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Wednesday 6pm hour 04/29/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: All right, we're back at it. News Radio 570, Dodie
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  Speaker 1: Kivian and Ron Furman. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, how you doing, Ron?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene is airing right now
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  Speaker 2: on the Tucker Carlson Network.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But you have to be a member to watch it
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  Speaker 2: live now. I'm a member, but I'm going to watch
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  Speaker 2: it later. That's where I get all the majority of
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  Speaker 2: my information. I don't know if you caught the Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: Sachs interview with Tucker Carlson.
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  Speaker 1: I saw parts of it, but I did not catch
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  Speaker 1: it all. What did you learn, and who is Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Sachs for our audience?
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Sachs is one of the most... He's like a
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  Speaker 2: G2 on steroids. I mean, he's a Harvard professor, but
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  Speaker 2: he's in foreign policy, and he advises over 100 countries
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  Speaker 2: on intelligence and strategies, and... Fascinating guy, but he pointed
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  Speaker 2: out a lot of Trump's mistakes and sort of like
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  Speaker 2: Joe Kent. But Jeffrey Sachs, and then another interview with
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  Speaker 2: John Kirikou was the recent interview. He was a CIA whistleblower,
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  Speaker 2: and he was even more fascinating than Jeffrey Sachs. He
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  Speaker 2: said Iran was never our problem. And real quick, getting
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  Speaker 2: back to that one guy that said Iran wants to
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  Speaker 2: kill all the Christians, the only people killing Christians right
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  Speaker 2: now in the Middle East are the Jewish people. They've
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  Speaker 2: killed over 2,000 Christians in Lebanon. Probably 300 of those
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  Speaker 2: were children. And what the Lebanese people fear the most
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  Speaker 2: from the Israelis, not so much the tanks, but the bulldozers.
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  Speaker 2: the israelis bring in bulldozers and level entire cities they
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  Speaker 2: just it's just you know it's like uh... i've got
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  Speaker 2: it too and it's did orders on war crimes and
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  Speaker 2: i think that's what marjorie taylor green is going to
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  Speaker 2: be speaking about tonight and uh... i'll watch that later
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  Speaker 2: but and look at look at the price of gas
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  Speaker 2: right now i was going to call the other day
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  Speaker 2: i said you know gas is going to get five
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  Speaker 2: dollars very soon Yeah, I was right. I said it's
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  Speaker 2: going to go even higher because even if they do
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  Speaker 2: manage to reopen the Strait with all the damage to
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  Speaker 2: the infrastructure, it's going to take four to five to
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  Speaker 2: six months to get things back down to where they were.
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  Speaker 2: But what bothers me, and boy, I'd like to sit
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  Speaker 2: down and have a beer with G2 and have a discussion,
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  Speaker 2: that I watched Trump today in the Oval Office with
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  Speaker 2: the astronauts. And he seems to have met all of
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  Speaker 2: Israel's priorities. You know, we sunk their navy, we did this,
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  Speaker 2: we did that. But it's not America first. It's not
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  Speaker 2: in my interest or your interest. It's not helping our country.
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  Speaker 2: Why do we have, and G2 would probably answer this,
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  Speaker 2: why is AIPAC running our government, the Jewish lobby? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they control all of our politicians. And the ones that
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  Speaker 2: they don't control..
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  Speaker 3: Uh..
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  Speaker 2: Nasty in march retail or green they destroy i mean
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  Speaker 2: they destroy them you'll never hear from marjorie taylor well
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  Speaker 2: you will on talker show in different shows but i
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  Speaker 2: mean as far as being a politician she was a
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  Speaker 2: damn good congresswoman but she has been eliminated in mass
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  Speaker 2: he's been neutralized.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think any either one of those two contributions
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  Speaker 1: from that uh... What was the name of that lobbying group?
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  Speaker 2: AIPAC.
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  Speaker 1: AIPAC, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A-I-P-A-C-K. It's the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't believe Marjorie Tedder Green or Massey take
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  Speaker 1: money from them. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. They came into being under President Lyndon Johnson, AIPAC.
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  Speaker 2: And the biggest thing that Johnson made a mistake, they
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  Speaker 2: were never required to register as a foreign lobbyist. That's
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  Speaker 2: what they are. They're Israelis, our lobbying branch. but they're
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  Speaker 2: not registered. I mean, they have... And they own every politician.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to think that... I wonder if Michael Rooley's
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  Speaker 2: come in contact with them yet. They go after all
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  Speaker 2: the new young congressmen that come in. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: shame that... And John Kirikou, he's a former CIA whistleblower.
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  Speaker 2: He was the guy that... It exposed waterboarding and the
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  Speaker 2: other mistakes that we were doing during the Iraq War.
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  Speaker 2: But he was really good. He said that our priorities...
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  Speaker 2: The biggest threat is not Iran. He said Trump was
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  Speaker 2: lied to, first of all, by... If you watch Tucker,
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  Speaker 2: the BB files, that's the premium thing, too. You have
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  Speaker 2: to pay to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: But..
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  Speaker 2: BB fed Trump all the intelligence that went against our CIA.
