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Tuesday 5pm hour 06/09/26 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: All right, from NewsRadio 570 to WQEN, here's some things
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Speaker 1: I want to bring to your attention. Just other stuff
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Speaker 1: that I want you to know of that I just
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Speaker 1: thought was interesting that I want to bring to your
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Speaker 1: attention outside of everything else that we're talking about and
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Speaker 1: got going on, all right? Incidentally, welcome 506 here on
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Speaker 1: a Tuesday afternoon. Ron Verb with you until 6 o'clock tonight.
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Speaker 1: Guardians pregame at 6. It's 83 degrees. But this is
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Speaker 1: stuff outside of everything else that we're talking about, things
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Speaker 1: that I found interesting that I want to pass along
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Speaker 1: to you. One of them is a letter to the
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Speaker 1: editor that appeared in Sunday's paper. The Saturday-Sunday edition, I
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Speaker 1: guess you would say, paper. And I thought that this
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Speaker 1: was really, this is eye-opening. I thought it was well-written,
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Speaker 1: and it was something that I just wanted you to
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Speaker 1: be aware of. So I'm going to read it to you,
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Speaker 1: all right? There's a couple of different news stories that
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Speaker 1: I want you to know about. This was a letter
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Speaker 1: to the editor. It says, Dear Editor, Many veterinary practices
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Speaker 1: in our area and across the nation have gone from
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Speaker 1: private clinics to corporate enterprises. If you're nearing retirement... Any
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Speaker 1: of the large veterinary corporations can give you a very
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Speaker 1: appealing sales pitch. You can even stay on for an
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Speaker 1: agreed-upon period during a transition. Most of these veterinary corporations
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Speaker 1: own hundreds of practices, but some own thousands, and many
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Speaker 1: of those are specialized referral hospitals. The plus part of
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Speaker 1: the pitch is that these corporations have lots of money
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Speaker 1: to spend. buying most modern equipments for the practice, providing
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Speaker 1: needed building improvements, advertising, recruitment, etc. The downside is that
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Speaker 1: the overall expenses are the same, utilities, rent or mortgage, salaries, insurance,
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Speaker 1: staff benefits, but now they have to raise prices because
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Speaker 1: the corporation needs a piece of the pie and you
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Speaker 1: have to pay for all that new stuff by using
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Speaker 1: it and charging for it. So if you get new equipment,
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Speaker 1: often $ 30, 000 or more for one item, you have to
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Speaker 1: find a way to pay for it. That means use
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Speaker 1: it often, even if it isn't truly warranted. Regardless, it's
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Speaker 1: called good medicine. More than one practice only wants a client,
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Speaker 1: the kind who never asks, how much is that? But
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Speaker 1: this area is mostly C. Some will offer various levels
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Speaker 1: of diagnostic or care, silver, gold, or platinum. You want
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Speaker 1: what's best for your pet, don't you? Caveat emptor. It's
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Speaker 1: a business, and the bottom line is all importance. You
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Speaker 1: can't lose money every month and keep your doors open.
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Speaker 1: When I moved to Youngstown from Illinois, I signed on
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Speaker 1: with a local multi-vet practice. I was relieved, however, before
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Speaker 1: the first year was up. Wasn't bringing in the profits.
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Speaker 1: The boss stressed, recheck, recheck, recheck. But I didn't think
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Speaker 1: it was always necessary. At the end of every month,
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Speaker 1: your productivity was reviewed and you were reminded if it
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Speaker 1: wasn't up to snuff. That was private practice, not corporate.
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Speaker 1: But it's corporate now. The profession has changed. The camaraderie
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Speaker 1: is gone. Now it's dog eat dog, so to speak.
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Speaker 1: But I love what I do, and that includes being
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Speaker 1: my own boss, no pressure to produce. That was written
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Speaker 1: by Don Allen, the local veterinarian for years. And I
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Speaker 1: just thought when I read that, I thought that was
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Speaker 1: something I wanted to bring to your attention because many
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Speaker 1: of these companies, as he's saying, and you're seeing it
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Speaker 1: in many, you're seeing it in funeral homes and in
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Speaker 1: many businesses where they are not doing They started out
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Speaker 1: as family-owned or local small businesses. They still keep the
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Speaker 1: name and everything, but they end up being bought by
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Speaker 1: investment companies. You see it in funeral homes. They keep
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Speaker 1: the name, but it's bought by an investment company. You
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Speaker 1: think it's the same, but it's not. And he's saying
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Speaker 1: that this is very prevalent, and it is very prevalent
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Speaker 1: in veterinary practices. So you can see it in, as
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Speaker 1: he said, hundreds, if not thousands, where they buy these
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Speaker 1: veterinary practices. They invest in all this high-priced equipment. Then
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Speaker 1: they encourage you, obviously, to use it. That's how we're
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Speaker 1: going to pay for it. Make sure you use it. Well,
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Speaker 1: what if it's not necessary? We'll try to find a
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Speaker 1: reason to use it, even if it's not necessary. That's
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Speaker 1: how we're going to pay for it. And, of course,
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Speaker 1: the bottom line is, I think what he's saying in
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Speaker 1: this is, when these corporations buy up these local vets,
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Speaker 1: guess what's the first thing to increase? The price you pay.
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Speaker 1: Because now the corporation needs to make a return on
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Speaker 1: its investment. So I just thought that was really well written.
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Speaker 1: That was in Sunday's paper. I just thought that was
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Speaker 1: really well written. Outside of what we're talking about, something
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Speaker 1: else I wanted to bring to your attention. I just
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Speaker 1: thought this was really, really something. This was about an
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Speaker 1: estate of a woman. She's suing a nursing, their estate
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Speaker 1: is suing this nursing home in Trumbull County Common Police Court,
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Speaker 1: alleging medical negligence, recklessness, wrongful death. The suit file last
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Speaker 1: month states that this woman of Niles died May 7th, 2025.
