Speaker 1: Billy cunning in the Great America. Welcome the streets Afford
Speaker 1: in the tri State. As you know, Kyle Schwarber has
Speaker 1: signed a long term deal with the Philadelphia Phillies who
Speaker 1: stay there, and so that's not a good sign. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: the weather is going to get rather hippy the next
Speaker 1: few days. But until then, Senator ran Paul is the
Speaker 1: junior Senator from the Great State of Kentucky. I look
Speaker 1: for today he'll be the senior Senator from the Great
Speaker 1: State of Kentucky. And of course he's intimately involved in
Speaker 1: the healthcare crisis in the country that we have in
Speaker 1: which many Americans are concerned about ever increasing premium bills
Speaker 1: because of Obamacare. There's only about eight percent of Americans
Speaker 1: are on the Obamacare Exchange. Is the great majority to
Speaker 1: get their healthcare through an employer. And nonetheless joining us
Speaker 1: now is the Great Senator Ran Paul, the Great State
Speaker 1: of Ohio and Senator about several weeks ago, when the
Speaker 1: Democrats shut down the Congress for forty four days, you
Speaker 1: and the Senate agreed to have a vote on Obamacare
Speaker 1: subsidies continuance sometime in the middle of December.
Speaker 2: It's getting pretty.
Speaker 1: Close and so how's the status of those negotiations to
Speaker 1: have a vote. Of course, when I speak to the
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, he tells
Speaker 1: me there's no way it's going to pass in the House.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the original agreement. So as we sit here,
Speaker 1: how does it look to have a vote in the Senate?
Speaker 1: And if so, how will you vote.
Speaker 3: I think the vote's going to happen on Thursday of
Speaker 3: this week. I will vote against extending the Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3: I think you have to look at the facts, and
Speaker 3: the facts are that they've been an abysmal failure. They
Speaker 3: keep providing higher and higher subsidies, many of which go
Speaker 3: to rich people, go to people making up to four
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars a year. And I don't know any
Speaker 3: Kentucky and who comes up to me and says, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: four hundred thousand dollars a years poor and you should
Speaker 3: really get subsidies.
Speaker 2: From the government.
Speaker 3: But as as the government has subsidized insurance, the premiums
Speaker 3: have just gotten hired and hire so big. Insurance is
Speaker 3: made off like a bandit on these things, and it
Speaker 3: isn't really making insurance more affordable. So I have a
Speaker 3: competing plan. My plan is called association health plans, and
Speaker 3: it would let people join a group like either Costco
Speaker 3: or Sam's Club or Amazon, and then you would buy
Speaker 3: your insurance as a group. So instead of being in
Speaker 3: the individual market, you now have group insurance like somebody
Speaker 3: who works for General Motors or.
Speaker 4: Toyota or a big company.
Speaker 3: But as you join this big group, the big group
Speaker 3: would have leverage to bid prices down. Costco's got forty
Speaker 3: four million members, So if one person negotiated for forty
Speaker 3: four million members, you'd have a meeting with the CEO
Speaker 3: of the major big insurance companies and you'd build a
Speaker 3: demand that prices are lower. And so if we did that,
Speaker 3: I think we could transform the marketplace and get more,
Speaker 3: less expensive insurance for everyone.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, from my perspective, that makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. If you take Amazon and Costco and a
Speaker 1: bunch of others, obviously you'll be close to one hundred
Speaker 1: million people would have accessed The great majority of people
Speaker 1: have Medicare, Medicaid and or employer sponsored healthcare. We're talking
Speaker 1: about a small number, but an important constituency. And so
Speaker 1: I don't think the Democrats would like that, though, Senator,
Speaker 1: because right now the Obamacare subsidies largely go to insurance
Speaker 1: companies who promised to hold down premiums and deductibilities, which
Speaker 1: they don't do, and so right now and then the
Speaker 1: insurance companies kick money back to the Democrats called campaign donations.
Speaker 1: When this great idea to let the marketplace work to
Speaker 1: hold down cost is advanced by people like you, just
Speaker 1: out of a snowballs chance in hell of getting passed
Speaker 1: by the Democrats, there's.
Speaker 3: A lot of support on the Republican side.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I've talked to President Trump about this in his first administration.
Speaker 3: I got him to sign an executive order.
Speaker 4: That put this into place.
Speaker 3: But the Democrats sue. The Democrats State Attorney General sued
Speaker 3: and kind of steining it in court. But I don't
Speaker 3: know why. I talk to Democrats all the time about it.
Speaker 3: It's basically letting the consumer bargain collectively. You think Democrats
Speaker 3: would be for that, but as we get into the
Speaker 3: nitty gritty, Democrats will say, well, people are too stupid,
Speaker 3: you know, public they can't let them make choices and
Speaker 3: what kind of insurance they want, So we have to
Speaker 3: dictate what goes into each insurance policy. Well, once you
Speaker 3: start doing that, you raise the price. So, for example,
Speaker 3: if you're a sixty year old woman, you've had your
Speaker 3: children and you're not planning on having any more children,
Speaker 3: shouldn't you be allowed to buy insurance that doesn't have
Speaker 3: pregnancy coverage. Well, if you allow that, then you allow
Speaker 3: some options. They're going to be less expensive. Let's say
Speaker 3: you're twenty five years old, but you're responsible and you're
Speaker 3: not ready to have kids. You'd like for the next
Speaker 3: three years to buy insurance without pregnancy coverage. Shouldn't you
Speaker 3: be allowed to? You know, because a young single person
Speaker 3: might want to save money until they're married, and then
Speaker 3: when they're married they might want to have something as
Speaker 3: pregnancy coverage. But you also might join cost co and
Speaker 3: if there were forty four million members, you might get
Speaker 3: pregnancy coverage thrown in for free because they've negotiated that
Speaker 3: with the insurance company because the group is so huge.
Speaker 4: But it is already Get democrats.
Speaker 3: I haven't gotten any Democrat on board. They perk up
Speaker 3: and they listen and they say, well maybe, But then
Speaker 3: when you get to the nitty gritty, they say, well,
Speaker 3: we have to regulate what people buy because people aren't
Speaker 3: smart enough to make these decisions. And it's really this
Speaker 3: disdain for the intelligence of the American public from the left,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, they don't state it outright. That's
Speaker 3: essentially what they're saying is that the American public is
Speaker 3: not smart enough to buy the insurance that they need.
Speaker 1: If I want to go through the Obamacare exchanges, I
Speaker 1: doubt you and I would ever need abortion services. I
Speaker 1: doubt we're going to ever need that. But part of
Speaker 1: our premium pays for that. And that is can you
Speaker 1: go back in time is tell us why Obamacare, which
Speaker 1: promised like your doctor, keep your doctor, like your plan,
Speaker 1: keep your plan, my plan, Obama said, is going to
Speaker 1: reduce premiums by twenty five hundred dollars a month, and
Speaker 1: that that's going to be a great benefit.
Speaker 2: It's going to reduce the deficit.
Speaker 1: And if the deficit is that reduced, it's going to
Speaker 1: trigger automatical any reductions in Obama. The whole thing was
Speaker 1: built upon a how cards and it's failed. And can
Speaker 1: you get me from the senatorial perspective, you're one of
Speaker 1: the power brokers in Washington as to why Obamacare failed.
Speaker 2: So miserably, and the media will not report on that.
Speaker 3: It was all predicated upon a lie. It was all
Speaker 3: predicated upon a government program that was never going to work,
Speaker 3: and it was past simply with Democrat votes. You know,
Speaker 3: no Republicans voted to start it. And so what we
Speaker 3: wound up with was a government directed plan wasn't based
Speaker 3: on the market, wasn't based on market forces, and it
Speaker 3: had all kinds of mandates within it as to what
Speaker 3: kind of insurance you would buy, when you paid, when
Speaker 3: you didn't pay, And in the end it's been a
Speaker 3: cossal failure. Premiums didn't go down, premiums went up. And
Speaker 3: in fact, you have the worst of all worlds. You
Speaker 3: have high deductibles and high premiums. They used to be
Speaker 3: the marketplace would offer you high deductible plans for lower premiums,
Speaker 3: but now you have, you know, like I say, the
Speaker 3: worst of all worlds. You have high deductible plans and
Speaker 3: high premiums. And you'll you'll hear examples of somebody making
Speaker 3: eighty thousand dollars a year there's a thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: insurance policy. Well that's just obscene. So we have to
Speaker 3: do something different. We can do the same thing. If
Speaker 3: you know, just extending Obamacare we're going to work. We
Speaker 3: could debate that, but it hasn't worked. It's objectively failed.
Speaker 3: So we need to do something different, and it works
Speaker 3: everywhere else. Look, television sets are ninety nine percent cheaper
Speaker 3: than they were forty years ago. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: as iPhones, everything, all the technology. We have amazing things
Speaker 3: at our fingertips, and the price has been going down
Speaker 3: every year. So we need to bring a real marketplace.
Speaker 3: Let capitalism work in healthcare help. There's one of the
Speaker 3: few areas where prices go up dramatically greater than any
Speaker 3: other segment of the economy.
Speaker 1: It's about one sixth of the entire economy, and so
Speaker 1: it's almost impossible to have inflation affected in a positive
Speaker 1: way if one sixth of the economy have ten percent
Speaker 1: increases every year and people are unhappy with it. You
Speaker 1: can imagine if I have car insurance and you I
Speaker 1: assume you have car insurance. Imagine if my car insurance
Speaker 1: policy would cover oil changes, it would cover cleaning out
Speaker 1: my car, it would cover rotating the tires. My insurance policy,
Speaker 1: my car insurance would be through the roof. Well, why
Speaker 1: not have a catastrophic plan, so that if I have
Speaker 1: an accident or hurt somebody, then it's covered, but all
Speaker 1: the other expenses are borne by the consumer.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be a good plan for medical insurance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you combine a catastrophic plan for a young,
Speaker 3: healthy person with a health savings account. And so currently
Speaker 3: only ten percent of insurance plans are legally allowed to
Speaker 3: offer health savings accounts. So my plan would do the
Speaker 3: association health careing co ops or buying groups, but also
Speaker 3: would allow everybody to get health savings account. So I've
Speaker 3: had three kids that I had to put in braces,
Speaker 3: but I did it with pre tax money that I
Speaker 3: put in my HSA, so I was able to save
Speaker 3: on their prices. But why shouldn't every other American get
Speaker 3: say thing that I was able to get. You know,
Speaker 3: it's ridiculous that ninety percent of insurance plans in our
Speaker 3: country don't allow health savings accounts. So my plan will
Speaker 3: let everybody have a health savings account. It would let
Speaker 3: you pay your premiums out of your health savings account.
Speaker 3: It would let you do more things like diet programs
Speaker 3: and gymnasium out of your health savings account, vitamins out
Speaker 3: of your health savings account. So the idea of wellness
Speaker 3: that you know Bobby Kennedy's talking about, we would let
Speaker 3: it go with pre tax dollars to do things that
Speaker 3: are good for you. And I think there's all kinds
Speaker 3: of things.
Speaker 4: And you know the greatest thing about.
Speaker 3: My plan bill, you know what it costs zero doesn't
Speaker 3: cost a taxpayer anything because we basically just legalize the
Speaker 3: purchase of insurance to these co ops and then we
Speaker 3: legalize the establishment of health savings accounts for everybody. But
Speaker 3: it isn't the government funding these things. It would be
Speaker 3: private individuals funding them.
Speaker 2: I would love that approach.