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  Speaker 2: I know in the past Trump mistrusted the CIA because
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  Speaker 2: of what they did for him, but he was getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good information on Iran. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have a bomb. The biggest threat to this
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  Speaker 2: country is not Iran. It's the drug cartels. And Trump
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  Speaker 2: was going after them, and he sort of took his
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  Speaker 2: foot off the gas for some reason. the fentanyl epidemic
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  Speaker 2: that's killing our country. And if you look back at
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  Speaker 2: Afghanistan and the Afghanistan war, do you know how much
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  Speaker 2: drugs are produced right now in Afghanistan? How many heroin
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  Speaker 2: or opium? I think it's heroin.
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  Speaker 3: Zero.
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  Speaker 2: Under the Taliban. They're farmers again. They're not producing that.
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  Speaker 2: When we were in charge, we had the Taliban... when
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  Speaker 2: we were funding them under our reagan and going back
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  Speaker 2: the last thirty forty years we were we were funding
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  Speaker 2: the uh... growth of drugs because they were selling those
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  Speaker 2: drugs to russia in destroying russia and now it does
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  Speaker 2: those you know The problem we're having is the Chinese
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  Speaker 2: are doing the same thing to us with fentanyl.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but back up a second. I mean, Trump was
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  Speaker 1: attacking that problem, and I got to believe he's still
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  Speaker 1: trying to deal with that, taking out the drug boats
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  Speaker 1: that are coming in. going after things at the border.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think as president you only do one thing
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  Speaker 1: and forget to focus on the other stuff. I think
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  Speaker 1: that when you like to believe that's taking care of
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  Speaker 1: itself and still being dealt with by..
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I know you can do more.
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  Speaker 1: Right. I mean, and I just want to correct you
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  Speaker 1: on something. My disappointment with Marjorie Taylor Greene is she quit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she did not have to quit. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if..
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  Speaker 2: She was destroyed. She knew she couldn't continue. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't win another election. You know, when Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you crossed..
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  Speaker 1: But how is that right? Marjorie Taylor Greene was one
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's biggest supporters in the very beginning and had
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  Speaker 1: been that all along. Just because she disagrees with him
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  Speaker 1: on the Epstein files... and I don't know if she
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  Speaker 1: disagreed with him on the Iran war, but just because
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  Speaker 1: she disagrees with him on the Epstein files doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: her an evil person. I mean, this is my problem,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I could say, if I had to look
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  Speaker 1: at Trump and say, this is my problem I have
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  Speaker 1: with Trump is, if you think that people that help
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  Speaker 1: you get elected, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and you
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  Speaker 1: suddenly say, well, they disagree with me on the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: or they disagree with me on Iran, that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk that they're all low IQ and a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of bums after they help you get elected, after they
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  Speaker 1: were all, after you thought of them so much that
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  Speaker 1: you put them on stage with you? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a big character flaw with Trump. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a..
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  Speaker 2: At the Covelli Center when she made that ring around
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  Speaker 2: waving at everyone, the people loved her. She was respected.
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  Speaker 2: Her problem was not just the Epstein files. She wanted
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  Speaker 2: Trump to go after America first. She wanted Trump to
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  Speaker 2: go after Fauci, which he didn't do. That's still a
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  Speaker 2: big problem.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I would agree with that while you got me
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  Speaker 1: on it. It's really stupid, in my opinion, to go
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  Speaker 1: what they're trying to do with Comey with this shells
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  Speaker 1: of what, 86, 47. I mean, this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, no, if you listen.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. I mean, if you want to go, I'm
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  Speaker 1: all for going after Fauci and funding the lab. and
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  Speaker 1: the cover-up with COVID, I have no problem with that
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  Speaker 1: at all. I don't have any problem if you want
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  Speaker 1: to go after any of these FBI guys on this
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  Speaker 1: facade of Russiagate. in this nonsense, but by taking a
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  Speaker 1: picture of 86-47 that he says he stumbled upon on
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  Speaker 1: a beach and say, oh, we're going to go after
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  Speaker 1: him because it's a threat. I just think it's a
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  Speaker 1: giant waste of time. I cannot justify it. Listen, Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Kimmel tells a bad joke, and I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what Jimmy Kimmel has to say. If
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  Speaker 1: ABC wants to continue to air the show and lose money,
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  Speaker 1: it's their prerogative to I get concerned when we're suddenly
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  Speaker 1: going to start to say, well, we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: after hate speech or speech we don't approve of. Because
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  Speaker 1: when Biden did it, I didn't agree with it then either.
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  Speaker 1: When Biden was shutting down people who disagreed with him,
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  Speaker 1: the scientists that were totally opposed to him on COVID
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  Speaker 1: and silencing them on social media, I didn't go for that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go for it if Trump tries
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  Speaker 1: to do it, too. I don't care about Jimmy Kimmel's
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  Speaker 1: stupid joke. And I think his rating sucks. So if
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  Speaker 1: he goes away, he goes away. If he doesn't, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't affect me. I don't care. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: with Comey, I think, is a giant waste of time.
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  Speaker 1: There are other more important issues to deal with other
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  Speaker 1: than a picture he posts of a bunch of C cells.
