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The Ron Verb Show - 3pm Hour Friday - 08/21/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN. And it's a
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  Speaker 1: good Friday to you. It's 3.05 in the afternoon. It's
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  Speaker 1: 83 degrees. It's Friday, August 21st already. Not that far
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  Speaker 1: from the Canfield Fair, which I would say if you're
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  Speaker 1: in my neck of the woods, gang, once you hit.
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  Speaker 2: The fair here in our neck of the woods, that's
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  Speaker 2: pretty much, well, how would you view it? It's the
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  Speaker 2: end of summer. Isn't that kind of the official marking point?
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  Speaker 2: in our community to say, okay, summer's behind us and
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  Speaker 2: fall is here. That's when you start to notice the
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  Speaker 2: days getting a lot shorter, right around Canfield Fair time.
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  Speaker 2: Just giving you some of the history of where we
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  Speaker 2: broadcast from right here at the Kingdom of Mahoning with
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  Speaker 2: one of the largest county fairs around. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: be coming up in not a handful of days, basically.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe two handfuls here of days and the Canfield Fair
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  Speaker 2: will be here and it's then fall will be here
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  Speaker 2: in shorter days.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it'll be the times of your life, to quote
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  Speaker 2: Paul Anka, if you remember him. 83 degrees, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll set that aside. I'll get to that shortly. Some
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  Speaker 2: things I want to mention to you. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, hi, Ron. How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you called. I want to ask you a question.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I want to pick your brain on some stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: can you give me some analysis? And I say this, folks,
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  Speaker 2: and you tell me if I'm allowed to or if
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  Speaker 2: I should stop. You were just … You're Joe Bagadonich.
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  Speaker 2: You're not a stock guy. You're not a certified financial
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  Speaker 2: guy or anything like that. But it's fair for me
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  Speaker 2: to say that I've spoken to you for years. Would
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  Speaker 2: you agree with that? And I've watched you make a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to the 90s, I believe, when I used
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  Speaker 3: to trade Chrysler stock.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And I said that was the big winner for me
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  Speaker 3: back in the 90s with Chrysler.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess my point is this, folks. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I've known this guy for a long, long
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  Speaker 2: time in talking to him. And I'm here to say,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, he's a really smart guy, all right?
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  Speaker 2: And just on how the financial world that he understands
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  Speaker 2: and what he's done on his own is just, to me,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: And I do mean remarkable. So would you give me
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  Speaker 4: some input?
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  Speaker 2: From an economic standpoint, I would like to ask you,
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  Speaker 2: I saw the other day this bailing out of Japan
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  Speaker 2: to prevent them from selling off. They have a trillion
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  Speaker 2: dollars in treasuries to prevent them from selling them off,
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  Speaker 2: which our country said would raise our interest rates or
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  Speaker 2: the interest rates would go up. So we bailed out Japan.
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  Speaker 2: in a strange kind of way for our own benefit,
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  Speaker 2: if you will. Then you had this bond buyback that's
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  Speaker 2: going on. The best it's preaching, it seems like the
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  Speaker 2: market doesn't care for much. Then I just take a
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  Speaker 2: look at the Walmart stock and purchasing power from people.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to ask you this. Here's my long
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  Speaker 2: introduction to a question. How do you think the economy
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  Speaker 2: actually is as we talk today? on Main Street, if
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  Speaker 2: you will. And where do you think the economy's heading
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  Speaker 2: and the global economy is heading? Because some of these things,
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  Speaker 2: I think, are very deeply troubling and disturbing to me.
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  Speaker 3: I think for the... There's two worlds. It's the Joe
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  Speaker 3: Bag of Donuts and the people that have money. The
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  Speaker 3: economy is great. If you have money and you can
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  Speaker 3: take advantage of this... foals gold on Wall Street. I
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  Speaker 3: can't believe how the market is discounting it. I was
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  Speaker 3: looking back at a clip of Donald Trump in 2016
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  Speaker 3: when he was running for president, when our national debt
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  Speaker 3: was $ 24 trillion, and Trump was at a rally. He said,
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  Speaker 3: if we hit $ 24 trillion, it'll be a point of
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  Speaker 3: no return. He says we'll become a country that's unsalvageable.
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  Speaker 3: And now look at the debt now under Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 3: $ 40 trillion. And I don't follow bonds and the Japanese situation.
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  Speaker 3: I think they had a bailout in Japan. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with $ 40 trillion in debt, we have no business giving
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  Speaker 3: anyone foreign aid. That's the first thing.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, pause for a second. When you're talking about that,
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  Speaker 2: they say Trump is responsible for $ 4 trillion of debt
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  Speaker 2: in his two years.
