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Monday 3pm hour 05/04/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: KBN.
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  Speaker 2: Well, howdy ho, boys and girls. News Radio 570 WKBN
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  Speaker 2: and Ron Verb. It's 306 here on a Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: It's 74 degrees. It's a lovely day out there, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: I think tomorrow's Election Day, isn't it? Isn't it May 5th?
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  Speaker 2: Is that Election Day? Is that the official day we're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go out and vote in the primary? I
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  Speaker 2: better be prepared. And here's the disappointing part. They say
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get like a 25% turnout, which is
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  Speaker 2: really pathetic. I mean, how long does it take to
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  Speaker 2: go out and cast your ballots, let your voice be heard?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't take that much effort, but such a low
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  Speaker 2: voter turnout, that's never a good thing. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you wait for the general and see what happens then. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: good afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 4: 330-729-9977.
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  Speaker 2: Have we made a deal yet with Iran? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I keep hearing... Trump administration say Iran wants a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Iran wants a deal. Well, have we made one yet?
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  Speaker 2: Is gas still $ 5 a gallon? In my neck of
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  Speaker 2: the woods, it is, boys and girls. Depends where you are.
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  Speaker 2: Some people are calling me like bragging, hey, gas is
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  Speaker 2: cheaper in PA than it is in Ohio. Why is that, incidentally?
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  Speaker 2: Why is that? I don't understand that. Why is gas?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense to me. I'm confused. You're
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  Speaker 2: on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Ronald.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Monday. It's Ted the Conservative. Hello, Theodore.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm calling you in regards to Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Stupid comments from that woman.
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  Speaker 2: Friday's like a blur, okay? Friday, stupid comments.
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  Speaker 5: At first I blew them off because I laughed it
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  Speaker 5: off and I thought, you know, never get in the
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  Speaker 5: mud with a pig because you come out dirty, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like to attack people. But I will call
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  Speaker 5: a spade a spade, and I didn't think nothing of it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, stupid people say stupid things, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I get some messages this morning that I forwarded to you.
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  Speaker 5: This has been going on for weeks on social media,
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  Speaker 5: the slander and the things that are being said about
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  Speaker 5: me from her. And I thought to.
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  Speaker 2: Myself, you know... Now, that's because you, Ted the Conservative,
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  Speaker 2: the Ted the Conservative endorsement has gone to Christine Oliver for..
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  Speaker 6: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: In a Republican primary.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, she's got numerous Facebook accounts she hides behind,
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  Speaker 5: and she blocks people that don't agree with her. And
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  Speaker 5: then she talks about people. Well, it's going to stop today.
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  Speaker 5: And it starts with you. I would think you're not
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  Speaker 5: going to let her run her mouth again like she
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  Speaker 5: did Friday. Because if she does, I'm going to come back.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So she will be getting a visit on Meadowbrook Drive.
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  Speaker 5: From the Pullum Police Department.
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  Speaker 2: No, wait a minute. You can't. Don't put anybody's son down.
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  Speaker 5: And if she's not home, they will deliver it to
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  Speaker 5: her husband's place of business.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, don't put out personal information.
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  Speaker 5: It's another thing to say things on radio. It's another
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  Speaker 5: thing to go on social media and start talking shit.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, just hang on. Don't use the S-word. And don't
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  Speaker 2: use personal addresses and that kind of stuff. Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Just..
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's using personal names.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but what happens on social media cannot happen here.
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  Speaker 5: And if you allow it to continue, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: come back harder. That's all I can say. I won't
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  Speaker 5: get in the mud with a pig because I'll come
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  Speaker 5: out dirty, but I won't sit here. And the things
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  Speaker 5: that were sent to me, some of them that I
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  Speaker 5: shared with you, some that I didn't, it stops now.
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  Speaker 5: If not, you know, we'll see where it goes. Because
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  Speaker 5: I don't agree with someone, they attack you. That speaks
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  Speaker 5: volumes to the type of person you're dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: It's the United States of America. You have a right
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  Speaker 2: to support whatever candidate you wish to support.