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  Speaker 3: Period.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a waste of time. And it seems petty
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  Speaker 1: to me, just as I'm saying to you, I voted
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  Speaker 1: for Trump. I'd vote for him again tomorrow. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: vote for the Democrats at all. They're insane as far
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  Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. But that doesn't mean I can't sit
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  Speaker 1: here and criticize Trump as well. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: embrace $ 4. 30 a gallon or $ 4. 99 a gallon. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to embrace it. I'm not going to go for it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you talk about Iran, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it was this imminent threat either. Many people say he
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  Speaker 1: was influenced by Israel to do this. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you got the people all he was talking about this
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  Speaker 1: years ago. But why did he act now? Why did
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  Speaker 1: he do it now? Was it a good move? How
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  Speaker 1: are you going to get out of this? Because it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like as much as you bombed Iran that
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  Speaker 1: they're throwing a towel in yet. You got the blockade
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  Speaker 1: and you keep telling me every day that we're draining
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  Speaker 1: them of everything. Well, when's this going to happen?
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  Speaker 2: Real quick, one quick rebuttal. Todd Blanche came out today
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  Speaker 2: and addressed your point on Comey about the silly pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: And he said that people, you have to be aware
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  Speaker 2: that a grand jury indicted him. The grand jury..
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that means nothing. You know, when you go
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  Speaker 1: in front of a grand jury, there isn't a defense.
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  Speaker 2: They have a ton of evidence of wrongdoing by Comey
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  Speaker 2: outside of that pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what you're going for? Yeah, but I mean...
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  Speaker 1: It seems petty to me. It genuinely seems ridiculous to me.
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  Speaker 1: Go after where I want all of the cases on
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  Speaker 1: the Somalians stealing all the money in Minnesota or whatever's
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  Speaker 1: going on in Ohio or all the fraud that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: That'll never happen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is stuff that's important to me. What's important
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  Speaker 1: to me, what Elon Musk was exposing of all the
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  Speaker 1: waste of my tax dollars that was being exposed through Doge,
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  Speaker 1: that's what's important to me. Where's that? All these people
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  Speaker 1: that are committing fraud, I would want to see them
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  Speaker 1: go after that. The people that did Russiagate and put
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  Speaker 1: that together. Fauci and the COVID situation. This is the
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  Speaker 1: stuff I'm interested in. I don't give a damn about
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  Speaker 1: Comey in a picture of seashells or whatever the hell.
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time with it. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: It looks petty. It looks petty to me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care about Jimmy Kimmel. And that's all. I think it
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  Speaker 1: waters down the important stuff. Where's the beef, as they
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  Speaker 1: used to say years ago? That's what I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 2: The clock on Fauci runs out on May 11th. If
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  Speaker 2: they don't indict him by May 11th, he's off scot-free.
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  Speaker 1: And Trump, listen, I'm not happy with the gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: And Trump turning on Margie Taylor Greene and Tucker and
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  Speaker 1: Candace Owens. There's nothing about it I like at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just gas prices. Wait till you see your
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  Speaker 2: food prices.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: And look at all the businesses that were on the
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  Speaker 2: news tonight, these guys running landscaping businesses.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to raise your prices, yeah. And that affects
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  Speaker 1: every customer.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to trickle down to everything.
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  Speaker 1: You got it. Absolutely right. All right. Thank you, my friends.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ron. Question. And this is a business question. So
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  Speaker 3: all these landscaping guys, are they going to raise their
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  Speaker 3: prices or are they just going to put on a
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  Speaker 3: fuel surcharge?
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  Speaker 1: They're going to raise their prices.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So when gas goes down in six months from
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  Speaker 3: now or next summer, let's say gas is back down
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  Speaker 3: to $ 3 a gallon, are they going to lower their prices?
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  Speaker 1: More than likely they're not because the problem that you
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  Speaker 1: have is that business has is how much insurance has
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  Speaker 1: gone up, double digit increases on insurance. The cost of equipment,
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  Speaker 1: the cost of parts, the cost of repairs, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just gasoline, but gasoline is a major factor of all
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff. But it certainly is a huge problem
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  Speaker 1: right now for everybody. You're garbage, man. If diesel's, what,
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  Speaker 1: $ 6 a gallon? Listen, I'm not going to act like
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  Speaker 1: that this isn't a big problem for everybody and everybody's
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  Speaker 1: going to pay more. All of us are going to
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  Speaker 1: pay at the grocery store or whatever. Can prices come down?
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  Speaker 1: They can. But do they come down quickly? More than
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  Speaker 1: likely not. I mean, inflation is– I'm not a Trump
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  Speaker 1: cheerleader on this. This is– if gas is $ 4. 69 or
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  Speaker 1: $ 5 a gallon, then what's shortly? Are we supposed to
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  Speaker 1: say it's okay if it's a month like that or
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  Speaker 1: two weeks like that?
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  Speaker 3: But the point I'm trying to make is once you
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  Speaker 3: raise a price, if you're a business person, and once
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  Speaker 3: you raise a price, the chance that you're ever going
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  Speaker 3: to decrease that price, even if your costs decrease. you're
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  Speaker 3: probably not going to decrease that price as long as
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  Speaker 3: people are still willing to pay it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's still competition. I mean, if you take a look,
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  Speaker 1: home prices have decreased in large parts of the country
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  Speaker 1: from where they were. I mean, prices do come down.