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Speaker 1: after the facility accepted her as a short-term rehabilitation resident
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Speaker 1: on or about March 31, 2025, to provide rehabilitation care
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Speaker 1: and treatment as she recovered from surgery to repair a
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Speaker 1: broken vertebrae in her spine. She was 60 when she
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Speaker 1: entered the facility, 60 years old. The suit alleges that
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Speaker 1: this woman's back surgery and hospitalization went smoothly. And her
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Speaker 1: attending surgeon and treating doctors expected her to make a
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Speaker 1: full recovery and return to living independently at home after
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Speaker 1: a short course of rehabilitation. Now, listen to this. Remember,
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Speaker 1: she's 60 years old. She had back surgery. Now, the
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Speaker 1: suit states that the woman was prescribed pain medication by
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Speaker 1: her treating doctor to reduce pain from a broken vertebrae
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Speaker 1: and surgery, and that the defendants knew that these medications
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Speaker 1: can cause severe constipation. Well, under the defendant's care and
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Speaker 1: supervision at this nursing and rehab place, the defendant failed
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Speaker 1: to monitor the woman for signs and symptoms of constipation,
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Speaker 1: missing completely that the woman had not had a bowel
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Speaker 1: movement for several weeks, the suit alleges, for several days
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Speaker 1: before she died. She's 60 years old. She had back surgery,
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Speaker 1: was in there to rehab. And it says for several
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Speaker 1: days before developing, let's see, for several days before she died,
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Speaker 1: she developed nausea, vomiting, and was not acting like her
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Speaker 1: usual self, becoming withdrawn and lethargic, the student states. When
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Speaker 1: family members saw her in serious distress, they insisted that
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Speaker 1: the staff call an ambulance to take her to St.
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Speaker 1: Joe's and Warren Hospital. At the hospital, she was diagnosed
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Speaker 1: with severe fecal impaction which resulted in stretching and compressing
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Speaker 1: of the walls of her colon resulting in portions of
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Speaker 1: her colon losing blood flow and dying off she suffered
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Speaker 1: a colon perforation causing feces and bacteria to leak into
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Speaker 1: her abdomen leading to infection and life-threatening medical emergency during
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Speaker 1: surgery her entire colon was removed her entire colon listen
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Speaker 1: to this and she remained extremely ill and unstable and
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Speaker 1: died the next day. Her death certificate states she died
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Speaker 1: from septic shock due to perforated colon. The suit alleges
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Speaker 1: that the defendant failed to ensure through their operational, budgetary,
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Speaker 1: and consultation and managerial decisions and actions that the facilities
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Speaker 1: were sufficiently staffed to meet the individual needs of its residents.
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Speaker 1: The suit states that this nursing home is also, and
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Speaker 1: it gives you different names, the suit seeks $ 125, 000 in
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Speaker 1: damages against the defendants. So can you imagine this woman
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Speaker 1: goes and she has back surgery. She has back surgery.
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Speaker 1: She's 60 years old. Now they say, okay, she is
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Speaker 1: on pain medication. Pain medication can... Can we talk frankly?
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Speaker 1: Can make you constipated. She's on pain medication. And she's
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Speaker 1: at this rehab facility. She's 60 years old. She had
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Speaker 1: back operation. She's on pain medication. And they're aware of
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Speaker 1: all of this. And they failed, according to the suit,
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Speaker 1: to monitor for signs and symptoms of constipation. Missing completely
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Speaker 1: that this woman had not had a bowel movement for
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Speaker 1: several weeks. And now there's a lawsuit as a result
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Speaker 1: of it, and there should be. I mean, when you
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Speaker 1: read this kind of stuff, you just say to yourself, wow.
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Speaker 1: So I wanted you to know about Dr. Allen's letter
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Speaker 1: about all these corporations buying up veterinary practices and how
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Speaker 1: they've got to pay for the equipment and prices usually
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Speaker 1: go up. I thought that was well-written. You see that
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Speaker 1: in so many instances, like I say, buying up what
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Speaker 1: you think are funeral homes that are not owned by
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Speaker 1: the family anymore, same name and all that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 1: but it's now owned by a corporation. you got many
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Speaker 1: many businesses being bought up by these companies doing that
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Speaker 1: and one other thing Trump announces 700 million for the
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Speaker 1: coal industry which I believe in diversity when it comes
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Speaker 1: to producing electricity so he's going to You have $ 700
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Speaker 1: million in the coal industry. I'll give you details about
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Speaker 1: that coming up soon. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Give you
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Speaker 1: something to tune in for. Because since I've been yakking,
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Speaker 1: I've got people sitting here on hold. And I'm going
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Speaker 1: to see if this one is who I think it
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Speaker 1: might be. You're on the air.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Ron. How are you?
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Speaker 1: Well, I've got people on hold, but I was playing
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Speaker 1: phone bingo.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And the satellite dish is in the right direction. Your
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Speaker 1: satellite phone connection is coming in good. Can you copy
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Speaker 1: me good over?
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Speaker 2: I got a 4x4 over here.
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Speaker 1: Okay, 4x4. It's G2. I'm glad you called because we're
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Speaker 1: only on until 6. Now, I want to talk to
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Speaker 1: you about this situation with the Apache helicopter. Trump vows
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Speaker 1: response after claiming Iran shot down U.S. Apache helicopter. The
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Speaker 1: crew is all okay. But this thing is escalating. Now,
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Speaker 1: as we've talked on previous shows, as my guys that you,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, disagree with or agree with, I'm not certain,
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Speaker 1: you know, that Art Berman character who says, hey, we're
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Speaker 1: going to get to tank bottom here in July or August.
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Speaker 1: We better be concluding this before too long or we're
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Speaker 1: going to have some serious problems here as far as
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Speaker 1: the price of a barrel of Earl. And gasoline costs
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Speaker 1: and diesel costs. If this thing drags on, this is
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Speaker 1: where it's heading. So we keep hearing about an agreement.
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Speaker 1: There's no agreement. And now today you have this situation.
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Speaker 1: Give me your assessment.
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Speaker 2: Well, the Art Berman commentary I looked into as much
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Speaker 2: of it as I could stomach. And I find him
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Speaker 2: to be so incredibly biased. that his industry analysis is
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Speaker 2: worth much less than it would be if he were
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Speaker 2: just an objective oil industry analyst. But, you know, his
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Speaker 2: politics is in his way. So he says, quote, there
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Speaker 2: will be no deal, believe me. And the next thing
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Speaker 2: he says is, quote, no one knows what is going
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Speaker 2: to happen, including me. Right. Because he just goes on
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Speaker 2: and on with these negative comments that get in the
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Speaker 2: way of talking about what's actually happening in the industry.
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Speaker 1: But wait a second. He is an oil analyst and
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Speaker 1: he's saying this is unprecedented. Here's what I think is
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Speaker 1: going to happen. And by the way... Look at Curry.
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Speaker 1: He's another one of these oil analysts who happens to
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Speaker 1: agree with me, and I forget the other two that
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Speaker 1: he mentioned. So it's not– so you can't say, well–
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Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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Speaker 2: It's the whole industry. You've got an industry full of
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Speaker 2: people that hate Trump. I mean, no question. This is
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Speaker 2: a globalist industry.