Speaker 1: I think Democrat's eyes glaze over like a great white
Speaker 1: shark eating a tuna, because there's not government control, there's
Speaker 1: not government power, there's not campaign finance dollars raised, and
Speaker 1: the Republicans are taking the hitd on this, I think politically,
Speaker 1: even though I think most Americans understand what you and
Speaker 1: I are saying, but most Americans aren't covered by Obamacare,
Speaker 1: so it's someone else's problem now. Secondly, on the filibuster,
Speaker 1: I have many of my friends say it's time to
Speaker 1: nuke the filibuster. Donald Trump, the President wants to nuke
Speaker 1: the filibuster two years ago or three years ago, except
Speaker 1: for Cinema and Mansion, the filibuster would have been nuked already,
Speaker 1: which means the Democrats could have done anything they wanted
Speaker 1: to do. Where do you stand on the filibuster? Is
Speaker 1: it going to be nuke the next time? The Democrats
Speaker 1: control everything, God forbid, and they will at some point,
Speaker 1: which means Puerto Rico, Washington, DC will be states god
Speaker 1: knows what's male in balloting would look like? Where do
Speaker 1: you stand on nuking the filibuster by the Republicans knowing
Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to do it the next time
Speaker 1: they can.
Speaker 3: I think the natural state of man is to be free.
Speaker 3: We're born free, and most government, most legislation takes away,
Speaker 3: either incrementally or in great chunks, takes away our freedom.
Speaker 3: So I don't want more legislation to pass easily with
Speaker 3: simple majority. We have several impediments to a direct democracy.
Speaker 3: We indirectly elect our representatives.
Speaker 4: We give each state two votes.
Speaker 3: Which isn't very democratic. Kentucky has the same amount of
Speaker 3: votes that California has in the Senate, and then we
Speaker 3: have this filibuster, which means you have to get a
Speaker 3: super maginity to pass anything. It's frustrating because, like right now,
Speaker 3: we want to undo a lot of the crazy programs
Speaker 3: and Democrats put in place, but we you know, are
Speaker 3: unable to do it because of the filibuster. But you know,
Speaker 3: when the shoes on the other foot, you know, if
Speaker 3: we get rid of the philibuster, now we pass.
Speaker 4: A lot of good stuff.
Speaker 3: Immediately when the Democrats take over and there's no filibuster,
Speaker 3: they pass it and so we'll ping pong back and
Speaker 3: forth from one to the other. And as much as
Speaker 3: I want to undo their programs, I think getting rid
Speaker 3: of the philibuster probably means more legislation passes. And there's
Speaker 3: a lot of bad ideas on both.
Speaker 2: Sides of the aisle.
Speaker 3: Most of the legislation passed in Washington takes away your freedom.
Speaker 3: So I still believe even the filibuster, because I think
Speaker 3: most of the ideas up here are rotten and we
Speaker 3: shouldn't encourage these people.
Speaker 1: When you and the Senate continued things status quo until
Speaker 1: January the thirtieth, part of that was doing something many
Speaker 1: people aren't happy in Kentucky about hemp. I don't know
Speaker 1: how hemp was relatable to the Obamacare, But tell the
Speaker 1: American people what happened in that bill that angered many
Speaker 1: of the hemp farmers and marijuana grows in Ohio, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and Indiana. Explain that to the American people.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, they kept talking about a clean cr
Speaker 3: CRS fancy the title for continued resolution or a spending bill,
Speaker 3: and a clean means that there weren't any extra policies
Speaker 3: on it. Well, Senator McConnell snuck in a policy change,
Speaker 3: and what his policy change does is it overrides all
Speaker 3: of the state laws on hemp. Doesn't really apply to
Speaker 3: cannabis or marijuana, but it applies to hemp. So in
Speaker 3: Kentucky we had passed laws regulate help. If you want
Speaker 3: to get a drink that has a little bit of
Speaker 3: THC in it from hemp, you can buy it in
Speaker 3: a liquor store. You have to be twenty one and
Speaker 3: it's significantly regulated. McConnell's language came in and changed the
Speaker 3: definition of the plant. It comes from a plant, So
Speaker 3: the farmers will all have to destroy all their plants.
Speaker 3: They will also have to destroy all their seeds, so
Speaker 3: the farmers will have to start over. But then the numbers,
Speaker 3: the percentage that he allow is way below what the
Speaker 3: Kentucky legislature voted on.
Speaker 4: So really these drinks will.
Speaker 2: No longer be legal.
Speaker 3: So ninety eight percent of the products that are made
Speaker 3: from hemp are made illegal by Center McConnell's language. So
Speaker 3: he's destroyed the hemp industry. He helped to get it started,
Speaker 3: and now he's going to destroy it. But I'm still
Speaker 3: working on legislation. My legislation says that any state that
Speaker 3: chooses to regulate hemp, that their regulations would actually supersede
Speaker 3: the munconnell language. It's still a long shop, but I
Speaker 3: have one year until his language takes place that I'm
Speaker 3: going to try to see if we can let states
Speaker 3: have their own laws instead of being bullied by the
Speaker 3: federal government.
Speaker 1: And lastly, there's a truck driver crisis in this country.
Speaker 1: I look at Texas setting the traffic stop of an
Speaker 1: eighteen wheeler took a wild turn when troopers realized the driver,
Speaker 1: guy named David Amaya, didn't have a commercial icense, didn't
Speaker 1: have a CDL. The group was part of a clan
Speaker 1: of Nicaraguans Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Hondurans and Mexicans turn over
Speaker 1: to border patrol. And every day there's thousands of illegal
Speaker 1: truckers with made up CDLs operating over the super slabs
Speaker 1: of this great country. My old good friend truck and
Speaker 1: Boz who would be enraged? What can you do to
Speaker 1: make sure the illegals do not drive seventy five thousand
Speaker 1: pound trucks that are destroying American trucking and secondly causing
Speaker 1: death and destruction all over the country.
Speaker 2: Senator, what can we downe about that?
Speaker 4: Enforcement?
Speaker 3: So legal, enforced, capturing, stopping, arresting, put these people in jail,
Speaker 3: but also liability. You know, there was some tragic cases
Speaker 3: of you know, whole families being killed by these truck
Speaker 3: drivers that don't speak English, you know, trying to make
Speaker 3: a U turn on the freeway recently. Well, that company
Speaker 3: should be liable for that. Now, that doesn't bring the
Speaker 3: family back, but it certainly will give a caution to
Speaker 3: these truck companies to quit by hiring people who are illegal,
Speaker 3: don't have licenses, or can't speak English or read English.
Speaker 3: So liability but also enforcement. If you're captured doing this,
Speaker 3: you go to prison, and so I think that there's
Speaker 3: going to be what we'll find over time is hopefully
Speaker 3: we'll have less of this.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what happens. Senator rand Paul, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And you're saying on
Speaker 1: Thursday is going to be the vote on the extension
Speaker 1: of these subsidies, and what does your crystal ball say
Speaker 1: yay or nay?
Speaker 2: In the Senate.
Speaker 3: I think no Republican will support it. We'll get about
Speaker 3: forty seven votes, all Democrats. I don't think any Republicans
Speaker 3: are going to support just extending it without reforming it
Speaker 3: at all. I'm not for extending it period. I'd try
Speaker 3: to replace it with the free market.
Speaker 2: God bless America.
Speaker 1: Senator Ran Paul, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham
Speaker 1: Show this Tuesday afternoon. And stay warm. Senator Ran Paul,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Thank you, God bless America. Let's
Speaker 1: continue with more if a line becomes available, you know,
Speaker 1: the routine news coming up at your home of the
Speaker 1: Reds and Bengals. Looks like Kyle Schwarber signed back with
Speaker 1: the Phillies on News Radio seven hundred WLW. All right,
Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the great American and a voice of reason
Speaker 1: and a sea of intranquilities. I want to thank Senator
Speaker 1: Ran Paul for coming on. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the settlement of the city with the protesters in a moment.
Speaker 1: But thanks are screwed up completely in medical care, and
Speaker 1: they have been for years. There's a system available that
Speaker 1: would provide better medical care at lower expenses. Democrats can't
Speaker 1: agree to that because the insurance companies to whom they
Speaker 1: pay fifty billion dollars a year under Obamacare, is using
Speaker 1: that money to screw blue and tattoo the policyholders of Obamacare,
Speaker 1: which is only I use the term only twenty two
Speaker 1: million people, about eight percent the great majority of us
Speaker 1: like me and I assume you get medical care through
Speaker 1: our employer that has some negotiating power. iHeartMedia has about
Speaker 1: fifty thousand employees, so iHeart Media has a plan. Most
Speaker 1: of the people here are happy with the plan. They
Speaker 1: don't want to go to Obamacare. A giraft as a
Speaker 1: horse defined, describe and created by a committee. The committee
Speaker 1: created Obamacare in which individuals who are not employed, not
Speaker 1: eligible for Medicaid or Medicare, or not with other plan
Speaker 1: can go online four or five companies are given subsidies
Speaker 1: by the federal government of about fifty billion dollars, and
Speaker 1: over the last several years, deductibles of skyrocket and the
Speaker 1: premiums are going up. Those that are young and healthy
Speaker 1: do not want to pay anything for medical insurance.
Speaker 2: They don't need it. And for those who.
Speaker 1: Do get it, if you're a male, you probably don't
Speaker 1: need abortion services, and if you're a woman, say fifty
Speaker 1: years old, you probably don't need maternity care. But the
Speaker 1: democratically controlled Obamacare requires every person with no presisting condition
Speaker 1: extras to have the same medical plan, no matter what
Speaker 1: it is. So the coster through the roof, so as
Speaker 1: the premiums kept going up, people under the age of forty,
Speaker 1: young and healthy said, you know what, I don't need that.
Speaker 2: I'm paying all this money. I don't need it.
Speaker 1: So therefore they opted out of the system, leaving behind
Speaker 1: those with special medical needs. The cost of skyrocketing. The
Speaker 1: government's got to provide the subsidy, So no one could
Speaker 1: have described to find or created Obamacare with the idea
Speaker 1: of helping Americans without medical care to get it. Because
Speaker 1: right now you can go to an emergency room and
Speaker 1: by law, you get free medical care, and if you
Speaker 1: can't pay for it, you get it for nothing. And
Speaker 1: those who do pay off to the side, their premiums
Speaker 1: go up. But if you can't pay and you get
Speaker 1: the same medical care, guess what, you don't pay, but
Speaker 1: someone else does. And secondly, we've done the topic for years.
Speaker 1: There's thirty to forty million illegals in this country right now.
Speaker 1: No other country in the world has close to ten
Speaker 1: percent of his population here illegally, and they have free
Speaker 1: medical care through the ers. They don't pay anything. Those
Speaker 1: who do pay more. And so it is a multifaceted
Speaker 1: problem that neither side wants to fix. The fix by
Speaker 1: Senator Ran Paul would be perfect, but the Democrats don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. They lose control and they lose
Speaker 1: power over the ability to say Republicans don't care about
Speaker 1: your healthcare.
Speaker 2: We do care.
Speaker 1: I'm a conservative libertarian, not necessarily a Republican.
Speaker 2: I'll vote for Democrats.
Speaker 1: I'll keep voting for Democrats that are reasonable, like Charmaine
Speaker 1: McGuffey the sheriff, for example. Absolutely, I voted for Dusty
Speaker 1: Rhodes for years. Absolutely, So it isn't about party with me,
Speaker 1: It's about passing on our great nation to the next
Speaker 1: generation of Americans having a functional society, and it's not
Speaker 1: happening right now. It's going to get worse, not better,
Speaker 1: especially with AI and the fact that forty percent of
Speaker 1: college graduates come out without a job.
Speaker 2: That's never happened before. It's never happened before.
Speaker 1: That the majority of women between the ages of eighteen
Speaker 1: and forty.
Speaker 2: Five are not married.