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  Speaker 1: The price of lumber can come down. The price of
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  Speaker 1: homes can come down. The price of services can come
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  Speaker 1: down because there's still competition.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but it increased substantially, though. I mean, home prices.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, houses in my neighborhood are selling double what
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  Speaker 3: they were 10 years ago. And the three that have
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  Speaker 3: just sold recently are all selling at record high prices.
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  Speaker 3: So it's possible they've come down maybe 5% due to
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  Speaker 3: the loss of demand. But they haven't retracted the 30%, 40%, 50%, 80%
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  Speaker 3: gains that they made over the last decade.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't necessarily think they're going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And your wages haven't gone down. 30%, 40%. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you don't... We're not going to go to the person
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  Speaker 1: on minimum wage that we're paying. Stand by, Rich. Stand by.
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  Speaker 1: Back with Rich, the pharmacist, and more of your calls.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb, we're here until 7. Always interesting talking to Rich.
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  Speaker 1: Look forward to more conversation with him in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. All right. Listen, this thing has got to
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  Speaker 1: get wrapped up in Iran. And... We shall see. It's
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  Speaker 1: just got to get wrapped up. And he's Trump's got
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  Speaker 1: to get back to affordability and the price of a
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  Speaker 1: barrel of oil. It's not getting better. It's getting worse.
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  Speaker 3: I hope it does get wrapped up. I just think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to take another at least another month or two.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think it's going to take that long for
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  Speaker 3: Iran's economy to just basically run out of money and collapse.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they could also be doing that to our economy
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  Speaker 1: at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: You have to remember, if we catch a cold, the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the world has pneumonia. We're as good as
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  Speaker 3: it gets. I mean, as bad as it is here.
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  Speaker 1: I understand all of that, but I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: deal with reality. Remember, Iran, they're not stupid. They think
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  Speaker 1: they can destroy this economy, too.
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  Speaker 3: But they can't. This is not going to destroy our
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  Speaker 3: economy in no way, shape, or form. Is this going
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  Speaker 3: to destroy our economy? I don't even know that this
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  Speaker 3: is necessarily going to put us into a recession. Because
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  Speaker 3: Wall Street, if it was, Wall Street is forward-looking. The
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  Speaker 3: markets are forward-looking.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're all down today.
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  Speaker 3: But you can't look at it day-to-day. My neighbor is
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  Speaker 3: the same way as you. He keeps telling me, we're
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  Speaker 3: looking at day-to-day. If you're an economist, you don't manage
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  Speaker 3: the economy on a day-to-day basis. You have to be forward-looking.
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  Speaker 3: Same way for business. You run a business. You're not
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  Speaker 3: running your business day-to-day. You're forward-looking. You're looking at where
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  Speaker 3: things are going.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you better be paying attention day-to-day. I mean, it
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: says right here, Dow slides more than 250 points, posting
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a fifth day of losses as oil prices rise.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: And it did, but the NASDAQ was up. And I
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: think the S & P was up. And irregardless, there's
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: still a close to record highs. Based on everything that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: happened in the last two months... they should have retracted
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: probably 10 to 20% by now. We should have had
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: some type of a big correction. And while we had
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: a minor one and bounced back from it, we haven't
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: seen that. And I don't anticipate that you'll see a 20%
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: correction or a 30% correction. It's not going to be
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: like 2000. You're not going to see 2000. This is
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: not going to cause 2008. You're not going to see
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: us drop, you know, have a 40, 60% drop in
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the value of equities. This, too, shall pass. But that
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: isn't actually why I called. I'd like to go even
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: back to local issues and ask you what you thought
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: of Mark Hanna repeating his father's feat of creating a
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: drive-thru at an establishment.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: That didn't have one. Listen, I think that, obviously, his dad,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: as he was driving to the post office years ago,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and I think Mark wasn't drunk or anything like that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: They want to imply something when he ran into an
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Arby's somewhere. What do I think about it?
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I thought it was hysterical.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Right, but I mean, it's... I don't know what to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: say about any of this stuff other than I think
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous to make the comparison. It might be funny,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: but I don't think it has anything to do with
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the election. I was just looking, you know, the people
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: that put these texts out, these political parties that put
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it out.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I was listening to your podcast the other day, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: it's ridiculous that they would even say that. I mean,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I'm not voting for Hannah. I think I'm not a
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: big fan. I think his opponent.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Is more qualified. This is a text they put out today.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I'll let you finish in a minute. Judge Hanai really
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: does follow his Democrat father's footsteps. Judge Mark Hanai crashed
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: into the Bridgeport Arby's, leaving shattered windows at the restaurant
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and caused damage to the building's interior and exterior. Judge
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Hanai wasn't even charged with a traffic citation. Is this
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: because he was endorsed by the Belmont Sheriff? The bottom
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: line is that Judge Mark Hanai is reckless behind a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: wheel and behind a bench. That's just ridiculous. And I mean,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: he thought, once again, he's one of these people who
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: thought he had it in park and he didn't, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: he hit the gas instead of the brake. I don't
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: know what to say about that statement. Some of the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: newer cars are different than the ones I drive. You know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I have this thing on the steering column front or,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you know, park and all that kind of stuff. But
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: on my wife's car, it's different on the new cars.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: In some of the cars, it's all push buttons.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: If you're driving an older car that's 10 years older,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: so you don't even know what we're talking about probably. Right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I understand it can get confusing. And what
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: was he in a Cadillac? escalate or something like that.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the people that are putting out
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that stuff, like the thing I read the other day about, standby, standby.