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Speaker 3: But wait a second.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm going to have an argument. I'm having an
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Speaker 1: argument with G2, folks. Tune in and listen. this could
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Speaker 1: be exciting uh so so but these guys are saying
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Speaker 1: i don't know this political they're saying listen you're gonna
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Speaker 1: the our supply tank bottom at these refineries is right
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Speaker 1: you're hitting tank bottom in july and august this is
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Speaker 1: a real problem this is unprecedented here's what we think's
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Speaker 1: going to happen with prices and gasoline and inflation should
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Speaker 1: we ignore it.
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Speaker 2: Well One of the points that Art Berman made is, quote,
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Speaker 2: this is unprecedented, as you just said, right? Of course,
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Speaker 2: it's precedent as can be. I mean, we've had wars
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Speaker 2: that disrupted the flow of oil before. It's happened over
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Speaker 2: and over again. His next comment is, there will never
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Speaker 2: be a recovery. This isn't a quote. This is a concept.
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Speaker 2: He says it'll never be the same. It'll never go
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Speaker 2: back the way it was. Well, okay. I agree with
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Speaker 2: him for completely different reasons. He's absolutely wrong. Yes, the
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Speaker 2: industry is not going to go back to the way
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Speaker 2: it was, and here's why. Because people solve problems. I
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Speaker 2: said this the other day. You know, the Saudis are
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Speaker 2: pumping that 7 million barrels the other way. There are
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Speaker 2: pipelines on the boards right now that are going to
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Speaker 2: get built there to make the Strait of Hormuz irrelevant
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Speaker 2: or much less relevant soon. It won't take them long.
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Speaker 2: They're not like California. If they want to build a
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Speaker 2: pipeline over there, they're going to build a pipeline. So
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Speaker 2: you've got tremendous resources available to solve these problems. Now,
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Speaker 2: you look at something like Venezuela. I think we are producing,
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Speaker 2: and by we, I mean, you know, there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of U.S. help, I think, going into Venezuela now. Their
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Speaker 2: production is up 600,000 barrels a day, about, and it's
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Speaker 2: going to probably double. Yeah, the industry is never going
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Speaker 2: to be like it was. It's Art Berman's doom and gloom,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's just, it gets in the way of
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Speaker 2: a real discussion. Now, do you remember when I said
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Speaker 2: we have to separate supply from price? Because some folks
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Speaker 2: are going to run out of a lot of things,
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Speaker 2: and some folks are going to run out of a
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Speaker 2: few things, and some things are going to have what
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Speaker 2: they need. In the U.S., we import a lot of oil,
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Speaker 2: as you said. We import a lot of heavy oil,
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Speaker 2: as you said. Seventy percent of our imports come from
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Speaker 2: Mexico and Canada. The Canadian imports can't even go anywhere else.
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Speaker 2: I don't think there's a way to get them to
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Speaker 2: the port. I guess I'd have to go back and
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Speaker 2: look again. So we are not going to lose access
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Speaker 2: to our imports from Canada and Mexico. That's, again, 70%
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Speaker 2: of what we import. A lot of what we import,
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Speaker 2: we process and export. So, you know, for example, the
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Speaker 2: Venezuela volume, which is climbing all the time, we're getting
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Speaker 2: more and more out of Venezuela... That is coming into..
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Speaker 1: Well, hold that thought. You hear the music. Hang on.
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Speaker 1: Back with G2. And more arguments straight ahead. 570 WKBN.
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Speaker 1: Back with G2 News Radio 570 WKBN. All right, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: So if you look at, again, where our oil is
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Speaker 2: coming from, 70% or so is coming from Canada and Mexico.
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Speaker 2: We bring some of that in, process it, and send
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Speaker 2: it back. In fact, Canada and Mexico are also our top...
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Speaker 2: destinations for petroleum products. So that's including crude oil, not
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Speaker 2: just crude oil. Our crude oil goes all over the world.
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Speaker 2: But 70% of our material comes in from there, about 7%
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Speaker 2: from Saudi, about, I don't know, 4% from Iraq, and
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Speaker 2: we even get some from Colombia, which is sort of interesting.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's, you know, they cut it
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Speaker 2: with a little coke to make your car run better.
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Speaker 1: Or you don't care how it runs after you get
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Speaker 1: in it.
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Speaker 2: Right, right. So we're importing, we're exporting like we do
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Speaker 2: with beef and every other product, right? But there aren't
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Speaker 2: a lot of scenarios where we're going to have widespread
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Speaker 2: unavailability because we are producing more all than ever. We've
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Speaker 2: got great access to all we're importing. There are some
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Speaker 2: we need to bring out of the Middle East. Again,
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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia is shipping. One of our suppliers is shipping
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Speaker 2: out of their pipeline that goes now from, instead of
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Speaker 2: going over toward the Persian Gulf, it goes over towards
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Speaker 2: the Red Sea. So the whole industry is realigning. You're
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Speaker 2: seeing increased production and projects going on right now to
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Speaker 2: expand production in everybody outside of the Persian Gulf. In
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Speaker 2: northern Iraq, in Erbil, there's a really significant oil field.
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Speaker 2: And some of the developers in there are actually American companies,
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Speaker 2: believe it or not. It's run by the Kurds. It's
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Speaker 2: a Kurdish area. And then they're all sort of playing
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Speaker 2: tug-of-war with the Iraqis. But The Kurds run it, and
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Speaker 2: the investments have been robust, and they're increasing production there.
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Speaker 2: So I'm just saying people solve problems. These problems are
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Speaker 2: going to get solved. We are looking at a period
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Speaker 2: where there are going to be shortages of some material
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Speaker 2: in some places. I think China's in dire straits. I
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Speaker 2: suspect the United States and other countries will do what
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Speaker 2: they can to get oil to China. But as I
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Speaker 2: said before, I view that pressure that China's under as
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Speaker 2: a very, very good thing. If you remember back at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of this, the commentary was that there was
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Speaker 2: 100 to 120 days of supply available in China. But
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Speaker 2: as we know, inventory management isn't perfect. So they might
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Speaker 2: have 188 days of one thing and 60 days of another.
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Speaker 2: So we don't know the details of exactly where in
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Speaker 2: China there's a problem. They've had really big reserves. They've
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Speaker 2: been drawing those down. That's been helping them make it through.