Speaker 1: Think about that stat On all that entails eighteen and
Speaker 1: forty five year old women, fifty one percent are not married.
Speaker 1: That means often they're in dysfunctional circumstances, unhappy, demanding more
Speaker 1: and more and more. And that's a problem. About the
Speaker 1: same number of males, by the way, are unmarried. That's
Speaker 1: a problem. We need family structure, we need family units,
Speaker 1: We need.
Speaker 2: People to work.
Speaker 1: Try to get a job today out of college with
Speaker 1: a degree in English or women's studies or geology or
Speaker 1: GM morphology or some mathematical field very difficult. And so
Speaker 1: we're not preparing our kids for the future by telling
Speaker 1: them there's something for nothing and speaking of something for nothing,
Speaker 1: I've spoken to former mayor John Cranley and Joe Dieters,
Speaker 1: former prosecutor.
Speaker 2: About how ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The settlement is today by the City of Cincinnati to
Speaker 1: pay Alphonse go Hartstein, a Great acou attorney, about two
Speaker 1: million dollars in attorney's fees, and the rest of these
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy nine protesters, so to speak, are
Speaker 1: going to divide up between ten and twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: each and every now and then, Scottie Johnson on City
Speaker 1: Council as Chairman of Public Safety. Every now and then,
Speaker 1: Scotti Johnson has a lucid moment. He said, quote, I
Speaker 1: don't get it. I don't understand why Cincinnati police are
Speaker 1: penalized for resting people that were violating the law.
Speaker 2: I stand by the police. That's a lucid moment. Let's
Speaker 2: go back in time.
Speaker 1: I was with you in the summer of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: when George Floyd, who was convicted arm robber, a drug
Speaker 1: abuser who beat up women, found himself in the circumstance
Speaker 1: and possession of counterfeit money illegal drugs. His body was riddled,
Speaker 1: shall we say, with fentanyl, and a police officer was
Speaker 1: instructed to have a certain hold on his neck because
Speaker 1: he was non compliant. The original corner's finding was what
Speaker 1: that George Floyd died of natural causes because his heart
Speaker 1: stopped beating.
Speaker 2: His body was filled with heroin and fentanyl.
Speaker 1: Now should he should the cop have had his knee
Speaker 1: on his neck for nine minutes and thirty seconds. Probably not,
Speaker 1: But that's not murdered. That's probably a manslaughter. Maybe nothing.
Speaker 1: The corner said, George Floyd died of natural causes. And
Speaker 1: George Floyd, by the way, was a bum who preyed
Speaker 1: upon the black community, but now he's been deified into
Speaker 1: near apostle status. So Cincinnati, like many American cities, had
Speaker 1: opportunistic criminals who wanted to break in the stores, firebomb
Speaker 1: police vehicles, and general just act up in a crazy
Speaker 1: way for several days, and so it got out of
Speaker 1: hand at University of Cincinnati and an OTR in which
Speaker 1: plate last win is robusted out, looting of stores, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Serious stuff went on. So finally John Cranley said enough
Speaker 1: is enough. He imposed a curfew. Got to be off
Speaker 1: the streets. So these four hundred and seventy nine people
Speaker 1: were told ten to twenty times, get off the streets,
Speaker 1: get out of the sidewalks, quit breaking into stores, quit
Speaker 1: fire bombing, cars. Oh, you're going to be arrested. They
Speaker 1: were told a dozen or more times. Stop doing it,
Speaker 1: You're going to get arrested. Stop doing it, You're going
Speaker 1: to get arrested.
Speaker 2: Leave.
Speaker 1: You don't have the right to occupy city streets and
Speaker 1: break in the stores. So after about ten to fifteen warnings,
Speaker 1: the police were told and God blessed the Cincinnati police
Speaker 1: by John Cranley, and the city manager at the time
Speaker 1: was that John Kerp. I think it might have been anyway,
Speaker 1: he was, okay, enforced the curfew. We can't have this anymore.
Speaker 1: It was one guy that tried to break in to
Speaker 1: the Hamlet County Jail run at that point by Sheriff
Speaker 1: Jim Neil. He wanted to break into the jail, trying
Speaker 1: to break out the plate last window of the jail.
Speaker 2: Enough is enough.
Speaker 1: So if Cranley had not acted, the city would have
Speaker 1: burned like it did in the late nineteen sixties. So
Speaker 1: finally things got under control. Four and seventy nine were
Speaker 1: arrested on various charges, mainly misdemeanors, and there were city cases.
Speaker 1: They weren't felonies because if there were felonies, Joe Dieters
Speaker 1: would have thrown the book at those who tried to
Speaker 1: burn down the city of Cincinnati. So there was conversations
Speaker 1: had between the mayor, chief of Police, Joe Deaters, Mark
Speaker 1: Pete Myertz, ceter.
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, one night in jail's enough, let him go.
Speaker 1: So they let the Fortnite seventy nine so called protest go.
Speaker 1: Don't do it anymore. So now after almost five years,
Speaker 1: five and a half years, we have a very very liberal,
Speaker 1: left wing, progressive mayor who, by the way, doesn't make
Speaker 1: his car payments, a very progressive city council other than
Speaker 1: I think in this case Scotti Johnson, and even the
Speaker 1: vice mayor is making some lucid comments today, not being
Speaker 1: lemon Kearney and saying why are we doing this? The
Speaker 1: alternative is to take it to trial. And if a
Speaker 1: trial takes place in federal court in Cincinnati on these charges,
Speaker 1: guess what. If it takes place, the jury is not
Speaker 1: from only Hambleton County that would be part of it,
Speaker 1: but not most of it. Most of the jury members
Speaker 1: would come from southern Ohio. They would not come from Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: which is quite liberal. And as a consequence, that means
Speaker 1: jurors would have to come from Claremont County, Brown County,
Speaker 1: Adams County, Warren County, Butler County to send on this case,
Speaker 1: and they were going to be asked to hand out
Speaker 1: to these scummy protesters eight million dollars.
Speaker 2: I would say no.
Speaker 1: In fact, if Joe Dieters was still involved in this case,
Speaker 1: he would have said, look, sometimes you simply can't accept
Speaker 1: an injustice to take the taxpayer money and pay protesters
Speaker 1: eight million dollars. Put twelve in the box and let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. Tee it up, tee it up.
Speaker 2: But the city.
Speaker 1: Capitulated because they wanted to pay their fellow travelers eight
Speaker 1: million dollars, two million of which went to Alfonsko Hartstein
Speaker 1: and the other six minion would be split up between
Speaker 1: ten and twenty thousand dollars each. So the Plannings and
Speaker 1: the laws who claimed they were detained by police were
Speaker 1: held for hours on buses outside of the cold. This
Speaker 1: was the summertime of twenty twenty. There was no cold
Speaker 1: at that point, and Jim Neal provided access to shriff
Speaker 1: the toilet's, water, food, blanket, shelter, etc. They were held
Speaker 1: for eight to ten hours. In release, don't do it again.
Speaker 1: Then all the judges got together, they dismissed all the cases.
Speaker 1: The message is the next time one of these protests
Speaker 1: morphing into our riot takes place, riot with impunity in
Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati, the city will pay you eight
Speaker 1: million dollars for the riot.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? No, I'm not. This is reality.
Speaker 1: One of the council members who's lost his mind said,
Speaker 1: the settlement is less risky than going to trial, where
Speaker 1: a jury could have ward a lot more money than
Speaker 1: about twelve twenty thousand dollars each. Well, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: they might award them nothing, and councilman Mark Jeffrey cited
Speaker 1: more expensive settlements and judgments against the city. How much
Speaker 1: is coming to Chief Thiji or Chief Washington. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I know one thing. The citizens living in Clemont, Adams, Brown,
Speaker 1: War and Butler Claremont County would not give these citizens,
Speaker 1: these so called protesters, eight million dollars because of what
Speaker 1: they did. Show the video through depositions, Throw the video
Speaker 1: of the fire bombing, the looting, the burglary, the robberies,
Speaker 1: the setting cars on fire, and tell those jurors from
Speaker 1: a Butler County. Guess what we want you to give
Speaker 1: those guys eight million dollars. Sometimes the case is so
Speaker 1: bad you got to roll the dice and say, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, it is. We can't live with just paying
Speaker 1: eight million dollars to a bunch of criminals who commit
Speaker 1: a crime and ignored orders frequently to disperse immediately if
Speaker 1: not sooner.
Speaker 2: So that's where we are. Let's continue.
Speaker 1: You got me all fired up now, this is unbelievable,
Speaker 1: unbelievable the city's doing this. And once again lemon Kearney
Speaker 1: and Scottie Johnson have lucid moments. They're saying, essentially, you
Speaker 1: know what, tee him up to trial. But the problem
Speaker 1: is the city probably doesn't have attorneys to do it.
Speaker 1: And alfonsko Hartstein ACLU attorney once again gets two million dollars.
Speaker 1: The ACLU I don't think the good residence of southern
Speaker 1: Ohio would look kindly upon giving ACLU attorneys two million dollars?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 1: Let's continue with more sidely said it years ago. The
Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati is going down the tubes. Every day
Speaker 1: something more ridiculous takes place. Maybe maybe the American finally
Speaker 1: makes some car payments bill cunning and the Great American
Speaker 1: with you every day. You're home of the Reds and Bengals.
Speaker 1: The Reds do not have Kyle Swarber. Back to the
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Speaker 2: Bill Cunningham, the Great American.
Speaker 1: Of course, I dealt for years with the idea of
Speaker 1: Jewish chef practice anti Semitism by many in America.
Speaker 2: I see it constantly.
Speaker 1: About a year two and a half years ag I
Speaker 1: went to Jerusalem and it was a wonderful experience of
Speaker 1: wonderful city. And my boss is a Jewish carpenter, which
Speaker 1: is another story. So I've always wanted to explore the
Speaker 1: roots of Judaism and also the impact Judaism has had
Speaker 1: on America because none of the founding fathers themselves were Jews,
Speaker 1: but they were influenced insipidly by the Jewish experiences in
Speaker 1: Europe and a little bit in America. So joining you
Speaker 1: and I now is Wilfred McLay. He's with the Hillsdale College.
Speaker 1: He's a wonderful scholar when it comes to biblical, cultural,
Speaker 1: and literary history of the Jewish people and how free
Speaker 1: institutions in America have been affected. That is Christianity profoundly
Speaker 1: are securely grounded in Jewish ideas, images, and ethics. And
Speaker 1: Wilford also known as Bill McLay, welcome, I think for
Speaker 1: the first time to the Bill Cunningham show. The book
Speaker 1: is Jewish Roots of American Liberty. And Bill, first of all,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the beginning. I know how Christianity began.
Speaker 1: I think I know how Islamic studies began the religion.
Speaker 1: How did Judaism and begin going back several thousand years?
Speaker 2: How did it begin?
Speaker 4: Well, Judaism represented a real, uh departure, I mean just
Speaker 4: looking at it historically. I'm not looking at it from
Speaker 4: a from a God's eye point of view, but uh, historically,
Speaker 4: I mean it's a it's a rebuke to the pagan
Speaker 4: theologies of the ancient Near East. Uh. It's uh, it
Speaker 4: has all sorts of uh different differentiating factors. It's a
Speaker 4: it's monotheistic. It's believing one God, excuse me, and the
Speaker 4: one God speaks the world and the being. He's separate
Speaker 4: from nature. He is and it's appropriate to call him he.
Speaker 4: We can talk about that. But and he creates man
Speaker 4: in his image, and that is the basis for so
Speaker 4: much that is distinctive and admirable about America and about
Speaker 4: the West gen or generally. But you know, when Thomas
Speaker 4: Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all you
Speaker 4: know we it's self evident truth that all men are
Speaker 4: created equal, he's going back to whether he knew it
Speaker 4: or not, and I think he did know it, even
Speaker 4: though he was not a particularly devout person. He was
Speaker 4: going back to Genesis and to God speaking of the
Speaker 4: world into being and creating man in his own image.