• 22:01
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• 22:04
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• 22:06
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• 22:19
  Speaker 1: with Rich, a pharmacist. I mean, I want to just
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. I mean, you obviously support
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the situation with Iran. You think it was the right move, correct?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I think historically it will prove to be the right move.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: And I could be wrong. I'm not a soothsayer by
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: any stretch. I can't predict the future. But just looking
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: at things from a historical perspective, which I like to do,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I think it was the right move. I think Clinton
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: could have done it against North Korea in the 90s.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: He was told you probably should do it, and he
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: wouldn't pull the trigger. And now you're dealing with those
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: nutjobs that have nukes. And Iran was headed there. Was
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: it an imminent threat?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: No.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Were they going to have a nuclear bomb targeted the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: United States five months from now? No. Were they probably
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: five or six years from now?
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: They would have had the missile technology and the nuclear
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: capability to hit us.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Do you think Israel influenced the decision at all?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Of course they did. Because what country wouldn't? If you
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: were Israel, wouldn't you try to influence us into doing it?
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Because you've got a country that you've lived with next
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: to basically since the Shawville 50-some years ago that has
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: basically said they want to wipe Israel off the map.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: They want to nuke Israel. They want to kill all
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: the Jews. So if you're Israel, of course you tried
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: to influence us into the war. It would almost be
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: political malpractice if you didn't.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And do you think they perhaps went to Trump and said, hey,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: all these leaders are in one place at this particular time,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: we can wipe them all out, and that's why you acted?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. It was 100% the Mossad that did that.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: And Netanyahu knew they were going to be there, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: they did it. In my opinion, it was brilliant. You'd
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: knocked out, what was it, 40 or almost 50 of
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: the main people in Iran's leadership. You killed all of them.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: It's too bad you couldn't have killed every single one
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: of them. But you can't. I mean, I think, unfortunately,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: we're not a patient people. If you want to look
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: at it, if you want to look at history, do
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: you know who caused Japan or what caused Japan to
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: bomb us? Whose fault it was. Why did Japan attack
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: us at Pearl Harbor? Who was responsible for that? We were.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: We stopped selling them oil because of what they were
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: doing to China. The rape of Nanking, the war they
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: were fighting in China, they were committing god-awful human atrocities,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: so we stopped selling them oil. At the time, we
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: were the world's biggest supplier of oil, and they didn't
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: really have another source. So they were going to run
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: out of oil within a matter of, I think it
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: was a year or two. So they basically, we backed
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: them into a corner where they pretty much didn't have
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: a choice. It was either attack us or get out
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: of China, which they weren't willing to do. So they
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: attacked us, and that's what started World War II.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: You do things, you.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Make decisions as a country. Geopolitics is... You're playing chess
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: on many levels when you're doing geopolitics. It's not a
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: simple yes or no on many of these issues. There
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: are a variety of things you can do that result
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: in a variety of outcomes. Maybe this was the wrong outcome.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I could be totally wrong, and this could end up
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: costing us a fortune. But so far, it's cost us
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: $ 25 billion, I think. We left $ 85 billion worth of
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: equipment in Afghanistan in that debacle.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you really come up with a
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: figure yet, or if anybody can accurately do that based
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: on the amount of... When you're launching those missiles off
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and everything, they're a million-plus dollars, and then you have
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to replace them. I mean, there's a lot of money
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: being spent there. I'm not talking about the salaries that
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: are paid on a regular basis or any of that
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, but I'm sure there's a lot of expense.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we know what that number is,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: but it isn't about the number.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: It's about Congress.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: It is about it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It was testifying today. That's what the Pentagon bean counter said.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: As of right now, the estimate is $ 25 billion that
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: this war has cost us so far. Yeah.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: You know how reliable those numbers are.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: It's like they throw billions around like it's pocket change.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: But I mean, the question is, was it the right
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: thing to do or wasn't it the right thing to do?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's really the question. You seem to think
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do. We don't know. Well,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you're speculation. I'm saying you seem to think it's the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: right thing to do. But it can't drag on. You
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: say we're an impatient people. But the country as a
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: whole doesn't seem like it supports it. isn't behind the move.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And that's very troubling because if it does escalate and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the country's not behind you, you've got a big problem
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: as far as the people in power because..