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  Speaker 5: I get called a liar because I said that I
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  Speaker 5: met Christine Oliver in Columbiana. I guess some people are
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  Speaker 5: so dumb and stupid they don't realize that parts of
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  Speaker 5: Columbiana are Mahoney County. Maybe they should leave Poland, Ohio
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  Speaker 5: and drive around or go down to the Board of
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  Speaker 5: Elections and look at a map. But, you know, having
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  Speaker 5: fun playing games is one thing. You start blasting crap
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  Speaker 5: on social media and doing the things that she's doing
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  Speaker 5: and saying the things that she's saying, that changes the game.
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  Speaker 5: That's my warning shot.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so you're upset over being attacked on social media,
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  Speaker 2: of which I have no control over, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
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  Speaker 2: I have no control.
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  Speaker 5: I sent you some of it. I didn't send you
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  Speaker 5: all of it. But the police got.
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  Speaker 6: All of it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why are the police involved?
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  Speaker 5: Well, because when you deal with crazy people, you deal
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  Speaker 5: with them head on. And if you don't stop them,
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  Speaker 5: things continue to escalate. And, you know, I think she's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I think she's unstable, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but I mean, it's... If you're going to go
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  Speaker 6: so far as to talk.
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  Speaker 5: About people on social media, then you've got to do
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  Speaker 5: what you have to do to protect yourself, right?
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  Speaker 2: What would you do? Well, let me put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Who has been called an idiot more than I?
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  Speaker 6: Well, beyond that.
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  Speaker 2: Who is it?
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  Speaker 8: A liar.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to sit around and be called a liar.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the advice I would give you and to anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I've discovered over the years. Uh, everybody's entitled
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  Speaker 2: to their own opinion. And a lot of people say
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  Speaker 2: nasty things. See, I give my thoughts and my opinions publicly.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So, so just, I, I speak publicly. I
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  Speaker 2: don't speak behind people's. Right. Okay. Right. See, I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really, I speak publicly. I don't speak behind
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  Speaker 2: people's backs.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have Facebook pages and fake names.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And the, Do you want to know me? Here I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of what they call these
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  Speaker 2: keyboard warriors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And keyboard warrior. But outside of that, how do I
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  Speaker 2: say this outside of that? I really, I really don't
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  Speaker 2: care what, what, what people post or what people say. It, it,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't bother me most of the time. Frankly, I
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  Speaker 2: don't see it. I don't read it because who knows it's,
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people think they know more than they
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  Speaker 2: do know. And it's something that you have to wrestle with.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people think that they have a deeper
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  Speaker 2: understanding of things than they actually do. And so the
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  Speaker 2: advice I'm giving to you is don't take it personal.
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  Speaker 2: I gave it to Ron, but she did. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: if somebody... If somebody's getting under your skin, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: let somebody get under your skin, and you shouldn't take
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  Speaker 2: it so personally.
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  Speaker 5: There's a line, and when you cross that line, the
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  Speaker 5: gloves come off.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's the line?
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  Speaker 5: Talking shit on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't say the S word. You keep saying that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Talking crap. Talking about people you don't know. Calling people liars.
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  Speaker 5: You know, different things.
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  Speaker 6: Slander.
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  Speaker 5: Slander. Plain and simple.
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  Speaker 6: Slander.
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  Speaker 5: When you cross the line, when you start slandering.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's... And when you start..
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  Speaker 5: Talking about people on social media and grown adults. This
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  Speaker 5: is stuff our kids did in middle school, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and here's a woman, crazy woman talking about people on
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  Speaker 5: social media, hiding behind fake accounts, saying the vile things
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  Speaker 5: that she said last week on your program. You know,
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  Speaker 5: does she think that's funny and cute? Never once have
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  Speaker 5: I attacked her, but you know, she, she crossed the line.