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Speaker 2: But if you think it's going to take 30 to
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Speaker 2: 45 days to restart supply, they have to get something
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Speaker 2: pumping now. They can't wait until they run out to
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Speaker 2: start the ships getting loaded because it's going to take
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Speaker 2: 30 days or so to get loaded and sail to China.
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Speaker 2: So there's a huge amount of global pressure on Iran.
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Speaker 2: I've said this before. Now, I don't know exactly, no
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Speaker 2: one knows exactly where these pressures are going to come.
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Speaker 2: I do know that if you're going to redirect commodities
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Speaker 2: out of their natural home, it's going to cost. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, the need to blend and all that stuff
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Speaker 2: is all correct, but our supply chain is in pretty
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Speaker 2: good shape. We will have some operations that will run
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Speaker 2: out of some material or will run down enough. They
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Speaker 2: don't actually get to the bottom of the tank, right?
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Speaker 2: They just get low because you have to keep some
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Speaker 2: in the process just to keep your equipment working and whatnot.
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Speaker 2: You have to have some in the system. But we'll
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Speaker 2: be facing some potential shortages that could shut down some operations.
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Speaker 2: This thing with processing chips, you know, computer chips is
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Speaker 2: a real issue. There's no question this straight of Hormuz
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Speaker 2: thing has to get fixed. The negating is fantastic, but
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Speaker 2: this has to get fixed.
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Speaker 1: So if this drags on, do you anticipate oil prices
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Speaker 1: going up, a barrel of oil and gasoline prices going up?
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Speaker 2: I think they probably will go up. I don't think
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Speaker 2: we know how much. They say it's going to go
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Speaker 2: up to $ 160 or $ 200 or $ 300.
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Speaker 1: No, they didn't say $ 200 or $ 300. In their defense,
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Speaker 1: they're saying this is unprecedented. Here's what we think could happen.
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Speaker 1: It could go to $ 180 but drop down to $ 160
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Speaker 1: because demand will fall off if it goes to $ 180.
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Speaker 1: Stand by. Stand by. Back with G2. And we'll continue
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Speaker 1: our discussion with G2 from the bunker. Then only General
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Speaker 1: Johnson Jameson knows the correct location. News Radio 570 WKVN.
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Speaker 1: Back to it. News Radio 570 WKVN and Ron Verb. And, well,
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Speaker 1: we shall see. Time will tell. I mean, I'll defend
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Speaker 1: the guys by saying they're saying this is unprecedented. Where
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Speaker 1: was it? Curry was the other guy. Berman was one.
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Speaker 1: Like I say, there's two other ones that they say
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Speaker 1: are up there. I haven't even got around to those guys.
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Speaker 1: But we shall see. I think if this thing drags
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Speaker 1: on and it appears it's dragging on, it's not coming
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Speaker 1: to an end anytime soon, then these pipelines aren't built.
21:19
Speaker 1: And if we're at tank bottom and refineries and what
21:22
Speaker 1: have you, I think we have more serious problems.
21:26
Speaker 2: Than– I think there's going to be– if this doesn't
21:30
Speaker 2: get solved, we'll have a difficult stretch. I don't really
21:32
Speaker 2: think this is unprecedented. You know, I think we stopped
21:34
Speaker 2: exporting oil from the United States something like 1977 or
21:38
Speaker 2: something like that and didn't really resume until 2015 or so.
21:42
Speaker 1: Well, let me back up. They say unprecedented because you've
21:46
Speaker 1: got a problem as far as the freight is concerned.
21:48
Speaker 1: You've got a problem as far as shipping is concerned.
21:52
Speaker 1: Once the ships get out of there, if they have
21:53
Speaker 1: any desire to return to that area at all– You
21:57
Speaker 1: have multiple problems, as they explain. You have an insurance
22:00
Speaker 1: problem with Lloyds of London. You have a shipping problem
22:02
Speaker 1: with ships that have been sitting and whether or not
22:04
Speaker 1: they want to return to that. You have tank bottoms
22:07
Speaker 1: in many countries and getting oil to them and the
22:10
Speaker 1: demand that that will create. You have tank bottoms in
22:13
Speaker 1: the United States of America. The pipelines that you're referring to,
22:16
Speaker 1: many of them aren't in existence and they need to
22:19
Speaker 1: be built. And you still have a lack of..
22:22
Speaker 2: Well, I'm saying they'll build more. I mean, we..
22:24
Speaker 1: Okay, but... Right, but they're not... Right, but they're not
22:28
Speaker 1: built now.
22:29
Speaker 2: No.
22:30
Speaker 1: Is what these guys are saying.
22:31
Speaker 2: But you've got millions of barrels moving through existing pipelines
22:35
Speaker 2: that weren't before.
22:36
Speaker 1: Right, but you still have a shortage.
22:37
Speaker 2: You've got increases in production in Brazil.
22:39
Speaker 1: And Venezuela and..
22:41
Speaker 2: All these guys are..
22:42
Speaker 1: All these guys are saying you've still got a 20 million...
22:45
Speaker 1: barrel shortage. But that's not true. To them, it is. Yeah,
22:51
Speaker 1: that's not true. They disagree with you. It doesn't mean
22:55
Speaker 1: it isn't true. They see it differently.
22:57
Speaker 2: The entire flow through the Strait of Hormuz was about
23:00
Speaker 2: 21 million barrels. Between the Saudis and UAE, you've mitigated
23:04
Speaker 2: a bunch of that.
23:05
Speaker 1: Well, then I don't understand. If everything is you saying,
23:08
Speaker 1: why are gas prices high? Why are oil prices high?
23:11
Speaker 2: Because Let me explain.
23:14
Speaker 1: I mean, in all reality, the argument doesn't make it
23:18
Speaker 1: because they're talking about things going up again because of
23:22
Speaker 1: what's happening in Australia. These guys are saying if this
23:25
Speaker 1: doesn't get resolved very quickly here, it's going to get
23:29
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot worse. Oil supply, oil prices
23:32
Speaker 1: and gas prices. Do you agree or disagree with that?
23:37
Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is these people are pounding the
23:40
Speaker 2: drums of doom every day. I don't see any bright
23:43
Speaker 2: lights in their forecast at all. They hate Trump, at
23:46
Speaker 2: least this Berman guy. This is a political presentation from him,
23:50
Speaker 2: not an industry presentation. There is no question that if
23:53
Speaker 2: we don't get this, say, an expert I talked to
23:56
Speaker 2: today said we're about 10 million barrels short right now.