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to get to the issues of
Speaker 1: anti Semitism today, but was Abraham? Was Abraham? Was he
Speaker 1: the father of Judaism? Or where did it go before that?
Speaker 4: Well, no, it's it really begins with Abraham. It really
Speaker 4: begins and with the Sign of the Nods. Covenant with
Speaker 4: Abraham is a circumcision, and so that was that was there.
Speaker 4: That's the beginning of the Jewish people. Although I think
Speaker 4: most well, you know, I'm a Christian like you. My
Speaker 4: boss is a Jewish carpenter, so I don't presume to
Speaker 4: speak for the Jews, but I think that most Jews,
Speaker 4: certainly in America, would see the Passover and Moses transporting
Speaker 4: his people into the new land of the promised Land
Speaker 4: of Canaan and promised by God out of slavery in Egypt,
Speaker 4: the sort of signal moment of Jewish identity. But of
Speaker 4: course they were already Jews at that point, they were not.
Speaker 4: It really really does go back to Abraham. And but you.
Speaker 2: Know when God.
Speaker 4: Sort of denotes designates Abraham the Father, the father of
Speaker 4: any nation, so he's not only talking about the Jews.
Speaker 4: It is the beginning, the new beginning for the whole
Speaker 4: human race in the in both the Jewish and Christian
Speaker 4: understanding of what the significance of that event was. So
Speaker 4: I hope I answered your question. I probably told you
Speaker 4: more than you wanted to.
Speaker 1: Bill McClay, you say, Christianity itself securely grounded in Jewish
Speaker 1: ideas in America is grounded in Jewish ideas. How is
Speaker 1: Christianity in America grounded in Jewish ideas, images and ethics?
Speaker 2: And put some put some meat on those bones.
Speaker 4: Well, you know we we I mean, first of all,
Speaker 4: Jesus himself says repeatedly that he didn't come to to
Speaker 4: you know, sort of overcome or negab the the scriptures,
Speaker 4: that is the law and the prophets that the Old
Speaker 4: what we call the Old Testament, he come to fulfill them. So, uh,
Speaker 4: there's a right there there is. Jesus was Jewish, he
Speaker 4: never walked away from his Jewish identity, and he ministered
Speaker 4: first to the Jews. But there's so many other things.
Speaker 4: You know, if you think of the the the the
Speaker 4: Ten Commandments, you think of those are still you know,
Speaker 4: they're they're foundational for Christians as well as you think
Speaker 4: of the fact that, uh, the Jewish law, which Christians
Speaker 4: do not observe, but uh we we look upon with
Speaker 4: with respect, I think we should. Jewish law has very
Speaker 4: careful rules about what what you're to do with about
Speaker 4: things like spood and sex, and uh, these are these
Speaker 4: are things to be to be handled with with respect,
Speaker 4: with a sense of their of their inherent importance or
Speaker 4: almost sacramental we might say, quality, and.
Speaker 1: So such vicious and Semitism all over the world. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about Europe, the Middle East. One or two hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, there was a large Jewish communities over many
Speaker 1: of the Muslim countries in the Middle East, may I
Speaker 1: use the word tolerated until they were obliterated. You can't
Speaker 1: have a synagogue anywhere in the Muslim world. Christianity will
Speaker 1: not be put up with. There's vicious anti semitism in
Speaker 1: America today, not the forms of Adolf Hitler, not the
Speaker 1: forms in Europe, not the forms practice today in the
Speaker 1: Middle East, in which you cannot be an observant Jew
Speaker 1: running around almost any Middle Eastern.
Speaker 2: Country and live.
Speaker 1: But why can you put some ideas behind why is
Speaker 1: there such vicious anti Semitism almost everywhere in the world?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and there they're sort of always has been,
Speaker 4: you know, I think a favorite response to that question
Speaker 4: is it that Jews have been historically made into scapegoats.
Speaker 4: But I don't think that does anything more than restate
Speaker 4: that question. Why did you? And you know, it may
Speaker 4: have something to do with the fact that they are
Speaker 4: God's chosen people, and we.
Speaker 5: Flinched from saying that. In fact, and too many Jews
Speaker 5: flinched from saying that claiming chosenness. Of course, choseness is
Speaker 5: not just a trophy, it's also an enormous burden of responsibility.
Speaker 4: So but but any rate, I think the fact that
Speaker 4: Jews have persevered and excelled, especially once in beginning more
Speaker 4: or less in the eighteenth century, they kind of gain
Speaker 4: entree into the mainstream of European and then American public life.
Speaker 4: Jews are they outperform any other group you can imagine
Speaker 4: in terms of you know, scientific achievements, but you know,
Speaker 4: intellectual achievements, business success, you know, you name it, and whatever.
Speaker 4: A group of people are very successful and kind of
Speaker 4: have a tightly knit way of life, and others around
Speaker 4: them are gone as successful and maybe don't have that
Speaker 4: tightly knit way of life. They it cast suspicions, this
Speaker 4: is a conspiracy. There's some kind of conspiracy going on here.
Speaker 2: Well, well, question, I look at it.
Speaker 1: I look at Nazi Germany, which was the antithesis, the
Speaker 1: paramount of antisemitism because of the murder of six million Jews,
Speaker 1: two million Catholics, homosexuals, et cetera. German society was a
Speaker 1: failure of the nineteen thirties, and so Adolf Hitler and
Speaker 1: the Nazis needed a convenient scapegoat, and they looked around
Speaker 1: and said, well, let's blame the Jews for the failure.
Speaker 1: Now worse than that, well, it metastasized into the ovens
Speaker 1: of Auschwitz. But here in America, there's vicious antisemitism today
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five in America, vicious anti Semitism on
Speaker 1: college campuses in America.
Speaker 2: Why does that happen?
Speaker 4: Yes, well, you know a lot of it has to
Speaker 4: do with the Palestinian issue in the Middle East, but
Speaker 4: that issue itself. And I'll give you just my opinion
Speaker 4: about this, because I don't know that anybody else can
Speaker 4: explain all this definitively. But I think the Palestinian issue
Speaker 4: has been I think for you many years as it's
Speaker 4: starting to fade. And this makes some people very nervous.
Speaker 4: But the era of world, the Muslim world, is particularly
Speaker 4: in the territory, the geography the ancient Near East, has
Speaker 4: seen this unbelievable success of this new modern is Real
Speaker 4: created in the late nineteen forties, which has become really
Speaker 4: a first World country, a very unpromising neighborhood, despite having
Speaker 4: wars and rumors of work surrounding it from the very
Speaker 4: moment of its conception. And uh, you know you have
Speaker 4: to uh if you're if you're looking at the failure.
Speaker 4: If I may put it this way, I think I
Speaker 4: should of so much of the Muslim world too, to
Speaker 4: have evolved into the modern era successfully. It's not universally true,
Speaker 4: but it has been largely true. And the the the
Speaker 4: the question of rights is why did you Why have
Speaker 4: the you's been so so darned successful? And uh you
Speaker 4: know it does why have they been able to perpetuate
Speaker 4: their their scriptures, their way, their distinctive way of life
Speaker 4: even when all the forces uh were against them. Everybody
Speaker 4: in your audience has probably seen the movie Fiddler on
Speaker 4: the Roof of Broadway Play or whatever, uh you know
Speaker 4: this is. This is it's romanticized in some ways, but
Speaker 4: the way that the story ends with the program and
Speaker 4: them being driven out mostly to go to America, there's
Speaker 4: a there's a kind of basic fundamental truth to that,
Speaker 4: to that experience. And so America for the Jews has
Speaker 4: been a sort of new promised land. And and a
Speaker 4: great many American Jews will will say that we'll own
Speaker 4: that that that this has been. I mean, my friend
Speaker 4: Eric Cohen, who's the president of the Tiklo Fund says,
Speaker 4: he says America. He had an article on Wall Street
Speaker 4: Journal back in September, America is the greatest Hebraig nation
Speaker 4: in the history of the world, because you know, we
Speaker 4: are next to Israel, we have the largest number of
Speaker 4: Jewish inhabitants in this country. And uh, and we've been
Speaker 4: a refuge to the Jews, and it was it is
Speaker 4: not time to stop. Well, let me give you it
Speaker 4: to stop that.
Speaker 1: Since you and I are both Christians, let me give
Speaker 1: you my idea as to why it happens.
Speaker 2: Because if you're.
Speaker 1: An observant Jew, you believe in a faith, one God,
Speaker 1: you believe you're special. You're in a functional family unit
Speaker 1: with a mother and a father who are together, with
Speaker 1: children that grow up in a single household. There's a
Speaker 1: work ethic that is put into the Jewish soul and heart,
Speaker 1: otherwise doesn't happen. When I did Hamilety County Public defender work,
Speaker 1: we had one Jew. Over the years I worked for
Speaker 1: those who committed crimes. We had one Jew that came
Speaker 1: through and it was like, oh my god, there's a
Speaker 1: guy named Greenberg here that committed a crime. It's extremely
Speaker 1: unusual for a Jew not to be married, not to
Speaker 1: follow the law, not to be bright, not to value education,
Speaker 1: not to be entrepreneurial, and many times dealing with each other,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is a great thing. As one
Speaker 1: Jew helps another Jew helps another Jew, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: In fact, that's good, and so that the things that make.
Speaker 1: Society great have been embraced by Jews for thousands of years,
Speaker 1: and that causes jealousy among other groups who shaways, hate,
Speaker 1: don't have the good life a Jew often has. And
Speaker 1: in Israel, if I get back on my soapbox, when
Speaker 1: the Jews arrived in nineteen forty seven, nineteen forty eight,
Speaker 1: Israel didn't look much different than Lebanon, or Jordan or Syria.
Speaker 2: It was a desert.
Speaker 1: And after a several decades, the Jews, because of their
Speaker 1: values in their system, meant Israel flourish. And that was
Speaker 1: proof that that system of religion and government works. And
Speaker 1: what's going on now in leban and Syria, Iran, Iraq
Speaker 1: everywhere around doesn't work.
Speaker 2: And they also celebrate women.
Speaker 1: Imagine being a woman or a girl living in Kabo, Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: My god.
Speaker 1: And that's why Jews succeeded in America. They flowered here
Speaker 1: because the values of Judaism are the values of great Americans.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I think you're right about that. You know,
Speaker 4: there is one other thing I have to say, and
Speaker 4: it's not It's not a pleasant thing. To say, but
Speaker 4: it needs to be said, is that I think that
Speaker 4: we Christians have had an inadequate understanding of Judaism, and
Speaker 4: that that is and it's truly I think of a
Speaker 4: theological problem that we we because of Jesus's words, which
Speaker 4: you know, and Jesus is God as far as we're concerned,
Speaker 4: not for the Jews. And that's that's a natural point
Speaker 4: of tension. But it's it's this question, and it sometimes
Speaker 4: goes under the fancy theological term of super sessionism. Did
Speaker 4: the coming of Christ? Did the New Testament, the New
Speaker 4: Order supersede, supersede everything that was taught? And we had
Speaker 4: debates in the early Church about whether to throw out
Speaker 4: the Old Testament, the Jewish scriptures altogether, and that was rejected.
Speaker 4: That was soundly objected in the early Church. No, the
Speaker 4: the Old Testament, what would continue to be holy scripture
Speaker 4: an essential part and so that the prelude of Judaism
Speaker 4: is part of what it means to be a Christian.