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  Speaker 5: So let this be a warning to keep my name
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  Speaker 5: out of her mouth and off the program and off
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  Speaker 5: the Facebook. And other than that, If you're voting tomorrow,
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  Speaker 5: there's only one candidate, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it?
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  Speaker 5: Who am I supporting?
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  Speaker 2: You are, Ted, the conservative is supporting Christine Oliver.
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  Speaker 5: Christine Oliver. She knows the issues, unlike some who got
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  Speaker 5: in the race and then had to call Ron Verb
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  Speaker 5: to learn what the issues are. She, you know, she doesn't,
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  Speaker 5: she supports reducing the taxes. for our senior citizens, unlike Sheppas,
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  Speaker 5: which makes no sense to how Rich voted for Sheppas,
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  Speaker 5: because I always thought Rich was an anti-tax guy. I
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  Speaker 5: thought he wanted those reductions put in place. Who was
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  Speaker 5: that state lawmaker?
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  Speaker 2: Dave Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas. I thought he was a big
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  Speaker 5: fan of Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas has endorsed Christine Oliver.
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  Speaker 5: Rich votes for the guy that wants to raise his taxes,
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  Speaker 5: which made no sense to me. And I was surprised
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  Speaker 5: at some of the slanderous things he said, too, but
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  Speaker 5: that's here regardless. Hey, I'm with Christine Oliver. She's dedicated
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  Speaker 5: her life to public service, from serving in the Navy,
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  Speaker 5: her time on city council. You know what she's done
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  Speaker 5: with her nonprofit, Back to Blue, to support law enforcement
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  Speaker 5: officers across the state and raise money for the children
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  Speaker 5: of her fallen officers. Those are the people you want
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  Speaker 5: representing you in government, not people who are empty seats.
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  Speaker 5: looking for a paycheck, looking for the next job, trying
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  Speaker 5: to climb that political ladder just for self-gratification, I guess.
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  Speaker 5: So if you don't like my opinion, disagree with me.
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  Speaker 5: But when you start the personal attacks on social media
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  Speaker 5: and the things you say, the vile things you say
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  Speaker 5: on radio, then that crosses the line. If you don't
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  Speaker 5: like my opinion, you're glad to disagree with me. Draw
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  Speaker 5: the line there.
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  Speaker 2: There he is, on fire.
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  Speaker 6: Here I am.
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  Speaker 5: All right, buddy. I hope I don't have to call back.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's Ted the Conservative. He's upset with some
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  Speaker 2: of the scoundrels on social media. News Radio 570, the
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  Speaker 2: keyboard warriors, all the tough people on social media and
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  Speaker 2: Facebook and all that kind of stuff, which is really
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  Speaker 2: a giant waste of time. I am shocked at how
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  Speaker 2: some people just It's amazing. when I share every personal
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  Speaker 2: thing on Facebook. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you had a good weekend, because I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: deliver the bad news. Okay. Way down S & P,
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  Speaker 1: down NASDAQ, down volatility high. West Texas Intermediate was up
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  Speaker 1: over 4% most of the day. And global oil prices...
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  Speaker 1: $ 14 a barrel, that doesn't say, but that's Brent crude.
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  Speaker 1: That's the global index. And headline news, stocks remain lower
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  Speaker 1: as Trump sends new warning to Iran against attacks on U.S. vessels. And, Ron,
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  Speaker 1: I spent the weekend analyzing all 220 software stocks. And
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  Speaker 1: to save time, I checked with other software analysts. And
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it in my life. Almost
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  Speaker 1: every recommendation was a sell recommendation. And Warren Buffett has
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  Speaker 1: sold another $ 50 billion worth of stock and is now
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  Speaker 1: sitting on almost $ 400 billion in cash. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: couple billion more than I even have in my bank account.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Well, that's because those young girlfriends of
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  Speaker 2: yours keep burning through the cash. So let me see
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  Speaker 2: on my ticker here, on my CNBC ticker, the Dow's
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  Speaker 2: down 512 points. Ouch, you're 401k today. or your IRA
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  Speaker 2: is bleeding. 512 is the Dow is down. S &
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  Speaker 2: P is down 25. NASDAQ's down 39. The Russell's down 16.
