all off and they were off the streets.
Speaker 1: It was was I dreaming when when the City of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati had a big press conference to talk about how
Speaker 1: we've got we've got iPads in the snowplows now and
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna be able to track the snowplows
Speaker 1: and streets are gonna get cleared and we're gonna know
Speaker 1: where they've been and know where they need to go?
Speaker 1: And all did did?
Speaker 8: Did?
Speaker 1: I did? I just dream that? Did we have a
Speaker 1: big news conference right before the election talking about all
Speaker 1: this great technology that the city had.
Speaker 4: They did it in front of that famous shots in
Speaker 4: front of the snow pile down in Camp Washington.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the salt pile, salt pile, snow pile.
Speaker 4: So whatever, Well, the snow pile because of the white
Speaker 4: white salt. But you know, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe figured out.
Speaker 1: By by all means, but it looks like but you look,
Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing because it's a tough job. I mean,
Speaker 1: you need some expertise in this area. But it seems
Speaker 1: to me that you know, a truck with a blade
Speaker 1: on it is better at clear and snow than a
Speaker 1: guy out there with an iPad clear and snow. It
Speaker 1: seems to me that the snowplow would be a little
Speaker 1: more effective than clearing the snow with an iPad.
Speaker 4: Yes, Dan, you had their college basketball last night. The
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Bearcat took took care of those. Charlton State Texan
Speaker 4: seventy six fifty eight as ut goes to six and two.
Speaker 4: Rodney Anderson the third with twenty eight points as leading
Speaker 4: Xavier pass Saint Francis ninety six seventy four. So the
Speaker 4: Muskies are six and three and they will head into
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Speaker 4: of his career.
Speaker 1: The first shootout of his career. And I heard Andy Mack.
Speaker 1: Andy Mack was here yesterday talking about the shootout. And
Speaker 1: even though he doesn't know any of the guys on
Speaker 1: Xavier because they've got a completely new roster this year,
Speaker 1: Andy Mack is still going with the Muskies.
Speaker 4: If he didn't take the Muskies, the world would come
Speaker 4: to an end. Dan, that is a fact lately. Let's
Speaker 4: see tonight, you got North Carolina and Kentucky at eight
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Speaker 4: last week. And for the Bengals are coming off that
Speaker 4: big win against Baltimore, so we'll see what happened.
Speaker 1: So seg has has uc been selected for a bowl
Speaker 1: game yet?
Speaker 4: No, they don't.
Speaker 6: They won't do.
Speaker 4: They won't know that until I think later on this weekend.
Speaker 1: You all know that until later on this weekend.
Speaker 4: Could they whenever they picked the bowl game? I think
Speaker 4: they picked the bowl games in a few days. But
Speaker 4: no idea where the Houston Bearcat may be headed.
Speaker 1: Could they be going to the to the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's all the bowls that the Big
Speaker 4: Twelve has a bunch of tie in with bowls, so
Speaker 4: they they may. They may end up in the Liberty
Speaker 4: Bowl in Memphis.
Speaker 1: I don't know what about the Snoop Dog Bowl in Arizona.
Speaker 4: I think that's Miami RedHawks the last year and that's
Speaker 4: where they may be going unless they well you know there.
Speaker 4: Miami's gonna go for the MAC Championship against Western Michigan
Speaker 4: on Saturday, So if they win, I don't know if
Speaker 4: they'll go to a Duke Dog or not.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: How about the Duke? How about the Duke Mayonnaise Bowl?
Speaker 4: Manaise now, because the the winner gets dount with mayonnaise,
Speaker 4: big giant, you are a mayonnaise over his Headfield will
Speaker 4: look too good in his visor having a bunch of mayonnaise.
Speaker 4: I'll talk of him.
Speaker 1: How about the How about the Tony the Tiger Bowl?
Speaker 1: How about that one. That's a pretty big bowl. It'll
Speaker 1: pass Texas.
Speaker 4: I bet I get. I bet you the winner there
Speaker 4: getting years to play of frosted flakes.
Speaker 1: The Benkal's gonna the bear Cats are going to play
Speaker 1: for all the cereal. They can eat all the frosted flakes.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 4: You know they got a lot of expenses there in Clifton.
Speaker 4: So you know what the heck?