23:59
Speaker 2: That's a little less than 10% of our daily supply,
24:02
Speaker 2: so it's a big number. So, you know, that's a problem,
24:06
Speaker 2: and we have to get it flowing again. I'm absolutely
24:09
Speaker 2: saying that there will continue to be increased prices and
24:12
Speaker 2: there's going to be stress. A lot of this shortfall
24:15
Speaker 2: has been made up with new production, or some of
24:18
Speaker 2: it with redirection, and some of it with drawing down
24:20
Speaker 2: existing inventories. So, you know, it's a mixed solution, and
24:27
Speaker 2: I absolutely agree with you that this war has to
24:30
Speaker 2: get solved and we have to get back to normal.
24:32
Speaker 1: And would you not agree that if this continues on,
24:36
Speaker 1: that we will have inflation and higher energy prices? And
24:43
Speaker 1: potentially big problems in the midterms?
24:47
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to have big problems in the midterms
24:49
Speaker 2: if Trump doesn't get things turned around in a bunch
24:51
Speaker 2: of ways. It's not just the price of gasoline. He's
24:54
Speaker 2: got a lot of problems. And, you know, I know
24:57
Speaker 2: he's working a lot of things. He's got a lot
24:58
Speaker 2: of issues going. The number of... of battles he's got
25:04
Speaker 2: to wage is significant. And then you've got a large percentage,
25:08
Speaker 2: especially in 1839s, that think he simply sold out to Israel,
25:12
Speaker 2: that he is completely captured. And they aren't... It's going
25:18
Speaker 2: to take a bit of convincing to get them to
25:19
Speaker 2: think that anybody in the Trump administration is their friend again.
25:24
Speaker 2: These are people who voted for Trump. And then you've
25:26
Speaker 2: got this idiot Thune, this traitor, John Thune, who is
25:30
Speaker 2: fighting America every day. Every single day he goes to
25:34
Speaker 2: work and says, how can I defeat the United States
25:36
Speaker 2: of America? He is a traitor. He refuses to do
25:39
Speaker 2: the job. He continues to hide behind Senate rules. We've
25:41
Speaker 2: talked about this for months. And he can't be dislodged
25:45
Speaker 2: because the Senate is this disaster of a deliberative body.
25:50
Speaker 2: So the midterms are certainly impacted by the war, but
25:54
Speaker 2: have other issues as well that must be dealt with.
25:57
Speaker 2: Mark Levin out there calling for endless war isn't helping
26:01
Speaker 2: because everybody knows that he speaks to Netanyahu and for Netanyahu.
26:05
Speaker 2: So Levin comes out yesterday and says, let's just go
26:09
Speaker 2: back into bombing Iran. Let's take two or three weeks
26:12
Speaker 2: and bomb everything. And I know this is a theme
26:14
Speaker 2: on the show. I've listened to some calls in the
26:16
Speaker 2: last week, and a lot of people are saying, let's
26:19
Speaker 2: nuke them, as you said. They're saying, let's bomb them. Listen,
26:22
Speaker 2: we bombed 13,000 targets yesterday. The Israelis bombed something in
26:26
Speaker 2: the neighborhood of 3,000 targets. At what point do you
26:29
Speaker 2: think we're going to be less effective with the bombing?
26:32
Speaker 2: Or are you prepared now to start wiping out the
26:34
Speaker 2: Iranian people, to start taking out their power supply and
26:36
Speaker 2: their water supply? Do you think that they are going
26:39
Speaker 2: to counterattack? Because they still have a lot of short-term missiles.
26:43
Speaker 2: They have a significantly depleted ability to fight in a
26:46
Speaker 2: lot of ways. But they still have missiles and drones.
26:49
Speaker 2: And they can do some damage in the surrounding Gulf
26:52
Speaker 2: Coast countries with those weapons. So I understand where Fox
26:59
Speaker 2: News is getting its narrative. It's exceedingly obvious who tells
27:02
Speaker 2: them what to say. I understand where Mark Levin gets
27:06
Speaker 2: his narrative. I know exactly who he's the spokesman for.
27:10
Speaker 2: And I understand what they're doing in Lebanon and that
27:12
Speaker 2: they do not want that to stop. And you'll notice
27:14
Speaker 2: that every time Levin talks about destroying Iran, he will
27:17
Speaker 2: keep going in Lebanon. And Netanyahu keeps saying, we're going
27:19
Speaker 2: to keep going in Lebanon. There are still a lot
27:21
Speaker 2: of Christians to kill in Lebanon. They're not done yet.
27:24
Speaker 2: They've killed a lot. They've destroyed a lot of villages.
27:26
Speaker 2: They've destroyed a lot of churches. But they've got a
27:28
Speaker 2: lot of Christians left to kill in Lebanon. They're not
27:29
Speaker 2: going to stop until they're done. So you have a
27:34
Speaker 2: third party in this war who desperately wants it to
27:36
Speaker 2: continue and will do anything to make it continue.
27:40
Speaker 1: Even at the detriment of the United States.
27:44
Speaker 2: They couldn't care less what happens in the United States.
27:46
Speaker 2: It's simply the mothership that feeds it.
27:50
Speaker 1: And when I say the detriment of the United States,
27:52
Speaker 1: I'll talk about affordability detriment in that sense. For the
27:56
Speaker 1: average person, high inflation, high energy costs, an absolute nightmare.
28:03
Speaker 2: That is not their issue. They couldn't possibly care less.
28:06
Speaker 2: They could try, and they would fail. They can't care less.
28:10
Speaker 1: Well, I think..
28:10
Speaker 2: Go ahead. So you've got this problem where, especially after
28:15
Speaker 2: the Massey thing, these guys have a tremendous amount of
28:18
Speaker 2: control in the United States. And anybody that says, well,
28:20
Speaker 2: that's not true, I understand where you're coming from. I do.
28:23
Speaker 2: You know, it's been decades and decades of having this
28:25
Speaker 2: pounded into our heads. But the reality is they have
28:28
Speaker 2: tremendous control. And this Massey story, I don't know that
28:32
Speaker 2: we went into it in deep enough detail, but... there
28:35
Speaker 2: was a clear message that came out of that, which
28:37
Speaker 2: is that you shall not stand up to us because
28:40
Speaker 2: we have unlimited resources to crush you. By the way,
28:43
Speaker 2: we give them those resources. And they earn them in
28:46
Speaker 2: the businesses. They bought TikTok and CBS. Those will be
28:50
Speaker 2: generating cash flow soon.