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  Speaker 2: The VIX is up one. So needless to say, it
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  Speaker 2: is a bad day for your 401k and your IRA.
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  Speaker 2: And it says Dow falls 500 points as oil jumps
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  Speaker 2: on fears Iran conflict set to flare up again. And
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  Speaker 2: wait a second, Dow falls 500 points as oil jumps.
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  Speaker 2: So if oil jumps, and I'm paying $ 5 here in
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  Speaker 2: the Buckeye States, here where I live in my neck
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  Speaker 2: of the woods, my wallet's in great pain today, Frank.
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  Speaker 2: My wallet's in pain. My wallet's suffering. And if the
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  Speaker 2: price of a barrel of oil– by the way, incidentally,
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  Speaker 2: when I'm talking oil, Frank, I'm not Ron Verb, I'm T.
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  Speaker 2: Boone Verb, okay? That's my– T.
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  Speaker 1: Boone Pickens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, T. Boone Verb. That's my oil name. But
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  Speaker 2: when I'm talking oil, if the– Oh, by the.
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  Speaker 1: Way, let me interrupt. Wasn't T. Boone the pioneer of
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  Speaker 1: public equity business model? No.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is just oil discussion because I need a
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  Speaker 2: hip oil name when I'm talking oil. It sounds cool,
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  Speaker 2: T-Bone Verb. But not T-Bone Verb, T-Bone. But needless to say,
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  Speaker 2: is it possible, Frank, that gas could go up more
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  Speaker 2: than $ 5 a gallon in my neck of the woods?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me put it this way. Rich, the pharmacist,
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  Speaker 1: repeated it again. that he wants to make exporting oil illegal?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Because he thinks the price of gas would crash. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Rich doesn't understand that only 6% of our oil flows
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  Speaker 1: through the Straits of Hormuz. The reason the gas price
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  Speaker 1: is soaring is because the Fed is inflating rapidly.
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  Speaker 2: Let me interject one minute. I was actually listening to
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  Speaker 2: a guy, and I'm going to lay this on you, Frank.
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  Speaker 2: Are you sitting down?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: He said the reason why oil prices are soaring is
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  Speaker 2: there's an oil shortage. With all this mess going on,
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  Speaker 2: he said there is now an oil shortage because you
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  Speaker 2: can see that you don't have these areas where oil
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  Speaker 2: isn't flowing out of Iran. This guy claims there's an
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  Speaker 2: oil shortage. That's why oil prices are going up because
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  Speaker 2: of this mess. And he also said that he thought
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  Speaker 2: they could go up beyond $ 5 a gallon. What do
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  Speaker 2: you say? Hello? What happened to Frank? I think I
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  Speaker 2: stunned Frank with my wisdom. He fainted. All right, Frank,
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  Speaker 2: call me back. I lost your connection. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what happened to him. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: How old is Ted? You know, I thought by our
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  Speaker 3: ages now we would know. That you don't go and..
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sticks and stones may break... Right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't know better enough that you've seen
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  Speaker 3: it before, you've experienced it before, that people are going
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  Speaker 3: to say things that you... Especially if you're passionate about it.
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  Speaker 3: And then now he's... And he was bad-mouthing her on
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  Speaker 3: the back end.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, again, guys, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe it's me.
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  Speaker 2: And really, who's been more picked on on this program
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  Speaker 2: than J.J. the liberal? Seriously.
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  Speaker 5: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 6: Which is Frank.
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  Speaker 3: Frank and those other guys have gotten, Emmanuel has gotten
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  Speaker 3: ten times worse because he's a.