Speaker 4: You can't separate the two things. But we but we
Speaker 4: have sort of had taken the attitude many of us
Speaker 4: it's not true of you and not true of me,
Speaker 4: But that had that the coming of Christ and the
Speaker 4: coming of Christianity wipes out the prior covenant that God
Speaker 4: had with the Jewish people. And if you're a serious
Speaker 4: you know, if you're a serious students of the Bible
Speaker 4: and and and and and see the Bible as God's word,
Speaker 4: then you have to be brought short I think by
Speaker 4: the fact that it never says that the covenant go
Speaker 4: was covenant with the Jews was broken. And so this
Speaker 4: is a lot of very good theologians and now we're
Speaker 4: starting to think this through it WHOA, you know, maybe
Speaker 4: we've maybe we've construed this wrongly with regard to the truth.
Speaker 4: John Paul the Second, Hope, John Paul the Second was
Speaker 4: in the forefront of this, but it's I think been
Speaker 4: more promistant the alogians that have been especially interested.
Speaker 1: In I tell you what, Wilford McLay also known as
Speaker 1: Bill McClay, we've scratched the surface. We got to conclude.
Speaker 1: The book is Jewish Roots of American Liberty. And you're
Speaker 1: with Hillsdale College. It's everywhere right now. Jewish Roots of
Speaker 1: American Liberty by Wilfred McLay. We've scratched the surface. The
Speaker 1: book goes into much greater detail and I'm do we
Speaker 1: have a little bit of time.
Speaker 4: I have a great story to conclude with, Okay, I'll
Speaker 4: try to make it quick. You know, when after we
Speaker 4: became a country, you know, we had to choose this
Speaker 4: Great Seal of the United States, and there was a committee.
Speaker 4: Benjamin Franklin was on the committee and Thomas Jefferson and
Speaker 4: John Adams, and they, jeff Eifferson and Franklin both wanted
Speaker 4: to have an image of the Exodus on that. And
Speaker 4: you know, this was amazing when you think about it,
Speaker 4: because they wanted this quintessential Jewish Old Testament image to
Speaker 4: be the Great Seal of the United States. They didn't succeed,
Speaker 4: but they they tried, and they had a great slogan,
Speaker 4: Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Speaker 2: Say that that's great.
Speaker 4: And and Jefferson liked it so much he adopted it
Speaker 4: for his own seal, the Jewish Routs.
Speaker 2: Of American Liberty. It's one they acknowledged that.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful than that story, wonderful Jewish roots of American liberty.
Speaker 1: And Wilfred Maclay thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 1: And and Bill, you're a great American. Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you Bill, Thank you Bill.
Speaker 2: God bless America.
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Speaker 1: to get into the Stooge Report. We have Dean Gregory here,
Speaker 1: who is the impresario when it comes to ribs and
Speaker 1: things of that character.
Speaker 2: And Dino.
Speaker 1: First of all, you want to make a major announcement
Speaker 1: about the boat house.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 6: Well, boat House and the original we're open for We're
Speaker 6: open for lunch through the holidays. We started Friday. We're
Speaker 6: going to serve lunch all the way up to the
Speaker 6: twenty third.
Speaker 2: From what time and what time the segment wants to know.
Speaker 6: Well, we opened at eleven o'clock Tuesday through through Friday
Speaker 6: and serve continually until we close at night nine thirty
Speaker 6: or ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure what time we clothes anymore. Not
Speaker 2: ye sure anymore. I'm not there. I can't stay wake
Speaker 2: that light nine.
Speaker 1: Or ten o'clock. Absolutely, the hardest working man in your operation.
Speaker 1: Is your brother Tom Gregory? Is that correct?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: That is that is that is not true? To know
Speaker 6: this is our busiest time of the year. That is
Speaker 6: a huge note. Tom has been on vacation for two weeks.
Speaker 6: We have no idea where he is, and we have
Speaker 6: no idea when he's coming back. And the only thing
Speaker 6: I can think of if you don't like Tom now
Speaker 6: is a good time to eat lour Montgomery location because
Speaker 6: he's not there.
Speaker 2: Not there. Yep, you can't screw things up, is what
Speaker 2: you sing.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's got great staff out there. They'll take good care.
Speaker 1: Of the Company's a small, large bit whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Boat house eleven am forward starting last week.
Speaker 6: One started Friday. Yep, had a great crowd down there today.
Speaker 6: And I hope you'll come and see us. I will
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Speaker 2: Is he coming in? We've not seen him yet, but
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Speaker 7: That's correct Willie and Red's updates. Slugger Kyle Schwarber out
Speaker 7: of Middletown is gonna stay with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 2: Do you know your reaction to that one? Boo? You
Speaker 2: were gonna get him lifetime ribs? Correctsolutely? All he can
Speaker 2: eat forever? I bet he can eat. Oh, he looks
Speaker 2: like it. For how many pigs? How many ribs do
Speaker 2: you serve like in a year? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: A lot talking thousands and thousands of ribs, hundreds of thousands,
Speaker 6: a lot of ribs.
Speaker 7: Absolutely he gets a five year, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 7: million dollars deal to stay in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: What about the Reds segment? What about the Reds?
Speaker 7: I get, well, Willie, I guess they didn't pony up
Speaker 7: enough dough raying to me.
Speaker 3: I guess what they.
Speaker 2: Should have done?
Speaker 1: Match the Philadelphia offer, then say the beginning in ten years,
Speaker 1: We'll start paying you ten million dollars a year for
Speaker 1: the next twenty five years after that what they did
Speaker 1: with Junior. That's right, right. How about Candelaria still owe
Speaker 1: him fifteen mil?
Speaker 2: Oh you mean Bobby Bonia? No Candell Oh, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: You're right. How about that, Dana?
Speaker 1: Would you pay an employee fifteen million dollars a year
Speaker 1: not to work?
Speaker 2: No, sounds like to not at all. That's right. We
Speaker 2: do pay Tom not to work. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Schwarber announced today he's going to play for Team USA
Speaker 7: and the upcoming World Baseball Classic, the reds La. Da
Speaker 7: Cruz is going to be in the WBC playing for
Speaker 7: the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 2: Do you know your reaction to that, Dela Cruz playing
Speaker 2: for the d R, Well, you got to support your
Speaker 2: homeland definitely. And you're a Greek Yeah, carry oucis yeah right, absolutely,
Speaker 2: we were Alti boys together sixty years ago. You and
Speaker 2: Dean carry ocis.
Speaker 6: Absolutely what church, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Old Church
Speaker 6: that it was an avondale on reading roads.
Speaker 2: Whatever happened to that guy? Carry Okus did ever make anything?
Speaker 6: Abne I think are Alder boys.
Speaker 2: We always see pictures of this.
Speaker 6: You know what, we always were goofing off. He was
Speaker 6: always serious. We always knew he was going to be
Speaker 6: a huge success somedays.
Speaker 2: Don't you said that?
Speaker 1: I was told behind the scenes you used to take
Speaker 1: some of the wine and drink it is that.
Speaker 2: The priests would be out front. We'd be in the
Speaker 2: back pitching quarters.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And Dean was always aid a standing at attention. Whatever
Speaker 2: you mean. And kuriaokus, Yeah, was he like a person?
Speaker 2: He wasn't. He was above normal back then. Were your
Speaker 2: dock now for hard issues, That's the only That's the
Speaker 2: only guy I would go to. Definitely having an extra
Speaker 2: valves or anything in your heart. Nothing.
Speaker 6: I've had no problems I saw. The last time I
Speaker 6: saw him was probably seven eight years ago. In his office.
Speaker 1: Got cigars and you got ribs. That's all you say.
Speaker 1: Two of the four food groups. Absolutely on a cigar
Speaker 1: and eight ribs. Yep, just like your daddy.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Please continue segment. Well, he a free agent reliever.
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz is left the Mets.
Speaker 7: He gets a three year, sixty nine million dollars deal
Speaker 7: to join the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: With the Bengals, you got to start drinking.
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Speaker 3: V E R.
Speaker 2: Also, what's a core muscle issue? I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Sounds like it would hurt, though.
Speaker 1: That's going to hold a crim check. He knows how
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Speaker 2: Think he knows about that stuff. Guarantee you he does,
Speaker 2: so please continue.
Speaker 7: T Higgins back in concussion protocol really after experiencing symptoms
Speaker 7: again after Sunday's game in Buffalo, and yesterday the Bengals
Speaker 7: waving wide receiver Jermaine Burton, who is who had yet
Speaker 7: to appear in a game this season, was suspended for
Speaker 7: the game in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Dan Gregory, they're paying him fifty nine thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: week not to play. Then they suspended him, then they
Speaker 1: cut him. Not a bad gig.
Speaker 2: Not a bad gig at all. Yeah, please continue.
Speaker 7: Willie High School News Anderson twenty twenty seven star cornerback
Speaker 7: Ace Alston has made a verbal commitment to play at
Speaker 7: Notre Dame CUFCAF. Quarterback Cash Harney is committed to play
Speaker 7: at the University of Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Any any plans for an expansion, you're like me saying
Speaker 1: I got what I got it, I want no more?
Speaker 2: Is that correct? That is correct? Yeah, segment can continue.
Speaker 7: Willie Cotton College Basketball tonight NKU and Brescia University who
Speaker 7: six thirty at the Fox Sports thirteen sixty The Brescia
Speaker 7: Bearcats owen seven on the year. They're out of Owensboro, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, this is a college team. Yeah, what's
Speaker 1: their name? Brescia? Ever hear of them, Dino never have
Speaker 1: never in the record zero and seven? Yeah, their name
Speaker 1: is Bresca. Yeah, out of what?
Speaker 2: What? Owensboro Kentucky? Throwing that you never heard of that?
Speaker 3: Dean.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's a line on that game. This
Speaker 2: is a line I take the other side.
Speaker 7: Kentucky Wildcats. They were booed last time they played there.
Speaker 7: I played North Carolina A and t tonight.
Speaker 2: They want to get rid of the pope.
Speaker 7: Illinois and Ohio State, and in Penn State and Indiana tonight.
Speaker 1: There it's about it pretty bad Indiana beating Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Did you like that or not?
Speaker 1: I kind of liked it in a sense because Indiana,
Speaker 1: you know, it's so let you try to coach here.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't let him coach here. He wanted to come
Speaker 2: to UC. Oh did he really know that? My half brother,
Speaker 2: Yeah said no, Oh boy, what a huge mistake. And
Speaker 2: then he goes to In the end, he did a
Speaker 2: heck of a job with that team, for sure, level
Speaker 2: high state, but let someone else win every now and then.
Speaker 1: Indiana, the Hoosiers football team is the second worst team
Speaker 1: in the history of major college football until until last year.
Speaker 6: Do you know once again, maybe we'll see him again
Speaker 6: in the finals.
Speaker 2: You think UC is going to be in the final? No?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Once again? Lunch through Christmas at the boat house. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: thank you for having me. I like to appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I like to have you. I like to have I
Speaker 2: like to have Tom come in. But he comes off vacation,
Speaker 2: let me know segment when he comes back. You got it?
Speaker 2: Row well in Live forty one.
Speaker 7: Wally and Honnor of the Montgomery In Boathouse and the
Speaker 7: Original on Montgomery Road. We leave you with the immortal
Speaker 7: words of the Stood Report.
Speaker 2: Nope comments, I got guess the Reds aren't talking. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't either. On seven hundred WL, Bill cunning in the Great.
Speaker 1: America, of course, Jeff Krueir controls New Orleans, Louisiana with
Speaker 1: an iron grip. He's been a radio talk show host
Speaker 1: there for many years, written many books. And now that
Speaker 1: LaToya the Destroyer is heading toward federal prison, is the
Speaker 1: new mayor going to be any different?
Speaker 4: Meet the new boss the same as the old boss.