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  Speaker 4: 4 trillion. It's the number they're putting out there. In
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  Speaker 4: two years.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, he is really growing this debt at
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  Speaker 2: a record base, record number.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if he would have taken care of... He promised
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  Speaker 3: this a year ago, and he put J.D. Vance in
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  Speaker 3: charge of his fraud... investigations, uncovering fraud. Nothing's ever come
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  Speaker 3: of that. And then, of course, you've had Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 3: and he had so many great suggestions that Trump completely ignored.
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  Speaker 3: Trump turned his back on the MAGA movement. And the
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  Speaker 3: sad thing is, you can't live in, you know, my
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  Speaker 3: house has paid off. I just mailed in my payment
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  Speaker 3: for taxes, the real estate taxes. I mean, it's just like,
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  Speaker 3: unless you move to Florida, you can never own your house.
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  Speaker 3: You have to keep paying on it, and it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: If we would just cut the fraud, you wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: to have real estate taxes, income taxes. But we have
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  Speaker 3: two parties. I'm an independent now. Next time I go
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  Speaker 3: to vote, I'm going to drop my Republican... registration and
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  Speaker 3: register as an independent. I'm just fed up with both parties.
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  Speaker 3: These clowns do nothing. With a $ 40 trillion debt, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they are juggling..
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  Speaker 2: The reason that they did this bailout, most people don't
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  Speaker 2: understand it, of Japan was because Japan has over a
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  Speaker 2: trillion dollars of our treasuries. And if Japan sold off
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of them, as they were talking about doing,
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  Speaker 2: their concern was it would raise the interest rates, which
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  Speaker 2: would be detrimental to the country, to our country as
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  Speaker 2: far as their debt and deficit is concerned. That's why
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  Speaker 2: they bailed. Did this run around to bail out Japan.
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  Speaker 2: And it's also why they're doing this bond buyback stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the stuff you see going on globally is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of moves, I think, to stabilize the global economy.
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  Speaker 2: But you can do all of this stuff. And as
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  Speaker 2: long as you have... this situation going on in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And I go back to say this, here's the reality.
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  Speaker 2: There's a shortage of oil. I don't care what anyone
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  Speaker 2: tries to spin it or how they try to spin it.
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  Speaker 2: When you take 20 or 30 million barrels of oil
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  Speaker 2: off the market a day, and you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a shortage of oil, prices are going to go up.
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  Speaker 2: And so you, the straight is still basically closed. So
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  Speaker 2: there's the reality of where things are headed today. And
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  Speaker 2: as these oil experts say, as you go further into August, June, July, August, September,
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  Speaker 2: it's just going to get worse.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, Trump said we have complete control of the strait.
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  Speaker 4: But that's nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And all of a sudden he comes up
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  Speaker 3: with this economic D-Day two days ago. It's a whole
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  Speaker 3: new plan. Well, what happened to the military war? Is
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  Speaker 3: that on the back burner?
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, I'm glad you brought that up. The bombing campaign,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to bomb them to rubble and all
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  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. He was just talking that, what,
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  Speaker 2: a month ago or something? We're going back to the
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  Speaker 2: bombing campaign, the likes of which I've never seen, all
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  Speaker 2: of this kind of stuff. Now that's come to an end,
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  Speaker 2: and now we're on a different strategy. Now we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have, what did he say, this economic— D-Day.
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  Speaker 3: Economic D-Day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what happened to the bombing you were talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Now it's going to be an economic D-Day.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It just seems like we're trying to try anything to
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  Speaker 2: see if we can get somehow an agreement to get
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  Speaker 2: out of this mess. And it doesn't seem like they're
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  Speaker 2: too agreeable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what bothers me, talking about bombing, our
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  Speaker 3: military partner, the Israelis... I don't think they've bombed Iran.
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  Speaker 3: What they're bombing now is Gaza and Lebanon in a
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  Speaker 3: major way. And that is turning a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: in the MAGA movement against Trump. They do not like
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  Speaker 3: to see innocent civilians killed with our tax dollars. And
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  Speaker 3: it's funny, I just heard that you ran a commercial
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  Speaker 3: for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. They want
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  Speaker 3: you to donate. I'm saying... We're giving you military aid.
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  Speaker 3: You own all of our politicians. You're running our country.
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  Speaker 3: And I think our president is a puppet. And now
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  Speaker 3: they want us to donate to the International Fellowship. But
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  Speaker 3: we should be giving money to the poor civilians in
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  Speaker 3: Lebanon and Gaza. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, basically, as a Trump supporter, he's turned you off, correct?