28:53
Speaker 1: Well, you know, CBS is finished because they got rid
28:56
Speaker 1: of Scott Belly.
28:59
Speaker 2: That guy, his interviews were fascinating. The arrogance. The self-absorption.
29:04
Speaker 2: The belief that he's.
29:06
Speaker 1: Did you see that graduation speech he got? Oh my,
29:09
Speaker 1: he gave at that one college.
29:10
Speaker 2: Oh, it was horrible.
29:11
Speaker 1: Yeah.
29:13
Speaker 2: Acting as if he's this special character. I mean, just bizarre.
29:18
Speaker 2: I think these people in these media companies view themselves
29:21
Speaker 2: as superheroes. He's a hack. He hasn't done a good
29:24
Speaker 2: report in his career. You know, but in his mind... So,
29:30
Speaker 2: and somebody made the point the other day that these
29:32
Speaker 2: media people give themselves awards all the time. They just
29:35
Speaker 2: keep congratulating each other and giving each other awards. Once
29:37
Speaker 2: you get a job as a network anchor or a
29:39
Speaker 2: big player. to network, you just keep getting awards from
29:41
Speaker 2: the other guys that are big network people. It's a
29:44
Speaker 2: ridiculous community. By the way, who have shed huge amounts
29:49
Speaker 2: of audience because of the quality of their work, who
29:51
Speaker 2: have lost billions of dollars because of the quality of
29:53
Speaker 2: their work, that doesn't affect them at all. I haven't
29:56
Speaker 2: watched 60 Minutes. I don't remember... the last time I
30:00
Speaker 2: would have watched that show. I mean, it became a
30:03
Speaker 2: joke decades ago. So this situation we're in is incredibly complex.
30:09
Speaker 2: These midterms are definitely at risk. I have friends who
30:12
Speaker 2: tell me that there is no fracture in the Trump coalition.
30:17
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that is absolutely not true. This multi-generational fracture,
30:22
Speaker 2: you know, the Gen Z, Millennial, and X, that's really,
30:25
Speaker 2: but just that multi-generational breakdown, But the break over Israel,
30:30
Speaker 2: the break over Iran, the break over the price of gasoline,
30:33
Speaker 2: you know, and many people still saying I trust Trump
30:36
Speaker 2: no matter what. Fine. But but this coalition that put
30:41
Speaker 2: MAGA together or this MAGA coalition, American First Coalition, that
30:45
Speaker 2: hired Trump to fix this country. has large components that
30:48
Speaker 2: are extremely angry, and they aren't quiet about it.
30:54
Speaker 1: But let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
30:58
Speaker 1: They're not quiet about it, and they might disagree, but
31:02
Speaker 1: I have a hard time imagining that all of those
31:05
Speaker 1: elements that you mentioned would say they're going to go
31:08
Speaker 1: vote for Sherrod Brown. They're going to go vote for
31:11
Speaker 1: some Democrat. I mean, there might be that disagreement, but
31:15
Speaker 1: I don't think those elements have turned crazy to go
31:19
Speaker 1: vote for a Democrat.
31:21
Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no. They're not going to vote for
31:22
Speaker 2: either side. They're checking out.
31:26
Speaker 1: Well, that's equally as harmful.
31:32
Speaker 2: Well, maybe so, but you've got to wonder, you know,
31:34
Speaker 2: they're always told, vote for me, I'm less crazy than
31:37
Speaker 2: the other guy. They vote for the one that's less crazy,
31:39
Speaker 2: and he turns out to be more crazy. They put
31:42
Speaker 2: all this work, years of work, into getting this America
31:46
Speaker 2: First administration done. and paneled. It gets set up. It's implemented.
31:50
Speaker 2: The Republicans in Congress fight a tooth and nail. Trump
31:53
Speaker 2: appears to many people to have turned on them. He
31:56
Speaker 2: is not focused on things like our domestic energy costs.
32:00
Speaker 2: He's buying into the H-1B visas. He's bringing in half
32:03
Speaker 2: a million Chinese students. He's doing all the things that
32:06
Speaker 2: these people do not want. No, they're not going to
32:08
Speaker 2: go vote for a Democrat, but they see absolutely no
32:11
Speaker 2: value in voting for a Republican. So they're not coming
32:15
Speaker 2: to the polls. They're taking door number three. So in
32:19
Speaker 2: order to win in this country, we have to reassemble
32:22
Speaker 2: that coalition. And the Democrats are horribly unpopular. These people
32:28
Speaker 2: hate the Democrats. Everybody hates the Democrats except the Democrats.
32:32
Speaker 2: I mean, they're really down to the 30s. But they're
32:34
Speaker 2: 30 percenters. Those people will vote like rabid dogs. They're crazy.
32:39
Speaker 2: They vote exactly as they're told. They think what they're told.
32:42
Speaker 2: They do what they're told. I mean, they're really like drones.
32:46
Speaker 2: They are going to vote for the most radical candidate
32:48
Speaker 2: they can find. If anyone who promises to destroy the
32:51
Speaker 2: nation for its own good, they're voting for. So the
32:54
Speaker 2: 30s are there. The question is, what are the Republicans
32:58
Speaker 2: doing during anybody's vote? And are they going to get
33:00
Speaker 2: the turnout that they need to overcome the 30s? I mean,
33:03
Speaker 2: that's where... And then, of course, you've got the fraud.
33:05
Speaker 2: I mean, they're going to be counting... I suppose for
33:07
Speaker 2: the November election, they'll be counting in California until somewhere
33:10
Speaker 2: around 2029.
33:10
Speaker 1: So..
33:13
Speaker 2: You know, we are in a very difficult situation, and
33:17
Speaker 2: these people, and it's huge numbers of 18 to 39s,
33:21
Speaker 2: but it is also people that are, you know, 45,
33:24
Speaker 2: up to 55, even some that are older, that are saying,
33:27
Speaker 2: I'm out. It doesn't matter what I do. It doesn't
33:30
Speaker 2: matter who I vote for. I vote for these people
33:32
Speaker 2: who sing patriotic songs, and they turn around, and they're
33:35
Speaker 2: working for Davos. They're working for Mr.
33:37
Speaker 1: Global.
33:38
Speaker 2: You know, it's and then we get a guy like
33:41
Speaker 2: Massey who goes after the kill switch. He goes after
33:43
Speaker 2: the surveillance state. He goes to fight Pfizer 702. So
33:46
Speaker 2: they say, hey, pal, you're out. Call them names and
33:49
Speaker 2: kick them out. That should I'm telling you right now
33:52
Speaker 2: what they did to reduce to eliminate Thomas Massey absolutely
33:56
Speaker 2: cost millions of voters. Millions of voters were turned off
34:00
Speaker 2: by that. They watched that and said, wait a minute.