Speaker 6: Hey man? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Football. Dan will Stein is the new head football coach
Speaker 4: at Kentucky who takes over for Mark Duke. He's going
Speaker 4: to be introduced later on in the week. Steyning the
Speaker 4: past three seasons in the offensive coordinator at Oregon. So
Speaker 4: you know, this guy's got a lot of credentials. And
Speaker 4: I think I read something that the Oregon Ducks have
Speaker 4: haven't scored an average of like at least twenty eight
Speaker 4: points a game to he's been there, So the Kentucky's
Speaker 4: getting a good one right there. So maybe he'll be
Speaker 4: able to turn things around. And they going from the
Speaker 4: Big Ten to the to the Southeastern Conference. He's a
Speaker 4: native of Kentuckian with them Deer they like, and he's
Speaker 4: the son of UK alumni, so that even gives him
Speaker 4: more ties to Lexington and Big Blue Nation. So I
Speaker 4: think they're going to have a good coach there and.
Speaker 1: Will dine with the wild Well, you got to have
Speaker 1: It's always good to have a tie in. I think
Speaker 1: when when you have a coach coming in. So he's
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator of Oregon right now, will he be
Speaker 1: will he be on the sidelines when Oregon plays an
Speaker 1: itch ball game?
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 4: That's a that's a question for people that make a
Speaker 4: lot more money than I do. Dan, I have no idea.
Speaker 4: May it may be a Lane Kiffin thing where they
Speaker 4: let him go, or if he's the offensive coordinator, let
Speaker 4: him coach one more game with Oregon and then come
Speaker 4: to Kentucky. Uh, that's that's up to That's up to
Speaker 4: the boys, and uh, that's up to the boys. In
Speaker 4: the Great Northwest.
Speaker 1: So now that Lane Kiffin is going to l s U,
Speaker 1: does he does he have to get on the recruiting
Speaker 1: trail or does he just start cutting checks to get
Speaker 1: some players in there? How does that happen?
Speaker 4: Well, tomorrow is one one. That one is the portal
Speaker 4: opens up, and then two the it's National Signing Day tomorrow,
Speaker 4: so starting tomorrow, So a lot of these kids have
Speaker 4: you know, some kids have deferred to uh possibly signing
Speaker 4: in a month, Like Matt Ponatowski of Moeler. He's he's
Speaker 4: going to sign I think next month. He's supposed to
Speaker 4: go to Kentucky play football there. Probably gonna end up
Speaker 4: playing baseball. But we'll see what happens. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's Tomorrow's the signing day and the portal open and
Speaker 4: oh you know what's going to break loose and a
Speaker 4: lot of cash is going to be dulled out.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be It's gonna be the dough, the ray
Speaker 1: and the mee.
Speaker 4: The green salad of South Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Get it out there, all right, seg we gotta we
Speaker 1: got to get out of the stooge report. Would you
Speaker 1: do the honors? Please get in honor.
Speaker 4: Of the snowfall and Denise taking care of me here
Speaker 4: in Middletown. We leave you with the immortal words of
Speaker 4: the Stood Report.
Speaker 1: Thank you, short and sweet buddy Seg. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you at a little after two thirty, how about that?
Speaker 4: See you later?
Speaker 1: All right, there you go live from Middletown. His policial
Speaker 1: estate in Middletown will one and only Steg Dennis on
Speaker 1: the Stooge reports, Dan carroll in for Bill Cunningham, seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: two eight Dan Carrolyn for Bill Cunningham. I had a
Speaker 1: guest scheduled for this hour, for this half hour, I
Speaker 1: should say, But the yeah, as you know, the there's
Speaker 1: snow movement across the country. Flights are delayed or canceled,
Speaker 1: and a flight that my guest was on wound up
Speaker 1: getting caught up in all that. So he's not able
Speaker 1: to be here. So the phone lines are open five
Speaker 1: to one to three, seven four nine seven thoig one.
Speaker 1: I was talking earlier about how the White House has
Speaker 1: put out a media website that has a media Hall
Speaker 1: of Shame, and they go through and they talk about
Speaker 1: the most regious stories of the week and debunk those
Speaker 1: and shut them down with the facts and the truth
Speaker 1: and things like that. And one of the things that
Speaker 1: came out, and I've been talking about this for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks now because the left, the haters, the
Speaker 1: Democrat DNC talking points trying to spend this narrative that
Speaker 1: Trump is not fit for office, that he is falling
Speaker 1: asleep at meetings, that he is not attentive, the hours
Speaker 1: are being pushed back, and all these things are going
Speaker 1: on to signal that Trump is not up to the job. Well,
Speaker 1: the New York Post just put out a piece, an
Speaker 1: exclusive piece about how much time Trump is really spending
Speaker 1: working on behalf of the American people, And they write
Speaker 1: President Trump has been working twelve hour days this month,
Speaker 1: according to Oval Office logs the White House provided to
Speaker 1: the Post after the New New York Times claimed there
Speaker 1: were signs of fatigue in his less than detailed public schedule.
