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Future of Cincinnati - August 5th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, it is so sad when you see a mob literally kicking, punching, just trying to destroy people in the head over and over and over and over again.
And we saw that unfold in Cincinnati.
And we saw a major crowd of people that were watching this unfold.
And most people just took out their cameras.
Only one person bothered to call the police and tell them what was going on.
Even the police chief is like, Well, why didn't people call us?
We would have gotten there in no time at all.
We would have put we would have ended this madness.
And it's just sad.
Um maybe even worse is the mayor of Cincinnati, AfTab uh Pureval is his name.
He says he hasn't even spoken to the victims.
He was gone for almost a week after this incident happened.
This woman Holly, we played her yesterday, was sucker punched and beaten so bad that she may ultimately have permanent brain damage.
He said she's still struggling struggling cognitively as a result of the beating she had.
I don't think I've ever seen an eye, a black eye that black and that blue and that horrible and that vicious uh based on again a sucker punch that she took.
Another guy was getting kicked in the head again and again and again and again and punched in the head by you know 15 different people.
And again, the mayor couldn't bother to, you know, take time away from his precious vacation.
I can't tell you how many times over the years I've been called back from work, uh uh to work from vacation because of a story breaking.
I'm not the mayor of a city.
This is the mayor's job.
And the mayor, you know, should bring calm to the city.
Uh this is what the current mayor who stayed on vacation had to say.
I have not.
Uh I mean, look, again, this was a fight.
It was a horrific fight.
Um, but as council member and others have said, we have significant uh other public safety challenges.
Um we have children who are far too often the victims of gun violence.
We have uh oftentimes far too often the perpetrators of gun violence being children.
Um we have violent crime like every other major city across the nation um that requires our attention and our bandwidth.
Uh and so I I don't uh traditionally meet or speak to every victim of violent crime in our city, and that's consistent with my approach today.
Well, that's the wrong approach because he had a duty and an obligation to reach out to the victims.
This was a mob attack.
This was not a fight.
When you have 20 people attacking two people, that that's not a fight.
A fight is two people in a bar, maybe two on one at a bar, and you get into a fist fight.
This was not a fight.
This was a vicious, vile, dangerous mob attack, and we are kind of lucky in the end that nobody, you know, died in this attack.
It was so vile.
Um wanted to invite on the program uh Corey Bowman is with us.
He's running for the position of mayor in Cincinnati, and he's hoping to uh you know, unseat this ridiculous mayor who you just heard from.
Uh as a side note, by the way, he's the half brother of Vice President J.D. Vance.
We welcome to the program.
Uh well, I bet you're you're pretty proud of your brother.
Yeah, well, first off, thank you so much for having us.
Um, it's an honor to be on the program.
But yes, I'm very proud to look at somebody that's come from the background that he has and the poverty that he came from and was able in such a short amount of time to get to the position he's in and doing an amazing job.
Very proud of my brother.
Well, you should be.
Um was Hillbilly Ellergy a part of your life?
Uh partly, yeah.
If you read the book, there's a section of ours.
You know, for us, um, we kind of came back together later on in our life because there was cussy battles at the beginning.
Very thankful right now because the relationship with our families, with his mom's side of family.
Really, you know, God restored a lot of stuff going on out of those early years, and uh, we were all laughing about it, you know, at the election night and the inauguration night about how um how much God had done and how an amazing um opportunity that this was for him to jump up to be the vice president of the United States.
Very surreal.
We had Billy Cunningham on the program.
I know you know Bill Cunningham, everybody in Cincinnati knows him.
Uh Sean Hannity, you're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
You know that guy.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, most of the man in Cincinnati outside of Ellie Day La Cruz.
Oh, I'm telling you, he's he's infamous and he's famous at the same time.
Um, but we talked about this case with him and everything that's going on and the fact that the mayor didn't come back.
What does that tell you?
And for the mayor to characterize this as a fight, not a mob attack, really bothers me.
Yeah, well, I mean, obviously these images and this video went viral for the entire nation to watch.
And for many people in the nation, you know, they were watching with shock and horror, but for people that live in our city, this is just uh a simple reminder of crime that has escalated in our city in the years that the current mayor has been in the administration.