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when I heard you on, I believe it was
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  Speaker 3: this week on a Monday or Tuesday, you were really
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  Speaker 3: ripping into G2.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Rightly so. I said, you're reading the room and you're
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  Speaker 3: looking at the facts. and I don't know what world
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  Speaker 3: G2 is living in, but you sort of cut them
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  Speaker 3: some slack a little bit yesterday. But I think G2
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  Speaker 3: is underestimating how fed up the MAGA movement is with
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump. And I talked to a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of Trump supporters, and And all but the
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  Speaker 3: most diehard Trump supporters have lost their enthusiasm for the guy.
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  Speaker 3: And then he put a thing out, I think it
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  Speaker 3: was today, he's going to dump foreign beef into the
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  Speaker 3: country to lower the price of beef at a 25%
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  Speaker 3: below the market price, no tariffs. And what he should
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  Speaker 3: be doing instead of doing that is helping our cattle
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  Speaker 3: farmers to and building up our herds. But he's going
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  Speaker 3: for like a Biden. Remember when Biden released oil from
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  Speaker 3: the Strategic Reserve just for a short-term gain? Trump is
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  Speaker 3: doing the same thing with beef. And I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it's going to help him or not, but he's
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  Speaker 3: down in the polls.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but basically economically, you're not thrilled with what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in the country.
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  Speaker 3: No, but as far as you asked me, if things
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  Speaker 3: are good, things are great in the market. And this AI,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to stop it. It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a big multi-year boom for the investors in the stock
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  Speaker 3: market and the people that have money. But I feel
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  Speaker 3: sorry for the average guy that's paying his house payments
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  Speaker 3: and insurance and groceries and utilities. And when Trump ran,
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  Speaker 3: he said he was going to lower our utility bills
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  Speaker 3: next to nothing. And I said, what has happened to
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  Speaker 3: the guy? All the promises he made, he broke. And
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  Speaker 3: I know the Epstein files will never, nothing will overcome
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  Speaker 3: of that. That's a done deal. And the debt is
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  Speaker 3: what bothers me the most. But after that, well, put
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  Speaker 3: the war on the top of it. This stupid war
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  Speaker 3: that we started, that we didn't have to start.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would back up and drop the we, the
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  Speaker 2: stupid war that he started.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yes. It was, well, it was..
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there wasn't any debate in Congress. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: your senators and congressmen really didn't have a vote or
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  Speaker 2: a say-so on it and still really haven't had one
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 3: But they really haven't protested the war that much.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: The Democrats, it's all one big uniparty. The Senate is
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  Speaker 3: a joke, tunes a joke, do nothing, they've done nothing. And, well,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats now have their own problem with the DSA
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  Speaker 3: wing of the party, but they seem to have that
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  Speaker 3: almost under control. But we'll see how the midterms turn out.
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  Speaker 3: But then the other thing that bothers me is all
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  Speaker 3: of the promises that he made, you know, he just
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  Speaker 3: turned his back on everybody. And he threw all of
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  Speaker 3: his allies and all the MAGA people under the bus.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you go back, we have a two-party system
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  Speaker 3: that I think will never change. It almost changed with
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  Speaker 3: Ross Perot, and then the Tea Party had a little shot,
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  Speaker 3: but that was, it sort of fizzled out and it
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  Speaker 3: became MAGA, and then Trump, I think, hijacked the MAGA movement,
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  Speaker 3: which was the original Tea Party movement, and now he's
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  Speaker 3: dumped MAGA as far as I'm concerned, but it's Not
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  Speaker 3: looking good.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could say, I hope I'm wrong, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not optimistic, economically speaking. We shall see as time
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  Speaker 2: goes on. Always a pleasure talking to you.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: One other quick thing. I was talking about politicians, senators, congressmen.
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  Speaker 3: Down on the local level, it really disturbs me what
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  Speaker 3: I see in cities like Youngstown, where we have incompetent
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  Speaker 3: leadership in city council, in the mayor, I believe. They
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  Speaker 3: don't know what they're doing. They can't get out of
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  Speaker 3: their own way. Nothing seems to be coordinated. And all
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  Speaker 3: the COVID money, I think, is almost gone. They've blown
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  Speaker 3: it on parks, on playgrounds. And they had the program
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  Speaker 3: for putting new roofs on dilapidated homes and then helping
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  Speaker 3: other people out. And they just basically gave the money away.
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  Speaker 3: And now we have nothing to show for it. And
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  Speaker 3: if you drive down Wick Avenue, it's terrible. They should
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  Speaker 3: have put the new fire and police station there.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They were going to do that. That would have been
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  Speaker 3: a great asset to the city. It was a corridor
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  Speaker 3: into YSU, Earthland, and the downtown area. But they just,
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  Speaker 3: now what's going to happen when they're out of money?