Speaker 1: The previously unpublished private narrative documents span ten weeks between
Speaker 1: November twelfth and November twenty fifth, the day the Time
Speaker 1: story was published, and shows the president worked roughly fifty
Speaker 1: hour weeks fifty hour weeks, not counting any official duties
Speaker 1: that may have been performed on weekends. The White House
Speaker 1: made the decision to share the logs to counter the
Speaker 1: narrative that Trump, who was seventy nine years old, is
Speaker 1: slowing with age, with the files instead showing him working
Speaker 1: longer hours than the average American as the overhauls trade
Speaker 1: in immigration policies, attempts to end the Russia Ukraine War spearheads,
Speaker 1: the most significant construction at the White House in decades.
Speaker 1: The files also do not list unsolicited cell phone calls
Speaker 1: that he is known to answer early in the morning
Speaker 1: and late into the night after his hours on social
Speaker 1: media posts. On Wednesday, November twelfth, the president Oval office
Speaker 1: aides log thirty two meetings and calls with subordinates, lawmakers,
Speaker 1: and businessmen on that day, On the day Congress voted
Speaker 1: to end the forty three day government shutdown, Trump started
Speaker 1: the day with a staff meeting at ten thirty in
Speaker 1: the Roosevelt Room before launching into back to back phone
Speaker 1: calls and meetings with officials, including Vice President J. D
Speaker 1: Vance Staff Secretary Will Sharf. He placed six calls to lawmakers,
Speaker 1: then to judicial nominees, and one to an architect. Trump
Speaker 1: ended the day at seven forty five pm dinner with
Speaker 1: Wall Street CEOs after a ten pm but still a
Speaker 1: bill signing event to end the government shutdown. I remember
Speaker 1: that day. I think I was on the air that
Speaker 1: night and I came in here and it's ten o'clock
Speaker 1: at night and Trump is in the White House in
Speaker 1: the Oval Office, surrounded by people signing this bill, taking
Speaker 1: questions from the media. Then after that he had a
Speaker 1: corporate executive meeting that started at ten forty pm. How
Speaker 1: many of you have gone to meetings that started ten
Speaker 1: forty at night. I've been to a few nighttime meetings
Speaker 1: in my life, but ten forty I don't think so.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, November thirteenth, Trump had seventeen meetings and calls
Speaker 1: over eight and a half hours, beginning with a ten
Speaker 1: thirty nine am sit down with the White House Chief
Speaker 1: of Staff Susie Wiles. Trump that met that morning with
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Mark Rubio before his intelligence briefing, then
Speaker 1: had a speed writer pre beef or pre beef pre brief,
Speaker 1: signed an executive order with First leading Milania. Trump, did
Speaker 1: some media interviews, spoke with the US Trade representative, and
Speaker 1: I mean, and the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1: So the White House got with the New York Post
Speaker 1: and put out Trump's private schedule, not the one that
Speaker 1: gets published daily. And I remember when Biden was in
Speaker 1: the White House, I would look at there were times
Speaker 1: when I would look at the public schedule because we're
Speaker 1: not privy to the private schedule all that much, and
Speaker 1: there would there were many days when there were zero
Speaker 1: activities on the on the public schedule. Doesn't mean he
Speaker 1: wasn't doing things privately, but on the public schedule there
Speaker 1: were no TV appearance, there's no press conference, there's no
Speaker 1: no events that were going to be covered by the media.
Speaker 1: A lot of days it was White House Press briefing
Speaker 1: at eleven am and that was it.
Speaker 3: That was it for the day.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that Biden was taking the entire day off,
Speaker 1: but for the New York Times to look at this
Speaker 1: public schedule and then write an entire piece about how
Speaker 1: Trump is showing his age and declining and not, maybe
Speaker 1: you know, suggesting that he's not up to the job.
Speaker 1: And this is why I spend so much time talking
Speaker 1: about media when I'm behind this microphone, because how many
Speaker 1: times do we hear about these journalistic ethics Now, these
Speaker 1: standards that they have to uphold, and that's why you
Speaker 1: see some of the reporting that you see. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to bashing Trump or making him look bad,
Speaker 1: that there's no ethics whatsoever, there are no standards to uphold.