You know, I'm trying to point this in the direction of this is all due to failed incompetent due to trickle down and competency from the top down, and you saw how they played in how they reacted to it over the course of the week to where or our entire city was in front of the eyes of the nation, and the response was not good at all.
Well, I mean, the whole nation saw this, and and frankly, somebody could have died here.
Um the problem with Cincinnati politically is it is demographically more democratic than it is Republican, and that that makes your battle an uphill battle for that for that race.
That's the problem.
No, absolutely.
But what I'm trying to remind people of is that when it comes to city government, a lot of these people that are in city council positions or that are on the mayor position, they're using it as a platform to really move forward into national politics.
You know, recently we just they put out a resolution for a ceasefire against Israel and Hamas, and I'm trying to tell people we need a resolution for a ceasefire in our own city.
Many people, whether they're Republican or Democrat in our city, are basically fed up of the city council and the mayor using this as a platform on a national stage when the reality of it is that we need to focus on clean streets, safe streets, and prosperous streets.
And that's those are issues that in my mind transcend Republican and Democrat, and that's what we're trying to push with this race.
Is that what you're seeing on the street, that violence is unacceptable no matter what side of the aisle that you're on, and we need quick responses.
The public needs to know from their city council and from their mayor that they've got a handle on it, and that crime like this is not going to happen in the future, and we're not really seeing that from the current administration.
All right, Corey Bowman, we wish you the best in this race.
Um we I really feel for the people of Cincinnati.
I feel for the victims in this case.
I'm I'm repulsed by your current mayor that refers to this as a fight.
This was not a fight.
This was a mob attack in his city, and he couldn't find it within himself to come back from vacation.
There's no excuse for that, in my view.
No, you're absolutely right, and that's why we're running this race.
We started this race, announced it in February.
There's been issues in our city that have been long standing because of those in power.
And um, we're just as disgusted as you with it.
There's many people on the streets that are disgusted by it.
We want safe streets, and that's why we're running this race.
Well, we appreciate you being with us, Corey Bowman.
Thank you, sir.
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South Dakota, Eric is standing by.
He's next on the Sean Hannity show.
Eric, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, sir.
Great to talk to you.
I just you had an interview with Secretary Rollins yesterday.
And I love the president's trade deals, but I just want everybody to know that the export market really don't help the American cattlemen.
It helps the four biggest.
Well, hang on.
Are you are you a cattle rancher?
Do you raise cattle?
Yes, sir.
Oh, you do?
How many herd of cattle you have?
Oh, that's kind of like me asking you how much money you make a year, sir.
I'm not asking you how much money you make.
I mean, do you have do you have a do you have a big ranch?
Do you have a middle-sized ranch?
Do you have uh a small ranch?
I mean, I'm not trying to get into your personal business by asking, but I mean I get it.
You know what I mean?
And for most people, they're not gonna, you know, uh I I don't think they'll extrapolate out, well, X number of cattle equals X number of dollars, but that doesn't factor in how much you paid for the cattle that you have or how much you you pay to feed the cattle that you have.
I mean, I don't think people can extrapolate out your net worth out of that.
You bet, you bet.
I've gotten access to 200 head.
And and we run up here on uh on the reservation, and and I'm a tribal member, and I rent a lot of ground from the reservation, the tribe.
And I'm a cow calf guy, which means I I raise the calves.
I have the cows, I have the supply, the factory, if you will, and I raise the calves up to about six months' age, and then I sell them on.
So that's where I'm at.
And there's many different sectors of the cattle industry that people don't realize.
So but the whole industry is controlled 80 to 85 percent by four major companies, two of which are foreign-owned.
Well, those four major companies can kind of control our market by flooding our market and supply with imports from twenty different countries.
Well, then they sell them same companies are the Four largest exporters of USA beef to other countries.
So that's what I want the administration to know, and I'd love for you to tell them the export market really helps these four countries that are bringing in imported beef, and then America doesn't have the MCOL law anymore.
So all they have to do is bring in imported beef, repackage it, and put product to the USA label on it.
So the American consumer has no idea they're buying imported beef.
Alright, so Eric, I have a question for you.
You're the expert here.
I'm not.
I don't want repackaged.
I want to know that the beef that I buy is American raised.
What do you suggest that they do?