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  Speaker 6: Man of color.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Emmanuel's gotten it ten times worse. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even think Frank's gotten it worse. I would say
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  Speaker 2: the guy that's gotten it the hardest has always been J.J.
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  Speaker 2: the liberal. And sometimes, now stand by, J.J., I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do some analysis. All right, hang on.
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  Speaker 1: J.J.
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  Speaker 2: The liberal coming up. Do some analysis there. And more
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  Speaker 2: of your calls straight ahead. News Radio 570 WKVN. I've
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  Speaker 2: had plenty of time to contemplate during that last commercial break.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's taken more criticism than J.J. the Liberal. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I've reviewed this. What's your advice to Ted the Conservative?
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  Speaker 2: Stand tall.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to give him any advice. He should
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  Speaker 6: know better.
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  Speaker 2: Know better what?
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  Speaker 6: He should just know better.
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  Speaker 3: If I was doing that, He would come on here
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  Speaker 3: and go, see, JJ's acting like a child going on
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  Speaker 3: there and talking to people, and he knows that they're
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  Speaker 3: going to say this. Come on, man. I don't get
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  Speaker 3: along with him, but I respect him.
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  Speaker 6: I lost respect from a long time ago when.
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  Speaker 3: He battled G2, and he was right. And then the
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  Speaker 3: next following day, he was the first one to call in,
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  Speaker 3: and he apologized, and he had no reason to apologize.
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  Speaker 3: I lost it for him. I was like, man, dude,
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  Speaker 3: you were right. I'm walking around the garage, I'm going,
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  Speaker 3: you were right, Ted. But you buckled and you wouldn't,
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  Speaker 3: because what reason? There was no reason to challenge you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to challenge you. He's an intelligent individual,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the reason why I'm disappointed.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, but today, you know, again, we got some bombings. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was thinking, I was over the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: last time I talked to you, I said, who's benefiting
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  Speaker 3: from this? So, you know, I mean, Frank will probably
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  Speaker 3: know the answer to this, and many other people do.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm thinking, who.
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  Speaker 6: Benefits from it?
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  Speaker 3: Contractors? Russia?
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  Speaker 6: China?
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  Speaker 8: There are certain..
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  Speaker 3: 20% is owned by the oil that comes out of..
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think China's benefiting from it because China's
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  Speaker 2: got a big oil problem. India's not benefiting from it.
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  Speaker 2: Africa's not benefiting from it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: A lot of those guys have connections. Remember, we don't
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: know everything. I'm using that kind of..
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Well, that's true.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: We don't know what everybody knows, but the problem is that..
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I've got to quit saying that, too.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: My brother called me.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I always say the problem is I don't understand why...
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: that we're still there. I mean, it's this..
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Well, I can answer that question. I can actually... Wait
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: a second, JJ. I can give you, I think, an
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: intelligent answer to that. Stand by. Let me do my headlines.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: And then I come back and take more of your
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: calls in a minute. News Radio 570 WKVN. All right. Now,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: let me go back to JJ. Now, JJ, when you're
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: asking about this situation in Iran, here's the deal. We
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: can debate all we want on whether or not we
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: should be there in the first place if this was
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a good idea from the beginning. But that's wasting time
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: because we're there, right? I mean, the reality is that
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: that ship has sailed. So you can argue a point.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: They can argue, well, take a look at the bombing
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: and take a look at the campaign, the blockade. It
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: seems like, militarily speaking, everything seems to be going very
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: well there. for the United States and the people that
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: claim to be in a no seem to think if
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: we wait them out that they're hurting more than we're
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: hurting and we'll be victorious if we wait them out,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: if we don't pull the pin too soon. That's one
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: of the arguments for stay in the course, if you will,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and not bailing out too early. And so... We shall see. Now,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: on the other hand..