34:03
Speaker 2: I don't care about this guy's going after the Epstein files.
34:06
Speaker 2: He's going after the kill switch. He's going after 702.
34:11
Speaker 2: And you're saying that's the guy you want to take out?
34:14
Speaker 2: Not Dingell? Not, you know, Duckworth? You're going after Massey.
34:19
Speaker 2: The only guy, the guy that has the best voting
34:22
Speaker 2: record in Congress. And I'm tired of this debate about
34:25
Speaker 2: whether he votes with the Republicans or not. It's a
34:27
Speaker 2: stupid debate. He votes with the Republican voters. That's what
34:31
Speaker 2: he's done. And you can tell because I don't care
34:33
Speaker 2: which conservative platform you look at that analyzes his performance,
34:39
Speaker 2: he is at the very top ranks of the voters
34:42
Speaker 2: who vote with the Republican people, the Republican voters, the
34:46
Speaker 2: American people. That MAGA coalition, he is literally on most
34:50
Speaker 2: rankings number one. So what do they do? They take
34:53
Speaker 2: him out. You know, we've got a Congress full of
34:56
Speaker 2: worthless jerks. They take out Massey. I'm telling you, that
35:00
Speaker 2: was a devastating blow to the electorate, to the MAGA coalition,
35:04
Speaker 2: if you will, the America First team. Devastating blow. So
35:07
Speaker 2: if it doesn't make a difference if John Thune's in
35:10
Speaker 2: or Chuck Schumer's in, and it doesn't, obviously, then why
35:15
Speaker 2: am I bothering? I know people that are actually conservatives.
35:18
Speaker 2: I've heard this now from a handful of people. The
35:21
Speaker 2: conservatives are saying, I'm voting Democrat from now on because
35:24
Speaker 2: we might as well just burn this thing down. Let's
35:27
Speaker 2: just destroy the country and get started over. We're going
35:29
Speaker 2: to have to have a revolution to fix it. We're
35:31
Speaker 2: not going to get it doing these haves, these moves.
35:33
Speaker 2: Just take it down. I've heard that from more than
35:36
Speaker 2: one person. And they're serious. So this Republican Party is
35:41
Speaker 2: such a disaster. And by this, I don't mean the
35:44
Speaker 2: Mahoning County Republican Party or some of the people that
35:47
Speaker 2: are in it that are doing great work. I can
35:49
Speaker 2: list a long list of names. But this leadership, these
35:53
Speaker 2: people like Thune and Spender Johnson, these traitors, the Collins people,
35:59
Speaker 2: all these people, McConnell, all the ones like Mike Kelly
36:02
Speaker 2: in Erie, Pennsylvania, who flips over to vote with the
36:04
Speaker 2: Democrats to keep, I think it was, I think his
36:07
Speaker 2: one was the kill switch. You know, they assign a
36:12
Speaker 2: few of them to flip over and vote with the
36:13
Speaker 2: Democrats to eliminate the things that are desperately important to
36:16
Speaker 2: the American people. We are in dire straits because the
36:20
Speaker 2: Republicans refuse to perform.
36:22
Speaker 1: I think I saw where the– who's the woman in
36:25
Speaker 1: Maine that's up for re-election? Collins. Yeah, she's now in
36:29
Speaker 1: support of the voter ID stuff that she's switched her–
36:34
Speaker 1: her thought on all of that. But look, they're trying
36:38
Speaker 1: to get, they're trying to get her out. The Democrats
36:40
Speaker 1: that accused everyone under the sun who voted for Trump
36:44
Speaker 1: and Trump and everybody else would be a Nazis are
36:46
Speaker 1: now defending one. They're defending a guy that with the
36:48
Speaker 1: Nazi tattoo, they are defending a guy that's on these
36:52
Speaker 1: strange websites and cheating on his wife. And they're all
36:56
Speaker 1: out there saying, that's our guy. That's who we support.
36:59
Speaker 1: Can I mean, talk about a bottom of the barrel candidate.
37:03
Speaker 2: Well that's okay nobody likes these democrats and nobody looks
37:06
Speaker 2: at gavin newsom and says hey hey great governor right
37:09
Speaker 2: other than the thirties i get it the thirties the
37:11
Speaker 2: marxist they do right the dupes but but no rational
37:15
Speaker 2: people aren't looking at this democrat party and saying there's
37:18
Speaker 2: a platform i can get behind it's it's not there
37:22
Speaker 2: they hate them and and so you now hear every
37:25
Speaker 2: single day the word uniparty said more than democrat or
37:27
Speaker 2: republican they cannot see an aisle in congress They cannot
37:32
Speaker 2: see anyone fighting for their side. And again, a guy
37:34
Speaker 2: like Massey, great voting record, fighting on all the right issues,
37:38
Speaker 2: he's got to get tossed out. And people have these long,
37:40
Speaker 2: passionate arguments about why he was such a barrier. Listen,
37:45
Speaker 2: he was a barrier because he refused to vote for
37:48
Speaker 2: things that Americans don't want. And the truth is, if
37:52
Speaker 2: the Republican Party had just simply followed that America First agenda,
37:56
Speaker 2: they would have loved Massey. It's because they have abandoned
37:59
Speaker 2: the agenda that they've heard us hear. I'm furious with
38:02
Speaker 2: them because I've talked to these people who are, you know, 34, 38, 37, urban, suburban, rural.
38:09
Speaker 2: You know, they're done. It's over for them. And by
38:15
Speaker 2: the way, a lot of them think we're coming to
38:17
Speaker 2: a war. They think we're going to have a shooting
38:19
Speaker 2: civil war.
38:23
Speaker 1: Well, by not participating is... You are voting in a
38:29
Speaker 1: sense by not voting because you're giving the advantage to
38:32
Speaker 1: the charged-up Democrat side to put the lunatics back in charge.
38:35
Speaker 1: That's the big mistake. And I understand people's anger and frustration,
38:41
Speaker 1: particularly if the situation in Iran drags on, particularly if
38:45
Speaker 1: inflation comes back and gas prices go up. I get it.
38:50
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39:11
Speaker 1: on it all. Well, we shall see. I mean, if
39:14
Speaker 1: the people— I agree with you. Many of these people are
39:17
Speaker 1: very upset within the whole Republican side of it. But
39:22
Speaker 1: if you don't go out and participate, and the Democrats
39:24
Speaker 1: do go out and participate— It's not a good thing.