First off, call your representative.
There's a bill in the Senate right now.
It's uh S421, and it's called the American Beef Labeling Act.
I would love every consumer to call their senator and tell them to get this bill pushed through.
That is for mandatory country of origin labeling.
Right now, the only two imported products that don't have a country of origin label on them is beef and pork.
That's the first one they could do.
Why is that?
Can you tell me why they don't label that?
Because I I'll be honest, I'm I'm a really big when I can buy American guy.
Yeah, I think a lot of people are, even if it costs a little more.
Even if it costs a little more, 100%.
You bet.
And I mean MCOL was a bill from the early 2000s to 2009, I believe, but it was never fully funded and implemented till 2013.
Okay, then there was a hard push by the meat lobby to get rid of it because they said it made American beef go up in price.
Well, what it done was it lowered the price of imported beef.
So you're getting the same beef on the counter, they just gotta tell you whose it is now.
And so in two, were you happy when it was announced last week that Australia for the first time since I believe 2003 in Mad Cow Disease is now back importing American beef.
Are you happy about that?
Yes.
Because that can open up our market.
But what I'm saying is who it really helps is the four global companies that export it.
As me as a cattle rancher in South Dakota, I don't export beef.
I sell my cattle to the beef industry.
We need to have the labeling that you're asking for.
Um have you spoken with you know your local senators and congressmen and people that matter?
Yes.
I'm I'm on a national cattleman's group called RCAF USA.
We're in touch with them all the time.
My Senator John Thune is the one that introduced it.
He was also a big player in repealing it in 2015.
Uh the meat lobby got to all the senators and and Obama's omnibus bills, they repeat they repealed MCOL.
And it was because of the W because the WTO was gonna slap a billion dollar tariff on us.
I have to run a non-serious exit question.
How close is your life to Yellowstone the series?
Yellowstone series wasn't very it's a great series.
I loved it.
I watched it every day, but or every time I could, but it was not very not very close.
Alright, because when I'm having a really stressful bad day, and the media is uh getting my leaked personal text messages and fake news CNN and MS DNC are attacking me, you know, there are days like that that I wish I was uh a rancher like you.
Uh but anyway, so keep keep a horse open for me.
You'll have to teach me how to ride a little better than I can ride now.
Anyway, my friend, God bless you.
Thank you for all you do, and we're gonna stay on this.
Next time I talk to John Thune, I'm gonna bring this up with him, okay?
Thank you, Sean.
Appreciate it.
All right, man, appreciate it.
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Um, Linda, I can't help but continuing to love, love, love the Sydney Sweeney story.
Uh so Donald Trump is asked on the tarmac yesterday, or I guess it was Sunday, about Sidney Sweeney and told that she is a registered Republican.
Uh he goes, Oh, I love her ad.
Is that right?
He goes, Sydney Sweeney.
And anyway, and then they released a video.
I don't know if you saw this, a popular gun training company for actors and production companies tweeted a video of Sweeney, you know, rocking a handgun extremely well, uh, actually better than you, removing the gun from the holster and shooting several times.
And the company stock after Trump mentioned it went up a whopping 23%.
I mean, it's incredible.
And their impact on sales is dramatic as well.
Um, and you know, it's unclear whether you know all of this is paying off, but certainly their sales, they've they've even been selling out according to some reports.
Now, here's my thought on this.
Considering the Bud Light, Dylan Mulvaney doesn't have a lot of people.
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Before you before you go down that road, Ethan actually has the cut of the question.
So let's play that first.
She's a registered Republican.
Oh, now I love her ad.
Is that right?
Is Sydney Sweeney?
You'd be surprised at how many people are Republicans.
That's what I wouldn't have known, but I'm glad you told me that.
If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.
I think her ad is fantastic.
Um very close to another word.
He's got to be careful there.
Or commercial would be better.
Wait, what did you think he was gonna do?
Because it sounds like he's saying her ass.
I love her ass even more now.
I'm like, eh, that's not what he's saying.
He's saying ads.
He didn't say ass.
Right, but it's like one wrong with you.
Next to a plane, it's a little loud.
I'd be like, I love it so much better if you said I really love her commercial.
Okay, why are you nitpicking on our president?
I love our president.