Speaker 3: Bill.
Speaker 5: It's one liberal Democrat coming in in exchange for another
Speaker 5: liberal Democrat. The difference is that the new mayor is polished,
Speaker 5: she's smart.
Speaker 4: She's articulate.
Speaker 3: She'll make a good image.
Speaker 4: But her policies are pretty much the same.
Speaker 5: She's not corrupt, she's not going to go to jail,
Speaker 5: but she's not going to move New Orleans in a
Speaker 5: direction toward you free market entrepreneurship, you know, booming economy.
Speaker 4: It's going to be.
Speaker 5: Government solutions for problems, you know, give us more money,
Speaker 5: more programs, that's going to be her formula.
Speaker 1: Her name is Helenamarino. Not much different. Has ice arrived
Speaker 1: in the Crescent City yet.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we are pleased to have them.
Speaker 5: You know, I do a bike ride every you know,
Speaker 5: Sunday morning all around the city with my friend and
Speaker 5: there are many buildings that were adorned with graffiti f ICE.
Speaker 4: There's all kinds of.
Speaker 5: Marks from the protesters that you know, they're not pleased
Speaker 5: that that ice is here. But Gregory Bravino, the head
Speaker 5: of the Border Patrol, has been asking, you know, folks,
Speaker 5: you know, to cooperate. And I see most people, most
Speaker 5: of the you know, business owners and most of the
Speaker 5: average citizens support what they're doing.
Speaker 4: A lot of them go up to them and say, hey,
Speaker 4: I want a selfie with you.
Speaker 5: He's got a lot of support among the people, not
Speaker 5: necessarily the local politicians.
Speaker 1: As far as the budget deficit left, I look at
Speaker 1: some of your columns, Jeff Crueir, and you point out
Speaker 1: there's a huge bunche of deficit LaToya Cantrell the destroyer
Speaker 1: left behind.
Speaker 2: And also I also.
Speaker 1: Noted that those twelve or so murderers that escape from
Speaker 1: a county jail, about three have not yet been found.
Speaker 1: But how big is the deficit left behind? Which is
Speaker 1: true in almost every city. In fact, we have a
Speaker 1: mayor in Cincinnati, Nam half to have Pirival, who's had
Speaker 1: two personal cars repossessed by the repo man. And so
Speaker 1: what's happening in New Orleans? Kind of embarrassing when your
Speaker 1: mayor has the repo man with a tow truck hooking
Speaker 1: up his car, would you kind of embarrassing? That's half
Speaker 1: to have Pireval doesn't make his car payments. Butvernetheless, how
Speaker 1: big is the deficit in New Orleans?
Speaker 5: Well, well, she did one better than him. She had
Speaker 5: a love shack with her bodyguard boyfriend that we had
Speaker 5: to repossess. Or she was using a city owned apartment
Speaker 5: for her little rendezvous with their bodyguard, and the city
Speaker 5: council had to eventually kick her out of there.
Speaker 4: And change the locks. See that's the whole reason, you know.
Speaker 4: For one, I was wondering, why is she.
Speaker 5: Traveling all over the world for climate change conferences. She
Speaker 5: doesn't care about climate change. She just wanted to go
Speaker 5: on international trips with their bodyguard boyfriend.
Speaker 2: A bodyguard. He was guarding her body making sure no
Speaker 2: one else got to it.
Speaker 4: Right, So now it all makes sense. They wanted to
Speaker 4: on the.
Speaker 5: Taxpayer dime, you know, see Rio and all these other
Speaker 5: exotic destinations.
Speaker 4: So I mean it was a scam.
Speaker 5: So yes, Bill, she left us with about a two
Speaker 5: hundred million dollar budget deficit.
Speaker 4: And that's in a city whose overall budget is only
Speaker 4: about eight hundred million, So I mean that's a massive deficit.
Speaker 5: Day they got all this COVID money, they decided to
Speaker 5: keep spending it. It was supposed to be one time money,
Speaker 5: but they turned it into recurring fences.
Speaker 4: They budgeted fifty seven.
Speaker 5: Thousand for overtime that really cost sixty to seventy million.
Speaker 5: So I mean, it was just one debacle after another.
Speaker 5: And the city council that Helena Moreno sat on did
Speaker 5: not do a very good job of oversights. He just
Speaker 5: sort of rubber stamped what the mayor was doing. And
Speaker 5: now of course they're all saying that.
Speaker 2: They didn't know.
Speaker 5: Well they should have known because they were on the
Speaker 5: city council. They're supposed to be overseeing what the mayor
Speaker 5: is doing.
Speaker 1: Is there any real election in Cincinnati. We don't have
Speaker 1: a real election in Chicago, or in Los Angeles or
Speaker 1: New York, Atlanta, there's no real election. The Democratic Party nominates.
Speaker 1: The Democrats can stand up and stand up and line
Speaker 1: to vote, some in person, some in mass Is there
Speaker 1: any like in New Orleans, an opposition party to any
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: The Republican candidate for mayor got two percent of the vote,
Speaker 5: which is even worse than Curtis Leewa received in New
Speaker 5: York City two two percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's a good, good.
Speaker 5: Man who should been elected. He's a CPA, came out
Speaker 5: of retirement to run, very qualified. He knew the budget
Speaker 5: backwards and forwards. He could have really cleaned up that city.
Speaker 5: He got two percent of the vote. And when Donald
Speaker 5: Trump rons when Republicans run for governor, they get about
Speaker 5: ten to fifteen percent of the vote in Orleans Parish, which.
Speaker 4: Accomplices of the city.
Speaker 5: So that's about the base of Republicans arrest or Democrats,
Speaker 5: and they just fight it out among the Democrat party
Speaker 5: ass who's going to be the preferred candidate.
Speaker 1: At least in Cincinnati, j Edy Vance's half brother got
Speaker 1: like sixteen percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: That's not bad.
Speaker 1: Of course, he ran against the mayor whose cars repossessed,
Speaker 1: ran against a city manager appointed by the mayor who
Speaker 1: has filed personal bankruptcy because of taxleans but other than that,
Speaker 1: and the vice mayor in our town also has a
Speaker 1: million dollars in tax liens and the mayor can't make
Speaker 1: car payments, and so that's typical in Cincinnati. Talk about
Speaker 1: your your nomination for Turkey of the Year. You have
Speaker 1: many nominees. By this only one winner. Tell the American
Speaker 1: people who are the nominees.
Speaker 5: Well, there were a lot of very, very good nominees
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 4: We had Chuck Schumer, he was a nominee.
Speaker 5: We had LaToya Cantrell, of course, LaToya the Destroyer. She
Speaker 5: was one of the popular nominees.
Speaker 4: But the overwhelming.
Speaker 5: Winner was Jasmine Crockett, the congresswoman from the Great State
Speaker 5: of Texas. Her faux pause during twenty twenty five. I mean,
Speaker 5: we could spend hours talking about that. She backs up
Speaker 5: her you know, incompetence with delusions of grandeur. She makes
Speaker 5: her staff driver around in escalade. They're like an uber driver.
Speaker 5: She's like a princess in the back all to herself.
Speaker 4: She rarely goes to work. She's a diva. Treats her
Speaker 4: staff like dirt.
Speaker 5: And then of course she wants to now run for
Speaker 5: the US Senate in the great state of Texas, And
Speaker 5: we got to alert our friends in Texas to make
Speaker 5: sure that doesn't happen because she would be a disaster.
Speaker 4: Well, you can't promote someone like her.
Speaker 1: You know, Jeff Career, I hear every cycle Texas is
Speaker 1: about to go blue. And so I guess, having gone
Speaker 1: through a whole bunch of real derelics and knuckleheads and
Speaker 1: some real goofballs, they now moved on to Jasmine Crockett
Speaker 1: to run for the US Senate seed. Now, if that
Speaker 1: happens and AOC takes over the Senate through New York,
Speaker 1: she's gonna run against Chuck Schumer. Everyone in the note
Speaker 1: tells me that she's not so stupid as a run
Speaker 1: for president, But to begin in the Senate is a
Speaker 1: stepping stone and the presidency and imagining Congress and woman
Speaker 1: Porter in California winning the governorship. There you'd have the
Speaker 1: trifecta Porter, the Crocket, the AOC and throwing LaToya the destroyer,
Speaker 1: throwing all of them together.
Speaker 2: Now we're in real trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the three stooges, those three, my gosh, I mean,
Speaker 4: can you imagine the disaster that would be at those
Speaker 4: three one.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think Chuck Schumer is going to run,
Speaker 5: so I do think AOC is going to win.
Speaker 4: I don't think Jasmine Crockett is going to win.
Speaker 5: Even though the polls show that she's leading among Democrats,
Speaker 5: she'll probably get the Democrat nomination. So I see her
Speaker 5: giving it a try. But you're right, they keep saying
Speaker 5: it's close. But I still think the Republican will prevail.
Speaker 5: And I do not see her. I do not see
Speaker 5: her getting elected. But you know, we got to keep
Speaker 5: our guard up.
Speaker 4: I mean, she's a dangerous person.
Speaker 5: I mean she's just extremely left wing, very very incompetent.
Speaker 5: She says things that are very divisive. She likes to
Speaker 5: push the racial issues divide people. She's not a unit
Speaker 5: or she's not someone that's gonna, you know, help the
Speaker 5: people attack us. She's just going to do it for
Speaker 5: her own personal glory.
Speaker 1: You have a great column up about two weeks ago
Speaker 1: and November the twenty fourth at Jeffkrueer dot com. America
Speaker 1: is facing the most critical midterms ever.
Speaker 2: Please explain, Well.
Speaker 5: We have got a Republican majority of about four seats now,
Speaker 5: and with Marjorie Taylor Green resigning, that's going to be
Speaker 5: another special election, So Republicans need to maintain their majority
Speaker 5: until the midterms. And then, of course history shows bill
Speaker 5: that the party out of power normally wins massive numbers
Speaker 5: of seats in the House and takes power. Republicans have
Speaker 5: got to hold on to this because if the Democrats
Speaker 5: that take control, that's going to be the end of
Speaker 5: the Trump agenda. They're going to start impeachment hearings against
Speaker 5: President Trump. They'll probably impeach him on the House side.
Speaker 5: They'll be the same sort of dysfunction that we saw
Speaker 5: in the first term. And we've got too much work
Speaker 5: to do to overcome all of the Biden agenda. I mean,
Speaker 5: we are trying to make progress with all of the
Speaker 5: obstacles that the Left is throwing in front of President Trump,
Speaker 5: and we can't turn control of Congress over to the Democrats.
Speaker 5: That would be a total disaster. So that's why I
Speaker 5: say it's incredibly important for this country if we want
Speaker 5: to maintain to make America Great Again agenda and help
Speaker 5: President Trump succeed. He needs help in Congress. And by
Speaker 5: the way, these Republicans need to get to work. I'm
Speaker 5: tired of their recesses. I'm tired of all of their
Speaker 5: you know, getting paid for shutdowns and not doing anything.
Speaker 5: The two month vacation that they took. I mean, there's
Speaker 5: too much at stake here. I mean, they've got a
Speaker 5: lot of fire under them.
Speaker 4: Bill.
Speaker 1: The other issue you bring up, which is a good one,
Speaker 1: that if the Senate stays Republican, which most pun and
Speaker 1: say it will unless Jasmin Crockett maybe she's related to
Speaker 1: Davy Crockett. I'm not sure, but if Jasmine Crockett in
Speaker 1: Texas wins the Senate seat, there there'll be no judges
Speaker 1: ever again confirmed by the United States Senate or ambassadorships.