39:28
Speaker 1: I was seeing the polling where they show Sherrod Brown
39:30
Speaker 1: is ahead in the Senate race here in Ohio. It's
39:34
Speaker 1: important for people to get out, whether you're disenchanted or not,
39:39
Speaker 1: to get out and make a difference.
39:43
Speaker 2: It really is. And I still am not paying attention
39:46
Speaker 2: to the polls right now because some of the polling
39:49
Speaker 2: that's going on right now has got a problem. But
39:53
Speaker 2: most of the polls are just fake, as you know.
39:54
Speaker 2: I mean, there are a few that I looked at
39:56
Speaker 2: all through 21, 2, 3, and 4 that were really,
39:59
Speaker 2: it turned out to be very effective and useful. But
40:02
Speaker 2: right now I'm trying to figure where it is. But
40:04
Speaker 2: there's no question that if you look at the generic ballot,
40:06
Speaker 2: the Democrats are up And then you add in election fraud.
40:10
Speaker 2: That's a big hurdle to overcome. The Republicans have to
40:13
Speaker 2: get these people back. They have to give them a
40:15
Speaker 2: reason to vote. And that means Donald Trump has to
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Speaker 2: be successful. And I think he's got... I think we're
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Speaker 2: at the crescendo of the war. I don't mean the
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Speaker 2: war in Iran. I mean the war in the United States.
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Speaker 2: Right now, the globalists and everybody who's trying to get
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Speaker 2: control of the country, the Israelis, the Indians, the Chinese communists,
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Speaker 2: the globalists, everybody's right now going full out. That's why
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Speaker 2: you see John Thune... publicly fighting us, right? He knows
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Speaker 2: his side is at risk right now. They either win
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Speaker 2: or lose. So this has to continue. But Trump, by
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Speaker 2: July 4, has to start rounding the curve. By mid-July,
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Speaker 2: he's got to be sort of on track and demonstrating
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Speaker 2: that he is America's president, that he's here for us,
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Speaker 2: that he's implementing the American agenda. And rather than go
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Speaker 2: into war with people like Thomas Massey, he's going to
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Speaker 2: war with people like John Foon, who are our bitter
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Speaker 2: enemies who refuse to do their job.
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Speaker 1: We shall see, though. I mean, we shall see. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that I'm optimistic that I'll see that either.
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Speaker 1: I must confess.
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Speaker 2: I'm just alert. I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic. It's war
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Speaker 2: and it's intense.
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Speaker 1: We shall see, G2. All right. I mean, and we
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Speaker 1: shall see what happens as a result of this Apache
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Speaker 1: helicopter thing. All we can say is, how interesting is
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Speaker 1: that California election? Take a look at how that changed
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Speaker 1: overnight or over a week.
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Speaker 2: When the number three candidate wins the mail-in ballot count,
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Speaker 2: you know the mail-in ballot count is full of fraud.
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Speaker 1: Yep. Just– how about that Kristen Welker or whatever on
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Speaker 1: Meet the Press? She assumes– she says the president– you
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Speaker 1: have no proof that the election is fixed or rigged.
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Speaker 1: Trump should have said, well, you have no proof that
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Speaker 1: it's on the up and up either, do you? You
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Speaker 1: just assume it is.
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Speaker 2: Well, and– Well, and in fact, there are years of
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Speaker 2: proof that have been built up over time that is evident.
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Speaker 2: For example, in mail-in ballots in Florida, there was a
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Speaker 2: survey done in 2020 that showed one in five was fraudulent. Now,
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Speaker 2: they changed their laws to address that shortly thereafter. But
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Speaker 2: it's not like Wisconsin doesn't have fraudulent mail-in ballots. And
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Speaker 2: certainly Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and California are managed by fake
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Speaker 2: mail-in ballots.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Right? And these machines. You know, even now, the federal
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Speaker 2: government intelligence community is admitting these machines could be manipulated.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: You've got to pause. Thank you, G2. Stay tuned. The
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Speaker 1: Guardians are coming up next.
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Speaker 3: From ABC News, I'm Wayne Cabot. One hour ago, the U.S.
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Speaker 3: began launching strikes against Iran. Explosions reported in Bandar Abbas, Qeshm,
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Speaker 3: and Tzirik.
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Speaker 1: U.S.
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Speaker 3: Central Command saying the mission is a proportional response to
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Speaker 3: unjustified Iranian aggression. That the attacks are at the discretion
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Speaker 3: and the direction of the commander-in-chief. And Iran just now
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Speaker 3: saying it will respond to this. President Trump accusing Iran
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Speaker 3: of downing a U.S. Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Speaker 3: About that, ABC's Louis Martinez.
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Speaker 5: What we have learned from U.S. officials is that a
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Speaker 5: drone was involved. In other words, an Iranian drone brought
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Speaker 5: down this Apache helicopter with a crew of two aboard. Now,
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Speaker 5: what we are hearing from one U.S. official is that
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Speaker 5: it is unclear whether there was an intent to actually
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Speaker 5: bring down the drone because the type of drone that
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Speaker 5: was involved was one that is typically involved in the
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Speaker 5: attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Speaker 3: Now the voters will have their say. Primaries in four
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Speaker 3: states today underway, and folks in Maine will decide whether
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Speaker 3: to look past the controversies of Graham Plattner and make
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Speaker 3: him the Democratic state nominee in the Senate. A bear
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Speaker 3: attack in a popular California mountain community.
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Speaker 4: Mammoth police say they got a call at around 6
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Speaker 4: in the morning on Monday of a bear attack. When
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Speaker 4: they arrived on scene, they found a man and woman
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Speaker 4: badly hurt along with their dogs. They learned a woman
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Speaker 4: heard her dogs barking and saw a black bear fighting
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Speaker 4: one of her dogs outside their home. As she tried
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Speaker 4: to stop the bear and dog fight, the bear turned
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Speaker 4: on her, biting and clawing her. The man came outside
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Speaker 4: with a hatchet and used a blunt end of it
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Speaker 4: to strike the bear, critically injuring it and stopping the attack.
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Speaker 4: The couple had significant injuries and the bear was found
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Speaker 4: badly injured and was euthanized. Alex Stone, ABC News.
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Speaker 3: Cal State cracked down on insider trading requiring employment verification
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Speaker 3: for wagers on events tied to corporate performance or national security.
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