I'm just nervous because you know the left does nothing but find the wrong things and even the simplest of things.
So here's what I'm thinking.
If you go woke, you go broke, right?
What if what if Bud Light decided to hire Sydney Sweeney to do the next set of ads for them?
And I think that would completely counter the damage done by Dylan Mulvaney, which even exists to today.
I don't know that it would completely counter, but it would do a nice job.
I don't disagree with you at all.
Yeah.
I mean, I think it's a bit that would be very, very, very smart marketing without question.
All right.
So there's another story that really stood out in my mind today, and I'm not against people doing online dating and you know, they have all these different websites.
I I don't know which are the good ones, which are the bad ones, which are the hookup sites.
So I don't want to sound like a complete total idiot.
You know, they have Christian Mingle.com.
I guess I can say that safely.
They have another one called Hinge.
Have you heard of Hinge?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, that sounds like it's a bad one.
I'm I'm speaking from total ignorance here, and I've really got to be careful.
So Hinge is apparently one that is legit for people that want to meet somebody, maybe go on a date, maybe I guess they don't even use the word date anymore.
I mean, I'm dating myself by saying date.
My kids, my kids say date.
Like I'm old fashioned.
I I tell my kids all the time, I tell my son, if you go, you know, if you're dating somebody, you open the door for that person.
You always pay if you take them out, a woman out on a date.
And you know, he does he's kind of sick of hearing dad's rules, so he knows I got my top five rules.
I won't tell you what they all are.
And but anyway, so there's a New York Post article out today how single women are using Hinge to get guys to come on over and do chores for them, like, you know, build their furniture that they purchased, and then they break up with them.
In other words, they're trying to get these guys looking for handy men, and I I I mean, I'm just sitting there thinking, wow, that's hardcore like use and abuse.
You know, I feel like guys need uh a little job or mission, and then they feel so happy, they're like a golden retriever dog.
They accomplish something, and they're happy to help, said one woman that uses hinge.
Anyway, so you get your your hinge date to build you, you know, new TikTok shop furniture, whatever that is.
Do you know TikTok shop furniture is?
I don't know.
Well, there's a lot of there's a lot of storefronts now on TikTok.
It's not just like little videos anymore.
There's full e-commerce on TikTok.
All right, why do I feel like that's kind of taking advantage of somebody?
And then they had another story in the New York Post.
I put my hinge date to work around my house, and then we broke up.
Oh, get the guy to do the job for free, a handy guy.
It's gross.
I mean, listen, it goes both ways, right?
I mean, there's guys that show up and they act like they're really interested, and they take them out for a couple of dates, and once they get what they want, they keep them moving.
So I guess it's you know, all around.
I think all dating is very difficult.
I think online dating adds a whole new nuance of you're talking, you're talking, you're talking, and then you finally meet, and it's like, okay, well, why did I waste all that time talking?
Because A, you didn't look you don't look like your picture, or B, you said you were six foot two and you're five foot two, or you know, you said you were a mathematician and it looks like you've never opened a math book in your life, or whatever it is, right?
There's like a million things that you find out when you meet in person.
So that to me.
Well the thing is online, you know, creates anonymity.
That's why we always talk about these, you know, crazy people in their underwear in their basement that are anonymous uh with their fake handles, and you know, they could be real brave keyboard warriors and say whatever they want about anybody, any place, any time, um, which is why I've never paid attention to online, which is why I gave up my uh why I don't look at the comments of people unless I really want to feel bad about myself, then I can have you send them to me.
I wouldn't do that anyway.
I mean, it doesn't even matter, you know.
These keyboard heroes, they're so tough and they're so brave, but it's like anything else, you know.
Say it's in my face.
Tell me how you really feel.
Say it's in my face.
That's when a conversation actually happens.
More often than not, in my opinion, I find that if you don't say you're a Republican and you don't say you're a Democrat, and you say, How do you feel about paying more money in taxes?
I hate it.
How do you feel about the government being in your bedroom in your child's education, you know, involved in what you can do on your house, like these HOA videos where you see all these people, like they get a little bit of power and they're nuts.
Most people agree on these things.
It's only when you add an R or a D that we start to get, you know, it gets a little weird.
I don't know.
I I mean there's such vitriol and hate.
I I think it's almost cancerous, some of the the back and forth that goes on online.
And I, you know, for me, I this is this goes back to the free republic days.
This goes back to me supporting Trump in 2015 ahead of so many other people and the heat and the and the never-ending attacks that I took from quote known conservatives that said I wasn't a real conservative.
Then you've got this other group now of super MAGA people.
I would that's how I would describe them.
They think they're more MAGA than anybody else out there, and it cracks me up because they don't even interpret what Donald Trump's actions and words accurately, for example, on foreign policy.
They would have you think no forever wars means isolationism.
I was talking a little bit about this yesterday, but that does not match Donald Trump's actions from his first term when he took out the ISIS caliphate and he took out Solomonny on that tarmac, and when he took out Baghdadian associates and he dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
Now that is not inconsistent with the state of philosophy and ideology and the Trump doctrine, as I would call it of no forever wars, but it's certainly not isolationism.
And I think there are people today that would tell you or argue that Donald Trump taking out Iran's nuclear sites was a violation somehow of his position on no forever Wars.
Now, it could it have escalated.
Is there always risk when you take a military action like that?
Of course there is.
But it was a calculated risk at a time where when Iran's air defense systems were down, and thank God it it worked out perfectly, and 12 days later, everything was over between Israel and Iran.
Do I think it's over permanently?
I do not.
Do I think that at some future date we may have to use more military might?
I do.
Do I think the Iranians have every plan in the world to rebuild their ballistic missile capabilities and and maybe even start up nuclear ambitions again?
I do.
But I think there's a lot of people that don't really fully completely understand Trump.
And they would attack me.
It's not being Trumpian enough.
I mean, I've actually seen you've sent me those comments from people online, which is a joke to me.
Yeah, and I also think there are people who are.
Listen, as a rule, I just assume that most people are ignorant and do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing all the time and have the wrong information.
When you actually deep dive and have a conversation with people, you know if you can actually continue that conversation, or you just need to go, yeah, okay.
Because it's not worth it.
So people who don't understand what's happening in Iran or why he may be uh may have been in Scotland or what this means for Russia.
You know, these international foreign affairs issues, they take they take a lot more than just the headline heroes.
You can't have a conversation based on one headline.
You really can't.
I think that's such a good point.
I really do.
There is an appetite out there for me to engage in this MAGA civil war.
Have you noticed that people are trying to provoke me into this?
You you actually brought it to my attention.
Oh my god, it's a hot mess.
Yeah, they want me to go out and attack people.
And here's the problem I have, and it's not a bad problem.
Is why would I why would I on 770 plus stations?
Why would I start a conflict with somebody within our movement when we probably agree on 85% of issues?
Why?
What's the point?
What's the benefit of that?
Now I understand it's a benefit for other people because if I attack them, that draws attention to them.
You have this whole group of people, left, right, middle, it doesn't matter.
All they do and all they say is that they can get clicks, that they can get attention, that they can get notice, that they can be viral for that day.
And the attempts at just going viral by people are pretty nauseating to me.
Yeah, there's a lot of that, and I think there's a lot of people that are trying to get famous off of making those viral clicks, but there are other people who have receipts, and those people are the people that I read and then I follow, and I'm like, oh, this is really interesting.
Like this, this is not just a comment.
This is a comment back backed by research, emails, voicemails, photos, like it's not just a comment.
Like it's this is a true story.
That's a little different.
The only thing I would say to those people, and I've been noticing that there are this there is a group I would describe as quote, the super MAGA.
Nobody's as MAGA as them, okay.
And what I notice about some of these people is if there's one percent disagreement, they want to blow it that whatever the issue is up into the biggest thing imaginable.
That's all they're fixate on and not see the big picture.
I have a hard time understanding.
And by the way, some of those people, Linda, are the very people that that excoriated me for two years when I did support Trump and they were nowhere to be found.
Pretty interesting, right?
Yeah, it's it's easy to jump on the panel wagon.
Yeah, or the same people that will abandon Trump at the drop of a hat.
I just uh I find it very ironic, and they have that one thing in common, that one trait in common.
But you know what?
I'm not falling for the tricks.
I got more important things to do.
We got another tricks to worry about.
Just focus on your own tricks.
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