Speaker 1: If they take the House and the Senate. What's smart
Speaker 1: individuals say could happen because of a lot of malaise
Speaker 1: with Republican megatypes. Then we're in a real crisis because
Speaker 1: then Trump would be an orphan in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2: And we can't have that.
Speaker 1: It would be a disaster, which is Obamacare coming up
Speaker 1: in about a week. By the middle of the month,
Speaker 1: they're supposed to say, Okay, the Senate's going to have
Speaker 1: a vote on Obamacare. Remember, like your plan, keep your plan,
Speaker 1: like your doctor, keep your doctor, your premiums going down
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred dollars a year on average. We're going
Speaker 1: to lower the bunchet deficit. And I don't see anyone
Speaker 1: bringing this information out. When Democrats speak about the glories
Speaker 1: of Obamacare, why don't they talk about the fact that
Speaker 1: Obamacare billions go to the insurance companies were supposed to
Speaker 1: hold down premium cost and also deductibles, and they don't
Speaker 1: do that. We're funding the insurance companies and not healthcare
Speaker 1: in this country. Imagine a world in which the Democrats
Speaker 1: control the House in the Senate about a year from now.
Speaker 1: My god, are we in trouble and we forget about
Speaker 1: Obamacare and the promises. Why does the media bring up
Speaker 1: their promises of Obamacare? None of what you haven't kept.
Speaker 4: I mean, you make a great point.
Speaker 5: I mean we keep hearing from the media and the
Speaker 5: Democrats the word affordability. Uh, the problems that we have
Speaker 5: with affordability are all.
Speaker 4: Due to Democrats.
Speaker 5: Because Democrats gave us Obamacare. Not one Republican voted for Obamacare.
Speaker 5: Democrats gave us Bidenomics. We're only ten months away from Bidenomics,
Speaker 5: and President Trump's agenda is in.
Speaker 4: All the way completely enacted.
Speaker 5: The One Big Beautiful Bill doesn't get started until after
Speaker 5: the new year, so we're still recovering from Bidenomics. That
Speaker 5: people have affordability issues with healthcare and other costs. It's
Speaker 5: all due to the Democrats, and Republicans are terrible at
Speaker 5: messaging and fighting back and standing their ground and communicating
Speaker 5: to the American people about these issues. They've got a
Speaker 5: great story to tell with what President Trump is doing,
Speaker 5: but they're, you know, they're they're they're not doing it.
Speaker 5: They're they're they're certainly ineffective, and they're not supporting of
Speaker 5: President's nominees in the Senate. You're talking about if the
Speaker 5: Democrats take control, they should be confirming everybody now, but
Speaker 5: they're not because of the stupid Blue slip and all
Speaker 5: these other hurdles that they're putting in front of everything.
Speaker 5: They got to get rid of the filibuster bill, they
Speaker 5: got to get to work, and we've got limited time here.
Speaker 4: So I don't know either.
Speaker 5: These Republicans are just lame, But the Democrats cause the
Speaker 5: affordability as we know, whether it's rent to be an
Speaker 5: issue that helps the Republicans, whether.
Speaker 1: It's rents, utility cost health care the Democratic policies calls
Speaker 1: the affordability crisis. Instead of taking responsibility for the extent
Speaker 1: of their policies, they blamed the other side for what
Speaker 1: they've done. It's an incredible thing to watch. The Landlord
Speaker 1: Association in New York City says there's thirty five thousand
Speaker 1: empty apartments in New York City. And one of the shows,
Speaker 1: I think it was Breitbarter, it might have been Fox News,
Speaker 1: had a portergo with the landlord to a nondescript one
Speaker 1: bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, and he said, in that unit
Speaker 1: right there, I pay four thousand dollars a month fifty
Speaker 1: thousand a year in real estate expenses, real estate taxes,
Speaker 1: that's fifty thousand, he said. I also spend approximately one
Speaker 1: thousand a month in utilities. That's twelve thousand. So before
Speaker 1: I do anything about that apartment, I have sixty two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars five thousand a month to break even. Now,
Speaker 1: on top of that, I have to pay utilities and
Speaker 1: I have to upgrade the facility now. Then, so if
Speaker 1: I don't charge seven or eight thousand a month for
Speaker 1: eleven hundred square foot apartment in Brooklyn, I go bankrupt
Speaker 1: because the cost exceed the rent. And so when the
Speaker 1: Democrats in New York City, I have thirty five thousand
Speaker 1: empty apartments and they have rent freezes, which means you
Speaker 1: can't recover the cost of real estate tax increases, utility
Speaker 1: cost increases the Democratic policies bring about with these to
Speaker 1: avoid which are they want to have lots of apartments,
Speaker 1: Their policies cause fewer apartments, and economics indicate when that occurs,
Speaker 1: the rents go up.
Speaker 4: Correct, You're exactly right.
Speaker 5: I mean some of these people will walk away from
Speaker 5: these projects if they can't make any money, and the
Speaker 5: Democrats prevent people from making money, from making a living,
Speaker 5: from doing it in a way that's economically feasible.
Speaker 4: I mean, their plans just don't work. They never work.
Speaker 5: There's never an example of any of these plans working anywhere.
Speaker 5: So New York City is going to be a disaster
Speaker 5: under this Mondami character. New Orleans was a disaster under
Speaker 5: our mayor, Cincinnati the same way under your mayor.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just don't work.
Speaker 5: There's no city we can point to you and say, hey,
Speaker 5: Democrat policies turn that city around and made it more liveable,
Speaker 5: made it more affordable. I gave it a better economy.
Speaker 5: They've got nothing, They've got a poor results everywhere. Yet
Speaker 5: people in some of these cities like Cincinnati, New Orleans
Speaker 5: keep voting for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: We just had the election about a month ago, and
Speaker 1: after that, purevoll got like eighty two percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: And this was after the riots downtown, This is after
Speaker 1: him signing silly legislation. This was after the repo man
Speaker 1: had popped one of his cars for non payment. And so,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many mayors have multiple cars repossessed by
Speaker 1: the repo man while he's in office?
Speaker 2: Does that happen very often? No?
Speaker 5: No, And that should be disqualifying. That should be disqualifying.
Speaker 5: And how he handled the you know, the the incident
Speaker 5: down there was just horrible and that should have been disqualifying.
Speaker 5: And then he gets eighty two percent of the vote.
Speaker 5: That's that's incredible. But well, you know, I mean, these voters,
Speaker 5: I guess they're just hard headed. They just can only
Speaker 5: vote Democrat. I mean, that's what they've been programmed to you,
Speaker 5: that's what they believe is the best in their best interests,
Speaker 5: and it understand is leading to the destruction of these cities.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, it's just crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take of our three major cities, Take New York,
Speaker 1: Chicago and Los Angeles. You take Mom Donnie, Randon Johnson,
Speaker 1: and Karen Bass. You cannot have a more collection of
Speaker 1: goofs than those three running their cities into the ground.
Speaker 1: And Mom Donnie's about to make it worse. His policies
Speaker 1: are awful and they're going to be worse, and the
Speaker 1: voters voted for him. At least you only have like
Speaker 1: fifty point five percent of the vote. In Cincinnati, our
Speaker 1: goofy mayor gets eighty two percent, and you're Mayor Helena Marino.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess you got ninety percent.
Speaker 2: Of the vote.
Speaker 5: No, she had some Democrat offica, you know democrats. She
Speaker 5: so she won the in the first primary with about
Speaker 5: fifty five percent of the vote. But you know, candidate's
Speaker 5: number two and three were both Democrats, and she she won.
Speaker 4: She didn't even have to go to a runoff.
Speaker 5: So see the problem is that a lot of Republicans
Speaker 5: voted for her, thinking that she was the lesser of
Speaker 5: the evils among the Democrats. Instead of getting behind the
Speaker 5: Republican candidate, they voted for her, and now they're going
Speaker 5: to regret that I predict based on you know, how
Speaker 5: she's acted toward Ice. I mean, you know she's not
Speaker 5: exactly welcome. I mean, we've got a Republican governor. He's
Speaker 5: welcoming Ice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look at what she's doing. I mean, she's trying
Speaker 4: to run them out of town.
Speaker 1: Jeff Crer you're the best of this. I want to
Speaker 1: check in with you in the Southern Command there in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. And Jeff Creerer, thanks for coming on the
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham Show. And by the way, Jeff, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas. Bill, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham with you every
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Speaker 8: Just this past week, I saw I don't remember which celebrity,
Speaker 8: but it was actually a celebrity, and I was like,
Speaker 8: I don't know that that's not necessarily a bad idea,
Speaker 8: but I'd have to think of it a lot. One
Speaker 8: of the things that they proposed is black folk not
Speaker 8: have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time,
Speaker 8: because then again, that puts money back in your pocket.
Speaker 2: But at the same.
Speaker 8: Time, it may not be as objectionable to some people
Speaker 8: about actually giving out dollars, but obviously then you start
Speaker 8: dealing with the different tax brackets and things like that.
Speaker 8: And that's one of the reasons that you know, we
Speaker 8: argue that reparations makes sense because so many black folk
Speaker 8: not only do you owe for the labor that was
Speaker 8: stolen and killed and all the other things, right, but
Speaker 8: the fact is, like we end up being so far behind, right,
Speaker 8: and so it's like, how do you bring forest people exactly?
Speaker 8: And so it's like if you if you do the
Speaker 8: no tax thing for people that are already say struggling
Speaker 8: and aren't really paying taxes in the first place, it
Speaker 8: doesn't really exactly. Maybe they may want those those checks
Speaker 8: like they got exactly.
Speaker 2: Hello, quiet, I'm broadcasting. I got a headache.
Speaker 1: Did you understand that is the great granddaughter of Davy Crockett,
Speaker 1: the next US Senator from Texas. Did She said, for
Speaker 1: those don't pay taxes, you don't pay taxes. Therefore, when
Speaker 1: you have taxes that are cut, they don't paying taxes.
Speaker 1: Difference in making me pay taxes or don't pay taxes
Speaker 1: because you pay taxes, you don't pay taxes.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: You know, she's she's becoming like a verb, like as
Speaker 9: when you say something really stupid, you go, well, you're
Speaker 9: you're pulling a Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 2: Right now, did you understand what she was?
Speaker 4: Sack?
Speaker 2: Did you get it? I have no idea. I got
Speaker 2: a headache.
Speaker 1: She's going to be the next US senator from Texas, right,
Speaker 1: gonna be John Cornyn. Do you think if that happens,
Speaker 1: the world ends as.
Speaker 2: We know it? What did she just say? Okay, you
Speaker 2: don't pay TAXI. You don't pay TAXI, but don't pay
Speaker 2: taxes anyway. So if you don't pay taxes, are not
Speaker 2: paying taxes either, So who's paying taxes? Nobody's paying taxes.
Speaker 2: If you don't have any money to pay taxes, you
Speaker 2: don't pay taxes. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: It's making it up. But she goes along. Now hilarious.
Speaker 9: That was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Now we got what about uh, Jason, yesterday, your good
Speaker 1: friend Jason Williams and you got into the Mayor's getting
Speaker 1: his car with the repo man I sent you. I
Speaker 1: think the video of Donald Trump with the repos truck
Speaker 1: picking up the real Yeah, yeah, okay, I just had
Speaker 1: a guy on for New Orleans. The mayor down there
Speaker 1: is under indictment. She took city money to have a
Speaker 1: love nest with their security guard. He was in charge.
Speaker 1: Her name is LaToya the Destroyer, and they would to
Speaker 1: make love why old occasions in a city owned facility
Speaker 1: quarter and she was in charge. He was in charge
Speaker 1: of her body. He was charging her body, He was
Speaker 1: charging up her body. And they used to go on
Speaker 1: rio and all these trips paid trips.