Speaker 1: Anything that makes Trump look bad gets printed or gets reported.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to protecting those on the left,
Speaker 1: well that is another issue where you don't get the
Speaker 1: full story many times. And this story out of Minnesota
Speaker 1: is it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 1: And you know, you look at this corruption and this
Speaker 1: fraud that's been going on in Minnesota, and you think, well,
Speaker 1: why should I care about that? Well, because it's over
Speaker 1: a billion dollars now, and that is American taxpayer. It's
Speaker 1: not just taxpayer money of people in Minnesota, it's taxpayer
Speaker 1: from all of us as many it's billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: And the Post did a great job of summarizing what's
Speaker 1: been going on in Minnesota, and scammers in Minnesota have
Speaker 1: ripped off of taxpayers to the tune of a billion
Speaker 1: dollars while the state's progressive leaders stood back and watched.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, one hundreds of state social workers skeeered
Speaker 1: government governor Tim Walls not just for ignoring shady nonprofits
Speaker 1: and shameless milking in the state's generous welfare system, but
Speaker 1: also for punishing workers who raised alarms. An ex account
Speaker 1: claiming to speak for four hundred and eighty current Minnesota
Speaker 1: Department of Human Services employees posted that Tim Walls is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We
Speaker 1: let Tim Walls know of fraud early on, yet he
Speaker 1: systemically or systematically I should say, retaliated against whistleblowers and
Speaker 1: did his best to discredit fraud reports. Dozens of frauds.
Speaker 1: There's almost all all Somali immigrants set up sham nonprofits
Speaker 1: build the state for services that they never actually delivered,
Speaker 1: and used the cash to fund lavish lifestyle. Some of
Speaker 1: the stolen funds wound up in the hands of an
Speaker 1: al Qaeda linked terrorist group. In Somalia, federal prosecutors have
Speaker 1: convicted at least fifty nine s camers so far, with
Speaker 1: dozens more facing charges. One so called charity called Feeding
Speaker 1: Our Future, and this is one of this is the
Speaker 1: first part of this that I learned about, was Feeding
Speaker 1: our Future, Feeding our Future faked feeding tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of hungry kids. Others pretended to help the autistic in
Speaker 1: the homeless, even as they bought luxury cars and traveled
Speaker 1: and bought real estate. And they say it was exactly
Speaker 1: as easy as taking candy from a baby because Walls
Speaker 1: administration didn't want to offend the state's sizable Somali voting
Speaker 1: block by acknowledging the theft. And they're saying the Walls
Speaker 1: administration melted at the first cry of races. Early on,
Speaker 1: the state Department of Education in Minnesota started question feeding
Speaker 1: Our Future's fishy invoices. The nonprofit threatened a lawsuit charging bigotry,
Speaker 1: and the question stopped. The progressive failure goes far deeper
Speaker 1: than the woke failure that Walls and his team put
Speaker 1: ideology above all, including sound fiscal management and other basics
Speaker 1: of good government, and the Somali block was hardly the
Speaker 1: only vested interest they favored over the public good. Walls
Speaker 1: may be a weakling, but the state's elites stood with him.
Speaker 1: So progressivism now means letting left scammers and special interests
Speaker 1: take the state to the cleaners. And that's the New
Speaker 1: York Post. I think doing a pretty good job of
Speaker 1: summarizing what was going on. But this was a multifaceted scam.
Speaker 1: You had the food bank, they said they were treating children.
