WEBVTT - 11-13-25 Bill Cunningham Show 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.719 Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome this Thursday afternoon 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.039 of the tri State. The government has opened. The Democrats 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.880 have suddenly said, Okay, let's have TSA workers not sleep 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.400 in their cars. Let's make sure the food stamps get 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.800 out to people. We're gonna pay the We're gonna pay TSA. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.680 We're gonna pay the air traffic controllers at the expense 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.400 of the insurance companies getting all the money under Obamacare. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.960 But that's a different issue. As you may know, there's many, 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.000 many problems in River City. One of them is on 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.000 short Vine. Another one is babies and boxes. And Brian 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.920 Hamrick's on top of both stories. And Brian Hamrick, welcome 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.159 again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Brian, how are you. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.600 I'm good. Thanks again, mister Cunningham. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.160 Let's talk about short Vine this afternoon. Because I saw 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.160 one of the captains and CPD gave me a shot 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.680 spotter detail about in the last month, what are the 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.160 shots being fired in Cincinnati? As if a white piece 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.240 of paper was in front of me, and I took 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.480 a bunch of black pepper and shook it all over 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.480 the paper. There's thousands of thousands of shots being fired, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.960 and that doesn't count the other to bacherous misbehavior. Short 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.600 Vine right against UC campus. And you've done stories on 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.959 moms and dads not feeling comfortable their kids going to 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.720 the University of Cincinnati because of the robberies because the 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.080 car break ins, guns are everywhere. But now it's metastasized 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.200 a little bit off campus to short Vine. So, first 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.720 of all, for those listening in Iowa, describe short Vine. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.720 Then we'll talk about the failure of parents to keep 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.520 their kids off Short Vine. At two o'clock in the morning. 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.040 Please give the American people a full report. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:48.000 Well, short Vine is what one block over from UC 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.320 main campus if you go down Jefferson right where you 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.720 go into the all the sports sporting events there, you know, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.600 you go into with basketball, the football, baseball, all of 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:05.160 that just across from there. It's it's it's really it's 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.880 not officially a part of the u SEE campus, but 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:12.800 it is a part of the u SEE community. Uh, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.920 And so all the students come over this way a 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.080 lot of times, especially if there's a sporting event, you 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:20.919 have to park over here where you want to or 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.920 not and walk through the area. And uh, you know, 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.800 we have talked to. You talk to any of the students, anybody, 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.919 they know that this area is trouble. And you talk 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.800 to the business owners down here, they'll tell you the 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.480 same thing. You know, and some are saying it's as 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.480 bad as they've ever seen it. Now, short minds had 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.240 its issues over the years. But you know, just a 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.160 few weeks ago, they're videos circulated. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:48.960 We had it. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.839 You can see it on our website. Somebody's firing off 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.919 a gun. People are running, there's a crowd of people. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.840 Somebody just opens fire. Everybody's running. I did the story 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.200 not long ago. Down in front of a liquor store, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.440 a fifteen year old goes to rob another guy, a 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.480 guy we had incidentally interviewed a couple of weeks before, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.119 just as a random person who observed another crime somewhere. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.840 He's standing outside this liquor store, all caught on camera. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.280 The kid goes to rob him. He pulls the gun 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:27.440 on the victim. What he doesn't realize this victim he 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.080 has his own gun. So they're in a big shootout, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.600 people everywhere. You can see him scattered there, you know. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.440 So the victim gets shot to death. The fifteen year 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.880 old shot as well, but he survived, and so that 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.040 case is still in the courtroom. And there have been 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.160 all kinds of other there's other ones that don't even 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.160 go reported. Kids that have been attacked. We just talked 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:53.880 to the mother of UC student who's been attacked two 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:58.120 times walking out here. So city council today is going 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.120 to try and do something. Uh. They're going to enact 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:02.920 as curfew. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:04.040 Uh. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.280 You know, if you talk to business owners down here, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.280 they think what's happening is they did that crack down 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:15.200 down by Fountain Square and all that. Well, these these 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.520 folks that create problems, they go somewhere, They're going to 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.640 be somewhere, and a lot of people think they're just 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.920 up here. So we've got sort of a whack a 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.080 mole problem going on. And so we're gonna whack the 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.680 mole up here and see if and see if that works. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.719 But you know, who knows if it's going to have 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.919 any effect at all. But it looks like here in 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.440 just a couple of hours the uh if city council 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.000 is going to vote to try and do something up here, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.840 and right now their answer is a curfew, uh for 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:47.200 the middle of the. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.200 Eyes kind of queue the red box, get rid of 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.599 the food trucks. Let's have a curfew. I watched Chief 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.080 Isaac Are retired as the chief of police from CPD. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.800 Now's the chief of police, and U see and he 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.920 said that it's ridiculous when you we have ten to 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.719 eleven twelve year olds, thirteen year olds running around committing 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.200 mayhem at two o'clock in the morning, and when the 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.479 weather is good, it's worse than the weather is bad. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.880 You had a couple of us, these students two weeks ago, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.040 thought it might be a good idea to get a pizza. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.240 I think for meos They're walking out with a large 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.440 pepperoni pizza and a gang of six or seven kids 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:20.920 got around him and they didn't want to give them 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.680 the pizza, and so the gang of six kids beat 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.240 the crap at him, kicked him in the head, broken 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.160 bones everywhere, and the robbers got the pizza, running down 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.240 Short Vine trying to eat a slice of pizza. And 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.680 so it's absurd. It's ridiculous, And what we need is 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.760 a functional juvenile court system that when you catch these 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.520 kids there's consequences. There's that thirteen year old who murdered 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.360 someone who's going to be held in Jubie court till 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.760 twenty one. Then he's going to be released. And there's 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.839 not a statute under fourteen to deal with murder. We 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.120 don't have laws that even deal with ten, eleven, twelve 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.760 year olds committing arm robberies. What do you do? And 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.359 I want to know where is my where is dad? 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.680 Where's the social constraints on bad human behavior? And uh 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.160 with the weather nice tonight and tomorrow is gonna be 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.679 a problem. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:14.120 It's uh, it has uh in a lot of these kids. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:15.080 Uh. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:20.240 This has become part of the uh of the culture. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.800 It's celebrated in song and dance and music and the 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.000 tenements of this and this isn't This doesn't just come 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.559 from me. This comes from the folks who are down 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.160 here in these neighborhoods. You know they know it as 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.320 well that you know it's uh. You'll hear it in 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.520 their music, for example, you'll hear these uh these songs 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.600 and the and the lyrics are all killed. The cops, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.279 beat the women, UH, take the money, smoke the dope, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.440 and and that you're that that those are the tenements 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.640 the ability, and then they aspire to be these thugs 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.720 that they see standing on the corner, right, And it's 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.520 because I mean, the sons have done great marketing. I 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.200 gotta give him that. You know, the city ought to 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.760 see tire those guys and say, hey, what are you 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.040 doing to attract youth? Because at the end of the 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.800 rainbow there is no there is nothing. There's nothing for him. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.720 There's jail or they're getting shot to death, you know, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.080 or getting out of it somehow. That that's what's really there. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.880 But but nobody's dispelled the myth that they're gonna be 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.200 a big wheel and there's some sort of al Capone figure. Uh, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:32.280 you know, that's you know, there's some grandiose lifestyle. You know, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.840 at best, a guy gets about a week and a 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.520 car he paid for him cash with speakers blasting their 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:43.040 theme music, riding through the sounds of Cincinnati. That's the guy. Like, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.560 he gets about a week of that, maybe a month, Yeah, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.000 and then he's shot to death or thrown in jail 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.800 or something happened to him. But but you know, there's 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.960 nobody living the high life. You know, if they are, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.320 I don't see them. What I see are the dead people. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.640 Those are the ones who you see. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.400 Like boat guards, etc. Is always a market, it is 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.920 kind of an ovank guard, kind of a music theater venue. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.920 But the actual business owners don't want to come on 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.120 camera and talk, do they. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.040 No. We've talked to a number of folks up here. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.840 I just I'm up one short vine as we speak 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.040 and just talking to people and they're like, yeah, nah, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.760 you know what. I don't think I better, but but 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.800 I think it's a good idea that they do something. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.400 But people are afraid. They're afraid. They don't want any 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.319 kind of repercussions because if you stand out, you might 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.400 get a lightning bolt. We're not done trying to catch 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.440 up with folks. Hopefully we'll get somebody today, one of 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.080 these business owners. But they'll tell us all, you know, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.560 off camera. They're willing to tell us, you know, hey, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.560 look something's got to be done. It's crazy. I think 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.559 Chief Isaac said, look, it don't even count the violent crime, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.400 but just the chaos that's going on. That's the way 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.960 he put it. So you know it's happening, and there's 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.760 you know, it's just a lot of activity up here, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:07.000 and you know, we're fortunately that it hasn't gotten worse 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.640 with like I said, when you got somebody unloading guns, Yes, yoh, well, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.959 I mean you've got people unloading guns when there are 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.160 dozens of people standing around. You could have one of 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:23.040 these situations where you've got multiple people shot and killed. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.400 You know, Like, I was amazed that when these two 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.000 the guy who got killed pulled the gun and shot back. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.199 That when there's people sitting everywhere, how the bullets missed 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.080 all those other people? I have no idea, because they 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.880 both basically unloaded their weapons and those bullets were flying everywhere. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.760 It's like the OK Corral out there. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.559 Well, it's not fair to the OK Corral. And lastly, 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.800 on this topic, before we talk about babies and boxes, uh, 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.040 the superintendent of schoolers came home with slowly a couple 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.400 of weeks ago. There's about five thousand kids in cps 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.800 that are homeless, five thousand boys and little girls living 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:07.000 in cars, and another five thousand are English second language kids. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.400 That and then you have a chronic absentee rate of 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.520 forty seven percent and seventy one percent of black boys 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.560 are chronically absent. You put all that together and you 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.320 got a recipe for total cultural collapse. Secondly, I got 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:22.880 to get to this. You did a great story on 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.760 babies and boxes and I saw this, and I said, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.560 I heard the number. One hundred and seventy newly born 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.080 babies put in boxes in fire departments another example of 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.280 collapse of our culture. Explain that story. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.840 Well, yeah, they put these they call them, they're the 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.440 ones they use around here mostly are called the safe 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.720 haven baby boxes. And so you have these moms who, 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.440 you know, they're stuck in a bad spot and they 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.480 they don't know what to do, and so they've opened 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.280 this up and then anonymously you can drop the baby 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.480 in this box and at the fire station the alarm 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.520 goes off. Don't have these things for years, and you know, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.920 kind of forget that they got it, and then all 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.920 of a sudden, that's what they had in Union Township. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.280 Somebody puts a baby in a box. They know nothing 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.520 about where the baby came from. It was a healthy baby, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.640 and now that baby's on the road to a whole 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:19.120 different life. That was in a Union Township. They don't 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.280 give a specific day or time when that was, but 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.240 it was very recent and last week or two weeks 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.840 they had the baby drop there. And meanwhile in Hamilton 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.280 they were putting in a brand new baby box. Just 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.679 you know, someday somebody's gonna use it, you know. And 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.800 so these moms who feel they got no other choice, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.319 nowhere else to go. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:47.680 I know, they could have bored it and killed the baby, 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.160 and they didn't do that. And so it used to 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.280 be a felony to do it. Now it's no harm, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:53.760 no foul for the mother. Correct. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.680 Well yeah, no, huh, they're no charges. They don't even 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.920 you know, want to know who the mom is. They 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.360 just want the baby to be safe. That's their main goal. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.000 And I talked to the woman, she's out of Indiana 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.000 who started this. There's like somehow I think she said 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.720 three hundred This was a three hundred and ninety fifth 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.120 baby box, the one in Hamilton. They got them all 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:21.440 through Texas and everywhere. Uh, And they have had seventy 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.160 babies since they started the program put in the boxes, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:30.000 and one hundred and seventy eight that women, just moms, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.600 came to the fire station where they have the baby box. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.520 They didn't put it in a box. They just handed 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.920 it over to the firefighters there though, and said, you know, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.040 take care of the baby. And so they put it 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.319 in with the child services and then you know, they 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.280 find a home for it. I wouldn't be surprised if 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.880 the one in Union Township didn't already didn't already place. 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.000 Or you know, there are people that are waiting for babies, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.320 hoping to get you know, a healthy baby, right and 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.480 you know can't have kids and all that. So, like 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.079 you said, it's a you know, it's a it's a 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.360 it's a program that you know is working. Like you 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.960 said that it should certainly be the alternative because you 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.720 know what the folks who have these boxes and put 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.920 them in say, you know, you know, it gives women 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.440 an opportunity to do something rather than the alternative, which 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.760 often is not a good choice to make. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.920 And for those who may be caught in this about 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.480 a minute remaining, those might be women that are caught 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.640 in this no harm, no foul, And you don't know 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.240 who the mother is. And I guess down the road 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.280 in fifteen or twenty years somebody a mother could pop 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.080 up and say, where's my child? I don't know, there's 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.480 no identifiers, correct, right, Yeah. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:47.200 No, they they say there's no identification to it. I'm 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.400 not sure how they do that. If it happened. I 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.160 don't know that they've been in there well enough to 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.040 have had anybody come back and say, hey, you know, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:00.000 let's reconsider this. I'm not sure what the procedures are 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.360 are for that, if they did have that, But but 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.360 the whole idea is that it's an anonymous it's an 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:11.040 anonymous uh uh drop that you drop the baby and 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.120 nobody is like, no questions asked, ass you know, and 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.440 and that's the way they set it up to be. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:23.080 So now we'll see but or whatever. It's sad, it's 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.560 sick and it's good. It's one of those things in life. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.000 It's sick, but it's sad, but it's good because it 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.280 is so easy to kill baby in uterot today. In fact, 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.280 there's organizations like Planned Parentode making millions of dollars through 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.480 that terrible business. At least mothers have the you know, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.880 it's not easy, of course delivering a child. But well, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.880 once it's done, to recognize I can't handle this as 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.320 a positive. We'll see what happens at two o'clock with 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.680 short vine and that's a game of whack a mole. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.320 And if that is shut down, back to the central 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.520 business district here, there and everywhere. And I won't stop 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.320 until parents are responsible and juveniles are held accountable. The 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.240 police need to arrest, the prosecutor needs to prosecute, and 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.120 the judge needs a sentence, and it has to be consequences. 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.800 And right now you can kill, murder, rape, rob and 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.840 there's no consequence because we have a juvenile court system 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.640 like Harry Bloom, the judge there who give book reports 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.200 and say don't do it again and apologize and out 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.960 you go again. It's a revolving door. There's about a 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.560 few hundred needs to be taken off the streets to 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.000 save a few hundred thousand, and until that happens, for nowhere, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.680 but I'll be watching tonight for the story about short Vine. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.120 Brian Hammrick, once again, thank you for coming on the 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.120 Bill Cunningham Show. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.200 Thank you, Brian, Thanks again, mister Cunningham. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.320 All right, back to work. There's the best street reporter 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.520 in town covering Shortvine, babies and boxes, sexual assaults in 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.880 college os, Episcopalian churches and more. Let's continue news coming 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.040 up at sho home of the Reds, the Bengals and more. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.520 Which Joe will be quarterback on Sunday in Pittsburgh on 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.600 News Radio seven hundred WLW NO. I'd hit the music 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.160 Dave Keaton hit the music. Another Thursday afternoon in the 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.440 Tri State. Whether it's unbelievably well today, tomorrow, Saturday, little rain, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.800 next week, right now, get out and join things, enjoy things. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.040 It might be last weekend for a while, who knows. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.720 And we'll continue to follow that closely. A couple things 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:18.320 the band aid on a bleeding wound, or having prohibitions 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.080 against red bikes or against food trucks, or having these 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.240 ridiculous curfews that no one follows. I think as if 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.200 that'll solve any of the problems. When it does not. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.160 It is lousy parenting, this functional youth and a bad 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.840 culture that don't understand the value of hard work, perseverance, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.120 fear of God, and love. A country of delayed satisfaction 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.440 to do things necessary in life to make the better 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.560 things possible. That means that the three rules of life 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.800 for a great America's number one number one go to 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.000 school and graduate, could be high school, could be college. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.520 Go to school and graduate. And number two work or 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.320 continue to go to school. Many young folks I know 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.480 do both. They work then go to school. The number three, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.200 do not commit crime. Do those three things. You don't 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.760 need a government program. You'll need red bike prohibitions, don't 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.840 need food truck prohibitions, don't need any of the so 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.760 called curfews or any of the other issues that are 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.480 band aids on cancerous tumor. The cancerost tumor is a 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.680 culture that does not recognize the values of being a 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.360 great in American and a great human being because education 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.320 is the latter out of the hole in which you 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.240 might find yourself. Now many do not see the light. 