Speaker 2: We the taxpayer. LaToya Cantrell talk about my bodyguard, my
Speaker 2: body go to my personal my personal business. What I
Speaker 2: do with my bodyguard? Remember, it ain't no joke. If
Speaker 2: you can't pay the note, Yeah, you can't pay the note,
Speaker 2: tell the mayor that, will you? So I think we
Speaker 2: got problems. Uh, he's you know, when you're getting your
Speaker 2: car repode.
Speaker 9: It's it's not like they just show up with a
Speaker 9: tow truck and they text you.
Speaker 2: Something in the mail they give you. Remember, ain't no joke. Yeah,
Speaker 2: operation you see the Let me think a ted pure
Speaker 2: of all? How many have ten pureoles are.
Speaker 1: There in SCA live get a hold of him tap
Speaker 1: pure of all? Is that like having him like seg Dannitt. No,
Speaker 1: I think I know who that guy is. Let's call
Speaker 1: city Hall three five two thirty two fifty and speak
Speaker 1: to the mayor.
Speaker 2: How about your note? Ain't no joke it don't pay
Speaker 2: your note.
Speaker 9: Look, if people are having money, that's nothing to that.
Speaker 9: But no, no, And the point is that Steve Gooden
Speaker 9: brought up on our show yesterday is that you know,
Speaker 9: if if people know that you're having money trouble in
Speaker 9: that position, you could be tempted by people to be compromising. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 9: look you know here's some you know you need some money.
Speaker 9: Here's this, Well, how about your vote on this, or
Speaker 9: how about you.
Speaker 2: You do this instead of that? Who co signed his note?
Speaker 2: Ain't no joke. Someone else paid the note.
Speaker 1: And by the way, his wife and him make four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year, three to four hundred times possible. Well,
Speaker 1: she's a big time physician at Try Health.
Speaker 2: What does she makes one eighteen being the mayor a right,
Speaker 2: So the two.
Speaker 1: Of them together have like three four hundred thousand. That's
Speaker 1: one thing when you're broke. Like Jeff Passer, it was
Speaker 1: no joke. You didn't pay his note. He took cash
Speaker 1: from the FBI. Okay, I get that, and then you
Speaker 1: got How do you have your car repote? If you
Speaker 1: have money to pay it off? How do you let
Speaker 1: that happen?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Once twice, living beyond your means. He's got the hairdo,
Speaker 1: he's got the got the glass, he's got the What
Speaker 1: about that railroad money? Got the railroad money? Dipping a
Speaker 1: That ain't no joking. You don't pay the note? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: give me some sports.
Speaker 2: Will E the reporters of Proud Service of Man.
Speaker 7: That was actually a show Operation Repo was on TV.
Speaker 1: Let's put a rail show. Had he got a whole tote?
Speaker 1: That guy knows what he's doing. Sheldon Toe, Sheldon, get
Speaker 1: a hold of him.
Speaker 7: Willy, the stude reporters of Proud Service of your local
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Speaker 2: One sixty nine hundred spot. Thank you, Roxley.
Speaker 7: We also want to thank Lear's Prime Market for our
Speaker 7: lunch today. Willie Deluxe Deli located in beautiful down Tell Milford,
Speaker 7: the home of the Eagles.
Speaker 2: For the coast.
Speaker 1: You get Penn Coast, don't forget Penn Station, don't forget.
Speaker 2: About Lear's Pine Ars.
Speaker 1: I'm always a cut above eting like we're going to
Speaker 1: the electric chair.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, you're not kidding. Montgomery in and then Penn Station.
Speaker 7: It's always about.
Speaker 1: What about Philip Rivers going back to your old team,
Speaker 1: the Colts? Could you go back and play at linebacker
Speaker 1: for the Colts? Philip Rivers coming out of retirement. He's
Speaker 1: forty five, that's about.
Speaker 9: You got nine kids? He probably needs to make a
Speaker 9: few more checks.
Speaker 2: Ain't no joke, don't pay that note. He needs some
Speaker 2: more jack?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: How much? How much does it cost to raise nine
Speaker 2: kids in California?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 1: He wants to play quarterback again? Could you play linebacker
Speaker 1: for the Colts?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: There was a period of about three years. I could
Speaker 2: probably go back, but not, No.
Speaker 9: Are you like forty five? Forty forty five will be
Speaker 9: forty six and the January the.
Speaker 2: Philip Rivers the same age? Can he play quarterback for
Speaker 2: the Colts? Say?
Speaker 7: I guess we'll see Red update Willie Slugger, Kyle Schwarber
Speaker 7: and finalizing a five year of one hundred and fifty
Speaker 7: million dollars deal to stay with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 2: Rocky, what about the Reds? What happened? Thirty million per season?
Speaker 2: We didn't have the dough, the ray or the me
Speaker 2: to pull it off? Right? Please continue? Uh, let's see
Speaker 2: the Reds.
Speaker 7: Ellie da Cruz says he's going to play for the
Speaker 7: Dominican Republic and next year's World Baseball Class at dr
Speaker 7: Wait that again, Ellie da Cruise hurt last year that
Speaker 7: and get hurt again and a muscle.
Speaker 2: Cor What about a muscle core problem? What's a muscle
Speaker 2: core problem? Then he had a quad too? Yeah, hit everything?
Speaker 9: Why was he playing for this deal? And when he's
Speaker 9: employed by the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 7: Why didn't you get ready to play playing for God
Speaker 7: and Country in the Worst Basketball Classic?
Speaker 2: Don't you want to have us a across your chest?
Speaker 2: When is that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: It's like right before, like right at near spring training
Speaker 2: time or something. Talk to the mayor. He ain't no
Speaker 2: joke this. What if he gets hurt playing playing this deal?
Speaker 2: Your reaction?
Speaker 7: Bengals up and they brought to you my good spirits
Speaker 7: and wine and tobacco and party town by thirteen locations
Speaker 7: in northern Kentucky. The Trey Hendrickson underwent poor muscle surgery.
Speaker 7: This day he had core what's a core mus over?
Speaker 7: What's that he's done? What is core muscle surgery?
Speaker 4: Rock?
Speaker 9: Like your rectus of dominance right head attaches right to
Speaker 9: the top of your pubic bone.
Speaker 2: I've torn that before. It's not and he's say not very.
Speaker 2: I don't know very, but that can be painful. You
Speaker 2: tore your pubic bone?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 9: What happened to the rectus of dominance? Off my pubic bone?
Speaker 2: That's what That's what happened to me every time on
Speaker 2: this show. You got a rectus a dominus? What is that?
Speaker 4: You do too?
Speaker 2: By the way, say I don't know. Wait a minute,
Speaker 2: what how do you tear your role? How do you
Speaker 2: tear it? There?
Speaker 1: Your rectus twisting and trusting? So he's out for how
Speaker 1: do you fix it?
Speaker 9: He's out for six weeks to go see doctor William Myers.
Speaker 2: And uh, was it Baltimore and done Philadelphia? What they
Speaker 2: tied back to your rectus bone? Or what do they do? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Something like that? Did it work in your case? Yeah?
Speaker 2: How'd you tour your rectus of dominus?
Speaker 9: I don't actually, I don't know if that's exactly what
Speaker 9: he had. I had a sports It's called a sports hernia,
Speaker 9: which is not really a hernia, whereas your hernias when
Speaker 9: your small intestine pops out through a tear in your.
Speaker 2: Stomach line, but painful. Yeah it is. He got thirty
Speaker 2: million dollars not to play football this year. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what he has pain Germane. Jermaine Burton
Speaker 2: got fifty nine thousand dollars. So this is gonna be
Speaker 2: a topic. Okay at five o'clock on the Adian Rockies.
Speaker 2: You he's back, by the way. How about that.
Speaker 9: Biggest our, most memorable or most painful sports busts that
Speaker 9: you can recall like an athlete and you're letting her
Speaker 9: in the course of your life. You're like, God, that
Speaker 9: guy was supposed to be so good, but he didn't
Speaker 9: turn out that way. You guys are speechless. Good I'm speechless.
Speaker 9: I think people think, how about Jermaine Burton, that's the
Speaker 9: that's the for the suspending the topic and it was
Speaker 9: already not playing, but they paid him.
Speaker 1: Now they suspended him for not playing and cut he
Speaker 1: wasn't playing anyway, then they cut him.
Speaker 9: Wonder Van will take a flyer on him. Probably not,
Speaker 9: But what was his problem? Do we know? I? According
Speaker 9: to could we talk to us if he didn't pay
Speaker 9: the note? He didn't pay the note.
Speaker 2: I just didn't think he or actually lap him talked
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 9: He just wasn't really in you know, nos in the
Speaker 9: playbook and understand the intricacies of playing the game. It's
Speaker 9: no longer like you can just run around and be
Speaker 9: the biggest and fastest athlete. There's you know, lots of
Speaker 9: scheme and lots of things you got to know about
Speaker 9: how to be a bro and how get opened.
Speaker 2: A week wasn't enough to get his interest. Now he's
Speaker 2: got nothing. Nothing.
Speaker 1: I like it your reaction. What's on the big show
Speaker 1: today other than rexis the Dominus.
Speaker 2: We got a doctor on at three o'clock.
Speaker 9: Talk about the mayor, get to get him. We got
Speaker 9: that's at three o'clock, and then at three thirty five,
Speaker 9: we have your former girlfriends on you a roar.
Speaker 1: She kind of broke the story about the mayor. I
Speaker 1: talked to her when this happened. I can't believe this,
Speaker 1: I said, well, I can't believe it either. Then the
Speaker 1: document showed up and then she got an interview with
Speaker 1: She called the mayor's office.
Speaker 2: He picked it up and they spoke. What do you say, boy? Well,
Speaker 2: he said, essentially it was a it was an auto
Speaker 2: pay issue. Of course it is. It's like the dog
Speaker 2: ate my homework.
Speaker 9: Then at four o'clock we have Jeremy Rosenthal, lawyer on
Speaker 9: talking about this. I was on a cruise. Some guy
Speaker 9: like drank himself to death on this cruise. He's trying
Speaker 9: to he's trying to sue. I guess Carnival cruise line
Speaker 9: for it.
Speaker 2: You made me drink.
Speaker 9: Then we have our discussion topic at five o'clock, which
Speaker 9: you are speechless over A.
Speaker 5: Right, is that?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Buck?
Speaker 9: I got that guy should have been so could have
Speaker 9: been so good, but he didn't turn out that way.
Speaker 2: Give me somebody you could turn it out, but I
Speaker 2: talked to him. I think Greg Cook comes to mind.
Speaker 2: He could have been so good and he wouldn't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, no thought of his own.
Speaker 1: But there's been some Every first round draft pick of
Speaker 1: the Bengals have turned out poorly except them last.
Speaker 2: Billy Hamilton became Carter.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think seven w w GT. Sag Man the only
Speaker 2: guy I'll talk to A seven hundred. What did you
Speaker 2: do to make Ken Griffy talk to you? He wouldn't
Speaker 2: because you asked stupid questions.
Speaker 7: And you can know because I talked NASCAR with him.
Speaker 7: He loves Naskar, Yes he does. All right, we got
Speaker 7: to go rock. Good luck with Tanya.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: It ain't no joke. If you don't pay your note. Yeah,
Speaker 1: say get me out of Steeport?
Speaker 7: Will he in honor of Crazy Tuesday around here and
Speaker 7: core muscle surgery rerectious abdominus.
Speaker 2: That's a cut.
Speaker 7: We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.
Speaker 2: Yeah I remember. Ain't no joke. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The amptp Pureball rule. We can't find this guy. What's
Speaker 1: his name, Ampta Pura Ball?
Speaker 2: How do we locate him? On seven hundred? Tell me
Speaker 2: U L W