Speaker 1: You had the other concerns that were working on home
Speaker 1: loans for individuals, getting housing for individuals. And then you
Speaker 1: had another concern that was dealing with autistic children. And
Speaker 1: you had all these people claiming that their children were
Speaker 1: autistic and they were in on the scam too, going
Speaker 1: from clinic to clinic to clinic, and these clinics were
Speaker 1: raking in hundreds of millions of dollars to service these
Speaker 1: children who didn't need it, and they simply took the
Speaker 1: money for themselves. And it's and and and the vast
Speaker 1: majority of that money came from the American taxpayer. So
Speaker 1: if you if you don't think that this story out
Speaker 1: of Minnesota is that big of a deal, well it
Speaker 1: is because it got in your pocket as well. So
Speaker 1: you've got food stamps, then it'll been going out and
Speaker 1: that the investigations continue to be done on what was
Speaker 1: going on with food stamps. Now it turns out that
Speaker 1: you've got thousands of liquor stores, uh smoke shops that
Speaker 1: are approved for these EBT cards. And again this is
Speaker 1: this is the the kind of low hanging fruit that
Speaker 1: needs to be stopped, and a lot of this is
Speaker 1: because of what Doge was doing. I haven't heard a
Speaker 1: lot from Doge lately, but these kind of this is
Speaker 1: the kind of spending that needs to be stopped. And
Speaker 1: it's not as if it's going to make a huge
Speaker 1: difference in the overall budget picture, but it's a mindset
Speaker 1: that we have to get serious about shutting this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff down. And the people who are perpetrating these crimes, well,
Speaker 1: they need to be brought to account. They need to
Speaker 1: be brought to justice, and sooner or later we're going
Speaker 1: to need to see some people be purpet walked over
Speaker 1: this and people being held accountable. I was just here
Speaker 1: in the Trump staff meeting, or not the staff meeting,
Speaker 1: but the cabinet meeting that was going on at the
Speaker 1: White House just wrapped up a little while ago. I
Speaker 1: walked in and that meeting started just a little bit
Speaker 1: after twelve o'clock and it went to damn near two o'clock,
Speaker 1: so about two hours. And the media was there for
Speaker 1: every bit of it, listening to all the different cabinet
Speaker 1: members speak, asking questions, Trump taking questions, Marco Rubio taking questions,
Speaker 1: Pete Heggs sat taking questions, Christy Noam taking questions. It
Speaker 1: is it is just an amazing thing to behold to
Speaker 1: see all these members of the Trump cabinet taking all
Speaker 1: these questions in the media. How often did that happen
Speaker 1: under previous administrations? And it's all there on TV for
Speaker 1: everyone to see. Sean Duffy's announcing that he's going to
Speaker 1: crack down on thousands of truck driving schools, says they've
Speaker 1: got a thirty day time period to clean up and
Speaker 1: comply with Trump administration rules for truck drivers. In a
Speaker 1: press release, the Department of Transportation revealed that roughly three
Speaker 1: thousand commercial driver's licenses CDLs were not supposed to not
Speaker 1: supposed to be given out. They say, the administration is
Speaker 1: cracking down on every link in the illegal trucking chain.
Speaker 1: Under Joe Biden, people to judge bad actors were able
Speaker 1: to gain the system let unqualified drivers flood our roadways.
Speaker 1: And of course we know that people are paying with
Speaker 1: their lives because you've got people out there who do
Speaker 1: not speak English driving big ricks. There was another one
Speaker 1: recently where and a driver from India recently had a wreck,
Speaker 1: jackknife distract a trailer on an Oregon highway, Oregon, and
Speaker 1: this person should not have been driving, fraudulently obtained a CDL.
Speaker 1: And now you've got a couple of innocent Americans who
Speaker 1: are dead, according to Oregon State Police. And we've seen
Speaker 1: this in Florida, now we see it in Oregon, We've
Speaker 1: seen it in California, see it all over the place.
Speaker 1: So this administration is doing things. Thirty different trucking schools
Speaker 1: have thirty or thousands of different trucking schools, I should say,
Speaker 1: have thirty days to comply with federal rules or they're
Speaker 1: going to be forced to shut down. And Duffy says,
Speaker 1: the wild the days of the wild wild West in
Speaker 1: the trucking industry are coming to an end. And we
Speaker 1: can only hope because we think about when you're driving
Speaker 1: out there, how many trucks do you pass up? When
Speaker 1: you're on the highway. You got trucks coming and going
Speaker 1: all hours of the day and night. You pass up
Speaker 1: a arrest area. It is absolutely filled with truckers out there,
Speaker 1: and there's a good chance and a number of them
Speaker 1: are illegal and do not speak English and do not
Speaker 1: read the English language. It is absolutely one of the
Speaker 1: most dangerous situations you can imagine. We got to get
Speaker 1: to a break. Sack Dennison coming up with the Stude's report.
Speaker 1: On the other side of news, Dan Carroll for Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4: David Watson's been monitoring traffic, but first we go to
Speaker 4: Ryan Marshall, who's out monitoring a snowfall.
Speaker 1: Ryan, what's it look like out there?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it looks like snow, just like I predicted in
Speaker 8: my forecast from the studio. I'm not sure why I'm
Speaker 8: out here literally looking around. It looks like snow. You
Speaker 8: could just take a video of its snowing and show that.
Speaker 8: Why do I have to be here to describe snowfall?
Speaker 8: It's pretty self explanatory.
Speaker 7: Seems like the gold has gotten you in an icy
Speaker 7: mood yourself.
Speaker 4: Ryan, Okay, you know what.