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.880 I can't imagine living living in a car, or being 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.280 homeless if you're twelve years old, or if you're thirteen 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.040 years old, running around short Vine committing crimes, beating people 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.520 up for their pizzas. I can't imagine the lifespan of 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.280 that person long term is not good. End up like 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.000 Ryan Hinton hoisting cars in northern Kentucky then getting shot 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.360 by Cincinnati police because you're running around with guns. That's 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.320 the resolution is they have so called leaders say the 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:06.120 problem is not the police, The problem is not red bikes. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.440 The problem are parents, mainly fathers out of the home, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.199 great bulk of the fathers out of the home and 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.879 mothers that are overwhelmed and our children themselves, so especially 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.840 males don't develop full mental alertness till they're about twenty 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.320 five or thirty years old. In my case, I think 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.560 it was about thirty five years old. I came out 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.119 of a culture of St. Savior, of Roman Catholicism, of nuns. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.359 I was grounded and going to school, working from an 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.800 early age. And that's not the way things happen today. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.200 If you're poor. If you're poor, become a perpetual victim 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.360 and expect free stuff from the government. And I would 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.240 add that the affordability crisis we're being discussed, and I 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.320 want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein before too much time 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.480 goes by. But you know, having taken several econ classes 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.600 in the at the end of the day, despite the 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:04.040 demands of Mamdani and liberal Democrats like Greg Lansman, that 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:08.240 the way to have better healthcare is to restrict supply 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.520 and raise the price, not exactly just the opposite. When 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.919 government gets involved in something like Obamacare, it becomes less affordable, 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:23.439 becomes more expensive and more bureaucratically driven, causing less good outcomes. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.840 That that is what Obamacare is. But I regress, it's 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.720 only in the end, there's two ways to make something 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:37.200 more affordable. That is, to reduce the price or increase 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:43.199 the supply. So you reduce demand and you increase the supply, 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.160 then guess what prices go down. It's a simple rule. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:52.800 It makes sense. So with the so called affordability crisis, 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.679 when government intervenes in the market, it tends to cause 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.840 precisely the opposite of what it tends because the only 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.879 way to reduce pricing it to reduce prices is to 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.399 reduce the price artificially because of demand or increase the supply. 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:17.440 That's it. The reason chevrolets are so shall we say, inexpensive, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.720 is because the demand is high because there's less of them. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.440 And the opposite occurs. And the reason something like healthcare 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:30.040 becomes more expensive when government is involved, it raises the 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:36.200 price reduces because the price is reduced allegedly because government 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.160 is subsidizing it, more people jump in. But then when 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.240 the market forces come into play, the price jacks up. 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:47.000 So every time the government intervenes in the marketplace, interventions 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:51.440 are designed to increase demand through subsidies. If we subsidize 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:56.240 something that will that will tend to reduce the price. 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.320 Because government's involved, it doesn't. It increases the prices they're 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.240 designed to reduce supply through restrictions or regulations. Are both. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.240 So when government in the last ten or fifteen years 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:12.040 got involved in some industry or some business instead of 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:17.119 letting the market forces work, whether it's hospital services or 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:22.320 college tuition, college textbooks, medical care. Look what's happened to 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:27.920 childcare largely subsidized by the government. Way up, food and beverage, housing, 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.280 But housing's gone up because the supply is about the same, 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.960 but the availability of individuals to afford a houses gone down. 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:42.359 It's no coincidence. But when there's heavy governmental regulation and subsidization. 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.399 The list includes products left to their own, devices would 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.639 go down in value, but down in price and up 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:54.800 in value. The opposite happens. Free markets generate more supply 0:21:55.400 --> 0:22:02.680 and more efficiency and less price. Right apply more efficiency 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.520 and that means the price goes down. You can think 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.600 about what's happened, for example, to the price of a 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.960 television set. When I first got married, we had to 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.960 rent a television set from Barker TV for I think 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:17.960 it was nineteen dollars and ninety five cents a month. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.600 I rented a TV, a Sony Trenton Tom was too 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.160 expensive when I first bought the fancy TV sets. They 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:29.479 were ten thousand dollars. Now there's six hundred. The market 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:34.000 forces came in, the prices came down, the efficiencies came down, 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.520 the supply was greater, and more Americans buy TVs. Am 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:42.920 I teaching a class an econ right here? I would hope. So. 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:49.399 So when Obamacare came in about fifteen years ago, the 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.879 government there were few people signing up because the great 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.920 bulk of the American people, about ninety five percent, get 0:22:55.920 --> 0:23:00.880 their healthcare from where Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits, or employer 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:04.800