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  Speaker 3: And they're a bunch of clowns.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. NewsRadio 570. Don't hear
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  Speaker 4: you again.
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  Speaker 2: Just talking about Youngstown, I want to acknowledge the passing
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  Speaker 2: of Bob Bush. Many of you might remember him. He
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  Speaker 2: was with the Youngstown Police Department and was the chief
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  Speaker 2: of police. And I thought a hell of a guy.
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  Speaker 2: It was an honor to know Bob Bush and to
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  Speaker 2: talk to him on the radio over the years, both
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  Speaker 2: as police chief and when he left that position. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a very, very interesting man, to
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  Speaker 2: say the least. Was in Vietnam. Was a gunner on
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  Speaker 2: a helicopter. And ultimately was in the police department. Became
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  Speaker 2: a lawyer and police chief. And he has passed away.
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  Speaker 5: And a.
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  Speaker 2: Heck of a life, though. Lived a heck of a life.
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  Speaker 2: Accomplished a lot in his time. News Radio 570 WKBN.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 6: Ron, you and Options Guy said everything I was going
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  Speaker 6: to say, except I disagree with Options Guy. We have
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  Speaker 6: a uniparty, not a two-party system, and people are leaving
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  Speaker 6: both the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what he said, though. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you disagree. I think you're in agreement. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he said. It's like the same party. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to back up, and I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 2: you the same question. Economically speaking, from Japan to the
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  Speaker 2: bond yields yesterday, I mean, these are global things that
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  Speaker 2: are going on as far as the global economy is concerned,
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  Speaker 2: and I find them all deeply disturbing and troubling, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm genuinely concerned about the global economy because of this
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  Speaker 2: war situation.
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  Speaker 4: Your comment.
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  Speaker 6: Well, before I answer your question, people are leaving both
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  Speaker 6: the Democrats in Republican Party and record numbers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you've got to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but stand by for a minute. I'll come right
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  Speaker 2: back to you and more after this. Ron Ferb, it's
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  Speaker 2: always a pleasure to check in with Mike Leonard out
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  Speaker 2: of Bernard Daniels. Ron Ferb from the Kingdom of Mahoning.
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  Speaker 2: So give me, based on what I've asked the first caller,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to ask you the same question. Most
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  Speaker 2: people don't understand this stuff, and they might not even
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  Speaker 2: follow it. But these are, in my opinion, bad economic
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  Speaker 2: news for the globe when you're bailing out Japan and
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  Speaker 2: when you're doing the bond buyback that's going on. And
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  Speaker 2: with the situation as far as energy goes, with this
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  Speaker 2: war situation that Trump has created and the debt and
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  Speaker 2: deficit situation, They were saying Trump's responsible for $ 4 trillion
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  Speaker 2: over two years. Give me your take on all of
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  Speaker 2: that and what you see and where you think it's headed.
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  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, we shouldn't be bailing out anybody.
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  Speaker 6: Japan is an advanced, industrialized economy. Why are we bailing
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  Speaker 6: them out? And she, too, was giving.
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  Speaker 4: You a hard time the other day.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Pause for a second. We're bailing them out because Japan
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  Speaker 2: was going to cash in. They have a trillion dollars
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  Speaker 2: in treasuries, and they were going to start cashing them in.
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  Speaker 2: And they felt if they did that, the interest rates
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  Speaker 2: would go up and it would be further in the hole.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of bailed them out for our own selfish reasons.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I said the other day. And I
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  Speaker 6: also mentioned that they're probably cashing in treasuries to pay
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  Speaker 6: for the high price of oil because... They import 90%
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  Speaker 6: of their oil. They have very little oil. Now, G2
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  Speaker 6: has given you a hard time the other day because
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  Speaker 6: he thinks everything is affordable and Republican. Economic policies are
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  Speaker 6: good for the country. Now, I'm going to give G2
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  Speaker 6: a reality check. Walmart's stock is dropping because investors fear
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  Speaker 6: that more Americans will not be able to afford basic
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  Speaker 6: necessities like food and clothes. And, Ron, gold is soaring
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  Speaker 6: in price because Wall Street expects inflation to get worse.
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  Speaker 6: It's not just gold. All my commodity stocks are soaring.