Speaker 1: Shannon, I am in an icy mood. Okay, nice pun.
Speaker 1: By the way, all.
Speaker 8: Right, I was just standing out here for twenty minutes
Speaker 8: waiting for you guys to throw to me, and I
Speaker 8: was just, oh, doing some thinking. I spent one hundred
Speaker 8: and twenty thousand dollars on a degree and four years
Speaker 8: in college to come out here and look around and
Speaker 8: describe what I see. I literally learned that in kindergarten.
Speaker 4: I spy.
Speaker 8: It makes zero sense. Also, you know what else I
Speaker 8: was thinking while we're at it. When it's like a
Speaker 8: nice day or sunny, you never send me out to
Speaker 8: the lake or to the pool for a live shot.
Speaker 8: But oh, when there's a hurricane or snowing, or a
Speaker 8: blizzard or a flood, send me out there.
Speaker 1: I'll cover it perfect.
Speaker 7: I guess you have a point there, Ryan.
Speaker 3: We're looking at these reports.
Speaker 4: And the forecast.
Speaker 8: Does it look good?
Speaker 3: People are worried? Have you spoken to any locals?
Speaker 1: Look around?
Speaker 8: Does there look like there's any locals out here? Everything
Speaker 8: is closed, everyone is inside. The only reason I'm outside
Speaker 8: is to tell people not to come outside. What am
Speaker 8: I doing with my life?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: You sure are brave, Ryan.
Speaker 1: Any word on what we can expect overnight? Uh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, more of this, actually twelve to eighteen inches more
Speaker 8: of this.
Speaker 1: But don't worry, guys.
Speaker 8: I'm fine. Don't worry about me. I got this sleeveless
Speaker 8: vest that you guys make me wear. My literal fingers
Speaker 8: are about to freeze off. I got frost bite.
Speaker 1: But oh, it's fine. Because we got the logo in
Speaker 1: the shot.
Speaker 3: Great, Hello, quiet, and I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Guy, so Sag Dennison. That's what it would sound like
Speaker 1: if meteorologists and reporters said what they really thought when
Speaker 1: they were standing there in the snow by the side
Speaker 1: of the road telling people that it was snowing outside.
Speaker 1: That would sound a lot like that. What am I
Speaker 1: doing with my life?
Speaker 4: Real, real deep team player? There? Dan Wow, that Washington
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know where that's from, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny. It's been out there for a little while,
Speaker 1: but it's it's still pretty funny. Here's a guy. Wait,
Speaker 1: why am I standing out here telling people that it's
Speaker 1: snowing when it's nice out. You don't send me to
Speaker 1: the pool or the lake. I gotta stand here when
Speaker 1: it's snowing telling people that it's snowing. That's hilarious.
Speaker 4: And the stooge reporters of Proud Service, every local temp
Speaker 4: Star eating their conditioning dealers TENNH star Quality in southeastern
Speaker 4: Indiana called Joe x Stein at x Steign he didn't
Speaker 4: the cooling eight one, two, nine, three to two twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six, but you need those today. College basketball to night.
Speaker 4: Now you got the tar Heels and the Wildcats eight
Speaker 4: o'clock in fifteen thirty Indiana University, East States on, the
Speaker 4: Miami RedHawks, East Tennessee State, and Dayton the number one
Speaker 4: per due against Rutgers. Now we got a college football update.
Speaker 4: As far as tomorrow's signing day, come on, Moeler. Four
Speaker 4: star quarterback Matt Potatowski plans to time with Kentucky tomorrow.
Speaker 4: He wasn't going to wait until February, but moved it
Speaker 4: up because they hired Will Stein, the offensive coordinator from Oregon,
Speaker 4: is the new Wildcat coach. Also, Middletown three star defensive
Speaker 4: back Jordan Van has splitited his commitment from Michigan State
Speaker 4: to the Louisville Cardinals after the Spartans fired their head
Speaker 4: coach yesterday.
Speaker 1: So they got so the money, the money is right,
Speaker 1: and they're making the moves.
Speaker 4: You sink that correct, RESU theyvie. Due to the unique
Speaker 4: timing of Redsfest that is said for January sixteenth to seventeen,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty six, at the newly renovated Cincinnati Convention Center,
Speaker 4: the Red Caravan will not take plate this offseason, but
Speaker 4: will return in future years. Well, he's the caravan. Usually
Speaker 4: well they usually had the Reds Fest coming up this weekend,
Speaker 4: but they they're going to run it the first it's
Speaker 4: going to be the first event at the new Convention
Speaker 4: Center in January. And in mid January they were going
Speaker 4: to take off of the caravan. They can't do it.