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Well, ask LBJ how that worked out for him.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Right. And the negative side of it is how it's,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the distance it is from the supplies, if you will,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the distance away that Iran is. Once again, we're trying
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to deal with a country that's like a Vietnam scenario
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: all over, like an Afghan or take a look at
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the Middle East in general scenario all over again. We
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: haven't been very successful with fighting people in their own
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: When they're defending their own land, if you will, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: we are not. Do I think Trump's got him in
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a good place? Yeah, with the bombing and with the blockade,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I do think he's got him in a good place.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: How long will that take? I don't know enough about
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: them and their culture. If he's got them in a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: good place, will they throw in the white flag this week,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: next week, a month from now, or never? I don't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: know what the answer to that is. I hope he's right.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: All of these people are a lot smarter than I
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: am on this, and they have a lot more information.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I would like to see it get resolved quickly.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Like I've said, what I don't understand is why they
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: aren't at least looking at temporarily restricting U.S. exports of
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: oil products. Because up until, I think it was 2016,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: when Paul Ryan made the deal with Obama, it was
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: illegal to export oil-based products from the United States. So
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: if we went back to that, our gas prices would
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: be back where they were within weeks, because we have
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: plenty of oil in this country. There's no reason, except
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: that we compete in a world market, there's no reason
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: at all we should be paying this. So I would just,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: you know, see if you should put a bill in
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Congress and just say, hey, until this is over, we're
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: going to restrict exports of hydrocarbons from the United States
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: of America. Let the rest of the world suffer, because
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: they won't come to our aid. I mean, If nothing
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: else comes from this, and I've said this, I think
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: after this is over, it's time to really reassess our
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: priorities as a country and think about what we're going
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: to do with the world. Because I'm done playing World Cop,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: especially after this. I don't understand, 80 years after World
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: War II, why we still have 100,000 troops in Europe,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: 50,000 troops, 80,000 in Japan, 50,000 in the Koreas. It's crazy.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: for us and for us to put that bill we
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: do it and not be appreciated market helped out when
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: we need the help Europe needs that oil. We don't
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: need Middle East oil. Europe does. And yet they won't
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: send anybody to help unblock the strait. You know, so
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: when this is over, as far as I'm concerned, bring
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: all the troops home, build Fortress America, put them on
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: the southern border, the northern border, wherever you want to
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: do with them, and let the rest of the world
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: figure it out for themselves.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I..
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: I think I heard a thing. Go ahead. The Ukraine War.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: I think I was listening to the two on in
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: the morning, Armstrong and Getty. Yes. And they quoted a guy,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I think it was a Polish prime minister or something,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: that basically said, why is Europe, a country of, I
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: think they said 500 or 600 million people, bullying a
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: country of 300, 350 million people, the United States, to
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: win a war against a country of 160 million people,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: which is Russia? And it's a great way to look
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: at it. Why does everybody expect us to go help
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: out Ukraine? And I mean, I've supported that. I don't
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: mind selling them weapons and stuff like that, but I
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: don't want to see a single boot on the ground.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: But why does Europe expect us to come ride to
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: the rescue all the time and spend our money, put
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: our boys' lives at risk, to bail them out all
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: the time? I'm just done with it. We did it
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: twice in the last century. cost hundreds of thousands of
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: American lives, and they still don't like us. So the
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: heck with them. Just bring everybody home.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I certainly, listen, it's a debate worth having. I mean,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I understand the people that are opposed to this happening
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in the first place in Iran, and I understand the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: people that are for it. And I get both sides
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of it. And I don't know where this will head.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And I do think I get the impression, at least,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that Trump and he's the power structure thinks that this
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: would be over sooner than later. And perhaps even thought
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: it would be over sooner that it's dragged down longer
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: than he originally thought. Sometimes I get the impression that they,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: that they thought this would have been over long before
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: we're even at the point we're at now. So, I mean,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: when I look at what they did from a bombing campaign,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: it all is very successful. When I look at the blockade,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: it's very successful. Will it bring Iran to its knees
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to where that this will be resolved? Uh, Or will
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Iran say, screw you, we're not giving in to you,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and we'll destroy your economy as you destroy ours? It
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: could go either way. Would you not agree? They can't
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: destroy our economy.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: They do not have the ability in any way, shape,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: or form, aside from somehow attacking us with a nuclear weapon.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about any nuclear weapon. I'm talking about
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the oil markets and ultimately what can happen and the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: relationships you can have with the countries that will... suffer tremendously.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, as far as food, there's other aspects of this.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: There's fertilizer, there's oil, there's food issues that are in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: some of these other countries.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Once again, the geopolitics, this isn't just us versus Iran.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: This is us. You know who's really going to hurt
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: from this? They've built up a heck of a reserve,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: but it gives China food for thought because if they
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: want to take Taiwan, we can shut off all of
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: their oil imports. We can shut off. We can block
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz. You know who can't? The Chinese.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I disagree with you. I don't buy this, that
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: we're isolated from all of this stuff. The only good
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: news I heard was Saudi Arabia says they want out
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: of OPEC. That's the only good news I've heard lately,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: because OPEC is..
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: The UAE went out.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. Not Saudi Arabia. It's the UAE.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: They went out because they got a pipeline for 2
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: million barrels. And they say they want to pump more
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: than be restricted by OPEC and what they want to do. Well,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I'm all for that. That's the only good sign that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I've seen.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: And you're going to see other countries that I was
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: reading today. I read a lot of the Wall Street
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Journal in the morning when I wake up. And you're
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: going to see a lot of countries... Saudi Arabia and
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the UAE have a pipeline over to the Red Sea,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: so they're still exporting. Saudi's doing, I think, 8 million
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: a day. I forget what the UAE is. It's 2
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: or 4 million barrels a day. They're able to still
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: pump out through the Red Sea. But you're going to
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: see a lot of these countries. I think Iraq is
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: looking at it. Some of the other countries are doing
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: a pipeline through, like, Syria, Turkey, and up into Europe
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: that way. because they don't want to be held hostage
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: in the future. You know, it only takes a, you know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: if something happens to you once and you don't learn
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: from it, shame on you. And I think you're going
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: to see a lot of these countries look at de-risking
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: from the Strait of Hormuz. They don't want to be
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: held hostage there. The other one is the strait that
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: opens the Red Sea, because if you remember, the Houthis
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: blocked all that transit through the Red Sea through the
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Suez Canal for the last two years. And people are
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: going around there, you know, causing a lot of havoc.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: So it's going to change things, but it's unpredictable what's
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: going to happen. Obviously, I just think in the end,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I think this will prove to be in our best
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: interest that we've done this. But I could be wrong.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: And if I'm wrong, I'll be the first person to
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: admit I'm wrong. The only other thing I would say
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: is you had three callers. I think you had Frank,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: you had Denise, and then the last guy that called.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I forget who that is. But a couple weeks ago
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I told you the rise of anti-Semitism in the Republican Party,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: and you said, no, you didn't mean the Democrat Party. No,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: I mean the Republican Party. That's one of the most
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: disturbing things for me, is all these people blame Israel,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Israel this, Israel that. Number one, I don't think they
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: have that kind of control over our economy and the world.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Well, many people do.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: They're going to privatize the state of Ohio.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Oh, yeah, that is absolutely ridiculous. But their
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: lobby group is extremely powerful in Washington, D.C. It is.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I don't think the people are expressing concern over that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're a bunch of dummies. I think
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that they're just expressing concern over the power, how much
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: power that lobbyist group has on our policies. And that's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of concern. I've just got another email from somebody. New
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: in Raccoon Road, Shell Station now at $ 5 a gallon.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if it does, I mean, over the next month,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: if this isn't another month from now, you're going to
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: be at $ 6, $ 7 a gallon. And, I mean, at
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: that point, you will probably start to tip into recession
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: because there's so much energy related to the economy. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: don't know that they're going to be able to... If
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: you were dealing with a rational government or rational people,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: and I ran this would be over. But you're not.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: You're dealing with a bunch of religious nutjobs. And it's
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: just going to be how long it takes them to
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: figure out they have to cry uncle and give in
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: to the demands, some of the things they don't want
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Or they might never.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I think if they just gave up the nuclear program,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Trump would sign tomorrow. So stop and think, how important
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: is it to you that you're willing to destroy your
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: country just so you can keep enriching uranium. But it
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: was for peaceful purposes, of course.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: We shall see. Iran keeps saying the same thing. We
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: could destroy America's economy, and if you get to $ 5,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: $ 6 a gallon gas, you'll destroy it. You will severely
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: set it back, and inflation will rear its ugly head
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: like you've never seen before. And the golden age is
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: a bunch of golden crap at that point. And don't
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: discount an enemy and what they can do to you.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: The bigger problem than inflation, in all honesty, is the
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: fact that wages have not kept up with it.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Inflation is a huge problem. Wages aren't going to keep you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: If you want to raise wages, then it only adds
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: more to inflation.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: It has been, but if you look at the buying
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: power of the middle-class consumer the last 30 years, inflation
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: has eaten away at that buying power.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I totally agree, but these type of moves can
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: change it dramatically. I mean, I get all the Trump
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: apologists with all due respect. Ron, you know, just because
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: they hear it in the newscast on the hour. You
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: understand it's these increases where they're shifting the summer blend.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: When I read this kind of stuff, gas price up
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: because gas companies are making this summer blend of gas.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. Because it didn't go up 70 cents
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: when they go to the summer blend in the past.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: In other words, listen, there are Trump apologists that want
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to say, no, none of this is his fault. It's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: because it went to the summer blend. That's why it
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: went up to $ 5 a gallon. No, the price of
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a barrel of oil went up today. If you read CNBC,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you'll see why gas prices are going up. They didn't
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: go up almost a buck a gallon because of the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: summer blend. Otherwise, you could go in the past and say, look,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: they did it when they did the summer blend. Every
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: summer it's gone up like that.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you two suggestions since it's almost
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: 7 o'clock. One, if you could get Dane Davis on
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: to discuss it, I think his take on it would
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: be very interesting. And two, about oil, see what Paul
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Wyden or his son think about it. I think it
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: would be very interesting to get their take on where
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: all this is.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I thought this was a good email a guy sent.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: He wants me to read it to you. Well, we're
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: all standing in a breadline. We won't have to worry
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: about a nuclear attack by Iran. There you go.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: We're not going to be standing in a breadline. We're
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: not going into a depression.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: It's not going to happen.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, not over this.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Diesel used in ships, locomotives, tractor trailers. Diesel is used
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: in farming. All this should show up as higher shipping
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: and higher food prices. Just think about those things.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: We should have all bought an EV, right?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe so.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: There you go, Rich. Keep in the faith. NewsRadio 570, WKBN.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: And Ron Verb, I mean, so when my buddy sent
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: me that picture, he said all the speedways in Sandusky
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: are at five bucks a gallon. Now a woman sends
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: me a picture that's a Shell station on new and
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: raccoon roads at $ 5 a gallon. So from four 30
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: to five bucks a gallon in a blink of an eye. Well,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: is that because they went the summer blend run? I mean,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that's just Trump apologist. And, and listen, you gotta, you
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: gotta call it balls and strikes. You gotta call it fairly.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Otherwise you're no different than Biden supporters who made excuses
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: for everything that went bad with Biden. I'm not here
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to make excuses for Trump. I dislike the fact that
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he attacks Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: They've got a right to disagree with him on some
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: issues and still be a supporter, and I don't really
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: care for that. I'll be back.
• 40:28
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• 40:33
  Speaker 1: And Ron Ferb, you're on the air.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: Ron.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Hey, how are you?
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Comment, please. I'm all ears.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: I've got a question for you after listening to Rich
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: for this, I don't know, forever. Is the America First
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: agenda winning?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Not right now.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: Exactly. And that's going to be the downfall. I don't
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: care if it's better here than anywhere else. I don't
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: want to be king poop of crap mountain. You know
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: what I mean? To keep that on the Do not
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: to beat me out. But it seems like these other
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: people will satisfy, they're satisfied with that. It's just a
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: huge problem. Now, the other thing that, and you, you know,
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: he was talking, Rich was talking about, you know, the,
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: I guess the price of landscaping. Well, don't, isn't there a,
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: obviously he doesn't understand the supply demand curve and what
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: competition does for that. You know, if they got to
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: raise prices now, I know prices are sticky, but when
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: the prices drop, if they ever do, for the inputs,
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: the landscapers won't be able to charge what they would
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: if they've got competition versus a monopoly. I mean, I'm
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: sure that you're really qualified in that area, right?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Listen, I don't care anything that's fuel-oriented. Think of your
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: garbage truck. Think of the Amazon vans. Think of the
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: UPS truck. Think of your groceries being delivered. I mean,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: when you're paying that for gas, the prices are going
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to go up. I mean, they're just going to go
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: up because they have to go up. Now, it's not
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: just gasoline. It's the inflation on everything. It's insurance, parts, repairs,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: all of that kind of stuff factor in. factor into that.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: And they don't come down unless all of that stuff
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: comes down and competition brings it down. This idea that
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: they go up, never come down is inaccurate because housing
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: prices have come down in large sections of this country.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: We saw lumber prices that were high come down. So
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: there's market fluctuations that do take place.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: And as long as we have competition, uh... you know
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: will be okay right it just it's just a matter
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: of you know the government and then this kind of
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: time i think frank was i don't know exactly what
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: he was talking about with you know the public uh...
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: sector being taken over by individuals but i the elites
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: have too much influence on the public sector you know
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: impacts the private sector and that's where we run into
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: trouble and that's you know just a definite uh... assault
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: on liberty and freedom And if we don't get back
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: to the America First agenda, we're done. I don't care
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: if it's okay with Rich to be paying, oh, by
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: the way, diesel $ 609 in Erie and $ 339 or $ 349
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: for regular. $ 339.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, five bucks up here. I agree with
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: your comments. Thank you, Mike. Stay tuned. Hannity's coming up next.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: From ABC News, I'm Dave Packer.
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: Gas prices now at their highest level in four years
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: fall out from the warning run. AAA's Aixa Diaz has
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: a gallon of gas now sells at $ 4.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: 23 on average.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: We've seen a 20 cent jump in gas prices in
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: the national average in just one week.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: And we're paying more than a dollar than we were
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: this time last year.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: And it has to do with crude oil prices.
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: Skyrocketing oil prices sending tremors through the bond market today.
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: And his last rate announcement as chairman, the Fed's Jerome
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: Powell says interest rates will stay where they are.
• 44:42
  Speaker 9: At today's meeting, the committee decided to maintain the target
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: range for the federal funds rate at three and a
• 44:46
  Speaker 9: half to three and three quarters percent. The economic outlook
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: remains highly uncertain, and the conflict in the Middle East
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: has added to this uncertainty.
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: Pete Hegseth on the Hill, the Defense Secretary making the
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: case for a massive $ 1.
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: 5 trillion Pentagon budget, a 50% increase.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: The $ 1.
• 45:04
  Speaker 10: 5 trillion FY27 budget put forward by the President will
• 45:08
  Speaker 10: build upon the historic $ 1 trillion FY26 top line and
• 45:14
  Speaker 10: continue to reverse the four years of underinvestment And.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: For the first time, Hexeth revealed the cost of the
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: war in Iran. So far, $ 25 billion. Right now, the
• 45:26
  Speaker 8: Apex North Carolina police evacuating a car wash due to
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: what they call public threats toward President Trump. They say
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: messages were found written on the back of a windshield
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: of a car. President Trump said he had a phone
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: call today with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: He called it a very good conversation.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: think he might do that. He might announce something having
• 45:47
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• 45:48
  Speaker 8: Police calling a stabbing on a London street an act
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: of terrorism. Metropolitan Police Chief Mark Rowley says two Jewish
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: men were injured.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: This is an attack on one community.
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  Speaker 9: An attack on one community is an attack on all
• 46:00
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• 46:01
  Speaker 8: Rowley says the suspect was arrested after trying to attack
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