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  Speaker 6: If you've got copper going up, you've got platinum going up, palladium,
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: iron ore, those costs in most cases are going to
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: be passed on to the consumer at the retail level.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: And oil prices jumped. as Trump threatens economic warfare on Iran.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: That was headline news today. But, Ron, I want to
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: say to G2, 92% of Americans say they have delayed
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: or totally abandoned medical care because they fear the cost,
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: especially the young generation. Young people are not getting the
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: care they need because of the cost. And a recent
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: study says that AI, artificial intelligence, is also making health
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: care more expensive, not cheaper. Only the middle class and
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: the millionaires are getting the care they need. Now, a
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: recent study by the Tax Policy Center found that G2' s
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: beloved tariff taxes are regressive. meaning it is hurting lower
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: income earners a lot more than higher income earners. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: another study has shown that every taxpayer dollar spent on
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: the military is ineffective in creating a significant number of jobs.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: And Ron, you know that interest rate debt is now
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: the largest expense item in the federal budget. larger than
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: the war expense, and Social Security.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Isn't that something?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: It was the second biggest expense, other than Social Security,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: was just the interest payment on the debt. Just paying
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: the interest, not lowering it all. But we continue to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: run the debt up, and interest rates are going up
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: because of the demand for borrowing money from the government.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Supply and demand. Government's borrowing so much money. AI's borrowing
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: so much money to expand that interest rates are going
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: up without the Fed raising them. And now as a
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: result of that, you're saying that the interest is now
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the number one expense.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: And what do you get for it?
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: You're not paying the debt down. You're getting absolutely nothing.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: It's a terrible position that all of these politicians have
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: put this country in, Democrats and Republicans.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: And the chickens are coming home to roost.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, Ron, I had called your show, I
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: don't know, a year and a half ago, something like that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: I said I was looking at a technical chart of
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: interest rate debt. And I said it was the scariest
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: thing I'd ever seen. If you see, like, stocks uptrending,
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: it goes up a few days, then goes down a
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: little bit. Goes up a few more days, a few
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: more weeks.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Goes down.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Stand by. Stand by. Let me do my break. I'll
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: come back.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Wrap it up with Frank. Take more of your calls.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Some insights from Frank ahead. News Radio 570 WKVN.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Police in Canton are looking for a woman suspected in
• 22:38
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• 22:42
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• 22:46
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• 22:50
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• 22:54
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• 22:57
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• 23:00
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• 23:03
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• 23:11
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• 23:15
  Speaker 7: tax increment financing tied to the 131-acre property. City Council
• 23:20
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  Speaker 2: All right, 335 in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570 WKBN. So it's...
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It's not a good scenario. You were talking about, and
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: to the caller before you, about one party. They all
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: seem to be on the same page. But you've got
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to vote for somebody. And in many cases, most of
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: my life, it has been the lesser of two evils
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: to a large extent. And there's no way I can
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: vote for Amy Acton. There's no way I could vote
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: for Sherrod Brown. There's no way I could vote for
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: any of these crazy Democrats. As far as the ones,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: like if you're asking me, do I think AOC should
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: be president? No, I think she's a nitwit or Gavin Newsom.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I think he's been a lousy governor. I don't see
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: anybody worthwhile on the Democrat side. And quite frankly, their
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: agenda and the problems they created, I couldn't vote for
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: any of them. So sometimes it's the lesser two evils.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I could enthusiastically vote for Ron DeSantis. I could tell
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: you that. And many of the Republicans, I would support
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: certainly over any Democrat. And Trump, unfortunately, has been a
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: little disappointing lately. But we got some serious, I believe, serious,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: serious economic issues in this country. I mean, serious economic issues.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: And it is in part because of the war and
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: in part because of the ignorant or ignoring the debt
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and deficits. I mean, this idea, interest being your number
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: one expense, is just lunacy and a waste of your
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: tax dollars. Okay, go ahead with your comments and what you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Have to add. Well, I've never voted Republican or Democrat.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: I've always voted Libertarian. And interest rate expense is growing
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: at an exponential rate with no end in sight. How
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: long before interest rate expense takes every taxpayer dollar to service?
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: And Apple had its worst post-earnings drop in 13 years.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, said he will now
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: buy fewer chips from Micron Technology and more chips from
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: other memory suppliers. And on this news, Micron Stop had
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: another big drop.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It's not good. I mean, I don't see any
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: good economic signs. Do you?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: No, I don't.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: But, you know, Ron, millions of young people are facing
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: collection efforts and wage garnishment on top of all the
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: other challenges they face at the worst possible time.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I read this to John Arnold last night. I've got
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: to see if I can find it again. that somebody
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: had posted. And I thought it was really, really well
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: written here that it had to do with buying a home.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Okay, here it is.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, this guy posted this. Now, there's a picture of
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the home, okay? There's a picture of a home. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: would describe it. It'd be hard for you to understand
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: because you're in Florida. But it looks like a home
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: that you'd see in any of the Joe Koch developments,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: all right?