Speaker 4: They can't do both the way it goes.
Speaker 3: That's all right.
Speaker 4: Soccer. Former Mount Notre Dame Star Rose Level of the
Speaker 4: NWSL champion Gotham FC has been nominated for the US
Speaker 4: Soccer Female Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 3: And then you got a.
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Speaker 4: Bengals back at practice tomorrow, getting ready for those Buffalo
Speaker 4: Bills on the road Sunday.
Speaker 1: And beautiful Buffalo, Beautiful Buffalo. What's the weather going to
Speaker 1: be in Buffalo on Sunday?
Speaker 4: And I'm probably ninety five feet of snow and still snowing.
Speaker 1: That's how That's how football, that's how football was meant
Speaker 1: to be played.
Speaker 4: Well, that's true, you're right, So that's you know, hopefully
Speaker 4: it's a nice day on. I'm sure they'll have some
Speaker 4: cold weather up there, but the boys hopefully will make
Speaker 4: it two in a row and see what happens.
Speaker 1: And then we got the Crosstown Shootout coming up on
Speaker 1: Friday nights brought.
Speaker 4: Out shoot out. Then that's the skyline chilly crossed out
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Speaker 4: the UC Bearcats and the Xavier Musketeers go out it
Speaker 4: to the Simpot Center Friday night. The action here on
Speaker 4: seven hundred WLW with a Bearcats version and the Muskies
Speaker 4: version will be on fifty five a RT with the
Speaker 4: Joe and Byron.
Speaker 1: What was the name of that team that you see
Speaker 1: played last night? Tarkington like fran Tarkington University, Carleton State,
Speaker 1: Well Tarlton Harlington.
Speaker 4: Carlton State. They they're the Texans.
Speaker 2: They were.
Speaker 4: They are coached by former UK basketball coach Billy Gillespie,
Speaker 4: who is famous for out running Alan Cuttler from the
Speaker 4: from outside rough erena to the basketball office years ago.
Speaker 4: That made Alan Cutler a internet superstar.
Speaker 1: Didn't Cutler say I could do this all day? But
Speaker 1: he was chasing that guy down.
Speaker 4: Lesson got to the door first and locked it and
Speaker 4: that I could do this all he said, I could
Speaker 4: do this all. I could do this all day.
Speaker 1: That's an absolute classic. So where where is where is
Speaker 1: Tartleton is? Is that is that in Texas? I guess
Speaker 1: because they're called the Texas.
Speaker 4: It's like right outside of Fort Worth, right outside of
Speaker 4: Fort Worth, some city in Texas.
Speaker 1: Well, thank god.
Speaker 4: They Tarlton probably got a big check.
Speaker 1: That's all right and alone, Hey what we know what
Speaker 1: you do as a the Stephenville, Texas, says the broadcast ariff.
Speaker 1: So I've never I've ever been there. I couldn't pick
Speaker 1: it out on that, but say, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: big election going on in Tennessee today for the seventh
Speaker 1: Bresson District and the Democrat, the Democrat who is running
Speaker 1: his name Afton Ben and she has said things like
Speaker 1: that she hates Nashville. Nashville is represented in her district.
Speaker 1: She says she hates Nashville. She hates the city. She
Speaker 1: hates the bachelorette parties, she hates the pedal taverns, she
Speaker 1: hates country music, she hates all the things that make
Speaker 1: Nashville Nashville. Now, I don't know about you, but that
Speaker 1: would it's you know, when you're when you're running to
Speaker 1: represent a particular city and you say, although you hate
Speaker 1: all those things about that city, if if you do
Speaker 1: a newscast about that person, wouldn't it be appropriate to
Speaker 1: mention those things that she has that she has said
Speaker 1: those things.
Speaker 4: I would say so Dan and one uh, I would
Speaker 4: think if she sends that, if she would be sent
Speaker 4: out of the country and to whoever votes for it
Speaker 4: goes with her, because if you're banded in Nashville, that's
Speaker 4: in Nashville and country music, those are fight the word.