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I get that point. But we're going over there. They
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: don't have to leave to defend their property. Their war
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: is not costing them as far as them having to travel.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: That costs us money. That's other contingencies that we have
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: to deal with. But again, we have a lot more money.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: So I understand your point there. But it is... I'm
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: just believing that... When we first went into Venezuela, again,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: he said, who's in charge? And he finally said the
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: oil companies. And they're one of the benefits from Grumman
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: and many of those other contractors are making money hand over.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Fist right now.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: And the oil companies are going to make a fortune, too.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: The oil companies will be making a fortune.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Grumman made, just since the beginning of the war, they've
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: made their stock and everything, they've.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Gained $ 15.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Billion since this has started. And that's mind-boggling. I mean,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: that would motivate.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: A lot of people to continue.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: A conflict that really is not necessary. And in my views,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: if you, everybody wants to talk about, if you look
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: through history and blah, blah, blah, it's usually over religion.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: It's over wars where you're the religion property where you're
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: coming and trying to take my land or freedom. Those
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: are the three things right there that really motivate another
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: person to engage in warfare. And usually those things right
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: there and right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Now, it's money.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: And it's a profitable business. That's what's happening, really, Aron.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: There's no freedom for people. The people over there have lost.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: So much of it, they're all in poverty now. There's
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: like 10 million people that are in poverty now ever
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: since the war started over in Iran. And we're not
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: benefiting from it either. The people over here, we're going
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: to be paying for more more weapons. We're going to
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: be paying for everything. And nobody cares. And quite frankly,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: as I said, I live by very simple means in
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: the first place. Other than I got my grocery stuff
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: in the backyard growing and stuff, I can deal with it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: But there's a lot of people that are not in
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: very good shape. A lot of people are in fear.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: And as I said, it's We've got to make some
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: changes here, and it's not going to go anywhere. And,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: you know, like you said, I'm proud of you about
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: him going after Comey. Come on, man, that's ridiculous.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Let me put it this way, just to be clear.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think I voted for Trump. I'd vote for
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Trump again. I don't think we'd be better off if
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris was president. I don't think we'd be better
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: off if we vote for Sherrod Brown as senator. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: don't think the Democrats— I don't want to go back to
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the Democrats' wacky agenda— Even if even as critical as
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I can be of Trump, I still got to look
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: at the borders closed. I got to look at all
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the good stuff that has happened. I always acknowledge these
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: guys know more than any of us know about this,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: their information. OK, so.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: So with that being said, but I also know this.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I also know you cannot continue with five dollar a
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: gallon gasoline or potentially higher. Because it is putting a
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: big hurt on everything and everybody. Remember what happened.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: To Marie Antoinette when she said, let them eat cake.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what's going on now.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: And it wasn't good.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: For her or King Louis. I'm not implying anything. I
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: just made a joke there. A bad joke.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: But it's still right now.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: People aren't going to take it for much longer. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: they're going to say, even the people that are very
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: passionate about him, they're going to start to say, listen,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I'm for you and I'm going to back you up here,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: but you better do something. Or this voting or lack
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: thereof could be a very difficult thing in November. So,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you know, again, it's all hands on deck right now.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: We've got to come together somehow, and I know that
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: ain't going to happen. So I'm just going to try
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to be one of the people that can keep the
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: boat from flipping.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: There you go, J.J. the liberal. Thank you. I mean,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: it is a tough situation that this country is in
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: right now. And as I say, you can go back
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and we can debate all we want as to whether
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: or not we should have got into this from the
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: first place. I mean, it really doesn't matter. I mean,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: people would say that we got in this because of
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the power of Israel getting us involved in this and
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: we shouldn't have got involved in this from the very beginning.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: And that doesn't matter. I mean, I guess in retrospect,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you can debate that as whether or not it was
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: a good idea or bad idea, whether or not we
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: should have got involved in this in the very beginning.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: But let's deal with reality. We are involved in it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: And do I have concerns? Yes, I do. I mean,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I keep hearing the administration keep saying Iran wants to
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: make a deal. Iran wants to make a deal. Iran
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: wants to make a deal. And I keep saying, well,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: where's the deal? You keep telling me you got him
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: right where you want him. Iran wants to make a deal,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: but I don't see any deal. So... Does Iran want
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to make a deal? There's no question in my mind
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Iran is suffering. Economically and in so many ways. I mean,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: as far as financially, they are suffering.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: But..
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Are they willing to ride it out? I don't know
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the answer to that. I don't know. I mean, I
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: do remember early on when Iran said, hey, listen, you
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: want to destroy us and our economy? We'll destroy you
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: and your economy. Implying that oil prices will go up
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and we're an oil-based economy and it can have a
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: big effect on So I don't know. It's a whole
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: different culture. It is a whole different culture. And I
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: don't know what they're thinking over there because I'm not
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: familiar with that culture. I'm not there. I don't understand it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: It's a whole different mentality. It's a whole different culture.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: It's a whole different lifestyle. So I don't know what
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: they're thinking. You know, I can sit here and say
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to you, I wish we would reach some type of
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: deal here so that we can move on from this.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: But if I speculate, I don't think this thing is
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: going as well as they thought it would go. This
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: is all my pure speculation. I honestly believe they thought
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: that this would be over much sooner than it's dragged
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: on to at this point in time. I think that
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: they were under the impression that we could bomb the
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: living hell out of them and bring them to their
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: knees and that this would be over relatively quickly. And
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: that was certainly the impression that was given early on.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: And I don't sense that that's happening right now. As
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: of May 4th. That was the impression given early. But
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: now it's May 4th. And as I say, I just
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: hear this all the time. Iran wants to make a deal.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: And I've heard this for weeks. Well, where's the deal?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: So I talk as cheap deeds are precious until I
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: see the deal. I want to see what happens. What
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: takes place there. So we shall see.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: And..
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Is Iran willing to just wait this out? Are they
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: willing to say, I don't know what their resolve is.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Are they willing to say, who are you to tell
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: us whether or not as a country we can have
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon? Who are you to dictate this to us?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, are they willing to wait it out thinking, okay,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: we can wait it out and your economy is going
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: to get destroyed too. And China is going to be without,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: run out of oil. India is going to run out
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: of oil. Africa's going to have starvation because of the
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: lack of fertilizer. There's a lot of dominoes that could
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: fall that can really piss a lot of countries off
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: when you don't have oil and energy, whether that's India
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: or China or food when it comes to Africa and
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: fertilizer and famine. So there's some long-term ramifications to all
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: of this. I don't have all the answers for you.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Were these guys able to foresee all
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: of this? Hard to say. I mean, I can't sit
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: here and it's hard to say. Obviously, they know more
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: than any of you listening. They know more and have
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: more insider information than any of us listening with the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: decisions that they've made. But we are where we are.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, all I can tell you is based on that,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: it seems like militarily everything's gone really well. Now, I
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: realize there are critics that said, well, I thought when
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: we dropped the bunker buster, that was the end of it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Now they're saying, well, that wasn't the end of it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Now we're dropping all these bombs, and when's the end
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: of it now? I understand the critics. I understand, and
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with people being critical of it, because
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: that's open discussion in America. And some people, you have some, McGregor, General...
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: McGregor is very critical of this situation and what's happening. Well,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: he certainly is a lot better informed than the rest
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: of us with this criticism. But if Iran wants to
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: make a deal, all I say is, where's the deal?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: How much longer is this going to take? Another month,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: two months, three months, six months? Because I keep hearing
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: when I watch it, we got them right where we
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: want them. And maybe we do. Maybe it's just a
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: matter of days or weeks. but are the American people
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: willing to pay $ 5 a gallon or $ 5. 50 or $ 6
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: a gallon who knows where it could go I don't
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: think so I genuinely don't think so and Politically speaking,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: it always is the economy, stupid. There's not a lot
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: of support for this military action. If you take a look,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of public support for it. And
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: that can be devastating for the midterms as far as
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: the Republicans are concerned. Then for the next two years,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: you've derailed everything. like the American first agenda and everything
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: would be on hold for two years and it'd just
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: be the usual devastation that comes from it. So we
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: shall see. I wish I could give you a better,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone can really give you a good
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: assessment of it. I'm against the Democrats that seem to
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: knock the country. I mean, I do agree with some
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: people that say the Democrats hate Trump more than they
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: love their country, and I think that statement is true.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I think as an American, you've got to say what
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: the military has accomplished has been phenomenal. And the blockade
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: seems to be very effective. So any of the Democrats
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: who want to imply that Iran is winning, I don't
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: think that that's the case at all. I think the
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: United States is the upper hand at this point in time.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: But are they willing to lose and wait it out?
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And we shall see. Because I don't understand their culture.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: But I do understand this culture. And I can tell you,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: $ 5 gasoline is devastating to the economy and household budgets.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: And it will lead to inflation. Not just $ 5 gasoline,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: but diesel fuel at $ 6 a gallon. And I don't
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: think that there's much support for that to continue. And
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: we shall see. Comments? You're on the air. Hello. I
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: thought you were there. Maybe I went the wrong line.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: So are you supposed to look at the stock market
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: every day and check everything on the numbers?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do look at the stock market every day
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: because it is important. Why does it matter? You know,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I do a financial show, so Rockport should be on
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: tonight at 6 o'clock.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Because the reality is there's plenty of people retired that
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: are involved in it with their retirements. There's plenty of
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: people close to retirement. and plenty of people that are
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: in 401ks and whatever. And when you take a look
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: at huge losses like that, it is devastating, and it
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: psychologically affects half the population, just as a $ 5 gas
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: price out there affects all the population.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: How many record highs have we had since the war started?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it doesn't matter because they're yesterday's news because
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: they're right back down.
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so..
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you the next high. The next high will
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: be if there's the thought of a deal being made. Now,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: why does that happen? Call back, Jake. Sometimes my system
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: fails me, folks. Sometimes I'm telling you our phone system
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: just screws up. I don't understand it, but it does.
• 33:42
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• 33:44
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• 33:48
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• 33:49
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• 34:08
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  Speaker 4: From ABC News. I'm Mike Tobusky. President Trump says the
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: ceasefire with Iran is still in effect after significant attacks
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: from Iran were reported by the United Arab Emirates today.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: I actually just got off the phone with him. I
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: was calling about the attacks on the UAE and asking
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: if this was a mean, is the ceasefire over, basically.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: And I thought it was interesting.
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: His entire tone was one to, you know, kind of
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: not overreact. He said this was not heavy firing. I
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: don't know if the UAE would agree with that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: All this on the first day of Project Freedom, an
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: effort from the Trump administration to have the U.S. military
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz. More on that
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: from ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce.
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: The president posting, we will guide their ships safely out
• 36:09
  Speaker 10: of these restricted waterways so that they can freely and
• 36:12
  Speaker 10: ably get on with their business. Adding, I am fully
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: aware that my representatives are having very positive discussions with
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: the country of Iran, despite later claiming Iran's latest proposal
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: is not acceptable.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: The Supreme Court has restored access to Mifepristone for the
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: time being. A decision last week from a lower court
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: in Louisiana looked to limit how that abortion pill was
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: distributed by mail. Now it will remain available by mail
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: while the court weighs its next move. Week two of
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the case pitting Tesla CEO Elon Musk against OpenAI head
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Sam Altman. Musk is suing Altman. after OpenAI dropped its
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: nonprofit status last year. Today, jurors are hearing from OpenAI
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: executive Greg Brockman.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: Brockman is going to testify. There are already exhibits in
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: evidence that indicate that Mr. Musk himself was one of
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: those who had some skepticism early on as to whether
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: or not the nonprofit structure would really work, and that
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  Speaker 7: he only then, when he didn't get his way in
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  Speaker 7: terms of ownership of a for-profit entity, then he left.
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