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: It looks... If you're familiar, it looks like your typical
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: middle class home. All right.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And the guy and the guy says, my dad bought
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: a house on this street in 1996, working at a
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: local warehouse. Today, my wife, a nurse and I and
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: accountants with two full time salaries are struggling to qualify
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: for a mortgage on houses in the same neighborhood. Young
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: people didn't suddenly forget how to work hard. Hard work
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: just stopped buying what it used to. I think that
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: is spot on, don't you?
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I called a week or two ago
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: and said that Wall Street expects mortgage rates to rise again.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, interest rates, I told you, are going up. It
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what the Fed does because of supply and demands.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: Well, the reason why the Fed buys back treasuries is
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: they can't find enough buyers, foreign buyers to buy our
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: junk bonds. Interest rates will probably have to go a
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: lot higher on federal government to get people to buy them.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Well, the problem is exactly as you say.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: As the debt of the country continues to go up
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: and as interest rates go up, the amount of money
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: that we have to spend on just servicing the debt
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: continues to go up.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: We take in $ 4. 5 trillion.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: In federal taxes a year, income taxes a year, $ 4.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: 5 trillion.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Well, if your number one expense is just the interest,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you don't get anything for that. And you're not lowering it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: It just goes on and on and on. And it's
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: just stupid money management. This country can't afford to give
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: anybody foreign aid. It's got to take a serious look
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: at cutting expenditures. And we don't cut Social Security and
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: we don't cut Medicare. You know, I talk about things
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: that we shouldn't cut. But you've got the Democrats out
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: there saying it should be Medicare for all. It should
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: be another government program. No, we can't afford the ones
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: we have now, for God's sakes. And the Democrats are
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: out there championing more stuff. And I'm thinking to myself,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: are you paying attention? We're $ 40 trillion in debt. Are
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: you paying attention to what the interest payments are in this?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: And you want to give Medicare for all? The Democrats
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: are insane.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: All right, Frank. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. As always, have
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: a great weekend. You're on the air.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: You're on the air.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Yes. Yeah. You know, I've been listening to your talk show,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: and I see a lot of these people coming up
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: to you. and doom all the time. So I'm saying
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: to myself, what exactly do we want? I mean, do
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: we want Iran to have a nuclear weapon and kill
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: us all?
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: Or what?
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Can't we take it for six months and see how
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: it goes? I mean, you know, it really baffles me
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: as people come... Keep calling up, gloom and doom, gloom
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: and doom. You know, the stock went down, the stock
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: went up. I heard this guy talk about, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: micron technology going down. I just heard the interview on CNBC,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and they are talking about nothing but prosperity.
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: And they are, you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Know, so I'm saying to myself, what exactly do Americans want?
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, do you want a low price forever at
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: the cost of Iran having a nuclear weapon and killing
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: us all?
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: Or what?
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: It baffles me to listen to all these guys talk
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: about gloom and doom all the time. And I like
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: to listen to your comments. Thank you so much.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your call. And I'll let your comments
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: stand and see what people have to say about it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Let people react to your comments.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: You're on the air.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Hello? Hello?
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Well, I waited for you. I wish you would have
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: waited for me. You're on the air.
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: Hello. Well, I waited for you. I wish you'd have
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: hung up on me.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Well, you know this much. You know that's coming.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: Well, listen, a couple, three things. Number one, right? I,
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: how can I put this? I'm going to defend G2.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: I may disagree with him. But I'm going to defend
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: him in the conversation he had with you. He was
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: trying to..
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I'll defend him. I'll defend him as well. You know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: it's okay for G2 and me to disagree on stuff.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I somewhat enjoyed the conversation. You can disagree. We don't
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: agree on everything. That's healthy and that's good. As a
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, you and I don't agree on much,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: but it's still... But I don't dislike you at all. Well,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: some days I do.
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, you got to understand something, Ron.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: G2 was trying to teach you guys something.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: And it was a hard lesson for me to learn.
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: And a guy that retired, he used to work in
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: your station. I think his first name was Dan. Me
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: and him went around about something one time, and he
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: finally got me to listen to him. Now, G2 tried
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: to teach you guys something, but you guys didn't want
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: to listen. And what he was trying to teach you
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: is this. It does not matter how good or how
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: bad your idea is. If you don't get elected, it
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: doesn't matter. So if you say something during a campaign
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: to get you elected, well, so what? You got elected.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: So what G2 was trying to tell you guys is, listen.
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: You're going to vote Republican... regardless of how bad these
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: guys are. You can have a Republican in the White House,
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: a Republican in the Republican-held Senate, Republican-held House, Republican-held state governors,
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: Republican-held state Senate.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You're saying I would vote Republican over Democrats despite my
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: disagreements with them because the Democrats are much worse.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I would plead guilty to that, Your Honor.
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: So G2 is trying to tell you guys, get with
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: the program. The program is we have to get our
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: guys elected. If our guys don't get elected, then we
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: will have problems. And what I say to that is,
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: before I go to the next subject is, The definition
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: and expecting a different result.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: No, wait a minute.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Dirty pool.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Dirty pool here. So here I think you're—folks, listen. This
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: was masterfully executed by Emanuel. Right when I think he's
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: going to pay G2 a compliment, he's saying if he
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: was doing the same thing over and over again and
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: expecting different results, that's a definition of insanity.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Boy, you got me hook, line, and sinker.
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: Okay, I'm going to leave on that. Have a nice weekend.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Was that something? Boy, he reeled me in, didn't he?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: He just reeled me in. I want to defend G2,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: and G2' s talking how despite all of the stuff that's
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: bad that's going on, the never-ending war, the debt of
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the country, the bond bailouts, and all this kind of stuff,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: he's just making a point that you've got to get
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: more Republicans elected.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Because..
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: You'll get different results. What do they say? If you
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: expect different, do the same thing. Expect different results. It's, oh, boy,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: did he reel me in. Boy, did he get me good.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: News Radio 570. But it's like I say, and I'm realistic,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: there is absolutely no possible way I would ever vote
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: for Sherry Brown. Sherrod Brown is a left-wing Biden supporting
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: every wacky thing that Biden did. I cannot go back
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: to a party that thinks men can have babies. I
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: cannot go back to a party that can't define what
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: a woman is. I can't go back to a party
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: that says we want to appoint a Supreme Court justice,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: but the justice must be black and female and is
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: just probably one of the lowest IQ members of.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: That court ever.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: And... I can't go back to that party that says
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: we've got to have all this transgender nonsense. So I
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: can't go back to that party on its social agenda
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: and certainly not on its economic agenda, which created the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: bulk of this inflation and its energy agenda. There is
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: absolutely no way as an alternative I can say that's
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: a better choice as a thinking man. So sometimes it's
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the lesser of two evils, but... I would absolutely be
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: voting for the Republican John Houston. And absolutely be voting
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: for the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio. So, you know, there,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, there you have it. Now, these are in
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: your state races and your federal races.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: So there you have it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Boy, did he get me good. You're on the air.
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I have some updates on property tax collections. Becky
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: and I were at Rogers Flea Market today, and we
• 36:51
  Speaker 10: had a good day getting signatures and picked up six circulators.
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: I had packets ready for anyone who wanted to be
• 36:56
  Speaker 10: a circulator, and I'm going to do that at the Canfield.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Fair as well.
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: So if you signed at the fair already, if you
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: want to stop in the tent and get a packet,
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: you could circulate a little bit among people you know.
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: I was at the Ashtabula County Fair last weekend, which
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: was my first time there. Very small fair, but we
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: did great. We got like 500 signatures over the course
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: of the fair.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: So that's really.
• 37:18
  Speaker 10: Good for a small fair. Brian Massey has a new
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: hat out, Axe Ohio Tax Hat.
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: It's black.
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: It's got white lettering and red lettering on it. He
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: wants to know if you want me to get you
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: a copy. Would you like a hat from Axe Ohio Tax?
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Anything Brian Massey is willing to do, I'm 100% for.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: He is a great, he is really, first of all,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I got a world of respect for all you are doing.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, you are just giving it your all. And
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: you represent everything great about citizens getting involved to try
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: to make a change. giving up so much of your
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: free time. It's just so admirable. And Becky, in your
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: entire organization, and Brian Massey. And anytime I talk with Pleschnik,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: it is just, every time I talk with Commissioner John
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Pleschnik from Lake County, whenever I end that conversation, I
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: just think that is a smart man. Oh, yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah. He was good on the show. I heard it
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: the last time he was on your show a couple
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: weeks ago.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: He's really good.
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: He helped our movement a lot.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, he's so smart.
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: He's very dynamic.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I would love to see a guy like that actually
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: become governor of the state. I genuinely would with his philosophy.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: The state would be much better off. So the fair
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: is September 2nd through Labor Day. So let's see. So
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: that's about a couple weeks away.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: We'll be collecting all days of the fair. So come
• 38:40
  Speaker 10: see us. We're sort of on the corner of Smith
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: and Poland streets once you're inside the fair.
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  Speaker 2: I really think you should think about getting like a
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: lemon shake stand and also take signatures. There's no reason, Denise,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: you can't make a buck or two while you're out
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: there and maybe cook some fries, maybe a kielbasa sandwich.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: And in addition to getting signatures, it could be a
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: whole new career for you.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do it this way.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Becky could be making the lemon shakes and the fries.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: You could be collecting the signatures.
• 39:13
  Speaker 10: Frank could be drilling some stuff, yeah.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I think it all worked together. It's time to get
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: yourself a trailer and begin that carny life that you
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: so desire.
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: Well, what I'm.
• 39:25
  Speaker 10: Hoping is we're so busy taking signatures, we would have
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: no time to do that.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't.
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: My plan.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: There's three of you. Somebody could be doing the fries
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: and lemon shakes. The other two could be getting signatures.
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: Listen, I got 20 volunteers lined up to help me.
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: 20 people.
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: And I got people coming in from Lake, from Portage,
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: and from Stark.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: To work a couple shifts.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 39:45
  Speaker 10: Stand by.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Stand by.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Stand by.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Back with Denise and more in a minute. Stay tuned.
• 39:55
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• 40:23
  Speaker 4: All right, it's 3.54 in the afternoon. Go ahead, Denise.
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so again, if people want to sign at the
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: fair or if they've already signed and they want to
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: come out and get a packet, I'll give them a
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: packet so they can circulate. It'll have instructions and petitions
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: in there. You know, even if you get 10 or 20,
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: that's really what we need people to do across the
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: state of Ohio. We should just get a sum, and
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: then the rest of us, you know, we're just doing
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: as much as we can out.
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: There, so..
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Well, if you don't want to do, like, a stand
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: in addition to get the signatures, what about, like, the
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: balloons and darts? And if you, you know, hit four balloons,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: you get a teddy bear. It's something I'm trying to do.
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: Juan, you're giving me more work.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: I don't need more work.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to have it so you can get signatures
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: and make a buck as well. You give all your
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: time for free, and you're doing all of this, and
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: we all benefit from it. I'm just trying to get
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: some money in your pockets.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: You might enjoy the car.
• 41:15
  Speaker 10: The money in my pocket is going to be when
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: this passes.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you were at the Ashtabula Fair. You're at, obviously,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: the Canfield Fair. You can make the rounds of the fair.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: You might as well make a couple of bucks. You
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: and Becky there.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Denise. Appreciate it. You're on the air.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: It's 10 times.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Maybe you should be out there with Denise and Becky
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: when they're collecting signatures just.
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: To make an appearance.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: You should be there making an appearance. Say, here's J.J.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: the Trumpster, formerly J.J.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: The Liberal. It'd be like, well, who's asking for the signature?
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: She's bringing in hired guns now. She's getting people from outside.
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: She's just doing some wonderful work. She really was. She
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: was a real pleasant person when I met her. She
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: was very receptive.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Do you go to the fair? JJ, do you attend
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: the fair?
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Pardon me?
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Do you go to the Canfield Fair?
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: I go one time with, you know, because my... My
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: son's a little sensitive to noise and crowds, and he
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: tries to go in the evening.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, you could always leave him home and go
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: by yourself. I mean, it is possible. I mean, sometimes
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: you get strayed out by yourself. By the way, let's
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: get an update, an important update. How's the destruction of
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: the Rite Aid doing in Cornersburg? Live, my cub reporter
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: live from Cornersburg on the destruction of the Rite Aid
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: where they're going to be building a sheet station across
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: from the Walgreens, which is about, what, five places from
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: your headquarters.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: What do you see? What's going on down there?
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: Well, Ron, this is J.J.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: On the spot.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: I'm out here, and I'm observing the teardown of the
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: old Rite Aid, and they're going to be the creation
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: of the new sheets, I believe it is, or the
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: seaway that we spoke of.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: It's the sheets.
• 43:14
  Speaker 9: And they're getting it lowered there, and we'll be expecting
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: probably a christening or a ribbon cutting here probably in
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: the beginning of next year. And so it looks like we're...
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: Let's get a hold of one of these people. Nobody
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: wants to speak to me as they're going by here,
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: but it's coming along.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: It's not as.
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: Bad as it is, but I just noticed again, you
• 43:35
  Speaker 9: wondered why I was so, not against it, but a
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: little bit apprehensive. I came to the garage today and
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: put my son playing the pool and that, and there's
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: people that are just racing down the street, which is, the.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Speed limit's 25 at best.
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: And, you know, what they do is they cut through
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: because they don't want to hit the light. They're coming
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: up from tip of canoe from Boardman. So they go
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: down that little lower part and they come up over
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: the little crest of the hill there.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute. I'm trying to get my bearings.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: You would be coming up..
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: You're coming from Boardman on Kippa Canoe.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that takes you right to the lights.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: You're coming toward Cornersburg.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Standby, standby, standby.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Back with my cub reporter on the scene, J.J. reporting live.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to try to get my bearings after this.