Speaker 1: She hates everything about the city that makes it the
Speaker 1: city and CBS did a report on her this morning,
Speaker 1: two minutes and twenty five seconds long. They didn't mention
Speaker 1: one word about any of the things that she has
Speaker 1: said about hating Nashville. Not one word about the bachelorette parties,
Speaker 1: not a word about the pedal taverns, not a word
Speaker 1: about country music, not a word about any of She
Speaker 1: also has said that she needs to defund the police
Speaker 1: and that you know, we need to have yeah, we
Speaker 1: need to have these these social workers go out instead
Speaker 1: of the police. And she hates Nashville, wants to defund
Speaker 1: the police. And then she said Tennessee is as racist
Speaker 1: as the heir that we breathe. And this is the
Speaker 1: person who wants to represent the seventh Strict in Tennessee
Speaker 1: and there's a good chance today said that she's gonna win.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's uh, well, you know what, Dan, it's the
Speaker 4: world today. Man. That's probably not surprising to some, but
Speaker 4: to me, it is when you run down when you
Speaker 4: run down Nashville, country music and everything else not a
Speaker 4: good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she says, you know, those remarks were she
Speaker 1: made those remarks when she was a private citizen, and
Speaker 1: now that she's running for office, maybe she doesn't feel
Speaker 1: that way anymore. But yet she hasn't come out and
Speaker 1: said I disavowed those remarks.
Speaker 4: Oh, I say, okay, okay, Well, and then you know,
Speaker 4: then I guess you, I don't know. Unbelievable, Andy Mack.
Speaker 1: When when these people go to the boat, what are
Speaker 1: these people say?
Speaker 4: Right, that's the world today, Dan, And that's that's the
Speaker 4: world today. People say this stuff and everything else and
Speaker 4: then once they once they get to you know, try
Speaker 4: to be elect did all well, I was saying that
Speaker 4: is a private citizen, not now like well, I mean
Speaker 4: you said it, so I don't know. Hopefully she didn't
Speaker 4: get any votes, but like you said, is he going
Speaker 4: to get voted in?
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen. We'll see, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. She's she's getting all kinds of media coverage,
Speaker 1: but the media won't say that that she said things
Speaker 1: like that. So the people at Tennessee they've got to
Speaker 1: they've got to pay attention as to as to what's
Speaker 1: going on. So, Seg, you decided not to drive in today.
Speaker 1: You and you do this every time it snows, which
Speaker 1: is perfectly fine because when it snows, we know that
Speaker 1: Seg Dennison is not going to test his driving skills
Speaker 1: against mother nature. So what words of wisdom? What words
Speaker 1: of wisdom do you have for others who might follow
Speaker 1: your example, which I think is a great example.
Speaker 4: Stay home and stay safe to save IM sure your
Speaker 4: insurance rates and car repairs and everything else.
Speaker 1: Don't wreck your car just because it's snowing out there. Now,
Speaker 1: if we don't get if we don't get any more
Speaker 1: snow overnight between now and tomorrow morning, will you be
Speaker 1: here tomorrow morning with Tom Brenneman.
Speaker 4: Correct, we'll be here.
Speaker 1: Seg you, we will be there. You are the absolute best.
Speaker 1: So if you would please, if you would please, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming in by the phone. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: doing the stooge reports, And if you would please, would
Speaker 1: you get us out of the stege.
Speaker 4: Report, Dan Dan in honor of a snowy day here
Speaker 4: in the Tri State, and everybody stay safe out there
Speaker 4: on the way home. We leave you with the immortal
Speaker 4: words of the Stuge report.
Speaker 1: Your cow tip and the snow.
Speaker 8: They can follow your footprints, those cows in Mississippi.
Speaker 1: That's smart. The farmers can. They can follow your footsteps
Speaker 1: all the way back to the crib.
Speaker 6: How often?
Speaker 1: How often did it snow in Mississippi for the cowboy
Speaker 1: to be out there cowtipping?
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what, whatever the cowboy wants to do
Speaker 4: or tell a story, that's fine with me.
Speaker 1: No one, no one tells a story like the cowboy,
Speaker 1: and stories like that, stories like that will sorely be missed.
Speaker 1: With no Red's caravan, no Red's caravan happening this year,
Speaker 1: it's going to be an apse. But maybe you can
Speaker 1: get cowboy to tell some stories at RedFest, so that'd
Speaker 1: be good too.
Speaker 4: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 1: Dan, you have a great night and be careful out
Speaker 1: there if you come into the station tomorrow. And Bill Dennison,
Speaker 1: you're the absolute best. And with that it is time
Speaker 1: for me to go. Eddie and Rocky are up next.
Speaker 1: Dan Carrolyn for Bill Cunningham, thanks for listening. Dave the
Speaker 1: broadcast Sheriff, thank you for everything and we'll see you
Speaker 1: next time on the Home of the Rets seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW